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VOL. XXV FIAT LUX, NOVEMBER 16, 1937, ALFRED, N. Y. No. 8

Noted Explorer To Speak Here;

Third Number On Forum

From pole-cats to diamonds, orchids and rubber, the lure of adventure and the profits of com- merce have led William LaVarre, Junior, through some of the most thrilling experiences known to any explorer.

He will describe some of then in an illustrated lecture Monday evening at 8 o'clock on the third Forum program of the year.

His first trip, made with a friend, was the realization of all his child- hood dreams of adventure.

Trapped Pole-Cats

"I must have been an explorer when I was ten years old, only I didn't know it then," he has said. "I used to trap pole-cats on a Virginia farm and eell their skins for $3.72 each."

Incidentally, one of the most inter- esting bits of writing which he has done, and La Varre has several books to his credit, is a short account of pole-cat hunting, published in The

"Washington "Star" in 1908, done at the age of ten.

Of those early days, Mr. La Varre goes on to say: /

"Even then I used to dream about going to the jungles with explorers to trap leopards and jaguars and chin- chillas. I told my grandfather that I wished to be an explorer.

Pole-Cats to Elephants

"He assured me that on© thing would lead to another, and that if I put my best efforts into pole-cat hunting, pro- gressing in a natural way, I would probably end up with elephants".

Since that day, William La Varre

•has made many trips into the jungles of British Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela, along the winding banks of the Ama- zon, the Mazaruni River and the Rioj Negro.

Behind the tales that read and sound like adventures with an Alad- din's lamp lie the scientific knowledge, the business-acumen, the tenacioui purpose and the' love of adventure that

He's Been Around

William La Varre

Students To Hold French Cabaret In Social Hall

characterize William La Varre, the world famous treasure hunter.

Sixteen Seniors Practice Teaching In Nearby Places

Sixteen Alfred seniors will practice teach in near-by cities and towns during the next month.

Two mathematics students, Carl An- drews and Philip Corbman, began teaching, November 10, in Belfast and in Hornell.

Twelve others who began yester- day, are Elizabeth Benz, English, Sala- manca; Betty Jane Crandall, history, Salamanca; Mary J. McCarthy, Latin, Salamanca; Marie J. Zubiller, Ger- man, Olean; Elizabeth Snyder, Latin, plean;, Lorraine Latta, English Olean; Barbara Corsaw, English, Cuba; Michael Chaus, mathematics, Cuba; Victor Burdick, history, Olean;

Elizabeth Whiting, English, Hornell;

Philo H( Dudley, mathematics, Ham- mondsport; Nelda E. Randall, Eng- lish, Wellsville.

After Thanksgiving recess, Ruth Crawford and Margaret Reilley will teach Latin and English in Green- wood.

Dr. Harry Somers In Next Assembly

Dr. Harry Somers, of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, will speak before the University Assembly, Thursday morning, November 18.

Current economic problems and their possible consequences, and sig- nificance will be the subject of Dr.

Somers' discussion.

A. U. C. A. Notice

All persons interested in joining with the Alfred University Christian Association in the year's activities are invited to attend a special meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m., in the Chapel Room. Ray Sweetman, secretary of Student Christian Movement in New York State, will be a guest of the evening.

A literary cabaret of the late nineteenth century will be represented at the meeting of the French Club tomorrow night at Social Hall.

Among the writers of this period who frequented carabits were Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, De- Vigny, and Balzac. There will be a series of "Tableaux Vicants," scenes which will depict incidents in the lives of these famous authors.

One such scene will portray a meeting of the Cenacles of Passion Club, in -which Victor Hugo is the central figure.

All members of the club and guests will be dressed to represent som/S character of the nineteenth century- The program is under the direction of Miss Marie Louise Cheval. Mem- bers of the committee are /Odette Anderson, chairman, Anne-Marie Lustig and Concetta Russo. /

An exhibit on the Romantic period in French literature will be held later in the year. The first week in December has been set /as the tentative date for this display. It will b3 in charge of the nineteenth ceatury French class.

Wednesday afternoon, November 10, Miss Ford, Miss Cheval and ten French speaking students were entertained at tea at the home of Mrs.

Harry Anderson. ;

Artificial Glass Coining Into Use

Notre Dame, Ind.-(ACP)—World trade during the next 20 years will be sharply influenced in its methods and its products by experiments now being conducted in university and industrial research laboratories throughout the world, in the opinion of Dr.

Eugene Guth,/ University of Notre Dame physicist.

"Several synthetic products are now in general use and others, such as resins, asphalt;, glass and rubber, are rapidly taking their place alongside rayon in the list of artificial commodi- ties accepted by customers as a matter of course," he says.

Development of complete human diets in the j laboratory, rather than on the fai-m/is not beyond the range of possibility in Dr. Guth's mind, but he foresees/ no need for "pill" diets in the near future.

Miss Becker and Mrs. Seidlin Choose Ambitious Program For Forum Tonight

The program which Miss Rose Becker of New York City, as- sisted by Mrs. Ada Becker Seidlin of Alfred, will play tonight in Alumni Hall was announced today by Mrs. Seidlin.

Musicians here who read the program commented that it was unusually ambitious, but agreed that Miss Becker and Mrs. Seidlin would give an excellent performance.

Miss Becker is assistant concert master of the New York Wo- men's Symphony Orchestra and Mrs. Seidlin is professor of piano- forte in Alfred University.

