THE ARGUS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITX

WINNER OF FIRST PRIZE ILLINOIS COLLEGE PRESS ASSOCIATION CONTEST 1928

VOLUME XXXV BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1929 NUMBER 30

ALPHA SIGMA PROGRAM Eighty-five Candidates DELTA Thirty-five Seniors Have PROGRAM EDGAR DEWITT JONES BECOMES NATIONAL,Positions; Will of Seventieth Commencement For Degrees to Leave Enter Vat ied Professions Friday, June 7 Wesleyan by Graduation WILL BE SPEAKER AT il~P7 , flll1L$r11r1~r DELTA ALPHA EPSILON Thirty-five members of the gradu- 8.00 p. m.--President's Recep- Eighty-five seniors are candidates 11!1! LU1IIIUMVIIL tI ating class have found positions for tion. Kemp Hall. for degrees from Illinois \Vesleyan University in this year's Initiation Services Held for Charter next ear, Dean iliam allis re Sunday, June 9 commence- Membersat Champaign ports from the list compiled in his of- 7:30 p m. Baccalaureate Ser- ment. They are Baccalaureate Sermon by President Metmbers, at Champaign 70p .BcaaraeSr Saturdayice. These people are: mon by President \Villiam J. Bachelor of Arts Davidson Sunday Evening Robert Cummins, Morris, teacher; June Ninth Davidson. Second Presbyterian Daisy Bane, Elizabeth J. Best. Clar- Alpha Sigma Delta, Wesleyan's only Frank Jordan, Bloomington, teacher. Church. enceBest, Mary E. Bevan, Paul Cant- local fraternity, became ner, Atile Chiti, Henryl Cox, HTate L. The seventieth commencement will the Delta (Illinois Vesleyan); Irvin Swigart, June 10 Monday, ner.tile Citi, Henry Cox, Nate be held at Wesleyan chapter of Delta Alpha June sevenith to Epsilon when Bloomington, Ind. graduate student n Crabtree, Robert \V. Cummins, elevenith with \il- eventh ith aa graduatinggraduating classclass of a charter was issued to them on Sat- and assistant (Indiana U.) ; Sate 10:00 a. m.-Annual Class Day liam XX. Cutlip, Bertha S. Dawson, eigthy-five. urday, May 2, during initiation ser- Crabtree, Bloomington, publicity sec Exercises. Ami Chapel. Dorothy Dunaway. , ildred Finfgeld, The president's reception honoring vices held at Champaign, Illinois. retary (Illinois Vesleyan); Leta Jis- 10:00 a. m.-Meeting of the Green, Kent Greene, pKenneth h. Initiatio Standing Committees of the KB. neth Gree, Ket Greene, the seniors Initiation services for twenty mem- kra, Bloomington, housewife; Lauras- is the openiing of the ser- Standing Committees o e Francis B. Harris, Harry Heckman, bersthe of new ,C . p ,,;,,,... T ...... -.-....s fraternity were hed tine Welch, Downer's Grove teacher Joint Board of Trustees and Of- ... t-1.... . v,. . .. I taCn , . t n,, e VeIIvtl, hers of the new fraternity were held owe Frances G. Hidden, Grace Holt, Caro- at the chapter house at the Univer- Dr. and Mrs. W'illiam J. Davidson will Finfgeld,geildred Princeton teacher I ficial Visitors. Main Building. lyn E. Houchin, Edwin Huntley, Jr., sity of Illinois. Catherine Vood, teacher; receive .their guests at Kemp Hall Atwood, i 2:00 p. m.-Annual Meeting of F. Clyde Johnson, Louise A. Lange. Charter members of Wesleyan's new Kenneth Greene, Akron, , in bus- the Joint Board of Trustees and Parents of the seniors are invited to Henry Lloyd. Arthur Lathrop, Mary chapter are Hubert Stephens, iness be present. Merrill office (Firestone Tire Co.); Dor- Official Visitors. Main Build- Helen McCarty, Thornton McClaugh- Gibson, Mason Campbell, John Grisa- othy Artis, Columbus, Ohio, laboratory ing. Union of Churches ry, Lucile McFadden, Virginia W. Mc- more, Harold Bennett, Wesley Fred- The baccalaureate sermon will be technician (Ohio State Univ.); Lyndle 2:00 p. m.-Reunions of Class- Nutt, Wilson McVety, Horace Miller, rickson, Vivan Blakely, John Rogers, Conboy, given Sunday, June 9. by President V. Hattiesburg, Miss., teacher es of '69, '74, '79, '84, '89, '94, '99, Grace J. Morris, Joseph Myers, Les- John Nolan, John Reynolds, Leroy (State Teachers' College); J. Davidson at the Second Presbyter- Homer '04, '09, '14, '24. Main Building. ter Nafziger, Charlotte A. Nicholson, Morton, Byron Jacobs, Euclid Mont- Maxey, ian church at 7:.30. This is the first Armington, teacher; Daisy 2:30 p. m.