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We have our homecoming later this year than usual. If you alumni want our candid opinion we believe that it will be the best alumni reunion that we have had in many a moon. In other words it is just like some other things that we hear quite a little about. It gets better quality with age.

Every loyal alumni is well aware of the fact that this is the year that we are celebrating our fiftieth an-niversary. This in itself should be enough to bring back all of the old grads.

Our golden Jubilee, if you will permit, is going to be one that will not be forgotten. We have an excellent program planned that will be appreciated by all of those who are fortunate enough to attend. Also if there is any truth to the old adage that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach every mother's son should go away at least well sat

A most essential "intangible something that makes a college is school spirit. Without it no educational institution can grow and ex-ist. In order to facilitate the growth of this spirit and to help students to adjust themselves socially, extracurricular activities are provided.

Although the enrollment at M. C. has not increased in quantity this year it certainly has in quality. This is quite apparent when one looks at the motivating spirit that has been manifest at school activities. Here's one individual who claims that the success of our football team has been brought about, at least in part, by the "pep" displayed by the student body. School spirit also makes itself felt in other spheres of college activities. In music, in forensics, in religious activities, and even in academic pursuits a good, wholesome school spirit will be a decided asset. This fall M. C. has had a better school spirit than it has had for quite some time.

What Are You Doing?

What are you doing in college? Have you taken stock recently to discover whether you are carrying out an efficient program or whether you are dallying your time away and wasting your opportunities?

The year is not far gone, and it is not too late to retrench in case you discover your work piling up and your outside activities weighing too heavily upon your shoulders. Few college students do too much work, either in courses or in extra curricular activities. They may, frequently, fail to organise their time, and as a result find themselves not doing justice to any of their activities.

This business of reorganisation of time and effort is the key to success in college. Almost every student wastes enormous amounts of time at odd intervals during the day, simp-

Opal Hoffman Rilla Hubbard Herbert lkenberry Margaret Kagarice Alberta Keller

isfied in one way. There is to be an excellent banquet served. This is to be one in which participation is the key word.

You will also be treated to one of the best football games that could be arranged. If the Bulldogs come through with a victory it means that we are tied for the conference championship. The team needs your moral support. You never can tell, it may be enough to pull the team through to victory.

We want to see each one of you on Wednesday because, we are going to stage a rip-roaring pep rally and tear the old town to pieces. In this rally we are going to give you a look at our football queen and her two attendants. They are to lead this big rally into our fair city.

We will be looking for you on Wednesday afternoon at an early hour next week.

This spirit or integrating oneness of purpose, has the most value when it is spontaneous. Whenever a certain organisation or group tries to foster school spirit in a particular way spontaneity is destroyed. In a case like this, however, let us not make the assumption that the party trying to remedy a lack of pep is entirely responsible. Someone may be failing to cooperate. Spontaneity Thus in developing a wholesome is possible only through cooperation, school spirit that is not dominated by any one faction, everyone must play his part. The set up at Mc-Pherson is such that this can readily be done.

Here's one individual who is pulling for M. C. not because someone told me to, but because I think—I know—that it is a good school. Here's one individual who is going to yell at the Turkey Day game, not because of a belt line, but because I want our boys to win for I know that "They Can Do It."

—-A student.

ly because he does not have a definite amount of time for work and a definite amount of time for play. Consequently he gets into habits of procrastination, ineffectual study at odd hours, and inability to settle down and concentrate.

What are you doing in college? Again we ask-—are you taking full advantage of the opportunity the specialized atmosphere of college offers you? If not—take hold of yourself and retrench now!! Organize your time into a weekly schedule, and adhere rigidly to it until positive habits are formed. Stop dissipating your efforts over a variety of activities which you do half-heartedly and concentrate on doing a few of them well. Then you can look yourself square in the eye and say ‘I’m doing a good job in college."

ETC.

"What would you do? If you was me, With all this work to do?"

That's what I hear our students say From ten to fifty times a day:

\ can't answer It. can you?

And those same ones that fuss and gripe

Are those that do the least;

They do no more than they just must.

They fill the rest with pure disgust And on others labors feast.

So this remark I'd like to make— It works in every case,

That those who have a lot to do Can pile on more and do it too And keep a goodly pace!

—The Turtle.

The most frequently used phrase on this campus according to my ears is: "Oh, I have so much to do."

The latest comment on the beltline way of informing people when they do wrong was suggested by Billy Thompson. After all, it was quite a manly gesture to volunteer, "It's perfectly asinine."

