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THE GUILFORDIAN
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Peace Marches On!
The Spanish Rebels captured Malaga. This capture was achieved
through the reported aid of 15,000 Italian troops. Can anyone believe
that the Anglo-Italian agreement will cut down Italy's interference
in the war?
Students at the North Dakota Agricultural College and the State
University are no longer forced to take military training. The enact
ment of the law represents a victory for the state chapter of the
Farmers' Union which in the opinion of Federick J. Libby is "another
indication of mounting public disapproval of any policy in our educa
tional institutions that smacks of the goose-stepping regimentation of
the old-world dictatorships."
The Polish National Democrats of an extreme nationalistic tinge
have by means of a boycott of the Jews taken shops and jobs away
from Jews and given them to Poles. Three hundred and fifty munici
palities are reported to have stopped Jews from trade on the market
place.
Food for Thought
"Jt is iii 110 wise proper for any one who would be a Christian to
set himself up against his government, whether it act justly or un
justly."—Luther.
"Society will be relatively most free in which people have best
learned the lesson of minding their own business."— Martin.
An Orchid to You
Regardless of whether we attend or do not attend the dances given
by various organizations, the college "jazz band" is to be congrat
ulated for this reason—a group of students organized themselves, with
out faculty prodding or supervision, and through their own efforts
have become of use and enjoyment to their social group.
These men students did something about a situation that could
not have been remedied in any other way, as an "outside" orchestra
is prohibited by the dancing regulations of the college. "We have a
college band which proves that action is better than voicing dissatisfac
tion and we sincerely hope that other organizations will see the evil
of evils (if any) of the campus; then proceed to solve the problem
in the same manner as did the men of the "jazz band."
Must We Plead Guilty?
The administration of the college lias changed the rules concerning
chapel regulations for Ibis semester. (The student body is required
to go to chapel three times a week instead of live.)
For two days a week we can go to chapel or not. This is freedom
but are we using this new found liberty to the best advantage of the
individual and the group? If we are not abusing the privilege then
we are proving that we truly know the meaning of iiberty—we are
beginning to attain that longed-for adulthood.
We are not condemning our former classmates but we hope to
profit by their failure. Therefore, let us regress about seven years
to the days when students were allowed to date, with little restrictions,
in Men's Center. We of this generation have been told that that part
of the campus is forever closed to dating because of the misuse by
students of that adult privilege.
We have another such situation given us. Are we the same as our
former classmates or will we prove by our action that we are familiar
with the responsibility of making a choice and making that choice
count for the best good? It is not necessary to worship in the Quaker
fashion every Tuesday morning but it is necessary that each student
use this thirty minutes out of each week to a constructive advantage.
In so doing he will have become conscious of the fundamental prin
ciple of freedom that leads to a superior happiness.
From Theory to Practice
The Student Hut is a building, nothing more. It is sadly lacking
in the way of those things which go to make an interior and an exterior
attractive and interesting. One student (from the Open Forum column)
has made Ibis unique suggestion that of putting theory into practice
and we wish to add our voice to her support.
For example: We suggest that the Philosophy 10 class take this
elementary foundation as their project. By organizing the class into
designers, interior decorators and handicraft groups the interior of
the building could be easily made more inviting. As for the furniture,
it could be bought through the same system that was used last spring
in obtaining the Hut. Student organizations would, we are sure,
add their efforts to those of the Philosophy 10 class. Not forgetting
the outside, the flagstone walk could be laid and shrubbery planted
according to the Centennial campus plan.
The project—which is within our reach—would take money, work,
careful planning and stimulus (credit for work completed). Does
theory and practice work together? If not the Hut will probably
remain a building, nothing more.
THE GUILFORDIAN
A full column of bans, restrictions,
deletions. And to top it off we get a
communication saying . . . —the asi
nine and uncultured statements of the
last issue were not comprehended. So
see our dictionary and rummage for
your last issue.
KEY TO LAST ISSUE OF
GUILFORDIAN
The following campus personalities
appeared in the following paragraphical
order:
Martha Rose Sharpe
Ella Cochrane
Emily Virginia Levering
William Edgar Grigg, Jr.
Ruth Stilson
Charles Edward Blair
Ernest lllman
Clarence A. Woolston
Elizabeth Redding Bulla
Lewis Bartlett
"Jeremiah"
Margaret Louise Barnes
Phyllis Victory Weinberg
Mario Stone
William Edgar Grigg, Jr.
Thell Becton Overman
William O. Suiter, M.A.
Benry Winston Davis, Jr.
Look up your old paper and get the
real dope.
Anyway she's not his best girl; just
necks best.
Coming soon: a business directory
telling you where to buy your dope,
morphine, you-know-what, etc. In mem
ory of that noble steed owned by a
faculty member and successor to it of
still somewhat ancient vintage we dedi
cate the "poetree" below in which an
other owner found solace.
An Ode to the Model T
Man—spare that Model T,
Touch not a single spoke;
For many miles it carried me,
But now its back is broke.
And many miles it traveled
Up and down the highway—
Of happy times remembered,
All were jolly and gay;
It was a familiar object
To the people of the town;
Some would joke about it,
And others a friendly frown.
But nevertheless it got there
And nearly always came back.
In English class: "There is a variety
of the evil weed that will reduce you."
"Oh! Professor, can you break the
habit f"
In the market for razor blades after
March 15, 1937, Shoro and Grayson.
Now, children, you must learn your
professors.
LITTLE LIMERICKS FOR LITTLE
PEOPLE,
or,
"GOOD MORNING, DEAR TEACHER"
I.
I have a dear teacher named Milner,
When with "stuff" lier students start
fill'n'er
She retorts from the stage
"Your Emotional Age ..."
I am seriously thinking of kill'n'er.
11.
A guardian of the flock is Slicpard
(Which fortunately rhymes with leop
ard).
In changing a spot
The leopard is not
So agile nor willing as Sliepard.
111.
Another dea rteaclicr is Beittel,
He often is heard in recital
On social trends
With spiritual ends
And other things vital to Beittel.
IV.
A recalcitrant poet is Pope,
With whose arguments we can well cope,
For the gentleman clearly
Not hangs himself merely
But insists on spinning the rope.
V.
A preceptor of parts is P. Furnas;
He refuses to promptly adjourn us,
But takes up the period
With a various myriad
Of things which in no way concern us.
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First Centennial
1837-1937
GUILFORD COLLEGE PUBLICA
TIONS
The Guilford Collegian
The first copy of the Guilford Colle
gian was issued in December, 1888, after
Now Garden Boarding School had been
opened as a college in the fall of that
year. The publication, in booklet form,
apeared monthly and was sponsored by
the literary societies of the school. The
first issue contained Dr. Lewis Lyndon
Ilobbs' inaugural address, articles by
alumni, personals, locals, and literary
comments. The advertisements were
written as locals in the local column.
Robert C. Root was editor, Jos. Moore
I,or was business manager, and Mary
W. Dardon, J. Richard Kennedy, and
Campbell White were on the staff. On
the last page was a directory of the
Brightonian, Pliilagorcan, Wcbsterian,
and Claytonian literary societies. The
Collegian was printed until June, 1914.
In the fall of 1914 energetic student
journalists burst forth with a new pub
lication in the form of a weekly news
paper to take the place of the Colle
gian. This newspaper was given the
name Guilfordian and had four four
column pages. The front page was di
vided equally among the Y. M. C. A.,
the Y. W. C. A., athletics, and society.
The general appearance was about the
same as the Guilfordan of today, con
taining news of the college, alumni, etc.
The Quaker
The first issue of the Quaker was pub
lished by the senior class of 1911. There
were 22 members of the graduating class
and 14 of them were on the staff of
the annual. John Gurney Briggs was
editor and C. C. Smitlideal was busi
ness manager. The volume was dedi
cated to Dr. Ilobbs, then serving his
23rd year as president of the college.
Among the pictures of the faculty were
Allan Wilson Ilobbs and Dudley De-
Witt Carrol, at present members of the
faculty at the University of North Car
olina. Mr. Ilobbs was athletic director
and assistant in math, and Mr. Carrol,
a graduate of 'O7, was teacher of his
tory and economics and basketball
coach. Miss Ada M. Field, at present
a resident of Guilford community, was
professor of chemistry.
The pages following the senior pic
tures were devoted to the class history,
class poem, song, will and testament,
and prophecy. In order followed group
pictures of the Junior, Sophomore and
Freshman classes, with a short history
of each. Next came society pictures,
debating teams, orchestra, and various
organizations. "Chick" Doak was cap
tain of the baseball team and A. W.
Ilobbs was coach. Notable among the
scores for that year was Guilford 100
and Danville Y. M. C. A. 7.
Although the Annual has changed and
advanced much since the -first volume,
it is fundamentally the same, serving
the alumni with a record of each year's
stay at Guilford.
The Penny Press
The only attempt at the publication
of a daily bulletin appeared in the form
of "The Penny Press," a single mimeo
graphed sheet edited by James Harper,
a student. The first issue apeared on
February 3 to bo tho official college
bulletin distributed each day at chapel.
The students were to pay one cent a
copy to cover cost of printing. The
editor made a noblo effort for two
weeks, but being liard-pressed for ma
terial and means, the newly created
periodical sank into the history of Guil
ford publications, to bo remembered
and rediscovered from time to time by
those who frequent the vaults of the
library. T. A.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
IN COLLEGE QUILTING-BEE
(Continued from Page One)
surprise every time tliey can get a
glimpse of (lie opposite sex.
lint when tbe red and white quilt,
with its vast variety of species en
rolled, is viewed a hundred years from
now the Quakers will probably blink
in surprise nl the quaintness of their
1937 predecessors.
Yes, revolution certainly lived in the
knitting of Madam Defarge, but not
to so marked a degree us evolution
dwells in every name ou the Senten
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Dear Editor:
In spring of Inst year some altruistic
solicitor asked me for my $4.20 that
was to be returned from the breakage
fee. He said that it would be used to
rebuild a certain shack that stood on
the campus.
