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Kansas Collegiate Institute To Be Held At Wichita February 4, 5, and 6
National Director of Student Peace Service Heads Group
The Kansas Collegiate Peace Conference will be held February 4, 5, and 6 at Friends University in Wichita. opening Friday and closing Sunday noon.
Students of all Kansas colleges arc invited and urged to attend this conference sponsored by the Friends peace commission. A number of other states are holding the same type of conference in order to promote an attitude of peace among college students.
Harold Chance of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be the featured speaker. Mr. Chance is the national director of the student peace service of the Emergency Peace Campaign and can therefore lend a constructive atmosphere to the conference.
Four Commissions
Various commissions will occupy most of the day Saturday, topped with a banquet in the evening. There will be one featured speaker, and the commissions will be led by college professors who are in a position to speak authoritatively on the various topics. Four commissions have been planned. Each delegate will attend two. They are as follows:
Political—International Law
Economic—International Trade
Policies
Social—Backgrounds and Causes of War.
Individual—Pacifistic Action in a Crisis
A forum discussion, summarising the findings of the commissions, and an address will close the Institute on Sunday.
Registration is only $1.00 (one dollar). This includes room for both nights, all meals from Saturday breakfast through Sunday breakfast, and the privilege of attending all Institute sessions. At such reasonable prices a large number should be able to attend. For any addition al information, see Lucile Ullery or George Toland.
Help Youth Find Self
McPherson college, McPherson, Kansas, Friday. January 28,1938
President V. F. Schwalm will leave Saturday. January 29. for Pampa, Texas in order to speak at the dedication of the new Church of the Brethren there on Sunday, January 30th. The dedication services will be held at 2:00 P. M. and Dr. Schwalm will take with him the McPherson College Male Quartette consisting of Charles Nettleton. Glen McGonigle, Gordon Yoder, and Kieth Pierce. They will furnish the special music for the services.
Mrs. Schwalm will go with the group and they will stop to visit her uncle in Amarillo, Texas. The party will return the following Monday.
“In view of the fact that the schools have failed to acquaint many youths with their own qualifications and with the opportunities open to them in adult life, some effective means must he developed for giving the ‘out-of-school’ youths of each community the information and help the schools should have given them." Dr. Maroin R. .Trabue, dean of the school of edition. Pennsylvania State College, believes a new cooperative enterprise should be set up in each community to help-youth find itself.
The sixth annual Speech Contest, sponsored by Hutchinson Junior Col-lege will be hold this year on Friday and Saturday. February 4 and 5. The event includes contests in debate, interpretative reading, after dinner speaking, oratory and men's and women’s extemporaneous speaking.
All college students with less than sixty hours of college work or Juniors and Seniors without previous experience in the event are eligible to participate in the contest.
At the present time McPherson College plans to enter all but the oratory contest. The six debate teams which will take part are; Harshbarger and Newkirk, Reed and Horner. 8perling and Stover, Davidson and Graham. Spohn and Heckman, and 8tucky and Shirar. There will probably be three entries in after dinner speaking and men’s and women's extemporaneous speaking and possib-ly four in interpretative reading.
Fifteen to twenty schools from Oklahoma. Kansas and Nebraska will be represented in this contest. There will be six rounds of debate on Friday and Saturday and three rounds in all other events.
Tryouts for the Contest at Hutchinson, February 4 and 5, will be held in Miss Lehman’s class room, Friday afternoon, January 28 at 3:10 P. M.
All selections for the contest will be taken from Lowther book “The Theatre from Athens to Broadway". All participants should, be prepared to read any selection in this book, which is on reserve in the library.
Anyone wishing to tryout may do so by leaving his name with Miss. Lehman before 3:30 Friday after-noon.
McPherson college MEDIAN
NUMBER SIXTEEN
Professor Loren Crawford. (above) director of the string choir, will open its formal concert next Wednesday night with the raising of his baton. This is Crawford's second year at McPherson College as instructor. His great success during the past two years has won the hearty approval of the entire student body.
