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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1939

Z115

No. 1

Patton Extends
Greetings from C A.

Greetings, new "Hottentots":

So you're actually here and into
the rush of things! We know what
it's like, too, because, after all, ev-
ery one of us has been through the
same thing.
Don't for-
get to re-
member .ill
tshe funny
little things
that hap-
pen and all
your first
impres-
sions of
people,
because
they're s o

much fun to talk about afterward.

What I really want to say,
though, is that Christian Associa-
tion welcomes you whole-heartedly
and that we all want to do every-
thing we can to help you in any
way. We may run around and
seem to be extremely busy some-
time, but remember that we want
to help you more than anything
else and do hope you will stop us if
we don't see first that you need us.

There will be plenty of time for
you to learn all about Christian
Association and what you can do
through it, so I won't bother you
with that now. All of you have
your invitations to the tea in the
Alumnae garden Thursday after-
noon, though, and we'll be expect-
ing to see you there.

We're so glad you're here.

"Kat" Patton,

President, Christian Association.

Faculty, Administration
Announce New Members

Th irteen New Members Include

Six Graduates of Last Year

The college faculty and administration will include thir-
teen new members this year, according to an announcement
from the president's office. Six of this number are grad-
uates of last June, and two others are Agnes Scott alumnae.
Miss Thelma Albright, instructor in English, comes with a

Master's Degree from Duke Uni-
versity, and a summer's study in
Cambridge, England. She will take
the place of Miss Virginia Pretty-
man, who is studying this year at
Yale University.

Mrs. M. M. Appling, as assistant
supervisor of the dormitories, will
work with Mrs. Roy Smith.

Miss Mildred Hagy takes trie
position of head nurse, left open
by the retirement of Miss Harriet
V. Daugherty; while Miss Agnes
Reagan will act as assistant to the
librarian, Miss Edna Ruth Hanley.

The position of assistant to Dr.
Schuyler Christian, in the physics
department, will go to. Miss Loetta
Willis, who took her degree at the
Women's College of the University
of North Carolina and did grad-
uate work at Chapel Hill. Miss
Isabella Wilson, alumna of 1934,
is the new assistant to the dean,
following Miss Margaret Bell.

Another alumna, Miss Roberta
Winter, has returned as instructor
in the spoken English department.
Miss Winter did graduate work at
the University of New York and
has taught recently in New Haven.
She is the author of Bridal Chorus,
the play presented by Blackfriars
last spring.

Last year's graduates working on
the campus include Mary Hollings-
worth, in the book store and mail
room; Amelia Nickels, as secre-
tary in the campaign office; Lou
Pate, secretary to Mr. S. Guerry
Stuke^s, registrar; Mamie Lee Rat-
liff, assistant to Mrs. Schley
Howard (Nelle Chamlee) in the
alumnae office; Mary Pennel
Simonton, assistant in the library;
and Mary Ellen Whetsell, as a fel-
low in biology.

Thompson Urges
Cooperation

Dear Class of 1943:

In spite of all the confusion and
hazy dimness of your first few
days, I know you are sure of one
thing that you are welcome.
After greet-
ings from
all the or-
ganizations,
all the stu-
dents, and
the faculty,
another en-
t h u siastic
wel come
would be
unwelcome,
I am afraid.
We are glad
to have you, though.

How I envy you with four years
at Agnes Scott ahead of you!
Those four years can be just about
what you want them to be, and, at
the end of them, you can be what
you want to be. A lot depends on
how well you fit into community
life, how well you learn to live un-
selfishly in a group, and to share
in the responsibility of self-gov-
ernment.

For your highest happiness at
Agnes Scott and later, I would en-
courage you to enter whole-heart-
edly into all of the work and the
fun you find available. It is only
through giving of your time and
energies whenever and wherever
you are needed that you can hope
to enjoy many of the finest things
in college, especially those things
that are not found in books.

What I, speaking for Student
Government, would ask of you is
chat you learn to share in our self-
government and in upholding our
ideal for the Agnes Scott girl. We
hope that we can make your four
years at Agnes Scott happy ones.
Sincerely,
Henrietta Thompson,
President of Student Government

College Installs New
Telephone System

Modern Switchboard Eliminates Tube,
Uses Fifty Telephones

Returning students this week found in smooth operation
here a new system which solves a campus problem of years'
standing: inadequate telephone facilities. An automatic dial
switchboard, installed in Main Building, is equipped to han-
dle calls from the fifty new telephones placed in campus

buildings last summer. The old

rrancis Wel comes
Day Students

Greetings, Day Students of '43:

We're off to a grand year, with
the day students doing bigger and
better things all the time. We're
g o i ng to
need your
help in all
the campus
a c t i v i -
tics and we
hope each
of you will
ta^e an ac-
tive part.
We want
to make
this year a
good be-
ginning for your college career.

There will be a meeting this
week to explain to you all the day
student rules and regulations. In
the meantime make yourself at
home in the basement of Main, and
I hope to know all of you person-
ally very soon.

Mary Evelyn Francis,
Day Student President.

Mil ner Recalls
Freshman Heritage

Welcome, '43:

Are we glad to see you? Well,
I should say so each and every
one of us is excited and thrilled
over your arrival. And that goes
double for
the Athle-
tic Associa-
t i o n . I
know ii o
one could
be as glad
you've
come as A.
A. Board is.

Yours is
a wonder-
f u 1 herit-
age. The

last class to bear the colors that
are now yours was a good one.
They worked together and played
together. They won and they
lost and did both gracefully. But,
as swell as they were, we know
you'll be even better! Don't be
nervous or "just a little" afraid
because you're freshmen, but
start right now, get busy and
don't waste a minute. And re-
member that Athletic Association
is yours and only as good as you
make it.

I know you're going to have a
great year and be glad that you're
a part of Agnes Scott.

Sincerely,

Virginia Milner,
President, Athletic Association.

Student Government
Announces Events

The calendar of events for the
week of September 20-26, as an-
nounced by the Student Govern-
ment, is as follows:
September 20 (Wednesday)

10:00 A. M. Opening exercises
in the Chapel
4:00 P. M. All Freshmen meet
in Chapel. President Mc-
Cain's talk.
:00 P. M. Musicale in Chapel.
September 21 (Thursday)
. 9:15 A. M. Library classes for
all Day Students.
10:00 A. M. Chapel exercises.
10:30 A. M. English placement
test for Freshmen in Butt-
rick Hall.
1:30 P. M. Library classes for

Boarders (A-N).
2:00 P. M. Library classes for

Boarders (O-Z).
4:30-6:00 P. M. Christian As-
sociation Tea in the Alumnae
Garden Formal.
6:45 P. M. Vespers in the
Chapel.

7:00 P. M. Sing on the steps

of Main.
7:30 P. M. Dancing in the

Murphey Candler Building.
September 22 (Friday)

8:00 A. M. Classes begin.

summer.

pay telephones have been removed
with the exception of four retained
for long-distance calls.

The new switchboard, which
can be expanded to serve several
thousand telephones, is of the most
modern type, and is said by em-
ployees of the telephone company
to be superior to that of any other
college in Atlanta. Requiring one
operator, it admits seven incoming
calls simultaneously and at the
same time handles intra-college
calls which were formerly made
through the old "tube" system. It
is designed also to eliminate con-
fusion on the part of persons call-
ing the college; all calls will be
made to DEarborn 2 571, and con-
nected with the proper extensions
by the operator in Main. Outgoing
calls will be effected by dialing 0,
requesting an outside line, and then
dialing the number desired. The
switchboard will be open for out-
side calls from 7 A. M. until
10:30. Intra-college calls, which
do not require completion by the
operator, can be made at any time.

The four pay telephones re-
maining on the campus are in three
dormitories: Inman, Main, and Re-
bekah Scott Halls.

Miss Carrie Scandrett, express-
ing the hope that the problem of
telephone congestion had been
somewhat relieved, said Monday
that "cooperation and patience on
the part of the students will be
necessary to get the new system in
efficient, quick working order."
She added that each student should
learn the workings of the system
and avoid abusing its increased
facility by long conversations and
incorrect dialing.

6:45 P. M. Vespers in the
Chapel.

7:00 P. M. Handbook class for
Boarders in Inman Lobby.
September 23 (Saturday)

8:30 P. M. Reception on the
Quadrangle followed by danc-
ing in the Gym.
September 24 (Sunday)

9:15 A. M. President Mc-
Cain's Bible Class for Fresh-
men.

3:00 P. M. Tour of Atlanta.
5:30 P. M. Vespers in the
Chapel.

7:00 P. M. Sing on the steps

of Main.
September 25 (Monday)

4:00 P. M. Handbook classes

for Day Students in Murphey

Candler Building.
6:45 P. M. Vespers in the

Chapel.

7:00 P. M. Handbook classes

for Boarders in Inman

Lobby.
September 26 (Tuesday)

4:00 P. M. Handbook classes

for Day Students in Murphey

Candler Building.
7:00 P. M. Handbook classes

for Boarders in Inman

Lobby.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939

Agnes Scott College

DECATUR, GA.

A college for women that is widely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address

J. R. McCAIN, President

"Goodness, Pat -what a Snazzy Room!' 9

. . . must have cost a fortune!" "Oh, no it didnV
says Pat modestly, "the room-mate and I went
shopping yesterday . . . and found the smartest
college furnishings in town at allowance prices,
too. You'll never guess the price . . . but you know
we struck it rich at

S of course!

RICH

Higk-Waisted
12-Gore Skirts

2.98

Lightning zipper side fastening,
diagonal flannel in wine, slate
blue, brown and black.

Shetland-Suede
Sweaters, 2*98

Natural Shetland with suede front
of green and brown, wine and
capen, purple and red.

Sports Shop
Street Floor

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939

Z115

No. 2

Underclassmen
Elect Leaders
For Stunts

Rountree, Palmour
Make Plans for
Class Competition

For the annual Black Cat com-
petition on October 14, Clara
Rountree, freshman, and Mary
Louise Palmour, sophomore, have
been elected as chairmen of the
class stunts. Freshman cheer lead-
ers are Caroline Smith and Mabel
Stowe, and sophomore leaders, Bee
Bradfield and Alta Webster.

Sophomore chairmen are: writ-
ing, Betty Ann Brooks; properties,
Jeanne Osborne; costumes, Susan
Cochran; scenery, Mary Olive
Thomas; programs and posters,
Betty Medlock; propaganda, Char-
lotte Davis; cheering section dec-
orations, Fletcher Mann; typing,
Frances Tucker; make-up, Mary
Ann Faw; gym decorations, Edith
Dale; stage helpers, Elizabeth Rus-
sell; prompter, Mary Lightfoot El-
can; errands, Betty Lee Clarkson.
Musicians are Suenette Dyer, Mar-
gery Gray, Carolyn Dunn, and
Jeanne Lee.

Chairman of the freshman writ-
ing committee is Gloria Bramlett.
Other chairmen are: costumes, Dot
Holloran; finances, Betty Hender-
son; art, Aileen Still; music, Betty
Burdette; typing, Pat Perry and
Mary Ward; programs, Betty
Moore; make-up, Mary Wolford;
decorations, Katherine Wilkinson;
stage and scenery, Shirley Gately;
properties, Anne Eagan; and danc-
ing, Alice Clements.

Silhouette

Scores Again

Attaining national recog-
nition as an outstanding-
year-book for the second
consecutive year, Silhouette
has been awarded Ail-
American rating for its
1938-39 volume, the Na-
tional Scholastic Press As-
sociation announced last
week.

Edited by Adelaide Ben-
son, '39, last year's Silhou-
ette represented campus
life through a motion-pic-
ture theme. It was among
the first publications of its
class to use color photog-
raphy.

Sophomores Stage

Hobo Party

For Freshman Class

Honoring the freshmen class at
a "Hobo Party" on Saturday, Oc-
tober 7, the sophomore class will
give their annual entertainment for
the freshmen in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium at 8 o'clock.

Acting as chairman of the party
committee, Mary Lightfoot Elcan
announces that "a gala time is in
store for all hoboes." Serving with
Mary Lightfoot are the following
committee chairmen who are com-
pleting arrangements for the party:
Edith Dale, caps; Susan Cochran,
the Hall of Horrors; Mary Ann
Faw, refreshments; Betty Ann
Brooks, entertainment committee;
Betty Medlock, invitations; Bee
Bradfield, decorations; Elizabeth
Russell, head of the group arrange-
ment; and Suzan Kaulbach, writ-
ing committee. Every sophomore
will assist by serving on a commit-
tee.

-Photo Courtesy Sunday-American.

Stunt Chairmen Cuddle Black Cat

As PI

ans Kemain

Secret

Library Adds C. A. Explains Year's Plans

Freshman Clara Rountree and Sophomore Mary Louise
Palmour examine the bells put on the Black Cat by former
classes, as each makes her stunt plans.

Timely Volumes
To Shelves

Many new books purchased dur-
ing the past summer are now in
circulation in the library. Others
are being placed on the shelves as
rapidly as possible.

The largest number of books are
concerned with today's European
situation, although there are sev-
eral dealing with the economical
and political problems of the
United States. None of these vol-
umes have been published since
war was declared but many deal
with the tense situation of the
summer months and the eventual-
ities of the war.

In the section for fiction are
Dorothy Canfield's Seasoned Tim-
ber and Josephine Lawrence's A
Good Home with Nice People.
Representing the theatre are the
two recent successes, Kiss the Boys
Goodbye and The Little Foxes, and
Thornton Wilder's outstanding
play, Our Town.

An especially large number of
German books are listed among the
new books in foreign languages.

Other additions include The
Horse and Buggy Doctor, a new
volume of Shakespeare's poems, and
a book on the paintings of Sir
Joshua Reynolds.

Faculty Plays Host
To New Members

Honoring their new members,
the faculty will hold its annual
"Bacon Bat" at Harrison Hut, Sat-
urday evening, October 7.

The members of the faculty
who have been at Agnes Scott for
two years will be hosts to the other
faculty members and their fam-
ilies. Miss Glick is chairman of the
entertainment committee.

The custom of having the
"Bacon Bat" originated several
years ago. It gives the faculty an
opportunity for fellowship that is
missing in more formal gatherings.

In Chapel Programs

Katherine Patton Presents

"Thy Kingdom Come" As Theme

In order to inform the student body of its plans for this
year, Christian Association is sponsoring a series of chapel
programs October 3-7.

Tuesday, Katherine Patton, pres-

Dr. McCain

Opens Programs

Semi-Centennia! Provides
General Theme for Year

ident of the Association, presented
the theme for this year, "Thy
Kingdom Come." Afterward, she
gave to the whole community the
opportunity of joining the Asso-
ciation.

On Wednesday, Jane Moses ex-
plained the opportunity that each
student has for service.

Mary Scott Wilds will present
the budget of the Association to-
morrow, and Louise Hughston will
explain the Church Cooperative
plan on Friday, October 6. On
Saturday the Association will offer
a program of membership recogni-
tion.

The Association will hold its an-
nual Reconsecration Service next
Sunday at 5:30 P. M. This service
will take the place of the Sunday
Vespers.

College Presents
Classical Authority

Heading the year's program for
the celebration of the fiftieth an-
niversary of the college will be a
Latin Conference. The conference
will feature two lectures, to be
held October 27 at 8 P. M., and
October 28 at 9 A. M., in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium.

The speaker for the Conference
is Dr. William Abbott Oldfather,
head of the Department of Classics
of the University of Illinois. He
will speak on The Increasing Im-
portance of Latin and Greek for
the Understanding of English, and
The Classics and the Spirit of the
Times.

Austrian Student Comments on
Beauty of United States Girls

My DORIS WEINKLE

"American girls are prettier, have better figures, and are
freer in their manner than European girls," explains Maria
Felber, in comparing the United States with her native

Austria. Maria, who is ~ ~

treasures and jewels. She was pres-
ent at one of Hitler's speeches and
described his power as tremen-
dous. Her greatest fear is that Hit-
ler will train the young Austrians,
and that the children, never hav-
ing known anything else, will be
real Nazis.

Maria's family has settled perm-
anently in Atlanta, and she hopes
to remain in Agnes Scott for four
years. She is particularly impress-
ed with the friendliness of the
girls and with the teachers who
seem like real people in contrast
with European teachers who are so
impersonal they seem to have no
private lives. After hearing Maria
compare conditions in Europe with
those here, it sounds pcetty plaus-
ible when she says, ''I am glad to
be in America."

country, Austria. Maria, who is
seventeen and a freshman here, has
been in this country for only five
months, although she left Austria
a year ago to visit relatives in
Yugoslavia.

Maria was in Austria when Ger-
many first took over the govern-
ment. "The coming of Hitler and
the Nazis into Austria came as a
great surprise to the Austrians,"
Maria recollected. She explained
that most of the natives are
against Hitler. "Austrians feel
close to Bavarians and certain
other peoples, but not to Germans.
We don't even understand their
language."

Maria describes vividly the rav-
aging of Vienna by the German
leaders, and relates how the gener-
als destroyed books and stole art

As first speaker in the new series
of Agnes Scott broadcasts over
WSB, Dr. J. R. McCain reviewed
news of the college in a fifteen
minute talk Wednesday afternoon.

Stating that the cost of admin-
istration would be increased to
$300,000 this year, the president
pointed out that no deficit has
been on the college books for over
20 years.

He described the proposed Press-
er building, explaining the delay in
its construction:

"The upset conditions in the
building world due to the war
make letting such a contract diffi-
cult at this time."

The general theme of the radio
series is the semi-centennial, of Ag-
nes Scott. The programs this year
will include talks by the faculty
and outstanding recent graduates,
music, and dramatizations of the
history of the college.

Several changes have been
made in the programs. A new fea-
ture, the Agnes Scott Amplifier,
has been added. This is a news
feature, conducted by Miss Ro-
berta Winter, which will broadcast
outstanding achievements of alum-
nae and persons connected with
the college. *

Each week the impersonator of
the "Voice of Agnes Scott" wiH
be changed. At first various alum-
nae will dramatize the "Voice."
Later on members of the student
body will have this privilege. The
"Voice" for October 4th will be
Mrs. Raemond (Wilson) Craig, of
the class of 1930.

On October 4th, Miss Emma
May Laney will speak on Chau-
cer's Troilus and Cressyde as the
first modern novel in English.

Mortar Board Members
Hold Retreat at Hut

In order to make plans for the
coming year, members of Mortar
Board held a retreat at Harrison
Hut Friday night.

Ruth Slack, president, announc-
ed dates set for the freshman par-
ties, for the year's service program,
for Mortar Board Recognition
Service, and plans made for help-
ing support the semi-centennial
celebration.

As a continuance of the program
to entertain new students, the
members of Mortar Board gave the
transfers a supper hike Saturday
afternoon.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939

Mrs. Taylor Joins Faculty

As Horseback Riding Instructor

Bringing new life to the riding department, Mrs. Ruth
Taylor, with her station wagon, joins the faculty as riding
instructor. She comes to us with a broad background as an
instructor of horseback riding. She taught at Dennison
University in Dennison, Ohio, for

several years before she became a
member of the Athletic Depart-
ment at Ohio Wesleyan in 1935.
Her experience in Georgia has been
with Georgia State Teachers' Col-
lege for the past few winters.

During the summers, Mrs. Tay-
lor has worked at Camp Wildwood,
the Columbus, Ohio, Y. W. C. A.
Camp, and at her own Smoky
Mountains Riding Camp near
Waynesville, North Carolina.

Heretofore, girls interested in
riding had to go ten miles from
school to the Biltmore Junior
Stables for lessons. Now Mrs.
Taylor will keep privately owned
stables near school, and will trans-
port the students in her station
wagon.

Attendance at American
Co lieges I ncreases
During Past Decade

Despite depressed ^business condi-
tions in the current decade, Amer-
ican college and university attend-
ance in this period has shown a
gain of 22 per cent, Dr. Raymond
Walters, president of the Univer
sity of Cincinnati, reports in a
paper on "Recent Trends in Stu-
dent Enrollment."

Factors contributing to the
maintenance of college and uni-
versity attendance from 193 0
through 193 8, according to Dr.
Walters, included "the sheer cir-
cumstance of a lack of jobs"; fi-
nancial help in the form of more
than $3 8,000,000 in a typical year
given by the institutions them-
selves to 3 3 0,000 students as
scholarships, grants-in-aid, loans,
and similar assistance, and in the
form of $16,000,000 the same
year from the National Youth Ad-
ministration to 180,000 students;
and the students' own desires to at-
tain objectives "which transcend
statistical appraisal. The intellec-
tual and cultural enrichment of
their lives and finer service to Am-
erica."

A. A. Stages
Local Worlds

air

Amusement Section
Features Gym Aquacade

Extending the plan to entertain
the new students, Athletic Asso-
ciation held its annual rally Thurs-
day, September 2 8, on the hockey
field. Since the theme was the
World's Fair, a miniature trylon
and perisphere through which fair-
goers had to crawl marked {.he en-
trance to the grounds. The amuse-
ment area contained various games
of chance and skill. The prizes in-
cluded guess-whats, suckers, Gold
Tip gum, and candy kisses.

An unusual sight was that of
Dr. McCain and Virginia Milner
whirling about on the merry-go-
round.

The entertainment program
opened with an international pres-
entation. Betty Ann Brooks, rep-
resenting Switzerland, played ac-
cordion selections. For China, Gay
Currie and Ginger Montgomery
sang in Chinese, and Nancy Will-
statter, as an Hawaiian, danced a
native hula-hula. Elaine Stubbs
and Anne Martin illustrated Am-
erican jitterbugging.

The highlight of the fair was
the Aquacade, a spectacular water
carnival put on by the members
of the swimming club. Tarzan
Johnny Weissmuller Milner and
Eleanor Holm Healy performed
exhibition swimming, and the
Aquabelles, attired in their new red
suits, executed formations. The
Aquabelles, transformed into
Aquanuts, performed comic dives.
After the Aquacade, the nickel-
odeon quieted down for a commun-
ity sing led by the Barbershop Trio
and B. J. O'Brien.

Abbott Announces
Cotillion Club Tryouts

the horses come to us as

Dartmouth Institutes
New System

Hanover, N. H. (ACP) For
the first time in the long history
of Dartmouth College, undergrad-
uates this fall are actively partici-
pating in the determination of the
institution's academic policies.

Agnes Scott Girls are
Welcome at

WEIL'S

Thank You for Your
Patronage
VOGUE BEAUTY SHOP

Frances Abbott, president of
Cotillion Club, announces that try-
outs for membership in the club
will be held in Murphey Candler
on Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00
and from 7:00 to 9:00. Those try-
ing out must dress formally. Miss
Wilburn and Mrs. Lapp will assist
club members at judging.

KING HARDWARE CO.
Sycamore Street
Decatur

Good Food Is
Good Health
Visit

HOTEL CANDLER

Marriage Reports

Increase in Number

Graduates Make
Wedding Announcements

Records are still maintained and
possibly surpassed! The Agnes
Scott Matrimonial Statistics Bu-
reau, alias the Alumnae Office, is
overflowing with news of Hotten-
tot marriages. Every class is rep-
resented.

Kathleen Bowen, 32, was mar-
ried to Eliot Milton Stark, of New
York City.

Margaret Bell, '3 3, to Eugene
Vosburgh Burt, of Washington,
this fall.

Nelle Chamlee, '34, to William
Schley Howard, Jr., in August.
The Howards are now residing at
118 Church Street, Decatur.

Eva Poliakoff, '3 5, to Nathan
Goodman, of Massachusetts.

Jennie Champion, '3 5, to Dr.
Gene Nardin, who was a resident
physician at Emory last year.

Martha Redwine, '3 5, to Wilbur
Rountree, of Thomaston, Ga.

In the class of '36:

Helen Ford became Mrs. John
Lake, of Atlanta.

Virginia Gaines was married to
Dr. Frederick Barham Ragland in
Gaines Chapel in June.

Carrie Phinney Latimer will be
married to Howard Duvail, of
Memphis.

Representing 1937 :

Isabel McCain was married to
Paul Brown, of Atlanta, in Au-
gust.

Frances Steele to Arthur Perry
Gordy, of Columbus.

For '38 are:

Nelle Scott Earthman, who be-
came the bride of Charles Thames
Molton, June 24.

Mary Venetia Smith is married
to Dr. Philip R. Bryan and lives in
Durham, N. C.

Jane Guthrie is now Mrs. Wm.
L. Rhodes, Jr., and lives at
Peachtree Hills Apartments.

The class Of 1939 is best rep-
resented and rightly so, as the
'39's are our latest June graduates:

Caroline Carmichael will be
married to Dr. Nick Wheeler
Thursday and will reside at 2080
N. Decatur Road, Atlanta.

Douglas Lyle was married to
Roy Rowlett, of Charlotte, and
Aileen Shortley to Dr. Robert
Whipple, Virginia Tumlin to Rob-
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Helen Kirkpatrick, president of
the day students, '3 8-'39, married
Lieutenant v Carmack, of Langley
Field, Va., September 23.

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Campus Puzzles

By B. J. O'BRIEN

The fifty-first year of A. S. C.
is well under way and things gen-
erally are in somewhat of a stew
. . . Not beef but somewhat brief
... In the first place, several mys-
teries have been cleared up. First
of all, the mystery of "what hap-
pened to the typewriter, or who
exported the portable???" Dr.
Davidson, of the text-book writ-
ing Davidsons, missed his typewrit-
er from his office last May. After
reporting the theft to the police
and advertising "Come home, all
is forgiven," on the Buttrick bulle-
tin board (Euphonious, what?),
the missing' mechanism did not
turn up, and all hope was gone . . .
But! In August, 1939, in Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, a suspicious char-
acter with an obviously assumed
name, John Jones (we have an un-
cle, by that name) was apprehend-
ed, and on his miserable person was
found a wallet with the name of a
resident of DeKalb County, and
also, although not exactly in his
hip pocket, the or rather a type-
writer ... Do you tie that up?
The serial numbers on the t. w.
were discovered to be those of none
other than that long sought by Dr.
D. And so, to make a short story
long, he and the typew. were joy-
fully united, and lived happily
ever after. . . .
Lights out

The next mystery, children, is
"The Bloodcurdling Scream, or,
Who Ate Too Much Pie???" Re-
bekah Scott was cradled in the
blissful arms of Morpheus one
night last week, and suddenly there
arose a piercing shriek that curled
the hair of anyone close. There
was much scurrying to and fro,
and several claims of having seen

ried to James Teaford and lives in
Osceola, Ark.

And there arc others to be an-
nounced!

The Agnes Scott News
Cordially Invites
The College Community

To Coffee Tonight
In the Murphey Candler
Building

a tall man in a black cape, but
these rumors were found to have
no basis, when it was discovered
that the emitter of the scream was
only an harrassed junior dreaming
of steak smothered in onions. The
scream resulted when someone was
about to take it away from her.

The new telephone system has
given some cause to confusion.
Sophie dialed her father's number
the other night, and when someone
answered, she said "Daddy?"
Imagine her chagrin when a male
voice answered, "First Floor,
Science Hall, Dr. Christian speak-
ing." . . . And on the other side,
when Miss Gilchrist answered the
phone with "Science Hall," a fem-
inine voice queried, "Could you
give me an appointment for a
manicure, please?" . . .
History ooo

The freshmen have not disap-
pointed us this year with their ex-
pected naivetes. . . . One got off
two in a row. . . . When asked
what heresy was, she replied, "It's
what your father leaves you when
he dies." . . . On being asked to
explain the succession of kings, she
said, "That's when one king fol-
lows another." . . .
No comment

And now for the prize episode
at the A. A. fair. Mr. Cunning-
ham, on being solicited to ride the
primitive merry-go-round, shook
his head and said, "Only people
with nothing in their head can
ride on that. If a person has any-
thing in his head and rides on-
that, it will go round and round,
and he will fall off." And that was
said immediately after Dr. McCain
had ridden, and afterwards had
staggered off unscathed!!

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and I can't even find a copy of the book! Well fer
goodnes sakes . . . quit crying, Mary. They're got a
lot of copies down at Rich's . . . and only 75c, too.
The next book we've got to read is Mill On the Floss
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and stop all this rushing around at the last minute?

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1939

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Baby Photos
Help Campaign

The hands of the clock turned
back Monday night when dignified
professors and dignified campus
leaders appeared in various undig-
nified picture poses to the extreme
merriment of incredulous students
at the Christian Association baby
show.

Dr. McCain himself was pic-
tured with thoughtful brow and
arm planted firmly on a couch,
his every attitude befitting his
present prestige. Katherine Patton,
in a phenomenal pose, appeared as
a cherubic babe without dignity or
very much else (in the way of
clothing). A very fairylike little
girl gowned in a huge ballet skirt
with a magic wand, whase identity
at first was a little baffling, proved
to be no other than the President
of Student Government, Henrietta
Thompson.

A more stately note was added
to the occasion on the appearance
of Miss Gooch at the tender age
of eighteen, wearing her first eve-
ning dress. The darling little girl
with the pensive eyes was Miss
Janef Preston, probably thinking
of her doll, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Miss Hunter, dressed in pants,
astonished the students with her
ability to be a convincing boy. A
bit embarrassed even at such an
early age, Mr. Dieckmann looked
as though he would squirm out of
the picture at any minute. The
gentleman wearing a jaunty cap
and guarded by a Negro nurse was
Mr. Stukes. Helen Carson, Caro-
lyn Forman, Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn, Dr. Hayes, Mary Hollings-
worth and Miss Gaylord were also
included in the exhibition.

Fifteen Seniors
Attain Honor Rating

Fifteen members of last year's
junior class are among the thirty-
one who won honors last year, Dr.
McCain announced in chapel Sat-
urday.

Members of the present senior
class on the honor roll are: Eliza-
beth Alderman, Atlanta; Evelyn
Baty, Birmingham; Ruth Eyles,
Atlanta; Carolyn Forman, Bir-
mingham; Mary Evelyn Francis,
Clearwater, Fla.; Mary Matthews,
Smyrna; Sophie Montgomery, De-
catur; Eva Ann Pirkle, Atlanta;
Jane Salters, Florence, S. C; Ruth
Slack, Decatur; Louise Sullivan,
Decatur; Henrietta Thompson,
Atlanta; and Violet Jane Watkins,
Nashville, Tenn.

Members of the present junior
class on the honor roll include:
Sabine Brumby, Clearwater, Fla.;
Sara M. Lee, Danville, Ky.; Beat-
rice Shamos, Decatur; Betty Stev-
enson, Atlanta; Mary Bon Utter-
bach, Louisville, Ky.; Ida Jane
Vaughan, Jenkins, Ky.; and Doris
Weinkle, Atlanta.

Members of the present sopho-
more class on the honor roll are:
Lavinia Brown, West Union, S. C;
Gertrude Cohen, Atlanta; Edith
Dale, Columbia, Tenn.; Billie
Davis, Brazil; Susan Dyer, Peters-
burg, W. Va.; Mary Lightfoot El-
can, Bainbridge, Ga.; Jeanne Os-
borne, Atlanta; Martha Roberts,
Florence, Ala.; and Frances Tuc-
ker, Laurel, Miss.

Alabama Singers
Give Concert

Mr. Johnson Praises
University Croup

"Uncle Tom" Garner, Director
of the University of Alabama Glee
Club, brought his group of fifty
singers to the Agnes Scott campus
last night. The concert was held
in the college gymnasium.

The program included:

Here's to the Colors of Crimson
White, Ludebuehl; Medley from
the South, Pike; Prologue, from "I
Pagliacci," Leoncavallo; Lullaby,
Brahms-Zander; Piano: Rondo
Capriccioso, Mendelssohn; Suomi's
Song, Mair; Rolling Down to Rio,
German; Pale Moon, Logan; Ac-
cordion: Tales from the Vienna
Woods, Strauss; Summer Time,
Rodney Wiggin; Last Night, Kjer-
ulf; Echo Song, Lassus; Only a
Rose, Friml; The Vagabond Song,
Friml; Alma Mater, "Annie Lisle.' ,

Tom Gardner, Director.

Raymond Cox, Accompanist.

Mr. Lewis Johnson described
the Alabama boys as "the most
talented and gentlemanly bunch
ever to sing to the Agnes Scott au-
dience." This club, making its
eastern tour for the thirty-fifth
season, has sung at Agnes Scott
more than any other one glee club.

The university boys were enter-
tained in the Murphey Candler
building after the performance.

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Hours

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offered at Oglethorpe University.
It'll take each one six years.

It would take one person 141
years to complete all of the courses
offered by the University of Texas.

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In almost all girls' colleges, the first month is spent in
"getting things straight" or in "starting the ball rolling"
once more. But, as always, Agnes Scott is different, for

socially speaking, the men's insti-

tutions in these parts already have
the ball going at a rather dizzy
pace when the girls arrive.

We refer mainly to the various
fraternity rush parties. At Emory,
the Sigma Cbi's gave a tea dance
Friday afternoon. Lillian Guden-
rath, Elizabeth Jenkins, Georgia
Tate, Mary Craig Roberts, and
Harriet Vaughn were among those
there. Then Friday night, the
SAE's entertained with a house
dance. It seems that they are not-
ed for their hospitable attitude to-
ward Agnes Scott freshmen, and
this affair bore out the fact as
Dot Holloran, Marjorie Wilson,
Mary Klingensmith, Betty Hender-
son, Iyllis Lee, and Betty Broughen
were seen there. Keeker Newton,
Val Nielsen, Marian Franklin, Sara
Copeland, Tade Merrill, and Vir-

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ginia Webb Stanley were also
among those present.

Sunday night, there was an ATO
Barbecue, and from all reports,
Lib Barrett, Rowena Barringer,
Sue Phillips, Lillian Schwencke,
and Annette Franklin really went
for that barbecue in a big way.

Rush week at the Dental College
drew Mary Lang Gill, Boots Moore,
Nell Pinner, Betsy Banks, Kay
Rhodes, Elizabeth Beasley, Mary
Lou Longino, Nina May Snead,
Eloise Lennard, Mildred Joseph,
Frances Abbot, Annette Franklin,
Olivia White, Betty Henderson,
and Gary Home to Psi Omega,
Delta Sig and Zip Social functions
at various times during the week.

Round and About . . . Edith
Schwartz went to Athens for the
Georgia-Citadel game Saturday . . .
Miriam Waters, Margaret Downie,
and Ann Paisley had dinner at Co-
lumbia Seminary Thursday night
. . . Oh's and ah's over T. Dorsey
from Lib Barrett, Flonnie Ellis,
Margaret Murchison, Sue and Mar-
ian Phillips, Helen Jester, Beryl
Healy, and Val Nielsen . . . An or-
chid, quite figuratively of course,
to Olivia White this week for a
striking ensemble consisting of an
olive green skirt topped by a two-
toned rust and natural suede jacket.

Blackfriars Selects
Life Members

While Blackfriars was selecting
its Hall of Fame this week, Eta
Sigma Phi was busy choosing new
members.

Life members of Blackfriars,
elected for outstanding work in
the club, are Jeanne Flynt, Penny
Simonton, Evelyn Sears, Kay Ken-
nedy, Julia Sewell, Miss Carrie
Phinney Latimer, Miss Roberta
Winter, and Mrs. Louis Regenstein
(Helen Moses).

Newly-elected members of Eta
Sigma Phi are Sabine Brumby, Jo
Cates, Sophie Montgomery, Louise
Sams, Dorothy Travis, Julia Lan-
caster, Mar,y Dale Drennan, Susan
Dyer, Suzanne Kaulbach, Betty
Medlock, and Olivia White.

New System of Sprinklers
Protects Students from Fire Danger

By ANNE ENLOE

Are you the observant type? Then you couldn't have
missed those pipes running around over the ceiling of your
bedroom like scared mice. You probably wondered why they
came to a sudden stop at intervals and then off onto a tan-
gent that looks like a small sized dynamo. The secret of it
all is that they are the essential parts of Agnes Scott's revo-
lutionary fire-protection system.

The four little gadgets in your
room are only a few among the
three thousand scattered through-
out Inman, Main, and Rebekah.
Each individual sprinkler covers a
circle with a radius of eight feet
when it is turned on; and all that
is needed to turn it on is enough
heat to melt the tiny fusable link
that connects it with the big six-
inch pipe that brings a water pres-
sure of fifty-two pounds from the
city water supply to the campus.

Every space in the three build-
ings is protected by a sprinkler
head from the closet under the
stairs in Rebekah where Wesley
keeps the mops to the very tip end
of the attic above fourth floor
Main. So it is easy to understand
why the , whole system cost Agnes
Scott $l'6,000. But don't feel bad
about it, because it decreases the
insurance rate by about $700 a
year.

All this gigantic business began
on the twentieth of June when the
engineers began measuring very
minutely all the space in the dorm-
itories, and Mr. Cunningham says
they did not miss an inch. And it
ended on about August 20. But in
the meantime the campus looked
like anything but a dignified col-
lege campus. It looked more like a
W. P. A. job, except that things
were really buzzing along. In fact,
ditches nine feet deep were buzz-
ing all over the quadrangle and
along the street in front of Inman.
And it was such a polished job
when it was finally finished that
we dare you to find the scars.

So it all boils down to this: if
ever you hear a peculiar rattling
noise coming into your room, grab
your bathrobe and run in a quiet
orderly fashion; no confusion,
please to the nearest exit; be-
cause that means that somewhere
a sprinkler is flowing, and some-
where a fire is burning, but there
is no need to worry since we are
being protected by the very best
fire-fighting system available. And
it is a most interesting affair aside
from its value. It is one of Mr.
Cunningham's main interests and
he would like very much to have
you come to see him in his office
if there is any question you would
like explained.

Alumnae Association
Fetes New Students

Entertaining of new students
continued last week with the
Alumnae Association tea at the
Anna Young Alumnae House Fri-
day afternoon.

Receiving the hundred and sixty
guests were Mrs. Murdock Equen,
president of the Association; Miss
Carrie Scandrett, Mrs. Schley How-
ard, Jr., Mrs. Stillwell Robison,
and Dr. J. R. McCain. Mrs. D. B.
Donaldson and Mrs. Bonner Spear-
man poured tea.

Other alumnae assisting were:
Mrs. Bob Whipple (Aileen Short-
ley), Mrs. Roy Rowlett (Doug
Lyle), Miss Virginia Cofer, Miss
Amelia Nickels, Mrs. L. G. Bag-
gett, Mrs. Philip Fry, Mrs. J. M.
B. Bloodworth, Mrs. Donald Hast-
ings, and Mrs. Al Matthews.

Atlantan Tours Country
On Less Than $12.00

Audrey Strickland, of the At-
lanta Evening School, spent a
cheap vacation, according to the
Evening Signal. "He went to Cali-
fornia during the past summer,
touching at towns in northern
Mexico, attending the San Fran
cisco Fair, and returning by way
of the World's Fair in New York
all for only $11.80."

He was hungry "only a few
times," he says. "His tickets to
the big show in San Francisco were
provided by a former Atlanta man
who is on the Fair Commission.
But Audrey says he didn't even go
by Hollywood."

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939

This Time, Propaganda
Begins at Home

The war in Europe is a long way off
from Atlanta and Agnes Scott, but wisps
of smoke from its guns reach our nostrils
with surprising sharpness now and then.
The Georgia National Guard has been in-
creased by 40 per cent . . . Atlanta women
are making Red Cross bandages . . . and
the Agnes Scott News mail is swelling
with propaganda.

Propaganda, like poison, is harmless as
long as it is recognized as such and not
swallowed. Pamphlets from the "German
Library of Information," and mimeo-
graphed sheets denouncing an American
publisher as a "dirty Nazi," are obviously
what they are. Even the "atrocity" stor-
ies in the newspapers apologize for them-
selves with such prefaces as "it was ru-
mored" and "it is believed." This is an
improvement over conditions in the last
war, when every newspaper in the coun-
try had the Germans decapitating Bel-
gian infants. Propaganda makes good
reading, and is all right as long as we
know its purpose.

But the set of our minds lends itself
admirably to propaganda which is not in-
tended to dupe us by the agencies which
deliver it to us. We have made up our
minds which side is right; therefore, we
believe all the "news" dispatches from
that side, and snicker at those from the
other. Thus we make our own propa-
ganda.

In 1917, American youth set out joy-
ously on an expedition to Kill the Kaiser.
We leaped into the war with a will, be-
cause our mental set was wholly partisan.

Perhaps we can keep out of this one by
ordering our attitude as strictly as we are
attempting to regulate our trade policy.

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

.ampus Lamera

Collegians Still Want Peace,
Favor War Trade

U. S. college students some 1,400,000 strong
returned to classrooms and campuses last month
amid a loud chorus of warnings and implorings.
They were warned by the press and the presidents
to maintain an open and thinking attitude on the
present European war. They were implored to
use their every influence to keep the U. S. out of
the war and to bend every energy to a sincere
study of the worlds problems and how they can
be met.

From the surveys that have appeared to date,
it appears that the average collegian has heeded
these warnings and these commands. He main-
tains that he does not want to go to war, that he
wants the U. S. to remain neutral. But he seems
to have no objection to the U. S. selling goods of
all kinds of the warring nations, so long as it is in
a cash-and-carry basis. First real objection to the
President's proposed neutrality act changes was
made at St. John's University, where 65 0 students
signed a letter to the Chief Executive protesting
"a new partisan neutrality act without first con-
sulting the people through the medium of a refer-
endum." This movement has not yet gained much
headway.

College newspaper editorial opinion, though
about evenly divided, seems leaning toward the
President's proposal that the neutrality act be
changed to provide for sale of materials to bellig-
erents that can pay for it and transport it from
our sfwres.*

The arguments of those who oppose the change
arc neatly summarized by the St. John's University
Record: "If the embargo were lifted business
would undoubtedly flourish in America for a
while, that is as long as Britain and France could
pay cash. Britain and France, because Germany
would never be allowed to purchase here. After
England and France could not pay cash, our loans
to the democracies would almost inevitably begin
again. And there is the danger! That is how we
started last time."

For the affirmative, the University of Iowa
Daily Iowan states the case: "Congress has two
facts to go by. (1) We want peace. (2) We'd
fight or a substantial minority of us would if
defeat began for the . democracies. The logical
conclusion to this line of reasoning is lifting the
arms embargo now. (ACP)

Peace Threat

A year to a day after Chamberlain returned
from Munich, announcing "peace for our time,"
Germany and Russia, in a pact dividing Poland,
offered England and France peace on totalitarian
terms. With Poland gone, with Estonia yielding
Russia military control of the Baltic, with For-
eign Minister Ciano called from Italy to Berlin:
disillusioned London headlines screamed "Peace
Threat."

Embargo Battle

Administration leaders predict the passage of
the President's revised neutrality bill within three
weeks. Sentiment for repealing the arms embargo
has grown throughout the country and in Con-
gress. The isolation bloc recently shifted the fight
from the embargo to the 90 day credit provision
of the "cash and carry" bill. Majority whip,
Senator Minton, of Indiana, declared that this
measure could probably be changed soon to suit
the strictest isolationist.

Death and Taxes

The British doggedness in the present war was
shown most clearly by the way the House of
Commons took the stiff dose of the new war
budget. The income tax, with a standard rate of
37.5% for 1940-41, was the highest in history.
This tax would begin for single individuals at
approximately $495 per year, and for married
men with three children at $1,5 84 per year.

American Safety Zone

Concrete proposals rather than the vague sug-
gestions of many recent inter-American confer-
ences characterized the opening of the neutrality
conference of 21 American republics meeting at
Panama. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles'
proposal of an extension of the territorial waters
of the American republics would prohibit bellig-
erent land, sea, and air activities within a 300
mile "American safety zone," to be patrolled
largely by the United States fleet.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis,
died September 23, in England. He was 83, an
exile from a Germany which had burned his
books, confiscated his fortune, and persecuted
his later years. His ideas, despite criticism of their
unscientific nature, had already proved of such
incalculable influence on modern thought as not
likely to be greatly hindered by such crude op-
position.

Spy Hunt

The present active anti-espionage campaign
threatens to become an indiscriminate and hyster-
ical spy hunt. Hundreds of Americans have writ-
ten their suggestions to the F. B. I. Chairman
Dies, of the Committee on un-American activi-
ties, asserted that the Justice Department, under
orders from the President, was preparing to dis-
solve the American Communist party and re-
move its members from government posts. At-
torney General Frank Murphy denied that the
administration had given him such orders, but
warned of coming action against "conspicuous
foreign agents." (ACP.)

It Can Be Done

The reading of the Honor Roll Saturday
especially the record list claimed by the
senior class was as heartening an occa-
sion as anyone devoted to the growth of
Agnes Scott could experience. Not be-
cause the fifteen seniors thus recognized
constituted the longest class honor list in
the history of the college; mere numbers
mean little in such a case. The inspiring
fact is that those seniors are not book-
worms, confined in a narrow, selfish little
world of digging for A's. Nearly every
one of them is outstanding in another field
on the campus.

Six are members of Mortar Board, of
which the chief requirement for member-
ship is service to the college. Ten are
heads of campus organizations, and three
are second in their chosen fields of activ-
ity. All of them hold offices.

To those of us who watch for every in-
dication of growth toward the Agnes Scott
ideal, the reading of that list of all-round
campus citizens was an event amounting
to a mile-stone in the life of the college.

And to those harried ones of us who
consider ourselves too weighted down with
responsibility to indulge in studying, it
was a revelation.

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Ceorgia Hunt Gathers American Universities

Campus Quotes Profit from War

A democratic Agnes Scott cher- "The American position on aca-

ishes the value of student opinion. demic freedom has brought to our

Hearing the usual ready comment universities men of great distinc-

on campus changes, we are moved tion whose race or whose views are

to present samples of the enthus- held to disqualify them from car-

iastic remarks inspired by the new ry m on tne sea rch for truth in

telephone system. certain other countries. It may

Margaret Hopkins, '40, says: "I turn out tnat Hitler and Musso-
think that the new telephone sit- lini wil1 be the g reat builders of
uation is an improvement in every - tne American universities." Uni-
way. The only trouble is that the versity of Chicago's President Rob-
new students cannot appreciate ert M - Hutchins sees at least one
how wonderful it is to have free ra Y of sunshine in the present
telephones through the dormi- European situation,
tories." "The alert and well-balanced

Sabine Brumby, '41, agrees: "I " ud ^ r , in this extraordinary era

think it is a wonderful improve- should 1 once m the past, the

ment for our college. I think that P'ent and the future, because he

i r has a better chance for real pers-

lt can be a cooperative project for . , v

,1 r , n i , r * . . n i . n pective than almost any one else,

the students, because we will have _, i i TT ^ n

r i <i i ^ Robert Moses told Union College
an opportunity for being thought- . 111

ful of others." students they balance present

' . . _ > ' , events against the strong lessons of

tloise Lennara, 40, is equally l ^ 1

, r 1 T t 1 - e historical events,

hopeful: I think it is a step of

improvement indeed. If people get in touch with girls here. Many

will be considerate of others we of the problems of the new system

will have no trouble with our re- will be remedied when those op-

stricted telephone system. 'Con- erating the switchboard become

sideration' will eliminate any familiar with its management. ,,

problems which may arise." Elise Smith, '42, adds: '% too,

Frances Breg, '41, says: "Having think that the new system is a step

one telephone number unifies the of progress, and I feel that, because

campus telephone system and at it is proving so helpful to the stu-

the same time eliminates inconven- dents, we ought to express to the

ience for outsiders who wish to administration our appreciation."

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV. Wednesday, October 4, 1939 No. 2

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Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

Virginia ClO^et Betty Jane Stevenson Lib Barrett

Elaine Stubbs Current History Editor Olivia Whlto

Assistant Editors Anne Martin * nn e Frierson

Florence Ellis Sports Editor Assistant Society Editors

Advertising Manager Hazel Solomon

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Copy Editor Jeannette Carroll Circulation Manager

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Georgia Hunt .

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939

Z115

No. 3

Thompson
Plans Emphasis
On Honor

Student Government
Names Minor Executives,
Announces Programs

Revealing plans for special
chapel programs this fall,
Henrietta Thompson an-
nounced yesterday that the
Student Government Asso-
ciation has scheduled Honor
Week for October 24-28.
Betsy Kendrick, assisted by
Jane Taylor and Martha Boone, is
chairman of the committee in
charge of plans.

For the first speaker, Student
Government will collaborate with
the Christian Association to pre-
sent an Atlanta minister. Other
speakers include four students, a
faculty member, and an alumna.

Jean Dennison, in charge of
plans for the second week of No-
vember, stated that Mrs. Mildred
Morgan, authority on men's and
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Faculty Relaxes
At Bacon Bat

More than seventy-five fac-
ulty and administration members
relaxed intelligently at the annual
"bacon bat" Saturday at Harrison
Hut, where second-year members
featured mosquitoes and steak for
the entertainment of the newcom-
ers to their group.

Newcomers on the picnic were
Misses Thelma Albright, Loetta
Willis, Isabella Wilson, Roberta
Winter, Mildred Hagy, Agnes
Reagan, Mary Hollingsworth,
Amelia Nickels, Lou Pate, Mamie
Lee Ratliff, Mary Pennel Simon-
ton, Mary Ellen Whetsell, and
Mrs. M. M. Appling.

The hostesses were Misses Mil-
dred Mell, Kathryn Glick, Evelyn
Houck, Charlotte Hunter, Laura
Steele, Jessie Harriss, Mildred Mc-
Elreath, Mrs. Margaret Hartsook,
and Mrs.' Annie Mae Smith.

Mr. S. G. Stukes, above,
and Dr. Philip Davidson,
right, who leave Saturday
with other members of the
Advisory Faculty Council of
the University Center Group.
The group will visit technical
schools from Atlanta to Bos-
ton.

Paper Announces Tryouts
For Reporters

The Agnes Scott News
announces tryouts for the
reporting staff, to be given
from today, October 11, to
next Wednesday, October
18, at noon. Students in-
terested in trying out will
sign the list on the back
bulletin board in Buttrick
between now and noon Fri-
day. They will be assigned
stories which must be in
the News box on the second
floor of Murphey Candler
building by Wednesday at
noon. This is a new tryout
method for the News, and
is considered by the editors
to be a fairer and more
valid test than that for-
merly used.

All students except
freshmen are eligible.

Delegates Visit

Schools

In Survey

A ten-day tour of techni-
cal schools from Atlanta to
Boston will take Dr. Philip
Davidson and Mr. S. Guerry
Stukes from the campus Oc-
tober 14-24. As members of
the Advisory Faculty Council of
the University Center Group, they
will visit institutions where coop-
erative action, similar to that be-
ing developed by the. University
Center Group in this vicinity, is
being created.

The Council is particularly in-
terested in professional schools
such as those of public adminis-
tration, because it hopes in time
to develop services of that type in
this region. Explaining this plan,
Dr. Davidson said that there is a
great need for them in the South,
there being "no graduate school
of business or public administra-
tion from Duke to Tulane."

Each of the six schools in the
University Center Group will send
two representatives on the trip.
Its members are Emory, Georgia
School of Technology, Columbia
Seminary, High Museum and
School of Art, University of Geor-
gia, and Agnes Scott.

Stunt Plans
Progress Rapidly

With the fate of the black cat
for the 1939 season still shrouded
in mystery, the freshmen and
sophomore classes continue prep-
arations for the annual stunt classic
which takes place Saturday, Oc-
tober 14, in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium.

Both class stunt chairmen re-
port rapid progress in plans for
the event. Mary Louise Palmour,
sophomore chairman, announces
that "All sophomores are wishing
they were twins so they could work
twice as hard." Mary Louise also
insists that she heard the black cat
say that he liked his abode on sec-
ond floor Main so well that he
hoped to remain there.

The reports from Clara Roun-
tree, freshman chairman, are,
"We're having a big time working
on the stunt and hope to win. Just
watch our smoke!!" The practices
of the stunts are also going for-
ward, together with the daily pep
meetings held by each class. Real-
izing the value of singing to the
success of the stunt, the cheer
leaders are concentrating their ef-
forts for effective cheering. The
committee heads are also busy
planning decorations, costumes,
and scenery.

