“I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

Woody Allen

Sometimes you can tell who the freshmen are on a college campus.  The scared, lost, or blank eyes can often give you a clue.  However, more often than not, they are undistinguishable.  From what I can tell in the 50’s and early 60’s, Kansas Wesleyan University  freshman wore beanies like the ones pictured below.

These girls are in the library, unlike everyone today with this 63 degree weather!!

In the early years, they would have the year that they would graduate embroidered on that hat.  I guess back then people really did get through college in four years!  However, it must have been too much pressure for those students to graduate on time, so they got rid of the years.  If anyone has more information about this tradition, please share your wisdom!

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of."

Charles Richards

The new semester started yesterday here at Kansas Wesleyan University, and with it came new assignments and new schedules for the students.  It happens to us as faculty and staff as well.  My calender has been filling up with new meetings and library orientations.

As I sat  in my office on a Friday afternoon, feeling very pressured to post today since I had told a certain someone in the Admissions Office that I would; I began scanning the shelves to find inspiration for the next blog post.  There I found a perfectly preserved 1915 calendar that the university had printed.  It is filled with pictures from the campus and the Smoky Hill River.  There were a few things that were interesting to me.  One is that college is based so much on dates: semester start dates, assignment due dates, etc.  However, this calendar really has nowhere to write down any meetings or events.   Also, the pictures are not printed on the paper; they have been printed separately and then adhered to the calendar.  Check out the scanned calendar below!  If you click on the pictures, you can see them enlarged.

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

Winston Churchill

With the new year comes a lot of change.  Today a plaque was delivered to the archives that showed how our dear Coyote mascot has changed throughout the years.  As you view the pictures remember it was an old plaque and that I am a librarian; not a photographer. 

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