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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
1
Publication card lists weekly issue details for Franklin College Indiana with editors and staff. Includes Florence Sayer as Editor in Chief and Russell Wilson Managing Editor, plus business, circulation, and associate editors, reporters, and Greek-letter society staff.
The Franklin College library serves all students with access to dictionaries encyclopedias and reference works for study. It lends reserve books for two weeks with renewals and offers a wide range of periodicals magazines and reviews for education and leisure reading.
A librarian and assistants offer help with locating books and using guides while requesting only one exchange in return: consideration of others and maintaining the quiet order essential for reading and study. Contributed.
Thirty five students enroll in a new household economics course led by Professor Gordon at Franklin College. The syllabus includes classroom study this term and a practical cooking class next semester. The project, backed by President Hanley, aims to pioneer home economics in Indiana colleges alongside Butler and Earlham.
The Rhodes qualifying exam will be held in Indianapolis on October 5 and 6 in the Marion county superintendent of schools office at the court house. The opening exam starts at 10 a.m. William L. Bryan serves as Chairman of the Indiana Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.
The report notes Earlham shows normal enrollment with about 140 freshmen already registered and expects over 300 for opening week. DePauw reports 252 new liberal arts students and an official university total enrollment of 933.
Miss Edna Smith and her mother of Seymour shared a dinner with Professor Thurber and his family on Friday evening.
Edna Smith and Mildred White were in Indianapolis on Saturday. Irene Green spent the week end at her home in Seymour.
Fall regulations tighten attendance rules with new standards for absences and tardiness. A student missing one tenth or more of recitations must sit a special exam. one fifth absence blocks final exam without faculty permission. Two unexcused tardies equal one absence. Fifteen unexcused absences add one semester hour to graduation. Excuses must arrive within two weeks. Goal is reduce cutting and enforce punctuality.
The Penglesian Literary Society has elected Gideon Inman as President Ruth Stevens as Vice-president Ida Fleming as Secretary Helen Stevens as Treasurer Cecil Corn as Chaplain Florence Caffyn spent Sunday at her Indianapolis home.
The Young Women's Christian Association held a 6:45 Thursday meeting. Florence Caffyn led the session and explained the local Y W C A organization and committee work. Committee chairs described their plans for the year. Florence Sayer sang Just for Today.
After the Y M and Y W C A meeting a joint reception for new students was held in the dormitory. About 150 attendees enjoyed Victrola music by Dean Crowell and performances by Ben Hanna Chic Steffy Ruth Wooden and Regina Helm. Welcoming speeches were given by Dr La Rue and Dr Klyver with faculty remarks by Dr Beyl and Professor Belknap. Punch and wafers were served.
The University of California plans a 3500 seat Wheeler hall becoming the nation’s largest classroom. Southwestern College announces formation of a new oratorical fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha, joining Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa Alpha, the latter founded in Butler.
About 81,000,000 a year is now appropriated from forest funds for county roads and school purposes outside of the forests in the states where they are situated.
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