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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Guilford College Editor-in-Chief Clnrn Bells Welch Managing Editor Ernest White Business Manager Horace Stimson SPECIAL EDITORS Sports Editor J. B. Gouger / Sainra Smith Feature Editors / I.eroy Miller I Warren Hezanson Alumni Editor Esther Lee Cox REPORTERS Frances Alexander Harry Brown Elizabeth Alexander Mnrthu Taylor Gladys Bryan Erwln Werner Louise Ward Ruth Fuquay SECRETARIAL STAFF Nell Ellington Billie Osborne Clara Robertson Circulation Manager Ted Pollock Assistant Circulation Manager Earl Kuykendall Assistant Business Manager J. William Copeiand Advertising Marvin Sykes FACULTY ADVISERS Mr. Philip Furnas Miss Dorothy Gilbert Address all communication to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price SI.OO per year Entered at the post office in Guilford College as second class matter Class Standing Students lacking one or two hours, or having that much incomplete, are moved back a complete class in standing. Formerly they were allowed "social standing" with their own class. As it is, these "hybrids" are not permitted to participate in the affairs of any class. Theoretically they are—actually they are not. From the nature of tilings, a second-year student, particularly a boy, could not associate on terms of mutual friendship with members of the freshman class. His problems are not theirs; his people are not theirs. To a somewhat less extent the parallel holds through all four years. Class activity and the right to participate therein is inherently the property of a college student. There is no sense in a rule that makes an appallingly large portion of the campus population students with out a class. Perhaps senior standing should be withheld due to graduation activities. The othei's sliotild not. Yet, are the present seniors being given a square deal? Until this year seniors have been at least "social seniors"—comprehensive or not. We grant that it is fair enough to keep a fourth-year student from being a senior if that person has not passed a comprehensive or lacks one or two hours, since graduation activities do require more than "social standing." We wonder why this new ruling was not announced sooner; at least some warning could have been given the ones who should bq seniors now. There was no warning and as a result the majority of the seniors are classed as juniors. Seniors should know better than to wait until the last year to pass the necessary comprehensive, yet we thought we could follow the the precedent of our former classmates. We left last spring never doubting that we would return as seniors this fall. Wrong guess—the most of us are juniors. Juniors should take warning, if they are desirous of being seniors next fall. The solution is to restore ".social standing." The all-important red tape can be cared for by the class secretaries, so that everyone will be compelled to attend somewhere. 'Going on the theory that, male or female, a rat is a rat, the women "and men of the three upper classes of many of our leading colleges handed down a list of rules during this month, decreeing penalties which should adequately subdue the freshmen. In the editorial columns of the Roanoke College paper we find these following opinions upon the rat system; it is good logic and we pass it on to you. We are convinced that the basic purpose of freshman sessions and rat rules is right. The rules and the sessions the freshmen are put through at the hands of the upper classmen unify the freshman class, develop class spirit, and through it, develop college spirit. They are a very valuable source of social discipline. It is right that the fresh men should be made to realize that he may have been something of a "big-shot" in his high school back home, but has his own way to make at collge, and 110 one is going to give him recognition for what he once did. The upperclassmen have already proved something of their worth, while he has yet to prove the stuff of which he is made. The rat system lets the newcomer know that he has to start from scratch in college, and it is right that he should do so. Some term the ratting system as "the most disgusting aspect of college life." We cannot agree with him but we are forced to admit that too often the tradition degenerates into a cheap persecution of the first year student, merely for the fun it affords the upperclassmen. This is particularly detrimental when it is tinged with the element of the personal grudge. Rat Rules THE GUILFORDIAN Beginning the Meditations of pewee, the black ant; being of an irregular irrevelant nature. folks i am pewee (pee-wee) the black ant i formerly reposed on don marquis packing-box desk and he mistook me for a cockroach i am in g.c. resting my weary antennae and visiting one of my many millions of relatives in founders (as you see i am too weak to press the cap key and i disapprove of punctuation on constitutional grounds) Guilford sealed the Indians because Guilford knows how. Though the cour teous self-sacrificing of Albion Wilson and Worth Ilockott, we have learned exactly how that scalping business is done. Everybody was in there fighting 100 per cent Saturday. Has your throat healed, Both teams played hard, clean football. The Indians could "take it" too—thrice Rig Apparatus had to bo carried out and greased, but he came back for more every time. at 2 o'clock in the morning lately i was awakened by secret sounds and saw miss gainey climbing into a founders window on dr. purdoms shoulders tsk tsk i protest this rude interruption of my slumbers am i pewee due no consideration If you are not afraid of the Big Black Wolf, face the east, raise your right hand, and say: "Abracadabra, Venuskye, Bandannah; I am a member So help me Hannah." Then you and Ray can sit down to eat your bowl of cereal. in my more thoughtful moments i have frequently pondered on the extermination of fleas while sunning on a freshmans coat sleeve i heard him say that fleasy dogs should be doused in fermented corn and freely sprinkled with gravel becoming giddy the fleas pelt each other to death with the stones Yes, Professor Anseombe, the poison has one virtue. What Quaker parson told a rare joke in mixed company the other day? Were we embarrassed? And what faculty members laughed rather more than the titter required by politeness? Can you imagine why onyone would want to get in the Treasurer's office badly enough to whittle the door down? Everyone that I have seen has been struggling to stay away from that particular section of Mem. Hall! The freshman girls have Johnny Wil liams in a panic. In the last report we have him headed for Texas, where he started the other night when he escaped from to library without his books. The little boy in our "Story of the Little Boy and the Engineer" gets sick, so we must wait until ho gets well. We have the pimento sandwich on ice. See next issue. Proverbs of Naman the Sluggard 1 There abode in the lanrl of Gil a reaper, Naman the Sluggard, and in wielding the scythe none other of the sons of the tribe was like him, 2 Yet for three years he remained in the land, neither sowing nor tilling, but each year he reaped an abundant harvest. 