r Httturrmty PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA Volume XXXV CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, MONDAY. APRIL 13, 1936 Number 1 4 SPECIAL SEMI-CENTENNIAL EDITION Dr. Guerry Reviews College's Education To Be Theme of An Invitation Semi - Centennial Celebration To all Alumni of the University of Chattanooga, Condition After Seven Years I send greetings on the occasion of the Celebration Prominent Leaders in Today's Players Close of the Fiftieth Anniversary of its founding, and ex­ Elizabeth and Substantial Progress Has Been Affairs To Speak on tend to every student a most cordial invitation to be Made in Many Phases Program. Eighth Season present at the Semi-Centennial Exercises on Saturday, Leicester To Be of Curriculum. April 25th, and at any and all events on the general Given April 21 Conceived in faith and nurtured The fiftieth anniversary of the Friday Night program of the Jubilee from April 17th to April 25th, in the fortitude with which it has founding of the University will be being an important institute on Education. Concerns Romantic Incident in celebrated with an elaborate pro­ "Wappin' Wharf" Is Pollicking Life of Queen Elizabeth. met the trials and difficulties of gram, from April 17 to April 25. Pirate Play. ALEXANDER GUERRY. its infancy and maturity, the Uni­ (By Jean Aston.) The theme of the program is Edu­ J versity of Chattanooga comes to The University Players will close One of the outstanding features its fiftieth anniversary proud of cation in its various phases. Men of the Semi - Centennial Celebra­ their eighth season on April 17, its record of service to the nation prominent in educational, political, with the production of "Wappin' tion will be the opera, "Eliza­ and confident of a future of ex­ religious and military fields will Wharf," a rollicking three-act beth and Leicester," by Dr. Edwin speak on Education in relation to comedy, in the University theatre PROMINENT MEN HAVE BEEN LindV^y. to be presented at the U. panding and constructive useful- C. chapelt A^ril 21; §:?0 P. M. other aspects of life. at 8:15, under the direction of ness. Steafjfgsfc-»-~ I'LS conception of Mrs. David W. Cornelius. Not only were the words aiTd 3^^" an educational process rooted in sic written by Dr. Lindsey, but he ~H "Wappin' Wharf" is a delightful OF INVALUABLE AID TO U. C. religion and in the strength and Friday, April 17th is directing the cast, conducting the comedy of pirates, by the essayist- orchestra, supervising each minute reality of spiritual ideals, and un­ 10:00 A. M Patten Chapel playwright, Charles S. Brooks. The An institution is the shadow of University do, for he was a mov­ detail, and organizing every part wavering in its allegiance to fine title is taken from an old wharf a man; said Carlyle. But a univer­ ing spirit in almost every enter­ College Cooperation and Education. to perfection. His genuine ability scholarship and to the principles in London, which, in the days of sity must be the shadow of many prise, material and spiritual, which President James R. McCain. Ag­ and showmanship is evident in each this merry play, was the site of a men. It is impossible to look into changed Chattanooga from a vil­ of sound learning, the University nes Scott College, President of rehearsal, and the finished per­ gibbet, the doom of the pirates. the history of the University of lage of purely strategic importance of Chattanooga enters upon its Association of American Colleges. formance promises to be one which The scene is a pirates' cabin on Chattanooga without at once being during the Civil War to the urban second half-century of life with the aware of the presence of men, liv­ industrial center which it now is. will intrigue and capture Dr. Lind- The Radio iii Education. the English coast back in the days certain belief that the days which ing and dead, who have in the con­ Like the other men named in this sey's audience—as his work always General James G. Harbord. Chair­ of Long John Silver, Old Pew, tinuing life of this college a mo­ article, he was a man of such va­ does. lie ahead will see marked develop­ man of Radio Corporation of Flint, and others of the pirate mentum aere perennius. In the ried activity (the early develop­ The opera is in four short scenes, ment and progress because this in­ America, Commander of Marine trade. The old pirates are much Hall of Graduate Studies at Yale ment of North Chattanooga and and concerns a romantic incident in stitution is building upon the foun­ Brigade at Chateau Thierry and like the traditional pirate in ap­ the initials and insignia of many Signal Mountain were in a large the life of Queen Elizabeth. Ac­ of Service of Supply of A. K F pearance and "wicious willainy," dations that assure permanency of Yale's great men appear, unob­ companying the players will be a but more attractive for their ir­ measure due to him) that we at and greatness. 