University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The Gopher - 75 Years of Student Life 6

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1 OF M lNNE SOTA RE ENNOBLED BY U N D. E R $ T NDINC EARNING AND T h L SEARCH FOR TRL IH 0 T H N D T H I Y El FARF OF T H ! STATE Table of Contents Student Life..................................... 6 West Bank.................................66 Administration...................................72 Sports..........................................120 Rose Bowl................................128 Seniors.........................................184 Organizations...................................228 Governing Boards.........................236 Religious................................244 Military.................................248 Publications.............................252 Professional.............................260 Honorary.................................283 Unions...................................292 Dorms....................................297 Academic Sororities......................312 Academic Fraternities....................352 Index...........................................401 5

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Student Life — the “that’s what everyone did part of the yearbook, the big events, the celebrations, the queens, the clowns. This is the part of the book that is different each year, the part you remember as your own. Otherwise there is always the administration to swear at, the sports to cheer, the seniors to march by after four vears and the organizations to belong to — but the student life initiates the recollections years from now of “1 remember when —” Classrooms around the turn of the century were filled with students searching for the unknown as students always do. The unknown — “What in the hell is that damn cat doing in the equation?” The inevitable, annual weeks and days existed back in 1912 and 1914 too. A “rube band” put in many hours of practice for the 1912 U Farm Festival, the forerunner of today’s Minnesota Royal — and the girls still laughed. What gratitude! E-Day has survived to the present in its original form. In 1941, the costumes were livelier but knights-clect still knelt and kissed the Blarney stone as they were dubbed. Founded in 1940, the University theatre today is a leading cultural form on campus. King Lear was presented in 1946. Finally, the “Minnesota Gopher” — a symbol of student life. 1946 7