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HENRY CLAY NOTES
"I had rather be right than presi
dent." Thus spoke the noble Henry
Clay, and thus has been worded the
motto of the Henry Clay Literary So
ciety for forty-six years. Under the
influence of this American patriot
and the Henry Clay Literary Society,
we have as our representatives in the
world such notables as Joseph M.
Dixon, ex-governor of Montana, and
now assistant secretary of the Inter
ior of the U. S. H. Sinclair Williams,
six times a member of the General
Assembly of North Carolina; Dudley
D. Carrol, Dean of the School of Com
merce at the University of North Car
olina; Ernest Grady Shore, famous
ex-baseball pitcher of the Boston Red
Sox; and Dr. A. I. Newlin, professor
of History at Guilford College. The
combined traditions of these men and
the Henry Clay Literary Society is
sue a challenge to both the new and
old students of Guilford College.
The purpose of the society, from
the time of its founding in 1885, has
been to train its members in the art
of public speaking and debating. The
future of the society rests with the
students of the college. It is very es
sential that the students participate
in some such organization, and the
Henry Clay Literary Society takes
great pleasure in welcoming each stu
dent to visit its next meeting.
PHILOMATHEAN NOTES
The Philomathean Literary Society
held its regular meeting Friday even
ing, September 11.
Under miscellaneous business a new
secretary, marshall, and treasurer
were to be elected. They are as fol
lows: Secretary, Lillian Holder; mar
shall, Genevieve Sheetz; treasurer,
Marie Beecham. The society then
elected a student affairs board repre
sentative, Margaret Warner.
The Philomathean Society met Sep-
tember 18 at 7:00. Following the sec
retary's report Esther Lee Cox gave
a welcome to the new members.
ZATASIAN LITERARY NOTES
The regular meeting of the Zatas
ian Literary Society was held Friday
evening, September 18, 1931, at 7:00
o'clock.
The program for the evening was a
musical and literary one.
As the opening feature Earline Ad
ams played "Londonderry Air," a pi
ano solo.
Dorothy Wolff then gave a reading
of Bradford's entitled "Sampson."
The next number on the program
was a vocal duet, "I Love a Little
Garden," by Edith Trivette and Elean
or Grimsley.
The program was brought to a close
by i,he reading of two poems of Edwin
Markham. This was done by Eleanor
Bangs.
The society was glad to welcome in
to its membership several new mem
bers.
A program committee was appoint
ed to serve during the next six weeks:
Mildred Burton, chairman; Mozelle
Teague, and Ava Roberts.
Following the critic's report, given
by Ruth Hiller, the society adjourned
to join in the reception given for the
new girls by both societies.
There was a call meeting of the
Zatasian Literary Society Tuesday,
September 15, in order to elect off
ficers to serve the next six weeks.
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Those elected were: President, Lottie
Stafford; secretary, Sally Davis;
marshall, Clara Belle Welch.
PERSONALS
Mr. A. W. Blair of New Jersey Ex
periment Station at New Brunswick
recently visited the college, and ex
pressed much interest in the develop
ment of the library.
Dr. E. Worth Ross, a child special
ist of Detroit, visited the college
during a recent trip to North Caro
lina.
Mildred Beasley was the week-end
guest of her sister, Rachael. She came
down especially for the opening re
ception.
Eleanor Carson was a visitor on the
campus the past week-end.
John Lippincott has been visiting
us for the past few days. Glad to see
you again, "Lipp."
Priscilla White is spending the
week-end at her home in Greensboro.
Miss Helen Jones of High Point
was the week-end guest of Martha
Taylor.
Miss Katherine Ricks and Eva
Campbell spent a few days last week
at Wrightsville Beach.
Mabel Ingold, Verna Andrews, and
Leona Guthrie were here for the op
ening reception.
Jeanette Trotter of Pilot Mountain
was the guest of Rachael Beasley last
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ward and Mil
licent Wood of Concord were visitors
of Ralph and Bill Ward last Sunday.
Nell McMullen spent the past week
end with Sarah Jarrett. She was here
especially for the opening reception.
Mr. H. S. Williams of Concord was
a visitor on the campus last Sunday.
Rachael Beasley spent the week
end at her home in Pilot Mountain,
N. C.
Those going up for the Guilford-
Emory and Henry game were: Lewis
Abel, Frankie Allen, "Deacon" Chol
erton, Johnny Williams, "Ikey" Cox,
Tubby Blair.
Freshman C iris
Are Found Quilty
On Friday night, September 11, the
bloody Soph girls decided it was time
to show their superiority.
