VOLUME in
PHILOMATHEAN
ORATORICAL CONTEST
Miss Fairclotli Wins Honor in Excel
lent Contest.
The first oratorical contest of the
year was held on Friday evening,
April 20th, w.hen the Philomathean
Literary Society gave their ninth an
nual contest. It was an exceptional
ly good contest. All of the speeches
showed they had been thoroughly
prepared.
Miss Hazel Armstrong presided
and Miss Ruth Cable was chief mar
shal, being assisted by Misses Maude
Lassiter, Mary I. Shamburger, Oma
Gray and Sallie McGeehee. After a
speech of welcome from the presi
dent the following program was ren
dered :
Symphony in E flat Haydn
Beulah Moton, Mildred Clark
1. Reformation of Slum Life
Donna Mcßane
2. Our Highlanders. . .Totten Moton
3. The Dreamers... Dovie Hay worth
Vocal Solo—The Fairy's Lullaby
Needham
Mrs. Meredith.
4. A Plea for the Youth of Carolina
Addie Morris
5. A Challenge to American Women
Gladys Faircloth
6. The American Ideal of Woman
hood Tama Burke
Vocal Solo—Mammy's Song...Ware
Gertrude Hobbs.
The judges, Dr. Howard Rond
thaler, Mrs. R. L. Justice and Miss
Meredith Clark, awarded the de
cision to Miss Gladys Faircloth. Dr.
Rondthaler deliver the medal after a
very appropriate speech. Tama
Burke and Totten Moton were tied
for second place.
COLLEGE PRESS
ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED
Representatives from the leading
North Carolina college publications
met in the Dialectic Society Hall of
the State University on last Tuesday
morning for the first annual meeting
of the North Carolina College Press
Association. Mr. Mitchell, of David
son College, was elected temporary
chairman. A constitution for the
newly organized .association was ex
tensively discussed. Prof. R. H.
Thornton, of the faculty of the Uni
versity, delivered an excellent ad
dress on 'Efficiency in the Editorial
Work and Management of a College
Publication." A very instructive ad
dress was given by P. H. Wilson, of
Wake Forest, on the subject "The
Financial Management of a College
Publication."
During the afternoon session the
constitution was discussed and
adopted. Prof. A. C. Dick, of N. C.
State College, gave a very helpful
talk on "Relation of Its Publications
to the Life, Ideals, and Standards of
a College." "Obtaining and Select
ing Material for Publication" was
the subject of a very entertaining ad
(Contlnued on pag four)
(iuilfnrtiiau
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C„ APRIL 25, 1917.
MINSTREL
ANNUAL AFFAIR STAGED AT
LAST MOMENT.
Just as our last issue was going
to press the minstrel, which had
gasped weakly and expired during
the previous week due to apathy in
the student body, was suddenly res
urrected by the news that Hugh
Stewart was coming. Plans were
hastily made —classes cut and even
discontinued and in a great drive re
sembling that of General Haig, the
various numbers were whipped into
shape and on Saturday night Guil
ford once more staged the "best
minstrel yet." Despite the sobering
influence of the war which during
the previous week had made the
minstrel seem impossible the end
men managed to produce the best set
of jokes any Guilford minstrel has
1 i.own—a large proportion of the
success was due to the untiring ef
forts of Professors Woosley and
Brinton and Messrs. Valentine, Gar
ner and Reddick. With the aid of
Hugh Stewart, 'l3, the songs went
off nicely and the conventional circle
opening with "Dixie" and a tre
mendous furore and closing with the
"Star-Spangled Banner" and a pa
triotic tableau illustrating the serv
ice citizens should be rendering Col
umbia during these trying times,
passed off very nicely. The debate
was a welcome relief to the risibles
of the audience but iproved too long.
Fortunately, however, the last
speech by Kiser proved the best of
the four and the audience did not
grow visibly restless.
A great deal of credit should go to
Harry Stanley for his ludicrous por
trayal of a frightened darkey in a
baunted house. Rested by the de
bate the audience was able to laugh
itself weary again at his antics.
Special mention must be made of
the features between acts. Mr. Mon
roe Miller, better known to •most of
our readers as Uncle Munn, was in
troduced by Professor Brinton and
sang one of the songs he has sung
so often to admiring groups of stu
dents about the campus. He was
Uioroly appreciated and orced to re
spond to a vociferous encore by the
audience. During another intermis
sion, Rufus Stanley, an old Guilford
student, who is famed for his work
en the banjo, and a fiddler whom
he had brought with him, played be
fore the curtain to the delight of all.
The last scene, in the old "quar
ters," though not so elaborate as the
•lr.ale las', year, proved almost us ef
fective. Under the pale blue light
in the wings the lights and shadows
were especially striking.