The program follows:

1. Concerto in E minor

Allegro, molto appassionato Andante

Allegro molto vivace

Mendelssohn

2. Praeludium und Allegro Chanson Louis XIII Tambourin Chinois 3. Reflets dans I'eau

Children's Scenes a. Running, running b. Ring-around-a-rosy c. March, little soldier d. Sleep, little doll e. Jumping, jumping Seguidilla

ADA BECKER SEIDLIN

Pugnani-Kreisler Couperin-Kreisler Kreisler Debussy Pinto

Albeniz 4. Poeme Eroiique

Perpetuum Mobile Rapsoclia Piemontese

Scott Novacek Sinigaglia

Ceramic Guild Planning Sale For Christmas

Tentative plans are under way in the Ceramic Guild for their annual Christmas sale of pottery. Emphasis will be placed this year upon the quality and finish of the ware, all of which will be made by students.

Tea will be served as formerly and Christmas music will be featured.

What form the music will take is not yet decided.

Ware to be sold will include luncheon sets, waffle sets, table and utility wares and individual pieces such as ash trays, bowls, flower pots, etc. Decoration will include slip designs, plain glazes, the new screen process and air gun spray designs, the last two being done by David Veit, ceramic art senior.

Officers! of the guild will take charge of producing ware .for the sale. Rich- ard Thomas will supervise glaze ap- plication, David Veit, decorating and designing, John Albright, new molds, Mary Ober, firing and design, Harold Reigger and Helen Kruger, jiggering, Belle Deet and Ruth Gosch, pouring and molds.

A jury consisting of Professors Harder, Schreckengost, Fosdick and Nelson will judge all pottery before it is placed on sale.

The recent reorganization of the Guild places it on an industrial basis where each individual does but one phase of work on a piece before passing it on to the next artist. The aim is the maintenance of a regular stock to be sold at any time.

The committee in charge of the tea consists of Adelaide Kelley, Bar- bara Suter, Margery Macintosh, and Lois Burdett.

White Sweater Vote Called Off; Plan Proves Unworkable

The old problem of white sweaters or no white sweaters for senior athletes was wide open again today, as the Student Sen- ate's proposal to increase the campus tax, if authorized by a student vote, proved financially impracticable.

President Raymond Baschnagel, after conferring with two members of the Administration, said he learned the cost of adding 30 cents to each student's tuition bill would be greater than the 30 cents would pay for.

Moreover, Baschnagel learned' that nothing could be added to the campus tax without permission of the Board of Trustees.

The Student Seriate is expected to consider the matter again at its meeting this week.

Mathematicians Forming Club

All persons interested in mathematics are invited to attend a meeting tomorrow evening, at' 8 o'clock in Room 20 of the Hall of Physics for the purpose of forming a Mathemat- ics Club.

After a talk by Dr. L. L. Lowen- stein on "Looking Around at Civile- Squares," plans for the future meetings of the club will be discussed and officers elected.

Students whose major is mathematics are expected to attend.

Talk on Interviews

''How Not to Interview People,"

will be discussed by E. F. Creagh, editor of The Fiat Lux, at the week- ly staff meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the Publications Office.

'Howdy Do, Folks!

'Deacon" Moore

Deacon Moore's Band to Play

Interfraternity Ball

The Interfraternity Council announced today the selection of Carl 'Deacon" Moore and his swing band for the Interfraternity Ball Thursday evening, Dec. 9.

"The Deacon," who has broadcast many times on coast-to-coast net- works, is noted for his smooth, hot band and for his own droll humor.

His "Howdy do, folks, howdy do" is known to countless radio fans.

Besides doing most of his own ar- ranging, Carl has found time to write such hit tunes as "St. James Infirm- ary," "Ding Dong Daddy," and "Bye Bye Blues".

Featured vocalists with the "Dea- con" are Marge Hudson, the "sing- ing artist's model," and Munson Oompton, handsome lyric tenor.

The "Deacon" himself is not averse to occasional choruses.

Carl's mountaineer drawl is the real thing, as he was iborn in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. He began drumming on his school desk with pencils, ordered his first set of drums from a mail order house, and formed his own band at the age of twelve.

At intervals in his career the "Dea- con" has been a racing driver and a patent medicine salesman, and even now he holds a commercial pilot's license and owns a plane.

Alumni who wish to attend the dance are requested to communicate with their fraternities so that a program may be saved for them. The price of admission is four dollars.

Hornell Players Giving Comedy

A gay comedy, "Fresh Fields," by Ivor Novello will be produced by the Hornell Civic Theatre group at the High School auditorium in Hornell tonight and tomorrow night.

Due to recent cooperation between the dramatics department of the Uni- versity, and the Hornell drama or- ganization, a large number of Alfred students, faculty members, and towns- people are expected to attend the performance.

Girls "Tapped"

Margaret Reilley and Lois Burdett, seniors, were "tapped" in assembly Thursday by Phi Sigma Gamma, women's honorary society, which an- nually recognizes a limited number of upperclasswomen prominent in activities and proficient in scholarship.

Sharp-eyed Alumnus Inspired Alfred Editorial in Chicago Paper

"Little" Alfred University, and especially its football team, drew an editorial last week from the august Chicago Tribune, self- styled "world's greatest newspaper," through the efforts of an eagled-eyed alumnus.

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hen A. B. Webster of Chicago noticed that the Tribune called Lafayette the only undefeated, untied team in the East, he took his pen in hand to inform the paper that his alma mater, Al- fred, also had a perfect record.

