EASTER
VACATION
MARCH 27th TO |
APRIL 3rd
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.
Senior Class Has Ivy
and Tree Planting
The Class of ’29 was in charge of
Thursday’s chapel service, which was
in the form of ivy and tree plant
ing. At the beginning of the hour
Dr. Rondthaler announced that Cam
Boren, the senior president, would
present the program for the service.
Miss Boren explained that the
Class of ’29 was Thursday planting
its ivy and tree, according to the
long established Salem custom.
She stated that this was one of the
most notable days in the history of
the class, for it was then giving to
the Alma Mater something that
would continue to live under protec
tion, and which would serve to bind
the members of the class closer to
Salem. Following her short talk
and announcement of further pro
cedure of the program, the college
president spoke briefly on the great
ness of the tree. He summed up his
speech in saying that trees are the
only living connection between the
past and the present, and for this
reason it is especially important for
each class to plant a tree. A tree
may stand for even 2,000 years, but
likely it is the only and largest liv
ing thing unaffected by political and
economic changes that seriously in
fluence man.
Marion Bloor then read beauti
fully the dearly loved poem by
Joycc Kilmer, “Trees,” which con
cluded the first part of the program.
Dean Vardell played the postlude
for the withdrawal of the faculty
and students to go next to the ac
tual planting of the ivy and the
small oak. At Main Hall a “grand
march” formed, led by the marshals,
Dr. Rondthaler and the Seniors,
with the rest of the students follow
ing in tlie order of the classes, and
made its way to the front of I.eh-
man Hall.
Thursday was the first day of
Spring, and the weather certainly
attested the fact. Everything
seemed most favorable for the es
pecially unique service. The Sen
iors, after planting the ivy at the
doorway of Lehman Hall, sang their
ivy song and then proceeded a few
feet south of I.ehman toward the
Infirmary where they planted the
tree as a living memorial- to the
Alma Mater, and Dr. Rondthaler, in
behalf of the college, accepted this
gift and memorial.
As an assurance of good luck, each
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Dates of Graduating
Recitals Announced
Piano, Voice, Violin and Organ Are
To Be Well Represented
Everyone is anticipating with
much pleasure the approaching
graduating recitals to be given in
the spring by the seniors of the
School of Music. The series of re
citals will begin with a piano and
violin recital to be given Friday
evening, April 12, by Miss Eliza
beth Roper and Miss Emily Sar
gent. The remainder of the recitals
will be given in the following order:
Friday evening, April 19, a recital
given by Miss Margaret Johnson,
pianist, assisted by Mr. Ernest L.
Schofield, baritone; Friday evening,
April 26, a piano recital given by
Miss Elizabeth Andrews, assisted by
Miss Lillyan Newell, soprano; Fri
day evening. May 3, a piano recital
by' Miss Ina Cox, organist; Friday
evening, May 10, a piano recital by
Miss Julia Daniels, assisted by Miss
Hazel Horton Reade, violinist. The
series of graduating recitals will
come to a close with the piano re
cital given Friday evening. May 17,
by !Miss Sallie Hunter Ball, assisted
by Miss Mary Frances Cash, organ
ist.
Pierrette Players to
Enter Try-Out April 3
Winning Cast Will Represent Salem
At Chapel Hill
Thursday night, at the regular
meeting of the Pierrette Players, th«
cast which was selected to represent
Salem in the play contest at Chapel
Hill presented the play “Will o’ the
Wisp.” This play, a lovely, fan
tastical one by Doris Holman, was
selected by a committee and entered
in the contest as the one which the
Pierrette Players would give. The
story, appealing and fanciful, was
well enacted by the cast, and the
excellent feeling and emotion dis
played by the actors proves that
they have diligently labored on the
production.
On April 3 at Greensboro there
will be try-outs between Greensboro
College, Lenoir Rhyne and Salem.
Judging from Thursday night’s per
formance, Salem is going to make
an excellent showing. Everyone
wishes the cast the best of luck.
Following are the actors and their
understudies which were selected
from the four contesting casts:
The First Cast
The Old Woman....Margaret Hauser
The Poet’s Wife Lillyan Newell
Will o’ the Wisp.-Louise Thompson
The Maid Jane Harris
The Second Cast
The Old Woman Lucy Currie
The Poet’s Wife....Adelaide Winston
Will o’ the Wisp
Mary Elizabeth Meeks
The Maid Grace Martin
Students of Floating
University In Bombay
Have Seen Many Aspects of Hindu
Life and Are Greatly Impressed
By the Taj Mahal
One hundred and five American
students and teachers of the Float
ing University arrived in Bombay
recently from Agra. They had been
traveling overland through India,
and had visited Calcutta, Benares,
Delhi and Agra, site of the Taj Ma
hal. Students told glowing accounts
of their travels since they left New
York last November.
