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THE BENNETT BANNER
February 1958
THE BENNETT BANNER
Published Monthly By The Students of Bennett College
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROUNA
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EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR Carolyn Brown. ’58
CO-EDITOR Yvonne Wynne, ’58
NEWS EDITOR Barbara Campbell, ’59
FEATURE EDITOR Delores Tonkins, ’58
EXCHANGE EDITOR Gladys M. Fortune, ’58
SOCIETY EDITOR Sonia Louden, ’58
PERSPECTIVE EDITOR Veronica Shiplejy, ’58
CIRCULATION MANAGERS Barbara Hammond, ’58
WL'hemina Bundy, ’59
ART Emma Jean Blackstock, ’58
Joan Didier, ’60
REPORTING STAFF Nancy Kirby, ’80
Juanita Spear, ’60; Gloria Brown, ’60; Jean Sparrow, ’61;
Linda Brown. ’61; Margaret Bailey, ’61.
Achieving Acadmeic Excellence
It is important during these days of college Ufe that we
as potential leaders of tomorrow, strive to bring out the best
in ourselves, and achieve the highest goals that we possibly
can.
This, to many of you, is a hackneyed, abused topic for
discussion; however, at the same time this is a very necessary
part of our living and thinking, and a subject which can never
be reaUy exhausted. (That is, as long as there is even a small
percentage of students or people who cannot adhere to this
gchooi of thought, and incorporate it into their facets of
thought). Hence, this is what is now before us. The attitude
that advancement is for a select few is as ridiculous as it is
popular; for it is the individual’s attitude and respect for
achievement, that causes her to begin to make progress. In
short, the waole process begins with the individual; One must
begin with self-confidence. When self-confidence is obtained,
there is no limit to what can be achieved. And as you evidence
your potentialities and abilities, others will beome aware of
your advancement and place their confidence in you, while
raising their esteem of you. But, be mindful that this begins
with you, and self-confidence.
Along with assurance comes another very fundamental
process: thinking. Think about what‘you are doing, sayingTJl’
This is the greatest power that we humans have—the pJower
to Tfdson. '^eii we do not use this we are being wasteful.
I(|f|{|l|waste, we will definitely want! Think about what you ex-
jieut olit of life, set up your goal, be confident that you can
attain it—because you the individual have the power to rea
son—and then let your thoughts govern your actions!
MISS DEMO AND
HER ULCERS
They tell me that it’s not what
worries you that will give you ul
cers, but what you eat. Well, in
my case that’s not true. So many
things on campus are happening
that I am beginning to develop
ulcers.
It seems to me that we just
aren’t sisters ahy more. In the
time that I have matriculated here
I have never seen such a lapse in
our Bennett sisterhood. The class
of ’61 has a long way to go, that
is, if they want to be Bennett
sisters and graduates from the
Heart. Also, there are a few up
perclassmen who are slipping.
VV'atch you step, sistersi (or may
I call you sisters?)
Girls, my ulcers took a turn for
the worse at the basketball game
(remember) and the movie—our
decorum both as spectators and
participants.
I discovered that there are some
new members of this college com
munity (the Bennett family, to be
specific) who need to be shown
how to play basketball and also
take part in group living without
trying to make themselves need
lessly recognized as being the
small indiviluals they are. It is
absolutely unnecessary for any
one who considers herself more
than a worm (to mention only
one ‘basic example) to waste time
planning to help someone else
break a leg just to show what a
“would be” big shot can do. In
fact, this shows that the ‘‘leg
breakers” are afraid, not only of
others, but of each other. My ad
vice to you “professional trippers”
is to watch yourselves, because
you are tripping each other! If
you think this kind of action is
•what college is for, you (fresh
men and all sisters) whom the shoe
fits, you’re all wrong, and your’ve
■got ^e wrQ£ut,jcallege.
to try to play this kind of ball in.
WHAT'S YOUR LITERARY SCORE!
Literally Tours:"
The Bennett Muses Muse
SNOW
The snow’s as white as Qod’s
white clouds.
