Happy New Year
VOLUME XXVII
THREE NOTED VISITORS SING IN 'MESSIAH'
Jacques Hardre, Home
From French Debacle,
Says Britain Winning
Former Guilford Professor
Docks Monday En Route
From Lisbon
Mr. Jaques Hardre, former insructor
in French at Guilford and son of Pro
fessor Kene Hardre of the Woman's
College of the University of North
Carolina, arrived safely in New York
oil the "Exeter" (American Export
Line), sailing from Lisbon, Portugal,
at 8:110 a. 111., Monday after a sojourn
of over a year in Europe. He experi
enced little trouble in getting passage,
although the large number of refugees
somewhat increased the red-tape in
volved in doing this.
His difficulties in getting to Lisbon
werq somewhat greater, however. This
was because of the fact that he had to
go through much Spanish territory and
was constantly subjected to exaniina
toin by Fascist authorities.
Mr. Hardre until October 1939 was
teaching at the University of North
Carolina under a fellowship. He left
then for France and eventually cir
cumstances brought him lo French
Morocco. When lie decided to come
home, lie encountered numerous diffi
culties, and for 11 while there was much
speculation among his friends here as
to when he would eventually arrive.
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Fanning, Lloyd, Crescenzo
Will Make Junior Speeches
Three junior speeches will Vie given
by English majors in the Hut oil Wed
nesday, December 18, at 7 :.'iO p. m.
Frnncesca Fanning will speak on
famous executions in English literature.
Frances Lloyds subject is the life
of Charlotte Bronte as shown in her
novels.
Joe Crescenzo will talk on the early
seventeenth century poets, John Donne
and George Herbert.
English majors taking English 41
are expected to be present, and the
professors ami languages and arts will
also attend.
The three students will be expected
to answer reasonably well any related
question put to them by any of those
present.
Infirmary Inmate Discloses
Sorrows of Founders Coop
By A SIA)\Y FEVER
( EDITOR'S NOTE : This is the in
side story of life in Founders in
firmary—extracted with great pain
from tile incoherent ravings of
an inmate.)
Wednesday when I awoke I saw the
heaver hoard ceiling of the infirm
ary. Oh. yes, I remembered with a
start, I'm in the coop. Just to con
vince myself, I reached out and felt.
Tes, there it was, the little three-leg
ged table on which the nurse in
variably places glasses and bottles to
invariably slide off. Even my can
opener won't stay on the slanting top
of the thing.
On further observation, I found all
the other four inmates peacefully
sleeping. How I was going to get up
and take the six steps necessary to
THE GUILFORDIAN
Carl G. N. Cronstedt Mrs. Arinistead L. Mercer Clyde Keutzer
Greek Fate Is Object of Campus Surmise
Fight Will Hearten
British, Papers Say
Can the buttling Greeks, seemingly
repulsing tlie Fascist "invaders" at
every point, possibly keep their stand
ard aloft in tlie weeks to come? Amer
ica's youth, as reflected in the col
legiate press, is watching the Greek-
Italian conflict closely. And under
graduate editorialists are voicing quiet
hope and many words of caution in
their discussions.
"The effect of the Greek resistance
on the morale of hoth the democ
racies and the totalitarian countries
will probably he inestimable," says
the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal. "It
will certainly hearten the British and
the 'Free Frenchmen' as well as the
subversive groups within the boun
daries of Germany and Italy. It means
a tremendous loss of prestige to Italy
and to Mussolini, who apparently
thought lie could march down to the
peleponnese with no more trouble than
lie encountered in Albania. To the
German people it demonstrates that
the might of the bully nations isn't
invincible. The Achaeans of 111-H)—the
lineal descendants of the defenders
of Thermopylae, of Marathon, of Sala
mis. may once again save the West
for civilization."
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shut the window was quite a problem.
I knew it took six steps because I had
counted them to settle a bet. Oh, yes,
we do a lot of betting in the infirm
ary. I won about the panels in the
ceiling but the running cold in the
other corner won about the number
of slats in the Venetian blind. There
are only 30 and I would have thought
at least 50.
Oh, yes, we know all al>out every
thing up here. Why, even this morn
ing, we read in five different Daily
Xewses all about the performance of
the Fine Arts club and the basketball
squad.
The reason we had five newspapers,
and not ten or 12, is that the two of
us who subscribe have only five
friends between us who thought to
bring us papers. Tomorrow we ex
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., DECEMBER 14, 1940
Chapel Schedule
Monday, December 16 Christ
mas carols—tentative.
Tuesday, December 17—Meeting
on tlie basis of silence in the Hut.
Wednesday, December IS—Dr.
Bagley.
Thursday, December I!) Class
meetings.
Friday, December 20— A eapella
clioir—Christmas program.
Sadie Hawkins Slomp
Set for January 11
A "Sadie Hawkins Saddleshoe
Stump" will lie sponsored by the sopho
more class January 11, 1041, from 8
to 10 :.'SO in the gym.
Strictly informal, the dance will be
"girl invite." Tickets will lie 25c a
couple, to be purchased by the girls.
However, there will be masculine
stags, and stag tickets will be 15c.
Designed to strike a new note in
the year's round of dances, the affair
will feature four girl-brealt dances.
The remainder of the dances will be
boy-break.
Music will be supplied by recordings
of name bands.
