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VOL. XXDC-^NO. 38 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, April 18, \930j
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SCHOOL DEBTS
CIRCUMFERENCE
EDUCATION and HAPPINESS
| AND YE DIARY
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I —Bob Walters
President Will Take .
Part In .Conference
At Madison, Wisconsin
Hats off to various school offi-cials,
both student and otherwise,
who in the last year have consider­ably
changed the debt situation.
Several of the departments have
"been taken "out of the fire and into
the kettle", while other debts have
been materially reduced.
—W. S. N. S.——r
And not to show any partiality,
- but everyone likes to ..brag about
that which is closest to "home", we
compliment our present Business
Manager. In a little longer than
three quarters, he has changed the
thousand and some odd dollar debt
t o three hundred and forty-two dol­lars
on the other side of the ledger.
W. S. N. S.
Quite often outsiders play on the
local tennis courts. As long as there
is room, no harm is done, but Nor­mal
students waiting to get on have
a perfect right to ask any others to
..^vacate immediately.
W. S. N. S.
Dr. Harry V. Masters, of the Re­search
Department, while doing
graduate work at Iowa, worked with
another person on a spelling pro­ject...
They., found., approximately
450,000,000 ways of spelling the word
"circumference." Each iof these
words it can be pronounced pho­netically
correct. Hence, there is no
reason for misspelling that -word
.from now on.
W. S. N. S. —
We just finished browsing through
.an interesting pamphlet entitled
"What the Colleges Are Doing'... It
i s published by Ginn and Company,
and contains various articles on col­lege,
picked at random. Two were
particularly interesting to us.
W. S. N. S.
The first told of the writer having
•over a thousand acquaintances. Out
of these a dozen were happy, and
over half of the happy ones had
Jiever gone as far as high school. In
, other words, education to him does
not bring happiness.
—W. S. N. S.
The other gave "Ten Marks of an
Educated Man", as follows:
He keeps his mind open on all
questions until the evidence is in.
He listens to the man he knows. He
never laughs at new iedas. He cross-examines
his day-dreams. He knows
his strong point and plays it. He
knows the value of good habits and
how to form them. He knows when
not to think and when to call in
the expert to think for him. You
can't sell him magic. He lives the
forward, outward looking life. He
cultivates a love of the beautiful.
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I n a letter published this week, an
Easterner calls attention to the con­dition
of our lawn and the absence
of "Keep Off Grass" signs. We have
heard from many sources that, al­though
much is said regarding the
negligence of Normalites, still the
walking on the grass is compara­tively
minus.
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NEW CASH1 SYSTEM
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
The new ruling at the cafeteria
which bans charge accounts has
proven a success. Beginning Mon­day,
the first day of the spring
quarter, the system of "cash only"
was established. This was found
necessary because of the time ex­pended
in keeping books for the
many small amounts charged.
Miss Countryman reports that
there has been no decrease in the
number of students lunching at the
cafeteria, and that .not one has
asked for a charge since the ruling,
went into effect. She considers this
a commendable attitude of co-oper­ation
on the part of • the student
••.body..-. .,'"•."'
-.:',';•-iThe. staff of the cafeteria workers
'will remain the same%as last quar­ter,
with the addition of Virginia
i^Black;: who is takmgCthe place of
^Eiose ;Baskett.
Pres. C. H. Fisher left for the East
this week to take part in a confer­ence
of the faculties of the Wis­consin
State Teachers College. This
conference will be held at Madison,
Wisconsin, on April 21 and 22. Thisf
conference is held once in two years
and includes all the teachers of the
ten teacher-training institutions in
the state.
President Fisher will meet with
the presidents of the teachers' col­leges
for a discussion of adminis­trative
problems. He will also meet
with librarians on the functions of
a library in teacher training insti­tutions.
At the general session of
all the members of the conference,
President Fisher is on the program
to discuss the subject: "The Recon­struction
of Curricula in Teacher
Training Institutions with a Gener­ous
Provision for a Liberal Educa­tion,
Especially in the Early Years."
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F,
MEN'S ORGANIZATION
IN OBTAINING ROOM
Club Room Becomes a Reality By
Faculty's Unanimous Vote At
Tuesday's Special Meeting.
FURNITURE INCLUDED
Formal Dedication To Take Place
Monday, at 13:30, Dean Marquis
Acting As Master of Ceremonies.
