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

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and pep rallies prep for fall as sports take the spotlight . . . varsity games draw big crowds . . . tea flows at sorority rushing while fraternity rushing is deferred and preferred . . . cross-country and soccer take attention as the season closes. The coming of September l)rought to the campus a migration of approximately fifteen hundred rats and rabbits. This great army of invaders Hterally Bhtz- krieged the A S Building for three days. During that time they were chased from one line to another, and back again, tilling out hundreds of cards and yards of paper on which they told their life his- tories and planned their futures. Just as they were despairing of ever seeing the sun again, they reached the last line and then weakly staggered into the fresh air clutching their paid bills, and muttering something about bombs. The final step of this trying experience led the typical Robert Rat out of the door wearing a rat hat and carrying his M Book. Thus, equipped, he was ready to meekly submit to the wiles and whims of his worthy su- perior — the Sophomore. Roberta Rabbit received her first riu-y listi ' iic ' d — fur ;i vliilo.

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and with i t co tember comes umn and the freshmen Organized orientation . . . endkss hours 0 registration . . . inescapable entrance exams . . . Curley ' s reception . . . S.G.A. annual assembly . . . upper classmen mix the freshmen . . . fresh- men meet student pastors at Evensong . . . faculty officially meets frosh as classes begin . . . bonfires

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Here come the rats . taste of social life Wednesday night, Sep- tember eighteenth, when a bit of mass orientation took place at Anne Arundel Hall. That same night recreation was fur- nished for the men students in the Armory. Yet all was not fun for the new students. Language qualification tests, and schol- astic aptitude tests proved bewildering and freshmen considered them a neces- sary evil. However, the real excitement and one of the main highlights of the week ' s activities was the President ' s re- ception where the freshmen stood in a seemingly endless line to eagerly shake Minds measured . . funds treasured.