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THE GUILFORDIAN
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MISS LOUISE
One place has been vacated at
Guilford College that can never he
filled—that is Miss Louise's. Just
why there is such a feeling existing
no one can exactly explain but it is
there just the same. After care
fully helping 34 freshmen classes
to finish Guilford and the same
number of senior classes to start
out in the world it is not unnatural
that hundreds of Guilfordians all
over the United States feel a keen
sense of regret when they learn
that Miss Louise will not he back.
What a congestion there will be in
the halls with Miss Louise not there
to chase the boys over to Cox Hall
'after each meal! ( J t .|d the love af
fairs—will they progress with no
one to encourage or to discourage?
To whom will the secrets be told
and to whom will the confidential
confessions be made?
Pessimism is dangerous. After
all .Miss Louise is alive and in good
health. There seejns to be a feeling
that she will never be seen again,
but after a person becomes as much
a part of an institution as Miss
Louise has become to Guilford Col
lege a mere year's absence seems as
eternity.
THE GUILFORDIAN wishes to take
this first opportunity to pub
licly and graciously acknowledge
its appreciation for what Miss
Louise has meant to Guilford Col
lege and as a reward we offer the
hundreds of Guilford students who
have gone out into the world hold
ing Miss Louise before them as a
living example. Could there be a
more worthy and desirable com
pensation '!
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RATS!!!
Faculties are altered each year
Students graduate. "But the big
wheel of Education and College
life continues to turn on its well
greased axis—never losing a turn
or slipping a cog for the loss of a
faculty member or senior class.
Fortunately, no senior class or no
faculty men?,her ever existed which
was, absolutely essential to the life
of an institution. Juniors become
sehidrs;' sophomores become jun
iors; freshmen become sopho
mores; and the annual vacancy is
Jiljed by new material. How de
pendent a college is upon its new
freshman class, its timid, green,
but ambitious little RATS! Rats
they are called, yes, but certainly
out of no disrespect. On the con
trary it has become an honor to
bear this title. Practically every
upper classman considers it so; if
not why should they desire to cast
reflections upon themselves by ap
plying what they consider a disre
spectful term to what they once
were? Yes, upper classmen have
more respect and consideration for
the RATS than their language
would indicate at times, and even
underneath the hardest sophomore
faces of effected intolerance and
superiority, gleams one of sympa
thy and pride.
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FLOTSAM?
Man's allotted time on earth is
three score and ten years. Some
lead such lives that they fall be
neath this mark while others at
tain an even greater number of
years. But the question which is
of most vital importance is after
all not the number of years attain
ed but the way in which the allot
ted years are lived.
Colleges and universities are to
day turning away from their doors
hundreds of young men and wom
en seeking admittance that they
may bask and become tanned in the
sunlight of education, that elusive
thing which leads to richer, fuller
lives. Where one is turned away
hundreds matriculate each year
and embark upon their journey
supposedly in pursuit of education.
But alas! The waters are soon
strewn with wreckage. There is
driftwood on every side. Flotsam
of life, now here, now there, caught
a minute, then gone, drifting on at
last to the open sea.
We are told that the freshman
year in college determines to a
great extent the course of the in
dividual's career. The drifting
process is started early, for the
fruits reaped in the junior and sen
ior years are directly consequent to
the steering done during the first
year. And yet many of the incom
ing freshmen insist 011 allowing
their barks to float through the
same waters that countless others
have sailed, merely because there
the crowd is thickest. They oppose
education with all their might and
main, resisting it with every power
of their own abundant ignorance,
and fighting any attempt by dele
gated authority to assist in the
steering of the vessel. And what is
worse they are not content with
their own drifting—their ignor
ance. They insist that every one
else be ignorant too. It is well
known that misery likes company.
Occasionally there are these who
refuse to become company or flot
sam, who refuse tp acquiesce with a
set standard, .for both body and
mind. They l refuse to use axle
grease on their hair because it is
the style; they refuse to acquire a
vocabulary of wicked cuss words
and slang, to smoke, drink, paint,
waste time in loafing, fail in stud
ies and affect a general sang-froid
of indifference towards cultural
things, thinki'hg to run a bluff and
appear sophisticated and cosmopol
itan. Sych individuals have 110
idea of becoming Fords—that no
toriously standardized product—
the cheapest on the market.
It is to these strong-willed indi
viduals, who pass, ,by with eye . on
compass and rudder firmly grasp
ed, that we look for 'results and ac
complishments during their three
THE GUILFORDIAN
"GUILFORD FIRST"
A Guilfordian's Creed
(With Apologies to
Ashton Oldham)
Not merely in matters ma
terial, but in things of the spirit.
Not merely in campus, build
ings, equipment and endowment
fund, but also in ideals, principle
and character developed.
Not merely as an A grade col
lege, but as an institution where
men and women may attain true
culture.
Not boasting of prowess in ath
letics, but of clean sportsman
ship, fair play, honest effort and
earnest team work.
Not as a Quaker institution,
but as an educational center.
Not in pride, arrogance, and
jealousy of other schools and col
leges, but in friendship, coopera
tion and understanding.
