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VOL; XXIX—NO. 28
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
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DINNER DRESS
HEALTH SERVICE
CLAIRVOYANCE
INCLUDING YE DIARY
—Ray Craft .1
We have heard no little discussion
lately regarding whether the men of
t h e school should regale themselves
in dress clothes for the quarterly in-formals.
This question lias become
particularly important since a num­ber
of Normal's men have appeared
at the dances dressed in the more
formal mode.
There should, gentlemen, be some
unanimity in this matter of dress,
because, for any considerable num­ber
of students to adopt dinner
clothes would be productive of vi­cious
consequences.
Normal is proudly becoming rec­ognized
as an institution where ed­ucation
is acquired with a minimum
of expense, where the student stan­dard
of living is modest and an af­fectation
of wealth considered in
poor taste. In numerous other
schools where an exacting standard
of social life has been adopted, the
more indigent members of the stu­dent
body have found themselves
hard pressed to maintain them­selves
with dignity.
Gentlemen! Let's get together on
this. If a few more of the fellows
"dress" for dances, we will all want
to. Although dinner clothes are
not particularly expensive, two-bits
looks like a dollar to most of us.
Just remember that the fifty dol­lar
bill it would take to outfit your­self
modestly would buy so many
liam-and-eggs that, if laid end to
end, they would reach all the way
down to the.Hotel Leopold.
W. S. N. S.
And now that we are dealing with
the problems of the men, we might
just as Well dedicate Normalite to
the cause of righting a serious
grievance... According to investiga­tors,
the amount of health service
received by the men of the school
is not great enough to warrant the
expenditure every registration of
two dollars per capita. '
Among other things, the registra­tion
fee for men should be just
about half that asked of the ladies,
because of the very nature of the
brute—man is the stronger of the
species. Because of enjoying more
robust health and not being subject
to the petty ills that take up the
attention of the health personnel,
the men lose at once a good part of
their fee by buying a service they
seldom have use for.
Furthermore, the whole set-up of
our Nurse's Office is obviously to
drive the men from making any use
of the privilege to which they are
entitled... The most helpful move
would be to bring the nurse's office
from the place of concealment it
now enjoys in the "Women's Wing"
of the building to a some more ac­cessible
place, where even the most
decorous might go to report his
illness without feeling that he is
encroaching upon the sanctuary of
the ladies—God Bless 'Em!
-W. S. N. S.—
Ha! A couple of weeks ago Nor­malite,
under the old regime, proph­esied
that grade school pupils would
soon be given two report cards:
One to record/ scholastic attainment,
and the other to judge character de­velopment.
Not that we are clair­voyant-
or anything, but witness
this excerpt from last week's Viking
—''Training Students Given New
Cards—These Cards Grade Char­acter
of Pupils and Emphasize
Work Done in Comparison with
Their Ability, etc., etc."
W. S. N. S.-
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CONTEST PLACED IN
Bulletin Board Placed on Main
Landing for Posting of Contest
Rules and All Necessary Data.
ART DEPARTMENT LAUDED
Chairman Says Board Has Power
to Extend Song Contest, But
Will Probably Not Exercise It.
A committee on publicity for the
Song Contest was appointed this
week to climax the closing month
of the campaign for a new school
song with an active educational
campaign.
The committee consisting of Edith
Dyer, Jean Philippi, Francis Young,
and Edith Boynton, have placed a
bulletin board on the main landing
on which have been posted all of the
rules of the contest, copies of words
submitted to which melodies must
be adopted, and the schedule of clas­ses
of all of the committee members
inorder that they may be found by
people who wish to ask questions
concerning the contest.
For the benefit of the new stu­dents,
Edith Dyer reviewed the facts
of the contest in a short announce­ment
in last Tuesday's assembly,
emphasizing the fact that mimeo­graphed
copies of the word con­tributions
are available to all of the
students who wish to set them to
music.
"The students last year felt the
need of a new school song," Miss
Dyer declared, "In view of the fact
that the only ones we now have are
taken from those of other institu­tions.
The Board of Control spon­sored
the contest, voted prizes total­ling
seventy dollars, and threw the
contest open to all students and the
alumni. In order to give all of the
contesting composers time to work
out their ideas, the final date was
extended until February 28, 1930."
May Extend Contest
"Although the Board is empower­ed
to extend the contest indefinitely
in the event that no suitable mater­ial
comes in, that power will prob­ably
not be exercised, on account of
the quality of the work that has
been submitted", Miss Dyer said.
