Homecoming, I believe, means coming home and Home to McPher-son College alumni means Macam-

pus,a new word to older alumni, meaning the Home of the Bulldogs, the School of Quality, Life and Light. Let's all make Macampus our Mecca on November 1

The loyalty and support of alumni and friends have made possible the steady, healthy growth of McPherson college during the last thirty years. Respectfully.

Homecoming is a happy occasion because it affords an opportunity for the old “grads” to talk over their school days.

The big thing of Homecoming is the game and although many of the "grads” have been away for many years they are still good Bulldog supporters. Our hats are off to a swell inch of football players, a great coach, and a college as good as you can find anywhere.

the Spectator:

Having graduated in 1930 from

McPherson College, I still feel an ac-tive interest in the workings of the institution.

Working only fifty-three miles from McPherson gives me an oppor-ity to keep well posted on the do-ings of the college.

Respectfully,

Rev. J. H. Elrod, Brethren Church, Wichita. Kansas.

All the boosters of McPherson College, be they former students, exprofs, this year’s crop of students, or people just interested in the college, are welcomed home and invited to eat in the college dining hall Saturday night at six o’clock. Everyone will be trouping over to the dining hall in Arnold Hall after the game for a chance to taste dorm grub again and to “howdy-do” old friends, for it is there everyone will meet, like the coin collectors, “to talk over old dimes.” Homecoming is an especially big event this year, since it is a sort of farewell to old Fahnestock Hall, the original and, at the first, McPherson College in its entirety.

A program which should be interesting to all of you has been planned by Professor Dell. Both those who have come back to reminisce about days long gone, and those who like to hear about Macollege way back when, and compare the good old days with the present daze, are sure to enjoy what will be going on in the basement of Arnold Saturday night. (There’s also a rumor going around to the effect that Saturday’s weiners and sauer kraut are going to be eliminated for the occasion. Blissful, isn’t it?

Toastmaster for the evening will be Marvin Hill of Council Grove. Kansas, an ex-Macollegian. Marvin Hill was a popular student and athlete of McPherson College. He is Superintendent of schools at Council Grove.

Former professor, J. A. Blair, who has watched McPherson's football team go through its various stages of development, from the first time it kicked a slat out of its cradle, through the romper stage, adolescence, to its attainment of present day full blown manhood, will tell about the early days of football here at the college. A better knowledge of the early struggles gone through in order to get a football team started

THE LAST ROUNDUP will be the theme of the last annual “open house" to be held in Fahnestock Hall this Saturday nite. Old Fanny, as the boy’s dorm is affectionately known, will be vacated soon and the “open house” will be the last opportunity for many of the alumni and former residents to visit this historic struc-ture. Since 1887, Fahnestock Hall has stood as an emblem of unsubsi-dized education and Christian thought. This noble building is as old as the institution itself for it was in it that the first classes were taught and the first students were housed. Its fifty-four years of faithful service have definitely left their mark and today it stands as little more than a shambles. From all physical appear-ances it would seem quite worthless.

Sophomores of McPherson College are planning a class party for the evening of November 7, it has been announced by Wayne Geisert, president of the sophomore class.

The party will be at 7:00 p. m.. and will have as its setting the physi-cal education building of Macollege.

Betty Burger is chairman of the general plans for the evening's entertainment with Jean McNicol acting as her helper.

Dr. Francis F. Wayland, sponsor of the sophomore class, and Mrs. Wayland will be prevent for this first sophomore class social of the

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Saturday, November 1____10:00 Parade

2:00 C. of E. here (Homecoming) 7:30 Fahnestock Open House

Friday, November 7, Sophomore Class Party.

Friday, November 7, Teachers College, Chadron, Neb. there.

Saturday, November 8, Sadie Hawkins Party.

Since 194l’s homecoming is probably the last one old Fanny will wit- ness, special tribute is paid her in a speech by F. A. Vaniman about the days when Fanny was just a young pup. If only Fanny could talk, she could tell some real tales, but since she can’t, Mr. Vaniman, a loyal supporter of McPherson College of long standing, will tell some of the things old Fanny can’t tell.

Dr. Peters, the college's new president will be present and will speak about the early days which are ahead. Homecoming is also a time for looking ahead to make a better school to look back on at homecomings to come.

Any old grads should be prepared to talk about what they remember of their days here in school. These impromptu speeches of returned exstudents are an interesting part of any homecoming.

Tomorrow morning, Saturday, at 10:00 o’clock the longest and most impressive Homecoming Parade ever witnessed by Macollege alumni and friends will be staged on downtown Main Street.

Starting on North Main near the Wall-Rogalsky Mill and parading southward, the caravan will include four bands, approximately twenty-five floats, and at least two hundred cars.

The four hands which will be seen in the Homecoming Festivities are McPherson College band, the College of Emporia Band, the McPherson High School band, and the McPherson Junior High School band.

Clubs, classes, and other organizations of Macampus and from some off-campus will sponsor the colorful and varied floats of the parade.

The student body, alumni, and friends of the college will participate in the parade activities, as the caravan of cars follows the floats

For once there was no difference between upperclassmen and freshmen when the College’s Thespian Club initiated its new members at its annual banquet in the Pine Room of the Hotel Warren on Saturday night. All felt green and self-conscious as they performed their initiation playlets before an audience of veteran members. However, they received so much applause and encouragement that the affair was unanimously pronounced a great social as well as artistic success. The novices who joined the histrionic group of Macampus are Harriett Pratt, Lucille Harris, Betty Burger, Homecoming Queen Kathleen Brubaker, Nathan Jones, Cheerleader and Spec Columnist Clancy Bunyan, Austin “Doc” Williams, and Roy Mc-Auley. They were welcomed as fel-low members by Paul Dannelley, President of the Club. Raymond Sli-fer, Wayne Geisert, Jean McNicol, Doris Voshell, Virginia Kerlin, Clifford Schapansky, and Jean Oberst. The faculty was represented by Mr. Stutzman who acted as toastmaster and master of ceremonies.

Both the men’s and women’s varsity quartettes will appear on the program to entertain the visitors in a musical way. Members of this year’s male quartette are Harold Hoover, Esthel Ikenberry, Ronald Orr, and Lyle Albright. The girls’ quartette is made up of Lois Stam-baugh, Virginia Kerlin, Jean McNicol, and Lucy Blough.

The homecoming queen, Kathleen Brubaker, her attendants, Maurine Gish and Imojean Sheller, and her crowner, Bernetta Denny, will also be in evidence at the speaker’s table to give visitors an idea about Macol-lege’s pulchritudinous maidens.

After the meal everyone is asked to adjourn to Fahnestock Hall to help the fellows celebrate their open house, and bid Fanny a fond farewell.

but the value of the service it has rendered exceeds estimation. Yes, the building itself shall soon disappear from our campus, but the place it holds in the hearts of all who have been associated with it shall never be vacant.

To all those who have sat in on “bull sessions” within Fanny’s hallowed walls, to all who have winced under Booster Club initiations, to all who have enjoyed the fellowship offered in living, studying, and playing together under its aged garrets, this will be more than a mere “open house" it will be a farewell to Fahnestock !

Indeed, it will be the last roundup. Old Grads. ExFahnestockites, Fellow Booster club members. Faculty, and friends, all are welcome to the last showing of Fahnestock Hall.

