Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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And likewise was the undergraduate driven forth from his paradise of innocence and made to fall into the bottomless pit of sin. Only it was not the Lord God who drove out the undergraduate and placed him coldly in the world, but the Board of Trustees, who had themselves been tempted by the serpent and eaten of the apple. And so it was decreed that the freshman should no longer rush in innocence, but should have his eyes opened by a semester of college life, and should know both sides of The Fraternity Picture The upperclassman, too, was no longer to return from a summer of forgetfulness and fall enthusiastically into the embrace of warm idealism which each year has proved indispensable to the building of house spirit. Rushing will never again be the same, for now it must take place against 3 semesters frustrations when cynicism will abound.

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Thc fannl effects Of this fall from radical innocence upon the fraternities are yet to be seen. The prophets of doom scc limncial collapse to be inevitable for some of the small houses. The common prediction is that all the houses will be weakened by the coming of typed fraternities.