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THE SALEMITE
Friday, October 22, 1937.
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RSPRCSCNTeO FOR NATIONAL ADVCRTISJNO BY
AT IPANID0M
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among
the wise seem foolish.”
Quintilian.
“He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered
that he is not so.”
Publius Syrus.
“I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind,
which is the proper judge of the man.”
Seneca.
“You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the
wine that will sell.”
Publius Syrus.
“It matters not what you are thought to be, but
what you are.”
Publius Syrus.
“Think not that thy word and thine alone
must be right.”
Sophocles.
“The jury, passing on a prisoner’s life.
May in tlie sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.”
Shakespeare.
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College Calendar
October 23^30
Saturday, October 23:
Melrose Hendrix’s wedding at ten
o’clock in the morning — First
Baptist Church.
Monday, October 25:
Student’s Recital in Memorial
Hall at 8:15.
Tuesday, October 26:
Miss Jeanette Rankin, guest speak
er at 8:30 chapel.
History Club Dinner with Miss
Rankin as guest speaker.
Thursday, October 28:
Open house at the Home Econom
ics Practice House.
Friday, October 29:
Guilford Battle Ground trip for
the Academy with Dr. Rond-
thaler as g^ide.
Saturday, October 30:
Senior Dinner at 7:30 at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler.
INDEXES IN THE
LIBRARY
Have you ever used the indexes in
the Library to supplement the ma
terial and bibliography obtained
from the catalog? Maybe you did
not even know they were there —
on top of the suggested rea(ding
shelves and convenient to the cata
log.
There are indexes of Essays and
General Literature, Plays, Poetry,
short stories, songs, and costumes.
The Costumes Index has been added
only recently. Let as take a glance
through it. Costumes of every coun
try for practically any period are
listed there by subject. There are
also listings of fans, glove.s, and
lorgnettes, the costume of religious
orders, the crowns of various coun
tries. You can find how a mayor in
fourteenth century England dressed.
The references are all in abbre
viations, but in the front of the vol
ume you will find directions for use
and a list of abbreviations.
In the back is a list of the books
indexed. There you can discover
which ones are in our Library by the
S. C. marked to one side of the ref
erence.
The other indexes are arranged in
the same manner and all are very
useful.
Monday, October 19, the American
Dietetic Association met at the John
Marshall Hotel in Richmond, Vir
ginia. All the meetings, during the
week were held at The John Marsh
all. The conference is to adjourn
Friday night. This is the first time
the meeting has .been held in the
South.
Mrs. Meinung, the head of the
Home Economics Department, ia to
return tonight from this meeting.
She is chairman of ‘ ‘ The Professional
Education in North Carolina State
Dietetic Association.” Problems of
this division were discussed.
DAVIDSON PROFESSOR
ADVISES STUDENTS
TO ANALYZE
DREAMS
“Interpret your dreams and know
yourself. ’ ’
That was the advice Dr. Frazier
Hood, of Davidson College, gave
members of the Salem College Psy
chology Club Thursday night.
Tn an interpretative lecture on
“Dreams,” the Davidson professor
stated that dreams are expressions
of the unconscious mind disguised in
symbols. For this reason he aaid it
a good practice to remember and an-
alyze one's dreams.
Dreams, related to the experience
in the sensory field, are illogical, in
coherent and irrational, he declared
their characteristics.
They are often immoral and may
reveal inner impulses. Likewise they
disregard all laws of proportion and
time, he said.
In ancient times, dreams were
thought to be real experiences or
sorties of the soul. Later they were
considered messages from the super
natural world, he said.
The modern idea, Dr. Hood ex
plained, is expressed by Freud. This
German psychologist contends that
dreams are expressions of the uncon
scious mind. These thoughts, which
are beneath the threshold of con
sciousness, may be unworthy ideas,
suppressed desires or anything which
is^ kept thrust out of the conscious
mind. During sleep, however, these
thoughts rise to the surface, but are
disguised in symbols. They are oon-
doBsed and disoifdered. iFor this
reason Freud says dreams are
“vague caricatures of the latent
content of the mind,” Dr. Hood told
the young psychologists at Salem.
