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The Coe College Cosmos from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • Page 1

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College Cosmos CKDA.R RAJMDS, IOWA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1938 NO. II Bible Collection IS in foe Library A Karc Kditions, Translations Make Up Exhibit Arranged By Lichtenstein A -sKiy a old BlbU and 1 uito various lan- arranged by Venion Prof. Cone Is Speaker At Cornell Art Exhibit a i Om- an i will at tht opening of Cornell College's IKW arl gallery tomorrow A dipla of tin- of Bibirf instructor in English, in the Exhibit room Memonal Library. the old Bibles in the col- -he famous B'bV 'jrinu-d in London in 1599. It at: name from an error in Vnirh ihe word "breeches' vi.i.- for "aprons" in Gelled 3 7 FAH LTV CONTRIBUTE BIBLES hundred years old the iv.alo.

published in London in 1 page and of the in manuscript form. of the King James ver- one printed In 1616, one iTOS and one in 1734. These gi VL 'n to the library by E. Greene, former rector Gi.H'L' Epbcopal Church. members have cooperated uJi.Tibuiing Bibles for the display.

H. Peterson has loaned a and prayer book for- ov, by his great-great-grand- Prof. J. F. Yothers has Czi'ch prayer book published the Rev.

James H. an old family Bible. The in the collection with -to type and pictures was by Prof. LeRoy M. Coffin.

B1ULLS IX TEN LANGUAGES trqri: me Bible into 992 languages rir.ci a New Testament in the nriL.n.,; Greek and an Old Testament original Hebrew as well as the Bible in Latin. Italian. FriT.ch. German, Spanish. S'v-oh and Dutch are shown.

-MX placards quoting passages -he Bible in various languages ai" out the extent of transla- day program this weekend v.hich will formally open the an the new Armstrong Hall ol Fine Arts at Mount Vernon. Thomas Hart Bi-nton. American muralist and pair.tt-r. will present a lecture on Saturday evening, and Edmund Giesbert of the Chicago Art Institute will give a demonstration in the afternoon. Iowa and Illinois high iehool superintendents, arl iiLstructois.

and senior art students brt-n invited attend on Saturday The exhibit be open between and 3 o'fkxk in the afternoon and and 8 o'clock in the evening. Faculty Groups To Help Plan Commencement Supplementing the work of the sen- committees, 23 members of the will participate in planning for this year's Commencement. Headquarters for the various activities will be the alumni office. President H. M.

Gage will act ai advisory chairman, and Dr. George W. Bryant will serve as general chairman. On the committee on academic costumes are Dr. Walter S.

Newell and Dr. Karl A. Stiles, while Prof. J. Dale Welsch and' Miss Alma Turechek make up the Class day committee.

Davidson Wins Hnnnrprv Pnefr VS A. 1 M. Of Cadet Colonel Shearer Revealed New Head Oi R. 0. T.

C. Unit At Military Ball Colleges Represented In Chapels Next Week visitors from two campuses will participate in chapel programs next On Monday the music department Annie Laura Davidson The eludes Myron committee on decorations in- Miss Betty Pritchett, Dean L. Koenig, and Mrs. Alice B. Annie Laura Davidson a presented i- day evenirg as a cadet lieutenant c-olonel of the Coe R.

O. T. C. unii. The ceremony took place it the annual Military a Ui Scabbard a Blade, national honorary military society, in ihe Memorial Coliseum.

Acting as attendants were Audrey Abell, Jeaneue Focht, Mildred Hanson and Vivian Rochau. Robert Shear- feT-T-'. a an- as the commanding officer of the battalion. Shearer a a Smith, last semester's lieutenant colonel, escorted Miss a i in a a i t. -111 David Bryn-Jones, professor of eco- icmics and political science and head of the department of international relations at Carleton College, Northfield, will speak to the students Wednesday morning in chapel.

Mr. Bryn-Jones has been abroad several times and is well acquainted with foreign affairs. He will also speak Wednesday evening in the chapel. On Friday a delegation of students from Grinnell College will have charge of the chapel program. Mokrejs, Taylor Will Present Faculty Recital Presenting a piano-organ program Miss Helen Mokrejs, pianist, and Miss Eleanor Taylor, organist, will give a faculty recital Monday evening at 8:15 in Sinclair Memorial Chapel.

