Sewanee Purple, 1950-51
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The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South Vol. LXVIII, No. 2 getognee, Cennegggg, flPcto&er u, 1950 News Series Number 1,042 Sonny Dunham's Sewanee students will be admit- Orchestra Will Provide Intellectual Freedom Stressed By ted free to the Winchester game Kayden Music For First University Dance October this Saturday night, office 21 the of As 86 Gownsmen Installed On Founders' Day the Vice-Chancellor revealed Mon- Nationally-Famous Band To day. Students will be asked to Goat is Revived Plans Made to Economics Professor Outlines Star October 21 enter a special gate, and a section Secure Ideals of Sewanee in After on the south side will be reserved 12-Year Burial Independents Home Moving Address The German Club will launch the for Sewanee supporters. 1950-1951 Sewanee social season with For the first time Two busses will pick up students since 1938 publi- Plans for procuring a permanent By John Bratton its Fall Formal Dance on October 21. cation of The Mountain Goat, who do not have other means of a gen- meeting and club room for Indepen^ Declaring that "Sewanee has In the past, this dance has been a never eral magazine, will transportatio i in front of Magnolia be resumed. A dent men of the University were an regarded the search for great success rivaled only truth as dan- by the meeting of all students interested Dining Hall at 7:30 p.m. A third in nounced recently by Chaplain Richard ciety," Professor famed Mid-Winter Set, which Eugene comes working on this publication bus will lea\ e Sewanee Inn at the will be Wilmer, chairman of an administra Kayde delivered the in February. Founders' held tomorrow in room 4 of Palmetto same time. tive committee for the project. J Day on October 10, challeng- It has been announced that Sonny Hall. room in the music studio is being ing the Sewanee community to keep Dunham and his orchestra will play Following the recommendation of a used at present. "the torch of for the dance, intellectual freedom coming here directly committee of the Order History is of Gownsmen, Made As On completion of the new Union burning pure and bright." from a three-week engagement at the Sopherim Literary Fraternity will building, the room now used for the Confronting eighty-six newly in- the Strand Theatre in New York. propose to the Sixty Frosh Flunk University Publica- Union kitchen will be stalled Other remodelled, members of the Order of well-known places that tions Board, at which the Vice-Chan- meetings will be held there Gownsmen and a engaged the Dunham Orchestra until chapel-filled audi- cellor will be present, that By Mike Fullerton a board of Gailor Memorial is completed. ence of faculty, The Hotel students and resi- Commodore, New York eight students Sewanee Freshmen blazed new lit- be established to as- In a statement Dr. Wilmer dents, the speaker City; said adjusted his de- The Hotel New Yorker, New sume responsibility erary trails last week as they at- for the publica- "I hope very much that the room livery to the acoustics York City; The Paramount of All Saints' Theatre, tion of The Mountain Goat. tempted to write history into the This made available for the Independent Chapel with little difficulty. New York City; Dailey's Meadow- board would appoint a staff, make as- Freshman Handbook. Some sixty did men of the college to use will meet Immediately following the installa- brook, Cedar Grove, J.; N. The Cla- signments, edit submissions, and not quite make the required passing su- their needs until the new Union is tion service and singing ridge Hotel, of the Alma Memphis, Tenn.; The Mil- pervise publication. p-ade on the exam but they did turn It would also completed. Mater, the speaker was introduced lion Dollar Pier, by Atlantic City, N. J.; seat not less than in some of the best four members ol answers ever re- "Then, when the new Independent the Vice-Chancellor, whose The Ansley Hotel, Atlanta, remarks Ga.; and Sopherim. Each year the board corded. We felt sure that the student would room in Magnolia is available, I appropriately prefaced The Palladium Ballroom, hope the main ad- Hollywood, elect its successors as well body would be interested in finding as the that this will give them for their own dress by Prof. Kayden. Dr. Green Calif. He and his band have also next year's chairman, out about who would be some of the more vague social functions a base which they reminded the student body appeared in both Universal of the and Co- editor as well. rules and regulations of the Univer- have lacked in the past." need for pausing to remember Sewa- lumbia Pictures, and have been heard The .v Mountain sity (as defined by the members