SEATTLE MUSICIANS
TO PLAY TUESDAY
DURING ASSEMBLY
Alice Williams Sherman, Elizabeth
Reeves, and Hazel Hammer Hill
Members of Widely-Known Trio.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Tuesday morning, April 22, the
regular assembly hour will be devot­ed
to a musical program by the
Musical Artist Trio of Seattle. This
trio is composed of well known mu­sicians
who have received nation­wide
recognition for their ability as
ensemble artists.
Alice Williams Sherman, violinist,
is a favorite with audiences wherev­er
she appears. Elizabeth Reeves,
.violoncellist, is an artist pupil of
George Kirschner, Hazel Hammer
Hill, pianist, is widely , known
throughout the Northwest as a pi­anist
and teacher.
The trio comes highly recom­mended,
and as their repertoire in­cludes
selections from the classics
and the modern composers, as well
as shorter compositions, the pro­gram
should please the entire audi­ence.
No longer will the men of the
school have to wander around like
the man without a country, nor
will they have to be bothered with
women listening in on their con­versations,
nor will they have to
lean against the walls or hit for one
of the nearby lunch abodes for priv­acy,
for they now have a room all
their own.
After seeking a room since early
last quarter, the Men's Club sent
a committeee to confer with Presi­dent
Fisher in regards to getting a
room. At last Tuesday's Faculty
meeting President Fisher brought
up the question.
It was decided that the Faculty
room just across from the registrar's
office, or otherwise designated as
Room 112, should be given to the
men.
On Tuesday of next week at 12:30,
there will be held in the main hall,
the dedication ceremonies of the
Club Room. Dean Marquis will be
the speaker of the hour and music
v/ill be furnished by the Pep Club
band. All students are invited to
attend.
"As this is an event of the hour
for the men," Charles Dewey, presi­dent
of the Men's Club, says, "I wish
to extend to those who made this
possible, the gratitude and co-oper­ation
of the men's organization."
LEAGUE ELECTION
HELD THIS MORNING
Interest in Election Slow to Develop,
Gained Momentum As Time for
Balloting Arrived.
Thirty-Eight Students
Feel Committee's Axe
Thirty-eight students felt a pang
of regret this week as the sharp' axe
of the Attendance Committee cut
deeply into their meagre store of
credits. Thirty-one unfortunates
were cut one credit; six were cut
two credits, and one poor student
lost three hours when his record
came under the^committee's blade.
These people were held victims of
their own conduct and were pun­ished
by the law of the school which
might to be said to state, "For fif­teen
absences from all classes the
credit supply of a student will have
sliced from it one- hour of credit,
etc." According to committee mem-4
bers, the guillotine will be rolled out
and set up again next quarter.
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MAD AUTO RUNS WILD;
DENTS TEACHER'S CAR
A little excitement was added to
the atmosphere last Sunday evening
when a restless Dodge car, belong­ing
to a James Moody, and
anchored i n f front o f Ragan
Hall, slipped from its moorings and
aimlessly drifted down the hill. It
struck a reef in the form of Miss
Karigley's Star car, which was at
the time parked in front of Buss-ing's.
Both cars were damaged,
Miss Kangley's car getting the worse
treatment. As both of the cars were
unoccupied, no one was hurt.
The accident called to mind the
well-remembered one of several
years back when Milton Field, a
Normal student; was permanently
injured by a runaway auto. Both of
the accidents occurred in the same
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WOMEN'S LEAGUE ELECTION
The Women's League election,
which was to be held this morn­ing
has excited interest among the
girls of the school, during the latter
part of the week, although the nom­inations
were slow in being made.
Those whose names were certain
of appearing on the ballots were
Jenny Berg, nominated for presi­dent;
Louise Smith and Lovia Wei-ger,
for vice-president; Aileen Hurl-burt
and Marion Marchand for sec­retary,
and Esther Nordquist for
treasurer.
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' DEBATE SCHEDULED
Lyle Summers and Ray Craft will
meet the University of Washington
freshman debate team in an exhibi­tion
debate before Everett High
school on April 25. They will up­hold
the affirmative and use the
cross-question type, in which a
speaker from each side cross-exam­ines
a speaker of the other side.
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CALENDAR
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec Hour.
TOMORROW—
7 a. m., W. A. A. trip to Sin­clair
Island.
SUNDAY—April 20.
