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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, January 22, 1937. Cfie ^alemite Published Weekly By The J Student Body of B Salem College ^ Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : : $2.00 a Year : : 10c a Copy EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-In-Chief Sara Ingram Associate Editors:— Mary Louise Haywood Katherine Sissell Music Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Laura Bland Cramer Perclval REPOETEES: Louise Freeman Mary Turner Willis Josephine Klutz Alice Horslield Mary Lee Salley Florence Joyner Peggy Brawley Julia Preston Eloise Sample Helen McArthur Peggy Warren Helen Totten Mary Worthy Spenge Maud Battle Anna Wray Fogle Mary Thomas Sara Harrison Margaret Holbrook BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Virginia Council Advertising Manager Edith McLean Exchange Manager Pauline Daniel Assistant Exchange Manager - Bill Fulton ADVERTISING STAFF Sara Pinkston Frances Klutz Frankie Meadows Virginia Taylor Virginia Bruce Davis ^6ggy Bowen Frances Turnage Prather Sisk Circulation Manager Helen Smith Assistant Circulation Manager - John Fulton Assistant Circulation Manager Virginia Piper National Advertising Representatives NATIONAIi ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City 1936 Member Pissocided Colle6iflte Press Distributors of GoUeSide Di6est REPRBSENTKO FOR NATiONAL ADVKRTISINO BY National Advertising Service, Inc. Co^ige Publishers Represtntative 420 Maoison Ave. New York. N.Y. Chicago - Boston • San Francisco Los ANOELES • PORTLAND • SEATTLE SALEMITE 1937 PLATFORM 1. Honor Society. 2. New Library. 3. New Science Building. LECTURE COURSE One point in the Salemite’s 1937 platform has been ac complished ; a lecture course has been assured for next year. The Salemite does not wish to take any special credit for this fact. Rather, we think the credit is due the splendid co-operation among Administration, Faculty, and student body. Student interest was shown in the lectures sponsored by the fac ulty this year. This interest led to the evolving of the splen did plan for next year. The plan was worked out by represen tatives of all of these groujis, and will be presented to the stu dent body. It has been suggested that the committee which chooses the speakers be partly a student group. The friendly spirit which prevails among Administration Faculty, and students should be a source of real pride to us. The significant events concerning this plan should present a challenge to the student body. It has been clearly proved that students have a great influence in accomplishing things for the betterment of Salem. Two points in the Salemite’s platform remain to be accom plished — an Honor Society, and a new Library. And now an other has been suggested by the students — a New Science Building. Are Salem students interested in these? Have they others to add? If so, talk to other students, do all you can to boost your plans, and use the Open Forum column of the Salemite for presentation and discussion of your ideas. Students of organic chemistry at Colby College who study under Prof. Lester F. Weeks have found that tea during an exam makes a test sweeter to take. During one of the past three-hour exams, some of the students com plained that they were too tired to think and write at the close of the test. “I guess I’ll serve tea next time,” replied Prof. Weeks. At the last exam, he and his two assistants passed out steaming cups of tea and dozens of filled cookies. Prof. to Delta: “Fred, is that your cigarette butt under the deskt” Freddie: ‘ ‘ Why, no, Prof., you saw it first!” University of Chicago fraternity men are going gigolo to furnish ma terial for the newly established Es cort Bureau. To qualify as “dow- ager-thrillers” bureau men must: Be physically presentable; have personality and an easy manner; be a gentleman of the Lord Chesterfield type; possess knowledge in at least one social activity — opera, bridge, conversation or ordering from a menu; be a good dancer and be well known on the campus. The co-eds hire more tall brunettes than any of the other types. TTpon being selected to conform with the woman’s specifications, the young man meets her at a designated spot and is free to use his own name or a fictitious one. Thereafter he is responsible for the success of the evening. JETSAM (Being material collected by the Editor to be used as filler when as signments are missing at the last minute). Have you seen the new edition of the Holy Bible? It is written as a straight narrative, instead of being divided into verses. The i>oetry is written as poetry, the drama in drama form. This ediiton will be interesting to read for its literary as well as its religious value. Salem students will be enthusias tic over a new book of Christopher Morley’s. It is a tiny volume called “Briefcase” and costs only twenty- five cents. It contains pieces chosen from his recent writing and nothing has previously appeared in book form. Several poems which Mr. Mor- ley read during his lecture here are included. Quoting from Joseph Auslander’s newest book of verse, “More Than Bread.” “I am Poetry — A^inst the tooth and treachery of time I preserve the splendour of the world. I am your memory. I am the most beautiful way of remembering What it would impoversih you to forget.' ’ We wonder how many copies of “Gone With the Wind,” have been sold. Her publishers sent Margaret Mitchell the millionth copy for a Christmas gift. That was a month ago. THE DEAD BEE Beside me there is resting A great biography, That crumpled panorama— The history of the bee. A husk of ebon velvet, A powdering of gold. Lies, at the end, a bankrupt With honey still unsold. What an extensive failure (Sheriffs are in the air) Barrels of good wild honey Nobody knows just where; Only a little bankrupt, Truly too tired to care. By Nathalia Crane from “Modern American Poetry,” edited by Louis Untermeyer. AT CANCO/H They shut me up in prose — As when, a little girl, They put me in the closet Because they liked me “still.” “Still!” could themselves have peeped And seen my brain go round. They might as wise have lodged a bird For treason in the pound! Himself has but to will. And, easy as a star. Look down upon captivity And laugh. Nor more have I! —Emily Dickinson. FROLIC The children were shouting together And racing along the sands, A glimmer of dancing shadows, A dovelike flutter of hands. The stars were shouting in heaven, The sun was chasing the moon: The game was the same as the children’s, They danced to the self-same tune. The whole of the world was merry. One joy from the vale to th height,, Whre the blue woods of twilight encircled The lovely lawns of the light. —“A. E.” “Books are a substantial world . . . round these our pastime and our happiness will grow.” Wordsworth. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE AND WAR Hanover, N. H.—(ACP)—War has put in its appearance on the extra curricular study program of Dart mouth College. Interest in warfare has been so manifest that certain members of the Dartmouth faculty — not the college itself, have organized a course that deals with the various phases of conflict. Prof. Bruce W. Knight, sponsor of thenew course, has announced that the series of eighteen evening meet ings is open, without fee, to anyone who wishes to enroll. Many of the sixteen speakers who have agreed to lecture saw service in the world war. “No college, so far as I know,” said Prof. Knight, “offers a general course on war. This apparently strange gap in the curriculum may be due to sharp departmental cleav ages of the social sciences. Of course the problem is a broad one. A teach er in a given department knows something of war but mainly the part immediate to hig own field. “This is a study of war, not a chance for confirmed pacifists to blow off steam. We have taken the precautions to keep thrill-hunters out of the course. Nevertheless, we have found enough students willing to do the work without college credit and enough teachers ready to present it in addition to their regular work. “The whole thing is roughly di vided into three parts; first, the nature of war along its various fronts — political, propaganda, mili tary, economic and so on; second, the costs of war — economic, cultural, eugenic; third, the means of preserv ing peace as related to theleading causes of war.” NATIONAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION MEETS New York City—When it comes to making speeches, the college ath letic coaches and directors take all prizes. At their annual conclave here a couple of weeks ago they broke the silence that characterize them during days and harangued on a lot of things that have been bothering coaches, fans and players for a long time, and then held several roasting sessions that did not exclude the fellow that foots the bill for it all, the fan. After hotel janitors had started to clean up after the final sessions of the conventions of the National Col legiate Athletic Association and the American Football Coaches Associa tion, delegates sat down to rest and recount highlights of the meetings. Here’s their summary: At the opening meeting of the N. C. A. A., Dr. William L. Hughes, associate professor of physical educa tion, Columbia University, suggested open payment of college football plyayers in order to end “hypo crisy. ’ ’ “What is the difference between payment and non-payment of a col lege athlete so long as he keeps his scholastic work up to the proper standard and conducts himself like a gentleman,” he said. Dr. J. N. Nichols, director of ath letics at Oberlin College, suggested professionalism for small colleges but along a different route. The chief points in his program are: the elim ination of gate receipts; the financ ing of athletics In the same way in which other college activities are fi nanced; the abolition of leagues and conferences; the matching of schools of the same size; the establishment of coaches on a full time basis and the simplification of elgibllity rules. QUOTABLE QUOTES (By Associated Collegiate Press) “At times we have been criticized for allowing radicals to speak on our platforms — but we still let them apeak. After they speak our stu dents and faculty members discuss their speeches in classrooms and oft en many worthwhile ideas, both pro anid con, evolve from such discus sion.” Dr. George Barton Cutten, president of Colgate University, re fuses to put a preferontial-padlock on the speaker’s platform. “I wouldn’t claim for educational radio the same values that can be claimed for campus study. If there should ever develop an overlapping of values, there would still be no conflict, for radio can reach those who find It Impossible to attend reg. ular campus classes.” Dean Ned H. Dearborn of the division of general education at New York University does not fear the competition of ‘ ‘ either-education. ’ ’ “We are wasting time if we in dulge in prolonged discussions as to the place of analytical geometry in a freshman curriculum while jails and park benches are being filled by those who need an education which has some meaning in every day life.” Temple University’s President Charles E. Beury suggests a waste-basket for the old curri culum. Hailey was the first man to estab lish the fact that comets travel def- nlte courses and return at regular Intervals. Several thousand persons In the United States wear contact spec tacles — thin. Invisible lenses that slip beneath the eyelids and over the eyeball. In Germany it is estimated that in sects destroy one out of every five apples, one out of every ten grains of wheat and one of ever thirteen potatoes. FRENCH CLUB MEETS The French Club is not dead. It came to life last Thursday afternoon, January 14, when the members met for their monthly meeting in the Day Student’s Recreation Room. The program committee Misses Helen Mc Arthur, Martha McNair, and Kath ryn Snead had planned the game, bingo, and Miss Vest won a lovely box of stationery for the prize. Tea was served by Misses Helen Toter and Marian Sosnik. The next meet ing will be a dinner in February, The word is that ‘ ‘ reading in pub lic libraries” is faltering. For that matter it falters elsewhere. Orchids so large that four men were required to carry the plant, have been found in the Everglade National Park of Florida.
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