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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Saturday, April 5, 1919
THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week--Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday--by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City 
Member Iowa College Press 
Entered as second class matter at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa 
Subscription Rate $2.00 per year 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES C.H. Weller, chairman, Gretchen Kane, secretary, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Alice E. Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson 
EDITORIAL STAFF MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, Editor-in-chief  Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building.
Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor
Associate Editor..Ralph E. Overholser   News Editor..Eileen Galvin   Exchange Editor..Nancy Lamb   Humorous Editor..M. Elizabeth Hendee   Sports Editor..Leon H. Brigham 
BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM--Business manager  Edward Chamberlain--Advertising Mgr. Telephone 935; Office Hours--3-5 daily, 103 Iowa Ave
"I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."—Lincoln
Night Editors  Beth Wellman   Marian Dyer 

FOUR YEARS HENCE
   It’s the spring of 1923. Freshman have become senior; upperclassmen are men and women of position in the world or with positions at any rate. Just for a day or so they are gathered here; these and many more, students and alumni all. A memorable occasion has called them from teaching in Maine, from ranching in Texas, from city business, from new land projects. It is dedication day of Memorial Hall.
   Memorial Hall stands there on the corner, that imposing structure of Bedford stone; its left wing stretching from Iowa Avenue to Jefferson street, it’s right down the Avenue to Dubuque. A rotunda fronts the main campus.
   There are still a few minutes before the dedicatory ceremonies began, time to tour the building. The long reception hall occupying the major part of the west wing main floor is of rich simplicity like a hall of court. On the floors above are the halls of literary societies, honorary fraternities, various organizations, and committee rooms. In the basement of the wing are pool and billiard rooms, smoking and lounging dens for men, restrooms for women, shoe shining parlors and what not. In the circular center of the building down stairs is the long hoped for University post office with its box and pigeon hole for each student. The basement in the south wing is given over to a spacious cafeteria with tables accommodating more than a thousand persons, and a white, convenient kitchen and wash rooms.
   Upstairs again, they enter the main floor of the south wing. Its sunny windows light up the long room, made homey with writing desks, leather chairs, divans, fireplaces, a grand piano, soft carpetings, and delicate window hangs, a place for informal gatherings.
   And now Old Capitol bell is ringing and students and alumni make their way to the second floor of the south wing where a new auditorium with a seating capacity of 5,000 and its two balconies is located. A roomy stage is at the front of the auditorium with proper lighting equipment, movie screen, space of scenery, and dressing rooms.
   But they must hasten to find a seat. The academic procession has filed in and the new pipe organ is playing “Old Gold.” Dedicatory exercises have begun.

WELCOME VOLUNTEERS
   The University is glad to open its doors to the students of the state who stand definitely for religious effort. The coldness of the institution towards matters of the soul is not real, nor has it ever been. Instead The Iowan believes the guests of the University for the week end will find religious activity as great and effort as earnest as in smaller colleges where exist more homogeneity and creed.
   Local churches through student pastors, conference houses, and general associations are intimate with the student body. Their choirs, their young peoples’ societies, their Sunday schools, and their congregations are dependent to an appreciable extent upon University folk. The University faculty are not a set of stiff necked infidels who vaunt their beliefs in the classroom. Instead they are trustees, Sunday school teachers, and leaders in religious education.
   The institution of higher education through its scientific viewpoint is doing much for religion. It is ridding it of the dross of medievalism and of the absurdities of over emotionalism. It is true that students entering their college courses are shaken in their beliefs and ready to discountenance the whole rather than the accumulated foreign elements in Christianity. Doubt will come among thinking individuals. But adjustment will follow, and the student does not flounder long. He emerges with a [braind] of religion which satisfies him because it is his own.
   This is the first visit of the Iowa State Missionary conference at the University. May the ideas [whicvh] we give to other colleges be mutually beneficial.

MOTLEY OR CAP AND GOWN,--SAVANT OR HUMORIST,--WHICH?
   That is the question people are trying to decide about Stephen Leacock, Canadian scholar and humorist, who comes to lecture in the University auditorium April 17. Mr. Leacock has an odd way of being two things, a professor of the serious subject of political science in McGill University, Montréal, with the degree of doctor of philosophy, and at the same time being one of the most humorous writers of the present day.
   As the author of many books, Professor Leacock has won for himself the appellation of “the Canadian Mark Twain,” and a high measure of recognition both in America and abroad. Among his best known works are “Literary Lapses,” a collection of satires on writing, “Nonsense Novels,” a sensitive person’s impressions of life, and “Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy,” a group of miscellaneous satires. His “Elements of Political Science,” shows a more serious side of his nature. “The First Newspaper,” a humorous sketch of his, will be given by the Ames dramatic club at the College Press Association April 11 and 12.
   Professor Leacock was to have lectured here last winter but was prevented from coming when snowstorms delayed the train service.

