Weekly Messenger - 1922 April 7

              Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XXI BELLINGHAM:, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 7,1922. NO. 26
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FIRST GAME IS WITH
ANACORTES SATURDAY
Sam Carver and Manager Row Tweit
have been hitting the ball in a supreme
effort to make the baseball schedule
complete. The days on which the team
wil play have been selected but responses
from other localities have not been re­ceived.
On April 8 the Normal will battle with
Anacortes on their field. The Anacor-tesians
are a fairly good group of play­ers
and a real game is assured.
April 15 is open and will be filled by a
local team.
April 22 is also free for some manager
to grab. Another outside team is dick-
. ering for the date.
April 29 the Normal meets Whatcom.
The high school boys have always had in
the past a team which has played a fast
game. This year will be no exception.
May 13 will prove to be the day ex­traordinary
when the Normal will meet
. the strong freshmen aggregation from
the University of Washington. The
game wil be played in Bellingham.
May 20 and May 27 are two days
which have not been taken. The former
date will be filled with an outside team
because the home field will be in use.
Last Saturday the Normal went to
Sedro-Woolley and once again brought
home the bacon with an 18-5 score. The
field was in a bad condition but only five
errors were recorded while thirteen hits
mare Sedro-Woolley take notice.
McComas was the star twirler for the
Normal, with five innings to his credit,
Lindstedt tossed for two innings and
then the game was called off by Sedro-
Woolley in the end of the seventh.
Keplinger and Stowell caught.
The other positions were held down by
Allen, Thomas, Rankin, ' Vanderford,
Jenne, Knowlton, Gaasland and Rue.
Carver was going to give the last
two innings to other members when the
game was called.
FACUIjflNAUGURATES
THE POINT SYSTEM
The following point system has been
adopted by the faculty to limit and dis­tribute
participation in students activ-ties.
The plan provides:
1. The number of points which may
be carried by any student during a quar­ter
shall not exceed twenty, provided
that any major (10 points or more) of­fice-
holder may participate in a public
performance or contest if his scholastic
grades are satisfactory.
2. The total number of points car­ried
by a student, half of whose grades
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DR. DWIGHT B. WALDO, Nsw NORMAL PRESIDENT.
NORMAL CANDIDATE
FOR TULIP QUEEN
ALBERTINA PEARSON,
A hard drive is being waged by Normal
students and faculty members to make
"Tina" queen of the Tulip Festival.
"Did you get your interview with Dr.
Waldo?" was the question asked of the
first reporter. "I have been on his trail
for the last twenty-four hours and there
still seems to be a small chance of get­ting
a square look at him. I heard he
was a 'live-wire' and from the tones of
his voice that proceeded from the office,
I am sure it is the absolute truth. Al­though
it was impossible for me to get
an interview with him for this week's
paper, I am sure Dr. Waldo will have a
great deal to tell next week."
Reporter No. 1.
At 4 p. m., Wednesday afternoon, just
before the Messenger went to press re­porter
No. 2 caught Dr. Waldo as he was
going into his office. The following con­versation
took place:
Reporter No. 2: "Dr. Waldo—the Mes­senger
is very anxious to get a state­ment
from you about your impressions
of our school. Have you anything to
give us ?"
Dr. Wkldo: "I'm very tired tonight.
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CHEERING WELCOME IN
ASSEMBLY WEDNESDAY
At the Wednesday assembly Dr.
Waldo was cheered and in other ways
given a cordial welcome as he made his
first appearance before the student body.
Prof. H. Philippi, representing the fac­ulty:
Carl Haeske, president of the
students' association, and' Miss Floy
Strong, of the Training school, spoke
words of welcome.
Responding, Dr. Waldo expressed his
appreciation of the warmth of his wel­come
and mentioned things of special
interest to students and faculty. He
spoke of the importance of having a
trained teacher for every child in
Washington and of developing leader­ship
in the profession. He stressed the
value and desirability of initiative and
co-operaton among . the students,
which he admitted exists at the Nor­mal,
and advocated the cultivation of
the democratic spirit, "pep" and wide-awakenss.
Dr. Waldo will return to Kalamazoo,
Mich., next week, leaving Tuesday or
Wednesday, probably, to complete his
contract with the Western State Nor­mal
school. He expects to return to
Bellingham in June.
DEBATFiilORS"
GO DOWN TO DEFEAT
The debate, which took place Friday,
March 31, in the Normal auditorium, re­sulted
in defeat for the B. S. N, S.
Pearl Stoughton, Margaret Spaight and
Oliver Ingersoll handled the negative for
the Normal and too much credit cannot
be given to them for the splendid way
in which they defended their side of the
question.
The affirmative team, which traveled
to Ellensburg, reports a splendid time
there even tho they lost the debate. Mr.
Rahskopf tells that they were enter­tained
royally. He says: "The coach was
a prince. They were a body of good
sports. I never enjoyed a debate so
much, and our team did splendid work."
Mason Hall adds: "It didn't hurt us a
bit to lose, for they played fair. The
audience was wonderful. The decision
took but half a minute but we were sat­isfied
with it. I hope that all the boys
and most of the girls will turn out for
debate next year."
B. S. N. S.
Have you ever stopped to think when
you carelessely pick the flowers ar­ound
the terraces, by whose patient and
tender hands they were planted? Miss
Baker our dear friend and teacher who
is no longer here with us, patiently and
lovingly transplanted a great many wild
flowers including the trilliums by the
Science Annex and around our campus.
In respect and love for her and for beau­tiful
things may we be careful to pre­serve
their beauty.