The theme of the evening was the old fashioned melodrama which enjoyed such tremendous popularity in the “Gay Nineties,” when our grandparents could not see their fill of tophatted and moustachioed vil-lians strutting and bragging across the stage, scheming and plotting against the virtues of a meek and blushing Victorian maiden. The maiden never failed to be rescued at the very brink of the precipice while just punishment was meted out to the black hearted villian . . . This maudlin and to us hard boiled 1941’-ers rather humorous atmosphere was strikingly recreated by Jean McNicol who started the after dinner entertainment with a reading of "Little Nell.” After tears of compassion had been dutifully shed by all those present the program continued with a vocal presentation by the Thespian quartet—-Paul Donnelley, Doc Williams, Clifford Schapansky, andWayne Geisert, given in the true style of the Gay Nineties and the Broadway Beergarden. Then camewhat was—to the initiates at least— the feature show of the evening. "The Handicap,” a stunt drama in which each of the novices had to prove his histrionic mettle, and this they all did with great gusto and ability.

When the applause finally died down official welcome was extended to the new members by President Paul Dannelley. Betty Berger responded on behalf of the novices, and the meeting adjourned amid mutual congratualations.

Alumni Delegation Thought To Be Largest In M C History

Crowning of the Homecoming Queen will be one of the outstanding features of the game tomorrow afternoon. Directly before the opening whistle, amidst a fanfare of activity, the Queen-elect will receive her crown.

□ Beginning with a mammoth pep assembly on Friday night, October 31, Homecoming festivities will continue throughout an entire week-end of alumni-student body fraternization and comradeship. The pep rally, under the general directorship of the Pep Club and directly overseen by a student committee under Clancy Bun-yan, cheerleader, will feature a huge bonfire and cheer session.

Outstanding parade of the entire first semester will take place at ten o'clock a. m. Saturday in the McPherson city streets. Participated in by all college students and faculty members, the numbers of paraders will be supplemented by the school band from the College of Emporia, the McPherson College band, and August San Romani with his senior and junior high school bands. Floats of various descriptions will add to the colorful gaiety of the scene.

Corporal Kieth Pierce, 41, at present chaplain’s clerk at Camp Polk, Louisiana, appeared in a return voice recital last Friday. Professor Nevin W. Fisher presented Pierce in the regular chapel period last Friday and students and faculty once more thrilled to the magic of Pierce's deep bass tones.

Numbers on the recital program were “If I Had a Thousand Lives to Live,” “Trottin’ To The Fair,” “The Ringers,” “The Big Brown Bear,” “This Night Can Never Come Again,” and “Chip Off The Old Block.” Professor Fisher, accompanist, assisted in the recital, playing a piano solo between the first and second sections of the concert.

Saturday afternoon the Homecoming game with C. of E. takes the center of the stage. Interest in this game is very high, particularly inasmuch as there are so many old grads on hand to see it. Adding to the general interest will be the crowning of the Home-coming Queen, Kathleen Brubaker, popular college junior from Nampa, Idaho, directly before the opening whistle of the game. Together with her attendants, Maurine Gish and Imojean Sheller, and the senior Queen-crowner, Miss Brubaker will occupy a conspicuous place in the stadium following her coronation.

New innovation of this Homecoming game is the special attention given to the ten year anniversary let-terman. Members of the “M” Club of ten years’ standing, are granted admittance to the Homecoming game without admission.

Pierce will be remembered as being the only student, ever to have sung in the A Cappella Choir for five years, having been a member during his senior year at McPherson High School. He was second bass member of the varsity male quartette for four consecutive years while in college, and was president of the A Cappella Choir during his junior and senior years, also serving during that time as student director of the varsity male quartette.

Corporal Pierce leads the glee club and quartette, in both of which organizations he sings second bass in his regiment at Camp Polk.

Home on furlough for ten days. Pierce will return to his regiment next week at which time he will resume his duties in his regiment.

Saturday dinner, following the game, will occur at 6:00 at the Dining Hall. At this dinner alumni and students will fraternize until the time for the Open House at Fahnestock immediately following.

Sunday features no special alumni activity, the Homecoming activities having ended with the Open House at Fahnestock.

Dayton Rothrock, freshman, reported Monday in Sociology Class concerning “The Gregarious Instincts of Animals." Included in the report were case examples of animals, together with numerous statistics.

THE EDITORIAL STAFF

Paul Dannelley .—......... ............. Editor-in-chief

Ernest Dale .........................................—........................................................ Managing Editor

Bob Burkholder ........................... Sports Editor

Maxine Ruehlen and Marilynn Sandy .......................................................... Campus Editors

Clancy Bunyan ... . Column Editor

Maurice A. Hess ............ Faculty Adviser

REPORTERS AND SPECIAL WRITERS

Dr. H. J. Harnly Barbara Minneman Roy McAuley Anne Janet Allison

Pres. W. W. Peters Jim Burger Luella Poister Ardis Sawyer

Prof. M. A. Hess Merle Finfrock Max Brunton Dean Stucky

Coach T. Hayden Kathryn McRae Albert Miller Jean McNicol

Mary Kittell Blanche Geisert Arlene Seidel Joe Dell

Austin Williams Harry Reeves Lucile Horner

Staff Photographer ..............-............................—.................................. Harold Bowman

Yippee!!! It’s going to be simply splendiferous seeing everybody and his brother—we hope—coming back for homecoming. We’ve already seen Keith Pierce and Doc Hoover. We really enjoyed hearing you sing in chapel, Keith. Sometime when we’re rich we're going to pay you a nickel an hour just to sing for us all the time. And it looked like the good ole days seeing Doc there with the fellows at the football game. Only he had the wrong kind of a uniform on. We like best the red and white blouses with the sleeves what look like they’re built on—like verandas, oh, pardon my southern accent, I do mean porches.

John Trostle............................-.............................................. Business Manager

Nathan Jones ........................ ........... Advertising Manager

Wilbur Linville Assistant Business Manager

Maurice Cooley.......... Assistant

Margaret Davis Assistant

Oscar Olson ................................ Faculty Adviser

Fahnestock Open House To Be Homecoming Finale

A capacity crowd is expected at Fahnestock, ancient abode of the boys, this Saturday evening when its doors will be opened for a last public inspection tour. It will be one of the hi-lights of the week-end’s celebrations and of the year’s events, as it precedes the passing out of active use of a cherished institution.

All await this grand affair with mingled emotions of sorrow and ever-sharpening curiousity—and we’ll

have to admit that curiousity predominates. If you are interested in things of an historical nature, are a collector or antiquated relics, or revel in mystery and excitement, join the crowd Saturday evening to explore the ruins of Fahnestock. Come early and avoid the rush.

Among former "McPhersonites" who were seen on Macampus this past week-end were Sylvan Hoover of Camp Polk, Louisiana, who "decamped’’ long enough to visit friends and relatives here. Don Davidson, who is teaching at Aquilar, Colo., was also seen about the college a good bit last week-end. Corporal Keith Pierce, also of Camp Polk, took a leave of absence from his duties to journey to our fair college. While here, he delighted students with some "basso profundo" selections.

Tony Voshell of Tescott, and Dave McGill of Halstead, took "time out" from their teaching duties and honored us with their presence here at the school. Robert Wiegands, who is teaching at Palco, was also lured back to the old "stamping grounds.”

Among "Coming Attractions" at Macampus this Saturday and Sunday, will be a host of well-known students and friends. We will be seeing a lot of Lucile Wade of Wiley, Colo., and "Mickey" Miller of Dearfield, Kans., teachers, who are going to drop their work for a while and join us in the week-end festivites.

There are great wailings and gnashing of teeth among the mem-bers of the so-called gentler sex, for the autumnal equivalent of leap year week-end. (Only it’s just for a night) like prosperity, is just around the corner. The gals, with the hayrack ride as an excuse, have declared open season on any unsuspecting male who doesn’t have a war department in his own home—a ball and chain to you slugs—whose mental age is at least twelve, and who uses Lifebouy in his weekly bath. The unwary fellows have already been snitched, so you skoits don’t expect to find your job of stalking your prey a very easy one. The old hands at the job have long since had their victim cornered, and the above-mentioned wailings and gnashings are among those frills who weren’t so previous, and got chiseled in on before they got the objects of their affections button-holed. Wilma Kuns reports that her efforts are of no avail for after three times up at the plate, her batting average is still 000.

