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THE SALEMITE
Friday, February 19, 1937.
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TEAS
Each Sunday afternoon the Y, W. C. A. sponsors a tea
in the recreation room of Louisa Wilson Bitting Building. These
teas are for Salem students and faculty, and furnish a satisfy
ing way of breaking the monotony of several long dull hours.
Besides the food to be found at them, there'is companionship
and relaxation. The desire and ability to study are stimulated
by a few minutes in an entirely different atmosphere.
But only a certain group of you Salemites seem to realize
this. Out of' nearly 300 students, about 50 remember each
Sunday that there is this pleasant interlude to be found on
the campus. Sunday after Sunday these same girls come and
only a very few new faces are ever seen. Yet it isn’t because
the rest of you-always have something to do, for you complain
of having “nothing to do on Sunday afternoons,” and fre
quently you are not studying or napping either. ..You just
don’t come!
«
Why not? Have you ever been to see what it’s like?
Do you know that the “Y.”, of which you are a member, is
giving you free “pepper-uppers”? Well, it is; and if you are
a true Salemite, you’ll show your good old spirit by going to
“Y. ” tea this Sunday and giving it a trial as an enjoyable in
terruption in an empty afternoon.
EPICUREANS
What about all this talk of Eta
Nu PiT What is it? Who is in it!
Questiouj have been spinning around
the campus whenever some 'girl is
overheard to say, “Gum.”
Too l.fid, it is a secret organiza
tion; and it took many adroit ques
tions to discover any information.
It is an Epicurean Club (as its name
implica), founded at Davidson, which
chapter is the Alpha Alpha (pro
nounced alfalfa). The founders
have organized sister chapters at
Peace, among the seniors, at N. C.,
and at Salem, among the Sophomores,
which are called the Nu Alpha chap
ters.
Who is in Salem’s Nu Alpha chap-
terf That’s a secret too, for the
present, but here’s a tip — watch
for cute girls who say, “Gum.”
The seal is a plate with a knife and
fork showing from the back and the
coat-of arms is in the shape of a
piece of pie. If you will look closely
you will see a certificate of member
ship on a certain sophomore’s wall,
bearing these insignia.
The Nu Alpha chapter at Salem
sent :i delegate to a consultation of
BEGINNING OF LENT
MARKED BY
SERVICES
Last Sunday the Home Moravian
Church held its traditional holy com
munion service to commemorate the
first Sunday in Lent. Bishop Pfohl
officiated, and was assisted by Dr.
Rondthaler, Rev. Gordon Spaugh and
Rev. Amim Francke. Ash Wednes
day, which is the official beginning
of Lent and this year came on Feb
ruary 10th, is always observed in
the Moravian Church by a day of
prayer. The Lenten season is cli
maxed by a series of services thro
ughout Holy Week and the famous
sunrise service in God’s Acre on
Easter Sunday.
the Eta Nu Pi at Davidson this week,
and another delegate will go to Ral
eigh this week-end to investigate the
chapter at Peace. The Salem chap
ter is planning also to entertain the
brothers sometime soon.
You must acknowledge the Eta Nu
Pi’s are very clever at that low form
of humor.
PERSONALS
Salem College seems to have really
taken out last week-end. Martha
Rawlings, Jane Kirk, Kate Pratt,
Betty Bahnson, Betty McNair, Mary
Lib Walston, Helen McArthur, Julia
McCorkle and Virginia Lee went
to mid-winters at Carolina and re
port that Tommy Dorsey was plenty
good.
Blevins Vogler, Lizzie Trotman,
Emily Richardson, Frances Alexan
der, Marjorie Crisp, Sarah Stevens,
Mildred Troxler and Mary Thomas
were seen at Davidson beating time
to Jan Garber’s smooth music while
Marj' Woodruff, Lou Preas, John and
Bill Fulton went to V. P. I. and seem
to have done right well there.
