THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL. XII
Lvnchburg Eleven Finally Wins
Over Guilford in Annual Melee
Kimrey And Robertson Cross Goal
Line Scoiing Points tor Guilford
REECE STAR OF GAME
Visitor's Long Forward Passes Prove
Puzzle To Local Grid Men
The annual football game between
Lynchburg College and Guilford Col
lege elevens was won by the Virginians
34 to 13. The soggy field was res
ponsible for numerous fumbles and
slowed down the line bucks and end
runs. The greatest gains of the visi
tors were made by long forward passes,
while the home team was quick to take
advantage of eve.y miscue of the
Christians. The Quaker fake play
worked effectively. In the first five
minutes of play the heavier Virginians
twice crossed the Guilford goal line
and had convinced many of the specta
tors that the game would be a walk
away, but almost immediately the
alert Quaker baffcs. puzzled the Chris
tians with a dake off tackle play and
scored a touchdown. This touchdown
was quickly followed by another.
Robertson recovered"*a fumble on Lynch
burg's iive yard line and made a
hundred yard da-li in double quick
time for a touchdown.
The game started with Guilford re
ceiving. In the first play Guilford
lost several yards on a fumble and
punted immediately. The visitors then
opened their offensive with a 35-yard
pass. Two line plunges netted them
eight yards, and McMain sprinted over
the goal line in an end run but failed
to make the extra point. The second
touchdown was made in almost the
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PROF. HAWORTH SPEAKS OF
STATE'S RECENT PROGRESS
ALONG EDUCATIONAL LINES
Friday morning. November 6, Pro
fessor D. Riley Haworth gave a lecture
on American Educational Week which
is to begin November 16 and close
November 22.
"There are two main reasons," said
*Mr. Haworth, "for setting this week
aside as a national holiday period
for us to celebrate the great ble s sings
bestowed upon us as American citi
zens." He discussed the advantages in
American Education Week in that
possible improvements for our Amer
ican educational systems might be con
sidered together with a discussion
as to how these improvements could
be brought about.
"Great has been the educational
progress in America," continued Mr.
Haworth. Following this quotation he
gave a number of statistics showing
the rapid progress made during the
past decade in North Carolina. "The
number of one-teacher schools has
decreased more than one half during
the past ten years," he said. It was
also shown that the value of school
property has increased six times its
value in 1900.
In his closing remarks, Mr. Haworth
emphasized the fact that there has been
a greater increase in attendance than
in enrollment showing that there is be
ing more interest manifested for educa
tion than ever before.
SCARLET FEVER WANING
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
been raging throughout the community
for the past several weeks. So far
as has been reported, no one has had
a fatal attack, nor has anyone been
seriously ill. Prof. Cox's little son
was one of the first to contract the
malady. Lately a number of cases
have been reported under quarantine
at Prof. Wilson's and Doctor Binford's
home. At present the infection does
not seem to be spreading.
ELBERT RUSSELL SHOWS
THAI HISTORY OF WORLD
DEPENDS UPON GERMANY
'lf Germany Decides On Revenge
Then Another li ar," Says Speaker
.Monday night, Dr. Elbert Russell, J
Quaker, and professor of Swarthmore
College, gave an interesting and edu- I
cational lecture on the effect that the j
attitude of Germany will have on the
future history of the world.
The history of the world for the
next forty years, he said, depends upon
the decision of Germany. If Germany
iecides on peace, tiie world will re
main at peace but if decides on re
venge we will be drawn into another
war. Therefore it is America's duty
and privilege to set the pace for Ger
many. The world is watching us to
ee what we will do. "The American
tiling is the rage in the world today,"
said Doctor Russell. "Turkey is
modeling her new republic after
the United States. If we start
arming for purposes of preparedness
and protection wa can only expect to
see the other nations exercise the same
right. Then the next war will start."
"In 1904 according to Doctor Russell,
Germany thought that to maintain her
national safety and power she must
be fully prepared for war. She develop
ed plans of mobilization that were
perfect to the last button. She knew
exactly where her armies would be at
a given time and where every article
of tiie provisions was to come from,
she planned to go through
before Russia could mobilize to aid
France. But in the lapse of ten years
many tilings had changed and a per
fect plan could not be changed in a
short time to suit these changes. Bel
gium hail fortified tier borders and
England hail made a secret entente
with France. Russia only had one
plan of mobilization and that was com
plete mobilization. When the war
| started, Germany was delayed by Bel
' gium until Russia hail mobilized and
was pushing on the Eastern frontier
of Germany. No plans had been made
for the entrance of England. Thus
...e military machine that Germany had
I .elied on had caused lie.- ileieat by it
' failure.
If our proposed "Mobilization Day
| is carried out, we will also develop a
| military machine that will in the end
; i ause our defeat.
