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THE SALEMITE
Friday, March 21, 1941.
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OPEN FORUM
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ALL?
Nothing is ever very interesting if we aren’t exactly sure
what’s going on. As a matter of fact, is there anything much
worse than getting in on the end of a bull-session and not hav
ing the faintest idea what has been said previously? Real en
joyment and understanding of a situation require a knowledge
of the whole; a fragment is no good.
Next week Dr. Charles Meyers of Greensboro will
be the speaker for Religious Emphasis Week. In addition to
his chapel talks, he will present a series of evening discussions.
The only way to get the full benefit of Dr. Meyers’ ideas is to
come to the very first discussion groups and follow their de
velopment. The closing discussions will be even more inter
esting if we know what has gone before.
A man of Dk-. Meyers’ experience has a great deal to
offer us; it is our loss if we fiail to hear him.
Eventualy—^why not now?
Every day at school one hears
scores of girls say: “How can
do all the work I have to do in
the library! I have six courses and
extra reading to do in each one.”
And as many faculty members com
plain daily of the lack of 
thusiasm of the students, the slip--
shod work, the struggle to persuade
the average student to do any out
side work. As a matter of fact no
body wants to take five or six
courses at once. Nobody wants to
skim thru 12 parallel books in each
class. Sometimes a student likes
her work but she has to skim four
classes in order to give adequate
time to her major or to her favorite
subject. What is the solution for
this? The best solution seems to be
a quarter, system. If the students
are afraid to demand it, why can’t
the faculty? But what is wrong
with the students demanding it! We
come to college to get a thorough
knowledge of some one or several
things. But wo don’t have time.
We have to switch our minds like
a radio from one course to another
Suppose we had the quarter sys
tem. We would take three subjects
every quarter, meet those classes
every day and concentrate on three
subjects.
Maybe then we would learn
something. We would do away with
a lot of neurotic and splochy study
and the faculty migtt then have a
reason to bo better satisfied with
a student's interest and progress
than under the present set-up.
ADVISORY BOARD
AND THE EVENING
AND THE MORNING WERE THE THIRD DAY —
Heard in chapel on Wednesday, March 12, was the re
port that in the year 1946 Salem College closed its doors be
cause of the inability to pay the huge sum of money in the
law suit filed agaiiast them by a famous alumna of the school.
It seems that on a visit Miss fell in a ditch worn
there by the students in their treks a-cross the square and
back campus.
Seen on the trees around the school on the same day
were black and white signs reading PLEASE KEEP OFF THE
GRASS.
Seen since that time have been too many students and
faculty members walking across this referred-to grass. Although
such action may be favored by town officials since in this way
the streets and sidewalks will be preserved for future genera
tions, too many of us live in the past and live for today to
agree entirely with that opinion.
Time rushes by, but not too fast for Salem folk to plan
their steps and work out their daily itinerary on other routes
than across the places allotted to the growing of spring green
ery. Cold weather has been hard enough on vegetation; so
what hopem ay a pale blade have for survival with the com
bined efforts of low temperature and tramping feet working
against it?
Pick on- somebody your own size, folk!
In writing this article I am pre
senting a question which has been
raised in the mind of a student who
has never been on the Student
Council and who by nature of the
Student Council itself is ignorant
of the value pro or con of the ad-
visry board as a co-ordinate judi
ciary body with our Student
Government. By bringing the ques
tion to the Open Forum, I hope to
understand the relation of the two
co-existent bodies and to' the ques
tion clearly, and see it whole. This
is the opinion of one who sees it
from a non-active point of view,
and who can’t see it whole because
of that fact.
Does a Student Council—of, for
and by actually exist. Let us look
back at the Student Government
section in the Salem Catalogue 1939-
1940: “A Faculty Advisory Com
mittee acts in co-operation with the
Student Council. The right and duty
to suspend and expel if necessary
for conduct not in accord with the
spirit of Salem College are fully
recognized under the joint action of
the Student Council and the Fac
ulty Advisory Committee.”
In looking at the 1940 handbook
we find meagre mention made of
the Advisory Committee except
that it exists. N omore than the
above mentioned facts are brought
to light. And so the question comes
to my mind: Is the committee just
a hangover of boarding school days
that was never been discarded? Or
is it a committee of checks and
measurements for the purpose of
lending judgement through a more
mature eye? If it is the former—
why can we not remove this pre
cedent? Salem has" become of age.
We rest our powers in a competent
president of Student Government
and her council.
