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VOLUME XXII
GUILFORD LIBRARY
TO CHARGE FINES
ON LATE RETURNS
New Ruling to Go. into Effect
the First of No
vember.
DELAYS CAUSE DECISION
Overdue Books from General Circula
tion Shelves Bar Borrowers from
Library Until Their Return.
The college library committee, to
gether with Miss Katlierine Ricks, the
librarian, announces that beginning No
vember 1 there will be a fine of 25
cents on all reserve books kept out fur
the first hour after 8:15 and after 7 or
any portion of that hour; 10 cents per
hour for the next succeeding hours or
portions of these hours.
This drastic action was decided upon
by the library committee because of
the inconvenience caused by late re
turning of reserved books.
Miss Ricks wishes to announce fur
ther that since the library is open dur
ing lunch hour except on Saturday, re
served books will not be signed out.
Also, whenever a person has a book
from general circulation which is over
due, that person loses his privilege of
withdrawing books from the library
until overdue books are returned. Books
must be brought to the desk to be
renewed.
The money collected from reserve
book fines will be used for the book
fund of the library.
FALL PLAY ANNOUNCED
BY DRAMATIC COUNCIL
"Death Takes a Holiday," StarrinK
Daryl Kent and Virginia Lever
ing Will he Presented.
PLAY WILL BE PRODUCED NOV. 9
"Peiitli Takes a Holiday" has lie 11
announced by the Dramatic Council as
their choice for this year's fall produc
tion. The play, written by Alberto
Caselln and rewritten by Walter Ferris,
concerns the adventures of Death as a
mortal during a three-day holiday,
taken for the purpose of determining
what it is that makes men value life.
According to present plans, Daryl
Kent, current dean of the Guilford
stage, will appear as Death, and Vir
ginia Levering will play opposite him
in the role of Grazia. The supporting
cast will include Milton Anderson as
Duke Lambert; Dorothy Woodward as
Duchess Stephanie; .Tim Parsons as
Corrado, son of the duke and duchess;
Jenette T-a Rosa as Alda; Esther Stilson
as the Princess of San Luca; J. L. Jones
as Baron Cesarca; Frances Alexander
as Rhoda Fenton; Bill Grigg as Eric
Fcnton; Fred Newman as Major Wliit
read of the Foreign Lcigon; and Dave
Stafford and Sybil Harrow as Fedele
and Cora, servants at the Villa Happi
ness. This casting is, of course, subject
to change at the discretion of Drama
Director Furnas.
The production is scheduled to take
place November P, the evening of home
coming day.
Members of the Dramatic Council will
be assisted in the production by the
following students: Annie Lee Fitz
gerald, Charlotte Parker, Beatrice Bohr,
Bebecea Weant, Buth Stilson, and Mar
garet Jacobs. The details of their duties
will be announced later.
New electrical equipment is expected
to produce better lighting effects.
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GUILFORDIAN
Announce Plans
For Home-Coming
J. Wilmer Pancoast, chairman of
the faculty committee, has an
nounced the following schedule of
events for Home-Coming Day, No
vember 9.
At 11 a.m. the alumni will oppose
the college in a hockey game.
During the same hour, runners
from State College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina will be pit
ted against the Guilford team in a
cross country match.
Lunch will be served in Founders
hall at 12:30 p.m.
A football game with Western
Carolina Teachers College at 2:30
will feature the activities of the
afternoon.
At 6 p.m. dinner will be served
in Founders hall.
All men who have received mono
grams will dine at the Jefferson
Standard club at 6:30 p.m.
The program for the day will end
with the presentation of the annual
fall play, "Death Takes a Holiday,"
in Memorial hall at 8:00.
LIBRARIANS CONVENE
IN ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Miss Ricks, Member of Guilford
Faculty, Attends and Acts
as Secretary.
VISIT NASHVILLE LIBRARY
Attended by Miss Katherine C. Bicks,
of Guilford College, the North Caro
lina Library Association observed its
biennial meeting for 1934-1935 in the
Battery Park hotel at Aslieville last
week.
Following an address of welcome by
Mr. George Wright at the opening ses
sion on Thursday, October 10, two
prominent speakers were heard on the
subject of "The Citizens' Library Move
ment." The Friday session, with Presi
dent Charles H. Stone, of Williamsburg,
Va., presiding, was characterized by
several talks and group meetings. Miss
Marjorie Beal, head of the library com
mission, reported that the library cir
culation in North Carolina during the
last two years had been increased by
324,608 volumes. An outstanding speaker
of the final meeting on Saturday was
Miss Mary Rothroek, who gave an in
teresting talk on libraries ill connection
with the TVA work.
