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WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELUNGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday,;' Febiua^||^!?^$!^/|!;;i;
,.-' Evolution
Style Gets Them
Poor Old Ruth
YBctlee?
By Virginia Carver
Good afternoon, little friends!
Another week (ever so weak) and
we are just that much older! My
word! How time does fly. Why it
seems like only yesterday that we
drew doubtful looking pictures of
pretty little brown flowers, and
now we go to rec hour and stand
against the wall with them.
——WJ3.N.S:-—
Oh, me! Oh, my! The latest
from London says that the "thin
red tone" (it sounds like the bread
line, but it means the army) are
thinking of decking themselves
forth in plus fours and jackets with
open collars! They'll look collegi­ate
enough we'll wager, and as for
going out on one of those clever
little shooting matches that armies
do go in for; they'll need very little
amunition—they can depend on
their chic style to knock the ene­mies
cold!
W.S.N.S.
The Argentine Academy of let­ters
has started a campaign, so to
speak, to purify the language spok­en
there. They've started asking
newspapers, radio announcers, and
educational authorities to try and
use purer Castilian speech. Would­n't
it be just too bad if Uncle Sam
took a turn for the worse and asked
the radio announcers to start using
pure English!.. How many enter­tainers
Would be searching for
work I It would eliminate ever so
many cowboys, "adenoid singers",
hopeful but slightly hopeless infant
performers and a couple of hundred
wise crackers!
And the train announcers! Good
ness!
W.S.N.S.
Babe Ruth, the man who spends
all the time batting a ball over a
fence, is actually obliged to struggle
along for existence on the paltry
sum of $70,000 this year! It's really
a crime that such a poor undefence-less
little fellow should be cut
down to poverty wages and ex­pected
to live!
W.S.N.S.—
Coming back to Normal, how­ever,
we heard of a faux pas which
would startle even the immortal
Ripley! At the Informal last week,
when everyone was looking dra­matically
and correctly romantic,
an up and coming youth got his
Wrigley's P. K. caught in the flow­ing
tresses of his partner! We
wouldn't mention1 any names, of
course, but the youth waits on tables
at the Dorm!
W.S.N.S. —
Iss there no yustice? Bebe Dan­iels
(Lyon) has one child, and her
name and pictures are strewn hith­er
and yon over the country! Yet—
Mrs. Kelly, down in the alley, had
17, and didn't get so much as a
mention!
-W.S.N.S——
Somebody made the crack about
eating the Wolf at the door! Tish!
It is a mere nothing to what we
did! We ate hash yesterday and
heaven only knows how many
wohes and things there were in it!
———W.S.N.8-^-
It's nice to be religious—but
sometimes it's a trifle uncomfort­able!
We wonder how many of our
friends would brave icy waters off
the mountain for baptism, as sixty
converts did in Illinois not long ago.
It's hard enough to drag them out
of bed for an eight o'clock, when
the weather's 78 and the nearest
thing they can find to ice is ice
cream!
WBJT.S . '
We took a testr—
We got the grade!
Send roses pfawe
With the postage paid!
OF
ANNOUNCES RESULT
OF
Two Amendments Pass by Huge
Majorities; Manager
System Loses
SPECIAL MEETING HELD
rWJSJNB-Well!
We'd better sign off! We're
gojbig from bad to worse, and
donTstop TC^ ro
• tag atKirt Jana^ a ^
Results of last Friday's vote on
proposed amendments to the con­stitution
were announced at the last
Board of Control meeting held last
Tuesday, February 16.
Of the three measures voted upon
by the students, two were passed by
overwhelming majorities while the
third was defeated by the narrow
margin of 24 votes.
The amendment pertaining to the
lowering of required hours for
sweater awards was passed by a
vote of 490 for and 26 against, and
the measure which would put the
hour requirement paragraph into
effect last fall went through by a
vote of 455 to 43. The new manager
plan, which was proposed after a
careful study of the different sys­tems
had been made by the Board
of Control, did not meet the ap­proval
of the students and conse­quently
lost by a vote of 235 to 259.
Special Meeting
A special meeting of the board
was called last Thursday, February
11, at which time the sum of $62.50
was voted to be given to Mr. S. S.
