University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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CoUegtan makes efort. More than ready to take up. Give » 2. of }four bdirk. C, birvA tr s Tribe of creative artiett. vocation that officially opened college. This year they made an all out effort to cover all the college news Meanwhile Editor-in-chief Lois Doubleday, having spent most of the summer struggling over the 1942 INDEX dummy, brought her brain-child back to a staff that, although depleted in numbers, was still more than ready to continue where they had left off the previous May. Priorities claimed some of the materials and shortened semesters worked havoc on the printing and engraving deadlines. Nevertheless, the first of May the 1942 INDEX appeared on campus. Members of the long-haired tribe of creative artists unsatisfied even with the high level of journalism as maintained in the Collegian and INDEX found in the Collegian Quarterly the vehicle for their creative work whether poetry, drama, fiction, or essay. Meanwhile other campus activities were getting started. Doric Alviani began pumping pep and spirit into his summer-jaded musical outfits, and rehearsals started in full swing. This year their enlarged off-campus program brought the musical clubs to near-by towns, to Springfield and Boston, and to the air waves. Highlights of their campus programs were the Social Union concert and the operetta. Their good work culminated in that long-awaited, richly-deserved New York trip in the spring. The M. S. C. Outing Club, combining with other O. C. ' s started fall off with a mountain climbing jaunt and spent an active year of tripping, trailing, and twirling. Matching point for point with their opponents and digging up even more convincing arguments in rebuttal the M. S. C. debating team batted the breeze with Amherst, Mount Holyoke, A. I. C, and B. U. New this year for the club was a freshman debating team and the attendance of the team at the Model Congress of Colleges in New England. Director Reverend Easton, new on campus, carried on regular Sunday Vespers, coordinated the various religious organizations, and insti- gated the United Religious Conference in March. Evidence of M. S. C. ' s interest in religion was the large attendance afforded Dr. Gilkey, the intense interest shown in Rabbi Cahn ' s course, and the hearty welcome extended to Father Walsh. Father Walsh ' s lectures at convocation ;io]

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M. S. C. Gradually the class of ' 45 became sufficiently acquainted with campus affairs to settle down to a calm and serious life of wearing caps and tams and of remaining seated in Bowker Auditorium until their elders left. Now on to the Big Fall News — football. This year with Walter Hargesheimer as coach and Jack Brady as captain, the club came out with balanced ledgers — one tie, three wins, four losses — and with the general feeling that football at State would remain out of the red. Campus rallies (including Dean Lanphear ' s traditional advice to the Squaws and Braves ) preceded the games. Attired in snappy new outfits, the cheer leaders provoked spirit at fall games with their revamped fanfares, their acrobatic tumbling, and their indomitable Clarky ; and the band, marching jauntily on to the field, led by strutting majorettes, added color and music to the fall turf battles. Among the battles this fall two stand out because of the beloved college tradition they represented. At the first, on Dads ' Day, a holiday spirit prevailed as dads brushed against dads, attending classes, military review, and the football game against Norwich. On the second — Amherst Weekend — torrents of rain engulfed campus; the rain that Amherst spe- cially reserves for that occasion. Beginning on Friday evening with Campus Varieties, which financed Student Leader Day in March, and continuing through the Amherst-State foot- ball game and Round-Robin vie parties in the evening, the weekend proved a bit wet. Vying with the gridiron team in popularity this year was the soccer team, which played its best season in ten years with four wins, two losses, and one tie. Not so successful in terms of victories but nevertheless right in there fighting was the cross country team for which senior Brad Greene did outstanding work. Extracnrricnlar Extravaganza What the morning paper is to the business man at breakfast is the Collegian to the M. S. C. student after convo; so, firmly shaking summer sands from tousled heads, the members of the Collegian staff hustled back to campus and published a Collegian for the con- A W.A.A. Play Among battles of this fall. . [9]

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and before the Languages and Literature Club brought forth a large and appreciative audience. Throughout the year, Social Union and Fine Arts brought excellent entertainment to campus. Most enjoyable of all — the Chekhov players ' Twelfth Night — started Social Union in full swing. Other popular Social Union per- formances were those of violinist Dushkin, the American Ballad Singers, and the three Roister Doister one-act plays. This year the Fine Arts series consisted of informal talks about poetry, painting, and music led by campus men who encouraged student discussion. The Most Social of Animals With fall came the hunting season and M. S. C. went after Big Game: they set their traps, lured their quarries, and, when they had them cornered, sicked their hounds upon them. Thegame, unsuspecting freshmen; the hunters, smooth sorority sisters and friendly fraternity men. Beginning on Student Leader Day in the spring with, Say, Jack, old boy ! Why don ' t you come down to the house! and continuing in the summer through the media of those lovely letters from upperclassmen, rushing extended its exact season. Fall is the time for all good houses to jam closets full of trash, to hide bottles under beds, and to serve steak and chicken to freshmen with caf -starved stomachs. The two-week period of concentrated rushing for the men this fall netted only 47% of the class. For the coeds, however, rushing did not officially begin until a Round-Robin tea on October fifteenth; rushing was kept open with open house on the following Thursday and continued until November fifteenth. Even during rushing season campus activi- ties managed to survive; and the weekend of November seventh found hordes of people, a transformed cage, men holding meters (that ticked off over seventeen thousand people), girls with gardenias, yum-yum apples, pottery piggy banks, and flowers everywhere. This all meant Hort Show, big f all event. As usual the Hort Show reflected the interest of the students even while it carried out a Victorian theme, and placed its emphasis on patriotism with a giant shield of red, white, and blue flowers, and fruits. Supposed to represent the [11] Batting the breete. . . ' Cams the huiUing leaeon. . .