THE GUiLFORDIAN
VOLUME V.
BASKET BALL TEAM
ON FOUR GAME TRIP
In Spite of Defeat Good Spirit is
Maintained.
The Guilford 'basket ball team
completed a. trip last week on which
four of the fastest teams in the
State were met., Defeat was suffer
ed each time but the fellows never
failed to put up a hard scrap and al
ways fought gamely to the end. The
lack of experience of our men in in
tercollegiate basket ball was much in
evidence. There is not a lettered
player on our team while every one
of the opposing teams contained at
least four lettered men and one of
them five. We have some fine ma
terial however which are not afraid
of hard 'work and which can profit
by mistakes.
Guilford's team is unanimous in
its expression of the fine treatment
given it by the Durham Y. M. C. A.
and each of the three colleges. Every
man says that he was treated and
entertained royally everywhere.
Durham Y. M. C. A. was the first
team played on this trip. The "Y"
players showed splendid team work
The Quaker players were unable to
get the lay of the court during the
first half, but succeeded in much
better playing for the last half.
The line up and summary are as
follows
Y. M. C. A.—Perry, f; Stephens,
f.; Mangum, center; Waller, guard;
Clay, guard.
Guilford —Frazier, f.; Raiford, f.;
Taylor, c.; Anderson, g.; Stafford, g.
Perry 4 field goals, Stephens 11,
Mangum 7, also four foul goals;
Waller, no goals, Clay 3.
Guilford—Frazier 3' field goals
and 5 foul goals, Raiford 2, Taylor
2, and Stafford 1.
The team played Trinity on Thurs
day night. Trinity a little more than
doubled the score on Guilford. Page
and Starling featured in the playing
for the Methodists. Rice and Fra
zier seemed to do the best playing
for the Quakers. Line up:
Trinity—Cole, f.; Starling, f.;
Page, c.; Hathaway, g.; Aldridge, g.
Guilford —Frazier, f.; Raiford, f.;
Taylor, c.; Anderson, g.; Rice, g.
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NEW BIOLOGY HEAD ARRIVES
Mr. Herbert Ruckes, the newly
appointed head of the biology de
partment, took charge of his work
at the beginning of last wetk rnd
indications are much in ovecllWice
that the department will oe main
tained at its usualy high standard.
Prof. Ruckes is from New York. He
received his B. A. and M. A. at Cor
nell in 1917. The following year he
taught at Grove City l College in
Pennsylvania. During the last year
as a contract officer he had charge
of S. A. T. C. classes at Columbia
University, New York, in Military
Sanitation, The college is most
pleased to welcome a man of the
type of Prof. Ruckes.
Basket Ball, Guilford vs. U. N. C, Greensboro Y. M. C. A., Friday, Feb. 14
GUILFORD OOIiLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 12, 1919
TO ALUMNI
This is both a critical and an in
teresting time in the history of (Guil
ford College. Her financial condi
tion has been explained a good many
times within the last six months ancT
the reasons why her condition is crit
ical have been made clear. In fact,
it hardly seems necessary to explain
that no college making moderate
charges for board and tuition can
stay clear of debt upon an endow
ment fund the size of ours. The
hour has arrived when Guilford
must be freed from financial embar
rassment, and the most progressive
step in her career for many years
was taken when the resolve was
reached to provide means great
enough to run the college as any
self-respecting institution ought to
be run.
This is an interesting time be
cause this necessary money must be
raised now and Guilford imust occu
py a bigger place at once. Every
reasonable person "will agree that
t'he cause is a good one and that the
endowment fund of the college
ought to be at least $400,000. It
would appear too that alumni would
agree that a movement of this kind
means more to them than to any
other group connected with the col
lege, and what is said here is said in
the hope of encouraging them to do
their full share. Just what that is i
each one must decide for himself.
It is not often that a call of this
kind has come to us, and we should
take some time to consider what we
want the future of the college to be
and what part we are to have in it.
We are the persons who must and
who ought to bear a great part of
the responsibility of the success of
this financial campaign. It is essen
tial that we raise the $30,000 allot
ted to us—and it is not a matter of
whether we have the money to give,
we have it and will £ive it # we are
sufficiently interested in seeing Guil
ford a college worthy of our pride
and honor. Contributions of SSOO
each have already been received
from a number of alumni and the
responses in general up to this time
are encouraging. Guilford's best as
set in the past has been her honesty
of purpose and her high standard of
scholarship, but she cannot hold fast
her ideals unless she is supported
now.
There follows here a list of per
sons from the various classes who
are soliciting their members. They
are doing their best to get In touch
with every alumnus. It will make
an otherwise arduous task easy if
each person will see to it that his re
sponse is made as promptly as pos
sible. If you have received no com
munication from the captain of your
class, will you not see who your cap
tain is and get in touch with him?
iClass of 'B9—Mr6. Fiorina Worth
John, Maxton, N. (C.