Lecture Program
Opens at Emory

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Appears First

Cornelia Otis Skinner will be
first on the Emory University Lec-
ture Association program for
1939-40, Dr. R. H. McLean, ad-
viser of the Association, announc-
ed last week. She will present her
costume drama, "The Empress
Eugenie, " wiph several character
sketches, in the Glenn Memorial
Auditorium October 21.

The complete program, as an-
nounced by Dr. McLean, includes
five presentations:

October 21 Miss Skinner.

November 27 The Roth Quar-
tet from Budapest: Chamber
music.

January 17 Hugh Gibson: Lec-
ture, "What's Happening in Eu-
rope ?"

February 19 Captain Sir Hu-
bert Wilkins: Lecture, "Over and
Under the Polar Regions by Air-
plane and Submarine."

April 4 Julien Bryan: Lecture,
"Poland Today."

Special season tickets for Agnes
Scott faculty and students will be
available at the book store after
October 15.

The Emory Lecture Association
is headed by Clark Case, president;
W. R. Gignilliat, vice president;
James Rhodes, secretary, and M.
Earl Phillips, treasurer.

Visitors Tell of
Amsterdam Conference

Eleanor Shelton, of Wesleyan,
and George Clary, of Emory, will
speak at the Sunday evening Ves-
per Program, October 15. They
will tell about their experiences at
the Amsterdam Conference.

Chapel Program Marks
Citizenship Day

Eliza King Speaks in Chapel With
Evelyn Baty, Eleanor Hutchens

In cooperation with the Education Association of Georgia,
Agnes Scott will join in a state-wide program for Citizenship
Day tomorrow.

While the State program is to recognize only those young
citizens who have reached the age of twenty-one during the

past year, campus recognition will

Eliza King

Miss Preston
Opens Contest

Miss Janef Preston, professor of
English, announces that students
interested in the annual Louise
McKinney Book Award may now
start libraries.

Given at Commencement each
year, the award is based upon the
discrimination in the .girl's choos-
ing, and upon her understanding
of the books as shown by her in-
formal discussion of them before a
committee from the English De-
partment.

The minimum requirement for
the collection is fifteen books.
While gifts may be included, they
must be representative of the girl's
tastes.

The fund was established by the
English Department and interested
alumnae to continue the influence
of Miss Louise McKinney, Profes-
sor Emeritus of English. For many
years Miss McKinney was respon-
sible for stimulating interest and
love for books. In the days when
the library had little money for
purely pleasurable books she col-
lected money herself and added
books for the students. Last year's
winner was Miss Henrietta Black-
well, of the class of 1939.

Avon Players Return,
Present "As You Like It"

The Avon Players will return to
the campus October 17, under the
sponsorship of Blackfriars, bring-
ing "As You Like It" and a new
leading lady to Bucher Scott gym-
nasium.

The new player, who will have
Rosalind's role, is from Los Angeles
and has played in Chicago stock
companies for several years. Ex-
cept for her, Tuesday night's cast
will be the one which played "The
Taming of the Shrew" here last
year.

be directed toward all those who
are newly twenty-one and all those
who will be twenty-one by the
time of the State and National
elections next November 5. There
are 113 Agnes Scott students in-
cluded in this group.

A chapel program led by Dr.
McCain will emphasize the prac-
tical side of becoming voting citi-
zens; that is, voting. Evelyn Baty
and Eleanor Hutchens will make
brief talks on Citizenship Train-
ing in a Democracy and Under the
Dictators, and Requirements for
Voting and Registration Proce-
dure. Eliza King, '3 8, will dis-
cuss her work in the educational
field of N. Y. A. (National Youth
Administration) .

A pamphlet prepared by the
Georgia League of Women Voters
which explains the technicalities of
voting and lists the national and
state officials to be selected in the
next election, will be given to all
of those students who are eligible
to vote next year. In order to vote
in the November election, Geor-
gians must register six months be-
forehand.

Broadcast Features
Miss Carlson

Miss Helen Carlson, discussing
the "Makers of Democracy," will
be guest speaker on the college
broadcast series this afternoon.
Laura Sale will be the first student
to impersonate the "Voice of Ag-
nes Scott."

On last week's program, Miss
Emma May Laney spoke on Chau-
cer's Troilus and Cressyde as the
first modern novel in English.

Through its new feature, the
Amplifier, the Alumnae Associa-
tion reported adventures of Mar-
tha Long, '3 8, who is working as
head of the Filing Bureau in the
American Consul's office at Stutt-
gart, Germany, and of Luoy Hess,
an exchange student from Ger-
many in '3 5 and '36, who is doing
graduate work in English litera-

Coming This Week

Oct. 11, 5 P. M. Miss
Carlson's talk on college
broadcast.

Oct. 12, 10 A. M. Citi-
zenship meeting in chapel.

Oct. 13, 3:30 P. M.
Hockey games.

Oct. 14, 10 A. M.
Chapel speaker from Latin
America.

Oct. 14, 8 P. M. Black
Cat Stunt.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939

Hockey Practice

D

evelops Brain, Brawn

By ANNE MARTIN

Hockey season officially opens Friday, the thirteenth, but
the potential players feel that the season began and prac-
tically finished them during the past few weeks of prac-
tice. The game requires a generous display of brain as well
as brawn brain to keep out of
new players' way and brawn to do
others before they do you. Ac-
cording to rumors on the campus,
and they aren't gentle rumors,
either one swift gallop down the
athletic field contributes one
charley horse and a definite im-
pediment to the diaphragm of even
the hardy veterans of former sea-
sons. One freshman who was un-
able to cheer at a pep meeting ex-
plained her weakened condition by
saying she used to think baseball
was her favorite sport until she
came to Agnes Scott. In other
words, despite the horrors of the
fray, now it's hockey! Of all the
players questioned, only one Mar-
garet Downie declared that she
had escaped unscathed. And if
you see a stray sophomore wander-
ing around in the freshness of the
morning that is, before eight
o'clock she will probably be Gay
Currie who believes in training
early. The first games will be be-
tween the juniors and seniors, and
freshmen and sophomores; and
since this is stunt week-end, class
spirit is running wild. Those in-
terested in who's who on the class
teams might watch Forman, Stix-
rud, Milner, Fisher, Vaughn, Will-
statter, Hasty, and Freshman
Hirsch. Class managers are Polly
Ware, Nancy Willstatter, and
Doris Hasty.

Presidents* Council
Entertains New Students

At a meeting Thursday, the
Presidents' Council planned a party
which will introduce new students
to campus organizations. Each
club, organization, and major as-
sociation, will send a representa-
tive to discuss campus organiza-
tions with the new students and
enable them to choose extra-cur-
ricula activities.

In order to avoid conflicts, the
council planned a schedule for club
meetings throughout the year.

Atlanta B. S. U. Stages
Recreation for Freshmen

The Baptist Student Union of
Atlanta sponsored a mock football
game at the First Baptist Church
recreation hall October 6 in honor
of Baptist freshmen of nearby col-
leges.

After the losing team enter-
tained the winners with a stage
performance, Dr. Fuller, of the
First Baptist Church, spoke.

Miss fugene Ragstal was in
charge of the entertainment, and
Ann Fisher and Dennis Goodson
were social chairmen.

College Editors

Comment on War

Majority of Opinions
Favor Neutrality

This fall some 1,400,000 stu-
dents have returned to colleges and
universities throughout the United
States. With the appearance of
the first issues of their collegiate
newspapers they find cheerful ed-
itorials of welcome while others are
grave and fearful in tone. The sub-
ject of the latter type editorials is
the World War II.

College newspaper editors urge
students to guard against propa-
ganda, to watch the diplomatic
movements of t'he world, to study
the causes of the war, and to use
their influence to keep the United
States out of war.

According to an editorial in the
Technique of Georgia Tech, col-
lege men are assuming a calm, in-
different attitude toward war hys-
teria. Tech men believe that we
can save our democracy by staying
at home and remaining at peace un-
less the United States be attacked.

Many college editors are mak-
ing good use of the analogy be-
tween our' battles of the gridiron
and Europe's ' battles on land, sea,
and air to point out the advan-
tages of U. S. collegians over the
youth of other lands. Here's how
the University of Tulsa Collegian
puts it:

"Today, students find bloodshed
and heroes enough on the football
field. Today, boys working their
way through colleges as a result of
the last war know that a war boom
is a fickle, unstable thing. Today
co-eds realize that glamorous uni-
formed tcoops lead to very unglam-
orous breadlines."

College girls at Winthrop also
de-glamorize war on the editorial
page of the Johnsonian.

The editor of The Parley Voo,
organ of Converse College, urges
that we face the issue squarely,
knowing facts and keeping our
heads, realizing that whatever our
ultimate position, it is for the good
of the nation.

In a word, the consensus of
opinion is that the United States
should stay out of the European
conflict.

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Organizations
Announce
I ryouts, Plans

B. 0. Z.

Candidates for membership in
BOZ must submit their try-outs
within the next three weeks. Any
original narrative writing should
be handed to members of the club
or put in the Aurora box in the
Maid's Office in Buttrick and
marked "BOZ Try-Out." Fresh-
men are not eligible for member-
ship until the spring quarter.

Glee Club

The following girls have been
admitted to Glee Club as a result
of recent try-outs: Margaret Er-
win, Dorothy Hopkins,- Grace Har-
bour, Ann Gellerstedt, Jane Cof-
fer, Helen MacFadyen, Mary Lin-
kel, Margaret Shaw, Sarah New-
land, and Evelyn Watson.

Blackfriars

On October 17th, at 7:00
o'clock, Blackfriars will hold its
regular meeting in Miss Gooch's
studio. A one-act play, "All's
Fair," will be rehearsed at the
meeting and will be presented later
for the Atlanta Chapter of Agnes
Scott Alumnae. ,

Poetry Club

V. J. Watkins, president of
Poetry Club, announces that try-
outs for membership in the club
must be handed in during the
week of October 16th. All stu-
dents except freshmen are eligible
for membership and try-outs must
consist of two or more poems of
any type.

Cotillion Club

Cotillion Club admitted thirty-
five new members as a result of
last week's try-outs, bringing the
total membership to fifty-seven.
Frances Abbott, club president, re-
ports more candidates this year
than ever before.

The girls chosen for member-
ship are Carrie Gene Ashley, Al-
lene Barron, Katsy Blair, Mary Vir-
ginia Brown, Ann Bumstead, Mic-
key Calcutt, Jane Coffer, Alice
Cheeseman, Doris Dalton, Patsy
Fleming, Lillian Gish, Dusty
Hance, Sue Heldman, Ann Hills-
man, Edith Henegar, Sally Hollis,
Betty Henderson, Elizabeth Jen-
kins, Leona Leavitt, Mary Lou
Longino, Judy Means, Ann Martin,
Lutie Moore, Margaret Murchison,
Barbara Lee Murlin, Margaret Nix,
Mary Louise Palmour, Nora Percy,
Elta Robinson, Katherine Rhodes,
Margaret Smith, Virginia Stanley,
Jane Stillwell, Olivia White and
Elsie York.

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Mystery of the Week: Someone,
or several people, have an irrepressi-
ble urge to collect pillowcases. For
it seems that when the girls at
Boyd turn back the kivers to crawl
into their nice clean beds at night,
their pillow is discovered stark
naked. No pillowcase at all. Sev-
eral measures have been adopted,
and if your room-mate turns up
with several new white dresses
with short sleeves, do not hesitate
to throw the suspicious eye at her.
Or even throw your pillow. The
mystery must be solved. Maybe it's
a bunch of choosy moths. Or
may|pe they (the p. c.'s, not the
moths) will turn up at Hallowe'en.

Freshmen Follies: The class of
1943 is at it again! This time
they're up for acute distortion of
the handbook. One little fledgling
innocently stated that N. S. F. A.
stood for New Student's Faculty
Advisers! (Do you know what it
stands for? What about R. S.
V. P. and P. D. Q. Can you de-
cipher them? Well, all right!) But
the most convulsing of all was the
embryo poetess who finished the
Alma Mater:

"Still our hearts shall enshrine
thee,

Thou crown of the South,
With the memories of pleasures
foregone!"

How true, gulp!

Kebekah Rambles: You'll have
to hand it to the juniors for en-
durance. Hat walked into the
bathroom about midnight one
night last week and found one
member of the junior class in the
bathtub. The advocate of cleanli-
ness claimed she had been there
since ten-thirty trying to get
clean! Anyone who believes that
statement go stand on their head
three times and recite The Boy
Stood on the Burning Deck" back-
wards. . . . The girls on third Re-
bekah are intensely interested to
know whose clothesline is strung
so neatly across the door of the
b. r. that they hang themselves
every time thev enter.

Practical Joke of the Week:
Leaving phone numbers on doors,
which, when called, turn out to be
the county jail, the federal peni-

Pittsburgh Freshman
Revives Gulping Fad

We knew it would happen but
we'd hoped it wouldn't. The gulp-
ing season has been officially and
dramatically opened for another
college year and watch out for
your laurels, you "winners" of last
year!

First entry in the 1939-1940
derby is Franklin and Marshall
College's Jimmy Addy, a frosh
from Pittsburgh. For a mere 50-
cent piece (they were getting ten
dollar bills for stunts last year),
he calmly swallowed a shaker-full
of pepper and then not quite so
calmly sneezed a mighty sneeze.

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MacDonald Opens
Concert Ticket Sale

Mr. Marvin MacDonald will be
in Buttrick Hall Thursday, Octo-
ber 12, to sell tickets to the Artist
Concert Series.

Agnes Scott students may buy
their tickets at a reduced rate, and
pay for them in three installments.

This year's series includes such
famous singers as John Charles
Thomas and Kirsten Flagstad.

tentiary or something equally un-
popular.

The lost-and-found department
of the Southeastern Fair has been
doing a noble piece of work, they
tell us. The loudspeaker at the
grandstand suddenly blared forth
Friday night with "Philip David-
son Philip Davidson come to
the announcer's stand immediately;
your mother is waiting for you!"
At his age and station, too.

Then Evelyn Baty, Margaret
Hopkins, and Hat Stimson, catch-
ing the spirit of the thing, had the
announcer proclaim, "Louise
Hughston your room-mate is
looking for you!" Which is one
way of finding roomie.

The co-eds are taking their
status seriously, these autumn
nights. At Jeast, that's who we
HOPE the lads were who mean-
dered up to second floor Rebekah
one evening last week looking for
somebody, they said. Panic was
rife, especially among those who
were passing through the hall
NOT expecting company. Finally
a cool-headed Amazon shoved
them back down out of No-Man's-
Land into the safe confines of
Main.

COLLEGE GIRLS
Are "Allen's" Delight!

We have as much fun selecting
their wardrobes as they have wear-
ing them! See our complete selec-
tion for active sports, jaunts in
town, afternoon and evening.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1939

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Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

With a couple of yawns and three tiers of circles we greet
you. And in spite of 'all the snooping, eavesdropping, and
outright questioning that has been done, the surface of
Agnes Scott activities after hours has only been scratched.
To begin with, we must confess

that the only way to have checked
up on all those lucky girls who
went to the Ansley to hear T.
Dorsey would have been to install
an official register in the Rainbow
Room. Allie Malone's tea dance
and College Night were two func-
tions drawing a number of Agnes
Scott girls, not to mention private
dinners and such. Sara Copeland,
Pat Reasoner, Elta Robinson, Kay
Rhodes, Hazel Solomon, Mary Mc-
Phaul, Nell Pinner, Grace Ander-
son, Mary Lou Longino, Annie
Wilds, Harriet Ayers, Fan Pitman,
Olivia White, Lillian Gudenrath,
Ellen Stuart, Betsy Banks, Mar-
garet Hamilton, Dusty Hance,
Sarah Gray Hollis, Charlene Burke,
Marian and Sue Phillips, Mary
Klingensmith, Katsy Blair, Char-
lotte Shepherd, Eugenia Hailey,
Gary Home, and Carrie Gene
Ashley are among the number still
looking starry-eyed at the men-
tion of Jack Leonard vocals.

Also attracting Agnes Scott in
mass this week was the Southeast-
ern. Fair. To be specific, though,
ask Nina Mae Snead about all the
wonderful rides she took. Jean
Tucker, Grace Ward, Bette Bur-
dette, Helen Hale, Virginia Webb
Stanley, Louise Newton, and many
others were seen having a marve-
lous time either on mid-way or
jitterbugging to Gene Krupa's
music.

At the various fraternity houses
. . . Tade Merrill, Shirley Gatley,
Harriet Vaughn, Sara Copeland,
and Frances Butt in the company
of Sigma Chi's for Sunday supper
. . . Pat Reasoner at the KA house
Sunday, and Margaret Downie
there on Friday . . . Boots Moore,
Mary Lang Gill, Eloise Lennard,
and Mary Jmes Seagle at the
Delta Sig house dance . . . Irene
Gordon having Sunday dinner with
the Tech Chi Phi's while Carolyn
Alley was visiting with the Emory
chapter . . . and the ATO's attract-
ed Margaret Downie, Jean Tucker,
Dot Holloran, Gloria Bramlette,
Iddy Boone, Charlotte Gardner,
Carolyn Smith, and Charlene
Burke.

Molly Oliver, Helen Hardy,

Tony Newland, Page Lancaster,
Helen McFadden, and Beth Irby
were -entertained at Columbia Sem-
inary for dinner Thursday.

Off for the week-end Lillian
Schwencke at Lakemont visiting
Florrie Guy, Betty Wade at home,
Lib Barret at Nashville for a wed-
ding and various other reasons,
Mary Lang Gill, Boots Moore, An-
nette and Marion Franklin, and
Frances Abbott all in Barnesville
with Lutie Moore; Elizabeth Jen-
kins and Carolyn Dunn at their
respective homes.

Campus Queen Scene: What the
well-dressed transfer is wearing
this season was ably illustrated this
week by Alice Rose Lance, who
wore for a shopping jaunt a smart
natural colored soft woolen, with
twisted gold accessories and a chic
hat of definite Scotch descent.

Thompson Plans

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women's relations, would speak
November 8, 9 and 10.

Henrietta also announced stu-
dent appointments and elections to
minor executive offices. Repre-
senting the students on the Tea
House Committee are Eloise Len-
nard, boarder, and Marcia Mans-
field, day student.

Composing the Food Commit-
tee are Mary Lang Gill, chairman,
Harriet Stimson and Grace Ward.

The sergeants-at-arms are Mar-
garet Nix and Mary Ivey, and
Polly Heaslett is the authority on
rules and orders.

The newly-elected representa-
tives to the lower house include
Ila Belle Levie, Edith Dale, Eliza-
beth Russell and Mary Ann Faw,
from Main; and Mildred Joseph,
Carrie Jean Ashley, Mary Madison
Wisdom, Nina Broughton, Mary
Bon Utterbach and Ellen Gould
for Rebekah Scott.

Meeting at 9 o'clock at Miss
Scandrett's house on Monday, the
table heads discussed the problem
of encouraging dressing for din-
ner.

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Wanted Positions for attrac-
tive, intelligent Agnes Scott grad-
uates.

Found Quite a few.

Nineteen thiry-nine graduates
are really working hard at what?
Various occupations and potential
careers.

Atlanta Attractions

Among the business women,
there are Sue Goodwin at Davi-
son's, Helen Lichten and Emma
McMullen at Rich's, Jean Phi Beta
Kappa-Mortar Board Bailey in
'charge of the Literary Guild in
Rich's bookstore.

Catherine Ivie, Dot Lazenby and
Sara Joyce Cunningham are work-
ing at Retail Credit Company.
Dorothy Graham is at Bell Tele-
phone Company in Atlanta. Then,
across town, Kay Toole reports
success in the Personnel Depart-
ment of Sears, Roebuck and Com-
pany. Kay and Sue are room-mates
this year.

Toni Newton is working for her
father in Alabama, while Corky
Hutchins is still delving into
science at a chemical company in
Atlanta.

Emory Also

Emory claims Emily Harris,
who received that wonderful Fel-
lowship in science. Martha Mar-
shall is having a grand time ob-
taining an M.A. at Emory. Her
former room-mate, Jeanne Red-
wine, surprised everyone by sing-
ing on the radio as Jeanne Joy.

Adelaide Benson believes in
knowing how to be ornamental as
well as beautiful, so she is studying
interior decorating in New York.

Business course, church solo
work, and housekeeping seem to
keep Jac Hawks busy. Virginia
Kyle refuses to settle down just
yet. She is visiting in Plainsfield,
N. J., and expects to see a lot of
New York City for a while.

University Profits

Some just couldn't stop study-
ing and decided to continue their
education. Julia Porter and Hadyn
Sanford are at the U. of N. C.
Eleanor Hall, an Agnes Scott
botanist, is now studying political
science at American U. in Wash-
ington, D. C. Nearby is Ann
Watkins at Washington Secretar-
ial School.

At Furman U., Mitzi Sanders is
obtaining a degree in organ.

Cary Wheeler is secretary of
Baptist Student Union at U. of

Agnes Scott Girls Are
Welcome at
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"Tessie Sharpe" Recalls Cairn
Of Disappearing Constructive Days

By ANNE ENLOE

Miss Roberta Winter, former owner of the coat marked
"Tessie Sharpe," returning to the campus as assistant in the
Spoken English department, finds the campus "remarkably
the same, and delightfully so." Delightfully so in the old
friends she finds here to greet her, Miss Gooch, Miss Lewis
and Mrs. Sydenstricker ; but remarkably different, it seems
in some other respects. There's the old swimming hole, for
instance, that has become a part of the beautifully land-
scaped quadrangle. But the most striking difference is in

the habits of the girls "they just

Ga. while she cofltinues her psy-
chology.

Didactic Species

In the teaching profession
Flossie Wade is dean of women at
an industrial school in Clarkesville,
Ga. Alice Adams and Henrietta
Blackwell enjoy teaching grammar
school in South Ga. Mary Ellen
Steele is in Harmony, N. C.; Vir-
ginia Farrar in Guyton, Ga.; Cath-
erine Farrar in Stone Mountain,
Ga.; Alice Reins in Atlanta, and
Jeanne Flynt in Decatur.

English and French are equally
interesting to Kitty Caldwell in
York, S. C. Mary Fa Guthrie is
interested in everything as usual.
Just to give an idea of what she
does in Morefield, W. Va.: She
teaches English, Public Speaking,
Girls Physical Education, Mathe-
matics, Journalism she advises the
Glee Club and school paper staff
and as an extra, she plays piano
in a local band!

In case some students have not
been around the campus enough to
notice six '39 alumnae, or in , case
others wonder if these six failed
and exactly why they are here, it
is necessary and important to men-
tion Lou Pate is Mr. Stukes' secre-
tary, Amelia Nickels continues
work on the campaign, Penny Si-
monton is assistant librarian, Mary
Hollingsworth has charge of the
bookstore, Mamie Lee Ratliff is as-
sistant secretary of Alumnae and
Mary Ellen Whetsell, because of
fellowship she received, is working
in Biology Department.

The Campus Crumb is the name
of a lunch service managed by
Haverford College students.

The University of Virginia has
a special Bad Check Committee to
eliminate the issuance of "rubber
paper" by students.

In the Miami University chemis-
try laboratory there is a special
shower for use when students*
clothes catch fire during experi-
ments.

Try Our Hamburgers
DEPOT LUNCH ROOM
"Little Dec"

never go to bed!" And the sing-
ing and shouting and screaming at
night is astounding. "And to see
them sweeping over to the Mur-
phey Candler Building in such
elegance on Wednesday night," she
says, "just bowls me over!"

"Goody-Goody"

Recalling her own days on the
campus, Miss' Winter says she is
afraid she was a terrible goody-
goody, because the worst thing
that she can remember having
done was breaking campus one
day when she heard that her home
state of Mississippi was being
flooded. She dashed to "Dec" to
send a telegram and thus commit-
ted the unpardonable.

So much of her time was taken
up with doing constructive things,
however, that she surely didn't
have much time to be bad. She
edited the Aurora, was active in
Pi Alpha Phi and Cotillion, and
was a member of Hoasc, the prede-
cessor of Mortar Board. But her
main interest was Blackfriars. And
the memory of her undergraduate
days that she cherishes most is* that
of the roles she played as a mem-
ber of that club. She took the
parts of old women for awhile and
then she did hero roles that was
before Agnes Scott and Emory co-
operated so well. She was the hero
in "Daddy Long Legs" and played
Orlando in "As You Like It."

Vicious Cycle

She graduated in 1927, and for
the next few years taught Math,
her major, in a Tennessee high
school. Then she went up to
Yale and studied in the depart-
ment of drama there, at the
same time teaching dramatics in
the New Haven high school. So
from Mississippi to Agnes Scott, to
Tennessee, to Yale, and back to
Agnes Scott, Miss Winter finds a
delightful cycle especially the
back to Agnes Scott part.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939

Campus Camera

\LLEN AMD ELMER CORNELL,
STUDENTS AT R.I. STATE- GXL-
EGE N HAVE COMPLETED 27
YEARS OF SCHOOLING WITH-
OUT MISSING A DAY OR
HAVING BEEN TARDY/

NANCY MATTHEWS N

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
SOPHOMORE, IS THE SIXTEENTH
MEMBER OF HER MOTHERS FAMILY
TO BE INITIATED INTO KAPPA
KAPPA GAMMA SORORITY/

Georgia Hunt lets

People Talk

What can American college
youth do in regard to the war sit-
uation? These people on the cam-
pus have been thinking about it.

Louise Hughston, '40, says:
"American young people should
have an intelligent understanding
of the situations and real issues in-
volved on which to base their
opinions. They should make these
opinions felt through established
political channels. They should
state these opinions in letter form
to their congressional representa-
tive. They should vote intelli-
gently. They should unite in the
formation of pressure groups."

V. /. Watkins, '40, adds: l T do
not believe that we can do any-
thing directly to affect the present
situation in Europe, but decided
expression of our opinions in stu-
dent organizations and publications
may be of service in keeping Am-
erica out of the war."

Grace Walker, '41, answers:
"Thoughtful consideration of the
tremendous problem has given me
the right to make four suggestions:
I think that youth must strive for
an intelligent understanding of the
peoples concerned in a war. Sec-
ond, I think that youth must re-
view their sympathies with those
having similar feelings who are
fighting in other countries. Third,
I think that college youth must
be willing to give their very best
to meet intolerance. Lastly, I
think that college youth must re-
view their beliefs to see if 'might
makes right'."

Kat Patton, '40, agrees:
"... that we should avoid the
formation of hasty opinions. 1
think that we should strive to get
an impartial understanding of the
groups fighting. I think that Am-
erican college youth in their read-
ing should discriminate between
propaganda and truth. 1 think
that youth has a right to partici-
pate in any measures to keep Am-
erica out of war a right based
not on fear of harming our own
selves and nation, but based on a
desire to save for civilization one
neutral country."

College Students
Like Embargo

As the fight on the arms em-
bargo continues to occupy the
forces in congress, the front pages
of the newspapers, and the minds
of all U. S. citizens, so too does it
dominate the political thinking of
collegians.

A tabulation of the polls taken
on various college campuses indi-
cates that the students favor the
maintenance of the present em-
bargo law by a vote of better than
two to one. These polls, though
not representing a large enough
sampling to be entirely reliable,
were taken on campuses in all sec-
tions of the country, and certainly
indicate a trend of thought among
collegians.

So far as the college press is con-
cerned, editorials written to date
show that there is about a seven
to three ratio in favor of retention
of the present arms embargo.
(ACP.) f _

Professors Ask
Better World

"College tries to educate all
sides of our personalities, the mind,
body, spirit and a social sense
which is a duty to the community.
There should be four years of
happy life, and when the student
is through college, ways of serving
her country will open up through
music, medicine, housing and poli-
tics." Barnard Colege's Dean Vir-
ginia C. Gildersleeve urges today's
undergraduates to prepare them-
selves for service to the nation.

"We who are not directly en-
gaged in warfare against our fel-
lows arc favored by their oppor-
tunity to continue the fight
against injustice, ignorance, disease
and wretched poverty. We may
hope that the progress we make in
overcoming these ancient enemies
wc share in common will later be
helpful to others less fortunate
than ourselves." Harvard Univer-
sity's Dr. Walter B. Cannon aptly
states the duty of all non-combat-
ants in this war-torn world.
(ACP.)

Education
Casts A Ballot

When the fur begins to fly along with
the geese next fall as the November elec-
tion fight reaches its climax, 113 Agnes
Scott students now in college will be old
enough to vote. So will approximately
8,500,000 other Americans who were min-
ors in 1936. Not half of these will vote,
if statistics on past elections indicate what
is to come in 1940.

The Georgia League of Women Voters
has planned a campaign to impress on
young Georgia voters the importance of
making the most of their privilege. This
drive centers around the state Education
Association's Citizenship Day, which will
be observed on this campus in chapel to-
morrow.

It has often been pointed out to us how
vital to the nation's welfare it is that we
vote. Any one of us could get up and reel
off a speech beginning, "In your hands
lies the future of our great nation" with-
out preparation; we have heard it since
we graduated from the eighth grade.

And it is, pretty important, at that.
When one of us casts a ballot as a result
of intelligent consideration and clear reas-
oning, she cancels the vote of one of the
herd of morons dragged to the polls by
ward heelers, to establish a regime of
graft and administration bungling. From
the point of view of society, intelligence
and training could hardly be put to better
use than this combatting of ignorance and
corruption.

We shall be turning our education to a
real use if we apply it to this chore of
citizenship. On the day when we cast a
vote representing careful thought as to
who is the best man be he a rock-bound
conservative or be he the perennial Nor-
man Thomas we repay part of our debt
to the society which has nurtured us dur-
ing our parasitic years. We help our com-
munity along toward an intelligently-con-
trolled government.

Extra Activities
Yield Dividends

The opportunities for service on the
campus which the Christian Association
presented in chapel Wednesday are by no
means the only ones waiting to be taken.
They are the openings in just one organi-
zation.

Extra-curricular activities are carried
on for the benefit of the students, not for
their own sake. They are kept alive and
growing from year to year by people who
like to see useful things shape themselves
under their hands, and who work for the
full satisfaction that a growing thing can
give. It is these people who get the white
meat of "outside" activities; those who sit
passively and let their budget money draw
interest find college life comparatively
"stale, flat, and unprofitable."

Scholarship, while it should not be re-
tarded by other interests, cannot be the
end and all of a happy and successful col-
lege experience. The girl with the per-
petual "busy" sign is taking in too much
and giving out too little. Hence the epi-
thet "stuffy." The liberal form of college
education, which we all have chosen, in-
cludes more than that.

The beginning of a new session brings
tryouts, or opportunities for service, of-
fered by fifteen different groups on this
campus. All represent different interests,
and require different talents. All are
eager to have new members who will prove
assets to them and, through them, to the
community at large. They can only give
you a chance to enter; whether you do or
not is your look-out.

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

The Diplomatic Front

Russia's motives may be a question mark to the
allies, but her diplomatic actions, with an oppor-
tunism worthy of the formerly scorned Nazis,
could only be a headache. The Kremlin reduced

Estonia and Latvia to vir-

[ ^Jj^^^ tual protectorates, intimat-

Jr^&i^^ c ^ similar treatment for

Ofay- Lithuania and Finland, ne-

^Spr] ^ 4k gotiated with the Turkish

^HH foreign minister for control
^Hfi -rtfP'^M * tne Dardanelles, and
threatened the Balkans, all
JHH| in one week.
yjjfr^ Jfj I Speeches

Hitler made the standard
!oS^>^2^^^l ("We thank our Fuehrer.")

C4 speech after his hero's entry

otevenson \ V -r i j

into Warsaw. England re-
ceived the weird mixture of mystical raving,
vulgar abuse, and vague peace hints with more
than the usual aplomb. Winston Churchill, earlier
in the week, had showed an energetic style of
oratory (new to the Chamberlain era) in which
positive relish for sub chasing was ekpressed.

Hitler made the standard ("We thank our
Fuehrer.") speech after his hero's entry into War-
saw. England received the weird mixture of mys-
tical raving, vulgar abuse, and vague peace hints
with more than the usual aplomb. Winston
Churchill, earlier in the week, had showed an en-
ergetic style of oratory (new to the Chamberlain
era) in which positive relish for sub chasing was
expressed.
The Iroquois

The President received a bizarre message from
the German naval attache last week. The message,
from the first suspected as propaganda, declared
that the American liner, Iroquois, carrying 48 5
American refugees, would be sunk as it neared
the coast of the United States. Moreover, it was
intimated that the sinking would be carried out
by the British "through a repetition of circum-
stances which marked the loss of the steamship
Athenia." Unconscious irony?

Economic War

With the eastern front liquidated and the west-
ern front deadlocked, England pressed the eco-
nomic war vigorously with immediate results in
Germany. A cake of soap there must last a
month, a tube of shaving cream five weeks. The
amount of food rationed is sufficient to leave each
individual slightly hungry all the time.
New Miracle Drug

Since the discovery of sulfanilamide, the Amer-
ican public has become almost blase in its accept-
ance of "miracle drugs." The distribution to clin-
ics throughout the country of another such drug,
a derivative of quinine, was announced recently
by the Mellon Institute. Experiments with this
drug in a hospital in Pittsburg cut the pneu-
monia mortality rate in half.
Chinese Defense

The Chinese, after an embarrassing rout a few
days earlier, succeeded in throwing back the Japa-
nese 40 miles north of Changsha. The Japanese
have begun their first major offensive in a year.
With all the news pouring from Europe these
days, the western newspaper public, fickle as us-
ual, relegated this battle, involving 10,000 cas-
ualties, to the back pages.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1939 No. 3

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.
Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Alary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

Can Such Things Be?

Atlanta is preparing for the world
premiere of Gone With the Wind. If that

really takes place, there may be some
chance for Agnes Scott's Presser building,
after all.

Virginia Glower
Elaine Stubbs
Assistant Editors

Florence Ellis
Advertising Manager

Rebecca Drucker
Copy Editor
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Feature Editors
Betty Jean O'Brien
Assistant Feature Editors
Betty Jane Stevenson
Current History Editor
Anne Martin
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor

Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor

Susan Self

Club Editor

Elolse Lennard

Society Editor

Lib Barrett

Olivia White

Anne Friers on

Assistant Soolety Editors

Ernestine Cass
Circulation Manager

Lucille Gaines
Mary M. Templeton
Polly Ware

Mary Madison Wisdom
Circulation Assistants

Reporters: M. BedJnger, B. Bradfleld, J. Gates. A. Chamblcss,
L Franklin. M. Gnay, J. Lancaster, E. McGall. J. Osborne,
T. Ripley. G. Slack. J. Stearns. V. Watklns, V. Williams.
C. Willis". J. Wltman. * , . "

Business Staff: L. Barrett. M. S. Dlllard, S. Kaulbach. M. B.
Leavitt M. Oliver. S. Phillips, L. Schwencke. M. Simpson.
M Templeton. M. Toomey, P. Ware, M. Watklns. A. Wilds.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1939

Z115

No. 4

Chapel Talks
Emphasize
Honor Week

Chairman Kendrick
Announces

Representative Speakers

Honor Week plans are almost
completed, and Betsy Kendrick,
chairman of the committee in
charge of plans, announces the fol-
lowing program for October 23-24.

On Tuesday, October 24, four
students will express their views
on the honor system. Mae Crumb-
ley will speak as a sophomore day
student, Elta Robinson will give
her opinion as a junior transfer, and
Jane Salters, a senior, will speak for
the boarders. The freshman speak-
er has not yet been selected.

For Wednesday, October 2 5,
Student Government is cooperating
with Christian Association in pre-
senting Dr. William V. Gardner,
of First Presbyterian Church, At-
lanta, who will speak on "Christian
Principles of Honor."

On Thursday, October 26, Mrs.
Frances Craighead Dwyer, an At-
lanta lawyer and an alumna, will
discuss "Honor in the Business
World."

The faculty's view of honor will
be explained by one of its members
Friday, October 27.

Jean Dennison will close Honor
Week October 28, with a talk on
"Student Government and the
Honor System."

As We Go to Press

Mary Matthews, editor of
the AURORA, and Marcel-
lus Steadman, editor of the
Emory PHOENIX, reached
an agreement this week by
which the two publications
will unite. Beginning with
the winter issue, they will
appear as one magazine,
containing contributions
from both campuses. Fur-
ther plans will be laid later
this week.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

The famous actress will ap-
pear Saturday night in the
Glenn Memorial Auditorium
at Emory.

Conference
Holds Session
At College

Delegates from forty-one col-
leges and universities will gather at
Agnes Scott for an evening session
October 30, when the Southern
University Conference holds its
fifth annual meeting in Atlanta,
October 30 and 31.

The program will include an in-
formal dinner in Rebekah Scott
dining room, music by the Emory
Glee Club, and an address by H. J.
Cody, president of the University
of Toronto, who has been active in
making University Center plans.
He will speak on "Cooperation in
Higher Education in Canada."

According to Dr. J. R. McCain,
president of the Conference, Agnes
Scott requested the privilege of en-
tertaining delegates and visitors,
since it is celebrating its semi-cen-
tennial.

The theme of the conference this
year is "Cooperative Movements
Affecting Higher Education in
the South." The other three ses-
sions will be held at the Biltmore
Hotel in Atlanta.

'Empress Eugenie'
Appears at Emory

Cornelia Otis Skinner, whose
monologues have gained for her an
unique place in the American thea-
ter, will appear in her dramatic
sketch, "The Empress Eugenie," in
the Glenn Memorial Auditorium
Saturday night. Presented by the
Student Lecture Association of
Emory University, Miss Skinner's
performance is the first on the
1939-40 program of the Associa-
tion.

"The Empress Eugenie," written
by Miss Skinner, is for a single ac-
tress, and features special musical
and costume effects. It is a six-
scene sketch of the life of the Em-
press, from the period preceding
her marriage to Louis Napoleon to
her death in 1920.

Before the chief sketch of her
program, Miss Skinner will present
several short monologues.

Special season tickets are on sale
to Agnes Scott students in the book

Miss Carlson
Views Propaganda

Miss Helen Carlson, assistant
professor of French, was guest
speaker on the college broadcast
program last Wednesday.

Speaking on "Propaganda," Miss
Carlson reviewed the efforts of the
eighteenth century French philoso-
phers, the "Makers of Democracy,"
to reform the people by means of
propaganda.

As a conclusion to her address,
she stated: "The abruptness of the
downward curve in the last twenty
years is shocking. The battle now
threatens to become a lost cause.
The principles of democracy are
being challenged, and future prop-
agandists will turn again to
eighteenth century predecessors."

This afternoon Dr. Schuyler
Christian, professor of physics and
astronomy, will outline the life of
William Bartram, a scientist sent
from England to study Georgia
botany in the eighteenth century.

Scotts Keep up With College
Through Branches Now on Campus

By Anne Enloe

If you are interested in campus
botany, you will no doubt find the
Scott family tree an enthralling
specimen. Numerous branches are
scattered over the campus; a list of
them should begin with the small-
est the mascot of the senior class.
She is five-year-old Agnes Scott, of
Decatur, whose sister, Betty, is a
member of the freshman class. Her
father is Milton Scott, a son of the
Bucher Scott for whom the gym-
nasium was named; and her mother
is the former Ann Pope Bryan of
the class of 'IS.

Then there are the Wilds sisters,
Mary Scott and Annie. They are
are daughters of Laura Candler,
whose father was Murphey Candler
and whose mother was Mary Scott

Candler. Mrs. Wilds has three
brothers one is G. Scott Candler,
trustee of Agnes Scott and former
mayor of Decatur. The second is
Murphey Candler, editor of the
DcKalb New Era and a member of
the state legislature. He is the
father of Edith Candler, who was
an Agnes Scott student last year.
The third brother is Milton Cand-
ler, who is connected with the
Southern Bell Telephone System
and whose elder daughter, Marion,
formerly went to Agnes Scott. He
also has a young daughter, Rebekah
Scott.

Louise Sams, a junior this year,
is the daughter of Louise Scott
Sams. And because her mother is
an Agnes Scott alumna, she is a

member of the Granddaughters'
Club.

The donor of the Laura Candler
Mathematics Award, which is pre-
sented at commencement, is one of
the older members of the family
living in the vicinity. She is Mrs.
Nellie Scott Candler, who gives the
award as a memorial to her mother,
who is also the grandmother for
whom Scottie Wild's mother was
named. Mrs. Candler's grand-
daughter, Nell Scott Earthman,
was a member of the class of '3 8.

If you are not by this time
fatigued from the climb, take time
sometime to penetrate the upper-
most branches and see just how
many descendants of the first
Agnes Scott now have some inter-
est in the college.

College Offers

Free Lecture Program

Robert Frost Returns to Campus
As One of Four Speakers

A brilliant 1939-40 lecture series will 1 mark Agnes Scott's
fiftieth anniversary as the gift of the College and the Lec-
ture Association to the college community and the public this
year. During the anniversary celebration, which lasts
through the present session, both the college community and

outsiders will be admitted to all

Paper, Annual
Send Delegates

Press Convention Offers
Informative Program

Representing Agnes Scott, Lutie
Moore and Nell Pinner of the Sil-
houette, and Eleanor Hutchens and
Mary Louise Dobbs of the Agnes
Scott News, will attend the annual
Associated Collegiate Press Conven-
tion in Des Moines, Iowa, October
26, 27, 28.

Over two hundred colleges and
universities throughout the nation
will send approximately five hun-
dred delegates. The purpose of
the convention is to learn and ex-
change information concerning
college newspapers and annuals.

Scheduled as the speakers during
the convention are such notables
as J. M. "Ding" Darling, a syndi-
cated columnist; Gardner Cowles,
Jr., president of Look Magazine;
and the Governor of Iowa. Round
table discussions, mass meetings,
banquets and dances will charac-
terize the varied program planned
for the convention.

A tour of the Better Homes and
Gardens publishing house and the
Iowa Broadcasting Company will
be features of the trip.

The Agnes Scott representatives
will travel on a stream-lined train
from Chicago to Des Moines, and
will stop in a local hotel for the
convention. The entire trip will
require a day and night en route.

The convention, an annual event,
was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, last
year.

Avon Player

to

Lecture Association presentations
free of charge.

Made possible through the co-
operation of the College with the
Lecture Association, the offering
will consist of lectures by four
notables in four different fields.

Pierre Van Paassen, author of
"Days of Our Years," and a for-
eign correspondent of twenty
years' experience, will open the
series November 1 5 with "Four
Men On Horseback," his much-
publicized account of the charac-
teristics and ambitions of the four
European dictators.

Phi Beta Kappa Speaker

January 2 5 will bring Douglas
Freeman, winner of the ,1934 Pul-
itzer prize for his biography of
Lee. He will speak on the occa-
sion of the year's first Phi Beta
Kappa announcement.

A three-time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and a lecturer once
before at Agnes Scott, Robert Frost
will appear February 6 on the stage
of Bucher Scott gymnasium, and
will remain on the campus several
days thereafter to conduct small
group discussions on creative writ-
ing. His "Collected Poems" were
published last spring by Halcyon
House, including the six volumes
which have established him as "the
leading poet in the English-speak-
ing world today."

Sun and Stars

Harlow Shapley, director of the
Harvard Observatory and recipient
of medals and prizes from this
country, England, Belgium, and
France for his significant work in
astronomy, will lecture on "Explor-
ing Stars and Galaxies" March 27.
He will accompany his lectures
with a moving picture and slides
to illustrate "the colossal activities
on the sun" and recent progress
in the study of stars and galaxies.
Dr. Shapley, who does not make
lecture tours, has consented to
come to Agnes Scott because, as he
stated in a letter to the Lecture As-
sociation, "your fiftieth anniver-
sary project strikes me as very
meritorious."

Harold Selman played come-
dian with the Avon Players
Tuesday night in their pres-
entation of "As You Like It."

Coming This Week

October 18, 5 P. M. Dr.
Christian on college broad-
cast.

October 19, 8:30 P. M.
All-star concert, with John
Charles Thomas, baritone.

October 20, 10 A. M.
Dr. Swanson's talk in
chapel.

October 20, 3:30 P. M.
Hockey games.

October 21, 8 P. M. Cor-
nelia Otis Skinner at Em-
ory.

October 23 Pi Alpha Phi
Tryouts.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1939

Double Header Opens Hockey Season

Juniors Hold Champion
40 Team to Tie

Hockey fans saw a double-header on the afternoon of Fri-
day the thirteenth between the freshmen and sophomores,
and the juniors and seniors. Since these were the first two
games this fall, the stands were full of class supporters and
cheer leaders had no trouble in producing heartening yells
for the teams on the field.

The juniors and seniors divided
honors, and the game ended as a
tie, each team having scored two
goals. In the first minute of play,
Vaughan sent the game off to a
good start with a goal for the jun-
iors. For the next few minutes, the
ball was carried back and forth by
each team, O'Nan doing excellent
goal-guarding, Carson and Forman
working full time for the seniors.
The juniors got possession of the

ball, and after a long wing-run the ! along with the results of the singles

Dyar, Healy
Name Managers

Ethelyn Dyar, announcing the
appointment of the sophomore and
junior class tennis manager, has
named Mary Robertson for the
sophomores, and Helen Klugh for
the juniors. During the past few
weeks the Tennis Club has had its
fall tryouts, and the new members,

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

As a new fall brings a new sports season to the ground behind the Library, Nancy
Hirsh and Annie Wilds start the game which ended disastrously for the freshmen on the
hockey field Friday. Annie and her rose-clad teammates walked away with the game, 9-0.

New Members
Swell Clubs

Chi Beta Phi has admitted the
following new members: Mary
McCulloch Templeton, Ida Jane
Vaughan, Nina Broughton, Glen-
wyn Young, Margaret Falkinburg,
Christine Florence, and Ethelyn
Dyar.

Granddaughters' Club

Sixteen new students joined the
ranks of Agnes Scott Granddaugh-
ters at a recent meeting of Grand-
daughters' Club. They are Jean
Tucker, Hartwell Bishop, Imogene
King, Susan Spurlock, Margaret L.
Smith, Barbara Hastings, Alice
Clements, Mary Klingensmith,
Georgia Tate, Donata Home, Edith
Dale, Sarah Handley, Anne Scott,
Virginia Lambeth, Ann Eagan and
Rosalee Sturtevant.

Pi Alpha Phi

Pi Alpha Phi tryouts will be held
in chapel on Monday, October 23.
Candidates for membership should
sign on the back bulletin board in
Buttrick where a list of topics is
also posted.

German Club

On Wednesday, October 18, at
4:30 at Mrs. Harn's home, German
Club will hold its regular meeting
A program on German music will
be given.

Seniors!

What Could Be Better Than a
FORD
For Graduation?

A. M. CHANDLER, Inc.

College Organizations
Form Plans For
Remaining Neutral

As always happens when a
great political or social question
faces the nation, college students
are today forming organizations to
influence the opinion of their fel-
low students on the questions of
war and neutrality.

At Princeton University, under-
graduates have formed "The Amer-
ican Independence League/' which
is "dedicated to the purpose of re-
vealing, strengthening and ex-
pressing the determination of the
American people to keep out of the
European war." The League al-
ready counts one-third of Prince-
ton's student body as members, and
a second chapter of the organiza-
tion has been formed on the Har-
vard University campus. Inciden-
tally, national headquarters of the
new organization are in the offices
formerly occupied by the Veterans
of Future Wars, now defunct.

Not quite so serious, but just as
interesting, are two other proposals
that have made their appearance in
the last week or two. In the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh's towering
Cathedral of Learning there has
sprung up the "Loyal Order of Sons
of Leavenworth," whose slogan is
"If America goes to war, we go to
Leavenworth."

On the Cornell University cam-
pus, Stan Cohen, columnist for the
Cornell Daily Sun, stirred up a bit
of interest with this telegram to
Secretary of State Cordell Hull:
"Sun political expert advocates cor-
ridor through Canada to join Alas-
ka to Union, free enslaved minori-
ties in Vancouver, protect economic
future of n.nion. Would resort to
force if necessary. Can we expect
support of State Department?"
(ACP)

Contestants for the
Louise McKinney book
award must submit their
names to Miss Janef Pres-
ton by October 25.

Juniors
To D ISCUSS

Meet
Books

A dozen members of the junior
class formed a group this week for
the purpose of "keeping up with
new ideas through the reading and
discussion of current books."

Meeting informally once every
other week in Rebekah Scott, they
will review books treating modern
drama, current conditions, and
thought trends in other countries.
At these meetings, two members
will probably be responsible for
special work to lead the discussions;
however, there is no definite or-
ganization.

The group plans to study repre-
sentative literature such as Hell-
man's The Little Foxes, Inside Eu-
rope by Gunther and Days of Our
Years by Van Paassen, Wain's
Reaching for the Stars, and Lin

Yutang's The Importance of Liv-
ing.

full length of the field by Stubbs,
Vaughan carried the ball in for an-
other junior score.

The seniors definitely dominated
the second half of play with a
rally that netted two goals. Car-
son's beautiful long drive straight
into the goal resulted in the first
senior score after good defensive
by Milner, Ware, and Taylor. One
outside goal by Carson failed to
count. Then Forman ran the ball
down the field for the second
score. The final score was a tie
seniors 2, juniors 2.

The freshman-sophomore game
began with a definite drive by the
sophomores, with excellent defen-
sive by the new freshman team.
Sophomores Currie, Wilds, Web-
ster, and Brooks combined their ef-
forts to keep the ball in easy scor-
ing position for the greater part of
the time, and, at the end of the first
half, had scored four times. Despite
the good work of Freshmen Bates,
McFadden, Hirsch, and Goalies
Hopper and Paisley, their team
failed to score during the entire
game. Powerful drives down-field
resulted in five goals for the sopho-
mores in the second half, pushing
the score up to a whitewashing,
9-0.

tournament, will be announced at
a later date.

The new class managers for
swimming are Julia Moseley, senior;
Martha Moody, junior; Matilda
Cartledge, sophomore, and Shirley
Stamen, freshman. Beryl Healy,
swimming manager, conducted the
swimming club tryouts, and the
new members will soon be chosen
from among those who were able
to fill the requirements for eligi-
bility.

MR. W. W. BELL
invites you to spend your
dimes with him and get
your money's worth.

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Doctor's Bldg.

Syracuse Freshman
Draws Girl Roommate

Marion Sawyer Allen is having
a tough time of it at Syracuse Uni-
versity. In case you didn't know,
he's a boy and that name is just
what caused him all the trouble.

Pre-registration officials at Syra-
cuse didn't interpret it the right
way, and had "her" all assigned
early in the summer to a room in
the women's dormitory, with femi-
nine roommate and all.

He says now the Big Chum as-
signed to acquaint "her" with uni-
versity life sounded interesting.
Yes, he's going to look into the
chumming part of it, even though
he had to turn down his assigned
roomma te ! ( ACP )

A Riot with the
Younger Set

PORK PIE

in four felt versions

$3

SUNBEAM
CORDUROY
PLAIN FELT
KITTEN'S FLUFF

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Street Floor

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939

3

College Observes
Citizenship Day

King, Baty, Hutchens
Discuss Training

In chapel program on Citizen-
ship, Agnes Scott joined in the
state-wide observance of Citizen-
ship Day on Thursday, October 12.
The purpose of the program was to
instruct students in what is being
done toward citizenship training
in America and abroad, and to give
a few practical facts about voting.

Citizenship a la Hitler

Evelyn Baty, whose subject was
"Education for Citizenship in Dic-
tatorships and in Democracies/'
compared German and Italian pro-
grams with our own. She reported
that youth in these countries have
extensive compulsory training, are
encouraged to believe in the su-
premacy of the state, and to think
of state matters only what they
are taught to think.

In our country, training of youth
for citizenship is not nearly so ex-
tensive, but is superior to that of
the dictatorships. "America is not
training yes-men but intelligent,
thinking young people who will
build a better government out of
the foundations already laid."

Facts About Voting

A practical discussion of a vot-
ing citizen's responsibilities was
given by Eleanor Hutchens. She
pointed out that new voters are
not new citizens but that any per-
son born or naturalized in the
United States is a citizen. Listing
the voting requirements general in
most states, she gave especial em-
phasis to the requirements in Geor-
gia for voting in the state and na-
tional elections next November 5.
A citizen of Georgia in order to
vote in the next election, must be
twenty-one years of age, a resident
of the state for one year, of the
county in which he lives for six
months; must register before May
5, 1940, and pay a poll tax of one
dollar.

