The Carolinian [March 29, 1924]

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VOLUME V. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 NUMBER 23
The Charm of Old China Makes
Junior Senior a Brilliant Affair
Annual Banquet ii Laid
in Beautiful Garden of
the Orient, All Details
Making a Single Effect
of Loveliness.
HATHAWAY IS TOASTMISTRESS
Davis, Harrey, NIK, Morris, Moor*,
■nd Taylor »re Toasters of
Evening
In a picturesque setting: of an old
Chinese garden, the Seniors of North
Carolina College and their friends
were entertained by the Juniors at
a banquet last Saturday evening,
from 8:30 until 11:30 o'clock.
From the time the guests entered
Spencer dining room, where the ban-quet
was held, until they left, an
Oriental atmosphere was charmingly
presented by Junior originality and
workmanship.
In the hall in front of the dining
room, was a table which support _'d
a bronze statue of the Chinese
Buddha. The guests entered the din-ing
room through lanes of trellises,
which were covered with blossoming
vines, to the scence of the garden
party. Upon entering the room a
rare and mysterious scene of old
China presented itself.
Elizabeth Hathaway, of Elizabeth
City, who had been chosen toastrais-tress
on account of her poise and
grace, proved a most charming mis-tress
of ceremonies. She wore a
dress of orchid georgette, and a cor-sage
of Palma violets and valley
lilies.
As a background for the toast-mistress'
table in the front of the
room, there was a frame, on which
a profusion of trailing leaves and
delicate cherry blossoms clung. Ex-tending
along the sides of the room
were long wisteria arbors, under
which tables were arranged. Low
hung Chinese lanterns dropped from
the ceiling, and added a soft glpw to
the garden -dusk.
In the center of the room a grace-ful
Chinese bridge, which might have
been transported from any garden
of the Orient, covered a pond of
mirror-like clearness. Moss hung
from the bridge, and flag lilies and
violets gracefully adorned the edges
of the pond. Four posts, bearing red
lanterns, stood at the corners of the
bridge. At the back Of the room
Buddha sat in a tall pagoda. Eliz-abeth
Minor took the part of this
god.
The table decorations were carried
out in the same scheme as the center.
Miniature bridges overhung tiny
pools of water, and ferns and violets
were banked around the edges.
Place cards in the form of a
Chinese girl in vari-colored costumes,
bearing the words "Junior-Senior,
*24," were at each place. For favors
there were white kid card folds, with
band painted dragons on the outside,
and "Junior-Senior, 1924" on the
inside.
Sixty freshmen costumed as Chin-ese
coolies served the dinner.
Sixteen girls from the Junior class,
dressed in Chinese costumes, gave a
graceful dance, "Ming Toy," to their
goddess, who was represented by
Lenore Stone. The goddess, who
stood on top of the bridge, came to
life while her subjects bowed around
her in adoration.
The dancers, in addition to the
soloist were: Carolyn Pollock, Nan-
Two Students Ejected .
To Chapel Committee
The Chapel Committee, of which
Dr. Kephart is chairman, has been
studying our chapel problems all
year. The committee, the other mem-bers
of Which are Miss McDonald,
Miss Underbill, and Dr. Arnet, has
decided that our chapel is not ef-fective,
and that the students and
faculty are not interested in it. As
a result of these conclusions they
decided that there should be some
student representatives on the com-mittee
to help the faculty discover
the attitude and desires of the stu-dent
body in relation to chapel.
The chapel hour Monday was given
to the Student Government Associa-tion
to elect two representatives, one
from the senior class and one from
the junior. The senior representa-tive
chosen was Sarah Virginia Heilig;
the junior representative, Julia.
Franck. Dr. Ragsdal and Dr. Jack-
Franck. Dr. Ragsdale and Mr. Jack-tives
from the faculty.
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The committee is working earnest-ly,
trying to discover just what the
students want in chapel and to de-cide
a policy for next year. Some
radical change will probably be in-stituted
as soon as a plan can be
outlined.
RECENT CONFERENCE
HONORS DR. FOUST
Dr. Foust Mad* President of the
North Carolina College Con-ference
At the meeting of the North Caro-lina
College Conference held in.
Greensboro last week, Dr. Julius I.
Foust, president of North Carolina
College for Women, was elected as
Chairman to succeed president W. J.
Martin of Davidson college. N. W.
Walker, acting dean of the School
of Education, of the University of
North Carolina, was re-elected sec-retary
and treasurer.; president Mar-tin,
of Davidson; president W. P.
