WWCollegian - 1940 February 16

              By Two Typical Tools, Simonds and Goodrich
ITS NO LIE!
"What have you done?"
St. Peter asked,
"That I should admit you here."
"We wrote a so-called column, sir,
Throughout our freshman year."
St. Peter nodded reflectively,
He knew the column well.
"Come in poor tools,
select your harps.
You've had your share of hell."
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PRATTLE
A woman is as old as she looks, but a man isnt old until he
stops looking. . . . Goodrich is still under the weather but the
specialists who have been working on him say that he will live. . . .
J hope he gets well quick, Vm getting tired of all these casket
stdesmen pestering me all the time; cheer up, Jim. . . . Gosh, I
see that Artie Shaw has gone and gotten married. . . . There must
be something to this marriage business. . . . I thought it was just
a fad.
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SLEEP (Form No. 1—The Doze).; , . „ _ ; „ _ __
If it were not for dozing—that is, those little naps we steal
(well, we don't really steal them) in our literature, psychology,
and other classes—the number of mental derelicts, nervous break­downs,
and boarders at the Beanery would be much more.
It is best not to wear a n«cktie on your "dozing days" as you
can very easily strangle yourself. As you slip off into beddy-bye
Jand and your head starts waggin impishly from side to side, it
is very easy for your chin to slip down inside your collar and
choke you to death.
On the type of chairs they have here, dozing is impractical.
You rest your chin in your hand and are soon on your way to
dreamland. The usual lolling of the head commences. The
forehead (the rest of the cranium follows very soon) comes
crashing onto the seat in front or coyly slides onto the shoulder of
the person next to you. Now you sit right there and read this, I
have listened to you long enough.
If you are given to lurching and thrashing about when you
snooze, you had best stay home at night and get your eight hours.
But it all boils down ot the fact that we can't live without sleep—
honest!
As Cervantes has put it, "Sleep is meat for the hungry, drink
for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot." It doesn't
make very good sense, but it sounds pretty and that's all that
counts. It is a good quotation and I often think of it just as I
am dropping off to sleep. "Sleep is meat for the hungry (yawn),
drink for the wirsty, neeve for the old, an— shravels for the pff-prff-
porpf-pfrfr fpff-huhhh."
Spotlight Falls on Kreisler Monday
Climax of Season's Musicals Here
Fritz Kreisler, world-famed violinist, will appear in concert at
the Bellingham high school auditorium next Monday evening.
Because of the war in Europe, Kreisler's engagements on the con­tinent
were cancelled. That made it possible for him to accept
engagements in various parts of the United States. Kreisler's
appearance in Bellingham has been anticipated with sincere
pleasure.
Following is the program for the concert: "Concerto, C major"
(Vlvaldi-Kreisler); "Concerto, D major" (Tschaikowsky); "Cav-atina,"
"Shepherd's Madrigal," "Malaguena," "Gypsy Caprice,"
Tambourin Chinois" (Kreisler).
Carl Lamson will be the piano accompanist.
PERTINENT PROM PLUGS
To the Girls: There will be no automatic s.p.'s for the Publica­tions
Prom. All girls must apply individually for their own
special privilege permit.
To the Boys: No advice. Come prepared for a great evening.
Contrary to feminine propaganda, corsages aren't expected.
They may be nice but they flatten pocketbooks. Don't say.
- we didn't tell you.
Re Guest tickets: They may be had from 2 until 4 this p. m.
m the dean of men's office. Special students may obtain
guest tickets for their escorts. v
Re Prom passes: They can be had today until five p. m. in the.
main hall. You must.hav£ a Prom Pass plus ASB and both
must be signed, to gain admission.
Re Entrance: Students and guest ticket holders use the east or
men'sleiitrah^. those coming by invitation use the west or
woinen's entrance.
