1927-04-22

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THE ARGUS
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOLUME XXXIII BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1927.
WESLEYANA
NUMBER 25.
OPEN FORUM SESSION Bookmen Initiate Four; KAPPAS INITIATE 12;
SSTUDIES IniPtialtaionn Bwaest theerld Blarsto cThueusdraey HOLD PROVINCE MEET
LOCAL CAMPUS PROBLELOMCALS C AMppPrrUeSe ccPeeddReinOg BvaLcaEtioMn Sb y Black Book-men
for four students recently elect- Delegates From Five School Chapters
ed to membership. Mary Jane Bail- Present at Week-End
Student Representatives Discuss ey, Mary Jean Scrimger, Paul Rhy- Conventi' n
Place of "Y" Organization in mer, and Thornton McLaughry were
1Relation to Needs the novitiates. MANY VISITORS ATTEND --
The event was held at the home of
"STUDENT RELATIONS", PRIME Courtnay Davidson, senior member Epsilon chapter of Kappa Kappa
of the organization. A spread fol- Gamma was host to Epsilon province
"The Y. M. C. A. should be more lowed initiation. members for the province convention
than a spoke in a wheel as far as The organization has completed held Friday and Saturday.
Campus activities are concerned. It plans for the annual publication, Combined with the session was the
should be the hub of all life and "Silver Wings," and copy for the initiation of 12 into active member-everything
should center around it." brochure has been in the hands of ship, ritual being held Saturday
was the gist of the report made pub- printers for some time. afternoon. Those initiated were
lic by the Open Forum held last Sat- The issue this year has been in- Mildred Springer, Stanford; Mary
urday at Bloomington Y to discuss creased to 40 pages, and will contain McMahon, Georgetown; Virginia
Campus Problems and their rela- work of alumni, as well as poetry and Bachman, Syracuse, Ind.; Catherine
tion to the Y. M. C. A. prose selections by active members. Wood, Waynesville; Martha Douglas,
"The enthusiasm and general good Grace Rocke, Ruth Ahlenius, Emily
spirit of the meeting were very Davidson, Ruth Cary, Eloise Pierce,
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newly elected President of Y. M.,I
and continued, "In order that the In This Semester;
'Ist'er might have something Eams Start May 27
which 'ley might start on in the
discussion the Sociolgical studies The Easter recess which closed
made by students on the campus Tuesday morning was the last break
were read. Coy White's report on n second semester recitations. After
Religious Attitudes and Newton this week five more weeks of class-
Lake's study on Social relations work remain. Semester examina-were
the most important. William tions begin Friday, May 27, and
Jaques, former president, read a re- close Friday, June 3. Breaking in
port of the last year's work and on the exam period comes a one day
then the meeting was thrown into respite when Memorial day will be
an Open Forum." observed, Monday May 30.
Lea(ling Toplics Commencement week activities
Among the most important topics open Friday, June 3 with the annual
brought up for discussion by the president's reception for seniors.
Conference were those of "Inter- Saturday, June 4 in the evening
student relations, including the rela- there will be three one-act plays pre-tions
between student and student, sented, the three best among the play
student and group, and between production program of 14, will be
group and group; Faculty-student chosen for this event.
relations; lack of culture, propriety Dr. William J. Davidson will give
and social standards of the Wesley- ithe baccalauereate address at First
an student; and School spirit. Methodist church Sunday, June 5.
The Conference suggested a more tMonday, June 6, will be Senior class
comprehensible purpose of the Y. M. day. The same day the annual meet-
(Continued on page eight) ing of the joint Board of Trustees
and Official Visitors will be held. In
Wesleyan Senior the evening the alumni will banquet,
Gets Scout Post; and hold their annual business ses-sion.
