Sunday, December 21, 2008  Henry Pratt's Memories XV  "Entering
college was an exciting, and for males, a fearsome experience in
those days". Parents didn't usually bring students to East
Lansing. If they did, the students, especially boys, would feel
"pretty uncomfortable". Most students stayed until Christmas
vacation and those who lived in the Upper Penisula often didn't
go home until summer. Henry Pratt arrived at M.A.C. in the fall
of 1919. Wiith him was high school friend Milton Scherer and in
many ways the two boys were better off than most farm youngsters
who had to face being far away from home for the first time in
their lives. "The prospect of being there for three months did
not worry nearly as much as the sophomores". The older Pratt
boys had brought home horror stories of the dire events Freshmen
had to survive. Some didn't!  Another Watervliet boy was met by
Henry and Milt on the day of the Fresh-Soph Rush a few weeks
after school started. He was all dressed up and they warned him
that he'd bet