WATCH OUR
FACULTY
SEE “MURDER
ON THE STYX”
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1933.
Christmas Narrative
Concluded At. Y. P. M,
Dr. Rondthaler Pictures Cruel
Reigns of Herods
At Y. P. M. Dr. Rondthaler
brought the Christmas Narrative to
completeness when he vividly inter
preted the Biblical story of Mary,
Joseph, and the Christ Child from
the time of the departure of the
wise men until the entrance of the
Holy family into Nazareth.
Dr. Rondthaler, after reading the
Bible verses most essential to the
story augmented the interest of the
narrative with many interpretive di
gressions. “History,’' he said, has
wondered, students have wondered
-what the ultimate message born by
the wisemen may have been, but^^o
far no remnant of the return home
of the wise mea has survived.
Turning the attention of the audi
ence to Herod he pictured the des
perate ruler as a person of incarnate
cruelty. Herod with but four months
to live, already having killed three
of his own sons, sent out an order
which brought about the murder of
the innocents. Although Herod had
done his worst, three people had
slipped out of his hands and were
making their w'ay to Egypt where
100,000 Jcw'S were living in the
Delta.
Dr. Rondthaler continued with an
historical explanation of the situa
tion in Palestine after the death of
Herod. The kingdom fell to the
hands of Herod’s three sons, the
crudest of whom was given the
rule of Judea. This one, Archilaus
l)y name, was ruling when Joseph
was returning with his family from
Egypt. A messenger, however,
warned Joseph in a dream that he
Should not enter Judea so Joseph
took his family to parts of Galilee
and went to Nazareth.
“Thus,” concluded Dr. Rond-
tlialer, “is the perfectly told story,
complete and satisfying. W here we
begin there we leave it, and the
last we see is the disappearance to
ward the sweet hills, for Galilee is
a beautiful country.”
Victor Radio Added
To Musical Equipment
Large Instrurrijnt Installed in
Music Building
A Victor radio has been purchased
recently by the college for the mu
sic students. The instrument, which
is a combination of a radio and
Victrola, is to be used particularly
by the classes in music appreciation,
history of music, and orchestration.
The Victor combination, which has
twelve tubes, works automatically,
playing twelve ten-inch records sue.
cessively. Because the mechanism,
enclosed in a handsome wooden
cabinet, is very complicated, only
faculty members of the music de
partment will be allowed to operate
it. Although the radio is not the
newest model, having been purch
ased from Mr. Ernest Schofield, head
of the voice department of Salem
College, the instrument is one of the
finest reproducing machines of its
kind and is a great improvement
over the Victrola which has been
used previously.
Students and faculty are invited
to the music building to see and
hear the new acquisition.
FacultyExplore Lower Region On Tour
One Murdered in Houseboat Escapade on River Styx
Have you ever wished desperately
to put a teacher in his or her proper
place Have you ever indignantly
thumbed your nose at the whole lot
of them to indicate where you
.hoped to goodness they would go’
What kind of vulgar talk is this
for the front page of the Salemite?
(Merely a trick of advertising;
don’t be shocked or alarmed)
It has been rumored by those who
know the gosgip of the school that
the whole faculty has decided to take
a vacation tonight in Hades,—well,
in the underworld if we must
dignified; but we don’t mean
one under Chicago. No one seems
to know much about this sudden de
cision. Maybe Pluto is holding a
school teachers’ convention in
home town in order to find out the
best and longest methods of giving
exams, or maybe he just wanted to
see his old cronies again. Anyway,
they’ll all be there—Linguists, His
torians, Chemists, Mathematicians,
Deans, Doctors, under assumed
College Dining-Room
Has Been Re-painted
Financed by Class of 1933,
Work by Men on Campus
The college dining room was re
decorated in white and orange while
the students were away during va
cation. Last year the graduating
class left a sum of money to be used
for a fountain and other fixtures on
the athletic field. By careful plan
ning and management, the work was
done for less than it was first deemed
necessary.
Mr. Campbell, the advisor of the
senior class of last year, got in touch
with members of the class. It was
agreed that the money be used for
redecorating the dining room. Ac
cordingly, plans were made for the
painting. When the stduents re
turned from the holidays, they were
very glad to see that the work had
been done. Since the room had been
remodeled a few months ago, opin
ions had been expressed in favor
of a new coat of paint. No one knew
how it could be secured until the
ilumnae of last year came to the
escue. Deep appreciation is felt
towards the loyal donators.
names. They have rented a house
boat on the River Styx, upon which
they will spend their vacation; and
it here that many a treacherous
A noted historian of Salem, dis
will no doubt take place.
