OPEN FORUM
CHAPEL CONDUCT
The statemnt is often heard that
the basis of all good manners, is good
behavior. If this analysis is true, it is
necessary that there be a miraculous
reformation abong a number of Guil
ford students.
Common sense and decent manners,
■which go hand in hand, are supposed
to be possessed by all normal under
graduates of the grammer grades, yet
when a visitor speaks in chapel the
faculty and those students who have a
bit of culture have to suffer the most
pervading embarrassmnet, caused by
the animal-like conduct of college
students who feel the weight of their
importance pressing so heavily upon
their shoulders. They feel that they
must run their tongues and make dis
turbing sounds, which may be heard
all over the auditorium, in order that
they may attract some attention
Such conduct is not only repulsive
to the speaker, on whose mind is readi
ly and definitely sfamped a bad im
pression of the entire college, but is
also detrimental to the student who
is engaged in the misconduct, because
the manners of an individual are the
true index to that persons life. A
noted philosopher once made the as
sertion that as long as bodily desires
are strong, the soul is weak and power
less against them, because they are
supported by the body and all its pow
ers.
The great obligation and problem
confronting Guilford today is not only
to maintain, but to build higher those
standards anil that reputation which
past generations have slowly erected
by toil.
The one and only solution to this
problem is for each college student
to conduct himself or herself as a
gentleman or lady, not only in chapel
but at all times and in all places.
Then there will be in Guilford college
no contradiction to the statement of
Rabbi Ben Ezra one of the most emi
nent literari of the middle ages, who
said, "Man is not a bird or beast to
find joy solely in feasting; care and
doubt are the life stimuli of his soul."
Ira G. Newlin.
DANCING MASTERS OF MCE
BARRED THE CHARLESTON
Dancing masters of two of the larg
est hotels in the city of Nice have
barred the Charleston from their floors
because they feel that a hotel dining
room is no place for a "circus act
The Cli rleston was practically un
known on the Riviera until the around
the world cruisers began to disem
bark devotees of the new dance. The
dancing masters, despite their evident
dislikeof the new dance and
the loudly voiced disgust of the older
generation, could find no reasonable
excuse to interfere until an American
woman fainted while dancing and h. d
to be carried from the floor. One
dancing master then bared the dance,
stating that "it appears to be a most
dangerous form of pleasure," while
other said "it is a gymn. sium exer
cise, not an aesthetic exhibition."
A new two-cent stamp carrying a
picture of the famous Liberty Bell
has been approved by Postmaster
General New. It will be issued in
recognition of the Sesquicentennial
Exposition, or world fair, which opens
in Philadelphia, June 1.
"IT WAS ROSES, KOSES ALL THE
WAY"
(To Ina Mi.xon)
Precious friend, time draws near,
To June and parting day,
Come along with me and say:
'"lt w s roses, roses all the way."
Storms come, winds blow, bitting frost;
Though from their chills we smart,
Friendship ne'er will depart,
Roses grow on, bloom on in the heart.
The thorns were few, looking now,
Back upon each vanished day,
So put your hand in mine and say:
"It was roses, roses all the way."
Geneva Highfill.
ALUMNI NOTES
1907.
Mrs. Lillian Jinnette Coulter 'O7 of
New York City was a visitor at the
college some time ago. She was the
guest of Miss Louise Osborne. She
also visiteil Miss Ida Millis 'O3 who
lives near the college campus.
Mrs. Coulter is dietitian in the New-
York Nursery and Child's Hospital,
161 West 61st St.
1914.
Earl W. Pearson 'l4 has been for
the past year superintendent of the
Dare County Public Schools. His
! address is Manteo, N. C.
1917.
Lyndon E. Stuart 'l7 is completing !
his third year as principal of the
Columbia High School, Columbia, S.
C. May 14th is commencement day \
for his school.
1919.
Joseph D. White 'l9 who is study- |
ing at Harvard University is planning
to spend the month of July with his 1
parents near the college.
1921.
Majorie Williams '2l has been re
appointed as instructor in the depart
ment of Astronomy at Smith College
foi three more years. Her address is
j Capen House, Northhampton, Mass.
1925.
James Howell '25 paid a short visit
'to the college a few days ago. He
had just completed his work for the
' year 1925-1926 as principal of the
' high school at Eure, N. C.
FORMER STUDENT
Friends of Dr. Massey connected with
the college recently received the fol
| loNving announcement:
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Hoover Taft
announce the marriage of their daugh
i ter, Gertrude Chesson, to Dr. Moulton
Braxton Massey on Friday April the
ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty
! six, Greenville, North Carolina.
Dr. Massey was a student at Guil
lonl College in 1924.
