Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Focus of the weekend for alumni and students alike is foot- ball, and the homecoming game. HBeat OWN was not an idle cheer as the Keuffelmen went on to do just that by a 14-7 margin. And homecoming, its queens, and bonhres, and cheering, melts into perspective with the playing of the Alma Mater, and the walk home. 22

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T Top, happy and hospitable townsfolk await the arrival of fun-loving, pajama-clad rhynes at a local Crawfordsvzlle bar. Left, a gleeful con- tingent of the bedtime squad contemplates a game of jacks on the darkened village square. Bottom, another exuberant gang of freshmen race into the Strand to scream at the patrons and ,brance across the stage as their first break in show biz. I Wa!! f' 1 HOW SHP- wr'-, fmmwmmwlf fvdihgqgma

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THE GREAT BELL THEFT Prior to the Wabash-DePauw football clash this year the Monon Bell, symbol of the ancient rivalry, had remained at DePauw for ten straight years, except for a brief period in 1959 when it was borrowed by Wabash students. Since that year, it had been hidden-making borrowing it again some- what difiicult. Ten years, however, is a long time. So on an afternoon in early November jim Shanks, a Wabash sophomore, appeared in the DePauw president's office claiming to be from the United States Information Service in' Mexico City and encouraging the university to admit Mexican students. The idea immediately appealed to the president and he agreed to give two full-tuition scholar- ships to interested Mexican students and to allow Shanks to take pictures of various things on campus, including, in- cidentally, the Monon Bell, for distribution in Mexico. Only the dean of the college who lead Shanks to the bell's hiding place on the second Floor of a quonset hut near the football field was somewhat reluctant. I don't know whether I should show this to you or not,', he said with a laugh, g'The last time I showed it to someone, they stole it.', That night a group of Wabash students made a quiet visit to the hut and fifteen minutes later the bell was in the back of a car on its way to Crawfordsville. The dawn of the morn- ing and of truth arrived about the same time in sleepy Greencastle and disgruntled university officials phoned the Wabash deans, office. But even though it mysteriously appeared at a night time rally in front of the Chapel along with jim Shanks fby then a legendary herob, almost a full week passed before the Wabash administration miraculously discovered the bell. jim Shanks, Wabash? finest conjidence man, stands in front of an admiring crowd at a pep rally on the steps of the Chapel. Behind him is the Monon Bell. With diplomacy in the forefront on the day before the game, a chuckling Dean Moore returned it to DePauw for its last few hours of residency there, For the second year in a row those masters of subtle satire, the Lads from Lambda Chi, grab of jirst place honors at Blue Key Stunt Night preceding the DePauw game with their skit en- titled Yaweh is Our Way. L.-ft age. ., 21.1 6 -A-r.. .. .4 it..