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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAH Published weekly by the Zatasian, Henry Clay, Philomathean, and Web •terian Literary Societies. Editorial Staff Byron A. Haworth .... Editor-in-Chief Joseph J. Cox Managing Editor Frances Osborne .... Associate Editor ira G. Newlin Associate Editor Miss N. Era Lasley Alumni Editor George P. Wilson Faculty Adviser A. I. Newlin Faculty Adviser Reporters Charles Weir... Marie Barnes Williaan Tomlinson Ruth Malpass Alice Hazard Edwin Rozell Regin; Id Marshall Alma Hassel Virginia Pamperin Paul Reynolds Sudie Cox Business Staff Carey Reece Business Mgr. Scott Parker Assi. Bus. Mgr. Thelma King Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College N. C. Subcription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post ottice in Guil ford College, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegi ate Press Association. Number 29, published iin May 20, was the last number of THE GUILFORDIAN to be published before this final issue, it being: the eustom to publish thirty issues each season. PARAGRAPHICS SENIORS! How does it feel? * * * Some say it's commencement, others say that it is ending. Who is right? + * * Three or four couples are com mencing in "the big way." Good luck to you "newly weds." # * * The seniors advocate a mid win ter graduating class. They say that caps and gowns wouldn't be so bad in the winter time. * * * After exams were over and two or three days before, two new courses were instituted at Cox and Archdale; namely, throwing water, and dodging tin pans, water, and .fish bowls. * * If the western wheat field own ers will burn all the footballs in the country, they may be able to get some work out of the crowd of football players who are going to shock wheat this summer. It has also been suggested that the young girls be tied up for fear that the college men will forget what they went west "to shock. * * * What will the Lineback Shen andoah do next? It was taken down just as it was ready to to "take off '. * * * Mr. Cole, with the help of a number of the collegemen is in terested in making a "cleaner Guil ford.-' The swimming pool is nearly completed. * * * Go to school at Guilford Col lege! A life partner guaranteed or your money back. * * * Everything is looking bright for Guilford's entrance into the Southern Association of Colleges. The students favor it, and the Alumni favor it, so it seems to be only a matter of time. * * * The strong college nine were willing to admit that age and ex perience had much to do with winning a base ball game, after they were defeated by the Alumni team Monday afternoon. SENIORS. SENIORS! The last curve has been rounded in the road and you now find the goal of your journey in sight. But is it the goal or just a wayside inn where for a brief interval you may hesitate, change garments and start anew to explore other uncharted roadss Four years seem a short time. In retrospect it is even shorter. It is now too late to recoup lost opportunities for Opportunity speeds by on wings and if caught must be grasped by the forelock. There are perhaps a few Seniors who still have as much time on their hands as they had when they were sophomores, but this is the exception rather than the rule, for the Seniors on the Guilford campus are now busy people. The end of their collegiate ordeal is at hand. Traditionally, Seniors ! know much and are confident of their knowledge. This was un doubtedly characteristic of the tribe of Seniors at the beginning of the year, but this self assurance has perceptibly diminished. Some of the juniors and even sopho mores are beginning to suspect that under the cocksure veneer our Senior is vaguely beginning to realize the fact that he really does not know so much, is not so confi dent of his ability, and does not deserve such great credit. In short, he is beginning to wonder a bit and is becoming doubtful of his powers rather than more as ' -ured as he now begins actually i to face the stern realities of life. After all, what one Senior knows ' is only an infinitesimal part of the sum total of human knowledge | and understanding. The genus Senior found on the j campus at Guilford this month has somehow changed. The met amorphosis has resulted in a de sirable kind of intelligence which augurs well for the future of Guilford. ORGANIZED DEBATING In the mad rush of organization the N. G. colleges and universities are neglecting one of the most im portant and beneficial societies that have ever existed in our high er institutions of learning as an outside a tivity—that is the de bating society. Inter-collegiate debating has taken a back seat since the sweep ing appearance of athletics in our colleges. Time was when it was considered a great honor to make the college debating team, and the ollege debator was some what idolized, but today, it seems that all eves are turned toward athle ti s. and as a result athletics have been over organized at the expense of the different literary activities, whit h are conceded to be more essential to the life of every col lege and university than are athle tics. Surely athletics have their place, a vital plae. But there is 110 reason why we should let them in terfere with the effectiveness of our literary work. It is evident that debating and public speaking must be organized in each individual college. At the beginning of the college year each class should se lect a debating team to debate the other classes within the first two months of school. By this method greater competition would result for a place on the college team, which should also be selected early in the year. The colleges in