6:30 a. m., —Y. W. C. A. Sun-
- rise Service, Sehome^Hill.
MONDAY—April 21.
'• 4 p. m., Baseball game, Sheep-herders
vs. Smoke-eaters,
Waldo Field.
7:30 p. m., Drama Club meet­ing,
Room 308.
TUESDAY—April 22.
11 a. m., regular assembly,
Musical Art Trio.
7:30 p. m., Scholarship Soci-etry
meeting, Edens Hall.
WEDNESDAY—April 23.
4 p. m., Baseball game, Wolves
vs. Cowboys, Waldo Field..
7 p. m., Y. W. Bible Class
meets at Miss Sperry's home.
8:15 p. m., Little Symphony
concert, Auditorium.
THURSDAY—April 24.
7:30 p. m., Vanadis Bragi
Initiation, Edens Hall.
7:30 p . ' m . , , Thespian Club
meeting, Edens Hall club-
"' room.
Alkisiah p i c n i c , Whatcom
Falls park.
FRIDAY—April 25. .
11 a. m., Regular assembly.
Illustrated lecture on Fri­day
Harbor Biological sta­tion.
CRYSTAL BALLROOM
CHOSEN AS SETTING
FOR LEAGUE DANCE
Saturday, May Third, Date Set for
Women's League Outside Dance;
Tickets Limited to 110.
PROGRAMS DELIGHTFUL
VERY CLOSE RAGE
Morning Assembly Scene of Big
Student Body Election; Choosing
Of President Largest Attraction.
THREE OFFICES FILLED
Presidential Nominees Are Quick,
Gerold, Bell and Summers—Girls
Contest Vice-President's Chair.
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RARE SCARECROW
FOR JAYWALKERS
A scientific expedition com­posed
presumably of Nor­mal
students, left the cam­pus
early Tuesday evening in
search of a rare specimen of
'bird.
They, with the aid of a
little salt, were able to cage
this strange animal. It falls
under the owl classification,
but is white in color.'
The personnel of the.expe­dition
realize the policing
qualities of this strange
winged object, and likewise
realized the trouble the
grounds committee is hav­ing
with "jaywalkers." Con­sequently,
they turned it loose
on the lawn between Edens
Hall and the Administration
Building.
The date of the Women's League
dance for outside girls has been set
for Saturday evening, May 3. It
will be held in the Crystal Ball­room
of the Hotel Leopold. Accord­ing
to Dorothy Sasse, general chair­man
of the committee in charge,
the affair is not to be termed an
informal, as it is usual, nor a formal,
but mere the "Women's League
outside dance."
Tickets On Sale
• No particular idea will be carried
out in the decorations, as on former
occasions, but" the programs will be
in surprise form and unique in de­sign.
Tickets for the dance went on sale
yesterday at $1.25 a couple. As there
are only 110 tickets to be sold it is
wise to get them early. They may
be purchased at the Dean of Womr
en's office only: Any girl who has
bought a ticket and wishes to re­turn
it may do so.. Her money will
be refunded if the ticket is sold
again.
Special "pers" for outside girls
will last over until 12:30.
A new arrangement of dances will
be used on the program the sched­ule
being posted on the Women's
League bulletin board.
Sasse In Charge
Assisting Miss Sasse on the com­mittees
are Aileen Hurlbert, Edna
Larkin, Lovia Weiger, Dorothy
Woods, Suzanne Waters, Ruth Shep­herd,
Jennie Berg and Lois Smith.
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FORTY-FIVE DROPPED;
TWENTY READMITTED
Everyone gets curious when he
is extremely interested in a sub­ject—
especially when there is sus­pense
attached to it—so this after­noon
we will have a curious student
body.
"All's over but the counting," and,
likewise "all is over but the shout­ing."
The vote for students officers
was taken in this morning's assem­bly,
and now we have a curious
group of future teachers, eager ta
get the Ireturns, and continually
questioning their neighbor as to the
results.
The prospective candidate who is
to fill the Presidential chair is the
magnet drawing the majority of
attention. This part of the election
resolved itself into a queer race.
At the time that nominations
were being made many students felt
that Lyle Summers was ineligible
to succeed himself. Several nomina­tions
were made before Summers
was named to succeed himself, and
a new aspect of the situation be­came
"apparent.
Adding suspense to the election
Prexy Summers failed to give out
information in advance concerning
his intentions, and at press time
popular opinion seemed to be pretty
much up in the air.
