Knights' Quest [March 15, 1948]

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Vol. II, No. 10 Bethesda, Maryland, Monday, March 15, 1948 Single Copy 10c
Phil Leahy and Ted Jans examining new sound projector.
Hot Debate Looms
It seems that the prospect of
an informal debate has de­veloped
out of the issues argued
in a recent campus bull-session.
Thus far only a challenge has
been issued, so that no definite
plans have been made as to the
date and location. The issue of
the debate will be the highly
controversial- questions of sci­ence
and religion. The scien­tific
faction accuses religion as
being narrow-minded, bigoted,
and as failing to give all men
a broader conception of God
and Truth. The religious fac­tion
not only denies this, but at­tacks
science as a self-appointed
enemy of religion.
This debate, when hnd if it
comes, should prove to be ex­tremely
interesting.
RECORD DANCE
The basketball team threw a
record dance a wek ago Friday
night in the B.-C. C. gymnasium.
A very small group turned
out for the dance and they spent
most of the evening playing
cards. Records were played all
evening for those who wanted
to dance and cokes were avail­able
for those thirsty people.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
BY Tom Hill
We, the students have begun
the last lap of the 1947-48 year
at M. J. C. It is not a time
to look back and lose ourselves
inexamining the past, to con­gratulate
ourselves on how well
we did in this, or reprove our­selves
about how badly we did
in that. Too often we lose our
perspective and tend to rest
amid our past achievements and
failures, and we awake sudden­ly
to find the most important
thing— the present and even the
future has slipped by our grasp
—never to be fully regained.
Life is like walking on a moving
treadmill, we can never go for­ward
by standing still or by idly
moving along. Plunge ahead,
let’s not wait too long in mak­ing
our decisions, someone will
always tell us when we are
wrong.
We, the students have an un­equaled
opportunity here at
M. J. C. All of us feel proud to
be part of the student body,
except those who cannot see the
trees for the woods. Those of
us who have been to other col­leges
will back me up in this.
Never again after we leave
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Faculty Member Aids in
Isolation of Cold Germ
Dr. Ernest Jawetz is now engaged, in association with Dr. Nor­man
Topping of the iU. S. Public Health 'Service, in tracking down
the germ which causes the common cold. The research took place
at Lorton Reformatory, Va., where, by utilization of a volunteer
system, experiments were conducted with human beings. Recently
it was announced that they had
at last isolated and actually
grown a common-cold germ in
the laboratory. This does not
mean that all of mankind’s suf­ferings
from this nuisance are
over, for until a serum or vac­cine
is developed this little pest
will continue costing the country
100,000,000 man-days a year and
a billion dollars in doctors’ fees
and lost production, not to men­tion
untold suffering and general
misery. Yet it is a step, an ad­vance,
and M. J. C. wishes to
extend a very sincere congratu­lation
to Dr. Jawetz for his part
in this work.
M. J. C. Gets
New Projector
The Board of Education has
presented M. J. C. with a 16
mm. Bell and Howell Sound
Projector. It arrived on March
4 complete with screen. It was
first used hy the music class to
show the instruments of the
symphony orchestra. The school
is now arranging a schedule of
films to be used with the various
classes. On March 14th, Dr.
Ross MacCardle, the Embry­ology
teacher, will present two
scientific films which he ob­tained
from the Wistar Insti­tution
in Philadelphia. This is
one of the largest research in­stitutes
in the United States.
The Chemistry Dept, will show a
picture on March 11th, and
Coach Rubini has several ath­letic
films on the way.
The projector was obtained
through the cooperation of Mrs.
Louis A. Walker, who is direct­or
of the Audio-Visual Aid in
Montgomery County.
There are several film li­braries
in and around Mont­gomery
County from which film
may be obtained on various sub­jects.
Dr. Martinez Elected
President A. A. T. S. P.
Dr. Martinez, M. J. C.’s pro­fessor
of Spanish, was recently
elected to the office of President
of the Washington chapter of
the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portu­guese.
M. J. C. Bowling
Association
Katy Bart
The Montgomery Junior Cof-lege
Bowling League went into
full swing last Thursday at the
Bethesda Bowling Alley. Al­though
the scores were on the
low side, everyone was having
a good time.
Eight teams are competing.
After the first session, the
teams stand as follows:
Prentiss and team consisting
of Schneider, Stul, Kendall and
Hobbs, with a team average of
93.4. Neale’s team with Janson,
Lindsey, Mauger, and Bart is a
close second with a team aver­age
of 93. Tied for third stand
the teams of Foley and Hill and
following close behind are Field,
Fitzwater, Leahy, and Grubar.
Oremland bowled the highest
average and Lindsey knocked
down the highest score of the
day.