The Carolinian [December 3, 1925]

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VOLUME VII.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1(25
STUDENT ENROLLMENT
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MISS M/TMOORE SAYS
Students Are Enrolled From 14
States
GREENSBORO LEADS CITIES
China and Brazil Only Foreign
Countries Represented At
College.
The total registration of students
at the North Carolina College for
Women this year is 1642, according
to Miss Moore, the registrar. Many
more than this actually applied for
entrance, but owing to the decrease
in financial appropriations from the
state, only a limited number could
be accepted. In addition to this
ruling, it was announced that no
Greensboro girls would-be admitted
to the dormitories, and as a result
many prospective students were di-verted
to other colleges.
The freshman class, boasting 698,
has by far the largest number of
students. The sophomores follow
precedent with 340, but the juniors
drop to 235, a lower mark than the
senior enrollment of 261.
The commercial class enrolled 80
and the specials have 29. Since these
are the groups which carry on stu-dent
activities at the college it is in-teresting
to note whence the
groups recruit their numbers.
Virginia leads the list of states
sending girls to this institution with
a total of 24; Georgia follows with
11, and South Carolina with 9.
Other states represented are: Ala-bama,
3; Arkansas, 1; Florida, 1;
Illinois, 1; Massachusetts, 1; New
York, 3; Texas, 1; Washington, D. C,
2; China 1, Brazil 1.
Greensboro leads the cities with a
representation by a large majority,
claiming 144. Salisbury, Asheville,
and Wilmington follow in order with
39, 36, and 34. Others are Golds-boro,
30; Charlotte, 30; Raleigh, 21;
Elizabeth City, 16; Winston-Salem,
15, and Gastonia, 13.
Naturally Guilford county sends
the largest number, topping the list
with 184, the next highest being
Mecklenburg with 50, and Buncombe,
46.
Alphabetically they run: Alamance,
24; Alexander, 3; Alleghany, 2; An-
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HOCKEY VARSITY
Jo»ephine Rudisill ('27), can-ter
forward.
Emily Cat* ('26), left inside.
Johntie Henry ('26), right
inirde.
H.rel Ke.rni ('28), left
wing.
Dorothy Schawb ('28), right
wing.
Gwen Hampton ('26), center
half.
Mary Moore Deaton ('26),
right full.
Minnie ROM ('27), left full.
Rosalie Jacobi ('29), right
half.
Ethel Watson ('26), left
half.
Gertrude Tarleton ('27),
goal.
ALL COLLEGE VARSITY
LECTURE HERE DEC. 7
For Twelve Years President Of
Amherst College, He Re-signed
in 1924
HE IS A LIBERAL THINKER
IF. Tl
IN LAST ORGAN RECITAL
Large Audience Hears Favorite
Give Number of Orchestral
Transcriptions
Class of '26 Gives Party In South
Dining Hall for Members
of Other Hockey Squads
FIVE SENIORS ON TEAM
SWIMMING SEASON
BEGINS THIS WEEK
Tentative Plan* Have Been Made for
a Final Meet Soon After Mid-year
Examinations.
The swimming season started off
on Monday afternoon with much
splashing and shouting as the seniors
gathered together in the pool. The
way they took to the water convinced
the spectators that mermaids do ex-ist,
and that N. C. C. W. has a large
share of them. Although this was
the first practice, the number pres-ent
was gratifying; yet the swim-ming
promoters are sure that there
are many girls interested who intend
to come out later. Even though the
basketball season will also be soon
in full swing, neither sport should
suffer, since there are a large num-ber
interested in each sport.
The juniors were also well repre-sented
at their practice on Tuesday
afternoon. The sophomores will
have theirs on Thursday afternoon,
and the freshmen on Friday.
Tentative plans have been worked
out for the final meet which will be
held some time after exams. The
plans provide that the teams shall
be selected on the same system as
for track, that is, each member on
the teams can enter only three
events, a plan by which more girls
will be enabled to make teams. The
plans as they are now include the
following event*: Fifty yard swim,
free style (c'awl preferred); 100
yard swim, free style; 60 yard back
crawl; 50 yard breast stroke; relay
race; diving-running front, back,
running front jackknife, voluntary
dives and plunge for distance. Any-one
who enters the diving event will
be required to try all of the three
first mentioned dives.
The members of the hockey varsity
were read aloud by Miss Marylyn
Emond at the supper given by the
senior team last Thursday night in
South dining hall.
The seniors, college class cham-pions,
have the largest number of
players on the team, the two in-sides,
the center half, the right full,
and the left half coming from this
class.
The juniors come second, with
three of their players, the center
forward, the left full, and the goal,
on the college varsity.
Both wings are sophomores, and
the right half is a freshman.