Commencement services will be
Will Direct Camp Iheld at Memorial gymnasium Tues-day
morning at 10 o'clock. The
Robert Ellis, Springfield, class '27. speaker for the event has not been
has been chosen assistant scout ex- chosen.
ecutive for Corn Belt scout area by
members of the executive council.j
The appointment term is for one The Biggest Wesleyana
year. Has Gone to Printers
For the past few months Ellis has H
been assisting Dewey Montgomery, The Junior class heaved a sigh of
scout executive, a graduate of Wes- relief this week when it was an-leyan
law school. nounced by the Wesleyana staff that
Last summer Ellis was camp di- the Year Book had gone to printers
rector of Springfield boy scout camp, for the final set-up. The printing
making his second term at this post. contract was again awarded to the
He is scoutmaster of city Troop 3, Pantagraph Printing Co. The en-and
has signed to serve as camp di- graving was done by Stafford En-rector
of Camp TaTaPochon next graving Company, Indianapolis.
summer. This is the Annual Corn "The Wesleyana is larger than any
Belt Area scout camp. Since his year book before published," stated
start as assistant to Montgomery he Mary Katherine Pierce, editor, "and
has organized a scout district in- with the added attraction of the
eluding Towanda, Lexington, and Alumni section in charge of Mary
Chenoa. This work comes under his Helen Stone, and larger sports sec-new
post duties which include the tion, prepared by Maurice Harling
position of field scout executive. and is to include Intra-mural sports,
August 23 to September 23 Ellis as well as varsity,athletics."
will attend the national scout execu- With the announcement that the
tive training school session at Bear Wesleyana has gone to print came
Cliff Lodge, New York. He will also another one that the organizations
attend the camp directors' training that have not paid up to date are re-camp
at Indianapolis, May 23-30. (Continued on page eight)
Elizabeth Austin, Mary Stevens,
Bloomington.
The province meeting opened Fri-
(lay afternoon with registration, and
an informal reception at Kemp Hall
Friday evening. Saturday morning
business sessions were held at Buck
Library. Round table discussions
preceded initiation ceremonies Satur-day
afternoon. The annual initiation
banquet, held at Bloomington club,
closed the week-end activities. One
hundred fifty actives, delegates.
guests, and alumni were present.
Five Province Chapters
Chapters at University of Minneso-ta,
University of Wisconsin, Univer-sity
of Illinois, Northwestern Uni-versity,
and Wesleyan are members
of the province. Each group had two
delegates, and many had alumni and
active members present as guests.
Province officers at the convention
were Miss Alice Floyd Miller, pro-vince
president, former dean of wom-en
at I. W. U., Mrs. Emily Pearce
Sheafe, Batavia, editor of the "Key"
sorority publication. Mrs. Howard
Burt, St. Louis, executive secretary,
and Miss Eleanor Bennet, national
director of provinces, were national
officers in attendance.
Alumni organizations of the pro-vince,
including one at Springfield,
were represented by delegates.
Committee of arrangements for
the Friday evening reception in-cluded
Mrs. J. K. P. Hawks, Miss
Frances Pillsbury, Elizabeth Best,
and Charlotte Anderson. Entertain-ment
was furnished by the former
pledges of Epsilon chapter.
Wesleyan LaW Grad
Passes State Etam
Frank A. Kerr, Bloomington,
graduate of Wesleyan law school,
1926, has received his diploma from
the state supreme court. The oath
was administered at Springfield last
week by Chief Justice Clyde E.
Stone. Kerr and 33 other members
of the class were guests of the Illi-nois
Bar association at dinner Thurs-day
following the distribution of
diplomas.
For some time Kerr has been af-filiated
with the law firm of Clark
& Brown, Rockford, and will con-tinue
as a member of that firm. He
Phi Mu Alpha MoVes
To Locust St. Home
Phi Mu Alpha members are enjoy-ing
new scenery as a result of their
pre-vacation removal from their
former home at 1108 N. East street.
The new fraternity house is located
at 409 E. Locust St. It is a 12 room
house in excellent condition, and 15
Phi 'Mus are being housed.
PLAY PRODUCTION CLASS
GIVING ONE-ACT PLAYS
DIRECTED BY MEMBERS
Have Staged Four of Fourteen on
Program; Three Best to be Given
Commencement Week
During the first year following the ALL-S'UI)NIT CAST
establishment of the local chapter
the fraternity had quarters on West
Graham street. The place just va- plays have been presented by univer-cated
was taken up two years ago sity play production classes, under
last fall, being rented from the uni- instruction of Miss Cynthia Larry.
