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Bs t [* a Words\ of the age. _ high school pupils was called upon * 48. At least, her \math\ was above .. . presence - You may expect some- , thing of the Mendolssohn variety. .-' dark prison on a larceny charge? It: ._... all came about as a result of one of| for eight o'clock faculty members who are bright of eye and rested of} body! Don't attempt to disturb fac- with the forbidden sweet nor any of its highly advertised substitutes! Elmira College Faculty are in train- ing for the great classic of athletic} history-the Faculty-Varsity hockey game Senior Weekend. Even the| most dignified of our dignified fac- ulty wxfi make the supreme effort for the cause of erudition by match- - ing their brain (and brawn) against, our brawn (and brain-Class A. B. C. and Z.) There is fimuch talk con- cerning the faculty decision to teach \ 'reading, riting, and 'rithmetic to) the tune of the fhockeiy stick\ should; . l they be victorious. One Sophomore who happened to l be of a “dyed-zin—the-‘flag” D. A. R. family found her faith in the fu- ture blasted after a ractice-teaching Senior told her “of? a boner she'd heard. It seems one of the local to describe the American flag. The pupil in question gibly and confi- dentially told about the 1 3 stripes and 35 stars in our flag. When the puzzled teacher asked her how many. states there were, she answered that there were 48 which were represent- ed in our flag since 35 and 1 3 make reproach. \Reuben Reuben (or John, or Crumpie, or Bill, or Gordon, or Henty), we've been thinking what a grand place this women's world - would be if all the men were NOT transported across the sea.\ So El: mirans have been singing literally as college mails have been getting heavier these last two weeks. An- other Junior Weekend approaches, and with it, as surely as pounds af-| ter sweets or notice after. mid-semes- ters, will come the usual flood of telegrams, specials, 'phone calls, fin- gerwaves, corsages, fraternity pins, and men. There's something very exciting in the air as we all go “promming, teaing, hopping, and dining.\ All of which reminds us of the wise, young Junior who ex- plained to a bud green Freshman that the institution called a \blind date\ was \a social problem requir- ing mathematical skill in order to} make a balanced equation out of the unknown quantity (and quality) XYZ,\ ® i \There's awe in them thar Sen- © 10ts.\ - So the Frosh would have us think. - Our youngest and newest have decided that they just won't be able to sing to the Seniors next week-end because. the upperclass- men inspire them with such awe that they are speechless in their| from the Frosh at Banner Han ifig, Who knows but what they will} come forth with the \Song Without| Have you heard of two Elmirans| Seniors,\ we must confess) who,] had 'they lived a 100 years ago, might now be wasting away in a| | was probably maimed for life-but challenged their ingenuity - and make little footstools of the wooed, pieces of wood merely cluttered ‘upi arms full of wood and their heads| ] house. nary a place 'to test their weary feet,;i are likely .to glare at anyone 'who| taentions the new pillats or even| ¢ Students,; be wary Be prepared i By Sophomores at - Buddy Party [night in the gymnasium before a | record crowd. No one quite knows | who won the game, but the Reds,: after a spectacular play made in the: I last three quarters, began to tear down the unresisting goal posts, while the referee sought to control gleeful \Pete\ Brunner, the Buck- eye mascot. There was a bit of trouble at first as to who should kick off, but Red-! dick finally sent the ball soaring! above the rafters. The crowd went mad. - Phe ball was seen no more 'the rest of the game. - When “Cutch\’ Davies and \Gun- certainly took theit time! Kellam finally did a little fancy bargaining and gained admittance to the huddle for her team. Pandemonium broke loose as the best stories of the year were swapped. Then \Hot Foot\ Trost, who had been warming the berich for the Reds, lined up against Cruikshank, Mosher, Davis, and Wintermute of the Yellow Jackets. A little sctim- mage ensued-in which \Hot Foot\ the huddle proved a magnet for them likewise. Thus the referee was left on' the field to continue the game, in swallow-tailed coat, with \Flash\ McAndrews and \Spike\ Elliott, waterboys, who were goaded to some kind of action by the frowns