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THE CHOWANIAN
SOCIETY SELECTS
! READER-DEBATERS
The Alathenian Literary Society
[has triumphantly passed one of its
important crisis for the year in
that, it has'cliosen its representa-
,tives for Society Day.
The society holds try-outs each
year to select from its member
ship those who can best represent
it in the annual open session
■where the two literary societies of
the college match relative strength
and value. A large number of the
•members volunteered to enter the
try-outs.
As a result of the preliminaries,
the Alathenians will be represent
ed this March by the debaters:
Madeline Modelin, and Katherine
Matthews, with A. Frances Jones
as alternate. Miss Modlin, chap-
lin of the society, has proven her
debating ability in doing her part
in winning the victory of last
year. Miss Matthews, an active
member of the Program Commit
tee, was the alternate of the de
feating team of last year. All three
are loyal society members.
The society was also pleased to
have Janice Jenkins chosen as the
reader in March. Miss Jenkins is
the choister and cheer leader for
the Alathenians.
The try-outs were held on
Thursday, January 7 in the Socie
ty Hall. Three of the sponsors—
Miss Ivey Gravette, Miss Margaret
Hight, and Dr. Racine Spicer-
acted as judges for the debate try
outs at 4 p. m. The judges for the
reading try-outs at 6:40 p. m. in
the regular society meeting were
Miss Sara Bruce, Miss Gravette,
and Miss Hight.
The society nominated Marion
Holloman as the basket ball coach
and Mary Long in the tennis di-'
Vision. These coaches have al
ready enlisted an enthusiastic and
well fitted teams.
SHOTS AT RANDOM
“All university students of
Peiping, China who maintain a
scholastic average of 85 or more
and are recommended by the
school authorities for good conduct
receive $100 in cash from the
Chinese government at the end of
every school year.—Mercer Clus
ter.
“It is antiquated,” said Dr. Hea
ven, President of Colgate-Roches-
ter Baptist Seminary, “to conceive
of immense power without a
transformer—a means of stepping
down the power and making it
accessible to common humanity.
Huge cables carrying electric pow
er in 60,000 volts may pass over a
city and the city remain dark. But
the spirit of modernity and pro
gress is to step down the power to
110 volts so that the lights in
every window may twinkle. The
incarnation, the act of God where
by the divine power was stepped
down to the level of humanity, is
not only natural, but modern and
progressive.” —■ 'Old Gold and
Black.
New York, N. Y.—A delegation
of 15 students boarded Secretary
of State Cordell Hull’s steamer, as
it prepared to sail to South Amer
ica for the Pan-American Peace
Conference, and urged the U. S.
delegation to promote positive
peace between the two continents.
As spokesman for the student de
legation, Miss Robinson of Benn
ington College and Mr. Boal of
Columbia University, stated that
the students and young people of
American continents have now the
opportunity of showing what can
be accomplished through interna
tional cooperation.—Mercer Clus
ter.
basketball team and Elizabeth
Howard leader of the tennis teams.
Miss Banta, Miss Simmons and
Miss Matthews acted as judges for
the debate and reading contests.
All of the Lucalian teams as
selected by the judges will com
pete with the teams from the Ala
thenian Society on March 5 which
is Society Day at Chowan College.
ALMUNAE NOTES
Miss Sarah Storey of Murfrees
boro, who was a member of the
graduating class of 1936, has ac
cepted the position as teacher of
Latin and Mathematics in the En
field high school, Enfield, N. C.
She graduated with suma cum
laude and for the four years that
she was in Chowan College she
averaged more than any other stu
dent. She was excellent in all her
class work, especially Latin.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Boone
announce the birth of a son, De
cember 18. Mrs. Boone is the for
mer Fannie Brown Harrell, a gra
duate of Chowan.
Announcement has been made
of the marriage of Miss Juanita
Vick and Louise Mitchell of Con
way in Norfolk, Va., on Friday
January 1, 1937. Mrs. Mitchell is
a graduate of Chowan.
OBSERVATORY HAS
AN ACTIVE PAST
ell, who was then president of the
college, asked Judge Smith to hide
in the observatory so that he could
use the telescope to see the sol
diers when they came for him.
While Dr. Smith was staying
there, one morning he saw the of
ficers coming up the old college
street. He went down to the fourth
floor and went out on the back
balcony porch which was located
where the new dormitory now be
gins. Through a trap door he
went down the fire escape and
started toward the residence of
Major John Moore which was
back of the college and across the
stream of water that almost sur
rounds the campus. In order to
get over he had to cross a bridge
that was planked in on either side.
He knew the soldiers were on his
trail so he hid under the bridge
until the heavy tread of the Fed
eral officers’ feet had crossed the
bridge and returned back by it.
When they had left the campus he
went back to the observatory and
remained until he saw that it was
safe to leave.
