LYRE TREEVol. 8 No. 4 November 22, 1928

Page 1 Fall Plays BrilliantHistoric Ability Reaches Peak. Fitle Displays Professional Skill

Rushing Season in Full SwingScarlet Harriers Close Season

Coach Reviews SeasonProm Issue of MessengerJunior Prom Committee Announces Everything Set for Year’s Great Event

Blue-White Decorations Create SpectaclePlans Call for Tea Dances, Big Prom Dance, Breakfast Parties and Many Other Social Activities for St. Stephen’s

Wilson Loses Hard Match; Tennis CupWarden Gives Armistice AddressNew Hockey Rink Nears Completion

Page 2 Editorial: The Prom GirlEditorial: The New Lyre TreeBook ReviewNews ItemsSports EditorialAlumniHigher Criticism

Page 3 Court Men RestEditorial OpinionFrosh Filosophy

Frosh PartySoccer Team Elects LemleyAnnandale Distance Men to MarathonFraternity Row

EulexianKappa Gamma Chi

Page 4 Fraternity DancesNews ItemsInter CampusBrief Items

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE

THE LYRE TREE Volume 8 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y., NOVEMBER 22, 1928

Fall Plays Brilliant !Scarlet Harriers I Junior Prom Committee Warden Gives H. . Ab··· R h P k . Close Season ; A . t. Add IStonc I Ily eac es ea . I A E yth• s t rmiS ICe ress

Fitle Displays Professional Coach Reviews Season nnounces ver Ing e . Skill. ; Wi t h the event of Amist ice Da \·

I Bow to Middlebury- 21-34 : F y ' G t E t falling on Sunday, DL Bell ad-On the evening ot November 15, . or ear S rea . ven ' dressed t h e students at the ch apel at eight-fifteen, four one-act plays ! St. Stephen's closed its second ! service on som e timely top ics re-were give n by th e college mum- ! season of intercollegiate cross- · ganli ng war . In the lapse of ten mez·s . 8trange var. o f Ha.nk's h exagon:ll shack on the : By that is meant the ability to go All St: _:ste phen,s ~s 111 .complete mght s up pe r m common s will not • \Ye have forgotten h ow destructive end of a ,,,;h ~ut: In thts h exagonal •up against disadvantages and drive ret.adm es:s t~ r the J~moi Promenac!·.: he se rve d t h is y ear , but punch "vill the war was. \Vit h eac h new dis-shack with its two \Vindows and tl , t th fi . h . h o the C!a::-s of 19J ). The campus IJe s ul)s titu tcd at Lhc clance. St. cm·e ry in the ch emist r y of warfare • . . ! 1roug.1 o e ms m sue a is os )t' 1 ., th h .. .. S 1 • 1 , one door we re o ne table, two stools : m a nner that tbe result is in doubt . .. . I ucel ~p · e o uses a r c · te p 1en s rat 1er !)Oasts of its . we sbould the m o r t' s hun nat iona l a nd a cand le stu ck in the working· • t 'l th 1 "t , , . ; Sp luced up . the fellows arc punc h m ade by the deft hand of sl ri fe. .-\.!so w e forget its basic un l e a~ man corne ::; tn. ~. "sp r·uce I .. . th . f 'I . L . C end of a whisky bottle. Not much 1 In the firt place the cout::: e is ~ c up · --e\cn e pro es- ~v onsteu r om s orti . The punch , cause. ' \Vhe nce com eth eve n from

. - SOl'S a re " ··p ·u ' d " d . t 1 1 . t ' 1 . I I I tl I . tl ] scenerv. but with a little romance six miles in lP.ngth and whollv , . h ::; r ce up , an ' oo.{s ao e Js pro Ja) Y le m os t popn ar . le usts.' • I · • as t ~Juo·Jl the · th · h' t t . th t1 \\' · in one. and with the aid of a wind- . h a rd road that J"arrecl the bodv at 1

