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THE SALEMITE
Friday, Mctrch 12, 1937.
®t)e ^alemite
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Editor-In-Chief Sara Ingram
Associate Editors:—
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Music Editor Laura Bland
Sports Editor Cramer Percival
Feature Editor Julia Preston
Louise Freeman
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Eloise Sample
Peggy Warren
Mary Worthy Spenae
Anna Wray Fogle
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Alice Horsfleld
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Julia Preston
Helen McArthur
Helen Totten
Maud Battle
Mary Thomas
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COMPLETED
LIBRARY?
Work has begun on Salem’s new library. Enough money
has been obtained to complete the building with the excep
tion of the interior work on the third floor. The estimated cost
of this is about five thousand dollars. It is hoped that this
money may be obtained as soon as possible, in order that the
building may be completed.
If you have not made a pledge, do so now. Or if you feel
that you can increase your pledge, do this. There is a joy that
comes from making a real sacrifice to such a cause.
Give the plan publicity. Tell your parents and friends.
We are sure that you will have no trouble in securing their co
operation.
Work together that we, may have a completed library in
the near future.
WE MOVE
On Friday, March 12, we the Mus
is Students bade farewell to the little
Music Building to which we had
tramped faithfully whither in rain or
snow or sunshine, and tramped down
the step leading to the Recreation
Room of the Alice Clewell Building.
There, a little apart from the ping
pong tables at which we looked Ipng-
ingly, stood the piano the black
board, and the chairs. But where
was the stove we used to play with
in our effort to keep warmf And
where was the pencil sharpener at
which we used to spend long minutes
as we gazed out of the window t
We hate to see the destruction of
little historic music building where
we have learned rhythm, note values,
harmony, counterpoint, ear training,
and other music studies!
But we did enjoy our first meetings
in the Recreation Room and we are
looking forward to the new library!
Farewell, music building!
GALLI-CURCI TO GIVE
CONCERT
On Friday April 2 at Reynolds Me.
morial Hall Omelia Galli-Curci, noted
Colortura soprano, will present her
first full length recital since her op
eration. Officials of the Columbia
Corporation arranged for the con
cert when they were here with Law
rence Tibbett.
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Table manners are a part of the
basketball curriculum at Marquette
University. On trips and in private
dining roms, Coach Bill Chandler al
lows his huskies to take turns in do
ing something wrong at the dinner
table so that the others may tune up
their etiquette.
A campus bank at Rutgers Univer
sity makes small loans to students
at about one-third the legal rate of
interest. It is run by undergraduates
in the money and banking course for
practical experience.
In treating strawberries with car
bon dioxide, three experimenters at
the University of Minnesota farm
have found a way to lengthen their
saleable life.
AT OTHER COLLEGES
This week we are presenting the
system of cuts at two more colleges.
VASSAR COLLEGE
Famous for “pulling strings”
while a student body president at
Ohio Wesleyan University, Charles
Ilorine is at it again. He is now a
member of a marionette company.
A recent exchange dinner at which
38 girls ate in the men’s dorms and
38 men ate at the girl ’9 has met with
demands for an encore by St. Law
rence University students.
“1. The educational plan of Vas-
sar College depends upon the full co
operation of students and teachers.
Since it is carried out, for the most
part, by means of classes for discus
sion or in conferences in connection
with lectures, regular attendance at
classes, lectures, or conferences is an
essential part of academic work. It
is expected, therefore, that students
will keep all academic appointments,
and will not be absent without just
cause.
The responsibility for any work
missed because of absence rests en
tirely upon the student.
2. In so far as absence affects a
student’s general standing in the
course, the instructor concerned may
exercise discretion in reducing the
student’s grade, in requiring her to
make up work, or in refusing the op
portunity to make up work, or to
take the final examination.
3. Special rules governing class
attendance immediately before and
after Vacation are abolished for all
classes. It is to be clearly under
stood that academic work proceeds
up to the date and hour of the begin
ning of vacation, and resumes
promptly at the end of vacation at
tlie time specified in the college cal
endar. Students are held to strict
accountability for any work missed
by absence, and no special opportun
ity to make up the work thus lost
is to be given by instructors.”
AGNES SCOTT
COLLEGE
I. Students on the honor roll be
given the privilege of unlimited cuts
except that class attendance is re
quired at the last meeting of each
class before, and the first meeting
after, a holiday. Excuses for ab
sences on these days will be granted
only (1) upon presentation of a phys
ician’s certificate of illness lasting
a week or more, or (2) for other pro
vidential reasons.
