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THE GUILFORDIAN
Entered at Guilford College, N. C., as
second-class matter under the act of Con
gress, August 24, 1912.
Published semimonthly during the
school year by the students of Guilford
College.
Editor-in-Chief Tobey Laitin
Managing Editors
Winifred Ellis, Bette Bailey
Business Manager . Paul Pearson
Editorial Staff Corinne Field, Nancy
Graves.
Sports Staff Sol Kennedy, Fred Taylor,
Paul Carruthers, Kudy Davis, Helen
Lyon, Frances Johnson, Talinadge
Neece.
Husincss Staff Mildred I'egram, Sadie
White, Arthur Johnson.
Reporters Shirley Ware, John Hobby,
Ilawl Key, Margaret Jones, Barbara
Sprague, Patricia Shoemaker, John
Jernigan, Barbara Williams, Virginia
Ashe raft, Thornton Sparrow, Clans
Victorius, Pat Lockwood, Sarah Gray,
Hutli Bab, Carolyn Prout, Hudson
Bowne.
Pictures —James Patton, Purnell Ken
nedy.
Factilti/ Advisers Dorothy L. Gilbert,
William O. Suiter.
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1941 Member 1942
Fbsociated Golle&iate Press
For A New Year
Responsible leaders must be the mark of
Guilford college. We who are to be led
must pick from among us those who are
strong; those who will lead us courageous
ly, and with initiative; those who will not
truckle to personalities.
We have printed a list of the candidates
for elective campus positions. Petitions,
signed by five persons, will be accepted by
the Elections committee of the Student
Affairs board until March 20. Elections
will be. held on March 24.
We h ave ten days in which to weigh this
matter carefully—ten days before we cast
the die and place in positions of authority
those who will serve and govern us for
the following year.
This is not. merely the old story of spring
elections and campus politics. We believe
that it is a new story—as every spring
flection is new—a chance to start afresh,
if need be, or to continue in ways which
have teen proved good.
Let us consider the proposed candidates
carefully. Let us think them over—remem
l>ering that the representatives to the Ra
leigh student legislature must know some
thing of parliamentary procedure and of
debate and that they represent Guilford at
the state capital; remembering that the
president of the Men's A. A. must be more
resourceful than ever, as he faces a situa
tion growing in difficulty. Social commit
tee can do. fine things and will need all
the initiative it can get; Dramatic coun
cil, Athletic associations, annual and news
paper will be hampered, too, by the budget
cuts to be effected and their leaders must
be able to manage well 011 the proverbial
shoestring. Our student government, as the
organization which should be closest to the
student body, must set the tenor for the
Guilford of this coming year and for those
that come after.
Until Election Day
By the time the next GIILFORDIAN goes
to press, election returns will he in and a
new editorial staff will have taken over.
Knowing that both you and the news
paper will be in good hands, no matter
what the results of the elections, we speak
to you for the last time as GUILFORDIAN
editor.
Goodbye and good luck to you, our news
paper, and its new staff.
LIBRARY LORE
There was a time in the history of this school
when Dr. Binford was teaching his first, geology
class; when Miss Gainey was secretary to Dr.
Hobbs, then president of Guilford college; when
Founders had fewer and larger rooms, some
with wood stoves; when the Dean of Women
occupied what is now the twins' room and invit
ed girls in to talk to them of their mistakes and
lend a helping hand.
Miss Katherine Kicks remembers those days
because it was then that she was a student here.
After graduating from Guilford in 1904, Miss
Kicks went back to her home in Richmond,
Virginia, for ten years. When her family
sold their city home and moved to the coun
try, she found herself with nothing to do. Hear
ing of an opportunity in a local library, Miss
Kicks began her library training. That was the
way most of the librarians received their train
ing then—through study and practical work
right in the library, not in a library school.
The work Miss Kicks had chosen to keep her
self busy proved interesting enough to pursue
as a vocation. First she attended Columbia uni
versity library school for a year. She worked
at the University of Virginia as assistant libra
rian and then came here as librarian in the fall
of 1922. A couple of years ago, Miss Kicks
attended the University of Chicago for further
training.