1• . o "ea et nlan tm- 5 a Ion °11 · e nor. a r ts a disease. The m ad ness

1 · 1 s e t I S ''SjJruce ·1 u " d l t f' 'fl d · l d f t ' 1 machine, and a man's back- 1 ev ery step. As a result . the ~lid - ! : 11

b . l P · an as o le programs v.:e re · e:;ng net an · o na w.na ambition motivated by . . . . . ' a. . u t fa r tr·om the leas t ···- t hu p1·ocured hy \V·>lt•> J· Le r11! 'Y L'r·()Il1 "'elft.shile"' C" U.'"'~.' '"""!', 'lll'l un·-stage wa1lmg, It wasn t hard a t . dlebury runners had a command mg I t . ' ·~ ~ e I u .,s. n ·' -·' "" •· ._

a ll. ~Ir . Gamble, so called on the ! lead a t the half-wa " point. Xcver- tratln hc r .:: ws o n the New York Cen- Balfour and Co. , of .-\.ttleboro, . fortunately, the cau ses have no t ' J ra ave I1Urchased ·t · :\I ·rh f t l 1 t l 1 r· 1 p rogram. played the part of i the less, the Scarle t runners plug- . .

11 F ' . · . · new sur s oi • ass. · ~· cove r o · 1e pare 1men )Cen a )O If 1ed . Then Dr. Bell ven-

probably t he hardest, toughest , o·ed a lono· and littl e bv li ttle cut of_Hra s. h llllShm~ touches trarF- program bn a · a · _,. t' t' tl t d \Vith all apologies to those others :nnish . On this the 11iddlebury run- ~ f tl . · . · ' · ·::; · n tnutca 1011 0 le Ten ·

nf the ac::ors, we believe this t he i n e rs had practiced much . ~nd it : por 1e. greatest, lovelies t, the finest T he patrons and pa tronesses a re: ' ::>f American thought to h old a loof

t . . · ~ ro m m St SteJlhen's hi s to1 ·y Le l Dr ·1n(l :.011·" Eer·tl 'lr· I I D •1 1 St tr•m1 ·' llY f'I·r·en Jly J·ntet'rl'1 tl'orlnl m os difficult part of the evemng, · \Vas here t hat they won the race. 1 . • : · • • ' ~ ~· ' L · · t.: • .. ' n 1

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d 1 · 'b th l · Us a ll re )Oll'C "'t 1 ' c·· 11 r e la tion,;. a n to mn we ascn e e wnor . St. S tephen's. how~>ver. altho ugh · · -· .-, ep 1en s o ege. o~ the best individual ac~ing. In ' it lost the race v n this specially C harles ~! i ll er, Chairman oi the Dr. and ~Irs . LyfOI'u P. Edwards, ('outinut·ll on pa~··· thrl'l' hls last sc e:ne whe~l h e dl~s n.lad. ~~prepared , heart ·brea king finis h . ha::< .Jun iur Pro m C(Jl1ltnittet!,

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.gy·mnasium for the past tv.ro For some time there has been .a .v.;eeks, basketball pr·actice has been noti ce on the bulletin board re-tetarded. Things are moving along garding organ recita.ls, which, as :very satisfactory, ho\\·ever, accord- the notice distinctly states, are be-ing to Coach Banks. All the men ing given every Thurday afternoon are in good shape and working at 5 :30. The fact that the recitals hard. \Vith some ve ry promising are very poorly attended is not at new material on the floor, last all comforting to the person at the year's regulars have to keep on console. It. is true that the in-their toes every minute of the time, strument in the cha pel is unadapt-Jest they lose their positions. t ed for recital purposes owing to

Thursday, November L. .. )th the infirmities brought on by advanced m en were given a basketball ex- age, nevertheless the recitals are amination. worth the time necessary for their

While it is too car·ly to do much preparation and performance, and ,in predicting resul~s. it is safe to should be more enthusiastically is in view, with the large majority supported. say that a very successful season I

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1 Eastman - - - - ---- ---· - - HHcoHmnee I =-~ F rosh Filosophy --~ 5 St. Michaels ____ - - - · __ 8 Cooper l J niorl _ __ ___ ~· _ _ Hon1e ......................... '"""'"'" ............ u ..... ~~ ••• lf ...... .

