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Page 4 THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C. Thur«day, January 17, 1924. The Chowanian A College newspaper published fortnightly by the students of Chow an College, Murfreesboro, N. C. •LUXE^^RfTAS; \ / 8 Subscription $1.00 a year Entered as second class matter January 17, 1924 at the Post Office at Murfreesboro, North Carolina, under act of March 3, 1879. STAFF Camilla Manson Editor Thelma Peterson Adv. Mgr. Ruth Wilkins Business Mgr. Lucille Holloman News Editor Inez Matthews Alumnae Editor Eloise Meroney Faculty Editor REPORTERS Athletics Mary Nellie Holt Student Gov’t Ella Mae Parker Library Ruth Wilkins Faculty Edna Lassiter, Edna Mills Social Emily Sessoms Jokes Catherine Fleetwood Religious Estelle Carlton Local Meryl Britton TO 1924 We say, “welcome to you. New Year”, but examinations oxe upon us and we have little time tn say more. However, there is one most signifi cant fact to be considered, and that is: This is Leap Year. Girls, and especially our elderly friends, the Seniors, if we don’t catch a man this Leap Year, we’ll be old maids by the next one. Let’s get busy! before some of the Band would be with them in Louisville. The many friends of these girls will be glad to know that they are plan ning to visit Chowan in the spring, and see all the new improvements, that have been made since they left. They say their hearts are with their Alma Mater. BOOK NOOK The library of Chowan College has received many large donations during the past few months. One of its most recent gifts was twently-five volumes of books bequeathed by Miss Mollie Parker, Chowan graduate and optimist par excellence, upon her death, December 19, 1923. These books are very valuable additions to the library. Through her sister, Mrs. Julia Bawker, of Somerset, Mass., the College has received these books, and is justly proud of them. Someone has said that man may be known by the books he reads. If that is true, most of us should be con tinually apologizing for ourselves. Especially in this day and generation should we hate to have ourselves labelled and catalogued according to whether we read good, bad, or indif ferent books. The tendency nowadays is toward trashy, dirty, problem novels of love and marriage. The titles and themes I aim to entice the ear and eye of the I reading public, and it seems they do, ' for “More degrading books are pub lished in a year now than came from the presses of American publishers in a generation before the war!” This reading public is composed chiefly of women and children. The children, beginning thus in their youth to have their taste for good literature defiled, can not be expected to develop a con suming desire for the best reading matter. ! The heart-rending part is that the homes are to blame for these condi tions. The schools have always sought to teach the children the beauty and value of good literature. The influence of the home tends to counteract and supercede the good effects produced by the school. There fore, either the school must make its influence a lasting one, or the home must awake to a full consciousness of its responsibility in the matter. One way of finally acquiring a I taste for the good in literature is to I compel ourselves to read the bMt. We might make a New Year’s resolution to this effect. As a beginner, we might read the following which Gene Stratton Porter suggests are the most worth while works, and several of I which are in our college library: I “The Outline of History,” H. G. ' Wells. I “Maria Chapdeline”, Louis Hemon. “Certain People of Importance”, Kathleen Norris. “The Life and Letters of Walter Page.” “Within These Walls”, Rupert Hughes. “The American Rhythm”, Mary Austin. “Poems by Masefield”, Lindsay and Millay. “Queen Victoria”, Lytton Strachey. The Bible. The hearts of the Chowan College girls were made happy when they re ceived the greetings brought them by Miss Gertrude Knott from Misses Mattie Macon Norman and Elizabeth Turnley, the two Chowan girls, who are at House Beautiful. Chowan re-1 joices to have these fine girls spend | the year in such beautiful surround ings as exist at the Training School, i One can not perceive its beauty until she has been there and felt the unsel-- fish spirit of love which pervades. Their friends also rejoice that these girls are doing splendid work and are well and happy. One message was sent especially to the Volunteers for the box of fruit pent them Christmas. They express ed a hope that it would not be long JUNIORS TO CELEBRATE POE’S 115th BIRTHDAY On January 19, the 115th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe will be celebrated in the college auditorium. The Jun iors as a part of their class work in American Literature, will have charge of the program. Talks will be pre pared and given on Poe as a critic, as a short story writer, and as a poet. Some of his best poems will be dis cussed by the English students, and several readings will be given. ) “The grandfather, a City Bank Director, was traced as far as China; there all traces were lost.”