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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, October 25, 1935. Published Weekly By The Student Body of Salem College Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 a Yfiar 10c a Copy EDITOEIAL STAFF Editor-In-Chief Virginia Garner Associate Editors:— Feature Editors:— Mary Hart Elizabeth Moore Mary Matthews Stephanie Newman Martha Schlegel Music Editor Rose Siewers Poetry Editor Sara Ingram Ljiuise Blum Carolyn Diehl Anna Wray Fogle Virginia Foy Louise Freeman Mary Louise Haywood Alice Horsfleld Florence Joyner Josephine Klutz REPORTERS: Dorothj' Lashmit Carlotta Ogburn Julia Preston Mary Elizabeth Reeves Mary Lee Salley Miriam Sams Betty Wilson Nancy Schallert Garnelle Raney CANDLE TEA AT WIDOW’S HOUSE BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Susan Rawlings Advertising Manager Virginia Council Exchange Manager Helen Smith ADVERTISING STAFF Katherine Sissell Evelyn Henderson Ruth Norman Edith McLean Helen Smith Marianna Hooks Dorothea Rights Martha Coons Leila Williams Circulation Manager Madeline Smith Assistant Circulation Manager Janet Stimpson National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City 1935 Member 1935 Plssocided GoUe6iate Press Distributor of Golle6iote Digest LET’S KEEP MAIN HALL LOVELY Do you remember the ecstasy of old students and the de light of new ones upon discovery of a transformed Main Hall at the beginning of this term? I believe that as time has passed all students have come to appreciate more and more the beautiful old chandeliers, the soft carpet, the benches covered with white leather, and above all the lovely murals done by Miss Ada Allen and her assistant, Mr. Knoxon. Main Hall was never so re splendent as it now is with its quiet air of grandeur. I’m quite certain that in our ai)preciation for the way Main Hall has been decorated we shall take excellent care of it. Surely it will stay as lovely as it now Ls for years to ■come if we remember to con duct ourselves as college students should whenever we visit there. On Thursday, October 24, at the Widow^s ’ House, there was a ‘ ‘ Candle Tea,” at which Miss Ellie Butner, the clever maker of the 8,000 Candles used for the MoraVian love feasts on Christmas eve, entertained the visitors with stories «f thte past in Salem. Miss Butner also ex plained to the callers how she makes the candles. About two and one-half months are required for tbe making of the candles, so Miss Butner gets an earh' start. In October she begins melting the pure beeswax in huge vats which were once used for the boiling of clothes in the Sisters’ House. After it is strained, the wax is poured in large pans to case, and is cut into blocks small enough to be put into a coffee pot. The wicks are fastened in, and the wax pour ed into age-old molds, now black with wax. The room in which Miss Ellie works is the same one in which she w^ent to school as a child. As she works, she describes her interesting experiences in this little school and in the Sisters’ House. EXCHANGE NEWS FROM DR. RONDTHALER In a letter received from Mrs. Rondthaler, we learn that they are very glad to be back in America. Dr. Rondthaler is feeling much bet ter and is enjoying the “autumnal foliage to its fullest extent. ’ ’ Mrs. Rondthaler says that once again Dr. Rondthaler is “like his old witty wise-cracking self.” (By Associated Collegiate Press) Philadelphia, Pa.—You’ll dispense with heavy lunches if you want to be alert for your afternoon classes. That is, you will if you heed the ad vice of Dr Donald A. Laird, Colgate University psychologist. While on a recent visit here, Dr. Laird had this to say about the effect of eating large meals at noon-time: ‘ ‘ Our experiments showed conclu sively that brain, or cerebral, anemia, caused by the digestive organs draw ing the blood away from the brain, is the cause of the sluggish mental condition which afflicts office work ers after the noon lunch period, and that this condition results in a def inite impairment of the speed and ac curacy with which their minds work. “When the brain is adequately supplied with blood, and literally ‘in the pink of condition,’ mental efficiency tends to be at its highest point. When the digestive system is called upon to digest a heavy meal and draws upon the blood supply of the brain, mental efficiency is lower ed.” OUT OF SALEM’S DIARY SALEM FRENCH CLUB IS REORGANIZED TWO CLASSES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS I It seems to me that college students may be divided into two classes: those who strive to pass their work and those who strive to make the honor roll. It is not a question of what one learns but what one “makes” in a course, that counts. Should this be the goal of a real college student, or even of a