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THE GUILFORDIAN
Published semi-monthly by the students of Guilford College dur
ing the school year except during examinations and holiday periods.
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Robert Hire, Jim McDonald
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Secretarial Staff Betty Edwards, Mary Labberton, Amelia Teller
REPORTERS
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1938 Member 1939
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Entered at the post olHce in Guilford College as second class matter
Reflect and Retrospect
One thing that Alumni President Paul S. Nunn said last Saturday
morning in the convocation program made an impression that seems
to remain. Pointing briefly to the fact that a college consists of three
different units, administration, students, and alumni, he said in effect
that alumni are more gravely to be concerned with the worth of the
institution. A dissatisfied student or faculty member may go elsewhere,
he said, but a graduate can not change his alma mater in quite the
same fashion.
One of the questions which is stimulated by President Nunn's
statement is: What attitudes do former students take concerning con
temporary activities of the administration and students? And another,
"What do students think about relations with alumni arid with the
college ?
We do not believe a student can acquire in one year or two a feeling
of acquaintance with the Guilford College that has developed in spite
of severe handicaps during more than a century. The students who
touch the surface of acquaintance with the Guilford Spirit, as we like
to think of it, barely learn the mechanics of the college life, and fail,
indeed, to search for the experiences which devoted men years ago and
every year since'then went through to make the institution what it is,
has been, and now is.
One of the best ways we know to acquire something of the meaning
of our college is actually to find what others, older than we, did and
thought when they were students here. How many alumni did we
talk with last Saturday? How many will we learn to know as they
visit the campus from time to time? On Charter Day, January 13?
An Alumni Day and Commencement next spring? And, to freshmen,
during the next three or four years?
Few things are more delightful than to look through dusty old
volumes of The Guilfordian or I'llr Quaker, which Miss Ricks guards
in the vault; to catch a glimpse of a struggling co-educational boarding
school, by contact with Miss Gilbert's enjoyable history, or "The
Story of Guilford College," a 40-page account written by Miss Gilbert
four years ago. Then there are college bulletins of infinite variety.
It is surprising what a small amount of time and effort is really neces
sary to establish a genuine acquaintance with our college!
J. F. M.
Don't Get Personal...
Youthful defenders of the oldest civilization in the world told
Greensboro students this week that they could preserve their civiliza
tion against the aggression of the Japanese nation—but they could not
preserve it against world aggression.
The fact that Americans are furnishing 54.4% of the armaments
used should arouse American youth to an active interest in the economic
sanctions of which Dr. Yin and Miss Liu spoke.
But China's sorrow is comfortably hidden behind a vast ocean—
and "economic sanctions" is a broad, impersonal term in which Ave
can believe without much effort.
And when Dr. Yin and Miss Liu speak of boycott of Japanese
goods—ties, and stockings, which furnish the dollars that make aggres
sion possible but lack that impersonal touch that we erave—well, it is
easier to brand this as "emotionalism" and retire into our abstract
belief in economic sanctions. F. H.
THE GUILFORDIAN
SECOND-CLASS
MATTER
BY
THE CARRIER
Guilford College,
November 12, 1938
Dear, Dear Readers:
This week I am taking a vacation
from my usual stint (no pun please)
of dishing the dirt. You know, quar
ter tests and stuff| The column this
time is done by a great artist whose
sense of rumor has gained some note.
I just want to warn any enemies he
may make this week that I'll be happy
to attend to you when I get through
vacationing.
Lovingly yourn,
THE CARRIER.
We think you succeeded in impress
ing the Alumni, Mrs. Milner.
Calling all cars! Calling all cars!
Ford roadster stolen at Guilford Col
lege ! The auto has New York tags.
Believed to be the work of "Klepto"
Goldberg and her mob, Spike Allen and
Gat Caulfield. If this car is seen
please report to Dagwood Latham.
That is all.
WHO KILLED STEVE TREAD
WAY?
They say Sleeper "beats 'em off
with a club" back home. Bet he didn't
know he had a silent love until
"Goldie" made Caulfield blush.
The day I read my Ancient His
tory lesson Inst month, I discovered
that way back about 500 B. C. some
old Assyrian figured out the length of
the year and only missed it 26 min
utes. He was probably a student figur
ng the time 'till Christmas.
Howlett
Allen
White
Harris
Acree
Weant
Here is T. A. Cann's latest one. He
tells about a farmer who made a set
of raw-hide traces for his team and
went to haul a load of wood. While
he was putting the timber on his
wagon there was quite a shower. Go
ing back to the farm he walked along
side of his horses and when he got
there he and the horses were alone.
Long thin pieces of raw-hide stretched
back into the darkness. He unhitched
the team and tied the traces to an
apple tree near the house. During the
night it stopped raining and a brisk
breeze sprang up. The next morning,
when the farmer came out of the
house, (so the story goes) the load of
wood was just coming into the barn
yard.
