While the regular Calvin stu-dent Hits around the campus with every classroom just a wish away, twenty-five special students must race from Calvin campus, to Junior College, and to Blodgett Hos-pital. These energetic twenty-five are the government's children, the cadet nurses.

The cadet nurses are students in every sense of the word. Each one carries approximately twenty-two hours, and rigid government require-ments demand that grades must be kept above average in order to re-main with the cadets. Naturally that means studying almost to the exclu-sion of everything else. With the re-quired time taken out for eating and sleeping, the cadets mourn their neg-lected social life.

A typical day of the nurse cadet includes stops at three centers of learning. On Monday morning, when every student is supposedly fresh and eager to start the week ahead, the cadet stumbles out of bed and eating breakfast on the run, arrives at Junior College at 8:30, or reasonably close to that time. Dietetics lab lasts from 8:30 until 10:00. (Incidentally, in this lab each little prospective nurse is learning to become an excellent cook, a fact which should make the Calvin men even more eager to make their acquaintance.) At 10:00 the bus company runs an extra bus in order to handle the traffic flowing to-wards Calvin College. The second stop of the day is at Calvin where the cadets remain for the longest period of time. At 3:30 the cadets ar-rive wearily at Blodgett Hospital, de-parting drearily at 5 :30.

Laboratory periods take up most of the cadets' time. They have four a week: Dietetics at Junior College, Nursing Arts at the Hospital and Physiology and Chemistry at Calvin. Nellie Beukema supervises the Physi-ology lab, while Lois Hocksema and Bob De Haan are in charge of the Chemistry period. Bob, as the lone male, finds the laboratory a danger-ous place when all twenty-five deter-mined and amateur chemists advance with their test tubes.

So far, the picture we have presented of the cadets has been all work and no play. This is not true of course; the prospective nurses have just as much fun as other stu-dents. The gayest group in the girl's lounge is usually a collection of nurses, hurriedly eating a sandwich or reading a last chapter before they are on their way again. A few weeks ago, Blodgett Hospital, the future home of all twenty-five, gave a party at which the girls were introduced to their ``big sisters.'' Still it is a hard course and being only human, every now and then a disgruntled cadet will groan, ``Is it worth it?'' The answers she gets are varied and emphatic.

``I hate it!'' says Nella Tiesinga, burrowing deeper into a Microbiol-ogy book. And ``I love it,'' exclaims Ruth Alien, and there you have the two extremes.

Most of the girls hold more to the `middle position. Fran Dykstra thinks it is ``wonderful, but hard.'' Doris Miller would like to know how many tests she can fail and still make it. The average cadet likes the course and likes the work but thinks that there is too much of it.

The chief complaint of at least one cadet, Kleanor Driesens, is all the un-welcome traveling she does in one day, via foot and bus. ``If only some-one would donate us a few cars!'' she remarks hopefully. When occasion-ally a car is secured, the amount of passengers packed into one car is alarming. Often the back seat is packed in three layers. So far there-have been no casualties, unless the twisted necks of the third story riders and the crushed and crumpled first layer victims may be counted as such.

Not all of the girls are freshmen. Several are sophomores: Milly Klomparens; Barbara Wilson who attend-ed Western last year; and Angie Her-tel who spent her first year at Wheat-on. Joan Zandstra is a junior who will complete the cadet course with a B. S. degree. But the majority of the

group are freshmen who will remem-ber college as a place of labs, broken test tubes, and blue books.

The cadets will spend only one semester at Calvin before they move into Blodgett Hospital. Their train-ing period will cover almost three years at which time they will emerge as full fledged R. N.s. They are the last of the nurse cadets. On August 21, the girls were accepted in the Corps and on October 15, the Cadet Corps was officially demobilized. After completing the course, their lives are their own. They may re-main government nurses or they may enter private hospitals. The major-ity will choose the latter.

The stay of the cadets at Calvin is a short one. Years from now we hope thev will remember Calvin for other reasons than labs and test tubes. When the new semester begins, the girls' lounge will be found just a little too quiet, the eastern end of the basement hall will look deserted, and it will be remembered that the nurse cadets have moved on.