Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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a GRIPPI Elie Social 37cm HE series of social events for the year Opened with a reception and dance given by the Sophomores in the Assembly hall on the evening of Septem- ber 25, at which the new students were initiated into the joys of Reed social life. A reception given by Mrs. Knowlton for the Freshmen 0n the 1st Saturday night in October served the double purpose of giving them a ripping good time and getting them acquainted on an extra-classroom basis with the faculty. The following Friday brought Campus Day, with an Obliging sun and an in- dustrious, collarless gang of students and faculty striving to beautify the campus. Lunch in the Commons was a riotous meal with humorous speeches by faculty members in reply to uproarious demands. At 3 o'clock work stopped and the rest of the day up to 11 oiclock was given to entertainments, including a foot- ball game, a combined dinner and stunt show, an operatic farce, and a big dance ' in the assembly hall, all of which succeeded in fading the Freshman green con- . siderably. On the 16th of October, the Day-Dodgers entertained the community at a 1 delightful garden party in the Assembly ha11. , October 30th brought the Freshmen Halloween party in the gym, with the student body in the hardest-times array possible to a self-respecting community. Reed celebrated Armistice Day with a hard-fought football game with Albany and an informal dance afterwards. On Friday, November 19th, a house-warming for Anna Mann Cottage took place, followed by two drama club plays and various other entertainments for the purpose of raising funds to dress her up. The Saturday following, the student body and faculty departed en masse for Forest Grove to witness the Reed-Pacific football game. The first event of December was a debate between Reed and Corvallis, held in the Chapel on the 10th, and followed by a dance. The House H dance took place pm Saturday, the 11th, in the 1N1en1s social room, transformed for the occasion into an attractive log-cabin in a snow storm and Filled with soft Hawaiian music. December 16th brought a Christmas concert by the Chorus, the last affair before the holidays. The week-end following return to school was filled with Mrs. Knowlton's receptiori for the Sophomores on Friday night and a iihickH party given by the gym majors Saturday night, at which were enacted the delightfully different dances of Captain. jinksi, and 1113013 Goes the XVeaslef, The first event of the second semester was a reception in Anna Mann Cottage 0n the 10th Of February, On Saturday, the 11th, came the flrst formal dance of the year, Given by House F in a ff ' - Assemblythall, n e ectively colonial ball-room, made out of the 46

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f Wt ll each new day; home Of the Biology Departments frog-egg hunting canoe, and 1! 1920 HE GRIFF'I ?l'fouse 71 Mystic lair of the Black Cat; and scene of many a midnight revel place where l all inhabitants are trained to arise noiselessly and promptly and salute the dawn of melting pot of the nationalities, a house where the Russian, Italian, German, French, Spanish, English and Profane languages are all talked equally well over the telephone; and lastly, home Of the world's dumbest scholar, HFeathersf whose sole and only linguistic accomplishment after weeks of patient and protracted teaching is Har-r-r-rkH Such are some of the indiviclualities of Reeds newest campus home. The inhabitants of the house themselves make the House unique; Ted Eliot, 1 ex-prexy, Dominic Salandra, Floyd XVOOdings, Clint Wilson, Forrest Foster, Harry McCoy, Phil Adams, Ed Piper, Hansen, and lastly, but most certainly not least, a HBecky Bechtold, college prof. unique, who can be prince of good fellows, as well as master of his classes, and drama producer extraordinaire, all combine to make the presence of House I usefully felt as the latest addition to the Reed Community.

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1920 WashingtonTs Birthday was celebrated b an informal C ' ' : led Witharecept Assembly hall on February 19th. y 0mmumty dance m the hall Ontheev T : The Amanda Reed Association held a dancing party in Anna Mann Cottage initiate d int 6mm the afternoon Of March 5th far the girls of the cottage. Friday, the 11th, two 0M Drama Club plays were staged 1n the Chapel. The Saturday afternoon following a nowlton for they picnic at Oswego Lake was given for the Juniors and Senior girls by Miss Heilman, 1 the doublepuqm. Miss Baughman, Miss Nilson and Miss Short. ted on an email Houses G and I combined forces to give a delightful formal dance in the W Assembly hall, transformed mto a realistic forest under the changing lights of . day and night, artificially simulated, on Saturday, March 19th. On Wednesdav nth an obligingsun night of the same week Miss Young entertained the community at an enjoyable StriVingtObeautiIV reception in Anna Mann Cottage, in honor of her guest, Mrs. Woolley. t On the 24th and 25th of March, HHobsons Choieem was staged in the Little eatre by the Drama Club before Reed students and others. A reception was given for President and Mrs. Scholz in the Assembly hall on the eighth of April, followed the next night by the W'omerfs Formal, given in humorous Spwhah T h o'clock work stoppc 1tertainments,ind operaticfarcwda the gymnasium under a false ceiling of serpentine, admitting subdued rays of ading the Freshmani light, and t0 the music of a wonderful-looking orchestra. The Spring Chorus recital came on the Friday night of April 15th, and was ntertained thewtwgeld in the chapel. The 22nd Of April brought the anxiously anticipated junior rom. en party in them; to a self-reSpectlgng .1: football gamewr