Ir, on the other hand, the faculty
advisory board is a necessary check
on the powers of the Student
Government—let us know more
about this board. How many of us
know who constitute the board that
has the power to advise Student
Government? No mention is made
in the 1940 handbook as to how
this board is selected or as to who
is on this board. Since it is such
an integral part of our Student
Government are we not privileged
to know? Are we not privileged to
elect the members? And should we
not consider election of faculty ad
visers as important as election of
student representatives?
Lets not be half-way—If we
want them lets elect our faculty
advisers along with our student
representatives.
BARD’S BOX
LOVERS LOVE THE SPRING
It was a lover and his lass.
With a hey, and a ho,- and hey nonino.
That o’er the green corn-field did pass
In the spring-time, the only pretty ring-time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey, and a ho, and hey nonino.
These pretty country folks would lie,
In the spring-time, the only pretty ring-time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
And therefore take the present time,
With a hey, and a ho, and hey nonino.
For love is crowned with the prime
In the spring-time, the only pretty ring-time.
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
—(From As You Like It).
1ST REQUEST IGNORED —
A pole without a flag
S’like a dog without a tail
Like a church without a steeple
Like a ship without a sail.
This editorial marks our Second Crusade to save Salem
from the fifth columnists who have so influenced the school
that it no longer raises the flag of its,own country. We say
“fifth columnists” because no other group could cause the for
saking of a tradition in Old Salem. No present student can
remember a time when “Old Glory” has flown from the flag
pole which stands forlornly in front of Louisa Wilson Bitting
Building. Our cheeks blush with shame when we think that
we are not keeping faith with its donors, the Class of 1928.
\\hat would they say if they knew Salem had entirely lost
sight of the symbol of democracy for which they made pro
vision? A renouncing of the spirit of democracy will be a
logical consequence of the casting off of its outward forms.
^ Salem s attitude in a time like this, when not only in
stitutions but also individuals all over the country, are evi
dencing their patriotic zeal in various ways, is deplorable. We
are asking for no stentatious and insincere display. Salem
Academy flies a flag and we want to fly one too. We hope it
will not take twelve crusades as it did in the dark ages to make
any impressions on the infidels within the walls of Salem.
There has never been a sadder story
Than a flagpole shorn of its only glory.
—B. W.
OPEN FORUM
Dear Editor:
Why haven’t Spanish students at
Salem formed a club as have stu
dents of other foreign languages?
It seems very strange that the stu
dents who played with an import
ant part in the goodwill tour of
South American students a few
weeks ago should have neglected
this phase of a Spanish course—a
phase that is absolutely essential
to one who is interested in learning
to speak the language. It is only in
a club where Spanish is spoken
that the average person has a
chance to speak it with any degree
of rapidity and ease.
Perhaps one will oppose the for
mation of a new club with the ob
jection that there are already too
many clubs at Salem and too many
outside activities which are taking
student’s time away from their
studies. A club, however, is in-
despensible to the study of a
foreign language. It is the only way
that students learn to carry on a
social conversation.
Now that Sjpanish is playing such
a vital part in establishing good
will relations in the the Western
Hemisphere it is more important
than ever that college students
learn to speak the language of their
■neighbors in order to understand
them.
Spanish Club or even a Spanish
conversation hour would be a
pleasant way—as well as practical
for Salem Spanish students to learn
the language well enough to talk
with Spanish senores and senoritas
in their own language.—A Student.
IE COIN
FRANCAIS
MOLZEBE
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin est n6 ^
Paris en 1622, le His du marchand
tapissier Jean Poquelin et de Marie
Cress6. Son pfere assure k son fils la
survivance de sa charge de tapisser
ordinaire de la maison du roi. 11 est
alle au college de Clermont et a
suivi les lemons du philosophe 6pi-
curien, Gassendi. II s’Stait li6 avec
une comedienne, Madeleine Bfijart, et
a renonce b, la profession de son
p^re. II a pris le nom de Moli6re et
a fonde “l’Illustre»Th6atre” qni a
fait faillite. Molifere a 6t€ empris*
onng au Chatelet plusieurs fois pour
des dettes.
La premiere representation des
‘ ‘ Precieuses Eidicules’ ’ ent ure gros
succfes. II a ecrit ‘ ‘ Don Garcie de
Navarre,” “Le Bourgeois gentil-
home,” “L’Ecole des Maris,” “Tar-
tuffe, ” et plusieurs autres pieces
dont trente-deux survivent.
Lie charme ^de molifere est universel
II est compris par toutes les classes.
Sociales. Ses pieces contienment des
probl6mes pratiques. II sait r6v61er
la personality humaine.
II cst mort en 1673.
As far as Salem is concerned.
THURSDAY is a little out-of-date
in saying:
“Heard, entering a doctor’s of
fice—‘Doctor I am with cold.’ ”