of \Slip\ Sawtelle and \Hula Hula\ McIntyre, the coaches, swathed in racoon coats. It isn't quite certain who it was that managed to wade through the masses and make the winning touch- down, or whether such a touchdown was even made, but the enthusiastic crowd, led by \Hard Rock\ Hen- derson and \BullsEye\ Bacorn, cheered anyway, long and lustily. Truly it was a stirring spectacle and the most exciting contest since Max Baer knocked out Joe Louis. | their daily inspection tours of the about-to-be completed white house on our campus. On this particular day, they saw some more or less nondescript pieces of wood which homemaking instincts. “Planning to they convinced one of the workmen -probably the patnter-that such the premises. So-off to Tomp- kins went the two Seniors, their Now those Seniors, with | hums \You're the Top.\ _ Wild cheers greeted \Glow-worm\| ulty members later than ir: 30 in| Reddick and \Vic\ Kellam as they the evening. - Don't tempt them led out their football teams Saturday: [ Mrs. Frank Harris, Betty boat\ Hennessy engaged in a sort| of primitive warfare, Captain Red-| dick called for time out. And they | days at college last week, as the | liams were visited by their parents | companied by Alie Booth. Gen- Helen Fox spent Saturday in Ith aca. Grace and Betty attended the| Cornell-Columbia football game. Elsbeth Riggs to Wellsville, and! Dorothy Oclheim to Bufalo for the full 'of footstools. And next day- week-end. ‘ f off went a message to Tompkins from the frantic carpenter that those? | scraps of wood had‘to be put inside'j | the capitals on the pillars of the attended the Epworth League Ban-| quet at the Methodist CB Towanda on Friday evening. Beere were guests of Marjorie Clark at. her home in Montour Falls for| the week-end. - < l ___THE _ 00TAGOoN __ ial Notes - H ~ Town Club Gives Tea _ | Df. William Poe will speak {to the AAUW a Dr. Beldon's, [ home, Saturday, November g. 0 | Dr. and Mis. Frank Harris are} entertaining the Juniors and their} 's at an informal Radio Party] 'on Saturday, November 9. 'Since] guests at o'clock, it will not interfere with 'the Freshman-Junior Tea Dance. | - f \ . ' M * l Among those from Elmira who Ithaca Wednesday hight were: Dr. Georgia Field, Miss Frances Wright, Birch- enough, Helen Joslin, . : Jane Gordon, Ruberta Tichnor, Constance Attwood, Mary Cobb, z Miss Agnes Orbison was the guest speaker at the Wednesday? meeting of the Sotosis Club. Helen and Marjorie McCausland supple- mented the program with several 'musical selections. ' 'The Misses Geraldine Quinlan round table discussion for Debate coaches and students at Colgate University, October 30. Margaret Hill and Eleanor Wy- ckoff are attending house party at Cornell this weekend. Monday night Dean Frances Burlingame gave a supper party for the Y.g W. é A. CalEiiiZt fihrltiimor of Miss Katharine Duffield. Fol- lowing a delightful repast a social hour was enjoyed beside the fireside. Miss Geraldine Quinlan and Miss Geraldine Morrow entertained the following gitls at tea in their stu- dios: - Theresa Donahue, Betty Doyle, Rite MacNamara, Eleanor Keating, Polly Jesson, Mary Cath- erine Currin, Frances Hurley, and Catherine \Cufincy. Rosalie Gould and Marjorie Ann Rettig -of the class of 1935, were the guests-of Jane Cooper and Hel- en Joslin for Inaugural Week-end. Mary Shoemaker \35 spent a few guest of Dorothy Mason. Jeanne Righter and Edith Wil- last week-end. At a banquet in Canton, Pa., Monday evening,: Helen and Mar- jorie McCausland sang and were ac- evra Eckerson Played a piano solo. Grace Cooper, Betty Cooper and Eleanor Peters went to Waverly, Jean Gonseth and Betty Meaker| Eleanor Schrader and Rachael [line Gould, 'the occasion is scheduled for two! poure , fe ' t - Lois Johnson was chairman of the| ; | very enjoyable affair, and she was went to see \The Old Maid\ in| I2\ | Properties ...... Virginia Yeska| . \_ ~ ' 'et McCall, Helen Nolan, Hester| Beaudry, Mary Catherine Curtin,] | Helen Turner, Emma Sue Bins-| wanger, Betty Van Velsor and Jane! and Mary M. McCall attended a| the Chi PhilP Sparkle's companion, \Ariel died urch in| week-end at her home in Ulster, Pa. | Her father who recently underwent a serious operation has greatly im- Proved; |tertained her parents this weekend.] For President And Wie Miss Lucille Lyon: and Leona Mal- ick poured. ' assisted by a committee of the fol- lowing: _ ‘ Refreshments «... Priscilla