Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — DANCE LIMIT STIRS PUPILS [ARTICLE]

DANCE LIMIT STIRS PUPILS

Girls Threaten to Btrlke If Order of School Principal It Enforced at Midnight New York. —Trouble 1b threatened in the Jamaica high school about an order by Robert Mitchell, principal, that hll dances given by fraternities in the school shall end at midnight Girl pupils Bay if they are not permitted to dance after midnight they'll strike. “If the fraternities don’t like the way I run the school I’ll dissolve 'em,” is Mitchell’s stand. Parents of pupils last year complained that the many dances kept tnelr children up too late for study □ext day. The first duice of this season was given by Alpha Sigma fraternity. Three alumni who are members of the fraternity, Kenneth Hardenbrook. Gerard McLaughlin and-Carroll McLaughln, asked Mitchell that the dance be permitted to continue after midnight r “No,’’ said the principal. \ At the dance, it Is said, Mitchell criticized the committee and its errand. By order of the principal representatives of all the fraternities in the school met in the auditorium. There was a long discussion between Dr. Mitchell and the delegates, but the principal refused to change his attitude. So the strike may come.