Volume XXXVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 21, 1958.
Number 16
concern about our nominating sys
tem. Mary Curtis urged that stu
dents discuss the qualifications for
offices and possible candidates
among themselves and that they
watch bulletin boards for election
publicity. She reminded students
that “this is your responsibility”.
Mary Curtis announced changes
in two social regulations. The first
was concerned with the time a stu
dent with late permission is al
lowed in returning from a function
at Wake Forest. The student must
be back on campus within 30 min
utes after the function is over and
must come directly back to campus.
Student Body Accepts Stee
0ee Nomination Proposals
At the student body meeting on
February 13, Student Government
President, Mary Curtis Wrike, pre
sented proposals for changes in
the constitution which will give
freshmen, sophomores, and juniors
more representation on the nomi
nating committee and which will
require a candidate to have a
majority to be elected. The stu
dent body voted after very little
discussion to accept the proposals.
Mary Curtis accompanied her
presentation of the recommen
dation of the Student Council with
the reasons it was felt that the
changes were necessary. The gen
eral unawareness of students of
the importance of choosing quali
fied people for principle offices, the
students’ not having’ sufficient
voice in nominating candidates,
and their not using the privileges
they do have were the reasons for
Anscombe
Speaks To
IRC Group
Dr. Francis Anscombe, head of
the History Department at Salem
College for twenty-three years and
founder of the International Re
lations Club in 1927, will speak to
the International Relations Club
on Thursday night, February^ 27.
The topic of his talk will be “Cy
cles and Acceleration.” All in
terested students and faculty mem
bers are invited to hear him speak.
Dr. Anscombe received his A. B.
degree from Earlham College, his
M. A. and Ph. D. from the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and his
LL. B. from Hamilton College. In
addition to serving in history,
Bible, and English departments in
various colleges, he has served as
pastor in several Quaker churches.
A resident of Winston-Salem, Dr.
Anscombe is president of the Min
eral Club and past president of
the Fors^h Astronomical Society.
Erit Newton, Noted Lecturer And
Art Critic,To Speak In Asembly
Thursday On "Why Modern Art
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Eric Newton, the distinguished
Art Critic of the London Times and
contributor to the New York Sun
day Times will be on campus
Thursday, February 27 under the
auspices of the Rondthaler Lec
tureship. Mr. Newton will speak
in chapel and meet with several
classes.
Going South For The
Winter; Or To Salem?
Due to his intense love and
knowledge of art and art history,
Mr. Newton’s lecture experience
is extensive. Audiences in Europe
and America agree with his own
countrymen that he has made a
unique contribution to his field.
Contributing a great deal to the
interest of his speeches, Mr. New
ton illustrates his ideas with Koda-
chrome 2” by 2” slides.
Mr. Newton is the author of such
widely read books as Tinteretto,
The Meaning of Beauty, An In
troduction to European Painting,
S t a n le y Spences, Christopher
Wood, British Painting and In My
View. He has done many essays
for the New York Times, the Lon
don Times and elsewhere.
Salem is on the agenda of the
fourth tour that Mr. Newton has
made in the United States and
Canada. Among the other many
important places he has appeared
are Duke University, Middlebury
College, Kansas State College, Uni
versity of Kansas, Northwestern
University and the University of
Mississippi.
Other than his work as art critic,
author and lecturer, Eric Newton
has included painting and working
in mosaics in his career. His
knowledge of the history and craft
of mosaic have resulted in import
ant commissions for him such as
the chapel of the Royal Naval
School, Suffolk, England.
Mr. Newton was a member of
'the Award Jury for the Sao Paula
Bienal, in 1952, of the Pitts
burgh Carnegie International Ex
hibition in 1953, and for the Bri
tish Guggenheim Prize in 1956. He
is president of the British Section
of the International Association of
Art Critics and frequently parti-
icipates in the well-known Critics
program of the British Bioadcast-
ing Corporation, both as Chairman
and as Art Critic.'
ERIC ^fWlON
Mr. Newton has been popular
with his previous audiences. Duke
University said, “Eric Newton’s
lecture was very successful in terms
of its illuminating content, organi
zation and appeal to the audience.
Antioch College, Ohio, commented,
“We found Eric Newton a brilliant
and effective speaker who gauged
his address perfectly for his audi-
I ence.”
Courses Are Reorganized,
Changed For 1958-59
Stee Gee Adopts Revised
Plan Affecting Rat Week
On Monday, February 17, the
Student Council unanimously voted
to adopt the revised plan for Rat
Week presented by the Rat Week
evaluation committee. The motion
as passed stated that the members
of the Sophomore Class would have
the opportunity to improve upon
the plan where they saw fit.
Caroline Easley, chairman of the
Rat Week Committee, presented
the plan for Rat Week and an
alternate plan for a Tanglewood
Day. Some of the more important
features of the Rat Week plan
were:
1. Placing of more responsibility
on each sophomore. Rat Week
would be planned through com
mittees.
