Page 2 - TheGoldBug1933-34

PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland Oollege, Westminster, Md. COL \lG Thoughts and "Hazelnut" . VARIETY ~ BOOKS, PLAYS, AND LIFE at Random OF A REVIEW By "Hazel" wel, weI, 0 weI, it wil sune be time fur the to take us tu return tu skool, an beleeve it or AN AMERICAN OMNIBUS many von Mittenbach house and of Baron Hel- the Baroness muth Official student newspaper of Western Maryland College, published on Thursday knot we ar out ov pracktise tu .... we Literary Guild Selection for Hilda, who must see America; and who during the academic year by the students of Western Maryland College, Westminster, .hav sum nuze, but it iz terribally biased August, 1933 of course rent the penthouse that the Maryland. Entered as second- class matter at the Westminster Postoffice. nevur the less hear gozes:- E. V. Righter, '34 • discontented young Americans have va- SUBSCRIPTIONPRICE $1.00 A YEAR - the 01 skool haz takun it nue leese ov cated. The story is quite as ironical as life;' 'I Hazel" hurd thet they moved Claiming that the anthologies of Sinclair Lewis's usually are, but the EDITORIAL STAFF thre buildings; bil t sum athletic fields American literature made during the irony is found more in significance of Editor·in-Chief ··.··· 00 •• 0. 0 0 ••• F. P. MITCHELL, '34 and put sum nue fences up-we ar hopin' past decade or so were made by special hidden ideas than in the penned words Asso(}iate Editor 0 •••••••••••••• 0 ••• 0 • 0 •••••••• ESTHER 'V. RIGHTER, '34 thet they made sum advancements in the kinds of people with special kinds of News Editors 0 •• DOROTHYM. PAUL, '34, CARLTONBRINSFIELD, '35 of the author. Copy. Editors 0 ••••••••••• FRANCES ELDERDICE, '3'5, C. L. WHITTINGTON, '34 kitchun as wel .... we get the lowdown on tastes, and that each of the resulting There are the nonsensical history Sports Editors 0 ••••••• 0 •••••• MARTHA HARRISON, '34, EUGENE WILLIS, '34 sum ov the boize at "Dr. Wards" reo collections was therefore of a set type Archy and Mehitable by Don Mar- construckshon kamp, hear they ar:- to prove a certain points, Carl Van quis, "The Killers" by Ernest Heming- MAKE-UP STAFF Managing Edito1's 0 •• 0 ••••• 0 ••• ANTHONY DIKSA, '34, LORA M. OUTTEN, '34 : "Nick Camprofreda" put his foot under Doren, in his introduction to "An way from Prize Stories, 1927, and a Assistant Managing Editor 0 • 0 •••• 0 •••• 0 ••• 0 HERBERT STEVENS, '36 a horse's so thet he cud get full benefit American Omnibus"; says that the book couple of short stories by Dorothy Stenogmpher 0 •••••••• 0 .,0 •••••••••• 0 0 •••• FRANCES GLYNN, '35 ov wurkman's (,) compensashon ; even "is an anthology made with a light Parker. One of the latter, "Big , 'Squire Harrison" got wize tu him. 0 •• heart." He tells of the argument be- BUSINESS 'STAFF "Mr. (~) 'Chapman" either spent hiz Blande," is a good character study. Business Manager "0 ••• o 0 0 • 0 0 •• o.R. L. CAIRNES, '34 tween several critics as to the respec- Christopher Morley is represented by Advertising Manager 0 • ; •• 0 •••• 0 ••••• 0 •••• KALE MATHIAS, '35 time drivin ' the pres. around or sleeping tive merits of various pieces of mod- a short 'story and Robert Nathan by a Assistant Advertising Manager. 0 EDWARD BEAUCHAMP in an adjacent cornfield wile the rest {)V ern writing. The result of the discus- novel called "Autumn." Ring Lardner Circulation Manager 0 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• CARL EVERLY, '34 the boize wur wurking .... " The Shad- . sion was a plan for a book that would is there, and Mary Austin, each with a Assistant Circulation Managers ow" (Vic Brian) wuz mistaken many eon tab samples of many types of liter- short story. OLIVE MAY BUTLER, '35 ARTHUR J. DOWNEY, '3'4 times fur a membur ov the fairer sex; ature by many authors, a book that One of the especially good sections THOMAS EVELAND, '36 EDWARDGAULT, '36 wen "Hazel" hurd thet she wuz in- would have something for everybody. of the book is five chapters of recent M. R.. STEVENS, '35 SIMEON MARKLINE, '36 sulted .... sumbody m is tu k "Shorty On first glancing through "An Amer- ZELMA CALVERT Brinsfield" fur "Mr. Olsh 's ' sun, out ican Omnibus" one is struck by its lack history from "Only Yesterday", chapters by The Frederick Allen. Lewis REPORTERS at Cascade an the result wuz thet of orderly construction. Because it is cover various events