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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE begin their College careers by working hard. They sometimes had advice for the faculty: not to give unannounced quizzes after social functions, to be prompt in returning student work, to think again about locking buildings at night when it was so easy to enter through the windows, and to add certain new courses (for example, geography) and departments (for example, music) to the curriculum. Perhaps no advice was repeated so often and so fervently in every decade, beginning with the first of the century, as that urging all students to say hello to other students, as well as to campus visitors. In praising this custom, the editors on March 7, 1928 attributed it to neither the faculty nor the Student Council, but rather to "the gentle art of good breeding that seems to be part and parcel of collegiate life at Gettysburg." In 1919 Gettysburg was one of thirteen colleges in the Middle Atlantic states which gathered at Swarthmore College to organize the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association (I.N.A.). Meeting twice a year, members of this organization shared information about publishing college newspapers and recognized the work which the best among them were doing. In the 1930s and early 1940s the Gettysburgian regularly won prizes, both fall and spring, in one of the several existing categories. For example, in the fall 1939 competition it was awarded the first-place cup in news and sports, and second place in advertising. In addition, competing with several hundred college newspapers, the Gettysburgian won the Ail- American honor rating of the Associated Collegiate Press for newspapers in its class (500-999 student enrollment) four out of eight possible times during the 1939-1943 academic years. These prizes were tributes to the efforts of many students who understood the role which a weekly newspaper could and should play on a college campus. Undoubtedly, in most instances the experience which they gained working on the Gettysburgian was a significant part of their education.335 More than a few of the editorial and business staffs became leaders in business and education. Some of them eventually became College trustees. The first woman editor, Angeline E. Feeser, chosen in 1944, became a trustee in 1973. The Spectrum, which through and beyond World War II continued to be published by the junior class and carry its date (the class of 1946, for example, published the 1946 Spectrum in 1945), remained an invaluable pictorial record of a year in the life of the College. Because of wartime conditions, there were no Spectrums for 1919 and 1945 (which would have been published in the spring of 335With what one might hope was some exaggeration, an editor of the Spectrum told the U.L.C.A. survey team that his experience in that office was worth more than ten of his courses. U.L.C.A. Survey, 2:383. 65