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THE SALEMITE
November 22, 1946.
l/fo44A Go4it!
The Science Building Fund Campaign is on
the march! Salem students have a step to
take. At the student body meeting Tuesday,
a quota of $1500 was set as our contribution
toward the final $500,000 goal. And we will
meet it.
Individual contributions or pledges will be
made, this week. If we pledge, the amount
should be payable before commeneeiiient this
year—and payable! Cash contributions will
probably be the most satisfactory, but the
pledge -card will have its advantages, especial
ly if it can be sent liome for confirmation or
i-eimbursement.
Through organizations’ donations and funds
raised by group projects, we can reach our
()uota. Rut the response to the individual con
tribution drive that ends Monday night will
indicate just how strongly the students ai'e
behind this drive. Don’t give ’till it hurts,
(live ’till it helps.
7a CdtUo^
Dear Editor:
Each year the age old (juestion arises of
why isn’t there something provided for en
tertainment on the week-ends?'Each year an
editorial usually a))pears on this subject.
So far this column has l>een used for the
purpose of complaining in order to secure im
mediate action on a certain subject. However,
this is not my object at all.
1 wish to take this opportunity to thank
all organizations on «a?iipus that have supplied
any form of entertainment for week-ends
whether free or solicited. It takes time and
energy to create something new in which every
one can participate. Salem’s .spirit and coopera
tion has seemed to take on a newer outlook,
too; therefore, the students and the organiza
tions seem to be profiting.
Since the beginning of this school term, stu
dent organizations have done an excellent job
in providing easily-accessible and entertaining
recreation for Salem students this fall.
V. Stroup
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I Want to Make an Announcement,
Please Pardon my Lyric Expression
Oh, rhyme’s a result of suppression
Says Freud; it’s just an obsession.
I must be a victim of repression.
For I can’t seem to speak without rhyme.
Lest I be accused of digression.
Let me hasten to end my expression.
1 speak for the sciences’ progression.
And I’ll try not to take much moi-e time.
In chapel I got the impression
Our school is in need of possession
Of a building for science—the profession
Which, they sa.y, is still on the march.
We want you to give an expression
Of faith in your school’s new accession.
Keep Salem in step Atith progression
Of science, which is on the march.
Rosamond Putzel
By Betsy Boney ^
Where, oli where to begin! As usual, I waited till the last minute
to write the e lumii iind as usual, I have no idea where to begin. Maybe
I should start w'ith a snappy little poem for the occasion . . . but
then what is the occasion . . . and I’m certainly not a poet anyhow.
I guess I’ll just jump in head first (as always) and see what happens.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. That njeans, of course,
that long awaited visit home . . . turkey . . . soft beds . . . dates . . .
I arties . . . and, of course, the loving parents. Thanksgiving this year
will just mean a breathing spell for the lucky girls attending both
the Duke-f’arolina weekend and Fall Germans. For people like me,
who elected to be an English Major, it will only mean that the
term papers, notebooks, papers, and so forth will be done in the
privacy of mj' own room at home. Speaking of English majors (and
1 was), do you really appreciate the joy that comes from majoring in
English? You have only to take two English courses along with your
other four courses, to realize that it will have to be years from
now before you can really look on your college days as the happiest
days of your life. Note to readers: Now maybe you think, I am go
ing to change my major. 1 wouldn’t for the world! Last spring when
T was afraid that my average would not be high enough to major in
English, I planned to withdraw from collego. And do you think I
would miss comp class? Comp class really is a riot . . . riot spelled
-V-A-N-C-Y M-c-C-O-L-L' and C-A-T G-R-E-G-O-K-Y! It would be the
,)oy of my life, if all classes were as interesting and as informal.
Do you realize that there are only ,S3 more days till Christmas?
Isn’t that wonderful? Eeek! .lust think of all the things that must
be done before then. Term Papers . . . Christmas cards . . . Christ
mas Dance . . . Fall Germans . . . Thanksgiving . . . the Christmas
banquet . . . Christmas shopping . . . and . . . Deceml)er first the
iiook store bill, along with all the other bills that seem to appear out
of nowhere. Oh. why did I buy that suit and hat when I knew
I couldn’t afford it. Take it from one who knows, don’t write checks
on Dad a month before Christmas, cause if you do, Santa Claus will
;;ust ignore that stocking (nylon this Christmas) the same as if
you had a great big hole in the too!
