The BELOIT ALUMNUS The Archway. On the corner of College and Emerson Streets, Where squirrels once nibbled their acorn-meats, Where Blaisdell and "Zeus" held chat of the weather Or on chores academic conferred together , They've builded a hall for the Social Sciences, Viewed one at a time or in groups and alliances. Its chairs, hygiwic, are screwed to the floor _- Book-cases, fir e-places, are numbered galore,· The window s are fixed from the left to give light, And w ith fans and w ith flues the air is kept right,· Each " prot' has an office to w hich to rept1ir, And mny even brew tea if for such he should care. But far the best thing in this building-it's true I Is the fa ct that it's made w ith a hole right through- A tube w hwce emerges a glow like rare knowledge, When the sunshine reflects from the bricks of North College: And we sense that the new doth the ancient enfold, And w hat's freshly minted is still the Old Gold. - R. K. RICHARDSON. October, :: :· Nineteen Thirty-One THE BELOIT ALUMNUS OFFICERS AND MEMBERS BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI CORPORATION President-Arthur F. Collins, '13, .153 S. Garfield Ave., Hinsdale, Ill. Vice-Pres.-Gerard A. Williams, '97, 9 Randolph St., Oak Park, Ill. Sec.-Treas.-Edith G. Kull, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. ....- ......-80 Dr. C. S. Bacon, '78, 2333 Cleveland Ave., Chicago, Ill. 1&81-85 Rev. Wilson Denney, '81, 817 Milwaukee Road, Beloit, Wis. 1886-90 Prof. H. D. Densmore, '86, Beloit College. t891-95 G. A. Dowd, '92, 742 Parker Ave., Beloit, Wis. 1896-00 Hermon C. Cooper, '96, 545 Park ~lvd., Glen Ellyn, Ill. 1901-05 E. M. Scheflow, '03, 10 Sherwin Block, Elgin, Ill. 1906-10 Lyle K. Munn, '07, Second National Bank, Beloit, Wis. 1911-15 Arthur F. Collins, '13, 153 S. Garfield Ave., Hinsdale, Ill. 1916-20 Charles G. Crabb, '20, 248 Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, Wis. 1921-25 Lelia Fraser, '22, Plainfield, Ill. 1926-30 James B. Gage, '28, Beloit College. ALUMNI CLUBS BAY CITIES Prl'sident-Myrtle Miller, '00, 2521 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Calif. B(}STON President-Vinnie Sellers, '16, 6 Harris St., Newburyport, Mass. Secretary-Henrietta Kilbourn, '06, 16 River St., Boston, Mass. CHICAGO ALUMNAE President-Mrs. Dorothy Buffington Richmond, '24, 158 Ma,lden Ave., La Grange, Ill. Secretary-Mrs. Norma Farnsworth Williams, '26, 5502 Washington Blvd., Chicago. CHICAGO ALUMNI Prefiident-Howard Thompson, ''24, 681 Western Ave., Glen Ellyn, Ill. Vice-Pres.-Raymond A. Phelps, '20, 2208 East 69th St., ChiCago. Secretary-George W. Bacon, '23, 7742 East Lake. Terrace, Chic'ago. Treasurer-Alden E. Fork, '28. DETROIT . , Pre$ident-Dr. Dqnald L. Stillwell, '09, 2709 Webb Ave., Highland Park, Detroit, Mich. Secretary-George Keithley, '25, 1257 Franklin Road, Detroit, Mich. FOX RIVER VALLEY President-E. M. Scheflow, '03, 10 Sherwin Block, Elgin, Ill. Vice-Pres.-Dr. Clark P. Currier, '14, Sylvandell Bldg., Aurora, Ill. Sec.-Treas.-Dorothy Mason, '24, 621 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Ill. MILWAUKEE ALUMNAE President-Theda Howe, '11, 2021 E. Park Place, Milwaukee, Wis. Vicr.-Pres.-Mrs. Mabel Ream Blair, '23, 2764 North 53rd St., Milwaukee, Wis. Sec.-Treas.-Mrs. Irma Smith Engstrom, '22, 715-14th Ave., Wauwatosa, Wis. MILWAUKEE ALUMNI PreRident-Charles Crabb, '20, 248 Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, Wis. Vicr.-Pres.-Manlius J. Post, '10, 2936 W. Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Sec.-Treas.-Fortney Stark, '29, 5516 North Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. NEW YORK Pre~ident-Dr. James M. Todd, '84, 420 Lexington Ave., New York City. Sec~etaries--Christian S. Lorentzen, '01, 400 Madison Ave., New York City. Mrs. Helen Halsted Friedman, '18, Weaver St. and Stratton Road, New Rochelle, . N.Y. OMAHA President-Walter B. Dudley, '04, 207 So. 19th St., Omaha, Neb. PACIFIC NORTHWEST I President-H. Celsus Belt, '94, 4733-19th Ave., N. E., Seattle, Wash. PORTLAND President-Jessie M. Short, '00, Reed College, Portland, Ore. Secretary-Helen F. Sedgwick, '04, 765 Upper Drive, Portland, Ore. ROCKFORD President-Frank E. Johnson, '16, 1623 Jackson St., Rockford, Ill. Secretary-Herbert Halsted, '16, 124 S. Main St., Rockford, Ill. Treasurer-Raymond McGaw, '26, 1232 Revell Ave., Rockford, Ill. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA President-Rev. Angelo E. Shattuck, '05, 955 N. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, Cillif. Vice-Pres.-June Baker, '12, 929 E. California St., Apt. 4, Pasadena, Calif. Sec.-Treas.