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THE RUTHERFORD RECTANGLE
MARCH, 1932
The Rutherford Rectangle
RUTHERFORD COLLEGE, N. Q,
Entered as second class matter at the post office of Connelly -Springs,
North- Carolina, by act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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EDITORIAL
OPEN FORUM I
Dear Editors:
As we take our pens in hand, our
fingers are stiff with cold and we can
hardly manipulate the quill. This
brings us to the question at hand—
what this “country” needs is heat,
heat, and more heat! By “country”
we mean The Rutherford College Ad
ministration Building. We don’t have
an opportunity to go to the dormitory,
so we can’t kick about the lack of
heat, food, and hot water there; but
we do meet classes in the adminis
tration building and suffer from that
awful disease which in plain old Eng
lish is nothing but a species of chills.
We can’t help but think that these
low grades) circulating around are
partly a result of these icy halls. No
one can concentrate on Shakespeare
or anything else with a frost-bitten
brain.
Give us heat and we will guarantee
good results.
—THE CO-ED EDITORS.
The second semester of the current school year began on Jan
uary 23 at Rutherford. Probably some of us may not think of this
day as a time for a new beginning but it can be made so. Al
though this day only marks the mid-point for the term, it is a
very good time to turn over a new leaf, so to speak. Many of us,
during the fall semester, did not do as well on all courses as we
should, or may I say, as we would like to have done. Low grades
and the “long” faces of some students indicate this fact. What
is wrong with us? Do we care? Do we have no ambition? Or
is it our attitude toward our work?
First, I believe that we might all take a different attitude dur
ing the ensuing semester. No doubt some of this indifference
prevailing among the students has been a result of the plans made
last November for the merger of Rutherford and Weaver Col
leges. The students seemed to have taken the wrong attitude
since they thought that there was a probability that Rutherford
would not run for another year. Due to the fact that, in recent
development, Rutherford has been given a new lease of life some
of our indifference may be cleared up. It is true that the trustees
of Rutherford College have made no definite plans as to the future
of the school. However each and every student is urged to stick
to his or her work and gain all the benefits possible.
It is very likely that some students who have taken this wrong
attitude have not given enough time and thought to school work to
know what it is all about. With a little study a student will be
come really interested in his subjects and there will be no neces
sity for a movie every night or this everlasting restlessness that
some students here have. It is very true that a college boy must
have some recreation but it should come in its correct place. An
other remedy for this roaming habit that some Rutherford stu
dents have acquired is to become interested in some sport or other
extra-curricula activity. However, if a student really does his
work justice he will not have so much surplus time and energy.
Many school boys and girls fail to remember those at home. We
don’t always realize the sacrifice that someone is making to keep
us here. That person is, without doubt, expecting great things
from us. We are the students of today and the men and women of
tomorrow. Frequently, I have talked to prominent business men
and they always say, “Make the best of your chance to go to school.
Your college life is the happiest and easiest time you will spend
but very few of you realize it. If you do not study now you will
regret it in after life.”
Many of us are capable of doing much better work than we do.
Maybe some have done their best and if so nothing further can be
expected. However, I venture to say, emphatically, that a major
ity of us have not.
Professor L. S. Weaver, in a recent chapel talk to the student
body, urging a new start for the second semester says, “Rise to
heights of success on your failures. If you made fifty and did
your best then you have succeeded. On the otherhand if you made
ninety-five and it was not your best you have failed. Use your
failures of the first semester as stepping stones to success in the
second semester.”
Therefore, let us all strive to profit by our mistakes of the past
and do some real work this spring, and I feel that we will never
regret any efforts spent.
And we might be bold enough to
suggest to the Co-ed Editors, that
other reasons for the low grades they
confess to be making are quite pos
sible. That last sentence in the last
paragraph might be read in this man
ner, “no one can concentrate on
Shakespeare or anything else with
a love-bitten brain,” and retain its
former veracity. In idleness we often
observe the feminine factor of our
student body standing apparently
comfortable and happy in “these icy
halls” talking and laughing with a
victim who has by chance wandered
from the dormitory. A moment later
we see the same young ladies in a
comparatively warm classroom com
plaining of the cold and shaking with
mock chills which is truly “one species
of chills.”
