Roosevelt or Ruin
VOLUME XXIII
CHAPEL COMMITTEE
TO MAKE CHANGES
IN YEAR'S PROGRAM
Classes to lie Seated' for First
Time Without Respect
of Sex.
STUDENTS TO SUGGEST
Mr. Samuel Haworth is Chairman of
Committee; Beittel, Weis, I)orey,
and Ruble Are Members.
The eliapel list which appeared on
the bulletin Itonrd in the lobby of
Memorial hall Friday morning, Septem
ber 18, was th first in the history of the
college to seat the classes alphabetically
without respect to sex. This change was
brought about by the efforts of the fac
ulty-student chapl committee, which
in itself is a novelty designed to mini
mize student dissatisfaction with the
old chapel set-up.
The chapel has long held an import
ant place in the life of the college, and
the faculty have looked upon it as an
integral part in the education if the
students. In addition to the student
representation on the chapel board, tin*
student body has been urged to make
suggestions concerning improvements
of the system.
A number of student organizations
have been approached with a view to
being responsible for one or more pro
grams. Increased singing of both sa
cred and secular songs is planned to
carry out the committee's plan for in
creased student participation in chapel
programs.
At its meeting on. Thursday, Septem
ber 24, the committee considered one
of the chapel comments current on cam
pus—that greater quality and less quan
tity is eminently desirald:.
The membership of the chapel group
are Samuel Haworth, chairman; Drs.
A. I). Beitt.l and E. H. F. Weis, faeult.v
members; and Frank Dorey and Kath
erene Ruble, representatives of the stu
dent body.
GUILFORD COLLEGE CHOIR
HAS LARGE MEMBERSHIP
Dr. Weis Begins Second Year as I)irec
tor; Committee Members Are
ElectedSeptemhcr 18.
TRIP TO FLORIDA IS RUMORED
The A Capella Choir of Guilford Col
lege started its ninth s.ason last week
with 7(> students seeking membership.
This nearly doubles that of last year.
On Friday, September 18, the mem
bers of the choir committee wer ■ elect
ed by the group. Those getting the
positions were: Senior Representative,
I J. T. New; Junior Representative, Bet
ty Trotter; Sophomore Representative,
Alvin Mcibohm; Freshman Representa
tive, Mary Ellen Daw; Representative
at-large, Hill (Jrigg; Representative to
the Student Affairs Board, Keitt Saw
yer.
Dr. Ezra H. F. Weis, head of the
Department of Music, is beginning his
second year as director of the choir.
It is rumored that the choir is consid
ering a trip to Florida during the
Christmas vacation.
Class '3B Elects Officers
The Class of '36 elected on May 21,
JSI36, as its officers for the next five
years, the following: James Fulp, Ker
nersville, X. C„ president; Julia Can
non, Guilford College, secretary; Daryl
Kent, South Glen Falls, N. Y„ vice
president; Edgar Meibolun, Greensboro,
chairman of gift committee; Misses
Mary Bryant, Woodland, and Anna Na
omi Binford, Guilford College, joint
historians.
o/THE^D
GUILFORDIAN
Added to Faculty
MISS IK>VJK CIIKXAUJ/r
DR. MILNER VISITS
TERCENTENARY FETE
Guilford's President Invited to
Attend Harvard's Anni
versary Celebration.
CEREMONY LASTS 3 DAYS
Ilr. i'lyde A. .Milner. I'r ■-ident 'of
Guilford College, recently attended the
eelelnation of Harvard's Tercentenary
year as a representative of tli • college.
The tliree-day official ceremony, li.'ld
from September I."> to 18 at Cambridge,
Mass., is only part of aa extensive pro
gram which lias been going oa for a
month or longer.
I)r. Milner is o:-. of several college
prcsirten s Invited by the Harvard au
thorities to at on:l the formal rit s,
which included various a adeaiie pro
ce-sions, a speech by President Roose
velt, and othi*r similar firietions
At ;he •conclusion of his stay at the
university, I >r. Milner proceeded to
New York city, where he attended sev
eral alumni meetings and conferred
with local members of tile Centennial
committee.
WORK ON STUDENT HUT
WILL BEGIN THIS FALL
Centennial Project, Bijrun Last Spring
hy the Student Btrdy, to Become
a Reality, Dr. Milner Siys.
