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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, May 15, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war four times a week-Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 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-8-12; 1-6 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 Harold Chamberlin 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 A PLACE FOR WOMEN Students are yet to be enlightened as to the reasons the women's tennis courts have not been put in shape this season. One is in perpetual dilemma wondering whether the girl's courts resemble more a lumber yard or a chicken lot. The lumber is there and so is the high fence. Nothing is to indicate that once the plot existed as a tennis court. Even in the old days when the women's courts existed it was a mad scramble to get a court. Now a person must forfeit his pie or his strawberry shortcake if he wishes to get a court early in the evening. University men have been gracious and gallant in giving up their courts to women. For that reason many women purposely avoid the courts for they hate to usurp a court on which men of tournament caliber are practicing. The University is urging mass athletics and implores all students to spend an hour each day in frolicking on the green. When it comes to out door games, tennis is easily the most popular among the women. As it is now, unless a girl lives at Currier hall or is a nurse with access to the hospital court, there is no place she can play without trespassing on men's domain. The Iowan suggests that the old tennis courts for women be put in shape. Space for a new court is available just west of the women's gym. It is safe to say that courts on the West Side would be patronized by the women. To play on the men's courts is an imposition. Although the men are not likely to want the courts during the morning when gymnasium classes are using them, but they do want them after dinner at night, and it is no more than fair that they should have them. This leaves a serious problem for the women who enjoy the game and need the exercise. A UNIVERSITY THEATRE If the memorial building is going to be a panacea for all evils, now is the time to be putting in claims. The new structure is to be a haven for the Y. M., the Y. W., and the literary societies, is to provide for a fine modern library, a mammoth auditorium, and all other adjuncts for which space will be had. Let us include in the list a theater that will accommodate the best dramatic companies on the road. Then perhaps the student body of the University can have the opportunity to enjoy something other than vaudeville and cheap comedy, which at the present time constitute our dramatic nourishment. How many of the best plays by the most renowned playrights of the present day and of the past, are offered to the inhabitants of this city during the course of a season? You can count them with the fingers of one hand! Twin Beds, Pom Pom, and Chin Chin furnish plenty of laughs and aboard recreation for tired brains; but a smell (or two) of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, and other famous dramatists would fit in better with our labors in the English department. In ancient Greece the theater was a place for public instruction, and not primarily for amusement as it is with us today. Some modern nations have presented the theater, as a national institution, from becoming contaminated with trash. But we are not so fortunate. Many of the reprecations cast at the theater are only too justifiable, more from the educational standpoint than from the moral. If the University had its own playhouse, the student ought to have a chance to mix in with the Englert's spicy productions, some genuinely great and instructive dramas. WHAT OTHERS THINK "Of the 100 students present at the meeting the sentiment was almost unanimously in accord with the new plan," from last Thursday's Iowan. But how about the people who were not present at the meeting. They should also be considered in connection with the proposed plan of compulsory physical training. The meeting and its enthusiasm seems somewhat compulsory as well as the physical training to members of the professional colleges. For instance the sole representative for one of the professional colleges who was present at the meeting spoke in favor of the proposed plan. He did so, however, against his own personal beliefs and merely because he had been ordered by one of his professors who was on the athletic board to go to the meeting and say that his class had plenty of time for the proposed work. His classmates are unanimously opposed to the move. The students of the professional colleges are not in favor of this scheme even if it does not come out of their spare time. If the scheme does cut down on the spare time of the students this will merely mean that from one-third to one-half of the students of the freshmen and sophomore Engineers for instanced; who are working for their living will have to quit and go where they can to support themselves and athers also must leave. If the work acts as a reduction of class hours the medics will not be able to pass the state board examinations upon graduation and must go to the schools which will prepare them for these. The Engineers will merely receive less training and this will make them much more unprepared for the competition they meet outside. No Engineer who is taking his school work as a preparation for earning a livelihood will stay at Iowa and