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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Entered at Guilford College, N. C„ as second-class matter under the act of Con gress, August 24, 1912. Published semi-monthly during the school year by the students of Guilford College. Editor-in-Chief Winifred Ellis Managing Editor Bette Bailey Business Manager Shirley Ware Editorial Stair Corinne Field Sports Editor —Talmadge Neece Sports Staff— Herbert Schoellkopf, John Ilaworth, Jack Wright, Rudy Davis, Helen Lyon, Tommy Brunkliardt Business Staff Katherinc Pearson, Mar jorie Lee Brown Reporters Shirley Ware, Hazel Key, John Jernigan, Virginia Aslicraft, Pat Lockwood, Ruth Bab, Nell Hub bard, Dick Schafer, Neil O'Leary, Sue Andrews, Roberta Reid, Mar tha Robinson, Vivian Faw, Peggy Trexler, Iris Thomas, Betty Jane Powell, Austin Scott, Keefer Spiers, Ruth Edgerton, I'cggy Ellis, Doro thy Hall, Alice Ekeroth Pictures James Patton, Purnell Kennedy Faculty Advisers Dorothy L. Gilbert, David Parsons Subscription price SI.OO per year No Cuts, Monday to Monday Probably one of the tilings that the average Guilford student, thinks of when the word "Thanksgiving" is mentioned is the fact that he will not be able to cut classes for three days before or after November 26. The rule of 110 cutting before and after holidays is a policy of the college, and not to he changed easily. But it does seem rather foolish not to be able to cut, for a whole week because of a one-day holiday. Surely one day of no cuts before and after a holiday would accomplish the purpose of the colhge with a minimum of friction. There is the argument, of course, that the majority of the students would not cut anyway. Perhaps not, and yet all the rest of the time they have the privilege to cut, if they have not already used up their quota. It seems extremely unnecessary to have this privilege denied them for a week be cause they get out of classes for one day. Chaperones During freshman week, the rules of the Women's Student government were ex plained to the freshman girls. The rule which most immediately and universally affected them was probably that of chaper onage— that they could not go in town without a junior or senior girl with them. At, the beginning of the year most fresh men are glad to have an upperelassman along when they go into Greensboro, to show them where everything is, and which stores and movies are the best. But now the freshmen have been here two months, and they know their way around any part of Greensboro that they are likely to want to frequent. And yet the rule of chaperonage still holds. The freshmen hate to ask a junior or senior girl to take them to town —they know that most of them have other things they'd rather do. And yet they have to ask them, and most of the upperclassmen feel obli gated to go, if they possibly can. Surely any girl who is old enough to go to college—and to travel to and from col lege alone —is old enough, after two months in Greensboro, to be allowed to go in with another freshman girl. We would like to see this brought up in student council, and the chaperonage rule changed, so that a freshman girl may go in town with any other girl, not necessarily a junior or senior. Every Man to His Humour If you haven't any potentialities, it you're.not fundamentally a scientist, an economist, a soci ologist. a home list, or even a philosopher, then he an English major. This is the popular conception of the carefree languid life led by the feigned lover of literature. Hut to us few earnest English majors, life is more than occasional series of rapid glances at Elizabethan plays and Haconian essays. While we do not set laboratories 011 Are with scalding liquids bubbling away in unguarded test tubes, we spend our afternoons grinding out lengthy bibliographies and outlines for term papers In Eng. 41 011 such rambling, abstract ideas as low life in London as observed in the writings of Thomas Dekker, and in Eng. 2:?, the influence of the Spanish picaresque novel 011 the English picaresque novel. This kills two courses with one stone, your Spanish books lifting neatly into the compact scheme of Dr. Hayes' outside read ing for Spanish 41. Oh, and if you're planning to graduate with an A.B. in English your weekly presence is requested at the home of Dr. Philip Furnas, your department head and major professor. —thai Satan who greets his drama class with: "I smell brimstone: anyone been to hell?" Sometimes he expects you to give a talk, in preparation for which you spend several days and nights perusing the I'MLA's (and others— at least three) to seek out the most unintelligible, technical, and scholarly article by a recognized authority, preferably one