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Page Two. THE SALEMITE March 9, 1 945. Democracy: Internal and External (If you have been keeping up with the Wil liam and Mary College newspaper question, you will be interested in the following edi torial written by John Temple Graves. The article appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. Ed.) Three cheers for President John Iti. Poin- fret, of William and Mary College, who has stood up against the sentimental misconcep tion that asks freedom of the press where there is no responsibility of the press. ' The blow for liberty which his student body may believe it has struck in voting their under graduate paper out of existence rather than let it be subject to any limitation by the col lege authorities who must hear the burden of its mistakes—is a blow against, not for. Liberty’s gi-eat name is impeached by those who forget that it is a thing in qualification for which children mu.st be trained, savages must be civilized, and students must be edu cated. It is true, of course, that the undergraduates at William and ,Mary are neither children nor savages and that even the most freshmen among them are as competent for the exer cises of citizenship as many of their elders outside. But the undergraduates at William and Mai'v have a status as students as well as one as citizens. In their status as students they have identified themselves with an in stitution, submitted to an authority, accepted a regime, which from the very nature of these things, must limit some of their current liber ties in the interests of their ultimate ones and in the interest of the college itse*lf and what that college means to liberty and to America through the generations. “We learn by living.” How many, many crimes have been and continue to be done in the name of that slogan o^ so-called Progres sive P]ducation! We do indeed learn much by living. But there are many, many things which we can’t successfully live without a preliminary learning. And there are many other things which simply can’t be lived while they are being learned. Freedom is still a thing for which we need to qualify, and in course of. the qualifying, whether it is be cause we aren’t fit yet or whether it is be cause the institution that qualifies us must protect its regime—we cannot be wholly free. Published Weekly By The Student Body Of Salem College Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press A.ssociation » SI’BSCEIPTION PR-ICE - $2. A YEAR - 10c A COPY EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor-in-Chief Mary Ellen Byrd Assistant Editor Eflie Ruth Maxwell Associate Editor ! Hazel Watts Sports Editor Mary Lucy Baynes Music Editor Peggy Davis Copy Editor Helen McMillan Make-up-Editor Virtie Stroup Feature Editor Marguerite Mullin Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd Senora Lindsey, Frances Law, Martha Boatwright, Helen Thomas, Bcrnice Bunn, Catherine Bunn, Jane Mulhellem, Colt Redfearn, Adele Chase^ Janet John ston, Rosalind Clark, Genevieve Frasier, Margaret Styres, Lynn Williard, Lucile Newman, Rosamond Put- zel, Peggy Tailor, Margaret Fisher, Constance Scog gins, Maria Ilicks, Rebecca Clapp, Jane Calkins, Jane Bell, Peggy Davis, Sheffield Liles, Lois Wooten, Mar garet Williams, Sarah Hege, Nell Jane Griffin, Jane Lovelace, and Martha Lou Heitman. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Emily Harris Business Manager Elizabeth Beckwith Ass’t. Business Manager Mildred Garrison Circulation Manager Betsy Thomas Advertising Manager Betsy Long, Doris Little', Marianne Everett, Kathleen Phillfps, Martha Walton, Sheffield Liles, Lomie Lou Mills, Margaret Brown, Martha Harrison, , Winifred Wall, Mary Farmer Brantley, Nancy Hills Davis, Margaret Nichols, Mary Frances McNeely, Margaret Carter, Betty Hennessee, ilollie Cameron, Norma Rhoades, Mary Stevens, Marion Waters, Sally Bosewell, Carol Beckwith, Edith Longest, Ellie Rodd, Ann Hairston, Mary Elizaboith. Reimers, Barbara Watkins, Margaret West, Dodie Bayley, Agnes Bowers, Greta Garth, Catherine Bunn, Leslie Bullard, Emma Mitchell, and Henrietta 'Walton. On The Other Hand By Effie Ruth Maxwell' At least one Salemite is aware of fleeting Time—a note on the Clewell bulletin board laments the loss of “One Golden Hour set with sixty diamond minutes, somewhere between Sunrise and sunset.” It's things like six-weeks tests that make us wish we could find a fow of our lost minutes. But on the other hand I guess no time is really lost because no matter what happens, it goes down in the “Deep Well” (Ask M^gs Byr'Vs comp students for concrete meaning!) and is bound to come bubbling out in some fashion sometime. For example, all those plans and bonds for an indoor swimming pool will materialize some day—we hope, we hope. Hearing this year’s average on the voting for SteeGee president compared ■ with last year’s makes us think we’re getting a little gov ernment-conscious—and that’s a desirable state . . . But then just con- sciiiusness is a desirable state. A lol of us have become basket-ball conscious this season. The original cheer-leaders and the Junior apple-sellers enhance these action-packed games—and take the edge off that envy which gnaws me while I watch the graceful players and wish I could drop a goal in. That senior-sophomore game really finished off the season with a flourish. The seniors showed themselves “to be what they used to be” after all. And did you notice how the faculty turned out for the game and enjoyed the antics? Si>eaking of consciousness, have you noticed U. S. AT WAIT, a new