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Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, October 11,1942 Prica: Ten Cents Milne Comedy Opens President Names Four '42 Footlight Season Monthly Meeting Of Pointers, Dean's List . h Heelers To Feature Visitors Elucidate Northeastern Offers Chinese student, CA Includes Regular, One-Act Play Scheme Reserve Programs Bates Coeds Escape The Robinson Players will open Guest Talks Monday Next Wednes<a. >ct. 21, the J'iut In a recent letter, James Shan- f their dramatic season on the eve- Summer Scholars Army-Navy-Marine Corps procurement ahan, chairman of the Northeast- Next Monday, Oct. 19, Miss Kung nings of Nov. 19th nd 20th with the board will arrive on campus to pro- ern Unvlveraity Victory Dance Pu-sheng, a Chinese girl who is tra- three-act comedy, "Dover Road" by A- Fourteen Collect vide information about the armed ser- Committee of the class of '45 veling in this country as an interna- A. Milne. The choice was revealed at vice*. The first visit, however, is not (middlers), sent word by way tional interpreter for the NICC, will the meeting of Heelers last night, Straight A's; Three lor recruiting purposes. Approximate- of the STUDENT that the entire be on campus as the guest of the along with an explanation of the pro- ly three weeks lattr, after tt-.ss In- Bates football squad as well as Christian Association. Each year the Repeat Achievement cedure to be followed in the tryouts vested have had sufficient time to the coaches have been invited to NICC has been sending an American that are scheduled for this Friday and get the proper credentials from home the dance at the Imperial Ball- student to China, but due to th» war The 141 men nd women who suc- Saturday. and college, the board will return for room of the Hotel Kenmore after it was impossible last year and, of ceeded in making the Dean's List for Casting this year wiil be conducted the actual examination of candidates. the Bates-Northeastern " game course, will be again this year, ln the second semester of the acadmio in a slightly different manner than The board's first meeting will be place of this project they decided to year 1941-il, and the 35 that achieved By John H. Akerman '45 this week end. held Wednesday evening, at 7:30, in invite a Chinese student to travel the same positions during the Sum- has been employed in previous sea- In behalf o! the '45 club Shan- the Little Theatre. A two-hour pro- among the Sludent Christian Associa mer Session, were announce thla -THings are quieter now than they er paraphernalia designed to make sons. Instead of merely trying to ahan also extended a cordial wel- "feel" the part while reading it from gram has been arranged, including tions in this country. morning at La annual iio-ovs Assem- ■ w be fifteen or twenty years 97-pound weaklings out of erstwhile come to all Bates coeds who could a chair, those trying out for parts will fifteen minute speeches by the repre- Miss Kung will speak in chapel bly. , ^ lom Barnes, the stcoky, husky boys. In the basement, Tom e make the trip, describing them as be arranged in groups and go through sentatives of the Army, the Navy, th Monday morning. In the afternoon r^v janitor of the Athletic Build- reminisced, were two showers, the the 'queens" which the Bates Of the seventy-three nun and sixty stage action as well as lines. As soon Marine Corps, and Army and Navy there will be a tea given in her hon- tfo is Just starting his twenty- locker room, and the athletic offices. men keep locked up In their Lew- eight women who made the Dean's as the players have been chosen, re- Air Corps, explaining the advantages or and hi the evening she v/ill lec- List during the second semester, ' , j-ear of service with Bates. The building was so old and the need iston prison. hearsals will get under way. and requirements of the Tali us ture informally in the Little Theatre. eleven received a auuallty-point ratio A in the 1920'a, winning a game of a new gym was keenly felt. Gym branches. Following the speeches As a graduate of Yenching Univer- of 4.000, or all A's. Distribution ot ,meet meant a parade downtown." classes were irregular and attendance, The play itself should hold added there will be no discussion, although sity wi.ii experience as a YWCA IU- four-poiuters among classes was ex- Too explained, however, that as the so Tom said, was not required. Foot- interest for the campus audience — motion pictures may be shown to gra- ral worker and as secretary, both lo- ceptionally even, wi'.h three each In ^ grew larger and student fer- ball players were issued pads of heavy especially for those who have been Orienting Students phically display the activities of the cally and nationally, for the YWCA, 1913, 1944, and 1945, and two in last more Intense, unintentional dam- felt and then cut out they own pad- here for the last two decades — for it was produced by a Bates dramatic various branches. Council Visits Frosh Miss Yung shovld have much to tell year's graduating c'^.ss. Of the e'-avea- ns done to the town. Faced with ding. Nose guards were worn by On Thursday, Oct. 22, the five rep- us about Student Christian Movement group twenty years ago at the Empire On Monday evening, Oct. 19, the en- four weiu from Maine, three from •tile, tie college authorities tight- some players, heavy, black rubber resentatives will be assigned to sep- in (Jhiua and the Chinese student's Theatre. tire Student Council will visit the Massachusetts, two from New York, j the thumbscrews of discipine. in pieces that the player bit between his arate rooms, where they will hold attitudes and experiences in the war. Altough the play only has six Freshman dormitories to meet the and one each :'rom New Hampshire days, it seems that students teeth; their wearers looked like black- "open house" for all male students Miss Yang has been in America speaking parts there will be a chance underclassmen and to discuss Frosh and Connecticut. They are. I rire less sober and responsible than schnozzled Jimmy Durantes. For the and faculty members. At these meet- only a little over a year, studying for for all members of Heelers to take rules and freshman orientation with Second Semester - 1941-42 present group of intellectuals. benefit of any student with a Barry- ings there will be ample opportunity a lime at Union Theological Semi- part in some form of dramatics this them in order to give the freshmen i »ere the "roaring 20's". Bates more profile who is hesitant about for members of the group to ask the nary. Her comparisons of America Class of 1942 fall and winter. Since there is to be a clearer idea of what the lunctions Infects ami their fellow-collegians playing football, Tom still has one of representative general questions per- and China should be particularly in- Daniel Dustin, Malcolm JewclL only one meeting of Heelers each of the men students' governing body (oe iea untouched by anything ex- these guards. taining to his branch of the service. teresting in view of the present rela- Class of 1943 mouth, a program committee is now are. Ltt the 18th Amendment. They could In 193J, Providence came to the aid All those desiring to take part in the tionship of the two countries. Norman J. Boyan, Roy P. Fairdeld. ,• their college daze without hav- of the students. An accidental fire at work on a plan to make as much group discussions, however, should At the Council meeting last Mon- Beatrice E. Packard. I to worry about accepting a posi- burned the old building to the ground use of the limited time as possible. first see Dr. Fisher to arrange ap- day night, Vincent McKusick '44, Nor- Class of 1044 i with the War Department and lit up the sky" like a torch". The Groups of one-act plays are being ar- pointments with the representatives man Temple '44, and John Morrison Edward Duan, Edith A. Hale, Vin- ; this happy era, hhere was a gymnasium-less college had no formal ranged and will be presented at each at the "open house". '45 were appointed to confer with Miss Debate Try-Outs Weigh cent L. McKusick. Utanore-frcshman battle in front, of gym classes for two years; those who meeting along with skits and panto- Lavinia Schaeffer concerning suitable Class of 1945 mimes. In this way, members will Laboratory. As Tom said: desired, Tom stated, went over to the topics and speakers for Saturday World Organization Muriel J. Baker, Dorothy J. Petrle, have a chance to get valuable expe- Christine J.