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QUEENS BLUES
November 4, 1932
QUEENS BLUES
M.ember North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
Founded by the Class of 1922
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens-Chicora College
Subscription Rate: $2.50 the Collegiate Year
STAFF
Margaret Jones Editor-in^Chief
Mary China Stephenson Business Manager
Agnes Stout, M.A., Ph.D. Faculty Advisor
EDITORIAL
Florence Moffett Associate Editor
Mary Bowen Managing Editor
Claudia McCiiesney Nexvs Editor
Rebecca McClary Assistant Editor
Ruth Currie Assistant Editor
loNE Smith 8'ports Editor
June Tweed Alumnae Editor
Dorothy Cothran - Humor Editor
Cynthia Pharr Day-Student Editor
Clare Hazel Copy Reader
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Sara Escott Advertising Manager
Vivian Hilton Circulation Manager
Rosalie Pennington Assistant Circulation Manager
Reporters Dorothy Ehrhardt, Caroline Hoon, I^ucille Blue, Frances Raley, Ann
West, Laleh Gray, Louise Miller, Jessie Pearson.
TO THE ALUMNAE
Dear Alumnae:
We know that you often think about your happy days at
Queens-Chicora, so we are sending you an issue of the Queens
Blues in hopes that you will wish to hear from us again. The
old days are gone, but we know that you look back upon them
with sweet memories. We are now experiencing those happy days
which you have seen. Would you like to see again, a picture of the
old life which has changed so much since you left, but which is
still the same?
STUNT NIGHT
A large audience, brilliant stunts and songs proclaim our stunt
night a success. The presentation of the various entertainments
by each class deserves high commendation. Praise is due to
the performers, the committees of each class, the general stunt
committee and to the director of athletics. When anything goes off
well, we often fail to think about the silent work which never comes
to the surface, and only take appearances as they are. Yet if this
silent work did not exist, many of our best things would be a failure.
In any successful entertainment, program, campaign, or project
there are always definite plans, there is always silent work which
goes on but which is never seen and therefore is never recognized
or properly appreciated. Much has been said this year about our
splendid school spirit. This compliment should thrill every student
and should be a source of greater inspiration. We are pleased with
this improvement of school spirit; yet it didn’t spring up of itself.
It isn’t a product which grew up in September. Upperclassmen will
always remember the competence, success and co-operation of the
class of ’32 with which we so reluctantly parted last spring. This
same school spirit has been a growing process, but it stands as other
successful accomplishments and has those same characteristics of
quiet work and planning behind it all.
Let us think of several things which might have caused this
growth. The ease in which we arranged our schedules this year and
began classes was the result of careful planning and much labor.
The work of the Student Government Association, The Student
Christian Association, the literar}" societies, and honorary frater
nities is accomplished well, because there is the presence of that
silent, steady force, whose influence is felt, but rarely seen and fully
appreciated. After all, this is as it should be. A good product never
shows the elements used in its preparation but exists as a complete
and perfect whole. And so it is with stunt night, which surpassed
all expectations and which was a great success.
OLD BOOKS
Lovers of old books, do not read this. But those who wish to
get rid of old tex tbooks, which are not being used, take heed. If
you turn over these dusty riddances to Dr. Greene, she will exchange
them for more worthwhile second hand books, which are to be put
on the reserve shelf in the library. Biology and science students
will benefit by this especially.
COLLEGE SPIRIT
One of the qualities of college spirit is the desire to make your
college the best in the world. It is necessary to believe in your
college, work for it, and honor it. However, you should not accept
the slogan, “My college right or wrong,” for no friend of an institu
tion supports it in the wrong. The surest way of helping any col
lege to be great is to help it to do right. It has often been said that
“Might Is Right” and that is never more true than in regard to the
welfare of your school. Being a member of a great functioning body
which moves together, steadily forward, creates an opportunity for
the individual to develop that abstract quality called the college
spirit.
