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} THE CHOWANIAN ■ ORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief ...Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF Martha Seymour Business Manager Helen ^ ^ — Lowell Sodeman. Mattie Gray Hoggard... ...Assistant Advertising Manager Circulation Manager ^y: REPORTERS elyn Whitley.. Vilma Woolard.. Edith Johnson Maxine Filiyaw.— Pauline Byrum... Johnston Hale Ruby Edens ...Alathenian Society Lucalian Society Senior Class Junior Class Sophomore Class Freshman Class B. S. U. COLLEGE DIRECTORY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Dr. R. R. McCulloch Miss Valerie M. Schaible - - Mrs. Mary Kennedy - - — “ Dr. A. G. Gillaspie — President ...Dean of the Faculty Miss Dorothy Evans... .Dean of Men .Librarian STUDENT OFFICERS Martha Seymour -Pres, of Student Government Helen Edwards -Pres, of Lucalian Society Ruth Taylor •■••Pres, of Alathenian Society Ethel Jones..ZZZI' - P^es^ ot Senior Class Marion Holloman - - - P^s- of Junior C ass Pres, of Sophomore Class Pres, of Freshman Class Lillian Waldo Lila Ward Cooke... ^ ■ Madeline Modlin - Pres, of Baptist Student Union Carmen Morgan Gen. Director of B. Y. P. U. Ruby Caudle Pres, of Y. W. A. Beatrice Martin Pres, of Student Life Service and Volunteer Band A RECIPE FOR 3 A GRADUATE There is an old maxim that reads to this effect that “What goes into a pot usually comes out.” With this in mind will the fresh man class of ’36 permit me to suggest the following recipe that each may use to prepare the p-t which he is to boil during the com ing four years. As one who has known three years of college work, I offer to the freshman who wishes to have a successful ccllege career a for mula which you will do well to follow. , . Take two pounds of hard work and a pound of perseverance, clean and wash thoroughly; put on to bcil in thre# quarts of sports manship and stir until well blen ded. Add a cup and a half of de termination, two cups of courage, two cups of self-confidence, a package of energy, and three- quarters of a cup of honesty and conscientiousness stiring all the time. When boiling vigorously season to taste with a dash of en thusiasm and recreation and cook for four years over a madium flame. When well done serve in a cap and gcwn. Though I cannot offer this for mula as a “kitchen tested" recipe, my experiences have proved that it ought to work. ■ Chowan’s “One Hoss Shay’ Has Fallen in Its Decay Lost: two antiques from Chow an College. Not the rose-wcod piano or the grandfathers’ clock, but the two well-worn back poi'ches. They have not been stolen taut 'iike the “One Hoss Shay,” have fallen and crumbled. On the ground near where the an tiques once stood are the remains -^a pile of dust, a few broken bricks and some nails. Now we wonder whether we are to grieve or rejoice. At first everyone was very much grieved at this loss. The dor mitory students especially were sad to think that they had lost that Which had served faithfully for so many years. Then there arose many questions: What has be come of th€ clotheslines and where wiir the girls hang their clothes? i.id too, since th« porches are gone, the girls hi?ve no pidfee to stand and gaze a!t the stars and the nioon— Just what will take their place? When the girls had dried their tears, they saw ahather side of the question. After all there was jom«tHing gotid aboMt it. No lon ger was there the -fear of sliiing through a hole, breaking in the floor, or falling over the railing. Instead there is the feeling cf safe ty as one looks down on the ruins. Then with the loss of the porches the appearance of the building was changed. In the first place there was one side which had until that time ’oeen hidden, now shin ing as the rest. Possibly the greatest change was made inside the burtding. The porches were so large that they shut cut all the sun light from the dormitory rooms on that side of the building and caused darkness to prevail. After the fall, the girls who had claimed these rooms dis covered that they had been living in an ordinary room rather than in a cell. In fact, they find that they have s^me of the most attractiv'e rooms. After considering both sides of the question the college fi«Tiily ceased grieving over the loss of the antiques and rejoiced over the improvements that come with the loss. THIS ENGLISH We’ll begin with box; the plural is boxes, But the plural cf ox should be oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse, or a whole nest of mice. But the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always call ed men. Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? The cow in the plural may be call ed cows or kine; But a bow, if repeated, is never called bine; And the plural of vow is vows, never vine. If I speak 'cf a foot, and you show me .two feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole seT • - are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth? If the singular’s this and the plural is these. Should the plural of kiss ever be keese? Then one may be that, and two WT>uld be those. Yet hat in the plural would nev er be hose. And the plural of cat is cats, and not cose. We speak of brother, and also of of bre(h»rn, But though we sal mother, we But though \ye say mother, we Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, shs, shis and shim. So the English, I think ycu all wiH agree, Is the funniest languag e you ever did see. —Sunshine Monthly. VISION WITH WORK Chowan students responded en thusiastically to a rousing chapel program held Thursday morning, September 24, at which time Pre sident McCulloch presented for the first time to the students, the pro gram of Improvement and Expan sion for the College as endorsed by the Board of Trustees in a meet ing last July, along with the archi tect’s drawings for tfte new buil dings. In speaking of the mass meet ing held on last July 14, Dr. Mc Culloch pointed out how he had presented to that group composed of Pastors,'Alumni of the College, and Baptist church members cf Chowan and West Chowan As sociations, along with the Trus tees of the College, plans for the future development of the col lege. President McCulloch went on to explain that this group considered and recommended to the Board of Trustees the adoption or a pro gram ultimately to equip the Col lege to care for at least 350 stu- derits, to raise money immediately for necessary repairs and improve ments and to continue the immed iate movement into a three-year prcgram in which the college is to erect three buildings necessary to enable the College to care for 275 students. As Dr. McCulloch has stated: “The larger program includes the repair and improvement of our present building and equipment and the preparation of an athletic field, the erection of a new girl’s dormitory, a dining hall, a central heating plant, a gymnasium, a library building, a fine arts buil ding, and a boy's dormitory. This whole program will cost $450,000 to $500,000 and will enable the Collegt to care well for a student body of 350. The three year pro gram for the immediate expansion of the College to enable it tz care for 275 students calls for the erec tion of a girls' dormitory, a din ing hall, and a heating plant. To meet the immediate needs of the College and erect these three buil ding will require approximately $175,000.” Summing up his statements con cerning this program. Dr. McCul- lock pointed out how, on the af ternoon of July 14, the Trustees of the College, in formal session, adopted the whole program as re commended by the larger group and instructed the executive com mittee of the Board to formulate and execute plans for raising the $175,000. In complia,nce with these instructions, the executive committee employed a field secre tary, Rev. R. S. Monds, to work with the president of the College in raising this money. The drawing of the architect was displayed and explained by President McCulloch in this cha- -pel program. The reaction of the students to the vision they receiv ed in this program and from the view as drawn by the architect was expressed with real enthus iasm as they sang heartily some of the college songs. But it is not enough for us to merely display a fine spirit of en thusiasm as the start. If we really want to see this gdorious vision of the future come to pass, must we not continue our enthusiastic sup- . port of the program a»d all work i together toward the end that it I shall be realized? 1 intimately those scenes and char acters that he describes in his book. The story takes place in Pitts- ville, Iowa and gives us a splendid picture of life in a small town of the middle west, during the time just after Coolidge’s last term of office. Mr. Stong contrasts in the book the difference in character of Carl Krueger and of Clem Bar tholomew and their respective families. Carl Krueger, square both in build and character, with his son, Ray, who is home fcr the vacation from John Hopkins, where he is studying medicine, are taking in- v’entory in Carl’s dry-goods and variety store on a hot July the third. Children interrupt them often to buy fire crackers. When they finish Ray enters the results in the ledger marked 1928-29. There are a dozen of these ledgers, dating from 1844 to the present. Here may be found a history of the Pittsville generations from that time. During the day Pittsville’s “Crime Wave” enters to gamble on the wheel that holds the spools of cotton. This “Crime Wave’’ con sists of three men—Middletan Katz, a carpenter, better known as “Mud” Katz and Deacon Bigg- ner, and Soapy Randolph, Pitts ville’s boot-legger. The first two go on two sprees a year, Fourth of July and Christmas. The third member of the “Srime Wave” is a little dried-up colored man. However, our story does not concern the “Crime Wave,” but it is about the Kruegers' and Barth olomews. When Carl goes to dinner ®n July the third, he meets his friend, Clem Bartholomew, the town banker. Clem may best be described as fat, florid, and fifty. He has made two million dollars quickly and in direct contrast to Carl who has gained his twenty- five thousands slowly and honest ly, Clem has made a number of shady and d»ubtful deals to make his money. Carl walks home with Clem and they talk