N. Y. A. Plans

Eliza King, '3 8, who has been
connected with the Educational
Department of the N. Y. A. (Na-

Vassar Committee

Makes Survey

On Curriculum Need

One of the better known features
of Vassar College is its Student-
Faculty Curriculum Committee.
This week the committee an-
nounced a new survey it would un-
dertake. A leaflet is to be distrib-
uted to each student in which she
is to keep a careful record of how
she spends each hour of the day.
The Curriculum Committee hopes
to find answers to many pressing
problems pertaining to class cuts,
leaves of absence, and elective
courses.

Commented the Vassar Miscel-
lany Neivs: "This time conscious-
ness may not only benefit the Cur-
riculum Committee but ourselves.
We may discover that our study or
our leisure hours are unbalanced
. . . this study also gives us an
opportunity to express ourselves on
these questions honestly and anony-
mously. By faithfully checking
our time expenditures, we can
make our own evaluation of the
present system." (NSFA)

Saddle Oxfords
Get the Hottentot Vote

Brown-and-tan Saddle Ox-
fords are as much at home
on the campus as the col-
umns are on the Colonnade.
You'll like this easy-walking
oxford from our Street Floor
Marcia Shop its springy,
cushiony rubber sole, its ami-
ability with sweaters and
skirts. You'll like its low
price, too . . . only 3.98.

DAVISON PAXON CO.

ATLANTA " affiliated With MACVS.Jfcut y<nA^,

tional Youth Administration) for
the past several months, spoke
about her work and the work of
the Administration in preparing
young Americans for intelligent
participation in governmental af-
fairs. Educated citizens make re-
sponsible citizens; so the N. Y. A.
is trying through student aid and
community instruction to train
American youth for their duties as
citizens.

Works Progress Program

Much assistance is given the out-
of-school, out-of-work youth who
need jobs but lack experience and
vocational training. This aid is ad-
ministered through the Works
Progress Program, by which young
people are given paying jobs on
public works projects and are at
the same time given general and
vocational instruction. There are
no textbooks used in this type of
training, Eliza continued. The only
sources used are those available in
every community newspapers, ra-
dios, picture shows and educational
tours. "We strive through educa-
tion to make young people feel that
they are needed in the community
and are able to fill that need," she
concluded. "Education of the high-
est type is democracy."

Stunt Provides
Real Drama

Trousers a bit more loose, shoes
a bit more tight, and grease paint,
a bit more . . . Who knows what
Saturday night's verdict might
have been? Backstage incidents at
the stunt in some cases surpassed
the dramatic situations presented
for the audience.

The censors held their breath
and leaped for the red pencil at
sophomore dress rehearsals; but Jes-
sie MacGuire held her falling trous-
ers and leaped to the exit. No cas-
ualties.

Chamberlain was in two ultra-
tight shoes Saturday night, but,
being at home in tight spots, he
suffered in true British style with-
out a wince. He later revealed
that while he wore modest brown
suede, ever before his eyes floated a
mirage of lovely, loud, dirty, com-
fortable saddle oxfords.

Henrietto Muscle-in escaped mu-
latto classification by one layer.
The glow-worm's glow was a defi-
nitely chocolately hue when II
Duce surveyed the ruin. Much rub-
bing eventually brought back the
original complexion.

Debunking the propaganda: In-
dian Pete Stuckey's criss-cross arm
posture wasn't prescribed by Long
fellow or by the museum of nat
ural history; but neither was it in
the script that Brave Stuckey al-
most lose his shirt.

The admirers of Neva Jackson's
gymnastics will be sorry, to learn
that they were not original. See-
ing Betty Ann Brooks making fran-
tic motions to get Pete Stuckey's
attention, Neva thought they meant
"letcha self go." Conscientiously,
she followed the leader; hence the
remarkable contortions.

Alumna Sends War News
From Nazi Germany

Martha Long, '38,

Reports Situation in September

War news arrives from our A. S. C. correspondent, Mar-
tha Long, '38, who is working faithfully with the American
Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. ,

Martha explains that because of the international situa-
tion, the mail goes very slowly and although she has written
home many times, she cannot be

cannot
the mail has

times,
sure how much of
gone through.

Of life in Germany in early Sep-
tember, when she wrote, she says:
''We are all safe and well if thor-
oughly sick of restaurant war-time
meals, and the life of the people
in Stuttgart is outwardly unchanged

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Sycamore Street

Dartmouth Students Plan
Driving Campaign

A safe-driving campaign has
been undertaken by the Dartmouth
campus by Paleopitus, student gov-
erning agency. This group is reg-
istering cars and also has the power
of penalizing for any careless driv-
ing which endangers lives, up to
the point of revocation of licenses.
These functions were formerly car-
ried on by the administration of
the college. It is expected that the
student campaign will result in
better cooperation from the cam-
pus as a whole. (NSFA)

An Organization Specializing
EXCLUSIVELY in the Production
and Serving of Wholesome Foods.

189-191 Peachtree St., Atlanta

Martha Long, '38

except for worried looks on the
faces of mothers who expect their
sons to be called any day. People
talk on the street cars of the war,
but all seem to be optimistic as to
the outcome."

"The Consulate has taken over
the work of the French Consulate
and we are working day and night,
Saturdays and Sundays. There are
still some Americans here who
have not left because of lack of
money or because they think this
war is only to last a few months.
They must all be gotten out and
believe me there are no more bull-
headed people in the world than
those who want to stay to see the
fun and believe me it's not fun, but
real war and serious. These people
are certainly a problem to us, for
although they may not be in any
danger, they must be constantly in
touch with the Consulate. Italian
ships are still running and the
place for Americans now is Amer-
ica."

America's Neutrality

"The neutrality act, of which I
have read every word, is water-
tight if we'll only stick to it. Can-
ada's declaration of war on Sunday,
sort of left us all cold because it
comes pretty close to home. Amer-
ica could win everything by main-
taining absolute neutrality."

Americans Beware!

Martha is in no danger at all and

if the Consulate is evacuated, she
will be conducted elsewhere. She
repeats that "only people who are
not connected with the Consulate
are ordered out and justly so, be-
cause Germany must be careful of
the food she uses ... a group of
Americans who remain only be-
cause they think it's smart and
they'll be heroes when they get
home (and they probably will) are
crazy idiots and no help to that
country or to any other country
in which a state of war exists."

England Gets Fooled

About England, Martha frankly
states her opinions "One thing I
must say and you must not get
wrong ideas about my changing of
policies or beliefs in any way be-
cause I am not a sympathizer, but
England had this coming to her and
it seems to me a great crime to
wage war only to save your face
and keep prestige. To wage war
so that every Englishman may
have another piece of bread and
butter 4n the morning, look across
his tea cup and say Ve are God's
chosen race.' I don't like the sys-
tem in this country any more than
I ever have, but I do say they are
open about what they want, where
the English people are subtle and
underhanded. They certainly over-
played their cards on the Russian
pact and the Germans gave them
a public spanking. But the way
German-Russian propaganda has
completely about faced. During
the Spanish war, the Germans
fought with the Spanish to down
Russian Communism. Now, as
Goering in his last speech said, Rus-
sia has her Bolshevism and Ger-
many her National Socialistic sys-
tem, but we are brothers (in this
great fraternity the Mystic Knights
of the Sea)."

War Stimulates
Hunter College Hobbies

New York City. That the
present European conflict is also
affecting the hobbies and spare-
time activities of college freshmen
has been proven by a Hunter Col-
lege survey.

Replying to a special question-
naire, new students indicated that
their hobbies were analyzing news-
paper propaganda, collecting war
cartoons and leaflets, and oratory,
building airplanes, flying, and his-
torical research. (ACP.)

Agnes Scott College

DECATUR, GA.

A college for women that is widely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address

J. R. McCAIN, President

4

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

It warmed the heart to observe the school spirit exhibited
this past week. At least w r e hope the decline in social activi-
ties was due to the Black Cat stunt, and not to any lack of
ability on the part of the girls. Or perhaps the approach of
assigned tests was responsible.

and Julia Keith, of Furman, to see
Dot Nabors.

At home for the week-end were
Eugenia Hailey, Frances Hinton,
Charlotte Shepherd, Betty Hender-
son, and Sara Gray Hollis; Ellen
Stuart visited her sister in Macon.

Campus Queen Scene . . . Becky
Drucker, off to town Saturday in
a rust corduroy swing skirt, a
sporty teel blue blouse, topped by
a rust felt hat, rather jaunty over
the right eye.

Elise Smith drew the spotlight
last week in a smart sport costume
a black wool jacket with plaid
banded cuffs and a contrasting
green and red Scotch skirt these
Highland notes are still front page
news and very new.

However, there were a couple of
football games this week-end that
drew a number of Agnes Scott
girls. In
Athens
for the
Georgia-
H o 1 y
Cross
game
were An-
n e t t e
Frank-
lin, Mary
McPhaul,

Lennard Rowena

Barringer, Florrie Guy, Nancy
Willstatter and Barbara Lee Mur-
lin. At the Tech-Howard game
here in Atlanta were Val Nielsen,
Lillian Gudenrath, Elise Nance, Ila
Belle Levie, Mary Ann Hannah,
and Florrie Ellis, not to mention
the thirty freshmen who enter-
tained their dates with a wiener
roast afterwards.

Colonel Defends

Vogue Offers
Prizes to
College Seniors

Prix de Paris Competition
Enlarges Awards for
Fashion, Feature Writers

The fifth Prix de Paris, an an-
nual career competition for college
seniors sponsored by Vogue Maga-
zine, has created unusual interest
throughout the country, due to the
increased number of career prizes
and a broadening of the scope of
the contest to include feature writ-
ing as well as fashion reporting.

Eight Prizes

Vogue's Prix de Paris offers
eight major awards, instead of two,
as in the past. This year, there will
be three career prizes, including a
special Vanity Fair writing award,
five cash prizes, and Honourable
Mentions. First prize is one year's
employment with Vogue, six
months to be spent in Vogue's New
York office, six months in Paris,
if world conditions permit; other-
wise, the full period of one year
will be spent in New York. Second
prize is six months as a feature
writer on Vogue's New York staff..
In addition, Vogue will purchase
five of the best theses submitted.
Honourable Mentions will be
awarded to other outstanding con-
testants, and winners of these
awards will be put in touch with
leading firms throughout the
country. Of the 5 0 leading en-
trants in the four previous con-
tests, 3 5 are today following careers
in writing, fashion and merchan-
dising.

In announcing the contest, Edna
Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue,
said: "Our purpose in sponsoring
the Prix de Paris contest is to dis-
cover college girls with the ability
to write and a flair for fashion
and to open the door to these young
women who want a career of fea-
ture writing, fashion reporting,
advertising, or merchandising."

Former Winners

First prize in last year's contest
went to Elizabeth Farnsworth, of
Memphis, Tennessee, a senior at
Vassar College. Miss Farnsworth
has now joined the Fashion Editor-
ial Department of Vogue Maga-
zine. Second prize went to a senior
at Northwestern University, Mar-
tha Swigart, who is now employed
in Vogue's Feature Department.
Honourable Mentions were award-
ed to: June Fox, University of
California; Harriet Wile and Thco
Kilborn, Smith College; Julia Sew-
ell, Agnes Scott College; Alice
Thomsen, Syracuse University;
Celia Sevareid and Joanne Pierson,
University of Minnesota; Gaylc
Johnson, University of Wisconsin;
and Anne Wilyin, Depauw Univer-
sity. Among the firms employing
lasr year's contestants are: New
York Times, Minneapolis Tribune,
Bergdorf Goodman, Marshall Field,
and Breath of the Avenue, all of
New York; Bamberger, of New-
ark; LaSalle & Koch, of Toledo;
Neusteter, of Denver, and J. L.
Hudson, of Detroit.

Dr. David Love

Boise n Lenses Duplicated
Eyes Tested
Hotel Candler Building
Decatur, (ieortria

Harvey Reviews
Situation in
Central Europe

Basing his remarks on observa-
tions made during his stay in Eu-
rope this summer, Dr. Moseley
Harvey, of Emory, spoke on "Cen-
tral Europe" at the meeting of
Current History Forum October
10.

Censoring

He said that one does not learn
anything about what is going on
when one goes abroad because of
the strict censorship enforced by
the majority of European nations.
To prove this statement, Dr. Har-
vey cited the fact that Russian
newspapers ran only one column
on the German-Russian pact that
is being given so much space in
our newspapers.

He summed up the general opin-
ion of the German-Russian puzzle
as a revelation of Russia's militar-
istic nature; a triumph of realism
over ideology; the fact that the
rulers were seeking vengeance, since
Russia had been ignored by Eng-
land at Munich last year; a conclu-
sion that no difference exists be-
tween Communism and Fascism;
and that a complete abandonment
of ideology is being made by both
countries.

Disagreeing with general opin-
ion, he said, "I have a strong feel-
ing that Germany and Russia made
that agreement with their tongues
in their cheeks/'

European Gamble

He went on to explain that, in
his opinion, it was a gamble on
both sides. Russia gambled that
she could avoid becoming involved
with Germany, and it was too good
an opportunity to spread Bolshe-
vism in Central Europe to be ig-
nored. She further gambled that
Germany would come out of the
existing struggle in Europe beaten
and completely exhausted.

According to Dr. Harvey, Eng-
land and France are faced with a
still bigger gamble. They must be
able to defeat Germany and keep
Russia out of Germany.

In conclusion, he said that Ger-
many still had her Nazism and
Russia her Bolshevism. The Russo-
German pact, therefore, seems to
Dr. Harvey only a temporary
measure.

College Girls Get
Pilot Training

The new movement which pro-
vides training college students to
be pi[ots of tomorrow affects girls
as well as boys. The student pub-
lications of Florence State Teach-
ers College and Georgia State Wo-
man's College reveal that young
women will be eligible for applica-
tion for vocational flight training.

"Applications arc rapidly being
submitted for training which is to
be given under the provisions of
the National Civilian Pilot Train-
ing Program.

"Seventy-two hours of ground
instruction and from thirty-five to
fifty hours of flight instruction
will be given." Officials hope that
the total number of women will be
at least three percent of those re-
ceiving instruction.

Educators Look
At War

"Our education is tied to our
society. It must take account of
the student's need for a job, and
therewith a place in the commun-
ity. It must take account, too, of
his hunger for meaning and for
beauty, of his desire, so to speak,
to find a place for himself in the
universe. Perhaps education will
always proceed from battle to bat-
tle, from compromise to compro-
mise. Periodically it needs to be
rescued from dullness and dogma-
tism." A New York Times editor-
ialist aptly states the needs of all
education.

"So long as there is peace colleges
should insist on living their normal
life, rather than pretend that we
can live a double life. We cannot at
once be a place of free discussion
and a place of war preparation."
Union College's President Dixon
Ryan Fox asks higher education to
ignore war until the United States
is actually in the conflict.

"Democracy will not be saved
by sending the cream of our pres-
ent generations to Europe to fight.
To save democracy we must clean
house in the United States. We
must gain unity of purpose and
solve our pressing problems. All
the slogans in the world will not
help a useless democracy." Dr.
C. A. Dykstra, University of Wis-
consin president, votes against par-
ticipation in a foreign war.
(ACP)

California School
Views Industry

Pasadena, Calif. (ACP) As a
result of the growing appreciation
of the vital importance of em-
ployer-employee relationships, Cali-
fornia Institute of Technology this
fall inaugurated a new industrial
relations section in its department
of economics.

Instruction both on the under-
graduate and graduate levels will
be offered, affording an opportun-
ity for the study of such subjects
as labor relations, the backgrounds
of employer and employee associa-
tions and unions, the practice of
collective bargaining, and the func-
tioning of the various State and
Federal bureaus within the labor
field.

The teaching will be kept close-
ly attuned to reality by using rep-
resentatives from industrial con-
cerns, labor unions and govern-
ment agencies as special lecturers.

Football Fools the People

Hanover, N. H. (ACP) If
you think you can beat the opera-
tors of the many football pools,
look at this record hung up in a
recent contest at Dartmouth Col-
lege:

Out ot 739 entering game pre-
dictions in a typical week-end con-
test, only 13 graduates correctly
predicted nine games out of ten.
Not one called all ten games right.

Agues Scott Girls Are Welcome
*> Trade at

ROGER'S

The torrid notes of Henry
BllSSe's trumpet were very pow-
erful in attracting some of the
girls: Mary Klingensmith, Annette
Franklin, Charlene Burke, and
Carolyn Dunn.

With the fraternities: At the
A. K. K. house dance Saturday
night, Nell Pinner , Marion Phil-
lips, Hazel Solomon, and Lillian
Schwencke, while Tade Merrill,
Susanne Kaulbach, Susan Cochran,
Eloise McCall, and Rowena Bar-
ringer were at the A. T. 0. dance.
Margaret Murchison, Boots Moore,
Gary Home, and Mary Kirkpat-
rick went to the Pi. K. A. house
dance. At the Zip house for Sun-
day night supper were Betsy Banks,
Eloise McCall, Grace Ward, Ernes-
tine Cass, and Eloise? Lennard.

Columbia Seminary was hos-
pitable as ever to Agnes Scott last
week. Mary Blakemore, Tony
Newland, Peggy Stixrud, Cornelia
Willis, Julia Lancaster, Virginia
Willis, Evelyn Baty and Jane Sal-
ters were among those attending
the Junior-Senior party there.

Visitors to the campus over the
week-end . . . Doris Hasty's mother
. . . Mary Alice Home to see Gary,

R.O.T.C Maneuvers

Ithaca, N. Y. (ACP) Colonel
W. C. Potter, of Cornell Univer-
sity's R. O. T. C. department, has
a lot to say about students and fac-
ulty members who call work in his
department "drill," and says it in
no uncertain terms, too.

In a recent interview he gave the
following lecture on proper termin-
ology as regards his department:

"The term 'drill' was correctly
only applied during the period be-
fore the World War when students
were only taught to march, stand
at ease, etc. Today only one-third
of the program is devoted to the
actual marching, the remainder
being devoted to classroom studies
in the field of military science and
tactics. Even the marching has de-
veloped into a study of leadership,
the juniors studying how to lead
the freshmen and the freshmen
studying how the juniors lead
them."

Therefore, he says, you should
call it "military science and tac-
tics."

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5

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

What are we going to do about
quiet in the library? Here we are
offered some helpful suggestions:

Hat Stim-
son, '40,
says: "I
think the
situation in
the library
needs im-
prove-
m e n t in
some cases.
If each girl
would re-
member

she has real

Hunt

how she feels when
studying to do, and remember,
too, that others may be coming to
the library for real study, perhaps
we will become more considerate.
If this idea of consideration can be
gotten, it will eliminate being
"policed" in the library. We are
matured enough to be responsible
to ourselves now."

]o Cates, '41, agrees: "I think
the situation can be improved defi-
nitely. Students should be more
considerate of each other especially
in regard to talking, rattling papers,
laughing and chewing gum. Per-
haps we sometimes forget that these
bad habits are annoying."

Becky Drncker, '40, adds: "We
do need quiet in the library, but it
seems that the only way to achieve
it is to establish on the part of each
girl an attitude of study and con-
sideration of others. If each girl
will remember that 'the library is
the place where we study* we will
establish this considerate attitude."

Lib Ruprecht, '41, thinks: "That
the girls are pretty quiet in the
library the great trouble comes
when girls go down the steps to the
reserve room I don't know what
we can do about that, though."

Louise Musser, '41, concludes:
"I heartily agree with the effort
that is being maae to keep girls
from visiting socially. I think it's
good training for the girls to study
with girls around them as opposed
to studying in solitary confinement
because it is helpful in developing
powers of concentration."

Campus B.S.U.

Participates in Meet

College Representatives
Will Give Breakfast

Representatives from the Agnes
Scott Baptist Student Union will
be among the delegates from col-
leges and churches throughout
Georgia to the annual state B. S. U..
convention held at the First Bap-
tist Church in Atlanta, October
20-22.

The convention will be official-
ly opened with a banquet at the
First Baptist Church Friday night
at 6:00. The program includes sev-
eral choral numbers by the Rock-
mart Sextette, and the songs of
Bobby Guy, accompanied on the
violin by Elizabeth Jackson. Agnes
Scott delegates will entertain twen-
ty of the student members with
breakfast at the college Saturday
and Sunday morning. State leader
Mary Nance Daniel, assisted by
Reverend D. D. Nicholson of Ath
ens, will lead the discussion of stu-
dent problems at an open forum
Saturday morning; members of the
Agnes Scott Council plan to pre-
sent a model council meeting at the
Saturday afternoon session.

Principal speakers for the senior
councils include pastors from the
First Baptist Churches of Augusta,
Macon, and Elberton; and Cary
Wheeler, last year's president of the
Agnes Scott B. S. U., who is now
connected with the B. S. U. at the
University of Georgia.

Harvard Hopes for
Better Freshman Notes

Cambridge, Mass. (ACP) In
an effort to prevent difficulties
caused by faulty study methods,
Harvard University officials will
this year examine freshman lecture
and reading notes.

The notes will be called for un-
expectedly and frequently at sec-
tion meetings, but the history pro-
fessor in charge of the course in
which this new check-up procedure
will be used did not state what ef-
fect the notes would have on
grades.

In addition to this, the professor
has issued a special set of instruc-
tions on note-taking.

News Crashes Radio

Items from the Agnes Scott
News will soon be used in a broad-
cast over WSB featuring the ac-
tivities of Georgia colleges.

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Indian Language Wins
College Recognition

Norman, Okla. ( ACP ) The
culture, customs and languages of
the American Indian will not be
lost to posterity, if University of
Oklahoma authorities have their
way about it.

They have just instituted a new
course in Indian language, the only
class of its kind in the world. A
faculty member is now compiling,
with the aid of an educated Indian,
a dictionary and grammar which
may be used for teaching the lan-
guage.

ACP Reports
Bits from
Other Colleges

Brown University
Telephone System
Beats Our Switchboard

The University of Chicago
Round Table was the first program
series on any network produced
without use of scripts.

Rutgers University has a new
course in the organization of pub-
lic relief.

Fordham University this year
has a special seminar in play writ-
ing.

The postoffice department this
winter will issue a special one-cent
stamp honoring Harvard's famous
president, Charles Eliot.

Knox College, the original "Old
Siwash," has been selected as the
location for a series of "Old Si-
wash" motion pictures.

St. Mary's University (Texas)
owns a bus for athletic trips that
holds 53 passengers.

Phi Beta Kappa has started a
drive to raise a scholarship fund of
$300,000 for "the defense of free-
dom of speech and the humanities."

Despite its present low standing,
the University of Chicago grid
team has won more Big Ten cham-
pionships than any other team.

Intercollegiate athletic competi-
tion has been abandoned by Bard
College.

Famed cartoonist "Ding" Dar-
ling will address the national con-
vention of the Associated Collegiate
Press in Des Moines, October 27.

Telephone technicians report
Brown University has the best col-
lege communications system in the
country.

Trinity College has a history
class conducted by a blind instruc-
tor.

The Intercollegiate Peace Asso-
ciation was organized at Earlham
College in 1906.

West Virginia University pro-
fessors have developed a new spray
that will make apples red.

The College of the City of New
York has the largest R. O. T. C.
voluntary unit in the nation.

University of New Hampshire
students may now rent reproduc-
tions of fine pictures to decorate
their rooms.

The University of Chicago has
offered full tuition scholarships to
Rhodes scholars forced from Eng-
land by the current war.

Twenty colleges are this year co-
operating on a wide experiment to
improve teacher education in the
United States.

A Catholic Labor College has
been established in Buffalo, N. Y.,
to teach the "rightful position" of
the working man. (ACP.)

Texas Bets on
College Man

Austin, Texas (ACP ) Forty-
four to one odds were posted here
today on the engineering college-
trained man against the non-college
man in the Better Job Sweepstakes.

W. R. Woolrich, University of
Texas engineering dean, said the
college-trained man is 18 times as
likely to be president of an indus-
trial company as the non-collegian,
and has 12 to 18 times better
chance at other offices.

The engineering college product
possesses almost as great an advan-
tage over non-technical graduates,
Dean Woolrich declared, citing sta-
tistics from industrial employment
surveys.

Industrial presidencies go 12
times to one to the technically
trained graduate, 174 times to 1
for engineering positions. For all
industrial offices lumped together,
Dean Woolrich gave the engineer-
ing college graduate a 30-1 chance
for the academic graduate.

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Midlanders Want
Tasty Texts

Definitely valuable is the follow-
ing suggestion from the Midland of
Midland College, for long have stu-
dents talked about the textbooks
that add to their scholastic miser-
ies. So we pass on to you the edi-
torial "Carrying a Heavy Load."

"Ancient and honored is the tra-
dition among textbook writers that
a book must have weight to have
value. Therefore, those fat volumes
you see under the arms of students
aren't encyclopedias or congres-
sional records. Rather they are
four or five pounds of assorted lit-
erature, history, philosophy and
what-have-you.

"We don't mean necessarily that
the larger the book the more stuffy
it is. In fact, most texts are at-
tractively written and very read-
able despite the fact that it would
take years of study for most mor-
tals to assimilate them.

"Because the amount to be cov-
ered in a semester demands large
daily assignments, most of us skim
over 30 or 40 pages and are left
with a rather vague impression,
much like a passenger on a Stream-
liner after a 100-mile-an-hour trip
across country.

"The day is not far distant, we
hope, when textbook authors will
boil their subjects down to the
meat, flavor them spicily, throw in
a little sauce and serve in succu-
lent, tasty dishes to culture-hungry
students."

Approximately 8,500,000 Amer-
icans will be eligible for the first
time to vote in the next presiden-
tial election.

Don't Forget
MRS. COOPER

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Get Your Proofs

The Silhouette announces
that annual proofs may be
secured Thursday and Fri-
day in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building. Retakes will
be arranged next week.

O'Brien takes notes

Tor the Record

Well, the college term is in full
swing, and everyone is swinging on
down into tests, book reports, and
such truck. But here and there,
one en-
counters an
a n e c dote
that brings
a smile to
one's lips,
such as:

Senior
Senility
(Second
Child-
hood,

O Brien To You)

Henrietta Thompson was ob-
served to do a "Tra la, tra lee, oh
this is the life for me" flit (Pod-
don us, we mean to say, Interpreta-
tive) dance up and down the halls
of staid old Rebekah the other
night . . . Imagine the dignified,
awe-inspiring, serious (to the
freshmen) and otherwise absolute-
ly modest Henri doing such gyra-
tions and flip-flops. Not only does
the pres. of student gov. indulge in
such antics, but certain other re-
spectable members of the senior
class, including its president, were
observed on the merry-go-round at
the fair playing "Hi-yo, Silver,"
and shooting (imitation, of course)
at each other . . .
Stunting Silliness

The Stunt, as usual, aroused
considerable ingenuity in the two
lower classes, and queer results
have been obtained. The effigy of
the sophomore class was duly
hanged and left to its rest in the
large tree in front of the gym.
(Could this, perchance, be the fate
of the missing pillow cases we
spoke of???? . Anyhoo, the sub-
tle sophs were extracting the effi-
gy from the tree with the aid of
Wesley, a kind-hearted waiter.
Whereupon, some freshmen hap-
pened to pass, and uttered such
heart-rending cries of "Wesley,
how could you?" that the poor
man fled in chagrin. (No, that's
not a new type of automobile) . . .
The vociferous shouting of the
various ipep-meetings brings to
mind one of the temporary scares
of last year reiterated by a cer-
tain member of the faculty
"Now, girls, remember, you'll get
cancer of the throat!!!"

Hockey Hilarity

This is not, strictly speaking,
our department, but the excellent
spirit demonstrated by all classes
at the hockey game caught our
fancy ... It certainly means a lot
to the girls who play till their
tongues hang out and their feet
are flat to have someone on the
sidelines cheering them on . . . And
we do mean you\

Tech Teasing

Take this for what it's worth.
It's come to our ears that on the
walls of a very nice lounge in a
Tech dormitory there is the fol-
lowing rule:

"No ladies allowed in this lounge
after 7:30, except Agnes Scott
girls and buttermilks."

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Campus Camera

RED ENKE X MINNESOTA TACKLE >
POUNCED ON A FUMBLE WITH SUCH FORCE
THE BALL COLLAPSED /
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TWE IDEA FOR THE SENIOR

CANE TRADITION WAS
ORIGINATED BY CHARLES D.
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WHO HAS A PATENT ON THEM.

Fiftieth Birthday Gift
Shows Stand in Community

This week's editorial page may seem to be one long plug
for the Lecture Association; but that organization supplies
an important part of the news in this issue.

The idea of giving to the community, free of charge, what
is perhaps the best lecture series it has ever sponsored, is an
appropriate one for this year. A college should always stand
as something higher than the mean in its town or city. This
principle is carried out admirably as Agnes Scott offers the
best in intellectual entertainment to Decatur and Atlanta.
The gift symbolizes her aim in the past fifty years and her
promise for the future.

The College and the Association have done well to coop-
erate on a fiftieth-anniversary celebration which will have a
positive meaning for the immediate world outside the walls.
This constructive offering is of much more importance than
the pomp and ceremony with which most other colleges have
greeted their anniversaries.

Stevenson

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV.

Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1939

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Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

While a spunky Finnish
delegation in Russia heard the
Kremlin's demands, the Fin-
nish civilians, mobilized by a
presidential de-
cree, partially
evacuated Hel-
sinki and drill-
ed in volun-
teer units as
the govern-
ment enlarged
the cabinet to
represent the
Swedish m i -
nority. The
independent Finns, prepared to
fight rather than to yield the vital
Aland Islands, were cheered by
diplomatic backing from Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, and the United
States. The Scandinavian Confer
ence, called by King Gustav of
Sweden, may offer the threat of a
united resistance to Russia shortly.

Arms Embargo?

The opposition to repeal of the
arms embargo has recently pushed
an offensive campaign: young Bob
LaFollette, foretelling a disastrous
war boom, and Champ Clark,
pointing ironically to England's
treaty with Russia, spoke emphatic-
ally against repeal. The practica-
bility of Lindbergh's plan for sell-
ing only defensive weapons was also
debated heatedly.

Drama on the Sea

Nations at war must have drama
to keep patriotism at a high pitch.
The war at sea provided tragedy
when the British battleship, Royal
Oak, was sunk by a submarine.
This followed, with bad stage ef-
fect, close upon the announcement
of the sinking of three German
subs by the British navy. The big
news rather overshadowed the
French loss of a giant tanker, the
Emile Miguet (larger than the
Athenia), the capture of the Ger-
man liner, Cap Norte, in the South
Atlantic, and the British accusa-
tion that a Chilean ship had been
fueling a German raider off Punta
Arenas.

Britain Stretches

Everyone has tried to put a
meaning (as if treaties had a mean-
ing) into the new Anglo-Russian
trade agreement exchanging Eng-
land's tin and rubber for Russia's
lumber. Obviously the rubber
might be of great benefit to Ger-
many, and many argued that Eng-
land was foolishly supplying Ger-
many with a vital product. Others
saw the treaty as an effort to wean
the Soviet Union away from its
new partner.

CIO Novelty

The CIO has discovered a new
weapon that may rival the success
of the sit-down strike. A dispute
between the union and the Chrys-
ler Corporation over the speed of
the assembly line has been the occa-
sion for a new technique. This con-
sists essentially of slowing down
the line without appearing to do
so. This dispute, already under ne-
gotiation, and holding the future
of 80,000 workers, concerns the
right of the worker to have some
voice in fixing the speed of produc-
tion.

"Wiggle-Stick" Goes

The annual outburst of optimism
in the automobile industry was
much in evidence at the National
Automobile Show laH week. After
a bad year, signs of a business up-
turn encouraged manufacturers to
a more than ordinary cheerfulness
over new features. These include
sealed-beam headlights, bright new
colors, elimination of clutch and
old style "wiggle-stick" gearshift.

Andre Maurois
Looks at the College

The content of this editorial is really material for the fea-
ture department ; but it fell into our hands last week, and
we hereby surrender to the
temptation to use it to bright-
en our own dismal columns.

It is the recently-published
(in France) account of Andre
Maurois' opinions of the
South and of Agnes Scott.
M. Maurois, upperclassmen
will remember, was presented
here last year by the Lecture
Association, and gave a
charming talk on "French
Wit and English and Ameri-
can Humor/' When he re-
turned to France, his country-
men insisted on hearing im-
mediately what their re-
nowned author and lecturer
thought of America; the de-
mand was so great that he
published his notes at once,
without revision. Here are his
remarks on the South and
Agnes Scott, slightly marred
by our attempt at transla-
tion:

"TRAVEL NOTES (not re-
touched ; therefore, not a work Andre Maurois

of art but a document), published without delay because the
French people are anxious to know what Americans are
thinking in these critical times. An inquiry into public opin-
ion made in March, April, and May, 1939, by an observer who
has endeavored to report without distorting.

"March 28, Atlanta, Georgia. First contact with the South.
The tempo is slower than in the rest of America, voices more
modulated, activity less constant. I am pleased with the
beauty of Southern women, and with their gentle sweetness.
You find again here that quality so rare in New York and
Chicago: leisureliness. So indolent, these Southerners, that
they have devised a scheme whereby they do their shopping
without leaving their cars. This is called 'curb service/ A
woman stops in front of her grocery or drug store ; she blows
her horn ; a clerk emerges promptly, takes her order, and, a
little later, brings it to the car ; the shopper has not left her
seat.

"I was to speak one night at a young woman's college
(Agnes Scott), and three of the students came to meet me
at the station. No formality. They at once adopted me as a
comrade. I soon found again the inexpressible happiness
which the company of the young always brings me. One of
them especially, with a serious and tender air ... O Chateau-
briand ! T left her as I would a wild flower seen on the road-
side, perfuming my way' ... At the school, I met a young
French girl who was there for the year. With a degree in
geography, witty, intelligent. An excellent type of student
to send over. She gave a true and pleasant idea of France.
I asked her about her impressions:

" They are all so nice. I have a confidence in them all that,
at home, in a girls' school I should have only in my closest
friend . . . Only, they work very little.'

" 'You don't think they are cultured?'

" 'Oh, yes! They have a certain type of culture . . . Sonu'
are very well-read . . . But they don't know things thoroughly
... In France, very few of them could go up for the bacca-
laureate.'

" 'Do they read in French?'

fl 'Yes; we are now studying French dramatic art.'
" 'And what do they admire?'

" 'Ruy Bias, Cyrano . . . They endure Corneille . . . Racine
bores them to tears.'

"The memory that I keep of that charming school, like
that of Beloit College, and Princeton and Vassar in former
years, is one of those which make me love America."

There is not much for us to add to this account. But we
thank M. Maurois for "them kind words," and hope some
future generation of Agnes Scotters will have the opportun-
ity that we who were here last year had of hearing him
speak and of meeting him.

And especially we thank the Lecture Association, not only
for luring the great man down here, but for sending him
away with such an impression. His mention of the College
is enough to give it a national reputation in his country.

But and this is not editorial policy, but personal interest
we do wonder who that wild flower was.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939

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No. 5

School Heads
Meet Here
For Convention

Canadian Educator
Delivers Principal Address
As Guest Speaker

The fifth annual meeting of
the Southern University Confer-
ence will convene in Atlanta on
Monday, October 31, with head-
quarters at the Biltmore Hotel.
Agnes Scott College will have the
delegates and visitors to the con-
ference as guests at dinner Monday
evening, and the evening program
will be on the campus. Dr. H. J.
Cody, president of the University
of Toronto, will be the guest of
the meeting at this time, speaking
on "Cooperation in Higher Edu-
cation in Canada."

Dr. Cody Speaks

Dr. Cody, who is a prominent
Canadian churchman and educa-
tor, has played an important part
in the progressive educational poli-
cies of his country.

He taught in Wycliffe College,
Toronto, and has served as chair-
man of the Board of Governors of
the University of Toronto, as vice-
chancellor of the university, chair-
man of its stnate, and as president.
As one of the leaders in moderni-
zation of education, he has been
largely responsible for the intro-
duction of cooperative schooling
into Canada.

Cooperative Theme

"Cooperative Movements Af-
fecting Higher Education in the
South" forms the general theme
for the conference this year; the
first approach to the subject will
be a panel discussion on "Univer-
sity Center Developments," led by
President R. A. Kent, of the Uni-
versity of Louisville, at the open-
ing meeting Monday morning at
the Biltmore. The principal speak-
er Monday will be Dr. A. R. Mann,
vice president of the General Edu-
cation Board, who will deliver an
address on "Values in Inter-Institu-
tional Cooperation." Highlights of
the Monday afternoon session will
be reports of the special commit-
tees, and the report of the presi-
dent of the Southern University
Conference, Dr. J. R. McCain, of
Agnes Scott.

Coming This Week

Through October 28
Honor Week.

October 25, 5 P. M.
Miss Mell on Radio Pro-
gram.

October 27, 3:30 P. M.
Hockev Games.

October 27, 8:30 P. M.
Dr. Oldfather's First Lec-
ture.

October 28, 12:30 P. M.
Latin Conference Lunch-
eon in Rebekah Scott.

October 28, 1:30 P. M.
Dr. Oldfather's Second Lec-
ture.

October 30, 7 P. M.
Southern University Con-
ference Dinner in Rebekah
Scott.

Frances Craighead Dwyer

Mrs. Dwyer will continue the
Honor Week programs tomorrow
with a discussion of Honor in the
Business World." She is an alumna
of Agnes Scott, now practicing
law in Atlanta.

Miss Hanley
Publishes Book

Of interest to the college com-
munity is the publication during
the summer of College and Uni-
versity Buildings, a b|>ok written
by Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, librar-
ian. Published by the American
Library Association, the volume
| contains a foreword written by Dr.
W. W. Bishop, of the University
of Michigan. ;

Miss Hanley began the book as
a part of her graduate work. It
contains plans for 42 recently
erected college libraries, including
floor plans, exterior views, and a
descriptive article pointing out the
good and bad features of each.

Latin Teachers
Convene on Campus

Dr. Oldfather, Classicist,
Addresses Teachers, Students

As a feature of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of Agnes Scott, Latin teachers from Georgia and neighbor-
ing states will convene for a conference at the college on Fri-
day and Saturday, October 27-28, to hear lectures by the in-
ternationally-known classicist, Dr. William Abbott Oldfather,
and to discuss problems of teaching Latin.

Mortar Board
Entertains Editor

Mortar Board will be hostess
this week-end to Mrs. Harold
Richards, national editor of the
Mortar Board quarterly. Mrs.
Richards is visiting colleges all
over the country, studying various
methods of service.

Early Saturday afternoon the lo-
cal chapter will discuss their serv-
ice program for the year with Mrs.
Richards. Mortar Board alumnae
on the campus have been asked to
meet the visitor at a tea later in the
afternoon. Ruth Slack, president
of the Agnes Scott chapter, is in
charge of arrangements.

Classes Lead
Vespers

The annual class vesper series
will begin Sunday night, October
29. In keeping with the theme,
"Thy Kingdom Come," which
Christian Association has chosen
for the year, the theme of the ves-
per programs will be "What Young
People on Other Campuses and in
Other Countries Are Doing to
Further the Coming of the King-
dom."

A member of each class will dis-
cuss the life of a person who work-
ed for the furthering of God's
Kingdom.

Opening the series, the senior
class will give a study of the life
of Burnabac. The junior class has
chosen as its subject the "Life of
Timothy," and the sophomores the
"Life of Esther." Freshmen will
give a Thanksgiving service to
conclude the programs.

Dr. Christian
Talks on Bartram

Miss Mell Will Discuss
Southern Culture

Those who tuned in on WSB
October 18th at five o'clock heard
Dr. Schuyler Christian review the
life of William Bartram, eight-
eenth century scientist, who trav-
eled through Georgia and other
southern states observing plant life.

Emphasizing the importance of
Bartram in science, Dr. Christian
deplored the fact that people of to-
day are not acquainted with his
work.

The Amplifier, giving news of
alumnae, reported the marriage of
Carrie Phinney Latimer, '3 5, to
Howard Duvall, October 14, and
described the work of Eliza King,
'3 8, in the Georgia division of
N. Y. A.

Miss Mildred Mell, professor of
economics and sociology, will be
speaker this afternoon. She will
discuss southern culture and the
social science tests. Elizabeth Bar-
rett will be the voice of Agnes
Scott.

Wartime Agonistics
Feature Movies, Stunt

By ANNE ENLOE

To begin in the manner of the well-known "Dr." Crosby
back in 1916, soon after Russia threw in her lot with the
Allies, the Agonistic staff issued the first paper of the
year, containing a stirring editorial urging support of the
Student Budget, which was a new and startling innovation
on the campus.

Then, with the October 20th is-
sue, comes another editorial on
the subject of observing quiet in
chapel. Perhaps times haven't
changed so much after all! The
current events column for the
week discussed "Wilson's second
campaign and the desire of the
Allies to bring the war "out of
the trenches into the air."

October 27th brings the annual
faculty bacon bat at Ice Cream
Springs. But the big event of the
week was the stunt and the head-
line:

"HAIL, ALL HAIL, TO THEE,
O SOPHOMORES!!!"

is a dead give-away as to who
won.

Comes November 10th and an
account of Wilson's re-election.
Also the more exciting article on
the opening of "Decatur's new
moving picture house." It seems

that it came to satisfy "a long felt
want . . ." among Decaturites. Ad-
mission five cents except Satur-
days, when it leapt up to ten cents.
Exorbitant!

November 2 5 th brings the
story of Investiture with Dr. Mc-
Cain as speaker, a letter of appre-
ciation to Georgia Tech for invit-
ing the entire student body and
faculty to the Tech-Tulane game,
the statement that Wilson's big-
gest problem was the submarine
question, and an advertisement to
the effect that "Birth of a Na-
tion" was coming to town.

On December 8th we find that
a battle was raging before Buchar-
est and that an appeal had been
sent to "students of the United
States for the students and their
comrades in prison camps in all
like nations at war!" Students at
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Blackfriars Open
Season With
"Seven Sisters'

As its first production of the
season, Blackfriars will present
"Seven Sisters," a modern Hungar-
ian comedy, November 18th, at
8:30 P. M., in the gymnasium.

The roles have been cast as fol-
lows: Mrs. Gyurkovico, Laura
Sale; the "Seven Sisters" (her
daughters, Katinka, Margaret Hop-
kins; Sari, Mary Lightfoot Elcan;
Ella, Eugenia Bridges; Mitzi, Lib
Barrett; Kerka, Frances Butt; Liza,
Margaret Hartsook; and Klara,
Florence Ellis.

Emory players will portray the
male parts, with Covington Har-
dee taking the leading role as
Lerenz Hockoy.

Laura Sale, vice president of
Blackfriars, describes the play as
sparkling, adding that the "cos-
tumes will be very colorful, in
Hungarian peasant style."

Publication Executives
Visit Iowa

Five students are in Des Moines,
Iowa, this week attending the an-
nual Associated Collegiate Press
Convention. They are: Lutie
Moore and Nell Pinner, of the Sil-
houette; Eleanor Hutchens, Mary
Louise Dobbs, and Hazel Solomon,
of the Agnes Scott Neics.

Highlighting the conference on
Friday evening will be the lecture
by Dr. Oldfather on "The Increas-
ing Importance of Latin and Greek
for the Understanding of English."
All teachers and students interest-
ed in language and literature are
invited and urged to attend at no
charge.

Dr. Oldfather, born in Persia as
the son of a Presbyterian mission-
ary, is head of the classical de-
partment at the University of Illi-
nois. He has studied in Germany,
was in charge of classical studies
for a year at Rome, Italy; has
taught at Harvard, at the Univer-
sities of California, Chicago, Colo-
rado, and at the summer sessions of
Columbia University. He is author
of many books on the classics and
is world-travelled. He has lec-
tured throughout the country.

On Saturday, Dr. Oldfather will
make a second speech to the con-
ference on "The Classics and the
Spirit of the Age." This lecture
immediately follows the luncheon
in Rebekah Scott dining room to
which Dr. McCain has invited all
visiting teachers.

The conference will meet Satur-
day forenoon for a round table
discussion on the problems in Latin
instruction.

Arranged as a feature of the
semi-centennial celebration of the
college, the conference is under the
direction of the members of the
department of Latin and Greek in
collaboration with educational
leaders of the Atlanta district.

Miss Jackson
Speaks On Tour

As director of the South Atlan-
tic Section of A. A. U. W., Miss
Elizabeth Jackson will make num-
erous trips during the fall quarter
to speak to groups of this organ-
ization.

On October 28 Miss Jackson
speaks at the Georgia State Execu-
tive Board meeting at the Geor-
gian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta. On
November 3 she will be the guest
speaker for the South Carolina
state meeting in Sumter, S. C,
where she will show a film of the
national convention which met in
Denver, Col., this summer. She
will talk to the Rome, Ga., branch
on November 16 at Rome.

During fall quarter exams, Miss
Jackson plans to make a tour of
Virginia, speaking at Lexington,
Marion, Lynchburg, and several
other places to be arranged.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939

w artime

(Continued from Page 1)
Agnes Scott raised $144.00 for the
fund. That was the same week, in-
cidentally, that Mr. Johnson was
elected an honorary member of
Athletic Association.

By February, 1917, the United
States has actually entered the
war, and the headline of the week
reads:

"WAR AND THE MEASLES
BREAK OUT."

Classes in Red Cross work were
being held at the college.

April 3 0th of that year brought
the last issue of the retiring staff.
It found the campus in the throes
of a campaign to raise $2,500 to-
ward an endowment. It found the
new president of Student Govern-
ment being appointed Mission
Study Chairman of Y. Cabinet
ubi sunt that struggle over the
point system? And it set forth the
stirring statement:

"WOMEN OF AGNES
SCOTT, YOUR NATIVE LAND,
YOUR HOMES AND YOUR
COLLEGE DEMAND A COUR-
AGEOUS RESPONSE TO THE
LITTLE TASKS WHICH ARE
INDISPENSABLE FOR GREAT
ACHIEVEMENTS/'

Fall Tryouts
For Membership
Continue

Four new members were ad-
mitted to Pen and Brush as a re-
sult of recent tryouts. They are
Virginia Stanley, Myree Wells,
Ruth Lynebach and Frances
Kaiser.

Cercle Francois

Tryouts for membership in
French Club will be held on No-
vember^ 1st and 2nd in the chapel.
Candidates must present a skit or
short play in French, and only
those students taking French 103
or more are eligible to join the
club.

Spanish Club

A Spanish dance with castanets
by Jeanne Flynt, alumna, was one
of the interesting features at Span-
ish Club meeting Friday afternoon.
Lillian Gish played Granada, a
Spanish suite by Abeniz, and Eve-
lyn Baty explained the signifi-
cance of Columbus Day.

Special Chorus

On October 2 8th Agnes Scott's
Special Chorus will sing at the De-
Kalb County 100th Anniversary
Fair in Panthersville.

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

"Arma virumque cano . .
freely translated means "I sing of
arms and the boys . . Two
members of our "brother school"
were wend-
ing their
way Agnes
Scottward
last week.
. . . Every-
thing was
exceedingly
peace ful
and their
minds were
filled with
happy

thoughts we hope. Nonetheless
and notwithstanding, they must
have gotten tired of holding their
feet up on the accelerator, and de-
cided to rest it on the floor-boards.
But, alas and alack and woe was
them (Chaucerian)! The ever-
present and all-too-vigilant cops
pardon us harness bulls pardon
again pokmrnen descended
like a bat out of the lower regions
and took our ardent knights into
protective custody . . . Some of
the wires must have gotten crossed
because presently the young gen-
tlemen found themselves enclosed,
not by the welcoming arms of
wait, don't rush Main, but by the
cold bare walls of the local jail. So
you see, when one of your most de-
voted tells you he would do any-
thing, or go anywhere for you, he
may mean it . . .

Guppies Meet Death

Down in Rebekah in an itty bitty
bowl,

Fam five ittle guppies, and how

they could roll!
And of Carrie Gene's heart they

took great toll
When three of the bunch went

swimmin' down the hole!

When C. G. promised a friend
in Augusta that she would provide
him with some guppies purchase-
able in Atlanta, she little knew
what a mess she was letting her-
self in for. . . . She got the guppies
(not a contagious disease but a
fish) and had them in a bowl in
her room, forgetting the fact that
guppies multiply in geometrical,
not arithmetical, progression. She
was trying to rehouse them in a
bottle in order to prevent over-
crowding, when about half of them
slipped down the drain. To capsize
the climax, one of the larger and
more voracious guppies pounced
upon a small, defenseless one and

Episcopalians
Organize Group

Students belonging to the Epis-
copal* 4 Church organized last week
into an Episcopal Club, their ob-
ject to offer free discussions and
explanations of any points about
customs or beliefs of the church
that the members do not under-
stand.

Officers elected at the first
meeting are Nell Pinner, president;
Jean Beutell, vice president; and
Julie Ann Patch, secretary-treasur-
er. Rev. James A. Duncan, assist-
ant rector or All Saints' Church in
Atlanta, will lead the discussions.

The club will meet on the first
Tuesday of every month.

devoured him before C. G.'s very
eyqs . . .

Breaks of the Week

It's always nice to hear about
someone else making fox passes in
class, so that you can comfort
yourself by saying, "I wouldn't
have said that.'" But beware, it
may happen to you, or even you!
These take the current cake:

Keeker Newton, from the front
row of Child Psych, in a plaintive
voice, "In psychology, do you ever
spank a child?" Have you tried
everything else?

Miss Omwake, in the same Child
Psych course, "Miss Stixrud!, in
your reading of this book, what did
you find that the author thought
of Santa Claus?"

Miss Stixrud, "Well, he doesn't
believe in him . . ."

The following masterpiece of ob-
scure clarification was put forth
by Miss Smith in explaining the
differences between the early Am-
erican political parties, "Some of
these people were more like others
than others were." Get it?

Rogues' Gallery

Since the annual proofs have
come back, everyone as usual has
been belittling her own picture and
praising those of her friend. But
Jane Moses and Ruth ("Little
Stupie") Slack have an even bet-
ter idea. They have been collect-
ing a bunch of the most unflatter-
ing proofs of their cohorts and
companions and have started a
Rogues' Gallery of pictures entitled
"Gasp and Beware."

Sophomores Repeat Tie
With Sister Class

Freshmen Bow

To Fighting Junior Team

In two furious hockey games Friday, the senior class hoc-
key team was held to a scoreless tie by the sophomores, and
the juniors chalked up a 2 to 0 victory over the freshmen.

The senior-sophomore battle was an upset, and the favored
senior team failed several attempts to score. The fact that
neither tear scored shows that there |
was excellent defensive work on
each side, but the necessary offen-
sive did not click. Playing below
par hockey, the sophomores suc-
ceeded in thwarting the efforts of

the "blue-beribboned" seniors, who
just could not attain their usual
perfection of coordination.

For the second time this season,
the junior team managed to score
twice, defeating the freshman
class players. Showing marked im-
provement, the frosh really held
the juniors back, and the defense
by Hopper was championship hoc-
key. For the juniors, Scottie Wilds
dominated the field with the best
exhibition of this season. Vaughan,
Dennison, and Dunn cooperated to
carry ( the ball in for two junior
scores, with the other members of

the team doing excellent backing- ' Miss Wilbum Reaches

up and following through.
The line-ups were:

Choose Your Picture

Today is your last chance to in-
dicate to the "Silhouette" staff
which pose you wish in the An-
nual. See any member of the staff
or the Gaspar-Ware representative
in Main. If you are having re-
takes, also notify the staff.

Campus

There'll be a cheer from every
viewpoint when you appear in these
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Contestants Play
Preliminary
Tennis Matches

The tennis tournament takes the
spotlight this week as the prelim-
inary matches are being played off.
Freshman material shows excellent
promise, and the finals may hold
some surprises. The following con-
testants have won their matches:
P. Taylor over Long; Eagan
over M. Robertson; A. Webster
over Forman; Stuckey over Galla-
her; Eakin over Geist; D. Webster
over C. Willis; Carson over Hasty;
and Dyar over Peteet.

