The Denisonian (Granville, OH), 1941-01-21

              See Review of Time of Your Life Page 2 See Dr Williams FluBug Story Page 1 ENISONIAN Vol 75 No 13 Z 565 Granville Ohio Tuesday January 21 1941 Price Ten Cents Winter Carnival To Be Held Feb TIED Neubert Wins Oratorical Preliminaries Will Represent D U In StateWide Contest 8 Compete In Locals John Neubert Warren R I captured first place in tryouts for the State Oratorical Contest Tuesday January 14 Oliver Welf Cleveland won second place honors and William Haines Westfield N J was third Qualifies For Semifinals Xeuberts topic w a s Hitlers Secret Weapon in Tolerance Upon winning the preliminary contest Neubert is qualified to enter the semifinals match at Muskingum on February 14 Denison is one of 18 collegescompeting in the annual StateOratorical Contest Winners at Muskingum will compete in the state finals which will be held at Denisonuniversity on February 21 Theinterstate championship crown will be decided in May at Chicago Three Are Judges Other students who competed in the local speech contest which was held in Doane were Edgar H o 1 1 z Parkersburg W Va Warren Howell Toledo Karl Klomann Berwyn 111 Willard 0 w e n Cambridge Eugene White Coshocton Judges were Dr Detweiler Dr Whidden and Dr Crocker All Activiti es Are Postponed There will be noextracurricular activities this weekaccording to t h e Denison weekly bulletin All departmentals and club meetings scheduled for this week have been postponed and regular Monday chapel was canceled due to the flu epidemic Students will receive credit for attendance at the canceled chapel Monday Bulletin Board First meeting of t h e YWCA cabinet for the second semester will be held Tuesday February 6 at 7 00 pm in Sawyer Trio Traveling Toward Trouble Afhey Sauer Succumb Robby By Mortimer Leggett Two down and one to go thats what theyre saying around the Sigma Chi house nowadays The story centers around three Sigs Jerry Athey Dave Sauer and Jerry Robinson For some time now these boys have more r less stuck together in fact when a person sees one of the We Three boys he usually sees the other two The local adventures of this unusual threesome beganThursday evening January 9 after the Hobart basketball game in t h e Wigwam The boys threw the bull over a few glasses of coke at the Grill until they decided to eave Instead of walking up the main drag the boys figured it nearer if they went up the main ps on College street Athey president of his junior class and a betterthanaverage football player was feeling like a spring chicken upon reaching a certain spot on the steps just a httle southwest of Doane mind yu it was late in the evening Gold Diggers Dress Dandily For Dizzy Dance By Vi Kleindienst With the new emphasis onallschool dances WAAs allschool Gold Diggers Dance promises to be the biggest success ever Three rooms have been obtained inCurtis hall the dining room lounge and the downstairs recreation room There will be dancing in the two first floor rooms withmusic provided by an amplifying system and downstairs there will be bridge games table tennis and food Wesleyan Has One Too At Ohio Wesleyan the Gold Diggers dance is really the high sport of the year Originalityplus is the theme Some dates are escorted in horse and buggy others in Paul Revere fashion then again there are the elite who go by taxi The dates toocooperate in costume a typical Beau B r u m m e 1 successful business man or hen pecked husband In any event there are many ideas Perhaps the women hosts for the evening of February 3rd may have some ideas of their own Group Representatives Tickets will be 40 cents per couple and may be purchased from the following dormitoryrepresentatives Stone Adelaide Thornberry King Ky Moon Gilpatrick Leslie Seagraves Burton Sue Martz Shaw Betty Foster Beaver Vi Kleindienst Monomoy Nancy PalmerParsons Virginia Reynolds East Martha Pratt King Attends Conference Professor Horace King head of the Art department announces that he will attend the National conference of the College Arts Association of America to be held at Chicago January29Februarv 1 This association was organized in 1936 to promote an interest in the activities of fine art depart ments in liberal arts colleges Professor King is a charter men ber of the association which has called its first national meeting since reorganization last year Kino attended the regional conference in ColumbusSaturday January 18 The meeting was to establish the policy of themidwest group relative to thenational program of the association He is a member of the committeeorganizing the principles andobjectives for theregionalorganization Athey suddenly exclaimed Wov fplLis T bet I can jump those seven steps And so Athey iumoed But he didn t iana on the seventh step it was halt ot the seventh one and as a result u uu Ipft Wnee He eot up lie mi i11 i and started to walk thinking that it was only a slight dent failing to amble along successfuly Sauer and Robinson hisbuddies carried him over to the grass to investigate the extent of the injury After seeing that the flesh had been torn from the knee cap Sauer and Robinsonconcealed the gruesome scene as much as possible from Athey Mr Goodell manager of t h e Denison Book Exchange luckily happened to be leaving D o a n