VOL. XXXVIX—NO. 19 Western Washington College of Education. Bellingham, Washington Friday, February 16, 1940
Settlement Retrial Holds Up
Work on Condemned Hill
a few voted
WPA Allotment To Clear Hill
For College Building; Bebb
And Gould Are Architects
By Lyman Handy
Under plans formulated by the
board of trustees at their monthly
meeting Wednesday afternoon,
WPA work may be employed in,
removal of buildings and leveling of
the hill of the recently condemned
land as soon as the suit is com­pletely
settled.
H. P. Isler appeared before the
board for WPA and presented a
plan for the financing of the pro­ject.
$7300 will be needed for the
work, 28% of which must be fur­nished
by the college.
R. W. Greene, attorney for Mar­garet
Day and J. B. Harm, appear­ed
before the trusteees, urging the
board to raise the evaluation of
their properties from $5,000 to $7,000
and $2,500 to $3,804, respectively.
The board stated that any decision
on the matter would have to be
made by the state attorney-general.
Accordingly, the trustees voted to
accept the jury evaluation.
Film Library Discussed
Also included in the business of
the board was a discussion of a film
library. According to plans, the
film library would liquidate itself
by rentals to local schools. Arrange­ments
were made to raise $1,200 to
defray expenses incidental to the
appraisal of the condemned land.
A call for bids will be issued for
the construction of a tunnel to
house pipes now in the basement.
Bebb and Jones will continue to
serve as architects for WWC when
the college is ready to continue its
building program. The same firm
served in the construction of the
PE building and ..the library.
The members of the board of
trustes are: Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick,
Bellingham, president; Verne Bran-igan,
Mount Vernon; and Steve
Saunders, Marysville.
Folksters Cavort
' Presenting, in costume, a.group
of European folk dances, the an-
. nual Folk Dancing Festival was
held last night in the big gym un­der
the direction of' Mis^./Virginia
Hawke, physical education instruct­or.
The cast was composed of the
Folk Dancing club and the physical
education classes 2 and 27.
The dances were in four groups:
Northern European, Southern Euro­pean,
British Isles, and American.
A miniature orchestra, under the
direction of Donald Bushell, fur­nished
the music for the dances.
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Thursday Off
WWC will observe a vacation next
Thursday, February 22, commemor­ating
the birth1 date of George
Washington, born in Mount Ver­non,
Virginia, in the year 1732.
.', Washington was "elected the first
president or the United' States arid
held office for eight years. He *as
also the first cornmander-in-chief
of the United StaWarmy.
Carnival Toll
Authorized
At the Board of Control's weekly
session, it was requested that the
WAA be aUowedjtpjJharge 5^cente
to each person attending the WAA
Carnival on March 2. This will al­low
the awarding of a door prize.
In connection with tonight's Pub­lications
Prom, motion was passed
to allow alumni to purchase guest
tickets for husbands or wives and
special students to purchase tickets
for escorts. This ruling applies only
to this dance.
Since the majority of alumni outr
side of Bellingham are riot familiar
with the recently-adopted ruling on
guest tickets for rec hours, a special
article will appear in the Collegian
next week carrying this information.
Copies of this issue will be mailed
to those whom it will be decided are
most interested.
Flunkers' Retests
On Tap Tuesday
Special retests for students who
are deficient and are planning to
student teach next quarter will be
given next Tuesday at 4 o'clock in
room 220..
The retests to be given are in
arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic
computation, and spelling. Students
must pay a fee of $1.00 to the Busi­ness
office for each test prior to the
testing. No one will be allowed to
take the tests without a'receipt for
each.
Clearance of the tests are a pre­requisite
to student teaching arid
students cannot be graduated with­out
passing them.
Only 462 of WWC's 940 students
went to the polls Wednesday to vote
for their student and faculty repre­sentatives.
With no one candidate
getting a majority, the following
people were chosen to be placed on
the ballot in next week's final elec-toin:
for four quarters women's
representative, Betty Jean Bayley
arid Eileen Forhan; for four quar­ters
men's and women's representa­tive,
Harold Booth and Stan Lapin-ski;
for.faculty representative, Dr.
