Syphilis Is
Youth's Enemy.
Says Writer On Hygiene
(This is one of six articles on
"Syphilis in Everyday Life" published in cooperation with The American So- cial Hygiene Association and The Fiat Lux as part of the local observance of national Social Hygiene Day.)
Syphilis is a terrible enemy of the human race, and particularly of young people; but it is not an enemy to be feared. Rather, it is a monster to be fought and conquered.
The thing that nas given syphilis its terrific sway is the shame that nsed to go with it. Because with the feeling of ehame went secrecy, and neglect.
We are in a fair way to change the false attitude that made sufferers from syphilis hide their trouble. Once
•we succeed in that, syphilis will be on the road to oblivion.
For syphilis cannot withstand frank- ness of attack. Its great strength, the strength that has made it one of the disease monsters of modern times, has been the fact that sufferers feared to flght it openly.
Youth has been its primary victim and youth can be its vanquisher. For modern youth is more courageous than Its predecessors; young men and wo- men nowadays are of a mind to iacts and face them squarely. And among the facts that are being brought to their consciousness are the facts about syphilis.
As for example:
1. There are more than 6,500,- 000 persons with syphilis in the United States.
2. Syphilis ranks with scarlet fever in reported statistics, and Propably outranks the commonest disease, measles, If all its suffer- ers were known to the health authorities.
3. One in five new cases is found among boys and girls under 20, and, more than half of all new infections occur in the age group from 20-30, which makes only a sixth of the whole popu- lation.
4. Syphilis probably causes, directly or indirectly, 100,000 deaths per year.
These are generally accepted facts, but equally true is the tremendously hopeful fact that syphilis does yield to medical treatment; it can be cured in a large majority of cases, and its wworst effects can be obviated if the sufferer seeks medical aid.
No young person, having contracted eyphilis, need go through life in £ear.
Because he or she can certainly be helped and probably cured. After- treatment and with the doctor's con- tent marriage can safely be under- taken and the fear that the disease inay be transmitted to innocsnt chil-
dren, can be dismissed.
There is always hope for the young sufferer; there is nearly absolute pro- tection for the children who are born of a marriage where one of the par- ents has the disease. But only if the doctor knows!
THE ALFRED UNIVERSITY
Male Glee Club Opens Season February 23
The University Male Glee Club will open its 1937-38 season with a one day trip on Wednesday, February 23, when it presents four assembly pro- grams in nearby high schools.
Sixteen men, a novelty performer, Prof. Ray W. WIngate, director, and Prof John R. Spicer comprise the bus load and the schools are as follows:
Woodhull High School, 9:30 A. M.
Jasper Central School, 11:00 A. M.
Dinner at 12.
Greenwood Central School, 1:15 P. M.
Andover High School, 2:45.
The program this year will con- sist of College Songs, Glees, Classics by the Glee Club; two male quartets;
Vocal Solos; and a Novelty Act.
Dr. Boraas Lectures On Writing Problems
Professor Harold Boraas talked to the elementary school teachers and principals in Hornell at Washington School on Feb. 8. His subject was
"Problems of Handwriting". He con- sidered two phases, the optimum time to change from manuscript writing, and the methods whereby the transi- tion ca nbe affected.
He exhibited much handwriting ma- terials, including standardized tests, handwriting systems, and articles on manuscript and cursive writing.
"A number of very interesting talks were presented to the class in Com- parative Education during the past semester," said Professor Harold Boraas. "Dr. Buchanan spoke on Ger- man Education; Miss Ford on French Education; and Mrs. Ellis on English Education."
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Let's Find Out If Boycotting Japanese Silk Will Starve American Silk-Mill Workers
—Editorial On Page 2
Vol. XXV No. 16 ALFRED, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 15, 1938 Student Box Holder
Board Signs For Special
Saxonian Issue
The Saxonian, Alfred's quarterly magazine, has been signed to publish a special issue in connection with the annual St. Patrick's Festival, March 17 and 18, Chairman Jud A. Gustin of the Festival Board said today.
Miss Rosemary Hollenbeck, editor of Saxonian, will be in charge of the special issue.
Meanwhile, the Board is continuing its preparations for the two-day test of the New York State College of Ceramics. A play committee is ne- gotiating with the Footlight Club and Theta Alpha Phi for the production of a play.
An orchestra to play for the St.
Pat's Ball is being selected and will be announced in a few days. Chaperones for the ball already have been select- ed.
A cup has 'been purchased for pre- sentation to the organization which
•has the best float in the St. Pat's parade, and a movie has been pro- vided for the first evening of the festival.
The Corning Glass Works has agreed to have a display at the open house the evening of March 17.
Two meetings of the board will be held this week, on today and Friday.
The board is expected soon to nomi- nate 11 campus women for the crown of Festival Queen, to be followed by a student vote.
Dr. Boothe Davis And Wife Hurt In Auto Accident
President Emeritus and Mrs. Boothe C. Davis, now vacationing in Florida, were injured in an automobile crash on January 24. The accident occurred at New Smyrna, about fifteen miles south of Daytona Beach.
The Davise& were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Whitford and were driven by an experienced chauffeur.
Their car was struck at a right angle intersection by another car, locking the two cars together and preventing either of them from overturning.
Dr. Davis1 is suffering from two cracked ribs and one that is drawn slightly away from his vertebrae. Mrs.
Davis received several bruises; the Whitfords were injured slightly, but the chauffer was uninjured.
The party was immediately treated by Dr. M. J. Rogers and Dr. Davis was removed directly home, where he is recovering rapidly.
Culture Center In China Seen Despite Setbacks
China will again be the center of world culture despite such temporary setbacks as the Japanese aggression.
Dr. Willard Sutton, professor in the University of Foochow, China, and graduate student in Alfred University, told a luncheon meeting in Hornell last week.
China's real need, the speaker de- clared, is for capable leaders who can be trusted. It is for that reason, he said, that the missionaries-, in whom the Chinese people have confidence, are refusing to leave the war zone despite the great personal danger.
College Outlines Aid To Improve Grades, Survey Shows
College outlines are a definite aid to improved grades, in the opinion of students using them, a poll conducted under the auspices of the Bureau of Educational Surveys, New York City, shows.
The poll, covering a period of sever- al months, included 3,720 students in 223 institutions of higher learning.
Eight students from Alfred University were included in the poll.
By far the largest number of stu- dents reported grade increases from fair to good, following the use of these study helps. A second large group reported improvement in grades [
from failure to passing. In a few]
cases, students previously receiving failing grades reported final A rat- ings.
Grace Elliott Revisits Alfred On Thursday
Under the sponsorship of the Y. W.
C. A. and the A. U. C. A., Mrs. Grace Loucks Elliott, authority on problems of youth, will speank in assembly, Thursday, Feb. 17. Her topic will be
"Relations Between Men and Women Students".
Mrs. Elliott will hold a meeting in the chapel for both men and women, at 3:30, and in the evening she will direct a discussion for womea only.
Last year, Mrs. Elliott proved to be one of the most interesting and best liked guests to visit Alfred. She conducted two discussions on "Love and Marriage," and in assembly spoke about "Parent-Child Relationships".
Repeat "Juno"
Production At Wellsville
Sean O'Casey's three-act tragedy,
"Juno and the Paycock," will be pre- sented by the Footlight Club of Al- fred University in the auditorium of the David A. Howe Memorial library, j Wellsville, tonight at 8:15.
The production will be sponsored by the Business and Professional Wo- men's Club of Wellsville. On the committee in charge are Misses Sara Allen, Amanda and Clara Ballerstein, Sadie Cleveland, Lena Crowner and Barbara Miller.
Last month, when it was given in Alfred, the student production of
"Juno" was acclaimed as the best Al- fred dramatic production in years.
Directing the play is C. Duryea Smith, professor of public speaking and dramatic production in the uni- versity, who in a letter to Miss Helena LeFevre, Wellsville librarian, said in part:
"I should like to see this play pre- sented before a Wellsville audience not only because of the educational values of taking a play out of town and performing it before an unfami- liar audience; not only because of the pleasure and stimulation it would afford; but because it dictates the spirit of leadership through which one may expect a cultural coalescence in the expended community sense."
Engineering Leads Popular Vocations In University
Engineering is the most popular vo- cation among Alfred students accord- ing to recent poll taken by the faculty.
However, teaching, advertising, manufacturing, merchandising, and social service were high on the list.
Among the professors which the stu- dents wrote on the ballots were re- search, dietetics, and drama. The large number of votes cast for engin- eering is probably due to the fact that Alfred has one of the biggest cer- amic schools in the world.
Professor Crofoot's Committee on Vocations i s ' planning to have per- sons already engaged in these pro- fessions as assembly speakers to give the student some idea of the possi- bilities, requirements, difficulties, re- turns, and cost of special training in certain fields. In this way the students can get a better conception of the vocation to which they are best suited.
Several interesting programs have f been scheduled for future assemblies.
Assembly will be omitted Thurs- day, Feb. 24, and held the following Tuesday, when Dr. Roemmert will:
give a "Demonstration of a Micro- Vivarium" in his lecture, "Life and Death in a Drop of Water".
Kirby Page will speak on "Spiritual Resources for Personal Living and So- cial Action" under the auspices of the A. U. C. A. on Mr. 1.
Dr. James Lee Ellenwood will be, the assembly speaker on March 10, and the St. Patrick's program, under the auspice of the College of Ceramics will be on March 17.
The next scheduled program will be on April 28, when Howard Cleaves will speak on "American Wild Life Shot with a Camera". May 5 and May 12, have been held open for Moving Up Day, and the last assembly of the College year will be on May 19.
Several dates have been held until Professor Crofoot's Committee on Vo- cations procures suitable speakers.
It is likely that some of the better issues of the March of Time, also will be shown.
Sorority Rushing Ends Wednesday, Feb. 2 3
Open season for Women's Rushing began last Wednesday and will con- tinue through Wednesday 23.
Silence period for Sorority Women will begin on the evening of Feb. 23, and will last until Chapel period on Friday, when pledging will take place.
Preferential slips will be signed Thursday, Feb. 24.
Semi-Micro Qua! Students Use Tiny Crucibles, Beakers In Analyses
With crucibles half an inch diameter and height, breakers of 2cc. capacity, and test tubes one- fourth inch in diameter, students in .Semi-Micro-Qualitative Analysis will conduct experiments with "drops in- stead of quarts" of reagents.
Accuracy, speed, and deflniteness of reaction are some of the advantages iof the method, claims Prof. Harold A.
.Harrison of the College of Ceramics, who introduced the course this Semester. He says:
"The micro (small) method con- sumes much less time in completing reactions, much smaller quantities of reagents, much less of rare and valu- able unknowns, occupies much less laboratory space, and in many other
ways proves superior to macro (large)
^methods".
As an illustration Professor Harri- json said: "One hundred cc. of a reagent will supply six students for one semester." The study will deal with samples of only 3 to 5 ing.
"In practice the methods resolve
|themselves into a series of separa- tions by which individual ions or groups of ions are isolated, before indentifying and confirmatory tests are applied," is a quotation from the preface of the text book which, Pro- fessor Harrison remarked, was pub- lished only last week.
He looks upon this as "the coming method" in chemical study, adding
•that only four or five colleges have I already established such courses.
Beryllium Given To Steinheim
A piece of beryllium, a very rare light metal, has been presented to Al- fred University for Allen Steinheim Museum by John J. Merrill, state tax' commissioner at Albany.
This metal is being produced com- mercially by a firm in Pennsylvania, j but even after heavy financial out- lay for equipment the firm can pro- duce only 50 pounds a day. The rich- 3st known deposits of beryllium, also called glucium, are in Iceland.
Beryllium has an atomic weight of of 9.02. The second lighest metal and the fourth lightest element, it has a much lighter weight than aluminum, which has an atomic weight of 26.97.
Beryllium has a silvery appearance and is very hard. It is valuable as an alloy. Because of its lightness, air- plane manufacturers are particularly interested in it.
Prof. H. E. Harrison, assistant in the Ceramic College chemistry depart- ment, describes it as similar in ap- pearance to magnesium or calcium.
"The chemist," he said, "who perfects a relatively cheap method of produc- ing beryllium will have made hia fortune.
46 Graduates Listed As School Superintendents
Forty-six graduates of Alfred Uni- versity are listed as principals and superintendents of New York schools in Handbook 24, published by the University of the State of New York.
Of these, seven are district superin- tendents, three are city superintend- ens, and 36 are high school prin- cipals.
The district superintendents are lo- cated as follows: W. H. Garwood, Canaseraga; and W. Gates Pope, And- over, Allegany County; Gilbert A.
Farwell, Hindsdale, Cattaraugus;
Hugh N. Garwood, Fishkill, Duchess;
Henry M. Brush, Arkport, and Guyon J. Carter, Avoca, Steuben; and Wal- ter M. Ormsby, Bayport, Suffolk. The superintendents of schools are: Har- ry W. Langworthy, Gloversville;
George A. Place, Salamanca; and Ray- mond C. Burdick, Huntington.
Seven of the high school principals are located in Allegany County as follows: Harold F. McGraw, Alfred;
J. Frederick Whitford, Bolivar; F. M.
Strate, Belmont; Robert E. Witter, Friendship; Lee G. Hill, Scio; Duane H. Anderson, Wellsville; Charles G.
May, Whitesville.
20 Fail To Make Required Grades
Twenty students failed to meet the requirements of Alfred University at mid-semesters. Fourteen of these stu- dents are in the Ceramic School, four of whom have been given two weeks in which to make up work. Three Liberal Arts students were dropped, one special, and one unclassified.
Twenty-five new students were ad- mitted: seven freshmen, five sopho- mores, four juniors, and nine special students.
Three Art Students In Buffalo Exhibit
Three Alfred Ceramic Art Students were among those having pieces ac- cepted by the board of the Western New York State Art exhibit, now being conducted in the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Mary Stadnyk, Vera Smith and George Johnson, sophomore students in Professor Marion Fosdlck's model- ing class, entered clay pieces that were among forty chosen from more than one hundred entries.
Schreckengost's Work Second At Art Exhibit
Picked from a field of sixty or more pieces, a symbolic clay piece done by Don Schreckengost, Art professor in the Ceramic College received second prize honors at the Western New York Art Exhibit now being held in the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Michael Zorach, prominent New York Artist, was the judge. The prize winning piece was "Dusk" a symbolic nude figure. Other pieces entered by Schreckengost were
"Young Faces" and "Boy with A Bear".
U. Of Chicago Ed System
Discussed
Pros and cons of the system of edu- cation introduced—or revived—at th»
University of Chicago recently by President Robert M. Hutchins wer»
presented by several Alfred faculty members last week in Hornell during a meeting of the discussion group known informally as the "Gab-festers".
Two of the speakers' were acquaint- ed with Doctor Hutchins. President J. Nelson Norwood talked with him la Chicago a short time ago, and Dean A.
E. Whitford, once a student in the University of Chicago, has met him several times.
The Alfred men were divided on the_
merits of Doctor Hutchins' "teaching from masterpieces". (The University of Chicago now emphasizes the work*
of Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas, in the belief that the student should have a sound background for future specialization.)
In the opinion of Dr. Joseph Seidlin, head of the department of education, the Chicago system is an abrupt swing from present education trends to the opposite extreme, in order to bring about a "middle of the road" course which would be a genuine improve- ment.
Modern education. Doctor Seidlin said, "spreads knowledge too thinly over its- wide curriculum."
President Norwood also spoke in fa- vor of the new system, while Dean Whitford and Prof. John Reed Spieer challenged several aspects of it.
The dean's chief criticism was that he system tends to undermine the latitude heretofore given to Chicago jrofessors, a feature that he said ostered the university's progress in the teaching and advancement of science.
Professor Spicer insisted that the nodern college student is more inter- :sted in getting knowledge that ap- jlies directly to his vocation than in absorbing the "fundamentals" of Pla-
o, Aristotle, and Aquinas.
Nixon To Preach Mission Services
This week the University Church and the Seventh Day Baptist Churcli have combined to form a community
^reaching mission which will start Friday evening, Feb. 18 at the church.
Professor Justin Rowe Nixon form- illy of the Rochester Brick Presby- terian Church and now instructor at Colgate Theological Seminary, in Ro- chester, speaks in services, Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morn- ings and Sunday evening.
Dr. Bond, Chaplain McLeod and Rev. Ehret have been successful in bringing this preaching mission to Al- fred for the first time.
The preaching mission is a cross- country project which was organized last year and which has now branched out into the smaller communities of the country.
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Tourist Bureau" Will Acquaint Alfred With France In Fete de Charlemagne
Salamanca Boy Makes Good
By E. F. Creagh
John L. Dougherty, Jr., has a 3.00 index.
French customs and traditions will live again in Alfred when the French Club celebrates its annual Fete de St. Charlemagne, in the week of Feb.
23. This Fete is an imitation of a similar French celebration in honor of the famous king.
Taking the province of Auvergne in the south-central part of France as a basis for their celebration, mem- bers of the Club through exhibitions, a "tourist Bureau" and other means, will acquaint Alfred with this ancient country.
Known since the Middle Ages for their craftsmanship in making "Le Puy" lace, for their colorful houses and traditions, the peasants of Au- vergne provide a rich source of ma- terial. The country is also famous for its watering places, of which Vichy is (the best 'known, for its centers of pilgrimages and its literary men, including Pascal.
French club meetings have resem- bled dressmaking establishments, for weeks, as peasant clothes took shape
and long-suffering men served a*
"models" for costumes. Peasant em- broidery done by club members will be exhibited at the banquet, held on Wednesday evening, Feb. 23.
Tapestry, pictures and souvenirs of France were (brought from France this summer by Miss Ford and Miss Cheval, professors in the department Even the place cards for the ban- quet were purchased in Paris.
Realizing the importance of under- standing foreign countries, members of the club will seek to "inoculate"
spirit of which dancing and a spirit the University with the real French of gaity play no little part. La Bouree," an Euvergnat dance (the Middle Age's "Big Apple"), -will be featured.
French songs will be whistled in Alfred streets, French greetings will be exchanged, French cinema stars will appear in Alumni Hall and even the student whose acquaintance of French is limited to "oui" will feel called upon to air his knowledge.
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On this page a few weeks ago we seconded Chaplain McLeod's motion for occasional forums during which students and members of the administration might talk over matters on which they seem to speak different languages.
That proposal has been tabled, apparently,—tout not permanent- ly, we trust. Meanwhile we find in the week's news a third kind of forum which seems to us well adapted to Alfred, since a num- ber of Alfredians already are participating in it.
Down in Hornell some of the vicinity professional people meet periodically in the YMCA for what most of them refer to simply as a "gab-fest". Last week Alfred professors monopolized the con- versation, arguing about the merits of young Doctor Hutchins' in- novations at the University of Chicago.
A good many of us would like to hear that discussion. We are interested, at least some of us are, in the Chicago system, and we also would like the opportunity of seeing some of our professors doff their company manners and debate on some subject in which they are really interested.
We should like to hear the biologists' and the psychologists' comments on each other's field; the opinions of Drs. Sutton, Drake1, and Russell, for instance, on the Chinese war; the possibilities are almost limitless. Here is a project for the Christian Associations.
Will they accept it ?
SOCIAL NOTES
Delta Sig Banquet Social Calendar Spring Fashions
• By Becky Vail Second semester's social whirl was started by the Brick.
A semi-iformal dance was held in Social Hall, Saturday.
' Music by Palmer spelled an evening of rhythm and romance.
Faculty guests were Prof, and Mrs.
Harold O. Burdick, Prof, and Mrs.
Ray W. Wingate, and Chaplain and Mrs. James MfcLeod.
Chairman of the dance was Mar- garet Lawrence, assisted by Made- line Short, Isobel Milsop, and Janet Rogers.
Delta Sigma Phi held its eighteenth installation banquet on Sunday. Din- ner was served at one-thirty, with guests, honoraries, and 20 alumni present.
Hugh J. Ryan, mayor of Bradford, Pa., was the guest speaker. Others heard were President J. Nelson Nor- wood and Dean M. Ellis Drake.
A corporation meeting followed the banquet.
The new Social Calendar follows:
Feb. 13—Forum Feb. 19—Delta Sig
Kappa Nu Winter Formal Feb. 25—Klan Alpine
Feb. 26—Intersorority Ball
Pi Alpha Birthday Dinner Mar. 12—Sigma Chi
Theta Chi
Mar. 17-18—St. Pat's Festival Mar. 26—Theta Chi
Apr. 1—Klan
Junior and Senior Dances (pending)
2-^Bartlett Pi Alpha
23—Brick Spring Formal
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Letter Complains About Pilferers;
Miss Hiett's Coal Chute Discussed
Apr.
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Strip-Tease Intellectuals
The American Student Union, pinkish in complexion though it may be, deserves unqualified support in its drive to raise funds for educational rehabilitation in China, onee it gives assurance that all the funds collected will reach China and will be used for educa- tional rehabilatation.
But that better publicized aspect of the A. S. U.'s Sino- Japanese policy, the boycott of "Japanese" silk, should be examined more closely. It was good publicity material, particularly when well-proportioned co-eds stripped off their silk stockings and tossed them into bonfires, to the edification of visiting cameramen.
But was it good economics?
Is it true that the American silk worker suffers more from the boycott than do,es the Japanese militarist? Is it true, as some reputable statisticians assert, that the money with which Americans buy silk from the Japanese is used by the Japanese to buy cotton from the Americans?
In other words, before any Alfred women start revealing bare legs to visiting photographers, and before Alfred men stop wearing ties altogether, let them find out whether their moral indig- nation against the Japanese is working the greatest hardship against the Hornell N. Y., or Paterson, N. J., silk worker and the already poverty-stricken Southern share-cropper.
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Delirium
Swivel-chairs and guns—
And men who gave orders—
Bayonets and cigar ashes And bright lights and pain And swivel-chairs
Around and around in eternal circles- He lay in the mud and tried to think.
Last he remembered,
The colonel had a shine on his boots—
He gave orders And men died Like this
A shine on his boots—
Cigar ashes
Swivel-chairs and guns—
And pain.
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—John W. Nutter
Kappa Nu will hold its annual Winter Formal next Saturday evening, February 19.
The affair will take place at the house with the latest recordings for music.
Chairman B a r n e y F r i e d m a n promises surprise entertainment. The committee in charge includes Al Cohen, Harold Edleson, .Irving Milrot, Irving Hirschfeld, and Danny Freed.
Lillian Ohavis, class of thirty-seven, spent mid-semester vacation'at Sigma Ohi.
The ground hog saw his shadow, and spring is still another six weeks away. Nevertheless clothes-conscious co-eds are glad to throw off those wool dresses for a snappy little bolero in the ever popular navy blue. A bright roman-striped shash and a new bonnet hat with a long veil complete the costume.
Perhaps you would prefer one of the new pastel wool suits, worn with dark accessories.
A "chic" number for dinner and dancing is the navy jumper dress with a pastel blouse—most charmingly feminine.
Not to be overlooked are the spring prints, this year patterned after the Paris Exposition and in the new colors Sehaperelli purple, soleil, and pale pink.
And for these, we make a dash to the nearest department store to see what we can Hind.
To the Editor:
There is a rapidly spreading disease ravishing Alfred's campus of which Janet Rogers made mention in a re- cent Fiat Lux. '
Students and professors are being constantly molested by a parasitic pestilence called "Something for Nothing". Having infected Social Hall, The Brick, and the Library, it is now settling down on the Ceramic Building, where it not only rapes art supplies and despoils valuable books belonging to professors and under- graduates, but also plunders the "still life set-iips," which to Ceramic Art students are as vitally important as joring in chemistry or engineering, experiment set-ups are to those ma-
For every "plague" a cure is gener- ally found. By studying cause and effect, can not something be done in order to prevent Alfred's becoming an unresisting prey to this parositic disease?
Sincerely, Laura Miller Frances DeWitt Professor Schreckengost Tag:
To The Editor:
The Jan. 17, Fiat reports Hiett's conclusion that education for
I do not have space for figures but give one interesting fact. In the ag- ricultural schools, of the young people from families of Erbhofbauern about one-third were young women.
(The Erbhofibauern form a kind of farming elite, both as regards the type of farmland the character and talents of the owners).
It is not strange that women should be connected with the study of agri- culture when one considers that ap- proximately onejhalf of farm work in Germany is accomplished by women.
I do not know of any decree or ordi- nance which would deny to women the opportunity for higher education for professional or other ends, nor bar them from special training to;
a particular kind of work in industry, commerce or the art's. And the mat- ter can not justly be. said to rest on the arbitrary decision of one in- dividual.
If I too may be allowed to dance about on the head of a pin I should like to remark on the incident mentioned by the assem- bly speaker of transferring the coal to the basement.
The coal mentioned was very likely, Miss | as is almost universal in Germany, lignite briquettes. They are not dif- women is frowned upon in present flcult to chip or break and are thus day Germany. This is not in strict I ill-suited to be sent down a chute, accordance with fact, though it no in fact coal chutes are not in common
use in Germany and for briquettes doubt reflects prevalent opinion.
