"SI2OO a Year'
April 20
VOLUME XV
FIRST CAMPUS ELECTION HELD
Murphy and Wilson Hold
the Two Highest Offices
BOTH POPULAR
Student Affairs Board Directed
the Election for Six Major
Student Organizations
NEW METHOD ADMIRABLE
B. Newlin and Lassiter Head Athletics
and H. Newlin and Cox Y. M. and
Y. W. For Next Year
The first general campus election of
Guilford College was held here April
10 under the direction of the student
affairs board. The new plan turned
out to be very successful, and the vot
ing was carried out smoothly. The
only tie was between Ruby Johnson
and Eunice Lindley for the olii'-e of
house president of New Garden Hail.
The decision was cast in favoi of Ruby
Johnson.
The following officers were elected
for the men: For the student council:
president, Leslie Murphy; vice-presi
dent, Otis Short; secretary, James
Bunn; for the athletic association —
president, Barclay Newlin; vice-presi
dent, Tom Cheek; secretary, George
Allen; for the Y. M. C. A. —president,
Hale Newlin; vice-president, Bunyan
Andrew; secretary, Glenn Robertson;
treasurer, Wilbert Braxton; marshal,
Preston Valentine.
The following were those elected to
offices for the women: For the student
government —president, Norma Belle
Wilson; vice-president, Annie Ray; sec
retary, Isabella Jinnette; treasurer,
Margaret Warner; house president of
Founders Hall, Lockie Sears; house
president of New Garden Hall, Ruby
Johnson; class representatives from
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DEAN TRUEBLOOD
VISITS PHILADELPHIA
Attends a Few Sessions of Yearly Meet
ing Besides Getting More Ma
terial for His Book
Probably few of the Guilford faculty
members or students spent as profitable
an Easter vacation as did Dean True
blood. He journeyed up to Philadel
phia and attended the closing session
of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
held there at Fourth and Arch streets.
This meeting is made up of the Ortho
dox Friends. The Liberal or Hicksite,
yearly meeting will take place next
month at Race Street.
The attendance at the meeting was
very large, and a surprisingly large
number of people took part in the dis
cussion of the business. Regularly ap
pointed representatives from the Race
Street Friends were present and warm
ly received. This is the first occur
rence of its kind since the separation
occurred, over a hundred years ago.
After the meeting was brought to a
close, Mr. Trueblood spent some time
in studying and finding out what he
could about Walt Whitman and Elias
Hicks. He visited the old homestead
of Whitman on Mickle street in Cam
den, where he made copies of several
manuscripts of Whitman's letters, plan
ning to use them later. He also did
some research work in the Haverford
and Ewartlimore libraries. It was in
the latter that he saw the original of
the most famous pictures of George
Fox.
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GUILFORDIAN
"SI2OO a Year"
Under the auspices of the Wom
an's Club, members of the faculty
will present Edna Ferber's "1200 a
Year," or "College Professor Turned
Mill Hand," on Saturday evening,
April 20. The proceeds will be used
to defray the expense of renewing
Memorial Hall some months ago.
The play is announced as a comedy
hut the audience will be privileged
to decide whether it is comedy or
tragedy when a son of a millionaire
mill owner falls in love with a little
girle who works in his mills—or
when a professor's wife has no
money to pay the tailor for pressing
her husband's suit.
SPRING FESTIVAL TO
BE STAGED APRIL 22
Mrs. Franklin Davis Is Chief Sponsor
of Program Which Will Be
Held on Campus
"LET THERE BE JOY"
A coming event of great importance
to the students of Guilford College and
outsiders is the annual Spring Festival,
given by the women of the department
of physical education. The festival,
which is to consist this year of a pag
eant, "Let There Be Joy," will be held
on the campus in front of the library
at 6:30 p. m., April 22. The pageant
was prepared by Mrs. Franklin Davis
for the occasion. The program will be
as follows:
Approach of the Months—Freshmen ;
March, April, May—Spring; June, July,
August—Summer; September, October,
November —Autumn ; December, Jan
uary, February—Winter.
Music: "Dance of Greeting."
Approach of Nature —Freshmen.
Awakening Life—Earth, Sky, Sun,
Moon, Stars, Seas, Jlills, Plains, Moun
tains, Fields, Forests, Clouds, Winds,
Rain, Dew, Frost, Ice, Snow, Flowers,
Fruit, Trees, Ferns, Grasses, Bird
Songs, Color, Shadow, Sleep, Spring
Breezes.
