Election Extra
VOLUME XXVI
Choir's Home Concert
Here Friday Is Last
Before Holiday Trip
Proceeds Will Be Given
To Guilfordian
Curtain Fund
The choir's last program before the
spring trip will be a home concert in
Memorial hall on Friday evening. A
collection will l>e taken which is to be
presented to the college for aid in the
purchase of curtains for the audi
torium. A feature of tile program will
he the singing of "I Want to Be
Ready," a spiritual written by Nobel
Cain especially for the Guilford col
lege choir.
Last Sunday the choir gave two eon
certs, one at the Presbyterian church
in Mel>ane in the afternoon and an
other at night in Burlington at the
First Baptist, church. The preceding
Sunday afternoon they sang at the
High Point Prtsbyterian church.
On Tuesday, March 12, the choir
sang the "Ode to the Conferedate
Dead," an extremely difficult number,
to Greensboro's Euterpe club at n pro
gram of music by North Carolina com
posers. Miss Holmes, who wrote the
"Ode," was present to hear her com
position sung for the first time.
Dr. and Mrs. Weis gave a party for
the choir members at their home on
Saturday, March 10. Each member
brought a toy instrument and contests
proved that Betty Locke is the best
toy orchestra director and Mike Caf
fey the most original dramatic artist.
The choir gave a cotton shower to the
Wels's as a sign of their appreciation
for the work they have done for the
choir and to help Mrs. Weis start
housekeeping in her new home.
On Saturday the 23rd the choir will
leave the campus for the North and
will not return until April 1.
Dutch Student Scorns
Sissy Hazing Methods
Collegiate hazing, European style,
makes American college freshman liaz
ers look like Little Lord Fauntleroys.
Such is the observation of Miss Joop
Knurs, a Washington State college ex
change student from Amsterdam, Hol
land.
The blonde, blue-eyed Dutch Miss
related that at some of (he European
universities she has attended —she lias
studied at Amsterdam, Munich, Cologne
and Paris —freshmen are hazed un
mercifully. They must shave their
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Uncle Sam Requests Help
Of Non-Resident Students
Questions of Census
Increase in Complexity
Warns Government
Uncle Sam is asking college students
to write home during March and re
quest something besides the traditional
check.
lie wants (he young men and wo
men who are living temporarily at
school to remind their parents:
"Count me In when the Census
taker comes to the 'family mansion'
in April."
It lias been Uncle Sam's experience
in 150 years of Census-taking that
while absence ma.v make the heart
grow fonder, it also tends to make the
mind forgetful. Census bureau officials
have good reason to believe that the
accuracy of the count of students who
THE GUILFORDIAN
Dramatic Council
Chooses 'Kind Lady'
Edward Chodorov's "Kind Lady,"
a mystery melodrama adapted from
a short story b.v Hugh Walpole,
will be the Dramatic council's
spring play, and will be produced
April 27. The play will be cast
before spring holidays so that ma
jor production activities may begin
April 1. Try-outs were held Tues
day and Wednesday nights.
There are 13 characters in the
play, seven women and six men,
ranging from the leads, Mary Her
ries, the "Kind Lady," and Henry
Abbott, to straight type roles such
as Aggie and Gustave Rosenberg.
The scene of the action is laid
in) Montague Square, London. The
plot renters around the gradual
subjection of the "Kind Lady" by
■ Henry Abbott. l)r. Furnas and
Mr. Kent are in charge of direct
ing.
Women's S. G. Dance
Is Best of the Year
Jessup and Merlau Win
Lucky Number Dance;
Give Exhibition
The Women's Student Government
association dance in Mary Ilobbs hall
last Saturday night has been pro
claimed the best of the year by the
commenting portion of the thirty-odd
couples who attended.
Despite the unusualness of the girl
invite-boy break program (heightened
by a bit of poster trouble) the dance
went smoothly, the music was good,
the too-few stags kept things turning,
and a couple of W. S. (J. innovations
were well received and enlivened the
evening considerably. Decorations, fol- :
lowing an Easter motif, were attrac
tive.
I Wilbert Edgerton and Marianna j
1 low. master and mistress of cere-
I monies, started tilings rolling with an
| Easter-egg dance: Humpty-Dumpty
j eggs were fitted together to form
dancing partners. Later a lucky num
ber prize dance was won b.v Mary
Anna Jessup and her escort Joe Mer-
I Inn, who obliged the other dancers
with a brief exhibition.
I A notable compliment to a suceess
| fill evening, the prettiest faculty wives i
I were in attendance as chaperons. Mrs.
I Milner, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Edgerton. j
I and Mrs. Beittel there in the company j
jof Dr. Milner, Dr. Williams, Mr. Ed- [
I gerton, and Dr. Beittel. I
happen to be away from home at the
time of the Census can be improved.
College students, temporarily away
from home to attend school, should be
counted as members of the house
holds in which they usually reside.
Students who have no permanent resi-
other than the places in which
they are living while attending school
or college, however, should be enumer
ated there. Such students should call
or write to the District Supervisor for
the Census if they are not enumerated.
Feeling that college students, like
every other section of the population,
will benefit from a reliable national
inventory, the U. S. Bureau of the
Census is asking them to do their part
in making the 1040 Census a success.
The Bureau needs their help in the
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MARCH 21, 1940
Teague, Monsees, Mills, G. Beittel,
Bilyeu, Top General Elections
■r
Miss Maxine Teague, senior major in the English depart
ment who was elected May Queen in yesterday's election.
