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Murfreesboro, N. C., Friday, February 5, 1926
One Section
No. 9
First Society Day Florentine Book Fair And Praise
On February 26 For The Poet Of The Confederacy
Hereafter It Will Become
Annual Event In Annals
of College
- The rising sun of Thursday,
February 25, will herald the dawn
ing of the first “Society Day” held
Chowan. The two literary so
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(By MRS. H. H. HORNE) I the educator transcended the
Victor
Lucalian and Alathenian
launching this new movement
order to keep pace with other
t^'ing departments of the col-
.«ge.
“Society Day” is to be made
an annual event. It will be cata-1 have moved the first Emperor to
‘logued as one of the red letter | immortal exclamation, “Je seus
days, thus becoming a recognized en moi I’lnfini!”
holiday.
The International Book Fair of
Florence seemed indeed the per
fect flower of the spirit of under
standing and co-operation which
is the highest hope for world unity.
Near-millenial seemed the pleasant
Babel of English, Italian, French
and German, as the torch of truth
signalled the pilgrimage along the
four paths to indeed “Meet at the
same little door.” Such a com
pany, in such an enchanted gar
den, looking toward Florence in
her fadeless charm might well
It was one good fortune to be
On this day there will be a de. interesting assembly of
bate between the two societies on . .
scholars. A brief tram ride car-
some subject which will be an- entrance to the
nounced later. Each society will ^
elect a first second and alternate handsome
debater. The first debater of on© bought iron gate-ways with a
society together with the second Italian, English,
debater of the ^r will constitute German opened up an
the teams for^^^lebate. alluring vista at the end of which
V. ^ debatj^j^be conducted by ^ ^ spacious arrangement of
•^h«T5t6siaeiT5rwho will be elected temporary buildings
from one of the societies, while I „„.American in appearance, so
the secretary ofthe debate will be j ick-and-span was their crisp
elected from the other society. The 1
newness, convenience and com-
orators will take their seats on; pjeteness. The treasures of educa-
the platform at 2:30 o clock m tional interest ranged from kinder-
the afternoon.
In the evening, beginning at 8
o’clock, a representative from
each society will give a reading.
The best speaker will be awarded
a gold medal, which is given by
Dr. Burrell. After this there will
be a reception in the college par
lor in honor of the society repre
sentatives.
The public will be Invited to
both these exercises. It will be
the societies’ purpose to make this
a very interesting and helpful oc
casion.
Exams Left Her
An Empty Brain
^ Dear Tansy: ^
WaUsT; -^le;'l'-r^ave
ou anothf’'ft™i"®tion thi? morning. Lft
00-6 41 you, my head is complete*-
uirtkrupt. Every atom of
garten material to university
equipment, covering laboratory
supplies, music and pictures
scientifically graded. Scholarly
guides were in attendance every
where and the patrons included
many notable educators. The lead
ing spirit was King Victor Em
manuel II, who opened the fair in
person on Monday, May 3.
We did not hear his voice, but
had a good glimpse of him as he
motored along the Arno quietly
with a modest escort of colorful
militia greeted by a long line of
citizens—the men with earnest
faces, almost spirituelle in their
splendid enthusiasm for their
monarch. The women with babies
in their arms, wore the beatific
childhood smile of most Italian
mothei^s, the world’s most adorable
Following is a remembered ver
sion of General Littie’s poem said
to be that great Confederate chief
tain’s swan-song, penned in his
tent the night before the day on
which he paid the supreme sacri
fice in battle. This was submitted
by Mrs. Horne j.fter it was
brought to mind" in connection
with a day spent ki a Florentine
book shop:
I Am Dying, Eflypt, Dying
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast.
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast.
Let thine arm, 0'->lueen support
me;
Hush thy Sobs and bow thine ear.
Listen to the great heart secrets
Thou—and th(;u alone must hear.
knowledge has been spent. I am
hoping to get some accrued in
terest on same very shortly, how
ever, and here’s hoping the amount
handed to me will not be In round
numbers, zeros, in other words.
If the investment yields ninety
and one hundred I shall be en
couraged to begin planning a
similar investment toute suite, boo
coop, too.
Speaking of my spent out
knowledge, I would like to say in
this connection how like a vacumm
my head feels, like as a feather.
My feet still drag heavily enough
though, So that there is no im
mediate danger of a puff of wind
taking it off. No, with all my
light-headedness, my body is still
heavy enough for me to be far
from volatile.
