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THE SALE M IT E
Saturday, September 21, 19529.
SPORT,
SWIMMING MEET
On Wednesday afternoon the
swimming pool was splashing with
freshmen and they were out to make
a big splash, too. It was the oc
casion of the freshman swimming
meet. Perhaps you will notice below
that there are two girls whose names
appear ever so many times. One of
tliem we had known before in con
nection with academy swimming
meets, but the other one was entirely
new to us. We were unprepared for
her debut but nevertheless, she made
one which will not easily be forgot-
Blanche Phillips was w
the meet with a total of 4
while Lyda Womelsdorf car
with 4 points. The meet v
of
sation—to say the least.
The winners in swimming foi
Back Stroke—Phillips; Betts.
Side Stroke—Phillips ; Walker.
Breast Stroke—Walker; Womels
dorf.
Side Overarm—Phillips ;Womels-
dorf.
Double Overarm — Womelsdorf;
Pliillips.
The winners in diving were:
Strraight Front — Womelsdorf
Phillips.
Running Front — Womelsdorf;
Phillips.
Swan—Phillips; Womelsdorf.
Jack Knife—Womelsdorf; Phil-
3 and Womel.sdorf
HEADS EXTEND HEARTY
GREETINGS TO NEWCOMERS
(Continued Fr
ings.
We 1
1 Page One.)
more than pleased
splendid gift. Miss
Siewers has been interestedly busy
for weeks and has accomplished
marvels in the new arrangement. Be
sure to drop in for a book and enji
a real surprise sensation.
The 1929 stone bridge across the
brook has mellowed through
summer months and is even i
attractive than when the stone
new. You will love to go down the
liill and sit tliere and chat as we
have through vacation; for there i.'
no cooler spot on the campus—al
ways a breeze right there.
The Church street view from Al
ice Clewell and I.ehman buildings
you will be glad to hear, has been
greatly improved. Several old barns
and sheds have disappeared and
smooth grassy swards and neat
fences have taken their places-
say nothing of the old fashioned
charm of Miss Anna’s pretty flow
ffardeii
The V .intirig of Main Hall and
the iiapering of Junior and Lehman
Halls has been finished and you
imagine how many hundreds of
things Mr. Barrage has mended all
summer long. Surely you will not
find anything that needs mending
ivhen you come.
By the way, if you want to see
quaint bit of interior restoration, b
sure to visit the hallway in South
Hall which, as the gift of the Seni
Academy Class and members of the
faculty, has been brought back
the period in which it was built
and history of music.
Salem is mighty glad to have ;
back, old girls; and new girls,
welcome you heartily and beli
tliat it will not be long until you
will feel that Salem has become to
you, your dear Alma Mater.
Very cordially yours,
KATHARINE B.' RONDTHALER
WELCOME FRESHMEN !
Freshmen, we are glad you are
here! May you learn to cherish
Salem’s ideals and catch the real
spirit of your college home.
We sincerely trust that you will
adopt the following lines for your
A Freshman’s Wish, That I may
attain to the full measure of woman
hood, I must keep my body beauti
ful by cleanliness and right-living,
my mind pure by study and right-
thinking, my heart tender by sym
pathy and loving service, and my
spirit alight by a constant search for
truth and beauty. A clean, strong,
healthy body, suitably garbed will
give me an attractive appearance
and a joy of life, in work as well
as in play; a mind that is ever seek
ing knowledge and true understand
ing will make me an interesting and
inspiring companion; a loving and
true heart will give happiness t(
and to others. A spirit aliv
truth and beauty, wherever found,
will enable me to get the best out of
life and to inspire others to do
likewise. All these qualities of body,
mind and spirit will give charm and
make me loved and revered by all.
Cireater wish hath no woman.
