1942
College Days
January 13, 1942
“No Ripon College student can go to classes today with the same or similar thoughts or attitudes as he had on December 5.”
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Above: A recurring ad from the U.S. Treasury Dept. The ad ran frequently in the College Days during the war years.
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College Days
Sept. 29, 1942
"Why Attend College in Wartime"
By Paul Dudley, '46, Darlington, WI.
"The Education in liberal arts is also important, for it gives one well rounded interests and the ability to think clearly. Without these one becomes a mere automaton, a walking machine of militaristic destruction."
College Days
Oct. 6, 1942
"Valor"--a weekly addition to The College Days until the end of the 1945 school year. Written as correspondence between Ripon College and a warfront soldier.
"Just wanted to drop you a line about goings-on back here at Ripon...Sure miss you this year, Joe. But, we all know the great job you are doing..."
Ripon Student on the Warfront. Lelon L. Patrow, '42.
Photo: The College Days. October 27, 1942
College Days
Dec. 8, 1942
"Muscle Men Groan; Fitness Plan Begins"
"Never the less it has happened. Men, we must now arise to the occasion and forsake our soft seated lounges and parlor phy ed and don our outdoor drawers...Some even asked if they could get credit for wrestling if the sorority house mothers would be kind enough to referee."
1943
College Days
Jan. 19, 1943
"America Must Redouble Efforts, Destroy Hitlerism"
"The educational system of America, and American Colleges is slowly being subjected to an adjustment created by the whims and fancies of the "arrogant paper hanger [Hitler]."
College Days
Mar. 2, 1943
"Boys Go Over There; Girls Left Over Here"
"The gals on the campus will always have the sweat strains of "My Buddy" with which to remember "Deedie." He really hit their hearts when the quartet gave its farewell serenade. Jeanne Kidwell expressed her sentiment with the profound statement--"I hate good-byes.""
College Days
Apr. 13, 1942
"Dissolved Fraternities Unite at Smith Hall; Orders Received by 130 Men on April 8"
"Organize Social Board Composed of Four Members"
"Despite the upheaval in the social order on the campus, the remaining students have reorganized into a united body in an effort to maintain the traditions and spirit of Ripon. The mass departure of many of the ERC boys left a definite hole, both in the enrollment and in the structural balance of the college..."
College Days
May 4, 1943
"Man Shortage Acute Problem for Woe Begotten Ripon Gals"
By Muriel Smith
"The opinion expressed in Katy []anes poem is that of all coeds on this campus and it isn't funny either, so stop laughing you few rare representatives left of that extinct species known as man. Perhaps we didn't appreciate the boys when they were here, but we realize now what it is without them."
College Days
May 18, 1943
"Commencement, 1943, Different in Spirit, Significance"
"Next year, for many years to come perhaps, there may well be no Homecoming...It is entirely probable that there will be no football team on Ingalls field. Those students in civilian dress will be few--mostly women and draft-exempt men. The war has finally come to Ripon. And it is here for the duration...
"None can deny that the college of the last generation or two has been closely identified with the administrative and cultural ideas of one man, Dr. Silas Evans. When he terminates his association with the college as president this month, he terminates also a certain stage of the development of the college as an institution..."
"There will be more government supervision of colleges, all schools, for that matter. The fact that nearly 40 percent of the men of draft age are physically unfit for service will mean more intensified athletic training. A national military service act, or some legislation with the same purpose and intent, will mean that military training will receive much more consideration in the college curriculum...
"In our experience we have found our compatriots in college aware of the deep issues of our time as well, if not far better, than the older generation...
"With the graduating class of 1943, then, Ripon college has reached the end of a definitive stage of its career. If the college is to survive as such, the future will mean constant change and readjustment to the problems arising."
College Days
Nov. 2, 1943
"Urge Coeds to Enter Nursing"
"More women must as their patriotic duty volunteer to continue their professional training and enter this all important field [nursing].
"From where will all these additional nurses come?...from the schools and colleges all over the United States for nurses are specialists and the trainees must be well equipped mentally, physically, and psychologically for their profession. College women in particular with their background, intelligence, and special skills could play a vital and essential role..."
College Days
Dec. 7, 1943
"Liberal Arts Training for Life"
"We are pleased to announce that the main theme of the inauguration program of Dr. Clark G. Kuebler will be the problems of the "Liberal Arts" College in the Post War World...
"We feel, with Dr. Kuebler, that the phrase, liberal arts, can mean but one thing. If Ripon college, or any college, intends to provide a valid liberal arts education it must recognize that it will consist of a broad, effective and living background in the arts, humanities, and sciences...
"And, if ever in or history as a nation or as a world we have needed these things in abundance, that time is now..."
College Days
Dec. 14, 1943
"Kiddie Korner--Dear Santa:"
"Dear Sandy:
"My boyfriend is overseas and he just doesn't seem to get my letters like he should. He thinks I'm running around too much and don't have time to write him and he gets terrible mad. Could you donate a special boat to the United States navy so it could just carry mail to him special like? I've been a good gurl, except I don't stick to my diet like I should, but I'll try real hard if you do that for me.
Thanks loads, Sandy, youer a pal,
Love, Kay Kohl."
1944
Ad for the Woman's Army Corps.
Ad: The College Days. May 30, 1944.
College Days
Jan. 25, 1944
"Education for Freedom, Inc."
"Education for Freedom, Inc., seeks to awaken all Americans to their country's educational problem and to stimulate an active interest toward finding its solution...
"It is evident that the reason Italy and Germany abandoned their democracy to tyrants is because the Italians and Germans did not have deep enough convictions, nor enough civic responsibility to fight to preserve what was right and destroy what was wrong in their own governments. It is equally evident that the reason the English and Americans did not oppose more quickly the aims of the dictators, was because we, a democratic society, did not have enough WISDOM to realize the menace of the dictatorships..."
Women wait anxiously after a routine air raid drill.
The photo was taken in the dressing room of Windmill Theatre, no longer present on campus.
Photo: The College Days. March 14, 1944.
College Days
Jun. 5, 1945
"'S.S. Ripon Victory' Launched July 10th: Library Donated"
"Ripon College is to be honored with the launching of the new victory ship "S.S. Ripon Victory" from the shipyards in Richmond, Calif...
"Other colleges and universities throughout the United States will be similarly honored by the Maritime Service. Among other ships already christened are the S.S. Lawrence, Denison, and Trinity Victory.
"It has been suggested by the American Merchant Marine Library association that the school honored contribute funds for the furnishing of a ship's library, titles to be selected by the association...
"The S.S. Ripon Victory will be a ship of the new Victory type, which is largely superseding the older Liberty transports. The S.S. Ripon Victory will be able to travel at 15 knots or more with a 6,00 horsepower turbine-gear plant as compared with the Liberty's reciprocating engine 2, 500 horsepower..."
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