Vote On Budget
Tuesday, Feb. 25
VOLUME XXII
MICHIGAN SYMPHONY
PLAYS HERE ON
LYCEUM COURSE
Personnel of Fourteen Assist
ants in Instrumental In
struction in That School.
THOR. JOHNSON CONDUCTS
Program Is Fourth Number of College-
Community Entertainment Course;
March 5 Is Date.
The University of Michigan Little
Symphony under the direction of Thor
Johnson, will present a concert in Guil
ford's Memorial hall on Thursday eve
ning, March 5, at 8:15 o'clock. This
program is the fourth number of the
the Guilford college-community enter
tainment course.
The Little Symphony, with a per
sonnel consisting of 14 assistants in in
strumental instruction of the School of
Music faculty, will include symphonic
works especially written and adapted
for chamber orchestra, and a number
of interesting compositions seldom per
formed by larger instrumental grouj)s.
Charles McNeill, a former Guilfor
dian, and Joe White, Greensboro boy,
are among the instrumentalists in the
Symphony, as well as William Bagwell,
from Durham and George Haley from
Asheville. Thor Johnson, the conduc
tor, a former student of University of
North Carolina, is from Winston-Salem.
Last year Thor Johnson's musical or
ganization was well received by Guil
ford students and another select pro
gram is expected this season.
CAMPUS HEROES LIFT
POPE ARK FROM MUD
"Let Me Get a Holt" Is Battle Cry As
Kent and Comrades
Conquer.
MATHIS AND "SHIVVY" SAVE DAY
Ah, fellow students, there is some
gratitude left in this world of people
who don't care.
To illustrate, on Saturday evening a
certain faculty car decided that this
was a weary world and so decided that
the best thing to do was to bog com
fortably into mud —like nn elephant.
It so happened that the faculty mem
ber present was not where he wished to
be, so an argument ensued. One of the
students who came to take up the argu
ment had to call his section-mates, a
campus day-student came with a "shiv
vy" and chains; and early Sunday
morning the pacliyderinic miracle of
modern science was lifted in one piece
from the middle of the mud.
This from the grateful faculty mem
ber:
"Editor, Guilfordian: Will you kindly
permit me to express through the col
umns of your valued paper, my very
sincere appreciation of the Herculean
efforts of certain students, of whose
names I am ignorant; which efforts di
rected by the indomitable Daryl Kent
prevailed against mud of the muddiest
sort and lifted my Ark from the Slough
of Despond on Saturday-Sunday, Feb
ruary 15-lfi, 1036."
"Signed,
"R. POPE."
Ernest White Makes Honors
Ernest White, former editor of the
Guilfordian. who is now attending Hav
erford College, Pa., made the highest
average in the Graduate class. Mr.
White expects to receive his M.A. in
English in June.
D THE
GUILFORDIAN
University of Michigan Little Symphony Orchestra
M&Wm
DR. MILNER GOES
ON EXTENDED TRIP
Attended Conference of Ameri
can Friends' Service Com
mittee on Wednesday.
TO RETURN NEXT WEEK
President Milner was suddenly called
from the campus to a conference of the
American Friends' Service committee in
Philadelphia, Wednesday of this week.
Leaving Tuesday night Dr. Milner ar
rived in Philadelphia for the afternoon
session of the conference which lasted
through the dinner and evening ses
sions.
The conference discussed plans for
student volunteer home service activi
ties for summer student vacations. Mr.
Clarence Pickett, executive secretary of
the committee, made reference to such
plans in his charter day address at
Guilford in January. A small number
of students, according to Mr. Pickett,
have done summer work in mining
camps, industrial organizations, and
other similar places under supervision
of the Service committee. With the ap
propriation of additional money, the
committee has in mind extension of
the opportunities of college students in ,
getting practical experience in various
fields.
