Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year
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GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME XXV
DR. HORNELL HART
COMING TO CAMPUS
FOR WEEK'S STAY
Eminent Sociologist To Give'
Series of Lectures During
Special Emphasis Week.
TO BE SPONSORED BY Y'S j
Many Lectures, Informal Discussions
And Classroom Studies
Will Re Held.
Dr. Hornell Hart, eminent lecturer
and sociologist, from Duke University
is coming to the Guilford campus the j
week of January 21-28 to give a series
of lectures and discussions for the iuil
ford students. Dr. Hart is professor
of sociology and is well known for his
activities in the sociologist and religious
fields.
Before coming to Duke I'niversity
he was professor of Sociology al Mart
ford Theological Seminary from I'.KW to
l!KS8. Prior to that lie was professor
at Bryn Mawr college for a period of
nine years. In J!t3o-:!1 he was investi
gator in charge of measuring of changes
in social attitudes in President 1100- !
ver's Committee on Social Trends. In
addition to his activities as lecturei i
and professor lie finds time to write j
books and magazine articles. A 11ti.11- j
her of liis eight books are in tlie Guil
ford College library. lie also writes ;
articles for Forum and other periodi
cals.
lie will be remembered 011 the (iuii- j
ford campus for his commencement j
address of last year.
Dr. Ilart is coining to the Guilford
campus for a week of intense work
with the Guilford College students. The
tentative program includes speaking in
tin 1 meeting-house 011 both Sunday
mornings of the week he will be here
and 011 Wednesday evening. The chapel
periods for the week will also be de
voted to him. Numerous informal and
formal discussions will be held 011 the
(Continued 011 l'age Four)
DEAN BEITTEL ATTENDS
PHILOSOPHICAL MEETING
I>r. Beittel Leaves This Afternoon For
Fall Meeting of North Carolina
Philosophical Society.
1)1 IvK PROFESSOR READS PAPER
Dean A. I>. Beittel will leave for j
Wake Forest college this afternoon to
attend the fall meeting of the North
Carolina Philosophical Society. A. C.
Held of Wake Forest is president of j
the Society which was founded 2 years,
ago by I>r. Widgery >f Duke University. |
Dr. Mliner was president of the organi-,
station last year and Dr. Beittel is its!
present secretary.
At the meeting this afternoon a pa
per will be read by Professor Dubs
of Duke I'niversity. The annual meet
ing of the Society will he held some
time in the spring of and the ac
tivities of this afternoon's conference
will be oil a smaller scale than those
planned for the spring.
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Mrs. Beittel Recuperating
Mrs. A. 1). Beittel, who underwent
an appendectomy in the Wesley Long
hospital November 23rd, is recovering j
satisfactorily and is able to he up most |
of the time.
Coming to Campus
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1 I>r. Horneli Hurr. eminent sociologist
rom IMike, will he mi mnipus January!
2--'2s Itcinriiu and lending discussions.!
(Courtesy f (inrnshoro Daily i
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MRS. RAYMOND BINFORD
ELECTED STATE LEADER
♦
] Heroines President of Newly Formed
State-wide Peace
Organization.
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STATE MEETING IN JUNE
[ Mrs. Raymond Hinford was elected
I president this week of a state-wide:
1 organization of the Women's League'
for Peace and Freedom. The Gtiil- .
ford County League for Peace has,
for two or three years been affiliated
with this League, and Mrs. Binford
has been very active in this work.
Similar groups have been functioning
in Chapel Hill. Charlotte, and Raleigh.
These four groups have come together I
I to form a state-wide league, of which
Mrs. Hinford was elected president.
Rev. .1. Elwood Carroll is first vice
president, Mrs. Taul White of Chapel
Ilill is second vice-president, and Mrs.
1 E. J. Wanamnker of Charlotte is sec
i retar.v and treasurer,
j A state-wide meeting is to lie held
at Chapel Hill at the time of the In
! stitute of Public Relations, which will
I lie the week of .lune 21st to June 2.8.
RADIO SPEECHES ARE
SPONSORED BY CLUB
Dr. Milner To Sneak Over WRT,
Charlotte, On January CI,
Charter Day.
