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THE SALEMITE
Friday, March 31, 1939.
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TELEPHONES
Have you ever been on first floor during the day or night,
trying to get some studying done, with the telephone ringing its
head off just around the corner. Really, it’s absurdly disturb
ing. The Popularity Misses on the hail are always thinking,
“I’ll bet that phone call is for me,” while the Wallflowers,
hoping with crossed fingers that it might somehow be a Prince
Charming, are immediately thrown into the depths of gloom
and dispair. Now it seems to me that the prolonged ringing of
the phone merely agitates the feeling of these two types of stu
dents. The girls on duty at the desk must be just plain lazy
to sit and not move a muscle to answer the phone.
A suggestion has been made, to the effect that each stu-
den 'be 'brought to feel personally responsible for answering the
telephone. Of course, each student should keep in mind that
if it is her own best boy friend calling, and if her neighbor
beats her to the phone, there might not be a best boy friend
anymore, and the neighbor would receive all the candy, flowers
and specials. ,
Still another suggestion, and perhaps more effective, is
this one. Merely take out all telephones from the dormitories.
All contact with the outside world would be personal. This
would entirely eliminate all feelings of any kind that might be
provoked by the insistant ringing of the telephone.
April Fool
WHO-0-0? —
NIGHT OWLS
Some people have no consideration whatsoever for other
people’s rights. Just so they are having a good time is all they
are worried about. The particular instant I have in mind is
at ten-forty-five every night when the girls in Clewell are com
ing in from their dates. Car doors slamming, radios playing,
loud talking the noise is obnoxious. Little do they realize
that the girls in Senior are trying to go tc sleep. Senior building
is so quiet and peaceful at that hour that the least bit of noise
can be heard all over the building.
What are you in Clewell going to' do to make the life of
a Senior more livable? Seniors absolutely need ten hours of
restful sleep. The best suggestion would be to extend the time
limit for dates until twelve o’clock. Then the Senior girls will
be sound asleep by that time and will have had two hours of
beauty sleep before the night owls of Clewell ■come in.
April Pool
COEDUCATIONAL
GYII CLASSES
One would reasonably think that a school reportedly as
modem and broadminded as Salem would be more in touch with,
modern ideas of education in respect to physical training. Tra
dition is a fine thing; but it should not stand in the way of the
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my uncle
Daniel fought in the civil
war band and can play the triangle
like the devil) my
uncle Frank has done nothing for many
years but fly kites and ....
my uncle Tom
knits and is a kewpie above the ears (but
my uncle Ed
that’s
dead from the neck
up is led all over
Brattle Street by a castrated pup.
By E. E. Cummings.
(Editor’s Note:—Goody, goody, this is NOT an April Fool)
BIRTHDAYS
Juvember 1 - 7
Juvember 2 —
Bill Fulton
Juvember 3 —
Doris Martin
Juvember 4 —
Martha Bowman
Juvember 6 —
Marian Sosnik
Juvember 7 —
Louise Jackson
RADIO PROGRAMS
Saturday:
1:00—The Mellowpopping Opera Co.
. presents Madame Pitty-Sing, So
prano, and I. Rumble, Basso, :n Les
Smit ’em’s ‘ ‘ Borrowed Brunette.’ ’
10:00—Susy Q. Witch conducts the
I. O. U. Orchestra in Tin P. Alley’s
unsymphonic i>oem, “Payme.”
Sunday:
3:00—Barbershopworn Phileruppers
in:
Ilen-Fruit Mount Beethunger
Death or What Next? Straws
Charlinian Symphony in Any Time,
Very Flat Farbeli
April Fool
best development of a student. I refer, of course, to the out
moded connection which demands that the Physical Education
classes at Salem be confined strictly to girls. (Such a thine is
scarcely conceived of in this day of enlightment and higher
civilization. It has become almost essential that a college have
co-educational gym classes.
I quote a certain emminent professor of psychology Dr
Phil Ossifer, of Columbia University: “Statistics definitely re
veal that it is only in the realm of athletics that a person really
reveals his true self. In spite of individual differences, all per
sons tend to conform to this statement. In the excitement of
the sports and exercise, students drop their pretense, snobbish
ness, and indifference, and become natural, friendly, and in
terested in each other. It is especially desirable, therefore
that boys and girls be thrown together in such a situation; for
here alone do they lose their self-consciousness and learn to ad
just themselves to each other’s company. If college could only
see the necessity of such an idea, the men and women graduated
would be much better conditioned. Almoft all cases of malad
justment would disappear.”
Is it not logical then, that since people are more natural
M^hen engaging in athletics that would, be the best opportunity
for co-education ? For, after all, what is the aim of everyone in
life? Marriage, of course. And how can a happy marriage,
free from divorce, be obtained unless each participant knows
exactly -vvhat he or she is marrying? And where can people
learn to know exactly what the opposite sex is like unless in
a co-educational Physical Education class?
April Fool
Music
ic News j
MUSIC HOUR
On Thursday afternoon the stu
dents of the School of Music present
ed the following program:
Twilightte Sternberg
Frances Britt
Vaults Treest Cibelius
Catherine Brandon
Lardo from Sonata in F major
Moat’s Art
Helen Savage
Bersoose Wan
Katherine Snead
The Founting WAIR
Harriette Taylor
Sekund Arabesk Debueey
B. C. Dunford, Jr.
Droop Not, Young Lover
Handle
Jane Rondthaler
A - - - List
Glenn Griffin
April Fool
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS ARE FAST
APPROACHING
(Here’s the Rest of It)
bound students humming carols on
their way from chapel.
Even if I hadn’t seen all this evi
dence of Christmas, however, there
is one thing that would be a sure
sign. That is the fact that Nell
Kerns is not only wearing her bed-
jacket, nightcap, and bedshoes as
well as using her electric heating
pad these nights; but she is also don
ning her red flannel pajamas with
the green holy leaves on them. The
true Christmas spirit is among us.
The writer of this article wishes
to make a correction. She has just
been informed that the approaching
holiday is Easter and not Christmas.
You can find your own evidence and
draw your own conclusions.
CHAPEL PREVIEW
April 4 —
J. Edgar Hoov'er will speak on
“How to Get Your Man.”
April 5 —
Mahatma Ghandi, on “How to
Gain That School Girl Fig
ure.’ ’
April 6 —
Th Duke of Windsor, on “Mar
riage vs. Career.”
April 7 —
Brenda Frazier, will speak on
“Orchids on Your Budget.”
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and
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KOBNEGAY, and
GASTIGER
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