1922-02-16 Illinois Wesleyan Argus

              Volume XXVII[ February 16, 1922 Number 8
PROFESSOR F. M. AUSTIN
Honored Wesleyan Professor Passes
Away
It was with a great shock that the
news came to the student body of the
death of Professor F. M. Austin, who
has been the instructor in Latin and
Greek since 1901 in Illinois Wesleyan
University. Professor Austin passed
away at Brokaw Hospital on February
4, after five days illness with pneu-monia.
Prof. Austin was a very prominent
man both in the University and in the
community and the loss of one so true
to his beliefs and so impartial in his
judgment will be keenly felt. In
speaking with Dean Ferguson of Prof.
Austin the Dean said:
Professor F. M. Austin
"My acquaintance with the Aus-tin
family began more than forty
years ago. An older brother, Cyrus,
was a member of my class in college.
and it so happened that later I
came to know personally other mem-bers
of the family, as well as other
college students coming from the
community in which the Austin fam-ily
resided.
Theirs was the brave and indus-trious
pioneer stock which early
made its way into these great states
of the middle West, bringing with its
members the sckool-house and the
church and developing here not only
wonderful temporal prosperity but
also a stalwart respect for the law
and the gospel. The children of this
family, consequently, were reared to
think highly of education, to be good
citizens and devout members of the
church, and not one of the large
group of children has proved untrue
to the teachings received in the fam-ily
circle.
Professor Austin was graduated
from the Ohio Wesleyan in 1887.
The following two years he was
teacher of Greek in the East Maine
Conference Seminary at Bucksport,
Maine. From 1889 to 1891 he
taught Latin and Greek at Tilton
Seminary, Tilton, N. H. For the
next eight years he was instructor
in Latin and Greek at the old Wes-leyan
Academy at Wilbraham, Mass.-
After these years of successful teach-ing
Professor Austin entered Johns
Hopkins University as a graduate
student in Latin, Greek, and Sans-krit
and because of his successful
scholarship was made Fellow in
Latin. After two years in residence
at Johns Hopkins he was called to
the Wesleyan as Professor of Latin,
to follow Dr. R. B. Steele, who had
resigned to accept a position in Van-derbilt
University.
Such is a brief outline of the career
of our departed friend and colleague.
However, no one will be able to read
between the lines and learn the
meaning of these years of study and
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TONY SARG'S MARIONETTES
COMING
February 25 the Bloomington Branch
of the American Association of Uni-versity
Women will offer to the peo-ple
of Bloomington and Normal a
novel entertainment-two perform-ances
by Tony Sarg's famous
Marionettes.
The puppets are from two to three
feet high, and so admirably propor-tioned
are the miniature stage and
settings that the figures appear life-sized.
They are skillfully jointed; so
they can perform all the physical re-quirements
of the roles, with the as-sistance
of from fifteen to thirty strings
each, and a puppeteer to speak the
lines behind the scenes while operat-ing
the strings.
'The Marionettes will present Rip
Van Winkle at the student matinee.
For this performance the admission
will be 50c for students and $1 for
adults. In the evening Thackeray's
satirical comedy, The Rose and the
Ring, will be given, and for this a
general admission fee of $1 will be
charged.
The proceeds of the two entertain-ments
will go into a scholarship fund
to be used for the college education
of a girl graduate from one of the
three local high schools.
"Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irv-ing's
old American folk legend, as
presented by Tony Sarg's Marionettes
undoubtedly achieves the pinnacle of
artistic and technical perfection in the
realm of minature drama.
Mr. Sarg surpassed himself in this,
the most elaborate and wonderful pup-pet
production ever seen in America.
The play is in seven scenes, each
teeming with that quaint and fas-cinating
atmosphere so typical of our
early Dutch settlers. Before the hos-pitable
doorsteps of the King George
Hotel. where sits smoking peacefully
its fat landlord, pass most of the thirty
or more characters in the story: A
sailor with his parrot (who does a
real horn-pipe dance to a concertina
accompaniment by the village school-master),
Rip Van Winkle with his fat
grunting pig and little Hendrik and
William. In the wood scene appear
butterflies, birds, rabbits, and other
wild creatures. Then on the dim hori-zon
appears the phantom ship of Hen-drik
Hudson and his dwarfish crew.
And most marvelous of all is the trans-formation
scene in the mysterious
treasure cave, where dance ghosts and
goblins and skeletons and spooks.
From the moment the curtains part
to the gradual fading out of the last
happy picture on old Rip's strange
return twenty years later. the specta-tor
is carried away by this fascinating
and absorbing tale of the Catskill
Mountains and its weird inhabitants.
