The Carolinian [September 29, 1923]

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VOLUME V. SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1923 NUMBER 2.
MANY NEW FACULTY
MEMBERSJNGAGED
HIGH DEGREE SCHOLARSHIP
Many Colleges ere Represented in
New Members of the Various
Departments.
The opening of the year 1928-24
shows a greater n amber among the
faculty than ever before. Men and
women from other colleges and uni-versities
all over the United States
come to us with a higher degree of
scholarship and experience than has
been evident in the history of the
college.
Including the new members, about
two thirds of the entire faculty are
graduates or have been students of
Columbia University. We have also
some who have been at one time
profesors and instructors in that
institution.
There are seven new additions to
the History Department, among
whom is Dr. B. B. Kendrick, who
comes to us from the faculty of the
History and Political Science De-partment
of Columbia University.
Dr. Kendrick is originally from
Georgia, and is a graduate of Mercer
University. Prior to his work at
Columbia, he was superintendent of
Public Schools at Colubus, Ga. Many
of us will remember Dr. Kendrick
from last spring when he spoke to
the students of history here.
Also in connection with the His-tory
Department we have Dr. A. M.
Arnette, former head of the History
Department of Furman University,
Greenville, S. C. Dr. Arnette holda
a record of wide experience, having
taught for several years at Shorter
College, Rome, Ga. and in the His-tory
Department of Columbia Uni-versity,
where he received his doc-tor's
degree.
Mr. C. D. Johns, A. M. of the
University of Chicago, comes to this
college from the University of Cin-cinnati,
where he has been con-nected
with the Department of His-tory.
Mr. Johns is a graduate of
Randolph-Macon College and has
taught at Washington and Lee, and
at Baily University.
Miss Ethel Dewey comes from
Peru, Nebraska, where she was head
of the History Department at the
Nebraska State Normal School. Miss
Dewey holds a masters degree fro-n
the University of Chicago.
Miss Bessie Edsall is from the
University of Nebraska, where she
received her masters degree and
where she has taught for some y«n.
Miss Edsall has also had teaching
MANY DEPARTMENTS
OFFER NEW COURSES
These are Arranged to Relieve
Crowded Conditions of Various
Schools.
TRAINING SCHOOL FILLED
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All the Departments and various
schools of i the College are crowded
to overflowing this year, since the
College has such a large number of
students. Many new sections, especi-ally
of Freshmen subjects, have been
created since the opening of the col-lege.
Some of the departments are
offering new courses and most of
them have in view projects which
they intend to carry out in the work
of the departments.
The Romance Language Depart-ment
has a total enrollment of 1079
students in the French and Spanish
classes, 300 of whom are Spanish
students. There are 40 classes in
French and 10 classes in Spanish.
French 85, taught by Prof. Hooke,
is a new course being offered; it
deals with French Literature from
1850 to the present time. This is
the first course ever given here en-tirely
in French. Spanish is, also,
a new course offered by Miss Lavery.
It is a course on Spanish life and
customs.
The Biology Department has 600
students enrolled in 15 sections. No
new courses are being offered in
this department but the course in
comparative anatomy of vertebrates,
which has not been given for two
years, is being given again this year.
The department is occupying more
space this year, and room 85 Mclver
is being equipped for the Botany
Laboratory. The department will
continue to help the state in better
organization in the teaching of
science in the high schools of the
state, as its project this year.
719 students have enrolled in the
school of Education making 33 sec-tions
in all. There are, also, more
practice teachers this year than ever
before. Mr. Cooke and other mem-bers
of the department will work on
a bulletin, "Country-wide Building
and Consolidation Plan for Rowan
County," as their especial project
This bulletin will consist of argu-ments
for consolidation, location of
the high schools of the county and
comparisons of the standing of chil-dren
from different sections of the
county, with standard tests. The
training school is over-crowded. On
account of these over-crowded con-ditions
Ruth Angle, an alumna of
this institution, a Greensboro girl,
has been employed as a teacher of
the first grade.
