The Daily Lariat (Waco, Texas), No. 10, Wednesday, October 1, 1941

DOWN DENVER DOWN DENVER BAYLOR,^ UNIVERSITY’S ^ NEWSPAPER- Z-754 Waco, Texas, Wednesday, October 1, 1941 NUMBER 10 Sara Lowrey Will Lead At BRH Tonight Poetry And Song To Feature Special Services Tonight A silhouetted cross in a darkened room amd the reading of poetry to the accompaniment of organ music form the program for “The Cross in Poetry and Song,” special feature of the Baylor Religious hour at 7 o’clock tonight. Poetry Will Be Given Miss ,Sara Lowrey, head of the Baylor speech department, will read the poetry while the cross silently and dramatically provides back¬ ground inspiration. Margaret Law¬ rence, B. S. U. organist, will be playing soft music on the Brooks memorial organ. The program will start promptly at 7 and be dismissed at 7:40, allow¬ ing everyone sufficient time to attend the circus, according to Le Earle Drake, B. S. U. program chairman. Miss Lowrey Is Well Known Miss Lowrey is well known to Baylor students and faculty both as a teacher and for her readings. She received her master of arts degree from Baylor, and since has done graduate speech work in University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa, Louisiana State Unversity and at Oxford, England. Article Tells Of Armstrong And Indian Poet In a recent article requested by the “Rectangle,” national organ for Sigma Tau Delta literary fraternity, Dr. A. J. Armstrong, head of the Baylor English department, related the story of his personal friendship with Rabindranath Tagore, includ¬ ing his bringing the poet to Waco and his two visits with him in In¬ dia. Tagore Comes To America At the outset of the first World War, Dr. Armstrong made arrange¬ ments with Tagore for the poet- philosopher to visit Waco, with the fee of a thousand dollars to be paid for one lecture. By the time Ta¬ gore had arrived, Dr. Armstrong had spent over $200 in advertising and $125 on telephone calls to gain the temperamental Indian poet. When the day finally came, Ta¬ gore’s secretary informed Dr. Arm¬ strong that there was a chance the poet might not speak. However, he not only lectured and autographed books but also invited Dr. Arm¬ strong to visit him in India. Armstrong Visits Tagore In world tours, Dr. Armstrong twice visited Tagore at his home in Santiniketan, India. Friendship with Tagore resulted in the poet’s translation of some Browning poems in Bengalese for the Baylor Brown¬ ing collection. Watering System Is Being Built Construction of a huge watering system which will sprinkle flowers along the walk from Pat Neff hall to Judge Baylor’s statue is well underway with the digging of a trench being the present work of the project. Along a pipe will be a series of sprinklers which will cover an area of 30 feet. This sys.tem is believed to be able to care for the work of eight boys. Air Corps Officer Will Meet With Baylor Students Friday ENTER SERVICE WITH PROF. SARA LOWREY All Classes Meet Today Plans for Baylor’s annual home¬ coming, Nov. 1, will be made this morning by each of the four classes during chapel period, Raymond Hankamer, president of the Cham¬ ber of Commerce, announced Tues¬ day afternoon. The seniors will meet in room 110 of Science hall, the juniors in the Geology lecture room, the soph¬ omores in the Bible lecture room, and the freshmen in Waco hall. Officers To Be Elected Officers will be elected for this term, and each class will elect two committees, one to plan the home¬ coming program to be presented in chapel and the other to plan the homecoming float. A Chamber of Commerce man will meet with each of the classes to help make them formulate plans. Homecoming Queens are to be selected by the classes. Classes and organizations should contact Peeler Williams or other Baylor Chamber of Commerce of¬ ficials, beginning Thursday if they want downtown concerns to help them build the floats, Hankamer said and added that it would be a case of first come, first serve. Chamber Will Keep List A list of the firms will be kept by the Chamber, and the commi- tee must contact the chamber be¬ fore they contact the concern, so as to prevent duplication of select¬ ion. The class programs will begin the Tuesday before homecoming, the