Eggle'srong Decorations .............. Mary Graham: her room Sunday evening. The following girls attended the Mark Twain Dance last Saturday night: Betty Baas, Martha Sween- ey, Betty: Lou Tuttle, Pete Brun- ner, Emma Sue Binswanger, Dotis Brinsmaid, Eleanor Sanfg Hallett, Jane Gorden, Doroth Gleim, _ Marjorie McCausland: Hope Palmer, Ruth Wolter, Betty Van Velsor, Jane Cooper, Eleanor Gostlin, and Mary Van Kesteren. Thursday evening, - Oct. 31, Edith Bramble entertained with a Hallowe'en party at her home, , Bridgman Sig, Elmira. Th9o6'32 resent were June Bannister, Alice 'Close, Ruth Wilson, Margaret Fur- man, Peggy Harkness, Grace Mary Evans, Dorothy Darling, Lena Bart lett, Adeline Mezur, Barbara Funk, Elizabeth Smith, Helen Hicks and Coralee Hicks. The Misses Jessie Downs and Barbara Funk returned to Elmira Sunday evening after spending the weekend in Philadelphia. They left here early Friday morning with Miss Marian Ames of the Elmira Col- lege faculty, who attended the fif- tieth reunion celebration of her Al- ma Mater, Bryn Mawr, after tak- ing the girls to Philadelphia. The Misses Margaret Coon and Mary English also accompanied her to Philadelphia, where they stayed with an aunt of Miss Coon's. Miss Kay Duffield, National Executive Secretary of the Y. W. C.. A., was the guest of honor Sunday evening in 301 Tomfkins Hall, at an informal reunion o girls who had attended the Silver Bay Conference in June, 1935. Dean Frances M. Burlingame and Dorothy Fleming '36, who were at Silver Bay in 1934, were also present at this fireside gathering. Miss Mary Copley '36 is proud of her new gorse, gvhh’chsshe his al- ready named \Bobbie.\ Miss Cop- ley has been searching for a com- panion for \Sparkle her brown and white horse which so many of her college friends have riden. Peggy Gorrell at a birthday party in? during the summer, Miss Grace Mary Evans spent the Miss JoSephine Williams '37 en- Eleanor Leighton entertained Ar—nghey drove here from their home Elizabeth Smith and|in Bogota, New Jersey. They at-| Invitations .......... Deborah Hampleii Entertainment .............. Fern Royall l ord, Jane| Poet's Comer - | SO THAT IS THAT | I've set down a lot of words that The town students honored Dr.| and Mrs. W. S. A. Pott at tea for| the faculty, Friday, November 1.| rhyme, Ro p To help me endure all this hateful -_- time- Time that Horace claims is his- Time to be spent on a coming quizz; I've set down some words romantic and true, | Filled with my love and longing for ou, But you'd laugh at words written to make you cry, For reading them over, so do I. I'm growing more restless, though, everyday: I wish you were here; but you're so far away; You cannot come, so that is that. I think I'l buy me a cute new hat. tended the Hockey Play Day Saturday afternoon in which Jose- phine took part as a member of the Elmira College varsity team which played Cornell. Mary Lou Wil- lrams '35 also returned to Elmita at the same time to visit her sister and parents. Marjorie Hewitt, Ruberta Tick- nor, Mary Williams, Ruth Cain, Betty - Meaker, - Jane Coughlin, | Grace Maty Evans, Helen Prindi- ble, Alice Booth, Jane Cobb, Hes- ter Beaudry, Ione Weatherup and Marjorie Clark, spent last week-end at their respective homes. Y W C A President Stresses Cooperation Between Groups \How to Bring the Town Y. W. C. A. and the College Y. W. C. A. Closer Together\ was the subject of Mary Margatet McCall's speech be- fore the Health Committee of the Elmira Y. W. C. A., Friday noon, November 1. The committee met at luncheon at the home of Mrs. Graner, one of its members. Mrs. John R. Tuttle, wife of Dr. Tuttle, brought Miss McCall. The town Y. W. C. A. wishes to continue these talks at their meetings by col- lege girls, in an effort to firing the two organizations together. BRYN MAWR CELEBRATES FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY The Academic Procession which inaugurated the official ceremonies commemorating the Fiftieth Anni- versary of Bryn Mawr College was one of the most interesting and col- orful spectacles connected with the celebration. The procession was one of the largest in the history of the college. Among its members were some of | the most distinguished people; in the country. - There were representa- | tives from nearly all the institutions of higher learning east of the Mis- | sissippi. . PP The College News. Patronize 1 Our _-_ Advertisers P. E. B.
