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TWO SALBMITE The Salemite Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association. Published Weekly by the Student Body of Salem Collej?e. Copy EDITORIAL STAFF Miriam Brietz, ’26 Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Siewers, ’27 Man’g. Edit( Ruth Efird, ’26 Report( Minnie Price, ’27 Report( Frances Jarratt, ’27 Music Editc Luciie Hart, ’27 Reporti BUSINESS STAFF May Hairston, ’26, Business Manager Elizabeth Hastings, ’27,Asst. Bus. Mgr. Isabel Miller, ’28, Circulation Manager SALEMU ; reminded now then that the Juniors are really in existence, though they few in number. Their request for co-operation, and for the giving spirit is worth our notice, for, if we are seniors, we have been in their place, and if ,we are Sophomoi'es or Fresh men we soon will be asking for help. This energetic class is struggling, as its predecessors have done, to defray expenses for important class business, and it is up to us to help them. They do not ask for financial gifts— they give something in return, but the spirit of co-operation be hind the giving means much to this working class. Seniors! remember you once were Juniors! Sophomores and Freshmen! Don’t forget that you soon will be! Co-operate! College life is prone to become monotonous during the middle of the semester, and especial ener gy should be devoted to keeping the spirits high, doing each task well, and then enjoying a certain amount of freedom from duties. Our work often prevents us from enjoying a time of rest and recreation, but a schedule well planned and arranged will in clude a period for exercise, and for forgetting of duties. While working, concentrate on the work before you, learn it well, and then enjoy the satisfaction which follows a task well done. The trouble with most of us is that we have so many things to be done, that we “skim over” all of them, and do none of them well,—then the unfinished work haunts us while we are engaging in recreation, and fairly teai's at our minds, for we know that it has to be done. The moral of this discussion, is that “a little fun no^v and then, is cherished by the best of men,” but make the now then fit in after lessons have been learned, duties done, and when the mind as well as body can rest. The haunting spirit of an unfinished task will The girl who puts most into College life is the girl who gets most out of it. The student ■ho stands aloof with lofty scorn and refuses to enter into college activities, refuses the op portunity to be an active mem ber of an organization, refuses to be a worthwhile member of the student body is not getting great deal of benefit out of her college hfe. Association with other girls in sports or in some sort of student enterprise is a vital part of the experience and training given by a college, and the girl who neglects this phase of her training is losing a valu able experience. mar a whole evening’s enjoy- It was the ancient Chinese philosopher Lai tse who r marked that “the jorney of thousand miles begins with o] pace”. This is as true today ; it was thousands of years ago, but Lao-tse might have added that if the traveler took no more than the first pace he would never reach the end of journey. The first step necessary, but so are the o which follow; it is well to make a god beginning, but unless the beginning is followed up by steady, persistent and unremit ting work, little will be complished. Many people start out brilliantly, who never attain the goal; success belongs to the one who can keep on working when work has grown irksome, and who can finish better than he 'began. The Salemite receives college newspapers from other Colleges and Universities all over the South, and those exchanges are ‘d on a table in the library. We recommend that every stu dent take advantage of this op portunity of learning the ac tivities and opinions of other schools. A narrow point of view evidenced by the person whose ideas are so cramped that they e confined to only one school, ,e set of people, one opinion. It well at all times to know what happening in the rest of the world, and particularly well for students of one college to get deas of students in another college. The newspaper is representative and in almost Y case gives individuals a chance for expression in some sort of Open Forum. Every student will profit by reading the exchanges, and will get a great deal of information and en joyment from these papers. ACADEMY NEWS The Hit Pin base ball game as played Tuesday afternoon between the eight and ninth grades. Much spirit was shown among the players; this made it most thrilling and interesting. The game was announced in the •ning and in the afternoon there was quite a crowd of on lookers. The lineup of the winning team was as follows: Pitcher Virginia Harriss Catcher . Josephine Hawley 1st Base Mary Taft 2nd Base De Lois Osborne 3rd Base --Carrobelle Do Planty Short Stop Hortense Cai'son Right Field Sara Reynolds Center Field Mary Duggins Although the eighth grade came out victorious, the ninth grade put up a splendid fight. Sunday evening, October 18, ; six o’clock in Memorial Hall, Dean H. A. Shirley will give an organ recital. This vesper ser vice will take the place of the regular Y. W. C. A. meeting Friday night. For several years at the same hour. Dean Shirley, a gifted musician, has enchanted the audience with his wonderful playing. Many people hope the service will become a fixed cus tom. Surely it would be out standing among others, for his music at twilight is a true spiration. Dean Shirley has been Dean of the music department at Salem College since 1896. Many people send their daughters here be cause of his presence. Ilis musical ability is recognized far and w’ide. Dean Shirley was born at Fitzvillian, New Hampshire, September 15, 1865. He graduat- from the New England Con- ■vatory, Boston, Mass., in 1887, studied organ under S. B. Whitney, Boston, and piano under the late Edward Mac- Dowell, after which he was ■ganist and teacher of piano at Winchester, Mass., for eleven years. He has held a prominent place in musical circles as a colleoyees of the American Guild of Organists, a member of North Carolina Music Teachers’ Association, and director of many choruses and orchestras here and elsewhere. Those girls who cannot attend the recital at the Vesper Service will indeed miss a rare treat. ACADEMY PERSONALS Mary Virginia Dunn and Vir ginia Perkins spent the week end in Raleigh. Dion Armfield spent the week end in Thomasville. Nannie Russell went to Dur ham for the week-end. Margaret Hughes went to Raleigh the past week-end. Louise Watson attended a house party thi slast week-end at Davidson. Anne Cook went to Salisbury