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THE SALEMITE
Friday, May 8, 1936.
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HOME
STBETCH
■We're coming down the home stretch and have only a
few more yards to go. Perhaps we have been lagging, resting,
or limping along in our studies, but this a the time to get our
second wind and make our best efforts for a good end of this
school year. Some of us fell dowTi at the half-way mark (our
examinations in January), and have stayed behind, so a final
spurt will be our only hope. Others were ahead at that time,
but they cannot afford to slow down because we haven’t won
until we’re safe past the end mark of examinations.
Our teachers are watching us and, at this vital moment,
are expecting to see some evidence of the training and advice
that they have given during the year. As we near this final
testing time, let’s make each day count. Let’s press forward
until we have mastered each subject, have passed very exam,
and have earned the reward of vacation. “Winners are never
quitters; quitters are never winners.” Come on! Hurry!
Don’t be an “also ran;” be a winner.
THE SONG
IS ENDED —
May Day is over for another year — the very last girl
who had a costume has taken it to the recreation room of
Alice Clewell, the last piece of newspaper has been claned off
the campus, and most of the concrete parts of it are gone. Now
there will be a grand rush to get over to the Book Store and
get pictures of the May Queen and her court.
In the opinion of most people this was the loveliest May-
Day that Salem ever had, and everybody agrees that more peo
ple came than have ever come before. One girl’s only regret is
that after ghe sat down she forgot to see how many people were
behind her. Another girl wanted to have May-Day every week
end; I don’t imagine that the May Day Committee feel with her.
THE COLLEGIATE
DIGEST
The somewhat complacent Brown
students, by the way, have had a
tragic experience lately, which has
rather undermined their faith in the
established order of things.
“Marji” is a young waitress near
the campus, we understand. Very
pretty and all that. For weeks she
dated with no one, despite the or
ganized competition among the very
best fraternities on the campus. Then
suddenly, she did something that so
shocked the student body that the
incident was deplored in the Brown
paper.
She dated a non-fraternity, non
college man.
We, understand, haven’t the
slightest objection to the peace
strike, but there is a budding ver-
sifer out at the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley, who has. He
objected this way:
Down with de students
Down wit de class
Down wit de trees
Down wit de grass
Down wit de countries
Down wit de flags
Down wit de army
Down wit bum gags
Down wit te women
Down wit de men
Down wit de rooster
Down wit do hen
Down wit de spring
Down wit de fall
Whatever it is, I’m against it, so—
Down wit it all.
WHO’S WHO AT SALEIH
VIRGINIA GARNER
Former Elditor Undergoes
Long Delayed Interview
Teachers in years to come may re
member her as “very efficient;”
students will counter-act the frigid
implications of that expression by
just calling her smart and “ a grand
girl to be out with.” Virginia Garn
er, former “Salemite” editor, is the
kind of girl who makes the honor
roll, dances beautifully, and attends
every gay campus social function.
She regards none of these collegiate
graces as being too important —
but she thinks all of them desirable.
Her outstanding characteristic is
sincerity to others and to herself.
Virginia was born in February,
1914. She contends that as a young
ster she was the ugly duckling of
the family. At the age of eight her
tow head, freckles, and long, spindly
legs offered no contradiction to her
statement. At any rate, she grew
up and out of this state, and after
graduating from high school, she
registered at Salem.
While at Salem Virginia has ma
jored in math and history, getting
a minor in psychology. As editor of
“The Salemite,” practice teacher,
and a member of many campus or
ganizations, including the Order of
the Scorpion, she has proved her
self to be an able leader as well aa a
capable student. Her present worry
and greatest source of amusement
(now that her editing days are over),
are found in trying to decipher the
almost illegible home work papers of
her school children.
Favorite Pastimes: Sewing (for
herself!), dancing with her brother,
and traveling.
No ravishing appetite: Eats very
little (which may be the reason she
has such a slim figure.)
Beads: Mostly history and psy
chology books — also popular maga
zines.
Hot Sauce Queen: Thus the day
students have dubbed her becatise
her father prepares hot sauce.
Bomantic interests: She won't
tell, but she has very fond memories
about the owner of a frat pin which
she still keeps.
Favorite flower: Orchids — Oh
deaht
Best Friend: Stephanie Newman
—(We commend her taste!)
Comments: Admits that she does
many things she doesn't like to do—
definitely doesn’t like to be inter
viewed! — otherwise she is a grand
girl.
