Freshman Class Edition
Hmmtrft Crimson
Mirror Of Campus Life
Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, March 4, 1937
Twenty
Masquers To
Offer Play
Two Nights
Shakespeare’s Comedy Is
Being Made Ready
For Stage
BSU Delegates
To Leave For
Spring Retreat
Quartet To Offer Varied
Program At Meeting
STUFFED COURT VETOED
Students Vote In Freshman Poll
Denies Right
Of New Plan
The Baptist .Student Union Spring
Retreat, to be held March 6 and
7 in Montevallo, will be attended
by several Howard representatives,
it was anounccd today.
Howard's deputation probably will
be the largest of any other school
represented. There are to be four
representatives from the University
of Alabama, Judson, and Auburn,
and two each from the State Teach¬
ers Colleges at Florence, Living¬
ston, Eldridge. Jacksonville, and
Troy. Howard is to have eight rep¬
resentatives. i
Oliver Wilbanks, of the Univers¬
ity and state president of B. S. U.,
will preside over the conference.
Those attending the Retreat from
Howard are Katherine Walker,
May Will Atchison, Ann Claire
Cooper, LaFayette Walker, aiu^
Charles Barnes. The Howard quar¬
tet composed of Jack Akin, Ralph
Fields, LaFayette Walker and Hoyt
Ayers will offer several selections.
The program will begin at eleven
o'clock Saturday morning and close
at noon Sunday.
When the Howard Masquers pre-
jent William Shakespeare's Corn¬
er of Errors, March 11 and 12, it
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be the first time this drama
has been presented in Birmingham
in the twentieth century.
The play is being designed and
toadied by Winthrop Kelley. Mr.
Kelley is the only professional stage
director of authentic international
record and standing in theaters of
the English-speaking world how
leaching south of Washington. He
has spent a year in research in or¬
der that the Byzantine model and
costumes which he has worked out
will be authentic.
The cast includes: Solinus, Jer¬
ry Walker; Aegean, Lee White; An
tjp^lus of Ephesus. Cecil King;
Antipholus of Syracuse, Glenn
Stewart; Dromio of Ephesus, Bil¬
ly Bums; Dromio of Syracuse, Jack
Reiser; Balthazar, Charles Clarke;
Angelo, Alex McCutcheon; First
Merchant, Tom Childs; Second
Merchant, Tom Hunter; Pinch, Hugh
Frank Smith; Aemilia, Elizabeth
Davis; Adriana, Anne Joe Ryan;
Luciana, Margaret Burford; Luce,
William Darden; Phryrio, Mary
Katherine Pass;. Headman, Alfred
Evans; Officers. Homer Bagley,
Archie Pruitt; Pages, Jeanne Martin,
Irene Martin. Rebecca Daily; Tail¬
or, Billy Eppes; Porters, Alfred
Trim m, Zeb Lucas, Harry Mar¬
tin; priest, Vemon Frazier; Nuns
Mildred Nichols, Mildred Lawrence,
Alice Roberts, and Billy Childers.
Chairmen for the committees are;
art, Alita Townes; designer, Win¬
throp Kelley; music, Mrs. Severin-
Frost; Business Manager. Henry
Anderton; stage sets, Billy Eppes;
book-holder, Ruth Oliver; proper¬
ties, Rachel Dorfman; costumes,
Mrs. W. L. Huggins; lighting, Har¬
well Davis; make-up, Ruth Oliver;
house. Harold Baxley; program,
May Crowley; publicity. Billy Chil¬
ders.
The play is being directed • by
Miss Antoinette Sparks and is to
he presented in the college audito¬
rium on March eleventh and twelfth.
One hundred and eight out of
200 students voted against Presi¬
dent Roosevelt's proposed change
of the Supreme Court, according to
the Freshman poll conducted this
week.
Eighty-one, or 40 percent, voted
for the change while 11 desired
to remain neutral as the plan seem¬
ed neither commendable nor desir¬
able to them. Three out of every
four co-eds voted against the Pres¬
ident's plan, while four out of ev¬
ery five pre-medical students voted
in favor of it
Of the 108 voting against the re¬
form, 80 hastened to add that they
had alwhys been wholeheartedly
with the President heretofore and
considered themselves one-hundred
percent Democrats.
The "cotp”, leading by a good fif¬
teen percent, definitely indicated
that the students are leaning to¬
ward the voting of the nation as a
The general opinion of the
Taking time out from freshman courses are Mildred Massey and
Gussie Burton, shown above, adding their note of disapproval to the
Supreme Court poll taken by William Stickles especially for the
Freshman Edition.
