True Sportsmanship
Our Ideal
The Chowanian
Boost Your Team
Society Day
VOLUME X, NUMBER 5.
MURFREESBORO, N. C.^ FEBRUARY, 1933.
FOUR PAGES
CHOWAN COLLEGE WILL
SPONSOR TOURNEY
Baskei'.ball Tourney Held Last Two
Days the Past
Week
Something diFerent in the way
of basketball tournaments will be
held at Chowan College F^biuary
24 and 25.
Only high school teams which
do not have indoor playing courts
will be eligible for the meet, to
which such teams in southeact-ern
Virginia and northeastern North
Carolina are extended invitations.
In the event there are too many
entries to permit completion of
the tournament in two days, the
finals will go over until -Monday,
Februarj' 27, it is announced by
E. M. Usry, director of athletics
at Chowan College and in charge
of the tournament.
Trophies are to be awarded win
ning teams in both boys’ and girls’
divisions, the trophies to become
permanent property of the win
ners. Dil-ector Usry states that
meals will be furnished at very
low prices by the college and that
lodging will be furnished for
teams coming from more than 30
miles away.
Teams desiring to enter are ask
ed to .send entries to Director
Usry, Box 224, Murfreesboro.—
Kews and Observer.
CHOWAN CO-EDS ARE
IMPROVING PLAY
During the past three weeks
Chowan Co-Eds have won three
basketball games out of five, de
feating Colerain High School, Cho
wan Athletic Club, and Rich
^Sqi-’ara. ,
On February 6 our boys de-
ifeated Colerain at Chowan, the
score being 40-6. McAdams was
high scorer for Chowan and By
rum was the only scorer for Cole
rain.
In the game at Edenton, Feb
ruary 8, Taylor scored sixteen
points for Chowan in the last half,
helping to defeat the Chowan Ath
letic Club 41-31. Hollowell was
high scorer for the Edenton team.
'The Chowan boys were again
successful when they played Rich
Square on the home court, Feb
ruary 16. The score was 57-13.
Puckett was high scorer for Cho
wan, with Taylor and McAdams
coming next.
The E. C. T. C. Teachers again
defeated the Chowan Co-Eds at
Greenville on February 4, with
the score 41-27. Barrett led the
E. C. T. C. team to victory, and
McAdams' led in scores for Cho
wan.
In the game on February 14,
Louisburg College vs. Chowan at
Louisburg, Chowan was defeat 40-
24. Taylor was high scorer for
Chowan and Edwards for Louis
burg.
A PRESENTATION OF
THE DEAR DEPARTED
NATURE AS THE
FRESHMAN SEES ir
“The Dear Departed”, a comedy
in one act by Stanley Houghton,
was presented Thursday night,
Februray 23, in the college audi
torium. This play was given un
der the direction of Miss Margaret
Lane, a member of the play pro
duction class.
In this play .Mr. Merryweather’s
children, believing him to be dy
ing, are wearing mourning and
have already divided his property,
when he comes in and announces
that he will be married in a day
or two much to the surprise ani
discomfiture of the whole family.
Those taking part in the play
were: Hannah Clinard, Lucy
Boone Freeman, Elizabeth Forbes,
Walter Dudley, J. J. Parker, and
Jesse Odom.
As I .jumped from the autoni -
bUe car fender across the snov
covered mud hole to the froi.t
gate, the snow covered lawn su|.-
dued me for a'moment. The sv-n
had just sneaked behind the tre ^s
and the blue-red rays had left^
glittering on the sparkle of t.n.
new fallen snow. The blue ja.vs
crouched under the thick cedtr
limbs as if they were frozen; U'f.
cows scrambled by in order to
to a warm stall as quickly as pos
sible; and the north wind swervr..!
around the dim corners of the
fence scattering a cloud of sno> \
The box bushes loaded so heaviiy
were twisting, and the trees we; :•
shrieking so that I felt a sudde/.
chill run Over me. This mear
that I was ready to run in to th
■warm comfortable room, fro)n
which penetrated a light, which
came out more brightly now in
the snow than ever before.