Alumni Quad Sale
With Fred Nace (Dwight) as editor and the assistance of Gladys Shank (Navarre), Gordon Bower (McLouth). and Mark Porter (Fre-donia), plans for the Quadrangle are well under way. The 1938 annual as usual registers the years events in picture form with several wide awake campus cameras operating effectively to record informally the rare happenings at M. C.
Alumni, prospective students and others interested in McPherson will find no substitute for the Quad as an attractive and permanent record of college activities.
Copies may still be ordered by get-ting in touch with Stephen Stover, Business Manager, McPherson.
Each Section Headed by Leader Who Aids Director
Carnegie Endowment for Peace Benefactor of Volumes; Library Changed
“What Are We Educating For?” Subject of Chapel Address
The ladles quartette opened the first chapel in the new semester by singing “Salutation" and “Santa Lucia.” Dr. Schwalm led devotion-als and delivered the address.
Ho recalled the convention In Chicago which he had attended while most of the students were going through the agonies of final exams. Many outstanding men were present at tho convention such as Bishop Edwin Hugh a senior bishop of the M. E. church: Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior: Ex-Chancellor Bruning; Robert Hutchins, and Dr. T. B. Smith.
“What are we educating for?” he queried. “One of our problems is that the educator doesn’t know what kind of a world the youth of today will live in tomorrow. In the economic world, there is a sharp conflict as to whether we shall follow the doctrines of Karl Marx or those opposing his doctrines. In the field of international relations, there is the question of isolation or of military preparidness.’’
The pleasing personality that influences people is born, not made, in the opinion of Dr. Howard W. Haggard, professor of applied psychology at Yale university. Personality and genius are inborn, he says.
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Since last week various changes have taken place on this campus. Perhaps the most outstanding is that of facial expressions. Gone is that worried look! Gone are wrink-les between the eyes caused by con-centrated thinking studiousness and, for once, seriousness. Not one has circles under red bleary eyes from hours of cramming. Students have regained that spirit and gaiety, and that free-and-easy attitude. Now we see looks of wonder—wonder w hat grade I made in this subject and that subject.
But several changes have been made that we won't soon forget. The boys are going to miss that agreeable chap. Paul Rodabaugh, who went back to his home in Idaho last Friday night. The girls will miss pleasant Violet Grimes who also went back to Idaho. The kitchen force will
miss Miriam Davisson, and certainly second floor Arnold will lack that hearty laugh of Esther Metz. We hope Miriam Kimmell will be happy in Kline, but we know- she'll miss Arnoldites as much as we'll miss her. The northeast corner room on sec-, ond floor seems dreadfully vacant. Something Is missing and it must he Ruth Taylor. And we know we're all going to miss Bill Fry's clear and witty wisecracks. This couple recently became engaged and the vacancy left by their absence will be hard to fill. The cheering aquae and especially the other two cheer leaders will miss Bill."
Well, it just won't be the same around here without those mention ed above, but of coarse a few new ones will come in, and we will go on without them.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has presented the college International Relations Club with five now books. These books are sent to us to encourage the study of International rotations. They are placed on open shelves for reference work. Included among them are: “Rebuilding Trade by Tariff Bargaining", by George P. Auld; “The Family of Nations”, by Nicholas Murray Butler; “The Defense of the Empire”, by Norman Angell; “Is Amer-ica Afraid?” by Livingston Hartley;
Reciprocity”, by William S. Culbertson.
Other additions to the library with in the past few days in various fields are; Stoddard's “Child Psychology” and an accompanying manual; “Religion and Public Affairs', by H. F. Rall; “The Romance of Textile”, by Ethel Lewis; “Economics of the Household”, by B. R. Andrews; “New Lights on Delinquency and its Treatment”. by William Hearty; and "The House—-a Machine for Living In' by Anthony Bertram.
On Saturday, Jan. 22, the library underwent a considerable change In the rearrangement of the newspapers and magazines. The change was nude to avoid traffic through the study room and In order that the study room might be kept more quiet It is believed that this change will aid in making a more efficient place of study for both students and faculty.
