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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
2
The note lists student leadership positions with Editor-in-Chief George Cady aged 22 and Business Manager Howard P Robinson class of 1922. It reflects a campus publication staff credit line format.
A reflective snippet questions punctuality and fate tied to Friday the thirteenth. The speaker mentions The Franklin and the notion of plans lining up or breaking on the date. The tone hints at superstition and personal timing without detailed events.
Contemporary editorials in The Franklin exchanges urge students to focus on grades and serious study. The De Pauw Daily calls on students to work hard for better grades, while the Indiana Daily Student stresses a strong start for the second semester.
Alumni updates show Leroy Finkenbiner leaving teaching in Wisconsin to manage Johnson’s lumber in Indiana and settle in Osgood. Pauline White coaches Center Grove girls, and Cotton Overstreet readies for a foreign representative post with Standard Oil. An appeal discusses Griz Wagner and Franklin high’s state title prospects, while Paul Van Riper survives a house fire and J Maurice Saunders moves his department to a new college building and joins the American Chemical Society.
Marguerite Hall is reassigned to a home position, keeping house for her father in Lebanon. This change reflects a shift from school duties to domestic duties within the family setting.
Department heads referred a motion to limit student activities to a faculty committee. A low limit is to be recommended at the next faculty meeting. Tuesday is class meeting time after Chapel exercises and Thursday is campus group meeting day. Unexcused absences capped at ten. chapel cuts reduced to ten.
The article lists yearly tuition plus fees for area colleges. Earlham and Butler students face about 100 dollars in fees yearly, with possible increases. DePauw plans 2100 dollars in incidental fees annually, per the Board of Trustees action. Official rate changes to be announced in the college bulletin. The present rates have stood for seven years, after a 1913 change from 63 to 75 dollars.
The Wile-Casady Company’s Faculty of ten delivers a thorough curriculum covering Old and New Testament Bible studies, theology, church history, ethics, homiletics, religious education, philosophy of religion, church cooperation, elocution, and sociology with electives. Facilities include dormitory, library of 0,000 volumes, chapel, classrooms, and bowling alleys. Degrees offered: B D at graduation and M Th for special work. Rochester offers university courses to seminary students and annual lectures by notable figures. Correspondence welcome.
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