We Believe
In Peace
VOLUME XXII
PLAYMAKERSFROM
CHAPEL HILL GIVE
ONE-ACT DRAMAS
Second Number of Guilford
Community Entertainment
Course is Held Tuesday.
PROFESSOR KOCH SPEAKS
Carolina Group Presents Three Plays
Written by Students, Who Also
Take Part.
The Carolina Playmakers, nationally
known dramatic organization from the
University of North Carolina, under
tlie direction of Prof. Frederick 11.
Koch, presented three highly entertain
ing one-act plays to a packed house in
the Guilford College auditorium Tues
day evening November 20.
Interest in these presentations, which
formed the second number of the Guil
ford College Community Entertainment
course, was greatly intensified because
of tlie fact that the author of each
play had an active parts in bis drama
tization. The three plays, of which
the performance at Guilford climaxed
tlie 33rd tour of tlie Playmakers, were
as follows: "Cottle Mourns," a hilarious
comedy concerning the natives of Ocra
coke Island, by Patsy MacMullen, a
student from Washington, N. C.; "New
Nigger," a tragedy with the scene laid
in the tobacco country of North Caro
lina, by Fred Howard, who lives in the
cotton and tobacco district of Wilson
county ; and "Tooth or Shave," a Mexi
can comedy by a Mexican girl, Jose
phine Niggli.
An interesting highlight in the Play
makers' presentation was Professor
Koch's speech, telling of li is 13 years
in the field of folk drama.
HANDEL'S BEST KNOWN
ORATORIO TO BE GIVEN
"The Messiah" Was Written in the
Year 1711 in Seventy-Four
Days.
NINTH PRODUCTION AT GUILFOKI)
Handel's "The Messiah" which i.s to
be presented by the Guilford College
Community Chorus and the Church of
the Covenant choir Sunday, December
15, has been internationally famous
for many years. Ilandel composed this
most successful and best known of bis
oratorios in the year 1741 in 24 days.
It was first performed at a concert
given for charitable purposes at Dublin,
Ireland, 011 April 13. 1742, Ilandel con
ducting the performance in person.
Beginning with the year 1743, Handel
brought out "The Messiah" every year
in Loudon.
The orchestra, chorus, and soloists
have been training for the ninth annual
production of Handel's masterpiece.
Dr. Ezra Weis plans to have them
practice together Friday night, Decem
ber 13.
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To Present Program Dance Tonight
A program dance, under tlie spon
sorship of the social committee, will lie
held this evening in the library. A
novel touch will be added to the fes
tivities by the fact that tlie girls will
date the boys, a reversal of the usual
procedure. Music, as usual, will be
supplied by the committee's phonograph
and amplifier system. This event is to
take the place of the formal dances
held in other schools. It is the first
formal dance to be held at Guilford.
THE ^D
GUILFORDIAN
Warning
The administration wishes to an
nounce that nothing short of per
sonal illness or death will he deemed
sufficient cause for excuse from class
during the week preceding or the
week following the Christmas holi
days. This is the usual ruling, and
the fact that it has in some cases
been suspended with regard to the
Thanksgiving holiday is not to be
interpreted as a precedent.
DR. J. M. ARTMAN
SPENDS DAY HERE
Y's Sponsor Famous Editor of
Magazine "Character" in
Talks Here.
EDITOR SPEAKS TWICE
I)r. J. M. Artinan, editor of the mag
azine. Character , was brought to the
Guilford campus Wednesday of this
week by the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.
cabinets, who sponsored the former
Chicago University professor in a series
of talks and student conferences.
Following his professorship at Uni
versity of Chicago and summer school
teaching at Northwestern University,
Ir. Artinan became a member of the
National Council for Prevention of
War, and edited the official organ of
the National Hoard of Religious Educa
tion, of which body lie was a member,
lie has been working with tile National
Parent-Teachers association, was 011 a
committee to study the educational sys
tems of 37 prominent colleges and uni
versities, and now is on a tour of in
stitutions in which he has been con
ferring with Y. M. and V. W. C. A.
cabinets.
Coming to Guilford from the State
V. M. and Y. W. C. A. conference at
Greensboro College, and student con
ferences at Woman's College of U.N.C.,
Dr. Artinan spoke In bis usually im
pressive manner at the Wednesday
morning chapel. During the day, stu
dents met him for private conferences.
