Page Two
Wife #utlforbtatt
Entered at Guilford College, N. C., as second class
matter under the act of Congress, August 24, 1912.
Published semi-monthly during the school year by
the students of Guilford College.
Editor-in-Chief Gene S. Key
Managing Editor Ward B. Threatt
Business Manager Garland Rakestraw
Circulation Managers David Holland, Emily Johnson
Business Staff— Burley Strader, Barbara McFarland, Barbara Tut
tle, Sarah Scott.
Feature Staff Joe Keiger, Earl Tyson
Sports Editors Alan Connor, Tommy Evaul, Sally Haire
News Staff— C. W. McCraw, Virginia Toole, Hollis Heissner. Ruby
Sharp, Florence Brice, Edward Post, James Benjamin, Morton
Salkin'd.
Typist Bobby Marshall
Photographer James Kaltreider
Faculty Adviser Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert
Subscription Price SI.OO per year
"Editorial expression shapes public opinion only if it adheres to the
right, if it serves the public interest, if it is fearless, vigorous, unprej
udiced and persistent; if it adheres to a reasonable policy well-grounded
in experience and unassailable in purpose. Such editorial expression is
effective if it conies from an independent, free, solvent newspaper, which
has won the confidence of its field and is beyond the reach of selfish
interests."—Arthur C. Johnson
A few thoughts
Well, though this is a little early, this is your Christmas issue.
We, the staff, feel, however, that it is not too early to impose on
you a few thoughts about the season to which we all look forward.
Some look forward to Christmas with difficult outlooks. It
depends on who you are, how old you are, where you are, what
kind of music you're getting on the radio, how far you are from
home, and how difficult it is to penetrate the oyster shell which
encloses your heart.
The kids look forward to the Christmas season as the time of
year when they can look forward to receiving gifts from Santa,
eating good food, and going places. Not all of them enjoy any of
these privileges, but have you ever seen a child who didn't look
forward to Christmas, even though he might have been very
disappointed the year before?
Some look forward to Christmas as a time when they can sell
their goods to a thrifty public which has suddenly relaxed its
purse strings. To some, it is the part of the year when they just
simply quit, and go home for a visit with the "folks." To others,
it is the holiday season for gay parties and "doing the town."
And then there are those who interpret Christmas as a solemn,
holy occasion: the birthdate of Christ and of Christianity. They
think of their neighbors, and their hearts swell with an undefln
able something when they hear the chimes of "Peace on Earth,
Good Will to Men." They save and cut the budget in order to
buy modest gifts for loved ones, and enjoy putting into practice
the saying which goes with Christmas—"lt is better to give than
to receive."
This group thinks about another group that will not have very
much joy at Christmas time . . . P?or reasons beyond their control,
many childish feet will stumble in the early morning' to find out
what- they were afraid was true before—that there is no Santa
Claus.
And then, at last, is a group which we cannot classify. With
his horn-rimmed glasses, scuffed buckskins he paid $8.50 for and
claimed to the boys he paid $12.00, his baggage containing the
maximum amount of dirty clothes for "mom" to wash, the book
on Plato to impress the bus station attendants, and a bill to be
presented to dad for a preposterous amount so he can give that
little girl a nicer Christmas present,—the college student goes
home. He will recuperate there from three months of rigid
study, in order that he will be able to take post-Christmas exams.
A desolate and odd figure, yes; but in him we see a mass of
potentiality that may be released someday for the good of all the
above-mentioned. He may even help convince the kids who have
reason to doubt that there is a Santa.
A successful season
We heard a sports writer say on Thanksgiving day, "Well, if
Guilford wins today, they've had a successful season. If they
lose, they 've had a bad one.'' We lost, but I challenge this sports
writer for this reason:
When the idea of athletics began, to win was not the number
one objective. Looking good on the field, and playing hard and
fair and clean were emphasized more than winning. Also, the
spirit of good sportsmanship ranked high in athletic purpose.
Though in our time we do not accept these theories, but strive
for wins first, we believe that Eddie Teague looks for the highest
in athletics. We say this by virtue of candid remarks not meant
for our ears. The boys who play for Coach like him. We over
heard two seniors say that they were glad they had played for
Eddie Teague, even for just a year, because they had learned a
lot from him bsides football.
As for us, we've enjoyed seeing the fine type of football we've
had this year, and we liked the way the boys observed the train
ing rules, and those of fair play. They, with the help of their
coach, have accomplished something we believe will be alive for
years after the game scores are forgotten—and again next year,
no team will trot out on the field without respecting and playing
their hardest against the team Eddie Teague sends out there!
Of course we've had a successful football season!
THE GUILFORDIAN
MISCELANEA
By Cochrane
Hark the carol angels shout,
Seven days and we'll be out.