Honor students who take cuts at
times mentioned above (unless ex
cused automatically), lose the priv
ilege of unlimited cuts.
II. All students be given the priv
ilege of one cut per credit hour per
quarter in each course, with the fol
lowing exceptions:
(1) Students on the ineligible
lists for freshman and upper class
es.
(2) Students who have been of
ficially warned regarding their aca
demic work.
III. Every absence shall count as
a cut except that excuses shall be
accepted:
(1) Upon presentation of a phys
ician’s certificate of illness lasting
a week or more, or
(2) For other providential causes.
Attendance is required at the last
meeting of each class before, and the
first meeting after, a holiday. Ex
cuses for absences on those days will
be granted as above. Students who
take cuts at these times will auto
matically lose the privilege of the
cut system.
Attendance at a regularly sched
uled test is mandatory except for
illness. Absence counts as a cut but
the absence may be excused by the
Dean on a physician’s certificate.
Absence from each laboratory pe
riod shall count as two class cuts.
Note: Students on the ineligible
will continue under the present ex
cuse system.
Daily reports of absences will be
made by each teacher. Blanks to be
furnished by the office and reports to
bo left at designated places by five
o’clock each day.
Students must make reports of ab
sences at the Dean’s office as soon
as possible after the absences.
LATIN CLUB MEETING
The Latin Club, with Miss Eloise
Baynes presiding, met Thursday
evening, March 12, in South Hall.
Misses Geraldine Baynes, Peggy
Crist, and Sara Burrell gave inter
esting short talks on the month of
March named from the god Mars. A
most enjoyable social hour followed.
AT CAND0/H
IN A BRETON CEMETERY
They sleep well here,
These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days
In fierce Atlantic ways;
And found not there,
Beneath the long curled wave,
So quiet a grave.
And they sleep well
These peasant-folk, w^ho told their lives away,
From day to market-day,
As one should tell.
With patient industry
Some sad old rosary.
And now night falls.
Me, tempest-tost, and di'iven from pillar to post,
A poor worn ghost.
This quiet pasture calls;
And dear dead people with pale hands
Beckon me to their lands.
—Ernest Dowson.
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are these?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
—A. E. Housman.
A DEAD ASTRONOMER
Starry amorist, starward gone,
Thou art — what thou dids’t gaze upon!
Passed through thy golden garden’s bars.
Thou seest the Gardner of the Stars.
She, about whose mooned brows
Seven stars make seven glows,
Seven lights for seven woes;
She, like thine own Galaxy
All lustres in one purity;
What said’st thou, Astronomer,
When thou did’st discover her?
When thy hand its tube let fall
Thou found'st the fairest Star of all!
—Francis Thompson.
CHARACTER
EXTREMES
Of course there are numerous dif
ferent classifications of character in
which individuals can be grouped,
but one of the most widely recog
nized is the division of the “her
mit” and “mixer” types.
The screen characters of two of
America’s best-known movie stars
serve as unexcelled examples of these
varieties. Greta Garbo is a perfect
“hermit” in her extreme desire “to
be alone:” Mae West’s “Come up
and see me sometime ’ ’ indicates that
she is a good “mixer.” These two
actresses are only screen imitations
of numerous people with whom we
associate every day and everywhere.
People here at college may be ade
quately divided into these same two
classes of “hermit” and “mixer.”
There are outstanding examples of
each type at Salem, and well we
know who they are! They cannot
hide their characteristics in their re
lations with their class-mates. Many
hermits” envy the “mixers,” and
mixers” too occasionally tire of
constant companionsliip and wonder
how soothing a few hours alone
might be; but the natural qualities
of these individuals seem to bind
them to their own groups through-
THE FASHION SHOW
Parade of spring! Between the
banquet and basketball game Sat
urday night, Jo Gribbin, Meredith
Holderby, Virginia Lee, Betty Mc
Nair, Frances Cole, Kea Council, Dot
Alexander, and Nan Myers and John-
sie Moore from the Acadmy pa
raded across the floor of our new
gymnasium as samples of Montaldo’s
wide collection of new spring fash
ions. The beach ensembles, street
and evening dresses, sport clothes,
house coats, and Florida outfits put
other things in our heads than
' ‘ spring fever. ’ > Music was furnish
ed by Miss Sunny Kirby of Gastonia;
and the girls did so well that the
class prophet may well predict new
mannequins for New York!
out life.
Why are some people apparently
popular with everyone, and others
lonely and apart from their fellows t
One of Salem’s most worthwhile pur
poses and accomplishments is to les
sen the difference between these two
character classifications.