Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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RICHARD GRIER PEOPLES Professor of Greek and Latin, Sausser Professor of New Testament Greek B.A., LL.D., Erskine Col- lege men h a v e been visiting the fra- ternity h o u s e s and making good impressions a n d smoking and tell- ing crude high- school jokes. By Wednesday eve- ning the upper- classmen have b e c o m e t i r e d soft-soaping t h e innocent boys and decide which ones they will pledge, so as to have someone to take their spite out on for the past three days. Later that evening the With the Y. M. C. A. reception on F rid a y evening the first official week of school life closes for the freshmen. From time irnmemorial on the first Friday of the school year, the one distinctly religious organi- zation on this Presbyterian campus has held a freshman recep- tion. T a lk s are made by a num- ber of alumni, ministers of Ful- ton, and Y. M. BILLY RODENBAUGH Mexico, Mo. President of F r e s h m a n Class. neophytes are looked up and informed that they have been pledged. Thursday morning during chapel hour all the freshmen are led through the Columns and one of their number is selected to make an extemporaneous reply to the welcoming speeches which are made at that time by of- ficials of the student body. This is a very sacred part of tradition, for no man goes through those two middle Columns again until he is a senior and graduates-then he goes through them for the second and last time. C. A. ofiicers, portraying the part of the Y. M. C. A. in college and the part of the individual in Y. M. C. A. Refreshments are served after the talks, and the new men get their introduc- tion to FroZan ice cream. At the end of the first month of college the freshmen are supposed to know each other well enough to elect their class officers. In the elec- tion they get their first taste of politics on the campus and learn what it means to obey when the upperclassmen say vote for this man or that man. They find out they aren't much in The Cream of llne crop i Phillips, McGill, Van Natta, Sizemore, Hesley, Lampe Reed, Lampe, Thomas, Fewell, Mcllroy, Darner eleven

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-q GILBERT F. CLOSE St. Louis, Mo. Beta Theta Pi, Debate, 1, 2, 3, 4, Pi Kappa Delta, Y. M. C. A. President, 4, Glee Club, Fofrtnightly Staff, Quartet. Some limp, some are supported by others, but they are all there, and the upperclassmen admire their pluck and somehow wish they were going through it again for the first time. After the Dean is through most of them decide to specialize in mathematics. At nine freshman registration starts, and the faculty are at their posts with dreadful expecta- tion mirrored on their visages, for ing about girls- they still say girls, for they h a v e n't taken enough of the col- legiate m a n n e r and v e n e e r to use other words w h e n speaking of the painted- and-perfumed sex fthe future jellies do thisj g inquir- ing about the town prides for dates, movies, ice cream, etc. fthe Scotch do thisj. Usually this evening all fresh- men get their taste of the real college bull session. C. K. MCCLURE, JR. St. Louis, Mo. Phi Delta Theta, President, Debate, 3, 4, Pi Kappa Delta, Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, Vice-President, 3, 4, Razz- bewies, M ust ar cl Seeds, Track Squad, 1, 2. some of the lads no more know their own mind than they did on the day of their birth, and likely as not have signed up for Theism, Social Path, and Embryology-just because the words are new to them. From twelve o'clock Wednesday until their first class the following day they are free, and the time is usually spent in a number of waysi getting settled in their room fthe mama's-angel- child type does thisj, buying chapel seats from upperclassrnen fthe gullible does thisj, inquir- Bull slinging is an ancient, honorable, and ever-to-be popular sport at Westminster. All during these three days the Pan-Hell council f gentle reader, don't be startled, I am not swearing. Hell is an abbreviation for Hel- lenic, meaning Greek. No, we do not have Greeks on our campus, a Greek is merely a fra- ternity man. But as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myselfl-all during this time the Pan-Hell council has been conducting Rush Week. That means that different fresh- Tlley're Selecleel I Tappmeyer, Finks, McClell , Wh l S' l Baker, Reeves, Dowell, Gfrilnles, Ugbizh, Wqigiilhgbiglhomes ten ,

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college life and that little blue hats are a sure sign of servility and a whole lot more. However, football is well under way by now and the approaching conflicts overshadow any other activity on the campus--except lessons- and soon all the homesickness and greenness will be gone, and everyone, including the fac- ulty, is settling down to making 1930-1931 a big OLE year. By this time a freshman has learned the art of browsing through the labyrinth of the li- brary in search of the choice gems of English literature, and has learned that it is wiser not to ask the librarian such questions as, What happened in the year 20,000 B. C.? He knows that they may break the speed law of the vil- lage, but not one of Dr. Weigle's test tubes. He has begun to have his doubts whether Zaro Sharp is the best-looking, most virile, cleverest, and strongest collegian in the Middle West. He has learned that all is fair in college love and that if a fellow can steal his roommate's girl it's a free campus. He has bought Woods' parlor tickets and sold .them again. He has learned the advantages of Booth 14 over num- bers 13 and 15. That chapel speeches may be tiresome, he knows full well, but when the Dean speaks he knows that it will be well worth his attention. He has discovered the two sides to every professor: the classroom atti- tude and the Court Street Prof, and he laughs at their poorest jokes. He knows that the price of Sunday night dates is a S20 pin and 35 in 3.-.,-5.1. W--'1 3 . cigars, but he will f o r g e t in t h e spring. He has found out t h a t Warden has more keys than a con- cert grand be- cause he stayed away from the loop, but he him- self makes a path to Jones Hall. He is looking for- ward to the time when J a m i s o n will realize his ambition of oust- ing the faculty, d e a n, president, board, in order to run the institution as he sees fit. He knows that Phi- losophy is the Times Square of the curriculum FRANCIS M. KEENER . Keener, Ark. Dorm Club, 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice- President, 3, Yorke House, 2, 3, 4, Debate, 3, 4, Pi Kap- pa Delta, 3, 4, Vice-Presi- dent, 4, Representative Pi Kappa Delta National Con- vention, 3, Honor List, 2, 4, Honor Roll, 3, Student Council, 1, 2, 4, President Student Body, 4, Delegate National Student Federa- tion Congress, Skulls of and has heard the Seven, Lyceum Promoter, 4. sad story of those that got caught in the jam. He has discovered he cannot tell a big- ger one than Harry Jones without warping the truth and he knows by heart the night life of Keener and his debating trips. Carman, Swaine, Barber, Steel P' A b h Gallaway, Sloss, Todd, Betts, Ifighfdiger, 7l1Vg1q,Zl1?3 twelve