The Stetson Reporter

•mm Third Year—No. 8 DR. ALLEN TALKS AT COLLEGE MEET DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1937 President Is Welcomed On Return From Birmingham The president's office was alive with greetings Saturday morning as students and faculty members dropped in to welcome Dr. W. S. Allen back home to Stetson and to tell him that they hads missed him during his absence last week-. Monday and Tuesday Dr. Allen, accompanied by Airs. Allen, attended the third annual conference of Southern Colleges at Atlanta, held at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. General problems of education were discussed, including scholarship, curriculum and colleges finances. From Atlanta Dr. Allen went to Birmingham for the regiona meeting cf colleges and universities of the Southeastern states. Practically all the leading colleges of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi were represented by their presidents, and Dr. Allen met many old friends. The executive secretary who was in general charge of the meeting is known to many Stetson tudents— Dr. Guy E. Snavely, who made the graduating address at Stetson in 1936 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Also present at the conference was Dr. Mc- Connaghey, president of Wessyn College in Connecticut, the alma rnater of Dr. G. Prentice Carson and of Prof. Henry S. Jacobs. At the meeting Thursday Dr. Allen led the speaking on business management of universities and colleges. Stressed in both meetings, Dr. Allen reported, was the theme of college preparation for citizenship. It was mentioned at the meeting that from a survey of 140 American colleges, only ten gave courses in government other than constitutional government. Dr Allen is heartily in favor of confining constitutional history to upper division courses and of teaching practical municipal and state government more thoroughly. Economic and social problems including political systems, crime, end vice should be dealt with, declared Dr. Allen, so that the student, when he takes his place in the world, will understand politics and exert helpful influence in the government of his community. Dr. Allen admitted that he learned some more funny stories, which the students might coax him to tell some day in chapel. KENYON APPOINTS HOMECOMING AIDES Students Formed into City Administration for Weekend June Krause, junior recently e lected to The Honor and to Gamma Sigma Epsilon. honorary chemistry fraternity, and a member of the Stetsonian staff. The Honor Holds The Honor, Stetson honorary society for women, initiated seven new members at an impressive ceremony last Wednesday night. Membership is based on a point system for campus activities and leadership, and only Juniors and Seniors are eligible. Those initiated last week include Myra Machen, June Krause, Josephine Osborne, Sadie Rae Gardner, Mary Ellen Lord, Lois Thacker, and Jane McCarty. As a part of the initiation ser vices, the active members of The Honor were hostesses at a supper at the University Commons. Peggy Champ, president of the society, presided during the ceremony. O ther members include Frances O gilvie, Alzada Bennett, Dorothy Hooker, Ruth Bartlett, Alice McLaughlin, Ruth Merrit, Ann Goll- nick, and Lola Hammer. Too Late To Classify It appears that the campus muse struck a snag of some sort; for some reason, entries in the REPORTER'S prize contest for poems about college life have been con- spic. by their a. Rather than declare it "no contest," the judges have decided to extend the contest for two weeks, or until Nov. 19, 1937. HOMECOMING PROGRAM Friday, November 12 lr30 P.M. Open House—Chaudoin Hall. 5;3® P.M. Open House—Buffet Suppers (Social Fraternity Houses and Sorority Rooms) 4 6 P.M. Visitation (fraternities, buildings, grounds) 8:00 P.M. Little Theatre ph'y 10:03 P.M. Inter-frak-rniry Serenade (Chaudoin Quadrangle) 11:00 P.M. Thela Alpha Phi Banquet (University Commons) Saturday, November 13 7:30 A.M. Professional Fraternity Breakfasts 9:15 A.M. Regular College Chapel 9:43 A.M. Informal Welcome Period—Elizabeth Hall Chapel 10:15 A.M. Annual Meeting of Alumni Association (Election of Officers) 11:45-1:00 P.M. Annual Alumni Banquet 1:00 P.M. Parade 1:30 P.M. Band Competition 2:15 P.M. Massed Band Concert 3:00 P.M. Homecoming Football Game, Stetson vs. Lenoir-Rhyne MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION By virtue of the authority vested in me as duly elected Student Ma>or of DeLand: I hereby designate Saturday, November 13, 1937 as Homecoming Day for Stetson University ; This day being thus designated I hereby request all merchpnts alumni, students, anu townspeople to observe this day with appropriate ceremony. Signed, GAYLORD C. KENYON, Student Mayor of DeLand. The following are the appoint- mens made by Mayor Kenyon for Homecoming week: Secretary to ihe Mayor: Jonneilen Caddis. City Commissioners: Chairman of the board — Carl M. Hulbert Secretary to the Chairman, Roberta Morris; Edward C. Furlong, Paul W. McEntire, James A. Stone, and Robert G. Young. City Manager: J. Wilton Rowe. Secretary to the City Manager: Helen Smith. Municipal Judge: Paul Wongrey Secretary to the Municipal Judge; Ruth E. Orum. City Attorney: Tom Cobb. Secretary to the Ciytttttttttttta,ETAOIN tary to the City Attorney: Marie E Hancock. City Clerk: Albert W. Johnson. Secretary to the City Clerk: Mary E. Hudson. Tax Collector: Norman C. Abbott. Secretary to the Tax Collector Helen H. Walker. Tax Assessor: Richard R. Bran ham. Secretary to the Tax Assessor: Jane McCarty. City Auditor: Lloyd C. Pawley. Secretary to the City Auditor: Amy J. Massey. City Health Officers: Andrew M. Lang, Earl Neelands, Wm. O. Denham. Secretary to the