THE GATE POST
Vol. VII
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FRAMINGHAM, MASS., NOVEMBER 20, 1937
No. 3
HARVARD
Hockey—Captain Louise Whittemore, '39
Basketball—Captain Eleanor Ridder, '39
YALE
Hockey—Captain Barbara Carle, '39 Basketball—Captain Emma Nelson, '39
DO14TMI55m HARVARD-YALE WEE K-ENbl
Freshman Expectations of Harvard-Yale
Week-end
When first Harvard-Yale week-end pierced through the log that surrounded me during my first tender hours here, I perceived that it was an exhibition game played on our campus by the teams of those two illustrious schools. To! tell the truth I couldn’t see those young men in this den of women, but just at that time the whole world seemed to be filled with conflicting ideas (such as dorm rules). Later an upper-classman corrected me on the point and said that it was the week-end on which our girls played each other on teams under the names of Harvard and Yale. It struck me as rather dead, and I dismissed it from my hectic life, mostly concerned by that time with books in pillowcases, towels on heads, umbrellas, and all that the seniors could think up to make our lives worse. As we neared this much talked of weekend, I overheard two juniors talking. One said that she was going home a certain week-end and the other quickly said. "Oh no, that is Harvard-Yale week-end. You wouldn't miss that.” Now the only reason a freshman exists during the week is so she can get home on week-ends. And when a boarder was giving up going home for the week-end, why it must be something to prick the ears up about. It was at this time I heard about the Mock-man dance. What whispering and titterings going on in the corridors. One night during study hour the punge.pt odor of burnt hair pervaded the corridor. Upon
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W. A. A. Conference
The delegates to the Women's Athletic Conference of Massachusetts State Teachers Colleges held at Framingham on November 4, 5, and 6 represented Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Framingham, Lowell, Hyannis, Salem, North .Adams, and Westfield.
The general theme of the conference was creating international friendship through recreational activities. The conference opened with Miss Edith Sinnett's address on the International Girl Scout Conference at Camp Andree.
Welcoming speeches were given by Barbara Carle, president of Framingham A. A., President O'Connor, and Mr. Grayson, Massachusetts State Supervisor of Physical Education, after which we were given a background of the Girl Scout movement by Bridgewater. This was followed by special reports:
Folk Dancing and Dance Festivals by Hyannis Organized Sports in Various Countries by
Fitchburg
Athletic Festivities by North Adams
International Institute of Boston by Framingham
Youth Movement in Foreign Lands by Lowell What We Can Do to Promote International
Friendship by Westfield
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Inside Information!
As Harvard-Yale week-end draws near there is much speculation as to which side will win. We have (with much difficulty) secured the opinions of some of those who are “in the know"—we hope.
MISS BERNICE W. TAYLOR, friend of both teams:
"Prognostications are always a big gamble. If Susie plays her best, and Ruby doesn’t, then Hicksville will or will not win the game! And my conjectures given your Gath Post staff a week before the game are just about as accurate. As a matter of fact, we have probably never had teams with as little chance to show a good game with well developed teamwork as we have this year. Why? Every year, more events seem to be crowding in on the 4.15 hour and what gets crowded out is the chance for after-school sports. Accordingly my only prophecy can be a venture built entirely on the number of veterans that are left to each squad. On paper, then, Yale hockey seems to be decidedly more prosperous than Harvard, for Harvard has left only Captain Louise Whittemore and Anna Gage, who played the entire game; Grace O'Donnell, Marie Russo, and Eleanor Pike who played in part of last year’s game. Contrast this with Yale, who lost through graduation only Evelyn LeFort and Anna Smith, while Betty Bullard’s failure to return deprived them of another half-back. If they have any teamwork, however, it is left over from last year. The basketball teams are more evenly matched as to left-overs, for Harvard
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THE GATE POST
Published every month during the school year by the State Teachers College, Framingham, Mass.
STAFF FOR 1937-38
Managing Editor—Jane Homer, '38
Assistant Editor—Linnea Anderson, '38
Hoard of Reporters
Literary—Myrtle Schneider, '38
News—Helene Carroll, '39
Sports—Barbara Carle, '39
Social—Margaret Lovett, '39
Exchange—Harriet Cashner, '38
Personals—Grace O’Donnell, '38
Jeanne Arbuckle, '40
Faculty—Virginia Kerrigan, '39
Alumnae—Lucy Valentine, '38
Training School—Catherine Ellis, '39
Special Reporters—
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Esther Stcnsby, '38 Beatrice Frankel, '38
Levona Lamb,'39 Marjorie Pattison, '40
Dorothy Scully, '40 Anne Newell, '40
Business Manager—Marie Russo, '39
Assistant Manager—Ruth Hemingway, '39
Circulation—Helen Walker, '38
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Finance—Edith Yuill, '38
Distribution—Elizabeth Foster, '38
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EDITORIAL
Put this in your pipe and smoke it I
Question: How many of you four hundred odd Framinghamites like to write? How many of you are that type of unfortunate—or fortunate—person that, as soon as a bright idea pops into her curly head, just can not rest until it is down on paper for all to enjoy? Or, right along with that query:
Question’: How many of you lovers of scribbling entered our poor, downtrodden GaTH Post contest ? Well, I'd blush to reveal the exact number!
