T II E U > IVERSITY C-CLUB DANCES FINAL FOOTBALL GAME NOVEMBER 26 U. C. vs. CENTRE DECEMBER 5 SUPPORT THE TEAM! Volume XLII UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 Number 5 Blue Key Taps Six New keys added to the Blue Key chain in Monday's impressive tap­ ping service were: Francis Barker, Felix Harrod, Jimmy Lynch. Rob Robertson. Mack Pardue, and Dan Thomas. Weird music in the darkness of the campus chapel set the scene in which members of Blue Key con­ ducted the tapping of six men stu­ dents who have been elected to membership in the men's honorary service fraternity. Those who attended chapel wit­ nessed the mystery of the masked figures as they moved down the aisle toward the altar—their cloaked forms being outlined by the single searchlight behind them. Student and faculty interest mounted high­ er with each deliberate step. The tense silence of the audience inter­ rupted only by an occasional shriek of feigned alarm by the shy Fresh­ Members of Blue Key are shown above with the new initiates. The new members, left to right, Jim­ man made more impressive the my Lynch, Felix Harrod. Rob Robertson, Dan Thomas. Francis Barker, and Mack Pardue. The old mem­ bers, left to right. Prof. James Holbert, Bob Boese, Vernon Fromang, Billy Bender, and Jon Coffey. ceremony. With arms folded under their black robes, the Keys went down Benefit Swingette Piece de "Hfleatre Symphony—No Dog the aisles and through the rows of seats guided by the searchlight from If you're a hog about dancing to "T r a i t r e! ins^nl! trompeur! The symphony season has opened the platform. They peered along the rhythms of that Sentimental lache! coquin! pemfajfl! gueux! be- with a bang. For the first Monday each row moving slowly at first, and Gentleman or The Ol' Professor, and litre! fripon! maratfff-Jvoleur! . ." night concert last week a young on signal they pounced upon their maybe sorta think you might be in This to Dr. AnacJ^l^and then he woman, Muriel Kerr, journeyed to GEORGE H. PATTEN . BELOVED FRIEND prey from behind. After making the mood for doing a little swingin' beats her. _ the city from New York to play certain that the gentleman was an' swayin' come Wednesday after­ Martine i|The p^or soul who has Beethoven's fourth piano concerto soundly tapped. they virtually noon from four to seven in the had to endure all of this from her with the orchestra. As has been U. C. Benevolent On the Stage pulled him to the aisle and marched Commons, then the Blue Key rogue of a iHdSband. and who has done occasionally before, there was him forward while the search con­ Swingette is the thing for you. In until now iSilSht ..bST fight with a conference with the artist on Mon­ Last Saturday morning at 4:15 Subjects which are a little out of case you're not quite sure just what tinued in stealthy tempo until the words onlyJ^CJhis^ftrhe, however, day afternoon. A group of inter­ o'clock. Mr. G. H. Patten, beloved the ordinary and which are treated a "swingette" might be, here's the new members had been found. she plans to take a, more material ested music students gathered at civic leader, died suddenly of a in a fashion that might be classi­ low-down: it's a combination boy- fied as being rather odd often prove revenge. so^Ptt Moliere thinks it the Cadek Conservatory to discuss heart attack. At the hour of his The announcement of Blue Key's takes-girl, girl-takes-boy affair, to be of a great deal more interest high time t»record events in an­ piano playing with Miss Kerr, who untimely death he had been the choice for membership climaxes the with "stags" and "hags" lone-wolf­ other one of his inimitable come­ than those with which we are quite ing it, too. Every year about this is a teacher at the Julliard School energetic and zealous head of the season's interest among the eligible dies. ^P^ of Music. For an hour the short, familiar. Such invigorating strange­ juniors and seniors who are out­ time (Thanksgiving to you), Blue Community Chest's War Fund in ness is apparent to a noticeable de­ While mdsing her fate through blonde, buxom Miss Kerr sat with standing leaders in campus organ­ Key. men's honorary service fra­ this area. Because Chattanooga gree in the first production to be ternity, dreams up something spe­ the woods, Afttffcme overhears two of the group and answered questions izations. Putnam Por^etfs servants bemoan­ loved him, it has taken the un­ given by the University Players, cial in the way of said swingette— in her