Foreign Students Visit
Salem College
Students at Teachers’ College
Studying Educational
Systems
Students from a score of
nations attending Teachers’ Col
lege of Columbia university, and
now on - a tour of the United
States, yesterday inspected
Salem college and the school sys
tem of Winston-Salem and
astonished at the character of
the equipment of the institu
tions. Speaking for the delega
tion, Dr. Milton Del Manzo de
clared that it compared favor
ably with that to be found
the north.
Coming specifically to North
Carolina, Dr. Del Manzo said
“Your state has made wonderful
strides in education, but then
still a big problem facing the
state. Much is yet to be done.
Schools must keep abreast with
developments in other lines.
Winston-Salem I believe that
this is being done, and I
proud to see it.”
North Carolina is the farthest
south that the delegation has
traveled. It has visited Raleigh,
Greensboro and Durham, and
left' yesterday afternoon for
Roanoke, Va.
Winston-Salem was ne
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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., NOVEMBER 14, 1925.
Senior Hat Burning Ceremony
Takes Place Friday Evening
Thirty-nine Seniors Received Caps and Gowns;
Beautiful Tradition At Salem Carried Out
In Fitting Manner
Carolina Music Club
To Appear At Salem
Senior Class Secures Club and
Sells Tickets; Tentative
Program Prepared
Next Friday, November
the Carolina Musical Club will
be at Salem College and will give
a program which promises to be
amusing and entertaining. It
has for several years been the
custom for the senior class to
have the Glee Club from some,
other college, and this year the
Seniors promise a particularly
pleasing entertainment by the
University Music Club. Tickets
may be purchased from any
Senior; the prices are seventy-
five cents for high school and
college students, one dollar for
everyone else.
The following is the tentative
program prepared by the Club:
Novelty act by the Orchestra
Mandolin Club
E Pluribus Unum—March
Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby-
Fox Trot
Stringed Quartette
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi—
Waltz
March of the 97—Novelty
Let Me Call Me You Sweet
heart—Waltz
Marimba and saw novelty act
Mandolin Club
You’re Just a Flower from an
Old Bouquet
Selected college songs
Hawaiian Guitar solo
Hilo
Hawaii
0, Katharina
Male Quartette
Piano Solo
Hawaiian Guitar Solo
Dreamer of Dreams
Selected College Songs
Ten Minute Intermission
Five Selections by orchestra
One of the oldest and loveliest
of Salem’s traditions
nual event of Senior Hat-Burn
ing, which precedes the don
ning of the stately caps and
gowns. It is an event to which
everybody looks forward with
the most pleasurable anticipa
tion, and which is remembered
long afterward, as one of the
most beautiful and most
impressive occasions of
school year.
The invitation to Hat-Burn-
ing was extended in chapel,
the morning of Nevember 5,
by Helen Griffin, President of
the senior class. The date had
been kept secret until that time,
when it was announced that
the ceremony was to take place
that same evening, almost
■erybody was taken by sur
prise.
The exercises took place at
ven o’clock on the campus out
side of the President’s home.
effective setting could
have been chosen for the charm
ing- pageant which was to be en
acted than the green, softly-
lighted spot, with its dark back-1
ground of hedge and trees, and
the gently sloping terrace
foreground for the spectators.
The weather, which
ing had threatened to be rainy,
had cleared in the afternoon and
seemed almost made for the oc
casion. At the appointed hour
large number of college and
academy girls with many
parents and friends were seated
the terrace in a spirit of
great expectation. As the
stroke of seven came from the
church clock, there was a sound
of singing voices in the distance,
and the long line of seniors ap
proached, attended by the pages,
and lighted by tall, flaming
torches. The white-clad figures
moved forward with slow,
measured steps, singing as they
came, the beautiful song:
“Honored In Song and Story.”
As the last notes died away, the
seniors and their pages formed
a large semicircle, facing the
audience.
Then the first senior stepped
forward to explain the purpose
of this hat-burning ceremony.
Ve are both sad and glad this
fateful night.
The time has come to bid
farewell
To all our childhood’s car^
happiness,
Tc burn the emblems of
’oolish youth
To don the soberer symbols of
a fond
the V
She spoke to her sister seniors
of the sacrifice which must be
made, before the solemn rite
of donning caps and gowns could
be accomplished. Each senior
must first burn the emblems of
her childhood, the frfeshmen
green, the sword of the bold, bad
sophomore, the love-sick junior’s
heart and, last of all, the gay-
colored hat of her first senior
As she spoke, she
The terrible fact was revealed
that every senior had lost her
heart and that, until every lost
symbol was found, they could
not throw off the bonds of child
hood and wear the robes of wis
dom and of knowledge. Great
consternation prevailed and very
sadly they sang the song of “The
Lost Hearts.”
The first senior then bade the
herald summon Fond Recollec
tions to their aid. When she ap
peared, the sorrowing maidens
besought her to help them find
the lost hearts. She promised
to do her best, and first of all,
suggested that they call
of their childhood’s friends to
help look for them. First, Boy
Blue and Bo Peep are called, but
they know nothing of the lost
hearts. Next, the herald
Jack Horner and Little
Miss Muffet; but Jack could find
hearts in his Christmas pie,
and neither could Miss Muffet
find them in her curds and whey.
Muffet suggested Con
trary Mary, who when called,
entered with all her flower
garden. The flowers performed
light, graceful dance.
Then Mary told how she had
looked and looked for the mis
sing hearts, but alas, she could
not find them either. As Mary
retired, the herald called forth
Old King Cole, and indeed he
was a “merry old soul”. He
called for his pipe, and he called
for his bowl, and even for the
Fiddlers Three, but nowhere
were there any traces of the
lost hearts. However, Old King
Cole thought he knew of some
one who might be able to help.
