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Page Six _ __THE OCTAGON _ ___ A Senior Informal Praised ~ By Faculty and Students! The success of the Fall Informal, | the senior pay-dance given on Sat- urday, October 19, from 8:30 to 12:00, was unusual in many respects. | Tickets were sold to about 95 coup- les, which is regarded as a very good figure for the first pay-dance| of the year. The three upper classes supported as usual. The Freshmen,] who according to tradition have very: seldom attended the dance in any liams, Leigh University, was instal- led formally into office October 2. 'at the Founder's day exercises in; uestion in the newspaper [Packer Memorial chapel. President: question in t ° newspapers. Williams spoke on \The Social Ad- large numbers, surprised everyone: by turning out almost 100 per cent.. The chaperones for the dance were: Dr. Mariara Ames, Dean] Frances Burlingame, and Dr. and| Mrs. W. S. A. Poet,. The music, | which was furnished by Pat O'Don- nell's Orchestra, was fully appreciat- ed by all, and fifteen dances were completed in spite of a late start. . Cider was served during intermis-| sion and the latter part of the even- 10g. NO MORE RULES FOR SENIORS AT RUSSELL SACE The possible elimination of all dormitory rules for Seniors in the near future was cited by President Meader as one of his main objec- tives at a mass meéeting of dormi- tory students held at «the Little Elizabeth Wells, President of Stu- dent Government, presided at the meeting. - Each student was pre- sented with a 1935-1936 edition of the Student Government manual. The Quill-(Russell Sage). \Life's like that,\ says modern Mitzi, “Everything that - seems worth while is either illegal, im- moral or fattening.\ From Girligags.. DRAMA NOTES Continued from Page 2, Col. 4 a plan to have several stooges yell \Author! Author!\ at the final cur- tain. _- Several less appreciative executives, however, called the little sally off. It's a shame, for the re- sults might have been highly amus- ing. Our old friend, Walter Hampden, is rather bravely defending an in- novation he has declared in opening night technique. Believing that a play is worth just as much one night as another, Mr. Hampden re- fused to raise the price scale of \Achilles Had A Heel\ for the opening performarice. What goes| . one night, goes all nights, he feels. It's rather a fine attitude, and it's a , shame that Mr. Hampden's new play réceives such a panning from the critics. His little opening night gesture would carty much more weight against the background of a successfuf production. At any rate, here's to Walter Hamipden and his ideas-it will make opening nights available to many mote of \us de-| | serving mortals\ who are hindered| by a little pecuniary embarrassment. {adaptation of the noted author's} | The Prince and The Pauper. The play will be given in the auditorum. {of the Southside High School dur- ing the latter part of November. justment of Education\ in 'his re- sponse to the induction. ' Eisenhart, dean of ' the graduate 'school at Princeton university, Dr. work of the graduate school, and ‘gamzation are subject to a tax of sylvania Amusement Tax act for unemployment relief. In addition for a $1.00 fee. ® |that a prize of ten dollars will be 'ThePrince and the Pauper' o ___| Dr. Amy Gilbert spoke in chapel: 'Friday, October 11, on' the présent | trouble in Ethiopia, First, by trac-' ing the history and Policies of the nations involved, she pointed. out! b : [ how this crisis has come about. Shefremember that \no matter how then showed how the latest steps in 'the situation have developed in the| past year, giving the parts that are| In conjunction with the local| Mark Twain Centennial Celebra-| \tion the Elmira College Thespis or- ganization will give a dramatic President-elect Clement C. WIL- The annual Founder's day address: was delivered by Dr. Luther P.. Eisenhart spoke on \Graduate Stud . and Research,\ and discussed the what the graduate school should: make of its students. -The Brown and White. All fraternity and social club membership fees and dues, and dance and amusement receipts which do not inure exclusively to a reli- gious, educational, or charitable or- our percent from July 22, 1935, to July 22, 1937, under the new Penn- all amusements will have to be granted a permit or a certificate of exemption in advance. Fraternities and course societies not exempted will have to get a permanent permit from the Department of Revenue -The Brown and White. Math Club Offers Prize The Math Club