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Just in case yon failed to notice it, we had a good issue of the Spec last week, except that one hardly knew what to trust. But the senior play and the "Creation" proved not to be any April foolishness. I was glad to have a play come right down to earth where we live and show us the kind of people we are likely to bo. And the oratorio was a real "creation” of musical artistry, well worth all the effort required to perfect it.

But in general the paper was a good exhibition of the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. One can tell morn and better about a thing of which he knows nothing, since he is then not hampered by the facts. As I read the story about Barngrover, my Jaw sagged, then dropped like the bucket of a steam shovel as I learned of the exploits of the "M" Club—I do not think I sunburned my tonsils, however, for I wasn't out in the sun, and anyhow the last good look I had at them they were quietly resting in a bottle of alcohol.

Opal Hoffman asserted the other day that she thinks I am lonesome. Now I wonder how such an idea ever got out and around. Maybe someone misunderstood something I said. . . Thanks anyway, Opal, and just to show my appreciation I am going to tell all your profs you like Profs. Hess and Dr. Bright best because they are the only ones who know your name is Hoffman and not Huffman.

I sat and idly started to read a Liberty story; I became interested as a couple of kids were married. watched breathless as they quarreled over trivial matters and separated, shuddered as the ex-husbnnd tried two other wives to heal the breach and each failed, then gave up in agony as still another woman was

THE SCHOOL OP QUALITY

Address All Correspondence to THE SPECTATOR Mcpherson, Kansas

__ Harold Larsen . . Rilla Hubbard Raymond Coppedge Herbert Michael . Russell Kingsley Vera Heckman Rilla Hubbard ■■ / . Robert Rice

Edward Jones Gladys Shank Hubert Shelly Theresa Strom Addison Saathoff

brought Into the picture, and was almost glad that no more installments were available and I could not finish the story. Too many wives! If that is a fair sample of high life, I am happy that we are too much tied down to think of It. It positively numbs one to think of living with one woman and then another and another. . . .could any such marriage ever mean what the first one should have? . . . Suddenly I remembered that It was eleven o'clock and I had not been out for the mail. So I stumbled half-heartedly out to the box, to start in surprise as my mand fell upon a letter, and in the handwriting I wanted to see. Funny how a good woman can come to a fellow Just when he needs her most!

I managed to got to Sunday school (albeit a little late) with no one to get me up and shove me off. I did not doze off once all morning, in spite of having no one to stick me if I did. You see Dr. Metzler had something to say, for it is one of my besetting sins that I never was much of a hand at listening just for the appearances of the thing. The stor-ies are worthwhile, if the little child-ren in front got us much from them as the older children farther back.

New, Course Offered

Philadelphia. Pa.—The University of Pennsylvania here has created a department of American civilization to train students who wish to specialize In the development of social and cultural institutions.

The course deals with American literary, political, social and economic history, and is described as being in line "with the modern trend in education which breaks down when necessary the traditional limits of university departments of instruction in order to meet the real needs of students."

One of the features of the course will be its stressing of the conflict of ideas and means of determining the rightness or wrongness of these Ideas. "When ‘authorities’ flatly contradict each other or perpetuate rumors as history, a university which is older than the nation itself has a duty to present the truth from the liberal rather than from a tory or a radical standpoint," one of the course leaders stated.

Whee! I managed to remember and go to voice class again. Why does a fellow feel as though he should have a medal when he finally does something he should have been doing all the time?

This is quite a week. They have begun to pour cement for the new gym, so the dream I promised to help pay for is becoming concrete. Bright and Schwalm are gone, and Mohler has been ill, so the old institution is sort of running itself. But we have tried to enjoy it, at least as much as Allbright did the candy Kingsley gave him in class last Friday—the candy with the onion in it. Saathoff is quite an effective teacher—he found out Horner had not studied his lesson. Yes, we are hav-ing quite a time, with Spring and Winter choosing alternate days, with Hess in a new car and a new role ns master of Jezebel, and with Paden masquerading as Long John Silver.

Estelle Lavinia Baile. . . .Better, known an "Estle". Her strong points seem to be dramatics. A Capella, and a guy called “Molly". She was elected Queen of the Campus and not; only is she the most popular senior girl but her name is first in the alphabet. She has majored in English and is expecting to teach unless other things interfere.

Donald Eugene Barngrover. . . . Known by everyone as "Barney". He is probably the most outstanding athlete in the class, making all-conference in both basketball and football. He is culminating four years of splendid work in athletics and has led the "M" Club through a suc-cessful year. To some people he is even known as our Hero. His major is in Industrial Arts and be is also expecting to teach.

Kenneth Henry Benston. . . .Anytime you look in the Chemistry lab-oratory you are apt to see Ken. He is one of our Chemistry majors and is planning on taking graduate work in that field. His ambition is to become a research chemist. Some day Kenny will probably be breaking atoms in two.

Irwin J. H. Bentz. . . .Known to some as “Prexie”. He has lead the destinies of the Student Council the past year in the capacity of Presi-

College Owns Gold Mine

Santa Rosa. Calif.—(ACP)—The Santa Rosa Junior College believes it is the only college in the world that owns a gold mine.

It was bought for the college recently at a tax sale for $2.85 by Jesse Peter, the institution's geological curator, and will be "worked" by students studying mining.    

There’s no gold in the mine, so students will have no got-rich-quick' incentive to study.

First Freshman To Enroll

The first freshman for the 1938-39 school year at McPherson college was enrolled Tuesday by Earl Breon, field representative. The first freshman to enroll was Leland Achilles, living southwest of Conway and a graduate of Windom High school. Breon says, there are many inquiries from prospective students and that student conditions for the next year are bright.

dent. He preceded this with a year as treasurer of the same. He is one of our outstanding scholars. He is majoring In Industrial Arts and his future work is undecided. He may take graduate work or he may teach. Irwin has a great future ahead of him in the field of education.

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The Virginia state corporation commission has issued a charter for the founding of Mount Vernon University.

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Miss Heckethorn reports that Mrs. Clara Nichols has given the library some books. Several of them are: “The Common Sense of the Constitution of the United States," by A. T. Southworth; "A History of Europe," by F. Schevill; "Idylls of the King,” by A. Tennyson; "Return of the Native,” by Hardy; and “Outline Courses in Bible,” by Terrill and Pro-kosch.

She also reports some new books have come for the Modern Language Department. These were; Morgan, "Introduction to German;" Sellery, “Medival Foundation of Western Civ-ilzation;” McConathy, “The Music Hour." There were also four or five books in German by several authors of German. Qeydel and Parker and several others.

Some miscellaneous books were: “Tho Dollar.” by Donaldson: and “The China Christian Year Book," sent out by the Christian Literature Society, an edition of 1936-37.

The book I’m going to try to re-view this week is “Edwin Markham,” by William L. Stridger. As you all should know. Edwin Markham was a poet, and some of his great poems were “The Man With the Hoe,"— "Lincoln—the Man of the People." and “The Ballad of the Gallows Bird.” This book is sort of a review of Markham's life and poems, written up by Stridger. Edwin Markham was pioneer of Oregon and his boyhood stage was in the time of the California Gold rush. I shall quota a short paragraph of how Markham told the story of the California gold rush. A certain man by the name of James Marshall had a mill at Coloma on the south ford of the American River and here is the quote.

“But there was a special obstacle; the mill wheel rigged up by Marshall that did not have a tail-race deep enough, so every night he let a big current of water rush through It to wash out more sand and gravel. One sparkling January morning Marshall, following his custom, went down to shut off this current of water and give direction for the day. As the water slowed down he saw a particle shining on a muddy stone. He reached for it, bit it, hammered it: it was malleable: Yet it seemed to his eye too dead yellow for gold.”

•‘He strided back to the house where the men were at breakfast, and asked the wife of the foreman to try it in saleratus water to see if it would tarnish. She was making soap at the time, and plunged the bright particle into her lye kettle. It came out as bright as ever.”