After much piddling around, I was
finally convinced to contribute the
small sum, plus a little more of the
filthy lucre as a gift to some organiza
tion to contribute to this worthy
cause. It was understood by at least
a hundred open-minded students that
this little project would culminate in
becoming a place where a student body
could get together and have a good
time. It was to be a place where we
could dance, play, date, and momen
tarily forget tile strain of tlie college
curriculum.
Hut alas, dear editor, as all good
things, lliis marvelous ideal too has
been forgotten, has been enshrouded
behind some mystic veil, the which to
penetrate would be disastrous. It
turned out to be a place where we
cannot date, where we cannot dance
unless beneath the stare of scrutinizing
superiors, where we cannot have im
promptu meetings unless we have
signed seven days in advance, where
we can do anything but forget the
stress of our little world.
Someone lias suggested calling the
project the "hut." Let me suggest a
more meaningful name, "The Disap
pointment."
Sincerely,
Discontent.
Dear GUILFORDIAN STAFF:
Wlien you were elected last spring
we didn't think you had it in you to
put out a good paper; but you have
proved to us that we didn't know you.
The GUILFORDIAN this year, in our
opinion, has been the best ever. Keep
it up!
And as long as we're writing we
might as well get this off our minds.
We have enough respect for the stu
dent hotly to believe that their intelli
gence has been insulted by (lie type of
entertainment provided by the Lyceum
Course this year. Fewer numbers of
a better type are preferable by far to
a string of second-rate productions.
Home talent like the Little Symphony
and the Carolina I'laymakers suit us
much better.
Sincerely,
"Around the Coffee Table."
Dear 10(11 tor:
Some Quaker prophet or seer living
about a hundred years ago, if there
had been such a man, might have given
a new institution that was otherwise
named, the appelation Gripers' Insti
tute, and a hundred years would have
proved the truth and foresight of (he
soothsayer.
Today that institution is a hot-spot
of complaint and dissatisfaction. As
time has gone on the gripers have
gradually developed into two factions
that might be called with seeming apt
ness the Whigs and the Tories. The
former do most of their work orally
either by means of the soap box.
or in round-table discussions otherwise
known as bull sessions. Their topics
for griping are unlimiated and all
generously treated. On the other hand
(he Tories labor under somewhat of a
handicap because of their confinement
to dignified editorial columns which ap
pear at intervals of two weeks, how
ever they try to make up for this in
the very choice selection of topics to
lie hashed over (or beefed about if
you prefer). Now one might be led
to (hink (hat these two factions would
co-operate as brothers in a common
cause, but such is not the ease. The
chief field of activity for the Tories
is knocking (lie Whigs for their illit
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THE FOUNDERS
[There is a link tlion,
Between me and thee,
Despite the years?
Despite the broad-rimmed hat,
The flowing cape,
The tight-sot lips?
I'erchance my own were tight-set, too.
Had I to bake me brick.
To hew (he lumber from the hills,.
Or goad the laden oxen
Fifty miles,
Down rutted roads.
Strange men?
1 wonder.
Did the wraith o Beauty ever torment
you?
Beneath that bell-crowned hat,
What desperate thoughts
Beseiged your rigid brow.
Beneath the mantle,
Did not Venus
Ever sing?
The Oak that wraps its roots
About you now,
May know.
Strange Men,
There is a link between us
Then? — h' unset I Pope.
erncy and lack of culture as shown
both in their choice of gripes and in
other more personal aspects of their
behaviour. Likewise the Whigs have
an aversion to the Tories because the
hitter's complaints don't coincide with
their own.
After interviewing members of both
parties, 1 could find no satisfactory
answer to the question of why all this
griping, and finally came to the con
clusion that there must be some in
nate pleasure in mankind of voicing
discontent.
I'leaso allow me space to encourage
nil those who have not affiliated them
selves with either party, to do so at
once, and we'll soon be having the
time of our lives. So let's all get into
the game.
Sincerely yours,
A. B. C.
Dear Kditor:
(Jot a great kick outta your recent
crack at us countrymen.
Corse there are a few sissies like
yourself who come to College for cul
ture and 'at stuff, but 'at ain't in my
line, no sir! Why, i even heard some
of these shore co-eds a-arguin' about
the he Don't He doesn't situation! Get
what you got to say said—'at's my
Mot-to.
As for this shore fork lii'ness—well,
i tried all them methmls described
in your artical and i reckon 'at immi
grant clutch about suits me. It's ideel
—well, almost. Corse i ain't so good
at it yet. One thing, tho, them tables
in the dinning room ain't so hot for
'at metliud. The.vro too small. Could
you write a oilitoreal for bigger tables
or something? Tho other noon i was
a-sawing away at 'at nice steak we
was served and it scattod plumb off
of my plate into my neighbor's lap.
Law, did she get hoppin"! But then
she's a Yankee. She didn't give it
back eether—just got up right quick
like 'n walked off. i don't think 'at
was vere.v nice, do you?
Well, looks like i got it said, so i'll
close. Them articles about culture and
'at .stuff sure do Tiekal me tho.
Yours truley,
A COUNTKYMUN.
MOX.-TUICS., MARCH 1, 2
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