Sophomores (0)
A. Webster
D. Webster

A. Wilds
MacGuire
Gray
Brooks
Hasty
Lot!
Currie
Copeland

B. Davis
Substitutions

Moseley, Ware.
Freshmen (0)
Bumstead
Holloran
Hirsch
Bates
Spencer
MacFayden
Ryan

P. Lancaster
Paisley
Hopper
Smith *

Substitutions Freshmen: Mar-
tin. Bryan; Juniors: Leukel, Kyle,
and (i. Slack.

Seniors (0)

RW

R. Slack

HI

Salters

CF

Stixrud

LI

Carson

LW

Forman

RH

O'Brien

CH

Milner

LH S.

Montgomery

RF

Thompson

LF

Taylor

G

Cass

Seniors: Eyles,

Juniors (2)

RW

Dennison

RI

Dunn (1)

CF

Vaughan (1)

LI

Culver

LW

Stubbs

RH

Patterson

CH

Henrv

LH

Walker

RF

S. Wilds

LF

J. Lancaster

G

O'Nan

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Finals in Golf Tourney

In a close match for the Maiere-
Berkele Golf Tournament Cham-
pionship Friday, Mrs. Morton
Bright, of Atlanta, defeated Miss
Wilburn, one up. Miss Wilburn
had defeated Mrs. Swinney, of
Atlanta, 5-3. As runner-up trophy,
Miss Wilburn received a silver tray.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939

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Lib Barrett checks up on

After Hours

"On your mark, get set, GO!"
And though our lasses may not be
off to the races, they're certainly
off to many and varied places.

Grace Eliza-
beth Ander-
son travel-
ed all the
way up to
New Hav-
en, Cann.,
to the
Army-
Yale game
. . . And
Helen Gilmer and Eloise Lennard
down at the U. of Florida at-
tending Fall Frolics. Mary Lang
Gill went home to be present at a
masquerade dance where Life
magazine took pictures, and
Frankie Butt and Mary Dean Lott
went to Sewanee for the week-
end. Others missed on the campus
were: Sally Hollis, Betty Wade,
Anne Frierson, Irene Gordan, Biz-
elle Roberts, Iddy Boone, and Hes-
ter Chafin.

However, those girls who were
left here were pretty lucky, for the
Med dance Friday at the Biltmore
attracted Lillian Schwencke, Lib
Barrett, Florence Ellis, Pat Rea-
soncr, Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Sara
Copeland, Ruth Slack, Nell Pin-
ner, Elta Robinson, Florrie Guy,
Eva Ann Pirkle, Sally Matthews,
B. J. O'Brien, Virginia Webb Stan-
ley, Carolyn Alley, and Sara Lee.

Vanderbilt descended upon us
and drew a crowd of supporters
for the game Saturday. Among
them were Lib Barrett, Florence
Ellis, Marion and Sue Phillips,
Harriet Ayres, Grace Ward, Row-
ena Barringer, Dot Hollaran, Mar-
tha Boone, Carolyn Smith, Imo-
gene King, and Adele Haggert.

The fraternities keep up the
good work of playing hosts to
many Agnes Scott girls. The
ATO's at Tech entertained with a
hayride Saturday night, which, ac-
cording to Lillian Schwencke, Su-
san Cochran, Florence Ellis, Jean
Beutell, and Lillian Gudenrath,
was one of the best yet. At the
KA (Emory) House Dance Sat-
urday night, were Florrie Guy,
Suzanne Kaulbach, Margaret

Reporters Join News Staff

As a result of recent tryouts,
four reporters have been added to
the News staff. The new mem-
bers are Virginia Stanley, Mary
James Seagle, Cornelia Stuckey,
and Edwina Burruss.

Loyola Students Honor
Benchley Humor

Robert E. Benchley, the Bob
Benchley who rides the "bounding
broomstick" on an airwaves pro-
gram, has at last climbed the
heights to immortal fame. Stu-
dents of Loyola College in Balti-
more have founded a Benchley Lit-
erary Circle to study modern Am-
erican humor and they'll first
thoroughly examine the literary
works of the new "dean of Ameri-
can humorists "

The club's pin will undoubtedly
be a bench with a broom leaning
on it! (ACP.)

"Weaker" Students
Prove Football Prowess

A great invasion might be
termed the football prowess of the
Western State College coeds. The
tilt was called the "Powder Bowl"
and was played at Gunnison, Colo-
rado, freshmen and sophomores
against juniors and seniors. The
upper-classmen won the game with
a smashing 13-6 victory and en-
thusiastically planned a return en-
gagement. (NSFA. )

Downey, Pat Reasoner, and (iracie
Harbor, and at the Sigma Chi
formal Marion Franklin, Betty
Waite, Ethelyn Dyer, Marjorie
Wilson, Betty Henderson, and
Ann Hilsman made the stag line
wake-up and take notice. The
ATO's at Emory had quite a few
visitors Sunday night. Seen there
were Sally Hollis, Helen Jester,
Sara Lee, Elta Robinson, Lillian
Schwencke, and Lib Barrett.

Campus Queen Scene And

at the concert, we noted with
interest Edith Dale's smart long
white evening coat trimmed in
gold kid and Nancy Willstat-
ter's striking snood she keeps the
fashion score high what with her
stunning New York latests. But
Joella Craig drew the riveting
spotlight of the week when she
boldly braved all comments and
appeared in some long brown
worsted socks. Congratulations to
an up and coming Walhalla, S. C,
belle.

Campus Celebrity

Hobbies Claim
Miss Hanlcy

Architecture, Cooking
Interest Librarian
By Virginia Williams

Miss Hanley never intended to
be a librarian. She spent numerous
hours practicing, so that she might
eventually become a musician; and
had a very definite ambition to be
a teacher. In fact, she was offer-
ed a position as librarian before
she had ever considered being one.

Even her book's being published
was somewhat accidental. She had
written it not to be published
but as a special problem or thesis.
The University of Michigan bor-
rowed her copy and persuaded her,
to revise it for publication. So un-
til February, 1939, she divided her
spare time between revising the
manuscript and cultivating flow-
ers.

She Designs, Too

She has never been without hob-
bies. She worked in collaboration
with the architect in planning Ag-
nes Scott library, having that pur-
pose in view when she went to li-
brary school in 1934. Since then
she has acted as consultant in the
planning of other college libraries
in all parts of the country. Her
latest work has been acting as con-
sultant in the building of a college
library at Rockford, 111.

Dolls and Red Roses

Miss Hanley confesses a past
weakness for dolls and a present
weakness for red roses. She loves
horses, but can't ride; loves music
but can't play or sing. She can do
some things that she likes, how-
ever. She likes her work and likes
to cook especially to make a won-
derful salad by leaving out prac-
tically nothing. Another favorite
of hers is sea food.

Perils of "Crack the Whip"

Her hates? Well, she hates to
analyze herself and to meet insin-
cerity.

Living in a small Ohio town,
she loved to play "Crack the
Whip," but had a well founded or
rather well grounded hate for be-
ing on the end.

Of course she likes books. Her
favorites are biographies and
plays.

T. B. Association Gives
Campus Program

Speakers, Film

Stress Prevention of Disease

In cooperation with the National and Georgia Tuberculosis
Association, the local branch sponsored a program on tuber-
culosis in chapel Friday, October 20. Two speakers from the
state association, Mr. Falkner and Mr. Young, briefly out-
lined the work in Georgia and showed the education^, film,
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"We of the Tuberculosis Asso-
ciation are just like sellers of in-
surance," declared Mr. Falkner in
his talk. "We sell enough knowl-
edge in our films and educational
program to insure against tuber-
culosis." Money for this work is
obtained from the annual sale of
Christmas seals.

Positive Tests

Mr. Young explained the im-
portance of early detection by
tuberculin tests. A positive reac-
tion, he pointed out, does not nec-
essarily indicate active presence of
the disease. It only shows that the
patient has at one time or another
come in contact with the tubercle
baccillus. X-rays show whether or
not the patient is diseased.

On the campus last year, it was
revealed by Dr. Swanson, 44 per
cent of all students taking the
tuberculin tests had positive reac-
tions, 66 per cent of the faculty
and officers, and 89 per cent of the
white and colored employees react-
ed positively. However, there was
found upon x-ray no active case of
tuberculosis, and only three stu-
dents and three colored employees
were advised to have frequent
check-ups.

Remember October 23

This year tuberculin tests are to
be given all new students, new of-
ficers and employees the week of
October 23. There will be a
charge of ten cents to cover ex-
penses. The pleuroscopics and
x-ray examinations will be given
Tuesday, November 21.

When complimented on the in-
teresting film "Behind the Shad-
ows," which was shown in chapel,
Dr. Swanson said that possibly we
will have another film on tuber-
culosis in the near future, an elab-
orate, colored film with the Tuske-
gee choir, entitled "Let My People
Live."

Do You Read the Paper?

It is said that some students
here do not know that newspapers
(national and local) are kept in a
special rack in the library.

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Thursday and Friday

"BACHELOR MOTHER"

with

Ginger Rogers - David Niven
Saturday
George O'Brien in

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Monday

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with

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Tuesday and Wednesday

DAUGHTERS
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w i t h

Priseilla Lane - John Garfield

Feminine Stars
Bring Comment

Emphatically turned down by
the administration at Stanford
University was a suggestion of the
band manager that a girl be per-
mitted to lead the band during
football season. Said the Stanford
Daily, "The kind of publicity that
results from having an attractive
young majorette, somewhat scan-
tily clad, leading the trumpet-
blowers onto the gridiron is harm-
ful to the university. Instead of
winning friends and supporters for
Stanford, it makes it appear fool-
ish to the public and unworthy
of its respect." A similar issue was
raised by the University of South-
ern California, where the project
was snowed under by a student
body vote on the question.

Masculine stronghold or not,
several large universities consider
some of their most competent
members women musicians, includ-
ing George Washington University
and South Dakota State College.
(NSFA.)

Professors Want
Practical Education

"Our first duty in this time of
turmoil and danger is to carry on
our normal educational program
as effectively as possible and with
a minimum of confusion.

Dr. Karl T. Compton, president
of Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, urges education to follow
such, policies as will contribute to
the maintenance of ideals which
are basic to American life.

"When you listen to a lecture or
study your textbook, think and
apply the materials to your own
personal and environmental prob-
lems. Spend fifteen minutes a day
in meditation digesting the knowl-
edge you have tasted. Let that
knowledge be your servant rather
than your master." Villanova Col-
lege's Dr. W. H. McHugh believes
that purely factual information is
useless unless it is understood and
used.

"It is to be regretted that 'col-
lege-bred' is not synonymous with
a decent knowledge of one's moth-
er tongue. If it were, the speech
of alumni would recommend a
school as a place of culture." Un-
ion University's Mrs. Mable Har-
din believes that collegians should
learn "to have something to say
and know how to say it."
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Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

The campus has been quoting
freely since the announcement of
the Aurora-Phoenix merger. Here
are some student comments on the
change:

Dale
D r e n nan,
'42, thinks:
"that it is a
good idea
because we
will have
a n oppor-
tunity t o
see what
Emory is
doing in
the line of
creative writing and they will have
the same opportunity to see what
we are doing. As it is, we cir-
culate our publications among our-
selves, depriving ourselves of a
broader viewpoint."

Ann Henry, 41, says: "I think
that it is a good plan because we
are having another opportunity for
cooperative movements between
the two schools. I wish that more
of our activities could be united in
this fashion. However, I think
that we could never consider unit-
ing our other publications. "

Julia Moseley, '40, adds: "The
combination of the two publica-
tions will undoubtedly aid in the
cooperation between Agnes Scott
and Emory, but at the same time I
feel that the Aurora is our own
publication. The Phoenix has sub-
sisted very nicely by itself. Can it
get along by itself no longer?"
Doris Hasty, '42, thinks:
. . the merger of the two
publications a splendid idea because
it will create more interest in the
one publication on the part of both
student bodies. I think that the
combination will not take away
any of the individuality of the
Aurora, but will, on the other
hand, add to it greatly."

Polly Heaslett, '40, concludes:
"I think that the combination of
the two publications will lend it-

Communistic Russia

Loses Favor

In College Papers

Red Russia, long a subject of
collegiate study and undergraduate
bull-sessions, is no longer in good
standing with the student body of
the U. S. The deal with Hitler
seems to have changed the opinion
of the majority, and editorial writ-
ers in the college press warn that
all nations should keep a close eye
on the U. S. S. R. in the future.

Here's how the West Virginia
University Athenaeum puts it:
"The alliance between Germany
and Russia is merely one that ben-
efits them at the moment. With
objects attained they will start
again the work of spreading their
doctrines and villifying each other.
With borders side by side neither
will be at ease, and will be fearful
of the other's aspirations of domi-
nation."

The Cornell University Daily
Sun sees the new situation as a dis-
tinct gain for Mr. Stalin: "Stalin
stands to gain everything and to
lose nothing by a general European
conflict. For a clash among the
powers will so weaken both oppo-
sition to the totalitarian states that
Russia will be able to step in and
expand her claims to the south and
to; the west. It seems as if the na-
tions continue their war march,
Stalin will triumph in the end.
Much as the vulture triumphs . . .
in the end."

But, says the University of New
Mexico Lobo, "there'll be plenty of
high horses to get on in the next
few months without our getting
on our high horse about Russia.
Ask your pappy and he'll tell you
that the most valuable thing you
can learn is how to stay out of
other people's scraps. You can
have a lot of experience and still
never know."

self to greater cooperation between
Agnes Scott and Emory. I think,
too, that the combination of the
two publications will be an added
stimulus to creative writing."

Campus Camera

An army of 2i v ooo players
make up 7co college teams.'

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

The news of the Turkish pact with Eng-
land and France struck Germany off
guard. After the shock of losing control
of tfafe Dardanelles, Nazi officials claimed
that Turkey could no longer claim neu-
trality. The intimation, per-
| haps a bit of wishful think-
1 ing, was for another Poland,
I with Russia doing the rough
stuff.

|y Eine Feste Burg

Great popular demonstra-
tions in Stockholm greeted
the Finnish president, Kallio:
a crowd of over 400,000
sang in the streets the na-
** tional anthems and the old
Lutheran hymn, Eine Feste Burg. However, the
Finns left for home, to send a reply to Russia
Saturday, with apn/irently only moral support
from their Scandinavian neighbors.

Home to the Fold

Hitler, in an agreement signed amicably with
Italy, has declared his willingness to help out
Mussolini in a nasty little minority problem. All
the inhabitants of German descent in the Italian
Tyrol are to be booted out of Italy by the end of
1939 if they cannot decide to become full-fledged
Italians: all Nazi citizens must leave within three
months.

Hardboiled Ambassador

The Japanese foreign minister gave a soft an-
swer to American Ambassador Grew's hardboiled
speech to notables of the American-Japanese So-
ciety in Tokyo. The luncheon audience gasped as
he declared that the American people "regard
with growing seriousness ,the violation ... of
American rights by Japanese armed forces in
China in disregard of treaties . . The popular
explanation of both speech and reply is a change
in the Japanese people's attitude: a growing dis-
gust with the military clique.

Attack on Hero

As a popular hero, Charles Lindbergh's public
utterances seem unfortunate. He has been named
as a Nazi sympathizer by Mrs. Roosevelt and the
redoubtable Dorothy Thompson, accused of vice
presidential ambitions by Winchell, lampooned in
England, and his statement called slander in
Canada. Even his defenders, including Hugh
Johnson, have had axes of their own to grind in
the neutrality fight.

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Exchanges

"An experiment conducted recently in Phila-
delphia revealed that when 'swing' was played to
a cage of monkeys and gorillas, the 'monkeys
clung nervously to each other and the gorillas
growled and jumped up
and down.' Whadda yuh
mean, monkeys ain't got
brains!" Florida Flam-
beau.

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N. Y. C (ACP)
Study in bed and get good
grades.

That's the conclusion
of Columbia University's
instructor in Irish culture,
Collins Healy, after a long and detailed study of
Irish methods of study, which revealed that the
students of the Emerald Isle did their studying
while in a lying, reclining or horizontal posture."

At Emory University, according to the Wheel,
two students have started an agency that will [ in-
sure passing a course or even making an "A"
in it.

"Premiums for the scholastic policy are com-
puted on the basis of vour average, the grades
made previously under the teacher in question, by
the applicant, and the number of flunks and

Honor Runs
The Government

Editorials are like occasional poems.
They are supposed to express attitudes or
to set forth novel ideas about current hap-
penings. This is an editorial on Honor
Week.

No attitude toward Honor Week can be
expressed except one of approval; and
there are practically no novel ideas about
it. It has recurred annually ever since
most of us came here. Student Govern-
ment calls our attention to Honor for one
fleeting week ; and after that, we hear lit-
tle about it until the next year.

Now, this is not a Let-Every-Week-Be-
Honor-Week editorial. It is merely an at-
tempt to take Honor out of its one-week
isolation and make it apply to the whole
year.

During Honor Week Student Govern-
ment, whether it is conscious of it or not,
is reminding us once more that we govern
ourselves. We are not policed; no one
checks up on our movements when we are
off campus. Honor, whatever it means to
each of us, is supposed to keep us under
control.

Honor Week is not a week in which ev-
erybody tries to be honorable, for a
change. It is merely a brief course of
study to keep us mindful of the basic prin-
ciple of our form of government. It is as
necessary that we attend chapel this week
as it is that every citizen read the Consti-
tution of the United States now and then.

Who Wants to Die
For Anything?

It is amazing, and at the same time aus-
picious, that so much attention is being
paid to what we, as an age-group, think
of the war situation. Perhaps taking a cue
from the dictators, who cherish the youth
of their nations as the foundation-block
of their absolute power, American big-
wigs are sounding out our opinions thor-
oughly.

As the situation develops, there will be
politicians who are interested in getting
into the war and politicians who are in-
terested in staying out; but there will be
no politicians who are interested in doing
what they think their constituents do not
want them to do. Now, since we hold the
spotlight as those who will have to fight
and those who will have to pay the war
debt, it is a good time to take our stand
and let the politicians know what we
want.

One of the outstanding current at-
tempts at finding out what Youth thinks
is the series of radio broadcasts now be-
ing given on Monday nights over the
NBC network. Once a week, at 9:30 P. M.,
a conference of representative young peo-
ple from eight cities will bring out an-
swers to the question, "What are we will-
ing to die for?" This is all very well, and
doubtless will produce some interesting
ideas ; but the question at hand is depress-
ing. It is to be hoped that the predominant
answer will be "We'd rather not."

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939

Z115

No. 7

Duff Cooper
Opens 1939-40
Lectures

Former Lord of British
Admiralty Speaks on
"The Survival of Liberty"

The Right Honorable Al-
fred Duff Cooper, who would
now be in control of Eng-
land's vast navy had he not
resigned his post as First
Lord of the British Admiral-
ty last year, will open the
Lecture Association's 1939-40
series next week.

Speaking on "The Survival
of Liberty," the brilliant
young statesman who gave
up his high position in British
officialdom because he could
not agree with Prime Minis-
ter Chamberlain's appease-
ment policy in the October,

193 8, Czechoslovakian crisis, will
interpret his country's role and
aims in the present war. His lec-
ture will be one of 40 in the Unit-
ed Spates which isolationists charge
are bids for sympathy with Eng-
land. Time Magazine, November
6, describes him as "swinging into
action on the U. S. front."

Landing in New York last
month with his wife, the former
Lady Diana Manners, of the Bri-
tish screen and the American stage,
Mr. Cooper predicted to reporters
that the war will end with a revo-
lution in Germany and that Arch-
duke Otto von Hapsburg may be
placed on the throne of his fore-
fathers.

When he resigned last year from
the Admiralty, after a sobbing
speech in the House of Commons
to the effect that . . the mailed
fist is the only language Hitler un-
derstands," he temporarily sus-
pended a career which had carried
him steadily upward since his elec-
tion to the House in 1924. He had
a post under Stanley Baldwin in
the War Office in 1928, became
Minister of War in 193 5, and was

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 5)

Dr. F. P. Gaines
Heads Conference

Dr. Francis P. Gaines, president
of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, was elected last week to suc-
ceed Dr. J. R. McCain as president
of the Southern University Confer-
ence. Other officers elected at the
meeting held in Atlanta October
30-31 were, vice president, Chan-
cellor A. B. Butts, University of
Mississippi; and secretary- treasurer,
Dr. Charles E. Diehl, president of
Southwestern. Also on the Execu-
tive Committee are: Dr. W. P.
Few, president of Duke University,
one ^ear; Dr. J. J. Tiger t, president
of the University of Florida, two
years; Dr. Frank P. Graham, presi-
dent of the University of North
Carolina, three years; and Dr. J. R.
McCain, president of Agnes Scott
College, four years.

Glee Club Sings
Folk Songs

A group from the Agnes Scott
Glee Club, directed by Mr. Lewis
Johnson, professor of voice, will
give a selection of Stephen Foster's
folk songs on WSB at 5 P. M. this
afternoon. Featured as soloist will
be Amelia Nickels, '39, who will
sing "Sapphic Ode," by Brahms;
'Ave Maria," by Schubert; and
"Widmung," by Schumann. Mary
Pennel Simonton, '39, will be the
Voice of Agnes Scott.

Last Wednesday the String En-
semble, under the direction of Mr.
Christian W. Dieckmann, profes-
sor of music, presented the first of
a group of musicals. Concluding
the program, the Amplifier gave
news of the Lecture Association.

Foreign Program
Marks Armistice

Emory and Tech Students
Aid in Celebration

As a change from the former
annual international banquet, stu-
dents this year will celebrate Arm-
istice Day with games and a pro-
gram in the gymnasium. Before
the games begin at 7:30, students
from Emory, Tech, and Agnes
Scott will show exhibits from for-
eign nations in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building. A program of for-
eign songs and dances will begin at
9 o'clock.

Betty Alderman and Lavinia
Brown are in charge of arrange-
ments. Committee chairmen are
Frances Woodall, .program; Helen
Schukraft, dance; Dot Webster,
gym decorations; Suenette Dyer,
food; Alice Cheeseman, songs;
Beatrice Shamos, publicity; Lenora
Jones, social; Hazel Solomon,
French exhibit; Mary Virginia
Brown, Spanish exhibit; Rebecca
Drucker, German exhibit; Gene
Slack, Scotch; Helen Hardy, South
American; Gay Currie, Chinese;
Ruth Eyles, Italian; Perm Ham-
mond, American; and Frances
Tucker, tickets.

Emory and Tech Christian Asso-
ciations have been invited.

Deadline for Award
Includes Book Week

The deadline for entering the
1939-40 Louise McKinney Book
Award has been extended to No-
vember 23, to include Book Week,
it was announced this week by
Miss Janef Preston, professor of
English.

Carrying a prize of $2 5 for the
student whose selection and under-
standing of the fifteen or more
books added to her library from
May, 1939, to May, 1940, seem
best to a judging committee from
the English department, the con-
test annually stimulates student in-
terest in book ownership. The De-
partment and interested alumnae
have established the fund to con-
tinue the influence of Miss Louise
McKinney, professor Emeritus of
English.

Noted Pianist
Appears on
Lecture List

In celebration of the forthcom-
ing construction of the Presser
Fine Arts Building, Lecture Asso-
ciation has added to its list of lec-
turers Mr. Ernest Hutcheson,
world^famed pianist, who will give
a lecture-recital December 11.

Born in Australia and educated
there, the pianist is now president
and director of the Juilliard School
of Music in New York City. He
has made extended concert tours
through Australia, Germany, Eng-
land, Russia, and the United
States.

Mr. Hutcheson has played in the
United States with the New York
Philharmonic orchestra, and with
the New York, Boston, Chicago,
and Philadelphia symphony orches-
tras. He is distinguished as the
first musician to broadcast a series
of piano concerts with an orches-
tra.

Not only is the lecturer a cele-
brated pianist, he is also a composer
and an author, having written two
books on piano technique and com-
positions for piano, violin, and or-
chestra.

Campus Writers
Take Awards

Agnes Scott students carried off
first honors from the fields of
composition at the Coker College
Literary Festival in Hartsville,
S. C, October 28-29. Taking first
place in the essay contest was
Douglas Lyle, '39, with "Ubi
Sunt," and in the poetry contest
Cora Kay Hutchins, '39, with "On
a Drop of Blood."

Jean Bailey, '39, with her essay^
"Fairies," won second place in the N
essay division, while Margaret
Lentz placed second in the poetry
section with "Winter Alchemy."
Henrietta Blackwell, '39, won
fourth place in the short story con-
test with "The Locket."

Miss Emma May Laney, asso-
ciate professor of English; Mary
Matthews, editor of the Aurora,
and V. J. Watkins, president of
Poetry Club, chose the selections,,
most of which were published in
last year's Aurora.

Lower House Plans
New Dormitory Rules

At a meeting Monday, Novem-
ber 6, the lower house of student
government discussed the revision
of dormitory regulations. Since the
lower house is in charge of the fire
system, they stressed aspects of fire
prevention.

Thursday, November 2, the tea
house committee met to make sug-
gestions for improvements.

Tuesday, November 15, the ex-
ecutive council will present a skit
on the new rules. Betty Ann
Brooks, chairman; Anne Enloe, and
Mary Evelyn Francis are included
on the committee.

Mrs. Morgan Starts
Th ree-Day Series

Prominent Social Authority Asks
"Are We Acting Our Age?"

Mrs. Mildred Morgan, authority on social relations, began
her visit here with a chapel talk today on "Are We Acting
Our Age?" After chapel, from 10:30 to 12:00, she conducted
personal conferences.

This afternoon twenty girls
representing the various social
classes on the campus will meet
with her at the home of Miss Car-
rie Scandrett, dean of students, for
a discussion concerning campus so-
cial problems.

Tomorrow morning her subject
will be "Standards in a Day of
Change." Afterward, there will be
personal conferences. Thursday
afternoon, in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building, Mrs. Morgan will hold
a discussion group for the juniors,
seniors, and day students. That
night, she will hold a similar dis-
cussion for the freshmen and soph-
omores in the lobby of Inman.

Mrs. Morgan will decide the sub-
ject for the Friday morning talk
after she has determined what the
students are primarily interested in.
After the personal conferences fol-
lowing chapel Friday, she will
have a luncheon meeting with the
executive committee of student
government.

Students have been asked to
hand in any questions which they
want answered.

Mrs. Mildred Morgan

Religious Leader
Speaks Here

Prominent Teacher Comes
From Stephens College

Founder and teacher of the
world's largest Sunday School class,
Mrs. Jessie Burall Eubank, former-
ly head of the Department of. Re-
ligious Education at Stephens Col-
lege, Missouri, will speak Wednes-
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in
the old "Y" room in Main. A
graduate of the State Teacher's
College at St. Cloud Minnesota,
and the University of Minnesota,
she is one of the outstanding
women speakers of America in the
field of religious education. She is
speaking every morning and eve-
ning at services held at the Druid
Hills Baptist Church this week.

Her popularity is evident from
the fact that while professor at
Stephens College she had 1,400 stu-
dents in her class and in 1917
when she taught Sunday School in
Washington, D. C, there were
1,800 members.

She is the wife of Earl Edward
Eubank, sociologist, of Cincinnati.
Contributing to several religious
journals, she is a member of the
Baptist World Commission on
Marriage and the Home and a
member of the executive commit-
tee of the Northern Baptist Con-
vention.

Matilda Cartlidge
Reviews Life of Esther

Sunday night Matilda Cartlidge,
sophomore, will continue the dis-
cussion of Christian Association's
theme for the year, "Thy Kingdom
Come," with a review of the life
of Esther.

Previous vesper programs have
emphasized faith and service as
seen in the lives of Barnabas and
Timothy.

Biology Classes
Seek Marine Life

Eleven members of the present
and former invertebrate biology
classes will leave Friday, November
10, on the annual field trip which
will take place this year at Beacon
Beach near Panama City, Florida.
The students will be at the beach
over the week-end and will spend
the time in collecting and dredg-
ing marine invertebrates.

Two Emory students 1 , W. B.
Baker and James Mackey, who at-
tended the Emory summer class at
Beacon Beach, will accompany the
party and act as guides. Miss Mary
MacDougall, Miss Blanche Miller,
Miss Frances McCalla, Miss Mary
Ellen Whetsell, and Miss Jeanne
Matthews are the instructors in
charge of the trip.

Students who will go on the trip
are Louise Musser, Mary Anne
Hannah, Marion Philips, Mary
Stuart Arbuckle, Jane Stillwell,
Beryl Healy, Ruth Slack, Carolyn
Forman, Mary Caroline Lee, Chris-
tine Florence, and Virginia Clower.

Coming This Week

November 8, 8:30 P. M.
Fritz Kreisler Concert.

November 9-10 Mrs.
Mildred Morgan in Chapel
and in Discussion Groups.

November 10, 3:30 P. M.
Hockey Games.

November 11, 8 P. M.
Festival of Nations in
Gym.

November 23, 10:00-
12:00 A. M. Horse Show.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1939

Seniors, Sophomores
Repeat Victories

Unbeaten Sister Teams
Triumph 2-0 ; 1-0

The unbeaten seniors and sophomores upheld their class
hockey honor again Friday by defeating their respective op-
ponents. The seniors, playing the present junior class for
the last time, scored twice to win over the scoreless juniors
The sophomores defeated the freshmen by one goal.

In the senior-junior game, Forman and Carson started the
ball down the field toward the goal, but it was stopped, then
carried up the field in the opposite direction by Stubbs. Tay
lor stopped the junior advance, and prevented a score. An-
other long line-drive by Forman

and the only long play was a run
through a bunch of defenders by
Rountree which did not result in
a, score.

Freshmen Fight Back

The second half was also marked
by a peculiar absence of scores on
either team. Vaughan, Dale, Jones,
and Downie went in for the fresh
men, and Dale immediately coop
erated with McFadyn on a long
"drive downfield. Bradfield, who
w as instrumental in a number of
important plays, stopped the drive,
Ihd sent the ball up to Holloran.
Holloran started down toward the
goal, but Hasty rushed in and
snared the ball. The next drive by
Holloran and Rountree was stop-
ped by Copeland. The sophomores
concentrated on defending their
goal and did not carry the ball far
into freshman territory many more
times. For the freshmen, Bumstead
was good, and Lancaster and
Downie took the ball down for a
threat, but Lott sent it out again.
The sophomores then put on the
pressure, and ran through the
freshman defense, ending up at
the goal. Hopper, Paisley, and
Smith worked frantically to break
up the play. D. Webster shot the
ball directly into the goal, but it
failed to count as a score. The
game ended before either team

was halted by J. Lancaster, who
duplicated her good work many
times later in the game. Stubbs
again had possession of the ball,
and carried it all the way down
the field, where it was stopped and
brought out of scoring position by
R. Slack. The seniors had the ball
in front of the goal, and O'Nan
was able to kick out the ball on
the first two attempts at a score,
but finally R. Slack slammed it in
for the first senior score. Just be-
fore the half ended, Derinison made
a beautiful cross-field pass and the
juniors were in a good position to
score.

Senior-Junior Scramble

The second half began with a
scramble for possession of the ball
between Stubbs, Kyle, Fisher,
Ware, and Eyles on the left side
of the field. The first times the
seniors tried to go down-field, J.
Lancaster headed the ball off and
sent it back up the field. How-
ever, Carson succeeded in getting
through, and scored the second
senior goal. Milner sent a long
drive down to Carson, who sent
the ball to Moseley on an attempt
to score. Vaughan interfered and
took the ball out, but Taylor and
Forman cooperated in taking it
back into goal territory. Patter-
son then sent the ball up to the
juniors, and again Taylor stopped
the advance. Milner, Carson, and
Forman attempted a goal, but
were stopped by Lancaster. Ware
was doing good defensive, and
Henry, Dennison, Musser, and
Stubbs were on the verge of scor-
ing when the whistle blew, leaving
the seniors the victors to the tune
of 2 to 0.

Sophomores Score

The freshman-sophomore game
began with a drive down-field by
Rountree, but the sophomores soon
took the ball and traveled goal-
ward. The first attempt was
stopped by Goalie Smith. Wilds
and MacGuire took the ball
through the freshman defense, and
MacGuire sent the ball in for the
first and only score of the game.
The ball was shuttled back and
forth for the remainder of the half,

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The Peace Council on the Vassar
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course" designed to give students
a background for the present world
crisis. The course will be concern-
ed with present adequate informa-
tion on the present situation so as
to increase understanding, and to
go deeply into the problem of Am
erican neutrality. A part of the
discussion will be concerned with
the role of the United States in
working for a permanent peace.
The group plans also to bring out
side speakers to the campus during
the year.

The idea of this course was pro
moted last spring on the Vassar
campus when a joint student-fac-
ulty committee was authorized to
consider the possibility of a
"peace course," which could pro
vide adequate background for the
"war vs. peace" question. Since
the' academic schedule for the
1939-40 calendar year had already
been completed, it was decided that
a series of lectures, without credit,
could be instituted. (NSFA.)

could make another definite drive,
and the sophomores were again vie

torious.

Juniors (0)

Seniors (2)

Dennison

R\V

Moseley

Musser

RI

Slack

Vaughan

CF

Stixrud

Willstatter

LI

Carson

Stubbs

LW

Forman

Patterson

RH

Ware

Henrv

CH

Milner

Walker

LH S. Montgomery

S. Wilds

RB

Thompson

J. Lancaster

LB

Taylor

O'Nan

G

Cass

Substitutions: Juniors Kyle
Seniors O'Brien, Eyles, Murlin.

Freshmen (0)

Bumstead

Halloran

Rountree

Bates

Hirsh

McFadyen

Rhyne

P. Lancaster
Paisley
Hopper
C. Smith

Sophomores (1)

RW A. Webster

RI D. Webster

CF A. Wilds

LI MacGuire

LW Faw

RH Lott

CH Hasty

LH Bradfield

RB Gellerstedt

LB Copeland

G C. Davis

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Senior Swimming Team
Takes Second Meet

The second inter-class swimming
meet, won by the senior class team,
was held in the gym pool Thurs-
day, November 2, at eight-thirty.
Those participating in the meet
were members of the Swimming
Club and of the different class
teams.

The first event was the 20-yard
breast stroke race, won by a mem-
ber of the freshman team, Martha
Dale. Entries from the other
classes were Moseley, Cates, Long,
Matthews, Hasty, and Rountree.

Next came form swimming in
the different strokes. Side-stroke:
Long, Rountree, Copeland, Cates,
Cheeseman, Webster, and Sturner.
Front-crawl: Rountree, Stamen,
Gellerstedt, C. Webster, Cates, and
Milner. Back-crawl: M. Smith,
Stamen, A. Webster, V. Watkins,
Cates, and Milner. No decision was
announced.

The seniors were winners in the
two 40-yard dash free-style heats.
In the first heat, Forman finished
ahead of Dale and Walker. In the
second heat, Milner won over
Healy and Matthews.

The third event was the diving,
and representatives of each class
performed. For the freshmen, Dale,
Rountree, Sturner, and J. Smith
did plain front dives in excellent
form, and Rountree did a jack-
knife. Alta Webster did a jack-
knife and a back, and Hasty did a
front and a jack for the sopho-
mores. The juniors had only one
entry, Beryl Healy, who did a
front and a jack. For the seniors,
Moseley did a front flip, a back
flip, and a jack. Forman did a
front, back, and jack, and Cheese-
man did a front.

The seniors won the medley re-
lay, which consisted of laps of
sidestroke, elementary back, front
crawl, and back crawl. The sopho-
mores were second, the juniors
third, and the freshmen last.

Duff cooper

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appointed First Lord of the Ad-
miralty in 1937. During his years
in politics he has written three
books Talleyrand, Haig, and
House of Lords or Senate?

His wife, who, after starring in
British film productions, came to
America to play the role of the
Madonna in Max Reinhardt's pro-
duction of "The Miracle," will ac-
company him to Agnes Scott and
will share honors with him at a re-
ception after the lecture Novem-
ber 15.

Pierre Van Paassen, foreign cor-
respondent originally scheduled to
open the series, has been forced to
cancel the first part of his tour be-
cause of illness.

Clubs Announce
Members, Tryouts

Pi Alpha Phi has admitted
three new members: Kay Green,
Kay Rhodes, and Virginia Watkins.

Rebecca Drucker, president of
German Club, announces that
try-outs will be held in Murphey
Candler Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons, November 8th and 9th,
from 4:3 0 to 5:30. Candidates
must read a passage from any Ger-
man story studied. Pronunciation,
dramatization, and interest in the
language will be the basis for judg-
ing.

B. O. Z. membership swelled
this week as five entrants gained
admission to the creative writing
club.

Sam Olive Griffin, president,
announces that the following stu-
dents passed fall tryouts: Miriam
Bedinger, Virginia Clower, Betty
Kyle, Susan Self, and Peggy Stix-
rud.

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3

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

It's always exciting to get out with "a boy I met last sum-
mer" or "some people from home." Being as how this was
the week-end of Investiture plus the Duke-Tech game, not
to mention numerous other personal reasons, the greater part
of the campus is probably looking back and wondering how.
so many people and so many ex

citing things could be packed into
one small span of time. Confiden-
tially, we're still a little behind.

Among those lucky girls who
got to see the very exciting foot-
ball game were Fan Pitman, Anne
Gellerstedt, Susan Cochran, Boots
Moore, Mary Lang Gill, Sara Lee,
Sara Copeland, Dot Holloran,

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lips, Rowena Barringer, Margaret
Murchison, Marian Phillips, Connie
Watson, Lillian Schwencke, Florrie
Guy, Kaby Benefield, Helen Jester,
Beryl Healy, Sara Gray Rainey,
Hazel Solomon, and Barbara San.

Not to be ousted from their so-
cial position by out-of-town boys,
the AKK's gave a house dance.
Helen Gilmer, Nina Mae Snead,
Elizabeth Jenkins, and Lib Davis
were there.

Tech got its share of Agnes
Scott girls at the freshman
dance Friday night. Hattie Ayres,
Mary Blakemore, Mary Louise Pal-
mour, Lillian Gudenrath, Frances
Abbot, Julia Ann Patch, Alice
Clements, Martha Sue Dillard,
Lucy Bryan, Harriet Vaughn,
Jean Tucker, and Irene Gordon
were among those attending.

Others sought entertainment
away from Atlanta over the
week-end. Marion Franklin went
to Athens for the Mercer-Georgia
game. Lib Barrett and Margaret

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Woodhead attended a set of dances
at Davidson, while Gloria Bram-
lette was at the University of Vir-
ginia. Enchanted with "Music in
the Morgan manner" at Auburn's
opening dances were Louise New-
ton, Frances Ellis, Eloise Lennard,
and Kay Wilkinson.

With the various fraterni-
ties . . . Lillian Gish, Sara Lee, and
Sara Copeland at the Chi Phi tea
dance . . . Claire Purcell, Elise
Nance, and Alice Inzer at the Phi
Kappa Sigma scavenger hunt . . .
Annie Wilds with the SAT's for
Sunday night supper, while Susanne
Kaulbach, Lucy Bryan, and Iddy
Boone were with the ATO's . . .
Annette Franklin, Helen Hale, and
Betty Burdette with the Beta's and
Frances Abbot, Shirley Smith, and
Mary Lang Gill with the Psi
Omega's.

Most recently, the sophomores
have been in the social limelight.
Honoring them, the Agnes Scott
chapter of Mortar Board entertain-
ed with two parties Monday and
Tuesday nights in the Murphey
Candler building. Featuring aut-
umn colors with the gold-and-
brown scheme carried out in light
refreshments, the two events at-
tracted the following guests:

Arthur Anderson, Hugh Howell, Bill
Elkin, Bates Block, Charlie Allen, Tom
Foster, Charlie Cowart, Arthur Wood, Ben
McAndrews, Archie Tolbert, John Lewis,
Newton Jones, Will Peterson, Stanley Ed-
wards, Ben Freeman, Amado Grabriel,
Ashley Byrd. James Wilder, Tom Whiting.

Bill Hutch. Vernard Robertson. Warren
McLain, Bobby Gibbs, Joe Gilmore, Tom
Hoover, Marion Currie, Frank Robertson,
Walter McGhee, Jimmy Hinson, Eric Cot-
ter, Marvin Scarboro, Willie Brockington,
Buck Edwards. Auburn Poovey, Buck Pat-
terson, Ira Moore. Benny Moore, Barton
McCrum, Mack Davis. David King. James
Mackay, John Loftis. Count Gibson, Mil-
ton Edgerton, Marcellus Steadman, Tom-
my Hicks, John Simpson, Walter Buck-
ham, Howard Trimpi, Joe Bayer.

Al BLxler, Vance Baron, Don Bailey,
Ned Iverson, Bill Owens, Francis Benton,
Bill McGuire. Bobby Schulze, Jones Voyles,
Gene Towen, James Doom, Frank Legg,
Bob Barrett, Marvin Campen, Edgar John-
son, Hick Havin, Calvin Kytle, Alex Or-
man, James Rhodes, Barnes Sale, Warren
Taylor, Jim Harris, Joe Beutell, Kimball
Griffin, Lyn Shipman, Rusty Hoffman.

B. C. Spears, Hank Wilson. James
Dukes, R. C. Tweed. Dick Cook, Ed Green,
Carol Varner, Glenn Summerlin, Dunlap
McAuley, James Aldred, Cecil White,
Pierce Allgood, Ben Smith, Dick West
brook, Wallace Norris, Ed Demere, and
Marion Watson.

Triplets "Moses. Thompson, and Slack, complete with conventional Little-Girls'-Day trappings, enjoy
a sociable moment on the Quadrangle. Friday's frolic gave way Saturday to the solemn Investiture service.

Photo Courtesy Georgian.

Seniors Display

Low Waist-Lines, Curls

By Virginia Williams

The campus set the pace for Mama Dionne and the spirit
of the gay nineties when the picked of the hand picked as-
serted themselves on Little Girls' Day.

Hutchens maintains that the prim, starched frock with the
low-swung waist line was worn by her mama in 1904, but the
maid on second floor Rebekah ar

gues that it is the very essence of
the spirit of the nineties.

Margaret^ Hopkins was another
who scrambled into the past. She
produced a rose-silk dress also with
the dropped waist-line and orna-
mented with numerous rows of
vari-colored smocking. Margaret
swears that she wore it as a child.
This may lack credibility but it
seems a convincing answer to peo-
ple who used to say, "My, how you
have grown!"

The frilly petticoat with the
eyelet ruffles came from the attic,
says owner O'Brien, who refuses to
be outdone by glamor-girl Hut-
chens.

Sophie, Sammy, and Peggy, a
trio of rose print jumpers and ban-

Methodists on
Organize Club

.ampus

daged knees, exhibited the out-
growth, or rather undergrowth, of
autographed shirts the auto-
graphed skirt and bloomers.

The milk maid's ideal or the
childhood version of "Bess the
landlord's daughter" was ably rep-
resented by V. J. Watkins. Her
shining braided tresses were tied
with blue bows and a white pina-
fore protected her blue frock.

As to color schemes orchids to
Georgia Hunt's yellow bloomers
and Chub McPhaul's red broad-
cloth ones.

The coiffures ranged from
Shirley Temple ringlets to the
Scarlet O'Hara arrangement worn
by Mickey Calcutt.

The accessories were somewhat

Reverend Claude Fullerton,
from the University of Georgia,
who is director of the Methodist
Campus Student Clubs in Georgia,
met last week with a group of
^Methodist students to direct the
organization of a Methodist Club
on the campus.

Following a talk by Mr. Fuller-
ton, the members elected officers
as follows: Ida Jane Vaughan,
president; Mary Dean Lott, corres-
ponding secretary; Ellen Gould,
program chairman; and Mamie Lee
Ratliff and Amelia Nickels, ad-
visers.

The club also made plans to send
delegates to a Methodist student
conference at Wesleyan College,
Macon, Ga., in January.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939

Campus Camera

50 ANNIVERSARY

THE "GRAMD OLD MAN* OF FOOT-
BALL COMES UP WITH HIS 50
COLLEGE T^AM THIS FALL/
vSTAGG BEGAN HIS CAREER
PLAYING EMD AT YALE AND WAS
SELECTED ON HISTORY'S FIRST
ALL-AMERICAN TEAM IN 1669.
HE COACHED FOR TWO YEARS AT
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE i 41 YEARS
AT CHICAGO AND 15 IN HIS 7 th YEAR
AT THE COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC
HIS TEAMS HAVE PLAYED
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WINNING AVERAGE / ^

HE INVENTED THE
FORWARD PASS /

COACH A. A

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

The embargo is repealed.
Now the United States can
carry on trade relations with
belligerent nations on a
strictly "cash and carry
basis." How does this legisla-
tion effect our neutrality pol-
icy? What kind of a neutral-
ity policy should the United
States sponsor?

These students expressed
opinions this week on the
vital issue:
Henrietta | Thompson, '40,
says: "As
far as our
neutrality
policy is
concerned, I
think w e
should
have one,
by all
means. I
consider it
important,
however,
Hunt that neu-

trality policy be truly neutral. The
present "cash and carry" arrange-
ment docs not seem to me to be
neutrality. "

Lutie Moore, '40, thinks "that
the signing of the neutrality bill
by the President puts into effect a
law which will help the United
States to stay out of war. We were
drawn into the last World War
because of the sinking of our ships
carrying goods to the belligerents.
The present arrangement will avoid
similar catastrophes for us, whether
our sympathies' are with them or
not. But is the bill actually neu-
tral in policy? Docs not Great
Britain have Germany bottled up
in the Baltic? How can she send
merchant ships to the U. S. ports?
Although the bill mav be neutral
in theory, I do not believe it is
neutral in rcalitv."

Elaine Stubhs, '41, concludes
. . that the United States as a
neutral country need not sever en-
tirely its relations with belligerent
countries .. . 1 do not believe that
it is a complete guarantee against
our entering the war, but better
than anv other plan it enables us
to remain neutral and still main-
tain our foreign trade."

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Observed at the lecture (Dr.
Cody's, for the information of the
absentees) ... In the midst of the
blow by blow description of the
establishment and development of

u^-maMK^i imiH IIUHil' HI tRC UrUVer ~

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of Canada
we do
listen Dr.
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receives an
irresistible
urge to re-
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nasal con-
gestion, and
0 Brien reaches into

his pocket, trustingly polling out
a suitable apparatus for the above
mentioned relief, i. e., a handker-
chief, and what comes into view
before the startled eyes of the as-
sembled throng? A large navy
blue sock! Fortunately, there were
no holes. ... At the reception aft-
erwards, where Phi Beta Kappa
keys were abundant enough to use
for spoons, Pattie Patterson ap-
proached Dr. Cody and asked if he
would like some refreshments . . .
Dr. Cody replied in the negative,
stating he was a member of the
Duodenal Club. Pattie must have
looked a little nonplussed, because
he went ahead to elucidate that
"anyone who has ever suffered
from ulcers in that region of the
abdominal cavity is eligible for
membership ..."

Why Can't I Think of Those
Things, Too, Department:

Carolyn Strozier answered the
'phone in Rcbekah, and a mascu-
line voice inquired, "Is Keeker
Newton on the floor, please?" To
which Carolyn replied, "I don't
know, but she shouldn't be . . ."

It Can't Happen Here De-
partment: On one of the experi-
mental psychology tests, to de-
termine whether the tcstec is right
or left-handed, the question is
asked, "Which hand do you hold
a cigarette in?" Don't answer that
question, remember anything you
say will be held against you . . .

Newspapers Give
Fact With Fiction

Georgia Hunt's column this week, quot-
ing several students on neutrality legisla-
tion, is a fairly hopeful sign. Each inter-
viewee showed that she knew at least one
or two facts about the recent action in
Washington. And the possession of a fact
or so is worth more than the strongest
opinion.

Opinions may be based on almost any-
thing: party prejudice ("The Democrats
always get us into war"), family feeling
("You can't tell me the New Deal isn't a
good thing; it got my brother a job"), re-
marks that stick in the mind ("Why have
we been going along with just a one-ocean
navy all these years?"), or personal senti-
ment ("I don't like Roosevelt as president
because somebody in his family is always
getting either drunk or a divorce"). Un-
happily, opinion founded upon the sifting
of many facts is a rare thing.

You often hear the argument that, since
you can't believe everything you read in
the newspapers, it is silly to read them.
This theory is worthy of the man who re-
fuses to get into an automobile because he
might be injured in a wreck. There must
be a certain amount of factual material in
a reputable newspaper; and editorial twist-
ing of truth may be rendered harmless by
reading a rival newspaper, comparing the
two, and taking the common denominator.

Facts may be gleaned from censored for-
eign dispatches in much the same manner.
If DNB and the British Admiralty both
announce a recent sea battle, then there
must have been a fight. The fact that
DNB reports the bombing of the English
fleet with no German casualties, while the
Admiralty rejoices over the flaming de-
scent of six swastikaed planes, need not
trouble the truth-seeker. At least, he has
found out something.

The point, as far as we are concerned,
is this : It is of grave importance that we
make an effort to keep up with what is
going on. Then, perhaps, one day when we
see a headline saying that the Germans
have sunk an American ship with three
hundred aboard, we won't grab our mus-
tard gas and go charging off to murder
the Huns without knowing that the ship
was violating United States and interna-
tional law. Our opinions will have facts
behind them.

Editorial Notes

Prophecy Triumphs
As Miracles Happen

Our prediction of October 11 on this
page ripens into fact. In the same week
that bids are taken on the proposed
Presser building, the date is set definitely
for the Gone With the Wind premiere.

There is little need to worry about the
dangers of the billion-dollar war-boom
which is expected to result from the pas-
sage of the neutrality act. The House
naval affairs committee has taken care of
that by proposing a $1,300,000,000 addi-
tion to Navy funds.

The Emory Wheel fulfilled the journal-
ist's dream of making news out of noth-
ing last week. We quote: "Vassar College
is conducting a 000,000 endowment and
scholarship funds."

According to ad-writers for the movies,
scientists must do without both love and
grammar. An Atlanta paper carries a
spread for "Disputed Passage" wherein
the veteran surgeon counsels the young
doctor, "Love . . . marriage . . . give them
up. They are not for we men of science."

Stevenson

worse send-off.

The old "International Banquet," in al-
tered form, has been combined with the
usual Armistice Day celebration. We can't
decide whether this arrangement is em-
inently appropriate or eminently incon-
grous.

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Allied Propaganda

During the last' war, Americans were character-
ized by the British chief of propaganda as "next
to the Chinese, perhaps the most gullible sheep in
the world." Americans will have a chance to
learn soon whether this gullibility has been de-
creased since then.

Among British persuaders
are the tactful ambassador,
Lord Lothian, Duff Cooper,
Lord Marley, Vladimir Polia-
koff, the "Augur" of the
London and New York
Times. France is planning to
send Charles Boyer.

Bad Manners

The Finnish mission, car-
rying a "final answer" to
Russia could not have had
Paasikivi's delegation first was halted at the ^or-
der by Molotoff's public declaration of the So-
viet's terms: a strip of territory north of Lenin-
grad, islands and a naval base in the Gulf of Fin-
land, demilitarization of the Finnish border. When
the luckless negotiators arrived in Moscow, they
were received with threats and abuse from the
Communist party organ, Pravda. Russia's eti-
quette seems as much at fault as her intentions.

Bacon and Butter

Every English family must soon register at a
retail grocer's to receive its ration book. Begin-
ning next month a family of four may buy only
one pound of butter a week, probably less than
one-third of what the average family is accus-
tomed to using.

Exodus

Less and less does Vienna seem the waltz-city.
The thousands of Jews who have been sustained
for weeks at 1 5 soup kitchens run by the Jewish .
community must all, at the whim of a dictator,
leave their homes. Hitler has ordered the whole
Jewish population to be gone from Vienna by
March 1.

Several groups, numbering 4,000 in all, have
left in the last two weeks. Families are separated
and homes and property are confiscated as this
sorrowful emigration takes thousands of people
to a kind of reservation in Poland.

Trouble in India

Twenty-five years ago England promised India
dominion status for support in the war. Today,
England, asking the same support in another war,
is meeting a firm, quiet, and disillusioned resist-
ance.

Ghandi has gained a united backing from the
Moslem League and the Indian National Congress.
Already eight out of eleven governments in Na-
tionalist provinces have resigned, and England
faces disruption of a trade worth $500,000,000
per year.

