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Page Two THE GUILFORD!AN Published weekly by the Zatasian, Henry Clay, Philomathean, and Web eterian Literary Societies. Editorial Staff Edwin P. Brown Editor-in-Chief Harvey Dinkins Managing Editor Maude Simpson As-ociate Editor Nereus English Associate Editor Miss N. Era Lasley Alumni Editor George P. Wilson Faculty Adviser A. I. Newlin Faculty Adviser Reporters Beulah Allen Maude Simpson Charles Weir Katherine Shields Reginald Marshall Frances Osborne A 1 ice Hazard Ira G. Newlin Joseph Cox Byron Haworth Business Staff Murray M. White Business Mgr. Pansy Donnell Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College N. C. Subcription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post office in Guil ford College, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegi ate Press Association. EDITOm/lL Someone has divided society into three strata, comparable to the three layers of a loaf of bread. These groups are "the lower crust, the crumbs and the upper crust." A student body might be divided into three roughly defined groups, the incompete-nts, the indifferent competents, and the pro gressive competents. At Guilford Col lege, each of the three groups is at a disadvantage. Circumstances are against them. Now to the point. According to the head of the educa tion department, there are approximate ly as many students whom one might term incompetent as there are whom one might term progressively com petent. It is the indifferent com petent and the incompetents that we shall deal with first. An institution that has in its charge students who are not doing a creditable amount of scholastic work is wasting the time of the instructor, is taking the money of the student without giving said student an equal value in return, and is wasting the time of the student. There is no justification of this state of affairs. Moreover, the student who=e time is wasted is a menace to his own safely a? well as the safety of those around him. It has been said that an idle mind is the Devil's work shop. It is indeed true that mis directed energy and thought, is dangerous. Like the boiler that is fired constantly and is not allowed to expend the pent up energy under the influence of a sane governor, the student whose thoughts are allowed to follow a course with only the view in mind of diverting idle hands, is likely to adopt a costly form of amusement, to his own harm and thai of his neighbor. His influence over other students is not the least harm that can come. The expense of the student has been mentioned before. The student at Guilford Colleie, according to those who are in a position to know, pays only approximately one-half of the expense that he incurs. The en dowment of the college pays the re mainder, gratis. Hence, when an indifferent competent or an incom petent remains in school, he is dis sipating tV ehanre that someone oi the le fortunate progressive com jietent o niaht use and thereby benefi himself and societv. In other words, he is occupying a place to which he has no moral right. The influence is obvious. Some .• av shoul bf devised whereby the progressive com petent could secure the place t' it is being dissipated. When such so-called stu lent - arc allowed to remain in an institution the standards of such an insti'.utioi are necessarily lowered. It may un consciously happen; anyway it does happen. When a faculty labors long and patiently with such a group of persons it sooner or later comes to feel that it must adopt the work taught, to what the student is able to do. or to what the student is will ing to do. Here is where the harm comes in. Such a continued state of affairs eventually begins to tell in the type of graduate which the institu ;i'>n turns out. Then it follows that, if the graduates of an institution fail to make good, the reputation of lie institution begins to start on the !• line. The conscientious student who has earned his degree by measur ing up to an A-l standard is then placed in an unfair position. On the other hand, the progressive competent (i. e. the prospective student) is not attracted to the institution. Indeed the progressive competent who is already in the insitution feels that, since the passing grade can be made with little real work, he is not by duty bound to do a great deal of work. The writer of this article holds that a college has a basic purpose of existence. That purpose is to put a student through a course of thinking, and to teach the student to do system atic thinking. This is a brief de finition of its purpose. This granted there are existent evils at Guilford College that should be corrected. The writer does not attempt to desig nate all of them. A suggestion how ever, is in harmony with the nature of this article. Why could not Guilford College in stitute the regulation which is extant in the best schools of the south? That rule is to turn adrift such students as do not measure up strictly to a set standard. This might be in regard to passing an established amount of scholastic work. The type of work required might be so rigid that it would necessitate the major part of the student's time and thus cut down his extra curricula activi ties to the ideal amount. Indeed the -tudent standard might be so fixed that those who did not measure up in discipline, scholarship, or in compet ence and expenditure