The Old Sheet Off —
The New One Clean
VOLUME XX
CLARENCE TOBIAS
NEW SECRETARY
FOR CENTENNIAL
Aids Hundred - Year Program
by Raising Money by
Subscription.
HAS OFFICE ON CAMPUS
Comes Here Well Rccommended; Has
Held Number of Positions At Va
rious Schools and Colleges.
Clarence E. Tobias, of Overbrook,
Pa., has been recently employed in the
capacity of Secretary of Guilford Col
lege. He will back up the advance
ment of the Centennial Program and
see that it keeps progressing.
Mr. Tobias has an A. B. degree in
Biology from the University of Penn
sylvania. In 1031 he received his Mas
ter's degree in Philosophy and Quaker
History from Ilaverford College. He
has been a graduate student in the His
tory of Religion at the University of
Pennsylvania and a teacher of Botany
and Zoology in Girard College and the
University of Pennsylvania; a worker
in th • Marine Biological Laboratories,
Woods Hole, Mass., and is now registrar
for Friends Central School, Overbrook,
Pa. It is one of the leading day schools
in the United States for the Society of
Friends. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
Air. Tobias, who was recommended
by Rufus M. Jones, is a member of
Haverford Monthly Meeting and is a
Friends minister. In addition to scho
lastic recommendations, Mr. Tobias is
experienced as a lecturer; has studied
abroad; is a national member of the
Y. M. C. A. and the World Student
Christian Federation, and belongs to
the Overbrook Golf Club.
In 1020 Mr. Tobias married Miss
Dorothy McCrockle. They have one
son, Gordon, six years old.
FRENCH CLUB VOTES IN
SEVERAL NEW MEMBERS
Monthly Business Meeting Held With
Election of Officers for Com
ing Semester.
CHINA SELECTED FOR SOCIALS
A number of new members were
voted into the French club Inst night
nt its regular bi-monthl.v business meet
ing. At the same time, new officers
were scheduled to be elected.
The group decided to buy china to
be used at the socials and other activi
ties, samples of different types of cliina
being displayed before the meeting to
aid in the selection.
The French club being entirely hon
orary, new members must be voted into
the group. Before being presented for
membership, the candidates must have
taken some advanced French. The
group admitted last night were the first
additions to the club since its first
meeting. It numbers about 25 now.
Martha Taylor was in charge of the
program last night.
The new officers were elected to suc
ceed William Edgerton, president j Ju
lia Blair Hodgin, vice-president; Lily
Bet Hales, secretary, and Martha Tay
lor, Esther Lee Cox, and Ruth Fuquay,
social and program committee.
Club Plans Play
The Guilford College Club is making
plans for the presentation of a play,
the proceeds from which will go to the
college. The members of the club are
reading plays, but the plans are very
indefinite.
GyTHE^D
GUILFORDIAN
A REAR GUARD ACTION
Outnumbered three to one, without even a prayer of hope, the
ragged veterans of the South stopped time and again in their retreat
to face the steam-roller of Sherman. Fiercely they sprang at it,
fighting as though they had hopes of pushing the blue ranks into
the Pacific. And while the front ranks fought and held, men in the
rear were throwing up new breastworks, digging new trenches.
The administration at Guilford is apparently fighting the same
sort of rear guard action against progress. Just as though progress
could lie finally defeated and pushed backward, the old line fights
with clubbed weapons, bare fists, teeth, or anything else that can
momentarily stop the tide. And then, when the fight gets so hot
that the old position is no longer tenable, the old guard drops back,
takes a new position and once more prepares to shed its life-blood
before yielding an inch.
Over and over again, progress has rolled the line back, only to
find the Guilford old guard still before it, still contesting, as bitterly
as ever.
When Quaker bonnets were required for girls at Guilford, the
administration probably protested against removing the requirement
on the grounds that it would lead to immorality rampant, to frivolity
rife, to the ruin of Guilford in the eyes of all of Guilford's friends,
and above all, on the grounds that OL1) HEADS ARE WISER.'
The present campus generation is frothing at the tactics used
to stem the tide of progress. .Just as one of Johnson's Rebs wouldn't
have hesitated to gouge out the eye of a Yankee, the administration
is using any means at hand to hold, even for a moment. And when
it has finally bowed to the inevitable, and dropped back a little, the
next point, without doubt, will be just as bitterly contested with
progress.
Conservatism is a good thing. It is the balance wheel that keeps
the forward-moving machinery of change from tearing itself to
pieces.