The crowd was large (every avail
able seat was filled) and enthusias
tic and though the program was a
little long went away well pleased.
The Athletic Association will net
about SBS on the evening's enter
tainment —.money sorely needed in
the present baseball emargency.
Miss Leacy Hockett spent the week
end with her sister, Eula.
Miss Evelyn Briggs was the -week
end guest of Miss Sallie McGehee.
A SUCCESS
NIGGERS WERE HERE IX FULL.
FORCE.
Who said minstrels? Who said
that from the 'burning sands of Afri
ca a band of her black-eats sons was
coming to disturb the peace and
quiet of the Quaker campus? Yes,
who said the "niggers" were coming
to Guilford on Aprl 21? Oh, well—
never mind who said it—they came,
and they came twenty-*five strong,
with tamborines, bones, fiddles,
banjos, trunks, ("just picked up
at de Guilford hotel") Smi'thdeal and
Westmoreland grins, negro smiles,
and a bounteous supply of wit
Uncle Sam's heart would have fill
ed with pride, could he have beheld
the gorgeous suits, made from the
colors of "Old Glory," with which
Snowball (Jesse Garner) and Rastus
(Joe Reddick) .had bedecked them
selves. There was truly some sin
cere hero worship as Tambo (Prof.
Brinton) told of the many deeds of
valor he had done, and every one was
forced to believe that this college
was the true home of poetry when
Bones (I. T. Valentine) produced so
elaborate an effusion.
The first part consisted of shining
shafts of wit from Tambo, Bones,
Rastus and Snowball, carefully
drawn out by "Mr. Johnson" (Prof.
Woosley). The audience was con
vulsed with laughter as joke after
joke was told. Faculty, preps, la
dies, gentlemen, all shared alike—
the Ethiopians being no respecters of
persons, but revealed secrets con
cerning them all.
The first scene ended in tableau,
while the chorus sang the national
anthem, "Star-spangled Banner,"
one beheld in the back of the stage,
Columbia (Mildred Clark), a Red
Cross nurse (Grace Taylor), a can
ning club girl (Beatrice Lewallen), a
soldier (Dalton Smith), and a sailor
(Harry Stanley).
The solos rendered by Messrs. H.
Stewart, Jr., P. V. Fitzgerald and
Shields Cameron added much to the
effectiveness of the entertainment.
In the second act there was a bril
liant display of the forensic art, un
surpassed and rivalled only by the
original intercollegiate debate. Those
supporting the affirmative side of the
"great question": "Resolved, dat de
guvmen of de United States should
own and operate the glioses engaged
in interstate commerce, destitutional
ity waved," were Mr. Freighttrain
(D. Dorsett) and Mr. Rock (J. Gar
ner). The negative was very ably
upheld by Mr. He'safoolin' (J.
Reddick) and Mr. Killin'time (R.
Kiser). The judges decided in favor
of both sides.
In the second scene, "The Haunted
House," it was found that "Mr. Spir
it knows more about some niggers
than they know themselves, and most
people were led to believe that there
sure 'nuff is "glioses."
When -the curtain rose for the last
time, the spectators beheld a quaint
log cabin, around it groups oY ne
groes dancing, patting and singing, a
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NUMBER 27
QUAKERS CHECKED
BY CANCELLATIONS
Baseball Schedule Badly Mutilated—
Only Two Remaining College
Games.
The aspirations of the fast-going
baseball team, which has not drop
ped a single bead in a string of nine,
have been somewhat dimmed by the
cancellation of a large number of the
remainiflg scheduled contests. The
principal reasons for the calling off
of most of the games which have
been struck out, is that military
training in the various college is sup
planting the national pastime, due to
the emergency call for young men to
fill the ranks of the army.
The Davidson game, which was to
have been staged in Greensboro the
23rd inst., was cancelled by her man
ager, the cause given being that
since other colleges had revoked
their schedules, he was obliged also
to annul his entire program. Auto
matically the game billed with Dav
idson at Davidson was likewise elim
inated from the Guilford schedule.
The trip for the present week has
been interrupted by the cancellation
of games at Durham with Trinity, at
Raleigh with A. & E. The cause of
fered in both cases being the same
story of military training being in
stituted for the national sport.
There remains, however, two
games on this trip yet to be played—
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill on the 28th and Wake
Forest on the 27th inst.
The invasion of South Carolina by
the husky Quakers likewise has been
broken into by the contagion of can
cellation.
The University of South Carolina
and Furman have suspended the re
mainer of their schedules due to the
supplementation of militaristic dis
cipline for athletics.
The splendid Southern trip thus
arranged by Manager Jones has been
made impossible by these cancella
tions and the strong team drilled by
Coach Doalc will have a very inade
quate opportunity to exhibit its
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RHESA L. NEWLIN
Retiring President of Y. M. C. A,