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THE SALEMITB The Salemite Member Southern International Collegiate Press Association. Published Weekly by the Student Body of Salem College. Subscription Price $2.00 per year; 10c per copy EDITORIAL STAFF Hazel Stephenson, ’24 Editor-in-Chief Flora Binder, ’25 Managing Editor Miriam Brietz, ’26 News Editor Margaret Marshall, ’26 Art Editor Ruth Brown, ’26 Joke Editor Emily Move, ’24 Exchange Editor Sarah Herndon, ’24 Proof Editor Elizabeth Tyler, ’24 Associate Editor Marjorie Hunt, ’24 Associate Editor Mary McKelvie, ’25 Associate Editor Margaret Hanner, ’25 Associate Editor Lois Crowell, ’25 Associate Editor Ruth Efird, ’26 Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF Adelaide Armfield, ’24 Business Manager Ellen Wilkinson, ’25 Assistant Business Manager Constance Allen, ’25 Circulation Manager REPORTERS Daisy Lee Glasgow, ’25 Rosa Caldwell, ’26 Lacy Lampkin, ’26 Eloise Willis, ’26 EDITORIALS POSTURE {By Miriam Brietz) PRESIDENT’S FORUM COMPILES SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS CHRISTMAS SEALS TO BE SOLD Only one week and four days until the Christmas vacation begins, and what numerous things can be crowded into those few days. What would Christmas be without its rush and bustle, its red and green, its cards and ribbons and seals? As to seals, they are surely an adequate means of manifesting that pervading spirit of Christmas, and of sending others a sense of cheerfulness. Every letter must be sealed with them, and no package must depart without them. There are only two days during which these Red Cross seals are to be sold at Salem; only until Monday does the opportunity last. The president of each class has appointed a committee which will have charge of the sale and which will report the results in Chapel Tuesday morning. Of course each class vies with all others in being the first to report 100^, but beneath this friendly rivalry there is a deeper meaning. Each class wants to “go over the top” not only for the novelty but also for the very real benefits which even the smallest investment procures. During the Christmas season there is a deeper feeling of sympathy for those who are ill and helpless, and a greater desire to do everything possible for them. These seals, though small luxuries in which all indulge, serve a great cause and are worthy of strict attention. The average number assigned to each girl is very small and there is no reason why Salem should not go 100%. X t X HOCKEY AGAIN TAKES PLACE OF INTEREST It seemed almost impossible three years ago that a game so newly started could make such tremendous strides in assuming a foremost place in the list of sports, but hockey has passed beyond all expectations in the pure fun it presents. Of course it allows a large number of players to take part and of course the exercise is splendid, but who ever thinks of those advantages when the teams are on the field and the ball is in play? For many years basket ball has held first place at Salem, but hockey now runs it a close second. Even before the final basket ball games were played questions of “When will hockey begin?” were to be heard on all sides. Last week when the pictures were taken on the field, requests to be gin immediately were made; the old players were eager to resume the practices of last year, and the new ones were anxious to try their skill in the contest. Interest and enthusiasm are at their height; let us con tinue to keep them there. i I X This iheme, written by Miss Miriam Brietz during the S. U. S. Campaign conducted by the Physi cal Education Department, tvas selected as the best among those turned in by College students. Posture is distinctively an attri bute of mankind. Nobody ever thinks about the posture of a pig or a chicken or an elephant. Posture must affect, then, some quality which man possesses and which the lower animals do not. It does. That quality is the mind—the spirit. The habitual position of the body in fluences vitally one’s whole life and character. This can be best proved by example. I-ook at any vagrant on the street—beggar, tramp, or just plain “bum,” and it will be found practically impossible to see one with head thrown back and shoulders erect. The vagrants all droop. They are mundane persons who stare at the sidewalk beneath, instead of at the blue sky above or at the faces of men on a level. They look down—and they stay down. They never rise, in affairs either worldly or spiritual. If one be lieves in a hereafter, it would pro bably be safe to say that in future life they will continue to go down. On the other hand look at the