December 13, 1940 Volume Xvn Number 18 Phillips Speaks Registrar Makes Special Registration to Glee Club to Present Wednesday on Day Student Announcem't Start Dec
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Madison v^uuegc wynuj Harrisonburg, Virginia Established 1922 Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Friday, December 13, 1940 Volume XVn Number 18 Phillips Speaks Registrar Makes Special Registration To Glee Club To Present Wednesday On Day Student Announcem't Start Dec. 12 Miss Helen Frank, registrar, makes the following announce- Carol Vesper Sunday Foreign Scene ment concerning registration In Reed Gym cards for the winter quarter: Miss Shaeffer Directs Chorus The International Situation Every boarding student will Students Required To Bring At 4:00 P. M. In Annual • As Layman Sees It Is receive a registration card when Fall Program Cards; No Program In Wilson Theme Of Chapel Talk she checks in at the dean of Changes Will Be Made women's office after the holidays. The Glee club's annual Christmas "The best way to keep out of the This card admits her to winter Registration of all students for carol vespers under the direction of present war," Dr. Ruth L. Phillips, quarter classes, beginning Jan- the winter quarter, to be conducted Miss Edna T. Shaeffer will be pre- professor of biology, said in chapel uary 3, and should be shown to tomorrow, will start In Reed gym, sented at 4 p. m. on Sunday, Decem- on Wednesday, "is to supply as fast the instructor in each class on with the exception of Curriculum I, ber 15, in Wilson auditorium. The as we can those who are fighting for Friday, Saturday, Monday, and will be completed there, according to program, consisting almost entirely us." Dr. Phillips was speaking be- Tuesday, January 3, 4, 6, and 7. announcement by Clyde P. Shorts. of traditional carols, includes ar- fore the faculty and student 'body on Every 'boarding student arriv- Students must bring their fall pro- rangements taken from the Vassar the subject, "The International Scene ing on Friday, January 3, or gram cards and no changes will be and Radcliff college editors. as the Layman Sees It." thereafter, must call at the reg- made In the sections of courses that Margaret Sherman and Jean Birch- "Military war is one thing and the istrar's office for the registration continue from fall except by permis- all will appear as soloists. Also ap- war we are fighting is another. We card admitting her to classes be- sion of the head of the department pearing is a special trio consisting of don't want military war, and we ginning January 3, 1941. or the dean of the college. Eleanor Nolte, soprano; Priscilla don't need to send troops to Europe. Every day student must call Music students taking private Baldwin, mezzo-soprano; and Mar- What they really want and need are at the registrar's office on Fri- music must give this information to garet Schular, contralto. Jeanne guns, planes, and food," Dr. Phillips day, January 3, for the registr- the teacher registering her and have Tuttle will accompany the Glee club. declared. aion card before attending class. It noted on the bottom of her pro- Opens With French Carol London Drive In Spring gram card. She should then go to Opening with a processional, March The main object in this war from the music teacher and have her card of the Kings, traditional French, the now on, the speaker explained, is to completed before leaving the gym. program will continue with Aileleuia, keep Hitler from succeeding in taking Y.W. To Hold Registration will be according to Christ is Born, a Slovak cardl, and a London next spring. With the sup- alphabet, arranged by students' last group of Czech carols; Now the plies of food and munitions adequate names. Rarest Day; Barken to Me; Sleep, to last the winter, Germany finds Kid Toy Drive A through C, 8:30-10; D through Baby Steep; and Strangers Say a that the drive must be made then. Students Will Represent King is Born, all by the Glee club. "Whatever the present ideas may G, 10-11; H through K, 11-12; L be, if we look coldly and candidly Children From Ages through N, 1:30-2:30; O through S, Margaret Sherman, mezzo-soprano, will sing A King Was Born, by Alex- into the character of those in power One To Nine At Party 2:30-3:30; T through Z, 3:30-4. ander Matthews. The entire club will in Europe, the decision of Britain o continue with Lo, How a Rose, by not to let food through the blockade With students dressed as children Practorlus; Shepherds' Christmas to the occupied countries was a wise from one to nine years of age, and Enrollment Reaches Song, an Austrian folk song; How one," Dr. Phillips said. each bringing a toy for underprivi- Most of Interview Mysterious leged children, the Y."W. C. A. will 1269 High Point Far is Bethlehem, by Geoffrey Shaw; Pat-a-Pan, a