book in the library? It’s a sort of camera-annual and a won derfully quick cure when you’re feeling sorry for yourself . . . Wonder ■what the “Deep Well” will do with the hours wasted on feeling sorry for oneself? Consciousness is dented also by the newly-painted flag pole—the sudden change for the better of the toast at breakfast—the pig-tail gang—the ever-increasing signs of spring, especially the green feath ery willow tree back of the budding red maple seen at sunset, beside Lehman. The radio is one thing I wish I could hear more of. The Phil harmonic program on Sunday afternoon means twice as much after you’ve had Miss Read’s music ap. course, by the way. And maybe my wit is simple, but Bob Hope’s Tuesday night program is a riot to me. Lost time—term papers—cla.sses—the swimming pool of the fu ture-—elections—basketball—spring—books—the radio— Oh, dear—“the world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy (well, if not as happy, remembering the state of the world, at least as interested) as kings.” And some com plain about being bored! AfW4tte>i Ci/oxuixd&i Esta semana y la semana que viene las estudiantes aqui a Salem estaran estudiando para los examenes de las seis primeras semanas. Muchas estudiantes estan turbadas porque tienen dos examines el mismo dia o porque tienen un examen varios dias siguientes. Pero las examenes son les examenes, no importa cuando uno los tiene. Son una parte Integra de la vida de escuela. Buena suerte! Senoritas. ! Yo I Can’t Come In No Rationing of Spirit “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” We were once aecused of this fault, but something HAS been done about it. Pjverybody here at Salem was complaining about our school spirit, or rather the LACK of it, but lo something has been done. Anyone who has attended the re cent basketball games can not deny this. Just what is SPIRIT? Well, let’s say (with apologies to Mr. Webster) that spirit is that' undefinable “oomph,” that group emotion, or to be more technical: spirit is a spontaneous outburst of a homogenous group. At our basketball games we have at last gathered the group, and from all signs, the spirit is there. But we need more of it! Your class teams deserve your support. If they can go out and get black-eycs, sprained ankles, and )niglity out-of-breath for you, the least you can do is go down and strain your vocal chords for them! C ’mon, girls, and remember, spirit is one thing that needn’t be rationed! Don’t save it—spend it. The more you spend, the more you have. P. S. There’s a softball season coming up soon! Ten Dollars For Books Dear Salemites: Miss Siewers has asked me to tell you a little about the annual librai'y contest and what it means to win five, ten, fifteen, or twen- ty-five dollars just to spend for books. I was one of the lucky girls who entered the contest in the spring of 1943 and won ten dollars with which I added four prized books to my library. Entering the contest was easy. All I had to do was write down a list of not more than thirty books that 1 would like to own. It was hard to limit them to thirty. Of course I wanted to include a few basic reference books just in case I found myself in need of facts when I couldn’t step over to the Salem College, Library. Then there were the books which I had read, reread, and would like to read again—such as Jane Eyre and David Cop- perfield. For pick-up-by-the-fire reading I chose a collection of short stories of the year, a book of plays by Eugene O’Neill, and some informal essays by Dorothy Parker. My poetry choices were slightly colored by my favorites in English Literature—Byron, Shelley, and Keats. This year I believe 1 would add Ogden Nash to my list of poetry. The list went on and on—I typed it (in cluding the names of the publishers and the price for each gook) and handed it in to Miss Siewers. Then one Tuesday in chapel, I was called out of the audience and handed a check. All that simple! The next step was a long chat at the book store with Mr. Snavely who ordered the fol lowing books for me; Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill; After Such Pleasurer by Dorothy Parker; Men of Art by Thomas Craven: and The Poetry of Shelley and Keats. lou might order other books. But no mat ter what books you bought I know you’d get a thrill out of buying them. Whv don’t you try your luck this yea;-? Sign up at the Circulation Desk. Sincerely, Mary Ellen Byrd. The Green Subject Several weeks ago, the Salemite had an edi torial concerning the “Keep Off the Grass” campaign. It stated that the grass around Salem was in a sad plight and that one should refram from trampling over it. The edi torial evidently went unread or else unheeded if read. Why don t you look around the campus at the bare spots where gi'ass should be? The ground is completely barren around the din ing room door and along many of the paths placed over the Salem campus for the pur pose of preserving the grass. The paths arc spacious and should not require that anyone walk on the grass, not even when the doors to the dming room are locked on the week ends. Mr. Riggan, our Superintendent of Build ings and Grounds, has asked especially that we give the grass a chance to grow so that he will not have! to place those ugly little green posts along all the paths. The Salem campus IS especially beautiful in spring and there is no point in marring the outstanding afuS wait We onee again plead with you for coop eration m our ‘Keep Off The Grass” cam- paign. Let s make Salem as beautiful as pos-
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