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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published semi-monthly by I lie students of Guilford College during the school year except during examinations and holiday "periods. Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Editor-in-Chief Frfll !i?!? Alexander Managing Editor Billy Anderson Assistant Managing Editor Marguerite Neave Business Manager John Bradshaw SPECIAL EDITORS Feature Editors Ruth Hopkins, Charlotte Parker Sports Editor , Kar ' e Maloney Alumni Editor Miss Era Lasley Assistant Alumni Editor Maiy Bryant Society Editor Rebecca Weant Typing Editor Geraldine Mac Lean Art Editor Clnude Dumiagan REPORTERS Naomi Binford John Ilollowell Margaret Umstead Mary Alma Coltrane Tames McAdams Marvin ?>' kes Rodman Scott Helen Traegar Isabelle Dunkhurst Sam Smith Pete Moore Milton Anderson SECRETARIAL STAFF Cora Worth Parker Ellen Nibloelc Dorothy McLawhorn Helen Traegar Mary Priscilla Blouch Isabelle Dunkhurst Circulation Manager Richard Binford Assistant Circulation Manager Edward Shuman Assistant Business Manager James 1 arsons FACULTY ADVISORS Philip Furnas Dorothy Gilbert Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per >ear Entered at the post ofiice in Guilford College as second class matter There Were Three Wise Men . . . Three very wise men, the wisest of the east, left their centers of learning, to seek the real truth, the Christ, one cold wintry morning. They found that truth after journeying far in the wake of a brilliant elusive star. Like these three wise men, we leave our center of learning on a cold wintry day. Of course we are only going home, but who knows if we may not find that elusive truth there during Christinas vacation? At least we will again rediscover for a short time that proverbial Christinas joy. For a short time we shall all worship at the feet of the new-born babe, King of the spiritual world. For that brief time we shall be as one, a unit. May our lives through these experiences receive a new value and meaning. TJIE GITILFORDIAN offers you as their Christmas wish: Joy be with you and with those who surround you. Participate in This Contest Once in every person's lifetime, he is sure to have some good for tune. This may be your lucky eliance. If you have any writing ability at all, hero is your chance to let it be known by entering the GUILFORO TAN'S prose and poetry contest. By participating in tliis. any student in the school who writes has a chance at well-deserved fame and a pecuniary reward. He will also be helping the GUILFORDIAN in their ever present search for good new material. You have a vacation of two weeks in which you can surely think of some good ideas which may perhaps grace the second page of the GUILFORDIAK in its next issue. Guilford Needs Improvement Ingrounded -in all of us there is the tendency to gripe and kick. There is the tendency among a great many of those not intimately connected with the football team to belittle its achievements and talk about what is wrong with it when it fails to win. In the voiced opin ions of many others the social committee is either said to do nothing or criticized for what it does do. People who have never heen on the Student Council disagree with all its decisions or actions. The (Junior and the GUILFORDIAK are said to be dull and uninteresting by those who have never tried to improve them. Added to this is the fact that when one person kicks, others, without thought, join with him. We should accept the challenge to act instead of kick. If one does not think the football team is as good as it might he, he should go out himself, figure out some better plays, and give them to the coach; or better yet, pick out the best player who is a senior in his high school and see that he comes to Guilford next year; but unless he can con tribute some effort toward improvement lie should refrain from kick ing anything except a ball. The social committee and Student Govern ment will he glad to have someone suggest a better policy than they now have. If one doesn't like the articles in the GUILFORDIAN he should either make some concrete suggestion for improvement, or better yet, write something good for the next issue. The editor will appreciate all contributions and new reporters are especially welcome. Certainly the part time action of one person will do more to im prove Guilford than will the full time kicking of a half dozen of Guil ford's most efficient kickers (and our kickers are second to few others) Will you accept the challenge? THE GUILFORDIAN SHOES AND SHIPS AND SEALING WAX I might begin by saying that I am not going to discuss either shoes or sealing wax; and so those people, if there be any at all, who have begun to read this attempt at an essay, because of an intense interest in shoes or a singular drawing toward sealing wax, had better stop at this point; also all those who get seasick easily or who can't swim in deep water. Maybe I had better explain the title, then. It sounded nice, interesting, and —most people don't go further than the title of an essay anyway (maybe I'm wrong there; I'm just taking one class as an example), it gives a good impression. After all, even I, with my feeble brain and limited ability, should be able to give a salty tang to a mere five hun dred words, with all the ships and the oceans in the world at my disposal. I will only ask you to bear one thing in mind, and that is that this is after all only an essay. There are little ships and there are l)ig ships, lean ones and fat ones, weak ones and strong ones, boat-around town ships, and boat-around-the-world ones —in fact, they come in all sizes, shapes, and colors, temperaments and dispositions. They have quite decided characters, too, some of them, just like human beings. Otherwise, why should the poets and the painters show such an interest in them. If it weren't for ships, half the things in the world wouldn't —couldn't —have happened as they did. In fact, in more than one way did a ship discover one-half of the world —the western hemisphere. Colum bus is said to have gotten the idea