VOLUME 111
Dr. Hall Lectures
The Meaning of Life, Its Opportuni
ties and Evils, Interestingly
Propounded.
Dr. J. J. Hall, South Atlantic sec
retary of The American Peace Soci
ety, delivered a splendid address
here on the evening of January 27th.
It was a message on "Life: Its
Meaning."
The speaker began with a few
words (concerning the conference re
cently held in Washington at which
numerous prominent men endorsed
the peace notes sent by President
Wilson to the belligerent countries.
He took a few moments also to eulo
gize the Chief Executive's masterly
address to the Senate.
Dr. Hall then took up the main
part of his address. He emphasized
the fact that we of today are living
in a crucial time —a time when it is
"bliss to be alive." In future ages
nations will look back upon our day
as a turning point in the world's his
tory.
"The mass of human beings," said
the speaker, "are without any ade
quate conception of the grandness
and the real purpose of life. We are,
so to sipeak, mere animals; not so
far removed from the primitive In
dian in our desire for adornment and
love of display."
He next spoke of environment, and
its determining effect. Home, books,
schools, pictures, companions, all
these factors enter into the make-up
of life. Since man is essentially a
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AHCHDAL.E VS. COX.
Soccer Championship Soon to Be Do
cided. *" "***
The interest in Soccer,'which rath
er languished during examination
week while the adherents to this
strenuous out-'door game were en
gaged in the process of trying to evo
lute their minds from a state of com
parative ignorance to one of hurried
"preparedness" against the on
slaughts of the Germans, Latins,
English, French, Greeks, scientists
and historians, was revived again by
the announcement that the annual
series between Archdale and Cox
HaH was soon to be played. Prof.
Woosley, who has been coaching the
boys on some of the fine points of the
game, has had no difficulty in getting
many out every evening. The boys
have found that Soocer, which to the
uninitiated appears to be a mere
rough and tumble scrap over a
spherical pigskin, in reality requires
skill as well as muscle.
The first opportunity given the
boys to demonstrate their skill in
this game to the public will be on
Thursday, February 1 at 4:15, when
the strong Cox Hall team will engage
the plucky Archdale team for the
first game of the series to decide the
campus championship. The second
game of the series will be on Thurs
day, Feto. 8 . The deciding game, if
such one is necessary, will be played
at some later date.
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C„ JANUARY 81, 1917.
Guilford Loses Two
Wake Forest and A. and M. Down
the Quakers in Closely Con
tested Games.
The light Quaker Quint lost its
first intercollegiate game of the sea
son on the Wake Forest floor by the
score of 18 to 17, tho Baptists win
ning the event in the last second of
play. In the first half, the Guilford
team had things its own way, scor
ing with ease, dribbling and passing
all around the Wake Forest aggrega
tion. The entire Guilford five was
participating in the merriment, Se
mans, Jones and Zachary each se
curing a field goal in this half, while
Massey pocketed two field goals and
added five foul goals to the total for
the Crimson and Gray. The Baptists,
during this first period, had been
covered and only Dickson was able
to score two field goals, while
Franks shot a single foul, making
the total for Wake Forest, 5. Thus
stood the score at t>he end of the first
half, 15 to 5, and as the Wake For
est correspondent puts it, "The
Quakers outplayed the Baptists in
every department, leading at the
close of the first half, 15 to 5."
The usual intermission of ten min
utes followed and the teams again
took their respective positions, pre
sumably to play the second half of
the 'basketball game, but what had
previously been a clean, straigiht-for
ward game of the indoor variety
soon took a decided turn. The ref
eree forgot, in reply to the hooting
and battering of the Wake Forest
onlookers who combined iwith
their natural vocal ability all
the dumb bells which the gym
afforded, applied energetically
against the walls of the building,
that the siport in progress was bas
ketball instead of football and a
season of holding and "roughing it"
followed by means of which the
Wake Forest team was able to pre
vent the Guilford team even a sem
blance of a shot. To be absolutely
sure that the game was not basket
ball, one Wake Forest lad took a
hefty heave with his foot at Semans
who was in the act of Shooting.
Pushing, shoving, holding, tackling,
all were employed in the effort to
satisfy the boisterous demands of
the Wake Forest adherents for a vic
tory. The result was inevitable; the
Quakers had never played in a rfarne
in which such tactics were employed
and of course continued their
straight basketball and in the final
moment of play Franks, the big Bap
tist center, pocketed the deciding
field goal of the contest. The Quak
ers, who had scored five field goals
with ease in the first half, had been
held without a chance of a field goal
during the second half while the
Wake Forest quint, being guarded in
the usual manner, had added five
field goals to their score. The vic
tory went to the Baptists by the nar
row margin of one point, but was it
worth it? Football tactics may win
a basketball game, but here's ho*ping
the Quakers will never stoop to such
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Faculty Approves
Simplified Spelling
Consents to Its Use in College Pub
lications and Written
Exercises.