•
| Climaxing the drive of the Second
i Century Builder's Club, five speeches
| over as many North Carolina radio
I stations wi 1 be delivered l>y Cllilford
J College speakers 011 Charter Day. Janu-1
I ary 13, 11)30.
j As yet but one speaker lias been defi
! uitoly chosen. Dr. Clyde A. Milner will
ypeak over WIST. Charlotte from 7 :HI
Ip. in. to 7 :15 p. 111. The other four will
be selected soon and will talk over
WAIR, Winston-Salem: WBlti, Greens
boro: WI'TF. Raleigh: and W.MFR,
High Point.
The program to he presented on the
| campus Charter Day has not yet been
| made out Mrs. Clyde A. Milner, pro-
Iginm chairman announced.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C, DECEMBER 10, 1938
MRS. ADDIE FIELD
LEAVES GIFT TO
GUILFORD COLLEGE
Bequest Left As Token of
Kindness Extended by Mary
Mendenhall Hobbs.
$5,000 GIVEN TRUSTEES
| Ambit ion of Mrs. Fiell Was to Continue
! The Services Which Were
Extended to Her.
A bequest of $5,000 to the board of
trustees of Guilford College is cou
tuined in the will of the late Mrs.
Addie Wilson Field, '96. it was re
! eentl.v announced by Dr. Clyde A. Mil
| ner, president of the college,
j Mrs. Field died October 13. She
| was the wife of R. Allen Field, of
I Xewnan. Georgia. Seven years after
| the State of North Carolina had grant
ied New Garden Hoarding School its
j charter as Guilford College. Mrs. Field,
| nee Add lis Hello Wilson, was gradu
! ated from this institution. Her lius
| band likewise attended here. He was
j enrolled in New Garden Hoarding
j School in IHN4-85, live years preceding
i the granting of the college charter.
The bequest by Mrs. Field was an
I appreciation of the privilege accorded
tier by Mary Mendenhall Hobbs. It
| was through the efforts of Mrs. Hobbs,
jan outstanding woman educator in
jNortli Carolina, that Mrs. Field was
enabled to attend Guilford. In a let
ter to I)i'. Dudley 1). Carroll of Chapel I
11 ill. chairman of the board of trus
tees. Mr. Field explained the life ambi
j tiou of his wife —to continue the ser
vice which had been rendered to her.
FLORA HUFFMAN LEAVES
TO ATTEND MISSOURI U.
(iiiilfordian Associate Kditor To He
Replaced by George Wilson
and I'ete Moore.
j Flora Huffman, one of Guilford's
i best known students is leaving at the
end of this semester to attend one of
the countries best known schools, the
i I'niversity of Missouri, to study jour
nalism. Her plans to matriculate there
at the beginning of the year were in
terrupted by the sudden death of her
father.
Flora is especially well known to
those members of the third estate lo
cally known as the GUILFOKIIIAK staff.
I Miring seven semesters at Guilford
she has given exactly seven semesters of
loyal service to our paper.
During her Freshman year she was
an active reporter. As a sophomore she
was a reporter doubling as a feature
writer. Her electives as managing edi
tor during her Junior year was almost
a matter of course, but the press of
other interests forced her to turn her
huties over to another and serve as
assistant. This years she has been the
| well-known associate editor.
J Kditor Ashcraft has announced that
j two well known men will be iu
| auguratcd into the associate editorship
to take Flora's place. George Wilson
i and I'ete Moore, both of whom have
been on the G III.IOKDIA.N staff during
all their three year stay al the college
! are to get the position, i'ete is tile Gull
, ford correspondent of the Greensboro
j Daily News, and George has contributed
. | much to the Greensboro Daily Record.
I Hccause of their many other activities
' neither is able to assume the respon
| ■iiliilitles of a full time job.
To Sing
Kri \ fljH
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Gwendolyn Fnrrel, well-known so
prano from Greensboro, will appear in
Handel's Messiah, which is to be pre
entcd in Memorial Hail, Sunday after
noon. December 11.—(Courtesy of
(Srrrmtboro DaiJji \cirs.)
NEW MAGAZINE WILL
COVER COLLEGE LIFE
"College Town," Unique Paper,
To Be Organ of State
Collegians.