that the world was round as he sat on a pier, as a boy, watching the ships sail out to sea and disappear, little by little, over the horizon. The Santa Maria certainly played an important part in the discovery, too; Columbus and his men couldn't have swum across the ocean very well. Of course, you might say that if Columbus had waited a few hundred years to be born, he could have discovered America just as well, or better, in an airplane. Just imagine, though, if there were no boats today, hut just airplanes, what funny situations would arise in poetry and everyday life. Imagine Hiawatha with a glider or a gyroplane instead of his birch-bark canoe; or the Lady of Shalott pining away in a dirigible, floating along among the clouds. What would happen if suddenly all the gon dolas in Venice turned into airplanes, and each pair of lovers found them selves reclining in Pullman chairs, try ing to hear each other above the deaf ening roar of the engine. Some of my most interesting experi ences and some of the happiest times of my life have been on board ocean liners. An essay itself could be writ ten about them and the interesting, congenial people one meets aboard them. And I mustn't forget the wee, picturesque fishing sloops that one finds in small, out-of-the-way fishing vil lages, dotted along the coast; and thousands of other picturesque boats in all the countries of the world—the bright-sailed boats of Brittany, the Chinese boats with eyes in their prows. Ships have played an important role in the history of the world; they now form an important part of the world's life; and the ships of today and yes terday will live forever in the delight ful stories, poems, and songs that they have inspired. GLORIA LESLIE. Life is real, life is earnest, Let us strive to do our best, And departing leave behind us Notebooks that will help the rest. —TechTalk Bi-Weekly. "fjtt mi id. A Hobbs frosh cudgeled her—well, what shall we say, head, or its eon tents, if any?—and brought forth a marvelous product of classification. She indexed three of her fellow inmates as: Anna Mae Wong dbguised; The fastest girl in school; The dumbest girl in school. In the opinion of this column it is going very far indeed to say that any one girl in this school is faster than another. At such a great rate, com parative speeds are practically impossi ble to determine; and as for being dumb, only Mrs. Milner has the men tality to declare anyone dumb without fear of hilariously successful contra diction. ON RELIGION—AS IT SHOULD BE i itchy went over to the little brick house the other day and listened to the hoys they are planning a new Sunday school like the ambassador had last year but if anything the ambassador will be only an onlooker because the new temple of worship will be upstairs and not down and the instrument of extortion will not be fifty two papers but nothing and twice nothing paying thirty five to one and furthermore the ambassador says thats gambling and not .speculation Far be it from us to neglect to men tion the epidemics which have envel oped our fair (?) campus in midnight glooni for the past few weeks. The ranks of the Guilfordian staff have been decimated (twice) and more re cently pink-eye seems to have done likewise by the stadium. At last re ports Ye Coll itch Nurse, W. P., was ordering another gross of Mr. Epsom's widely used physic. SNOW TIME FOR PARRYING i itchy was completely or shall i say even more completely flabbergasted to think that yankee stadiums nearest approach to dignity would—well you ask him he did so too he did not he did he didn't UMJg ... let your home plans include plenty ELECTRIC OUTLETS Modern Electric Appliances make the home more livable—and relieve the drudg ery of housekeeping. Every room should have several outlets—then you can enjoy a full measure of service in the possession of Lamps, Sweepers, Waxers, Refrigeration, Curlers, Irons, Ranges, Toasters, Waffle Irons—and the long list of modern electric Inventions that are obtainable with a mod est investment. DUKE POWER CO. December 14, 1935 Enter Prose and Poetry Contest! Rules 1. Tlie contest closes January 6 at 4 p. in., and all entries must be in by that time. 2. There will be a prize of one dollar for the best short short story or essay, and also a prize of one dollar for the best poem. 3. The entries in the prose divi sion must lie 000 words or less, and can be either a short short story or an essay. 4. The entries in the poetry divi sion can be any type of poetry and any length less than 600 words. 5. Entries can be given to the edi tor-in-chief or mailed to her through the campus mail. 6. The judges will be Dr. Pope, Miss Dorothy Gilbert, and Professor P. W. Furnas. 7. Any student may participate in this contest. 8. The winning contributions will be printed in the January 11 issue of the Guilfordian. 9. Those receiving honorable men tion will be noted and recognized in the paper. WE WANT TO KNOW Anyone who lias any question of etiquette on liis mind may write a letter about it to the editor of the We Want to Know column and it will be answered in the paper. When a man and a woman are walk in d together, is there any "correct" side for the man to walk on, and if so, why? Yes, there is a "correct" side for a man to walk on—he should always walk 011 the outside, that is, the side nearest the street. The reason for this custom dates back to the days when cattle and animals of various kinds were driven through the streets. The man then walked on the outside to pro tect the woman lie was with from the onslaught of the beasts. He does so today, merely because it is an act of courtesy in which he is able to indi cate his regard and respect for the woman with whom he is. Ah, friends (note the lack of capi tal f), as this column has often had occasion to remark, Luv is a wonnerful thing. Recently Ye Collltch Nurse was almost obliged to use strong-arm meth ods to persuade one of the campus males (?) to leave a very female part of the campus when the objection of his effects became sub meteorem or Latin to that effect.
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