THE GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME IV.
EDITORIAL OFFICE
SECURES COLLEGIANS
A Good Start Made on What is
Hoped Will Be a Complete
Collection.
"Twenty centuries," said Napoleon
to hie soldiers while viewing the
Egyptian pyramids, "look down upon
you." As the editors of the Guil
fordian lalbor now in the editorial
office, the past verily in visible form
looks down upon them. What great
er inspiration to good work can there
be than to realize that you come of
a long and honorable editorial an
cestry and that the sacred traditions
of other days must at all hazards be
maintained. A rummage in the ob
scure and unfrequented corners of
Founder's Hall was rewarded by the
discovery of the first eight bound
volumes of the Guilford Collegian,
covering the years 1888 to 1896.
Further search revealed countless
loose copies of other years and
enough were collected to bring the
collection do>wn to 19 03 with a few
copies missing.
Our friends would do well to help
us fill our shelves with the Collegian
complete down to 1914. In this and
succeeding numbers of the Guilford
ian we will offer a short review of
the Collegian.
For Vol. I, Robert C. Root was ed
itor. Robert C. Root is now secre
tary of the Peace Association of the
Pacific States and is prominent in
many lines of endeavor.
He thus ambitiously announces his
policy in the first editorial:
"While standing at the helm as
'The Collegian' is launched upon the
tempestuous sea of journalism we
will stoutly endeavor to avoid the
shoals of egotism, to clear the
strands of cynical criticism, and shun
the hidden rocks and sunken wrecks
of mental dissipation." "Our cause,"
he says, "is the cause of humanity.
Our object the promotion of educa
tion. And to that end we shall seek
to promote the varied interests of
Guilford College, to foster the spirit
of literary composition and research
among the students and to increase
their love of 'the true, the beautiful,
and the good' in literature." This
mariner "at the helm" of the Col
legian to use his own figure set his
course by a star which future editors
would do well to steer iby.. The first
number fittingly opens with Presi
dent Hobbs' inaugural address. A
study of it shows that the same
ideals have always guided Guilford
College. It is well worth reading, for
it reveals with what great hopes and
aspirations and with what sincere
and devout consecration to the high
est ideals o'f Christian scholarship
Guilford ceased to be a Boarding
School and entered on her career as
a college. An article by Judge Rob
ert P. Dick, entitled "How Little We
Know," begins in the second number.
This article continues for two or
three years in the Collegian. It ap
parently takes a good while to tell
how little was known in those days.
(Continued on fourth pag >)
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1918
JOSEPH G. REDDICK
President Senior Class
President Athletic Association
CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS.
Class officers for the spring term
have been elected as follows:
Senior—President, Joseph G. Red
dick; secretary, Deborah Brown;
marshal, Lawrence Grissom.
Junior—President, Joe White;
secretary, Kate Smith; marshal,
Ruth Coletrane.
Sophomore officers have not yet
been elected.
Freshman—President, Ralph Far
low; secretary, Marjorie Williams;
marshal, Tom Stewart.
GIRLS' BASKET BALL.
As nothing was scheduled for Sat
urday evening, February 9, Trinity
challenged W'ake Forest for a game
of basket ball. Althougu both teams
were composed of the fair sex, the
game was very exciting and there
was much "pep" shown with Miss
Edwards as their yell leader for
Wake Forest, while Miss Gainey led
the cheers and songs for Trinity. Al
though the teams were pretty evenly
matched and both did justice to the
careful co'aching f Miss Roberts, the
final score was 10 to 5 in favor of
Trinity.
Trinity. Position. Wake Forest
McVay, J. ... R,F . . Raiford, M. L.
Moore, D L F Caudle
McVay, E Center Neece
Raiford, L R F . . . . Mcßane, D.
Dixon, M L G.... Shamburgar
Substitutes: Moore, F., for Caudle
and Caudle for McVay, E.
Summary: Field goals, R'aiford,
M. L., 1; Caudle, 2; McVay, J., 2;
Moore, D., 3; foul goals, Caudle, 1.
.SENIORS PLANNING CLASS BOOK
At a recent called meeting of the
Senior class it was decided that the
class of 'lB should put out a class
book this year. This project is to be
undertaken on less elaborate lines
than usual, but it is hoped that at
least a very readable record of the
thots and deeds of 'lB may be the
result. Ira G. Hinshaw was elected
editor-in-chief of the class book, and
Benbow Jones was chosen business
manager.
Rev. Edgar Williams will give an
illustrated lecture next Wednesday
evening at 7:30 in Memorial Hall,
entitled "See America First." There
will be a small charge of 15c. at the
door—half the proceeds going to the
local branch of the American Friends
Service Committee to purchase wool
for those who are knitting for the
destitute civilian population of
Northern France.
