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VOL. XVI.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936.
SALEM’S Y. W. C. A. IS A
MEMBER OF THE
W. S. C. A.
Student’s Day of Prayer Will
Be Observed Sunday
The 8aleni College Y. W. C. A. will
join with many other colleges on
Sunday, February 16, in observing
a world-wide students’ day of pray
er. v^t the Vesper service a form of
worship which was put out by the
Federation and which is being used
by many other student organizations
will be followed. This service of
worship has been set forth in the
hope that it will strengthen the con
sciousness of the common fraternity
of Christian students.
The World’s Student Christian
Federation in the United States and
Canada and in more than forty other
eountries is a fellowship of students
who are trying to understand and
live in the light of the gospel of
.lesus Christ, face common difficul
ties and defeats, strive for common
ideals and purposes, and, as members
of the AVorld’s Student Christian
Federation, fellowship together in
great common hope and faith in
God as we see Him revealed in
Jesus Christ.
The W. S. C. F. principally is a
consciousness of common purpose, an
attitude, a fellowship binding us to
gether in a mutual concern for the
struggles o f Christian students
throughout the world. Its greatest
gift is the aid it gives us in prepar
ing us to plan our part as Christian
students in the world-wide Christian
enterprise.
The W. S. C. F. takes corporate
form in international student camps
and conferences, international visits
of Christian students to grou])s in
other countries, tlie observance of a
Day of Prayer, publication of the
Student World and other literature,
the activities of a small, effective
staff located in Geneva.
Three important conferences in
Europe last summer were attended
by Canadian and American students,
one in Bulgaria on the life and work
of the Movement, one in England on
the economic implications of the
Christian religion, and one in Switz
erland on Missions.
Salem College is fortunate in being
a part of this great movement and
it is hoped that all students who are
On the campus wil join in observing
this universal day of prayer.
DR. LEFLER FOUND
ERS’ DAY SPEAKER
Number 16.
‘Higher Learning of South
ern Women” Subject of
Interesting TjJk
“We have made wonderful prog
ress in the education of women. We
have overcome many prejudices in
regard to their training. Without
education women would never have
been' able to conceive of their com
plete emancipation as citizens, nor
been able to profit by it had it been
given to them,” asserted Dr. Lefler,
professor of history at the University
of North Carolina, who was the
speaker in chapel last Saturday^
which was Founders’ Day.
Dr. Lefler traced the education of
women from the time of Plato, who
declared the education was funda
mental for all people in his Utopian
state. The modern theory of edu
cation evolved slavery. Even as late
as 1860 it was stated in the “Sat
urday Review” that men and women
are not intellectually equal. An edu
cated wife was considered a burden.
In this period the ideal wife was
witty, graceful, kind, obedient, pa
tient, useful, humble, religious, and
not talkative.
In the South many women were
outstanding for their interest in the
sciences. However, they were not
distinguished as much for their in
terests as for the fact that they were
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EDUCATION DEPART
MENT AND STUDENT
TEACHERS ENTER
TAIN AT TEA
ACADEMY SENIORS
VISIT COLLEGE
Supervised Teaching Begun
By Education Students
SALEM COLLEGE HEARS
DOCTOR TRABUE
‘ ‘Vocational Guidance’ ’
Subject of Psychology
Club Lecture
SCIENCE STUDENTS
LEARN VALUES OF
AIR-CONDITIONING
Why do you have a cold? If you
are asking yourself this question
then you failed to attend the lecture
sponsored by the Science Society on
Wednesday evening. At this meet
ing Mr. Fred F. Bahnson made us
realize the vital importance of mois
turo in the air we breathe. During
these cold, snowy days when it is
necessary for us to spend much of
our time inside a heated building, let
us be careful that the air we breathe
is not of a dry, irritating nature
which will absorb all the moisture
of our bodies and make us doubly
susceptible to colds.
Our speaker defined humidity .as
the invisible moisture in the atmo
sphere. We learned that moisture in
a room is worthless as long as it is
visible. To supply this lack of mois
ture to the atmosphere Mr Bahnson
uses the plan of pulverizing water
into the air. This art, known as
huniidification, is a major factor in
health, comfort, manufacturing pro
cesses and storage of perishable
jilnnts and foodstuffs.
Air-conditioning is based on six
outstanding factors, heating, cooling,
humidifying, de-humidifying, ven-
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Tuesday evening, February 11th,
the Psychology Chib of Salem .Col
lege was fortunate in hearing Dr.
Trabue from the University of JS’orth
Carolina speak upon the subject of
“Vocational Guidance.” Dr. Tra
bue has a striking personality and
appearance; has a keen sense of hu
mor; has an unusually attractive
■smile and a delightful laugh—but in
addition to these attractive attrib
utes, he has others, namely — teach
er, author, lecturer, and head of the
Education Department of the consoli
dated schools of the University of
N'orth Carolina.
As a high school student, he had
a growing interest in the jwssibility
of helping boys and girls to find their
suitable places in life where thev
should be happy, work, and enjoy
working, and where they could give
and get the most possible out of the
work they were doing.