And, tied up closely with my seemingly irrelevant questions, come a few other brain teasers. What is “School Spirit?" How many of us can honestly say we have "School Spirit?”
Do you see the point now?
The Gath Post Contest is merely one incident in a parade of events that has covered years— a parade of events in which each event found itself in the same difficulty—a case of non-support, as it were. Why is it that in a college of healthy, fun-loving girls we have to practically fall on our knees and plead for a little enthusiasm hnd support from the rest of the school?
Yes, go ahead; tilt your nose at a forty-five degree angle and sniff “Well. I did go to International Night last year!” Was it because you were a member of Home Ec. and so felt that you were compelled to go? Or, was it because you are so enthusiastic about the af-
How About It?
Wouldn’t it be a shame if all those girls had to pay for dance tickets when they didn’t go?”
"You mean those girls who signed up on the sheets, don't you? Well, in one way,—yes; but in another,—no. You sec, the committee planned room and refreshments for everyone who signed up; then, when only about half the number bought tickets, arrangements for orchestra and refreshments had to be changed at the last minute. Then too, programs had already been prepared for the entire number. Just imagine the trouble caused for the committee and the money lost!"
"Yes, I sec that. But wasn't it a little unfair to have the girls sign up at such an early date? Some of us find it difficult to be certain of a friend so far ahead of time; then, there arc always those who discover at the last minute that they can go. It’s not entirely square to keep these girls from coming to our dances; we don’t have them so very often, you know.”
“How could we ever make an estimate of the number coming if we didn’t have sign-ups? Counting hands in chapel is inaccurate, to say the least. There must be some way of arranging matters to satisfy more girls—if not all of them. Can you suggest something?”
“Signing at a later date would make matters difficult for the committee in charge, so that wouldn't help.”
"No—do you think we could arrange two sign-ups at the usual two weeks ahead? Wc might have one sheet for those certain of coming and another for those who would like to come but have not been able to make sure."
"Yes—and then we might add a restriction to that last sheet to give the girls one week to make their plans definite and then let the committee know about their tickets."
“Good work! That should give those in charge an idea of the number coming and permit everyone a chance for a ticket. Let's see what the crowd thinks; how about it?”
—Mary Callahan.
fair—a grand Framingham get-to-gether that you babbled over with high spirits and even persuaded those two shy retiring freshmen to come along and join the fun.
And suppose you belong to A. A. and attend— oh, Stunt Night, and Harvard-Yale week-end and a few other A. A. events; can you find it in your heart to give a helping hand when the Glee Club gives a concert ? Or do you sigh find say "Oh well, I just can’t understand music I"
And so, in the interests of any and every organization on the hill, I'm asking for the good, strong, Rock-of-Gibralter backing for the good times that this year—and all the years— will bring.
Are you with me? YES!
—Myrtle Schneider.
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Putting Books in Their Places
“What an easy assignment I” I thought when our English class was asked to classify our reading according to those needs which it satisfied and to compare with it other sources of satisfaction. However, once 1 had found a certain niche for a book, I soon discovered another place that it fitted equally well. As it is now. I find that I am completely up a tree, for really, how can one draw the line when a book that offers relaxation also turns out to be spiritually inspiring? Or what should one do if one really finds joy in something that provides intellectual stimulus as well? Obviously I cannot picture an absolutely true, cut and dried classification of my reading, but 1 shall try to present a fairly typical one according to the assigned headings "mei’e pastime”, "relaxation”, “pleasure", "joy”, "intellectual stimulus”.
Often, simply to pass the time away while waiting for something or someone, I pick up one of the popular women’s magazines and start some light fiction. If I never have the chance to finish it, I seldom know the difference as the thread of the story has usually slipped my mind in a day or two. In the same way, I turn on the radio, idly twist the dial from station to station, and listen avidly to news bulletins, dance orchestras, or foreign stations—practically anything but lectures or political speeches.
When my head is all stuffed up from concentration, or if 1 feel crabby or depressed, a short quick walk, especially at night or in the rain, seems to bring me relaxation. Many nights last year just before turning off my light, I was accustomed to read a little poetry perhaps for only five or ten minutes. The rhythm wa-s soothing, and a new train of thought was introduced which was more inviting to sleep. I remember, as outstanding, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nathalie Crane, and Carl Sandburg’s "The People, Yes1”
So many activities give me pleasure that it becomes difficult to choose an example. However, I do derive great pleasure from music, both actively and passively. I recall now the pleasure I had this summer in reading “Nijinsky" by Madame Nijinsky, and “Kristin Lav-ransdatter” by Sigrid Undset.