The art department was particu­larly
commended on the fine work
that they have done in making the
posters to be placed about the cam­pus,
and' the committee declared
that the entire student body has
co-opera ted. in a way that has been
entirely gratifying.'
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FACULTY MEMBERS
ATTEND DISCUSSION
Are Intelligence Tests, as Now
Administered, Good or Bad for
Student Morale? Argued Freely.
Last Sunday evening's Student
Forum was especially interesting
though the topic was somewhat
heavy. The question discussed was:
Are intelligence tests ,as now ad­ministered,
good or bad for student
morale? The students were almost
outnumbered by faculty members,
many of whom had been specially
invited to hear the discussion by
members of the program committee
of the Student Forum, as there was
some likelihood of their good mo­tives
being questioned in the choice
of such a topic.
Fisher Present
Notwithstanding the fact that
some of the students-were overawed
by President C. H. Fisher's presence,
and that it was going against the
established order of things to sug­gest
any changes, it seems that a
number of students concur in the
belief that it would be better for
student morale if the intelligence
grades were kept in the files of the
Research Bureau -and not given out
either to students or to faculty.
Their influence upon the teacher's
judgment in awarding grades which
were supposed to be based upon the
work accomplished was .mentioned.
President Fisher was of the opin­ion
that students took their intelli­gence
rating very lightly, but the
students did not seem to agree with
him thaf this was true.
Weber College Team
Will Debate Against
Normal Mens Squad
Tentative debate dates have been
set for the men's teams. They are
February 18th, Weber College of
Ogden, Utah, against the negative
team, composed of Quentin Quick
and John Thorpe, and March 17th,
Oregon State Normal against the
affirmative team which has not yet-been
selected. Both debates will
feature the Oregon or cross-ques­tion
style of debating.
Negotiations are being made with
the University of Washington
Freshmen and the Seattle College
for debates.
Later in the season the men's
team will probably make a tour, de­bating
the University of Spokane,
the College of Puget Sound, and a
Seattle team.
THIRTYSTUDENTS
SUFFER PENALTIES
FOR CLASS CUTTING
Attendance Committee Meets and
Deducts Credits They Deemed
Necessary According to the Rules.
SEVERAL PROTEST LOSS
The attendance committee met
last week to consider and clear up
last quarter's absences, and deduct
any credits they deemed necessary
according to the rules.
Thirty students suffered penal­ties
from unexcused absences. Ac­cording
to the rules six unexcused
absences from a single class or fif­teen
from classes scattered over
different courses means a cut of
one credit. Twelve students cred­its
ranging as high as seven, in
one case. Eleven suffered a one
credit loss from assembly absence,
not counting mose who did not
have seats assigned and thus aut­omatically
forfeited a credit.
Some Protest
There were protests that some
suffered for unexcused absences and
others did not, "out the committee
applies the one rule to all, and had
to rely on the faculty reports which
may not have been perfect. In some
cases where the rule permitted, they
used option in their decisions.
It is absolutely necessary that stu­dents
have assembly seat assign­ments,
unless, of course, they are
carrying no more than twelve hours
and are listed as special students.
In the latter case tliey should report
to Miss Inez Swanson in Dean Bev-er's
office for excuses.
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BOND ADDRESSES TEACHERS
Mr. E. A. Bond of the Mathemat­ics
department addressed a group of
teachers in Anacortes Thursday
night, January 30, on the subject
"Our Changing Curriculum".
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Symphony Band Gives.
Entertaining Concert
At Local Playhouse
The Carleton Symphony Band,
directed by James Robert Gillette,
was enthusiastically received by a
well-filled house at the Mt. Baker
Theatre last Wednesday, both at the
grade and high school student's con­cert
in the afternoon and the regu­lar
evening concert.
The afternoon program contained
many interesting and instructive
numbers such as "Zampa", by Louis
Herold, the answer to the question
"Why an Overture?", and "The Pa­rade
of the Insturments", by F. L.
Lawrence,, which introduced the in­struments
of a symphony band.
Dorothy Ruth Smith, harpist, was
the soloist.
Wagner Popular
Probably, the most widely known
and one of the best received of the
evening concert was the famous
overture to "Tannhauser",- by Rich­ard
Wagner. Another selection by
the same composer was the color­ful
and vivid "Fire Music" from
"Die Valkyrie".. The evening solo­ist,
a popular young soprano, sang
several numbers with a great deal
of^ mastery and showed a beautiful
range of voice. Though Miss Smith
was not slated as an evening solo^
ist she gained great favor with the
audience ; when she played a re­quest
number, and was called back
for two encores: - ' , ''">••'•
COAST PIANIST WILL
GIVE CONCERT HERE
David Campbell Will Accompany His
Program With Series of Short
Lectures Explaining Selections.