e when he saw the two boys with lL tnt Mr Ooooen rusn ed Athey to the hospital and at tempted to locate Kockvvnliams Finally after muchmaneuno Rock was found After delivering a baby in aneighborhood home Rock had gone Continued on pie 3 Relief Drive Committee oends Funds To WSSF Executive committee of the Denison Student Relief Drive has decided to divide the moneyreceived from the drive more than 1300 in three different groups Une third of the amount will go to Chinese students one third to European students and one third to American students However those pledges specifically marked will be taken out before thedivision is made This action was taken by the executive committee meeting Tuesday afternoon January 11 and was ratified by the Student Senate Wednesday evening Jan uary Id The money will be administer ed by the WSSM WorldStudent Service Fund whoseheadquarters are in New York City Through the assistance ofPresident Brown contacts were made with Ray Sweetman secretary of the organization and W illiam J Hutchins vicechairman These men assured the executivecommittee members of thetrustworthiness and soundness of the WSSF Thus acting on their sug Denison Wooster Plan JointAllOhio Conference Already nine colleges haveaccepted the joint invitation of the Denison and Wooster Womens Student Government Association to an AllOhio StudentGovernment Conference to be held at Denison from April 1920 First To Be Held The idea for this AllOhioConference originated with theDenison and Wooster delegates to an eastern convention on their way back from the conference They felt that an AllOhioConference would be very worthwhile because the invited colleges would all be in the same state would be about the same size and would be coeducational Many Colleges Will Participate Colleges that have alreadyaccepted are BaldwinWallace Ohio Wesleyan Muskingum Marietta Wilmington Bowling Green Ohio Northern Hiram and Otterbein Other schools that have been invited are Wit tenberg Mount Union Oberlin Antioch Ashland CapitalDefiance and Heidelberg Schedule Announced There will be no more issues of The Denisonian in January Next issues will bepublished February 11 18 and 25according to John N Moore Downers Grove 111 Copy for the first issue must be inbyFebruary 8 DSGA PRINTS CONSTITUTION On the action of the Student Senate 500 copies of the DSGA constitution have been printed and have been distributed to the dormitories the fraternity houses and the sorority houses Members of StudentGovernment urge that students read the constitution for a betterunderstanding of the functions of the organization The Senate also authorized the mimeographing of the ByLaws of the Board ofControl for immediate distribution gestions the executivecommittee has adopted this threepart division The money for China and Europe will be allotted by the WSSF It will not be used for food for prisoners but for the purchase of educational supplies such as writing paper soap and pencils Almost half of the 40000 Chinese students are dependent on uotside aid The governmental Ministry of Education helps10000 and the National StudentRelief Committee aids 8500 It is reported in China that one dollar in gold is equivalent to 18 to 20 dollars in Chinese currency The money for American stu dents will be allocated by the Denison Student Senate It is supposed that it will beconcentrated on southern institutions There are such places as the Highlander Folk School inTennessee B e r e a college and Rio Grande and numerous negroestablishments that need assistance Separate allotments for each of these institutions will be decided bv the Senate Fitch Reveals New Courses For Coming Semester Four new courses will beoffered next semester Registrar Fitch announced today Departments of economics mathematics philosophy and Psychology will offer new courses for the next semester PanAmerican EconomicRelations Econ 334 three hours credit will be taught by Dr Dernburg either Period IV or in the evening depending on the decision of the class Applications of the calculus to economics Math 350 will be taught Period IV by Dr Kato assisted by Mr Turnbull Three hours credit will be given Philosophical Ideas in Modern Literature Phil 312 a three hour course will be taught by Dr Ward during Period IV Educational and Vocational Guidance Psych 226 a three hour credit course will be offered at Period VI by Dr Carr This is a practical course in psychology w 1 1 n empnasis on me personal phase These new courses substantiate the fact that the CurriculumCommittee has approved timely courses which serve to help meet the needs of students Narrative Account of D IPs Fight on Universal FluBug By Dr R H Williams Im unable to make anypredictions as this article is beingwritten in a charming Licking county farmhouse when I am waiting for a baby However it shouldinterest our students to know that thus far the flu bug has smitten 149 of our students and 4 of our housemothers along with a small advance guard of ourfaculty who as in former epidemics delay getting into the horizontal position until most of theirstudents are up and about With a high peak of new cases whichoccurred last Wednesday we now feel that as an epidemic it isdefinitely subsiding and midterm exams will be given as perschedule So cast