Cramer Perceival went home to
Fayetteville, Mary Grier to Char
lotte, Frances Cole and Lelia Wil
liams went to Charlotte also. Dot
Burnette went to Durham, Sara Sher
wood to Conway, Tillie Hines and
Janice Raney visited at the Wom
an’s College in Greensboro, Frances
Apple stayed with her mother there.
Muriel Brittz Visited Katherine
Snead, and Maud Battle attended a
Camp reunion, all in Greensboro.
Peggy Rogers had her two best
friends from Charlotte visiting her,
and Edith McLean had two visitors.
AVERAGE VASSAR
GIRL SPENDS $655
ANNUALLY
That the average Vassar student
spends $655 annually on clothes,
books, beautj, cigarettes, candy and
motion picture shows, in addition to
the $1200 a year tuition and board
fees of the College is revealed in
the current issue of Life magazine
which, published today, states that
Vassar, with 1,198 students, a $10,-
000,000 nine hundred acre campus,
and a $9,000,000 endowment, may
properly be described as the rich
est women’s college on earth.”
“Of few things is the United
States more proud than of its vast
educational system,” the Life ar
ticle states. “In the matter of
women’s colleges this pride is well
placed because no other country can
match the United States combination
of Bryn Mawr, Smith, Wiellesley,
Vassar, Eadcliffe, Mt. Holyoke and
their sister schools. Which is the
best, educationally or socially, re
mains debatable among the partisans
of each; they are all excellent. But
Vassar, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has
the indisputable distinction of being
the richest women’s college on
earth.”
“The classic campus dress of a
Vassar girl consists of a tweed skirt,
a Brooks Brothers sweater, saddle-
strap or tennis shoes, and a polo
coat,” the articles continues. “Sole
acceptable ornament is a small string
of pearls. Glasses are common on
attractive noses. Blue jeans, in
troduced by students of Mrs. Hallie
Flanagan’s ‘D P’ (Dramatic Pro
duction) course in the Experimental
Theatre, have spread throughout the
college. In fall, shorts and hockey
sticks are popular. A bandana or
riding hat is worn when it rains.
Umbrellas are taboo. Almost any
wearing apparel goes on campus and
in class, but outside Taylor Hall
gate Vassar decorum calls for more
formal attire. Besides her tuition
and board fees, the average Vassar
girl spends $655 a year on clothes,
books, beauty, cigarettes, candy, and
cinemas at Poughkeepsie’s Barda-
von and Stratford theatres.
“Vassar girls 8-15 hours a week
in classes. They rise at 7 o’clock,
breakfast at7:30, study or attend
classes till 10:05, go to chapel oc
casionally at 10:10, study again till
luncheon at 11:50 and after lunch
till 4: SO. Dinner is served in the
nine dormitories at 6:15. From 7:30
to 9:30 is quiet hour, reserved for
study. Soft slippers instead of mules
are then required to minimize dorm
itory noises. At 10:30 everj' girl
must be in her hall. She may study
all night if she wishes, but she is
usually in bed at 11. Saturday night
she goes to the “J” (informal
dance) at Students’ Building, where
men are rare and any girl may cut
AT ICANID0M
APOLOGY
If I’m too lavish of my love
As skies are of their blue,—
Remember ’tis the way with hearts
And skies, when suns pass through.
—Rachel Field.
ORCHESTRA
The bows made golden water spin
In rushing torrents from violin
And cello strings, and I could hear
Sweeter than honey, icicle clear.
The flutes arise, and the woody horn
Shrill and shy as a pagan morn
Lost forever, — while on the brain
Pattered the harp’s enchanted rain
Only the rumbling kettle drum.
Like some primeval pendulum.
Inexorably kept its pace
With time and a world that turns in space.
—Rachel Field.
RAINY DAY RHYME
When stones across the way are sleek
With wet, when windows blur,
Then in my heart small songs must start
Their swift and secret stir.
They prick away through this poor day.
