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6 THE RIMROCK ECHO COSSACK CHORUS TO SING HERE FEB. 23 E. M. N. S. STUDENTS WILL BE ADMITTED ON ACTIVITY CARDS PROGRAM IS AT BABCOCK AT 8:15 O'CLOCK Under the auspices of the East- ern Montana Normal School the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus is coming to the Fox-Babcock The- atre, Thursday evening, February 23. The chorus is composed of 36 ex-officers of the Czar's imperial army. The advance literature which Mr. Stuber has received says that \Where they once rode dashing steeds to war, they now march to peaceful victories, commanded by their diminutive leader, Serge Jar- off.\ Since the formation of this cho- rus in 1923 they have captivated audiences in Europe, Australia, England, and America. Thirty-six voices, singing in perfect harmony, provide entertainment which is unique and superb. As one music critic said, \Their programs are ex- amples of the hidden riches of Rus- sian sacred and secular music. Once heard is never to be forgotten the exultant fervor of their voices in the Gretchaninoff Credo, or their beautiful rendering of \The Red Sarafan,\ or the riotous shouts and whistling in their Cossack war songs.\ The passionate intensity of their song causes their audiences to won- der, until they remember that these \men are exiles for whom the broad plains of the Russian steppes and the slow-flowing Don are a memory of the past.\ Rarely does a town the size of Billings have an oppor- tunity to hear such famous artists. No Billings resident can afford to miss them. A bloc of seats has been reserved for the students, who will be ad- mitted on their student activity tickets. The price to the public is $1.10 for the first floor and 83 cents for the balcony. The reserved seats may be obtained by calling the Bab- cock Theatre. FOOTE REPORT SAYS 210 1931-32 GRADS TEACHING According to figures released Monday by L. R. Foote, Director of the Placement Bureau, 125 of the 140 students graduated in 1931-32 are now teaching; seven who ap- plied for schools were unable to get them; four are married and not teaching; two are attending other schools; and two have not reported. Of those undergraduates who have secured second-grade certificates by one year's attendance, 85 are now teaching. Thus the total num- ber of 1931-32 students now teach- ing is 210. This is indeed a gratify- ing record. Where's that picture of that laugh- ing group of sleigh-riders? Get it out and bring it to Miss Cain! Dramatics Class To Present Two Plays; Miss Dewey Directs The dramatic art class of E. M. N. S. under the supervision of Mar- tha E. Dewey is studying one-act plays. Class time is used to ana- lyze plays and to determine charac- terizations and positions of the players. Two non-royalty plays, \The Best of All Ways,\ which is an Irish play, and \Cabbage a German play, are to be presented to the public the latter part of the quar- ter. The characters in \The Best of All Ways\ are: Sergeant Tim Joyce, Howard Walters; Arleen Sheridan, Ursula Miller; Betty Sheridan, Mar- tha Calvert; Terrance De Lane, Albert Frazier. The director is David Duncan. Those who have parts in \Cab- bages\ are: Mrs. August Grossmeir, Grace Cain; August Grossmeir, John Havland; Matilda Grossmeir, Barbara Biever; Lena Discher, Eve- lyn Danielson; reporter, Arthur Platz; Mr. Marker, Pete Vander- wood; Elizabeth, Marie Borberg; Miss Dewey is the director. Art Class Do Sponge Work For First Tiiae This year the beginning art classes are working with colored sponge rubber. This is the first year that this problem has been used in Art II. Clever little abstract or mod- ernistic figures and animals are being made to represent a story or a poem from primary literature. Miss Roberts is astonished at the way the classes are fairly \eating up\ this beautifully colored sponge. Placement Committee Makes Report On The Teacher Employment The Committee on Placement has compiled a few statistics relative to the teacher situation in Mon- tana which tend to refute the idea that new teachers are not being employed. A comparison of 1931-32 and 1932- 33 directories show that there are at the present time 1750 elementary teachers who are new to the rooms in which they are teaching. In 14 counties selected at random and having 1487 teachers, the number lost from teaching work was 223. Using the same ratio which is 14.9% it is estimated that of the 4558 elementary teachers in Mon- tana, 679 will have to be replaced during the coming year. Mr. Shunk (in geology class): Why is it that glaciers are smaller today than they used to be? Middle-aged Lady: They are small- er because this is a hotter age.