Few of Trinity; and president W. I*
Pot eat, of-Wake Forest, were chosen
to make up the Executive Committee.
Resolutions pledging aid to A. T.
Allen, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and expressing the es-teem
in which the late Dr. ' F. P.
Hobgood, president of Oxford Col-lege,
was held, were adopted by the
conference. Upon the presentation
of the application by j Dean N. M.
Harrison, Jr., of High Point College,
the new Methodist institution was
formal admitted to membership in
the conference.
Among the many things discussed
waa a uniform college entrance ex-amination
for students from non-accredited
high schools. A special
committe on the subject recommend-ed
these examinations and suggested
that they be held in June at the
office of the county superintendents
and in September at the colleges. A
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Training for Track
and Baseball Begins
Training for baseball and track
starts tomorrow, March 30. Since
there are only five more practices
to be held for each class, it is quite
necessary that all girls who are going
out for these sports attend all the re-maining
ones. The baseball players
will find it to their advantage to
buy balls for themselves and to prac-tice
pitching for a least fifteen min-utes
each day. *
Those trying for the class teams in
track should practice for not less
than that time. Close watch should
be kept on the bulletin boards in
Spencer gymnasium for notices
about practices, hints on improving
play, and for much interesting in-formation
about what other people
are doing in baseball and track.
Mildred boxey, President of Y. W.
C. A. for 1924-25
MUSIC FESTIVAL TO
TAKE PLACE APRIL 24
Prominent Artiiti are on Program.
Date for Sale of Ticket* to be
Announced Later
An event of keen interest to the
N. C. C. W. faculty and students
is the approaching Greensboro Music
Festival which is to take place on
April 24 and 25.
Prominent artists who are to sing
are: Paul Althouse, tenor, Metropoli-tan
Opera Company; Cyrena Van
Gordon, mezzo-soprano, prima donna
of Chicago Opera Company; Kathryn
Meisle, contralto, of the Chicago Civic
Opera Company; Charles Trowbridge
Tittmann, bass, soloist of the eighth
consecutive Bach festival; Kathleen
Hart Bibb, soprano, oratorio soloist;
J. Foster Barnes, baritone, of
Greensboro, N. C. The Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra will provide the
instrumental music.
The concert on the night of April
24 will consist of scenes from "Loh-engrin"
and "Faust." Those taking
part in these will include the
Verbruggen as conductor; Kathleen
Hart Bibb, Cyrena Van Gordon,
Kathryn Meisle, Paul Althouse, J.
Foster Barnes, Charles Trowbridge,
and a chorus of 200 voices under
the direction of Dr. Wade R. Brown,
of Greensboro.
On the afternoon of April 26, the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
will give a Symphony concert with
Kathryn Meisle as soloist.
. One the evening of April 25, "Ar-tists'
Night," the orchestra will be
heard with Cyrena Van Gordon as
soloist.
The coming festival promises to be
one of the best and most delight-ful
that Greensboro has ever had.
Tickets will be on sale to the col-lege
girls in the college book room
at a later date. Announcement will
be made later as to the date for the
sale of the tickets.
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Students Show Talent
In Pie Elating Contest
Tuesday afternoon, every student
at the college received the following
invitation:
"You are cordially invited to a
cracker and pie eating contest given
by the Little Store. Exclusively to
N. C. C. W. girls. Contest 11:30,
2:30, 6:30, 8:30, Friday, March 28.
Four prizes given away, valued up to
$10.00.
Free Orange Crush to everybody.
All girls wishing to enter contest will
please come down and register."
Hundreds of students entered the
contest. Upon the register, they had
to sign their name, the time they
wished to contest, their home town,
and their class.
The rules for the contest were:
Pie eating contest:
All girls will have their hands tied
behind them and eat out of a .plate.
The pie will be lemon flavor.
EARLE IS TO LEAD
LASTJfEAR OF '25
Her Achievements Have Been in
Various Phase* of College
Ufa
WAS TREASURER OF S. C.
At a called meeting, Monday night,
the Juniors elected Nannie Earle, of
Wilson, N. C, class president for
1925.
Graduating with signal honors
from Wilson High School >'n 1921,
she entered N. C. College in the fall
of that year, becoming treasurer of
her class in the same year. Because
of the capability exhibited in this
position she was elected treasurer of
the Student Government Association
for 1922-23. She was also Coraddi
editor from the Adelphian Society.
