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Official Orgnn Southeastern Stnte Teachers College . .

UlJltANT, OKLAHOMA. WEDNESDAY,- NOVE~IBER l"t. 1928. Number 10. 1

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WILL BRING GRADS TO ~--~·>st·~~--~· ··< ·~ STEPH I!:NS IN THE .. _ '\

BACKFIEI .. D IN THE r -· · DURANT ON SATURDAY

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0 d grads of Southeastern will come to Durant by the scores Saturday

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\Vh~n the home-coming football game I

be the Savages and the Central • •

B chos is played on the college

~'V equipment for the new bleach­arrived ~fonday. A large crew of

will set up the bleachers in or­that they may be ready for Sat-

u 's tussle. More than 2500 peo-ple can be seated on the bleachers.

• TOURNAMENT DATES 38( NEW SAVAGE J .. INEUP I • AT SOUTHEASTERN • ~ HAVE BEEN NAMED 38€ After a very creditable showing :

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~ Dates for the ··basketball 38€ -against the Soutp.westem _.Bulldogs ~t'..t

vi eatherford last week, the South- \ I

eastern Savages are keyed to the )U tournaments at Southeastern l8E • during . the year. have been ~ . )!( announced. .. -• · ~ On February 14, 15 and 16 · ~ ·

highest pitch .this season for ,their

home-coming game with the C~ntrai i •

)U of next year the Class A and • · Bronchos, ancient rivals, here Satur-•

~ Class B Invitation bn·rE tour- • · day: afternoon. ~ ment will be held in the col- • A big crowd of hoJ?.lecomtng alumni -~ lege gymnasium. • is e}\pected to witness this game, aug--~ On February 28, March 1 • men ted by many · other football faDs ~ and 2 the Invitation Girl's ;tE : from over Southeastern Oklahoma. .

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ord from Edmond today stated the college band and pep squad

wcn!ta accompany the Bronchos here. ~ Tournament will be held at the • A great deal of interest is being t . .

Morning Parade. , . .for a home-coming parade

Sa~urday morning, were announced by off~ers ·of the student council today. Pri\zes will be given for the, best flo~ts. Competent judges will I be se­lecf ed to judge the floats, Bert Holt,

; courcil head said Monday. : Saturday morning's parade will go fro~ the college through the business dist rict at 10 o'clock.

' A·n initiation an<} banquet of th~ Red Red Rose and other affairs are listed on the schedule for the week-

' end ~ celebration. • Savages Working.

Out on the athletic field this week . the Savages are being put through . .

the hardest sort of scrimmages and dril~s. Last week they held the ,pow­erful Southwestern . Bulldogs to a 6 to score at VVeatherfor~. \

tral's team is ranked as ope of st1ongest in the Oklahoma 1 con­ce this year.

A section of the new bleachers will be 'reserved for alumni, it wa.$ an­~oul;nced' at the college today.

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Masters has recetv~d a lftter Clarice Tatman, who is o~ ~eave

at Iowa University ~here is doing graduate work in

Miss Tatman stated t enjoying both her work and her

very much indeed, but ..... ~-t!., · homellick for S th-

She that her . be convelyed to her friends ne1~e.

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~ (:Ollege gym. • shown in this game throughout tips I

• The annual Southeastern ~ district. · )!( Track and Field Meet will be l8E The bleacher seats purchased at · ~ held April 11, 12 and 1:3. . • · Urbana, Illinois, by the athletic de-~ • par~ent, have arrived, and are be- 1

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.· SPEAKERS FOR · •

StJPERINTENDENTS MEET AN'!"iOUNC~D

Speakers for the banquet and meeting of the Southeaste~ri · · Okla­homa City Superintendents·· associa­tion in the college cafetreia at South­eastern Saturday noon have been an­nounced by R. R. Tompkins, Durant, ·~resident . • • •

Paul Taylor~ Idabel; G. T. Stubbs, Healdton and E L. Rodman, Antlers

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will deliver the principal addresses. General problems of the ·cit:y su­

perintendent will be discussed. Fol!owing the meeting the men

• will attend th-e Southeastern-Central football game.

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AT SOUTHEASTERN . ON SECOND WEEK

• ' -Enrolment at Southeastern for the

. second term continues to climb. Many • •

new students came to- the office of '

the registrar this morning and classi­fied for the term. More than 100 :Q.ew students started classwork last week.

