2000 Goal Sought for Charity Chest, Larson Announces `Mainliners
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-C19,301_ 81 H 10/ VOLUME 30—NUMBER 4 HAVERFORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1038 Z627 $2.00 A YEAR $2000 Goal Sought College Dinghy Men President Reports Heads Glee Club j Glee Club To Sing For Charity Chest, Will Race At M. I. T. College Condition In Grand Court At Campus yachtsmen will par- Larson Announces ticipate again this year in As Managers Meet M. I. T.'s Annual Dinghy Chal- Wanamaker Store lenge Cup Regatta, announced Drive To Secure Funds ,president Maurice L Webster of the Haverford Nautical Campus Improvements, New Men Fill One-Third For Nine Agencies Club. The regatta will take Debt Reduction Cited place in the Charles River Ba- Of Large Club As 24 Begins Nov. 1 sin on Sunday, October 30. By Comfort Are Selected Last fall the Haverford team, Announcement of a moo goal competing against thirty col- At the annual meeting of the According to Business Manager for this year's Charity Cheat cam- leges, qualified for the finals. Corporation of Haverford College Stephen Thiermann a pre-aeason paign has recently been made by Webster will call a meeting held on Tuesday, reports on the Glee Club Radio Broadcast, to be Douglas M. Larson, recently chosen of the Nautical Association in condition of the College were read given in the Wanamaker Grand chairman of the drive. Committee the near future, he said, in or- by President W. W. Comfort and Court, is the most important inno- members who will collect funds der to select the teams which J. Henry Scattergood, '96, treasur- vation so for in the partially will be selected during the coming will represent the College. A er. This was immediately follow- completed concert schedule for the week. number of students belong to ed by a meeting of the Board of forthcoming season. In reviewing Present plans call for collections the Association, and several Managers. That evening the Alum- prospects, leader John Royer stat- of undergraduate contributions to have raced at M. I. T. in the ni Room was the scene of a dinner ed that 24 new members have been begin about November 1. Although past. for the faculty and the Board of tentatively selected as a result of payment for the full amount pledg- Managers at which four faculty Sunday and Monday tryouts a ed is preferable, students will be members addressed the group. week ago (see box, page 6). able to pay their donations in in- Statement On College Condition To Sing At 2:30 P. M. stallments throughout the year. `Mainliners' Debut The President's report was large- Taking their places before the Nine Organizations BenfRed ly a statement of the condition of microphone at 2.30 P. M. on De- Sponsoring the only charity the college, and of the advances cember 3 in the Grand Court of To Be Made Soon made in it during the past year. the Wanamaker Store, the Glee campaign conducted on the campus, - the Chest contributes funds to ap- The President also spoke of the Jolut A. Royer '39 Club will be led by Hoyer in sev proximately nine local, national, dangers faced by all small colleges eral selections which were popular and foreign organisations. Tenta- Ten-Piece Combination today, and made an appeal that the who will lead the Glee Club in in the repertoire last year. The tive beneficiaries closely connected Expects Successful college should not attempt any a presseason broadcast from concert will be one of a series giv- with the College include the Hav- rash expansion in these uncertain Wanamaker's store. en. this fall and winter by various erford Community Center. a recre- Dance Season times, hat net an example in keep.. well-known college glee clubs. ing within its means. The date of the annual Horne ational center for underprivileged Concert and Dance has been boys of the neighborhood, and the "The Haverford Mainliners," the College Debt Reduced ekenged to March 3, stated Thier- Janitors' Schopl. Funds are also Aid For Commons College dance orchestra which has In giving statistics about this mann, in order to avoid conflicts contributed to three charities in been rapidly taking form during with exams. This is a week ear- and around Philadelphia—the Unit- year's student body, he spoke of the the past two weeks, may be ex- steadily increasing territory repre- lier than last year's concert. ed Campaign of the Philadelphia pected to appear publicly before Room Is Sought Thiermann has intimated that sev- Community Fund, which aids relief sented by the students, and ex- the end of November. Rehearsals pressed the hope that the college eral innovations of special inter- organizations and hospitals all have been held, under the guidance est to members will be made for through the metropolitan area; might be "thus laying the