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QUEEN’S BLUES
December 18, I933
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QUEENS BLUES
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Campus Comment
STAFF
■Virginia Sampson Editor-in-chief
Ruth Grover. Business Manager
Agnes Stout, M.A., Ph.D Faculty Advisor
EDITORIAL
Martha IYare Pitts Assistant Editor
Jeanette Malloy Managing Editor
lONE Smith News Editor
Fritz Raley Assistant News Editor
Virginia Senn Sports Editor
May Lebbe Smith Alumnae Editor
Dorothy Cothran Literary Editor
Jesse Pierson Bay Student Editor
Margaret Trobaugh Exchange Editor
Vivian Hilton ; Society Editor
Mary Jane McBath and Roberta Kilgore Copy Readers
Dorothy Ehrhardt Circulation Manager
Carolyn Hoon Assistant Circulation Manager
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Jo Foard Advertising Manager
Betty Manning Assistant Advertising Manager
Julia Henderson Assistant Business Manager
Martha Ware Pitts Proof Reader
Reporters
Almedia McGinnis, May Lebbe Smith, Mary Louise Davidson, Marjorie
Robinson, Jean Staugh, Anne Batton, Mary Lindsay, Catherine Jordan.
What would we do if Christ
mas were not on December
25th ? If it landed in the mer
ry month of June, or July, or
August, what a fix overworked
students would be in. ’Course
I’m referring to the holidays,
not the day itself. After 3
grinding, dragging, listless
months for some and three
whirling, carefree, and some
times regretable months for
others, this vacation comes as
a bright red feather in the old
year’s hat.
OPEN FORUM
The letter in Open Forum by Dear Editor:
Janet Robinson has made me
think a great deal about Hon
or. Splendor falls upon the
walls of that college whose
student Honor is vitalized.
More and more college dis
cipline is striving to identify
itself with the honor ideals of
its students. “Student Honor
needs above all neither praise
nor blame but recognition, en
lightenment, and co-oper
ation.”
OUR NEW RING
Well, along with all the other changes and new details,
the change of senior rings this year has been one of outstand
ing interest and one that has caused much discussion. It
seemed almost like breaking away from one of the good old
college traditions. But the opinions around the campus
seem to point to the fact that it is a change for the better
as have been all our recent changes. The Junior Class is to
be commended for this forward step and also for the choice
of the ring. While the old standard ring was undeniably
an appropriate one, we feel that the new one is more, we may
say representative. On one shaft is pictured Burwell Hall
on the other, the Day Student Building. Is it not typical
that these two important organs represented should be united
into one emblem that portrays Queens-Chicora College ?
IS THERE A CHRISTMAS?
Is there a Christmas ?
Yes—oh, yes, we answer eagerly,
There is a Christmas—
A Christmas gay with Santa Claus and Christmas trees and
twinkling lights.
A snowy Christmas with keen, cold air full with the music of
tinkling bells.
There are Christmas gifts and merry greetings,
Churches soft with golden candle glow.
Youthful voices carolling through the night.
Snow, holly, mistletoe, and a
“Merry Christmas, God bless us every one.”
Is there a Christmas ?
Is there a Christmas in our hearts ?
A Christmas apart from worldly things ?
A Christmas that carols through the temple of our souls
crying,
“Peace on earth, good will to men?”
A whole stockingful of
Merry Christmas to Florence
Moffett for introducing
Queens-Chicora to Dr. Sam
Glasgow. She decided, after
hearing him speak at a David
son conference, that Queens
needed a speaker of his type
in her midst for a week of
guidance. Well—you know
Moffett and her persuasive
ways—Dr. Glasgow came. His
lectures were connected and
applicable. He himself is
magnetic; his hands, full of
expression, never halting or
groping for a word, his voice
goes smoothly from phrase to
phrase, sentence to sentence.
He not only interested us; he
excited us with the age-old
question of “Why am I here?”
Doo-Daddles:
Hudlow Hill had a darling
picture taken last week; Kap
pa Delta’s inspector, Ann
Fayssoux Johnston’s always
welcome here; A1 Brown is a
lucky blond—he’s marrying
Jane Renfrew in the near fu
ture; Alice Cowles Barringer
came to school December 8th;
Miss Henderson and stunt
chairmen certainly worked
hard, and their productions
showed the effort; Hilda Allen
Hardin certainly kept her sec
ret a long time; Marian Can
non uses clothes hangers for
something besides clothes.
