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Falls to Ohio U.Freshman CHURCH EVENTS WEATHER TO-DAY Of Religious Week and Easter Mostly Fair. Possibly Scattered Sunday Listed See Page 4. GREEN AND WHITE Rains Today or Wednesday. Volume XXVI The Official Student Publication OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937 Published Semi-Weekly Number 38 UIUor Prom maestro, playing for danc- TED WEEMS, ers at the Bismarck Hotel, Chicago. NOBEL WINNER This is the 14-piece band that will invade Athens to hold court in the Men's Gymnasium Friday night, April for the first sum- Oratory 23 Coed State Crown TO SPEAK HERE mer-formal prom. Irving Langmuir, Noted Chemist, Scheduled Falls to Ohio U. Freshman April 6, 7 For Three Lectures EXCERPTS MESCHAN LEADS FIELD OF 8 • WINNER OF THE 1932 NOBEL PRIZE in chemistry and i From Prize-Winning Speech j noted for his work in chemical research, Dr. Irving Langmuir will be in Athens to present three lectures to Ohio University audi- Here are extracts from "Sow Joins Ray Keesey, State Men's Champ, in ences immediately after the end of spring vacations, Dr. Victor the Seeds of Tolerance," which Trip to National Meet Next Month University won Ohio U. freshman Florence Whitehouse, chairman of the Committee on Distin- Meschan first place in the State guished Visitors, announced today. Women's Oratory Contest held • BECAUSE OF A FIRST-PLACE VICTORY by freshman Flor- Dr. Langmuir, the sixth speaker in Saturday at Delaware. ence Meschan in the Ohio oratory contest for women at Delaware the current series of outstanding men Drop a pebble in a pool of water give Saturday night, Ohio University will have two representatives in" prominent professions, will NEWS in and watch the result. There is a con- to two talks for more specialized aud- tinuous ripple of widening circles, compete in the national tournament April 29 at Northwestern iences and one convocation address starting with a very small one which University. Ray Keesey won the men's oratory contest recently. on April 6 and 7. The first lecture, soon fuses out into an ever-widening REVIEW Delivering an original oration "Two Dimensional Gases, Liquids and . 1 of rim of concentric circles . each of 1800 words, "Sow the Seeds of Toler- Solids," will be presented at 8 p.m. us is a just such human pebble drop- ance," Miss Meschan, a Cleveland Tuesday, April 6. In Convocation By Dan Wertman ped down into the pool of life by a Wednesday morning, April 7, freshman, won from a field of eight Dr. divine hand . 37 Organize hundreds of mourning par- contestants. The championship car- Langmuir will talk on "The Modern Let me portray this vivid anology Attitude," and on Wednes- WHILEents bury their dead children and ried with it a cash award of $25 and Scientific . you see before you a long and he deliver his final while the state of Texas slowly re- a right to compete in the national con- day at 4 p.m. will narrow street . Morris Moskowitz from the shock of its most hor- Student PRPC tests. lecture, "Absorbed Films and Their covers threateningly rible disaster, strong words are being stands over Jimmy o'- Wittenberg Biological Significance." All three Skits, Clowns, Caruso Featured best Second exchanged over the table where the Flannigan for calling his girl, lectures will be given in Alumni Antonia Morelli, "a dirty wop," and Besides Ohio University, Baldwin Memorial Auditorium, and the public state inquiry board is meeting. An of Wallace, Ohio Wesleyan, Kent State, has his father, "a filthy old Jew." Will Prepare Lists Pro- is to attend. oil field foreman, Delbert Clark, In Ringless Circus Tomorrow Heidelberg, Capital University, Wit- invited destroyed Degrees charged that the now New spective Students for tenberg, Otterbein, and Wooster sent Holds Numerous consolidated school building MAKING HISTORY Langmuir graduated from the London Faculty Committee representatives. Second place went Dr. was heated from gas stolen from his TRAPEZE ARTISTS WILL CAVORT IN GYM RAFTERS Miss to Columbia School of Mines as a metal- Meschan's victory gave Betty Stewart, Wittenberg, whose in 1903. He re- company's pipe lines. The gas, Clark Speech Professor Staats a record selection was "The American Trag- lurgical engineer a explained, was residue pumped back • edy." ceived his M. A. and Ph.D. degrees By Paul Day of having coached five first place CONFORMING WITH a policy to the company wells from the gaso- winners since he joined the depart- The system was from the University of Goettingen. • started last year, 37 students met coach-judge em- line refining plant. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ARTISTS will sweep into ployed Quickly winning fame in his branch ment in 1931. Under his direction, yesterday afternoon to form the stu- Saturday. Miss Mary Helen cause blast at Gymnasium as Department Physical of study, Dr. Langmuir was Direct for the that the arena the Men's the of women debaters have placed every dent Public Relations Program Com- Frances Fretts, dean of women at scientific crumpled school and Wesleyan, awarded Doctor of Science degrees the $300,000 Education offers its fourth annual amateur circus tomorrow night. year since he took up the job. mittee which will function under the was chairman of the con- killed 456 students and instructors test. from Northwestern, Union, Columbia, A street parade at 5 p.m. will pre-' His record: 1931, Wanda Morton, faculty PRPC. L. C. Statts, member Miss Fretts was assistant to been blamed on gas seeping from dean Princeton, and Lehigh universities, has cede the activities in the "Big Show" Ist; 1932, 1933, Geneva Coleman, of the PRPC, and associate professor the and head of Howard Hall the heating and filling the hol- year and from Kenyon College. In 1921 a outlets which will get under weigh at 7:30 2nd, Ist; 1934, Florence Harper, of speech, explained the purpose of last at Ohio U. low tile walls of the building. Margaret LI.D. degree was conferred upon him p.m. Ist; 1935, Flory, 3rd; the organization. Active in Playshop Class Day Fate 1936, Anna Faye Blackburn, Ist; act to by Edinburgh University. Offering 120 minutes of thrill- The group will make every Miss Meschan was by A NEW WAY of fighting has been coached Best known works of Dr. Langmuir packed entertainment, with clowns, 1937, Florence Meschan, Ist. student on the Ohio University cam- Prof. L. C. associate -**-found by the Spanish Fascists. Staats, pro- include the development of gas filled trapeze artists, bands, wild animals pus a representative of the univer- fessor of dramatic art and speech, Finding their armies blocked and be- tungsten lamps, electron discharge ap- pursuing wild-eyed trainers, tragedy Up to Seniors What a shameful paradox in sity in his home community for the assisted by Miss Margaret Flory, fel- fascist that paratus, the atomic hydrogen weld- ing slowly beaten backward, comedy, and pink the cir- purpose of contacting seniors in high low in speech. lemonade, . She won poetry commanders ordered fliers to drop in- the twentieth century children the ing process, invention of devices for cus has been acclaimed as a mile- who school who are likely to be attending interpretation contest held here last cendiary on protected are born with no innate animos- marine detection, and development of bombs forest stone in the era of canvas-covered Will ities college next year and who would be fall by Tau Kappa Alpha, national positions held by government troops. Decide Issue April 6; should become hostile and pre- the condensation high vacuum pump. entertainment. organized . interested in Ohio U. speech honorary. Ten . She has been This they did, and hundreds of Loyal- judiced toward one another des- ac- Since 1909 Dr. Langmuir has been en- groups, in addition to the regular Oppose Possible Change pite Hitler, and Named tive in Playshop, and portrayed the ist troops perished; those not buruned despite Mussolini, it Large Group gaged in physical chemistry research physical welfare groups, have entered is no more given to any man to judge "It is the belief of the committee role of Mrs. Slade in the recent pro- were forced into the open by the • for the General Electric Research acts. THE FATE OF OHIO University's his pebble duction of "Ten Nights In A Bar- blazing pine forests. brother than it is given to that a student is the best advertise- Laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y. Caruso 'Cops' Show ; Senior Day will be put squarely be- him to know whether on the morrow ment for a university," Professor Room. He is now honorary chancellor of fore the members of the senior class, he or his will need * * » MONTH will elapse be- Seven clowns, with the indomitable brother a coat for Statts told the organization. Union University in Schenectady. A NOTHER it was yesterday the re- decided at his body or a shroud for his . Members of the committee are: ■**-fore Amelia Earhart can Stan Caruso as the cop, will cavort corpse Fourth Honored by Japan again gular weekly meeting of the Campus Evelyth Atkinson, Betty Gullum, Win- in Poetry Contest climb into her $BO,OOO flying labora- about the rings as trapeze artists and Among the many awards possessed Affairs Committee. A meeting will ifred Dinsmoor, Jean Pace, Dorothy tory and start out anew on her globe- acrobats play among the rafters over- by Dr. Langmuir for scientific ad- be held, with all seniors asked to Lawrey, Betty Funk, Mary Brarri- In the poetry interpretation con- girdling flight. Disconsolate, Miss head. Tumblers will build ladders vancement work is a membership in come, on Tuesday, April 6, at 4 p.m. VACATION CUTS hall, Ruth Perry, McDonald, test which preceeded the oratory meet is journeying to which will surpass the pyramids of John the Japanese government Order of Earhart now back in Ewing Auditorium, at which time Jack Meister, Robert Reider, held at Wesleyan, Miss Janet Blair, America, this time by boat instead of Egypt, said the press agent this Fred the Rising Sun, Fourth Class.
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