-Recital by Seniors Margaret Noble, Bernice I. Rhymer, gomery, Clifford Myers, Clarence Bane, Pecttonica, time an evening has been used for the teacher; Alfred Neu, in the School of Music. Amie Lois M. Sack, Ida Shapiro, Alice She- Owens, Joseph Wunderlich, Edwin baccalaureate service but the union Rome, Georgia, teacher (Shorter Col- Chapel. ley, Raymond Snook, Mildred Spring- Kettlecamp, Francis meeting must necessarily be held then. Harris, Everett lege); Mary Laird, Birmingham, Ala- 3:30 to 5:00 p. m.-Art De- er, Laurastine Welch, Marian Wil- Liston, and Ellis Workman. Walter bama, teacer; Monday, June 10, is class day. The Alta Barnes, Normal, partment Exhibit and Tea. Brief liams, Catherine XVood, Helen G. senior breakfast comes first. Here Ivie and Joseph Gray are pledges. teacher; John Alexander, Champaign, Gallery Talk. Art Studio, Buck Xooddell, Ellis Workman. all Select Officers graduate student (U. of I.); Horace Memorial engagements of the seniors are an- Library. Bachelor of Science nounced. At 10:00 Officers of the fraternity were se- Millr, Chicago, in sales department, 5:00 p. m.-Annual Business o'clock the class John Alexander, Dorothy Artis, day program will lected for next year. Vivan Blaklev (Butler Paper Co.); William Cutlip, Meeting of the Alumni Associa- begin. The stand- William F. Bean, Harold F. Bennett, ing committees is president; Clarence Owens, vice- Evanston, graduate student (North- tion. Bloomington High School. of the joifnt Board of Lewis Flinn, Merrill Gibson, Stanley Trustees and official president; John Reynolds, secretary" western); Edwin Huntley, New York, i 6:30 p. m.-Annual Alumni visitors will Gordon, Aaron Hoffman, Meredith meet at 10:00 John Nolan, treasurer: Everett Lis- N. Y., graduate student (National Rec- Banquet. tr. Chalmers H. in the main building. At ton, historian;and CliffordMyers is reation School); Mary Vanneman, Marquis, '10, President of the Jenkins, Afred Jensen, Leta Jiskra, 2:00 the entire group will convene in Marjorie E. MacKay, Homer A. Max- their annual meeting. sargeant at arms Pontiac, teacher; Robert Murray, Alumni Association, Toastmas- ey, Margaret Middleton, Virginia Class reunions will be held The fraternity pin is a triangle, bor- New York, N. Y., graduate student ter. Speakers, Reuben Borsch at 2:00 Pearson, Florence E. Peterson, Keith in Main for the dered with nine stars, and set within (National Recreation School); Hubert (Rhodes Scholar) and William classes of '69, '74, '79, Shreffler, Joseph Spitale, Hubert WV. '84, '89, '94, a four leaf clover design. The letters Stephens, Durhma, N. C., graduate H. Craine. Bloomington High '99, '04, '08, '14, '19, '34. Stephens, J. Irwin Swigart, A and a bar are set within fhe triangle, student and assistant (Duke Univ.); Gymnasium. Mary E. recital by seniors in the music Vanneman, Alice in the upper corner of which is a Elizabeth Best, Hoopeston teacher; Tuesday, June 11 Walker. school will be held at Amie chapel at The Lcill Mcrdden Dalas Cty, each Bachelor of Music 2:30 . The Art department will hold crescent moon. The pledge pin is in Lucille McFadden, Dallas City, teach- 9 :30 a. m.-Academic Proces- an exhibit and tea With a brief gal- the form of a trapezoid with white er" Merrill Gibson, Kansas, teacher; sion. Campus. F. Lyndle Conboy, Jay Hinshaw, lery talk in the Buck Memorial white library background and bears as its Aaron Hoffman, Beason, teacher; Lois 10:30 a. nm.-Annual Conm- Frank Jordan, Dorothy Kies, Clyde E. device two crossed at 3:30 to 5:00. links. The colors Sack, Pontiac, teacher; Catherine mencement. Address by the McMeans, John Alfred Neu, Nathan are Alumni Dinner royal purple and white. Powell, Muskegon, , teacher; Reverend Edgar DelVitt Jones, D. Rosenbluth, Mary Scales, Naomi The Alumni Association will hold its National in 1923 Margaret Middleton, Staunton, teach- D. D. Memorial Gymnasium. Woll. Delta Alpha Epsilon became Sannual business meeting at the Bloom- a na- er; Alice Walker, Princeton, R. R. Bachelor of Music Education ington High School at 5:00 and fol- tional fraternity in 1923 and at pres- 7, teacher (Township High School); . Alta Barnes, Mary E. Laird, ent has four chapters. At Illinois,the Frances Hidden, Dallas City, teachero Alberta