Des Moines College - Tiger Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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'45 42- 3 j' 4 . - NEA A r THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM Due to ever pressing financial dilliculties, and, prompted perhaps by the balmy spring weather, the males of the University who are regular patrons of Child's Hall, have organized a cross-country team. This team is heartily favored by Coach Bell and Miss Pope, and it promises to take its place with football, track and other athletics, in future years. At the first meeting of the team, Floyd Hickman was unanimously elected as captain, with Miss Irene Dilley for his running mate. This couple was selected as they had already shown great ability and inclination for the work. - It is planned that the aspirants always work together in pairs, so that the desired results may be obtained. Other members of the squad are: Cone-Petterson, Paul-Rider, Schlaman-Kingsley Boggs-Lewis, Spurgeon-Plimpton, Holmes-Knox Any one or couple who show ability is eligible to membership, and must furnish your own equipment. A gigantic meet is planned for commence- ment week. A E Mary used to roll her eyes, Life was very quiet, Now our Mary rolls her hose, Existence isa riot. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllHHIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIII!!lIllIII!l 179 IIIIIllIIIllIIllIIIllllIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIII

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I -A I ,wg - 'W 1 4 THE TRIP TO SIMPSON What memories those little words call up in the minds of some! 'Twas on a fine eve in February that the special train, bearing over two hundred rooters and a band of over twenty pieces left the Rock Island station. The trip down was comparatively uneventful f-and the arrival was made just in time for all to get in in time to see the first tip-up. To recount the game would be a mere repetition as a full account of that is given else- where in this edition. However, were that not so it would be unnecessary to tell the score, for the old Tiger surely laughed loud enough that night for all to know that he had won a victory and a real victory it was indeed. By some unseemly chance it had been arranged by the committee on transportation that the train back to the city should not leave till eleven o'clock. This had been done in order that none of those who might go to various parts of the ctiy would be left behind, as had been the case in years before. During the interim, though it seems folly to relate this, a dance was held in the ole taown hall, which was, it has since developed, decidedly against the rules of the University. Exactly at eleven o'clock the train started back and the best of time was made and all arrived back at home feeling that the trip was a great success and that it should be repeated each year, especially if the results in regard to the score would be so favorable. , But the results of a game and of an evening's entertainment following can be extended over more space of time than that taken up by a train in traversing the distance between Indianola and Des Moines, and this has been demonstrated in a most convincing manner to many of the students of this University. Ten days later, at the .end of the winter quarter, announcement was quietly made in chapel by the Chancellor of the University that all those who had participated in the dance after the game were automatically sus- pended from school until they should make written apology to the faculty and to the school as a whole. A bomb-shell thrown through one of the open windows on that bright and shining morning could not have caused more commotion than was caused by this announcement. Backing their statement with a venom, evidently gathered from long months of feeling, those involved swore by all the high and ancient Gods that they would rather face the hottest of fires and wade the deepest of oceans than to sign such a degrading, nonplussing statement as was offered to them. The leaders in particular were open in their statements that they would see some of the high authorities in the place of eternal fires before they would sign. . HoWever,'here we wish to take time and space to state that it is with a feeling of pride in our University and a feeling of confidence in our Board of Directors who have had the judgment to engage such a man as our Chan- cellor is, that we relate that, no matter how hot the opposition may have been, no matter how broad and threatening at times the cries of the accused may have become, Chancellor Osborn stood his ground as he saw the right and in the end he won as all those from the time of Adam to the present have done who have had the courage of their convictions and a belief in their own judgments enough to stand by a thing when they thought it was right, no matter what the odds. HIlIIHIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllIIllllIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIlllllllllllllllIIIIIHHIII 178 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllIllIlIllllllllIIlIiIlllllllIllIIIIIIllllIlIIIIlllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllll

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' Q-P' X . ' 1 . S as 7' n THE BAND CIRCUS A new and interesting feature added to the order of entertainments in the University this year was the Band Circus, which was engineered by Dean Carr and put on for the benefit of the band. The entertainment took the form of a true circus, especially in the num- ber of side-shows, although there seems to still be some argument as to which was the main show and as to which would have deserved the posi- tion in the big tent had there been one. Stunts or shows of all kinds, de- scriptions and natures were put on by the various organizations and ranged everywhere from the serious and well prepared drama to the Calthough no less well prepared, still less classicalb hootch counter and the Hoola dancer 'without which no circus would ever be complete. The show, which in the judgment of the committee on awards took the cake when considered in the light of entertainment and from the side of results garnered in a financial manner, was the triune show put on by the Alpha Gamma Kappa Fraternity. The wild man from Borneo, the fire eater, Hilda, the fat woman, and the great chalk talker, were the features and the judges' decision seemed to meet with popular approval when they awarded the D. NI. U. banner, which was the first prize, to this show. A Hilda, the Hawaiian dancer, seemed to meet the demands of at least a great part of the male contingent in the audience and this was one of the pop- ular shows of the Circus The I-Iootch Counter did a rushing business and although the flowing mixture was perhaps not so strong as advertised, still the odor pervading the room in which this stunt was pulled oil' was enough to make the tears come to the eye of many an old timer. ' As a whole the circus was a great success and we hope that it will be re- peated and that it will become one of the traditions of the University to make it one of the feature entertainments of the year. FLUNK DAY Flunk days are few and far apart but when they do come, they are well worth waiting for, and the Flunk Day which followed the winning of the basketball game against Dubuque, which cinched the college championship of Iowa for our team, was no exception. . Preceded by the ringing of the old bell in the tower to such an extent the night before that all those having youngsters in the near or surrounding territory were tempted to swear vengeance, Flunk Day and the morning sun came in together in all their respective glories, each trying to outdo the other. We have the word of Dean Hay that it will never happen again, but as the old bard was quoted as saying, Time will tell. lIIll'HlIlIlHlllIIlllillllllllllllllllIIIIIIIlIllHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllIillIIIIIllllllllllHilllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllil 180. lllllllllllIIllIIlIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIllllllllllllllllIllIIIIIllllllllllllllllHIlHHllIllllIIlllIlllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll