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THE GUILFORDIAN
Entered at Guilford College, N. C„ as
secoml-class matter under the act of Con
gress, August 24, 1!)12.
Published semi-monthly during the
school year by the students of Guilford
College.
Editor-in-Chief Tobey Laitin
Managing Editors
Winifred Kilts, Bette Bailey
Business Manager Paul Pearson
Editorial Staff — Corinne Field. Nancy
Graves.
S 'ports Stuff Sol Kennedy. Kred Taylor,
Paul Carruthers, Hmly Davis. Helen
Lyon, Prances Johnson. Talmadge
Neece.
Hunincss Stuff —Mildred Pegrnni, Sadie
White, Arthur Johnson.
Reporters —Shirley Ware, John Hobby,
Hazel Key, Margaret Jones, Barbara
Sprague, Betty Wilson, Patricia Shoe
maker, John Jernigan, Peggy Watson,
Barbara Williams, Jean 11. Thomas,
Virginia Ashcraft, Thornton Sparrow,
Glaus Victorius, Pat Lockwood. Sarah
Gray, Until Bab, Caroline Prout.
Pictures James Patton, Purnell Ken
nedy, Emory Culclasure.
Faculty Advisers Dorothy L. Gilbert,
William O. Suiter.
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To Guilford —
Here's to a bunch of boys who are tops.
Here's to the boys who may fret licked but
go into a game and come out fighting and
are ready to do it again.
And here's to the school that is behind
them—the school that's not worried about
the final score—the score that the news
papers print.
Our score is something not so tangible
as that. It is a story of a fighting spirit,
of patience and faith and honest sweat.
It is the story of the boys who faced Elon;
the boys who, heavily outweighed, with the
odds against them, fought hard and fairly
and oame out on top, as far as we are con
cerned.
Behind that story is a spirit that has
been here since Guilford's days as New
Garden boarding school, and one that will
always remain' here despite superficial
changes.
It is something of the fighting spirit of
the football squad. It is, indeed, akin to
the Quaker concept of the Inner Light.
For to us, at Guilford, it is the spirit that
is important, not outward show. Material
wealth and vast, accumulations of stone and
steel are not to be scorned. Hut they alone
are of little value. With them must go the
spirit that makes a school a place to live
for four years, a place to remember for
ever; with them must go the scholastic
achievement and communal feeling which
are after all the bases on which a school
exists; with them must be the realization
that materialism is to be put in its proper
place—that there is plenty of room for
blue jeans and hard work, and that this
is the place for l>oth.
This then is Guilford a warmth, a
friendliness, a knowledge of the good
things of life.
It. is a Guilford where we are glad for
the boys to go into a game and tight, and
where we will light with them as long as
they are in the game.
We must show that we are truly in pos
session of that spirit. We must show that
we are worthy of its possession. For we
hold in our hands a great privilege. We
must not let the spirit which has made
that privilege, sleep and dwindle in our
keeping, so that in Ihe future there will be
less of Guilford to offer to others.
YVe remember the stands in Memorial
stadium on Thanksgiving day. We remem
ber the emptiness and the efforts of the
More on Girls
Girls ciin never change their natures;
Thnt is quite beyond their reach.
Once a girl is iiorn a lemon
She can never lie u peach.
But the law (if compensation—
That is what I like to preach.
You can always squeeze a lemon,
But just try to squeeze a peach.
to
Professor: "1 forgot my umbrella this morn
ing."
Wife: "When did you realize you had forgot
ten it V"
Professor: "Well. 1 missed it when I raised
my hand to close it after the rain stopped."
—Penn Chronicle
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I think thai I shall never see
A column like an acorn tree;
For, although both from nuts are born,
The tree has leaves, the column corn.
—The Aquin.
•
War never determines who is right—only who
is left.
•
ller lips quivered as they approached mine.
My whole frame trembled as I looked into her
eyes. Her body shook with intensity as our
lips met. and her chin vibrated and my body
shuddered as 1 held her to me. The moral of
this story is: Never kiss a girl in a flivver with
the engine running.