—Brahms
Our degenerate scouts having all
been hopped to the eairs on stimu
lants such as opium, benzedrine and
Soda Shop coffee for the past week,
we find gossip nil. So we have de
cided to devotte this column to cul
ture. Thus is presented a resume
of all the important items and hap
penings which at present feature
the "higher type" life on campus.
DRAMA
A Short and Truthful Tragedy
Entitled "How Low Down
Can You Get?"
Scene: College room where "Samp
son" Shugart is busily grooming
himself for ithe big date. In rushes
"Slick" Sattea'thwaite.
Sam: Swish-swish (hair brush
noises).
Slick: My date's waiting at Foun
ders.
Sam (happily): Mine too!
Slick: Gee, she is beautiful.
Sam (breathlessly) : Mine too!
Slick: You got any money?
Sam: Dol-glug and urg quart-glug
glug (tooth brush noises).
Slick: Only a buck and a quar
ter—l'll take it. (And he does.)
Slick: See you! She's gonna take
me walking.
Sam (sighingly) : Mine too!
(Scene changes to show the happy
Sampson rushing towards Founders,
ns buddy Slick emerges with young
female.)
Slick: This is my date.
Sam (heartbrokenly) : Mine too!
(Lights fade, leaving a lonely
Sampson busily 'tearing down Foun
ders' columns, with no date—no
friend—and not evem a nickel for
coffee.)
MUSIC SIDELIGHTS
The lyrics quoted, at the beginning
of this column were penned by Sam
Brahms, who pounds piano in the
Chili-Oafe in Yonkers. He is not
to be confused with the earlier mu
sician who did the stuff the choir
puts out on occasion.
POETRY
A short rhyme inspired by the
Natural Science courijp . . . entitled
"Anode" (woo ha—you get it?)
Oh may our teaehers all be blessed,
The holiday spirit has kissed us.
The time when we like Guilford best
Is when we're off for Christmas!
MYSTERY STORY DEPT.
The "Who Ik Henry?" saga . . .
lots of people think they know . . .
iiiul Rudy Craven would like to know
. . . but Hetty knows for sure (and
we don't ll re anyway).
Second one is more baffling—ihow
could a little old Santa Claus suit
mess tip a romance like Day and
Jessup? This comes under the
"Weighty Problems" classification.
REMINDER
This may come under the heading
of a direct plug . . . but it's well
intended. There is still time to make
it ito the Christmas dance . . . and
anyone who misses this . . . the
scent of evergreens and perfumes,
woven into a pattern of soft lights,
soft music and the soft yap-yap of
the fair sex . . . misses an essential
part, of the things which go to
gether to make Christmas at Guil
ford.
WHY?
Why do I love you, you'd like to
know?
First of all because God would
have It so.
Why does the sun rise and slowly
climb
Except 'to show the way to the
stumbling blind?
Why does the dew fall so early in
the morn
Except to quench the thirst the
weary night, has l>orne?
Why do the flowers bloom so early
in the spring?
Except to show the world that
God reigns supreme?
Why do the winds sing so proudly
from the trees
Except to give a song to those
who are in need?
Why does the moon rise with its
golden amber glow
Except to prompt a kiss and help
to make it grow?
Why do I love you, you'd like to
know ?
Most of all because I would have
it so.
—Tyson
ANGLES .by JOE KEIGER
Our minds hunt the familiar roads
into the Christmas season—this is
the time for treasured tradition.
Time is a smelter for our spirits;
it purges the dross and fuses the
pure sensations into something like
gold—something which resists ob
literation and exists as a thing of
beauty. What remains of the Christ
mases past is not a fond recollection
of the growling, grasping, greedy
commercial melee, but happily, some
thing thUit glows and glitters.
Thus of the remembered sensa
tions we perceive in this holiday
glow, we recall music. And of the
Christmas music, the "Messiah" is
as old gold. Its musical richness
has become a part of what Gtiil
-37-Year-Old Psych
Test Is Located
Students in Mrs. Milneir's Psy
chology 21 would probable be in
terested in knowing what Psychol
ogy was like 37 years ago, and what
the teachers at Guilford then con
sidered a "good" test. A quiz given
by Dr. Louis Lyndon Hobbs on
October 16, 1913. is in possession
of Miss Era Lasley, college registrar.
Mixs Lasley took the quiz.
The paper reads as follows (take
note, Psychology 21 students) :
QUIZ IN PSYCHOLOGY
October 16, 1913
The Stream of Consciousness
1. Explain the two methods, the
analytic and the synthetic, and state
which is followed by James and
why.
2. What is fundamental fact of
our inner experience?
3. State the four characteristics
in consciousness and explain and
illustrate each.
4. Explain the substantive and
the transitive states.
5. Why is it difficult introspec
tively to see the transitive parts!
• What is meant by relations?
6. Explain what is meant by psy
chic overtone or fringe.
ILLUSTRATE. WORDS. MEMORY
7. Explain the difference between
mere acquaintance and knowledge
■ about.
