THE GUELFORDIAN
VOLUME IV.
KING HALL HAS AN
EVENTFUL HISTORY
Dr. Hobbs Writes on the Three King
Halls.
The history of North Carolina
Friends, often called Quakers, is
closely bound up with their educa
tional enterprise in founding New
Warden Boarding School and its de
velopment into Guilford College.
The construction of suitable build
ings from first to last illustrates the
growth of the institution and the ef
fort made by the Trustees to meet
the needs of the country for good
soli educational work.
The beginning was made in 1837
with one building, Founders Hall.
Upon the close of the Civil War,
Friends of Baltimore Yearly Meet
ing began a reconstruction work in
North Carolina, the beneiits resulting
from which were both immediate and
far reaching.
The leaders of the Baltimore
Friends who came down to NortT.
Carolina and started schools in many
localities in the State were Francis
T. King and Dr. James Carey
Thomas. Both of these distinguish
ed Friends made visits together to
North Carolina, and the former be
came so well known in our State and
so much beloved, that for several
years, when educational needs were
most urgent, his visits were frequent
and always greatly prized by Norm
Carolina Yearly Meeting, the sessions
of which he often attended.
After the elementary schools wore
revived by the Baltimore Association
(this being the designation of the
Board intrusted with the reconstruc
tion work in North Carolina) —Fran-
cis T. King and Dr. Thomas turned
their attention to New Garden Board
ing School, an institution that had
been kept in successful operation
during the Civil War. This school
had, from its beginning in 1837,
maintained a high standard of in
struction and was recognized as an
excellent school for thorough train
ing of both boys and girls.
Francis T. King saw as with the
eyes of a prophet what a fine pros
pect there was in the center of Guil
ford county, the Piedmont section of
the State, a long established center
of Friends, to improve the school
equipment and enlarge its scope; and
made a proposition to our Yearly
Meeting about the year 1881 to take
over the large Yearly Meeting House
standing on the present site of the
Library and convert it into a school
building, using the second floor for
a boys' dormitory, and the first floor
for class rooms and study hall. The
building was adequate for all these
needs. The Yearly Meeting accepted
the proposition and built as the first
step, a Yearly Meeting House in
High Point. The Board of Trustees
of the school proceeded to make the
necessary changes in the large brick
house on the hill, the work being
assigned to Jesse M. Bundy, at that
time superintendent of the school, a
nian of great force of character, in-
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N
SEE AMERICA FIRST
J. Edgar Williams Takes His Hear-
ers 011 a Tour Across the Continent
J. Edgar Williams, pastor of the
Friends Church of Guilford College,
gave a very interesting illustrated
lecture on Wednesday evening of last
week. A small admission fee was
charged, the proceeds to be devoted
to reconstruction work. Mr. Wil
liams' theme throughout was "See
other countries if you can, but by all
means see America first."
The slides shown by Mr. Williams
included many of the most famous
and most beautiful scenic wonders of
Beginning in the East
there were shown pictures of Niaga
ra, Wanamaker's store, Curtis Pub
lishing Co. building, the home of
Longfellow and other points of na
tional interest. Then there were
shown: From Minneapolis, the Lake
of the Isles and the world's greatest
flour mills; from California, the
orange groves, the beautiful homes
and luxuriant growths of flowers,
and from North Carolina the scenes
around Pinehurst, a very complete
set of illustrations of Grove Park
Inn.
The scenes from the Middle West
included the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado, Hemit's Cave at the foot
of a lofty mountain, street scenes of
Salt Lake City, and a Mormon tem
ple and tabernacle, and some street
scenes from New Mexico.
From Yellowstone National Park
were slides of the giant geysers and
waterfalls of extraordinary height,
together with Old Faithful Inn.
Mr. Williams closed the lecture
with a very complete set of slides of
Mount Rainier and its most striking
and celebrated glaciers. These slides
showed Mount Rainier as seen from
Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, the
timber line with the zone of lovely
wild flowers above the forests. Also
the admirable roads leading to the
glaciers through forests of fir and
cedars. The lecture closed with a
brilliantly colored slide of Crater
Lake.
C., FEBRUARY 20, 1918
U. N. C. 28; GUILFORD 24
111 Most Spectacular and Exciting
Game of the Season University
Wins in Last Five Minutes
of Play.
On the night of February 16, one
of the most bitterly fought basket
ball games of the season was ex
hibited in the Greensboro Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium between the teams repre
senting Guilford College and the
University of North Carolina. Guil
ford seems to have carried her horse
shoe in the wrong position, for in
the first period of the game her team
clearly outclassed their opponents
and succeeded in registering 19
points against the 13 that the Caro
lina team listed. During the first
half every member of the Guilford
team worked like a veteran. In this
period Jones, Guilford's fast left for
ward, scored four field goals and
three foul goals, making a total of
eleven points to his credit.
The last half of the game, though
the playing was no more spectacular
than in the first, was by far the most
exciting period of the game. The
Carolina quint showed such a deter
mined fighting spirit that gradually
its score was piled up toward the
point reached by the Quakers, and
with each gain the suspense and ex
citement became greater to the en
thusiastic supporters of each team.
For three or four minutes the score
was a tie, 23 to 23, with only about
Tive minutes to play. Then in the
remaining short space of time Caro
lina scored five points, while Guil
ford scored only one, and when the
pistol fired, the total score was 28 to
24 in favor of Carolina.
Though the Guilford supporters
saw their team defeated, the defeat
was not a cutting disappointment for
the Guilford regulars fought gamely
to the very last. The Daily News re
porter said, "Jones at forward and
Groome at center were the Guilford
i3tars, both contributing to the good
showing made by the Quakers. The
Guilford guards also played well."
For Carolina, Carmichael and Liip
fert played the best game.
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SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS
IN NEW QUARTERS
On Saturday last the Household
Economics Laboratory moved from
New Garden Hall to the Biology Lab
ratory and the Biology Laboratory
moved to a part of the room occupied
by the Museum. A number of the
students lent their services in carry
ing out the change and the two de
partments are now well on the way
towards being comfortably fixed in
their new quarters. A good deal
still remains to be done however.
The Domestic Science room will need
more white paint before assuming
the proper appearance. Prof. Rogers
has only begun his huge task of prop
erly labeling and arranging the mu
seum specimens. The liberal appli
cation of labels will make the mu
seum of much more interest than
heretofore. The laboratory desks
are in the middle of the room with
the museum cases at the north and
south ends. There is no appearance
of overcrowding. The domestic
science laboratory has been equipped
with especially constructed desks ar
ranged in a horseshoe seventeen feet
long and ten feet wide and contains
a drawer and pastry board. There
is desik room at present for seventeen
students. The laboratory is equip
ped with a wood stove and oil stove
and it is planned later to provide the
desks with individual gas stoves.
COLLEGE PREPARING "BOOK OF
VIEWS."
A book containing views of Guil
ford College is under course of pre
paration. The printer now has all
the material in hand and it is ex
pected that the book will be ready in
a week or two. Much care has been
taken that the book should make a
thoroughly artistic appearance and
present creditably Guilford's splen
did campus and equipment. There
will be sixteen pages and 24 views.
Uncle iMunn, landscape gardener
of Guilford College, is now busily en
gaged in removing the leaves from
the college campus.
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