Odd UFO tale and college scams lure readers in 1920s satire
The Augustana Observer describes a saucer sighting behind Rock Island College with a tiny, dapper occupant who befriends a writer before departing after failing swimming class. Ripon and Lawrence papers warn of Annie Mac Dougall the trickster selling ill fabric to students. The column closes with comic exchanges and a flirtatious roadblock of a kiss joke.
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Augustana Observer
Rock Island College
Augustana
Ripon and Lawrence College
Annie MacDougall
Annie
Fragments of Wit and Woes In A Nonspecific Page
A collage of quips and anecdotes ranges from love triangles and ministerial banter to a Texas Christian University professor's ruse about teaching. A joke about Bran and a joke set near a funeral closes with a Miami winter punchline, reflecting light humor amid odd reflections.
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Texas Christian University
Spring News from Hilltop Gossips and Cannibal Regards
Helene Jolas keeps a diamond from Bob Soper a Cornellian now at SUI Mary Alice Day has a pin from Jerry Clock. Students joke about cooking class paper plates while cannibal's daughter steals the show Honest John Wright reports Midwest conference visitors praised Cornell and its food during their Hilltop visit
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Helene Jolas
Bob Soper
Trustee Day Opens Cornell Commencement Weekend 97th
The ninety seventh Cornell college commencement weekend starts Friday June 9 with Trustee Day and ends June 12 with commencement exercises where Governor Earl Warren of California will speak Alumni Day is June 10 and baccalaureate services June 11 with President Russell D Cole delivering the sermon The day includes a trustee luncheon and alumni receptions with College events across Pfeiffer hall King Memorial chapel and the Fine Arts building The academic procession begins Monday June 12 with ceremonies at 10 am and a 12 30 luncheon for seniors The Shrew at Little Theatre closes the weekend on June 10
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Cornell College
Earl Warren
California
Russell D. Cole
Board of Trustees
Cornell
Pfeiffer Hall
Cole
Chemistry Club
King Memorial Chapel
Phi Beta Kappa
Cornell Women Seek Recognition as Tri-Phis Social Group
A 37 member group of Cornell women, split between juniors and sophomores, petitions for recognition as a social group to be named Tri-Phis. The request was read at the last faculty meeting, tabled then and slated for action at the next faculty session. This follows two prior student groups seeking social status, with Gammas already operating and Owls denied status.
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Cornell
Ulty
Gammas
Owls
College Aims and Problems Aired by Student Leaders
Twenty-two representatives from seven liberal arts schools in the Midwest conference gathered with the Cornell Student Council for the second Midwest Conference of Liberal Arts College Students meeting May 19–20. Plans include a clearing house at Lawrence College and aims to exchange information and services, standardize admission prices, and establish a regional literary magazine and conference activities.
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Cornell
Liberal Arts College
Midwest
Chicago
Carleton
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
Lawrence
Indiana
Midwest Conference of
Harry Thompson
Knox
Roy Puls
Beloit
Dick Setterberg
Coe
Lyle Hoover
Monmouth
John Wright
Carl Patterson
Ripon
Dick Bickle
Duane Blough
Grinnell
Merner Photo Lab
Freshmen Week Committee Names Co-chairs
Jan Reinert and Dick Thorsen were appointed co chairs of the freshmen week committee at the Student Council meeting in Menner hall. They will select a 25 to 30 member group to plan the program with help from social chairs and a CSF committee. The group will gather member ideas to create a week full of new activities beginning Tuesday September 12.
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Jan Reinert
Dick Thorsen
Menner Hall
Miss Reinert
Thorsen
Broadway Clothes Adorn Shrew Taming Thespians at Cornell
Costumes for Cornell Little Theatre production of Taming of the Shrew drawn from Broadway Twelfth Night. Director Cheter Webb arranged through Emma Melancamp of Michigan. Dates June 1 2 3 and 10 at 815 pm with reservations via the financial office.
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Cornells
Little Theatre
Cornell
Cheter Webb
Emma Melancamp
University of Michigan
Webb
Ann Arbor
Melancamp
University of Michigans
Financial
New Cornell Chapbook Features May Sarton Poet and Novelist
The Leaves of the Tree, a 40 page chapbook of May Sarton verse, will be sold on campus next Thursday. It is the 22nd in the English Club series edited by Clyde Tull. Sarton, a noted poet and novelist, has visited Cornell thrice and her forthcoming novel Shadow of a Man has drawn wide notice.
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May Sarton
Clyde “Toppy Tull
Cornell
Saturday Review OF Literature
Miss Sarton
Shadow of A Man
Rinehart & Co
New York
United States
Breadloaf School of English
Vermont
Radcliffe College
Harvard
Martha Overholser
Kresge Foundation Gifts $100000 for Cornell Fieldhouse
The Kresge Foundation of Detroit pledges 100000 toward a new Cornell college gymnasium. The 500000 project requires additional fundraising, with alumni and supporters already contributing. President Russell D Cole announced the conditional gift at a dinner for 140 Cornell athletes.
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Kresge Foundation of
Detroit
Cornell College
Russell D Cole
Cornell
Little Bird Causes Office Stir at Dean's Desk
A small hunting bird wandered into the dean and registrar's outer office after lunch. Dean Jay B MacGregor used a dust mop to guide it out while Dr Elmer E Moots and Miron A Merrill waved tools to coax the bird outside. The melee drew support from Mrs Mary Byerly and Mrs Harold Bittle before calm returned.
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Jay B MacGregor
Elmer E Moots
Cereus Miron A Merrill
Mary Byerly
Harold Bittle
Fund Honors Shaw Ex Treasury Head at Cornell
A $10,000 scholarship fund is donated to Cornell by Mrs Enid Shaw McMillin of Forest Hills Long Island in memory of her father Leslie M Shaw 1874 1932 former governor of Iowa and secretary of the treasury under Theodore Roosevelt The method of awarding scholarships is to be decided by President Russell Cole but funds will be available next fall.
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Cornell
Enid Shaw McMillin
McMillin
Forest
Piano and recital schedule for late May
The schedule lists events from Sunday May 28 to Friday May 2 including piano recitals by Janis Brandau and a student recital in the chapel, a Memorial Day no class note, faculty recital by German and Jolas, and a Thursday June 1 performance of Taming of the Shrew at the Little Theatre.
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Janis Brandau
CSF
Ruth Ray
AWS
Dean Fisher
Little Theatre
No Classes on Memorial Day Tuesday May 30
Schools announce there will be no classes on Tuesday May 30 Memorial Day observance. Absence affects all students and staff with district offices closed for the holiday.
Jolas Compositions Highlight Faculty Recital at King Memorial
Four Jacques Jolas works will be performed in a King Memorial chapel recital on Wednesday May 31 at 8 p.m. The program features pianist Helene Jolas and others with Schumann and Bach works. The cantata Innocence and Experience will be the evening’s centerpiece with instrumental and vocal soloists and seven women students in the vocal parts.
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Jacques Jolas
King Memorial Chapel
Mr. Jolas
Francis German
Helene Jolas
Robert Schumann
Johann Sebastian Bach
Eugene Jolas
Paris
Transition
German
Jolas
Sam Minasian
Elwood Willey
Lloyd Oakland
Lois Nelson
Miss Jolas
Crete McCollister
Eleanor Folkerts
Jean Douglass
Mavis Claussen
Mary Alice Day
Gretchen Zieman
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Mary Rowley
Jack Harrison
Art Hammond
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Bob Morrison
Larry Sanderson
Bob Small
Harold Gauger
Marilyn Johns
Jim Boylan
New Cornell
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Detroit, Mich
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Horace “Cap” Hedges
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