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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published semi-monthly by the Za tasian, Henry Clay, and Philomathean Literary Societies. MEMBER North Carolina Collegiate Press Association STAFF Dorothy Wolff Editor-in-Chief Pearle Kimrey Managing Editor Sinclair Williams Sports Editor Frances Carter Associate Editor John H. Williams Associate Editor Frank Allen Feature Editor Miss Era N. Lasley Alumni Editor Mary E. Pittman ..Ass't Alumni Ed. Miss Dorothy Gilbert Faculty Adviser Philip W. Furnas Faculty Adviser REPORTERS Sarah Davis George Greene Bera Brown Leroy Miller David Parsons Julia Plummer Edith Cooke Samra Smith BUSINESS STAFF Morgan Raiford Business Manager Robert Jamieson Ass't. Bus. Mgr. Dan Silber Advertising Mgr. Lewis Abel Advertising Mgr. Margaret Warner Proof Reader Clara B. Welch Ass. Proof Reader Edith Trivette Ch-culation Mgr. Carl Jones Ass't Circulation Mgr. Massey Tonge Ass't Circulation Mgr. Elizabeth Parker Secretary Duance McCracken Faculty Adviser Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post office in Guil ford College, N .C., as second-class mail matter. CHANGES IN THE GUIL FORDIAN Several changes have been made recently in the general make-up of The Guilfordian. However, our hope is even stronger that we may con tinue our policy of recording student life at its best and of keeping in touch With the friends of the college. Feature columns and a feature edi tor are important additions. "Books We Like" was added in hopes of ac quainting more students with more books. Our library is growing in richness—and there are hundreds of "realms of gold" still undiscovered by the general group. We can not review as many books as we would like, but there are many priceless bits of literature which have impress ed us with a desire to pass it on. "What Do You Think?" is an ef fort to discuss specific campus prob lems, while we leave the "Open Forum" for general discussions or opinions which you wish printed. Both columns are open to anyone who has some concern and wishes to present it. The "Exchanges" is the old scheme of exchanging ideas with other schools. Our mailing list to other col leges is an interesting one, and since more of the students do not have the opportunity of direct contact with their papers, the "Exchanges" is to give items of interest gleaned from these publications. We still have several openings on the staff and want you to feel free to discuss "try-outs," or to send in contributions. FUNERALS FOR SOCIAL ANIMALS? Sociologists insist that man is a social animal: that he seeks groups, and enjoys contacts with his fellows. But from the natural deaths the lit erary societies on the campus, seem to be dying, the sociologists are all wrong—and man really prefers to sit in on "sessions," sleep, gossip, or just play around, instead of meeting in a group and enjoying social con tacts in a dignified and cultured man ner. The revival of the Websterians last year seemed quite an incentative for real literary work, but interest soon wanes among us, and we are again settling: down to drift another year. The new students should have inspired a new vitality in the socie ties. The pledges to the girls' so cieties were almost one hundred per cent, so nothing stands in their way to making the society a big part of campus life except a smothering lethargy which must be lifted before they can develop socially. There is an irresponsible feeling which should not have a place on a campus so small that every student is respon sible for the success of extra-curric ula activities. And it is this attitude of being afraid to plan, work out ideas, develop projects to guide our student life a bit higher, which we must pierce. Why not try going out for things? Try your hand at leadership—or, that even greater art, helping some one else to be a leader, and make our campus live! I judge people by what they might be, —not are, nor will be.—Robert Browning. OPEN FORUM THESE FOUR YEARS IN COLLEGE All cf us look upon college as the | place of ideal enjoyment. Very few! high school graduates think about I books, studying, and work when their J minds turn to college. Instead they see the football games, the big par ties, beautiful coeds, and dashing young collegians with long, high powered cars, 'lhey come to college with these ideas and some pass through the entire four years with out ever changing them. lhe world is made up of just two big classes of people, the leaders and the led. The college is the leader manufacturing machine of any coun try. It is like a big smelting furnace. 