\ Poetry Dedicated To Professor Abbott By Student In History As her project for the course in Montana History under Mr. Abbott, Margaret Gustafson, of Rapelje, handed in a collection of original poems, which she called \The Poems of a Drylander's Daughter.\ It includes an interesting foreword, in which she tells something of the life of her family in Montana in Stillwater County, a dedication to Mr. Abbott and several poems con- cerning life on a dry land farm. Her first poem in the book is called \Only a Dry-Lander's Daughter.\ I'm only a dry-lander's daughter Who lives in a little town; I'm not the queen of the village And I've never been around. I've never ridden a street car, I have never ridden a train, I've never seen a faucet work, And I've never seen it rain. I've seen greasewood by the section And sage-brush by the mile. But I've never seen an oak tree, And I've never dressed in style. I never slept in a hotel, Or ate in a cafe— For I'm only a dry-lander's daughter Who lives in Rapelje. I never attended a football game Nor saw a tennis court, I never used a golf club Nor anything of the sort. There's lot of things I never saw And I guess I'll never see For I'm just a dry-lander's daughter Which is all I'll ever be. I haven't a thing to brag of, Like a bank account or car; But there are some things that I'm proud of And I'll tell you what they are: A smile that's never gone on strike, A smile that never fails— And I've got the courage to use that smile Despite drouths and heat and hail. With all the things I never had Or saw, or even knew— I'm joyful, happy and glad to live. What more can anybody do? DEBATE SQUAD AT WORK; TEAMS NOT YET PICKED Workouts in debate were held in Mr. Hawkes' room Wednesday, Feb- ruary 1, at 7:30 p. m. The eight members of the class were divided into two teams and speakers on the two sides alternated in giving sev- en-minute talks and three-minute rebuttals. Miss Dewey, Mrs. Mc- Mullen and Mrs. Hawkes served as judges and critics. No decisions were given, but further work is being done on presentation and va- rious points of argument at the regular meetings each Wednesday and Friday afternoon. REGISTRATION REACHES 362; STUBER REPORTS SIGNIFICANT FEATURES 52 MEN, 310 WOMEN ARE NOW ENROLLED AT E. M. N. S. \Gross registration at the end of January was 362. Of that number, 52 are men and the remaining 310 women. That is the largest total number of students and the largest number of men in any quarter ex- cept the summer quarter,\ Mr. Stu- ber, Registrar, said Monday. \Considering everything connect- ed with the winter quarter enroll- ment, I find significant the fact that the registration is holding up. There were 361 here during the fall quarter and now there are 362. In other words, one more person came than left. \I find significant, too, the fact that the enrollment shows a con- tinual increase. There were 38 men and 292 women—a total of 330 stud- ents—enrolled in the winter of 1932. Thus, there is an increase of 32 over the similar period of last year,\ Mr. Stuber said. It will be noted that the increase from the winter quarter 1932 to winter quarter 1933 is 9.7 per cent. This increase is similar to that of the fall quarter, which was prac- tically 10 per cent above that of fall, 1931. The 362 enrolled repre- sents a 242 per cent increase in en- rollment over Eastern Montana Normal School's enrollment of 149 in the fall of 1927. Survey Shows Low Costs For Students The survey completed by Mr. Stuber for the fall quarter shows that the cash expenditures of stud- ents averaged the low figure of $79.50 each. Even at this sum, the cash spent by 317 students making the report out of a gross registra- tion of 361 was $25,230 for the three months. A total of 126 or a little more than one-third of the students paid part or all of their way by working during the quarter. Of these, 57 worked for board and room; 11 for room alone; 39 for cash; 7 for board, room and cash; 4 for board and cash; 4 for board alone; 2 for room and cash; and 2 for part board and room. During the quarter, no girl was obliged to return home because of failure to secure work, for more jobs were available than were girls to fill them. Senior: Mr. Stuber's awfully ab- sent minded, isn't he? Freshie: Why? Senior: Why, the other night he was driving George Baumgartner over a dark street. They stopped— and before he knew it he had park- ed the car.
