The Summer Carolinian [June 23, 1923]

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NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
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Vol. 2 GREENSBORO, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923 No. 2
Dr. KUpatrick Declares That
Discipline Forms Character
HABIT AT BASIS
Discipline Should Build Character,
Which Comes From Suc-cessful
Practice
PROBLEM OF EDUCATION
A masterly and beneficial analylis
of the subject "School Discipline"
was given by Dr. William H. KUpat-rick,
Professor of Philosophy of Edu-cation
at Teacher's College, Colum-bia
University, in his first lecture be-fore
the students and faculty, deliv-ered
at noon Monday. Discipline,
which Dr. Kilpatrick considers as one
of the main concerns of education,
the boy would define as the repres-sion
of the natural instincts of child-hood
many teachers would say it
was making the children behave in
some fashion that the work of the
school may go on. This last definition
the speaker says is partly true, but
discipline includes much more than
this.
Discipline may be considered as a
means and as an end. As a means it
should be exactly what discipline as
an end calls for. The whole matter
resolves itself around the answer to
the question, What are we trying to
do in discipline? In answer to this
Dr. Kilpatrick said that the true aim
of discipline is the formation of char-acter.
Discipline should be such
that it gives the individual the ability
and disposition to choose his course
wisely and definitely, and then per-sist
in such a choice. The properly
made character before it acts con-siders
what is involved; it has the
knowledge then the attitude to fol-low
the knowledge. This is a demo-cratic
doctrine which trains children
to make a wise ethical choice and
then persist in it, declared the speak-er.
"What is the relation of conduct
and character? Which is cause and
which is effect? Does character
grow out of conduct or conduct out
of character?" were some of the
question asked and answered by the
speaker. "Each time a person acts
he does so because a situation and
the kind of person he is have come
in contact. Prom this point of view
conduct grows out of character.
There is a change in character grow-
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SUMMER ENROLLMENT
NOW REACHES 1045
DEVEREUX PLAYERS
TO APPEAR AT N. C. C.
Will Give "Much Ado About Noth-ing,"
"Arms and the Man," and
"Romeo and Juliet."
SUMMER STUDENTS ELECT
RUTH WINSLOW PRESIDENT
COMPANY IS EXPONENT
OF WORTH-WHILE DRAMA
The Clifford Devereux Company,
which for the past ten years has been
appearing yearly at the various col-leges
and universities throughout
the United States, has been engaged
for a matinee and two night per-formances
at the North Carolina Col-lege
for Women on June 26th and
27th, the plays to be presented being
"Much Ado About Nothing," "Arms
and the Man," and "Romeo and
Juliet"
Critics have agreed that the bril-liant
comedy, "Much Ado About
Nothing," which will be given Mon-day
night, is one of the greatest
products of Shakespeare's genius. It
contains a variety of interests, now
running into grotesque drollery, now
bordering upon the sphere of tragic
elevation, now reveling in the sphere
of sparkling brilliancy. In this play
there are several nothings, each in
its turn occasioning a deal of per-turbation,
yet there is so much of
real flavor and spirit stirred out
into effect that the littleness of the
occasions is scarcely felt or obser-ved,
the thoughts being far more
drawn to the persons who make the
much ado, than to the nothing about
which the much ado was made. .
Bernard Shaw's Comic satire,
"Arms and the Man" will be given at
the matinee performance on Tues-day.
It will be given as written by
Shaw and not in the musical version
known as "The Chocolate Soldier."
This play falls in the list of Shaw's
"pleasant plays," the satire, evident
though it is, being given in a genial
mood. It is genuine comedy, the
situations often bordering of farce,
yet staying far. enough away, and
the situations, except for the first
act being amusing rather than dram-
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Josephine Clark is Member of
Senate—Miss Farrar
Speaks
Miss Ruth Winslow, of Elizabeth
City, former student of the college
and active member of the Alumnae
Association, was elected president of
the student body for the summer ses-sion
at a meeting Monday night
Miss Winslow, who is a member of
the class of '21, took an active inter-est
in student activities when she
was in college and she was president
of her class in 1919. Miss Winslow
has taught for the past two years,
having taught at Reidsville last year.
Her nearness to the present students
and her experience as a teacher fit
her well for discharging the duties
which will be hers in her new posi-tion.