Two days later the Tribune print- ed thfe following under the caption

"Good; Old Alfred," as the second editorial of the Armistice Day issue:

This i t the time of year when the Rose/ Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Cot- ton iboll and about every bowl except! the dust bowl watch the Satur- day scores to see what teams are remaining as possible candidates for the New, Year's day game. The first of

•thesje attractions in point of duration, if nothing else, is the California Rose

Bowl invitation which is supposed to to the better of which can go the highest honors in American college football for the year,

bring together two unbeaten elevens, Tradition accords the premiership to the Rose Bowl contest. Although other warm sections of the country are challenging California supremacy, for the time being it is high spot.

There are a number of difficulties in the way of bringing the best teams together, particularly east of the

Mississippi river, because, for in- stance, the Big Ten will have nothing to do with such a post-season game in the east there are a number of colleges which do not care how good a team they develop it is not a can- didate for an invitation for the trip to the coast.

Some of the players may think this is rotten luck to be barred by a faculty or conference decision from a holiday trip, but such universities as Minnesota, Yale, and others are out of the running.

Rating of the teams has become of late more and more of a cold sta- tistical record. It is well enough known that they perform variously on various Saturdays and that not in- frequently much the stronger outfit encounters many of the breaks fami- liar to the game and walks off the field at the wrong end of the score.

Nevertheless the rating goes by un-

defeated, untied performances, and it is now to be observed that the top team of the entire country, standing over California, Alabama, Pitt, Ford- ham, Duke, Tulsa, Rice, Minnesota, and Yale, and all the big is Alfred.

Alfred has won seven games, lost none, and has not been tied. It tops the 1,000 per cent teams because it has played one more game than any other undefeated, untied eleven in the list.

Alfred the football world will be glad to learn, is located in Alfred, New York. It was founded in 1836.

John Nelson Norwood is president. It has a faculty of 57 memlbers and 640 students. The rating does not indi- cate the competition Alfred has been meeting, but that does not matter.

It is top, an alphabetical touch of perfection in higher education and in what used to be known as the world

of letters.

Fiat Ads Win First Prize In Sectional Competition

Bethlehem, Pa. — (Special) —*

The Fiat Lux jumped far out of its class this week-end to win first place in the advertising contest sponsored by the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association.

A cup symbolizing the achieve- ment was presented to Elenor Wisniski and Bernard Spiro, co- business managers, during the I.

N. A. convention held here Fri- day and Saturday.

The Fiat Lux was in competi- tion with papers from many- larger schools throughout the Middle Atlantic States, includ- ing the Drexel Triangle, George Washington Hatchet, and Pitt News.

In awarding the Alfred paper first place "W. D. Barkdull, adver- tising director of the Washington Herald and Times, said in part:

"While this paper does not car- ry the volume of advertising that some of the others carry, its ad- vertising is well-written, is clean, and makes use of plent of white space.

"This paper has the forsight to use in its advertising photographs of football players well-known to the students, typing up the ad with a forthcoming football game and thereby attracting greater reader interest."

No rating of other departments of The Fiat Lux was available, since copies to be judged on the basis of make-up, news, and edi- torials were not submitted on time.

John L. Dougherty, associate editor of the paper, led off a round-table discussion at the con- vention with a 10-minute talk on

"Covering the Campus".

Jill Edwards And Husband Entertained

Jill Edwards.Assembly speaker, and her husband, Don Gardner, were entertained at the Coffee Shop Thurs- day noon.

Mrs. Gardner described her home in Chicago. She and her three children live on an old estate in the*

suburbs.

Recently, the Gardners desired several swans for their pool. SwanB were found to cost ?200 each, so they compromised and purchased two ducks. They call them "swucks"!

Mr. Gardner gave some of the assembly committee pointers on golfing.

He mimicked the "tired business man"

and the pretty lady as golfers.

Jill Edwards left, for the library, an autographed copy of her book

"Personality Pointers".

The Gardners are now enroute to- Florida in their Indian Trailer.

Among those who lunched with that Gardners were Miss Eva L. Ford, Prof. Don Schreckengost, Chaplain James C. McLeod, Betty Jane Cran- dall, Thelma House, and Kathryn Borman.

Students Offered Personality Tips

"A magnetic, attractive personality- is merely a by-product of a busy life,"

asserted Jill Edwards as she spoke;

before the College Assembly last Thursday, concerning the "seven- pointers" in personality.

Important among the seven point*

ers are attractive appearance, good mental habits, the cultivation of a sense of humor to give life a "light touch," emotional stability, a phas- ing voice, cultivation of a hobby, and religion.

In conclusion, Miss Edwards, when recalled to th© stage, spoke several lines in Chinese.

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New Election System

Only mossy old reactionaries appear to like the present system of electing campus officers. The prevailing opinion, so far as we can determine it, is that the constitution of the Students' Association should be changed so as to leave the nominating and electing power in the hands of those most intimately concerned.

Under the present system, most students appear to think, the Student Senate, which secretly considers all candidates and elimi- nates whichever one it pleases, has all together too much power;

and we would not be surprised if the Student Senate felt the same way.

Another feature of the present system that almost no one seems to like is the practice of keeping the names of nominees secret umil voting is to take place. A sounder practice, it is believed, would be to have the names of all candidates published and posted -tt least a week before the election.

The advantage of having a constitutionally fixed election day is evident; and it seems equally advantageous -to have elections under the supervision of a board composed of faculty members as well as students, on the theory that professors—at least more so than students—are immune to the virus of fraternity politics.

