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SALEMITE
April
we take over where Carolyn Taylor and
her efficient staff left off. They were creative ;
they were dependable. They were interested;
they were progressive. And what’s more they
made us want to read our Salemite which js
the ultimate goal of any editor.
After such an editor and staff as in ’48-’49,
the new staff steps in with fear and tremb-
ing. We have big plans and high hopes for
’49-’50. We want, with the cooperation and
help of the student body, to make it another
successful year for the Salemite.
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Tlie periwinkle is blooming b the Mav
Dell, violets brighten AVasliington’s sprin'^
house and japonica is shooting up b pb|j
orange patches on the athletic field. Wednes
(lay I saw five squirrels ami Dickie' Spauoh
ra(*inig over Academy TIill as though they b
erally breathed vitamins in the air. 'Winter
has gone, and spring is here as definitely as
it is in south Georgia with Hortense Apple,
"■ate.
A few weeks ago we were overjoyed to
find those handy Chesterfield telephone mes'
sage slips by all the phones in the dormitories.
AVe always meant to thank whoever was re
sponsible but never got around to it.
Now we would like to thank them but at
the same time request some more. AVe would
like to suggest too that this same person add
pencils when the pads are replaced.
They represent the most useful and prac
tical form of advertising we have seen in a
long time. Let’s have more good ideas like
this.
Second Floor Clewell
! 4on''fe know, &om«.4hincj room-
rna.-fce_ SOme.uihe.re-,
Hermione Takes Botany
To Break Dread Monotony
3>ea^ &iUo^
Everyone has their pet gripe and every
one has a right to express it, but make it more
than a smoke-house gossip. If students have
complaints to make about various situations
and professors on campus why “mull” over it
constantly? Take it to its right source—with
all facts and ideas. This will clarify many
misunderstandings which we have about our
college and faculty. If you have a just com
plaint the administration will give a satisfy
ing explanation. So the next time you have
a “gripe” be fair and give your school a chance
to be a better place in which to live.
P. A. AV.
Salemite
Published every Friday of the College year by the
Student body of Salem College
Downtown Office—,304-306 South Main Street
Printed by the Sun Printing Company
Lower floor Main Hall
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EDITORAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-in-Chief __ _ Dale Smith
Associate Editor .loan Carter Read
Associate Editor — — Ruth Lenkoski
Assistant Editor Clara Belle Le Grand
Make-up Editors: Mary Turner Rule, Betty Griffin
Copy Editor Mary Lili Weaver
iSTu.sic Editor Cammy Lovelace
Editorial Staff: Betty Leppert, Polly Hartle, Sybil
Haskins, Winkie Harris.
Editorial Assistants: Helen Creamer, Lila Fretwell,
Lola Dawson, Polly Harrop, Nancy Duckworth,
Sis Pooser, Clinky Clinkscales, Fay Stickney,
Marcia Stohl, Ruth Finnerty, Betsy Farmer, Patsy
Michael, Tdz Leland.
Typists: Ann Sprinkle, Ann McConnell, Janet Zimmer
Pictorial Editors: Jane Kugler, Marianne Kirkpat-
'rick.
Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd
Business ATanager Robert C. Gray
Assistant Business Manager Mary Jane Hurt
Ad-vertising Manager Mary Faith Carson
Assistant Advertising Manager Eosalyn Fogle
Circulation Manager Helen Kessler
by Betty Leppert
Hermione stumbled into her room,
tripped over her plaid stole, and
fell flat on her face, knocking out
two front teeth as she went.
‘'Fight on,” she breathed huskily,
as she reached for her botany book.
Some elusive something, call it wo
man’s intuition if you will, told
her that there was to be a pop this
morning, and she knew all too well
that she must attend class, for that '
official group of persons, Tlie Com
mittee on Class Attendance, had not
been as generous as they might this
semester, awarding her only two
cuts, and as there was always loom
ing in the misty future that dubious
possibility of a Big College Week
end, she’d need all those two cuts
so as not to miss one precious mo
ment of the fun to come. Fever
ishly she pawed through the pages
with her fragile mittened hand
(Hermione caught cold easily) and
began to mutter definitions—“Long
pollen tube—grows down inside the
style, either through a canal which
may be present, or by destroying the
intervening stylar tissue, absorbing
nourishment from the cells with
which it comes in contact.
After repeating this useful infor
mation several incoherent times—
each more incorrectly than the one
before, Hermione turned to the nine
reasons why sap climbs a tree. “Re
late w'hat you’re learning to some
thing already learned”, she mumb
led, quoting Dr. Hulme. “Gotta
attack this calmly, still got 7 se
conds before bell”—by now she was
immersed in uncontrollable sobs, her
womanly bosom heaving unchecked.
