THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL. IX.
ATHLETIC PLAY BRINGS
NEW TALENT TO LIGHT
"Three ..Live Ghosts" ..Delights
Audience With Its Comic
Effect,
"Three Live Ghosts," the play for
the benefit of the men's athletic as
sociation, played Saturday evening,
March 25, to a large and sympathet
ic audience. A play with three
heroes, this bit of English comedy
brought to light three new stars in
the college dramatic circle.
Eva Holder as the shrewdly grasp
ing old cockney English woman,
Everett Mcßane as her step-son,
Jimmie Gubbins, and Jack Ragsdale
as Spoofy, the young English lord
suffering from shell shock, shared
equally in the honors and kept their
audience in a gale of laughter. This
i= the first appearance of any of the
three in college dramatics, their
successful handling of difficult char
acter parts may be hailed as prom
ise of further appearances in coun
cil productions.
Janie Mae Butler as Peggy Woo
fers probably came next in the
favor of the audience, with her
spontaneous interpretation of the
comic role of the landlady's daugh
ter and Jimmie's best girl.
Robert Marshal as William Foster,
the third title role, and Margaret
Armfield as Rose Gordon struck a
more serious note in their interpreta
tions of the two chief American
characters in the play, winning the
sympathy of the audience with their
bit of near tragedy. ,
Sam Harris, as Briggs of Scotland
Yard, was as domineering and intent
on success as the greatst of sleuths,
giving a forceful and convincing in
terpretation to his role. Addison
Smith as the Amercian detective,
Bolton, was also well received.
Ruth Stephens made a charmingly
aristocratic Lady Leicester. Although
she appeared only for a few mo
ments, she played an important part
in the solution of the play and with
her beautiful costume added greatly
to the decorative effect of the final
scene.
Briggs' three helpers, Benson,
Alonzo Pringle, and the two police
men, Kenneth Neece and Elton War
rick, added not a little to the real
istic atmosphere of the play. As
energetic as their leader, Benson and
Warwick were always on the alert,
while Neece made a policeman true
to type.
The play, which is the last pro
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I CAMPUS CALENDAR
March 30. 11:30 a. m.
to
April 3, 1 :30 p. m.
Easter Holidays
April 7. 8 :00 p. m.
Home Concert
{ Guilford Glee Club
| April 13, 4:00 p. m. ...
Baseball
I Wake Forest vs. Guilford
t .... April 14. 8:00 p. m. . |
Piano Recital
T Lloyd Merriman and Myrta j
White !
HAVERFORDIANS HOLD
BANQUET AT COLLEGE IN
HONOR OF DR. COMFORT
The Haverford college banquet,
held here Monday evening, March
26, in honor of President W. W.
Comfort of Haverford, and attended
by more than twenty alumni of Ha
verford, who are also old Guilford
or New Garden students, and the
Guilford college faculty, was evi
dence of the close bonds existing
between Haverford and Guilford.
W. A. Blair of Winston-Salem did
the honors as toastmaster, and the
guests were heartily welcomed by
President Binford, who expressed
pleasure at the most cordial and co
operative relationship of Haverford
and Guilford.
President Comfort made the main
address of the evening, speaking of
the attitude of Haverford toward
Guilford. "Between Haverford and
Guilford there is a well-beaten path
which leads both ways," he declar
ed. The cordial reception which
Guilford tendered him and other
Haverford men was assurance that
the strongest feeling of mutual ser
vice existed between the two col
leges.
President Comfort spoke at length
concerning the Haverford graduate
school, explaining the purpose of
its foundation, and the good hoped
to be accomplished by the scholar
ships given by Haverford to young
men and women of American Qua
ker colleges. The Guilford students
in the school now were mentioned,
Bessie Guthrie, Florence Cox, and
Curtis Newlin.
The necessity of the small college
was outlined by this, the president
of one of the best small colleges in
the country, and it was stated that
Haverford's ambition was to remain
an exponent of the value of such a
school.
Dr. L. L. Hobbs paid a fine trib
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GLEE CLUB WELL RECEIVED
AT PLEASANT GARDEN
Two weeks and a day have been
given the glee club for recupera
tion. Pre-Easter work has been com
pleted, and the members will have
a much needed vacation before the
Oak Ridge concert on April 6.
The last two concerts at High
Point and Pleasant Garden were
quite successful, although the audi
ence at High Point was hardly as
large as could have been expected
in a town of that size. However
it was a musically appreciative
group that occupied the hall of the
high school building on Tuesday
evening.
Success was marked at Pleasant
Garden where 400 people gathered
Thursday evening to hear the sing
ers. The program was not up to
standard, due to a hoodoo of misun
derstanding that seemed to possess
the club members. The individual
members were most appreciated; the
reading from Guest by James Joyce
received tumultuous applause.
The Pleasant Garden high school,
under whose auspices the club ap
peared, entertained the Guilford
men with a reception immediately
following the performance.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MARCH 23, 1923
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J. B. Frazier, named as all state
basketball player several times, has
just finished his fourth season as a
varsity man at Guilford. He has
earned in basketball one "G" and
three stars. At the present time he
is recognized by all basketball men
as being one of the best players in
this state.
COLLEGE CONFERENCE IS
HELD IN GREENSBORO
The North Carolina college con
ference held its fourth meeting in
Greensboro, N. C. on March 23 and
24. Dr. Raymond Binford of Guil
ford College gave a report of the
visitation of schools in North Car
olina.
This conference which was held
at the O. Henry hotel, and according
to Dr. Rondthaler of Salem college,
is showing how the colleges of the
state are ceasing to use competive
methods and thereby in "their in
creasing spirit of friendliness, co
operation and broad-minded approv
al to common problems on the part
of all the institutions in North
Carolina" are strengthening their
positions as means of educating the
youth of the country.
