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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
1
The piece lists editorial leadership and staff roles including Editor-in-Chief Yandell Cline Managing Editor William Bridges Jr Sporting Editor George Cady and Business Manager Howard P. Robinson with reporting staff.
The Webster Literary Society discusses novelist Harold Bell Wright this evening. William Kingsolver recounts Wright life and works while a debate weighs whether modern fiction should be in high school literature courses with Charlotte Trout Raymond V. Conley for and Donna Smoot Carl Lehlandt against.
The article notes a required Problems in Citizenship course for all freshmen next fall, covering economics government and political science sociology and American history. It also mentions 665 commencement announcements by the seniors and Prof. Deppe's geography syllabi for summer classes and K-8 teaching outlines.
Representatives of Butler Earlham Rose Poly State Normal and Franklin in the Indiana Collegiate Athletic League will meet in Indianapolis to discuss reorganizing steps next Friday afternoon. The recent gathering concluded the I C A L should continue though radical changes are expected to form a governing body to uphold athletic eligibility and standards for the remaining member schools.
A fragment shows a teenager's dialogue about cold weather clothing and a failed personally conducted tour. The scene shifts across the Library steps toward the tennis courts as characters debate staying out, with familiar playful exchanges and no new developments.
The article outlines county level church mobilization with A. M. Leakey directing Johnson county efforts. Each church forms a team led by a captain, and captains report to the county director overseeing all counties.
The Franklin staff will start an unofficial journalism course after spring vacation. Training will occur on Wednesday evenings with faculty or experienced staff guiding members as they tackle heavier assignments to improve writing ability in class.
Prof Deppe will teach summer school until July 30 then lecture before teachers institutes in central Indiana until September. He prepared over fifty circulars on subjects including Eugenics and Heredity, The Teaching of Geography, and Hygiene for county superintendents. Kappa Delta Rho grants a Zeta Chapter to Pennsylvania State College, the sixth campus for the fraternity.
Agnes White found a box of relics during the move of a book store. The items include green edged ledger leaves, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon Elec type, unidentified rooms, a money bag, old Greek texts, and incomplete commencements and invitations. Miss White notes the ledger set is valuable and is arranging the new store space. A Pre Med club meeting framed its constitution in the Biology lab. After spring break, a Johnson County Medical Association meeting is planned with college medics. The women’s premed organization may gain equal status in the county association. The First Baptist Church of Muncie pledges welcome to Franklin College students and notes available teaching opportunities in a local high school and a new junior high next fall.
A Rochester prospectus advertises a ten member faculty offering biblical and theological studies. It details a thorough curriculum with Old and New Testament courses, electives, campus facilities, degrees in B D and Th M, lectures, and opportunities within Rochester’s religious and philanthropic scene. Address: Clarence A. Barbour.
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