PAGE TWO,
THE SALEMITE
Saturdiay, April 13, 1929,
The Salemite
Member Southern Inter-Collegiate
Press Association.
Published WeekijL Jiy the Student Body
of Salem College.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Ragan, ’29
Managing Editor Rubie Scott, '29
Associate Editor. . Laila Wright, ’30
Associate Editor Lucile Hassel, ’30
Music Editor Elizabeth Andrews, ’29 I
Literary Editor Lessie Phillips, ’30 ,
Business Mgr Isabelle Dunn
Asst. Bus. Mgr Eleanor Willingham
Asst. Adv. Mgr Eva Hackney
Asst. Adv. Mgr Elva Lee Kenerly
Adv. Mer Elizabeth Allen
Circuitiiiun Mgr Carolyn Brinkley
Asst. Giro. Mgr _...Mary Norris
Asst. Circ. Mgr Elizabeth Ward
REPORTERS
Marjorie Siewers
Millicent Ward
Mary Myers Faulkner.
LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
“Seas roll to waft me, suns to
light me rise;
My footstool earth, my canopy
the skies.” —Pope.
Like leaves on trees the race
of man is found,—
Now green in youth, now with
ering on the ground;
Another race the following
spring supplies:
They fall successive, and suc
cessive rise.” —Pope.
PARAGRAPHICS
Cheer up, girls; only seven more
weeks—and then, exams !
What's this we hear about the
Senior class and a steak fry? Sounds
interesting, anyway!
Cheer up, J’reshmen, don’t cry.
You’ll be elected to an office, bye
and bye.
By the way, where is that golf
course we heard so much about the
first of the year?
Covered swimming pools are all
right, but we suggest covered tennis
courts for those who wish to retain
that famous “school girl eomplex-
THE NEW STUDENT
GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION
When the student body voted to
consolidate the two student govern
ment associations, there was another
step toward strengthening the spirit
of both groups. As matters were
formerly, many seemed to see a wide
gap between the On- and Off-Camp-
us student bodies, one such as could
not be passed over. Among the
benefits which must necessarily arise
from this recent action the fact that
the resident and non-resident stud
ents may come in closer association
with one another and can learn to
know each other better is most im
portant. In this way only is it pos
sible for one to get the other’s point
of view in regard to problems and
situations. While absolute success
may not come immediately in the
present plan, certainly a oneness of
spirit is more likely to show itself.
The very existence of two separate
and distinct associations, as in the
past on one campus was compelled
to prevent a completely uniform
opinion among the whole group of
students.
I ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Miss Margaret Johnson will give
licr graduating recital in Memorial
Hall Friday evening, April 19, at
Hght-fifteen o’clock. Mr. Ernest
Schofield, head of the Voice Depart
ment and Miss Viola Tucker,. ac
companist, will assist Miss Johnson.
Upon the invitation of Dr. Moir
.Martin, Dr. Rondthaler will speak
on Thursday, April 11, at the Ki-
wanis Club “Ladies’ Night” enter
tainment, in Mt. Airy.
The members of the Senior Class
will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Shore, at dinner on Thursday
evening, April 18, at seven o’clock.
There will be a McDowell Club
picture Saturday evening, April 20.
Miss Joyner, principal of the State
Deaf and Dumb School, in Morgan-
ton, will speak at Expanded Chapel
Wednesday, April 17. Miss Joyner
will bring with her several children
of the institution to illustrate the
methods used in their training.
The Home Economics meeting,
Thursday, April 18, will be in
charge of the Freshmen. Eleanor
Meinung is chairman of the pro
gram committee. Special features
of the program will be talks on
Hygiene of clothing and Art in Re
lation to Dress, and a Fashion Show
in which the Freshmen will model
the dresses they have made in Home
Economics.
The Junior class will give a Min
strel Tuesday night, April 16.
Birdies Are Singing
In Spring, Tra-la
Springtime is here—tra-Ia ! And
everywhere we see manifestations of
a queer something which has seized
the entire college in its clutches.
The Salem girls—ah, they have fall
en under the spell of a sly magician
called Spring. Almost like a flash
of lightning he has filled them with
a longing to be outside—to laugh,
sing, play.
This magic season has brought to
many girls the desire to play tennis
at every possible chance. It has
brought to others the wish to get out
on the athletic field and play some
fast and furious baseball.
Perhaps, too, you have heard the
noise of splashing water and laugh
ing voices coming from the direc
tion of the swimming pool. Yes,
many of the Salem girls are either
swimming or trying to learn just
how the art may be acquired.
Another sign that it is spring
time! Girls may be seen walking
on the square in front of the col
lege until seven o’clock in the eve
ning! What about that? Strange
things are happening around here.
And have you heard soft music
in the night? ’Twas only a small
group of Salem girls gazing at the
moon and singing tender love lyrics.
Do not laugh at them. Springtime
is the time for love and song. They
who sing are wise and have a reason
for, their gladness.
Isn’t it good just to know the
joy of being alive—for it is Spring!
—Eleanor Idol.
Logic
If a male goose is a gander,
A male moose must be a mander.
If one who fails is a failure,
Then one who quails is a quailure.
If a female duke is a duchess
A female spook must be a spuchess.
If drinking too hard makes a drunk-
Then thinking too hard makes a
thunkard.
“Sampson, I see you’ve had a hair
“Yes, that’s my weakness now.”
SAL TO EM
Em, you ole stranger;
Surely has been an age since last
I wrote to you. But my negligence
was forced, because -tis reported thai>
due to an attack of sleaping-sickness-
"our Editor”' failed to order a lit
erary effort, for last week. •
My dear, the big event of the
year—the music school graduating
recitals—are ready for presentation.