Women began to attend German < not at all.
Universities in the latter part of last century in conjunction with the ap- pearance of the "emancipated wo- man". This is reflected as a social phenomenon for instance in Gerhart Hauptmann's drama "Lonely Lives"
(1891).
By 1911 about 5 per cent of Uni- versity students were women, a per- centage which increased to approxi- mately 10 in the years of the Re- public (11.7% in 1928).
I For the winter semester 1935-36, the percentage of women stood at slightly above 13, while the percent-
Most families there live in the equi- valent of our apartment or flat (Wohnungen) and heat by individual stoves in the room, not by central heat. The stoves are fired by the briquettes brought up by the coal man in a basket or tray-like container and piled in the kitchen, storeroom or perhaps in the basement, generally in the neat fashion mentioned by Miss Hiett.
I hardly think it can be credited to the lack of initiative of the labor service girls that not one of them thought of putting the coal in with a
Alfred Co-op Movies
HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME—
Thursday and Friday evenings, Feb. i 17-18.
Starring: Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, and Elizabeth Patterson.
Whoosh! it's oil. Ta-ta-ta-ta-taa.
It's music, Bang! It's spectacular!
Why! "High Wide and Handsome".!
It's a rousing melodrama of the struggle of independent farmers' against wicked financiers in a modern oil field.
Romance finds its way into this set- ting via a medicine show which brings Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott to- gether, and when boy meets girl com- plications are always the result.
SHORT SUBPECTS ARE: "Fowl Play," a Popeye cartoon; and "Sweet Shoe," featuring Rita Rio, her or- chestra and The Four Norsemen.
NOBODY'S BABY—^Saturday evening, Feb. 19.
Starring: Patsy Kelly, Lyda Ro- berti, Lynn, Overman, and Robert Armstrong.
That madcap Patsy Kelly, and her buddy Lyda Robert! are off on one of the maddest adventures that ever in- volved a hospital and an actress's baby. Ludicrous mixups and curious treatment of patients by Patsy and Lyda a« probation nurses are bound to cure all fits of blues,—so here ia what the doctor orders for those post- examination feelings.
age of women among the newly matri- chute. The natural thing in Germany culated students was above 15. is to carry briquetes as it is for us
In fairness it should be noted that to put coal down a chute.
the absolute number of women stu- dents in 1935-36 is approximately 3300 less than in 1928, but this is due to a lower quota for all students and not to a hostile attitude toward education for women. Recent years have thus seen a continuation of the gradual growth of the past.
There is probaibly no good reason to assume that the number of women studying at the universities will de- crease in the future. About 20 per cent of medical students are women, 32 per cent in pharmacy, 12 per cent in chemistry, 20 per cent in education and above 50 per cent in the ancient and modern languages.
So too in the 26 academies of music and art, which are separate from the universities but reckoned as institu- tions of higher learning, women stu- dents make up something less than one-third of the total: for the school year 1935-36 more than 600 women among 2100 students.
If we turn to schools which supply training for agriculture, trades or busi- ness, it is likewise evident that wo- men are not denied special training.
"The Romance of Radium" is to be
Drawing large conclusions from small data imperfectly understood is a dubious business and can't be recommended for the develop- ment of a dispassionate point of view. We can only give the young lady the benefit of the doubt in view of her enthusiasm and inexperience.
(Prof.) Charles O. Buchanan
COLLEGE T O W N
Fiat Sits In
On Bull Session- Is It The Profs, Or Us, Or Both- ?
By The Editors
While the younger critics were soberly immured in their .tiny cubicles lamenting the absence of the Great American Novel, Sinclair Lewis wrote it.
THE PRODIGAL PARENTS is not, as the title suggests, merely a study in family relationships; it is the demo- cratic dream vivified and made vis- ible through the characters which he has created.
Frederick William Cornplow, presented as a short subject. Radium | wife, Hazel, his son Howard,
his his has until now defied attempts to ob-
tain moving pictures of it, because of the danger of approaching it. Other short subjects are: Olympic Ski Champions, The Clock Goes Round, and Arnold Johnson and his band.
daughter Sara, Howard's wife, Anna- belle, and those others that people the pages of THE PRODIGAL PAR- ENTS, are the living realities of a system of government which recog- nizes that the ideal sta,te of govern-
They were sitting around a table in the Collegiate, wearing that beaten look that tells a visitor marks have just came out.
"My folks," said one glumly,
"are going to be most annoyed."
"Mine," said another, "didn't know what to think. I was home over the week-end and had a long talk with Dal. He wasn't sore, exactly; he just couldn't figure it out."
Nobody spoke for a little while.
The atmosphere of gloom around the gathering grew thicker and thicker.
Finally,
"Dad talked about how 1 used to get swell marks in high school," said the second speaker. "He wondered if I was wasting my time up here, or what." )
"Ah," said another disgustedly, "ft isn't us; it's the profs."
"Dad wondered about that, too,"
said the second speaker. "Back in high school he knew all my teachers, and when one of them let the fellows down, Dad or some of his friend*
kicked to the principal about it."
"I wonder," spoke up a 2.4 man,
"if it could be the profs. I'm getting pretty good marks, because I'm tak- ing courses that I'm really interested in. Maybe I've got a single track mind, though."
"All of us have our good courses,"
mused the second speaker, "even those of us who aren't preparing for any kind of job in particular. I wonder
why."
"It's the profs," insisted the man on the west end of the table. "They don't try to make their courses inter- esting. All they do is dish out the same material year after year."
"It's easier that way," said the 2.4 man.
"That's just it!" exclaimed the second speaker. "It's easier that way
•easier for them and easier for us."
"We must like it," observed the 2.4 man, "or we'd complain about it."
"We do like it. We may not learn much, but we get through without working much, either. The only time we complain is when we get a flock of D's."
"That makes us," said the 2.4 man,
"a bunch of sheep".
"It makes the profs," said the second speaker, "a damn poor bunch of shepherds".
"All rigiht. Complain, then. Tell them you're tired af listening to them read in their sleep. Maybe they'll tell you what's wrong with you, too, and we'll all get off to a fresh start".
"Who's there to complain to?"
"How about The Fiat?"
"They wouldn't print it."
"They might."
They did.
