THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL XI.
QUAKERS TAKE GAME FROM
LENOIR MOUNTAINEERS RUT
LOSE TO DAVIDSON WILDCATS
Davidson Has Smoothest
Working Team Seen
This Year
The Quaker quint split even in the
two basketball games that were played
on the home court this Week, losing to
Davidson by an overwhelming score of
58-27 and winning from Lenoir-Rhyne
in an exciting game by the narrow mar
gin of 33-32. Both games were fast and
interesting and afforded thrill after thrill
for the spectators.
Davidson Game
Davidson college defeated the Quaker
quint for the first time on the home
court in several years Wednesday night
bye the decisive score of 58-27. R.
Smith put Guilford in the lead at the
very first of the game with 4 points.
This was the only time during the en
tire game that Guilford was in the lead.
The visitors put up the best offensive
game that has been seen on the home
court this year, while the home team
had difficulty in finding the basket. Ru
fus Smith was the best man for Guil
ford, and it was due to his fast floor
work that the score was kept down. He
also led in the scoring with 10 points.
Capt. Tew also played a good defensive
game. For the visitors Anderson was the
high scorer with 9 field goals. Staley
followed closely with 8 field goals.
Lineup and summary:
Guilford Pos. Davidson
Ferrell r.f. Staley
Frazier l.f Laird
Tew c Anderson
R. Smith r.g. McConnell
F. Smith l.g. Boggs
Substitutions: Guilford, Sparger,
Thomas for F. Smith; Davidson, Beall,
Hydgins, Heine.
Lenoir-Rhyne Defeated
The Quaker cagers came off the court
Saturday after a hair raising contest
with the Lenoir-Rhyne quint which they
won 33-32. The first half was a slug
gish contest featured by fairly consis
tent scoring on the part of the moun
taineers. The Quakers were not able
to.find the hoop although they tried oft
en enough; neither team seemed to have
any fighting spirit. This period ended
with the local boys trailing by a 23-15
score. At the beginning of the second
quarter the Guilford men began to wake
up and gradually overcame the big lead
piled up by the visitors. Gilmer Spar
ger slipped in the last goal of the game
which gave Guilford the game by a
single point margin. There were no
brilliant stars on either team. Ferrell
led the locals in scoring with 13 points.
R. Smith was hi? nearest follower with
eight points. He played a good game,
his feature being his ability to dribble
out of difficult positions. Tew, center,
was out of the game on account of ill
ness. Moose, right forward, featured
for the visitors.
The lineup and summary follows:
Guilford Pos Lenoir-Rhyne
Ferrell r.f Moose
Frazier l.f. Mosteller
Sparger c Miller
R. Smith rg Brown
lie. ring l.g. Karricker
Trymtts were held Monday and
f§ 'he f Rowing men were chosen to
g represent the College in the de
bate between Guilford and Le
m noir-Rhyne:
Gilmer Sparger
B. R. Branson
James Howell
Byron Haworth
Alternates
Allison White
Kenneth Neese
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 25,1925
ARGHIRALD GAMPRELL
SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
Moral Debts Graduates
of Christian Colleges
Owe to World
Archibald Campbell, who is a grad
uate of Washington and Princeton
Theological seminary and who is now a
1 missionary to Korea, spoke during the
chapel period Tuesday morning concern
ing our moral debt as graduates of a
! christian college.
Mr. Campbell said, "I have great re
j spect for the persons who work or bor
j row money to go through college. They
usually make good in life. We all re
alize the advantage of finishing school
without being in debt. But even if we
graduate without financial debt, we all
! owe a moral debt. Especially is this
I true of graduates of a christian college."
! As an example of this debt, Mr.
j Campbell referred to a man in the Amer
i ican Medical Association. If a man in
this association makes a great discovery
or invention to relieve human suffering
and does not expose it to the public,
!he is committing a great sin. He is
expelled from the association for such
| an act.
j Just so are we morally obligated after
I finishing college with our wide know
ledge, to use this knowledge to help the
public. The speaker discussed the
j great field for Christian aid. He told of
j the conditions in India, China and Jap
! aji. Heathen practices of worshiping
j idols are still going on. "There is more
trouble in the world today than ever
| before." said Mr. Campbell.
| "With our moral debt staring us in
j the face; and in view of the great field
for Christian service, let us pay this
debt to the world."
DAVID H. BLAIR SENDS
BANQUETERS GREETINGS
With an acknowledged array of
celebrities that any college or Univer
sity would be proud to claim at an "Al
ma Mater Banquet," Guilford has only
a few "mijht have beens" to add to the
list of what could have been added to
the occasion, if anything at all could.
Since the banquet numerous letters have
come in expressing congratulations be
cause of the success of the banquet,
and regrets that the writer could not be
present. The whole first baseball team
was present with the exception of two,
and even one member, Doctor Hobbs, of
ihe first Boarding school team was pres
ent to bring his characteristic memories.
