Cornell Men Taken For Fort Snelling Training
Iowa City surgeons note Cornell applicants fit for military training at Fort Snelling. About fourteen Cornell men have progressed through the process to Captain Morton C. Mumma. The War department seeks men aged twenty eight to forty for higher offices and will mail papers directly through Iowa City. The Fort Snelling camp opens May eighth with reporting by May fourteenth. orders have been issued for Jordan, Hinkley, Stansberry, and Embree, with many others awaiting action.
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Cornell
Iowa City
Fort Snelling
Morton C. Mumma
War Department
Jordan
Hinkley
Stansberry
Embree
Hartman
Wise
Kreger
van Pelt
Wilcox
Howard
Boylan
Thompson
Parry
Darrow
Whitehead
Parsons
Osgood
Henry S Ely urges perseverance in student life
Cedar Rapids businessman Henry S Ely, Phi Beta Kappa, spoke to the Y M C A on perseverance and its link to later success. He drew on real estate and college exam experiences to illustrate qualities like health, punctuality, courtesy, cheerfulness, self control and generosity. Don Hutchinson, ex 18, attended to renew acquaintances and view the interscholastic meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry S. Ely
Cedar Rapids
Ely
Mr. Ely
Don Hutchinson
Canadian school sends greetings to Mount Vernon clergyman
A 1917 letter from the University of Iowa extends greetings to Rev. C. W. Flint of Mount Vernon Iowa as the United States enters World War I. The note praises allied democracy and a moral world government, expressing gratitude for closer Anglo American cooperation.
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C. W. Flint
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Sir
United States
Spring Play Sherwood Renditions at Cornell Campus
The Aesthesians stage Alfred Noyes's Sherwood on May 18 at 8 pm among campus trees. Robin Hood, Maid Marion, and Shadow-of-a-Leaf the Fool star alongside Prince John in a lively May breezed tale. Brian Hooker hails Noyes as the dawn of the new century in performance.
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Aesthesians
Robin Hood
Louise Marr
Marion
Leila Negle
Merrie England
Cornell
Dorothy Deardorf
Shadow
Lincoln Green
Lover’s Lane
Sherwood
Alfred Noyes
Prince John
Fischer
Robin
Brian Hooker
Noyes
Miss Riley Teas With Students Across Past and Future
Miss Evelyn Riley head of the Latin Department hosted about eighty students past present and future at her home for tea, receiving a silver service as a token of esteem. The women faculty later held a pre nuptial shower at Dean Mary L McLeod's home. Bertha Regal shopped in Cedar Rapids.
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Evelyn Riley
Mary L. McLeod
Star athletes trend to unpredictable finish at Beg Meet
The Beg Meet features balanced teams and fresh entrants across events at Cornell. Hodges of Freeport and Sturliburt of Marshalltown target the quarter mile amid a field of newcomers. Wandel and Osborne duel in the vault aiming to top last year’s record. the final relay promises a thriller with Fort Dodge disqualified last year and Dubuque emerging as a dark horse.
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Hodces
Freeport
Sturlburt
Marshalltown
Cornell
Wandel
Cedar Rapids
Osborne
Iowa City
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Iowa
Cornell lecture closes season with Adrian M Newens reading
The Cornell college lecture and reading course ends next Wednesday May 9 at 8 pm with Adrian M Newens presenting Leroy Scott's story To Him that Hath. Admission 50 cents. Newens, born 1871 in Ohio, educated at Hiram College, formerly professor of public speaking at Iowa State College Ames, noted platform reader and impersonator.
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Leroy Scott
Mr. Newens
Ohio
Hiram College
Iowa State College
Ames
Manly Takes a Better Position at Capitol City Paper
Merle Manley formerly a top track man and sports editor at Cedar Rapids papers joins the Des Moines Register and Leader as sports editor, reporting to Lee Taylor. His Cornell years marked by notable journalism, with past roles at the Cornellian and Cedar Rapids paper earning high praise. Marjorie Taylor plans to entertain Dean Rowley of Marshalltown over Sunday.
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Merle Manley
Ash Park
Cedar Rapids
Marjorie Taylor
Dean Rowley
Marshalltown
Chicago Can't Give Us Bigger Thrills At Festival
Frank Shaw Cornell conservatory head and May Music Festival manager says Chicago festival failed to thrill compared with hearing the Mahler Symphony in the auditorium. He attended with Miss Hart and heard Wagner soloist Lambert Murphy, once a Harvard singer now acclaimed by Metro politan Opera. Five dollar seats go on sale next Monday morning. cheaper seats to follow.
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Chicago
Harvard University
New York City
Metropolitan Opera
Murphy
Cornell
Mina Walker Hurt in Auto Accident
Mina Walker a 1914 graduate and teacher at Leon High School Iowa suffered serious hip joint injuries in an auto wreck while riding with friends. Details remain unclear. Northup Winter departed for a trip promoting the Cornell May Music Festival visiting Waterloo Cedar Falls Vinton Center Point LaPorte and Iowa City.
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Mina Walker
Leon
Iowa
Miss Walker
Northup
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Vinton
Center Point
LaPorte
Iowa City
Cadet Parade Reviews Mount Vernon College Training
Four Cadet Corps companies at Cornell College observed Evening Parade and Review led by Lieutenant Dreibelbis. President Flint served as reviewing officer with Major Haynes and Mount Vernon Grand Army Post staff. Sergeant Jordan acted as Adjutant. The parade formed on Main Street and marched to the chapel steps before dismissal amid compliments from officers and onlookers.
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Mount Vernon
Dreibelbis
Cornell College
Flint
John T. Moffit
G. C. Haynes
Grand Army
Harold Jordan
Main Street
Upper Classes Stage Melodrama in Spring Show
Juniors 1918 entertain Seniors with a big production Where the Trails Meet. The performance features a battle scene and a dramatic twist as a daughter finds her father, ending with the call To Arms. Juniors supply peanuts and popcorn while the audience reacts.
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Hank
Bizness
Aulger Bros
Leonard Prichard Sails for London Training Frontbound
Word arrives that Leonard Prichard sailed with his regiment from Halifax to London England for further training before deployment. He spent two months at St. John's Quebec in training prior to departure.
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Leonard Prichard
Halifax
Nova Scotia
London
England
St. John’s
Quebec
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Dr. Flint
U. S
Yours Sincerely
Bertha Regal
Cedar
Rapids
Adrain M. Newens
Adrian M
Newens
MANLY
Register
Shaw
Cadet Corps
Aulger Brothers
Hank Frei
Stub Hartwell
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