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THE CHESTY EDITION-CLASS OF ’26
The Chowaniari
VOL. 1.
MURFREESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924.
NO. 13.
CHOWAN REPRESENTED AT SOPHS WIN GREAT FAME
THE VOLUNTEER MEETING
Baptists Plan Unification of
Christ, Student Thought and
Action
DURING SOPHOMORE WEEK
Become Torturers, Requiring
Freshies To Undertake All
Sorts Of Jobs
HERE’S TO THE SOPHOMORE CLASS!
With heaps of pep and heaps of fun
Sophomore week had just begun;
Freshmen were sneaking here and
there
To have a-meeting unaware.
“Come to the basement,” whispered
Cile. _ j
Down in the darkness they did steal.
Oi couise the Sopl.3, whu were wis?
Stole quickly down with mild sur
prise.
The Freshies ran ont to and fro
And to the Math room they did go.
The Sophs threw sugar just a bit
And turned them to a sweetened
fit.
And then a valiant fight they start
In which bold Rosalie took a part.
They scratched and fought and did
right well;
Her bath robe torn event will tell.
Draper, Bridger must mentioned be
They played their parts right val
iantly.
The Bryan sisters, don’t forget
They did their share with pep, you
111 lii'L
Size doesn’jj^.coutii^or are st
Tiiere in tn’at gnup we ha'e Buntt
bet.
Her ’s to the president, Edna Mills!
And a president’s place she ably fills.
She specially starred in the fight
th.U night
WherJ she fought for Sophs with
all her might
smalj.
up we rri'e Bunthall
Carleton and Griffin can well con
tend
For they fought there until the end.
Here’s the rest of our class so true;
Jessie Parker her bit did do;
There lives down town another girl
Eliz’s her name—and oh, yes,
there’s Merle
We who are classmates good and true
Entered the year of ’22-
And as the class of ’26
Into the world we hope to mix
Come on. Sophs, let’s lead ’em out
And for our college raise a shout
“One zip, two zip, three zip, hah!
Chowan, Chowan, rah, rah, rah!”
—JANICE BALLENTINE ’26.
Nearly three hundred and fifty
students from the Baptist Colleges of
North and South Carolina, Virginia,
and Maryland met in Raleigh Feb
ruary 29-March 2, at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church to discuss the prob
lems of college life and means of
making campus life better. The con
ference opened Friday and continued
through Sunday evening.
The delegates from Chowan Col
lege were Dr. Weaver, Misses Myra
Benthall, Eloise Riggs, Edna Mills,
Edna Lassiter, Thelma Draper.
The slogan for the Conference was
“Make the campus different”, and
with the theme, “Our College Campus
for Christ” each delegate left the
The Sophomores are a chesty class
of students. Why shouldn't they be?
A new vantage point of superiority
has been gained. They have emerg
ed from the humble role of Freshmen,
and from the trials and tribulations
whole and very much alive. Their
crowning crest of newly acquired
glory culminating in the crowning
crest of superiority exercised over the
j Freshmen during Sophomore week, in
the latter part of the month of No-
I vember. In this week they were
j changed from tortured to torturer.
Do unto others as others have done
unto you was the motto that they
used to quell their burning con
science. This was an opportunity to
Conference feeling that he or she had ; give vent .to their store of revenge
a personal responsibility in helping! during the preceding
^ „ A „ year, if such could be called revenge,
to make the campus different and a;„,’ ...
ni. • t ri there was any malicious intent
more Christ-like one.
A PERFECT GIRL
* It seems to me a perfect girl *
* would have eyes like Meryl Brit- *
* ton’s, teeth like Hazel Griffith’s, *
* mouth and complexion like Mar- *
* ietta Bridger’s, hair like Edna *
* Mills, and a figure like Myra *
* Benthall’s. She would be as sty- *
* lish as Janice Ballentine, as neat *
* as Rosalie Tolar, could make a *
* speech like Estelle Carleton, *
could play basket ball like Vida *
* Bryant, and could cook like Tola *
* Bryant. She would combine a *
* disposition like Jessie Marie *
* Parker’s, a mind and character *
* like Thelma Draper’s, vrith a *
* sense of humor like Elizabeth *
* Watson’s. But are the virtues *
* enough for one girl? They are. •
* Therefore the Sophomore Class *
* is “all perfect” in itself. *
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LUNCHEON SERVED
EVERY WEDNESDAY
Luncheons are being served every
Wednesday at one o’clock in the
Home Economics dining room, by the
girls in the advanced class in cookery.