Burgundian air, and "We have reason to believe," the sponsor Its annual kid party tomor- Jesu Banibina, by Pietro Yon. speaker said, "that the interview last row night in each of the three dining In Fall Quarter halls. Freshmen will dress as chil- English Group to Conclude week between Molotof and Hitler With students representing 95 Vir- wasn't a satisfactory one. It seemB dren from one to three; sophomores, The program will end with the from three to five; juniors, from five ginia counties, sixteen states, the Glee club's singing The Wassail Song, that Hitler is abandoning his Nation- District of Columbia, and three for- al Socialism, as he calls it, for Com- to seven; and seniors, from seven to a Yorkshire carol; The Coventry eign countries, enrollment for the fall Miss Edna T. Shaeffer, director, munism, hoping to bind Stalin com- nine. Carol, traditional English; The Holly quarter totaled 1269 according to and Jane Dingledine, president of the pletely to his program. We don't Students have been asked by and the Ivy, traditional English; The announcement from Dr. Helen Frank, Glee club, which is presenting its an- know what Russia will do, or whether Marjorle Proffltt, president of Y.W., First Noel, traditional carol; and registrar. nual Christmas Vesper program Sun- Russia will wait till the issue is de- to bring presents suitable for the God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen, tra- Out-of-state students include Ar- day in Wilson auditorium. x cided, and we don't know when the various age levels, or pool their ditional English. kansas, 1; Delaware, 4; Connecticut, issue will be decided." contributions in groups and to bring Barbara Tillson Is in charge of the something constructive such as paper, 3; Florida, 3; Indiana, 1; Maryland, The Italian situation, the speaker Tresidder's Speech Class staging with the help of the staging explained, is causing a great deal of pencils, and crayons. Each dining 33; Maine, 1; Massachusetts, 1; crew of Stratford Dramatic club. amusement. If England can continue hall will have a decorated Christmas Michigan, 1; New Hampshire, 1; New Presents Radio Program o tree. (See Phillips( page four) Jersey, 1; New York, 46; North Caro- With Mrs. J. D. Morriss, head of The clothing and food drive, which Anthony Is On lina, 5; Ohio, 3; Pennsylvania, 13; social welfare in Harrisonburg, as began early in the week in each of West Virginia, 33; and Washington, Hounchell Speaks the dormitories, will not continue guest speaker, the public speaking Survey Committee far into next week. Boxes have been D. C, 4. The three foreign countries class of Dr. Argus Tresidder, profes- Miss Katherine M. Anthony, direc- placed in each dormitory. Most of represented are Canal Zone, 2; Cuba, sor of English, presented its weekly To Town Kiwanians tor of the training school for elemen- the articles which are collected will 1; and Puerto Rico, 3. round table discussion program over tary teachers, was in Alexandria last The problem that America faces be distributed through the local Red radio station WSVA last Monday week to participate in a survey of today is to educate for a long pull, Cross chapter to the Rockingham CORRECTION afternoon. Their subject was "Juve- the elementary schools of the city. to follow a continuing policy for poor who are on its relief rolls. thirty or forty years following the The Presbyterian student organi- nile Delinquency." The survey was requested by Super- A few of the contributions will be next ten in which the present war will intendent T. C. Williams of the pub- distributed by private persons to fam- zation will meet tonight at 6:45 in Students participating on the pro- be settled, for good or ill, Dr. Paul lic schools of Alexandria. ilies to whom they are in the habit the Y. W. C. A. room, instead of on gram were Virginia Mcllhaney, An- Hounchell, director of the training In addition to Miss Anthony, the of giving aid. December 6 as previously announced. nette Bowles, and Miriam Coffman. school for secondary teachers, de- survey committee was composed of clared recently In an address to the Miss Carolyn Cogbill, principal of the 'Kiwanls club of Harrisonburg. Exams Bring Out The Lower Nature In Students: Stock Types As elementary school of Farmville; E. "This country," Dr. Hounchell as- Boyd Graves of Mary Washington serted, '"will have to decide what it Modest Student And Whirling Dervish A re Evidenced Around Campus college; Miss Julia Ware and Dr. Helen Ruth Henderson of the State wants as permanent policy and edu- By Virginia Culpepper and looking black and threatening where—not even to study. cate for that. At present war is not Department of Education; and Dr. There's a certain intangible some- your ancestors? In a more vicious class we find the wanted; indeed, there Is a great long- M.