Two Conference Trends
“All through the conference ran two trends. One idea was that it was not the task of education to prepare the individual to fit a routine job, but that it ought to give a man or woman a broad, general, cultural point of view by which he can measure the present trends by the wisdom of the ages. The second thought was that students should be trained in citizenship and that they should learn the pro-cess of democracy by actual participation.
Bishop Hugh remarked' “People are always talking about education as if we couldn't have intelligence and emotions, too. There is no necessary connection between intelligence and morality. It is the task of the church college to see that there is a connection.'"
Harold Ickes also made a great appeal for,'"young folks who have the ability to get out in this world and take responsible positions "
Girls Concentrate More
"Powers of concentration are greater in a girls' school. The girls lose nothing by not rubbing shoulders with men. They work when they work and play when they play." Mrs, Vivienne B. Breckinridge. alumnae secretary of Sweet Briar College says that private schools for girls prepare them better for matrimony than do coeducational institutions.
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Wednesday night, February 2. has been chosen by the Violin Choir as the date for their formal concert. The program will begin at 8 oclock, and there will be no admission charge.
The choir, under the direction of Prof. Loren Crawford, has been re-hearsing since Fall and have prepared a high class program which should he enjoyed by McPherson College music enthusiasts. The organization is the same ensemble which appeared last year as The String Choir with the exception that this year, there are no 'cellos or violas. It is composed of four sections of violins, and a piano is used on some of the numbers. Each section is headed by a leader who is responsible to the concertmaster for the tuning.
Marjorie Fairchild Soloist Miss Marjorie Fairchild, Freshman Violin student, will be the featured soloist, and will play the famous Arioso” by J. S. Bach. She will be accompanied by Miss Vena Flory. The Violin Quartet, a now chamber music ensemble will also appear on the program and will play "Portrait" by Hugh Altvater. This composition is of special interest because it was written by the man with whom Pro-fessor Crawford studied for ten years. The members of the quartet are: Frances Campbell, Vera Flory. Marjorie Fairchild, Ramona Fries.
Three Menuets Feature.
The program to bo presented Is an interesting one. In addition to the numbers mentioned. Three Menuets by early composers will be played. Couperin, Beethoven, and Rameau will be represented in this group. The “Tour de force" of the concert will be the difficult "Larghetto" for Violins by Mozart. This number requires considerable technical perfection as well us a pure style. The program will close with two numbers of more modern origin, Andante from Symphony No. 5 by Tschaikowsky and the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony.
Members of the Violin Choir are: Frances Campbell (Concertmaster). Vera Flory, Marjorie Fairchild. Autumn Lindbloom, Ramona Fries. Irene Dring, Dorothy Ledbetter, Eugene Crabb, and Vena Flory.
Summer Session Announced
The 1938 Summer Session at McPherson College will open on May 31 and close July 22 Eight hours credit may be earned daring the summer term. Information regarding courses to be offered may be secured by addressing a request to the President's Office, McPherson College.
"Boners" Reach New High
“Boners" reached a new high recently at the University of Washington when results of an identification test given to freshmen were made known. Here are some of them.
Fiorello La Guardia, New York City mayor.—" a general In the Spanish civil war.”
John L. Lewis—“president of the American Federation of Labor."
Al Smith—"A Seattle newspaper reporter.”
Dr. Joseph Goebbels. German minister of propaganda—“a secretary to the A. F. of L. or a kidnapper."
All this talk about college outlines. aud what a fine thing they are for the college student!
Why doesn't someone say something about what they do for the prof?
I know one prof who owes eighteen holes of golf a day to the fact that he uses outlines in preparing for his classes.
And, if the truth were known those outlines eased the way to a degree for many an instructor.
Another young prof I know boasts a mighty fine Rumba and swings a pretty mean Big Apple. It seems the outlines give him time to get out and "swing it."
