Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-22
COLLEGE NOTES.

At the vesper service in the McCul-
Tough gymnasium Sunday the
ment vas made of the change in the
hour of vesper service from five o'clock
to four.
At the senior class meeting the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
P. w. Ferguson: vice-president, Miss
Drake; secretary, Miss Wright; and
treasurer, Carroll Ross.
The first issue of the college weekly
paper, the Campus, came out last
week. There is a good editorial staff
this year, and with a good number of
subscriptions in the college and a large
number of alumnae on the mailing list
there is quite a circulation.
The past week has been stunt week
for the Freshman girls. The Sophomore
girls each had q 1919 girl to'look after.
and many laughable stunts were devised
by the 1918 women. For two days the
Freshmen girls were made to carry
large teddy bears or dolls to chapel and
all recitations.
A. new feature in the athletic life of
Middlebury is a cross country run
which has been introduced by Coach
Holmes. The men have been training
for some time, and the run will be held
before the New Hampshire State foot
ball game October 23rd. The finish will
be on Main street near the Register
office. The course is around Chapman
Hill, making a four mile run
The fraternity rushing season, which
has been open since Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 10Th, closes Tues lay, October
26th, which date is pledge day. There
is to be no rushing on pledge day. The
uniform bids will be sent out to reach
the men in the mornings mail and
they are to be returned in the after
Moons mail, whether answered in the
affirmative or negative.
The sophomore class election was
held in the Hemicycle Monday, the 18th,
at 1:30. Urban Parker was elected
president; Miss Eleanor Crane, vice
president; Miss Marion Dean, secre-
tary, and Arthur Coleman, treasurer.
At this time the Sophomore Hop COM
mittee and the Sophomore Rules com
mittee were appointed. j.: j. Lynch
was made chairman of the Rules COM
mittee and E. w. Earle chairman of
the Sophomore Hop committee.
At the chapel exercises Monday morn
ing President Thomas spoke of plans
concerning the time when the new
chapel would be ready for use. He said
the new organ would be of great benefit
and that the college ought to have a
regular choir which should train and be
a permanent institution in the college.
He said that Professor Cunningham had
been procured to take charge of the
choir, and that there ought TO be six
teen voices, eight male and eight fe-
male. AS a choir cannot be worked up
in a short time it has been thought best
to organize Immediately and rehearse
regularly from now until the new
chapel will be ready sometime next
semester). There was a tryout for the
men Tuesday evening and one for the
women Wednesday evening, 18th in the
Hemicvcle.
The Glee Club outlook for the year is
certainly favorable. At the first re-
hearsal over thirty men were present.
Professor Cunningham is going to
direct the work and a new plan is to be
adopted. Just as an athletic team of
picked stars, who have never played to-
gether will not amount TO much as a
team, so a number of fine singers, who
have not rehearsed, will not amount to
much as a Glee club. The new scheme,
then, is to let all attend rehearsals for
some time, and those who attend regu-
larly and have moderately good voices
will be given preference later over
those who perhaps have remark able
ability, but have missed some re-
hearsals. President Thomas is acting on
the idea that a good Glee club is as
much of an advertisement for a college
as a good athletic team, and everything
possible will be done to turn out a good
club with this purpose in view. Trips
to several large cities are planned later.
The annual hat scrap between The
sophomores and freshman vas held Sat
urday, the 10Th, on the campus between
the old Chapel and Painter Hall. The
Sophomores apparently thought that it
would be an easy scrap for them, for
only seventeen of their number turned
! out, while the Freshmen put forty
eight men into the contest. At two
o'clock the first shot was fired and the
two classes rushed at the hat from OPP
posite sides. With sixty-five men in
one pile all scrapping to get a hand on
a hat which is underneath all of them,
it is hard to tell to whom all the various
projecting legs and arms belong. After
three minutes, during which time those
near the bottom of the pile had infinite
chance to become pressed to a smaller
size, the revolver was again fired. The
men were gradually extracted from
the pile. starting at the outermost
edges. Some, to be sure, were minus
some af their wearing apparel, but they
were glad to donate this to the cause.
When the center of the pile was reached
it was found that four freshmen had
hands on the hat, and three sophomore
hands were on it. The men were as
follows; freshmen. Jenne, two hands,
Osteyee, one, and Swoboda, one; sophie
mores, Dake two and Allyn one.