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Newspaper
Richmond Collegian
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
6
A collage of frontier jokes and one liners range from bootleggers and romances to weather banter and hospital gibes. It includes lines about rye, marriages, a widow, similes for Lindbergh, inmates, relatable domestic foibles, and cheeky quips about weather and work.
More than thirty Westhampton students with Miss Lough and Miss Harris visited Kilbourne Farm at the State Industrial School for Girls in Bon Air for a Christmas service led by Miss Bair. Ida Scott read Luke 2, and Helen Le Grand led carols with both schools singing. The visit included mingling with the Kilbourne girls and planning Christmas boxes for the coming week.
The Journal-Arts Club toured Washington visiting the National Theatre for the New York Theatre Guild's Shaw play The Apple Card, Freer Galleries with Whistler and Thayer works, the future Washington Cathedral site and Bethlehem Chapel, Corcoran Gallery for the Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, joined by Miss Theresa Pollak. Members included seniors Miss Pollak Mrs Meade Mr Handy Mr Caylor and students from Westhampton and Richmond College.
In a brief comic exchange, Ernie asks if a book is good. Gink replies yes but it is dirty. Ernie then tells him to brush it off and hand it over.
Rich mond College will hold pre Christmas tests Friday and Saturday before holidays. The catalog had listed tests for the last four days but a recent faculty meeting changed the timetable. Term resumes at 10 o clock on Monday January 5, 193.
Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society reports strong attendance and engaging programs. Vice-President Rufus Darden presided. L. C. McKinney led prayer. Clifton Cosby read Mark Antony. G. L. Rucker discussed the Nobel Prize. Dan McGrew and Shakespeare critiques featured. next Monday December 15 1930 votes and dues due for semi annual officer election.
The P I N E S club founded on the University of Richmond campus May 11 1926 with five charter members is to become a fraternity Pi Delta Sigma. Charter members Cecil Childress Arthur Crews Branch Behols Philip Minor Wayne Lester Smith Clayton Sweet and Russell Urquhart. Present pledges James Henry Ryland Hepler Paul Hepler John Pearce Elbert Poole Jr Melvin Trice and John Wyatt. The fraternity has a room in D section Jeter Hall.
Rev Beverley D Tucker D 10 was the main speaker at convocation this morning. A University of Virginia graduate and Oxford Rhodes scholar, he is rector of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond and a noted civic figure. The service was well attended and Dr W A Harris urged broad attendance at all chapel services.
A group including A. G. Billingsley Dick Payne Wat Fugate Eugtue Graham Pete Campbell and William Bell attended a dance at Fredericksburg State Teachers College last Saturday evening. The Journal-Arts Club took a large group to Washington for gallery visits.
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