THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL XI
DOAK WARRIORS LOSE TO
LYNCHBURG COLLEGE IN
LAST GAME OF THE SEASON
ROBERTSON AND WARRICK PUZZLE
HORNETS BY SNAPPY WORK
WHOLE MACHINWORKS
WELL
In a hard fought game which was fea
tured by brilliant work on the part of
both teams. Guilford was defeated by
Lynchburg on Thanksgiving day, 37
to 6. in her last game of the season.
The outstanding feat of the game was
staged by Robertson, Guilford's half
back. when he got through a broken
field in the second quarter and ran from
Guilford's 23 yard line to Lynchburg's
four yard line before Thomas, Lynch
burg's fullback overtook him. A touch
down followed by a pass from Thomas
to Frazier which gave the Quakers their
lone marker. Robertson then kicked
a perfect goal but both teams were off
sides, and no extra point was added to
the quarter score.
Lynchburgs first tally came in the first
quarter, after recovering a fumble by
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PROF. WILSON DISCUSSES
MORALS IN CHAPEL TALK
Prof. George Pickett Wilson in his
chapel talk November 25, mentioned
Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, and
Woodrow Wilson, as three great leaders
in the intellectual and moral develop
ment of man. The speaker named Soc
rates as the founder of the first college,
even though his college was a street on
which he talked to a group of young
men. Socrates, 2,500 years ago taught
men how* to think and how to live.
Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the
University of Virginia, said that the
object of the college was "to develop
the intellect and to encourage the de
velopment, of the morals."' Wilson
stated that "a man ought never to for
get that a university should be a nurs
ery of principles and honor."
"I believe," said the speaker," that
American colleges and universities stand
for honor and right. One's character is
at a critical point in his college life.
During these four years the student gets
more knowledge than at any other
time. His opinions and ideas are not
settled, new ways of thinking are pre
sented to him. There is a danger in
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NEW GARDEN GIRLS WIN IN
CLOSE HOLIDAY MATCH
The first public hockey game played
at Guilford College took place Thurs
day morning when the Founders girls
played the New Garden girls. The
wdather was ideal for the game, but
the grass was too slippery for easy
plajing. The Founder girls fought
through an exciting game, but the New
Garden girls scored two goals while
their opponents scorey but one.
The teams were as follows:
Founders Position New Garden
C.F.
V, Galloway G. Nixon
R.I.
E. Watkins J. Wolf
L. I.
! Burgess L. Beeson
C.H.B.
S. Hodges L. Moore
R.H.B.
B. Dunn A. Beeson
L.H.B.
E. Been G. Blanchard
R.F.B.
L. Mashburn A. Beeson
L.F.B.
J. Conrad G> White
R.W.
E. Pamperin 0. Jinnette
L.W.
P - Cook K. Moore
G.K.|
R. Hodges J. M. Conrad
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., DECEMBER 11. 1924
INFARE CUSTOM REVIVED
RY DR. AND MRS. HORRS
MRS. A. WILSON HOBBS HONORED BY
OLD SOUTHERN CUSTOM—! 9
NEAR RELATIVES WEL
COMED HER
Doctors Mary M. and L. L. Hobbs
revived an old southern custom by hav
ing an infare for their daughter-in-law,
i Mrs. Nell Blair Hobbs, who was mar
ried to A. Wilson Hobbs of Chapel Hill
on last September 4. The infare was
held on Thanksgiving day at their home
near the college, and according to es
tablished customs, only the near rela
tives were invited, which on this oc.
: casion numbered 25.
Infares, which Were superceded by the
modern receptions, were customary in
the early fifties, and Mrs. Hobbs re
members only two, within her lifetime.
In 1854, at the age of two, she attend
ed one accorded the bride of her uncle,
; Cyrus Mendenhall, and in 1854, when
her other uncle, Junius Mendenhall, re
turned from Minnesota with his bride.
They were much in the way of wedding
dinners and served to introduce the
bride to her husband's people.
On the occasion of the revival of
this old custom by the Doctors, Mary
M. and L. L. Hobbs, 24 near relatives,
and one close friend, Dr. Anna Gove,
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VIRGINIA ROBINS WORK
FOR COMING CONCERT
The concert performance of the Vir
ginia Robins Orchestra has been finally
: set for Wednesday evening, December
3, in Memorial hall.
