Grex day at Cornell planned with multi state guests
High school seniors from Iowa Illinois and Minnesota will visit for the annual Grex day on Saturday April 13 with a daylong program. Activities include registration campus tours an assembly in the chapel vocational panels lunch in dorms and a second assembly with music skit and Hamlin talk.
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Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Magee
S. A. Hamlin
Northwestern University
Cornell
Davenport
Hamlin
Methodist Church
Pfeiffer
Bowman
Cornellians
Grex
Charles Spletter
Margaret Repass
John Halvorson
Dorothy Cohagan
Fred Leigh
Helen Isaacs
Roy McCauley
Westward From Germany panel causes spring fever uproar
In chapel Tuesday morning Beta Beta Beta talk is interrupted when Cab Wohlrabe rushes the stage seeking a doctor for Clara Slagle who is said to suffer spring fever or verdant low mood. Doctors Fais and consulting physicians MacGregor Sleezer Knouf and Leigh Vallee are called. Vocalists perform a swing tune ribbing escalation before an encore.
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Chapel
Howard Schneider
Dana Peisen
George Young
Cab Wohlrabe
Doc Fais
Clara Slagle
Bing'’ MacGregor
Eddy” Sleeeter
Caruso’ Knouf
Vallee'” Leigh
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This Week Events Calendar Highlights
Spring recess begins Friday at noon March 29. Chicago alumni dinner April 6 at the Auditorium hotel. Recess ends April 8 at 7 45 a.m. Orchestra concert April 9 at 7 30 p.m. in the chapel. Elizabeth Swaney senior organ recital April 12 at 8 p.m. in the chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Elizabeth Swaney
Award Nineteen Musical Scholarships To High School Seniors
About 60 seniors from Town and Illinois competed at Cornell conservatory auditions. Nineteen scholarships totaling 1500 dollars were awarded across piano voice brass sections with multiple first and second prizes to students from Clinton Maywood Muscatine Chicago Waterman Rochelle Downers Grove Oskaloosa and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S
Raymond Jones
Clinton
Iowa
Dorothea Medal
Maywood
Ilinois
Margaret Heitz
Muscatine
Frank Hepburn
Chicago
Illinois
Clark A. Hull
Waterman
James Harris
Rochelle
David Johnson
Downers
Grove
Shirley Riggle
Oskaloosa
Cornell Choir Schedules Extensive Spring Tour
The Cornell choir departs the Hilltop for a week long spring tour led by Professor Devereaux with Mrs. Devereaux as chaperone. They perform in Marshalltown Eldora Reinbeck Charles City Cedar Falls Minneapolis and Mason City Methodist churches and will broadcast three times from WMT WTMC and WCCO.
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Ing
Eldora High School
Clarion High School
Reinbeck
Iowa
Charles City
Cedar Falls
Wesley Methodist Church
Minneapolis
Mason City
WMT
Waterloo
WTMC
Glass blowing talent blends art and science at Cornell
Philip Fay a Cornell junior and former Valparaiso student meshes glass blowing with chemistry. He spends 15 to 20 hours weekly exploring the craft, crafting improvised lab pieces and repairing flasks. He now works on a microfractionating column under expert guidance, using a blowtorch and breath to shape hot glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Fay
Cornell
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso
Phil
Cornell Symphony Orchestra Heads to Freeport Tour
The Cornell Symphony Orchestra of 60 members, led by Professor Lloyd C. Oakland, began a weeklong Illinois and Indiana tour from Freeport at 8 a.m. in two buses. They perform mainly in the Chicago area with a stop tonight at the Freeport Methodist church at 7 45 p.m. The group includes John Duckwall as senior violinist and assistant director and will later travel to Angola Indiana and Chicago.
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Cornell Symphony Orchestra
Freeport, Ill
Illinois
Indiana
Land
Chicago
Angola
Ind
Oakland
John Duckwall
Freeport Methodist Church
Faculty Plans For Spring Vacation In Campus Notes
Faculty outline vacation plans including garden planting and academic catch up with visits to relatives. Professor Brooks aims to play golf regardless of weather. Professors Miner Littell Oakland Devereaux and McGaw must not forget classroom duties as Doc Miner remains mentioned.
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One
Brooks
Miner
Littell
Oakland
Devereaux
McGaw
Doc
The Breeze Remembered in College Life of 1891
A retrospective look at the 1891 University Breeze issue describing its weekly college life emphasis, editorials on campus figures like Professor Norton, campus facilities Bowman Hall and the gym, student trends such as chewing gum and slang, sports notes on baseball and tennis, and tensions with the Cornellian paper over official status and editorial criticism.
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Norton
Cornell
Bowman Hall
College
Cornellian
Cornell Wrestlers Travel to Illinois Meet
Four Cornell wrestlers left for the University of Illinois at Champaign to compete in the National Collegiate meet. The event runs in four sessions from Friday afternoon to Saturday night. Lyman is out with a shoulder separation, replaced by Taylor in the 175 pound class. Birch, Tornquist, Joy, Taylor will compete in 128, 145, 165, and 175 pound classes respectively.
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University of Illinois
Champaign
Bill Lyman
Birch
Tornquist
Joy
Taylor
Cornell Debaters Begin Eastern Tour
The Cornell senior debate squad Dick Grumman Howard Jeske Max Miller and Charles Higbie with Professor Littell depart Sunday on an all day spring tour visiting Washington Gettysburg Springfield Richmond and Cincinnati The tour opens with a panel at First Methodist church Springfield Illinois. Debates are scheduled in Cincinnati Waynesburg Gettysburg and Westminster Maryland with Western Maryland College.
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Cornell
Dick Grumman
Howard Jeske
Max Miller
Charles Higbie
Littell
Washington, D.C
Gettysburg
Springfield
Ill
Richmond
First Methodist Church
Cincinnati
University of That
Waynesburg
Waynesburg College
Gettysburg College
Western Maryland College
Westminster
Chemistry club members embark on industrial tour
The Chemistry club will depart Monday by car for Madison Wisconsin to tour the Forest Products Laboratory Kimberly Clark Bergstrom Lakeview and Interlake mills Appleton and Neenah. They will also visit the Institute of Paper Chemistry with Prof Harry F Lewis. The itinerary includes John Manville in Waukegan Lindsay Light and Chemistry in West Chicago Indiana Standard Oil in Whiting and Armour Packing in Chicago. Participants include Roy McCauley Charles Harris Ed Jaynes John Cotham Bob Reideler Philip Fay and Professors Cocroft Culbertson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemistry Club
Madison
Wisconsin
Forest Products Laboratory
Kimberly-Clark Paper Mills
Bergstrom Paper Company
Lakeview Mills
Interlake Mills
Appleton
Neenah
Institute of Paper Chemistry
Harry F. Lewis
Cornell Chemistry Department
Institute
John Manville
Waukegan
Illinois
Lindsay Light and Chemistry Company
West Chicago
Indiana Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Indiana
Armour Packing Plant
Chicago
Roy McCauley
Charles Harris
Ed Jaynes
John Cotham
Bob Reideler
Philip Fay
Professor Cocroft
Professor Culbertson
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Germany
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Town
Cornell Conservatory
Professor Dever
Eaux
Marshalltown
WCCO
Marybelle
Mason
Freeport
Lloyd C. Oak
BY Jane Courson
Annie Rooney
Lyman
Chem Club
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