of labor would have no place here and shortly Guil ford would be pervaded with an atmosphere of genuine work. The present semi-disorganized training in thinking would be displaced with a course that would attract a type of students that the present group could be if it tried. Miscellaneous Program Given by Zav Society At its regular meeting last Friday the Zatasian Literary Society was en- tertained by a miscellaneous program. The first number v, as the reading of a f'uainf, humorous poem by Thelma Pfaff, which was well receiv ed by the society. The next number was a piano solo by Zelma Hollady, "Napoleon's Last Charge."' arranged by Pollard. The third and last number was "Campus Cracks" by Elizabeth Lev. ering and Ella Mae Friddle. From this the members of the society got some very humorous insights on some of the happenings on the campus. PROF. GEORGE P. WILSON DISCUSSES NOBEL AWARDS (Continued from page 1.) vinner in Literature. He is the son .if Norwegian peasants, but has lived in the United Slates nearly all of bis life. He won the Nobel Prize in lit erature for the year 1920 with his novel "Growth of the Soil." Of this nov el H. G. Wells says, "It is one of the very greatest novels I have ever read." Professor Wilson suggested the following is possible American Candi dates for the literature prize in 1926: Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Li ■ Masters, Eugene o,Neill, Robert Post, Sinclair Lewis, and James Ri 'nch Cabell. In Ore; in one may be fined from $25 to -75 for throwing away be tween Mav 15 and October 1, "any lightexl t ibacco. cigars, cigarets, matches, firecrackers or other lighted material, on any forest land, private road, public highway, or railroad I right of way within tills state." THE GUILFOEDIAN OPEN FORUM The letter appearing in Open Forum this week comes from Edwin M. Wil son, Headmaster of Haverford School, Haverford. Pennsylvania. His communi cation is printed in full and is self explanatory. It is hoped that this article will be followed by others from thinking, members of the Alumni and student body.— Editors. January 12. 1925. My Dear Sir:- In the autumn of 1925, I had notice that a group of men interested in athletics at Guilford College were moving to improve the athletic situa tion in the College as they saw it. I was solicited for a contribution, which was to go into a loan fund to enable promising athletes to come to the College. I was too much occupied to pay attention to the matter and ignored the communication. I also had notice of the meeting held at the College on December twelfth. As a former baseball captain at Guilford, I felt that I would be entitled to fit in that meeting if it were possible for me to be present. Since I could not attend, I wrote a letter to the President of the College, outlining my views about this move ment and asking him to see that the content of the letter was presented to the meeting. I now find in my mail the following communication. It is long, but I ask that you print it in full, if it has not already appeared in Guilfordian. January 1925. To All Guilford College Letter Men, Dear Friends:- On Saturday, December 12, 1925, the following resolutions were adopted at a called meeting of the Guilford College Letter Men's Club. Now it's up to us, each and every one, to make a success of this undertaking, not only in finding good athletic material of good scholarship and in influencing to come to Guilford College next fall; but also in purchasing -eason tickets and selling season tickets to the Guilfort College athletic games about 20 in number. The Greensboro people tell us that if Guilford Letter Men will do their part and get 1 e'lind this proposition 100 r r for a sea on ticket, to prove your faith and your lovalt\ to Guilford College athletics. Please vote, sign and return this letter at your earliest convenience and do your part to 1 t Greensboro know that Guilford College Letter Men are backing Guilford athletics 100 r strong:. Other college Letter Men are rallying to the support of tin ir colleges; what is your answer to this appeal of old Guilford? Respectfully. L. E. fT arrick. Secretary, Letter Men Club. The resolutions follow: Whereas, the Greensboro memorial stadium presents a splendid opport unity for the development and ex pansion of Guilford College athletics; and. Whereas, it is expedient and neces sary to have a special organization to promote and manage the Greensboro part of Guilford College athletics; Therefore it is hereby proposed: First, That the Guilford College athl"tio association continue to man age and control athletics at Guilford College, having charge of all schedule and contracts, and all receipts with disbursements, in connection with athletic games and activities at Guil ford College and return games, as heretofore; Second, That the Guilford College Letter Men's Club take upon itself the management and direction and control of the Greensboro part of Guilford College athletics, and to function as follows: (1) to arrange the schedules at Greensboro and return games, and to make and execute all contracts pertaining thereunto: (2) to sell season tickets and take charge of all receipts and disburse ments in connection with schedules and contracts; (3) to furnish free admission tickets to all said schedules at (Continued on page 4.) 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