Ford, manager of the Co-Op, to
defray the expenses of a number of
delegates to the Co-Op convention
to be held' in Seattle this spring
who will visit the Normal school
during the convention.
Business brought up at the reg­ular
meeting included a report by
Elsie O'Donnell on proposed chang­es
in the constitution which affect
the qualifications of election to stu­dent
offices. She was appointed to
.investigate systems of elections and
to report to the board at a later
date.
Nellie Cox, with the aid of Miss
O'Donnell, has recently completed a
list of helps to managers and chair­men
of mixers. This list was adopt­ed
by the members of the board
and will be mimeographed and dis­tributed
to those connected with the
mixers or like social functions.
One Hour Recreation
Due to the fact that many stu­dents
will be leaving for home over
the week-end, the rec hour will be
only one hour long this week.
President Campbell announced
that he will investigate the possibil­ities
of having a mixer at the close
of the quarter.
Student Body Tickets
A discussion concerning the use
of Student Body tickets by others
than the rightful owners was held.
It was decided that students must
present their cards at all activities
and especially at rec hours.
It was decided that from now on
passes to athletic games and other
inter-school contests will not be is­sued
to visiting teams.
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LEAGUE SPONSORS TEA
The Wednesday afternoon teas in
the Women's League room from
2:30 to 3:30 are becoming very pop­ular.
The teas are sponsored by
different girls each week. All girls
are invited.
Upper Classmen to
Present Attractive
Assembly Program
On Tuesday Feb. 23, a most un­usual
program will be presented by
the Junior and Senior classes. Part
of the program will be enacted out­side
on the campus where a tree
will ,be planted in honor of George
Washington. =
Program Is Varied
As the opening number the stu­dent
body will sing "America", un­der
the leadership of Harold B.
Smith. Following this, Mr. Walter
Whitcomb, local attorney and mem­ber
of the Board of Trustees, will
give an address. Numbers by Eve­lyn
Montgomery and James Butler
will be presented immediately after
Mr. Whitcomb's speech.
Students Convene on Campus
On going out on the campus the
students will witness the planting
of a tree to be dedicated to George
Washington. The dedication speech
will be given by Ervin Leatha. A
reading by Preston Wright, "Plant
a Tree" will conclude the attractive
program. Stanley E. Smith is act­ing
as chairman for the committee
arranging for the assembly pro­gram
of the upper-classmen, with
Pelagius Williams as faculty advis­er.
Vacation Monday for
Schools in Honor of
Birth of Washington
After seven long weeks of unin­terrupted
work Normalites will at
last receive a vacation. No school
will be held on Monday, Feb. 22,
honoring the 200th anniversary of
the birth of George Washington.
Normal students who will be trav­elling
south to Seattle, etc., will be
given low rates on buses. Return
tickets which are bought today will
be good until March 1, including
that date. A special bus will leave
the Normal school at 4 o'clock to­day,
in front of Edens Hall on
High street.
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System Is Arranged
For Spring Payment
of Fees to Registrar
"This quarter. we are trying out
a different system for the payment
of registration fees," says Miss Nora
B. Cummins, acting dean. "We have
planned it so that those students
who cannot pay their fees on the
days scheduled for that purpose may
make arrangements with the busi­ness
office to do so on March 28.
After that, however, all students
will have to pay late registration
fees."
Three Remaining Steps
It is announced through the
dean's office that all students in
school must register for the spring
quarter on the days set for regis­tration.
The three remaining steps
in registration after having secured
an appointment (which should have
been done February 15, 16, and .17)
are:
1. See your adviser.
(Continued on Page Three)
1] rek To Heather Meadows Next
Saturday To Be A Joyous Event
Under the leadership of Mr. E. A.
Bond, a crowd of almost one hun­dred
students will leave the front of
Edens Hall on the all-school hike
to Heather Meadows at Mount
Baker next Saturday morning, Feb­ruary
27. -.' "
Transportation will be furnished
by Russell Nyberg's bus and by pri­vate
cars. All students who have
cars are asked to sign on the main
bulletin board, giving the number of
passengers they will be able to take
at $1 per person.
Because of the difficulty in se­curing
enough transportation facil­ities
the number of students who,
can, be accommodated is limited. As
the first ones to sign will be given
to sign up on the main bulletin
board as soon as possible.