Wesleyan will have several local
ticket sellers. Get yours early,-and
make sure of it !-Adv.
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CODE OF A GOOD SPORT *
1. Thou shalt not quit. *
2. Thou shalt not alibi. *
3. Thou shalt not gloat over *
winning.
4. Thou shalt not be a rotten
loser.
5. Thou shalt not take unfair
advantage.
6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou
art not willing to give.
7. Thou shalt always be
ready to give thine opponents
the shade.
8. Thou shalt not under-esti-mate
an opponent, nor over-estimate
thyself.
9. Remember that the game is
the thing and that he who
thinketh otherwise is a
mucker and not true sports-man.
10. Honor the game thou playest
for he who playeth the game
straight and hard, wins even
when he loseth.
-The American Magazine.
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WESLEYAN DEBATES RIPON
AND NORTHWESTERN
ON FEBRUARY 23RD.
The triangular debate between Illi-nois
Wesleyan, Ripon College, and
Northwestern College will take place
on Thursday night, February 23rd.
The- question which will be debated is:
"Resolved, that Congress should pass
the Adjusted Compensation Act for
War Veterans, known as House Bill
No. 1." When Wesleyan meets these
two colleges in debate she will be
meeting two of the strongest schools
in the field of forensics in the middle
west.
The Wesleyan-Ripon debate will be
held in Amie Chapel, at Wesleyan. In
this debate the I. W. U. affirmative
team, composed of Wilfred J. Gore-ham,
Capt. Clarence Rogers, and Wil-liam
Zwanzig, will meet a negative
team from Ripon College, Ripon, Wis-consin.
The Wesleyan-Northwestern debate
wil be held in, Naperville, Ill. In this
debate the I. W. U. negative team,
composed of Jual Ford, Capt., La Rue
Van Meter, and Dallas Puffer, will
meet Northwestern's affirmative team.
These teams deserve and should
have the support of every Wesleyan-ite.
They are representing the Uni-versity
in these events in the same
way that the athletic teams represent
the school in the various sports. Much
time has been spent in study and re-search
work. Every afternoon is be-ing
devoted to test debates. If the
students will show their interest in
the outcome of the debate by being
present at the debate, their attend-ance
will greatly enhance Wesleyan's
chances for victory.
Don't forget the date-Thursday
night, February 23'd.
present.
I. W. U. RADIO CONCERTS OPEN
Friday night, February 10th., the
radio concert course was formally
opened. This is the concert course
that is given in connection with the
"Movies" given at Wesleyan. On ac-count
of the damp weather, however,
the first concert was not wholly a
success. However, there will be many
more evenings of concerts.
MASQUERS TO GIVE SCREAM-ING
COMEDY
"Importance of Being Earnest" to be
Given March 7
The much talked of Masquers play,
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
is being pushed forward With great
interest. With well organized com-mittees
and the abundance of enthu-siasm
that is being displayed it is evi-dent
that the play will go over big.
This is the first Masquers play of the
year but with the record that they
made for themselves last year there is
no doubt that "The Importance of
Being Earnest" will be enthusiastic-ally
received by Bloomington theatre-goers.
All Star Cast
Much time was taken by the com-mittee
of faculty members who chose
the caste from a group of over fifty
people who tried out for the various
parts. All the members of the cast
have taken part in other amateur pro-ductions
and are well qualified for their
several parts. The cast is as follows:
John Worthing-Janvier Wetzel.
Algernon Moncriff-Carl Smith.
The Hon. Gwendolyn Fairfacts--
Kathryn Elgin.
Cecily Cardew-Bernice Brown.
Lady Bracknell-Anne Neidermeyer.
Miss Prism-Lucile Kelly.
Dr. Chausuble, LL.D.-Clarence
Rogers.
Merriman, Lane-Victor Zimmer-man.
Out-of-Town Dates
Already a number of out-of-town
contracts have been signed up for
dates in small towns around Blooming-ton.
This will be good advertisement
for Wesleyan as well as renumerative
for the Masquers.
Some of these engagements will be
filled before the play is given in Bloom-ington.
Tickets will' be on sale to-day
and can be had from any Masquer
or from the University office. Re-member!
Everyone is going to see-.
"The Importance of Being Earnest."
The Alpha Gams held a post exam
spread in their hall, Wednesday, Feb.
8. The pledges served the eats.
Saturday, January 28, Clarice Hast-ings
entertained at a party in honor
of. Kathryn Pletsch, '21, Town
alumnae and the active chapter were