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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published semi-montlily by the students of Guilford College during the school year except during examinations and holiday periods. Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Editor-in-Chief Frances Alexander Managing Kditor Billy Anderson Assistant Managing Editor Marguerite Neave Business Manager John Bradshaw SPECIAL EDITORS Feature Editors Buth Anderson Charlotte Parker Sports Editor Earle Maloney Alumni Editor Miss Era Lasley Assistant Alumni Editor Mary Bryant Society Editor Rebecca Weant Typing Editor Geraldine Mac Lean REPORTERS Naomi Binford Ruth Stilson Esther Stilson Mary Alma Coltrane John McNairy Marvin Sykes Rodman Scott Helen Traegar Isabelle Dunkhurst gam Smith Pete Moore Milton Anderson SECRETARIAL STAFF Cora Worth Parker Ellen Niblock Dorothy McLawhorn Helen Traegar Mary Priscilla Bloueh Isabelle Dunkhurst Circulation Manager Richard Binford Assistant Circulation Manager Edward Shuman Assistant Business Manager James Parsons FACULTY ADVISORS Philip Furnas Dorothy Gilbert Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post oliice in Guilford College as second class matter And Brutus Was an Honorable Man—? What profound irony seems to be attached to the word honor! What a lack of honor masquerades under its sacred name! With Anthony we say, "And we are honorable men!" but we do not mean it. Perhaps we do not know its meaning. We do not seem to grasp the least little bit of its deep significance. There is a situation on campus which shows this all too clearly. The honor system is obviously only a hypocrisy in Guilford. When we use the word honor system we are only being ironical, for there is no honor system any more. Those who came before us wanted it so badly that they worked and worked to get the privilege of being honorable themselves instead of having teachers guard their honor for them by marching up and down with watchful eyes during exams, and having other like procedures. The picture is different now. The honor system, once an ideal, has been dragged to the dust of convention. It is a tradition which, though lukewarmly respected, is followed only when convenient. We, who allow this to be, are honorable only to the same extent as Brutus was— we hold an empty, meaningless honor. Do we, who say we do, really believe in this system of ours? Or are we serenely indifferent to the situation as it is? Do we long for the return of the professorial proctor system? What is wrong with us? We have leaders who say they favor it. Why don't they do something about it? We challenge you to make this a success. We wish to be able to believe that honor can exist here, that we can be called honorable men and mean it. It is a challenge to all of us! Are we men enough to take it? We Conquered! Wo have conquered that blank discouragement we felt because of our defeats, for in our group there are some who suddenly were fired with a pep which gathered people to their following as the wind takes with it the floating leaves. A football game was tried with pep standing behind it. The players gave more than they had before, and came near winning against a much heavier team; another game and this time it was a victory. There could be 110 better proof than this that the power of spirit or pep or whatever one might call it is a real force in the world. We need that spirit in so many phases of our campus life in which we are absolutely apathetic. It is not just the rah! rah! school spirit we are speaking of now, but a spirit that will pervade all our activities, that kind that will make of them a success—a carefree spirit that is full of fun to make the social functions really a joy to attend—a seriousness of purpose that will bring to Guilford an honor system that really works—a consideration for the rights of others in the dormitory and out that will perhaps some day make disciplinary measures for trivial things unnecessary. This pop or spirit acts strangely like a boomerang. It not only lielps tlie event into which you put it, hut it gives you a zest anil interest and understanding into things which makes you enjoy them instead of staying stolidly, dumbly by. Give of your spirit and you shall receive. We have dedicated this issue to the college spirit and interest all of you have, and we hope that you will use it as you have so bravely started to in the wake of the valiant pop committee. Give us your opinion of our efforts. If you like or dislike the paper write to the editor and tell him what is right or wrong and suggest improvements. THE GUILFORDIAN Letters to the Editor TO THE DISSATISFIED AND INDIG NANT NEWCOMERS Several of your criticisms have, at various times, come to the ears of that large body of Guilfordites —the Con tented Upperclassmen. To most of your arguments we have one general answer: investigate whereof you speak —you'll save yourself the blunder of misrepresenting and falsifying. The dining room seeins to be your chief field of activity. The following facts have been observed by those who are in a position to observe. (We feel that newcomers are not yet in such a position.) For the facts that are not of an observable nature, we have taken the trouble, for your information, to go directly to the most reliable and authentic sources and obtain data. In the first place, more people are attend ing breakfast this year than have ever in the past—not "because we don't get enough at other meals," but because, for one of several reasons, we can no longer say and feel, "Eggs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; bacon Tues day, Thursday, and Saturday; and sau sage on Sunday." And in the same