A notd historian of Salem, dis
tinguished behind the long, red
beard of Henry VIII will be aboard
with his wife, the Red Queen.
From a dark stateroom com
frightened scream as Lady Macbeth
guiltily sleep walks onto the deck
in her stiff, night, whitie—her whiff,
sight tightie—oil, her stiff, white
nightie! Maybe we’d better not
mention the lady again.
Joan d’Arc appears witli the cour
age of the whole French army in
her makeup and the spirit of a
young Democrat in her dreamy eyes.
But speaking of eyes, a Dr. of
Something or Other named Cleopat'
ra really uses hers on our boy An.
tony as they romance “underneath
the Helium moon” . . . And
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I. R. S. To Entertain
Seniors Of Academy
Formal Dinner Planned Hon
oring Pi-ep. School Students
On Saturday, January 17, at 6
o’clock honor will be paid to
Academy Seniors in the form of a
banquet in the college dining r
The I. R. S. Council members will
be special hostesses at the dinner.
They, with the eighteen Seniors,
IMiss Mary Weaver, Miss Jess Byrd,
and Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler will
be seated at a long center table,
each person finding his place marked
by a card bearing the college seal.
The dining room, besides being
the college colors, yellow and
white. In the center of the i
will be ferns and flowers.
Entertainment that is planned for
the occasion includes a skit by Miss
Bobbie Way and Miss Mary Penn,
both of whom are popular dramatic
entertainers. The same colored
chestra that has several times been
enjoyed at social functions will fur
nish music.
The orchestra will also play ir
the recreation room of the Louisa
Wilson Bitting Building for a dance
between dinner and the Faculty
play which will be given at 8 o’clock
in Memorial Hall.
How Well Read Are You?
The list published this week is a reprint of a list published some
time ago in the Golden Boole. Many such lists have been published, all
of which agree at many points. Certainly all of the books on this list
should sooner or later be read by all educated persons. At least four-
fifths of them should have been read by every college graduate. Among
the other fifth there are books which could well be left until the fifties
sixties, except that they have been so influential on the world’s
ught that without them as a background one is incapacitated when
confronted with other thoughtful toci'ks.
It is well to have a list by which to cheek on oneself, and it is
better to have sufficient intellectual curiosity to look into books of
such great reputation.
GOLDEN BOOK LIST
One Hundred Best Books
The Bible.
Iliad.
Odyssey.
Fables Aesop
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
Oedipus Tyrannus Sophocles
Medea Euripedes
Histories Heroditus
Dialogues Plato
Politics and Poetics Aristotle
On the Nature of Things Lucretius
Aeneid Virgil
Poems Horace
Histories Tacitus
Lives Plutarch
Morals Epictetus
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment.
The Song of Roland.
Niebelungenlied.
Mahamaratta.
Decameron Boccaccio
Canterbury Tales Chaucer
Morte d’Arthur Malory
Garagantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais
Essays Montaigne
Don Quixote Cervantes
Essays Bacon
Hamlet Shakespeare
Macbeth Shakespeare
King Lear Shakespeare
Dean Vardell Attends
National Convention
National Conference Meets
During Holidays at Capital
Dean Vardell made a delightful
talk Wednesday at Y. P. M. about
his trip to Washington, where he at
tended the National Music Confer
ence. This conference, which was
established to standardize the B.
Mus. degree, admitted Salem Col
lege as a member last year.
At the same time there was also
a meeting of all the music teachers.
Many interesting programs were ren
dered to entertain the delegates, and
there were concerts by famous bands
and symphony orchestras. Many
notables of the musical world at
tended the conference, and there
were interesting talks by such me
Deems Taylor and Earnest Hutchi.
son. Many important topics i
discussed.
The question of an A. B. degree
with a music major arose, resulting
in the appointment of a committee
of five to work on the problem.
Salem is proud to have Dean Var
dell a member of the committee.
With the other four members he
will investigate the advisability of
giving a music major with an A. B.
degree and will determine this ques
tion for all the music schools of the
nation.