She is now chairman of the Com.
munity Budget for 1924, a member
of the House of Representatives,
corresponding secretary of the Adel-phian
Society, and was one of the
successful debaters of the same so-ciety
during the fall of 1923.
She has on frequent occasions
shown excellent co-operation as a
member of committees of every type.
In every undertaking she has shown
a thorough interest and proved her-self
an excellent executive. She has
many qualities essential to the suc-cess
of a class president. With her
election the in-coming Senior class
looks forward with interest to what
promises to be one of the most suc-cessful
years in its history.
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AN INTERCOLLEGIATE
CAMP IS ORGANIZED
"SUPPOSE YOU WERE A
BOOTLEGGER'S BRIDE"
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College Girl, to Produce Play Which
U Still Playing on Broad-way
Will Give Student* Opportunity to
Meet Leader* of American
Thought
Students at Bryn Mawr, Dart-mouth,
Yale, Swarthmore and North-western
will co-operate next summer
in maintaining an Intercollegiate
Camp at Woodstock, New York, July
1st to September 17th. These stu-dents
have assumed joint manage-ment
of the camp with, a committee
of The National Student Forum
which organized the enterprise last
summer. 150 students from colleges,
universities and Labor Schools are
expected to visit the camp during the
summer. Twenty-five scholarships
are available to pay the expenses
of labor delegates.
The camp will give students the
opportunity to meet some of the
leaders of American thought not
only in lectures and discussion but
in .the frank and free comradeship
of the open air. A number of edu-cators,
churchmen, business men,
labor leaders and social workers will
visit the camp during the summer.
Among those who are already ex-pected
are Dr. Stephen D. Duggan,
Director, Institute of International
Education; Rev. John Haynes Holmes,
Community Church, New York; Pro-fessor
William Heard Kilpatrick,
Department of Philosophy of Educa-tion,
Teachers College; Professor
William Fielding Ogburn, Depart-ment
of Economics and Sociology,
Barnard College; and Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise, Free Synagogue, New York.
There will be five conference per-iods
of two weeks each beginning
July 1st, during each of which the
camp committee will be limited. to
forty students. Each conference will
consider, with individual indiffer-ences,
international, industrial, racial
and educational questions. The camp
will be equipped with a small theatre
and workshop in which students may
on occasion present one-act plays.
Woodstock, N. Y. is in the Cat-skill
Mountains, 14 miles from Kings-ton.
In addition to offering hiking,
swimming, and possibly tennis, it is
a community which affords unusual
artistic and musical advantages. Ow-ing
to the limited accommodations
of tiie camp, delegates from any one
college will number from four to
eight. Colleges desiring to send dele-gates
should apply immediately for
quotas to The National Student
N. C. C. CAN BE PROUD
Suppose you were a bottlegger's
bride! Tonight, at one of the largest
theaters in New York, there are
thousands of people with this sup-position
in mind, viewing the great
production "Tarnish." Tomorrow
night and many nights that follow,
New Yorkers will continue to see one
of the most marvelous stage produc-tions
fo the time, i
An unbelievable fact is true—
not only the lucky people who live
in "little old New York," but a few
most lucky one who live in the sunny
South will be allowed to witness this
play. The Dramatic Association is
proud of its forward step, which per-haps
surpasses that of any other ama-teur
players in America. It is not a
matter of chance; determination,
ambition, and money were the decid-ing
factors in the securing of the
valuable manuscript. Why shouldn't
the college see the same shows that
the students of Columbia University
see? Why not break down the tra-dition
that the south 1B the "Sahara
of the Bozart?"
Doubtless the eyes of many- people
will be opened when they realize that
the stage of North Carolina College,
can boast of the same play, at the
the same time, with the same set-tings
that a stage on Broadway high-ly
boasts. But their eyes will not be
opened too soon. This situation
seems to be too unusual to be real,
yet on the campus are the same signs
that are seen in New York, through
the newspaper ads, hand bills, etc.
The cast of the production has
been chosen from the entire student
body and represents the dramatic
ability of the women of North Caro-lina—
even other states.
Mary Green has shown theatrical
genius since first entering college and
especially during the last two years
has she received excellent training.
She has already written and pro-duced
the popular one-act play
"Prince and Princesses of Earth."
Mary will play the role of Letitia
Tevis, called Tishy.
