Pago Two.
THE SALEMITE
Saturday, December 13, 1930.
The Salem ite
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F.DI'I’ORIAI. STAFF
Editor-In-Chief Edith Kirkland
Managing Editor Daisy Lee Carson
Associate Editor Sara Graves
Associate Editor Kitty Moore
Feature Editor Anna Preston
Local Editor • Lucy Currie
Local Editor Agnes Paton Pollock
Local Editor Eleanor Idol
Music Editor Millicent Ward
Poetry Editor Margaret Richardson
Cartoon Editor..Mary Elizabeth Holcomb
Reporter Marian Caldwell
Home Economics Bazaai
Proves Successful
Proceeds of Sales to go For
lelephcne in New Practice
House
Tin- Home Econonnies Club held
its annual Chri.stmas Bazaar on
Monday between the hours of twelve
and si.x in the lobby of Main Hall.
As a suf>'fjestiim for gifts, a very at
tractive assortment of Japanese
Novelties was offered. Fruit cakes,
Candies, Sandwiches and hot coffee
were sold by the members of the
club. A neat sum was realized with
which the club intends to install a
much needed telephone in the
practice house.
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Mary Nor:
Advertising Mgr. .... Mary Alice Beam
Asst. Adv. Mgr Edith Leake
Asst. Adv. Mgr Frances Caldwell
Asst. Adv. Mgr Emily Mickey
Asst. Adv. Mgr Nancy Fulton
Asst. Adv. Mgr Ann Meisler
Asst. Ad. Mgr. ..Elizabeth McClaugherty
Asst. Adv. M-r Loui' e Brinkley
Asst. Adv. Mj.1 Daisy litz
Circulation Manager Mertha D;
Asst. Cir. Mgr Margaret John
Asst. Circulation Mgr Grace Br(
LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
I )Hty from my heart the
man who has no pattern-man
wliom he can thoroughly ad
mire and esteem. Admire, yes,
v/onder at, look at, as some
thing beyond, above, and truly
better than lihiisiif; honoring
h.is friend .so purely that he
h’imseif is purified and digni
fied by the worthiness of the
honor he bestows.
—Phillips Bronlcx.
If you want to be miserable,
think' about yourself, about
what you want, what you like,
what respect people ought to
pay you, and what people think
of'you.
—Charles Kingsley.
THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
IN BOOK HOUSES
As I remember, Robin Hood wa;
Master of Ceremonies, and Cin
derella played at being the hostess.
Of course, it all seemed very strange
at first, but as I became engror^sed
in everything that was going on, I
forgot that it was at all out of the
way. I think it was because I had
been away from home such a long
time that my friends decided to give
their party while I was still gone,
and could not interfere, as any mor
tal would, with their merriment. The
first person I saw was Alice, and
she was carrying on the most out
rageous flirtation with Tom Sawyer.
Poor Tom! He must not have had
time to put on his best pants and
shirt, because he was all ragged, and,
I am afraid, quite dirty but, any
way, Alice didn’t seem to mind. King
Arthur was sitting on a big coucli,
and was doing his best to make Elsie
Dinsmore smile, but Rlsi'j would
wander around weeping copiously
over nobody knew what. Peter Pan
and Wendy were having a glorious
time, and finally they flew out of the
window and away to the Never-
Never Land to call on the boys.
I.ady Macbeth was most disconcert
ing. She wandered all around the
room, wiping her hands and moaning
about her sins. She was terrible,
but the Queen of Hearts ran her a
close second. She tramped up and
down followed always by her exe
cutioner, and shouting “Off with his
head,” every other minute. The
Cheschire Cat grinned ferociously
directly over Aladdin’s head. Alad
din, however, was so engrossed in
his conversation with Ali B'aba that
he didn’t even notice his feline halo.