Big Vaudeville Staged
by the* Y. W. C. A. In
Honor of the New Girls
Music, Acting, Dancing
and Refreshments Fea-tured
During an Even-ing
not Soon to be For-gotten
by the Host of
New Girls Who En-joyed
the Happy Event.
NEGRO MINSTREL STAR ACT
Interpretive Dancing Graceful and
Beautiful, Choruses Pretty
and Pleasing.
Y. W. C A. Conference of Past
Summer Wins the Unanimous
Verdict of "The Best Yet"
NOTED SPEAKERS
RECREATION FEATURES
Numbers of Discussion Groups Con-sider
Various Questions of
Vital Importance.
"The best ever" is the unanimous
report of the N. C. C. W. students
who attended the Y. W. C. A. Con-ference
at Blue Ridge last summer.
One of the most interesting fea-tures
of the conference was the Bible
classes which were based on the
Hebrew prophets. These classes were
conducted by the students them-selves
on the Open Forum plan, and
had for their ajm the interpretation
of the writings of the prophets in
the light of present day affairs. It
was found that the problems con-fronting
the Israelites were very
similar to those on which the stu-dents
of the age are spending their
best time and energy.
The plan of this conference was
slightly modified from that which
was used in previous yean. The
committee in charge, finding that
the conference had been so filled
with business matters, and that there
was insuffcient time to discuss vital
issues, decided to arrange to finish
the busines in two days so that the
remainder of the ton days might be
used for discussion and fellowship.
The new plan proved to be preemin-ently
successful.
Among the noted speakers of the
conference were: Dr. William Alex-'
ander, who spoke on "Inter-Racial
Cooperation;" Dr. Fleming, who
spoke on "Christian International-ism;"
and Dr. Alexander Purdy, of
Hartford Theological Semianry, who
spoke on "What is there in religion?"
Dr. Purdy stressed especially the
fundamental principles of Christ as
a working basis for the problems of
society.
It was decided during the confer-ence
to bring before the colleges
represented, the resolutions of the
World Conference held at Peking,
at which was studied the problem of
the means of securing international
peace. The purpose of this decision
was to induce the students of the
South to think seriously upon the
idea of international confederation
to settle international disputes with-out
resorting to war.
Another important matter was the
consideration of the Student Friend-ship
Fund, to which N. C. C. W. as
well as other colleges, contributed
last year. The conference voted to
continue the contribution and to
make another appeal to the students
when the colleges reopen in the fall.
Besides the definite groups there
was a general group of the members
of the conference. This General
Membership group made a study of
campus problems and the function
of the Y. W. C. A. in finding solu-tions.
The conference, however, was not
wholly given over to study. Fun and
recreation had its full share of the
The Y. W. C. A. staged one of
the biggest vaudevilles ever given
at the college on Saturday night
The show was in honor of the new
girls, who were surprisingly pleased
with the wonderful music, acting,
dancing, and refreshments. The ac-tors
showed unusual talent, ap-proaching
the professional line.
It had been planned to stage the
show on South Spencer Lawn but due
to the inclement weather, had to be
held in the Student's Building. The
Auditorium was packed to its in-sufficient
limits with both old and
new girls.
Before the curtain rose music was
furnished by an orchestra composed
of young Greensboro musicians. They
gave many popular numbers between
acts.
The first number on the program
was a chorus, "The Swagger Stick
Babies," who were pleasingly at-tired
in bathing suits of the bright-est
hue. The chorus was composed
of five most attractive girls who
might easily rival the Maek Sen-nett
Bathing Beauties. These were
Elizabeth Faircloth, Polly Jacocks,
Virginia King, Audrey Brenager and j
Lois Atkinson. - The carrying of
swagger sticks as they swaggered
across the stage to the accompani-ment
of the music gave them their
name. Much of the success of the
chorus was due to the direction of
Mildred Land.
Estelle Mendenhall and Margaret
Hartsell as comedians brought storms
of applause from the crowded house
with their jokes, songs and unusual
acting. The singing of "Yes, we
have no bananas Blues" capped the
climax of their comedy.