The culprits were marched in sin
gle file to back hall at Founders where
they were tried for various unforgiv
able crimes and pleaded guilty in al
most every instance. After consider
able difficulty in keeping order, the
Sophs, having gained the upper hand,
read several rules which the rats were
to observe strictly: A large green
bow was to be worn on the hair, no
make-up could be used, books were to
be carried to class in pillow cases,
and all upper-classmen were to be
spoken to. The meeting was ended by
the first song every Freshman learns
when he enters college, "How Green
I Am."
"Freshman Talent"
Has Social Night
On Tuesday evening, September Bth
a freshman talent program was pre
sented in the auditorium. David Par
sons was the master par excellence
of ceremonies. Readings by Gertrude
Mears, Orpha Newlin, Leona Teague,
and Lilly Butler intervened by piano
selections by Helen Flynn and Mar
garet Pringle. Maurice Farmer and
Smiley Wilkie performed in a most
pleasing manner upon the guitar and
harp. The audience was agreeably
urprised at the unusual talent shown
by the freshman class.
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THE GUILFORDIAN
Mr. Foster Is
Chapel Speaker
"Credit Habits As Character
Builders" Subject of
Address
"Credit Habits as Character Build
ers" was the subject discussed by
Mr. Foster, head of the merchant's
association of Greensboro, who was
the chapel speaker for Tuesday, Sep
tember 22.
According to psychologists, it is as
easy to form one kind of habit as an
other. Ihe bill-paying habit is a good
habit, and one that every respectable
person should form.
Roger Babson, the statistician, at
tributes a great part of the present
depression to the fact that many peo
ple have not formed the bill-paying
habit. Only fifty-seven per cent of the
people are prompt bill payers.
The fact that you get a bill is a
sign that someone has confidence in
your honesty. If you would maintain
this confidence there are four prin
ciples you must observe.
First, use your credit carefully; do
not expect to start out in life on a
par with what your father has amass
ed over a period of years. Second, ob
ligate yourself to pay what you can
pay and no more. Third, save some
thing for an unexpected mishap.
Fourth, do not make additional obli
gations unless you can meet the ones
you already have, together with the
additional ones.
Credit is the best thing one can
have. Mcney can be gotten in various
ways but credit is obtained through
years of honorable living. A man's
character may be judged by his credit.
MAYOR PAUL C. LINDLEY
GREETS NEW STUDENTS
Member Of Hoard Of Trustees
First Speaker Of
New Year
Mayor Paul C. Lindley of Greens
boro and a member of the Board of
Trustees of Guilford College, address
ed the assembled students in chapel
on Wednesday, September 9, on ex
tending a hearty welcome to the
Freshmen and old students.
By giving examples of his school
days at Guilford and those of otners,
he pointed out the need of joining lit
erary societies and entering into other
activities on the campus in order to
develop poise and a foundation for
life.
By starting one boy in hoeing, he
helped him climb to the position of
the landscape department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
In closing, he remarked, that we
must develop our salesmanship—our
powers to sell ourselves.
STUDENT AFFIARS BOARD
HOLDS FIRST MEETING
Point System, Class Standing
and Day Students
Considered
The Student Affairs Board held its
regular meeting in East Parlor on
Wednesday evening. Members from
most of the student organizations
were present.
The greatest interest was in getting
plans and work for the year organiz
ed.
To investigate the point system, a
committee was appointed consisting
of Allen White, Chairman, John Hugh
William and Julia Plummer. The
points and averages of students are
investigated in an effort to carry out
the regulations concerning the re
quirements for carrying outside ac
tivities.
Bob Jamieson and Sam Bass were
appointed to investigate the standing
of class officers as required by the
regulations.
Miss Lasley suggested that the Stu
dent Affairs Board take the initia
tive in promoting more cordiality and
gcod will between the campus and
day students, that they may feel they
are a part of the whole college life.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Tradition —the creed of all true
minstrels—has woven about the name
of Venice a veil of romance and mys
tery. Not the least colorful thread in
the weave of this veil is that of the
Bridge of Sighs, which curves its
romber convexity above one of the
hundred of water-ways that make Ve
iice one monstrous network of stone
rising majestically out of the Adri
atic's salty waves.
It boasts no beauty—the Bridge—
ncne save what the halo of Time and
Tragedy have given it. Moss grown,
jagged, hideous, eternal, it has for
centuries defied the elements and re
mained grimly faithful to its dread
duty—that of connecting the court of
animals in the Doge's Palace with the
city prison opposite.
In former times, a prisoner con
demned to torture or death for hav
ing committed some crime, crossed
the Bridge of Sighs soon after sen
tence was passed. If he loved the sun
light, the blue canals, tM bluer heav
ens, and the sweet wind-swept beauty
that was Venice, he said a long, long
farewell to it all before entering the
prison door, for a Doge's prisoner
crossed the Bridge once only, and in
but one direction.