Next Thursday noon, February 25,
is absolutely the dead line for sign­ing
for the trip. The only charge
will be for transportation, costing $1
for the round trip.
Lunch will be provided through
Edens Hall, and students boarding
outside the dormitory may have the
same lunch by paying Ruth Neal
25 cents before Thursday noon.
Good sliding, lots of show and
beautiful scenery await every one
wbjo tiimi/out^
affair, according to Ruth Neal, hike
whose auspices the hike is taking
NATIONAL PROGRAM
TO BE CELEBRATED
AT PUBLIC MEETING
Normal Choral Society to Sing
American Ode Directed
By H. B. Smith
NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY
Bellingham will celebrate the
George Washington Bicentennial in
a public meeting, at the Fox Mt.
Baker Theater, Feb. 22, at 4 p. m.
All city schools and Normal will
be closed Monday in observance of
Washington's birthday, a national
holiday. President Fisher urges
Normal students, especially to take
advantage of this opportunity to
hear truly fine entertainment. Ev­eryone
is invited and there will be
no admission fee. v
The program is arranged as fol­lows:
Judge Edwin Gruber presiding.
Invocation .Rev. R. L. Peterson
America Audience
Address, "George Washington, the
Builder of the Nation," Judge
Malcolm Douglas, Superior Court
of King County, Washington.
American Ode (Kountz) Chorus and
Orchestra.
Soprano solo, Lois Holt Brown.
Harold B. Smith, Director.
Motion Picture, "George Washing­ton,
His Life and Times," produc­ed
at the request of George
Washington Bicentennial Com­mission,
Washington, D. C.
Kountz's American Ode will be of
special interest as it is to be sung
by Normal's choral society, directed
by H. B. Smith. It was composed
for the Conneaut Lake, Pa., Sum­mer
Music Festival of 1926, and was
for the first time sung there with a
chorus of 400 voices. This compo­sition
expresses the patriotic spirit
of the American people, the munif­icence
of nature, and the Father­hood
of God.
Manorites Enjoy
Informal Dance
at Viking Hall
The Viking Manor Winter quarter
informal, held at Viking Hall last
Friday evening, Feb. 12, was the
scene of one of the most delightful
informals held recently.
Fifteen or more couples danced
to the tunes of Bob Walters' or­chestra,
while the Hall was gaily
decorated with streamers of Blue
and White. Punch and candy
hearts were provided as refresh­ments
for the evening.
Dorothy Knuppenberg entertained
the guests and hosts with some
novel pieces on her accordion.
Guests who attended were: Grace
Carmichael, Anne Eckert, Jerry
Finlay, Deborah Altose, Martha
Keiski, Oline Sigfussen, Dorothy
Knuppenberg, Marian Todd, Doris
Barron, Helen Edgar, Beth McLeod,
Helen Richardson, Marion Grieve,
Marjory Allen, Jack Dawson, Bob
Zoet, Dick Albert, John Lensrud,
Curly Gross, and Sivert Skotheim.
Hosts were: Pat Allen, Bill Allen,
Cud Baker, Ellis Baxter, Truman
Berg, Milton Flinton, Bob Becken,
Nelson Brewer, Terry Cook, Fred
Dobler, Henry Eaton, John Gable,
Bob Gondolfo, Arvid Griff en, Jim
Knapp, Leslie Lowell, Glenn Rock-ey,
John Stiger, < Jack Sears, Jim
Stoddard, Irving Wahl, Harold
Zwaschka, and Vernon Looniis.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Grimes were
the chaperones.
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CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
OBSERVES BIRTH OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON
^:;-Tiiis' :iweek the cMd^h's Ubrary
is observing the birthday of George
Washington. Books relating to his
life and accomplishments have been
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reading room a copy of one of the
President Fisher Will
Give Research Report
"Gains made in tool subjects by
Normal school students during a
two year course," will be the topic
of a speech delivered by President
Fisher before a section on research
in teacher training of the-American
Educational Research Association.
President Fisher who is reading this
speech because no member of the
local Research department is able
to attend the national meeting, will
deliver the talk February; 25 at
Washington, D. C.
The main theme of the speech is
as follows:
One group of administrators of
teacher-training institutions holds
that a considerable amount of the
specific instruction should be given
teachers in training in fields of
subject matter commonly included
in the elementary school curriculum.
