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Honor System
January 20, 1934
QUEENS BLUES
Exam Week is
Honor Week
Queens-Chicora College, Charlotte, N. C.
Vol. 13; No. 5
Portrait of
Dr. McGeachy
Given College
MISS SALLY DAVIDSON DONOR
Picture Unveiled During
Founder’s Day Program
By Dr. Frazer
General Council
Open Honor
System Campaign
ROBINSON CHALLENGES STU
DENT BODY
Much Interest
in Honor System
about Campus
SPEECHES HEARD BY STU
DENTS
A portrait of Dr. A. A. Mc
Geachy, D. D., former chair
man of our Board of Trustees,
was presented to Queens-
Chicora Saturday by Dr. W.
H. Frazer in behalf of Miss
Sally Davidson, friend of Dr.
McGeachy and of Queens-
Chicora College.
Interest in Queens
In presenting the picture,
an enlarged photograph in
sepia by Cooke, Dr. Frazer
told of Dr. McGeachy’s love
for Queens, his interest in
her, and his untiring efforts
to promote her welfare. The
portrait will be hung in a con
spicuous place in Burwell
Hall to serve as an inspira
tion for all who see it.
Influential Life
Dr. McGeachy, a native
North Carolinian, was indeed
a “statesman, educator,
preacher, and friend of man
kind.” After attending Dav
idson College and the Union
Theological Seminary a t
Hampden-Sidney, Va., he had
his first pastorate in Missouri.
Later he went to Texas. In
1908 he came to Charlotte to
become pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, where
he remained until his death in
1928. Dr. McGeachy was in
fluential in establishing the
state school at Samarcand, the
Mecklenburg In d u s t r i a 1
Home, and the Goodfellows
Club in Charlotte. Besides
being chairman of the Queens
Board of Trustees, he was a
member of the Board of
Trustees at Davidson.
Song Contest Held
By Day Students
A contest, to write a song
for the Day Students, is now
being held, and will be closed
the middle of February. Only
Hay Students are allowed to
enter this contest and a prize
of one dollar will be awarded
to the winner.
It is hoped that the song
will have a very “catchy”
tune and snappy words, be
cause it is to be sung for ath
letic games, particularly
basketball. The words may be
Written to the tune of another
song or the music may be com
posed.
The judges will be Miss
Mable Murphy, faculty advis
or, Ruth Martin, and Marie
Wilkinson.
General Council opened its
campaign for the “Honor
System” Wednesday, Jan. 10,
in Chapel with a challenging
speech for personal honor by
Janet Robinson.
Preceding Janet Robinson’s
speech, Mary China Steven
son, President of the Student
Body and of the General
Council, announced to the
students for the first time the
campaign for the Honor Sys
tem which General Council
has begun. She gave a brief
outline of the campaign, told
its purpose and the phase of
the Honor System which
would first be discussed.
Cheating is to stressed by all
the speakers through exams,
and then other phases, such
as lying and stealing, will be
taken up.
Rebecca McClary, President
of the Boarding Student Body,
spoke to the boarding stu
dents on the same subject at
a regular monthly Boarding
Student Body meeting, Thurs
day night, Jan. 11. In Chapel
Friday morning, Jan. 12, Dr.
Blair presented the Honor
System to the students from
the viewpoint of the Faculty.
And then in Chapel on Jan.
17, the following students dis
cussed honor under the topics,
“Explanation of the Dual
Honor System”, “The Honor-
System in Other Colleges”,
and “Cheating from the
Christian Standpoint”: Mary
China Stevenson, Rebecca Mc
Clary, Jean Orr, Ann Mc
Laughlin, and Florence Mof
fett. Mr. Tom Glascow spoke
to the students on the same
subject in Chapel on Jan. 20.
The Student Christian As
sociation assisted in this cam-
pa.ign by having a special
prayer meeting in the Hut on
Wednesday night, Jan. 10, fol
lowed by special talks on
“Honor” at the prayer meet
ings held in the dormitories
each night. Posters have also
been put up, reminding stu
dents of this campaign.
General Council has an
nounced that there will con
tinue to be speeches and con
tests on the Honor System af
ter exams.
Dr. Ingebritzen in Favor
of “Keep Out” Policy
For College Faculty
Judge Helms is
Guest Speaker
Founder's Day
“NEW FOUNDER’S DAY”
THEME
In an inspiring speech be
fore the Student Body last
January 10, Janet Robinson,
president of the Day Students,
set the issue of honesty and
the Honor System before us
in a sincere, straightforward
manner that went right
straight to our hearts. “Our
Honor System,” Janet said,
“is a miserable farce—an
empty name—unless we un
derstand that cheating is
more than a personal matter
—that we are bound and
pledged not only to keep
straight ourselves, but we are
bound—if we understand the
meaning and spirit of Student
Goverment—we are bound to
report the violation of that
pledge of honor on the part
of others. If we do not, if we
see another student cheat—
steal—and turn our heads the
other way, then we have fail
ed completely to live up to the
ideal of Honor in a group; we
have missed the spirit of gov
ernment and law everywhere;
we have broken faith.” And
she added further, “It must
be true that there can be no
worse fate for anyone in this
life than to be compelled to
live with a self that you
couldn’t possibly respect.”
