A PAPER ABOUT THEMSELVES, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF ALFRED UNIVERSITY
VOL. V ALFRED, N. Y., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918 NO. 13
UNIVERSITY OF WEST VIR- GINIA TO PLAY VARSITY
HERE
Support of Students Asked Wed- nesday Evening, Feb. 20
At last there will be a game of basket ball at Alfred. A game has been arranged herewith the University of West Virginia for next Wednesday evening-, Peb 20. I t will be the first game of intercollegiate basket ball played here for years and probably will be the last game of the season for the Varsity. The game was arranged and a guarantee made wholly upon the supposition that the college students would disregard their athletic tickets and pay admission. Not only must they pay admission to make the game a success but they must attend in a body. The Agricultural students have agreed to disregard their tickets and attend. They responded nobly. Would the college men and women stand back after that ? I t will cost fifty cents and will be worth it. Many have been the occasions when students have paid half of that to see Alfred Academy play. Would they balk now at paying to see the Varsity play the University of West Virginia. It would be a shame if the game was unsuccessful because of non-support. So come early pre- pared to do your bit and you will not go home dissatisfied.
AUSTIN-ELLS
On Feb. 2, 1918, at Waltham, Mass., James L. Austin, class of 1916, and Miss Luella A. Ells, of the class of 1915, were married at the home of Rev. Dr.
Frederick H. Page of the Forest Con- gregational church.
The bride was gowned in a travel- ing suit of Oxford gray and wore a corsage of purple and gold pansies.
She was attended by Miss Rose Tren- kle, class of 1917, while Ralph S. Aus- tin, class of 1914, brother of the groom, acted as best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin will be at home after Feb. 10, at 37 Banks St., Wal- tham, Mass., where Mr. Austin has a position as Ceramic Engineer with the Waltham Grinding Wheel Company.
The Alfred friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Austin extend congratulations.
WAR SAVING AND THRIFT STAMPS
On Sale at College Office
A committee for the township of Alfred consisting of F. S. Clarice, Miss Angeline Wood and A. E. Champlinj 'ias been appointed to arrange for!
sales agencies for these stamps in dif- ferent parts of the township and an- nouncement will be made at an early date of the location of these agencies.
President Davis has been requested to become an agent for selling the War Savings and Thrift Stamps to he students. These stamps may be Purchased at the College Office and 't is hoped that the students will take an active interest and purchase as many as possible of the stamps.
Vincent Axford has been asked by the campaign manager of this district to act as agent in organizing the stu- ients for greater efficiency in this campaign.
SECOND COLLEGE ASSEMBLY HELD MONDAY EVENING
Although the orchestra was some two hours and a half late and the Com- mittee on Student Life made the clos- ing hour twelve-thirty, the forty and five couples enjoyed themselves for two hours. Thanks to Miss Burdette of Hornell several dances were in- dulged in before the arrival of the orchestra. And Prof. Wingate rounded up the Glee Club who gave a little close harmony to help pass away the time.
But in spite of inconveniences a most enjoyable two hours was spent.
After all the expenses, war tax, decorations, etc., were paid the sum of eleven dollars was turned over to the Athletic Association. The orchestra was somewhat peeved on not being paid for four hours, but had they been here a t the time agreed on they would have been paid for their four hours.
The management wishes to thank the decorating committee for their splendid results. By the request of the Red Cross Committee the decor- ations were left for the Spinsters' Con- vention Thursday evening.
PROF. PORTER GIVES INSPIR- ING ADDRESS BEFORE
STUDENTS Concerning Indebtedness
CERAMIC SOCIETY MEETS
At the regular meeting of the Ceramic Society, Collin aud Kenyon gave papers on " T h e Casting of Heavy Clay Products." After the brief dis- cussion of the papers, plans were j arranged for entertaining the A r t students next Tuesday evening. Prof.
Binns and Prof Shaw will give reports of the convention of the American Ceramic Society held this week in Indianapolis. As to what the remain- der of the evening will disclose we have been unable to di'scover.
THEOLOGICAL NEWS
For the second semester Prof. Wm.
Whitford has offered the following courses:
Biblical Irnotduction, 2 hours credit.
New Testament Ethics, 2 hours credit.
Apocalyptic Review Daniel and Revelations, 2 hours credit.
