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THE GUILFORDIAN
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tasian, Henry Clay, and Philomathean
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Ernest Scarboro Editor-in-Chief
Dorothy Wolff Managing Editor
Sinclair Williams Sports Editor
Gertrude Hinshaw Associate Editor
Frances Carter Associate Editor
Miss Era N. Lasley Alumni Editor
Mary E. Pittman Alumni Editor
Miss Dorothy Gilbert Faculty Adviser
Philip W. Furnas Faculty Adviser
Reporters
Katie Stuckey Frank Allen
Jewel Conrad David Parsons
Bera Brown George Greene
Sara Davis Edith Cooke
Robert Carroll Lewis Rosenfelt
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HONOR SYSTEM
It is generally agreed that the in
troduction of the honor system on our
campus is one of the greatest and
worthiest steps yet undertaken here.
Since this momentous occasion the
spirit of the students has been most
noteworthy.
The faculty, expressing further con
fidence in the students ability of self
government extended the honor sys
tem to examinations. This step has
long been a goal for those interested
in student welfare. When placed be
fore the students the proposal pass
ed almost unanimously.
From all appearances everyone is
one hundred per cent for proving to
the faculty that we are capable of ma
ture judgment and the assuming of
honor both in and out of the class
room. Our means of expressing our
appreciation is through deeds, honest
efforts, and honorable accomplish
ments.
Whether the policy is a success or
failure cannot yet be judged. The
building up of a high standard among
students is well worth working to
ward, and with this end in view the
final decision remains with the stu
dents.
THE JOB'S THE THING
"If by the time he is a sophomore
or a junior, the student hasn't a pretty
good idea of the career he wants to
follow, his first few years in the
practical world are apt to be lost.
Jobs do not turn up as if by magic,
the day after Commencement."
This observation conies from a
business executive. It is based on his
experience with candidates for oppor
tunities in commercial and industrial
organizations candidates from
among the annually increasing num
ber of graduates from American col
leges.
Frequently, however, the under
graduate activities of a college man
or woman give unmistakable evidence
of the kind of work he or she is most
naturally fitted for. Fortunate indeed
is the student who finds the job which
will give these talents an opportunity
for development. Then the first few
years out of college will not be lost.
"Some college students are always
being consulted by their friends in
regard to the election of courses, or
their own personal problems." They
can become trained ease workers as
sisting individuals in a wider field to
solve their social problems. Such posi
tions are most often found with or
ganizations dealing with children,
with families, with maladjusted or
abnormal individuals, although em
ployment management, visiting teach
ing, vocational counseling call for the
same ability.
"Other undergraduates naturally
stand out and assume leadership in
college clubs, or athletic teams. They
become song leaders, run amateur
theatricals, preside over debating so
cieties." In the club work of settle
ments, Boy and Girl Scout organiza
tions, the recreation work of the Y.
M. C. A. and Community Service, this
ability to handle groups of people is a
pre-requisite.
"Still other students successfully
run athletic teams, school publica
tions, or special social events." This
is the stuff of which the community
organizer is made. Health agencies,
community councils or social agen
cies, chambers of commerce, financial
federations —present opportunities for
these.
Finally for the honor student, the
Phi Beta Kappa man or woman who
is interested in gathering, analyzing
and interpreting facts, there is the
broad field of social research. With
research foundations, public depart
ments, and a wide variety of social
agencies, opportunity can be found for
fundamental contribution to social
science.
In one of the twenty-two profes
sional schools of social work a college
graduate can secure training which
will start him well on the road to suc
cess in this new profession. All of
them have generous fellowships and
loan funds, and while its appeal is
not to those who put remuneration
first, yet both beginning and average
salaries compare well with those in
other professional fields.
EXCERPT FROM WILL OF
A STUDENT"
I, , being of
sound mind and body and realizing
that the time has come in my life that
I must begin to think of the time
when this lowly being that I am, must
cease to function as an earthly being
and become dust, do bestow and be
queath, free from all incumbrances
and alieniations, beginning with the
time when 1 shall, as afore mentioned
become as dust, all my earthly pos
sessions as follows:
Article I:—All my personal be
longings I do bestow upon my room
mate, , if he remains so
at the time of my death. This shall
include: My tooth brush, other pair of
shoes, my next best shirt, other pair
of socks (the ones with only one hole
in them) and except the picture on
my dresser. I do bestow these things
as permanent gifts as long as he,
, has no social relations
in any capacity whatever with the
following girls: Frances Carter, Dor
othy Wolff, Lucille Patterson, Cath
erine Cox, Jewel Conrad.
