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Hollins University Hollins Digital Commons Hollins Student Newspapers Hollins Student Newspapers 3-19-1932 Hollins Student Life (1932 Mar 19) Hollins College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/newspapers Part of the Higher Education Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Hollins College, "Hollins Student Life (1932 Mar 19)" (1932). Hollins Student Newspapers. 80. https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/newspapers/80 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hollins Student Newspapers at Hollins Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hollins Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Hollins Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. o OLLINS COLLE I ..... I~ I VOLUME IV HOLLINS COLLEGE, MARCH 19, 1932, HOLLINS, VIRGINIA NUMBER 10 HOLLINS TO GIVE New President ANNUAL BASKET BALL SPRING FORMAL , GAME ENDS SEASON On Saturday, April 16th, the Sophomore TIDWELL LEADS REDS IN Class will sponsor a formal dance in honor of the Seniors. T1;lis will be given in the Gym VICTORY nasium from nine until eleven and the music will be furnished by Weedemeyer's Orchestra. Saturday, March 12th, was indeed a Yem Besides being the first prom ever given at KAY MANN assee Day,. for the Reds won the big basket Honins, a further innovation lies in the fact ball game by defeating the Blue team 41-27. that it is to be a "girl break." The game was called at 2 :30 with Miss Cren . The receiving line will consist of Miss The election of the Student Government shaw from Richmond as official referee, and Matty Cocke, President of Hollins, Miss Mary President for 1932-'33 was held Monday after Miss Chevraux and Miss Ervine acting alter Williamson, the Dean, Doctor Marguerite noon, March 14th in the chapel. The candi nately as umpires. The gym was filled with Hearsey, Sponsor of the Sophomore Class, Miss dates were Kay Mann, Rosamond Larmour cheering, and shouting girls, very much in the Agnes Sanders, Sponsor of the Seniors, Betty and by petition, Lelia Hornor and Rowena true spirit of the Yemassee and Mohican Brede, President of the Sophomore Class and Doolan. The choice-of the student body was tradition. Which team would break the spell? Catherine Witschen , President of the Senior Kay Mann of Birmingham, Michigan. Miss --Would the Blues retain their possession of the Class. ' Mann was class secretary her sophomore year cup, or would the Reds "turn the tables, " and. It is hoped that this darice will be so suc- and at present is vice president of the Junior come out victorious? These were some of the cessful that it will become an annual affair. class. Junior representative on the Alumnre questions ·excitedly asked as the spectators Council and an associate editor of the Spinster. gathered to watch the "warriors meet in ------~o~------- Hollins is fortunate in having a girl of such fine friendly combat." The game was not only an character and spirit represent its ideals. interesting one, but exciting, cleanly played and well fought. This year no player was eliminated .Jerome Davis Speaks on ~t---....,.- for an accumulation of fouls, and this fact to gether with excellent teamwork and coordina Russia to Student Body Hollins to be Represented tion made the game fast and exciting. At the end of the first quarter the Red team led 9-8, The Student Body enjoyed an interesting at S. I. A. S. G. Convention but with the half over the score stood 21-13 in lecture Wednesday night at convocation, the favor of the Blues. I twas ' another story, speaker, Mr. Jerome Davis, being introduced The annual meeting of the Southern Inter- however, during the . third quarter; for the by Dr. Janney. His subject was" Adventuring collegiate Association of Student Governments Reds, aware that something had to be done, in Russia and America," giving his adventures will be .held this year at the University of brought the score up to 33-22 at the end of that as head of the Y. M. C. A. in Russia during Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 23d through period. The fourth quarter was close, but the the war and a verbal adventure in America. 