has announced given for the best judged speech on a mathematical subject given dur- ing regular meetings of the club. Any member of the club is eligible for the contest. DR. POTT-EDUCATOR Continued from Page 1, Col. 3 Next, Dr. Pott accepted the invi- tation of the General Motots Com- pany to join them, since they were | in need of an expert on the Far East. He served in the export division for five years, making his home in New York City. It was there Elmira found him. y In addition to Chinese Political Philosophy, Dr. Pott is joint author of The Basis of Social Theory. He is a member of Sigma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, American Philosophical As- sociation, Royal Asiatic Society (North China Branch), and the| New York State Historical Asso- ciation. Patronize Our ‘ Advertisers | | | being played by Italy, England, the} [ League, and Ethiopia. > This topic as discussed by Dr I Gilbert made a pertinent question: very understandable, and helped us | . to read more intelligently about this | ' MONDAY, OCTOBER 14th The school became \class con- scious\ on Cap and Gown Day, Oc- tober 14th, and the speaker of the tic appearance shocked the family [ who characterized him as a \rough on the platform.. Mr. H. C. Man- deville, President of the Board of day represented the \Trustee Class\ Trustees spoke to 'the student body very informally on behalf of the trustees. curiosity, they in reality take a great interest in the college and a great of its: pride in the achievements students. in college is fitting us to do. The greatest thing we are gaining is the | by his wife. every- day life; Besides this ability col- ability to solve problems o lege training is giving us the capac- ity to meet change with broadened viewpoints and to. spend thought, care, and tinie in determining whether changes are good or bad. We are developing stamina; we are building up character; best of all we are learning self-control, the, greatest test of a man'or woman. He closed by saying that although in the first year of holding a job in the outside world, the col ege grad- uate may not command any more esteem than the non-college grad- uate, gradually he will find himself aciluiring a reputation for character, culture, and an ability to meet what- ever life may bring forth that the non—college graduate does not pos- sess. FRIDAY, OCTOBER :8th \Reminiscences of Mark Twain\ was the subject of Mr. Jervis Lang- don, a nephew of Mark Twain by mattiage, who spoke in chapel on October 18th. Mark Twain first became connected with Elmira when| he married Olivia Louise Langdon, . 1d C who was a studfnt at Elmira Col- '] lege from 1858-1860. Elmira Col- lege has many other claims of kin- | ship upon Samuel Clemens through | his wigs people. Mrs. Jervis Lang- | don, the wife of the speaker was a student at Elmira in the nineties; their daughter, Eleanor Langdon Pennock, a grand-neice of Samuel Clemens' was a student at the col- lege from 01925-1926; and Dr. Ida don and neice of Mrs. Clemens is now a member of the faculty at El- mira. Ellen Sayles, '39, a neice of Mr. and Mrs. Jervis Langdon, is now a member of the studentbody. And finally, Mark Twain's daugh-| ter, Jean Clemens, for one year stayed at Quarry Farm with an aunt, ---I Mis. Susan Crane, while she as C Notes -=I| private preparatory _ school,. which {began their lasting friendship when | made an impulsive visit to the Lang— | His wife was always a restraining He told us that, whereas: I trustees are usually regarded as a: Twain was a source o [joy. Astory teller at heart, he told them many wonderful tales, but he: | was always keenly interested in hear- | . ' | ing their stories too. With them he Mr. Mandeville went on to tell 8 us what the training we are getting newspaper man, butche soon after continents Dr. Eddy has. seen three ' menaces of war; Japan which threat- ens China, Germany which threat- ens the whole of Europe, and Italy: tended the Park Place School, a | was lqga'éedffm a wing of the Col-] lege Observatory. ___ glimpses of the everyday life of Mark Twain by admonishing us to much Elmira clings to Mr. Clemens now, he was forced upon thc stu- dents in the beginning.\ Mr. Lang- don's father and Mr. Clemens first. both were on the ship \Quaker City\ and when Mr. Clemens was writing letters for the New York Herald. Clemens had an oppOrtu‘ni-ty' to,.meet interested, and soon afterward he don home in Elmira, Here his rus- diamond.