Eight persons are served on receipt
of fifty cents each, the proceeds go
ing to furnish the cottage on the
campus that will be used as a recrea
tion room.
These meals are prepared and
served at the regular luncheon hour
by the girls.
A poster appears on the bulletin
board every week announcing the
menu and giving space for eight girls
to sign their names.
CHOWAN BANQUET
A hearty applause filled the audi
torium when Dr. Charles P. Weaver
announced to the girls that they
would be favored with an entertain
ment by the Wake Forest Glee Club
on April 5.
The annual Chowan College ban
quet will be held at the Hotel Kennon
in Goldsboro, on Wednesday evening,
April 2. Every alumnae and former
student who attends the W. M. U. is
urged to be present. See Miss Eunice
McDowell at the Hotel Kennon about
your plate. Each plate will be one
dollar.
(jreat ^^eakers fr.^m all the
Souih were present, llowev jr, the ?e
men did not occupy the entire time,
for the students too, had a voice.
Dr. Harry Clark of Nashville,
Tennessee, in a scholarly address,
proved the statement that the Bible
is the “World’s Greatest Seller”
quoting liberally from the poetry, the
drama, and the novel of the last sev
eral centuries.
“You can’t understand literature
unless you know the Bible. Quote
from the orator, Patrick Henry; the
novelist, Scott; the poet, Browning;
the dramatist, Shakespeare, and you
will find in all of them the influence
of the Bible.” There are today two
hundred and eight colleges in the
United States which include Bible as
an entrance requirement.”
“The college campus is the most
cosmopolitan place in America to
day”, declared Dr. W. J. McGlothin,
president of Furman University in an
address on “Jesus the Sufficient
Authority for Upbuilding the Cam
pus.” Students come from homes of
the rich, the poor, the cultured, and
the illiterate, and we in college must
wrestle with the results. Boys and
girls get their influence at home and
are thrown together in college. Two
thirds of the Baptist students of the
South are not in churches. The cam
puses of the South need rooting up
and newly planting, but that work
must be done by the students. The
campuses need a spiritual and moral
uplift.”
The singing of the Convention was
directed by Reverend Eugene Olive.
Quartettes from Furman, Winthrop,
and B. C. A. rendered several beauti
ful selections. ! which it was executed and
Going into an open forum ^s- i This most ignominous task
against the Freshies as victims, they
purpose.
During this week the Sophomores
were the exalted and shining stars of
the College in theory, but in practice,
as it later developed, the statement is
equivocal. They planned an auspic
ious beginning for the week, having
the freshmen to appear at breakfast
in formal evening dress. The scene
on the street that afternoon was one
that incited grave misgivings that the
victims were outshining the victors.
This doubt-stirring spectacle was a
band of jolly, peppy freshmen, fifty-
five strong, wearing conspicuously
mismatched hose, and their arms
adorned with green bows, at such a
time in dead winter when all other
limbs had long since given up their
foliage of green. The next day was
a rather trying one. The freshmen
had to appear at breakfast and attend
classes in traveling apparel, including
hat, gloves, umbrella, and traveling
bag. This was a day of joy and dis
appointment—joy in the feeling of
being all dressed up and nowhere to
go. As the day wore on the burdens
grew heavier, and hopelessness was
plainly evident on the tired faces. The
next day they were required to eat
with spoons. After an observation
of the adept and skillful manner in
which they managed this, allowed
would be a more appropriate word
than required. They could not have
been suited better apparently. They
seemed to have been placed in an at
mosphere of home-like ease, and en
joyed one glorious day of eating with
spoons again. The last of the series
of ordeals inflicted was unique not
,only in origin, but also in the way in
borne.
was the
cussion of campus problems on Sit- taking of the cat census of Murfrees-
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