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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, May 25, 1934. Meviher Southern Inter-Collegiate i Press Association Published Wet;kly by the Student Body of Salem College SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 a Year :: 10c a Copy editorial staff Editor-in-chief Cortlandt Preston Associate Editors Elizabeth Gray Virginia Garner Sunny Kirby Feature Editors Mary P,enn Libby Jerome Martha Binder Margaret McLean Assistant Feature Editors Carolyn Diehl Jo Whitehead Columnists Mary Elizabeth Heeves (Exchange) Emma Wargo (Chapel) Virginia Nall (Fashion) Edna Fetter (Sports) Poetry Editor Margaret Wall Society Editors Maria Ciarrett Cora Emaline Henderson News Reporters Gertrude Schwalbe Libby Torrence Sara Ingram Mary l.ouise Haywood Erika Marx Martha Schlegel Marietta Way BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Agnes Brown Adv. Manager Dorothy Courtney Exchange Jl/pr...Virginia Key Council . Advertising Staff Rachel Carroll Susan Rawlings Ruth Dickieson Martha Nolan Virginia Fraley Circulation Mgr Florence Ass’t Gir. Mgr Mary Ruth Elliot THE ABOLITION OF EXAMINATIONS f Salem College 3 concerning ex- o doubt, but that ! abolished By Annie Secret Willdoo Annie Secret Willdoo wishes you all happy vacation, a deep, dark tan, ..lul it not too speedy return to the Salem Play House next year. Scare up as many thrilling esca- ides and summer loves as you can, I that next fall there will be plenty of juicy secrets, and remember (An- ie of '’em Willdoo) to print in this olurnn. Yours A. S. W. Auf S. Wiedersehan PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT? The adorable love sick Juniors may be fast fading away into mere shad- of themselves, the Sophomores may be growing daily ,li('nto ;w3ser young fools, the Freshmen may still young and fresh g the summer’ but these dear, different, and individual Seniors do take the cake— , well as the Commencement! Only the other day, as Dean V del left Memorial Hall in a mad dash to reach the dining room B. L. (be fore line), he beheld two pitiful fig ures trailing mournfully back and forth from the steps of Memorial Hall to the front steps of Main Hall. Draped over their shoulders was a long rope, from which dangled three limr, ,In kies! For Dean Var- THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE Avoid the reeking herd. Shun the polluted flock, like that stoic bird, eagle of the rock. The huddled warmth of crowds Begets and fosters hate; He keeps, above the clouds, His cliff inviolate. When flocks are folded warm, And herds to shelter run. He sails above the storm. He stares into the sun. If in the eagle’s track Your sinews cannot leap, Avoid the lathered pack. Turn from the .steaming sheep. If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound. Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground. And there hold intercourse With roots of trees and stones, With rivers at their source, And disembodied bones. —Elinor Wylie. THE CHANGELING 8:30 ITEMS CHAPEL DAY BY DAY If the students were allowed to vi aminations, thre is the yearly tests would altogether. And why, really, any necessity for them. The old excuse that was offered was that exams force the student to re view when he wouldn’t otherwise. But now psychologists have shattered the excuse with the information that the cramming and reviewing that a stu dent does before exams stays with him about a week after the exam is over. W ar waiting for anothr excuse. But it hasn’t been forthcoming, si it worth the sleepless nights to know for a week that Jerusalem captured by Nebuchadnezzar in 531? Is the ability to distinguish between an amoeba and chelia for three days worth the bloodshot eyes and harras- sed mind? I’d ignorantly write: “My man, he went; He done me dirt. H^were a flirt.” rather than sit hours before a blue book frantically racking my exhaust ed brain for an idea for a descriptive The only good of examinations is that one loses pounds and pounds during that terrible week. The pounds droy off as the importance of psy chological moments is hastily put in the blue book. I could write pages on the necessity of abolishing examinations, but I’m so worried about my Math exam I feel I should start cramming. ... limp daisies! For Dean Var- ^ dell’s enlightenment, the Seniors (I’ll refrain from mentioning names) ex plained that they were practicing with the daisy chain, so that they would know how to act week after next I The music master left on that one. I.unch