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Page 2 QUEENS BLUES Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association 1938 Member 1939 Pissocided Cblle6*ale Press Distributor of Cblle6iafe Di6ed REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY NationalAdvertisingServiceJnc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y. Chicago • boston ■ Los Angeles ■ san Francisco Founded by the Class of 1922 Published Weekly by the Students of Queens- Chicora College. Subscription Rate: $2.50 the Collegiate Year STAFF Ermixe WADun.! Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Ijibodv __Iiiisiness Manager Agxes Stout, Ph.D Faculty Advisor EDITORIAL Peggy Wiixiams Associate Editor Judith Killiax Assistant Editor Eugenia Neu Hiuda Harmox Feature EoAtor Alice Barrox.... Society Editor Elizabeth Brammer Sports Editor Mildred Sxeedex Exchange Editor Sarah Thompson Poetry Editor BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Kay Duncan Assistant Business Manager Geneive" Hosmer Advertising Manager Jennie Lynn WKiojir....Assistant Advertising Manager Qi^jvia Gillespie ' Circulation Manager Frances Riddle Assistant Circulation Manager REPORTERS Maujer Moseley, Snoodie Matheson, Peggie Harrison, Mary Payne, Julia Edwards, Dorothy Longenecker, Carolyn Edwards, Susanna Millwee. ADVERTISING STAFF Mary Alice Petteway, Jean Douglass, Carolyn Miller, IJb Tavlor, Alice Barron. TO THE SENIORS In May, you finish your preparations for life in what we eominonly term the “outside world.” What has your college life meant to you.^ Constantly, after you leave this college, occa sions w'ill arise and cause you to reminisce about your college days. What pleasant phases do you choose to remember about your college days? If you have taken part in curricular and extra-cur ricular affairs, you probably try to reminisce. If vou have stood by and w’atched the others do the work, you will do everything to forget these days. But what has your life meant to us and to Queens-Cliicora? You have advised us and been sisters to us. You have upheld the standards and ideals of the college. Even the most insignificant girls among you has contributed her part to the betterment of some one’s character or some other phase of college life. If you arc one of those who would rather not think back on today for the pleasure it yielded you, think about the pleasures you probably gave or helped to give to some other person or organiza tion. Thanks for your advice and guidance! SCHOLASTIC STANDARDS Here you are now with almost a whole new semester ahead of you. What are you going to do with it? Have you made a list of useless and possibly already forgotten resolutions? Or have you made up vour mind that this semester is to be started off just right so that slate will be just as full of good marks in May as it is clean in February. So much depends on the grades you make here in college. Why not reach for high scholastic standards this semester! It is not so hard to do merit and distinction work. Form good study habits and settle down to some honest-to-goodness good work. Make up your mind to pass that re-exam, if you have one to take. Last semester is over now. See what you can do this semester to raise the scholastic standards of the college as well as your own. Taking a suggestion, buy a few composition books and take notes in class. Keep up with your notebooks and daily work and test grades will naturally rise too. You do much more good by contributing to scholastic standards of the college than you do by piling up campus signs on your door. Try it! QUEENS BLUES CARE OF BURWELL HALL For this editorial I wish to borrow one of Rev. Peter Marshall’s statements. You remember he said that our minds are like phonographic discs recording grooves in our lives with the needles of our conduct. I wish to stop the whirling of this phonographic disc long enough to examine in our every day school life here at the college only one particular needle. This needle of conduct per tains to conduct in Burwell Hall—too much loafing and abuse of furniture! In fact, the needle which is causing such noisy, confused, destructive grooves about which I am speaking is a double pointed needle—get a good description of it—one prong represents loafing and socializing; the other prong represents sitting on tables, on arms and chairs, scratching furniture, slinging books and coats care lessly over the furniture, and pushing chairs over the rugs and floor. I feel certain that a reminder of the need of a complete change of the needle of conduct in Bur well is all that is needed! You have seen on a page of some issues of Good Housekeeping pic tures showing the psychological results of the “right” and “wrong” methods of correcting a child. Let us analyse our situation in the same way, con sidering first the picture of the “right” method of correction. This picture of Burwell Hall shows no lingering of students—all who wish to study are in the