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. — 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. —f • 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 | 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.

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