University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Registration frays nerves, tires feet, flattens LINES tHot criss-crossed the floor of registration spelled boredom and frustration to the impatient students. It seemed that eo h line was longer thon the lost, ond there was always someone, two or three places ahead, who caused o tie-up. AT WRITING TABLES, schedules are copied ond re-copied, forms ore filled Out, cords are signed, ond pens have o habit of running dry. Then, ond only then, are the scrotchy, postoffke type pens, provided ot each table used. 14 MEADE BEERS AND REGISTRAR E. A. BATCHELDER were kept busy throughout registration, os they attempted to hold the confusion to a minimum.

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VICTORIOUS JUNGLE CATS whoop it op offer winning the tog-of-war. Enthusiasm was the order of the day for every section, and the sleepless counselors found that spirit remained strong far into the night. IN THE EVENINGS the campers gathered around the campfire to joke, swop stories, or just stare into the fire.

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bank accounts Just as Freshman Camp was a student’s (irst impression of the recreational side of college life, registration, that most necessary of evils, introduced him to the red tape and frustration that was just as much a part of that life. Confused upperclassmen and hopelessly bewildered freshmen wandered about, attempting to find their way through the maze of arrows and numbers. Harassed faculty members, stoically retaining their composure, attempted to iron out the countless problems connected with a large-scale undertaking of this nature. Students strode into the sectioning division with grim determination on their faces, ami the fortunate ones soon emerged with various colored 1HM cards clutched in their hands. t the crowded w riling tables, simply covered with brown u rapping paper, others copied and recopied tentative schedules, wondering how many changes would he made in it before they were finished. Appallingly long lines stretched hack from the deferred payment tables and the treasurers’ cages, while checkers choked off the final sigh of relief by asking about “the pink card” that seemed to have disappeared somewhere between the Mosque and the cafeteria. Hut despite all of those ulcer-provoking incidents, the student was still able to grin, at least on the outside, at his misfortunes. t last there weren’t an more long lines to stand in. And then lie found out about the bookstore. EVERY AVAILABLE INCH of tpoce wot put lo ute by harried itudenti, Ailing out tordt, plonning tchedufet, Aguring out how lo poy the tuition. A MOMENT OF RELAXATION wot ovoiloble ofter complying the flot holf of regittrolion in th« Motque. But then, when the cigarette burned down ond nervet flnolly calmed. It wot lime to go through the tome thmg again at the payment lection in the cafeteria. 15