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THE SALEMITE
Friday, March 5, 1937.
Published Weekly By The
Student Body of
Salem College
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EDITOEIAL STAFF
Editor-In-Chief Sara Ingram
Associate Editors:—
Mary Louise Haywood
Katherine Sissell
Music Editor Laura Bland
Sports Editor Cramer Pereival
Feature Editor Julia Preston
OUR CUT SYSTEM
There is quite a bit of discussion
on the campus at the present time
concerning our cut system. Students
are invited to discuss the question in
the “Salemite. ”
Each week we will publish the
plans of other colleges along this
line. How does our system compare
with these?
W. C. U. N. C.
REPOETEES:
Louise Freeman
Josephine Klutz
Mary Lee Salley
Peggy Brawley
Eloise Sample
Peggy Warren
Mary Worthy Spense
Anna Wray Fogle
Sara Harrison
Mary Turner Willis
Alice Horslleld
Florence Joyner
Julia Preston
Helen McArthur
Helen Totten
Maud Battle
Mary Thomas
Margaret Holbrook
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We extend our deepest sympathy to Miss Mary Cash and
to Dr. Francis C. Anscombe in their recent bereavement.
AND SALEM SAT
ON THE STAGE
“Who are they?”
“Salem students!”
At the concert our girls sat on the stage and made a
beautiful picture whicli the audience called, “Salem.”
People don’t ask who we are just on special occasions
but everyday. Then we are on the stage all of the time, and
we should be beautiful in word and deed to persons around us.
We should let our good characteristics shine each day.
Now that we are choosing those to sit on the front seat
or rather those to be our leaders for next year, we want to
find those girls who will best represent Salem. Let us vote for
the girls who will exemplify the beautj% charm, grace, intellect,
and culture of Salem. *
EPICUREANS
ENTERTAIN
The Salem Nu Alpha Chapter of
Eta Nu Pi gave a dinner at the Car
terct, Saturday night, February 27,
1937, honoring the Alpha Alpha
Chapter of Davidson. Those present
were Bancroft Manly, Fred McLean,
Ed Finley, and Tom Thurston of the
Alpha Alpha. Edith McLean, Emily
Richardson, Annette McNeely, and
Evelyn McCarty of the Nu Al^pha
Chapter, Helen Totten and Frank
Poe, other guests.
The color scheme (apple and co-
coanut), was beautifully displayed
by the centerpiece which was a pile
of apples showered with cocoanut.
The red, black, and white checked
was not only of, the Nu Pi’s colors
but also Davidson’s, but the flowers
were the yellow and white of Salem.
The dinner was very delicious, but
the dessert brought most praise for
the pie was decorated with the let
ters Eta Nu Pi.
During the meal, Dr. Caparoni
(alias iVank Poe), the most distin
guished discoursed on both sides of
various questions asked him by the
less intellectual guests. Bancroft
Mosely who made a speech of grati
tude which was answerer by Mrs.
Campbell, hostess of the Carteret
and Emily Richardson who also pre
sented the Alpha Alpha Chapter a
copy of the song composed for the
fraternity.
EDUCATION SERIES
ON RADIO
“Let Freedom Ring,” weekly
dramatized radio programs of the
Office of Education, United States
Department of the Interior, will
bring the story of the struggle for
civil liberties over Columbia’s na
tionwide network each Monday
night. The program is a feature of
the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of
tTie Constitution. Factual stories de
scribing the writing of personal
rights into the Constitution over a
period of long, bitter strife will be
the featured presentations Commis
sioner Studebkaer has asserted, “If
these programs help to awaken the
people to the need for eternal vig
ilance in preserving personal liber
ties, we shall have accomplished our
purpose to give greater significance
to the spirit and practice of self
government. ’ ’
COMMUNITY CHEST
Community Chest Day is Tuesday,
March 9. Salem girls are asked to
be as generous as possible with their
gifts.
Further announcements will be
made concerning the time and place
that contributions will be received.
3.
4.
0.
No cuts two days before or two
days after any holiday; and a
student taking one is debarred
from the final examination for a
year.
A student who has been absent
from class because of prolonged
illness or repeated short illness
shall forfeit the cuts to which
she might have been entitled
that semester.
For each over cut the student
will lose one hour’s credit which
shall be deducted from the total
number of credit hours at end of
semester.
Freshmen may have no cuts dur
ing the first semester and if she
averages 0 may have one in each
course tne second semester. B
average entitles them to cuts
equal to credit hours of the
course.
Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors
with average below C may have
no cuts. Those averaging allowed
a limited number of cuts and
those with A or B a no; —to
credit hours of the course.
Transfer with C average — one
cut per course.
RANDOLPH-MACON
WOMAN’S COLLEGE
(a)
held with Bancroft Mosely presiding
and the guests were entertained by
the playing of Emily Richardson,
_ harpist, by square dancing, ping
After dinner a formal meeting was pong playing and snow balling.
GENERAL RULINGS FOR
GRANTING ABSENCES
No student with a grade of F on
any subject, including Physical
Education, will be granted ex
cused absence from class atten
dance. No student having as
many as three grades of C, ex
clusive of the grade in Physical
Education will be granted ex
cused absence from class atten
dance.
(b) No student will be granted ex
cused absence from class atten
dance during the first semester
of her freshman year.
(c) Students with no grades below
B, exclusive of the grade in
Physical Education, will be
granted excused absences from
academic classes not to exceed
ten class absences in a semester.
Not more than two of these are
to be from any one class, and
these two are not to be consecu
tive.
(d) Students with not more than
one grade of C, exclusive of the
grade in Physical Education,
will be granted excused absences
from academic classes not to ex.
ceed seven class absences in a
semester. Not more than two of
these are to be from any one
class, and these two are not to
be consecutive.
Students with not more than two
grades of C, exclusive of the
grade in Physical Education,
will be granted excused absences
from academic classes not to ex
ceed four class absences in a
semester. Not more than two of
these are to be from any one
, class ,and these two are not to
be consecutive.
(f) No student will be granted
more than tw^o excused absences
from class attendance in the de
partment of Physical Education
Seniors and Juniors on the
Dean’s List may make use of
absences from class not involv
ing absences from college with
out previous consultation with
the office of the Dean of Stu
dents, provided such absence is
reported to the Dean of Students
within twenty-four hours. Ab
sences so taken are to be de
ducted from the total of ten ab
sences per semester allowed such
a student.
Absences Occasioned by Illness.
These absences are to be excused
in the office of the Dean of Students.
They are not to be deducted from the
total allowed under section 3, unless,
AT KANOCM
BLACK ALDER BERRY
Under mid-winter skies I stood
Before red berries by a wood.
With these two eyes I saw them plain
Strung on bare twigs like scarlet rain.
There in that withered, frosty field
My throat went dry, my senses reeled.
And who I was and why I came
I could not say, my very name
Was lost to me — I only knew
Color that breaks the heart in two.
—Rachel Field.
# # #
MORNING SONG
A diamond of a morning
Waked me an hour too soon;
Dawn had taken in the stars
And left the faint white moon.
0 white moon, you are lonely.
It is the same with me,
“ But we have the world to roam over.
Only the lonely are free.
—Sara Teasdale.
« # #
WISDOM
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things.
And learned tliat confproniises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate.
When I can look life in the eyes.
Grown calm and very coldly wise.
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.
—Sara Teasdale.
AROUND THE CAMPUS
Did you hear all the weeping and
wailing on second floor Sunday morn
ing I never would believed that so
much noise could come from such a
little girl, but V. B. made it clear in
no uncertain terms that she wanted
to go home for the day and only that
day vrould do. No one could console
her with the fact that there were
three more Sundays on which she
could make the trip because she said
that Mickey was going to be there
and the 28th was the only day to go.
Maybe it’s best though that the
snow did keep you from exposing
Felicia, Peggy, and Anne to him all
at one time.
(e)
(g)
It must be a pretty cute man that
can keep Lois Morgan in Hickory
(ever heard of the town?) from Sat
urday until Monday night.
Exams down at the Hill are really
interrupting M’s. plan of salvation.
Since the boy simply must study and
get a little sleep too, he doean’t have
time to write his regular daily epistle.
They’ll soon be over M. so don’t
take it so hard.
Dot Wyatt, Betty Bahnson, and
Mary McColl have already written
letters to the Easter Bunny telling
him to bring their eggs to Charleston
this year and hide them at the Cita
del. They’re going for the dances,
and from all heard about uniforms
and moonlight sails down there, it
sounds like a wonderful place to
spend the holidays.
hopeful look on Forest Mosby’s face
every time she goes to the iwst office.
Looks like Cecil isn’t runnjng true
to form these days.
We heard the other day that Jo
Gribbon had considered going into
the pin business. What
Jo?
about it.
Bill Fulton was pretty much upset
after a certain phone call Monday
niglit. Which one was it this time?
From all reports heard over the
week-end, it seems that the Eta Nu
Pis have their good points too. For
any details about the occasion, ask
Edith McLean, Annette McNeely,
Emily Richardson, or Evelyn McCar
ty. They’re all charter members.
Have you noticed the worried, but
on account of prolonged or recurring
illness, further absences from class
attendance are likely to endanger the
success of the student.
I lora MacDonald girls were just
out of luck last Saturday afternoon
when Emma Brown, Maude, and
Prances Watlington, arrived on the
scene and cheerfully drove off with
all the Davidson boys there for the
banquet. “There’s no justice” said
the Flora Mac. girls, who weren H
allowed to go out with their dates,
but the Salem girls claimed “It cer
tainly was fun!”
The Calendar Reports:
TWO WEEKS^AND FIVE
DAYS TILL EASTER!
Just at this time the weeks seem
especially long, and lessons even
longer, and vacation far more remote.
Three months of school and eternal
studying enforced by relentless
teachers (and this is not a radical
paper), seem well-nigh intolerable.
Pollyannas say: “Everything is for
the best,” and philosophers expound
the theory that man can bear any
thing. And I say; “We miss too
much!”
(If I go on, I will either find my
self a Pollyana or one of the most
scorned radicals in any school!) I
think I prefer being a Pollyanna H’s
safer as well as saner. For two
weeks and five days isn’t so long
actually — is it!