1916 Cedrus Yearbook

19 Cedar Day 16 0 '['HER colleges have their Flag Day and their May Days,but Cedarville college hasherCedar Day. It is an institution peculiar to Cedarville College. The students regard Cedar Day as the annual college holiday when the student body is at home to the entire community. The faculty regard Cedar Day as the day of all the year when the community and the college get very close together thru wholesome fun and pleasure and over the festive board. The people of the community regard Cedar Day much as they regard the fourth of July. It is a general holiday and it is gratifying to see business houses closed, farm work abandoned., baskets filled and the whole family—and all the families— coming to spend the day on the college campus. Cedar Day in 1915 was the biggest and best yet: Very much of its success may be attributed to the fact that the weather conditions were ideal for carrying out the program as previously arranged. The attendance was the largest and most enthusiastic, the "stunts" were interesting and original. The crowning of the May Queen and the May Pole dance in her honor were most pleasing. The basket dinner was—well, what shall we say except that it was very satisfying. As the visitors were assembling in front of College Hall at nine thirty to witness the "stunts"; busy changes in the appearance of the usually good looking Seniors were taking place in the laboratory, and mysterious faces from time to time peered from the windows. But the explanation was made when five cannibals with knives and clubs as weapons emerged from College Hall and hid in the grass and behind the trees to await the white missionary who was scheduled to pass that way. In a few moments he appeared and the attack was made, but of course he escaped by means of his trusty air ship, "the Burns Ford" and thus secured his "Safety First." Altho the Juniors called their stunt "The Dance of Demons" it was in reality the stately minuet as danced by our grandfathers and grandmothers, in costumes appropriate to the dance. The Juniors acquitted themselves well but perhaps "Miss" Wm. Allen Hastings deserves special mention. In a very real and convincing way the sophomores demonstrated in "Only a Dream" the effect of the college upon the community in which it is located. C.C. was represented as being compelled to seek another location on account of lack of support, and upon her removal from Cedarville, the young people of the town began to transfer their interest from ideals which were uplifting to those which were degrading. Ofcourse the College was restored to Cedarville as her own "Cedarville College". It was indeed a "Short time in SingSing Prison" for the Freshmen,—but even then they were heard as they noisily executed "Tipperary" on their human pipe organ. Typical of the purpose of the Young Men's Christian Association in C.C. the devil met "His Waterloo" when he was chased off the campus. And the faculty stunt: "What is It? Were'nt you surprised? So were we." 45