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THE SALEMITE
February 7, 1947.
Qlofip, QltaiA> ^ ^lUi Wcuf,.. .
Most exciting news of the week . . . two
operas Saturday! FAUST in the afternoon and
AIDA at 8:30 . . . and if you want to be piggy
about the matter, dash over to Greensboro for
TKAVIATA Friday night ... or to High
Point for CARMEN and EIGOLP^TTO . . .
The San Carlo Opera Company is the first
major opera company to appear in Winston
for many years . . . let’s hope such a treat w'ill
become an annual affair! If you’re planning to
skip the matinee performance of FATjST . . .
by all means don’t miss the broadcast of
MADAME BUTTERFLY from the Met . , .
when Mr. Puccini’s music and Licia Albanese’s
voice get together ... oh boy!
Home town boy makes good: this here Twin
City must 1)e the right atmosphere for budding
musicians . . . t)rightest star on the symphonic
horizon is Thor Johnson, a native of these
parts who has just been appointed conductor
of the Cincinnati Orchestra ... at the resigna
tion of Eugene Goossens. M)'. Johnson will as
sume his duties after the close of the current
season . . . ))orn in Wisconsin, he came to
Winston when he was four . . . studied violin
here at Salem under IMiss Hazel Horton Read
. . . graduated from the University with an A.
B. in Music . . . from then on he has a story
l)00k career . . . studied conducting with
Koussevitzky, etc. . . . when lie received his
appointment he was (and still is) conductor of
the Julliard Orchestra.
Another example of Winston talent will
be heard in the opera AIDA at Reynolds Audi-
tori’im Saturday night . . . Ethel Laslunit
Kalter will sing the role of Amneris.
Kadio: T’ain’t about music, but must rec
ommend “Invitation to Learning” (Sunday
12-12:30 p. m.). Thej" are beginning a series
of discussions of the general topic “Pursuit of
Happiness”—philosophical, active, artistic, and
religious . . . featuring such men as Eugene
O’Neill, Jr. and Lin Yutang as speakers. . . .
A. E. HOUSMAN, ONLY WORSE
With rue my heart is laden
For all the cuts I had,
For many a blight ^ average
When even a C was bad.
In 1 ooks too broad for leaping
The hierry Bs are laid.
And welcomfe Cs elude me
In fields where laurels fade.
THE DEEP WELL
Inspired, I sought a quiet nook
And, pen in hand,
I closed my eyes and sought the inner vision
At Comp.’s command.
I trembled for the moment when.
The dam released,
Experience through Art would be Reality—
The Glorious Fission!
And then I'evision
Would fashion lines for all to understand.
I plumbed the depths
Of my Deep Well,
And it was dry.
MESS
By Mary Bryant
Ye ole’ columnist is back at it again after a few days of
peace. ’Course I didn’t have nine days at home as Marion Gaither
had, but my six were enough. Getting back and having this assign
ment cast upon me was quite a blow, but ain’t water under the
I
bridge glorious H20. 'We can sit around “knittingly” recalling
those hectic pre-axam days when our hearts were old and grey
without even cringing almost ... or did your daddy make all sorts
of rasli racket, too? The memory can’t hurt us too much ... so let’s
trudge back some three weeks.
The time is Heading Day. The setting is the den of iniquity—-
better known as Cosy Corner. The characters are the worry-ridilen
sinners. In the background there are frantic mumblings of “Is the
Wife of Bath Beowulf’s mistess Hey, Waldo, ever hear
of Prometheus?” ...
In the foreground there are conscientious efforts to foll(iw
the professors’ advice for once . . . relax, they said . . . yes, relax
. . get your minds off the stuff. There are those who aro knitting
• . . those who are invoking Mnemos.vne. Knit one . . . purl one . . .
don’t let me forget . . . knit two . . . help me to remember these
twenty dates . . . purl . . . yes, relax.
Then come exams . . . blue books and more blue books. Mr.
Campbell wears his usual broad grin as innocent freshmen frantically
scan the exam only to see “Draw . . . label . . . explain . . . draw . . .
label . . . explain.” Romanticism takes quite a tumble when Miss
Byrd asks ten weary students to tell what message Wordsworth and
Shelley have for modern man. Blue books . . . just pages of them in
Modern World.