Lurope and Germany are looking to
on iaije 2.)
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS
PLAN COURT DISCUSSION
Since the Local Y. W. and Y. M.
C. A. representatives attended the
World Court at Duke University Oct.
30 to Nov. 1, the plan of holding a
student poll has been under consider
ation. So far, it has not been definite
ly decided whether such a vote will
oe taken. The chief difficulty to be
overcome is in finding a suitable date
for a discussion of the World Court
in order to make the vote a consensus
of intelligent and informed opinion.
Practically all of the dates which
could be used for this discussion, up
until the time when the issue would
have become a dead one ore taken up.
The ballots and reading matter for
the debate is on hand.
If such a discussion is carried out
here it will be conducted somewhat
df'er the manner of that which was
followed in the "presidential elec
lions" that were held here last year.
There will be student speakers, both,
for and against the Court, and a gen
eral discussion following the debate.
The decision will not be made by
judges but by a vote of the student
bddy.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.,NOVEMBER 11, 1925
"ADAM AND EVA" CHOSEN
BY DRAMATIC COUNCIL
Play To Be Given At Memorial
Hall On December I' 2.
COMEDY IN THRRE ACTS
Mrs. Binjord To Direct; D. Riley Ha
north Stage Manager; Howard
O. Smith Business Manager
"Adam and Eva" a cleverly written
farce of home life, has been chosen
as the fall play by the Dramatic
Council, and rehearsals are to start
next week. Tryouts will be held Mon
day night, and so by the time this
paper appears, the play should be
shaping itself into somewhat definite
form. It will be presented at Memorial
Hall o:i Saturday nig.it, December 12.
The story is about an overworked,
indulgent father, with two daughters,
plus a son-in-law, an uncle and an aunt
that are each contributing their part
towards making home life anything but
ideal.
Bills, bills, bills! The whole crux
of the family life seems to revolve
around money, and ways whereof to
spend it. In vain does poor Mr. King
protest and rage, and go on a stampede
regularly every first of the month, still
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GUILFORDIANS ATTEND
DEBATE AT UNIVERSIY
D. Riley Haworth, Byron Haworth,
French Smith, Ira Newlin and Worth
Mackie went to the University of
North Carolina Wednesday evening,
November 4th, to hear a debate between
that university and the University of
Oxford (England).
The debate was presented in English
fashion, similar to a round table dis
cussion. The whole audience was the
judges, a vote being taken before and
after the argument was produced.
The query discussed was, resolved;
that, tl'is house is in favor of the
nternational Court of Justice. Before
the argument was produced all the
audience except six were in favor of
the International Court of Justice.
After the debate was over 116 persons
were oposed to the Court.
The affirmative was represented by
two Oxford men and one University
man. The negative was presented
y two University men and one Oxford
man.
The Oxford speakers had the Uni
ve sity men outclassed as debaters.
They were more experienced and better
acquainted with the subject under
discussion.
Guilford's Pre-Season Basketball Quint
Crushes Proximity YMCA Aggregation
The Guilford College Pre-season
basketball team started a victorious
season Friday night by winning an
unofficial game from the Proximity
Y. M. C. A. team on the local court
by a 33 to 13 score.
The team representing Guilford was
not the regular varsity lineup but was
picked from the squad that has been
going out for practice for some weeks.
At present there are several of the
basketball squad who are still playing
football. Tew. who is a regular var
sity football tackle, was in the regular
basketball lineup last year and went
well throughout the season.
Three new players were on the floor
throughout the game Friday night.
They were Stanley Moore, Charles
Coble and Paul Coltrane. The other
players were Walter Brown, who was
not allowed to play last year because
he did not enter school until the second
half, and Rufus Smith of last year's
varsity.
If the relative strength of the teams
can be measure by a comparison of
their score Friday night and the score
of last year's pre-season game, the
Quakers are destined to upset the pail
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Monday night
Chorus practice
Tuesday night
Class meetings and
Glee Club practice
Wednesday night
Departmental lectures and
Choir practice
Thursday night
Christian Association
meetings
Friday night
Literary Society meetings
Saturday night
General recreation
COLLEGIATE PRESS CLUD
TO MEET AT UNIVERSITY
The semi-annual meeting of the
North Carolina Inter-Collegiate Press
Association will be held this fall at
the University of North Carolina on
November 12 to 14 inclusive. Three
members of the Guilfordian board will
attend the sessions namely, Edwin P.
Brown, Joseph Cox and Murray White.
The meeting will be conducted on a
somewhat different plan this year.
There will be the two usual addresses
pertaining to newspaper writing and
editing and the banquet, but in addi
tion the association will stress the
group conference scheme. Groups
wishing to discuss certain problems
will get together and exchange ideas
and probably reach some solution to
their many difficulties.