You know Tansy, about this
business of examinations, I have
^bfcfen hearing a lot of talk from
the students about the unjustness
of it. Some say it is not humane.
It’s cruel. With all of their bitter
ness, examinations are futile for
the express purpose of their exis
tence, namely, to find out how
much the student knows. Doubt
ers! Doubters! That’s it. Tansy.
All doubters. Why, oh, why can’t
the world get rid of its over in
creasing variety of doubters. So
they want to find out whether we
know what we have been study
ing. The teachers seem t obe clair
voyants enough to tell just the
days we haven’t prepared our les
sons and on those day call on us
to recite some part of the lesson.
Why don’t they use their seeming
ly superhuman insight on other oc
casions. After all, I just don’t
know what to say about this busi
ness of examinations. I’ll tell you
what, it makes me feel mighty
^ proud sometimes to be asked such
all-fired and difficult questions as
they put to us somehow. I figure
it that they would not be asking
a fool such questions. Surely no
college frofessor would put such
questions to any mediocre brain.
It is a high compliment to any
student to be asked the questions
that some of these learned profes
sors do ask and always expecting
answers. Then again. Tansy, it
seems to me that there is some
thing about a hard question fairly
and seriously put that tickles and
stimulates the brain till it tingles
with an irresistible urge toward
expression. All of this, I am sure,
the professors realize. Oliver
Wendell Holmes once said, “Be
cause I like a pinch of salt in my
soup is no reason I wish to be im
mersed in brine.” What he had
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In the pa;\aaoSijy of the king,
the sovereign was lost. The fervor
of the patriot and the dignity of
glamour of the royalty.
Emmanuel is no longer a young
man. Cares of state have seamed
his swarthy face, and the foam
from the eternal seas is lightly
spraying his heavy shock of dark
hair, but the eagle eyes of the
educated Italian, sobered by hours
of thought for the well-being of a
great kingdom, flash with the un
dimmed fires of a virile, magnetic
manhood.
Among the speakers starred for
this unusual occasion was Sir
Ronald Rodd, formerly British
ambassador to Switzerland, whose
lecture on English poetry was
featured and followed as one of
the drawing cards of the great
fair. He declared that poetry was
the super-medium of self-realiza
tion, that a great many truths,
aspirations and emotions could be
interpreted only in poetry. Where
there is no votary, of Pan, the
softest bird notes are lost in ether.
Where there is no worshipper with
in the greenwood temple, the mo
tion poems of the furry folk whom
He made voiceless” die in the
silence. Where there is no bird
the life of a nation perishes.
It was pleasing function to the
soul of the wandering Chowanian
that the great scholar expressed a
profound personal appreciation of
General Little’s poem, “I Am Dy
ing Egypt, Dying.”
Tradition has it that this master
lyric of mostly monosyllables was
the great Confederate chieftain’s
swan-song, penned in his tent over
night, that the day following he
paid the supreme sacrifice in
magnificent action.
Where is the Chowanian who
has not heard this exquisite ballad
sung to the guitar within the
classic halls of Alma Mater—as
many times as she has heard the
story of Ginevra, the pure and
lovely Florentine “recited” from
the commencement platform?
And so wherever there are re
verence, culture and the pursuit
of happiness, by way of the good,
-^?f,f-ih£-beau±ifui jBtiJ .th.e_ ±rjie.^b?I^’Tw^.s his th;;
Chowan spea-is Chowan, in pass- fiere~no\\^illowe
’ ing, and sails serenely on, proud •"■i -'‘-
of Alma Mater in the presence of
kings, statesmen and scholars.
UTTLE’SSWANSONG
and vereran
Coming Carolina Playmakers
Eagerly Awaited By College
And Surrounding Territory
SCENE FROM “QUARE MEDICINE”
CHOWAN WINS GAME 1 FACULTY BOWS TO
FROM CONWAY TEAM THE SENIOR TEAM
Freeman and Vann Stars
College In Good Basket
ball Contest
fo
Students Were Too Fast for
Opponents, Scoring Clean
Victory In Basketball
Tho’ my scarred
legions
Bear their eagles high no more,
Tho’ my wrecked and scattered
galleys
Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore;
Tho’ no glittering guards surround
me
Prompt to do thei.- master’s wall,
I must perish like, a Roman.
Die the great Triuiftvir still.
Should the base plebeian rabbb
Dare assail my fame at home
Where that noble'^ouse, Octavia
Weeps within her ividowed home.