While on the trip Dr. Milner will at
tend business interests of the college
in Philadelphia and New York, stopping
over in Wilmington, Del., and Wash
ington, D. C., on the return trip. He
expects to be back on the campus Tues
day or Wednesday of next week.
DR. R. POPE SPEAKS
TO FINE ARTS CLUB
Pope Lectures on the Impressions Made
on De Vigny and Voltaire
by the Quakers.
Dr. Russell Pope gave an informal
discussion nn Alfred de Vigny's cele
brated "Chatterton" and Voltaire's let
ter "Concerning the Quaker" to the
members of the Fine Arts club and visi
tors from Greensboro on Monday, Feb
ruary 17.
In Dc Vigny's play the old Quaker
represents the author's conception of
the ideal citizen. "It is remarkable,"
Br. Pope stated, impressed themselves
on such varied types as Voltaire and
De Vigny.
"Voltaire," Pope continued, "was a
man of the world, while De Vigny lived
within himself."
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 22, 1936
Death Comes to
Dietitian s Father
The Guilford inn wishes to express
sympathy in the death of 11. O. Sar
gent, Federal employee in the field
of negro education, and father of
Mrs. Eloyse Postletlnvaite, instruc
tor in home economics at Guilford.
Mr. Sargent died at his home in
Baton Rouge, La., and was taken to
Washington, D. C., for burial which
occurred at 2 p. m. on Friday, Feb
ruary 15.
MR. ROBERT D. DOUGLAS
TALKS TO HISTORY CLUB
Nominations Are Made for Election of
Second Semester Officers of the
Historical Society.
NEXT MEETING FOR ELECTIONS
Robert Dick Douglas, a relative of
Guilford county, formerly attorney-gen
eral of North Carolina, and post mas
ter of Greensboro, now a practicing law
yer in Greensboro spoke to the History
Majors on Racial Characteristics in his
tory as applied to local history of Guil
ford county. Mr. Douglas said that
Guilford county was settled by these
j distinct racial strains ,the Scotch-Irish,
| the German, and the English Quakers.
:In speaking about the Quakers Mr.
Douglas stated, "The Quakers with their
decided stand against both slavery and
war have largely influenced the develop
ment of the county into a conservative,
law-abiding people, as well as being
leaders in education."
j There was a called meeting of the of
| fleers of the Historical society, Feb
ruary 14, at which time the following
were nominated for the second semes
iter: President, Bill Grigg, Ruth Payne;
secretary-treasurer, Tyree Gilliam, Irene
j.Wabe; program chairman, William Ca
| pella, Marguerite Neave; social chair
man of the social committee, Charlotte
Parker, .Tolin Perian. These officers will
be elected at the next meeting of the
club.
STANFORD WELCOMES
FORMER QUAKER PROF.
Dr. Elton Trueblood, once dean of
men and head of the philosophy de
partment at Guilford, recently accepted
the chair of Philosophy of Religion at
Leland Stanford Junior university. lie
will also be chaplain of that institution.
ROLLO W. BROWN
HEARD RECENTLY
"Do We Want Creative Minds?"
Was Subject of the Inter
esting Lecture.
THIRD PART OF PROGRAM
"Do We Want Creative Minds in
America t" was the subject spoken on
by Rollo Walter Brown, noted educator
and lecturer who spoke in the Guilford
college auditorium Friday, February 14
in the third installment of the college
lyceum course.
Mr. Brown was introduced by Prof.
Phillip W. Furnas, head of the depart
ment of English at Guilford, who stated
that the lecturer had been a member of
the faculties of both Harvard university
and Carrolton college.
Mr. Brown took examples from archi
tecture and literature to prove his first
point that the "creative mind remakes
life so that the resulting totality is dif
ferent" from any previous totality, and
he further stated that a creative per
son must approach his work in the be
lief that there were definite possibili
ties for creation.
Philosophy
The lecturer went on to say that the
two things that the creative minds of
the world were helping the rest of the
world to search for, were a sound phil
osophy of life and an environment con
ducive to the practice of this phil
osophy.