Probably none of these reforms would be opposed by any well- intentioned group of students. The problem now, however, is to get the reforms properly stated, and to have a petition containing them signed by three-fourths of the students and presented to the Student Senate. If a call for volunteers is needed, here it is.

Social Notes

Containing News and Comments on Dances, Parties and Such.

By Kathryn Borman

Did anybody else notice that Paul Harris, Jr., has a voice like Charlie McCarthy's?

What— No Communism !

As though conditions were not depressing enough these days of undeclared wars and unannounced quizzes, President McConaughy of Wesleyan University has to go and discover that there is no Communism in American colleges.

No Communism? "What are the colleges coming to? What has become of the spirit that moved John Reed and Heywood Broun in their undergraduate days?

Well, Reed lies dead in the Kremlin wall, and Broun has abandoned pure socialism to lead a newspapermen's union that is making life miserable (deo gratias!) for the great publishers of the nation.

As for the rest of the Harvard Socialist Club—who hears of them today? And who is there, except the pinkish American Stu- dent Unioners, to carry on the Marxist tradition?

No, we are not upholding Communism; far from it. But we do lament the passing of the Communists, if gone they are, because they were healthful in the colleges, in that they kept the non-com- munist element on its toes.

There is nothing like the threat of revolution to shock normally passive citizens into strengthening their defenses, and even into ex- amining the threatened System to see if some changes ought not to be made after all.

And so we venture the hope that President McConaughy is wrong. We hope there still are a few Communists on the campuses, not because we hope or expect that their activity will ever bring about the revolution, but because we are saddened at the uniform belief in the economics of Henry Ford.

A football coach is a fellow who is willing to lay down your life for his school.—Milton Review.

Speaking of personality: Dale Carnegie, who writes books on hpw to get along with people, is divorced.

Remember the old ballad: "Don't Worry About the Bread, Mother, Father Will Soon Be Home with a Bun"?

In celebration of its twenty-sixth Founder's Day, Kappa Nu held an in- formal open-house Friday evening.

Guests danced to popular record- ings and played games. Jeanette Stephens won the girls' prize for rolling the most perfect cigarette in 45 seconds, while Dr. Floyd L. Lowen- stein won the men's prize by writing the best cake recipe.

A skit, "Shag School," was present- and Danny Freed gave a pantomime of a man reading a paper in a sub- way.

To climax the evening, a huge birthday cake was bought forth and served with ice cream.

Dr. and Mrs. Loyd L. Lowensteiu and Chaplain and Mrs. James C. Mc- Leod were the faculty guests.

Barnett Friedman, Leon Lerman, and Larry Leonard were in charge of the party.

Twenty-three new members of the Y.W.C.A. are as follows:

Mary Vail Madeline Short Nancy Elmendorf Irene Pearson Margaret Dodd Elizabeth Olszowy Eleanor Driscoll Jane Eygabroat Mildred Haerter Evelyn Konanz Gwendolyn Hill

Janet Howell Betty Tim Kaiser Susanna Keen Margaret Latta Gertrude Meltzer Louise Shafirt Jean VanStrien Frances Polan Carole Sheldon Margaret Lawrence Jeanette Stephens Anna Pakula i

Informality was the keynote of the (Bartlett Brawl |held iSaturday evening from eight to twelve.

Everyone wore old clothes in keep ing with the rustic setting of corn- stalks and pumpkins.

Music for dancing was furnished by the Palmer Sound Syystem. As a sur- prise feature, Bill Smith gave a novelty music number.

Carl Kahn was chairman of the dance, and his committee included Carl Wdomka, Taber Clausen, Maur- ice Crouse, and James Lynch.

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Theta Chi will hold its first formal of the year on Saturday evening, November 20, at Social Hall. Andy Grillo and his Velveteers will play for dancing.

Adelaide Kelly, Marjory Mclntosh, Frances Scott, Barbara Suter, Lois Burdett, Irma Komfort, Thelma House, and Susie Kohl form the dance committee.

Club meetings were the order of the day Wednesday.

In the afternoon Mrs. Harry Ander- son entertained the French Club and invited guests. Needlework was done on pictures of provincial costumes, and songs both old and new, were sung.

Refreshments, consisting of tea, cider, sandwiches and cookies completed the meeting.

Twenty- three German Club-ers met at the home of Prof. Myrvaagnes Wed- nesday evening. Plans were made for a Christmas party to be held Decem- ber 8.

Songs, games, and riddles were participated in, and cider and dough- nuts were served.

Histories of the athletic activities of the Greeks and of the Olympic games proved to be the outstanding features of the Latin Club's program.

The meeting was held at Pi Alpha, and Marguerite Carpenter, Margaret Reil- ley and Ruth Crawford were in charge. Members took part in Latin games and songs, and refreshments were served.

Freshman women were guests of Sigma Chi Saturday afternoon. Songs, readings, and a meodrama, "When The Lights Went Out," made up the en- tertainment.

Barbara Corsaw was a luncheon guest at Theta Chi Friday. Betty Jacox and Ellen Sherwood were entertained at dinner Thursday evening.

James O'Neil and Frank Shepard have been pledged to Kappa Psi Up- silon fraternity. On Sunday Kappa Psi entertained their dates at dinner.

The band at the University of Illi- nois owns nine tons of tunes arranged by Sousa.

World's tiniest coed is Catherine Cooper, Santa Anna sophomore. She is just 56 inches tall.

College Head Finds No Communism In V. S. Colleges

Los Angeles, Calif.—(ACP) — There isn't any "red menace" in American colleges. The few campus orators" who expond Commun- istic doctrines are merely doing it to attract attention.

These were the assertions recently of Dr. James L. Mc- Conaughy, president of Wesleyan University, when ' he defended American students at a regional conference of the American As- sociation of Colleges.

Dr. McConaughy pleaded for more aggressive action in educational institutions for the preser- vation of American traditions.

"The young people in our colleges today are good citizens," he said. "They are patriotic and they would have no part of Com- munism.

"But I want to warn you against stifling freedom of speech. This fundamental right of every Amer- ican citizen is in jeopardy. Free- dom of speech must be safeguard- ed and it is up to the educators of America to carry the torch."

Alfred Co-op Movies

"TOPPER"—Thursday and Friday evening, Nov. 18-19. Starring: Con- stance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, and Allan Mow- bray.

Two harum-scarum ghosts have to do a good deed before they can be admitted by St. (Pater. They are given the privilege of being their natural selves, but can also become invisible at will. Unbelievable but hilariously funny situations ensue as they try to teach their former em- ployer, a! henpecked individual, to en- joy life.

"LITTLE MAESTRO" and "BOAKO and CANNIBALS" are the short sub- jects. "I MET HIM IN PARIS"—

Saturday' evening, Nov. 20. Starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas.

Smooth, swift moving, sophisticated this sparkling comedy has as its back- ground the winter sports of Switzer- land. A girl making her first trip to Paris meets two young Americans, one a serious young playwrite, the other a wealthy playboy. This double barelled romance is further compli- cated by the appearance of another person who—but come and see it.

"PUPPET LOVE" and "I WANNA BE A SAILOR" complete the bill.

Book

of the

Week

This Troubled World In Fact and Fiction

Students dancing to swing music—

1200 of them—generate enough heat to warm a two-story house for two days in ordinary winter weather.

Enough energy is released to raise a five-ton elephant 32 miles in the air.

So sayeth an engineer at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin.

The human propensity for taking seats in the back row, prompted Pro- fessor Scott at the University of Minnesota to request his students to move forward and use up the front seats. All came forward except one lad who kept his remote seat. "Move down to the front, please," said the prof. "I can't," the boy said, "I tore my pants".

Sorority pledges a t the University of New Hampshire are convinced that the quickest way of losing five pounds in ten days, is to go through "rushing".

(A selected list of recent hooks pre- pared in the office of the Librarian)

IN GENERAL

Miller, Webb—I Found No Peace;

the journey of a foreign correspond- ent.

Guther, John—Inside Europe.

IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Paul, E. H.—Life and Death in a Spanish Town.

\ Bates, Ralph—The Olive Field (Fiction-Spain).

Langdon-Davis, John—Behind the Spanish Barricades.

Sin'g&r, I. J.—Brothers Ashkenazi (Fiction-Npoland).

Silone, tgnazio—Bread and Wine (Fiction-Itaty).

Holtby, W>—South Riding (Fiction- England).

IN T&E FAR EAST

Lin Yu-Tangr-My Country and My People.

Crow, Carl—Four Hundred Million Customers; the\ experiences—some happy, some sad,,'iof an American in China, and what tlney taught him.

Malraux, sAndre-vMan's Fate (Fic- tion-Germany).

Ishimoto, S.—(Facing Two Ways; the story of my life. I

Chamberlain, J.—jdipan over Asia.

IN THE UNITE© STATES Stearns, Harold—Aijnerica: A Re- appraisal. >

Lynd, R.S. and Lynii, H. H.—Mid- dletown in Transition; a. study in cul tural conflicts.

Hendrick, B. J.—Bulwark of the Re- public; a biography o f ' t h e Constitu- tion.

Lawrence, Josephine—The Sound of Running Feet (Fiction).

Steinbeck, John—In Dubious battle (Fiction).

Lewis. S.—It Can't jlappen Here (Fiction).

College Town

In Which the Staff Of The Fiat Lux

Speaks Off the Record.

By the Editors

We don't quite know what to think about this Miss Jill Ed- wards, or Mrs. Whatever-she-said- her-husband's-name-was. Some- how, in spite of the testimony of her undeniably attractive person- ality, we have the feeling that the process of making people like you cannot be reduced to seven simple operations.

Maybe it's because we are hope- lessly perverse ourselves, but we have a sneaking suspicion that personality is to a considerable extent something you either have or haven't, and that the changes you can make in- your personality, unless you make them at a very early age indeed, arc strictly limited.

Anyhow, we incline toward skept- icism about the whole present-day emphasis on Personality At Any Cost. We don't condone going around biting people, exactly, and we staunch ly uphold the Biblical precept ot humility; but we draw the line when somebody wants to teach us How Ta Win Friends by Stooging for People.

There was something in our early teaching about godliness coming before cleanliness, and about character counting for more than reputation.

We weren't urged by any means to go around dirty-faced or to slander ourselves, but the idea seemed f.o be that we should think more of what we were than of what people thought we were.

We also remember something about George Washington, a man people grew to like, according to history, even though he was brusque and ir- ritable (possibly because his false teeth hurt). And if we are not mis- taken Abraham Lincoln, who did not exactly die friendless, was a loutish sort of character with a caustic tongue and a retiring nature.

Nothing is proved, you say, by outstanding exceptions. Nobody doubts, you say, the value of a well-combed personality in these day of high competition for soft jobs.

And we'll probably agree with you, but with the big mental reservation that personality in the final analysis is but the reflection of character.

You may apply face powder to the exterior if that pleases you; we'll get down under the* surface with soap and water.

