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¥). tp» ,] Mes\ s) *~ =. and costumes for the :~ Freshmen Ely a , n+ TH ir . \& voL. XXVY-No. 1 -_. ELMIRA, NOVEMBER 22, 1935 Price: Two Dollars pe b Dr Pott To 'Go‘-‘To Atlantic - Vv City; Some Will Do Re- search Work at Cornell « their families. homes in Elmira are: Dr. Frank Harris, Dr. Raymond Stev- ens, Mr. Grover Graham, Dr. Elizabeth Whittaker, the Rev. Father Toole, Dr. Marian Ames, Dean Frances Burlingame, Dr. H. Adcibert Hamilton, Dr. Francis Richmond, Dr. John Tuttle, Miss Ger- aldine Morrow, Mr. George M. Mc- Knight, Miss Alma Montgomery, Dr. Elmer W. K. Mould, Dr. Dorothy Don- dore, and Dr. Georgia Field. However, for many of the teachers, Thanksgiving will be an opportunity to pursue their academic interests, Dr. Es- ter Hansen, Dr. Grace Thomas and Dr. Edith Farnham plan to do research work at the Cornell Library. Miss Geraldine Quinlan will spend the vacation in New York City, where she will make arrangements for the settings . Sophomore and ' play, \The Prince and the Pau- per.\ Dr. Amy ‘Gilbefighopes to accom- plish much towards.. the. nonfiction\ of her. book, while Miss Lucille - Bush will. attend the Parent Education Conference at Albany, representing the Elmira Col- lege Euthenics Department. Dr. W. S, A. Pott is planning to attend a convention of the Middle States Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools in Atlantic City. . Among the teachers who will remain at college are the Misses Lydia Waish, Agnes Orbison, Catherine Finter, Frances Wright, Mary C. Suffa, Jeanne Allingry, Harriet Brown and Edith Carpenter. Miss Lucille Lyon is entertaining the Misses Dorothy and Betsey Boese of New, 9 4 nke- Recess [Dorothy Thompson Speaks _ At First Baptist Church »peaker, Holds Opposite iews; Much Interest 1 I val, two speakers, Afihagen, Second The second ‘mee'ti‘fig: of the Foreign\: { Policy Association will be held Friday | , ytéifiht, hNO’Y‘thberbZZ, atf tillle First Baptist t ue n pu pr y,. | Church® The subject of this meeting will: The majority of the faGUItY MCM! be Germany Today. There will be, as us-] bers will carry out the traditional! R 20, S w ‘c' ry 20. . { _- Miss Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sin- idea of Thanksgiving as a day of} clair Lewis), one of the most distinguished .. ' i if, | women journalists of our time, will be homecoming by celebrating wuhfthe first on the program. She has done -_ Jnewspaper work in many countries of | a a. . . |Europe and in 1934 she was expelled from Those who will remain at their|G ermany by the Reich for an alleged | \slur\ on Hitler. The second speaker: will be Friedrich E. Auhagen, Mining Engineer and Professor. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and 'the United States. During the last three summers he has been in Germany visiting friends and relatives, and talking with many German leaders. The two speakers hold opposite views on the subject, \Germany Today,\ which should allow for a most interesting discus- sion. urday afternoon, November 16. tude, He hoped that his new office would not decrease his interest in the elder \sin-. ners\ interest in the youngest \sinners.\ Pott has always been attracted by Saint Simeon Stylites of old, whose favorite Guidance \ | Announcement Is Made By Song:; Dr. Pott Replies With Witty Remarks President William S. A. Pott was The Freshmen cleverly made their an- nouncement at the Banner raising Cere-§ mony by singing another verse _to the} Pott\ came forward to express his grati- of the college, while intensifying Il)1is c. Class of '39 Choose Meeting This Evening] _ \it Pott\ For once again honored when chosen Patron Saint of the Class of '39 Sat-| the new \Saint: Botany Class is Creating Rock Garden On Campus Residence of Dean To Profit From Location of Project [Botany students. ' between the tennis 'will lend their color. New work has been found for the Botany students,. A rock garden for Dean Frances Burlingame has many rare plants which are new to the campus and will create-a great interest on- the part of the | f Located on the slope courts and the Dean's house, the rock garden until the recent snow boasted daphne and violas in full bloom. Now that winter has set in the evergreens will make up the coloring. In spring crocuses, snowdrops, grape hyacinths, drawf iris, violas, and tulips The Botany class in Ornamental Planting has set out sev- gral