over, Mr. Vardell, skipping gaily along with “Mac ’’and Arleeee’’, stopped suddenly. From the recrea tion room of Louisa Bitting Issued wild shrieks, trills and |I think!) the lost chord (P. S. Dean Vardell hopes it gets lost again soon.)The three startled young men dashed up and peeped in the window—Dean Vardell knew the score at once, nor did Ar leeee need an answer book! Inside was a group of Seniors trying to keep together on their Commencement Chorus. The men just couldn’t take it—they left, holding fingers in ears. But, alas, they were stopped again! Just behind the swimming pool hedge— almost on the very steps of their home a — she may -have been lovely ;, but then she was only a—weep ing little lady. Her sobs finally sub sided and she imparted to the three nervous and bewildered young men, the cause of her distress. Since she belonged to the poetry group of A. X. A. (Axe Another) she burst forth in- “Ah, my dearies, see. Woe, ye.s, woe is me! Before I had not time to wait And see the Seniors graduate. I met a threadbare waif below the His eyes were sad, and from no longer crimson drooped and fell; Pebbles which had been kisses bound his throat. He held a cup and listlessly drank le who knew not what he was drinking of. And when I asked his name he an- ■swered low: My name is Habit—once they called —Agnes Lee. SENIORS GUESTS AT A. A. U. W. TEA On Tuesday afternoon at the home f Miss Diana Dyer, the Winston- Salem branch of the . A. A. U. entertained the Salem College sei tea. SUMMER FASHIONS Some—Are Cotton, Some— Are Linen The Queen Bee this summer, when seen with King Cotton and Count Linen, will be followed by a line of both masculine and feminine admirers. She will be envied by every woman because of the clean, fresh appearance she gives, even on the hotest of days and nights. She will be wooed by every man because she can be fem inine in her organdy and a good sport in her linen. The clever girl will be original and defy conventions in her dress. She will combine dotted swiss and pique for an afternoon suit; she will wear a voile that looks as flowing as chif fon; .she will borrow from the sailor bits of his costume and appear on land in a navy and white dress that will make sailing smooth for her. Be inexpensive when you start out. Now don’t go sissie on us summer and have too many silks. For now I am a wrack (poeti license) Cause I don’t know how to act!” And she burst forth again—“I hoo, hoo!” Noble and Arleeee were boy scouts, and they both promised to show the poor little soul just what to do and to see that she was properly gradu ated. You see, they remembered their own college days—and now, unless some unforeseen difficulty arises, all the little Seniors will, after their noble efforts and practices, sail through commencement safely. Moral to all adorable Juniors, fool- ishly-wi.se Sophs, fresh and green Freshiep: Stay fior Commencement nd learn how to graduate, or you lay get stuck yourself some day. FEATURE EN FRANCAIS Have* you looked out on lower cam pus some Tuesday, Thursday, or Sat urday morning within the last two weeks and seen strange things? We have! n the cool and cloistered front of the Rondthaler’s have seen Martha Binder pacing the gravel (or is it brick?) path, audibly and obviously talking to herself. Her hands moved ex pressively up and down, even though they clutched a small book there Bushie Mcl.ean could be seen making threatening gestures and striking poses while Jane Williams looked placidly on. Margaret Ward and Pat Padrick talkid animatedly together on a stone wall, while Sara Johnston ambled up and down the green, sometimes engaging Bushie in tijig with I.ibby Jerome—who all the time had been addressing a young tree with the most eloquent oratory, earnest conversation, sometimes chat- Edna Higgins and Mildred Krites were secreted behind a clumf) of bushes, but from time to time, they reappeared, spoke a few words Miss Marian Blair and Miss Grace Lawrence, registrar and dean of Sa lem College, respectively, greeted the guests at the door. The receiving line was composed of: Mrs. Melville Prongay, president of the Winston- Salem branch, Mrs. Wingate John son, Miss Diana Dyer, Mrs. Howard E. Rondthaler, Miss Virginia Batte, Miss Katherine Emmart, and Miss Margie Hastings. Mrs. Prongay, representing the ganization, welcomed the guests i dially. She explained the aims the organization and the work i1 trying to do in education. Mrs. Johnson explained to the group the state and national organi zation of the A. A. U. W. She em phasized