The association this year is includ
ing a new branch of publications—that
of annuals. Each college will send
one member from the annual staff
QUAKER FOOTDALL TEAM
TO PLAY TENNESSEEANS
The Quakers have added another
game to their already heavy footba'l
schedule. This game will be played
with Milligan College, near Johnson
City, Tennessee, Nov. 21. This is the
first time that Guilford has arranged
i cane with the Tennessee Christians
and tiie team is eager to make the
trip.
Milligan College is a prosperous
•o-educationa! institution located about
four miles out of Johnson City and has
a't enrollment of about three hundred
students. So far this season, the
Milligan Christians have made a good
record in their grid schedule. It is
l heir usual record to win at least
tifty preeent of the games played.
of dope this year. With only one var
sity man in the game the local quint
beat the Provimity Y. by a larger
score than that by which it was defeat
ed last year.
The showing xvlii.li the new men
vade on tlie floor was most satisfac
tory. Coltrane, who played at guard
perhaps showed the best prospects
for a brilliant player. He was in every
play and invariably came out of the
scrimmage with the ball. Coble
played up to the reputation which he
made last year in the high school
championship game. He planned and
executed cool, precise passes and
covered the floor well. Moore, who
was captain of the strong Westtown,
Pennsylvania, team last year, showed
a splendid working knowledge of the
game and went well on the tip-off.
However, he failed to cover the floor
as he might have done. Smith and
Brown showed fair early season form.
At times Smith broke away for brilliant
flashes while Brown was more steady
and scored 14 points. From the show
ing made by the picked-up team, as a
whole. Friday night. Guilford's basket
ball stock is beginning to rate high
in the local market.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR PLAY
STARRING GHANDOS KIMREY
PROVES STRIKING SUCCESS
Howell's Comedy, "The Mouse Trap,"
Presented At Memorial Hall.
DIRECTED BY IDA MILLIS
I'nique Music An Added Attraction
"The Mouse Trap" given last Sat
urday night by the Christian Endeavor
Society, proved to be an outstanding
success, and for almost an hour the
hall re-echoed with shouts of laughter,
inducted by the enacted on the stage,
scenes, being enacted on the stage.
Much credit should be given to Miss
Ida Millis, of the local high school,
who coached the play into the well
rounded success that it was.
"The Mouse Trap" is one of William
Dean Howell's best known and loved
short plays, and has long been a favor
ite for amateur production in schools,
where its clever lines and ludicrous
situations never fail to please the
audience.
Leading honors go to Chandos Kim
rev, for her vivid portrayal of the
distracted young hostess, Mrs. Som
mers, into whose well-appointed home
a vagrant mouse (or the idea of one)
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QUARTERLY EXMAS NOW
THE ORDER OF THE DAY
By BeiUah Allen
The day of reckoning is at hand.
For the "day-by-day student," examina
tions have no fearful meaning. But
not so with the "do-it-to-morrow."
Quarterlies to the last group are the
handwriting on the wall.
Quarterly examinations are endur
ance testers. In more ways than one
this is true. In the first place, it is
an endurance test in that it weeds out
the students who are not able to stand
the nerve wrecking quiz week and the
suspense of the weeks till reports come
out, "telling in their mournful num
bers" that some one's "life's been an
empty dream." Quarterly examina
tions also test the endurance of the
brain in retaining all that the book
said, all that the teacher said on class,
the remarks made by all pupils on
class and every word in the re
quired outside reading. If one word
is forgotten—woe be to that brain,
for it shall sure'y try to recall it too
late. These examinations are also speed
testers. They are excellent clicks on the
amount of superheated ozone which
may be given off in fifv-five minutes
if the occasion requires it.
But this should not worry any in
dividual. What worries most students
i; how the professors grade. It has
been rumored that one teacher gives
"AV to the prettiest girls and flunk's
all boys in the class. Another favorite
way of giving grades employed by some
is to give 'A's" to half the students
and "B's" to the remainder, picking
each proup by lot. The next quarter
the plan is reversed, thus not showing
partiality to any student. The method
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MORE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
The Social Committees are working
hard to give Guilford students real
entertainment. A varied program has
1 been Worked out. Already in addition
to the games four times a week, the
Committees have carried through the
i Hallowe'en hike. Now a hike to the
1 Battleground is being considered and
will probably be brought to a head
in a few weeks. However, lately the
' weather is getting to be such as to
prohibit the evening social being held
on the campus so that the gymnasium
|is being used. Those who do not care
for the socials at the gymnasium have
the privilege of remaining at Founders
Hall or New Garden. Several dormi
tory socials are being planned.
NO. 7.