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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
2
Student groups urge closer contact with professors after campus discussion on relations. Engleman hall hosts a faculty tea after the Messiah performance while the Women's League plans a faculty reception. Both sides seek mutual effort and interest to foster interaction.
December 19 marks University Christmas shoppers event in downtown Kent. Student clerks and advertisers from Kent merchants will serve University students and faculty while the business sales class works as salespeople and the advertising class crafts ads for the Kent Stater. The plan features special sales from leading merchants and benefits both townspeople and the university.
A French professor from New York University swings a cane at a green light and smashes a taxicab headlight with a bowing gesture before walking off. The Purdue charter requires one farmer one woman and one person of good moral character on the Board of Regents, and the Barbarians will span athletics social events and politics as a new independent group.
Tommy Dorsey debuts two swing tunes with Sy Oliver and Frank Sinatra featuring Ziggy Elman, while Sidney Bechet offers One O Clock Jump and Blues in Threes on clarinets with two outfits. Mitchell Ayres and Love Thy Neighbor provide a contrasting number with Mary Ann Mercer. The Paramount film Love Thy Neigh bor supplies Glenn Miller material sung by Ray Eberle and Jack Lathrop. Also featured are Love of My Life Tony Pastor Bob Chester Who Am I Johnny Longin and In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town.
College and university students, faculty, and staff qualify for reduced round trip train rates by purchasing at their home town between December 25, 1940 and January 16, 1941. The ticket can cover return trips for Easter or year-end breaks. Existing College Special tickets may be used for Christmas travel, and those buying at home should get a one way ticket home.
The Kent Stater in Kent Ohio is issued four times weekly during the academic year and weekly in summer. It is entered as second class mail, printed by P B Bonsall Printing Co. The staff includes Editors Betty Crampton Jules Bognar George Fleischer Gus Chigges Lindy Barch.
A flood of handwritten notes from Kent State University students asks Santa for college men as gifts. The letters name specific suitors such as Way Toll Bill Kennedy Jack Mosher Bob Seese and Ken Pringle and reveal longing for romance amid campus life. The writers describe themselves as smooth confident and desperate for dates with professors athletes and students alike.
Elliott Nugent and James Thurber bring the college comedy The Male Animal to Hanna Theater for a week starting Monday, December 9. Ohio State professors Turner and his wife host a former football hero during Homecoming with campus politics and a ban on his lecture paper triggering a rebellious, fighting husband arc.
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