Wheaton College - Tower Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Pal Chapel met outside, standing, and a new Prexyism was born. ‘“‘The Health Center has just informed us. . softening every angle; a paradise for photogra- phers and all romantics. But exam time refused to pamper their fancy, and too many long walks at night helped produce a rather grim reality when grades became final. Freshmen discovered that every nook can be utilized for cramming sessions, 12 even a shoe-littered closet. Charts of figures and names blur—just a little—and a late crammer pokes with a stained spoon at the gray thing floating on his coffee. The names clear again and the student bends his head over scrawled notes.

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These alumni eat more popcorn! Roses for Friend Wife. 11

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A five day break and then more of the same. The same fervent resolution to boost that grade point average by keeping up with daily assignments. The same distractions, or maybe a new one. A few late minutes, a disintegrating Stupe ticket, and second semester is no longer a novelty. Even fresh snow had become passé. Poet Peter Viereck paid his second visit to Wheaton, relieving late winter tedium and shocking minds and souls out of hibernation. Most of March was consumed by that avoidable but inevitable pre-vacation bustle of note-borrow- ing and concentrated reading. A twelve weeks test, another term paper and, in between, in- numerable Stupe breaks to keep up the morale if not the grades. Another trip to Evansville and another trophy. On the Tower bulletin board there were, good grief, more Peanuts than assign- ments. One giddy weekend was provided by Campus Fair, complete with blue ribbons and cotton candy. This was followed by Reverse Day which produced a satisfying number of sore arms from unloading trays and opening doors. Spring came, flaunting an abundance of warm and pleasant reasons for avoiding the library. Out Bennet Cerf, Jerome Hines—artists in humor and music. Jan Bryant receives academic honors, helping Juniors gain more laurels. HS: