THE GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME IV.
GUILFORD LOSES TWO
HOTLY CONTESTED GAMES
Carolina and Trinity Triumph Over
the Crimson and Grey.
On last Tuesday night, Feb. 19th,
tiie Guilford gymnasium was the
scene of a close struggle between the
home team and Trinity. The audi
ence was held in a state of excited
suspense until the last lew minutes
of play when the Trinity team over
came Guilford's lead and won the
victory. The first half was Guil
ford's, but the locals were uniable to
keep up the fast pace set at the be
ginning. Trinity thruout excelled in
team work. Groome got the tip off
every time, but Guilford was unable
to uise this advantage. Starling star
red for Trinity, while Zachary and
Jones excelled for Guilford. The
rooters are to be congratulated on a
good showing of "pep." The score
was 21-28.
Line-up:
Guil'ford Trinity
Jones L F Cole
Zachary R F .. Starling
Groome C Douglas
Reddick RG Long
Newlin L G. . . . Hathaway
Summary: Field goals, Douglas 2,
Jones 1, Starling 8, Groome 2, Zach
ary 3.
Foul goals, Jones 9, Long 8.
Time, 20 minute periods.
Referee Sharp, Greensboro Y. M.
C. A.
Guilford vs. Carolina.
The Guilford basket ball team lost
to the team representing the Univer
sity of North Carolina for the second
time this season. The game was
played at iChapel Hill, February 22.
The ifinal score 31 to 19 might lead
many to believe it was an uninterest
ing contest, but the greater part of
the game was quite exciting, and cer
tain stages were thrilling. The lead
which Carolina held throughout both
periods was taken early in the game.
The first half ended with a score of
14 to 7 in favor of Oarolina.
For a short period in the second
half the Guilford boys worked like a
real basket ball team. In this short
space of a few minutes "Gladdie"
Groome shot four field goals, and the
Guilford score was run up to within
two points of Carolina's account.
After this short spurt of "pep" Guil
ford failed to score.
Groome for Guilford led the scor
ing by registering five field goals.
Zachary at forward and Reddick at
guard played a good game. Zachary
worked steadily throughout and
pocketed three field goals from near
the center of the floor. Jones was
good at receiving the tip off and
passing, but his shooting was not up
to his former standard.
For Carolina Liipfert and Lynch
made the best showing. Line-up:
Guilford. Carolina
Zachary R F Lynch
Jones L F. . . .Carmichael
Groome C Liipfert
Reddick R G ... Cuthbertson
Newlin L G Tremont
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1918
WAR EXPERIENCES
IN TURKEY
Dr. Usslier Vividly Describes His Ex
traordinary Experiences.
Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, a mission
ary to Turkey who is now in America
on a two years' furlough, lectured
here Monday afternoon, Feb. 18, un
der the auspices of the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief. Dr. Ussher was for twenty
years a medical missionary to Tur
key and in the years 1895 to 1915 he
built up a practice which extended
thruout the Turkish Empire.
Dr. Ussher began his lecture with
a reference to the general untrust
worthiness of Turkish officials and
the absolute power which they exer
cise over their subjects.
Dr. Ussher's work brought him in
to close contact with the Turkish of
ficials and with German officials
within the Turkish Empire. He
learned several days before the first
of August 1914, that there was to be
a European war and that the Turk
ish Empire was even then beginning
to mobolize.
He knew the danger that he would
be in if he remained in Van, but he
resolved to stay. The real danger
came in less than a year with the
siege of Van, following terrible de
portations and miassacres, which ex
tended throughout the length and
breadth of Turkey. A few hundred
men inadequately armed held out for
four weeks against the Governor-
General of the Province and his
army. The American premises were
in the very center of the city and
sheltered six thousand refugees.
Dr. Ussher and his fellow mission
aries organized a method of city gov
ernment and of feeding and housing
the homeless. The hospital was
crowded to thrice its natural capacity
and he and his nurses dressed the
wounds of hundreds for whom no
room could be found in the hospital.
Finally the Turks bombarded the
American premises disregarding the
neutral flag that floated above them,
and the Red Cross flag which in it
self should have been a protection.
Those within the hospital were
brought to the point of despair.
Dr. Usshr could not fire back upon
the Turkish soldiers conscientiously
as America was then a neutral coun
try, and while he and his confeder
ates were holding a conference try
ing to decide what they should do,
the firing outside ceased and sudden
ly he further discovered that the
Turks were fleeing. Their flight was
caused by the approach of the Rus
sian army, who entered the city two
days later.
The Russians and Armenians with
hard fighting finally drove the Turk
ish army westward toward Bitlis.
