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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 6-8-1950 The aB tes Student - volume 76 number 27a - June 8, 1950 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 76 number 27a - June 8, 1950" (1950). The Bates Student. 1039. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1039 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 11 Welcome, Commencement Guests Issue n,eiiitni THE BATES STUDENT By Subscriptiwi Senator Paul H.Douglas Speaker At 84th Commencement; 'resident Hauck Of Maine To Give Baccalaureate Address Transient Meals jumni Return To "Class Room" Fiske Dining Room, Rand Hall 157 Receive Degrees Friday: Luncheon 12:30-1 P.M. \ Hear Faculty-Led Discussions Dinner 5:30-7 P.M. In Chapel On June 11 0 Saturday: ■^fighting the 84th commencement and reunion program will Breakfast 7:3<W:30 A.M. Senator Paul H. Douglas, Democratic Senator from Illinois Le third annual Alumni College to be held on June 9 at 2 p.m. Dinner 5:30-7 P.M. since 1948. will give the address at the 84th Commencement Ex- Sunday: Bathonorn Hall- Dill Captures ercises in the chapel Sunday. Dr. Arthur A. Hauck, president of Breakfast Four faculty members will con- 8-9 A.M. the University of Maine, will be the Baccalaureate speaker. This Luncheon 12-1:30 P.M. duct the College classes. Prof. Lux Second Prize year's Commencement will see the granting of 153 bachelors' will lead the discussion on "Athle- Prices of Meals Reunion degrees, four masters' degrees, and four honorary doctors' degrees. tics and a College Education"; Dr. In NE Contest Breakfast $ .60 Luncheon .85 Donovan will speak on "The Emer- William Dill was recently named Douglas A War Vet And Author Reminders gence of the United States as a Dinner $1.35 Hauck Has Wide Experience In the second prize winner in the Per- Education please claim room reser- Super Power"; Dr. Zerby wHl con- S : iti-r Douglas, a graduate of cival Wood Clement Prize contest l„ons ai the Bursar's Office, duct the class on "Our Liberal Her- Bowdoin College with a doctor's Dr. Hauck is a native of Spring- for original essays. He will receive PA Squelches Attempt degree from Columbia University, field, Minn. He graduated from |oger Williams Hall as soon itage"; while Miss SchaefTer's class 1 you arrive on campus. will be concerned with "The Thea- $300. has been a member of the econom- Reed College in Portland, Ore., in tre and the World It Reflects". To Bring Back Buffoon ics department at the LTniversity of 1915, received his M.A. from 17 AU alumni should regis- The contest is open to all under- The Board of Directors of the Chicago since 1920. He serveal on Columbia Teachers College, and ■ t Ch.ise Hall as soon as Informal Classes Sen. Paul H. Douglas r a graduates, both men and women, Publishing Association last week the Illinois Housing Commission later his Ph.D. from Columbia The Alumni College is designed liable. of the junior and senior classes in squelched plans for revival of the from 1931 to 1933. University. Since 1934 he has been I;. Please check Reunion In- to give alumni an opportunity to at- 18 colleges and universities through- Bates Buffoon, campus humor mag- In 1942 he enlisted as a private in president of the University of I -nation for the time and tend classes on campus with former azine defunct since 1941. out New England. the Marine Corps, and became a Maine. ce of your class picture. We classmates in informal and not too The proposal, put before the P.A. lieutenant colonel overseas, where He was previously dean at La- highly. academic sessions. Alumni Each year, all the contestants | ct everybody present. by David Howie and Prescott Har- fayette College, president of the attending these classes will have op- he . served from 1943 to 1945. In case of rain, all reunion competing are assigned one topic ris, was turned down on the basis Punahou School in Honolulu, as- portunities to express themselves Wounded in the Battle of Okina- ^ses and guests will assem- pertaining to American government of lack of active student participa- sistant dean at Antioch, and as- on current questions and problems wa. Douglas later received the in the field house for the tion and support, which killed the sistant to the president at Vassar. and to receive ideas of professors or history as the subject of the es- Bronze Star for "heroic achieve- imni Parade. magazine nine years ago. Financial ment in action" during the Battle who have specialized knowledge of says. This year's topic was "The In 1946 he was president of the P'he AlQmni Parade. Good and ethical