In particular, students were full
of stories of their visit to the Taj
Mahal which they liad seen first in
the early morning, just as the mist
was rising. The sketching class had
remained at the Taj all morning,
while tht sociological, educational,
economic and historic groups were
inspecting the city and fort. Later,
the art group moved out to sketch
the narrow side streets and the white
cupolas of the fort, and the World
Affairs’ students went back to the
Taj, wishing they were artists.
The University left here on its
way to Madras and Colombo. By
the time they sail for Egypt, they
will have seen almost all aspects of
Hindu life.
Students of Floating University
who distinguish themselves in their
studies while traveling around the
world, will be assisted in obtaining
suitable positions after their return
liome.
The University is establishing a
placement bureau which will attempt
to place the right man in the right
position *in interrfetional cdrpora-
tions, in consular and diplomatic
services, and various other activities
where training on an international
scale is of value.
This service will be free to those
students who win Floating Univers
ity degrees of Master of Arts,
Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of
World Affairs, or the Floating Uni
versity Certificate. Preference will
be given to students who win these
degree or certificate with honors.
Dr. W. D. Moss Speaks
Expanded Chapel Hour
Gives Interesting Discussion of the
By-Paths in Life
The student body of Salem Col
lege was very fortunate in having
the opportunity to hear Dr. W. D.
Moss of Chapel Hill, who spoke in
the Expanded Chapel service Wed
nesday, March 20. “Parson Moss,”
as he is more familiarly known, has
become a part of the annual life of
Salem and each year his visits are
greatly anticipated-
Dr. Moss began his talk by quot
ing a part of the fortieth Psalm, “I
waited patiently for the Lord and
He inclined unto me and heard my
cry.” Many men and women, he
said, start on the wrong path in life
because they refused to wait patient
ly for the Lord. To keep on this
main trail of life it is necessary that
one seek and find it through religion.
Human beings have two passions,
one for daily bread, the other for
the Bread of Life. We sometimes
get the impression that religion is
for old and sick people. It is, but
it is for the young as well. Religion
is the taking of the main highway
of life. Life without religion is
like a ship without a compass, or a
building without architectural plans.
To stay on the right path in religion
one must examine oneself and see
what is desired. There is always
one ruling passion in our hearts,
said Dr. Moss. If we follow it we
will find security. Jesus will be the
vocational guidance in every life if
we will only let Him.
Oftentimes people are tempted to
take the side track of moral laxity.
The question is often asked, “Why
do the right thing when others do
wrong?” To be morally fit is one
of the ruling passions of life. When
morals are tampered with danger
always ensues. Men often have
hard experiences, sickness, etc., and
are tempted to take the road leading
to .skepticism and bitterness. If
these men had followed the main
highway they would be unwilling to
change places with the skeptic. The
cry for God has persisted through
the ages. Men have always hun
gered for bread, but they will never
cease to hunger for the Bread of
Life.
On the way to God, continued the
speaker, men often halt at the house
of romantic love, the house of in
iquity, or the house of culture. There
they are satisfied for a time, but
their happiness is only temporary.
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Glee Club Has Charge
ofY. W.C. A. Vespers
Miss Gould Speaks on “Women
Of India.”
A very interesting program was
presented at Y. W. Vespers in Me
morial Hall last Sunday evening,
consisting of selections by the Glee
Club directed by Mr. Schofield and
a talk by Miss Gould, educational
secretary of the Student Volunteer
Movement. Miss Ina Cox opened the
service with an organ prelude, fol
lowed by “Invocation,” sung by the
Glee Club. After the devotional
service the club gave another selec
tion, “God of the Dawning,” and
this was followed by an exceedingly
interestink talk on “Women of In
dia,” by Miss Gould. She read a
number of lovely poems which pic
tured quite vividly the different
types of Indian women, the happy
bride with all her gorgeous clothes
and jewels, the sad widow devoid
of all her beautiful adornments, the
gay young peasant girl with her
joyful song of .spring and the old
Mohammedan woman with her etern
al prayer to Allah. The Glee Club
closed the program with the Easter
Anthem, “Allelulia.”
Science Club Holds
Interesting Exhibition
“Open House” Observed in All De
partments of Science Laboratory
The Second Annual Scientific Ex
hibit was held at the laboratory, Fri
day night, March 22, from 7 until
10 o’clock. “Open house” was ob
served in every branch of the
science department, physics, chem
istry and biology.
J. A. Kyle, representative of a
firm that handles and imports anat
omical models, skeletons, skulls and
charts, had a display. This
one of the chief features of the
hibit and ranked among the various
interesting chemical operations held
throughout the evening.
The special features of the
hibit were the chemical processes and
operations shown by the students
and faculty. This is a compara
tively new plan being observed at
Salem, and gave an idea to the
spectators of what is being done in
the various branches of the .science
department.
