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...young lady's day is apt to start with a dash for the Library to return a book; then Agassiz to find notices and official mail and to sit until class. Classes, tutorial perhaps, a dash back to the dorms (seven minutes, catalogue time) for lunch, another class. There's an hour of athletics twice a week for Freshmen and Sophomores, and although there's no real conditioning the extension to the second year of compulsory was a war move last year. Basketball, swimming, fencing, modern dancing are all possible choices for the potential WAACs...
While there is the very necessary and credible patriotic angle, it is fairly easy to see why most women would reply to requests for enlistments in the forces with alacrity. Try flashing a few bills in a girl's face. Doesn't she dash like mad to the closest half-decent dress shop? (Or are Madame's skirts being rationed to an unholy degree?) By the same token, the prospect of wearing a bright new uniform at no cost, or at a moderate fee to one's self, looms nicely in a girl's mind...
Visitors Sweep Dash...
...Jumbos led the way in the other track events, taking all three places in the 40-yard dash, the Mikkolamen's weakest event. Bill Palson and Bob Kent were second and third respectively in the mile...
...yard dash event in Briggs Cage will see the Varsity minus all of their last year's sprinters, as well as Frank Coolidge, who is leaving to join the Service next February. Fred Carr, a runner on the '45 Freshman team, is slated to run for the Mikkolamen in the 40 yard sprint...