\ However, in due time he won the hand of Olivia Langd'on. influence upon his impulsive Quays. To his neices and nefhews, Mark wonder and played games and sang songs. His own children often dramatized his own books, and they were coached Between Samuel Clemens and Rudyard Kipling there existed a great friendship which began in the summer of '89 when Mr. Kipling visited Mr. Clemens. At this time Rudyard. Kipling was a wandering became famous. *After this first visit when Mrs. Clemens asked her husband if he had enjoyed himself with the young man, Mark Twain replied, \Yes he is a very unusual young man. He knows everything, and what he doesn't I do!\ In two manuscrips on the faults of writing, Mark Twain advocated simplicity and said that redundacy was the greatest fault of writers. Both Dickens and Sir Walter Scott had this fault. He mentioned three examples of writing which lacked this fault: the Scriptures, the Gettys- burg Address, and Shakepeare's de- scription of the destruction of the world from \The Tempest.\ Of these he said, \Not a word can be added and not a word can be taken away.\ o MONDAY, OCTOBER 21st Dr. Sherwood Eddy, fresh from the far East and from Europe, talk- ed in chapel October 21 on \What's Wrong With the World and How claim kinship with this famous au- thor, lecturer, and traveler, whose mother was an Elmira graduate. Mr. Eddy spoke of having been in President Pott's home in China and In his recent travels across two which threatens the world with Mussolini's \mad adventure.\ Dr. Eddy mentionedthree ways of stop- | on Oct. 25th about the “whys” . to Right It.\ Elmira College can} of having known his father who is| the outstanding educator in China. Langdon, sister of Mr. Jervis Lang-] ping Italy: (1) by economic boy- I}i L 'cott, enforced; (2) > by collective agreement of the League; (3) by calling upon fleets in the Mediter- rafiean to use forte if Italy turns to b . fattack the Suez canal; Mr. Langdon began his intimate | hora Eddy believes that our pres- ent ecomomic and social order is - {doomed to downfall very shortly. - There are four ecomomic stages through which mankind passes: (1) slavery, (2) feudalism, (3) fCapitdl-i ism, (4) a socialized stage, In each . of the first three stages, the few own- and control the means of production while the many are deperadent upon [them. In the last stage, to which 7 'we ate coming, everyone will own, When the boat docked, Mr. {share, and operate in the means of production. _ the sister of this elder Mr. Lang-| | don, in whom he had become very _ Dr, Eddy sees three signs of the «downfall of our presemt eta of cap- italism. The first sign is this period 'of war. The world is spending five billion dollars a year on munitions. Of this five billion the U. $. in 1935 spent one billion. 119 per cent of 'the federal budgetary income is 'spent in preparedness for war, 'The second evidence of the downfall of the present order is the growth of dictatorship which is cashing the Continued on Page 7, Col. 2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25th Dr. Hamilton spoke in chapel and \wherefores\ of an inaugura- | tion ceremony. ‘IVlany of the leaders of your favorite orchestras were college men. Among these baton wavers are Ozzie Nelson (Rutgers), Hal Kemp (North Carolina U.), Ben Bernie (C.C.N.Y.), Fred Waring (Penn State), Ted Weems (Penn.), Peter Van Steeden (N.Y.U.), Abe Ly- man (California), Kay Kyser (North Carolina U.) , Charlie Davis (Notre Dame), Rudy Vallee \ (Yale), and Eddie Duchin (Col- umbia U.) Also Anson Weeks, George O|- sen, Horace Heidt, Frankie Mas- ters, Tom Coakley, Cab Calloway, Buddy Rogers, Jan Gatber and others. ' Comerce Bulletin. YALE MEN ALLOWED CARS AFTER WALKING 15 YEARS - After having been forced to walk through the streets of New Haven before the scornful eyes of the townfolk for 15 long hard years, Yale sophomores and juniors will be permitted to have cars in school this coming year for the first time since 1926, according to the Yale Daily News. _. ' The Yale boys began theit auto driving in the Model T and Bar- ney Oldfield days and ended their joy riding back in 1920 when an angry Yale Corporation passed a rule stating that no undergraduates could keep a car in New Haven and stay in Yale at the same time. In 1923, after protests by the student body,, the Corporation re- lented a bit and agreed to let seniors have cars if they secured special per- mission from the dean of the school. ''The lid blew off this Monday when the new rule allowing 'all upper- classmen to have cars was adopted. The Dartmouth, . 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