It bounds amid the world around.
But. oh, it’s beauty captures me,
just
As God’s love will capture thee.
The trees are bent the world
around.
The snow falls on Grod’s heavenly
ground.
But, oh, its beauty captures me,
just
As God’s love will capture thee.
Have you seen beauty through and
throueh?
As God for snow so fresh and new.
It’s beauty, oh, will capture thee,
just
As God’s love has c««>tured me.
TO0
You have eyes.
But cannot see.
You hare ears that hear not me.
V You have lips
Jto my toueh.
■
I my dariinc,
Why,
Why do I lore you so much?
Sonia Louden
Rudene Abney
Exercise
(’Tune: Jingle Bell)
Exercise, exercise
Cheeks are all aglow;
Eyes are sparkling, too
We’re the ones who know
What exercies will do.
Joyously we shout
As out of doors we play,
If you would grow well and strong
That’s the wisest way.
Chorus:
Exercise, exercise.
Exercise and play.
Oh, what fu nit is to be
Out of doors each day!
Exercise, exercise.
Exercise and play.
If you would grow well and strong
That’s the wisest way.
This
is the
Lenten Season'
Sacrifices
Are
Important
How well acquainted are you
with literature? All phases in
cluding drama, poetry and prose,
do you have a firm background
in each area?
This month The Banner Staff is
desirious in assisting you in find
ing out just where you staond in
literal knowledge. Below you will
find 25 questions, if you can an
swer all 25, you have an excellent
background, 24-20 you have a
pretty good background, 19-15,
you’re well rounded, under 15—
Go to Holgate fast, you’re in need
of help. If you answer all 25
plus the three bonus questions,
the Banner Staff will give you an
honorary L.LX>. degree.
1. A playwright, who pleaded the
fifth amendment recently is —-—
2. A shocking best seller Is
3. A tremendous periodical deal
ing with literature is -.
4. is now a
British subject and a contempor
ary poet, was bom in St. Louis,
Mo.
5. She started out at the age of
eighteen, France loves her, and we
love — .
6 . ’s deals
with a Utopia, by the way he’s an
ancient Greek.
7. Our childhood would have
been miserable if these two men
had not written fascinating stories
for us to read, they are
and .
8. A form of Shaw’s play,
—, is currently on Broadway,
16.
proved to be
a good character In the plays of
Shakespeare and Maxwell Ander
son.
17.
has im
mortalized Yoknapatwha County,
Miss., in almost all of his works.
18. Chicago likes —
and he likes Chicago.
19.
was bom
in Wales and has a most exciting
life.
20. Her verses are always sweet,
short, and simple, she is
21.
~’s novel.,
The Poxes of Harrow is interest
ing.
22. “Maggie” has
written various and entertaining
accounts of her sociological ex
periences.
23. “Water, water every where
. . is from — ’3
of
24.
penned
thees lines, “How do I love thee.”
25. Drieser’s is a
novel based on the tragedy of
everyday American Hfe.
Bonus Qnesttons;
26. TTie former wrote
The Egghead and L
27 . , a clown la
supposed to be the greatest of
the Shakespearean Characters.
28. The creator of Oedipus, Rex,
is .
as a musical by the name of
Theater Gi^ds?
Someone passed on an issue to
me about the freshman and sen
ior theater guilds combining. You
know, I always figured that the
freshman year is an orientating
period. By the way, I’ve never
seen nor heard the freshman
choir and the vesper choir in
concert, so why are the freshman
and senior theater guilds combin
ing? Why do they always, as of
lately, have most of the leading
and supporting roles and top
teachnical jobs backstage? Any
way, this is another contributing
factor to my ulcers.
Mustc Appreciation?
You know we’re mighty fortun
ate to have Mrs. Kudrlk on our
music faculty, so why is it that a
few of us had to go to sleep while
she played so magnificently and
rally woke up when she so ex
cellently executed a chord on her
last number. “She was good, but
I was so tired I just couldn’t stay
awake.” A prescription for you
from me: Stop playing cards and
gossiping until the wee hours of
the day; some of us never sleep
during the night.
