The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Third Year—No. 1 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937 Price 5c Session Opens With Hopes High HATTERS MEET GATORS FIRST FRIDAY WEEK Cowell and Freeman Regard Grid Squad with Moderate Optimism EXPERIENCE GAINED Stetson Athletes are Wiser; Backfield Receives Added Strength The Stetson Hatters will open their 1937 football season Saturday of next week, October 2, when they meet the traditional and powerful foe, the University of Florida, at Gainesville. Driven relentlessly by Brady Co-! well, head grid coach, and Chet| Freemen, line mentor, the Green j and White squad is reported to be already in better than fair physical condition, while knowledge of plays and strategy are likewise satisfactorily advanced. Having lost but few first string men by graduation last June, the Hatters promise to be somewhat stronger this year than last. Experience and twelve months cf bodily -growth have turned the •young sophomo're #quad of last September into a combination of robust and confident veterans. While the great freshman eleven cf last year has contributed much srength to the squad, some of the most powerful Baby Hatters have failed to return, making the coaches problem more difficult. However, the recruits on deck are full of life and vigor and some of them will gain high honors before Christmas. The Hatter backfield is consider, ably strengthened by the addition of three young men from junior college at Ioia, Kansas. The line is less blessed with numbers, but the cua'.ity of the athletes now fighting for positions in the forward section is high. The first game on the home grounds will be played the night of October 8 when the South Georgia Teachers provide opposition. The Stetson machine gained 12-0 victory over this team last year in the rain. FRESHMEN ARRIVE, GO THROUGH WEEK IF ORIENTATION President and Deans Address | Frosh, Student Officers ' Entertain new miss Lola ii. .HcCollough. dean of women, who will be presented at the assembly hour tomorrow. . STETSON FACULTY GAINS NEW DEAN AND INSTRUCTORS Heney Assumes New Position of Band Director Newly arrived Freshmen were lions of the occasion during the early part of the week, when the University concentrated on the job of getting them oriented to their new surroundings. Faculty and student committees had their hands full as several hundred freshmen descended on the campus. Beginning with the meetings held by the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men at which they met the new Class for the first time, the activities connected |viith orientation week continue until tomorrow night when the President and Mrs. Allen meet the faculty and students at a recep-tion in honor of the new faculty members in the Art Room in Elizabeth Hall. Monday was begun by an assembly in the Auditorium at which all first year students were present. Dr. Allen welcomed the newcomers in a short address, and Dean Smith, Dean McCollough, and Dean Cot- NEW RECORDS MAY BE 'MADE IN ENROLMEN Freshmen and Old Students Throng University Campus Again PRESIDENT IS HAPPY Dr. Allen Predicts Greatest Year in History For Stetson President VV. S. Allen, who will welcome the great student body at assembly hour Thursday. SHEPPARB Orcutt and Bateson Return To Alma Mater GIRLS'DORMITORY SPACE EXHAUSTED President Moves, Home Will Be Turned Over To Girls Dr. W. S. Allen, President of Stetson, announced yesterday that j ner added their greetings. Regis- j he and Mrs Allen would move from PROMOTED | trati,on begaa for the fr?shmf! their home on the campus to a immediately after the close of the ! . , ... ., . ,j„„.„ ,„,,.„„ ! house on North Boulevard as soon assembly, with the students falling | in the first third of the aphabet be- \ as possible. This move was made ginning in the morning, the others ; necessary by exhaustion of space waiting until afternoon to minimize congestion. The opening of the present session finds several new faces among the Stetson faculty. Four faculty members have been added, and others have received promo-. tions. The new instructors are Miss I Student-Body, and Dorothy Hooker in the women's dormitories, with even more new students expected At luncheon Monday, the incom- °.ay*. ■■■■•■■■-. . . ■■■■ ' j ■' . , „„„j !,„ It the new dormitory is to accom- ing students were , welcomed by ' , Richard Branham,. president of the modate more than twelve girls, Dr. Allen said, some remodeling will president of the Woman's Student Government. Tours of 1;he campus under the guidance of various members of the student welcoming committee were organized for the benefit of campus newcomers not occu pied in registering. : Dinner at the Commons, with Music as instructor in' Dean Smith presiding, was the oc- percussion 'instruments \ casion for two fine speeches. Pres- Lola B. McCollough, Dean of Women, Miss Ella 'Mae Walker, instructor in. secretarial science, Miss Roberta Orcutt, instructor in voice, and Howard Bateson, instructor in French. John J. Heney, who has been a. member of the faculty of the School' of wind and takes over the duties of band direc,:J ident Allen spoke to the newcomers tor, C. R. M. Sheppard, Jr:, man -j about the history and traditions of ager of the University Press, now j Stetson, arfd Gaylord Kenyon, head in addition becomes director o I labor and purchasing agent for th University. .''"'