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THE SALEMITE
Friday, November 11, 1938.
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Toscanini will conduct the NBC
Symphony, Saturday, November 12,
at 10:00 over WJZ in the follo%ving
program:
Coriolanus Overture Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in B flat
Schubert
Les Eolides Franck
Dinsrah Overture Meyerbeer
On next Sunday afternoon the
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra, with Joseph Schuster as
’cello soloist, will present the fol
lowing:
Symphony in D minor, No. 4
Schumann
’Cello concerto, from the Schubert
sonata in A minor for Arpeggiore
Schubert-Cassado
Symphony No. 7, in A .... Beethoven
News
Y.W.C.A.
At Vespers, Sunday, we will have
a special music program which will
be in charge of Mias Frances Wat-
lington, head of the “Y” Music
Committee. On the program there
will be selections by Mary Charlotte
Nelme, Katherine Swain, Elizabeth
Cloninger (who plays the harp), and
the “Y” choir. Johnsie Moore will
play the prelude, the accompani
ments and the hymns. We are
pleased that we will be able to hear
these selections by the music stu
dents and hope that all of you will
be there to hear them. The time is
6:30 and the place, the old chapel.
MEDICAL APTITUDE
TESTS TO BE GIVEN
ON DECEMBER 2ND
Announcements have been posted
for the Annual Medical Aptitude
Tests to be given December 2nd at
3 o’clock.
All students who intend to enter
Medical School this next year are
to take this examination.
Last year the tests were taken by
10,755 students in 628 colleges. This
was a slight increase over the num
ber who took the tests the previous
year. Tliree Salem .students took the
tests last year.
These tests are issued by the As
sociation of American Medical Col
leges and are taken by all students
at the same hour on the same day
throughout the United States.
All the leading Medical Schools
belong to the association and stu
dents must pass these tests before
being accepted into the medical
school.
Announcement has also been re
ceived that the tests will not be
given in tlie spring. In previous
years special tests have been given
in the spring but this practice has
been discontinued.
JIMMY DORSEY COMES
ACROSS
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I’d better say music and golf.” In
fact Jimmy and Mr. Conrad Thibault
indulge together in an occasional
game of golf. Mr. Thibault had left
a message consisting of a “Hello”
with one of our fellow pressmen to
be conveyed to his friend Dorsey.
Jimmy likes (as we found from two
other visitors backstage), barbecued
spareribs and steaks. He and Mr.
Manager both dared to light up a
Chesterfield in this Camel loving citv.
To provide a romantic touch to an
amateurish interview under unroman
tic circumstances, one of the boys in
the hallway played around with good
old “Sylvia” on his horn.
Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Mr.
Dorsey does not sing, but he has a
delightful way of punetuating im
portant remarks with forceful ad
jectives when he 'a talking. (Too sub
tle). He’ll soon be at the New York
er. Go up and ask him what we
mean.
ANNUAL CELEBRATION
OF BOOK WEEK
PLANNED FOR
NOV. 13-19
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to outwit Mr. Brink so that his be
loved grandson. Pud, may not be tak
en and brought up by the grasping,
prudish Aunt Demetria. Salem stu
dents who heard John Mason Brown'g
lecture last spring will remember
his favorable criticism of the play.
On Thursday night, the second lec
ture of the year will be given by
Padraic Colum, Irishman and author.
He will speak on children’s books,
and books especially good for young
adults.
All week the library will have
displays and exhibits of not only
books now available for younger chil
dren, which will be on the second
floor in the children’s staekroom, but
also books for young adults which
should be of special interest to Sal
em students.
NATIONAL EDUCATION
WEEK OBSERVED
AT SALEM
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charge of the observance here, and
Sara Harrison was general chairman
of the work.
Listed as the primary task of mod
ern American schools is the develops
ing of citizens who will preserve,
protect, and promote our American
democracy. For that reason we were
particularly interested in National
Education Week this year because of
the European crisis in the recent past
and the important national elec
tions in the near future. So Salem
tried to emphasize the part that edu
cation must play in a new social-eco
nomic advance.