QuAKER-QuiPS
On Love and Laziness
Ive's heard a heap o' chatter
Bout success 'n' all that stuff
How some folks climb the ladder
While the others have it tough.
Now I don't care for riches
You can have your clothes so fine
For when it comes to britches
Corduroys will do for mine.
If your broadcloth gets a spot
You must pay the cleaners fee
While I send my whole darn lot
To the college laundry.
If I stay here long enough
So the profs get tired of me
1 may melt their hearts so tough
And at last get my degree.
Hight away I'll go and claim
The one I'm fondest of
And when I've changed her name
We'll proceed to live on love.
* * *
Well, the Quipser is getting senti
mental. Next week we're going to give
you some of our choicest epitaphs.
We had a very prosperous week
end. We learned (and we think this
is the year's best) that our honor
able colleague, the Sports Editor, had
long, GOLDEN CURLS when he was
a little chee-i-uld!
* * *
We went) to one exam feeling like
the Duke of Wellington and came
back feeling like Napoleon.
* *
A couple of the campus cutups were
among those who went to see Will
Rogers at the airport Thursday
A. M. The Collegians tried to match
wits with Will and were promptly
snowed under. They probably chew
Spearmint instead of Beechnut.
* * *
After looking over the men's dorms
lately we've decided that what this
school needs is Longer and Oftener
Thanksgiving Days.
* * *
Here's some good news. We THINK
Professor Reynolds MIGHT bring his
radio back to Men's Center this week.
At lunch the Saturday after exams
somebody remarked that the empty
chairs made one think a battle had
been fought around here. Seems to
us that for the last week there has
been a battle around here and we
think the student body lost.
• * •
One of the boys cracked about the
Honor System that the professors had
the Honor and we had the system.
But, joking aside, we're right proud
of the way the new system worked.
Cheating was conspicuous by its ab
sence. We hope such success will be
everlasting.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Mrs. Perisho Has
Prized Possession
The Wish Box" Is Filled With
Innumerable Letters Of
Many Friends
MORE INVITED TO WRITE
In a yellow-painted, cozy cottage
on the Guilford College campus is the
"Wish Box" of Mrs. Elwood C. Per
isho, wife of the Director of College
Extension. The passing years have
added a glamour to "The Wish Box"
known to many former students and
older alumni of Guilford College. In
brief, "The Wish Box" contains in
numerable letters containing in sealed
letters the wishes or .prophecies of the
writers who have set a 10-year limit
as the opening date for the letters.
At the coming reunion this June,
when a tea party will be given, the
writers of the past will meet to open
and gaze once more at the faded
words written many years ago. The
prophecies are concealed in enve
lopes of various sizes, shapes and
colors. From the "Wish Box" this
June will be taken the letters of Mary
Lou Wilkins, of Rose Hill, N. C., Vir
ginia Ragsdale, of Jamestown, N. C.,
Nancy White, of Franklin, Va., Jose
phine Paul, of Elkin, N. C., and Alex
Pavlov, whose father as a millionaire
in Russia lost his entire fortune dur
ing an uprising, and the family be
came refugees.
Many of the prophecy-writers have
gone to far-distant points of the globe
but a few are in the vicinity of
Greensboro as Dr. Raymond Binford,
president of Guilford College, and
Dean of Women Mrs. B. M. B. An
drews. The letters of ex-Dean of Men
and Mrs. D. Elton Trueblood, who are
in Indiana, are among those in the
twelve inches by six inches beautifully
colored "Wish Box."
Many of the former "wishers" have
had their wishes come true says Mrs.
Elwood C. Perisho, and they were so
delighted that they composed other
wishes and placed them in sealed let
ters in her safe keeping. It is inter
esting to note that among the writers
is one from distant Orient, Mr. Sum
ito Fukasawa of Tokio, Japan, known
to many students now at the college.
Also Miss Ruth Outland, a former
student, is now in Palestine.
The time limit on the latest ones
are set at the future date of 1942 and
these are the sealed letters of Mr.
Harry Wellons, of Sedley, Va., Miss
Marianna Raiford, of Virginia, and
that of Miss Lucille Meadows, of
King, N. C.," and Mr. James R. Bar
bee, of Lexington.
Mrs. Elwood C. Perisho, who lately
returned from South Dakota where
the Marcus P. Beebe Memorial Li
brary was presented by Prof. Perisho
and herself, will tell you if you step
in for a delightfully friendly chat
about the prophecies that have come
true. In her quaint way she will tell
you of the origin of the "Wish Box"
and the first writers.