Wednesday night at 7 the V. M. and
Y. W. C. A. cabinets held a session with
Dr. Artinan. At 7:30 he was speaker
at a called meeting of the International
Relations club, which later served cof
fee to those present.
Dr. Artinan was 011 the campus until
noon Thursday, leaving then for con
ferences at Brevard College.
DATE SET FOR ANNUAL
Y. W. C. A. XMAS BAZAAR
Fete to Be Held in Mary Hobbs Hall;
Program to Be Similar to
Last Year's.
The annual Christmas bazaar, given
by the Y. W. C. A., will be held at
Mary Hobbs bail 011 Saturday, Decem
ber 7.
The bazaar, according to Miss Naomi
Binford, who is heading the committee,
will be very similar to that of last
year, being featured by a dance, and
numerous contests.
Some of the features of the bazaar
this year will be the pie-eating contest,
a beauty contest, cards and a Japanese
tea room, in which many Japanese
tokens may be secured. Another in
teresting feature is that 110 admission
charge is being made. The Y. W. C. A.
solicits the support of everyone in mak
ing this social a real success.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., NOVEMBER 30, 1935
DR. POPE ADDRESSES
ANNUAL MEETING
OF ASSOCIATION
♦
Head of Guilford's French De
partment Spends Thanks
giving in Georgia.
MAKES AN ABLE ADDRESS
; South Atlantic Modern Language Asso
ciation Meets at University of
Georgia to Exchange Views.
Dr. Russell Pope, of Guilford's
French department, will address the
eighth annual meeting of tlie South
Atlantic Modern Language Association
on Saturday, November 30. The asso
ciation, which meets once each year
for the purpose of exchanging ideas
on the subject of modern language edu
cation. will convene at the University
of Georgia, in Athens, during that in
stitution's Thanksgiving holiday.
The topic of Professor Pope's talk
will lie the life and works of Camille
Lemonnier, a Belgian author little
known to the English-reading public,
but generally considered significant by
French scholars, lie has long been
of interest to Languagemaster Pope,
who made the Belgian people the sub
ject of the thesis which won him his
Ph.D. degree.
Other noted speakers at the conven
tion will include John C. Dawson, pres
ident o ft he association; M. Rene Har
dre, of North Carolina Women's Col
lege, and Sturgls E. Lcavltt, of tlie
University of North Carolina.
GERMAN CLUB>RESENTS
"THE NATIVITY" DEC. 13
A Feature of Christmas Celebration,
Based on the Legend of the
Sixteenth Century.
MARIE HUTH DIRECTS THE PLAY
The German-llispanic Society, under
the capable direction of Miss Marie
Ilutli. will present "The Nativity" on
Friday, December 13, as a feature of
the Christmas celebration.
This play, based upon German leg-;
end of the Kith century, is written as
poetry and was revised by the German
Youth Movement in about 1!>22. The;
story is the age-old Christmas legend
which has been given a German inter
pretation,
Tlie tentative cast is as follows:
Mary, Martha Furnas; Joseph, Miloj
Gibbons; Gabriel, James Cornett: Inn
keeper. Walter Neave : Innkeeper's wife.
Bea Holir; Shepherds, Jule Sharpe, Al
fred Iltutcn. and John Anderson:
Kings. Richard Binford, Fair Swaim,
and Hodman Scott.
The music department, under the di
rection of Dr. E. 11. 1". Weis, has kind
ly consented to co-operate in the pro
duction. and will furnish music during
tlie presentation.
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J. SEAISOLT MAKES
HIGH QUARTER RECORD
Jasper Seabolt, a member of the jun
ior class, heads the quarterly report
list, with an ull-.V record for tlie quar
ter. This information is taken from
an unofficial report of Miss Era Lasley,
registrar.
Five students made all A's but one,
and 23 made all A's and B's.
At the beginning of the fall term 332
students enrolled. At the end of the
first quarter IN men students have
dropped out.
Doctor Milner to Defend
School Before Association
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Candidate for Scholarship
Edgar Meibohm, of Greensboro, a
senior of Guilford College, is a candi
date for the Rhodes scholarship. He
will go to Carolina December 13 for
conference and examination.
ALFRED BUSSELLE
VISITS THE CAMPUS
Well-Known Northern Archi
tect Inspects New Homes
on Guilford Campus.