THE ART OF
CHEWING GUM
There is truly an art to gum chew
ing that must be acquired by long
hours of practice and indefatigable
patience. Wealthy dowagers, lovely
debutantes always have a wad of
gum in their mouths — modern etti-
quette says at least a pack. There
is skill to that smack-smack-smack
that is so stimulating to other’s
nerves. Gum chewing should be made
one of those finer habits and prac
ticed at all times, especially at ban
quets, at church, in class and at
teas. At concerts and dances be
sure to keep time to the music with
your gum. The orchestra leader will
appreciate this assistance and your
partner will acquire much greater
rhythm. Gum chewing makes your
teeth firmer—so as to keep down
the dentist’s bill — and gives you
gums that certain elasticity invalu
able in chewing tough moat. It com
pletely does away with those un
fashionable double chins and devel
ops those of the receeding nature.
So, by all means, chew your gum
louder and longer. Just park it on
the bedpost overnight — to keep
from swallowing it when you have a
night-mare.
Hope we don’t get a commission
from Wrigleys for this.
Prof. John Gamble Kirkwood, Cor
nell chemist, has been awarded the
1936 Langmuir award of $1,000.
A heretofore unknown 16th cen
tury stained glass window has been
discovered in England by Princeton
scientists.
EXCHANGES
We hate
Term papers
We’d rather
Cut capers.
We don’t
Like Tests
They spoil
Our best.
Give me a house by the side of the
road
Where the tourist pack goes by
Someone’s got to sell hot dogs
It might as well be I.
Oh, yes indeedy.
In the spring a
Young man’s fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts
Of love, although the
Girls have been thinking
About it all year.
The human brain is a wonderful
organ. It starts working every morn
ing and never stops until we get to
clas9.
Social tact — The ability to make
your company feel at home, even
though you wish they were.
A. When it comes to eating you
have to hand it to Venus de Milo.
B. Whyt
A. How else could she eatf
iioaic
1. No dog has two tails.
2. One dog has more tails than
no dog.
3. Therefore one dog has three
tails.
“It’s the little things in life that
tell!” said the sister as she dragged
little brother from behind the sofa.
Bennsselaer Polytech recently
sponsored a world-wide reunion hy
radio.
Notre Dame will open a special de
partment for the training of Catholic
apologist writers in September,
DID YOU KNOW?
Last week-end Tick Fraley went
to High Point, Virginia Neely to
Charlotte, Mildred Troxler to Burl
ington, Garnelle Kaney to Salisbury
and Margaret Sears to High Point.
Now that the week-end audence
has gone what can we do to attract
attention to our Salem Circus? We
are left in our cages with no interest
ed onlookers. It gave us such a feel
ing of superiority to have girls from
far and wide observing our habits
and habitation.
And to think that one of our girls
has forgotten the bar and become
artistic. The instigator of her meta
morphosis was here this week-end.
Think of the mileage and wear and
tear on a car that has come from
Texas to North Carolina.. Can it be
that spring arrives later on the Mexi
can border, despite its geographical
location, than it does in the old
North State.
We have a senior who is not sure
anymore about her athletic ability.
At any rate she has decided that it
is not her calling in life. The gen
tleman in question did not catch his
usual ride over last Friday night.
What manner of women are these
who can walk around school one
morning oh so carelessly dressed, and
that very afternoon appear on the
May Day stage clothed in all the
beauty of etheral beings?
The male clique that frequents
Senior Building this year has been
scouting around for next year’s pros
pects. And incidentally they are a
bit prophetic. Salem’s most popular
senior for nineteen thirty-six and
thirty-seven has already been select
ed. I wonder if these gentlemen
realize the folly of crossing bridges
before getting to them. It is alleged
that the Miss has definite and ser
ious interests south of Winston.
And then there is the story about
one of our girls who is contemplat
ing summer school at Chapel HiU.
With all the seriousness of an eigh
teen year old she wanted to engage a
room at Swain Hall for the summer.
It is an appealing namel
SARA’S SCCAP BC€I^
Art only, when all’s dust
Through endless years shall dwell.
The bust
Outlasts the citadel.
The austere coin that lies
Beneath a digger’s heel
I shall rise
A Caesar to reveal.
The gods have fled their fanes:
Eternal art alone
Remains —
Stranger than brass or stone.
—Theophile Gautier.
* « «
A translation of Cliarles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du
Mai” has been made by Edna St. Vincent Millay and
George Dillon. Paul Valery of the French Academy paid
the translation a great tribute. He said: “The quality of
the translation is such that it would require the existence
of another Baudelaire to convey an idea of it to the
French reading public.” ^
• * •
“And, after all, the saddest punishment is something
that happens in us, not something which happens to us.”
—James Branch Cabell.
• • •
She found at dawn
Her star, a firefly,
While she grasped purple shadows
The royal robe slipt by.
i
Her eyes turned west
(The sun had set so soon.)
And in the dark eastern sky
She saw not the rising moon.
She knocks upon the door, i
Haunted by dreams unseen;
She knocks. But all is silent in
The House of Might-Have-Been.
• • •
“Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in
this life. What right have we human beings to happi
ness?”
—Isben.