Request her to reveal to you the
touching episode of the girl who wish
ed to become a trained nurse and her
struggles. Today that girl through the
spell of the "Wish Box" is one of the
high-salaried, noted women on a clin
ical staff in Cincinnatti, Ohio.
The "Wish Box" is not the exclusive
use of Guilford students and alumni
but all "who have a sincere faith in
themselves and what the future may
reveal."
Guest: "Who is that awful looking
frump over there?"
Host: "Why, that's my wife."
Guest: "Oh-er-beg pardon, my mis
take."
Host: (Sadly): "No, no-mine."
Salemnite.
"That chap is with Ruth again."
"They say he is a rounder."
"Yes, almost every night."
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Nite 30c & 40c
Man Visits A New Planet
(A Study In The Fantastic)
Many have heard of the bizarre and
the fantastic but very few have heard
of the flight of the rocket plane de
signed by an unknown scientist of
Bavaria. This flight, unrecorded in
the annals of scientific aerial history,
would have startled an unbelieving
world. Few are the tales of the extra
ordinary so for our future followers
we shall record the exact details of
the story.
It was upon a clear, crispy cold
night when the planets were in the
precise position as desired to meet all
the requisites of the proposed flight
to the new planet as yet un-named.
Stars of the first and second magni
tude were circling in their orbits. The
mysterious inventor, who refused to
reveal his identity had instruments of
peculiar shapes and sizes. One of
these was a strange spiral—cotortion
ed meter in which a restless crimson
fluid was contained, and upon the
glass were markings in silver. At cer
tain points dark words could be seen
which read—Safe—Minimum Danger
—Maximum Danger.
This instrument, the inventor said,
disclosed the atmospheric conditions
and, particularly, whether there was
enough oxygen on the planet to sus
tain human life. Other instruments
and implements to meet all conditions
upon the new planet were placed in
special compartments of the stream
lined plane. After placing aboard suf
ficient fuel for the flight to the new
planet and return, the inventor was
ready for the startling adventure.
Pointing the nose of a rocket-pro
pelled plane toward the direction of
the planet, the inventor checked every
detail necessary before the take-off.
Only a few reporters and unexplain
ed persons watched the machine lit
erally burst or rather hurtle its way
into the infinite that knows no end.
That he made a successful flight
can not be accurately determined but
upon being questioned, the mysterious
man gave further details of the
flight.
Making an unbelievable speed, he
was sped through the air toward his
goal. He saw the earth recede into
the distance and soon become a tiny
light traveling in a pear-shaped orbit
among the other planets. Blinded by
the brilliance of the reflected light
of the moon, he was unable to make
observations. It was only by the best
of luck that he was able to turn plane
into the direction of the new planet,
otherwise his plane would have been
drawn by the strong gravity pull of
the moon, and his plane would have
become a satellite forever traveling
with the moon.
Coming: to the new planet, the plane
was drawn immediately through the
atmosphere surrounding the sphere,
and he made a perfect landing with
no damage to the plane or its appar
atus. Glancing at the dials, he discov
ered that the oxygen supply was of
such a rare quality that it made one
giddy and he quickly slipped on his
oxygen bag which was of a light and
durable quality.
The soil, the adventurer reports,
was of a bluish color with innumer
able worms of a golden hue which
reflected a phosphorescent light. The
atmosphere was of a murky fog and
the sky could not be seen overhead
save for the streaky light which striv
ed in vain to penetrate through a
dampness. Vegetation everywhere
about him was of brilliant colors but
the strange flora did not grow to any
appreciable height as upon the earth.
In his investigation of the territory
in which he had landed nowhere did
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he find any sign of a human being or
a habitation of any make or size.
Further wanderings into the dense
foliage brought to light that prac
tically everything crumbled to pieces
when held fourteen inches from the
ground. The clammy atmosphere caus
ed his skin, which was exposed, to
turn a sickly green. In his search he
suddenly came upon an interesting
haunt of some strange creature never
before viewed by the eyes of man.
The bizarre adventurer calls this fau
na the Kakkadu. The creature was
about fourteen feet long in manner of
an enormous snake with a scaly tough
skin as a covering. There were no
ears upon the head indicating that
the animal could not hear a sound of
any kind whatsoever. Entirely sur
rounding the head were small eyes of
human shape and size which the in
ventor counted as six. In all, the
strange inhabitant of this planet was
a fearful looking, grotesque gargoyle
with its five long tentacles which it
threw into various deep pools about
its slimy body.