That same young prof swipes half of the campus queens right under our eyes. Not because there something special to him, but because
have to spend our nights plugging assignments for the profs who don’t use the outlines.
In common with many of my fellow collegians, there is the suggestion of the scallion in my Big Apple and there is something of the camem-bert in my Rumba. My grandmother regularly gives me ten strokes and whales the daylights out of me on the golf course. Also, like many of my fellow collegians. I've had my eye on a cute little freshman—but assignments are beating my time.
It's not too late yet for a student's New Year resolution. How about buttonholing the profs to plug the use of the outline in preparing classes? If more profs used short cuts in dishing out education, what a grand and glorious place this world would be—Albert L. Crider
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1988
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Atmosphere! The atmosphere in which a movie star develops must contain glamor. The gorgeous orchid grows only in an atmosphere of high humidity. Students are trained beat in an atmosphere of quiet study.
McPherson College has been criti-cized for failing to afford such an atmosphere at all times; for say the critics one can’t study in the dormi-tories, and the library is so noisy that study there in very difficult. The development of habits of concentration might compensate in part for such a deplorable situation, but the situation itself would remain. The elimination of the condition is the only true and permanent solution.
Council Attempts Solution
The Constitution of the Student Council states the purpose of this organization to be "the promotion of the general welfare of the student body. In cooperation with the Faculty, Management, and Board of Trustees, for the best interests of McPherson College." In striving to achieve this purpose, the Council, at the suggestion of outstanding students on the campus, has undertaken to help in the elimination of unnecessary noise from tho Library. In active cooperation with the Library Committee, the Administration, and the Management, the Council has inaugurated certain steps which should be conducive to the maintenance of a quiet atmosphere of study. They have supported a program for the provision of satisfactory accommodations outside of the Library for social conversation and the discussion of current events. Another step has been the moving of the newspapers and magazines in the Library to the Reference Room. This move affords a quiet study room in the rear of the building for the use of all students and should aid in avoiding distur-bance in the use of newspapers and magazines.
Now is the psychological time to begin this program. With the close
of the old semester, many of us are well aware of the need for it. The new semester with its new opportunities is hero. The hour is ripe for reform. The first step in the unlearning of an old habit is the gaining of a true desire to over-, come it. We must all wish to over-come this condition if it is to be eliminated. Just now a number of influences will help us. The re-arrangement of the Library will constantly remind us of the cooperative effort being made; new students with no bad library habits are now on the campus for the second semester's work and their presence should challenge us to a renewed effort to maintain quiet rather than confusion; finally the library staff itself is always most helpful. They are willing to remind us when we thoughtlessly become a bit noisy. Wo too frequently consider this a reproach—it is really a service. When we have a true desire to quiet the library, we shall thank them and cooperate rather than grumble and retaliate.
Cooperation Needed The next phase of the process of eliminating the old habit is the development of a new, more constructive one. Not only for our own good, but for the benefit of all students on the campus and to the end that McPherson College may be truly an educational institution, let us all cooperate in the achievement of that atmosphere which is conducive to the development of true students.
The Student Council
January 21. We finally played C. of E. off their feel and swung out ahead of them, but it would be easier on my Fordson heart (it misses a beat now and then anyhow) if they would stop this playing the whole game in the last half.
Jan. 22. Well. I finished my last test this morning. I have tried to answer so many questions I think I could write a page or two on most anything they want to ask, from the government of Tasmania to the distribution of the chromosomes. I had to refill my pen after every test. Now if I can only get this term paper out of the way. I am all set for a good rest.
Jan. 23. I preached out at Monitor this morning, and we were asked out to one of those dinners for the preacher. They bad some of that good old country pork, and did it hit the spot! He must trade with a good butcher shop. We sat around and worked puzzles and had a real visit. One puzzle was a trick clock: j a little thing with a glass cover and hands lying there loose to be maneuvered into place on a center-piece, where the hands of all good clocks should fasten. Well, since Christmas when they received it from their son, the had never been able to get more than one hand in place. I fixed the clock in about fifteen minutes, so take heart, Freshmen, your college education may be worth something to you some day after all. Mr. Breon thinks a couple should not be together at a party: somebody ought to tell him some of us like our women.
