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Information please FALL BEGINS OUR YEAR See brings us back to Wheaton as the leaves turn color and the days grow shorter. Once again be lls ring and the walks are crowded with girls. At night lights shine from the dormitories. Voices and laughter are heard and the campus awakens from its summer quiet. There is something new among us, a new class. New faces, new personalitites, what will they bring to Wheaton, we wonder. What will Wheaton bring to us, wonders the freshman. After the view of the campus from the Visitors’ Entrance which she learned as a sub-freshman, the administration building is the first part of Wheaton to become known to a freshman. The very first day she registers there and then goes to find her room. In the rest of her life at college the ad building will play an important part, for in it is the machi- nery of Wheaton. In the perplexities of the first days this memory of the ad building fades. It does not take her long, however, to become familiar with the lower floor of the building. Up and down the stairs we go a dozen times a day. The freshman joins us. Three times a day we peer into our mailbox and reach for the shadow that looks just like a letter. If we've used the last sheet of paper in our notebook, need a new pair of socks, some stamps, the latest Mademoiselle, a get- well card forCousin Lulu who has the mumps, or are facing any kind of an emergency we trot down to the bookstore and Mrs. Perry produces the very thing we need. Freshmen are not long in following the path worn to its door. (No, no mousetraps, Stanton.) The bulletin board is also important to all of us. Before the emergency board we push and shove at 8:30 a.m. looking for possible cuts or any startling news which may be posted. At other times we lean on the shelf and study posters, contemplate the possibili- ties of going to that concert in Boston or con- sider the notice that says someone has room for three paying passengers to New York. The bulletin board summarizes Wheaton. Gym cuts, choir lists, play rehearsals, exam schedules, are all found there and the calen- dar announces our social life. Soon after arrival the freshman discovers eal
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es ease eye tee Rete Re F +e . ae iy weet etek Ste KR? ene Fs eS MISS CARPENTER Mr. Cutler’s office by following the proces- sion of girls carrying floor lamps and reading lights of all descriptions to be left by his door. By this time the freshman thinks she is quite at home in the administration building but if some morning she strays from the horde streaming from chapel to the mailboxes and goes upstairs instead of down in the ad build- ing she will find herself in a new Wheaton. Looking around for no trespassing signs she tiptoes along the hall. The door at the left is slightly open. Should she go in? Heavens no! The sign says, President. She has already dis- covered by his chapel talks that Dr. Park is not just a wonderful myth. She looks around. The sign on the other side of the hall says, Dean. Then that must be Miss Barker in the outer office. Some day she will find that Miss Barker is very comforting to talk to while she nervously awaits her first conference with Miss Carpenter. Once in Miss Carpenter’s office she may be amazed to see the latest picture of Bruin propped up on the desk and she will begin to wonder why sheever thought deans were terrifying people who don’t know how to laugh. But this is before the freshman knew, so she tiptoes on. It seems strangely quiet and empty compared to the floor below. In the next room at the left Miss Remick is at work, smiling and friendly. How wonderful to be secretary to Dr. Park. The freshman smiles shyly back at her and retreats almost into the office across the hall. Where is she? Did someone say something about Miss Gar- rison? Wondering what this is all about and how there can possibly be so much work in running a college she continues around the corner. She finds herself face to face with In- formation. Surrounded by telephones, florists boxes, and timetables is Mrs. Potter. With a sudden desire to test this organization, the freshman asks about the movies in Taunton and receives a prompt reply including infor- mation about Mansfield and Attleboro as well. A girl in a green hair-ribbon comes to claim a telegram so the freshman drifts away. They say Information is such a harrying job that they work in shifts. When Miss Poland is worn out Miss Smith appears Cupperclass- men still call them Millie and Carol) and Information carries on. Later the freshman will learn how calm Mrs. Potter or Mrs. Burr can be in the face of the crowd that mills around the door at a few minutes before one a.m. on late per nights. Turning from Information she looks around the hall admiring the rug and the blue up- holstery of the furniture. ‘‘Wheaton blue, I suppose,’’ she thought and tipped her head back to look up to the next floor. Yes, this is the hall she was in before, when she was a sub-freshman. ‘‘Funny how you get all mixed up, I thought it was somewhere else.”’ Miss Albro smiles as the freshman lingers by the door. So here is Miss Ziegler’s office! Of course an old friend from sub-freshman days. Hoping to see Miss Ziegler the fresh- man moves slowly on. “‘Even though she is [14
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