The Table
Since when did a certain table
in the center section of the dining
hall become so exclusive that only
faculty members can sit there diu’-
ing the six o’clock dinner hour?
I?
The pronoun "I” has a high
value; and do you know some of
us don’t know the value of “I”
and use 1^ most indiscretely; as if
“I” can do all, move mountains,
throw out fellow students. Sorry,
“I” can only see and act with a
unit, but “I” can set an example
and do “I’s” best in all “I’s” en
deavors. “I” is an invaluable word.
Home-MaUnx Institute?
Last year we attended compul
sory sessions during the Home-
Making Iiisyfute. A hint to the
9. Byron treated him, Cervantes
and Mozart did too, but under
different names, he is
basically.
10. la a contempor
ary playwright, who treats the
decadent south in his plays, whlcli
are always big hits.
11. There may some question
about his true icientity and his
author^p, but we know him as
12. When Patrick Dennis wrote
about her, Broadway and Holly
wood couldn’t wait to get theiw
hands on —.
13. This American novelist lives
in Cuba, because he “loves Cuba”,
he may be called ‘The Old Man
of the Sea, he is —.
14 .An American Poet called
the ‘Abe Lincoln’ of Uterature is
13. A great Russian literary
masterpiece by Tolstoy is
and •
ANSWERS
1. Arthur Miller
2. Peyton Place
3. Satiu^ay Review
4. T. S. Eliot
5. Prancoise Sagan
6. Plato, Republic
7. Aesop and Hans Christian An
derson
8. Pygmaillion, My Pair Lady
9. Don Juan
10. Tennessee Williams
11. William Shakespeare
12. “Auntie Mame”
13. Ernest Hemmingway
14. Walt Whitpn’ig^u ^ ^,
15. War and Peace
16. Henry vm
17. William Faulkner
18. Carl Sandburg
19. Dylan Thomaa
20. Emily Dickinson
21. Frank Yerby
22. Mead
23 .Coleridge, Rime of The Ancient
Mariner
24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
25. American Tragedy
26. Mrs. Adali Stevenson
27. Palstaff
28. Sophocles
wise is sufficient. We will go to
the sessions on our own accord
providing we understand the topic
and the speakers are interesting
as they were year before last.
You know, voluntary attendance
might even result in better and
creative participation.
Hats?
A problem,! think that con
fronts us is that of wearing hats
to town on cold and windy days.
Scarfs are no substitute. There
are plenty of casual styles and
loose fits that will serve the pur
pose.
Marshal Board?
You know I never hear any
comments or compliments about
the Marshal Board. The next time
you see Mamie McLurkin and
Mrs. Raiford, and this is a com
mand, tell them what a good job
the Marshal Board is doing.
Books, (Yours and MXae)?
Young ladies I feel that having
your own textbook and not some
one else’s is very important in
your college career. When you re
lieve one of your colleagues of her
boofe, you inconvenience her and
deprive her of the privilege of
making a good grade. Each stu
dent here “must” realize that
are expensive and that money
doesn’t grow on trees. Therefore,
I feel that you should not borrow
other students books from the
chapel, dining hall, library or re
sidence halls. If, by mistake, you
pick up someone else’s book, it
is no crime to return it to the
rightful owner apologizing for the
inconvenience. This is the sign of
honesty and maturation.
What is this institution, a shel
ter for female juvenile delinquents
or a dignified woman’s college?
Well, I’ve gotten all this off
my chest; but I still have my ul
cers from worrying about you, my
Bennett sisters. It’s a matter of
opinion, but you might develop
your own ulcers from this food of
worry.
If you don’t like the opinions
expressed, send your conmienta to
me, c/o the Bennett Banner; I’m
very liberal. Make sure you inter
pret what I have said and digest
it objectively.
Editors Note:
Feel Free To
Offer Criticisms