3 And in the fourth year his heart was filled with the gladness of reap ing, and he desired that others also should know the joy that was his in reaping without sowing, 4 And the youth of the land gath ered he about him, so came they in from the hedges and byways: 5 And there came Elmer the print er's devil, Parmenides the pre-med, and Boaz the busybody. 6 And Naman opened his mouth, and wisdom dropped therefrom as figs from a tree that is laden: 7 Vanity of vanities, said Naman. What profit hath a man of all his la bour which he taketh under the sun? 8 For the harvest of love is bitter ness, and overmuch study is irksome to the brain; 9 Eschew ye, then, that which is la borious; abhor that toil whose only reward is the virtue which it engen dereth: 10 For extreme busyness is an abom ination unto the Lord. 11 U My years are accomplished, my days are numbered in the fields of Gil. 12 I have counted my wealth, and silver and gold have I none; but that which I have is more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold: 13 Three well-thumbed decks of Au thor cards; a tri-color set of Rook chips; a pair of loaded dice; 14 Foul-smelling pipees; ticket stubs in profusion; moth-eaten banners and pennants; 15 Yea, and numberless photographs, Forever Yours. 16 If And thinking upon these things, Naman fell silent. 17 Twice did he open his mouth, and the third time he spoke unto them, saying: 18 I have said in mine heart: Go, now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure; 19 And I say unto you, Go thou and do likewise: 20 Yet a little more of idling, and yet a little more to slumber, lying in the noonday sun. 21 The peace of idleness be with you: AMEN. In and Out So we are to have fountains on the campus. That's fine, hut we hope the "Messed event" of the fountain isn't as lonjj awaited as has been the hot water in the showers. We never knew there were so many town students until we came to the Guilford-Catawba game. Tom Wimbish is a "power house" at W. C. U. N. C. The girls cry for him. Charles McNeill is the only hoy we've ever known who has a bass voice and plays a violin. Query: Which one of the town stu dents holds the record for having been kicked out of the most colleges? That's hard to decide, boys, hard to decide. Tho town students have requested that ash trays be put in "Men's Cen ter" so that they can do their part in the new "Keep Our 'College Clean" program. Day student celebrities: Jimmie Applewhite, (crooning tenor) Jack Wimbish, (lady killer) "Big Stuff" Holt Knight, (biggest bull-shooter) Oolum Schenk, (prettiest co-ed) Irma Lee Graves, (most talented writer of character sketches) And that's that for the time lieing. The town student's bus still runs, and we're surprised. October 17, 1933 When the strains of a certain popu lar theme song come on the air, the denizens of "Radio City" are usually to be found grouped around the nu merous sets in their lair, listening "sympathetically" to that program. With no thought of casting a slur on those radio stars, the Mills Brothers, may we present this skit entitled Radiolaria —Good evening, folks—l feel that I know you all too well by now to call you ladies and gentlemen—Tonight the Wire Towel Company, makers of Wife bath towels, present the Hills Broth ers in another program of music that satiates. The Hills Brothers, as you know, produce all the effects of the modern dance orchestra without instru ments. They imitate trumpets, soxo phones, trombones, and tubas, accom panied only by a luted mute—l beg your pardon, I mean a muted lute! They are leaders in their field just as the Wire Towel Company and Wire bath towels are! Remember! No trum pets, no saxes, no trombones, no tubas, and no voices! And now, friends, before we are entertained by the Hills Brothers, let me present Judge Lightly, who will speak to you briefly on the subject of Wiro bath towels. Judge Lightly. (Sonorously) Ah, good evening, la dies and gentlemen, good evening. To night I am going to recall the old days. Do you remember when it was customary to take only four or five baths a month, Do you remembah the harsh, rough, so-called Turkish towels that one was compelled to use if he wished to be in the swim? Now, all this has been changed. Through the fiendish ingenuity of the Wire Towel Company engineers it is possible to bathe as often as twelve or thirteen times daily with pleasure and comfort if one uses Wire bath towels. Again I say to you, Remembah! Try a Wire bath towel and you'll never use an other towel. Thank you! Good night! —Thank you, Judge Lightly. We now return you to your local station for station identification. —This is Station WICU, Camden, new Joisey, with studios in the Peek aboo Building. 0.K., New York! —Now for an announcement of the utmost importance and interest to all of our listeners! The Wire Towel Company will give five dollars for the best letter on "Why I Use Wire Bath Towels in Preference to Any Others." Just address your letters to the Wire Towel Company, Keokuk, Michigan. Write tonight, or better still, use a Wilre (bath toweli, and then try to write your letter. Have your letter in by next Chuesdaj', when the prize winning one will be read. —And now, just before we hear the Hills Brothers rendering some of their inimitable music, let me read you this week's prize-ivinning letter, written by Mrs. Raymond U. Squidge, of Painted Post, New York. Airs. Squidge writes: "At first I was skeptical about Wire bath towels. However, since using them, may I say that without doubt, Wire bath towels leave a lasting im pression on the user." Thank you, Mrs. Squidge. We are happy to award you the prize of five dollars. And thanks to all you other radio listeners who have written to us on how you feel about Wire bath towels. —And now, friends, our time is up. Remember to tune in again next Chuesday at this same time to hoar the Hills Brothers onco again in their offerings of imitation music. Try a Wiro bath towel and you'll never use another! Goodnight, all. This is the Transcontinental Broadcasting System. I came, I saw, I took off the bacon. Little Caesar cut one of the Guilford boys out Saturday night What say, Nell?
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