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Norma Heinrich, News

CIRCULATION
Theresa Pletz,

DEPARTMENT

William Hayes
ADVERTISING
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Mary Leslie, Feature

Manager
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MANAGER







Concerning Grades

The grades seem to have been the topic of discussion on
the campus this last week. Some people, if given a chance to
tulk, place themselves so high on a peaestal that the other
poor folks have to stretch their necks to look up at them. Get-

ting u

on that pedestal is not so hard, but just think of the

fall when these students go to a place where there are no

grades.

The people who think they are abused and undergraded
should quit crying the blues and knocking the teachers and
start working for achievement instead of grades. They should
remember that if they were the ones that got the grades be-

cause they had a drag, they would talk about them also.

So

when you hear a person with a low 1. Q. talk about his good
grades, congratulate him with a smile and be comforted with
the picture of that person falling from the pedestal.





TOURS TO EUROPE
SLATED FOR STUDENTS
OF DRAMATIC ART

Noted Persons Will Lead
Summer Journeys to In-
teresting Places in
Europe

A series of unusual tours, de-
signed for students with an inter-
est in the dramatic arts, have been
arranged for this summer by the
Church and Drama League of
America in cooperation with out-
standing exponents of the arts in
Furope. The tours offer an in-
teresting combination of wide rov-
ing with the feeling of getting
somewhere, under the leadership
of some noted personalities,

Burns Mantle, leading dramatic
critic and author of the annual
“Best Plays’ series, will lead a long
summer dramatie tour leaving New
York on July 6th and returning
September 8th. Among the fam-
ous theatres which will be studied
from both the footlights
are the Everyman, Lyric, Drury
lL.ane, Boar's Head and Shakes-
peare Memorial in England; Ode-
on, Marie Antoinette, Studio and
New Pigalle in Paris; Scala in
Milan; Grosses Schauspiclhaus,
Schiller, Staats Opera, Volkesbuhne
Kleines Theatre in Berlin;
Burg, Opera, Josephstadt, Rai-
mund, Akademie and Redoubten-
saal der Hof berg in Vienna; Na-
tional, Municipal, Deutsches and
Kleine Buhne in Prague. Confer-
ences are being arranged with Sir
Barry Jackson, Max Reinhardt,
Gordon Craig, Strnad Jessner, the
Capeks, Molnar and many others
Important collections of dramatic
material in many of the museums

sides of

La

and

will be investigated. Extension
tours to Holland and to Ireland
will be available.





May Lamberton Becker, widely
known as lecturer on literature,
Reader's Guide Editor of the Sat-
urday Review of Literature, book
editor of the ‘*Scholastic” and
author of a number of books and
articles, will lead a literary and
theatre tour from July 3rd to
September Tth, In addition to a
number of the points of interest
covered by the Burns Mantle tour,
this trip will include such attrac-
tions a1 the Shaw Festival at Mal-
vern and a performance by the
Norwich Players.

Hallie Flanagan, 4director of the
Experimental Theatre at Vassar,
former Guggenheim Fellow, and
author of “Shifting Scenes in the
Modern European Theatre” will
lead a Russian Theatre tour from
May 38rd to June 20th or—with
European Extension—July 12, Not
only will it give students a fascin-
ating opportunity to view Russia,
but also to study outstanding ex-
amples of the new drama. Includ-
will The States Academice
Opera and Ballet, State Academ’'e
Dramatic Theatre, Theatre of So-
cial Satire, Theatres of the Work-
er's Clubs in Leningrad; Meyer-
hold, Moscow Art, Prolecult, Kam-
erny, Revolutionary, Children's,
and Blue Blouse Troupes in Mos-
cow; Ukrainian National and Op-
era House and Lenin Theatre in
Kiev,

A novel dance tour, led by Haus
Wiener, will start on May 31st and
end on August 25th. Hans Wien-
er is one of the leaders of modern
dancing and is known here and
abroad both as an artist and as a
teacher. The itinerary is being ar-
ranged to include study of the
svh«“;ls of Mary Wigman, Palucca,
Truempy and Skoronel, Christina

ed be:

Baer and Valerie Kratina, and
Elizabeth Dunecan, The Dance
Congress will be attended. M»

Wiener will give training in foun i-
ation gymnastics on the boat and
lessons at the end of the tour to
round off the summer's teaching.