TELL AGE OF MOTION PICTURE
FILM BY STYLES OF DRESSES
I German movie critics have learned
j to tell the age of a motion picture by
J looking at it, have won a victory over
i the press agents. Noting the f. shions
! displayed by screen actresses in an
| American film which was advertised
j "fresh for Hollywood" and starred a
popular comedian, the critics insisted
the picture was three years old. In
ihe ensuing discussion a German film
distributing agency finally £ dmitted
[ that the critics were right.
The gowns, hats, shoes and stockings
ivorn by the actresses were known by
critics to have been in vogue in Paris
iiid New York exactly three years ago.
Ihe recent agreement between Ameri
| can ami German motion picture pro-
I lucers an ddistrlbutors contain cl. uses
to expedite the interchange of films.
•GODDESS OF LIBERTY" DEAD
Miss Anna W. Williams died recent
| y in Philadelphia, at the age of 68.
It is her face which we see on our
silver dollars. She posed as the God-
I Jess of Liberty for the ; rtist who de
signed the coin, in 1876.
The first motor iceboat ever opperat
ed in the United States was recently
designed and built by C. A. Lincoln,
of Wayne, Me.
I have never known a concern to
! make a decided success that did not
jdo good, honest work, and even in
these days of fiercest competition, when
everything would seem to be a matter
I of price, there lies still at the root of
great business success the very much
more important factor of quality. The
effect of attention to quality, upon
every man in the service, from the pres
ident of the concern down to the hum
blest laborer, cannot be overestimated.
I And bearing on the same question,
! clean, fine work shops and tools, well
| kept yards and surroundings are of
! much greater importance than is usu
! ally supposed.
| —Andrew Carnegie in his Autobi
| ography.
THE GUILFORDIAN
COLLEGE NEWS
A rubber covering in four sections
I has been purchased by the University
of Illinois for their football field, i
Each section is 158 feet by 83 feet.
The members of the Senior class of
Earlham College have made a pledge
of $50.00 each toward constructing a
class-room in the new building. This
room will be designated by a bronze
lablet. The building fun now totals
$225,000.
Brigham Young, University of Utah,
| a college of the Mormons or "Latter
| Day Saints," is to be discontinued at
| the end if this college year. It was
i founded in 1877. Brigham Young
himself was interested in the success
of his namesake college and endowed
l it with 10,000 acres of fertile land,
j The reason given for the discontinu
} ance of the university it that the Mar
{ mon church wishes to concenrtale its
I energy and finances for the support
•>1 its fi.ty nine theological seminaries.
It is reported that the liberal system
of granting cuts at Lafayette Univer
sity is a failure. 42,000 cuts were taken
by the students uuring the last year,
| which is an average of almost forty
cuts per undergraduate.
It is said that Notre Dame has pro
duced more college coaches than any
other institution in the United States.
When a measure was introduced be
fore the legislature of the State of
!of evolution in the schools of that
| state, the studnets of the University
iof Mississippi drew up several peti
j tions protesting against the adoption
: of the Anti-Evolution Bill.
J Compulsory attendance at Chapel
j was abolished for upperclassmen at
1 Dubuque University recently.
' .
| In the Interfollegiate Glee Club con
| test held recently at Carnegie Hall,
I the Wesleyan Glee Club took first
place with Princeton a close second
I and the University of Kansas third.
j Dartmouth College requires all its
II upper classmen to take part in some
athletic activity three times a week
| during the entire year with only six
1 unexcused absences permitted.
A student entering the University
of California must be able to spell
500 given words correctly.
BuHler University has abandoned
final exams and substituted a series
of quizzes throughout the year to de
termine final grades.
At a recent meeting of the faculty
iof the University of North Carolina,
all freshmen anil sophomores required
work must be completed within the
first two years of a student is to remain
in the University.
i William Muldoon, the trainer, says:
; "I believe that the greatest happi
ness on earth is to have health, self
approval, that sense of triumph which
| monies from being your own master,
| able to do the things, big and little,
which you know you ought to do and
can do. But this joyo f living will
come only to the man who has learned
j self-discipline. Most of us ought not
lo do. In nine cases out of ten, physi
cal breakdowns are not due to ignor
( ance. They are due to lack of self-
I control! yourself for one sin
gle day. See how often you trangress
j what you know to be the principles
of health. There lies the secret of
; physical well-being."
The man who opens his mind to
knowledge is on his way to a better
j job and to a keener enjoyment of life.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth
his life, but he that openeth wide his
lips shell have destruction.—Prov. 13:3.
| Luck sometimes favors her scorners.
i A waiter always looks as ifhe had
just got up.
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Greensboro, N. C.,
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