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Cavanaugh Resigns Chapel Choir Duties

Mr. C a v a n a u g h will no longer

d i rec t the choir . " Immed ia t e ly a f t e r t h e C h r i s t m a s vacat ion, Miss Hazel

P a a l m a n will t ake c h a r g e of t he

chapel choir ," says Mr. C a v a n a u g h

Miss P a a l m a n came to t he Hope f acu l ty t h i s Sep tember f r o m De-

t ro i t where she had nine years 01

experience t each ing in Detroit

schools. She was g r a d u a t e d f rom Hope in 1981 wi th a Bachelor ol

Music degree and received her A.B.

f r o m Hope in 1932. In 1935 she

received he r Mas te r of Music de g r e e f rom the Univers i ty of Michi-

gan . Miss P a a l m a n w a s well known

in Detroi t music circles a s a soloist

in the Woodward Avenue Presby-t e r i an Church and t he N o r t h Con-

g rega t iona l Church. She now has

c h a r g e of t he adult choir of Hope

Church he re in Holland.

The change in choir direction it

be ing made "because t he Music

D e p a r t m e n t policy is to have

where possible, only one such as-

semblage under each f acu l ty mem-

ber so t ha t it may be t aken as a

fu l l t ime respons ib i l i ty . " Mr . Cav-a n a u g h will re ta in c h a r g e of the

Men's Glee Club; Mrs . Snow ha?

the Women ' s Glee Club; Miss Hol-

leman, t he Madr iga l g r o u p ; and

Mr. Rider, t he Band and Orches t ra .

Official Publication of the Students of Hope College at Holland, Michigan

& / r i s t i a £ S

December 18,1947

Students Enter Speech Contests

The Adelaide and Raven Orator i -

cal Contes ts to select Hope 's rep-

resen ta t ive in the 51st annual con-

t e s t s of the Michigan Intercollegi-

a t e Speech League a t Albion Mar.

7, 1948, were held on Dec. 15 and

1(5. E n t r a n t s in the Adelaide con-t e s t were Misses Lor ra ine Van

Farowe, Hazel Vander Woude, and

Leona Doorenbos, all of whom

competed last yea r also. Miss

Donna S luy tc r , Sophomore repre-

sen ta t ive in the Nykerk Cup Con-

t e s t , also w a s entered . J u d g e s were

Miss Met ta Ross, f o r m e r coach of Women ' s O r a t o r y a t the college,

Miss Alice Boyd and Miss Nella

Meyer. E n t r a n t s in the Raven Contest ,

said by Dr. Schr ier , Director of

Forensics , to be the best in the

pas t several yea r s were Pierce

Maassen — " I n t e r n a t i o n a l Enemy

No. 1," a discussion of the evils of

l iquor and liquor adver t i s ing , Don-

ald Buteyn, "Today ' s Chal lenge to

Amer ica ," deal ing with t he prob-lem of rel igion in the public

schools, Mat thew Ot te , " T h i s Above

All ," a plea for individual th inking to combat confo rmi ty with the

world, Glenn Van Ha i t sma , "A New

Role for Educat ion ," concerning the

potent ia l i t ies of U N E S C O for

bui lding peace. William Dyks t r a ' s

ora t ion, "The Communism of the Individual ," was a plea f o r com-

bining and f u s i n g the good of cap-

i ta l ism with the good of commu-

nism. Karel F. Bote rmans , one of

the s tuden t s a t Hope f r o m The Nether lands , spoke upon the value

of exchange s tuden ts in f u r t h e r i n g

peace. N a m e s of the winners were not

avai lable when this issue went to press .

J u d g e s f o r the contes t included:

Dr . Richard Ouders luys of West-e rn Theological Seminary , Dr. J a -

cob J . Sessler , pa s to r of the Third Reformed Church in th i s ci ty and

t he fol lowing member s of the fac-

u l t y : Dean John Hollenbach, Pro-fe s so r Edward S. Avison, Rev.

E u g e n e Os te rhaven , and Dr. D.

Ivan Dyks t ra .

Hopeites' Poems Recently Printed

A poem wr i t ten by Glen Van

ia i t smA enti t led "An Even ing Thought" and one wr i t t en by Lois

Jillson ent i t led " T h e T ide" have jeen accepted f o r publicat ion in

;he Annual Anthology of College

. 'oetry, it has been announced by

.he s ec re t a ry of t he Nat iona l Po-,'try Association.

The Anthology is a compilat ion )f the finest poet ry wr i t t en by t he

:ollege men and women of Amer-ica, r epresen t ing every s t a t e in the Union.

Selections were made f r o m thou-sands of poems submi t ted .

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Social Service Club Distributes Toys

The Social Service Club is col-

lecting new and used toys to dis-

t r ibute to needy children. All col-

lege s tuden ts who would like to

help in th is w o r t h y cause may

bring t h e i r d o n a t i o n s to Van

Raal te where a con ta iner has been

provided. This club was recently

formed for those who a r e inter-

ested in th is field of work. With

Dr. Voogd act ing as f acu l ty ad-

visor, a commit tee c o m p o s e d of

Claire Leffingwell , Mabel Biel, Don

Boss and J im Bennet t a r e o rgan-

izing the club's f u r t h e r act ivi t ies .

These act ivi t ies will include field tr ips, helping underpr iv i leged chil-

dren and any o ther type of work

which the club may find beneficial.

Var ious s p e a k e r s on dif ferent phases of social service work a re

also being included for f u t u r e pro-g r a m s .

Expect Dr. Zsiros Here This Week

Dr. Joseph Zsiros, with his wife

and small son, a f t e r months of

anxious wai t ing, have finally a r -

rived in America and is expected here some t ime th i s week. Dr.

Zsiros is a t present p ro fessor of

Old Tes t amen t at the Theological

Seminary of Sa ra spo t ak Academy,

and he is to be gues t p rofessor in the Hope College Bible Depart -ment .

He and his f ami ly le f t Hungary

on Nov. 15 in order to provide

plenty of t ime for diff icul t ies which might arr ive in ga in ing clearance.

The next few weeks were spent

some where in Europe wai t ing for"

the i r ship, the Maure t ana , which

sailed f rom England on Tuesday , Dec. 9.

The ship arr ived in New York

on Monday, Dec. 15, where the vis-i tors were met by Dr. J a m e s Met-

t inga . He was expected to leave for Michigan almost immediate ly . Dr. Zsiros will begin t each ing here next semes te r .

Dr. Zsiros is not a newcomer to the United S ta tes . A f t e r prel im-

inary s tudies in H u n g a r y , he s tud-

ied a t the Univers i ty of Pennsyl-vania some twenty yea r s ago. His

field of s tudy has been the Sume-

rian and Akkadian l anguages and

cu l tures , a field in which he has es tabl ished a g r ea t reputa t ion . Dr.

Zsiros finally received his passpor t

a f t e r the applicat ion of Hope Col-

lege for a passpor t f o r i t s gues t

p ro fessor was denied th ree t imes.

It's Skating Time In Holland With all the rush of go ing home

for the holidays, and all the more rush of arriving back in t ime for Tuesday morning chapel, there is one very important thing that must not be forgotten. Remember that little space down in the comer of your suitcase where you crammed your swimming suit in September just in case Lake Michigan proved to be inviting during the first month of school. Well, now that you won't be taking that swimming suit along on your return trip, use that little corner for your ice skates!

In addition to nature's skating "ponds" — Lake Macatawa and

Lake Michigan — we have access

to t he 19th s t r ee t ball d iamonds

which a re flooded by t he town jus t

f o r t he purpose of ska t ing .

So, all you would-be Sonja

Heinies, bring along your skates in January. Who cares if you haven't skated since you were ten years old. Everyone's ankles will be just as weak as yours, and any one who tries a figure eight will suffer a few contacts with Mother Earth; so why not make up your mind that you just don't care how much you will be humiliated by your spills, and come back to school prepared to join the fun.

-Ut t to t j o t m i o m i K t e d a u

P w t d a S a v t o v w m c i u $ $ m a l

Our President's Christmas Letter Dear friends.