'I he person who makes the most of his time is the refined one, the slug gish, lazy student is the slag which passes out the bottom of the furnace. Every one tries to get the most for his money in a trade or when buying an object. If a man can get a ten dol lar grade shoe at a store for nine dollars he will remember that store when he is shoe shopping. Yet it is true that in any college the least a student can get for his money the better he is satisfied. If there was a holiday proclaimed for the American colleges tomorrow there would be great rejoicing throughout the col iegiate world. I£ a professor is late seven minutes, and his class may take a cut if he is five minutes tardy, he will find an empty class room on his arrival. College is a stepping stone to the more fortunate young people from the freedom of youth to the respon sibilities of the world. It is the four year pause or rest taken by young people before they take over the management of the world and the making of their own careers. Today it is much harder to make even a living than it was ten years ago. The man or woman who can do it best today is the one who gets the job. The world is filled with people of the average ability who are jobless. The "just as good" sort of fellow is very seriously handicapped in this mad scramble for the better positions of today. The fact that these conditions ex ist should make us have a different outlook upon college. We should see in it a means to qualify ourselves for the better positions after the four year pause. Machines are taking the place of the unskilled, uneducated laborer. How will you be classed when your four year sojourn in college is finish ed? Will you be one of the leaders or will you be just one of the many who are led? —HUGH SAWYER. Individual Pictures For Quaker Taken Dunbar and Daniels From Raleigh Are New Photographers 210 STUDENTS SNAPPED The Quaker staff has been very busy during the past few weeks and a good start has been made toward the gathering of material for the 1932 publication. Business Manager "Tubby" Blair has already secured a number of adsj The photographer was on the cam pus the first part of the preceding week taking pictures. The firm of Dunbar and Daniels, located in Ra leigh, is doing the photography work this year. The size of the prints has been increased to 3x5 inches, and the pictures are being made with stand ard up-to-date equipment. Mr. Dunbar took pictures of 210 students while he was here. He will return during the latter part of No vember tc take the remaining pic tures. The staff wants everybody to be included in the Annual this year and requests all who have not had their pirtures taken to see some member of the Quaker staff as soon as possible. The fee of Si .50 which each stu dent pays goes toward paying the photographer and having the plates made. It is the only fee connected with the Annual. The book itself ow ing to the generosity of the Student Affairs Board, will be supplied with out additional expense. One once had the right, as an Am erican, to ".ive his own life as he chose, so long as he did not interfere with the rights of others—their rights, not merely their prejudices.— Brand Whitlock. JOS. J. STONE & CO. Printers—Engravers Royal Typewriters and Supplies 225 South Davie Street Greensboro, N. C. THE GUILFORDIAN jf*' Q|JAKER-QUIP6 Well, we just broke our football game record. We missed the Ran dolph-Macon game. That's the first one we haven't seen since the middle of the season two years ago. Which reminds us of that trip up to the Wm. and Mary game. We went up in Abei's Cadillac and there aren't any curtains. We ran into one of the sweetest storms we've ever seen. Tubby and Brick were seated on the two folding seats in the back. They got most of the rain. Tubby re marked if they had thought to bring a canoe they could have had a big time paddling around between the front and back seats. Well, for the second successive year the old home town has turned out the G. C. frosh president. Con gratulations, old lady! We were browsing through that large, new dictionary of Sir James Murray in the library and made an interesting discovery. He defines 'girl' as "a child or young person of either sex." How 'bout that ! ! ! Clodfelter sent a shirt to the laun dry with the sleeves rolled up —and got it. baclf with the sleeves rolled. Better profit by his experience. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends (?) for their interest in our "coming out party." Their delight in telling us of the bloody and gruesome details we are to experience is SO stimulating. Our tonsils make their debut this week, so hurry and get your vote in. Local anaesthetic now leads with 54 to 39 for ether. Ladies on the campus would like to know what some of the new boys are called by the men, so we've compiled a short list— Sichol "Baker" Shaen "Babe," "Ox" Mears "Minnie" Biddle "Bud" H. Milner "Model T" Satterfield "Texas" And now for that bored feeling we'd like to recommend the follow- ing: The Four Marx Bros, in "Monkey Business" starting at the Carolina October 7th. Any issue of the new Ballyhoo magazine. The Greene St. Drug. An A & T football game. The sweet young thing at the paint counter in Kress'. A ride with Massey in the Durant. Russ Columbo, the "Lochinvar of the Air" over N. B. C. He's one sweet tenor and does right well with, "In stead of You," "In the Middle of the Nite," and "I Don't Know Why, I Just Do." Guy Lombai-does platter for Co lumbia, "Sweet and Lovely." Benny Moten's recording of "You Fascal You" and "Good Morning Blues," for Victor. Cab Calloway's, "Shine." "Dr. Cheer" on the Victor. * * * And believe it or not, Rudy's, "The Thrill Is Gone" for Victor. And last but not least—Henny Hendrickson's Victor release of "Never." We happen to know the boys in this band, and are glad to see 'em turn out such a piece. COLLEGE MARSH ALLS FOR COMING YEAR SELECTED IN FACULTY MEETING (Continued from Page 1) Ruth Hiller is the selection of last year's superlatives, was chosen as the girl with the most charming per sonality—and we all know that she is "charming!" Matthew Bridger stands high in his academic work and he is one of Guilford's best track men. Under the supervision of Dr. Eva Campbell and Mr. Pancoast, these marshalls will be busy the remainder of the year, ushering at all public functions at Memorial Hall, and dur ing commencement they will repre sent the college to the people who come to Guilford from the outside. We expect much of these marshalls, but they are very capable students. Most schools in America today are simply places for parroting facts.