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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published weekly by the Zatasian, Ifenry Clay, and Philomathean Literary Societies. EDITORIAL STAFF Edwin 11. Itozell .... Editor-in-Chief Alice B. Hazard . . . Managing Editor Joe Cude Athletic Editor •Tames Harper .. . Associate Editor Reginald Marshall. . . Associate Editor Miss N. Era Lasley . . . Alumni Editor Miss Eva Campbell . Faculty Adviser Philip W. Furnas . . . Faculty Adviser REPORTERS Rynuin Andrews .... Mabel Infold Earl Dickerson Graham Allen Carrie Teague Marie Barnes ltacbel Ives Ruth Outiand Sinclair Williams ..... Eugene Hire BUSINESS STAFF A. Scott Parker, Jr. . Business Manager Mollie Parker, Asst. Business Manager Charles Coble .... Advertising Mgr. Elnia Fawcett • Secretary Ernest Scarboro . . . Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price .... $1.50 per year Entered at the post office in Guilford College, X. C., as second-class mail matter. Moral Victories—Adieu Not a person at Guilford College was reluctant to see the passing of the old regime of moral victories. For years Guilford football teams represented a soft spot in the schedules of opponents. The men who were out giving their best for the team were facing a hopeless task. The school seemed to have developed a losing complex. In order to humor this idea and to kid themselves there grew up a quite familiar and much over worked phrase of "moral victory," which presumably was to show the world just how little a victory meant so long as the game was played fairly and squarely. This year the people have had double satisfaction. They have discovered that winning isn't at all distasteful; in fact, as the sea son drew to a close.- the student body had actually cultivated an appetite for more and greater vic tories. And then, though with the glamor of success this department may have suffered a bit in notice, they still had the satisfaction of seeing the game played fairly and squarely. Probably no Guilford squad ever offered a much less promising out look in its first stage as tbe Quak ers presented early in September. Without a regular baekfield man and left with gaping holes in the line. Coach Khepard had little to be optimistic over. However, he set in with a drive and determina tion that would not be denied. The line soon took on ;i definite re semblance to a respectable forward wall. The baekfield was developed more slowly. In fact, not until the urge of the gridiron became un deniable and Stan Moore and Way Parrish, disregarding physical handicaps, came out to lend their efforts, did the baekfield show much promise. The progress since then is his tory. These additions balanced the power of the line. Together they composed a powerful team and re sults have proved the point. Successive victories over Elon, Atlantic Christian College, Lenoir- L'livne, and Catawba have given the locals a superior claim to "Lit tle Six" championship honors. Six regulars ended their careers in this greatest of Guilford tri umphs. Captain Hoyle, Parrish, Moore, Holt. Marshall, and Beamon have done their last for the Quak ers on the gridiron. Each of these men will he sorely missed next season —hut this is no time to dis cuss unpleasant facts. Then, too, we will still have Coach Shepard and several valuable men as a nucleus for another great Guilford football team. And as a final gesture of a noble season, hats off to the scrubs! These men have been out each afternoon working just as hard, taking even more punishment with never a whimper and receiving a very small portion of the limelight. The following men deserve a place in Guilford's annals as being in dispensable in the developing of the great team Guilford had this year: Hendrix, Jackson, Francis, Keece, Patrick. Hay worth, Rosen felt, Short, Blair, Mcßane, Chand ler, Richardson, B. Newlin, 11. Newlin, Williams, and Farlow. Water! Water! Those who have been so unfortu nate as to be dependent upon the college water supply for the past few weeks arc probably unanimous in the opinion that something should be done. Since the night of the fire in the coal bin, when a great amount of water was used, there has been con stant trouble about the scarcity of this luxury. All the latter part of the football season the football boys went out each afternoon facing the possi bility that when they get in there would be no hot water or, as in several instances was the case, none at all. Several of the boys con tracted colds as a result. On more than one occasion the students were forced to eat with out any water 011 the table and the boys who wash dishes were forced to stay up until eleven o'clock in order to get their job