. . . Henrietta and I went home from church and worked out our first cross-word puzzle in months.
Jan. 24. I thought I'd got my enrolling done early this morning, and everyone else thought the same thing, so we had the biggest jam since Halloween. In my eighth trip to bat with this matter of matriculation. I finally discovered why there always seem to be so many cards: one card asks for eight identical items of information on both sides. If you don’t believe it, take the two you still have and look at the one Fries didn't refuse to OK. I never supposed the Dean was too lazy to turn his card over and look at the back. I think they ought to give me an extra hour's credit in Marriage and Family, since it will be a laboratory
course for me, but I had better not let Fries find it out or he will charge me a lab fee.
Jan. 25. Well, I seem to getting all by problems settled, except the economic ones. It's going to be tough when I have to go to missing meals, but maybe It won’t be so bad after I get used to it. . . . We trimmed Mackie and his Coyotes in good style tonight. Maybe he will decide yet we are good enough competition to stay in the Kansas Conference. That sawed-off buck over close to the dinner bell didn’t work quite as hard ns he did against C. of E., but I thought he was going to upset the bleachers once at that. He sure has a swell pivot. . . This swing system has what it takes; I didn’t know it, but that is what I have been doing all along in my school work—I take it easy the first half, but I sure make time in the last quarter. . . . Rilla, if you want us to yell. you are going to have to stop blinding us by flashing that big rook around.
Jan. 26. Back to classes today, and some classes are not so hot because, as Barley says, they forgot to put enough anti-freeze in the heating system. Schwalm sort of gave us the lowdown on what we ought to get done, and so did Paden when he raid, returning examination papers, ’’The grades are very low, and the answers are worse." Well. I am going to let that be a lesson to me and get down to work, like the Scotch— Prof. Dell says the recent report that more than one hundred tons of sugar a year are left in the bottoms of coffee cups caused a great stir in Scotland. ... I had to go to the dentist this afternoon. He gound drilled around in my head until the chair vibrated like a model T Ford. I think be put one filling down in my collar bone. The toughest thing was to have to have my mouth open that long without being able to any anything: it was worse than going to Hess’ English class without studying your lesson. First be cleaned my tooth, and then he cleaned me of all the cash I bad, and that felt worse than the drilling.
Jan. 27. If my ears don't deceive me as to names, the radioers are singing a swell new theme song for Beehler to use on his "Field trios." There is pretty good stuff in that new song about the ten pretty girls. The fellow who wrote that has got something. It was a lot of fun playing around with ton, but I had to leave the rest for one, and say! I wouldn't trade the one now for the other nine. If you happen to be a movie actor you may be able to get your name mixed up with a dozen or so, but to be really married to one is a big enough job for any fellow. Ben Franklin was right when he said. "A fool and his honey are soon parted.”
Fine Arts Department To Celebrate Formal Opening of Studios
A musical tea to be given early in February will celebrate the formal opening of the newly decorated downtown music studio. The studio, which consists of two rooms over the Puritan Cafe, has been maintained for a number of years by the McPherson College Fine Arts faculty in order to accomodate the down-town students.
During the past two months the studio has boon completely remodeled and redecorated, and it is now ready for use again. The rooms are attractively furnished in modern studio furniture, and it number of water-colored lithographs, made by Margaret Whittemore, a Kansas artist, add the finishing touches to the walls.
Miss Fern Lingenfelter, teacher of piano and public school music at the College, will be the hostess at the February tea to which friends and parents of enrolled students are being invited.
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Is basketball the only game that can adopt a "swing" system? Certainly not. Badminton also "swings" it, for the hale and hearty badminton enthusiasts are "swinging” right through their tournament.