the state of N. C., will sooner or later ifind it necessary to organize as a foren sic association because debating and public speaking will not come to the front again until they do. The association should appoint a committee to decide on the query, rules for debate, etc. All the col leges and universities in the state which wished to do so would de bate this question to determine the debating championship. A method similar to the "triangular system" as used by the high schools, or THE GUILFOKDIAN some different scheme might be used for elimination. Such an association would not only save time and hundreds of unnecessary letters to determine the query, time, place, rules, etc., but it would create a statewide in terest in debating and public speaking. RETRO-PRO-SPECTIY E There need be no hesitancy in predicting. The best prophet of the future is the past. Those who this week receive degrees from Guilford College have not spent the last four years in vain. They have had a goal to work for. and by living worth while lives filled with loyalty to country and self, they have reached it. For those who are still under graduates, and are standing by congratulating the seniors and wishing the time would come when they themselves would receive a diploma, it is a propitious time to carefully evaluate the achieve ments of the past, and by so doing glimpse the possibilities of the future. Take a little time for retros pection and honestly answer these questions. Have I during my past college days been loyal to the members of my family at home who are sacrificing daily that I may be in school? Have I been loyal to my college of which I am an integral part? Have I been loyal to myself and how near one hundred per cent capa city have I been operating? While judging my work and achieve ments in the past what is the pros pect which looms before me for the future? Every person with a worthy degree of ambition in early life first decides the goal he wishes to attain. Second, he measures his own powers to find out whether he is capable of rea hing it. Third, .f he is wise he counts the cost and decides whether he is willing to pay the price. It is asservat ecl upo.i reliable information that today there is a larger percent of of college students who fail to graduate ilia t ever before. Al though the number who graduate is increasing ihe fa t still remains that many students wish for a col lege education but are either in capable or u willing to pay the price. As undergraduates it would !.. well for lis to take sto k of our personal resources to recognize wherein we have w T asted them, in order that we may receive every thing college has to offer us. MISS CLARA I. COX TALKS GN SOCIAL WELFARE WORK May 27. Miss Clara I Cox, of Iligli Point gave the Y. W. C. A. an inter esting talk on social welfare. "The supreme objective of modern social service," she said, "is social welfare which mears the happiness and health of society. If social welfare is to he realized, certain great outstanding evls are to he overcome. Certain ills of society have to he cured, for society is sick. Vie have progressed along way from the medieval practice of charity. The modern social conscience will not stand for that sort of philan thropy." There are three different types of people that the social service organiza tion tries to help. First, the defec lives—those defective from c physical and mental cause; second the depend ant mothers. and the unemployed. The third class are the delinquints, the junvenille offender and the prisoners. Miss Cox reviewed in closing her talk the work that Friends have done alone this line. They have been pioneers in the work of social better ment. Try the church for inspiration for difficult tasks. Christ's army is made up of volunteers. REPEAL OF JAP EXCLUSION ACT QUESTION BEFORE THE OPEN FORUM AT GUILFORD 1 lie subject for the open forum dis cussion last Wednesday evening was: "'Should the Japanese Exclusion Act ike repe led?" This discussion was doubtless the most interesting since the beginning of the college forum. Worth Mackie. the first speaker, gave a brief history of the situation in California before the Ex- I elusion Act was passed. He also men tioned the so called "Gentlemen's Agreement" and its effect. Both sides of the question were well represented by a number of students who took part in the discussion. In the debate it was shown th. t the American people think that they are belter than the Japanese. The state ment m. de by a prominent Japanese writer that the Japanese themselves believe th. t the Americans are a sup erior people. According to some of the speakers, this exclusion act will never cause a war between the two nations but the fact that America has turned her back to Japan, who has never brok en the "Gentlemen's Agreemnet", is surely not an act toward pe; ce. The land in Japan is not adequate to sup port the increasing populafion. This awakened situation is one great cause for migration. The negative side of the discussion stressed the fact that the people in the south and north do not realize the seriousness of the situation as do the people of the Pacific Coast states, all the senators of which voted for the act. The greatest problem in California is the fact that the "J. Ps", rather than associate with the Americans, form a small nation or colony of their own. They are a home loving people. Since a homogenious population is nec essary to have a smooth runing govern ment the Japanese imigr. Nts are un desirable, because they are not homo genious being a block instead. Too, the constitution of the United States does not provide for Japanese imi srants to become citizens. The principle solution