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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published semi-montlily by the students of Guilford College dur ing the school year except during examinations and holiday periods. Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Editor-in-Chief Thomas Ashcraft A uxor ia tc Editnrn __ (ieorge Wilson. Floyd Moore Managing Editor : Bernard Foster Assistant Managing Editor Ken Morris Business Manager Melvin Phillos Circulation Managers Wm. Vanlioy, J. W. Kdgerton, Charles Hendricks SPECIAL EDITORS Sports Editor Snag Hartley Assistant Sports Editors David Parker, David Register Itobert Hire, Hob I>. Wilson Society Editor Mary Priseilla Blouch Feature Editors Robert Register, Tom Taylor Secretarial Staff Betty Edwards, Mary Labberton, Amelia Teller REPORTERS Kathleen Perry, Robert Homey, Murray Osboume, Corky I'arker, Mary Ellen Gibbs, Winnabel Gibbs, Barbara Hamlin, James Parker, Robert I*. Wilson. I>. M. Gideon, and Cesca Fanning. Photographer : Stanley Lewis Cartoonist Alton Blair FACULTY ADVISERS Robert K. Marshall Dorothy L. Gilbert Phillip W. Furnas Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price 11.00 per year 1938 Member 1939 flssociaied Gofle&iale Press Entered at the post office in Guilford College as second class matter The Week After Exams was observed as Spiritual Emphasis Week on the Guilford Campus. "Heretofore I have had a distaste for any kind of emphasis week," one of the campus leaders who presented Dr. Hornell Hart to the stu dent body ably expressed the prevailing sentiment. Until that time we were very much inclined to agree with him. But after taking active part in the week that Dr. and Mrs. Hart were on the campus our con ception of a Spiritual Emphasis Week at Guilford is decidedly changed. The Interest ... in the man and the intense interest in what lie had to say, the com ments, questions, discussions and most of all, the thought that he aroused throughout the entire week was definite proof of the success of the undertaking. The Christian Associations . . . who were responsible for the program and for the presence of Dr. Hart, deserve much credit. It is not our policy to continually throw the proverbial orchid, but we do believe in giving a lot of credit where credit is due. Hence we are lavish in our praise. Another Forward Step ... in Guilford's progressive education curriculum is being taken this year with the addition of a full semester course in marriage. For the past several years the marriage course, covering about eight weeks, has been given in connection with Sophomore Sociology. The change in the religion, sociology and history requirements lias made the addition of such a course possible. Here is what the Associated Collegiate Press says about courses in marriage: Collegians in all sections of- the United States are clamoring for courses that will tell them all about the trials and tribulations of marriage and how they can be avoided. Simply stated by the Harvard University Crimson, they say: "It is becoming increas ingly important that mature men and women should have some knowledge about birth control and the many causes of divorce. Also they should know something of the effects such differences as age, class, grade, religion, occupation, politics, hobby, color and sex have upon marital relations. Expert information on such sub jects ought to be available to college students.' 1 That the new movement) is not new on all campuses is shown by the fact that 200 colleges and universities already have such courses. Growth of the movement is shown by the fact that there were only 22 such courses 12 years ago. Quotable Quotes "The future of the non-state-controlled colleges in the next decade depends on Ihe degree to which we can demonstrate to the public our social responsibility and our social conscience." Wesleyan University's President James L. MeConnughy points the way for the private col lege and universities.— A. C. P. THE GUILFORDIAN SECOND-CLASS MATTER BY THE CARRIER It has been two weeks now since Inst semester ended, and I notice some people getting pretty jittery waiting around for tlie results. I feel like the war correspondent for one of the leading magazines. . . . He was a patient in a hospital when tlie enemy came over to bomb some supplies. Bombs dropped all around, but none hit the hospital. After a while, the wounded man rose up in his cot and yelled, "Go on, drop the damn thing and quit buzzing around!" You'd be surprised who's buying the current best seller, "Petting—Wise or Otherwise." There seem to be two kinds of customers. One, the peo ple you wouldn't think would care, and second, the people who ought to know. Well, there's nothing like an academic background in either case, I guess, i Incidentally, if you haven't read it, I offer "Otherwise" as a summary in-a-word. Some few, we hear, pur chased the pamphlet without so much as a second glance at the title. They thought' it read, " , Wise and Other Ways." Some wiseacre a long time ago summed it all up when he observed that advice was no good anyway, be cause the wise won't need it and the fools won't take it. You can believe it or not, but two very attraeive and otherwise wide awake freshman lassies just learned | within the last week who Glamour I Boy Paid Chambers really is. Names I are Smith and Stafford. They found out during Hart Week, which should prove something or other. Now tell us, Paul, do YOU know THEM? When you have a strong team that, has everything, there are two things you can do in a game. You can either rush right in and score in the open ing minutes, or