HAS TOURED COUNTRY
Campbell Has Given Two Concerts
*Here Last Season in Assemblies
and Was Well Received in Both.
David Campbell, one of the most
outstanding concert pianists of the
Coast, will be presented by the Bel-lingham
Normal School in the reg­ular
11 o'clock assembly on next
Tuesday, February 4. His recital
will be accompanied by short lec­tures
in which he will explain the
numbers which he will play.
Mr Campbell's idea of thus com­bining
his recitals with lectures is
unique in the field of musical en­tertainment,
and has met with most
tremendous success. As a pianist he
has toured the entire country, and
press reports of his concerts are
most enthusiastic. He is also re­nowned
as a symphony soloist.
Appeared Here Before
But it was when he began to
give a series of short lectures ac­companying
his numbers that he
began to meet with his greatest suc­cess.'
Last season he toured the en­tire
Coast, playing in almost every
city of any importance. He made
two appearances in Normal school
assemblies last season, and in both
of them was pleasurably received.
At nine o'clock next Tuesday
morning he will give a "talk and
play' recital in the training school
assembly. This will be of the same
general character as the Normal as­sembly
presentation, but will be of
a type designed to appeal to the
younger children.
Pep Band to Entertain
In next Friday's morning assemb­ly,
February 7, the Pep club will
present another of their highly en­tertaining
programs, by way of
arousing enthusiasm for the Ellens-burg
basketball game. As usual, the
Viking Pep Band will be featured in
the program, and they are working
hard to fill their part. The leader,
Clarence Thue, promises some un­usually
good special arrangements
on this occasion. In addition, there
will be several specialty numbers by
other members of the Pep club.
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STICKNEY TO TAKE
LEAD IN CLUB PLAY
Cast for "The Whiteheaded Boy",
Written by Lennox Robinson,
Selected Last Night by Hoppe.
The Drama club held tryouts last
night to choose the cast for their
play, "The Whiteheaded Boy", and,
with the characters selected, re­hearsals
will begin immediately
according to the director, Mr. Vic­tor
H. Hoppe.
The play is a perfect combination
of form and content and its nat­ural
unrestrained drollery of speech,
combined with a subject which de­velops
logically and realistically,
gives it a strong effect and "makes
the play completely fascinating.
There is not a deliberately manu­factured
phrase in it, not one situ­ation
that is forced and stagey, for
the whole comedy arises out of re­lations
which establish themselves
between the characters.
Prodigal Son Featured
Its fundamental plot deals with
the return of the prodigal son, por­trayed
by Don Stickney, and the
complications that arise with his
home-coming are many and varied,
but the intricacies slowly unravel
towards the end of the story, when
the prodigal shows the "real stuff"
that is in him. The mother's blind
devotion and pity for him is carried
out in such a way that it'becomes
a source of comedy to the listener.
Robinson is Author
This play is one of the best
works of Lennox Robinson, and has
been crowned with success wherever
is has been produced. Its premiere
showing1 was in 19IG, at the Abbey
Theater in Ireland, and, later it
was given in .. London, but both
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Regular Quarterly
Extempo Contest to
Occur on March 18
The extemporaneous speech con­test
for the winter quarter will be
held at the regular assembly - on
March 18.
All students enrolled in the school
are' eligible to compete and the
purpose of the contest is to select
two individuals to try out in the
final all school extemporaneous con­test.
This will be held sometime
during the spring quarter and the
winner of this will have his or her
name engraved on the extemporan­eous
speech cup.
Winners of last quarter's contest
were Eleanor Langworthy and Quen­t
in Quick.
Definite announcement as to the
subject matter of the contest will be
made at a later date.
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BELLINGHAM LITTLE
SYMPHONY CONCERT
DATE IN FEBRUARY
Works of Mendelssohn, Strauss,
Schubert, Dvorak and Weber Will
Be Featured by Orchestra.
SMITH IS CONDUCTOR
Bellingham's Little Symphony or­chestra
will make its second appear­ance
February 11, when it will be
presented in the first concert of
this year. Under the direction of
Mr Harold B. Smith and with the
best musicians of Bellingham per­forming,
the concert promises to
display genuine musical ability as
well as finely executed workman­ship.