A letter from Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, David 11. Blair, expresses his
his regrets at not being able to be
present:
"Dear Doctor Perisho:—
"I received thy note but now it is too
late to come or to write. I should like
i nmensely to he at the Guilford College
banquet, but since Will is to be there
and preside as toastmaster I feel that
the family at least is well represented.
"It is indeed remarkable that the first
baseball team of Guilford College, some
40 years ago. should all be alive. That
i* a tribute either "to Guilford College
or to baseball or to both.
"The fact that all those men are still
living indicates that they have led pro
per lives. Whether they learned it
from the college or from the trainer of
the baseball team is immaterial. They
evidently learned a great and practical
lesson about proper living which has
prolonged their lives. There is no
doubt in my mind that they not only
learned a lesson as to proper living but
that Guilford did much to make of
them good useful, practical, Christian
citizens, and that is the greatest thing
that any college can do.
"With all good wishes for thee, the
baseball team and for Guilford College,
and with sincere regret that I cannot be
present, I remain,
"Sincerely,
"(Signed) D. H. Blair."
JOHN WESLEY FRAZIER, '25
John Wesley Frazier is completing
his fourth year with the Guilford Var
sity cagers. He is a good student and
at the same time makes the Varsity team
in three major sports. He plays quarter
back in football, forward in basketball
and shortstop in baseball. "Shorty" has
Won, while at Guilford, three letters and
nine stars. He graduates this spring.
PEACE WORKERS DISCUSS
WAR AND ITS PREVENTION
February 19 and 20 Richard R. Wood,
chairman of the Philadelphia Yearly
meeting of Friends, and President J. M.
Henry, of Blue Ridge college, New
Windsor, Md., chairman of the Peace
Committee of the Church of Brethren,
Were here and lectured at the chapel
periods on war and its prevention.
They also held individual conferences
and discussed problems confronting stu
dents.
In his lecture on war and its prevention
Mr. Wood defined war as the social
sin of the present generation. He based
his speech on a noted saying of George
Fox. "Live in the power of God which
destroys the occasion for war."
lie pointed out that the duty of col
lege men and women who will be the
leaders of the future in governmental
affairs is to prepare to prevent this cost
ly and utterly futile pastime of the na
tions, war. He vividly portrayed the ter
rible cost of War, as science and mod
ern invention have made it. The last
(Continued on page two)
FRESHMEN-SOPHOMORE
DERATE TO RE MARCH 11
Ihe inter-class debaters for tlie Fresh
men-Sophomore debate to be held
March 11, live arecently been chosen
and will meet in what is usually the
hottest contest staged before the pub
lic during the year. Kenneth Neese
and Gilmer Sparger will represent the
Sophomores with Raymond Thomas and
Sydney Winslow as alternates. The
Freshmen cause will be championed by
Byron Haworth and Charles Weir with
Robert Griffin and Paul Swanson as al
ternates.
The question under discussion will be
the same as the subject for the Inter-
Collegiate debate with Lenoir-Rhyne:
'Resolved, that, the United States con
gress should be empowered through con
stitutional amendment to enact uniform
marriage and divorce laws."
There was no inter-class debate last
year but the yar before the Freshmen
won out. Three years ago the Sopho
mores won; thus in the three recent
years the classes have divided honors.
Some of the speakers on the two class
teams will in all probabilty make the
college team and debate Lenoir-Rhyne.
This will be the first inter-collegiate de
bate in two years. Two years ago Guil
ford won both sides of the contest with
Hampden-Sydney. Every member of
that year's team has since graduated.
VOCAL STUDENTS GIVE
VARIED SONG RECITAL
Many New Students Make
Debut in First Voice
Recital of Year
The pupils of James Westley White
gave a voice recital Monday evening,
February 22, in Memorial hall. This
Was the first voice recital of the year
and for a number who took part was
their first appearance before an audi
ence at Guilford College. The program
which consisted mostly of songs and
Arias of a lighter vein was well pre
sented, meriting the hearty applause
which followed many of the numbers.
Marguerite Stuart won the most en
thusiastic applause from the audience
by her splendid singing of "La Danza"
by C. W. Chadwick.
Ethel Watkins in "Harps of Delight"
and Chandos Kimrey in "Come Into the
Wildwood" displayed clear soprano
voices, well adapted to songs of legato
scoring.
Frank Casey singing Fisher's arrange
ment of Dvorak's "Gion' Horn" and a
lighter song "Two Little Magpies" made
an excellent impression. Frank Crutch
field, also of the masculine roster, dis
played a well trained voice. Particu
larly well done was "Sink Sink, Sink
Red sky."
The program which was enjoyed by
an appreciative audience made up of
students, faculty and friends of the com
munity, follows:
1. (a) "Go Little Song", E. L. Ash
ford, (b) "Who Knows", E. Bell, (c)
"My Treasure, J. Terry, Viola Odom;
2. (a) "Mighty Lak a Rose", E. Nevin;
(b) "A Puzzled Little Grandson," J.