^LULA MAY STIPE,
—Dean of Women.
gift of our ehaperonage and guid-
during the coming year. Sen-
we welcome you to your ordeal
of practice teaching, Juniors to your
love affairs. Sophomores to your in
delicate chastisement of freshmen
vulgarity, and Freshmen we welcome
you to the most enlightening year of
your lives; may you only find us as
charming and agreeable as we find
ourselves. To everyone we wish
success and happiness and may we
live to tell the tale. In the struggle
let us not forget Mr. Twain’s well
timed and kindly advice, “Don’t part
with your illusions. When they are
gone you may still exist, but you
have ceased to live.”
—FRITZ FIREY,
President of Setiior Class.
PROGRESS VS. CULTURE
One of the most beautiful, the
most invigorating, and the most
cordial words in the English lan
guage is “Welcome.” We are r
heartily extending this, with all
comprehensive applications, to \
members of the Class of 1933. You
won’t understand for quite a
yet all that this welcome embi
We, the seniors, in the last ycj
life at Salem arc just beginning
•ealize the enormity of the wel-
than likely saw, on the first day of
school, some of the girls wearing Y.
W. C. A. badges. If you don’t know
what the Y. is, or anything about it,
avail yourself of the opportunity to
learn. We know that all new girls
interested in campus activities
want to feel that they have some
part in these activities. We of the
'' also want you in particular to
'e some part and not only do we
nt to do that part but we need
I. If at first it’s only a small part
remember no one else could do y
part as well as you. The Y. W.
ily want.s the help of the new girls,
wants to help tliem at anytime
any way possible.
To the old girls there is little
y; they know what the W. has
•eviousiy been at Salem, but they
don’t know what it can be with the
[■Ip of all, botli old and new. I.et’s
■y and see what Salem girls can
ake it.
—CHARLOTTE GRIMES,
President of V. W. C. A.
WV. L (’ O M E I' R E SIIM E N
included
p'reshmen,
I a heritage of which
s College in
We think w^
will a
The
To tlicse classic Iialls and deai
gray old walls have wanted
1802.
caller;
this
Amongst mv many
summer, a week or so ago, Virginia
Martin dropped in. It was good to
.see her looking fine and fit, dignified
and capable—for hers is a large re
sponsibility. New girls, you must
meet her and learn to know her,
since she is the president of your
Student Government Association at
Salem.
If you see a particularly cheery
little person bustling around the
buildings, you’ll know her to be
Charlotte Grimes, head of Y.
Charlotte and her Cabinet
smooth out for you all your w
if you have any, and we sincerely
hope that you haven’t.
Also look out for Lueile Hassel,
our youngest Senior, for she and her
staff of hustling reporters are out
for news. If you do or say anything
extraordinary, faculty, old girls, or
new girls, she will “put you in the
paper.”
Mrs. Meredith will not be with us
this year, and I know that you will
miss her. In her place, assisting
Mrs. Hampton as stewardess, will be
Miss Mattie Butner and we welcome
her to her many-sided job.
The faculty people have been sum
mering in all sorts of places. Eu
rope has been a favorite o
shall certainly expect them all back
again more erudite than eve
We are particularly glad to greet
new members—Prof. Curlee coming
to us from the University as our new
head of Mathematics and Miss Hel
en Hart Fuller from Nebraska, who
heads the Public School Music De
partment and teaches ear-training
“There is no moment like the pres-
it. The man who will not execute
his resolutions when they are fresh
upon him can have no hope from
them afterwards; they will be dissi
pated, lost, and perished in the hurry
and scurry of the world, or sunk in
the slough of indolence.,' —(Maria
Edgeworth). Another year has be
gun for us at Salem. It is the pres-
for us; a present full of acti
and back slappings. To some
entirely new and for that reason
more interesting but by no means
more enjoyable than to the older
students. Today is the day when we
feel more independent than at any
other time of the year. There is as
yet no doubt as to whether we shall
pass or fail. We live for the moment
and undoubtedly it is one filled with
good will, which may be slightly
diminished by that tired feeling
which may come creeping
less fortunate of us after we have
been waiting seemingly for ages only
to have our names registered with
scores of others.
the beginning of what
do not know. We hope and
practically sure, however, that it will
be the beginning of the acquirement
of much knowledge (if you under
stand what we mean by knowledge),
the beginning of a great many good
times, friendships formed, of heated
irguments, of activities of all kinds,
and above all an increased esteem
for the school in which
jpending possibly the most pleasant
years of ourlives—certainly the easi-
which
three years ago.
