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In order that the student body might know of the plans that were proposed for November 12, we would like to*quote excerpts from the letter which Dr. Eondthaler wrote to Dr. Thur man D. Kitchin, president of AA^ake Forest College. “Four groups of Salem College students are, through me, extending an invitation to your ' football team to take an informal dinner here in the Salem College Refectory as guests of the students on Friday evening, November 12, 1948, at 6:00 p. m. sharp. The organizations involved are the Student Government, I. R. S. (I Represent Salem), Atheletic Association and the Y. AV. C. A. They are eagerly hoping that this invitation can be accepted, particularly be cause of the approaching re-establishment of AVake Forest College as a part of this com munity . . . The student groups above men tioned also ask whether a special diet is neces sary and, if sOy of what this diet should con sist. . . . The letter which Dr. Rondthaler received in reply is not available, but the gist of it was something to the effect that the cordial invi tation was sincerely appreciated but due to strict training and diet, it would be impossible to accept. We are disappointed that we can’t enter tain the team, but at least the gesture was made to' promote better relations between the two colleges since AA^ake Forest is moving to AVinston-Salem. It was for that purpose that the invitation was issued. Bettv Holbrook The question is: How do you keep a sound mind? The answers are printed below. lAY \QR0 Joan Hassler, senior French major, said, “Psy chologically speaking, I’m tone deaf so sounds of any kind bother neither •, temporal nor my men- . dulla. Incidentally, I pas- * ' sed Psychology 101; and therefore, I have absolute control and a mature out look at all times. The only things that really bother me are the little men in white coats who insist on doing niy homework for me.” Moore And Weeks Dispute Cronin’s ‘‘Shannon’s Way )) 2>ea>^ Sale^fUte^.: In this issue of the Salemite I’d like for you to meet a friend of mine, Little Ditto (see cartoon). Little Ditto dittoes every Salemite’s daily trials and tribulations. Her life fits right into yours; in fact, she might be you! She stays up too late—too often. She has Saturday classes. She overcuts assembly. She has six 8:30’s and a Monday afternoon lab. She tries all the fads and of course, she would not trade Salem for all the colleges in the world. No doubt, that’s what makes her a real Salemite. Polly Hartle Salemite fjortfa Gvoliaa CoUeyiatt Pi by Catherine Moore In Edward "Weeks lecture. Dr. A. J. Cronin’s novel Shannon’s Way was the first book reviewed. After such a recommendation I attempted to rediscover merits in a book I had considered just another book about the medical jjrofession that had made the best seller lists. First of all, the author did write about his own experiences. A. J. Cronin received a medical education at the University of Glasgow and practiced in South Wales and Lon don for four years. In 1930, while on an extended vacation, Cronin began writing a novel. In three months Hatter’s Castle, which critics compare with works of Dickens, Hardy and Balzac, was published. Since that time four of his other books have appeared, but Shannon’s Way , most nearly ap proaches the greatness of Hatter’s Castle. In Shannon’s Way Cronin tells the story of a doctor in the twen ties who puts his keen interest in medical research ahead of every thing in life. Eobert Shannon, the hero, is able to secure a medical education only because of money left by a relative for that purpose. At the age of twenty-four, having received a degree and fellowship award, Shannon was one of three associates with Professor Usher in the Department of Experimental Pathology in London. Longing in his poverty and obscurity to as tound the medical world and to fulfill the ambition of a silent, re tiring nature, he, hoped by research to find the explanation for current epidemics in the British Isles that were classified as influenza. How ever, Eobert was to face many ob stacles, beginning with the selfish viewpoint of his superior in the department. Betty Holbrook, of Lowell and Bitting 201, commen ted, “It’s all very simple to have a sound mind—■ all one has to do is strtig- gle through three years of college and then go to a brain specialist, have the cerebrum removed, leave the cranium empty, call 7121, skid to a screechy halt in a Blue Bird cab at a concrete mixer, have the cranium filled with Portland Cement and enter the last, and final, year of college. Here, as in all Cronin novels, the author shows his ability as a gifted storyteller, as an observer and sym pathizer with human emotions. Per haps his greatest attribute is Cro nin’s ease in getting angry in prose. He has his readers disgusted with the lack of time Professor Usher gives Shannon to do his own re search. The complete lack of facili ties at Dalnair and Eastershaws (hospitals) infuriates the reader. Then t)iere is the love affair be tween Shannon, a Catholic, and Jean, a strict Anglican, which seems impossible to work out successfully. On the other hand, I felt that Dr. Cronin was so interested inthe medical details of his hero’s life that he had Eobert