Class of 1921 . count of the Flu. Then Wednesday morn-ing another amazing announcement: recitationsstopped. Play palled after two or three days andthen you decided that you wanted to be a nursesaid. What was the good of your taking that coursein Home Nursing last year if you couldnt show yourwonderful skill in the art of making a bed with apatient in it? But then the fiat was issued: 1921, because ofher tender age could not nurse. You were disap-pointed but not crushed. To quote the Seniors: You were not forlorn soYou tried raising corn. Moreover, the farmers were pleased, and while you couldn
Class of 1921 . count of the Flu. Then Wednesday morn-ing another amazing announcement: recitationsstopped. Play palled after two or three days andthen you decided that you wanted to be a nursesaid. What was the good of your taking that coursein Home Nursing last year if you couldnt show yourwonderful skill in the art of making a bed with apatient in it? But then the fiat was issued: 1921, because ofher tender age could not nurse. You were disap-pointed but not crushed. To quote the Seniors: You were not forlorn soYou tried raising corn. Moreover, the farmers were pleased, and while you couldnt farm for theFund (for it was way back in the days when there wasnt any Fund), stillyou could give the money for the Red Cross. Classes began again in two weeks and you learned to believe in signs, forSeelye Hall was plastered with them. You had to keep to the right and keepmoving. The note room was absolutely closed, and what is Seelye Hallwithout a note room? In some houses you had to wear gas masks and there. CDo m 195 ]B( m X was a daily health drill on Campus where you informed the house matronthat you were feeling fairly normal. At length, however, you could do every-thing but go downstreet or leave town, two things you burned to do; butfirmly resolving to keep your minds fixed on College affairs, you hospitablyescorted 22 to the belated Frolic and made another resolve that SophomoreReception would be less crowded. Then came some extremely interesting rumors. The war was over andyou could go down street to celebrate. No, but honestly, the Dean had calledout of the window that quarantine would be off tomorrow and to pass theword along! You were studying Sociology and you rejoiced at the oppor-tunity to study the emotions of the mob at first hand. But next week, as anexcited Freshman telegraphed her father, War and quarantine are bothreally off and the College, as President Neilson put it, resembled a circus. \ou were taking Zoo and you had an annoying way of insisting tha
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