.The Robins who now number twelve,
! have undergone several strenuous re
hersals during the last few weeks under
the directorship of J. Gurney Briggs, of
High Point, and a real treat is expect
; ed by Guilfoord students.
The program will range from light
| classics to popular selections and sev
i eral solo and feature numbers are in
i eluded. A double quartet will give
two selections which are expected to be
! good.
Orchestra members are hoping that
two concerts will be allowed them each
year—one in the fall and one in the
i spring—so that Guilford students may
' become better acquainted with home
i talent.
The orchestra will hold only light
I practcies after the concert until the
Glee Club season opens, when they will
| travel together.
THE DRAMATIC JCOUNCIL
presents for the benefit of the Young Woman's
Christian Association
THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS Sp
"ARIA DA CAPO" "THE POT BOILER"
by Edna St. Vincent Millay by Alice Gerstenberg
"THE DREAMY KID"
by Eugene O'Neill
SATURDAY DECEMBER 13th 8:00 p. m.
MEMORIAL HALL
Admission SI.OO All seats reserved
Eor reservations write Edward M. Holder,
Guilford College, N. C.
ZAIASIANS ENTERTAIN
WEBSTERIAN SOCIETY IN
SEMI-ANNUAL RECEPTION
PROGRAM CONSISTED OF PORTRAYAL
OF HAWAIIAN LIFE AND CUS
TOMES—QUARTET SINGS
The Websterians were delightfully
entertained by the Zatasian literary
society at its regular meetin at Memo
rial hall, last Friday evening. All
Websterians had eagerly looked for
ward to this biennial reception; for the
reception of 1922 was so vividly recall
ed by the old Websterians, that all the
new men had been informed as to the
splendid time they might expect.
After the meeting was called to order
by President Margaret Levering and
after Jennie Howard Cannon had been
appointed critic for the evening, a very
interesting program was given. The
minds of the guests were carried to the
far-away Hawaiian Islands, as the pro
gram centered around events in this far
off land. "Hawaii and the Hawaiians"
by Carrie Norman paved the way, and
led the Websterians to that distant cor
ner of the globe. This number interest
ingly discussed the natural features, the
climate and people of Hawaii.
A piano solo, "Ottama's Retreat" by-
Mildred ToWnsend, very beautifully
and charmingly given, continued the
Hawaiian idea of the program.
The third number, a reading by Eva
Matthews, fittingly portrayed the love
affair of a young American painter and
an Italian girl beneath Hawaii's azure
sky; their wedded life in an American
city and the tragic end of their married
life, the curtain falling on the heroine
and the little son beneath Italian skies
as blue and scenes almost as charming
as those in Hawaii.
"On the Beach at Wahaikai" by Ruth
Stevens, Ola Nicholson, May Holliday,
and Geneva Ilighbill, was a splendid
vocal quartet. They sang several Ha
waiian songs and were accompanied by
guitar and ukelele. The costumes were
in keeping with the occasion represent
ed.
"An Evolution of an Idea" by Beulah
Allen, the last number on the program,
presented her charming ideas and con
ceptions of Hawaii up to the present
day. The latter part of this number
was a look into the future, and a proph
ecy of the lives of Websterians in the
years to come. This prophecy was very
cleverly woven with the general idea
underlying the program.
James Howell, John Wesley Frazier,
Nereus English, Kenneth Neese and
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SMITH DOMINATES SCENES
IN O'NEIL'S "DREAMY KID"
TRAGIC INTENSITY OF PLAY FINDS
ABLE INTERPRETERS IN
CAST
S. Gladstone Hodgin, who is coach
ing the "Dreamy Kid," one of the three
short plays that is to be given Decem
ber 13th, under the auspices of the I
Young Woman's Christian Association, j
is full of enthusiasm over the trend that
the play is taking. With final rehersal
one week away, the cast is assuming i
quite a professional tone.
The theme is one that requires re
straint, yet command of the more emo
tional scenes. The pathos is told mostly
between the lines, so that it is quite
different to direct from the usual
"negro comedy."
Charles D. Smith plays the part of
Dreamy, a young negro who has killed
a white man and is in hiding from the
police—and does it splendidly, too.
He is the one central character around
which the entire play revolves. When
Smith is on the stage there is no doubt
who is the leading man. So complete
ly has he worked into the character of
"Dreamy" that by the final presentation
he should sweep the audience along
with him.