Historical Survey of the Past Week’s Activities

The faculty with their "other-halves" picnicked informally in the gym one evening last week. They had a jolly good time eating salads, sandwiches, cakes, etc. The only thing they lacked was the ants, without which any picnic is not wholly a success. They were unable to picnic on the lawns for the rains of the past week have resulted in excess H20 and Macampus is now Ma-"Damp’-us.

The Thespians, (Dramatists "Su-perb") entertained themselves at a dinner party downtown Saturday evening. New members were initiat-ed and inducted into the arts of act-ing. Of course, one of the main dra- matic points of the evening was the 4-course dinner.

The Outing Club, peppy outdoor organization of the college, waded through water to the Park Sunday afternoon to eat watermelon.

The F. O. R. Conference at Newton took from the campus last week-end, Lucile Horner, of Arnold, Alice and Bob Frantz, head residenters at Kline, and Eunice Swank, "Klinite.”

Other "out-of-towners" were Prof. and Mrs. Nevin Fisher and Wayne Crist who attended the District Meeting of Southwestern Kansas last week-end.

The A Cappella Choir "rested” be-

Darwin Culver ............... Circulation Manager

Milford Zook Assistant

Austin Williams Assistant

Dale Huxman Assistant

Willis Kagarice Assistant

Eldon MacDowell Assistant

Mary Kittell ...........................................................................................-................. Typist

Phyllis Mishler Typist

II is for Homecoming

Homecoming is here once more with all its attendant pageantry and display. Friendships are renewed and all present are impued with that selfsane sense of inner quietude and contentment which comes from genuine fellowship and congeniality.

Fully ready for Homecoming week-end, McPherson College has already begun to assume the air of a mother institution awaiting the arrival of her student children.

Floats are in the making; pep rallies are being prepared; menus are being discussed for the Homecoming dinner. Everywhere there is an appearance of secretive expectancy. Students and faculty alike are awaiting with ill-concealed anxiety the Homecoming of former friends and students.

Largest in the history of McPherson College, Homecoming this year is expected to call “home” dozens and perhaps hundreds of former grads. Everyone is anticipating a pleasureable reunion.

See you there!

Witches For Cinderella

Hallowe’en, forerunner of All-hallows Day, originally established for purposes of worship, has come to have an entirely different connotation in this country. Here each year it is the signal for unprecedented activity of varying degrees of riotious-ness and frivolity. Witches, black cats, and han’ts of all descriptions wend their weary and unending ways across the hallowed and starless skies on this day of susperstition and necromancy.

Long the bug-a-boo of responsibles, this day of privileges for the irresponsible, has caused consternation among the solid citizens of America for the past hundred and fifty years.

Sometimes over-indulged in by the privileged class of irresponsibilities, Hallowe’en is tending however, to become more civilized and less boisterous. Regardless of the tendency, however, Hallowe’en is around the corner. October 31 is about to occur!

To The Pep Rally

Next Friday night, while King Hallowe’en is reigning in all his glory and attendant pomp and circumstance, Macol-legians will be ringing in the new Homecoming football game. At the grand-daddy of all pep rallies, students will gather on October 31 to pay tribute to the C. of E. game the following day. With cheers, yells and the approbation of the entire student body behind them, as evinced by the size of the delegation assembled at the rally, the team will go forth confident of the support of their school.

In the planning for several weeks, this mammoth pep assembly besides being one which no red-blooded McPherson College student would wish to miss, has many features of interest. Master of ceremonies at the rally will be Clancy Bunyan, cheerleader, assisted by Esther Unruh and Geraldine Hedges. Behind the guns of pep rally preparation lurk the Student Council under Virginia Kerlin the Pep Club under Ted Washburn, and the Homecoming Committee under Professor S. M. Dell.

Homecoming Is Upon Us

Returned to the campus this week is the congenial McGill; the broad-shouldered Voshell; the genuinely friendly Goering. Everywhere one sees former friends; on every hand he is reminded that he is immersed in a whirling mass of Homecoming activity. Here he sees the maturity of such old grads as W. E. Chisholm, class of ’92; there he sees the garrulity of Eddie Deal. On one hand is Leland Lindell, ’31; on the other is Esther Sherfy, ’41. Now he sees Phil Myers, ’40 then he is reminded of another generation by the appearance of J. H. Elrod, ’30. Homecoming is upon us!

"Dutch" Goering, now of Holly, Colo., has been in this vicinity for the past couple of weeks and will attend the celebrations and reminisce with returning “grads.”

It is rumored that Steven Stover, ex-student body "Prex", and John Detrick, teaching at Hanston, will arrive this week-end to liven up things a bit.

Old students will be delighted to see again Mr. and Mrs. Harold Larsen (she is the former Vera Heckman) who are both teaching at Lost Springs, Kans.

Via inside information, we learn that Wilburn Lewallen of Larnard, who was here recently, will again visit here this week-end. You will be interested in knowing that Margaret Kagarice, also of Larned, Elizabeth Ann Mohler of Delavan, and Rachel Hamm of Canton, will join

Things must have been happening in old Arnold after the game Friday night, because Miss Neher reports that, while making her nightly rounds, she found twenty-three girls still up and chewing the rag at one. So the fellows aren’t the only ones who look frayed around the edges the day after a football game.

The gala occasion which brought on the display of fine feathers last Saturday night was the feast of the disciples of Thespis at the Warren Hotel. Mo’ fun, mo’ people killed, mo’ good looking undertakers!

Editor (otherwise known as "Slavedriver" or maybe even "Slave", as he puts it) Dannelley says, "Copy in," so it’s Olive Oyl until next week.

Students And Friends To Parade

Another year has gone by, and once more the pageantry of the McPherson College Homecoming Parade will add its colorful bit to the decoration of Main Street.

Floats and decorations of all descriptions will lead the procession as it makes its safari through the streets of Mc- Pherson. Also decorated in celebration of the Homecoming of McPherson College will be the windows of the establishments of several of McPherson College’s downtown supporters.

With decorated floats, McPherson College, in all her scholarly dignity, will sally forth, through the streets made festive; for this occasion, preparing for the Homecoming game.

Dr. Desmond W. Bittinger, head of the Sociology Department of Mc-pherson College, has recieved the final shipment of his hook. “Black and White in the Sudan.” After eight years of personal experience as a missionary in Africa and ten years of research from other writings, Dr. Bittinger last spring completed his thesis on African civilizations.

"Black and White in the Sudan” traces the early civilization of the Sudan Region of Africa from the twelfth century and concludes with a sociological study of the present civilization.

and the goblins will get you if

you don’t watch out!

Or if the goblins don’t some pretty little thing will whip up a 1941 re-

ripe of witch's brew that will really get you, and then she’ll be justified in wearing a “V" for victory.

“Traditionally devoted to merrymaking with playful ceremonies and charms to discover future husbands or wives’’ is the way Webster classifies the day. His choice of words is good enough but his arrangement is rather “old hat” for the modern lads and lassies of dear old Macam-pus. Traditionally devoted to discovering the merrymaking future husbands or wives, and with playful ceremonies nipping said merrymaking in the bud would be a truer description of the days activities.

Phil Myers, ’40, is attending Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas, where he will graduate from the engineering division this year.

Edward E. Kaufman, '30, is superintendent of schools at Buhler, Kansas.

