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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
1
With spring and the basketball and wrestling seasons done, Cornell’s intramural program shifts outdoors through June featuring events from horseshoes to baseball. The decathlon begins Tuesday with 24 entrants, the 100 yard dash opening day and the 440 to be run Thursday. The top scorer earns the championship. eight records were set last spring.
The economics and business administration department increases credit hours from 31 to 40 enabling a double economics major from 18 courses. Prof. T. W. Mathews cites a shift to modern industrial methods and heavy investment in research driving the change.
Prof Littell's political science classes will travel to Cedar Rapids Monday to observe a District Court trial over the Dvorak estate. Defending attorneys are local lawyers Wilson and Maxwell.
A fantasy a comedy and a drama will be staged in the Chapel auditorium tomorrow at 8 o clock. Casts from the student body and the play production class under Prof W Earl Beem perform The Wonder Hat Ile and Thursday Evening with admission of twenty five cents to cover royalties.
Dr. Henry S. Conard head of Grinnell College Botany will lecture on The Vegetation of Iowa Since the Glacial Period at the Science Club meeting next Tuesday evening. The public is invited to attend in the Geology Lecture room Law building at 6 40.
Sixteen freshmen competed in the intramural mat tournament, with McCarty at 115 lbs and Rodgers at 145 lbs winning titles. Morford beat McCrary in the 185 lb final by a small margin as both top first year wrestlers. Coach Barker plans to enter yearlings in the Ames American Legion tourney on April 6.
A sketch of Dr. Paul R. Billingsley, 710, appears in the latest Who's Who. He set a record in Northwestern medical school for research and numerous journal publications. He now practices medicine in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The Cornell College Orchestra led by Prof. Horace Alden Miller launches its annual spring concert tour on April 4 with thirty six members. The itinerary covers Iowa towns including Stanwood Monticello Coggan Waverly Montour Toledo Conrad Eldora Hampton Stratford Chapin and Reinbeck with performances at First Church and Grace Church and Mrs. Miller joining the group.
Mary Parsons notes Myra Hess closed the Artist Recital Course with a superb performance. She opened with three Bach preludes and fugues, delivering absolute clarity and vitality that showcased a truly great artist.
Coach Dick Barker and Cornell wrestlers Guy Shinn and Amil Bresson left for Columbus Ohio to compete in the national intercollegiate meet Shinn will wrestle 145 pounds and Bresson 155 pounds Barker also serves on the meet committee
The Husk number from Cornell's literary magazine features six poems by Jay Sigmund, plus works by Prof. Tull, Mrs. Hutchinson, Kathryn Fenstermacher, Janet McBroom, Jewel Bothwell Tull, iLee Grove, Opal Munger, and Hortense Bellanca 81. It includes "Dissertation on Pork Roast" and "Renais sance" among others, with a page four continuation noted.
The English Club brings the Stratford Players, a pro company linked to Robert Fantell, to Cornell for a Saturday night performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on April 20. Promoted as a major dramatic event of the school year.
Sixth in a series of Cornell senior interviews, Miguel Reynolds of Ottumwa discusses college choices, grading fairness, his preferred studies in social sciences, future plans on rail work then law, and calls for candor in campus administration especially over social life and dancing.
Ash Park sees Coach Judd Dean’s thinclads practicing for the class meet and Midwest trials. Captain Charles Thorpe and eight returning lettermen headline a 1929 squad, with James Corlett the Midwest mile champ and Macaulay strong in two mile. New and veteran sprinters bolster the roster as workouts continue toward the school title.
The Cornell Preachers Kids held their annual banquet in the Campus Tea Room with special guests President Burgstahler and Mrs. Burgstahler. Retiring president Carol Hunt was toastmistress. Eve lyn Green and Vincente Cordero performed. plans for a national P. K. organization and closer campus ties were discussed. New officers elected include President Helen Witzigman, Vice President Vincente Cordero, Secretary Treasurer Lewis Carpenter, and Social Chairman Marie Schmidt.
An early morning Easter service under the auspices of the C. C. AN will be held at the Methodist church next Sunday from 7 to 7 30. The program includes organ music by Dorothy Bresson a trombone solo by Arthur Janssen and a scripture lesson.
William L. Finley presents Wild Animal Outposts illustrated lecture at the Cornell Lecture in the chapel auditorium at 8 o clock this evening. Finley is a noted authority on animal life and recently joined the Finley Church expedition to the Bering Sea. the talk features slides and motion pictures from the Bering Sea district.
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