Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-11-23
COLBY COLLEGE
Famous Arctic Explorer To Lee
ture at COlby-Y. w. c. A.
Meeting and Debate-COlby
Military Company Supper
Sorority Rushing Party


. Sorority Rushing Party
n Donald b. Mcmillan. the famous
| arctic explorer. who only recently. re-
| turned to his home in this state after
long trip to the far North, has been
secured by Registrar Libby as one OIL
! the college lecturers for this winter.
/ Mr.. McMillan's lecture will be held
/ in the Waterville Opera House on the
/ evening Of Dec IA, and all the pro-
cceds are to be given to the military
company to swell the fund which the
company is raising for uniforms.
, The y w c. \. meeting was held
/ last evening. the time of the weekly
meetings having been changed from
| Tuesday evening TO THURSDAY even
ing. The leader last evening was MISS
| Helen Cole. II. who has been engaged
! in Associated Charity work in Water
vile with Miss keyes, the secretary
! OF the Associated Charities since
! leaving college. Her subject was So
! cial Service Work.
An interesting debate on the prop
!
! ter to have Loved and Lost, than to
have Never Loved at AL" will make
up the program of the regular weekly
meeting Of the Womans Literary So
! ciety this evening. The speakers for
/ the affirmative will be isabelle Wing,
is. and Lucy league. 20; while the
negative speakers will he Phyllis Stur-
devant. 19. and Katharine Hatch. 10.
/ The Colby Military Company aban-
doned its original plan Of hiking to
| North Nassalboro yesterday afternoon
because the weather was unsuitable;
but the thought of the appetzin6 re-
past which was being planned for them
! after their arrival was too much; and
| the members decided to take the car
and al least have the eats" The sup
per was served in the Baptist church
! AT Nassalboro and was enjoyed by the
50-odd hungry members of the COM
panX present.
\ rushing party in the form of a
| progressive dinner was the order OF
( the Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Wednesday evening. This dinner was
i served in three courses. The first
course was served at the home of Miss
! Mildred Barton. 10. on College Ave;
nue.; the second course was given at
tho residence of Miss Mildred Dunham.
II. on Elm street; and for the third
4 course the hUsteSSeS and their guests
adjourned to the home of Miss Bertha
/ Terry. eX'lS. on Silver street. Dur
ing the evening. the members of the
sorority gave a short play. called The
Hi ~ y For the NJ yha
the company danced and sang the
sorority songs.
Meeting Student Council
The Student Council held its first
meeting of the year yesterday after
noon in the college chapel for the pur-
pose of choosing officers and talking
over one or two matters concerning the
welfare of the students. Herbert l..
Newman is of Weston automatica be-
came the president of the council as he
is the president of the Senior class John
Potte Of East Otshell was chosen vice
president and Eugene 3. Mariner IS of
Searsmont was the choice of the council
for secretary. The other members OF
the council who We're present at the
meeting were: Raymond II. Parker IS.
Of Blue Hill; Harvard Moor is Of Ellis
worth: Ross s. Holt IS. of Clinton; Mil
ton Philbrook Is, of Matinicus; Paul f.
Alden Is, Of Cumberland Mills; and
Roger J.. Marble is OF North Nassal-
boro, all members representing the va
rous fraternlties and the non-fra ternity
men and Wentworth Y. Drscoll of
BROOKLYN y. Y, president of the Ju-
nior class; Colby Kalloch of Fort Fair
field, president Of the Sophomore class
and Ernest McCracken Of Bangor. pres
ident Of the Freshman class One of
the matters discussed was the matter
Of the Thanksgiving vacation. Only one
day has been granted by the faculty,
but as many students wish to go home
and cannot without being absent from
one or two classes on the day after, the
student council drew up : petition to the
faculty to have the Thanksgiving vaca-
ton end on 10 o'clock Friday morning,
the day after Thanksgiving. so that all
who wish to 30 home can get back on
the Friday morning train without being
obliged TO cut any of their classes
Amos +. Shirley, ex-'i9. is now a see
ond lieutenant in the United States Army.
and is stationed at Greenville. South
Carolina.
William II. Erbb II has been heard
from ~ friends at the college He is
with the Medical Corps of the 1o3d Reg
ment and is now in England.
$. NJ. Wallace. ex-'1S. who is in the
third u, s. Field hospital is now in
France. though not on the very front
lines: according to a letter received here
recently by his mother.