YOM'ME WVIII
Homecoming Festivities, Fall Play Coincide on Gala Oct. 18
Alumni Plans Include
Parker Memorial Room
Dedication Exercises
Homecoming day, annual affair at
Guilford, will be held this year on Octo
ber 18, with alumni returning to meet
other alumni and to go through a pro
gram planned by the Homecoming
day committee, of which J. Wilmer
I'ancoast is head. To give activities
an early start, regular classes will be
shortened to 35 minutes each, and
will end at 10:40 a.m.
The traditional hockey game and
cross-country run will start at 11
o'clock. A hockey team composed of
star players of other years and the
varsity team wil compete on the hock
ey held, while Catawba college's har
riers meet the Quaker squad.
First thing scheduled after lunch,
which will be hekl in Founder's hall
at 12:30, is the public meeting of the
Scholarship society in the library at
1 :.'!) p.m., at which there will be a
guest speaker.
On Ilobbs field at 2:30 C'oacli
"Block" Smith's football eleven will
meet the Lenoir-Rhyne team in the
lirst home game of the season.
The official opening of the I>. Italph
I'arker Memorial board and faculty
room is set for 5:30 in the gymna
sium. The room is the gift of Eunice
I'arker, wife of I>. Kulpli I'arker, who
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356 Register For (lasses
In Decreased Enrollment
Guilford college lias begun its 105 th
year with a total enrollment of 3CG
students, as compared to 380 a year
ago. There are 128 freshmen, 215 pre
viously enrolled students, and 13 trans
fers.
Of these students, 107 are women.
19!), men. Four women are day stu
dents, while there are 70 men com
muters.
The Society of Friends again heads
the list of religions denominations with
US members. The Methodist are second
with 70 members, and the Presbyterians
rank third with 38.
Lending states represented are:
North Carolina, 53%: New Jersey,
11.5%; New York, 11.2%; and Penn
sylvania, !i.2%. There are 00 students
who are deseendents of former Guil
fonlians.
Majority of Senior Class
Teaching in N. C. Schools
I!y NANCY GRAVES
"Imagine 'Shorty* Heath at u C. 0.
Camp!"
"Well, lie is, nt Btick Creek; and Joe
Carter expects to go to one in Haiti
more soon."
Why people are always so surprised
to hear what last year's seniors are
doing no one knows. Maybe it's be
cause one doesn't think of Winfred
Meihohin teaching girls' basketball at
Bessemer high school, even in connec
tion with history and civics —or of
diminutive Polly Morton handling the
tirst THROUGH the fifth grades at a
school in Friendsville. Tennessee.
Then there's Joe Crescenzo, an Eng
lish major, who is teaching "everything
I didn't take in college" nt Stonewall,
X. He teaches math, history, and
civics and likes it.
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THE GUILFORDIAN
Skating Party Tonight
Guilford students and faculty
will don wheels tonight at Sedge
field rink for the first skating party
of the year.
The group will leave Founders
hall at 7 o'clock in ears provided
by the transportation committee—
Thornton Sparrow ami Walter
Kueker.
Charles Lewis, Alice Ott, Mar
garet Jones and Mary Lou Stafford
have charge of tickets; Frances
Johnson—|Misters; and Elois Mitch
ell—chaperones.
200 New Books Added
To Library's Shelves
| "Reveille in Washington"
and "This Is London" Are
Among Summer Purchases
Modern novels, biographies, and
commentaries 011 such subjects as na
tional politics, art, the conscientious
objector and social lift' are featured
in the 200 books which the library
; purchased during the summer and
| which are rapidly being placed in cir-
I culation.
Such best-sellers as This Is London
(Murrow) and Hereille in Washing
ton (Leech) are on hand with the
! London of today and the Washington
of the Civil War as their subjects.
Among the most important fiction
procured is The World of the Thi
baults (Uoger Martin du ard), a
"river novel" in two volumes known
as The Thihaults and Summer 191).
This book, which brought its author
i the Nobel Prize for Literature in
has been acclaimed as the equal of
Bollard's Jcun-Christoiihe and other
■ modern French novels.