Dean Main has prescribed several new courses also. They are:
I. Christian Ethics
IV. Christian Doctrine (Ideals of God for Modern Thought).
NEW CATALOGUES OUT
Attention is called to the new cata- logues which have been out for two or three weeks. A few changes a r e : (1) Only one entrance condition may tie carried by Freshmen. (2) The school year will be practically con- tinuous hereafter consisting of three terms of 26 weeks each.
Tuition is $70 per year, due on or before October 15 and February 15, and must be paid 10 days thereafter.
PRESIDENT DAVIS HIGHLY HONORED
Pres. Davis was in Abany week be- fore last to attend the meeting of the Association of College and University Presidents of New York State. Atj this session President Davis was | elected president of the Association for the coming year.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
The courses in public speaking in- clude preparatory drill for all students contemplating public work along patri- otic lines, including Y. M. C. A. activi- ties, food conservation, etc.
Our secretary of the Navy is reported to have said the other day: " I am not the least interested in the future now . . . The thought of things to be done in the immediate present is too big to leave time or inclination to think of the future." That is all very well for Secretary Daniels. We have reason to believe that he, and more particularly his colleagues, will have quite enough to do if they confine themselves to the great present which they have7 the piivilege and responsibility of making.
There are numbers of us, however, not similarly burdened^/who cannot escape so lightly. As we follow the course of the war here and abroad, it becomes increasingly evident that reconstruction must go hand in hand with destruction, not alone that reconstruction which concerns itself with the building up of reclaimed villages, or converts a non essential industry into a plant for the production of essentials, but that re- construction which must go on in the inner life of every individual who would qualify for citizenship in the New America.
It is almost a truism to say that wa.r is reforging the souls of those men who have staked all that they value in the world for the sake of an ideal; that consciously or unconsciously they are living their noble purposes. Scarcely a book from one in service, scarcely a published letter from the trenches or the camps which does not emphasize the idea that men will come back to the days of peace with a new vision in their eyes. "Their stupendous initi- ation could scarcely leave them the careless children of yesterday." Al- fred Casalis, a young French soldier who fell on the field of honor, wrote in a letter now incorporated in a series called For France and the Faith, " I shall no longer have the right to be what I was before; otherwise, how would the war have served me ! " Be- cause that is not a theory of idealists but the conviction of men who have been over the top, we who stay at home may well ask ourselves what we can do to keep pace. Those men in a few vibrant hours, minutes, perhaps, may live more than we in a long, long- life.
War has demanded the sacrifice of individualism, and there has been more or less response in the putting aside of personal desires and ambitions. Par- ticularly has the merging of individu- ality been requisitioned of those who are conducting the war and of those who are carrying it on If we, sitting in judgment, have cause to be sus- picious of the completeness with which it has been done in the one case, we are proud that in the other there is no question of the completeness of the surrender of self. In us, too, the civilians, warnas demanded the elimin- ation of hedonistic egoism. As a re- sponse, we produce, conserve, retrench;
we pledge such resources as we have.
I t is pitifully small, we know it, we who stay at home,—and it is with a kind of fierce joy that we realize that this burden of the present is the least of our obligations. Upon us rests the responsibility for the New America. I wonder if we appreciate the stupen- dousness of the task laid upon us. If men are giving their all for us, that
FARM AND HOME WEEK AT ALFRED, FEB. 29, 20, 21
The tenth annual Farm and Home Week will be held at the State School of Agriculture next week. The dates are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- day, February 19, 20 and 21. There will be both day and evening pro- grams.
More than thirty specialists have been secured to give addresses and demonstrations on subjects which are of special interest at this time .to farmers and house keepers, as well as to the students and general public.
All lectures will be held in the Main Agricultural building, unless other- wise stated on the program. The afternoon session for women will be held in the College auditorium in Ken- yon Hall. The evening sessions will be held in Firemens Hall.
Full programs may be secured by addressing the State School of Agri- culture.
FROSH ATSD SOPHS MEET IN HARD FOUGHT CONTEST
Frosh Girls Defeat Sophomore Girls
TRACTOR SCHOOL
A big feature of Farm and Home Week is the Tractor School for trac- tor operators, which will be held by the State Food Commission at N. Y.
