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matter under the act of Congress, August 24, 1012,
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Salkind.
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So what?
Well, exams are over, and no matter how far we are behind,
we're all caught up in our work (as of January 24). We have
registered for another semester of work; some of us for the last
time. Yes, seniors. Great, big seniors who soon won't be seniors
at all, but alumni. We can see it already; marching up the walk
to receive the diploma, the sheepskin. Then what? We would
think one has many different ideas about like when he is ready
to go out into our competitive, and often harsh, society, than 1
when he first registered. Yes. Then many of us thought, "Just
give me that diploma, and I've got the world on the run." Now
we already feel different, don't we? We're not sure which will
be on the run. . . .Yes, some of us are seniors; and most of us ,
soon will be—time flies! Some of us will be walking out of the
door into the world, with nothing to protect us but a nice-looking
piece of paper which means nothing by itself.
Yes, seniors. So what?
Needed support
iLooks like our basketball team is in for a rough season. We've
got no complaints, other than that the students don't seem to
give the boys their usual support. Of course, the answer is that
we are not winning. Still that shouldn't affect the student support.
Anyway, what is the reason for our slow start and doubtful
future? Well, the answer lies in the fact that we're in a fast
league, where the competition is rugged. Most of our opponents
have teams that were scouted and the players given complete
scholarships. This ist not so at Guilford; it has not been the case
for years, and probably will not be so in the future.
We have some players on our basketball team who have schol
arships, and a few on our other teams. However, Guilford does
not follow a feverish policy of "athleticism," as Robert M. Ilutch
ens labels it. This is the answer to our mediocre records. And
here a question of values arises. Twenty years from now we
might rather think of qualities other than that "we really won
the games!" As we've said before, good qualities of sportsman
ship and observance of rules of life on the playing court or field
will outlive game scores.
Our boys need support, as does Coach Lentz, who is working
with a scarcity in material. Let's give it to them! ,
And . . .
While we're speaking of sports and relative values, let's look at
the following and profit.— Editor.
Probably the greatest problem confronting the school men at
the present time in connection with interscholastic athletics is
sportsmanship. The responsibility for good sportsmanship rests
jointly upon the principals, coaches, players and other students,
and the community at large. However, it is undoubtedly true
that in most instances the coaches determine the plane upon
which interscholastic contests shall be conducted. Most students,
whether players or spectators, will take their cue from the coach.
If he abuses officials and conducts himself in such a manner before
•or during the game as to give the impression that he thinks that
the team is being cheated, the crowd will follow suit. Players!
will too often try to get by the officials with dirty tricks on tJie
playing field if they think the coach will stand for it.
No school i required to allow a certain official to work its games,
bnt once he is accepted for the game and goes to work he is enti
tled to courteous treatment and the support ot' the principals and
coaches. His errors of judgment, or apparent errors of judgment,
are not subject to protest, but his errors in applying the rules
should be called to his attention in a courteous manner.
No two schools are required to play each other, but when a con
tract to play is entered into, each team and its followers should
remember that the other team and its supporters are in all proba
bility just as high calibre American citizens as they themselves
and should be treated as honored guests and honorable rivals, to
be beaten if possible by fair means, but not by foul means.— From,
the Florida High School Bulletin.
THE GUILFORDIAN
MISCELANEA
By Cochrane
He who, in an enlightened and
literary society, aspires to be a
great poet, must first become a
little child. (Who. me?)
—Macaulay
Being a senior, we were all set to
settle back anil render some weighty
comments on life and love at Guil
ford, when a horrible thought struck
us. We just passed a course in Ad
vanced Grammar . . . and the mo
ment one of our Italian-immigrant
style sentence structures hit the
presses, Mrs. Weis would probably
tiee the campus in disgrace. To
save the poor teacher's reputation
we revert to poetic license . . . thus
taking this column from bad to
verse.
On Exam Week
The girls' hair is curled again;
The boys now are shaving;
And baggy eyes aren't baggy now,
From days and nights of slaving.
One semester shot and gone,
Its crammed-up knowledge fades;
Gayety once more prevails—
Until we get our grades!
On Campus Agriculture
It smells like the farm to some
people,
The race track to a few;
Others have just one comment:
A soft and nasal "Pugh"!
On Smart People
"This pre-fab I fix for my mother,"
The cagey Tuttle said;
If that's his mother —we're his
brother,
And is our faked-face red!
Here's to sly George Tate,
The envy of all our men;
He grabbed the only girl around
Allowed out after ten.
CONCLUSIONS
On That Article About Radios
and Study Habits
Your text should be no stranger
But in it lies great danger:
We once read one
Just for fun,
And missed a good "Lone Ranger."
•
ETIQUETTE NOTES
We have noticed a couple of seri
ous violations of Guilford's social
inores> here and there, and would
like to correct them. For clarity,
we are forced to revert to prose.
Steady, Mrs. Weis.
X The Guilford student is never
poorly prepared for a test. When
one has just shot a course under
par, he should be careful to make
the announcement in socially accept
able terms, such as: "That low
down, back-stabbing So and So faked
me again!"
2. The floors in Cox Hall leak
rather badly . . . when Uirowing
water one should be careful that
It hits the victim, so that some water
is soaked up and the floors don't get
too wet.
3. Those in the back rows of a
cla.ss should not sleep braced on an
ell>ow. This necessitates the whole
row shifting when one member
wants to change arms. This mass
movement has l>een known to make
new Instructors dizzy, and bad falls
off the platform have resulted.
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ROMANCE AND WOMEN
Mae didn't want to go steady,
So she dropped her l>oy, Jim,
Then immediately grabbed up Shu
gart
And now goes steady with him!
(Woman, thy name Is . . . some
thing-or-other.)
Economics
Kaufman's selling graveyard plats,
A job we cnn't call gay;
The only man who's not afraid
His sales might die some day.
•
Sports
Our pal went to college for free
Though his mental age lingered at
three.
Six seasons in all
He tossed in the ball
And lie now has a bachelor's degree.
(But not at Guilford.)
We wouldn't want to scare you,
But listen, W. C. C.
Oon't ask for whom the bell tolls,
Tomorrow it tolls for thee!
Bookkeeping An underhanded
way of proving that it is impossible
to live on the government subsidy.
ANGLES .by JOE KEIGER
Many publications have started
their new year with special reviews
of the past half century, including
nominations for a list of the out
standing contributors and contribu
tions for the 20th century. I will
not be so presumptuous as to try
to add to or take from their selec
tions. However, iu viewing some of
these lists, the questions arose in
my mind of how many of us really
comprehend what each of those per
sons' achievement has been, what
in the way of blind alleys and blank
walls each creative process involved,
Guilford College
Version of Twain's
Character Is Smith
By EDWARD POST
Walter Ren Smith, Guilford's Tom
Sewyer, changes pastimes practical
ly every twenty-four hours. One
day he may practice as an animal
tender, the next an aspiring enter
priser who sports a chewing gum
machine to the most profitable and
populous spots on the campus.
"I have done almost everything,"
vowed the dark-haired youth. His
long list included such occupations
as grease monkey, soda jerk, news
paper boy and clothing salesman.
As far as selling things go. the un
predictable sophomore said, lie would
rather be on the buying end of a
transaction, even though it does
mean spending money.
Ren. who hails from Ix>ng Island,
New York, purchased the chewing
gum machine for five dollars. "The
machine," he said, "seems to turn
up everywhere under the sun. Places
like Bill Kerr's sack, Woman's Col
lege, Mary Hobbs, Battleground Inn,
and even in the dining hall one
morning." The gum dispenser was
a very profitable enterprise for him;
that is, he only lost five dollars.
Our amenable character is also
hot rod happy. He tends a stripped
down stock car which he keeps al>ove
the Mason-Dixon Line. "However,
I hope to bring the contraption south
some day," warned the Hell Driver.
When Smith arrived >on the cam
pus, the first thing he purchased
was a beat-up model A Ford. As
usual, this means of transportation
received rough treatment. One morn
ing he found it on the steps of Foun
ders' Hall with the tires flat as a
desert road. From that moment on,
he chained it to the nearest tree.
After a few weeks of awaking
and finding the nuto in some ridicu
lous place, he abandoned it for a
motorcycle. This he kept in his
room, painting and tinkering with
it daily.
While he was in preparatory
school, Guilford's Tom Sawyer kept
a fifteen-pound monkey. He fed the
Simian all types of food, and gave
the thing freedom of his room—
much to the amazement of his room
mate.