8:00 P. If University Theatre resistible quirks of comedy. It is trusively, but ineradicably molded the University can hardly claim 25-piece orchestra, including the into the very brick. The following the distinction of being his chief best musicians in Chattanooga. The Wappin' Wharf. a rare combination of melodrama, The University of Chattanooga is are the names that are part of the monument, but as an institution scenery is by Frank Baisden, Sara By Charles S. Brooks. A Comedy comedy and romance, and will be essentially a college of arts and fabric and substance of the walls devoted to linking the past to the Hagan and Sara Russell. Profes­ in Three Acts, presented hy the an interesting departure from the sciences. Its chief purpose is to usual type cf University Plays. of the University of Chattanooga, present, and as an institution which sional theatrical costumes will be University Players under the di­ the names of those men without owes a specific debt to him for his hired to intensify the glamour and function effectively as the finest rectum of Mrs. I). \\". Cornelius. The production is sponsored by the local chapter of Theta Alpha whose power and generosity the early encouragement and labor, we beauty of the plot. sort of liberal arts college, giving Phi, national dramatic fraternity, University could not exist: J. W. can and do pay special tribute to to its students the broad and cul­ Saturday, April 18th as has been the custom in regard to Adams, H. S. Chamberlain, John A. his memory. SIX ELECTED TO tural training which develops char­ Patten, D. K. Pearson, Andrew 8:00 P. If Patten Chapel the third play of the year. In the H. S. Chamberlain. HONOR SOCIETY acter, enriches personality, dis­ Carnegie, T. C. Thompson, Z. C. past, the third play has been dur­ The election of six seniors, Laila Greetings from the State of Ten­ Patten, W. E. Brock, Morrow As an industrialist and banker, ciplines the mind, brings intellec­ nessee. ing commencement week. Anderson, James Holbert, William Chamberlain, Adolph Ochs, H. S. Hiram S. Chamberlain achieved tual capacity, and deepens sympa­ Hope, Eugene Patterson, John Hon. Hill J. McAllister, Gover­ The cast includes Jean Aston, Probasco. power, and as a man of generosity thy and understanding. Roberson and Eric Swanson to Al­ nor of Tennessee. Katharine Pryon, Gray Littleton, and vision he used that power for pha, scholastic honor society, was James Fulks, George Knox, Telfair J. W. Adams. the benefit of his fellow-citizens 500 Students Are Enrolled. Education and International Rela­ announced this morning at the an­ Brooke, Joe Wagner, J. B. Walker, and posterity. His interests were In the college are enrolled ap­ tions. J. W. Adams was in every sense nual Alpha chapel program. Robert Cassell and Mark Woods. almost equally divided between ed­ proximately 500 students. The ed­ Hon. Francis B. Sayre, Assistant of the word a builder. As a builder All of these students in addition to ucation and charity. He was presi­ The Alpha speech was delivered ucation of these young men and Secretary of State, former Ad­ in stone his memory is yet per­ the casts of the two previous plays, dent of the board of trustees of the by Dr. Thomas M. Parrott, profes­ women is the main goal of the Uni­ viser in Foreign Affairs to the petuated by the First Methodist "Skidding" and "Dear Brutus," University; he was president of sor of English at Princeton, now at versity of Chattanooga. For them King of Siam. will be eligible for the Chi Sigma Church, which was designed and Vanderbilt, substituting for Dr. erected under his supervision. He the school board, president of Chat­ the University seeks to be the door Education and Peace. Sigma award for the best piece of Edwin Mims. Dr. Parrott's subject also built the original building of tanooga's Associated Charities, and of opportunity through which they Hon. Newton D. Baker, distin­ the acting of the season. The bal­ was "The Optimism of Robert come into the realization of all the University of Chattanooga. a member of the board of Erlanger guished attorney of tin American loting will follow the "Wappin' Browning." that is best in the educational pro­ That building has now been de­ Hospital. His son, Morrow Cham­ Bar. Secretary of War in the Wharf" performance. Browning's creed of optimism cess. Here the students find the stroyed, to make way for the pres­ berlain, has continued the work of Cabinet of President Wilson.