board of City Health Officers: Helen F. Finney. City Engineer: Hubert Smith. Secretary to the City Engineer: Josephine E. Osborne. City Electrical Inspector: J. Francis Knorr, Jr. Secretary to the Electrical Inspector: Margaret L. Champ. City Publicity Director: Robert (Continued on Page 9) New Stetsonian i Due Friday Morn The Homecoming issue of the Stetsonian, campus literary magazine, will provide real entertainment for everyone, and will a highly prized souvenir of Stetson's greatest Homecoming. Besides a variety of poems pertaining mostly to love, several short articles, and stories of general interest, the magazine will contain individual pictures of ail the members of the football squad, and a program of the Homecoming game with Lenoir-Rhyne. A treatise on the subject of teachers by a popular member of the student body will doubtless be the best feature of the magazine. Altogether the first issue of the year promises to be the best issue printed so far. As only a limited number will be printed, everyone is urged to subscribe for his copy as soon as possible. SCHOOL READY FOR GALA HOMECOMIM Play, Football Game, Band Contest to Entertain Alumni Gaylord Kenyon, Stetson's* Homecoming Mayor and captain of the Mystic Krewe for the two past years, who heads the celebrations of the weekend. Radio Listeners To Hear Tribble Dean Lewis H. Tribble of Stetson's law college will deliver a radio address on the evening of Monday November 29, on the subject of intercollegiate athletics in Florida institutions. Dean Tribble is faculty chairman of athletics for the University. Musicians from the School of Music will present a program of songs and instrumental numbers before or after he dean's address. The remarks by the law dean will deal with ' the historical development of interschool sports in Florida colleges,' showing the growth of sportsmanship and popular interest, as well as progress in e- quipment and skill, during the past thirty years. The Stetson program will be broadcast over WDBO, from -the DeLand studio. In Appreciation In behalf of the student body of Stetson University, the Reporter wishes to take this method of thanking Mr. Frank Bell for the beautiful sih'er 'trophy which he presented for the band contest to be held Saturday as a part of the Homecoming festival. The trophy was displayed at chapel exercises yesterday morning by Dr. Allen, who thanked the donors for their generous interest in the University. MUSIC STUDENTS PLAY FOR ORLANDO CLUB Stetson music students, under the direction of Prof. William H. Bailey will present a program for the Orlando Music Club this afternoon. The program will consist of piano solos by Margaret MacDonough and Jane Smith, vocal solos by Helene Golding, Rhoda Weimert, and Stanley Franck, and cello solo by George Richardson. The trio, composed of Prof. Bailey, violin, George Richardson, cello, and Ruth Newlin, piano, will play a composition by Mendelssohn. Jane McCarty and Ruth Newlin will accompany the solos. By GORDON KIPP Gaiety and goodfellowship will prevail on the Stetson campus this week end as the old grads return to view the scene of their college years at Homecoming celebration, and enjoy the round of scheduled entertainment. Visitation, a play at the Little Theatre, inter-frat singing, Theta Alpha Phi banquet, breakfasts, chapel, alumni meeting and banquet, parade, band concert, football game.,' and open house are among the big events for Friday and Saturday. From the beginning of the play in the Little Theatre until the last guest leaves the campus, the grads are p-romised the biggest and best time of their lives. Serenade, in Quad The Stetseon Players will have the alumni as their guests at the Little Theatre Frday night to see "The Bishop Misbehaves." Later in the evening the frat men will get together in the Chaudoin Quadrangle to serenade the coeds. Theta Alpha Phi will have a blowout at the Commons Building to finish the evening. / Saturday morning after the professional frat breakfasts all the a- lumni and the entire student body will crowd ino the chapel for a brief service, and then the alumni will have a big meeting to elect officers and make plans for the coming years. Following this will come the banquet where the alumni will be given an opportunity to meet old- friends, talk over old times, and go to college again. In the afternoon the parade will be the first big feature. Bands will strut their stuff along with colorful floats and decorated cars. A girls'. drill organization called "40 Imps" from Winter Haven will march in the procession. The bands will go directly onto Hulley Field and after a competitive drill will present a mass concert. Approximately 400 musicians will swing out together at that time. Game in Afternoon The gridiron battle will be the big event of the aftenoon, and, as it is rumored that Lenoir Rhyne is no mean opponent, the old grads will be given a chance to judge if the football team has grown up with the school. The alumni will be welcomed to the campus by Homecoming Hostess Alice McLaughlin, and her accom- paning bevy of coeds, Mildred Brown, Kathryn Jelks, Frances Wooten, Margaret Johnson, Frances Coe, Ann Hawkins. Jean Massey, Ruth Orum, Sadie Rae Gardner, and Jean Fletcher. The terms of Armistice were accepted by Germany on November 11 at 5 o'clock ajjp., Paris time. Cone Will Attend Homecoming Here Gov. Fred Cone of Florida will ittend Stetson's Homecoming Friday and Saturday and be initiated into the honorary legal fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta. The governor announced his acceptance of an invitation from the fraternity in a letter to Dean Lewis Tribble of the , Law school. He will be Dean Tribble's guest while in DeLand.