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Mirror Of Campus Life
TVenty^Second Year
Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, January, 28, 1937
Fifth Frat
Votes Out
‘Hell Week
Joins Faculty
Campus Busy
As Quizzes
Near Finish
Founders’ Day
Planned For
February 5th
Exercises Are Dedicated
To Late Prof. Eagles —
Bryan Will Get Degree
Pi Kappa Phi’s Will Not
Use Any ‘Rough Stuff
On Future Freshmen
Mid-Semester Registration
Gets Underway With Big
Increase In Enrollment
Howard was a busy place Thurs¬
day as some students were in the
midst of examinations and others
were getting rid of their registra¬
tion worries.
Most students will complete their
quizzes Friday although a few will
have to return to them campus Sat¬
urday. Most out-of-town students
will spend their mid-term holidays
at home.
Second Term Opens Tuesday
Classes for the second semester
will open Tuesday, Prof.
С лаг
S.
Causey said, in advising again that
students register this week to avoid
the rush and confusion next week.
Monday will be an official h85-
day on account of registration.
Those students who register this
week can do whatever they please
on Monday.
To “Kush" Students
"Hushing” will be the theme song
of the eleven Greek letter fraterni¬
ties and sororities on the campus,
with approximately 100 new stu¬
dents expected to enter Howard.
Many parties and small social af¬
fairs will be given during the week
end and during next week in honor
Founders' Day at Howard on
Thursday, Feb. 3, will have special
significance for three reasons.
1. On that occasion the college
will celebrate its ninety-fifth an¬
niversary.
2. The program will be dedicat¬
ed to the memory of the late Prof
T. R. Eagles.
3. The honorary degree of
L. L. D. will be conferred upon
John E. Bryan, superintendent of
Jefferson County Schools.
Founded At Marlon
Founded at Marion in 1843, How¬
ard has seen many colorful and
progressive vicissitudes. Some of
these will be traced in the program
to be given on Feb. 5.
Prof. Oscar S. Causey, registrar
of the late Prof. Eagles, former
There will be no more “rough
duff' for pledges about to go
Ibrough initiation ceremony.
Vote It Out
With the announcement Thursday
bp President Charles Sharp that the
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Kappa Phi's have voted out this
■tiiildish practice,” all five of the
Greek letter fraternities on the cam¬
pus have turned thumbs down on
■Hell Week.”
Two weeks ago The Crimson made
• survey and found that four of
the five fraternities on the campus
had abandoned "rough stuff.” At
their next meeting, the Pi Kappa
Phi's, led by Sharp, voted to abol¬
ish this custom.
Why Abolished
“I am glad to say that my fratern¬
ity has abolished this practice,”
Sharp told The Crimson Thursday,
nothing good may be reasonably
md logically claimed for 'Hell
Week.' This action was taken to
prevent any injury to body and
rride: to make the initiation more
dignified, and to eliminate one of
the outstanding criticisms of the fra¬
ternity systepi.”
"Hell Week ’ movements are un¬
derway on campuses throughout the
United States. National fraternity
organizations hope it will be aban¬
doned everywhere within the pres¬
ent school year.
Picture Courteiy Birminghskjn News
CARROLL KILPATRICK
Picture Courtesy Birmingham News
JOHN E. BRYAN
At Founder s’ Day exercises Thurs¬
day of next week, Mr. Bryan will be
awarded the honorary degree of
L.L.D., voted to be given him by the
Howard board of trustees. Mr. Bryan
is superintendent of education Of edu¬
cation in Jefferson County and a
leader in this field in the State.
Age-Herald Editor
To Teach Coutse
In Current Events
at Howard, will speak in mSnory
professor and vice president and
one of the college’s most beloved
faculty members. He had a sig¬
nificant part in much of Howard's
progressive program.
Bryan's Work Recognized
When the college confers the
honorary degree LL. D. upon Mr.
Bryan, it will be a fitting tribute
to his work in education in Jeffer¬
son County and in Alabama. The
trustees of the - college voted to
make the award because Mr. Bry¬
an’s work has not been limited to
this vicinity but has embraced the,
entire state of Alabama, it was said. '
Founders’ Day has come to be
one of the most important evenls
at Howard every year. Special
programs are always planned wilh
prominent persons invited to be
the featured speakers. Two years
ago Dr. Edwin Mims came from
Vanderbilt to speak.
