Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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I trust that I shall do right by Harrow was Baldwin ' s speech to Parliament upon becoming prime minister to England. This showed that a public school educated Englishman put his old school even above his country. But let us first study the background of the English Public School system. An English- man ' s education starts upon entering prep school at the age of eight; there he spends about five years prepar- ing for the common en- trance examinations. On passing this exam- ination he has the choice of either enter- ing a state owned grammar school, or a public school owned and operated by a govern- ing body made up of the arch-bishop of Canter- bury and some titled alumni. This is similar to an American prep-school, in the sense that the student pays tuition un less he wins a scholar- ship. At the public school he is alloted a house which is under the su- pervision of a house master and there he boards, sleeps, and does his home-work. Five monitors, who are the elder boys of the house, supervise all that goes on in the house. They also see that the small- er boys don ' t get them- selves into mischief by seeing that the rules of the house are strictly observed. Up to this point the monitors have absolute authority and it is only when it comes to beating a boy for some major offense like going out of bounds that the house- master or even the Building Empire Builders Foreign educated student ex- plains English public school system. by Ned Metal Charter house. England, where the author spent four years. This picture, taken and developed by the author, was exhib- ited in the Oxford University Camera Club Gallery. head-master, who is in charge of the whole school, has to be consulted. In his first year the boy is made a junior fag. In this position he is expected to answer fag — calls from the monitors who have him run mes- sages to fellow monitors in other houses. His other jobs include serv- ing them at meals, bringing them wash water in the morning and if he is a study fag (a monitor ' s spe- cial fag) he is expected to clean out their stud- ies every Sunday and to keep their personal belongings in order. After the second week a fag ' s exams take place. Fags who have been prepared for this by their fathers (like our little brother system) are expected to know every date concerning the school but ques- tions concerning the nicknames of the new mas- ter ' s fiancee are not rare. Failing this exam- means singing or doing any other entertainment before the monitors. As the boy proceeds in his career the fag- ging will gradually de- crease as Newbugs (this, a name applied to new boys) takes his place. Nor will he be expected to observe so many postees. These are petty privileges. such as walking on the road or carrying an um- brella after the second year at school. Al- though this may seem silly to a stranger, no member of the school would ever think of giving them up as this would mean destroying the age old traditions which the school has continued on pJge 22 PAGE NINETEEN

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by ROBERT MARTIN HELEN HAYES, last seen on the stage as the queen in Vic- toria Regina , put aside her royal robes for the first time in eight years and returned to the Nixon last week in Ladies and Gentle- men , a play written for her by Ben Hecht and Charles MacAr- thur. Co-starred with Miss Hayes was Philip Merivale, who played opposite her in Mary of Scot- land. Ladies and Gentlemen defin- itely is not a starring vehicle for Miss Hayes, and is not the sort of thing one would expect of her after Victoria Regina. It is more an entertainment than a play. If the piece is remembered at all it will be because it brings Miss Hayes back to us as a fresh, modern star, for in it she demon- strates her ability as one of the stage ' s ablest ladies and one of its brightest comediennes, too. The play is concerned with 12 men and women, who are trying a screen writer for murdering his wife. Miss Hayes plays the part of Terry Scott, the sympa- thetic secretary of a movie Midas, who wheedles the jurors into changing their votes to acquita!. The play abounds with choice witicisms, spread out nicely a- mong Miss Hayes; Connie Gil- christ, the dull-witted Swedish mother; Joseph Sweeney, the burial magnate; George Watts, the owner of a faithless wife ; Pat Harrington, the practical joker; William Lynn, the beleaguered sheriff; Evelyn Varden, the right- minded representative of 20,000 women; Roy Roberts, the rising young nephew of a yacht-owner; and Frank Conlan, the alternate with a mind of stone. Throughout the play Mr. Hecht PROSPECTUS- These are troubled times in some parts of the world, but there still is, in this land of ours, a little beauty, a bit of unspoken thought, a thread of fancy, and the whisper of a song. We are having the grim re- alities of life-struggle thrust upon us in all its sordid ugli- nesses. The art treasures of England, France, and Germany may be buried under sandbags, but we are