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HITEHEADED BOY" VALENTINE DANCE IN GUILDHALL HARKINS HALL TONIGHT TONIGHT It's here because it's true not true because it's here. L. 2. No. 14. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., FEBRUARY 5, 1937 5c a Copy. McGUIRK, '30, ELECTED REV.A.P. REGAN PROBATE COURT JUDGE 'Lefty" Collins Chosen As FIRST YEAR MEN James A. McGuirk. a graduate of P. C. Baseball Captain SPEAKS TONIGHTProvidenc e College with the class of SPONSOR ANNUAL '30, has recently been elected Judge of the Probate Court in Central Falls. FRIAR HURLER HONORED BY MATES IN PITTSFIELD Mr. McGuirk was born in South- DANCEJONIGHT t * bridge. Mass. He attended Classical Recognition Climaxes Three ELECTED CAPTAIN high school, and after his graduation >rce, Free Love of from Providence College and Boston Active Years With Approximately 200 Cou• lmunists Condemned University school of law in 1934. be• Varsity Team ples to Attend Traditional by Fr. Clark gan his practice in Providence. He is Freshman Affair the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Popular Fred "Lefty" Collins of Rev. A. P. Regan, O.P., profes- McGuirk. New Milford. Conn., will lead the Approximately two hundred couples Phiiosophy. will speak in Pitts- Friar baseball team for the 1937 sea- will attend the Valentine Dance to• •lass., this evening, continuing night in Harkins Hall when the Fresh• ture series given by the Fa- WRITES SCRIPT At a meeting of last year's base• man Class inaugurates its social sea• >f the College on Communism. ball letter men, held yesterday after• son by dancing to the melodies of Regan will discuss the philo- noon. "Lefty" Collins was elected to Eddie De Roscien and his maestros I and social foundation for the captaincy by his teammates for of swing music. Committee members property. Since private prop• the coming season. He has been out• affirmed the report that advance one of the means of assuring standing for the past four years in ticket sale had been heavy and pre• itinuation of the family and a basketball at center and forward and dicted that "a successful and enjoy• |ue for family autonomy this in baseball as a pitcher. It is believed able evening was to be expected." i'l but a further step in the de- by the baseball experts that he is nent of the thesis that Com- headed for a successful major league Orchestra New at P.C. )• is the modern disrupter of career. The class of '40 will endeavor to mental social institutions. Collins started his athletic career live up to the precedent established Father Clark Speaks at New Milford high where he partici• had a great season in his Sophomore last year by the class of '39 and suc• lecture last week was deliv- pated in basketball for three years year, but only a fair season last year cessfully maintained during the cur• by the Rev. William R. Clark, and in baseball for four years. He winning five out of eight games. rent season as was made manifest )f the Sociology department. His captained the ball nine In his sec• In selecting Fred "Lefty" Collins by the Sophomore Hop and the Junior dealt with the family under ond year and tbe court men in his to lead the 1937 baseball forces, the Class Hallowe'en dance. The selection lunism. A summary of Father senior year. While hurling for his letter men made a wise and commend• of Eddie De Roscien's orchestra for t lecture follows: high school team, "Lefty" in one E. Riley Hughes able choice. He will prove to be a the occasion was arrived at after sev• game struck out 23 men and at an• Communistic literature that is capable and popular leader. We ex• eral local bands had been considered. other time fanned 12 batters in a R America is strangely free Call for Musical Comedy tend our congratulations to tbe new De Roscien a newcomer to Providence roctrine contrary to the pur- row. Given As Script Is baseball captain. dances, is one of the leading baton of the family. It is difficult to On the undefeated Friar freshman swingers of New Bedford and Fall teachings" that advocate di- Completed basketball team of 1933 which won River where his music has acquired airth-prevention. abortion, free- 19 straight, Fred played at a forward Second Semester much popularity with the members ratings and state education of The Pyramid Players have an• position. This will be his third year of the younger set because of his 61. But the record shows that nounced that try-outs for the forth• as an outstanding twirler of the Provi• Classes Begin soft, melodious renditions and unusu• iractices exist in Russia and coming musical comedy will be held dence College varsity nine. "Lefty" al arrangements of