15 St. Fra ncis - - · ··----··-·· - - Home 20 N.Y. Aggies Farrningdale, N . Y. :21 St. John's - ·· - - - - - - - - Brooklyn 22 MontE~ (IIVt:s The socce r sch edule is not ye t It is hopeful that v.:ork will begin : Contimwd from pa~t> ont· complet ed. \Villiams a nd E a st

Strouclsbur(! have been listed, \Vi!- ·.·shortly. A remedy for the sin of war· li es ~ in the establishment of civilivation . liam s to be played at \Villiams- · on a supe rnatural basis. To live t own. and Strouclsburg at home. more closely by the religious pre· : The tea m's picture was taken by : ZIMMER BROS. cepts whose value has been proven ; Walsh of the P oughkeepsie ·E~ven- DIAMONDS by the a ges, is the way out or w e ing Stin.

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junior Prom Fall Plays ~ .................................................................... -=I j Inter Campus ! 1 Continued from page one Continued from page one

ber of the class has been assessed passionate eyes. The belly-rubbing five dollars. The dance will last Francis Bacon and the light-bead-from 9 to 3. ed Shakespeare were the two char-

FRATERNITY DANCES acters about which the farce was The final dances of the Prom woven-and we wonder in seeing

party will be held Saturday after- the difference between these two noon. They will take the form of that anyone ever dreamed of con-open house, informal tea dances. fusing the two. Who started that This portion of the Prom is con- argument anyway? And, tell us, sidered by many to be the most who started that melodramatic pleasant of the entire party. St. duet, and tell us, why didn't the Stephen's famous spirit of democ- curtain crash down as they drew racy is clearly in evidence as the their swords instead of showing couples motor up and down the up those actors' failings. Perhaps, Annandale road on their· way to that last few seconds did add to the various fraternity houses, gaily the laughs but the sorry part is singing St. Stephen's and frater- that those laughs were not direct-

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Something altogether new in col-leges has been established in Brownville, Texas. Public Speak-ing is the only subject taught and the course lasts but three months. Phonograph records serve as pro-fessors. Examinations are given every week, and the value of each pupil is determined by the flow of words.

This is a College for Parrots. Already there is an enrollment of 1,500 birds from all over the world varying in age from five to eight months.

nity songs. ed toward Shakespeare and Bacon . The guests of the Prom arc: as characters, but rather toward Frosh rules at Harvard m ~ 734

Miss Elizabeth McKinner, Bryn the actors. I were very severe. The yearhngs

Brief Items Sigma Alpha Epsilon announces

the pledging of Wallace Paige, '30. On Friday evening, November

the second, the Fraternity enter-tained a group of new men with an informal dance at the Chapter House. Dr. and Mrs. Edwards and Dr. and Mrs. Upton were the pa-trons and patronesses. The music was furnished by Jack Mulvey's orchestra of Poughkeepsie.

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National Bank Mawr College, Penna; Miss Aiice Play number Three- We were I wer~ .forbidden to "~augh . in a M. Richards, Bel videre, N · .J.; Miss not quite prepared for seriousness Senw.r s face, . ask . Impertment Eileen Murray, Skidmore College, and were inclined to laugh at the questwns, or gtve lmpudent an-Saratoga Springs, N . Y.; Mrs. J. young oldster and his cigar. The l swers." Red Hook, N. Y. Wallace Page Jr.; Miss Debert El- scene is a room in the States Pri- Frosh rules to-day forbid swear-ton, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, son somewhere in Massachusetts. ing, playing at dice or cards, or N. Y. ; Miss Annette Hallberg, The opening conversation between ordering a strong dlink in a tav-Caldwell, N . J.; Miss Florence Ben- the warden and the chaplain was ern within two miles of of the col-nett, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y. ; more or less stereotyped and one liege. Hath the Old Order Miss Laverne Roth, Buffalo, N. Y.; couldn't help thinking all thru it, changed? Miss Mary A. Richards, Newport, "Listen carefully for the history of ----~----- Accounts and New Business