■elcoming you t
0 other woman
South can boast
understand just how you will accept
this fact. We can remember
how we felt during our Freshman
I our Sophomore yea
this tradition we heard about
a lot of eloquence over something
that was dead and gone,
thought, in fact, we were quite
that the things we needed mos
new, up-to-date buildings, instead
of these old ones, dating back
hundred years or more. We needed
more talk of the future and less of
the past.
Now, we realize that Salem has
given us a more complete, more far-
reaching education than we could
have obtained in a similar institution
elsewhere. We have learned to lov
and revere the old things which time
has proved most valuable. Something
of the calm, serene atmosph
Salem one hundred years a;
entered into our education and mel
lowed c
:■ would not have you think for
)ment that Salem lives in tin
past. She doesn’t. We already hayi
plans for two new College, and thrc
Academy, buildings. We have every
modern convenience in our present
dormitories. Added to this, Salem is
the A-1 class of accredited col
leges in America. Nothing very ol
and stale about that, is there? N(
eternally moving forward i
step with the educational progret
all over the United States. She live
in a present which has been tempered
and refined by a background of (
hundred and fifty seven years
culture.
To all this we arc welcoming y
Class of ’33! May Salem alw;
have cause to be proud of you!
—VIRGINIA MARTIN,
President Student Self-Govt. Ai
This many a long, long year.
Perhaps your great-great grandma
Once dwelt within their shade
When she too forth a-learning wen
A joyous, winsome maid.
Perhaps the first of all your line
You join our band today—
Howe’er it be, we still are glad
That you are come our way.
-ELIZABETH ALLEN,
President of .Junior Class.
DON’T BE AFRAID
,In spite of the fac
THE QUEERNESS OF CELIA
By Amelie Rives (Princess
Troubetzky)
A peculiar book, to say the least,
s this “Queerness of Celia.” It
,‘atches the interest at the start,
holds it throughout, and instead of
letting the interest d
athcr
about the “whyfore” of Celia’s
queerness. This is the story of Ce-
(libbs, an intriguing lady, who,
the age of fourteen, because of
father’s death was forced as a
rd upon his only friend, Hilary
,iser, Esq., a confirmed anei fas
tidious bae'helor of thirty-six. I’rom
then on ditto the story of Judy and
• “Daddy I.ong-legs,” for Celia
means of lu-r ececntricities at
,’c attracted Hilary. At the deatii
Mrs Eversham, with whom Celia
death of Ivr
a the
1 Celia
men—the chief caui
anticipation of these
:‘ollege life—
that Sopho-
of all Fresh-
of unpleasant
lither blood-
particularly unctious. It
ir us, especially, who only a year
were in your boots, to wlecome
to Salem and ease your fears of
things we never dreamed of doing
you. We can’t have forgotten o
experiences as new green Freshmen
so completely that wc are ready
lead you into our mistakes inst
of helping you to avoid them.
read and heard about
Sophomores is hunk, ni
ollege student.s know that;
but there seems to be an unwritten
law to keep up the old tradition
speech if not in aetiem. We want
and expect you to forget that _
are new students, away ;it school for
the first time, and adjust yourselve
to your new life immediately, tin
No dembt you feel homesick and
a trifle out of place. Ninety-
pcr cent of the students before
have had the same troubles, so “e
be like that.” You have not
chosen by a cruel fate as the only
i-eci»)icnt"of these particular ordeals.
, ill bc
•ith tlie mutual understanding
tliat marriage was the only way of
giving Celia a home without setting
the tongues of the gossips hissing.