Johnny Boyle lost his arm in the fight in Easter Week.
But Bill Dermody Io3t his pants ia Wellsville.
It was a dress rehearsal for the three-act Irish tragedy, "Juno and th»
Paycock," which will be presented to- night in Wellsville. Derntody finish- ed his performance as Furniture Man Number One and went to the dress- ing room to change clothes.
He stepped out for a minute, and Malcolm Hill unwittingly snapped th«- lock on the dressing room door, lock- ing Dermond/y's pants inside, with no key in sight.
At 6:15 p. m., when we left Wells- ville, Dermody was still clad in a trench coat, searching for his pants.
ment is an aspiration as the ideal person is a hope.
A long corridor in the gallery of life must, in the future, be devoted to Sinclair Lewis. Carol Kennicott, Elmer Gantry, George F. Babbitt, Doremus Jessup—all these are in niches along the corridor; but at its end, facing everyone who ventures down the democratic vista, is Freder- ick William Cornplow.
In this novel, Lewis writes with effectionate sympathy of a successful business man who suddenly realizes that he has to make some decision concerning his demanding son and daughter, their friends, and his shift- ess relatives. That decision and hi*
escape from eternal servitude make a novel that almost "Babbitt" in re- verse.
No society or prize committee can bestow greater honors on Sinclar Lewis than he has already received, but time will seal with approving stamp this last book, as toeing au- thentically that novel for which the American spirit has been waiting.
FIAT LUX, FEBRUARY 15, 1938, ALFRED, N. Y. Page Thtee
S I D E LINES
End Of A Fine Record—A wny' s Downfall-Odds And Ends
By JACK MOORE
Few people realized the true significance of the 35-23 defeat that Clarkson Tech administered to the Saxons of Alfred a week ago tonight in the gymnasium.
That defeat was more than Al- fred's fifth for the season.—It was more than the repetition of a win that the Tech men handed the Saxons test year.
It was the swan song for a glorious thirteen game win-streak that the Saxons had enjoyed on their home floor since 1936.
In the middle of the 1936 season Saint Bonaventure's Indians squelch- ed the Purple and Gold court machine by a 46-26 score. Since that time, Alfred has met and defeated thirteen opponents.
That was, up until last Tuesday.
Last year Alfred's hoopsters smash- ed an equally proud home-court record of Niagara University when they eked out a 39-36 victory over the Pnrple Eagles—the Eagles' first defeat on Monteagle Ridge in four years.
This year, however, their number was apparently due and it came up last Tuesday night.
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Alfred's proposed boxing meet with the Syracuse Jayvees has been can- celled and negotiations are now afoot for later meets with other schools.
However, Prof. Harrison, hoxing ooach and former coach of the Cor- nell University squads, has been qout- ed as saying that one man on his squad, a 135 pounder, is "the best man in his class that he has seen in the intercollegiate circles".
One way that we might test that statement would be to send that man to the intercollegiates late in March.
It's worth a try—at least.
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Alfred's power in the lighter classes of the wrestling team was made even more apparent Saturday night when the 118, 126, 135 and 145 classes swept their Toronto opponents to build up a 21 point lead over the visitors before Toronto could take a point.
In the Colgate meet a week before, Argyros, Brundage won their matches while the 118 class was forfeited be- cause of Bernie Spiro's Injury. Oh- mitie took Gutheintz' place in the 145 class in the Toronto meet and won <by a decision. Glenn Mudge, new 118- pounder, staged a remarkable come- back to overcome his opponent.
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Incidentally, they're telling a good one about the difficulty Dr. Seidlin had choosing between Gutheintz and Ohmitie for the Colgate meet.
Two eliminations matches were held before the meet and no ap- parent difference was discernable bewteen the two. Seidlin, in des- peration, asked some student kibitzers—"What would you do in a case like this?. One is as good as the other—"
"That's easy," the onlookers chorused—"Flip a coin."
So Seidlin proceeded to pro- produce five coins. "Holler," he told Gutheintz—"When I throw them up in the air".
With that, tie threw the coins recklessly to the winds and Gutheintz made his decision
"Heads!" he cried.
Going over to the spot on the mat where the coins had landed, Seidlin bent over, looked and then turned to Stan with a credulous expression on his face—"You win, Stan—you win," his voice trail- Ing off into nothingness.
Eagerly the crowd gathered around the spot and then they too too turned around with a gasp.
Gutheintz had won all right—
ALL F I V E COINS HAD LAND- ED—HEADS U P !
An hour later, in the locker room, Ohmitie was found still sitting on a bench, dazedly shak- ing his head—"Five heads—ALL of them!"
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Plenty of trouble is in store for the Saxons when they face Saint Bonas' undefeated Indians Saturday night in Buffalo. Thursday night St. Lawrence eked out a 33-32 win over the Saxons while the following night the Bon- ales made it seven straight for the season by drubbing the same Lar- ries outfit by a 53-39 count.
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Unfortunate was that incident dur- ing the Toronto wr&stling meet Satur- day night. But, out of fairness to the Toronto squad, you should know that the person in question was not!
Cagers Face Hartwick, Cortland And Bonas This Week
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Wrestlers Hold High Hopes For Meet Following Rout Of Toronto
Light Weights Expected To Give Saxons Big Edge
Sid Fine, Bulls Coach, Former Alfred Man
HIGH HOPES for a successful season were raised Saturday by the complete rout of Toronto Uni- versity by the Alfred wrestling team. The lighter weights show- ed ^mazing strength as every weight class under 165 emerged victorious. Toronto's only points were scored in the three heavier classes to give them a total of nine points after Alfred piled up twenty- one points. Alfred garnered three pins and two decisions, while the Canada grapplers collected three de- cisions for their total.
The opening match of the meet saw Glenn Mudge pin Burnett in six minutes to give Alfred five points in the 118 pound division. Aristy Argy- ros won the 126 pound event when he gained the decision over Keefe of Toronto.
Brundage and Stanley Gutheinz each pinned their man ,while Awny Ohmitie won a decision to sweep the light- weight divisions for Alfred. The last three weights were more evenly con- tested, with the decisions going to the visitors.