Miss Nell Farrar, adviser of wom-en,
explained what is really meant by
the student government as it operates
at the college, and why such an or-ganization
is necessary during the
summer session. "In every commun-ity,
experience has taught people that
some form of government is neces-sary.
We find in every well regu-lated
community some form of gov-ernment
Our Student Government
is the government of our community.
It is a democratic government with
the responsibility for its working
and good name resting equally upon
all. We are very jealous of the good
name of our college in the town of
Greensboro and in the state. It Is
not the material equipment the mil-lions
of dollars that the state has in-vested
in our plant of which we are
proud; but it is our reputation, our
good name, the standards for which
the college has come to stand. And
it is by this that we are known more
than anything else. No one else has
done so much to contribute to the
good name of the college as its stu-dents,
and their own organization,
the Student Gevornment Association.
Cooperation is necessary from all
the students if we are to uphold the
good name of the college and keep
its self-respect We want your co-operation
now and your friendship
when you are gone. The campus
and the whole college is yours to en-joy
while you are here, but you
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Faculty Members Entertain Students
With Lawn Party on Saturday Evening
This is Largest Enrollment in His-tory
of Summer Work at
N. C. College
The enrollment for the first ses-sion
of 1923 to date shows a list of
1015 names, which is an increase of
sixteen over the registration of last
summer. When the fact that last
summer, besides the regular summer
work about forty-five or fifty were
enrolled in county institute work
and that this feature has now been
abolished is considered, it shows an
increase of something like sixty. It
is also noticable that the enrollment
should be so large when the college
is offering a second course of six
weeks this summer. This is the
largest enrollment in the entire his-tory
of the summer school.
The enrollment in the past years
of summer work, including those at-tending
the county institute in every
session except that of 1919, is a fol-lows:
1912, 426; 1913, 818; 1914, 469;
1915, 415; 1916, 618; 1917, 484;
1918, 506; 1919, 380; 1920, 667;
1921, 740; 1922, 1000.
Every student at the North Caro-lina
College summer school now
knows every member of the faculty
on the campus and every other stu-dent
also, or if they do not the
purpose of the "get acquainted" lawn
party which was held in the South
Spencer lawn last Saturday night
was defeated. This was the first
social event of the summer session
and was given to the students by the
members of the faculty.
The lawn, which is naturally at-tractive
with its wide sweep of
grassy slopes and shade trees, was
made even more lovely by the ad-dition
of numerous Japanese lan-terns
which gave the place a happy,
cheerful glow.
The first pleasure of the students
as they arrived on the lawn was to be
taken down the receiving line which
included all the members of the fac-ulty.
It was an unusually good op-portunity
which was afforded the
students to make acquaintance of
the instructors with whom they shall
be associated in the class rooms and
on the campus for the next few
weeks. It. is quite impossible that
the faculty shall remember all the
thousand women they met Saturday
evening, but the chief point is,
that after having heard their names
and giverTthem a friendly handshake,
they have established a spirt of "we
know each other" which will elimi-nate
the embarrassment of forget-ting
names.
After leaving the receiving line
the students drifted around on the
lawn meeting other students, talking
with each other, and refreshing them-selves
with frozen punch and maca-roons
which were served by some
of the students. After the members
of the faculty had met the last of
the thousand students they, too, drift-ed
toward the tables from which the
refreshments were being served, and
some of them felt that they were in
some measure recompensed for the
strenuous exercise of the past hour.
At the close of the evening the
party was delightfully entertained
by musical selections given by Mr.
Bates and Miss Bivins. Mr. J. Fos-ter
Barnes gave a most pleasing ren-dition
of negro plantation and folk
songs, following which Miss Bivins
lead the group in some songs, put-ting
them in a happy spirit for the
good nights.
DR. W. H. KILPATRICK
DISCUSSESJLEARNING
Cannot Study One Thing Without
Learning Along Variety
of Lines
DR.N.L.ENGLEHARDT
ANALYZES PROBLEM
EDUCATION OFFERS
Includes "Selling Education," Soli-darity
of Profession and Atti-tude
of Teachers
EDUCATION MEANS SERVICE
LEARNING HAS DISTINCT
BROADENING OUT EFFECT
When a child sets out to study
any one thing he learns along sev-eral
lines was the main idea brought
out by Dr. Kilpatrick in his discus-sion
of "Simultaneous Learnings,"
which was his second lecture deliver-ed
at the college on Monday. Learn-ing,
the speaker defined as any new
progress made by way of building
up or tearing down a habit of thought
or feeling, any change made in
thought or along any line.
