Teachers Sur prise Rush Season Fre shmen Pla y Obiter Given A Hu ge Success Honora ble Mention S t. Thomas In Sororities Our team made it four straight by taking two of the hardest games played at our court this y ear. Using the best defense the team had displayed this season and penetrating the Tommies strong defense by rapid and clever passing, our team defeated the clever St. Thomas College team by a close score, 38-37. Our team played real ball from the very start until the final whistle. Getting a good start in the first quarter , our boys managed to hold the lead until the last quarter when it began to see-saw with both teams fighting furiously to the last minute; which at this time our team had a one point lead. There was a confusion during the last few seconds and that was when the ball being tossed at center, one of the Tommies guards received the ball and when in the act of passing, which he did, was called by the referee for running with the ball. Due to the great excitement of the students, the whistle was not heard, and the man passed the ball to Foley, one of their clever forwards, who shot and made it; but the ball was called out of bounds in our team 's possession just as the ganie ended. There is no doubt in our mind that the "Tommies" had and still have a wonderful combination. We found that out when we went to Scranton and were defeated by a score of 52-32. Our team did not hang their heads in shame, for the players realized that St. Thomas has a first class College team. The Tommies came down here Friday night with the attitude that the game was as good as one in their favor. On the other hand our team went into the game with the determination that if they did lose, it would not be due to the lack of fighting spirit. Every one on the team played a brilliant game and for this result credit is duo to the fine cooperation of the students in cheering, headed by Siesko and Ford, which gave our boys the nroper fighting spirit. This game was one of the greatest upset of the season and the fans will seldom see a more closely contested game as the one played Friday night. Continued on Page 8 SPEAKS AT WEST CHESTER Dr. Haas attended the inaugural ceremonies of Dr. Novman W. Cameron, who was installed as president of tho Wost Chester Teachers College. Dr. Cameron succeeds Dr. Smith , recently rotlred, as hoad of the West "' Chester College. Many girls have been asking numerous questions recently concerning sororities. There are five Sororities in the College. Last fall there was an inter-sorority council formed t h a t placed them on a common basis. All sororities are very anxious at this time of the year to take ir i new members. Each sorority wishes to become acquainted with the various girls before they admit them into their groups, so this helps account for all the parties that will be put on the next few weeks. . This may also be of interest and aiso serve as . advice to the Junior girls. If they wish to become sorority members all times they must have on their bast behavior, The sororities wish the cooperation of all students and Faculty in makin > the rushing season a big success. VOLLEY BALL CHAMPS Last Monday the girls that played on the two winning volley ball teams this season turned out with fine spirit to fight for the championship. Even though the winning team was always on the top the game was very interesting. Many Juniors witnessed the game and the players were influenced to a great extent by their applause. Toddy Austin was captain of the winning team and Krum was captain of the losing team. Even though Krum 's team lost they certainly did figh t and they showed us they are good sports. The players on the winning team are as follows: Toddy Austin, Captain; L. Crowell; J. Contini; M. Higgins; R. Gething; M. F. Morton ; M. Melan; K. Jackson; M. Schultz; K. Finneran; D. O'Conaell. MANY FREELANDERS HER E TO WITNESS GAME When we saw the Freeland gang that came with the team, we certainly were convinced that they have fine school spirit and are interested in in their team. When they lost they did not get sore as St. Thomas did buc touK it Just as they would a victory. We were surprised to hear all the noise they made. Most of the credit of that was due to their cheer leader who was able to do this with the support of each member present. Tho Freeland boys were surprised to hear that we weren't having a dance after the game, We told them that wo would have a dance tho next time they came, so they felt relieved. Last Thursday night a large and enthusiastic audience witnessed the presentation of the annual Freshman play, which was "So This is London", written by Arthur Goodrich. This play was first produced by Daniel Frohman in New York City, where it enj oyed quite a run , and later it was even played in London itself. The plot deals with the meeting of an American boy and an English girl, and the overcoming of the prejudices of their respective parents against their marriage, and ends with the feeling on the part of both the English and the American families that another country other than their own may have its good points. It is a most amusing comedy, with a laugh in nearly every line. The first scene was the living