Hilary found it quite interesting to
try to understand Celia’s idiosyn
crasies, but he never succeeded even
tliough he fell in love with her in
tlie meantime. As for Celia—she
amused herself with an effort at
sclf-sup))ort; she became “The
Masked Mermaid from Classy
Cliques” at a theatre. Later she be
came infatuated with a romantic
young Romeo with whom she dashed
off to parts unknown. However, she
soon found the unknown parts dis
agreeable, and she flew back to the
" ’ler now beloved husband.
After which all was right with their
d so to speak.
Iiis is an up-to-date novel which
rays in a rather overdrawn man-
the character and innermost
thoughts of an unusual person. Ce-
■■ ' queerness was not very myster-
after all, however, for a care
ful analysis reveals only a longing to
be I
by
Bv Ber
•ta Ruck
i'ct y
riglit.
lophomoi
We welcome everyone, and to you
Freshmen we offer the invaluable
THIS MEANS YOU
Salem welcomes its new girls,
young and old, long and short, pret
ty and ugly, smart anel dull, ad
vanced and freshmen. Aren’t you in
this category? No, now that’s fine
it means you’re just a little different
but don’t think on that account that
you’re not welcome. We always
took great pride in our own peculi
arities so we’ll take great pride ir
yours. If you’re a very green fresh
man—oh, but of course non
are, however believe it or not they
are found in some schools—you will
probably be told by some very oifi-
cious sophomore just what to do and
when to do it. Don’t be misled by
her seeming display of wisdom; just
remember that she means well. As
to the upper classmen, juniors and
seniors, never fail to respect their
dignity, if not their knowledge.
By "now you are probably
dering just who wrote this article
and why. We have no intention of
telling you who wrote it, but
try to tell you why she wrote it. You
have probably heard of the Y. W.
C. A. If in no other way yi
don’t forget that on-
0 you were new stud-
Don’t be too absorbed ir
your old friends to give youi
future friends some attention. Min
gle with them and help them to fee
' ime at once. I.et us not give the
studemts a wrong impression o
Salem Sophomores by acting supe
rior or snobbish. I.et us show the
Freshmen what good sports we are
bv making tlicir first week at Salem
a' pleasant one, and we’ll give them
a chance to show their colors during
Sophomore week!
MARY MITCHELL NORMAND
President Sophomore Class.
[norous in a subtle way. Be-rta Ruck n:
lias the trait that makes one laugh a,
right out loud just because one feels h
like it, and she uses it to perfection t(
in this book. ^
Psychologists and students in Eel-
ucation, take heed and reael this
novel, for in it Miss Ruck discloses s1
the subconscious minds and sup- ^
pressed desires of the two main
characters. The story deals with a
seemingly imperturbable young wo- ,
man who marries twice for .purely j
liusiness motives, and fells desper-
ately in love witli her latter husband,
who', by the way, fortunately falls
in love’ with her also. That, in a
sentence, is the content of the book,
He)wever, the story is told in a light,
fanciful manner, and side-lights on
the “why” and “wSierefore” of
love and courtship are very interest- ^
ing. Those Who Always Pick the
Wrong Meiment for sentimcntalistie s R
should read this book and becomc
among Those Who Always Choose F
the Right Moment. This is light _ cl
■eading, but quite entertaining. The ^
Suhconscious Courtship.
Then there was the Scotch author
who hoped all his children would be
iris so he could use his old type-
■riter ribbons for their hair.
-Exchange.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
“My lad, I consent with pleasure.
But have you spoken to my wife
about marrying our daughter?”
“Not yet, sir.”
“Well, then, to help you out, I’ll
oppose the match.”
—Exchange.
A POTTED FLOWER ^
“What makes Jones so hard-boiled ,
is morning?” (
“Take awav women, and what,
would follow?” screamed the orator, ^
“Me,” yelled a man down in tin
audience. st
—Exchange. l;|
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