Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus Weekly Newspaper Newspapers 1-16-1950 The Ursinus Weekly, January 16, 1950 Betty Leeming Ursinus College Bob Rosenberger Ursinus College Willard Wetzel Ursinus College Emile Schmidt Ursinus College George E. Saurman Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Leeming, Betty; Rosenberger, Bob; Wetzel, Willard; Schmidt, Emile; Saurman, George E.; Foster, Roy; Fellman, Nelson M. Jr.; and Bothwell, Ford, "The Ursinus Weekly, January 16, 1950" (1950). 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Fellman Jr., and Ford Bothwell This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/582 'The Ursinns Weekly VOL. 49, No. 12 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1950 Price, Five Cents Poet Davison To Appear Thirty-one Make.uplCoeds Plan Field Day • Semester Grad List,. • At Third UrslDus Forum Largest at Ursinus With Lorelei at Hand by Bob Rosenberger '51 Tentative Number'ilncludes Group Bob McQuinn Heads I!ommittee of Five' in Charge f P r· F'ft B' M' I l' 0 repara Ions, Edward Davison, Dean of the Inot something remote from the Of I een usmess aJors Clyde Walton To Provide Music for Annual Turnabout Dance College, Professor and Chairman everyday experience of ordinary of the English Department at Ipeople. He will attempt to show The greatest number of students Washington and Jefferson College, that the college student, whatever ever to graduate from Ursin us Col- With the Lorelei, Ursinus' only turnabout dance, scheduled for will be the forum speaker on Wed- his main interest may be or how­ lege in the midyear will leave at Fl'iday, February 10, all self-respecting males are urged to run for cover. nesday, February 15, in Bomberger ever removed it may appear to be the end of this semester, the Dean's Following the tradition set by sirens of old, local coeds will seek Chapel. His formal lecture, en- from the world of the poets, is de­ out the man of their choice and lure him on to Sunnybrook. There titled "The Poet in Any World," feating a main purpose of his edu­ office announced recently. Clyde Walton and his twelve-piece band will provide the entertainment, will be followed on February 16 by cation "if he cannot enter that Although the list of graduates In keeping with long-established custom, the women will give men day long meetings with students Iworld with freedom and spontane- cannot be completed until after "corsages," their prize for having succumbed to feminine charms. who desire to question him, and by ous delight." , the examination period, there are Also customary is the semi-formal a workshop for criticism of stU- I tentatively thirty-one seniors leav- LORELEI VOCALIST attire requested of all those attend- dent's work. y S d ing college in February. A com- ing. Dean Davison has had a varied . tu ents Journey parison of their courses shows that The Lorelei Committee, repre- career as a poet, teacher, adminis- economics was the most ,popular senting the Men's and Women's trator, soldier and lecturer. Born in For Week-end Work by far, with fifteen out of the Student Governments and the Scotland, he served in the Royal thirty-one graduates majoring in Inter-Sorority-Fraternity Councils, Navy as a SUb-lieutenant during In Negro Slum Area it. The other courses compared as is headed by Bob McQuinn '50 and World War I. In 1919 he entered follows: biology, five; history, four; supplemented by Nancy Mattson chemistry, two; mathematics, two; '50, Pat Richardson '51, and Bill st. John's College, Cambridge, Clothing Drive Nets 274 Pounds., where he took his B.A. and M.A. de- English, one; Genhan, one; phy- Jordan '50. This group would like grees. Marriage to an American Staiger Looks at Science, God sics, one. I students to understand that com- girl brought him to New York in The February graduates are: pletely "turnabout" means that the 1925. Six members of the Social Re­ Martin L. Allen, William H. Beards- girl asks the fellow to the dance, During the next fifteen years he sponsibility CommiSSion, a branch ley, Joanne E. Beeten, Norman V. takes him there and treats him lectured professionally in universi­ of the YM-YWCA, participated in Bertel, Frederick W. Binder, John ' afterwards. ties, schools, clubs, and literary so­ a week-end work camp in the slum E. Carter, Edward