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Page Two BtofL And ^UUth . [ think not. Whatever school is, I think it is not merely that. Before you become too entangled with the mediums through which you rack up those hours—professors and sub jects—stop and think what school is to you. Are you the same person you were when you started? If not, whose fault is it? Maybe you want to be the same per.son, through and through. Perhaps you’re satis fied with the way things have always been, are, and always will be. In that case, this editorial is not for you. For the rest of you, I ask you to think. Think and then do, as well as do and think afterwards. You learn by the last to use the first method. And school is a good place to •start. If you learn what school is and why you are here, perhaps you’ll learn a little alwut yourself, to say nothing of a few truths that will remain truths even after you’ve been graded. [ haven’t told you what school is. That you miist find for yourselves. Thoreau said . . ■ our vision does not penetrate the .surface of things. We think that that is which appears to be.” Let’s prove him wrong. E. M. M FubU«k«a •vary Twid^y oi lk« ColW ymmt by tb* gtiidwit Body of Bolom CoiUw Sobs«r!ptlon Prlc»—$3.30 a ye«r OFFICES Ijrmr floor Mote HoH Downtown Offioo—304-306 Soutk Molii Stroot Printed by the Sun PrlntlnB Conipnny Ed(tor-in-GhIof - Attoclate Editor A«»I«tanf Editor Managing Editor Newt Editor featoro Editor Emify McClure _Mary Benton Roy iter Copy Editor Heads Editor ... Make-Up-Editor Pietoral Editor . Music Editors Jo Smitherman . Ann Knight .. . Judy Graham i Editor Martha Ann Kennedy Mariam Ouarfot .. Ton! Gill Sue Jette Davidson Peggy Horton Ella Ann lee, Beth Paul Circulation Manager^ Faculty Advisor fusinesi Manager Advertltlng Manager . Ann Darden Webb Miss Jess Byrd Ann Williams Marian Myers Editorial Staff: Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allen, Marianne Boyd, Emma McCotter, Sudie Mae Spain, Sarah Vance, Ann Coley, Nancy Warren, Dottie Ervin, Barbara Durham, Anne Miles, Morcia Stanley, Pat pfynt, Jeane Smitherman, Ann Summerell, Pat Houston, Mary Anne Hagwood. Business Staff: Bunny Gregg, Katherine Oglesby, Becky DoR AAcCord, Betty Byrum, Jane Shiflet, Peggy Ingram, Mary Curtis Wrflw, Kay Hannan, Sue Davis, Jean Jacobs, AAargaret Hogan, Jane Uftie, Margaret Fletcher. Around The Square Stop and think. Thei-e was an editorial of the same title last year which advised hesi tation and thought before the breaking of college rules. That is uot the purpose of this one. This one jvist advocates thought. Last week all you could think about wa-. one subject at a time — soaking it up and siimlezing it out, before a drop .spilled, into the pages of a little blue book. Well, it’s over. If you passed, you can forget every thing you.crammed; you’ve got your three hours, and you will never, never have to take the course again. You can add up the hours you have col lected, hanging in your mind’s trophy room, and subtract them from the minimum required for graduation. Then you will have an idea of how many little obstacles stand between you as an amorphous student and you as a finished College Graduate. Why bother going through wdth it? Why be a College Graduate? Why, it’s the thing to do, that’s why. Is school so many hours toward graduation and a certificate which says you ought to be fairly educated whether you are or not? It it assuring ourselves of a little niche in society with the rest of the degree-holders? Is it regimented groups of una.ssiniilated material which is forgoten as soon as it is completed and accounted for on the student’s record? Is it to end completely and not only formally at commencement, a word which means be ginning? By Jo Smitherman Mrs. Pyron and her assistants caused more disturbance than usual in the library Wednesday as they repeatedly exclaimed surprise at the new set of books on a Reading Room table. “Well,” Mrs. Pyron exclaimed to an inquiring professor, “Last fall I filled out a blank saying we’d like to have the books and we didn’t hear a thing until this morning when a man delivered them to the library door.” She couldn’t even remember what organization or foundation had sent the application blanks. The at-first-anonymous gift, a 54-volume set of Great Books of the Western World, was discovered to be a donation of the Old Do minion Foundation, which gave money to the American Library Association which sent the blanks to Mrs. Pyron. Published by Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica, Inc., Great Books of the Western World included transla tions made especially for the re nowned Great Books experiment in education at St. John’s and Chicago LFniversity. Two of the fifty-four volumes are composed of synopti- cons, or collections, of the world’s ideas on almost every subject that can be approached from more than one angle. Seventy-one men are repre sented; they are philosophers, his torians, poets, novelists, scientists, and critics. It is interesting that, whether they said more or more important things, only four men rated two volumes each; Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, and Edward Gibbon. There is still a feeling of awe surrounding the gift and people wonder what was on that blank to convince the judges that our lib rary deserved so distinctive a gift as this. Perhaps they discovered main silent as to her plans . . • New York has never been wilder than between-semesters when Mary Alice Ryals and Martha Ann Ken nedy stormed in . . . Melinda Wab- berson, an ex-member of Salem class of 1957, will be an ex-Wab- berson after her wedding in Ham let this week-end. Ann Knight, Dottie Ervin, Carolyn Garrison, Claudia Milham, and Nancy Cock- field (also ex- of that class) will be accomplices . . . Martha Dunlap (still another ex-member of ’57) is pinned; she goes to the University of South Carolina . . . Mary Had ley Fike whistles while she plays basketball; Mary Jo Wynne will give any opposing team a hard time on behalf of the freshmen. * * * The beginning of a semester is renowned as movie-going time. Girls who saw either The Trouble with Harry or I Am A Camera or both varied greatly as to the merit of the movies. Several townspeople stalked out of I Am A Camera, talking all the way up the aisle about “the silliest picture I’ve ever seen. Humph!” At least Salem girls sat amused and astonished through the movie before getting together and deciding it was silly and pointless . The opinion was not