Dr. Willoughby Is
Speaker At Vespers
“Jesus Chlrist in Poetry of
Yesterday and Today
At Vespers on Sunday evening Dr.
Willoughby spoke on “Jesus Christ
in the Poetry of Yesterday and To
day.”
The old English ballad used the
apocryphal idea of Christ as a
naughty child. But their tender hu
manity kept them from being sac-
riligious.
The Middle Ages represented
Christ as returning to the earth to
test his saints. “The Legend of St.
Julian” tells the story of St. Julian
who gave alms, food and a bed to
a leper who then demanded that the
saint embrace him. St. Julian did
so and the leper changed to Jesus.
Then there is the familiar legend of
St. Christopher who carried the old
man across the raging stream, to have
him become Christ as they reached
the shore in safety.
Lady Gregory contributed “The
Traveling Man” which tells the
story of a child interrupted in his
play by a stranger. To amuse the
child the man took down the china
from the shelves. The mother re
turns indignant that her housekeep
ing had been disturbed and drives
out the stranger. As she watches
him go away, she realizes by a glow
around Him that He is the Christ.
Sara Teasdale also added to the
poetry of Jesus with “The Carpen
ter Shop,” where Mary grieves over
her son who has accomplished noth
ing. Again she wrote of a Jesus
troubled by the tyranny of Rome, by
the poverty and suffering of His
people, trying to find a solution to
these problems.
Milton has perhaps made the
greatest contribution to the poetry of
Christ in his “Paradise Regained,”
which he relates the temptation in
the desert. He gives an analysis
of the mind of Jesus.
Feeling that the poetic portraits
of Jesus were too much influenced by
Italian paintings, that he was shown
too mild and delicate where in real
ity he possessed a splendid person
ality and physique, Ezra Pound set
out to picture him differently.
After the crucifixion Simon Silotes,
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Stee-Gee President
Delegate ToN. S. F.A.
Thorp Represents Salem at
New Orleans Meeting
Miss Mary Katherine Thorp, pres
ident of the Student Self-Govern
ment Association, attended as a dele
gate from Salem College the annual
convention of the National Student
Federation of America, held at New
Orleans, Louisiana, from December
28 to December 31.
Meeting the other delegates from
North Carolina colleges and Uni
versities at Greensboro, she travelled
with them in a special ear to New
Orleans. It is interesting to note
that one of the delegates from Duke
University was Louisa Hooker, a
former Salem jitudent. Arriving at
New Orleans Wednesday morning,
December 28, the party was taken
to the Roosevelt Hotel, the conven
tion headquarters.
At the luncheon the day of the
arrival of the delegates in New Or
leans, the secretary to the mayor
gave a speech of welcome. In the
afternoon the first plenary session
of the convention was conducted by
the retiring president, who gave a
brief resume of the history of N. S.
F. A. It was started in 1925 at
Princeton University by a group of
students who realized what an im
portant part the students take in
modern life. Now the organization
includes schools throughout the na
tion. It sponsors student travel,
student debating and serves as a
means of expression for student
thought and opinion.
At dinjier the delegates sat in reg
ional groups. Here Huey P. Long
welcomed the convention to Louis
iana. Following dinner there was
an informal dance in the ballroom
on the top floor of the hotel.
Thursday morning there was a dis.
cussion of honor systems. It is in
teresting to know that every college
either has or wants an honor system.
Colleges in the East and the South
have the greatest number of honor
systems. In connection with this
there was heated discussion in re
gard to ways of enforcing the sys
tem; as a result it was decided that
it can best be enforced by the edu
cation of the students to real respon
sibility.
That afternoon the delegates went
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Education Students
End Practice Term
Twenty-One Applicants Com
plete Requirements for
Practice
Twenty.one applicants for teachers
certificates have completed their
terms of observation and practice
teaching in the city schools. For
fifteen weeks, five days in the week,
they taught or observed in classes
assigned to them by the education
department according to special ar
rangements made by Mr. McDonald
with the school authorities.
Six of these practice teachers are
doing elementary teaching, while
fifteen of them practiced in the jun
ior and senior high schools. This
experience is particularly valuable in
giving the would-be teachers expe
rience in typical class room work,
not with a model class, but with
'pupils of the average kind. By the
end of this year the applicants, all
of them seniors, will have com
pleted the requirements for teachers
in North Carolina.