Three short months have hroufiht us all into a happy asso-ciation. With some ice have struck up an intimate friendship, with others we have developed merely a nodding acquaint-anceship. This has been the experience of us all. But some-how a hond of unity has woven us together. Of this we he-come particularly conscious as the Christmas season comes upon us.

There is no occasion in the college year which so ade-quately and so beautifully portrays the meaning of Hope College as does Christmas. The inspiring pre-Christmas chapel programs have enriched our lives with experiences which the passing years will not erase hut greatly enhance.

Together we pay tribute in the words of an old Cerman Carol:

The world is glad for Thee! The heart is glad for Thee! And all is well, and fixed, and sure, Because Thou art, W hose name is called Emmanuel!

(>reet your parents for us and in your home community and in your home church carry with you the spirit of Hope, the spirit of Christmas. Merry Christmas to you all!

Students Assemble A t VisscherHome

Four teen of our s t uden t s f r o m

the Nether lands assembled at the

home of Mr. Rein Visscher on the

Eve of St. Nicholas, Dec. 5. In

Amer ica the celebrat ion connected

wi th th i s old sa int has been ab-

sorbed into our C h r i s t m a s celebra-

t ion, but in the N e t h e r l a n d s St . Nic ' s visit is still on the eve of his o r ig ina l fes t ive day, Dec. (>. The

Dutch San ta Claus is a lways ac-companied on his t r ip by Black

Pe te r . This mythical c h a r a c t e r

b r i n g s the packages to San t a Claus

and tel ls him wha t he has ob-

served of the children t h r o u g h ch imneys and windows.

At Visscher 's J o p Uhl piayed

S a n t a and Karel Bo t e rmans 'as-s is ted him as Black Pe te r . S a n t a

Claus cross-examined the s t uden t s

before award ing them the i r g i f t s .

T h e s t u d e n t s exchanged g i f t s

a m o n g themselves , and they re-

ceived t ies and mi t t ens f r o m the Visschers and candy f r o m a f ami ly

in Hudsonvil le.

A Christmas Prayer 0 God our Father, who didst

send forth Thy Son to be the King of kings and Prince of Peace, grant that the kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdom of Christ and learn of Him the way of peace. Send forth among all men the spirit of good will and reconciliation. Let those who are offended for-give, and those who have of-fended repent, so that all Thy children may live together as one family, praising Thee and blessing Thee for the great re-demption w h i c h T h o u h a s t wrought for us. Through Jesua Christ our Lord. Amen.

IRC May Adopt New Constitution

At a recent meet ing of IRC,

Renze L. Hoeksema, pres ident of

the club, announced t h a t the new

const i tu t ion, wr i t t en by a commit-

tee of f o u r headed by Con Vander

Woude, had been completed. The new const i tu t ion will be presented

for cr i t icism and adoption by t he club a t the J a n u a r y 7 meet ing .

A t ime of in terna t ional fel low-ship w a s enjoyed by all who a t -

tended t he in ternat ional p a r t y held yes te rday in the lounge. S tuden ts

f rom fo re ign lands a s well as Amer ican s tuden t s shared the i r ex-

periences of l i fe in o the r lands, sang C h r i s t m a s carols in their na-

tive t ongue and enjoyed r e f r e sh -ments .

Hope Receives $22,000 From Van Nuis Estate

Hope College recent ly received $22,000 f r o m the e s t a t e of Mrs.

Carol ine Raven Van Nuis , who

passed a w a y about six mon ths ago.

Mrs. Van Nuis is t he d a u g h t e r of

Mr. A. A. Raven, who in 1908 es-tabl ished the A. A. Raven Pr ize

in O r a t o r y . I t is p lanned to use th is beques t a s well a s several

o ther r ecen t g i f t s in Hope ' s Build-ing P r o j e c t .

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Invites Suggestions The student Assembly commit-

tee, which is in charge of the Thursday morning assemblies, has announced that they are open to any suggest ions for speakers. Any-one having ideas may turn them in to one of the six committee members — D r . Irwin Lubbers, Dr. John Hollenbach, M r . E d w a r d Brand, Don Mulder, Tim Harrison, and Lou Yonkman.

Festive Note Rung A t Campus Mixer

The Ken Wel le r - Jack Tir re l l

Team of S a n t a and his f a i t h f u l helper proved to be a big success

a t the W.A.L. sponsored All Col-lege Holiday Mixer held in the

c h a p e l basement was decora ted

wi th a la rge C h r i s t m a s t r ee and pine boughs and icicles over the window ledges.

Included in t he hour p r o g r a m w a s t he s inging of Whi te Chr i s t -

mas and J ing le Bells by a s ex t e t t e composed of Cla i re Wie renga , J u d y

Mulder, Barba ra Van Dyke, P e g g y

Pr ins , Lucille B runs t i ng and Con-nie Voogd, accompanied by Doro-thy Bergers .

The Arcadian Fou r , W a r r e n Hiet-br ink, Ken L ie t sema , Bill Miede-

ma, and Bob Schuller , s a n g several

C h r i s t m a s carols, and Cant ique de Noel was sung by Phyll is Dar row.

In the humorous vein Phil Meengs gave a le t te r to San t a f r o m the

s t uden t s a t Hope, Muncie Vande

Wege presented a humorous read-

ing, and a modern version of "A Nigh t Before C h r i s t m a s " was

given. Mr. Clyde G e e r l i n g s led

the g r o u p in s ing ing .

R e f r e s h m e n t s consisted of hot

chocolate, cake, and ice c ream.

Kappa Delta Posts Christmas Boxes

Last week-end t he g i r l s of Kappa

Dfelta packed C h r i s t m a s boxes and

sent them to a mission s ta t ion in

Winnebago , Nebra ska , and a g i r l s '

school in Annvil le, Kentucky. These boxes conta ined g i f t s of g a m e s and

c lo th ing tha t were donated by t he Kappa Del ta members .

At a recent mee t ing Mrs. Al-

ber tus Pie ters g a v e an in t e res t ing

account of her exper iences in J a -

pan. Shir ley Hill w a s in c h a r g e of

devotions, and Shi r ley De Boer accompanied a t r io composed of

Helen Van F a r r o w , Ruth Richards ,

and Ruth Brower, who f u r n i s h e d special music.

Conviction Speech Winners Revealed

An innovation h a s recent ly been

made in the beg inn ing Speech course which has met with such

genera l interest t h a t it is likely to

become an annual a f fa i r . Each sec-

tion has recently held a round of

conviction speeches and selected i ts r ep resen ta t ive by popular vote.

Winners to da t e a r e :

Section A—Vernon Schipper . Section B—Will iam Van ' t Hoff.

Section C—Raymond Biller.

Section D—Rober t Brouwer.

Section E — C a t h e r i n e S h a r p .

Section F — A r t h u r Cloet ingh.

Section G—Gera ld Wil l iamson. Section H — B a r b a r a Vomast ic

and W a r r e n De W i t t , ( t i e ) . Section I—Ted McFal l .

Fol lowing the C h r i s t m a s recess,

it is p lanned to h a v e these ten s tu-den t s compete in a f u r t h e r elimi-

nat ion to reduce t he n u m b e r to six finalists in a public p e r f o r m a n c e of a final contest .

Michigan TB Group Wil l Visit Campus Wi th X-Ray Unit

A mobile uni t providing f r e e X-

rays f o r tuberculos is by t he Michi-

gan Tuberculos is Associat ion will

be located on t he campus of Hope

College on J a n u a r y 6, 7, 8, and 9.

The a f t e rnoon of J a n u a r y 5 has

been se t aside especially f o r fac-

ul ty members a l though a n y s tu-

dents who may have r e tu rned f r o m

vacation a re welcome. Th is privi-

lege has been made avai lable by

the S tuden t Council f o r the benefit of t he s tuden t body, f acu l ty ,

kitchen help, and s tuden t wives.