After the decline of the science
department to the extent that the
telescope was no longer needed
it was removed to some other col
lege and Chowan observatory was
left vacant, but it can still 'be
boasted that it once had a very
active past.
WHAT IS LOVE?
new start is being taken. The day
to begin for a good semester’s
work is the first day of the semes
ter. It is by constant faithfulness
to the task that we may be able
to come to the end of the second
semester with the joy which re
sults from tasks well performed.
It is our hope that our second
semester may be climatic in the
satisfaction it gives students, fac
ulty and patrons of the College.
Every possible effort will be put
forth to make the remainder of
the year the very best. We great
ly appreciate the cooperation of
our entire College family. As stu
dents enter the second semester,
they carry with them the very best
wishes from the college adminis
tration.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Taylor
of Jackson, N. C., were visitors at
Chowan on Sunday, January 10'.
Miss Beatrice Martin was call
ed to her home in Conway because
of the illness of her brother who
has pneumonia.
Miss Maxine Hudgins of Nor
folk, Va., due to illness was unable
to return immediately after the
Christmas holidays.
Miss Louise Cartwright, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cart-
■ivright, married in her pastor’s
home in Weeksville to Mr. Penn
Meads on the night of December
25. Mrs. Meads was a freshman
at Chowan College and an active
member of the Alathenian Liter
ary Society. Mr. and Mrs. Meads
■will make their home for the pre
sent with his relatives in Weeks
ville.
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The Old Gold ahd Black of
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antly surprised that even with 40-
year-old adults there can be a
burning love that does not sub
scribe to such cynicisms as (1)
’there is many a peace in the or
chard’, and (2) ’if you miss one
street car, another will come along
if you wait a while’!”
Over a million students entered
institutions of higher learning this
fall. Thirty-three of each hun
dred of the 1936 high school gra
duates are now college freshmen.-
—The Johnsonian.
LUCALIANS HOLD
TRY-OUTS FOR
SOCIETY DAY
The octagon-shaped observatory
at Chowan College, although empty
and neglected now, has had an
active and an interesting past
The observation was built with
the administration building which
was completed in 1852, the year
that the college was moved to its
present location. Astronomy was
popular at that time, so the obser
vatory was built with light sides
and light large windows so that
the telescope which was kept there
could give eight different views of
the heavens. The telescope was
quite an elegant instrument and
was once rated as the best in
North Carolina and one of the best
in the South. It came from Syra
cuse, New York.
During the war between the)
the States the Observatory was
used as a place of r
fuge. Dr. William N. H. Smith
of Murfreesboro was a member of
the Confederate Congress. After
wards he became Chief Justice of
North Carolina.
When it was learned that the
Union Army Officers were in
search of Dr. Smith, Dr. McDow-
The Lucalian Literary Society
has recently held its try-outs to
select those who wilT represent the
society in the reading contest, de
bate, and the various athletics on
Society Day.
The try-outs for the debaters
was held with Mary Smith, Mar
tha Seymour, Ruby Edens and
Mary Alice Williams debating the
question, Resolved: That the Unit
ed States should have a higher
protective tariff. Mary Smith and
Martha Seymour with Mary Alice
Williams as alternate were select
ed to debate on Society Day.
In the reading try-outs there
were several contestants. Lillian
Waldo, Frances Edwards, Virgie
Cowand and Beatrice Martin each
gave a short reading. Lillian
Waldo was the one selected to re
present the Society.
Margaret Adams has been ap
pointed captain of the Lucalian
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“Our Relations”
The following definitions of love
were given in a contest at a B. T.
U. social. It is for you to decide
which you think is the best.
A little tickling around the heart
that you can’t scratch.
Love is something hard to get
and hard to hold.
Love is like bacteria. It does
as much harm as good.
Love is a joke in the heart taken
seriously.
Love is an micro-organism that
causes a man’s stomach to turn
upside down.
Love is the present, the past,
and the future.
Love is something that nobody
wants and that everybody tries to
get.
Love is the undefinable verity
of the most sublime of human
relationship.
“Love is blind and love
marriage.
Marriage is an institution.
Wherefor, marriage is an
Institution for the blind.”
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NEW SEMESTER
We have for the last few days
been looking back upon the first
half of the year’s work. It is the
hope of the president that all stu
dents have been able to complete
a semester’s work in such way as
to give themselves, their profes
sors and parents a genuine sense
of satisfaction. Very few things
bring us more delight than work
well done.
It has been the purpose of the
administration that we should
ave the very best possible year’s
work in Chowan the year 1936-37.
We have a strong faculty, a splen
did student body, and a most
excellent spirit in the school. We
are exceedingly grateful for the
splendid conducfon the part of
stude/its and for the attitude
which has prevailed in the school
throughout the first half of the
year.
We are now looking toward our
second semester’s work. Each
course for which students regis
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