—London Opinion. Established 1838 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Publishers, Indianapolis January 7th, 1924. Charles P. Weaver, President, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. Dear President Weaver: In response to your request for books to review in The Chowanian, your student publication, we are send ing you “Dramatis Personae,” a col lection of critical essays by Arthur Symons. I think this is a book you will be particularly interested in. We shall be glad to receive a copy of The Chowanian in which the re view appears. I happen to think you might be es pecially interested in “The Iron Puddler,” by James J. Davis, Secre tary of Labor. It has aroused con siderable controversy lately in con nection with the immigration prob lem. I hope these two books will reach your expectation and give you pleas ure in their reading. Very sincerely vours, MARY CONVERSE, Publicity. THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY Publishers of Indexes and Reference Works 958-972 University Ave. New York City January 8, 1924. Mr. Chas. Weaver, President, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. Dear Sir—We are glad to comply with your request for copies of our publication for review in THE CHOWANIAN. We are sending you, under sep arate cover, a copy of one of the numbers of our reference shelf, “Ku Klux Klan.” The enclosed circular will give you detailed information about the Reference Shelf, a depart ment which is finding favor with schools, colleges, debators, and busy people in general who want to keep abreast of the times, who want to be accurately informed regarding im portant issues of the day without hav ing to spend much time seeking for material. We will appreciate receiving a copy of The Chowanian in which the re view appears. Very truly yours, the H. W. WILSON COMPANY, G. L. Richards. School of Journalism of Northwestern University. There is a foreword by H. F. Harrington, director of the Medill School, who has also written texts on Journalism. The author has three objectives: (1) to record and visualize news paper methods; (2) to make these methods teachable; (3) to give some idea of the materials, “both tangible and intangible, that enter into news paper production”. These he achieves admirably. Incidentally he gives a professional dignity and im portance usually lacking in textbooks on journalism, to the copy-reader, who, in the last analysis, makes the newspaper what it is. Patronize T-.r.zrr.o steam LAUNDRY We do the College washing. Basket leaves the College every Tuesday “Little Plays for All Occasions”. Granville Forbes Stengis 1923. The Cornhill Publishing Company, Boston, Mass. $3.00. A collection of twelve one-act plays suitable for presentation before schools, colleges, clubs, etc., edited by a playwright. The plays range from the psychological analysis of a co quette’s affections for three different men in “Madame” to broad farce in “The Fatal Pill’ and character study in the picturesque play, “Two of a Kind”, “A College Joke”, is a papable imitation of the famous Oxford farce “Charley’s Aunt”, while “The Widow Sabrina” is founded upon a tradition of college life at Amherst. “Editing the Days News”. George C. Bastian, The McMillan Company, New York, 1923. This book, just off the press, presents the most complete, the most succinct treatment of jour nalism, so far offered the public in a single volume, and should prove an exceptionally strong text for college classes in journalism. The author has gleaned his findings from the school of experience where he has occupied nearly every position con nected with the making of a news paper. At present he is copy-reader On the Chicago Daily Tribune, and lecturer in news editing in the Medill WINSTON & MATTHEWS Lawyers Ruoms 1 and 3 Winston Building WINDSOR, NORTH CAROLINA V > Come To Underwood Bros. STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES FURNITURE Further Announcements Soon Murfreesboro, N. C. Barnes-Sawyer Grocery Co. Wholesale Heavy and Fancy Groceries We Sell To Dealers Only AHOSKIE, N. C.
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