Next was the Danseuse No. 1 given
by Lila Jordan. She interpreted the
dance in a charmingly graceful man-ner.
Lenore accompanied her on
the piano.
A most tragic drama was next pre-sented
in "An Eskie Tradegy." Helen
Reid played the role of the Eskimo,
Lucile Kasehagen of the "Eskie-
FOUNDER'S DAY
October 5th is Founder's
Day at N. C. C. W. The chief
feature of the holiday will be
an address in Spring Garden
Street Methodist Church by
D. W. Connor Professor of
History at the University of
North Carolina.
MEMBERS OF HOUSE
CHOSEN BY CLASSES
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores
Hare Selected Their Rep.
resenta tires.
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At the meeting of the Junior and
Sophomore classes on Saturday and
of the Senior on Monday night, the
upper classes elected their members
to the House of Representatives for
the current year.
The girls elected from the classes
are outstanding girls of ability
and competency. They, with the
girls later to be elected from the
freshmen and special classes, are to
make up this part of the Student
Government Association. Susie
Roberts, vice-president of the Asso-ciation
is president of the House.
The members of the senior class
are Florence Boyette, Adele Alexan-dr,
Lorene Templeton, Olive Webb,
Rachel Scarbourough, Emma Mars-ton,
Randy Hill, Sarah Hamilton,
Faith Jonhnson, Edith CaldwelL
Gladys Black, Mary McNairy, Eliza-beth
Simldns, Mary L. Can, Ruth
Alford, Josephine Setzer, Elizabeth
Naylor, Estelle Cockerham and Sue
Erwin.
The memben of the House from
the junior class are Willa Campbell,
Claude Aycock, Sybil D. Wilson,
Margaret Feimster, Virginia Davis,
Frances Coffey, Goldie Harris, Polly
Duffy, Eunice Williams, Mary Hol-land,
Caroline Pollock, Lenore Stone,
Gertrude Shepherd, Johnnie Powell,
Olive McKinnon, Harriet Alexander,
Elizabeth Alexander, Gladys Camp-bell,
Marion Williams and Lois
Briggs.
The memben of the Sophomore
class elected on Saturday an
Blanche Alexander, Bet tie Yelverton,
Kathaleen Dyer, Aleine Hopkins,
Ethel Watson, Annie L. Gentry,
Edith Templeton, Lucille Wynn,
Mary Johnston, Frances Welch, Mar-jorie
Hood, Lilian Gholson, Leona
Lewis, Elizabeth Martin, Carrie Mc-
Lean Taylor, Kathryn Price, Syrena
High, Julia Blauvelt, Audrey Bren-egar
and Lila Eure.
COLLEGE EXTENSION
DIVISION_CREATED
Its Purpose is to Extend Educational
Resources Thorughout the
State.
W. H. LIVERS IS DIRECTOR
It is Being Founded on a Two-Year-
Old Beginning, Made at the Call
of Many People.
Realizing in common with many
of the leading colleges and universi-ties
of the country that the bound-aries
of an educational institution
are not limited by its campus, nor
those whom it would serve to the
student within the- walls of its
buildings, the North Carolina College
for Women has set about the de-velopment
of an Extension Division,
the purpose of which is to carry to
the doon of all the people through-out
the state, either individually, or
as community groups, all the edu-cational
resources at its command.
Moreover, there has been a distinct
call from the people themselves for
this type of service. In response to
this call a small beginning was made
two yean ago; and it is upon this
foundation that the Department of
Extension will be further built
To direct and promote the work,
Mr. W. H. Liven, of Chicago, has
been secured. He has already arrived
at the college and assumed his duties.
Mr. Liven received his bachelor's
degree from the Univenity of Kan-sas,
and later obtained his Master's
degree from the Columbia Univer-sity.
He is the son of a Kansas
farmer—a pioneer from the State
of Illinois, and knows thoroughly the
life of the farm. He therefore has
at the outset the advantage of the
rural background.