Laverne “Tony" Voshell, '40, has been teaching and coaching for the past two years at Tescott, Kansas, where his athletic teams have made enviable records.

Wayland Reviews Book For Chapel

Ambassador Dodd's Diary Is Name of Book

A Sap's Fables

By Clancy Bunyan

Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. Homecoming at McPherson College has become more than a tradition; it has become an institution. Each year the alumni select one week end to meet again on the campus of their old Alma Mater. For this event old grads come from every corner of the United States to pay tribute to the school hat will always be first in their Hearts, to lift again their voices in reverence for old M. C., and once more to feel the warm handclasp of friends long unseen. Although they come from almost every walk and station of life they all have one thing in common, and that is the real Bulldog spirit. It is the tingle of this indomitable spirit surging through their veins as in those unforgettable college days, the cherished memories of joys and sorrows, of work and play, that are recalled by visiting again the old familiar scenes of Macampus, and by seeing again the faces of old classmates that makes

homecoming a sacred institution

Yes, destiny is indeed smiling favorably on McPherson College, our future holds unlimited possibilities. With renewed vigor and vitality in her administration, the school of quality has embarked upon a new era of progress and growth. Her ex- pansion and higher standard of fac-ulty, her recent readmittance to the North Central Association of Accredited High School and Colleges, her increase in enrollment, her broader scope of education and entrance into new fields, and her improvement and enlargement of housing and classroom facilities are marks of steady development towards the ultimate in academic, recreational, and spiritual guidence.

Petunia: Defined

A Petunia is a kind of a Begonia; A Begonia is a kind of a Sausage; Sausage and Battery is a Crime; Monkeys Crime Trees;

Trees a Crowd;

Crowds make noise;

Noise is the thing between your eyes; Eyes is the opposite of Nays;

Horses Nays;

Horses have Colts.

If you have a colt and go to bed, you wake up in the morning with double Petunia.

—Anonymous

Dr. Francis F. Wayland, history departmental head of Macollege, reviewed "Ambassador Dodd’s Diary" last Monday morning in the regularly scheduled chapel.

Dodd, who was United States ambassador to Berlin from 1933 to 1938, has written this diary of his unusual experiences during his five-year stay in Germany. The book has been purchased by the college and is now in the library for reading purposes.

Dr. Wayland in his review of the book stressed the statements made by Dodd concerning the foreign policy of Germany and its direct relationship to the policies of the United States.

At the outset of a new administra-tion, it may be of interest to review briefly McPherson College progression during preceding administrations.

Until the short two-year presidency of Dr. Clement and his subsequent resignation, when the permanency and accreditation of McPherson College seemed doubtful, the college had been held and controlled by a body of stockholders. Admission to this board was one share of stock for every hundred dollars invested, and offered voting value only. All property and assets were held and controlled by a board of trustees for the Church of the Brethren.

Dr. Markham’s address concerns

the vocational opportunities for the

youth of today and of the changes that are being made in his field. The appearance before the student body by Dr. Markham was made pos-sible through the efforts of Prof. S. M. Dell, dean of men of McPher-son College, who secured the suc-ces of this vocational authority

Lent new zest and life this year by Miss Jean Staehling, new director of Women’s Athletics, the W. A. A. has an important spot to fill in Macam-pus activities. During the school year almost every girl comes within the scope of the activities sponsored by the organization.

The scope of the W. A. A. is broad enough that every girl may find the sport or sports in which she is interested. W. A. A. business is administered by a cabinet elected from among the active club members.

Activities of the W. A. A. center in the various seasonal and yearly clubs. These clubs include volleyball, basketball, tumbling, softball, tennis, badminton, ping pong, bowling, shuffleboard. field hockey, swimming and others. To become an active member of the W. A. A. a girl must participate in two of the seasonal clubs or one of the yearly clubs. Many of the more active members belong to several of the clubs.

Besides providing healthful recreation for Macampus co-eds the W. A. A. endeavors to develop personality and establish worthwhile friendships. In an effort to bring Macampus co-eds in closer contact with Women’s athletic organizations of other schools, the W. A. A. yearly sponsors a volleyball playday which is attended and participated in by various of the neighboring colleges.

Climaxing the year’s activities is the annual W. A. A. formal banquet held every spring and attended by all active W. A. A. members and their guests. Highlight of this gala affair is the announcing of the officers of the W. A. A. for the following year.

The W. A. A. is a comparatively new organization on Macampus and is widening its sphere of influence yearly. Under the able leadership of Miss Lilyan Warner and her successor Miss Jean Staehling, it has made rapid progress until it now has an important place on Macampus.

Dear Editor:

Social affairs at McPherson college seem to be lacking—definitely. The

number of events are few and far be-

tween. There is only one formal af-fair during the whole year at which all students may attend. Inforal activities also seem to be far too few.

As soon as the complaint is made in effect saying that there are not enough social activities here at Mc- Pherson college, the cry goes up that no cooperation is received when such a program is given. Can you imag-ine anyone feeling comfortable, at home, or even like going to a formal once a year?

Informal activities are infrequent. As a result, outside entertainment

After the resignation of Dr. Clements, Dr. H. J. Harnly was elected acting President for the school year 1913-14. There was an entire reorganization of the ownership and control of McPherson College. A new charter was conceived, making ten State District Electors of the trustees, to which body the stockholder electors unanimously surrendered their voting power and all control. McPherson College became an institution actually owned and controlled by ten state districts. The trustee body has been enlarged by adding new districts and by election of local and alumni trustees and a local executive board of five membeers.

Under the new organization Dr. D. W. Kurtz became the first president In 1914. During the thirteen year administration of Dr. Kurtz, debts were paid, heating plants installed, Kline Hall and Harnly Hall built, and endowment increased. Membership in the North Central Association and in the American Association of Colleges was secured.

The college meanwhile was strengthened in all departments and was continually accredited by the state Board of Education and by all leading universities. The Academy was discontinued; college enrollment passed the three hundred mark; the graduating class numbered more than sixty. The faculty was much enlarged and strengthened.

Then, because of increased requirements in endowment and guaranteed income, membership in the North Central Association was lost. In 1927 Dr. Kurtz resigned and Dr. V. F. Schwalm was called to the presidency. Dr. Schwalm's administration covered a period of great financial depression, but McPherson College continued to progress. The chapel was remodeled, enlarged, and refurnished. The athletic field was graded and track and stadium constructed. The Student Union Room was built and equipped by the students. The campus was connected with the athletic field and the present physical education building was constructed, the old gymnasium being completely removed. The entire campus was landscaped and sodded with buffalo grass. Endowments were materially increased, and the library building was completely remodeled and its stock increased. The faculty was strengthened and the conditions for North Central Association accreditation were met once more. And by the close of the greatest financial depression and the beginning of a second World War. McPherson College again became a fully accredited college. Dr. Schwalm deserves credit for accomplishing what at times seemed impossible.

A new men’s dormitory was suggested by the North Central Examination Committee, and a campaign was organized. The necessary funds were secured and at this time the new Men’s Hall is approaching completion. Long having been a need of McPherson College, a completely modernized, fireproof home for the men is soon to become an actuality.

In our new president, Dr. Peters, we have qualifications and experience worthy of such a heritage, and the administration will continue the development of the qualities which make a college really Christian without sacrificing scholarship.

A crowded weekend on Macampus saw not only the long awaited and much talked about game against Bethany but also the traditional Senior Freshmen Kid Party in the Physical Education Building.

This was again an occasion for sedate Seniors to forget the decorous demeanor which they have acquired in the course of their long studies and which well befits their status in the academic family. For the freshmen, on the other hand, it did not require much of an effort to throw off the thin veneer of good behavior which they have supposedly received dur-

ing their short sojourn on the campus.

