University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Net stockinged coeds and male jcsters ruuted-out a capacity crowd for Festival events, incurred wrathful sneers of Ltrag, rah? note the continued diversity 0f the campus extra-curriculum, the apathy which a majority of students still shows toward football, fraternities, and similar essentials of Gtrah-rah-ismgL-even acquiring a knowledge of the words to the HAlma Mater. The argument cannot be settled by discussion, nor will it in these pages. What can be done, at teast, i5 clarify the picture, note the trend of history, make some semblance of order from the chaos that is the The new exuberance had a cosmopolitan tendency, ion, as evidenced by this band of Matthews House students, iriends spinning in a Hora.

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Is the University of Chicago going Hrah-rahw? This question, so often asked by both friend and foe 0f the Hutchins Regime, continues to dorninate campus speculation about the Future of the Univer- Imcrrsl Slunul in surh OK-Week mixer as Ihc Squam- Dum-n- hcn- is a pnrtFnd of the W-aII-ralf' spirit of the year 10 come. OsBoard guules lead nmr sludcnls ahnut r-ampus, show as much mines! in apprais- ing the new crop, as in describing Chi- cagohs points of inurrest. sity. Proponents of the afhrmative may point to a resurgence of fraternities to campus leadership, attempts to restore football, even the appearance of Bermuda shorts on male limbs. The negative may

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welter of Student activities. These past few years have witnessed a trend toward a more dynamic extra- curriculum-one in which the student feels a more positive identification with his University. The steps have been slow: U Autumn, 1951. Dean Strozier fired the Editor of the Maroon. This move, harbinger of good or ill hso often the stepping-stone for discussion, dissen- tion in campus political circles-was the first sign that the University Administration showed concern about the orientation of campus activity, was pre- pared to step-in1 act if the situation, in their opinion. got out-of-hand. 2i Autumn, 1952. Cap and Gown, was re-organ- ized. The campus yearbook, a traditional feature of any university, was an activity which Chicago espe- cially lacked. Fraternity men, Owl and Serpent Even Illinoise Iieul. Governor Chapman re.- marked. The girls are getting cuter. tooiiha re- mark echoed by many of U. of C. male.