PROFS TO MOVE IN SOON
Dr. Alfred Russeiie, noted Now York
architect, visited the campus November
27, inspecting the two new faculty
homes and supervising the work on
Dr. Virginia Itagtdale's home. The
board of trustees, independent of the
College, had these faculty homes built
this fall.
I>r. Itussell Pope and family will be
the lirst occupants of the larger of the
two houses, which lias eight rooms.
Dr. and Mrs. K. F. 11. Weis will occu
py the six-room house adjoining. Both
homes are of Georgia coloillal style,
and face west. Flagstone walks in ac
cordance with the centennial scheme
of nrchitee.ure will lead to the front
doors of both. C. M. Cecil, of Greens
boro, was the contractor.
INTERESTING MEETING
OF PEACE GROUP HELD
Discussion Led by Mr. Ray Newton,
l)r. Elbert Kussell, and Dr.
Kay Gordon.
Guilford College's meeting house was
chosen as the scene of the Peace Con
ference which was held November 26
under the sponsorship of local organi
zations whose aims are pacifistic. The
conference was called with the inten
tion of discussing ways and means of
keeping the United States from going
to war, and of creating international
co-operation for the evolution of such
political, economic and cultural changes
through non-warlike means as are es
sential to adjust a peaceable world or
der. As we go to press, the findings
of the conference, and what it intends
to do about them, have not yet been
published.
A number of the neighborhood's
prominent pacifists were present at the
conference, which had as leaders Ray
Gordon, an eminent peace man; Dr.
Elbert Russell, Duke university's noted
proponent of peace; Rev. Gordon
Spaugh, well-known citizen of Winston-
Salem ; Dr. Francis Anseom of Salem
College, and Rev. Tom Sykes of High
Point.
We Wish You
A Sane Christmas
NUMBER 5
WILL SPEAK DEC. 3
Association to Meet This Year
in Louisville, Kv.; Noted
Schoolmen Attend.
FOUR CLASSES INCLUDED
Occasion Marks Guilford's Seventh Year
in the Southern Association
of Colleges.
Dr. Clyde A. Mliner will go to Louis
ville, Kentucky, December to defend
Guilford at the annual meeting of the
Southern Association of Colleges. The
purpose of this association is to help
establish relations between secondary
schools and institutions of higher edu
cation within the teritory of the asso
ciation, and to consider all subjects
that tend to the promotion of interests
common to colleges and secondary
schools.
I This association includes four classes,
colleges and universities, schools and
individuals. An institution is judged
according to the several standards set
up in the constitution of the associa
tion, which are as follows: Entrance
requirements, requirements for gradu
ation, number of degrees (discourages
the conferring of a multiplicity of de
grees), number of college departments
(at least eight departments), training
of faculty (Members of the faculty
should have at least two years of study
in their respective fields in a fully or
ganized and reorganized graduate
school), number of students in classes,
support, library (College should have
a. live, well distributed library of at
least 12,000 volumes), and laboratories.
Guilford has been a member of this
association for the past seven years.
BURKE SMITH DISPLAYS
COLORFUL PICTURES
Mr. Smith Speaks on Old Towns and
Cities of Germany—Second Pro
gram Given by Club.
MISS ALICE K. ABBOTT EXPECTED
On Friday evening, November 22, in
the music building, was the scene of
an entertaining and valuable program
given by Mr. Burke Smith a student
in the psychology department of Duke
University.
Mr. Smith gave a colorful descrip
tion of the many cities and towns he
visited while traveling about in Europe
last summer.
Ills glowing verbal portrayal of
nmntniartre and Luxemburg, Belgium,
Dresden, and several other vlties was
made even more vivid by the moving
pictures which lie displayed.
The two programs which have thus
far been given have been well attended
by the student body.
•Miss Alice K. Abbot, of W. C. U. N.
is expected to lecture 011 Spain,
I •eceniber >.
Two Cases of Mumps Appear on Campus
Two cases of mumps have appeared
011 the Guilford campus during the
past two weeks. The sufferers—Bill
Maihis and Billy Anderson —are nei
ther of them in very serious condition,
although Anderson has been removed
to the Greensboro clinic as a precau
tionary measure. Mathis is remain
ing during the quarantine period at the
home of his brother-in-law, Prof. W. O.
Suiter, with whom be lives.