If you may jump any time you wish, you may splash into a mud
puddle, but if you must fight ten years to get the chance to jump
and are then held back five times when you were expecting to be
let go, chances predominate that you will light upon solid ground.
Though change is fought at Guilford, yet it can be said that
never did Guilford make a change except for the better. That means
much.
Fight for progress; youth must, if we are to move forward; but
lie patient with the old guard; we must have them to save us from
ourselves.
New Courses Are
Given This Spring
Only one new course, Comparative
Religion, is being offered this spring
that has not been offered before, al
though there are several courses
that are given alternate years that
will be given this semester.
Other courses besides Religion 12
are Biology 6. a course in general
Embryology; Chemistry 6, Quantita
tive Analysis; Economics 10, Busi
ness Management and Finance; Edu
cation 3, a History of Education;
English 18, Contemporary Litera
ture; Philosophy 12, a study of the
modern mind; French 8 and 12;
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Literature.
CHOIR STARTS SEASON
WITH STATE CONCERTS
Mr. Noah Believes That the Group Is
Better This Year Than
Ever Before.
The Guilford College choir, under
the direction of Max Noah, launched its
season of concerts Monday, January 22,
at Rankin. This initial concert of the
year was received by a small but ap
preciative audience. It also marks the
beginning of a series of concerts that
are to be given in the state in the next
few weeks.
Mr. Noah, in announcing the sched
ule, given out by Mr. Noah for the fu
ture concerts to be given in this state,
is as follows:
Saturday, January 27, at Colfax.
Sunday, January 28, at Walkertown,
Sunday, February 4, at High Point.
Sunday, February 11, at Graham.
Sunday, February 18, at Kernersville,
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., JANUARY 27, 1934
PROGRAMS RESUMED BY
ARTS CLUB ON MONDAY
Many Students Take Part in Class Les
sons, Both Instrumental
and Vocal.
HEADINGS AND MUSIC FEATURES
After a rest due to vacation and
exams, the Arts Club is again getting
under way.
On Monday, January 29th, at 7:30
p. m., the following people will appear
on the program: William Collier, piano;
Virginia Levering, reading; trumpet,
Esther Perkins; piano, Mina Donnell,
Wesley Vaughn; voice, Martha Taylor;
paper 011 Brahm's anniversary; Helen
Stilmon; voice, Massey Tonge.
On Monday, February 27th, the fol
lowing will occur: Voice, Erline Hun
ter; piano, Louise Lee; voice, Minn Don
nell ; chamber music, Erwin Werner;
the String Quartet; the Vocal Quartet;
voice, Frances Mclver; cello, Anna Bon
ham ; piano, Julia Blair Hodgins.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah will be glad to
help those who wish it.
ENGLISH ECONOMIST
HERE FOR WEEK-END
Among the celebrities 011 the campus
for charter day week-end was Waldon
Newbold, an English economist, who is
in America collecting material for a
book on "Quaker Inbuenee 011 Eigh
teenth and Early Nineteenth Century
Banking." Mr. Newbold has received
favorable comment on his book, "De
mocracy, Debts, and Disarmament,"
which lias just been published by Dut
ton and Company. He came here from
Philadelphia where he gave an address
before the American Economic Asso
ciation.
Mr. Newbold is a member of the Brit
ish Labor party and has had a position
as adviser to the British government.
NOTED PIANIST TO GIVE
CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT
Dr. J. Menzies van Zandt, pianist,
will give a concert in the college
auditorium.
Dr. van Zant's concert is being
sponsored by the college choir.
He has studied music under Pad
rewski in Paris; he has played in
many cities of the United States,
among which are St. I.ouis, Boston,
Chicago, and New York; and ho
has played in Havana, Berlin, Lon
don, Paris, and other foreign cities.
A write-up given him in Dresden,
Germany, says: "A critic attending
a recital by Menzies van Zant, can
just relax, listen and became enrap
tured by the God-given artist."
PENDLE HILL SENDS
JOHN HUGHES HERE
Leader at Pennsylvania School
Here for Two Days at the
End of January.
DIRECTOR MAKES TALKS
John A. Hughes, acting director of
Pcndlc llill School, will bo on campus
January 31 and February 1. He will
Rpeak at chapel and evening meetings
on both days. The chairman of the
Board of Management of Pendle Ilil
says, "Combining rich experience as an
Angclican clergyman and as director of
an educational settlement at York with
a more recent one in the field of re
ligious education among Friends in the
Friends Schools of England, John
Hughes brings to his task an unsual
grasp of the Quaker principle of the
Inner Light and the fervor and clear-
ness of presentation with which a fresh
conviction of truth inevitably endows
its recipient."