high school student? ' In high school the value of a grade depends upon what one’s best friend or the best student in the class makes on the test or the course. Even this does not matter in college because in most cases one’s best friend is not in one’s class, or the best student in one class is not the- best student in another. What I am trying to say is that even healthy competition does not exist to any extent in -college classes. Am I right or wrong? Do you agree with this student? The “Salemite” would like for you to express your opinion on the attitude of college students towards grades. Please leave your signed article in the Salemite Office. Ruth Kuykendall was elected pres ident of the newly re-organized French Club of Salem College at a meeting held last Monday. Carolyn Diehl was elected to serve as .sec- retary-treaaurer, and Mr. Downs was chosen sponsor. Students taking French 7 and 13 compose the membership of the club, but persons who have had a year’s French and are interested in continu ing their study of it may be elected into the club. To be eligible for membership in the French Club, one must make at least a “B” average on French, be recommended by the faculty, and prepare a paper to be read before the club in French. Meetings will be held each month, and members who are absent twice without presenting proper excuses will be dropped from the roll. (By Associated Collegiate Press) Bournemouth, England — College men are too diffident and refined to make good salesmen, in the opinion of Charles C. Knights, an English business executive who addressed a meeting of sales managers here re cently. “For 99 per cent of salesman in their daily work, the university man has no advantage over the second ary schoolboy, ’ ’ he believes. ‘ ‘ What use is a knowledge of Latin or trreek, or higher mathematics, to a sales man who is selling soap to a small shopkeeper — or, for that matter, selling steel to a motor-car manufac turer? “It is easy to talk in platitudes about a liberal education, but every employer of labor knows that the, possession of a good academic rec ord is absolutely no guarantee that commercial success will follow. “I was tempted to wonder wheth er an education which continued into the early twenties does not tend to fuddle the mind rather than sharpen the wits,” he concluded. FALSE FINGERNAILS HOCKEY SEASON BEGINS The Hockey season has started off with a bang, if by bang is meant the large number of girls who were out for the opening hockey practice on Monday. But it was rumored around that there were mostly Freshmen — at least fifty — in attendance, while only a few Upperclassmen appeared on ^he field. Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores — take warning! Come to practice and run some of the dignity, love-sickness and boldness from your w'eary bones; and remember — the green young Freshmen learn quickly. No, our Salem freshmen do not be long in the genus of the feline fam ily as one might infer from the dan gerous looking claws they are flash ing about these days. They do not make frantic trips to the dime store to purchase long artificial fingernails solely for the exercise. Neither do they shiver through the early morn ing hours while attaching this al luring witchery merely for the pur pose of postponing their study. Their aim is to keep their nails beautiful and fascinating even though their shoulders may become stooped under the weighty burden of education. In their search for beauty, our young collegians paint their false prizes a bright, violent scarlet. Although the freshmen may return to their fond mothers with circles beneath their eyes, at least they can display glamorous hands. (By Associated Collegiate Press) New York City—Teachers apply ing for jobs in New York City schools contemplating writing a new ditty which will have a title which goes something like this, “The Board of Examiners Will Git Ya If Ya Don’t Watch Out.” And especially this new song will be chanted by the college and uni- I versity graduates who hold masters and doctors degrees, for the board has a new pronunciation examination that is a “beaner,” if we are to judge from some of the results given in a few of the tests. Here are a few of the new addi tions to lexicology made by the ex aminees: Manger rhyjnes with anger. Assuidity should rhyme with liq- IVY ON THE CHURCH A decided swing against the New Deal in the last 15 months among members of the Yale class of ’24 is reflected in a recent poll. Sixty- nine per cent of the class voted against the President while 15 months ago 68 per cent favored New Deal policies. To solve the small school’s prob lem of obtaining enough football material, five Iowa high schools of small enrollment have formed 'a con ference and agreed to develop teams of six rather