THE GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME VII
"Rebecca's Triumph"
Given by Y. W. C. A.
The Annual Play of Women's Chris
tian Association, Best Entertain
ment of the Year.
STAGE SETTING VERY ATTRACTIVE
On Saturday evening-. "Rebecca's
Triumph, a play in three acts, was
given by the Y. W. C. A. The actress
es held the attention of the audi
ence from the beginning. Much cred
it is due every character for the ex
cellent way in which she played her
part. The entertainment was the best
that has been given in Memorial Hall
this year.
Not a small part of the success of
the play was due to the beautiful and
effective stage setting. In the first
act nothing was lacking to make the
scene that of a spotless kitchen of a
humble dwelling. In the second act
the scene was a trysting place in the
woods. The swing and rustic seats
were very realistic, and the old hol
low tree and the shrubbery looked as
if they had grown there. In the
last act the stage setting represented
with cream tinted walls and brown
hangings the parlor of the great
house on the hill. The view, through
the open door and windows, of the
sky, and of porch pillars inter
twined with vines added to the beau
ty cf the scene.
Before the curtain rose and be
tween the acts music was furnished
by the college orchestra, and by
Misses Irma Kurfees, Ada McCrack
en, and Alta Rush, which added much
to the enjoyment of the evening.
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"JAMESTOWN CLUB ENTER
TAINS SENIOR CLASS.
On Monday evening, April 11, the
"Jamestown club" cf Guilford enter
tained the Senior class of Jamestown
High School. The guests arrived at
the college about five o'clock—ac
companied by Professor Ed B. Car
roll and Miss Laura Davis. The
club members received the visitors at
Pounders Hall—with Miss Louise as
chaperon—the guests were taken
through the different dormitories and
buildings on the campus. This was
quite interesting to many of the vis
itors since this was their first visit
to Guilford.
The club had planned a picnic sup
per to be given on the campus but
on account of the cold weather the
supper was given in the Home Eco
nomics Laboratory.
After supper, Mr. Ralph Farlow,
president of the club, welcomed the
visitors. Then Miss Louise, in her
usually interesting way, related some
of her experinces after which Pro
fessor Balderston gave a very in
teresting reading. Various games and
speeches followed.
The guests were then taken to Me
morial Hall to hear the last number
of the Lyceum course of the year
given by Mrs. Chilton.
The members of the senior class,
present were as follows: Misses Nell
Smith, Gertrude Foscue, Ruby WiI
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tOLLEUE, JN. C., APRIL 20, 1921
Conference of "Y. W."
Officers Held
At Guilford
Many Colleges Represented
On April 15th and 16th the local
Y. W. C. A. enjoyed the privilege of
a conference led by Miss Willie N.
Young, chairman of the National
Membership Committee, Miss Wini
fred Sundean, Undergraduate Field
Representative of Greensboro Col
lege and Miss Mildred Bannington
of North Carolina College. It was
composed of delegates from Oxford
College. Elon College, Peace Insti
tute, Limestone, Davenport, Atlantic
Christian College and the old and new
cabinet membership of Guilford As
sociation.
The chief purpose of the conference
was to train the new president and
undergraduate reresentatives in real
izing in the biggest sense of the
word their responsibilities as leaders
of their respective organizations. As
the delegates from the various col
leges exchanged ideas and plans. Y.
W. C. A. work took on a bigger as
pect than ever before and each mem
ber realized that her association was
a small part cf the greatest national
organization which women control
today. Much valuable information
was ?>ined in these meetings as to
the technique of association work,
but the spirit which pervaded the
conference and which gave new in
spiration to the incoming officers
meant even more than the decision
of ways and mean.
The whole theme of the conference
was "The necessity of Christ." Miss
Young developed this thought in
detail in a series of three meetings,
all of which gave to many members
of the council a beneficial and higher
conception of Christ. She stimulated
the thoughts of all present by asking
the vital questions. "Why do we need
Christ?" "What kind of a picture do
you visualize when you think Christ?"
"What kind of a God do you know?"
To some it was no doubt a new
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ART CLASS GIVES EXHIBITION
OF WORK DONE.
The art pupils of Mrs. Anscombe
gave a very pleasing and attractive
exhibit of their work on Friday last.
Mrs. Anscombe, with the assistance
of Professor J. Wesley White had
arranged the pictures very artistical
ly in her parlor, and during the
afternoon and evening an unbroken
stream of visitors enjoyed the exhibit.
Those exhibiting included:
Myrtle Cox, Helen Robertson, Mary
Ellen Griffin, Zola McCracken, Clai'a
McCracken, Luna Taylor and Martha
Pringle. .
Martha Pringle also exhibited some
very commendable examples of her
pottery and clay modelling.
Mrs. Anscombe also had on exhi
bition some examples of her own
work in landscapes and china paint
ing.