The g r ea t need f o r such exami-nat ions has been revealed by the

large number of Amer icans who have found out too late t h a t they

have TB. By m e a n s of an X- ray ,

the s l igh tes t evidence of the disease

can be immediate ly detected so

t r e a t m e n t can be effected while a definite cure is possible. Al though

s tuden t s may have a l ready had an

X-ray , it is still advisable to have

it repeated th is year . Real iz ing the value of such an X- ray , the Student

Council has sot a s i ts goal 100 per

cent par t ic ipa t ion of every person

connected in any way wi th Hope College.

Those wishing to know the re-

sul ts of the i r X- ray , should leave

a penny post card with the i r name

and address on it with t he opera-tor.

'Pepsi' Scholarship Of fer Closes Jan. 2

With J a n u a r y 2, 1948, set a s the

closing da te on which appl ica t ions for the Pepsi-Cola g r a d u a t e fel low-

ships may be made, all eligible sen-

iors should ob ta in the necessary

recommendat ions before the clos-

ing of school f o r the C h r i s t m a s vacat ion, accord ing to word jus t

received f rom J o h n M. S t a lnake r , d i rec tor of the fe l lowship p r o g r a m .

Twenty-s ix g r a d u a t e fe l lowships

will be awarded in March to college

s tuden t s scheduled to receive bach-

elor 's degrees d u r i n g the academic year 1947-48. Six winner:-, will be

^elected f rom each of f o u r geo-

graph ic r e g i o n s in the U n i t e d S ta tes , and in addi t ion, two fe l lows

will be chosen f r o m g r a d u a t e s of

Negro colleges. The winne r s will

receive $750 a y e a r for th ree yea r s

and they will have the i r ful l tui t ion

paid to any accredi ted g r a d u a t e or

professional school in the Uni ted

S ta tes . They may work in any field of s tudy which will lead to an M.A.,

Ph.D., M.D., o r o the r advanced professional degree .

The fel lowship p rog ram, which,

according to Direc tor S t a lnake r , is

designed to discover young men and women of marked abi l i ty and

t ra in them for inte l l igent leader-

ship within the i r own fields, is fi-nanced as a public service by the

Pepsi-Cola Company of which Wal-te r S. Mack, J r . , is p res ident .

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German Club Studies Composers at Meeting

The l ife and works of va r ious

German composers will be s tudied

a t the next mee t ing of t he Ger-man Club on J a n u a r y 14, 1948.

Dorothy Oldenburg is p r o g r a m

cha i rman. The g r o u p will mee t a t

the home of Mary McLean, 129 W. 12th St.

Dead Men Don't Talk; Figures Do! Today will be a t ime of packing

and joyful expectation as Hopeites will prepare to board trains and buses for all points North, South, East and West. To each student it means only a trip home but the entire picture is something alto-gether different.

For example, a lot of weary miles go to make up this picture. Ap-proximately 580,400 miles will be traveled by Hopeites between Dec. 19, and Jan. 6 just going home and coming back. (This is not includ-ing any distance outside the United States.) One student, having all these miles at his disposal, could travel around the world twenty-three times.

Figuring that the cost will aver-three cents per mile, the

amount of money necessary to reach all of the destinations im-plied totals $17,412. With this amount of money, twenty-nine stu-dents could attend Hope for one year including board, room and tui-tion. Again, these dollars laid end to end would produce a line of dol-lars almost a mile and a half long.

Not only will the students and the railroads enjoy the vacation (fun for one and profits for the other), but also the Federal gov-ernment will enpjoy it. At a Fed-eral tax of 15 per cent, the Federal government coffers will be enriched to the tune of $2,611.80.

As a complete picture, it looks like a lot of money but to the homesick student, it's just "a drop in the bucket,"

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Page Two Hope College Anchor

Hope Col lege A n c h o r Member

P b i o c k t e d C o J e f t i a l e P r e s s

EDITORIAL S T A F F Renze L. Hoeksema Editor- in-Chief

Carolyn Ingham ( Associa te Ed i to r s H e r m a n Ridder \ Rober t Wi ldman Make-up Ed i to r

Joseph Pa lmer , J r Business M a n a g e r

Richard Brown Asst . Business M a n a g e r

Helen W a g n e r N e w s Ed i to r

Vi rg in ia H e m m e s F e a t u r e Ed i to r

Dorothy Davis Society Ed i to r M a t t h e w Ot te Spo r t s Edi tor

R u t h R u y s Exchange Ed i to r

Dale Akr idge E d i t o r Richard Hoebeke Circulat ion M a n a g e r

Ted F l a h e r t y P h o t o g r a p h e r

J a n e t Pfe i f fe r , Alice Moolenaar Typ i s t s

REPORTERS Alida Kloos te rman, Geraldine Hirschy, Claire Lef-

finwell, Hazel Vande r Woude, Ruth Quant , Wa l t e r S tudd i fo rd , Ruth De ( I r aa f , J an ice Vander Borgh ,

Nancy Vyuerbe rg , Joan Ten Hoeve, Dolores Thomas ,

Max F r e g o , Richard Leonard, Bob Hill, Lois Ra-

meau, Beatr ice Reys t , Richard Johnson, Roderick Kerr , Beverly Bame , Alicia Van Zoeren, Mary Van

Loo, Toni Fredr icks , Sal ly Schrier , Evie Van Dam

Dona S luyte r , Duane Vander Yacht , Ernie Meeusen

Kay Steketee , M a r y Lou Hepp.

B U S I N E S S S T A F F

W a l t e r Boerman, Marie Bu t t l a r , Marian H'anna, Rodger Kempers , Don Vander Berg, Bet ty Boelkins,

Lois De Kleine, Char les Link, Bill Geiger.

En te red a s second class m a t t e r a t the post office of Holland, Michigan, a t special r a t e of pos tage

provided for in section 1103 of Act of Congress ,

October 3, 1917, and au thor ized October 19, 1918.

Subscr ip t ion Ka te : $2.00 per year .

Publ ished every two weeks dur ing the school y e a r

by the s tudents of Hope College.

P R I N T E D AT OLD N E W S P R I N T E R Y

E d i t o r i a l s

Ten Commandments The source of these commandments is un-

known. but that by no means lessens their

value. 1. Thou shalt not leave "Christ" out of

Christmas, making it "Xmas," for to most

minds "X" stands not for Christ, but for the

algebraic unknown.

2. Thou shalt not value thy gifts by their

cost, for many will represent love that is

more blessed and beautiful than silver and

gold.

.3. Thou shalt give thyself with thy gifts .

A. Thou shalt not let Santa Claus take the

place of Christ, making Christmas a fairy

tale rather than a sublime reality in the

spiritual realm.

5. Thou shalt not burden thy servant.

The shop girl, the postman, and the shop-

keeper should have thy consideration.

6. Thou shalt not neglect thy Church. Its Christmas services are planned to help spir-

itualize the Christmas season for thee, thy

children, and thy household. 7. Thou shalt not neglect the needy. 8. Thou shalt be as a little child. Christ-

mas is the day of the Christ-child. Not until thou hast become as a little child art thou ready to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

9. Thou shalt prepare thy soul for Christ-mas. For verily many of us spend much time and money getting gif ts ready, but few sec-onds in preparing our souls.

10. Thou shalt give thy heart to Christ. Let thy Christmas list have Christ at the top and thy heart as the gift . For in so doing thou art as the Wise Men of old, and hereby thou shalt find thyself born again on Christmas Day.

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Resolutions Within a short time people from all over

the land will be making New Year's resolu-tions. The eternal dieter will determine to avoid b r e a d , potatoes, and desserts. The college student will resolve to keep up on his homework and not let assignments slide.

Each year resolutions such as these are made and each year one week af te r the turn of the new year, they are checked off one's list, as being broken. New Year's resolutions are considered worthy and virtuous. They are supposed to represent a repentent spirit and a contrite heart. But when a person makes a big list of resolutions, it becomes impossible to focus one's attention on all of t h e m . ,

Instead of making a long list of do's and don't's for the coming year of 1948, it might be well to make only one resolution at a time — to take some undesirable habit and work on it until a more desirable type of behavior has been substituted for it and not until then to go on to the next.