The program is being arranged
from the best works of a wide range
of great masters such as Mendels­sohn,
whose genius captivates his
hearer. Then there is Schubert,
whose ,well of genius overflowed
during his short span of life and
who composed constantly; Weber,
with his fanciful and romantic
strain of German imagination,
Dvorak, an original and powerful
genius, and Strauss with his extra­ordinary
command of technical re­source.
The Little Symphony will present
Schubert's "Symphony in B Minor",
Weber's "Overture Frieschutz",
Dvorak's "Indian Lament", and
Strauss' "Southern Roses",- besides
other works which will appear when
the complete program is published
next week. In all, the concert prom­ises
to be one brim full of musical
entertainment.
Junior Viking Makes
Appearance in This
Morning's Assembly
The Junior Viking made its first
appearance to the training school
students this morning in assembly.
Miss Beatrice, Doty introduced the
paper by reading several selections
from it. John Oliver, the editor,
then explained a little about the
work put into the edition and gave
a few suggestions for improvement
of the next paper to those who will
have to edit it. The reporters for
the different grades gave out the
Vikings to the students.
The Viking which is the semi-an­nual
publication of the training
school pupils, is more in the form
of a mimeographed magazine, since
it contains 51 pages of articles and
illustrations. Seven hundred copies
were issued.
Packham Advises
Miss Audrey Packham, the eighth
grade teacher, was advisor to the
staff of students from her class.
John Oliver edited the paper with
his assistant, Laurier Hartman, as­sistant
editor; Bartlett Kenyon, bus­iness
manager; Margaret Olson,
world news editor; Mary Burnet
and Dorothy Lindley, art editors;
and Charles Fisher, sport editor;
Those reporting for the paper
were Mary Goddard, Dorothy Lind­ley,
Joe Dolan, Bartlett Kenyon,
Alice Sahlborn, Cecilia Basbet, Kirk
Fletcher, Richard Carver and -Ern­est
Curl.
Each Grade Represented
• The ^Viking opened with an edi­torial
by John Oliver in which he
VIKINGS MEET STRONG
OF WASHINGTON FRESHMAN TEAM
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Friday, January' 3 1 , 1 ' 9 3 0 ; | # | | ! f
Cheney Wildcats Gome West to Play the Last Two
Contests of Four-Game Series with Normal Vikings
Monday and Tuesday; Fairhaven Again Place. ^
DRAMA CLUB ELECTS
KUZMOSKI, PRESIDENT
The Drama Club held a meeting
last Thursday evening for the pur­pose
of organising and electing of­ficers.
Necessary business was tak­en
up and the following officers
were elected: President, Alexander
Kuzmoski: vice president, Mary
McDonald; secretary, Lou Griffin;
treasurer, Madeline Freese.
A program committe was appoint­ed
consisting of Mary McDonald,
chairman, Charles Dewey, Hugh
Lovegren, and Kermit Smith.
There will be another business
meeting of the Drama Club Monday
afternoon, February 3rd.
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FORUM APPOINTS NEW
FACULTY COMMITTEES
The Faculty Forum executive
committee, consisting of the Misses
Anna J. Beiswenger, Florence E.
Johnson, Emma Erickson, Mary E.
Rich, and Mr. H. E. Fowler met
early this week to appoint the fol­lowing
committes for 1930: Program,
Misses Delia L. Keeler, Beatrice
Doty, Marjory Dawson, Mr. H. C.
Philippi, and Dr. C. C. Upshall;
advisor to the W. E. A. Journal,
Miss Elsie Wendling; flower com­mittee,
Misses Priscilla Kinsman,
and Florence Johnson; social com­mitte
for the winter quarter, Misses
Maude Slawson, Mildred Jewell,
Audrey Packham, Mr. James Car-rell,
and Mr. Pelagius Williams; so­cial
committee for the spring quar­ter,
Misses Elizabeth Hopper, Nora
B. Cummins, Mrs. Alice Houston,
Dr. H. V. Masters, and Mr. Herbert
Ruckmick; social committee for
summer quarter, Misses Leona Sund-quist,
Ester Stallman, Polly Dee
Learnard, Mr. H. B. Smith, and Mr.
Paul Rule and for the fall quarter
the following people will serve as
the social committee: Misses Adele
M. Jones, Ruth Strickland, Edith
Strange, Hazel Breaky, and Mr.
Victor H. Hoppe.