-Many of the classes ar~ crowde.d.

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the college, where this game will be played. These are steel stands with 'wooden seats, similar to those ·at all coilege grid fields, and will seat 2,000

... · per sons, W. B. Graham said today.

.. ·A r~vamped lineup of the Savages, tried at Weatherford proved .so ef- .. fective in giving the Bulldogs the · ' hardest fight of their season, that it will be continued again against the

· Bronehos. The changed ~neup puts Stephens, fighting little Okmulgee lad, in the backfield, and reports from Weatherford said he proved to be one of the neatest broken field . runners seen in action this year. This kid never knows he is tackled until · • -his nose is three in~es deep in tne grou~ and even then he is .liable to squirm loose if the referee is slow on

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; The changed lineup leaves · Haas, Kerr and . Johnston to take care of the end positions, and this they seem

· capable· of doing. , '

The line showed more fight than it has this season and appears to ha-fe _ gained its proper stride. With the ·

· line playing as it has and the back­field shoy.ring a great deal more of­fensive p~wer, the Savages might ~p­s~t the- dope and send the BroncQ<>s back to. Edmond with a defe4t pl¥-

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Everybody knows _the tnter~st which . a fine looking band- cr~ates, as . it

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oraolal Orpa of tbe Southeutera State Teacheta' Colle•e.

weekl,. b7 tbe 8. 8. T. C. tatereat of Bducatton In South­

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. :8ubacrlptlon price IOc per 7ear. " .. tere4 aa eecoqd·claae matter Oc­

t, 1111, at Durant, Oklahoma. the Act of AU8'UIIt 14, 1111. Ac•

cepta•ce tor mallln8' at apeclal rate of DOatafe provided for In section 1101, A.ct o October a, 111 T, authorized Oc· tolter 4, 1111.

' . goes out on parade. We are prom-ised uniforms at S. 'F. d. on one con­ditions We must produce a band

I large enough to sound weH. It should contain at least twenty-five members. We are urging lmore of

I e the young ladies especially, to get an instrument and work to get ih the band. There are among our student

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body of 1300 at least forty who could play some instrument now. Perhaps

"" · THEY: I,JKE SCHOOL some of these do not realize that The tradition of boys and girls dis- their holding just now is hindering

liking school Is all wrong, an Amer- Southeastern from taking the place lean educator insists. The fact i.s that it should assume. 1 "the school house is the favorite re- Our younger folk of the Woodrow sort of children." . Wilson Junior High already have the

A little observation suggests that making of a band. Some day many he Is probably ri~l]t. Children may of them will come to S. T. C. But

..... sh1mned school in the good old must we .wait until then? ··Are we but they don't seem much in- going to continue to depend , upon

cllned that way .. any more. the Junior High for band music to How often do '· you hear of kids support our games aDd provide pep?

' 'playing hookey" nowadaY$? Do you we fear some of the students have l

~ notice in your own fru:nily, or you~ not yet caught the spirit of S. T. C,, · relatives' and friends' families, any·· which is Service, to the ~chool, to great objection to starting for the athletic teams, wherever it is school in the morning? You are needed. .·~" 1

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more likely to · find the chil- . ~- When the basketball season be­dren crying becaus~~they are kept gins, we want a band large enough at home, for illness or some domes- to fill the stage in the gymnasium. tic emergency. . We we want one now for the rest of

Yea, they still maintain the old the games. The band practices pose of disliking school and teacher. Monday nights at 7:30. All who can But It isusually a patent sham. They · play some band instrument are in-­are naturally glad to have school let vi ted to come and try

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~ fall. fine, unifoxmed, snappy band, come .~. 1fa.ve children changed their na- out and play and we will db the rest.

ture, then? No, but the schools have _ ~· : ·c·--They are so much more in- BUB..OING ORDERS ·

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than they used to be that NECESSARY NQW.\AT the children naturally respond, and - TEACHERS OOI,I,EGE want to be where their jnterests are. 1 o

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''More entertainment and codling," '

some cynical critic may snort. Not so. When children are interested,

: they learn. The r~ and file of them are getting a b~tt~r education than· their parents and ~andparents got at their age.

