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QUEENS BLUES
January 16, 1932
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EDITORIAL
EXAMS JUST AHEAD
Isn’t it a job to try and get settled down after a vacation of so
much fun and good times? The thought of work is very repulsive
after being able to forget it for over two weeks. But we have
to get back into harness some time and the quicker the better, so
let’s get right down to work.
We only have about a week in which to prepare ourselves for
those coming great events and don’t you think that that’s a very
short time in which to review all the work we’ve done during this
past year ? It seems impossible, but it isn’t if we get right down
to it and seriously concentrate on it in the right way. Just remember
that the sooner you get all this work off the sooner you can have
some more good times to look forward to. All of this work is well
worth while and you’ll soon realize that. Did you ever have that
feeling that when you looked at the questions on the exam you’d
wished like everything that you'd put just a little bit more time
on that subject? Well, you may have that same experience this year
unless you take advantage of these last few days. Don't try to
cram it all in the night before you have to take that Exam—
that is bad business—you can’t do justice to the year's work that
way. You're only hurting yourself, if you'd only stop to think about
it. Your brain is not able to function properly if it is tired as it is
after a night’s work of intensive study.
After Exams are over and we start on a new term promise your
self that you are going to do better this term than last and STICK
to this promise. Try to keep up with your daily work. We know
that this is hard to do especially if our schedules are pretty full,
but do your best. This does not tie you down to be a “greasy
grind,” as we say in the slang of today, for if you really concentrate
on your work you can get it done in a very short time. It's getting
down to doing it and the interruptions you have, to say nothing ol'
your constant thinking of how much you have to do instead of
getting it done, that takes up all your time. Let’s make this a
bigger and better year and show that such a thing as a whisper of
a depression won't show in our work.
A resolution in its true meaning is more than the statement of
a course decided upon. It is the statement of a course decided with
steadiness, with firmness—resolved upon. Resolve means fixedness
of purpose, a fixed intention or determination. Is a resolution
worthless when i#ade and broken ? Doesn’t it weaken one’s moral
fibre? AY sometimes lose our fixedness of purpose, our stead
fastness, our determination. Humans are not perfect. However
we don't say, “I have failed in my attempt, therefore I shall not
try again." In spite our failings, our resolutions, though we are
at times hardly conscious of them, spur us onward. The types of
resolutions we make and have made represent the paths we are
following and have followed along life’s way. Though the path
we take is sometimes irregular, though there are deviations and
side-tracks, we are sure to find the true path. We make resolutions
every day and are aided by doing so.
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION
Has January, 1932, called forth more resolutions to be broken?
Or did we make any resolutions this year, remembering that we
didn’t keep them in 1931? Are resolutions worthless? Do New
Year’s Resolutions help one to do better, to have the right attitudes
to live up to ideals, to cultivate virtue, to acquire courtesv to
overcome hardships, to be dutiful? Or do such bothers or prold’ems
concern us ? •
THE PROBLEM OF CALENDAR REFORM
The calendar that is in present use today, the Gregorian has
always been a constant source of trouble, lioth in the business and
the social world. The ineciuality of the length of the months and
quarters and also the failure of the days of the week and month to
coincide in successive years, cause many problems to arise that
would not otherwi.‘.e if the year was better organized.
Last October, when the League of Nations met at Geneva, the
first eight days of the two weeks sitting were taken up with the
discussion of this jiroblem of calendar reform. Miss Elizabeth
Achelis, I’resident of the World Galendar Association, introduced a
new and worthwhile calendar to the rejiresentatives of many nations.
For the ]iast two years the people of America have heard of the
proposed Thirteen month calendar, Init this was too much out of
the ordinary for them to take a fancy to if immediately. In most
respects it was too extreme in its method of correcting any of
the faults of the present calendar. The constant stressing of these
advantages was beginning to make it more complicated to the people
instead of simplifying it as the Committee in charge of it was
supposed to do.
The President of the World Calendar Association presented
a piece of work that I as shown true concentration and study of the
matter of Calendar Reform. This jn'oposed calendar is a twelve
month equal ((uarter year, containing the seven day week but with
the addition of two days. Year Day and Leap Da}’. These cause
every year to coincide with the preceding and the following. The
question of stabilizing Easter was included in this and it was
suggested that it would still shift from year to year, but only in
a period of seven days, which is a decided improvement over the
stretch of thirty-five days at present.
This Calendar is very much easier to understand than the
thirteen month calendar and is by far the best one to be used in
the business world of today. In the modern business firm there is
always a monthly report to go in and with another month added
on to the year this means extra amount of work to do that other
wise can be omitted. The World Calendar has the equal quarters
consisting of three months each. The first month has thirty-one
days and the remaining two have thirty. Each month has twenty-
six week days and with this insured amount, the business and social
world can plan out work in a more thorough and systematic
way. The odd three hundredth and sixty-fifth day of the year or
Year Day, is considered as an extra Saturday between December
thirtieth and January first. The 366th day in Eeap Year, Leap
Day, is considered as another extra Saturday between June 30th and
July first. These will most likely be considered as holidays in the
United States if this calendar is accejrted. January first. New
\ ear s Day, always falls on Sunday and the working week begins
on the following day.
This is indeed an interesting proposition before us and a
seemingly fitting solution to the large problem of this Calendar
Reform. In order that Student Body may read the entire account
and explanation of this movement, the Journal of Calendar Reform
to which we are indebted for this information, has been placed
in the library for your use.
JUNIOR CLASS SPONSORS
DAVIDSON GLEE CLUB
STUDENT BODY ENJOYS ENTERTAINMENT
The Musical and Dramatic
Clubs of Davidson College enter
tained the entire Student Body
last Friday evening in the school
auditorium. This was a project
of the Junior Class and so much
dejiended on the success of this
night.
Even though the night was
quite bad, a presentable crowd
enjoyed the program, that was
started by three numbers from
the Glee Club. The quartette
was next to sing and though one
high note was a little difficult to
reach, the rest made up for that,
d'he Sunnyland Serenaders gave
forth sounds of rhythm that sent
shivers of delight through its
listeners. It looks as if the or
chestra for Junior-Senior is al
ready picked out after hearing
them.
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