When this paper went to press the winners had not yet been determined as the final game remained to be played. But here's what has hap-pened so far. In the first round Miss Warner and Mr. Paden defeated Autumn Fields and Bill Kimmel. Also in this round Doris Doane and Orville Bechler defeated Lenore Shirk and Gerry Sebree.
In the second round Mary Richards and Harold Rothrock defeated Edith Spangler and Leslie Sperling. Audrey Hamman and Emerson Yoder defeated Doris Donne and Orville Beehler, and La Vena High and Wayne Albright defeated Katherine Enns and Norman Krueger.
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Badminton Tournament “Swing”
In the semi-finals Richards and: Rothrock won over Hamman and Yoder while High and Albright won over Warner and Paden. Thus Richards and Rothrock must play. High and Albright in the finals. May the best team win!
"Four years in the classroom and on the campus should engender confidence in the authority of your intellect while enabling you to judge between the valid emotional life which sustains reason, and the opposite. which drags it down." Princeton's president, Dr. Harold W. Doods, tells his students that they must learn how to control their emotions with reason if mankind is not to experience a new dark age.
Miriam Kimmell moved from Arnold to Kline Hall Monday.
Freshmen at the University of Vermont are on the average younger, heavier and taller than the freshman
class of 10 years ago.
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Campus Chatter
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BETTY GAY
Wouldn’t we have been shocked to have seen such a headline: "Student Minister Arrested for Drunken Driving'? This confession was brought to light only a short time ago. It seems Meredith became quite sleepy while nearing McPherson on his return from the vacation. An observing passerby noticed some weaving in the road and reported the car to the McPherson police, hence Meredith was followed to his destination and a little explaining was necessary Really, Meredith that dia-mond ring should have been sufficient evidence to the fact that it was sleep you needed.
"The Doctor Decides" a one-act play by Fred Eastman was presented by the college C.E. in the chapel Sunday evening. January 23. The
play was well accepted for its con-vincing presentation and the interesting manner in which the various characters were interpreted.
Bruce Wood played the part of the community doctor and medical missionary. who was willing to sacrifice the girl he loved and financial support to continue witty his missionary work. Barbara Guthrie, a young writer front New York, who decides that her highest, calling is a life 'of service with the doctor, was play-ed by Olive Edgecomb. Ruby Wei-mer played the part of the doctor's mother. Wesley De Coursey and Mary Elizabeth Hoover were outstanding in their parts of mountain young folks eager for an opportunity to team. Charles Sheller, in a long-tailed coat and beard was well-cast in his part as Bostich. a deacon of the mountains.
Vera and Vena Flory visited relatives in Salina last week end.
Evelyn Herr and Gladys Shank spent the vacation between semesters at their respective homes in Navarre.
LaVena High visited her sister, Mrs. Campbell, at Conway, Saturday and Sunday.
Marjorie Kinzie spent the week end at her home in Lyons.
Rilla Hubbard visited Mr. and Mrs. Hymn Hubbard at Chase Saturday and Sunday.
Genevieve Sandy visited relatives in Abilene last week end.
I'm trying to catch up on news It seems the last two weeks have been rather hectic for the student.
Dr. Metzler seems to have a technique of retaining clever quotations which lend to the enjoyment of his classes. "Some apartment houses are so small that one must step outside to change his mind." “The modern home is a place where one stays while the car is lining repaired.”
Dwight has changed some of his ideas since that S. C. M. Conference, Howard Thurman, the negro magnet, does something to the life of any individual with whom he comes in contact. We all welcome the time when we may be privileged to drink in some of his messages. However, Dwight's wide experience with fur coats seems not to have altered his choice of the fair damsels on our own campus. You've stood a hard test. Kathryn.
My. but Marian Washier gave me a terrible shock. On her left hand sparkled a diamond ring. I was most
Singing, shouting college students In Denver hired their driver to stay sober for them. When a police officer questioned him he said. "They hired me to drive as long as the party lasted. I'm working my way through college for fellow students who like to drink."
surprised that the news hadn't spread abroad and upon questioning one of her Kline sisters, I learned it was only a very good imitation. Don’t know whether it's a hint or not.
