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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
2
The piece discusses a university board’s demand that professors avoid undemocratic or un American content. It cites the play The Male Animal and quotes Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin. It argues education requires examining all sides and that authors should be free to teach truth in a democracy.
In Harlem the Savoy Ballroom is called a Taj Mahal where diverse crowds gather for the Lindy Hop. The floor pulses with brass and fever, drawing both prominent and ordinary patrons who blend in the music regardless of color.
The Kent Stater bulletin notes publication four times weekly during the academic year and weekly in the summer term with suspensions during vacations. It lists printing by P B Bonsall Co at Kent Ohio and advertising representation in New York Boston and Los Angeles. Subscription price is 2.75 per year.
As We See It notes GAMS expect a big Frinite formal at the U club in Akron. It mentions Bernie May performing, gridders recovering from a Cleve party, and a wide array of campus tidbits including dances, staff movements, and a pro-football draft highlight involving Mike Fernella.
A reflective tirade questions modern civilization and planning. The narrator imagines an anarchic haven with Hedy Lamarr as the lone companion on a dream island, contrasting personal freedom with rigid schedules, schooling, and institutions. He muses on Mondays and Sundays, longing for escape from clocks, polls, and critics.
The Geography Museum in room 466, McGilvrey hall, displays lands where cotton tobacco and rice grow with guides by Miss Edna Eisen. Exhibits include silk cocoons rice stalks miniature cotton bales and cotton bells highlighting the U S cotton belt and rice and tea lands of Japan China and Korea. New Orleans Memphis and other southern cities are shown with air views and guiding questions.
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