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THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C.
Tuesday, March 26, 1929.
The Chowanian
A college newspaper published fortnightly by the Alathenian and
Lucalian Literary Societies, supervised by the English Department
of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C.
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Entered as second class matter January 17, 1924, at the Post Of
fice at Murfreesboro, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
Subscription
Mildred Hinton, ’30.
Ruth Davenport, ’29
EDITORS
Associate Editor
Billie Temple, ’29
Addie Mae Cook, ’32
BUSINESS STAFF
Circulation Manager
over a week-end the vexed ques
tions of the world when older
heads have so miserably failed.
Youth is as prejudiced and pro-
vincially minded as age, but it has
the virtue of frankness and per
haps a greater degree of willing
ness to consider abstract ideals of
justice rather than brute force.
Certainly we ought to try one
more method of spreading good
will. After having sent a “good
will ambassador” out to make
neighborly calls in a battleship it
is not so unrealistic and romantic
for The New Student to urge a
conference of good will ambas
sadors from the colleges and uni
versities of North and South
American.—The New Student.
CONSIDERATION
last time.
Flatter a professor a little and
he will admire you; flatter him
too much and he will soon begin
to wonder why such a combina
tion of Paul, Plato and Solomon
ever wastes his time in instruct
ing such a little ignoramus as
you.
Students and instructors may
meet in heaven—but some of
them won’t if they see each other
first.
There is nothing which falls
with such a dull, sickening thud
on a teacher’s vanity as the dead
silence of the class after he has
told one of his most sparkling and
witty jokes.
They’re Going to Try to Pile On
iiy Albert T. Reid
FACULTY PHILOSOPHIZES
REPORTERS
Emma Gay Stephenson Alathenian Society
Virginia Martin Lucalian Society
Bettie Walter Jenkins Senior Class
Maybelle Honeycutt Junior Class
Helen Rountree Sophomore Class
Virginia Stanley Freshman Class
Isla Poole Religious Activities
Hilma Ward Jokes
Elizabeth Sewell Murfreesboro News
YOU PAY; GET
How many times have students
been heard complaining about
their work during the last week
or two? This is not the time to
sit down on the job and wish the
teachers would not assign long
lessons, or require written work,
or give tests. These things come
in the semester’s program of work.
There are numbers of extra
tasks to be done and meetings and
programs to attend between now
and May 28, and these things are
worthwhile. The iprimary pur
pose of being in college, however,
is to acquire scholarship, and it
is by this that the ability of stu
dents is judged when they seek
positions, as well as upon other
occasions. Extras can be done
without neglecting the regular
work.
It is for scholarship that stu
dents are paying, and the best re
sults can be obtained only through
systematic and careful study. The
notion prevails in school that if
we assume a few extra respon-
"sibi+ities a nervous breakdown
will be the natural result. This
is not true when the pressure con
tinues for only a short time. Peo
ple often do their best work when
the need is urgent, and the time
for doing it is short.
The studious person is not one
to be hooted at and considered
silly and out of harmony with the
world. She probably is out of har
mony, though, if the one who
judges considers herself a vast
part of the universe. The worth
while student is one who knows
how to concentrate and who is able
to work under pressure.
standing, our honor system is sad
ly in need of repairs to get it in
working condition. It needs girls
who are not cowards and who
know it is their duty to report any
broken rule. It is the principle
of rule-breaking that needs to be
punished.
Girls don’t start by breaking
rules that bring severe punish
ment; they start with minor in
fringements; and if they “get by”
with them, they do rasher things.
Let’s oil the machinery of the
honor system and protect rule
breakers against themselves.
A TRUE STORY
When we buy groceries, we in
sist upon getting the pound we
pay for; when we pay for an edu
cation, the less we can get for
our money the better we like it.
Else why do we complain when
teachers insist upon our getting
our money’s worth?
DOES THE HONOR SYSTEM
WORK IN REGARD TO
STUDENT GOVERNMENT?
According to the honor system
every member of the Student As
sociation is on her honor to report
any violation of rules that she
sees.
Girls take the pledge of loyalty
to the Student Association and
afterward say, “No, I will not re
port anyone. I will not be a tat-
tle-tale.” Which would you rath
er do, break a promise and be an
aider of evil, or keep your honor
and aid what is good? It is not
tattling to report an infringement
of rules. Would you call it tat
tling to report the man who took
your pocketbook? What is the
difference between his deed and a
college girl’s? Both break the law.