Solicited R. I.; Miss Edith Helen Duffen, prisoner is about to be unfolded Schenevus, N . Y.; Miss Catherine thru the mouths of these two!" E. Mellen, Brookly~, N. Y.; M~ss I The chaplain after a few minutes Marion L . Jones, Utlca, N. Y.; Mtss 1 turned out to be what one would Louise Guidire, New York City, N. expect of a perfunctory chaplain Y.; Miss Ruth Kennedy, Portland, - one who continually tries to irn- Continued from page one w J s • & s n Maine; Miss Frances Hickock, Vas- press that his duties were meant I this line has !Jeen graciously con- • • CISm · 0

Prom Issue of Messenger

sar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; for the good of someone else's soul. tributed by the Rev. John Mills Miss Betty Berry, New York City, And we sympathized with the pris- Gilbert, an alumnus of this college. N. Y.; Miss Charlotte Zoag, Vas- oner and were inclined to pat him It is "Laurels" , a sonneL. Chevrolet ___ Nash

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sar College, Poughkeepasie, N. Y. ; on the back and tell him to keep The cover for this issue is a re-Miss Florence R. Phillips, Prince- his soul. It was his business. He'd vival of one used in the early days ton, N. J.; Miss Mazory McCrack- have to answer for it. We have of the magazine, between 1899 and en, vassar College, Poughkeepsie, heard a great deal of praise of Mr. 1905. The design is an interesting N. Y.; Miss Jean Ryder, Dobbs Willis in the part of the girl, but one, and has been adopted for con-

y M . Ch 1 tt d t th d · 1 f rsed Cars at Reasonable P1·ices Ferry, N. . ; 1ss ar o e we won er a e emure g1r o tinual use in future. Smith, New Paltz, N. Y.; Miss nearly eighteen whose feeling of

All in all an interesting issue Marjorie Hawver, Hudson, N. Y.: disgrace would cause her to stare

Tt'lt>phorw 1.3-F-2 Miss Theodora Peck, Bloomfield, so at the warden. That made the may be expected, and deserving of N . J.; Miss Margaret Anthony, stare brazen, which was a char- the hearty support of the college

group a s well as outside subscrib- E YORK Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. acteristic a little out of place in RED HOOK, N W Y.; Miss Mabel Hinshaw, Kansas such a girl. Yet, we praise Mr. ers. City, Missouri; Miss Jeannette Willis. His part was well done. Hyde Haight, Syracuse, N. Y. ; !Perhaps we ate too critical. The Miss Gladys Miller, Belvidere, N. Turnkey and the black painted J.; Miss Norma Craig, Vassar Col-,door as parts were in about the lege, Poughkeepsie. N. Y.; Miss same class- -both were more or less Helen Freeman, Governor's Island, ornamental and somewhat neces-N . Y. ;•Miss Virginia Meyer, Rye, sary to the play, but beyond that-- ' N. Y.; Miss Betty Summerscales, well, nothing. Peekskill, N . Y. ; Miss Sally Cur- The fourth play was decidedly tis, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miss 1 a farce. We held up our hands to Catherine .Dwyer, Syracuse, N. Y. ;

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display our feeling and say, "Ugh, Miss Elinor Harris, Bridgeport, impossible!" Here comes the Conn.; Mrs. Stanley Brown, Miss j blooming caller and we wonder a-Catherine Dalton, Miss Beatrice bout that lost silk hat- was it real-Bergen, Mrs. Harold B. Phalen, St. ly lost? The laborer, the clergy-Stephen's College; Miss Elizabeth man, and the policeman- they Van Riper, New Paltz, N. Y.; Miss were a motley crew. The play Edith Makepeace, Montclair, N. J. ; might have dispensed with them. Miss Mary Brown,; Miss Ruth Yet they were funny, .to look at.