News
Junior Speeches
Both social and natural science de
partments cleaned up on junior speeches
this week with a pre-vacation send
off.
At 4:30 Tuesday afternoon in the
hut four juniors spoke. Seth Macon
talked on "The Federal Power Com
mission," Winfred Meibohm on "Gov
ernment Regulation of Railroads,"
j Hampton Price on "The Relation Be
tween the Early Christian Church and
the Roman State T"p lo Constantino,"
| and Paul Lent/, on "Marshall Ne.v."
j Members of the social science staff at-
I tended.
Wednesday evening at 7:30 the nat
ural science department had its inn
ing. Attended by Dr. Campbell, Dr.
Ljung, and Dr. Pnrdom, four speeches
were given. Joe Carter, speaking on
"Studies in Orange-Silicon Synthesis,"
and Americus Woodward handled the
Chemistry topics, while Boude Leavel,
speaking on the pituitary gland, and
Clarence Chandler, speaking on twin
ning, represented the biology majors.
Furnas Party
Highlight of Furnas' party for jun
iors last Saturday night was hypno
tism of Winfred Meibohm by Lynn
White.
Spanish ('lub
The Spanish club, under the direc
tion of Miss Huth, will produce "EI
Idilio de Lolita en Nueva York" about
two weeks after spring vacation. The
play, which will be presented in chapel,
is a modern comedy set in New York
City. Members of the cast are Ria
Jeffre, Jean Gregory, Juan Rodriguez,
Reuben Ford, Hope Leslie, Nancy Oli
ver. Marion Huff, Frank Pickard, Lu
cille Jenesse, and Rigo Rodriguez.
Pope, Gons Conclude
Year's Lecture Cycle
Talks Are a Portion of
Coordinated Four Year
Lecture Program
Continuing the four-year series of
lectures designed to acquaint Guilford
students with all phases of Western
civilization, Dr. Russell Pope Friday
night, March 15, discussed the Ito
mantle movement in France, dealing
especially with Victor Hugo and Alfred
de Musset, nineteenth century ro
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Campus Swings to Nature
As Students Desert Dorms
By TOBEY LAITIN
Comes spring, warm weather, and
more tables are set up for breakfast.
The general impression would be that
more people get up early. The breath
of sweet zephyrs blends with that of
pancakes and syrup to lure the in
mates of the dormitories out to the
sun.
Last Sunday morning the campus
sward fairly crawled with students
and faculty. You could find them under
rocks and In hollow logs with no
trouble at all.
Over in the pasture Mendinhall and
McAdoo Were looking for a golf ball
that they had lost. They were joined
by Dabngian who seems to have con
secrated himself to tile sport. The
main flaw in the course is the dense
Election Extra
NUMBER 10
Run-Off Tomorrow to
Decide Presidency of
Men's Student Gov.
In yesterday's general student elec
tions 3K> students filled 52 of the 54
elective offices, revamped the point sys
tem of the Women's Athletic associa
tion, and necessitated n run-off elec
tion for two different offices by limiting
its numerical support to the leading
contenders for these position to plu
ralities rather than majorities.
Those elected were:
President of Women's Student Gov
ernment, Hazel Monsees.
May Queen, Maxine Teague.
President of the Y. M. C. A., Teddy
Mills.
President of the Y. W. C. A., Grace
Beittel.
President of Men's Athletic associ
ation, Bill Grice.
President of Women's Athletic asso
ciation, Mary Ruth Kimrey.
Editor of the Quaker, Henry Bilyeu.
Editor of the Guilfordiau, Robert
Register.
House President of Founders, Rachel
Fortune.
House President of Mary Hobbs,
Mary Ruth Kimrey.
A run-off election between Harry
Nace and Bob L. Wilson for 'he
presidency of the Men's Student
Government, MH! between Harry
Nace and Dave Parker for the see
refary-treasurership of the Men's
Athletic association will he held
this morning in Memorial hall be-
Iween 9:45 and 12:30, according
to Mike ('affey, chairman of the
S. A. B. elections committee.
Compel to returns on the general bal
lot place Henry Bilyeu as editor-in
chief of the Quaker, Francis Fowler
and Robert Rohr as Quaker business
manager and managing editor, respec
tively ; Robert Register as editor-in
chief of the Gullfordian, with Tobey
I.nitin and Armstead Estes as Guil
fordiau managing editor and business
manager, respectively; rank Maxine
Teague as 1940 May Queen, and Kath
leen Leslie as maid of honor; assure
membership in the Social committee to
Francis Fowler, Walter Patzig, Joe
Creseeuzo, Eleanor Clinehy, Madeline
Ilowlett, and Mary Lou Stafford; rate
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.shrubbery which borders the field like
n fringe of whiskers. The golfers, too
have si gallery. The personnel shifts
at times but the seven black and white
bulls in the barn are ardent fans.
Befon> ten in the morning there arc
badminton and basketball in the gym
which quivers excitedly each time an
ace or basket is scored. The woods are
full of hikers and the poison ivy will
soon be in season. In the afternoons
traffic on the roads and paths is thick.
We warn you of the perils of journey
ing abroad and advise you to adopt
some standard system of signals to
be used at turns and intersections.
After a hearty workout, most of the
girls return to their dormitories and,
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