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VOLUME XX
MILNER CONTINUES
STUDY ON DEGREE
FOR EIGHT MONTHS
Guilford Dean Leaves Campus
to Complete Work on His
Doctorate.
GOES TO HARTFORD, CONN.
Was Student Abroad on Same Fellow,
ship; Writes Thesis on Work
of College Dean.
Dean Clyde A. Milner, of Guilford
College, left for Hartford Theological
Seminary, Hartford, Conn, wlierc he is
going to spend about eight months work
ing for a doctor's degree. His work will
consist of a dissertation on the "Prep
aration and Function of a Dean," this
being subject to change. He has been
working on a study for this connection
with the American Association of Col
leges, especially small ones. While there
ho will also have to pass examinations
in German, French and Latin.
He received the John S. Wells Fel
lowship from the Seminary in 1024 and
is using it this year. This fellowship
is awarded to one member of each
graduating class. Dean Milner received
it when he took the Bachelor of Sacred
Theology degree in 1924. Tt is intended
partly for use abroad. Through 1928
and 1929 Dean studied on it abroad.
There lie studied in the University of
Marburg, Germany under Dr. .Tenech,
known as a Oestalt psychologist. In
Zurich, Switzerland he worked under
Dr. Oskor Pfinster in his psycho-analytic
clinic. From here he went to Geneva
when ho was accepted as a candidate
for doctors' degree in the University of
Geneva. He passed the general exam
ination in philosophy here. After this
he studied under Dr. Boudovin, known
for suggestion, under Dr. Cloperede, a
child psychologist, and under Bovet.
Previously lie had received his M.A.
degree at Haverford, Pennsylvania and
his A.B. degree at Wilmington College,
Wilmington, Ohio, which is one of the
ten Quaker colleges in the United States.
His Junior year of college he studied in
Woodbrook, England.
The night before he left, he And Mrs.
Milner gave a dinner for thepsycliology
majors. Dr. and Mrs. ,T. B. Tf.van, from
Duke university, Mr. and Mrs. ,T. C.
Shepard and Charles Milner were also
there.
While the Dean is gone. E. 0. Purdom,
professor of physics, will act as dean.
PRESENT FROSH CLASS
UNUSUALLY LARGE ONE
Most Numerous Group to Register ut
Guilford Since Record Year
of 1925
The present Freshman Class is the
largest since 1925. There are 139 stu
dents enrolled in it, 90 men and 43 wo
men. This class is one of great va
riety, especially in the field of relig
ing. There are 15 religious represented
in the freshman class alone. They are
Christian, Methodist. Baptist, Presbyte
rian, Friends, Lutheran, Catholic, Mo
ravian, Church of Christ, Disciples of
Christ, Reform and Episcopal. There
are students who are not members but
who attend the Dutch Reform Church,
the Unitarian Church and the Congre
gational Church.
There is also variety in the parts of
tlio U. S. from which the freshmen
Class comes. Nine states of the union
are represented: North Carolina, Xev\
Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, New York,
Tennessee, South Dakota. Masseehusetts
and Rhode Island.
GUILFORDIAN
STUDENT AFFAIRS BOARD
CHOOSES NEW OFFICERS
Leroy Miller will be president of
the student affairs board during
the present semester, having been
elected in a special meeting of the
board Thursday.
Martha Taylor was elected vice
president at the same time.
Nell Ellington will be the secre
tary of the board during the com
ing semester.
Miller succeeds David Parsons,
president of the student organiza
tion last spring.
ROADS SUBSTITUTED
FOR GYMNASIUM
Funds Reins Raised Slowly for
More Ambitious Project,
Says President Rinford.
OPENS CENTENNIAL WORK
While the proposed gymnasium
for Guilford was not constructed last
summer, as was originally planned,
work on the definite centennial pro
gram was commenced in the form of a
road.
Work was started on this project the
past summer. Student labor, under the
direction of the Federal Relief employ
er, was used.
Starting between the Music Building
and Arehdale Hall, the road runs to
the tennis courts. When this road is
, finished it will displace the men's ten
nis courts and the gymnasium, and will
I connect with the road leading from
Founder's by the rear of New Garden
' and King Hall, and finally terminate
in tho Oak Ridge Road. After the new
roads are completed we will no longer
use those in the cpnter of the campus.
Tho cars will be parked at the edge, in
stead of the center.
Road construction is not the only
campus improvement to be made, but
shrubbery and flowers, especially at the
rear of the buildings, are then planted.
The plans for the new gymnatium
have been completed, but the money
does not come in very rapidly.
