Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 1937-01-14 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (1937). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 1620. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/1620 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TO SERVE TO SPREAD THE STUDENTS THE XAVERIAN NEWS THE SPIRIT .. OF XAVIER Official Newspaper Of Xavier University OF XAVIER VOL'QME XXII. CINCINNATI, OHIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937 NO. 11 PROM ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCED . .. Debate Squ.ad I Three Well Known Debate Manage1· Fourteen Xavier Cadets Bands Now Being Con· Is Elected .t-\.t ....__ ____.. sidered By Prom Com· Philopedian Second Lieutenants 1nittee. TWO OTHER BANDS Manager Raymond J. Fourteen cadets enroHed in the at Campion College, Pr<airie du Field ArWlery Unit of the Re- Chiim, Wisc., and he has done C. MENTIONED Kem h I e Announces serve Officers Training Corps M. T. c:- duty at Fort Harrison, were promoted to the grade of Indiana; Fort Leavenworth, Kan­ That Varsity Schedule ·Second Lieutenant at the regular sas, and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Raffle Being Held To Nears Completion. Corps Day Formation held Tues- The following received com­ day morning in the X!avier Uni- missions in the grade of second Quicken Interest Of versity fieldhou.se. lieutenrant: Cadet Vincent H. Rev. Patrick J. Mulhern, S. J., Beckman, junior, Cincinnati; Ca­ Students. FRESHMAN TEAM a mem·ber of the Xavier Univer- det Edward C. Benson, junior, IS SELECTED sity facu1ty at Milford, Ohio, who Cincinnati; Cadet George D. Bob Crosby has been en­ holds a ·commission as Chaplain Bruch, junior, Roanoke, Va.; Ca­ gaged for the Junior Promen­ in the Reserve Corps, made the det Frank X. Dalton, junior, Cin­ ade according to a report issued Six Debaters Of Last awards. F·ather Mulhern in mak- cinnati; Cadet E1mer C. Flamm, by Albert A. Stephan, cl1airman ing the presentations stated that junior, Cincinnrati; Cadet Edward of the Prom Committee this Year Gain Places On fl'RAYMOND J. KEMBLE the discipline which the R. O. T. J. Geers, junior, Cincinnati; Ca­ morning. C. '_training instills goes hand in det Robert J. Hartl:aub, junior, This ye a_r' s Team, F r e s h m a n I s hand with the spirit of Jesuit ed- Cincinnati; Cadet Clarence J. ucation and he urged the cadets Holley, junior, Cincinnati;~Cadet Chairman Albert A. Stephan Check.. Up Shows. N d T T · to keep in mind the ultimate val- Edward J. Kennedy, Jr., junior, of the Junior Prom Committee . ame 0 avern ues of a disciplined life. Covington, Ky.; Cadet Robert F. announced last ni:ght that three • "The spirit of American de- Meyer, junior, Cincinnati; Cadet bands were under consideration Raymond J. Kemble, student A t I t S M e e t 1 ll g mocracy which the United States John F. O'Connor, junior, Chi- for the Xavier Promenade which manager of the Varsity de'bate Army safeguards as also a part cago, Ill.; Cadet Terence T. team, today announced the per- of your heritage as Jesuit stu- Rooney,\ junior, Cincinnati; Ca- For the second consecutive sonnel of the 193'7 debate squad To Be Initiated Ai Next dents," Father Mulhern said, "be- det Herman G. Ruff, junior, Cin- year, the Queen of the Junior- £ cause the principles of a demo- cinnati; Cadet James P. Warn- Promenade will be selected that was selected by a vote o M eet1·nae 0 f X· av1·er's cratic state were first unified by dorf, jumor,· Ha1rr11]ton,· 0. from the Xavier University the members of the Philopedian Literary Society To Be the Jesuit saint, Cardinal Robert Oth· er awar d s co ni· erre d a· t ..." h e evening division. A contest to Debate Society at its meeting BeUarmine, and whole phrases forma~ion "'.'ere the ·me.dals for select the Queen will be con- Mond•ay a<fternoon.\--- .. ---· • - ........ --Held In- ·February~ ..... ·from his works· can··ibt?'