I cant imagine what ever possessed
Danny Deever to come to a party
on this night of all nights beeaust
all he could do was drift here and
there thinking both privately and
aloud of the hanging he was to liayc
t!;e next mori.ing. After a wliilt
lUiibeard eanie in, and all iiis wives
traied after him. Poor David Cop-
perfield ha.I an awful time, Yo i
rf member how very sliy he is. Well
Puck insisted orj) bringing all of
Bluebeard’s harem over to land
David at one time and it was in
embarassing. Puck was in the most
uproarious mood, and did his very
best to make everybody uncomfort
able. He unscrewed I.ong .John
Silver’s wooden leg and hid
Imagine John’s embarassment when
he tried to get uj) and couldn’t find
his leg anywhere. The Mad Hatter
tripped hither and yon with a gi
pig under each arm, biting huge
pieces out of his teacup, and waking
u)) the Doormouse who tried to .sleep
through everything. Old Scrooge
sat back in his chair and glared
everybody in general, but especially
at poor cringing little Tiny Tim,
who was unfortunately seated be
tween the White Rabbit and that
limb-of-Satan, Huckleberry Finn.
The one was continually bemoaning
the loss of his wliite gloves, and the
other insisted upon explaining the
mv.steries of dead cats. Ivanhoe,
ehin in band, sat staring moodily in
to the fire, but presently he was
rudely interrupted by Robinson Cru
soe who stumbled over his legs i
anguished effort to get away from
the wiles of Guinevere.
You will probably think that thi
was not much of a party—and pei
haps it wasn't- -but at least it wa
unusual, and at least, it was not
“sticky” party.
All of a sudden, I.ochinvar burst
dramatically into the room, with his
spurs clanking and his eurls flying.
He grabbed up one of tlie pale maid
ens at the table, and dashed off with
lier into the we.st. Mv gaze follow
ed them, and wlien I turned back to
t!ie ]>arty, everything was in an u)>-
roar, and everybody seemed to be
yelling and shouting all at once. I
riever did discover what caused all
the confusion for even as I looked
all the guests seemed to fade away,
and I only heard a hodge-podge of
sounds. Finally tlie only ones
were the Three Musketeers who
stood on guard in front of the fire
place ; and above their erect heads
I saw all of my old friends safely
back in their book houses until the
next party. I liope I shall have a
real invitation next time because I,
too, would like to play with Puck,
and chat with Ali Baba and Aladdin
over lamps, and treasures, and doors
thereto, and other such to])ics of dis-
I turn over and go back to sleep,
this time not to dream, but I hardly
expect to wake with my head on my
shoulders after seeing in what a
terrible temper the Queen was to
night, and how .set she was on having
everybod}^ behe.aded.
THE WIFEI.Y VIEWS '
“My dear, you spend too much,”
Said Pa, who found life tougli;
‘My dear,” said ma, “you’re wrong.
You just don’t make enough!”
New University FoundeJ
With No Student Rules
New Institute Founded With
$5,000,000 Endowment
Fund
New York—A uniyevsiliy without
rules for its students, lacking impres
sive looking buildings, and with its
entire work centered about a small
but distinguished faculty is to be
established here.
It is the Institute of Advanced
Study, made possible by a gift of
$3,000,000 endowment made last
June by Louis F’amberger and his
sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld.
Tlie aims of the new university,
which will bear many of the aspects
of the original university of the Mid
dle Ages in its form of organization,
was outlined here by Dr. Abraham
Flexner, director of the new institu
tion, who gave four general princi
ples on which it will be established.
“The first of these,” he said, “is
that there shall be no intrusion of
those collegiate ideas and practices
that are necessary in a college but
hampering in a university. I r
by that, that we shall have no i
or time for athletics or extra-ci
cular activities, and no attempt will
be made at paternalistis control of
the student body.
“Secondly, we will make no
tempt at great size. Quality will be
the first concern. For example, if
we can find no first-rate- teacher of
mathematics we will h;ive no course
in mathematics.