For the numbers to be played they have chosen "Ballade Op. 30" (Marcel-Dupre), "Sicilienne' "Exultation" Symphonique" (Weaver), "An dante" from "Symphonic Pathetique 1 Tschaikowsky-Stoughton), "Noctur- no" (Respighi), "Sheep May Safely Graze" (Bach), Piece" (Clokey) Honor Sorority For Freshmen To Be Installed Rremenak Elected President Of First Iowa Chapter To Be Instituted April 2 Aiphr. Lambda Delta, national scholastic honor fraternity for freshman women, elected officers Monday from its membership of nine Coe women. The first chapter to be started in Iowa and the thirty-fifth to be organized in the United States, the organization names as members Pauline Kremenak, president; Kathryn Skow, vice-president; Ruth Kirkpatrick, secretary; Marjorie L. Reaney, treasurer; J.

Avalonne Cross, historian; Dora Jane Hamblin; Rose Ann Kuoovec; Dorothy Manuel; and Ellen E. Sworn- ley. 2.5 GRADE POINT REQUIRED J-J. 0 Sailer. Prof.

Minna Wikoff, Gladys N. McVay. and Miss Evelyn C. Street have been named to the committee on dining hall supervision. i )rv the committee on diplomas and seating are Robert Shearer military band played.

Another event of the evening was the pledging of 10 members to Scabbard and Blade. Those pledged were Arthur Vetter, Carl Wilson, Clifford Hellmann, Charles Garberson, Robert and "Symphonique tee vwiwvv-jy. As solo numbers, Miss Taylor will play "In the Steppes of Central Asia' (Borodin), and "Scherzo" from "Symphonic (Vierne). Miss Mokrejs will play "Gigue" trom -French Suite No. 5" (Bach), and -Exotikon Suite" (Novak).

All music students are required to attend this recital. Women elected to the honor group have earned a 2.5 grade point ratio or higher in their first semester. At the end of the second semester, any freshman woman will be eligible who has maintained a 2.5 grade point average for the year. Dean Mary Bell has been instrumental in bringing the national honor group to the campus, having carried on correspondence and negotiations with national officers for several months, including recent attendance at a conference during the National Deans of Women Association conference in Atlantic City, N. J.

Dean Maria Leonard, former Coe dean of women and one of the founders of Alpha Lambda Delta, is grand president. The University of Illinois, where Dean Leonard is now dean of women, installed the first chapter in 1924. items include a polychrome ion of the Bible to indicate the structure of the Book." a COLJV of the Apochrypha, a Moffatt a Moulton translation, a Ni Tvsvament with a prologue repre- the oral gospel known to before the first written ac- was made, and a book with columns for comparison of the James version, the King James the American revised, and the or Catholic translation of the and Miss Ida Dayton Ben H. Peterson and Dr. Alfn Meyer are at tne of ihe on marshals.

Prof. Marvin D. Cone is in charge if prizes, while Vernon E. Lichteu- itein and Prof. Paul S.

Ray make up program committee. Senior chapels will be under the supervision of Miss Alice E. Page, Dr. Charles T. Hickok.

and Miss Eleanor Taylor, and Dr. Meyer and Dean Mary iichprs and Dr. iNoriLi. riuLt bing. Cleo Byers, Darrel Costello and Stanley chose basis ability, ality.

Smith. These men for membership upon were the of scholastic average, military moral character and person- Recital To Be Given JTuhnvec. Melcher Rose Ann Kubovec, pianist, pupil of officer wm be Grace Swab, will present a re- present to preside at the lo OTHER CHAPTERS PLANNED Bell are in charge chapel seating. of ushers and Guests also witnessed an exhibition presented by the crack drill squad of ihe unit. Chapel Period Tomorrow To Feature Band, Choir Till- military band will play during chapel period tomorrow i The band will perform the baton of Prof.

Paul S. Ray. Stanley Vcscly. director, will be campus. .1 luatuie tne a v.ill sing "Come Soothing a chorale by J.

S. Bach, ac- oi'p-. i.imed by the band. The band the first movement of Schu- "Unfinished Symphony" and the program with several Leksa, Murray Give Program Thursday er junior recital, Martha Leksa, pianist pupil of Prof. Max Daehler.

print a program Thursday, March 24. at 8:15 o'clock in Sincla. Memorial 'Chapel. Winifred of Man's Desiring. Music Students To Perform Ai I uiton, Clinton Monday music students will perform in- Fulton, 111., high school Mon- and for the College the Ml.

St. Clare College audi- Clinton Monday evening. I'-c college string quartet, composed irRinia Ohmann, first violin, Helen second violin, Chester Pe- viola, and Robert Reeves 1 will play. The Madrigal Sing whose members are Betty Jane u. Irene Bishop, Gertrude Shoe Edward Melcher, Car and Robert Carmlchael, will be the program.

