Volume XXVIII.
SALEM COLLEGE, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 1 7, 1947.
Number 5
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Faculty Releases Book List;
Urges Salemites To Read
Mrs. Mowery Finds South
Very Similar To China
by Marilyn Booth
Of course there’s really just one
person who has any business being
alone with Mrs. Ruth Mowery in
lier little office back of the library
on the second floor of Park Hall,
and that person is the sole student
who takes her course on the method
of teaching science.
But if you could manage to slip
in some time and talk to her your
self, be assured you’d hardly notice
the passing of time—not because
the office is tucked away so far from
the church clock, but because Mrs.
Mowery is so “ talkable ’
The temptation, if you’ve heard
she’s been in China, is to draw her
out on that subject. But, it should
be prefaced properly.
Though born in New Jersey, she
spent her youth in Massachusetts—
in Brockton to be exact, an import
ant slipe manufacturing town. (You
may have heard that "the whole
world stands on Brockton shoes”)
Childishly I asked when her interest
in science first came to light, and
amiably she answ^ered, “Oh, always,
but I did have a bug collection when
T was seven.” She went to Wel
lesley for three years and got both
her degrees at Boston University.
Since then her teaching and learn
ing career—she likes to return to
school every summer and study
some favorite subject like pyscho-
logy—has kept her in New England,
and mostly in Connecticut, except
for those two years in China. This
is her first sojurn in the South,
which—strange at first sound—re
minds her more of China than any
thing she’s seen!
It was after marrying—and after
studying Chinese five hours a day
at Yale—that she went to the Orient
as a missionary. In Changsha, Hu
nan (the first name being the town
and the second corresponding to a
state) and Wuchang, Hujieh, she
taught music and Bible—in Chinese!
It is obvious that she was attached
to her pupils. Her opinion is that
while they are not as inquisitive as
Americans, they are “conscientious
pluggers”. With the help of a
friend, she started the first dancing
school in that country and states
definitely that the class was even
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Two Powers
Agree On
New Split
by Jane Morris
Guess What. The United States
and Eussia have agreed on a pro
posal in the United Nations! I saw
the headlines in Tuesday’s paper,
and I had to look twice myself.
Yes, they have agreed unanim
ously for the partition of Palestine
into separate Jewish ai'd Arab
states. This means that both are
following the majority recommen
dation of the United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine, (referred
to for those wbo are mumbling idiots
as to UNSCOP) which made its re
port to the 'UN the first of Septem
ber after spending the summer in
Palestine in connection with the in
vestigation. Both powers have re
quested the right to make certain
modifications to the proposal. Now
if they can just agree on the modi
fication—everything will be fine—
or will it?
Arrogant Arabs
The Arabs are not going to take
this thing lying down. Before the
British announced their intentions
of giving up their mandate in Pales
tine, the Arabs had talked of war
to the last man and the bloody re
sults if the Holy Land were parti
tioned. They are emphasizing this
now.
Remember that the Arabs, though
different racially and culturally, are
united in their Moslem faith and
populate in great numbers the East
ern Hemisphere from India to the
Atlantic coast of Africa.
It would be no little matter if
these people were agitated to the
point of beginning a ‘ ‘ holy war ’ ’.
This seems medieval to you? Then
I refer you to Ur. Anscombe, who
made me see the reality of the
situation. At this moment the sev
en states in the Arab League are
massing troops toward the Pales-
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* To encourage the reading of f?ood books, the faculty today
released an advised reading list of about thirty Oreat Books.
Compiled by a faculty committee headed by Dr. Jordan,
the list is designated for all undergraduates regardless of
sjjecial interests or fields of concentrated study. It is recom
mended that students read as much as possible from the list
during their first two' years of college, leaving the last two
years for more specialized reading in their major fields.
■ ^ ♦ Not Eequlred
Though it is the practice in many
colleges, students will not be graded
on their reading from the list. The
books are merely recommended. A
check, however, will be made at in
tervals to determine how much the
student has read, and the data will
be recorded in the permanent re
cords of the student.
The advised reading is not a list
of “the world’s greatest books,”
Dr. Jordan points out. For various
reasons many great books have been
omitted in the first list. No parti
cular body of knowledge is inten
tionally emphasized, nor is the first
list to substitute in any waj for the
present courses in the curriculum.
Purpose Stated
The faculty is of the opinion, Dr.
Jordan concludes, that the list of
advised reading, however inadequate,
contains books every one of which
is in some respect a great achieve
ment of the human mind, an essen
tial part of the great heritage of
Western European culture. “It is
hoped,” he states, “that the educa
tion of all Salem students will be
considerably broadened and deep
ened by reading these works.”
Lerch and VardellTo Present Recital
James Lerch, violinist, and Dr.
Charles Vardell, pianist, will be pre
sented in recital by the Salem Col
lege School of Music on Tuesday,
October 21, at 8:30 in Memorial Hall.
