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THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO. N. C.
Tuesday, April 17, 1928.
The Chowanian
A college newspaper published fortnightly by the Alathenian and
Lucalian Literary Societies of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C.
Bless others, dear Lord,
And bless me.
MOLLIE WINBORNE,
Ninth Grade, Murfrees
boro High School.
•LUXE
*V / 6
Subscription $1.00 a year
Entered as second class matter January 17, 1924, at the Post Of
fice at Murfreesboro, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
Edna Malpass, ’29
Virginia Martin, ’29
CO-EDITORS
Alathenian
.. Lucalian
BUSINESS STAFF
Marjorie Bowles, ’28, Alathenian Business Manager
Louise McDaniel, ’28, Lucalian Advertising Manager
Ruby Daniel, ’29, Lucalian Circulation Manager
Wilma Ellington, ’29, Lucalian Asst. Circulation Manager
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Thelma J. PYeoman, ’30, Alathenian Social
Pauline Willis, ’28, Lucalian Religious
Jean Craddock, ’29, Alathenian Jokes
Juanita Vick, ’30, Lucalian Sports
Elizabeth Sewell, ’29 Local Editor
Ethel Britt, ’28, Alathenian Literary Columns
Mary Raynor, ’28, Alathenian Intercollegiate
Helen Winborne, ’18, Lucalian Alumnae
REPORTERS
Janet Benthall, ’28, Alathenian Senior Class
Jessie Draper, ’29, Lucalian II” Junior Class
Mildred Hinton, ’30, Lucalian Sophomore Class
Mary Frances Mitchell, ’31, Alathenian Freshman Class
Frances Flythe, ’30, Lucalian Lucalian Society
Ida Matthews, ’29, Alathenian Alathenian Society up head and ears. Seemed
llikp our hearts would betray our
THE FACTS OF THE CASE
Characters: Susie Brown, high
school graduate; Jean Brown,
younger siste* of Susie; Mary
Jones, Chowan College graduate;
Elsie Adams, Virginia Jones and
Louise Smith, high school friends
of Susie and Jean.
Time: A June afternoon.
Place: Home of the Brown
sisters. Mary, Elsie, Virginia and
Louise are visiting the Brown
sisters.
Susie: “What are you grinning
about, Mary?”
Mary: “Was I grinning?”
Elsie: “Yes, out with the
joke.”
Mary: “It isn’t a joke exact
ly. I was just remembering a
Chowan tradition and how I felt
when I experienced it.”
Jean: “For goodness sake,
Mary, don’t be so slow—I’m dying
to know. Go ahead.”
Mary: “Oh shucks, don’t be
lieve I’ll tell you girls. It’s a mys
tery, and a secret, for the most
part.”
Louise: “Well, I like your
nerve to get our curiosity up and
tell us nothing. That’s cruel.”
Susie: “Tell us what you can
and we’ll imagine the rest.”
Mary: “One night my Fresh
man year, about midnight we
heard an awfully weird fuss. We
had been hearing a little talk
about a ‘Brown Lady’ coming, the
ghost of Chowan. My, we were
frightened. Every Freshman got
up and locked her door, then
crawled back in bed and covered
THE IMPORTANCE OF '
A COLLEGE EDUCATION
After high school, what? Col
lege life with all of its wondrous
experiences, of course. Those
who never go to college can’t even
begin to imagine a third of what
they miss—^the thrills, work, play,
comradeship and wholesome train
ing, whioh comes from a college
educatijn.
Pop© has said:
“ ’Tis education forms the com
mon mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s
inclined.”
Some high school graduates feel
that they know about all there is
to know, but a high school educa
tion is only a beginning in fitting
one for the long path of life. He,
•who would be eiHcient, must gain
a higher education and thus ac
quire those things which enable
one to grasp the greatest concep
tion of life.
We are again reminded of one
of Pope’s quotations:
“A little learning is a dangerous
thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the
Prierian spring.
These shallow draughts intoxicate
the brain.
And drinking eagerly sobers us
again.”
This might be applied to stu
dents, who, seeing only the im
mediate need for the dollar, seek
only to gain a two-year college
course. Though there is no ob
jection to a two-year college
course, as far as it goes, it is shal
low, and can not possibly result
in the broadest efficiency. Thus,
we see that one who accomplishes
the most in life must “drink deep”
from that one fountain which is
available to most people who are
willing to work and sacrifice.