S. A. It is expected that the theory of the several lectures will be put in- to practice upon at least four differ- ent makes of tractors and possibly six.
At the end of the week certificates of operation will he given those atending regularly.
From nine to eleven Monday morn- ing the school will be organized, and the first lecture will be given from eleven to twelve. Another lecture comes at one. From two until five or six o'clock, will be laboratory periods each day, in which the lec- tures will be put into practice.
College students as well as Agricul- tural students who expect to do Agri- ] cultural work this summer will do well [ to get excused from college classes and take this course.
fact creates for us certain duties. We must see to it that the war is fruitful;
we must make the Patrie which they are defending, great and beautiful; we must make of ourselves a people for whom it will have been worth while to kill and to be killed. How are we in America doing it ? How are we in this college doing it ?
We need not travel far in search of work for the New America; we may best begin in ourselves. If we are continuing the same pursuits in which we were engaged previous to April, 1917, it may not be in the same way.
Otherwise, we are slackers. I, in my position, must justify myself; you, in yours; not to the world, each to him- self. I should like to say to you:
" Don't worry about the future. Your time in this chrysalis is at best short.
All to soon you will be forced out. Eat, drink, and be merry." I can't, and if I I did you would scorn it. 1 may say j that to little children, but not to you, ' college men and college women, on whom more than on anyone else rests the responsibility for the New America. \ If you are staying in college now, it is because you are preparing for service such as not even your fathers and mothers dreamed you might render. ; That being so, the preparation for that service can no longer proceed in the same course which served students four, three, or two years back I wonder sometimes if the war will not turn the educational world upside down
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In the first interclass girls' contest on Saturday night the Frosh defeated the Sophomores by a score of 7 to 6.
The game was very interesting and Seldom have the students and people of Alfred witnessed two girl teams play harder for victory. The Frosh took the lead in the early part of tha
<;ame and although the score was tied several times, the Sophomores were unable to get the required baskets to bring them ahead. Several of t h e girls distinguished themselves but the work of everyone who participated in the game is to be commended. Miss MacPhilmy and Miss Lanphere star- red for the Sophomores while Miss VanHorn, Miss Neuwiesinger and Miss Clerk starred for the Frosh.
Line u p :
Sophomores Frosh R. F.
I. Baxter A. VanHorn L. h\
1. Lanphere M. Neuwiesinger C.
H. Keis E. Shrader R. G.
M. MacPhilmy L. Clerk L. G.
E. Straight E. Fassett Substitution—Miss Cuglor.
Referees—Gaiss '18, Hagar '19.
Time of halves—20 minutes.
Sophomores Defeat Frosh The inter-class men's game ended in a victory for the Sophomores by a score of 18 to 12. The game was characterized by roughness and a good- ly number of fouls were called on both sides. In the first half neither team seemed able to get a very great ad- vantage over the other, and the half ended with a score of 10 to 8 in favor of the Sophomores. In the second half the Sophomores resorted to the pass- ing game, in which they excell t h e Frosh, due to practice in last year's contests, and gradually drew ahead.
In the last few minutes of the contest the Frosh rallied and succeeded in cag- ing two more field baskets, but when the final whistle blew the Sophs were still in the lead.
Line Up and Summary Sophs Frosh
R. F.
Negus Kane L. P.
Collins Holmes C.
MacFadyen Lyttle R. G.
Pollock Randolph.
L. G.
Kenyon Witter Field baskets—Collins 5, MacFayden.
2, Negus, Kane, Randolph, Witter 3.
Fouls—MacFayden 2, Witter 2.
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HAS NEW APPARATUS
Through the efforts of Prof. W. A.
Titsworth, the Physics department received about $500 worth of appara- tus, during the past year.
An induction coil, worth about 150 for use with the X-Ray apparatus, is the gift of Mr. George M. Ellis '01, of Milton, Wis.; a $250 Delco Two-Kilo- watt engine is the other gift. Bab- cock Hall is to be equipped throughout with electric lights.
At a recent meeting of the Fresh- man class Frobisher Lyttle was elect- ed president and Ross Plank waa elected basket ball captain.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL NEWS *
Director Wright was in Bolmont on business Wednesday morning.