Twelve tables in the back of South
dining hall were decorated with the
colors of the four classes for the
hockey supper, and from the lights
hung green, red, lavender, blue and
white ribbons.
After the dinner Gwen Hampton,
captain of the senior team, intro-duced
Miss Emond, who read the
varsity. Eleanor Vanneman gave a
toast to the college's best hockey
players.
Emily Cate toasted.
Hilda Weil led the crowd in a num-ber
of yells.
Ellen Stone, fantastically garbed,
led a line of shouting girls to the
physical education building, where
the seniors astride brooms, dashed
in and gave a burlesque of a hockey
game. A volley ball was knocked up
and down the basketball court with
brooms. Out of bounds plays were
taken in by toss-ups. And the
whole performance was a "chicken
fight because there were so many
fouls and rare birds in it."
The party ended with a dance in
the smaller gymnasium.
The team chosen by the selection
committee is merely a mythical one,
and the election honorary, but is
composed of the best players of all
four class teams.
Jo Rudisill, a junior, has shown her
skill at center forward for three
years and bids fair to hold a record
throughout her sojourn at the col-lege.
Emily Cate, senior, has played in-side
for four years, and is unusually
consistent in playing a good hard
game. She was a member of the
college varsity last year.
Johnsie Henry, '26, is known on the
campus as a speed demon in most
of the games she plays, which is
practically everything. In hockey
she might be considered the fastest
player in college. This is Miss Hen-ry's
second year on the varsity.
Hazel Kearns, sophomore, has had
but one year's experience in hockey,
but she has shown such aptitude in
this sport that she could not be
omitted from the first team line-up.
Dorothy Schawb is also a sopho-more,
and a little one at that, but
she can play hockey spelled in capi-tals,
and well deserved to be one of
the elect.
Gwen Hampton, captain of the
senior layout, made varsity for the
second year. She is steady and sure
in her position at center half. Much
of the success of her team is due to
her careful leadership. With her
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Born in England, fifty-three years
ago, Alexander Meiklejohn came to
America at the age of eight. His
undergraduate work was done at
Brown university, and he took his
doctor's degree at Cornell. After
this he returned immediately to
Brown as a member of the philosophy
department, finally becoming dean.
After fifteen years of service at
Brown, in 1912 he became president
of Amherst college. He remained
president of this college until 1924.
The resignation of Dr. Meiklejohn
gave rise to many conflicting stories.
Commenting editorially on the situa-tion,
The Nation said: "The news,
more or less expected, went across
graduating class would refuse to
the scene for more details; the story
adorned the first pages of metropoli-tan
dailies. Enthusiastic rumors
went out to the effect that the
graduating class would refuse to
graduate and that the members of
the faculty in favor of President
Meiklejohn would resign in a/body.
Nothing quite so impressive happen-ed.
Mr. Meiklejohn told the devot-ed
boys that 'This is my fight, not
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HUMMING CHORUS LIKED
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Number 11
History t>f N. C. College
Is Shown In Tableaux
On Thanksgiving Night
THIRTY-SIX MILE HIKE
FEATURE OF HOLIDAY
Eight Girls Hike to Oak Ridge and
Back, Leaving At Eight o'clock
and Returning After Six.
Professor George M. Thompson
again delighted a large audience of
students and faculty last Friday, No-vember
27th, at chapel hour, when
he appeared in his second recital of
this season. This was also the last
recital, for the organ will be removed
to the music building this month.
It is not exaggerating to say that
each hearer was enchanted by the
interpretation and shading of the
compositions rendered by Mr. Thomp-son.
The program consisted of four
orchestral transcriptions for the or-gan,
and they proved very happy
selections.
The first number, Prelude to
"Lohengrin," by Wagner, thrilled the
audience with its exquisite motive on
the highest register and on the deep-er
strings.
Delightful also were the two se-lections
from Tschaikowsky's "Nut-cracker
Suite," the Dance of the
Candy Fairy and the March.
The Humming Chorus, from
"Madame Butterfly," by Puccini, was
perhaps the best loved number on the
program. Mr. Thompson played this
lovely music most expressively.
The last number, Rossini's Over-ture
to his "Barber of Seville"
charmed the appreciative audience
with its rich melody and rhythm. It
was a splendid closing to a splendid
program.
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PAUL BLANSHARD WILL GILLY IS AUTHOR
SPEAK HERE ON DEC.14
Field Secretary of the League
For Industrial Democracy of
N. Y. Will Talk at Chapel
IS AUTHOR AND LECTURER
Pantomime is Dedicated to Dr.
Mclver, Mrs. Mclver, and
the Faculty
A CHALLENGE IS GIVEN
Thanksgiving is usually divided in-to
three periods. The morning is de-voted
to anticipation of a glorious
feed. Midday brings the feast, which
is enjoyed fully. Then the afternoon
hours are spent in vain regret.