and situations in Kathlyn Mellor, '34;1 Louise Needy, '54; Muriel Day, '34; Edith Forney, '35; Orpha , 'Brinsfield" paid fifteen cents instead made up of parts from many different Pritchard, '34; Dorothy Wicks, '36. American political and economic life, of twenty-five .... " Grimm" s l i e e d books, and was printed from plates al- from Al Capone to the 18th Amendment Pat Mahoney, '34; Clarence Bussard, '34 ; James Bopst, '35; Brady Bryson, '35; "Sadusky '8 ' , throa t; "Miss Violet Reynolds Simpson, '36; J. W. Nichols,'35; Robert Brooks, '36; Dexter Beane, ready cast, one reads a certain selec- ment and the stock crash of 1929. '34. Hoffa" started all ov the trouble then tion in large print, and on turning the "Children of Darkness ", a three-act along komes "J{)hnie Olsh ' and takes page finds himself confronted with an- hur away frum both ov them; tut, tut other selection in tiny print. Short play by Edwin Justus Mayer has at Worthy opinion; Model management; Correct news. . ... ' 'Football Fredie Maklus" sed he stories, plays, a novel or two, and se- least three very interesting characters the had piles ov trouble .... "Geo. Ryscav- lections from "The N ew Yorker" make in the cast: woman designing Laetitia, shady a beautiful of somewhat differunt oc- on D I T o R I A L age" haz been sean Hitchcock"; when up the greater an part of the of book. At character, Cartwright; the young iuno, casions with a "Miss is anthology modern the end and her, Geo. gets tired ov walking the ketrinka American poetry especially selected by cent, who falls in love with lover and, Count Lae titia's Ruse, Lo picks him up and lugs him along .... Mark Van Doren, and ananged accord- The New The improvements on the campus which have been made strangely enough, the friend of Cart- on the haz been' Marks" Oampus during the past summer months will come as a distinct "Cecil lately; it iz rumored putting she iz a ing to authors. It is the only part of wright. Ridiculous in some respects that dog' and pleasant surprise to the upper classmen, and will be fare choir singur .... enuf ov thet .... the book with any semblance of order- and tragic in others, the play is never- ly arrangement. a sight well worth seeing for the freshmen. The beautifying of the theless interesting. campus has been so extensive that it seems impossible that it is the 110W fur the rest ;-" Fowble' , and Following Booth Tarkington's novel The poetry collection includes work Harrison" "Molly same campus which has been here, heretofore. New shrubbery" new coming home frum sed thet they got lost "Alice Adams" is a story by Sinclair of such poets as Edward A. Robinson, this summer a danse grass plots, the elimination of old buildings, the resurfacing of roads, (they g{}t in at dawn) thet iz sum story Lewis, "Ring Around a Rosy", which Edna St Vincent Millay, John Gould all are a part of that wonderful drive toward a greater Western Mary- has never been published in book form Fletcher, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, land. tu try tu stick tu .... " Sir Robt. Hall" before. It is the story of a wealthy Sara Teasdale, and Stephen Vincent got disengaged unexpectedly; it seems couple residing in a New York pent- Bene~ , In the past, there have' also been other improvements, but never thet he' went tu kall on "Miss Hurd" house. Tired of city life with its noise has there been a program of improvement so extensive. It now re- and it wuz then thet he wuz enlightened und confusion, and the eccentricties of No matter what reader may take up mains for the students here to keep the campus in the shape that it is .... ' 'Dot Hall" got washed off ov the "American Omnibus", he will probably they American servants, them- now in. It is up to each individual student to take a great amount of boardwalk at Ocean City, ahd wen they selves 'to England and rent betake estate find some of its contents not to his the pride in what has been done. Each careless act on the part of any found her she wuz neck deep in sand .... 0::' Sir Horace and Lady Mingo in Sus· taste. But very likely the majority of ~--ffi:11'vidual will contribute towal'u the l'uining of the beauty of the "Danny Moore" iz still the gigilo ov sex. 