Opie Read

Opie Read, the first citizen of Chicago, died
last week, remembered as a good teller of anec-
dotes and the friend of Mark Twain, Artemus
Ward, Eugene Field, Bill Nye, Josh Billings, about
whom he told some of his best stories. Opie Read
was an author, lecturer, and humorist of an al-
most forgotten generation: he wrote a book once
called The Autobiography of the Devil, "just
what I imagine Satan would say of manners and
morals, as dictated to a sinner."

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1939

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No. 8

Ninth Alumnae
Week-End
Attracts 250

Speakers Discuss Role
Of Women in Politics,
Scientific Research

The ninth annual Alumnae
week-end will draw approximately
2 50 former students to the cam-
pus November 17-18.

Both mornings will be given over
to addresses by prominent speakers.
Friday, two outstanding profession-
al women of Atlanta will speak.
First, Helen Douglas Mankin, Ful-
ton County Representative in the
Georgia Legislature and well-known
Atlanta lawyer, will speak on
"Women in Politics." Later dur-
ing the same morning, Dr. Elizabeth
Gambrell, professor of Bio-Chemis-
try at Emory University and win-
ner of a national award for her re-
search on malaria, will discuss
"Women in Scientific Research."

Saturday's program will stress
c rrent trends in the world at
arge, and the South in particular.
Dr. Leroy Loemker, professor of
philosophy at Emory University,
who spent last year studying in Ger-
many, will review "World Affairs,"
while Dr. Edd Winfield Parks, pro-
fessor of English at the University
of Georgia will discuss "Southern
Thought."

A luncheon in Rebekah Scott
Dining Room, Friday will honor
prominent Georgia writers. Dr. J.
R. McCain, Miss Carrie Scandrett,
and Mrs. Ralph Pate, who is in
charge of the whole program, will
speak briefly.

Other highlights of the week-end
include programs by the Glee Club
and the String Ensemble in the
chapel. The alumnae have been par-

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Library Sponsors
Book Week

A book exhibit centered around
a roaring fire in the main room of
the library Sunday and Thanksgiv-
ing afternoons, will highlight Book
Week, which begins Friday, No-
vember 17. Miss Edna Hanley, li-
brarian, has announced that the li-
brary will be open for book-lovers
from 2:3 0 P. M. to 5:30 P. M. on
these afternoons.

Of the books which are shown
each year, several of the most pop-
ular are usually added to the shelves
of the library. The tempororay col-
lection is also used "as an aid to se-
lecting Christmas presents," Miss
Hanley adds.

The book exhibit this year will
include volumes of fiction, bio-
graphy, poetry, drama and especial-
ly books on current problems. Sev-
eral publishers and local book stores
are co-operating with the library in
this exhibit by lending some of the
current best-sellers.

Orders for books will be taken
during the week.

Freshman Vesper
Service Marks
Thanksgiving

In accordance with the long-es-
tablished custom that a member of
the freshman class tell a Thanks-
giving story at the vesper service
on the Sunday preceding the holi-
day, Betty, Moore will be the narra-
tor at the vesper progrem, Sunday,
November 19, at 5:30 P. M.

This freshman program will be
the last in a four weeks' series of
class vesper services. Jeanne Eakin
will lead the service, Mardia Hopper
will play the piano, and Dot Hollo-
ran will be in charge of chapel dec-
orations.

Varied Mishaps

Stalk Visiting Lecturers

By Anne Enloe

Life on the Lecture Committee has its embarrassing mo-
ments as well as its thrilling ones, according to Miss Emma
May Laney, who has been faculty head of the association for
the past several years. There was the time, for instance,
when an English economist came here to lecture. This was
his first appearance in America and the campus was quite
excited over the prospect; about twenty economics students
had been invited to after dinner coffee to meet him, and the
history department was gathered to attend a dinner in his
honor. The guests waited and waited and waited, called the

hotel where he was staying and

had him paged, and finally tore
their hair in anguish. Then sud-
denly he appeared in the doorway,
and seeing all those people gather-
ed around, thought it was his aud-
ience for the evening and began
his lecture on the spot. They fin-
ally got him stopped and discover-
ed that he was stone deaf, had not
heard the call for him at the hotel,
and, which was much worse, had
already had his dinner.

Gallant Mr. Lindsay

And the campus blushed again
when Vachel Lindsay, the famous
poet, came here. Dr. Gaines, who
was president of the college then,
was to introduce the speaker. He
began by delivering a quaint little
dissertation on poetry, and then

ruined everything by saying, "We
will now have the pleasure of hear-
ing Mr. Watson. " The audience
gasped, -but Mr. Lindsay rose gal-
lantly and quipently to the oc-
casion and said, "Will someone
page Sherlock Holmes. "

Edna Millay Sniffles

It was undoubtedly lucky that
such a thing didn't happen when
Edna St. Vincent Millay was the
lecturer, for she was really the
temperamental type she is rumored
to be. The committee awaited her
arrival in frank apprehension, es-
pecially after she had refused to
stay on the campus and to submit
to having a reception given in her
honor! But she finally arrived in
town and her husband-bodyguard

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ALFRED DUFF COOPER

The young statesman and his
wife, Lady Diana, arrived early this
morning to fill his lecture engage-
ment here. Gymnasium doors will
open tonight at 7:3 0 for his 8:30
talk on "The. Survival of Liberty."

Radio Musical
Series Continues

Vaughan, Purcell Offer
Group of Piano Selections

Offering a variety of piano se-
lections, Ida Jane Vaughan and
Claire Purcell will continue the
musical broadcasts over WSB at
5 o'clock this afternoon on the
Agnes Scott program. Claire* will
play, "Soaring," from Fantasy
Pieces" by Schuman. Ida Jane has
chosen MacdowelPs , "Witches'
Dance" and Arensky's '-Etude in
F Flat Major" as her selections.

Martha Skeen, '34, who played
in a stock company in Chicago last
summer, will represent the voice of
Agnes Scott.

Last week, the Glee Club, under
the direction of Mr. Lewis Johnson,
professor of voice, presented a pro-
gram of Stephen Foster's folk songs.
The amplifier closed the program
with news of the first lecturer of
this year's series, Duff Cooper; a
mention of alumnae week-end; and
notice of Evelyn Hanna's, '23, art-
icle in the Alumnae Quarterly.

Coming This Week

November 15, 5 P. M.
Piano selections on college
broadcast.

November 15, 8:30 P. M.
Duff Cooper's lecture on
"The Survival of Liberty."

November 17-18 Alum-
nae Week-End.

November 17, 12:30
P. M. Alumnae Luncheon.

November 17, 3:30 P. M.
Hockey games.

November 18, 10 P. M.
String Ensemble in Chapel.

November 18, 8:30 P. M.
Blackfriar's plav, "Seven
Sisters."

November 19, 5:30 P. M.
Freshman Vespers.

November 21, 8:30 P. M.
Swimming Meet.

Duff Cooper Opens
Lectures Tonight

British Statesman Reveals
'Behind the Scenes' Maneuvers

Opening the 1939-40 Lecture Series, the Right Honorable
Alfred Duff Cooper, D. C, D. S. O., former First Lord of the
British Admiralty, will lecture tonight in the gymnasium
at 8:30.

Fresh from an important role in the recent crisis over
Danzig and the Polish Corridor, Mr. Duff Cooper will speak

on the subject, "Survival of Liber-

Economists
Honor Miss Mcll

Southern Group Hears
One Woman Speaker

Miss Mildred Mell, professor of
economics and sociology, was the
only woman speaker of a confer-
ence of the Southern Economics
Association, held in Charleston,
South Carolina, November 3 and 4.

Using "Standards of Living in
the South" as her subject, Miss
Mell discussed levels of living as
functions of levels of income. She
indicated the influence of a com-
mon American standard of living
by showing that as levels of in-
come rise, Southern levels of living
tend to change in the same direc-
tions as those in all other regions.

Most of the conference sessions
were given over to the study of
economic factors affecting South-
ern incomes. Delegates to the con-
vention included teachers of eco-
nomics and professional research
workers throughout the South.

Guest Speakers

Lead Program

At Council Meeting

Miss Mary Jane Willett, regional
secretary of the student Y. W.
C. A., and Mrs. W. L. Duskin, of
the Atlanta Y. W. C. A., were
guests of the council of Christian
Association at its second meeting
of the year at 7 o'clock last night.
The purpose of the meeting was to
get the council members acquaint-
ed with all outside Christian or-
ganizations with which Agnes
Scott is associated.

Miss Willett led a discussion on
the activities of the student Y. W.
C. A. and the World Student
Christian Federation, while Mrs.
Duskin reviewed the work of the
business and industrial groups of
Y. W. C. A. Louise Hughs ton told
of the work of the Atlanta Inter-
collegiate Council.

Concluding the meeting the
council members discussed student
activities of various denominational
organizations.

The discussion was based on re-
ports from the denominational
chairmen, who are included this year
on the Council of Christian Associ-
ation: Georgia Hunt, president of
the Presbyterian group; Ida Jane
Vaughan, of the Methodist stud-
ents; and Mary Reins, representing
the Baptists.

ty," giving his audience a first-
hand account of "behind the
scenes" maneuvers involved in such
a crisis.

He will also outline the course
of action Britain expects to follow
in bringing the current contro-
versy to a peaceful settlement, and
discuss other vital issues now fac-
ing the British Empire.

Ranked with Leaders

Mr. Cooper resigned from the
highly important cabinet post of
First Lord of the Admiralty last
October because, as he announced
at the time, he felt that he could
not support Chamberlain's "peace
at any price" settlement of the
Czechoslovakian crisis with Hitler.
Der Feuhrer has ranked Mr.
Cooper with Anthony Eden, Wins-
ton Churchill, and Harold Ickes as
being among the leading British
and American "agitators" and
"war mongers."

Rise to Power

Beginning his political career as
a member of the British House of
Commons in 1924, Alfred Duff
Cooper worked steadily upward.
Stanley Baldwin gave him a secre-
tarial post in the War Office in
1928, and in 193 5 he was made
Minister of War. His appointment
as First Lord of the Admiralty fol-
lowed in 1937.

Any reorganization of the Bri-
tish Cabinet to meet a great na-
tional emergency is almost certain
to see him back in the Cabinet,
second in power perhaps only to
Anthony Eden.

Wife Shares Honors

With Mr. Cooper on tour is his
glamorous wife, the former Lady
Diana Manners, who is well-known
in America for her portrayal of
the role of "The Madonna" in Max
Reinhardt's production of "The
Miracle," and for her roles in vari-
ous British film productions. She
has more recently been in the
news because of her curtsey at a
recent French fete to the Duchess
of Windsor, making her one of the
first distinguished members of the
British aristocracy to make this
gesture toward the American wife
of England's former king.

Immediately following the lec-
tuce, there will be a formal recep-
tion in Murphey Candler Building
at which Mr. Cooper and Lady
Diana will share honors. Margaret
Hopkins, president of Lecture As-
sociation; Miss Emma May Laney,
faculty adviser, and Dr. McCain
will receive with the honor guests.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1939

Sophs Move into Lead
With 2-0 Upset

Juniors Eke out 2-1 Victory
As Freshmen Score for First time

Last Friday marked a great day in the hockey history of
the sophomores, who defeated the senior team, 2-0. The
sophomores have now one tie against their record of wins,
and the seniors have two ties and one loss. The juniors de-
feated the scrappy freshman team,

2-1, after a fast game.

The sophomores played a win-
ning game from the start, and, de-
spite the efforts of the seniors to
stem the tide of offense, the score
remained two to one in favor of
the sophomores. There was no score
in the first half, but both teams
threatened a number of times.
Goalies Cass and Davis were kept
busy with the attempted goals.
During the second half, the com-
bination of Wilds, MacGuire and
Lott clicked to perfection, and the
two scores rolled in. Wilds shot
the first goal, and MacGuire was
responsible^ tor the second.

During the first half of the jun-
ior-freshman game, three goals
came in quick succession. Willstat-
ter, playing at lift-inner for the
juniors, made the first goal after
a drive down field by Stubbs. A
freshman spurt resulted in a score
by Hirsch at left wing. Then the
juniors moved ahead with a goal
by Vaughan. The second half was
a succession of drives by Holloran
and Downie, Patterson and Stubbs.

This week the seniors play the
freshmen, and the juniors play the
sophomores Friday afternoon.

Line-ups:

Mishap!

JUNIORS

FRESHMEN

Stubbs

R\V

Downie

D aim

RI

Holloran

Vaughan

CF

Rountree

Willstatter

L!

Hates

Dennison

L\Y

Hirsch

Patterson

RH

Mc Fad yen

Henry

CH

Rhyne

Fisher

LH

Lancaster, P.

Wilds

RF

Fellens

Lancaster, Jr.

LF

Moore

O'Nan

G

C. Smith

SENIORS

SOPHOMORES

Kyles

R\Y

Webster, A.

Heaslelt

RI

Webster, I).

Stixrud

CF

Wilds

Moseley

LI

McGuire

Martin

L\Y

Gray

Wa re

RH

Brooks

Milner

CH

Lott

Mont go met y

LH

Gellerstadt

O'Brien

RF

Currie

Taylor

LF

Copeland

Cass

G

Davis, B.

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called out to Miss Laney to request
that every light in the gym be
turned on, even the footlights.
That having been attended to, the
Millays arrived, the poetess sufer-
ring from a terrible cold. So up
the aisle went a rather queer pro-
cession, Miss Laney, Dr. McCain,
Miss Millay, and the husband, who
was carrying a huge bottle of med-
icine. The three escorts hovered in
the wings till the lecture was over;
then after the tremendous applause,
the faithful husband administered
a swig of cough medicine and his
wife brought down the house with
an encore.

The same cold was a source of
embarrassment to the young doctor
who came to treat Miss Millay, and
then failed to show any enthusiasm
when the temperamental poet intro-
duced herself.

Sculptor Goes 'Round

Then there was the day, before
the advent of automobiles, when
the famous sculptor, Lorado Taft,
came to lecture. He came out
from town on the street car. But
he didn't show up and he still
didn't show up. He was finally
discovered riding calmly back to
town, having made the complete
circuit without catching on to the
fact that he was going around in
circles.

Host to the Hostess

And Joseph Auslander, in
charge of the poetry section of the
Congressional Library, left New
York buried in a typical snow, and
found Atlanta reveling in one of
those spring days for which it is
famous. So on his way out to the
Alumnae House, he stopped and
bought out one of the men who
sell daffodils on Ponce de Leon and
arrived at the tea house with a taxi
full of them to present to the host-
ess there.

Class Teams Vie
On Horseback

The Agnes Scott riding classes
will stage a horse show and gymk-
hana Thanksgiving morning from
ten to twelve at the Georgianna
stables. The captains of the class
teams are Hazel Solomon, senior;
Margaret Murchison, junior; Mar-
garet Smith, sophomore; and Mar-
na McGarrough, freshman.

The first class will be the be-
ginners' three-gaited group. The
horses are to be shown at a walk,
trot, and canter. Judges will em-
phasize horsemanship and form,
and the points will be five, three,
and one for the first three places.
The advanced class requirements
for the three-gaited group are the
same, with the addition of both
leads on the canter.

Precision of execution on ma-
neuvers at the given command and
team work will be the basis of
judgment in the freshman-sopho-
more drill. First places in this
group count fifteen, ten, and five
points.

In the bareback class, the riders
will be judged on performance at
a walk, a trot, and a canter. Con-
testants in the saddling-bridling
race are allowed a helper to hold
their horses, but each will be respon-
sible for saddling and bridling
the mount unassisted, then riding
back to the finish line.

Riders in the pair class wall keep
their mounts together at the walk,
trot, and canter signals. Form
counts twenty-five per cent, pre-
cision seventy-five per cent, and
the places bring ten, seven, and
four points. In the junior-senior
drill, judges will observe teamwork
and precision.

In the bending race, contestants
will ride twice around a figure-
eight course, keeping the posts on
the left, then the right, alternately.
Speed and accuracy in keeping to
the courses will count in the judg-
ing. Teams of three riders will
compete in the rumble seat relay.
One member of the team will be
mounted, and must ferry her part-
ners back to the finish line one at
a time, riding double. In the musi-
cal chair contest, riders will try to
keep to the outside of a circle of

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Neophytes,
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Occupy Clubs

Esthere Ogden was named sec-
ond vice president of KUB; Eloise
McCall, program chairman; and
Wallace Lyons, refreshment chair-
man, at a recent meeting of the
club.

Twenty-one new members in-
creased Bible Club enrollment
last week. They are Betsy Banks,
Marjorie Boggs, Harriet Cochran,
Virginia Carr, Gay Currie, Lucile
Gaines, Florence Graham, Wilma
Griffith, Ellen Gould, Mamie Hall-
man, Helen Hardie, Gary Home,
Fletcher Mann, Nell Moss, Nell
Pinner, Hazel Scruggs, Nina May
Snead, Ellen Stuart, Lila Peck Wal-
ker, Connie Watson, and Eloise
Weeks.

Harriet Cochran was elected
corresponding secretary of the
group.

The Spanish Club has admitted
six new members as a result of last
week's try-outs. They are Pat
Reasoner, Alta Webster, Fletcher
Mann, Virginia Williams, and
Mary Bon Utterbach.

As a result of recent tryouts,
German Club admitted tour new
members: Mary Virginia Brown,
Ruth Eyles, Sue Heldman, and Mar-
garet Smith. They will be initiated
into the club this afternoon at the
regular meeting, which will be held
at Harrison Hut at 4:3 0.

sacks which represent chairs. At
the signal of a whistle, the riders
must ride in, dismount, take the
reins completely over the horse's
head, and kneel on the sack. Each
time a sack is removed, and the
holder of the last sack wins.

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ticularly invited to the hockey
games Friday afternoon.

Through the courtesy of Davi-
son's, Rich's and Miller's bookstores,
Miss Edna Hanley will arrange a
book exhibit in the library which
will be open for inspection on both
afternoons.

As the closing event of the week-
end, Blackfriars will present "Seven
Sisters," an Hungarian play, direct-
ed by Miss Frances Gooch and Miss
Roberta Winter, Saturday, at 8:30.

Mrs. Lapp, Beryl Healy
Plan Second Meet

The four class teams will com-
pete in the second swimming meet
of the year in the gymnasium, Mon-
day night at 8:30. Mrs. Harriette
Haynes Lapp, instructor in physi-
cal education and Beryl Healy will
conduct the contest.

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Pat

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

Three cheers, a half dozen orchids, and off with our hats
to the group of boys who said, "If Roosevelt can change
Thanksgiving, we can move Easter up, so let's have an Easter
egg hunt/' And so there came about the PiKA Easter Egg
Hunt, buffet supper, and house dance. Among the lucky girls

who attended this affair were Marvy I . TT

Eloise Lennard, Gary Home, Re-
becca Stamper, Mary Lang Gill,
Marjorie Boggs, Eloise McCall, and
Mary Lightfoot Elcan.

The Emory Sigma Chi's had
one of their charming buffet sup-
pers Sunday night. Elizabeth Jen-
kins, Betsy Kendrick, and her
guest, Harriet Corbitt, of Suffolk;
Ruth Linsbeck, Ann "Bumstead,
Louise Newton, and Eugenia
Hailey were there.

Away for the week-end.
Shirley Ann Smith and Charlene
Burke went to Annapolis to see
how the Navy boys are faring
these days. Frances Abbot took
Mildred Joseph home with her.
Marian Franklin, Alice Inzer,
Joella Craig, Ann Frierson, Laura
Cumming, Jessie MacGuire and
Doris Hasty were among those go-
ing to their own homes for the
week-end. Annette Franklin spent
a delightful time at the Vogel
State Park, while Lib Beasley vis-
ited at Shorter, Lillian Schwencke
at Milledgeville, and Grace Har-
bour and Ellen Stuart in Macon.

With the fraternities. Elta
Robinson went to the ATO house
dance Saturday night. Mary Dean
Lott had dinner at the KA house
Sunday. Frances Ellis went on a
Chi Phi steak fry and hayride,
while "the SAE's entertained Hattie
Ayres, Lillian Gudenrath, Annie
Wilds, Jane Taylor, and Sara
Copeland.

Campus Queen Scene. All

honors this week to Pat Fleming,
who dazzled many at the Kreisler
concert where she appeared in a
striking two-piece red evening
gown, with a gardenia tucked in
her dark hair.

Kirkpatrick, Harriet Vaugh
F 1 e m -
ing, Betsy
Banks,
Gary
H o r n e,
and Mar-
j o r i e
Boggs,
who won
a real,
honest-to -
goodness,

L bun- Lennard

ny for finding the most eggs.

At the Tech-Kentucky foot-
ball game, adorned by chrysanthe-
mums with bright-colored stream-
ers were Mary Lang Gill, Margaret
Downie, Carolyn Alley, Betty
Wade, Charlotte Gardner, Frances
Butt, Iddy Boone, Ernestine Cass,
Hazel Solomon, Dusty Hance,
Mary Ward, Charity Crocker, Mar-
tha Boone, Mary Ann Faw, Katsy
Blair, Ducky Copeland, Carolyn
Dunn, fiugenia Hailey, Annie
Wilds, Margaret Hartsook, Frances
Burke, Jeanne Osborne, Susanne
Kaulbach, and Martha Sue Dillard.

Other Tech attractions in-
cluded the Briarean Society's din-
ner dance at the Henry Grady
which Julia Ann Patch, Lutie
Moore, Helen Schukraft, and Hazel
Solomon attended, and the Navy
Ball which attracted Nancy
Hirsch, Pat Perry, Mary Klingen-
smith, Kathleen Head, Marjorie
Simpson, and Ann Bumstead. Mary
Margaret Toomey went on a hay-
ride given by the Tech Newman
Club, and Wallace Lyons attended
the same type of function given by
the Foil and Mask Club.

Among those at the Dental Col-
lege Pan-Hellenic dance last
night were Frances Abbot, Boots
Moore, Grace Elizabeth Anderson,

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tected and sheltered," and stressed
the need for growing up emotion-
ally, and facing the "realities of
life" with a set of values.

To the Agnes Scott student
body, Mrs. Morgan, in her first
talk, "Are We Acting Our Age?",
pointed out that college girls need
to grow, learn to discriminate,
make their own decisions, and stop
relying on their parents. "You
must remember," Mrs. Morgan
stated, "that what I am to be I
am now becoming."

Continuing with the same ideas
in her Thursday speech, "Modern
Marriage and Its Requirements,"
Mrs. Morgan emphasized that "the
most important requirement of
modern marriage is emotional
growth and maturity." In mar-
riage, according to Mrs. Morgan,
a young person should be "grown
up in his choices of a mate"; a
young couple should have "a sin-
gleness of purpose," and work "for
a social democracy" in the family.
Closing this speech, Mrs. Morgan
made the appeal that young women
today need to meet young men in
natural situations, thinking, work-
ing, and playing together.

"The Role of the College Wom-
en of 1940" was the subject of
Mrs. Morgan's last talk at chapel
on Friday. She stated that college
girls needed to take advantage of
the opportunities offered by col-
lege, to "take a wider circumfer-
ence with broader life interests,"
to develop "a sounder 1, basis for
holding points of view" in order
to be more useful to society. Cor-
recting a common belief among
girls, Mrs. Morgan said, "To think
that you're fitted only for mar-
riage after college is a mistake.
You cannot escape into marriage."
At college, cultivate a cross sec-
tion of friends, Mrs. Morgan urg-
ed. In her closing words, she put
forth a question regarding the role
of a college woman: "What are
the things in life worth working
for?"

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Human Guinea Pigs
Haunt Psychology Lab

By Bee Bradfield

At first glance, one would never guess that behind the
unpretentious doors of No. 5 Buttrick many an up-and-com-
ing Agnes Scotter has found herself not only a student but
a psychological phenomenon. Yet exploration of the peculiar
gadgets wheels and such inside the room soon make one
realize that Experimental Psychology is more than a mere
course it is a course of events.

Condition Reflex

Dignity and superiority have
often been upset when Miss Fool-
proof Senior has had to admit that
she, too, was subject to the condi-
tion reflex. In campus language
she was shocked by a battery when
she was not shocked by a battery.
Like most of our rules, this state-
ment has a hidden and reasonable
explanation. It goes something like
this: Miss A holds a wire while
Miss B turns on a current of elec-
tricity which rings a bell, thereby
making Miss A jump back and
"oh" in the conventional feminine
manner. Miss B repeats her shock-
ing act several times, then rings
the bell when no current is on.
Miss A jumps just as she did be-
fore, and feebly tries to explain
that bells make her jump anyway
and the electricity had nothing to
do with it. However, the Psych
book has another theory about con-
dition reflexes which definitely
gives Miss A the gong and the
horse laugh.

Nonsense Syllables

And have you ever seen a group
of Chinese students studying aloud,
apparently oblivious of their fel-
low strugglers? Frankly, neither
has the author of this scientific
dissertation, but if hearsay can be
trusted and it can at times this
very Experimental Psych lab goes
quite Oriental on occasion. What
is more, they deviate from the us-
ual trend of useful investigation
and learn "nonsense syllables."
They babble away such things as
"ooh," "eee," "od," and "ay" un-
til an outsider begins to wonder if
she has the name of the institution
right. She is soon assured, however,
that it is Agnes Scott and the girls
are only pursuing their academic
careers according to lab instruc-
tions for the day.

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affair on her arm. You will be
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that one little space she has about
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whether the windows are to be up
or down come a cold December
night, methinks. . .

Queer things indeed go on in
No. 5 Buttrick, and if the writer
of this psychological phenomena
survey does not conclude this arti-
cle ere long, she is in danger of
dashing over to sign up for Experi-
mental Psych just to see if she is
doing as she should be doing and
why!

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1939

Stev

ens

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Explosion in Munich

The recent incident in Munich was a rather cur-
ious one. A number of tantalizing questions have
arisen from the exlosion of the time bomb in the
ceiling of the beer hall which Hitler left so oppor-
tunely. Was it an inside job?
gest an inner circle of discon-
tent? Was it a put-up job,
staged by the Gestapo to uni-
fy Germany and justify a
coming attack?

Axis Break

Virginio Gayda, who ex-
presses Mussolini's official
mind in the press of Italy,
has ended a cautious silence
cn Russo-German relations,
and has opened an attack or*
the perfidious Comintern. Molotoff's manifesto
for international action by the workers set off a
chorus of disapproval from Italian newspapers and
radio. At least Benito disapproves of the company
friend Adolph is keeping.

Dykes

An anecdote in Time relates that when the
Kaiser once bragged to Wilhelmina of the Nether-
lands of his 8-foot guardsmen, she reported
with unanswerable logic of a possible 9-foot flood-
ing of the streets of Amsterdam. Such a circum-
stance seems closer now than then. Border pro-
vinces have already been evacuated; some regions
have already been flooded; and water is being kept
up near the top of the canal banks.

Snub

Good Russian vodka and caviar were enjoyed by
over a thousand of the small fry of Washington
while it was ostentatiously snubbed by higher gov-
ernment officials. The snub, given the reception
at the Russian Embassy in celebration of the
twenty-second anniversary of the revolution,
showed how the wind blows in diplomatic circles.
German, Chinese, Finnish, Baltic and Balkan rep-
resentatives were conspicuously present: British,
French, and Americans were prominently absent.

Duff Cooper Brings
First-Hand News

Tonight at 8:30 we shall have a chance
unusual in time of war to hear a his-
tory-maker talk about history in the mak-
ing. A statesman who has been in the
thick of the long, haggling, devious pre-
lude to the European outbreak will speak
to us from his experience. This is the best
opportunity since war began to learn
something about the workings of it. Eng-
lish propaganda, perhaps; but at least it
is first-hand information.

This is not a plea for attendance to the
lecture; such a bid would be superfluous,
since the whole college seems to be going.
It is an expression of thanks 'and appre-
ciation to the Lecture Association and to
the Administration for bringing Duff
Cooper to the campus.

Also, it is an assurance to them that
many students are taking the opportunity
seriously not as celebrity-gazers, but as
seekers of information leading to under-
standing. Witness the number who, in the
last few days, have been reading Time's
pamphlet, "Background for War," from
the magazine shelf in the library.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, Nov. 1 5, 1939 Nfc S

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphcy Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.
Subscription price per year, $ 1.2 5 j single copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

College Courses
Are not Sufficient

The other day, when a student was tell-
ing us about a book she was reading, we
caught ourself asking, "What course do
you have to read that for?" We felt pretty
silly even before she informed us that she
had begun reading it of her own free will.

It is a mournful, but evident, fact that
college students rarely read books unless
they have to. They plow through the nar-
row little courses which they have laid out
for themselves, and compliment them-
selves for being able to assimilate all this
predigested material. Almost never do
they voluntarily undertake the digesting
of matter which will add a cubit to their
mental statures. As college graduates,
they will fall into the group described by
Mrs. Morgan last Friday, who "haven't
done a stiff reading assignment since they
tucked their diplomas under their anjns."

A double opportunity will present itself
this week for us to find out what is going
on in the literary world now that Jane
Austen is no longer with us. The annual
Book W 7 eek starts Friday, and the time for
entering the McKinney Book Award com-
petition has been extended through
Thanksgiving.

Each year, the college library i. e.,
Miss Hanley spends much time and ef-
fort in arranging an attractive exhibition
of new books and new editions of old
books. The purpose of this work, frankly,
is to stimulate reading-interest in flabby
student minds. Its success to date lies in
the fact that the exhibits have been so at-
tractive and so broad in scope that there
has always been something there to
arouse even the flabbiest. And students
who read anyway, of course, spend hours
browsing there.

The McKinney Book Award offers a
chance to start a personal library and
money with which to continue it.

Every intelligent, reasonably tutored
human being likes to own the books which
he feels contain something lasting for
him. Most of us intend to acquire books
at some time or other but, for reasons
mentioned above, postpone the good work
until graduation and then go home to find
our corner of the family bookcase occupied
by an 1890 encyclopedia.

Entering the McKinney competition
provides a motive for getting books now
by gift, purchase, or any other approved
method. And winning the competition
provides both motive and opportunity to
get more books with the cash prize.

This is a long, long editorial. Your read-
ing time would have been far better spent
on the work of some literary genius than
on the platitudes of your fellow student.

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Campus Camera

OUST BETWEEN US GIRLS . .

Exchanges

The data on Winthrop News Service Cards,
filled out by students during registration, is not
only informative; it's often quite stunning.

Honors received in high school brought forth
freshman responses that indicate originality (of
sorts) as well as worth, especially "Most Stu-
dious," "Best 'Round Girl."

But the answer of one modest maiden wets the
eye with its poignancy: "Diploma." (The John-
sonian.)

College .students are continually borrowing
customs from medieval times. The ceremonies
of Investiture of the seniors are legion. The Flor-
ida Ylambean, of F. S. C. W., reports another type
ceremony which centers around the medieval
theme. In the traditional Fealty ceremony the
freshmen class pledges allegiance to the college.

According to the Hollins Student Life, all Hol-
lins has been holding its breath for the last few
weeks in expectation of Tinker Day. All the old
students have been looking forward to the an-
nual mountain climb to the summit of Tinker,
the ceremony that follows the climb, and the
feast afterwards.

RUTH
NEER

RUTH
FARR

"EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST
AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET 1
BUT ON THE CAMPUS OF ARI20NA ST.
TEACHERS COLLEGE (KLAGSTAFFX NEER
MET FARR/ AND BOTH WERE RUTHS.

COMPLETED THE FULL COLLEGE
COURSE AT NORTHWESTERN U.
BY ATTENDING NIGHT SCHOOL FOR
10 YEARS/ SHE SPENT 6000
HOURS STUDYING - REWARD - A
BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE,

BUCK5WOT

Syracuse univ. was the
first institution to grant
a woman an ra.d. degree

'Sisters Plot Matrimony
As Hussars Ride Again

By Julia Sewell

With the aid of a baron, a colonel, and two dashing lieu-
tenants of Hussars, the Gyurkovics girls manage to keep up
the marriage per cent of Hungary. Mrs. Gyurkovics (who is
Laura Sale) marries off only four of them, but four out of

seven seems a pretty good average.

All this matrimonial scrambling
will take place Friday and Satur-
day nights, November 17 and 18,
when Blackfriars presents its first
play of the season, Seven Sisters,
translated from the Hungarian by
Edith Ellis.

It is a gay, rollicking comedy in
which misunderstandings, mixed
identities, and love at first sight play
a large part. The cast is headed by
Mitzi Gyurkovics (Lib Barrett),
the most mischievous of the sis-
ters, and Count Ferenz Horkoy
(Covington Hardee), who aids and
encourages her in her career of
pranks. The other sisters, who are
married off by hook or crook by
Mitzi and Horkoy, are Katinka
(Margaret Hopkins), Sari (Mary
Lightfoot Elcan), and Ella (Eu-
genia Bridges). The other three
sisters, who are still in pinafores
and not of an age to think of mar-
riage, are Florence Ellis, Frances
Butt, and Margaret Hartsook. The
colonel, who is inveigled into mar-
rying Katinka, and who several
times nearly upsets all schemes by
his fiery temper, is an Atlanta
lawyer. Sari's lieutenant, Sardorffy,
is Charles Smith; Ella's bewildered
baron, who tries to marry each girl
in turn, and only succeeds when he
gets to her, is Hal Kelly.

At present, nothing is very im-
pressive but the acting, as sets,
properties, and costumes are mat-
ters of the future. An elderly card
table with a game leg is doubling
for the massive piece of furniture
called lor. However, the play
seems to be progressing at a rollick-
ing rate, and if the property man-
ager can obtain a suite of handsome
1910 furniture, and the costume
manager three pairs of black cav-
alry boots, one feels that the ad-
denda of Seven Sisters will live up
to the spirited acting and gay at-
mosphere of Blackfriars' first 1939
triumph.

O'Brien

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

A "hand-picked" group of young
ladies were discussing, for lack of
other conversation, their abysmal
ignorance concerning the game of
golf. Each
one declar-
ed that she
was posi-
t i v e 1 y
d u m b
about the
terms and
names con-
nected with
the game.
And then
Billie Davis

clinched the assertions by declar-
ing, "You know, it's really terri-
ble. Why, I don't even know how
to hold a caddy!" . . .

Trousers on Tap. After hav-
ing discussed Dr. Robinson's sock
situation so thoroughly last week,
we feel it only fair to divulge
another startling and unusual fact
concerning the sartorial elegance
of another member of the faculty,
i. e., Mr. Stukcs. Upon opening
the safe in the registrar's office,
what docs one find?? Piles and
scads of greenbacks? NO, no, no.
A bag of gold? No, no, no. A
couple of sandwiches left over
from lunch? No, no, no. The total
amount of sleep lost by freshmen
over history exams? Absolutely
NO! One finds a hat, or a pair of
trousers, or maybe even a new pair
of shoes (just like Baby), left in
there by the good professor to
mellowl It se'ems Mr. S. is allergic
to new clothes imagine! and has
to confine them to the safe to age.
Mrs. S. Jias to come over every once
in a while and rescue them in or-
der to make him wear them. . . .

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939

Z115

No. 9

Mortar Board
Announces
Annual Service

Dr. Hayes Emphasizes
Scholarship in Talk on
Fraternity Ideals

Emphasizing scholarship, Dr.
George P. Hayes, professor of Eng-
lish, will speak on "The Ideals of
Mortar Board," at the Mortar
Board recognition service Saturday
morning in chapel.

The traditional academic pro-
cessional will precede the actual
program, which will consist of a
prayer by Dr. McCain and an in-
troduction of Dr. Hayes by Ruth
Slack, president of active Mortar
Board.

The purpose of the recognition
service is to bring before the stu-
dents the ideals of Mortar Board
and to help them better realize
their meaning.

The service recognizing those
chosen to be members of next
year's chapter of Mortar Board will
take place sometime in the spring.

Members of the honorary fra-
ternity, which seeks to promote
service, leadership, and scholarship
on the campus, are: Evelyn 3aty,
Carolyn Forman, Margaret Hop-
kins, Eleanor Hutchens, Sophie
Montgomery, Lutie Moore, Jane
Moses, Katherine Patton, Ruth
Slack, and Henrietta Thompson.

Scottish Rite Game
Benefits Children

The annual Georgia Tech Frosh
vs. University of Georgia Frosh
football game for the benefit of
the Scottish Rite Hospital for
crippled children will be played
Thanksgiving Day in the Tech
stadium. The proceeds of the game
go entirely to the Scottish Rite
Hospital and make it possible for
it to continue its work of serving
crippled children.

Jane Moses,
Special Chorus
Broadcast

As guest soloist over the Agnes
Scott radio program this afternoon
at five o'clock, Jane Moses will
sing "Harmony," by Del Riego.
Mr. Lewis Johnson, professor of
voice, will direct a selected group
from the College Glee Club in
"Echo Song," by Harris, and in a
group of songs from light opera
which will include "Will You Re-
member," from "Sweethearts," by
Romberg, and "Giannina Mia,"
from "Firefly" by Friml. The
voice of Agnes Scott will be Vera
Frances (Le Crew) Pruitt, '3 5.

Last Wednesday, Ida Jane
Vaughan and Claire Purcell, offer-
ed selections from Schumann, Mac-
Dowell, and Arensky.

Exhibit in Library
Features Wide Selection

By Gene Slack

To all book lovers, the Agnes Scott Book Exhibit is an
anticipated event of the school year. This year's exhibit,
which began November 19, and will continue through Friday
of this week, is unusually satisfying.

There are books to suit every taste and interest books on
travel, on gardening, on world events, on philosophy; books
filled with beautiful and unusual etchings and paintings;
biographies and autobiographies;

Oxford Debaters

E. R. G. HEATH

books of fiction; and the usual de
lightful children's books which
have a fascination for even the
most serious-minded adult.

Winci y Sand and Stars, Antoine
Exupery's account of an aviator's
sensations and adventures, is one ( of
the books -to-be-read of recent pub-
lication. It is not only a revealing
account of adventures in the sky;
it contains a philosophical study of
human nature and the elements in
language so beautiful that it has
been described as a "book of phil-
osophy in prose-poetry."

Biographically speaking, The
Life of fane Welsh Carlysle, by
Scudder, is of particular interest to
women. In this biography of
Thomas Carlysle's wife, we find a
good character study of the author
and his contemporaries as well as
of his unusually charming wife
who was admired by all who fre-
quented the house.

A Woman's Place, Hortense Od-
ium's autobiography, is a modern
account of a modern woman's am-
bitions and achievements in the
business world. Mrs. Odium tells
how she became president of Bon-
wit Teller and how she changed
many of its policies to fill the de-
mands of women.

The sculpture of Auguste Rodin,
one of the more modern of the

modern sculptors, a life of RenOir,
with colored copies of his paint-
ings, full-colored pictures of
French Cathedral windows, are
among the many books on art.

Philosopher's Holiday, by Irwin
Edman of Columbia University,
and / Bel/eve, a book of the beliefs
of the world's celebrities, edited by
Clifton Fadiman of Information,
Please fame, are two of the books
on philosophy which are very read-
able and thought-provoking.

In one of the exhibits, a number
of cheap editions of world classics
are on display twenty-five-cent
copies of some of the Shakespeare
plays, Bambi, Green Mansions, Lost
Horizon, and others.

Clare Leighton's County Mat-
ters, a charming little book of
glimpses into life on the English
countryside, which is illustrated
with etchings by the author, is not
to be overlooked.

Then the children's books: Wee
Gillis, by Munro Leaf of Ferdinand
fame; Walt EKsney's Ugly Duck-
ling and Pinnochio; Chillec-Um-
Gum, the life of a gum-drop man,
by Alfred Collee and Lois Van Als-
line; another Ezekiel book, and
many more are on exhibit.

If any students wish to order
books which are on display, Miss
Hanley has offered to take orders.

A. A. Asks for
Budget Increase

Virginia Milner, President,
Makes Motion for Change

Virginia Milner, president of the
Athletic Association, stated in
Thursday's student forum that the
Association needs a larger allot-
ment from the student activities
budget than this year's budget
scale allows. Her motion that the
budget be changed to meet this
need will be further discussed in
the next forum, slated for Novem-
ber 24.

The News has been asked to
publish the allotment of each or-
ganization from the 1939-40 bud-
get, to be used as a basis for next
week's discussion. Ruth Eyles, stu-
dent treasurer, gives the figures as
follows for the first half of the
year. The second payment is ex-
pected to yield approximately the
same amounts:

Aurora $ 293.58

Student Government 251.64

Agnes Scott News 545.22

Pi Alpha Phi 125.82

Silhouette 1,593.72

Athletic Association 146.79

Christian Association 167.76

Mortar Board 104.85

Lecture Association 587.16

Handbook 83.88

May Dav 83.88

Blackfriars 146.79

International Relations __ 20.97

K. U. B 8.39

Reserve 33.55

Artist Speaks to
Pen and Brush

Claude Herndon, prominent
young Atlanta artist and former
instructor at High Museum, was
guest speaker at the meeting of Pen
and Brush November 16. Basing
his talk on a recent trip abroad,
Mr. Herndon gave a resume of life
on the continent and exhibited sev-
eral of his best paintings done in
France, England, Italy, and Greece.

He stated that his goal is "to
paint like the masters not to copy
them, but to interpret his country
as the old masters have interpreted
theirs."

In conclusion, Mr. Herndon
warned Pen and Brush members
against making the mistake of
copying any one school or painter.
"Study your own surroundings and
interpret them without too much
sentimentality," he said.

Argue Here

English Team Upholds Affirmative
Of American Isolation Question

Defending the affirmative side, "Resolved, That American
Foreign Policy Should Be One of Complete Isolation," E. R. G.
Heath and E. P. Street from Oxford University, England,
will debate Margaret Hopkins and Marjorie Merlin, of the
Agnes Scott debating team, Friday, November 25, at 8:30
P. M. in the college chapel.

The Oxford team will come at the invitation of the Na-
tional Student Federation of America, making a debating

tour of twenty-one colleges and
universities throughout the south
and east. The series has been ar-
ranged annually for the past ten
years by the N. S. F. A. This
year's debaters are members of the
Oxford Union Debating Society.

According to the Oxford team,
other subjects suggested were
American mediation, President
Roosevelt's third term, and
Britain's greatness. They felt that
the first two were entirely for
American consideration and de-
cision. The debaters wrote: "We
feel it presumptuous for us in the
present circumstances to debates,
but we are willing to do so provid-
ed that you will take responsibili-
ties for the subject of the debate
should any further difficulties
arise." They then suggested Amer-
ican isolation as the debate topic.

The debating secretary of the
N. S. F. A., in a letter to Pi Alpha
Phi at Agnes Scott, stated: "The
debaters do not wish to meet with
the foundationless charges of prop-
aganda." She asked that their po-
sition be made clear in college pub-
licity.

Last week Mr. Heath and Mr.
Street attended the lecture by Mr.
Duff Cooper while en route to an-
other scheduled debate. Among
the colleges listed on the tour are
such southern colleges as the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Univer-
sity of Georgia, and University of
Florida, and such northern col-
leges as Dartmouth, Boston Col-
lege and Temple University.

PETER STREET

The two young Englishmen will
debate the Agnes Scott team Fri-
day night, taking the affirmative
side, "Resolved, that American
Foreign Policy Should Be One of
Complete Isolation." Mr. Street
comes from Exeter College, Ox-
ford University. At the close of
the debating tour, he will begin
training for the Royal Engineering
Forces in the British Army.

Riders Compete
In Gymkhana

On Thanksgiving morning the
class riding teams will compete in
a horse show or gymkhana at the
Georgianna stables at 10 A. M. The
girls who will vie for honors for
their classes are Anita Woolfolk,
June Boykin, Margaret Eiseman,
Gladys Carr, Hazel Solomon, Mar-
garet Smith, Marna McGarrough,
Margaret Murchison, Ethelyn Dyar,
Pattie Patterson, and Donata
Home. There will be cars in front
of the Bucher Scott gymnasium at
9:45 for those who wish to go.

Coming This Week

November 22, 5 P. M.
Musical program on college
broadcast.

November 23 Thanks-
giving holiday.

November 23, 10 A. M.
Horse show.

November 24, 3:30 P. M.
Varsity sub - varsity
hockev game.

November 24, 8:30 P. M.
English debate.

November 25, 10 A. M.
Mortar Board recognition
service in chapel.

November 27, 8:30 P. M.
Roth String Quartet at
Emory.

Juniors Sponsor
Benefit Bridge
For Fund

About forty tables will fill the
Murphey Candler Building Satur-
day, November 2 5, at 8 P. M., for
a benefit bridge sponsored by the
junior class. The purpose of the
bridge is to raise money for fulfill-
ing the campaign pledge.

The committees in charge of ar-
rangements are: Publicity Gene
Slack, Bee Shamos, Tine Gray, Bet-
ty Waitt, Florence Ellis, and Sabine
Brumby; Tickets Carolyn Stroz-
ier, Nina Broughton, Laura Sale,
and Marcia Mansfield; Tables
Florrie Guy, Helen Klugh, Sarah
Rainey, and Ethelyn Dyar; Re-
freshments Martha Boone, Mary
Ivy, Kay rvhodes, and Anita Wool-
folk; Decorations Beryl Healy,
Margaret Murchison, and Dot Pe-
teet; and Prizes Martha Moody,
Virginia Williams, and Martha
Dunn.

Faculty, students, and visitors
are invited. Tickets are on sale for
one dollar a table.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939

Council Names
Hockey Varsity

Team Will Meet
Sub-Varsity in Last Game

After a hockey season in which
the class of 1940 surrendered its
three-year championship in the
series to the sophomore team, the
year's varsity and sub-varsity teams
were chosen secretly this week.

As announced by the Varsity
Council, the following players
have shown ability measuring up
to varsity standards:

Carolyn Forman, Ida Jane
Vaughan, Dot Webster, Helen
Carson, Alta Webster, Elaine
Stubbs, Sophie Montgomery, Pat-
tie Patterson, Doris Hasty, Mary
Dean Lott, Gay Currie, Mary Scott
Wilds, and Billie Davis.

Close behind the top-f lighters
are members of the sub-varsity:

Marjorie Gray, Julia Moseley,
Jessie MacGuire, Dot Holloran,
Clara Rountree, Annie Wilds, Vir-
ginia Milner, Polly Taylor, Hen-
rietta Thompson, Mardia Hopper,
Betty Ann Brooks, Polly Ware, and
Martha O'Nan.

The two teams will meet in the
last scheduled game of the season
on the hockey field Friday.

Notice

The News will not be
published during non-activ-
ity week and the examina-
tion period. The next issue
will appear December 13.

Cottages Clash
At Gaines Bow

For years we have had archery,
tennis, basketball, swimming, and
hockey; now at last we have foot-
ball. It's not in the regular curri-
culum yet, but Gaines and Boyd
Cottages are working up two
teams that will probably make the
Yellow Jackets look sick, maybe.

Last week Gaines presented
Boyd with the formal challenge,
and Boyd has accepted. The game
is scheduled to be played Monday,
November 27, on the improvised
gridiron back of Gaines.

The cottages are gathering in all
their alumnae that are on the
campus, and incidentally, all of
those that they can get to play,
alumnae of the particular cottages
or not.

The game will be free to all, and
each cottage is guaranteeing a
"thriller" as well as an interesting
show.

Scholarship Duties
Include Paperdoll Cutting

By Virginia Williams

Among the varied kinds of labor by which Agnes Scott stu-
dents lighten the load on the parental shoulders, growing
fungi in your ears for the Biology department, cutting out
black cats for the dietician, and doing your professor's home-
work all qualify as scholarship work.
Several years ago, an overly-

years ago, an
conscientious upperclassmen went
to the trouble of washing her ears,
and quite logically got soap in
them which resulted, illogically
enough, in the growth of fungi.
For some time thereafter, this un-
fortunate swore to freshmen that
her scholarship duties consisted of
supplying choice specimens of
fungi to the Biology department.

Lacking this unique productive
ability, Sabine Brumby reads to
Miss Janef Preston and does her
homework for her, Mary Virgina
Brown colors maps for Miss Melissa
Cillcy, and Cornelia Willis cuts out
paper doll decorations for the diet-
icians. Sounds like kindergarten,
doesn't it?

Cornelia also cuts flowers and
ivy and measures the distance of
the knives and forks from the edge
of the table.

If you yearn for the gay life, be
a switch board operator. When
time lags, there are such things as
men who call up and order ten
cent boxes of Butter Scotch snuff.
And if you have no scruples about
eaves-dropping, there is entertain-
ment in the girl who called up the
railroad and reserved "two berths
for the night," only to find her-
self connected with the Federal
prison.

The library duties vary from
desk and clerical to pasting in the
scrap book, making posters, and
keeping the bulletin board.

These are only a few phases of
the varied forms of scholarship
work now extant on the campus.
You can work in almost any de-
partment and do anything from
supervising diving to peering over
people's shoulders in lab and an-
noying them by "asking them
questions to see if they know what
they're doing," as Polly Heaslett
puts it.

Evelyn Baty devotes her spare
time to bullying Atlanta editors
for publicity, while Julia Harry
prefers to count light fixtures for
Mrs. Smith.

Of course, there are those who
sing for their supper or scholar-
ship. And speaking of supper
didn't an upperclassman tell us
that a girl from Brazil was paying
her tuition in coconuts?

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Cooper Sees
Liberty Advance

"Advances have been made to-
ward liberty and the principle of
co-operation between nations," said
Alfred Duff Cooper, former first
Lord of the British Admiralty, in
his lecture on "The Survival of
Liberty" Wednesday night in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. A rec
ord-breaking crowd filled the audi
torium, and many stood outside to
hear the address.

"Peoples of Europe have realized
at last that an assault made against
one is an assault against all," con
tinued Mr. Cooper. "The nations
of Europe must realize that they
must sacrifice some of their liber-
ties to an international institution
at the base of which is good sense
and the high ideals of the whole
world."

According to him, the treaty of
Versailles, contrary to popular be
lief was a good treaty made
by high-principled, high-minded
statesmen, and in twenty years, the
nations of Czechoslovakia and Po
land, created by the Treaty, amply
repaid the aspirations of those who
had created them.

"All the League of Nations
sought to 'do," asserted Mr. Coop-
er, "was to impose the same kind
of behavior that prevails univer-
sally among civilized folk."

Mr. Cooper declared that the
Treaty of Versailles was entered
into freely by the states then rep-
resenting the German republics.
Hitler said he would accept the
Treaties of Locarno. "The diffi-
culties in the world today are due
to the failure of Germany and oth-
er countries to maintain order and
make the Republican and Demo-
cratic systems work," he contin-
ued.

The history of liberty, accord-
ing to Mr. Cooper, began in the
city-states of Greece. Rome in-
herited it, and gave it to Western
Europe. "Unfortunately, it has
never spread as far as Russia or
Prussia," he remarked.

In conclusion, he affirmed that,
although the last war, fought to
make the world safe for democ-
racy, was a failure, people learn
from experience.

Sophomores Cinch
Hockey Championship

Seniors FolloW/Defeating Freshmen, 1 -0;
Sophs Permit only Score of Season

The 1939 hockey season
ended Friday with the vic-
tory of a new class champion-
ship team the sophomores
and another victory for the
senior team.

For the first time this sea-
son, the sophomores were
scored on in the second half
in the game with the juniors.
The sophomores clinched their vic-
tory by running up a 1 score of 5
to close their successful year. The
outstanding players on the winning
team were MacGuire and A. Wilds,
who were aided by the whole
team's offensive and defensive
playing. MacGuire made the first
two sophomore scores, and Hasty,
with a long straight drive, scored
the third goal. During the next
few minutes of play, A. Wilds sent
the ball in for scores number 4
and 5. In the second half, the
juniors made a desperate effort to
catch up, but were unsuccessful
until Vaughan scored the only
junior goal. The sophomore team,
with a wonderful exhibition of
varsity hockey, showed, their speed
and precision which resulted in
their winning all their games ex-
cept one, a scoreless tie.

