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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, March 23, 1929.
The Salemite
Published Weekly by the Studen
of Salem College.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-In-Chief Dorothy Ragan, "29
Managing Editor Ruble Scott, ’29
Associate Editor Lalla Wright, ’80
Associate Editor Lucile Hassel, ’80
Music Editor Elizabeth Andrews, ’29
Literary Editor Lessie Phillips, ’80
Sport Editor Sara Eflrd, ’81
Local Editor Edith Kirkland, ’81
Local Editor Kathleen Moore, ’81
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Mgr Isabelle Dunn
Asst. Bus. Mgr Eleanor Willingham
Asst. Adv. Mgr Eva Hackney
Asst. Adv. Mgr Elva Lee Kenerly
Vst. Adv. Mgr Elizabeth Allen
Circumiiun Mgr. Carolyn Brinkley
Asst. CIrc. Mgr _...Mary Norris
Asst. CIrc. Mgr Elizabeth Ward
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Easter vacation begins on Wed
nesday, March 27, at eleven o’clock
and will close on Wednesday, April
Miss Lula Stipe, Miss Elizabeth
Zachary, and Miss Eleanor Chase
are attending the North Carolina
State Teachers’ Conference at Ra
leigh, March 21 and 22.
scene. “It is absurd,” the Daily
commented editorially, “to suppose
that undergraduate opinion will al
ways be of a balanced and staid
maturity. It is also absurd to at
tempt to regulate everything that is
expressed by undergraduates. The
paper is supposed to represent
student opinion, and we consider
that every undergraduate in Toronto
has a right to protest, whether they
actually agree with the editorial
not, against the invasion of auto
cratic authority.”
SAL TO EM
REPORTERS
Marjorie Siewers
MilHcent Ward
Mary Myers Faulkner.
LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
“Laugh and the world laughs
with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must
borrow its mirth.
But has trouble enough of
—The Way of the World.
“What ever there be of sorrow
I’ll put off ’till tomorrow.
And when tomorrow comes,
why then
’Twill be Today and Joy
—Ibid.
STARTLING DISCOVERIES
A recent article in a local news
paper contains unusual information
about the co-eds at Copenhagen Uni
versity in Denmark. Of the 1,000
women undergraduates there, more
than one-third are specializing in
philosophy; 163 are preparing to
study medicine; 59 are studying law;
22 political science; and 6 are spe
cializing in theology. Mathematics
appeals to 87 of the co-eds, English
to 97, and some branch of science is
the major subject of more than 230
of the women students.
Different indeed would be the sta
tistics compiled from the women
students In North Carolina colleges.
Of 1,000 students, probably 700
would be preparing to teach, 225
would have no idea of what they are
going to do after graduation, and
the remaining 75 would be prepar
ing for careers in various fields.
This preponderance among Southern
women students of teaching as a
choice of a career does not necessar
ily indicate that they are a less in
telligent or ambitious group than
the Danish co-eds. It is due rather
to a lack of foresight or investiga
tion of the kinds of work open to
women. With a vague idea that
someday she might have to earn her
own living, the co-ed often chooses
the course which will enable her to
earn money if she has to. It makes
no difference whether Qr not she is
particularly fitted for the position,
teaching is a respectable and not too
difficult profession and as such can
be tried for a time. There is hope,
however, since courses in vocational
guidances are being offered in many
colleges, that before long the Ameri
can co-ed will cease overcrowding
the teaching field and will vie with
her Danish sisters in diversity of
professional courses.
Em deah.
Spring is here! And how? When
the Seniors plant the ivy, when the
ambitious little Freshmen plant their
feet on the soccer field (as they real
ly do according to some authorities),
when the budding little bushes are
planted on back campus, when the
nurses plant the babies in their care
in the middle of Salem Square while
they converse about “them funny
white gals thet goes to school ’cross
th’ street,” then, my dear, ’tis
spring! Warm, sparkling, blue and
gold spring! Another reason why I
know.? Lillyan Newell has left off
tam and socks! Now aren’t you
convinced ?
Well, the girls are wading through
soccer at a fast rate. We really ad
vise a knowledge of how to keep
one’s head above water before taking
up said sport next year. We find
there’s a lot of wear and tear on
the pedal extremities, but Miss At
kinson always dismisses our wails
with “You brought your feet down
here, now take care of them.” Well,
life’s like that!
Somehow the funniest animals
have been breaking into our dreams
of term papers and notebooks due.
