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Volume II.
Motto—“Sail on, Salem”
Winston-Salem, N. C., October 27, 1921
Number 3
WALKING CLUB PICNIC
WAS GREATLY ENJOYED
J It was a motley array that, picnic-
hjound, gathered on the back porch
l^st Saturday. Promptly at four
o?clock sixty or sixty-five girls, laden
\^ith mysterious looking bundles, with
Misses Jackson and Talmadge, Dr.
^londthaler and Mr. Higgins as chap
erons, set out for Happy Hill, leaving
word for Dean Shirley, who was de
tained, to f&llow. About forty-min-
utes walk over the clay hills beyond
the back campus brought us to our
destination—a lovely spot christened
by Miss Margaret Hagan as “Looking
Glass Meadow,” and quite familiar to
the walking clubs of this year and
years past. It is a rather narrow
grassy meadow between wooded hills
with a tiny stream winding along on
one side, on whose banks w"e found
forget-me-nots even in the autumn.
A few minutes rest w’as all that we
needed, for rumors were afloat of
bacon and marshmallows. A fire
must be made and each one of us must
have a stick with which to cook his
own supper. So we spent several min-
ates scrambling over the hill for fire
wood and such culinary instruments as
were necessary, while Dr. Rondthaler
^nd Mr. Higgins made themselves
useful by going for drinking water.
Soon everything was ready and you
may be sure that everybody was.
How many baked faces we suffered
for those slices of bacon, albeit
smoked and scorched! How long we
labored, ignorant of the ways of
cheese, to make one morsel stay on
our sticks long enough to roast! But
perseverence always wins and soon
there was not to be found a scrap of
bacon or cheese, a pickle, roll, marsh
mallow, or apple
1 Then someone suggested a song,
jcircled ’round the fire while the
(shadows lengthened, we sang under
Dr. Rondthaler’s efficient leadership
such classics as “Ninety-Nine Blue
Bottles”, “There’s a Hole in the Bot
tom of the Sea,” “Scotland’s Bum-
■ing,” “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”
iMarvelous to relate, the songsters
jchewed the while the “Juicy Fruit”
ithat Dr. Rondthaler had so generously
idistributed.
I Intermittently a group in one sec-
•tion of the circle, which felt partic-
jularly hilarious, gave fifteen Rahs!
jfor various members of the party.
Finally we all stood to the tune of
“Alma Mater” but no one wanted to
go just then. Mr. Higgins filled in
this gap in the program quite success
fully by the introduction of a new
kind of snake dance. (Any one de
siring particulars, please see him).
(Continued on page 4.)
COLLEGE PRESS ASS’N TO
BE HELD AT N. C. C. W.
October 28th and 29th are to be de
voted to the semi-annual meeting of
the Interstate-Collegiate Press Asso
ciation, which, it will be remembered,
had its birth last March at the sug
gestion of Daniel L. Grant, the 1920-
21 editor-in-chief of the Carolina
“Tar Heel.” The first meeting proved
such a success that it was decided to
have meetings twice a year at the
various colleges, with not less than
two representatives from each stu
dent body as delegates.
The second meeting of the associa
tion was held at Davidson, while this
year the members will meet at N. C.
C. W., in Greensboro. Every college
is expected to be represented, and it is
hoped that this meeting will be very
profitable for the southern college
papers
Misses Isabel Spears and Rachel
Jordan will represent the Salemite.
The Home Economics Club held its
first regular meeting on Wednesday
night. After the constitution was
read and approved election of officers
followed.
Miss Olivene Porterfield—President.
Miss Margaret Whitaker — Vice-
President.
Miss Dorothy Sessoms—Secretary.
Miss Elizabeth Leight—Treasurer.
The club adjourned to meet on
November 2nd.
REBA RUSS.
WILDCAT MINSTRELS OFFER
VARIED PROGRAM,
The Wildcat Minstrels, under the
guiding hand of Professor Erwin, is
doing some hard work to repeat its
phenomenal success of last year. The
finishing touches are now being added
and the program is one which will
prove highly entertaining and amus
ing to all. Professor Erwin says he
has some of the latest jokes and jazz
novelties up his sleeves, not to speak
of some rare bits of fun in the clog
dancing line and he believes Al. G.
Fields himself would turn green with
envy if he chanced to be sitting in the
audience.
BISHOP RETURNS TO Y. P. M.
Just when we had decided that
Bishop Rondthaler was staying away
“too long” he suddenly appeared on
the scene and talked to us in Y. P. M.
