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Newspaper
Richmond Collegian
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1925
Page
6
A collage of campus quips and snippets touching on campus life. The piece riffs on dieting, weather, alarms, professors, and classroom antics, with quick exchanges about calls, dating, a lake island idea, and student humor.
Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society meets Monday for its first program after the annual banquet. S. T. Habel reads, H. L. Atkins discusses current events, and a debate asks whether Congress was morally justified in its refusal of Warren with Davis and Hitt for the affirmative against Bentley and Schneider for the negative.
Easter dances at the University of Richmond, held at Play Boy Studio on Monday and Tuesday evenings, drew a large crowd of students alumni and friends. The Old Dominion Orchestra provided music and a new plan pairing the German Club with the Varsity Club for successive nights proved successful and likely to continue.
Editorial notes announce the Messenger will publish its May issue around May 1 marking the conclusion of the fifty second volume with the following month’s edition.
The play selects Romeo and Juliet with Y McDaniel as Paris Cabell Phillips as Capulet J Shelburne as Peter Miss Wright and Margaret Taylor in major roles Miss Emily Brown directs the University Players Meyer Mahaney handles security effects Marian Marsh assists Pebworth lighting and Margaret Harlan designs costumes
Dr H G Noffsinger is elected to presidency and led efforts to raise college standards for the junior colleges. In Bristol he affiliates with the First Baptist Church and formerly served as Kiwanis Club president.
Westhampton freshmen presented two plays with strong character work from Elizabeth Jones Sarah Cudd Mildred Anderson and Cecelia Hunt. Henr iette Greenbaum impressed as a bubbly ingenue Elinor Physive played a lively grandmother. The second act The Thirteenth Candle featured Lydia Plathfield as the cobbler Margaret Knight as the overworked sister Elizabeth Sherman and Dorothy Connally as appealing in their roles. Emily Brown coached the drama and S W Chappell handled makeup with solid direction.
Student Government discussed rewarding the cheer leader and authorized a committee to plan honoring the leaders for their hard work. The plan for appointing the cheerleader and assistants was reviewed by the Varsity Club and the local circle of Omicron Delta Kappa. Leading members agreed on the plan before it passed last Monday.
The University of Richmond announces thirty six new scholarships funded by a long list of individuals and churches. In total the university now administers 290 scholarships, with 130 under university control and 160 from donors and independent schools. The new awards aim to help students without ample financial means access tuition-free education.
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