THE GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME VIII
OPENING RECEPTION
ANxENJOYABLE EVENT
New Students Welcomed by Faculty
and Old Students
Perhaps nothing happens at Guil
ford during the lirst part of the
school year that is looked forward
to by the student body with as great
interest and expectation as the annual
opening reception given by the Y. M.
and Y. W. Christian Associations. At
these receptions old students renew
their acquaintances and make new
ones, while the new students meet for
the first time the entire faculty and
student body and are made to feel
that they have really become a part
of a live and active college communi
ty*
The two Christian Associations
deserved praise for the work which
they did in order to make Saturday
evening, September 17th, a time to be
remembered. At 8.00 p. m. the fac
ulty and a number of old Guilford
ians and visitors assembled in the
college library and prepared to wel
come an eager group of students
who were lined up on the campus
just outside the door, each old stu
dent having a partner selected from
the new students.
As this procession entered each
one was greeted by the faculty
During the two hours following the
library was thronged with nearly
three hundred students eager to se
cure the names of and become ac
quainted with every one else. Vi/hen
this had been practically accomplish
ed a social hour was allowed which
did a great deal toward strengthening
many of the new acquaintances. For
at this hour the moon gave just the
desired amount of light to make the
college campus look inviting to the
many couples that wished to con
clude the program for the evening
bv taking a short walk and having
a few minutes conversation unc.er
such favorable surroundings.
GUILFORD WELCOMES FOUR
NEW MEMRERS IN
FACULTY
The group of professors and teach
ers is practically unchanged this year
since there are only four new mem
bers of the faculty. The Guilfordian
extends to these teachers its heartiest
welcome and wishes them great suc
cess in their various departments of
work.
Professor Palmer, head of the
Chemistry Department, comes from
Arkansas and is well prepared for
bis work. He is a graduate of Clem
son College and holds his Master's
degree from John Hopkins Univer
sity.
Our new teacher of Spanish and
Physical Director for girls is Miss
Virginia Robinson of South GifTord.
M issouri. She is a graduate of the
University of Missouri and has stud
ied Spanish in New Mexico.
All Guilfordians welcome Miss
Kate Smith of the Class of 1919
back to her Alma Mater as assistant
in Latin and English. Miss Smith
won the scholarship to Rryn Mawr in
1920 and has since studied at the
University of Colorado Summer
School, Boulder, Colorado.
We are glad to have as assistant
in the music department this year
M rs. Robert Dann, who has been a
student of Pacific College and Col
umbia University. Last year she was
a teacher in Pacific College, New
berg, Oregon.
Miss Alma Taylor Edwards, 'O7,
is Dean of Women and Professor of
Latin at Central College for Women,
Lexington, Missouri.
Miss Mary E. White, 'l4, is pur
suing a course of study at the Haver
ford Graduate School.
ENROLLMENT
SHOWS GAIN
Largest Number Students in Dozen
Years and Largest Number of
High School Graduates in
History of College
PROMISE BANNER YEAR
At the end of the second week of
the college year two hundred and
twenty nine students have registered.
This is the greatest number for the
second Saturday since 1908, when
the total registration for the whole
year was 275. The following table
will give an interesting comparison
with registration figures during the
last dozen years.
Students registered during the first
twelve days of each year since 1908.
1908 234 1915 199
1919 227 1916 204
1910 226 1917 159
1911 209 1918 132
1912 220 1919 202
1913 226 1920 214
1914 223 1921 229
A more striking fact revealed by
the registration figures is the change
in the ratios of new to old students
and the ratio of new students who
are high school graduates to the total
number of new students. The figures
tor this year show that J35, 59 per
cent of the total enrollment are old
students. In 1914 the ratio was 56
per cent, in 1920 it was 50 per cent.
In 1919 due to the large number of
old students who had had their edu
cation interrupted during the war
period and were seizing the first op
portunity to return to their Alma
Mater the ratio was almost identical
with this year. More significant is
the increasing number of new stu
dents who are high school graduates
Of the new students who had register
ed at this time in 1914 only 30.6 per
cent held high school diplomas. In
1919 the ratio was 40.2 per cent, in
1920 it was 42.2 per cent while this
year the figure has taken the sudde
bound to 62.8 per cent. This morr
than any other single fact augurs well
for the future of Guilford College
With an increasing number of well
prepared students the mortality in the
Freshman Class should be very ma
terially reduced and the consequent
larger enrollment in the upper classes
will soon solve the promblem of fill
ing the dormitories.
The average age of the students is
almost the same as last year, 18.1
years. The number of students un
der seventeen is only eight owing
largely to the action of the facultv
last spring abolishing the more ele
mentary courses in the preparatory
department.