bulbs for flowering in this sason and sveral unusual specimens of flowering plants may be found. The Roman grape byacinth, which has a red blossom, and the candy stick tulips are of great rare- written that it was chosen. Martha El- liott wrote both the words and music of the song which is The Class of thirty-nine | shall shine in Foundations deep were set to keep us We merely lay our row of bricks, as each Of course we know of bricks, a row is not To stately walls-the builded halls of But we shall pick a single brick-each one form of asceticism was to sit on a high pillar. Once in his student days, he was asked to draw a sketch of Saint Stylites on a quiz. Whereupon, Dr. Pott drew the man sitting on a pillar and re- ceived a zero for his work! The second contribution of the class of '39 to the afternoon festivities was the singing of their class song. Only one song was submitted, which was so well \BRICKS\ ... _._. Rl soe (en \ us thals days to come we know, No need to speed in work or deeds its glory! Long ago building as of yore, class did before. + so much to add Under-class and Grad., of us to set urday night with a banquet and dance. ~ and Helen Nolan was made chairman of York and Miss Jeanette McAdam of Barker at a houseparty at her home. Miss Sophie Davis will be in New York, where she will be one of the spec- tators at the Columbia-Dartmouth foot- ball game. She plans to see \At Home Abroad,\ \Parmell\ and \Winterset Other faculty members vacationing out of town are: Miss Mildred Oakley at Rochester, Dr. Ruth Buka at Ithaca, Mrs. Dorothy Personius at Pittsburgh, Dr. M. George Scheck at Rochester and Dr, Mary Belden at Oberlin, IRC To Be Represented At Syracuse Conference L,. Clunk Attends New York Meeting November 15-16 Doris Hubbard, Margaret Furman, Mary Reddick and Betty Maurice are. attending the conference of International | Relations Clubs to be held at Syracuse University, November 22-24. ‘ . Several Round Table meetings will be: held, which will take up the questions of | Sanctions and their application, the Am- erican Neutrality policy, finddongdqtesf' _ and their connection with the distri utl'°n',?.'11‘uth‘or in his youth and in his later years, | S of raw materials 'There will be three: meetings and one lecture, ending on Sat- Last week-end, November 16-17, Lucille Clunk was in New York City, where she} represented Elmira College on the Con- tinuation Committee for the Model Assem- bly of the League of Nations to be held at Vassar in the spring. At this meeting it was decided that Elmira should repre- sent Great Britain at the Model Assembly, | the committee dealing with natural re- ity. This certain to lend to its beauty. new addition to the campus is As our small part-each brick a heart Elmira can't forget. Grace man himself was living here. Mark Tain's humor is evident in the | Beecher concerning her Jabberwocks, and in the series of seven 'photographs illus- trating his decision about being good. Book lovers will be especially interested in the first and later editions of Inno- cenis Abroad, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The sissipfi, A Tramp Abroad, A Dog's Tale, and others equally familiar. . The «collection is rich in photographs. Portraits of Mark Twain abound-the in his familiar white linen suit and in 'his Oxford gown, in Hartford and in Elmira. Snapshots of Mrs. Clemens and her daughters, Julia and Olivia, and of John T. Lewis, the old slave whose quickness of thought and action saved the lives of Mrs. Clemens' sister-in-law and niece, are also among the collection. Familiar views of the study and Quarry Farm may be seen, as well as views of 'the Clemens' Hartford home. Admirers | A, Dondore, Mr. Ernfred Anderson, Miss sources, of the feline species will be amused by Mark Twain Momentos more meno sree res ements mens nme mesure acme The centenary celebration of Mark Twain's birth is being observed in the Elmira College Library by a commemorative exhibit, cofiected and arranged by Dr. Dorothy A. Dondore, | hibit consists in the main of books, entos which remind us once again that not so photographs, little place-card which he engraved him- | self, in the stones inscribed with his verses, in the letter to Mrs. Thomas Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mis-] Jnounced by the Langdon family as being the best likeness of Mark Twain, an oil- litems in the exhibit. possessions ,to form this