HAVERF D NEWS VOLUME 33—NUMBER 3 HAVERPORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1941 Z 627 $2.00 A YEAR.— M. Evans Elected -Rhoads to Address Five-Year Survey Passes Go On Sale Approval Secured To Presidency Reception Thursday Indicates Trend For Local Theatres \ Owen B. Rhoads, '25, will be Passes for the Ardmore, For Participation e principal speaker at the Seville, and Suburban theatres Of Junior Class annual Founders Club recep- Towards Science will go on sale tomorrow night, tion for Freshmen Thursday Walter C. Falconer Business In-ESMUITlan evening at 8 o'clock in the Manager of the NEWS, an- Hogness, MacCrate, Common Room. English Department nounced yesterday. Members Courses Planned And Coffin Receive A lawyer in Philadelphia, of the business board will make Mr. Rhoads is an Alumni rep- Drops in Enrollment the rounds of the dormitories For Outside Students Other Positions resentative on the Board of As Chemistry Gains during the coming week. In Industrial Plants Managers. Mr. Rhoads held Passes for the Archndre Morris Evans was elected to Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford A survey released by the Col- Theatre will cost 36 cents and Participation of Haverford in the office of president by the Jun- University following gradua- lege, indicating the popularity of will entitle the student to a ior Class at a meeting in the Com- the Federal Engineering, Science, tion from Haverford. elective courses during the past 10-cent reduction in the price and Managemen‘pifense Training mon Room on Thursday night. At the reception Ellsworth five-year period, reveals that Chem- of movie tickets. Passes for Evans, last year's vice - president, Program has been approved by the Alvord, '44, will receive the istry, while showing the greatest the Suburban and Seville Board of Managers and the United is a three letter man, outstanding annual $25 award of Founders increase in numbers, is still only Theatres will be distributed in soccer, basketball and track. His States Office of Education, Presi- Club presented to the out- equal:en enrollment to the English free of charge with those for dent Morley announced yesterday. home is in Germantown, Pennsyl- standing member of the Fresh- Department. the Ardmore Theatre and will\ vania. Plans for -the project call for man Class of the preceding Trend is Toward Sciences also entitle the holder to a the teaching of three courses in Hogness is Vice-President year. Richard Bauer, Director 10-cent reduction. the elements of engineering by John It. Hogness was elected of the Glee Club, will also talk. General trends are undisputably Individual tickets for the both members of the College fac- vice-president, and Robert Mac- Preceding the reception there in favor of the sciences as proven Suburban and Seville Thea- ulty and two engineering and Phy- Crate and Tristram P. Coffin, sec- will be a short business meet- by the fact that the Chemistry, tres will also go on sale this sics graduates of Haverford. It is retary and treasurer, respectively. ing in the Union. Mathematics, Biology and Engi- week in the Coop. The price anticipated that thirty students Hogness held the office of secretary neering departments have all in- will be 20 cents for each ad- from the industrial areas of Ard- and MacCrate that of president creased their enrollment since 1937. mission. more and vicinity would be per- throughout their freshman year. English, on the other hand, the mitted to take the courses over a The vice-president-elect is a mem- Agreement Binds highest drawing Arts course, has fifteen-week period, beginning in ber of the football squad and comes dropped off 33 students. French Ten Student Members February. from Chicago. MacCrate will be and Germaer, the leading language • remembered for his performance Clubs in Policy electives, have suffered an even Of Two Committees Rittenhouse Appointed in the leading role of the college greater decrease. Appointed by Roberts Professor Leon H. Rittenhouse presentation of "The Pirates of Art and Sociology show the least has been named resident faculty Penzance" last year. Bell and Krom variability, having exactly the Appointment of student members member in charge of the program. Caen Re-elected Treasurer Announce Plan same-number of students enrolled of the Common Room Committee Directing the classes, according to this year as in 1937. Music, Philo- and the Faculty-Student Affairs present thins, will be Professor Coffin, re-elected to the office of Frederic Palmer, Professor Cletus treasurer, has held that position Of Partial Merger sophy, Greek and Astronomy have Committee have been made, Ken- varied little enough to be consid- neth S. Roberts, president of the 0. Oakley, Professor Carl B. since his class entered the college. Allendoerfer, Professor Theodore The members of the executive A policy of cooperation between ered equally steady. Students' Council, announced