The senior-freshman game al-
most ended as a scoreless tie, until
R. Slacl^ scored for the seniors to-
ward the end of a breathless sec-
ond half. The two teams were
seemingly a match for each other,
with offensive and defensive prac-
tically balanced. The freshmen
threatened to score a number of
times, only to be pushed back by
a fighting senior team. The score
came late in the second half, sav-
ing the seniors from another score-
less tie on their record.

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The line-ups:

SOPHOMORES JUNIORS

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Webster, D. R\ Musser

Wilds, A. CF Vaughan

MacGuire LI Breg

Gray, M. LW Stubbs

Brooks RW Patterson

Hastv CH Henrv

Lott LH Walker

Currie RF Lancaster, J.

Copeland LF Wilds, S.

Davis, B. C O'Nan

SENIORS FRESHMEN

Slaek RW BumsUad

Moss RI Holloran

Carson CF Rountree

Moseley LI Percy

Merlin LW Hirsch

Ware RH MacFadyen

Milner CH Rhyne

Montgomery, . LH Lancaster, F.

Thompson RF Paisley

Taylor LF Hopper

Cass C Gallaher

Substitutions: Sophomores
Huck, Bradfield, Fleming, Thomas,
Gellerstedt, Stuckey. Juniors
Kyle, Slack. Freshmen Dale,
Bates, Downie. Seniors Stixrud,
O'Brien.

Campus Poets, Linguists
Grow in Number

Dorothy Cremin, sophomore
transfer student from G. S. C. W.,
has earned membership in Poetry
Club as a result of fall try-outs.

French Club admitted nine new
members last week: Sylvia Cohn,
Charity Crocker, Maria Felber,
Kathleen Huck, Suzanne Kaul-
bach, Ruth Lineback, Jane Mc-
Donough, Carolyn Strozier, and
Rosalie Sturdcvant.

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3

Britishers
Answer Queries

Visitor Shows Familiarity
With Southern Novel

Agnes Scott's first campus vis-
itor to represent the English nobil-
ity and at the same time the glam-
orous art of the theatre was Lady
Diana Manners, wife of the throng-
drawing lecturer and first member
of English society to show cour-
tesy to the Duchess of Windsor.
And Lady Diana was not only
thrilling from reputation, but she
was a very charming and entertain-
ing person. Having lunch with
the Coopers was quite an experi-
ence for the members of Lecture
Association, and the table conversa-
tion flowed like English tea.

May Miss GWTW

And we found that she knows
Vivien Leigh and pronounces it
Lee alias Scarlett O'Hara. What
does she think of her? Well, the
main thing is that she is horridly
unsuited for the part! Lady Diana
says she sees Scarlett as very hard,
and Miss Leigh is far from that.
And Scarlett was surely not beau-
tiful, but Miss Leigh is marvelous-
ly so. She ^vill probably "wear a
southern accent acceptable to some
stranger like me, but atrocious to a
real southerner." And the Coopers
would love to see "Gone With the
Wind," but are afraid they will
have gone back to England by the
time it drops to popular prices!

Revolution in Germany?

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Atlanta reporter concerning a re-

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cent article in a nationaP news
magazine which established him as
Britain's propaganda chief in the
U. S., Mr. Cooper said: "There is
absolutely no foundation for the
story. This four-month lecture
tour ^which I am just now begin-
ning was arranged a year ago."

The former British cabinet
member prophesied a revolt in Ger-
many, basing his opinion on the
attempt to kill Hitler (explosion
in Munich) and the fact that a
wide-spread organization already
exists in Germany for the sole pur-
pose of overthrowing the Nazi re-
gime. This group, he declared, has
a secret wireless system; and all ef-
forts of the Nazis to trace their
activities have been fruitless thus
far.

Lady Diana gave her opinion of
the situation by saying that it
seemed very odd for England t6 be
in a position of being attacked.
"This hasn't happened since 1066,"
she laughed.

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School spirit is a thing we always like. That's why we're
glad to report this week that social activities were less be-
cause such a large number of the girls stayed on campus to
attend the Blackfriars' play

Nevertheless, Agnes Scott was
well represented at all the leading
social
f u nctions
of the
week. The
E m ory
I nterfra-
t e r n i t y
dance at-
tracted
quite a
large
nu m ber ,
includ in
Jane Still-
well, Ann Bumstead, Nina Mae
Snead, Carolyn Alley, Sara Rainey,
Martha Dunn, Bette Burdette,
Marjorie Boggs, Georgia Tate, Ann
Hilsman, Lib Barrett, Marjorie
Wilson, Margaret Downie, Flonnie
Ellis, Barbara Lee Murlin, Marian
Franklin, Charlene Burke, Sara

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Gray Hollis, Sara Copeland, Rebec-
ca Stamper, Pat Reasoner, Mary
Louise Palmour, and Elizabeth
Jenkins.

Birmingham had the magnetic
attraction of the Tech-Alabama
game this week-end. Among those
going over were Frances Abbot,
Jean Dennison, Carolyn Forman,
Lutie. Moore, Grace Ward, Olivia
White, Sue Heldman, Ailene Bar-
ron, Mae Crumley, Adelaide Greg-
ory, Louise Musser, Barbara Brown,
and Mary Kirkpatrick.

At Tech, the co-op students
gave a Masquerade dance Friday
night. Agnes Scott was represented
by Betty Jean O'Brien, Susan
Cochrane, Martha Boone, Elvira
Chosewood, Eugenia Bridges, Ruth
Slack, Alice Cheeseman, Helen
Klugh, Betty Lee Clarkson, and
Virginia Clower.

Debut parties in Atlanta were
also a part of the week's social
scope. At Allie Malone's were
Hazel Solomon, Frances Butt,
Mary Louise Dobbs, Virginia Cul-
ver, Susan Self, Marion and Sue
Phillips, Dusty Hance, Marcia
Mansfield, Sara Handley, Edith
Henegar, and Louise Franklin.

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Loemker Draws
Battle Lines

"The most important battle line
in the world today lies between
two conceptions of human na-
ture," declared Dr. Leroy Loemker,
Emory professor of philosophy, in
a talk to the Agnes Scott alumnae
Saturday, November 18.

Cynical Dictators

"A democracy," he said, "runs
on the theory that human beings
can and should be led by intelli-
gence, while a dictatorship operates
on the theory that all people are
primarily emotional.

"The strength of Nazism lies in
this cynical conception of human
nature held by the dictators," he
continued, "and in the end this
belief will destroy Nazism itself.
Even now the people are showing
signs of their intelligence by dis-
playing a loss of confidence in gov-
ernment newspapers."

Comparing the German and
American people, Dr. Loemker
said: "The German people are
more like us than different from
us. Like us, they are most preoc-
cupied with economic conditions
and the ways of making a living."

Social Imagination

He said, though, that the Ger-
mans had a "restricted social
imagination," that they didn't un-
derstand that the German people
in America had been assimilated
into the American culture and
ideals. Proving this statement, he
told that the German people asked
"questions about the 'German
minority' in America."

After discussing further his im-
pressions of the background and
attitudes of the German people, he
concluded: "Hitlerism is only a
cheapening of some of the greatest
German political ideals."

Marjorie Wilkinson went to the
dance given for Nancy Calhoun
Friday night.

Out of town for the week-end . .
Virginia Webb Stanley went to
Auburn for the Pi K A formal and
home to Greenville, Ala. . . . Lil-
lian Gudenrath took Harriet Ayres
and Ruth Biggs home to LaFayette
with her . . . Julia Ann Patch
took Hartwell Bishop to Montgom-
ery with her, while Ginger Mont-
gomery, Margaret Mary Toomey,
and Lavinia Brown went home
with Elizabeth Russell . . . Su-
sanne Kaulbach attended the foot-
ball game in Athens . . . Lillian
Schwencke was up in North Caro-
lina visiting at Duke, while Myree
Wells was at Shorter . . . Mickey
Calcutt went home, and Dot Web-
ster went to Dahlonega.

Round and about . . Dining and
dancing at the Ansley were Dusty
Hance, Marjorie Weisman, and
Nancy Hirsch ... At the Georgia
Junior College dance, Martha Sue
Dillard . . . Boots Moore, Annette
Franklin, and Becky Stamper had
supper at the Delta Sig house Sun-
day night . . . Toni Alston attend-
ed a Tech dance Saturday night.

Campus Queen Scene . . . Cheers
for Dusty Hance who appeared for
a shopping jaunt in a forest green
wool dress, topped with short sil-
ver fox furs, and a matching hat
of the same green.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939

Tree-Climber Thompson
Flits to Fame

By Anne Enloe

There's nothing exciting about our Henri like being from
Korea or Cass, W. Va., or anything like that. In fact, she's
just a local girl who made good very local, having been born
in Decatur and spent the first half of her life here before
moving to Atlanta for the other ten years. Incidentally,
happy birthday on the eighteenth, Henri.

And as to her early childhood, well, thereby hangs a tale.
She frankly admits she lived so much in trees that her mother
read some books on evolution so as to cope with the situation.
And she had a habit of showing off her tree-climbing tricks
when there was company around.

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Things happen around this in-
stitution so fast, one would be led
to think, if one thinks, that events
transpire purely to give columnists
like yours
truly copy.
Be that as
it may, or
may not.
some of the
prize say-
ings and
doings of
the week
w i 1 1 b e 1
hereunto at- O'Brien
t ached.

Love Letter: But Not What You
Think. By now probably most of
you have heard of the billet which
was not exactly doux that Miss
Jackson received. For those of you
who haven't, here's the necessary
info. The letter in question, and
how. Was written from the Geor-
gia School of Technology, which
some of you may know as Ga. Tek.
The young gentleman commenced
by reprimanding Miss J. for heap-
ing such gigantic assignments on
her students, and warned her of
such dire consequences as a general
and intensive abhorrence of his-
tory and possible plots on her life.
And then it got to the point. It
seemed the young man is some-
what attached to a certain Hotten-
tot, who had been unable to "see
him or even talk to him over the
telephone." As evidence of his
dilemma he told of calling his
light o' love up one afternoon at
1:00 o'clock, and she was studying
history; and of repeating the call
that evening at 9:00 P. M., and
she was still studying history. He
not only signed his name but gave
the young lady's first name also
. . . The only comment we have to
make is that he certainly fell for
it, hook, line, and sucker.

Treat the Treaty Tenderly, and
Later That Night. As Dr. McCain
hinted, the friends of Agnes Scott
and Duff Cooper certainly showed
up in d roves. Of note was the ab-
solutely unacademical haste with
which some of our illustrious lec-
ture attenders shoved, struggled,
and pushed their way.

And then came the reception
with the receiving line stretch-
ing out for several blocks and
the lady who rushed up to
Margaret Hopkins and exclaimed,
"Mv dear, I remember seeing you
on the stage fifteen years ago."

Peregrinations and Perusings.
Mary Lang Gill was somewhat
unnerved to receive a large, home-
made cake from one of her admir-
ers who is also a dentist . . . Sounds
like he is drumming up trade . . .
And then Ruth "L. S." Slack re-
ceived a large box of delicious
candy from a conscience-stricken
young man who was so shy he left
the Mortar Board party after the
second prom.

Once she did an unusually good
performance for a group of guests
that included a little boy about her
own age; needless to say, she com-
pletely captivated the lad and last
year she took him to the junior
banquet. Some grip, eh what?

Probably her first executive po-
sition was as "Queen" of the
neighborhood sandpile club; she
says she positively ruled the roost
and made everybody do just as she
said. Who said things run in
cycles? But she wasn't as success-
ful when she was president of her '
eighth grade class; one day when
her superior position caused her to
be left in charge of study hall, the
whole thing ended in a brawl.

Surely everybody has heard of
Henri Thompson as a renowned
dancer, or as the school flit cham-
pion. Well, that part of her career
didn't start off with such a bang
not to insinuate that Henri now
does the dying swan with a bang!
But she did start taking natural
dancing at a tender age.

Another thing that Henri is fa-
mous for is her sparkling, quick
wit. That habit she has of burst-
ing into the loud guffaws at un-
expected moments or burbling to
herself for hours merely means
that she has caught on to yester-
day's joke, or she might be laugh-
ing at something that happened at
the Student Government Conven-
tion in Charleston last spring. And
then there's the classic example of
the time that Louise Hughston was
telling a joke up on second Main
our sophomore year; when Polly
Heaslett started laughing Henri
promptly shushed her and told her
to wait till Louise got through.

There are some things that she
dislikes too, in spite of her amiable
disposition, and the ones she hates
best are cows and purple (not pur-
ple cows; being a pessimist, she
never hopes to see one), and cab-
bage, and the word sweet,
hates for people to call her
and when asked if anybody
had, she declined to answer.

She
that,
ever

To the Editor

Lecture Association wishes
express its sincere regret at any

to
in-
convenience that students may
have encountered at the Alfred
Duff Cooper lecture. The size of
the audience far exceeded our ex-
pectations. For lectures in the fu-
ture, we hope to make a more sat-
isfactory seating arrangement.

We feel, and arc sure that the
majority of students feel, that the
reserving of seats for special
patrons of the college is a worthy
student contribution toward this
particular phase of our campaign
activities.

The interest shown by outsiders
in this lecture and the publicity
given it have, we believe, helped
to arouse general interest in Agnes
Scott, and to make the standing of
our college in the community even
more highlv recognized.

MARGARET HOPKINS
President, Lecture Association

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

"Treachery" in Prague

The Nazis made clear to the world better than
their enemies could their weakness in Prague:
their fear of independent thought. The SS troops
carted off 1200 high school and technical stu-
dents in buses, took out 12, and shot them. All
BS% 3fc universities are to be closed

IraSfe^Ssk. for three years. ProbabK

| jM^Bf^^\ tne beginning of something

j rather than the tidy little
:lean-up job they imagine.
New Use for Mines

A new method of destruc-
tion at sea has been markedly
effective. In one week-end
seven allied and neutral ships
were sunk off England in the
channel with a loss of 200
Stevenson lives. The worst casualty
was the Dutch liner, Simon Bolivar, loaded with
400 passengers. Over 140 were lost when the
ship struck a mine apparently planted in its path.
Tragically enough the passengers included many
political refugees from Germany.
Union in Europe

Nearly everyone is agreed Europe cannot come
out of the war the same as she went in. All sorts
of ideas for a federated Europe are in the air.
Von Papen ("that international scamp" John
Gunther) asserts that a commonwealth of Euro-
pean states is Hitler's dearest wish. England and
France are uniting economically to buy as one
unit for the duration. The permanence of such
an arrangement might initiate Streit's idea of
"Union Now" sooner than he expects.
Roosevelt's Court

The death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler
completes the change in the political complexion
of the Supreme Court. McReynolds is now the
only persistent conservative in the Court. The
President's fifth appointment may possibly be
Frank Murphy or Robert H. Jackson. Only a
couple of years have made the Court's detractors
its defenders, and vice versa.
Old Law: New Case

The influence of the witty New Deal anti-
truster, Thurman Arnold, can be seen in the Gen-
eral Motors monopoly case. Seventeen officials
were acquitted, but the General Motors Corpora-
tion and three subsidiaries were convicted of vio-
lating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The charge
concerns coercion of dealers in financing install-
ment payments.
War Games in China

The kidnappers of Chiang Kai Shek may think
now they wasted their effort. Serious rumors are
circulating of a split between the Generalissimo's
central army and General Mao's (so-called Com-
munist) eighth route army in the North: even
news of battles between the two. General Mao
claims that Chiang has not carried out the terms
he agreed to when captured: a united and per-
sistent effort against the Japanese and thorough
democratization of China.

Editorial Notes

Hutcheson Lectures
After Last Exam

This is the last News until after first-
quarter examinations. Looking beyond the
painful period, we are reminded that, on
the night after the last exam, Ernest
Hutcheson's lecture-recital will offer sur-
cease from the weight of acute academic
worries.

Margaret Hopkins' letter in behalf of
Lecture Association on this page, arid Dr.
McCain's remarks in chapel Saturday,
seem to clear up the atmosphere on the
reserved-seat problem. They show that
the College and the Association do keep
an eye on student rights, after all.

And speaking of letters space on this
page is open, as always, to expressions of
student opinion. Letters to the News, un-
less deemed utterly valueless or insincere
by the editors, will be printed at the re-
quest of the writers.

Propaganda Is
Termite, Not Lion

There has been some comment on the
many so-called tentacles of propaganda
which have been allowed to invade the
campus lately. One week brings Duff
Cooper, with his slogans on liberty and
democracy and his defense of the British-
dominated Treaty of Versailles; the next
sees a team of English debaters descend-
ing on us to argue about American isola-
tion.

That is not propaganda, because we
consider the sources and discount accord-
ingly. It is a safe bet that no one left the
gymnasium, last Wednesdav night, newly
inspired to fight and die for England. It
is a certainty that a large part of the
record-breaking crowd would have depart-
ed in bitter disappointment if the distin-
guished Briton had delivered an address
on liberty, as an abstraction, without ref-
erences to the present conflict. A speech
by the former head of one of the warring
navies may hardly be classed as propa-
ganda ; it is a statement of a case.

The young men from Oxford, in their
anxiety lest they be accused of spreading
propaganda among gullible Americans,
have requested that they be. allowed to de-
fend the affirmative side of the question,
"Resolved that America's foreign policy
should be one of complete isolation." Of
course, this arrangement gives them an
excellent chance to put up a weak argu-
ment and let the Agnes Scott debaters
talk them into a policy favorable to the
Allies; but what if it does? Everyone
knows wiiich side they, are really on.

This sort of thing is not dangerous
propaganda; at worst, it is an obvious bid
for sympathy. Propaganda the kind
which is effective consists of a scries of
impressions which creep unnoticed into
our thought patterns, finally to congeal
into an attitude. It is the sort of thing
which results in our reading a news story
about the debate and immediately think-
ing, "Englishmen propaganda/'

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day we
think. The Cotillion Club dance for the
college community will climax festivities
tomorrow night we're pretty sure.

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

A three-century custom is broken. We will
celebrate Thanksgiving but not on the last
Thursday in November. What would the Pil-
grims think? Well, we have our ideas, but we
know what Agnes Scott students think.

Mary Matthews, '40, says: "If the change will
help the country economically, I think that it is
all right to change. If people have a real spirit
of thanksgiving they ought 1 to be willing to ob-
serve one day just as well as any other."

Esthere Ogden, '40, adds that: . . its sig-
nificance, politically speaking, is only jokingly
considered by the current question 'Arc you a
Republican or a Democrat?' There seems to be
amusing % tolerance rather than real antagonism.
The economic side, from my shopping viewpoint,
is that stores are ready for Christmas by Novem-
ber 15, and this year's decoration and publicity
show no difference."

Tine Gray, '41 r concludes: "It is all right for
for the President to change Thanksgiving because
it will certainly help schools and business. But I
think it is silly for it not to be a nation-wide
change. Of course there will be a lot of opposi-
tion in regard to the breaking of custom, but I
think that if the change will help business it is
a good thing."

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1939 No. 9

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.
Subscription price per year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939

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No. 10

Deputation
Holds Parley
With Clemson

A. S. C. A., Tech Discuss
Christian Ideals,
Work of Other Groups

The Agnes Scott Christian As-
sociation and the Georgia Tech
Y. M. C. A. will send their first
joint deputation to Clemson Col-
lege, Clemson, S. C, December 17.
While there, the representatives of
the Atlanta colleges will present
two similar programs and hold dis-
cussion groups with the Clemson
Y. M. C. A. cabinet.

Katherine Patton, president of
A. S. C. A., and Joe Bayer, presi-
dent of the Tech Y. M. C. A., will
speak on "What the Coming of
Christ Has Meant to Us." Kath-
erine ^will discuss the bearing of
His coming on man's relation with
God, while Joe will talk on the ef-
fect of His coming on man's rela-
tion with other men.

Mary Reins, editor of the
Christian Exchange, and Walter
McGee, secretary for Tech's Y. M.
C. A., will lead the programs on
which Jack Spitko, Tech freshman,
will sing the "Lord's Prayer," by
Malotte.

Between the time set for the
programs, the Tech and Agnes
Scott representatives plan to hold
a discussion group with the Clem-
son "Y" cabinet, reviewing the
work of the Christian associations
on the different campuses.

Clemson proposes to send a re-
turn deputation here after Christ-
mas.

Choir Appears in
Candlelight Service

A choir of eighty members will
help bring the Christmas spirit to
the campus next Sunday when they
offer a candlelight carol service in
the gymnasium at 4:3 0 P. M. The
program, under the direction of
Mr. Lewis Johnson, professor of
voice, will include traditional
carols of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
and England. Mr. C. W. Dieck--
mann, professor of music, will ac-
company the choir on a Hammond
electric organ.

Last Sunday afternoon the choir
joined all the Decatur church
choirs in singing the "Hallelujah
Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah,"
at the Decatur carol service in the
new civic auditorium. As a spe-
cial group, the Agnes Scott stu-
dents sang "When the Crimson
Sun Has Set," "Here a Torch,
Jeannette, Isabella," and "Song of
the Russian Children."

Sophomore Class
Publishes

Campus Directory

A new campus publication in
the form of a college directory,
containing the names and addresses
of all faculty members and stu-
dents, was put on sale yesterday by
the sophomore class.

In regard to the directory, Gay
Currie, president of the class,
stated: "There has never been any-
thing like it on the campus before,
and we are proud to be its a,ut|iors.
I am sure that with the wonderful
spirit of cooperation that the class
has shown, The Agnes Scott Col-
lege Directory will be a success."

The price of each is twenty-five
cents, and the proceeds will be used
to help pay the campaign pledge of
the class. The books are about the
size of a penny post card, with pur-
ple lettering on a white back-
ground.

Freshmen Hold
Carol Service

The freshman C. A. cabinet will
close the series of candle-light
services with a Christmas carol
service Friday night at 10 P. M.
in Gaines Chapel.

Following the tradition that the
president of Student Government
tell a Christmas story the night be-
fore the holidays, Henrietta
Thompson will speak at a service
Monday night in the chapel.

University Center
Plans Progress

With a grant of $ 5 5,2 50 for a
union library catalog, the Rocke-
feller Foundation made one of its
first steps toward founding a Uni-
versity Center in Atlanta and its
vicinities.

The catalog will contain a list
of all volumes and all materials for
research in the libraries of Agnes
Scott, Emory, Georgia Tech, Co-
lumbia Theological Seminary, and
the University of Georgia. The
Foundation plans to apportion the
sum according to the size and qual-
ity of each of the libraries.

The purpose of the catalog is to
make accessible to students all the
libraries in the Atlanta area. With
added material for research at stu-
dents' disposal, the University Cen-
ter hopes to be able to offer a
Ph.D. degree in some fields.

The two permanent copies of

the union catalog will be kept at

Emory and at the University of
Georgia.

C A. Entertains
Needy Child ren

A Christmas tree with all its
trimmings and a stocking full of
fruit, nuts, and candy, will be the
center of attraction in the gym-
nasium Saturday afternoon at the
Christian Association party for the
underprivileged children of Deca-
tur.

The guest list for the party in-
cludes fifty-four children, from
four to twelve years of age.

Mary Evelyn Francis is in charge
of arrangements. The chairmen of
the committees are: Frances Wood-
all, Invitations; Matilda Cartledge,
Entertainment; Gay Currie, Gifts;
Alta Webster, Decorations; Evelyn
Save, Stockings; Ellen Gould, Re-
freshments; and Nell- Moss, Trans-
portation.

Radio Program
Features
College Choir

The Agnes Scott radio program
will feature vocal and instrumental
music for the month of December.

This afternoon the college choir,
under the direction of Mr. Lewis
Johnson, will offer selections from
traditional Czecho-Slovakian and
English Christmas carols.

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann will di-
rect the instrumental programs for
December 20 and 27. The selec-
tions will be announced later.

Last week Betty Kyle and Miss
Evelyn Wall began the December
musical series with vocal solos.
Betty sang "Hindu Slumber Song,"
by Ware, and "My Lover is a
Fisherman," by Strickland. Miss
Wall selected "Die Lotus Blume,"
by Schumann, and "In the Silence
of Night," . by Rachmaninoff, as
her solos.

Agnes Scott ^.tuaents are also
providing gifts for the children for
Christmas morning. Each child
was asked to write to "Santa
Claus" his or her requests, and the
letters were turned over to groups
of girls on the campus.

News Survey Gives Jolt
To Campus Leaders

The self-assurance of Big Women On Campus slipped a
notch last week when a News survey revealed that only one
student out of fifty knows their nams.

Elaine Stubbs, interviewing for the News, asked fifty stu-
dents to name the sixteen organization heads: presidents and
vice-presidents of S. G. A. and C. A.; editors and business

managers of the publications; and

the presidents of Mortar Board,
A. A., and the classes.

Of the fifty interviewees, a
lone senior Ruth Eyles made a
perfect score. Four managed to
name fifteen.

The lowest score 2 came
from a freshman day student, who
knew the names of the presidents
of S. G. A. and the freshman tlass.

As for the subjects of the sur-
vey, just one Henrietta Thomp-
son was known to all. The presi-
dent of Mortar Board was next
with only six blanks, followed by
the vice-president of S. G. A. and
the editor of the News with eight
each.

The boarders led the day stu-

dents with 62 percent right against
5 2 percent. Senior day students
averaged highest, sophomore day
students lowest.

Elaine came back to the News
office with several freak, answers.
A sophomore, asked to name the
editor of the Silhouette, answered:
"The Silhouette? What's that?"
And it was the same sophomore
who, unable to name the editor of
the News, offered:

J 'But I know her. She's some
red -headed girl."

Many and varied were the
guesses on the president and vice-
president of C. A. Former room-
mates Carolyn Forman and Jane
Moses, respectively, led the list of
shots in the dark.

Hutcheson Gives
Additional Recital

Chapel Program Includes
Mendelssohn, Chopin, Wagner

Choosing what he termed a "lighter" program, Mr. Ernest
Hutcheson, president of the Juilliard School of Music in New
York City, gave a second piano recital for the college com-
munity and friends at the chapel hour Tuesday morning. Mr.
Hutcheson originally planned to stay just for his program
Monday evening, one in the regular series of the Lecture As-
sociation, but later .decided to prolong his visit through
Tuesday.

After referring to Monday eve-
ning's program of three Beethoven
sonatas as "a little severe," Mr.
Flutchcson played a number of the
better known compositions for
piano. His first selection was the
Scherzo from Mendelssohn's "Mid-
summer Night's Dream." Follow-
ing tliis familiar melody were three
Chopin numbers, the rather long
Ballade in G Minor, the melodious
C-sharp minor, and the short and
interesting Study on Black Keys.
Schumann's Romance in F-sharp
major, and the Spinning Song from
Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman"
completed the varied program. In
response to tremendous applause
and Dr. McCain's decision that the
faculty and students needed "a
little more stimulation" after ex-
aminations, Mi. Hutcheson played
Mendelssohn's Spinning Song as an
encore.

During his stay on the campus,
the pianist requested that some of
Mr. Lewis Johnson's voice students
sing for him. Betty Kyle, junior,
Jane Moses, senior, and Amelia
Nickels, '39 alumna, all contraltos,
met with Mr. Hutcheson Tuesday
morning to comply with this re-
quest. Jane described the artist as
"very sympathetic," and "just
wonderful." Nell Hemphill, '37
alumna, gave some piano selections
for the visitor the same morning.

Mr. Flutcheson, born in Mel-
bourne, Australia, did his first
studying in that country, and made
his first public appearance there at
the age of five. He continued his
studies under well-known German
masters, including Stavenhagen, a
pupil of Liszt's. He gave up a
promising career as conductor to
devote all his time to the piano.

During his tours through Aus-
tralia, England, Germany, Russia,
and the United States, Mr. Hutche-
son has won wide acclaim. In this
country his appearances have been
with the New York Philharmonic-
Symphony Orchestra, and in Bos-
ton, Buffalo, and other music cen-
ters. Noted for his extensive reper-
toire, he is said to know perfectly
seven hundred recital numbers and
twenty-five concerti. Among these
compositions is one by Nietzsche,
famous philosopher and author of
"Thus Spake Zarathustra."

Following an all -Beethoven pro-
era m at ;i public lecture Monday
night, Mr. Hutcheson played :i
group of "lighter" selections in
chapel yesterday. A synopsis of
Monday night's lecture-recital i'
on page 8.

Atlanta Hears
Metropolitan Stars

Bidu Sayao, Ezio Pinza
Give Joint Concert

The Metropolitan stars, Bidu
Sayao, soprano, and Ezio Pinza,
bass.-baritone, will appear in joint
concert Saturday night at the City
Auditorium in the third of the All-
Star Concert programs. Both art-
ists have had wide experience in
concert and opera and are consid-
ered outstanding musicians.

Bidu Sayao was introduced to
New York by Toscanini, when she
sang as soloist in Debussy's "Bless-
ed Damozel" in April, 1 936. She
had already made her operatic de-
but earlier in Rio de Janiero as
Rosina in "The Barber of Seville,"
and had sung in South America,
Paris, Rome, and Milan. Born in
Brazil, she studied four years at
home, and then at Nice, under
Jean de Reszke.

Giving up his earlier ambition
to be a professional bicycle rider,
Ezio Pinza began his voice study
under Maestro Vissani in Bologna.
His debut, postponed while he
served in the Italian artillery dur-
ing the World War, was made in
Rome in the famous "Tristan and
Isolde." Gatti-Casazza heard the
young artist singing at the La
Scala in Milan, under Toscanini,
and engaged him for the Metropoli-
tan. He is considered the greatest
bass-baritone since Chaliapin.

Coming This Week

Wednesday, 5 P. M.
Special Chorus over WSB.

Saturday, 3 P. M.
Christmas party for chil-
dren.

Saturday, 8:30 P. M.
All-star concert.

Sunday, 4:30 P. M.
Christmas Carol Service in
gymnasium.

Tuesday, 12 Noon
C hristmas Holidays!

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939

Opening Hockey Games
Foretell Final Outcome

Prophecies for Next Year's Victor
Favor Present Sophomore Class

By Anne Martin

Friday the thirteenth of October determined the fate of
the different class hockey teams in this year's hockey season.
In the first two games of the year, the victors were the
sophomores and the seniors, and the season ended with the
sophomores in first place, and the seniors in second place.
The sophomores cinched their title in the final game of the

season by defeating the juniors.

Prospects for next year's teams
favor the rising juniors. Dot Web-
ster, Alta Webster, Doris Hasty,
Mary

L o t t , Gay
C u r r i e, and
Billie Davis
made the var-
sity team this
year, and An-
nie Wilds, Jes-
sie MacGuire,
Marjorie Gray,
and Betty Ann
Brooks made
the sub - var-
sity. Therefore,
lack of material

Dean r

America Shows
New Patriotism

Martin

there will
for next

be no
year's

team. Elaine Stubbs, Scottie Wilds,
Pattie Patterson, and Ida Jane
Vaughan represent the varsity
members of the rising senior class,
and Martha O'Nan, the sub-var-
sity. With a few additions, the ris-
ing senior team may prove to be a
threat to the present titleholders.

Sophs Head Varsity List

According to vital statistics, the
sophomore hockey team holds the
record for high scoring this season.
In addition to defeating their op-
ponents, they ran up a sum of
eleven goals to have six more than
the seniors and juniors, who had
five each. The freshmen made
only one goal, despite their excel-
lent playing.

MacGuire High Scorer

Five sophomores made the eleven
goals in four games. Jessie Mac-
Guire is the champion individual
scorer with a sum of four of the
eleven. She scored twice against
the juniors, once against the sen-
iors, ,md once against the fresh-
men. Annie Wilds comes second
with three goals, two in the last
game with the juniors, and one in
the game with the seniors. Dot
Webster contributed her two goals
in the second game of the season
to defeat the juniors. Alta Web-
ster and Doris Hasty each made
one goal against the juniors, and
the total amount comes up to
eleven.

Five Seniors Score Once

The senior team had five players
who each scored once during the
season. The first two scores came
as a result of straight shots by
Milncr and Montgomery in the
senior-freshman game. Carolyn
Forman and Helen Carson were
responsible for a goal, apiece in the
second half of the game with the
juniors. The seniors dod not score
again until their last game, against
the freshmen, when Ruth Slack
shot Ihe goal that won Hie ^ame,
1-0.

Vaughan Leads Juniors

The majority of the junior goals
came from Ida Jane Vaughan,
school hockey manager. She scored
two against the freshmen, and
made the only score on record
against the champion sophomore
team. Nancy Willstatter and Mar- ]
tlia Dunn nude the other two;
junior goals in the two freshmen ;
games. The one freshman goal,
made by Nancy Hirsch, came in
the second half of the freshmen's

"There's a new kind of patriot-
ism visible, in America," says Nor-
man Corwin, CBS writer and -pro-
ducer. "A patriotism that consists
| in a genuine pride in things Ameri-
can, but not a short-sighted or a
chesty pride. It's a patriotism
which is based on knowledge and
tolerance a patriotism that's con-
structive instead of brutally nation-
alistic; a patriotism that intelli-
gent young people can support
without feeling sticky."

One of the real proofs of Mr.
Corwin's contention is the recep-
tion which has greeted the new
CBS program, which he directs,
The Pursuit of Happiness. The
program, which reveals the flight-
ier side of the American eagle, has
received enthusiastic fan mail not
only from the general public but
from people prominent in all walks
of life, from actors, writers and
musicians, many of whom have of-
fered their services to Mr. Corwin
because they approve so strongly of
what the program does.

But the Pursuit of Happiness,
according to Mr. Corwin, was nev-
er intended to be simply "patri-
otic" in the narrow sense, and that
is the secret of its sincerity. It was
started recently by the Columbia
Broadcasting System to see whether
some antidote couldn't be found
for the war and tragedy which, was
so predominant in the news.

From a philosophy summarized
by "it can't be as bad as aM that,"
the program, within a week, was
saying "things are pretty good here
after all," and meaning it.

Americans have recorded their
strivings for happiness in two main
fields, the program has discovered
literature and music. In litera-
ture the program has already dram-
atized highlights from such works
as Stephen Vincent Benct's John

Dies Committee
Probes A. S. U.

The American Student Union,
liberal organization of 20,000
United States college and high
school students, has again become
a head-line act in the national news
drama this time spotlighted into
prominence by the searchlights of
the Dies committee on un-Ameri-
can activities.

At a series of hearings made
doubly prominent by the attend-
ance of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt, the A. S. U. and the Ameri-
can Youth Congress were charged
with being dominated by the Com-
munist party and by the Young
Communist League.

Placed on the record against the
groups were the following charges:

1. The A. S. U. is used by the
Communist party to further its
program among college and high
school students. This assertion was
made by Dr. G. W. Hartman, of
Columbia University, who stated
his belief that its members were
"Charlie McCarthy's manipulated
by an unseen hand."

2. The American Youth Con-
gress' is controlled by Communists.
Assertions were made that its plat>-
form was formulated by "reds."

In answering these charges, rep-
resentatives of both groups scored
the Dies committee as being an ene-
my of all civil rights. The follow-
ing statements were made in refu-
tation of charges made by Dies
witnesses:

1. Joseph P. Lash, national sec-
retary of the American Student

Westminster College Encourages
Student Interest in Politics

College students threw their hats in the ring last week,
and took the center of the political stage. The opening meet-
ing in Westminster College's student political campaign was
important enough to draw speeches from Governor Stark of
Missouri and Postmaster General James Farley, and a coast-
to-coast network from CBS. A ,

Among the names of future
speakers are listed Thomas Dewey,

Brown's Body, Maxwell Anderson's
Valley Votge, and Edward Everett
Hale's Man Without a 'Country.
Future programs will bring novel
experiences in America for radio
listeners through dramatizations
from Thomas Wolfe, and excerpts
from the correspondence of Gover-
nor Winthrop of -Colonial Massa-
chusetts. A constant effort will
be made, Corwin says, to take selec-
tions frequently seen in textbooks
and bring them to life, by show-
ing how closely they arc related to
America today-

In the musical sphere, the pro-
gram has particularly brought out
compositions not previously heard
on the air. So far, original compo-
sitions by three young musicians
have been featured on the show
Earl Robinson's Ballad for Ameri-
cans, with lyrics by John Latouche,
which Paul Robeson sang ta an
epochal ovation^ Walter Mourant's
musical setting for the Constitu-
tion's preamble; and Jerome Mor-
oss' .4 Con in the Trailer. (CBS).

The reason for the radio broad-
cast and the speeches from eminent
political figures was that the occa-
sion was important not only to
Westminister, but to colleges
throughout the country. Already
many colleges have expressed an in-
terest in Westminister's plan for
making students more active politi-
cally, and a long r;ange campaign
has been outlined.

Westminister College has in-
augurated this fall a plan for divid-
ing the undergraduate body into
three political parties Republican,

Democratic, and Independent-Lib-

t

eral. The parties are led by student
chairmen, and hold, roughly, the
political views that their names in-
dicate. A series of debates is
planned in the college gymnasium.

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Union, said: "The American Stu-
dent Union is no more a transmis-
sion belt for communism than it
is for Republicanism, New Dealism
or Moslemism. We are not domi-
nated by Communists, nor have we
ever expressed Mny beliefs in, or
sympathies for, communism. Our
aim has been to voice the students'
concern for his own and his coun-
try's wetfare. With the world sick,
deathly sick, this is the last mo-
ment to limit the rights of stu-
dents to organize and discuss prob-
lems of social policy."

2.- Representatives of the Amer-
ican Youth Congress flatly denied
any communistic activities, and
presented the Dies committee with
"creeds" and the constitution of
the congress, which were voted for
by the Communist groups along
with the other delegates to the con-
gress.

During his -appearance before
the committee, Mr. Lash admitted
that there are communists in the
A. S. U. and that important posts
are held by some of them. He

maintained that this did not indi

cate the organization is commun- which is an integral part of our

New York's District Attorney;
Mayor LaGuardia, of New York;
Senator Arthur Vandenberg; and
ex-President Hoover, all of whom
have expressed approbation of the
scheme.

Banners and Cigars

The final meeting, which will
take place in the spring, will con-
sist of party conventions, run
with all the trimmings of real con-
ventions, from banners to cigar
smoke, and climaxed with each
party's selection of its candidate
for the presidency. Students from
other colleges where similar plans
are being worked out will attend
Westminister's final convention.

Governor Stark made the trip to
Fulton in person, and his remarks
were heard by fifteen hundred peo-
ple in the college gymnasium, in
addition to the radio audience of
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem. Postmaster Farley spoke from
Washington* also over CBS, and his
remarks were picked up inside the
gymnasium, and carried over the
public address system to the
crowd.

Governor Stark Approves

Welcomed by the entire West-
minister student body which es-
corted him from the Administra-
tion building to the gym, Gover-
nor Stark expressed himself in com-
plete approval of the attempt to
tighten the relationship between
college students and the political
life of their country.

"Too many of our young men
and women and too many older
people take the attitude that poli-
tics is beneath them; something
sordid from which they would be,
in some manner, contaminated.

"Service to a political party is
service to the nation. It makes no
difference which party you serve.
Our democracy owes its existence
to the two-party system and the
party in power will always need a
strong opposition party to provide
the system of checks and balances

ist-dominated. (ACP) .

pattern for government." (CBS.)

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A.Y.C. Designs
Work Program
For Idle Youth

Public Employment
Provides Experience
For Private Industry

Because idle youth will strength-
en any movement to embroil this
nation in the present European
war, the federal government must
provide employment for the young
who cannot find work in private
industry.

That is the assertion of the Am-
erican Youth Commission, a divi-
sion of the American Council on
Education, in its new "program of
action for American youth. "

The commission recommends a
widely expanded federal work pro-
gram of "producing the goods and
services which are needed by the
young people themselves and by
others who are unemployed and in
need."

"In the present critical situa-
tion," the report continued, "it is
imperative that none of the human
resources of the nation be wasted
through haphazard and inefficient
methods of vocational selection,
preparation and employment.

"Society in each generation has
an obligation to provide for youth
full opportunties for vocational ex-
ploration, training and public serv-
ice. The existence of a world crisis,
by making clear to the nation the
need for internal as well as external
strength, serves only to emphasize
the present obligation.

"Much time has been lost and
too many young people already
have a history of frustration and
wasted years. There is all the more
reason for strengthening this weak
point in the national fabric as soon
as possible/now that its dangerous
nature is evident."

The plan of the commission calls
for training youth in public em-
ployment that will give them ex-
perience for jobs in private indus-
try. The work would be directed
by those who could instill in the
youth good work habits as well as
^specific skills. Cost of the program
was estimated at $400 per worker
per year. (ACP.)

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This is the architects' conception of how Agnes Scott's new Fine Arts building will look after its completion some time next year. The Pres-
ser Building, named for Theodore Presser, of Philadelphia, is being erec ted on one of the most prominent sites on the campus at the corner of
South McDonough Street and Buttrick Drive. Construction was begun late in the fall and has progressed rapidly. At the present time excava-
tion has been completed and work is going forward on the pilings for the foundations. Students may look forward to using the building, which
will house the music and art departments, next fall. (Story on page 4.)

Exam Week Produces
Freak Questions, Errors

By Jeanne Osborne

Although Agnes Scott could hardly be called a circus, there
have been a good many freaks and diverting side-shows on the campus
during exam week.

Judging by some of the queer exam questions, it would seem that the
professors like to have an occasional humorous or original passage in the
exam answers (if any) to leaven the boredom of grading papers. Or
maybe they would like to bring out suppressed traits in the personalities
of the students.

Miss Emily Dexter gave her class
in elementary education a good bit
of leeway in expression. The only
question on the exam was: "Dis-
cuss fully the compartmentaliza-
tion of education on the elemen-
tary level." Naturally the class
was a little dumbfounded, and the
word "compartmentalization" left
most of them completely baffled.
It has been rumored that some of
the more harassed students burst
out laughing (to what lengths hys-
teria can go! ) .

The prize question Dr. S. G.
Stukes put to his psychology 201
class was: "As you look at this
question and begin to write, trace
the course of the nerve impulse."
It can be imagined that the nerve
impulse in most of the students

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general direction of the throat/

Miss Katherine Omwake asked
her psychology 201 class to de-
scribe the changes in the body
when a penny is dropped and one
stoops to pick it up. Kathleen
Huck, who may be suspected of
having a trace of Scotch ancestry-,
explained that her endocrine gland
system began to work, she became
so excited at finding a penny.

The "freakiest" demand Miss
Florence Smith made of her history
101 class was that they pretend to
be Benedictine monks and write a
letter home describing the life of
the monastery- She asked another
class to pretend they were students
in a medieval university, writing a
letter home. Sounds like an effec-
tive training course for the imag-
ination.

Among the victims of mishaps in
exam week, Virginia Milner num-
bers as the most pathetic. After
confidently handing in her exam
book chock full of answers to a
very hard test in astronomy,' sev-
eral days later she discovered an
exam book chock full of those
same answers. She had handed in
a blank book after the exam. My,
how Dr. Christian must have been
impressed with her knowledge.

Then there was the case of
Sophie Montgomery who realized
about 8:30 A. M. that she had an
exam in Chaucer at 9:00 A. M.
She had thought that the exam was
in the afternoon. Florrie Guy
came to school at 8:30 planning
some final intensive study during
the morning for Dr. Davidson's
American History exam at 2:00
she thought. The curtain falls on
a bewildered Florrie taking the
exam at 9:00, sans final study.

The public must hold a view to-
ward Agnes Scott coincidental
with the one generally held toward
a certain institution for the insane
at Milledgevillc. Penn Hammond
confessed that, seeing a couple of
classmates the other night, she
yelled, "1 thought you were going
to study tonight for your genetics
exam." The two classmates turned
out to be total strangers.

English Debators
Talk on C. B. S.

Next week's Bull Session over
CBS Saturday at 3:00 P. M. brings
the two visiting Englishmen up
against a group of Ohio under-
grads. The Britishers, Edward R.
G. Heath and Peter Street, of the
Oxford Union Society, are up from
their university on a speaking tour
of America's Eastern colleges. On
December 1 5 they will debate Ohio
State at Columbus and the follow-
ing afternoon, Saturday, December
16, they'll be heard over CBS from
Columbus station WBNS, discuss-
ing "How Can We Have a Say in
the Peace?" without benefit of tux-
edos. Also taking part will be Bill
Mendel and George Armour, Buck-
eye graduate students; Booth
Knerr, a senior at Capital Univer-
sity; and two students from Ohio
Wesleyan.

This discussion will center about
the possible role that student opin-
ion can play in effecting peace in
Europe. Although the two Eng-
lishmen are not themselves agreed
on a solution to the question, it's
hoped they will bring a novel stu-
dent perspective.

Journalists See
New-style P

Prediction :

aper

Cowles Finds
Journalism Behind

Discussing changes in journal-
ism, Gardner Cowles, Jr., execu-
tive editor of the Des Moines Reg-
ister and Tribune and president of
Look magazine, in a speech at the
A. C. P. convention in Des Moines,
said:

"I feel strongly that 99 per cent
of the newspapers of the country,
including to some extent my own,
and many of the magazines, have
failed to change themselves suffi-
ciently to keep in step with mod-
ern living. Almost everything you
buy has improved more than your
daily paper. Your paper is still
cumbersome in size. It still falls
apart when you read it. It is print-
ed on a quality of newsprint poorer
today than the quality used twenty
years ago. It rarely uses color, al-
though everything else in this mod-
ern world has been newly packaged
with plenty of color, and much of
your newspaper is still jumbled in
makeup, long-winded and fre-
quently written in such a compli-
cated fashion that many of the
stories are almost incomprehensible
to many readers." (ACP.)

'The newspapers of
tomorrow will be more magazine-
like. Radio is going to cover spot
news adequately. The newspaper
will become a glorified Walter
Winchell or Dorothy Thompson
column, and it will need much bet-
ter writers in the future; writers
who can vividly describe the news,
with more punch and vitality than
at present." It's by Robert E. Har-
ris, former adviser of the Los An-
geles City College Collegian ....
Advice: "If I were a college editor
again, and I haven't been since I
left Franklin College in Indiana a
long time ago, I'd do everything I
could to get my readers tackling
this job of trying to understand
what the news from Europe means.
It doesn't matter whether the ideas
of college students are mature and
right, or childish and wrong. What
matters is whether they're finding
these problems real and vivid, and
whether they recognize that some
day they'll be called on to tackle
them." This one's from Elmer
Davis, CBS news analyst. . . . The
Syracuse University Daily Orange
recently printed an entire issue on
paper made by students of that in-
stitution's college of forestry. . . .
And while we're on the subject of
paper, it should be recorded that
the University of Houston Hous-
tonian recently produced the first
newspaper ever printed on castor
paper made by students. . . . And
just to keep the record straight,
the southern paper was produced
j first. . . . The Lawrence College
Lawrentian has established an edi-
torial board to set the paper's poli-
cies. The board is composed of
leaders in campus activities, and
was chosen "in the hope that they
would act as go-betweens for the
publication and the student body,"
as the paper said in its announce-
ment. . . . The South Dakota State
College Collegian has a staff poet
who turns out poetic "ears" for
i every issue in rhyme. . . . (ACP.)

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939

Along with GWTW

Presser Fine Arts Building
Materializes at Last

By Bee Bradfield

Books and stitches were dropped; letters slid unnoticed to
the floor; drooping eyes grudgingly, but definitely, f lew
open ; indeed, the very chapel itself seemed to be startled as
Dr. McCain calmly said, "Ground for the new building was
broken today/' Agnes Scott was finally becoming the Greater
Agnes Scott.

Seniors went out feeling, perhaps, a bit on the sentimental
side sorry they w r ould not be here to enjoy the new build-
ing, and once more overwhelmed
by the nearness of leaving. Juniors
jostled through the narrow side
door, dreaming blissfully of being
the first class to march down the
aisle of the Presser Building while
Mr. Dieckmann played "Ancient of
Days." Sophomores openly beamed
at the thought of new music equip-
ment and visions of sound-proof
practice rooms made them realize
that future inhabitants of third
floor Main would be a fortunate
crew indeed. Freshmen clasped
Great Expectations with new mean-
ing, momentarily forgetting their
time schedules to be glad for the
'nth time that they had chosen
Agnes Scott as their Alma Mater.

Over in Buttrick these same
students became even more aware
of the meaning of Dr. McCain's
statement. For not only the ground
had been broken, but also the stu-
dious quiet of the classrooms on
the west end of Buttrick. Now,
how can one concentrate on French
pronunciation and still be sure the
steam shovel does not drop its bur-
den of earth before it reaches its
destination? * i

Students in the back of these
rooms (who can hear only every
other word above the din) probab-
ly think daily progress very slow,
but to an infrequent observer the
work seems to be going astonish-
ingly fast. At this point the foun-
dations arc being laid which ac-
counts for the labyrinth of chan-
nels resembling prehistoric excava-
tions. Probably by the time Christ-
mas holidays are over, the masonry
will have been started; and then it
will be easier to visualize the con-
struction as a Gothic building.
Present appearances might cause
one to wonder, but if big oaks
from little acorns can grow, can-
not big buildings from little cement
mixers?

Fan Mail, Brothers?

University of Richmond fra-
ternity men have a new title for
Sally Rand, and therebv hangs a
story:

When the college administration
ruled that all Greek groups must
have housemothers, clever Kappa
Sigmas wired the fan dancer:
"Sorry to hear of your financial
bust

But come on down and five

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Seeing red

Mr. Dies
Goes to College

Congressman Martin" Dies the
government's one - man crusade
against all things un-American,
has announced that he'll soon turn
his prying eyes on U. S. colleges
and universities but he's going to
get a warm reception.

Dies Undemocratic

Past activities of Mr. Dies' well-
publicized committee have already-
discredited his work, "the collegians
maintain in editorials in the college
press, but they nevertheless fear
that his proposed investigation will,
without cause, injure the nation's
institutions of higher learning and
hamper the accomplishment of
their programs and the fulfillment
of their duties.

The Ohio State University Lan-
tern believes that "whatever Mr.
Dies' avowed good intentions were,
he has scuttled them with his scur-
rilous tactics. Mr. Dies smears
names. He browbeats witnesses.
He raids private correspondence.
He does everything that is un-
democratic and unpalatable to ad-
vocates of democracy. Not only
would Mr. Dies be wasting the pub-
lic's money (in investigating col-
leges), he would be making him-
self a public nuisance and menace."

Threat to Progress

"Each student, whatever his sym-
pathies, will be affected by any
such investigation," says the Uni-
versity of Michigan Daily, "if not
directly, then indirectly by wit-
nessing the general suspension of
his friends, or (if he be friendless)
by the obfuscation and final oblit-
eration of cultural progress here at
the university. "

In an editorial letter to Mr. Dies,
the University of Pittsburgh News
hinted at a possible explanation of
the congressman's move: "We real-
ize that you (Mr. Dies) are a
wholly disinterested researcher when
you come to examine our colleges
and universities. That of the 60
college journals we read, only one
little school has commended you,
while about 45 college papers have
denounced your actions has, of
course, nothing to do with vour
sudden determination to expose
those hotbeds of radicalism, the
American Institutions of higher
learning. Come on, Mr. Dies, were
vaiting.

O'Brien takes notes

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Christmas is a-eoming and the

goose is getting fat;
Please to put a penny in an old

man's hat.

If you haven't got a penny, a
ha'penny will do.

If you haven't got a. ha'penny.
God bless you . . .

The Christmas season is upon us
and it never fails to J^ring a sort
of thrill to the spine, and a kindlier
feeling towards everyone, even
from col-
umnists . . .
Miss Harn's
German
C h r i s t m a s
party cer-
tainly does
help it along
. . . The ev-
ergreens and
red tapers,
the T a n-
n e n b a u m
(Christmas tree to you) with its
real glowing candles, the tiny
carved wooden creches, with their
gaily-painted figures, the tinkling
music boxes, and most of all, the
wonderful German pastries and
"kuchen'"' and candy ... all are
truly an authentic induction into
the Christmas season . . .

The Christmas spirit may have
something to do with the sorrfe-
what queer conduct of some of
the Hottentots in the past week.
Such as FRESHMAN FROLICS:
The Rt. fa'onorable, the President
of the Agnes Scott Christian Asso-
ciation, Catherine Lynn Patton, was
visiting in the inimitable and il-
limitable halls ot Inman recently,
and was so beguiling away the
hours that she stayed past ten-
thirty. Imagine her chagrin to
find that, because of her possibly
a bit boisterous hilarity, the fresh-
man proctor was forced to come in
and inform her that she would
have to give her two house knocks
. . . And then there was the wag
who hung a black taffeta slip on
one of the chandeliers of an Inman
Hall hall with the cryptic placard
"Ain't this soot awful?" . . .