low with a banquet at 6:30. Chalmers Alphaschapter, .illikin,Michigan, and Harry Heckman, Chicago, graduate Accomplishments of Mapes, Mabel L. Nafziger, Catherine N. Marquis, '10, president of Alpha chapter, Millikin, Michigan, and the asso- Powell, Letta M. Schwartz, Roland J. ciation will be toastmaster. Reuben Illinois Wesleyan. student (University of Chicago); Mar- Dramatic Department Shimp. garet Noble, McLean, teacher; Har- Varied, Worthwhile Borsch recently returned Rhodes Elizabeth McArdle and Fred Holt WESLEYAN GARDUATE, old Bennett, Washington, D. C., U. S. scholar and William H. Craine will will graduate at the end of summer SERIOUSLY ILL, NOW Govt. Bureau of Standards; Arthur The Dramatic department has been speak. ON WAY TO RECOVERY Lathrop, school. Lostant, (High School). working busily this year, and has ac- Jones Will Speak Ocomplished a number of worth-while The senior procession will form on Joyce Brabner-Smith, Wesleyan things. FATHER OF EDGAR WALKER the campus Tuesday, June 11, gtatduate, and athlete, has at 9:30 just been ALPHA GAMMA DELTA Four three-act plays have been DIES AFTER OPERATION pre- and march to the Memorial discharged from the French Hospital, gymna- CELEBRATES FOUNDER'S DAY sented to the public, the first, "The Edgar M. Walker, 602 Fell avenue, sium for the commencement program. New York, where he has been confin- Romantic Young Lady", a comedy, Normal, father of Edgar B. WXalker, a The speaker will be the ed for a month with erysipelas. Mr Alpha Gamma Delta sorority- cele-Romanticwsas given as the Homecoming play.' Reverend Ed- sophomore in Illinois Wesleyan Brabner-Smith had a died gar DeVitt Jones, D. D. Dr. Jones very unique brated Founder's Day with a dinner at For the first te oe Wesleyan Thursday at Brokaw hospital of peri- now case for besides having a temperature pastor of a Detroit church, spent 6:30 p. m. Saturday for all Alpha stage the faculty presented a drama t tonitis which followed an appendix op- several years in Bloomington of 106 for five days and being uncon- Gamma Deltas, their mothers, patrons "The Lion and the Mouse'. "Under I as pas- eration. WVesleyan students scious for more are ex- tor of the First Christian church. than two weeks, he : and patronesses. Mrs. Shelton Thom- Cover", a play for new students, was ttending their sympathy jumped through to his family. a sixth story window as, Mrs. Celia Green and Miss Helen the third play, and the last, "Love-In Mr. Walker was a member of the HOSTESS AT TEA only to land on the fire escape below. j Perry were in charge of the general AMist", was given by members of Masonic lodge and of the Normal Mrs. Charles Brokaw, Kemp hall, Mr. Brabner-Smith has been in arrangements and a committee includ- Theta Alpha Phi. IM'ethodist Episcopal church. training He is Illinois Wesleyan university, was host- for junior executive position ing Mrs. I. I. Bower, Miss Rea Mar-O urvived by his wife and four children. at R. H. Macy and Company, ess at a tea between the hours of 2 the quart and Miss Ellen Mae Ryan plan- One-Act Plays s Edgar B., Robert j., Sarah E. and and 5 p. m. Saturday, at the hall, hon- largest cash selling and buying store ned the program. classeslasquers have andproduced the Play a numberProduction of Mary L. in America, oring Miss Lucille Ross and her sister and was to have started j Arrangements for the annual Alpha oneact plays. "Dust of the Road" The funeral was held executive work the day he was Saturday at 3 who are visiting friends in Blooming- taken Gamma Delta picnic to be given Mon- given first for the Masquers, was la- 1: m., at the Beck chapel with Dr. ton. Miss Ross was fomerly music to the hospital. Half a year was day, June 10, have also been made. ter presented in chapel, aI Minonk, trank A. McCarty, pastor of the First supervisor in the Bloomington schools. spent under Profesor XVester'field, of T'his is the annual homecoming which and at several places in Bloomington. lethodist Yale studying church, Bloomington, in She has been studying this year in chain store distribution, the sorority alw'.ays plans at com- "Twilight", a one-act drama written C:harge. Burial was in Park Hill before Brabner-Smith entered California