whose I'h.D. is recog nized by Harvard alumni, so you will be sure to strike a favorable note upon the mind of your professor. This is not apple polishing: if is just 11 gentle way of recalling to "his" mind the good ole days at Harvard. After everyone has become sutliciently bored with your speech and yawning is exhibited 10(1%, Dr. Furnas decides to treat you all to peanuts from a homegrown plant, served on a dinner plate to prevent the falling of mud 011 the carpet. At Mrs. Furnas' suggestion he spreads newspapers 011 the rug and you curl up by the lire to shell the nuts which you are in formed have been roasted for an hour or two 011 the radiator. It's almost like your childhood days at the circus—if you only had a bottle of pop and some crackerjack! And they call us English majors! GRIST Visitor: "How old are you, sonny?" Boston boy: "That's hard to say, sir. Ac cording to my latest school tests, I have a psy chological age of 11 and a moral age of 10. Anatomically, I'm 7: mentally, I'm !). Hut I suppose you refer to my chronological age. That's B—but nobody pays any attention to that these days!" —The Collegian O The difference between a bachelor and a married man is that when a bachelor walks the floor with a baby he's dancing. —The Akron Buchelite O Professor Macy: "Mr. Bales, what is your idea of civilization'/" George Bales: "It's a good idea. Mr. Macy: someone ought to start it." —The Crescent O Maybe the idea of the street car companies is to make people stand up for themselves. —Capital Chimes O Walking along 011 a frosty morning, Billy noticed his breath on the cold air. "Look, mother." said he, "I am dusty inside." —The Tiger Bag O Thomas A. Edison was undoubtedly the great est inventor the United States has ever known. He invented the phonograph and radio so that people would sit tip half the night and burn his electric light bulbs. —The Akron Buchtelite O Even after the football season is over, stu dents will hang around the college till warm weather sets in. —Capital Chimes O DafTynitions: Chlorine—a night club personality. Barium—what you do to a corpse. Nitrate—special price 011 telegrams and tele phones after dark. THE GUILFORDIAN From the Files April 19, 1917—At the recent meeting of the Hoard of Trustees of the college, it was defi nitely decided that two new sections should be built to Cox Hall. These sections will be like the present center sections and will accom odate about fifty students. October 9, 1918—Guilford after a long period of immunity has at last succumbed to the pre vailing fad. A few cases of Spanish influenza have appeared among the boys and as a result the health autborties have placed the college under a strict quarantine. No one will be per mitted to enter or leave the campus, and the day students must either board at the college or not attend classes. March 29, 1922—Friday morning in chapel Sir. Ogburn of Greensboro spoke on the use of tobacco. In flie beginning he offered a five-dol lar bill to anyone who could give a good reason for using tobacco. There was no reason offered. November 3(1, 1921—Guilford tasted the dregs of defeat in the final game of the season played at Klon on Thanksgiving day. It was fhe first time in the history of football between the two institutions that Klon has I teen able to cross Hie Quaker goal line. Score was 7-0. November 16, 1921—(in Wednesday evening, November !•. fhe International Relations club met in Memorial hall with Professor Anscombe presiding. The evening was spent in a discus sion of our recent allies, Italy and France. February 25, 1930—Not since the days of Job lias an invalid received so much attention or aroused so much comment as has Mr. Furnas in flic course of the last three or four weeks. All the students at Guilford pray nightly for his speedy recovery and prompt return to his duties here. March 19, 193(1—February 20 was Guilford's annual clean-up day—headed by Mr. l'urdom. The students and faculty followed the custom established many years ago. At eight o'clock the big bell called everyone out to the front of Founders hall. Boys and girls seized the rakes and brush brooms and went to work with a vengeance. November (i, 193®—.Miss Kathcrine Hicks, file Guilford librarian, recently took a trip north in the interest of the library. The object of the trip was to find methods used in other libraries of classifying and cataloguing Quaker books and to secure by exchanges periodicals needed to complete the files. i mortimer i mortimer am wounded mentally and physi cally dr williams shook bis fists very threat eningly the other day because he was not men tioned in the orchestra writeup on the front page of the last issue he is afraid we will not remember lie played