And so that tells us of the founding of gold in California. There are also some good poems of Markham's and I'm to find one of spring, if I can. Here’s one;

“There's the wise Thrush,

He sings each song Twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture,

That first careless rapture,”

I Can't find anymore of spring, so I will give his thought in the poem, “The Shoes of Happiness".

"There is a high place in the upper air.

Bloomquist Urges Christ Following

Pastor Of Trinity Lutheran Asks, “What Think Ye Of Christ?"

Rev. C. G. Bloomquist of the local Trinity Lutheran Church gave the chapel address on Wednesday morning. April 6. His address was on the subject, “What Think Ye of Christ." By way of introduction be gave three principle reasons why Christ’s enemies disliked Him. The reasons as he stated them were:    (1)

He claimed to be the Messiah, (2) His independent attitude seemed to sweep away some of the religions traditions held by the Pharisees, (3) and His teachings concerning the equality of men.

He said that the question. “What think ye of Christ?" was a fair question and that no one should avoid giving an honest answer to it. . . He said that his purpose was not to ask

He pointed out that college students should be able to study the evidence of Christ and then decide the question. He said that the evidence was the records of. “What He, did. what He said and the Influence that He has wielded through all the generations." He also said “Your future is wrapped up in this question. Give your answer to Him.”

Ripley Features Alumnus

A former McPherson College girl rated Robert Ripley's "Believe It or Not" cartoon late last week. She was Miss Gretta Griffis, former student of McPherson and former resident of this city. In his cartoon Ripley pictured Miss Griffis, although blind, as a cooking instructor for a New York electric appliance company. Miss Griffis was blind when she attended college here.

Tourney Climaxes Debate

The debate season closed for McPherson College with the tournament held April 2 at Newton in which twenty-five teams from ten schools participated. Each McPherson team took part in five rounds of debate and won approximately half of those.

According to a recent study, summer Jobs paid Vassar girls $7,187. Twenty-four per cent of the girls had paid jobs and 11 per cent engaged in volunteer work.

McPherson Host To Track Meet

Both Rural and Town School Athletes to Participate Here Saturday

A track meet for the rural and town grade school athletes of McPherson county will be held on the McPherson college field next Saturday, and it the expectations of the meet managers turns out to be correct then several hundred young athletes may compete.

R. H. Vanderbilt, principal of the Galva Grade school, has been named manager of the track meet. Coach "Buck" Astle of McPherson college will assist in directing the meet, which is the first of its kind hold in this county in many years. For the past several years efforts have been made to stage a meet but they have never met with much success.

An age limit has been placed on the coming meet. Boys under 16 years old may compete. An entrant may enter no more than three events. Each school can have only one contestant in each event. A contestant in a relay team cannot enter another relay race.

The meet has been divided into two divisions according to weights. Boys weighing 100 pounds of less will be in one division and the other will be for boys weighing more than, 100 pounds.

For boys weighing more than 100 pounds the following events will be held: high jump, broad jump, 8-pound shot put, 100, 76 and 60 yard dashes, and 440-yard relay. For boys weighing 100 pounds or less the following events will be hold: 75, 50 and 36 yard dashes, high Jump, running broad jump, standing broad Jump and 220-yard relay.

Members of the McPherson college track team will assist Coach Astle and Manager Vanderbilt in conducting the track meet. The college tracksters will act as judges, timers and do other field duties.

The events for boys weighing more than 100 pounds will start at 9 o'clock next Saturday morning. The events for the other division of the meet will be in the afternoon.

Cinder In Your Eye

By The Colonel Quadrangular Echoes—

While Phil Davis, high Jumper, was in Pittsburg, Tony Voshell, javelin flinger, was afflicted with mumps, and weather conditions were erratic, the Bulldog tracksters made a splendid showing last Friday against Sterling, Friends, and Bethany. . . .Porter. Wanamaker, Moyer, Van Vleet, Letkeman, Zook, York, Robertson. De Coursey, Funk, Stauffer Ratzlaff, and Nincehelser contributed to the point-making. . . .With 20 points, Dill of Sterling was high point man of the affair. . . .Wanamaker made nine points for McPherson. . . .One of the closest contests was the low hurdles. In which Letkeman out-raced Dill on the last lap to the tape . . . .Robinson, Sterling winner of the 100 and 220, is a former State Class B champ from Viola. . . .