of the Goat, if ap- Bishop Wyatt-Brown will present a nee's heritage. Said Mr. Kayden: over NBC, ABC, CBS, and MBS radio proved, ill contain student literary Freshman Class) and so we here pre- nool ". table to the . the networks. organization when scientific habit of mind and work in the fields of sent the most unusual facts. humor, features, the larger quarters become available. the evolutionary expectant view of Variety Magazine says: "With a and serious writing. of the important aspects of life Other members of Dr. Wilmer's life is our heritage from the founders. good dance beat, the band steers away There will be three issues published. mountain, which we should all committee Sewanee, from are Mr. Charles Thomas, from the beginning to the jump tunes, concentrating on appearing on Thanksgiving, Midwinter, about, is Sunday night visiting. Director of Admissions, Dr. Gaston Dresent never fettered the freedom new and standard ballads of intermixed and late The Spring dance weekends. purpose of Sunday night visiting Bruton, Acting Dean of Men, and study, discussion and teaching. with slow beat rhumbas." Mr. Se- -*- g to one scholar of the James Avent, University Comptroller. wanee has never . placed dogmatic Sonny Dunham himself writes: "I Treshman class, "to put the professor Jonas White is incumbent president conclusion, no matter how time hon- have tried to keep up with the de- snd the student on more intimate of the Independents. ored, ahead of the search for cisive swing to Purple Masque to Play knowl- sweeter and novelty terms." Another thought that it was -#- edge and truth, even in the tunes and arrangements. We have face of T. S. better stated, "to get familiar with Eliot's the popular . "Murder clamor. Our first build- added many entertaining numbers to faculty." Still another added that it ing was burned down during the Civil the band's repertoire and have rein- In the Gilbert Hinshaw Leads Cathedral" Here was "to get to know the teachers War, and its cornerstone shattered; stated many old songs that were popu- better and polish the old apple." Hey! but the cornerstone of our lar "way back Sopherim for 1950-51 intellectual when." . We wel- By Frank Mangum Maybe these guys have got somethin'! charter remains to this day. come this change to sweet music." Purple Masque will stage five major We were glad to find out that the Sopherim, mother chapter of Sigma "The Christian ideal of life, the Subscription-invitations may be pro- productions during the current school ourpose of the German Club Upsilon Literary Fraternity, Christian attitude to the world of na- cured from has elect- any member of the Ger- r, Mr. Terry Shuman, Jr., instructor help learn German" (Attenti ed a new president, Gilbert K. Hin- ture, art and society is enshrined in man Club for $4.50 (date) or $3.50 public speaking and director for Baker!) "and to know more about the shaw, following the resignation of ur classrooms, seminars, laboratories, (stag) contribution, which is no in- Masque, announced at a recent language and boys". One Freshman Dick Ruffner at the first meeting nd library. Our founders have lighted crease over of the prices of last meeting of the dramatic group. thought that the German Club the year held October 5. the torch of intellectual freedom; it first Sewanee's German Club was founded The performance will be T. S. oossibly, an "till "honorary organization of This meeting, held primarily to dis burns. It is in our hands to in 1880, making it one of the oldest Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. It was scholars." Well, almost right on that cuss plans for an entirely new stu keep it burning pure and bright. It organizations of its kind on the originally presented as a Canterbury dent publication, adjourned after hav- might have been otherwise but for tain. Many people have festival play in 1935, and since then wondered There were exactly 13 different dates ing agreed to sponsor a general the grace of God that our founders it why a club of such a nature is has been received in an outstand- known ^iven for the founding of the Uni- azine, "The Mountain Goat," v hich were men with the temper of great- under the title of the German ing manner throughout the world. The Club. ness in their . versity. One student, recalling the will replace "Helikon," the under- souls. Because their for it has been mistaken for Sewanee dramatic group will stage the ideal many 'ong and honored past history of Se- graduate literary magazine which ha; is a living ideal, every position different play during things, including a language the early part of Novem- of teaching in wanee, gave the date of founding as been in publication since the lati the University of the club.