charming accent, which is a Officers of Blue Key Fraternity ing the fact that his daughter has mixture of authentic British (she spoken pledge to make this cam­ under the direction of Mrs. Ward, and as for admission—well, just any on the evenings of December 3 and are. Bob Boese, president; Billy old can of none-perishable food you suddenly gcp^' dumb, so that no was born in Canada) and cultured paign even more successful than 4. Instead of a full-length play, Bender, vice-president; Jon Coffey, happen to find sitting around on suitor will demand her hand in mar­ American. i' would have been with Mr. Pat­ secretary, and Vernon Fromang, riage. A doctor is needed, but, alas! three short ones, which are in them­ the pantry shelf will come in right She sternly emphasized the ne­ ten living—a last tribute of honor, selves of a definitely different na­ treasurer. handy. no physician is clever enough to The ECHO joins the student body battle this mysterious malady. "Ex­ cessity of practising scales — she in a practical, worthwhile cause, ture, will be presented—"The Long This brings up the Worthy Cause. seemed to feel that it is a waste of rather than merely an emotional Christmas Dinner," by Thornton in congratulating the honorees. cuse me." says our lady, "but I Now that lonely little can might not know just the man. A queer duck time not to do so. When asked her farewell. Wilder; "The Theater of the Soul," look so very much like a Thanksgiv­ preference of the conductors with by N. N. Evreinov, and "The Man —he spends his spare time chopping Cur University, too, has a tribute ing dinner to you, but when they wood, and though he has raised whom she had played (excluding Who Married a Dumb Wife," by On Exhibition put it in a basket with other cans to give, for, as trustee and member many a child from the dead and Mr. Plettner, of course), she replied Anatole France. If you've always wanted to travel of stuff, it will to someone who may that her choice of the lot was Fritz of the executive board, he was rev­ cured the most unheard of diseases, The first of these, whose author abroad, if you like flowers, if you're not have a Thanksgiving dinner he will not acknowledge his pro­ Reindr. "I think I could turn hand­ ered friend and counselor, he was is a well-known modern writer and interested in mustache cups—or if otherwise. fession unless beaten to it." springs on the piano and he would a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the por­ cultural and financial encourager of good art appeals to you—be sure to Remember—the day is Wednes­ The two servants listen open- follow me," she added. Someone beauty, in mind and soul, of erudi­ trayal of the life of a family from visit the current exhibit of oils by day, the place is the Commons, and asked how many concertos she had one generation to another through mouthed, and believe. tion, of wisdom, and of integrity. Jane Peterson and antique china the time—from four to seven. played. The list she named was a period of 90 years. The action Thus DR. ANACKER sets forth So at U. C. the Quadrangle has from Fowler's antique galleries. on his career as a "Medicin malgre staggering to the group, to whom is centered entirely around the the learning of four or five Bee­ pledged itself as the sponsor of the Christmas dinner table, with one "Venice Canal." "Assoun. Algeria." lui," a doctor in spite of himself. and "Water Front at Majorica" are Before many speeches have thoven sonatas seems a Herculean Fund. Before Saturday at 4:15 a.m.. door of the room designated as the Both Played Encores task—three Beethoven concertos, door of birth, through which the a few of the European scenes which passed, he finds the profession of ii heid felt a precious responsibility the artist has so well depicted. Miss Flutists are scarce in this vicin­ medicine a very profitable business, two Mozart, one Brahms, Listz, to the war's afflicted: now it feels new generations are brought, and Schumann, Tschaikowski, Grieg, another as the door of death, Peterson has studied abroad, and ity. Good flutists are even scarcer. and the wily peasant mind glories a double precious task—"We can't before the war devoted her talent Therefore, it is always a privilege in the golden adventure. For a Rachmaninoff, M a c D o w e 11, St. through which the generations like­ Saens, Mendelssohn (at this point let the spirit of our leader down." wise pass. The editor. Alexander to a number of paintings of the dif­ to hear Mr.