take P. T. when he knows that by going elsewhere he may gain much more in the same length of time. He considered the two years of military and the two years of physical training now required as sufficient to keep him fit. Let the students of the professional colleges have something to say about the matter as well as the meeting of "one hundred students." Roe Alfa FRANCIS STOKELY WON FRESHMAN ORATORICAL The Freshman declamatory contest, held in the natural science auditorium Tuesday night, was won by Francis K. Stokely, who received the Samuel Lefevre prize of $20.00. Harold Ofelt won second and Russell Overholser third place. This event closed the Forensic league's yearly program. Judges of the contest were Prof. J. E. Briggs, Prof. C. E. Young, and Rev. L. G. Rohrbaugh. Prof. A. O. Thomas will give a lecture before there science club at Simpson tomorrow night. He will speak on his recent West Indies expedition. [advertisement] To those young men who are not intending to return to college this coming year, we wish to suggest that there are at this time most unusual openings in our Chicago house. These positions will carry good starting salaries; the work will be congenial and instructive and will lead the right men to very exceptional futures. If you are interested, please write Mr. R. L. CRANDALL, today. ------ ------ ------ BUTLER BROTHERS Wholesale General Merchandise Randolph Street Bridge Chicago, Ills. New York Minneapols Dallas St. Louis Chicago [advertisement] I. C. H. S. Glee Club PRESENTS "THE MAID AND THE MIDDY" AN OPERETTA IN 2 ACTS Englert Threatre Thursday, May 15 SEAT RESERVATIONS WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 9 a. m. [advertisement] BANNER DAIRY LUNCH Offers you Wholesome Meals at Reasonable Prices 11 South Dubuque Street [advertisement] DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes. Drop into WHITING'S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. [advertisement] TEACHERS WANTED For all departments of school work. School officials will soon elect teachers for next year. A MAXIMUM OF SERVICE AT A MINIMUM COMMISSION RATE. Commission 4 per cent. Territory, central and western states. Write today for blanks. HEUER TEACHERS' AGENCY Cedar Rapids, Iowa [advertisement] Princess Candy Kitchen Home-Made Candy Ice Cream Lunches "The Cleanest Kitchen in Iowa City" according to the Government Inspector last fall. [advertisement] [hand drawing of a man] Copyright 1919 Schaffner & Marx What Young Men Want THEY FIND THE STYLES THEY LIKE HERE; THAT'S WHY SO MANY YOUNG MEN THINK OF THIS AS "THEIR STORE." They find gool values; smart colorings; they find the famous waist-seam suits by Hart Schaffner & Marx-here in many variations; we'll be glad to show you. COASTS' The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, May 15, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war four times a week-Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 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-8-12; 1-6 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 Harold Chamberlin 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 A PLACE FOR WOMEN Students are yet to be enlightened as to the reasons the women's tennis courts have not been put in shape this season. One is in perpetual dilemma wondering whether the girl's courts resemble more a lumber yard or a chicken lot. The lumber is there and so is the high fence. Nothing is to indicate that once the plot existed as a tennis court. Even in the old days when the women's courts existed it was a mad scramble to get a court. Now a person must forfeit his pie or his strawberry shortcake if he wishes to get a court early in the evening. University men have been gracious and gallant in giving up their courts to women. For that reason many women purposely avoid the courts for they hate to usurp a court on which men of tournament caliber are practicing. The University is urging mass athletics and implores all students to spend an hour each day in frolicking on the green. When it comes to out door games, tennis is easily the most popular among the women. As it is now, unless a girl lives at Currier hall or is a nurse with access to the hospital court, there is no place she can play without trespassing on men's domain. The Iowan suggests that the old tennis courts for women be put in shape. Space for a new court is available just west of the women's gym. It is safe to say that courts on the West Side would be patronized by the women. To play on the men's courts is an imposition. Although the men are not likely to want the courts during the morning when gymnasium classes are using them, but they do want them after dinner at night, and it is no more than fair that they should have them. This leaves a serious problem for the women who enjoy the game and need the exercise. A UNIVERSITY THEATRE If the memorial building is going to be a panacea for all evils, now is the time to be putting in claims. The new structure is to be a haven for the Y. M., the Y. W., and the literary societies, is to provide for a fine modern library, a mammoth auditorium, and all other adjuncts for which space will be had. Let us include in the list a theater that will accommodate the best dramatic companies on the road. Then perhaps the student body of the University can have the opportunity to enjoy something other than vaudeville and cheap comedy, which at the present time constitute our dramatic nourishment. How many of the best plays by the most renowned playrights of the present day and of the