The program started with the traditional Grand March around the Gymnasium in which all those pres-ent participated, proudly exhibiting their ingenious costumes which made the hall look like a giant nursery, From then on games and floor show numbers alternated, catering to a great variety of tastes and giving everybody an occasion to display their particular talents. There was "drop the handkerchief," "London Bridge," "Last Couple Out," "Black Man," and other kid sports. We are sure that any small child present might have learned a thing or two about juvenile games from these allegedly grown up collegians.

j is found "in between times"; then when a school-sponsored program is arranged, the students find it much easier to stay in the groove, and therefore they fail to attend these entertainments.

It seems to me that an effort is being made this year toward more planned socials which should improve the condition, but a program of almost gigantic proportions compared to the present one could be undertaken and successfully carried out.

The social committee is capable of performing this feat, but perhaps what it really needs is a little encouragement from the student body.

I am a strong believer in social activities for the good of the college student. More power to him who helps to promote these activities.

—A Student.

Freshmen contributed most of the entertainment, the seniors probably having decided to rest on their laurels. Harry Crabb again proved his proficiency as a cornet player, Imo- jean Sheller’s voice solo was enthus- iastically applauded, and Blanche Geisert’s reading was a welcome addition to the variety of selections.

Animal crackers which formed part of the refreshments provided by the seniors were duly appreciated and helped to revive the "golden days of childhood." Some of the freshmen did not have to think too far back, either.

Everybody went home a little tired but happy, and none too well prepared for the sterner realities of the coming week.

January 28, 1931

Miss Della Lehman, who returned to the United States January 6, after a leave of absence granted by the College to study in England the first semester, is now on the campus and will teach in the English and expression departments. Miss Lehman, while in England, was located in London.

Dining the summer Miss Lehman conducted a tour of a group of young women, sponsored by the Student Travel club, of eight European countries. Among the group going with Miss Lehman three graduates of McPherson College were included. These were Miss Floy Brown. ’29, Miss Myrte Moyer, ’2 8, and Miss Eunice Longsdorf, ’29.

We who have been privileged to serve a reasonably long tenure in classroom or laboratory feel keenly that we are a bond joining the students of former years to the institution of the present. That feeling is emphasised on enrollment days when we meet familiar names and realize that second generation students are entering our classes. A young lady from Idaho renews the traditions of her father who was an Academy Senior when I first helped to enroll stu- dents. Another young lady from western Kansas is unrecognized until she reminds me that her mother was a student in my Cicero class more than twenty years ago. The women students of former years have developed a method of maintaining their anonymity denied to the men. A young man enrolls whose father habitually went to sleep—or at least tried to—in my Caesar class of former years; the young man carefully avoided the ancestral course. An aspiring young man from Colorado is bent on emulating the football prowess of his uncle of yesteryear.

And so it goes. These recurring names of students of former years are a symbol of the continuity and perm-ance of our college. But they do not have a monopoly on the activities and leadership of the present day. Every year our class rolls contain new names, some of them strange and almost unpronounceable. But in a short time they fuse into the institutional body and help to make a reality of that cosmopolitan spirit which is a very distinctive attribute of McPherson College. Each from his own group and background, from his geographic area, near or far away, makes bis contribution to those factors which set the intellectual pace and mould character in the united group.

Even the Faculty is not static. Possibly seven of the present staff have been in the catalog for more than twenty years. Soon after I came to the institution, a tabulation indicated that the average tenure of the teachers was less than two years. Now it is more than nine years. This is a significant indication of increased stability and permanence. In the normal turnover of teachers, replacements have been sought with better training and greater skill in teaching. Rising standards make such improvement inevitable.

The physical plant also makes progress. Some of you who return for Homecoming saw with me the building of Kline Hall. Soon after we saw Harnlv Hall tower upward from the Kansas plain. In due time the Alumni Gymnasium was replaced by a modern building of which we are all justly proud. Now the Men’s Dormitory moves rapidly to completion, thanks to your interest and substantial support.

Much less obvious but even more

“M” Club ’31 To Be Guests At Game, Banquet

Personal Invitations To Attend Homecoming Many ’31 Lettermen

Members of the college "M” Club graduating class of ’31 will be honored guests at the game and also at the banquet which will be held in the Arnold Hall Dining Room after the game.

Lettermen of the class of ’31 who have been invited back include the following: William Bigham, St. John; Ernest Betts, Idaho; Ernest Campbell; Marvin Hill. Council Grove; John Lehman, Abilene; Irvin Rump, Pueblo. Colorado; Wilbur McElroy, Denison, and Harry Zinn, Valley Center.

January 31, 1922

The Board of Trustees met last Saturday with the architect and contractor of the new Science Hall. Further plans for the construction of the building were discussed and contracts for materials considered. The contract for the sand has been let to the local company, Sweeney, Swick, and Minns. Hauling of the sand will begin this week. The local Board of Trustees, which body will direct the building of the new Hall, will meet again February 13 to con-sider other contracts for materials

but, changing in 1900 to the more pretentious "Rays of Light." devel-oping into the monthly "McColpa", and finally came to be in its present form

First "Student and Teacher,” a sixteen-page pamphlet published by the faculty, appeared July 15, 1896, was issued monthly. Members of the faculty conducted the depart-ments; editorial. Bible. science.

English, pedagogy, commercial, and music. Most of the copy was editorial. being homilies directed to the plastic students, and no headlines were used. Such general subjects as Mormonism, lynching, national debts, arbitration, and free silver were discussed. Few attempts were made to make the "Student and Teacher” a news dispersing agency. Every Issue of this pamphlet was edited by President C. E. Arnold. "Rays of Light" succeeded the "Student and Teacher" in December. 1 899, and it was published by the students for the first time, but under faculty supervision. It contained sixteen pages, slightly larger than those of the previous publication, with a heavy cover. After several changes in form and number of pages it became a thirty-six page publication. Editors of "Rays of Light" included C. F. Gustafson, B. B. Baker, F. G. Kaufman. Cline Brothers. C. H. Slifer, H. B. Hoffman. Grave Vaniman. D. C. Steele, and George Wynn.

In 1915 it seemed as though the student body seemed to have been sufficiently inculcated with the ideals of the institution because they were suffered to publish the McColpa without strict faculty censorship.

Elizabeth Mohler, ’41, is teaching at Delavan, Kansas.

Warren Sisler, ’29, is this year Superintendent of Schools at Holmes-ville, Nebraska.

form, having successfully passed all the pitfalls ordinarily in the path of student newspapers.

As the "Student and Teacher" in 1896, the "Spectator" made its de-

Willis Jacobs. 27, is the youngest Ph. D. on the campus of the University of New Mexico.

Crows From Tabloid Monthly To Present Size

Most sincerely,

W. W. Peters

Written words are rather cold and formal in expressing greetings and welcomes, but I trust you will believe me to be sincere when I say that your presence upon the campus of "our college" will be appreciated at any time and especially this 1941 homecoming. Then, too, as you know, I am in my freshman year at McPherson which means that no loyalty has been built up to my services by any who have been at the college before 194 1

I assure you, however, I have been most graciously received and I find an excellent faculty, an earnest student body, devoted friends, and a loyal supporting community and constituency. Wherever I go among individual churches, clubs, organizations, and at District Conference, I find good will and loyal support for McPherson College. All of this indicates faith and courage and a belief In the future.

No college can build for the future and succeed unless it has the loyal devotion and support of its former students and graduates. Personally I question whether any graduate of a college such as McPherson can ever fully repay for all the benefits received. Since this is true, it becomes the obligation of the college to render a type of service that merits increasingly both spiritual and material support. I feel safe in saying that I pledge to you the highest efforts of the present student body, the faculty, and myself as president to move forward with McPherson.

