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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1919
Page
4
The DePauw campus highlights Dr. Kelman from Free St. George's Edinburg as a renowned thinker and speaker. The article urges students to attend Mendenhall lectures, noting the value of firsthand access to world leaders and the impact on academic life and character.
DePauw University plans to award 100 scholarships annually to top state high school students with four years of strong prep school grades. A $200,000 endowment funds the program, disbursed as $10,000 yearly installments. Applicants must secure a principal’s grade and character recommendation.
The fourth Mendenhall lecture, by Dr John Kelman of Edinburgh, argued public morality lags private ethics. He traced German public code roots, limited state freedom, and suggested path to higher morals through education and laws aligned with individual standards. He outlined future talks on Statesmanship in Foreign Missionary Work and Britain and America at 7 pm in Meharry Hall.
The DePauw Daily argues for adopting the proposed honor system constitution at DePauw. It cites an exam scandal as proof the old plan failed and asserts that students must handle examinations, not faculty. It praises the plan’s logical, direct, unambiguous, idealistic yet practical design.
The passage argues that shifting control of a vital student activity to students is feasible and trustable. It claims the measure would quickly fix faculty student misunderstandings and mutual distrust and represents a forward university step.
A mass meeting at Meharry Hall endorsed an honor system for exams and a proposed constitutional amendment. Speakers urged student responsibility to reform politics and trusted peers to report misdeeds, with voting set for Thursday and election officials named.
For the sixth time this year rain blocked DePauw Tigers from traveling to Lafayette to face Purdue. Athletic Director Buss announced no make up date as Old Gold schedule is full. Next game ends at Terre Haute against State Normal. DePauw hopes to capture honors.
DePauw announces plans to publish a literary magazine featuring only student work including short stories poems essays and novels. Three or four issues are planned next year with future goals of a monthly run. staff will be entirely DePauw students and new teams may be chosen each issue to widen participation.
Night in France during the Argonne offensive shows section chiefs shouting commands and gun crews loading and firing rapidly. Gunners glare through firelight as detonation shakes the forest and fighters endure heat grease and dust. A dramatic dawn scene follows with exhausted soldiers and a shifting gun crew continue the bombardment.
Madame la Marechale Peel leads at home and prefers strict order in meals and schedule. A lunchtime delay during armistice talks sparks speculation of prearranged timing and mutual impatience between Foch and the marshal amid Allied sessions.
Gen Baron Fukushima a leading Japanese military figure dies in Tokyo. He began as a drummer boy and, in 1892 93, rode 9000 miles from Berlin to Vladivostok through Russia Siberia Mongolia and Manchuria. He commanded Japan in the China war and served in the Boxer troubles and Russo Japanese war. He represented Japan in China India Egypt and many other regions.
In Terre Haute the Human brothers donated land for a new school and Calvary cemetery. A townsman jokes with Herman Human on his way to a farm between the two plots, noting he remains “hanging between the two” in a playful remark.
Scientific American notes that British steam driven 2700 ton submarines travel 20 to 25 knots on the surface. It says submerged speed and visibility make submarines unusually dangerous, able to see 9 and 10 to 15 miles electrically, while remaining hidden in the air.
An archaic article discusses Ararat as Noah's mountain and a site of Eden lore. It notes Armenian monks and early climbers, citing Dr John Varro's 1820 ascent and later attempts. The piece blends geography, religion, and exploration with retrospective commentary.
The piece reviews a century of treaties by which the Ottoman Porte pledged Christian protection in European Turkey but never kept them. It cites the 1896 Hatt-ı Humat-ı Şerif and Abdulhamid II’s reign, noting millions of Christians and Jews suffered under his rule.
The naval service tests a radio-compass or direction finder. With long range wireless reception from shore stations a ship at sea can pinpoint its position exactly even in bad weather when sunsights fail. The invention aims to solve navigation challenges.
The War Department lists November 2 2018 counts of animals on hand including 113 725 cavalry and riding horses 180 045 draft horses 144 911 draft mules 17 208 pack and riding mules and 15 280 unclassified animals.
A Prussian tree near Harmony was blamed for a strange disappearance spree. A deer of barbed wire and items gone missing six feet from the trunk led to the discovery of long hidden goods including a scythe and a bag of tools inside the hollow tree.
In remote Bernese Oberland villages and Glitus, marriage proposals use floral codes. A bouquet of edelweiss from a suitor signals acceptance, while a rose left with a note on the girl’s window leads to a potential meeting with parents or a rejection if the flower fades.
A hospital bound corporal recounts seeing a French officer hanged by the feet and his face battered. He says his unit, angered by the act, planned to strike back at a German pair found in a barn but chose restraint, feeding them instead due to a stated moral difference.
A vacuum type plucker for fowls is shown in Popular Mechanics. The device dries, removes all feathers from a typical bird in about five minutes. A motor-driven fan creates suction in a long flexible tube ending in a special plucking head, with feathers routed to a receptacle overhead.
The bride tells friends after the ceremony that they will not take a honeymoon trip. She says the money spent could buy a cow. The remark appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
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