“The faculty will co-operate
the management of the institute and
have places on the board of trustees.
“We hoj^e that the remuneration
of our faculty members will be more
fully commensurate with the impor
tance of the positions.
“Although these principles,
many ways, are the expression of a
break from tradition, we intend to
imply no criticism of other univer-
“We can hope to do what I have
described only because we are start
ing new and are not bound by tra
dition. Most of the post-graduate
schools in this country were built
■TOlleges. We have ' the advantage
in that we are .starting fresh and
free. This freedom may result in
many mi,stakes which the older uni
versities have escaped. But that is
part of freedom.
“So far as other universities are
concerned this is in every way a
friendly effort.”
—The Davidsonian.
PERSONALITY AND
PROBLEMS
Personality—? The term per
sonality, or the field covered by the
term, is extremely broad, but even
in its broadest sense it has no suit
able substitute. In all of the grinds
of life the word personality stiands
for one thing . . . lias one definition.
According to Wilfred E. Powell,
“Personality is what the individual
is as a whole.” Quoting from Wel-
ton’s essay, What Do We Mean by
Education, “Personality is one’s
whole self, in its weaknesses as well
as in its strength, in its moods as
well as in its principle.s, in its dis
position as well as in its will, in its
relation to the whole of its surround
ings.” From the above quotations
we readily surmise that per.sonality
is the WHOLE PUPIL “in all his
activities, in all his relations, and in
all his aspirations.” Your personal
ity is the total way in which you
tli’ink, feel and act. ' It is YOU . . .
“a product of all the forces both
within and without yourself.”
A pupil’s personality is forming
throughout his yoiitli. First there is
a fickleness, tlien, a change when the
individual becomes consistent in his
reactions to difficulties. Some of us
have already reached the stage where
our elders can almost definitely jjoint
out our reactions to a given problem.
Others of us are still in the plastic
state ... we react somewhat differ
ently to each problem. Our person
ality is being molded. If we are to
be the proud (?) possessors of a
“pinched personality,” if we are to
be a perpetual gripe,” etc., we now
have our fate in our hands. Shall
we take hold of ourselves, as far as
THE COLLEGE GIRL
There are many sweet and per
severing women who never studied
beyond the district school, wo
who help every one near them by
their own unselfi.sh loveliness; but
the intellingently patient, the wo
who ean put themselves into
places of all sorts of people, who
can sympathize not merely with clear
and eminent griefs, but with every
delicate jarring of the human soul,
who must command a respect in
tellectual as well as moral, reach
their highest efficiency through ex
perienee based on college training.
College life, designed as it is tc
strengthen a girl’s intellect and char
acter, should teach her to understand
herself better from .contact [w’itlh
other beings, should fortify her ii
dividuality, her power of resisting,
and the determination to resist, the
contagion of the unwomanly. Exag
gerated study may lessen womanly
charm; but there is nothing loud
or masculine about it. The only
characteristics of women that the
sensible college girl may lose s.
feminine frivolity, and that kind of
headless inaccuracy in thought and
speech which withholdsi the intellec
tual respect to educated men.
At college, if you live rightly, you
will find “enough learning to make
you humble, enough friendship to
make your heart large and wan
enough culture to teach you the r
finement of simplicity, enough wi
dom to keep you sweet in poverty
and temperate in wealth.” Here yoi
learn to look at both sides of a ques
tion, to respect the point of vie’
every honest man or woman, and to
recognize the point of view that dif
fers mo.st widely from your (
Here, too, you may see that “after
doubt comes reverence, after adver
sity peace, after faintness courage,
and that out of weakness we
made strong.” It shoidd be on
the, supreme joys to be a college
girl.
—A. I. R. In The. Pioneer.
possible and help to mold our per
sonality or shall we let go and . .
come what may?
