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THE SALEMITE
Friday, February 26, 1937.
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LECTURES
NEXT YEAR
We would like to remind the seniors that they must buy
tickets for the lecture series now, as none will be sold next fall.
We are sure that every senior who plans to be in town next
year will want a ticket.
The lecture fund was established because of student in
terest and co-operation. Tell your friends of the series to be
given next year. Remember that no tickets may be bought
after March 1.
IF YOU COULD SELECT
THE PROGRAMS
Can you imagine anything more
perfect than being allowed to stay
in bed one whole day and listen to
what you consider, the best programs
on the air? Of course, there would
be a few you’d have to endure 5or
the roommate’s sake, but you could
do as you please with the others.
Let’s begin at 7:30 in the morning
and see what Susie Salem would se
lect for her ideal program.
Something soothing is what she
wants early in the morning, so Susie
clicks on the radio to the soft sweet
music of Guy Lombardo. No cheery
"Good Morning” from well-wishing
announcers, no "Swanee River,” and
no “Prairie Moon” for this young
lady. She might let the program be
called the “Eye Opener,” but I’m
sure she’d break a tube the first time
a word about advertising or weld
ing was mentioned.
Guy stays with her till after break
fast, when Susie feels she could use
something a little more lively. Not
Benny Goodman yet, because she’s
saving him for later, but Hal Kemp’
and Skinny Ennis instead. What a
relief not to be hearing that “man
with a message” or the fellow who
sings to “all you who are in pain
or trouble ’ ’ who usually come on
from 8 to 10.
After “ A Date With an Angel,”
which makes any Kemp program com
plete, Sara, the room-mate puts in a
request for a alightly classical pro
gram. Nelson Eddy is the answer to
ttis maiden’s prayer and to every
one else’s who has ever heard him.
He sings for the next half hour.
What about a little comedy and
fun on this program! and what about
Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone
furnishing itT No sooner eaid than
done, and with another turn of the
dial, Jack and Mary have Susie and
Sara rolling with laughter.
More music now by Wayne King,
who plays till lunch. Luncheon mus-
io of course by Tommy Dorsey, just
to make the food taste better. After
the meal, the girls go highbrow on
us and listen to the Ford Symphony
Concert, which is really great.
During the rest of the afternoon,
Eddie Duchin, Phil Baker, Cab Callo
way and that one and only “he-
man” of the air — Daniel Boone
(pronounced Danel), have their part
in the entertainment. Sara asked
once for Dolly Dawn, but 2 minutes
with “Dolly and Hiccoughs” was
enough for her.
Jan Garber plays through dinner
and until Benny Goodman and Jack
Oakie of Efifus College take the mi
crophone for the next couple of!
hours. Gather ’round all you Good
man fans because here’s your chance
to listen to swing to your heart’s
content.
Les Brown (former Duke man),
Abe Lyman, and Horace Heidt play
’till midnight. There are still sev
eral more programs Susie would like
to hear, but a gal has to get her
beauty sleep these days.
Here are other programs that you
may prefer to the one’s of Susie’s
choice. If you have your eye on a
farmer, for a husband, then don’t
miss the “Carolina Farm Features”
on Wednesday morning. If you go
in for the joys of Mother Goose, lis
ten to Dorothy Gordon at 5:15 in
the afternoon and learn how the
little birdies say “Hello every
body.” If you feel a gentle urge
to sing at the top of your lungs,
turn to ‘ ‘ Gillette Community Sing ’ ’
and vrarble with a hundred or so
other “neighbors^” And if you
CHALLENGE
TO FACULTY AT
GUILFORD
For the benefit of the many wom
en’s schools in the NSFA, we reprint
portions of an editorial by a sister
college which deals with a not un
common problem humorously and
with uncommon sportsmanship. From
the Guilfordian, organ of public opin
ion of Guilford ■College, N. C.:
“Can You Take It?”
“Word recently reached us (in
directly), from a prominent source
that the faculty had voted down a
proposal to extend the women’s cur
few a half-hour each night. The
general attitude was that 10 o’clock
was ’none too early for growing
girls.’
“—we throw down the following
We challenge the faculty to set
some absurdly early hour (10 o’clock
has official sanction), for the termi
nation of their day’s activity; to
abide faithfully by that limit for
one week, dropping ev.erything, if
necessary, in order to get in on time;
and after that, to state honestly that
they believe the present limitation
on the wtijmen of jthe college is
equitable. ’ ’
ORATORICAL
CONTEST SCHEDULED
FOR MAY
High Point, N. C.—High Point Col
lege will welcome orators from many
North Carolina colleges to a peace
oratorical contest on May 4th. The
contest, sponsored by the Inter-col
legiate Peace Association, offers sub
stantial prizes and the opportunity
for the first prize winner to submit
his oration for regional and national
contests. Last year 150 colleges
throughout the country participated
in the national contest, twenty-four
states being represented, and the
early interest shown by colleges
throughout the country this year
points to an even more effective
showing this year.