Quotations from the Greek (Pap
pas) : I know I'm dumb but I can
back it up.
Letter from a mother: "Went shop
ping—I got a dress and a hat: .Tane a
hat and a small camera, and Henry
got tired."
"Its hard for a psychologist to put
his feelings into formulas," says Dr.
Pope. No harder than getting for
mulas into your feelings is it Doc?
Did you ever notice how Kattie
Ricks looks through your books if you
leave them on the library steps? Per
haps some of our young hopefuls have
been helping themselves to books on
Sociology 24. (Marriage to you).
Wonder what makes Manglietti in
spect all of tlie Model T's on campus.
Some call it madness, hut we call it
love.
It seems that Mary Hobbs Hall of
late is the is the traditional "melting
pot". Some of us remember when. . . .
And doesn't (hat T. Eugene Taylor
thing he is a whiz with (he gals from
lis native state? "All except one", says
Richmond's contribution Bertha (I've
always got an answer) Fitzgerald. We
say HAW, T.
CAMPUS STUFF - By SANUERS
I HWi 111 i ■ ~
CJ-/Y
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"And with your diploma, Mr. Blotts, I wish to award you this
medal for the highest average in Sandwich Making"
OPEN FORUM
Dear Editor:
In your last issue you invited cor
respondence addressed to your staff
rather than Faculty Row. Here is a
response.
In the article about the selection of
seven students by Dean Beittel for the
Student Who's Who, five of these stu
dents are prominent members of the
Guilford A Cnpella Choir which was
consistently omitted throughout the
enumeration of organizations. We won
der why?
Cordially yours,
E. 11. P. WEIS.
(Thank you for the letter, Doctor.
We regret that we did not mention the
Choir. It was due to an oversight on
our part and to a hastily written
story.—Ed.)
Dear Editor:
Why do Yankees teach the south
erners to dance? Most of us will
never experience the culturally enlight
ening environs of the north. Why does
our social committee select northern
dance teachers for southern students?
Why not have both sections repre
sented? Why not teach the form of
dancing that is being done at the Coun
try club dances and at other dances
in and about Greensboro?
Guilford students of both sexes are
notoriously poor dancers. How's about
"preparing for the life after college"
stuff?
Signed,
I WANXA AI'I'LE.
Dear Editor:
I greeted your crusading editorial
page in the last issue with pleasure.
There were three chips on as many
shoulders there and I agreed with all
of the worthy causes. I think the day
students are getting a raw deal so
cially. I agree that out of date Women
Student Government rules do not pro
mote or facilitate the easy pitching
(has nothing to do with pictures) that
many of us covetously long for. I, too,
side with your militant editor who
wrote the editorial agitating for a
water fountain on the west side of the
campus.
May I add my own cause to the list
of other worthies. I modestly make
this suggestion with all the sobriety
that should go with a serious, construc
tive. worth-while project. I'lease, can't
we have the men's rest rooms in King
and Founders' halls labeled as such.
Now, I admit that I haven't been here
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November 12, 1938
LOOSE ENDS
By ROBERT REGISTER
("Loose Ends" is a new feature
for the editorial page beginning with
this issue. It replaces the old liipped
at Random, and will be compiled by
Robert Register.—Editor.)
Title: Hems and Haws at Home-
Coming, or, If It's Libel Make the
Most of It.
"Isn't Garness the cutest papa?"
"Henry Clay . . . literature. . . Gee
whiz! why not the Wes Raleigh Span
ish Club?"
"So that's Betty Locke; Whew-w-w!"
". . . And he's going to Switzerland
next semester." "Yes, he's just the
type that would; he looks so diplo
matic."
"Smith . . . Smith. . . Let me see.
There was a Smith here in '10."
"What's happened to Hlnes?" "Oh,
he sprained a regulation."
'Vanech . . . Menghetti . . . Patzig
. . I'appas . . . Crescenzo . . .
Say, what lias Notre Dame got that
we ain't got?"
"Oh, Mis-ter Pancoast, you're the
same old flatterer!"
"Have all the runners finished?" "If
one hasn't Parker bribed him.'
"What we need is a good, lirst-class,
drum-ma joress."
"Say, Hill, have you seen that blonde
with Ketchum?" "Yeah, but he saw
me comin'."
"Jimmy has told me so-o-o much
about you. Mr. Lung."
"Well, we ain't impregnable; look
what happened to Pitt."
"Shorty, who is that player?" "Lentz.
Baby, he's good. Why in that High
Point game. . . ." "Isn't he cute?"
"Elmer, do you think that President
Milner will throw out the first ball?"
"Well, there we was. on their two
yard line. Tilson took the ball
and. . . ."
"It's about time they barbecued the
gym!"
If the Japanese dispose of all the
Chinese entirely, what will become of
the laundry business? Oregon
Emerald.