Supt. E. E. Poole was among those In atendance at Farmers' Week at Ithaca. |
Prof. Luther Banta lias been at Ithaca for the week where he assisted in the Farmers' Week program.
Prof. Norwod gave a very interest- ing talk about Lincoln in assembly!
Tuesday morning.
The Aglaian Club entertained the Bachelor Club at the home o£ Miss Lewis, Tuesday evening.
Prof. Klinck returned to Alfred yes- terday from Ithaca where he has been attending Farmers' Week.
At a regular meeting of the Bachelor Club, Wednesday evening, the follow- ing members were initiated: Thomas M. Staples, Albert Demorest, Leon Lilley, John Ellison, Milton Goslee, W. S. Barnhart, Charles Talman and Leroy D. Fero. As one of the tests the candidates were required to eat a lunch served in the restaurant.
COUNTRY LIFE
The main feature of the Country Life
•Club on Thursday evening of last week -was a double mock wedding given by the Bachelor and Aglain Clubs of the School. The weddings were acted out in a very realistic manner and proved very interesting. In a business meet- ing officers for the coming semester were elected as follows: . . . .
President—Carlton Jones
Vice President—Arling Saunders Secretary—Helen McAndrews Treasurer—Joseph Clark
The program for the evening was as follows:
Gleanings Fern Wheeler Mock Wedding—
Minister Prof. Barnhart Ring bearer Bernidine Smith Grooms
William Anthony, Jerome Powell Brides Marian Howe, Marjorie Beebe Best Man
Lewis Gasper, Stanley Banks Brides maids
Helen McAndrews, Eloise Smith Bride's father A. Saunders Bride's mother Harriet Boyd Social hour.
POULTRY AND EGG SHOW
A new feature of the poultry pro- gram at the State School of Agricul- ture at Alfred during Farm and Home Week, February 19-21 will be an Egg Show. The Federal Food Adminis- tration is advocating greater con- sumption of poultry and eggs that more red meat may be exported. This means a tremendous boom to the poultry industry inasmuch as all authorities agree that the Nation's meat supply can be more rapidly in- creased through poultry than any other farm animal.
The Fifth Annual poultry exhibit will also be staged. Entries from various parts of this and surrounding counties are anticipated. Mr. War- ren I. Trask, a large poultryman of Almond, will act as judge of both ex- hibits. ,
A meeting of Allegany County Poul- trymen will be held Thursday, Febru- ary 21st, at 2 P. M. The purpose of this conference is to effect a County organization to forward the rapidly growing poultry interests of this part of the State.
On Wednesday and Thursday Hon.
Edward Brown, poultry expert for the British Government, will speak. Prof.
James E. Rice of the Department of Poultry Husbandry at Cornell will be present and deliver two addresses on Thursday.
PROF. PORTER GIVES INSPIRING ADDRESS BEFORE STUDENTS
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as it has the educational and the re- ligious. If we who are professed edu- cators, have emphasized facts a t the expense of spirit, if students have gone out of our classes richer only by the names and dates of people and books hitherto unknown, possessed only of the technique of education, which a t best will stay with them one or two years, —we who gave only that are realizing today how empty it was.
There was a time when the student boasted that he got through college without any work. That time is past.
" P u t t i n g one over on a professor,"
which is a student's way of saying that he got something for nothing, must be an absolute phrase because it is an
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acknowledgement that a student hasn't played fair, an acknowledgement that he has done less than his best, and by that much has retarded the progress of the New America. Dawson says that " the worst thing you can say of a man at the front is that he doesn't play the game. That doesn't of necessity mean that he fails of his duty; it means that he fails to do a bit more than his duty."
Perhaps it seems to you that taken over into academic life, that policy would lead to a feverish existence in which students would be pulled hither and thither by such a multitude of things that there would be no time in which to be happy as kings. I don't see that that need follow. Of course, unless we would be like the beggar who went without food to buy himself a silk hat and then discovered the in- congruity of appearing in it, we shall have to live intensely. I t is a war measure. But living intensely doesn't mean making a grind of one's self.
Neither does it imply a tragic earnest- ness. Comingsby Dawson tells us that at the front the sole test of a man's worth is whether he has what i« known as guts, the power to endure without the sense of enduring, and to complete a duty a t whatever cost to one's self.