And if I let them climb—
Why, who can tell but one might swell
And flower into rhyme.
—Rachel Field.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
‘ ‘ The problem which confronts the
modern college woman graduate
when hunting a job is one of creating
a new position, not one of applying
for some previously planned position
in an overcrowded field as most
young women do.” Mrs. Cornelia
Stratton Parker, noted writer and
lecturer in economics at the Univer
sity of California, urges students to
go beyond the “any-job” attitude.
“The scholarly world is sympa
thetic to advancement and scientific
discovery. Scholars enter life with
a spirit of constructive criticism. We
must all avoid being cynics; they are
usually critical of something they
know nothing of.” Dr. John T.
Stone, president of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, Chicago, ex
presses a shade of cynicism toward
the cynics.
Y.W.C.A.
Y
NEWS
Dr. Raymond Haupert, who has
been making a series of talks here
at Salem throughout the latter part
of this week will be glad to talk
privately with any girls who wish to
discuss their problems and ideas with
him. Appointments may be made
through Mary Frances Hayworth.
“Question everything. After every"
thing else one learns in college is
forgotten, those two words will carry
far in advancing upon life. Never
cross the street without expecting to
be hit by an automobile. Never look
at a ceiling without expecting an
earthquake to hit. ’ ’ Rupert Hughes,
author, dramatist and composer, sug
gests that collegians expect the
worst at all times and enjoy an oc
casional surprise.
in. Those who do not want to submit
their male companions to this experi"
ence, escape by car to roadhouses
outside Poughkeepsie. Sunday pass
es a bit dully in bridge and study.”
“Responsible for the social at
mosphere of the world’s richest wom
en’s college is Eleanor C. Dodge,
Vassar Warden,” Life continues.
‘ ‘ Her business is to see that there is
no friction among class mates, no
unhappy students, no scandals. She
assigns rooms, plans parties, super
vises the social calendar, plays hos
tess to Vassar’s many distinguished
guests. A Vassar graduate (Class of
1925 of charm and tact, she lives in
the two-story brick Warden’s house,
where she entertains her wards once
a week at tea. Beloved by all Vassar
girls, who call her ‘Nanny,’ she
wears what they do, gives them
sound advice, never fails to under
stand their problems. Warden
Dodge is a Boston blueblood, the
daughter of Lawyer Robert Gray
Dodge, w'ho presides over Wellesley’s
Board of Trustees.”
I The freshmen who have shown an
j interest in Y. work this year have
I been organized at last and have elec
ted their own cabinet to lead them
in carrying out their projects. Doro
thy Jane Thompson was chosen chair
man; Mary V. Rogers, secretary and
treasurer; Louise Norris, Chairman
of the Music Committee; Helen Sav
age, Chairman of Student Volunteer
Committee; Germaine Gold, Chair
man of Social Activities Committee;
Virginia Breakell, Chairman of Com-
m'unity Service Committee; Betty
Sanford, Chairman of World Fellow
ship Committee; Elizabeth Winget,
Chairman of Finance Committee;
Martha Baldwin, Chairman of Pub
licity Committee; Elizabeth Hen
dricks, Chairman of Industrial Com
mittee; Ann Newborne, Chairman of
Worship and Program Committee;
Betsy Mountcastle, Chairman of Bul
letin Board Committee.
We are delighted at the way in
which these new students are giv
ing their enthusia.sm and support to
the Y., and we shall watch with a
great deal of interest the work which
they are doing.
MISS MARKS SPEAKS
ON “MOUNTAIN PEO
PLE AND STORIES”
Miss Sallie B. Marks gave an il
lustrated talk Wednesday at Old
Town School on ‘ ‘ Mountain People
and Stories.” Miss Marks’ talk wa»
one of a series being sponsored by
the Winston-Salem branch of the
American Association of University
Women.
Miss Marks spoke of the life of
the people of the mountain section
of North Carolina. She illustrated
her lecture with beautiful lantern
slides.