The male parts of many plays have
been succsesfully filled by Loula
Woody and Lucile Meredith. They
are perhaps the best amatuers for
these parts to be found in any won-an's
college. Lucille Meredith has
espcially won h-gh praise for her
portrayal of an elderly man's part
She will be Adolph Tevis, Tishy's
father. The lover, Emmet Carr, will
be played by Loula Woody.
Josephine Lee Tevis, mother of
Tishy, will be Played by Lucille Kase-hagen.
Lucille carried off honors
last spring in the Dikean play, "Sher-wood
Forest," and again this year as
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS ELECTED
Lois Briggs of Wayne*Tillo Elected
to Serve a* Editor-in-Chief
of Annual
HOUSE PRESIDENTS ELECTED
Popular and Capable Girl. Chosen
to Serve a* Senate Member*
for Next Year
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PRIZE TO BE GIVEN FOR
BEST ONE-ACT SEA PLAY
Reward of Ten Dollar*, a Free Schol-arship
and a Production in Glou
caster Little Theater to be Given
by Gloucester School.
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The Gloucester School of the Little
Theater is offering a prize of ten
dollars, a free scholarship and a pro-duction
in the Gloucester Little
Theater for the best one-act play of
the sea written by an undergraduate
of an American school or college.
The judges for the competition
are: Mrs. Florence Evans, Director
of the Boston School of Public Speak-ing;
Miss Florence Cunningham, of.
the Vieux Colombier; Robert Hill-yer,
president of the New England
Poetry Society; and Colin Campbell
(author of Plays for a Folding
Theatre) whose own play of the sea,
Moon Tide, is said to be one of the
best short plays written by any
American.
All plays for the competition must
reach Miss Cunningham, 112 Charles
Street, Boston .by June 16, 1924.
Editor-in-chief of Pine Needles,
the college annual; editor-in-chief
of the Coraddi, the college magazine;
fire chief, a cheer leader and twelve
House presidents were elected at a
meeting of the Student Government
Association held in the college audi-torium
on Tuesday evening, March
25.
Lois Briggs, of Waynesville, was
elected to serve as editor of Pine
Needles. As associate art editor of
last year's annual and art editor of
this year's annual, her efficiency as
an artist has been determined. Print-ers,
engravers and others have en-dorsed
this year's book as one of
the best books that they have seen
made up. Some of the credit for
this is being given to Miss Briggs,
who has been loyal in her aid to the
editors, and other members of the
staff. Her drawings are original and
artistic, and ability along this line
is a necessity for an annual editor.
She has worked with the annual staff
for two years, thus she is especially
capable of- filling her position. One
must know something about annual
work before going into it. Miss
Briggs is not only an artist, for she
is known on the campus as one of
its most graceful dancers, having
danced a number of timae for both
private and public functions, and thia
spring for Junior-Senior banquet
She is a leader in college dramatics,
having taken leading part* in a num-ber
of plays; she will play a role in
"Tarnish," the new play, which is
now under rehearsal, and the pre-sentation
of which will require more
real ability than any other play,
which has been given by the Dra-matic
Association.
Maude Goodwin, of Morganton,
was almost unanimously elected edi-tor-
in-chief of the Coraddi, the col-lege
magazine. The Coraddi. is a
publication, whose aim is to suggest
an outlet for the creative literary
impulse of the students. It was form-ally
separated from the college news-paper
n 1919, when the Carolinian,
as it is now, was founded. Since
that time, the two publications have
had distinctly different functions,
the Carolinian being a formal his-tory
of the college, and the
Coraddi, an interpretation of the.
artistic life of the students. Miss
Goodwin is well-fitted for an edi-tor's
place. She is interested in
writing, and because of her literary
ability, she was chosen to and has
been an active member of the Quill
Club, an organization based on liter-ary
scholarship. She has been a
member of the Coraddi staff this
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FRESHMAN COMMISSION
IS ACTIVE ORGANIZATION
Doe* Social Work Off the Campus,
Studio* College Problems, and Has
a* Idela the Promotion of Spirit
of Service.
A Freshman Commission waa or-ganized
among the Freshmen last fall
under the auspices of the Y. W. C.
A. This commission, which is .com-posed
of girls who were experienced
in Y. W. work in high schools, has
been functioning on the campus in
various ways all the year.
The charter members have added
to their number by selecting new
members from the Freshman class
who were interested in the Y. W. C."
A., in social service work, in the
ideals of the college, and in the spirit
of the campus. The whole commis-sion
is idealistic in its purpose, which
is to make the campus a better place
to live, and to create and promote the
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PLAY OF SEASON "TARNISH," APRIL 15