difficulties were also the field. of I'eleliu. National Association of State Uni- her permitting, all alumni, Development of the Constitutional cited. Faculty Panel In 1948 Douglas became a dele- versities. Dr. Hauck is a member ;rs and friends will line up Relationship Between the Execu- William Dill, president of the of Phi Beta Kappa, the Council on Following the Alumni College, gate-at-large at the Democratic (.lasses in front of Parker tive and Legislative Branches of the P.A., stated that an experimental -ix faculty members will take part National Convention and since then Foreign Relations, and Phi Kappa The Lewiston High stage would be wise before incor- in a panel discussion of "What are National Government." has been a United States Senator Phi. 1100I band and the Class of porating a separate vehicle for the Implications of Rising Costs of The essays are then judged by a from Illinois. The weekend of commencement ; will form at the Bulletin humor into P.A.-sponsored publica- activities gets underway Friday a College Education. Prof. Quimby committee of three chosen from He is the author of several books | aid and the older classes will tions. He suggested that humorous when the third annual Alumni Col- will be moderator with Dr. Bortner, the presidents or executive officers on national problems, such as con- behind the Class of 1950, contributions be solicited by the lege will be held with classes for Dr. Sawyer. Dr. Fisher, Mr. Annett, trolling depressions, social security, i that the oldest class will be of the participating colleges. Three Garnet along with other literary returning alumni directed by Dr. and Mr. Lindholm participating. unemployment insurance, the theory the chapel on College prizes are awarded annually, con- works. Donovan, Prof. Lux, Prof. Schaef- The panel will also include Harold of wages, and unemployment. lneet. AU will march across Howie and Harris feel that since Clifford, Bates trustee and superin- sisting of $500, $300, and $100. fer, and Or. Zerby. kmpus to the Alumni Gym. the annual mayoralty campaign Douglas is a member of Phi Beta That evening the Robinson Play- tendent of schools at Boothbay Bates students have been chosen [he line will stop at the en- shows campus interest in humor Dr. Clifton T. Perkins Lincoln Filene Kappa and in 1947 served as presi- ers will do a repeat performance on Harbor. winners twice previously. ■ance and divide allowing the and buffoonery, a venture such as dent of the American Economic As- "The Imaginary Invalid", a comedy 'resident and trustees and they proposed, if properly handled, sociation. by Moliere with reserved seats for tier classes to come down the should be equally as successful. Douglas, Hauck, Perkins, And Filene alumni. The play will also be given pmer and enter the gym first. Petro Directs Athletics According to a P.A. spokesman, Saturday night for seniors and their the association is merely taking Open House . Tickets: guests. an attitude of caution in instituting Will Receive Bates Honorary Degrees New Coram Library Alperstein Class Day Orator Uurr.iii College Luncheon 85c In Portsmouth Schools a new publication, which, according Uumni Luncheon $1.65 A United State senator, a univer- recipients of honorary degrees to be June 9-10-11 Saturday's program will be high- to the group, may or may not re- You are cordially invited to lighted by traditional class day cer- ICommenc^ment Play $1.00 Ed Petro, popular former Bates made public until late this summer sity president, a mental hygienist, granted at the 84th commencement ceive student support and partici- inspect our new library and all emonies in the chapel at 2:30 p.m. iRooms (per night) $1.50 basketball coach and assistant foot- or early next fall. exercises in the chapel Sunday. pation. and a department store head are the its facilities. Our library staff is Arnold Alperstein will deliver the All ticket and room reserva- ball coach who resigned from the Doctors' degree will be given to most anxious to serve you class oration. tions paid for in advance may faculty March 2, received confirma- Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illi- while you are here for our The class marshal is Robert Jones, ■be claimed at the Alumni Of- tion May 31 of his appointment as nois who is also giving the com • 84th Commencement and Re- the organist will be Mr. Norton, ■Sce, Chase Hall. Others who director of athletics and football Program For 84th Commencement mencement address: Dr. Arthur A. union Weekend. and the toastmaster will be |desire tickets may purchase coach at Portsmouth, N.