—Quaker Campus.
•
The restaurant advertised rapid service, but
didn't give it. A patron gave an order, waited
patiently, timl fell asleep. She awoke to hear
the waitress's voice, asking: "Did you order
this sundae V"
"Gracious," exclaimed Betty Thones in dis
may, "what day's this?"
—The Tiger Rag
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"Hello, who is this speaking?"
"Watt."
"What?"
"Yes. Watt's my name."
•What?"
"My name's John Watt."
"John What?"
"Yes, you're right ; are you Mr. Jones?"
"No, I'm Knott."
"Listen, will you tell me your name?"
"I'm Knott."
"Who are you?"
"Will Knott."
"Why not?"
"No, not Why Knott, Will Knott."
And so on, ad infinitum.
—Quaker Campus.
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Perfect Date
She doesn't eat much.
She's good looking.
She doesn't eat much.
She's a good dancer.
She doesn't eat much.
—The Aquin.
•
Healthy: "Don't you think sea travel is broad
ening?"
Seasick: "I'll say! It's bringing out things
I never knew I had in me."
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"I'm knee deep in love with you."
"All right. I'll put you on my wading list."
—Akron Buchtelite.
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COLLEGE liAKBEU SllOl'—Work done
While you wait.
—The Guilforilian, 1!>17.
few who attended. We remember think
ing that there was fighting on Ihe field
lint there w;is not hacking. And we fer
vently hoped that it was a lie.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Oracle of Today
SPIRIT OF GUILFORD
They say—who, dreamless, sleep
In neighboring Held—-
"Let us build here.
Here let us build.
God wills we build
At Guilford."
First a House for Him
Whom now we know—in part—
A House for Him
Whose Hand englobes (lie world.
Whose aura, in eoncentric circles clear,
Belts crystal space,
And every rolling sphere.
Hut always, Man lias said,
"We would see God."
And so, with lofty brow
And fearless eye,
Across the trembling midnight sky,
He scanned the fleeing Pleiades.
Yet over Time and Thought and Space,
l'oured from his own delirious heart
Such flood of golden tone,
Such wistful art
Of color and of line!
lie fancied more than ever lie could prove
Yet sought to name it,
Saying in each different tongue,
"It came from Love."
To these and kindred thoughts
We welcome you.
From whatsoever soil you sprang,
(If whatsoever women born.
Here, by their flat.
Who, in dreamless sleep.
Rest there in yonder field,
I'nfettered Science meets
With pensive Art,
And bids the Seeker
Find the Whole,
Of which ail Thought and Tongues
Are but the lesser part.
—Kepj'inted from "Within a Quaker
College." by Itussell I'ope. edited
by Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert.
From the
March S, 1922—The Guilford college Glee club
was organized Wednesday evening l>y an en
thusiastic group of men, who unanimously
elected Miss Hynl as director, and outlined plans
for the organization and its work. As plans
stand at this time the club will he composed of
a chorus and orchestra, and a feature depart
ment. The club plans to schedule public per
formances in the communities of Guilford and
adjoining counties. The management is plan
ning sine high class productions that will he
ready for presentation in May.
October 20, 11(15—Some boys have recently
organized a club to be known as the "Guilford
I'ep Club." The purpose of this club is to de
velop a better organized cheering force, and in
so doing to get more pep into the games and
develop more college spirit.
AEuy IH, 1931—1 am afraid I shall never give
u|t my habit of late rising. For, after a'l, is
there any advantage in getting up early? A
chicken obeys (lie adage of "Early to bed anil
early to rise" all of his life, and finally his head
is cut off and he is made into a pie; while the
owl, said to he the wisest of birds, stays up
all night, sleeps a'l day, lives to a ripe old age,
:tnd is never eaten.
October 4, 1929—"The greatest blur in the
sunshine of our happiness is often the shadow
of ourselves." il often makes for greater hap
piness if we. with strict honesty, regard our
selves objectively, and study each desire, mo
tive and ambition set forth against the clear
light of reason. To speak in the popular ver
nacular. "don't kid yourself into Itelieving that
you are always right just because you are you:
and don't blame somebody else if a shadow
crosses your path—look closer, maybe it is your
own."
