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"The -Rope"r
At Lancaster
By Universit
By SAYE 1
After a two-night run of Pa1
tery, "The Rope," on the Dra
sity Theatre plans to take th(
will be presented Thursday in
Prof. Merrill G. Christophersc
Alumni Office
Sends Report
To Association
Copies of the report of Pres.
Norman Smith to the state legis
lature for the last fiscal year
have been mailed to alumni and
people on the campus, Ralph
Lewis, executive secretary of the
alumni association, said yester
day.
The report summarizes the ac
tivities, progress, expenses and
needs of the university schools
and departments through the
year ending at the close of the
1947-48 fall term. Included with
the president's report is a finan
cial statement prepared by Frank
E. Welborn, treasurer of the uni
versity.
The alumni association sent
copies of the report to members
in keeping with its policy of af
fording former students an op
portunity to keep up with univer
sity activities.
"We hope that every student,
particularly every senior, at Caro
lina will visit the alumni associa
tion office before leaving school
in order .o become acquainted
with his alumni association,"
Lewis said.
"Future success of the asso
ciation depends upon students on
the campus now. One U the stu
dent's strongest links to his alma
mater after leaving school will be
alumni association and we are
anxious to have the students be
come acquainted with it," he con
cluded.
The campus office of the alumni
association is on the first floor of
Lieber college at the Sumter
street gate to the horseshoe.
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play to Lancaster where it
the high school auditorium,
n, director of the play, has
announced.
The play reveals the murder of
a young track star by two of his
fellow students merely for the
risk and daring that it takes to
murder a fellow human being and
get away with it. The murderers
invite the dead boy's father and
aunt, a poet friend, and another
student to their apartment for a
farewell supper before they re
turn to college after a holiday.
The supper is served from a chest
that contains the body.
The murderers make some
clumsy errors which leads the
person they least expect to learn
of their deed.
"'The Rope' made its first run
in London, and then played on
Broadway with Brian Aherne in
the leading role. The play is now
being made into a movie under
the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
Patrick Hamilton, the author, is
also famous for his 'Gaslight ,"
Christophersen said.
Carolina students taking part
in the production are James R.1
Simmons of Columbia, Irene
Krugman of Columbia, Banks
Scarborough of Timmonsville,
Wort Bernanke of Dillon, and
Richter Moore of Mayo. Simmons,
Scarborough, and Moore are mem
)ers of Alpha Psi Omega, na
:ional dramatic fraternity at the
iniversity.
The Lancaster Chamber of Com
nerce and the American Legion
3ost will sponsor the trip, with
3roceeds going to the establish
nent of a boy's park in Lancaster.
Electrical Enrineers
ro Hold Annual
%leeting At Clemson
The South Carolina section of
:he American Institute of Elec
.rical Engineers has extended an
nvitation to the members of the
student branch at the university
:o attend its annual meeting at
lemson next Friday, Joe Nelson,
-hairman, announced today.
Those attending the meeting
will hear speakers in va
rious fields related to electrical
mngineering, including R. C. Cheek
>f the Westinghouse Electric Cor
poration, whose subject will be
"Application of Power Line Car
ciers."
Dr. H. M. )3rowvn, dean of the
textile school, Clemson College,
will speak on "Vibration Studies,"
and "The Electron Microscope"
will be the subject of Dr. A. C.
Nfenus' address. Menius is a
member of the Clemson College
physics department.
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The production played to a pa(
third presentation by the dramatic
Bible For
Is Work C
By H. J. BOURGEOIS
The New Testament of the
Bible is being translated from
Spanish to the Tseltal language,
by Miss Ethel Wallis, a special
student at the university and a
linguistic instructor at Columbia
Bible College.
Before Miss Wallis and her
partner in the project could start
the actual translation, they had
to learn the language first hand
by living with the Tseltal Indians
ii the Mexka, nLae uf Chiapas,
which is just north of Guate
mala.
Next they had to construct an
alphabet, dictionary, grammar
and lexicon, all based on the in
ternational phoenetic alphabet, in
order to teach the illiterate In
dians how to read and write be
fore they could benefit from the
Bible translation.
Miss Wallis, whose home is in
Los Angeles, is doing, the work
under the auspices of the Sunmer
Institute of Linguistics, co-spon
sored by the University of Okla
homa and the Mexican govern
menit.
Ini 1936 the Mexican govern
ment, under Pr-es. Lazaro Car-de
nas, having dlecided to formulath
an active education program foi
the 50 isolated Indian tribes de.
scend(edl from the ancient Mayar
nation, asked the University oi
Oklahoma to help in this program
The university had been doing
similar work on the various Ian
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"Rope" Cast
t dramatic group of the university
three acts by Patrick Hamilton, in
lumbia, Henry Green of' Columbia,
ia.
:ked house Tuesday and Wednesda
a group this semester. (Photo by S
Tseltal Ind
Universit
guages of Worth American In
dians.
The government was especially
desirous of enlisting the aid of
Cameron Townsend who, for ten
years previously, had been doing
similar work in Guatemala. Town
send laid the original framework
of the- present program, and is
still connected with it.
