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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
4
Alumni are invited to vote during Commencement Week by submitting a filled ballot to Secretary Clarence E. Arnett. Members should include their dues payment and indicate their choices for President, Vice-President, and Secretary.
A new secret society at a dormitory gathers as charter members overweight students who vow to lose weight. Members must weigh at least 140 pounds and aim to shed most of it, eat one meal daily, avoid bread and potatoes, exercise vigorously, sleep little, and limit fruit. Expulsion is possible for noncompliance. Motto is My fat for my country. color mournful. favorite drink vinegar.
The Men s Glee Club scored a hit in its first appearance at Whiteland despite missing soloist Clara Margaret Jennings and reader Mrs Verne Vandivier. Substitutions were made and the two part program included club chorus numbers and a military sketch with Franklin soldiers represented by Richard Crecraft and Davis Harrison. Chalk talk by Charles Overstreet readings by Miss Alice Lewis and solos by Miss Esther Lyons highlighted the special features as the club warms for a spring vacation tour.
The Periclesian Literary Society selected its team for The Star prize debate. Webster also chose its speakers, with Davis Harrison, Leslie Dubkin and Opal Wright for the Pevigiesian team and Theo Sharp, Miss Jessie Wolford and Ellsworth Yarian for Webster, on the topic pledging the commission form of government for cities over ten thousand.
The final game of the girls tournament will be Tuesday at 4 30 p m to decide the sophomores and freshmen who each won once. Freshmen won 13 4 and sophomores 11 4. The schedule stretched due to injuries and illness and after the champion is crowned girls shift to tennis baseball and track. Plans for a tennis tournament and track meet are under way.
Believed one hundred per cent of women will enroll with first classes this week. Miss Palmer led the normal class for leaders and subleaders, outlining work. Five evening classes met in dormitory areas, with out of town girls included. Men’s classes held regular meetings and grew enthusiastic.
Four Reuben Craig, once gravely ill with pneumonia at his Os home near Ockley, shows improvement and is expected to recover slowly. It may be many weeks before he can report for duty at Camp Taylor. Franklin friends celebrate his progress and wish him a speedy return to health. Katherine Magaw and Nelle Miller plan to see the Follies in Indianapolis on Saturday. Mary ONeal and Bess Unis were in Indianapolis on Friday.
P. K. D. president asks Franklin College to petition for a charter before the April 4th to 6th national convention in Ottawa Kansas. The letter from E R Nichols outlines eligibility, petition requirements, and dues, noting faculty and graduates may join. Iota Psi Nu held a taffy pull at Mable Hayes home Saturday night.
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