currently popular during the coming week. The script, tunes. He is an apt advocate of the Classes for the second semester be• recently popularized 'swing' music Lack of Regulation completed by E. Riley Hughes during gan at the College Monday, Feb. 1. and his specialty numbers which in• of the primary purposes of the semester recess, is now in the Thomistic Institute when the Freshmen. Sophomores, and clude instrumentalists and vocalists j e is the regulation of sex ac- hands of a script committee. The will be the feature of an enjoyable - Under the Five Year Plan ten principals and 50 chorines, hoof• Will Sponsor New Juniors returned. The regular Mon• evening's entertainment. Although this day schedule was observed, except Soviets there is no regulation. ers and glee-men will be selected on Lecture Series will be De Roscien's first appearance i lunism is not yet a control- a competitive basis. However a pre• for periods or the morning, set aside at Providence he is known to many |r ce here, but "It can happen requisite for consideration is the for the payment of tuition. in Massachusetts and Connecticut The ground is prepared by our signing of a formal application Series to Begin Feb. 14 on having been featured in College, Hotel On Tuesday, when the Seniors re• lisorders in the family situa- blank. These may be found in The "Modern Catholic So• and Ballroom dances there. sumed classes, Mass was said by the Cowl office and must he in the cial Action" iolution to the problem is not hands of the committee before appli• Rev. John B. Reese. O.P., College Second Semester Opener if cure so much as one of pre- Chaplain. Following the Mass regis• cants present themselves for the try- In keeping with tradition, the )D. Keep our people from becom- A second series of five public lec• There is at present a dearth of sax• tration cards for the second semester Freshman Class is following in the litten by the bug of economic, tures, sponsored by the Thomistic In• ophone players and electricians. How• stitute of Providence College, will be were filled out. under the direction of footsteps of the Juniors and Sopho• moral discontent and Commu- ever, besides the acting, dancing, sing• inaugurated in Harkins Hall on Sun• mores by conducting the first social tfill have a small audience. Keep Rev. Daniel Galliher. O.P.. Registrar. ing and specialty performances, the day afternoon, Feb. 14, at 4 p. m. This event of the second semester. The auple imbued with high ideals, The Rev. Arthur H. Chandler, O.P.. organization is seeking help in the series will be entitled "Modern Cath• dance is expected to prove as popular pies of good citizenship, the Dean, addressed the student body, olic Social Action," and will comple• and equally as entertaining as did itn virtues of brotherly love and equally impoitant technical depart• ment the first completed series of lec• stressing the fact that the College im• those of the upper classmen. Tickets »nty. keep them busy in the ments—as scene designers, painters, tures which treated the Social Prob• poses only those rules to which the for the dance are priced at $1.00, and Of good work and they will have stage crew, advertising representa• lem of the Day. semi-formal dress will prevail. Danc• ne for the iconoclastic doctrines tives, publicity men. make-up artists. student must expect to conform after ing will be from 8:30 until 12:00. iructices of Communism. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) The Director of the Thomistic Insti• leaving college. tute, the Rev. Robert Edward Bren- nan. O.P., Ph.D., will act as Chairman of the second series, and will present Letters from Flood Area Give trol Pump on Campus Causes the five following lecturers of the faculty of Providence College: the First Hand Data on Conditions Speculation Among Student BodyRev. Adrian T. English, O.P., M.A.. of the Department of History; the Rev. Two P. C. Students Re• has been received from the flood zone. dents' Demand for Re- j times. Students who find that their Vincent C. Dore. O.P., of the Depart• ceive Messages From The Cowl is indebted to the students moval of Padlock tanks have been siphoned or other• ment of Sociology; the Rev. Matthew Flood Zones who so obligingly allowed their letters is Denied wise drained of the necessary fluid L. Carolan, O.P.. of the Department of to be published. Religion; the Rev. Edward U. Nagle, will cast their avid glances in vain Perhaps the most surprising fact at the red and white pump for the O.P., Ph.D., of the Department of Eng• The extent of the flood disaster was • installation of a petrol pump I revealed by the letters is that due hose will be dry.