Since 1936, 40 of the 50 Mexi
can tribes have been gradually
civilized by the field workers of
the linguistic institute. Prior to
their coming, the Indians were
virtually isolated from civilization,
living in the same manner their
ancestors had before the Mayan
nation fell in the ninth century,
A. D.
Besides teaching the Indians
such fundamental things as health
and sanitation, how to read and
write, and modern agricultural
methods, the institute workers
also perform inter-denominational
missionary duties by Christianiz
ing them.
At present there are approxi
mately 160 field wvorkers among
the Indians, with two or three
assigned to each tribe.
Miss Wallis describes her tribal
area as "seven days long and four
days wvide," meaning it takes that
long to travel the length and
wvidth of the mountainous area on
mule back.
Miss Wallis has been associated
with the institute for several years
and intends to make it her life's
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Mary Ann Edwards of Greenville
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!ian Tribe
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work. She finds it that interest
ing and self-satisfying.
At first the Indians are sus
picious and reserved, Miss Wallis
said, but upon being spoken to in
their own language they gradu
rally become friendly. They never
seem to recover from their initial
amPTement at a complete strang
er's ability to speak their lan
guage.
They have been so completely
isolated from civilization for cen
turies, she added, that they cannot
even comprehend the fact that
they are a part of a nation the
size of Mexico. It is completely
beyond their power to visualize
such a large territorial unit. The
tribal unit is as far as they can
go.
The institute has been so suc
cessful in helping the Mexican
government in this civilizing pro
gram, that Peru and Venezuela
have asked it to do the same for
them.
Two outstanding men who have
been connected with this project
are doctors Eugene 'Nida and
Kenneth Pike. The former is
America's leadi ng morphologist
and the latter is its foremost
phoenetician.
Pike has completed a transla
tion of the New Testament into
the Mixteeco language, which is be
ing published by the American
Bible Society.
While teaching at the Univer
sity of Michigan this semester, he
is studying Russian in prepara
tion for a proposed trip to study
the 50 tribes of Siberia. Permis
sion tu enter the Soviet states is
all he needs before starting the
trip.
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Wofford
Bill Hynds of Sumter, Joe Er
win of Rutherfordton, N. C., and
Ralph Cannon of Spartanburg,
have been tapped by Blue Key.
-Golfers from Carolina, Clemson,
Furman, The Citadel, Presbyte
rian, Newberry and perhaps other
colleges will go to Wofford Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday
for the Second Annual South
Carolina Intercollegiate Golf Tour
nament. ,
Newberry
Professor: "What would you ad
minister to a person who had just
taken hydrocyanic acid?"
Student: "My blessing." 9
Professor of Greek: "Miss
Chapman, what is meant by the
LXX?"
Student: "Love and kisses."
Limestone
Margaret Poole, Doris Hamrick, 1
Betty and Anne McNeely gave
their junior recitals this week.
Greville says, "Man is the only
creature endowed with the power
of laughter; is he not also the I
only one that deserves to be I
laughed at?"
Furman
Esther Greene, senior from
Greenville, was crowned May
Queen Saturday.
Have Tarzan and Johnny Weiss
mueller split personalities? From
the letter that President Plyler
received asking for some help in
scouting talent for RKO, it would
seem so.
Physical education majors have <
formed a club and elected Bill c
Jeffords president, John McCrary I
vice-president, Robert Scott secre -
tiy, Luther DaineLL treasureu.
Winthrop
Lillian Adams, Seneca, Rachel
Clark, Johnston, and Bertha Ross,!
Sumter, were initiated into Book
and Key, honorary senolastic so
ciety with the same membership
requirements as Phi Beta Kappa.
Florence Yellow Jacket
Owner (to jockey): "How did
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Laughs and larceny
run riot when a pair
of giddy gold diggers
"take'' a hick town
. ..and Barry .takes
them bolh...like Grant
took Richmond I
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rou win? The horse was lame."
Jockey: "I kept whispering in
is ear,
'Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Horses that lose
Are made into glue.'"
Old maid's laugh: "He! He!
le!"
"I fainted. They brought me
o. So I fainted again."
"Why?"
"Well, they brought me two
nore."
rhe Collegian-Greensboro, N. C.
Vhen your old caboose is laggin',
nd your fringe is all askew;
Vhen you feel there's something
dragging;
.ook around-it may be you.
Miami
He kissed her in the garden,
It was a moonlight night,
She was a marble statue
He was a little tight.-The
'lainsman, Auburn.
It seems that the game broke
lown between Heaven and Hell.
It. Peter appeared at the broken
art of the gate and called to the
)evil.
"Hey, Satan, it's your turn to
ix it this time."
"Sorry," replied the boss of the
and beyond the Styx, "My men
re too busy to worry about fix
ng a mere gate."
"Well, then," growled Pete, "I'll
ave to sue for breaking our
greenent."
"Oh, yeah,:' said the Devil,
where are you going to get a
awyer?"-The Plainsman, Au
urn.
A husband is one who lays
own the law to his wife and ac
epts all of her amendments.-The
'lainsman, Auburn.
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