Notwithstanding the defects of
the school teacher of today, the
brand seems to be quite an im
provement over that of a few de
cades ago. Many citizens now liv
ing in Murfreesboro vouch for the
truth of the follovting:
Pigs of the community had
made their bed on the long-leaf
pine straw which had accumulated
under the one-room school house,
and the house had become infest
ed by fleas. The intelligent and
respected schoolmaster sought ad
vice and was told that he could rid
the house of fleas if he would
burn the straw. He set fire to the
straw under the house and soon
reduced the building to ashes along
with the fleas!
This same schoolmaster in try
ing to fasten the school-house
door, put the button on the door
instead of on the door-facing.
A school teacher of the present
day, who does not have common
sense as well as book learning, is
soon jobless.
An idle pupil seldom escapes
temptation because she is so care
ful not to let any temptation
escape her.
A teacher who has a pupil that
causes her exasperation should not
shed tears; she should shed the
pupil.
From the student’s point of
view, it would seem—-“Knowledge
comes but must not linger.”
It may be possible to patch up
a neglected lesson, but the darned
places will always rub, even if
they don’t show.
When you hear the excuses that
some students bring to the class
room, you realize how they must
hate to work.
Don’t think your students have
ceased to work because they have
begun to offer excuses; it’s when
they stop taking the trouble to
excuse themselves that you have
real grounds for suspicion.
o-o , I It is usually a sad shock to the
are need ng them as much as i„,tructor when the student,
“ after having been told to watch
One thing which college stu
dents need to cultivate is a se-nse (
of consideration for their asso
ciates. This plays an important
part in our make-ups, yet many
of us disregard it entirely. In our
college life, especially on the
campus and in the dormitories,
we have numerous opportunities
to do deeds of kindness for our
fellow students, but too often f/e
are so thoughtless or so selfish
that we cannot turn from our own
pleasure long enough to give pleas
ure to others.
Discourtesy crops out all over
the campus. Often, when we have
nothing to do, or don’t want to
work, we make no attempt to be
quiet so that others can work. In
the library we throw the maga
zines and papers around instead
of replacing them so the next
fellow can find them. We keep
books out several days when oth
ers
good opportunity to cultivate con
sideration for others. We must
try to be more considerate of
our college-mates, to respect them,
appreciate them, and sympathize
with them. We are observed every
day by our fellow students and by
visitors, who judge our character
by our conduct towards those
about us.
The thief may steal something he
really needs, yet he breaks the law!23 and 24 delegates from
REALISM IN DEBATE
Debate, that chronic invalid
among college activities, may be
eventually rescued from the dry
formalism of the debate coaches
by those who are interested in
subject matter first and the tech
nique of public speaking only in
cidentally. Here and there stu
dents are becoming interested in
forensics, not as a process of saw
ing the air with carefully measur
ed gestures and of displaying a
bundle of lawyer’s tricks, but rath
er as a means for arriving at the
truth of problems that vitally in
terest the contestants.
Yale’s debate team, for in
stance, will travel to Porto Rico
to argue the Platt Amendment
with the students of the island
university. The Platt Amendment
is a living issue in that region and
the event will no doubt attract as
much attention there as a basket
ball game does in an American
university.
Another unconventional use of
oratory is involved in the model
leagues of nations that are held
in eastern college each spring. On
of the land. The girl may break
a rule because it intereferes with
her pleasure or convenience.
Which is the greater wrong?
^ Laws are made to protect so
ciety as a whole. Rules are made
to protect a part of society; both
are necessary. Since some girls
refuse to report violations of the
rules, lawless members of the
group go unpunished. The girl
who said she refused to report
anyone to the Student Counsel,
demands that the Student Counsel
punish the fellow-student who of
fends her. Most of those who re
fuse to help out with the honor
system are ready to report if they
are troubled by those who break
rules. It is far more honest to be
consistent in reporting all in
fringements than to just yell when
your toes get stepped on.
Owing to current misunder-
fourteen college of New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey met
at Vassar to participate in such a
meeting, while in April another
meets at Mt. Holyoke to settle the
Bolivia-Paraguay boundary dis
pute.
What would happen if this idea
were extended and the students of
this hemisphere were called to
gether in a Pan-American Con
gress of Students? That would
be an accomplishment this genera
tion of students might well be
proud to be remembered by. The
least of its effect would be the
tremendous boost it gave to this
new type of debate. Far more
effective would it be in giving an
international ajiring to subjects
that are too often soft pedaled in
conferences between nations. We
have no silly notions about the
magical ability of youth to solve
FRIENDSHIP VS. CRUSHING
Friendship an| Crushing are
entirely different. Crushes are
like driftwood fires; they flare up
brightly and die down quickly
leaving only piles of ashes of re
gret. Friendships burn steadily
and do not die down. Friendship
has been called a holy bond of
kindred souls. Is crushing holy?