than eleven players. Bright yellow, orange, red The leaves come down in hosts. The trees are Indian princes But soon they’ll turn to ghosts. The ivy on the walls of the old church has turned from green to red and after flaming for a time be gins to change to brown. The burn ing red of the leaves has blazed forth dimming the dull red of the brick, but now the tints of the old red wall are drawn out by the falling of the vine, and after the fading and falling of the leaves there will be only a black tracery on the crimson of the church wall. Have you watched the flaming vine on the side of the old building? For days a sheet of crimson has cov ered the face of the church making it gleam among the others old build ings as does 'woodbine in an autumn wood. But such a flame must fade, retiring for a year, yielding place to the tones of the brick in a subtler rose. Yet now the vine on the old church wall is a scarlet alter cloth laid on the table of the Lord for an autumn feast. GETTING UP — early to run across to the Post Offffice and twirl the little dial and wonder why Sam writes to your room-mate every day while Dick does well to write you once a week — or perhaps at five past eight and jumping into your clothes and smearing on a little lipstick to rush over to the dining room and be a straggler in the line of late “ breakfasters ” — or maybe at eight-twenty and rushing to chap el with out making up your bed only to get a little note from Miss Lawrence, “Please have your bed made by ten o’clock.” CHAPEL with Main Hall filled with chatter- gi^’^s and late-comers joining the line at the steps — the chattering ceases as the line reaches the vesti bule — “Rise, crowned with light imperial Salem rise”—Tweak, “The Sophomores will have a short but im portant meeting today at one- thirty in Room 17.” Erika, “The Y. Cabinet will meet this afternoon at five o’clock.” — MeArn, “If you wish to play in the tennis tourna ment please sign up by four o’clock today. ’ ’ CLASSES — with minds a thousand miles away on last week end or next week-end — a few in telligent souls laboriously taking notes — the steady drum of the teachers voice interrupted occasion- ly by questions — a hurried visit to the Book Store between classes for a Health Bar or M^ound — going to the drug for a “dope” in a “class less” period — back to the dormi tory turning on the radio to get a concert miniature at WSJS. LUNCH “Come Lord Jesus our Guest to be ... ” the seniors at the head of the table — “Will the Sophomores please not forget their meeting ...” the tables leave one by one. The smoking room — “May I borrow a match?” AFTERNOON — “Let’s go to the Carolina.” “I can’t, I have a lab. ’ ’ — dressing to go shopping at Davis, Sosniks, Ideal, etc. ~ signing out — “Call a taxi.” 7121. Coming home — “Did I have a letter? Gosh do my feet hurt! Miss Mattie did I get a call?” SUPPER — “Come on, we’ll be late. Did you get a let ter from Harry today? Was the show good? Two forks, I hope it’s cherry pie. ’ ’ Smoking room again — “ . . she has cut her hair . . . may J bum one? .... Iiave you read that Psy chology? , . . when are you going home? . . . who doe.s Carolina play thb week-end? .... and then he said . . .and then I said i . . “Danc ing in the campus living room — Tick, do you know ‘ You arc My Lucky Star’? Here is one a girl showed me yesterday — Dance with me. For goodness sake fix the ra dio.” SEVEN O’CLOCK BELL — “She has my book and there is a “Busy” on the door — I’ve got to go to the library — Have you the new ‘Cosmopolitan’? What did you have in Education? Come by at nine to hear Glen Gray. May I have that book next? Please get me a drink of ice water. I wish the Y. .store would hurry and open. Let’s order from the drug TEN O’CLOCK BELL — “There is a boy and the phone to talk to you. Keep the phone for me a minute. Let’s go up on third, etc.” TEN THIRTY BELL — The dormitory is quiet except for an occasional smothered laugh the low drone of voices, or a forgotten radio getting too loud — at last the lights go out one by one and another day is marked off our calendar. —Elizabeth Moore. uidity. Lamentable accented on the sec ond syllable. Maniacal is accented on the first syllable. And, in the field of word defini tions, their new contributions in cluded: Noisome has to do with clamor. Literal with unpoetic language. Temerity witlji lack of courage. Machinations are a form of labor- saving machinery Fatuous is related, to corpulency. Commenting, the report of the board said: “Apparently the ex planation of a marked weakness in vocabulary is to be found in a habit of reading carelessly or inattentively, or perhaps in the lack of habit of reading at all outside of the limited field of elementary subject-matter.”
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