But there were some people on the
campus who did not enjoy the annual
feast. Some who went to football
games were lucky to snatch a hot dog
on the wing. And a group of girls
had a lunch at the Oak Ridge cafe-teria.
It is safe to say they enjoyed
that more than any banquet, for hard
exercise had sharpened their appe-tites.
This group of eight girls walked all
the way to Oak Ridge and back, a
total of thirty-six miles. They were:
Ruth Butler, Ha Mae Bost, Emily
Alexander, Lucy Webber, Kate Jones,
Mary Tipton, Molly Hall and Ann
Reid, the leader.
These girls left the campus at 8:46
and reached the Ridge at 1 o'clock.
They stayed only long enough to get
a light lunch, then started back.
Even eighteen miles is a long
enough walk to satisfy anyone. But
to turn around and walk back takes
all the endurance and will power any
one has.
They could not keep up without
frequent rests, but stopping made it
worse. Sore joints will stiffen, and
blistered feet will feel like dropping
off, if they are given a moment's
rest. So the weary girls plodded on,
not daring to stop for long, for fear
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COMMISSION TAKES IN
ALL CAMPUS ACTIVITIES
Freshmen Are Given Opportunity
To Do Work In Any Stndent
Organisation In College.
For about a week before the meet-ing
of the Freshman Commission last
Thursday night, November 19, mem-bers
of the commission had been,
making a canvass of all the fresh-men
on the campus. They are try-ing
to get the freshmen organized
into committees, each of which will
take especial interest in some one
phase of the college activities. In
order to do this every freshman was
given a slip and asked to check it.
The following are the activities to
be checked: Athletics, hockey, soc-cer,
swimming, track, tennis, basket-ball,
baseball, aesthetic dancing,
clogging, ballet dancing, rooters'
club, art, posters, music, voice (glee
club), piano, violin, orchestra, guitar,
mandolin, literary, poetry, prose, re-porting,
typing, campus citizenship,
special committees, social committees,
Spencer gymnasium, designing, prop-erty,
finance, upkeep, dramatics, act-ing,
back-stage, costume, stage de-signing,
management, directing.
Plans were also discussed for rais-ing
money to make the Spencer Gym-nasium
more attractive, and more
valuable as a place for social gather-ings,
but nothing was definitely de-cided
upon.
Mr. Paul Blanshard, noted lectur-er
and author, will be at the college
Monday, December 14, and will speak
at chapel.
Mr. Blanshard, field secretary of
the League for Industrial Democracy
of New York, has had a unique ex-perience
as lecturer, author, factory
worker, labor union officer and world
traveler. He has just returned from
a trip around the world and brings
first hand, vivid pictures of social
movements in Japan, Soviet Russia,
Denmark and Great Britain. He has
lectured during the past two years
to more than 76,000 college students
in almost every leading American
university and to hundreds of
churches, service clubs, labor organ-izations,
forums and women's groups.
Mr. Blanshard graduated from the
University of Michigan with Phi Beta
Kappa honors, did two years' post
graduate work at Harvard and Co-lumbia,
served as pastor of a Bos-ton
Congregational church, and then
entered the labor movement. He be-came
organizer for the Amalgamated
Textile Workers, and organizer and
educational director in Rochester for
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
one of America's most progressive
unions. During his three years of
educational work with the unions of
the American Federation of Labor
and the clothing workers of Roches-ter
he developed many valuable ex-periments
in workers' education.
Mr. Blanshard is the author of
many magazine articles and pam-phlets
and of a recent book, "An Out-line,
of the British Labor Movement."
He has visited Europe three times,
making special studies of the British
labor movement and the Italian
fascisti. He is a member of the Con-gregational
Social Service commit
sion.
REV. H. L CANFIELD
SPEAKS AT CHAPEL
Paator of UniveraalUt Church Say*
That Christian Gospel It Thing
Of the Street*.
The Spirit of Thanksgiving is Manifest
In Singing and Fun at Thursday's Dinner
The traditional Thanksgiving din-ner
was served in the college dining
rooms Thursday night. There was
turkey, cranberry sauce V every-thing.
The dining rooms were not dec-orated,
but when the girls in their
gay-colored evening dresses began to
pour in they took on a very festive
appearance.
The menu was the one time-honor-ed
by all true Americans. Grapefruit
formed the entree, and the first
course was turkey with cranberry
sauce, English peas, creamed pota-toes,
cauliflower, olives and celery.
Mince pie was served for dessert and
the whole was crowned with nuts and
raisins.