Now, she is an accomplished librarian, for
who else could find a "black book and it's about
a nurse," as one recent request stated. And
who else can keep order in the library merely
by standing in a very prominent spot and sweep
ing the "studious" talkers with an "if you dare"
gla nee.
Miss Kicks' hobby fits quite smoothly into her
work as librarian of a Quaker college. She
is building up a collection of Quaker books and
records for Guilford college. Some obliging
connections in England have promised to save
material for this collection, to be sent here at
a safer time.
Traveling is one of those things that nearly
everyone would like to do, but just can't seem
to do enough of. It is the same with Miss
Kicks. Though she claims her travels hare not
been extensive, she did take a European tour
in 192.'?, skylarking to England, France, Swit
zerland, and Italy. She hopes to go back some
day and take it all a bib more leisurely.
Meanwhile, Miss Kicks confines lier rovings
to the general vicinity of Guilford college:
Founders hall. In the morning, residents of
front hall, second floor, west wing, settle back
and relax as the mellow aroma of homebrew
coffee seeps down the hall. Then they know
that Miss Kicks is astir.
SCHOOLBOY TO HIS TEACHER
Alack, alack, and woe is me.
I in your class you will not see.
The plague descended—swift, untold.
Yes, you're right! I have a cold.
My nose doth run; my voice does shake:
And nothing of Shakespeare can I make.
Neither of Richard, Oberon, or Juliet,
Bassnnio, Portia, or Launcelot.
I cough, I blow, I drip, I sneeze.
Oh, how I dislike this dreaded disease!
Oh, Destiny, Path, and Fates all three,
What have I done to anger ye?
Yet time will tell and bring, no doubt,
A day of cheer and happy shout.
"Well, again! Healthy, too—
Goodbye, Cold, and goodbye, Flu!"
To class I'll come in a day or two
To take my place among the few.
I'll come prepared to recitate
Or gaze at the book and contemplate.
Fain would I cease, and hopefully say:
"I'll see you again—Monday."
By John Downing
i mortimer
i mortimer was very interested in the snow
men or should i say snow-ladies who appeared
on our campus last, week i went up and spoke
to one of them but it was not very polite it did
not answer hut perhaps tills was because Fran
and Pete did not put a head on it i mortimer
took Claudia the ladybug to the picnic supper
in the gym she nearly drowned in the mustard
but was rescued let us join in the Virginia reel
said i no i am rather tired after my catastrophe
said my friend Claudia so let us swing 011 a
ping) pong paddle and watch the dancers it was
lots of fun i reflected the next night as i swam
home from the choir concert at pilot mountain.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Oracle of Today
RETURN OF APRIL
Is it not strange that April comes again,
And rain like tears beyond the wail of weeping
Cannot profane the new green face of living?
And skies that sow a morning-sorrow,
Whose sling is gra.v with sodden sorrow,
Do not bow down the budding life-head?
Here from the concrete springs the maple:
Thin is the sheath that holds its being.
Over the world the rain blows bitter.
Is it not strange that April comes again?
—Emeritus
From the
October 12, 1 927 —Among the many improve
ments which are in progress here at the pres
ent time is the remodeling and rebuilding of
the front of the Library building. A new porch
with a tile floor is being constructed and new
columns of brick are to lie erected. These new
columns are to be stuccoed and mounted on a
granite border. When present plans for im
provement are completed the library will lie
one of the most beautiful buildings on the
campus.
October 19, 1927—Antiquated rules of student
government are superannuated. The new regu
lations allow many new social privileges. The
mass meeting held in Memorial hall, October 15,
to discuss the suggestions for new student gov
ernment regulations was a milestone in the
progress of Guilford college.
April 26, 1922— A box social at which $73.00
was raised for (be renovation of the students'
parlor at Founders, was held on the campus last
Friday afternoon from 4:50 to 7:00. With this
beginning, it is expected to begin work on the
parlor very soon.
May 13, 1931—The monarch of the Physics
department, Professor Garness Purdom, ami
Mrs. Purdom were hosts to the Laboratory
Technique class at a dinner party on Wednes
day evening. Dinner was served at small tables
which were later cleared for games. Place cards,
characteristic of each guest, marked the seats.