collection are, Miss Elizabeth W College Library Professor of English, The ex- and manuscripts-mem- very long ago the great Mark Twain's four sleepy cats, who have a portrait all their own. Many papers written in the humorist's handwriting, which was so like that of Mrs. Clemens that even members of the family could not perceive the difference, lend a personal note to the' collection. There are references for speeches, letters to the 'family, and inscriptions in fly- leaves, _ Among the papers concerning. Mark Twain is a letter from Rudyard Kipling to Miss Elizabeth Whittaker, thanking her for sending a photograph of a bust of Mark Twain. - Familiar touches are brought in by] specimens of china ware from the Cle- mens' household and a crystal from Tom awyer's cave at Hannibal, Missouri. Two portrait busts by Mr. Ernfred Anderson, one of which has been pro- portrait, and a large size photograph-, portrait are among the most striking Among those who graciously lent their Mr. Jervis Langdon, Miss Ida Langdon,: hittaker, Miss Dorothy: f 1 ( tions at Honolulu, K ette, an idea aros Council, It was student participati desirable to have present there are s garet Waples, '33, Senior Songs ~ Patron Saint wi al the initial tion, Geraldine both Morrow ience enjoyed sey November 16. praise and were enj _ As Date Approaches While at the Institute of Pacific Rela- « C, Leebrick of and Dr. Duncan Ha In 1930, at the Assembly held at Lafay- e from faculty discus- sion which, coming finally into maturity, resulted in the establishment of a Model need for greater preparation, closer con- tact with League procedure, amd more determined by regional sections and each holding annual assembly. Whereupon, in 1933, Syracuse invited five other colleges. _ Hamilton, Rochester, fand Union-to assemble for & Model. \Council and to Elmira honor of having the first ' -Colgate, Elmira, At Fall Week -End For Class Mascot Senior Week-end festivities went off th all the ardor which the Class of '36 ways puts into its affairs. ties officially opened Friday night with performance of \Once There Was a Princess\ by Juliet kins which has received Excellent work was done by Miss oth the cast and organization, The set- ting of the Prologue was very attractive. Between the first and second acts, the aud- played by June Bannister and Grenevra Eckerson, and a vocal solo by Marjorie McCausland, accompanied by Alice Booth. The play was repeated Saturday night, The Senior songs have received much Colleges Send elegates f‘ | To Elmira For Model League | _ Conference on December 6-7 | Seven colleges are polishing up parliamentary procedure today - in preparation for an epoch-making ] week-end in colle | international probims. {resented will include Colgate, Wells, Rochester, Union, Hamilton, Buf tune of their class song. The words were falo and Sy racuse. . written by Betty Baas. Amid the yelling of the student body; for \Speech! Speech!\ Hawaii, in 1925, Dean Syracuse University Two years later felt that there was a on; therefore, it was a smaller body. At 1x groups in the U. S., was extermded the President, Mar- Praised s Pet Is Chosen The activi- Wilbor Tomp- due commenda- in directing it, and by eral piano selections oyed by the audlience. The group was trai Causland. Senior Mascot was noon at the Banner The long-awaited announcement of the Mary Margaret McCall in ined by Marjorke Mc- made Saturday after- Raising Ceremony by the forna of an iate discussion of Those rlclp» 11 conceived the idea of forming this Model: Assembly with student participants. such an Assembly convened and has been held each year since then om differ- ent college and university campuses. original poem, while Dr. Marion Ames displayed the feline pet to the world at large. In view of the festive nature of It was suggested at this Council‘tlgat | there be two meetings each year in which the same delegates would participate so that questions sent to committees in the first session could be taken out and dis- posed of in the later session. __ At the Council each college represents | one or two of the countries sending dele- gates to the real Council at Geneva, Swit- zerland. 