room at the Ritz in London ; the second, the living room at Sir Percy Beauchamp's in Brimshot, and the third , Lady Ducksworth's drawing room. The settings were made by members of the Junior class, and were beautiful and effective, showing a careful attention to detail. -Each member of the cast played his part well, and sustained his character throughout the play in an admirable manner. The play was directed by Miss Alice Johnston. The cast of characters in order of their appearance: Elinor Beauchamp ..Grace Baskerville Hiram Draper, Jr. (called Junior)... Archibald Reese Lady Amy Ducksworth..Marj orie Davis Hiram Draper, Sr Maynard Pennington Mrs. Hiram Draper Grace Kivler A Flunky at the Ritz... .William Jones Alfred Honeycutt.... Arthur McKenzie Sir Percy Beauchamp — Philip Kester Lady Beauchamp ..Elizabeth Bowman Hutchins , a maid Florence Jones Jennings, a butler Daniel Delmore Great credit for the success of the play was due to the producing staff who were as follows: Faculty Business Manager Mr. Edward Reams Student Business Manager Harold Stoddard Stage Manager .Walter Siesko Assistant Stage Managers : Doris Sechrist, Rachel Pratt, Amelia Wonsavage, Dorothy Voight. Stage Set Committee: Nicholas Jaffln , Chairman; Oliver Williams, Josephine Giger, Mildred Manbeck, Martin Sekulski , Lawrence Ford, Bernard Mohan, Lois Creveling, Clarence Wolever , Charles Roveriolt, Allen Parr, Carl Dohli' Continued on Page 8 The 1927 Obiter was given honorable rating by the Scholastic Editor of the Department of ? Journalism, University of Minnesota. The critics had j udged the Obiter from several viewpoints and have exacted penalties where they believed the book could be improved. The rating is based on the score of 100 for a perfect book. The critics in scoring, had taken into account all the special problems confronting our publication, and these have contributed somewhat to holding the score down. The Schola'stic Editor of the Department of Journalism offered criticisms of the book and we feel that the Obiter published in later years will take advantage of the proposed exchanges. The 1927 Obiter was planned by George A. Mathews and a staff representing the Senior Class. ACTED AS JUDGES AT SCOUT-CRAFT MEETING Frank McHugh , Nick J affin , Wm. M. Jones, Walter Siesko, Sam Forter , Nick Polaneszky and Tom Welsko acted as judges at a scout craft meeting held in the High School gym Monday evening. The events were part of the scout activities conducted during the week in commemoration of the 18th anniversary of Scout-craft. Much fine work is being done by boys in this line and it is worth-while training. Mr. E. H. Nelson was present with his troop of scouts. IN NEED OF NEW FLAG The weather has dealt unkindly with the flag flying over the Memorial Granite. During the past month during which there were severe wind storms, the flag has been torn considerably and each succeeding day the winds tear a little more. Before the March winds begin to blow , this flag will be ripped to shreds and in no condition to fly over our College memorial. " The Campfire girls have volunteered to raise and lower the flag and we feel that they will have a new flag to replace the one which is now ageing rapidly. MAROON AND GOLD THE FAST FREELAND M.& M.I.DEFEATED FUTURE POETS 'i I, «> 4 I , ' < I! A college dreamer ,—and a college Published weekly by the students of the What very queer terms to be thinker! State Teachers College, Bloomsbuvg, Pa. Saturday night, with Preeland as the applied to a cheerful , h appy-go-lucky , attraction on our court, gave our boys individual ! Most college fun-loving THOMAS WELSKO a real hard battle from the start to be described by those ' people may Editor-in-Chief the final whistle. The game played at #«\#s **#v**vS\»« **«>«s *#*#«s«s«! ' but under all the cheer, the ***v* phrases, Freeland was very close with our team Fit A NCI S A. McHUGH I Business Manager winning out in the last minute, but the careless attitude, and the fun , there I game last Saturday was a different lies, sometimes dormant , a quality that EDITORIAL STAFF is almost sacred to some students. story. Sterling Strausser When that quality is discovered and is Ray Hawkins Coach Booth started the second given a chance to develop, a combina- j; When You 2 i W. B. Yeager they against Freeland and men string Kuth Baxter tion of almost fear and complete hapClaude Miller played good ball. Kraynack, Morgans j! piness is felt. The student who writes I; Think of ji Marjorie Orr they played well while and Fischer Helen Leivtlnger poetry openhas his first four lines of • : Eleanor Sands were in. With the score standing five ed the gate which leads down a gravelAnna Turri points ahead in our favor, the varsity led path to a tiny house of gold. Warren Pennington Ai'mand Keller went in to replace the second team in Not all may enter this tiny house Thomas R Merrick j! Think of the second quarter. Though the var- of gold ; not all will choose to enter it. Kenneth Yocum night game bethe sity played a hard Betty Roberts Some find the gate too hard to open ; fore, our squad looked tired and could- : others find the path a wearisome road, BUSINESS STAFF n't get started. The first half ended and