2. Sophomore Class elect a com
missioner from the junior class
to serve in an advisory capacity
to the Freshmen on all matters
concerned with Rat Week.
3. Telling the freshmen they must
give a talent show during Rat
Week prior to the beginning
of Rat Week. In this way, it
is hoped that much vulgarity
will be eliminated from the
show.
4. Not fewer than three freshmen
are to be ratted at any one
5.
6.
Give freshmen booklets with ^
Rat Week schedules in thern.
These schedules would set aside
certain times for closed study
and organized ratting.
Draw up Rat Rules to be put
in the schedule booklets, t he
Rat Rules would state that a
freshman must wear her name
tag at all times, must know the
names of all upperclassmen and
faculty, etc. .
7 Split the freshman class in halt
the night of Rat Court. One
part of the class would be at
Rat Court while the other hal
would be kept busy in the gym
nasium by the sophomores.
The alternate plan suggested
that the sophomore and freshmen
classes spend a day at Tanglewood
together. There would be com
petitive sports in the morning and
a talent show in the afternoon.
The study of Rat Week and the
presentation of these plans was a
result of dissatisfaction with Rat
Week this past fall. A question
naire was drawn up concerning
Rat Week, which the entire stu
dent body filled out. The Rat
Week committee drew up the two
plans on the basis of studrat opin-
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Salem College
Trio To Play
Monday Night
The Salem College Trio will pre
sent the Nine Beethoven Piano
Trios in three benefit concerts for
the Mary Jones Memorial Scholar
ship Fund. The first of these con
certs will be Monday, February 24
at 8;30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. This
is the first time that all nine Beet
hoven trios have been played in
Winston-Salem or possibly in
North Carolina.
The Trio is playing the Beet
hoven arrangements according to
key relationship, instead of the
order written, in order to make
the concert more interesting. Th
first to be played is “Trio in B-flat
major. Opus 11”. This was one of
Beethoven’s earliest compositions
Second is the “Trio in D-major
Opus 70, No. 1 This trio is often
called the “Ghost Trio” because
Beethoven wrote the second move
ment for the witches scene in Mac
beth. The “Trio in B-flat major”.
Opus 97, the “Archduke”, was dedi
cated to Archduke Rudolph, son
of Emperor Leopold II of Austria.
The Salem College Trio is com
posed of Hans Heideman, piano,
Eugene Jacobowsky, violin, and
Charles Medlin, violincello.
The Salem Catalogue for 1958-
1959 will announce many improve
ments in the curriculum. Courses
in some departments have been re
organized, and new courses have
been added.
Much reorganization has taken
place in the Home Economics De-
lectur was very successful in terms
in clothing, where the courses have
been set up in order of their dif
ficulty. There has been a slight
reorganization of the modern lan
guage courses. In literature classes
emphasis will be placed on “read
ing listenings” — that is, students
will be required to listen to record
ings of reading assignments.
Expansion of the Criminology
and Social Problems course to two
three hour courses is the major
change in the Economics and So
ciology curriculum.
The History and Religion De
partments have been considerably
changed. American history, pre
viously taught in four semesters
will now be given in two. A new
three hour course, American So
cial and Cultural History, which is
a study of the social and cultural
development of the 19th and 20th
Centuries, has been added. Four
religion courses, Christian Educa
tion in the Local Church, Christian
Education in the Community, Re
ligious Development of Children
and Religious Development of
Young People and Adults, have
been cancelled. Religion 261, His
tory and Principles of Christian
Education, and Religion 271, The
Educational Work of the Church
will be taught in place of the can
celled courses. Two new courses—
Intertestament History and Litera
ture, a study of the history of the
Jewish people from the end of the
Persian period to the early part of
the Christian era, and Hebrews,
Revalations, and the General Epis-
Res—will be taught. They are both
three hour courses.
Due to the addition of courses
in the Art Department, Salem now
offers all the courses required by
the state for a high school certi
ficate in art. The new Graphic
Arts course will be taught in the
art studio, but a special studio will
be set up for Sculpture and Cere-
mics, possibly under the left wing
of Main Hall.'
Other additions to the curriculum
are in the English Department,
three hour course in Renaissance
Literature in England; in the
Chemistry Department, Organic
Qualitative Analysis and Advanced
Analysis; in the Education Depart
ment, Psychology of Learning; in
the Mathematics Department, Dif
ferential Equations; and in the
School of Music, Harpsichord.
News Brief
We are now in the process of
setting up a calendar for use of
the Old Chapel. Will you please
notify the students that we should
have (in writing) any requests they
may have for immediate and future
use of this particular center.
Organ practices, meetings of the
Choral Ensemble, and Pierrette
play practices will be put on the
calendar the first of the coming
week . . . after this the requests
of other organizations and indi
viduals will be scheduled in the
order in which they are received.