The W. A. A. girls are starting something new by sponsoring a Sports Day. Bethel. Sterling. Bethany. and Southwestern volley ball teams are coming are our guests. A tournament is the main feature with a luncheon for all at noon. We’re certainly in favor of this intercollegiate event.
The male quartette seems to be doing quite well. This week end they are accompanying Dr. Schwalm to take part In the dedication of a church in Texas. Keith may have to start the trip on crutches but he hopes to be able to throw them away by the time of singing. Their broadcast from Hutchinson received many favorable comments and we hope a busy semester of singing awaits them.
Our basketball is something of
which to be mighty proud. We’re back of you! We’re for you! We yell to you—Beat Bethany!
I'm doing a bit of speculating but I bet Bill and Ruth left here as Mr. and Mrs. William Fry.
Girls. Heart Sister Week will soon be here. Be thinking of the nice and the thoughtful things you can do for her.
From all accounts, Betty Ruth is heart-broken now since Grant lives at the fire station. However, if each fire he attends thrills her as much as the first one she'll live.
Bulldogs Meet Swedes Tonight
Astle’s "Swinging” Bucketeers Invade Swedish Domain In “Grudge” Battle
Intending to win another conference victory against Bethany, Coach Astle's ‘‘swinging bucketeers” invade the Swedish domain tonight for a typical “grudge" battle. The second loams of both clubs will tangle in the preliminary game.
Althought Bethany rests in the conference basement and seems comparatively weak, they will probably play an inspired type of ball against their perennial rivals. McPherson, though, will attempt to avenge the loss to Coach Schaake’s gridsters last fall.
At the forward positions for Bethany will be Norburg. Carroll, and Peterson, lanky boys who have an eye for the basket. "Long John" Grieves will hold down the center post and stationed at guard will be Johnson, Johnson. Ireland. Olson, and Company.
Coach Astle will probably start Johnston and Naylor at forwards, Meyer at center, and the guards will bo Barngrover and McGill. A largo crowd of Bulldog boosters are expected to fill Ling gymnasium to a capacity.
In a thrilling last half rally, the Bulldogs conquered C. of E. 46-44 last Friday night for other second conference victory. The McPherson second team repulsed the Presbys second team 41-36 in the preliminary.
C. of E. held a 26-14 lead at the half, but it was soon whittled down by Barngrover and McGill and an effective "swing session". Rock, ace C. of E. forward led the scoring with 20 points and he was closely followed by McGill with 17 points and Fraser. who had 16 counters to his credit.
This triumph was the second of the season over Coach "Bud" Selves* quintet and both games were two of the best samples of cooperation and fine playing on the part of McPherson.
S PORTS
Bulldogs Down C. of E.
Thrilling Last Half Rally Too Much
For Presbyterians
Leading Conference Scorers
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Jan. 28 Bethany at Lindsborg Fob. 4 Pittsburg, hero Fob. 9 Bethel at Newton Feb. 10 Ottawa at Ottawa Fob. 11 C. of K. at Emporia
Feb. 15 Baker, here
Feb. 18 Bethany, here
Mar. 1 Kansas Wesleyan at Salina
Hoop Swishers
By The Colonel Between-the-Halves—
In the words of "swing" enthusiasts, that C. of E. struggle was a killer". McPherson now attains a sense of satisfaction by beating twice the team of a former coach. . . .Incidentally. hotshot Fred Frazer is a nephew of Mr. W. R. Fraser, principal of McPherson high school. . . . When asked about the sterling performance in the last half, some of the players replied they "just had to win" and proceeded to tear the Presbys apart.
Four different sources on the exact score of the Hays game do not coincide. . . .Associated Press newspapers. except The Topeka Dally Capital. carried a 30-32 score. . . .The Capital had the score as 50-31, coach Astle reported it 50-32. and "Barney” said the scoreboard read 51-31 when the game ended!