Your columnist doesn't like to
use Henri Thompson again and
again as a source of amusement for
all-' and sundry, but this one is
priceless . . . Henri came tripping
down to supper the other night in
a darling combination of flame
colored sweater and gray skirt, and
was greeted by Scottie Wilds' glad
crv, "Oh, look, here comes Henri
in her birthday suit . .

And now we come to the case of !
Elaine Stubbs the masher, who
flirts . . . but let us start from the
beginning. The Stubbs was seated
at dinner one night last week- when
her attention was directed by some
of her fellow consumers to a mas-
culine guest in the dining room.
Since Elaine is somewhat near-
sighted and also very friendly, and,
incidentally believed the bov to be

Carolers Meet

Following tradition, the
college community is invit-
ed to meet in Main Building
Tuesday, December 19, at
5 A. M., to sing Christmas
carols. The carolers will
sing in all the dormitories,
on faculty road, at Dr. Mc-
Cain's, and at other faculty
homes.

one with whom she was raised from
an infink, she began making signs
and faces and stuff at him and was
very hurt when he did not respond
in kind . . . However, being a per-
severing soul, she continued these
gesticulations to the coffee stage of
the meal. Some girls, having no-
ticed her manual and facial gym-
nastics, rushed up and asked her if
she knew who the young gentle^
man was. She replied 'with a con-
fident air, "Oh, that's Jimmy Zilch
(fictitious, of course) ; I grew up
with him." One of her compan-
ions replied, "No, it isn't, he isn't
even from your home town."
Whereupon poor Elaine was so
overwhelmed with embarrassment
and non-plussedness that she fled
with precipitate haste to Vespers
. . . and then he came in and sat
down in front of her . . .
FAUX PAS A LA MODE:

Suzanne Kaulbach was debating
away at Georgia Tech on the sub-
ject, "Should Women Enter the
Professions." After impatiently
listening to a Tech debater em-
phatically state that "Woman's
place is in the home," Miss Kaul-
bach arose and began:

"That may be all right for mar-
ried-women, but what about bach-
elor girls, with large families to
support?"

EXAMINATION FOG:

Symbolizing the typical state of
mind prevailing at Agnes Scott
during exam period, a freshman
wrote at the end of her somewhat
sketchy algebra paper:

"[ don't know what the score
is!"

To which a subtle senior sug-
gested :

"The score is nothing to nothing
at the quarter." I

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Miss Glick
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Representing the classical de-
partment of Agnes Scott, Miss M.
Katherine Glick, assistant professor
of Latin and Greek, read a paper
before the Southern Classical Asso-
ciation November 30, at San An-
tonio, Texas. The subject of Miss
Glick's paper was "Some Uses of
Colloquial Exaggeration in Roman
Comedy."

The Southern Classical Associa-
tion, which includes the colleges
and high schools in the south, each
year calls upon members of the
Agnes Scott classical department
for papers to be read before the
association.

Miss Glick left November 29 for
the meeting which ended Decem-
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5

Hunt

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

This week, Campus Quotes made
a- survey to find out how many
students know about the music
room in Main, and what they think
about it, if
anythi n g .
Results:

Louise
Sulliva n,

'40 day stu-
dent, says:
M . . ; if the
college
com munity
were better
informed as
to the pur-
p o s e and
mechanics of using the Music Ap-
preciation Room, more people
would use it."

Nancy Willstatler, '41 board-
er, thinks "that lots of people don't
want to be bothered, and lots of
people just don't know anything
about it. Why," she says, "could
not notices be posted' telling people
when a certain phonographic con-
cect is going to be presented? I
believe in letting people know
about things."

Mary Virginia Brown, '40
boarder, says: "I don't know how
to use the machine, so I don't use
it very successfully. I think that
it is a matter of personal apprecia-
tion that makes people want to use
it. If the room were more attrac-
tively furnished, I think that peo-
ple might be induced to use it
more."

Molly Oliver, '41 boarder, real-
izes ". . . that many people are

She Was Too Little To Stop

Merry Christmas
f rom

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an early game with Inman.

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

WELCOME

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missing a wonderful chance to
hear exquisite music. So many peo-
ple don't know about it. If we
could have an 'open house' two
evenings a week to study particu-
lar composers, -that would be fine.
If the library would put some of
the splendid books on music on dis-
play in x the Music Appreciation
Room, that would be excellent."

Bobbie Brown, 40 boarder,
thinks . . that the Music Appre-
ciation Room affords a wonderful
opportunity for girls who want to
use it. I wish that more adequate
instruction were given as to the
use of the catalogue, since so
many people have difficulty in
finding music that they want." '

Annie WiUs, '42 boarder, feels
". . . that we have the best musi-
cal set-up that can be had. I v/ish
that more girls would see the w on-
derful privilege that is ours. I
think that a whole lor of people
use the room, but I wish that more
would use it."

Sarah Rainey, 41 day stu-

dent, thinks . . that if more day-
students knew about the Music
Appreciation Room, they would
use it more. If they could be in-
formed as to where it is, what it
is, what kind of music it offers and
how to use the machine, I'm sure
more people would use it."

Helen Carson, '40 boarder, uses
the Music Appreciation Room, but
she suggests "that the damaged
records ought to be replaced. As
far as getting more girls interested
in using the room, I think that or-
ganized groups will not do much
good. I think if each girl will reah*
ize what, a wonderful opportunity
this is, she will use it to her advan-
tage more often."

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Huntingdon
Rides the Rails

Some colleges increase their en-
rollment by advertising in mag-
azines such as Harper's Bazaar or
Good Housekeeping. The public-
ity director of Huntingdon Col-
lege had a novel idea recently
about advertising the Alabama
School. Huntingdon! College is
now on rails.

Through cooperation with the
legal department and the L & N
Railroad, a pullman christened
Huntingdon College is now being
used as an "extra display car
throughout the United States. La-
ter it will have a regular route."
The I i a lit f ess.

Christmas Greetings
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Susan Self edits

Club Doings

Sunday morning, December 3,
Special Chorus sang for the Men's
Bible Class of Druid Hills Baptist
Church.

A group
from Glee Club
will sing over
WSB Wednes-
day, December
6, from 5:00

to J:15.

French Club

will meet Mon-
day afternoon,
December 11,
at 4:30 in the
Self M u r p h e y

Candler Building.

French. Spanish and German
clubs will sing Christmas carols on
Monday night, December 18.

The Agnes Scott and Emory
chapters of Eta Sigma Phi had
dinner in the Emory cafeteria Mon-
day evening, November 27. Mem-
bers of . the Agnes Scott chapter
helped with the initiation of new
members at Emory.

December 3, Miss Harn enter-
tained a group of teachers and stu-
dents interested in German at her
home on College Avenue.

The meeting of Eta Sigma Phi
Monday, December 11, was in the
form of a Christmas party, with
special celebrations of Christmas.
The members sang carols in the old
languages, and the Christmas story
was read in Greek from the New
Testament. Georgia Hunt, vice-
president, was in charge of plans.
Pi Alpha Phi is considering send-

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Despite the present drive for co-
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and universities in Atlanta so that
a University Center will be made
possible, debators at Tech are re-
solved that the Georgia School of
Technology should not be co-ed.

"The winning arguments were
mainly based on the fact that the
attendance of women would lower
Tech's scholastic standards. An-
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The National College Neics tells
of four girls who are "in the
know. 5 ' "Vellesley College's 'Ask
Me' girls provided real courteous
information service for all of "the
college's newcomers."

Coeds Compete

To train an army of techni-
cians for the vast textile industry of
North Carolina, the faculty of
North Carolina has established
what has become the largest tex-
tile school in the U. S. The
co-eds annually compete in a state-
wide contest to determine which
one has made the most a tractive
ensemble from the student-made
cloth.

ing a team to debate at Winthrop
College, Rock Hill, S. C in the
Strawberry Leaf Tournament next
March.

Agnes Scott has never before
entered the series, which usually
draws teams from colleges through-
out the country.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939

Xmas Gift for Mother
Creates Problem

By Virginia Williams

Only a few shopping days until we go crazy trying to
* think of presents. Wondering what to give its own respective
mothers, the News staff put out feelers this week to find
out what other people are giving theirs. Findings : You can
give her something ornamental like china, -you can give her
something useful like a cow, or you can give her something
you want for yourself.

Grace Walker leans rather far

towards the useful side. She is de-
bating whether or not to give her
mother a cow. Mrs. Walker doesn't
drink milk, but Grace does two
glasses at each meal. Maybe Grace
really owes the cow to the college.
How much milk is six glasses a
day for four years?

Jeanette Carroll is another duti-
ful daughter with an ulterior mo-
tive. Under severe pressure she ad-
mitted being not quite sure what
else she would give her mother, but
she had already bought a cookie
jar.

"Coveted books and magazines
can always be bought in the name
of mother, and she will even have
time to read them after you've
come back to school," say Molly
Oliver and Jo Cates.

Anne Martin is going to give
her mother a piece of silver and
Nina Broughton is sure that her
mother will love the wooden table-
wear with the pink and blue dog-
wood painted on it.

"Give her your report card for
Christmas," suggests Susan Self,
"and in case of unfortunate de-
velopments on the report card, give
her a good book to take her mind
off the subject."

Pocketbooks, stationery, and
stamps are among other suggestive
gifts which people are considering.
Of course, one can always go in
with Dad to buy a present and let
him furnish the financial backing.

"It's a shame that all those peo-
ple with worried expressions on
their faces didn't attend the junior
bridge and save the prizes," says
Ann Hcnrv.

Gay Currie has made no defi-
nite statement yet, but it is ru-
mored that she considers the direc-
tories put out by the sophomores a
gift which would delight anyone.

"And of course," adds Lutie
(10%) Moore, "you can always
give her your yearbook picture;
Only a mother could love . . ."

College Dyes
Field for Ball Game

At-last-the-truth-is-out item: So
that it's football field would be
just the right color to impress the
crowd that attended the Missouri-
Kansas grid duel a couple of week-
ends ago, the University of Kansas
dyed its field "auragreen," using
300 gallons of coloring to make
the playing field a thing of beauty
at least until the dye washed out.

Women beware! The Tiger, un-
dergraduate newspaper at Clemson
College, has thrown its full editor-
ial weight into a movement to stop
co-eds from wasting the valuable
time of Clemson men. Listen to
this: "A good many girls have the
mistaken idea that 'dates' are more
appreciative of feminine charm if
they are made to wait. The Tiger
registers its protest. It will stand
up for anyone who just leaves in
disgust and let's that 'waiting' date
wait."

Embarrassing moment: Greater
Boston's untold thousands of de-
bating fans were foiled a few days
ago when they sat down to listen
to a Harvard M. I. T. word battle
broadcast. Reason: Both teams had
prepared negative arguments, and I
no one was ready to uphold the af-
firmative side. Result: Strauss
waltzes were heard instead of the
debate. (ACP.)

Christmas Lights

Shine Again

On Front Campus

The Christmas spirit arrived at
Agnes Scott Saturday night, De-
cember 9, when two brilliant
Christmas trees topped with silver
stars illumined the front campus.
The lighting of the trees rcinaug-
urated a custom begun five years
ago, but discontinued last year.
This year, in cooperation with At-
lanta and Decatur, the college has
again decorated her campus for the
yule season.

Mr. King, the college electrician,
put the multi-colored lights on the
two evergreens; one, in front of
the Main building, and one, in
front of Rebekah Scott Hall. The
trees will be lighted each evening
throughout the holiday season.
When the trees were lighted on
Saturdav evening, they were greet-
ed with an enthusiastic burst of
Christmas carols from students in
Main and Rebekah Scott. Christ-
mas had actually arrived on the
Agnes Scott campus.

Scientists, Press
Cooperate

An organization representing
more than 100 Harvard and Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
scientists issued a manifesto today
urging research workers to adopt a
"positive" policy of "active coop-
eration" with the newspapers for
the improvement of science news
and of the public's understanding
of scientific methods and objec-
tives.

Asserting that general under-
standing of the objectives of
science is a "strong defense both of
the public and of the future of
free scientific inquiry," the organ-
ization stressed the importance for
"scientists to recognize in the
press a valuable agency for liaison
with the public and to attempt
through active cooperation to im-
prove its effectiveness. M

Responsible for the statement is
a committee on the public relations
of science of the Cambridge branch
of the American Association of
Scientific Workers. Associate Pro-
fessor Kenneth K. Thimann, Har-

Standing in such lines as -this one has been alternated with sitting in
examination rooms for the past week or so. Agnes Scott students are
joining Atlantans in anticipation of the "Gone With the Wind" open-
ing Friday night.

Faculty Plan
Varied Holidays

New York, New Orleans,
Miami Draw Teachers

Christmas is "a-coming" and
faculty and students alike are plan-
ning great things for the holidays.

Most of the students, of course,
will pack far into the night Mon-
day; and on the nineteenth, will
leave for home.

Members of the faculty have
varied plans for the holidays.

Dr. J. R. McCain will devote his
two weeks of vacation to the col-
lege. He will rem:ain at home and
work toward arranging the affairs
of the campaign. It would seem
that time, tide and Agnes Scott
business wait for no man.

New York will be the setting
for Miss Charlotte Hunter's holi-
day. She will be with her family
for the first time in several
months and she expects to have "a
very happy two weeks."

Miss Bella Wilson will make
Davidson her headquarters during
Christmas, but she plans to make
several short trips to places near
there to visit friends.

A convention will draw Miss
Emma May Laney to New Orleans
on the day after Christmas, but
until then, she will remain at home.
Dr. George Hayes expects to en-
joy a quiet vacation at home, while
Dr. J. T. Gillespie plans to go,
with his family, to Miami to have
the holiday season enhanced by
leisurely days on the beach or
swimming in the Atlantic. Mr.
Lewis Johnson, too, will spend a
warm Christmas under the Florida
sun, and Mr. Robert Holt will
probably vacation where the golf-
ing is best.

Miss Gaylord and Miss Emily
Dexter are glad that there is an-
other week before the holidays be-
gin. They can use a few more
days to complete their plans.

vard biologist, is executive chair-
man and Associate Professor Bart
J. Bok, Harvard astronomer, is
chairman of the public relations
committee.

Scientists are in an "increasingly
weaker" position if they attempt
to withhold information from the
newspaper or if they attach a gen-
eral stigma of suspicion and disap-
proval to research workers who re-
ceive newspaper attention, the
manifesto stated. (ACP.)

Indiana University has an eternal
blaze in a Union building fireplace
to symbolize the institution's "fire
of hospitality."

A salamander is the mascot of
the student senate at Mount Angel
College.

The average large U. S. univer-
sity has two and a half non-acad-
emic employees for every member
of its teaching staff.

More than one-fourth of the
University of Arkansas student
body are relatives of graduates or
former students of that institution.

Fate Tricks Forman
With Freak Mishap

Carolyn Forman tempted Provi-
dence Sunday night and the
temptation was too much.

Disporting herself with Bee
Bradfield's crutches on the front
steps of Inman that evening, the
High Mogul of Open Forum was
having herself a very lovely time,
while the temporarily-crippled Bee
sat helplessly by. Carolyn bounded
up and down the steps on the
crutches, chatting delightedly the
while.

Then something slipped. Caro-
lyn plopped to the ground, the
crutches falling about her ears. Dr.
Florence Swanson, some time later,
bound up the injured ankle.

Carolyn hobbled away on
crutches.

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7

Student Press
Blames Russia

Soviet Russia and her commun-
ist supporters in the United States
have a new place in the minds of
the nation's collegians a position
right beside Adolf Hitler and Ben-
ito Mussolini in the gallery of
those who can no longer have the
sympathies of the thin-king college
youth.

This is the conclusion that must
be drawn by a careful study of the
shift of student opinion a shift
that was suddenly brought from
the "approval" to the "disapproval"
end of the opinion-pendulum's
swing by the invasion of small Fin-
land by monster Russia. Here is
how the college press reacted to the
latest dramatic move in the cam-
paign of the totalitarian states for
world domination:

Said the Harvard University
Crimson: "And now it is Finland.
Russia is the arch-criminal this
time, not Germany, and so far as
the United States is concerned she
has committed ' an outrage with
possibly even less justification than
those of the Reich. As she (Rus-
sia) becomes a great Baltic power
again, she appears more like the
Imperialistic Russia of old than a
new Communist Union, with pure-
ly selfish designs intended neither
to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler.
For America and the other neutrals,
if they were not convinced by the
Russo-German alliance last August
or the joint Polish seizure of Sep-
tember, the Finnish invasion will
remove any hesitation they had in
placing Russia and Germany in the
same category."

In the same vein, the Cornell
University Daily Sun said: "Those
communists throughout the world
who have been rationalizing, the
Nazi-Soviet pact are now faced
with a real problem. Their asser-
tions that Russia would never stoop
to imperialism were proved lies
when the first Red bomb fell on
Finland. All that Red Russia stood
for in the communist circles of the
world has been repudiated. Russia
has at last shown her true face to
the world and it is not a pretty

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Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

Editors do the most peculiar
things sometimes like telling us
to 4 write a society column abaut
exam week. Of course, the girls
are just as ,
cute dur-
ing exam
week (no
stringy
hair or
such! )
but you
know
what the 1
faculty
a n d ma-
ma dear

m i g h t Lennard

think of going out during, exams!

Braving the storm of English
101, Miss Jackson's history courses,

one. The prospect of a general war
has been renewed. Perhaps it is
the darkness before the dawn."

In the middle west, the Univer-
sity of Minnesota Daily continued
the nation-wide denunciation of
the Russian invasion: "The whole
affair was staged with the cold re-
lentlessness of a Chicago gang kill-
ing and with the same effect.
When Russia saw that war was the
way to win her ends in Finland,
she deliberately took the path to
war. Nothing short of a complete
Finnish surrender-could have avert-
ed the invasion. Nothing can just-
ify it."

Despite this latest exhibition of
unjustified mass-murder in the
world, U. S. collegians are still re-
maining firm in their demand that
their country stay out of any for-
eign conflict. The Moberly Junior
College Mirror stated this view in
this fashion: "Every student in
the U. S. is following the course of
events as they unfold upon the
European horizon. Every U. S. col-
lege student has a personal interest
in what the European war does to
-implicate this country. Never be-
fore has there been a more determ-
ined resolution upon the lips of the
students than there is today for
peace. The student doesn't want
this generation of American youth
to be thrown overboard in vain for
an ideal." (ACP.)

and all the other little crips around
here, and going out anyway, were
those who attended the Newman
Club dance at Tech. Georgia Tate,
Louise Rungs, Bette Wade, Char-
lotte Gardner, Nora Percy, Barbara
Sams, Nicole Giard, and Susanne
Kaulbach were among those there.
' Hay rides were popular again
this week., Bizclle Roberts, Ann
Hilsman, Flonnie Ellis, Sarah Cope-
land, Florrie Guy, and Helen Jes-
ter attended the. one given by the
KA's, while Charlene Burke, Caro-
lyn Alley, and Beryl Healy were^at
the Chi Phi function.

There were also dances to be
taken in over the week-end. Mar-
jorie Wilson, Mary Klingensmith,
and Lutie Moore went to the Pi
Kappa Phi formal Saturday
night. At the Episcopal League
dance were Hazel Solomon, Nell
Pinner, Molly Oliver, Betsy Kend-
rick, Laura Cummings, and Pat
Perry. Aline Barron, Myree Wells,
Adelaide Gregory, and Evelyn

Save went to the Pi Sigma Delta

dance Friday night. Carrie Gene
Ashley attended one at the Decatur
Woman's Club Saturday night, and
Jane Still well danced at the Span-
ish Room.

Out of town for their dancing
were Lib Barrett at Vanderbilt,
Helen Macfayden at Davidson, and
^Betty Henderson and Kay Wilkin-
son at Auburn.

Among those off the campus
over the week-end for various so-
cial reasons were Marian Franklin,
Annette Franklin, Marjorie Weis-
man, Joyce Geist, Harriet Vaughn,
Helen Hale, and Bette Burdette.

Bizelle Roberts had supper at the
ATO House Sunday night, while
Betsy Banks dined at the Sigma Pi
House.

Sponsors for the "Plaster Bowl"
game between the juniors and sen-
iors at the Dental College Satur-
day were Gary Home and Ellen
Stuart. Seen at the Chi Phi-SAE
classic that same afternoon were
Val Nielsen, Carolyn Alley, Char-
lene Burke, and Marjorie Boggs.

So, 'til after the holidays, we
say, keep up the good work girls-
especially during those two weeks
of NO working hours at all!

Alumnae Faculty
Reminisce on Past Days

Innovations Since Era of Social Societies
Include Milder Drill, Sox

Times have changed and so has A. S. C. graduates who have re-

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Agnes Scott first Institute, then
college with an Academy, and now
a greater A. S. C. looking forward
to an even greater future. One of
the best and most interesting ways
to delve into the "past" of Agnes
Scott is to consult some of the
fourteen faculty members who are
A. S. C. alumnae.

Blue Book Memories

Miss Lucile Alexander, '11,
knew all about life at the "Insti-
tute," including riding a slow
street car as a day student (and
there were no transfers!). Miss
Alexander was editor of the Mne-
mosynean, which became the
Aurora, and her part in the class
will, "Lucile Alexander wills to
Martha Hall her insatiable thirst
for French," shows that she has
always been interested in her fav-
orite foreign language. Miss Alex-
ander recalls the Blue Book, a sig-
nificant little pamphlet with blue
pages, which contained the grad-
uates listed according to class
standing and caused much excite-
ment on graduation day.

Days of Compli Cator

Another French teacher who
took part in many college activities
is Miss Margaret Phythian, '16.
Miss Phythian attended the Acad-
emy, then a preparatory school for
Agnes Scott College, and was presi-
dent of the freshman class when
she entered the college. She was
also captain of the fire brigade.
"Hottentots never see such fire
drills now," she declares. "A drill
was a real event, and hard work!"

During her college career, Miss
Phythian was treasurer, then vice
president of the Propylean Literary
Society, associate editor of the
Aurora, treasurer of Le Cercle
Francais, and a member of the or-
ganization of "Sisters," much the
same as the present Sponsor Sys-
tem. She was also a member of
Compli Cator, a social society, and
she says that one of the most nota-
ble changes, the discontinuation of
strictly social clubs for campus ac-
tivity, has done much to make col-
lege life at Agnes Scott more dem-
ocratic. However, the tea house
was just as popular then as it is
now. Miss Phythian recounts trips
to what is now Lupton Cottage,
where Mrs. Towers had a private
tea room for the college students,
as one of her fondest memories.

May Day Poesy

As a representative of the Eng-
lish department, Miss Janef Pres-
ton, '21, says that the custom she
misses most is the hanging of bas-
kets of flowers on the seniors'
doors on May Day. Each sopho-
more sister made up one for her
"big sister" and got up early to
leave it at the senior's door, but the
idea was abandoned when it be-
came a matter of buying the more
expensive gifts from florists' shops.

Miss Preston had a varied and
active career in college as president
of the Y. \V. C. A. Cabinet, mem-
ber of B. O. Z., Gamma Tau Alpha
(the honor society which grew into
the present chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa), and Hoasc. She was Sen-
ior Class Poet, and willed her abil-
ity to make speeches, both extem-
poraneous and conciliatory, to
Alice Travis.

Book Drowning!

Miss Philippa Gilchrist, '2 3, and
Mrs. Mary (Walker) Fox, '3 6, are

turned to teach in the chemistry
department.

Miss Gilchrist was very active in
the Propylean Debating Society.
She distinguished herself in the
field of mathematics, being a
member of the Agnesci Club, hon-
orary society for math and physics,
and by winning the Laura Candler
medal for excellence in mathema-
tics. She relates that the class of
'2 3 introduced one innovation
which has never been repeated.
Because it rained for one solid
week before graduation, the sen-
iors held a Book Drowning instead
of the usual Book Burning! 'The
method? a tub of water in the
chapel!

Lab Always

One comparatively recent
change which will doubtless sur-
prise the modern young ladies now
at Agnes Scott came after Mary
Walker entered college in 1932.
None of the students then wore
socks; a. few freshmen tried it, but
Miss Hopkins deemed it "unlady-
like," and it was not until the fol-
lowing year that the fad was sanc-
tioned. Mary declares that she
spent all her time in lab (chemis-
try students will note that one
custom at least hasn't changed),
but she was secretary of K. U. B.,
and a member of Chi Beta Phi, and
German Club.

Educator Urges
Scientific Method

Editor Advises Youth to
'Sweat for Security'

"The impasse that faces civiliza-
tion today is not due to any lack
of intellectual power. Rather it has
arisen because we have attached our
problem by the wrong method, a
method characterized by rule of
thumb, expediency and self-inter-
est. The right method is the scien-
tific method which, if coupled with
sensitivity to the human values of
freedom and individuality, will
save our civilization from the ir-

e

responsible technologist and the
scheming politician. Scientific
humanism, as the doctrine has
come to be known, is an unfailing
resource of a sane democratic
state." Edwin Sharp Burdell, di-
rector of Cooper Union, states the
technologist's goal in our democ-
racy.

"If the new generation of which
you are a part has not the wisdom
to sweat for its own security as
free men on the long, adventurous
road, college education is no good
and the driving fire of ingenuity
has gone out. With wisdom, young
men will come not to care whether
they wear white collars or no col-
lars. The trouble is that there are
too few of us who are ambitious
enough, industrious enough, ingen-
ious enough, courageous enough to
provide our own personal security."
Famed Editor Grove Patterson tells
Oberlin College and all U. S. stu-
dents how they can attain success
without artificial securities.
(ACP.)

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939-

Rover Girl
Defeats Own End

In her talk before student meeting De-
cember 1, Henrietta Thompson touched on
a point Avhich can bear discussion. She
mentioned the necessity of realizing that
all is not ideal on the Agnes Scott campus.

For years, Agnes Scott has been breed-
ing within its walls a species of student
who, if left in control of campus activities
and thought, would eventually undermine
the institution and everything for which
it now stands. This species is more dan-
gerous than the breaker of social regula-
tions, the chapel-cutter, and the wearer of
socks to dinner, all combined. She is the
Rover Girl.

The Rover Girl considers herself a para-
gon of loyalty and service to the college.
She is usually a minor but sometimes a
major leader in her chosen line of cam-
pus activity, and is thoroughly impressed
with her status as a B. W. 0. C. She be-
lieves that "Agnes Scott" is written on
her heart in purple letters, and is sure
that she and her kind represent Right on
the campus.

We all know the type. Her countenance
darkens when someone points out a flaw
in some system on the campus; her college
can do no wrong, and nobody had better
say it can. She is completely and militant-
ly blind to every fault in everything offi-
cially connected with the college.

If she could have her way, nothing here
would ever change. Her loyalty and devo--
tion would kill Agnes Scott.

Far from being like the patriot, who
sees his country's shortcomings and triers
to correct tliem, she is like the fanatical
nationalist, who fights at the mere sug-
gestion that his country is not perfect.

The Rover Girl needs to think; she
does nothing but feel. She should realize
that, to serve Agnes Scott, she, must see
its problems; she is still in the sentimen-
tal, rah-rah stage which she should have
got out of her system in the girls' camp
she has been going, to for five years.

Editorial Notes

Students Tackle

International Conglomerelations

The people we felt sorriest for last week
were those who faced an exam on inter-
national relations. The exam came the
day after England and Germany, at war
with each other, joined in sending help to
Finland; while Russia, supposed ally of
Germany, pursued the Communist peace
policy by attacking Finland.

And speaking of paradoxes, how about
the two frantic notices on the Main bulle-
tin board one seeking? to buy a ticket to
the concert, the other offering one for
sale?

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, Dec. 13, 193 9 No. 9

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination
periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey
Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year.
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Current History Editor

Exchange Editor

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Alumnae Editor
Susan Self
Cfub Editor
Kloise Lennard
Society Editor
Lib Barrett
Olivia White

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Lucille Gaines
Mary M. Templeton
Edith Stover
Polly Ware
Mary M. Wisdom
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Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Magna Carta

What is reputed to be one of the four copies
of the Magna Carta is to stay in the U. S. for
the duration of the war. The indecipherable old
document, signed by bad King John at Runv-
mede, is now in the Library
of Congress at Washington.
" With a nice exchange of
compliments, Lord Lothian,
Ambassador from England,
offered, and Archibald Mac-
Leish, Librarian of Congress,
accepted the document. The
propaganda value of the idea
was probably not lost on
Stevenson Lord Lothian.

New Problems

The second war will certainly have important
repercussions outside Russia and Finland. Eng-
land is afraid to antagonize Russia because of pos-
sible conflict in Asia. Yet the whole Allied
strategy may have to be changed to meet new
conditions.

Also, rumor has it that Rumania is Russia's
real object. The northern excursion is held to be
simply an example and a warning to the Balkans.

1940

President Roosevelt remains consistently reti-
cent or jocular about third term possibilities.
But two candidates, McNutt and Dewey, taking
the irrevocable step, declared themselves as possi-
bilities.

The darling of the GOP confined himself to
generalities in his opening speech. He attacked
present day "defeatism" and urged the encourage-
ment of the "economic system which supports
the government and makes social obligation pos-
sible. "

First Lady to the Rescue

Mrs. Roosevelt rushed valiantly to the defense
of the Youth Congress which is under investiga-
tion by the Committee on Un- Americanism (the
un-American committee). She joined seven of its
leaders on the train to Washington, conferred
until 2 A. M., attended the Dies Committee with
them. Mrs. Roosevelt investigated their finan-
cial sources and declared that to her satisfaction
they were non-Communistic.

Christmas Seals
Appear On Campus

This year, in an effort to bring an op-
portunity for service closer to us, Chris-
tian Association is sponsoring the sale of
Christmas seals on the campus. As every-

Campus Camera

CHRISTMAS
SEALS

Help to Protect
Your Home from
Tuberculosis

Business Assli

W. Ixovitt. M

one knows, and is reminded
each December, the money
brought by the seals is used
for the prevention and cure
of tuberculosis.

The thought may never
have occurred to us before ;
but, comparatively speak-
ing, we are the rich. A few-
weeks ago, we strolled down
to the gymnasium to take
the tuberculin test. Some
of us, whose tests were
positive, were X-rayed. The
film shown in chapel about tuberculosis
was not particularly terrifying to us. We
are pretty safe; we can afford these tests
and X-rays and, if need be, treatment. We
are the rich.

Last year, if (he Atlanta Tuberculosis
Association had not been at work, tuber-
culous representatives from 2,322 families
in Fulton and DeKalb Counties would have
gone untreated. They would have roamed
the two counties, slowly dying from in-
side, spreading germs to thousands of
their associates, who would have died like-
wise. They are the poor.

Approximately one-third of the income
of the Association which saved these peo-
ple came from the sale of Christmas seals.

As is stated above, Christian Associa-
tion is selling them on the campus this
week.

OMECOM1MG ORIGINATED AT
7VIE U.OF ILLINOIS IN 1910/

These ideas were expressed recently

To the College Audience

Second in the Agnes Scott Lecture Series, Ernest Hutche-
son, dean of the Juillard School of Music, played before a
capacity audience Monday night in a lecture recital in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium.

Beginning his lecture-recital with a brief history of the
Sonata, Mr. Hutcheson explained what part Beethoven play-
ed in the development of the son- J-fgygg

Speaking on "Scholarship" at the
Mortar Board recognition service
in chapel Saturday, November 26,
Dr. George P. Hayes, head of the
English department, gave the chal-
lenge for an ideal scholarship, one
"warmed by the fires of feeling
and imagination, and irradiated by
the light of the spirit." He urged:
"Make it your primary .Tim here
and now. These may well be your
contemplative years."

Believing that the mind must
first be awakened "to pursue and
lay hold on a measure of truth or
reality," Dr. Hayes said then: "The
miiKi is attended by joy, love, de-
sire in its explorations. Imagina-
tion and feeling bear it company
and submit to a discipline which
sets up ever loftier objects of de-
sire."

Dr. Hayes further pointed out
that a training in taste, emotion,
and imagination accompanies the
training of the mind. Speaking of

love in the training of the mind,
as pianistic a piece as anv ever . t , . , . .

r r - he emphasized that the right or-

written." The sonata in P minor d mnt , Q f [ ove finds its final end
("Appassionata") , the third selec- in the truths of the spirit." Sum-
tion on the program, was followed m,n K U P &e needs of the scholar,

by an encore,' the Rondo from Dr ' H **f ^ f,Vst

' , , . _ r . . WWit Milton calls that intellectual

Beethoven s sonata m E-flat major. ^ whjch Qod hath p , antcd m m;

Mr. Hutcheson's comments, as second, "the right ordering of love

well as his skillful and interpretive and imagination," and third, "the

pkying, drew applause several truits of tnc spirit."

times from the audience.

ata, and why he had chosen for his
program the * "Moonlight," the
"Waldstein," and the "Appassion-
ata" sonatas.

"The sonata did not begin with
Beethoven," he explained, "anv
more than the fugue began with
Bach or the nocturne with Chopin,
but in the sonata of Beethoven we
find an extension, an increased
spiritual value which the earlier
sonatas of Haydn and Mozart
lack." The three Beethoven selec-
tions Mr. Hutcheson chose to play
are representative of Beethoven's
compositions and are well-known.

In some introductory remarks to
the sonata in C-sharp minor, pop-
ularly known as the "Moonlight
Sonata," Mr. Hutcheson declared
that it had "as much to do with
moonlight as it has to do with cold
tea."

The second selection played by
Mr. Hutcheson, the sonata in C
major, or "Waldstein Sonata," is

In conclusion, he said: "We find
.i scholarship impassioned, imagina-

In the reception tollowmg the livc% nrrd sp i r i Uia | 1/cd constitutes

recital, the musician was accom- the indispensable basis for the

panied in the receiving line by Miss truest leadership and the fullest

Emma May Laney, faculty chair- scr% ' ,cc -

r \ y a I)r - Haves was introduced by

man of the Lecture Association; n,,,L c< i , r i i i

9 Kuth black, president of the local

Dr. J. R. McCain, and Margaret chapter. An academic procession
Hopkins, student chairman. Mrs. () f student and faculty Mortar
C. W . Dicckmann and Mrs. Lewis Board members preceded the pro-
Johnson poured at the coffee table. gram.

The Agnes Scott News

XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1940

Z115

No. 11

VOL.

Journalist
Lectures Here

Douglas S. Freeman
Talks on Biography

As its third speaker in the 1939-
40 series, the Lecture Association
will present Douglas Southall Free-
man, journalist, biographer, and
historian, January 2 5, at 8:30
P. M., in the Bucher Scott gym-
nasium. Using as his subject "Ad-
ventures in Biography," he will re-
count his experiences in writing
the life story of Robert E. Lee, a
biography which was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in 1935.

Mr. Freeman, a native of
Lynchburg, Virginia, received his
A.B. degree from Richmond Col-
lege and his Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University. He began his
newspaper career with the Times-
Dispatch in Richmond.

In 1911 he became secretary to
the Virginia Tax Commission. He
was promoted in 1913 to the asso-
ciate editorship of the Riclmiond
News -Leader, and in 1915 became
editor. He has been professor of
journalism at Columbia University
since 1936.

Mr. Freeman has been awarded
four honorary degrees and "The
Parchment of Distinction, " by the
New York Southern Society.

His other works include T/je
South to Posterity, a bibliography
of Civil War literature, Reports
On Virginia Taxation, Virginia
A Gentle Dominion, The Last
Parade, and other studies in Vir-
ginia and Confederate military his-
tory.

In celebration of the fiftieth an-
niversary of the college, the Lec-
ture Association invites the public
to the lecture without admission
charge.

By Elaine Stubbs

The majority of students prob-
ably know that numerous bulletin
boards are scattered over the cam-
pus, but how many know what
each one contains, and where each
is placed? No doubt everyone
reads the general bulletin board in
Buttrick, changed every morning
at 9 o'clock, and surely no hopeful
lassie ever passes the maid's office
without looking in at the list of
specials, telegraphs, and flowers!
But there are twelve other bulletin
boards in Buttrick, excluding those
in the class rooms, and another one
in Main.

For your information, there are
seven bulletin boards on the first
floor of Buttrick, two on the sec-
ond, one on the third, and three in
the post office. On first floor, the
three boards on the right side of
the south wing are overflowing
with offers of fellowships and an-
nouncements of contests open to
seniors. The fellowship offers come
from such schools as Northwestern,
Radcliffe, Vanderbilt, and the
Washington University School of
Medicine, while the contests vary
from fashion stories to essays on
"What Insurance Has Done for
Me."

The two boards on the left side

Henry Names
Committees

Ann Henry, president of the
junior class, announced Friday the
various committees for the junior
banquet, which will be held in
Rebekah Scott dining room Febru-
ary 17.

The committees are: Decora-
tions, Nina Broughton, chairman,
Dorothy Peteet, Virginia Williams,
and Susan Self; Dates, Florence
Ellis, chairman, and Val Nielsen;
Invitations, Louise Musser, chair-
man, MolJy Oliver, and Ellen
Gould; Place Cards, Mary Bon Ut-
terback, chairman, and Anne Mar-
tin; Seating, Elizabeth Barrett,
chairman, and Ida Jane Vaughn;
Entertainment, Ethelyn Dyar,
chairman, and Louise Sams.

The banquet will be followed by
a reception in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building sponsored by Mortar
Board. Neither the decoration
scheme nor the orchestra have been
definitely "decided upon.

College Musicians
Join With Emory

As a feature of the University
Center plan, the Agnes Scott
String Ensemble, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Christian W. Dieck-
mann, professor of music, and the
Emory Symphony Orchestra will
combine this quarter to present a
concert.

The director of the Emory Sym-
phony, Dr. Malcolm Dewey, has
not yet announced the exact date
of the concert. However, the ap-
proximate date has been set near
the end of February or the first of
March.

contain lists of faculty offices, a
list of every subject, with its re-
spective room and teacher, try-out
rules, the year's radio programs,
and, unfortunately, the names of
the members of the Christmas
Carol choir.

The most outstanding alteration
in the chain of bulletin boards is
the moving of the official bulletin
board from the hall in Main to the
new board outside the electives
committee room. On this board are
posted the classification of stu-
dents, the regulations of cuts and
absences, and the ineligible lists.

The three boards on the second
and third floors are filled with
conference schedules for freshman
English, while many and varied
are the uses of the three boards in
the post office. At present the
C. A. board is concerned with race
relations, while the general bulletin
board includes anything from
railroad schedules to a letter asking
students to join a debtors' union.

At this time the bulletin board on
first floor Main contains practical-
ly the same lists that are on the
new official board, but gradually,
different kinds of announcements
will be posted there.

Entire College
Faces Camera

Dr. J. R. McCain has asked that
the entire college community, in-
cluding the student body, faculty,
and administrative officers, assem-
ble on the quadrangle immediately
after chapel Friday for an all-col-
lege photograph. He stated that
the photographs would be taken
principally for a campaign booklet,
but added that they would be put
on sale for approximately seventy-
five cents each.

Mr. Roy D. Young, who will
take the pictures with a revolving
camera, took similar ones in 1937.

C.A. Retreats
To Discuss Plans

Opening with a devotional by
Sam Olive Griffin concerning the
"Essentials of True Service,"
Christian Association held its win-
ter retreat Saturday afternoon and
night at the home of Miss Carrie
Scandrett, dean of students. Kath-
erine Patton, president, stated that
"the rest of the afternoon was
spent in evaluating last quarter's
program in light of the needs of
the campus, and in determining
ways of more adequately meeting
those needs in the second 18 quarter."

At night, the cabinet held a
more detailed discussion of each ac-
tivity, especially stressing the more
outstanding events of the new
quarter. Heading the list of plans
were those for religious week,
which lasts from February 13-17.
The speaker this year is Dr. Roswell
C. Long, of Greenwood, South
Carolina. When asked to comment
on him, Grace Walker, secretary,
said, "He's different."

The introduction of open forums
twice a month comes as a change
this quarter, the first one taking
place Friday night. The subjects
of the discussions will center
around the theme, "Forces Which
Influence Us Almost Unconscious-
ly." Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar,
has been asked to lead the discus-
sion Friday night.

The cabinet also discussed new
vespers and chapel programs, and
made plans to include more girls
in social service activities which
were begun last quarter, such as:
entertainment of the patients at
Scottish Rite Hospital on Saturday
afternoons, visiting homes in the
vicinity of the Moore Memorial
Chapel on Sunday afternoons, and
work in the Decatur Welfare Of-
fice.

Baptist Students
Attends B.S.U. Social

Agnes Scott Baptist students
will be among those attending the
city-wide B. S. U. social to be held
tomorrow night at 7:30 at the
First Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Representatives from Georgia Tech,
Emory, Oglethorpe, the School of
Commerce, and other institutions
will also be present.

The Agnes Scott and Emory
councils will alsp meet together
this afternoon on this campus to
hear Mr. William Preston, southern
B. S. U. secretary. After hjs dis-
cussion, the students will have
dinner in the tea house.

HON. HUGH GIBSON

Hugh Gibson
Speaks at Emory

Diplomat Discusses
Current Events in Europe

Third in the Emory Lecture
Series, the Honorable Hugh Gib-
son, will speak on the subject,
"What's Happening in Europe," in
the Glenn Memorial Auditorium at
8:30 o'clock tonight.

Mr. Gibson has had a long and
varied career in the diplomatic
field, culminating in the posts of
Minister of Poland and Switzer-
land and Ambassador to Belgium
and Brazil.

After serving with Herbert
Hoover in his war relief work, Mr.
Gibson himself became Director of
the Commission for Relief in Bel-
gium.

Few men have been so intimate-
ly connected with the swift flow
of world events. During the sum-
mer of 1939 Mr. Gibson visited
every European country of impor-
tance and interviewed the person-
alities who control present-day
history. At the outbreak of the
Second World War he was one of
the Americans who broadcast
news from London to this country.

Radio Program
Dramatizes
New Building

The second step in the history of
Agnes Scott's growth will be the
subject of the college broadcast
this afternoon at 5 o'clock over
WSB. Laura Sale, as narrator, will
introduce the play, "The New
Building." As last week, the cast
will include students in the spoken
English department at Agnes Scott
and members of the Emorv Radio
Guild.

Last week's presentation told of,
"A School for Decatur." The
script, written by Miss Roberta
Winter, assistant professor of
spoken English, dramatized the
founding of the college by Dr.
Frank P. Gaines and Mr. George
W. Scott.

Taking part on the program
were Laura Wood Sale, '41, as nar-
rator; Elizabeth Barrett, Eugenia
Bridges, Mary Dean Lott, Jackie
Illma Stearns, Barker Bedingfield,
Jim Hardin, Bill Hinson, and John
Kerman. Clifford Stodghill, presi-
dent of the Emory Guild, assisted
Miss Winter in the direction, and
Manning Flaum was in charge of
sound effects. Martha Crowe, '27,
was the voice of Agnes Scott.

Council Forms
Plans for
New Quarter

Committee Initiates
Mimeograph Campaign,
Stresses Youth Movement

New plans for Student Govern-
ment Association this quarter in-
clude a campaign for a new mimeo-
graph machine and a series of
chapel programs on youth move-
ment, it was- announced Friday.

In regard to the mimeograph
plan, Henrietta Thompson, presi-
dent, stated: "Since the mimeo-
graph machine is used by all or-
ganizations, this is a particularly
worthwhile campaign. Pledges from
each student will be asked, and all
clubs will pledge to the campaign."

The youth movement programs
will begin with a discussion next
week of N. S. F. A., the association
with which Agnes Scott is affiliat-
ed. These programs will not be
given every Thursday, but will be
given from time to time during the
quarter.

President Thompson also said
that there would be a student
meeting in chapel Friday at which
the critical slips taken up last week
will be discussed. Student Govern-
ment is going to tell why some
things are as they are and cannot
be changed, and also some of the
possible remedies. These plans ana 1
criticisms will go to the adminis-
trative committee meeting in Jan-
uary.

Alumna Participation
Marks Festival

A climax to the semi-centennial
celebration, the May Day program
this year will be different from the
usual festival, with the addition of
alumnae to the cast of characters.
The afternoon of Saturday, May 4,
has been announced as the date for
the performance.

Boxes for May Queen nomina-
tions will be placed in Buttrick
Hall, January 25 and 26. The
election will Jpe held one week
later.

Pat Reasoner has been selected
business manager for the May Day
Committee.

Coming This Week

Wednesday, 5 P. M.
Radio Program.

Wednesday, 8:30 P. M.
Hugh Gibson at Emory.

Thursday, 7 P. M.
German Frolic.

Friday, 10:30 A. M.
All - College Photograph
Taken on Quadrangle.

Friday, 3:30 P. M.
Basketball Game.

Saturday, 10 A. M.
Phi Beta Kappa An-
nouncements in Chapel.

Saturday, 8:30 P. M.
Kirsten Flagstad in All-
Star Concert Series.

Bulletin Boards
Furnish Varied Topics

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940

Seniors, Sophs Win
Opening Games

Slack Leads Senior with 13 Goals;
Champion Sophs Defeat Frosh 28-12

Martin

Two spirited games between the
juniors and seniors and freshmen
and sophomores heralded the open-
ing of the 1940 basketball season.
The seniors -
fought the
juniors to a L
42 to 34 vie- [
tory, and the
s o phomores,
repeating their
success of last
season, swamp-
ed a scrappy
freshman
squad, 28 to
12.

The senior-junior game began
with a scoring spree led by Ruth
Slack, who shot up fourteen
straight points in the first quarter.
The combination of Slack, Carson,
and Milncr clicked perfectly, and
these three forwards made a total
of twenty-four points in the first
half. The junior forwards, Stubbs,
Fisher, and Dyar, exhibited excel-
lent passing tactics, and had scored
eighteen points at the end of the
half. In the second half, both
teams settled down to hard work,
and kept close together until the
seniors finally got ahead and made
18 points to defeat the juniors, who
made 16 points in the last half.
Leading the scoring for the seniors
was Slack with a total of 13 goals,
followed by Milncr with five, and
Carson with three. Stubbs and

Fisher were responsible for seven
goals each, and Dyar, three.

The sophomore-freshman game
showed that the sophomore team
has not lost any of the precision
and teamwork that made it out-
standing last season. The new
freshman team shows considerable
promise of being a top team with a
ittle more practice, and was able
to score 12 points against the
sophomores' 28. The sophomore of-
fense, led by Dot Webster, Alta
Webster, and Mary Olive Thomas,
overcame the opposition of the
freshmen. Alta Webster scored
five goals and one free shot, Dot
Webster made five goals, Mary
Olive Thomas made two and one
freeshot, and Jessie MacGuire made
one goal.

The line-ups were: freshmen
L. Cummings, A. Eagan, N. Percy,
forwards; C. Rountree, B. Bates,
M. Dale, guards.

Sophomores: D. Webster, A.
Webster, M. O. Thomas, forwards;
M. D. Lott, B. A. Brooks, D.
Hasty, guards.

Juniors: E. Stubbs, A. Fisher, E.
Dyar, forwards; S. Wilds, B. Kend-
rick, V. Williams, guards.

Seniors: V. Milner, R. Slack, H.
Carson, forwards; H. Thompson,
P. Ware, J. Moses, guards.

Substitutes: freshmen A. Frier-
son, B. Moore; sophomores G.
Currie, B. Bradfield, J. MacGuire,
A. Gellerstedt.

Educators Cite
Future Musts

"The college of tomorrow must
insist on the spiritual connotations
# of education. Educators dare not
think of education as making an
appeal to the intellect only, nor
dare they think of the intellect as
something separate and distinct
from the functional needs of man-
kind. The emotional, the volition-
al, the aesthetic and religious life
of the individual must be cultivat-
ed quite as much as the intellect."
Dr. H. J. Burgstahler, Ohio Wes-
leyan University president, puts up
a guide post on education's road
of progress.

Ph.D. Not Necessary

"It is not at all essential that a
college teacher should have reached
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
in his university course of studv.
What is essential is that he should
have a sound and scholarly com-
prehension of the subject matter of
that which he is to teach, as well
as skill and tact in its interpreta-
tion to younger and less developed
minds. The high degree of special-
ization in study to which the doc-
tor of philosophy has become ac-
customed is precisely that which is
to be avoided in college teaching."
Nicholas Murray Butler, famed
president of Columbia University,
asks that professors be teachers as
well as scholars.

Women Need Hobbies

"The institution where women

Come to
HARRIS PHARMACY

Ohio University
Students

Add to Slanguage

New Slang Department: These
are the latest slang definitions de-
veloped by Ohio State University
students:

Campus glamor boy male with
S 5 ; campus glamor girl co-ed
with a late model car; dive any
place with a neon sign, an orches-
tra and a college boy; swing or-
ganized disorganization; friend
anybody who will loan you money;
acquaintance anyone who has
loaned you money; civilization a
collection of modern inconven-
iences. (ACP)

study must make careful provision
for the stimulation of. interest of
permanent rather than passing
value. It must excite in young
women an interest in books, so
that their lives will be refreshed by
good reading; it must encourage
them to cultivate a hobby to which
they can turn when perhaps their
children are grown. It must also
give them an intelligent apprecia-
tion of art and music, not as 'fe-
male accomplishments' but as vig-
orous interests of a lifetime." Wil-
son College's President Paul S.
Savens lucidly outlines the aims of
the woman's college. (ACP)

NSFA Considers
World crisis

Delegates Convene
During Xmas Holidays

How can U. S. college and uni-
versity students face the present
world crisis?

With this question as their para-
mount problem, 200 National Stu-
dent Federation of America dele-
gates from all corners of the nation
met at the University of Minneso-
ta to devote a portion of their holi-
day vacation to a discussion of
their mutual problems.

Relegating to second place such
usual NSFA convention topics as
the honor system and campus elec-
tion problems, the delegates set to
work to reconcile their divergent
viewpoints on how to keep Amer-
ica out of war.

Support Neutrality

Resolutions passed only after
stormy debate called upon the
United States to strengthen its
neutrality legislation by withhold-
ing war materials and economic
and financial aid from warring na-
tions.

Most hectic parliamentary strug-
gle of the session was precipitated
by a resolution calling upon col-
leges and universities to divide all
student offices into major and
minor classifications and to re-
munerate those students holding
major offices.

Pay S. G. Officers?

Proponents of the measure stated
that it was needed to remedy the
inequalities of remuneration for
student leaders that exist in most
campuses. They pointed out that
student body presidents usually do
as much work as the college news-
papers editors, yet the former are
seldom paid. An equally determined
group insisted that payment of
student government officers would
foster still more politics in campus
elections. When the question was
put, the delegates split SS-5 5.
After a skirmish of motions and
amendments that sent NSFA presi-
dent Mary Jeanne McKay rushing
to the organization's constitution,
a roll-call of member colleges was
taken that resulted in the resolu-
tion being defeated 6 5-5 5.

Most of the delegates' time was
spent in attending 16 round-table
discussions on such subjects as
'The Structure of Student Gov-
ernment," "Orientation System,"
and "Student, Faculty and Admin-
istrative Relations." Recommenda-
tions coming out of these confer-
ences included adoption of the
honor system where it is feasible
and where the student body has ex-
pressed a positive desire for its in-
stallation; the establishment of
student-faculty committees to work
for increased informal social rela-
tions between these two campus
groups; creation of student corn-
All Parents Are Welcome to
Stay With Us.

HOTEL CANDLER

Students Compete
For Orchestra Parts

All Agnes Scott students under
2 5 years of age are eligible to com-
pete for positions in the 109-piece
ail-American youth orchestra which
Leopold Stokowski will take on a
good-will tour of Central and
South America this winter, accord-
ing to D. B. Lasseter, state admin-
istrator of the National Youth Ad-
ministration for Georgia.

Students wishing to apply may
do so by letter to Mr. Lasseter at
the N. Y. A. office, 10 Forsyth
Street Building^ Atlanta. All en-
tries must be in by February 1.