For example, if one girl has a
crush on another, she publicly dis
plays her affections with such ef
fusiveness that peopleware ami^-
ed or'disgusted. Such unrestrain
ed emotion is not uplifting to
those involved or to society.
If two girls are fond of each
other they are at liberty to dis
play their feelings, are they not?
They are; but where does liberty
end and license begin? One is
free only as far as her freedom
does not curtail the freedom of
society. Crushing is a nusiance
and a menace to study. If a girl
is emotionally preoccupied with
the thoughts of a “Crush,” she
cannot learn Latin or Chemistry,
as readily as she ought.
Two friendsips have become
proverbial, that of Orestes and
Pylades, and of Jonathan and
David. Have Crushes ever been
immortalized in verse or history?
Let’s realize the difference be
tween friendship and crushing,
and choose the better part.
STUDENT PHILOSOPHIZES
Many a girl considers herself a
heroine until she strives to reason
with her music teacher.
A good teacher may be the salt
of the earth, but he often seems
more like the pepper.
There never was a teacher so
small that she couldn’t look down
on a six-foot pupil with an amaz
ing air of loftiness.
The kind of student that some
teachers are looking for is one
that can practice her piano exer
cise with one hand, write a theme
with the other, study Sociology
with all her mind, gracefully quot
ing Browning the while.
A girl who devotes her college
life to book-learning and cuts out
all else, soon learns that she has
been eating the bread of life with
out any jam on it.
College courses are like the pic
tures in the anti-fat ads—so dif
ferent before and after taking.
When a student tells a teacher
that she is sorry her work isn’t
done, she doesn’t mean that she
is sorry she didn’t do it, but that
she is sorry he found it out.
After all, each college course
has its uses—even if it’s only as
an excuse for not coming up on
the assignment in some other
course.
Some students smile when a
teacher declares she knows her
own mind—and wonder why she
seems so proud of the acquain
tance.
When a teacher discovers that
a pupil knows more about some
subjects than she does, it strikes
her dumb—but not with admira
tion.
The hardest part about the third
or fourth excuse is to remember
what story you told the professor
him closely and imitate him ex
actly, in an effort to gain a high
note emits sounds suggestive of
the strangling cow.
There is nothing quite so easy
for a student as forgetting—es
pecially what she never knew.
A student’s ideal course is the
one she didn’t take.
A new student is a mysterious
chemical combination: add work
and you never know what she will
turn into.
Some students rise to recite with
the same grace and alacrity that
they would display in climbing a
barbed wire fence.
Some students are born for
work; some achieve work; and
some live in the deadly fear that
work is going to be thrust upon
them.
When a studtnt claims that cir
cumstances h^’e prevented her
frcm.-jdejpag-imck afsign^ it is
pretty safe to Conclude that “Cir
cumstances” grades more closely
than we do.
Train up a Freshman in the
way she should go—and then when
she’s a Sophomore, watch her de
part from it.
Some students’ sense of duty
is so ^peculiar that it gets out of
working order the minute she
comes near a good time.
The teacher whose class con
tains the college beauty soon
learns that “A thing of beauty”
is not necessarily “a joy forever.”
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and have to refer to notes or look
over someone’s shoulder, you go
out. And that’s culture.
Pauline Simons: I don’t like
your dress.
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best my roommate can afford.
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MISQUOTED BUT TO THE
POINT
My heart is warm with friends I
make
And better friends I’ll not be
knowing
But there isn’t a train that I could
take
Without all my neighbors know
ing.
O where; and oh where! is my
Highland laddie gone?
He’s out with another girl when
you think he’s safe at home.
Cherry ripe lips I cry
Sour and sweet ones;
Come and buy.
Sweeter than the stolen kiss
Are the offered kisses.
My love is like a red, red rose
With her war paint on.
AND THAT’S CULTURE!
(Harvard Lampoon)
Met a poor guy the other day
who was kicked out of Harvard
College for cribbing.
He looked on the examination
paper of the man in front of him
and stole his idea.
You see. Harvard College
doesn’t think it’s right to steal
that way. When you do your
stealing you want to be a bit
cleverer than that.
When I first came to Harvard
College I had the funny idea they
might like an original idea once
in a while. I got that beaten out
of me.
In this college there is just
ONE right idea in every course.
And that is the PROFESSOR’S
idea. The professor’s idea has
been cribbed out of other books.
Now all you have to do, is to
read the book the professor’s idea
is in, slap that down, and you’re
a success.
As long as you have a good
memory and can remember the
other man’s idea, you stay in. If
you don’t have a good memory
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