You ask: “How is it done?”
In the heart of a beloved
northern state there is a uni
versity whose father and
founder was Thomas Jeffer
son. This University of Vir
ginia is renound for the honor
which it pays to Honor. The
“Code of the Cavaliers” is the
law in this field of Honor.
Gentlemen who enter the dig
nified, arched gateway may
see inscribed thereon—“Enter
by this gateway.”
I, the undersigned, have
read the above statement of
the Honor Code and Honor
System, and I understand
what is expected of me as a
student of the University of
Virginia. I understand that a
plea of ignorance will not be
accepted by the Honor Com
mittee.
Signed
Again, early in the autumn,
lest their feet should stumble,
the best fitted member of the
Honor Committee stands
among the hushed stillness—
hushed, because to these gen
tlemen Honor is sacred—and
explains what is expressed in
the code.
Such is the “Code of the
Cavaliers,” and such can be
the code of the Queens.
—Eve Hill
At one of the senior tables
not long ago, the seniors for
got their foolishness and be-'
gan to wonder about the “why
of college.” Why are we sent
to college? (And most of us
are sent, we do not come by
our own choice.) Then comes
back the old answer, “You are
ent to college to learn to live.”
But does college and its vari
ous phases of activity teach a
student to live ? Is he or she
better prepared for entering
life after an A.B or B.S. is re
ceived than before?
A degree does not fit the
holder to any position through
which he may earn a living.
There must be a teacher’s cer
tificate or something attached
to it. Then why get a liberal
education when it cannot be
used to “bring home the
bacon?”
Then the question arose
whether an education was pri
marily for the purpose of
earning a living. Does the
pleasure and satisfaction one
gets out of knowledge for its
own sake justify the money,
time, and energy spent for a
degree?
This is one thing the seniors
are thinking about, and they
would like an answer. Will a
student or faculty member
contribute some thoughts?
—Jane Bradley.
To exhibit friendliness, tact, and sympathy in her re-
latmn with her fellow students.”-Creed of a Queens-Chicora
students come into close contact with
each other—in the class room, and at social functions. How
are we to consider these relationships that enter into our
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good will that we harbor for one another. One of the
triendship. It is an affinity. It is partially obtained bv
7 stadenta-b, being am.(
cable, for “We cannot live unto ourselves ”
Tact IS a very important factor in our relation with our
ellow student^ We do not all possess that peculiar ability
deal with others without giving offense, but all womei, I
A special for day students:
We day students must re
alize that we are as much a
part of this college as boarders
and realize it quickly if we
want to keep our place in the
sun. Under Janet Robinson’s
leadership, we have come out
of the fog of oblivion, and out
of respect to her we should
show that we are worthy of
our new standing. My plea
this time is: Go to entertain
ments at the college sponsored
by classes and organizations
on the campus. Boarders are
required to hand over fifty
cents every time the curtain
goes up. Should we leave them
holding the bag ? You may be
a student at Queens-Chicora
now, but be more than that
be a booster and patron of
sponsored programs, and
we’ll do the same!
believe, have that sensitive mental perception which aids in
thfbTstT "" cultivate a fine discernment of
not LbLn "" " circumstances, if it is
To exhibit sympathy with our fellow students is almnsf
synonymous with exhibiting tact. That person who postle'
elicate and sympathetic perception ot another's feeling
the most congenial person. ^
By exhibiting friendliness, tact and sympathy in our
a ions with oar fellow students, we foLw that beautiful
quotatmn: “I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."
—Jeanette Malloy.
IS
re-
Christmas
Interrogations
Snow—icicles—rosy faces
—sleighs—children—red tarns
and flying scarfs—salvation
army folks tinkling bells be
fore round black pots—red
packages against snow-cover
ed evergreens—music—laugh
ter—warmth—
Is this your viewpoint of
Christmas?
Is this all you remember?
Do you take time to pause
a moment and wonder just
what Christmas is after all?
Why there is one in the be-
binning and why we celebrate
it so lavishly each December
25th?
Then those Salvation Army
people—why do they stand all
day in the snow? And what
do they do with the nickles
and dimes that are so care
lessly thrown into the little
pots?
What hungry children are
fed?
What mother’s hearts are
made more joyous?
What cripple is made hap
py?
Doesn’t the yuletide season
make you more generous ?
Doesn’t generosity make
you happier?
Well, isn’t happiness our
great aim after all?
Do you spell Christmas,
which means Christ’s Day,
with an X?