LUCALIAN SOCIETY
ENJOYS A PARTY
PLANS FOR SOCIETY
DAY^ARCH 3RD
Annual Occasion Will Be Cele-
tarated Friday,
March 3
Plans for the celebration of So
ciety Day, March 3, are goin.’’
briskly forward. Both societies
hold meetings daily. Lively song.-
and yells fill the air. The true
spirit of Society Day—frievidly
rivalry—reigns in spite of societ.i,
loyalty, zeal, and enthusiasm.
An inter-society basketball
game will be held in the morninj.;,
and the annual -tnjwis tournamen'.
will follow.
In the,afternoon ^ElizaV-eth Foi-_
bes, Lucalian, wlil* read iLiige'so"
Pillot’s “The. Gazing Globe”, and
Jay ' White, Alathenian, will give
“The Duchess Says Her Prayers”,
by Mary Cass Canfield. .
In the evening Rhodes Holder
and Katherine Martin, Lucalians,
with Ann Vann as alternate, will
uphold the query “Resolved, that
the inter-allied war debts should
be cancelled”. Lois Vann and De
borah Mitchell, Alathenians, with
Cornelia Grisom as alternate, will
oppose them. Following the de
bate, friends of the societies are
invited to a reception in the col
lege parlors.
The Lucalian Literary Society
entertained at an attractive Valen
tine party in the college gymnas
ium on Monday evening, February
13. The gymnasium was arranged
as a living room with the chairs
placed in a large semi-circle. To
begin the fun a small heart was
pinned on each girl’s shoulder and
an arrow on each boy’s. On the^s
arrows and hearts were written
the names of famous lovers, rang
ing from lancelot and Elaine to
Maggie and Jiggs. Partners were
chosen by matching the names of
-these lovers. Following this ex
citement, the old-fashioned games
of “Wink”, “Going to Jerusalem”,
and “Pleased or Displeased” were
played.
Strajwberry ice cream and heart-
shaped cookies with red icing were
, served. Favors were red and
white Valentine men. While re
freshments were being served, thj
King and Queen of Hearts as
signed tasks to those who knelt
at their feet for a blessing. Slips
with matching numbers had been
passed around, and many unusual
pranks and scenes presented by
tlie partners chosen in this way
created much merriment.
Those present besides the Luca
lians were: Miss Brown and Mis§
.Whittinghill; Misses Sadie Par.,
ham and Ellen Howard; and
Messrs. Bob Turner, Dick Murrill,
Ray Stephenson, John Darden, J.
J. Parker, Pat Taylor,* Edwin Fly-
the, Melvin Puckett, Harry Dal
ton, Gilbert Davis, and Fletcher
McAdams.
MR. GEORGE BURNETT
SPEAKS ON FEB. 3RD
On Friday, February 3, Mr.
George Burnett, Superintenden|
of the Anti-Saloon League of
North Carolina, spoke to the stu
dents of Chowan College at their
regular chapel period. ^
He prefaced his remarks on the
liquor question by telling some
reasons for his interest in Cho-
^A'an Goliege. 'Mr. Burnett said
'that he shoul-d be interested in
Chowan College if for no other
reason than the effect it has had
on the West Chowan Association.
Having spoken to several groups
from the Chowan Association, Mr.
Burnett said he had come to the
conclusion that they make up the
most intelligent audiences he had
spoken to in North Carolina and
that he attriibuted this to the pres
ence of Chowan Colege in this as
sociation.
“Chowan College is a small^ in
stitution, and small institutions
have a lasting effect,” continued
Mr. Burnett. He said that if ^.'e
are to do away with liquor, we
musit look to the small college for
help.
Said Mr. Burnett, "‘Some people
say they want the saloon in order
to save our young people. As it
is they slip around corners to
gpeak-easies but if 'we had saloons
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mGH SCHOOL PUPILS
^ MAKE HONOR ROLL
Judging from the record made
by-the students who have graduat
ed from ilurfreesboro High
School and then have entered Cho
wan College, it is evident that
the work of this high school is
quite commendable.
At present there are ten gradu
ates of Murfreesboro High School
attending Chowan College. Of
these ten, seven were on the honor
roll' last semester. Furthermore
the only freshman on the first hon
or roll, Sara Storey, is a graduate
of the Murfreesboro school. This
record seems to indicate that the
work' done under the leadership
of Mr. Henson, the principal of
the Murfreesboro High School, is
up to par.