perform an emergency operation, lose a diph theria patient because of an inef ficient nurse, and have the heroine on the verge of death. To me these incidences seem melodr.amatic and overdrawrn. After an almost im probable number of disappiontments and lack of money, a happy ending appears. Jean comes back to Eobert, he has an offer of a research-lecture job, and the hero and heroine live happily ever afterward. “Aly answer,” said lone Bradshaw, English major, “is to listen to Stan Ken ton, to forget May Day for a while, and to take vitamin pills. In my lei sure, moreover, I read Dryden’s “Principles of Satire,” draw maps of Asia, recite “Quern Quer- tis” to my room-mate, and see how many shades of brown I can make from two jars of paint. To prove that my method is the way to sanity, I put m}^ curly hair up on seventy-eight bobbe pins every night.” Published every Friday of the College year by the Student body of Salem College Downtown Office—304-306 Soilth Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company OFFICES Lower floor Main Hall Reznick Reads O’Connell’s New Book On Musicians Bet Epps, Home Ee major, says, “At the time I was asked “How do you keep a sound mind?”, I wasn’t so sure that mine was sound. I was tearing my hair trying to prepare for my first day of practice teaching. Now, if I were telling my class how to keep a sound mind, I would probably say, ‘Drink cocoa for break fast rather than coffee because the former has more nutritive value; always, add sugar to baked apples if you want them to keep their shape and remember, milk has a high percent age of calcium and vitamin A.’ My advice to potential graduates of an institution: in order to keep a sound mind, don’t be a practice teacher,—but it really isn’t so bad.” I Subscription Price—$2.75 a year EDITOEAL DEPARTMENT Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Taylor Associate Editor i Laurel Green Associate Editor Mary Porter Evans Assistant Editor Peirano Aiken Assistant Editor Dale Smith Make-up Editors; Helen Brown, Betty Bilos Copy Editors: Joan Carter Bead, Clara Belle Le Grande Music Editor Margaret McCall Editorial Staff: lone Bradsher, Tootsie Gillespie, Buth Lenkoski. Pictorial Editors: Peggy Ann Watkins and Martha Hershberger. Ed. Assistants: Dot Arrington, Carolyn Lovelace, Helen Creamer, Lila Fretwell, Mary Lib Weaver, Lola Dawson, Winkie Harris, Sybil Haskins, Eo bert Gray, Polly Harrop, Frances Eeznick, Nancy Duckworth, Catherine Moore, Sis Pooser, Clinky Clinkscales, Pay Stickney. Typists: Janet Zimmer and Ann McConnell. Business Manager Joyce Privette Assistant Business Manager Betsy Schaum Advertising Manager Betty McBrayer Asst. Advertising Manager Mary Faith Carson Circulation Manager Janie Fowlkes by Frances Eeznick Charles O’Connell, conductor, au thor, music critic, and music director in several record corporations, can now add another proper name to his list of accomplishments—that of ‘ ‘ gossip. ” It is not every man, though, who can prattle on about such notorieties as Lily Pons, or Jose Tturbi, or Jascha Keifetz. Mr. O ’Connell is well qualified to write about these musical artists through long association, personal and pro fessional, with them. His is not just idle gossip, though. In his new book, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RECORD, he reveals the truth about the musical “greats.” This book tells little knows anec dotes and facts about the personali ties, looks, and idiosyncracies of such conductors and soloists as Eugene^ Ormandy, Kirsten Flagstad, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Serge Kousse- vitzky. Its merit lies not only in the eye-opening facts it imparts, but also in the smooth, readable manner in which it does its shredding. With the perfect poise and characteristic case of the conductor, Mr. O’Con nell tells of Lily Pon’s love of pub licity or Arthur Rubinstein’s pre occupation with a Pretty Face. It takes' a brave musician to say in print about a contemporary (Eubin- stein, in this instance), “When he is not immediately engaged upon serious work he looks Demon Eum straight in the eye without a qualm.” Chatty and intimate, the style is at the same time intellectual. We find a keen insight into the lives of these people. Also, a relevant quotation prefaces most of the chap- tefs, each of which is about a dif ferent artist. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RE CORD is just what its title says. And Charles O’Connell lets us know that the reverse side is not always as pretty as the popular version of a record. Tootsie Gillespie, an Eco nomics and Sociology major, said, “I sit in the smoke house with three million girls and two re cord players going sifiu- taneously, one playing “How High The Moon” and the other playing “Pine Brown Frame.” I count the bricks over the fireplace. It also helps to eat beef, three-day old bread, salomi boiled in cream, Ry-Crisp and squished grapes. After all, you are what you eat.” Peggy Watkins, a chemis try and biology major, of fers her advice, “To keep a sound mind I don’t let teachers’ assignments bother me, I think that it won’t be long before I get that “sheepskin” and I forget the past and look toward the future.” II: t S;. tk i U'l
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