library, all who wish to socialize are in the Students’ Union. The main part of the picture shows the parlors only for use in the evenings and for social affairs. The lobby, as seen in the pic ture, is for occasional use of student or a stranger or a visitor who waits to go into one of the ad ministrative offices. Students pass through the halls at change of classes in their same nice way, but never get settled for any length of time in a chair or couch. The conduct in Burwell Hall is thus similar to that in administrative buildings in other colleges—no other colleges have lingering, socializing or studying in administrative! In think ing over this need of correction, I am confident that if any of you are guilty of using the lobby of Burwell Hall in a disturbing way you will willingly put a dead stop to this defective needle conduct. This new needle in an emphatic way and will immediately make ready a new needle of also blacklists abuses of furniture; blacklists sit ting on arms of chairs and couches; blacklists put ting feet on furniture; blacklists moving .heavy pieces of furniture; blacklists removing ash trays, magazines, lamp globes, and electric plugs; black list drinking coca-colas or eating in the parlors. Let us discard the “wrong” picture so quickly that only the “right” is remembered and heeded. Last year all of you worked very hard for the new furniture, and how proud you are of it! It is your furniture, forming a lovely setting and en vironment for you and for the girls who will fol low you. Getting it was a difficult task, but taking proper care of it is a still greater task. By hard work you learned to appreciate and place right values upon things. You earned the reward of enjoying the beautifully furnished rooms so long as every student plays or works under the rules of proper respect and care of the furnishings. Progress can be made only with the responsibility felt and shared by every citizen on the campus for the care of every item of furnishings. Proper, exacting care taken of what you possess insures against too-often necessity of replacing, and as sures building on and to what you have and care for. Now, since we are getting additional new fur nishings, is the time to change the needle of con duct. Let everyone determine to discard the faulty needle, and place on the disc a steel needle, re suiting in firm, steady grooves. Indeed, your new conduct needles will enable you to form habits of studying in the history, lounging in the Students’ Union and caring for the furniture, and will make the discs worthy of repetition at any time not only for your own gratific.ition but for the shaping of a precedent for girls who will follow you. With sincere appreciation for the spirit and understanding on the part of Queens students with which they always meet and correct undesirable situations, I am. Your friend, VIRGINIA M. AGNEW, Dean of Women February 4, 1939 Students Show Super Secrets of Supper Stockings “Supper Stockings” is the name given to faulty and otherwise run- full stockings seen every night at sup per. At the first sign of a hole or a run, any here-to-fore good hose are destined to become “E pluribus Unum” and follow the way of his (or her) forerunner to dinner each night. In the first are her good, sheer, two- thread stockings worn only on gala occasions and then luxed after each wearing with the greatest of care. In the second group are her school stockings—that is if she is lucky enough to afford them. These are just regular stockings and do not have a very important or exciting career. They don’t even rate lux! The last group, and the group to be considered now, is always the largest and every girl is eager to show her collection of supper stockings. Stockings of many kinds, shapes, shades, and sizes are found in these collections. Here are those hopeless misfits sent by a fond “Aunt Lizzy,” or other doting relatives—or just gifts that are ardently purchased at a spe cial fire sale, clearance or bargain basement. Rather than disappoint the donors and throw them away, some loyal soul will drag them forth, and proceed gaily to the dining room and feel that she has done her duty to the relatives and also the stockings. Other stockings to join the ranks traveling to dinner each night are those we buy ourselves wlign the clerk shows them to us in an optimistic fervor and we delightedly exclaim over their inexpensiveness and the lovely shades, and then it’s easy to imagine our surprise when we return with our bargain, only to find that they are “seconds,” multi-colored, and full of rings. Rather than admit de feat, we chuckle to ourselves and add another pair to our accumulating horde of supper stockings. The old saying “Where there’s a will there’s a way” could easily be changed to “Where there’s a mouldy pair of stockings, there’s a girl who will wear them to supper.” Campus Choice Fashion Fads This is the time of year when every normal girl gazes into her closet and heaves