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THE SALEMITE
By Jane Litton and
Janie McCaslin
Published every Friday of the College
year by the Student Body of
Salem College
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Center
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Associate Editor Cara Lynne Johnson
Business Manager Kathryn Wilson
Managing Editor - Carol Quick
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Feature Editor Hannah Nicholson
Copy Editors Nan Johnstone,
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Hillary Masters
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Kathy Clements Sandy Kelley
Circulation Managers —Sandy Kelley,
Debby Lotz
Adviser —Miss Jess Byrd
Education Cultivates Arts',
Form Habits In Students
This essay was written over a century ago by William Cory, an
Eaton College master. The pertinence of his wisdom in today's
headlong scramble for knowledge is clear. It is reprinted here for
the student of whatever age, who finds frustrating his inability to
reconcile the sacred haste of that scramble with the deliberate,
seemingly interminable, pace imposed on acquiring an education.
"At school you are not engaged so much in acquiring knowledge
as in making mental effort under critcism. A certain amount of
knowledge you can indeed acquire with average facilities, acquire
so as to retain. Nor need for regret the hours you spend on much
that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects
you from many illusions.
"But you go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for
arts and habits—for the art of expression, for the habit of attention;
for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual
position, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation; for
the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the
art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit
of regarding small points of accuracy; for the art of working out
what is possible in a given time; for taste, for discrimination, for
mental courage and mental soberness." Circa 1850.
M.: Is there
weary r
no. rest for the
. No hope for the
A.
(This selection was taken from the “Chapel Hill Weekly,” Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.)
downtrodden ? I’m beside my
self with grief. Death, famine,
pestilence and disease have
plagued my country.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
And remember, opportunity
knocks but once.
M.: Hark! Methinks I heard a
pistol shot.
A.; Speak for yourself, John
Alden.
M.: Tomorrow, tomorrow, and to-
S. E. Seminary Students Invite Salemites
To Participate In Religious Survey Here
Dear Students of Salem College;
In the midst of many debates
about the validity of Christianity
and the institutional church, there
is a definite need for recording the
evaluations of you who pursue truth
on the college campus. Your ability
to criticize effectively the presenta
tion of Christianity that is afforded
by the Christian church as a well-
founded determinant which lends
Show Discretion
In Room Drawing
To the Editor:
the needed support to the proper
understanding of the relationship of
the college student and the church
in contemporary society.
The attitude of you within the
academic circle toward the church
and your relationship, or lack of
relationship, with it will largely de
termine the course that Christianity
will take in the years to come. In
order to gain an insight into the
thoughts of you on the college cam
pus, we of Southeastern Seminary
should like to solicit the help of
you, the students of Salem College,
in a study of the religious attitudes
of college students.
With room drawing fast ap
proaching and many people looking
for roommates, it is particularly
important that care be taken not
to hurt another’s feelings. This is
a selfish time of year and a time
when many people are extremely
sensitive. This letter is one directed
to the student body in hopes that
tears and deeply hurt feelings can
be avoided this year.
We must realize from the begin
ning that it is impossible to con
trol where you are going to room.
There are too many variables. Add
to these variables the pressures and
the hopes that are crushed when
the room you tvant is taken by the
pair of roommates ahead of you,
and disappointment seems to be the
order of the evening. No wonder
room drawing is dreaded so!
But please remember — no room
is worth hurting someone else’s
feelings. Things must not replace
people in importance. With inge
nuity any room can be brightened,
but no amount of ingenuity can
heal the hurt feelings or take back
words said in anger.
Sincerely,
Hannah Nicholson
April 7.
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C*N
OFF
THE
BRICKS
Well, science has done it again.
For the first time since Adam grun
ted hs first crude verbalization to
Eve, the language barrier between
the old Adage and the Maxim has
been broken. Yes, in his subter
ranean laboratory off the coast of
Iceland, Dr. Algenon Z. Abercrom
bie fulfilled his life’s dream of
understanding this most difficult
language since' time in memorial.
Unfortunately, the shock was so
great to this dedicated slave to the
search for knowledge, that Dr. Alge
(as he has been affectionately
called for his entire 103 years)
dropped dead immediately upon his
discovery of his discovery. For
tunately, however, his portable tape
recorder continued to function after
his untimely death, and an actual
conversation between an Adage and
a Maxim has been recorded for
posterity. Here is the original, un
expurgated French version of the
historical conversation:
Adage: What’s a girl to do at a
time like this ?
Maxim: Forsooth, these are the
times that try men’s souls. Are
we not the most miserable of
men ?
Adage : I was a woe begotten child.
What grate qualmsy hath
caused me such a fatty hard-
buckle ?
A.
M.
morrow creeps in this petty
pace from day to day . ■ •
It never rains but it pours!
Oh, brother! Double, double,
toil and trouble.
