THE SALEMITE
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‘'Sail on Salem”
Marie Edgerton’ 21 Editor-in-Chief
Pearl Ray, '21 Business Manager
Effie Lee Harding Asso. Editor
Elizabeth Gillespie, ’22....Asst. B. Mgr.
Mary Darden, ’21 Associate Editor
Evelyn Thom, ’21 Associate Editor
Sarah Lingle, ’22 Associate Editor
Mary Shepard Parker, ’22....Asso. Ed.
Alva Goswick, ’23 Associate Editor
Elizabeth Connor, ’23 Asso. Editor
Sara Watt, ’22 Associate Editor
Rachel Jordan, ’23 Associate Editor
Flora Binder, ’24 Associate Editor
Maude Bissenger, ’24 Asso. Editor
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is always better than realization, but
in this case we make it worse. Don’t
worry. If you know your lessons
there’s no need to, so do your best and
let it go at that.
Here are exams a la Kipling:
If you could keep your head when all
about you
Examinations loom in aspect dark.
If you could trust yourself when
teachers doubt you.
To stand and pass them with an “A”
(plus) mark;
If you could keep your nerve as they
draw nearer
And meet them without fev’rish prep
aration,
Your time would be your own, your
conscience freer,
And what is more, you’d need no
education.
them, the girls of the cabinet, after a
very thoughtful discussion, decided
that the most coui’ageous resolution
that could be made for the good of all
of Salem might be summed up in one
sentence: During 1921 we are going
to strive to develop more fully than
ever before our personal spiritual life;
by so doing we hope to develop more
fully the spiritual life of the entire
organization.
In discussing the deficiencies of our
Y. W. C. A. and trying to devise
remedies for these deficiencies, the
Cabinet girls have realized that be
ginning with the very first, meetings
in September each one has unmistak
ably revealed the enthusiastic and un
tiring efforts of the Program and
Music Committees—and—should we
review the happenings of the entire
year, we would in the same light ap
preciate the efforts of the other com
mittees. Therefore, we believe, the
way to make our Y. W. C. A. the
strongest, most influential organiza
tion in college—as it rightly should
be—is not to try to reform the work
of the groups or committees, but for
each girl in school to adopt as her
most imperative resolution for 1921,
the New Year’s resolution of the Y. W.
C. A. Cabinet. Let this be unanimous.
And let us note the difference in our
Y. W. C. A. at the end of the year.
THE STUDENT COUNCIL’S RESO
LUTIONS FOR 1921
According to custom, the Student
Council made their usual number of
resolutions for the New Year, but not
according to custom, after a series of
hot debates within the council, it was
finally decided that the resolutions of
1921 should be exposed to the public
through publication in the “Salemite.”
They remain as follows:
First, The Council resolves that dur
ing each exam, week the rising bell
shall be rung at mid-night in order
that all those girls desiring to pass on
their exams, may begin their work
early.
Second, All Council girls shall be
allov/ed to visit the neighboring drug
stores any time between the hours of
12 A.M. and 12 P.M.
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Third, Bed-time shall be changed
from ten-thirty to nine o’clock in
order that each girl may get the
necessary amount of “beauty sleep”
before the spring holiday begins.
Fourth, On account of the lack of
space in the office building, all upper
classmen shall have the privilege of
entertaining their young men callers
in Miss Farrar’s office, both the Eng
lish and Math class rooms, and if
necessary they may resort to the side
rooms of the study halls provided the
peace of the study halls does not dis
turb them.
fifth. All college girls desiring to
stay away from breakfast on Sunday
morning may see Mrs. McCully in the
supply room on Saturday night before
ten o’clock, and collect the groceries
necessary to prepare breakfast in the
alcove on Sunday morning.
Girls of Salem, remember, always,
that the Student Council is at your
service whenever you demand it. Call
on us some time!
ECONOMY
“I’m absolutely broke”. That is the
favorite expression of the college
girl today, and it is not entirely
goundless, either. It is an echo of
the great financial crisis which the
business world is undergoing, and the
college girl is called upon to become
an active factor in re-adjustment.
Economy should be her watchword
when she is tempted to spend useless
ly, but not her excuse ift case of neces
sity or duty. She should not econo
mize by borrowing theme paper, and
then spend a quarter for drinks; she
should not slight the'Famine Fund
Box.id then spend a dime for salted
peanuts. Foresight and careful plan
ning are two lasting lessons which
may be learned during these hard
times if we will but accept the oppor
tunity. Since in her new position,
woman is going to be called upon to
help more and more in financial and
political crisis, let us rise to the oc
casion and show ourselves equal to the
emergency.
EXAMINATIONS, NOT
TERRORS
Having survived numerous daily
lessons as well as many “quizzes”
why do we fear examinations? That
“nerve-racking ordeal” is upon us,
and, as usual, is the object of more
speculations and groundless fears
than serious consideration and prep
aration. It is said that anticipation
NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS
The dawn of a Ne-w Year—what an
encouragement for progress!
With the failures of last year to
beware of, and the victories of last
year to build on, we can accomplish
much. It is a privilege to be alive in
this busy age of readjustment, and
the Salemite wishes everyone the best
that this opportune New Year has to
offer.
Here’s hoping!
Resolved by the Student Body of
Salem College: We will bear in mind
that we stand for sane-thinking,
broad-mindedness, moderation, and
Christian character in work, play,
dress and manners, and that our
slogan be always—
1 REPRESENT SALEM.
MANY THANKS
We wish to acknowledge with
thanks the very encouraging and ap
preciative article on The Salemite
printed in the December number of
The Alumnae Record. It is always
pleasant to have one’s efforts noticed,
and especially so in this case because
The Alumnae Record seems so sympa
thetically to have caught the point
and aim of The Salemite. Here is an
extract from the article:
“One of the most interesting things
that has happened at Salem College in
a long time is the publication of The
Salemite. * + *
The Salemite supersedes The Ivy
and typifies what perhaps The Ivy
could not do: the modem Salem girl
of today—no better certainly than a
single one of her sisters that has gone
out of the doors of Salem in the noble
past—but just different.
The Salem girl of today is what,
mostly? PEP. Surely pep describes
her more than any other one thing
could. Pep, enthusiasm, good cheer,
good fellowship, high spirits, the as
suming of new responsibilities which
she wears well, with a characteristic
ally twentieth-century, clear-eyed self-
reliance.
If you just could look at a copy of
the Salemite you would see this shin
ing through and through. We are
awfully proud of the Salemite, and we
read it and look forward to it with the
greatest sort of enthusiasm.”
RESOLUTIONS
The Salemite staff makes the fol
lowing resolutions for 1921:
1. To co-operate with every organ
ization at Salem, and with the Ad
ministration and Faculty, in keeping
and cultivating Salem Spirit.
2. To represent the best opinions,
policies, and ideas of college women
on every subject.
3. To make The Salemite one of
the best of college papers.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE Y. W. C. A.
CABINET FOR THE NEW YEAR
Instead of making a long list of
New Year resolutions and keeping
only about twenty-five per cent of
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