VOLUME XXIV
'NEWGYM'COMMITTEE SEEKS BRICKS
CAMPAIGN MARKS
FIRST WEEK OF
NEW SEMESTER
Thousand Bricks From Each
Student and Faculty Mem
ber Is Drive's Goal.
MILNER, PARSONS LEAD
Off-Cam pus Workers to Seek Gifts
After Charter Day; Cornerstone
Laying May 28.
"Three hundred thousand bricks or
bust!"
So rings the war-cry of the com
mittee recently formed to organize
campus support of the new gym for
Guilford project. In a campus-wide
drive, scheduled for tile week of Jan
uary 24-31, the committee plans to seek
gilts of brick for the projected center
of Guilford athletic life from faculty
and students alike. For the purpose of
tile campaign, bricks are to be priced
at •$!•"> a thousand, and the 300,000 goal
will call for a gift of slightly less than
a thousand bricks from each learner
ami teacher.
A parallel drive, soliciting the aid of
alumni and friends of the college, will
be launched ou Charter day, January
l.'i, and last until the thirteenth of
May. Planned culmination of the pro
gram is the- cornerstone laying to take
place May 2S —Alumni Day—of next
year.
Details of llie local organization have
not yet been fully worked out. Sub
lnitted first to the Cooperative Council,
student - administration organization,
formation of a central committee was
deemed the most efficient method of
carrying out (he intensive program to
be launched at the beginning of the
second semester. Solicitors to under
take the canvassing of each dormitory
are to be named later.
The off-campus division of the gym
campaign includes some 200 workers,
who will be feted 011 Charter Day.
These workers are recruited from past
graduating classes and from local
alumni assocint ions.
Heading the drive are Guilford's
President Clyde A. Milncr and Business
Manager David IT. Parsons. Chairman
D. D. Carroll, of Hie Guilford Board
of Trustees, and Clifford Frazier,
brother of the board's secretary, are
also faking an active part in (lie organi
zation plans and will speak in favor of
tile project in connection with the
Charter Day celebration.
Guilford Quakers Invade Blue
Devils for Humanity's Sake
Determined that Duke should not
wait long before Guilford would re
turn the call made by its head coacli,
Wallace Wade, a group of students, not
from the Athletic association, but from
the V. W. C. A. and Y. Ml C. A., went
down to the Mluc Devils' territory last
Sunday. The attraction, however, was
not Duke (at least Mr. Anderson would
not admit that the memories of the
attractive V. W. president down there
had lingered on from Xawakawa) but
Buck Kester, president of the Southern
Tenant Farmers union, who was to
speak to "Y" cabinets from all over
the state. MY. Kester, who Is a very
g/thE'-d
GUILFORDIAN
Caroling Planned
For Thursday Night
With Christmas just around the
corner, manifold Yuletide activities
are planned, a feature of which will
be caroling: by the student body, and
the choir. This ancient rite will be
once again performed on Thursday
night, December 16, as ye merry
scholars travel the highways and by
ways to the various faculty homes
around the campus, bringing the
Spirit of Christmas to our alma
mater and the community. As the
evening wears on, the cold and hap
py throng will approach the Beit
tels\ to be warmed by their well
known hospitality and fireplace.
HANDEL'S 'MESSIAH'
TO BE GIVEN SUNDAY
Soloists From Greensboro and
Salem College Will
Participate.
UNDER WE IS' DIRECTION
The most famous of George Fred
crick Handel's oratorios, "The Mes
siah" will be presented Sunday after
noon. December lit, by the Guilford
College choir and the Guilford Com
munity Choral society, under the able
direction of Dr. Fzra 11. F. W'eis. The
combined choirs will be accompanied
by '.lie Guilford Chamber orchestra
composed of (Juilford and Greensboro
players.
Soloists this year will be Mils. 11. E.
Armstrong, soprano; Mrs. Armistead
Mercer, contralto; Mr. Clifford Blair,
tenor; Mr. Sherman Smith, bass. Mrs.
Armstrong, of Greensboro, sings at the
First Baptist church and the Jewish
Synagogue; Mrs. Armistend Mercer
also of Greensboro, sings at the First
Presbyterian church and has also done
light opera in New York. Mr. Blair
and Anna Withers, who will be at the
organ, come from Salem college. Mr.
Sherman Smith is chemistry professor
at I'. X. (and is well known for his
work with various choral groups. Mrs.
Harvey I .Jung will be accompanist.
