Chrestomathean Recital Highlights Quality Over Quantity
Last week’s Chresto program presented two declamations and two essays: selections from Daniel Webster by Gladys Cox, The Religion of the College Girl by Fiora Hunter, Woman in Government by Gertrude Jantz, and Meditation and Imagination by Vivian Stucker. Janette Culbertson and Cornelia Ryker debated whether college sessions should extend from thirty-six to forty-eight weeks, with judges ruling in favor of a three month vacation.
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Chresto
Daniel Webster
Gladys Cox
Fiora Hunter
Gertrude Jantz
Vivian Stucker
Janette Culbertson
Cornelia Ryker
Football Shakespearia in Boston Transcript
A quirky theater of football jargon overlays quotations from Shakespeare plays as light commentary. The piece parodies pregame chatter with lines from Henry V through Coriolanus, playful but veering into sport metaphors and dramatic sport sounds.
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Boston Transcript
Henry V
Hamlet
Macbeth
Henry IV
Henry VI
Cymbeline
Anthony
Cleopatra
Coriolanus
News of Other Colleges
Harvard reports about one hundred faculty advisors for roughly six to seven freshmen per advisor. Yale Regents oppose journalism as overly businesslike, delaying its teaching for years. A Zeta Tau Beta chapter forms at the University of Illinois. DePauw seniors wear maroon mackinaws as class garb. Missouri University journalism students seek a charter from Sigma.
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Harvard
Yale University
Zeta Tau Beta
University of Ilinois
DePauw
Missouri University School of Journalism
Sigma
Delta Chi grows to twelve chapters since 1908 founding
The article notes Delta Chi now has twelve chapters with DePauw as the 1908 founding site. It mentions Pete Vaughn as a future assistant coach for Purdue football and reports on campus lectures on social hygiene at Franklin. It also covers Butler football, debates, Vanderbilt football dominance, Virginia's coed college bill, Kansas University rooters, and library shelving at Harvard.
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Delta Chi
DePauw
Franklin
Virginia
University of Virginia
Kansas University
Harvard
Preparations For Minstrel by Local YMCA Committee
YMCA men begin early preparations for a minstrel show after Thanksgiving. Chair T W Blair and Sam Rie ly lead a committee with Coulter Montgomery Albert Sellars and Paul Dowell plus sub committees for Finance jokes Advertising chorus and more. End men include Parrill Swann McLaughlin and Winslow with Dowell as interlocutor. Rehearsals have started and many song hits are anticipated.
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T. W. Blair
Sam Riely
Coulter Montgomery
Albert Sellars
Paul Dowell
Blair
C. Montgomery
Dowell
Riely
Sellars
Blackburn
Whitcomb
Notable local figures appear in social and sports roles
Miss Jennie Lee, 98, hosted the Zetalathean literary society at her home Friday evening. Andrew Farrell, 11, visited the college and Sigma Chi brothers last week. Elzie L. Weber, former Hanover athletic director in 1909-10 and 1910-11, now coaches Springfield High School in Illinois with a successful season.
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Jennie Lee
Zetalathean Literary Society
Andrew Farrell
College
Sigma Chi Brothers
Elzie L. Weber
Hanover
Springfield, Ill
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