founda- of Stephen W. Fleischman, and tion for a broader national influ- Drive To Eliminate Debt the Club's big event this year. the Bedford Center, of South Phila- the first processes of selection and Another new concert this year delphia; and the Haverford branch ence in the future than has been Planned By Jackson; consolidation have resulted in a exerted in the past." He also re- is that to be given at Beaver Col- of the Needlework Guild of Amer- well-rounded ten-piece combina- lege. This Jenkintown trip will ica. ferred to the co-operation of the Aids Selected tion. The present list of members Faculty and the college patrons take place sometime after Mid- includes William Stainton, pianist; Aids International Groupe and the generosity- of the Alumni With the popularity and utility years. Fleischman at the drums; with and other sources in helping to re- Bock Hill Trip Scheduled National and international groups Warren Anderson, Robert Miller, of the new Commons Room dem- which the drive aids include the duce the college debt to the point The club will spend three days. and Noble Burford, Jr. of the of being negligible. In mentioning onstrated in the few weeks it has American Friends' Service Com- class of '42 in competition for the been used, by the enthusiasm with as usual, at Buck Hill Falls in the mittee, in organization devoted to policies which would be necessary Poconoes, and will travel to At- the improvement of the social or- post of guitarist The saxophone to keep from again incurring a cor- which students share its facilities, section is made up of Hamilton a renewed drive for funds has been lantic City for at least one week- der; "The Seeing Eye," an institu- poration debt, he said that "it has end, giving a concert at the Chal- Hoyt, tenor Sax, and J. Allen, '37 seemed to um that we could set a undertaken this week in its behalf. tion for the training of dogs to aid and William Meldrum, Jr. '42, al- The committee in charge of provid- font-PSaddon Hall. Other concerts blind people; and the American praiseworthy example of decency on Thiermann's list include tos. 'Trumpets are John Frazier and thrift by living within our ing furnishings has been forced Red Cross. Chest contributions Burns Brodhead, Scott Worrell, and into debt, and it is hoped, accord- Moorestown Friends', Westtovrn, also go to aid the work of Robert means." He pointed out, "Those and George School. Concerts at Knox Brown, all members of the enthusiastic persons who are al- ing to Chairman Robert L. Jack- Simian, '03, at the West China son, that the new drive will more Bryn Mawr, Harcum, another at Union University and to support Freshman Class. ways ready to suggest some new Atlantic City, and one in New one child each year at the Daniel This marks the second year for attractive but expensive enterprise than clear the deficit. York will possibly be arranged Oliver's Orphanage in Palestine. four members of the "Mainliners." at the college must remember that An effort will be made to en- among others in the near future. courage those who pledged support "Principal change in the Chest's Fleischman, Stainton, Hoyt, and without new funds little more can According to Hoyer, 24 tentative policy this year will be to aid those Meldrum were among the six char- be accomplished." last year to increase the amount new members have been selected organizations in which the College ter-members who organized the College Improvements Cited of their pledges. In addition, all by William P. Bentz, the club's group last year. those who have not yet pledged has a special interest with contrilb- In referring to the fine condition musical director from New York, utions larger than those given in In spite of its limited size the will be expected to contribute to to sing with the club this year. band met with unqualified success of the grounds and buildings, the the fund, which recently added the past," Larson announced. President called attention to a "Sixteen men were lost by gradua- in obtaining a booking with the several end tables and two large tion last year," continued Hoyer, Cunard-White Star Linea. Starting number of improvements which benches to the furnishings. have been made. He spoke of the Confirmed On Per 1 Col. 3 First Tea Dance Draws in June, they made a month's trip Considering the room already an to the British Isles, playing for the improvement in the lighting of the library, and of the furnishing of accepted institution, Jackson has Throng To Gymnasium entertainment of the Cunard pass- appointed a committee, chosen Cap And Bells Executive engers. It is hoped that a similar the Alumni Room for a student recreation room as a result of the from each of the four classes, to Committee To Promote After Wesleyan Contest engagement may be procured for supervise its use.