I appreciate highly the fine blending of independence and cooperation among the students in promoting the campus life to the best interests of all concerned. The officers of the Alumni Association, the Student Council, and the faculty are working together to the end of a common purpose to make you really feel at home at homecoming and to provide plenty of wholesale activities and entertainment. The program begins Friday night and closes with the church service Sunday noon. The hope is that a large number of graduates, former students, friends, and parents will come and enjoy all or a part at least of the events. The football game has been set for Saturday afternoon in order to make it possible for many more to attend than would be possible if it were played Friday night. If you come in large enough numbers, the homecoming game will continue to be on a Saturday.

Your presence on the campus will mean much to your college, and the folks on the campus are anxious to entertain you. A homecoming offers a splendid opportunity to renew acquaintances with your teacher and friends and to learn to know the new faculty members and students. Reminescenses run high when the old "grads" return. Alumni Directory of 1941 contains the names of 2,258 men and women who have made their contributions to and have been benefited by McPherson Col-lege Practically all of these are living. Of this number 814 received the A B. degree and 115 received the B. S. degree. The college is in its fifty-fourth year and with so many living witnesses in so many different occupations distributed over such a vast territory, her future is assured.

Coach Hayden is doing an excellent piece of work and has the confidence of his team, the student body, the faculty, and local citizens. While the "Bulldogs" at the time of this writing has not crossed the line, they have kept their opponents from crossing very often. An excellent game Saturday afternoon is assured. A welcome and a good time await you. The President’s office is yours, and you may enter without knocking.

Expecting to see you at homecoming, I am

Beginning in 1896 ns the "Student and Teacher." the "Spectator," official college paper, has faithfully and painstakingly recorded student opinion and college activity for the past 45 years.

McPherson College papers have been preserved. Every year the "Spectator" staff presents for binding, copies of every issue of their publication. McPherson College library has a file of practically every issue of the school paper ever printed.

Product of 45 years of development, the "Spectator," college news-organ, has evolved in its present

For two years the McColpa, taking its name from the first letters of the words, "McPherson College Paper,” was printed every month, a thirty-six page paper, edited by Lester K. Kim-mel and Estel Jones.

Nineteen hundred seventeen saw a decided change in the "Spectator” and the transition from magazine to newspaper took place. A four page weekly, less than half as large as the present Spectator.” emerged for approval of students and faculty. Simple headlines began to be used and news was the important commodity of the paper. The next year a six-page Spectator was issued every two weeks, and in 1919 it bounded to an eight-page weekly of the same size. In 1921, under the leadership of Orville Pote, it became almost as large as it is today.

Since the editorship of Orville Pote. the "Spectator" has retained the same size until this year, when the "Spectator" was enlarged in order to incorporate the greater amount of advertising and new coverage which have come with this school year.

The Student Body of McPherson College welcomes all alumni, former students, parents, and friends to the campus and to the homecoming festivities. We are delighted to play host to you.

To you, alumni and former stu-1 dents, we are pleased to give the chance to meet old friends, to re-live former days. Today we are treading the same halls which you knew in years before. Our names are more than likely carved alongside yours on the arm of some classroom chair. The student of today; the alumnus of tomorrow.

To you, parents, we are pleased to show our campus. Here is where your son or daughter is spending an important part of his or her life. We wish to welcome you into our college circle.

To you, friends of the college, we wish to repay some of the interest and support which you have given to us. We appreciate it.

May we ask you to think of us as friends and let us he of help to you. While you are here we want you to

The ultimate criterion of the property of any educational program, method, or aim is its relation to life objectives. If any given aim or program does not serve, or is not compatible with, the philosophy or ulti-mate good of the individual or group for whom it was formulated, then that aim or program has no justification. Thus, a Buddhist might reject health as an aim of life and no program of health education could be justified. Likewise a hermit might reject social efficiency as an aim, and moral or social training would for him be pointless.

Most educators will recognize, however, in “happiness” or “satisfaction” or “service” or “progress” much that is reconcilable with their own social philosophies. For these persons the statement will hold true; college education should develop character to the end that individuals and groups will achieve greater happiness or more satisfaction—the psychological interpretation of life motives; or give more service—an ethical or emotional philosophy which must be reduced to some other, since “service” is indefinite; or contribute more to progress—the philosophy of Empire.

We owe to modern philosopher the discovery that process rather than consequence is most fundamental in living and happiness or satisfaction are but end products which have value only as they lead to new processes. Activity is the real objective of life, as well as the only method of obtaining happiness, which both psychologists and philosophers class as a by-product of living rather than a chief purpose.

Activity leading to further activity is called “growth.” It will be discovered that organisms with the

Indeed, the doctrine of “activity” provides a useful criterion of ethical conduct. Any activity is “good” which leads to more activity; while any activity is "bad” which leads to cessation of activity. The best activity leads both the individual and the group, whether it be one’s comrades, or all society, to more activity. But activity has quality as well as quantity. Mere repetition of any type is a low quality of behaviour and consequently a machine civilization is extremely dangerous to life unless machine processes free individuals from developmental activities. The most abundant life comes when a new experience is involved in each successive moment of existence.

true representative of the athletic activities of his school. As the rough and ready “Bulldog” from In- man, "Squeak” has been a depend- able mainstay on the basketball and football squads for four years. He also has served as a member of the Men’s Council for two years.

Doris Voshell, petite, good-natured McPhersonite, has been active in many extra-curricular activities of Macollege. Brimming over with ambition, pep, and personality, Doris has been president of the W. A. A. for two years, and has been active in student government, the social life, and the dramatic activities of Macollege during her college years.

Jean Oberst, lone junior girl included in the Who’s Who, is another superior product of McPherson High School. Enthusiastic, friendly, and versatile, Jean’s influences have been felt in the W. A. A., the dramatic organizations, the I. R. C., the debate squads, and the Women’s Council of McPherson college.

Leap-Day To Feature Famous Dogpatch Lovers

Election to Take Place

Next Week For

Fans of Sadie Hawkins

New on the docket of campus activities, Sadie Hawkins’ Day, 24 hours or leap-year festivity, has this year been brought to the college through the efforts of the SCM with the aid of Spectator, publicity agent.

For twenty-four hours unwary males will be roped and hogtied, and wary males will be stalked.

Dick Burger, SCM president an-nounced that there will be an elec-tion to select Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae, who will be required to live up to “Dogpatch” precendent.

A home coming event at it’s best can be a grand occasion. For it is there you can meet your friends, re- new acquaintances, learn the pro- gress of the college and enjoy again the youthful vigor and enthusiasm of the student body. But unless many of your old friends also return it is difficult to feel thoroughly at home. In order that many “Old Grads” will return there must be some event, celebration or occasion which is interesting to many. The fall of the year is the time when the referee's whistle is being heard so many places, so a football game serves as the main event to draw friends together. The pep and cheering of the students is contagious so that you feel yourself a student again. The dinner in the evening after the game provides the opportunity for visiting and reminiscing of the days gone by but not forgotten.

The church services on Sunday morning bring back the inspiration of the finer things of life. It comes as a benediction to the activities of the week end and one returns home to his daily tasks with renewed in- terest and zest for living.

In order that the annual home coming celebration may continue to

grow Dr. Peters has asked to co-operate in sponsoring the Homecoming. This plan is logical because theAlumni Association is in contact with the Graduates and the Student Council is the official host of the student body.

It is hoped the home coming idea may grow until this event will become the big celebration of the year. This can be achieved as soon as the Alumni, the Parents and the Friends of the College become educated to the idea of returning to the Campus each fall. There is no finer way to keep up with the college than to return annually for the Homecoming.