and has recently returned Macy's. mencement time. by Helen VVoodell, sas presented inc :emetery. from a trip to Honolulu. chapel, at Masquer meeting, at sev- C------~__ ~ Be eHenkemester eral places in Bloomington, and twice Beteen Sem esterH ke out of town. "The China Pig", given Tess of the D' Urberoilles Shows T hi P Iti by the Play Production class, was To Chicago Proves Interesting presented to the Masquers, at the Wo- mans Day program, and at several The Fatalism of Thomas Hardy By GLENN NORVELL changed our expression and attempted woman's club meetings in Wesleyan by Thomas Hardy for sin, but simply a result of the After a bracing noontime lunch of to look like State Normal boys seek- Normal. land Reviewed hot coffee and by Louise Lange force of fate. Throughout the story baked beans, and a ing a ride home. Laurestine XVelch, Hilda Ragan, and Tess faceteous farevell to our waitress of the D'Urbervilles is a novel "a pure woman" is sorrowful or happy I suggested we sta,.t out walking, in Catherine W'ood have gone out as p classmate and well-wisher, who failed ortraying, as Hardy says, "a pure in accordance with the dictates of fate, order to give a 'eniblance of ambi- readers to meetings, woman's clubs (despite the fact that it siroman was even then tion and let the motoring world faithfully presented". The sto- and not in accordance with her will. know and churches in Bloomington and r:-, told in a realistic the last day of February) to see thru manner, is grip- However, the fact that the book out- that we had a destination. But my neighboring towns. P our semi-witticism that we would ing. An overpowering sense of fate rages our feelings of justice shows not friend, a man wise in the way of the "Seventh Heaven" on Tour d be ominates throughout. Tess is passive that it is not entirely pessimistic. Ab- back until early spring-the first world, disposed of mi suggestion with Theta Alpha Phi has been excep- a nd part of March-we resigned in the presence of this solute pessimism is absolute indiffer- prepared to leave an explanation of the psychology of tionally honored in having the group fa and while at for Chicago. It was ate. first we may blame ence. The book is not absolutely in- to be my first ex- the road. that presented "Seventh Heaven" last her for her submission to perience into which I had been it, we soon different in its attitude toward the whee- "No," he said, "it you look like you year invited to take the play out on fe eel. too, that resistence is useless, dled by my friend, who professed to want fate of Tess, since the injustice of her to walk these guys will think, the Loar Chautauqua circuit. Miss T be an expert in the 'he feeling of fate inspires in us pity fate arouses our sense of justice. Fur- mendicant art. 'Well. there are some boys out for Marvel Miller is to manage and direct fcor those New Rubbers, swept along in the tide, and thermore, the picture of love so endur- their health,' but if you sit and wait this group, and will take, with few a feear of the outcome, ing as Tess's is not After wisely investing in fresh pessimistic. The pairs and then politely let them know you exceptions, six of the original cast. of rubbers, for the ground was This novel reflects Hardy's pessimis- book seems to show that although slush want to ride, they think, 'Ah! Here The play wsill be presented on the ti c attitude toward covered, we caught our first life to a certain ex- nothing can be done about the fate ride- are some boys going somewhere and chautauqua circuit during the month to i cnt. He seems hitched our first hike-with a to tell us that happi- of a person, the man-made causes of motor- trying to save their money. I'll give of August, and the route will include ne ess does not come through our own ing classmate, who deposited us misery, as, for instance, Angel's deser- at the them a lift.' Besides it's too cold to cities in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and ef forts, but is "a gift of the gods". tion, are avoidable. 1 north edge of Normal. Here we (Continued on page 5) Missouri. L ikewise sorrow is not a punishment (Continued on Page 4)

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