Seek her, say the gods have told
me
Altars, angels circling wings
That her blood with mine com
mingled
Yet shall mount cha throne of
kings.
As for thee, star-eyed Egyptian,
Glorious sorceress T)f the Nile,
Light the path to-. Stygian horrors
With the splendor of thy smile.
Give to Caesar crowns and arches
Let his brow and laurel twine.
I can scorn all Caesar’s triumph.
Triumphing in love like thine.
Let not Caesar’s servile minions
Mock the lion thus laid low,
’Twas no foeman’s.'^nd that felled
the blow.,
we^ on thy bosom
tere yon biii^rit.strw 1 o.se its rty
He who drunk w ''jj#thy caresses
Madly threw a 'V-^id away.
I am dying, Egypt, dying, m
Hark! Th’ insulting foeman’s^cry!
They are coming! Up my falchion
Let me face them ere I die.
Ah! No more amid the battle
Shall my voice exulting swell!
Isis and Osiris guard thee,
Cleopatra, Rome, farewell!
To Be Presented By Carolina Playmakers In the College
Auditorium Saturday Night,
February 6
An echo from the mellow
past and a herald of the
bright future: There moves
toward Chowan College a
strange caravan as the Caro
lina Playmakers make their
way across the country-side
to pause here a night and a
day, giving three of their
quaint folk-plays before
traveling on over the South
land.
They will present on Sat
urday evening, February 6,
in Chowan College audi
torium, three one-act plays,
“Quare Medicine,” a folk-
comedy by Paul Green;
“Gaius and Gaius, Jr.,” a
robustuous comedy of the
Old South, by Lucy M. Cobb,
... , and “Fixin’s” a tragedy of
least three groups They are the [ the home to be a mo’re, farm life bv Erma
the church, and the school. There is always'tenant larm llie, Dy Mma
found earnestness of purpose in j and Paul Green. Kach of
Three of Their Quaint Play*
Will Be Given On
Saturday Night
EASTERN CAROLINA IS
PROTRAYED IN PLAYS
They Carry Their Scenery
In Ford and Travel In
Big Bus
The College Girl’s Responsibility
To The Family, Church and Schools
(By MADGE COOPER) | relationships, she is not an educat-
“Education is that process ofl^d person. There is a great rela-
adjustment by which an individual tionship between the home and the
learns how to live in society.” church, or between the family and
A college girl must know howk^'ision. Religion has strengthen-
to adapt herself to society in at| famijy. and has
home,
A family
Conway High School basketball
team was defeated in a game play
ed with Chowan College varsity
team, in the college gymnasium
hall on Thursday night, January
28. The college team won with a
score of 54 to 19. The Conway
players displayed admirable
sportsmanship throughout the
game. Their spirit even after los
ing, seemed inevitable, was ad
mired greatly by those viewing the
contest.
In the college varsity team
Freeman and Vann were the star
players. The game was featured
by the work of these two. Cooke
also showed some flashy work on
the floor.
Line-up and summary:
Chowan Conway
Vann Freeman
Forwards
Freeman Lassiter
Forwards
Richmond Flythe
Centers
Cooke Woodward
Centers
Brumsey Woodward
Guards
Edwards Allen
Guards
Referee: Dean Edwards.
Timekeepers: Everett and Mat
thews.
Scorers: Everett and Caldwell.
bounded togethj/r^'brbTood^'iL^ i'*.^"® side j the three are from the Caro-
I lias provea ner earnestness oi pur-i wiuii fx aixu
jpose in life by going to college,| tjcity rarely to be riv4jled on
is lookea ^10 for the pr6fesswnif
The student varsity team took
the victorious score from the
faculty in their first match game
of basketball, played in the col
lege gymnasium hall Tuesday
night, January 26. The game was
a heated contest. The forwards
for both teams were quick and ac
curate shooters. The final score
was 41-38.
Line-up and summary:
Student Varsity Faculty Team
Vann Edwards
Forwards
Freeman Ruggles
Forwards
Richmond Richmond
Centers
Cooke Thomas
Centers
Edwards Macy
Guards
Brumsey Ellington
Guards
Referee: Bryant.
Timekeepers: Wade and Mat
thews.
Scorers: Askew and Caldwell.
TURNLEY—NELSON
The following annoucement has
been received by the faculty and
student body:
Mrs. Anna Alley Turnley
requests the honor of your
presence at the marriage of her
daughter
Elizabeth
to
the Rev. John Raymond Nelson
on Tuesday evening, the ninth of
February
at eight o’clock
Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church
Lynchburg, Virginia.
help her small brothers and sisters
to realize their ideals, if they are
worthy ones; or, she should help
them to form better ones. By be
ing sympathetic she may cause
them to have the right attitude
toward each other, their parents
and toward the home.
