Faculty Passes Hour Exam Schedule Plan
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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-23-1940 The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 12 - October 23, 1940 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 12 - October 23, 1940" (1940). The Bates Student. 788. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/788 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]. fs- ifiniall Paper Provides Lai Reporting Test „„»» a Tmmwil « ■unns of Dorothy Thompson, Grantland ns of rn°st newspaper jobs, Rice, and Walter Winchell. Then I de- onS & ' f0- nmateuis. is the teak cided that the first had a style too tutottt ll^^ry of working up from the well-known, the second wrote only BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. PRICE: TEN CENTS j<5l«rttW the paperS' thr0Ugh sports, and the third was a bit too sen- I'^porter, -and the like. sational for the Bulletin. •i ,eai news job. The morning of January first dawn- fo,ally'an slti cn aiy ■ hhve ■■ P° « ed clear and cold, a perfect day for gut* '*„ fit city of some 40,000 in- my first break into the world of type- literally poured into your writers and eigarette butts, printer's [r*,itar.ts •:>'-■ . thir.u an unique experience. devils and deadlines. In the morning & v' ei « m<. in January of 1- X mail I received a set of instructions 1 Faculty Passes Hour Senior »' ftonington (Con. ) from the Bulletin, which included a 5 I had been on the high I** School style sheet, and warnings about US* three yeirs, and promptness, accuracy, interesting Mi murthly ^ * , • yea- was editor. For several write-ups, and the like. I was terri- « , h3(i been calling the local re- fied. I finally steeled myself for the at- | "** ... the Norwich (Conn.) morn- tack, and started in. By ten o'clock I ^B„l.etin, andg—gher all the had called four different people, ask- Exam Schedule Plan I ui ■'tool i.e'-vs. ing them all about the same party, 't«rsing the process, however, she you see, I wanted all the particulars, WORKED FOR CURRICULUM REFORM accurately. Zi me one day and asked it I would Train, Game Tickets Stu-C Advanced *t0 join the reporting staff of the First Assignment Brings ,.n i said "Yes", merely as a Swift Kick In Shins * W of course, rather than for any Next I attacked the Towni Hall, Go On Sale Today Original Project Za desire. She replied, "Fine. You marching into the court room proudly « the first of January." That was bearing my brand new press card. I Special Price Ends "gHailed As First !Uvs after Christmas. copied minutely each particular con- Thursday At 5 P. M. Monstrous Rally Attainment Of New I never spent such a frantic half- cerning the opening of the court -so Conference Group ek i rushed to the library, looking minutely, in fact, that I forgot to Total Cost $2.05 "rsome sort of volume such as "How stand when the judge entered. This This afternoon from 1 to 5, and to- Preludes CM Game A scheme to relieve congestion of Reporter in Ten Easy Lessons" brought me a good kick in the shin's I to be i morrow afternoon during the same hour exams around warning time each but to no avrail I considered taking a from one of the other newspapermen, time, are the only opportunities for . Preliminary Rally . semester, was announced this morning Ltresoondence course, "guaranteeing and I rose. students to purchase tickets for the in Chapel by Mr. Harry W. rtowe, L job "in four weeks after you finish The whole day continued in the State Series opener with the Univer- Takes Place Tonight assistant to the President, as the first our splendid training", but the idea of same manner. My news was all gath- sity of Maine next Saturday. Student After Snake Dance accomplishment of the recently formed duv or.e lesson a week didn't fortify ered and typed by four o'clock, with tickets at 55 cent3 and train fare at Student - Administration Conference I ae sufficiently. my deadline at six. That left me two $1.50 must be obtained at the Athletic -MANGLE MAINE!" Committee. I began devouring minutely the col- (Continued on page four) Office before 5 p.m. tomorrow or "just in case someone may not be The plan is essentially one previous- prices will be approximately doubled. aware of the fact, head cheerleader ly embodied in a list of student griev- Brud Obersl is tonight going to inform ances carefully drawn up and pub- In addition to the all-college holi- the campus that the opening game of lished by Student Council members last Hathorn Once Housed day, other attractions for the coming the State Series occurs on Saturday sp'ing. Although the Council Consti- week end include the rally Friday next. A "pep rally", so-called, will be tution forbids its action in matters af- night and a Chase Hall dance on Sat- staged tonight beginning at 6:45. fecting curriculum, the Council and Laboratories, Chapel urday. The dance will begin at 9 with The 50-piece band, part of which the Faculty committee on the Student the Bobcats playing for ten dances - By Mitchell A. Melnick '42 was on the first floor. The second floor Mr. Harry W. Rowe, assistant to the President, and chairman of the at least will be decked out in tneir Council decided in a joint meeting on with intermission following the fifth flashy new uniforms and caps, will April 15 that the Constitution on that Some of us go into Hathorn Hall for was unfinished for thirteen years due Student-Administration Conference Committee, and John Haskell '41, presi- number. Because of the shorter time wake the campus from its stupor as it point was outmoded. I classes without noticing the building to the lack of funds, while the third dent of the men's Student Council, and prominent member of the Committee. allotment admission will be only 25 staggers hither and yon at the head itself. Others have taken an occasional floor had six small recitation rooms In the absence of any expert, spe- cents and furthermore the girls will of a multitude of snake-dancing, rip- (lance at its inner structure when the and a bellmen's room. c.alized committee to handle such be allowed an extra special 11:30 per- roaring grid fans. 1 professor was teliing a story that we First Chapel Situated matter.!, wherein all sections of the mission. 'Student' Issues College would be represented, the I heard when we were in high school. To In Present History Rooms President Commends And again on Friday night another Saturday morning at 8:45 the en- Traditional Warning even-more-monstrous rally. Perhaps Student - Administration Conference ' those of us who have wondered about Instead of the students going to larged, new-uniformed band will lead Committee's Action the banner attraction of the Friday Committee was formed and set to work I what is the history of Hathorn Hall, History and Latin on the first floor of The old watchdog STUDENT is a grand march downtown to the rail- President Clifton Daggett Gray, night shindig will be the unveiling ot on the matter of hour exam conges- this story will appease their curiosi- Hathorn as they do today, they as- in again, this time just to remind road station. The special train (with when questioned concerning his reac- j an addition to the cheerleading stafl— tion. The outcome of this committee's ties if they haven't done so already. sembled in what was one large room all eds and coeds that Friday and baggage car attached) will pull out tion to the adoption by the faculty of none other than song-leader Marilyn recommendations are embodied in the It was on June 26, 1856, under the for chapel services. According to an Monday before and after the che Conference Committee recommen- Miller. following three points as adopted by leadership of Capt. A. rl. Kelsey of early issue of the STUDENT we read, at 9:15. Maine game holiday are absolutely dations as announced this morning in and definitely no-cut days. This Rumors concerning this rally are ex- vote of the whole faculty. lewiston, trustees, clergymen, direc- "It was not uncommon, although ra- Lunches will be provided on the Chapel, asserted his complete approval, means that the old stock excuses tensively numerous. It will definitely 1. That instructors be required to i ta o: the Franklin Company, person- ther risky, for some of the boys to train for all men eating at Commons in a statement handed to the STU- will have to be revised, for it will begin with a parade at 7 p. m., but give their students one full week's no- '»'o£ the town's fire company, chil- slip out through a window during a and for women eating at Fiske Dining DENT, he said, "I am more than pleas- take a good one to help the erring after this anything goes. The Daisy tice prior to an hour written examina- ilren of the public schools, accompa- particularly boring chapel gathering." ■tall. Senior men and off-campus men ed with the constructive work which student in this case.