West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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|1! n ' « ■iV ' -mif. (■ X ' ii tfii ' i -M ' f ' -:Uf- ' :! L 1.ETTER FROM LUXUMBERG . . SJJSsjrday I was wondering how school would look In the Spring. Will you look for me and see how much it has changed? Will the crocus still come through in front of Woman ' s Hall? You know they used to spell something. I ' ve forgotten what but something. And then do the yellow bushes come out by South Wing and by Ernie ' s and at Men ' s Hall? Then the bushes in the little rose garden across the way from the dorm bud out. People sit on the front porch of Ernie ' s and as spring progresses people wander over to Oglebay Hall dairy for huge ice cream cones, and the trees come out between the Administration and Reynold ' s Hall and they open the windows at the Music School and at Moore Hall and music has a free reign o ' er the lush grass behind the president ' s home. The fish pond thaws out, they drain and refill it to the tune of Dr. Shortrldge ' s lectures from 214 Administration. Everybody stands down in front of Men ' s Hall about ten minutes to six each evening in sports coats waiting for dinner (not chow). . I suppose the convertibles are gone but the privileged will still sit on the wall in front of the Kappa house and people will wend their way over the famous Burma Road to the Delta Gamma house. The Beta ' s may even assemble at Ernie ' s and try to get a ride up the hill at night. No Delts wiji try to gain admittance late to get some Seven Up, I ' m sure. People play soft ball and come in Ernie ' s with balls and gloves and T-shirts. Some of the ambitious may even strike out for the library and many will go down after to smoke and sit on the walls in front. At night a light will burn atop the Chemistry building and one

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Below is part of a letter written by a West Virginia graduate, Robert Scott, to a former student here. This letter, which was received several days after word came that he had been killed in action near Luxemberg, reflects the feelings of many former students who served overseas during the past conflict. To the memory of those who did not return this bool( is dedicated. in the Journalism office and the doorway of Science, Martin and Woodburn where the clock will tick off the hours — three ones at 12:30, I and 1:30 and people going honne toward Sunnyslde will whistle loudly. People will congregate in front of Administration at nine in the morning and Mixed Chorus will meet there on Wednesday. Dolphin will meet on Mondays and there will be meetings on Tues- days and evening gowns some Sunday when initiations are held. Someone will sit on the Chi O ' s front porch and watch people pass below. There will be a parade of hats and hose to church on Sunday and the Stenger for a Sunday paper and maybe to George Blue ' s for a shoeshine. The Rendezvous is gone and Eddie Doom ' s is out of fashion but they may get a passing word from some old railbird. Harry Goldsmith will stand out in front and talk and his store will have bright ties and socks and newspaper clippings or a letter posted inside or in the window. At four, people will go to typing class and wonder at the injustice of schedules that take afternoons. There will always be more women than men In Fredlocks and the opposite in the Spot (or has the war altered that?) The landscape behind Elizabeth Moore will become celestial af night with cigarettes for stars. There will be politics and paint and hard feelings in April. People will eat at Communtzi ' s on Sunday and someone will invariably come in with a suitcase, ex- hausted from a trip to Charleston. The days will get warm and Cheat will invite as will the White House, the Rainbow, and the Oaks (if they still operate). Some people will just take walks and maybe this year they will get the tennis courts in shape. Those were the things that happened once each Spring when I knew school . I guess that is the stuff of which my faith is made. I hope those things still go on for that ' s the part of the world for which I fight, if there Is anything to that worn phrase. That is, if I had to say why I want decency to succeed I should have to say In order that such things may survive in the world. Be my eyes for this spring that I may not miss it. H ' I EX Ej j l H I YSH I E .« fefi ?C4Li ' sEr VhdM I bI ' T eJHSKm ' li- ' m llv--- . • ' l J iMiSkasSlii •••-- %Sb ' msmm M - m ■ m BPr PW-: ; ■ k: - ,■;: - ■■ ' ..««