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When we entered Salem College, we took a pledge that
we would uphold the ideals of the school and also that we
would respect the honor system. The former depends entirely
on the latter and both are vitally important in the reputation
of our school. It seems that some students are having a hard
time interpreting the meaning of an “Honor System^” Some
have said that is would be better for definite rules to be set
down showing exactly what can be done and what cannot. This
request -cannot be fulfilled, however, because of the nature of
such a quality as Honesty. Surely each person can judge as to
whether an action of hers would be harmful either to herself or
to anyone else. Lately there has been some disregard for the
honor system. Some girls h^ve forgotten their promises and
have acted in such a way that might harm the school. These
girls have perhaps acted thoughtlessly. We hope so, but, what
ever caused them to break rules, they have weakened the Honor
system and have been unfair to other students and to them
selves. Let us remember that we are Salem students.
—G. B.
THIS
ARMISTICE DAY
Down the long ■corridor of twenty years the sound of
throbbing drums is still re-echoing. The steady tread of march
ing feet even now is resounding across the broad expanse of
time and shaking the very foundations of modern peace. This
Armistice Day the world is seeing countless thousands of men
taking up arms against one another, is hearing once more the
distant thundering of guns, is smelling the smoke and dust of
the battle-field. Only twenty years have passed since that last
great war, yet the world once more is preparing for battle.
No one remembers the pain and the loss suffered in 1918.
All have forgotten the utter futility of gun fire and bloodshed.
Is there not one who can see the bitter years of privation and
disease that the future holds. Should there be another war ? The
world always saves its regrets for the future and puts its future
in the past. This November 11 is a weak link in the chain of
peace, for the world is holding its fate in rather unsteady hands.
No one knows whether this Armistice Day will introduce another
year of peace or one of war. Only time will tell.
Meanwhile the drums throb on, and the marching feet
draw nearer. Cannot someone stop the infernal noise? The
AT IRANID€M
THE BEGGAR’S CHILD
Mavourneen, we’ll go far away
From the net of the crooked town,
Where they grudge us the light of the day.
Around my neck you will lay
Two tight little arms of brown.
Mavourneen, we’ll go far away
From the net of the crooked town.
And what will we hear on the way?
The stir of wings up and down, says she,
In nests where the little birds stay!
Mavourneen, we’ll go far away
From the net of the crooked town,
Where they grudge us the light of the day.
Wild Earth and Other Poems,
by Padraic Colum.
A CRADLE SONG
0, men from the fields!
Come gently within.
Tread softly, softly,
0! men coming in.
Mavourneen is going
From me and from you,
WTiere Mary will fold him
W^'ith mantle of blue!
From reek of the smoke
And cold of the floor,
And the j>eering of things
Across the half-door.
0. men from the fields!
Soft, softly, came thro’
Mary puts round him
Her mantle of blue.
Wild Earth and Other Poems,
by Padraic Colum.
youth of today will be the world of tomorrow. Within their
hands lies the future for them to mould and shape. The years
beyond are their destiny, their heritage. Youth must decide
what the meaning of this Armistice Day shall be. Let the drums
re-echo no more, and let the marching feet be silenced forever.
—R. T.
TO THE
I. R. S. COUNCIL
Thanks a million, I. R. S., for the grand week you gave
Salem! I think that every girl here really felt that last week had
more in it that she came to college to find tha^ any other one
time since school started in September. We expected to find sing
ing around bonfires at night, teas given for no special reason—
just given for folks to get together—and all sorts of thingh that
show us that college organizations are really up and coming.
Thank you, most of all, for the dance. Dances, and college,
and school spirit all go together somehow, and we love good
dances like the one last week-end. They give us a chance to
meet new people and to see all the girls here at their best. We
need things like that to pull us out of the habit of dressing
just any way and of letting our hair look like ‘ ‘ busted bails of
hay” rather than the well-groomed, neat beads that I. R. S.
expects and deserves.
So thank you again. Last week really meant a lot to us
and made us love Salem even better than before!
—K. K.