THE SALEMITE
Saturday, October 1, 1927.
The Salemite
Published Weekly by the Student
Body of Salem College.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Margaret Schwarze, ’28..Editor-inCh!ef
I.eonora Taylor, '28....Managing Editor
Margaret Vaughan, ’29 Asso. Editor
Dorothy Ragan, ’29 Asso. Editor
Doris Walston, '28....Announcement Ed.
Margaret Parljer, ’28 Current Editor
F.Iizabeth Andrews, ’29 Musif Editor
Ruby Scott, '2S....Campus News Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Sara Dowling, ’28 Bus. Mgr
.lessie Davis Adv. Mgr
Isabel Dunn, ’29 Asst. Adv. Mgr
Elizabeth Ray Dewey, ’30 Asst. Mgr
Adelaide McAnally, ’30, Asst. Adv. Mgr
Mary Miller Faulkner, ’29 Circ. Mgr
Carolyn Brinkley, ’30....Asst. Circ. Mgr
Eleanor Willingham, ’30, Asst. Circ. Mgr
scholastic demands, can we be
equal to a thorough conception of
ethical standards.^ We cannot. The
child of kindergarten age knows the
difference between right and wrong.
That knowledge is bred in us, we
cannot escape i.t
There is no more tragic and no
more despicable figure than a girl
who does not possess a code
honor which compells her to face
each situation with frank honesty.
We call ourselves members of the
intelligentsia, and intelligence pre
supposes understanding of morals.
If therefore, we understand, we can
measure up to the standards de
manded of us.
Let us begin to “realize” now,
and let us pledge ourselves to be
“true-blue,” that this year may be
the happy exception, free from the
tragic experiences which every other
year lias brought.
REPORTERS
Laila Wright, ’30.
Athena Campourakii
Catherine Miller, ’
Lucille Hassel, ’
Something to Think About
This is the true atlilete, he
who exercises himself against
temptations to evil. Great is
the contest, divine the task.
—Epictetus.
Time is the surest judge of
truth. I am not vain enough
to think I have left no faults
in this whicli that touclistone
will not discover.—Dryden.
If you think you are work- '
ing very hard, the chances
are you are not. The hardest
workers don’t look upon work
PARAGRAPHICS
We feel sorry for the freshman
wlio is anxious to know when she
will get off Prohibition. The pros
pects are not encouraging.
Remember,
study hours.
the mornrng chapel
lot places for social
neither are they extra
We hope that Dr. Hondthaler will
be found and allowed to buy his
MacDowell Club ticket in tim "
the first performance.
“No n
ti should boast of his hon
esty, until he has had to choose be
tween honesty and liunger.” Some
times the test consists of choosing
between dishonesty and a flunk slip.
Which is the most enduring?
I ntellig'ence—and
Honor!
At the first Student Government
meeting of the year. Dr. Rondthaler,
in his brief but very inspiring talk
to the student body, deplored the
fact that each year without excep
tion brings its unhappy and regret
table occasions when major disci
pline is necessary. In many of these
cases the causes have been dishonor
on the part of some girl or girls;
dishonor in the class-room, dishonor
of the rules of self-government.
Very often, as Dr. Rondthaler
stated, the girl who is charged with
dishonor, makes this plea: “I did
not realize what I was doing.” This
plea, often as it is reiterated, does
not ring true. No college student,
freshmen, sophomore, junior or sen
ior, can be so ignorant of the fun
damental moral principles, that she
is unable to distinguish tlie line be
tween right and wrong.
We are intelligent college women.
We come here from accredited high
schools and preparatory schools
whose authorities vouch for our men
tal fitness for college work. If
then, we are mentally equal to our
The Will To Learn
“American education,” says Glenn
Frank, President of the University
of Wisconsin and former editor of
the Century Magazine, in a recent
newspaper article entitled “Inform
al Education,” “is suffering from
over-organization and over-formali
zation.” Mr. Frank, who
tainly an authority upon questions
affecting the processes of education,
says further that this over-organiza
tion is due to the mistaken theory
that “whether or not a student ‘gets
educated’ depends upon the efficien
cy of the school rather than the
eagerness of the student.”
We do not thoroughly agree with
this writer that the efficiency of a
school is of no value in encourag
ing and aiding materially in educa
tional pursuits. We are justly
proud of our own splendid, up-to-
date equipment and would not un
derrate its usefulness and desira
bility. We do agree, however, that
the vital concern in education is
the student himself. Education ca
not be forced into a mind which
unwilling to be instructed, and
amount of school organization and
efficiency can take the place of
real desire to learn.
Are you making the most of the
.opportunities which have been open
ed to you? Do you really want to
benefit by the splendid advantages
of college life, or do you consider
yourself the unwilling victim of
parental judgment or ambition? If
came to college merely because
are forced to come, or merely
because everybody else does so, the
opportunities for self-culture, the
contacts which cannot help but in
spire and stimulate the eager mind
will be wasted upon you. The spir-
of the student is the vital factor
education, without it all of the
equipment, advantages and eflicient
organization in the world cannot
“teach vigorous thinking, or thrust
coherent knowledge into a raw
up too soon,—and remember, only
a coword shrinks from what is
pected of him.
OPEN FORUM
Don’t Be a Coward—
W ork!
Many of us have a tendency, when
we first catch a glimpse of the mass
of work that lies before us, to be
come discouraged and disheartened.
We feel that our ability, in com
parison with the work to be done,
measures far too short, and that we
are not capable of facing the year’s
tasks as we should. This attitude is
only a natural reaction after three
months of recreation and j^leasure.
It is sometimes hard for us to col
lect our scattered thoughts, and to
concentrate on one particular task,
honest attempt reveals our
character more than anything else
that we could possibly do. People
who are lazy, and who are not
sportsmen seek to go around a
nountain rather than climb it. This
ipplies to students at Salem who
attempt to evade their work rathei
than meet it fairly and squarely.
[t is too early in the year for us,
become discouraged. Our work
uas scarcely begun, and if we feel
doubtful about it now just how will
we feel after we have really plunged
into the year’s work? Do not sit
back and make up your mind not to
study and not to pass a course just
because you do not understand it
thoroughly at first. Study the sub
ject diligently, and to the best of
your ability, and the results will
surely be profitable. Do not give
Salem has welcomed us
claimed us for her own. Her
dards are our standards—to uphold
or to leave—for we are members of
her student body. We are also
members of her Student Self-Gov-
ernment Association, the organiza-
through which we regulate our
conduct and strive to fulfill the ob-
ions to our college,
re we worthy members of this
Association? Are we honorable
members ? Are we conscientiously
ving ourselves to be such every
day? To be honorable members
be true to the highest in us a:
to be faithful to Salem’s ideals and
standards. It also means attain
ing excellence of character, which
should be the goal of every girl
Speaking of honor reminds i
that famous character Brutus, who,
though he “was an honorable m
struck down Caesar to whom
professed friendship ! Are we
the Brutus-type? Are we pretend
ing to be honorable members of the
Student Self-Government Associa
tion, while we are doing the things
tliat should not be done? Are wi
striking at the standards of Salem;
“No,” let us all say. “We will
strive to be honorable and to up-
liold the highest prinieples of Stud
ent Self-Government.”
—Mary Duncan McAnally.
When I Consider Math.
When I consider Math.,
A thing I very often do
I see slide rules Black-bottoming
While transits dance the Higliland
And Altitudes sit up and sing.
And Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown
Hauls forth the rent when it comes
'round;
And Abie’s Irish Rose is there
With planes and rhomboids ii
sixes and sevens and B’s and
E’s
Twist into fours and fives with hor
rid ease,
square roots with fiendish glee
Kick binominals into the sea;
parentheses with kitchen mop
Extracting cube roots from a moun
tain top.
And A and B who never meet
Shooting craps upon the street.
And Z and X who are never there
Skating on the surface of a perfect
square.
And tangents drear and sneer and
jeer
Collapsed at the base of a two-sided
sphere.
right angles with six sides or
seven
Take wings and soar to a geometric
heaven.
Where sines and cosines clad in pink
Chant nursery rhymes and cease
think.
—Catharine Miller.
Announcements
The members of the Glee Club
will be given a picnic by Miss De-
on Saturday evening, October
; five o’clock.
On Saturday evening, October 1,
the MacDowell Club will give ii
first entertainment of the year i
Memorial Hall. This will be
picture, starring Bebe Daniels i__
“Senorita.” Admission for those
without season tickets will be fifteen
The Y. W. C. A. Vesper service,
on Sunday evening, October 2, will
be in charge of the juniors.
Johnny'; Mother, teacher said
that I had a talent as an inventor.
Mother (pleased); What did she
say you could invent?
Johnny: She said that I could in
vent more news ways of spelling
words tlian anybody she ever knew.
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