MISS ELLIOTT TALKS
TO GUILFORD STUDENTS
Member of Faculty of State Normal
College in Address on Women
and War.
Miss Harriet Elliott, processor of
history cf ihe State Normal College
and a loyal suffragist, delivered an
able and forceful address to the fac
ulty and students of Guilford Col
lege Tuesday morning. She talked
of "Woman's Part in the War."
In the early part of her address,
Miss Elliott made a detailed histori
cal analysis of the transformation of
government from the old mediaeval
idea of aJbsolutism to a democratic
form where the will o>f the people is
supreme and where liberty, equality
and right prevail. She showed that
the industrial revolution had made
democracy powerful; and that the
true democracy demanded an equal
participation by both men and wom
en as a question of right and justice,
and in order that there may be the
fullest measure of co-operation, and
therefore of achievement. She quo
ted the words of President Wilson
that we are fighting to make the
world safe for democracy, and point
ed out. that this is to be accomplished
by overcoming the remnant of the
mediaeval idea of government. She
emphasized the fact that though the
old democracy had refused to accept
women, and though there hitherto
have been barriers to '.he entrance
of many attractive fields of endeavor,
that with the new democracy these
have been swept away and that wom
en are now successfully engaged in
practically all professions and busi
ness occupations
Wi'th the great world war the im
portance of co-operation and actual
participation of the women in one
service or another has been deemed
imperative, and Miss Elliott was
able to show that the women of all
the warring nations have courage
ously and enthusiastically assumed
tasks heretofore performed by men
alone. In England about 3,000,000
women are engaged in the industrial
plants. A similar situation prevails
elsewhere. The women of the Uni
ted States, France, England and
Canada are engaged in a very wide
field of activity; on the farms, in the
shops, munitions factories, as rail
road laborers, elevator cperators, in
the 'banks, in fact in almost every
conceivable form of industrial life
women are to be found who are
cheerfully and patriotically perform
ing the duties of the men who have
gone to the front.
Miss Elliott is a very earnest and
attractive speaker and is able to im
part her enthusiasm to her hearers.
Dr. Ueeher, sent out by the Stu
dent Volunteer department of the
National Board with headquarters in
New York, will lecture here next
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mr. David White and little daugh
ter, Priscilla, were callers at the col
lege Sunday.
TEAM PREPARING FOR
THE CAROLINA GAME
The schedule which Manager Gris
som had so much difficulty in arrang
ing, has by necessity been shortened
and changed to some extent. The
cancellation of the game with V. P.
1., which was to have been staged
on the Guilford floor on the night of
February 10, is the greatest disap
pointment that the season has given
to the Guilford student body. The
Guilford quint is working together
better than ever before, and it is very
unfortunate that V. P. I. could not
play the game. As the fcchedoile now
stands there will be only two more
games at Guilford, one with David
son February 25, and one with the
University of South Carolina Febru
ary 28 th.
Next Saturday night, February 16,
Guilford will play the University of
North Carolina at the Y. M. C. A. in
Greenslboro. This game is looked
forward to by the Guilford students
as the biggest game of the season.
Carolina has not lost a single
game. The Durham Y. M. C. A.,
Emory and Henry, and the Univer
sity of Georgia have been scalped by
the fast Carolina quint. Guilford will
doubtless have her hands full, but
the rigorous drill which Coach Doak
is now putting his team through is
fast swinging the team into excel
lent trim, and with one whole week
of such practice before the game, it
is almost certain that Guilford will
be able to carry off the nonors of the
game.
Practically the whole student body
of Guilford will be on the scene to
support its team. To tha Greensboro
people and especially Ihe Guilford
A.lumni, this will be an opportunity
to see the best game of the season,
and to assist the Athletic Associa
tion to clim'b from the state into
which it has unavoidably fallen.
Every old Guilford student within
a few miles of Greensboro as well as
the present study body is expected to
be present and halp the "earn to win.
PROF. GUESS LEADS Y. M. C. A.
The Thursday evening prayer
meeting was in charge of Prof.
Guess. He talked on the subject of
"Success," and brot out many good
points in connection with his topic.
He said that in order to be success
ful "we must have faith, courage,
and determination. Unless we have
character no one else will have faith
in us. We ought to realize that we
must fight for whatever we get. We
must have an aim, without which we
never learn to be or do anything
worth while. The secret of the suc
cess of any one is overcoming diffi
culties. We must run the gauntlet,
as it were. We must overcome the
faults within our own lives. The
most important thing is a strong
Christian character. Without this
we may fail. If the world is saved
from destruction, it will be saved by
the Christian religion. The one hope
for the future and the ideal of the
world is the practice of Christian
principles."
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