Alice Mae Ottllie accompany them as piano soloist program -Maman. dites-moi Band Gives Concert In Chapel March 29 In accordance with the usual custom, the Coe College military band will play a home concert prefacing the annual spring tour, which will begin Wednesday, April 6. The local concert will be presented in the Sinclair Memorial Chapel Tuesday evening, March 29.. at 8:15 o'clock. Tickets may be procured from any member of the band.

Featured as soloists in the home concert and in the subsequent tour will be Max Daehler, professor of piano, and Leo Courtemanche, trombonist. The band will tour eastern Iowa and Illinois this spring, climaxing the entourage with an appearance at Or- jchestra Hall, Chicago, on Palm Sun- I day and returning to the campus on ttUlSe AJOU. Miss Grace Swab, will present a re- I cital Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock' in Sinclair Memorial Chapel. Assisting her will be Bdwaid Melcher, tenor, pupil of Prof. Paul S.

Ray, with Gertrude Shoemaker accompanying him. As her program, Miss Kubovec has chosen to play "Prelude and Fugue, Sharp Major" (Bach), "Sonata, Op. 28" (Beethoven), "Etude, Op. 10, No. 2" (Chopin), "Etude, Op.

10, No. 3" (Chopin), "Rhapsodic Hongroise, No. 6" (Liszt), and "Concerto, Op. 2" will sing "Sebben Crudele" Wanderer" (Schu- Wie Elne Bhune" bert) "Der "Du Bist nPFL i i -(Schumann), "I Attempt from Love's to Fly" (Purcell), "Questa from "Rigoletto" (Verdi) --WVIUB of Water" (Campbell-Tipton) a Green-Eyed Dragon (Charles). pieacuu IAJ -and the initiation service which is to be followed by a dinner for the occasion.

Crescent, senior women's honor society, plans to present the chapter with its charter. Other chapters in process of organization include groups at Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas, and Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. The national organization numbers eight college or university chapters in the central section of the country, 11 in the southern part, nine in the western division, and seven in ihe eastern sphere. Drake University is planning a chapter at Des Moines to be installed later. -Blackbird's Song" Weld Writes 600 Articles For New Encyclopedia Apni Debate Teami To Compete In Two Practice Meets Coe debate teams will attend a practice debate at Lennox Junior College, Hopkinton, tomorrow morning and at Elkader Junior College tomorrow af- Vesper Program Planned For Services On Sunday As his address at vesper services Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sinclair Memorial Chapel, Or.

H. M. Gage has chosen the subject, "Who is Jesus?" Miss Eleanor Taylor, college organist, will open the services with "Holy Grail Music" from "Par- physics, has WTiutu OKI -----600 articles on physics for the recent published Van Nostrand Scientific eld was the Five Members Of Faculty To Judge Music Contests Five members of the department of music faculty will be judges in sub- district music contests this weekend. Prof. Joseph H.

Kitchin and Miss Grace Swab will judge at Adel and Guthrie Center; Prof. Max Daehler and Albia; Encyclopedia. Dr. author of all field. Weld was the in the physics Max Reed Is Oratory Entry In State Meet Next Week Max Reed will be the representative In the men's oratorical division of the State Forensic tournament to be held DCS Moines March 24, 25, and 26.

i jim- re judge at Grinnell and judge at Stanley Vesely will judge at Waverly and West Union; and Prof. Paul S. Ray will be at Fairfield. 'Elizabeth The Queen'Date Postponed For One Week committee announces The men's team, Frank Bauder and sifai 11 ")Gordon Mindrum, and the women's Under the direction of Prof. Paul team.

Marion Bailey and Dorothy the a cappella choir will sing Carr, are competing in these debates anthem. "Regeneration" (Chris- preparatory to the state tournament tiansen). A quartet composed oi at Des Moines March 24, 25, and 26. Margaret Hindee, Jayne Carrier, Naoma Hall, and Betty Finch will present the number, "Bless the Lord, Graduate Work Scholarships Soul ovanon). 4 ui Miss Ta lor close the services Are Available 1O Seniors the playing of "Hosanna" (De- All seniors seeking graduate scholar- shay 65 ships, fellowships, or honors may obtain information from Dr.

LeRoy I i Weld, chairman of the committee onlKllle leams Are VlCtOHOUi graduate study. Continuing its victorious pace, the 1. who inatlon contest ley and John Rees March 24 ana 2, to April scores of the oppo- 76, respec- Slides On Origin Of Words To Be Shown Next Week Illustrating the "Hfe history" many current English words a set of about fifty colored slides, "Picturesque Word Origins." has been loaned to the tgam the English department and wffl of 1862 ta several times next- week for the sm of Wyoming who shot a an- score of 1811, for its only scheduled match last week. nounced later..

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