University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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As always, the quarter was announced, first by straggling, subdued lines of orientees, then more forcibly by their en masse. Welcome week appearance, which meant banner- waving, traffic-jamming hordes. But it was a good week, for it meant the beginning of University careers for another class. When the hordes dispersed and the freshmen became individuals again, they were a little more adjusted to this monstrous University, a little less awed by it all. When classes began students detoured around workmen on either side of the Mall. They were busy repairing steps and constructing a pair of large and ugly $10,000 concrete flower pots. The dedication of a vastly different structure, the May j Memorial medical center, also took place fall c]uar- ter. It culminated 11 years of effort. Most popular convocation came early in the quarter when Doc Evans wandered down from Williams , playing When The Saints Go Marching In, and wowed a Northrop audi- ence with one of his jazz concerts. But eventually the newness and excitement of return ■wore off, and students settled into a routine existence, (jreeks, independents and commuters alike attended classes, scribbled mcomprehensible lecture notes, joined sundry clubs and returned home, only to repeat the performance many times, day in and day out, throughout the quarter. FbU Quarter

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With the return, contrast Fall was a fresh and cxcitiiiL; qLiaiicr. h was a c]uartLT ot change, h began in sunshine ant! green, passed through clear, sharp autumn days and closed in soggy, wet leaves and snciw. h began wiiii strange new laces and classes and ended with tamiliiirity. It began with cotton shirts and dresses and ended with storincoais .uid llannels. It was the t]uarter of tootli.ill S,iliirda s and Iralhc jams. Fall marked a strangclv welcome return. .-K return to pressure, to responsible work, to inlorm.ilion-hlled books and late-burning lights, to old iricnds — a return to the life which has occupied most ot us tor ihree-toiuihs ot every year as far back as we can lemember. Past 22

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FreshMttan Cawnp For freshman— an initiation Sec you at Freshman cam[i! was a familiar phrase all during Welcome week, and when the hig weekend rolled around almost 600 freshmen donned hlue jeans, old shins and sculTed shoes and Uiok nlT tor one last fling before their first deep plunge into classes and hooks. It was a hig fling, too, with plenty ol singing, dancing, games and just general amusement p.icked solidK into the two and a half days. And .somewhere along the way frosh found time for serious discussions which gave them an ink- ling ol what University life woifltl he like. Even though the Irosh returnetl c]uickly to their lighter activities when discussions had ended, they got the idea that something important had begun, that they were being inili- atcd into a four-year process of education and work. The six part cam[i program olTered meetings and discus- sions on subjects like the objectives and problems of college life, proper work habits, and character-building. There were six camps in all, two more than last vear. scattered all around the Twin cities. Two were at Lake Min- netonka and another clear u|i at Taylors Falls. No matter where they were, the embryo collegians had a good time. When Smiday afternoon came the camps broke up anil everyone hurried back to the cities, tor classes were scheduled to open the next day. Bored and tued, students dttcnd one of those meetings which seem invariably to be a part of even the most exciting weekend. Av ed freshmen gdthcr around to watch two girls cut up a worm. Only the heads of the brave females show m the picture.