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Spaler, Smithtown, Long Island, I Gardener as the poet made a very Toward Midnight. N. Y.; Miss Mary J. Pickle, Pas- hard job for the imagination, and IV. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. saic, N. J. ; Mrs. Edgar Kroll , Miss we hear stories of them continu- The Lost Silk Hat- A Farce. Aloise Wood, Pittsfield, Mass.; ally. He was truly the poet of By Lord Dunsany Miss Sara Burbank, Pittsfield, traveling salesman stories. When A Caller ____________ __ Mr. Paul

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Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Edwards, we saw him come out on the stage A Laborer - - - - -------- Mr. Wise --·- --·- - - ------· -·-- - W ll Montclair, N. J.;Miss Esther Por- we heard it from several corners. ~Clergyman _____ ___ Mr. Perkins It Pays To Look e ter, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, "Gawd" Geats never said that. To A Poet __ __ __ __ ___ _ Mr. Gardner ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE

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N. Y.; Miss Emily Boone, Phila- the "Ugh," and the "Gawd" we add A Policeman - - -- - --- Mr. Davies Colwnbia Cniver.-;ity Martell.'s delphia, Pa. ; Miss Irene Roth, Buf- one more word "bravo" and call it Scene: A Londor. Street .\ College of Arts . Letters , and falo, N. Y. ; Miss Virginia Steel , a day. Yes truly, it was funny. About Tea-time Science, definitely and officially of Brooklyn, N. Y.: Miss Catherine , Then after all that there was a The plays were produced by the the Episcopal Church, but with no Woodward, Brooklyn, N . Y. I dance, if you care to call it that. Faculty in the Department of Pub- ecclesiastical restrictions in the se-

So it is that '.'' P. say once more · Let's see, there were four girls lie Speaking. Iection of its student body; incor-- -Let us all rejoice! The Prom is from somewhere outside. Yes, pora teu into the educational sys-

. ht h · 1 h d The plays were produced by ar- U . "t d here. you're quite ng , t ose gtr s a tern of Columbia mver·st y an i a good time. Each one of them r.angement with the vari~us pu~- conferring the University degree . ;

Kappa Gamma Chi, with her started out by stying, "Nice plays." hsher~ thereof and protectmg their It combines the advantages of j guests, enjoyed a banquet at the Of course, we all agree. But gosh, , copynghts. university education with small Chapter House, on Friday evening, I why wasn't the girl from the home : The audience was re.quested to .al- college's simplicity and inexpen-1 November the sixteenth. town there? My boy, what a time \ low for the conventiOn by whtch siveness.

The Kappa Gamma Chi frater- itwould have been. women's ;''l_rts were played by men, I The College, founded in 1860, is nity entertained some of th~ new PLAYS AND CASTS j ~nd to ass1st. the players by tak- equippe~ to teach. me~ who, ~fter men at a dinner on the evenmg of I . mg them senously. 1 graduatiOn. are gomg mto busmess Friday, Novemb.er 16th. The din- Moon~ide-A play of Retribution. Scenery. ---- - - - - --- Mr. Scribner I or i.n~o pvstgr~du.ate . scho~ls of ner was served m the recently re- twn. Properties - - -- ---- - - - -- Mr. Fite med1cme, law, JOurnahsm, or theo-modeled chapter hcuse. I By Colin Clements Electrical Effects - - - - - Mr. Hagen logy, or into classical, scientific,

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At North Carolma Sta~e Co~le.ge, II. We feel that we must add a word For Board in Hall __ ___ _____ 250 a. freshman was shot while raidmg A Roadhouse in Arden-A Pseudo-! about the directors, Dr. Bell, Mr. There are some competitive the school's apple orchard. Historical comedy which explains i Crosby, and M.r. Voorhees. With- I scholar~hips and a ~ew bursarie.s

Among the new fiction books ap- the origin of a perpetual contro- 1 out these men the plays would J for mea conternplatmg Holy Ot-pear two which are quite interest- versy. have been an impossibility. And ders. ing, "Nero" by Desider Kostolany, By Phillip Moeller last but not least, Mr. Scribner . . . . Address: which has been translated from the Robin Goodfellow _____ _ Mr. Settle who worked on the scenes and who )IJ.I;RN • .utD IDDINGS BELL, D.D., ·German, and the new book by the Hamlet, Robin's father __ Mr. Snell spent a great deal of time in the \\'arden

Cleopatra' wife to Hamlet work, and a sort of work that is Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y. Englishman, Alec Waugh, entitled, B t Mr. Andrew3 often overlooked. (Railway Station: any own) "Nor ·Many Waters.''

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