Steak, potato chips, strawberry shortcake, etc.,
gave the biological group an opportunity to
exercise their gastric organs.
•January 28, 1931—After much consideration.
"Outward Bound," n thoee-act philosophical
drama by Sutton Vane, has been chosen by
the Dramatic council for its spring production.
It will be presented in Memorial hall on the
evening of March 17.
February 19, 1938— Due to a request made
by the day students, (be Dean has announced
a change in the schedule of Saturday's classes.
The chapel period will he eliminated, thus al
lowing classes to continue without a break until
11:30. The chapel committee has approved the
change because of (lie faci (hat no programs
are ever planned for (his period.
March 11, 1925—Miss Ricks has recently or
anized a Library Training class and has initi
ated it into the mysteries of library routine.
The class is a large one and already there is
much evidence of its work.
March 11, 1925—The senior girls are winners
in the annual inter-class basketball tournament.
The senior class annexes its fourth consecutive
inter-da sn basketball champion while the sopho
mores take second place in the tournament.
November 10, 1926—Why is the director of
chapel singing placed in such an embarrassing
position each morning by having to stand for
five minutes in the midst of a shower of blushes
before the student body can be quieted enough
to start singing?
After perusing (lie wedding announce
ments in the GREENSBORO DAILY
NEWS fruitlessly for several weeks, we
spotted two little items that made us
wonder.
In fart, they bothered us so inurli that
we have derided to warn the incoming
editorial statT while they still have a
chance to save fare Tom Aslicraft,
C.IILFORMAN Editor-in-Chief of 1038-
'39, and Tom Mclinight, Managing Edi
tor of the same year, have already been
hooked.
We thought smugly that a year's editor
ship certainly works wonders, hut it turns
out that former editors Foster and Regis
ter seem to lie still holding out gallantly
on their own embattled little peninsula.
©trituarp
March 14, 1942
If there's anything worse
Than a waffle that's cold.
Or mashed potatoes
Three days old,
It's suddenly meeting
A fat old hen
That you loved in high school
In nineteen-ten.
O
".Tuck makes me tired."
"It's your own fault, dear. You should stop
running after him."
O
The girls next door get discouraged every
time they want to try a new recipe. They all
start, "Take a clean dish."
—Maroon anil Gold
O
The English House of Lords and our House
of Representatives have loud speakers. They
installed theirs—we elected ours.
O
Some people take cold showers all winter
long; others just have grapefruit for breukfust.
O
"What are you doing next Saturday night?"
"Gotta date."
"And the Saturday night after that?"
"Gotta date."
"And the next Saturday?"
"Gotta date."
"Gosh, don't you ever take a bath?"
O
If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,
what a crime wave there'd be in our colleges!
—Capital Chimes
O
Westtown Classroom I loners
"Augustin was sent out by I'ope Groggery the
Great."
"Author was a brave king who saved Whales
and protected women. He had twelve nights at
a round table."
—The Brown and White
O
College boy : "Are you the barber who cut my
hair last time?"
liarber: "No, I've only been here six months."
—The Lenoir Ithynean
O
The davenport holds the twain.
Fair damsel and her ardent swain,
He-and-She;
Hut then a step upon the stair.
And father tinds them there
He .... and .... She.
—The Torch
O
Archibald Reginald Percival Karl
Decided one evening to call 011 his girl.
Together they talked of their kith and their kill,
lie said "May I kith you?" and she said, "Von
kin."
—The lli-I'o
O
"This match won't light."
"What's the matter with it?"
"I dunno. It lit all right a minute ago."
—The Tatler
O
"Slu 1 treats her husband like a Grecian god."
"llow's that?"
"She places a burnt offering before him at
every meal."
—The Torch
O
On the Other Hand . . .
Alone witli a book by the fire—that's swell;
Alone on the dunes—there's a certain spell
In that. Or alone is a pleasant way
To go for a walk 011 a stormy day.
It's thrilling, alone, with the reins in baud.
And to be alone with some work is grand.
Alone in a mist, with a 1110011 —that's magic;
Alone 011 a Saturday night—that's tragic.
—Margaret Engelinan,
"Between the Hook Ends."