Mr. Lerch is instructor in violin,
orchestra, orchestration, and methods
in the School of Music. lie came
to Salem last year. He is an artist
graduate of Juilliard School of Music
and a pupil of Edouard Dethier and
Sascha Jacobsen. He has been very
interested in the formation and de
velopment of a civic orchestra in
Winston-Salem.
Dr. Vardell is a graduate of Prin
ceton University, Juilliard School of
Music, and Eastman School of Music.
He has taught for a number of
years here, teaching piano, organ,
methods, orchestration and compo
sition. He is now Dean of the
School of Music. Dr. Vardell is
nationally known for his many works
as a formal composer, but he is bet
ter known to Salem students for
his improvisations on the piano and
Mr. James Ijercn
Dr. Charles G. Vardell
organ.
. ^^°Sram Announced
IS recital is in ijue with the
custom of the School of Music of
presenting one or two faculty re
citals each year. The program con-
sis s of three works for violin and
piano. They are: “Sonata in C
major” by Mozart; “Sonatina” by
Eldin Burton; and “Sonata” by
Cesar Franck. Thus, the classic
school, the modern-American school,
and the romantic school of musical
expression are represented.
1 bponsors
Gala Jubilee
The annual “Y Jubilee” w-ill be
held Wednesday and Thursday of
next week in the Day Student
Center. Peggy Broaddus, president
of the campus Y. W. C. A., is an
nouncing this opportunity for all
Salemites to indicate the phases of
the Y program which interest them.
The Jubilee will be in session on
Wednesday from 1:30-2 and from
6:30-7, and on Thursday from 1:30
until 2 o’clock. Betty Pierce is
chairman of the Jubilee committee.
Booths will be kept by Y cabnet
members, who will explain the var
ious phases of Y work. All students
are invited to visit the booths, to
discuss their interests, and to sign
up at the booth that interests them
most.
The Jubilee committee consists of
Betty Pierce, chairman, Mary Har
riet White, Mary Billings and Dot
Covington. Other cabinet members
will assist them with the Jubilee
Program.
Stee Gee Gives
Formal Dance
Salem’s first formal dance of the
year will be held Saturday night,
October 18, from 8:30 till 11:50
o’clock in the gym. Harold Gale
will furnish the music for the dance,
which is being sponsored by the Stu
dent Government.
Launching a new year is the theme
of the dance and the gym will sug
gest a ship, the “U. S. S. Salem”,
when decorated in the color scheme
of blue and white. Carrying out
this theme “passports” will serve
as dance cards and the theme song
of the evening will be “How Deep
is the Ocean.”
Members of the Executive Board
and their dates will form an “an
chor” during the figure, which will
take place during intermission. They
are as follows;
Mary Bryant, escorted by Charlie
Vance; Beverly Johnson with John
Rook; Peggy Jane Blum with Felix
Adams; Frances Rezniek with Joe
Lefkowitz; Frances Gulesian -ivith
J. H. Deans; Sarah Hamrick with
Dave Thompson; Mary Jane McGee
with Marvin Humphries; Marilyn
Watson with Bill Wilcox; Louise
Stacy with Ray Galloway; Nell
Penn Watt with Bob Hanner; and
Agnes Bowers escorted by Plato
Wilson.
The following members of the fac
ulty will assist Student Government
head Mary Bryant and her escort
in the receiving line: Dr. and Mrs.
Rondthaler, Miss Wilson, Mr. and
Mrs. Bromberg, and Miss Byrd.
Choral Group
Opens Season
The Salem College Choral En
semble will give its first concert of
the year on Friday, October 24 in
Hickory, N. C. They are being pre
sented by the St. Cecelia Music Club.
Book List
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Homer, The Iliad
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Antigone
Electra
Euripides, Alcestis
Medea
Virgil, The Aeneid
The Bible
THE MIDDLE AGES
Dante, The Divine Comedy
^fontaigne. Essays
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Cervantes, Don Quixote. (Part 1)
the 17T1I CENTURY
Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
Moliere, The Misanthrope
THE 18TH CENTURY
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
FieIding,Tom Jones
Voltaire, Candide
Roussean, Confessions
Goethe, Faust (Part 1)
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United
States
THE 19TH CENTURY
Balzac, Father Goriot
Tolstoi, War and Peace
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Emerson, Essays: ‘ ‘ Self-Reliance ’ ’
“Friendship”
“Nature”
THE 20TH CENTURY
.Wells, The Outline of History
Powell is
New Professor
Mr. Woodrow W. Powell will re
place Dr. Howard Hall as professor
of English, the administration an
nounced Tuesday. Dr. Hall resigned
Saturday because of ill health. Ho
and Mrs. Hall have returned to the
West Coast.
Mr. Powell, a native of Georgia,
received his Master’s degree at the
University of North Carolina and
is now working on his doctorate
at Duke University.