Another group of these administra­tors
holds that prospective teachers
should not pursue such courses for
credit when they are given on an
elementary or junior high school
level. The State Normal School at
Bellingham Washington, might be
classed with the latter group.
Tests Given
At Bellingham achievement tests
are given to all entering students in
arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic
computation, English usage, history,
geography, spelling and penmanship
to determine the lever- of achieve­ment
of the entering freshmen. If
certain standards are not reached
upon the first test students may
take retests to reach the standard.
If, after three retests, the standard
is not reached, students are not
permitted' to engage in practice
teaching.
A group of 125 students who en­tered
as freshmen in October, 1928,
were given the entrance tests again
two weeks prior to their graduation
in June, 1930. The difference be­tween
the average scores on the
tests taken upon entrance and at
graduation show a large increase in
achievement.
Gain In History
The largest gain was made in his­tory
and the smallest gain in Eng­lish
usage. Students who were re­quired
to take retests made gains
which were twice to ten times as
great as did those who reached the
standard in their first trial. About
half of the students reached the
required standards upon their first
tests. The standard was most easily
reached in the field of spelling and
greatest difficulty was encountered
in arithmetic reasoning. The results
indicate that the use of a testing
program as here described insures
that students will make satisfactory
improvement and reach acceptable
standards in elementary school sub­jects
without instruction for credit
in those fields at an elementary or
junior high school level.
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FIRST TEAM— SECOND TEAM—
Sutphin, Ellensburg ......F...... .J-.~~ Bailey, Ellensburg
McBeath, Bellingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F . . - - . . , - - - . - Peterson, Cheney
Haney, Ellensburg . . . . . . . . . . C.-~-. ,......-- DavivChcne£
Henderson, Ellensburg .......—-G Sherman, Bellingham
Fuller, Ellensburg ...G.... Freeman, Ellensbinrg
Now that the Tri-Normal basketball season has come to a con­clusion
and all that remains of the games played in the three
school league are memories, it would be very fitting at this time
to announce the Northwest Viking's All-Tri-Normal basketball
quintet. „
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Appreciative Audience
Hears Kedroff Group
Wednesday Evening
I CALENDAR
FRIDAY)—Feb. 19.
4 p. m., Rec Hour
Gym.
MONDAY—Feb. 22.
4 p; m., Washington Bi-Cen-tenhial
Celebration, at Mt.
BakerTheater. ^
TUESDAY—Feb. 23.
11 a. m.. Assembly, Junior-
Senior Class Celebration.
WEDNESDAY—Feb. 24
8:15 p. m.. Professor Herbert
Gowen in Normal Auditor­ium.
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; 8:15 p. m., Alkislah Meeting
in Edens Hall Club Roorn.^
££$: ii&ijih^
11 a^ m.Regiuar Students*
Coming before a very appreci­ative
crowd composed of Normal
students; faculty members, and
many town people, the Kedroff
quartet appeared in concert Wed­nesday
evening at 8:15 in the Nor­mal
auditorium.
The quartet is now composed of
the founder, N. N. Kedroff, bari­tone;
C. N. Kedroff, basso; T. F.
Kasakoff, second tenor, and I. K.
Denissoff, first" tenor. This is their
fifth consecutive concert tour in the
United States and Canada.
Program Divided
The program presented was di­vided
in_four parts. The first
"Folk Songs of Russia" consisted of
the following songs: In the Captiv­ity
of the Tartars, a XTV century
ballad from the Collection of Rim-sky-
KOrsakov and harmonized by
N. Kedroff; The White Snow, a
recruit's song harmonized by Schig-lev;
The Bells of Novgorod, a wed­ding
song, harmonized by Karno-yitch,
and A Darjce Song, harmon­ized
by Illiasthenko.
The second, which, was a "Group
of-. Songs'*;'was divided in three
parts: A Romantic Legend, by N.
Kedroff; the Dragon-Fly, by N.
Kedroff, and Waltz of Flowers,
from the ballet "The Sleeping
Beauty", by Tchaikovsky.
Songs Dedicated
Cesa Cui dedicated a "Cycle of
Songs" to the Kedroff xmartet,
which was used as the third group
to be presented. The cycle includes;
Summer Noon, My Native Country,
Quiet Night, The Little Rabbit, and
Harvest Time.