still others cannot turn the knob Jack Fortner Charles Wadas with a three point lead in our favor, i' on the door of the tiny house of gold. Roland Lavelle The varsity started the second half The house is difficult to enter. At first Marcella Lipski Mary Kershaw Cor. Main and Iron Streets 1; and from then on the team began to one's eyes will not become accustomed Mildred Rehm passing which acpick up in speed and glitter of the gold, to the but soon one Marjorie Pursel Caroline Hofffliaff counted f or the score ending 43-37.. imds the knob of the door and venBetty Rutter Thursabert Schuyler Our team with seven victories and tures on territory that is not sought Amelia Wonsavage three defeats will play two of its hard- by many people. What pleasure and j est games away, Dickinson Seminary success the spacious halls of the tiny SUBSCRIPTION RATES |on Friday and West Chester S. T. C. on house of gold hold for the college dreamer and college thinker, is not To Faculty, Students and Alumni §1 Saturday. If the team comes back with known. He must make his own way !; games with the same results these two per year in advance. GREETI N G CARDS I; E n t ere d as sec o n d cl ass ma il mat t er as the last riding and hiking trip taken through the long corridors and he must S TA TIONE R Y |; | at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa. to Lock Haven and Mansfield , our team Continued on Page 3 PA TENT MEDICINES |: ij : will have a very successful season. Keep up the good work team ! Better OF US, FOR US, AND BY US 4 y< luck on the trip. i, > is not 'TH — S—Good printing U Summary : •' I <[ "^AT A system of student participation in <> a inii, pastime or an experiment !' i w\r ? ? —it's our business. Bloomsburg S. T. C. j' <{ college government is about to be <> J> g. fg. pts. presented to us for our approval, and 2-5 6 ii SMITH PRINT SHOP 2 to be put in operation if everything Kraynack, f jl 1T, D . We Print Z 8 !; 587-589 West Main St. 3 2-3 can arranged to run smoothly a~ad VanBuskirk, f i t <> 0-0 0 i ,, 0 satisfactorily. That ought to mean Morgan, f 2-2 8 3 that we will have the plan working Wadas, f 2 1-1 5 within a week or so. We must say to Fischer , c 1-2 3 1 ourselves, "It shall succeed." There is McGrath , c 2 1 0-0 no failure where there is will to do. Yocabonis , g «! X Invites You To Make i; 5 1-2 11 . *v**#Ni 0 0-0 0 Ford—"Where I live, a man grew a Welch, g. 1 1-2 3 pumpkin so big when he cut it , his Petchel, g Ijj Below The Square ]: : Mark Lifes Milestones : wife used one-half of it as a cradle." ' Totals 15 7-17 37 j Delmore—"That's nothing, a few i; With Photographs. CLOTHIER !i | days ago at Wilkes Barre, two full First half score: Bloomsburg 22, DRY CLEANING , grown policemen were found asleep on Freeland 19. Referee : Lerda. Scorer : | i; | Will K eep This Record j; a beat." PRESSING AND Matthews. Timer: Davies. i; i REPAIRING i j j ;! For You. A F R IEN D < i <> < > . SHOES < > ¦ < i |j BUCKALEW'S ( J. C. MERCER ! COLLEGE INN LUNCH i ??? ' *> ;j Tr y HOTEL MAGEE < i I, !: 3 pc. 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L i r C C MOKE | rl Ei ij O H OP I ( % s»^^^^^^»^^^^###^^»#^#^#^#^^#^^»^^^#^*^###^#^#^^»^»^^^r»##s»»#### ^#s»#^»# PATRONIZE OUR ADVpR TISERS I I ' I k MEMORIES OF A YELLOW i1 . .y FEVER MARTYR ' „ h m si [=jool^s £ines -K /S/Mrf "While the cousiry is stirred up over * -!* the nomination of a president, the issues involved, and the desire to conZeveny—"A muff is defined as 'a tinue general prosperity, we should reihing that holds a girl's hand without member that our country has many squeezing it.'" private citizens who have given their Baker—"Any fellow who holds a best both of mind and body to make gi rl' s hand without squeezing it, cerour nation what it is. j l y is a muff." tain Thousands of people are able to live in greater safety and comfort because Miss Kulp— ' What are the principal of the daring sacrifices made by men parts of fit?" who will inconvenience themselves, or Kierker—"I don't know, I never had even give their lives to help others. one." Such a man was Kissinger, who gave his body to science in order that yelPro. Reams—"What is the difference low fever might be conquered. between the boys of today and those This winter Congress will be asked of fifty years ago?" to consider increasing the pension of! . great many of the boys Shovelin—"A Private John Kissinger, an American ' of fifty years ago are dead, and a hero who loved his country, offered great many boys of today ought of the his life for it, and for some time al- ! to be. " most starved to death. For 200 years medical science had been trying to find what caused yel- as ever. He slept for a while and then low fever. Finally the mosquito was awoke. A few minutes late he was " wracked by a terrible fever. A doctor looked upon as the guilty party. J Kissinger watched experiments that was summoned. Kessinger had conwere being performed on mice and tracted yellow fever. rabbits, but 'medical science was gett- | For eight days he wrestled with it, ing nowhere because animals do not and in these eight days the medical contract yellow fever. staff learned more about this disease One day Kissinger overheard a con- than it had