To a light-hearted people like us a serious thing appears at first sight to be a fearfully stern thing, but civilians, like soldiers, can learn to do great things with a gather-ye-rosebuds-while- you-may attitude. Giving intensely means seeing life sanely and seeing it whole; burning less incense to the lesser gods; keeping as well and vigorous as possible; working with a thoroughness hitherto unknown, work- ing not oecause we want an A or a H I or an A H, but because we know that metuocmy has had u s day and that unless we actually possess the power for which those things stand, we are better oil' without tuern. i h e world will nave no place lor us, and we may as well lace uur disappointment now as later.
I don't know what the phrase "a new national consciousness" is sup- posed to mean. It is often in the edi- torial columns of the papers, and on the lips of those better versed than I in civic matters. Always it is one of the good things which is to fohow the war. Apparently, it presupposes a change in the lite of the peopie.
Because of that, 1 venture to say that it has already had its inception in me military life of the country. Total consecration to complete duty has fostered it there. Bring the cause over into civil, into college life, and what shall we have? "A new aversion to self indulgence, indifference, idle- ness, caprice, and pleasure;" (t quote Dean West of Princeton) a recogni- tion that education is not a "strolling acre and there of multitudes of strag- glers, but the orderly advance of great armies to a known objective; an aoandonment "once for all of the cap- tivating notion that the student m school or college should study what ne likes, when he likes, as he likes, it he likes."
In the end, each one must interpret for himself his responsibility to the New America as it is wrapped up in the expression, "total consecration to complete duty." None but a man's j j self can outline his complete duty;
none but he will know whether or not it is executed; but he, looking in his mirror, may have occasion to exclaim:
"we have much to say to each other, you and I."
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UNIVERSITY BANK
Students are cordially invited to open accounts with us. The Banking Habit is a good habit to cultivate.
The Bank stands for security and convenience in money matters.
D. S. BURDICK, President.
E. A. GAMBLE, Cashier.
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MR. STUDENT—
Just because you feel strong and healthy today, don't neglect to take out that insurance policy.
"Some little Bug is going to get you some day." Today is the time to take out insurance. Tomorrow never comes to a great many.
The Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety of United States.
W. H. CRANDALL, Alfred, N. Y.
Alfred, N. Y., February 15, 1918
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Julia Wahl 'IS
•ASSOCIATE EDITORS Robert Sherwood '10
Enid White 'IS Donald Moyer '21
REPORTERS Donald Moyer '21
Robert Witter '21 B U S I N E S S MANAGER
Harold Reid '20
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Elmer Mapea '20
AGRICULTURAL EDITOR Lewis Gasper
^TERMS: $1.50 per year In advance
It is true that at every corner you turn you find some new demands upon your pocket book these days. It is either Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Liberty Loan Campaign or some other cam- paign. There are a few "slackers"
or chronic "kickers" who regard these things as a nuisance. There are others who do not regard them at all, and still others do their "bit" cheer- fully and unselfishly.
Just now there is another campaign On, and one in which each and every one of us can help, no matter how small our surplus funds may be, and this is the thrift stamp campaign.
Everyone, and students in particular, spend money for things other than necessities. But we have reached the time when no loyal person can afford to spend money for luxuries. We can all deprive ourselves of many little things, which would soon total twenty- five cents, the price of one war sav- ing stamp. Just think, the price of a couple of sodas would do this much, and a few pennies liere and a few there would soon buy another one. Why not make this your Lenten resolution,
•—buy all the thrift stamps you pos- sibly can.
In this issue of the Fiat we are publishing a section of the list of Uni- versity men who are in service. This list is as nearly correct as we are able to make it. From time to time we Shall inform our readers of any change in address, or of any new names added to the honor list.
What a relief to think that the dreaded mid-years are a thing of the past, and that most of us are still here, only two or three having been disabled by the strain.of examinations, and can- j not finish the year's work, because of |
"ill health." Although we have had to work under real disadvantages this year, the long vacation, the cold weather and lack of sufficient fuel, we are informed that the results of the ex- aminations were just as good this year, as a whole, as they have ever been in any preceding year, which is encourag- ing to both the students and the faculty. Now that exams are over, and we can again start on the level, why not stay there,—yes, and whyi not try to go "over the top" this last j semester for the year of 1918?
