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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1916
Page
1
Judge Kavanagh spoke on Traitors to Justice to a large attentive audience. He urged reform through abolishing technical appeals and stressed the need for lawyers changing stance, citizens serving on juries, and mothers teaching children respect for law.
In a wintry evening journey toward Mt Vernon, a lone car travels through fog and quiet suburbs. The author reaches the hilltop town and glimpses a dim football field with four upturned Zs, evoking loneliness as the story continues on the next page.
DePauw University Professor William W Sweet will conduct three summer school history courses. The offerings cover British Empire and International Relations, Latin America, and American History with emphasis on social and economic progress and recent problems. Public and social science students gain direct access to present day issues.
Marguerite Clarke appears next Tuesday evening in The Goose Girl at the Lisbon Opera House, a period drama presented by the city's theater company.
Leonard Fackler, a prominent Cornell graduate, wed Ruth Wamous last Thursday at Aitken Minnesota, the bride’s home. Fackler, known as Fack, led publicity efforts for the State Intercollegiate Prohibition Association and later directed the central office of the National Association. He also starred in athletics and held an unofficial mile record at Cornell.
Girls at the Aonan garden party entered a transformed Philo Mill hall turning the venue into a theatre. Six groups formed around named flowers, each booth performed a stunt followed by encores. The program featured campus pep themes and a playful note on Coe's goat tragedy.
Philo hall transformed into a crystal palace on Wednesday afternoon as freshman girls arrived to a wintry scene with snow, icicles, and a snowman. They received booklets to exchange and wrote first impressions. A contest tested snowball throws through a moving silver hoop, won by Jessie Fitzgerald.
Marsee Evans 715 is offered the superintendency of Camp Douglas Wisconsin schools while continuing church duties at the Methodist church. He expects a heavy workload and will likely attend the summer session to prepare for the position.
The Lisbon Opera House presents the Girl of the Golden West next Saturday with a 3 PM matinee and a 7:30 PM evening show. Described as an extra fine production.
J C Hodgson, photographer and manager of the Star theatre, is reported very sick with pneumonia.
A school event features Anna Marie Smith's poem winning first place. The report notes a Mother Goose inspired ending exercise and a festive dinner at Jordan House with narcissus, snow men favors, pink accents, and the Adelphian orchestra providing music.
Doctor George H Betts will lecture on The Psychology of Alcoholism Why a Man Drinks Thursday evening at 6 40 in the Day chapel. The talk, sponsored by the Y M C A and N P A, covers heredity depravity and motives behind intoxication and offers practical steps to fight the habit using substitutes as a weapon.
Jack Whitsell, a Cornell standout from 1908 to 1912, led as society president and football captain. After graduation he planned to teach in Missouri, but discovering unreadable notes ruined his plans, and he burned his trunk and traveled home, ending up selling peanuts in the village.
Oberlin society notes describe an elite sorority organized for sociability matrimony and popularity with a secret handshake and an official song Who Were You With Last Night A dated constitution requires 45 minute meetings and a member who fusses one person twice faces a 25 cent fine at the next meeting A girl may request a date from a sorority brother and he must accept.
An Iowa college bans male students from visiting resident female boarders. A male student caught calling on a college girl faces escalating fines from 50c to 5 dollars. he asks jokingly what a season ticket would cost.
Questioner fears expulsion for St Vitus dance symptoms. The answer counsels exposing oneself to rheumatism as a remedy, reflecting outdated medical advice and tone.
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