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QUEEN’S BLUES
October 28, 1933
QUEEN’S BLUES
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
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Founded by the Class of 1922
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens-Chicora College
Subscription Rate: $2.50 the Collegiate Year
STAFF
Virginia Sampson Editor-in-Chief
Ruth Grover __ Business Manager
Agnes Stout, M.A., Ph.D Faculty Advisor
EDITORIAL
•Jeanette Mallory Managing Editor
lONE Smith__ News Editor
Virginia Senn Sports Editor
May Lebbe Smith._ _ Alumnae Editor
Dorothy Cothran Literary Editor
Jesse Pierson Baij Student Editor
Margaret Trobaugh Exchange Editor
Vivian Hilton Society Editor
Mary Jane McBath and Roberta Kilgore Copy Readers
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Molly Mullins.. _. Advertising Manager
Dorothy Earheakt Circulation Manager
Carolyn Hune Assistant Circulation Manager
Margaret Truesdale Assistant Business Manager
Jeanette Malloy Managing Editor
Martha Ware Pitts Proof Reader
Reporters
Almedia McGinnis, Catherine Jordan, May Lebbe Smith, Betty Manning,
Mary Louise Davidson, Marjorie Robinson, Jean Stough, Anne Batton,
Mary Lindsay
Extra-Curricula Here And There
Extra-curricular like curri
cular activities concern all the
students and not a chosen few.
When there is a case of limi
tation of these activities to
only a few leaders, one is to
assume that the college con
tains only a few leaders or
that only a few are interested
in what should be a signifi
cant and pertinent part of
their college life.
The point system of limita
tion in use at Queens-Chicora
college is for the purpose of
distributing activities among
many and thus making extra
curricular activity a demo
cratic practice.
Perhaps the most import
ant work of extra-curricula is
to train the student for lead
ership both in the college and
in life after graduation.
The point system allows for
quality rather than quantity.
If too much outside work is
carried, the good effects may
be overbalanced by the bad.
However, if special attention
is given in limiting activity,
the student is able to give his
best.
The students have been ask
ed elsewhere in this issue to
co-operate with the college au
thorities in perfecting the
point system. If the over-
energetic persons would leave
a few offices to be occupied
by others, a chance for leader
ship training will be more
generally distributed among
the students, and a more dem
ocratic form of government
thereby established.
In reading the Magazine
section of the New York
Times last week, I came upon
this poem—a most apt and
appropriate statement of af
fairs which gives me the de
sire to say, “Them’s ma sen
timents.”
Prone on my back I greet ar
riving day,
A day no different than the
one just o’er;
When I will be, to practically
say.
Considerable like I have been
before.
Why then get up ? Why wash,
why eat, why pray?
Oh, leave me lay!
I hadn’t ought to want things
different
To what transpires every sin
gle day;
But I keep wishing that I
could of went
From this heart-rendering
dullness quite away.
And yet, why move? There’s
always rent to pay.
Oh, leave me lay!
I have been told that Fresh
men were dumb, smart-aleck,
meek, forward, rampant,
backward, and what have you.
Personally I reserve my bid.
But you may judge for your
self. A certain freshman
thought Marshall Field was a
World War battlefield. An
other went to an Alpha
Gamm’s room and asked to
borrow an alarm clock “to be
sure she wouldn’t miss the
Alpha Delta Pi’s breakfast.”
Still another sat meekly in the
over-crowaed “Y” hut Fresh
man night and complained to
me that She’d been served
Sportsmanship
There has been a lot of talk
around the campus recently
about our college spirit. Some
say it is decrepit, others that
it is exceptionally good, and
still others say nothing.
Probably we don’t exactly
understand what is meant
by school spirit. So far as I
understand it, it is the feel
ing of good will the student
entertains toward the college
or school which he attends
and the desire he has to co
operate with others to make
his college a big success.
The trouble with many of
us is that we want our college
to be well patronized and pop
ular, yet we are not sports
enough to take on a little
hard work to make it so.
Sportsmanship has a great
deal to do with a good school
spirit. Good sports are na
turally going to be concerned
with the welfare of their
schools. Bad sports don’t
care a rap what anyone may
say about their school or their
classmates. Indifference is
just as bad an attitude as is
that of a poor sport. It will
get a college down quicker
than anything. When you at
tend a college, learn from its
professors, and enjoy its vari
ous opportunities; then that
college becomes an essential
part of your life. In speaking
ill of this college, you are at
the same time speaking ill of
your own judgment.
On the other hand if you
are a good sport, you can take
it. You don’t let a little fail
ure get you down. If you
have done something wrong,
you are able to realize that it
has been your fault, and you
alone are to blame. If some
one gets there before you,
then you are again the one
responsible. You have an
equal or at least a fairly equal
chance with everyone else.