Smith said the trouble with keep
ing apes Is that they ransack every
thing. "One day," he mused, "the
animal got into some pancake flour
and made the room resemble a bak
ery after a tornado. The animal
continually smashed picture frames,
especially the one containing my
photo; but on the whole, he gave
me many amusing moments."
At the moment Iten Is taking a
pre-med course, but he stated, "my
major seems to change with the
weather." Prior to his entering (Guil
ford, the young capitalist matricu
lated at Nichols Junior College in
Massachusetts, where he spent bis
freshman year.
When asked what he really likes
to do, he meditated for a moment,
a childish smile trickled across his
face, and he whispered, "Raising the
devil." (For those of you who are
inquisitive, he neither participated
in the Founders' Day presentation
nor the removing of Alexander Gra
ham Bell's invention from Archdale
Hall.)
Arehdale's hobby wizard is pres
ently intrigued with television. He
has the distinction of being the only
one on the campus who owns a set.
Ren has hopes of attending class
without getting out of bed with the
aid of this invention. His only worry
is how be will lie able to partici
pate in Dr. Ott's voting.
The capricious youth will vow that
since Ills childhood days he has been
the "class joker" and a gullible per
son. As of yet, be has not pur
chased the Brooklyn Bridge or King
Hall, but the reason may be because
no one has approached him.
January 27,1950
and, most important, what implica
tions each work has for the present.
Acknowledging tile reservoir of
erudition from ancient times (any
time before 1850 A.D. in view of
the progress of our 100 years), we
must remember that what is run
ning over the dam now is what gives
the power for these days. Maybe
the approach to academic studies
should be more a consideration of
the past in terms of the present,
rather than the present in terms
of the past. Presumably, in the pop
ular mind, when we have had four
years of attic trunk studies, we can
step downstairs and understand
what goes on around us. But it
seems that the chapters that get
left out in the last minute "scholar
ship or pre-exam jitters are the very
ones that should integrate the pre
vious studies in present day terms.
If a student misses a spotlighted
present in class, how is he to make
sense of the mass of half-told, con
flicting tales encountered in the pop
ular press, blurbs of books, and
pseudo-solutions from the forums?
This is not to imply that all fields
presented in college fail to cover
current living issues—definitely sev
eral fields have only recently sprung
up, definitely special studies and
seminars keep abreast of the pres
ent, definitely in advanced work one
can catch up with the times—but
it is in those basic, commonly shared
required subjects that the present is
short-changed. I admit the diffi
culty of teaching survey courses Is
great; the time is short and the
subject long. But if I could formu
laet policies of a school I should
finish the list of survey studies with
one requiring the highest qualifica
tions of its teacher or teachers, one
using no texts but the current peri
odicals or best of the latest books.
I think that such a "Senior Survey
of Our Times" would replace, at
least in the affection of the parting
class and in usefulness that other
required senior survey course. I
think it might be worth a try.
Mrs. McEntire Is
Convinced of Value
In Business Course
With the high standing of Guil
ford College in the ranks of the
old, private liberal arts institutions,
and its reputation in the field of
the social studies, its Business Edu
cation department has at times in
the past been overlooked.
One of the persons who has had
much to do with overcoming this
neglect is Mrs. Kathr.vn MeEntyre
of Greensboro, assistant professor
of secretarial science, who lias head
ed this department since 1045.
Mrs. McEntyre is a firm believer
in a minimum amount of business
education such as typing and short
hand for all students; maintaining
that practically all of them will
find use for it in graduate work
and in the business world, "and it
won't hurt any of them." The busi
ness training given in Mrs. McEn
tire's department includes advanced
typing and shorthand, secretarial
accounting, and operation of com
monly used business machines.
Though she firmly believes in prac
tical business courses, Mrs. McEn
tyre believes In accompanying busi
ness and secretarial training with
courses in the social studies. She
suggests business education as a
related subject to students regis
tered In other major fields of study.
This, she feels, will afford the stu
dent a wider range of possibilities
upon graduation. Mrs. McEntire
feels that her deportment is unique
in that it offers regular college cred
its for work completed in this field;
making it possible for a person to
take business training and compile
credits toward a college degree at
the same time.
Whether or not Mrs. McEntire is
right in her l>elief in business educa
tion for all students, the number
enrolled in her classes will bear out
the fact that she has convinced
many of them. In fact, after grad
uation exercises last spring, one per
son who had just received his degree
remained and registered in Mrs.
McEntire's tyiring class for the sum
mer session.