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SNOW
The wind whistled and howled. The slashing snow cut our faces. Still we plodded on, battling against this unconquerable force. All landmarks were blotted out in weary waste of white drifts and driving snow. We stumbled, fell, forced ourselves up and onward. Fighting for foothold we faced this icy blast hour after hour. Darkness was swiftly falling. At last, utterly exhausted, we discerned the dark form of a cabin directly in front of us. We staggered toward it and groped for the door. Feebly we hit the latch with our numbed hands. The door opened, and we fell across the threshold into into warmth and life.
—Eleanor White.
A’Kempis Club
The Fine Arts Club
Home Economics Club
“LET’S GO”
December 10, 1937, Friday evening, in the Coplej’ Plaza's luxurious State Suite, our own A’Kempis Club will hold its fourth annual dance. The whole school is invited to swing to the music of a smart Bostonian band. Tickets will be available after Thanksgiving holidays.
"Ginny” Crowe, a noted "veteran” at running successful dances is again the enthusiastic general chairman of this formal. She is being aided by the following committee chairmen:
General chairman	Virginia Crowe
Publicity	Molly Higgins
Programs and tickets Ruth Teahan Invitations	Marguerite	Kirby
Orchestra	Mary	Campbell
Bailroom	Eleanor	Feerick
At the Federation Meeting held at Simmons College November 14, there was large representation from Framingham. After the meeting a tea was held in the Lounge. Among those who attended were Mary Callahan, “Bunny” McAuliffe, Eleanor McAuliffe, Kay Lydns, Kay Nagle, Edna Roberts, Lucille Guargna, Rita Hayes, Claire Mortimer, Molly Higgins, and Kay Whitney.
At this meeting reports were given by the various Catholic Clubs and Federation committee chairmen. Rev. Fr. Quinlan, Chaplain of Federation, spoke to the group, his topic being "Catholic Action.”
There was great enthusiasm shown for the Communion Breakfast to be held Sunday, November 21, at the University Club, Boston, after nine o'clock Mass at the Cathedral.
Next Federation meeting is to be held December 12, but the place has not been chosen.
—Kay Whitney.
Y. W. C. A.
What is the S. C. M.? The S. C. M. stands for the "Student Christian Movement." Kenneth Smith, chairman of the Boston Area Council, of which Framingham is a member, is going to explain the S. C. M. and its splendid opportunities for the girls here at Framingham. This most interesting discussion is going to take place at Crocker Hall, at four fifteen. Date? Delicious cider and doughnuts will be served.
The Y. W. C. A. "activity" is going to take place January eighteenth or nineteenth. Sue Hastings and her marionettes are going to put on a very entertaining performance. Be sure to come, all of you, as you will enjoy every minute! Don’t forget that there will be candy sold during the intermission.
The Monthly Cabinet Meeting will be held the second Wednesday, the eighth of December, from six-thirty to seven-thirty. The chairmen of different committees are invited to attend this'meeting.
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The Fine Arts Club held a meeting in Archibald Hall on October 25. The President, Jeannette Wilcox, opened the meeting by welcoming the members. Then she introduced the guest speaker, Miss Jane White, who is a student of the Vesper George School of Art. Her topic was “Masks and Puppets." During her talk she showed many masks, which were made by the students of the Vesper George School of Art last year, and demonstrated how a puppet, dressed as Mae West, is manipulated. Her interesting talk was well received and a great deal of new knowledge was obtained.
The puppet group meets every Wednesday at 4.15 in Miss Nietzold’s room with Barbara Cowan as chairman. The girls have started on their first puppets, which are clowns. Already some of the girls have modeled faces out of »lay and have begun to make the bodies of the puppets.
The dramatic group presented a pageant which represented Girl Scouts of different nations at the Conference of the Women's Athletic Association of State Teachers Colleges on November 5, 1937, in the Assembly hall.
On November 1, 1937, this group had as guest speaker, Mr. Puma. Shirley Norman is chairman of this group.
The verse speaking choir, with Frances Wilbur as chairman, recited "Brotherhood” at the Armistice exercises which were held in the Assembly hall November 7, 1937.
It is not too late to join these groups. Cornel
Joffrette Corre has been appointed as “Sports Fashion Consultant” for the Women’s Athletic Section program on Station WCOP at the Copley-Plaza Hotel every Saturday morning from 11.30 to 11.40. She will be glad to answer any questions you may have regarding the subject of "Fashions for Sports—Active and Spectator." Write in to Station WCOP for your copy of "Sportswear" by Joffrette Corre. The . radio program is under the direction of Miss King-man who is Chairman of the Radio Committee for the American Physical Education Association. The Fine Arts Club members in the Radio Group will have opportunity to broadcast at various times on this program.