October 5th.
Even though Bishop cannot be with
us every Wednesday during Bible
class we are glad that he thinks about
us, and comes back to us whenever it
is possible.
ABSENCE SYSTEM NAME
APPEARS MISLEADING
As a name for our new regulations
concerning class attendance, the “Ab
sence System” seems misleading, be
cause it puts stress on absence rather
that presence; but then, what’s in a
name? The important thing is that
we understand the where, why, and
what of this system.
First, the where. In most of the
up-to-date colleges and schools of the
country there are in use practical reg
ulations governing class attendance.
When our faculty committee met to
draw up rules for Salem, it made use
of the best parts of many systems,
adding some regulations that they
thought necessary for our peculiar
needs; so that these rulings have not
been made in haphazard fashion, but
behind each one we can see a commit
tee of toiling instructors working for
the benefit of every Salem girl. This
is not a new system, but an old one
much renovated, and the why of the
new is easy to guess, being no more
than the failure of the old. This fail-
failure was due in part to a lack of
understanding on the part of the stu
dents and likewise to an insufficient
and inappropriate penalty. It almost
seems that our old “cut system” offer
ed a temptation towards absence from,
rather than an incentive for presence,
in class.
And now, for our third point,—the
what of the system, and our first sub
ject, tardiness. There is no question
as to whteher tardiness is annoying,
but it is certain that it is often excus
able. Perhaps one just misses a car
at the square, or needs to see Dr.
Pfohl, or must go to or from Memorial
Hall when the elevator is not in use,
or has a mishap on the way. These
certainly would be legitimate excuses,
but the main point is: the teacher must
be told of the excuse and must judge
for herself itS quality. In the case of
excuses the old maxim holds fast,
“Quality is beter than quantity.” “Two
unexcused tardinesses shall be counted
by the instructor as one absence. It
shall be in the province of the instruc
tor to judge the merits of excuses of
fered at the close of he class.”
Regulations four and five should be
taken as a unit. The object of these
regulations is the prevention of ab
sences from class on the slightest pre
text; that is, a student, knowing, as
she now does, that she has only a lim
ited number of excused ebsences avail
able, will weigh her desires for ab
sence carefully before making use of
them. During a given semester, a
student in a two-hour course may have
(Continued on page four)
STUDENT-GOVERNMENT
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Owing to the failure of Miss Sarah
Lingle to return, it was necessary to
select another vice-president of the
Student Council. Miss Nina Sue Gill,
who has been a council member for
thi'ee years, was given this position.
The student body unanimously elected
Miss Olivene Porterfield to fill the
vacancy left by Miss Gill’s promotion.
QUEENS BLUES.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 14.—On
Thursday, October 6th, the Student
Government Council presented to the
student body the honor cards. These
cards were'signed by all the girls as
this honor system extends not only to
the girls in student government affairs
but in the class room as well. It is
felt that this is a big step towards
making Queens a one hundred per
cent college.
The Better Library Movement
which was instituted last year by the
Queens Blues staff is progressing
splendidly. The library was cleaned
and re-arranged by the Freshman
class and the Kappa Omicron Hon
orary Society has taken it in charge,
as there is no librarian. The Kappa
Omicrons are planning to card cata
logue the library soon.
PLANS FOR SENIOR SPEAKING
MADE.
The program for Senior speaking
this year at Davidson gives promise
of being the best in the history of the
college. The festivities .commence
November 25th and run through No
vember 28th without a break. Friday
morning the Glee Club makes its
debut under the direction of D. P. Mc-
Geachy and Friday afternoon the
“Wildkittens” will do battle with
Clemson’s second team cn the foot
ball field. For Saturday morning the
Dramatic Club, under the direction of
Professor Erwin, has a skillfully pre
pared program which will prove both
interesting and entertaining.
Just Missed Perfection.
First Cocky (on horseback)—“That
cove ye’ve had wurrkin’ for yer arsked
me fur a job this mornin’. Was he a
steady chap, Ryan?”
Second Cocky—“He was. If he’d
ha’ bin inny stiddier he’d ha’ bin
motionless.”—The Bulletin (Sydney).
Easy Explanation.
“I say. Stalker,” he said, “you re
member yo utold me you had hunted
tigers in West Africa? Well, Captain
Smith tells me there are no tigers
there.”
“Quite right, quite right,” said
Stalker, blandly, “I killed them all.”—
London Opinion.