(Ed. Note: What do you think
. about it?)
Born in Corn
Hilty Happy; "Peeves"
By EDWARD POST
Every college has its absent-mind
ed professor and its family-minded
instructor. Our amiable Spanish
instructor, Mr. Hiram 11. Hilty, fills
the family category adequately.
The Hilt.vs have two girls, and
are expecting another addition to
the family in the nrtir future. When
asked how many children they would
prefer, the answer wis three or
four. He has hopes of trying Eddie
Cantor's record of four girls; "but,"
he said, "the trouble is you can't
pick the sex. If salaries rise and
inflation decreases, hopes may be
turned for having even more," he
(added, in a jesting mood. Mr. Hilty
is one of eight children.
Mr. Hilty was born in the corn
country of lowa. His farther was
a Mennonlte minister. Because of
the Common tendency of churches
to transfer their pastors often, they
moved to Missouri, where he spent
his boyhood life. Guilford's young
and quiet professor was educated
at Buft'ton College, and received his
B.D. from Hartford Theological Sem
inary.
While "our Spfcinish professor has
•traveled neither to the Orient nor
to Europe, he knows the eastern
I'nited States thoroughly. He has
had Quaker congregations up North
and in Cuba. He tells of one hu
morous experience that happened to
him while he was a preacher and
volunteer fireman in tin upper New
York State church. "On Easter morn
ing there was a large fire. A group
of volunteers and I were trying to
extinguish the fire the best we could.
All of a sudden the fire chief came
dashing through the smoke and tap
December 9,1949
fordiams mean by "sacred memories
through the archways . .
This ora'torlo's Biblical text ex
presses the things hoped for in the
Messiah that was .to come. His
coming fulfilled these hopes, and
while Christmas celebrates His birth
it more significantly rejoices in the
accomplished expectations. Living
with the Handel masterpiece for a
couple of hours at least once, then,
should be a part of any person's
Christmas experience. No one, even
a self-proclaimed Philistine, capable
of enjoying the glow of Christmas,
is incapable of listening intelligent
ly to a performance of the "Mes
siah."
One who has never experienced
this musical expression of the real
metaning of our greatest Christian
festival may be faced with the ques
tion of why the Handel work is so
esteemed. Perhaps it is mot an brig
inal answer to say that it depends
upon ihe Old Testament text's in
spiration of hope and upon the
power of the musical setting, espe
cially in the choruses. While there
are gentle land tender passages ap
propriately descriptive of the Christ,
it is the many-voiced rejoicing of
the choruses that is symbolic of a
common people's crying search for
peace, security and love and their
rejoiced finding of refuge.
Definition of what each individual
must find for himself is attempted
only by the naive; but he who has
perceived a scintillating within him
self on hearing it, best knows what
great music is. And if on hearing
that music once more, new meaning
and beauty is revealed, it can truly
be called great
Judged by these standards, the
"Messiah" deserves its place in tra
dition.
Program Tonight
(Continued from Page One)
deliver a talk on "The Family of
Dolly Madison at New Garden";
and Miss Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert,
associate professor of English, will
give a historical address entitled
"The Planting of Quakerism in Pied
mont Carolina."
The program was commended
highly by a large group at the
ninth annual meeting of the N. C.
Society for Preserving Antiquity at
Raleigh last Thursday. ,
Miss Gilbert prepared the play
for the Chanter Day celebration in
1 !>42. She is also author of "Guil
ford : A Quaker College," a history
of the institution from its birth
through 1937.
ped me on the shoulder, and said
seriously, 'You are excused; it is
time for your service.' "
The lliltys lived in Cuba from
1945 until the summer of 1 948. Tht
fall he came to Guilford. While in
Cuba he had a church and had su
pervision over other Quaker churches
on the island. Describing he aver
age Cuban, he said, "He seems to
be like the average American, ex
cept he hlas Wot had the breaks."
For the benefit of those of you
who are business-minded, Mr. Hilty
believes there are great possibilities
for developing resorts along the
coastal areas of Cuba.
Photography is Mr. Ililty's main
hobby, although he has mamy di
versified interests. He is greatly
interested in the history of explora
tions Und enjoys reading about the
work of Columbus in both English
and Spanish. About Columbus be
vows, "His discoveries constitute one
of the most momentous of historic
events. America had better been
called 'Columbia.'"
Mr. Hilty does not have amy spe
chil pet peeve. "What some profes
sors consider a peeve, J just over
look. lam just too ha.ppy," he said.
However (editor note) he thorough
ly dislikes to read mistakes in the
newsplaper. His favorite paper, be
sides The Gullfordian, is the New
York Times.
After having been a resident of
various sections of the country, Mr.
Hilty feels that Guilford College is
his home. He said, "Guilford Col
lege has a tradition to be ptimid of.
It has great possibilities. I think
we can do much experimentation in
the various fields, especially in so
cial studies, to better mlankind."