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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1-12-1949 The aB tes Student - volume 75 number 13 - January 12, 1949 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 75 number 13 - January 12, 1949" (1949). The Bates Student. 995. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/995 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NO. 13 THE BATES STUDENT BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, JANUARY 12, 1949 By Subscription $ College Plans 50,000 Extension Crowley Will Speaking Contest Speak To C. A. Buker, Cannon Head for Hedge Lab; Coram Nears Dr. Crowley, assistant professor Will Be Postponed of biology, will be the speaker at The junior-senior prize speaking the Christian Association fireside contest has been postponed because Completion; Commons Indefinite meeting next Tuesday evening, CA of the small number of students Cast Of "7 Chances" President Nelson Home announced who signed up to participate. The Leading roles in the forthcoming Plan- »" ,:ow ready for an exten"" today. The meeting is scheduled for contest will be held after final ex- play "Seven Chances" will be taken . t0 be built onto the Hedge 6:45 in Chase Hall. aminations provided enough stu- ZfUUy Laboratory, the adminis- by Norman Buker and Lawrence Bigger Hedge: More H2S? Dr. Crowley, new to the faculty dents sign up with Miss Schaeffei Cannon, it was announced today by , ,ion has announced. Outing Club Plans n this year, was for ten years head of within the next two weeks. \ second and third floor will be Director Lavinia M. Schaeffer. Bu- Monday, Bates sent two teams to ' j (o the one-story wing built the department of biological scienc- ker will play Jimmie Shannon, the es at Southern College of Optometry South Paris, Maine to give an ex- young man who has unexpectedly • 19_'6. Because of the interest of College Roller Skate in Memphis. Tenn. He received his hibition debate. Donald Peck and inherited a large fortune, available e number f students in the back. Price will be a nickel each "urg ° Ph. D. in 1930 and was a professor Arthur Knoll spoke on the affirma- This week end the Bates campus to him only if he becomes married t id of chemistry there is an urg- of biology at Fordham College, his tive of the topic: Resolved, that is going to have a new, novel Sat- way. within a certain time limit. Cannon !1 need for this expansion. alma mater, from 1930 to 1937. He the federal government should adopt urday night entertainment. The This evening from 7:00 to plays Bill Meeking, who aids and Bates is one of the 150 out of will lead a discussion Tuesday on a policy of equalizing educational 7:30 p. m., Thursday noon from abets Shannon by arranging parties ,550 colleges in the United States Outing Club is sponsoring a popu- the relationships of Christianity opportunity in tax-supported schools 1245 to 1:30 p. m. and Thursday for eligible young women. ha. received the approval of lar sport evening of roller-skating that with the broader aspects of living. by means of annual grants. Donald evening from 7 to 7:30 p m. stu- Others in the cast include John American Chemical Society for at the Lewiston fair grounds. (he The CA Personal Relations Com- Dervis and Ralph Cate were the dents may sign up at Coram Libra Moore as Joe Spence. Ian Buchan- its courses in the department of ry. The cost is 50 cents, which in- mission will meet at 7 p. m. next negative speakers. Herbert Bergdahl The Roller Skate will be from an as Earl Goddard. Richard Tren- cludes skates. For skates provided chemistry Sunday in the home of Dr. and was chairman. holm as George. The feminine parts $50,000. 8:00 to 11:30 P. M. Busses will with shoes there is a slight extra The needed funds, $M),uuu, are Mrs. Woodcock to discuss its pro- The rating averages of speakers will be taken by Elsbeth Thomas come to the front of Rand Hall to charge. Refreshments can be obtain- not yet complete >• though the pro- gram for the year. The group will in the Vermont Defeating Tourna- as Mrs. Garrison, Kafherine Evans pick up the students and bring them ed at the fair grounds. , „- ,hf 19-W Alumni Fund will plan for the next fireside meeting ment have been sent by the officials as Ann Windsor, Va4j*an Ripley as be mrned over to the project. No and deal with such problems as stu- of she tournament. The effectiveness Irene Trevor, Joyce Lyons as date has been set for the construc- dent-faculty relations and the enter- of each debater was rated on a 50- Appoint Wade Annual Frosh Georgy Garrison, Natalie Connor is iion. President Phillips expects, tainment of speakers