“Adhesion, Cohesion, Capillarity,
Atmospheric pressure—First letters
spell ACCA (acca) ancient Hebrew
musical term, meaning “Stone Cold
Evaporation
De.'id in the Market”
—Esther Is tl
Root, pressure, Diffusion, Osmosi.s,
—Esther Is Really Delightfully Ori
ginal”. Suddenly in the midst of
this rapid erudition, a gong was
rung—loud, ominous and wholly un-
])leasant—the horrid tnith was that
it was time to go to clas.s. Herrai-
one shrieked hysterically, grabbed
her clipboard, and tripping (over
her dainty track shoes), made her
plodding way to that formidable and
impressive edifice, THE SCIENCE
building—^while sporadic facts of
the world of flowers tumbled un
heeded from her sticky little mouth
(for diversion, Hermione often suck
ed on sugar plums).
“Her Gentle - Poodle Couldn’t
Face Reality,” *she whispered
throatily—“What am I saying—
that’s the six nuiin canses of the
Rennaissance. Greene Peoles Lilies
while Marlowe Kyds—oh, no—those
are the Five Most Important Dra
in a t i s t s Immediately Preceeding
Shakespeare—such a situation—I’m
doomed to failure, I can’t go ori! ”
Pitiful cries emerged from her
throat, as she crushed her head be
tween her two grubby hands with
out self-consciousness and classmates
nointed and sneered. Barely able
’o drag herself into her chair, Her
mione raised bloodshot eyes as Air.
Cambell bonneed in through the door
—clucking and grinning and visibly
minus those dreaded pieces of yel
low paper. Collapsing from sheer
exhaustion, Hermione began to gnaw
the cover of her botany book, croak
ing hoarsely, “Oh, go peel a grape.”
* Humanism, Geographic discovery,
printing, Copernicaii system, Fall of
Constantinople and the Reformation
were the six main causes of the Re
naissance. Courtesy English 104.
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The ex(‘hanre of tlie new for the old ks
likewise taken place on the upper campus.
Have yon noticed—new class presidents are
aiinouucing meetino's in the dining room an
other “A^” Cabinet was installed last week
and this week a new staff puts out the
Salemite.
For three-fonrtlis of A'ou this may seem like
a perfectly normal course of events. You ex
pect it of the fii-st of April as you expect term
papers and spring vacation. You know that
life will go on this way for another year or
more, and your sense of the continuity of
tilings is not broken. Yon can, for instance,
thumb tbrougb the art books in the Book Store
and go right on thinking that you will buy
tbem next year, or wake at 8:15 and tell your
self that yon will go regularly to morning;
chapel-next semester. But for seniors, the
first of A]iril is a ]ioint beyond which we can
pretend no longer. The imminence of leaving
Salem is at last a reality.
Being a senior is somewhat like having
malan’a—one gets warm and cool by turns.
The thoughts of leaving are not all lacrimos.
There ai-e times, 8:30 a. m. particularly, when
the idea, “just sixty- more days”, isn’t at all
hard to bear. Then we smile and privately
gloat over the soon-to-be-onrs privilege of do
ing any of the many things more pleasant at
that hour than music theory- or medieval Ids’
tory-.
In fact, at times, the dryness of study be
comes intolei-j^ble. The protective care of
deans seems totally’ unnecessary’. "We yearn
for independence, travel and making our
“mark”. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors
are immature,—compared with us, the wise,
the calm, the self-sufficient—for the moment.
Such are the rational young women who
are about to leave y’on. Such we are, that is,
when we are not pressing the xvillow tree, the
liglited Academy-, Bright at the ironing board,
Dr. Bondthaler’s head, and a dozen other bits
of the ])ast three and a half y-ears deep into
our memory- in hopes that they’ will stay there.
AVe go to the laundry’ on Saturdays and
absently- wondei' why- xve never learned what
the children’s names are. Similarly’, we look
in Miss Essie’s curio I'oom off the arehxvay or
we read about a Moravian love feast Sunday,
aud we think, “I must gO' this time;” for small
things left undone suddenly- seem great losses.
A et these regrets are less than that of saying
hey-! ’ to someone on the hall and realizing
that we iiever got to know her any’ better.
Most of all matter the friends we did gfet D
know, whose jokes now ^seem so funny, whose
thoughts so profound, xvhose troubles so veal
the ones with whom we don’t xvant to admit
this thing quite yet.
Looking at our own development, we va-
tional seniors see that we’ve not learned a
(tteat deal. (AVhen we aren’t busy’ seeming
w ise, we admit great ignorance.) A^et some
change has been made. Our original ideas,
whether on religion, science, friendship
M hat-not, are nearly’ all shattered; hut tk®
pieces have been leaded together to make
something new and valid. AVe might liken
the forming of minds to the making of stained-
glass windows, which are valuable as they ai’®
eomplex and many-hued.
This is the first of April for a senior,
we are sophisticates, w’e hide these thought®
a proper lady refrains from tugging ^
pinching girdle. If we are sentimentalists,
moan soulfully at the sound of “‘Pomp and
p,. - cAt LllC MJUliU
Lircumstance”. So if you ask
yuu asw US iiw" -
0 graduate, we might, depending on the teffl'
perment, mood and time of day, say “Pine’ a
how
it feels
we might say “Awful”. Or, having discove
IS duplicity within ourselves, we just mig
confess that we’re never quite sure.
A Senior
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