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THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COL' EGF. MURFREESBORO. N. C.
Tuesday, September 18, 1928
The Chowanian
A college newspaper published fortnightly by the Alathenian and
Lucalian Literary Societies, supervised by the English Departpient
of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C.
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Entered as second class matter January 17, 1924, at the Post Of
fice at Murfreesboro, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
EDITORS
Mildred Hinton, ’30 Editor-in-Chief
Ruth Davenport, ’29 Associate Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Kate Mackie, ’29 Business Manager
Addie Mae Cook, '32 Circulation Manager
REPORTERS
Emma Gay Stephenson Alathenian Society
Mildred Hinton Lucalian Society
Bettie Walter Jenkins Senior Class
Maybelle Honeycutt Junior Class
Helen Rountree Sophomore Class
Isla Poole Religious Activities
Hilma Ward Jokes
ADVISOR
Bertha L. Carroll Professor of English
many gills went home every week
end. Naturally these trips made
a break in their study, not to men
tion the effects of lost sleep and
late hours. Who can study hard
when thinking of going home and
planning how to spend the visit
with most enjoyment? Then after
return'ng from home, one’s jnini'
is filled with memories of past
pleasures, a mental attitude which
"nkes concentration on lessons
almost impossible. Besides, week
end students were deprived of a
great deal of college entertain
ment and amusement, since week
ends are favorite times for parties,
pep meetings, stunts, etc. They
will get more of the college atmos
phere of work, fun, and recreation
by remaining in college during
the week-end. Let the good work
go on.
SUPPORT THE CHOWANIAN
Although the CHOWANIAN is
supported by the class in journal
ism, we do not wish the paper to
be dominated by that class. Stu
dents, this is your paper. What
you get out of the CHOWANIAN
will be equivalent to what you
put in it. Contribute to your own
personal development by writing
worthwhile editorials. Give the
I paper the benefit of your original
ity by writing stories, plays,
poems, essays, sketches. Hand in
any alumnae news and snappy
jokes that you know. Help us to
make the CHOWANIAN this year
the very best paper that Chowan
has ever published—interesting,
lively, “newsy,” and above all,
clean and wholesome.
Hand your articles to Mildred
Hinton. Editor-in-Chief.
play within the next two mont^-s.
Miss Willie Halsell, professor of
history, was elected as adviser lor
the class of ’29.
JUNIOR TEA ROOM
OPENED ON EIGHTH
September 8 was a gala day for
the Juniors. The Tea Room, per
sonal charge of each year’s
junior class, held its formal open
ing. Great curiosity and interest
were shown by both students and
faculty. There was a steady
=tream of visitors to and from
the tea room, and what seemed
best of all^ they appeared to be
plentifully stocked with ready
change.
Miss Billie Temple, manager of
the tea room, reported a satisfac
tory profit, which more than
pleased those interested in the
success of the tea room. This
little cottage holds a lively charm
for the students and faculty on
Saturday afternoons. They al
ways find a menu tempting to
the palate and easy on the pocket-
book. Delicious banana sand
wiches, hot coffee and chocolate
fudge was served on the opening
day.
The Junior Class cordially in
vites the students and faculty to
come to th* tea room every Sat
urday afternoon to appease their
hunger and thirst. They will al
ways be given a hearty welcome!
and good food.
READ, AND BE FULL;
WRITE, AND BE EXACT!
It is generally agreed—espe
cially among students who are
trying to become famous as writ
ers—that writers, like poets, are
born, not made. We rack our
brains in order to find new words
in which to express old ideas, only
to find that someone else has ex
pressed the same idea in simpler
yet more fitting words than those
which we have used. But to those
of us who write, rewrite, write
again, and finally toss our words
into the waste basket, these words
of a greater writer ought to be
comforting:
“True ease in writing comes
from art, not chance.
As those move easiest who
have learned to dance.”
Practice does not always in
sure perfection, but there is at
least some satisfaction fn know
ing that each time we rewrite
anything there is a slight improve
ment over the first attempt.
