Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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matriculation and formally become students. The lace orientation, which is partly instruc- tive and partly horseplay and which serves to teach them their place in the scheme oi things on the campus. Then they are free to grow and develop for themselves. September, 1912. was little different from other years in these respects. To be sure, there were alterations in campus life. The finance soldiers were all over the place. There were coeds in larger number, and now they had a dormitory to themselves. The new Music- Religion Building had been completed and turned over immediately to the Army. The air was electric with war. ething new has been added. Coeds Carolyn arina Hawkins, Viola Hopkins, and Luis at Wak,- F -1 for the firsl lime, gel in new coed residence on Facult) Avenue. But the freshmen were here, perhaps a little more serious, but as green as ever. And the college was gathering them to its fold as it began it- one hundred and ninth school term. birdie: Seated before ludenl poses for his

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WE RETURNED TO SCHOOL ! Arrival in Wake Forest: Freshman Jack Isley pushes luggage toward new home. Emharkation on a college career: Freshman Isley walks through arch to greet the new life that awaits him. J iARLY in September every year, the sleepy little town of Wake Forest is roused from its August nap by the sounds of Negro boys cart- ing trunks up the road, car doors slamming, boys yelling from windows Hey, Dad. bring up my tennis racket, and mothers shouting anxiously back from automobiles Be a good boy and don ' t forget to write. The people of the town know what all the excitement means, for they have seen it happen year in and year out. It is another freshman class beginning its four years at Wake Forest. The first few weeks of school belong to thi freshman class. The sophomores and the juniors and the seniors have held their places in the limelight in vears past; now it is another class ' s turn. Either the freshmen take full advantage of it from the start, or they soon find themselves forced to bv superior upperclassmen. They go through the procedures of registration and

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Registration Day: Bob Gallimore, Johnny Walker, and Frank Kincheloe wail to give registrants Old Gold and Black cards; two new cneds. Willie Ruih Edwards and Iris Willis, decide cm courses for semester; freshmen ask Professor West for help un schedule prob lems; freshman Daugherty and upperclassman Doc Harvey finish up, file out pa i clerks, Kin and Walker preside over rat court. Lpperclassmen Beck. Ajdlett. and Kinlaw look on with glee as Jack Baldwin administers paddle to rear of freshman. 25 -