R. REGISTER WILL WRITE
Collci/i Toirn. a unique innovation
in tie' field of North Carolina periodi
cals, will make its appearance next
March. The news magazine will deal
solely with college and university life
within the state. It will serve as a
medium for the expression of the col
legiate mind. Because it is to be of,
by. and for the students of the Tar
Heel state, it is hoped that the distinc
tive tone of college life will be re
tlecied.
The idea originated among a group
of students attending summer schools
in various parts of the state. Feeling
the need for a journal that would
sympathetically treat a subject here
tofore neglected, the group organized
Colli i/i Town. Headquarters have
been established in Chapel Hill. Adrian
Spies is Editor; Ernest King and Rob
ert Doty are Business Managers,
A pictorial section will be devoted to
a particular school each edition, and an
outstanding personage will lie presented
every mouth. Leaders in politics, art,
iiiid education will be solicited for con
(Continued oil Page Three)
Extra Day Added
To Xmas Holiday
In ;i special meeting of the fac
ulty Thursday morning a decision
was reached to extend Christmas
vacation thrcugh Monday, January
?. One to. this action, classes will
begin Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock
rather than on Monday, as was pre
viously announced in the school
calendar. While this extension of
(lie holidays is sure to be favorably
received by the student body as a
! whole, il is expected to he pai'tic
u'ariy welcome to those who are
graduates of the (ircenshero High
School, since it will enable them
lo attend the annual reunion of
(■reenshoro High alumni which is
held every New Year's Day.
NUMBER 6
MESSIAH WILL BE
GIVEN AT GUILFORD
COLLEGE SUNDAY
13 Choruses To Be Sung By
The Guilford College
Choral Society.
SHERMAN SMITH TO SING
Many Favorite Soloists Return To
Sing Into the Hearts of All
Guilfordians Again This Year.
J About 200 years ago when George
| Frederick Handel was starting pub
j licity for his new oratorio, "The Mes
| siah." little did he know the fame it
j would attract. Were he to be informed
|of the esteemed place which it now
| holds in the annual Christmas calen
dar of memorable productions, he
would be as gracious as his composi
i tions are great.
Furthermore, Mr. Handel would be
| pleased to know of tlie excellent prep
| unit ion which tlie Guilford College
| Community Choral Society lias made
j for the annual presentation here in
I Memorial Hall Sunday afternoon, for
time and again lie lias been honored by
j attendance too large to be accommo
dated In the Guilford auditorium,
j Little more can be done in the way
\ of individual performers or a chorus.
Greensboro will provide good soloists
in the soprano section, with Mrs.
Gwendolyn Farrell, whom many will
remember for her previous appear
ances here, and in the tenor company,
with Mr. Harper Stephens, of Wom
an's College. In addition to these,
the Gate City will send out a group
of musicians led by Mrs. Jesse Alder
man, concertineister, who ranks among
the best violinists in the state: Mrs.
W. S. Holms, organist, who visited
the campus last year for a program
of her own : and several other mem
bers of the orchestra which will ac
companyt the chorus.
Sherman Smith, basso, from Chapel
Hill, will be a material addition to
(the program. Dr. Smith's experience
j (Continued 011 Page Three)
DR. AND MRS. MILNER
TAKE KENTUCKY TRIP
| Delivers Sermon at Beren College;
(entertainment By Faculty
Of College Follows.
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Milner re
cently returned from a week-end trip
to Jieren. Kentucky, where I>r. Milner
was the principal speaker oil a pro
gram that is one of n series being
sponsored by the college of that town.
This group of sermons is to bring
many noted characters to the Beren
College campus during the period des
ignated for such gatherings.
A large audience comprising several
| thousand students and community folk
j attended Ibis meeting of last Saturday
to hear President Milner. Dr. Harry
Emerson Fosdick. of Riverside church
in New York city, is soon to appear
lon the program.
j Following the sermon Dr. and Mrs.
j Milner were entertained by the fac
j ulty of Beren College at President
I Ilutehins' home: and a great deal of
Kcutuckian hospitality was shown. Dr.
and Mrs. Milner returned to the Guil
ford campus at the beginning of this
' week.