A tree nearby warned the monster
cf the approach of game by giving
off various sounds, but this the ad
venturer did not know at the time.
The sound waves of the planet when
disturbed by moving objects set up
corresponding sound waves which are
recorded in the body of the monster.
Therefore, when he stepped into
this haunt he was instantly seized by
the long tentacles of the creature and
would have been equeezed to death and
slowly eaten. But, keeping his wits
about him the inventor managed to
extract from his pocket a high-pow
ered hypodermic needle gun which he
fired into the body of the monster.
The effect of this "hypodermic-needle
gun" instills a powerful drug into the
very vitals of the organs and causes
instantaneous sleep to the most pow
erful of animals. This contribution to
science is now used in the capturg of
big game in the African veldt.
Having thus escaped an untimely
death, he thanked providence and
headed back to his plane for the re
turn journey, but not before taking
with him an eye of the monster in a
special solution which would preserve
it on the journey to the earth.
The return trip was successfully
made through the void, but just after
he had stepped from the plane he
heard a terrific explosion which hurl
ed him to the ground. The plane was
destroyed. Thus ends this queer heroic
account of man's first flight to the
new planet. This man is now living in
seclusion seeking quiet for the terrific
effects which accrued from the event
ful trip.
SUNDAY SCHOOL HAS
DEBATE ON MISSIONS
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bat was one of wits, at the end of
which the audience was convinced that
four Irish Americans are as (food as
four real Irishmen for a combination
of hard sense and humor. A negative
speaker said that a Mrs. Somebody
couldn't keep onions out of her yard
because her neighbor didn't, and
thereby kept all neighboring lawns
perpetually well-seeded, which fact
was comparable to not paving the
way in other lands for Christian living
as well as trying to keep it ourselves.
The affirmative promptly said that we
were keeping a whole yard full of
wild onions and were taking them
with us in our commerce and travels
to other lands. The negative gave re
ply by saying that we must then keep
ourselves and the people of foreign
lands well supplied with eradicators
in the form of missions.
Thus the affirmative made it so
plain to the audience that we as Am
ericans are so bad in spite of our ego
that they won; but the negative
quite forcibly showed the crying need
for Christianity in other lands.
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OPEN FORUM
Hurrah! The Webs Are Coming
Golly! Clay's, Aren't you glad?
There's rumor the Web's have come
out of their hiding and propose re
newing their old rivalry. Now that
sounds interesting. In ye good ole'
days gone by the most exciting thing
on the campus was the rivalry be
tween Clay's and Web's.
The writer realizes there is an
elapse of years and a change of con
ditions since the old party spirit reign
ed between the two societies; but
there is as great need today, if not
even greater demand for the influence
of both societies.
You may be a globe trotter or an
arm-chair traveler—either is incom
plete if the desires do not include
those which give you self-assurance
and self-confidence. All societies admit
that even though they are independ
able in attendance and participation,
that the society offers training for
poise and expression; study in human
nature and fellowship invaluable.
The surest way to succeed in any
phase of activities, whether vocation
al, studies, esthetics, or athletics is
to have that sane feeling of assur
ance. One of the strongest aims of
the societies is to give its members
the poise and self-assurance in pre
senting himself or thoughts to the
public.
The Websterian Literary Society
has been inactive for the past two
years. The loss of their prestige has
been felt, and truly, the good that
they could have done in building a
desire of and demand for literary life
would have been invaluable. The new
students felt no competition for their
membership. The characteristic enthu
siasm with which the new student ac
cepted the society was stunned by the
inactivity of the surviving society.
Summing up our story—let's have
two good societies or none. Half-way,
inefficient, unenthusiastical perform
ance of any organization is a morale
killer.
May all eternity bless the remain
ing Websterians who have enough so
cial ambition to bring out of hiding
the spirit and glory of the "Old Web
sterian Literary Society."
The Fight's On! Let's Go!
All hail to thee, thou faithful Web's,
a member of the band.
We tell thee, thou art wanted to
make a noble stand.
Ye youths of Web Society, we call
upon thee now,
To add one single jewel to the crown
upon her brow.
Ye Son's of Web Society, we bid you,
in her name,
Devote your time and talent to re
trieve her tarnished fame.
Walk onward, then, to glory; seek
literary fame,
And with the pen of history write—
Websterian Society's name.
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