One of the features of the three-day
conference for which Miss Kicks ably
served as secretary was the outline of
work being done for librarians through
federal aid. A resolution was unani
mously passed favoring the continuation
of federal aid for libraries. An out
standing event of the meeting was the
visit to the recently opened Stindley
Reference Library in Nashville.
Faculty Picnic at Odell Club
Occasion of Mirth and Gaiety
The faculty picnic held at the Odell
clubhouse Monday night, October 14,
was from all reports an occasion of
great mirth and gaiety. After a deli
cious repast on the menu of wliicii such
delicacies as fried chicken appeared,
Dr. Purdom as master of ceremonies
initiated the new members of the fac
ulty. A delightful rendering of ''Solo
mon Levi" was done with Dr. Pope as
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 19, 1935
CUSS AND CHAPEL
ABSENCES HAVE
SAME REGULATIONS
Students Warned to Watch
Their Chapel Absences
and Class Cuts
RULES MUST BE OBEYED
It Would Be Wise for Each Student
to Read and Know These Rules
and Regulations.
A statement issued last week by Miss
Era Lasley, Guilford's registrar, warns
Guilfordians that there are very defi
nite regulations covering absences from
class and chapel. These rules are posted
in prominent places about the campus.
Unavoidable absences must be ex
cused by the dean of women or the dean
of men.
Students will be excused from class
to represent the school, subject to the
approval of tlic faculty adviser or fac
ulty manager of the organization in
volved.
Four unexcused absences in any one
class means exclusion from the class
and failure in the course.
All students are required to attend
chapel unless excused by the personnel
committee.
Sixteen chapel absences on the part
of any one student automatically re
quires that student to carry one extra
hour of academic credit in order to
graduate. (Those 16 absences are for
the four-year period of the student's
stay at Guilford.)
Tardiness will be counted as absence
unless satisfactorily explained by the
offending student to the teacher in
volved immediately at the close of the
class to which the student was tardy.
Ten absences (excused or unexcused)
from any one class will bring a recom
mendation from the dean that the ab
sentee lessen the number of hours car
ried by him.
A student not passing nine hours is
allowed no unexeused absences.
No unexeused absences will be per
mitted during the week preceding and
the week following vacations.
CHARLES BLAIR ELECTED
CHIEF OF MARSHALS
Six Members of Junior Class Chosen
Each Year—Three Greensboro
Students on List.
The marshals for the junior class
were chosen on Monday, September 7.
by the faculty. To be eligible for mar
shal, one must have junior class stand
ing. Six are chosen each year for this
office, one out of the six acting as chief
marshal.
Charles Blair, from Arclulale, is chief
marshal. Jasper Seabolt, Ruth Hollis,
and Margaret Barnes, from Greensboro;
Eleanor Webster, of New Jersey; and
Fair Swaim were elected.
soloist, Dr. Weis as humming accom
panist, and Mrs. Postlethwaito as di
rector. Mr. Suiter's "louder and fun
nier" was an added impetus to the ex
cellence of the song. Miss Kirch, Mrs.
Weis, and Mrs. Pope struck up n few
lines of a song. The young Pope trio
sang "Clementine" with great gusto.
After supper the men played base
ball, while Mr. Suiter and his dish
washing committee did their stuff.
IN MEMORIAM
The Guilfordian wishes to ex
press its sympathy to the family
and friends of F. Parker Bennett,
day student of the college, who
died Friday, October 4, as the
result of injuries received in a
motor accident. Although new to
the campus, he had already made
his presence felt, and his depar
ture will be keenly felt by many
who knew and loved him, both
as a student and as a man.
DR. RUSSELL POPE
INAUGURATES CLUB
Head of French Department at
Guilford Starts Campaign
for Cercle Francais.
ATTENDS CLUB AT N. C.
Dr. Russell Pope, of Guilford Col
lege's foreign language department, to
egtlier with a small group of advanced
French students, attended a meeting of
W. C. U. X. C.'s French club on the
evening of Thursday, October 17. This
visit was the first move in an intensive
campaign for a bigger and better Cercle
Francais at Guilford this year.
This trip was made possible by the
co-operation of M. Rene Ilardre, of
the W. C. U. N. C. faculty, and Eliza
beth Barineau, president of the Wom
an's College French club, and may help
to cement relations between the foreign
language groups of the two schools.