To most of thmp. the school is, day in and day out, the most interesting

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bly such a thing would to the preattge of the U of tbe band Itself.

A:ny individual organization who desires to use· a building a!ter regu-

. l.ar hours must obtain a bt¥lding or­der, it has oeen announced from the office of Eugene S. Briggs, I president of Southeastern. 1.

The orders may ~e obta!n'ed 1t;t the office of Miss Masters. "All buildings will · open and close at the · regui.ar time," the announcement r ad . .

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"A" STUDENTS WILL BE •

ANNOUNc--m AT COI,I,EGE • • ---

A complete list o~ students who made all "A's" in their work for last

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term at Southeastern will be announc-. ed next week, it was &JflDOUnc~d to-day from the office

1of ,~ registrar.

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1 LEXINGTON, Va., Nov .12 Ha? ,'

Diogenes visited Washington an11 . .. . Lee University in search for an

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est man the Greek philosopher. prob- \ ably would have ended his journe~

and found delight in the confiden<'le the st.udent body have in their fel-

. low men.

A midnight lunch table, stocked and bearing a card ·w~f.h - ) schedules of pri~es, is maintained ini a dormitory. · In the morning t4e ta e is bare except for a cigar box f coins which the student owner c 1l­lects. It is all profit, for there is .o

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nuts are likewise. sold on the "help­yourself" plans by students world g their way through college. The o -ers report good profit with no los~s attributed to theft. Football worth $125 were sold during game and the money stood '-&&&C .tte~na

ed in the crowd for many hours. An overcoat hung in a "' ... "' ~ ...

for several months. Each day it taken down, dusted and The owner would call for it one daf.

This honor code was establlsh~d at the school by Gen. Robert E. ee when he became president in 18 9. Under it students are left to the -selves duri.ng examinations and Qan come and go at will. Cheating 'on examinations is unknown. 1

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· With new bleachers to accommo-date. several hundred spectators, ftbe home-coming game between the · Southeastern Savages and· the C~n Bronchos here next ~day to draw one of the largest that has ever ~tnessed a grid tle.

..:. The Bronchos, coached by Charles Wantland, have always had one Jof the best teams in the state coatler-

t ence. They have lost only one B&~ne, and that to the East Central from Ada.

Reports from alumni point to large crowd of old grads at the ale. -

Show · the "Grads" some pep week when the Bronchos meet

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ffpecial numbers in NS:,tiona1 Education week and

of Artnis­

the ti day were chief factors assembly program .uc1

'-&~torium of the Adnlin!! atlon week. at Southeastern

~c&& Clark presided. exercises were COJlOtlC''"­

ed by Bud Bolton, OkmwJ;~E de~lt of the freshman class.

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. next introduced E. . Fix-

ley professor of school a · stra-who gave a short tal on the

of National Education

Fixley said, in part: ou may think it absurd t pause

'-'-&' ie~nts at a teacher's colleg . Edu­on should not be common~lace.

ed of this week was !observ­

. health day. Health is ~ne of paramount objectives to be

&A'- by the teacher. The s te de­' of education in Ok ahoma

emphasized the health f the teafhers and students.

"}Home and school day Tues-•

I . Oklahoma ranks 36th in t-~E~r groups, indicating the state's

point compared to othe . ' _parents do not the

used in the modern educa­".&"'q plant. To supply this acu need Wehllesday was designateq as •know yotir school day.' "~ucation is the biggest bUfJinE

of any nation and it is that we (should know more about giant e~t,erprtae.

.. To point out to studen means of vocational the chief motive in observing day as school opportunity

the teachers should the .obliga~ions of the

UDited States.

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urday was se~ aside as com-•

. m~ty day. The school isn't the ' l_edueaUng force which is at work

til fU'Y .Community. The . ~.ciVic clubs and other groups en·

ID the big jCDb of tion. . Supday, which is Armlstlce day, should be used to elevate the

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FOOT BAI,J. I TEAM BAS GOOD RECORD "One must sacrifice ·m· orqer t9

live true to a principle,·, declared ·President Bert Holt of the · student "Piggy" Rappollee, former Savage

• ·council in presenting_ the eollege with. foot ~ ball star, bas a great team at a new flag, the gift of stUdents. H~leyville this year. Thus fa* t])ey

