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VOLUME XIV
MINNESINGERS CLUB
RETURN AFTER TRIP
TO EASTERN POINTS
Give Program of Much Variety
and Color, Singing Sacred
and Secular Numbers
FIVE CONCERTS GIVEN
Ira Newlin Pleases Audience in the Role
of Comedian While Reynolds and
Robertson Do Feature Stunt
March 31.—The Minnesingers Glee
Club returned today from a tour of the
eastern part of the state where they
gave conceits at Spring Hope, Rich
Square, Windsor, Hertford, and Saxa
pahaw. The program presented at the
above mentioned places was one of
much Variety and color. The club sang
sacred and secular numbers and accord
ing to some of its critics presented the
best program it has for several years.
Both instrumental and vocal numbers
were on the program, but the best re
ceived numbers were those given by the
quartette and a popular group of songs
by Paul Reynolds and Glenn Robert
son, both of which were given in cos
tume. The glee club also sang one group
of familiar melodies around the camp
fire, which was well received by the au
dience. Ira Newlin as comedian pleased
his audiences with his original humor
ous selections and stunts.
The first concert was given at Spring
Hope on Tuesday night before a fairly
large and appreciative audience. The
Minnesingers gave two performances at
Rich Square. In the afternoon the club
and quartette rendered a few selections
before the consolidated school at the
chapel period. The evening program
was well received by a small audience.
A matinee concert was given at Wind
sor High School on Wednesday. Raleigh
Treniain, an old Guilfordian, welcomed
the club here and sponsored the con
cert. The best performance of the club
was given Thursday night at Hertford
The club was called back several times
for encores. The Gleemen terminated
their tour with a concert at Eli Whit
ney High School at Saxapahaw on Fri
day night.
LAVONEHIE BARROWS
TALKS TO Y. W. C. A
Is Returned Missionary From Guatemala
Where She Has Been Teaching
in Indian School
March 29. —Miss Lavonehie Barrows, a
returned missionary from Guatemala,
spoke in Y. W. C. A. Thursday eve
ning.
Miss Barrow has spent four years in
San Antonio, Guatemala, where she
taught in an Indian Mission school for
four years. This school is located at an
altitude of 5000 feet.
She gave as an example of the prog
ress that has been made the case of
Helen Trater, an Indian girl. Miss Tra
ter is the only girl who has graduated
from this school at San Antonio. She
completed an eight-year course in three
years and is now at a state normal
school preparing to be a teacher.
Miss Barrows stressed the importance
of definite prayer. She said that it was
a great factor in our lives and she
asked that people consider the need of
prayer in their communities, country,
and in foreign lands.
The following alumni and old stu
dents visited Guilford this past week:
Olive Crow, Inez White, Bertha Zai'li
ary, Juliet and Julia Dwiggens, Mr. and
Mrs. R. 11. Hayworth, and Richard
Hobbs.
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The Guilford College Minnesingers,
formerly known as the Guilford College
Glee Club, is being recognized as one
of the leading men's glee clubs in the
state. The club was organized in 1922
and since has prepared a program each
year. The number of concerts per year
has varied.
FINAL CONSTITUTION
ACCEPTED BY S. A. B.
New Point System for Participation in
Extra-Curricular Activities Is Ready
for Vote of Organizations
A. S. PARKER ELECTED PRESIDENT
March 27. —At its regular meeting to
night the Student Affairs Board adopt;
ed the constitution drawn up by the
constitution committee and elected A.
Scott Parker, of High Point, president
of the Board. The constitution gives
the Board general supervision over all
its member organizations, though it
does not have legislative power over
any of them. Among other things, the
constitution provides for a general elec
tion for all student organizations and
it also empowers the board to help
work out the college calendar.
A point system has been drawn up
and this was also accepted by the
Board under the new system. An "A"
student may carry as many activities
as he desires, a "B" student is limited
to 13 points, a "C" student may have 0
points, and a "D" average limits one
to 4 points. The student activities are
divided into four groups, on a basis of
time required to carry out the duties
of the office.
Such activities as editor-in-chief ot'
either publication are listed in group
four, members of the varsity teams are
in group three, the glee clubs are
classed in group two, while the minor
positions in all organizations fall in
group one.