visiting the point scale. They are: William Lily Trevor, Barbara Muir as Peg- however, that ground will be broken campus. Stringfellow-43.5%, Richards Mc- Sports Editor Prize Debates gy Wood, June Cunningham as some time next spring. Mahon-43%, Frank Chapman- Florence Jones, Martha Rayder as BIGGER AND BETTER HEDGE CHEMISTRY LAB The CA cabinet decided at its The present campus construction meeting last Wednesday to con- 40.25%, Chester Leon-42%, Charles Robert Wade has been appointed Betty Willougbby. sports editor of the STUDENT, ToBeMonday ■meet the addition to Coram Li- open for use before the Christmas tinue to pay the expenses of the Radcliffe-40%, Donald Peck-35% Assistant directors are Stanley brary, is progressing rapidly. At the vacation. Christmas vesper service as in past Donald Dervis 30.75%, and Ralph effective at the beginning of next The annual Freshman Prize De- Moody and Richard Webber. Set prtsent time both ithe periodical The proposed new Men's Com- Bates Debates N.B. years, "providing the service pro- Cate-30%. semester, Editor-in-Chief Sue Mc- bates, held in two divisions, will be construction will be managed by gi reference rooms on the first mons as in addition to Chase Hall motes the religious ends the cabinet Bride announce! today. Wade re- presented next Monday evening in Charles Stone. places Eugene Zelch, whose year the Chase Hall radio room. joor are open and the changing has been planned, but the date of Week From Today feels are desirable." would lay basic plans for the ser- Students with artistic ability are jeslt is being used. The stacks were construction is still indefinite. It was proposed that a coordinat- vice well ahead of time. Mary and a half as sports department The topic of the first division is reminded of the $10 prize for the The first international debate of ing committee be set up next year Gibbs, Aaron Gillespie, Mrs. Pow- chief will end with a mid-year grad- Resolved, That the Federal Govern- best set design for party decora- the year will be held next Wednes- composed of representatives from ers, and Sylvia Stuber were appoint- uation early in February. ment should establish a program of tions. Anyone interested should con- day, when the University of New the music department, CA, and ed to a committee to discuss the Wade, a junior, has for three se- cumpulsory health insurance. Law- tact Stanley Moody as soon as Book Frankie Kahn For Brunswick comes here to debate the Robinson Players. This committee matter more fully. mesters covered football, .basketball, rence Burns, Richard Goldman, and possible. Carol Jacques will debate the af- Bates affirmative team of Max Bell and baseball intraimirals for the Rehearsals begin this week and firmative against a negative team of Carnival Dance Feb. 5 and Rae Stillman. STUDENT. He also wrote sports will resume after finals. "Seven This debate will be on the topic David Moore, Stanley Patterson, Dr. Phillips Encourages Private for his high school yearbook. Chances" will be performed Feb. Frankie Kahn and his orchestra "Basin Street," will be followed in resolved: That the United Nations and Rdbert Rudolph. Additions to the board of assist- 24, 25, and 26. I lave been booked for the Winter the dance decorations. Dark blue, William Kuhn, and John Moore now be revised into a federal world Grants For College Students ant news editors, effective with this The play is a light modern com- Carnival Dance, Saturday, Feb. 5, light blue, and white will be the government. Richard Nair has been for the affirmative, and Elizabeth The building of scholarship funds said Dr. Phillips, "inflation has hit issue are Jean Johnson, covering edy involving many young men and I Richard Zakarian, chairman of the color scheme with the white center- appointed manager of the debate by Townshend and Roderick Nichol- for college students from private the college campus. Back in 1939-40 campus clubs, and Melissa Meigs, women who in the atmosphere of dance committee has announced. ed mainly around the Queen's the debating council. son for the negative will handle the contributions rather than from fed- students in some private colleges music and class activities. Both gay parties endeavor to help Jim- Iritis 13 piece band and a female throne. Streamers will be used in second topic: Resolved, that no ma- Last year Bates sent a team up eral grants was urged today by could meet their year's bills for tui- sophomores, these editors have mie Shannon find a wife so that he |wcali-t have many regular dance an attempt to lower the ceiling and jor changes should be made in the to the University of New Bruns President Phillips.