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Page Two THE 6UILFORDIAN Published weekly by the Zatasian, Henry Clay, Fhilomathean, and Web sterian Literary Societies. Editoriul Staff Byron Haworth Editor-in-Chief Joseph Cox Managing Editor Frances Osborne .... Associate Editor Ira G. Newlin Associate Editor Miss N. Era Lasley Alumni Editor George P. Wilson Faculty Adviser A. I. Newlin Faculty Adviser Reporters Charles Weir Marie Barnes William Tomlinson Ruht Malpass Alice Hazard Edwin Kozell Regin Id Marshall Alma Hassel Virginia Pamperin Paul Reynolds Business Staff Edwin P. Brown Acting Bus. Mgr. Thelma King Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College N. C. Subcription price 11.50 per year Entered at the post oiiice in Guil ford College, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegi ate Press Association. What's the use of having a good aim in life if you never pull the trigger.— Ex. Every organization is burdened with at least one small fry who thinks he is a quorum.— Ex. The Sophomores were under the im pression that the foot-ball season was over until they payed the Seniors a game of basket ball Thursday after noon. "Lack of foot-ball players" was the excuse the Sophs gave for defeat. Dr. Poteat, President of Wake For est, in addressing the student volunteer conference in session at Green'boro, likened the youth of this generation to the gas of the automobile because they make things go. Wonder if Dr. Poteat ever had the experience of get ting hold of bad gas that filled the cylinders with carbon and proved a hindrance lo the functioning of the engine. At any rate he refrained from speaking of the carbon. After re presenting youth as energy and gas he expressed old age in the terms of cau tion and brakes. Ones thoughts fly at once to such cases as the one de scribed in ihe limerick, "Lies slumbering here, one, William Lake, In spile of the caution sign, he used no brake." The night watchman who tries to sleep in Memorial Hall expressed the opinion that our Glee Club should give a perfect performance at Vienna High School Saturday night. Mr. Dinkins claims to believe in the old saying, "Practice makes perfect." Roosters do a lot of crowing but it is the hen that meets the demand for eggs.— Ex. Dare a man to do a thing and if he is a fool, he will do it regardless of consequences.— Ex. Prof. N. A. Crawford, dean, St., Agric. College, stated at the national convention of journalism teachers, "The typical journalist is grossly ignorant of music, architecture, paint ing and literature. His knowledge of esthetic principles is little above that of the average policeman. Wouldn't it be fortunate if this statement applied only to journalists. "Never have your wish-bone where your back-bone ought to be." "Education is almost as expensive as ignorance." ASININITY Perhaps the time never was in any college when there were not some who failed to pass their work in the re gular courses. But if statements of college presidents and investigators of today are to be accepted, it is only within recent years that any consider- able per cent of student bodies have cea s ed to regard their studies as of primary importance. It is surprising to witness the attempted (or real) nonchalance and indifference of stu dents today whose intelligence quo tient is probably high. Yet when we hear any such student brag about bav in? failed it is hard for us to believe that lie has pas ; ed the earliest stages of adolescence. We are inclined to look for evidences of puerility and to see if we cannot detect the goslings n his Mical apparatus. It is said that anywhere from twenty live to forty per cent of students in higher institutions of learning fail to pass in the greaeter part of their work. According to the statistics of the registrar we fi'id that here at Guil ford during the last semester there were 54 students who passed less than nine hours of work. Fifteen of these students passed only one course, and there were eight who failed to pass a single subjcet. Probably none of these fifty-four students would have been ex cluded form Guilford College had the entire student body of two hundred and ninety-seven been required to pass the same intelligence test in order to matriculate and begin their college career. We do not profess to under stand why twenty per cent of the stu dents on the campus failed in over half of their work, but our registrar attributes five to sickness, nineteen to poor preparation, and twenty-two to j individuals who seem to assume the attitude that they owe nothing to them selves, their parents, their school or their country. With such figures confronting us we cannot wonder at the increasing number of people who believe that many are sent to college who ought never to be allowed to darken the j door of a higher institution of learning. It is a perverted ingenuity