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On Tuesday, November 2, the Home Economics Club held its second meeting of the year. At this time the Club was fortunate in having as its speaker Miss Eleanor Bateman from the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.
Miss Bateman's subject was “Consumer-Producer Relations" and she told us of the effort being made to enlighten the consumer, particularly in regard to the purchase of foodstuffs. Two aids to the consumer which have already been made available are a set of grades and standards ami market reports.
The work being done by the Agricultural Department is indeed helpful and is of great interest to those in the Home Economics Department.
International Night
Once again the Home Economics Club is making preparations for its annual International Night, which comes this year on Friday, December 3. The date is particularly appropriate as it is the anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, the founder of the Home Economics movement.
This year's program is being provided largely by Framingham talent—either by alumnae or by students of the college. Folk dancing and music are to have an important place in the entertainment. The Orient is to be represented as well as the West.
Refreshments will be sold as usual. These are to be characteristic of the countries which are pictured. The final number will be comprised of girls from the many nationalities represented here at Framingham.
—Jean White.
PUTTING BOOKS IN THEIR PLACES (Continued from /mi/e Iwo)
For sheer joy or delight, I love to read a clever satire or challenging essay or article, which either makes me so cursing mad that I could teai the book apart, or one which causes me to laugh so hard that the tears blot the pages. Frequently but certainly not too frequently, I run across these in the "Atlantic Monthly”, “Scribners" or "The Reader's Digest”. Off hand I recall something by Stephen Leacock in the May "Atlantic", what he called “an American version of a French play”. However, some of Leacock’s work seems just a bit too foolish to be enjoyable. Horseback riding certainly thrills me more than any other activity, with the possible exception of swimming in certain seasons.
Under the head of books which are intellectually stimulating I believe should be placed the books of Lloyd C. Douglas, the “Reader’s Digest”, the "Atlantic”, "The Digest", as well as newspapers. “A Return to Religion” also may be catalogued here. Lectures, radio and conversation with a cultured acquaintance I find definitely intellectually stimulating, while no other activity fill my spiritual needs more than a long, thoughtful walk, through woods, on hill tops, in fact anywhere that 1 can feel very near to Nature.
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Collegiate Review
The first issue of Com.eciate Review, new intercollegiate quarterly, will be out on November 10. This magazine, uniting as it does some forty of the New England colleges, will contain a variety of material that will be of interest to every college student.
First, there is a selection of the best literature written by the New England college student. Representatives in this department include poetry or prose from Boston University, Clark, Colby, Assumption, Connecticut State, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Massachusetts State, Tufts, and Wellesley, Providence, Smith, Simmons, and Worcester State Teachers'.
The second attraction:—social and campus news from some thirty colleges, collected and edited, plus sports news from almost as many schools. A birds-eye view of what the other fellow is doing in the way of recreation, extra-curricula, sports, social, and strictly curricular activities.
We boast reporters at the following schools-American International College, Assumption, Amherst, Bates, Becker, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Clark, Colby, Connecticut College for Women, Connecticut State, Dartmouth, Emerson, Emmanuel, Holy Cross, Mass. State, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, Northeastern, Pembroke, Providence College, Simmons, Smith, Springfield, Fitchburg State Teachers’, Framingham State Teachers’, Worcester State Teachers', Tufts, University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, Wellesley, Worcester Tech, and Vesper George.
Thirdly:—Features that include student appreciation of the theatre, the screen, music, radio, —book reviews, student statistics, college humor, and our letter from our foreign correspondent, all written by students on one or another of our campuses.
Special:—Vesper George Art School sends us student art work which we reproduce;—cartoons of student life; photos from Northeastern, Colby, Emmanuel, Smith, University of New Hampshire, to name a few.
All to be had, 96 pages of it, without a single page of advertising, for thirty-five cents the copy, or one dollar a year.
The fix in which the world finds itself is not unlike that of Alice in Wonderland when on one occasion she was running rapidly with the Queen. As they fell exhausted, Alice said, "Why, that is the same tree that we started at. Isn’t that odd?”
"What is odd?" asked the Queen.
"Well,” said Alice, (this is not verbatim) “in our country when we run we get ahead.”
“Here,” said the Queen, “you have to run just as fast as you can to keep up. If you want to get ahead, you have to run twice as fast as you can." The application to present times is plain.
—From “Gems".