Mildred Wyers To
Direct Activities
Of Girls Group
Students Occupy
Local Pulpits
Last Sunday
A Year Older
HOWARD STUDENTS are still
having birthdays. Among
those having birthdays this next
week are:
March 8— Dick Clay, C,37
March 9— Bernard Couch, C'40
" —Virginia Hess, C39
” —Clyde Hubbard, C'40
” — Elvin Manderson, C'40
March 10— C h a r 1 e s Shinpock,
C’38
March 11— George Mosely, C'38
'• —Katherine P u r i f oy,
CSfl
March 12— Frank Landers. C'40
March 13— Louise McConnel, C-
whole.
student body Is that, although Pres¬
ident Roosevelt’s plan might be
feasible during the present term,
it would be a dangerous precedent
for less able successors. Also, as
stated by many voters, a great
number feel that no one age limit
can be set upon a group of men as
everything depends upon the indi¬
vidual himself.
According to the NEA Service
Poll, cities all over the United
States are now voting two-toone
against the President's plan.
The vote here has gone a great
deal like that at the University of
Alabama, while Auburn and Bir¬
mingham-Southern approved the
reform by almost a three-to-one vote.
The Women's Athletic Association
announces the following officers
elected for the new year: Mildred
Wyers. president; Margaret Hen¬
drix. vice-president; Mary Lee
Vines, secretary; and Ellen Ruth
Isbell, treasurer.
These new officers and the re¬
tiring president, Mary Katherine
Pass, accompanied by Miss Bozen-
hard, will attend the State Wom¬
en's Athletic Association Confer¬
ence at Huntingdon College, March
5 and 6.
Howard was well represented in
local pulpits Sunday, when twenty
students qpoke on the subject, "What
Christ Means To A College Man."
Howard students speaking included
Charles Barnes, Bill Bartlett, Min-
yard Brown, Thomas Chandler, Bill
Frazier, Herman Greer, Roscoe
Griffith, Arthur Hayes. Alvin Hig¬
don, Herbert Howard, Richard Hud¬
son, James Lynn, Alex McCutcheon,
Ellis Payne, Almyr Pesnell, Arch¬
ie Pruitt, Eugene Roberts, Mabry
Rhodes, Hubert Stone, and La¬
Fayette Walker.
Luxury Tokens Fall On Alabama
Co-Op Robbed
By JOHN TARRANT
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SPITE OF the attempts of Dean
Obenchain et al to keep this cam¬
pus of Howard College pure and
noble, it seems that with the re¬
cent amendment to the constitu¬
tion of our fair state there has also
come into existence a sinister force
for evil in the form of gambling.
Little did the politicians and the
belittled tax payer dream that here
at our very own campus doors lies
one very good argument in favor
of the abolishment of the latest
burden of the common people, the
sales tax. But after all ’it just
gees to show that all the facts of
the case were not known and could
ncit be known until a practical trial
was made. So how can one blame
Hi» nnor voters of today? It must
Howard Co-op on Underwood Ave¬
nue v/ep broken into and robbed
of approximately three dollar*
worth of chewing gum and candy
recently.
Several days later the thief, a
Negro and former employee of the
Co-op, whose name has not been
divulged, was apprehended.
Euel Johnson, student manager of
the Co-op, said the Negro forced
his entry through a window in the
rear. After a thorough search of
the building, he was unable to locate
any cash, although there was over
$200 in the building.
He left by way of the back win¬
dow, through which he carried sev¬
eral boxes of candy and chewing
gum. He is now in the hands at
authorities.
Geshkoff Speaks
Visiting Professor Has Talk On
Carnegie
Professor Theodore Geshkoff de¬
livered the third of his series of six
lectures on international relations
*t chapel. He prefaced his talk
with a review of the life of the
treat American philanthropist, late
Andrew- Carnegie.
Dr. Geshkoff concluded Ms pref-
'tory remarks with the statement,
"It was the Division of Economics
and History of the Carnegie Endow-
®ent which has sent me over here,
°n the request of your amiable
President, Dr. Neal, to lecture to
Fou on international affairs for six
weeks."
The peace advocater concluded
bis speech with, a rapid and in¬
teresting survey of international
conferences and congresses held for
Mr. J. J- Newberry etc., unveuea
before the election all (they
thought) of the evil results of such
folly.
For who could tell that such dig¬
nitaries as Dick Clay. Earl Wilson,
Mildred Wyera Xall A honor roll
pupils) would stoop to that abom¬
inable sport (?) of gambling? Why
recently it was reported that the
a id Mr. Clay lost the total amount
off 0000.5 cents in a little game
