Give Today to the Scholarship Fund Columlbia Daily Spectator Vol. LXX MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1947 DJGGSJT&PCOCAG PRESS No. 38 Players' Star Leading Man Student Agencies Began Acting Donate As Nazi POW $500 for Scholarships German and Italian prisoner-of- war camps are obviously not the Initial Contributions ideal locations for dramatic ap- College Plans Academic Group Forms prenticeships, but the Columbia ■ Top Expectations Players owe the possession of one The Academic Affairs Com- of their finest actors, Dolph Sweet, Total Support mittee of the Board of Student The Columbia College National to the twenty months of enforced Representatives will meet today Scholarship Fund was given a big confinement which Dolph spent at 3 P.M. in the Student Board boost Friday when Tom Arace, after being shot down in Romania Of Food Drive Room, 418 John Jay Hall. chairman of the Student Agency The Committee after participating in the famous As the Friendship Food Train will organize Council, announced that the man- and elect a permanent chairman. Ploesti oil field bombing. During made its' way the country agers of the various student con- across Also the agenda this time, Dolph, who had pre- toward New York City during the on will be a cessions in the College had appro- discussion of plans and methods priated viously spent his civilian life in past week-end, plans for the Co- five hundred dollars of which will be used in the Com- truck-driving and textile-design- lumbia College food drive reached their profits to the Scholarship mittee's work. ing, appeared in many dramatic a state of completion. Fund. productions before he was finally Commuters will be asked to place Elections Commission Arace, while announcing the do- liberated by Patton in May, 1945. food contributions in the bin in nation, stated that "the managers Sweet, who is portraying the Hamilton Hall tomorrow. For the At noon today, the Elections of the student concessions realize role of Mr. Antrobus in the Play- convenience of those commuters Commission will meet to make only too well the value of financial ers' forth-coming production of DOLPH SWEET who do not wish to purchase the final arrangements for the com- aid to students, and are therefore "The Skin of Our Teeth," starred food themselves, collection boxes ing Freshmen elections, the making this contribution to the in such varied and demanding will be placed near the bin so that meeting will be held in the Stu- Fund so that others may be given works as "Our Town", "The Front monetary contributions can be dent Board Room. Elections the necessary aid to enjoy the Page", "Juno and the Paycock", HearCommitteeStudentsto made. Commissioner Bernard Wishy privileges of a Columbia educa- and "Outward Bound" while con- Fraternities will be asked to announces that attendance at tion." fined. Writing, producing and act- make their contributions in a mo- the meeting is required of all The five hundred dollar gift will members of the Commission. netary form. The proceeds of this be apportioned among all of the In its first meeting Friday, the Players' produc- collection will be turned over to student managers according to an- Tickets for the newly-formed Columbia College tion of "The Skin of Our Teeth" the fraternity representative on ticipated profits for the coming Committee On Intercollegiate Ac- pur- year. go sale noon today. Avail- the Committee, who will then Council Votes on at tivities resolved to ask for the co- able at the John Jay lobby box chase all of the food for fraterni- Meanwhile, Chairman Ed Paul operation of campus activities ties. announced that contributions had office, the tickets are priced at heads in investigating past inter- For U for Wednesday and Thursday Dormitory residences will be State been pouring into the Fund Com- $1.20 collegiate activity and in planning Friday and asked to place their food contribu- In a relatively quiet session, mittee headquarters in the Student nights, and $1.50 for future activity. It was also de- Saturday performances. The box- tions outside of their doors at Friday afternoon, the Columbia Board room. Although accurate cided to hold open hearings in not office will remain open daily from eight o'clock Tuesday evening. University Student Council declar- figures are yet available, early which individual students will be These contributions will then be ed itself in favor of the establish- returns indicate that contributions noon to 5 P. M. invited to make for suggestions collected by representatives of the ment of a New York State Uni- have been higher than expected. the improvement of intercolle- committee and a vote of to 0, with John Steeves, sub-chairman of the broad the- placed in bins in versity, by 11 ing, Dolph received a giate and extracurricular activi- the respective dormitory five