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University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Daily Campus Archives Student Publications 9-21-1922 Connecticut Campus, Volume 9, Number 1, September 21, 1922 Byrd E. Standish Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dcamp Recommended Citation Standish, Byrd E., "Connecticut Campus, Volume 9, Number 1, September 21, 1922" (1922). Daily Campus Archives. 314. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dcamp/314 T·H·E CONNECTICUT CAMPUS ·sUBSCRIBE TO ''THE CAMPUS" ·' EVERYBODY! VOL. IX STORRS CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1922 NO.1 FRESHMEN ENROLLED ONE ATTENTION ALUMNI I BROADCASTING STATION INSTALLED AT COLLEGE .HUNDRED SIXTY STRONG Just glance through the columns of this, the first issue TOTAL ENROLLMENT WILL of the Campus, and then you won't be a bit surprised when PUBLICITY WORK AIDED NEAR FIVE HUNDRED someone remarks that the biggest year in the history of the Connecticut Agricultural College-your Alma Mater-has BY HIGH CLASS OUTFIT About Forty Girls Enroll for Courses. but begun. D. E. Noble to be Operator of Local · Two Y Men May be Housed in ~ar There have been many new and good improvements Station. Extension Reports, Club Barracks Due to Crowded Dorms. about the campus and through the entire college there is a Work and Results of all Games to spirit of growth and progress never equalled before. ·be Broadcastetl. 1 By far the biggest year in the his tory of the college was inaugurated at The football squad trained at Hammonassett Beach for For the past several years there has Connecticut when "Big Ben" in the ten days and good results are anticipated for the coming season. · been considerable activity in radio at tower of the Main Building sounded Connecticut with a number of private the call for the first class yesterday We want you to know when the team romps off with the ly owned receiving sets in operation. morning. About two hundred appli bacon. We want you and the world in general to know what Last year, however, a sum of money cations have been received and approv we are doing here. The Campus, which will be printed was granted in the appropriation for ed by the secretary G. S. Torrey, which weekly throughout the college year, is invaluable to anyone the college to be used in the installa- . makes the· entering class the largest who wishes to keep in touch with the activities on the "Hill". tion of a complete receiving and in the history of the college. Of those It will be our aim and pleasure to put the news before the broadcasting outfit. Work was begun who have been accepted, one hundred alumni body. early in the summer on the towers and and sixty are in the four year course Are you going to keep up with this era of progress in remodeling the upper floor of the Me and forty in the two year divi!Jion. In the college? Are you with us, Alumni? chanic Arts building as a wireless the fr.eshman class of the college there room. At the present time the work are forty young women in the Home has been completed with the exception Ec'onomics course, which is also a re UNDERCLASSMEN PREPARE l MILITARY DEPARTMENT of a ground and counterpoise circuit cord number for co-eds. With the re FOR HISTORIC ROPE PULL MAKES MANY CHANGES but final testing and adjustments will turn of two hundred and twenty old Swan Lake to be Scene of Gala Event. require considerable time so that the student~ and nearly forty more in Handbook to be Published.-Daily "Sophs" Wrecking Crew Favored station will not be operating for at the two year course, the enrollment Inspection of Rooms.-Uniform to to Win. Football Men May be Elig least a month. total will approach five hundred, a ible for Contest. be Worn Only on Drill Days. mark which will no doubt be reached The station is equipped with. the latest word in radio instruments and when· the final numbers are available. The first big event of the year in A big year ahead is· the advance will rank among the best radio broad The housing situation has reached interclass contests will probably occur dope for the Military Unit at Connect casting transmitters in the state. The an acute stage and the overflow from a week from Monday when twenty icut for many radical changes have aerial is supported on two steel tow the men's · dormitories will probably five members of each of_ the lower been made in the policy of this de ers, each 103 f eet tall and located in be accommodated in barracks which classes will struggle in the time bon partment which will add to its gen the rear of the Mechanic Arts build are to be erected in the near future ored rope rush. Once again the banks eral efficiency. This year the com ing. The sending set consists of four in the vicinity of Storrs Hall. These of Swan Lake will be the scene of the mandant will be Captain C. R. Crim, fif~y watt tubes, two as modulators will be completed in time for the two battle which gives the frosh their ini assisted by another commissioned · and two as oscillators. There are two year men when they arrive late in 0<;:- tial opportunity to pit their strength officer and Sergeant E. A. Zimmerman, sources of plate upply, one being a tober. against that of their lords and mas- who was at Connecticut during the one K.W. thousand volt motor gen There are now three fraternity ters, the glorious sophomores. past year. houses on the Hill which makes sever- While the rules for the affair have· erator, the other an auxiliary supply A handbook of R. 0. T. C. work, consisting of a one thousand volt tube al more rooms available in the dormi not yet been issued they will in all, dealing with all branches and rules rectified alternating current system. tories. Two of the rooms formerly probability be the same as those which of the department has been compiled occupied by these organizations in have governed similar contests in pre-. The same modulation system will be and will be issued to every man in th Storrs and Koons Hall will be given vious years with the possible excep-, used as that employed by all large outfit. This book has been planned radio stations. The receiving equip up ~nd occupied by freshmen, thus tion that football men will be allowed along the same lines as the Conn cti ment is on a par with the broadcast using all possible accommodations. to pull. It has also been decided to cut Handbook and is complete in ev ry ing outfit. have the rush at the pond rather than detail. Prominent among the n w the new lake as the conditions are When in operation the tation will ETA LAMBDA SIGMA rules is the one that any person found more favorable in every respect. be u ed largely by the xtension ser OPENS FRAT HOUSE wearing- his uniform w'ith th xc p Ther e is very little advance dope vice to broad ast information to farm tion of drill days will be compell d to Local Organization Moves to Building available a such an arly date but all rs and also in ·Iub work. The publi forfeit his military d posit. A new Formerly Occupied by Dr. Newton the odd eem to be with the sopho ity departm nt of the college will system of inspection has been worked mores. Last year's contest was close al o have special concerts broadcasted out and rooms will be visited daily With the opening of college thi from beginning· to end with the '24 tog ther with other features for the by members of the unit who are al o fall one discovers many changes about men winning by a narrow margin. advertising of the college. Through on the Student Senate. the campus, among them the opening With their old wrecking crew back on thi medium r suits of games in all of a fraternity house by the Eta the job the verdant frosh will indeed New penaltie for disorderly room sports will also be sent out to the Lambda Sigma fraternity. have to muster a mighty host to yank and all general offenses which at'P many peopl who own sets. The organization has rented the the necessary feet of rope to their common in military life will be strict The station will be operated by Dan house formerly occupied by Doctor H. side of the emerald pool. However, ly imposed and a complete demerit iel Noble, a radio experimenter who is D.- Newton of the chemistry depart practice makes perfect, but all young plan has been worked out and will b continuing his studies at the college ment. The house i' well adapted for frosh who walk abroad after dark are put into operation as soon a drill be for another year. Having owned and fraternity use, having six large sleep liable to get--lost. gins for the year. The pre ent ad operated a powerful set at the coli ge ing rooms and will accommodate six ministration intend to make the bat during the past year together with teen men. The down tairs part of and white hangings. The upper por- talion on the Hill one of the best in veral years of experimental and re the house which will be furnished and tions of th house will be furnished the country and the goal of a Dis search work, Mr.