C. J. I.

Hope and Christmas As a college, we have both an unusual and

unique name. Unlike other colleges, our

school is named neither a f t e r an individual

nor a location. Individuals may have certain

qualities that are disturbing to a certain

group of people and a location may fall under

the same blight, but the noun "hope is something all intelligent people in any given period of history have fought to find and having found it struggled to keep it. Even more, hope is the outstanding feature of

Christianity. Breed, in his book, The Preparation of

the World for Christ, says, "The religion of revelation in whatever age we may consider it, is distinguished f rom all other religions by this one great characteristic feature, HOPE." Christianity always had afforded and still affords a striking contrast to hea-thenism. in that heathenism invariably places its golden age in the past and looks back upon "the glory tha t was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" — back to some age or man long since dead. The Buddhist temples and pagodas of the Far East are not meant to guide men to some goal; they are meant to be houses of refuge to which men may turn to "get away from it all" and for-get the state of society. Christianity, on the other hand, places its golden age in the fu-ture and looks forward to the time when men shall know themselves as they are and God as they ought: the Christian church is not a permanent refuge but only a temporary retreat to gain new strength to renew the light.

Hope is especially characteristic of Christ-mas. Christ 's birth was the climax of a pe-riod of history intense with expectation. His walk on earth created hope in the hearts of those suffering maladies. Soon af te r he hung "etched against a darkened sky." But before long hope replaced the hopelessness of the disciples. Death was their constant com-panion. but they remained unperturbed. They were politically, socially and religiously hated. Yet before three hundred years had passed Christians carried the gospel one thousand miles north and south, fifteen hun-dred miles east and west, made seven million converts, and placed upon the throne in Home a Christian emperor who embroidered on his battle flags the cross of the Nazarene with the inscription "By this sign conquer." And today the sun never sets on it and one-third of the population of the modern world swears allegiance to its glory. People haven't met once a week for two thousand years just to talk about a memory. How can you ex-plain all of this? You cannot, unless you are ready to admit that Christ was born at Beth-lehem. died a violent and sacrificial death, and lives today as our Eternal Contemporary.

H. J. R. o

To the Editor Students, Faculty, and Admin-

istrative Personnel are invited to send in letters at any t ime they may have an idea they wish to make known. These letters should be double spaced and typewritten on one side of the paper only; letters may be signed or unsigned but in every case the writer should make himself known to the Editor.

Dear Ed i to r :

I wonder how we should look a t

the coming C h r i s t m a s season. " I t

came upon a midn igh t c lear . " So came the first Chr i s tmas . " P e a c e

on e a r t h ; good will towards men . " And now we a w a i t ano ther Chr i s t -

mas , many y e a r s la ter . The re will

be no midn igh t c lear , no peace, no

good will in t he hea r t s of the world. Why w a s t e t ime on such a

f a r c e ? Why m a k e believe t h a t the

spir i t of Chr i s t pervades the men on e a r t h when nat ions , ne ighbors ,

communi t ies — all these live no

bit of wha t C h r i s t m a s m e a n s ? How

hypocri t ical! Yes, bu t how hopeful ly despe ra t e

it is. How like a shy young lad

hoping f o r some recognit ion in the

affect ions of his first love. How tender is the longing with which

men in the i r deepness desire the

peace of God, i t s end to the use-lessness of exis tence. Hope sp r ings

e te rna l , s p r i n g s f r o m God. Chr i s t -mas makes a new supply of hope,

of longing, of desire. C h r i s t m a s might some day aga in b r ing to

men — Chr i s t ! T r u l y yours ,A S tuden t .

l&r/nc*

Well, kiddies, S a n t a i s j u s t i m u s t be wonder fu l to have a gal

Christmas Message AT THIS SEASON our thoughts instinc-

tively turn back, over the long centuries, to a little and almost insignificant province in the Roman Empire which we have lovingly and reverently called the Holy Land. That strip of land held for us the most priceless treasure of human spirit. That sacred soil was once pressed by the eager feet of the Son of Man, and His eyes of youth looked upon the ever-changing landscape with white clouds making shapeless shadows upon the distant hills. By day happy rivers sparkled in the sunlight, and by night the serene Gali-lean Lake reflected the bright, silent stars. The fields were abloom with wild flowers and the ripening corn rustled in the breeze. Birds twitttered on branch and bough, and little black-eyed children played fearlessly in the streets and market places of t ha t land. How Jesus loved His native land.

But t o d a y ! W h a t a Holy Land! Bloodshed, violence, fratricidal strife, cowardly mass murder — these are the things that afflict our minds as we think of Palestine. It seems almost blasphemy to recall the

heavenly chorus with its refrain of "Peace on earth among men of goodwill," for the long-suffering earth has been torn as never before by the instruments of modern war, and innocent men and women and little chil-dren have been hurled to death or left maimed and homeless.

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AND YET, this obscene horror and de-moniacal fury are only the obverse side of eternal truth. These years have demon-strated beyond all doubt that Peace on Earth cannot come from hate and from brute force, but only through men of goodwill.

That mean stable at Bethlehem, where a

A New Year Prayer God of o u r f a t h e r s , a thou-

sand yea r s in Thy s ight a r e as

yes te rday when it is pas t , yet

t h rough the y e a r s Thou chang-

est not. We thank Thee f o r Thy

goodness to us in the year t ha t

has gone, and for all the bless-ings Thou has t bestowed upon

us. We pra i se Thee for all Thou

has t been to us, and for all

Thou has t done for us; fo r the

l ight wherewi th Thou has guid-

ed us; f o r the love wherewi th

Thou has comfor ted us. We will s ing of Thy mercy and Thy

j u d g m e n t . Lord God, we thank Thee f o r l e a d i n g the world

th rough g r e a t peri ls du r ing the

pas t year . T h y hand and T h y

power have been revealed to the

na t ions of the ea r th . Give cour-

a g e and consolat ion to all to whom the y e a r has brought sor-

row. T h r o u g h Thy grace and

mercy deal f a i t h fu l l y with us

f o r ou r sins. May we ca r ry over

no sin and no hindering habi t

into the y e a r t ha t lies ahead . Deliver us f r o m follies and mis-

t akes so t h a t we may face the

coming yea r with lives tha t a r e r igh t with God. Amen.

a round the co rne r and vaca t ion is

he re a t las t . A h yes, vacat ion .

Vacat ion f o r J a y n e a n d J o y c e

Baker m e a n s t a k i n g a long t r i p to

the sunny South , Flor ida, t h a t is.

I must a d m i t t h a t sounds p r e t t y good but j u s t t he same I 'm d r e a m -

ing of a whi te Chr i s tmas . Connie

Bri l lhar t will p robably be see ing a

whi te C h r i s t m a s in Albany, New

York, and by t he way J a y is going

home with her f o r the holidays. I think Connie h a s an ideal solu-

tion to th i s leave- the-boy-f r iend-

problem. I wonder if Gloria Den-

ton and Tom Nelson, Ralph Cor-

nell and Phyl Dietr ich, and Louise R o v e a n d B i l l V e r H e y h a v e

worked out such a successful so-

lution.

In case you ' r e a last minute C h r i s t m a s s h o p p e r , J . David

Menchhofer has jus t the solution

to your C h r i s t m a s g i f t problems.

J . David is se l l ing Ful ler Brush

P r o d u c t s and especially recom-

mends the Fu l l e r ha i rb rush . He

says it i j not only g u a r a n t e e d to

beau t i fy your h a i r but a lso aids

in cu rb ing juveni le del inquency.

With a sales t a lk like t h a t plus

his bow tie which l ights up when he says, " F u l l e r Brush", J . David

jus t can ' t lose. From the way the k n i t t i n g

needles have been clicking around

campus, 1 would judge t h a t many

fel lows will soon be the proud

owners of some a rgy l e socks. It

who loves you e n o u g h to kni t

a r g y l e s for you. Some of the a r g y l e

sock k n i t t e r s a r e Ann W y n g a r d e n ,

J e a n Mihaly, J o y c e Vinkemulder ,

Joyce Sibley and many o t h e r s .

