THE CHOW AN I AN
Published semi-monthly by the Students of Chowan College
MARY ALICE WADE, Editor in Chief
JEAN BUNN, Business Manager
JIMMIE COKER, Managing Editor
STAFF:
News Editor
Society Editor
Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
Photographer
Feature Editor
Advertising Manager
John R. Moore
Barbara Thomason
Curtis Copeland
Ellen Downs
Mary Jennings
Barbara Jones
Ryland Bradley
Assistants Ellen Downs, Jimmie Coker
Circulation Manager Ruth Taylor
Head T)rpist Nina Turner
Reporters Eva Hunt, Jane Ellen Jernigan,
Charles Birdsong, Jack Peele
Advisers Hazel Griffin, Elbert O’Connell ,
Quality Points
The intricacies of college life
are so numerous that they keep
the students’ lives in a turmoil.
Getting up early, being in class on
time, and studying are included in
these intricacies.
Think twice before you cut a
class. If a class is cut just one
time mot;e than allowed, it imme
diately knocks off a quality point.
You still get the grade you earn
ed, but you do not get all the
quality points that go with that
Now, don’t think quality points
are not important, for they are.
If you do not have at least the
same number of quality points as
you have semester hours, you will
not receive your hard-earned cer
tificate.
The quality points are A, 3;
B, 2; C, 1; D, 0.
Your Score?
Webster defines INITIATIVE
as “energy or aptitude displayed
in the intitiation of action; self-
reliant enterprise; self-initiated
activity”. Now APTITUDE
means “natural, or potential ca
pacity or ability”. And SELF-RE
LIANCE is defined as "reliance
upon one’s own efforts, powers;
confidence and trust of self.”
As applied to a student at Cho
wan or elsewhere, the test of whe
ther one has or has not initiative
• m.ay be determined by the num
ber of affirmative or negative an
swers you can give to the follow
ing questionnaire. If you can an
swer “no” to the questions you
undoubtedly have initiative.
(1) If you were chairman of a
program committee, w’ould you
wait until twelve hours before the
hour of meeting to scout around
and present a fourth-rate pro
gram ?
(2) If you were on the adver
tising staff of your school paper,
would you make no effort to so
licit ads, and on top of that, fail to
report to the editor or manager
that you had flopped on the job
until after the deadline? (The ed
itor can get out on the deadline
date and get ads, or the printer
ii'iay print papers gratis).
(3) If you saw a small job to
be done, such as picking up a
stray book or coke bottle and put
ting it where it belongs, would
you pass it by and let somebody
else take care of that?
(4) If you have a book to read,
a paper to write, some problems
to work, would you depend on the
efforts or powers or ability of your
roommate or of the student next
door ? I
(5) If you wanted some enter
tainment during the weekend,
would you sit back and wait for
the faculty or the dean or the
president to plan events, and if
they didn’t, would you gripe?
What is your score?
—o—
Wliat is College For?
A great deal has been said
about college being a place where
one goes to prepare himself for
life. That is not altogether true;
it does prepare one for life, but
college is life itself. No one will
be a greater success in life than
he is while in college. Failure to
study one’s daily assignments,
failure to get into the classroom
before the tardy bell rings, fail
ure to take one’s work seriously
—these are signs of unsuccess in
college. College is life. Will the
same sort of failures be found in
a student after he leaves college?
We think so. Now is the time to
learn the qualities of success, not
failure.
Exchanges
ucation department stages a Play
Day; Elon has on a drive to com
plete a $100,000 gymnasium;
Greensboro College has a book
club and sponsors outstanding
critics to review books: some of
those who have appeared on the
programs are Betty Smith and
Paul Green; N. C. State College
held a “Hello Week” recently;
the Little Theater at Wake For
est produced “Cyrano” as its first
production.
The Answer
The CHOWANIAN receives
the following exchange papers
and invites all staff members and
other students to read them. They
are in the staff room in the Stone
cottage.
“Blue and Gray”, Lincoln Col
lege, Harrogate, Tenn.
“The Belles”, St. Mary’s Col
lege, Raleigh, N. C.
“Old Gold and Black”, Wake
Forest College, Wake Fores'.
N. C.
“The Collegian”, Greensboro
College, Greensboro, N. C.
“Maroon and Gold”, Elon Col
lege, Elon, N. C.