offered lo the I existing situation was a suggestion that there be a law p. ssed establishing a committee, consisting of both Japanese and Americans, to decide who shall c.nie to America by pickirg only de sirable immigrants. VOICE RECITAL OPENS THE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM 'i he vocal students of James Wesley White gave their final recital of the year in Memorial Mall on Saturday night June 5 as the first program on ih commencement schedule. Each student sang with ease and expression, showing both talent for singing and good instruction. Miss Louise frazier. a graduate in voice two years ago, sang the Aria from ■L'enfant Prodigue" with interpreta tion that held her audience in rapt attention. Misses Josephine Paul and Chandos Kimrey also deserve special mention. Mrs. Raymond Binford and Miss ( racette Frazier added much to the success >f the vening by their artistic accompaniment. The program in full follows: violets vbfskq ffl ~ ? j' ETAOI.B 1. (a) Come to Me —Carl Salmon; (b) Garlanded Lane —E. H. Adams, Bsulah Allen. 2. O'er the Billowy Sea—Earl Smith; Joe Cox. 3. (at The Little God in the Garden- - Amy Worth; (b) The Rose and the Maid J. P. Brandon ; (cl Slave Song—T. Del Riego ; Kate Flowers. 4. (al Little Star (Mexican Love Son?) —F. La Forge; (b) Bedouin Song—J. P. Dunn ; Byron Haworth. 5. (a) A Lark Went Singing—J- P. Farley; (b) Miss Mary Won't Yoc Come into My Garden -Ida Bostleman ; (c) Spanish Love Song—R. Kountz; Jose phine Paul. li. (a) Yesterday and Today—C. Spross; (b) A Japanese Love Song—Pai Ta Shun; (c) Rolling Down to Rio —E. German; Paul Reynolds. 7. Ia l Twilight Song—S. Palmgren ; (b) Pierrot —W. Watts; (c) The South Winds are Blowing—J. Densmore; Chan dos Kimrey. 8. (a I I Passed by Your Window — Brahe; (b) A Song of the Forge—C. Spross; Sam Keen, Jr. 9. Recitative and air de Lia (from the opera "L'enfant Prodigue")—A. Debussey ; Louise Frazier. HENRY TEW IS PRESIDENT OF STUDENT COUNCIL FOR THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR I Other Council Members Representing classes Are Elected Henry Tew, of Goltlsboro, has been elected president of Ihe Men's student i council, to serve until I lie spring of 1927. Tew succeeds Nereus English, of I rinily, who was the first president of the organization. During its one year of existence the Men's student council has been increasing steadily in power and scope. Although some what different from most student govern ments is is gaining much popularity. The Council is made up of two members from each class. The follow irg men h. ve been elected to office for the coming year: Sidney Winslow, Pheodore Daub, form the Junior class; Waldo Williams and Elwood Parker, from the Sophomore class; and Scott Benton and Edwin Rozell, from the ! Freshman class. THIRTY SENIORS GRADUATE (Continued from page 1) rise, and sinks its r. in over the land. How deep a thing is man? He has J passion for truth as the light leaps front the sun-to dispense the darkness. Memory is a bag. It is good at the bottom but is full of holes at the top. An old man will remember, freshly, what was done 30 to 40 years ago. "Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth." We have capacities for sin and sor row, and a whole heaven or hell may be encompased in the human soul. There is something in it that responds lo Cod. It is the Deep calling unto deep. There is something in the same that responds to Jesus Christ. We can not think of Him as any other charact er in history. We cannot thing of Him as a Jew. He is a star that dwells apart. Vie think of Napoleon as a i frenchman, Gladstone as an English ' man. and Linclon as an American, but no particular nationality or race seems lo he correctly associated with the name of Jesus, lie spoke words that would fit r.o other man, for no human being could speak words as he did or live the life that he lived." In further illustration of Jesus' Divinity, Doctor | Lynch gave the following points: Jesus never changed his mind; he i never sought advice; he never acted in haste; he never made a mistake; he I was never defeated in controversy; he lever exhibited presonal fear; he nev er showed surprise unless perchance when he found absence of faith where lie expected to find it or found it where he did not expect it; he never pc.formed a selfish miracle; he rever denied a reasonable request; lie never confessed ignorance hut once and that was concerning his second coming, of which no one knew anything except his Heavenly Father; he never disin- L'lited God; he rever doubted triumph; :e never denied his Divinity; his egotism was sublime. Doctor Lynch's closng remarks were addressed to members of the gradua tion class. He asked them to take life seriously for it is necessary for every successful man and woman to lay a deep foundation. The firs.t thing on Monday's progrom was the presentation of the senior gift which is given in detail in mother column of this paper. After the gift was presented the crowd left the library to witness the senior play which was given out on the campus at 11:00 o'clock. The play called, "The Diaboi cal Circle" was in two acts and was written by Beulah Bornstead. In the afternoon there was a base ball game between the Alumni and the College team. This was an exciting game but the old men proved that ex perience counts in a ball game by de feating the strong college nine by a 3-2 score. Supper was served to the Alumni and students on the campus at 6:00 o'clock. At 7:00 o'clock there was a business meeting of the Alumni Asso ciation. And plans for betterment of Guilford College were accepted by the Association.
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