To any institution where gloom, pessimism, and despair are
given reign, the spirit cannot be wholesome, and there is no doubt
that such an atmosphere has a decidedly deterring effect on the work
of every student in the institution.
Now, when one speaks of the spirit of Queens-Chicora, what
does she mean ? To one who has ever Ijeen in contact with it or under
its influence it will never be forgotten. This year, more than ever
before, the girls have heard the call and they are determined to
make “Q.-C. lead them all.” Joy, hope, enthusiasm, self-confidence,
and the thrilling ecstacy of duty well done are the constant requisites
for a good college spirit.
Sacrifice, service, and loyalty that endures all the time are
elements of college spirit. That spirit of hope and determination
to succeed is typically the spirit of Queens-Chicora.—R. M. C.
THE SHAD
Just as we promised (or threat
ened), we again appear on the
scene. Two rveeks have passed
and the Shadow has been snoop
ing around in many corners, cran
nies, and out of the waj^ places.
And the things we've learned!
It would never do to repeat some
of them.
Did you see the proofs for the
annual? Being a shadow, we
naturally saw every one. You
should have seen Frances Kor-
negay’s and Ruth Beaty’s. Of
all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest were those pictures.
Tank’s and Beaty’s pictures look
ed like some of the specimens used
in psychology experiments. Mary
Brown wasn't so pleased with her
l)roofs this year as she was last,
but we don't blame her. Last
year’s picture was flattering.
You should have seen the
shadow doubled up with laughter
one day this week when Mr.
Powell walked by with a special
for that freshman in South. Dear!
dear! these terrible love affairs!
“It’s the real thing this time, my
dear. At last, the grand passion!”
Why is it that some of the girls
seem to find stop 20 so attractive ?
The Shadow is baffled.
By the way, what’s Joyner try-
do? In psychology class
ing to
Be on
Shadow!
Cortez and Pizarro
Looking about us, we see only
the shallow and unlovely things,
but the unobtrusive, unpreten
tious objects are the ones most
worthy of our notice. There are
two very beautiful objets d’art,
though probably unnoticed by
most of us, which adorn the man
tel of the reception room in Bur-
well Hall. They are the statu
ettes of two of the most romantic
figures in the history of the New
[World, Cortez and Pizarro. Their
beauty is not the shining, glaring
kind; it is that type of beauty,
which in modesty and truth of
line, outstrips all other in its true
worth.
These statuettes, made from
he made the statement that when
she looked in a mirror for a very
long time she didn’t recognize
herself, and that her name be
came unfamiliar. Is she trying
to play up to Dr. Ingelbritzen, or
does she think she’s Greta Garbo
in disguise ?
Has Bee McClary fallen for a
cop ? The Shadow has heard that
she called the police station the
other day. Tsk ! Tsk!
Silhouettes: Did you ever
notice the peculiar, heady tang
of burning leaves in autumn ? . . .
Why are Mondays so awful ? . . .
If you’ll notice, the class that you
go to sleep in is the class in which
you’re not prepared to recite . . .
People who get bored easily
usually are rather silly. They
have nothing to fall back on.
Things we like: Good motion
pictures, interesting books, sun
set, rainy days, patterns formed
by sunlight streaming through
trees. Cozy rooms with open
fires, the music of a cello.
the lookout for the
We appear publicly
every two weeks, and we always
appear privately when you have
no idea that anything is near.
bronze, were bought many years
ago in Europe by Mrs. Walter
Miller of Charlotte. Later, at her
death, they were presented to the
college by her grand nephew,
Walter Hook. They are repre
sentative of the best type of
bronze work in Europe, and are
prized very highly by the college.
Cortez, on the right, and Pizarro,
on the left, are not very different
n dress or visage. Both carry the
cross, from which their standard
flies, evidenlt®^ of the extreme
Christian element of the times.
And both have the stern air of
conquerors. Their whole mien
expresses the quality of conquer
ing.
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