seniors in charge of the first pro¬ gram and the freshmen in charge of the last. BAYLOR'S DEBATE SEASON WILL BEGIN DURING DECEMBER Debate season has been cut two months, Prof. Glenn R. Capp, Bay¬ lor director of forensics, announced Tuesday afternoon. Heretofore the season has lasted from October to April but from now on it will not start until Dec¬ ember. Prof. Capp is also chairman of the Pi Kappa Delta committee to decide the debate question. Meanwhile the major part of the work by forensic students has been concentrated on oratory. Speakers have selected their subjects and have already begun work on them. Extemporaneous subjects will not be announced until after the first, of the year, Prof. Capp added. Mrs. Shirley To Attend TWPA Meet Mrs. E. M. Shirley, professor of the school of business, will go to Dallas Saturday to attend a board meeting of the Texas Women’s Press Association. Mrs. Shirley is treasurer of the association and will have a part on the program at the meeting. She will speak on “Women and Finan¬ ce”.. Students interested in becoming flying cadets in the army air corps will have a chance to confer with Sergeant W. C. Forsyth, representa¬ tive of the U. S. army air corps, on the campus Friday. A meeting will be held Friday afternoon at 3:40 o’clock in room 110 in the Science hall to discuss requirements, both scholastic and physical, for entrance into the army air corps. The meeting is intended to en¬ courage interest in the air corps and is a part of Baylor's effort to aid in national defense. Although Baylor has no engineering school, success¬ ful effort has and is still being made to encourage students to enter the various departments of the United States armed forces. Requirements Are Lower A prescribed course has been giv¬ en by the army for young men who wish to enter the air corps with only nine college majors. Previous to this time it has been necessary to have completed eighteen majors in college before making applica¬ tion. The course which has been pre¬ scribed by the army and is being offered by Baylor is as follows: sub¬ jects required: two majors in Eng¬ lish (101, 102), three majors in Math (103, 104, 106), and two ma¬ jors in Science, either Chemistry, two majors (101, 102) or Physics, two majors (101, 102). Recommended electives: two ma¬ jors in history (103, 105) or four majors in a foreign language (French, German, or Spanish). May be met by two units in high school and two majors in college or by four majors in college. It is necessary to make C minus or better in each subject in order to be admitted to the air corps without See AIR SERVICE— (Page 4) Unknown Friend Gives Baylor Gift The Baylor Strecker Museum yesterday added a tarantula and a dead water dog to it’s collection through the - generosity of some anonymous friend who labeled the gift package “Warning! This is no joke! This is a deadly tarantula and water dog!” When the package was opened, sure enough there was a real live tarantula, but the water dog was dead. The contents of the package were turned over to Dr. Leo T. Murray, curator of the Strecker Museum. CARTER WILL BE FIRST SINGER ON MUSIC PROGRAM John Carter, lyric tenor, who has just completed his second season with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will be the featured sing¬ er at the first concert of the Waco Symphony Society which will be given Oct. 20 in Waco hall. Other concerts will include per¬ formances by Ida Krehm, pianist; Marcel Hubert, French celloist; and Eleanor Stieber, soprano. Baylor music school office and Nov- ich’s on Eight and Austin streets are ticket sales centers. The symphony society officials pointed out that persons who sec¬ ure season tickets may attend the symphony concerts in San Antonio at a reduced rate. WILE PLAY LEADING Slime Night Plans Given Tryouts for Baylor’s “Slime Night” program, which will be stag¬ ed on the night of October 9th at the Orpheum theatre, will be held in Recital hall next Monday after¬ noon at 6:30 o’clock, according to Yell Leader Beverly King. Movie Is Named “Sing Another Chorus” starring Johnnie Downs and Hugh Herbert will be the feature movie on the gala night, King also announced. “We want all freshmen with tal¬ ent to come over to the auditorium