It is a recognized fact that the
growth of the personality depends
on (1) phy.sieal condition, (2) i
stincts and capacities, (3) enviro
ment, (4) self. We easily see that
the first three of these components
of personality are to a certain extent
inflicted upon us by our place in the
world while the fourth is being con
tinually developed. In spite of cir
cumstances and physical defects we
can if we desire, take hold upon self
and expand it, creating a submissive,
self-assertive; sensitive or non-st
sitive self. It lies with us as
whether or not we shall allow (
‘self’ to become too one-sided. We
must see that we combine the better
elements of each of the above types
of self. The ‘self’ depends to an
limited extent upon the pupils ideal-
self, upon the self or individual
which he seeks to imitate.
As the conflicting elements which
are brought out in the individuals
effort to fit into the varied situations
of life are brought into harmony
with the ideal-self, the individual
becomes more consistent and ‘Per
sonality’ emerges.
—The Critograph.
GET A HORN
Put j’our hammer in the locker
With your ]iand-ax do likewise;
Anyone can be a knocker.
Anyone can criticize.
Cultivate the building habit.
Though it hurts your face to smile;
At the start it may go awkward.
But you’ll get it afterwhile.
WRECKAGE
I built a little house o’dreams
I built it out of the timbers of my
song.
And I shingled it with the stars
But the wind came.
And tlie rain descended;
Now my house is a mass of debris:
e have It, and the
e: “You’ve got a good pair of
feet for dancing haven’t you?”
Alice; “You ought to know, you’ve
dance all over ’em!”
A Corner in Verse |
i
CHRISTMAS MOP.NE G.
If Bethlehem were here to
Or this were very king ago.
There wouldn’t lie a wintt'r time
Nor any cold or .^.now.
I’d run out through the garden gate,
And down along the pasture walk;
And off beside the cattle barns
I’d hear a kind of gentle talk.
I’d move the heavy iron chain
And pull away the wooden pin;
I’d push the door a little bit
And tiptoe very softly in.
The pigeons and the yellow hens
And all the cows would stand away;
Their eyes would open wide to see
A lady in the manger hay.
If this were very long ago
And Bethlehem were here today.
And ^Mother held my( hand and
smiled—
I mean the lady would—and she
Would take the wooly blankets off
Her little boy so I could see.
His shut-up eyes would be asleep.
And he would look like our John,
And he would be all crumpled too.
And have a pinkish color on.
I’d watch his breath go in and out.
His little clothes would be all white.
I’d slip my finger in his hand
To feel how he could hold it tight.
And she would smile and say, “Take
The mother, Mary, would, “Take
And I would kiss his little hand
And touch his hair.
While Mary put the blankets back
The gently talk would soon begin.
And when I’d tiptoe softly out
I’d meet the wise men going in.
—Elizabeth Madox Roberts.
SAND DUNES AND SEA
Blue skies and bluer sea with its
white teeth showing.
Gold dunes made sweet by yellow
jasmine growing.
And over sand and sea a keen wind
blowing.
Grey skies and grayer days and the
years swift going;
Youth’s golden dune.s all white with
winter’s snowing . . .
And in my heart the bitter wind o
memory blowing.
—John Richard Moreland
“TO—”
Out of Chats—a voice;
Out of darkness—light
Great Sculptor, shaping and mould
ing
Youth, and day, and night
Created; then—^gone is His bless
ing ... .
Piit me here, dear; Then—
Sent me you.
A voice ! A light! A blessing!
Oh! If you knew: If you knew.
“DEATH"
Let not my death be long.
But light
As a birds swinging;
Happy decision in the light of
Then plight
From off the ultimate bough!
And let my wing be strong.
And my last note the first
Of another’s singing.
See to it. Thou.
THE IMPOSSIBILITY
Lo, Love’s obey’d by all ’Tis right
'That all should know what they
Lest erring Conscience damp delight,
And folly laugh our joys away.
'Thou Primal Love, who grantest
wings
And voices to the woodland birds.
Grant me the power of saying things
Too simple and to sweet for words !
—Patman.