Mr. Liven brings to his work in
this state not only a splendid train-ing
and equipment but a real love
and enthusiasm for what he has
undertaken.
For twenty yean he has been en-
CHALLENGE IS GIVEN
COLLEGE STUDENTS
Miss McDonald Makes Appeal That
the Full Life, Not Selfish,
be Lived.
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An appeal for the' abundant life
was the keynote of Miss McDonald's
talk at Vesper Sunday night It was
a universal appeal addressed to "Any-one,"
but especially to college stu-dents,
and to N. C. C. W. students
in particular.
Miss McDonald made a plea to
all classes to make a part of them-selves
the consciousness of the one-ness
of life and the individual's share
in making it the full life, a life de-voted
to uplift, personally and soci-ally,
rather than to accept existing
conditions passively. It was also
an entreaty to those who would with-draw
from the world and live in
a world of their own construction
whether it be the poet's world of
fancy, or the industrialist's world of
smug self-complacency. Being in
the world, every one must be a
part of it; being alive, every one
must live the most abundant life.
The challenge, Miss McDonald
said, is to the college student and
the factory wokrer alike. It is for
them to awaken to a sense of their!
possibilities, and to use their great
latent strength to truly bring the.
Kingdom.
CHARACTERS CHOSEN
. FOR THE FIRST PLAY
"Mr. Pirn Passes By" is to be Acted
by Students from Various
Classes.
As its first play of the season,
the Dramatic Association will present
a clever and entertaining comedy,
"Mr. Pirn Passes By," by the Eng-lishman,
A. A. Milne. The entire
membership was given an opportuni-ty
to try out for the parts in the
play. The cast thus far decided
upon is tentative, including: Mr. Pim
played by Elizabeth Dudley; Dinah
played by Hiawatha ,Neal; Brian
Strange by Nellie Irvin; Oliva Mar-den
by Eloise Hardiman; George
Marden by Lucille Meredith; Lady
Marden by Clara Gant; and Ann, the
maid, by Lila Jordan. The under-studies
who may yet receive a part
in the play are Florence Winstoad
and Elizeabeth Boyd.
On Wednesday, September 19,
the Association helds its first regu-lar
meeting to discuss and explain
its plans for the year. The depart-ments,
as |isted in last week's Caro-linian,
were announced and girls hav-ing
any ability and talent in the arts
of acting, carpentering, costume-de-signing,
painting, or in making-up
wen asked to specify the department
of their choice on the membership
cards. Enlist now I
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JOHNNIE HEILIG WILL
LEAD CLASS OF 1926
Elisabeth Caskins, Corrine Cannady,
Dorothy Parham and Katharine
Wolff, Officers.
ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH
At their regular class meeting on
Saturday afternoon the sophomores
elected their officers for the coming
term.
Amid enthusiam and cheen and
the peppy speeches of their suppor-ters
Johnnie Heilig was elected presi-dent
from a large number of nomi-nees.
The sophomores are very for-tunate
in their choice, Miss Heilig
being one of the ablest memben of
the class. She has stood out since
her entrance here last year and will
certainly prove a good leader for
the class for the fint half of this
year.
Elizabeth Gaskins, who had run
Miss Heilig! a close second for'the*
presidency was elected vice president
on the strength of this close run.
The constitution was overrule.1 to
the effect that she be elected with-out
a vote except that which had
made her a close and dangerous
rival of Miss Hei'i& fur the presi-dency.
Corrine Cannady end Dorothy
Parham were elected secretary and
treasurer, respectively, and Kather-in
Wolff received a unanimous vote
for critic.
Other officers elected were Elean-or
Vannaman, cheer leader; Helen
Non Sherrill, tennis leader; Louise
Ervin, hockey leader; Johnsie Henry,
track leader; Ellen Stone, basketball
leader; Elizabeth Young, baseball
leader; Grey Fetter, class pianist;
adn Kate Hall, class representative
to the annual.