The records of church affiliations
indicate that almost half of the stu
dents enrolled this year are members
of the Society of Friends. Almost
half of the remainder belong to one
or the other of the Methodist church
es.
The distribution by counties lis
very similar to last year, Guilford far
in the lead with Randolph and Ala
mance, following in order.
The Enrollment By Counties
1921 1920
Guilford 69 71
Randolph 23 19
Alamance 21 13
Forsythe 11 10
Stokes 11 9
Yadkin 10 15
Perquimans 9 12
Rockingham 8 9
Northampton 6 5
Wayne 6 11
Caswell 5 3
Davie 5 7
Surry 5 6
Davidson 3 6
Duplin 3 1
Alexander 2 2
Chatham 2 4
Iredell 2 1
Moore 2 2
Montgomery 2 5
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C„ SEPTEMBER 28, T921
MUCH PEP 10
ENTHUSIASM DIS
PLAYED BY CO-EDS
Promise of Successful Season
For Guilford Women
The prospects for girls' athletics
now promise the most successful year
in the history of Guilford College.
More girls are enrolled in school,
and a very efficient and accomplished
directress, Miss Robinson has been
secured for this work. She is much
interested and experienced in the
work so a most successful year is
quite evident.
Compulsory physical culture was
made a part of the college curricu
lum last year and proved to be very
helpful to the health of the girls.
Miss Robinson and the college
physician, Dr. Williams, have com
pleted a physical examination of the
girls, and have found most of them
able to take part in any sports.
The gymnasium classes have been
organized and the attendance is large.
There about seventy w T ho attend the
classes from six to seven in the morn
ing. Class are scheduled at other
period during the day for those who
do not wish to rise so earlv.
Base ball will be the main sport
during the fall months. The first
practical game was beta on saturda\
and many girls were on the field
where they displayed much enthusi
asm and pep. Public games of
baseball will be played between the
classes when the teams have been or
ganized and are in good practice.
Many of the girls who played last
year are back and the outlook is fa
vorable for some interesting games.
The tennis courts are being cleaned
off and tennis will begin next week.
After a little practice the fall tour
nament will be played to find the
star of the tennis players. Much in
erest has always been taken in these
ournaments and it is hoped many
nore will take part than ever before.
Volley ball will be played, also,
his fall and class games will be
'ivrd in this and in basket ball. The
old and new girls' basket ball games
will, as usual, be played sometime
luring the fall term.
The Y. W. A. A. Cabinet met with
Miss Robinson Saturday to make
plans for the year. The cabinet is
composed of girls who are very
much interested in athletics and each
one has made or is making plans
for her atheletic sport. Arrange
ments have been to get workmen to
clean off and smooth the base ball
dm,nonds and tennis courls instead
of depending on new boys as has
been dene heretofore. Ther 3 has
Deen a large back of New Gard
en given to girls for an athletic field.
So base ball and tennis will be
played here and it is hoped that out
door volley ball and basket ball
courts may be made very soon.
Much new equipment will be bought
this year for use in the various sports
and along with this equipment a
Victrola will be purchased for use in
the gymnasium classes.
Scotland 2 1
Other Counties 11 14
Other States 11 12
Totals 229* 238
for 1921 are to Sept. 26.
Totals for 1920 are for the whole
year.
The Enrollment by i.Denomin a tions
1921 1920
Society of Friends 106 103
Methodist Episcopal 52 48
Methodist Protestant 5 6
Presbyterian 15 13
Baptist 13 25
Moravian 3 1
Others 5 5
No affiliation 30 37
Totals 229 238
UNIVERSnY OF N. 0.
HONORSJB. HOBBS
Doctor of Literature Degree Con
ferred at Last Commencement
The readers of the Guilfordian will
rejoice with the many other friends
of Mary M. Hobbs that she honored
the University of N. C. by giving it
the opportunity of conferring the
doctorate of literature upon her as
the Greensboro Daily News puts it—
"that she did not win this distinc
tion by any one line of work or
thought, though more than one of
these might have deserved it. She is
more than these—she is a light shin
ing that men may see the truth. Her
personality and the conscious in
fluence of her noble character and
high purposes have opened the way
for the recognition which her genius
for good deeds and her willingness
to work incognito, entitles her to
have. She has not only been doing
things but has been growing by do
ing them. She has not labored to
make a career but has fitted into the
place which she has so efficiently fill
ed."
At the Commencement exercises of
June, 1921, said University conferred
on Mary Mendehall Hobbs the hon
orary degree of Doctor of Literature
in the following words:
"Mary Mendenhall Hobbs was
born at Jamestown. She learned and
laid deep foundations of liberal cul
first under the tutilage of her father
ather at New Garden Boarding
School, and later on at the Howland
School in New York.
New York.