Sun- the Communications Committee B. Hetzel, Dr. Louis Ellsworth, committee are Paul M. Cope of Seven Departments Gain day. Edward Edwards, '08, and Samuel Atlantic City, N. J., John C. White- and the International Relations The Faculty - Student Affairs S. McNeary, '36. Mr. Edwards has head of Upper Montclair, N, J., Seven departments only have Committee will consist of Roberts, Club was announced by Edgar D. increased their enrollment over last been a naval architect in the and Avrel Mason of Westfield, N. J. Bell and John M. Krom Sunday Edgar D. Bell, Jr., James F. Gary, Marine Department of the Atlan- Hogness announced that the new year. Chemistry, English, Mathe- Robert MacCrate, Haskell Tor- night. matics and Spanish show the tic Refining Company for the last set of officers were already consid- rence, and John C. Whitehead, in twenty years, and Mr. McNeary is ering the appointments for the Although a complete merging of greatest gain in that order. French, addition to Professors J. W. the two organizations was serious- Government and Astronomy reveal an instructor in mathematics at dance oorant1P-- order--to get ly considered both agreed that Flight, Alexander J. Williamson, Drexel Institute. plane for the Junior Prom under the biggest drop over the same Roy E. Randall, and Lindsay A. way as soon as passible. their respective policies might period. Lafford, who represent the faculty. Under the proposed plan classes differ in certain respects. Conse- English and Chemistry lead the Professor Cletus O. Oakley is would be given from one to two quently, it was tentatively decided departments in the number of stu- chairman of this group. hours, two or three evenings a that each should keep its identity. dents they attract each year. The J. Dee Crabtree, Jr., and John week, in Hiller and Sharpless Hall "Current Biography" Bell, who is chairman of the next, in point of numbers, are Eco- M. Krom from the Sophomore laboratories and Founders Hall International Relations Club or- nomics, Mathematics, History, Ger- Class, and John R. Cary and Stacey classrooms. Courses, to be limited Publishes Sketch ganizing committee and Krom, act- man and Government. Italian has H. Widdicombe,- Jr, from the to engineering, mathematics, phy- ing head of the Communications attracted only one student this Freshman Class, along with the sics, and mechanical drawing, Of Rufus Jones' Life Committee, stated that in their year and other low enrollment de- student members of the Faculty- would duplicate, in somewhat sim- opinion close cooperation between partments are Art, Greek and Mu- Student Affairs Committee, make plified form, courses already offer- A biography of Dr. Rufus M. ed to undergraduates. Jones appears in the latest issue their groups will strengthen both. sic. up the Common Room Committee. of "Current Biography," a maga- High School Required zine devoted to the outlines of the It is hoped that members of the lives of important contemporary Confirmed on Poe 0, Cot. 2 figures. Victor Moore Lauds Collegiate Dramatics The article describes Dr. Jones Amussen and Logan as "the nearest thing the Friends Says Every School Veteran Showman have bad to an international from the toga which had adorned To Be Featured spokesman." "The Friends' Service Should Encourage him the last time we had • seen Now Staring in Hit, By New Mainliners Committee, which he helped found him. Mustering all our courage, and which he heads," it continues, Aspiring Actors we buttonholed him and persuaded "Louisiana Purchase" Featuring John R. Amussen on "is under his leadership bringing him to spare us a few minutes. drums and J. Bronson Logan on succor to war-racked Europe, to By K. P. Gauss, JR. sad B. K. Passe troubles of the world for two or College Dramatics Important trumpet, The Mainliners will play underprivileged America. "Thek're born. Actors are defin- three hours." this year under the direction of "Under his guidance camps have itely born," said Victor Moore, vet- Although he believes that actors Since Mr. Moore was born about Thomas Meldrum, Ain of Profes- been established in this country for eran Broadway comedian, not re- are born as such, Mr. Moore point- thirty miles from here, he is ad- s& William B. Meldrum. conscientious objectors so that they ferring to the fact that a great act- ed out that "College dramatics are mittedly prejudiced on the question The band is to be considerably may 'make a constructive contri- or is introduced to the world in the very important. Every school of the relative progressiveness of changed, with a new vocalist, a bution to national life.' And with same manner as we mortals, but should have a class or at least a Philadelphians. •Mr. Moore takes new name, and a number of new all this, Dr. Jones continues to rather voicing his opinion that one club for dramatics. There is but issue with those who share the be- arrangements.