Helen W a g n e r w a s a m b i t i o u s

e n o u g h t o a t t e m p t t o kni t a

s w e a t e r so a f t e r Chr i s tmas vaca -tion be sure to notice Ger ry Van

Singel in his b r i gh t yellow pull-

over . Say I wonder f o r whom P a t

Le tz is kn i t t ing t h a t p r e t t y yel-

low s c a r f ? Let ' s hope all t hese

a r t i c les a re c o m p l e t e d b e f o r e

Chr i s tmas .

Did you by a n y chance notice

t h a t Hope 's C a m p u s was recen t ly

visi ted by the f o r m e r Hopeite Bea

Lockwood? Bea c a m e all the way

f r o m New York to a t tend the F r a -

t e r P a r t y and to see Ken Weller ,

of course. When Bea was asked

how she liked New York she re-plied. "Well , New York is wonder-

fu l but I'd r a t h e r be in Hol land" . I g u e s s tha t proves tha t home is

where the hea r t is.

It will probably seem wonder fu l

to the s tuden t s who have not been

home since Sep tember , to wend

the i r way t o w a r d s Home Sweet

Home for C h r i s t m a s vacat ion. I

gues s vacat ion seems quite won-

de r fu l to all of us. Here 's w i sh ing

you a p leasant hol iday season and a M e r r y C h r i s t m a s and Happy

New Year .

TONI

Woolgathering Seeing all of th i s snow, we a r e

reminded of the las t football game

of th is season. T h e reason t he band

did not p e r f o r m on the field was

because of w h a t had happened in

a bygone day. On tha t pa r t i cu la r ly

windy day while the band was march ing , a sudden gust of wind

caught in the bell of t he tuba ,

w e n t r o u n d a n d r o u n d , a n d

screwed the poor p layer e igh t feet into the g round .

The Biology Dept. i n f o r m s us tha t like a h u m a n , an a n t puffs

and blows a f t e r exer t ion. There

a re pan t s in our an ts .

F a t h e r s of some physics s tuden ts

complain t ha t the i r sons a r e con-

s tan t ly wi r ing the house f o r money.

A townsman with a black eye

was consul t ing an encyclopedia in

the l i b r a r y t he other day . He wanted i n fo rma t ion on h o w t o

throw a w a y a bomerang .

A Byron C e n t e r , M i c h i g a n ,

mothe r r epor t s t h i s of her son in

the second g rade . His t eacher , a

Hope g rad '47, does not make him

s t and in a co rne r when he is

n a u g h t y as his t eacher did last

yea r . He says t h a t his new t e a c h e r

doesn ' t know t h a t the corner is

behind the was tebaske t and he

isn ' t going to tell her ei ther .

I sn ' t it too bad tha t C h r i s t m a s comes at such a busy t ime in t he y e a r ?

And there is the young lady

whose motto is " S e m p e r P a r a t u s "

and ca r r i es her mist le toe in her pur se .

— L a m

When you know you a r e doing

your job per fec t ly — look f o r w a y s

to improve it — or someone else

will . — R. Shannon .

o

Life ga ins power f rom the quiet

hour . Go to Chape l !

lowly country woman gave birth to a son amidst the discomforts of primitive travel, is the only real hope — delayed as its fulfill-ment may be — of our tortured world. There it was that God, in a special and dramatic way, intervened in human history, and gave wayward man another chance of nobler life; but it would seem, at the moment, tha t hu-man greed and insatiable lust for power have temporarily triumphed, and humanity still lacks the goodwill by which alone peace on earth can come.

For nearly two thousand years, in spite of this supreme revelation of the character of God, man has been ignor-ing, even opposing, the spiritual condi-tions of human progress and of world peace; and consequently we are in this sorry mess of our own making. Devas-tating as has been the last war the cold prophets of science warn us that this is a mere skirmish compared with what may yet come upon the quarrelsome children of men. What are we to do? Must we think of

Christmas and its message of peace and goodwill as a mere fatuous dream — a myth like Santa Claus that only the very young can believe? Has Christianity failed in our world ?

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NO; rather we must affirm with burning passion and with deep-rooted conviction, that the Christian message is still the one hope of humanity. It is a revival of Christian faith and of Christian ethics that we need — faith in spiritual power that alone can make man strong enough to overcome himself; and the stern application of the teaching of Jesus to all human relations. We must rear that Cross of Christ against the madness, the stupidity and selfishness of our age, and pro-

claim the sanity and sacrificial quality of

Him who still lives among us. He is our

only hope.

It is the one cheering sign of our

times that men are commencing to

realize that the lesser gods they wor-

shipped have utterly failed them. They are wistfully looking for higher altars on which to offer themselves. There is no doubt that the world, and every in-dividual in it, needs to be born from above. Could we induce every man to follow the way of Jesus, peace would surely come to our earth; but we must be realistic and face the fact that the hour is too tragic to wait on the cen-turies. The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the chil-dren of light, for they are organized and alert, while the children of light are di-vided, and too often, lethargic. While we hope and pntf ifor the conversion of the world, wicked men may overwhelm us.

There are two things we must do, and do them together: first, in full surrender to Christ, we professed Christians must mani-fest in our own lives that spirit of goodwill which alone can be the basis of peace on earth; and in the second place, we must unite with all other men of goodwill, whatever may be their name and creed, so to influence the counsels of our nation, and through it those of other nations, that there may be peace in our time. We firmly believe that, in spite of all seeming, there are sufficient men of good-will in the world, if energized by the Spirit of God, thus to bring about fulfillment of that primal message: "Glory to 'God in the High-est, and on earth peace among men of good-will."

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Following The Star As the t h r e e wise men rode to-

w a r d t he br i l l iant s t a r suspended

over J e r u s a l e m , t he s o f t padding

of t he came l s ' f ee t on the deser t

sand was t h e only sound to be head in t he still n igh t . Each man

was l e f t w i t h his own though t s .

The e ldes t wise man w a s ex-t remely t i r ed . He t h o u g h t of the

long diff icul t journey they had un-

de r t aken . H e though t of the night

when they had first seen the bright

s t a r in the E a s t . Of the i r hurr ied

depa r tu r e , and the moun ta in s and plains they had crossed since that

night . Yes, it had been a long,

hard ride, but what a small sacri-

fice t ha t w a s compared to the re

ward which awai ted them. They

would be a m o n g the first to see the new-born King.

The second wise man reflected also on the t o r t u r o u s journey , and

of the even t s of the preceding da\

in J e r u s a l e m . Of King Herod who

had been so visibly shaken when

they had a sked him, " W h e r e is he

t ha t is born King of t he J e w s ? '

The t roubled king had assembled his chief p r i e s t s and t he scr ibes of

the people, and asked t h e m w h e n

the Chris t child could be found

They had answered , " I n Bethle

hem of J u d e a , " for t he prophet.4

had wr i t t en th is . Hea r ing these

words, t he k ing recalled how the Jewish scholars had told his f a t h e r of the King who would be born in

Judea . He tu rned to the wise men

and told them to find out all t hey could concerning the Chris t child.

They were to repor t th is to him, so tha t he could also come and

worship. Had Herod seemed over-

anxious to find out where the child was to be born ? The wise man

mused on this as they came n e a r e r

to the br ight s t a r whose rad iance shone over t he countrys ide .

To the slow, rhy thmic beat of

the camels ' hoofs, the younges t wise man thought only of the won-

der fu l th ing which had t aken place.

A ruler had been born, and he was about to pay homage to th i s t iny

babe whose bir th meant so much to Israel . King of Kings, and Night

of NightsI T h e blinding l ight of

the s t a r seemed to reflect his thoughts .

They were close to the m a n g e r

now, and as they prepared to dis-

mount , the a i r seemed tense with exp 'ctancy. The manger was si lent ,

and a s t he wise men stooped to enter the low en t rance -way , the

only sound that could be heard was the deep b rea th ing of cat t le .