Not in the number of gradu
ates handed a diploma each year,
but in the number of men and
women who go forth equipped
and ready to establish Christian
homes and work for a citizenship
based on the nobler ideals and
principles of life.
Some college must take the
lead in these things if education
is to mean what it should, and
that honor I covet for my be
loved Guilford.
And so in that spirit jand with
these hopes, I say with all my
heart "Guilford First."
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score and ten years. They are the
ones who reflect credit and honor
upon their alma mater.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, who at
tained many more than his allotted
span of years said, "If I had the
opportunity to say a final word to
all the young people of America, it
would be this: Don't think too
much about yourself. Nourish
your minds by good reading, con
stant reading. Discover what your
life work is, work in which you can
do most good, in which you can be
happiest. Be unafraid in all
tilings when you know you are
right."
The eyes of Guilford are upon
the incoming Freshmen, watching
each individual, speculating.
Freshmen, will you too become
Fords—mere flotsam ?
Y. VV. LAYS PLANS FOR
AROUSING INTEREST
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ings so that more nearly all the people
011 the campus will wish to attend. The
Open Forum will be continued this
year. It is hoped that students will take
an active part in making it a success,
because it is essential that college stu
dents keep in touch with the happen
ings in the world. A few plans for
new types of socials and games were
set forth.
A mosquito might get away with
what he does, hut the darned fool flies
around and brags about it.
"A kicking horse never pulls."
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THE MARCH OF REFINEMENT
(From an English Copy.)
No man can serve two masters.—Mat
thew 6.24.
Sons and daughters of Fox, from your
slumbers awake ye,
No longer in listless indulgence recline;
From the fetters of sloth and luxury
break ye,
And put on your beautiful garments
and shine.
Time was when your fathers in wis
dom grown hoary,
In their doublet of leather, the pil
grim's rude guise;
Contemning the pride of this world
and its glory,
Pursued their rough path of reproach
to the skies.
Unlettered as they on Juda's lone
mountain,
By her wind-ruffled lake in deep for
est and glen;
Drawing water of life from Salvation's
deep fountain,
Surrounded the homeless Redeemer of
men.
Your sons, by His Spirit's blest influ
ence guided,
Regardless of danger, prisons and
death;
Alike by the sage and the triffer de
rided,
Looked o'er this vain world with the
keen eye of faith.
From the lure of false glory, false hap
piness turning,
With the courage of martyrs, they fol
lowed their Lord;
Their loins girded close, and their
lamps brightly burning,
Unceasing they published His life-giv
ing Word.
Those days are long past, and new
light rises o'er us,
No longer we suffer such hardships and
loss;
"The March of Refinement" now opens
upon us,
And points other ways than the way of
the cross.
No longer we talk of meek, patient en
durance,
Of low self-denial, and watchful re
straint.
But of confident hope and exulting
assurance,
And triumphs that wait on the steps
of the Saint.
Knowledge waves her light wand, and
poor wandering mortals,
No longer a rugged and- thorny road
trace;
The gate that was straight, now un
folds its wide portals,
The way once so narrow expands into
space.
Religion has softened her features
around her.
The attractions of taste and of fancy
are shed;
The arts with their graceful adorn
ment surround her, •
And weave a rich veil for her delicate
head.
Our maidens no longer the homely task
plying,
That once could engage the matrons of
yore;
Are all in each accomplishment vieing.
And high on the pinions of sentiment
soar.
So our scrap books and albums of curi
ous adorning,
The sufferings of friendship so richly
unfold;
September 15, 1926
E'en the Yearly Epistle, its humble
garb scorning,
Now sparkles in silver or blazes in
gold.
'Tis true there are some who these
flowery paths fearing,
Again and again tell us plainly we
stray;
Who the standard of ancient simplicity
rearing,
Exhort us to pause and consider the
way.
But many, though granting their hon
est intentions,
Deem rigid and narrow of prejudiced
minds;
And believe that amidst thousands of
modern inventions,
Some happy expedient yet we shall find.
To reconcile things in their nature dis
cordant,
Inclination and duty 110 longer at
strife;
Religion and luxury kindly accordant,
The peace of the soul, with the pride
of this life.
Vain hope of blind man, in his fond
self-deceiving,
Whilst immutably true stands the Sav
iour's own word ;*
Happy they its sacred assurance receiv
ing,
In lowiness, follow their crucified Lord.
*No man can serve two masters.
(Copied by Mary Louise Moon, Wood
burne, Pa., Fifth Month, 1926.)
COLLEGE LOSES SEVERAL
MEMBERS OLD FACULTY
(Continued from Page One)
Miss Hutli, the piano teacher for last
year, could not return to Guilford on
account of the illness of her mother.
She will be at her home in Germany
for the winter.
Mr. Howard O. Smith, the Chemistry
professor for the past two years, will
teach and do research work in lowa
State University this winter.
After careful consideration of two
and one-half years Mr. Algie Newlin
has decided to lay down his burden of
teaching and enter into the pleasures
of being a student again. This fall he
is to go to Johns Hopkins University
and do extensive work in the field of
history and political science.
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