'These student delegates act in character throughout the session; the opinions they submit are not personal but those of their assumed country, delegates for each country represented and a faculty advisor are sent from each college (a departure from the procedure at Geneva, but allowing for greater stu- dent participation). - These delegates take turns at the Council table. The pro- cedure, phraseology, and diplomatic lan- guage used, in fact, even the social events . which take place, ar modelled after those of the actual Council at Geneva. The Model Council is not just a con- ference at which opinions are exchanged ; it is really an educational project, val- uable alike to faculty and students. The preparation alone, which begins weeks in advance and involves research study. of the authentic League documents, brings the students into close contact with act- ual, pertinent world problems which con- stitute the agenda. Moreover, through their various activities contingent upon the student control of these Council ses- sions, the delegates come better to ap- preciate and evaluate the League machin- ery with its limitations. The stimula- tion resulting from brisk, conipetitive con- tact with other students permits no chance for bluffing but encourages and | develops poise, initiative, and a maturity of thought and understanding regarding the relationships of nations in the world at large... :~ __ 2 k Cb T _ The officers of the Council are the President, who this year is from the Ar- gentine Republic, and the Secretary-Gen- eral, who has charge of all arrangements for the meeting and handles the corre- spondence, sending to the various col- leges which are to participate in the Council the agenda, bulletins of informa- tion, and the reports of the rapporteur. During the session, he acts as secretary to the President. The delegates and of- ficers sit around the outside a horse- shoe shaped table, while the Secretariat, (several members of the Commercial de- partment, who are present to supply the Council members with documents and to take stenographic reports), are seated inside the horse-shoe. For each ques- tion on the agenda there is a Rapporteur who, as a disinterested party, presents in a report all the findings on the subject and recommends a method of procedure. It may be interesting to note that there has recently been started a Students' ses- sion of the Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice Colgate and Syracuse convened for the one last year. Since then, Elmira has received an invitation to join and may do so in the future. To this court, the Council may submit ques- tions for advisory opinions. The whole project of model sessions patterned after those held at Geneva has evoived in the past decade from a simple idea into an elaborate machinery. f All sessions of the Council, which are meeting in the Library basement Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, Decem- ber 6th and 7th, are open to faculty and students at any time for any length of time. Four # kins Lounge. one-year old the Senior Class. The old the tea table. Senior Week-end the mascot, seems to be well named. This spirit, wears the class colors, brown and After the Banner Raising the faculty, seniors, and their guests were entertained | at tea from four to six o'clock in Tomp- | Dean Francés Burlingame, Dr. Ames, Priscilla Eggleston, Brewer, and Deborah Hample presided at ; Among the guests who were present were Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Mrs. Brew- er, Mr. and Mrs. Attwood, High Jinx, Patron Saint of the cat, with true Senior Barbara Mrs. Suter, med. aristocratic, | Persian is the pet of Dr. Marion Ames, | Mrs. Krise, Mrs. Maurice, Mrs. Close, Mr. and Mrs. John Copley, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, Mrs. Tichnor, Mr. and Mrs. McCall, Mrs. Hample, Mrs. Schmel- zer, Mr, and Mrs. Meyer, Miss Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Katharine Fix, and Mrs. Rose Krug. 1Graham, day ing Banking To Be Topic Miss Helen Mallory of the First Na- tional Bank of Elmira will lead the week- ly vocational discussion group on Mon- day, November 25. Miss Mallory will cover the various fields in Banking open to women. The meeting 'will be in Cowles Parlors after dinner. Tibbee’ s Concert Pleases The highlight of Elmira's Music Sea- son came Wednesday evening, Nov. 20 when Lawrence Tibbet, Metropolitan Opera stars gave a recital at Park Church before a large and enthusiastic audience. Mr. Tibbet's program was very pleas- ing and the audience called him back re- peatedly for encores which he most gra- ciously gave. Mr. Tibbet Arrived in Elmira Wednes- morning, and spent the day practis-