Pendle Hill is located at Walling
ford, Pa., amidst the influence of Phil
adelphia, his yearly meeting.
Rufus M. Jones and Henry J. Oad
bury, recent visitors on the campus,
are instructors at Pendle Hill with
John Hughes, whose courses are enti
tled, "The Springs of Creative Reli
gion" and "Tho Principles of the Inner
Light and Its Expression in Shakes
pearean Drama, Art, and Music."
JUNIOR CLASS SELECTS
PARKER FOR PRESIDENT
Eleanor Webster to Head Freshmen
During Coming Semester; Other
Elections Next Week.
Officers of the coming semester "were
elected nt the regular class meetings
Thursday by the Freshmes and Juniors.
The other two classes are planning to
elect their officers at their meeting
next. week. The new president for tho
Juniors is George Parker. The new
president for the Freshmen is Eleanor
Webster.
Other newly elected Junior officers
are: Vice-president, Charlie McKenzie;
secretary, Mamie Rose McGinnis;
treasurer, Jesse Bowen.
The other new officers for the Fresh
man class are: Vice-president, Hazel
Wright; secretary, Franklin Fowler;
treasurer, Charles Blair.
TEACHER BRINGS HER
MUSIC STUDENTS HERE
Because of the examinations, we have
had only three chapel programs in the
past two weeks. Dr. Binford started
off the new semester's chapels by
speaking on Charter Day: what hap
pened, and what started to happen then.
Silent worship was on Wednesday. Pu
pils of MrS. Jess Alderman, a Greens
boro violin teaeher, provided music on
Friday.
Guilford Straddling
The Semesters
NUMBER 7
OPINIONS ON EXAMS
VARY AMONG THE
GUILFORD STUDENTS
Semester Tests Most Difficult
in Years, Some Stu
dents Think.
NEWLIN HAS FIRST PLACE
Misses Huth and Bruce Are Reported
to Have Given the Easiest,
Yet Fair, Tests.
Exams are over! Reports of their
difficulty are still circulating over the
campus. It is reported that Mr. New
lin should receive the "wreath of poi
son ivy" for having the most difficult
inquisition in American History. The
belief is that he searched high and low
for the most obscure questions. The
History 3 examination, although hard,
is said to have been what was expected.
Miss Gilbert's exams ranged from
medium to long and difficult in the stu
dents' opinions. Mr. Pancoast's ad
vanced course appeared to be rather
difficult, but the freshman exam fair.
Miss Huth's exams, as reported, were
fair and not very hard.
A concensus of opinion placed Mrs.
Milner's Psychology I exam as among
the fairest given.
From a practical, fair exam, a nice
exam, a long, easy exam, to an exam
which dealt in obscure facts, were opin
ions expressed 011 Mr. Shepherd semes
ter test.
Mr. Furnas' students thought his
exams were fair, although unexpected,
and comprehensive. Surprise was
evinced about Mr. Fleming's semi-year
ly test because it was so comprehensive.
French 3 was a catchy exam.
A long, quite complete, fair exam
was given to the student's of Mr. Ha
worth's class.
Miss Bruce, with a somewhat easy
exam, was in direct contrast to Miss
Campbell, whose exam was reported as
pretty stiff.
The geology test was reported to be
eaesier than expected, and long.
Mr. Purdom's comprehensive test in
Physics completely knocked out the sci
ence students.
Dr. Ljung's exam was hard and so
long that it was almost impossible to
finish.
A representative student was unable
to say anything printable about the
exams, and others of the college stu
dents intelligentsia considered these
exams the hardest in the recent history
of Guilford College.
MRS. MILNER SPEAKS IN
P. T. A. ASSOCIATIONS
Children in Iti-lation to Parents, Re
ligion and Things, Are
Her Topics.
The Parent-Teachers Association of
various towns have invited Mrs. Milner
to speak to them.
On February 18 she is to speak be
fore the Lindley Junior High School
. T. A. on the "Responsibility of the
Home and Parents to a Child." On the
13th she will go to the White Oak .
T. A. to talk on the "Home As a Cen
ter of Training for Modern Citizen
ship."
February Bth will find Mrs. Milner
at the Curry P. T. A., giving a speech
on "Children's Religion."
She lias already spoken to the High
Point City Reserve Committee and
counselors on the subject of the "Prob
lem of the Adolescent Girl."