University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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ROM city and country, from high school and prep school you came to the University. Your past accomplishments meant little, for. with your Freshman companions, you were only entering the collegiate path to your goal — and it was a hard goal to reach. rOU FROSH, BUT . . . . The bewilderment of arrival, the formality of reg- istration, the chiding of Sophomores, and the frivolity of orientation affairs together made a week of many moods for the entering Freshman. But even when the serious business of study with a kindly acu ?y began, a restlessness seemed to prevail, an excitement that needed only the rush attentions of campus fraternities and sororities to set the pulses quickening. And when, with haughty spirit, behind their officers, the Frosh filed in promenade, it became readily apparent that the Class of ' A3 had found itself. 26

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he Frosh THET CAME, THET SAW, THEY CONCURRED that Orientation Vee was a fine idea to ma e them feel at home . . . Yo Calm before the storm The gathering of the clan -Ou ' re right — we have something here, said the upperclassman as he pointed the campus out to the freshman, just in town to matriculate — at least that ' s what the registrar ' s letter said. The rats left home with a sense of fore- boding about hazing, only to find their sentence postponed for several days until the upperclassmen could return to the campus from Ocean City. And so, they settled down to moving in their luggage and the cakes they received as going away presents. Now some found their roommates and various members of their families already on hand, and so each in- troduced himself, told where he was from, and how long he had been on campus. Others entered an empty room and straightway proceeded to select the bet- ter bed and dresser. If the freshmen were inclined to in- quire as to where registration would be, they didn ' t bother after a glance at the Gym Armory, for obviously things were happening there — but just what, was a question. Judging from the time they stood on the front steps, nothing much would happen, but, as is usually the case, 28