In writing short stories, poems,
dramas, etc., we young writers
feel that others have chosen the
right words for the expression of
their thoughts and it is useless
for us to search for better ones.
We are inclined to copy the style
of others rather than, like Walt
Whitman, to develop one of our
own. If we, like Whitman, would
express our thoughts in a language j
common to every one and in a i
style of our own, we would find I
that our literary attempts would I
be more interesting, more attrac-1
tive to the average reader, and
more spicy, because they would
have the touch of our own
originality.
A splendid reason for cultivat
ing the art of writing in its va
rious phases is the fact that we
are able to reach so many more
people through our writings than
through conversation. Often, too,
many worthwhile ideas may be
lost unless we know how to ex
press them in writing.
If our first attempts at writing
prove to be failures, let us not be
discouraged. Let us take as our
motto, “Try, try again!” Rome
was not built in a day. Bacon
has said: “Reading maketh a full
man, conference a ready man, and
writing an exact man.”
PAULINE WILLIS, ’28
and investigation like that inspir
ed by a hobby keeps the mind from
being jarred to pieces by the in
cessant traffic of passing com
pulsory things. As long as the
mind must serve in some degree
as a traffic highway, it should be
well ballasted with individual in
terests.
It is not only needful that stu
dents find a hobby, but everyone
needs a special interest, a diver
sion that is constructive as well
T recreational.
Each individual has something
of particular interest to him. If
this peculiar inclination is attack
ed consciously, much real goo
may be derived. Each individual
should find his hobby and pursue
it, and much satisfaction as well
as recreational value will result.
SENIORS HAVE THE
YEAR’S FIRST MEET
This is extraordinarily sopho-
moric, yet something will have to
be used to round off a column—
this is it.
Last line of a letter just receiv
ed: “I love you better than Life
—or any other magazine.”
Bv Atbert T. Reid
^THERE’S NO ESCAPE
VAO\TION R.AMOE
FRESHIES GETTING
OVER HOMESICKNESS
IVIiss McDowel! Challenges Seniors
to Pledge Loyal Support
In All Things
GET A HOBBY; PURSUE AN
INDEPENDENT INTEREST
Galsworthy has a line in “The
Silver Spoon” which describes a
statesman in office as having
much ON his mind but practically
nothing IN it. This description
will arrest the attention of the
busy student, for the excess of
busy-ness is one of the curses of
modern education. The average
busy mind is not a power-house c
creative force, but a relay station
through which things merely pass.
Originating nothing and retaining
little, the bulk of our mental ac
tivities resembles nothing more
than brick passing.
Students taking required
courses frequently reflect on this
tendency in school life. Rarely
do compulsory thought and crea
tive thought come together in i
same individual; the compulsor
tends to deprive the creative of
its nourishment. Suffocation in
the incidental is the surest way
to miss the fundamental.
The student who confronts the
danger of having a great deal
compelled of his mind can make
no better preparation for it than
by having some underlying in
terest as food and recreation for
his mind. Independent interest
BETTER ROOIVIS CONTEST
Girls, start your flowers for
winter now. A bowl and a few
bulbs are all the materials you
need to have bright flowers in
your room through the winter.
For a few cents you can get paint
and transform discarded cans and
boxes into colorful flower pots.
Cuttings started now will be grow
ing well in midwinter. Growing
plants make rooms more healthful
because they use the impurities
from the air and give off oxygen.
Besides, flowers arouse in us a
taste for the beautiful. They also
tend , to modify homesickness.
Flowers make us think of joy and
cause us to feel gay. Arrange j
your rooms as tastefully and neat
ly as possible; no doubt many of
you are doing so already. This
year a cute-rooms contest and a
neat-rooms contest will be held as
last year. Try to make your room
win, or at least give the winner
some competition. The more
homelike your room is, the better
you can do your work and the
better you will enjoy college life.
You will be proud to have girls
drop in to see you when your
room is neat and your flowers are
growing beautifully. Come on,
girls, and dip your brush in that
paint can.
The Senior Class helds its first
business meeting Tuesday after
noon, September 11, in the Ala-
henian Society hall with Miss Mary
Lou Jones, president, presiding.
All members of the class were
present and also our lady prin
cipal, Miss McDowell, who gave
an interesting and helpful talk.
She challenged the Senior Class
to pledge its loyal support to the
highest ideals for which our col
lege stands. We realized from
her talk that the other classes will
look to us as their example
throughout the year. In closing
Miss McDowell said: “It is a
ffreat thinjr to be a Senior, but it
is also a great responsibility.”
During the business session the
class decided to present the Senior
4 Linguist I
4t Six .
AurocASrER
Lorraine Jaillet, of New York,
six year old prodigy, speaks and
writes •ptnglish, Spanish-.'"^nd
fFrench. \Xorraine has been»-pro
nounced by twenty physicians as
near phv^ji^y perfect, as a child
can be and ft cited as a proof that
precocity in a child (Joes not neces-
sajrily injure his pr. her health.
The morning of September 5
was an exciting time for the
Freshmen of Chowan. They were
coming from all sections of the
South—Virginia, North Carolina
and Texas. As one stood in the
hallway, she heard such questions
as this, “Where are we supposed
to go?” “I wonder who will be
my roommate?” “Do you know
where your room is?”
After undergoing much em-
barassment, the Freshmen finally
finished registering and were as
signed their rooms. It was dif
ficult for the upper classmen to
sleep that night because of the
sobs of the homesick Freshmen.
Every few minutes one heard such
cries as this, “O, I want to go
home!” “I cannot stay away from
[mother and dad I”
i They are no longer homesick,
I because their teachers have given
them sufficient work to keep them
Where Chowan Girls Get In The Swim
busy. All they think of now is
doing something to make their
class the best class in the school.
They are striving to make the
Freshmen class of 1928 the most
successful in the history of
Chowan.
ALATHENIANS HAVE
THEIR FIRST MEET
The Alathenian Society had a
very important meeting last
Tuesday, September 11, at which
time plans were discussed for the
year’s work. The following mar
shals were elected, according to
their academic standing:
Chief marshal, Ruth Daven
port; Junior marshal, Billie Tem
ple; assistant Junior marshal.
Thelma Freeman; Sophomore
marshal, Emma Gay Stephenson.
Our programs this year will be
even more interesting than ever.
Rosalind Horne, Mary Frances
Mitchell and Irene Sykes are go
ing to plan and assign the pro
grams.
Plans were also made for the
initiation of new members to the
society, and a committee was
elected to plan for the social.
Fifty cents worth of material
plus $2 worth of styles, plus $35
worth of reputation, and you have
a $37.50 hat.
Some men are born rich; some
acquire riches, and some are Re
publicans as a matter of principle.
SWIIVIMING
W'e hope that no one who rides
through our campus will think
that someone is being murdered
when he hears blood-curdling
screams coming from the rear of
thing that if we did not
might think that if we did not
know how icy the water in our
swimming pool is. It is almost
impossible to get into it without
emitting some sound of surprise
or exasperation at its temperature.
Our pool is one of the largest
of its kind in a North Carolina
college. Most of us use the pool
as a favorite means of getting
recreation after our day’s work.
Many of us even go in before
breakfast in order to get up a
good appetite for our toast anc
coffee.
Not many of the new girls have
been in yet, but we are hoping
that they will soon find the way
and “get in the swim.” If they
don’t, the Sophs may help them
in. Much to our disgust, we are
not allowed to go in the pool dur
ing class hours, but that is our
fault, because we scream and dis
turb classes so that pupils and
teachers can hardly hear each
other think.
WEEK-END STUDENTS
The decrease in the number of
students who go home every
week-end makes it certain that the
class work this year will be much
improved. Last year a great
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