It is though tby some people
that, ' when practice teaching is
done in a school and students have
to change teachers frequently,
neither the same amount nor the
same grade of work can be accom
plished. This case disproves that
supposition, for ithe seniors of
Chowan College do their practice
■teaching in the Murfreesboro High
iSchool,
Mr. Henson and the graduates
of his school are certainly to be
congratulated on the splendid rec
ords they are making.
Those graduates of the Mur
freesboro High School who are at
tending Chowan are: Fannie
Btown Harrell, Marguerite Payne,
Christine Brett, Rorie Copeland,
Jay Parker, Sara Griffith, Sara
Storey, Charlotte Brett, Emily
Lawrence, and Corinne Lawrence.
CHOWAN GIRLS SING
AT B. Y. P. U. .MEET
Misses Cora Felton Bass and
Mary Mills furnished a special
musical number at the Hertford
County B. Y. P. U. meeting at
Buckhom Baptist Church, Como,
North Carolina, on January 28.
Misses Lou Wilson Evans anJ
Anna Laura Baker, of Chowan, al
so attended the meeting.
REV. X B. HURLEY
CONDUCTS CHAPEL
Growth Necessary to Progress,
Ljfe, and Happiness, Says
Visiting Speaker
“Growth” was the subject of
the address which the Rev. Mr.
J. B. Hurley, pastor of the Meth
odist Church of Murfreesboro,
m*de to Chowan faculty and stu
dents on Wednesday, January 25.
Declaring that what a child will
become is the chief reason for our
interest in him, Mr. Hurley as
serted that growth is necessary
to progress, life, and happiness.
“We are often struck,” stated Mr’.
Hurley, “with the fact that nature
is stored with energy, especially in
the spring, but the possibilities
and potentialities of human life
are infinitely greater.”
“A little child has no personal
ity,” he continued. “He is only' a
bundle of possibilities. His de
velopment should be wisely direct
ed, for gi'owth, spiritual as well
as well as mejital, is the important
thing.”
MR. CASHWELL SPEAKS
TO CHOWAN AUDIENCE
“CKrist, th'e Boy”, Was Subject
of Interesting
Discussion
■Mr. C. H. Casbwell, Assistant
Superintendent of the North Car
olina Anti-Saloon League, spoke
to Chowan faculty and .students
and the visiting pastors of tlie
West Chowan Association on Mon
day, February 6. The subject of
his ad.dress was “Christ,, the Boy”.
He based his remarks on Luke
i\c' j-r v>.^-
dom and stature and in favor with
God and man”.
In the beginning Mr. Cashwell
stated that he was going to talk
about a"young man- in whom the
world is interested. Emphasizing
the fact that Christ grew into a
iwell-rounded man by developing
every side of his nature—intellec
tual, physical, spiritual, and social
—Mr. Cashwell declared that all
young people today may do the
same thing by utilizing their op
portunities. “We must develop
our minds by study and investiga
tion,” asserted Mr. Cashwell. “In
order to do this to the best advan
tage, however, we must take care
of our bodies, for the mind can
do its best work only when the
body is sound. A man is never
w'hat he was meant to be unless
he develops his social and spiritual
life as well as his physical and
mental capacities.”
In conclusion the speaker quot
ed figures to show that conditions
today are not worse than they
were before the passage of the
Eighteenth Amendment in spite of
propaganda circulated by its op
ponents. “A person who wishes
to become a good citizen of his
country and of the world to come
should abstain from intoxicating
drink, because it destroys the
mind, poisons the body, and damns
the soul,” concluded Mr. Cash-
well.
GATES ^5. SALEMBURG
On Saturday, February 11, the
teams of Gates High School and
Salemburg High School met on
the basketball court of Chowan
College. At the close of the game
the score was 24-18 in favor ht
Gates.
Opening the game with a show
of good plays, the Salemburg team
seemed set for victory. They soon
lost their lead, however, as the
Gates team steadily piled up the
score, defeating them in the end
with a margin of six points. ,