done. Something is the matter. If it can be located it should be and remedied immediately. Tt has been suggested that the real trouble is that the well is not sufficient for the needs of the college. If this be the case, an effort should he made to connect with Greensboro's sys tem. This would eliminate further trouble and, at the rate things have been going for the past two or three weeks, would be less expensive. Let's Get Acquainted One of flic most famous organi zations on the campus is the ''dis cussion group" which meets each Sunday evening at the home of Dean Trueblood. Here each stu dent who may care to attend has the chance to freely express his convictions concerning topics which range from national polities to an African farm. Needless to say, these meetings are very instructive and really are of value to those students who regularly attend. Vet there is another, and per haps more important, aspect of this association. It provides a bet ter means of becoming acquainted with members of the faculty. Many students know Dean Trueblood THE GUILFORDIAN personally much better than they would have possibly been able to without the influence of these meetings. Knowing the faculty well and having in them .real friends is of more value than the usual material estimate from a legging point of view. A few years from now when some of us wish to visit Guilford we will not know the students who will then be in school. Our old associates and acquaintances will have passed out into the world. Then our one hope of a feeling of old time is an acquaintance with members of the faculty, in this we must not merely have the sig nificance of former students but of old friends. At Davidson College each Sun day evening the members of the faculty are at home to the vstudents who wish to visit them. Usually they serve refreshments and in many little ways encourage a closer relationship between them selves and the student body. This has developed into a mutual pleas ure. The students enjoy their visits and often find that their pro fessors really aren't such bad skates after all; on the other hand the faculty members themselves have developed a better under standing of their students. Why can't something like this happen at Guilford? Let's have more meetings 011 the order of the "discussion group." "OUR FLIGHT THROUGH LIFE" WINNING ORATION (Continued from Page One) the story of the three men, lazy, con tented and busy, respectively, who, liv ing in the same house each considered himself a success and the others fail ures. One day opportunity came (o their door, but none of them could or would take advantage of it. Their dif ferent degrees of success arc repre sented by the aviators, Levine, Byrd, and Lindberg. Failure should encour age more effort rather than discourage it. For effort does have its reward. Tt is for us to reach*the plane of our own choosing, to improve ourselves rather than criticize others, to think well of ourselves and proclaim this fact to the world by great deeds. We can all be happy in the fulfillment of duties. The subject of Miss Clayton's speech was "Citizenship and Service as Taught by the Pythian Order." Her talk was liased 011 the story of the friendship of Damon and Pythias. Pythias offered himself as security for Damon's relurn to prison and execution as soon as he had visited his family. Upon Damon's return, the emperor was moved by the desire of each to die for the other and their great devotion to each other. Con sequently they both were released. Thus, citizenship means the sacrifice of all personal interests, and love and con secration to minkind. ZATASIAN SOCIETY HOSTESS TO WEBS ''Continued from Pace One") Josephine Paul, Virginia Ragsdale, Xancy White, Ruth Outland, Leah Ham mond, Eunice McPherson, Margaret Fawcett, Klma Fawcett, Thelnia King, and Margaret Reich were assistant hos tesses for the evening. Messrs. Robert Van de Voort, Charles Coble, Ernest Scarboro, Sinclair Williams, James Harper and Justice Strickland assisted with the serving. The menu consisted of creamed chicken and tinibals, olive and date nut sandwiches, coffee, ice cream and cake, and mints. Greensboro's Oldest and Largest Shoe Store DOBSON SHOE CO. Shoes—Hosiery "Too" Greensboro, N. C. OPEN FORUM "HAIL, DEAR OLD GUILFORD!" We all have love for and loyalty to our college that we wish to express at times so that ptliers may know our in nermost feelings. Lately we have worked so that as a student body Ave might show our team and those who might be at our games how much we care. We have succeeded with our yellings. We throw ourselves into it and yell ourselves hoarse. Even some of the faculty have" forgotten to keep themselves wrapped in their usual dig nity. There