Professor Wesley White, an art
critic of experience, expressed the
highest praise of the work of Mrs.
Anscombe and her pupils.
The Last Number
Of Lyceum Course
Mrs. Calvin Chilton Presents "Polly
of the Circus"
"Polly of the Circus" was given as
the closing number of the Lyceum
on Monday evening., April 11, by
Mrs. William Calvin Chilton, a mono
dramatist. She presented in a very
fine manner the romance which de
veloped in a .small town where the
circus tent was pitched next door to
the minister's home. During the
circus the chief rider, Polly, was
thrown from her horse and carried
to the minister's house so badly hurt
that she was unable to go on with
the circus. She remained at his home
for nearly a year, becoming under his
influence a Christian girl, while be
fore she had been totally ignorant of
any world except that of the circus.
At last by means of the gossip of
certain members of the congregation
she was made to feel that she was
not wanted and ran away to join the
circus again in a nearby town. When
it reached the town the minister
made known to her his love, and res
cued her from the now unhappy life
tc be the mistress of the parsonage.
Mrs. Chilton's impersonation of
Mandy, the servant of Mr. Douglas,
the minister, and her husband Hasty
Jones, pleased the audience especial
ly and was proof that she knows the
life and character of the negro. She
made her listeners feel all the tender
ness and innocence of girlish Polly
and sympathize with her and the par
son as the unfortunate victims of
neighborhood gossip.
MEETING OF MATHEMATICS
DEPARTMENT.
"Math Sharks'' and "Star Gazers"
Give ah Interesting
Entertainment
The importance of Mathematics as
a factor in the growth of civilization
w-as shown by the discussion in the
Mathematics meeting on Wednesday
evening, April 13. Members of the
Mathematics Departement and the
Astronomy class were present.
Professor Pancoast, as head of the
Department, opened the meeting with
a few remarks concerning the work
and outlined the progress to follow.
Professor Newlin. the assistant in
Mathematics, made a few remarks.
The members of the class in Ana
lytical Geometry had charge of the
first section of the program. Spot
Taylor defined and gave a discussion
of the different kinds of conics. This
was followed by explanations of prob
lems representing the different kinds
of conics. Those speaking from the
class in analytical Geometry were
Messrs. Taylor, Crews and Hollady
and Misses Richardson, Allen and
Reynolds.
The subject of "maxima and min
ima ' was the phase of Calculus dis
cussed by Mr. Doughton and Misses
Lindley and E. Raiford. The variety
of problems showed the wide appli
cation of this part of Mathematics
to practical use.
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Guilford Receives
A String of Defeats
Three Days Trip Included Games
With Elon, Wake Forest and
N. C. State College.
Elon wins Second Game of Series.
Guilford lost her second game of
the series with Elon on the latter's
field, April 14th, by the score of 1-1.
Except for one inning, the sth, in
which Elon gathered in three runs,
the game was close and interesting.
Elon's first run came in the third
and Guilford's lone tally came in the
ninth.
In the first inning both sides sent
but three men to bat, who were re
tired in quick succession.
In the second H. Shore,, first man
up for Guilford, crashed out a good
two baseball hit and took third when
the catcher tried to catch him off and
threw the ball away. During the
whole game Guilford never had a
finer chance to bring in a run. Bar
ker, the Elon twirler stiffened up a
little, however and sent three men
down in succession by the strike out
route, Clark first up now up for Elon
was out third base to first. Marlette
and Albritton then drove out singles
and Shore., to encourage them, gave
Underwood a free pass to first filling
.the bases. Then byway of discour
agement he showed some of Barker's
stuff and allowed the next two batters
to do nothing more than whiff the
air.
Third inning. Guilford succeeded
in getting only one man on base in
this inning. Elon's half: After two
men were out Johnson waded into a
good one for three bases and came
on home when Stout threw to third
to interrupt him and the hall went
wild. Next man up struck out.
Fourth inning: Guilford men up
and three down in succession. Elon's
half: with two men out Underwood
reached second base on a good hit
but was surrounded there when Cheek
popped up to Frazier. Fifth inning:
Elon half: Barker first up got a
hit and went to second on Newman's
sacrifice. Brown and Johnson both
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSO
CIATION CONFERENCE.
Ruth Outland Represents Guilford
At This Conference.
The report from the Southern
Inter-collegiate Student Government
Association Conference is one of
interest to all the students. The con
ference was held at Agnes Scott Col
lege, Decatur, Georgia, April twelfth
to fifteenth. About twenty-five
colleges sent representatives for the
purpose of learning how to better
organize and operate their Student
Government Associations. Although
the program for each day had its
particular good points, the ones of
special interest to the readers of the
GUILFORDIAN were two. First; the
welcome, by the president of the
college and his idea of Student Gov
ernment. "It is a government based
on honor, and honor is based on truth,
and justice; the kind of justice which
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