Then, as the wise men beheld

the s ight b e f o r e them, they gasped

in wonder . I t was a s if the heavens

were wracked by the thunder and

l ightn ing of the ages . An intense shock ran th rough t he wise men,

and they fell p r o s t r a t e in worship before the i n f a n t King. The g i f t s

of gold, f r ank incense and myr rh ,

which they had car r ied on the i r long journey had at last reached

their des t ina t ion .

The sof t n igh t air w a s filled with the sound of beaut i fu l music, a s if

a choir of a n g e l s were serenading

the new-born child with his first lullaby. All was well with the

world. L a r r v Masse.

French Club Plans Playright Study

The next mee t ing of the French

Club will be on Monday, J a n u a r y 12, a t the home of Mrs. Peter Prins,

82 W. 12th S t r ee t . Th i s meeting

will emphas ize the life and works

of Hdmond l ios ta rd , noted French d r a m a t i s t . Scenes f rom his popu-

lar play, " C y r a n o de Hergeroi ," will

be enacted. Th is play is a well known comedy which Jose Fer re r

helped 1" populari/ .e. Kxcerpts

f rom some of bis o t h r r plays will

also be kiu'M ami a port ion of tin r \ e n i n g will Im dcvutrd i.> study

ing his life.

Library Adds Books In Keeping with Season

The Hope College L ib ra ry has

recently added th ree books in keep-

ing with the Holiday season. Merry

C h r i s t m a s to You by Wilhe lmina

Harper , is a collection of shor t

s tories . Trad i t ions of all coun t r i es a re combined by Auld into a book

enti t led Chr i s tmas Trad i t ions . The

ou t s t and ing book of the t h r e e is The World 's Great Madonnas by

Cynthia Pear l Maus. This fine book

contains 114 full page a r t r epro-

ductions, 114 a r t i n t e rp re t a t ions , 2M9 poems and GO s tor ies .

Dutch Students Help In Rest Haven Program

Five of our s tuden t s f rom the

Nether lands , Mia Hacker, Els Ul-fe r s , Qonstance Heyt ing , Margree t

WolfTensperger, and Gerda Van

Leeuwen, assis ted a g r o u p f r o m the

Student Wives Organiza t ion in pre-sent ing a Chr i s tmas p rog ram for

the folk at l les thaven last evening.

I nder the general c h a i r m a n s h i p "f Mrs. Richard F laher ty , the S tu-

dent Wives held a "pot luck s u p p e r " in tlu- lnunue of Wm Kaalte Hall "ii l)ec. Eighth Street Opposite R. R. Station

TO THE STUDENTS and FACULTY

A Merry Christmas AND

A Happy New Year Post's Jewelry and Gift Shop

THE DOWNTOWN I.G.A.

WISHES TO ALL

HOPE COLLEGE

A Very Merry Christmas

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To all Hopeites from

THE SNACK SHACK WE WILL STILL BE IN THE SAMEjSPOT TO SERVE YOU UPON YOUR RETURN

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DUTCH OPEN LOOP PLAY TONIGHT Late Rally Tips Ypsi, 66-48; "Moose", Herk Buter Star

With two wins under their belts following a snnshing G6-48 victory over Michigan Normal last Saturday night, Hope's cagers initiate their MIAA schedule tonight playing hosts to Adrian at the Holland armory. The Bulldogs dropped their conference opener to Alma, 58-48, and also absorbed a 54-48 se tback ear l ie r in t he sea-

son f r o m the same crew of Ypsi

cou r tmen whom the Dutch blasted

wi th a c los ing-minutes b a r r a g e last

week.

On S a t u r d a y night t he Dutchmen

en t e r t a i n a s t r o n g M o n m o u t h

(111.) College qu in te t in t he i r final

appea rance before the hol idays.

Ka lamazoo ' s Horne t s f u r n i s h the

opposit ion in the first new year

contes t ba t t l ing the Dutch a t the

a r m o r y on J a n u a r y 8.

La te At tack Wins

S a t u r d a y n i g h t ' s t i l t revealed a

hot and cold Hope quin te t which never s h o w e d i ts top offensive

s t r e n g t h unt i l the last f o u r and one-half minutes . Lead ing by a

s ingle point, 48-47, the O r a n g e and

Blue ave raged four points a minu te

f o r the r emainder of the g a m e as

they sent t he Norma l i t e s home

dizzy on the tai lend of a 66-48

score. Herk Buter , who also p layed a

br i l l iant g a m e under the basket ,

dropped in 1(5 points in the second

hal f , e ight in the late ou tbu r s t , to

c a p t u r e scor ing honors wi th 20 points . Michigan Norma l ' s speedy

gua rd , L e o T u r n e r , and his 16

points paced the loser 's a t t a ck .

But it was "Moose" Holwerda,

burly sophomore gua rd , who led

the Hope cause. Besides s ink ing the

long two-poin te r t ha t began the de-

layed second-half s p l u r g e , Hol-

werda gobbled up rebound a f t e r re-

bound f rom the defens ive back-

board with magnif icent consis tency

being tied up only once, while

p lay ing the en t i re game.

Normal S tays Close

Capta in Don Mulder tal l ied

lay-in shot on the opening tip-off

to give Hope first blood, but Ar t

H a r p e r , Normal f o r w a r d , dropped

in a pivot shot to tie the count at 2-all . Bud Vander Wege ' s two push

shots , one f r o m well out , the o ther

f r o m the side, sandwiched around

a long shot by Mulder, gave the

Dutch a c o m m a n d i n g 8-2 lead

Th ree points by T u r n e r and five more by Harpe r , however , pu t the

locals behind for the first t ime this

season, 10-8. The Dutch squir ted ahead on a

t ip-in by Vander Wege and ano ther

beau t i fu l lay-in by Mulder, only

to have big J i m Miller dunk an

undernea th shot to knot t he count

a t 12-12. Nick Yonker ' s hook was

equalled by t h e dead ly-accura te

H a r p e r on a f r ee - th row rebound

and the score remained tied, 14-all.

Herk Buter took over a t this

point with a tip-in and a hook

shot and, a f t e r Normal -cap ta in ,

Len Sweet , pushed one in f r o m the

corner , the jun io r center added an-

o ther tal ly on a push shot f r o m the

f r e e th row line to give Hope a 20-

16 lead. Dutch Forge Ahead

A f t e r T u r n e r added a brace of

f r e e throws, the D u t c h f o r g e d

ahead to a .'10-18 lead on two push

sho ts by Vander Wege, one each

by Yonker and Harve Buter , and

a pa i r of cha r i ty tosses by Mul-

der. Miller tal l ied a tip-in and

T u r n e r a f r ee th row f o r Normal ,

but Char ley IMoegsma, with a f r e e toss, and Harve Buter , with a tip-

in, matched the i r e f fo r t s and Hope

s tayed in f r o n t , 33-21. In the last

minu te of t he period, Michigan

Normal cut the ha l f r t ime lead to 33-26 on baske t s by Miller and

H a r p e r and a f r e e shot by Sweet .

Dur ing the first half of the final period, the Dutchmen kep t t he i r

m a r g i n a t f r o m four to nine points .

Ypsi tall ied on a f r e e toss by T u r -

ner to s t a r t t he second half and Vander Wege notched a long side

s h o t f o r a 35-27 lead. H a r p e r

added ano the r f r e e th row followe( by Herk Bute r ' s long one-hander

and the score wen t to 37-28. Dick

Gun the r , scoreless the first half began his final-period ta l ly ing wi th

a bucket and a cha r i ty toss to

shave the m a r g i n to 37-31. A f t e r Mulder added a pa i r of foul sho ts

T u r n e r h i t f r o m well ou t and Gun

t h e r fash ioned a lay-in sending

the score to 39-35.

Ypsi Rallies Herk Buter calmly dropped two

free throws and Vander Wege a short one-handed push before Tur-ner hit on a similar push shot. Vander Wege scored on a g i f t toss

Fas t F in i sh!