Class of '90 —Augustine W. Blair,
202 Laurence Ave., New Brunswick,
N. J.
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THE FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN
Many of oux 1 Alumni and friends j
will be interested in knowing more 1
about the campaign to raise $200,-
000.00 for Guilford College. The
movement began last spring, when !
all of those connected with the col
lege realized that we could not con
tinue to operate on our present
financial basis. It was evident that
either the advantages offered at
Guilford must be greatly reduced or !
that more funds must be raised. The
leading friends of the institution de
cided upon the latter course. A ban- !
quet was held at the college on
May 2 5 at which time it was decided ;
to start the campaign for $2 00,000.
A central committee was formed to
organize the campaign.
The trustees then turned their at
tention to securing a president for
the college. This was completed on
June 20. The rapidly developing
conditions with regard to colleges
and the program of the war made it
necessary for those who were work
ing for the college to devote their
time to an intensive campaign for
students. The success of this cam
paign is shown by the fact that en
rollment this year is only seven
i short of that of last year. Indica
| tions now are that there is a greater
; interest in the college than there
has been for several years.
After the completion of the cam-t
paign for students the epidemic of
influenza and the drives for war
funds closed up all doors to us dur
ing the fall. Our organization, how
ever, was gradually completed. For
the purpose of the canvass the vari
ous people to whom we may look for
subscriptions, were divided into the
following groups: members of the
Board of Trustees, members of the
Alumni, the Faculty, past and pres
ent, old students, members of North
Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends,
citizens of Greensboro, certain busi
ness men in North Carolina and
Friends outside of North Carolina.
In order to canvass the Alumni a
captain of each class was appointed
to solicit subscriptions from the
members of his or her class. This
work is being pushed forward by the
most of the captains. A. Wilson
Hobbs, as president of the Alumni
Association, has written a letter
which was sent to all the members.
We hope the alumni will respond
promptly when their captains ap
peal to them for we must make this
universal. Every member owes it
to his Alma Mater to respond to her
needs at this time.
A committee has been appointed
in each meeting in the Friends
Church in this State and the names
and addresses of all the mem'bers of
the Yearly Meeting are compiled and
literature is being sent to them.
A team of men are now visiting
the quarterly meetings and distribu
ting themselves amongst the meet
ings and assisting the local commit
tees in their every-member canvass.
Some of these men have canvassed
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ROOK AND FUDGE
AT FOUNDERS
Last Saturday evening Founders
Hall was the scene of the most
unique yet highly entertaining social
of the term. It consisted in the
main of progressive rook and those
not desiflng to play and those not
gifted in the art of rook-playing
merely coupled off £nd talked to
their own content.
There were seven tables in the
tournament at which presided seven
groups of card-sharks of four play
ers each. The winners of two best
out of three games progressed to
the succeeding table and so on. At
each progression the players receiv
ed a punch on their piace cards. The
excitement of the game waxed to a
climax at 9:30 at which time four
couples had progressed seven times
and were in line for the grand prize,
a box of Huyler's candy. These
couples consisted of Prank McGee
and Beulah Jessup; Hobart Patter
son and Francis Bulla; Jos. White
and Tom Stewart; Hugh Wnite and
Eva Lewallen. The finals were play
ed between the last two couples. It
is interesting to note that of the
professional cardplayers, Hugh
White is a preacher and Joe White
i preacher's ton The prizi was
won by Miss Tom Stewart and Joe
White.
Probably the best part of the sor
cial was the refreshments. The
Guilfordian room had been trans
formed into a veritable candy kitch
en. Professor Brinton was king of
the chafing dish, ably assisted by
Misses Kate Smith and Anne Sham
burger. The continual flow of choc
olate and cocoanut fudge and rr.ints
throughout the social made everv
one loth to leave at the time of part
ing May the social com-nittea see
fit to surprise the student-body
again with another such an agree
able occasion.
GUILFORD'S BIG GAME
FRIDAY NIGHT.
U. X. C. to Be Played at Greensboro
Y. M. C. A. on Feb. 14th.
All friends and supporters of the
college should be present at the
Greensboro Y. M. C. A. on Friday
Feb. 14th, and give the Guilford
team the kind of support which will
win the victory. This game will
mark the culmination of the basket
ball season and any Guilford man
who misses the chance to be there
will not only lose the opportunity to
see a good game, but will, by with
drawing his support, lessen the
■ chances of success. The game with
Trinity on the local floor Saturday
night (Feb. 15th) will almost be of
equal interest. This will be followed
by a game at Guilford with A. & E.
on the 2 oth. Elon and Wake Forest
are also coming here but definite
dates have not been fixed.
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