Wednesday, March 17, 1943
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College Bureau
Sends Speakers
For Any Topics
LEWISTON, Maine. (ACP).
Burmese beggars, Boston's have
nots, black cats name the topic
and the Bates college speakers'
bureau will furnish a lecturer well
versed In the subject and eager to
speak for no return other than the
experience gained.
Throughout the academic year
the bureau sends out undergradu
ates to speak before, organizations
of the surrounding communities.
Students who are interested in
gaining greater proficiency in
public speaking volunteer their
services, the only requirements be
ing that each must be a capable
speaker who will not set his audi
ences yawning and nodding and he
must be adequately and accurate
ly informed on his topic.
Choose Familiar Subject.
Usually students choose a sub
ject with which they are familiar
through actual experience. Thus
a French girl has talked on her
school days in France, a Negro
student explained what the Negro
thinks, and a thumbnail sketch of
Burma was offered by the dauglj
ter of a missionary who had spent
most of her life there.
Should an organization prefer a
lively debate on a controversial
issue of current interest, the re
quest is promptly filled. Dra
matics students give plays, feel
ing like troupers in a stock com
pany when they arrive on the
scene to find no furniture avail
able, exits in the wrong places, no
dressing rooms, and the makeshift
curtain going up in an hour.
Moon Mullins Tells Iowa
Sealiawks About Medals
IOWA CITY, la., March 16.
Between explanations of the navy's
preflight athletic program, Lt.
(j. g.) Larry "Moon" Mullins, as
sistant director of the sports pro
gram at Iowa City and assistant
to Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman, Mon
day added to the Legend of the
Silver Medal.
The legend, Mullins said, is the
traveling story of a small medal
bearing the image of a saint. The
object originally was owned by
Mrs. Knute Rockne. The last 12
years it has journeyed the world
over, identified a nationally fa
mous football coach and has pro
tected Mullins in a 'ootball game.
A Rockne Man.
Mullins was a member of Knute
Rockne's last football team the
squad that beat Southern Califor
nia, 27-0, in 1931. The week be
fore the game, Mullins injured his
knee and was a doubtful starter
his last game for the Irish.
Before the team left South
Rockne Award
Bend, Mrs. Rockne gave Mullins
the medal to protect him from
further injury, she said. Though
his leg was not in shape, he did
get into the game to begin the
now famous legend.
He was in only one play, rein
jured his leg and walked off the
field with the medal still pinned
on his uniform.
Mullins gave the medal to
Rockne to return to Knute's wife.
The coach evidently forgot. He
had it with him on that fatal plane
trip, when the ship crashed in
Kansas. The medal provided the
only means of identifying the
coach.
Willkie Carries.
When Wendell Willkie left on
his trip to world battlefronts last
year, Mrs. Rockne again parted
with her silver charm. In China,
Willkie pinned it on a Chinese
general.
Lt. Mullins says the preflight
athletic program is the answer to
Never! Dames
Say They Can
Replace Men
Heh, heh
(Sport Editor Note: Finally, grndg Ing-ty
dkl we submit to tl printing f this bit
on women's sport. Hems that tttrae wom
en will oson supplant men In the sport
news.)
Atthe present time the coaches
and directors of the athletic teams
are in a little worried about the
future of the sports games that
have played such an important
part in the rating and reputation
of the school in the past few years.
With absence of most of the
athletes from the campuses all
over the country, the outlook is
this country's plea for fighting pi
lots. Mullins explained that one of
the main objectives is to make the
trainees do more than they think
themselves able. If an athletic
team is short on men they play
the game regardless.
"When 10 Zeros attack four
navy fighters we fight the odds
and win," Mullins declared.
Fraternity Men
Vacate Houses
For Army Plan
. At Colorado Mines
Six Colorado School of Mines
fraternity houses will be occupied
by the army after the first of
April. Members have been asked
to vacate the houses so that re
pairs and cleaning may be done.
Army officials plan to house 375
engineering soldier-students in
those buildings, and 125 in the
Armory. The Mines field house
will be converted into a kitchen
and mess hall.
Courses in the army training
program will include electrical,
mechanical, civil and chemical en
gineering. Students will be re
quired to take basic engineering
training, after which they will be
placed in one of the four schools.
Those who have had basic engi
neering in an acceptable college
will not be required to repeat the
courses.
Pinky Knowles
Ready For Trip
. . . Gibson Troubles
OMAHA, NEB., March 16
Creighton University's New York
bound Bluejays breathed a sigh of
relief when they left here last
night, then breathed another sigh
of disappointment.
The big relief was the announce
ment Donald "Pinky" Knowles, his
freshman guard, has been trans
ferred from the Albia, la., draft
board to an Omaha board, thus
permitting the lowan to make
the trip for the Jays' appearance
in the National Invitational cage
meet.
But Ward Gibson of Des Moines,
also a guard, wasn't able to crowd
onto a Des Moines-to-Omaha bus
and missed the final practice here.
And Hickey said Gibson will have
to travel alone on a different train
and may even miss the practice
scheduled for Chicago Tuesday.
"This throws our plans into a
cocked hat," Hickey fretted.
"What a way to start the biggest
trip of the season !"
After a skirmish with Loyola at
Chicago Tuesday, the Bluejays,
who won 19 of 20 games this
season, will leav for New York,
where they are' scheduled to ar
rive Wednesday morning. They
make their first appearance in the
Garden Thursday.
The technique of the standard
Kahn test for syphilia is outlined
in a recent pamphlet written by
the man who developed the pro
cedure, Dr. Reuben L. Kahn, di
rector of clinical laboratories at
the University of Michigan.
more than a little dark for direc
tors, as well as the sports.
Of course, one of the main ques
tions of the day concerns the pros
pects of women in the world of
sports. Will the coeds and women
thruout the country take part in
the baseball, basketball, and foot
ball games, or will they sit on the
sidelines and wait for the game
that never begins?
Not only are there competitive
games, but who will compete in
the boxing, wrestling, swimming,
tennis, and fencing matches that
have occupied a major part of the
American's free time?
Swimming Good.
For several years women have
competed in swimming meets, and
have done so with a great deal of
success. Women have been able to
provide John Q. Public with as in
teresting and exciting races and
relays in the pools and at the
beaches all over the country as the
men have.
Coeds have been able to draw
the attention of the sports writers
to their relays as well as the col
lege "eds" have. With all these acts
in mind, it is not hard to under
stand that there will be interest
and excitement left in at least one
field in the world of sports.
AN OPEN LETTER
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