TRIM
VOLUME XXII
DRAMATIC COUNCIL'S
FALL PRESENTATION
IS VERY SUCCESSFUL
"Death Takes a Holiday" is a
Fitting Climax to Home
coming Day.
BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE
Music Furnished by New Guilford Col
lege Orchestra Under Direction
of Dr. Ezra Weis.
Tlio Guilford College Dramatic Coun
cil last Saturday presented a stellar
performance of Alberto Casella s fan
tasy, "Death Takes a Holiday," directed
by Philip W. Furnas, professor of Eng
lish, before one of the largest audi
ences ever to gather in Guilford's Me
morial liall auditorium.
Visiting alumni who returned to the
99-year-old school for the annual home
coming day celebration were given a
delightful treat in the best performed
play staged at Guilford in recent years.
Daryl Kent, a member of the senior
class, gave an unusually creditable
characterization in the role of "Death."
Kent's action won considerable commen
dation from the homecoming audience.
Milton Anderson, as the austere Duke
Lambert, proved that lie, although a
new student at Guilford, is destined to
be a leading member of the council.
The heroine's role, played very dra
matically by Miss Virginia Levering,
was another high spot in the evening's
perform,ince. As the reuvenated old
love-making bachelor, J. L. Jones again
made a hit with the Guilford audience.
His role provided the comedy for an
otherwise serious and philosophical pro
duction. Promising work was done liy
three newcomers to Guilford: Dorothy
Woodward, David Stafford, and Jyn
nette Laßosa. The other members of
the council played their parts very well.
Frances Alexander, Sybil Barrow, Es
tlier Stilson, Bill Grigg as an aristo
cratic Englishman, James Parsons, and
James Lovings all did Casella's play
justice.
Music was furnished by the Guilford
College orchestra under the direction
of Dr. Ezra 11. F. Weis.
PRES. CLYDE A. MILNER
TO TAKETRIP NORTH
He Will Visit Several Preparatory
Schools and Will Attend Philadel
phia Alumni Chapter Meeting.
HE IS TO SPEAK AT PERKIOMEN
I)r. Clyde A. Milner, president of
Guilford, will leave on Saturday, No
vember 10, for n 10-lny trip through
tlio north.
While away Dr. Milner will visit
several preparatory schools ineluding
Westtown, George School, and I'erkio
inen. lie will speak in chapel at Per-
Idomen.
Dr. Milner will attend a meeting of
the Philadelphia chapter of Guilford
alumni and from there he will travel
to New York and Washington on busi
ness for the college. The president
will return to Guilford on Tuesday,
November 20.
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Joint "Y" Vesper Service
In the Meeting House the large group
present discussed enthusiastically "What
the Young People Owe the Church and
What the Church Owes the Young Peo
ple." Various opinions were expressed.
Hazel Ruth Adams conducted the de
votionals.
fD THE -D
GUILFORDIAN
Devoted His Fortune to Education
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AMIKKW AKNKI, IK ''
GUILFORD SINGERS
PRESENT "MESSIAH"
Annual Musical Event to Take
Place December 16; Or
chestra Will Play.
NEW SELECTIONS ADDED
Tbe annual presentation of Handel's
Messiah will be given Sunday after
noon, December 15, under the direction
of Dr. Ezra 11. I". Weis, bead of tbe
Guilford College music department.
Due to conflicts with Christinas pro
grams at W. C. U. N. C. and Greens
boro College, the program will stnrt at j
:i o'clock. The orchestra, a new nddi-j
tion to the program, will play, IK '.sides
their accompaniment, the Overture to
the Messiah and the beautiful Pas
toral Symphony. Orchestra rehearsals
are to begin Sunday afternoon. Novem
ber 17, at the Church of the Covenant.
The soloists for this concert are:
Soprano, Mrs \V. It. Clement of Greens
boro; alto, Mrs. .1. It. Dick of Greens
boro, tenor, Mr. Paul Gyles of Greens
boro; bass. Mr. John Gurney ltriggs.
