THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL. X.
Representatives From Guilford's
Graduated Classes Meet On
Campus And Endorse Program
GUILFORD SLATED TO HAVE
GREATEST BASKET RALL TEAM
PUT OUT IN SEVERAL YEARS
Season' Practice Started With
Rush As Men
Get In
One week of practice has been
enough to bring out a fact that
is paramount among the follow
ers of the Crimson and Gray, that
Guilford will be represented on
the college courts this season by
the fastest basket team she has
produced in several years. Start
ing off with speed that dazzled
the on-lookers, the letter men
have seemed to strive to confound
the hopeful freshmen and last
year's scrubs. With ease and
grace each man covers his section
of the floor, running through
snappy pass work, dribbling with
care and precision, and register
ing brilliant shots from all angles.
Competition
Every player appears to be
bent on clinching his berth dur
ing first appearance. However
the new recruits are not of a nerv
ous temperment, for they accept
the challenge of more speed, set
by the varsit\ of last year, and as
each new man is injected into the
fray, it becomes marked by aburst
of speed that throws scare into
the hearts of several letter men,
and extends them to their limits
to keep pace. Every man has
been substituted for, and all pos
sible combinations have been tri
ed, yet so evenly is the team bal
anced that it is only the breaks of
the game which decide the en
counters. With such substitutes,
Guilford can truly laugh at the
foul-out rule, which so worried
her last year, and can confiden
tially say that with one exception
she is able to replace each man
on the floor and loses none of
her chances of winning.
J. G. Frazier
This one exception is J. G.
Frazier, a player that is known
to all basketball fans of the state.
He is the one outstanding star,
and in finding an equal for him
the list of the state's teams could
probably be run through with
fruitless results.
The new men that stand out
head and shoulders over the
others are; Rick Ferrell, Rufus
Smith, and "Smutt" Smith. These
players are showing a brand of
basketball that is sure to place
them in college contests before
this season has drawn to a close.
For their one week's work they
stand favored in the eyes of Coach
Doak, and feared by old men.
Coach Doak is highly pleased
with results of his opening week
of practice, and feels confident
that he will have a dangerous
bunch of basketball players to
throw into the pit against the
the University of Carolina, on
Jan. 15.
Tri-Fold Program Receives
Enthusiasm of Old
Guilfordians
$295,000 NOW RAISED
Big Jubilation To Be Held
During Next Commencement
To complete the endowment of
a half million dollars, to triple i
the active membership of the I
alumni associatio ), to gather the
sons of Guilford in one grand
home coining celebration next
commencement, was the three
fold program pledged by the rep
resentatives from the twenty-four
of thirty-five graduated classes
meeting in an enthusiastic session
here Sunday, November 9.
Alumni Campaign
With $295,000 already sub
scribed and with $.'50,000 more in
sight the meeting unanimously
voted to make a blanket campaign
calling upon every alumnus for at
least Sl5O. The plan as presented;
by Dr. Bin ford will use the class
as the divisional unit with one oi"
more members chosen to act as 1
campaign manager. The pres
ence of more than thirty of the
class leaders here Sunday with
written endorsements from many
more assures the fact that Guil
ford's call will go in definite per
sonal way to every alumnus—,
the call to not only pledge but to
pie'ge before February 1.
Dr. Binford's Plea
"Guilford calls for this definite
amount, the answer must be giv
en by you, sons and daughters of
Guilford, to assure the successful
completion of the campaign"
were the closing words of the
president.
Membership Drive
completion of tlie campaign,'
paign to complete the endowment
Simultaneously with the cam
bership of the alumni association
will be made. I'. S. Xunn 'l4 of
Winston-Salem presented a very
feasible idea to increase member
ship. Mr. Nunn suggested to
start Round Robin letters within
the classes to which each member
contribute any interesting bit of
news together with the fact that
his name is on the active mem
bers list. The letter is then sent
on its way. Class secretaries are
to keep these letters from stalling
and their whereabouts known.
The Jubilation
With the first two proposi
tions completed, graduates, and
old students will gather on the
campus next commencement for
a big jubilation. At Ithis time
plans are being formulated to
have every student who ever at
tended the institution back on
the grounds as far as it is in the
power of the asociation. The pro
gram and entertainment commit
tees are now engaged in prepar
ing for the grand celebration.
Committees Appointed
Committees were named as fol
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C. DECEMBER 12, 1923
ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN MAKES
STEADY PROGRESS AND CON
TINUES THROUGH HOLIDAYS
Guilford-Randolph Club to Serve
Dinner at Asheboro
Guilford Endowment
The Guilford Endowment Cam
paign has been making steady
progress for the last few weeks.
Contributions ranging from small j
amounts to larger sums have been
contributed by Guilford friends
and former students of High
Point. W inston-Salem, Lexing-l,
ton and Thomasville.
Dr. Perisho spent a number of
days recently in the above named i
places. Last week he addressed
both the Rotary Club and high ,
school of Lexington.
This week Dr. Peroisho is (
spending much time in Winston-
Salem completing if possible the
canvass there for the endowment, i
A portion of the week following
will be spent in Greensboro, and
High Point.
The Guilford College Club of
Randolph County will hold a
public meeting and serve a dinner
in the city of Asheboro during
the holidays. Also during the
vacation period, the Guilford Col
lege Club of North Alamance
County, made up largely of the
former students of Burlington and
Graham, will hold a meeting at
which Dr. Perisho will speak. The
Uurlington meeting is prepara
tory to a canvass of Guilford stu
dents in Northern Alamance
County. A little later there will
be a meeting of the Guilford Col
lege Club of South Alamance.