STUDY ROUTE TO FIGURE
LIKE THAT OF MAE WEST
French Class Imitates Famous Woman
Writer Who Drew "The Path
to Affection"
"TRUE LOVE*' ROAD ALSO MAPPED
The not-so-smooth course of true
love, the also difficult path to :i "'Moe
West. Figure," and other devious
routes, outlined 011 illustrated maps
modelled from Mine. Scudery's Carte
de Tendre" were presented in French
VII class last week by a number of
the students.
"Martha and Sam." lv Mary Alma
Coltrane, Jane Clegg, and Lily Bet
Hales, illustrated the life of a boy
and girl who were playmates and to
gether went through life. As such
stories go it ended in "Blue Heaven."
The second map by Ida Mae liiggins,
Ruth Fuquay and Ernest White
showed how to pass a college course.
One begins with "good intentions,"
and may choose different routes, one
leading to an A, AB, or a C, and one to
an "Incomplete." "How to acquire a
Moe West Figure" was drawn by Nell
Islington and Boro thy Sturdivant. A
very slender girl decides she wants to
-be like Mae West, she does different
things to gain weight.
The fourth one, a map of "Studies
Through the State of Learning," by
Warren Be/anson, received much at
tention.
a/THE^c)
GUILFORI) COLLEGE, N. C., SEPTEMBER 30, 1933
PROFESSOR PURDOM
RETURNING AFTER
YEAR AT STUDIES
Spends Time in Work for Doc
tor's Degree at Michigan
University.
MISS HUTH ALSO RETURNS
Mrs. Mellissa Powell, School Nurse, Only
Other New Member of Faculty
This Year.
Miss M. L. Huth and Mr. E. G. Pur
dom, two professors who formerly
taught at Guilford and have been away
on leaves of absence, are back again
this year. A third addition to the
faculty this year is Mrs. Melissa Powell,
of Clinton, who is replacing Mrs. Ham
ilton Moore as college nurse.
Mr. Purdom left Guilford College the
first of June, 1932, and by the latter
part of June had started work in the
University of Michigan. During his ab
sence Mr. Purdom carried 011 research
work concerned with studies in X-ray
radiations that are obtained from heavy
elements such as uranium, platinum
and gold.
He later assisted in the construction
of a three-million-volt electrostatic
generator. This is the second largest
of its kind at present in the United
States. This machine is being used in
the artificial integration of chemical
elements.
At the meeting last June of the
American Physical Society in Chicago
he fulfilled all his requirements for the
Ph.D. degree except the publishing of
the dissertation.
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WIFE OF PRESIDENT
P.-T. A, HISTORIAN
Mrs. Rinford Goes to Washing
ton for National Board
Meeting.
CONFERS WITH COLTRANE
Mrs. Ravinon Binford, Miss Myra
Binford, and Mrs. J. L. Henderson,
president of the North Carolina Par
ent Teachers' Association, spent Sep
tember 15-21 in Washington, D. C. Mrs.
Binford attended the National Board
Beeting of the National Parent Teach
ers' Aassociation in the capacity of Na
tional Historian. Problems relating to
Education, Radio, Citizens' Councils,
Emergency Education for Legislation,
and Parental Education, were dis
cussed.
A banquet held at the Wardman
Park Hotel, headquarters of the meet
ings, included the assistant secretary
of interior, as NRA representative.
Miss Grace Abbott, of the Children's
Bureau, and Miss Gray, president of
the NEA.
Sight seeing trips were conducted
during the week to all points of inter
est. Miss Myra Binford saw the sights,
while Mrs. Binford attended the confer
ence.
Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Binford
conferred with Eugene Coltrane, Guil
tord. 'O7, concerning education by ra
dio.
Choir Members Plan Reception
The old members of the choir are
planning their annual reception in
honor of the new members on Tuesday
evening, October 3. Plans have not yet
been divulged, but Nell Ellington, gen
eral chairman, and a group of commit
tees have begun work 011 the social.
Guilford Alumni Return
For Annual Celebration
Guilfordian
Goes Home
After wandering hither and
thither, from pillow to post as the
various managers and editors of the
paper changed location, the Guilford
inn lias decided to go home this
year, returning to its old headquar
ters over the museum.
Under new management almost
throughout, the old sheet is trying to
turn over a new leaf, particularly
in making a more regular appear
ance. Once every two weeks it has
made definite plans to come up
anew before its best friends and se
verest critics, the student body.
ELWOOD COX CHOSEN
AS SENIOR PRESIDENT
Some of Class Officers Replaced
Due to Lack of Class
Standing.
