4 BABE BALL PRACTICE BEGINS. Crack of the Bat Again Heard on Hobbs Field. After a successful basket ball sea son in which every game was hotly contested with close scores, Coach Doak's doughty desciiples have turn ed ,to base ball and a good crowd of candidates for the team is appearing for the afternoon practice. The sea son will open next Thursday, the 14th, when - will meet Ruth erford on the local diamond. Although several of last year's champion team are not back, the new material is showing up well and there is every prospect that this year's team will be up to the usual Guilford standard. With Captain Zachary in the box we iwill have little to fear from our opponents. The other candidates for the hurling slab are Fort, John White and Kendall. Huick Ballinger will be in his old place back of the bat with Stafford ready to take his [place when neces sary. Stafford is new at the job, but is rapidly developing into a real back stoip. At first base it loJks like Cur tis Newlin and Curtis only. For sec ond base Hubbard and Fox are can didates with both having a good chance to make the position. At third Algie Newlin will be back at his old job. Joe Reddick will prob ably hang out between second and third and Joe's throw to first can be depended on as usual. Among those trying out for the out ft fid positions are Johnson, Boren, Fitzgerald, Bul la and McCracken. FORCEFUL. MESSAGE FROM PROF. DAVIS AT Y. M. C. A. (Continued from first page) the real interpretation is crowded out. Some insist that Jesus came into the world to establish the king dom of God by means of force. He did not come to bring enmity. His wa6 a mission of sympathy, love, and good will. God is not an imperial Caesar, exacting tribute from us. He is a God of love and He draws us with bonds of love. True, Jesu6 said ware would continue, but he did not say that he came to bring war. The leader closed with a strong exhorta tion to Christian living. Never sow wild oats. You don't want any tares in your harvest. If you want a hap py old age, you can't look back upon misdeeds. We want the past to be a dream of happiness. Strive to attain ,to the ipearl of great price. CLAYS DEBATE DIRECT VOTE FOR PRESIDENT March Bth the Henry Clay Society assembled and the following subject was debated: Resoilved, That the President of the United States should be elected by direct vote of ,the peo ple. Excellent argument was pro duced by both sides. (New members show steady improvement. Under the head of new business members of the society esteemed it a great honor to receive an invitation to be present at the next regular meeting of their beloved sister Za tasians. OLD STUDENTS IN RETROSPECT (Continued from first page) The school building waa then two stories high. On the flrat floor were two large school rooms; the one in The Students Shoe Store The Old Reliable J. M. HENDRIX & CO. Will be Represented this year at Guilford College by DAVID J. WHITE. Call on him and see the New Fall Styles. Your co-operation and patronage will be appreciated by him and yours truly, J. M. Hendrix & Co., Greensboro, N. C. The Home of Good Shoes the easit end of the builling was for the boys and the room above it was their lodging room. The room in the west and was ...e girls' school-room and the room above it was the girls' lodging-room. Between the school rooms on the first floor, were the parlor, the office and book-room, the superintendent and matron's room and one other small room. Above these rooms on the second floor were the teachers and guest rooms. The dining room was located as at pres ent, but was not so large as it is now. A partition extended north and south through the middle of it. The boys ate on the east side of the partition and the girls on the west side. Where the present stairway and marrow hall is a covered brick walk connected the main building with the dining room and kitchen; and a well on either side of this walk furnished water for the boys and girls respec tively. The dining room and kitch en were only one story high. In the main building there were no closets, but a narrow plank nailed to the four large posts in the center of lodging room and supplied with hooks, took the place of closets. Each girl was assigned a certain number of hooks on iwhich to hang her wearing apparel. This arrange ment answered every purpose, since, in those days, no one was allowed a very elaborate wardrobe, and the homespun of '37 did not crush as the more sheer material of later years. One of the first twen'ty-five girls tes tifies that she had two every day dresses of calico and one best dress. Bach giri .had her own tin wash basin and they carried the water in buck ets from the weAl. They arose at 5 o'clock in the morning, breakfasted at 6, dined at 12, had supper at 6 p. m. and went to bed about 9 o'clock. School opened at 8:30, and the stu dents were given enough to do to keep them busy. One man told me that he recited in eight different sub jects each day. Were the students happy with so few accommodations and the very stringent regulations for conduct? The testimony of one of the first 25 was "that the longer ithey stayed the better they liked it." From that early period of the school's history came many substan tial, Intelligent and influential men and women who have borne the re sponsibility of our Yearly Meeting. THE GUIIiFORDIAN At one time the clerks of five of the Yearly Meetings in the West were North Carolina men. New Garden Boarding School con tinued under the one roof, with slight changes from time to time un til 1883, when it was decided ito raise the grade of the institution and place it on a broader and more substantial basis. To accomplish this ipunpose the new Yearly Meeting house was secured for school purposes, as was given in your columns recently. At this time the name, "Founder's Hall" was adopted for the old building and a mansard roof wias added making the building three instead of two stories high and the whole space was opened for girls. The dining room was enlarged and 'the whole house refurnished. The school was now on the upgrade that led to the Col lege, which it reached in 1888. Changes now came rapidly. In 1905 a new kitchen was built and the dining room still farther enlarg ed to accommodate the increasing numbers. In 1908 a complete renovation of the main building was made. The whole interior was rearranged and hard wood floors laid in the iplace of the amuck splintered pine ones. The front porch and porto cochere were aaded. The modern equipments have made it Very comfortable and attractive, a building which is not surpassed by any of our denomina tional colleges. An old studenit on a recent visit to the college remarked that nothing looked natural except the box-bushes. Some of the families that were represented the first day of the school were not without a represen tative until 1914, a period of seventy seven year*. If the story of Founder's Hall could be written in fulllit would sur pass in interest, aspiration and pathos any work of fiction now be fore the ipublic. Here have gathered the flower of the Yearly Meeting and of other churches and nations ae well. Here have been formed attach ments that have endured a life-time; here has been (moulded characters whose influence has been nation wide; and here, we trust, our eons and daughters will come and make yet more far-reaching the earnest search for truth th'at was begun in 1837. MARY E. M. DAVIS. "T*PM— —— The Store for Mother and the Girls. "MERCHANDISE OF QUALITY" THE PATTERSON CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS Greensboro, N. C. FIELD SEEDS FEED FLOUR Dr. J. E. WYCHE DENTIST Fisher Building. Room 211. Office Phone 29. Residence 22 Fashion Park Clothes READY TO WEAR The kind for the young man who cares about his personal appearance. Howard & Foster and Clapp's Shoes Donnell & Medearis, Inc. THE YOUNG MAN'S SHOP 205 S. Elin St. Greensboro, N. C. B E R IM A U THE POPULAR JEWELER invites you to his store when in Greensboro. Best stock of Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Dia monds. First Class Repair Shop. Medals and Class Pins made to or der in shop. GREENSBORO, N. C. GUILFORD HARDWARE CO. The Store That Appreciates Yours Business 528 South Elm St. Phone 275 THE COLLEGE STUDENTS Are Alnvays Welcome With Us. Our Line of DRUGS, CANDIES, TOILET ARTICLES AND SODAS Are Complete. CON YEIiS DRUG STORE RALPH J. SYKES, Mgr. 350 S. Elm St. Near Depot W. I. ANDERSON & CO. Inc. North Carolina's Largest Dealers in Fruits and Produce. Wholesale Only. Greensboro, N. C. WE MAKE ONLY THE BETTER GRADE PHOTOGRAPHS You are invited to come eee ua. THE EUSTLER STUDIO, Greensboro, N. C.

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