. I Faculty Members Study In Europe Others Travel Abroad For Holiday Miss Veronica Davis of the Music School, and Howard Bateson, new French instructor, availed themselves of the summer to pursue studies abroad. Prof, and Mrs. P. I. Lipsey also were visitors to Europe during the vacation; they were accompanied on a tour of western and central Europe by Miss: Marjorie K. Andrews, editor of last year's Reporter. Miss Davis sailed' for. Europe soph, after Commencement and. did. makes a specialty of, teachirig American students^ . ..■'-. •' Mr. Bateson, left for, a summer in Ffance soon afte-: receiving his Master's degree froni the University of Texas. In Paris, he studied at the Sorbonne,:. and also .was'j awarded a certificate of aptitude in modern French by the Alliance, Erancaise. Before returning home, Mr. pil in Chaudoin Hal Bateson toured in Northern France This afternoon" all Dean Robert C. Cotner, Director of Mystic Krewe, honorary leader- i ship organiztion, talked of aims and ideals for the entering college student. Dinner was folowed by a | of Debate, prophesied a busy and student. Dinner was followed by a| successful season for Stetson's for the new students by the officers ot the Student Body and Women's Student Government. Tuesday t morning was occupied Jiy ■the administration of the Psychological Test and English Placement Test, required of all freshmen. In the, afternoon; /another entertainment was tendered the new students, this time a "t»* given in Chaudoin Hall parlors. Meetings, in the early evening.of all new men j and women with their respective, deans were followed by a reception I when Stets j tendered by the Pan-Hellenic Goun Stetson University will begin the regular session tomorrow morning with every advance condition indi- ! eating the greatest year in the long history of the institution. ! Student enrolment, on the basis of registrations the first three days of this week, gives hopes for an increase of at least ten percent over the total of last year. v A bumper crop of Freshmen is thronging the campus, getting acquainted with., the. school routine and with old students who are returning for their sophomore, junior and senior years. .. -- -1 An unusual number of new students have arrived, transfers from other colleges, to take up their activities in the upper curricuar ranks. The faculty members, coming back refreshed after vacations and travels, have dusted off their lecture room chairs and are prepared to pump intellectual waves into receptive minds. The campus displays numerous improvements within doors and without. Conrad Hal! rebuilt and the groves and lawns trimmed and orderly—all announce the progress of the plan for the Greater Stetson, "going forward ii: a fine way." President W. S. Allen, who has labored tirelessly through the summer months, was .bubbling over with enthusif.stic optimism yesterday as he surveyed the throngs of incoming students. "I ;>m very happy over the situation," (he president declared. "We are entering the greatest year in the history of Stetson. .We have brought about material imp.ove- ments on eve -y <iide, and the reconstructed Conrad Hall is a lovely place. "The campus has been made more beautiful, and equipment has forensic artists. The debating team |been largely increased. .Laborato- ,be done, but this is of a minor nature and will not mean any great inconvenience. Fine Season Seen By Debate Coach Stetson Begins Forensic Season Against Dartmouth is expected to start work soon aftes school opens, in order to be ready for its first intercollegiate match. The Dartmouth debaters will be Stetson's first opponents. They are ries' modernized. .Our faculty constitutes now the finest body of Christian scholars possible to bring together. Our student body is .growing in a wonderful way, and we expected to be here some time in'snau r^ch a new record in num- the early fall, on a tour in which DerS- they will encounter some of thel «A great and usefuI year lies leading debating teams of the[beforei us Let us enter }t with courage and high hopes, and the determination to do our best." Dean Charles G. Smith and Miss Olga Bo wen, registrar, were busily new students for three weeks, .He ; visited the ; will chateau country^ along the Loirefter, not return until near the end of j River, a region rich in legend and August. In Europe she spent most of her time in Paris, where she studied composition with Mme. Boulanger of, Fontainebleau. Mme. Bculanger is one of the foremost teachers of the Continent, and history\ and ;:he (stopped,,;;in .many of the' pi'ctu'resque'; old towns' of Normandy and', Brittany, in o-rder to bring back-? to> Bis st,udents authentic information about provincial France: ' '■■■'-' ,: ,'''■' be guests of the Dreka Thea- At 6:15, the Stetson Band will give a concert at the University Commons, which will be broadcast over Station WDBO. The evening will be occupied by another entertainment' at Chaudoin Hall, an j New students include W. S. Allen infpriri4l;::iparty sponsored -by the'—ever hear that name ?—of Greeri- (Gontinued on Page 5) I ville, S. C. South. Members of ,the , debating team showed no hesitation in pre dieting that the Green will win n ' meets the Northern invaders. : '■:,., Dean Cotner,said that the team wouldvprobabiy go on an extended trip'either late in the Fall or early in the second semester. He, indicated that the trip would be either into the Middle West, or among the New England universities. .. engaged yesterday with the'details of registration, assisted by a strong corps of teachers and administra, tlye aids. Miss Lola B. McCollough, new dean of women,, was giving advice to students new and old who sought. help in fitting together the schedules of classes and dormitory arrangements. Prof. Robert G. Cotner, dean of (Continued on Page 5)