Strange things are happening in Arnold Hall: the radiators are being dressed in new skirts; the pictures on the walls are being yanked out of their tipsy positions; the faces of heroes back home are looking face down in dresser drawers; the corner shelves are being dusted. And it is being done to create an impression.

Don’t Be So Frightened Only the College Band

Each Tuesday evening weird lootings and rumblings may be heard emanating from the Administration building. At first it was supposed that these disturbances were caused by exasperated faculty members retiring to the privacy and confinement of their rooms to give vent to their feelings without endangering life and limb of the student body and the world at large. It is common knowledge that gnashers of teeth and pullers of hair often become violent and that the doors of the Administration building are old and frail; therefore little children of college age were warned to avoid the place.

It has since been learned that these fearsome noises are originated by the McPherson College Band. The thunderous rumbles of sound reverberating through the halls and across the campus, remindful of a bull seeing red, would be the basses if there were any, but there aren't. It is only the drums manned by Campbell and Clark. Other strange noises come from the locale of the French horns commonly called blat-weasels. No practice is required for these instruments because the play-

But then, even the most destined old maids of us get romantic over the thought of keeping a house polished and neat for a man’s glance.

I hate to correct the mistaken information that Joell’s girl friend is not of the high school age because it even seems to lessen our chances.

Doris Pray's cake which she made in foods’ laboratory Tuesday must have been of good quality since Van Hunt seemed to be in as good condition as usual the next morning.

Evidently some of the Fahnestock dwellings haven't generalized on the statement. “Where there’s smoke there's fire." ers always lose the music. It would be very confusing to learn perfect-, ly good notes and not know when to use them. The screaming saxaphones also add their bit to the general confusion. Clarinets emit an occasional mouse-like squeak; trombones and baritones chase each other madly up and down the scale; cornets hurl ear-splitting blasts into the air, and chaos is complete.

This, my friends, is the weekly practice of the McPherson College Band. It is one of those affairs at which anything is likely to happen and usually does.

—Freddie, the Freshman.

Becky Ann Stauffer spent the week-end with friends in Roxbury.

Merle Messamer of Lost Springs and Neva Root of Chase visited Margaret Messamer Sunday afternoon.

Evelyn and LaVena High spent Friday night with their sister, Mrs. E. D. Campbell, at Conway.

Edith Jasper spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Galen Ogden of Monitor Community. Welcome to Homecoming, Alumni! Beat the Wesleyan Coyotes! !

Emergency Peace Campaign Starts

23 Field Secretaries to Visit 1000 College Campuses

They are off to a flying start. Members of tho Youth Division of the Emergency Peace Campaign, who are thinking of their job for the winter in terms of 1,000 colleges throughout the country, have lost no time in organizing. A survey of colleges is now in full swing with the EPC's 23 young field sec-retaries passing rapidly from one college to another. In order to judge what type of action will be most needed on the various campuses.

The program which the Youth Division leaders envisage is tri-part. First, they feel that individual and group study of international relations is essential to effective peace work. Individual study will be constantly encouraged and group study will be promoted wherever possible. Youth Division members have drawn up a summary study outline based on EPC principles.

Second, the Youth Section leaders stress the importance of action in the campus itself. This will vary considerably on different campuses but in most instances should involve the following methods:

1.    Study groups using either the outline the Youth Section has prepared or some other adequately adapted to the purpose and cause of the EPC.

2.    Round table or penal discussions using the radio as much as possible.

3.    A two- or three-day institute

of International Relations, or a

seminar on “Roads to Peace."

4.    National Peace Enrollment, using EPC cards.

5. A student "strike” against war.

6.    The selection and adequate financing of one or more students from each college who will join an Emergency Peace Volunteer Unit in the field in the summer of 1937.

Third, the Division members consider that in Field Maneuvers will be found the spearhead of the youth activities for the coming months. This program of Field Maneuvers will be similar, except in a few details, to the campaign which the Emergency Peace Volunteers carried on during the past summer. Peace Patrols composed of two or more individuals will carry the fight for Peace week after week to men and women in towns and hamlets throughout the country in which a college is located. A careful outline of field action has been prepared. This program will mean selfsacrifice and hard work.

Mohler Returns from Trip In East

Dean Mohler returned early Tuesday morning from a trip to Roan-oake, Virginia, where he attended the Southeastern Regional Conference of the Brethren Church. While in the east, he also visited in Washington, D. C.. and participated in the church program there.

Mrs. H. Keller of Geneseo visited her daughter,Vivian Mae Keller Sunday.    