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Have you noticed how the connotation of a word can alter its meaning? A sign with the single word “cheap", followed by the emphatic exclamation point, has always tempted me to enter, regardless of the diminished contents of my pocketbood, the store whose goods are so labeled, for I am possessed to go bargain hunting. Yet when a loudly and impractically dressed person, with many complexion aids (?) and a flirtatious look in her eye, walks so self-confidently down the street in her spiked heeled shoes, that same word, with an inflection of scorn escapes my lips. What two different impressions, one so pleasurable and the other so distasteful, can be made by that common word, whose meaning takes on a more forceful implication by the accent of that punctuation mark.
—Margaret Geddes.
INSIDE INFORMATION!
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has two first string players and two substitutes who actually played; while Yale has three regular players and four substitutes who saw a little service at least. Which team has the better scoring unit? Well, I think that might be decided by the forward who is most accurate in free throws, although—well, it won’t be long now, anyway. Make your own guesses; they're as good as mine this year.”
MISS LOUISE WHITTEMORE, captain of the Harvard hockey team:
“The better team will win. We hope that Harvard is the better team. Even though Harvard has lost many of its good players, we still have our spirit with enough good players to back it up.”
MISS BARBARA CARLE, captain of the Yale hockey team :
"Backed by the usual Yale fighting spirit and a veteran team, Yale is hoping for great results this year; but then, anything can happen in a hockey game. Whoever wins, we can promise you plenty of the old Harvard-Yale pep and enthusiasm right in there.”
MISS ELEANOR RIDDER, captain of the Harvard basketball team:
"As we consider the fine material that has turned out for our Harvard basketball practices we all feel confident of attaining the cherished success. Regardless of the results, we promise a very fine game to the Harvard fans.”
MISS EMMA NELSON, captain of the Yale basketball team:
"The best team is bound to win. With the enthusiasm that is prevalent in our team, we have no doubt that Yale will win. Rest assured you will see a grand game. All we can add is very trite, 'May the best team win!'"
Soph: "Well, what do you think of our little college town?"
Frosh : “It certainly is unique."
Soph: “Whad'ya mean, 'unique'?"
Frosh: "It’s from the Latin ‘unis’ meaning 'one', and ‘eques’ meaning ‘horse’.”
—Growler.
College Pays
They’re coming home—another division of "The Lost Generation,” as Dean Gauss of Princeton called the college graduates who went out into the economic wilderness of 1931. For the first time in a generation or longer a full college class then faced the prospect of unemployment, but the most startling thing about the situation as Dean Gauss outlined it was not the lack of jobs for the new graduates, for that had been recognized and discounted. What astounded us was the statement, in effect, that, depression or no depression, college graduates were becoming a drug on the market, The professions were overcrowded; only a minority of those seeking admission could expect to make a decent living. Others would have to look for something to do other than that for which they had prepared themselves.
The situation today is more acute than it was three years ago. There are more seekers for fewer jobs, and the jobs there are pay less. It is true that the expectation of recovery has taken firm hold of those in a position to read signs and portents; but at the most that can be hoped for in business pick-up, only a few of this year’s graduates will find a chance to trade their services for so many dollars a week. Shall we say then that the time has come to question seriously whether a college education pays? Not at all. But the time has come to evaluate such an education differently. Only a few years ago we were showing by graphs and figures how one's earning power increased as one went from grade school to high school to college. But no account was taken of society’s'ability to absorb an ever-increasing number of college graduates, just as manufacturers blithely enlarged their factories without gauging the nation’s capacity to consume their products. The two castles fell together.
So we must now begin to think of college more in terms of the intangibles of life—its non-money-making values. There will always be the fact that college training prepares one for the larger opportunities, but the aim should not be at that alone. If it never returns a cent on the investment of time and money, but does enlarge the inner life, college has more than paid for itself. If it leads to a finer appreciation of what life may be, it need never lead to fame or fortune to be considered worth while. More and more leisure time is to be the lot of ever.y man; whatever teaches him to be the best companion for himself and others is worth all that it costs. We have learned that there is no security in things; the riches that are in one's heart can not be taken from him. And the right college life piles up those riches for any one who can appreciate them.
Welcome them home, those boys and girls who come empty handed, but with hearts and minds full of the capacity to live the good life. Don’t ‘ blame them because the world is all a-muddle; don't expect them to set it right immediately. And send their brothers and sisters off next September just as if that were the most natural thing in the world to do. It is. College always pays—somehow, somewhere, sometime.
—William Frederick Bigelow, Editor.
Alumnae Column
A dance for alumnae! Yes, there will be a dance for alumnae and their escorts! The Class of 1917 have secured May Hall for Wednesday, December 29, 1937. The party is to be given in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Meier. It is rumored that many class presidents look forward to a dinner-dance reunion with, many classmates attending dinner at Seiler’s 1812 House or Abner Wheeler House then joining a mid-season "get-to-gether” in May Hall.