connection: Menu for Sunday night supper, October 27, 1935: Welsh rarebit on toast, cabbage and bacon salad with Wild Wing dress ing, sliced tomato, cocoa, hot rolls, but ter, and lemon snow with whipped cream. Sunday night supper, 35 Sun days, 1934-53: Pear (or pineapple) salad (one slice—no seconds), crackers (salteens and graham), cheese (seconds for the first six tables through), cocoa (occasionally coffee or tea), and oat meal cookies (ask an olTl student about tliem!). That is an indication of dining room conditions last year, and in spite of that, more upperclassmen have re turned this fall than have in any pre vious year (contrary to one unin formed's statement). That, perhaps, is sufficient answer to the question as to variety in our meals. As to the amount, there is little need of an answer to any remarks in that area, other than the same: "Investi gate!" To those who are concerned and have not taken the trouble to in form themselves: the maximum num ber of calories required, per day, to feed adequately a man at hard labor all day, is 3,500. Our football men, most nearly approaching "men at hard labor," and probably requiring more than the rest of us, are getting a mini mum of 3,500 calories a day! The rest of us, if we eat what is set before us (Students! Take a lesson at Guilford and bring your children up to eat all foods!) —the rest of us are getting over 3,000 calories a day—a fact, vcri- fied not only by actual fount, l>ut by the appearance of the proverbial "freshman tonnage" (acquired with equal ease by upperclassmen). There is one aspect of the food situ ation that few students care to take into consideration, and in the answer to this, perhaps, lies the answer to a large part of the problem—the finan cial side. This covers a wide range of facts. The meals you are now getting are costing you considerably less than 20 cents per meal—in actual money. Where, many of us wonder, could you get a respectably decent meal for that? Are you aware that you are paying the boarding department the sum of 215-7 (Continued on Page Four) • I f I Compliments of i W. V. MORAN | 218 S. Elm St. | i ? Try Our New j SODA FOUNTAIN j i Gigantic Sundaes 10c | | 3—sc Candy Bars for 10c I f Pleasants Mercantile | Company j ON LOVE-MAKING, WITH PEDA GOGICAL TOUCHES i itchy was surprised to learn f.hat the kernersville kasanova was about to publish his knowledge of things amatory to the crowd which hangs around founders but it surprised me even more to find that his charming lab assistant is willing to furnish ginches for a small but substantial insult i itchy was rudely awakened on home coming day by a rustle of the bedclothes it seems that the two yankeee who prided themselves on the squalor of their archdale flat took notice of the day and one made his bed for the second time this year and the other swept ten tons of dirt into the hall and me with it about this time mehitabel my ingenue and fiancee came traipsing down the hall with her bustle in a hustle because the math genius had nearly killed her with a broom during his own belated spring cleaning It has. been rumored that a certain girl from Founder's had a "winking* effect on one policeman on the return trip from Lenoir-Rhyne. i itchy attended a football game coming home i fell in some vile smelling stuff called beer when i heard bullston remark to a lady faculty won't you have one i climbed out again at her response i itchy also refereed a race in that bus—a race between j The Piedmont Press (The Advocate Printing House) "The Friendly Print shop" Specialists in School Printing 429 W. Gaston St. I'hone 2-1190 End I able A. G. or D. C., 5-Tube Modern iSilvertone Compact '• i' vll '- it i*. finality points you'd ordinarily tlnd only sit an outlay of much more money! Airplane dial, 5-inch dynamic speaker, tuning range ol 170 to 550 meters, .and timed radio frequency circuit for AC and 1M operation. Smart new styled compact cabinet in lustrous walnut finish. For real radio enjoyment at small cost, here's your buy! Sears, Roebuck and Co. 108-110 8. Elm St. Greensboro, N. C. — November 16, 1935 Beguile Those Leisure Hours Xoverober 10 —Cecil B. DeMille's "The ('rusades." Xovcmber 17-11 —Janet Gaynor in "The Farmer Takes a Wife." Xovemher 20-23—Will Rogers in "Old Kentucky." Xovcmber I —Ka.v Francis in "The Goose and the Gander." Xovemlicr 27-30—Fred Astaire in "Top Hat." Xovemher IS—The Russian Chorus "ill sing at Guilford College in Memo rial hall. Xovemher 21—Gulomar Xovaes, Bra zilian pianist, will give u concert in Aycock auditorium in Woman's Col lege at 8:30 o'clock. This is spon sored by the Greensboro Civic Music association. Xovemher 25—Caroline Miller, au thor of "Lamb in llis Bosom," will speak at W. C. U. N. C. on fiction of tlie South. Xovemher 20—-The Carolina Play makers will present (hree one-act plays here in Memorial auditorium at 8:15 o'clock. two day dodgers the goal was that questioning frosh And then there are two faculty mem bers who are early risers—on circus days. Ah, the days of childhood! i went to town the other day so did two faculty members while getting my watch repaired at schifTman's i saw them i itchy have scratched and scratched my head but still have come to no conclusion as to what one gives for wedding gifts Have you heard the story about the red marks on a certain boy's shirt? Ask the young lover of "Death Takes a Holiday"—but don't believe liis answer. By the by, Etta Rett's- exclamation, "Sweet Lipsticks," is quite apropos at times. t I I 10 Per Cent Discount t I to Quit ford Student a and Teachers t SASLOW'S j J "Greensboro's Largest Credit i I Jewelers and Opticians" J You are always welcome at KRESS
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