Chapter 30
Week 12, Instructor Calendar, April 1896
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly.
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There was great excitement on campus at the approach of Saturday’s junior-senior basketball game. The game of basketball had been only recently devised, played mostly by local Young Men’s Christian Associations. Concordia was amazed by how quickly it was becoming popular among the women’s colleges, too.
There was certainly no lack of enthusiasm on this campus. Several upper-story cottage windows displayed hand-lettered signs of support for the teams. Banners were springing up throughout the grounds, in the college’s colors of green and gold. Students were wearing either green or gold bands around their arms to show their allegiances to the juniors or s
