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On The Campus and Down the Hill
Push-ball game, annual event between
Sophomores and Freshmen,
ended in defeat for '51 this year.
Losing ground, the ball, and in one
case reported by the Sun, their pants,
the Sophomores were swept from upper
Alumni Field by a six-foot ball
enthusiastically guided by Freshmen.
End of the struggle landed the ball
on a table-top in the Willard Straight
lobby. Later in the evening it turned
up, half deflated, in Balch Arch and
has been missing since.
Coal mine exploration climaxed a field
trip of Industrial & Labor Relations
School's ' 'Industrial Occupations"
class. Guests of Hudson Coal Co. in
Scranton, Pa., the forty-three students
were luncheon guests at the
Chamber of Commerce, heard a talk
on the anthracite industry, and were
then issued miner's caps and lamps
for a tour of the mine which took
them 900 feet underground.
Dartmouth athletes who have deserted
the wilds of New Hampshire
for Cornell are Charles Urstadt, all-
American breast-stroke swimmer, enrolled
in Law School; and James
(Chip) Coleman, last year's basketball
captain and guard, in the Graduate
School.
Radio network linking WVBR, Cornell,
and WRUR, Rochester University,
is now in operation. Programs of
this first intercollegiate broadcasting
chain, called the Empire
Network, are recorded
for re-broadcast
by student stations
at five other colleges,
including Columbia and
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
Theater Conference
sponsored by Rural Sociology
and Speech and
Drama Departments
was attended by 131
delegates from New
York State "little
theater" groups. Professor
Mary E. Duthie
Rural Sociology, was
elected executive secretary
of the organization.
Conference highlights
were an excellent
performance of
"The Barrets of Wimpole
Street" by the
Westchester Drama
December i, 1948
Association and a demonstration of
the Willard Straight Theater's new
lighting system by Professor Walter
H. Stainton '19, Speech and Drama.
Repeat performance was necessary to
accommodate more than 200 pledges
at the annual Inter-fraternity Assembly,
October 31. Identical meetings in
Willard Straight Memorial Room at
7:15 and 8:30 were addressed by Dr.
Liston Pope, professor of social ethics
at Yale, who spoke on "Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity." Dean of Women
Lucile Allen also addressed the
pledges.
Outstanding player in a season-closing
match between the Varsity women's
field hockey team and a picked graduate-Faculty
eleven was Professor
Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26.
Fighting to a draw the graduate-
Faculty shinbone chippers, the women's
team ended its season with
three victories, two defeats, and this
tie,
Gandhi Memorial Library will be dedicated
in the University Library next
January 30, with ceremonies which
may be attended by Asaf Ali, Indian
Ambassador to the United States. The
Memorial Library Fund was started
by the Cornell Hindustan Association
after Gandhi's assassination, last January
30. C. K. Narayanan Nair,
Grad, is chairman of the committee
to collect books and funds.
EAR-SPLITTING FRATERNITY DISPLAY WINS CONTEST
Judged best among thirty, Zeta Psi's entry (above) showed Dartmouth
Indian stalking placid, yo-yo bouncing, Cornell Bear. Climax of moving
spectacle was a blackout split with hideous screams after which the bear
was seen bouncing Indian-head. Contest was part of Week End highlighted
by football, houseparties, and Barton Hall dance. Kiotzman
Queen of the Fall Week End "Coronation
Ball" at Barton Hall, November
13, was blonde Marian K. Madison
'49 of Buffalo. She won over twentyone
other beauty contestants entered
by their host organizations, and was
crowned by band leader Johnny Long
who also presented her with a collection
of gifts contributed by Ithaca
merchants. Her sponsors, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, received a half case of champagne.
Drive-in movies theater to cost more
than $200,000 is planned on a twentythree-acre
plot eight miles east of
Ithaca on the Dryden Road. Grading
began in September, with opening
expected next spring. Designed to
accomodate 800 automobiles, each
served with an individual loud-speaker,
the theater will have "one of the largest
screens ever erected," according to
Julius Berinstein, general manager of
Cornell Theaters, Inc.
New trading center is under construction
on the Elmira Road, just
over the Ithaca city line. Expected
to cover eight acres and cost $500,000,
the trading center will include a night
club, large parking lot, self-service
store, and various other enterprises.
Statler Hall was the subject of an
article in the October 17 New York
Times. Written by William J. Waters
'27, news editor of the Ithaca Journal,
the article described
plans to use the $2,-
500,000 building to
train Hotel Administration
students.
WHCU-FM went on a
full-time schedule, November
1, with broadcasts
continuously from
6:30 a.m. to 12:05 a.m.
In the thirty years of
Cornell broadcasting
and radio experimentation,
this is the first
such regular schedule
to be maintained.
"Swivel Chair Twirl"
was the name given by
students of the Business
and Public Administration
School to
their first dance, November
20, at the
Ithaca Hotel.
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