' . . President Briggs of Southeastern ac- 'are undefeated only twelve points cepted the gift in behalf of the col- having been. scored against them in lege after which .. The st8.r ·spangled · ~·· sev~n games. - They have run up 154. Banner" was sung. Raymond Leek po~ts to their opponents 12, Atoka led the song with Miss ~rtruJe Pop- · coached by another Savage, WiJJard plewell at the piano. Gibson, having scored twa t:ouch-,

Legion~ 1\len downs ·against them. -

C. C. Dunlap, county commander -of the American Legion, tord of the

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history of the organization and the · manner in which the United States

. ' DISCUSSED AT "Y" I MEETING THURSDAY · •

I ~ 1 was divided into district s. He intro~ ·-) Plans for a spring outing and con-duced Harry Haigh, co~mander of

"' ferenc~ by the Y. M. C. A. and the the Green-Bryant pQst of, the Ameri- y W C A f S can Legion and Henry Bowen com- . i .· . . . . . o - outheastern at a . mander of the third distrcit. , . spec al meeting at the home o~ Miss

P ·d t B i k Lena N oil, 904 West Elm &treet rest en r ggs spo e on Ameri-canism. An extract of his . address Thu~day evening. . will be f d i

. th . . ~Ida Howard, naticna.J s~cretary . oun n ano er column of . . of the Y. W., C.--: A. and Claud Nel-

son, national secretary of the Y. M. the paper.

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PURSUE STUDIES AT An_ effort will be made by the or· ·

-ganizations to bring Harry Bone, fa-

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other noted worker to Southeastern Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Crump motored this year.

to Comanche Thursday afternoon in · oraer that Mrs. Crump might see her people before leaving for New York.

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She left Friday aftern~n on the Bluebonnet for New York City; where she goes to do some special work in kindergarten-primary field, in Co· lumbia Univeirsity. She will also take . part in a survey being made by the University. ·

Mrs. Crump is ·field secretary for the State of Oklahoma for The Na­tional Kindergarten Association · of New York City. She expects to be away frpm Durant for several months.

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With experience and weight against them, the Southeastern ~avages lost a hard fought game to the South._ western l3ulldogs at Weatherford

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KAP·PA DELTA PI -TO INITIATE AND

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A special meeting and initiation of l{appa Delta Pi, national education fraternity at Southeastern, w'lll be . held in the . college cafeteria on the evening of liovember 22, it baa

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through Miss Hallie McKinney, of women:

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MEETING THURSDAY •

. . . CCR Gods · oman and Goddesses" was

the theme of the Latin Society at its meeting at Southeastern Thursday

' morning at 11 o'clock .. ' .

'Following were the program num-

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~·Juno," lliaa Pauline Pitts; "Mars," . R. C. Mlller, Jr.; "Minerva," Miss · . class, led by its

next pve th eflag salute. I

who directed the salute . Bud Bolton,· freshmen; Floyd

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ages .in the home-coming game here next Friday afternoon.

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~ . cury," ; f.J&rl Speer.

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ADDRESS LAST WEDNESDAY '

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l Day program presented last Wed­, nesday by the Ameri?an Legion,

President Eugene S. Briggs made a very forceful and effect,ve , address on "Democracy." Among other

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things, · President Briggs, said: "De­mocracy, like Christianity, possesses vital strength because it is founded on a few simple principles. There

· are tht ee theorie~ of government. One ts government from the top ~utoc.-

. racy, t~ranny, despotism, if you please - basekd on the idea that · God creat­ed sofue people better than others. Another theory may be called gov­ernment from the bottom, government by a flass by rea:son of the fact that they follow a certain vocation. Sucb is Ru~sian Bolshevism:. Then, lastly

• there ~~ democracy a government as Lin co~ ; said :'of the people, for the people .nd by the people," where all have . same relation to Go(l, and the s e rights in respect to_ one . . another. . ~

"Tb~re was a time when three men ownedl among ' them three-¥>urths of Europe, one-thi~d of Asia, ~ one fifth of Afpca, and every acre of the United States Soon the American colonies of England began to ques­tion *e authority of the auto~ra~y that ruled them. In 1776, fifty-six of their wisest men assembled at

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, ney-ered, ·red-headed man named Thomas Jefferson, and known there­after as the :Declaration of Am~rican Indep~~dence. It only takes five minutes to read this document I read i~ once, holding the precious document in my ha.nds, while a -com­panion: timed me. To make this Dec­laration good these men pledged "their i lives, their fortunes, and ·their sacred honor," and endured eight years of terrible warfare. before their cause was fully won. Those who ac­cepted the principles of this Declara­tion were thenceforth called Ameri­cans. Those who rejected it were

; called Tories,. ai).d as enemies of their country were mostly driven out de­ported.