Pitt Begins To Piit House In Order; Creases Giving "Grid Grarfits"

Pittsburgh, Pa. — (ACP)—The University of Pittsburgh v:is "put- ting its house in order", j It has announced that it will cease giving "special grants" to football players.

James Hagan, director <?f athletics, said that future Pitt athletics "should be conducted in ac- cord with the best traditions of intercollegiate . . . . practice,"1 and that the university has set iJP an agency to "secure employment for students with athletic aTailHy on the same basis such help is given to other s t u d e n t s . . . . " .

After 1940, when present com- mitments expire, Pitt will reduce the schedule of its Panthers \ to eight games. These schedules will include none but major tea^ns because, according to Hagan, "a football game is no longer a football game when teams as power- ful as ours can run roughshod over teams of schools which under normal conditions do not attract an abundance of football mft- terial." I

Words Unheard If I were yon, if I were you, I know exactly what I'd do !

Why can't you hear? Why can't you sec?

If I were you. I'd notice me !

"If the girls on the campus would dress with just a little less of that air of abandon, they really would look much more attractive." Men students at the University of Rochester, N. Y., are a trifle annoyed because coeds on their campus refuse to dress up for them.

Girls at schools exclusively for women have, for a long time, indulged their fancy for "flats," faded ban- danas in lieu of hats, and drooping ankle socks.

On coeducational campuses, however, feminine devotees of "comfort before chic" have been in the mi- nority. Not so at Rochester.

"Why if we dressed like that we'd be outlawed as a bunch of sissies trying to play he-men," irate males protested.

"There are numerous forms' of sloppiness which have been incident to the buoyant, easy-going spirit of America... Democracy cannot afford to be sloppy." So insists Pres. Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College, hitting at the collegiate cult of sloppiness which, he says, settles habits which may bring discharges later on.

"All freshmen must ask permission of a member of the Student Court for every date." This new ruling elided groans of despair from freshman at Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska.

"There is little to be attained ia thumbing a ride in the rumble seat of a college curriculum," warn3 Dean Guy Stanton Ford, acting president of the University of Minnesota. "It is not the business of a university to educate its students against their will. What you get out of college and out of life will be a measure of what you put in it."

"Unemployment today constiutes the greatest threat to democracy and all democratic institutions.'' Dr. Paul W. Chapman, Georgia vocational guid- ance director, advocates widespread substitution of occupational education for traditional studies of doubtful value.

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SIDE LINES

Saxons Gain More Than A Mile In Rushing During Seven Games * *

Physical Education Department Takes Over Blue Key Boxing

Take it from Paul Mickelson, Alfred this year has the smartest football squad in the country.

A week ago Monday the Associ- ated Press carried a by-line story of Mickelson's which served to furnish their member newspapers a summary of the football games played that week-end.

Of vital interest to Saxon fans was the following which led off Mickelson's yarn:

"Tops—you can nave your ten leading teams if you can figure them out—but I'll vote for little Alfred Uni- versity as the smartest football squad of this dizzy season.

"The Alfreds licked Clarkson 12-6 Saturday for their seventh straight victory and then knocked off for the season.

"The boys from Alfred, N. Y., can't lose now as they gaze back on their first unbeaten, untied season in history and say—"Them were the days!'"

What Mickelson apparently didn't know was that Alfred had gained that wisdom after many, many long years of gridiron woes.

Too many years had Alfred taken college gridiron juggernauts on their schedule and too many times had she suffered.

But this year the powers that be in Alfred, with a whale of a sophomore bunch of men coming up, didn't care to repeat those suicide schedules of previous years and took steps to prevent such a repetition of last years' 74-0 Cornell massacre.

The result was the schedule which Athletic Director McLane released last spring. Immediately the schedule became the subject of lively discussions. This fall, as football season got under way, those discussions were still going—"The schedule is too easy; they won't draw anybody"

such was the typical argument put, across.

But as the season progressed and Alfred was well on its way for its first unbeaten, untied, season in Its history, the value of that shedule became more and more apparent.

Gradually the boys, under the excellent tutelage of Alex Yune- vich, were being pointed for tough battles that awaited them in Buf- falo, (Troy jand Potsdam. The early season wins gave the boys confidence; a confidence much needed in their first varsity season for a school with a reputation for bad football teams.

Then came Buffalo, R. P. I. and Clarkson—The answer you know.

Buffalo fell 25-13 in a wild, four touchdown, last period. R. P. I. was- n't enough to keep the Saxons from a 13-0 win and Clarkson Tech at Pots- dam—the one remaining stumbling block keeping Alfred from an unbeaten untied season—finally fell .12-6. Al- fred's power came to the fore when Clarkson scored first but soon found themselves deadlocked 6-6 just one minute after they themselves had scored. For Alfred in that one minute went fifty-five yards down the field in five plays to even the count.

Now, after Alfred's 1938 schedule has been made known, one comes to realize that next year will be a little tougher for the SophomoTe slaughterers.

And unofficially comes the word that even tougher competition is in line for 1939 when these boys will be playing their final season under the Purple and Gold.

Sensible, this method of building up the football schedule by gradual stages? Yes!

Alfred, even this year, with their

"breezer" schedule as some people have classified it, has received more' than its portion of publicity, national and local combined.

Week after week Alfred remained unbeaten and untied, thereby occupy- ing a position among the nation's first ten teams.

Two of our backs continued to hold high ranking positions in the East's and the Nation's list of high individual scorers throughout the season.