TAYLOR HEADS JUNIORS
Some of the class officers elected at
the first, of the year were found to be
ineligible due to their not having class
standing and had to be replaced. Final
elections wore held Thursday, all classes
but the freshmen having at least one
change to make.
Head of the senior class until mid
term will be Ehvood Cox. He succeeds
as president of the graduating class
: David Parsons, senior leader last
spring.
Vice-president of the seniors is Clara
| Belle Welch, with Carson Cox acting as
I secretary-treasurer.
Martha Taylor was elected president
|of the juniors, with Charles McKenzie
| vice-president, Jesse Bowcn secretary,
I and Frances Wiley, treasurer.
I Heading the sophomores is James
Fulp. Edwin Sink is the sophomore
vice-president and Paul Davis is sec
retary of the class with Kobert Allen
the newly-elected treasurer.
The president of the freshmen is Wil
liam' Capella; vice-president, Talmadge
Smith; secretary, Wilda Stack, and
treasurer, Ed Bcnbow, Jr.
Only the juniors and sophomores
elected student government representa
tives. The junior representative is
George Silver and the sophomore rep
resentative is Daryl Kent, with Walter
Streb acting as alternate.
rPvOFESSORMAX NOAH
ORGANIZES ORCHESTRA
Number of Student* Participate in
Music Department Activity; Violin
ists and Pianists Predominate.
A college orchestra, practically the
first organization oof its kind ever to
be gotten together at Guilford, is being
started by Professor Max Noah, head of
the music department, this fall.
Trios, quartets and other orchestran
numbers are being worked on this fall.
In the orchestra at present are Anna
Naomi Binford, Charles McNeil, War
ren Bezanson, Helen Stillman, and
Ralph Ward, violinists; Anna Jean
Bonhnur, Frances Alexander, and Rich
ard Binford, cellists; Walter Mickle,
clarinetist; Massey Tonge, flutist; Es
ther Perkins, trumpeter; Jesse Bowon,
Eilzabeth Adams, and Martha Taylor,
pianists.
Old Homecomers
Return
NUMBER 1
SATURDAY, OCT. 7
Number of Events of Various
Types Planned; Guilford
Plays Catawba.
IS HOME-COMING DAY
Varsity-Alumni Hockey Teams Meet;
Literary Societies Give Recep
tions for Old Members.
Home coming (lay at Guilford will
bo Saturday, October 7, this year. Prep
arations for this annual event include
a hockey game, a football game, and
a reception for returning Guilfordians.
Arrangements this year are again in
charge of the Homecoming Committee,
under the leadership of Professor J.
Wilmer Pancoast. W. W. Blair, presi
dent of the Alumni, an Miss Era Las
ley, Alumni secretary, have also been
active in the arrangements.
The home coming program will start
with an alumnus-varsity hockey game
on the girls athletic field. The game
is sonpsored by the women's athletic
council. The opening whistle will come
at 11:00 in the morning.
The returning "Old grads" will be in
vited to lunch either at Founders or
New Garden.
The Catawba football game, selected
by Coach Shepard, as being the one
most likely to afford an interesting and
exciting spectacle for former cheering
sections, is scheduled to start at 2:30.
It will bo the first home football game
of the year for Guilford, being played
on Hobbs Field, rather than in Greens
boro, as is usually the case.
Immediately following the game the
alumni athletic committee and the fac
ulty athletic committee will meet in
Men's Center for the purpose of review
ing the work of the past few years and
making plans for the future.
The alumni will again be invited to
dinner at the dining halls at 6:00 and
a number of them are expected to be
there.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the women's literary so
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DEBATERS HOLD FIRST
MEETING FOR THE YEAR
Discuss Plans for Coming Year; Inter
class Debating to Be Sched
uled This Fall
WORK ON COUNCIL CONSTITUTION
The debating council hold its first
meeting of the year Tuesday, Septem
ber 26. Plans for the coming semester
and a constitution were started and
discussed. Tlie constitution, which is
very necessary to the council, as it has
none at present, promises to be finish
ed soon.
Plans are being forwarded to liavo in
ter-class debates before the eleventh of
November. The Sophomores will first
match the Freshmen j the Seniors will
try to overcome the .Tuniors. To make
things fair, the upperclassmen will
challenge the lower classes and give
them choice of sides. As yet the ques
tions for discussion have not been an
nounced.
The classes will select their own
teams. Both girls and boys may be
on it.
At this meeting Edgar Sleibohm was
elected secretary, and Plin Hears rep
resentative to the Student Affairs
Board. The others on the team this
year are John Hugh Williams, Leroy
Miller and Thomas Hiller, the last
named being Freshman representative.