Since our administration building
has been erroneously likened unto a
country, we, with your permission, re
call to your seemingly vague mem
ories that “the coimtry” is the best
place in all this vast universe in
which to develop oneself mentally,
physically, and morally. They happen
to lament the fact that their presence,
unless properly chaperoned, is pro
hibited in our dormitory so as to
qualify them to “kick about the lack
of heat, food, and hot water.” One
wonders how they have obtained so
much information regarding condi
tions in this forbidden building. It
may be that they judge from the cold,
dispassionate nature of the boys, their
hungrry looks, and drastic needs of a
bath.
Overlooking these argumentative
remarks, sweet co-eds, we humbly
confess that your point of view on the
subject is far from wrong and we re
main.
Yours for more heat,
■ B. AND W.
In spite of these weather conditions,
some of this sickness might have been
prevented. Many of us have not learn
ed the valuable lesson of keeping
physically fit. I have observed from
time to time that boys and girls in
our school go out of doors into the
rain, sleet, and snow with scarcely
any regard for the weather. We run
around in our shirt sleeves, and bare
headed, so what else may we expect
but a continual flow of “flu” and bad
colds among us? Sickness in the stu
dent body retards the work and
smooth running of the entire school.
Let us resolve to take more care and
avoid some of this sickness. This
should not be so difficult to do from
now on as spring is not so many weeks
off.
However, this physical affliction is
not the only kind of sickness that is
ever prevailing at Rutherford. We
have another disease among a few of
us known by some as laziness, and by
others, as idleness. I might say that
a considerable number of our stu
dents have fallen victims to this ter
rible plague. There is no remedy for
this disease known to the medical
world, but it can easily be cured by
the following formula; “Take a little
interest in school work at least once
a day. This interest should be taken
at regular intervals, most especially.
Come on students, lets snap out of it
and become physically and mentally
fit so that Rutherford may continue
to hold its prominent position upon the
map of junior colleges.
Prominent S t u d e n t In
Hospital
Robert Sadler, one of our outstand
ing students, suffered an acute attack
of appendicitis on Monday, February
6, and he was taken to the Charlotte
Sanatorium the next day for an oper
ation. The operation was very suc
cessful, and latest reports are that
Bob is recuperating nicely. The stu
dent body, the Rectangle Staff, and
the faculty wish for Bob a very
speedy recovery and we hope that he
will soon be back among us.
We have had an undue amount of
sickness at our school during the last
few weeks. In fact about half of our
student body has been afflicted, at
sometime recently, with that disease
known as “flu”. No doubt a large part
of this has been due to the extraordin
ary inclement weather that we have
had during this month. It can be
truthfully said that Mr. Groundhog
has lived up to his ancient tradition
in a big way.
A mule has 2 legs on before
And 2 he has behind.
You stand behind the 2 B 4
B 4 you find
What the 2 behind B 4.
The College
Brewery
(E. D. C. B.)
“When am I going to die?’’ is the
dominating question in the' minds of
many men when they should ask them
selves, “When am I going to begin to ;
live?”
In undressing for this Race called
Life, some Runners remove their
Thinking-Caps and begin an active
but meaningless struggle for the
Prize.
A study of art makes for refine
ment and culture but not until the art
of study has been first thoroughly
mastered.
A pessimist is to be compared to a
person struggling through the dark
ness with the broad beam of his flash
light wasting its cheery rays in the
opposite direction. He turns his dark
ened mind from the bright side of
things to prophecy a gloomy future
without hope for himself and for the
world.
The death of a youth is tragic. This
Ship of Soul ventures fearlessly forth
on the Sea of Life with its precious
Cargo of Ambition, Hope, Faith, Vis
ion, and those other Desires that warm
the breast of every red blooded youth.
But, al?is, during the Voyage, Waves
of Temptation sometimes rage with
such fury and force that the Ship
lurches too far in yielding to them. It
sinks to carry its mortal immature
Cargo to death instead of encountering
safely the Temptations and other Ob
stacles necessary to a realization of
the fulfillment of every Desire on the
Other Shore.
The beauty of a flower by the bed
side is universally appreciated by
those who, at one time or another,
have been confined to the borders of
their bed by some malady. This na
tural beauty is intensified by the sac
rifice of the poor flower’s life to make
its presentation to the sick room pos
sible. Like the flower, Christ suffered
death in order to lay his greater beau
ty before the eyes of men—that sav
ing grace that lifts men up to new
hope and new life.
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