-Marion Pierce, '18, 1439 Hillcrest Ave., Glendale, Calif. WASHINGTON, D. C. Conveners--Arthur W. Crawford, '06, 6325 Woodside Place, Chevy Chase, Md. Henry D. Ralph, '23, 3100-44th St., N. W., Washington, p, C. 2 THE BELOIT ALUMNUS Vol. XXV BELOIT, WISCONSIN, OCTOBER, 1931 No.2 Members of Alumni Magazines Associated The Beloit Alumnus is the official organ of the PHILIP H. RALPH, '98 ... .. Editor and Business Manager Beloit Alumni League. It is issued monthly during EDWARD W. HALE, '09 .................................... Associate Editor the school year. Yearly subscriptions $2.00. Thj: ]AMES B. GAGE, '28... .......................................Associate Editor magazine is sent to all contributors to the Alumni DOROTHY W. HOUGH, 'OL.. .......Editor Women's Page Fund. Entered as second-class matter, March 3, 1910, at the Postoffice at Beloit, Wis., under Act. of March, 3, 1879 EDUCATION A LA MODE while made the treasur ~ r's office look more like a grocery store than the financial head- LD timers like to talk of the days when quarters of. a college. 0 students who were short of cash toted their own trunks from the depot on wheel- Newspapers placed many different heads barrows. Those "old boys" had nothing on upon the widely read story, among which were the students of today. Money is relatively as "Tasty Tuition," "Food for Thought" and scarce on the Beloit campus as it ever was. "Raise Tuition." Boys are coming to College who don't even have trunks to wheel to the dormitory. Vegetables and canned fruits have been bar- ENROLLMENT HAS INCREASED tered for an education this year at this vener- OV£R RECENT YEARS able seat of learning. This seems like a joke NROLLMENT figures taken at the end to various news writers throughout the coun- E of the first week of school show Beloit try, but it is no joke to the three earnest stu- as having the largest number of students it ' dents who, by virtue of farm produce, are has had since 1925-26, and the second larg- cherishing receipted bills for the year's tuition. est number in the history of the school. A Here surely is food for thought. total of 545 students are in attendance. The fact that Beloit College has in these While the Freshman class is not of record instances accepted food stuffs in payment for size-although it is somewhat larger than last tuition has been published in every section of year, and about double the size of the class the country. To date the publicity director entering in 1929-upperclasses are good-sized, has two hundred-thirty clippings from news- making for a well-balanced distribution which papers located from the Atlantic to the Pacific to college officials is a pleasant fact. coasts. · An unusual feature was the large number It all came about a day or two before school of students who registered for Sophomore and officially began. A Rock county farmer who Junior classes after a year or more of work at had had successful crops desired to send his some other institution. The growth of jun- son to college. He had -no ready cash, so ior colleges may account for this in part, but asked if he could not furnish the college dor- the number coming from large universities mitories with some food in payment of his shows Beloit's reputation in such schools and son's term bill. The offer was accepted by the college. Two days later the treasurer's also is another proof of the tendency, believed office received a consignment of potatoes, to '. be growing, favoring the smaller school. hams and vegetables which were turned over Complete enrollment figures are as follows: to the dormitory kitchens. The young man's Men Women Total term bill was stamped paid. Freshman ............... .. 122 106 228 Newspapers discovered that Beloit had re- Sophomore .... ........... 85 72 15 7 vived an old system of paying tuition and lost Junior ............... ......... 48 28 76 no time broadcasting the fact. The result was Beloit's getting two more students upon Senior .......... ................. 35 42 77 the same conditions before the week was over. Graduate 6 7 One of the latter also turned in some home canned fruits and vegetables which for a 296 249 545 3 THE BELOIT ALUMNUS First week figures for the past ten years dropped billions more in bad loans to unstable are: foreign governments at the instance of our in- 1921-22 ............. .. ........................ .544 ternational bankers, are asked to loan another 1922-23 ....................... ........... .542 billion and declare a moratorium on a billion 1923-24... ····················· ......... 503 -To stabilize the money market! 1924-25 ......................................... .515 The citizens of all nations are demanding 1925-26. ······················ ..................552 that their governments stop pouring steel for 1926-27 ....................... ... ........... ......487 guns, forts, battleships and armaments-yet 1927-28 ........................... ....... ........... 537 Americans are amazed and annoyed because 1928-29 ........... ................................. 4 79 the stock of the U. S. Steel Corporation is 1929-30 ............................................ 435 on the toboggan. It is the wheel horse of the 1930-31 ............................................ 495 market. It should stabilize itself. 1931-32 .......... .................................. .545 There seems to be no sense in anything The percentage of men enrolled has risen we do.-The English look as silly as the Rus- slightly over that of last year, and there are sians, but from a diffe.rent angle.