Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Weekends No matter how much men of Wabash preen them¬ selves on the academic excellence of their college, the difficulty of entrance, or the high percentage of seniors who receive fellowships to graduate school, the fact remains that every so often, the whole rou¬ tine gets to be a fantastic drag. When it becomes a drag for enough men in a given living unit, a dance weekend happens. The weekend itself is an institution of remarkable nature, and a naive or unsophisticated coed who arrives with an open mind on Friday will be consider¬ ably older and wiser in the ways of human nature when she leaves Sunday. Actually, there is no discern- able structure—the College or fraternity provides the dance, the game, the meals and the off-night enter¬ tainment, and the rest is up to the couple. And in the normal course of events, the Wabash man is not with¬ out suggestions as to an appropriate structure, al¬ though his date may have a few reservations. 28 V

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The Interim But there comes a time every year when the days run together and blur, like chocolate melting on a radiator—when everyone wonders, in his own way, and in his own time, just what the hell he ' s accom¬ plishing. Extending roughly from the date of the last Christmas Dance to the date of the first campus dance in February, the period is marked with lousy weather, a complete lack of activities conducive to the appearance of women, and either the pressure of winter finals or the despair of beginning a new semes¬ ter. It is the Interim, and it is beyond a doubt the rockiest time of the year. Men flee the campus in droves during the winter, towards warm fires on other campuses and female companionship. Life at Wabash grinds almost to a halt, and day after rotten day slides past, full of the same classes, the same material to cover, and the same fitful sun which breaks occasionally from the grey clouds to illuminate the muddy snow piled in the gutters. But spring is coming, and with the advent of short- sleeved shirts, canoe trips and flowering trees, the tedium of the Interim is forgotten. The spirit of Wa¬ bash, hokey as it may sound when articulated, has prevailed again—the tacit understanding has been that no matter how hard the going is, it ' s still worth staying. 30