Wee/. Brown heads the committee of
.lane Faulkner, Eleanor Clincliy, June
Frazier, Wolden Phillips, and Buena
Baldwin.
Tickets will go on sale after Christ
mas holidays.
Satire Written by Furnas
Dr. Philip Furnas is the author of
a short satire on the multiplicity of
ideas in America, America Speaks,
presented for the first time by the
Guilford college players during the
"Adventures in Christianity" confer
ence in Greensboro.
In the play, a group of Americans
are discussing their country, as in a
street group. They bring forth a hete
rogeneous collection of plans and poli
cies to be carried on by the nation,
only to decide that they must think
more about it and talk less.
The ten students representing the
group of nameless Americans also pre
sented the satire in last Monday's
chapel. They are Jane Marshall, Nancy
Graves, Herbert Pearson, David Park
er, Marlon Huff, Eleanor Clinchy, Ger
hard Friedricb, Winifred Ellis, Daniel
Young, and John Hobby.
(arrulhers Appointed
As Business Manager
Replaces Francis Fowler
On 1941's Quaker Annual
During Rest of Semester
Paul Carruthers, sophomore, lias suc
ceeded Francis Fowler to the position
of Quaker business manager.
Due to failure to meet scholastic
requirements, Fowler, who was chosen
in a general election last March, re
signed this four-point office, of which
there are only six on campus.
The appointment was made by Henry
Bilyeu, editor-in-chief of the "Quaker",
on November 0, the end of the first
quarter. An election was not held, due
to the necessity of filling the vacancy
at once.
Carruthers, a Greensboro boy, has
been a member of the "Quaker" busi
ness staff since his entrance at Guilford
as a freshman. He was business mana
ger of "High Tor" and is sports editor
of the "Guilfordian."
Half-Hour Classes Dec. 21
Classes of Saturday, December
21, will be scheduled as follows:
First' period—B-8:30.
Second period—B:3s-0:05.
Third period—9:lo-9:40.
Fourth period—9:4s-10:15.
Youthful College Is Revealed
In Boarding School Catalog
By TOBEY T.AITIN
In 1830, a small, 12-page pamphlet
sufficed to catalogue the list of
"trustees, officers, and pupils" and a
statement, of the curriculum of Guil
ford college, then New Garden Friends
hoarding school.
Its pages are browned and fragile,
and one touches them with a certain
degree if wonder and gentleness.
One notes, too, the antiquity of the
Greensboro Patriot, for the catalogue
was printed there for the year ending
4th Mo., 1856.
Many of the names still connected
with Guilford were listed in its pages.
One finds Benbow, Cox, Carter, Hen
ley, and Newlin among the trustees,
who then numbered 12, equalling the
present number.
Merry Christmas
NUMBER 6
Dr. Weis Will Direct
Chorus of 112 Voices
Tomorrow at 3:30 P. M.
The Guilford college a eapella choir,
augmented by other students and folk
of the community, will have its final
rehearsal tonight before its interpreta
tion of Handel's famous Christmas
oratorio, "The Messiah," tomorrow af
ternoon at 3:30 o'clock in Memorial
hall auditorium.
Directed by Dr. E. H. F. Wels, the
entire chorus this year numbers 112,
and has been practicing weekly on
Tuesday nights for several months.
Soloists chosen to sing almost half
of the selections are Eileen Dornseif,
Guilford college soprano who has been
choir soloist for several years; Mrs.
Armistead L. Mercer of Greensboro,
contralto, soloist for the Temple
Emanuel of Greensboro and its choir
director; Clyde Keutzer, tenor from
Chapel Hill, voice professor at the
University of North Carolina and
scheduled singer for the leading tenor
role in the Mozart Festival on Cape
Cod, Brewster, Mass., to he held next
July 24, 25, and 2G, where lie will
sing with the Boston Symphony or
chestra ; and Carl G. N. Cronstedt, di
rector of music of the public schools
of High Point, baritone.
Musical accompaniment for the
chorus will be furnished by the Guil
ford chamber orchestra and Evelyn
Pearson, of Arclidale, at the organ.
This will be the fourteenth perform
ance of the oratorio at Guilford, and
the tenth performance with the orches
tra. Since the first presentation in 1!)27,
when Max Noah was director, the
work has been favorably received by
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Buck Hines Is President
After History Club Vote
At the last meeting of the History
elul). Buck Ilines was elected presi
dent ; Rosemary Nunn, vice-president
and chairman of the social committee
for the group; and Alice Ott, secre
tary and treasurer.
The election was preceded by a lec
ture and slides of Mexico, presented
by Miss Louise Smith of Greensboro
high school.
Dr. Williams is the faculty adviser
of the group in which both the origi
nal History group and the Interna
tional relations group are merged.
Students totalled 109, of whom 95
were girls. The lioys were listed un
der a "catalogue of males," the girls
as a "catalogue of females." All but
seven came from North Carolina.
Three hailed from Virginia, and the
mighty number of four represented
the state of Tennessee.
The staff of the institution was pro
portionately small. Aaron and Jane
Stalker were superintendents. Defined
as "Teachers of .Male Department"'
were three: Dougan Clark, Jr., and:
John H. Hubbard, principals of the
first and second sessions, respectively*
Ilarper F. Stuart was assistant, .
Lydia E. Stalker, of the "Female
Department" was the principal for
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