Metropolitan sports scribes became aware of Alfred, and seeking to tag it with a novel name—called us

"Little Alfred" (Witness Mickelson's story). The result was reams of nation-wide publicity. Some people did- n't like that moniker of "Little Al- fred". But the value of that name is unlimited. Everybody likes — and

Possibility of Intercollegiate Match Seen

Professor Harrison Will Coach; Practice To Begin After

Christmas

Boxing in Alfred will take a forward step this year toward the goal of intercollegiate competi- tion. The step-child of the Blue Key will come under the wing of the Department of Physical Edu- cation with the possibility of a match with Hobart College at the end of the season.

Director of Athletics McLane announced that credit would be given to all participants in the sport. Pro- fessor Harold C. Harrison, holder of the Southern Conference Interscho- lastic Championship in boxing and in- structor in that sport at ,Washington and Lee and Cornell will have charge of the team. Under his direction last year considerable strength was re- vealed in the light—and middle-weight divisions with potentialities in (the heavy weight class.

Practice sessions will not begin until after Christmas recess.

Harrier Perkins And Lynn Set Record Of 3.30

-But They Were Driving!

Lyle Perkins, after being laid up with a wrenched ankle for two weeks, ran in the I. C. 4-A. meet Monday. But the credit goes to Bert Lynn.

Here's the story:

Saturday morning four car- loads of harriers, school officials and well-wishers left Alfred for Alfred Station to catch the 10:30 train to the Big City.

Seven minutes before train time, Coach McLeod suddenly became aware of the fact that Per- kins was nowhere to be found.

"Gosh," exclaimed somebody, he must be in his room in the gymnasium—"

That, it developed, was the case. In all of the confusion of departure, everybody had forgotten to get Perky.

"Giddap, Napoleon—" shouted Lynn as he leaped in his rattle- bus and sped back to Alfred, the gmnasium and the forgotten man, Perkins.

In three and one half minutes, Lynn, the rattle-bus and PERKY were at Alfred Station, in time for the train. "From Alfred Sta- tion to Alfred and back again in three and half minutes— "What a title for a book!" said Lynn later—"A travel book," he added.

I travelled puh-lenty fast!"

Do Halfbacks Become Halfwits?

Former Athlete Says They Do

(Professionalism in supposedly ama- teur football is the aspect of the game usually condemned, but an article in the LIBERTY magazine, here sum- marized by permission of the pub- lishers, attacks football as being high- ly injurious to the player.

(Comment on the article by stu- dents or professors, athletes or aesthetes, is welcomed by The Fiat Lux. Letters should be mailed not later than Friday morning.)

New York—"Football makes addled- brained stumble-backs of its players."

That is the indictment leveled today against the nation's leading amateur aport by Frank Scully, noted author, who attributes his invalidism to the drubbing he took in school competi- tions.

Reporting the results of a survey he made of the leading players of twenty years ago, Scully declares in the current Liberty magazine that many of these who weren't killed in the World War either died from tuberculosis or are now addled-brained dim-wits.

"After careful study I have come to the conclusion that you don't have to be a half-wit to be a half-back, but if you are a half-back long enough you will be," he writes.

Scully relates a meeting with Charlie Barrett, former ail-American quarterback at Cornell and captain of the 1916 unbeaten team. Barrett was : in the last stages of tuberculosis i just before his death. "He told me,"

I says Scully, "that six members of that championship 1916 squad has also

| broken down with tuberculosis. Bar-

• rett's confession was the greatest j mass indictment of varsity football

I had run into up to that time."

But, says the writer, their fate was less pitiful than others whose brains could not stand the constant vicious jarring. He relates the experiences of one Coast championship team:

pulls for—a GIANT KILLER, such as

"LITTLE" Alfred!

SAXON SIFTINGS — "Somebody stole my car" might easily be Bob Glynn's theme song. Practical joke- sters have been taking the door and windshield off of his "car" all season.

—At least, they leave the chassis for him There's nothing sporty about this but it's too good to hold back. Last week at the Kozy Kitch- en one befuddled fellow sitting at the counter spied a box of tea balls.

"What sort of cake is that?" h e queried of the counterman, thinking that he had come across something new Nope, it wasn't Mario!..

Already, signs of the bloody Frosh-Ag school rivalry are becoming apparent a s Ag school boys, with a win over Geneseo Normal courtmen, prep for their annual blood battle with the Frosh. From all accounts the Aggies are puh-lenty tough this season Incidentally, who has the BLACK KNIGHT?

"Of the .three stars in the back- fielfl, all named on one All-American team or another, subsequently one broke his neck in his last season and therefore missed his chance of becoming a complete stumble-back; the second ended his under-graduate days by walking on his heels; the third was so punch-drunk from too much football that he could see no way out except playing more football, either as a professional or as an assistant coach."

Carnegie Tech Depends On Alumni Gifts

For Class A Football

Pittsburgh, Pa.— (ACP) —Car- negie Tech, to have Class A football, must depend solely on athletic scholarships contributed by alumni. So said president Robert E. Doherty, addressing the alumni association.

Fundamental considerations in the matter he listed as follows:

"Carnegie Institute of Technology is, before all else, an educational institution.

"We are possessed of no mis- sionary spirit in this matter; we have no desire to press amateur- ism to unpraeticable... .limits.

"We want athletic teams, in- cluding good football t e a m . . . . and we want as wide participa- tion as possible among the students in all the sports.

"We recognize that intercollegiate contest, especially football, mean much to the students, alumni and faculty and a r e to be encouraged.