Those who accompanied Dr. Pope Avcre
Wilda Stack, Julia Cannon, Hill llines,
.Milton Anderson, and Gloria Leslie.
BEATRICE ROHR ELECTED
HEAD OF SPANISH CLUB
Selected Grou> of Spanish and German
Students Meet at Miss Marie
Huth's House.
OLD-TIMERS ARE INVITED TO JOIN
A selected group of Spanish and Ger
man students met last evening at the
home of Miss Marie Huth, professor of
those languages at Guilford College, for
the purpose of organizing a Spanish and
German club.
Beatrice Rolir was elected president
of the group and "old-timers," people
who had formerly taken these lan
guages, were declared eligible for mem
bership in the club. Miss ITuth stated
that programs would consist in part of
pictures and lectures.
COLLEGE STUDENTS HEAR
WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD
The chapel program of the past
two weeks featured a speech by
Representative William B. Um
stead on the philosophy and the
legislative significance of the so
cial legislation now before Con
gress. Mr. Umstead. who repre
sents North Carolina's fifth dis
trict in Congress, is no stranger to
Guilford.
The other chapel programs in
cluded n talk by Superintendent
Guy IV Phillips, of the Greensboro
schools, whose topic was, "What
Are You Worth Above the Ears?",
a test on general knowledge of
music given by Musicmaster Weis,
a speech on "Spiritual Prepared
ness" by Rev. Tom Sykes, of Iligh
Point, and a discussion of the Ethi
opian situuation by Professor
Newlin.
Home-Coming
Soon
NUMBER 2
UMSTEADANDSYKES
ADDRESS STUDENT
BODY AT CHAPEL
Representative Airs Views on
Legislation of Congressional
Session Just Past.
HIGH POINT PARSON HERE
These Two Men Are Becoming Well
Known to Students on Guilford
College Campus.
Two of the best-known men in North
Carolina, Representative William B.
Umstead and Reverend Tom Sykes,
spoke at Guilford during the past week,
Sykes on the 14th and Umstead on
the loth.
This marked the second time that the
congressman has spoken here, while
Sj'kes is rajiidly becoming a familiar
figure about the campus.
The subject of the Hon. Mr. Umstead'g
speech was the recent social legislation
dealt with by Congress during the last
session. He described the social se
curity act, the old age pension plan,
and the unemployment insurance idea.
He stated that these things were very
desirable and urged the student body to
carry on the good work of the pioneers
of today when, as, and if they reach the
head of things.
Mr. Umstead is a graduate of U. N. C.,
at which school he met Guilford's F.
Carlyle Sliepard, through whose co-op
eration both of the representative's
speeches at Guilford were arranged.
This is his second consecutive term at
the nation's capital as the voice of
North Carolina's sixth district. He is a
resident of Durham.
Sykes, although a native of High
Point, is a prominent figure on the
eastern seaboard, styled by some as
"Little Father Couglilin." His speech
took the form of an impassioned appeal
for "spiritual preparedness," and "was
very well received by the student body.
FINE ARTS CLUB HOLDS
MEETING OCTOBER 13
Diversified Entertainment Furnished
by Members; President, Vice-
President, Secretary Chosen.
The Fine Arts club met last Monday
night for its first program. Voice and
piano numbers were predominant, but
Jules Sharp added variety with a read
ing, "Between Two Loves."
The other selections were: Voice
solos, "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave
Me," by Handel, and "My Mother Rids
Me Bind My Hair," by Ilaydn, sung by
Frances Mclver; and "Such a LiM Fel
low," by Diclimant, and "Still as the
Night," by Bahm, sung by Annie Leo
Fitzgerald. Oreornelia Matlock played
variations on a theme by Beethoven on
the fnano, and Naomi Binford played
"Intermezzo," by Brahms.
Following the program a short busi
ness session was held in which Francos
Mclver was elected president of the
club; Annie Lee Fitzgerald, vice presi
dent; and Mary Mcßane, secretary.
Coach Anderson Away,
Coach and Mrs. John P. Anderson
left Sunday by automobile for Conway,
Ark., where they were called by the
illness of Mr. D. 0. Harton, Mrs. An
derson's father. He is seriously ill with
pneumonia. They intend to return by
the end of the week. However, if Mr.
Harton does not improve, Mrs. Ander
son will remain but Coach will return
and resume his duties here.