“I never liked the name ‘In
telligence Tests’,” he said. “We
professors made the tests for the sol
diers who were going into the war,
and the men who couldn’t pass them
were considered not intelligent ac
cording to our viewpoint. Since the
World War tests have been modeled
by those testa which were given the
soldier.s. The engineers always made
the highest scores, it seemed, on
those tests.”
He tested all the women employees
of the largest stores in Minnesota
and compared the scores of the ones
w'ho sold less with the greatest sel
lers, and found there were 17 of each
t.vpe and out of that number only
2 of the excellent women made as
bigh as the average low sales women.
Intelligence evidentally interferred
'vith their selling.
He found also that low clercial
workers have a great deal of self-
sufficiency and aggressiveness, where
as the high clerical workers are just
average in these traits, and tend to
do just what they are told to do.
Personality measures tend to be av-
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The Education Department and
the practice teachers gave a tea on
Wednesday afternoon for the local
teachers under whom the college
practice teachers are observing.
The teachers and student teachers
had an opportunity to become better
acquainted and to find out just what
each exjjeeted of the other. Miss
Marx had a short meeting of all the
nty teachers and explained to them
what the students had been asked to
observe and report on in the class
room.
Many teachers and practice teach
ers, and several members of the fac
ulty attended.
The college students in the direct
ed teaching group in the elementary
division are; McArn Best, 6B1, with
Mrs. Ada F. Edwards at North Ele
mentary; Grace Carter, 6A, with Miss
Sara A Wilkerson at Forest Park;
Mary Daniel, 2A, with Miss Lena
Ray at North Elementary; Amanda
Hollman, 6B, with Mrs. Russ at For
est Park; Mary Eli'zabeth Reeves,
2A, with Miss Marguerite Cashion
at Forest l>ark; Dorothea Rights,
4A1, with Mrs. Klizabeth Padgett
at North Elementary; and Madeline
Smith, 5, with ]Vlrs, Mary Groves
Montoith at Central.
The students in the directed teach
ing group of the high school division
are as follows: Mary Nelson Ander
son, Home Economics, with Mrs.
Bernice Cumberland at North School;
Agnes Brown, History V with Miss
.lanie Weaver at Reynolds; Virginia
Garner, History V with !Miss Daisy
Lee Glasgow at South School; Mel
rose Hendrix, Algebra III with Miss
Olive Smith at Reynolds; Meta
Hutchison, Biology I with Miss
Flossie Martin at Reynolds; Dorothy
Lashmit, Commercial mathematics,
with Mrs. Hortense Bankston at
North School; Cordelia Lowerv,
Home Economics with Mrs. Bernice
Cumberland at North School;
Eugenia Mc,\ew^ Commercial Mathe
matics with Mr. Roy E. Weathers at
-Vorth School; Erika Marx, Home
Economics V with Miss Ruth Hel-
mich at Reynolds; Stephanie New
man, Algebra II with Miss Olive
Smith at Reynolds; Charlotte Og-
burn. Biology I with Mrs. Dorothy
W. Bunn at North School; Susan
Rawlings, Home Economics with
Miss Edyth Moore at South School;
Ida Reznick, History V with ISIiss
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Miss Mary Louise Mickey,
Field Secretary, Hostess
Last Monday afternoon the seniors
of Salem Academy were invited to
accompany the Field Secretary, Miss
Mary Louise Mickey, around Salem
College.
The group arrived first to visit the
Louisa Wilson Bitting, where they
wore welcomed by Miss Lawrence
and Sara Kathryn Thompson. In the
Rccreation room they were served
vast amount of corn popped over the
open fire by cmmissaries of .Miss
Stockton.
Then they saw the art exhibit in
Alice Clewell building, wliicli was
explained by Jeanette Sawyer, an
art student. They visited the Dean’s
office w'ith Miss Riggan, and then
went through the Sister’s House and
the old .\cademy, which used to be
in South Hall. They were particular
ly interested in the third floor of
South Hall — so remniscent of ‘ ‘ .\1-
cove days/’
They saw the dining hall and went
over to the practice house, where
Mrs. Meinung acted as hostess. Cof
fee and saiuhviches were served by
Home Economics students.
They were taken to Dr. Rond-
thaler’s office and finally to Main
Hall where they were met by Mrs.
Rondthaler. Punch and tarts w^ere
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FORMER INTERNATIONAL
OFFICER OF Y.W.C A.
AT SALEM
Miss Charlotte Niven Speaks
At Expanded Chapel
SALEM ALUMNAE
MET IN LIBRARY
Dean of Sweetbriar, Salem
Graduate Speaks
SALEM COLLEGE MUSIC
STUDENTS GIVE RECITAL
Feature of Founders’ Day
Events
Students of the School of Music at
Salem College presented a recital
Saturday evening at 8:15 o’clock in
Memorial Hall. This program was
one of the features of the celebration
of Founders’ Day at the College.
