04 Jan 1929
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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1929
Page
1
Minnesota defeated Cornell College 29 to 19 at Minneapolis in a hard fought college basketball game. Otterness and Nelson sparked the Gophers with key baskets, turning a 14 to 11 halftime lead into the final edge.
Leroy Loose Northwestern assistant debate coach praises ex Cornell debater Binford Arney now on Northwestern varsity. Arney handles last speech and rebuttal in debates, competes against Illinois and Purdue, and assists with girls varsity debates while serving as critic judge for Chicago high schools debates.
The Magic Star a three act Christmas play by Jew ell Bothwell Tull with music by Horace Alden Miller was presented at the local Methodist Church Sunday evening before Christmas. Essie Mae Thompson played the mother and sang two songs The Home of the Star and The Star of Love. Nama Lathe of the Cornell art department supervised the decorations.
The 1930 Royal Purple staff resolves to produce a standout Cornell yearbook with extensive photography and art. Miss Lathe oversees new college art department designs as Marguerite Kohl and Nelta Tregloan craft artistic sections. The year promises coverage of major events like the Pageant and strong athlete features.
Wild Duck Joe compiles Cornell’s 1928 year in review with key campus events. Notable items include basketball wins over Beloit and Hamline, wrestling dominates Wisconsin Nebraska and Purdue, lectures by Maude Royden and Ray Bose, a student dance at the Hotel Roosevelt, and a campaign raising funds for $75 000 with students contributing $11 880.
Cornell junior varsity fell 21 to 14 at Rock Island on December 20 as Augie used a cautious attack. Thoman led Augie with early points, Knanisha and Jones added scoring punch, and O Connor contributed a late basket to seal the win.
Cornell intramural athletics start next week at the gym with eight class teams in A and B divisions. Seniors and freshmen practice Tuesday and Thursday while juniors and sophomores practice Monday and Wednesday. Friday open to all. Credit available by two practices weekly with supervisor Howard Woodruff handling rosters.
Coach Dick Barker attended the NCAA annual convention in New Orleans last week. The Cornell athletics director focused on the American football coaches session held Saturday and urged the rules committee to make a fumbled ball dead at the point of recovery. The proposal will be considered at the rules committee meeting later this year.
Work has begun on the next Ollapod to be distributed during the Post Exam Jubilee in late January. The issue will be the largest yet and dedicated to the successful financial campaign and a stronger Cornell. New artists will debut, and writers are invited to submit jokes for the Ollapod box in Main Hall.
Cornell College closes a fundraising drive with $1,600,037 pledged by midnight December 20. The total ensures the Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board gift of $500,000 will be added to the college funds. The bell rang as Waterloo campaign headquarters reported the triumph and the nation’s excitement rivaled a championship game.
A Des Moines publication titled A First Book of Iowa Poets edited by Victor Schultz collects forty nine poems by writers living in Iowa. The slim volume features ten Cornellians among twenty nine poets with works by Kathry n Fenstermacher Gertrude Herrick Laura Hinkley Mildred Creighton Hunt Mae Peery Hutchinson and Thelma Lucile Lull.
At the National Student Federation of America congress in Columbia Missouri discussions centered on the honor system. The South leads in adoption with 40 percent of colleges using some form of it, followed by 36 percent in the east, 15 in the Midwest and 8 in the Far West. Institutions like North Carolina Washington and Lee and Duke rely on tradition to ease implementation. Smaller colleges face repeat offenses and prosecution challenges, while larger universities suffer less from these issues.
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