Jr.. of High Point. .Miss Maxiue Kirch
of tbe Guilford College anisic depart
ment will be pianist.
The chorus made up of the Guilford
College choir, Guilford students not
in the choir, members of Guilford Col
lege community, and the Church of tbe!
Covenant choir, is planning to sing;
four new choruses.
STURGES WILL VISIT
DR. AND MRS. MILNER
Francis and Edith St urge, of York
shire, England, will l>e the guests of
Or. and Mrs. Milner during Thanksgiv
ing. These Friends wore delegates to
the Five Years' Meeting and have since
been visiting acquaintances all over the
country. While here the Sturges will
be guests at a church dinner at High
Point, and on Thanksgiving Day they
will visit Duke and have dinner with
Dr. and Mrs. Elbert Russell, of the
school of religion there.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., NOVEMBER 16, 1935
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL
ASKS FOR CO OPERATION
The Men's Student Council is
asking all firecracker enthusiasts to
refrain from using fireworks until
they return home at Christmas.
They do not wish to have a month
of fireworks on campus before
Christmas for the following sensible
reason: Fireworks are dangerous in
the college buildings, and spoil peo
ple's rest at night.
These students are asked to co
oj>erate in this matter as much as
possible by considering others who
have a right to rest and quiet.
The council hopes that no drastic
measures will have to be taken in
this matter.
FINE ARTS CLUB MEETS
SEVERAL PEOPLE SING
Frances Mclver Presides at Meeting
Held on Monday
Night.
Guilford College's Fine Arts Club
held its second semi-monthly meeting
of the current season in the Music
building Monday evening, November 11.
Frances Mclver, president of the club,
occupied the chair and announced the
program numbers, which, in general,
constituted the meeting.
The program was as follows: "Mother
Machree,*' sung by Freda McKinney,
and accompanied by Betty Trotter at!
the piano; Mendelssohn's "Song With
out Words," played by Pearl Lindley;
"There's a Beautiful Land on High,"
sung by Helen I'otts, and accompanied
011 violin and piano by Naomi Binford
and Annie Vannoy, respectively; "The
End of a Perfect Day" and "The
Kosary," rendered by Annie Fitzgerald,
again with the assistance of Miss Trot
ter at the piano; and "Etude," an orig
inal composition for the piano, played
by its composer, William Collier.
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Club Gives "Nativity"
Miss Marie Hutli, adviser of the Ger
man ie-Hispanic Club, announces that
the German students will present the
"Nativity" as a feature of the Christmas
celebration. This play will be in German
with German setting and costumes.
COLLEGE CELEBRATES
ANNIVERSARY OF
ANDREW CARNEGIE
All America to Commemorate
Hundredth Birthday of This
Great Philanthropist.
HIS PICTURE IS UNVEILED
The Andrew W. Carnegie Trust Fund
Has Greatly Helped the Guilford
College Library.
On November 23tli America will cele
brate the 100 th anniversary of the
birth of the great philanthropist and
steel magnate. Andrew Carnegie, who
has probably contributed more toward
the upkeep of charitable foundations
and the formation of trust funds than
any other single man in the history
of the world. In celebrating his birth
day Guilford College will unveil a pic
ture of Carnegie. The unveiling cere
mony will be under the direction of
Miss {Catherine C. lUcks, the Guilford
librarian.
The college library, completed in Oc
tober, 1009, was built from funds
amounting lo SO,OOO raised by trus
tees and friends of the college, and an
equal amount contributed from the An
drew Carnegie trust fund. From 1030
to 1034 these trust funds contributed
SB,OOO to the Guilford library for the
purchase of books.
Carnegie's theory of wealth, out of
which evolved his enormous project of
endowments for colleges and public li
braries, was in effect as follows: The
inan of wealth, after providing mod
erately for bis own wants, and the
wants of his dependents, should con
sider all surplus revenues coming to
him simply as trust funds which he is
called upon to administer to bis less
fortunate neighbors. To this end did
Andrew Carnegie devoutly apply him
self, with the result that he is known
as the greatest benefactor of the hu
man race in modern times.