'rhe latter have gone to Italy for the selections will prove interesting at ca!Jlpus. some time. It is not a volume to be olden times-but now he does the side- practically the same reason that the read intensively-it is too heterogen- Whenever parents come up to school to visit a stud'ent, he now step for one "Charlie Williams." Americans have left New York. In eeus for that. But .of regarded as, a has a campus that he will show them with pride. Often in the past, "Mason Sprague" ov last year got Italy the Mingos find paradise in the miniature library-which it indeed is we have compared. our school grounds with those of other schools, and lost in Ocean City while luking fur a villa of Professor Pulcians, who hates -to be delved into as the reader feels have fOlmd them lacking. N ow, we are able to say that our campus "Park"; "Gara·Baldy Furguson" haz the climate and servants and food of inclined, "An American Omnibus" is a compares favorably with any other school or college that we know of., returned tu skool with an abbreviated his native country, and is off to Ger- book worth reading and worth owning. As' a final plea, let us say that we should never forget that we are haircut; if he wud hay had it cut shortur Western Maryland gentlemen and ladies, and if we do, then there is he wud hay lost sum ov his skalp .... Wat no doubt that the campus will remain in its present condition. a nasty card sum of "Sandusky's" E. W. HURLEY IS W. M. C. TRAINING CAMP friends sent him-you all want tn ax him HONOR STUDENT Rain and mud-a slippeloy ball-the AT CAMP about it, and then watch him blush ... 0 first scrimmage of the year. Adverse To The Four years in college! That has been your dream for a i "Deen Miller" gOt a nue car; "Hazel- (Continued from Page One) weather-a late start-hardships ga- Freshmen long time. And now it is coming true. You are entering nut" sez thet the boize had tu loze all ov Western Maryland's honor student at lore. Dick Harlow-smilingly encour. a place where the happiest years of your life will be spent, I there rume deposit on account ov it 0 •• 0 the end of camp. aging his "boys". where you will make lifelong friends, where the habits that you form we ar wundering wat the eastern sho' IVestern Maryland students acted as The result-a cooperative spirit- will remain with you always. You are welcoming it eagerly, with open people will say tl1is yeer about their buti- cadet officers of Company A on Visi- teamwork-a spi1'ited effort to get in at arms, and you will not be disappointed'. 'ful kountry-you know last year it wuz tors' Day honor camp when a review was sllape quickly. The wi]] to win-to se- held in dignitaries. visiting of Above everything, remember that you will have to adjust yourself 'the grandest place tu live in thet there Elmer J. Mahoney headed the company cue starting position-not feuds-good to entirely new surroundings. If you were a class leader in high wUZ.... "Reds Wade" couldn't be found with Richard Kiefer in charge of the clean competition-an effort to out school, you will discover that you are just one of a group of young this summer aftur the storm; the fields first platoon and Charles Williams in play the other fellow. people who are starting out anew as you yourself are. Then, too, yo~, moved away because it wuz such a tel" command of the second unit· The team rounds into condition- will probably have some first impressions of the place and of the stu- rible place to live in .... A major share of the athletic hon- Dick finds new problems-teaching a dents. Never let them influence you too much, especially at a time "Hazel" sez thet s11e hurd thet "Sue ors were carried off by the students new set of plays-finding a guard to when everything is strange to you. Coekey" and "Sue Strow" cauzed no from the 'Westminster institution. Sa- replace Kopp-conditioning new men- building defense-injuries-but a pass In regards to the matter of studying, you will find that the same littul trouble down at the U ov Maryland. dausky and Hurley performed credita- : still he smiles. A good natured coach thing which you did in high school will apply in college-you get out we got a funny ideal' thet you wur the bly on the company swimming team and I -a good natured team. of a course exactly what effort you put into it. The difficulty about two who sent" Sadusky" that littul kard Lease Bussard teamed with Brooke of Sunshine again-punting and pass- studying in college is the fact that there are so many distractions .... "Fanny Tull" got' 'J. George" on Johns