This was none other than
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Armistice Day Celebrated
In Wednesday Chapel Hour
Miss Tinney Addresses Students
on Subject of World
Fellowship.
N. C. C. P. A. Meets
At The University
Salemite and Sights and In
sights Send Four Delegates
to the Conference
The North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association met Thurs-
Friday and Saturday of
this week at the University of
North Carolina. Ruth Efird
and Dorothy Siewers from the
editorial staff and Elizabeth
Hastings from the business staff
representatives of the
Salemite. Delegates from col
lege annuals were invited to at
tend the conference this year
Eloise Willis, Business
Manager of Sights and Insights,
elected to represent that
publication.
Parson Moss To Speak
At Expanded Chapel
On Wednesday, November 18,
the expanded chapel service
■ill be in charge of Rev. D.
Moss, known as “Parson Moss”
of the University of North
interrupted by a despairing sigh j Carolina. Mr. Moss will speak
from one of her sister maidens, j on “Problems of Student Life”.
At the expanded chapel hour
L Wednesday morning, Nov
ember the eleventh, the college
and academy had as their guests
Miss Alice White of High Pqint
and Miss Tinney of Philadelphia
who has dedicated her life to the
world peace movement.
A special musical program ap
propriate to Armistice Day was
The tenth and eleventh
grades of the academy sang and
the eighth and ninth grades
sang McDenny’s, “Land of
Mine”.
Miss Tinney said that it
fitting that World Fellowship
Peace and Armistice Day should
fall at the same time because
World Fellowship came with
Armistice Day. She said,
stand in the presence of the
future; the future lies in your
hands. We older people have
made a mess of the world. You
suffer because of our mistakes.
I hope that you have left all the
bad behind. With you rests
hat is to be made of the
the next generation.”
Whatever place war has had
the past the world has c(
to realize that it cannot go
The sisters and brothers of those
•ho gave their lives in the late
'ar stand on Armistice Day and
jy that civilization cannot con
tinue if war lasts.
In her passage from Holland
to England, three years ago,
Miss Finney saw a man nine
feet, five inches tall. He was a
monstrosity and was not of
much use in the world. People
have come to the conclusion that
war is a monstrosity and has
place in the world. The fol
lowers of Christ can fin
place in their hearts for
■W’ar is war and as Sherman said
“war is hell, and in it no
can perform the acts which the
Spirit of Christ would have him
perform”.
In the various countries
Europe world fellowship
sought. In England youn? :
and women are banding together
and saying war shall never
happen again. In France
fathers are saying that the
younger children must not
what their brothers saw.
Holland and Germany groups
vowing eternal friendship.
Miss Tinny said she would be
glad to see the United States
enter the League of Nations but
Music Hour Conducted
By Mr. C. C. Vardell
Speaks of Komanticism in Music
and Illustrates Talk with
Piano Selections.
n Pase Four)
Dr. Floyd Rogers Will
Speak To Students
The expanded chapel service
1 Wednesday, November 25,
will be in charge of Reverend
Mr. Floyd Rogers, rector of St.
Peter’s Episcopal church, Char
lotte, N. C. Mr. Rogers will be
remembered as the Commence
ment preacher two years ago.
nan is more beloved by the
young people throughout Vir
ginia and North Carolina than
Mr. Rogers, and Salem College
anticipates with great pleasure
his visit.
On Thursday afternoon, Nov
ember 5, Mr. Charles G. Vardell,
Jr. lectured at Music Hour, tak-^
his subject “Romanticism
in Music.” The lecture was ex
tremely interesting in itself, but
the various selections which Mr.
\’ardell played to llustrate his
talk made the program of the
afternoon even more delightful.
The speaker began by taking
what he called a “text” from the
writings of Robert Schuman,
who was a noted essay writer
as well as a great composer.
Schumann said, “The man and
the musician are constantly
striving within me.” This
statement, Mr. Vardell declared,
is the very key-note of Ro
manticism.
As a further explanation of
the term, Mr. Vardell gave a
brief account of the history of
the Romantic Movement. Three
hundred years ago, he stated,
reason was supreme. This con
dition of things involved the
use of the mind alone and re
sulted in artificiality in all
phases of life—in manners, in
politics, and even in religion.
The Romantic Movement came,
therefore, as a protest against
■tificiality.
One of the earliest leaders of
this movement was Rousseau.
He believed that the true guide
to knowledge is feeling. He set
the world aflame with his new
doctrines, and largely as a re
sult of his teachings there came
that flowering of human emotion
and feeling which we call Ro
manticism.
In the period of Classician
music was written strictly ac
cording to set rules and did not
express the personality and feel
ings of the composer. Ro
manticism literally means self-
expression and is therefore di
rectly opposed to Classicism.
In discussing the Romantic
composers, Mr. Vardell spoke
particularly of Robert Schumann
who is conspicuous in the
history of music as one of the
most notable embodiments of
the spirit of Romanticism.
Schumann was a great ad-
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Announcement Of The
French Club Meeting
The regular meeting of the
French Club will be next Wed
nesday, November 18, from five
o’clock in the living room
of Alice Clewell building. The
members will please note the
change of both date and hour.
The time has been changed from
after dinner on Thursday to
Wednesday afternoon, in order
that town students may attend.
Each member will respond to the
roll call with a French proverb.
addition to the regular
program, which promises to be
interesting, the Christmas
•ols for the December meeting
will be practiced. A change in
the constitution will be present
ed and voted on and every mem-
urged to be present.