“Hall Chatter”, Fairfax -Col
lege, Waynesboro, Va.
Items gleaned from the ex-
cha^s: St. Mary’s physical ed
If sometimes life is lonely;
Have you tried to be a friend?
If sometimes life seems selfish.
Have you tried a smile to
spend?
If sometimes life is burdened
And the road seems paved with
care,
Have you tried to lighten
burdens
That others have to bear?
If sometimes life is cheerless,
* Have you trieS to laugh or
sing?
If sometimes life is bitter.
Have you tried to ease the
sting?
If sometimes life is hateful
Have you tried some love to
give?
If sometimes life is empty.
Have you tried His Way to
live?
—o—
Lo, For I Am
With You Alway
Be not afraid to answer the
pleading knell.
Whose stealthy tones represent
His supreme, alavaster
powers.
Though thy soul, pregnant
with strain, doth compell
Thy heart knoweth His strength
in trying ho»rs.
Mid toil, dismay, forsake not
the righteous path;
Resist not Gods’ theory, darken
not thy day.
Contented to go, then there’s
no crucial aftermath.
Prepare—“lo, for I am with you
alway”.
Drink not the cup, unless of
His blood;
Seek not the way of doubt and
unlearned.
When this thou doest, thou
bravest the flood.
Thy heart is uplifted where God
is concerned.
An organ of comfort, God’s
word a trust;
A promise ministered on rock and
yet unbroken.
A death died in Him is not dust
To be blown, scattered, hilariously
cold and unspoken.
A death died in Him is sacred
assurance
That a Heavenly Host shall
enshrine thy stay.
There is no better life nor,
either, influence—
"Fear not, for I am with you
alway”.
—Charles Wilbert Birdsong
Down Pine Drive
Wake Forest-Campbell: Down
Pine Drive was glad to learn that
the members of the student gov
ernment :>f Chowan are anticipa
ting the improvement of thefr
function. The study trips made to
WF and Campbell no doubt will
be of great benefit to the smooth
ness of this important organiza
tion.
Beautification: From time to
time this column has had some
thing to say about beaxiticfiation
of the campus. The completion oF
the rose garden in memory of Dr.
Scarborough, former president of
Chowan, will add greatly to the
southern charm of “The Col
umns”.
Mr. Staples: Our college chap
lain has been invited to lead the
devotionals at the 46th anniver
sary commemorating the first
flight of the Wright Brothers in
1903. The celebration will be held
December 17. Also, Mr. Staples
preached the dedicatory sermon
of the opening of the new colon
ial Baptist Church in Woodland
Sunday. Mr. Staples is pastor.
Wedding Bells: While driving
down pine drive ye old codger
heard music. Could it be the
whistling of the pines or the
whistling of Mr. C. V. Williams?
Homecoming: Lingers. The
old blue and white is still stream
ing from the old president’s home.
Could it be that the boys over
there are mad with the judges or
are they waiting until next year
or are they just waiting?
Owner’s relations: Life maga
zine has infiluenced Chowan boys
who have been practicing rotation
on pine drive.
Ouch! Grouch! January 16-18
are the dates which have been set
aside for fall semester exams,
not quite four more weeks
of school.
Organ Recital: Miss Dorothy
Ballenger of the music department
will present an organ recital of
Christmas music before the holi
days at the Courtland, Virginia,j
Methodist Church.
Missing: Greta Churchill, who
had to leave school on account of
the illness of her father. Greta
was making a good record and
name for herself when she had to
leave school, and the student body
hopes she can return the next se
mester or next year at least.
The Fall that Charms
Fall seems to me the reluctant
season, as a child being led by
the hand to the piano. The leaves
which have outlived their use
fulness do not dart madly to the
ground as if to prolong their lives
by a last airborne fling, but drift
slowly, tiredly, not able to hold on
any longer, not caring. Even their
turn from green to a more re
splendent hue is so gradual as to
be unnoticed until someone says,
“Oh, look at that oak in the front
yard! I do believe it’s fall.”
It is as if all nature were hold*
ing its breath until the steadier
business of winter could take over.
This short-lived, breathless
sear^m known as fall is here again,
recalling half-forgotten memories
with its delicious scent and de
lighting the observant with scenes
of unexpectedly poignant beauty.
—Angela Johnson