The officers of the organization are:
President, Scott Parker; vice-president,
R. Marshall; secretary, Catherine Cox;
assistant secretary, Mildred Kimrey.
Euphunian Banquet
The Euphonian Glee Clul) will hold
its annual banquet Tuesday evening,
April 3, at the Hylmore Tea Room. The
members of the Glee Club and honorary
guests will be present. An elaborate
menu and charming decorations are be
ing planned. The program committee
hopes to have Dr. Binford, Dean True
blood, Dean Andrews and Professor
Noah present at the banquet to con
tribute to the program. Sarah Edgerton,
president of the club, will act as toast
mistress. Capable committees have been
appointed to assist in making the ban
quet one of the most successful social
occasions of the year.
A number of prints of famous pic
tures are on display in the library.
THE
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 4, 1928
MINNESINGERS GLEE CLUB
From March 27 to 30 this year the
Minnesingers made their annual tour
through Eastern North Carolina, having
great success. The season has only
started. Several concerts will be sched
uled for April and early May. The an
nual home concert will be given Satur
day, April 14, at 8:15 o'clock.
GOOD QUAKERS ARE
BUSY WITH POLITICS
Presidential Campaign Creates
Excitement With Both Par
ties Showing Activity
CANDIDATES ARE NAMED
March 31.—Guilford College has been
turned from a quiet, calm, Quaker in
stitution into a seething, boiling, ex
cited political battleground during the
past week and it will doubtless continue
in this state till Wednesday morning
when the Guilford students will take a
straw vote to indicate their preference
for the next president of the United
States. The chapel period last Tues
day morning was devoted to speech-mak
ing by the ardent supporters of the va
rious candidates of both parties. Those
affiliated with the Democratic party
brought forward Alfred Smith( greeted
with loud demonstration), Will Rogers,
"Ma" Ferguson, Jim Reed, and Governor
Ritchie as suitable White House timber,
while the Republicans loudly praised
Herbert Hoover, ex-Governor Lowden
and Charles Dawes.
About 100 delegates were present at
the Democratic conventions which was
called to order by Chairman Rozell.
After the keynote address and appoint
ment of the national committee, Alfred
Smith was nominated as the party
standard-bearer by acclamation. Smith
will run on a platform of cleaning up
Republican corruptions, farm relief,
and a return of the government from
corporations to the people.
The Republican candidate has not
been nominated but the party leaders,
Robertson and Wilkins, are perfecting
plans for the party plans which is
stated to come off Monday. It is freely
predicted that Hoover will be the Re
publican candidate.
An extensive, intensive campaign will
be carried on by both parties this
week. Both sides are predicting vic
tory. A Scott Parker, chairman of the
Democratic National co'mmittee, and
Edwin Rozell, Smith manager, claim
the Democrats will win by a margin
of 50 votes. Walter Robertson, chair
man of the Republican National com
mittee, predicts victory for his party's
choice. Sal Wilkins claims she will
be secretary of state under the Repub
lican president next fall.
The program this year is, as usual, a
varied one. All types of numbers,
musical and otherwise, appear on it.
Both sacred and secular chorus music
is given along with vocal and instru
mental solos, special novelty selections,
sung in costume and with lighting
effects.
M. DAVIS FHILATHEAS
RAISING SCHOLARSHIP
Is to Be Given to Guilford High Girl
Who Makes Highest Grades in
Four Years' Work
MISS NELLIE DOAK IS LEADER
March 19.- —Miss Nellie Doak, a for
mer student of Guilford College, has
recently announced the raising of a
new scholarship fund. The scholarship
was begun in 1924 by the members of
the Philathea class of Mrs. Mary E. M.
Davis. The goal is SI,OOO. At present
Miss Doak, chairman and treasurer of
the fund, announces that they have
.S7OO of the amount. The income from
the fund will be given to the girl who
makes the highest average in four
years' work in the Guilford High
School. The conditions are that she en
ter Guilford College as a freshman. The
money is to be available during the
freshman year. Any friends of Mrs
Davis who wish to contribute may do
so to Miss Nellie Doak, of Guilford Col
lege. It is hoped that the amount will
be raised before the Yearly Meeting
time in August. The fund is to serve
as a memory to Mrs. Mary E. M. Davis,
second wife of Prof. J. F. Davis, and is
to be called the Mary E. M. Davis Me
morial Fund.