The I Int. tlie project of the stu
dent lied;* for the 1 'eiiteunial year be
gun Inst sprins, is nliout t:> become ii
reality. I>r. Clyde A. Mllner, president
of tlic college, aii'iounced last xvwl;
tlint tlic inon '.v f >r the student center,
which is t;> be made from the old laun
dry between Founder's and .Mary
llolilis' Halls, has been raised, lie
said that actual work on the building
would begin early this fall.
Tile money for the project was raised
through the giving of entertainments
by the different organizations and by
individual subsTiptions of the stu
dents.
Tlie class of gave as its class
gift the brick fireplace in the Hut.
The repairs necessary on the building
inclu le a hardwood floor, a new roof,
a Colonial dior, the annexation of n
ki.chenette.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., SEPTEMBER 26, 1936
G.C. HAS ADDITION
OF SIX MEMBERS
TO 1936-37 STAFF
Four Newcomers to He Added
to Faculty, Two to
Administration.
MISS CHEN AULT DIETITIAN
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hodges to Head
Departments of Physical Education;
S. Smith Teaches English,
Six new members have been added to
the Guilford College staff for the Cen
tennial year. Of the six, four have
been added to the faculty and two to
the administrative branch of the col
lege organization. Among the new
comers are the following: Mr. and
Mrs. Ilarry Ilodges, who will I>\ re
spectively the heads of men's and wom
en's physical education; Miss Dovie
Clienault, succeeding Mrs. Kloise Pos
tlethwaite as assistant professor of
Home Economics and dietitian; Mr.
Sanira Smith, ".'A, ins'.uctor in English
and assistant to the librarian; Miss
Julia Cannon, '3O, assistant to the
treasurer: and Mr. David Parsons,
secretary to the Centennial committee.
New Coach Is Ex-Tar Heel
Hodges is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, where he
starred In football and track, attaining
the rank of All-State tackle. After his
graduation lie was added to the coach
ing staff at Oak Ridge Military Insti
tute.
Mrs. Hodges is a graduate of the
Woman's College, University of North
Carolina. During her undergraduate
career she was prominent among the
school athletes as well as the campus
socialites. She is understudying Mrs.
Jolin I'. Anderson at Guilford this
year.
Miss Clienault is a graduate of the
University of Alabama, and holds a
Master's degree from Columbia, where
she was assistant dietitian of the Uni
versity Commons for two years. In ad
dition to hr work at Columbia, she
lias had considerable experience in ele
mentary and secondary school cafe
terias in Alabama.
Parsons Smith, and Miss Cauiun
are all graduates of Guilfod College.
The two men were both recipients of
the Ilaverford scholarship, and both
hold Master's degrees from that col
lege. Miss Cannon is one of last
June's graduates who was a student
assistant in the Treasurer's office (lur
ing her undergraduate career.
This Year's Freshmen Furnish
Abundant Proof of Evolution
One hundred and twenty-three fresh
men from as far away as Japan and as
near as Guilford College entered the
class of 19-10. Famous' FreshmenV
Guilford has some who already have
had notations placed by their names
for such varied abilities as singing,
wooing, knowledge of musical instru
ments. public speaking, and aptitude
for applying cosmetics in a becoming
fashion.
Right sates and (hree foreign nations
are represented by this cosmopolitan
group, there being one student each
from Japan, Maryland, and lowa ; two
from Connecticut and Massachusetts:
three from Virginia and New York;
nine from New Jersey; and PS from
North Carolina. Naturally Guilford
County leads all North Carolina conn
Fine to Be Charged
On Overdue Books
Beginning September 20 a fine of
two cents a day will he charged on
overdue hooks. Twenty - five cents
for the first hour and ten cents for
each hour thereafter will be charged
on all late reserve books. Any stu
dent having a fine, either for re
serve or overdue books, will not be
allowed to check out hooks until his
account is settled.
JAMES C. CORNETTE
ATTENDS MUNICH U.
Guilford Student to Spend
Junior Year in Study
in Germany.
WINS A SCHOLARSHIP
James Clark Cornette, Jr., '3B, sailed
September 13 for Germany, prepara
tory to enrolling .at the University of
Munich on October 1. Cornette, who
attended Guilford College last year, was
one of tlu winning competitors for a
scholarship entitling him to spend his
Junior year in Munich.
The scholarship was organized on a
nation-wide basis, and Guilford's
prodigy stood high in a field of some
30 winners.
The record made by Cornette during
his two years at Guilford was charac
terized by uniform scholastic brilliance.
He made the honor roll consistently,
and had one of the best quality aver
ages in the student body.
SENIORS SELECT HEPLER
AS CLASS PRESIDENT
Beatrice Rohr, President, and Keitt
Sawyer, Vice-President, Are
Chosen to Lead Juniors.