the fact that each city branch is an essential unit of the na tional organization. The guests were entertained by a very amusing skit under the direction of Mrs. Nat Crews. Those in the skit were: Mrs. R. M. Hudgins, Mrs. Nat Crews, Mrs. M. A. Bowers, Misses May Norman, Annie Lee Singletary, Eugenia Johnson, Louise Mock, Janie Gooch, and Clara Tiller. Sandwiches, punch and cake were served the guests by the ladies in the skit and Misses Virginia Wilson, Isa bel Ferguson, Kathleen Hall, and Marjorie Knox. Guests at the occasion were: Vir- irinia Allen, Margaret Ashburn, Mary Biles, Mary Canada, Irene Clay, Thelma Crews, Sarah Davis, Jose phine Grimes, Maggie Holleman, Mary Lou Kerr, Mary Louise Mickey, Lulu Mae Motsinger, Martha Owen, Marion Stovall, Ruth Wolfe, Kath leen Adkins, Mary Absher, Eleanor Cain, Susan Calder, Marion Hadley, Dorabelle GTa%.‘)i Mildred Hanes, Frances Hill, Sasah Horton, Georgia Huntington, Margaret Johnson, Em ma Kapp, Katherine Lasater, Eliza beth Leak, Sasah Lindsay, Anne Mc- n, Ruth McLeod, Gertrude Mc- Beth Norman, Jean Patterson, I.ena Petree, Grace Pollock, Isabel Pollock, Mary Sample, Anne Shuford, Miariam Stevenson, Alice Stough, Betty St;ough, Frances Suttlemyre, Zina Vologjdsky, Bessie Lee Welborn. THE DIARY OF A CHAPEL ATTENDANT Thursday—In commemoration of the great musicians who were born in May, compositions were played in chapel. First of all i there were short sketches of the musicMJjs’ lives, delivered by Mary Louise Mickey and Rebecca Hine. The first musical number on the pro gram was The Hungarian Dance by Brahms, an inspiring violin .solo by Miss Hazel Horton Read, a mem ber of the Music Department. This selection was followed by the rol licking Troika en Traineause of the supersensitive Tschakowsky, de lightfully dendered by Margaret Johnson. Friday—The speaker in chapel today was Dr. Grenfield, an old friend of Dr. Rondthaler. His subject was Hymns, both old and new. During his chapel talk he gave many quo tations, and even called our tions to some of the hymns ii Hymnals. He has instilled i hearts of many, a desire to hymns. Saturday—^Many events of signifi cance took place in chapel today. Margaret Schwarze played the .swift-moxing Oypsy Dance which she had rendered earlier in the season at a graduating recital (that of Irene Clay). She was followed by Student Organization. Margaret McLean was installed as the presi dent of that organization by one whose great reign is over, Georgia Huntington. Members of Student Council took over the places held by the governing body of 1933-34. During this entire installation ex- ercise.s, the co-ed spirit, in the form of. a vari-colored balloon laid on the floor. Tuesday—A shadow of future events flitted across the platform in the person of Dean Vardell (for 21c we may obtain the right to take our examinations this semester). Miss Lily, the main speaker of the day, was introduced by Mary Penn. Miss Lily’s subject was the great novelist and playwright. Sir James Barrie. He was destined by the queer trick of the fates to be born in the month of musicians. Some say he is bitter and satirical, others claim he of the best dramatists of the In a summary of himself. Sir Barrie said he has a dual _personality. It was Little Minister that established him as a novelist. Among his fam ous plays are Peter Pan, The Ad miral, and Shall We ,Tmn the Ladies? GEOGRAPHY CLASS HAS EXHIBIT The Geography Class made known I the Student Body the exhibit which as held Wednesday afternoon from :30 to 6:00. This being the first year that lab oratory work in geography has befn done, the members of the class in geography placed on exhibition the work that they had done and the equipment used in the course. The material was displayed in units such as mineralogy, meteorology, map-mak ing, etc. Of spe.cial interest were the maps that had been mounted and attached to rollers by the class. These showed how satisfactory maps for classroom use could be made at a small cost, and looked in some ways superior to the purchased maps. A display of literature obtained from bureaus and publicity associa tions from various parts of North America showed the free available material for geography study. Pro ject maps, scrapbooks, and papers were also on display. This unusual and interesting ex hibit was attended by many members of the student body, their friends, and members of the faculty. Punch and cakes were served during the after noon and while munching cakes, many of the students decided that geogra phy was a most