Hopkins to win the doubles ,'ing-scrimmages-morning and after- which present themselves. You will soon find out that a proper bal- a string; she made him go to bizness championship in tennis, besides finish- noon sessions-the team slowly mould- ance must be struck between work and play. It is up to each stud'ent skool with hur ..... hear is a funny thing ing in the runner.up position in the ing itself. Watch it develop. to find his own happy medium. thet happened :-" Daskam" went west singles. A spirit of cooperation holds a major position in college life. If 'this su=er to sea the sites; she made Seven members of Company A's. Park hur headquarters-and you are willing to cooperate in those things which go to make up a Yellowstone she iz home she wishes she wuz championship baseball team, led by DR. L. M. BERTHOLF, DEAN OF FRESHMEN, 67TH OPENS now thet well-rolmded college existence, then you are certainly true college Stoney Willis, were Western Maryland_ OF W. M. C. material. Make this your motto-"I dedicate myself in the spirit of out their-o, we almost furgot, she iz in ers. SESSION love with a cowpuncher .... hearty cooperation to and with the school and all its interests." Those attending camp were: Bussard, (Contini.led from Page One) School spirit is a part of the vital fibres of a college career. If we hurd tl1et "Mason Sprague" al- B01'chers, Ca.lvert, Downey, Diksa, Ebert, sending its usual large quota, but a you do not have any at first, you will as soon as you attend the first most gave the "Parks Family" a nervos Hurley, Kimmey, Kiefer, Mahon- great number of other states are repre- pep meeting. brakedown, he sent them a telegram from ey, Sliker, Timmons, Tollenger, Whit- sented. Elkton saying "Slight accident, come to more, Williams, Willis, Wright, Sadus- Homesickness is of course, to be expected. But so far, we have Elkton at once"; "G. Jones" wuz viz- The incoming Freshman class will been unable to find a person whom that has licked-that is because iting on the easturn sho' tbis summer- ky and Shilling. have a new attraction to look forward Western Maryland is soon a second home to you. to in the form of improvements. on the no mol' neead bee sed .... wat happened SECOND SUMMER SCHOOL A very wise saying indeed is the one which states that" College this summed-marriages include "Hunt· PROVES WORTH WHILE campus and in the buildings. will either make you or break you." Without a doubt, college is the er-Wine ", "Cumberlain-and 'the mis- Other Freshman news will be found place where personalities change overnight. It is up to the student sus ", "Koppe-Cooling", "G 0 l' den (Continued from Page One) throughout this issue of the Gold Bug. himself to go out and make something of himself. And let us insure Lamb" and hiz missuS', " and the engage- Maryland faculty taught in the sum- you that the students of W. M. C. in the classes above you will do ments include" GiIlelan·Elderdice" and mer school. Among them were Dean City Barber Shop everything in their power to help you do that very thing. a fue othurs .... Isanogle, Dr. George S. Wills, Dr. - College life is not all easy sailing-nor is it all hard work. It is "Righter ", "Humpbries' " "Berry ", Lloyd M. Bertholf, Dr. Mary Olive FAVORITE COLLEGE BARBER a mixture of SUccess and failure, disappointment and success, good spent there summer slinging hash .... Ebaugh, Dr. Clyde Allen Spicer, Dr. Give Us A Trial times and bad times, despondency and joy. But as your four years of those who went to the Fare wur :_it M. Theodore M. Whitfield; Asst. Prof. C. collegiate life move swiftly along toward' the end, you will realize Burkins", "G. Bare", "L. Fogle", "E. Lawrence Benninghof, Asst. Prof. Sara Opposite Times Building more and more the true meaning of the opening lines of the "Alma Smith, Asst. Prof. Dean White Hen- Mater" Tollenger ", "K. Grumbine", "J. drickson; Prof. Marie Parker, and Pro- George' '-etc. "Mother" Himler College ties can ne'er be broken fessor Schempp. Formed at W. M. C. gosh it luks as though we hav told all A number of Western Maryland stu- CORDIALLY INVITES 'ov the nuze; we promise thet next time dents elected to return to the summer Class of 1937, the Gold Bug takes this opportunity of welcoming ,'we wil have sum fresh stuf and lots bet· school for extra work during the sum- YOUR you. . :_.tel' so til then mer session. I PATRONAGE