Officers for the eomtng year were
chosen by the junior and senior classes
nt their first regular meetings of the
103fi-10:!7 school year, held Thursday.
September 17. The class of '.'i? selected
Claude llep'er, Betsy I (til In, Elinor
Webster, and Kendriek Vest a I to serve
respectively as president, vice-presi
dent, secretary and treasurer of (Juil
ford's must dignified group of under
graduates.
Anting file juniors, Beatrice Bohr,
elected vice-president of the class at a
meeting held late last spring, be anie
president 011 the resignation of Lyndon
Wilson. Iveitt Sawyer was named to
take Miss Bohr's place as viee-presi-
I dent of the class of '3B.
tics with SO recruits; Alamance follows?
with eight: I'orsyth and Wa.vne, four
each; Randolph, three; Hockinghatn,
two; :i 11 others together, IS. Approxi
mately .1(1 day students ride to the cam
pus from Greensboro and si>eud a por
tion of the day here sleeping and read
ing and wishing they had something
more to eat.
Among Guilford's !)0 odd dormitory
freshmen Kenneth Morris deserves
practically as much as notice as the
i :,"{(i breakfast hell for ills statement,
"I d n't like to do something without
any purpose in it!" IJnts also furnish
mystery in the ever present Herthn
Fitzgerald, a future medico, who chaf
fers with everyone in general, and
Phyllis Weinberg, who gargles every
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Landon Leads Us
NUMBER 1
CAMPUS EMBROILED
IN CONTROVERSY
OVER ELECTIONS
Republican, Democrat and So
cialist Factions Formed at
Guilford—Meetings Held.
HLAIR, PERIAN LEADERS
Student Straw Vote is Planned as Cli
max of Campaign; Partisan
Croups Seek Converts.
The f! uilford cam pus is involved tliis
full in out' of the hottest political cam
paigns in the history of the college, by
courtesy of the joint Y's. As tlie re
sult of an inspiration which originated
with V. M. A. President John Brad
sliaw, the joint organization lias set in
motion a system by which the campus
is divided, according to inclination,
into Republican, Democrat, and Social
ist parties. These political groups will
devote the time between now and No
vember •'! to the task of attempting to
j enroll the inert majority in one organi
; zation or another.
I The scheme was Inaugurated at a
meeting liekl Thursday evening, Sep
tember 17, in Memorial Mali. At this
time Charlie Blair was chosen by the
Republicans to act as their leader in
the forthcoming campaign. John I'erian
was selected to head the Democratic
party organization, and Kalph Spill
man is Comrade No. I of tile Socialists.
The meeting held the following
Thursday evening was turned over to
the campus New Dealers, who presented
as the mainstay of their program Law
yer .1. 'l'. Carruthers. Young Democratic
candidate for the state legislature from
the Greensboro area. Similar meetings
will be held from week to week by
other campus political clubs.
A poll of campus opinion through
the medium of a straw vote shortly
preceding tile national elections is
planned as the culminating feature of
the project, which many feel is likely
to be the most successful of any
launched by the Y's in recent years.
LIBRARY ACKNOWLEDGES
PAST SUMMER'S GIFTS
IndividualH and Organizations Donate
Books, Periodicals, and Pictures
to Library Collection.
BOOKS ADDED TO FICTION GROUP
The Library wishes to acknowledge
the following gifts which were sent to
the college this summer: Dr. William
Wolff, of Philadelphia, Pa., contributed
| magazines for the chemistry depart
ment. Dr. Anna Gove, retired physi
cian of Woman's College, gave 24 hooks
and -4 periodicals. Miss Jean Lever
ing, of Guilford College, donated art
books and pictures, five books, and 258
periodicals.
The Library now has "Honey in tho
Horn," by H. L. Davis, which won tho
Harper prize-; "The South Looks at
Its Post," by B. R. Kendrick and O. M.
Arnett; "Sparkenbroke," by Charles
Morgan; "The Nazi Dictatorship," by
Frederick Schumann; two books by D.
C. Peattie, "Almanac for Moderns," and
"Singing in the Wilderness" (Audo
bon); "How to Live," by Arnold Ben
nett, and "The Power of Non-violence/'
by Richard B. Gregg.
College Given German Books
The Modern Language Department an
nounces tlie gift of three German books,
to be awarded as prizes for excellence
in German. The gift was made by the
German Consulate ia New Orleans,
through the courtesy of Dr. Wendler and
| Dr. Stahlberg.