The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-09
Fourteen Washburn Students
Qualify for Membership.
Ask for Admission to American
College Quill Club.
THEIR WORK HIGHLY PRAISED
Contributions From Ichabeds
Gain Much Fame.
Prof. E. B. Davis Is President
of Local Organization.

The Washburn Writer'S club, COM
posed of fourteen students who quail
fled thru submitted work and several
members of the faculty, who were adj
mitted by reason of previously pub
lished effort, has finished it's prelimi-
nary organization, and is now ready
to apply for membership in the Amer
lean College Quill club, national or
ganization.
The washburn club owes it's ex-
istence mainly to the untiring efforts
of Elrick B. Davis, professor of Eng
fish at Washburn, who first conceived
the idea of organization.
students Who Qualified.
The following students qualified:
Professor Davis, Merriam Sheldon,
George Whitcomb, Maxine Mitchell,
Esther Young, Lois Robinette, Fred
Zimmerman, Katherine Kelley, Jane
Lannan, Marjorie Hemus, Edward
Everett. George Bearg, Erma Lewis
and William Higgins, jr.
The manuscripts for qualification
were limited to short stories, magazine
articles, poems. feature stories, one
act plays and orations. OF the TWEEN
ty-three contestants fourteen were
passed. Short stories were favorite
attempts. there being tWenty-three of
them, four magazine articles, three
poems, one feature story, one one-act
play. four orations and one poem.
The judges were picked with an
idea of thoro competence. They were:
Charles Hanson Towne, poet, fiction
writer, essayist, critic, lecturer, former
editor of the Smart Set and McClure's
magazine, and one of the fifteen men
invited to the western front as OBJ
servers at the beginning of the war
Outlook; John NJ. Siddall. editor of the
American magazine; Karl Edwin Har-
riman editor of the Red Book, the
Green Book and the Blue Book, and
President Z. C. Warriner of the Cen
trail Michigan Normal school
Much Praise for Work.
c. H. Towne, in writing to Professor
Davis concerning the manuscripts,
said: what I do wish to emphasize
is that my reaction after reading the
entire group of manuscripts has been
that I grow hopeful of the future
American writer's, and one or these
DAYS 1 should like to shake hands with
some of the promising people mere
brought forward"
The Authors and Their Work.
Following are the names of the au-
thors, and their work which quail
fled them for the club:
The Minds the Matter, short story,
by Elrick B. Davis.
Modes of Justice, short story, by
Merriam Sheldon.
Tenderfoot, short story, George
Whitcornb.
Every Day People, short story, by
Maxine Mitchell.
Because She Didn't Know, short
story, by Esther Young.
A Washburn COED, feature story,
by Lois Robinette.
A Ring for Madame, short story,
by Fred Zimmerman.
Three Poems, by Katherine Kelley.
Juvenile Court, magazine article,
by Jane Iannan.
The Last Ray, short story, by Mar
jorie Hemus.
A Small Town Story, short story,
by Edward Everett.
The Rejuvenation of Byron Saun-
ders, short story, by George Bearg.
The Spoken Turth, short story, by
Ernfa Lewis.
The Story of a Scar, short story, by
William L. Higgins, Jr.
What's in Name? short story, by
Lois Robinette.
Soap, short story, by Marjorie
Hemus.
Club Elects Officers.
At a meeting held recently at the
home of Professor Davis. 1917 College
avenue, the following officers of the
club were elected: President, Elriek
B. Davis; vice president, Merriam
Sheldon: secretary, Katherine Kelley;
treasurer. George BeaNg; librarian,
Maxine Mitchell.
Professor Davis read letters from
the four judges commenting upon the
work offered: and special praise was
given Miss Mitehells work, a short
story, Every Day People" Both
Towne and Siddall sent her their per-
sonal congratulations, commenting
upon the exceptional clarity and
warmth of the work. Miss Jane Lam
nan also received complimentary men,
ton upon her work. a magazine arti-
Gle entitled Juvenile Court"
The alumnae members of the club
are: Florence Rowles, who is already
a member of the Quill" Imri Zum-
walt Miss Charlotte Leavitt. Prof. F..
D. Schoenberger, Prof. A. T. Birch
and DIR. Charles NJ. Sheldon.
The American College Quill club
will receive a petition from the Wash
burn organization in the near future.
asking for charter of their organiza-
ton. Alumnae members of the club