the trombone in last nights concert bis threats almost took the form of a strangling when dr weis moved me back to the brass section where i nearly got wrapped around the slide of the glittering trombone what does a fiddler do when being attacked by a villain ous brass fortissimo i ask myself there is no escape but of late i am contemplating catching a corner of the curtain that almost envelopes me when the back stage breezes blow and swinging right out the back door with great gusto i do not really think anyone would miss me cause dr williams knows the music pretty well now he can play overtures operas sympho nies excerpts and even selections we practiced a piece or maybe it was an overture that i never saw and when i asked him bow long we had been playing it he said oft' and on for three years lie certainly is a veteran member of the chamber orchestra i did not realize it before ill bet lie can trace the fotinfainlieads of all operas in chronological order too he is a brilliant mail especially a philosopher and a musician if is too bad lie is not a scientist then he could be an honorary member of the senior science society that illustrious little group of liobbs brain preservers pope pegrnm mccul lough white weisgerber warlike with honorary members dr and mrs eampbell they even send out formal dinner invitations inked with all their names and fancy asterisks after the names of the two guests to denote high honorary rank but as i commented to victoria who felt blue cause she got left out of the secret society i think if is only a very public way of apple |! lishing November 21, 1942 SENSATIONS By RUDY and PINK i As Jim Andrews was rating his Boston baked beans he found a poor little innoeent fly. Upon railing Crooks to the table, the conversation was like this: "Waiter, there's a fly in my beans." "Why, the poor little insert must have lost his balance. He was sitting on the rim of the howl when I brought: it in." O Why the freshmen go on west porch to do their petting: "My roommate says there nre some things a girl should not do before twenty." "Well, personally, I don't enjoy a large audi ence either." O Geology Prof.: "How can you tell whether ibis river is of old or recent formation?" Freshman : "That's easy : this is a young river —you can see that its bed is still wet." O Freshman: "I wonder why women don't grow mustaches?" Upperclassman: "Did you ever .see the grass grow 011 a race track?" O Stantield, you must be a good crutch—we see that Helen Lewis ran't stand up without you. . . . We believe that Joe Mcßane is the only boy on campus that ran keep three girls on the string at once (on the same campus) . . . Did you ever think that you would hear any thing like this from Eleanor Beittel: "I hate you; all you want is what you can get out of me." (Nice thing to work for.) ... A hint to any of the boys that have cars—Hazel Hrad sliaw says she will make it interesting for a ride to town. . . . Sapp is paying us $0.50 to say, "Einmert is a Ginzo." ...('. Phillips must have something up her sleeve—she ran keep six boys sitting around her in the middle of the campus during the middle of the afternoon. . . . Mi's. Milner had company in Psy. 21 class the other day, we're told ... It was a cat— strolling nonchalantly around the stage. We didn't see it, though, 'cause only a 13-year-old would pay any attention to anything like that. . . . "Padregay" Snipes, the Oklahoma Indian, cultivated a new friendship coming from Kicli mond Sunday morning (a drunk)—ask him about it . . . Ilurwitz played hard to get; lie was afraid to shake hands with the guy. O A word of advice to the girls who sit at the table with Aggie (Hi) Lou: Let her walk out first. If you don't, one of these days some body is gonna get trampled going out the door. O "What a splendid lit!" the tailor said, as they carried the epileptic out of the shop. O We love to say things about people, but we lind it impossible to for various reasons ... if Nell Hubbard will hurry and light on one of those many boys she has ou the chase, maybe we can talk about her . . . O West porch conversation : "Hold my hand." " mo thing at a time, baby." ORACLE of TODAY Bliss Carman (1861-1020), Canadian by birth but living in the I'nited States for many years, was on the editorial staff of New York and Chicago newspapers. Shortly before his death he was crowned as Canada's major poet by the Canadian Authors' association. A VAGABOND SONG Itliss Carman There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With I lie yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her. When from every hill of flame She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
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