Hope FG F T T P

Yonker f 5 1 11

Vander Wege f . 6 1 13

Buter , He rk c ... . 9 2 20

Holwerda g 1 1 3

Mulder g 4 4 12

Boeskool f 0 0 0

P loe^sma c 0 1 1

Buter , Harve f . 3 0 6

Becksfor t f 0 0 0

Tota l s 28 10 66

Mich Nor FG F T T P

H a r p e r f 4 2 10

Sweet f o 1 5

Miller c 3 0 6

Tu rne r g 5 6 16

Gunte r g 5 1 . 11

Mart in f 0 0 0

•Dalrvmple c 0 0 0

Tota l s 19 10 48

Coach and Captain S o r o r i t i e s - i f f r a t e m t t i a s

Coach Milton "Bud" Hinga, left, and Don Mulder, captain of thii year* Hone basketball five, ihoicn together during a recent practice at Carnegie Gymnasium,

Six Quints Still Unbeaten; Decker, DeWitt In Duel

and Yonker on a rebound, while

Tu rne r pushed in ano ther to ra i se

the count to 46-39. Herk Buter dropped a long push shot to set

the s t age f o r Ypsi ' s sudden ra l ly

Tra i l ing , 48-39, Sweet pivoted in

a push shot and hot-shot G u n t h e r

followed with a th reesome of f ancy net -swishers to b r ing the Teache r s

within one point of Hope, 48-47.

Hope Gets Hot

A f t e r this , it w a s all Hope; only

Dnce did Norma l count, a g a i n : on

a f r ee th row in the closing seconds.

'Moose" Holwerda s ta r t ed with his

long one-hander and Herk Bute r

followed with a shor t push and a

rebound. Y o n k e r ' s f r e e th row

shoved the score to 55-47. Mulder ' s

" t o u g h - b r e a k " sho ts were p a r t l y

rompensa ted f o r with a beau t i fu l

sl iding two-poin te r f rom the cor-ner . Herk Bute r countered a re-

bound and b r o t h e r Harve dropped

in a lay-in to send the score into

the sixties. Holwerda added a f r e e

throw and Herk Buter a n o t h e r

lay-in, before Yonker ended the

sensat ional ra l ly a t 66-48 wi th a push shot f rom the char i ty lane.

Hope 's c age r s hit on 10 of 20

f ree th row a t t e m p t s , while Ypsi

missed only 7 of 17 t r ies .

Herk Buter, Vander Wege Lead Scorers

Herk Buter , agg re s s ive center ,

and Bud Vande r Wege, f r e s h m a n

s ta r , lead the Hope cagers in scor-

ing honors a f t e r the J C and Ypsi

contes ts . Each of the r egu la r s has

tallied 26 points . Nick Y o n k e r , sophomore f o r w a r d , and Capta in

Don Mulder a r e th i rd and f o u r t h

with 23 and 21 tal l ies , respect ive-

ly. The s u m m a t i o n s a f t e r the first

two t i l t s a re as fol lows:

G FG FT T P

Buter , Herk c 2 12

Vander Wege f .... 2 11

Yonker f 2 11 Mulder g 2 7

Boeskool f 2 Buter , Harve gf .. 2

Holwerda g 2

Meengs g

SUikkers g

IMoegsma gc ...

Brieve c Becksfor t f

Marema f

26 26 23

21 10 8 6 5

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Two well-balanced squads , the

Independents ( I ) and the F r a t e r s ,

gave indication last week of being

the t e a m s to beat in the " A " di-vision of the i n t r amura l baske t -

ball league by racking u p the i r

second consecutive wins in cham-

pionship style. The Independents

( I ) , once aga in paced by DeWi t t ' s

16 points , rolled up a 20-3 ha l f -

t ime lead over the Semina r i ans before whipping them, 38-19. For

the second week Vander Waa l led

the losers with 10 points.

The F r a t e r s dropped the E m m i e s

f rom the r anks of the unde fea t ed

by r eg i s t e r ing a 26-21 verdict over

the league 's top offensive t e a m . Hopkins and Hendrickson scored

8 apiece f o r the winners , while

the h igh-scor ing Decker led the

Emmies , though held to 9 points .

For the second s t r a igh t week, the Knicks had t rouble s t a y i n g in

the win column. Two weeks ago

a Semina ry five forced them into

an over t ime decision, while last

week a v ic to ry-hungry Indepen-

den t s ( I I ) crew scared the i r foes with an 18-10 intermiss ion- lead,

before succumbing, 39-28. Johnson

tall ied 10 for the Knicks, a s Klyn-

s t r a ' s 16 topped the losers.

T h e Cosmos broke into the win-ner ' s circle with a 22-19 t r i u m p h

o v e r t h e Arcadians . A c k r i d g e

dropped in 9 for t he winners , with

DeYoung pacing his twice-beaten

Arcadian cagers with 6.

" B " Division Underway

The F r a t e r s , Cosmos, and Knicks

brought home victories in t he first

round of the " B " division schedule.

The F r a t e r s led all the way to

whip the Arcad ians , 38-33, a s Del

Koop reg is te red 13 points f o r the

winners . Pe te r son ' s 12 ta l l ies led

a losing Arcadian cause.

Like the i r older bro thers in the

senior circuit , the K n i c k s came

f r o m the tai lend of an 18-11 score

a t t he ha l f - t ime to edge the Em-

mies, 25-23. In the week 's only over t ime a f -

Wi th two games of t he first

round of the campus i n t r a m u r a l

league completed. Decker of t he

Emerson ians and DeWit t of the

Independents ( I ) lead t he race f o r

individual scor ing honors in the

" A " division with 36 and 33 points ,

respectively. Decker w a s held to

9 in last week 's t i l t , bu t his 27-point sp lu rge two weeks ago se-

cured his t op - rung spot . D e W i t t ' s

sum of 33 came on s t eady e f fo r t s

of 17 and 16 points in successive

weeks.

The ten highest a s of December

10: FG

Decker, Emmies 16 DeWit t , Indept . ( I ) .16

Vander Waal , Sem.. . . l0

Visser , F r a t e r s 10

K lyns t r a , Ind. ( I I ) . .10

Johnson, Knicks 8 Sckippers , Knicks .... 6

Ackridge, Cosmos .... 6 Hopkins, F r a t e r s 6

Cook, Knicks 5

Tota l s 2 56 23 135

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Independents , 28-24. Tra i l ing 13-

11 a t the in termiss ion, the w inne r s rallied to tie the count a t 23-all,

then outscore their foes 4-1 in

the e x t r a s t anza to e m e r g e wi th

the t r iumph . Rauschenbach hit f o r 13 points f o r the losers.

The s t and ings :

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SOROSIS

Red candles and eve rg reen s ig-

naled a de l i gh t fu l invi ta t ion to t he

annua l C h r i s t m a s Tea and Elec-

t ion Wednesday a f t e r n o o n in t he

Sorosis Room. O u r angel ic pro-

g r a m s revealed a h u m o r p a p e r by

Dot Content ent i t led " T w a s t he

Week Before C h r i s t m a s . " S igma

ange l s s ang—"St i l l e Nach t . " ( O u r

a n g e l s ? Ten Hoeve, Letz , and Has-

kins.) Hande l ' s Messiah w a s pre-sented in t he f o r m of a ser ious

pape r by Dot Milne. Shi r ley Gess

read "The Swee te s t S to ry Ever

Told" followed by a p r a y e r .

Mrs . Lubbers and Miss Reever t s

were our special g u e s t s a t t he tea . W r e a t h s of bes t wishes to you all.

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S Y B I L L I N E

Sophomores , Lor ra ine Drake and

J e a n Toussa in t were in c h a r g e of

the evening 's e n t e r t a i n m e n t . Along with the hol iday spir i t comes mis-

t le toe , which w a s the t o p i c of

conversat ion f o r t he evening . A

portion of t h e C h r i s t m a s story-

taken f rom Luke 2 was read by Lor ra ine Drake , who also opened

with prayer . Wilma Os te rhaven

then gave an inspi r ing r ead ing —

"If I Had Not Come." The ser ious

paper on the s tudy and h i s to ry ol

mist le toe w a s read by Marge Aard-

ema. " H e Shal l Feed His Flock"

w a s then s u n g by J o a n T i e m e r s m a .