a heavy sigh of discour agement at what she sees there. Heavy winter clothes, dark skirts and bulky coats have lost their earlier ajipeal and by now they look just a bit worn and dingy. While we still have a couple of chilly months ahead, it’s not hard to visualize now the green leaves which will be sprouting and the vivid hues of the spring flow ers and that glorious fresh tingly feel ing you get when you see the first robin. And you realize that now is tlie time to begin a systematic plan ning of that spring outfit, or outfits if you’re really going in for things in a big way. The new colors which designers have gotten together for your ensemble are the gayest splashes of lovely shades and hues. Rose and the near-roses, are leading the field, and every shade of it is being blend ed together to make the most lusciouS and distracting dresses and acces sories yet. And then the return of that noble color, purple! As flatter ing as it is lovely, it is being worn and worn by those who know. Hats, skirts, spring sweaters, indeed every thing imaginable can be found in this color. As for evening, the lovely pastels, lilacs, light roses, powder blues and soft greens are going ro rnantic places this spring, according to Harpers. Another note of interest is that concerning spring coats. Everj'one needs the rejuvenation that a light spring coat adds. This season they’re straight. No longer will princess lines mold your figure flatteringly. Now they hang straight, not in enormous box fashion, but merely with defi- On January 12, 1920, this fair world of ours was first graced by the presence of one of our best, Vir ginia McNinch Smith. As Virginia grew up, she became more and more mischievous. She went through the Charlotte schools, known eve^ year as the wit of the class. After she graduated from Central High School, she decided that Queens- Chicora was just the college for her. As a freshman she was quite busy on the campus as a member of the Choral Club and of the Blues staff. She was also chairman of the freshman stunt that year. In her sophomore V'enr she was again chairman of stunt night, on the staff of the Queens Blues, and in the S.C.A. Cabinet as sophomore representative. This year as a junior, she is feature editor the the Queens Blues, Day Student representative on S.C.A. Cabinet, as sistant editor of the Coronet, and a member of Chi Omega fraternity. She is also a member of the Choral Club and of the Day' Student Pro gram committee. Precious gifts come in small' pack ages” the old saying goes. This is certainly' true in Ginny'’s case. She’s about as big as a minute, and has the biggest blue eyes y'ou ever saw. Wherever she is, she has a big, cheer ful smile on her face, and a laugh just ready' to pop out. Ginny' say's her pet hate is insincere people and that her pet like is good music. When asked what kind of good music, she answered, “well, f’rinstance Claire de Lime, or Sugar Foot Stomp!” Her chief ambition these days is to go to Philadelphia. Why? She says daisies won’t tell, but who the heck is a daisy? She also wants to learn the “feet part” of an organ so she can play' her pet Tea for Two with a flourish. We hear by an indirect source that she is leading a double life. She seems to be awfully' interested in the collegiate football season next year. About herself, all she would say was: “When bigger and better faux pas’s are made, trust Smith to make them.” Somehow we can’t quite agree with that one, Ginny'. When asked if she would mind an swering a few questions of interest, Virginia said she wouldn’t mind at all. Here are the questions with her answers: Question: “What is y'our favorite food?” Answer: “Thought.” Question: “Who is the man in your ife?” Answer: “Father Time.” Question: “Are y'ou allergic?” Ansicer: “Nose, Mam!” Question: “Do you believe in love at first sight?” Answer: “Without my' glasses, no.” Question: “Have y'ou ever been hypnotized?” Answer: “I’ve often wondered.” From these y'ou cun see that Ginny knows all the answers (no telling if they'’re the right ones, though!) But even if y'ou’re going to turn out to be a little country goil from the sticks, we city' slickers will still love you just as much, Virginia. nitely' up and down lines. Shoulders are no longer padded to give you the appearance of the football hero of a month or two past, but they’re just shoulders now. The fabrics for tliese new coats are fascinating, and the colors range as never before, so you’re sure to succumb to their ap peal. But be sensible about these new clothes. Don’t be so amazed by the bril liant colors and the glamorous ac cessories that you find y'ourself with a hodge-podge of things. Look around the shops—study' the magazines, and then decide just what y'ou’ll need in every' line and fit it to y'our budget and then sally' forth and join the spring parade with the snazziest out fit yet, because they certainly can be had this vear.
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