March 21, 1936—A learned senior on his
graduation day was asked what he had learned
in the survey courses during his four-year stay
lure, lie rendered this brilliant dissertation:
Geology
In geo'ogy we studied all about everything
except anything.
Psychology
Psychology is a crip course. All you have to
do is about two hours a day reading and one
hour a day iiiemori/.ing, and you are bound to
make at least au I'.
Xof ember 29, 1941
POPPYCOCK
By NANCY GRAVES
We Wonder: .
Who some of those strange people were at
the Monogram dunce. \v. ('. fiii-ls. no doubt.
Ah Me!
Who that, lovely woman with Mr. Parsons
really is.
If Herbie I'earson is really engaged to a girl
hack home.
Where all the stags were at the Monogram
dance.
What we will get on that psych 21 test, and
what we got on the history 21 test.
If it's wise to carry a torch for a girl that's
dynamite.
Why money is such an elusive tiling.
O
Hoy Smith wonders why Virginia Chapin
stood him up the night of November 24tli.
O
It certainly was good to see Hetty Locke
hack on campus. It nearly started a riot in
Founders when she got there. Someone on a
quiet Thanksgiving morn disrupted the dorm
by yelling, "Betty Locke's here!" Then Cesoa
leaped from the shower to bath robe scattering
soap and towels the length of the hall. Betty
sang "Sleep, Holy Babe" in choir practice in a
way to make a lump in your throat.
O
Betty Flinn's Lament:
The life of a college freshman
Is certainly not the worst.
I wish that I were a freshman,
Then I could leave chapel first.
O
111 vain I)r. Purdom was trying to get Mary
Sowter to answer her own question as to what
comes after trillion. "What is the word for
four?" Silence. "What is every fourth year?"
Came the dawn! With a light in her eye and
joy in her heart she shouted, "Leap Year!"
O
llow sad! How true! Teachers do have such
a hard time getting answers from their pupils.
In geology class Claire Potter and Tom Purdy,
who happened to he sitting together, were caught
slightly off guard when "Miss Potter, what per
cent of it is there in air?" Blank dismay! . . .
murmur . . . "About 7> r /r." "Almost, Miss Pot
ter, but what is it exactly?" "78%." "That's
right. And now, Miss Potter, what gas is that?"
"I don't know, sir." Goodness, Tom, couldn't
you he more explicit?
O
Hen Kunkle lias been mint, and by a schem
ing female! Yes, it's true! If you don't believe
it. ask him, or anyone else in Restoration drama
class. Maisie, explain this to us. please.
O
LETTER
Dear Replogle:
There is more danger than meets the eye at
W. C. If you want to go there yourself, all
right; but don't lead any other of our virtuous
young men astray.
Grimly yours,
Founders Ilall.
O
Art Melville says we wronged him in the
column last week, lie was not, lie states, recit
ing his piece at the top of his lungs. It's just
that he has a very deep bass voice that carries
well.
O
TELEPHONE SA;.\
Yen ring ii]> Cox—it's life or death;
You ask for Joe with hated breath.
The name is railed from tier to tier,
Then relayed hark—He isn't here.
i mortimer
i mortimer went to choir lust week and skated
en top of dr weis head in time to the music
i was standing oil hiirlmrn chirks shoulder slie
did not know it she moved when the picture
WHS taken mid i 11111 blurred speaking of (lie
chcir i wish dennirjian would either join the
house of lnvid or he wouldnt i no longer know
whether to look for :i heard or not a heard when
i am looking for demurjian hurricane is also
having hair trouble i found him walking to the
barber shop one day the next time i saw him
liis ears were lowered why do people cut their
hair in winter when the wind begins to blow
i said as the wind blew me into the depths of
dr vietorius cello talk alxsut jonah and the
whale i said to the cockroach who shared m.v
fate