Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-2-1940 The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 09 - October 2, 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 09 - October 2, 1940" (1940). The Bates Student. 785. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/785 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]. 32, kdcl Speech, French poachers To Faculty nhtnt vo: PRICE: TEN CENTS ^fi^-^i BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940 «%? Rowe Advises Eds To First Week's Program Build Mental Defences College Men May 'Student' Calls First Keep Frosh On Move Register For Draft Meeting Of Recruits In City Of Lewiston DOCTOR ROB" Teas And Stanton All s-udenis. ircs.iinen or upper- Flight Program "For the present, our job as stu- classmen, interested ii. joining the - dents, teachers, and administrators is STUDLNT staff are invited to at- Bide Still To Come on the campus." So wrote Harry W. tend the first ger.cial mcitii.g of Attracts 35 Men • Rowe, Assistant to the President, in a tht year tomorrow, Tntsradaf, at Fifteenth Annual letter late this summer to the upper- MISS LTDIA FRANK MME. HARRIET LAURENT 1:00 p. m. in the history room. Planning Advanced Event Directed By classmen. Apparently the national No. 1. Hathorn Hall. Training Course For Lloyd And Abbott the most oi the student bouy pieces. Immediately afterwards the government is also inclined to agree Regular staff members are also tnat intelligent citizenship is more im- With the sight of John Lloyd '43, uiat tne rrench Department .submarine turned on its searchlights rypeced : - ut prcosnt for the Second Semester portant even now than the ability to Approximately 35 men and two wo- John Senior '42, and Ralph Tuller '42 new r'lencn instructor teinpo- mid sprayed its deadly fire upon the year's first gathering of the news ! struggling with poles, stakes, and can- ., place oi Fwa. Angeio oer- struggling pecple. drop bombs, tor every effort is being department. men remained after the rally last Fri- ■ vas under the elms at the corner of t ucr name is Alme. tlarnet Lau- made to keep students in college de- day evening to hear the proposed plans . I '" All students who were at Bates last spite militaristic inclinations. by which the second flight training College and Campus, Bates knew that |rti" year can recall Ralph Child's experi- Thus Pres. Gray announced in program at Ba'es is to be conducted the Christian Association was again modestly thinks that she nas no ye ence off the coast of Scotland when the Chapel last week that Bates men who by the Civil Ai--onautics Authority. ' ready to greet and assist the new [ me campus would like to noat on which he was returning to the belonged to the National Guard will Sullivan To Edit After explanations by Edward M. I freshman class. The Freshman Week I iJut, alter reassuring her that United States was similarly hit but be able to finish their college courses Powell, administration director. Henry i tent Is one ot the first sights that •yoouy at Bates would be glad to fortunately most everyone aboard before being mustered into service. Dingley, presiden' of the Lewiston- i most students recall on their iniual M »uout ner, she said, "The only Senior Yearbook reached shore safely. So Bates can at Spofford Avery '41 and Stanton Smith Auburn airport, and Winslow Durgin, | 'rip to Bates not many years ago. Daniel A. Sullivan '41 and Richard ' bBnal thing that has happened to least partially understand how Mme. Under the direction of Lloyd and '41 would be called into training on Hoag '41 have been named editor-in- the insurance agent, about 25 appli- Le a ft* tragedy of the war in Eu- Laurent feels about the whole inci- Jan. 6 if it had not been made possible cants submitted their names as being ! Barbara Abbott'41 the Freshman Week chief and business manager, respec- I . husband lost his life when he dent j Committee worked arduously in help- for them to obtain special exemption. tively, of the 1941 "Mirror". The se- definitely interested. |u:al to escape to England irorn Bel- Their cases will be acted on individ- ing the unusually large class ot 1944 Mme. Laurent says that she rinds lection of these men was made by the The next step for the candidates is Lum." ually by the adjutant general and it tc become better acquainted with American people much more numan Publishing Association, student-faculty 10 take physical examinations trom is quite certain that their period of Bales — the freshmen themselves, the [UUMKUUI hicurred s-.nce tne war started in Europe. "They committee for campus publications, at Dr. Goodwin, following which they training will be deferred at least until •'.. ! administration, the faculty, the upper- Iwralh oi -Nazis have lost their smugness,'' she says. a meeting shortly after the close of will be examined by the government < next July. i classmen, and many of the curricular a,nce lit" husoand was a professor And the students have changed some college last spring, but official an- physician. Dr. Jerome Murphy, of ■ As for the Conscription Act itself — i and extra-cu* ricular activities. Li Mediival History at Brussels and alro. She says they are more serious nouncement was postponed until this Lewiston. It is necessary that the the Act which will affect all males be- During Monday the freshman tent I punished a;i anti-Nazi paper, "The a.iu much more receptive. fall. trainees be enrolled in groups of ten. tween the ages of 21 and 35 — college PROF. G. M. ROBINSON* was the hub of activity. All sorts of (.•ombat", he was a marked man in tne Sullivan, a government major, is a and if the Bates quota of 20 is not When asked if she was glad to be students again are in no danger of questions from members of the new *rman press. When war broke out he member of Delta Phi Alpha, honorary filled there will be room for only 10 here, Mme. Laurent replied, "That it finding themselves in actual service. class were answered. In each of the ; appoinied as one of the personal German fraternity, and Der Deutscher applicants. was because of Bates that she is able All men who will have reached their Prof. Robinson Again men's dorms there was a bell-hop, |i«.jr.s.:iori in tiie King's Cabinet. to continue her work and bring up h«.r herein, campus German club. He is This year there will be two complete guide, or what have you, who conduct- 21st birthday on or by Oct. 16 will also an assistant in the German De- On tne tentii oi May, Mme, i.auient i wo children here in America. have to register. Registration can be training programs, one each semester. Tours Country By Bus ed the frosh to their new homes of partment. Hoag is an economics major heeirod a cablegram from her nus- Bates welcomes this year Miss L/dia Thus it will be necessary for this year's Grosvenor M. Robinson, professor peace and security. Jane White '43 conducted either here in Lewiston or in and is also serving as business man- kand mfoiiiuiig her that there was no Frank of Long Island who replaces recruits to complete the ground school emeritus of public speaking, and bet- turned delivery man during the after- the home precinct of the student. And ager for the "Garnet". Sullivan was ganger that was immediate, in fact Miss Barbara Kendall as assistant in and flight course in much less time ter known on the Bates campus as noon and with the help of several able each man can choose whether or not an assistant editor and Hoag an as- iae says that he was never optimistic (he Speech Department. than was given the 20 charter members "Prof Rob", left last week on another bodied males, hauled trunks from the he wishes to have his name placed in sistant business manager of last year s of the Bates Flying Club last year. of his famous bus trips about the railroad station to their respective out the late of Holland and Belgium Miss Frank received her B.A. from the quota for his home precinct or in "Mirror". United States. Having purchased an destinations. felt that the democracies would Adelphi College in 1938, and the fol- the Lewiston district. The advanced course tentatively "Mirror" activities begin this noon even longer strip of tickets than was Monday evening saw the class ot l.n out. lowing year she attended Columbia Many Eds planned for those men who have ob- when pictures of the junior class will needed for his famed trip of last year 1944 together in Chase Hall for the |ADout the Mill she received word University, specializing in speech Already Serve tained their private pilot's license will be taken in front of the library at 1:00 first time. They were formally greeted at ho was safe but hiding from the If a student should be drafted he can not be given this semester. It is felt "Prof Rob" boarded the bus bound for work. This led to graduate work at o'clock.