members abstaining. Committee, announced that a pro- atrical education while a prisoner, lobbies. ties. Financial contributions toward the The motion passed by the CUSC gress chart, showing the current especially since he was cast in The first business of the day purchase of food will also be ac- was proposed by Stephen Rous- statistics on the Fund donations, feminine roles several times, thus was the election of officers. Mic- cepted by the collectors for the seas, and contained an important would be posted in the Student fine background for acquiring a hael Kaplan was elected chairman convenience of those dormitory amendment. The Council's Execu- Board room as soon as such sta- Varsity Shows. Kap- and Joe' Burstein secretary. residents who can not purchase tive Committee, in tistics were available. Sleeves also theater-goers remem- ap- conduction Columbia lan began his chairmanship by their own contributions. with University Provost Albert urged every activity head to file ber Dolph as Petruchio in "Tam- sub-committee of three pointing a David Schraffenberger, chairman Jacobs, will draft a letter ex- his regular daily report form with ing of the Thomas a to di- Shrew," confer with the university of the Columbia College Friend- pressing CUSC's attitude. This the Committee, so that progress Becket in "Murder in the Cathe- rector of public relations on pub- ship Food Train Committee, has letter will be sent to the Young could be calculated quickly. dral," and Mercutio in "Romeo and licity problems inhei-ent in inter- called a meeting of all the fourth Committee, before that group Spectator, beginning tomorrow, Juliet." collegiate relations. floor activity heads for 4:30 this presents its final report to Gov- will publish complete reports on afternoon, to discuss a fourth ernor Dewey. the progress of the donations. A floor contribution to the friendship Columbia's active participation large percentage of the contribu- DaringHumanities train. in the State University controver- tions will be handled through-the Students sy began but a few weeks ago, activities. When a student makes when Student Board sent John a contribution through one of his Scale St. John's Cathedral French Chanteuse Silard to Albany to attend the activities, every other activity in hearings of' the Young Commit- which he participates will also be BY NOEL R. CORNGOLD ? ■authentic spiral staircase We Gives Recital tee. credited with his donation. But for the grace of God, and d'tl—after first passing through Here the beadle of St. John's Cathe- a heavy, steel-reinforced door, and Before an enthusiastic crowd of dral, the headlines of today's traversing a long, rather gloomy, more than 200 Columbia students corridor. The Problems Spectator would be 72-point, and stairway was gra- and special guests who jammed of Corporations, shocking. FOUR COLLEGE MEN nite, and not an inch over three the reception hall of the Maison feet MISSING—LAST SEEN IN ST. wide. Frangaise yesterday afternoon, Finances, Told JOHN'S, would be the screaming Now climbing, now gaping, we Miss Edith Piaf, one of the most toPre-Laws message, while at the Cathedral went higher and higher. Suddenly, famous singers of love ballads in Destroying the popular concep- learn a general background of the a muffled "Hey, get us outta we were on the roof. Central Park France today, gave a brilliant con- tion of the dramatic courtroom way American business works, and here!!" seeming to emanate from was but a pebble's toss away, and cert of French torch songs which lawyer William R. Purdue ad- very emphatically to do every- somewhere in the walls, would the Lake looked like a rainy-day left applause ringing in her ears dressed the Pre-Law Society on thing you can to learn to use the disturb worshippers. puddle on Campus. However, we long after, she had concluded. the subject of corporation law, Fri- English language." To illustrate This bit of near-melodrama had hadn't reached the highest point Assisted by a male choi'us called day in the Kent Hall Lounge. He his last point, Mr. Purdue told of its roots in the fact that the Hu- of the structure, and that daring "Les Compagnons de la Chanson'' emphasized that corporation law, a document which, through the manities Department is imbued spirit that characterizes Columbia —"the Companions of the Song," even more than many other omission of a phrase, limited the with the spirit of progressive men began to assert itself. The Miss Piaf sang a representative branches of law, contains huge bond issue of the corporation and education. Why just talk about taciturn beadle had disappeared, selection of the songs which are amounts of dull work. The enthu- thus curtailed many of its activi- cathedrals, when we have a truly along with most of the gaping making an American reputation siasm of the eager audience was ties.