"In view of all these thoughts, there cannot possibly be any ques- tion of choice as between the use of the institutions funds on the one hand, for the support of what is called Class A. football operations, or, on the other, f o r . . . . pressing educational needs.

"Class A operations would seem to pay in the case of those few teams only that are able to stay on top."

Wrestling To Begin After Turkey Recess

Dr. Joseph Seidlin announced that wrestling practice will not start until at least after the Thanksgiving recess.

A new manager for wrestling will have to be selected by the Athletic Governing Board, as the man appoint- ed last year by the Board failed to return to school.

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Nearly One Hundred First Downs Chalked Up ; Johnson Establishes Great Passing Average For Season

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More than a mile—that's the distance that the Saxons travelled through their opponents' line this past season as they set up and knocked down seven consecutive schools for Alfred's first unbeaten, untied grid season.

A grand total of 1783 yards was run up by the Sophomore Slaughterers through the seven game season while they held the opponents down to a 688 yard total.

They just missed the hundred mark in first downs as they chalked up ninety-seven for the season. The opponents could eke but forty out of the Saxons. The largest number ran up in one game by the Saxons was made in the Hartwick game when they gained 17 first downs to Hartwick's none. Thiel also failed to make a first down while Kenyon was held to three, R. P. I. to 5 and Ashland and Clark- son t o 8. Buffalo ran up t h e biggest number against Alfred, gaining 12 to Alfred's 8.

To Bo Johnson goes t h e majority of the credit due on t h e Saxons' excellent passing record. Approximately 49 per cent of Alfred's passes found their mark during the past season; 25 completed out of 51 attempted tells its own story.

From the air, Alfred gleaned a clean total of 345 yards while their opponents gained but 301 yards after com- pleting but 32 out of 72 attempted heaves. '

Alfred had but eight of their passes intercepted while intercepting 11 of their opponent's aerials.

Individual scoring honors go t o Bob Glynn, third highest in t h e East, with a 62 total. Bob scored nine touch- downs1 t o which he added eight extra point conversions for t h e 62 total.

Bo Johnson, fifth in t h e East, followed a close second with 55, gained from nine scores and one conversion.

The complete season summary follows:

Alfred 27, Hartwick 0 Alfred Hartwick First downs 17 0 Yards rushing 250 40 Scoring—Johnson 2, Glynn 2; Con-

versions, Brownell, Johnson, Glynn.

Alfred 38, Ashland 0

Alfred Ashland First downs 16 8 Numbers rushes 42 30 Yards gained rushing 312 69 Average yards rushes 7.5 2 Yards gained passing 119 75 Passes attempted 8 18 Passes completed 7 9 Average yardage passed 17 8 Passes intercepted by 5 0 Punts 3 5 Average distance punts 36 27 Fumbles 3 0 Penalties—total yards 60 30 Scoring—Johnson 3, Ryan 2, Glynn 1.

Conversions—Glynn, Rollery.

Alfred 40, Thiel 6

Alfred Thiel First downs, rushing 16 0 F i r s t downs, passing 2 4 Passes attempted 12 9 Passes completed 6 4 Yards gained passes 64 103 Yards gained rushes 303 17 Passes intercepted by 1 00 P u n t s 3 6 Average distance punts 25 ' 25 Yards lost penalties 35 40 Scoring—Johnson, Glynn 2, Brownell,

Green, Ryan. Conversions, Glynn 4.

Alfred 25, Buffalo 133

Alfred Buffalo First downs 8 12 Passes attempted 3 14 Passes completed 0 6 Penalties—yards 55 20 Passes intercepted by 2 2 Yards gained rushing 174 124 Yards gained passing 0 90 Scoring—Bizet, Glynn 2, Johnson, Dal-

fonso, Seiffert. Conversions, Glynn, Dalfonso.

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Alfred Kenyon First downs 13 3 Passes attempted 7 5 Passes completed 2 3 Passes intercepted by 0 1 Penalties'—yards 35 5 Yards' gained rushing 308 181 Scoring—Glynn, Bizet, Olin. Conver-

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Alfred 13, Rensselaer 0 Alfred Rensselaer

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Yards gained rushing 205 Yards gained passing 130 Passes attempted 13 Passes completed 9 Passes intercepted by 2 Fumbles 6 Scoring—Johnson, Glynn.

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Alfred Opponents 97

Yards gained rushing 1783 Yards gained passing 345 Passes attempted 51 Passes completed 25 Passes intercepted by 11

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Twenty-Three Men Out For Fencing Team

Fencing Recognized By University As Minor Sport This Year

Twenty-three Alfred men reported at the first fencing meeting of the season last Thursday night under the direction of Professor' Schurecht, fencing coach. The majority of the group were Freshmen, few of last year's enthusiasts being in school this year.

The next meeting in the absence of Coach Shurecht, will be under the supervision of Don Schreckengost.

The date will be announced on the bulletin boards.

This year, the University will recognize fencing as one of the minor sports. Physical Education credit will be given to those who attend the sessions regularly, and the School will furnish additional equipment to the group, it was announced by Athletic Director flames TVTcLane. Oompeti>

tion will be on tournament basis this year as in the past, however.

The women's fencing team has been in practice for quite some time.

Individual Scoring Record Johnson, hb 9 1 55 Glynn, hb 9 8 62

Ryan, fb 4 0 24 Bizet, fb 2 0 12 Brownell, e 1 2 8 Green, hb 1 0 6 Rollery, hb 0 1 1 Total 26 12 168

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