Even on the bare stage in the day- |
time, which should destroy any illusions,
one cannot but feel something of the |
mental struggle portrayed and catch
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"THE POT BOILER" PROMISES
TO RE A SURE-FIRE HIT
Alice Gerstengerg's "The Pot Boiler,"
the play billed to strike the chief note
of comedy in the three plav program
scheduled by the Dramatic Council is
fast developing into a non-stop-laugh;
thirty minutes of side splitting mirth,
with a kick in every line.
John Reynolds in the role of the
much harrassed play producer, Mr. Sud,
furnishes much of the comedy of the
play. There is many of a laugh in the
struggles of Mr. Sud to put into his
would-be actors proper expression. As
he remarks to the novice, for whose
benefit the rehersal takes place, "This
is how actors ruin good plays." But in
the ruining, which amounts to the bur
lesquing of a melodramatic scene, hing
ed on the dark plot of the villain to
force the fair hand of the heroine
(played by Deborah Mendenhall) there
develops a situation which is absurd
and ridiculous in its farcical melo- ,
drama.
CECIL ROBERTS. NOTED POET
LECTURER, AND EDITOR THE
NOTINGHAM JOURNAL, SPEAK
DISCUSSES PRESENT DAY TENDENCY
IN NOVELS AND READS OWN
POEM ."PRIEST OF
AMBROSIO"
Cecil Roberts, a distinguished young
' English poet and lecturer, editor of the
: Nottingham Journal, the oldest paper in
Great Britain, lectured to the students
| and faculty, Saturday evening, N0v.29.
j This Was the second lyceum number of
; the year and consisted of an interesting
discussion of the newspaper work, pres
ent day tendencies in novelism, life in
Italy during the Facisti revolution of
1919 to 1920, and the influences of
Italian scenery and life on art.
The speaker stated that people read
novels because they were cheap and eas
ily obtained; some read them to take
their thoughts from tlihe trials of the
World.
The work of propaganda is carried on
to some extent by novels according to
the speaker. He deplored the pseudo
psychological nevels which purport to
contain a psychological investigation of
human character, and really contain
much that is indecent, suggestive, and
i immoral. The inate desire to indulge
in harmless gossip is an important rea
| son for novel reading, maintained the
speaker.
"The first novels," said he, "told
lof the lives of the people. The book
' and characters one likes best is the one
that best expresses one's own experi
ences, desires, and ideas. Novels may
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ED WILSONOF HAVERFORD
ATTENDS HOBS INFARE
Edwin M. Wilson, headmaster of
Haverford Preparatory School, Haver
ford, Pa., spent Thanksgiving day with
his cousin, Mrs. Mary Mendenhall
Hobbs. He made a sepcial trip to
North Carolina to attend the infare in
honor of the bride of A. Wilson Hobbs,
Mr. Wilson is an alumnus of Guil
j ford College graduating with the class
of "92.
Mr. Wilson is a loyal Guilfordian,
always having the best interests of the
College at heart. Last spring during
the Endowment Campaign, he, with
Walter Haviland, of Philadelphia, was
successful in raising several thousand
dollars for the College.
Following the Thanksgiving dinner
at the Hobbs residence, Mr. Wilson left
for Charlootesville, Virginia, where he
, will spend the rest of the holidays with
his uncle, Doctor Alderman, president
j of the University of Virginia.
VOLLEY BALL TEAM WINS
FROM GREENSBORO Y.
Contemporary with the advent of
i hockey as a sport for the girls, volley.
| ball has come to stay as an exercise for
I the boys. Every suitable day this fall
! the volley-ball court has been the scene
jof much sport and enthusiasm. One
; new ball has been entirely worn out and
another has been well broken in.
One game with the Greensboro Y.M.
C.A. has already been played and won,
Wednesday of last week. The score
by games was: 3-15, 8-15, 11-15, with
Greensboro taking the first game and
the Guilford varsity taking the last two.
The regular varsity has not been per
manently chosen so far but the men
showing the best form are; the Rus
sell twins, Macon, A. White, Winslow
and R. Thomas. In all, about twenty
men are going out for the game.
Preparations are being arranged for
setting up the volley-ball net in the
gymnasium before other matches are
arranged with outside teams. White
is hoping to arrange games with the
High Point team and another with the
Greensboro Y.M.C.A.
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