A well known orchestra will offer a program of modern swing numbers. The evening promises to be a gala event. We believe this is the first dance to be held for alumnae and their escorts. Among the invited guests received by President and Mrs. O’Connor, Dr. and Mrs. Meier, and Miss Grace Bartlett, President of the Alumnae Association, will be members of the faculty.
Tickets (one dollar per couple) may be secured from your Framingham club presidents or you may make reservations by writing to Miss Louise Kingman, Secretary of Class of 1917, State Teachers College, Framingham, Mass.
Save the date, Wednesday, December 29.
The annual meeting of the Old Colony Framingham Club was held November 4, 1937. The following officers were elected:
President—Miss Catherine S. Parker Vice-President—Miss Catherine Bracn Corresponding Secretary
—Miss Doris A. Prentiss Recording Secretary
—Miss Elizabeth A. Wentworth Treasurer—Miss Marian Rhodes
Election of officers for the New Bedford Framingham Club gave the following results;
President—Mrs. Fannie Bowler Treasurer—Miss Mary Sheerin Secretary—Mrs. Dorothy Rogers
Mrs. Mary Porter Rae, class of 1920, of Inhambane, Africa, is established for the winter with her four daughters at Ventnor, N. J. The children will have a year of American schools while Mr. Rae fills speaking engagements.
Julia Kinney '29 is a patient in the Barnstable County Hospital, Pocasset, Mass. As you can well imagine it is very lonely and tiring to stay in a hospital for any length of time. She would appreciate a great deal hearing from any of her classmates and friends.
LOUISA A. NICHOLASS HOME ECONOMICS CLUB will present The Eighth International Night DECEMBER 3 Foreign Foods
Folk Music	Folk Dancing
.Marriages
Pauline B. Hamden '31 to Wayne F. Damon.
Ella G. Frost '28 to George Cleathers.
Lois Heywood '25 to George Marshall.
Dorothy Brown '37 to Richard Warner.
Jean Marshall '37 to Donald Buckwell.
Alice Murphy '34 to James Bruntou of Boston.
Doris Maynard '35 to Donald Buffington of Buffer.
Helen Boothroyd '31 to Mr. Gores of Newton.
Sylvia D. Kurlan '28 to Dr. Perry H. Jacobs of Hudson. October 31.
Grace Alden '32 to Charles H. Scott of Holbrook, November 4. Will live on Washington Street, Canton.
Eva Frances Yelinek to Ellwood Brown of Springfield, November 20.
Elementary .•lliimnac Changes
Marion Davis '36, Stoughton, Social Studies, Grade 6.
Helen McMullen ‘30, Greenwich, Grade 5-8. Rose Paladino '36, Waltham, Grade 3.
Florence Sharpe '36, Newton, Horace Mann School Assistant.
Anita Schmauk '36, Sharon, Grade 1.
Cynthia Kenway '36, Windham, Vt., Rural.
Rita Smith '36, Ashland, Grade 1 and 2.
Beatrice Whittier '36, Waltham. Plympton
School, Grade 3.
Dorothy Fisher '35, Newton, Bowen School, Grade 5.
Muriel Hanley '35, Newton, Burr School,
Grade 3 and 4.
Elizabeth Sanford '35, Newton, Angier School, Grade 4.
Marjorie Emerson '35 (B. U. *36), Framingham, Day Hill School, 3 and 4.
Barbara Houston '35, Newton, Oak Hill School, Grade 3.
Allison Swan '35, Newton, Hyde School, Grade 1. Helen McLeod '35, Framingham, Day Hill
School, Grade 1 and 2.
Dorothy Goodin '35, Framingham, Lawrence Street School, Building Ass't.
Alta Hamilton '35, Framingham, Memorial School, Grade 6.
Cleo Aucoin '34, Newton, Oak Hill School. Marion Hicks '34, Newton, Peirce School,
Building Assistant.
Ruth Eldridge '34, Agawam, Grade 1.
Sylvia Leavitt '32, Dover, Grade 4.
Betty Whitney '35, Assistant Dietitian, Waterbury Hospital.
Ella Mahoney '30, Teaching Home Economics, Lancaster State School for Girls.
Cecilia Holt '37, Teaching, Franklin, Mass.
Christine Alach, Medfield, Grade 5.
Ella Anderson, Marshfield, Vt., Grades 1-8.
Hildred Boston, Hopkinton, Grades 1-4 Remedial.
Muriel Davis, Hopkinton, Grade 2.
Claire Foster, Lexington, Grade 2.
Alice Gaw, Attleboro, Grade 3.
Anne Geoghegan, Fairhaven, Grades 2 and 3.
Frances Halpin, Porto Rico, English.
Catherine Harney, Fairhaven, Grades 2-4
Remedial.
Harriet Johnson, New Salem, Mass., Grades 1-8.