These tours and others undor the
travel burcau of the Church and
Drama League are being arranged
from the New York headquarters
at 289 Fourth Avenue.

CAMPUS CHATTER

By Slippery Al



urandpa lKggs used to announce:
“Old Cain wasn’t as bad as he is
painted. He didn’t claim that he
stumbled or that Abel tried to get
away."”

What this place needs is less
psychoanalysis, for the young peo-
ple and more spanking.

Never judge a man by his ap-
pearance. The biggest crook may
have the straightest crease in his
trousers,

Men get pearls from oysters, but
women get diamonds from nuts.

When the world was created,
women followed man—but now the
men are following the women,

Now that the long skirts are the
vogue, girls can start getting vac-
cinated again.

The ideal dumbbell is one who
thinks TIvanhoe is a Russian bol-
shevist,

The new auto song: “Get out and
get under the moon.”

“Honeymoon salad.” Lettuce
alone,
The rum runners are like fish,

the big ones usually get away.

Parachute jumpers say
business is dropping.

The best way to eat the spinach
that the dining room has been
serving is to feed it to the cow and
then eat the cow.

AUTOS’LL GET YOU

They come scootin’ up the street,
While others are scootin’ down,
An' they dash around the corners,
Of every crossin’ in the town;
One goes tootin' to the left,
‘While another goes to right,
An’' it surely takes some lookin’
To keep 'em all in sight;
Whether mornin’, noon, or evenin’
"Tis hardly safd to be about
An' the automobiles 'll get you

If you

their

Don't wafch
Out!

There are touring cars and road-
sters,
Coupes and trucks galore,
An' when you think they're
gone by—
Toot! toot! here come some more,
They're goin' north, and goin’
south,
An' likewise east an' west,
Until you feel inelined to wish
That they'd give the streets a rest
Sometimes they hit the lean folks,
An’' sometimes they bump the stout,
An' the automobiles'll get you
If you

ALl

Don't watch
Out!

There
shiny,

There are battered ones and old,
But they 11 go whizzing past you,
At a pace to make you cold,

Their comings and their goingy,
Keep the old folks on the hump
An' their sudden corner curvings
Even make the voung ones jump.
Unless they happen to miss you
They will hit you without doubt
An' some automobile will get you

It you

are some quite new and

Don't watch
Out!

“What-—No Show?”

On Tuesday evening the college
chapel was filled by eager stu-
dents who inquired anxiously of
one another, “Isn't there going to
be any show tonight?”

Disliking very much to see their
worthy fellow-students disappoint-
ed Bill Storer and Bill Taylor
marched to the front of the cha-
pel and sald “What kind of a show
do you want? We'll give you one.”
So saying they disappeared behind
the curtain and soon the chapel
was filled with the sound of a pi-
ano being pounded and a voice in
imitation of high soprano. Due to
the intransparency of the curtain
is is not certain which of the two



artists stunned the audience by
tickling the keys until they bust
forth in a roar of agony or which
of the two entertainers raised his
voice in harmonious discord with
the piano until the shrill tones
rent the very air in twain,

The whistle of the night watceh-
man and his voice, announecing,
“Well, folks, there will be no show
tonight. IFalse alarm!’” sent the
students ,grumbling, to their re-
spective rooms.

Baby Frogs

The frog eggs which were collect-
ed several weeks ago and placed
in the nature study laboratory
have hatched out. The little tad-
poles, which are wiggling about in
the glass jars and enjoying their
artificial habitat, prove a source
of curiosity and interest among
not only the students of the col-
lege but pupils of the training
school as well,

~ COURTESY

On The Campus

Coming to class on time.

Appearing clean and neat while
attending to school business.

Giving proper attention to the
instructor or to the individual who
is reciting.

Refraining from causing any dis-
turbance in the class room.

Addressing the instructor by his
proper title.

Giving the other fellow a chance
at the bowling alley, the billiard
table, the tennis court, etc., when
he is waiting to play.

Helping your classmate when he
asks for vour help.

Saying grace at table and waiting
with respect until the other fellow
has finished saying grace,

Refraining from “knocking”
your associate, your instruetor,
vour opponent, ete.

Returning borrowed articles as
soon as possible and in as good
condition as possible to the person
from whom you borrowed them.,

Holding the door open for any-
one who may be immediately be-
hind you.