unanimous. ♦ » * that one-fifth of the Salem student body does the calibre of work de manded for Dean’s List distinction. ♦ ijt Incidentals: Five new homemakers will keep house in the Home Management House beginning next week; Jean Stone, Barbara Berry, Sara Marie Pate, Betty Saunders and Bunny Gregg . . . Paramount Studios have contacted Salem jun ior Toni GUI and asked for pictorial samples of her “photogenic quali- ties.’’' Toni thinks Bennett Cerf (who lauded her beauty and baton- twirling in Saturday Review) has something to do with her newly- acquired fame; she chooses to re in spite of the green death, which picked off A. A. members one by one, Salem w'as chosen president of the North Carolina Athletic Federation of College Women for the 1956-57 term. The convention, held at Woman’s Col lege, Greensboro, finally set aside a special room for ailing Salem delegates, most of whom made it back to Salem in time to claim an infirmary bed. * * * The third “Rhythm and Blues” show will roll around Memorial Coliseum tonight. Bill Haley and the Comets are given top billing, but the more distinctive jazz en thusiasts are pointing to Roy Hamilton as their drawing card. LaVern Baker and Joe Turner are other heard-of single performers; two vocal groups, the Drifters and tfie Platters, will sing. The Plat ters will give out with “See You Later, Alligator,” I suppose. There are still two nights, to- nigiit and tomorrow night, to see Betsy Liles, class of 1955, in the Little Theater production, of House Without Windows (and the house without windows is . . . death.) Beyond the Square By Emmas McCotter United States: About two weeks ago, Secretary of State, John Fos ter Dulles, found himself in the center of a new national and inter national uproar. It began when the Secretary gave Time-Life Wash ington Bureau Chief James Shep- ley, in an exclusive interview in Life, his interpretation of how the E i s e n h o w er Administration has kept the peace. There have been three times in the last three years, Shepley re ported, when the U. S. “was brought periously close to war, and when the new policy of deterrence instituted by Dulles preserved peace.” Soon after this article came out, Vice-President Richard Nixon re stated in simple terms Dulles’ state ment. He said: “The test of a foreign policy is its ability to keep the peace without surrendering any territory or any principle.” The question of keeping the peace will definitely be the main thought behind the U. S.’s dealings with Britain when Prime Minister Anthony Eden and President Eisen hower meet this week. France: Here an ex-professor of English named Guy Mollet has emerged out of the milling con fusion of France’s indecisive elec tion. He is boss of the Socialist Party. Under Mollet, however, there is small danger that the Socialists will renew their Popular Front with the Communists. As a man trained in Marxism, Mollet has no serious quarrel with many of their eco nomic doctrines. He simply con siders them “representatives of the Soviet Union.” This new “victor” in France is a friend of the Atlantic Alliance, and lie says he will treat the Com munist Party just like any other one. Middle East: The center of acti vity is now located in Jordan. Re cently the British reinforced their defense on the island of Cyprus in case there is any need for them in the troubled area, London rushed its paratroopers to Cyprus partly out of suspicion that the West Bank dissidents had penetrated the Arab Legion to a point where this strong force, once the key to Jordan’s stability, might cease to be a reliable instrument of British policy. Pushed out of Egypt, set back in Jordan, en dangered in Cyprus, the British saw' their position in the Middle East deteriorating fast. ■Venezuela: Recently the Presi dent of this South American coun try announced that the oil industry is “to open the doors to offers” for new consessions. Whoever offers the most in royalties and “advant ages” to the county will get the consessions. However, the government hopes to get two-thirds of the profits from the new enterprise. Also, V enezuela has showed that it favors Europe instead of the U. S., because it is scared it will become too dependent on the latter’s mar- (Continued on Page 4) d ft By Anne Summerell For once, all of Clewell Dormitory was quiet —really quiet. On almost every door huiw sign-s reading, “Very, very busy. Please do not disturb.” The slightest noise called forth a chorus of “sh-sh-sh-sh’s” from behind the closed d»»rs The reason for all this unearthly silence: we fre.shmen were having our first exams. Even the usually crowded reception room was strangely empty on Saturday night, and the date room was filled with books and papers and cigarettes and girls in pajamas or blue jeans frantically trying to leam how to work algebra or chemistry problems or how to conjugate Latin or French verbs. Bridge games and argyle socks were for gotten for a few days and were replaced by English, history, and biology. _ What worry and toil and agony went into the preparation for those exams! After each one, we came out with our heads a little higher and the hint of a smile on our faces. But our expressions were soon serious again as we plunged into our books for the next one. It seemed as if that wonderful time would never come when exams would be over, and we would be home for a few days’ rest But finally that time came. Those of us who had later exams gazed enviously at the packed suitcases of those lucky classmates who had finished early. It became increas- iiigly hard to concentrate on studying for those last exams when our minds were filM with thoughts of that far-off, mystical place called home. Then at last our time came, and we were the lucky ones who were through and ready to leave. The days at home flew by—glorious, carefree days during which we enjoyed sle^' iiig until twelve o’clock, eating Mother’s offu good cooking, and being able to loaf away the time doing absolutely nothing. Too suddenly we were back at school. trembling hands we reached out to receive the fatal envelopes which contained our There were relieved sighs, cries of joy: few dejected expressions. Many were heard saying, “I’m really to settle down and work hard next sein6S^*’ No more of this playing around for me! It’s hard to believe that one semester actually over, exams and all. We really a rugged time; but remember, freshmen: just have to go through with it seven times 1” and naoi
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