Approach of the Flowers—Sopho
mores; Violets, Daffodils, Daisies,
Iris, Pansies, Poppies, Roses, etc.
Music: "Gathering Peaseods."
Approach of the Birds —Juniors;
Blackbird, Bobolink, Bob White, Brown
Thrasher, Cardinal, Chat, Cucoo, Finch,
Jay, Lark, Oriole, Robin, Tanager,
Thrush, Vireo, and Whippoorwill.
Music: "Coppelia Bullet," Debile.
Approach of the Hours—Seniors;
Dawn (pink), Noon (yellow), Twilight
(lavender), night (black with gold
stars).
Music: Shepherds' Dance (Henry
VIII).
Approach of Spring—Jo Paul; Salu
tation ; Spring's Dance.
Dance of Winter—Snow Storm —
Freshmen.
Dance of Spring—Sylvette Polka—
Sophomores.
Dance of Summer—Flemish Dance—
Juniors.
Dance of Autumn—Vineyard Dance
—Freshmen.
Mazurk a—Sen ior s.
Swedish Dance—Freshmen.
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 17, 1929
MR. AND MRS. GREER
GIVE FOLK PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Folk Songs and Ballads Were
Very Well Interpreted by
Professor Greer
FOLK LORE IS HIS HOBBY
Mrs. Greer Accompanied on the Dulci
mer, Ancient Instrument, After
Mr. Greer Explained It
An interesting program was given by
Professor and Mrs. Greer, of Boone,
X. C„ 011 folklore and ballads tlie eve
ning of April 10 as the last number of
the Lyceum Course for this year.
Mr. Greer gave a short introduction
in which lie defined and differentiated
between a ballad and a folk-song. "A
ballad," he said, "always tells a story
and is set to music. It is impersonal,
while the folk-song asserts the individ
ual himself."
"We are told," he said, "that tilings
next to us are the things most worth
while." When he was a boy he could
sing 40 or 50 of these songs, but soon
began to think them too sentimental. A
little later he went to the University
of North Carolina where by chance he
was asked to sing for C. Alphonso
Smith, who told him of the growing in
terest in folk-songs and ballads and
urged him to keep on interpreting
them.
The first he sang was "The Old Arm
chair," occasioned by the death of a
grandmother and the will. "My Sweet
heart Went Down With the Maine," not
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HIGH SCHOOL DAY
CHANGED TO MAY 4
Events in Track, Tennis and Elocution
Will Claim Major At
tention
HOPE EXPRESSED FOR CLEAR DAY
The annual Guilford College High
School Day will lie held this year on
May 4, instead of April 27th, as was
previously announced by those in
charge. In the morning at 8 o'clock
registration of contestants will take
place. At 0 o'clock there will be a
declamation contest for the boys and
a recitation contest for the girls. Also
at the same time there will be a ten
nis tournament for the boys. In the
afternoon there will be a track meet
for the boys. Other events will be
arranged to afford additional entertain
ment.
High schools from the entire state
are invited to attend and to participate
in the events here. Mr. Williams,
chairman of the high school committee,
reports that he has received correspon
dence from various high school princi
pals stating that they will attend with
teams for each contest and tournament.
Of course, rain might change some
of these plans, but indoor entertain
ment will he provided in case it does
rain. But, rain or shine, the crowning
event will be the awarding of prizes
to winning contestants in the evening.
Contestants and coaches and other
supervisory officers will he given free
lunch on Saturday, and those who re
main for the final contest Saturday
night will be given free dinner also.
E. MARIA SCATTERGOOD
AT GUILFORD
Mrs. Maria Scattergood, daugh
ter of the late Pliny Earle Chase,
a former president of Haverford
College, spent last week-end at
Guilford visiting the Truebloods.
Mrs. Scattergood, whose home is
in Philadelphia, came south to at
tend the wedding of Miss Marcta
Russell at Durham, and stopped by
on the way to visit her friends at
Guilford, making her headquarters
at the cottage of Dean and Mrs.
Trueblood. A luncheon party was
arranged at Founders, where Prof,
and Mrs. J. Franklin Davis, Dr.
and Mrs. Binford, Mrs. Andrews,
and Mr. and Mrs. Trueblood were
able to have a pleasant social meet
ing with her.
Mrs. Scattergood is a prominent
figure in religious and philanthrop
ic work. She expressed great de
light in the appearance of the Guil
ford campus.
