College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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The evening before, the Wooster Symphony presented its first concert of the season in celebration of its silver anniversary. In sports, Wooster's quintet opened its sea- son by defeating Miami 45-28, and the swim- ming team started a successful season with an interclass contest which the junior class won. Christmas vacation, which began the 20th, found both teams active. Finmen basked and practiced in Florida, while Wooster's cagers were handed a defeat by Duquesne 40-33. Fifth Section celebrated the return to school January 7 with an informal housewarming. A fire in their hallway brought town fire en- gines into Kenarden quad. Flu Strikes One Out of Five Hygeia Hall, college hospital, became the center for activities in January when an in- fluenza epidemic struck the campus. Almost 200 went to bed with the flu during the three- week siege. Chapel was suspended for one week, as well as all social events, so that dan- ger of its spreading might be lessened. Spirits, thus enfeebled, sank to new lows over the basketball defeat by Otterbein 33-31. This end- ed a thirty-six game conference win streak. A CHRISTMAS PARTY was sponsored for underprivileged children by the Y.W.C.A. Each Y.W. girl took charge of one little girl. seeing that she entered into the games and got her share of pop com balls and presents. Margaret Swartz is the Santa Claus. '4-1, THIS CHRISTMAS TREE on Kauke quad is almost as tradi- tional to the Wooster Christmas season as is Dr. I.ean's reading of The Christmas Carol. Every year the student senate pays from fifteen to twenty-five dollars for this quad decoration. Examination week at the end of the first semester, January 24 to 31, lowered the col- lege into still greater depths. When the girls' dorms revived, they joined with town groups to organize a Bundles for Britain club. Presi- cient Wishart dedicated a new piano, the gift of the late Birt E. Babcock, on February ll. MILDRED DILLINGS, recognized as the world's most famous woman harpist, came to Wooster January 8 through the auspices of the Wooster Federation ot Music: hers was one of tour programs in the Cooperative Concert series. Miss Dillings has given concerts in countries all over the world.

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Winter The advent of December marked the turn- ing of attention to Yuletide festivities. The Student Senate decorated Kauke quad with a giant Christmas tree, While in every dorm students trimmed lesser trees. The season proper was innovated by the choir's presentation of portions of The Mes- siah, an oratorio, Which, like Professor Lean's reading of The Christmas Carol, has become an annual event. Dr. Lean's reading this year was held before the tradition-breaking Winter formal, a 12:00 affair which broke with cus- tom when it was held on the school night, De- cember 19. DR. KARL POLANYI was the class of 1917 speaker last tall. He was no magician, but he still mystiiied students. Slighting the English language proved more effective than sleiqht-of-hand. His subiect was The Theory of Fascism: A Deadloclc of Politics a:nd Economics. Students agreed that the discussion tailed to disperse the deadlock. ULTRA-REPUBLICAN WOOSTER went to the polls November 5. Straw votes had shown Wooster four to one in favor of Republican Wendell Willkie. Ele- phant clubs were the strongest campus political organizations. The Roosevelt election was an un- pleasant surprise. MISS ERIKA MANN, W.S.G.A. speaker, was prob- ably the most interesting personality who spoke here this year. Speaking on dictatorships, the daughter of tamed Thomas Mann inserted her vib- rant self into every sentence. Students thrilled to hear her tales of the horrors of London under tire and the perils ot democracy in time ot stress. THE W ASSOCIATION dinner was an event which brought athletes into the social limelight. Students who had earned their varsity letters dined. heard speakers. and elected officers. Highlight of the evening was the awarding of coveted letters and gold tootballs to deserving veterans. LANSING HATFIELD, baritone, was the first artist to appear here on the Wooster Federation ot Music program. He thrilled music-loving Woosterites. Stud- ents were not surprised when he won the Metropolitan Opera Company audition several weeks later. --su Gym

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it Lift A SECOND FRESHMAN MIXER was a highlight ol the late winter season. Yearlings who felt they were not properly acquainted with their class- mates did the organizing. Chief entertainment of the affair was dancing. Usual roles were ex- changed as girls did the cutting-in. Clear as Crystal, by Johnston Lewis, was the 1941 Gum Shoe Hop. It portrayed life in a small college where Scott Leonard sang his way to victory in a three-way vie for the hand of Tink Carter. Alex Drysdale was elected to represent Wooster at Ewing College in Allahabad, India. On February 27, Harry B. Flory, graduate of Wooster and London journalist, spoke inter- VHONSKY AND BABIN climaxed Wooster's Coop- erative Concert series. Although youthful. they have already won fame as duo-pianists par excellent. They have made tour transcontinental tours. Wooster students were especially interested to learn that the pair was married: they had sacrificed separate careers, but had found a greater one as a team. estingly at chapel on the British situation. That evening Fortnightly waxed dramatic, presenting Amelia Goes to the Ball, a comic opera which had a packed house laughing from start to finish. Frosh held a second freshman mixer, March 1, in which boys and girls changed roles as escorts. But frosh triumph was short-lived, initiation week, March 3-8, under a new short-week plan, ushered l0l freshman pledges into fraternity life. Duo-pianists Charm Music Lovers On March l, Vronsky and Babin, famed duo-pianists, were guests, appearing on the Federation of Music series. The next day, Dr. Frank Guy Armitage held students spell- bound with impersonations of Dickens' char- acters. Paul Gruber and Beth Boyer played leads in Berkeley Square, a costume play of the eighteenth century, which was presented March 13 to l5. The College formally recognized the advent of Spring with the declaration of spring vaca- tion, March 28 to April 8. Glee Club men toured Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan during the recess. SECTIONS VIE for mythical honors in dance dec- orations. By general acclarnation, Third Section's hunting lodge idea was the best. Douglass Hall's dance floor was converted into a mountain hunting lodge from which dancers could see snow- capped mountains projected in color on the dorm walls.