Page Four.
THE SALEMITE
Dec. 8, 1944.
Mrs. Erdman
Visits Campus
Mrs. Mabel Erdman of the Stu
dent Volunteer Movement spoke in
assembly December 5. Mrs. Erdman
spoke on our job as students in
America to join with the students
across the world to make a world
peace through Christ.
The building of a world peace is
in the hands of the youth of the
world. The only way to build this
peace is through the Church. We
as students must take this Church to
nil the people of the world, and
the only way to do this is through
individual , contact. We, as Christ
ians, must become misionaries. We
must live our religion—live Christ,
so that others may see Him through
us.
Mrs. Erdman closed with tliis
parting mesage: “So live so to be
worthy to build the peace with these
young Christians across the world.
Say, ‘ I refuse to inherit heaven all
bv myself. My life belongs to my
God.’ ’’
She spoke informally the night
before in the Day Student Center
on ‘ ‘ Religion in the Student’s Life.”
In exj)lanation, Mrs. Erdman told
the j^oup briefly about the work
of the Students’ Volunteer Move
ment. Then, with the audience group
ed informally around her, she
vited questions on religion and
Christianity. The topics moved from
a comparison of Christianity* and
other religions to improving one’s
Christian philosophy.
Mrs. Erdman urged in concluding
the discussion that it is necessary to
have conviction over and above be
lief, that faith should be compared
to the inexplicable law of gravity,
and that each person should share
his religion so that those around us
may profit thereby.
Nation Reading
Bible Daily
starting November 23 the people
of the United States lave been ask
ed to read the Bible daily. This
nation wide Bible reading is to last
from November 23, Thanksgiving
Day, to December 25, Christmas Day.
The nation has been asked to par
ticipate in this reading in order that
the American people will be brought
closer together and nearer to God
in this month through a simple daily
Bible reading. The readings for
each day are:
Thanksgiving, Nov. 23
Friday
Saturday
Sunday, Nov. 26
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday, Dee. 3
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday, Dec. 10
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday, December 17
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday ^
Sunday, Dec. 24
Monday, Dec. 25
Shown above are the Pierrette players in a scene taken from the play “Brief Music” whicb they will
present Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the Old Chapel. The girls are, left to right: Helen Robbins, Effie
Ruth Maxwell, Bernice Bunn, Martha Boatwright, Coit Redfeam, Lou.Stack, and Janie Mulhollem.
Adams Predicts Future Literature
Psalm 103
John 14
Psalm 23
Psalm 1
Matthew .'5
Romans 3
I Corinthians 13
Psalm 91
Matthew 6
John 3
Isaiah 40
Psalm 46
Romans 12
Hebrews 11
Matthew 7
John 15
Psalm 27
Isaiah 55
Psalm 121
Phillipians 4
Revelations 21
Luke 15
Ephesians 6
John 17
Isaiah 53
I Corinthians 15
John 10
Psalm 51
Psalm 37
John 1
Revelation 22
Psalm 90
Luke 2
J. Donald Adams, former Editor
of ihe New York Times Book Re
view, was the second speaker in
the Salem College Lecture Series
Tuesday night.
Mr. Adams had as his subject
‘The Shape of Books to Come.” He
made his predictions largely by a
tudy of the books of the immediate
j)ast. All changes have one funda
mental origin—if you tear down
you must buiM A dominant note
of present literature is that it isf
both destructive and negative,
whereas good literature must be pos
itive and of lasting value, said Mr.
Adams.
Good writers must somehow show
life not only as it is, but as it
ought to be. How Green Was My
Valley is an illustration of an honest
anil real picture of life in which
one gets a sense of values that make
life worth living.
According to Mr. Adams, the
novels of the 1920’s and 30’s were
negative and showed man in re
volt against his environment. Sin
clair Lewis in his novel Mainstreet
showed the shortcomings of a small
town. Many young writers followed
him and as a result turned their
backs against the United States and
went to foreign lands to write.
An important point in the talk
WHS that a homesick army will re
turn from this war with a wiiler
sense of awareness of the world than
other youths. We wjll notice the re
sult of flying and aviation in books.
“Honest emotion.s will be more
manifest in the books to come,” said
the speaker.
A considerable portion of the talk
was devoted to Ernest Hemingway.
In his latest book, For Whom the
Bell Tolls, Hemingway has come to
the realization that man must lose
himself in something greater and
larger than his personal life.
The speaker predicted that men
who are fighting this war will re
turn in different mood from those
of twenty ye.Trs ago. They will ap
proach life with less romantic and
clearer eyes, and with their feet
more firmly planted on the grounil.
They are better based to take dis
appointments.
Such best sellers as Keys of the
Kingdom, Song of Bernadette, Time
Must Have A Stop, Razor’s Edge,
and The Robe, Mr. Adams stated,
arc centered around man’s hunger
for belief and faith.” He called these
books “literary aspirins swallowed
by a confused and dissatisfied people.
Tliey will continue until something
better comes.
Mr. Adams predicted two impend
ing changes: (1) less preoccupation
with ourselves and (2) less experi
mentation in new forms and techni-
fjues. The writer will feel the
need to get closer to his reader with
greater simplicity. Present day
novels are tojo much agout the author
himself only wearing a thin dis
guise.
The lecture ended by the state
ment that “What characterizes
■America best is a sense of expect
ancy. For us there must be some
thing beyond which carries o
hearts with it.”
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The Teachers^
Qraduation
Today w'as a red letter day—the
last day of practice teaching. The
senior education majors feel almost
as if they were graduating. Direct
ed teaching was both a pain and
a pleasure; but aS' always it was
like the proverbial grabbag—full of
surprises.
The high school group’s theme
song for the past twelve weeks has
been a parody of “I’ll be loving you
always.” They sing it this way—:
“I’ll be teaching school, always,
Out at Gray High School, always;
If your unit plan needs a helping
hand
1 will understand always, always.”
Alice Stevens was spotted as a
New Yorker before she had spoken
two words to her home ec. class at
Reynolds ... In Burn’s poem “To
a Mouse” Alary Ellen mentioned
his sympathetic attitude loward the
mouse whose homes are ruined by
niiin. Boy replies, “But mice ruin
man’s home!”
Among the elementary school pra
ctice teachers all arp lunazed at ^
the “lirains” in their rooms., For
instance Frances Crowell's child
prodigy,. ‘‘Buzzy” practically
teaches the class. And then there
was the time she was “pulling” a
Benchley and Buzzy in a stage
whisper reminded—“But the sub
ject!”
One of Mai^e Griffin's problem
children, smart but bad, had not
been paying attention to the story
about a man who bought a cat »o
get rid of his rats. “Mis Griffin”
asked him what he did about get
ting rid of his cat. Jimmy misunder
stood the prompting whispers of
the third grade class and answered
proudly,.“He caught a cab to town!”
One of Luanne Davis’ pupils in
sists upon calling her “monkey-face
baboon!” How’s that for apprecia
tion?
Peggy Bollin’s first grade genius,
being beaten by a bigger boy,
screamed, “Call Miss Bollin. This
fool is killing me. He is dislocating
my whole body!”
Mildred Garrison has quite a time
being both strict teacher “Miss
Garrison” and future fond “Aunt
Mildred.” There’s a relative of
“the family” in her room—
But seriously, a lot of good has
come from the program. Helen
Phillips turned her class into an In
ternational Relations discussion and
the group found that there’s some
good in Germans—Mary Ellen Byrd
got most of the class to putting per
iods at the end of sentences and
found one budding young poet—
and Polly Starbuck is doing a fine
job with her music teaching of
Nutcracker Suite” in the third
grade.
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