LIBRARY NOTES
The library has on its shelves some of the latest and best books on the j subject of food, dietetics, military j training, aeroplanes and submarines. I Among them may be mentioned the]
following:
Wade—The Flying Book Middleton—Way of the Air
Drill Regulations and Service Man- ual
Infantry and Drill Regulations in the U. S. Army
Small Arms Firing Manual Cavalry Drill Regulations The Plattsburg Manual Boys Book of Submarines Hay—The Submarine
The American Red Cross Text-book on Food and Dietetics
Low Cost Cooking
The Home and its Management Various pamphlets from the Food Administration have been received bearing on food and its allied sub- jects.
CAMPUS NEWS
TO OUR BOYS They are gone, our boys,
Our friends, beyond the sea;
We are here, their friends, To share in like degree The burdens of a common cause.
They are gone, our boys, Amidst the battle's roar;
We a.re here, their friends, To guard the nation's shore From the hands of a common foe.
They are gone, our boys, Some to a silent grave;
We are here, their friends, To give now as they gave Life, for the nation's common end.
They are gone, our boys, Until the war is o'er;
We are here, their friends, To be the nation's core, The true heart of a common land.
They are gone, our boys, But some day to sail home;
We are here their friends, To greet them when they come, The heroes of a common flag.
—By AL.
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Robert Sherwood '29, spent t!ie week-end at his home in Hornell.
Miss Emma Walchli of Wellsville has been the guest of Julia Wahl 'IS, at the Brick.
Dean Worden left last week for his I home where he will await his call to service in aviation.
Miss Marian Roas '20, and Miss, Hazel Jackson spent the week-end a t ' the former's home in Buffalo.
Harold Reid '20, accompanied by Henry Harrington, spent the week-end at the former's home in Elmira. . ,
Elmer Mapes '20, is at present con- fined to his rorm with a severe attack ; of measles. He is improving rapidly j and it is hoped that he will soon be able to resume his college duties.
Donald Kane, Robert Witter and!
Donald Moyer, all of the class of '22,!
left Thursday for their homes. They | will enlist is some branch of service, j and will therefore not finish the year's work.
Robert Coon '17 is taking Prof.
Bole's place in the Chemistry depart- ment. Prof. Bole is in the New York j Hospital for treatment. The latest reports are very favorable for his re- covery.
Miss Laura Keegan '18, left Monday i for Belmont where she has assumed j the duties of Miss Helen Gardiner as teacher of Latin, German and Spanish for two weeks. She will also act as preceptress.
Pres. Davis was in Belmont Wednes- day attending a conference of chair-1 men of Liberty Loan Committees and | editors of the county in reference to | the Third Liberty Loan Campaign, es- j pecially the matter of more efficiently j reaching the rural communities. Pres.
Davis is a member of the central Liberty Loan Committee of this dis- trict.
DO YOU?
Exercise your powers of conversa- tion constantly during class recita- tions, lectures, or assembly addresses?
Make of everything an object of levity, regardless of time, place or circumstances?
Disbelieve or fail to consider that members of the faculty, citizens of the town, and other nondescripts have 'uiman traits of character?
Begrudge a friendly greeting, or an ncasional act of kindness toward a
"ellow student?
If you do, are you satisfied with the kind of education you are acquiring?
It would seem that from the view- point of the majority of the student body something is wrong. Having allowed their children to come to col- lege, parents would most certainly be liberal minded enough to let them at- tend three dances during the school year and not require them to come home at twelve-thirty. When young men and women get to college, how- ever, it seems that the latest hour they are allowed to dance is twelve- fifteen and when the orchestra is some two hours and a half late be- cause of the condition of the roads the dance may only hold fifteen min- utes later. In that case all arrange- ments are upset, no sort of a program can be followed, and many dances al- ready engaged have to be omitted. In short, one of the three such evenings of a college year is spoiled. If there were more than three of these even- ings during the college year the feel- ing that one was entirely spoiled would not be so keenly felt.
Like Mark Twain we would advise corrections. If there were more than the three regular college dances dur- ing the year, not counting the vaca- tion dances, any inconvenience would not be felt to such an extent. Or if we are still allowed only our three as- -emblies we might be allowed to dance for four hours if for some unforseen reason the dance could not begin at eight o'clock.—Contributed.