Anyway, Ft. Hays has one of the strongest teams in the state but they may receive a set-back by Southwestern’s "fire engine" tonight. . Both Chet Mitchell and Jack Johnson will make splendid A. A. U. material next year. . . .Elmer "Whitey” Ratz-laff played against a former Class B tournament opponent. "Rod” McPherson of Gem, in the last half of the Hays game. Glances at the Conference Crystal—
Ottawa clashes with C. of E. at Emporia tonight in the other conference contest this week. What a merry-go-round that will be, with a alight edge to the Braves on the basis of their showing here.
Bethany may not have the classiest club In the circuit, but they boast of about six of the tallest players. Our dear friend. "Cocky" Ireland, is surprising everyone. Including himself, with his "better-than-aver-age" playing this season.
When a Methodist meets a Meth-odist what will happen? A good idea will be presented when the Mackie men tussle with Baker soon.
The Spectator
W.A. A. Sports Day Fete To Open Tomorrow With Registration
Tomorrow morning. Saturday. Jan. 29, four volley ball teams will arrive from Southwestern College of Winfield, Sterling College. Bethany, Bethel and Kansas Wesleyan to participate with McPherson College in an elimination tournament. This Sports Day for these college teams is being sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association.
The program will start Saturday morning, and the first half hour will be used for registration and dressing. The next half hour the various teams will get acquainted and join in a folk dance.
At 10 o'clock the tournament will begin and continue until noon. All the girls will have luncheon together at the Brethren Church. The volley ball games will begin again at 1:30,; and after the tournament has been completed, swards will be given by the McPherson W. A. A.
Weary Canine Smothered Under By Ft. Hay's Giants
After a strenuous battle with C. of E.. Coach "Buck” Astle’s proteges were easy prey for the strong Fort Hays State Tigers, who romped over them 50-32 last Saturday night In an inter-conference contest at Hays.
Submerged under a blistering long range scoring attack were the Canines, who evidently were unable to do anything right. Jack Johnson, towering Bengal center, added insult to injury by collecting 15 points and high scoring honors. Dave McGill contributed 14 points as high point man for McPherson.
Friends 28 Emporia State 34 Bethany 25 C. of E. 44 Wichita 35 Ottawa 43 Baker 29 Emporia State 45 C. of E. 42 Ft. Hays 8tate 50 Kansas Wesleyan 20
Dave "Tennessee Terrier" McGill, McPherson's hard-driving guard, is barking at the heels of the leading scorers of the Kansas Conference. McGill during the last few games has built up his average to 9.5 points per game. Morgan. Ottawa is the only guard leading McGill on the score sheet.
Player, Team G TP Avg.
Rock, C. of E............. 3 35 11.6
Snyder. Wesleyan ...... 3 32 10.6
Bonebrake, Baker ..... 3 31 10.3
Brenton, Ottawa-...... 4 40 10
Morgan, Ottawa ........ 4 39 9.76
McGill. McPherson .... 4 38 9.5
Frazer, C. of E......... 3 23 7.6
Mackie’s Pets Fail To Avenge
Bulldogs, In Brilliant Last Half Come Back, Vault Into First Place ,
With another brilliant last half come-back, the Bulldogs vaulted into first place in the Kansas Conference by whipping their ancient rivals the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes, 33 to 20 here last Tuesday night. The second team downed the Inman town team 27-19 in the opening game.
Although Wesleyan held a 16-10 lead at the half, Barngrover and Wanamaker poured on the steam, as did the entire McPherson team. Mackie's Coyotes were no match for the “awing system" and made only five points in the last period.
Capt. Cletus Snyder. Wesleyan forward, was high point man of the game with nine points, but he was closely followed by Barngrover with eight and Wanamaker, McGill and Shaw who chalked up seven counters.
Kansas Conference Standings
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Team W L Pct. McPherson 3 i .75 Baker .............................. 2 1 .667 | |
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Wesleyan ........................ 2 1 .667 Ottawa _____________________ 2 2 .500 C. Of E. ____-______________1 2 .333 | |