The speaker dwelt for some time on
the problem of dishonesty in personal
relations, politics and business, and he
stated that the creative mind could make
the world a better and more beautiful
place in which to live. He stated that
creative people were generally disre
garded because they were different
from other people and therefore not so
cially normal.
MOVING PICTURES TAKEN
OF GUILFORD ACTIVITIES
Charles Farrell, Greensboro's Art
sliop man, recently took motion pic
tures of characteristic scenes on the
Guilford campus. The pictures were
taken in connection with a reel be
ing made up by the Greensboro
Merchants' association depicting
points of interest in tho vicinity of
Greensboro. The pictures will be
used for advertising purposes.
The shots taken at Guilford in
cluded pictures of the arrival of the
day students' bus, the student body
leaving chapel and the choir.
How About a
New Gym
NUMBER 9
'THE ROYAL FAMILY'
IS SPRING PLAY
OF DRAMA CLUB
Presentation Scheduled For
March 21, Rehearsal Began
on February 17.
CAST HAS BEEN CHOSEN
Is Three Act Comedy Based on Troubles
of Family of Actors—Allegedly
Barry mores.
"The Royal Family," by George Kauf
man and Edna Ferber, lias been chosen
by the Guilford College Dramatic coun
cil as its 3936 spring production. The
play, which went into rehearsal Feb
ruary 17, is scheduled for presentation
March 21.
"The Royal Family" is a three-act
comedy based on the trials and tribu-
I lations of a family long prominent in
! the theatre—allegedly the Barrymores.
Complications result from the excessive
overloads of temperament possessed by
most members of the Cavendish family
ns well as their friends, but a solution
has been found for most of these diffi
culties before the tragic climax.
Cast
The tentative cast is as follows: Fan
ny Cavendish, Virginia Levering; Julie,
Fanny's daughter, Dorothy Woodward;
Anthony, Fanny's son, Bill Grigg;
Gwenn, Julie's daughter, Ruth Stilson;
Herbert Dean, Fanny's brother, Milton
Anderson; Kitty, his wife, Sybil Bar
row; Perry Stewart, Ray Dodds; Gilbert
Marshall, Sam Smith; MeDermott, Don
Wood; Oscar Wolfe, George Wilson;
Miss Peake, Rebecca Weant; Delia,
Eleanor Webster; Jo, J. L. Jones; Gun
ga, Bill Ilines; and Hall-boy, Julo
Sharpe.
Among those who get preference in
event of a change in the enst as listed
above are Betty Trotter, Colum Sehenck,
Frances Alexander, Mary Priscilla
Blouch, Ruth Anderson, James H. Mc-
Adams, Helen Traeger, and Thomas
Ashcraft.
As we go to press, backstage appoint
ments have not been definitely made,
although several people have submitted
their names for consideration.
FURNAS DISCUSSES JURY
DUTY IN RECENT CHAPEL
Tom Sykes Returns to Platform to
Speak on "The Game
of Life."
MRS. LUCAS GIVES PIANO RECITAL
An interesting talk was made Mon
day, February 10, by Prof. Philip W.
Furnas, head of the English department,
upon his return from a period of jury
duty in Greensboro. Professor Furnas,
while never actually serving on a jury,
received many interesting impressions
of court life and procedure, which he re
lated in his talk. While he was some
what unfavorably impressed by the
seeming waste and inefficiency in court
procedure, Professor Furnas observed
many interesting and humorous situa
tions, particularly the verbal combats
between unwilling witnesses and the
•lawyers questioning them.
The follwing Monday Tom A. Sykes,
pastor of Central Friends church, of
High Point, made an interesting address
on the subject, "The Game of Life." He
suggested that the students make them
selves living centers of thought and ac
tion. Other chapel programs of inter
est were a musical program by Mrs.
Cora Cox Lucas and the presentation of
the annual budget to the student body.