[advertisement] People’s Steam Laundry 225 IOWA AVE.
WHEN IN NEED OF LAUNDRY WORK.  Telephone 58      C.J. Toms

CONVOCATION
   When freshmen come to the University, they feel that convocation is an important event. At first they go.
   The best talent of the University is collected for these all-University assemblages, and other great persons come to make convocations interesting. The programs are carefully planned; all other University activities are suspended during these meetings.
   Undoubtedly the students enjoyed convocation when they first came here. But after talking to upperclassmen, who had calmly stayed away to study or play, they wondered if they had been mistaken.
   And so, every year as they come, freshmen start in attending convocations, and later wonder if they are mistaken in their taste. This condition is a pity. The students, who attend convocation for the first time the day they graduate, are missing more of the life of the University then they know.

[advertisement] Garden
BABY MARIE OSBORN in 	“A DAUGHTER OF THE WEST”  Also a good comedy

   George Edward Weeks, a first sergeant in the S.A.T.C. here last fall, has returned to the University this quarter. He was one of the men sent to the officers’ training camp at Camp Pike from the S.A.T.C. 

   Isabel Naureth, Alpha Theta, [unreadable] quarantine at the isolation hospital with diphtheria.
   Iota Xi Epsilon sorority wishes [to?] announce the pledging of [Myrtle?] Madsen on Newell.

[advertisement] NORTHWESTERN TEACHERS’ AGENCY FOR ENTIRE WEST AND ALASKA—THE LARGEST AND BEST AGENCY
Write immediately for free circular                     BOISE IDAHO

[advertisement] UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ON THE CORNER 
Text Books and Supplies
WATERMAN, CONKLIN AND SCHAEFFER FOUNTAIN PENS 
UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE

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   We have the models for you; authentic; correct. We have the quality; long wear and economy. We guarantee your satisfaction; money back if you don’t think you get it.
   Here’s what we meant by “style.” You see it in every line of this double-breasted waist-seam coat. Any number of good ones just as stylish.
   [hand drawing of man] Copyright 1919 Hart Schaffner & Marx
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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Saturday, April 5, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week--Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday--by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Member Iowa College Press Entered as second class matter at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Subscription Rate $2.00 per year BOARD OF TRUSTEES C.H. Weller, chairman, Gretchen Kane, secretary, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Alice E. Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, Editor-in-chief Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor Associate Editor..Ralph E. Overholser News Editor..Eileen Galvin Exchange Editor..Nancy Lamb Humorous Editor..M. Elizabeth Hendee Sports Editor..Leon H. Brigham BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM--Business manager Edward Chamberlain--Advertising Mgr. Telephone 935; Office Hours--3-5 daily, 103 Iowa Ave "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."—Lincoln Night Editors Beth Wellman Marian Dyer FOUR YEARS HENCE It’s the spring of 1923. Freshman have become senior; upperclassmen are men and women of position in the world or with positions at any rate. Just for a day or so they are gathered here; these and many more, students and alumni all. A memorable occasion has called them from teaching in Maine, from ranching in Texas, from city business, from new land projects. It is dedication day of Memorial Hall. Memorial Hall stands there on the corner, that imposing structure of Bedford stone; its left wing stretching from Iowa Avenue to Jefferson street, it’s right down the Avenue to Dubuque. A rotunda fronts the main campus. There are still a few minutes before the dedicatory ceremonies began, time to tour the building. The long reception hall occupying the major part of the west wing main floor is of rich simplicity like a hall of court. On the floors above are the halls of literary societies, honorary fraternities, various organizations, and committee rooms. In the basement of the wing are pool and billiard rooms, smoking and lounging dens for men, restrooms for women, shoe shining parlors and what not. In the circular center of the building down stairs is the long hoped for University post office with its box and pigeon hole for each student. The basement in the south wing is given over to a spacious cafeteria with tables accommodating more than a thousand persons, and a white, convenient kitchen and wash rooms. Upstairs again, they enter the main floor of the south wing. Its sunny windows light up the long room, made homey with writing desks, leather chairs, divans, fireplaces, a grand piano, soft carpetings, and delicate window hangs, a place for informal gatherings. And now Old Capitol bell is ringing and students and alumni make their way to the second floor of the south wing where a new auditorium with a seating capacity of 5,000 and its two balconies is located. A roomy stage is at the front of the auditorium with proper lighting equipment, movie screen, space of scenery, and dressing rooms. But they must hasten to find a seat. The academic procession has filed in and the new pipe organ is playing “Old Gold.” Dedicatory exercises have begun. WELCOME VOLUNTEERS The University is glad to open its doors to the students of the state who stand definitely for religious effort. The coldness of the institution towards matters of the soul is not real, nor has it ever been. Instead The Iowan believes the guests of the University for the week end will find religious activity as great and effort as earnest as in smaller colleges where exist more homogeneity and creed. Local churches through student pastors, conference houses, and general associations are intimate with the student body. Their choirs, their young peoples’ societies, their Sunday schools, and their congregations are dependent to an appreciable extent upon University folk. The University faculty are not a set of stiff necked infidels who vaunt their beliefs in the classroom. Instead they are trustees, Sunday school teachers, and leaders in religious education. The institution of higher education through its scientific viewpoint is doing much for religion. It is ridding it of the dross of medievalism and of the absurdities of over emotionalism. It is true that students entering their college courses are shaken in their beliefs and ready to discountenance the whole rather than the accumulated foreign elements in Christianity. Doubt will come among thinking individuals. But adjustment will follow, and the student does not flounder long. He emerges with a [braind] of religion which satisfies him because it is his own. This is the first visit of the Iowa State Missionary conference at the University. May the ideas [whicvh] we give to other colleges be mutually beneficial. MOTLEY OR CAP AND GOWN,--SAVANT OR HUMORIST,--WHICH? That is the question people are trying to decide about Stephen Leacock, Canadian scholar and humorist, who comes to lecture in the University auditorium April 17. Mr. Leacock has an odd way of being two things, a professor of the serious subject of political science in McGill University, Montréal, with the degree of doctor of philosophy, and at the same time being one of the most humorous writers of the present day. As the author of many books, Professor Leacock has won for himself the appellation of “the Canadian Mark Twain,” and a high measure of recognition both in America and abroad. Among his best known works are “Literary Lapses,” a collection of satires on writing, “Nonsense Novels,” a sensitive person’s impressions of life, and “Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy,” a group of miscellaneous satires. His “Elements of Political Science,” shows a more serious side of his nature. “The First Newspaper,” a humorous sketch of his, will be given by the Ames dramatic club at the College Press Association April 11 and 12. Professor Leacock was to have lectured here last winter but was prevented from coming when snowstorms delayed the train service. [advertisement] People’s Steam Laundry 225 IOWA AVE. WHEN IN NEED OF LAUNDRY WORK. Telephone 58 C.J. Toms CONVOCATION When freshmen come to the University, they feel that convocation is an important event. At first they go. The best talent of the University is collected for these all-University assemblages, and other great persons come to make convocations interesting. The programs are carefully planned; all other University activities are suspended during these meetings. Undoubtedly the students enjoyed convocation when they first came here. But after talking to upperclassmen, who had calmly stayed away to study or play, they wondered if they had been mistaken. And so, every year as they come, freshmen start in attending convocations, and later wonder if they are mistaken in their taste. This condition is a pity. The students, who attend convocation for the first time the day they graduate, are missing more of the life of the University then they know. [advertisement] Garden BABY MARIE OSBORN in “A DAUGHTER OF THE WEST” Also a good comedy George Edward Weeks, a first sergeant in the S.A.T.C. here last fall, has returned to the University this quarter. He was one of the men sent to the officers’ training camp at Camp Pike from the S.A.T.C. Isabel Naureth, Alpha Theta, [unreadable] quarantine at the isolation hospital with diphtheria. Iota Xi Epsilon sorority wishes [to?] announce the pledging of [Myrtle?] Madsen on Newell. [advertisement] NORTHWESTERN TEACHERS’ AGENCY FOR ENTIRE WEST AND ALASKA—THE LARGEST AND BEST AGENCY Write immediately for free circular BOISE IDAHO [advertisement] UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ON THE CORNER Text Books and Supplies WATERMAN, CONKLIN AND SCHAEFFER FOUNTAIN PENS UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE [advertisement] COASTS’ Are your clothes stylish? THEY OUGHT TO BE; IT DOESN’T COST ANY MORE TO HAVE THEM THAT WAY. THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE RIGHT STYLE? You don’t need to worry about that; Hart Schaffner & Marx have taken care of that part; their designers are style creators, the best in the land. We have the models for you; authentic; correct. We have the quality; long wear and economy. We guarantee your satisfaction; money back if you don’t think you get it. Here’s what we meant by “style.” You see it in every line of this double-breasted waist-seam coat. Any number of good ones just as stylish. [hand drawing of man] Copyright 1919 Hart Schaffner & Marx $5.00 Hats. See our extra special $5.00 value placed in stock yesterday. COASTS’ The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes