BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
October 22, 1®*
THE BELLES
OF ST. MARY’S
Published In thirteen issues during
the school year, September to June.
Monthly for December, January and
April; Semimonthly for October, No
vember, February, March and May,
by the Student body of St. Mary’s
Junior College.
Entered as 2nd Class matter Dec.
7, 1944, at Post Office, Raleigh, N.
C. 27602 under Act of March 3,
1870. Subscription $1.00 per year.
BELLES STAEF
Editor in Chief Lesley Wharton
Assistant Editor Nancy Johnson
News Editor Margaret Anderson
Feature Editor Molly Richardson
Exchange Editor Theresa Stanley
Photographer Susan Spiller
Head Typist Anne Simmons
Circulation Manager Mary Melcher
NEWS STAFF
Bobbie Bell, Christine Block, Betsy
Bittle, Hannah Craven, Chris Crawley,
Kathleen Dale, Ann Dixon, Mathiede
Duffy, Susan Gilbert, Peggy Anne Hawes,
Martha Harrelson, Linda Howell, Mar
garet Isley, Louise Jennings, Katherine
Jordan, Trish LaMotte, Nancy Johnson,
Julie McCollum, Alice Purdie, Lamar
Sparkman, Lucy Turner.
FEATURE STAFF
Betsy Bittle, Cindy Bullard, Christine
Block, Susan Crabtree, Hannah Craven,
Chris Crawley, Donna Crisp, Sally Cruik-
shank, Claire Duff, Mathiede Duffy, Deb
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Jordan, Lucile McKee, Susie Soper, Bag-
ley Waddill, Jackie Walker.
ART STAFF
Lee Avery, Sally Cruikshank, Rita
Daniels, Debbie Ellis, Merrie England,
Linda Howell, Ann Lashley, Jocelyn
Strange.
TYPISTS
Margie Bates, Christine Block, Betsy
Bittle, Mabel Broadhurst, Gayle Boineau,
Donna Crisp, Zan Deas, Merrie England,
Susan Hutaff, Donna Jacks, Nancy John
son, Susan Johnson, Katherine Jordan,
Julie McCollum, Martha Harrelson, Liwy
Ravenel, Lisa Rowland, Joanne Ruark,
Martha Vaughan.
PROOFREADERS
Nancy Hammond, Heather Kilpatrick,
Cheryl Koenig.
CIRCULATION
Hetti Johnson, Francy Lewis, Julie
McCollum, Sally Means, Betty Wilbourne,
Carolyn Finch, Peggy Anne Hawes, Mar
tha Crawley, Margaret Highsmith, Susan
Hutaff, Claudia Davis, Betty Snyder,
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Grant, Susie Soper, Susan Davis, Mary
Clark Whittle, Patsy Slater, Bobbie Bell,
Sandy Hamer, Livvy Ravenel, Martha
Vaughan.
ADVISOR
Mr. John U. Tate.
Circle Walks For
Tkree Girls
RULES MADE TO BE OBEYED
“Rules are made to be broken.”
This rather trite expression is quite
familiar to most people and St.
Mary’s girls are no exception.
However, here, rules are made to
be learned and obeyed with the hand
book being provided for this purpose.
The handbook is prepared through
hard work and concentration hy an
editor working with a relatively small
staff and is meant to he used solely as
a guide for St. Mary’s students.
Yet according to the results of the
handbook test given recently, these
rules were of little interest to some
girls.
Around 20 girls failed the first
handbook test and approximately 40
more failed the second part of the
test. This second figure indicates that
almost double the number of girls
failed the second time and hints at
a lack on someone’s part.
In all probability, this lack of in
terest or whatever the reason was for
the failure, can be attributed directly
to tbe girls themselves. Not enough
time was spent learning the rules or
how to put them into practice.
As a result of not learning the
rules several girls have been pena
lized recently with points and camp>-
uses. Some of these have claimed that
they were unaware of the particular
rule which they violated. Again, the
trouble stems directly from not learn
ing the rules in the handbook.
These rules are gathered into one
source for the student’s ease — not
simply to form a tricky book guaran
teed to fail all except the verv care
ful.
Obviously, one should learn these
rules immediately. For some girls, it
takes a weekend campus to get the
point across. For others, the matter is
more easily solved. The main idea is
to obey the rules, not forget them.
Forgetting them is actually no better
than Ignoring them entirely.
EUN WITH WORDS
Reprinted from the Greensboro College Collegian
How many words is it possible to
make out of ACEINORST?
Monday night, October 11th, the
Circle walked and inducted three
members: Charlotte Akinson, Marie
Kirksey, and Suzanne Poole. Char
lotte, living in Raleigh, is President
of the Day Students, a member of
Granddaughters Club, Orchesis, the
Hall Council, and is on the Business
staff of the Stagecoach. Marie Kirk-
scy from Morganton, N. C. is a mem
ber of the Y.W.C.A., the Young Re
publicans Club, and Granddaughters
Club. She is also Chief Marshal, on
the Stagecoach staff, and a counselor.
Suzanne Poole, hailing from Colonial
(Continued on Page 4)
According to Dmitri A. Borgmann
in his book. Language On Vacation,
published by Charles Scribner’s Sons,
there are over 40 words that can be
found in ACEINORST. Borgmann,
called “the country’s leading author
ity on word play” by Scientific Amer
ican, describes his book as an “olio of
orthographical oddities” — in other
words, a miscellaneous collection of
curiosities involving letters and words.
Believing that language is more
than a medium of communication,
that it is a form of art, he attempts to
build a responsiveness to the innate
beauty of words and to help the read
er produced word beauty himself.
Mr. Bourgmann creates and solves
puzzles based on words and the ar
rangement of letters making up
words.
The author is most intrigued by
palindromes—a word or sentence that
Tke Tkree Cttt
System
Reprinted from
The Cavalier Daily j
University of Virginia 1
For years students in the C0H3
have enjoyed the privilege of e*"
cising their own judgment insofab
class attendance is concerned. le
fact that there is no specific limit x
class attendance is certainly fittin&i
an institution where individual i
sponsibility has traditionally been ^
by-word.
The official school policy conctii
ing over-cutting, though never cl‘>]
ly stated, appears to boil down
several “rules ” which are acceptei t
faculty and students alike. Profestit
in all College courses specifically
quired for a degree are required!'
turn in regular attendance recote
This is a good policy, affecting m-V
ly first and second year men. Uf'
class men, whose studies are nju
concentrated and time-consuiD'®‘
and who are more likely to be sp^'
ing hours in outside activities,
normally not subject to this close
veilance of their attendance ha^
They must still, however, mainta'^'
fairly regular schedule of class®
tendance. In addition, academic P’
alties for overcutting have al"®‘
been administered by individual f‘
lessors. ®
This year, in one of the lang^^l
departments in the College, tT
exists what we feel to be a flag*^’
violation of the attendance rule*^'
cepted here for so long. In this '
partment, everyone taking a
course in a language — first, sec*)^
third, or fourth-year — is allowe|
total of three cuts per semester. P
student is ill and misses class, tb^ '
involved is counted as one of
three. After the three have been i''
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only illness or another emergency
be accepted as a reasonable e%^
For each class over three missed
student, one point is deducted
his final grade.
In any course at any Univ^^j
three cuts per semester is a
louslv low number. These wv) ■
is spelled the same backward as for
ward. The sentence, “Stop, Syrin! I
see bees in airy spots” is an example
of this. Or, instead of working out a
palindrome, one might like to tr\’ a
reversal, whereby a word such as
“storrac” spelled backwards is “car
rots.” Hours of fun can be had mak
ing up strange-sounding sentences.
Transposals, the rearrangement of the
letters in a word to form one or more
other words (such as ACEINORST)
is also a most intriguing exercise. An
other game is anagrams, in which a
word or phrase is rearranged into an
apt description of it: "Hustler's” be
comes “Let’s Rush.” In the same vein,
an antigram is a word rearranged to
reverse the meaning: “Evangelists”
becomes “Evil’s Agents.” Particularly
entertaining, claims Borgmann, is to
use one’s own name in this way.
“Dmitri Alfred Borgmann,” for ex
ample, is anagram “Grand mind,
mortal fiber,” antigram “Damn mad
boring trifler.”
many cases be used in cases
ness — making it almost imp®**^^
for a student to merely “cut” 6^.
for other reasons — one of the
leges which University students
enjoyed for years and still bs'
right to enjoy.
What reallv bothers us about
situation, however, is that the 'p
uage department has taken up^i)|
self to tell its instructors what
must be used regarding attcnU‘'L
It appears to us that a man or
capable enough to be selected
instructor would certainly
able of making his own dec’,
concerning such an important
of student-faculty relations. L^J,f
the department decide on ovcrcf ia
and waiting for it to deduct
from the final grade is just uAy[
way of making the student
no more than an impersonal ®m
ruled by a department he
even know. in
Give the right of supervising 5.
back to the instructors. Perhap^ V;
too will initiate the three-cut
now in effect. But we bet they''