Deeply imbued with faith in the
widening destiny of woman, for
more than decades, she has stood
forth in the light, immeasurably
courageous in advocacy of complete
and full-orbed education, whether un
der church or state, for youth and
maid alike. Whether advancing the
noble cause of higher education;
widening the channels of religious
influence of the Society of Friends,
both locally and nationally; or vital
izing the consciousness;—it has been
with the spirit and the pen of the
literary artist that she has kindled
the emotions of her generation. In
recognition of this contribution to
our mental and spiritual life, the
University of North Carolina will
now confer upon her the degree of
Doctor of Literature."'
It may not be out of place to say
here that Mary M. Hoobs, by her
strong intellect, her clear reasoning
and her sympathetic nature has la
bored earnestly in season and out of
season on the things that came to her
hands.
From girlhood she has had an
abiding faith and interest in the So
ciety of Friends of which she was a
birthright member and has had re
sponsible positions in the local,
Yearly and Five Year's Meetings.
She is at the present time a member
of the Executive Committee of the
Five Years Meeting.
She is widely known throughout
our State through her carefully laid
plans and enthusiastic efforts for ed
ucation both in her church and state.
She was a strong advocate for the
Normal and Industrial School in
Greensboro, both by pen and voice,
speaking for it whenever opportuni
ty offered. The University also has
had her championship. The develop
ment and enfranchisement of women
has. for years, received her constant
efforts.
Til her own church she has done
much for education in all its phases
and particularly in giving the girls
a chance to help themselves in this
line. New Garden Hall stands as a
monument to her untiring efforts for
the girls of N. C. Yearly Meeting in
particular and for the girls of the
State in general.
—By a Friend.
FOOTBALL TEAM FAST
GETTING INTO SHAPE
About Thirty-jive Men are Hitting
the Gridiron iMily
Guilford begins her football sea
son October 1, with Roanoke at Sa
lem, Virginia.
The largest squad of men in a
number of years has reported for
work. Now with almost three weeks
of strenuous training behind them
the men are becoming toughened and
and organized for the intensive and
grilling work immediately preceding
the opening games.
The teams will lose several valua
ble men of last year's squad. Cap
tain Newlin, veteran quarterback of
four years experience, Raiford and
B. L. White, backfield men, R. L.
Tremaine who also played quarter
back and L. E. Tremaine at center
will all be missing, having been lost
by graduation.
The team which will enter the
field against Roanoke will have three
varsity men as a nucleus upon which
to build its line; big '"Babe" Shore,
a two hundred pounder at right tack
le who has great powers of punch
and resistance; Stafford playing left
tackle who is also a dangerous and
experienced player, and Clyde Shore
a weighty and speedy end.
illiarns, Lassiter, Smith, McAdoo,
Winslow and Edgerton all of last
year's squad together with Pringle,
1' lazier, Warwick, and Nicholson,
new men who are showing up well,
will form the material from which
the other line positions will be filled.
Curtis Newlin and Everett Mc-
Bane, effective men in last year's
line have been shifted to quarter
and half. Grady Mcßane and Mur
ray White are back in their old po
sitions. I hese men form a back
field of terrific smashing power and
considerable speed. Newlin at quar
ter is handling the team in excellent
manner and can be counted on for
effective work in defensive and open
field play. The big half back, White,
handles his hundred and ninety
pounds with exceptional speed and
power. The other half back Everett
Mcßane who also carries two hun
dred pounds of muscle, though new
in the back field, rams the line with
a smash that cannot fail to be a
ground gainer. Grady Mcßane at
full back with the experience of three
years in the back field is expected
to be the most consistent ground
gainer on the team.
Other men who show much prom
ise in the back field are, Taylor, J
W. Frazier, Purvis, Kinney.
The team is again under the direc
tion of Coach Doak.
He will probably take advantage of
the punch and weight of the team by
depending upon straight foot ball
tactics as a means of offense.
The squad ha; developed from
the setting-up exercises of the early
season, and later, from hard work
on the dummy and at perfecting sig
nals and is now engaging in daily
scrimmage as a final conditioning
for the Roanoke game which should
find every man in excellent shape.
All indications point to a fierce
struggle, since Roanoke in the open
ing game of her season held the pow
erful \ . M. I. team to a score of 13
to 0.
Guilford s line-up will probably
be as follows:
C. Shore, R. E„ B. Shore, R. T.;
Smith, R. G.: Warwick or Prindle,
C.; Williams, L. E.; Stafford. 1,. T.;
Eassiter or Frazier, L. E.; New!in, O
B.; White, L. H.; E. Mcßane, R. IE;
G. Mcßane, F. B.
The schedule includes the same in
stitutions as those engaged last year,
major change being a two-game
series with Elon, one game to be
played in Greensboro, November 11,
the other at Elon on Thanksgiving
day.
No. 1.