.. The spirit of this document was · · .caught by the soldiers from Europe

sent here to participate in the Revo­lu~onary War. ~e English soldiers w~nt home to establish a del 'locracy

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MEETING SATURDAY

Red Red Roses of Southeastern Oklahoma will have a ba~quet amd meeting in the 'college cafeteria ·at Southeastern Saturday evening at 6:30, officers said today.

Eugene S. Briggs, Lord High Mo­kus, will have charge of the meet­ing. J-

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Y. W. C. A OBSERVE • PRAYF;R WEEK

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On Monday, Nov. 12, the Y. W. C. A : began their observance of Nation­al Prayer Week with a song service and a discusion of personal reactiolllS to' the leading questions of the day.

The song service, led by Miss Decima Turner, included Y. W. C. A. songs and . patriotic songs. Miss Frances Pennington sang "Beautiful Garden of Prayer."

After the song service, each mem­ber of the organization indicated his reaction to such problems, as The Klll Klux Klan, Race Prejudice, Assembly and Petting, by placing a plus or minus before each of the w<trds im ., a group of forty-three. The check-ing was followed by a discus~ion of reasons for the positive and negative reactions of the members to the problems.

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within a few years; t~e French ta bring on the sanguinary Revolution. and ev~ntually a French republic: while even the mercenary Germans caught something of the spirit, and. by 1848 many of them were leaving that autocra.tic country by the thousands to make homes in free America.

A few short sentences from the Declaration embody the entire phi­losophy of h,ur de~ocracy. tt speaks of men being created i•free and equal," and of "inalienable riglcfs"­liberty and independence. There is frequent use of such words as "we," "mutually" and so on interdepen­dence. And lastly there is depen­dence ppon , Almighty God alone. Such is the democracy which our boy~ went overseas to maintain, and to which, lis Americans, we ~tand pledg-

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f 4 The Student Council of Southeast­

ern has offered prizes for the bef3t float representing a school organizlt­tion, to appear in a parade leadi~g from the college to the business pa t

·. of Durant, starting at 10 o'clo k Saturday morning. This parade is ~o arouse enthusiasm before t e

• · "Homecoming" football gam; . . The prizes to be given ar~: Filfst

prize, five dollars; second prize, thriee dollars and third prize, two . dolla s.

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· A club to be known as the " Club" was organized last Fri ay af ternoqn under the supervi.sioi!__ of ~ifesdames Price and Eug~ne- S . Briggs.

The club was organized tn er th '3.t students interested in

' might work under the direction . of supervisors. · · .

M~s. Briggs will have charge of_ the oil painting, while Mr~ Pr ce will supervise the Pastel and Blo k printing. _ _/

Students wishing· to do p~intill(gs in water color, design, oils or ......, ... , ...... printing, are invited to join the cl which meets Friday. afternoon

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POSTED UP TO DA:. E

. I Books of the Student Council \vere

po::;ted up to date at the la~ :ne~t­ing by Robert Allen, seniOi" lepre­sentative and bookkeeper of tbe council.

Mr. Holt, president of the Student Council, said, "The books are ·· a \,;ces­sible to the students any" ti~n:e they wish to see them." I .

A . resolution was passed that debts be left for ·:he Student COl

of 1929-1930 to pay. A resolution also passed that a chf:ck V\"ritten the Student Coupcil must be e:;igned by the President and Treasurer lfe-fore it can be cashed. f ,

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The students of the Commercial · Department met Thursday niorni~g for tbe purpose of organizing a. qom­mercial Club at Southeastern: ·Tne various committees were apP.oint~d by Miss Lyday; Publicity Coirrmittee~

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• Cbairman; Pro~am Committe~, ~ ... r-· E. ·a. FiXIey, Chairman.

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