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Page 2 THE GU'ILFORDIAN Published weekly by the Henry Clay, Websterian, Zatasian and Philomathean Literary Societies EDITORIAL BOARD H. GRADY McBANE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF J. SPOT TAYLOR, Jr BUSINES MANAGER ISABEL PANCOAST SECRETARY PROF. MARK BALDERSTON FACULTY ADVISOR MISS ALINE POLK FACULTY ADVISOR MISS KATHERINE SMITH ALUMNI EDITOR REPORTERS S. G. Hodgin Men's Athletics Eurie Teague Girls' Athletics William Fishel Y. M. C. A. Josephine Mock * Y. W. C. A. Hershel Macon Lectures and Entertainments Ruth Pearson Office Notes Isabel Pancoast Campus Notes J. Spot. Taylor, Jr Henry Clay Notes Fred Winn Websterian Notes Lois Rabey Philomathean Notes Blanche Lindley Zatasian Notes Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR N. B.—Those desiring additional copies of the paper may secure them for the sum of ten cents per copy. Entered at the post office in Guilford College, N. C., as second-class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association EDITORIAL COMMENT Two games of the basketball season have already been played and on both of these occasions Guilford supporters have had the opportunity oi seeing their team in action. At least two things have been clearly revealed. First, that Guilford has a strong team this year, a team which is superior to those of the past few years, and which should go through the season with a creditable majority of victories. Second, that if the team continues the "lone player'' stuff which was so much in evidence in the game with State College the victories are certain to be on he other side of the score board. The team demonstrated its ability to work to gether in the Elon game. Each man on the floor worked for the game and the team, and the galleries backed their efforts with splendid cooperation. The result of these runited efforts, as might be expected, was a fast skillful exhibition of the game and a clean cut victory for Guilford. But how different is the story of the game wth N. C. State. True the visitors were decidedly off at the beginning of the contest, and Guil ford had the whole floor during the first period. But the team has had experience enough to have learned the value lesson that a game is never safely bagged until the final whistle sounds, and that no circum stances justify a slackening of the pace or loosening of the team work. Evidently this • lesson was either never learned, or entirely forgotten. The team played the first period with a fair amount of cooperation and and team work which was entirely responsible for the showing made. But with the opening of the second period, Guilford, as a team, had en tirely vanished. True enough there were still five men on the floor wearing the "crimson and the gray" but the team was somewhere else. Guilford played as five men rather than one team and the result was as in inevitably a defeat as the first game was surely victory. What ever blame and disgrace there is attached to such a "lay down" rests on the shoulders of each man on the team in like degree. What we wish to know is how long it is going to take our team tc learn this lesson ? How long is it going to take the men to realize the cost of' their grand-stand stuff and that such playing is not ony ruinous to the team's chances of victory but in addition that the lime light in which they thus expose them selves does not give them the individual glory which they crave but only serves to show more clearly the selfishness and narrowness of which they are guilty. When will Guilford students and alumni and other supporters hear the end of this "Tough luck", "Hard Luck Old Man," explanation of de feats which has long ago passed the stage of monotony and is now a shibboleth? It is not bad luck. I is simply and plainly lack of team work and there is no use in giving further impetus to such conditions by merely passing the thing up as hard luck and consoling members of the team with unmerited "you played a good game, old man." It's about time that individual players con sider a little more the welfare of the college team and let their own rep utation as players take care of themselves. Certainly any loyal per son ought to consider his college before himself. And we are frank to say that the person who fails to do this is not worthy of a place on a college team. Pray tell us what difference it makes who wins the game just so long as Guilford wins. If individual honor is the thing to be sought for in intercollegiate athletics, if players are to consider themselves as of more importance in the game than the institution which they represent, than we say that it's time for a revolution in the system. To Wash Down A Hill—Rio de Janeiro, beautful Brazilian city, doesn't like a hill two hundred feet high, standing on the waterfront, obstructing the view and cutting off trafic. United States contractors have agreed to move thtat hill with water. very minute for a year twenty thousand gallons of water