A ; Me, who am as a nerve o er
which do creep the else unfelt
oppressions of this earth.
So what else is new?
I’ve got this headache that
starts at the base of my neck.
I am the original double poly
technic irretrievable. They ve
put the hypnotic idle atrophy on
me.
I have been thrust into the
educational vortex of the eccle
siastics of the specifics of the
M.
A.
M.
world.
: There goes yon Cassius,,
that lean and hungry Iqo];
Misery loves company.
There but for the
M.
A.
3veti(
M.:
God go I.
A.: Gone, but not forgotten
M.: Goodgrief!
Unintelligible to the
superman, this article has been
sented under the auspices of |
Piedmont intermuniciple Uctj,
series. Students of Salem Colin
are asked to note that the
course in the Maxim and Ai
Philosophy (MAP) is soon to
required of all students
Library Offers Two New
Weekly News Publications
The library has recently sub
scribed to two leading political and
literary weeklies. Each is published
by a newspaper noted for its out
standing and accurate reporting.
The New York Times weekly edi
tion, printed in large type, is an
experiment to provide an easy-to-
read edition for persons with limited
vision, or for those, like college
students, who are hard pressed for
time. This is not a digest of the
Times. It contains a summary of
the week’s news, an editorial page
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and signed colums by some of
Times’ leading writers. The y
issue contained columns by jJ
Reston ("In Washington”), arlii
on international news by T®|
Wicker, and views on the sj
scene by the wry and -witty Rd}
sell Baker.
The Manchester Guardiaa is
long been considered one of Eij
land’s leading liberal newspipe
and it now publishes a spedals
weekly edition to give its ovens
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Workers Break Monotony
Through Union Participatiol
The study will be based on a
questionnaire and student and fac
ulty interviews. The goal of this
study is to formulate the religious
nature of this student generation;
that is, the religious attitudes, prob
lems, disappointments, and expec
tations. We realize that this goal
can be achieved only in an atmo
sphere of freedom and openness,
and we welcome your profound re
flections, criticisms, and reactions.
We invite each of you to participate
in this survey, and we look forward
to meeting you personally.
Sincerely,
Joe Dowis and Ed Kay
By Lyn Davis
"Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief?" No, those won't do. Try "teoi
ter, farmer, broadcaster" if you're looking for an interesting cof!
—one that won't bore you with employment but will be punctMH|
by nation-wide strikes.
If you decide to be a teamster, you'll probably do more loir
on a picket line than on your company job. This time the/re oi,
ing the trucking industry for 19 cents more per hour. The rsol
professional teamster is a man of habit, as Atlanta's local provS
in spite of a decision made by the union's negotiating commit
not to walk off the job when contracts expired, the teamstersf
Atlanta did so. According to Weldon L. Mathis, the local w#
president, they walked off last Friday at midnight (exactly olll
time the contract expired) from sheer habit.
Another job that doesn't pay as well but offers many
'ei(l
ir"
wjn?times such as these, who wants to be a dull old doctor,'^
Sources:
Evening Sentinel, April 1, 1967.
Journal-Sentinel, April 2, 1967.
Greensboro Daily News, April 2, 1967.
The National Observer, April 3, 1967.
Newsweek, April 3, 1967.
curricular" activities is that of a farmer, most specifically a doi)
man. The National Farmers Organization has been withhold
their milk from the market since March 15 in an effort to
the price of milk up two cents per quart. They've also ^
dumping it anywhere within the range of a newspaper report
or newsman's camera, having their wives swim in it, shootinR?
processor's trucks, and being caught trying to poison whole If*'
loads of the stuff by dumping kerosene into it. They've gotlen*.
sults, all right, but not what they expected. Court orders ogolj
any violence have frightened off would-be allies in their
more money. They've gained the bewildered laughter of
other 85 per cent of the dairymen who don't belong to the Hi*
Their threats to slaughter their cattle or convert all the mill*J
low-grade cheese have been ineffective, too. The price of ^
has gone down 2 per cent since February, according to the
partment of Agriculture. Maybe they could have been o bit®^
influential if they'd chosen a time to dump milk when the®*
weren t in their season of highest production for the entire y*®
But your best bet might be as a news broadcaster belonsj
to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
whole union could strike for about 100 others like you
nation who want a base salary of $325 per week plus 501’
cent of what the sponsors pay the TV station until that eq^
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your base pay, and then 100 per cent after that. You'd
ri of seeing men who make more money than the
makes parading on Pennsylvania Avenue with signs proem
n air on their backs. You'd hear such men as Woltur
kite, Edwin Neuman, David Brinkley, and Hugh Downs sayj
they back the union they were forced to join four yeo”^
against the companies that made them famous. You'd talkf
Frank McGee and Chet Huntley who, because they consider J
selves lournalists and not actors, are inside the big, modern W
•ng hard at work.