THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL. X
DR. WILFRED T. GRENFELL
NDTED SURGEON LECTURES ON
LABRADOR MISSION WORK
Pictures Grandeur of North
Coast Scenery; Tells of
Hospital Work
LAST LYCEUM NUMBER
The last number, and one of j
the very best, was given in .Me
morial hall Saturday evening,
when Dr. Winfred l\ Grenfell.
noted bone surgeon and north
coast missionary, gave an illus
trated lecture, "Midst Snow and
Ice in Labrador."
Dr. Grenfell gave an account of!
how the late Dvvight L. Moody |
influenced him thirty-two years;
ago to dedicate his life to the
work of a medical missionary.
He mentioned the lure of the
north, the appeal of ministering
to the descendants of men who j
helped to keep Anglo-Saxon civil
ization safe, the desire to "make
new men out of old."
"The man who gets into the
game," asserted Dr. Grenfell. i
"not the one on the bleachers, has |
the real joy of life —the \ iking j
spirit is born out of hard things, i
The speaker presented the vari
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CLASS SQUADS BATTLE
IN BASKETBALL TOURNEY
With the girls basketball tour-1
nament in full operation the most
intense interest of the season is
being manifested in this sport, j
Class enthusiasm and spirit run
high. The mushroom spirit of ri
valry of the tournament is arous
ed. Already several conflicts have
been engaged in. and temporary
laurel wreaths crown the victors
of the preliminary games. Ihe
following scores give some idea
as to the progress of the tourna
ment : Freshmen vs. Sophomores,
'25 to 3; Juniors vs. Seniors: 41 to
2 ; Juniors vs. Freshmen. 34 to 33.
Sophomores vs. Seniors, G4 to 7.
The first tournament will be
completed next week, and with
the beginning of the finals, even
more interesting games are an
ticipated.
WESTTOWN ALUMNI HOLD
ANNUAL REUNION MAY 24
The West own Alumni Associ
ation will hold its annual reunion
at Westtown on March 21. This
marks the 185 th anniversa y of
the founding of the school, and in
order to make the day as memoi
able as possible, the Alumni As
sociation wishes to extend a
most hearty welcome to those
who have ever been connected
with Westtown. There will he
activities throughout the day and
evening, and efforts are being
made to secure especially inter
esting speakers. The Associa
tion is extremely anxious thai
many old students shall gather
on the campus on that day and
spend a few worthwhile houn
together.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C. March 5, 1924
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Top row, left to right—Thomas, Reynolds, Sparger, Herring, A. Smith, Tew. Center row, left to right—J. G, Frazier, Bob Doak
(coach.). Winn (manager), J. H. Frazier (captain). Bottom row, sitting, left to right F. Smith, R. Smith. Cummings, Ferrell.
HIGH SCHOOLS PLACING
ENTRIES FOR TRACK DAY
Annual Athletic and Oratorical
Contest Promises To Be
Biggest In History
Plans for high school day April
2G, are fast materializing. Fifteen
schools have already entered
students for the track events,
basketball and declamation con
tests, and other entries are ex
i pected to pour in during the next
I four weeks.
Greensboro and \\ inston-Sa-
I lem will again enter all the
events of the day. Durham has
1 representatives in the declama
i tion contest, and will proboblx
I enter names for the track events
! a little later. Acceptances are
! coming from all parts of the
! State: from Selma, and Sanford,
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SENIORS ENTERTAINED
AT PRESIDENT'S HOME
Last Tuesday evening. Dr. and
Mrs. Binford entertained the
members of the senior class with
a delightful informal party from 7
to 10 o'clock.
At seven o'clock, the senior
class convened in front of Found
■ er's hall and went "en masse" to
i the party. During the course of
; the party. During the course of
f the evening various interesting
I games were engaged in in the true
- senior spirit of joviality, a clever
- er little contest followed which
i was greatly enjoyed, and in
j which Leora Sherrill won the
1 prize. Afterward the hostess serv
ei ed to her guests delightful or
-1 i angeade and doughnuts.
Later in the evening, Dr. Bin
- ford discussed with the seniors
- plans which are being formulated
t for the spring commencement,
r askng for their various opinions
cl or suggestions, and reaching
s some decisions in regard to this
matter.
FAST QUAKER QUINT SCORES
TWELVE VICTORIES ON HEAVY
SCHEDULE, LOSES SIX GAMES
Twelve victories out of a sche
dule of eighteen games is the re
cord of the 1924 basketball team,
the fastest Crimson and Gray
quint since 1914 as judged by
competitive scores. I his record
was made on a schedule includ
ing the strongest teams of North
Carolina and Virginia.