‘Can We Be Neutral?’
Topic Of Dr. Irons
Carroll Kilpatrick New
Member Of Faculty
"Can We Remain Neutral?" will
be the subject of Dr. George V.
Irons, associate professor of history,
-when be speaks to the Interna¬
tional Relations Club Wednesday.
Dr. Irons, who has done research
work at Duke University on the
history of the Foreign Relations of
the United States, will indicate the
opinion of several leading Ameri¬
can authorities on foreign affairs on
this question, and give arguments
pro and con with regard to the wis¬
dom of our present foreign policy.
Plans are being made to send a
delegation from the Howard club
to the sixteenth annual conference
of International Relations Clubs to
be held in Auburn Feb. 19-20.
Carroll Kilpatrick, assistant editor
of The Birmingham Age-Herald, will
teach a course in current history at
Howard next semester, according to
Dean P. P. Bums. Two hours cred¬
it will be given for the course, which
will be from 8:30 until 9:30 on Tues¬
days and Thursdays.
James Truslow Adams’ "The Epic
and Time Magazine
One of the largest mid semester
enrollments since the pre-depression
era is anticipated, according to
Prof. Causey.
of America,’
will be used as textbooks, Mr. Kil¬
patrick said.
Journalism student of the late
Clarence Cason, Mr. Kilpatrick was
graduated from the University of
DO YOU RHYME?
Are you a potential Eddie Guest?
Do your heartstrings quake when
Shakespeare is quoted?
H so. there is a place for you in
the newly organized chanter of the
Poetry Society of America on the
Howard campus. (There is already
one member signed up. with his
dues paid.)
This is no joke. Escapists, neu¬
rotic cases, psychological frustrates
—all are invited to j$in this club,
which will meet three times a semes¬
ter to further the repigation of John
Milton, Percy Shellej}, T. S. EUot.
Ezra Pound, Archie (McLeish. and
local products.
The fee is slight— no more than
enough to purchase a copy of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox.
WHAT WILL IT BE?
The Masquers met Tuesday to
decide on a play to be presented at
the college soon. According to
Rachel Dorfman, graduate member
assisting Miss Antoinette Sparks, it
will be either a Shakespearean
jlay; "The Queen's Husband,” or
three one-act plays.
]y industrialized and a sea-porl
town; the Marxist ideas found a
ready reception among thq labor¬
ing classes which constituted the
vast majority of the population.
"Lenin, having ousted the Men¬
sheviks under Kerenlky, and hav-
before the end of the World War
won the support of all Russia for
his Bolshevism, conceived of a
communist world revolution and
predicted In 1918 that Spain would
be the first nation after Russia to
adopt Marxism successfully,” Prof.
Lancaster continued.
"Fascist rebels, composed of men
archists, clericals, conservative re¬
publicans, and those who wanted a
dictatorship, recognized and aided
by Germany and France, lost many
supporters because of their cruel
aerial bombardments of the civilian
population of Madrid.”
“Germany, Italy, and Russia, m
spite of non-intervention pacts
signed with France and England,
are (lending troops and munitions
to both belligerents. 'Skirting on
the edge of wari la • decidedly
By BLANCHE WALLS
“There would be a slight chance
that the frightful meaningless ear¬
ns ge in Spain would not be the
'dress rehearsal for the next world
war’ if American mercenaries were
•hipped of their citizenships and
companies exporting armaments
were heavily fined or put out of
business for unpatriotic activities,"
•aid Maxwell Lancaster, associate
Professor of romance languages,
when interviewed by The Crim-
«n. ' Also, German, Italian, and
Russian political factions and air¬
plane and munitions makers should
b* forced by national legislation to
refrain from sending men and war
equipment to either Fascists or
Loyalists."
"The seeds of the separatist move¬
ment in Barcelona were sown dur¬
ing Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship
when he tried to abolish the Cate
ioman language from shop window,
newspaper, and schools,” he said.
"Trouble in the provincial dis¬
tricts of Catalonia arose when dis-
Nate Schenker. Howard’s 210-Lb.
heavyweight,’ avenged Bob Stew¬
art’s defeat at the fists of Big Little
of Hugo Black C.C.C. by pounding
Little over the ring for the first two
rounds only to tire in the third and
receive a draw. Schenker complete¬
ly outclassed Little, both on defense
and offense, but his lack of train¬
ing showed in the final minutes of
the bout
