05 Mar 1935
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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1935
Page
1
Administration and faculty invite students to an informal tea Thursday at 4:00 in the social rooms to discuss what students want from their education and how the college can serve their needs. A round table will address course difficulties and faculty ideas.
The freshmen girls won the W. A. A. basketball tournament after a double round robin among three teams. The second tournament began last night featuring teams from Bowman Pfeiffer and Rood and the town girls.
Reports show competition for grade points among men's dormitories with Roodhouse at 1.66 average, Bowman and Pfeiffer tied at 1.55, Guild at 1.42, Burgstahler 1.41, Altoona 1.37, Coleman 1.29, The Grill 1.25, and Delt 0.96.
Dr. H. J. Burgstahler, president, attended an alumni meeting in Minneapolis on Monday and today. He planned a business trip to Chicago on Wednesday and was to return to the campus Thursday morning.
Professor Robert Leeper experiments with a no-grade system in General Psychology this semester. Grades are only recorded for the nine weeks exam and the term final. He says students like it and work hard and believes it may move toward abolishing grades entirely.
A woman's invitation dance will be held at the gym Saturday evening at eight o'clock. Mickey McGowan's orchestra from Iowa City will play. The admission is twenty five cents per person. Lucille Roach is in charge.
The Cornell college Madrigal club will tour from March 6 to Friday visiting Marengo Belle Plaine Newton Tama Toledo Montezuma Sigourney Keota Wellman Washington and Colum bus Junction. Huldah Peet and Lynn Miller are soloists. Programs include Now in the Month of May Morley Silver Swan Gibbons Ash Grove Welsh Air A Moon of Mighty Light In a Persian Garden Lehmann From Lyons as I Journey French Air Spring Time of the Year English Air The Turtle Dove It Was a Lover and His Lass.
In the latest Cornellian Helen Emerson was left out of the list of nominees for president by the Women’s Athletic Association. The omission appears in the current edition of the student newspaper.
The class of 1937 displays broad campus participation from athletics to publications. Wrestling leads popularity among men, with tennis for men and basketball for women close behind. many sophomores ride horses and roller-skate. They publish or write for The Cornellian and As We Are, join English and Writers clubs, and engage in music and the Oratorio Society. Girls favor card games and dancing. many majors are Economics, English, and Mathematics. Most women plan to teach, do social work, or enter journalism.
The second International Drama Cycle entry sponsored by the speech department presents Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Performances are Friday March 8 at 3 PM and Saturday March 9 at 8 PM. Admission requires a written critique left with Professor Albert F. Johnson in Main Hall. Cast includes Carl Weber Glenn Low Ava Schnittjer Virginia Blanchard Robert Fauth Alva Benson and others.
This edition of The Cornellian is produced by sophomore journalism students led by Charlotte Radcliff under Prof. Clyde Tull. Ten class of 1937 members staff the paper with Ruth Newell covering debate and political science, Edna Huffman society and art, Robert Fauth English, and others on library, science, administration, gym, and music beats.
Prof. Horace Alden Miller performed two pieces in chapel last Tuesday, Miller Composition and Gordon Balch Nevin's O er Still Meadows, with chimes woven into the organ lines. President Burgstahler spoke briefly about the Singing Tower at Mountain Lake Sanctuary near Lake Wales Florida and noted Anton Brees, the leading carillonneur, on his trip south.
Charles Mason and Robert Johnson will debate Columbia College and University of Dubuque in Dubuque on Wednesday then Carroll College in Waukesha Wisconsin on Thursday and Lawrence College in Appleton Friday. Freshmen debaters meet two I C T C teams Wednesday afternoon and Elkader junior college teams Saturday afternoon. Dorothy Downs and Eleanor Atkinson argued for munitions affirmatives against Drake women Wednesday night while Drake countered with an anti ban plan. Mason and Johnson faced Willamette University in Salem Oregon Monday night.
Foremost American pianist Frank Mannheimer, a Matthay School of Music instructor in London, will appear at Cornell college chapel on Tuesday March 12. He is praised for championing American music in Europe and has performed new American works in Rome and at IMS concerts.
Prof. W. Rosa Livingston of the State University of Iowa will address the International Club on Problems of the Pacific Ocean. He is a Pacific affairs expert and author of two books on the British Empire. The talk starts at seven in the geology lecture room. all are invited.
Dean King will attend the county Youth conference in Davenport on March 10 to lecture on Getting a Thrill Out of Life. The next day he addresses the Ministerial Association at the First Congregational Church on A Religion for Such a Time as This.
Betty Schmidt '37 excels in marionette making and puppeteering in the art department. She creates dolls with up to fifteen strings, learns stage craft and lighting, and spends about a day per marionette. Early works include Amos and Andy and Peter Pan. Rip Van Winkle and Ali Baba are popular shows.
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