Thanksgiving dinner would not
have been complete with just food,
however. There was, in addition,
speech and song and laughter. Any
college celebrity, prominent guest, or
member of the faculty present in any
one of the dining rooms was given a
cordial invitation to "Stand up," and
if the luckless one chanced to stand
too long, was cordially invited to
"Sit down."
Then, since one holiday inevitably
suggests another, the spirit of the
approaching Christmas season was
manifested by the singing of Christ-mas
carols. "Jingle Bells," sung to
the accompaniment of tapping of
knives, forks, or spoons on the near-est
glasses or pitchers, seemed to be
a general favorite.
The Pilgrim fathers would no
doubt have been amazed at the
frivolity shown by the girls, and
might have wondered if we were
truly thankful, but though the cele-bration
may have lacked Puritan
dignity, it as certainly lacked gloom.
That the gospel is not a thing of
the stars, but of the streets, was the
subject of a talk made by Rev. H.
L. Canfield, pastor of the Universal-ist
church, in chapel Monday. "A
kingdom of the highest Christian
tinge," Mr. Canfield said, "has to do
with present day affairs. We must
deal with problems of today on the
basis of the highest idealism," he
stated.
Mr. Canfield said that Jesus taught
a gospel applicable to every day life,
that the Lord's prayer was a social
prayer, and that Jesus' rules of con-duct
applied to the life of humanity
as related to all. others.
"Nowhere," said Mr. Canfield,
"should the doctrine of Jesus be more
in evidence than in the streets. A
city is no better than its slums,"
he asserted. "If we are ashamed to
show some of the parts of our city
to visitors we must ask who is re-sponsible.
If you are honest with
yourself," he continued, "you will
have to say that you and every other
citizen are responsible."
Mr. Canfield said that the streets
often produced criminals. "The
streets," he stated, "should be not
only clean materially but spiritual-ly.
There was no sense," Mr. Can-field
said, "in differentiating between
church, home and street."
In concluding Mr. Canfield urged
the students who had come to college
to light their torches with learning
to be sure that they shone when they
went out into active life.
A history of the college Was ore-sented
in pantomime in the college
auditorium Thanksgiving night. It
was dedicated to "the founder of our
college, Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver,
and to his wife, who worked ever
by his side, and to those members of
the faculty who have made it pos-sible
for a bigger and greater North
Carolina College."
The history consisted of fourteen
scenes, each one bringing out the
growth and development of a dif-ferent
phase of college life. It was
designed to acquaint the students
with the history of the institution,
and at the same time to leave with
the students a challenge to make and
set up newer and better standards
and higher ideals.
The first scene represented a seek-er
after light in the early days of
the state, before there was a college
for the education of women.
Next came a representation of the
state legislature, in 1891, passing the
bill creating a state college for
women.
This was followed by a scene
depicting a typical college room in
the first year of the college. The
two following scenes showed the de-velopment
of one phase of the four-fold
development of life, the social
phase. They showed the formation
of the two initial societies, the Cor-nelian
and Adelphian. A minuet was
given as a typical form of enter-tainment.
Scene six showed the third phase
of the fourfold development, the
physical. A miniature class in gym-nastics
was featured.
The next scene showed the historic
growth of the Y. W. C. A. Girls
dressed in the class colors, represent-ing
a member of each class which
has been graduated from this college,
showed how the Y. W. C. A. func-tioned
in her day and time. This
was a beautiful and impressive can-dle-
light pageant.
Scene eight was an alcove scene,
showing the spirit of the students
after the first great catastrophe, the
burning of the students' dormitory.
Following this was the growth of
government on the campus. It was
a pageant showing the co-operation
of those qualities which unite man
with fellow man. It showed the de-sire
of the students for student gov-ernment
on the campus.
Then came tableaux showing the
Dikean and Aletheian societies.
Scene twelve, which was perhaps
the most intimate, certainly the most
familiar scene, was the present day
social life, showing a typical boudoir
scene of the college girl of 1926.
Scene thirteen was a study of the
college girl of yesterday and today.
A question was asked: "Is it that
the old spirit and standards and
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MUSICAL PROGRAM IS
RENDERED AT VESPERS
The Annual Thaakagiving Program
Wae Given At Vesper* Sunday.
Hermene Warllck Had Charge.
Sunday evening's vesper program
was the annual Thanksgiving pro-gram.
Hermene Warlick had ar-ranged
a most delightful musical
program for the occasion. Brooks
Johnson presided and led the devo-tional.
Mary Frances Craven, ac-companied
by Lloyd Merrimon, sang
Handel's "Largo." Miss Doris
Wright, of the music department,
rendered two excellent violin num-bers.
She played "Madrigal," by
Simonette, and "Romance" from
"Second Concerto," by Wieniawski.
Hermene Wariick played the accom-paniment.
The program was very
well rendered and was well received
by the audience.