The educated girl is the one who
can often see importance in the
smallest act. She can see the rela
tionship between dirt and disease.
It is her social duty, therefore, to
look after the small things, and to
see that everything about the home
is kept pure and clean. By setting
such an example, she can teach to
c- ,, I oy uioou lies. people requires thought and -i i, i f ii i
Since the coll^. girl IS a member! eriousness. gince the college girli SOll, homely folk-plays
of a family grf up, it IS her firstk^ wjth a power and authen-
duty or rrfsponAbility to be able t^X)' ‘
far®uy. symPfcii-n§ri(? TS n't
of She secrets of being able to livM”> the social institutions. This „ ...
w()3I with ptjople. The college girlW® especially true as regards thl*J ^ tilOSe aCQUainted
sJiould be sympathetic toward e.-ich^hureh. She has the social respon,!-' the rural life of easterli
member of her family. She should classedNQrth Carolina it was at;
of leadership in various church Datent-
ganizations. She is looked to f^r, medicine ,
active membership in the chur-h. ^ (Jg^tor is HOt unknown. 'm
The college girl is justified! in|„n.pallpH flortor nictures Ip
making her organizations interest-] ca ea a C p ^ ^
ing and as full of beauty as is! the play ^*Quare Medicine,
possible. She is justified in mak-jig by no means a true repre-
ing the church a true and beauti.| ^ ^
ful place for the worship of God. i
The college girl is often Tespon-| does, however, resemble a
sible for increasing membership of loud-mOUthed lonely fellow
the church, or of the Sunday
school. Tact and consideration
should be used in doing this. A
sure test of the truly educated in Lillington, North
person is the ability to place her- during “cOUTt.
self in the other person’s place. ’
who used to dare to sell his
wares before the courthouse
Caro-
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
BENEFICIAL BEYOND THE
COMPULSORY PERIOD
An extraordinary increase in
the number of high school gradu
ates in Baltimore is ascribed large
ly to the enforcement of the com-
pulsory-education law and to s
“stay in school” campaign in
which attendance officers have
been active. In the 22 years since
this law became effective in the
city, though the school enrollment
increased from 82,297 to 106,323,
only 29 per cent, the number of
high school graduates climbed
from 227 in 1903 to 1,478 in 1925.
—School Life.
SATISFACTORY LUNCHEONS
FOR SAN DIEGO PUPILS
Snow Brings Out
Rabbit Huntsmen
Cafeteria service is available to
all pupils in San Diego (Calif.)
high schools and in practically all
elementary schools. This is a de
velopment of the past five years.
In earlier days parent-teacher or
ganizations rendered helpful serv
ice, and many women donated
their time in order that children
might have well-prepared and
nourishing food at a nominal
price. The service is now operated
independently on a self-supporting
basis. Though a manager is usual
ly in charge of the cafeteria, the
work is under the supervision of
the principal of tne building, who
has authority to see that a guaran
teed standard of service and food
io maintained.—School Life.
the members of the family the im-]Then she is able to take their point
portance of cleanliness and health, j of view.
and the similarity between health; xhe college girl should have
of body and health of mind. Her j learned at the beginning of her
younger brothers and sisters will | college career to adjust herself to
learn to think only clean thoughts i her surroundings. One of her first
and thus keep the mind pure. j duties toward the college is to
Since improvement in living know how to live with her fellow
conditions supplies a better func
tion for improvement of the mind,
the college girl is justified in
creating as much beauty as is pos
sible. Beauty of material things
is the next essential after cleanli-
students and teachers. She must
learn to abide by rules. She must
learn that promptness is essential
in class work and in all her ac
tivities. She has the responsibilty
of doing her part to keep her room.
Enrollment in 4 summer high
schools and 13 summer elementary
schools of Philadelphia, Pa., in
creased in three years from 8,000
to 18,000.
“The short plays presented by
the Carolina Playmakers, possess
‘drama’ in its truest sense. The
element of ‘struggle’ is there.
There are snatches of life, life
with its tangled web of traditions,
fears, desires, lamentations and
fleeting joys, transcribed with re-
maxkable fidelity and finish.”—
The Washington Post.