Thus, in the twenty minutes spent
in memorizing a poem a boy may
learn along the lines of posture,
memorizing the poem, liking the par-ticular
poem, how he likes poetry,
in a change of attitude toward the
teacher or the school, or in change
of self respect One thing cannot
learned separately, but it ll gotten
only in connection with a variety of
other things.
Dr. Kilpatrick discussed the broad-ening
effect which learning has.
"Whenever we really think a prob-lem
through we think in connection
with something else. If it is a com-plicated
problem we think through
a whole field, and have mapped out
that field of experience." This plure
of learning develops habits and at-titudes
and brings about and organi-zation
of thinking. Furthermore,
facing a difficulty heightens interest
in the problem. "Within limits a
difficulty spurs us to greater efforts.
If you have to try you are more
likely to get more interested," de-clared
Dr. Kilpatrick.
Must Render This Service in Spirit
of Optimism and Love
WEEKLY CALENDAR
Saturday, June 23: Faculty
members have picnic to Pi-lot
Mountain.
Sunday, June 24: Vesper Ser-vice
at seven o'clock on
South Spencer lawn.
Monday, June 26: Chapel ex-ercises
at twelve o'clock. At
eight o'clock in the auditor-ium
the Devereux Players
will present "Much Ado
About Nothing."
Miss Burchenel's class in
Folk Dancing will meet in
the open air gymnasium at
6:45 P. M
Tuesday, June 26: At three
o'clock in the auditorium the
Devereux Players will give
"Arms and the Man."
Miss Burchenel's class in
Folk Dancing will meet again
at 6:45 P. M.
The Devereux Players will
give their last performance
at eight o'clock. This play
will be "Romeo and Juliet"
Wednesday, June 27: Misa
Burchenel will speak at the
chapel hour in the auditor-ium.
Miss Burchenel's class will
meet for the last time.
Thursday, June 28: Dr. Diffen-baugh
of the Bureau of Edu-cation
of Washington will
speak in the evening.
Friday, June 29: Dr. Diffen-baugh
will speak again.
"Turning the Search Light on
Education" was the subject so clear-ly
and so ably discussed by Dr. N. L.
Englehardt at the chapel hour on
Wednesday. The speaker justfied
the appropiateness of his subject in
declaring the fallacy of the doctrine
held by so many people that the
educational program. launched years
ago is here to stay and that it can-not
be turned aside. He declared
that there were certain elements in
the problem which require keen an-alysis,
and which give uneasiness to
the thinking educator..
The first element discussed by Dr.
Englehardt was that he termed "sell-ing
education." "We must elevate
the service of education far above
and beyond that service which many
teachers are rendering. We cannot
advance it just by teaching for it is
expressed in elements far more in-clusive.
We are confronted with a
distinct movement against education,
a movement which not only questions
the cost but the service itself, be-cause
the service hasn't made itself
felt. Every occurence in a class-room
has an effect not only on the
individual child and the group but
on all parents, causing questions and
criticisms in the minds of those re-sponsible
for the funds necessary in
education. Every teacher must be
aware of the fact that no matter
what act she performs, she is selling
the program of education in the
United States. If that serivce isn't
renderd in a spirit which involves
the highest ideals of the program
is not going to be sold."
Another element discussed by the
speaker is the solidarity of the pro-fession
itself, the bringing together
of the members and acceptance of
ideas and formulation of aims. Dr.
Englehardt stated that it would be
impossible to get solidarity until tea-continued
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LARGE NUMBER ARE
IN MUSIC COURSES
One Hundred and Seventy-Five ere
Taking Training Offered Along
This Line
That the people of the state are
awaking to the fact that music
should be an important factor in the
education of every school chlid is
well evinced by the large number of
teachers who are availing themselves
of the splendid courses that are given
in the public school music depart-ment
of the summer school. This
department is giving training to one
hundred and seventy-five or more
teachers who are not enrolled in the
chorus work. Some of those taking
this work are music supervisors, but
the majority of them are grade and
high school teachers.
The demand for instruction in
this department has been so much
greater than was expected ihat it
has been necessary to call in an
additional teacher. For this work
the department has secured an able
teacher, Mrs. Mary Howcll Lowery,
who is now living in High Point.
Mrs. Lowry is a former student of
the college, has done graduate work
elsewhere, and is a teacher with suc-cessful
experience.