-founti '1rr .athletic .. achievement whi-ch- were ·ducted soon at "the downtown The Varsity debaters are: Vin- the Constitution of the United conferred upon the members of school. She will be escorted cent H. Beckman, junior; States." the team representing "A" Bat- by Joseph R. Kruse, president K im Darragh, senior·, John E. Charles W. Hughes was Father Mulhern was formerly· tery in . the recent volleyball of the Senior Class. ophomore·, Leonard C. elected as freshman member of c h ap1 am · o f the R · o · T · c · um't (C ont' mue d on Page 5) · The methods of selecting .Fogarty, S the Mermaid Tavern at its Ben- Gartner, senior; Edwa·rd J. Ken- jamin meeting held last night in the Maids of Honor has not yet nedy, Jr., junior; Charles L. M:c- the Union House. ------------- F M C Add been announced. Evoy, junior, Richard W. Norris, As a result of the selection of NEWS STAFF TO r. C ourt resses Last year the Prom Queen junior; Albert S. Salem, junior; the new member, an interesting University BQoklovers was Miss Marguerite Marion Albert A. Stephan, junior; and pvogram will be presented in the HOLD MEETING Chartier, a student in the Xa- Vincent E Smith junior vier evening division. She · · ' ' · · group's first meeting in Febru- ~------------ The Xavier University Book- was escorted by James E. This ten-man team will ibe ary when the sixth anniversary bolstered by alterrra:tes Joseph of its founding will be commem- THERE WILL be a meeting of lovers yesterday heard an.address Shaw, president of last year's B rown, soph omore, an dEdwar d orate4 with special readings by J,The Xaverlan News staff to- delivered by Rev. Thomas A. Me- ~~cl~ - t 1 2 t · e . B enson, JUn i'or · the members. morrow a 2: 0 promp m t he Court, S. J., professor of classical · Arrangements in the down- · I bb" f th B' I B 'Id" town school are being conduct- Schedule Work Last year, "Foundation High- 0 Y 0 e 10 ogy ui m·g. languages on the subject, "Syria." ed thiough James Ryan. Kemble announced that the day" was celebrated by the read- The meeting is being called to Father Mccourt, who has trav- '--------------! hedule for the Vars1ty team ing of Anniversary Odes linking assign staff positions for the com- Sc T 'th th ld ;ng six' months In keepm· g· w1'th elled extensively through conti- i' t b h ld . th H 11 f M' was nearing completion and that x av1er. , s avern W1 · e o re ·' · s o · e e m e a 0 ir- several out..:of-town trips were sort of Elizabethan liter·ary fig- a new policy adopted this year, nental Europe and Asia, has de- rors of Hotel Netherland Plaza planned. ures. The Odes were later col- the editor and business manager voted much time to the study of Friday, February 5. They are · lected and published in booklet will retain their posts until June. s · d 't the bands of Maurice Spifalny A freshman team consisting of form. The incoming editor and business yria an 1 s 1anguage and cus- Reggie Childs, and Paul Specht.' Raymond Wils0111, Melvin Tepe, The other feature of the Feb- manager will be appointed at toms in connection with Biblical Spitalny's orchestra is nation­ Jlames KilgaI1rif, Robert Inkrot, ruary meeting will be the initia- that time for the following research in which he was en- ally famous. He has been a. pop- and Chades • Hughes, was, also tion of the freshman taverner. school year. gaged for many years. ular maestro with college <lances chosen at the Society's meeting. throughout the country. He broad- Darragh, Gartner, Norris, Sa- casts regularly over the National l~,S~h~,mdSrifu~re----------------------------------------~Bro~asti~C~pmy md~ members of last year's Varsity Columbia Broadcasting System. team. th D . He recently completed a 16- The question that is being de- n· ea ' summon,s r Orlrter week run at the Commodore b'ated in inter·colleg·iiate contests Perry Hotel, Toledo, and has this year is: "Resolved, thatt Con- - played at Coral Gables and the gress should have the power to p •d · t O>J TT. • •t Great Lakes Exposition. fix maximum hours and mini- resi en V niversi y Childs and his Hotel Roosevelt mum wages." · orchestra have long been favor- The Verkamp Debate, to be (Continued on Page 3) held this season as a climax to the Varsity schedule instead of on A colorful career in religion Director of Education classes mortalized the Y..QUng George c·······························-·················..... ··~ the November date thiat usually and education was brought to a from 1924 to 1931. Kister by making him a leading ••• The opened the Vairsity's intercolleg­ close Friday night with the death President character in his books for boys iate competition, will probably of the Rev. George R. Kister, S. "Tom Playfair," "Harry Dee," be waged cm the same minimum J., former Dean and President of On the death of the Rev. Hu­ and "Percy Wynn," thinly dis­ WEEK wage question. Xavier University. bert F. Brockman, S. J., in Feb­ guised under the name of At Xavier ••• Timely Topic Father Kister died in St. Louis ruary, 1931, Father Kister be­ "George Keenan." came acting President of Xavier ............................................................