The summary:
118—Mudge (A) over Burnett (T), time 6 iminutes
126—Argyros (A) over Keefe (T) 135—iBrundage (A) over Robertson
(T), 8:38
145—Gutheinz (A) over Weare (T), 155—Ohmitie (A) over Amos (T)5:00 165—Schwenger (T) over Oliva (A) 175—Scott (T) over Dyer (A) Unlimited Lathrop (T) over Thomas
(A)
The next meet is scheduled for Wed- nesday, February 16, !at home. At this, the last home wrestling mee't of the season, Alfred will seek to down Coach Sidney Fine's charges from the University of Buffalo. The Buffalo grount and groan men have lost a meet recently to Toronto to the tune of 19 to 9. Coach Fine, a recent grad- uate of Alfred, will be out to repeat his last year's victory over his Alma Mater. The return of some of the men who were injured for the Toronto meet should make the meet an even match.
Collegiate Mixup By A. C. P.
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Minnickmen Chalk Up Three Straight Over Semesters
Alfred High, Buffalo And Dunkirk Fall As Frosh Even The Books
Badminton Elimination Matches Underway
ELIMINATION matches to decide upon a tour-girl-team to represent Al- fred University in a Badminton Play- Day at Cornell University ia under- way with Eleanor Drake managing It.
THE RAPIDLY IMPROVING Frosh hoopsters brought their game average to .500 by administering a crushing 55-25 defeat to Dunkirk Collegiate Center on the hardwoods at Davis Gym Thursday night. A series of smoothly executed plays which used Pardee and Humphrey as the spearheads of the at- tack completely baffled the visitors who were on the short end of a 27-9 score at half time.
The Greenies' broke into -an early lead which was never relinquished as every man was given an opportunity to show his skill at basket hanging and defensive work. Pardee with his long distance sharp-shooting was> high scorer with 11 points, Hollingsworth, always an excellent defensive man was second with ten points. Humphrey's hook shot worked for six points.
For the visitors, who seemed lack- ing in scoring plays, Zalenski scored nine points and Sammartino eight.
The Summary :
connected in any way to the visitors' school.
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Upperclassmen may recall the Willie Green-Goldenberg trip to Colgate basketball game last year at Hamilton. Well, this year.
Snuffy Edelson and company pull- ed the same thing—only they did it up a little better!
Snuffy pulled up in front of the Elmwood Music Hall in Buffalo just in time to see the crowd come out after the Buffalo-Alfred court fray—missing the game by five minutes. Green and Golden- berg at least saw two minutes of the Alfred-Colgate game and their car broke down at thatl
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INCIDENTALLY—Hobart defeated iHartwick 40-31 Saturday night in Geneva with Mulligan, Hartwick guard, piling in eleven points. . . Rochester Business Institute's five maintained an unblemished record Saturday taight toy whipping Cook Academy 46-34 at Rochester. . . Al Todd, referee for the Alfred-Grove City game is the same Todd that catches for the Pittsburgh Pirates National League Baseball out- fit. . . Syracuse's Boxing varsity lambasted Penn State's vaunted squad 6-2, over the week-end. Maybe our maulers were lucky, at that! . . Brow- nell's injury is the same that Danny Minnick had to contend with during his collegiate career—and they both hail from Salamanca! . . Best puzzle of the week: "What became of the
skating rink?" . . Rochester Me- chanics grapplers defeated Toronto 18-14, Friday night, while Toronto holds a 19-9 victory over the Bulls of Buffalo. Buffalo Is due to appear In Alfred tomorrow night.
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Alfred Frosh rang up their fourth win of the season by defeating a re- Vamped University of Buffalo five 34- 24 in a preliminary to the varsity Alfred-Buffalo game Saturday, Febru- ary 5, in Buffalo.
The Frosh built up a 12-2 lead by the first quarter and led 19-7 at the half. Bob Humphries led the scoring with eight points, while Whitwood garnered six.
The Buffalo squad was made up of jayvees and frosh. The frosh team lost four of the first five by ineligi- bility.
Bob Harrington, star court man on the crack Bulls cage teams of '30 and '31, coached the 'Bulls.
The summary:
Alfred (34) Buffalo (Sd) G F T G V T Musg'e, f 2 0 4 Chap'le, f 1 2 4 Pardee, f 2 1 5 Gerbasi, f 4 0 8 Holl'g'th O i l DePalma 0 2 2 Whitrd, c 3 0 6 Zitter, c 2 0 4 Shine, g 2 0 4 Cohen, g 0 1 1 McGiU, g 1 2 4 Hiller 1 1 3 Homp'es 3 2 8 Ruhl'er.g 1 0 2
Belden 1 0 2 Enls 0 0 0
Totals H 3 25
Totals 27 1 55 Referee—Potter, Wellsville
GirPs Archery Finals Held
Advance Archers Compile Notebook For Club
The finals of the Alfred Winter Archery Tournament were held Mon- day evening at the gymnasium with the following girls participating:
Elizabeth Benz, Virginia Plummer, Norma Witschieben, Rene Richtmyer, Margaret Diehl, Margaret Carpenter, Elaine Richtmyer and Kathleen Kastner.
An Archery note hook containing a history of Archery, description and records of Archery activities at Al- fred, a collection of poems, their theme being the bow and arrow, and an original poem by Irma Komfort, Types of wood for arrows and bows have been collected and ;was pre- sented to the Alfred Archer's Club.
The note book was compiled by the advanced archery class consisting of, Margaret Carpenter, chairman, Elean- or Driscoll, Beatrice Collins, Nellie Bond and Elsie McAbee, was presented to the Alfred Archer's Club.
Totals 14 6 34 Totals 9 6 24 Alfred University Frosh swamped an outclassed Alfred High School five 36-9 in a preliminary to the Alfred- Grove City game Thursday, February 3, in the gymnasium.
Johnny Park counted twelve points, and Wlhitwood ten points. Scholes was high for the High School five, with nine points.
Twelve men saw action for the Frash.
Girl's Basketball
League Begins Monday
The Women's Intramural Basket- balj games are scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 21.
Five teams are entered, of which the managers are: Martha Kyle, Pi Alpha; Ruth Crawford, Sigma Chi;
Sue Kohl, Theta Chi; Jean Hallen- beck, Brick I; Grace Sherwood, Brick II.
The schedule:
Feb. 21—Brick I vs. Brick II Pi Alpha vs. Sigma Chi Feb. 28—Pi Alpha vs. Brick II
Sigma Chi vs. Theta Chi Mar. 7—Brick I vs. Theta Chi
Sigma Chi vs. Brick II Mar. 14—Theta Chi vs. Pi Alpha
Sigma Chi vs. Brick I Mar. 21—Pi Alpha vs. Brick I
Theta Ohi vs. Brick II A sixth team, composed of outsiders, the Town-Terriers, and managed by Lula Johnson is a probable entrant.