I Having as their topic the rise of
Inations are The .1 rah Awakening (An
tonius), The (treat Russian He rota
tion (Chernov), The Monfiol Km/tin
(Prawdin) , and Modem Spain
(Trend).
Several biographies have been
bought: strange Destiny, a biography
of Warren Hastings (Davis): Milton
in the Puritan Revolution (Wolfe),
\donais , a life f Keats (Hewlett),
(ieori/e Washington (Little), and The
Life of Robert Barns (Snyder).
Quakers especially will be interested
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Chapel Schedule
Monday, October (i—Unscheduled.
Tuesday, October i—Silent meeting
in lint.
Wednesday, October B—A. I). ISeit
tel, worship service.
Thursday, October !)—Class meet
ings.
Friday. October 10—Clyde Keut/cr,
tenor.
Monday. October IS—Unscheduled.
Tuesday. October 11—Silent meet
ing in llut.
Wednesday. October 15—Dramatic
council.
Thursday. October 16—Class meet
ings.
Friday, October 17—Dean D. I).
Carroll.
~(;i ILFORI> COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 4, 1941
Machines Discover,
Aid Slow Readers
In Scheduled (lasses
English Department Makes
Use of Scientific Methods
To Raise W. P. M. Average
Approximately 41% of Guilford
freshmen read less than 325 words per
minute, the average for a college stu
dent. The average freshman here has
a recognition span of 1.17 words
against the established college average
of 1.25.
Calculated by Philip Dewees, these
are the results of tests made by the
ophthalmagrapli, a camera for photo
graphing the movements of the eyes
as they cross the printed page. This
machine focuses the small points of
light reflected from the eyes 011 a
strip of film moving vertically at a
constant speed. Stops, or fixations,
1 f the eyes are recorded as vertical
lines. Horizontal movements, or re
gressions. are also pictured.
In order to train these poor read
ers—freshmen reading an average of
::ii.s words per minute —the nietroiio
scope, another newly developed sci
entific device, will be used. This in
strument lias three shutters operating
in sequence to expose one-third of a
printed line at a time. The eyes are
forced to rend in rhythmical left to
right sequence with no regression.
Since the speed of the machine may
be regulated, students will begin the
training at their normal reading rate.
This will gradually be increased until
they have attained the proper college
level.
Reading classes have been taking
place since the beginning of school in
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T Cabinets To Launch
Drive For Members
Grumbrecht and Lewis
Advocate Active
Membership Policy
Led by Presidents Marie Grum
brecht and Charles Lewis, the cabinets
of the Y. W. and V. M. C. A. "re
treated" recently to the Cascades to
adept a new working philosophy
whereby members at large of the or
ganizations will be asked to serve 011
committees headed by cabinet officials.
Here is the call to service. All
freshmen (and upperclassnien who do
not yet belong) who would like to join
may do so by telling cabinet members
who will launch a membership drive
1 his coming week.
Consistent with the policy of active
membership participation, the "Y's"
will have one membership meeting a
mouth in addition to their three reg
ular cabinet meetings. By this method
"V" leaders hope to establish an or
ganizatii n all of whose members as
sume responsibility for one or more
of the various activities.
Seeking to promote a richer religious
life 011 the campus, the group will
spi lisor silent meetings in the Hut on
Sunday mornings and once during the
week. They will also conduct regular
Sunday Vesper services. Students not
attending New Garden Meeting or Sun
day school are urged to come to this
service.
The "Y's" are also planning an ex
tensive social service program in Guil
ford College community.
Freshman Thespian
"v
Virginia (lupin, who shares the lend
in "Spring Dance" with Hudson Bowne.
Friday Lecture Series
Planned for Students
Dramatic Council
To Enact Scenes
For Drama Lectures
(iuilford college lins planned n series
of Friday evening lectures to lie given
tliis year by members of our faculty
and those of nearby colleges.
Topics relate to class work and
to more general subjects valuable in
brcadening the student's outlook and
knowledge of life.
l>r. Curl Victorias will lecture on
"Great Enterprises and Enterprisers"
mi October 10. Dean D. I). Carroll,
dean of commerce at the University
of North Carolina, will speak 011 the
following Friday.
