Friday, December 4, 1925.
THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C.
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* CAMPUS NEWS *
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Mrs. W. K. McLean spent the
past week-end in Norfolk, Va.
Rawlinson Myers, of Charlotte,
spent several days last week in
Murfreesboro and was a frequent
visitor on the college campus dur
ing his stay.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Riggs,
Misses Grace and Marian Riggs,
of South Mills, spent Thanksgiv
ing Day with Miss Mildred Riggs.
Miss Leola Caudle attended the
Volunteer Band conference at
Raleigh, November 28-29.
Mrs. H. H. Jones, of Winton,
and Harry Jones, of Chapel Hill,
visited Miss Lizzie Jones Thanks
giving Day.
Misses Mary Raynor, Hazel
Griffin, Louise Ruffin, Janet and
Bernice Benthall, spent the week
end in Powellsville.
Miss Vida Dunning visited rela
tives in Rocky Point, the past
week-end.
Bill Early, of Wise, was a visi
tor on the campus Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller,
Misses Margaret and Elizabeth
Miller, of New Bern, visited Miss
Genevieve Miller Thanksgiving.
Red Cooke, of Wake Forest,
visited his sister. Miss Alice Cooke,
Thursday.
Miss Ruth Rittenhouse spent
the week-end at her home in
Weldon.
Missses Lettie Parker, Helen
Carter, and Willie Harrell spent
the week-end at their homes in
Kelford.
Miss Susan Barnes spent the
week-end in Como, and was ac
companied by Misses Maude
Buchanan and Evelyn Samples.
Misses Billie. Blount and Lizzie
Jones spent the week-end in
Woodland as guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Griffin.
Mrs. W. B. Edwards, Misses
Minnie Caldwell, Newell Mason
and Lena Terry, of the faculty,
spent the Thanksgiving holidays
in Norfolk.
Jfai and Mrs. Hart and Mr.
RiclWdson, of Tarboro, and Miss
Catherine Fleetwood, spent Sun
day afternoon with friends on the
campus.
Mr. and Mrs. Coppedge, of
Rocky Mount, visited their daugh
ter, Pauline, Friday.
Miss Ida Matthews spent the
week-end with her parents who
live at Seaboard. She had as her
guests Misses Annie Mabel Ed
wards, Margaret Vann and Annie
Lee Evans.
SEE ’EM AND GRIN LYCEUM
The troupe of entertainers
known as the “Se ’Em and Grin
Lyceum,” and famous around
Chowan for their spontaneity and
get-it-up-quickly, made their sec
ond appearance of the year on
' Saturday night, November 21.
The program given then was of
j^omewhat different type from
ones'heretofore rendered. It
especially instructing and
‘"j^^sing. The much mooted ques-
•tion: “Does absence make the
heart grow fonder,” was taken up
and^iscussed pro and con in the
form of a debate. The query was,
“Resolved, That absence makes
the heart grow fonder.” The de
baters were:
Affirmative: Janet Benthall and
Hazel Griffin. Negative: :Gene-
vieve Miller and Margaret Aman.
The arguments were shot forth
with such force and equanimity by
each side thr^the judges were un
able to reach any decision. They
announced to the audience that
more time for deliberation would
have to be given them in order to
come to a just and fair decision,
probably until about January 31.
The next feature was a trial
with all the legal accounterments.
Miss Jerusha Abbott, alias Jewell
Askew, was the plaintiff in the
suit against Jarvis Pendleton, alias
Prince of Wails, alias Miss Ger
trude Knott, for damages sustain
ed by her heart to the amount '>f
$1,000,000 on account of breach
of promise. Miss Abbott had Hon.
Pierre Macy, an eminent lawyer
from Paris to come over and plead
her case. The Rt. Hon. W. B.
Edwards, pleaded eloquently for
the defendant. The judge presid
ing was Miss Beryl Souter. The
judge’s constant utterances re
questing order in the court only
provoked more noise and laughter.
The judge was caught nodding
peacefully during the course of
the trial several times. After the
evidence was all presented and the
lawyers each made their speeches
to the jury, the jury filed out to
decide the balance of the case.
After long and tedious discussion
they returned with the verdict of
“Not guilty.”
This was the closing of the eve
ning’s performance. The “See
’Em Grin” Company has won the
admiration of Chowan audiences
completely, and they have now
standing engagements to appear
whenever they feel themselves im
bued with ideas of entertainment.
