Every Freshman rather dreads her first Sunday at college and expects a dreary, lonesome day when she will be entirely engulfed by the homesickness that has threatened her for the past week. But our first Sunday at Salem is a different sort of day. It begins with the 11 o’clock service at the Moravian Church, which the College and Academy students attend en masse, led by the Seniors in all the glory of their newly acquired cap and gown. Dean Shirley at the organ renders a fitting prelude; Dr. Kenneth Pfohl leads in the reading of the litany and delivers a message particularly helpful to the student entering upon a year of school work; and every member of the Home congregation gives a cordial welcome to those who are to be in their midst for the next nine months. It is a service full of inspiration for every one who attends.
From page 3 of The Salemite, Salem College’s newspaper, Sept. 12, 1923
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