Book Drive Opens Next Week Under War Effort
Cornelia's war board launches Victory Book Week starting March 1 with the library as campus collection HQ. Students and faculty urged to donate in good condition for service men, focusing on current best sellers and adventure, westerns, mysteries, and technical books. Red Cross rooms host town collections.
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Cornell
War Board
Red Cross
Army
Navy
Sue Swift
Sue
Martha Jackson
Miss West
Debaters to Nebraska Tournament at Lincoln
Cornell will send two teams to the 6th annual debate tournament at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Kendall Birr and De Witt Ellinwood will argue for the affirmative and Bob Fell with Ed Schmiel for the negative. They depart Friday. Birr faces army induction next week.
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Littell
Cornell
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Kendall Birr
DeWitt Ellinwood
Bob Fell
Ed Schmiel
Birr
Army
Don Fehrenbach
Dick Blakinger
Bill Allen
Air Corps
Bill Holch
Grinnell
Mississippi Valley International Relations Clubs
Simpson
Cornell Host To Iowa Family Relations Meeting
The Iowa Conference on Family Relations will hold its fourth annual two day conference on the Cornell campus March 11 and 12. Dr J H Ennis outlines the goal to promote appreciation of family relations values among students and the public. Renowned specialists from Iowa and beyond will address nutrition student courtship relations population studies and child welfare with a complete program to be announced next week.
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Iowa
Coe College
Ennis
Plan Next Prom For March 13
A record dance following the Cornell Knox game will be held tomorrow night in Alumni gym featuring latest recordings of Tommy Dorsey Woody Herman and Glenn Miller. The social committee announced that the Avalon band from Iowa City has been booked for the Junior Prom March 13. Further details of the format will be announced at a later date.
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Alumni Gym
Tommy Dorsey
Woody Herman
Glenn Miller
Avalon
Iowa City
Spirit of Shakespeare Stalks Hilltop in Elizabethan Weekend
The schedule highlights events for the Elizabethan Weekend with lectures and performances. Margaret Webster speaks Friday evening in the chapel. The Tempest is staged Saturday at 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Basketball features Cornell vs Knox and Cornell vs Coe with dances and recitals interleaved.
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Spirit of Shakespeare
Hilltop
Margaret Webster
Cornell
Knox
Marion Piper
Coe
Margaret Webster to Speak on Acting at Cornell Tonight
Margaret Webster, noted actress, director, author and lecturer, appears at 8 p m on the Cornell Lecture Course. Her talk The Adventure of Acting will explore actors heritage in English speaking nations with excerpts from plays of the past 300 years.
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New York
Margaret Webster
Cornell
Miss Webster
America
Hamlet
King Lear
Puck
Portia
Richard II
Macbeth
Coeds Rehouse To Town Houses In Mount Vernon Dorm Movement
Overcrowding in Washington housing prompts three girls dorms to be split. Miss Betts inspires moves to town houses with Cascades, Hull House and Rood Retreat named. Helen Moe, Dorothy Furnish, Kaye Moss and Barbara Bicket lead new student homes while a hallway piano and a buzzer system organize dates.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Navy
Pfeiffer
Altoona
Miss Betts
MacGregors
Cascades
Helen Moe
Mother Moe
Magee’s
Magees
Dorothy Furnish
Rood
Fisher House
Rood Retreat
Kaye Moss
Dean King to Speak on Radio Sunday at 615
Dean Albion King will appear on Waterloo station KXEL 1540 AM Sunday at 6:15 PM. He will discuss "Why Men Drink" on the temperance education program supported by Waterloo businessmen and hosted by KXEL staff announcer Cornell graduate Hugh Muncy.
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Dean Albion King
Waterloo
KXEL
Hugh Muncy
Cornell
March Husk To Appear Monday On Campus
The March Husk magazine returns to campus next Monday with a windblown cover. prose dominates with humorous camp and front-line anecdotes from Bob Reideler Phil Carspecken and Frank Nelick. Louise Rich contributes a short story Martha and Helen Mc Elroy blends humor and pathos.
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Mark-Murich
Pacific
Bob Reideler
Great Lakes
Phil Carspecken
Frank Nelick
Louise Rich
Martha
Helen McElroy
Elizabethan gender swap on Tempest opens at Little Theatre
Cornell presents an all woman cast in The Tempest at the Little Theatre with Miranda Ferdinand Prospero Ariel and shipwrecked lords in a fantasy. Women lead on stage while men handle backstage work led by Jim Compton. Saturday matinee offers schoolchildren priority over the Navy cadets for evening show.
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Cornell
Shakespeare
Little Theatre
Miranda
Ferdinand
Prospero
Ariel
Stephano
Trinculo
Caliban
Jim Compton
Henry Fujii
Wally Engelhardt
Bill Dodds
Mount Vernon
Navy
Cornell Gadets Take Off From Des Moines Notes
Des Moines reports of Cornell cadets joining Army Air Corps candidates who arrived last weekend and formed the first group in the capital. Sam Johnston led the way to Old Federal recruiting HQ while others, including Ries and Hall, gathered later for news. Cadets face rugged tests at Jefferson Barracks with morale high and mail welcome.
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Cornell
Army Air Corps
Des Moines
Old Federal
Ries
Hall
Sam Johnston
Sam
Jefferson Barracks
Johnston
Wilcox
Meggers
Claussen
USC
Center
Don Fish
Bob Hill
Pete Ries
Jack Hall
Rev Mosley to Lead Cornell Religious Emphasis Week
Cornell students and faculty plan religious emphasis week March 16 to 19 with Rev L B Mosley offering four chapel talks informal evening conferences and counseling. He has spoken at Wisconsin State Teachers colleges and other colleges and leads Madison First Baptist Church. He hails from the South with a lively humor and works on improving racial relations. colleagues call his views liberal and his speeches dynamic.
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Cornell
L B Mosley
Rev Mosley
Wisconsin
First Baptist Church
Madison
South
Dunn
Orchesis Welcomes New Members After Tryouts
Orchesis entertained members at Elmer and Hatties on February 15 to welcome Ruth Ann and June Dreyer into their group. Both new members joined after tryouts held February 11.
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Orchesis
Elmer and Hattie’s
Ruth Ann
June Dreyer
June
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Nebraska
Dr. Ennis
Mary Magdalene
Masha
Lady Macbeth
Dean King
Husk
Rev. Mosley
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