The last division, "Songs by Rus­sian
Composers", featured works of
four men. They were: Vespers in
a Russian Village, by Schigleff;
Novgorod, The Great City, by
Dutsch; Orientate, by Cui, and
Bacchanalian Song, by Tchaikov­sky..
Beatrice Jensen entertained her
sister .at Terrace House during the
past week.
——-—: —" ., •"•,-'-:.»fr"
In keeping with the precedent set
by former sports editors of the
Northwest Viking, Jimmie Stoddard
present conductor of the sports sec-''
tion, in conjunction with the coach­ing
staff, has prepared a pair of
quintets to represent his choice of
first and second string All-Tri-Nor­mal
basketball teams.
Extreme difficulty was experien­ced
in selecting the five most but-standing
men in the league.; Al­though
it was comparatively easy to
pick: the forward and center^posi­tions;
it was a different matter as
to the guard posts. Ellensburg had
two fine back-court men as, did
Cheney. Bellingham had. but one i
man who could come up. to the
calibre of the guards from Eastern
Washington and grabbed off a sec?:
ond team position.' V- •v--^
Forwards Clever
Sutphin, clever Ellensburg for­ward,
and Clint McBeath, Viking
flash, are awarded the < forward:
posts. Sutphin was an instant
choice, but considerable deliberation
was made before McBeath was giv­en
first choice over Bailey, Enens-burg,
and Peterson, Cheney,;:''s1&r£'.
Big Doug Haney, EUensburg's rii-foot-
five center, was given the call
over Davis, Cheney, and Rork, Bel­lingham.
Davis also beat Rork for
the second team position. Rork has
not played the calibre of basketball
that won him first team recognition
last year.
Guards Difficult '< ;
The greatest difficulty in the en­tire
selection came from the guard
posts; Henderson, Cheney star, was
given first place over the ^:^ld..
Coach Reise, of Cheney, is, of thei .
opinion that Henderson feyjo^^at- r
the finest back-court iaa^JVtM\t^
has ever developed: Fuller, Btens-burg
star stationary guard; wsB^giv;-
en second guard position ;on!^. 'the^;
first team. •"i!^v:'^.l::i
Sutphin, McBeath, Henden^a^
Fuller That's a sweet little te&n;!
and capable of playing sonie great
ball. And the combination ;ot'Bjf&S^
ey, Peterson, Davis; Sheimaa^'aaifr
Freeman for a second •teiun^cboie^:;
is no slouch. Sherman wasgi^en^a;
second team place fpUowing his
slashing defensive jpiaying'>;jn/i^b^l
past two or three games, t^^n^i
practically a .toss-oipi :'-betweett:rWfl§;'-
ler and Freeman, but the fohner'
was given the first ^ a m . p ^ | j ^;
cause of his outstanding pteyingjm;
the Bellingham court.".-; .'•''.--;-'^:^^;;:
Statistic$ Jprove l^IigK Sdb^y1^^^
"Why take more English?" was
discussed pro and-[con in>a recent
issue of the Whatcom World;
For many years the English de­partment
of the Whatcom High
School has made an effort to follow
up the English wot*'.: of> ite gradr
nates who have entered institutions
of higher learning., They have cbh-:
centrated. especially on the results
of their \-::g^ua^^;:iiur^r^.;;;ihebr:
frashnian year at the Belh^
Quoting :from,: t h e Whatcom
World: "Itfost Of bur graduates en­ter
the :. Normal School an4; h**H**«
•Washington) that offers: aM|fiMr;i^ i
course in world .literature;<iasfa^Svx ^;
eTary^background^fc^
than is given - 'in '/-P^'-^)ti0f^^i^
normal? •'•••.'•'•:•.'••;;::-;^^lS®IB;
^vStatij^rc: ShOW,:i
dents who took -^the^;;-*u^^;•|^ij^tfc^"^.S^•^f
course offered -'in .;h^H;s^b^|Sp»-$;|^
inriiie;,^, best- graj&l;'; ; | ^ l p a ^ | | | |f
failures are those students ;^rl^
the ininimum -requiira^
crowd in two « m e ^ ^ : l o r i | p l ^ | | | |
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