you can play a de fensive game for the lirst half and then open up in the second semester— I mean half. And our little audrie just laughed and .... THIS TIME LAST YEAR: New Gym fever was being measured by thermometers . . . (The patient re covered.) . . . The Monogram Dance . . . We had a . . . (Shh!) . . . h-a-n-d. . . . Byrd and Palmer paired off . . . The largest Honor Roll in History . . The Riding Club . . . Progress? . . . Doe Williams reads only surnames when he calls the roll now, and there by hangs a tale . . . The Doctor kept calling on MISS Meibohm. Winfred rose one day and staggered from the room in protest. Since then the Doc tor has refused to commit himself. Heard that one faculty member re marked that some of our lecture attending brethren could profitably spend some time on their lessons. What does he mean? Does he think this is an educational institution V Why, that idea is so old fashioned it's absurd ! Does he think I'm going to let study interfere with tlie devel opment of my personality? I should hope not! The man's deluded, crazy, beaucoupcoo, as we say in French. I present my own private scheme to raise the endowment. The beauty of it lies in its simplicity. All we have to do is just insure Charter Day, Honicromiiig and Graduation against torrential downpours and knee-deep mud. That ought to make us the richest school in the country in a cou ple of years, if the insurance com panies don't all go broke. Open House Held by Fine Arts Club Yesterday afternoon the Fine Arts Club held open house in the music ' building to raise money for the pur • chase of a Victrola for tlie music department. Sandwiches and coffee were sold by the members of the club, and a musical program was enjoyed by the visitors. CAMPUS STUFF - By SANDERS "No use Buteh, dare's no money here. Dis is a t'rat house." The Oracle of Today IXSIDE EUROPE li!/ JOHN GUNTHEIt j Iu October, 1938, the world acclaimed ] Chamberlain and the Munich agree ment. John Masefield expressed the relief universally felt when it became known that Chamberlain was going to Hitler: As Priam to Achilles for his son, So you, into the night, divinely led, To axle that young men's bodies, not yet dead, Be given from the battle not begun. Now that the paralysis of fear has loosed its hold, the Munich pact is not held in such wide esteem. Mr. Winston Churchill disagrees with the poet lau reate; he does not think the prime minister "divinely led." Doubtless this is all very well, but to most of us the European situation Is an amazingly unintelligible jumble of Ileil Hitler's, Popular Front's, and Franco versus Azana's. The reason for this appalling plight is obvious: most of us have not read John Gun tiler's Inside Europe. "Inside Europe is a portrait gallery of European dictators and statesmen : Hitler, Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini, Chamberlain, Benes, and their rivals and associates and underlings. . . Not one important figure is omitted; no interesting angle is overlooked. Hitler is diseeted and analyzed; his drug-like need for music, his sex-life, his weeping is described. The book, however, is not a "peep show." The author writes from 11 defi nite point of view: "that the accidents of personality play a large role in his tory." The men personify policies and struggle with the vital problems of a volcanic continent. The author makes a counter-clock wise swing around Europe, starting with Germany and concluding with So viet Russia. Every country 011 the continent is included; it leaders, prob lems, and position in current affairs dis cussed. The heretofore veiled details of the Dollfus murder, the Iteichstag lire, the Russian trials, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia are clarified. All of this is done capably and in terestingly. The book reads like a novel. The author, trained to send news by cable, does not waste a word. John Gunther was in Europe for eleven years as the correspondent for the Chicago February 4, 1939 LOOSE ENDS By ROBERT REGISTER There are always two kinds: 1. (a) Those who eat fast. (b) Those who go hungry. 2. (a) Those who talk with the teacher after class. (b) Those who make C or less. 3. (a) Those who wear conservative socks. (b) Professor (or shall I call him Doctor) Furnas. 4. (a) Those who have dates, (b) Day Hops. 5. (a) Those who listen. (b) Petrea. 0. (a) Those who date Phillips, (b) Those who don't pet. Answer to a moron's prayer: MAKE THE HONOR SYSTEM WORK. Egotist: "I'm the second most happy person in the world," said he, embrac ing the sweet young thing. Research —objective, subjective, and invective via the Emory Wheel —re- veals these as the three sweetest words in the language: 1. I love you. 2. Dinner is served. Keep the change. 4. Two point five. r>. Class is dismissed. S. All is forgiven. 7. Sleep till noon. 8. Here's that five. And tlie saddest: 1. External use only. 2. Buy me one. 3. Dues not paid. 4. Out of gas. 5. Funds are insufficient. 0. Rest in peace. Dailil \t trx. He worked in almost every country, interviewing most of tile people lie describes. Although his book came out in 1930 and, incidentally, it was rated as one of the ten best of the year—it is now as fresh as it was on publication. Mr. Ountlier has collaborated with his pub lisher to keep the book completely up to-date. As the European front changes, Gunther writes a new version ; the pub lishers reset and reprint; and Inside Europe stays furiously alive. The 1938 Peace Edition, now on the library shelves, is indispensable to any one interested in the fate of Europe. It. R.
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