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Saturday, November 9, 1929. THE S A LI PAGE THREE ETY week-end at Chapel Hill and Sarah Sutton at Dunn PERSONALS Agnes Pollock is sjiending two days in Raleigh. A number of girls will be at home Sunday; Margaret Smith, VV'ana May Huggins, Lily Marshal, Adele Hicks, Eleanor Fix, Elizabeth Fix, Eliza beth Little and Elmira HcHrne, •lulia Pendergraph has Ketty her guest in Mt. Airy this Araminta Sawyer and Martha Pierce are visiting Anna Preston in Charlotte. Annie K. Sutton is spending the Katherine Ivciby, Margaret Smith, and Estie Lee Clore are visiting in Newton. The following girls are spending the week-end at home; Virginia Me- Crory, Allie Mae Gerkin, Mai Bennett, Nona Raper, Kitty Moore, Adele Pannill, Winifred Fisher, and Mary Neal Wilkins. Gr : Bro Julia B. Jennings has Ernestine Theis as her guest in Thomasville today and tomorrow. Florence Bowers will be in S bury over Sunday. (Continued From Page One.) ting was changed completely to America, to Boston, and the king was changed to a governor of one of the colonies. Here Mr. Schofield sang a song, “The Masked Ball.” It illustrated the composer’s free expression of self. Verdi’s works are characterized by three cLments; First, he was like Mozart in that he could depict cbar- Second, Verdi was a master in making a situation extremely dramat ic. The first scene from “II Trova- tore” is an excellent example. The last important element in Verdi’s works is his ability to paint local color. For example, in the first scene of the fourth act of “Aida,” the curtain rises displaying the banks of the Nile, a temple and |)alm trees all flooded with moon light. Jn “Othello” and “Falstaif,” his last great operas, Verdi has broken away from all conventions and like his contemporary. Wagner, simply develops his story through vocal (Lclamation. Verdi died in 1900, leaving a number of operas, many of which are forgotten. Gounod is an important composer of the later nineteenth century, be ing especially known for his operas “Faust” and “Romeo and Jidiet.” He is different from Verdi in that he is lyric rather than dram.atic. Everything he wrote sounds like a love song. Perhaps once or twice lie gets a little diabolical in Faust but not often. Mr. Schofield closed Dean Var- dell’s lecture by singing “Avant de Quitter ces Lieux,” from Faust. Throughout the program Dean Vardell gave most interesting Illus trations at the piano. called, in an important sense, the mathematics of nature. Geometry an outgrowth of field measurements. So completely is nature mathemat ical that some of the more e natural sciences, in particular tronomy and physics, are in their theoretic phases largely mathemati cal in nature, while other sciences which have hitherto been compelled by tlie complexity of their phenom ena and the inexactitude of their data to remain descriptive and em pirical, are developing towards the mathematical ideal, proceeding upon the fundamental assumption that mathematical relations exist between the forces and the phenomena, and that nothing short of the discovery and formulation of these relations would constitute definite knowledge of the subject. Still more important than the sub ject matter of mathematics is the fact that it exemplifies most typical ly, clearly and simply certain mode of thought which are of the utmoi importance. One of these modes of thought is the ability to grasp situation. Much practice is needed for even a fair success in this, and so we look to the school to furnish and direct such practice. At the conclusion of Miss Fogle man’s remarks the club enjoyed social hour, during which mathemati cal contests were conducted. Mis F.loise Crews won the prize offered to the best contestant. DID YOU KNOW THAT- Miss Blair the track team on the soccer (Continued From Page One.) to some extent with even the primi tive races, and which, is developed to a high degree with the growth of civilization, and in whatever civili- zaton it may be found, the mathe matics is essentially the same. It j may be of a different scope, but is 1 always of the same character. So far as the same ground has been covered the same result has been reached. The Hindus formulated and solved more than one mathe matical problem which the Euro peans took up and solved independ ently centuries later, only to learn that an earlier civilization had solved them, long before. Mathematics is equally engrained i in nature, at least in nature as seen I and interpreted by the human mind, i The study of nature leads to weigh- 1 ing and measuring, and the estab lishing of relations which can be ex- j pressed in mathematical form and * henee studied by mathematical meth- 1 ods. The greatest feature of natural i phenomena is change, variation: the I most important single branch of ^ mathematics — the calculus —■ is a j study of variation, and may be 5 Wellesley Miss Atkinson ' team at