Tuesday before vacation "Wonder
Hat" and "The Valiant" were
University officials have not yet staged at Memorial gymnasium.
decided what will be done with the "Cabbages" and "Neighbors" were
vacant house. It was not planned to given Wednesday evening.
tear the place down. "Cabbages," by Edward Staadt,
was directed by Louise Bourne with
the cast of:
Cornell Men Banquet August Grossmeier Horace Miller
Go-operatively On Wilhelmina Grossmeier
Edna Loomis
$2.50 Per Week Tildy, daughter Hilda Ragen
Helw isahwboone' tt hw,o rkcM ana'ti de at, Laura Springer
"He who won't work can't eat, , I hAr O
is the motto of nineteen members of
the Star club of Cornell college. The
men who compose this club, which
has been organized to cut down ex-penses
of a college education, dine
royally on $2.50 each a week.
Two rooms, which serve as kit-chen
and dining room have been
rented in a private house near the
campus. Two of the men are cooks
and in return receive their board
free. Each day one of the remain-ing
men assists the cooks and sev-eral
members wash the dishes. A
manager, who has general powers of
supervision over the project, and a
treasurer, who collects the weekly
fee from each member are the of-ficers
of the club.
The college dietition aided the
cooks in outlining the menus in
order that a well-balanced diet
might be insured. Emphasis in the
club is also placed on serving ap-petizing
meals. Breakfast is not
formally served, but any member
may help himself to the cereals and
fruit on hand.
All kinds of students are repre-sented
in the membership, Phi Beta
Kappa men, debaters, athletes, mu-sicians,
and theological students,
and all work together in harmony.
Craduate to Teach
At Oregon College
Miss Betty Thompson, graduate of
Illinois Wesleyan university, after
having been an assistant on the fac-ulty
staff of Wesleyan for a year,
went to the University of Wisconsin
for her master's degree which was
awarded last June. This year she
has been continuing further post
graduate work in physical education
at Madison. She has accepted a
position for the fall as assistant in
the department of physical educa-tion
at the Agricultural college at
Corvallis, Oregon, where she will
have the direction of dancing and
swimming, with supervision of hock-ey
and other sports.
Miss Thompson will be an in-structor
at the summer camp of the
spent the week-end in Bloomington University of Wisconsin during the
on his return from Springfield. I summer.
S lli. a sr r 'llrtl;t LunLeo ore
Mr. Jenks, reporter George Geesy
Mr. Markle, Chicago geniologist
Leon Davidson
Henrietta Prothero was in charge
of the staging of "Neighbors." For
the play she selected the following
cast:
Mis' Able
Mis' Trot
Mis' Ellsworth
Mis' Moran
Peter
Ines
Ezra Williams
Grandma
Helen Diffenbaugh
Grace Holt
Betty Taylor
Alice Shelley
Fred Holt
Elizabeth Austin
Belford Bollman
Louise Bounre
The play to be directed by Pearl
Houck for Wednesday was post-poned.
In the first group presented Mary
Jockish used the following in direct-ing
"The Valiant."
(Continued on page four)
Cliff Gu'ild 'Returns
From Registrar Meet
Prof. Cliff Guild, registrar of the
University returned Thursday from
the annual meeting of the American
Association of College Registrara,
held in the Henry Grady Hotel, At-lanta,
Georgia, April 12, 13, and 14,
where he was a delegate from Illi-nois
Wesleyan University.
The American Association of Coll-eges
consists of more than 250 coll-eges,
universities and normal school
which have the rating of better than
college class. Only a few of the
colleges in the United States are not
members of this registrars associa-tion.
The association is led by the
President, R. M. West of Minnesota
University and the VicePresident
Joe Ellis, who is head registrar of
Yale.
Professor Guild has been the Wes-leyan
representative for the last five
years. Last year the convention met
in Minneapolis and before that in
Denver. It makes the circuit of the
states every few years so that every
state can participate in the program.
On his return the Registrar, who is
accompanied by his five year old
grandson, will stop off at Toney,
Alabama, to visit his daughter, Mrs.
E. H. Clark.
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