TRUEBLOOD WINS
PEACE CONTEST
Winner Will Represent Guilford
in State Peace Contest
Here April 19
BEN BEACH WINS SECOND
"An Adequate National Defense"
was the subject of the winning speech
delivered by Claiv Trueblood in the
annual Peace Oratorical Contest held
April 10. As winner of the contest he
will represent the college in the State
Peace Contest to be held here on April
19. The other contestants were Ben
Beach, winner of second place; Edwin
Rozell, Luther Frances and James York.
The winners are rewarded by a lirst
prize of $25 and a second prize of $lO
given each year by the Friends Peace
Committee for the promotion of inten
sive study of peace problems.
The winner declared that preparation
for war is not protection from war. It
would be much better to use the money
spent each year on military equipment
for the education of a great number of
students who could be sent abroad to
study with and learn from the peoples
•of Europe. This would give the country
two-fold protection, a dispensation of
military power and a better educated
and hence more intelligent and under
standing people. The solution of this
universal problem would therefore be
international education to promote un
derstanding and sympathy among all
the countries of the world.
Ben Beach proposed as his solution
to the war problem a planetary patriot
ism—that is, a patriotism to the ideals
and standards of all humanity and so
ciety as opposed to the present idea of
patriotism which is limited to one's own
state or country.
Clare Trueblood was also the winner
of the College Oratorical Contest held
jointly with the Clay Contest on March
2(i. As winner of the College Oratori
cal Contest he spoke at Elon in the
State Contest April 5. The other two
contestants, James York and Ben Beach,
tied for second place.
"Garden Cities" was the subject of
the winning address. In the first place,
a garden city must be limited in size.
It is divided into sections of limited
area and the city surrounded by a per
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DEBATE SEASON ENDS
WITH VICTORY OVER
FURMAN UNIVERSITY
Trueblood and Rozeil Uphold
Affirmative for Guilford;
Strong in Rebuttals
JURY PROBLEM DEBATED
Affirmative Proposes to Substitute a
Trial by Judge to Abolish Present
Corrupt Practices of Jury
In the debate held Thursday evening
at Mem hall the Guilford affirmative
won the decision of the judge over
Furman University of the query, Re
solved, that a substitute for trial by
jury should be adopted. The Guilford
team was composed of Trueblood and
Rozeil. Furman University was repre
sented by Saunders and Thompson.
Trueblood was the first speaker of
the affirmative and contended the fol
lowing points: The secret of progress
lies not in standing still but in mov
ing; trial by jury has been in exist
ence since the 13th century; juries no
longer mete out justice; they are slow,
expensive, and inefficient; they are
open to corruption and cannot render
just decisions.
Saunders was the first speaker for
the negative, lie agreed that the pres
ent system is not perfect and that the
only way to bring about justice would
be to place a Solomon in every court
circuit. Saunders brought out the fol
lowing points in favor of trial by jury;
The jury is a time-honored institu
tion ; the evils lie not in the system
but in the procedure; the system is
sound and has worked; the majority of
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FACULTY MEMBERS GO
TO DURHAM WEDDING
Miss Miles and Professor Newlin Are
in Bridal Party—Miss Gilbert and
Mr. Purdom Officiate
Of almost as much interest to the
student body and faculty of Guilford
as to those of Duke University was the
recent wedding of Miss Marcia Russell,
daughter of Elhert Russell, dean of tho
School of Religion at Duke, to Mr.
Luther Gobbel, of Germany. The wed
ding, which took place on April 4, was
attended by a large Guilford represen
tation. The faculty members attend
ing were: Dr. Binford and family, Dr.
Hobbs, Dean and Mrs. Trueblood. Miss
Miles, Mr. Newlin, Miss Gilbert, Mr.
Purdom, Mr. and Mrs. Furnas, Mr. and
Mrs. Haworth, Miss Ricks, and Miss
Campbell.
The Quaker ceremony was used in
combination with the Methodist, and
was unique in its simplicity. It took
place in the Trinity Methodist church
at sunset. Miss Miles and Mr. Newlin
were in the bridal party—a little bird
says that they were learning how. Any
way, they had to go to Durham the
night before the event, so they cer
tainly got plenty of practice—as well
as putting joy into the hearts of many
of the members of their classes who
realized that people can be conspicu
ous by their absence. The only mishap
to the Guilford representation was a de
lay to the president's party caused by
car trouble —a delay so serious, in fact,
that they had to use their imagination
except for the final amen.
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