cf business conditions as usual. It happens that Carl secs a crash coming and warns Clem to get in all the cash he can. The next d£%’ is the Fourth and a glorious Fourth it proves to be tor the majority of the residents of Pittsville as it is the first cele bration the town has had in years. As usual “Mud” gets drunk and late in the afternoon, he and Dea con Biggner make a bet about jumping in the river. “Mud” looses his nerve and sends the Deacon for help while he hangs to the edge of the bridge. Deaeon forgets what he has gone for until someone mentions “Mud’'. When they get back to the bridge “Mud” is gone and every one thinks he drowned. The townspeople have the river dragged to recover his body; however, he is found in a livery stable none the worse for his ducking, Carl, the sympathetic merchant keeps Merta, Mud’s daughter, in the store to keep her from hearing of “the drowning” until it becomes a known fact tHat Mud was or was not drowned. To climax the day Mud falls and breaks his leg when he goes home that night. He refuses to have a real doctor so Merta sends fcr Ray, who fixes his leg up for him. During the summer, Ray and Sylvia, Clem’s daughter, fall des perately in love with each' other and they plan to marry as soon as Ray finishes his work at John Hopkins. However, Clem, who failed to take Carl’s advice and get in all the cash he could, has gotten all his own money and most of the saving of the townspeople tied up in some of his shady deals. A panic, which ends in a run of the bank follows—and the Pitts ville world is in chaos for a while. During this very trying time for Clem, his son to make matters worse, marries Merta Katz, Mud’s daughter. In contrast to the con duct of Clem’s son, Carl’s son Ray breaks his engagement to Sylvia, due to some hard feelings about the bank crash between Clem and Carl and in a few weSks Sylvia is practically engaged to a rich young lawyer. The bank crash was averted in the end by the efforts ef the friendly and sympathetic store keeper who loves everybody re gardless of how he is treated. Mr. Stong has done exceptional ly good work on this his latest no vel. One gets to know intimately those bankers, druggists and their wives that inhabit Mr. Stong’s Pittsville. One find.? them in any small town. Needle.ss to say, here in Murfreesboro will be found the Carl Kruegers, the Clem Bartho lomews, and even the Mud Katzi. It is truly a delightful book writ ten in Mr.Stong’s wholesome and invigorating style. As one reads one realizes that history is made by the slow, substantial Carl Kruegers rather than the quick, unstable Clem Bartholomews. B. S. U. ENTERTAINS STUDENTS AT PARTY The Baptist Student Union be gan its work 'Tuesday -morning, Sei^ember 8, by meeting and as sisting them with a “Smile’' Lawn party at the close of the day. The members of the B. S. tJ. Council served as a committee to greet the new girls with welcome as they came ih, and to direct them to the proper places for registra tion. After this, they helped to see that their trunks were taken to the right rooms, and then of fered assistance in unpacking and getting the rooms in order. They did not forget to cheer those who were home-sick. At eight o’clock, both new and old students were invited tJ as semble on the front porch of the college for an informal get-to- gether party. Admission tickets which were of three kinds, “laugh”, “giggle,” and “grin,'’ were sold to each one for a .smile. The guests were then invited to the lawn where'chairs had been arranged in semi-circles in front of the building, with the grass serv ing as a carpet. “Get acquainted” games were played throughout the social hour, directed by Florence Ward, Ri^y Caudle, and Helen Edwards. 'Ae “Z'ip game” served as a means for learning the person on the right and left of each one. After this, a large “Friendship Circle” was formed. The players marched around by music. Each time the music stopped, the person spent a few minutes in conversation with the one whom he faced. Other entertainments included a “Lemon’s Relay,” various games of introduction, and several con tests. The players were then di vided into three groups, “grin”, “giggles”, and “laughs” to sing songs characteristic cf their name. After this, each group had to pre sent a stunt, in which the “Gig gles” were winners. The last game proved to be an invitation to eat and the guests were led to the long tables, where iced tea and sandwiches were ser ved buffet style. BOOK CORNER The New York Times says of Phil Stong, “He c^n tell a story that rivets your interest, he can set a scene that catches and fills your eye, he can portray charac ters that have life and energy.” Truly Mr. Stong hai done just this in his latest novel, “Career”. Mr. Stong, ')#ho was b6rn and reared on an Iowa farm, knows Chowanian Subscription Blank (PLEASE FILL OUT AND SEND IN WITH YOUR $1.06) Miss Martha Yates Seymour, Business Manager Murfreesboro, North Carolina. Dear Miss Seymour Enclosed you will find $1.00, for which please send me the CHOWANIAN this year. Yours truly, Name Address Date
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