The daily star-mirror., 1923-05-18
STUDENTS GUT FOR
IDAHO CAMPUS DAY
GENERAL WORK FOR MEN, SEW
ING FOR WOMEN-"OLD GUARD"
AND SHIkKERS FEATURED

While the University of Idaho WO-
men spent the forenoon sewing, each
dOrmitory and sorority house doing
its best to initiate a sweatshop, the
men devoted the entire morning from
o'clock to noon in cleaning up and
making permanent improvements to
the Idaho campus. Idaho's annual
campus day was devoted by the girls
to making $50 costumes for the dan
GERS who will take symbolic parts in
the historical pageant, 6 The Light on
the Mountains" June 8.
General repair and improvement of
the campus, campus buildings, and the
athletic field made up the activity
of the men, divided into 81 groups for
81 projects. -
Vigilantes Duck Deserters
vigilance committee of winners
of the official athletic CT" rounded
up the male students who failed to
report or who failed to report on
time. Approximately Is men were
thoroughly drenched with heavy
stream Of water from fire hose. All
-deserters from the ranks of the wor-
kers were thoroughly checked up,
given the deserters' punishment, and
put to work. Several men inclined
to shirk on the job were also given
the water treatment.
At noon university women served
lunch for the men on the Ridenbaugh
hall lawn. All of the men appeared
in their working clothes. The after
noon program consisted of an all
college dance in the gymnasium.
The usual May festival was omitted,
all efforts being bent toward perfec-
ton of the June historical drama.
Old Guard" Parades
The annual "Old Guard, take-off
military parade and ceremony, was
the feature of the afternoons pro-
gram. The Old Guard a most re-
markable collection of fancifully
dressed soldiers, assembled on the
campus and paraded down town and
through the business streets where
refreshments were served the mar
chers. The guard was commanded by
I" Fat Stephens, mounted on a pranc-
ing charger, and captained by Babe -
Brown. II
A band of the doubtful y variety !
wisely forbade from the rendition of
music. Guns of all varieties were |
featured and the parade wound up
with formidable array of artillery, /
one implement OF some kind or other |
initiating machine gun and the other I
wreck trying to pass off as a one
FOUNDER.
Hundreds of yards of fluffy material
had been distributed to the girls DOR
mitories and sorority houses in pre-
paration for today's sewing costume
making. Each house was in charge
of two lieutenants, who had been in
by the general costume com
mittee, headed by Miss Katherine Jen-
sen, director of the home economics
curriculum.
Costumes For Dances
Costumes were made today for
dancers who will represent Indian
spirits, the hills, the woods, the min
ing gnomes, the spirits of the waste
places, and the waters, in the sym
bolic dances which will be inter
spersed among the historical features
of the pageant. These dancers are
being trained by Miss katharine Win
slow, physical director of women.
Other costumes for which the uni
and the players are securing
the country include costumes for 13
Indian men, four Indian women, seven
explorers and trappers who will wear
deerskin, missionary Of 1910, a wo-
man, child and traveller of the year
1910, two black-robed Jesuits, eight {
five emigrant women, 20 l
miners, four frOck-coated gentlemen
Of 1868, an Episcopal bishop of the
same year, stage driver, packer,
1ewsboy, saloon keeper, lady of 1868,
! rancher of 1890, six cowboys, eight
,Owgir1s (six in buckskin) two ranch 1
three United States cavalry G
officers and two troopers of 1877,
rappers, settlers and their wives, and I
homestead darS of 1000