University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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R S T DAYS grand knock-about summer on that day in September and Peter Pitt walked up the campus to register for their last year at the University. From then on it was a mad scramble: hearty hand-shakes, smiling tanned faces, beaming professors without that tired look. In the midst of registration we find them together at the desk of a professor-to-be. Not too early to polish a few apples. Early Fall ceremonies such as the Druid Smoker and Lantern Night separated Polly and Peter temporarily. Wc did snap them, though, white shoes and all, at the Screwball Hop which heralded the Fall social season.

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WE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING OUR THEME w, have tried to edit this volume of The Owl with a good-natured, tongue-in-cheek, modern treatment. The formalities of dedications and editorials have become passe. But we do, here, want to explain the significance of our theme. Polly and Peter represent more than just a publicity stunt. In portraying them, we strike our only serious vein. They personify the real students of the University of Pittsburgh, not necessarily the bookworms nor the heads of activities. Rather they are the normal and average healthily-successful man and woman. They are the sincere and the modest, but not the ideal. Yes, they might cut a class in the springtime to lie on the Cathedral lawn to discuss campus political gossip; they might violate an occasional regulation. But in them we find no traces of the superficial, only the sincere. In these pages we shall find them behind every photograph and paragraph they are the type of student that make us proud to call Pitt our Alma Mater.

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RUSHING FOOTBALL AND SUCH Saturday afternoons found Polly and Peter rival section leaders in the Demonstration Block; but the prize for the most noise went to the band. The peak of football season came with the downfall of Tech. Peter secretly gloated. That Tech-man of Polly's would be taken down a few pegs now. Need we add that our campus two-some were among the students who couldn’t wait for the planned victory march and cut early classes Monday morning to follow the band through Schcnlcy Park to reswipe'’ the posts? With gridiron capers worked hand-shakes during fra rushing, over-yawned mouths at and more banquets, and men as Polly and Peter assisted out panther pins to the “wearers