The program presented included:
^farch on the Chorale, “Nun
■ Dankel” Karg-Elert
Miss Anna Withers
In Wunderschoenen Monat Moi
Schumann
Twenty Eighteen .... Arr. by Taylor
The Cry of Rachel Falter
Miss Mary Mills
Adagio from Concerto in G minor
Bruck
Miss Margaret Schwarze
Fantasie in F minor Chopin
Miss Jean Robinson
The Winston-Salem Chapter of the
Salem College Alumnae Association
held a meeting in the Library on
Friday, February 7, at 8:00 P. M.
They had as their guests those out-
of-town Salem Alumnae w'ho had
brav’ed the bad ^oads and inclement
weather to come for the Founders’
Day Week-end, and the members of
the present Senior class at Salem.
The meeting was led by the Vice-
President of the Association, Mrs.
Eleanor Shaffner Guthrie, and was
opened with a prayer by Mrs.
Charles Norfleet. A note of greeting
was read in the meeting from Mrs.
Harry Grimsley, President of the
Association, who was unable to be
present. A short business session
was held at which $25.00 was voted
to be given by the .■Vlumnae Associa
tion for the Living Endowment.
•Vn interesting report by the Field
Secretary of the Association, Mary
Louise Mickc}', was given, in which
she told of the extent of th^ field of
her work since the last alumnae
meeting. She has visited high schools
in nearly all the extreme Eastern
states, and has contacted many of
the families of the girls at Salem, as
well as of those who are prospective
Salemites for next year. To bring
Salem nearer both to the Alumnae
Chapters she visit.s, and to the high
schools, she has been showing col
ored moving pictures of the life and
activity here on the campus.
The main feature of the evening
program was the interesting talk
made by Miss Lelia Graham Marsh,
Salem graduate, and at present Dean
at Sweetbriar College in Virginia.
She spoke of the memories which the
Library brought back to her — both
^*appy and sad; and of the serious
studying for examinations; the beau
ty and reverence of the “Y” In
stallation Candle Service; and the
presentation of the Memorial Win
dow. Salem Alumnae relationships
offer two-way points of service, first
in what the college can do, and does
for the Alumnae member, and sec
ond, ivhat the Alumnae member does
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One of the most interesting lec
tures of the school year was that
given by Miss Charlotte Niven in
expanded chapel on February 12th.
Miss Niven was introduced briefly
by Miss Sandlin who siwke in pass
ing of the history of the Y. W. C. A.
and then presented the S])eaker, who,
for the last twenty year.s, has been
living in Europe.
Miss Niven began by sjHiaking of
her activities in Europe for the past
fifteen years as the executive secre
tary of th International organization
of the i. M. C. A., and in her speech,
her endeavor was to pre.sent the
Y. W. C. A. to her audience in the
light of its efforts to present a better
international understanding, based,
not on sentimentality, but an a reali
zation of the actual international
situation ot the jtresent day. As her
text. Miss Niven took the following
from the “Winston-Salem Jounal,”
;I'>bruary 12th: “Walter Hines Page
' in his life career marked the emer
gence of the new American — the
frank realist who could stare a fact
out of countenance and make it re
treat by determined endeavor. He
was a humanist before he was a
realist, and the best type of idealist
because he saw things not only as
they were but as they should be.”
There is much in the world. Miss
Niven said, that must be stared out
of countenance, but nothing can be
gained by ignoring the truth. In
adopting a self-congratulatory at
titude. Miss Niven speaks from ex
perience for she has been much in
Geneva and in the Far East of late.
. She has worked with the women’s
committee on peace at Geneva and
has aided in their efforts to educate
all women to ideal of ]>cace in the
, face of the failure of much of the
I world's peace machinery She spoke
I of the great necessity for education
\ in buildivg a peaceful world, and
I restoring the prosperity of many
' countries crushed by expenditures for
war materials.
“.\t the end of the last war we
though it was the end of war; we
knew it was wasteful,* useless :ind
that it never settled anything. But
of late shadows have spread in Eur
ope and the East. The United States
alone of the great nations seems free
from war hysteria.”
Miss Niven next spoke of the
history of the international organiza
tion of the Y. W. C. A.: Since 1)30
the international offices of the organ
ization have been at Geneva, w'ork-
ing with the seventy-five or eighty
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THORNTON WILDER
LECTURES AT
GREENSBORO
On Monday night, February 10 at
Aycock Memorial of Woman’s Col
lege, (Greensboro, Thornton Wilder,
the well-known novelist spoke on
I he Relation Betw-een Literature
aTul life. ’ ’ He w-as introduced by
Dr. IjConard B. Hurley, chairman of
the lecture committee. Mr. Wilder’s
main idea was that great literature
in the minds of many people is, in a
dim sense, untrue to life, while in
reality it is true to life.
As interesting a.s his remarks, was
the Open Forum held at the conclu
sion of Mr. Wilder’s talk. He an
swered in a very interesting manner
questions concerning his books “The
Bridge of San Luis Rey” and his
latest “Heaven’s My Destination.”
Following the Open Forum the
QuHl (;lub entertained in Mr. Wild
er’s honor. The reception was held
in the Alethian Society Hall in the
Student’s Building.