for the past week-end. Mary Cavanaugh visited in Greensboro the last week-end. Ruth Hopkins spent the week- id in Greensboro. Stella Whiteheart visited her sister in the city the past week- Elizabeth Marx was elected president of the Y. W. C. A. at a recent meeting of the Academy students. The regular Sunday meeting of the Y. W. C. A. was opened by a number of hymns. Miss Lucille Chandley was at the piano and Elvira Hudson and Daisy Litz accompanied her with violins. A scripture lesson was ■ead from the Bible by Elizabeth Marx; Mrs. M. L. Schneider, told three delightful stories, which enjoyed by everyone. After this, sentence prayers led by Mrs. Herndon and closed by Miss Zachary. The meeting wiis closed by the Y. W. C. A. watch word. Margaret Hauser, Christine Hays, Beth Sloop, and Mary Ander-son spent the week-end in Dallas with Mary Neal W’ilkins. THE VIOLIN I believe there are some nighted mortals who are so ; saic, so practical, so utterly emotional, that they do not care for music. They are few, but do exist. I cannot understand them, try as I may, for such a characteristic is beyond the limits of my comprehension. It seems to me as though love music should be a natural stinct, a part of every human being, without which life empty and incomplete. From my earliest childhood I have been passionately fond of music; I love it in any form, bu i of all instruments of music, the violin has for me the greatest ippeal. There is something ex quisite, something of almost heavenly beauty in the strainr, which flow from the fingers of skilful violinist. I can much oi'e easily imagine the angels Heaven, playing on violins than I can see them forever play- [>■ on golden hai'ps. The harj: a noble instrument; its music inspiring; yet it cannot carry e through clouds of airy fan tasy, through mazes of mystic enchantment, to the heights oi delirious joy, to the depths of poignant sorrow. The music of violin sometimes transportr its listener to a land of dreams and of unreality, and again it seems the expression of all the deepest, most real emotions tha; stir the soul of man. It is haunt ing, unforgettable, and, at th; same time, elusive and in tangible. One moment it lives the imagination, the next if gone like an airy sprite of fancy. I would give up a dozen trifl ing amusements for the pleasure of spending one evening in the company of a great violinist, Kreisler, Elman or Heifetz. To sit for an hour, or two, or three great concert-hall, among hundreds of fellow music-lovers, ■epresenting all types and clas ses of society, to recognize the bonds of common love and com- understanding which unite all, though unknown to each- other, that is true happiness. A woman of wealth rustles up the aisle in her silks and jewels ushered into her private box. She appears cold and in different; yet there is a faint look of anticipation on her placid, cultured face. A group of laughing, chatter ing college girls occupies one of the front rows. Well towards the back sit a scholarly-looking professor and his wife, devouring their programs, but keeping a careful watch on the stage entrance. A frail Httle music-teacher ha-; an end seat on the first balcony. She is plainly anxious for the concert to begin. Back on the last row of the top balcony, arc two poor working girls, wearing mended gloves and last season’s hats, but with such shining, eager faces that one knows they are having a real treat evei! though it may have cost them some sacrifice to procure it. All these people, who in every-day life are as far apart as the poles, are together for this one night, breathing the same air, ex periencing the same feelings in a greater or lesser degree. There is a slight stir on the stage, a sudden hush, and the musician steps out before his waiting audience. He gives the conventional smiles in ac knowledgement of the applause which greets him and then thero is another hush, a silence ab solute. He raises his violin to his shoulder; his bow is poised and his sensitive fingei’s rest for a moment on the strings of his instrument. Then a flood of ex quisite music bursts upon the audience, thrills it to its finger tips carries its soul away on a tide of over-powering melody. The ci'owtl is motionless, speech less, fascinated by the magic of that frail block of wood and those flying fingers. The musician is oblivious of those w'hom he has charmed into silence; he is held by a spell of his own weaving. Perhaps the reaction of each listener is different, yet all are unaccountably stirred. There are tears in the eyes of the music- ceacher; the proiessor appears to be in the highest state of bliss; the two girls are clasping hands and the lady in lier box is clasping her gloved hands in silent, but no less sincere ap- pi'eciation. Vv hat a genius the maker of the first violin must have been! What awe he must have ex perienced as he diew the bow over the strings oi the newly- created instrument a'nd realized that he had made something which would live forever and give happiness to millions of iple, down thi'ough the ages! •ely- he was a man with a di- e spark and an immortal soul. —Margaret Schwartze. EXCHANGES The University of North Carolina has a record enroll ment of six thousand five hun dred students, two thousand tnree hundred of whom are resi dent students. Incipent orators in twenty-one colleges and universities will commence exercising their lungs in dormitories, empty classrooms and vacant .lots in anticipation of the foui’th Oxford debate team to visit American The three young Englishmen being brought over this fall by the Institute of International Education are all experienced public speakers, all were at some time president of the Oxford Union, the Oxford debating so ciety which is a training ground for British statesmen. r. H. V. Lloyd Jones of James College (Liberal) was the most recent president, for the second term during the past year. His predecessor in that office, Mr. R. II. Bernays of V\ orcester Union, is also a Liberal, having campaigned for his party at election time. Mr. II. J. S. V\'edderburn of Balliol (Conservative) is not only an orator but has a wide range of interests that include, journal- dramatics, cricket and foot ball. No colleges further west than Pennyslvania are included in the Oxford itinerary. The subjects debate are: Prohibition, ;ia, International Court of Justice, Socialism, “Ignorance is Bliss”. —The New Student. name of the stopped at, ‘What was last station Mother ?” ‘I don’t know. Be quiet; I’m w’orking out a cross-word prz- t’s a pity you don’t know the name, mother, beacuse little Oscar got off the train there!” LOST: Waterman fountain in on brown ribbon. Dr. Willoughby.
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