Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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ngo 1.920 Stubent Gouncil t0 Reed. With incomplete records and many vital issues left vague by K preceding councils, the 1921 administrators early set about to clarify 5,0; h? these difficulties. When theoccasiori demanded student and faculty tUbL 5E interpretations of Reeds honor principle were crystallized. Mourners Of the lost Quest charter were appeased by a new charter which resulted in a re- T T the present rate of exchange, pilgrims to political Utopia will soon tum Investigation proved that Reed genius has no neeci for the restrictions of the point system which other colleges advised us to adopt. Members of the student council for 1920-21 were: Seniors, Student Body President, Tom Brockway, Eugene Vincent, Blair Stewart, Katherine Kerr and Mary Elizabeth XVhite; Juniors, Grace Linklater and William Stone; Sophomores; Arm Shepard and Forrest Forest; Freshmen, Rachel Cronquist arid Easton Rothwell. Organized and representative Quest. 49

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1920 R. Scholz says that history is made, not on the six days that man works, T but on the seventh day when he rests. That certainly is true of Reed College history, for on the seventh day a group of students gather to 8; 9 write the Quest, and as history is a record of the worlds happenings, S9 Mg so the Quest is a record of college happenings. The weekly gets its name from the old phrase, Comrades of the Questii used to designate Reed students I early in the career of the college. Each week all the scandal of the community, I all the events of the Vicinity, properly pruned and expanded, make their appearance in the little paper which appears on W ednesday noon. The Quest reporter is 1 renowned for the quantities of personal information he possesses, which makes no man feel entirely safe from his powers. Until the middle of this year, there was no general election for Quest editor, and he was half appointed, half-selected from possibilities about the college. Tom Brockway then decided that the Quest editorship was too much of a responsibility for a thesis-writing Senior, and so the charter was lost. This misfortune resulted in one of the most exciting campaigns of Reed history. A new regime, under Bill Stone as editor and Bill Scott as news-editor have made subsequent Quests as 7 interesting as any in the files. Hereafter the editor will be elected from the junior class, at mid-year, which will eliminate the necessity for losing future charters. , The Quest staff attacks its weekly job with amazing enthusiasm. Every 1 Sunday morning all its members gather in the little office off the chapel, laugh s over rumors, talk over the events of the week, and write the articles. The sound ,i of Mr. Becker, practicing for the next organ recital forms an effective background for the Clacking of typewriters, which is interrupted occasionally by loud bursts of laughter. Hj udas Priest, this is goodl'i quoths Mr. McGowan as he laboriously misspells out his latest Hfunny dopefi The work is efficiently systematized, so that each writer has his own special lob. Muriel Nichols spends most of the time when she is not assistant-editing in PFOdUCing master-piece headlines without reading the articles. Ellen Gantenbein and Verda McCallum, Bill Scott's assistants, write up social events and assemblies, and whenever he remembers to get up, Ted Steffen does menis athletics. Another CUb reporter, Alice Lathrop, produces a hundred and flfty words weekly about Women's sports. Nancy Gavin, scandal artist, assists Howard McGowan. Tho not an official member of the staff, Harold King makes a competent printers . devil, while Sam White holds down the mat of the office dog by boning at all hard i Jobs like word-counting and interviewing reluctant faculty. Other cub reporters ' are May Arnold, Virginia Westfall, Clinton Wrilson and Carol Cummings. Directly in line for future editor of the Quest stands Easton Rothwell, all around handy man and feature writer. H Altogether the Quest this year has presented a so COmmunistic efficiency which it has never shown before 1n a man management. lidarity of frontl' and a 11 the history of its one 51