After some thought concerning the
matter we have decided they must
be easter rabbits! We go floating
around on large pink an’ green, an’
blue, an’ yellow eggs, an’ when they
pop we find ourselves at home. What
the approacli of a vacation can do
for you. It won’t be long now!
Must go to war—I mean work.
Will see you Wednesday if I’m still
—SAL.
(Continued From Page One)
member of the elass dropped
penny at the root of the tree before
shoveling dirt around it. The sing
ing of the “Alma Mater” concluded
the impressive program.
GOD AND THE STUDENT
The college student’s religious
creed, according to a student writer
in “The Stanford Daily,” Stanford
Probably 50 per cent of American
students believe in God, but
the orthodox God. The atom, infin
ity, some physio-chemical force
yet known—these and other vague
definitions constitute their coneepti
of the Deity.
The average student neither prays
nor believes in the efficacy of prayer,
except as a sedative. Under stress
of some great crisis he may pray
silently, as a reversion to childhood
tiaining.
He does not believe in the soul
in life hereafbefr. Analyzing his
deep sleep, he has concluded that
death is the same sort of oblivion,
plus the ceasing to function of cer-
CENSORSHIP IN CANADA
Toronto, Ontario (By New Stud
ent Service)—Another college editor
has been dismissed for writing can
did editorials and another campus
has been split apart over the ques
tion of censorship. The epidemic
of editorial dismissals has visited
Canada and deprived Mr. L. J. Ry
an, a senior at the University of
Toronto, of his job.
As usual, differing interpretations
of the duties of the college editor
lie at the bottom of the trouble.
Because he capped a series of out
spoken editorials with a frank dis
cussion of what one student news
paper called the “ubiquitous practice
of petting,” Mr. Ryan was deposed
by a student government,” which, it
seems, was driven to the action by
the governing body of the Univers
ity. Thereupon Mr. Ryan, who ap
pears to be a very militant young
man, raised the issue of a genuine
student government in conjunction
with that of a free newspaper. His
ease was championed by the Toronto
Evening Telegram, which gave over
a section to the deposed editor and
his staff.
The student senate elected a new
editor and a new staff. The students
signified their distaste for this
“strikebreaking” sheet by making a
bonfire of it on the campus. And
after a period of deadlock. Caput,
a body composed of several deans
and the University president, step
ped into the controversy and prom
ised to make a thorough investiga
tion of the entire question of student
government.
Judging from the amount of
space devoted to this controversy in
the Canadian student papers, and by
the impassioned editorials in behalf
of a brother editor, censorship in one
college has become an event that
every college journalist views with
alarm. The editorials of the McGill
Daily were specially outspoken. The
Daily had its own correspondent on
trolled by the will. The thought of
ceasing to be entirely is discourag
ing; therefore he covers it with some
such philosophy as: you’re here only
a while—make the most of it.
perhaps he believes that only
through procreation is man immortal
He has never read the Bible. No
all of it, anyhow.
Hie considers organized religioi
unnecessary in this age. For the
persecutions of Galileo, of Coperni
cus, of Scopes, and hundreds of oth
ers who disseminated truth, he finds
it difficult to forgive organized the
ology.
The average student has evolved,
or is in the process of evolving, a
personal religion which is actually
a philosophy of life, a system of
ethics. The Golden Rule or some
expression thereof is generally the
keynote of that philosophy. His
other tenets may vary greatly. To
orthodox people most of them would
seem sinful and blasphemous.
—The New Student.
B. W. A,
“Bachelor of World Affairs”
that is the all-embracing title of the
new degree which the Floating Uni
versity has created to crown its dis
tinctive type of education. The ordi
nary B. A. and A. M. degrees are
now offered, too, but the Bachelor
of World Affairs will be the exclu
sive product of that unique uni
versity whose home is the billowy
When the student qualifies for this
degree he will have gained, the
Floating University believes, “suffi
cient background in international re
lations and public affairs, adequately
to prepare him for United States
Consul or diplomatic service, o
effective work in an international
corporation.” The degree is offered
in a two-year or four-year program.
The two-year course, for juniors and
seniors, offers a thorough training
in the fields of History, Government,
International Relations, Internation
al Business, and Sociology, all these
subjects being correlated and given
from the point of view of the world
as a unit. To get this degree
student may take his first two years
at a land university in preparation
for two years of intensive work
the World Affairs division of Float
ing University, or he can take the
entire four years as a member of
the student body of the yearly
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