Eleven Co-eds Take W. A. A. Oath at Thursday’s Meeting

The regular meeting of the W. A. A., Thursday, Nov. 12. was called to order by the president, Aileen Wine. At this meeting Ruth Taylor, Mary Trostle, Edith Hughey, Marjorie Paddock, Julia Frick, Marion Washler, Margaret Louise Kagarice, Charlotte Nance, Doris Doane, Ruth Rogers, and Avis Heckman, took the W. A. A. Oath, and thus became full members of the organization.

The names of those girls who look part in baseball were listed and a varsity team was selected. These girls, who by the way, receive twenty five points for being on this team, are: Alberta Keller, Becky Stauffer, Aileen Wine, Ruth Taylor, Lenore Shirk, LaVena High, Marjorie Flory, Rilla Hubbard, Marion Washler, Jessie Miller, Edith Hughey, Ruth Rogers and Julia Frick.

Captain Karl Von Hoffman To Relate Thrilling Life

This evening at 8:30 Captain Carl Von Hoffman, explorer, scientist, ethnologist, and author, will give an illustrated lecture on his experiences in the heart of Africa.

Captain Von Hoffman spent fifteen years in the “dark continent.” He brings back to the civilized world amazing epics of still existing savagery. He has a gift of dramatization which enables him to recreate living scenes for his hearers.

Africa and Asia have yielded their secrets to him, and his accounts of the life of savage peoples are truly unique. Some of the most interesting subjects are “Head Takers of Formosa," “Zulu Brides,” and "The Ancient Kingdom of the Moors.”

The lecture will start at 8:30 o’clock instead of the usual time in order to avoid conflict with the

squad was further augmented by that great fortress Ogden who should have been able to stop the opposition single handed, but who completely failed his men in the crisis. The best play of the whole game occurred when Ogden thought he had caught a pass but of course he really hadn’t. He tried to tell "Bud" about it, but Coach was laughing too hard to hear him.    

Now it's all over. The freshmen have completely lost out. You "green-ies" can lay your caps and bibs away Thanksgiving Day, but remember Ramage could gain five yards every time with all the frosh hanging on him. And then Rogers and Oxley would scamper around the ends for 20 yards while the freshmen wings visited with the tackles. Other outstanding players for the soph aggregation were: “Stone Wall" Meyers, Captain Bower and "Pink Eared" Milo.

It was almost too thrilling when the freshmen did threaten ever so slightly to steal the show. "Galloping Ghost" Fry (though he really never did gallop) made a beautiful snatch of a pass, and right in front of all the spectators too. He’s mar-

Is civilization older in the Americas than it is in the old world? History has always taught that civ-ilization had its origin in Egypt or Mesopitamia: but recent studies seem to cast some doubt upon that statement. Were there cities in May-aland and Peru before the mighty structures of Egypt and Babylonia were erected? Did Indian farmers cultivate corn and tobacco before the farmers of Egypt had harvests of wheat, rice and grapes?

This idea is, of course, very new and decidedly upsetting to ancient history as it has been taught: but as students dig deeper and deeper into the shadows of the past new ideas are being formed.

It has always been admitted that many crops such as corn, potatoes, and tobacco had their origin in America. But it is now being suggested that the very industry of agriculture was developed in America.

Dr. Merle T. Jenkins of the U. S. Department of Agriculture says that from botanical evidence corn is probably the oldest of cultivated plants. In spite of extensive exploration and research, science has yet found no plant that resembles corn to a degree that it could be considered an ancestor. Time required for corn to reach its present stage of develop-ment can only be measured in thousands of years. There are other American plants, tobacco and several kind of beans that, like corn, are botanical orphans. Cultivated plants that are known to have been developed in the old world have ancestors living in their native regions today. The theory that agriculture may have been developed in America is based partly upon these facts.

In contrast to the ancient Indian’s success with the cultivation of plants, it is interesting to note that he had a very few domesticated animals. The dog, which he brought from Asia when he arrived in Amer-lea as a hunting nomad, and three others which he acquired—the turk-j ey, llama and muscovy duck.

The evidence seems to point that agriculture and the civilization's de-pendence upon it was developed about the same time in the two hemispheres but independently of each other. With its great number of or-phant plants America seems to have some claim to the honor of having started farming first.

above a B average. Qualified to teach and coach—he has had experience in baseball and basketball, as Center

This Kearney team has rung up 224 points in eight contests. They won their game two weeks ago. 74 to 0, and cut the game four minutes short, too.