Some of t lie more important Carnegie
trusts in the United States are the
$135,000,000 Carnegie Corporation in
New York, the .$32 000,000 Carnegie
Institute of Washington, and the $lO,-
.">40,000 Hero Commission of Pittsburgh.
It has been said that if it had not
liecn for the aid which the Guilford
library received from Carnegie funds,
tile library would be only a room in
Founders Hall.
RABBI F. L. RYPINS
MAKES TALK MONDAY
Tiie 17th anniversary of the signing
of the Armistice was celebrated in the
Guilford College chapel by two peace
prog nuns. The first of these was held
Friday morning, November 8, as a
part of the nation-wide student mobi
lization for iK'iice, and included, in ad
dition to a two-minute period of silence,
talks by students who have been promi
nently allied with the peace sentiment
at Guilford. The second took the form
of a speech on "Means Toward Peace,"
by Habbi F. L, Itypins, of Greens
boro's Temple Emanuel.
Other cliapol offerings for the two
week period just past include the pre
sentation of a scene from the Dra
matic Council's fall play, "Death Takes
a Holiday." and a musical program.
Talks by Dean I'lirdom and the Rev.
Mr. Ilurlburt. one of Vermont's better
known Congregationalist divines, were
given.
ELON
NUMBER \
DR. MILNER'S BOOK
ON COLLEGE LIFE
IS SOON TO APPEAR
Dr. Robert L. Kelly, Secretary
of Association of Colleges,
Presents Introduction.
TREATISE ON EDUCATION
President Calls Book "Dean of a Small
College"; Emphasizes Christian
Philosophy of Education.
I)r. Clyde A. Milner will shortly pub
lish his book, "Dean of n Small Col
lege," which is a philosophy of educa
tion for the small liberal arts college
and the interpretation of the duties
and opportunities of it.
Two aims of the book are: to survey
the office of dean as it is now admin
istered in a small liberal arts college,
and to see more clearly what the office
should bo in the light of a Christian
philosophy of education.
I)r. Robert 1.. Kelly, executive sec
retary of the Association of American
Colleges, presents the Introduction. Dr.
Kelly states in the introduction, "It
(the book) should serve as a tonic to
(hose colleges which have not definite
ly defined their objectives, or co-ordi
nated those objectives with the instruc
tional procedure, or indeed their on
going life."
"The book should stimulate a more
discriminating understanding and as
sist in the development of a guild
spirit which will elevate the deans'
task to the level of a profession.
"Dr. Milner holds frankly to the con
viction that the small American col
lege is incomplete if it does not base
its educational theory and practice on
the central teachings of the Great
Teacher."
This book could also be culled a
philosophy of education and will ap
peal to all those interested in educa
tional problems.
FACULTY^MEMBERS PICK
FRESHMAN DEBATERS
Four Men Chosen to Represent Class
of '39 in Debate With Upper
class Team.
TO MEET JUNIORS THIS MONTH
David Stafford, John Hallowell, Alvin
Meibolim, and Tyreo Gilliam have been
tentatively chosen to represent the class
of '39 in a forthcoming forensic strug
gle with the juniors. The selection
was made by Professors Algie Newlin,.
William Suiter, and Dorothy Gilbert,,
who sat as a committee of three at the
request of the freshmen interested in
the matter. Their decision ranked
Stafford and Hallowell definitely as
members of the team, and split third
place between Meibolim and Gilliam,
pending further selection to determine
to which the berth will go.
The debate, which will take place in
the latter part of November, is the
result of a challenge issued by the
juniors and taken up by Stafford in his
capacity as president of the younger
class. Whatever the outcome of the
contest, it is expected to serve as a
proving ground for the talents of tho
newcomers.
Dr. Milner Speaks Over Radio
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president of tho
college, spoke Tuesday, November 12,
over radio station WBIG on the "Con
tribution of the Individual to Peace."
Thursday, November 14, he spoke on
"The School and Social Change."