Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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■vnr. | l|l H.«».mi rirnimMHiOlil I m hi dm a=a w - p i C onvocation Students, for the first time, heard an address by Dr. Homer P. Rainey, Buck- nell ' s new president at the Convocation exercises in Commencement Hall, Friday morning, September 18. The president ' s talk on the future of modern education was given before an audience made up of students and faculty members. Dr. H. W. Robbins acted as marshal of the convocation procession, and the presidents of each class headed their respective groups up the Hill behind the faculty. Music for the march was furnished by the University Band which played on the terrace in front of West College. Infantile Paralysis Scare A serious epidemic of infantile paralysis threatened to close the doors of the University late in September, but quick and expert action by Drs. Fowle and Rice and the administration kept the situation under control. One fatality out of ap- proximately ten active cases saddened the student body. This was the death of Thomas West, ' 34, a popular member of the Phi Lambda Theta fraternity. Let- ters by Dr. Rice and Dean Rivenburg to all parents of students advised them about the epidemic and stressed the saneness of the continuation of classes. Because of this foresight of the administration, not a single student left college, and the disease was soon checked. The freshman football schedule for October was en- tirely suspended because of the danger to the members of the team resulting from one case among the squad. Scholarship Cups Presented Two scholarship cups were presented to the fraternity winners in chapel Oc- tober 2, 1931, by President Rainey. Alpha Chi Mu won the New York Alumni cup for the third consecutive year and thus became the permanent possessor of this trophy. This marked the sixth consecutive year that the fraternity has led all others in scholastic averages. The Kress scholarship cup for national fraterni- ties, founded on the campus more than ten years, was carried off by Lambda Chi Alpha. Announcement was also made at the same time that the Delta Delta Delta sorority had again won the scholarship trophy offered for competition by the Pan- Hellenic group. [237] ■ ■ ' ' ♦ ♦

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WGEii off F K T a ril ' lf N i Freshman Week On the ninth of September, 301 freshmen assembled in Bucknell Hall for the opening of Freshman Week. J. Hillis Miller, Dean of Freshmen, headed the com- mittee in charge of the week ' s orientation program for the newcomers, and a staff composed of faculty members and students carried out a well-planned series of lectures and entertainments aimed to acquaint the greenies with Bucknell. As a new feature, all of the entering students dined for the week in the dining room of the Women ' s College, and after each meal the living room of Larison Hall was thrown upon for dancing. This glorious week of full possession of the campus was short lived, for registration soon brought sophomores and upper- classmen back to the Alma Mater, thus lowering the frosh to their social and scholastic level for the year. Water Parade A fifteen-act play, entitled From Prep School King to Lowly Frosh, was enacted on the first night of college opening, Wednesday, September 16, 1931. Men of the class of ' 34, led by their prexy, Charlie Roush, treated the men of ' 3 5 to a realistic revival of Puritan ducking ' neath the hose of campus fraterni- ties. Dressed in a variety of old clothes, the frosh assembled on the Hill at seven- thirty o ' clock and were escorted by the soph paddle guard around the town to the mud pools and hose at each house. Interludes between acts included telephone pole climbing, proposals to coeds, who lined the streets, and quartette arrange- ments of the Alma Mater. Frosh-Soph Scrap, September, 1931 [236] ♦ • ♦ ♦ ■ ' -

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iWGEii m First Night Football Game at Home Bucknell ' s first home football game at night was played on Friday, September 25, in the Memorial Stadium. The opposition was furnished by the St. Thomas College eleven from Scranton. Incidentally, the dates in the big, dark stadium came out from beneath blankets every once in awhile to look at the score board and light up another fag. Bucknell ' s Sixth Education Conference Bucknell ' s sixth education conference convened in Bucknell Hall on Friday, October 23, 1931, at 2:00 p.m. The general theme of the conference lay around So- cializing the Child, and the principal speakers included Anna Y. Reed, N. Y. U., Harold O. Rugg, Columbia, and Dr. Homer P. Rainey. Dad ' s Day Welcome Dads read the football programs for the Gettysburg game Oc- tober 24, 1931. The first Dad ' s Day to be sponsored by the University was celebrated by the attendance of several hundred Governors at the game, then at the all- college banquet in their honor, and finally at the various fraternity houses later on Saturday evening. 1238] ,.♦.%♦•♦•♦♦ ♦ ► •♦%♦♦♦♦♦