Professor Ilardrc to Speak
The new Internatoinal Relations club
will inaugurate its first meeting of
the year 1038 with a talk by Professor
Jacques Ilardre, who will present "The
Foreign Policy of France" on January
0, in the hut. This topic is especially
appropriate at this time, since it so
deeply concerns international affairs.
| quiet young man, for all his seeming
calmness was able lo picture to the stu
dents who heard him the actual want
(hat existed in the rural sections of the
South today and especially the con
dition of the sharecroppers. "There
are people there," he said, "whose
style of dress is determined not
by I'arls, but by the kind of Hour that
they get for the winter. Flour sacks
are the only kind of clothing they can
afford." There arc involved, according
lo Mr. Kester, not only tile question
of conflict between the sharecropper
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., DECEMBER 11, 1937
LASSIES TO FETE
SANTA CLAUS AT
ANNUAL BAZAAR
Effort Made to Supply Fun for
Everyone—Dancing and
Games Order of Day.
HOBBS IS FESTIVE HALL
Christmas Gifts to Be Sold and For
tunes Told for Inquisitive
Merry Makers.
This year's Yule-tide festivity will ind
its main expression in the annual ba-
zaar of the Y. W. C. A. In an effort
to accommodate to all tastes, Christmas
spirit will be administered in forms
varying from a substantial supply of
food to subtle decorations of mistletoe.
United action on the part of the stu
dent body organized into innumerable
efficient committees, is responsible for
the preparation of this important event.
Practical and attractive Christmas
gifts will be on sale for nil those for
tunates with sufficient purchasing pow
er. Very little stress is being put upon
tin- .Japanese origin of the commodities
for the Y's are known to be strongly
in sympathy with the Chinese in the
Sino-Japanese conflict. Other features
011 the progrnm include an evening of
dancing, which will take various nov
elty forms. Those with questionable pro
ficiency for "the little apple" or high
land fling will be entertained by nu
merous games. Refreshments for the
campus gourmets are being served by
the "baby Y's" in the tea room espe
cially constructed for this gala affair.
The intense activity of Mary Ilobbs
tonight will make the atmosphere of
all other celebrations seem soporific
in comparison.
PLANS FOR CHARTER DAY
TO INCLUDE BIG BANQUET
Two Hundred Campaign Workers Will
Meet to Discuss Drive for
New Gym Fund.
ENTERTAINMENT TO BE FEATURED
One hundred and fourth Charter
Day at Guilford College, to be cele
brated January l.'t, J! KIN, will honor
that group of men and women who
have accepted the responsibility and
opportunity to "help in the first major
construction efforts of the second cen
tury" by carrying to alumni and
friends of the college the story of the
institution and its plans for immediate
development of facili.ies. it has been
announced.
Contributions of Guilford College to
co-ed (lent ion, to religion, to social prog
ress jind to education served as themes
of tlie Charter Day programs for the
last four years in the order mentioned.
Speakers at these events included Gov.
J. C. 1!. Ehringhaus; Dr. Frank P. Gra
ham, president of the University of
North Carolina; Clarence I'ickett,
executive secretary of the American
Friends' Service Committee; l)r. Wal-
ter Thomas Woody, professor of the
history of education at the University
of Pennsylvania: and Dr. J. Franklin
Drown, of the M'acmillan company.
This year the principal program will
be held in Founders' hall with a formal
banquet to which the houorees, a grouo
of about -HO men and women, and the
students will be invited. Dr. Dudley
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Campus Calendar
Saturday, Dec. 11—Y.W.C.A. Christ
mas Bazaar in Mary Hohbs Hall.
Sunday, Dec. 12—The Messiah.
Wednesday, Dec. 15—Cross country
team's party in the hut. German
club meeting in Founders.
Thursday, Dec. 16—Sophomore party
in the hut. Senior Chapel in the
hut. Carol singing.
Friday, Dec. 17—Party at Founders.
Party at Mary Hobbs.
DEAN BEITTEL GOES
TO Y.M.C.A. MEETING
Discussion Centered in Com
parisons of American and
European Religious Trends.
ACTED AS CO-DIKECTOK
"Religious Trends in the Modern
World" drew Dr. A. I). Beittel, dean of
Guilford College, to the Atlanta, Ga.,
Y. M. C. A. conference, where he
served as co-leader with Mademoiselle
Suzanne de Dietrich of Paris for a
three-day round table discussion.