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Mn. Carl Rankin nee Louise
Goodwin '16 was a visitor on the
campus last week end. She wss on
her way to New York to join her
husband who teaches at Columbia
Univenity.
BANQUET GIVEN FOR
THE BAPTIST GIRLS
Student are 'Warmly Welcomed by
the Forest Avenue Baptist
Church.
More than five hundred attended
the annual get-together meeting at
the Forest Avenue Hut last Saturday
night and over three hundred and
seventy five of them were N C. Col-lege
students.
Addresses by Dr. Charles E. Madry
of Raleigh, corresponding secretary
of the North Carolina Baptist Con-vention;
by Miss Juliette Mather of
Birmingham, Ala.; and by the leader
of the Young Woman's Auxiliary
were main feature. Other speakers
for the occasion were Perry Morgan,
of Raleigh, the State B. Y. P. U. sec-retary;
Miss Mary Warren of Ral-eigh,
State W M. U. leader, and Dr.
J. Clyde Turner, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Greensboro.
The girls were welcome.1 to Forest
Avenue Church by the Pastor, Rev.
R. E. White, who urged them to con-sider
it their place to wonh'p. Mn.
S. F. Johnson, president of the
Woman's Missionary Society, wel-comed
the girls to the homes of the
women of the church, and J. E.
Sharpe, superintendent of the Sun-day
school welcomed the girls back
to the Sunday School. Prof. J. T.
Miller of the North Carolina College
spoke briefly on "What The Church
Should Mean to the Student" urging
the girls to associate themselves with
the church during their college years.
Miss Sybil Dean Wilson read the
poem written last year by Lucille
Freman in honor of the Baptist stu-dent
mother, Mn J. T. Battle. Miss
Olens Hayes read her Baptist Stu-dent
Prophecy snd Miss Cleo Mitch-ell
delivered the response of wel-come.
Miss Margaret Bedell rendend a
solo, after which the entire assembly
joined in singing, possibly the most
impressive song, ""Blest Be The
Tie That Binds" at the close of the
meeting.
The supper was served banquet
etyle, the speeches and addresses be-ing
made during the supper. Mrs.
C. A. Williams, Director of Student
Actfvtties for Forest Avenue Church
officiated.
DR. RUSKIN SPEAKS
ON CHAPEL PROGRAM
Tells Large Audience of Students of
His Travels and of People
He has Met.
Dr. John Ruskin, noted traveller
and explorer, made a' most interest-ing
talk on Thursday at Chapel
period, taking as his theme, "Three
Yean in Northern Greenland."
Dr. Ruskin was introduced by Dr.
Kephart of the School of Education,
who stated that Dr. Ruskin is the
grand nephew of the great John
Ruskin with whom he lived for four
years and of whom we all know.
Thus when the speaker began his
talk, the audience became immedi-ately
interested and listened with
delight and enthusiasm to what Dr.
Ruskin had to say.
Beginning his story of his voyage
to Greenland, Dr. Ruskin stated that
he was invited by a prominent man
of Conneticut to take the trip. The
boat was fitted out and the party
of twelve set sail for the icy shores.
Dr. Ruskin then gave a vivid de-scription
of Greenland, its inhabi-tants,
who are Eskimos and a general
description of the three years spent
on Greenland soil.
The explorer said that on landing
one is immediately confronted by a
is immediately confronted by s
number of Eskimo yachts, loaded
with fur skins, and that if a traveller
is so fortunate as to have with him
a tin cup, a number of matches Or a
watch and is willing to exchange
any of these that the Eskimo will
gladly "swap" for such articles as
furs, which would probably sell in
the U. S. for five hundred "dollars
or more.
The home of the Eskimo, as Dr.
Ruskin described it, is a snow-hut
The bed on which he sleeps is often
made of snow, though some times
fur skins are used.. Thus one would
know that Greenland is not a very
comfortable place to live, and as
Dr. Ruskin said, is often made more
uncomfortable because the Eskimo
does not think of cleanliness. Dr.
Ruskin said that he himself had to
live for two yean and eight months
without a bath, hair cut or a shave.
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