The College is very much en
couraged with the progress of the
endowment campaign. At the
present time there is approxima
tely $29.),000 pledged toward the
final goal of $.'575,000. It is re
cognized that the last $75'000 will
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VIVIAN WHITE 75 CAPTURES
MEDAL IN CLAY CONTEST
Vivian White of the class of 1925
captured the inedal in the thirty
eighth annual oratorical contest
held in Memorial Hall, SaturaiK
evening, December 8. Mr. White
won on an oration entitled "Henrv
Clay."
The contes was between four
orators elected by the society, name
ly, Vivian White, Glenn Lassiter,
Frank Casey and French Smith.
The contest was a close one accord-:
ing to various opinions from the
laudience.
The Guilford college orchestra
made its debut at this time and re
ceived several encores for its xjen
ditions. This organization has now
seven pieces in its personnel and
made quite a hit at the contest with
its popular music.
The titles of the other three ora
tions were, "Peace through an In
ternational court," "Duty of the
college men of America," and "An
Era of democracy." This is the third
year in succession that the class of
1925 has had the representative to
win this contest.
1
High Point Day Is Observed
On Guilford Campus Monday
Athletic Events Feature Days
Program;.. Faculty
Takes Part
It was High Point day at Guil
ford College, last Monday even
ing. That is. tiie Guilford even
ing belonged to that part of the
furniture city known as the ()ut
ing Club organized by Tom
Sykes, the pastor of the Friends
church. The things began to hap
pen about the time that the visit
ing automobiles began to arrive
on the campus and Dr. Perisho's
corps of guides showed the Point
ers over the institutional plant
from the poultry yard to the sci
entific laboratories.
Bring War Clubs
The guests brought their war
clubs with them in the form of
tennis rackets and other athletic
paraphernalia. Tennis doubles
and singles were both played. In
the doubles Miss Harmon and C.
M. Way nick of High Point de
feated Kate Cooper and Edwin
Brown of Guilford. In the sing
les the Quakers were luckier
when Jennie Cannon and Lena
Marshburn won from Misses
James and Merritt.
Student Body Out
The entire student body made
up the galleries of the volley ball,J
horseshoe, tennis and basketball
games. The Guilford professors,
if they ever possessed a dignified
air. left it in the class room,
shucked their coats and took part
in the games. Just before the
Guilfordian went to press it could
not be learned the exact horse
shoe score hut they piled up rap
idly under the skilful hands of
liurke, Welborne and John Cude. j
However, these hurlers failed;
when it came to matching skill j
with the Guilford girls.
Basket Ball
Basket ball games came next on
the card and the Guilford fresh
men boys captured a contest from
a crowd of Pointers 14-7. Fol
lowing this the Upper class wo-j
men of Guilford trampled on the
freshmen with a score 10-15. The
game started with the advantage
belonging to the freshmen but it
turned at the beginning of the
second half and the veterans kept
the ball in their territory the
greater part of the time.
At Seven o'clock the crowd
j went to the president's residence
I and enjoyed a camp fire supper
of wienies, coffee and sandwiches.
A return to the Gym was effected
following the repast where anoth
er basket ball game between the
Guilford scrubs and another
Pointer group was staged, the
scrubs winning.
Tug of War
The feature of the evening,
however, was the tug of war be
tween representatives from the
college and the furniture city.
The (inilford tuggers had as their
I end man Dr. Raymond Binford,
president of the college, but in
spite of the heavy Quaker rein
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REGULATIONS GOVERNING
SCHOLARSHIPS AND HONORS
ANNOUNCED BY REGISTRAR
The following information regard
ing the regulations concerning "hon
or" grades and scholarships was se
cured from the registrar recently:
Members of the freshman and
sophomore classes pursuing a regu
lar amount of work whose average
grade is 90 or above and whose
grade does not fall below 85 in
any subject shall be entitled to
"honors."
Members of the junior class who
receives an average grade of 93 in
their major work and do not re
ceive a grade below 85 in any sub
ject shall be entitled to High Hon
ors.
Those members of the senior
class who have received High Hon
ors in their junior year and whose
average grade in the senior year
does not fall below 93 shall be en
titled to Highest Honors.
The class of 1901- in memory of
one of their members, Marvin Har
din. who died in 1907. has endowed
an annual tuition scholarship which
is to be awarded to the sophomore,
making the best average in the
sophomore studies, said amount to
be available in the spring of the
senior year and only upon the con
dition that the student winning the
honor remain at Guilford during
the junior and senior year.
Haverford College offers annual
ly to the young man of the graduat
ing class whom the faculty shell
recommend, a scholarship of S3O >,
and Brvn Mawr College offers to
the young woman of the graduat
ing class, recommended bv the fa
culty, a scholarship of S4OO.
In selecting members of the sen
ior ( lass to whom shall be awarded
thesp scholarships f rreat weight is
given to rank in s holarship. but
general excellence of character and
promise of future usefulness in
society are also taken into account,
no one will be o isidered eligible
to these scholarships who has not
been a student at Guilford College
for al least two years and who does
not make application for consider
ation.
GUILFORD COLLEGE POULTRY
ENTRIES WIN HONORS IN SHOW
At the recent State Poultry Show
held in Greensboro. N. C., Guil
ford College poultry department
entered two pens and two cockerels
in the Dark Barred Rock class. The
following prizes were won, first pen,
fourth pen, second cockerel, third
cockerel. Out of seven entires of
the department in shows this fall, the
birds have won three first prizes,
one second prize, two third prizes
and one fourth prize.
Thelma Hill spent the week
end in Greensboro.
Ethel Watkins spent the week
end in Jamestown as the guest oi
Marv Dixon of the class of 21.
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