L. S. U. STUDENT
COUNCIL PERFORMS
UNIQUE SERVICES
Baton Rouge, La. — Louisianna’s
all-university Student Council per
forms many quiet but notable serv
ices in improving the general living
conditions on the campus, according
t oan article in the L. 8. IT. Alumni
News. Among the improvements
which it has sought and achieved for
the campus are: illumination of the
college clock at night, the covering
of waiting stations for bus and trol
ley, the establishment of a central
bulletin board, and the paving of
sidewalks and roads. The council
has successfully petitioned the city
to alter transportation routes in or
der to aid the students and at pres
ent is seeking to gain the extension
of a bus route to women’s dormito
ries, now three-quarters of a mile
from the present terminus.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
ARE ANXIOUS TO
CORRESPOND
Students of language and current
events interested in carrying on cor
respondence with students in other
countries will find contacts available
through the International Friend
ship League which has on hand re
quests from sixty-four foreign coun
tries for American letter writers.
The applicants are anxious to be in
touch with Americans of their own
age well-informed on public affairs
and anxious to improve language.
The organization which is endorsed
by Ministries of Education and is
widely used by teachers throughout
the world may be reached care of
NSFA.
enjoy gargling and blowing bubbles,
WSJS will be glad to accomodate
you by playing all of the Shep Fields
recordings you want.
AT RANDOM
SILVER FILIGREE
The icicles wreathing
On trees in festoon
Swing, swayed to our breathing:
They’re made of the moon.
She’s a pale, waxen taper;
And these seem to drip
Transparent as paper
From the flame of her tip.
Molton, smoking a little,
Into crystal they pass;
Falling, freezing, to brittle
And delicate glass.
Each a sharp-pointed flower
Each a brief stalactite
Which hangs for one hour
In the blue cave of night.
—Elinor Wylie
THE LOOK
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haimts me night and day.
—^Sara Teasdale
OPEN FORUM
Many colleges allow their students
a week of cuts, but Salem is not
among that number — Why? We
realize that our cuts committee ex
cuses tbsences caused by illness,
death, etc., but other schools allow
their students more cuts, and still
excuse absences on such occasions.
(When a change is suggested in our
present system, these “excused
abences are stressed as the redeem
ing feature of Salem’s cut system).
The North Carolina State College for
Women in Greensboro is just one of
the schools allowing their under
graduates as many cuts in a class as
that class meets in a week — that is,
if a class meets three hours a week,
a student is entitled to three cuts in
that class for the semester — and
absences are excused. We are not
asking for an unlimited amount of
cuts (that would be expecting too
much), but surely three cuts in every
class is not too much to ask, or to
expect. Under our present system
the average student is allowed six
cuts a semester.
The faculty think themselves very
liberal to give the students such a
generous amount of week-ends. But
what can be done with their week
ends, if a more adequate number of
cuts is not allotted to each student?
With only six or even seven cuts, it
is impossible for some students to
take more than one week-end. Is
that being liberal?
Our faculty can help us — if they
will — by giving us more cuts. We
have no intention of becoming social
butterflies; we only want to 1)6
treated as college students, and not
as the “bad girls” of a prep school.
We ask and we beg and we plead
for more cuts.
“I think I’ll go downstairs and
send Nancy’s young man home.”
“Now, Elmer, remember the way
we used to court.”
“I hadn’t thought of that. I
know darned well I’d better go down
and send him home.”
Y.W.C.A.
Y
NEWS
Miss Riggan, Mary Frances Hay
worth, and Jean Knox will represent
Salem at the State Y. Conference
at Guilford College next Sunday.
The vesper program for Sunday
evening is in charge of Laura Emily
Pitts and the Music Committee. It
will be an entertaining musical pro
gram which will include among other
things, a violin solo, a vocal quartet,
harp and flute presentations, and the
voices of the acapella choir.
SEVERAL HOURS UP
TOWN
When a college girls goes up town,
she spends endless time walking the
streets and window shopping. There
are innumerable displays to attract
her attention and waste her time,
and she wanders from store to store
“just looking.” Maybe she is real
ly hunting for a definite something
or perhaps she is just killing time.
She may go to the flve-and-ten-cent
store or to a gift shop or to any of
various repair places; she visits eat
ing places — cafeterias, drug stores,
or bakeries. But usually she spends
most of her time in front of the win
dows of clothes shops or inside cloth
ing stores. In and out of store after
store, she hunts her way looking at
the new styles and fashions. Morn
ing, afternoon, or night when she is
up town, she pauses to look at next
season’s models. Her eyes take in
every detail of line, color, and ef
fect as she pictures herself in the
displayed outfit. Other window dis
plays may escape her notice, but
clothes — Neverl They are one of
her constant thoughts (joy or worry)
and subjects of conversation. She
cannot forget them, nor does she
want to. Like all other women, the
college girl has as her slogan —
“Clothes may not make the man,
but oh! what they do to a wo man I”