University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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INDUCTIGN CEREMONY MARKS OFFICIAL BEGINNING ANTICIPATION and enThusiasTic opTimism ran high as all SUI sTudenTs, old and new alike, plunged inTo The l956-57 college year. Never To be TorgoTTen were The long chaoTic hours spenT in regisTering-The sad Taces and The empTy pockeTbooks oT sTudenTs as They sTood in endless lines To pay Their Tees . . . and The hoT and crowded booksTores where everyone swarmed aT once To buy Their supplies. I'Iopes were high as classes commenced, wiTh Their inexhausTabIe sTorehouses oT knowledge . . . The many TesTs and quizzes ThaT lay waiTing To pounce aT an unguarded momenT. . . The hours oT sTudy each class would demand. Some hoped This would be The semesTer To bring Those grades up. More long lines ThreaTon The sTudenT when he goes To The Treasurer's OTlice To pay TuiTion Tees Tor The semesTer. OTher sTudenTs TelT disillusioned upon Tinding ouT whaT some oT The courses enTailed. Many had To drop one or Two and Ioegin again. The Teeling oT Tall was evidenT all over The cam- pus as sTudenTs, hesiTanT To go inside, sTudied on The Old CapiTol lawn beTween classes and girls Took advanTage oT The diminishing sun Trom Currier's rooT. ExciTemenT mounTed as SaTurday's TooTIoall games approached quickly . . . There were new people To meeT and old Triends To become re- acguainTed wiTh as The swirl oT social acTiviTies goT underway. Yes, everyone Trom The wise old seniors To The green young Treshmen, was geTTing inTo Tull swing aT The STaTe UniversiTy ol Iowa. The UniversiTy year begins oTIicially wiTh The inducTion ceremony in TronT oT Old CapiTol The TirsT day oT class.

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Regisfralion in flue SUl lieldlwouse is a process ilnal lesls ll'1e inlelligence and endurance ol siud P Hcii en 6 mer VAST MAZE OF TABLES AND LINES TESTS STAMINA OF ALL STUDENTS A crucial resl lor Ereslwman is liere. Even Trans- fer Sluclenl is appalled. Qnly by seeing and experi- encing can a person compreliend llrie rigors ol regi- slralion. l-low can one building lvold so muclw confusion and so many people? The diagram is no nelp. Pane demonium reigns. People everywlwere. Bewilderf menl. Amazemenl. Can llwis be lrue? ll's worse llwen ine vvildesl imaginelion could conceive. All lliis lor live classes rlwel apparenlly have no con- neclion. Bur rlwar seclion can? be full. Is Jrliis a require- menl? Nor live 7:3O's. A 9:30 in Easl' Hall and a lO:3O in llie DJX. Building. And only lO minules belween classes? No wonder Upper Classmen nes sucli slarnina. The lreguenl long line osrolion rn y in cw lnings . . . llwe course e o u ar or ve K ' ' iii ? l ' me 1. W U --f--' .

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as 2 gg ,, r i .FN V if ,gi 1, r , Q' .f,.g'l,,,g,m V 5 , ii A ' Ma E The SUN campus suddenly comes alive at Twenty mimures afrcr We Preumirvaries finished, SUl's sruderws sawed down to hour as QM Capffors be!! siqrufres Ire and of The dass Hour. dasses and H19 more serious business of more-rakincx Gerrimq a prciureH1a+wEH rmaumf rum from his ID nerd for 'rrme res? of Hs Univcrsrfy years, is required of every SUI sruderwf. J s fs -gm I . w ra '