learned before in eight versation among the doctors. It was years. After his recovery he went back to the effect that it was hopeless to to the hospital, an immune. experiment upon animals, and that a One evening in South Bend, Indiana, camp would have to be established in as he was walking along with his wife ¦which experiments might be perform- he suddenly fell to his knees. It was ed on human beings. He thought 13 years before he walked again. Spinabout this all night. The next day he al meninigitis had set in. Kissinger and offered himself to Dr. Reed to be ex- his family were without an income. In perimented upon. Dr. Reed looked at 1907 the government granted him an him in astonishment. Did he realize income or pension of $12 a month. In what he was saying? Did he under- 1912 they voted him a grant of $100 stand what might happen to him? a month and the American Association "Y es he did. for Medical Progress purchased for The first test was made by placing him a small farm near Huntingdon, live mosquitoes on Kissinger 's arm. Indiana. After they had bitten him they were Things are going along fairly well, removed. Days passed and nothing and as he speaks about this disease he happened. A second test was taken, says, "I should do it all over again, if and again nothing happened. A third it would help." With such men as time. One week late when Kissinger Kissinger we need to have no anxiety went to bed he was seemingly as well { about our future greatness or glory. < i i j Gowns , Ca ps and Hoods Rented ij and Sold *j ;' Servi ce and Quality at Low Price ij It Cotterell end Leonard College Department , Albany , N. Y. dream—dream and think. What vast treasures he acquires through that j ourney, he will give to the world, willingly and unselfishly. And we call the willing, unselfish individual a "poet." The dreamer of a college is sometimes called lazy and indifferent. It seems that these qualities do creep in unnoticed , but they are not qualities of the same type that most people apply to the terms. They are qualities that have never been really described—it seems impossible to describe them. Laziness and indifference is the nearest people can come to a description of them, and so the young poet suffers an insult at the hand of a thoughtless and irresponsible person. Who knows what castles he is building or dreams he is dreaming when he possesses the described qualities? It isn't fair to accuse him so grossly. Why can 't we seem to understand him a little more clearly ? Poetry builds ideals, A dreamerseeks ideals and seldom allows his head to follow his feet, but rather holds his head high up and carefully plans his direction. His thoughts, reach ever upwards. He not only builds ideals for himself , but he presents his ideals to the world at large. He is big and brave enough to give his own opinions and ideas and ideals to the | world,—and still he runs the risk of i being scoffed at! The amount in dollars and cents that a poet will derive from his efforts is very small, but the amount of happiness and j oy that he derives, is truly great. i Who knows that we are not right i now living and sharing our daily lives ! with the great poets of tomorrow? | Many a genius has been born over- j night. And a real poet is truly a genius I —Helen M. Leiningei '21 \ J. ECKE R |! Correct App arel f or Women [ 1 i 'i j < 1 ;| j! !; rt <%*?' bate was next, which proved to be very I year as usual, wif h its annual "Spring j Totals 18 7-10 43 105 Nassau St., New York City W^ interesting, especially to the girls who i Concert. " a disn'av of unusual musiTrevorton High School g. fg. pts. live in the dorm. The question wai cal selections taken from the master "Lights should be out at 10:15 every pieces in music. 2 0-1 4 Rotharmel, f night." Those on the affirmative side ; The big event^-"The Spring Concert." j; You Can Always Do \ 0 0-1 0 Vottero, f "were Miss Sue Potochny and Mis j 0 0-0 0 Schlenker, c I Better At j! Anna Albert. Those on the negative ii 0 0-3 0 Brubaker , g 1 1-4 3 ride were Miss Dorothy Lord and Miss Ii Helm, g Isabel Chelocky. Some very interestj ; 3 -*¦ ing facts were presented on both sides KJ 7 Totals 3 1-12 uoN.TON !; Half time score : Junior Varsity 23, The affirmative side was the winner. Trevorton 5. Referee—Davies. Scorer — I After the debats refreshments were Matthews. Timer—Gallagher. Substi- served. During the partakin g of these tutions: R. Davis for Wilson, McLaugh- Miss Margaret Dula gave a reading, i < < •i lin for T. Davis , Baker for Golder, which was well appreciated. This is the type of meeting that we Zimmerman for Slusser, Krolikuski for expect to carry out in the future. We Hawkins. i, < i hope that it will appeal to the gir!s I j ! Eat a Home Cooked ;' ; and make* them more Interested in the I ;: ;• Lunch With Real ' meetings. FRESHMAN PLAY L^^ S^KnizedAuthority- FELDMAN' S I I A Friend I A HUGE SUCCESS Continued from Page 1 Publicity Committee : Maynard Pennington , Charles Rovenolt , Robert Rodda, William Jones, Roy Beishline. Costume Committee: Florence Regan, Dorothea O'Connell, Beatrice Bowman. Property Committee: Mabel Penman, Rachel Gething, Ruth Scanlon. 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