are other ways of showing that same feeling; one is singing. In that we do not have the same abandon. All of our mass singing is lifeless and dead. We seem to let only our'lips formulate the song and some folks do not even try at all. Singing would mean much to us as a student body. To be truly a singing group would help us through many a difficult place—singing always does. Take our "Alma Mater," a song which should symbolize for us all that is fine in our college life, should fill us with a reverence and at the same time an emotion that, we just have to get across to others. But do we? Have you ever watched or listened when we sing, "Hail, dear old Guilford?" Do it some time, then pass your verdict. Singing is not simply a matter of beautiful voices, perfect diction, and soft and loud ef fects. It is putting the real you with all your feelings into the song. With out it is meaningless and vain. Now, my concern is, as you may have guessed, that as a group we work as hard to express to -our teams and our visitors our "college spirit" in song as in yells. There must be more than lip service. There must be a realization of what we are doing, a real effort to put across to others the tiling we feel inside. If we have love for our "alma mater" we shall have reverence and all it implies— 110 squirming, no talk ing, 110 departing, but every one of us singing as we never have before. We have this in us; let us show it in our singing. What do you say? BANISHED MORAL VICTORIES, PLUS MORALS Every loyal Guilfordian's heart beats with pride and loyalty for his alma mater when the name of any of our team is mention. It is right that they should. Every faculty member has backed our championship team. Every alumnae is only too glad to tell the public lie was once a student at this in stitution. Boys, the entire student body has backed you. Coach Shepard has expressed his grat itude more than once that the boys were willing to make great sacrifices in order that they might make themselves phys ically fit for each game. Everybody ad mires a boy who can fight against a bias referee and never grumble. Everybody admires a boy who gets crippled in a game and never complains. We arc proud of the boys, who are playing for the last time and are put out of the hgame or penalized for less than 110 t- | Shoes 1 1 Fall | Is Showing the Newest Styles and Materials SI tiS j-: |5 Greensboro s Best Shoe Values 2g| $3.85 $6.85 f JOHNSON - TAYLOR | |S 106 N. Elm St. Greensboro, N. C. Ja December 5, 1928 ing and do not complain. This is the kind of a spirit Ave want every Guil fordian to have. Then these heroes bring home another victory Thanksgiving which gives us the Little Six championship. A ban quet table is set much as the Prodigal Son received when he returned from his wandering. Victory! Yes, but how should a Guilford hero celebrate a vic tory? Should he be with the crowd when the friendly jug is passed around, or should he asy, "No, thank you, it is my bed-time.'" Will such dissipation as this build a football team thai will win another championship? Which kind of manhood do we wish to send out to represent Guilford? VERY UNUSUAL PLAY WILL BE GIVEN ON SATURDAY NIGHT (Continued from Page One) which the action occurs is as dull and as drab as the lives of those who have lived within these walls. Through the window in the back, one sees a bleak country-side, snow, l>are limbs of trees, and gray skies. The work 011 the production is being carried 011 by the dramatic council. Josephine Paul is costume manager; Lena Farlowe, property manager; Ernest Scarboro, business manager; Wilmer Steele, Eugene Hire, Hale Ncw lin, stage managers; Mildred Kimrey, advertising manager. The cast is progressing splendidly. Some real talent is displayed by the actors. Stanley Moore, playing the part of Ben Jordan, is displaying some real acting. Tlis part requires acting of a high order, and as many times before, he is proving the splendidness of his talent. Esther Reece, the servant, is also very good. Tier acting is almost professional in quality. The other actors are equally good, thus making a very strong cast. Indi cations are that a record crowd will be in attendance. The directors are prom ising a splendid production. POMONA TERRA-COTTA COMPANY Manufacturers of Sewer and Drain Pipes an d Other Clay Products Annual Capacity, 3,000 Carloads POMONA, N. C. Students! Attention! Make a day's wages for one hour's work after classes. No experience or investment necessary. We have mi opening at Guilford College. Applications considered in order of tlieir receipt. Write today for free particulars. I?radford & Co., Inc., St. Joseph, Mich. 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