— John Gould Fletcher. 328-—Phones—327 Stratford-Weatherly Drug COMPANY Jefferson Standard Bldg. Greensboro, N. C. "We Always Sell the Best" BOOKS WE LIKE Review by SAMRA SMITH "Let it suffice," he adds, "that it was I who saved the castle that morning." And again, "If I were to relate in detail all the splendid things I did in that infernal work of cruelty, I should make the world stand by and wonder." The world does wonder—that any man, being such an egoist, could have the cour age to admit it, and to write 478 pages about it. The Autiobiography of Benvenuto Cellini is one of those books that everybody is supposed to read and nobody does. Cellini, quoting his own opinion, was the best goldsmith and worker in bronze of his time. In his autiobiography we follow his career from his birth, which he seems to remember quite well, to the age of sixty-two. One of the worst faults of the bcok, in fact, is his confession of what he saw with what he heard about, and he always relates details in their chronological order, thereby •spoiling the point of many an excel lent joke. We meant to count the people he killed and the repetitions of the per sonal pronoun, first person singular, but life is short, and many books have not yet been read. Cellini did not think that he was revealing him self as he was; he probably intended io flavor truth with harmless fiction, as when talking to the Pope, but this hot-tempered, impetuous, happy-go lucky, egotistical genius was too much for hitnself, and we venture that he wrote things he never meant to. He cannot refrain from quoting what other people said about him, to the point of beside it. The book is a dictionary of contemporary comment on himself; it is also the supreme triumph of Italian humor. Oh come, all ye homec majors. A History of Costume, by Carl Kohler, and most becomingly costumed itself. To the freshman who has been pla guing us for Scarlet Sister Mary: It is now on the shelves, and you may have it as soon as we finish it. It is very naughty in places, but whoever can't read this one without blushing had better not try Cellini's Autoo biography; but for these we have a brand new children's library: Stev enson, the Grimm brothers, Carroll, and the rest. Thusly, The Saturday Review of Literature on I'll Take My Stand, by twelve Southerners: "This sympos ium is the most audacious book ever written by Southerners. Important as a vigorous declaration of social protest, it is even more important as a prescription for current econom ic evils. . . . The superficial reader may regard it as the swan-song of the old South; the more excitable reader may suppose that it marks the reopening of the Civil war; but the calmer reader will see in it the newest phase of Reconstruction: the reconstruction of the entire frame work of American society on the basis of an agrarian policy suggested by the small fars of the old Middle South." The book reads innocently enough to us, but there must be vit rei concealed somewhere about it. BROWN HILL'S PUT ON FASHION SHOW (Continued from Page 1) As the various models were shown, coats or blouses and skirts were seen to be more than popular as well as irresistable. Diagonal stripe-tweed with short point-sleeves featured a dress of simple design, and with no trimming. Two-tone kid-angora with novelty buttoned front were the dis tinguishing points of another model. Suede and suedette packets with fleece lining's were charming addi tions to the many suits shown. One full length coat was shown. It was of medium-weight grey-gi*een tweed with deep light toned fur col lar in a semi-shawl design. Under this was worn a green one-piece jer ?ey dress with white-pique trim at the neckline, and the new aluminum buttons. Maroon silk-and-wool (boucle) with grey, pink, and white combined in a charming design in the blouse; and a removable jacket of the same shade as the skirt, formed still an other model. Black velvet with white lace cape let sleeves, and wine velvet with white lace bows composed two din ner frocks. Next came a lovely all occasion model of brown velvet with a skirt, bolero jacket, and adorable pink georgette blouse. Mrs. Denny extended a cordial in vitation to all Guilford College girls to come in and buy from Brownhill's. Prices, she says, have reached bot tom levels, this year. ALUMNI NOTES 1900 •J. Wilson Carrell is principal of the Denton High School at Denton, N. C. 1914 William D. Webster is doing part time teaching and research. He re ceived his Ph. D. degree from the University of Nebraska. His address is 123 Bessey Hall, University of Ne braska, Lincoln, Nebraska. • * * * 1919 Joseph D. White was awarded the Ph. D. degree by Harvard University in June, 1931. For the past year Mr. White has been Research Asso ciate of the American Petroleum In stitute in