“The flowers that bloom in the
spring, tra, la,” are no more in
viting than the snowflakes that
fall in the winter, ha, ha! How
considerate of Nature to give us a
snow on Monday when we did not
have to be worried with classes—
or anything. The prettiest snow
of four years had fallen and was
falling on Monday morning when
Chowan rubbed its eyes and rush
ed around to catch time before the
bell stopped ringing. (That is an
exciting moment in the lives of
some of us.)
The snow afforded such a novel
and enjoyable pass time. Soon
after breakfast “sufficient wraps
for the inclement weather” made
their appearance almost hiding
the exhuberant faces which they
enveloped; and groups of girls
started out as if the fair sun of
May were accompanied with the
most gentle breeze ever known and
were warning all creation. Be
sides armies of snow balls and
parties of skaters, there was a cer
tain snow cream party which cul
minated in something new under
the sun.
In the afternoon a casual ob
server seeing a group of people
going off towards the woods with
guns on their shoulders, and a de
termined tread in their feet would
never in this world have guessed
that six of these people attend
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ness. Since the home is a spiritual I the buildings and the campus
place, it should be a beautiful clean. She has the responsibility
place. It is, therefore, the respon- of creating a higher type of
sibility of everyone to treat it with scholarship in her college. It is
dignity and reverence. The col
lege girl should mould the home
environment to meet the correct
ideals. She should do this, how
ever, with such grace and good-
her duty to better the literary, so
cial, and religious organizations
within her college. Her one great
social ideal should be to leave the
In “Fixin’s” there is depicted a
study of Lillington, North Caro
lina, of the grinding poverty of
tenant-farm life, which the au
thors have observed from child
hood. Here the pent fury of the
work-driven woman, Lilly Robin
son, is portrayed with grim and
terrible reality. She craves a lit-
tie beauty—“purty fixi
her husband’s eyes ca
beyond the sod he plo
scene is a bare cabin
Harnett County, North
but the theme fs uni'
pitiful conflict of
which are irreconcjj
The chief char;
and Gaius, Jr.,”
life—from descr;
given by his kin;
bors, and from ‘
hut-'
college in a better condition in | trait. Mr. Gaius
will that the heads of the family every respect than when she found irascible old gentleman
will not realize that she is leading i it, or entered it.
them. They will marvel at the in-1 This ideal should be the
fluence of college upon her char
acter. College then should fit the
girl for a rich home life in the
deepest sense.
Th real social value of educa
tion is the ability to carry from
one field into another. Unless the
great purpose of the college girl
in life. She should realize that
she has reached above the average
person, and is therefore, capable
of doing a greater portion in the
world’s work. It is her privilege,
as well as duty, to make the world
college girl can see and establish a better place in which to live.
“It is probable that these Caro
lina Playmakers are the leading
exponents of the folk-play idea in
America today. Certainly they
put on at least one production,
‘Fixin’s,’ out of the three they
gave us last night, which is but
rarely excelled, or even equalled
on any stage, domestic or foreign,
amateur or professional.”—At
lanta Constitution.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDY
OF LOCAL INDUSTRIES
OLD STUFF
“I was out riding with Harold
last night. He got lost and had to
stop ’til he regained his bearings.
“Don’t they have funny ex-
A major course in New York
City industries, extending over
one term and open to all students,
is an elective in George Washing
ton High School, New York City.
The course was inaugurated last
year as an introduction to the
study of economics. No textbook
is yet available, but use is made
of printed information supplied by
commercial, building and trades
bodies, slides from the State visual
instruction division, and informa
tion furnished by the student
themselves.
oUnj
school, a great-great-uj
author. He was absol
of his household, hot/
dictatorial, though k^
his blustering. The
corded in the play, ^ .
town protesting against lus woo
ing his negroes on Sunday, and
his constant fear of dying are true
to the facts. The author has given
us a realistic portrayal of the
spacious Southern plantations in
the days before the devastating
War Between the States.
The personnel of the Carolin*
Playmakers on the tfur coming
to Chowan College include G. V.
Denny, of Chapel Hill; F. H.»KLoch,
of Chapel Hill; Claudius Mintz, ■ i
Ashe; E. R. Patterson, of Smith
field; Miss Helen Leatherwood, of
Fayetteville; C. M. Pritchett, r,
Asheville; E. L. Happ, of Mont
zuma, Ga; S. A. Johnson, of Hil'
boro; P. L- Elmore, of Dover, a*
C. W. Gold, of Greensboro.
This group has been compar
to the Italian Pagliacel Playt
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