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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1919
Page
2
Faculty votes to enforce a prewar rule banning excessive loafing and crowding in halls and under the rotunda at Chapel time. Debate centers on enforcing the measure with coed and student participation and may take effect Monday the 23rd as observers note a lingering babel of tongues.
Franklin college will not send entrants for the cross country run at Crawfords Ville tomorrow under Wabash College auspices. Freshmen and sophomores have been doing track work for physical culture but have no intercollegiate running experience and have only trained up to two miles. Representing schools include DePauw Wabash Purdue Indiana and Notre Dame. Schneck Wainscott went home to Peru yesterday due to illness.
Oliver Morasco presents Tom Wise in a Morasco cast at the Shubert Murat Theatre for three nights starting Thursday December 4 with a matinee Saturday. The play follows the story of Cappy Ricks from deck hand to Blue Star Navigation Company owner and president, testing Matt Peasley as he woos Cappy’s daughter. Reserved seats are available through North Whitesides Co.
The piece depicts sorority rushing at a college with vivid satire. It recalls three days of rush events, names prominent women, notes shifting pledges, and mentions Pan-Hellenic rules. Mary Bostwick is noted as a keynote writer and a club meeting is postponed to December 16 at Roscoe Freeman’s home.
Alumni news reports only ninety six of four hundred fifty return postals for the Fats Frolic dinner, with many non responders. The piece lists several alumni and updates their locations and activities, plus a fundraising drive for the August Sundvall Student Volunteer Fund to aid delegates to the Des Moines convention.
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