Those music seniors have certainly
studied hard and the five recitals,
the first one to be given Friday
night, promise to be very brilliant
and enteTtaining. I believe, though,
that the seniors caused some trouble
in one of the departments of the
school when Miss Borrow asked why
some of her girls didn’t stay over
during Easter and practice their
typewriting. Anyway, we are mighty
proud of these seniors and hope for
each and every one of them the best
of luck, now and later.
If some generous soul should hap
pen around here within the next
few weeks, I feel sure that (he, she
or it) would be more than delighted
to finish up the fund for covering
the pool. Dearie, what with the sup-'
pie, lithe and perfect figures that
, some are developing (and even
diminishing to ) around here, ’twould
be small wonder if some one did fin
ish the aforementioned fund. Swim
ming and horseback riding are quite
the sports around here, now. And
have you heard about how well
Louise Lassiter swims under water?
I suppose it was swimming, for ev-
erytime she was seen by “yours
truly” she was under water.
Some of us are receiving most ben-
eficient and thorough training at
the Nursery School at the per
suasion of the Misses Foreman and
Covington. My, dear, what is the
next generation coming to! Lack of
modesty seems to be its worst fault,
but we’ll be forced to admit that in
originality and ability to amuse and
“stump” they get the dog. Do you
suppose we !e!ver did things like
those “future men and women” do?
Impossible, indeed, altogether im
probable I Chere, be brave, but I
must sign off. What, do I hear a
second to a motion!? Where have
I heard that clause before? Ah, it
dawns, I believe we’ve been having
some meetings which “must come to
order,” the result of which we have
a fine new bouncing “President.”
Virginia Martin is our new execu
tive and we are mighty proud of
her. But, I believe I said I was
signing off—I’m a woman of my
T’won’t be long now, but—well,
I’ra going now.
Love Always,
—SAL.
OPEN FORUM
SALEM SPIRIT
Time was when Salem girls talked
of “that intangible something called
‘Salem Spirit’.” I have been won
dering what our campus lacks today,
for that Salem Spirit seems to be
asleep. I cannot diagnose the situ
ation, but perhaps if we would all
look to ourselves for the cause,
caring a little less for the mote in
our brother’s eye, the atmosphere
here would be more harmonious.
Misunderstanding and discord are
not native to Salem, so I just want
to make a plea that each one try a
little—by more willing recognition
of the other’s worth, and less de
structive criticism—to make the last
verse of our Alma Mater a reality:
“The joy of comradeship is here
Thy spirit makes us one.”
—Elizabeth Marx.
Ancient French Church
Yields Strange Relic
Talmont, France — Excavations
under an Eleventh century church
here have brought to light a curious
crypt in the shape of a ship meas
uring 27 feet by 12. The original
ity of this shape is augmented in
interest by the fact that it is based
on a rock 36 feet long and that of
its ten sides four are within only
2 feet of the sea.
Chain Colleges
Now Undertaken
Kumhers No Longer the Boast of
The Great Institutions; Is A
New Experiment
A decade ago it was the proud
boast of many an American ' iTrii-
versity that its enrollment was 5,000
or 10,000 or 25,000—the largest in
its state or region, or, possibly, in
America.
Today that same situation, mass
enrollment, huge classes, impersonal,
machine-like instruction, has come to
be regarded by college authorities as
the greatest evil besetting education.
It is “a tragi-comedv.” in the opin
ion of Prof. Carl Holliday, of the
University of Toledo, who, in the
current issue of The North American
Review, .surveys the efforts of col
leges and educators throughout the
country to solve the problem created
by the hordes of new students who
have rushed into the college since
the war.
The answer, universally agreed
upon, is to keep—or even make—
the colleges small. Prof. Holliday
points out. Many of the better
known schools already have placed
a strict limit upon the number of
students they will receive, pending
reorganization plans which will en
able them to give more attention to
the problems of the student as an
individual.
“Chain Colleges" on Coast
Harvard with its 8,000 students, is
entering upon the most ambitious
project so far attempted. The great
university will be divided into a
number of small colleges, each en
rolling approximately 200 students,
and each a unit in itself so far as
the liberal phase of education is
concerned, with a dean, instructors,
library and physical equipment. The
purpose is to bring students and
teachers into more intimate and in
formal contact, enabling the latter
to give attention to the personal
problem of the individual youth.
In California a similar project is
under way known as Claremont Col
leges. “Recently there was added
to Pomona College of this system a
sister school, Scripps College, and it
is proposed that when this new in
stitution reaches an enrollment ap
proximating 300 a third one shall be
established,” explains the North
American Review writer, _ ‘‘Xhus
chain of small colleges, each with its
own faculty, will give to students
thrtt iTi'dtvidUal TnsTructrflh' resiilfrng
in genuine higher education.”
At the University of Wa.shington,
Princeton and Harvard the tutorial
.system has been adopted. In addi
tion to attending their regular classes
the students are assigned in small
intimate groups, to an instructor with
whom they can meet informally for
discussion of particular problems
and whose aim it is to make such
meetings take the form of interesting-
social discussions, rather than the
cut-and-dricd work of the old-fash
ioned class room. At Rollins Col
lege, Florida; Swarthmore, Cornell
and several other institutions plans
with the same general aim are being
worked out.
“Tough luck,’ said the egg in the
monastery, “Out of the frying-pan
into the friar.”
Lecturer (to committeeman):
“May I have a pitcher of water on
the platform table?”
Committeeman—-“To drink?”
Lecturer: “No; to do a high-diving
We live and learn, the wise ones say;
And so I lived and learned one day;
Now I sit in the learner’s seat.
Wise, but willing to repeat.
Gladys
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