Ottawa Campus (Newspaper) - November 9, 1933, Ottawa, Kansas 1933 The Oldest Student Publication in Kansas 1884 vol. mum NOVEMBER 9, 1933 No. 6 - 4 Hold Alumni Dinners 1866 REVEALS THE FOUNDING OF 0. U. SITE OF PRESENT FORMER RESERVATION TO PRESERVE THE PAPER Paper Is Found By Father Of O. Reference Made To Baptist U. Representatives from Ottawa University went to three of the Ottawa University alumni dinners held in connection with the annual convention of the Kansas State November 3 and 4. Dr. W. B. Wilson went to Lawrence where about thirty O. U. alumni attended the Prof. R. H. Ritchie visited the Wichita group where thirty-five grads were present and Claude Webb went to About fourteen were present at the Parsons A very issue of Examiner and the predecessor of a national Baptist newspaper has been sent to Mary Eleanor Brin a sophomore at O. toy her The paper is dated June 14, 1866. It was found among some pa pers which were saved by Mary Elea nor's grandmother and Several paragraphs of one of the stories refer to the founding of Ottawa little more than two years of as the name of a to was a word Today the site contains a thriving and intelligent population of more than twelve hundred This place alike in view of its past associations and its prospective holds relations of such interest to Baptists as to make a few notes concerning its affairs worthy of a place in your valuable is in Franklin on a portion of land known as the Ottawa Indian which until about two years ago had not to settlement by white Many of the however under the missionary labors of the sainted were and inspired by a laudable desire to pro vide for the education of their child they effected a grant of twenty thousand acres of their lands to a Board of four of whom are and all of whom are the proceeds of which are to be used sacredly in the accomplishment of this And yet with a generous and wise the plan admits and contemplates IS CHOSEN BY JUNIORS TO BE PRESENTED NOVEMBER 28 IN H. S. Cast Includes Six Boys and Four To Be Directed by Mrs. Alice Gordon Wilson f * ON ARMISTICE DAY How awful is this monster we call Which fills the hearts of men with fear and May we in some way end this before Another lest it should be too For war can never end while hate lives As hate is poison which grows into Oh may we see thac day when hate is And peace reigns here on earth Murdered millions speak to us from ages I hear their and make thy With tie it That we the dead shall not have died in fought and it seemed a worthy But although we crushed the we find We did not we only because That is not victory which helps not all then shall be my my daily May joy and plenty fill the earth And may I always as my little share Bring love and peace into the hearts of L. W. * A. * To Sponsor Play The Junior Class is happy to announce that they have secured the Club to sponsor the Junior play this This is the first time this has been tried at O. but many other colleges are making it a practice and find it very This club is made up of townswomen who are interested in O. U. and its many activities and the class feels that with these women backing the it will be much easier to have a large audience the night of November 28. UNUSUAL MUSEUM IS KNOWN TO FEW CHAMPIONSHIP OF CONFERENCE TO BE DECIDED TOMORROW BULLDOGS AND BRAVES CLASH ON COOK UNDEFEATED Neither Defeated In Conference Game Is Favored a three-act comedy by Martin will be presented by the Junior Class of Ottawa Friday November 24, in the High School By reason of its human qualities and its personal interest story and this is an ideal comedy and warmly recommended by many After its great 1929-1930 theatrical hit in New the Post received play with roaring for Hilarious and Scene in second act roused the audience to something like hysterical Cyrus played by Lowell is the long-suffering arousing sympathy as well as as his desire for peace and willingness to do Rood to others is mistaken for masculine weakness by all except his little Clarease Nichols plays the role of the prize of the She takes the side of her father against continual nagging of her mother and her two and refuses to be spoiled by her mother's Mrs. played by Probable Starting for Tomorrow's Game MCPHERSON SERIES OF OPENINGS PLANNED THIS YEAR JUNIOR CLASS TO PUBLISH YEARBOOK ELEANOR VINCENT IS ELIZABETH BUS. MGR. MANY ALUMNI SEE DEFEAT OF BAKER 1933 O. HOMECOMING PROVES A BIG SUCCESS Faculty and Board of Trustees Approve Plan Submitted by the Junior Class Freshman Teepee Club And | Bachelor Club Winners of Float Prizes In Big Parade Some Collections Date Back To The Founding of Ottawa Others Are Added Each Year family and her two daugh Myra and played by Mildred Cornell and Bessie help keep the factions And the Rev. Dr. played by Thomas is the and deaf old who causes fun and laughter as old ministers sometimes when called in to perform a Other members of the cast played by Vein the founding of a University for is the causa of the education of all classes of persons in every department of south of the town limits is the section on which the College Buildings are to be One edifice is already under and is up nearly to the second while J was arrangements were made for the erection of These buildings are greatly for the departments of primary instruction already organized are embarrassed for the want of sufficient there is no reason for that If the Trustees are able to provide suitable the academical schools will open this autumn with a large number of Professor Kelsay believes that trees can grow on our and has already planted on these College grounds more than a million of every variety of tree and In this connection I may observe that I from the New-York Tribune of the 4th that a is now before Congress to grant to the Ottawa University 200,000 acres of Dr. John public provided its trustees Department of K. U and shall plant a given number of trees well known in in certain parte of our Western m Saturday The mere mention of this to the principal speaker at a mass fact is proof that the men who are Qf at the head of bMs institution are meeting wm possessed with far-reaching and in tne Memorial Auditorium comprehensive plans for the numbers by the High School merit of the wealth of our boundless band Immediately following this the and the shaping of the a n aub wm t A plan by which the students of Ottawa University will have an annual next spring was submitted to the Board of Tuesday evening by the Junior Class and was The faculty in its meeting on Wednesday also approved the With the promise of each student to pay the sum of two dollars before December the staff is going ahead with the plans of the abandoned early in the year because of lack of This interesting in the course of events that mark the success or failure of a school year has brought much joy to the student The seniors are especially for as they made an annual last they would have received no pay for their as the yearbook is most precious to The though not includes so the following Eleanor Elizabeth business One of the most successful homecoming in the history of Ottawa University took place when the former graduates gathered October 27, 28, and 29, to renew former associations and see the Ottawa Braves for the third consecutive time defeat their old traditional football Baker About one hundred and fifty former students The number this due to fine weather and larger graduating classes of the past few was somewhat larger than the gatherings of former student body joined in together and put on a great parade on Friday the Freshman class float winning the first | the Teepee and the Bachelor After the alumni met in the Commons Room of the Administration Building for an informal Over a hundred attended this Saturday afternoon Mary Elizabeth assistant j Miss and the Cottage girls Lowell assistant j entertained the alumnae at a business The student body owes a vote of thanks to Eleanor Elizabeth Cannon and Dr. K. W. Sam played by Jess for it is by their earnest effort and Grant played by Bruce and the played by Joe The as in other will be ably directed by Mrs. Alice Gordon Her staff of assistants will Eleanor properties Wilkin stage Mary E. costume and Inez Harry Ireland has been appointed business management that we are to have an annual this Freshmen In Charge Dr. John Ise Here material and moral welfare of the people who shall inhabit an ultimate endowment of this there are set apart 15,000 acres of the proceeds of when are to be securely in oder to provide for the current expenses of the In the meantime the buildings are to be while every day the reserved lands are increasing in which to secure a valuable endowment towards the support of its While the institution in ite Is not to be yet it affords the a magnificent opportunity of bearing an important find In share in forming the and of a stupendous a great as a we fail to give to movement our cordial ' copy of this paper will toe the University individuals who wish to read the references are also Baptist and Best 7a Good ' play entitled which will be directed by Hazel The cast includes Ardelle Allan Mary Howard Howard Daman and Paul At 3:00 if the weather the crowd will gather on the Court House Loud speakers will be making it possible for all to hear the address of Dr. If the weather is the meeting will be held in the Memorial The local Dr. F. L. is responsible for the arrangements of this The committee was appointed following the recent visit of Paul Jr. Although there is no magic formula for the development of personality the girls who were present at Y. W. Tuesday morning obtained some to what the ideal girl should avoid in her The meeting was in charge of the Freshman Marjorie Schober led the devotionals after which four personality skits were presented in the form of telephone Alice Thayer represented timid self-centered was portrayed my Marian Lois Held was catty and June About seventy-five girls Many were present at the Senior Halloween Party in the Gym Saturday So taking into consideration every thing that was Ottawa University 1933 Homecoming was a great May we have many more of the same To Hold Open House Thirty-Two Try Out Tryouts for membership in Player's Club were held Tuesday and Wednesday in the Individuals could try out by directing staging or acting different parts in the Out of the thirty-two who tried fifteen will be elected to active membership in the and five will be placed on the waiting The new members will be announced Class Visits Topeka Members of the American Federal Government class and a few other government students went to Topeka Tuesday to study the extra session of the Kansas The group of about fifteen dents left at seven thirty in order Invitations to the annual Cottage tQ m Ume tQ sefi Formal have been issued under the sesslon open returned about supervision of Nan and plans 0>c]ock that evening Dr s p for an informal program are toeing accompanied the made by Betty chairman of the Program The guests will attend in three at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 and will have the of visiting the different rooms in the Elizabeth vice president is in charge of general Fetter Is Honored Prof. Everett Fetter has been invited to join the newly formed Kansas City Philharmonic He will occupy third chair in the second violin This is a great honor to Prof. Fetter as the orchestra is composed of the best musicians in this section of the PALACE BARBER SHOP By the Work One Knows the Workman Set College Night Tonight has been designated as College Night at the meetings which are in progress at the Baptist It is hoped that a large group of students will be present to hear the message which will be brought by Rev. Guy and also the special music which will be furnished by the University Many students attended the college night last He who cannot laugh at had better see his It is worth seeing and deserves to be A heart-warming comedy In which laughter and pathos follow in rapid IDEAL BARBER SHOP 120 S. Main St. To Present Vesper The music department of Ottawa University will present its next vesper service Sunday November 19. At this time Prof. Fetter will the university orchestra in several groups of The vocal trio will sing. Dr. Cooper will play an organ selection with orchestral All students and friends are invited and urged to attend these programs from 4:00 until 5:00 at the First Methodist Rev. Wimmer In Y. M. Rev. Guy Wimmer talked to the boys at the regular Y. M. C. A. meeting Tuesday His topic was Rich Young He stressed the fact that it 4s hard to follow Christ with tout said that the lesson to toe received from this story Is that we must be willing to put aside those things which stand in our way and follow CITY BARBER SHOP Hair Cot 25c By Guy Coonrod How many students have been in the museum in the basement of Jones Certainly few know very little about or have been in it. it is mentioned in the but the article is very but besides that there has been nothing mentioned about it this Dr. head of the Biological is the curator of the and he has put much time and hard work in on trying to build it up as much as possible with the small means that he has at He this planning a series of openings so that the students here can become acquainted with the collections in Jones and in Ward Science Some of the collections date back tc the founding of Ottawa and to the highly For the old belonging to and some wooden mixing bowls belonging to the are in the west in the west there are collections of ethnological containing exhibit cabinets with handwork of the Indians of earlier This is even more interesting we think that possibly by the end of the next generation all the evidence of such craftsmanship will have disappeared in the Indian tribes because they are becoming so too the mineralogical collections are of great interest to those who have studied something of the rock and soil formations through some course in the Science anything with an air of mystery and of prehistoric create within us a desire to leam more of the inhabitance of our land in days gone Such a study can more easily be made if one actually views the bones and skeletons of the These and many more valuable things can be found in the west The east wing of the museum contains one of the best collections of poisonous reptiles existing in this part of the It was placed here toy the arduous work of Dr. Wilson about ten years ago Although the feathered collection is not very large at additions are being made this The Ottawa University Museum was started by Prof. O. C. now city Forester to who began the collections that later was to be the foundation of our present Several of the fossils still have his initials on Prof. Charlton was the first teacher in the university that devoted all his time to it was his wife who worked so industriously to raise money for the building of the and who was honored by having her name given to the When the Administration Building burned in 1902, the collections in the museum were moved over to the old gym in order to provide more It was found after a sojourn there that very little of it was fit to be placed back on the our museum has been built up in the last thirty of the hard labors of Dr. Wilson it contains many articles and collections of great interest to every When the opportunity every one should take advantage of it and visit the for though contains many interesting and educational both historical and Eddy is a charming little ed with See It at the r High School Nov. 28. Are you behind Owen would like be your 50c an OTTAWA Mattis Daugharthy Lasswell Watters Haley Jeter Pett Elder Knapper Thornburg Armstrong E. C. St. Dwight Leslie The 1933 football championship of the Kansas Conference will be at stake when the McPherson College Bulldogs coached toy Melvin Binford and Bud Selves meet the Ottawa University Braves coached toy Dee and Kenneth Senter orn Cook field Friday McPherson is the only undefeated and untied college football team In the state of Kansas and have had one touchdown scored on them this They have Ottawa University and Oklahoma Baptist University to defeat to give them an record for the season and are expected to play an Inspired game of football Friday It has been a long time since McPherson has had a conference champion football team and only the Braves stand in The McPherson record for the year McPherson 34, Indians 0. McPherson 7, Friends 6. McPherson 6, Kansas Wesleyan 0. McPherson 7, Baker 0. McPherson 26, Bethel 0. McPherson 39, Bethany 0. The Bulldogs have scored 119 to their opponents 6. The 1933 record of the Braves Is not nearly so impressive as that of the Bulldogs but many of the teams that Ottawa has played have been better teams than those who have tangled with Bethel and Bethany and the Indians are especially weak teams this The Ottawa record shows three games won and three Ottawa 7, College of Emporia 23. Ottawa 7, William Jewell 6. Ottawa 0. St. Benedicts 19. Ottawa 21, Kansas Wesleyan 0. Ottawa 12, Baker 0. Ottawa 0, Missouri Mines 13. Ottawa has scored a total of 47 points to their opponents 61. Despite the unfavorable comparison of the season's record the Braves are doped to win the Both teams have played and defeated Baker and Kansas McPherson beat each by a one touchdown margin while Ottawa defeated Baker toy two touchdowns and Kansas Wesleyan toy According to this dope Ottawa should win toy a one or a two touchdown Coach Errickson saved his first team last week from much action in Rollo taking no chances on any of his stars being The reserves played most of the game against the Muddy Watters and Art Mattis weren't used at all to the Knapper played less than one Jeter and most other linemen played only a quarter or As a result of this precaution the team is in the best of shape this All previous Injuries are healed and every member of the squad should be able to see action if necessary Friday McPherson quarterback who was Injured several weeks ago will be out for the remainder of the Several other McPherson players were slightly Injured in the Bethany game last week but are expected to be ready to play A large crowd of McPherson rooters Is expected to travel to Ottawa for the If the weather Is good the game should draw a crowd of over 2,000 people as It will be one of the hardest games of for v bothe Ottawa wil to defend Its conference for its j also trying to I for the In ' In 1S31.H-6 won k