past, are offered to the inhabitants of this city during the course of a season? You can count them with the fingers of one hand! Twin Beds, Pom Pom, and Chin Chin furnish plenty of laughs and aboard recreation for tired brains; but a smell (or two) of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, and other famous dramatists would fit in better with our labors in the English department. In ancient Greece the theater was a place for public instruction, and not primarily for amusement as it is with us today. Some modern nations have presented the theater, as a national institution, from becoming contaminated with trash. But we are not so fortunate. Many of the reprecations cast at the theater are only too justifiable, more from the educational standpoint than from the moral. If the University had its own playhouse, the student ought to have a chance to mix in with the Englert's spicy productions, some genuinely great and instructive dramas. WHAT OTHERS THINK "Of the 100 students present at the meeting the sentiment was almost unanimously in accord with the new plan," from last Thursday's Iowan. But how about the people who were not present at the meeting. They should also be considered in connection with the proposed plan of compulsory physical training. The meeting and its enthusiasm seems somewhat compulsory as well as the physical training to members of the professional colleges. For instance the sole representative for one of the professional colleges who was present at the meeting spoke in favor of the proposed plan. He did so, however, against his own personal beliefs and merely because he had been ordered by one of his professors who was on the athletic board to go to the meeting and say that his class had plenty of time for the proposed work. His classmates are unanimously opposed to the move. The students of the professional colleges are not in favor of this scheme even if it does not come out of their spare time. If the scheme does cut down on the spare time of the students this will merely mean that from one-third to one-half of the students of the freshmen and sophomore Engineers for instanced; who are working for their living will have to quit and go where they can to support themselves and athers also must leave. If the work acts as a reduction of class hours the medics will not be able to pass the state board examinations upon graduation and must go to the schools which will prepare them for these. The Engineers will merely receive less training and this will make them much more unprepared for the competition they meet outside. No Engineer who is taking his school work as a preparation for earning a livelihood will stay at Iowa and take P. T. when he knows that by going elsewhere he may gain much more in the same length of time. He considered the two years of military and the two years of physical training now required as sufficient to keep him fit. Let the students of the professional colleges have something to say about the matter as well as the meeting of "one hundred students." Roe Alfa FRANCIS STOKELY WON FRESHMAN ORATORICAL The Freshman declamatory contest, held in the natural science auditorium Tuesday night, was won by Francis K. Stokely, who received the Samuel Lefevre prize of $20.00. Harold Ofelt won second and Russell Overholser third place. This event closed the Forensic league's yearly program. Judges of the contest were Prof. J. E. Briggs, Prof. C. E. Young, and Rev. L. G. Rohrbaugh. Prof. A. O. Thomas will give a lecture before there science club at Simpson tomorrow night. He will speak on his recent West Indies expedition. [advertisement] To those young men who are not intending to return to college this coming year, we wish to suggest that there are at this time most unusual openings in our Chicago house. These positions will carry good starting salaries; the work will be congenial and instructive and will lead the right men to very exceptional futures. If you are interested, please write Mr. R. L. CRANDALL, today. ------ ------ ------ BUTLER BROTHERS Wholesale General Merchandise Randolph Street Bridge Chicago, Ills. New York Minneapols Dallas St. Louis Chicago [advertisement] I. C. H. S. Glee Club PRESENTS "THE MAID AND THE MIDDY" AN OPERETTA IN 2 ACTS Englert Threatre Thursday, May 15 SEAT RESERVATIONS WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 9 a. m. [advertisement] BANNER DAIRY LUNCH Offers you Wholesome Meals at Reasonable Prices 11 South Dubuque Street [advertisement] DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes. Drop into WHITING'S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. [advertisement] TEACHERS WANTED For all departments of school work. School officials will soon elect teachers for next year. A MAXIMUM OF SERVICE AT A MINIMUM COMMISSION RATE. Commission 4 per cent. Territory, central and western states. Write today for blanks. HEUER TEACHERS' AGENCY Cedar Rapids, Iowa [advertisement] Princess Candy Kitchen Home-Made Candy Ice Cream Lunches "The Cleanest Kitchen in Iowa City" according to the Government Inspector last fall. [advertisement] [hand drawing of a man] Copyright 1919 Schaffner & Marx What Young Men Want THEY FIND THE STYLES THEY LIKE HERE; THAT'S WHY SO MANY YOUNG MEN THINK OF THIS AS "THEIR STORE." They find gool values; smart colorings; they find the famous waist-seam suits by Hart Schaffner & Marx-here in many variations; we'll be glad to show you. COASTS' The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
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