aside the wishful thinking that Denison will find it necessary to close its doors With the hospital taxed tocapacity and the need for bedcare in almost all the dormitories and fraternitv houses faithfully an swered by housemothers andfraternity brothers we have had a Set Program For 41 Week Of Religion Group Discussions Forums Held With Chapel Speakers Religious Emphais Week from February 1721 at Denison will be stimulated by Chapel Services Forum Groups and Communion Service according to Dr F C Ward secretary of theCommittee of One Hundred which met at President Browns house January 12 Three Speak In Chapel Chapel speakers will include Dean Charles Gilkey Chicago February 17 and 18 JessieBurrail Eubank Cincinnati February 19 and Anson Stokes Columbus February 20 and 21 The topics will be based on the following themes What is the basis of our Christian Faith How does one live in a Christian World What place has the church in this prosrram and What responsibilities does Chris tian Faith put upon the Christian student and the Christian faculty member today The Monday Wednesdav and Friday chapel services will be lengthened ten minutes Hold Late Forum A series of late forum groups or discussions will be held each afternoon during the week from 400 to 500 pm Forum leaders will be Dean Gilkey first two days Anson Stokes Wednesday and Ihurs day Jessie Eubank all week and Dr Fetter all week Along with rediscussions of the chapel ad dresses of that day there will be included a series of subjects Continued on page 3 Change Skit Scrap Date Revision of Rules Eliminates Womens Groups From Contest Second annual Skit Scraps sponsored by Blue Key junior mens honorary has been changed from March 15 to March 22 ac cording to Fritz Turnbull Mil waukee president A permanent cup will be given to the organization which pre sents the best original skit The rules have also been changed to include only entries from the fra ternities rather than entries from both men and womens groups Turnbull said busy week Even at this writing we are caring for 31 students in the hospital and 23 in the dirfer ent dorms but all are getting along nicely All students wher ever confined were visited daily by either my nurses or me It was really a rehet from monotony of caring for flu to have a bad burn case come in closelyfollowed by a boy who tried to go through a glass door without first opening it a tonsillitis case or two an abscessed ear and the ordinary run of student illnesses and injuries If the fine donors of our hos pital could have seen our trans formed living room our hall cots and makeshift beside tables our miscellaneous dining equipment and our busy corps of nurses cooks and attendants they might have felt the present structure in adequate and added another story complete with elevator lust what is this Flu I am asked by many a patient as he or Continued on page 2 Queen Reigns Over All Events Dance Is Climax Denisons Winter Carnival for 1941 wilt begin Saturday at 10 00 am Shaw hall according to Maryline White Bloomfield Hills Mich Winter Carnival commit lee chairman The Annual Win ter Carnival is sponsored byOuting club Queen of the Winter Carnival will be elected ThursdayFebruary 8 in mens chapel from selections of girls from eachsorority The result of the ballots will denote the Queen and her attendants all three of which will preside at the days skiing and skating events Each Group Makes Snow Molds In the early evening snow molds constructed by each social group on the campus will be judged by a faculty committee of three The Winter Carnival Dance will begin at 800 pm in the Womens Gym A grand march headed by the Queen of the Carnival and her escort will be one of the main features of the evening Winners of t h e days events will be announced at that time and prizes will be awarded for the wining snow molds Skiing Opens Carnival The skiing events will start the Carnival and will include slalom crosscountry andjumping The skating events in t h e afternoon will be held at Ebaughs pond These will includeexhibition figure skating obstacle races Continued on page 3 Orchesis Will Dance In Glucks Orpheus Ballets Orchesis members will perform in Glucks Orpheus Feb 13 14 and 15 sponsored by the Gran villle Festival associationannounces Marion Forsythe Cleve and Heights president of Or chesis Three ballets will be given The Frieze The Dance of the Furies and The CelestialBallet The dancers will be Joan Arm strong Ann Bartholomew Nancy Bash Katherine Collins Emajean Davis Martha Deckman Anne Dorsey Marion Forsythe Char lotte Johnson Viola Kleindienst Mary Lancashire Joyce Patnoe Ruth Rommel Eleanor S h a w Virginia Schubert Phyllis Stacy Violet Wallgren Betty Wells Ruth Westcott and Elizabeth Wright jmounce Registration Registration Day for thesecond semester will be Monday February 3 any time during the day Each student is responsible for his own registration inperson as substitutes will not beallowed This regulation applies even though the student has checked his second semester schedule and his bill has been paid in advance Registration is not considered complete until the student has completed his schedule andreported to the Bursars office Monday February 3 Classes will begin on regular hourly schedule on Tuesday February 3