C:olumbia? Dr. Willoughby was editor of the “Critic,” her high school magazine, at Central High School, Saint Paul, Minnesota? One of the main func tions of the “Critic” was to criticize Miss Barrow attended Salem Academy ? • Miss Stipe received her B. A. at Salem College? Slie is a member of North Carolina Association of Deans of Women and the Associa tion of Deans of Women. Miss Fuller is interested in avi ation and hopes to own a plane some day ? THE GREAT VOICE I who have heard solemnities; of sound— The throbbing pulse of cities, the loud roar Of ocean on sheer ledges of gaunt rocks. The chanting of innumerable winds. Around white peaks, the plunge of cataracts, The whelm of avalanches, and, by night, The thunder’s panic breath—have come to know What is earth’s mightiest voice—the desert’s voice. Silence, that speaks with deafening tones of God. —Clinton Scollard. HERE^S WHY You ask me, fellow-sufferers, why I will never be a novelist. I must confess that once I blew rosy-hued bubbles (I realize that is a trite pres.sion, but this is not being writ ten for the English Department) concerning, my future as a brilliant authoress, but the day I walked a certain English class room year, those bubbles began popping as if it was raining pins. I imn diately began planning my career simplier vocations, such as training wild animals or being a college presi dent—two somewhat over-lapping, but honest professions. When my family used to show me off in blue hair-ribbons and socks with the us ual parental pride, they neve dreamed that their airy, little daugh ter would one day realize she had been but a “happy moron” for many years. In the first place I had the idea that one gifted, as I thought myself to be, with novelistic abilities could merely sit down in a comfortable chair and write off a novel within a month or two. Now that I have had further instructions along such lines, 1 don’t believe I’d get much kick of somebody yelling in an ear trump et which I held with an aged and infirmed hand that my first and only er flop. To squint at the binding of my book through dim and watery eyes, and then die peacefully with the volume in my arms—well, that may be your idea of a grand finale, but not for me! I desire bigger and better results at more frequent in- Imagine writing a sentence, then re-writing it, then re-writing again— then throwing tho.se efforts into the wastebasket and gong out for a long walk. C'oming back you try writing the sentence again, once, twice, thrice —then in a temperamental fit you tear it into a thousand pieces, and sitting down very calmly, you end up by writing the very same sentence you wrote in the first place. That, my friends, is one of the main quali fications for being a novelist no mat ter whether you know your first sen tence is good, unless you go through the prescribed rigamarole it is posi tively against the rules to use it. Fnless your original manuscript has the appearance of being scratched over for corn or worms by a hungry hen who has accidentally stepped in to your ink bottle—until then you must not dream you liave written anything worth while, and even then there is plenty of room for doubt. VV’lien describing a room you must know whether the wall-paper is pink ;uh1 blue flowered or blue and pink flewered. You must Sherlock Holmes into the mysteries of its furnishings and determine whether the occupant brond or a brunette by the shade the face powder spilled on the r. You must not merely say le handsome boy entered file din- -room,” but express it specifically tiie terras, “'I'he young Apollo strutted into the palatial and ultra fashionable dining-iiall.” Of course,, even you can see what a difference word choice makes. You must know whdther the husband is fussing about one button being off his shirt front or two. All of these small items are of vast importance. 1 could go on forever disclosing the intricate details and expansive subjects with which one has to be well acquainted. I have recently found out you must be so versatile as to take your reader from the booming and crashing and shrieks of a war, home to a nice, quiet dinner in the Bronx, or on a trip through the zoo. Thank you, but that’s just too much hard work, and realizing that early criticism has nipped my nov.listic genius in the bud. I am ready to take the veil. MEMORIES Sometimes—sometimes When the crowd is gay I love to steal by myself away And let my thoughts go slipping back Along old memories’ golden track But the dreams I dream I don’t speak aloud— For I couldn’t tell dreams like National Bellas Hess Co. Full Fashioned SILK HOSE For School wear, silk to the top--beautiful service weight hose in the most poyular fall color. Visit our store. See these values Courteous Service $1 29 Always--Main Floor JL pr BLUE — BLACK AND BROWN SEE THE NEW SHOES —At the— Winston Shoe Store 442 Trade Street D. 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