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QUEENS BLUES
Apirl 7, 1933
QUEENS BLUES
M.ember North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens-Chicora College
Subscription Rate: $2.50 the Collegiate Year
STAFF
Margaret Joxes Editor-in-Ghief
Mary China Stephenson Business Manager
Agnes Stout, M.A., Ph.D Faculty Advisor
EDITORIAL
Florence Moffett Associate Editor
Mary Bowen Managing Editor
Claudia MoChesney News Editor
Rebecca McClary Assistant Editor
Ruth Currie Assistant Editor
Ione Smith Sports Editor
.Tune Tweed Alumnae Editor
Dorothy Cothran . Humor Editor
Cynthia Pharr Bay-Student Editor
Clare Hazei Eopy Reader
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Sara Escott Advertising Manager
Vivian Hilton Circulation Manager
Rosalie Pennington Assistant Circulation Manager
Reporters—Dorothy Ehrhardt, Caroline Hoon, Lucille Blue, Frances Raley, Ann
West, Laleah Gray, Louise Miller, Jessie Pearson.
ELECTIONS
A wise man once said that there is progress in change. His
words stand upon the foundation of history, tracing their red
letters across the pattern of civilization, springing with new life
from the crumliling of each man-made institution. And with this
year’s election, the}' have been stamped in the annals of our own
institution.
An entirely new procedure was placed before the student body,
and it responded admirably. A campaign sjiirit prevaded the campus,
evidenced in placards and ringing speeches. The actual voting was
run through smoothly and the results received with universal en
thusiasm in spite of the violent discussion and hand shaking which
preceded the putting into effect of the new plan. It is to be remem
bered that the core of the situation originated from the floor and
and not the platform.
Has this supplanting of the old by the new—this effort towards
a united student body and the equality of its rights—this step of
progress, been taken in vain? That rests with you, officers-to-be,
under classmen—and those yet to come. May the next election
close a year of consistent co-operation and growth.
—C. R.
THE DOGWOOD
Among the most beautiful trees which are conspicious in the
spring are the dogwoods, which are in full bloom now and are
spreading their snowy white branches over the campus. Many
eagerly wait for the hard green buds to burst forth into young
white flowers, for this is a sign of spring with all its hopes, joys,
and expectations.
The soft, white, petal-like structures, that attract insects which
pollinate the flowers, are not a part of the corolla but are bracts
which surround the true flowers, minute and insignificant. There is
an interesting fable about the dogwood which tells why the white
petal-like parts are notched at the top.
The dogwood was Adam’s favorite tree in the Garden of Eden.
It flowered so beautifully and gave so much pleasure that Diablo,
who is called the devil, wanted to kill it. He made up his mind
that he would destroy every shiny leaflet, and with this intention
he climbed a honey-locust tree and swung by his tail over the wall,
intending to blight the lovely flowers. To his amazement he dis
covered that each flower was in the shape of a cross and beyond his
power of destruction. He was furious and all he could do was to
bite a piece out of the edge of every snowy flower. And that is the
reason why the white bracts of the dogwood are cleft, which
makes the flowers more attractive, probably to the great disappoint
ment of Dialilo.
Inter-CoSlegiate
News
A freshman at Northwestern
jilaced himself in an awkwatyl
position when he referred to the
scholastic prodigies as “dumb-
bells” in the school paper. These
students, who ivere selected by
the university for an educational
e.xperiment because of their ex
ceptional records, immediately
issued a challenge to the offender
to meet any one of them in an
intelligence contest.
—Virginia Tech.
At the University of Berlin the
students are jiermitted a period
of six weeks in which to analyze
and select their professors.
—Sun Dial.
If you have a college girl, you
can be fairly sure that any thing
you say to her will reach mother's
ears. A survey of the co-eds at
Syracuse University showed that
66 per cent of them talk over their
love affairs with their mothers.
The survey also indicated that 31
per cent of the girls interviewed
had no love affairs. (Their verac-
it}' is doubted.)
—Virginia Tech.
Randolph-Macon is continuing
its bid for A\’ashington and Lee
favoritism among the other fem
inine schools with a pair of new
rules which allow the inmates to
have dates during the week-end
until the frightful hour of 11
o'clock. —Ring-Tum-Phi
Bv Fritz Frosliman
Mary Young is going home with
Squat Ouattelliaum . . . look out,
Conway! . . . and we know quite a
few girls who gaze at the moon
every night and wonder if that
moon will be full Easter.
Quarter exams are over . . . now
maybe our flngernails will grow
out again, our brows will un-
wrinkle, and we can take the
lilankets down . . . maybe.
Elections were so much paper
and pencil to a great many, but
we're glad that they turned out
the way that they did . . . our
new officers are fine and worthy
of an .4-1 school . . . our old offi
cers have been great, and we
salute them both.
Things that make history: the
dogwood in bloom . . . Eve Ste
venson’s plaid tunic dress . . .
Dot Coth rail’s nomination to
secretaryship of student body . . .
the cheese souffle we had the
other night . . . Mr. Beck’s mar
velous talks . . . those pink rose-
liud mints we had at the faculty
tea . . . Mary Mac giving a 12-
inch frog a bath in biology lab
. . . the alarm clocks in Anne
Smith’s room on night of March
31 . . . and there are six days,
there are 124 hours, there are
7,440 minutes, there are 446,400
seconds till SPRING HOLIDAYS.
THE SHAD
Well, we’re back on the job, and
our “shady business’’ is still go
ing on. It’s a funny thing about
us—we've had rather a checkered
career. Sometimes we have found
you all out, but sometimes you've
almost caught us.
It’s a peculiar thing about that
cocoa butter. Carolyn Lloon and
Betty W’hite liked it so well that
IMary Brown has decided to try
it. The Shadow cannot under
stand this passionate craving for
cocoa butter. Is its flavor more
delectable, or what?
It won't l^e long now till the
new council is installed. We im
agine that the old council isn’t
a bit sorry—with the exception
of one or two, maybe. Anyway,
we want to tell them how much
we appreciate what they’ve done.
They have had an unenvied and
thankless task. To the new
council we extend our best wishes
and hopes for a successful year.
We’re sure you are the girls for
the job, and we’re betting on you!
The Shadow jirides itself on
giving good advice, and now we’re
giving some more. If Mamie
Hunter will write to Dorothy Dix.
we're sure that she will find out
whether or not she’s in love with
Chester, even though she does
kiss him in front of her mamma.
And if the other love-lorn girls
will go to Carolyn Lloon, perhaps
she will tell them what it takes
to make lioys come all the way
from Emory to see them.
(Continued on page 4)
Lily Webb Long
“Lily Vf Long Hall, erected
1914.’’ How many of us have
ever paused to think of the real
significance of this tablet which,
placed on the corner of North
dormitory, dedicates this building
memory of Lily Webb
to the
Long?
Lily Webb Long was connected
with the Charlotte Female Insti
tute, and she was dean after the
reorganization of the Presbyter
ian College for Women. Her
high ideals and gentleness of
character long endeared her to
the college students, and when
she grew too old for active work,
they still loved her for her deep
interest in the college and for her
helpfulness in its attaining a high
rank among other colleges.
The Queens Alumnae Associa
tion expressed its love and respect
for Lily Long by making her hon
orary president of the associa
tion. She died on the morning of
September 5, 1929, and the Alum
nae Association read a memorial
service to her on the opening day
of the college, September 13, 1929.
Let us not forget, in our hur
ried every day life, this great
spirit of our college’s earlier day.s.
We can remember her whose
thoughts were ever for the prog
ress of Queens College, and then
be inspired to do our very best
to make this college what she
would have wanted it to be.