-HMrrF:^ -Ceders^rir.- arid;r:iDr>v Ev "Ai
Bond.
Only 245 women and 217 men cast
their votes, thus showing that the
women were especially lax in regard
to voting as they outnumber the
men greatly.
clinical psych notes
Students who would be interested
in taking Education 156, Clinical
Psychology, 3 crs., Dr. Woodring,
during the spring quarter, are re­quested
to report to the registrar's
office before 4 p. m., Tuesday, Feb.
20. Following is the description of
this course:
Prerequisites: 15 hours of Psy­chology
including Ed. 152, and
Ed. 109 or 153. "Recognition and
treatment of behavior problems
and personality d i s t u r b a n c es
growing out of social and emo­tional
conflicts or resulting from
deviations in mental level. The
major emphasis will be placed up­on
diagnosis and therapeutic
techniques available to the class­room
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Lince Needs Snaps
Klipsun Editor Doug Lince wants
more snapshots. All entries should
be deposited in the snapshot box at
the head of the stairs in the main
hall.
Candid shots of collegians study­ing,
hiking, and skiing, and campus
snaps are wanted. Lince expressed
a special desire for snaps of skiing,
and informal shots of students in
assemblies. The closing date of the
contest has been extended until
March 1.
Dr. Hicks Receives Recognition;
As theatre Guild Head
U Symphony
Due Soon
'Short and Simple Annals of The Poor'
Theme of Pulitzer Prize 'Our Town'
Building the atmosphere for a'
small town in New Hampshire, the
actors from the division of drama's
winter quarter production, OUR
TOWN, may be seen from 3 to 5
o'clock almost any afternoon The
stunt in this show, is to>get the ^great­est
amount of suggestion with as _
little stage setting as possible. Two
tables and a few chairs convert the
stage into the respective dwellings
of the Webb and Gibbs families,
while Main street runs along behind
these groupings of furniture.
Doris Stevenson, as? Mrs. Webb,
and Margatet; Rabb, as Mrs. Gibbs,
prepare breakfast in pantomime go­ing
busily from imagined kitchen
sink to the^^ make-believe cupboards.
Carolyn Kuhn as Enuly ^ebb, Bill
Bitch as brother !Wally, Paul Glenn
as George Gibbs, and Beverly Walk­er
as small sister, Rebecca, eat hur­riedly
in gobbling pantomimics and
hurry up center and off to school.
The most important character is
the stage manager played by Gor­don
Morton. In a rather flat, mat­ter-
of-fact New England voice, he
genially comments on the doings of
OUR TOWN. He acts in various
roles; first, the village druggist, and
•later as the village preacher. Early
in the play he calls on Warren
Toms, as Editor Webb, to explain
OUR TOWN to the audience and
gets fussy- Professor Willard, por­trayed
by.Marshall Bacon, to give
facts and statistics about the place.
"The short and simple annals of
the poor" . .;. this is the stuff 'tt
OUR TOWN. Broadway loved it;
what Hollywood will do with it will
be of great interest, i and' what the
division otfia&mft^do^1 with it will
be ' f i ^ i m i ^ p B i ? l ^ t B . ^ ^ f d - . ..
nesday ^^m^tay, Ftebruaty 28
and 29. ' "• :^'':,':- ' • ••,•;•-;. '/-
For the first time in Bellingham,
the combined orchestras of the Uni-ver^
y^^t Wa^shjngton and .Western ^
Washington college will be heard in
joint recital on Tuesday, February
27, at 8:15 p. m. in the Bellingham
high school auditorium.
The first half of the program will
be presented by the university sym­phony
under the direction of George
Kirchner, with August Werner as
soloist". The second half of the
program will be the combined or­chestra,
totaling more than a hun­dred
pieces, which will be conducted
by Donald Bushell of the music
department. The combined outfit
will present Bordin's Second Sym­phony
in its entirety.