Take advantage of this; try
your best. If you fail, then
try again. If you succeed,
then you deserve rightful
praise.
cakes twice but she never had
seen the punch that was
’sposed to go with ’em.”
I’ve heard of the “minister
that kicked the cat,” but here’s
a new one left over from a
last year’s class. To whit:
“The professor that kicked
the desk.”
Quoting again from The
New York Times’ “Crank
Mail” column, this letter was
sent to an electric company in
Honolulu; “Here is John
Kanuke telling you about the
light. She no work.” To
Zona Gale came this plea: “I
have to write a paper for our
club. I heard you wrote a
story on civics. Please send
it to me. I want to use it for
padding when ideas give out.”
But I haven’t time for any
more today. And so, so-long
until the next time.
Campus Comment
We feel that in the rush of
existence and the excitement
of living, little incidents that
affect our lives pass un
noticed. Queens-Chicora Col
lege itself could be a study of
humanity if we would only
find time to take the course.
We suggest that you register
now with this column as your
professor.
We were talking to a group
of very charming freshmen
the other day, and the atmos
phere was electrified with
talk of Arnold Bennett, dic
tionary study, notebook, and
Loomis — shades of Mrs.
Townend! Not so long ago
we too were carried away by
her utter lack of convention
alities in the teaching of the
course and her unquestion
able ability. It was indeed
foresight on someone’s part
that she was installed as a
teacher of freshmen, for
through her influence you de
velop a rabid curiosity and an
insatiable appetite for worth
while literature.
The rushing system at
Queens is on our opinion, sad
ly inadequate and unsuitable
for this campus. However,
we shall not attempt to criti
cize any one; we merely ask
to submit a few suggestions.
Quite a few different types of
girls are found here at
Queens, and it is this varied
student body which makes
our school what it is today.
But for these girls to have to
determine the group most
suited to their temperament,
within a few weeks, appears
absurd and unnecessary. For
tunately, our present system
does limit money as well as
time, but that phase also could
be instilled in another plan
for rushing. If pledging
were deferred until second
semester, at least, perhaps the
girls being rushed could de
velop their own personality
and increase their activities
not because of competitioji in
sororities, but because of a
keen interest in campus life.
By this method girls could
see their sorority sisters to
be as human beings and not as
angels of goodness perched
on pedestals of false ideals.
It was quite refreshing, to
hear of the turmoil created in
the South last week by the
frolicking of some of our more
sedate students I Although
we do not recommend win
dow-breaking as a mid-night
pastime, nevertheless, we be
lieve in a let-down or restraint
once in a while, if the cost is
not too great!
Are You Guilty?
Now that rushing is over
courses straightened ouf
books bought, and all other
disturbing elements attended
to, we have at last become set
tled and fallen into step with
the march of college life.
Probably most of us have
found out by now that college
has been marching along all
the time, leaving us a mile or
two behind with chapters to
make up and notes to learn.
However, terrifying it may
sound, it is a fact that the
ogre of tests is looming be
fore us and carrying with it
an awful threat for the pro
crastinator.
Much advice has been given
on the method of study—all
in vain. The smart fellow
has his own ideas on the sub
ject, and the dumb one isn’t
going to benefit by a timely
word when a little work is in
volved. Nevertheless, and in
spite of everything now is the
time to start. Although your
motto may be “Never do to
day what you can put off
until tomorrow;” it isn’t go
ing to help any on exams
when you find you have a
whole book to read in one
night and lights cost so much
per when left on after hours.
Some people insist upon
drifting listlessly on to
exams; then they find them
selves involved in such a
whirlpool of confusion and
ignorance that nothing can be
done to remedy the situation.
You may be able to get
through college in such a way.
But when you come to trying
it out on Life—Well, that’s a
different thing. When there
are no parents to supply the
funds, and when there is a
sterner command to obey than
that of a teacher—then is
when we will look back with
regret and forward with
doubt.
Think the matter over be
fore you decide to throw away
college opportunities for a
song. “Be wise today; ’tis
madness to defer—Procras
tination is the thief of time.”
Thonghts of a Freshman
—The Brackety- Ack.
We venture to say that
Janet Robinson has more
friends than any one else on
the campus. The whole school
admires the manner in which
she spurs on the Day Stu
dents, who, by the way, have
changed from indifference to
perpetual energy. A person
like Janet, who professes such
a frankness of religion from
which she derives her ever-
increasing joy in living, m a
person whom we might all do
well to copy.
Out of the 315 freshman
students only 17 were found
to be non-swimmers. Classes
will be organized immediately
for these men.
—The Tiger.