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INFORMAL PROGRAMS
COLORED BY HAND
Several New Surprise Stunts Make
Dance Program Complete Plans
for Decorations Are Being: Made.
Programs, for the Womens League
Informal which will be given at
the Crystal ballroom, February 28,
are back from the press. • These
rather modernistic affairs strength­ening
the Night club idea, will have
covers of handpainted design. Be­cause
the coloring is being done by
hand a larger variety can be ob­tained
and programs will also be
carried out more in harmony with
the other decorations.
Several new surprise stunts have
been planned for the dance, so
that entertainment now is very
complete. The decoration com­mittee
is working hard getting pro­grams
and plans made up and car­rying
out n e w suggestions in the
"Night Club Idea," which is the
decorative motive to be used at
the dance.
Patrons Announced
Patrons and patronnesses for the
informal will be Mr. and Mrs Her­bert
Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Ruckmick, Dr. and - Mrs. Harry
Masters, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Philippi, Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Hoppe; Miss Adele -Jones, Miss
Florence Johnson, arid Mr. Edward
Arntzen.
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PERSOHN NEW ASSISTANT
Miss Bernice Persohn, sister of
Miss Ruby Persohn a graduate of
this school, has accepted a position
as assistant to. Mrs. May Lovegren
to replaee Mr.' Buchanan who has
become assistanu to, the> registrar.
Savages Have Exhibited Potential
Strength in Earlier Games, with;
Halloway as Outstanding Player.
With Coach Sam Carver's rejuve-.i
nated Blue and White horde play­ing
inspired ball after their two vie- :
tories at Cheney last week, the Vi­kings
meet the University of Wash- ,
ington freshmen quintet in the
Fairhaven gym tomorrow night at 8
oclock.
According to statistics, both teams
are pretty evenly matched but the
Vikings are now, playing fifty per­cent
better ball than they were be­fore
they went on their road jaunt,
which gives them the upper hand
for the coming fray.
Babes Hard Hit
The Husky Babes have ben hard
hit by injuries, losing several of
their best men before the season ,
was half over but Coach Tubby
Graves is quite optimistic about
the outcome after almost doing as
well as the Vikings in holding the
Ellensburg Wildcats to 12 points.
Coach Carver has shifted his team
around a bit and the new combina­tion
of Dixon and Pederson, for­wards,
Erickson, center and Thof-sen
and Rork, guards, works much
smoothes and breaks faster than
the old combination.
Cheney Coming
Next week will find the Vikings
entertaining the Cheney Wildcats
Monday and Tuesday, also at Fair­haven,
and from all reports the
Savages are out for Viking scalps
for the two defeats handed them
last week.
The Cheney team possesses poten­tial
strength, and, should they have;
an "on" night, they will make the
going hard for the Blue and White
hoopsters. Although the Vikings
took the first two games from the
Savages, both were hardfought, and;
always in doubt as to the outcome.
Halloway is Cheney's best bet and
is a dangerous shot from all parts
of the floor. He is ably supported ;
by Oja, Pederson, and several oth­ers.
The . Carverites will have to
keep going at top speed if they wish
to again defeat Cheney.
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CALENDAR
TODAY—
4 p. m. Rec hour
7:45 p. m., City League bas­ketball,
Whatcom Dairy vs.
Normal Jayvees, on Y. M.
C. A. floor.
SATURDAY—Feb. 1.
8 p. m., Varsity basketball;
U. of W. Frosh vs. Vikings,/
Fairhaven high school floor.
SUNDAY—Feb. 2.
7 p. m., Student Forum, Y.
W. C. A.
MONDAY—Feb. 3.
V p . m., Varsity basketball,
Cheney vs. Vikings, at Fair­haven.
TUESDAY—Feb. 4.
11 a. m., regular assembly,
David Campbell, pianist, in
lecture-recital.
8 p. m., Varsity basketball,
Cheney vs. Vikings, at. Fair­haven.
WEDNESDAY—Feb. 5. "
7:30 p. m., McDowell club
meeting, room 241.
8:45 p. m., City league bas-?
ketball, Y. M. C. A. vs. Nor­mal
Supers, at Y. M. C. A.^
THURSDAY—Feb. 6.
7:30 p. m., Philo meting, Ed-X
ens Hall club room.
Vanadis Bragi meeting, room
..219. '.;' V-V-?
FRTOAY-i'eb 7.:
• 11 a.'-..m'-j Regular Assembly,^
recital by the Pep Band, j ^ ;
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