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VOLUME XIV
Twenty Schools Here
For High School Day
RAIN IS FEATURE
Gregory, of Durham, Speaking
on Dangers of Modernism,
Wins Declamation Contest
COMPETITION IS STRONG
Josephine Danderige, of Charlotte, Re
ceives First in Recitation, "The
Going of the White Swan"
April 21.—Despite the rain Saturday
the High School Day was a grand suc
cess, and in no small way came to a
climax in the evening performance. Me
morial hall was filled to capacity, and
not without sufficient reason, as the pro
gram given was among the best of the
season.
President Binford gave a short greet
ing to all the high school graduates and
expressed his admiration of their su
perior talents.
The first speaker was Julia Forsythe,
of Alamance, who gave a good reading
entitled "Cuddy," which portrayed the
joy of a hard-working and sacrificing
mother upon attending the graduation
exercises of her son from college.
The second speaker in the girls' sec
tion was Leonara de Broyne, of Dur
ham; she failed to receive the prize but
in many ways was the most dramatic
of the speakers and deserves commen
dation upon her striking and original
type of speaking. Frances Wheeler, of
Guilford High School, and Josephine
Danderige, of Charlotte, also did well,
Miss Danderige receiving first place and
the books given by the two women's
literary societies. She spoke "The Go
ing of the White Swan."
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TRUEBLOOD SPEAKER
AT BUFFALO MEETING
"The Greatest Problem Facing Us To
day Is to Make People Want to Be
Educated," Says the Speaker
SHOULD EDUCATE BY HABIT
April 19.—An interesting address by
Prof. Elton Trueblood, dean of men at
Guilford College, featured the regular
meeting of the South Buffalo Parent-
Teaeher Association held in the audi"-
torium at the Buffalo High School on
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Educa
tional problems and progress were dis
cussed by the speakers. Mrs. Ed Ben
bow, president of the association, pre
sided during the meeting and the sev
enth grade, of which Mrs. C. M. Barnes
is teacher, had the most parents pres
ent, winning the attendance prize.
Of interest to the members of this
live association was the announcement
by Mrs. C. W. Bates, child welfare chair
man, that the annual summer round up
to get data 011 children who will enter
this school next September would be
held 011 May 9.
"The greatest problem which faces us
today is to make people want to be edu
cated," Mr. Trueblood declared. "The
teachers and parents of the grammar
schools have the greatest opportunities,
for they have the chance to learn the
character of a child before his habits
have been fixed. The greatest task of
educators is to educate by habit rather
than knowledge. Habits of the mind
are formed by atmosphere and we must
develop the capacities which all stu
dents have by making knowledge and
learning alluring to them," the speaker
said.
(UTHE sd
GUILFORDIAN
Press Convention
The North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association which is to be held
at Duke University on Thursday and
Friday of this week is featuring W.
O. Saunders of the Elizabeth City
Independent.
The Quaker is to have two repre
sentatives at this meeting, Editor
Osborne and Business Manager Bea
mon. As delegates from the Guil
fordian, Editor Rozell, Business
Manager Parker and Managing
Editor Hazard plan to attend.
EUGENE HIRE WINS
IN PEACE CONTEST
Speaks on "The New Holy Ex
periment," Stressing Russia's
Move for Disarmament
PATRICK AND FRANCIS TIE
April 1. —Eugene Hire, of Winston-
Salem, N. C., won first place in the
Guilford College Peace Contest which
was held Tuesday evening. The con
test was held for tlie purpose of select
ing a representative to the state peace
oratorical contest which is to be held
at Elon College April 2. Mr. Hire was
awarded a prize of .$2."5.00. The title
of tlie winning oration was "The New
Holy Experiment." In this the speaker
presented the recent Russian proposal
of complete disarmament as a solution
to the peace problem. lie pointed out
that other nations have incessantly
talked of disarmament, that innumer
able conferences have been held to
limit armament, but these have failed
in every case because each nation was
jealous of her neighbor; each fearing
that the proposed plan would leave
some other power relatively stronger.