Curtain To Fall On Four Seniors

Vasquez, Haun, Colwell, and Rock To Play Last Game For McPherson

When the McPherson College Bull-dogs close their 1936 season against Kansas Wesleyan University on Col-lege field here Thanksgiving Day, four members of the Red and White line-up will be making their last ap-pearance in intercollegiate football.

The McPherson seniors for whom the Coyote fray rings down the cur-tains are co-captains Mike Vasquez and Lee Haun; Clayton Rock and Chet Colwell. All are veteran performers, holding among them a total of fifteen football letters. All have made creditable scholastic records and by the end of the second semester will be qualified to receive state certificates to teach in Kansas high schools.

Chet was horn in Illinois, but early in his life accompanied the Colwell family to McPherson. He played four Tackle

Colwell

years on the McPherson High team and is now rounding out his fourth letter season at the College. Football has been his only sport. In college Chet has majored in industrial arts and in art. He plans to teach next year and would not be averse to coaching football for recreation. His eventual ambition is to study further in the field of art, and turn his well-known talent for chalk-talking into a commercial art career.

Lee Haun, the Marquis —that is really only his middle name, and in spite of it he is as modest and likeable a fellow as there is on the campus—has spent most of his nonHalfback

Haun

college life around Parkersville, Kansas. He has earned four varsity liters in football, and has his fourth track and second basketball letters coming up. He has also played high school and independent baseball. With a major in industrial arts and  close to a B average for all hiss work, he is looking forward to a career of teaching and coaching. He is the Benedict-—if you know your Shakes-peare of the Bulldog squad. It happened In 1934 and has allegedly never been regretted- -which you readily understand when you know Jessie. Collecting parodies and other humorous poems is one of the Haun hobbies. He is an admirer of Scat-tergood Baines, and would not mind being a successful small town banker.

Rock

well as football—Rock also has an occasional inclination toward a business career.

Born in Mexico but a Kansan by education—Lyons to be specific— Mike Vasquez has been a standout player in the McPherson line for four years. Rated All-Conference guard in 1931 and 1935, he has continued his sterling work this season. Although Guard

Sport Skits

Beat the Wesleyan Coyotes!

Bulldogs Seek Co-Title

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27.

(A second string squad of McPherson freshmen also played Sterling and lost, 14 to 7.)

Co-captain Lee Haun has been the top-heavy leading scorer of the Red and White aggregation. To seven touchdowns he has added eleven place-kick conversions out of sixteen attempts for a total of fifty-three points. Crabbe, quarter and McGill, end, have scored three touchdowns each, and Zuhars—whose razle-daz-zle running has accounted for more McPherson yardage than his scoring indicates—Horst, and Mathiot, one each. Six of McPherson's sixteen touchdowns have eventuated from forward pass plays.

The Wesleyan parade of victims this year has included in order, Sterling, Warrensburg Teachers, Bethany, Ottawa, Nebraska Teachers, Col-lego of Emporia and Baker. The Coyotes lost to Hardin Simmons at Abilene, Texas, 26 to 0.

The Thanksgiving day game here marks the end of A. B. Mackie's sixteenth year as Wesleyan football mentor. Over that period he has built up a considerable reputation for puting winning elevens on the field. His 1936 team, against which McPher-year's Turkey Day game at Salina. was champion of the Kansas Conference.

Lillys and Rowena Frants were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGaffey Sunday noon.

McPherson Shock Troops

Bow To Kearney 27 to 7

A game McPherson college eleven lacked power to cope with the bulky Kearney State Teachers club last Friday with the Antelopes hanging up a 27 to 7 victory, making a total of 203 points in five contests.

Coach "Bud” Selves of McPherson started his shock troops and the An-telopes counted twice before the Bulldog regulars entered the game on 54 and 47 yard runs.

Midway in the second period McPherson took the ball on Kearney’s 35 yard line. Pitcaithley fumbled on the 4th down. Mathiot advanced to the 20 yard line in three plays and ate up the remaining yarlage in another try for the touchdown. Haun place kicked for the extra point.

Kearney counted twice again in the final period, once after Gerdes got a fumble on the 15 yard line and later on a 35 yard drive.

Lewis scored twice and Carter and Parilek once apiece. Lewis place kicked for three points. For McPherson Mathiot and Haun were the best players in the back-field and Boyer starred in the line. Lewis, Beck, Gerdes and the Morrow brothers were best for Kearney.

House Meeting Elects Hoffman

At a house meeting of the Kline Hall women last Thursday evening, Opal Hoffman was elected to the Women's Council to replace Lois Gnagy, who has recently resigned. There was also a discussion of hours during the holidays.