Ilo-hum . . . people never appreciate what they have until they
lose it. Dr. Anscombe should have heard the groans and sad sighs
when the students heard the rumor that he was giving up his courses
in Philosophy and Government.
Hurrah for the gym department! They aren’t hard-hearted after
all, for it was announced last week that there would be no gym
labs for the coming sports .season. This news was received with a
rousing cheer by most of the girls. I had already formed a picture
in my mind of me (Boney, that is) out on the hockey field in snow
up to my ankles. Speaking of hockey, did you by any chance (and
it would have to be chance, as the game wasn’t announced) see the
.Juniors holding back the Freshmen in the phenomenal attraction on
Tuesday afternoon? Due to the amazing and unexpected skill of
Davis, Raynal, and modest me, tliey only succeeded in making one
goal the last half. And even though there was only one member of
the Junior Team, Conner, playing, they beat us only C to 0. Hurrah
for the spirit the .Juniors conjured up out of the Deep Well.*
*For reference see Mss Byrd or any English Major but me.
A group of girls got together in the smokehouse the other
night, and had a really educational discussion on Religion. This goes
to show you that the smokehouse can be used for something besides a
place for a fag, a game of bridge, and the latest juicy gossij). It
really would be a wonderful thing if more of us would follow these
girls’ e-vamples and make the smokehouse walls quake by discussing,
for a change, something constructive instead of something destructive.
Mother Strong is back on campus. She really is a welcome sight.
Pleas?, Mother Strong, make your stay a long one, as all the students
missed you, and your presence is ever welcome.
The chapel Tuesday was just the right touch to get all the stu
dents in the mood for the Science Drive. Under the leadership of Connie
Scoggin, who has done a wonderful job leading the student body this
year, let us students do our part. Come on, Salem,ites . . . Science is
on'the march, let’s really keep Salem in step by giving . . . and giving
until it hurts. Let’s all contribute to a wonderful Christmas Present
to Salem ... a new and badly needed Science Building. Drop your
pennies, nickels and dimes in the containers and we’ll have a new
science building sometime soon ... we hope!
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Aren’t limericks fun? . . . did you see the
article in the TIMES Magazine about them
Sunday? They had limericks covering every
imaginable subject—from love, nature, singers,
food, to religion and people. Two of my favor
ites are irresistable—must quote:
A tutor who tooted a flute
Tiied to teach two young tooters to toot;
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
A wonderful family is Stein;
There’s Gert and there’s Ep, and there’s
Ein.
Gert’s vei-ses are punk,
Ep’s statues are junk.
And nobody understands Ein.
ITave you heard this one? Tzler Solomon, con
ductor of the Columbus Philharmonic, has the
l)roblem of a worn-out podium—it squeaks aiid
is falling apart. At the most injudicious mo
ments diiring a performance it emits noises
. . . all efforts to secure a new podiutn were
fruitless. The only solution
Since Columbus is suffering the odium
Of a Highly impolitic podium
All we can suggest
To settle inirest.
Is aspirin, or bicarb and sodium.
As for home talent—it takes no poetic mind
to compose a limerick . . . and any sentiment
can be expressed, such as
There was a young lady at Salem;
Tn music she met her failum.
She groaned, “At this date
ith my grades in suchstate,'
Give them to me, don’t mail ’em!”
So much for that!
Radio musts: The opera for this week will
be Delibes’ LAKME, with the one-and-only
Lily Pons singing the title role. Saturday,
‘I p. m.
Toscanini and the NBC Symphony will have
Dame Myra Hess as their guest Sunday at 5:00
p. m. She will play Beethoven’s “Emperor”
Concerto.
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE is the opera to be
broadcast November 29.
And don’t forget Mr. Koussevitzky and the
Boston Symphony every Tuesday night at
9 :.S0.
Wednesdays at 10 p. m. is that program—
“Information Plea.se” .. . with the old favoriteiS
John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams and Oscar
Levant, kei)t in line by Clifton Fadiman. If
yo’ brain needs some exercise, don’t miss this!
Although the Order of the Scorpion, because
of the nature of its organization, can have no
financial part in the Science Drive, it wishes
to express its whole-hearted sui)port of the
project.
The Order believes that Salem has a true
spirit of progressiveness that increases as its
history increases. The overwhelming success
of this campaign is the individual responsibility
of each student. '
It is up to YOU!
Remember—Let’s keep Salem in step.
The Order of the Scorpion.
Amie W atkins was the editor of this week’s
Salemite, the third to be edited by juniors
this year.
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