This is what happened at the last
Geneva conference. liussia has of
fered a practical solution to this all
important problem. She has openly
advocated universal and complete dis
armament and generously offers to
lead the way. The speaker showed
that we are duty bound to give this
proposal a trial and he ended bis dis
cussion by voicing his belief that such
a plan would succeed.
liembert Patrick, of I'ouglikeepsie,
N. Y., tied for second place with Luther
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E. SCARBORO ELECTED
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Lemons Made Associate Editor as Miss
Edjjerton Resigns Position—Sev
eral Reporters Are Needed
April 21.—At a meeting of the Guil
fordian board, Friday, Ernest Scarboro,
of Greensboro, was elected to the office
of circulation manager. Thelma King,
who has been ably filling this office
until recently was forced to resign due
to lack of time. Ervin Lemons, Cincin
nati, Ohio, was made associate editor,
in the place of Sara Edgerton, who has
also recently resigned. Due to recent
changes in the Guilfordian board, there
are now several vacancies in the repor
torial department. Tlie paper is anxious
to secure the best reporters possible,
and is willing to try out any people who
might be interested in a position of this
type.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C- APRIL 25, 1928
FACULTY CLUB WILL
PRESENT COMEDY BY
MOLIERE MAY FIFTH
Christopher Morley Has Given
Club Permission to Use His
Comedy, "Thursday Night"
MRS. WILLIAMS TO READ
Cast for "The Imaginary Invalid" Is
Announced and Practice Is Begun
Under Direction of Prof. Furnas
April 2.—Two plays, one by Christo
pher Morley and one by the French
writer, Moliere, will probably be pre
sented by the Woman's Club May the
fifth. The proceeds of the performances
are to be directed toward redecorating
the auditorium in Memorial hall, in ac
cordance with the plans laid out by
members of the Woman's Club when
they organized.
The cast which is to give Moliere's
"The Imaginary Invalid," has already
begun practice under Philip Furnas'
direction. This play is one of the com
ical masterpieces of Moliere which was
so popular in Paris during the early
period of pinch literature. It is a very
amusing comedy of errors, based upon
the love affairs of a girl whose father
imagines himself the victim of numer
ous strange and mysterious maladies,
and longs to have a doctor made part
of the household by marriage with An
gelique, his daughter.
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FRESH-SOPH PICNIC
ENDS RAT SERFDOM
By JOE CUDE
April 18.—For quite a while the
freshmen linve been hearing rumors con-
cerning a freshman-sophomore picnic.
That the stony-hearted sophs should
feed and entertain the frosh was unbe
lievable, at least there was some catch
in it. And so there was. The picnic
date was set for Wednesday afternoon.
The night before, the freshman boys
were "invited" to attend a joint fresh
man-sophoiner meeting in the day room.
They were admitted one at a time. Once
inside they were requested to answer
certain questions, give a short oration
and assume the angle. They were then
graciously welcomed into the sopho
more class.
Since the freshmen could not legally
have fun, as could the sophomores, they
naturally turned to illegal means. As a
result, Wednesday's rising sun revealed
a large white sign painted 011 the feed
barn, telling the sophs of a nice sum
mer resort where they could always be
warm and advising them to visit the
same. That this act should affect their
attendance of the picnic had not en
tered the freshmen's heads. However,
the dean of men said that unless the
sign was duly removed there would be
no freshman boys at the freshman
sophomore picnic. So the boys took the
morning off, and after much sweating
and loss of skin from the knees, this
qualification was met. After paddling
the freshmen who did not help in this
proceedure, the class of '3l was all set
to enjoy the picnic.
Wednesday afternoon the sophomores
and freshmen buried the hatchet and
celebrated the occasion by throwing a
picnic in a meadow near the college
pumping station, the sophomores enter
taining.
MAX NOAH APPEARS
IN A VOICE RECITAL
Has Done Good Work During
the Past Year as Director
of Music at College
VIOLIN ACCOMPANIMENT
April 23.—Mr. Max Noah, director of
the Department of Music at Guilford
College, will give a voice recital in the
college auditorium Saturday evening,
April 28, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Noah came
to Guilford last September when the
music department Avas in a declining
state and this year he has done a great
deal to build it up.
The men's glee club under Mr. Noah's
direction has had a most successful sea
son. The girls, who had not previously
had a well organized club, began the
Euhponian Club. Besides these two or
ganizations with their various quar
tettes and other combinations, Mr. Noah
established the Community Chorus, a
group of 100 voices which gave several
concerts during the winter. This was
the first time that anything of this type
had been tried.
Mr. Noah holds a degree from lowa
State Teachers' College in public school
music as well as having graduated in
both vocal and piano music from the
same institution. He has appeared in
concert several times and has taken
leading roles in opera and oratorio.
In his voice recital, Mr. Noah will
be assisted by a violin quartette, Mrs.