Educators who accept “growth” as a guiding star should set up aims that will satisfy the conditions of growth; the conditions of growth are the guiding aims of education. It is generally agreed that health is the first requisite of growth, or indeed for happiness, satisfaction, service or progress. Other aims are social effi- ciency, culture, and economic effi- ciency. These constitute the greatest common divisions in the list of educational aims named by the Department of physical education at McPherson College. Each of the four aims named satisfies the philosophical criterion, because it is a phase of growth and because it is essential to the greatest happiness and the life abundant.

The physical education program at McPherson college is four-fold in manner. The first step is a health program consisting of health exam- ination, health instruction, health service, and health education. The second step is a social program when the physical education plant and facilities are used by the entire stu- dent body and faculty. This is an open house program in that the gymnasium is kept open after regular class hours so that everyone may go and organize and take part in spontaneous activity. The third is a cul- tural or more formal program of physical education required of sophomore and freshman boy and girl. The fourth is the economic program of the teaching of skills which includes the program of varsity and intramural activities.

Names of McPherson College stu-ents, who have gained recognition in the Who’s Who in American Col-leges, have been released by Dean W. Boitnott. After careful con-sideration by the faculty, five sen-iors and three juniors have been given this coveted recognition for the '41 -’42 year.

Honored seniors are Lyle Albright, Lucile Horner, Virginia Kerlin, Ray-mond Meyer, and Doris Voshell. Who’s Who from the junior class are Jean Oberst, Ernest Peterson, and Ted Washburn.

After nominations were made by the personnel committee, the eight outstanding upperclass members were elected by the entire faculty the college. Qualities considered the selection were character, lead-ship, scholarship, and potentiali-es.

These students, who comprise the McPherson college contribution to the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, present sundry and numerous ex-tra-curricular and scholastic activi-tes of McPherson college.

Lyle Albright, the mighty, little sinister of Castleton, who originally hails from Iowa, is a major in philos-ophy and religion, and has been es- pecially active in the musical depart-ment of Macollege. Having been a member of the A Cappella Choir four years and of the varsity male quar-tet for two years, he is this year the president of the A Cappella Choir. Lucile Horner, the brainy brunette from “down Texas way”, is inter-ed in current world affairs and the religious aspects of Macollege. Among many other duties Lucile is president of the International Relations Club, program chairman of B. Y. P. D., and is a second year women's varsity debater.

Virginia Kerlin, attractive, talent-ed lassie from Idaho, has delved into practically all phases of Macampus

Ted Washburn, McPherson’s con-tribution to the pep program of Mc- Pherson College, is the smiling, jov- ial junior who is known to many as “T. W.” . Serving last year as cheerleader, Ted is this year’s Pep Club president and enthusiastic band member. He is also president of the Men’s Council of Macampus.

The congratulations of all students, faculty, and friends are extended to these eight upperclassmen who have gained recognition on the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Bulldog athletic teams have built up many glorious traditions in the last fifty years and the Bulldogs have won their share of victories on the athletic field. But in talking with old Bulldog athletes one finds that they do not delight in reciting their athletic exploits as much as they emphasize the lessons in life that they have learned on the athletic field

We may not win every game or go undefeated, but we may get more good from participating in athletics than many of the athletic greats. In talking to an alumnus of McPherson College a few days ago, he stated that he learned more good leasons on the athletic field than in any other phase of his college life.

In order to be a success on the athletic field one has to cooperate, he has to have confidence in himself, he must keep his load under fire, he must have the desire to win or else he will never gain his goal. These lessons learned on the athletic field are the same lessons that must be learned before a man succeeds In his later life

Where I come from in Nebraska there is a radio sportscaster who closes every broadcast with the ad-age "It isn’t that you won or lost but how you played the game." I'm certain that this adage isn’t Coach Hayden's theme, but he has always been more concerned in how one plays the game than in the final score. As long as this is the policy of the McPherson College Athletic department, athletics will be a success on Macampus.

Coach Hayden's football squad; seated, left to right: Elvin Brown, Abe Dirks, Orville Buckingham, Merle Finfrock, Lee Bowers, Paul Vogt, Albert Miller, Merlin Burkholder, Bob Burkholder. Second row, left to right: Cyrus Goertz, Albert Meyers, Walter Buller, Edgar Lengel, Dick Callen, Junior French, Duane Knarkstedt, Milford Zook, Clinton Hill, Jack Kough. Third row, left to right: Clayton Hock, assistant coach, Laurence Hill, Bernard Tinkler, Jack Vetter. Andrew Collett, “Squeak" Meyer, Walter Pauls, Melvin Mohler, Russell Barrett, “Slug" Myers, and Coach Hayden.

Conference Standings

	W	L	T
Ottawa ............................	2	0	1
Baker ................................	... 3	1	0
Kansas Wesleyan .............	... 3	1	0
Bethel ...............................	... 2	1	1
College of Emporia ........	1	2	0
Bethany ...........................	... 1	3	0
McPherson .......................	... 0	4	0

Before a large crowd of McPherson and Bethany fans the Bethany Swedes defeated the Bulldogs of McPherson 21 to 6 last Friday night on the home gridiron.

Stymied on the ground by the heavier McPherson line. Bethany took to the air early and scored her first touchdown via the airlanes. Both of the other Bethany touchdowns were set up by long passes.

Bethany scored first early in the opening quarter. Two completed passes put the Swedes on the Bulldog twelve-yard line. After a line play failed Goehring rifled a pass to Duver in the end-zone. Carlson kicked the extra point.

Bethany scored again midway in the second quarter. Goehring passed to Sundberg for thirty-eight yards to

the Bulldogs four-yard line. Carlson carried it over in two line plunges He also converted the extra point The score remained 14 to 0 at half time.

The Bulldogs narrowed Bethany’s lead to eight points early in the thin quarter as the Bulldogs took the kick off and scored after a sustained drive down the field. Brubaker, Vet ter, and Zook carried the brunt of the attack. Zook carried the ball over on a lateral from Pauls after Vetter had crashed the Bethany line for 13 yards to put the ball on the Swedes three-yard line. Vetter fall ed to convert the extra point.

Bethany’s last touchdown came in the fourth quarter as a result of a twenty-three yard pass to the Bull-dog’s three-yard line and a line plunge by Carlson. Carlson again converted the extra point.

McPherson held the advantage in yards from rushing, 123 yards to 112 yards, but Bethany held a 14 to 12 advantage in first downs. The Bulldogs completed 10 out of 22 pass attempts for 119 yards while the Swedes were completing 11 out of 22 pass attempts for 187 yards. It was this difference in yardage gained from passes that spelled defeat for the Bulldogs.

After the smoke of battle had cleared from Kansas gridirons last weekend Ottawa had replaced Baker at the top of the standings. In the upset of the year the Bethel Gray-maroons defeated Baker 6 to 0 in the mud and rain at Newton last Saturday night. With Westerman in the driver’s seat the Bethelites pushed over a touchdown and then held the Wildcats at bay the rest of the night.

Besides breaking Baker’s four-game victory string, the Bethelites were the first team to score on Baker and also the first squad to hold the Wildcats scoreless.

As a result of this upset Ottawa is on top of the standings with two victories and one tie. Ottawa was held to a tie by the same Bethel team. Tied for second place are Baker and Kansas Wesleyan with three wins and one defeat. In third place and within striking distance of the top is Bethel with two wins, one loss and a tie. The College of Emporia, Beth-any, and McPherson bring up the rear in that order.

With half the season remaining the complexion of the Kansas Conference race has changed completely, with four teams, viz . Ottawa, Baker. Kansas Wesleyan. and Bethel having a chance for the crown.