The following resolution was in
troduced by Prof. Davis at the last
Faculty meeting. It was passed
unanimously:
"In view of the beneficent pur
poses and well directed efforts of the
Simplified iSpelling Board, we the
faculty of Guilford College, N. C.,
hereby express approval of the
amended spellings .proposed by the
said Board and consent to t'he use of
the sarnie in college publications or
in written exercises for the college
when consistently employed.''
The progress of the movement is
striking. The National Education
Association approved the movement
in 1898 and adopted 12 simpler spell
ings for immediate use: t'ho, altho,
thru, thruout, thoro, thorofare, thor
oly, catalog, decalog, pedagog, pro
gram, prolog. In 1916 it voted to use
in its publications the spelling t in
past tenses of verbs ending in -ed
pronounst t.
The Modern Language Association
of America, 18 State Teachers' Asso
ciations, and many other educational
bodies and learned societies, approve
the movement. Spelling-books and
State Courses of Study, in constantly
increasing numbers, ar including
some of the simpler spellings in their
regular lists, or ad a statement of
the principles of the Simplified Spell
img Board and approve its recom
mendations.
It is also noteworthy that 292 uni
versities, colleges, and normal scools
either use simplified spellings in
their official publications and corre
spondence, or .permit students to use
them in their ritten work. 170 of
these institutions, including 17 state
universities, hav formally approved
the movement for simplified spell
ing, in most cases by 'faculty resolu
tion. Most of these institutions hav
taken this action within the last 2
years an increase of more than 650
per cent.
V. w. C. A. DISCUSSES COURAGE.
Sometimes the best things can be
put in the fewest words. Such a
statement would be a rather satisfac
tory summary of last week's Y. W.
C. A. meeting.
There was no special leader. El
len Raiford lead the devotional part
of the meeting and added a few
words about those things which con
stitute a girl's courage. Then the
meeting was made general and sev
eral of the girls expressed their own
opinions about those things which
take a great deal of courage.
After this Addie Morris, chairman
of the Mission Study committee, pre
sented the need of systematic giving.
Slips of paper were distributed and
nine more girls pledged and a num
ber of those already pledging raised
their pledge's.
NUMBER 16
Spargo on Socialism
Noted Lecturer Explains to Students
Meaning' of Socialistic Movement.
M,r. John Spargo, noted Socialist
author, lecturer and leader of New
York, delivered a very interesting
lecture to the students here last
Monday on "The Meaning of Social
ism." The distinguished speaker de
clared that the socialistic propagan
da as all other human movements
was misunderstood frequently. He
asserted that the ideal of the Social
ist was not the collective ownership
of all tilie means of production but
only those which iwere essentially
social in their character. His plan
of Socialism permitted private own
ership of aM those articles which
were distinctly individualistic in
their nature. Moreover, Socialism
does not mean complete economic
equality; it seeks to establish only
equality of opportunity.
The lecture was a scholarly pre
sentation of the propaganda, richly'
interspersed with English humor.
SOCIAL LIFE RESUMED.
Music, Tucker, Jerusalem and the
"Old, Old Story" Harmoniously
Blended.
Saturday night, after the .lecture
given in Memorial Hall, the boys and
girls all "trapsed" over to New Gar
den to attend once a gain, a social.
Some sipecial features had been
planned, but owing to the late hour
groups were forced to entertain
themselves, "each in their own Way."
iSome rose above the common level
and made their way to steps on the
3tairs where—well—perhaps the last
vaudeville show was described, or
perhaps the icourse in Freshman
English was discussed, or perhaps
—the "old, old story" was breathed
at least from the stairway shone
some happy and contented faces.
The music lovers present found
their way to the piano, and soon the
cares of the weary were borne away
on the strains of such classic selec
tions as "Tooka Hula," "My Own
Iona" or "Pretty Baby.''
Some of the group were desirous
of going to Jerusalem, so to the ring
ing of the dinner bell, a large troop
started, only Jones Smith reaching
the goal.
Then weary of traveling the rough
road to Jerusalem, "Tucker" was
played until .the contestants were
completely "tuckered out" and by
this time Oma Gray, in the role of
Miss Louise, sent every one home.
SENIOR CLASS MEETING.
The Seniors assembled themselves
Tuesday evening, January 23, for the
first class meeting of the new year.
It was with a degree o,f sadness that
we realized that the 'l7 which we
had looked forward to for so long a
time had at last rolled around.
The following officers were elected:
Itiimous Valentine, President.
Hazel Armstrong, Secretary.
Edwin Carroll, Marshal.
After adjournment Messrs. Newlin
and Beeson appeared upon the scene
with their arms loaded down with