W. E. Kester, Miss Virginia Frank,
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The picknickers assembled in front
of Founders at 5 o'clo?k. There they
were assigned to groups and started 011
a treasure hunt. The treasures were
written instructions regarding the route
to the picnic grounds. They duly ar
rived and the entertainment began.
Cowboy Frances, the bloody execu
tioner for the class of '3O, read a biased
account of the year's happenings. He
sincerely wished that the frosh should
cease pestering him and his defenseless
classmates.
Peter Murphy, the local shrimp, was
married to an over-sized, dangerously
aggressive female classmate. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. Olin Sink,
Eugene Hire and Katherine Cox being
the chief mourners. It was immensely
enjoyed, especially by George Apple
Yelverton, Asheboro Cox, and a herd of
other heifers.
Hot dogs were crisply oxidized by
means of two huge bonfires. The mer
ry-makers then formed in line for the
purpose of securing further nourish
ment. The fortunate ones enjoyed sand
wiches, pickles, deviled eggs, and cof
fee. The next course consisted of ice
cream and cake. During its distribu
tion, Mr. Perdom and Peter Murphy
servers, became intimately acquainted
with Tom Cheek, Dillard Chisholm, and
Kenyon Routli. Songs and dates were
next in order, and seemed to be uni
versally enjoyed, after which the pic
nickers were headed for home. Upon
arriving at Founders, it Avas discovered
that the custom of having late dates
had suffered annihilation. This was
probably "for the best interests of the
girls." It is popularly believed that the
lower classmen had more real fun 011
their spree than did the upper class
men on their blowout.
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THE JUNIOR-SENIOR
BANQUET HELD AT
ROBT.E. LEE HOTEL
In Program Entitled "An April
Shower" Dr. Binford Appears
as Mighty Thor
ESTHER REECE PRESIDES
Toasts to Futures of Seniors, Good For
tune for Juniors, and Bright Pros
pects for Alma Mater
April 18.—The Guilford seniors were
entertained by the junior class at the
annual Junior-Senior banquet, which
was held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel,
Winston-Salem, 011 Wednesday evening.
After the guests had arrived they
were ushered into the banquet hall,
which was decorated with green and
gold, the class colors of the graduating
members.
The program for the evening was en
titled "An April Shower," and it was
complete from the time the clouds be
gan to gather until the rainbow ap
peared in the east. Esther Reece, of
Snow Camp, president of . the junior
class, acted as toastmistress, and she
kept gentle raindrops of wit showering
down upon the banquet hall the entire
evening. Those appearing on the pro
gram, with their subjects, were: Esther
Reece, "The Clouds Gather;" Ira New
lin, Saxapahaw, "Distant Thunder;" Ed
win Rozell, Salt Point, N. Y., "A Flash
of Lightning;" A!gie Newlin, Saxapa
haw, "What Is Disclosed;" Frances Os
borne, Pleasant Garden, "Thor in the
Distance;" President Raymond Binford,
"Thor Reigns;" Alice Hazard, Union
Springs, N. Y., "Rain Drops;" Sallie
Wilkins, Rose Ilill, "May Flowers;"
Walter Davis, Yadkinville, "At the Foot
of the Rainbow;" Scott Parker, High
Point, "April Phule."
Besides the regular menu, which was
fruit cocktail, queen olives, pin money
pickles, roast chicken, dressing, new
boiled potatoes, green peas, ice cream,
cake, coffee, little yellow and green
mints were served in green and gold
favor baskets. At the end of the pro
gram the toastmistress called attention
to the little rosebuds which were placed
beside each plate. In the bud was a
fortune for every one.
SPEAKER FLAYS OUR
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Worth Mackie Claims That Present Col
lege Education Is Not Fulfilling
Student Needs
HE FLAYS COMPULSORY COURSES
April 23. —Worth Mackie created a
mild wave of excitement in chapel this
morning when he did the unlooked for
thing and said what he thought. Mr.
Mackie lias been conducting an inves
tigation among the senior boys to see
if they are satisfied with the educa
tion they have secured at Guilford.
With only one exception every man
questioned expressed the view that he
had not got what he hoped to receive
from college and every one admitted
that he was not ready to face the
world.
Mr. Maekie then went on to give
some reasons why this condition pre
vails. The students never become a
part of the institution; they maintain
a narrow provincialism and are more
interested in their home affairs than
in their college and its welfare. Stu
dents do not learn to think—they
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