that en ables one to feign a pride in flunking wo:k. Student- who advertise their | failures in scholastic work exhibit the nth degree of asininity. MANNERS "There ought lo be a course in manners in every curriculum. We Have such in disguise under the cap linn of Human IJelations. and we have courses in Personal Hygiene, which should take care of some of the sources of offense now up for discussion. It ought not to be possible that any college man in America should fail in postgraduate achievement because he did not know how lo make himself agreeable in conduct and in appear ance. Yet our graduate lists have a plenitude of just sucli failures, men lost to the world they should adorn, •"imply because they could not lay aside ihe habit of taking things lor granted in the basic matters of social propriety. After all is said, good manners are the bedrock of civilization. The world has gone to the bad more than once because of bad manners between nations, and the lesson is the same in matters of lesser concern. Our jazzed culture everywhere needs -moother articulation more oiling of parts, more rhythm and melody, less of noisy surprise and boisterous chal lenge,—needs in short, better man ners. The college sees this fact, as it foresees almost every fact worth while, and the campus critics propose that it be remedied. It may be a purely commercial reac tion on the part of youth, aimed at better self-marketing, but this renders it none the less desirable. Indiffer ence and taking things for granted are a parasitic contagion, which spreads, and hurts, and spoils wherever it touches, until it ultimately chokes the very organism on which it feeds. Manners and morals are twin necessi ties, sadly lacking in our present cur ricula. That the lack is recognized and perhaps to be remedied is hope ful indeed, and there are joyable signs of improvement, even in the mere matter of clothes. A great Western college daily paper recently bore the placid announcement lliat Mr. Blank, of Blank and Blank, purveyors of clothes to the college youth of the University of Blank, had just returned from an extended trip to the colleges of the East, where he had been taking observation of the THE GUILFORDIAN clothes worn by (he men in Princeton, Columbia, etc., doing research work particularly in such fine details as the prevalence of 'Oxford bags' the width of trouser legs in general, colors and ruls in clothing, proper button display, shit and cravat tones. A a result of this canvass it was serenely announced lliat Blank and Blank are now thoroughly qualified to clothe their patrons in absolutely proper form, as -uming...'of cour-e, that Princeton and Columbia are perfectly conventional models in all such matters, a conclu sion which we dare not question. We must approve such humorous en terprise, though even this attempt at standardization may have its critics. President Little of Michigan has ~aid. in answer to a criticism of the nondescript clothes appearing on the campus: 'lf a man has enough origi lality to dress as he sees fit, with a view main ly to comfort, cleanliness, and con venience, regardless of the prevailing modes, there is chance that he may think for himself in greater things. Perhaps one of the highest tributes ever paid to Harvard University was the remark that it is the only school where a student can walk across the campus on a clear day wearing over shoes and carrrying an umbrella with out attracting attention. It takes a highly intelligent community to let a person do as he thinks best for him self without trying to make him follow what everyybody else is doing." WEBSTERIAN NOTES On Friday night, February 26th the Websterians listened to one of the most interesting debates of the new year. The query for debate was "Resolved that (he Japanese Exclusion Act should he Repealed." Messrs. Hughes and Collins maintained that it shou'd on die grounds that the present law shows unjust and unwarr nted dis crimination against the Japan'ese and the ytllow race in general. According to the affirmative American Congress men have broken the faith with the Orientals by setting ; side the "gentle man's agreement." They ul -o argued that it was not the expedient tiling lo do since it strained relations con siderably between the two nations concerned anil endangered world peace is gener. 1. However, the negative sup ported by Hendrickson and Floyd ( ox won the decision ot the judges. 1 hey contended that because of biological reasons the yellow and white races are not suited to mix without injury to both and the superior race in parti cular. Considering lliis, it would not he to the welfare ot the countiy to al low such intermarriages or on the other hand permit races to enter who con gregate in labors and who are not easily assimilated argued the negative. 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