Arranged by the National Board of
Y. M. C. A.'s, this southern conference
centered discussion in the similarities
as well as the differences in various
European and American religious
trends. The purpose of the meeting
was to act as an informative confer
ence that would serve to stimulate in
terest in modern religious tendencies.
Attendance for the December 2-4 con
ference was limited to a few repre
sentative leaders—between 25 and 30
in all—who came from throughout the
South. No resolutions or committees
were appointed during the conference,
the purpose of the meeeting being only
informative and quite apart from a
regular programed Y. M. C. A. gath
ering.
Acting as chairman of the round ta
ble discussions was Winnifrcd Wygal,
of the laboratory division of tlic Na
tional Board of the Y. M. C. A. The
Atlanta conference is one of four such
meetings that are being held in the
United States. Two of the other con
ferences meet in New York City and
the other in Chicago, 111.
CO-EDNAS TO ENTERTAIN
SWAINS WITH PARTIES
Santa Claus to Figure Prominently in
Founders and Mary Hohhs
Social Affairs.
TAFFY, DANCING TO BE FEATURED
Witli both Founders and Mary
11 ol ibs concocting figurative stirrup
cups to speed departing Guilfordinns
011 their homeward way, it would seem
that the answer to most Guilford
maidens' prayers would be a heavy
fall of pro-Christmas snow to grace
their Vuletide festivities. On Decem
ber 17. both dormitories will tling their
doors wide to the 3-for-5c social lions
of the campus for an evening of as-
sorted games and taffy-pulling, danc
ing and good-clean-fun. Chaperoning
at Founders will be Dr. and Mrs. Beit
tcl and Santa Claus; at Mary llobbs,
Mr. I'ancoast with Miss Coins, Santa
Claus, and Mr. I'arsous with Miss Mc-
Coll. Both programs include plans for
tree-trimming and distribution of gifts
by the respective Santa Clauses, though
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NUMBER 5
BANQUET SPEAKER
SAYS FOOTBALL
MOLDS CHARACTER
Wallace Wade Pleases His Lis
teners With Talk About
Modern Football Trends.
TILSON, IiYRI) GET AWARD
i Coach Smith Awards Twenty Certificates
and l'raises Men Who
Sat on Bench
Football lias grown to be a character
building institution, according to tlie
coach of one of America's strongest
football teams, Wallace Wade, of l>uke
university, who held the spotlight ill
| tlie annual fall sports banquet held in
Founders' hall last Saturday night.
Although attention was focused 011
Wade during his short and informal
talk, a variety of events were acclaimed
by Hie enthusiastic crowd during the
remainder of the two-and-one-Ualf-bour
program. And. except for the "change
of pace" necessary in introductions,
talks, awarding ol letters, and giving
of praise, the program went along
smoothly and with interest, largely due
it was thought, to tile fact tlint a hard
working social committee, headed by
Hetty Trotter, and assisted by Keit.t
Sawyer, was in charge.
Ir. ltussell I'ope was glad, lie stated,
to fall in line with tlie series of faculty
toasMnasters, preceded in his two years
here by Doctors I'urdom and TJung,
and in turn presented Professor
Shepard, facility manager of athletics,
to report 011 the status of the cross
country team.
Alvin Mclbuhm. honored by re-eleo
tion td the captaincy of tlie team for
l!l.'!8, announced the winning of mono
grains by six members of the team: A.
Mcihohm, T.vree Gilliam, Malcolm
Alexander, Charles Undley, Winfred
Afeibohm, and Bob Smith.
Coach Smith was satisfied to praise
tiie work of his eleven and take a few
minutes in doing so. Particularly, he
said, was it important to mention the
work of those boys who did not receive
letters in recognition of their partici
pation. He announced the election of
Paul Chambers anil Wilson Byrd as co
captains of the 19:58 team, succeeding
Jim McDonald. Certificates authoriz
ing the wearing of monograms were
given to 20 players and Manager
Charles I lines. Kicbard ISinford, .loe
McCommons, Thell Overman, John
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Anti-Evolnter
Alters Textbooks
Hattiesburg, Miss. (A.C.P.) A
shipment of new biology textbooks
at Mississippi State Teachers Col
lege produced some fireworks re
cently.
A chapter on evolution annoyed
John M. Frazier, biology teacher, to
the extent that he riped out the
offensive pages from GO books.
His action, a decade after Tennes
see's famous "monkey trial," re
newed the evolution discussion. Mis
sissippi fundamentalists in 1926 had
enacted a law forbidding teaching
or use of books which related the
theory that man "ascended or de
scended from a lower order of ani
mals."