for about an hour,” King continued, “so that we may have auditions for the program. We want to have lots of variety.” University students will be ad¬ mitted free, upon presentation of blanket tax to the show. The stage show will last about an hour, and then the movie will be shown. Frosh To Stage Parade Freshmen will gather in front of Waco hall, where the parade will be formed. The parade will go down Fifth street to Austin and then over to the theatre. Upperclassmen will go along with the freshmen. Yell leaders King, Skipper^ Miller and Bill Allcorn will lead a few yells in front of the theatre. All freshmen who plan to try-out are asked to get in touch with one of the yell leaders before Thursday night. Chamber Votes In Eleven New Members Eleven new members were voted into the Chamber of Commerce at a regular meeting of the club held in the Publications building last night. Those voted in were: Van Sweet, Bland Schwarting, David Bragg, Jimmy Morris, Walstein Smith, John Cowan, Clayton Day, Bram- lett Beard, A. J. Carson, Willie Long and Dan Julian. The members will be informally initiated into the organization at the next meeting of the club. BEARS WILL ENTRAIN FOR DENVER FROM STATION TONIGHT Baylor’s football players and coaches will leave for Denver to¬ night at 7:20 o’clock from Katy de¬ pot to play their second game of the season Friday night. The boys will stop all day Thurs¬ day in Amarillo, where they will work out. Thursday night they will banquet at the Herring hotel. Stu¬ dents wanting to go to this banquet are asked to write John Fullingim, Oliver-Eakle bldg., Amarillo, for reservations. Plates are one dol¬ lar each. Many other Baylorites are leav¬ ing Wednesday night and Thursday morning and night for Denver in cars, it was reported. Richard Hawkins and Dorothy Carpenter will play the leading roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Baylor Theater’s first production of the year which opens November 6 in the new theater, Director Paul Baker has announced. Tryouts were held Wednesday and Thursday nights of last week. Rehersals began Monday. Hardin Plays Duncan Duncan, the king of Scotland that Macbeth kills in his rise to power, is played by Loraine Hardin. Charles Cockrell portrays the unlucky Banquo. Bill Walker plays the heroic Mac¬ duff and Elizabeth Briscoe plays his wife. Macduff’s associate nobles are as follows: Lennox, Bill Moss; Ross, Eugene McKinney; Angus, Clyde McElroy. Ed Goeman portrays the drunken porter. Malcolm and Donalbain, sons of King Duncan, are played by Randy Quick and Jim Issacs respec¬ tively. Thomas Will Lead Witches Hecate, the leader of the witches that put the ambitious thoughts in Macbeth’s head, is portrayed by Miriam Thomas. The three witches are Elaine Merideth, Margye Ful- gham, and Frances Williams. Boyce Drummond and Porter Crow play the murderers. Other important characters which have been cast are: Siward, Walker James; Young Siward, Boyce Drummond; Seyton, Virg\l Bea¬ vers; a Scotch doctor, Nelson Wade; a soldier, Albert Meroney; a gentlewoman, Wanda Fishburn; Fleance, Jerry Ratliff; and a ser¬ geant, Alvin Bean. Johnnie Nelson plays one of the apparitions. Round-Up Staff Will Sponsor Photo Contest The Round-Up staff is looking for good pictures, and Baylor stu¬ dents can now capitalize on the film they’ve been burning up around the campus. Prizes Will Be Given To the person turning in the best pictures to the Round-Up office be¬ tween now and December 15, a prize of $10 cash will be awarded. Besides that, the picture will appear as a full page in the Round-Up with an inset picture of the person submitting it Jem Englander, editor of the 1942 edition. Other prizes will be given for the next best, as well as for the third and fourth winner. Rules are as follows: Name of person submitting pic¬ ture must be written on the back in ink, and turned in with the negative. No picture will be considered with¬ out the negative. Judges will be the Round-Up staff, and each week several of the entries will be posted on the bulletin board in front of Science Hall. The best one will be selected on Decem¬ ber 16 and made into a cut for the yearbook. Size is Immaterial Size of picture is immaterial, but See ROUND-UP— (Page 4)