Basketball practice is held Friday afternoons, 3-4:45, and Saturday mom- ings, 10-11:30.
AH girls interested in refereeing these games should give their names to Winnie Wioikus before Friday.
4 5 - 2 4 Win Clinches Title For Bonas
Olean (Special)—St. Bonaventnre's Indians clinched the Little Three basketball title Sunday by routing Canlsius College, 45-24 before a capa- city crowd in Butler Gymnasium.
Hooks Loeven, Indian spear head, garnered twelve points. St. Bonas meets Alfred, Saturday night in Buf- falo.
Beautiful A N T I Q U E CLOCK for sale. Mahogany Empire, made 1835,
Would Stage Comeback After Clarkson, Larry Defeats;
Brownell Lost To Squad
Saxons Face Hartwick Five Tonight
.THREE TOUGH GAMES face the basketeers of Alfred this week as the Saxons prepare to stage a comeback after a disastrous week in which they dropped games to Clarkson Tech and St. Lawrence Tech, one by a narrow, heart- breaking, one-point margin.
Clarkson defeated the Saxons, 35-23, Tuesday night on the gymnasium floor while St. Lawrence eked out a thrill- ing, last minute 33-32 win Thursday night.
The Clarkson defeat was the end of the Sax'sons* thirteen game win-streak on their home court. It was the first loss suffered at home since the St.
Bonas' 46-26 defeat in 1936.
Tonight the Saxons meet the Harts of Hartwick College at Oneonta, N. Y., for the second time this season. Hart- wick lost, 39-36, in the first game of the season when they opposed the Purple and Gold on the gymnasium hardwood.
Tomorrow night, the courtsterB take on Cortland Normal at Cortland, N. Y., while Saturday night they will enter the arena at Broadway Auditorium in Buffalo against the mighty, undefeat- ed Mike Reilly's from Saint Bona- venture College at Olean. The Bonas game will be played in a double- header with Canisius and Long Island i University.
Double Win
Grove City College and University of Buffalo fives fell before the Saxons a little more than a week ago when the Purple and Gold ran up 41-31 and 43-26 scores against the two. Grove City, beaten by a ten point edge, had j previously shellacked the Saxona, 40-1 27.
Buffalo, a. much vaunted outfit, was j unable to cope with a clicking Alfred offensive that ran up a 13-0 lead in the first six minutes of play. Thej game, played a week ago Saturday j night in Buffalo, was held in the Elm- \ wood Music Hall.
The Clarkson game, following the Buffalo victory by four days, saw the Saxons wallowing, in the depths of sudden reversal in form. Off their stride, the Saxons were all but knock- ed off their feet by the Engineers from Clarkson.
Brownell Lost
Dick Brownell, center, was pulled j from the game early in the first half j suffering from a split knee cartilage.
After that, the Saxons were helpless, allowing the Tech-men to build up an 18-10 lead by half-time, a lead which
they eventually ballooned into the final 35-23 score.
Brownell's injury will keep him on the bench for the majority of the remaining games. Coach Yunevich's revised line-up now has Greenman at center with Johnson and Buckley at guards and Glynn and Bizet up front.
Polan, Vance and Ken Vance are the utility men.
Throughout the four game series, one notable fact was outstanding.
The Saxons' foul shooting, notoriously poor at the beginning, was improved two-fold. In the St. Lawrence game, Bo Johnson's fouls kept the Saxona right up in the running until the last minute. In the Buffalo game, the Saxons' forty-three points were gain- ed largely by their converting seven- teen out of twenty-seven fouls.
Bob Glynn alone put eight out of thirteen through the hoops to take high scoring honors with sixteen
total. His scoring consisted of four buckets and eight fouls.
Buckley Outstanding • . - Perhaps the most outstanding • ex- ample of individual all-around , play was that of Ray "Buckaroo" Buckjey's.
in the Grove City game in which he held Petach, scoring threat of the Grovers, down to seven points—-threes buckets and one foul—while he took high scoring honors himself with a ten point total—three buckets and(
four fouls. Petach scored nineteen points against Alfred in the first, game. i
Two Saxons gained recognition for their court prowess during the past four games. Blip Greenman, sixth man on the squad in the early part of the season, succeeded in ousting Bo Johnson from the starting line-up in the Buffalo and Clarkson games by showing up in great form in the Grove City battle. Blip led the Saxons in the 41-31 Grove City victory, playing;
a flawless game. In the Buffalo game he started at a guard position and then shifted to the center tor t h e Clarkson game.
Brownell's injury in the Clarkaow game made room for Johnson when the team went out against the Lar- ries, Thursday night.
Polan Comes Through
Dighton Polan, heretofore an ( er- ratic player, rose to new heights in the Clarkson and St. Lawrence games.
It was his play that featured the Saxons' last half, uphill, battle against the Tech men from Potsdam., while in the Larries game, in the- final minutes of play, buckets by- Polan kept the Saxons in the middle of the fight.
The St. Lawrence game was' the heart-breaker to lose—leading 15-1©
at the half, the Saxons were out; in front during the last half until the- flnal minutes of play. Then the Lar- ries crept out in front.
Holding a three point lead, 30-27.
the Larries fought desperately to. bold onto their edge as the game enter- ed the final minutes. Glynn shoved one in and Polan repeated to bring;
the Saxons to within one point, 30-29.
Leckonby, Larry sub, sank a foul and a bucket, putting them out in front once more by a four point edge, 3S-29.
Buckley sank a foul and Johnson also converted a charity.
"A Heart Breaker"
The score stood 33-31. One basket would send the game into a deadlock.
A poor Larries, pass was blocked in mid-court by Johnson. He scrambled for the ball, falling down as be gain- ed posession of it. Byrnes, Larries center, seeking to stop Johnson, broke lose and went down to drop it in the nets—the game stood tied with but one minute left. But the whistle had blown. Bill Hueson, um- pire, declared a Coul on Byrnes, ruling;
no basket.
Johnson dropped in the foul but the Saxons were on the debit side of the ledger by one point. The point.
that decided the game—
(Summaries of the Grove City, Buf- falo, Clarkson and St. Lawrence game*
may be found on Page i—Ed. Note)
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