Of special interest to the scientifi
cally minded will be Dr. E. Harness
I'urdoin's lecture 1111 "Artificial Radio
activity."
Notice should be taken of a lecture
by Mrs. Ernestine C. Milner, "Miracle
and Morality Plays," 011 November 14,
and Miss Dorothy L. Gilbert's lecture
011 "Itenlism and Burlesque in Com
edy. the Knight of the Burning Pestle"
mi November 21. Both lectures will
feature scenes from the plays, to be
produced by the Dramatic council.
Dr. Furnas' elaboration of "The
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Guilford Girl Takes Off—
In an Airplane, to Be Sure
B,v HETTY WILSON
"It just runs in the family," said
Myrtle Stanley, 17, freshman from ;
Greensboro, referring to the flying les
sons she has been taking since her grad
uation from Greensboro senior high
school last spring. Before then, both
her brother and father learned to fly,
and this made Myrtle decide to do it
too.
"I've been messing around with them
for years," she declared. Now she can
solo any time she wants to but probably
won't for another two months. In
answer to the off-the-record question as
to whether she could take any pas
sengers along, she replied, "Not yet. I
have to have 200 hours flight time be
fore I can risk anyone's neck but my
own."
Knowing planes as she did, Myrtle
was not frightened when she had her
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'Spring Dance' Stars
(hapin, Bowne With
Supporting Cast of 11
In line with last year's spring comedy,
but with a more delicate touch, is Philip
Barry's "Spring Dance," the Dramatic
Council's fall production which is due
to raise the curtain on October 18.
The play, directed by Dr. l'hilip W.
Furnas, Mr. E. Daryl Kent and Helen
Van Achterberg, Dramatic council pres
ident, centers around the erratic Leftist
tendencies of young Sam Thatcher—
Hudson Bowne—and his friend, The
Lippincott—Mason Krenn.
The scene is laid in a small house
near the campus of a girls' college in
New England : the action occurs on the
eve and morning of the all-important
spring dance.
Living in the house are Alex—Vir
ginia ('hapin—who is in love with Sam;
Kate, her roommate —Winifred Ellis;
! Mnd.v, the authorized comedian of the
grouii—Virginia Pope : Sally, the social
butterfly—Sarah Gray; and Frances,
the eternally "beautiful but dumb"—
Jane Ritchie.
The action concerns the girls' efforts
to keep Sam from dashing off to Russia
with the Lippincott so that Sam can
take Alex to the dance.
Other players iu the tentative cast
are: Edward Behre, Jane Walters, Flor
ence Dutton, George Bunce, Merle Pick
ett, and John Hobby.
Only three of the thirteen players
have been seen across Guilford foot
lights. John Hobby has a leading part
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Last Gilbert-Pope Work
Will Be Published Soon
The third in a series of articles by
Dorothy Lloyd Gilliert and the late Dr.
Russell Pope 011 Quakerism and French
i Quietism has been accepted for publi
. cation. This article, "Animadversions
of Bishop Bossuet 011 Quakers and
, Quietists" will appear in the "Publica
tion of the Modern Language Associa
tion" soon.
Miss Gilbert and Dr. Pope have
sowlin that Bossuet, bishop of Meaux,
knew the writing of Robert Barclay,
and have attempted to trace the simi
larity of the objectives which he held re
garding the Quietists and the Quakers.
This study is the last collaborative
work completed before Dr. Pope's death
in July, 1940.
first lesson. "I just wondered what it
would bo like to take over the controls,
and when I finally did, there wasn't
time to think about being scared.
"Flying isn't easy. A lot of people
have the idea that all one does is hop
in a plane and sail off, but it isn't that
glamorous. There's a great deal of
studying connected with it and many
technical points to learn and always
remember. The ordinary person has no
idea how fast a pilot has to think.
"Most people do not really enjoy fly
ing until they become expert at it."
Myrtle has lessons whenever the
weather permits and rather dreads the
next one. She has to practice spins,
and they always make her sick. Yet
she insists she enjoys stunt-flying.
Brunette and petite—only five feet
one, too short to be an air-hostess—
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