great people of history: Napoleon, Bismarck, Cromwell, Washington. No one ever saw any of them affect a “tea-hound droop.” They were men who accomplished things— open-faced, straightforward, and upright. Think for a minute of the famous women; Cleopatra, Anne of Austria, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots. Egypt’s charmer never accomplished her ravages among masculine hearts by a “sub- deb slouch.” The three queens did not rule their brilliant courts with down-bent backs and drooping heads. They were straight, inside and out. It is difficult to be quite certain which is cause and which is effect, but nevertheless it is an un deniable fact that success and good posture usually go together. Aside from the psychological ef fects of a crooked body, the result ing ill health is also vastly im portant. Observing the skeletons of a man and of a gorilla, one may see that the chief difference in struc ture, other than in the shape of the skull, is in the curved backbone and the hollowed chest of the gorilla The tendency to “flop” goes back to pre-human days. When we give way to it, we suggest that we are less than human. Drooping shoulders compress the chest and weaken the lungs, and thereby they affect the whole body physically and sub stract an amazing amount from the mental capacity. The erect man is constructive, a useful member society, a respecter of himself and others; the crooked one is destruc tive, of doubtful value to the world a coward, and a cheat. The President’s Forum has com piled a schedule of the meetings of the various classes and organiza tions on the campus. This calendar is as follows: Student Self Government Asso ciation—Council meeting, Thurs day, 5 :00 P.M.; Regular business meeting, first Monday of month, :30 P. M. Y. W. C. A.—Cabinet meeting, Wednesday, 6:30 P.M.; Regular meeting, Friday, 6:30 P. M. Salemite Staff— Monday, 9:30 P. M. Annual Staff—Tuesday, 9:30 P. M. Freshman Class—First Tuesday of month, 6:30 P. M. Sophomore Class—First Tues day of month, 6:30 P. M. Junior Class—First Tuesday of month, 6:30 P. M. Senior Class—First and Third Tuesdaj's of month, 6:30 P. M. French Club—Fourth Thursday of month, 6:30 P. M. A ray of light gleams upon the darkness surrounding those dreaded mysteries, intelligence tests. More and more they assume importance; neither the three nor the seventy-three year old is exempt from their tell tale results. It is pleasant to learn of the mental ability of those around us, but when it comes to personalities, that is a different matter. With careful secrecy the I. Q. is guarded until by some fatal step it is revealed and we are classed with the morans, which clas^ after all seems rather popular. And then—we find that here is a rule which does not work both ways, and which, moreover, works only the right way. Princeton reports are reassuring in that they state that low grades do not necessarily re present poor or even mediocre brains, but that high marks unerringly indicate excellent mental ability. In other words, low grades may be due to many causes other than lack of ability. Although intelligence tests are generally unpopular with those to whom they are given, they are rapidly becoming a basis for grading. Criticism of innovations is always in evidence, and psychology with its many discoveries and experiments has not escaped unbelief. Intelligence tests are still considered more or less a joke, but joke or no joke they are becoming of great importance throughout the country. And yet, we maintain that it is a comfort to know that it is only mental ability and not lack of it which is measured. COLORED WORKER SPEAKS AT Y. W. C. A. VESPER SERVICE EXCHANGES Adele Ruffin, a national colored Y. W. C. A. worker, spoke at the vesper service of last Sunday after noon. Her address was a forceful appeal for a better understanding between the two races. She said that a recognition of this need of mutual understanding came even before the exodus of Negroes from the south. She mentioned the fact that both Georgia and Tennes see had been pioneers in this, and told of an interesting experiment carried on in Nashville, Tennessee, where white and negro students studied the problems of each other. She asked that, while publicity was given to all the failures and mistakes of the negroes, recognition also be given their improvements and achievements. Although many negroes have gone north, the major ity of them have stayed in the southern states. She said, in addi tion, that it was the earnest desire of these negroes to work out for themselves, as a different people with a distinct work, their own destiny. They wish only