President Binford in a report to
the conference, showed how through
visitation of some* 120 high schools
of the state, more interest is being
awakened in the advanced and high
er education.
"Practically all of them have re
sponded in an unusual degree to the
efforts of the visiting speakers. In
several instances, following an ad
dress by one of the college repre
sentatives, direct results were seen
by an undelayed increase in faculty
and school facilities."
Dr. Poteat of Wake Forest ad
dressed the association on the sub
ject of endowment for higher edu
cation. He explained that "the
youth of the land is the wealth of
the land, and all our activities and
enterprises justified in preparing
these for their future heritage."
HAVERFORD PRESIDENT
URGES RENEWED INTEREST
IN ITALIAN POET, DANTE
"For one to ignore Dante is to
regret a part of his heritage" de
clared W. W. Comfort president of
Haverford college, in his lecture on
Dante, Monday afternoon in Me
morial Hall.
"This man who died 600 years
ago in Ravenna, Italy," he continued,
"forms a part of the partrimony of
humanity because of his great
knowledge of the human heart."
Dante, as Dr. Comfort pointed
out was a great patriot as well
as a great artist. He was a man
of his time, a time when the
struggle concerning the supremacy
of the Pope was at its hottest.
Dante regarded the papacy as
corrupt and had no sympathy with
the alliance of the Pope and France.
It was the time of local feuds be
tween the Guelts and the Guibettines.
Florence, his native city, was rent
with warfare and Dante, himself a
warrior was captured later and ex
iled. For nineteen years he wan
dered over Italy, hating those at
whose hands he ha! suulfered, but
always loving Florence, his native
city.
This experience," Dr. Comfort
said "accounts for the harsh note
of injured justice found in many of
his works. He was just, but merci
less and unforgiving."
Discussing the "Divine comedy"
President Comfort stated, "No other
outline outside of holy writ has
done so much in shaping for pos
terity the ideas of eternal justice
with humanity. This is because he
paved his interior with real men
and women."
The better part of his work is
devoted to telling what "Beatrice"
meant to him. Whom she was the
world does not know, except in
her relation to Dante. He was pos
sessed with the intention of writing
a great poem about one he loved,
thus rendering woman divine.
"And the rewardable thing," said
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STUDENT BODY CLEANS
UP CAMPUS AND SANDWICHES
A huricane hit Guilford campus
last Friday and left it void or nearly
so of dead leaves and other trash.
It was a huricane of men and wo
men; students of Guilford, masquer
ading as farmers. Things began to
move about one-thirty and kept up
until the bell at Founders announc
ed the hour of five-thirty. Clean-up
day was observed for the third time
by the faculty and student body.
Everybody seemed to enjoy becom
ing uncivilized—that is as far as
outward appearance goes, for those
four hours.
This is one half of the story, the
other half happened in the gymna
sium from six until eight o'clock.
Here a real working man's supper
was served under the direction of
Mrs. Levering and Mrs. Burgess. Be
sides the various assortment of sand
wiches which were bounteous both
in size and variety, there was ice tea.
hot toffee, and ice cream as extras.
GUILFORD NINE WINS
SEASONS FIRST GAME
Catawbe Loses by Score 3-2;
Smith ..and ..Shore Star;
Good Team Work
Guilford defeated Catawba col
lege 3 to 2 in the opening college
game of the state, on the Guilford
diamond last Monday afternoon.
The score tells the tale. The out
come remained uncertain until the
end of the contest. The game was
characterized by excellent pitch
ing, only 12 hits being made. Six
were copped by each team.
Guilford led off in scoring when
"Block" Smith scored on a passed
ball. The visitors never reached
first base until the fifth inning when
they scored two unearned runs.
They kept this lead, until "Babe"
Shore's timely hit marked up two
more rounds in the last half of the
eighth. In hitting, "Babe" Shore
led the Quakers with two bingles,
one of which was for three bags.
In fielding "Block" Smith was the
outstanding man of both teams. He
grabbed three flies out of the open
blue, two of which would have easi
ly passed for hits. He staged in the
eighth inning one of the most spec
tacular trick plays that was ever
played on Hobbs field, by faking an
error, then throwing the runner out
at second. Nereus English in his
first game played like a veteran, as
sisting in five put outs, and making
no errors.
Phipps, pitcher for the visiting
team, displayed the best work of
any of the Catawba nine. He
pitched an excellent game and
through his hit succeeded in raising
the Catawba score by one point.
Box score A.B. R. H. P.O. E.
Hayworth 3 0 17 0
J. W. Frazier 4 0 0 2 0
Burge 4 0 12 0
Ferrell 3 0 0 0 0
Smith 3 10 3 0
Winn 2 1111
Cummings 2 1 1 12 0
N. English 3 0 0 0 0
H. B. Shore 3 0 2 0 2
SCOTCH LECTURE TO
REPLACE VACHEL LINDSAY
Doctor Robert MacGowan, promi
nent Redpath Chautauqua headliner,
will lecture in Memorial Hall at
8 o'clock, April 18. Doctor Mac-
Gowan holds a degree from the Uni
versity of Glasgow, Scotland, and
an honorary degree from the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh. In addition he
has done post-graduate work in
psychology at the University of
London. His subject will probably
be one of four: "The Creed of the
Flag, "The Individual and Socie
ty,'' "The Canny Scot—His Life and
Literature," and "Unseen Allies."
Dr. MacGowan's lecture com
pletes the college lyceum course for
this year. He is filling the place on
the program left vacant by Vachel
Lindsay's unability to fulfill his
southern engagements this season.
Miss Flay Vuncannon spent the
week end with lone Lowe.
Miss Mary Price of Stoneville,
N. C., was the week end guest of
Miss Katherine Smith.
No. 23.