Dr. Ussher, the only physician in a
city of forty thousand, had not only
the wounded soldiers of the defense
to care for, but hundreds of refugees
during weeks of fighting. Dr. Ussher
served the allied cause so courage
ously that the Russian Czar sent a
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DR. NEWBOLD LECTURES
ON THE RACE PROBLEM
The Southern Negro Ably Portrayed
by Words and Pictures.
Dr. N. C. Newbold, State Agent of
Rural Schools, delivered an able ad
dress to the faculty and students of
Guilford College last Tuesday after
noon on the race problem in the
South. Dr. Newbold is co-operating
with Dr. W. D. Weatherford in put
ting the race question before the col
leges of the South.
This problem hias been important
since the settlement of Jamestown,
he said, but race issues are more in
the minds of men today because they
are better understood than previous
ly. This question should be studied
most of all in the South because most
persons here know little about it
and because the South is best fitted
to work out its own race problem.
The races here have a common re
ligion, ia common health problem and
a common economic system.
Mr. Newbold showed a set of lan
tern slides illustrating the unsani
tary quarters occupied by the ne
groes in some of our Southern cities.
Many of these are breeding places
for diseases of all kinds. Of the
225,000 deaths which occur each
year 100,000 could be prevented. He
also showed pictures of the improved
conditions where negroes are given
proper advantages.
Thousands of negroes who are
needed to till the soil in the South
are going North annually. The
causes of this are: Poor schools, un
fair legislation, economic handicaps
and mob violence. The negroes are
keenly alive to the need of educa
tion, but are handicapped by the lack
of schools and teachers. The solu
tions for this problem are: Better
industrial training, better schools,
better administration of laws and
better understanding between the
races.
Mr. Newbold said in closing that
it was not so much the negro but the
white man and Christianity who are
on trial in the South today. A spirit
of kindness, co-operation and friend
liness between the two races must
be brought out. Each one should do
his share in working out a new dem
ocracy.
PROF. WAGSTAFF TO LECTURE.
Next Saturday night, the 2nd of
March, Dr. Wagstaff, Professor of
European History at the University
of North Carolina, will lecture on the
"Underlying Causes of the European
War." The lecture will take place
in Memorial Hall at 8 o'clock. Mem
bers of the college community will
find it well worth their while to hear
Prof. Wagstaff.
A mass meeting of the girls will
be held on Thursday, February 28th,
for the election of the new Student
Government President. Mrs. J. F.
Davis will speak at this meeting.
THE WORK OF THE
YACHT CARNEGIE
Doctor Hewlitt, of the Normal Col
lege, Tells of a Year's Cruise on
the Remarkable Non-Magnetic
Yacht.
The Science Club on Wednesday
night was much interested by a talk
by Dr. Clarence W. Hewlitt, of the
Normal College, on the task of se
curing full and complete data con
cerning the Magnetic Field of the
Earth. Doctor Hewlitt prefaced his
remarks by a brief discussion of ter
restrial magnetism and a short his
tory of the efforts of the past to se
cure accurate data which will enable
the mariner or desert traveller to
know exactly how far east or west
of his compass needle's direction is
true north. Sporadic efforts toward
securing such data have been made
for two centuries and during the
nineteenth century no scientific ex
pedition was fitted out without in
struments for determining the con
stants of the earth's magnetism.
Noteworthy among these was the
voyage of the Challenger. But a
great difficulty presented itself—the
"constants" do not remain constant
but are passing through several cy
cles of changes so that the observa
tion of the past are soon worthless
unless we know the rate of change.
The hope arose among a group of
scientists that more complete knowl
edge of these rates of change might
not only be serviceable in keeping
mariners' tables up-to-date, but aid
in the establishment of some reason
able hypothesis regarding the cause
of the Terrestrial magnetism. In
1905 it was suggested to the Car
negie Foundation that a careful mag
netic survey of the whole surface of
the earth be undertaken. The mat
ter was organized at once and several
land parties have been in the field
ever since, surveying the less inhabi
ted portions of the globe. For the
work at sea a yacht was chartered
and named the Galilee. It was re
modeled for the work and a special
bridge built across amidships for the
instruments but inside of two years
it was discovered that the iron and
steel in her construction made the
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GUILFORD DEBATERS CHOSEN.
At a recent meeting of the deba
ting council it was decided to dis
pense with the usual try out for the
debating team and to leave the
choice of the team to the faculty
committee on lectures and debates.
The faculty committee chose Ira G.
Hinshaw, A'lgia I. Newlin and J.
Dewey Dorsett with Charles Shelton
as alternate. These men have all
had experience as debaters both in
high school and in literary societies
and class debates in college. They
will represent Guilford against A. &
E. in April. The question chosen for
that occasion is "Resolved that the
Monroe Doctrine should be abandon
ed as a part of the foreign policy of
the United States."
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