11 Dec 1931
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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1931
Page
1
The Summer Session Committee met to outline preliminary plans for 1932 at Cornell. The program emphasizes careful planning and distinct features with a focus on the fine arts as part of student life, including courses in Creative Writing and other offerings continued in the next page.
Seventeen attend Cornell professors group dinner at the Baker home to hear Prof Roy A Nelson recount the American Association annual meeting in Chicago. The report highlights Academic Freedom and Tenure Salary Scale and the convention’s opposition to broad salary cuts led by Robert M Hutchins of the University of Chicago. A general discussion followed.
Professor and Mrs Clyde Tull drove to Iowa City with Catherine Faust and Harriet Holland to view Shakespeare's Othello at the University of Iowa Little Theatre.
Professor Walter H. Hodgson, music instructor, linked Handel's era to its music and politics in a Friday chapel talk. He noted Handel wrote the Messiah in twenty four days shaping both oratorio and opera of that period.
Former Cornell student and ex class of 1932 Marjorie Graves Beebe now lives as Mrs Glenn Beebe at 11924 Yale Avenue Chicago She lists Stockton Illinois as her native town from her college years and hometown record.
The third recital of the season was held in the chapel auditorium last Wednesday at 4 o clock. The first student recital featured organ numbers with Claude Rose at the keyboard. Elizabeth Dalton Hulda Peet Lucile Indra and others performed piano violin vocal and string quartet pieces.
The Latin club met at Prof and Mrs Mark Hutchinsons home last Tuesday at 6 40 p m Papers on daily life of four Roman classes the slaves the plebians the equites and the patricians were read by Doris Albin Alice Younger and Margaret Ink Refreshments were served by Mrs Hutchinson Mary McLaughlin led the meeting
Prof H C Lane of the English department read excerpts from Mark Lane's diary at the English club gathering in South Hall. He noted epigrams on advertising and discussed topics from the position of women to reminiscences of Old World life and love.
Several Cornellians are on the sick list this week. Elizabeth White Parks an instructor in journalism was ill with a cold yesterday. Malcolm Slaght a sophomore has missed classes since Tuesday with what was first thought to be appendicitis. Wesley Burr acts as temporary dining room steward at Pfeiffer Hall during Kenneth Gray’s illness absence.
A city proclamation and village dog catcher sweep stray dogs from Mt Vernon streets as a rabies scare grips campus pets. Spot, Prince the collie, and other animals are noted among those warned or removed amid a growing toll and uncertainty.
Tryouts for the one act play Sparkin held Wednesday reveal roles for Ruth Mellway as Granny Dorothy Gilmore as Susan Betty Foard as Les sie Clare Hoffman as Orry Several pledges join the cast under Purple Masquers with help from Prof. W Earl Beem The other two one acts Lenna Looks Down and Riders to the Sea had casts announced last week
Ashley Foard and Joe Griffin supported enacting the Stuart Chase stability plan for business. Hugh Chance and Wesley Burr argued against liberal conservatism as the country’s path, calling it the current norm. Elwyn Mauck chaired the session with ten minute speeches and five minute rebuttals. No decision was rendered.
Clarence Richardson and Elwyn Mauck will debate two Malcom area high school teachers at Malcom Iowa on Saturday. The topic is Resolved That capital punishment should be abolished in the United States. The Cornell men will support the affirmative. Richardson is a student pastor at Malcom.
College events list shows basketball at Northland on Saturday December 12 and Messiah on Sunday December 13. It notes a Tea Dance on Wednesday December 16, Mathematics Club on Thursday December 17, and marks Christmas recess starting Friday December 18 at noon with return on Tuesday January 5 at 7:45 am.
For the second time this year, Altoona men will host a dormitory party at the hall tonight. Chairmen named include Carl Plowman on program, Don Dittmar on refreshments, Fred Goble on decoration, and John Mount with James Robinson on finance. chaperons are Mr. and Mrs. Tharel Kanitz and Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Gould.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette offer lets Cornell, Coe, and Iowa students win complimentary tickets to George Bernard Shaw's Apple Cart at the Shrine Temple Cedar Rapids on December 15. Eleven Shaw questions grant free tickets. William McCurdy outlines the contest and its prophetic play about government in 1960.
The Christmas W A A tea dance will be held in the Social Rooms at 4 00 p m on Wednesday December 15 Eleanor Shaw chairs a committee including Bernadine Johnston Dorothy Pierce Helen Von Behren Mildred Floyd Margaret Harris and Elsie Silvius arranging favors and refreshments The event is open to all associate and active members who have paid dues.
More than 290 seats are reserved for Handel s Messiah at Cornell chapel next Sunday afternoon at 3. Harold W Baltz conducts the twenty seventh annual performance. Visitors from Cedar Rapids Marion Lisbon Iowa City Davenport and nearby areas plan to attend. The chorus has met thrice and the orchestra seven times with soloists rehearsing tomorrow afternoon. Credit for the string section goes to Mrs Helen Cumming.
The Cornell college journalism students will publish the Mount Vernon Hawkeye Record next semester under an agreement with editor James McCutcheon. They plan additional local papers and a pre Christmas student journalism dinner with a guest speaker.
Student speaker Ernest Caldwell asks what Elder Bowman would think if he returned to Cornell. Caldwell discusses the religious life at Cornell during chapel on Wednesday.
The Sibylline, first college annual printed in Iowa, appeared in 1888 at Cornell College. It featured professor biographies with pictures, college history, student poetry, class histories, athletics, cartoons, literary societies led by Amphictyon, freshman origin counts, and party accounts with hangouts for men.
The chapel concert featured three Christmas carols under the direction of Prof Harold Baltz with organ accompaniment by Prof H A Miller.
Early in January an exhibition for Soap Sculpture sent by the Proctor and Gamble Company will be on display here. The Federated Women's Club sponsors the traveling display now in its third or fourth year, with Ingle side and the Cornell Art Club of Mount Vernon arranging to bring it for students of this art.
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