University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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 I’ve been standing in line for three hours and I’ll be damned if I’ll go back and start again!” Such was the story of Registration. The nightmare was upon us with its shroud of secrecy and its shouts of delirium. Women fainted and strong men cried. The skritch of long unused pens on narrow cards gave students an opportunity to practice agility in penmanship, which was needed to write around the perforations which peppered each card. For two days, students were no longer human beings; they were a pattern of holes punched in a square of cardboard.