not going to let those forces over which we have no control rob us of our portion, meager though it may seem, of those things which make civilization out of sheer barbarity: art, drama, music, and poetry. Our campus is but an insig- nificant corner of the world, but we can keep alive in it these arts which have ' heen forgotten in warring nations. and Mr. MacArthur fling jibes at the movies, big business, Yale, the jury system, women ' s clubs, justice and whatever other vul- nerable subject comes into their scurrilous minds. CONCERTS by top-ranking vo- cal and instrumental artists, in- terspersed among grand opera, choral and dance performances, constitute the attractions that May Beegle has announced for the 1939-1940 season at Syria Mosque. Fritz Kreisler, violinist, opened the season October 13. On Octo- ber 27 the San Carlo Opera com- pany will make an appearance, giving Puccini ' s Madam Butter- fly . Featured will be the Japan- ese prima-donna, Hize Koyke. Devi-Dja and her Bali and Java Dancers, an Oriental group which has been appearing in Europe and will not arrive in this country until sometime next month, are scheduled for November 11. Lily Pons sings on December 5 and Marian Anderson on Janu- ary 9. A program of sacred and folk songs, followed by a costume operetta, Tales of the Vienna Woods , will be given by the Mozart Boys ' Choir, February 6. Returning to America after an absence of four years, Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, will appear March 26. Horowitz has been described by Paderewski as the greatest of the younger gener- ation of pianists. The season will be brought to a close by Nelson Eddy, April 19. An extra attraction, not includ- ed in the subscription to the ser- ies, will be the performance of Argentinita and her company of Spanish dancers on February 17. Subscribers have the choice of this event or the Bali and Java Dancers. MAURICE EVANS, who brought his record-breaking Richard II to Pittsburgh last year, returns this week to the Nixon theater to present his latest Broadway success, Ham- let . During its tremendously popular run in New York, Mr. Evans ' Hamlet was acclaimed by critics and public alike as the finest Hamlet of our time. This is the first time in over a hundred years that the play has been given in its entirety. PAGE EIGHTEEN

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Poor Pappa Looie— Deserted New Phi Tau justifies pledg ing of upperclassmen. assistance, both in physical and spiritual ways, waxed strong in campus affairs. Why just con- sider, with those six boys, and two others, Tom Cullison, and Dick Jackson, who visited us so often that I had to adopt them, too, we were represented in almost every campus activity — two all-state football play- ers, two regulars in ad- dition to them on the varsity squad, four starters on the Bethany Bucketeers, two repre- sentatives on the SROG, including the Vice Prexy, the presi- dent of the Bethespian Club, also member of Alpha Psi Omega, a mem- ber of the Athletic Board of Control, and well- represented in other organizations such as the French Club, Ministerial Association, etc. Yes, my boys were soon outstanding on the campus — all except for the Glee Club; but I don ' t even take that into consideration, for we had more glee at Looie ' s than that club will ever have. Then, too, you can ' t forget the time that I, Father Looie, entertained three hundred odd peo- ple at a Spaghetti Dinner. (Gosh! Wasn ' t that some starch.) Even though Jerry did get a new- suit next day, the proceeds still went in to buy the high school kids some much needed equip- ment. We were socially prominent, too. I don ' t know whether it was because of the two that we had on the basket-ball team or whether it was be- cause we had an a- bundance of food, but anyway, the lead- ing sororities marked Looie ' s Lunch on their program for serenades. Our song leader, Lew New- man, always man-, aged to have some William Ashley. Phi Tau president, welcomes his pledged group of upperclassmen. COtlt ' d Oil Prtge 23 I suppose that my first step should be to in- troduce myself. I ' m Father Looie, the spirit of Looie ' s Lunch. To those of you who were on this campus last year, those words will be suf- ficient. Bur, even with my now feeble vision, I can still make out new faces here in Bethany, so perhaps for you more recent additions to the Bursar ' s Books, I ' d bet- ter explain a little more fully what Loo- ie ' s Lunch means to Bethany. I was born over a can of Campbell ' s soup. Six fellows helped me get my start in this old world — namely, E. J. Hon- enberger, ' Bud Kuhns, Lyle Mayne, Lew Newman. Harold Taylor, and Gerald Croushore. These were the boys who co-operated with me throughout the year, and I with them. We had a lot of fun that first night, sipping soup and laughing at our troubles, and later on, we were thankful that fate had brought those six hungry boys and me together. I grew rapidly after I became accustomed to this world. You all know what I, Father Looie. represented in Bethany. And my boys, due to my PAGE TWENTY