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type seemed to be quite youthful) were not so remiss in greeting others, but their tone often would have seemed to me insoloent if it had not j been evident that they were a!
peculiarly favored class. Further- more, I remarked that certain mem- bers of the latter group did not al- j ways wear the distinguishing head-j gear, another evidence, I took it, of i their extended privileges.
Now, I always like to draw definite deductions from my notes, but find j that in this case I am unable to do j so; therefore I ask your assistance,]
editor, in this matter, and have drawn up a few questions, for the answers to j which, if you will kindly supply them, j I shall be greatly indebted.
1. Why does this certain group j wear green caps? i. e., is it a mark;
of superiority, or merely a method of conveniently distinguishing them from others?
2. If they are an evidence of su- periority, how does it happen that i youth is so evidently a trait of theirs, whereas superiority is usually a char- J acteristic of age? ,
3. In genera], what is the rank of fin's class of people, and why the two distinct types?
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SIGMA ALPHA GAMMA The meeting of Jan. 31 was a suc- cessful one in every way. Surely we could not think of sitting still for a whole evening with folded hands and merely be entertained when there is so much work to be done. So we were given Red Cross sewing to do, and every stitch in that big pile which covered the table was finished before we left.
While we were sewing Mary Eliza- beth Wilson explained to us the funda- mentals of parliamentary law, and twenty minutes was spent in a good
"peppy" practice. After much discus- sion, remarks, and reconsiderations a motion was carried that a trolly car line be built between Alfred and Hor- nell, and an amendment for an appro- propriation for $200,000 with which to build it. We realize we are in great need of such practice, and Dr. Nor- wood is going to help us by the course this semester in parliamentary law.
Then "Bee" Streeter read us some rhymes of Red Cross men, and Ruth Brown gave us one of her fine vocal solos. Phyllis Palmer read a very interesting paper which was full of war news and jokes. We all joined in singing that new song, "Our America."
The meeting was so thoroughly en- joyed by all present that the council have decided to have Sigma Alpha Gamma every two weeks instead of once a month. In this way we can get much more "Red Cross work ac- complished as well as training along parliamentary and literary lines.
On Saturday evening, Feb. 16, the Senior members are going to give dramatization of "Evangeline" which members of the group invariably tip-, promises much entertainment, ped their caps they always seemed; This is the first of the series of to be well laden with parcels and! class programs which are to be in books which they delivered carefully | 1 i e nature of class contests. Miss to other people; they were pleasant, H a r t' M r s- Davis a n d M i s s Fosdick affable, and evidently desirous of be- * '< v e b e e n elected as judges. The ing useful without being offensive orj class producing the best program will obsequious. I was really extremely i b e entertained at the expense of the pleased to see such genuine courtesy other «l re e classes. Every girl.must To the Editor of the Fiat Lux: —
Dear Editor—
I am a whimsical person, and spend a great deal of my time in watching people. Of late, I have spent it in your college town and with- out asking any explanations concern- ing those whom I have seen, I have gathered together a few notes which may be interesting to you concerning various types and classes in Alfred.
Very early, my attention was caught by the extreme proportion of people who wore green caps. Some of them were trimmed with a particular shade of yellow, often with a band, and a tassel, sometimes with the tassel alone. Now, I am a firm believer in rHseriminatons; so I excluded from my observations, for the fime being, those who wore the caps with yellow bands,
<md cinfined my attention to the group which wore the green caps with a yel- low tassel only. I very soon dis- covered that I must still subdivide the group according to their character- istics.
The first subdivision. I remarked, were extremely solicitous for the wel- fare of others. They promptly opened doors, and held them while others passed through; they spoke pleasantly to all whom they met and the male
among our young people. be there at prompt eight o'clock so The second group, however, was, t h e Red Cross work can he given out much larger, and entirely different, i before the program begins.
These individuals I concluded, must be j , ; extremely important, for they invari-l
ably preceded all other individualsi
through doors, even when such a pro-
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ceeding might have been rather out ofplace if one were to consider age be- fore significance. The male members of this group gravely passed by smil- ing young ladies, without tipping their caps, removing their hands from their pockets, or even so much as answer- ing the salutations of the young ladies.
The young ladies—(I neglected to mention that all the members of t h e '
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