We listened in on one of Dr.
Ingebritzen’s classes the oth
er day—a class that was
given over to a discussion of
the Honor System—and got a
professor’s viewpoint. Dr.
Ingebritzen stated, “I don’t
believe in an Honor System
that causes a teacher to be a
glorified policeman who hangs
a sign on his door, ‘Police sys
tem will prevail during Ex-
amitions’ and patrols his
room with a loaded 45 to see
that students don’t cheat. We
don’t grow strong from being
carefully guarded. I believe
this Honor System rests en
tirely with the students and
that the teachers should keep
out.”
During the discussion men
tioned above,several students
voiced their opinions for and
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Queens-Chicora College cel
ebrated Founder’s Day yester
day at the college auditorium
by the unveiling of a portrait
of the late Rev. Dr. A. A. Mc
Geachy, who was president of
the board of trustees for many
years until his death in 1928,
and also by an address by
Fred B. Helms of the local
bar, formerly judge of the re
corder’s court of this city.
The framed portrait of Dr.
McGeachy, which is an en
larged photograph, was the
gift of Miss Sallie Davidson
of this city.
Judge Helms in his address
took for his theme “The New
Founder’s Day,” and declared
that today is so important in
our history as to be a new
start for Queens-Chicora Col
lege, and just as really a
Founder’s Day as that day in
1856 when the institution
really began its career as a
church school.
Dr. J. F. Hardie led the
opening prayer, and Dr.
Luther Little closed the exer
cises with prayer. Mrs. J. C.
Coulter, of Columbia, S. C.,
presided.
Miss Jean Craig was in
charge of the program. Mrs.
Coulter i s president o f
Queens-Chicora Alumnae As
sociation and is a member of
the faculty of Columbia Col
lege for Women. She taught
11 years in Chicora College
before its union with Queens
in 1930.
Miss Virginia Parsons, with
the assistance of Dr. Ninniss
at the second piano, played a
selection from Mendelssohn.
Sophomores To
Edit February
Issue of Blues
FROSH ISSUE IN MARCH
Seven Possible Candidates
Have Proved to Be
Capable of Job
Day Students to
Show Boarders
Good Time
The bulletin board for the
Day Student House has been
completed and set up in the
study room. Go there to see
announcements concerning
Day Students and general in
formation.
The QUEENS BLUES, in
co-operation with the Student
Government, wishes to an
nounce that the best letter on
the subject of the Honor Sys
tem will be published in the
first February issue of the
paper.- The letters, which
will be judged by the Student
Government, should be given
to Mary China Stevenson.
All boarding students will
oe invited to the February
monthly meeting of the Day
Students’ Organization. Each
day student is to be a hostess
to a particular boarder.
The meeting will be open in
the Auditorium with a pa
triotic program, centering
around such February events
as the birthday of Washing
ton and Lincoln. Poems,
talks, and tableaus will por
tray the idea of patriotism.
Immediately after the pro
gram, Day Students will en
tertain boarders in the Day
Student Home.
It has long been the custom
for the staff of the Queens
Blues to turn the publishing
of the paper over to the Soph
omores for an issue and later
to the Freshmen. Each re
spective class elects an editor-
in-chief and a business man
ager, and these in turn elect
their staff. The second issue
of February will be assigned
to the Sophomores.
Possible Candidates
There are quite a few good
candidates for the position of
editor-in-chief in the Sopho
more class—girls who have
had journalistic experience,
having worked from one to
two years on the Queens Blues
and with high school papers.
Considering these candidates
alphabetically, we have : Anne
Batten, Betty Manning, Al-
media McGinnis, Fritz Raley,
lone Smith, May Lebby Smith,
Margaret Trobaugh.
Anne Batten has done very
good work as a reporter and
news writer during this year.
She was editor of the paper
at Dilworth School.
Betty Manning has not only
worked as Assistant Advertis
ing Manager, but as reporter,
news writer, and make-up
man. She has worked on
Hyperion at Ward Belmont
and was Assistant Editor of
this publication for the Jun
ior-Middle Issue.
Almedia, who is sorority re
porter for the Queens Blues
this year, was reporter for the
Periscope of Shorter College,
Rome, Ga.
Fritz Raley is co-author of
a certain well-known feature
which appears in each issue;
she is also Assistant News
Editor. She has worked on a
county newspaper, edited her
High School paper for two
years, and was Business Man
ager of the Freshman edition
of the Queens Blues last year
and a reporter.
lone Smith was editor of
last year’s Freshmen edition
and is News Editor this year.
She has also been sports edi
tor and reporter for her High
School newspaper.
Margaret Trobaugh is the
Exchange Editor for the
paper this year.
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