Ernest Monroe Ireland, Bethany's candidate for the hall of fame, was entered in the javelin throw, but he was unable to compete because he had his appendix removed Thursday. . . .It was almost an April Fool’s joke, however, he will not enter any athletic contests for this year. . .As much as McPherson dislikes Ireland, wo wouldn't want anything to happen to him for his constant chatter always spurs the Bulldogs. Conference cinders—

Ottawa handily defeated St. Benedicts with such men as K. Smith, Brenton, Mattis, O’Neal. Roberts, and Fitzpatrick piling up points. Better marks than the McPherson meet were turned in on high hurdles, 2-mile, 880. relay, and javelin. The Braves will bear watching In suture events.

’ Against Washburn. Baker also produced hotter marks In 440, 880, relay, polo vault, high jump, and Javelin. Earl Delafield paced Coach Ridgway's conference champs.

Sterling Wins 4 School Meet

McPherson College Sponsors Quadrangular Track Meet;

Places Second.

A 12-point margin accumulated late in the meet resulted in victory for Sterling college Friday afternoon in the quadrangular track meet sponsored by McPherson college. The Bulldogs came in second, Friends university, Wichita, third and the Swedes of Bethany college fourth.

A bitter north wind kept the track-stres from turning in any record times, however, several good early season marks were turned in. The cold wind was a great handicap upon the athletes who found their muscles "bound" with cramps in many caess because of the cold.

Dog Trot to Cake Walk—

Charges of conspiracy are being hurled at members of the W. A. A. and "M" clubs by freshmen monogram winners, who were duly Initiated last night to the tune of about one dozen paddles. After such a warm reception, the frosh will be in fit condition for a cake walk tonight—with a nice, soft, fluffy pillow as protection against falls!

Three dual meets are scheduled in one week for the McPherson collego track team, runners-up in a recent quadrangular meet here. Today the tracksters will meet the crack Hutchinson Junior college team at Hutchinson.

On April 14, the Jucos will come to McPherson for a return engagement. Then next Tuesday the Bulldogs will journey to Salina for a dual encounter with Kansas Wesleyan. Coach Astle will probably enter a full squad in each-meet in order to give the thinly-clad lads more experience against strong teams.

Don Barngrover’s tennis squad will also match the Juco netsters on the same respective dates.

Sterling In winning the meet captured nine first places while McPherson won five first. The Quakers won first in the shot put and this was the only first for the Wichita team. Bethany failed to account for a single first, however. Coach Elmer Schaake's had only a small team entered.

In winning Sterling accumulated 72 points, McPherson 60, Friends 21 1/2 and Bethany 10 1/2.

The two outstanding tracksters of the meet were Dill and Harris, both of Sterling. These two athletes accounted for six of their team’s nine firsts. Dill scored three firsts and Harris, a negro boy, three. Dill won the 440-yard dash, high hurdles and the Javelin throw. Harris was first in the polo vault, high jump and broad Jump.

McPherson's outstanding performers wore Mark Porter, who won first in the mile run and two mile run. Letkeman, also a Bulldog trackster. staged a thrilling finish to win the tow hurdles. Dill, Sterling, who was ahead after the last hurdle had been cleared, was outdistanced to the tape by the determined McPherson trackster who could hardly believe he bad won.

With York as an anchor man, the

McPherson relay team won the mile relay race with Sterling coming in second and Friends third. Wanamaker, a, member of the local team, was another outstanding point getter, although he never won a single first place.

Despite the bitter cold wind, Robinson, Sterling, ran the century dash in the fast early season time of 10.2 seconds, and the 440-yard dash was won by Dill, Sterling, in 55.5. Porter of McPherson turned in a good performance in the mile run and won in 4:58.3.

Under the supervision of Wayne Albright, the college table tennis tournament is getting underway this week-end and will continue into next week. Thirty-eight paddle wielders have indicated their desire to enter the touney.

Dr. Joseph M. Gwinn of San Jose State College believes the government should subsidize college marriages.