26th. Hollins is sending as its representatives: Yemassee team retained their lead to the last In Russia, Mr. Davis worked in the prison Leonora Alexander, President of the Student and at the final whistle had won by the score camps, attempting to better the sordid and Government Association; Katherine Mann, 41~27. The Blues captained by Dorothy Sorg unsanitary conditions in which the war prison the incoming President; Mary Alice McConnel, made a brave stand, but the Reds with Ted ers lived-and died at the rate of 75 per day. Vice President, and Dean Williamson. Miss Tidwell as their captain resolved to break q:'hese personal experiences of Mr. Davis were McConnel is Secretary of the Association, an up the series of Mohican victories, hung the exciting, but his wider and more general topic, honor conferred upon her last year when she Red and Black banner to the front of main the outbreak of the Russian Revolution and represented Hollins. building and thus to proclaim a "Yemassee the Bolsheviks, was very enlightening. The purpose of the conference, which brings Day." Mr. Davis, although opposed to Bolshe together delegates from the Student Govern- The line-up for the two teams was as vism, thinks that the Bolsheviks are merely ment Assqciations of practically all the larger follows: sincere fanatics-people whose ancestors ex Southern colleges, is chiefly to discuss and isted under grave social injustices., As an ex compare problems and plans in connection with (Red) (Blue) ample of how these "came to be, " he gave a the effective ' administration of such organi- Tidwell .......... R. F .............. Locke summary of the life of Stalin, now the political zations. Dean Williamson will make an ad- Harwell ........... L. F ........... A. Taylor dictator of the Bolshevist regime, but the son dress on some phase 6f Student Government. M. Fleming ...... " . C ............... Sterling of a poor shoe-repairing peasant. But questions of national and international Kellogg ........... S. C ........ L. Robinson To-day, in this party of Stalin's, Mr. Davis importance are also discussed, Miss Alexander ' M. C. Hankins ..... R. G ......... T. Hankins recognizes four agents at work: Dogtnatic com being scheduled to lead a discussion group on Hemphill .......... L. G ............... Sorg. munism, dogmatic atheism, a lack of liberty International Relations. Substitutes: Red-L. King, Weed, Wood- and bureaucracy. When the splendid type of Honor System ward and E. Webb. Blue-Shoup, Hamilton, Then, applying Russic;tn reforms to Ameri backing . the Hollins Student Government Huyett and Worsley. can life, Mr. Davis" adventured" in America Association is considered, it is not remarkable at the expense of the capitalists. He pointed that its representatives take such a high stand . 0---- out the advantages of the new Russian system at the conference. For the entire college, -over American industrial autocracy. He con Student Life wishes to extend them assurance of cluded with the statement that the Russians hearty support and good wishes for a successful Astronomy Class Makes find their counterparts in Americans, except for trip. 0.---- cultural background. He, therefore, advised -Field Trip March 11 th America to turn her attention to her own conditions instead of being concerned with the Senior Class Holds Members of the Astronomy Class accom safety of Russia, for she is fully capable of . panied by Miss Goldena Farnsworth, Professor caring for herself and, at length, of surpassing Third Forum of. Year of Physics, drove to the University of Virginia America. on Friday, March 11th, to go through the ~----~~~------- On Thursday, March 17th, the members of Observatory. The class was particularly fortu the Senior Class met in the Y~ W. C. A. rooms nate in being shown the various pieces of "Where are elephants usually found?" for the third forum of the year. The discussion, apparatus by Doctor Mitchell, a world-au "Please, sir, they're so big they aren't often led by Camille Dawson, the vice president, thority on solar eclipses, and Professor of lost. " centered about plans for Commencement. Astronomy at the University. HOLLINS STUDENT LIFE, MARCH 19, 1932 HOLLINS STUDENT LIFE, MARCH 19, 1932 s Mr. Cocke Speaks II STUDENT FORUM II Pub/is/ltd fortnightly during the college In Convocation on Wednesday, March 9th, 1!;;;;;;;;11=RE=V=E=L=A=T=IO=N=S=!JII A. A. ~ t..~~eeting II ATHLETICS II year by a staff composed entirely If you had reached the high estate of Mr. Cocke gave a short talk on the New Cur of students riculum. He spoke first of the requirements for Recent~y, Mr. J. B. Fishburn. of Roanoke, The Virginia State Division, of the American L:;;;;================;;!J being able to boast several degrees, and to gavt; HollIns four catalogues of the Female Association?f University Women, will hold its The spring sports,. baseball, swimming, ar STAFF bedeck yourself in a robe with varicolored the A. B. degree. The idea of the New Curricu lum is to allow greater freedom of choice in the SemInary at Bote,tourt ~prings, Virginia, for annual meetmg at Lynchburg on the 17th and che!y, track ~nd tenms have begun, this week, stripes, designating the number of your de the sesslOns 1852- 56 which were advertised in 18th of March. The Smith Memorial Building their resJ>E:Cttve seasons, lasting only a few Editor•. ....•.•••••..•• BEVERLY CHALKER grees and their kind; if you had reached that first two years, and closer correlation of work in News Editor•.