Murfreesboro, N. C.; “Edgar T
Allan Poe,” by Amy Edwards, of ®
Murfreesboro, N. C.; “My Twen
ty-third Psalm,” by Lessie Todd,
of Windsor, N. C., and “Happy
Moments,” by Julia Lawrence, of
Windsor, N. C.
PETS
Pets are things that run some
people wild and make others very
happy. A little poodle dog curled
up on the lap of a society girl is
surely a fortunate pet, but the cat
that lives down in the alley and is
kicked from door to door con
siders his lot a very unhappy one.
The little white rabbit that is
carefully moved from place to
ATTENTION
Attention is defined by Webster
as: The immediate direction of
the mind to a subject. The cor
rectness of our judgments and the
improvement of all our intel
lectual power depend in a certain
degree on the habitual exercise
or performance of this act. It has
a surprising influence in improv
ing the perceptive powers shown
in persons, who have been led by
their peculiar calling or by the
necessity, to place undoubting re
liance on a particular sense.
People, who are accustojped to
looking fixedly at distant objects,
acquire the power of seeing and
distinguishing things which are in
visible to the common eye. Mu
sicians become capable of discern
ing the smallest difference in
sounds. These effects are produced
by an increased and habitual at
tention, which enables those per
sons to notice impressions which
are so slight as to escape the ob
servation of others.
Attention is considered by Mr.
Steward in “Elements of the
Philosophy of the Mind,” a volun
tary act of the mind, but it is not
at all times subject to our com
mand. Emotions or excitement
may be so strong at times as to
keep us from transferring our at
tention to any other subjects.
Attention is essential to mem
ory; the reason that we can
memorize better at some times
than at others is that we have a
more perfect command of our at
tention.
LIVINGSTON WHITE,
Murfreesboro High School.
Brown Lady was knocking at my
door. Of course I made no reply,
but the Brown Lady didn’t ask
locked doors any odds—into every
room she went.”
Susie: “Who is the Brown
Lady, and what does she do?”
Mary: “That’s the part I can’t
tell you; and you’ll never know
the truth about her till you go to
Chowan.”
Elsie: “Is this really true
Mary, or are you telling us a
ghost tale?”
Mary: “It’s a ghost tale, but
it’s true, all right.”
Susie; “Please tell us some
more about the Brown Lady.”
Mary: “Can’t do it.”
All; “Please—go ahead.”
Mary: “No; impossible.”
Susie: “Well if you absolutely
refuse, tell us about some of the
courses of study that are offered
at Chowan. Daddy and Mother
say they are going to let me choose
my own college, so I’m trying to
learn about all of them. I’ve al
ways heard good things about
Chowan and believe I’d like to go
there. What degrees are given
at Chowan?”
Mary: “You can get either a
B. A. or a B. S, degree. One
hundred and twenty hours with
four hours of physical education,
and one hundred and twenty
quality credits are required for
graduation.”
Susie; “For goodness sake,
what in the world are ‘quality
credits?’ I never heard of such
things.”
Mary:
Eco-
Tell me about the Home
nomics Department.”
Mary: “Well, it includes so
much, I don’t know whether or
not I can remember all the courses
that were taught last year. Let’s
see, home nursing and child care,
house planning and interior deco
rating, home cookery and table
5,ervice, hous^old management,
costume designing and of course
the study of foods and clothing.”
Louise: “Ginger if you go to
Chowan and study all those
things, I think you’ll be an expert
cook and housekeeper.”
Jean: “Do let us come to see
you when you get to housekeep
ing. Will you?”
Virginia: “Coni^ider yourself
invited right now.”
Susie: “I like home economics
too, but I’m afraid I’ll be an old
maid, then what would I do with
home ec? Guess I’d better study
something else.”
Mary: “You needn’t if you
don’t want to. At Chowan you
can get a course in the teaching
of home economics. Really, Susie,
I think you’ll make a cracker-jack
school ma’am.”
Jean: “Mary, I have two more
years in high school and then I
expect to go to college. I just
must learn to play and sing, even
though I can’t carry a tune. What
about the Music Department at
Chowan?”
Mary: “You can learn most all
there is to 'know about music at
Chowan. I can’t begin to remem
ber the names of all those theo
retical courses, such as solfeggio^,
counterpoint and so forth.”
Jean: “Do you have a voice
teacher?”
Mary: “Indeed we do, and a
dandy one, too. She also teaches
public school music. You know
that’s required of elementary
school teachers now.”
Louise: “How about a glee
club?”
Mary: “Why certainly we have
a glee club. Did you ever hear
of a college worth anything that
didn’t have a glee club? We have
an orchestra, too. I declare, Mr.
Benyunes is a wonder. That man
can play any instrument I’ve ever
seen.”
Elsie: “Well, I surely am glad
to hear that. I’ve always wanted
to play a saxaphone.”
Susie: “Maybe he’ll let me
beat the drum. Ha! ha!”
Elsie: “Do you have an art
teacher?”
Mary: “Yes, we have a china
painting department. The exhibit
at last commencement was just
lovely.” *r
Virginia: “Believe I’ll take
china painting. I always did want
a set of hand painted china.”
Mary: ‘‘That’s the place to get
it. A number of girls take china
painting along with their other
courses. By the way, Mrs. Vaughan,
the art teacher, gives a course in
public school art for those who
wish to teach in the grammar
grades.”
Louise: “Mary, I don’t believe
you’ve told us anjrthing about Ex
pression. Do you—?”
Mary: “Yeg indeed we do.
You can get a diploma in expres
sion. We also have a dramatic
club composed of the expression
students.” ^
Louise: “Does the dramatic
club give many plays and enter
tainments?”
Mary: “Oh yes. They give
plays all during the year. That
is a live organization.”
Susie: “Mary ,didn’t you write
me a few weeks ago about taking
typing?”
Mary: “I surely did. I was
about to forget to tell you about
the Business Department at
Chowan. If you like, you can
learn to be a real business lady.
You can take typing, shorthand
and (bookkeeping.”
Susie: “Gee, girls, all this
sounds interesting to me.”
Jean: “I’ll say it does. I know
I’m going to Chowan.”
Susie: “And I too. I’m going
to fill out the application blank
this very day. Just think, it won’t
be long now until I’ll know all the
secrets about the Brown Lady.”
Mary: “You’d better send your
application at once because the
rooms are being filled rapidly.
Girls don’t you everyone want to
go to Chowan?”
All: “I’ll say we do!”
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2. Well Trained Faculty. *
3. Personal attention to Individual Student.
4. Strong Department of Education Practice
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W. B. EDWARDS,
President
Murfreesboro, - - - - N. C.
A PRAYER
Dear God, our Father
In Heaven above.
Lead us only
By thy love.
This is my prayer.
This is my plea,
Keep us from sm
Day by day,
place and fed every hour by the I Let not our hearts
gentle hand of an old lady should Go astray,
be happy but he longs to break
down the iron bars that hold him
and run swiftly over the meadows
to his kind. The big shepherd dog
that diligently guards the chil
dren who play around him is sure
ly content. The canary bird that
greets the break of day with his
song is greeted by his master, but
the neighbors would like to choke
the shrieking bird.
LOUISE SEWELL,
Tenth Grade, Murfrees-
’ boro High School.
MANY THANKS I
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to the High School
Seniors who complied so readily
to our request for material for
this issue of “The Chowanian.”
We regret that the lack of space
makes it impossible to print all
that we received. In addition to
those printed, we wish to mention
the following splendid papers
which we did not have room for:
“The Lesson a Mother Learn
ed,” by Clarissa Harrell, of Hobbs,
ville, N. C.; “John’s Return
Home,” by Callie Hobbs, of
Hobbsville, N. C.; “The Poor
Rich Man,” by Hilda Riddick, of
Hobbsville, N. C.; “Washington
Irving,” by Mollie Winborne, of
Oh, that means the
grades you make. Only th^ grades
A, B and C carry quality credits.”
Jean: “Do other colleges have
that crazy idea of having to make
certain grades?”
Mary: “Why, of course. Every
college that is standard requires -i
student to have quality credits.
Of course you don’t want to go to
a college that isn’t standard.”
Virginia: “Mary, I like to cook
and sew. I’ve learned a lot of
things about home economics from
my high school “Home Ec” teach
er, and I want to continue my
studies along that line.”
Jean: “Bet your life Ginger
does. You know she’s in love.”
Virginia: “Jean aren’t you
’shamed? You know Bob and I
are nothing but friends. Mary,
don’t pay any attention to her.
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