interesting and help ful course and plans were made to take this subject in the future. THE LIMELIGHT GOES OUT Well, just have about two weeks to go now (but what weeks!) and the limelight, which has been flickering dangerously for some time now, is just before going out forever ’n’ ever. This last expedition should be rather exciting, considering the additional contributions of these eds which have, according to Padgett, dropped their bashfulness. To tell the truth, I was never aware of the fact that they had any—but if they did, it was completely vanished at the stupendous, gigantic, and col- 'lossal affair held at the gym Satur day night. ’Twas a noble effort—and ■successful, too! Several things I’d like to find out tho’—Wish somebody would tell me if Princeton taught Dean Vardell to tour around the floor like a greased Cadillac without bumping into anyone — where Mr. McEwen acquired that line, which is just about as smooth as Dean Var- dell’s dancing (can’t tell us it’s Psy chology)—how Mr. Curlee, even with all his Math, can remember exactly how many times each girl has danced with him—why Fred Bahnson was so popular—why it was. almost impossible to dance two steps with Al Blumen- thal (the answer to that is slightly obvious)—what happened to B. C. Dunford toward the last of the party —where, with whom, and on ’ ' " .steps Bessie Lou Bray spent the ning—what pressing and unbreakable engagement prevented Frank Camp bell from putting in an appearance at the gala event (that calls for about two dozen dirty looks, Frank)—-and last why George Dickieson—nope— can’t say it—I promised George that I wouldn’t write about him any more. In fact, it might be best that I write nothing else about anybody, light so dim that it can’t pierce darkness shrouding the above list mysteries should, evidently, be gi' a long vacation. And so, with the kind permission of some of my read ers, and at the urgent request of others, I hereby extinguish the last PERSONALS sses Virginia Thompson, Joe Klutz, Martha Nolan and Garnelle Rainey spent Sunday in High Point with Virginia Fraley. Miss Sara Horton spent Sunday Mrs. C. T. Leinback was hostess at house party at Roaring Gap this 'eek. Those attending were: Jane Rondthaler, Gertrude Schwalbe, Lois Torrence, Elizabeth Torrence, Calva Sharpe and Martha Binder. Guests of Miss Nancy McNealy this week-end were little Mi.sses Mary White McNealy and Betty Pegram. Misses Elois Padrick, Anne Taylor and Margaret Ward were the week end guests of Miss Miriam Stevenson in Salisbury. Misses Dorabelle Graves, Girtie McNair, and Ruth McLoud spent the week-end in Kinston with Miss Grace Pollock. one of the others and then retired again. It looked to us very much these young ladies were being taken out of their padded cells for their daily airing, and so, timidly, one day, we tip-toed up to inquire if they were quite harmless. A volley of French greeted us—and lo, the secret was discovered! Mrs. Simpson, by reason of her petiteness, had not been seen behind the stone steps—she explained that it was merely her French class rehearsing “Le Voyage de Monsieur wavering flame of the flashing lime- Perrichon” that had puzzled us so! ' light. Misses Cokey Preston, Jean Robin son and Betty Tuttle attended the ' Carolina-Davidson Phi Gam House- party at Roaring Gap this week-end. Misses Alice Guerrant and Eliza-- beth Rankin spent Sunday with Vir ginia Gaddy. Friends of Miss Gaddy will be glad to know that she has been dismissed from the hospital ajid is getting along fine. ss Beth Norman spent Sunday in Miss Beverley Moore spent Sunday home in Bennetsville, S. C. Friends Miss Moore will regret to learn that her father underwent an opera tion in the Richmond Hospital Sun- Misses Dorothy and Ollie Leake Hammond of Lumberton were guests on the campus Sunday. The Misses Hammond are alumni of Salem. ITALIAN TO BE OFFERED IN CURRI CULUM NEXT YEAR For the first time in the hi.story of Salem a course in Italian is to be of fered in the curriculum. The de mands of the student body, and es pecially of the voice majors, has caused two semesters of Italian to be offered next year. Italian 1 is to be composed of the fundamentals of grammar and pronunciation, and Italian 2 is to be more advanced reading and composition. As there is no one in school who has taken Italian there will be no need for more advanced classes in it until year after next; but then, if the demand for Italian is such that it is warranted, further classes will be
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