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Oct. 28,1933
Queen’s-Chicora College, Charlotte, N. C.
Vol. 13; No. 1
Rat Week Now Fully Under Way
Pledge Officers
of Sororities
Are Elected
SIXTY-NINE PLEDGES VOTE
The pledges of the six
Greek sororities elected offi
cers last week. The follow
ing girls were elected for the
year.
Chi Omega
President, Thorburn Lil-
lard, of Elkin, N. C.; vice-
president, Martha Ware Pitts,
of Charlotte, N. C.; secretary,
Marjorie Robinson, of Low
ell, N. C.; treasurer, Alice
Cowles Barringer, of Char
lotte, N. C.
Kappa Delta
President, Elizabeth Sulli
van, of Walterboro, S. C.;
vice-president Mary Louise
Davidson, of Charlotte, N. C.;
secretary, Frances Smith, of
Grier, S. C.; treasurer, Ma-
riame Cannon, of Concord,
S. C.
Phi Mu
President, Ruth Hunt, of
Marion, N. C.; vice-president,
Martha Petteway, of Char
lotte, N. C.; secretary and
treasurer, Frances Robinson,
of Charlotte, N. C.
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Rat Court
To Be Held
Sat. Night
MILITARY RULES ENFORCED
Economics Club
Is Reorganized
Average of 90 Required for
Admittance of Students
First Issue of The Sceptre
Appears October 31
The Sceptre makes its first
appearance this year, October
31,i. Many articles contrib
uted will be new freshman
material and for this reason
the magazine will be read
with much interest. The
Sceptre is under a new con
tract this year which permits
a thirty-two page edition.
Four issues will be published
a year as usual. Under the
able management of Kather
ine McLesky and the staff,
this year’s Sceptre is expect
ed to be one of the best.
Day Students
Open House
With Party
House Warming to Be Held
Friday Afternoon
November 3
The Home Economics Club,
an organization for the bene
fit of the girls taking Home
Economics, has at last reached
one of its greatest aims. It
has always been the desire of
the members of this club to
have a certain standard
whereby only those reaching
this standard are admitted.
This year the standard has
been obtained and no girl can
be a member until an average
of 90 has been made on all
Home Economic subjects.
Heretofore the club has not
played such an important
part as an organization on
the campus, and it has not
functioned as properly as the
members have desired. How
ever with this change, they
oxpect to do great things this
year. Plans are being made
several fashion shows,
otiquette classes and other
entertainments.
The club held its first meet
ing Friday, October 20, 1933,
nt 4:30 in the auditorium.
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Open Forum
Day Students Move Into
Home October 23
Dear Editor;
Is there no solution to the
iron problem? As you know,
a student has to pay six dol
lars a semester for keeping
an iron here. This is a huge
amount for our hard-working
fathers to pay in these trying
times. And yet we daughters
must have some way of keep
ing our collars, cuffs, and
lighter clothes dainty and well
pressed. We have noticed
that many otFer schools of
this same size have a pressing
room for every dormitory.
This provides two or more
irons and boards, and is much
more convenient than indi
vidual irons. Why couldn t
we have ironing rooms fixed
at the end of the halls in our
dormitories ?
The rooms would not be too
expensive to prepare and the
running expense for six irons
would not be nearly so much
as for any number of irons all
over the college.
From a Boarder.
The formal opening of the
new Day Students’ Home will
be held Friday afternoon,
November 3, from 4:00 to 6 ;00
o’clock, in the nature of a
housewarming.
Dr. Frazer, Dean McLean,
Dr. Blair, and members of the
Day Student Council who are;
Janet Robinson, Jo Dan-
dridge, Marie Wilkinson, Vir
ginia Gabriel, Virginia Hub
bard, Mary Frances Austell,
Ann McLaughlin, and Elva
Ann Ranson, will receive the
guests.
From four to five the fresh
men and juniors will be wel
comed; sophomores and sen
iors will come between five
and six o’clock.
The house will be decorated
with ferns and autumn flow
ers.
In the dining room Vir
ginia Sampson will preside
over the punch bowl. Assist
ing in serving will be Hatsie
Thompson, Martha Petteway,
Nell Earnhardt, Esther Gar
mon, and Mary Louise David
son.
The faculty, students, and
officers of the Charlotte
Alumnae have been invited.
A prayer service, in charge
of Janet Robinson, opened the
Day Student Home, Monday,
October 23, at 8 ;45. A hymn
was sung, followed by a violin
solo by Sara Hunsucker.
Janet then led in prayer and
made a short talk.
During chapel last week.
Dr. W. H. Frazer presented
the keys of the Home to Janet
Robinson and also a letter
stipulating the rules.
On the standing committees
are the following: Scholastic,
Marie Wilkinson, chairman,
Ann Batten, Elizabeth Elliott;
social, Anne McLaughlin,
chairman, Harriet Thompson,
Virginia Sampson; special,
Jean Porter, chairman, Mar
garet True, Nancy Beaty;
flowers, Georgianna Harper,
chairman, Esther Garmon,
Mary Phillips; cafeteria, Mar
tha Abernathy, chairman,
Gladys Baucum, Audria Alex
ander.
Last May the Board of
Trustees first discussed the
idea of a Day Student Home.
After the plans were decided
upon, the building of the
house was begun in August.
The Charlotte chapter of the
Alumnae Association have
furnished the study hall, din
ette, and part of the living
room and kitchen. Mrs. Otho
B. Ross recently gave a large
fern. The day students are
co-operating in furnishing
the Home by donating furni
ture and by contributing ten
cents to buy china and cook
ing utensils.
Rat week, in the form of a
military organization, began
Wednesday morning at 5:45
and will continue through rat
court Saturday night. The
following are rules that the
“rats” must follow:
1. Shirt—blue gym suit.
2. Skirt—any kind above
knee.
3. Tie—stocking, to be
tied four-in-hand with the
foot part in front.
4. Shoes—(first day) one
high heel and one low heel
shoe; (second day) tennis
shoes with no laces.
5. Gun—a broom which
must be carried over the
shoulder all the time and prac
ticed with at the order of the
Sophs. Upon meeting a Soph,
the rat must sweep her path;
(2nd day) bring a dust pan
along with broom. After
sweeping the Soph’s path, the
rat must stand in the dust
pan.
6. Knapsack (first day) a
strong string is to be fasten
ed through the back covering
of the book and tied to the
belt and not to be removed.
There must be at least four
books and a note book; (sec-
|pnd day) laundry bags
thrown over shoulders and
hanging down the back.
7. Leggings — Rats must
wrap their legs with strips of
cloth or old hose, as army leg
gings, up to the knees.
8. Canteen—arrange your
own, but keep water in it con
stantly. At the Soph’s re
questing “How’s your home
land while you’re at war?”
You reply, after taking a
drink, “Just fine, they water
the green pastures every
day.”
9. Bugle—a ten-cent horn,
to be carried all the time.
1. No fingernail polish at
any time.
2. Absolutely no make-up.
A freshman seen wearing
make-up will have her face
washed by a Soph.
3. Hair parted in the mid
dle.
(First day) the hair must
be rolled in rags with no hair
at all hanging down. A
clothes pin must also be fas
tened through the hair.
(Second day) wear a paper
sack pulled down over the
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