Then finally it is all over, and we adjourn to recondition.
W'e seize the opportunity to forget all the cramming we’ve done,
all the orgies we’ve been through, and all the sleep we’ve lost. Were
ever days more precious than those brief hours?
Registration . . . that gala root through the schedule to locate
anything at all which convenes on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Some are successful in eliminating Saturday and others aren’t. But,
Izzy, who likes five straight classes? . . . The chiefest of all the
kicks in the teeth is that chemistry lab on Saturday morning at
eight-thirty . . . W'^hy, Mr. Goodale . . . how could you?
>
And now we’re back into the same ole’ rut again . . sleeping
in class, abandoning resolutions to study day by day, gi'iping, knit
ting, cutting chapel . . . But despite it all, we manage somehow to
pick up, by sheer exposure, material we’re glad to have on hand.
Thus it goes . . . three weeks in the life of a scholar . . . three
centuries in the life of a play girl- It ’s hard and it’s fun . . . and
we think that we’ve made little enough sense to quit until next time.
Continental Fiction is
A most confusing ■course.
For every—we read
Had—for its source.
MASS
I could be graceful, willow-thin.
If I could hold my stomach in!
Bcottif 7a Scde4ft
lixcerpt from a letter from Scotty, Jan
uary 28, 1947.
“Dear Frances,
I don’t know how to thank you and all the
“Salemites” for their signed testimony of
appreciation, save to say “Thank YOU EACH
AND ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY
HEART”. I wish I could write my thanks to
all of them but I am looking forward to
saying it to many personally when I return
next yeai'. I have written Dr. and Mrs. Rond-
thaler accepting their invitation for March
1-5.”
The last will be good news to all “Salem
ites” returning next fall.
Kitchen Staj^
Those of us who had the unfortunate luck
to have an exam scheduled for the last day
of exam week found it very much worth our
wliile last Thursday night. The other girls
don’t know how grand it was to stop study
ing at nine-thirty and go down to the kitchen
and eat hot toasted sandwiches, potato chips
that we saw cooked, brownies . . . two apiece,
and lots of other 'tasty morsels and delicacies.
Nor do they know how much fun it is to
have someone playing boogie-woogie on the
piano and watch Betsy John and Mr. Evett
dance. Believe it or not all this actually
happened in our own Corin Refectory last
Thursday night. Lots of students have said
that it was nu)re fun than anything they have
ever done at Salem. Thfe kitchen staff gave
us a part.y that we will nevei' forget. To
]\liss Stockton, iliss Lytch, Russell, and all
the rest of the staff we say thanks again for
a grand time.
7a editor ....
Of the major organizations on campus, one
outshines all the rest' in activities during the
(')irreiit year. That organization is the Y. W.
C. A. AVe are all aware of the various ways it
has functioned this year—Sunday afternoon
teas, “Y” Review, Spiritual Evaluation Week,
the “filling station” during exams, distribution
of “Day By Day’s” in the dorms. The “Y”
has succeeded in creating a renewed interest
on the part of the students in Y Watch and
Sunday night Vespers. The programs seem
always to ;be well planned. I think a great
deal of praise is due Frances Carr and the
entire “Y” Cabinet for their unfailing energy
in Y. W. C. A. work. Congratulations!
P.G.
January 7, 1947
The Memorial Industrial School sends
thanks to Salem students.
Dear Jliss Mills:
On behalf of the Children, the Superinten
dent and faculty, and the Directors of the
:\lemorial Industrial School, I wish to express
to you and your Association our sincere ap
preciation of your thoughtfulness in sending
to us your check for $25.00 for Christmas.
We now have approximately eighty Child
ren at the Orphanage and I believe that the
attitude and morale of the Children as well
as those who minister to them is at the
highest point we have ever known. The in
terest displayed by Organizations such as
yours is a very big factor in helping us to main
tain I this fine spirit.
Again thanking you and with best wishes
for the New Year, I am
MEMORIAL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, Inc.
Smcerely yours,
R. C. Haberkern
MK President
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