Manufacturers’ exhibits were on
display in the laboratories and ad
ditional apparatus had been secured
during the past year. A larger at
tendance both of college students
and outsiders visited the exhibit
rooms during the evening.
Every subject included in
field of biology had an individual
exhibit, some of these being zoology,
histology, bacteriology and botany.
There were also special features of
every phase of the Chemistry de
partment, exhibited by members of
the Societas Scientarium Salemensis.
Scholarship Contest Be
Held During Summer
Magnificent Axvards To Be Made;
Rated by Noted Musicians
College students throughout the
country, particularly those who in
tend to adopt music as a career, will
be interested in the announcement of
the Atwater-Kent Foundation plans
for a 1929 nation wide audition
select the ten best young singers
the country for vocal training at
recognized scliool of music. Signifi
cant in the 1929 plans, as compared
with the 1927 and 1928 programs of
the same, kind Carried on by the At
water Kent Foundation, is the fact
that all of the ten finalists will
ceive at least a year’s training under
recognized masters or in well known
schools, in addition to begin given
larger monetary benefits.
“It seems to me,” said A. Atwater
Kent, president of the Foundation,
in the ann'ouncement, “that after de
voting nearly a year to preliminary
contests, in which 50,000 or 60,000
voices are tried out, we should make
certain that all ten of the finalists be
assured of further vocal instruction
and the means with which to pur
sue it. For that reason we have ad
ded $7,500 in cash prizes and two
years in tuition to the former awards.
We have received innumerable as-
suranoes from all sections of the
country that the radio audition is
worth while, and I am, therefore, de
lighted to take advantage of the op
portunity to hold another one this
The awards this year will be as
follows:
Winners of first place (one boy
and one girl), $5,000 each and two
years’ tuition in an American con-
Winners of second place, $3,000
each and one year’s tuition.
Winners of third place, $2,000
each and one year’s tuition.
Winners of fourth place, $1,500
and one year’s tuition.
Winners of ififth Iplace, $1,000
each and one year’s tuition.
During the summer and early fall
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Annual Meeting of
Student Volunteer
Among the speakers at the 18th
annual conference of the North Caro
lina Student Volunteer Union were
Dr. W. L. Poteat, president emer
itus of Wake Forest, Mrs. J. D.
Brown, of Nicaragua, Mrs. A.
G. Dixon, of Japan, Dr. J. S.
Love, formerly of Brazil; Miss Ol
ive Gould of India, and Dr. A. C.
Reid of Wake Forest College. The
Student Volunteer Movement is an
organization of the students in the
American colleges who have as their
life purpose work in the Christian
Missions abroad. The whole confer
ence was filled with an earnest
spirit of those who were anxious to
interpret the radiant and vitalizing
life in Christ to those who are liv
ing without Him, and who realized
that in large measure they them
selves had not yet found life in the
fullest abundance in which we can
find it in Jesus.
The keynote of Christianity today
is not that it is a safety device
against eternal damnation but a
means to the finding of a radiant
morning all through life for which
man was intended. The root prin
ciple of God s requirement of us is
love which provides the standal'ds
for living. In fulfilling this require
ment of love we should follow Jesus,
even to Golgotha, in doing which we
do not give up all for Christ but
find all things in Him.
The three characteristics of one
who would give himself to the task
of world missions are love to hu
manity and to Jesus, taking power
from His redemptive blood; faith, a
firm confidence that His promise of
going with us is true; courage to
give up those things which we hold
dear for which we have to know the
Master well; and a willingness to
give the best that is in us. In
facing the world ta.sk of Christian
ity there must be an adequate, dy
namic purpose which must consist of
firm conviction of purpose; a reali
zation of the uniqueness of the Gos
pel of Jesus which vitalizes Him in
our lives; a vision of the world need
when standing by the side of the
Master we sense the divine sympa
thy of His helping hand and are
ready to do our part.
We are ambassadors for the King
dom of Christ to the court of the
world and in representing Christ to
the world we shoidd do. it worthily
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1. R. S. Entertains In
Honor Academy Seniors
Delightful Social Hour Is Enjoyed
By Those Present
Friday night the I. R. S. gave a
most delightful entertainment in hon
or of the Academy seniors. As the
college quartet introduced them, one
by one, the members of the senior
class rose that all present might see
who they were. All introductions
over and done with, the Pierrette
Players gave their contribution to
the entertainment of the evening.
“Mannikin” Edith Kirkland and
“Minnikin” Marion Bloor, astound
ed everyone with their charm and
beauty, in spite if tlieir great age,
with tlieir weighty words of philos
ophy. “Alannikin and Minnikin” is
a beautiful one-act play of two lit
tle statuettes who are in love with
each other and who have been cru
elly separated by a most heartless
maid with a dusting cloth. The lit
tle figures come to life in the dead
of night and discuss their troubles,
dreams, and hopes.
Following tliis Wilhelmina Wohl-
ford sang several numbers. Then .
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