an under standing of their situation and acknowledgement of their progress HOCKEY SEASON FOLLOWS CLOSE UPON BASKET BALL AND VOLLEY BALL In an essay contest recently initiated by the building committee of the new Durham Hotel, W. T. Couch, a junior in the University, won a ten dollar prize for writing the second best essay on “Why Durham Needs a New Million Dol lar Hotel.” The first prize of $20 was won by a Durham citizen. * * » Davidson has grown from a col lege of sixty-six students to one of the largest “small colleges” with an enrollment of 577. Eighty-six years have been spent in human invest ment. The lines and characters of men are being moulded and fash ioned for our great mission—ser vice. * * * Ten members of the Senior Class of Trinity College were duly init iated into the Beta Chapter of North Carolina of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. The average of six successive terms, must total at least ninety before a student is ad mitted into the scholarship frater nity. The Phi Beta Kappa Frater nity was founded at William and Mary College on December 5, 1776, by fifty founders. At present there are ninety-nine chapters of the fraternity scattered over the United States. Some of the most distin guished persons America has ever produced were members of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. * * « The contract has been let and work is now well under way on the excavation for the Frank Thompson Gymnasium to be erected at State College, Raleigh. The total cost of the building, exclusive of equip ment, is $215,700, and it will be an qual of the finest gymnasium in the south. * * * The North Carolina section of the Society for the Promotion of En gineering Education was formed a few weeks ago and the first meeting meeting was held at State College, Raleigh. Mr. Frank Page, Chairman of the State Highway Commission, ad dressed the society on the functions of an engineering school in relation to the training of engineers. The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education has recently been given $108,000 by the Carnegie Corporation for the purpose of making a study and investigation of education in engineering. FRESHMEN ENTERTAINED THURSDAY BY COUNCIL SOCIALS Miss Golda Cline spent Thanks giving at her home in Asheville. * * * Misses Elsie Flarris and Mar garet Peery went to Davidson Col lege for the week-end. Misses Ruth Piatt and Maxine Wilkerson spent the week-end at their home in Durham. * * * Miss Mary Ragsdale spent the week-end at Jamestown. * * * Miss Ethel Cox spent the week end at Asheboro. * * * Miss Maud Welsh spent the week-end at Charlotte. The basket ball and volley ball season has come and gone with its laurels both lost and won. It is hard, in a way, to think of it as be ing over but with hockey coming to take its place, little more can be desired. Hockey, as a sport, is not much older at Salem than volley ball but if its age could be mea sured by enthusiasm no one would guess the fact. It is already a close irival of basket ball and promises even more in the future. It will be interesting to the players to learn that this year shin guards are to be provided and it is hoped that they will greatly facilitate the playing, At the first practice called on last Monday afternoon, December the third, almost every class had a full team, which fact foretells hard fought and enthusiastic games when the finals are played. To the teams who lost in the basket ball cham pionship, this ought to be a big challenge for the secret of all sue cess lies in perseverance and prac tice. So let the motto of every player be, “I will not put off until the next practice what I can do in this.” JVe all agree that your probation Has been of lengthy, hard duratioi* So Thursday afternoon In the Recreation room The Council hopes to celebrate iti cessation. The hour is five and the object’! fun So do your best and all of yoi come." This was the invitation the Fresh' men Class received Wednesday afternoon and great was the re" joicing when it was read. Thf Freshmen went in full force to th^ Recreation room where members of the Council were at the doors ti welcome them as they entered. Miss Irma Heaton furnished th^ music while many of the girl* danced; others played “Buzz” an^ “No Sir, Not I Sir.” Then the re' freshments! Each plate had th^ cheery appearance of the approad of Christmas; some had as a favor a Christmas bell, and others a jellj of Santa Claus. The party was a decided success. both on its immediate enjoymen' •" i and in the fact that it celebrate^ the end- of probation.
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