under high pressure through a twelve-inch noz zle will bombard that hill. The water of the bay, pumped by powerful engines, will finally demolish the hill, or.ce crowned by a Jesuit monastery and the grave of a Brazilian hero. Sees Crisis in Education—"A crisis exists in American education which is fully as acute as that which exists in the business world,'' ac cording to the new Commissioner of Education. The extent of illiteracy among native Americans, the inabil ity of large numbers of the people to understand our language or to appreciate our institutions and ideals, the failure to provide proper train ing for young people on the farms, the lack of efficient means of physical education, and the necessity for bet ter methods of school financing are among the most serious problems that he finds confronting Americans of this generation. The Bureau of Education is constantly called upon for advice and guidance in all these matters, says Commissioner John James Tigert. More than, two-thirds of the schools of the United States are of rural schools Mi - . Tigert ob serves: "Notwithstanding the efforts that have been put forth in their behalf during recent years they still constitute the most unsatisfactory part of our public school system. . . . It is in the country that the greater part of the illiteracy among native Americans is found. THE GrUILFORDIAN ALUMNI NEWS Mrs. Walter Mendenhall and (laughter are visiting in North Car olina until May. Mr. Hugh Moore, '2O, has recently been appointed pastor of the Friend's church in Winston-Salem. Mr. Richard Hobbs; 'O9. has a son, Richard, Jr., born January 2'9. We are glad to note that Mr. Arthur K. Moore, 'll. who has been ill with Influenza for some time, is very much improved. Mr. Norman A. Fox, '2O, is studying medicine at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Fred Morris, 'l6, is principal of the high school at Chapel Hill, N. C. Miss Clara Blair, 'l9, was married to Mr. Orlando Mastin Barnes on last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes will be at home after February 20th at 124 Tate Street, Greensboro, N. C. Guilfordians will be glad to know that the father of Annie E. Gordon, "08, who has been critically ill for some time is now convalescent. Mrs. Alma Crutchfield Nunn, 'l4, has recently been elected principal of the Guilford College Graded School to succeed Miss Walker, who was forced to give up the work because of ill health. Dr. C. 0. Meredith, 1900, has a daughter born last December. Miss Ellen Raiford, "18, spent last Week end with her cousins, Misses Lula and Edna Raiford. THE A. W. G. F. CLUB ENTER TAINS IN HONOR OF MISS RUTH RAGSDALE On Tuesday evening the A. W. G. ' L. Club surprised Miss Ruth Rags dale with a banquet and reception in honor of her birthday. The guests met at the Students' Parlor, j Founders Hall. They entered the dining-room, where the banquet table was reserved. It was beautifully decorated with potted plants. The col ors of the Club were attractively used on the place cards. A delicious dinner was then served, j Between courses, Miss Carrie Ed- ! munds and Spot Taylor gave ap propriate toasts to the guest of ; honor, After the banquet the party retired to the Student's Parlor for a social hour, where they enjoyed music and toasting marshmallows over a grate fire. Those present were Misses Rutn j Ragsdale, Evelyn Henley, Marie Tyson, Ethel Watkins, Carrie Ed mund, Susie Wright, Mary Lou Wil kins, Marie Beaman, Luna Tayloi - , Sallie Wilkins. Messrs. Walter Ed wards, Lammons Edgerton, Spot Tay lor, Edwin Brown, Jack Ragsdale, John Frazier, Jr., Brantley McAdoo, Frank McGee, Joe Ragsdale and Benbow Merriman. The faculty j guests were Miss Louise Osborne and Miss Beatrice L. Byrd. THE SIZE AND SPEED OF TRUCKS How large is the average truck and how fast does it travel? This question and others of interest to tiuck owners and users of the high ways are answered by information obtained in a recent traffic censxi.s taken by the Bureau of Public Roads. United States Department of Agricul ture. one of the most traveled high ways in New England. The census discloses that 40 per cent of the trucks were of 1 ton capacity or less; 33 per cent between 1 and 2 1-2 tons; 5 per cent between 2 1-2 tons; and that less than 2 per cent of the trucks were of more than 5 tons capacity. On a level stretch of road, over which the speed of motor vehicles was timed, it was found that more trucks traveled at a speed of 20 miles an hour than at any other rate. Thirty-seven per cent traveled 20 miles an hour or faster. One truck, whose driver said he was in a hurry to get there, was found to be traveling at a speed of 45 miles an hour. The following girls spent the week-end at their respective homes: Pansy Donnell, Bessie Phipps. Pherlie Mae Sisk, Ruth Sampson, and Nell Chilton. | J. M. Hendrix & Co. | | SHOES I 0 Not ordinary shoes, but good shoes at zj ordinary prices 25* |j 223 S. Elm St., Greensboro, N. 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