Cornfeld, Morton Begun for expediency'S sake, the cieties throughout the country. For area of Philadelphia recently. Felsenstein, Paul D. Gerhart, Rich- policy of having co-sponsors for some years he edited the Wit's All day Saturday, January 7, ard G. Gradwohl, Harold O. Gross, the dance was first used in 1947. It Weekly page in The Saturday Re­ these students, Molly Hall '52, 'Mar­ George M. Harrington, Wesley D. proved to be so successful that the view of Literature. After more than ion Matteson '52, Mabel Faust '51, Johnson, Douglas C. Leander, Wil- policy has been continued and has eight years' writing in Emope un­ Jay Ely '52, Ken Mammel '52, and liam R. MacBride, Robert S. Mad- become almost as much tradition der a fellowship in poetry, Gugge­ Boyd Schellhase '52, plastered, pa­ eira, Reese A. Mahoney. as the Lorelei itself. heim Foundation award, he became pered, and painted several tene­ James B. Moore, John A. O'Hara, I professor of English at the Uni'ver­ ment houses in Negro districts. This Timothy L. O'Shea, Norman E. D H- h D- sity of Colorado and Director for week-end of work, recreation, and Paetzold, John E. Peterson, Norma ::' , ' ,'.. r. , Ig Iseusses eight years of the famous Writers' stimulating discussions on housing A. Sears, Valen R. Sipple, Theodore ' , '. ,. :. 1Ft fAil - Conference in the Rocky Moun­ problems, race relationships, and W. Small, Donald E. Smith, Lloyd Penny Hayden ae S 0 ergles tains. legislation relative to both subjects, w. stowe, Robert A. Wanner, Wil- is one of several attended annually Harper's published the volume of liam R. Wilde, Joslyn J. Williams, CAt PI I For Pre-Med Group his Collected Poems in 1940, the by Ursinus students. and William E. Young. ampus gen ans same year in which he became a Work camps are sponsored each Dr. Carl High, M.D., of Reading, citizen. In 1943 Mr. Davison was week-end by the American Friends commissioned for special duty with Service Committee. Additional in­ Gals! Write Pageant Chesterfield Series fa~~~~~es~~~ n~~-tMoe~ th~O~~~: the Army's Information and Edu­ formation concerning this project, --- ject of allergies, a field in which cational Division, serving as di­ open to all students, is posted on For Fame Fortune J. Richard McCluskey '50, the he is particularly interested. Don rector of the Army's 'program for the Y bulletin board in Bomberger , , Chesterfield representative on the Shultz '50, president of the society, Hall. the re-education of 370,000 Ger­ And Fifteen Dollars Ursinus campus, has announced a welcomed the guests and introduc­ man prisoners of war in the U.S. Announce Drive. Results new contest to be known as the ed the speaker, who was gradu- camps. He was awarded the Le­ At the Social Responsibility Com­ Sharpen those pencils, gals, and Happy Birthday contest, in which ated from Ursinus in 1924 and from gion of Merit and Army Commend­ mission meeting last Wednesday, Continued on page 4) give your creative ability a chance a prize will be given every week for Jefferson Medical School in 1928. ation Ribbon for these services. to come shining through. This is twelve weeks. Every week will He is a member of three medical The speaker feels that poetry is the first call for pageants to be represent a month of the year. societies and three societies in the submitte<1' for May Day, Saturday, In order to participate in the field of allergies. WSGA Names Group May 13. contest an Ursinus student will just Dr. High emphasized the great Campus The deadline isn't until March have to place his name on a Ches- developments in medicine since To Revise Customs 14, so if your first reaction is "But terfield wrapper and drop it in a 1890, among which is the increas­ . Briefs At the meeting of the WSGA exams . .," forget about it. Not box plac~d in ro?m 13 of Bombe:g- ing knowledge of allergies. Babies' held on January 11 in Shreiner exams, that is, but think of that er sometIme durmg the wee~ w~ch diets are now carefully checked Law School Exam Hall, a committee was appointed whole week of semester vacation represent.s the month of. hIS bIrth. when they show symptoms of All those wishing to take the to work on the revision of Soph with nothing to do. There will be Every Fnday someone will draw a colic," to see if they are sensitive law school aptitude test given at Rules.