The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
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penn COLLEGE NOTES

The boys are coming back! Among
the recent chapel visitors have been
Alfred Michener, Lieut.. Kirk and
Lieut. Renaud. All have been hon.
orably discharged and sent home.
Michener comes from Fort Monroe,
Virginia; Renaud from Camp Taylor,
and Kirk from Fort Kearney, Califor-
MIA.
A happy though struck I. w. Cook
the other day and he took Porfessor
Emerson out in the country where they
collected about fifty fine roots OF
Virginia Creepers, ivy and grape
vines, These are being planted
around the buildings for good start
next spring. What a beautiful sight
it will be when the vines decorate the
new buildings!
The second lecture of the War
Course by Prof Stanley proved an
eye opener" The subject was"fhe
Role of Chemistry in the War" Prof.
Stanley showed the evolution of pois-
onous gases. The first used being
the Chlorine gas which attacked
nose, throat and lungs; next was the
Bromine gas which attacked the eyes,
then after the mask was invented the
Germans produced sneeZi-'T and cry
ing gases which compelled the wc""HT
to frequently remove TIC s-"9'I. The
chief surprise was the information
that the U. S. had built gas plant
near Cleveland, Ohio, that manufac-
tured gas that was 72 times as
poisonous as the deadly mustard gas,
and if used would have been gas of
literal annihilation. Another sur
prise was the statement that Nobel,
the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize,
was a chemical eYperimenter in high
explosives. This partially explains
why Roosevelt once received the No
bel; Peace Prize.
The Evangelistic and Church Exten-
sion Committee of Iowa Yearly Meet
ing met at William Penn Hall Friday.
Out of town visitors were Laura
Townsend of West Branch, Alfred
Hansen of IndianoIa. W. S. Kitch of
Bangor, and Carrie Butler.
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The Inter-Class basket ball games
showed an amazing amount of spirit
and fight and brought to light some
very promising material for the
varsity team. The thrilling games
of the tournament were the Fresh
men-Sophomore game, and the final
championship game between the
Freshmen and Fourth Years. The
Freshmen won the championship by
a margin of one point.
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The War Course was given good
start by Professor McCracken on the
subject, "a Basis for Peace" The
important points made were that with
all The organizing ability there is in
the world today. If we do not organ
ize league capable of enforcing
peace II will not be because we do not
want to and not because we do not
know how. In addition the nations
must scrap" their ideas of Uber-
mensch which sanction or allow the
exploitation of the weak by the
strong. !
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The college has three cases of the
flu: Professor Ewes, Olema Mote and
Mrs. Dorland. Some of the boys are
taking advantage of the discount made
for wholesale vaccination" and have
gone down in groups of dozen or
more.
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Last Friday was the day for all col
leges to present the matter OF Food
Conservation. Miss Rosenberger OF
the Domestic Science Department
gave splendid presentation of3the
matter and told how the slogan had,
been changed from FOOD viii win the
War; to Food will win the World"
Charley Maxwell. '12.. has been max.
ing the college a'short visit. "Fuzzy'
lives near Earlham and is..a great
Penn Booster. 3