Admission for students will be ob­tained
by student body tickets but
the admission for the general public
will be 40 cents for adults and 25
cents for children.
English Musicians
Due Tuesday
Miss Viola Morris, soprano, and
Miss Victoria Anderson, contralto,
celebrated English singers of duets,
will be presented in Tuesday's as­sembly.
The program will include
songs by Brahms, Dvorak, Purcell,
Bach, and modern British and
American composers. Miss Barbara
Custance, Canadian pianist, who
played at WWC two seasons ago,
will accompany them.
Born in Australia, Miss Morris
and Miss Anderson went to London
to study as soloists, with Harry
Plunket Greene. Upon his advice
they decided to specialize in two-part
singing. Since their first joint
recital in London, they have toured
the British Isles, Australia" New
Zealand, Java, and Hawaii. Two ex­tensive
tours were made under con­tract
with the Broadcasting com­missions.
Hikers Mix It Up
Men and women students who
wish to attend the mixed hike to
Dead Man's point and the Rocks on
February 22, meet at the college at
3:00. The hikers will return in the
evening. " :<
Those attending are asked to
bring their supper; including pota­toes
to bake in the bonfire. Sticks
and a fire will be furnished for
those bringing weiners or steaks.
Coffee, marshmallows, and paper
plates will be supplied.
r A' songfest around the bonfire is
planned for;'^fi eyeriing; after
which they will liike back. Mildred
Twedt and Brian Robson are in
charge of the hike.
Invited To Address National
Theater Conference; "Ceni"
Production Interests Heads
By BUI Hatch
Dr. Arthur C. Hicks of tlie
WWC English department, and
president of the Bellingham Thea­t
e r X!iuild,-has^eceiv^-BafcoiiaLr^^
ognition for his work with the guild.
Since the commencement of guild
activities-inv 1929 he has worked
unceasingly for its, success. His
efforts have at last been recognized
through the invitation extended him
recently by Professor Glenn Hughes
of the University of Washington
faculty, to speak before the Nation­al
Theater Conference this mdrh-r
ing, at the Hotel Edmond Meany,
in Seatde.
Dr. Hicks has chosen as his sub­ject,
"Growing Pains of a Little
Theater," and his talk will be de­voted
to the work of the local Guild
since 1936, and to the coming per­formance
of "The Cenci," the
Guild's next presentation.
The National Theater conference
is made up of representatives from
theater groups all over the United
States, and the organization has
expressed its interest in the work of
the Bellingham dramatists, as well
as in "The Cenci," an English play
by Sercy Bysshe Shelley, being pre­sented
for the first time before any
American audience when it is pre­sented
here March 6, 7, 8, and 9.
dateline
Friday, February 16
8:30 p. m.—-Publications Prom
reception, new gym. .
9:00 p. m.—Publications Prom,
new gym.
Saturday, February 17
7:30 a. m.^-WAA boat trip to
Sinclair island. Meet at Mu­nicipal
dock.
6:30—Alkisiah banquet, Mount
Baker room, Hotel Leopold.
Monday, February 19
8:15 p. m—Fritz Kriesler Civic
Music concert, Bellingham
-high school auditorium. ;
Tuesday, February 26
11:00 a, m>-Assembly, Morris
and Anderson.
7:30 p. m.—Vanadis Bragi club
meeting, 1000 Mason street.
7:30 p. m.—Blue Triangle club
meeting, little clubhouse. :
Wednesday, February 21
12:20 p. m.—Collegiate Christ­ian.
Fellowship student meet­ing,
room 208.
8:00 p. m. —• Boake Carter,
"Free Speech on the News,"
Mount Baker theatre.
Thursday, February 22
Holiday . ;' Washington's
birthday.:,
Friday, Febraary 23
11 ;00 a. in.—Assembly, WWC
band, BusheuV
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