Karin Johnson, Fairhaven, Grade 8 Geography and Art.
Eleanor Kremen, Vernon, Vt., Rural. (Continued on page six, column Keo)
Sleuthings
Many Framingham girls were seen at the Harvard-Armj’ game a few Saturdays ago. Among them were Louise McManus, Beatrice Frankel, and Dorothy Rowse.
Heard in Dr. Meier’s class—“I went into the Post Office and two people were fighting—well, I just stood aside for there was a sign “letter box.” (Get it?—let her box.)
Guest speaker at the Student Cooperative Conference telling about translating proverbs from French to English. French: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Translation: "O, God, pardon us, we’re not acquainted.”
Seems like the “truckin’” craze has hit second floor Pierce Hall pretty hard.
One of our seniors seems to think that farmers use their land for pasteurization.	.
These are just miscellaneous bits picked up in classes and round-about.
"Find out how your mind works and then work it.”—Mr. Workman.
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A student had made an appointment with Mr. Workman which he forgot to keep since he was so busy. Mr. Workman, “There was nothing personal in my not keeping the appointment. I love everyone of you.”
Eleanor Fitzgerald, "At last a man in my life." —o--------------------o—
It seems El vie Pease was feeling rather playful in English class the other day and was taking it out on Belle Novick by pinching her. (They sat in the front row, mind you!)
Miss Gerritsen, “Don’t pinch your neighbor.”
In the next hour, History of Ed. class, Midge Millane when called upon answered after a long pause but in a rather vague manner. And— Miss Larned told Midge’s neighbor to pinch her! We are quite bewildered now. To pinch or not to pinch, that is the question.
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We think our editor needs a bit of tutoring in spelling. Quite naturally she wrote upon the board not long ago the word, “captins."
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Music Appreciation Elementary Juniors are enjoying the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “The Mikado”, especially the part where Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum demonstrated what they would do if Yum-Yum were not betrothed to her guardian, Ko-Ko.
If the main object is to teach the person rather than a subject, we have to realize that education cannot be neutral on the point of religion. Christian learning and Christian living have been divinely joined together; may we never put them asunder.
—From "Gems".
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, 1st student: “I’ve been trying to think of a word for two weeks.”
2nd student: “How about ‘fortnight’?”
—Huntbug.
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MUCH READING
There is the old saying that “much reading maketh a full man,” but a question must frequently arise in minds inclined to the pursuit of literature as to how much reading can be done by the ordinary person busily engaged with the rather exacting routine of living.
It is related that a group of bookishly-inclined New Yorkers were recently engaged in a discussion of the merits of current books and that someone advanced the opinion that for every six new books read one old one should be read again. The suggestion was amplified by the statement: "Say six new books and one old book a month. There's a fair reading program.”
Whether or not it is a fair program would depend a great deal upon the individual capacity for speed in reading. Seven books a month mean a steady average of nearly two books a week, and we rather guess that this is decidedly above the average reading habit. At any rate, it is a literary ration, it may be suspected, which would sadly overtax the mental digestion of the rank and file of American citizens who consider themselves “fond of reading”. For the distinctly bookish persons, of course, it would be a moderate diet.
Perhaps our view of quantity consumption in this field has become slightly warped, for we still have the memory of being involved for days and days in the exciting convolutions of “Anthony Adverse,” and right now, robbing our slumber period of several hours for four nights in succession, we are only half-way through “Gone With the Wind.” Of course, in point of linear dimensions these are exceptional books, but we have to remember that the question here under discussion also includes “old books,” and many of the oldtimers were quite as long-winded as Hervey Allen and Margaret Mitchell. No one but a reading genius can get through a couple of such volumes in a week.
One woman in the New York party complained that the allowance of one old book a month meant only twelve such books a year and declared that there are at least twelve old books that she re-reads every year in every case. A half-dozen other voices chimed in to admit a similar habit, and immediately an investigation was made to determine the twelve books most often read again, and this was the list: "Vanity Fair,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Kim,” “Walden,” "Alice in Wonderland,” “Tom Sawyer,” Montaigne's Essays, "The Wind in the Willows,” “Candide,” Dunsany's “Dreamer's Talcs,” “The Crock of Gold," and "Hamlet.”
A list that is hardly impressive as a whole, perhaps, although it reflects excellent taste. None of the real ancients is present, ami certainly there are many of the comparative moderns that might be included to the exclusion of some of those in the list. Anyone who has been a reader for as much as twenty years should be acquainted with many old-timers in literature and with many contemporary volumes in the continuing output of the passing years that are well worth reading again and again. No reasonable choice of a dozen favorites out of the entire list is deserving of captious criticism.