The names which were to go on
this morning's ballot for president
were: Charles Quick, Charles Ger­old,
Curtis Bell, and Lyle Summers;
vice-president, M a r y McDonald,
Chloris Fischer, and Basil Ames, and
for four-quarter representative, Ar­thur
Gravrock, William Kendrick,
and Earl Hutchins.
Many Appointments
Secured By Bureau
During Past Week
Forty-five students were originally
dropped from school this quarter
because of low grades, but the Schol­arship
Committee later readmitted
twenty of these on probation. Of
the forty-five dropped, thirty-four
were dropped under Rule; 3 which
concerns those having more than
one-half of their credits D oyer a
period of two quarters or more. Five
were dropped under Rule 2, con­cerning
those who fail in five or
more credits involving at least two
subjects. Six were dropped under
both Rules 2 arid 3.
LETTERS AWARDED
ATW.A.A.JEETIN
Four Girls Are Given Sweaters
Won By Participation In Sports;
Trip Planned to Viqueen Lodge.
A meeting of the Women's Ath­letic
Association was called to order
in Room 119 by President Ruth
Sammons, last Friday noon. At the
meeting, play day to be held at
the University of Washington, May
3, and the Viqueen lodge trip planned
for April 17, were discussed.
W. A. A. insignia were given out
.to Phyllis Bresnan, Margaret Jacob,
Marion Marchand, Margaret Miller,
Vera Waham, Hope Whitenock. The
letter "B" was given to Phyllis
Bresnan, Helen Williams, Ray Ben-dixon,
Olivene Bewley, Irene Marz,
Gay Smith, Kitty Zeran, and Adri-anna
Vander Griend. Class numerals
were awarded to Louisette Bergeron,
Marjorie Coventon, Bernice Johnson,
Helen McNeil, and Ruth Sammons
for this quarter.
Numerals were also given to Joyce
Arnold, Ann Swanson, and Alice
Babcock for last quarter's work.
Louisette Bergeron,,Bernice John^
son, Helen McNeil, and Adrian Van­der
Griend are the new wearers of
"W" sweaters.
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,CLUB GIRLS WILL SING
AT EASTER SERVICE
Miss Elizabeth Hopper of the Ap­pointment
Bureau has made a num­ber
of appointments during the past
week. Virginia Black has secured
the Skagit Heights school; Ruth
Shepherd is to teach at Cheneyville,
Oregon; and Dorothy Haitzell has
.the third and fourth grades at
Monroe. Dean Edmundson and
Bernard Chichester have both been
re-elected to the positions they have
been holding at Foster. Mr. Ed­mundson
teaches industrial arts and
Mr. Chichester is associated with
the English department.
Esther Daw has accepted a posi­tion
in Odessa and Olive Goldman
will teach in Mason County. Three
people have been elected to posi­tions
in Stevenson. They are Gladys
A. Smith, sixth and seventh grades;
Ethel Paul, primary grades, and
Peggy Pullar, primary grades.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Bellingham Artists to Appear for;;••>
Third Recital of Season at 8:15%;
In Normal Auditorium.
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STUDENTS TICKETS ADMIT
Selected Program Is Offered In­cluding
Works of Composers of
Both Old and New Regime.
PLAY SELECTED BY
DRAMA CLUB DEALS
WITH SOCIAL CODE
Philip Barry's Plays Approach High
Comedy and Deal With Cultured
People, Money, Wealth, and Ease.
In observance of Easter, a chorus
from the MacDowell club will sing
at the' Congregational Church, Swir
day morning. The number they will
present is "For God So Loved the
World", f r o m ' t h e cantata, "The
Crucifixion", by Stainer; i Also, a
trio, composed of Frances Young,
Peggy Puller, and Dbrbthy Reese,
^ 1 stag!"''Sing 6 ^
High comedies satirizing social
conventions is characteristic of the
work of Philip Barry, whose play,
"The Youngest," will be given by
the Drama Club, May 22 and 23.
Generally speaking, Barry's work
tells of cultured people, money,
wealth, and ease. He deals with
some serious problem, but presents
it gracefully-and humorously^ while
at the same time giving you a pic­ture
of real American people and
social American life. '
"Paris Bound," as an example of
subject matter, is one of his recent
works which gives a new point of
view on marriage and divorce, tak­ing
issue with conventional grounds
for divorce. In "You and I" he
shows the difficulty of trying to
maintain one's youthful dreams and
ambitions after taking on the re­sponsibility
of marriage and the
trials-of making a living. A man's
early dream and life ambition ,of
becoming a great painter ridiculously
develops into his becoming an il­lustrator
for the advertising of a
soap manufacturing company..