W. Wells; (c) "To a Swallow", J. W.
Metcalf; Helen Johnson. (3) Requiem,
S. Homer; (b) Her Rose, W. G. Smith;
(c) At Parting, W. G. Rogers; Paul
i Reynolds. 4. (a) "Little Silver Ring",
j Chaminade; (b) "Come to the Wild
Wood, C. Harris; Chandos Kimrey.
5. (a) Land of My Dreams, C. Harris;
I (b) "Oh, de Land I am Bound for," Ar
ranged by R. N. Dett; (c) "Sink, Sink
Red Sun," T. Del Hiego; Frank Crutch
(Continued on page 4)
TRUSTEES OF COLLEGE
APPROVE FINANCE BUDGET
1 lie Trustees of Guilford College met
here Monday afternoon to discuss the
financial problems of the College dur
ing the coming year. The budget offer
ed by the President, Business Manager
and Treasurer was discussed and after
careful consideration was accepted. It
was very little different from the bud
get of last year, in amount and charac
ter.
Miss Eninia King, who has for some
time been collecting a history of the
! endowment of the colleg", offered a pre
liminary report of her work. She was
directed by the trustees to continue
assembling material on the subject.
There have been some interesting facts
brought out by her research work in
the old records of the institution. For
one thing, she learned that in 1836, be
fore New Garden Boarding school was
started, there was an endowment start
ed for the purpose. The school was
opened in 1837. In 1810 the endow
ment had reached the astounding sum
of $4.00.
However, the endowment soon reach
ed considerable proportions and was
apparently safely invested at the be
gnning of the war. But in the recon
struction days following the war the
notes could not be collected and the
College lost in round numbers about
$4,000.00. In 1888 the endowmcn of
the institution amounted to about $20,-
000.00. It stood at $50,000.00 in 1905
but was soon increased to $175,000.00.
It remained at about that figure until
three years ago. Then the new endow
ment was started which will net, when
all pledges are paid up, a total of
; $500.00. At present the actual en
dowment of Guilford is $340,000.
DOLLY PAYNE MADISON, WIFE
OF PRESIDENT, WAS QUAKER
LADY OF GUILFORD GOLLEGE
Record Shows Dolly was
Born "Ye 20 of Ye 5
Mo. 1768
When man forgets to beautify the
surroundings from whence spring those
individuals of the race who deserve
most to be honored and remembered,
then nature sometimes volunteers to do
so. Such at least has been the case
where Dolly Payne Madison was born,
perhaps the most popular woman who
ever came to be first lady of the land.
About 100 yards east of the Guilford
College campus, on the Friendly road,
there is a spot, unmarked though it is,
which should interest anyone who ap
preciates associations that hark back in
to history. A home site situated at the
head of a little valley, on the crest of a
hill, overlooks this valley which is stud
ded here and there with clumps of cedar
and an occasional beech tree. The hol
low is a perfect amphitheatre. The an
cient Greeks would have prized it high
ly as a place to hold their outdoor
games. It is perhaps a half mile from
the hilltop to where the thick woods
cut off the view at the south. A centu
ry and a half ago thick woods clothed
all the slopes around about and only
rambling log houses stood by the road
which now runs along the ridge and is
fronted by the most spacious homes of
Carolina.
Almost on the spot where the home
of Alpheus White now stands, there
once stood a large log house. This old
log house has almost faded out of even
the legendary history of the community.
However, there are some aged Quakers
still who point out an old well and refer
to the place as the birthplace of Dolly
Madison.
Only the old well can be pointed out
as existing in the days of the "Little
Dolly" Payne. But it is so old that no
one knows how old it is.
In spite of the fact that no certain
material remains to mark the spot as
the historical one, tradition cannot be
disputed. Many, many years ago Mar
tha Russell Hodgin used to visit over
night with Aunt Polly Brown in the big
oid log house where Dolly Payne was
born. She noticed big cupboards on
each side of the fireplace and for an
early Carolina home it was roomy and
reflected prosperous circumstances.
But why is so little known and why
! lias there been so little written of the
place? The facts have existed all these
years. There are records to bear them
out. Both, the records of Cedar Creek
Friends monthly meeting in Virginia,
and those of the New Garden monthly
meeting of Friends in North Carolina
-rcord the doings of the Payne family.
I'hese records tell when the family
a.: i' lo Norlh Carolina and when it
returned.
In the old records kept by the North
Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends at
C.uilford College there is a book of the
minutes kept at New Garden at the time
| when the Payne family was in North
Carolina. One of its entries reads as
follows: "Thirteenth of eleventh month,
seventeen-sixty-five. . , . John Payne
produced a certificate for himself and
(Continued on page 4)
+■ As far as the grades are in, the J
1 4 following students made a grade ♦
X of A on every subject: 4
£ Annie Wagoner .... X
4 Edward Allen i
Those students who, as far as ♦
„ can be determined from reports 4
1 * that are in, made an A grade
] • with the exception of one B, are "f
- as follows: 4
Beulah Allen X
* 1 Maude Simpson I
" • Russell Branson
James Howell -4
I * * Robert Marshall X
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