Tradition has it that back in the
dim days of the fifteenth century,
there ruled in Venice a particularly
wicked and cruel Doge. Heartless,
tyrannical, grasping he was, and pos
sessed of a diabolical and unaccount
able aversion and hatred for all man
kind. Nor was this the comparatively
reasonable, healthy hatred of honest
foe for honest foe, but rather it seem
ed to be a bitter, corroding, defensive
hostility, which we, of today, would
say verged on madness. And yet the
man was clever—oh, so clevert
The Doge's was a serpent's nature,
almost. Certainly his glittering, black
eyes and thin pointed face suggested
the reptile he showed himself to be.
None might boast of daring to look
straight into his eyes for more than a
few uneasy seconds at a time, and
some gave as their excuse the opinion
that no human being, but only Satan
himself might gaze without qualing
into the flaming cruelty, crime, and
unutterable horror of evil that leaped
and surged within the bottomless
depths of the Doge's eyes.
Whether or not the Doge knew of
the fear which his look could awaken
in those about him, certain it was
that his chief delight appeared to be
that of forcing some timid, tremulous
one—a child, a maiden, or perhaps a
prisoner half-frenzied with terror—
to meet his hellish gaze. The Doge al
so, at such times, often smiled. His
bloodless lips were exceptionally thin,
and his fine teeth exceptionally white.
This Doge had a wife—a girl of
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On Saturday night Mary Lib Pitt
man and Olive Bumgarner entertain
ed several friends at a birthday party
for Mary Lib. At ten o'clock the
guests arrived, and during the entire
night everyone seemed to be thor
oughly entertained. Grace's and
Egie's originality kept everyone in
an uproar.
An iced course consisting of iced
tea with sandwiches and cakes was
served. Those present were: Edith
Trivette, Grace Hassell, Imogene
Strickland, Egie Bangs, Jo Kimrey,
Clara Bell Welch, Flora and Pauline
Bumgarner, and Gladys Bryan.
At twelve o'clock one of the hos
tesses read a bed time story and the
guests departed.
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nineteen, whom he had married four
years previous to the time of this
tale, and for whom he had bargained
with neighboring Florence's influen
tial ruler, who was her father. The
great sum he had been obliged to pay
for her youth, talent, and rare love
liness, had, perhaps, something to do
with the cruelty with which the Doge
treated Lcrenzia, at times. As for
Lorenzia, life itself had become a long
delirium of terror since the moment
when first ehe lifted the beauty of in
nocent, trusting child's eyes to the
fiendish horror of the Doge's glance.
Many a time, since her marriage,
she had sought frantically for escape
frcm her fate; but his attendants did
the Doge's bidding, and so he always
knew just how far her pleasure-gon
dola bore her, and just how dull of
edge every dagger to which Lorenzia
might have access in the palace, sud
denly became.
Then one day Lorenzia chanced up
on a young knight asleep upon the
grass under a tree in the palace gar
den. She plrodded him tentatively
with one small foot, till he awoke,
startled; and then they gazed at each
other for a long moment, as if puz.-
zled. Finally the young knight rose
and walked away, and Lorenzia con
itnued her listless strolling ....
Four months after the incident, the
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girl, cue cloudy summer midnight,
crawled stealthily out upon the wide
sti ne ledge of her window from which
she "had succeeded in removing the
heavy iron bars, and—slowly, silently
—let herself down by means of a rope
for the fifty-foot drop from the win
dow ledge to the dim blur of gently
rocking blackness that was her lover's
gondola, hugging the rough, rock wall
in the canal below.
For one perilous instant she hung
swaying, at the end of the rope. The
next, a man's arms reached out for
her from the vague obscurity of the
gondola. Slowly, gently, they half
drew, half-lifted her downward, till
she loosed her held on the rope and
rested, safe, against the man's should
er. All the while, she had kept her
eyes tight-closed, as a child does when
half frightened yet very happy. A mo
ment longer the white lids hid the
sweet glory of the jewels that lay be
neath them; then they fluttered con
tentedly open, and through the gloom
thinned by proximity, Lorenzia look
ed into a pair of the steadiest, black
est, and most glittering orbs that ev
er pierced the midnight. Suddenly the
Doge smiled, and his teeth gleamed
white, while the gondola with its
triple cargo rocked a gentle bit, in
the darkness ....
Five nights later, on the moonlit
eve of her twentieth birthday, a girl,
leaning heavily upon the proffered
arm of her husband, walked with bow
ed head and stumbling foot, across
the Bridge of Sighs.