Speaking to all with whom you
come in contact in your daily busi-
ness in the school,

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Althcagh it is only April, one
may sce pears (pairs) growing on
the campus.

Rachel wears her glasses to bed,
so she can see what she is dream-
ing about.

Clyde Double stood on his head
for five minutes out at Wolf creek
last Thursday.,

A million years hence people
might get into a fight if someone
says they descended from people
like us. (Dr. Waldron).

Three freshmen health education
girls, Alice Throup, Beatrice Dav-
ies, and Mildred Dixon got lost at
Wolf creek last Saturday.

Devils Food cake contains little
devils.

April Fool's Day started on No-
ah's Ark.





Senior—i‘l—eeting

A special meeting of the 1931
senior class was held following
chapel on Monday morning. Nom-
inations were made for assistant
editor and an assistant business
manager to be elected later in the
week, There was a discussion of
possible persons to whom next
vear's Saxigena could be dediecat-
ed. This is to be decide at a later
date,

“Hospital” Notes

Ruth Weir is ill at her home in
New Castle,

Dorothy Sipe of South Hall has
spent the past few days in bed
with a sever cold.

Betty MeCoy is now recuperating
from an operation for appendicitis,

A sprained back confined Edna
Mae Konold to her home for a few
days.

Virginia Smith, who was confin-
ed to the infirmary, i8 once again
among her many friends,



DOGWOOD TREES

As Dr. Waldron has had a dozen
or so dogwood trees moved to the
campus, some of the students will
no doubt be interested in learning
something about this interesting
species. About four different kinds
have been brought from the col-
lege woods and a pink varviety of
the flowering dogwood has been
bought.



The attractiveness of the flow-

ers and fruit make the dogwood
one of the most ornamental of
shrubs. It is quite beautiful in

spring, especially in June, when it
blooms profusely. It has a hand-
some foliage which often assumes
a brilliant coloring in the fall, In
winter the red-branched species
is very attractive in comparison to
its drab surroundings when nature
is stripped of her warm colors. Our
native dogwood, cormus florida,
when in bloom, is the showiest
member of the genus,

The dogwood derives its name
from the fact that a decoction of
the bark was used in England to
wash mangy dogs,

In the north the small red ber-
ries of the dogwood serve as food

for the Eskimos, while here they
cerve ag food for our feathered

friends in the fall.

The enemies of the dogwood are
thoughtless people who break off
the beautiful branches, taking
them into their homes where they
only wither and die.

VOLLEY BALL TEAM
PLAYS OIL CITY

The Juniors played the fast Oil
City volley ball team Saturday eve-
ning at Oil City. The 0Oil City team
previously had played the Pitts-
burgh Y. M. C. A. for the cham-
pionship of western Pennsylvania.
Our boys proved their ability by
holding Oil City to a narrow lead.
The result of five fast and inter-
esting games was Oil City 3, the
Juniors 2. A return engagement
will be played in the college gym,
soon.

Juniors—156-8,

0il City—16-14,

Juniors—16-14,

Oil City 16-14,

0il City—15-6.

Line up for the juniors:

Morris

N. Campbell,

‘Wilson

McLaughlin,

ott

Sheplar.

Storer.

This was the junior's first game
and they learned several good
points from the game with the Oil
City team.

1930 YEAR BOOK
NEARING COMPLETION

This year's Saxigena is well on
its way to completion, through the
efforts of John Brooks, editor,
and the supporting staff,

The theme of the year hook re-
volves around the life and work of





Mr, Arthur Vineent, a prominent
member of the college faculty,
The sketches portray his various
cxperiences during life and con-
tain a portrait done by John
Brooks.

The actual date of release is not

known, but the work is progress-
ing rapidly and nearly all the
copy is in the hands of the printer,

MUSH BALL TOURNEY
IS BEING ARRANGED

Due to the great interest taken
in mush ball by the girls of the
gollege, plans for a mush-ball
tournament are being arranged.

Miss Compton and Miss Matheny
will have charge of coaching and
picking the class teams. Everyone
is interested in secing which one
will produce the winning team.
and the rivalry is of the keenest
between classes. The game on
Saturday between the juniors and
the freshmen was a fine example
of many games to come.