University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Horizon / Iris Yearbook (Stevens Point, WI)

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. . . very, very, sophisticated and observing, they arrive... (note: they, too, come, as do the freshmen, but they arrive)—especially the sardonic sophomores ... all nonchalantly go through the routine and seemingly, boresome duties of enrollment... then wander around and around... noting with a sage nod that the flag pole still sways just as it always has, back and forth ... that the grass is still green... and that the W.P.A. boys are still building air raid shelters under the lawn or attempting to enter the shower rooms the hard way... Of course they jovially backslap among themselves... but to the freshmen they are cool... (this batch of freshmen must prove that they are eligible to join their select group)... that night they adjust a tie, or apply powder and doll themselves up in preparation for............................ — 6 —

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Hl-YA! Did you have a good summer? Can you pay me back that two bucks you owe me from last semester? Look, there's Bill and Joe! Hi there, fellows! How are you. anyhow? Let's go down on the lawn for a while. Gee—is it good to see you! Did you get your old room back at the Dorm? Good—Say I'm up on 'third', too! Tell me about everything. Let's see your class schedule. How about going over for a coke? So we meet the gang. Old acquaintances are renewed; new friends are made. Over the proverbial coke, we find that we have scads of things to talk over with our friends. We gab for hours about summer jobs—places we visited—gals and guys we met—new faces here at school—old ones that have failed to return. Our eyes search each booth in the Eat Shop for the sight of a friend, or someone we'd like for a friend. The old hangout is crowded. The mid-afternoon crowds of students fill it with young life and happy, friendly laughter. Fellows walk around with coke bottles to their lips —but with their eyes on the door for new arrivals. We leave our booth reluctantly, in spite of the fact that we shall be seeing the old familiar place many more times during the school year. We pass the Dorm... Girls are sitting on the steps and the porch comparing class schedules, discussing those things which are of most interest—and concern at the present moment.