After all, the purpose of reading, in the ordinary sense, is to give pleasure. It is for none of us to ask or wonder why our neighbor
should like "The Three Musketeers” rather than “The Count of Monte Cristo," and equally it is not up to him to question our preference for the latter. The whole point is that there arc scores of books that arc richly worth a second or third reading. Probably the majority of us do too little reading and might easily readjust our scheme of life so as to permit more time for one of the finest satisfactions of existence.
—Reprinted from The Providence Journal.
FRESHMAN EXPECTATIONS
(Continued from page one)
searching we found a young lady in tears because she had burnt the whole lovely swoop of a mustache (just like grandpa's) and we had to clip it down to a Hitler’s style to balance both sides. Gradually a great excitement had come upon us till we can’t wait to go to the dance. We’re all a twitter about the games and so excited about the banquet. In fact we wouldn’t think of going home the Harvard-Yale weekend.
W. A. A. CONFERENCE
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Some Glimpses of Physical Education in Europe by Miss Caldwell, Instructor of Physical Education at Bridgewater
Accounts which proved to be very interesting were given about the Winter Sport Carnival held at North Adams and about the Hostel Trip.
A report of a year's survey is given each year at the W. A. C. by some college which is unable to entertain the conference. This year Salem presented "The Intergration of Nature Recreation with a Women’s Athletic Association Program.” Results of this investigation are on file and may be secured through Miss Taylor.
As part of the recreational activities the committee in charge secured through the International Institute of Boston one of its active German members, who taught us German folk dances.
At the business meeting North Adams extended an invitation to State Teachers Colleges to attend their annual Winter Carnival. Also at the business meeting it was voted that the conference be held at North Adams in 1938.
ALUMNAE COLUMN
(Continued from page five)
Constance Lincoln, Stowe, Grades 7 and 8 and music.
Helen Mace, Weston, Vt., Grades 1-5.
Margaret MacLeod, Sudbury, Grade 4.
Virginia Mondello, Stannard, Vt., Rural.
Rose Pilibosian, Medfield, Grade 2.
Elsie Randall, So. Windham, Vt., Rural.
Grace Randall, Gill, Mass., Grades 1-8.
Grace Rowland, Marshfield, Primary.
Kathleen Ryan, Milton, Vt., Rural.
Amelia Santilli, Everett, Building Assistant.
Louise Segar, E. Greenbush, N. Y., Grades 1-4.
Elizabeth Sherman, Fairhaven, Grade 6.
Evelyn Sibley, Holliston, Grade 4.
Anna Smith, Provincetown, Grade 1.
Margaret Smith, Mattapoisett, Grade 1.
Anna Stevens, Newfield, Conn., Grades 1, 2, 3.
I Read It Somewhere
This conies by four routes: Said by Dr. Roy W. Hatch, quoted by the Normal Racquelle, clipped by The Pen Dragon, and borrowed by us. "There are three levels for teachers: (1) The matter-of-fact level from which they never rise; (2) Those who perceive the value of thoughts or ideas growing out of facts; and (3) those who in utilizing both fact and derivative idea, rise to the sky-line level.”
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Congratulations to The Log of Salem Teachers College which is celebrating its tenth anniversary. It looks back to a successful past publication; The Gale Post extends its best wishes for another happy decade.
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First student: "I wonder how old Miss Jones is.”
Second student: "Quite old, I imagine; they say she used to teach Caesar.”
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At Genesee State Normal School an interesting method of studying speech problems is in use. The voices of the Freshmen arc recorded to show them the imperfections as well as the virtues of their voices. Two additional records are made to study the improvements accomplished during the course.
“The students are amazed when they hear the play-back," Miss Rigney said. Some of the typical responses are "Do I really sound like that,” "that sounds like my mother’s voice," or “that nasal quality surely doesn’t belong to me."
Miss Rigney hopes that through the use of this machine, the voices of the students will be clear and refined, and their diction perfect. "These qualities are essential to every teacher,” Miss Rigney stressed.
Origin of Senior
Initiation
On Thursday, October 14, at 12.45 P. M., the time-honored ceremony of Senior Court took place, as Freshmen and Seniors were gathered in the assembly hall of May Hall. This Senior Court, however, was unique in the annals of Framingham and, perhaps, in the whole world, in that instead of imposing the usual penalties for misbehavior during Freshmen Week, an entirely new idea was introduced.
The judge of the court and chairman of Freshman Week, Myrtle Schneider, gave the usual dignified address, which is supposed to make the freshmen's knees shake with the terror of anticipation. At last the underclassmen were asked to rise to hear the decision of the court. To their great surprise and delight this is what they heard:
It is so ordained by this noble and upright court, that in return for the friendliness and fine sportsmanship displayed by most of the members of the Class of 1941, this class will for the first time be given a great honor and privilege, a chance to initiate the Seniors I”
So—on Wednesday, October 20, the Seniors were initiated I