Going further, Dr. Hood interpret
ed some of the usual symbols:
Right and left represent right and
wrong; earth represents the concrete,
objective sides of reality; air repre
sents thought and imagination; wa
ter is the intermediate element be
tween feeling and thought or pas
sion; forms of locomotion represent
the character development of dy
namics.
IDEAL DATE
1. She doesn’t eat much.
2. She’s good looking
3. She doesn’t eat much.
4. She’s a good dancer.
5. She doesn’t eat much.
There are said to be two types of
college men: The ones who rest over
the week-end to be ready for school
and those who rest during school to
be ready for the week-end.
GDlle6icd:eDi6est
GRANDMOTHER’S
CLOCK!
When our old library died.
0, our grandmother’s clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stayed ninety years on the wall.
It was taller by half than an hour glass itself,
And it kept time for our library hall.
It was bought on the morn of the day that we were born,
And was always our treasure and pride,
But it stopped, short, never to go again
Miss Siewers has said that of those she could hire
Not a helper so faithful she found;
For it wasted no time and had but one desire,
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its side.
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old library died.
Do we want a behind-time clock in our up-to-date li
brary? There’s a place for a new one there. We should all
like an electrical clock which will not make us believe we have
twenty minutes to read a chapter when we have only ten. We
are quite bewildered sometimes when five booming strokes an
nounce the middle of the morning. 0, for a clock that will
coincide with the bells! We wonder who will give us the cor
rect time.
Many years without slumbering (tick, tock, tick, tock),
Our life seconds numbering (tick, tock, tick, tock).
But it stopped, short, never to go again,
When the old library died.
—F. J.
“LETTERS TO
THE PAPER”
It has been and is part of the editorial policy of the
“Salemite” to encourage expressions of student opinion from
members of the student body. Because we believe that an open
and active public opinion can be a tremendous force for good,
we are eager to print signed articles from girls who have a
comment to make on any matter of public interest.
Unfortunately, not all the “letters to the paper” which
have been published have resulted in accomplishing anything
— toward bringing about their avowed objects or increasing
the respect of our faculty and students of other colleges for the
student opinion of Salem. Too many of them have the appear
ance of having been written in haste and with a glorious aban
don (glorious abandon, by the way, of all principals of gram
mar and organization). They are sometimes childish and whiny.
Occasionally, they assume a very self-injured attitude. Too
often, the sum total of the arguments is; “I want this so bad
ly. It’s a shame I can’t have it. It is certainly due me, and
it's a mean and unjust faculty that refuses to give it to me.
They just want me to study all the time. My life is a hard
one. Ah kin not stand it much longer!”
A great many of the letters in the open forum ask for
something which requires action from the faculty or the ad
ministration. It seems to us, therefore, to the writer’s ad
vantage, both for winning student support and faculty sym
pathy, to assume that her readers will be fairly intelligent,
adult persons. Assuming all that, she might present argu
ments, points — and those in some order — in support of
what she says.
All school regulations exist for some reason; at least,
there was a reason for each one when it was made. If a rule
displeases you, then, it might not be entirely disastrous to find
out why it exists. When you have presented the arguments
for it, present your own against it. Probably the students
(certainly the faculty), know the **pro” ones anyway, and
if you ignore them in giving the “con” side, you are weak-
ening your own position — which would be considerably
strengthened, if you showed that you understood fully both
sides of the question.
We are getting on in years. We are, supposedly, grow
ing out of the silliness and immaturity of adolescence (page
Mrs. G. S. 0.!). At any rate, invective, childishness, and this
very feminine fretfulness get us nowhere fast and expose us
and our paper to ridicule in other colleges.
This is a plea for intelligent, sincere, and grammati
cal “letters to the paper,” which we certainly will publish
and which — almost as certainly will bring results.
—A. W. P.