Washington, D. C. Before accepting this position, he was teach er of Chemistry in Miami Univer sity, Oxford, Ohio. He was professor of Chemistry in Guilford College in 1922-24. * * * 1921 Marjorie Williams attended the North Carolina Meeting of Friends this summer and visited Mrs. Wal ter Coble and other friends in Guil ford College. She is assistant profes sor of Astronomy in Smith College. * * * Madge Albright Coble is assistant state supervisor of Home Economics. Her address is State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, N. C. * * * 1922 Lyndon Williams received his M. A. degree in Zoology from the Uni versity of North Carolina in June, 1931. He is to be Instructor in Biol ogy in Rensseloer Polytechnic Insti tute in Troy, N. Y. For three years he was principal of the high school at Pfaffton and was head of the de partment of Eduation at Guilford College for two years. 1923 Ruth Pierson has been teacher of French in high schools for several years. She received her M. A. de gree from the University of North Carolina in June 1931. Miss Pierson spent the summer of 1928 in Europe. She is teacher of French and Spanish at Southern Union College, Wadley, Ala. This is a Christian-Congrega tional, coeducational institute. * ♦ * 1925 John Wesley Frazier is a salesman for the Richard J. Reynolds Tobacco company. His address is Portland, Maine, Box 684. DIBBLES OF MICHIGAN CONDUCTPROGRAM HERE Musical Numbers And Talk Well Received By Audience On Friday morning, September 25, Mr. and Mrs. George Dibble of Mich igan conducted the Chapel program. Mr. and Mrs. Dibble were conduct ing evangelistic services at Asheboro Street Friends Church in Greensboro. Mr. Dibble accompanied by Miss Rachel of Greensboro sang two se lections, "Praise a Bit, Pray a Bit" and "A Voice of One Crying In the Wilderness." Both numbers were ap preciatively received. Mrs. Dibble gave a short talk on the "Greatest of All Discoveries." For centuries discoveries and achieve ments have marked the advancement of the world. Many discoveries have been made, but not so great as the discovery of America. When one thinks of the fraility of the crafts in which Columbus sailed, one can but be awed by the realization that God's hands in guiding that ship were guiding the destiny of unborn millions. Today we think we could not do without the inventions, and they are marvelous. Not among the least of these is the radio, and perhaps we are yet to see greater wonders in the future. But the greatest of all discoveries was the discovery of the Son of God. Fordham-McDuffie Drug Co. 229 S. Elm St. Greensboro Prescription Specialists Roger McDuffie - J. N. Eubanks Owners ■ ■■■■■■ ■ RADIO ■ HARDWARE ■ SPORTING GOODS P Greensboro, N. C. _ October 7, 1931 - WHAT DO - 7 YOU THINK ♦ SHOULD THE AFTER-DINNER COFFEE CONTINUE? SARAH DAVIS Secretary of the Student Affairs Board Young ladies in evening dresses, young men in their "dressed-Up" suits, and amid the hum of voices, a tinkling of coffee cups—Guilford was having her first after-dinner cof fee. Don't you like the idea? To a vis iter it lends a refined atmosphere to our campus. We all need to "rub off the rough edges" and this is an ex cellent opportunity to make the rough places smooth. This year the student body and the faculty seem more closely related than ever be fore, and this social affair will tend to make the bond even stronger—and we will be just one big family! Both student governments are sponsoring this occasion of every Friday evening and I think it is the duty of everyone to at least dress neatly and to attend, in order to make a success of after-dinner cof fee on Guilford College campus. Now, think it over—don't you agree ? AVA ROBERTS Member of the Junior Class It seems to me that the men on the campus are afraid of formal .or semi-formal affairs. If more of the men had stayed for the after-dinner coffee it would have been a success. The men will have to attend formal affairs after they finish college. These affairs give them an oppor tunity to learn to be at ease at such occasions. It is not such a difficult thing to learn to balance a coffee cup on one knee while talking to a young lady. BRANTLY PEACOCK Judge of Rat Court As far as I can see the first trial of the after-dinner coffee was 50% a success. That is, 50% of the stu dent body attended—the girls. The men were quite conspicuous by their absence. If the men choose to stay away from it, it will never be a suc cess. If the future can be predicted by! the showing of the men at pres ent, the parties will never be more than half a success. Of course it gives the girls a chance to dress up. For that reason they will probably want to have the affairs continue whether the boys come or not. WHEN IN NEED OF Pens, Pencils, Diaries, Stationery, Books, Kodak Albums, Greeting Cards, Loose-Leaf Books, Memory books VISIT— Wills Book & Stationery Co. Greensboro, N. C. —Patronize Those Who Patronize Us— ] Doak-Connelly Sporting I ! Goods Company Sporting and Athletic Equipment j ! Golf Supplies, Sweaters, Tennis! Supplies, Outdoor Shoes 2 Tennis Rackets Restrung j 1 123 S. Green St. Greensboro, N. C. j Back Those Who Back Us % f I i: | THE COMMERCIAL J f NATIONAL BANK f 1 HIGH POINT, N. C. I! I ■KUiL'I!iWC ■KgraanMEni ■ HALF-TON*S ■ tOWMfDCI AL AFJT ■
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