University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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I I r The Cincinnatian ' Oh, 1UB,f9 going to the Hamburg Show To sec the Elephant and the wild Kangaroo, X Them Was The Days, Boys!! ln the old days when men were men and a pansy was nly a flower, when flag rushes instead of flag pole sitters 'hare a la mode, when Burnet Woods opened its maw of lake to receive spirited freshmen, when Fresh Painter ows had plots, when people knew the editor of the lews, when campus politics were admittedly crooked, 'hen Varsity had a basketball team, when Eddie Strietel- tteier was a student instead of a professional rah-rah boy, lhen people walked to school from home instead of from .parking space on McMillan street, when the Betas had n active chapter on the campus and the Sigs had a ouse, when shoe rushes were for softies, when the Sig And :cell all hang together in the dnrlr ana' stormy urcalhcr, Alphs considered women an evil, when the boat ride was a school affair, when the K. D.'s did things, when bril- liancy in American Universities was not penalized, nor originality damned, nor curiosity hound and gagged with Sunday school moralizing, when Hank Owens rated with the Thetas, when all the hooks at the library werenlt on reserve,-well-when freshmen wore their pots, were reverent and had spirit, were paddled instead of rose- petaled, when the Vigilance Committee was no mere ac- tivity-gravy for fraternity men with too little brains for anything else,-fthem was the days, boys! After a brief pause, Echo answers, 4'Them was . . .? For weire going to sec Ihe whole show through. ,nl a N.: Q 4' - 'IM . ss. .U wr Yi R S ,1 . u

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Nineteen-Thirty-One THE GREEKS PREPARE EOR BATTLE If you will look closely at the little picture at the right you will see the Sig Alphs buttoning some boys whom they have just shown over The Lodge. Bill Harrison is seen at the extreme right, carrying a club to use on some stubborn chaps from Ken- tucky. And that reminds us of the story about a Sig Alph who sat in the balcony during chapter meeting-Oh, you have, have you? Returning students look witl1 pride on the new Library, as seen through the NY window. Six stories high, with elevators. And books. XM It's pop guns for the co-frosh this year-with lousey looking R. O. T. C. uniforms for the Vigi- lants. Theyill only be worn fbothl about three days while the uschool spiritw talk lasts. But Louise believes that a clever girl who wants to make good at college will never make the mis- take of becoming sophisticated if she can help it. If she lisps 'Tm jus' a 'ittle country girl who don't know nufhnili' .... all the fraters will be wild about her. Provided of course, she is not a big, stout girl. Then there is the Y for fraternity rushers with poor looking shacks. Perhaps some of the sorors will be there and we can dance to radio music. You must meet Mary, too. I saw her with the cutest rusheef, Now all together, brother egoists, let us sing the Sigma Chi conceit song .......

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Nineteen-Thirty-One l Beyond good and evil So THE CINCINNATIAN, ever the ad- herent and preserver of tradition, views with deep-felt concern the lily- like gestures of present-day pants- warmers in educating freshmen. For itself, THE CINCINNATIAN admirably takes care of those within its juris- diction, as the picture indicates. Alma Kothe, the oHice wise-brat and 1'llI1ll8I'-up iu the mustache con- test, pestered us until the following was added: 'iWhat this school needs is not bigger and better paddling but bigger and better parking placesf, The Viqilanr-Will Get You It You Dorff Watch Out Cincinmzrian staff after initial ceremonies None of the immortals ever felt as superior as does J. Quintius fArtieJ Sohn seen in the picture with the ex- quisite Dottie Hoffman, sophisticate par-excellence. Although her boy friends are legion, Artie likes to be seen with her, he says. She arouses peopleis curiousity. So does he. JVe donlt know what the team of Hoffman and Sohn has to do with Vigilant Activities, but such a com- bination of people seen strolling about the campus cannot go un- noticed. Such popularity must be deserved. The Vigilants have the sitzmlion well in lmud 23 Hoffman and Sohn Men's Vigilance Committee E. Belnap F. C. Bemis E. Kropf Linsenn J. Birchard G. Mason J. Broadhurstj. McClelland H. Brown S. Passell J. Brown E. Rahe A. Buck J. Reedcn H. Burn B. Richardsor E. Busarn C. Rieckert R. Carver D. Rieder I. Claybon D. Rosenblatt D. Clifton C. Rupert F. Cook B. Schmidt W. Crowley C. Srofe F. Dreier H Uihle D. Edwards R. Van Sann S. Goodman H Wells E. Hoffman W. Weninger S. Krasne E. Young