Ben, valiant fighter, mighty warrior, the original McPherson College mascot, the true exponent of that indomitable Bulldog spirit, has long since tasted the gore of his last battle.

Yes, his physical remains have long laid beneath the sod, but not his spirit. No, his spirit has lived on among Macol-legians and, like fire, has gained momentum as it went along. Not only has the tenacious, do-or-die Bulldog spirit grown with the college, but at each forward bound it has doubled and redoubled to the point where it now is almost tangible. It is a real living, breathing, fighting thing, whose presence we can actually feel. It is that thing that makes lumps in our throats and dampens our cheeks when our college song is sung. It is the thing that makes goose pimples when the team dashes out on the field. It is the thing that the team feels when they know that the crowd is behind them, win or lose. Yes, it is the true spirit of old Ben that swells in the hearts of all alumni when the red and white towers of old M. C. first loom into view at the end of Euclid.

The imperishable spirit of old Ben shall not die, it shall go on and on forever!

This weekend will be a busy one for the Kansas Conference. There are two Conference and three non- conference games on the schedule and all five games are on Saturday.

The College of Emporia plays the Bulldogs at McPherson on the annual Homecoming event. A big celebration and a large crowd is anticipated for this contest.

The Baker Wildcats tackle William Jewell, who has previously lost to Ottawa this season. The Bethel Gray-maroons, winners over the Wildcats last week, meet the strong Sterling college. Rockhurst also a victim of Ottawa this season visits Kansas Wesleyan at Salina. This includes all the games for the Kansas Conference.

There was an exceedingly interesting football card last weekend. Old Man Upset played an important role this week. These title contenders do not have any such thing as luck, power, wins. etc., when Mr. Upset appears on the scene. This time the Baker Wildcats were the victims. The Bethel Graymaroons knocked on the Wildcats door then crashed in to a 6 to 0 win. This was definitely an upset with undefeated Baker a title contender and Bethel near the cellar. Will wonders ever cease?

The Ottawa Braves are still on the war path by winning from Shurtleff college 6-0. This is the first time in two years that the Braves have succeeded in scalping Shurtleff. This is also the first time this season that the Shurtleff ‘goal line has been crossed.

Kansas Wesleyan overpowered C. of E. 28-7. The Coyotes scored three early touchdowns. C. of E. scored an early touchdown in the first quar-ter. The Coyotes scored one in the first quarter, two in the second quarter and one in the third.

Homecoming and the returning of Old Grads to Macampus reveals many old stories concerning the Bulldog teams of old. The other day "Si” Sargent, cashier of the Home State Bank of McPherson related a few incidents concerning the Bulldogs of 1922-23. The football team that year won six games, tied one, and lost one.

That was in the days when the Central and Kansas Conferences were combined. They defeated Washburn, Kansas Wesleyan. Bethany. Bethel. Hays, and Southwestern, tied Baker and lost to Sterling College. Although the Bulldogs were defeated by Sterling that year they claimed the unofficial state championship as Sterling played ineligible men.

Thirteen men earned letters that year. “Si” revealed that he played every minute of all the games except eight minutes of the Bethel game. That was in the days when the Bulldogs defeated the Graymaroons with such marked regularity that the substitutes were given many opportunities to play. Lettermen that year included Hal Barton, Joe IHeaston. Carl "Toke” Carter, Henry Hahn, and Cleo Hill in the backfield; Paul "Si" Sargent and Frank Barton ends; Stanley Keim, Bill Mudra, and John Lengel at tackles; Albert Colburn and Dick Keim at guards; and Paul Kurtz at center. Dick Keim made all-state that year and Carl “Toke" Carter and "Si” Sargent made the second all-state team. Floyd Mishler coached the team that year.

Five men lettered in basketball that year. Sanger Crumpacker and Marvin Stansel held down the forward spots. “Si" Sargent was the center and Leonard Crumpacker and August Rump played guards. They came within an eyelash of winning the state championship in the cage sport, winning eighteen games and losing only one to Southwestern.

Dutch Lonborg, present head coach at Northwestern University, was the head coach that year. Lonborg had just graduated from Kansas University and in the first game “Si" related that he scored three baskets in the first half and Dutch became so enthusiastic that he promised he would kiss “Si” if he scored three more baskets in the last half. “Si” stated that he scored three more baskets but Dutch’s enthusiasm had subsided by then.

“Si” stated that many of his best college experiences and friendships were made on the athletic field and that they have proved invaluable to him in his business life.

Highlighting Homecoming activi-ties will be the College of Emporia-McPherson College football game, the local gridiron tomorrow after-noon.

Preceding the opening kickoff will be the crowning of Homecoming Queen-elect Miss Kathleen Bruba-ker, prominent Junior co-ed, by Bernetta Denny of the senior class. Miss Brubaker will be attended the Misses Maurine Gish and Imojean Sheller.

The Bulldogs although hampered by injuries the past three weeks, are in excellent condition for tomorrow's encounter. Dick Callen, regular quar-terback who has been out of the line-up for two weeks, is ready to play this week. Junior French, steady Bulldog end who was hindered week by a shoulder injury, has fully recovered.

Besides seeking their first confer-ence win, the Bulldogs will be out to avenge the 7-0 upset victory of C. of E. in Emporia last year. The Pres-bys, under a new coach this year is a much stronger team than last year. Early in the season the Presbys had an easy 14-0 victory over the Bethany any Swedes, conquerors of the Bull-dogs last week. The Bulldogs though defeated last week showed themselves, to be a dangerous offen-sive threat once they got started. With Jack Vetter at the helm the Bulldogs outrushed the Swedes as well as completing 10 of 22 passes

Probable starting line-up for the Bulldogs will include Walt Pauls and Junior French at ends, Russell Barrett and “Andy" Collett at les. “Cy" Goertz and Wilbur B ger at the guard posts and Ray “Squeak" Meyer at center, starting backfield will probably in-clude Dick Callen at quarterback, Jack Vetter and Walt Buller halfbacks, and Merlin Brubaker fullback.

This will be the last home confer-ence game in the collegiate care of Jack Vetter and "Squeak” Meyer. Only one other home game remains on the schedule and that is a conference tilt with Alva, Oklahoma Teachers late in November.

The C. of E. band and a group of Presby rooters are expected to attend tomorrow’s game.

The McPherson Bulldogs broke the scoring jinx but lost 6-21 to the Bethany Swedes. This was a passing duel with both teams attempting twenty-two passes apiece with the Swedes completing eleven and the Bulldogs completing ten. Zook scored McPherson’s first touchdown of the season on an end run for a three yard gain and touchdown. McPherson’s reserves nearly stole the show Friday night. Zook and Brubaker, both backfield men, were outstanding. Also Clint Hill snared a number of passes as well as Sophomore Junior French. As per usual Vetter and Meyer looked like All Conference material. Wilbur Bullinger looked impressive at the guard position also, Dick Callen was still out of the game from a previous ankle injury. However, he will be in readi-ness for the Homecoming event Nov. 1.

Both teams were battling to get out of the cellar.

Next week the Bulldogs go out the conference competition journey to northwest Nebraska play the Chadron State Teacher a non-conference tilt. This is longest trip of the season for Bulldogs.

The team will leave in cars Thurs-day morning after chapel. Coach Hayden expects to take about 22 men on the trip, according to present plans. The team will go as Grand Island, Nebraska, the following night, possibly having a light work out during the afternoon. Then theywill travel the remaining distance Friday morning. The game scheduled for Friday night. On Sat-urday Coach Hayden plans to drive the team into the Black Hills and return to McPherson Sunday.

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