No English Is Allowed In
This Class
Parlez-vous francais? Well
if you do not, just come to the
French Circle and learn how,
for there is put into use the
unadulterated French learned
in the class room. If a person
could see the students just be
fore they cross the threshold of
the circle and then just after
they have crossed it, they would
surely think that they had swal
lowed a magic pill. The instant
they are over they are changed
into full-pledged Frenchmen,
and thus they stay for an hour.
No one dares speak an English
word—but accidents just will
happen once in a while. For
every English word that is spok
en the unfortunate one must
pay the fine placed upon her by
the court—one penny per word.
And let me tell you something,
but shhh! don’t you dare repeat
it. Dr. Macy, the French pro
fessor, was addressing the cir
cle at the last meeting and ap
parently before he knew what
was happening an unadulterated
English word slipped out. Tee
hee, he was the very first one
to break the law. Bet your life
he was fined. But as said be
fore, accidents just will happen
sometimes. Yes sir, his class—
or better his circle—believes in
100 per cent co-operation, or
else they like to play the game
“Follow the Leader;” for now
and then there was an English
word spoken, at least the be
ginning of one, for the last of
it was smothered by a hand be
ing clasped firmly over the
mouth.
The programs are very in
teresting, consisting of readings,
poems, plays, etc. After the
program, refreshments are
served. Honest, they seem to
eat in French (by the way, can
that be done?) for they are
better than any ever eaten in
English.
The Cootutionary War began in
1925.
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Epitaph
Here lies the bones of Hert
Chew,
He wouldn’t believe
These jokes were new.
GOOD SOCCER GAME
The 1925 soccer season came to
a close with the game played on
Thanksgiving Day between the
varsity and sub-varsity teams.
The final contest ended with vie-
tory for the sub-varsity team,
scoring 1-0. The team work ol
the sub-varsity team won the game
for them. , The following players
were in the line-up:
Varsity ' Sub-Varsity
FORWARDS
Lucile FreSiman Leola Caudle
M. Brumsea -W. Blount
Alice CookJ, Lizzie Jones
A. M. Edwards Margaret Vann
M L. Jones R. Rittenhouse
HALFBACKS
Susan Barries Evelyn Samples
Pauline Willis Ida Matthews
Viola Raynor Dorothy Long
FULLBACKS
Virgie Johnson Edna Stillman
Flora Butler Janie Vick
GOAL
Louise McDaniel. Ruth Davenport
FIRST STUDENT RECITAL
The first students’ recital given
at Chowan for the year, Tuesday
evening, November 17, began
what promises to be an unusually
busy and successful season for the
Fine Arts Department. The di
rector of music, Prof. Thos. L.
Tinsley, and other members of the
faculty of that department, were
UNDER THE GREENWOOD
TREE
All men try to get the earth,
but the earth gets them. (This
is not a joke; it is a grave truth.)
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Senior: “How do you like my
room, as a whole.”
Freshman: “As a hole it’s fine;
as a room—not so good.”
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Uplifting Though—While you
were reading, Henry Ford made
$10,000.
When all the world acquires an
education, how are you going to
pick a jury?—Arkansas Gazette.
♦ ♦ ♦
Shooter says dead man was
chasing Tiim with drawn razor.—
Headline in the Washington Re
porter.
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Babloid Book Reviewing-
Snappy comments on standard
classics: Dictionary (Punk &
Wagnalls). A bit plotelss, but
splendid volabulary.
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Nursery Rhymes (Mother
Goose) : Clever characterization.
Plenty of Action.
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Census Reports (Government):
Decided realism. Perhaps a trifle
too :‘racy.” Sex element pre
dominant.
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Telephone Book (Bell) : Char
acters tend to obscure the action.
Setting is local.
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Congressional Record (U. S.
Legislature) : Speech too long.
Much symphftious verbiage.
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Lucille: “I wonder what Sir
Walter Raleigh said to the queen
when he put his coat down for
her.”
Heler» “Probably, ‘Step on it,
kid’.”
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The Revolutionary War began
in 1775
THOUGHTS DO RUN
IN SAME CHANNEL^
(Continued from Page 2)
though unregistered consciously,
still govern our actions.
These cryptopsychic experiences
are often called telepathic, and,
as I have said, they truly do pre
pare our minds for belief in tele
pathy in general.