Reverses Adage
"Holidays," another of his com­edies;
was produced by the Henry
Duffy Players this last year and
now the Drama Club is asking per­mission
to do it here at some future
time. The old adage, "make hay
while the sun shines," is completely
reversed in this story. You should
have a good time while you are
young, take your vacation then, and
when you are too old to enjoy life,
only then go into business and work.
This play is even nearer than "The
Youngest" in its approach to genu­ine
high comedy.
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The third concert of the Belling­ham
Little Symphony will be held
in the Normal Auditorium next
Wednesday, April 23. Tickets will
be on sale to the public for seventy-five
cents while Normal students;
will be admitted on their activity
tickets.
The program opens with Wag- •;;
ner's popular overture to the opera
Rienzi. This is the first important
opera Wagner wrote and, though it
was written along conventional;
lines, the use of the brass instru­ments
is characteristic of the later
and more mature Wagner. I t begins
with a trumpet call sounding very
softly, gradually increasing, and
then dying away. This is foUowed
by a slow, smooth flowing melody
on the strings, later taken up by t he
wind instruments, and followed by
a quick section which is worked
into a wonderful climax, bringing
this famous overture to a close.
The second number is the Ballet-
Suite from the operas of Gluck,
compiled by and arranged for sym- ;
phony orchestras by the famous
German conductor, Felix Motl. The
suite consists of four dances from
three of Gluck's best known and
most successful operas. All -the;
numbers are of graceful pattern and ;
their melodic charm and classic;
simplicity stamp them as represen-
(Coatiaued on P«ge Four)
BOARD HEARS BIDS
KLIPSUN CONTRACT
Two Bids for Printing Presented
At Board of Control Meeting;
.Board Favors Sunday Tennis.
SPRING MADNESS
ENDS IN DISASTER
One sweet young co-ed left
the Viking office the other day
with the departing words,
"Good-bye Jack". However, it
was'our Gordy that satteth
there, and not Jack. . .
. He sprang from his desk in­tent
on catching the fair
maiden; but, alas, one1 of his
lower extremities became en­tangled
in the legs of the chair,
the 'Swinging door came shut
against'his out-stretched hand,
and with a ping! the door win­dow
acquired ventilation facil­ities.
The nurse attended to
the gash,; and the somewhat
quieted hero - realized that ;"the
guy 'who classified women and
money"as^grief" was correct.
The members of last quarter's
Board of Control met again this
week, due to the fact that the: new;
members have not been elected.
Two contracts were presented for
the printing of The Klipsun. With
several clauses, the Union Printing
Company's bid of $941.50 was the
lowest, while Miller & Sutherlen,
Printers, figured 1,005 dollars for
the jc*. Neither bid called for the
printing of the covers.
On March 1, 1930, the financial
condition of activities stood as fol­lows:
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Athletics (gain) $ 298.78
Viking (gain) 342.41
Social life (deficit) ,63.02
(deficit) •M15XW-
~- The Board plans of cutting down
these deficits during the-- summer;
quarters, as has been che custom.
The Board went on the books .as)
favoring all-day Sunday tennis.
Also they have asked students to r e - ,
quest outsiders to leave any time
that there is a waiting list to playU
tennis. :.x
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ALASKA REQUIREMENTS; an
The certification requirements;f6r;;r|^£g^
the Territory- of Alaska were-givei^||4|f|||
'in a recent'issue- of the A ^ j ^ S | ^ | |
School bulletin, which was r e c e i y e i i ^ ^ ^ |
by Miss Keeler of>the ; E d u c a t ^ c | ^ ^^
department:';,-We:.find the: r e q u i r e ^ ^ | ^ ^
ments there very nearly, like:;: ; t h e | | ^ ^@
certification ;requirementBr;m;-;.^he|||g^^
State of Washington.'. T h i s : b u l l e t i n i i i ^ |i
is edited by Leo W.- Breuer, ; c o i m n i s ^ | | ^ i g^
sioner of Education -:for- :the i T e r | i } | | p ^ ^^
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