The comedian f o r the evening was

Evelyn J a n n e n g a who gave the hu-

mor ( ?) pape r ent i t led " A s a Mis-

t le toe Sees I t . " Nancy Rook was

the critic. T h e mee t ing was then

ad journed wi th the s ing ing of the

Sib songs.

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D E L T A P H I

Delphians found a choice va r i e ty

of numbers in the i r red s tocking

p r o g r a m s T h u r s d a y n igh t when

they held the i r C h r i s t m a s mee t ing .

Lois Van Ingen and Ruth Koop filled the s tockings , as S a n t a ' s

helpers .

Ruth De G r a a f read the Chr i s t -mas Story f o r devotions. Mary

Lou Hepp read a paper on t he

origin and h i s to ry of San t a Claus

— informat ion c o m i n g s t r a i g h t

f rom San ta h imsel f .

A clever a r r a n g e m e n t of - a

"Whi t e C h r i s t m a s " and " W i n t e r

Wonder land" w a s sung by Mar-

jorie Angus . T h e last of S a n t a ' s

g i f t s was pulled out of the s tock-ing by Muncie Vande Wege who

read an or ig inal version of " T h e

Night Before C h r i s t m a s . "

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F r a t e r s 2 0 1.000 61 47

Knicks 2 0 1.000 64 52

Emmies 1 1 .500 73 43

Cosmos 1 1 .500 43 45

Arcadians 0 2 .000 43 57

Seminary ... 0 2 .000 43 63

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Cosmos 1 0 1.000 28 24

Knicks 1 0 1.000 25 23

Emmies 0 1 .000 23 25

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The annual Emer son i an W i n t e r

P a r t y was held the n igh t of De-

cember 13th in the Tulip Room

of the W a r m Fr i end Tave rn . " T r a i n

T i m e " was t he theme, and the pa r ty was held in the Emerson ian

Terminal .

A f t e r d inner , a p r o g r a m w a s

presented, d u r i n g which the p a r t y

took a t r ip t h r o u g h the Uni ted

S ta tes . J e r r y Viening as the

"Sp i r i t of T e n n e s s e e " amused t he audience with a dyed-in-the-wool

hillbilly song. T h e South land Quar -

te t , consis t ing of Russ Norden

Herb Ri tzema, J e r r y Viening, anc

La r ry Masse, g a v e a rendi t ion of

"I f I Had My W a y " in t he best Southern t rad i t ion . H e r b Ri t zema

gave the p a r t y a preview of his

Carnegie Hall Debut wi th two

numbers g r e a t l y enjoyed by al present .

A p rog ram of e n t e r t a i n m e n t a m

g a m e s followed t he p r o g r a m . The

chaperones w e r e Dr. and Mrs. J o h n

W. Hollenbach and Mr. and Mrs . G a r r e t t Vander Borgh .

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H l f r r y

C t | r t s t m a a WITH FLOWERS

The Gift Suitable for Everyone

CORSAGES for the Holidays

CORRECT STYLING Is Important

Call for Suggestions

Ebelink's Flower Shop Opposite Post Office

T H E S A U R I A N

The b e a u t i f u l w in t e r scenery of

F r iday evening, December 12, w a s

apprec ia ted by t he T h e t a s a s they

t rudged out to s ing C h r i s t m a s carols. T h e hospi ta l and Rest Ha-

ven were visi ted wi th a "b i t of

C h r i s t m a s " in song. O u r melodies

were cont inued "on t h e m a r c h , "

and we r e t u r n e d , b rea th less and

hungry . T h a n k s to t he e f for t s of Mary Breid and Hi lda Baker , we

were soon revived wi th chocolate milk and pie. Gai ly wrapped g i f t s

were exchanged , Alida Klooster-

man a c t i n g as " S a n t a . " A f t e r the

mouse had run across the room, the

"p igg i e " bank had ceased j ingl ing ,

and t he soap had been ' ' sn i f fed ," the mee t ing was ad jou rned .

Phil Dar row presided as our new officers were instal led. P lans were

discussed f o r our in fo rmal p a r t y to be held in J a n u a r y .

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DORIAN

In keeping with the spir i t pre-vail ing on campus , t he December

5th mee t ing of the Dor ians w a s centered a round Chr i s tmas . Devo-

tions were led by Bet ty Koch fol-

lowed by a serious pape r ent i t led

"The Tree Takes a 'Bough ' " by Evalyn Miller. For the humorous

par t of the p rog ram, Carol Brandt

read a s to ry depic t ing a typical

Sunday School C h r i s t m a s p rog ram

with all i ts t r ia l s and t r ibula t ions .

Befi t t ing the occasion the meet-

ing was effectively closed by sing-

ing Chr i s tmas Carols . Following

this a session of "gab , g i f t s , and goodies" was enjoyed. - S

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F R A T E R N A L

The F r a t e r n a l Society officially

opened the college w in t e r fes t iv i -

t ies on F r iday , December 12, when

they held the i r annua l Win te r

Pa r ty a t the Morton House in

Grand Rapids. The first a l l - fo rmal

funct ion, in the f o r m of a "Special

Session of Congress on Omicron Kappa Eps i lon" was a huge suc-

cess.

The "Ses s ion" was called into

being by order of the Pres iden t ,

to dispense with var ied and accu-

mulated deta i ls suddenly t h r u s t

upon the o rgan iza t ion . Of no smal l

significance was the "d i spens ing of

appe t i t e s . " Fol lowing t he dinner ,

" S e n a t o r s " Tom Nelson and Bud

Newton, r ep resen ta t ives f r o m the

Conservat ive Eas t and Fr ivolous

South gave the i r " c a m p a i g n

speeches ." New off icers were an-

nounced f o r the win te r t e rm . They

a r e : Pres ident , Clarence Hopkins ;

Vice Pres iden t , Lou Bixby; and

Secre ta ry , J a c k Tirre l l . Dean and

Mrs. Milton Hinga and Pro f . Don Zwemer were sponsors .

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K N I C K E R B O C K E R

Miller 's Barn w a s the scene of

the Knickerbocker L i t e r a r y meet -

ing Dec. 12. The Knicks and the i r

gues t s en joyed a hol iday a tmos -

phere which cen tered about a

Chr i s tmas theme. T h i n g s began

when everyone pa r t i c ipa ted in s ing-ing led by Dick Leonard . Wade

Moore read the f a m i l i a r C h r i s t m a s

s tory by flashlight a s carols were

hummed in the background by a

male q u a r t e t t e . This was followed

by a good-humored ser ious pape r

on San t a Claus read by Phil

Meengs. A musical note en te red by way of a q u a r t e t t e cons i s t ing

of J im Cook, Bill De Mees te r , Dick Leonard, and Bob Westerhoff who

s a n g as a c l imax the G e r m a n lyr ics

to " 0 T a n n e n b a u m . " Many of t he

gues t s and m e m b e r s f e l t ba t t e r ed

by the personal ized punch- l ines of

Bill De Mees te r ' s h u m o r pape r .

T h e f o r m a l p r o g r a m closed wi th the s ing ing of t he Knick song,

a f t e r which r e f r e s h m e n t s w e r e

served. A var ied social hour con-

cluded an en joyab le evening . P a r -

t ic ipants in t he ac t iv i t ies w e r e the gues t s of t he evening . P ro f , and Mrs . H e n r y Schoon.

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COSMOPOLITAN

In an impressive candlelight cere-mony that w a s held in Van Raalte Hall lounge last Friday new mem-bers were admitted into the Cos-mopolitan fraternity. Each person received the oath of Phi Kappa Alpha and pledged himself to the furthering of better friendship, wholesome truth, and continuid progress. President Jack Pontier, Vice President John Lightvoet, and Secretary Tim HaiVison officiated at the ceremony. .

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