GUILFORD ARGUFIERS
TO MEET ELON MEN
Trueblood and Haworth to Uphold
Affirmative and Gold Dust Twins
Will Support Negative
The debating club will close its sea
son 011 Wednesday night when the
Guilford argufiers meet Elon in a dual
debate 011 armed protection of Ameri
can investments in foreign countries.
As yet Elon has not engaged in any
debates, so their strength is not
known. The Guilford team got off to
a bad start, dropping a dual encounter
to Catawba, but later the negative team
defeated Atlantic Christian College and
for the first time the debaters won the
triangular debate with Lenoir-Rhyne
and High Point. Guilford's affirmative
team will be made up of Clare True
blood and Byron Haworth, who will de
bate at Guilford while Worth Mackie
and Edwin Rozell will go to Elon to
defend the negative side of the query.
Mrs. Hobbs has been visiting her
daughter in Charlotte.
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| LOCAL DRAMATISTS
GIVE ANNUAL SPRING
PRODUCTIONS IN MEM
"Agatha" Best Received, While
"Where the Cross Is Made"
Is Most Artistic
ROSENFELT IS PLEASING
"Gaius and Gaius, Jr." Shows Interest
ing Sketch of Southern Plantation
Life—Sink and Harper Do Well
March 31.—The Guilford College Dra
matic Council presented three one-act
plays as their annual spring perform
ance. In the order of their presenta-
tion they were: "Gaius and Gaius, Jr.,"
by Lucy Cobb; "Where the Cross Is
Made," by Eugene O'Neill; and "Aga
tha," by Jane Toy. The first and last
are Carolina folk plays.
"Gaius and Gaius, Jr.," the worthy
aristocratic father and modern son oi;
the Masefield family (1859), alias Olin
Sink and James Harper, were the foun
dation of this unique comedy. Gaius
Masefield, an aristocratic Southern plan
tation owner who possessed slaves, was
more interested in the financial success
of his estate than in the occupants of
the plantation. Due to his fits of physi
cal helplessness, his wife, as Blanche
Stafford, and son, could demand their
wants and they would be granted. It
was during a supposed swelling sickness
(by chance he put 011 his son's suit)
that the "dear" Doctor Foster, played
by Bunyan Andrews, rushed to his need;
while there the will was written giving
the son permission to marry, and the
negro slaves, Evelyn Hodgin, Paul Jas
siniedes, and Charles Zaehary, relief
from Sunday work.
The tragedy, "Where the Cross Is
Made," carried with it a unique setting,
an atmosphere of unexpected, and char
acters that seemed like spirits.
On a windy night in the year 1900,
Nat Bartlett, as Irvin Kosenfelt, sat in
his father's cabin by the sea talking to
Dr. Higgins, alias Bunyan Andrews, of
his insane father; Floyd Pate. The
father had become insane because of
the dream of his lost ship and of valua
ble treasure. The sister, Sue Bartlett,
played by Lena Farlow, interferes with
the idea of taking her father away.
In the end, the insane captain comes
in, relates his dream, thinks he sees
his ship in the harbor, and then the
spirits of his dead comrades, William
Ward, as Silas Home, Edward Moore, as
Cares, and Harris Moore, as Jimmy Ka
naka, drift through the room. Nat,
who has become insane also, jumps for
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CHARLES WEIR WINS
THE STATE CONTEST
Rembert Patrick Speaks for Guilford,
Talking on "Living Up to Our
American Ideals
March 30.—Charles Weir, of Catawba
College, speaking on "Our Country's
Need —Idealism," Friday night won the
state contest of the North Carolina In
tercollegiate Forensic Oratorical Asso
ciation, which was held at Davidson Col
lege. Second place was won by Henry
W. Owl, representing Lenoir-Rhyne. Ilis
oration was "The Challenge of the
American Indian." Rembert Patrick
represented Guilford, speaking on "Liv
ing Up to American Ideals."
He made a plea for the toleration of
the Catholic faith, using as an illustra
tion the attitude of the public toward
A 1 Smith and the coming presidential
election.
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