A total of 227 field goals and 90
oful shots was piled up during
foul shots was pi led up during
Frazier, playing in 17 games, ac-j
counted for 105 field goals and 35.
fouls, an average of 14 1-16 points
to the game. |
The team was arrayed against
the fastest quints in the State in j
the early part of the season, and j
was not able to measure its own
pace until the third week of play,
although a scare was thrown into
the Trinity lines in the initial
combat at Durham. Davidson
broke even with the Quakers, and
Wake Forest was routed from
the return bout. N. C. State was
third place in the State lineup in
defeated in both engagements,
and F.lon twice bit the dust be
fore the Quaker team.
! Against the teams from the Old
Dominion country, Guilford pre
sented a stiff front, and in the
1 final week of play, A\ illiam and
Mary, The Richmond Blue Bat
' talion, and Hampden-Sidney were
1 forced to leave on their slate a
1 very knotty problem. Richmond
1 University nosed out ahead by a
one point lead at the final whistle.
The Guilford team, by all signs,
seemed to get better as the sea
son went on. It is a matter of re
'l cord that it won 10 out of the
last 12 games played.
t- Originally there were 19 games
s on the Quaker schedule but one
" contest with Lenoir was cancelled
S due to the lack of lights that
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MISS OSBORNE REVIEWS
WORK OF ELWOOD HAYNES
"Elwood Haynes an his first
model of the 'horseless carriage'
in his wife's kitchen," said Miss
Louise Osborne in her review at
chapel Thursday morning of the
career of the man who added the
' automobile to America's store of
| useful inventions.
Miss Osborne has long been an
acquaintance of the Haynes fami
ly, having lived in the same town
I for a number of years. Her ac-
I count of Mr. Haynes was an in
i complete biography made doubly
interesting by the incidents and
j personal touch which she was
i able to supply.
I "Mr. Haynes," said Miss Os
. borne, "is a plain man, greatly
i interested in the common people.
He was educated at Wooster
Polytechnic Institute, and took
post-graduate work at Johns
Hopkins. Then he taught sci
ence at Eastern Indiana Normal
1 college, i.ater lie became mana
' ger o: the coal fields at Portland.
1 Indiana. ;ind of the gas fields at
' Koko'iio. Here at Kokomo he
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The Dover Road
At 8 o'clock, Saturday night, March 29, 1924, the
Guilford College Dramatic Council will present for
its sixth semi-annual production A. A. Milne's world
famous comedy, "The Dover Road." The play is a
three-act wonder of absurd comedy, and will undoubt
edly be the best evening's entertainment of the year.
Seats for the show will be on sale Wednesday,
March 19, at SI.OO each. All seats reserved. Mail
your check for reservations to Edward M. Holder,
Guilford College, N. C. Receipts from the play help
pay the bills of the
MEN'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
MORAL TRUTH UNDERLIES
"THE DOVER ROAD," BUT
PLAY IS ABSURD COMEDY
The Dover Road is a mora!
play—but not one of those un
bending ones where the moral
truth to be presented i> fairly
thrust at the audience. Indeed it
is so interwoven with whimsic
ality and charming situation*
that the truth presented never
obtrudes, or clamors to be recog
nized. but still is always felt.
The play tells the story of two
young couples that impulsively
are attempting to escape from
uncongenial first marriages to
I what pron : es to be even more
i unhappy second ones. Therefore
they are taking the Dover Road,
which comes to have a double
meaning. Tt is not just the lone
ly road from Calais to Dover. It
is the road that everywhere
young couples are taking (like
Anne and Leonard) in the dark,
with the same probable outcome.
| Always the cycle swings, some--
times for the good and some
times otherwise.
The central figure of it all is
Mr. Latimer, who in the course
of a life of bachelordom has had
time to philosophize to a small
extent, and to grow pleasantly
interesting and eccentric. His
hobby is preventing young peo
ple from making unhappy mar
riages unwittingly. He explains
and defends his position thus to
Anne:
"Miss Anne I'm not being mor
al. You see I am a very rich
man. and we have it on good
authority that it is difficult for a
very rich man to he a very good
man. But, being a very rich
man I try to spend my money so
that it makes somebody else hap
py besides myself. la's the only
happy of spending money isn't it?
And it is my hobby to prevent
people—to try if ] can to pre
vent people—making unhap
py marriages. . . . It's wonderful
what power money gives you.
Xobody realizes it. because no
body ever spends it save in the
obvious ways. P>ut mostly it is
my hobby to concentrate on
; those second marriages into
which people plunge—with no
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