Dr. Carrington, in one of his
books dealing with occult and
psychical sciences, mentions vari
ous kinds of telepathic messages:
“Telepathic messages may be
‘visual,’ in which case they take
the form of pictures, figures, writ
ten or printed words, etc.
“They may be ‘auditory,’ in
which case they take the form of
spoken words.
“They may be ‘emotional,’ in
which case the subject is seized
with the imperative desire to per
form a certain action.”
Visual and auditory messages in
which one actually sees the body
of another in apparition or hears
the voice are not familiar to the
majority of people. It is the emo
tional and volitional messages
that make impressions in everyday
life upon nearly everyone. At
times some some people feel a
strong urge to do something at a
certain time. They say their con
science told them to do it. The in
stitution came in a still small voice
that insisted until action took
place. Others feel depressed or
hilarious, the former commonly
called the “blues,” without any
known cause.
The study of telepathy also en
ters into the field of dreams. It
frequently occurs that we receive
presentments of a coming ac
cident or event in dreams. We
sometimes dream of a person in
some relations that we had never
thought of before. These mes
sages were received at the moment
we were falling asleep. We may
have received the message an hour
or two before this, but it was not
possible for it to come up from
the subconscious mind until the
ordinary consciousness ceased to
be So active with the affairs of the
day; and then the subsconscious
mind had a chance to deliver its
message—received some time be
fore from some distant mind.
The subject of telepathy is a
aclicatc inusi poyvliolo-
gists, even of the animist school,
steer around it, because it is in the
realm of the subconscious mind,
and therefore difficult, if not im
possible, to get at and make an
explanation that appears scienti
fically plausable and acceptable.
With caution they steer around
the subject without disregarding
existence and influence of the
phenomena covered.
Spiritualism has been de
nounced by many people on the
grounds that no good can come of
it. Not that it is absolutely ab
surd and idiotic, but it leads to
nothing that can be seen to ma
terially bless and benefit mankind,
they say, is the reason they do not
give any credence to it. The same
kind of test should be applied to
mental telepathy before it is ad
mitted into the credence and fur
ther consideration of students. If
it bears no fruit that results in in
creased knowledge for better un
derstanding and sympathy of
humanity and life, thus assisting
in bringing about a better adjust
ment and more harmonious rela
tion between individuals and the
universe, then away with it!
Away with any and all other books
and literature that can not in any
way bring light upon life in such
a manner!
There is small possibility of any
harm coming from a belief in
mental telepathy. A small chance
to lose in case one is inclined to
become obsessed to the extent of
becoming unbalanced in mind and
insane, and a big chance to gain,
gives impetus not easily resisted.
More than a sporting chance is
seen in mental telepathy. In the
cosmic currents that wave through
the air all about us there is un
mistakably something that inspires
or depresses. Tht^^is something
intangible sens^pPi)out certain
persons. A beiWn light is shed
upon those about. An aura of
peace and sweetness seems to
emanate from some human beings,
just as a flower emits an aroma
of fragrance which is wafted
through the space intervening.
These perfumed vibrations stimu
late the olfactory nerves, and fol
lows a_ most pleasing sensation.
Why can not also the subtle bodies
of thought and feeling that eman
ate in like manner from a person
be transported by means of some
occult powers? It is obvious
enough that in order to catch any
such floating messages out of the
cosmos one must have a properly
constructed receiving set. A re
ceiving apparatus consists in wires
made up of a mutual in
terest, sympathy ancTTove, a sensi
tive mind and soul not distracted
by intense thought just for the
moment. Relaxation and reverie
are conducive to a stimulus of this
nature.
Now, it wpuld lead to foolish
notions to entertaih beliefs that
the whole atmosphere about us is
a floating mass of cross currents
and cobwebs woven of everybody’s
thoughts, which weighed upon and
affected everyone. Such a con
fused state would require great
effort to keep a straight course
through the cloudy smoke.
Mental telepathy is one of the
many mysterious ways that life
has of revealing itself to life.
There is no getting around the
fact that faith begets faith, like
begets like. In other words, send
out a kind thought, and you get
one in return. Each seems, and
thought, whether good or evil,
acts like a boomerang, it seems,
and bounces back to the origina
tor. As some poet has said: “Give
to the world the best that you
have, and the best will come back
to you.”
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