Mr. Stokowski and the N. Y. A.
will arrange preliminary auditions
in six or eight central cities over
the United States. The conductor
himself plans to arrange transpor-
tation to New York or some other
central point for those who are
recommended. He also states that
he may charter a special boat for
the trip.

All young people will be eligible
in this contest, the primary re-
quirements of which are experience
and quality.

Glee Club Practices
For Spring Operetta

The Glee Club held its second
quarter try-outs last week, admit-
ting nine new members. They
are Jo Ella Craig, Margery Gry,
Julia Moseley, Elise Nance, Mar-
garet Ratchford, Nina May Snead,
Mabel Stowe, Betty Wade, and Dot
Wheeler.

This spring the club will present
another gay Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta, lolanthe or The Peer and
the Peri. Practice has already be-
gun for the performance.

mittees on the curriculum to work
in cooperation with similar faculty
committees; and the standardiza-
tion of compulsory activity fees to
enable student governing groups to
effectively plan their activities in
advance.

To aid small schools in obtaining
good speakers, the NSFA was urged
to establish a lecture bureau. It
was stated that commercial lecture
bureaus are only interested in "big
names," and that they charge pro-
hibitive fees. (ACP)

Interviewer Tells
Journalists of
Gable, Lombard

Carole Lombard and Clark
(Rhett Butler) Gable happened
not to be the only interesting pas-
sengers aboard the plane that
brought the two stars from Nash-
ville, Tennessee, to Atlanta for the
grand premiere of Gone With the
Wind. Miss Betty Mathis, Consti-
tution reporter and former .Agnes
Scott student, was selected as one
of the three Atlanta press represen-
tatives to travel via plane with the
famed couple.

Returning to Agnes Scott to ad-
dress KUB members, Miss Mathis
gave a delightful picture of the two
stars. She described Miss Lombard
as "far prettier in person than on
the screen," and Clark Gable as
"greying at the temples, but per-
fectly charming." She added that
both are very much interested in
southern customs, in other people,
and incidentally in each other.

"Mr. Gable," she continued, "in-
quired about cotton prices, the
negro, and his favorite hobby,
hunting."

Miss Lombard, she said, wanted
to know if the elaborate parties
given during pre-war days still
were in vogue.

According to Miss Mathis, Clark
Gable is extremely modest. "I
haven't done anything so wonder-
ful," she quotes him as saying. "I
just did my job, which happens to
be acting. And if I did it well, so
what? I get paid for it."

Dark Woman Visits Frolic

Fortune telling by a mysterious
dark woman will be only a part of
the entertainment offered at the
German Frolic Thursday, January
18, at 7 o'clock, in the Murphey
Candler Building. The frolic is
sponsored by German Club for ben-
efit of the campus campaign. Ad-
mission is 10c.

Welcome Back
Girls

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1940

3

Eloise Lennard checks

After Hours

It has always been said that the
social season is a pre-Christmas af-
fair. As far as we can see, it's a
year-round proposition, with no
let-ups.

This past week, the SAE's at
Emory held the limelight. They
gave their
annual
formal
at the
Piedmont
Dii v ing
Club. Lib
Barrett, |
Charlene
Burke,
Keeker
Newton,

Gray Lennard

Hollis, Marian Franklin, Margaret
Hamilton, Sara Copeland, Eliza-
beth Jenkins, Florrie Guy, Val
Nielsen, Frances Butt, Betty Waitt,
Annie Wilds, Bizelle Roberts, Nina
Mae Snead, Martha Dunn, Weezie
Sams, Frances Ellis, and Carolyn
Alley were among those there.

Holding a great deal of attrac-
tion for the girls this week was the
Rainbow Roof at the Ansley.
Seen there at various times were
Sue Phillips, Helen Jester, Elaine
Stujbbs, Betty Jean O'Brien, Dusty
Hance, Charlene Burke, Grace
Elizabeth Anderson, Anne Martin,
Betsy Banks, Annette Franklin,
Iddy Boone, Harriet Vaughn, Jean
Dennison, Eloise Lennard, and Mar-
ian Franklin.

Lib Barrett had as her guest over
the week-end Margaret Roper,
from Brenau. Lib also went to the
Phi Delta Theta buffet supper
Sunday night.

Esthere Ogden spent the week-
end in Cartersville, while Louise
Franklin was in Marietta. Qthers
off-campus were Nancy Hirsch,
Dot Holloran, Helen Hale, and
Shirley Gately. In Alabama were
Gary Home and Ellen Stuart.

Campus Queen Scene: Pick-
ing up the 1940 spirit, Evelyn
Watson stepped off to town Sat-
urday in a chartreuse and brown
striped dress, with a short leopard
jacket.

Little Men
Protect Interests

'The Little Man Who Wasn't
There" is here, and here to stay
at least if Shikey Bard has anything
to say about it. While busily en-
gaged in research for a term paper
in history at Yeshiva College Bard
noticed in the text which he was
using that Napoleon had nothing
on him as far as height is con-
cerned. Going back to the original
sources, Shikey found in a text
that not only were he and Napo-
leon not around when the extra
inches were handed out, but neither
were John Paul Jones, Chopin,
Beethoven, Keats, Milton, nor
Michelangelo.

Having thus justified the exist-
ence of his microscopic brethren,
Bard has assumed the task of or-
ganizing these concentrated dyna-
mos into one organization. The
main purpose of this society is to
insure the little fellows protection
from being trampled underfoot.

This "fraternity of the Little
Fellow," as it has been named, has
for its raison d'etre the fact that
the world which has had quantity
for its standard must in the near
future seek a new norm of quality.
And who is a better representative
of this new concept than the "Lit-
tle Fellow," says Bard. The "Little
Man Who Wasn't There" has sent
a call to colors to all collegians who
have stature not exceeding 5 feet
4. Bard hopes that since all "Little
Fellows" are close to the ground
they will be able to create a saner
society, for unlike their long-
legged brothers they will create
conceptions which are "down to
earth."

The motto adopted by the mite-y
atoms is "By your feats shall ye be
judged, not by your feet."-
(ACP)

Gallaudet College (Washington,
D. C.) is the only college for the
deaf in the world.

Miami University tests have
proven that men have more rhythm
than women.

On the University of Califor-
nia's new geological clock, one
second represents the passage of
50,000 years.

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A college for women that is widely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

Syracuse Plans
Curriculum Study

Designed to give students a voice
in the conduct of their courses and
the method of presentation of sub-
ject matter, a five-man student
committee has been appointed by
the men's student government of
Syracuse University to hear and
correlate all suggestions, inquiries,
and complaints and present them
to the proper administrative au-
thorities.

Suggestions for improvement of
subject matter or classroom presen-
tation and complaints against texts
or instructors will be handled by
the committee, to be known as the
suggestion and inquiry committee.
Petty or insincere complaints will
be disregarded. Students must sub-
mit their suggestions or complaints
in writing to the committee. All
communications must be signed,
but the signatures will not be made
known to any but the committee.
Material will go to the deans of
the respective colleges, or to ad-
ministrative officers, unsigned, ac-
cording to the plan. CACP)

Hazel Solomon sifts

Exchanges

With the beginning of the New
Year, college seniors quite natur-
ally begin to think about the eter-
nal question: "After June, what
then?" They wonder if they will
be career girls, and, if so, how they
will go about getting jobs. To help
seniors face these perplexing prob-
lems, a number of schools have es-
tablished vocational advisory serv-
ice. The service at Alabama Col-
lege, Montevallo, Alabama, will
carry on research to study the "em-
ployment needs in the state, and
. . . the facilities for meeting those
needs, and . . . the opportunities
for training to fill the jobs avail-
ably." This research will be con-
ducted on a state-wide basis and
will keep its information up-to-
date.

This service will bring together
the job and the trained woman
worker in a socially useful way,
tending to reduce unemployment.

At Denton, Texas, where Texas
State College for Women is located,
students attended a vocational ad-
vice clinic last week. The purpose
of the clinic was to help students
who "have no idea of the profes-
sions they want to enter or those
who are uncertain of the wisdom
of the choice they have already
made."

THREADGILL
PHARMACY
Phone DE. 1665
309 E. College Avenue
Decatur, Ga.

NOTICE

AGNES SCOTT
This is your drug- store.

WELCOME

from the NEW

PIG'N WHISTLE

A Delightful Place to
Entertain Your Friends

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Well! Well! Happy New Year!
There's no need to be trite and ask
you all whether you had an enjoy-
able vacation, for if you did you'd
say "Yes," and if you didn't, you'd
say "Yes,"
J just to stay
''in the
| ' groove"
I so there,
I too. It
| seems vaca-
1 t i o n s are
I something
I you look
i forward to
and c r y
over until
you get some more of. That acute
thought must originally have come
from Plato or at least Sophocles,
don't you?

Let's get down to brass tacks.
Or carpet tax. Or income tax.
Or even let's bring out into the
open that senior public skeleton
No. 1. Haven't you heard? Mr.
Stukcs has, and commented in his
astuke way, "I know some of you
have everything settled for next
year, but," he said, and a down-
hearted and sympathetic expression
covered his kindly countenance, "I
understand there are not as many
as usual!"

"And oh for the sight of a ring not
the phone's,

And oh for the wedding march
thrills!"

In the dark recesses of the
science hall lurk many deep and
hidden secrets, which call forth
from the various personalities in
the science sanctum sanctorum
numerous chortles and chuckles.
Mrs. Fox upon urging will tell of
the four "unforgivable sins" of
laboratory procedure which she
carefully wrote on the board, and
verbally impressed upon the listen-
ing students of Chemistry 101, and
then- one ready,' willing, and mis-
guided freshman proceeded to care-
fully and completely violate each
and every one! And then there
wa.s the time in class when Mr.
Holt asked for an ordinary, every-
day, familiar example of a solution
of a liquid, and Margaret Smith
automatically responded with, "Al-
cohol in water." And was she in
a pickle!

Our revered instructors are by
no means as antiquated and uncon-
scious as some of the students (?)
seem to think. Witness Miss Dex-
ter's reference to a slightly grimy
infant perambulating over the
floor as "an animated mop," and
likewise, upon the recent un-
happy occasion of Miss Albright's
setting forth of a pop quiz, when
one frustrated freshman handed in
her paper with "Oh, nerts" there-
unto ascribed, the unnonplussed
teacher returned the paper with
"Misspelling" written upon it . .

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SCHOOL OF NURSING

DURHAM, N. C.

The Diploma of Graduate Nurse is
awarded after three years, and the
Decree of Bachelor of Science in
Nursing for two additional years of
approved college work before or
after the course in Nursing. The
entrance requirements are intelli-
gence, character and graduation
from an accredited high school.
After 1940 two years of college
work will be required. The annual
tuition of $100 covers the cost of
uniforms, books, student govern-
ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli-
cation forms and information about
college requirements may be ob-
tained from the Admission Com-
mittee.

Mortar Board
Honors Freshmen

Chapter Plans Tea

For Day Students, Parents

A play directed and presented by-
Alice Cheeseman highlighted the
entertainment at the annual Mor-
tar Board parties for freshman
boarding students January 14 and
15. The rest of the program in-
cluded games and proms.

The committees for the par-
ties were: refreshments, Eleanor
Hutchens; invitations, Evelyn
Baty, Margaret Hopkins, Sophie
Montgomery; entertainment, Kath-
erine Patton, Henrietta Thompson,
Carolyn Forman; decorations, Jane
Moses; dates, Ruth Slack, Lutie
Moore.

Mortar Board plans to entertain
the freshman day students and
their parents at a tea in February.

The date lists for the boarder
parties, composed of boys from
Emory, Georgia Tech, Columbia
Seminary, Decatur, and Atlanta in-
cluded:

For Monday night: Stanley
Hastings, Bobby Kilian, Ed Mar-
tin, Red O'Neal, Charlie Quillian,
Bill Shealey, Charlie Uhl, Jim
Whaley, Jimmy Wilson, Harry
Crider, Ray Miller, Newton Jones,
Frank Legg, Bob Barrett, Frank
| Aldred, Jack Darbey, Arthur
Bishop, Fairfield Manget, Pat Sow-
ell, Lewis Culver, T. L. Johnson,
Billy Alford, Harold Barnwell,
Tommy Bixler, Ben Blue, Dan
Burge, Steadman Burgess, Jimmy
Cook, A. B. Dennis, John Funke,
Finley Garvin. Eddie Gazelle,
Frank Hardman, Paul Hartsfield,
James Mackay, Jimmie Wilder,
Tom Whiting, Jay Cumbaa, Vance
Baron, AI Bixler, Benny Moore,
Davis Bornet, A. C. Tweed, Walter
Cottingham, Ed Green, Marcellus
Steadman, Barnes Sale, Dave Den-
nison, Leland Mackay, Bill Pinder-
grass, Joe Carver, Charles Carver,
Barton McCrumm, Cecil White,
Jim Tilly, Pierce Allgood, Count
Gibson, John Loftis, Jimmie
Rhodes, Bill McCord, Bill Mc An-
drews, Raleigh Sutton, Franklin
Smith, James Todd, John Lewis,
Billy Craig, Ashley Byrd, Wade
Huie, Bill Lemon, Carrekar Pas-
chal, Fred Walker, Archie Tolbert,
Billy Greer, Doug Hanelime, Henry
Harris, Ben Freeman, and Searcy
Slack.

And for Tuesday night: Warren
Taylor, Jim Harris, Joe Boyer,
Billy MacGuire, Vernard Robert-
son, Joe Beutell, Ned Iverson, Don
Bailey, Jan Stalker, Bill Marquess,
Bill Owens, Julian Weaver, James
Duke, Bobby Schulze, Alf Cross-
well, Lynn Shipman, Alec Orman,
Charles Sill, Aubrey Taffar, Lau-
ritz Jaeobson, Warren McLain,
Roy Grizzell, John Birdsall, Paul
Birdsall, Erwin Jenkins, Tom Tal-
madge, Raymond Griffin, Bob Hag-
gart. Jack Bodenhamer, Jim Bod-
enhamer, Ed Garner, Gene Powell,
David (avan. Bill Tuck, Gordon
Bailey, Jim Asher, Lewis Estes,
Floyd Sanders, Russell Melbourne,
Bob Kruger, Blair Crocker, Elmer
Enlow, Bion Enlow, James Nelson,
Albert Cox, Josiah Clegg, George
Cress, Jack Crown, Lang Elliot,
Henderson Traylor, Edward Owen,
Jim Scanlon, Leroy Cotting, Al-
bert Riley, Charles Carter, Joe Aiz-
purn, Bob Bourough, John Carvey,
John Bannister, Herbert Fernandy,
Harold Couch, Lacy Arnold, Harry
Bell, Alvin Matson, Norman Drap-
er, John Spitko, Ian Bell, Bobby
Gibbs, Durwood Sims, E. 1.. Scan-
berry, Joe Stubbins, Ed Wilkes,
H. W. Bronson, Jimmy Malone,
Don Leslie, Steve Olen, Searcy
Slack, Bob Oster, and Bill Stead.

For your dearest friends,
the most personal of all gifts
is your portrait it's thought-
ful it is you.

Norton's Studio

ROGERS STORE

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940

Campus Camera

Feminine Rdotballer

JUANITA M c CPllrOF PARIS (TEXAS)
JUNIOR COLLEGE ACTUALLY PLAYS
WITH THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM
JHE SPECIALIZES IN PL^CEKlCKINiG AND
IS USED FOR CONVERTING EXTRA POINTS,
FOR FIELD GOAL KICKING, AND AT TIMES
HANDLES THE KlCKOFF ASSIGNMENT/

HERMAN
GLANDEK

HAS BEEN
THE "CAMPUS
COP* AT THE
UNIV. OF
MINNESOTA

FOR 31
YEARS AND
HAS MISSED
ONLY ONE-
FOOTBALL GAME
DURING THAT

' TIME /

^EMIDJI (MINN.) STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
IS THE COLDEST SCHOOL IN THE COUttTW.
TEMPERATURES OFTEN GET BELOW -40
AND -50 IS NOT UNUSUAL /

The News publishes another

Letter to the Editor

In a verv few days the Mortar Board
of Agnes Scott will be host to a group of
boys drawn for the most part from Em-
ory and Georgia Tech. Each year such
parties are given; their purpose is admit-
tedly that of "meeting the freshmen."

For a good many years now I have been
extended and have accepted these kind
invitations. I have attended; I have in-
variably had a good time, for the girls
are dressed in their best (and the best is
plenty good), while there is generally-
planned entertainment during most of the
evening. I have always come away with
the memory of a few hours on your at-
tractive campus and several new friends
among the members of your newest class.

If this be termed "closer cooperation,"
I'm for it!

But a little reflection invariably brings
out a few deeper feelings on the subject;
the perhaps embarrassing question "why?"
enters and becomes associated with the
other theme.

Blame it on peculiar methods of be-
queathing money CO the school; dismiss it
with the explanation that the school is
dedicated to the altar of learning in its
purest form; say that the girls arc neither
financially able nor socially creative (two
palpable falsehoods). Say what you will,
the fact remains that Agnes Scott has
fallen down on an obligation.

This debt is seen clearly in the invita-
tion to the freshmen parties through
whose good graces several congenial
friends are made by each girl starting
social life in this area. The four year
Agnes Scott girl hopes, I teel sure, to at-
tend spring dances, formals, fraternity
house dances; she hopes for hay rides
(which arc more popular wh.cn she can
stay off "campus" as a result), for din-
ner invitations, for just plain movies in
short, good times with boys.

let us say that these things come: the
boys try to make themselves pleasant for

the evening and sometimes succeed. The
girl tries too usually with greater success.

But the boy does the inviting, takes
the pains of decorating his fraternity
house, sees that his car is in good order,
plans for the orchestra, food, special
guests, and digs a lot deeper than he
should to pay for the special event.

Isn't it about time that Agnes Scott as
a school had an awakening? Cooperation
between men and women should mean
that both sides give as well as take. 'While
the company of the local high school girls
is seldom inspiring especially if they are
given opportunities to indulge to the full-
est their meagre powers of conversation
they habitually give dances and parties to
which the college boys come as appreciated
and appreciating guests.

The Agnes Scott "spirit" provides or
such is my impression for sins of omis-
sion and commission. Is it designed as a
barrier to the social education which en-
tertaining provides? Make it work for you
rather than, if the answer is affirmative,
against you, for the only path to educa-
tion lies not with Saturday classes alone!

Divide yourselves on certain lines best
known to you state groups, dormitory
groups, cultural groups. Organize a little,
plan a little, and then invite out these
fellows who have been doing so much for
you for so long. If your faculty or trus-
tees find anything wrong in such a pro-
gram they're more narrow minded than J
think them.

Shakespeare has Hamlet observe to
Horatio that, "There are more things in
heaven and earth than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."

So likewise may it be said that there
is a whole lot more in this business of
"cooperation" than has as yet come to
the surface.

Sincerely yours,

A Graduate Student,
Emory University.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1940

No. 11

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphcy Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per
year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Dies Committee
May be Right

When Representative Martin Dies an-
nounced recently his intention of investi-
gating colleges and universities in his
search for un-American activities, forty-
five student editors protested in their col-
umns. The chief themes of the forty-five
editorials were:

1. Educational institutions are sacred,
and should be kept so against intrusion
and interference from the outside world.

2. The Dies Committee has proved it-
self useless and absurd.

In answer to the first of these theories,
it may be mentioned that educational in-
stitutions themselves make no effort to
shut out the rest of civilization. Student
groups labor year in and year out to exert
pressure on law-making bodies ; America's
junior journalists undertake to pass judg-
ment on every act of those who govern^
the world ; college and university commun-
ities have the protection of the law. It is
difficult for the pedestrian mind to under-
stand why education, in its turn, has no
responsibility outside its walls.

As for the Dies Committee, its efforts
have seemed sincere and its achievements
such as to justify its existence and con-
tinuance. Certainly it has opened many
an eye to the facts that there are definite-
ly planned forces working against the
present form of government in the United
States, and that all red here is not accom-
panied by white and blue.

It stands to reason that no student or-
ganization would object seriously to being
investigated for un-American activities
unless such activities were being fostered
within it. One of the greatest benefits of
the Dies Committee has been to reveal
where people stand, through their com-
ments on the committee.

So let the parlor pinks among American
students editorialize to their hearts' con-
tent. The rest of us will be glad to find
out who and where they are.

Hunt

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Marv Louise Dobbs Business Manager

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

"Are we un-American or not?" college stu-
dents are asking themselves as the Dies Commit-
tee plans to investigate campus activities. The
proposal has aroused fiery comment throughout
the country, as college ed-
itors expand on the dan-
gers of government inter-
ference or the need of
more supervision. Agnes
Scott speaks its mind on
the question this week:

Mary Jane Auld,
'43, says: "If un-Ameri-
can activities are going on
in colleges and universi-
ties, we, as American citi-
zens, should be interested
in their removal. This
should be done in a moderate procedure not a
drastic one which would cripple the educational
institution."

Lila Peck Walker, '42, thinks: " . . that not
enough students realize that un-American activi-
ties do exist. Everybody on an American campus
is entitled to his own opinion, but the Dies Com-
mittee can be a help in keeping those opinions
democratic."

Susanne Kaulbach, '42, says: The investi-
gation along the *lines the committee proposes
would hamper the progress of the institution. I
think they are treading on dangerous ground, be-
cause any investigation which would cause ? any
animosity toward the government on the part of
students of foreign descent would be very dan-
gerous. The Dies Committee has not yet done
enough constructive work in other cases to make
examination of colleges worth while."

Laura Sale, '41, thinks: '\ . . that it is hard
for college students to realize that un-American
activities are being carried on because in their
close association with activities on the campus
they lose the prospective of affairs in general.
However, the activities of the Dies Committee
have stimulated interest in such matters."

Stevenson

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Air Raid Signals

England and Germany pursue a tit-for-tat
policy in air warfare. England bombs the islands
of Sylt and Helgoland. Then German planes
patrol England's east coast on
a series of bright days from
Edinburgh to London.
Checkmate: the British pa-
trols fly the distance of the
North Atlantic over Bohemia
and Austria. The English
and German citizen begins to
go to bed with soberer
thoughts of mass bombings
in the near future.

Court Jester

G. B. S. loves to rile the British bourgeoisie,
and he has made several digs at British official-
dom since the war began. Last week, asked what
would happen if he ran the propaganda machine,
Shaw asserted in his best style: "I could invent
news to suit any event. And, what is more, the
news I invented would be true. Or it would come
true. I am professionally a man of imagination."
Strange Bedfellows

Italy's political conscience, awakened belatedly,
seems working overtime. Mussolini, who was cer-
tainly no good Samaritan for Poland, is searching
almost frantically for ways to get war supplies
to the Finns, even as Sweden, Denmark, or France.

With his war plane shipments across Germany
stopped by Hitler, friend Mussolini calls on friend
France to send Italian war material in Spain to
Finland. The Duce even counts on British co-
operation in transporting such goods.

Hitler's Headache

Hitler is colonizing the hinterlands of his
Fatherland, that is, planting Germans in a wide
belt between Bohemia and Moravia. And, more-
over, he has had removed from the hands of the
barbaric Slavs their laboratories and research ma-
terial. The blessings of Teutonic civilization have
included not only dead students and shut schools
but now, imprisoned teachers and newspapermen,
and closed libraries as well.
The American Menace

Unthinking Japanese are probably as sincere in
their fear of the "American menace" as their
foolish brothers-under-the-skin along the West
Coast are concerning the "yellow menace."

But the Japanese government is in a delicate
situation. Good relations with the United States
are needed for an unworried pursuit of peaceful
penetration into China. Yet the United States
is allowing its trade treaty with Japan to lapse
on January 26th as a mark of disapproval.

While the cabinet fails in an effort to pacify
the Americans, the Japanese navy protests a 25
per cent increase and new and bigger cruisers for
the United States navy, and threatens a naval
race.
Cave in

War relegates nearly all domestic news to ob-
scurity. It even minimized the worst mine dis-
aster of the last 10 years. This dreary tragedy of
the West Virginia coal fields ends with final pay
checks going out to survivors of 92 men.

Editorial Notes

Radio Program
Revives College Past

We print the letter from Emory on this
page as a courteous-and-to-the-point sug-
gestion. A step in the right direction,
Athletic Association's "cooperation" party
last Saturday night attracted a goodly
number from our neighboring institution
of learning. Don't let the good work stop
with A. A. and Mortar Board.

If you don't know who founded Agnes
Scott, and when, and where, and what
happened thereafter, it's time you listened
to the college broadcast on Wednesday aft-
ernoons at 5 o'clock over WSB. Today's
program marks the second in a series of
four designed to present in concise and
interesting dramatization the history of
our college.

Another academic procession will be in
order Saturday morning as the time comes
for the first Phi Beta Kappa announce-
ment for this year. No official speaker is
invited for that morning, but Douglas
Southall Freeman, our lecturer for Jan-
uary 25, will be considered also as Phi Beta
speaker.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940

Z1I5

No. 12

Al

umnae

Write

May Day Script
On Progress

Students Nominate Queen
In Voting This Week;
Election Begins February 1

Plans for the 1940 May Day
festival, under the auspices of the
alumnae association this year and
has been designed to come as the
climax to Agnes Scott's semi-cen-
tennial celebration, are progressing
rapidly as announcement comes
from Eloise Lennard, student chair-
man of the program, that the boxes
for nominations of May Queen will
be placed in the Gym on January
25 and 26. Election of May Queen
will come on February 1 and 2,
and the date for tryouts for the
May Court, to be definitely an-
nounced later, will follow the selec-
tion of the Queen.

The scenario for the pageant is
being written by a committee of
alumnae composed of Miss Mary
Ann Kernan, chairman; Miss Hor-
tense Jones, Miss Lita Goss, and
Mrs. Frank Sewell. The cast will
include fifty other A. S. C. alum-
nae and students, one representa-
tive from each year of the school's
life, beginning with the days of the
Seminary. Costumed to portray
the period which each represents,
these characters will be used to de-
velop the theme, dealing with % the
progress of women in education.

Miss Winter
Directs Broadcast

"The Agnes Scott Ideal," third
in the series of historical sketches
commemorating the semi-centen-
nial year of the college, will fur-
nish the theme of the weekly
broadcast over WSB this afternoon
at 5 o'clock.

Miss Roberta Winter, assistant
professor of speech, will direct the
program. Students of speech at
Agnes Scott, alumnae, and mem-
bers of the Emory Radio Guild
make up the cast.

Joos Ballet
Comes to Atlanta

A modern ballet, "The Big
City,'' composed by choreograph-
er-dancer Kurt Joos with music by
Alexander Tansman, will be one
of the high points in the entirely
original program offered by the
Joos Ballet at the Erlanger Theatre
in Atlanta, January 27, at 8:30
P. M.

The Joos Ballet is one of the
1939-40 series of concerts spon-
sored by the Atlanta Music Club.
The ballet is known for its mod-
ern interpretation of ancient leg-
ends and fairy tales. "The Seven
Heroes, ,, adapted from a fairy
tale by the Brothers Grimm, and
"The Prodigal Son," based on an
old legend, will form part of the
program here.

Phi Beta Kappa Elects

Miss Muriel Harn, professor of German and secretary of the local
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, announced in chapel Saturday that the fol-
lowing girls had been named members of Phi Beta Kappa: Evelyn Baty,
Birmingham, Alabama; Ruth Eyles, Atlanta; -Eva Ann Pirkle, Atlanta;
and Jane Salters, Florence, South Carolina.

Glee Clubs
Give 'Iolanthe'

Emory Shares in Singing
Of Fanciful Operetta

The Emory Little Symphony
Orchestra, under the baton of Dr.
Malcolm H. Dewey, director of
music at Emory University, will be
in the pit when the curtain goes
up on the Agnes Scott and Emory
Glee Club presentation of Gilbert
and Sullivan's operetta, "Iolanthe."
The cast of the operetta, under the
direction of Mr. Lewis H. Johnson,
teacher of voice at Agnes Scott, is
made up of members of the two
clubs. Tentative plans have been
made to engage a professional sing-
er experienced in the presentation
of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas
for the chief comic part, that of
the Lord High Chancellor. Two
performances, scheduled for the
last of March, will be given; one at
Agnes Scott and one the following
night at Emory.

"Iolanthe" is a whimsical, tune-
ful tale of a fairy who falls in love
with a mortal and is banished from
her place in the fairy queen's court.
The plot revolves around her at-
tempts to regain her lost position,
and the story presents many op-
portunities for the delightful,
catchy songs which make Gilbert
and Sullivan ever-popular.

Students Discuss
Campus Problems

The chapel meeting on January
25 will be taken up with a discus-
sion of all complaints turned in
by members of the student body
in response to the request made by
Student Government on January
11. The problem of obtaining a
new mimeograph machine for
Buttrick is still under considera-
tion.

Students are urged to make sug-
gestions as to topics for the open
forum scheduled for February 1.

On January 1 8 the student body
voted that all books accumulated
in the second hand book store
should be disposed of one year after
their owners' graduations, if they
have not been claimed by them.

Banquet Honors
New Members of
Phi Beta Kappa

With Dr. Douglas Southall
Freeman and the newly-elected
members of Phi Beta Kappa as
honor guests, the Agnes Scott
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will en-
tertain at its annual banquet on
Thursday, January 2 5, at 6 P. M.
in the Anna Young Alumnae
House. The Agnes Scott chapter,
which is Beta chapter of Georgia,
has invited all alumnae and faculty
members, besides many other dis-
tinguished guests. Miss Laura Col-
vin, Miss Catherine Torrance and
Miss Mamie Lee Ratliff are in
charge of arrangements.

The date of the banquet has
been changed this year so that Dr.
Freeman, who will be here to lec-
ture on Thursday night, may be
the principal speaker.

Southern Writer
Discusses Biography

Freeman Centers Talk on
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lee Story

Douglas Southall Freeman, historian and journalist, will
come to lecture tomorrow evening as one belonging peculiar-
ly to the South. Born in Virginia, Dr. Freeman has devoted
many years to a study of the history and problems of the
Southern states, and has recently published a bibliography
of Confederate literature. His lecture here, scheduled for
8:30 in the Bucher Scott gymnasium, will center around the
"Adventures in Biography" which he found in writing his
Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Robert E. Lee.

Dr. Freeman received his educa-
tion in the South, graduating from
Richmond College in Virginia. He
holds a Ph.D. degree from Johns
Hopkins and several honorary de-
grees from outstanding colleges
and universities. As editor of the
Richmond News Leader, and as
professor of journalism at Colum-
bia University, he has won recog-
nition for his ability in that field.

His interests have included a
wide range of national and south-
ern problems. He is a member and
trustee of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion and General Education Board,
a trustee of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace, and
president of the Southern Histori-
cal Society. Dr. Freeman has
demonstrated his particular inter-
est in Virginia by his work with
the Poetry Society of that state, as
a trustee of the Universities of
Richmond and Virginia, and as
historical consultant for Virginia
in the U. S. Department of the In-
terior.

Alabama College for Women at
Montevallo found Dr. Freeman of
particular interest when he lec-
tured there last April. Dr.' A. W.
Vaughan, head of the English de-
partment at that school, writes:
"We found Dr. Freeman a most
engaging speaker and delightful
guest. The lectures he delivered
here would, I do not doubt, be re-
ceived with great interest by any
The Atlanta Journal, in review-
ing the same book, said: "Mr. Free-
man's definitive biography of
'R. E. Lee' reveals him as a scholar
second to none in his field and this
engaging volume has at once au-
thority and grace."

A member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Dr. Freeman will be honor guest
at a banquet for the initiation of
the new members of the Agnes
Scott chapter immediately preced-
ing the lecture. There will, of
course, be no admission charge for
the lecture itself.

DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN

Dr. M. G. Gutzke
Opens C. A. Forum

Dr. M. G. Gutzke, professor of
theology at Columbia Seminary,
will be the leader of Christian As
sociation's Open Forum Friday aft-
ernoon, January 26, from 4:30 to
5:30 in Murphey Candler Building.

Dr. Gutzke spoke in chapel Jan-
uary 9. The interest aroused from
his talk on "The Cross in the
World of Today" has produced a
number of requests that he return
to the campus. He plans to de-
velop his theme further in his ap-
pearance at Open Forum.

Coming This Week

Thursday, January 21
Phi Beta Kappa Ban-
quet, Anna Young
Alumnae House at 6.00.
Dr. Douglas S. Freeman
lectures on Biography
in gymnasium at 8:30.

Friday, January 27 Bas-
ketball game in gym at
7:30.

Saturday, January 28
All-day meeting of Girl
Scout leaders.
Joos Ballet, Erlanger
Theatre, at 8:00 P. M.

Tuesday, January 31
Presidents' Council en-
tertains new students
at tea in Murphey
Candler Building at
4:30 P. M.

Organization Leaders
Acquaint Students
With Campus Activities

In an attempt to help new stu-
dents choose their extracurricular
activities, Presidents' Council has
invited all sponsors to bring their
sponsorees, including freshmen and
transfers, to a tea in the Murphey
Candler Building January 30, at
4:30 P. M.

The program, of which Louise
Sullivan is in charge, will in-
clude a brief discussion of the work
of each organization on the cam-
pus, and rules regarding the point
system will be explained.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940

Undefeated Teams Meet
On Court Friday

Dot Webster Leads Sophomores
As Week's Highest Scorer

Last Friday afternoon the seniors and sophomores re-
peated their previous successes by defeating the freshmen
and juniors in the second basketball games of the season.

The score in the senior-freshman game was 25 to 16, and

the freshmen showed

a vast im-
provement since the last game. For
the seniors, Virginia Milner scored
five goals and three free shots.
Ruth Slack made four goals, and
Helen Carson made two. Ann Ea-
gan, for the freshmen, shot four
goals, Ann Frierson scored three,
and Marjorie Wiesman scored one.

The sophomores made a score of
46 to the juniors' 30. High scorer
for the sophomores was Dot Web-
ster, with a total of 22 points.
Alta Webster made 10 points;
Carolyn Dunn, 10, and Annie
Wilds, 4. Ethelyn Dyar scored 16
points, Anne Fisher scored 8, and
Rowena Barringer 6.

Next week there will be games
between the seniors and sopho-
mores, juniors and freshmen. Line-
ups:

Forwards Seniors: Slack, Car-
son, Milner; freshmen: Eagan,
Percy, Frierson.

Guards Seniors: Thompson,
Ware, Moses; freshmen: Cordell,
Dale, Rountree.

Forwards Juniors: Dyar, Bar-
ringer, Fisher; sophomores, A.
Webster, D. Webster, Dunn.

Guards Juniors: Klugh, Denni-
son, Kendrick; sophomores, Lott,
Hasty, Brooks.

Substitutes Freshmen: Weis-
man; Sophomores: Thomas; Jun-
iors: Wilds.

Swimming' Pageant

Beryl Healy, swimming man-
ager, announces February 19 as the
date of the annual swimming
pageant. The swimming depart-
ment will announce further plans
about this year's theme and lead-
ing parts later.

Psychology Students
Choose Actress

Flagstaff, Ariz. (ACP) Pris-
cilla Lane, cinema star, is the ideal
mate. That is the unanimous opin-
ion of the 27 male members of Dr.
John J. Harton's class in psychol-
ogy at Arizona State Teachers Col-
lege here.

The men in the class, after an-
swering detailed questionnaires,
selected entertaining, friendly,
beautiful, cheerful, considerate,
helpful, honest, and intelligent (in
that order) as the adjectives most
applicable to the perfect wife.

After choosing the desired traits,
it was the decision of the group
that the embodiment of these char-
acteristics is Miss Lane.

Students from five continents
and 24 foreign countries are en-
rolled at Los Angeles City College.

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309 E. College Avenue
Decatur, Ga.

NOTICE

AGNES SCOTT
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College Leaders
View Education

Modern School Includes
Social Science Research

"The modern university in a
democracy must be thought of as
a true lighthouse which illumines
the path of those who may travel
in any land. An outstanding trag-
edy of the years through which
we are now living is the disap-
pearance of the true university in
countries where it has long been of
most distinguished and well-rec-
ognized competence. " Columbia
University's President Nicholas
Murray Butler mourns the loss of
academic freedom abroad.

How We Behave

"Viewed in the large, research in
the social sciences has become of
transcendent importance if we are
to know how to guide society into
safer ways. History must come
first so that we know how we
have behaved and perhaps why."
President Ray Lyman Wilbur, of
Stanford University, asks historians
to chart our past life as a guide to
our future activities.

'Political Strangulation'

"We hold that in the battle
against the super-state, against
state control of thought and poli-
tical control of education, it is
valuable to have alongside the
state universities a system of col-
leges not beholden, not subsidized,
not so quickly amendable to politi-
cal interference. The day will
come when ^he sturdy independ-
ence of endowed colleges may help
to save the others from political
strangulation." President Ralph C.
Hutchison, of Washington and Jef-
ferson College, points to the na-
tion's need for strong endowed
colleges.

Weather Man Records
Deepest Snow in History

Yesterday's snowfall was the
deepest here since the Atlanta
Weather Bureau was founded in
1879. Measuring 9.5 inches yes-
terday morning, the fall broke the
January, 193 6, record of 8.2
inches.

German Club
Tries Folk Dance

It was a gay evening for those
who attended the German Frolic in
the Murphey Candler Bhilding last
Thursday from 7:00 until 9:00.

Mrs. Lapp led the group in sev-
eral colorful folk dances. Jane
Moses sang Bohm's "Still Wie die
Nacht," Schumann's "Widmung"
and as an encore, Grieg's "Ich Liebe
Dich." Game tables provided
amusement for many, while a
mysterious dark woman, who
proved to be none other than Ag-
nes Scott's own Ruth Kaplan, read
palms and gave promise of elim-
inating all boredom from the lives
of A. S. C. alumnae by predicting
romance, adventure, and prosperity
for all. The program was con-
cluded by the skit, "Love's Old
Sweet Scorn," or "Gone With the
Undertaker," with sound effects
by Alice Cheeseman and Georgia
Hunt and paper-bag pantomime by
Laura Sale and Hat Scimson.

Coffee was served during the
evening and home made candy and
cake were on sale. The proceeds
went to the campaign fund.

Student War Fund
Aids Stricken

Formation of a European Stu-
dents Service Fund to raise $3 5,000
from U. S. college stsdents to al-
leviate the plight of students
abroad who are affected by the
war has been announced. The
funds raised by American students
will be administered by a European
Student Relief Committee in which
the International Student Service
and the World Student Christian
Federation are cooperating. In this
country the drive will be under
the joint sponsorship of the Na-
tional Intercollegiate Christian
Council and the I. S. S. The Euro-
pean Student Service Fund will
work in cooperation with the Red
Cross and similar relief agencies.
Its main work will be to provide
the students with the bare necessi-
ties of life, to enable them to con-
tinue their studies and to help
them prepare themselves for the
future reconstruction of European
life.

Brumby Fetes B.O.Z.

B. O. Z. met Friday night at
7:00 in Sabine Brumby's room in
Rebekah Scott Hall. Miriam Bed-
ingcr, Virginia Williams, and V. J.
Watkins read short stories and an
open discussion was held.

Massachusetts State College has
the only two-year hotel stcward-
ing course in the country.

There are approximately 500
transfer students at Alabama Poly-
technic Institute this year.

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Theater Head
Visits Here

Mrs. Major Explains
Methods of Production

Mrs. Clare Tree Major, founder
and director of the Children's
Theatre, discussed her methods and
aims in producing plays for chil-
dren with a group of students and
visitors in Miss Gooch's studio
Monday morning at 11:30.

The English director-dramatist
recounted the growth of the proj-
ect which she began in this country
sixteen years ago. She explained
that she uses colorful stage settings
and bright costumes to appeal to
children, and that she plans the
action of her plays carefully,
avoiding long conversations and
emotional scenes which might bore
or tire young audiences. She stress-
ed the necessity, however, of af-
fording more than just amusement
in children's plays, and cited her
own attempts to approach such
plays from a mature viewpoint
with emphasis on morals and ideals.

The Children's Theatre now has
six companies out on a six months
tour. They are presenting "Rip
Van Winkle," and next year they
expect to give "Hans Brinker."
Each play is rehearsed every day
for a month, and the actors give
five dress rehearsals before they
leave the Theatre headquarters in
New York City to go on tour.

Miss Thomas Resigns
Infirmary Work

The new member of the nursing
staff of the college infirmary is
Miss Helen Belle Chappell, who is
a graduate of the Georgia Baptist
School of Nursing. She will be at
the infirmary temporarily, succeed-
ing Miss Emilie Thomas. Miss
Thomas has discontinued her in-
firmary work to devote her time
to her academic courses.

Dr. Florence Swanson, college
physician, accompanied her an-
nouncement of Miss Chappell's ap-
pointment with the statement that
"The infirmary staff has been busy
lately with numerous cases of in-
fluenza and cold; however, we are
happy that there has been no seri-
ous illness and that the infirmary
population is decreasing."

College Invites
Girls Scout Leaders

Agnes Scott will play hostess
Saturday, January 27, to the lead-
ers of the Girl Scouts in Georgia
when they meet here for a day of
intensive special training.

The Atlanta Girl Scout Council,
under the direction of Mrs. M.
Rogers Noble, an alumna of Agnes
Scott, is sponsoring the session.
The program will feature discus-
sion and demonstration of new
songs, games, and crafts. Luncheon
will be served in the Anna Young
Alumnae House.

Pipes Break,
College Frolics

Weather Note: Education
took a holiday recently at Con-
nors (Okla.) State Agricultural
college . . . not because it wanted
to but because it was frozen out of
house and home. When a sudden
cold wave descended, all water
pipes in the college buildings were
frozen, students and boilers didn't
have water so classes were dis-
missed until the first thaw. "Thaw,
thaw, stay away," was the stu-
dents' chant for several days.

Color Note: Superstitions
come and superstitions go, claims
the University of Idaho's Psycholo-
gist Allan C. Lemon, but one that
college students stick with is this:
Blondes are less trustworthy than
brunettes.

Correspondence Note: Be-
lieved the longest personal tele-
gram in history, Alabama Poly-
technic Institute students dispatch-
ed a 7,000 word wire to Bandman
Kay Kyser inviting him to play on
their campus. The wire was sign-
ed by every member of the student
body. (ACP)

Sister Classes Battle
On Snow-Covered Field

A hand - to - hand free - for - all
ended the senior-sophomore snow-
ball fight on the hockey field yes-
terday afternoon. The result of a
challenge by the underclassmen,
the battle featured two fort-storm-
ings and the customary Thompson
knee injury.

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3

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

So this is the sunny South ! Well, you couldn't prove it by
any of the inhabitants. Nevertheless, social events go on in
spite of the climate, and Agnes Scott girls do, too.

Among those being seen braving zero weather at the Pied-
mont Driving Club for the ATO
formal Friday
ence Ellis,
Marion
Phillips,
Sue Phil-
lips, L i b
Barrett,
Rowena
Bar ringer,
F 1 o r rie
Guy, Jean
Dennison,
Elta Rob-
inson, Al-

U e Ma- Lennard

lone, Iddy Boone, Bizelle Roberts,
Boots Moore, Frances Butt, Eloise
Lennard, Keeker Newton, and
Donata Home.

Among the number out to hear
Artie Shaw's orchestra Friday
night were Helen Hale, Harriet
Vaughn, and Shirley Gately. And
on that same night, at the Delta
Sigma dance, were Rebecca Stamp-
er, Betty Ann Stewart, and Ann-
ette Franklin.

Dancing at the Rainbow
Room were Grace Elizabeth An-
derson, Frances Butt, Charlene
Burke, Dusty Hance, Sara Cope-
land, and Lillian Schwencke, while
Julia Ann Patch, Hattie Ayres,
Betty Ann Stewart, Elta Robinson,
and Susan Self went to the AKK
house dance.

Eugenia Hailey went home for
the week-end, while Lib Barrett
was in Gainesville. Others off-
campilS were Mary Klingensmith,
Marjorie Weissmann, Nancy
Hirsch, Martha Dale, Bette Bur-
dette, Betty Brougher, and Jane
Coffer. Elizabeth Russell's mother
was here for the week-end.

Sue Phillips, Helen Jester, and
Frankie Butt attended a basketball
game at Tech Saturday night.

Grace Elizabeth Anderson and
Eloise Lennard attended the
"Hour of Charm" broadcast

Sunday night.

Campus Queen Scene: Hav-
ing a wonderful time at the ATO
formal was Florence Ellis, wear-
ing a deep coral taffeta, made with
a very full skirt, and off-the-

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Russell Sage College is perfect-
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general speech of its students by
the introduction of choric verse
speaking in all speech classes. Par-
ticularly, the classes are aimed to
improve the speech of freshmen
and the foreign born.

To stimulate interest in the en-
deavor, a verse choir of 30 mem-
bers has been organized by George-
William Smith, professor of speech.
While the fundamental aims of
this activity are educational, its
entertainment value will be utiliz-
ed through the choir's appearance
before area alumnae groups, liter-
ary clubs and college assemblies.

"Much is said today of the poor
oral reading by the average college
entrant," Professor Smith said.
"The speech pattern is distorted
and the thought is but vaguely
communicated. Rich in its poten-
tialities to remedy just this, choric
verse speaking is rapidly gaining an
important place in the educative
process."

Although all types of defective
speech are helped by this work, the
foreign born and the stutterer per-
haps receive the most benefit, Pro-
fessor Smith pointed out. The for-
eign student or student of foreign
born parents needs to learn and
fix the very difficult tune of Eng-
lish speech, and the stutterer to es-
tablish in all expression the neces-
sary kihetic rhythm. (ACP)

ACP Corrects

ACP has notified the
News that the statement
which appeared in their Fea-
ture Service, dated January 7,
1940, to the effect that Sec-
retary Joseph Lash and Na-
tional Chairman Mollie Yard,
of the American Student Un-
ion, were "ousted" at the con-
vention in Madison was an er-
ror. Both were nominated for
leading offices and both de-
clined.

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Florence wore a lovely orchid in
her hair.

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O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Icicles are hanging from
everyone's nose and most Hot-
tentots are singing "Winter,
Stay 'Way from My Door."
And, furthermore, everyone
has either an over-developed
case of sniffles, or an under-
developed case of A. B. Be
that as it may, Mr. Dieck-
mann's chapel prelude is us-
ually drowned out hypothetically,
of course by an announcement
which re-

motely re-
sembles, the
' 1 A n v i 1
Chorus" or
"The Rus-
t 1 e of
Spring Fev-
er/' 4 The
cold weath-
er also is
causing
many girls
to fit out in outfits which suggest
an Egyptian mummy and we
don't mean maternal parent, as
they say in the crossword puzzles.
What price streamlines! And to
add something to something girls
who spent the night out boy scout-
ishly took their quilts with them
when they went out. Ain't nature
wonderful you might even call it
an advanced form of "bundling."

Frolic Scenes

Seen at the German frolic:
Cheeseman and little Runyan fille
as a couple arduously attempting
to do a folk dance in which little
Runyan had to place her hand on
Alice's head, while A. C. pirouetted
gracefully in the shape of a pret-
zel. Also Milner innocently grop-
ing in the grab-bag for at least five
miriutes, and finally coming up
with a bottle of Old English (no
adv. intended) lavendar water,
which seemed to suit her suspic-
iously well. On being questioned,
she naively replied, "Oh, yes, I just
came up with the first thing I
touched." The first five minutes
delay must have been caused by a
mouse trap.

Winter Warmers

Shriek of the week: Go get
Annette Franklin to let you take a
look at her ducky footwarmers.
They look like something Dopey
knit for cold nights, and are
complete with curled toes which
are fastened to the ankle-band.
But they do serve the cardinal pur-
pose of keeping one's feet warm.

Nomination for a medal for in-
testinal fortitude: The "Emory
graduate student" who wrote that
heart-rending letter to the editor
in last week's A. S. N.

Thought for the week: "If win-
ter comes, can spring be far be-
hind?" Or can it?

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Author Took two Decades
To write "Robert E. Lee"

By Anne Enloe

To spend nineteen years writing a book seems to most of
us to be devoting a life time to the task. But nineteen years
is just the amount of time required for the completion of
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize biography, Rob-
ert E. Lee. He seems to have exhausted every conceivable
source of information about the life of the Confederate gen-
eral and to have compiled it in
such a way as to create a great
monument to a great life.

Much of the search for facts
centered around Washington and
Lee University and its historical li-
brary. Dr. F. P. Gaines, present
president of the college which
bears such intimate connection
with Lee, was a faithful helper to
the biographer. Others on the fac-
ulty there worked at compiling
letters and documents and reading
manuscripts.

Libraries for Research

Other libraries besides the one at
Lexington which came into use
were the Duke University Library
which allowed its valuable collec-
tion of Lee manuscripts to be cal-
endared, the United States Military
Academy Library at West Point,
the Virginia Military Institute Li-
brary, and the Library of Congress.

Staff officers who worked under
General Lee during the war and
had kept journals or memoranda of
their experiences were contacted.
Members of Lee's family who have
kept as part of their priceless heri-
tage papers or verbally handed-
down memories of their famous
ancestor were an invaluable source
of information.

Varied Sources

Sources that sound amazingly
queer to the reader were also delved
into. For instance, Major General
Sir Robert Hutchison, of the Brit-
ish army, reviewed for the writer,
from his wide experience in the
World War, the factor of fatigue
in the movements of Jackson's
command during the seven days
around Richmond. A Baltimore
physician studied and wrote a re-
port of the available information
on Lee's illnesses. And, far from
the confines of the Confederacy,
the State of Wisconsin made the
loan of some materials.

Enthusiastic Reception

The long untiring search seems
to have been amply rewarded in
the wonderful reception given by
the literary public to the four vol-
ume biography. Stephen Vincent
Benet says of it: "Here is the truth
about a great man, as far as it can
be found"; and another reviewer
says: "It seems unlikely that there
can ever be need for another life of
Lee; not only has Dr. Freeman
sought out and marshalled the
facts as completely as seems
humanly possible, but he has by
deliberate restraint made of his
critical and stylistic gifts a trans-
parency through which his hero
shines as a harmonious being."

Collegians Pick
Dewey for President

Keeping pace with the ever-in-
creasing movements of the Demo-
cratic Donkey and the Republican
Elephant, college and university
students are gradually taking a
more active part in party political
activities. As evidenced by the
early organizational activities on
many campuses, 1940 promises to
be a banner year for student par-
ticipation in a national election.

Soothing Speaker

So far as can be determined at
the present time, the winter book
rankings of the political horses
seem to be: Dewey is the favorite,
with McNutt (carrying democra-
tic colors) picked to run second.
Hardly a third of the collegians
favor a third term for F. D. R., so
he seems to be ruled out as a start-
er at post time.

Concerning Thomas Edmund
Dewey (Michigan, '23), the Uni-
versity of Kansas Daily Kansan
says: "This is the day of ear-con-
sciousness and a radiordominated
public. To compete with a swing
band, a politician has to be pleas-
ingly vocal. Dewey may or may
not write his own speeches, but he
can deliver them in a manner to
warm a ghost-writer's heart. (He)
threatens the Rooseveltian suprem-
acy as America's Number One
political bedtime story teller."

But, says the Dartmouth College
Daily Dartmouth, "the present
campaign wil be fought out on
some very specific and important
problems, the most important of
which is America's policy during a
European war, and not the least
important of which is what to do
with twelve million unemployed.

Garner Opposition

John Nance Garner's announce-
ment of his willingness to accept
the nomination from the demo-
crats drew this comment from the
University of Iowa Daily Iowan:
"There will be many who will
hesitate before accepting him. It
will be remembered that he is an
old line southern democrat, a tra-
ditional 'party man' candidate. He
is an expert politician, but his
qualities as a statesman have not
had an adequate test. The feeling
still remains that he lacks youth,
the statesmanship and the foresight
necessary for the presidency at the
most critical time in the history of
the U. S." (ACP)

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940

Campus Leaders
Take Stock

This is the dead of winter, when there
is seemingly no inspiration, nothing new,
nothing productive anywhere. On a col-
lege campus, classes meet and extra-curri-
cular pursuits go on in the old deep
groove, with nothing but inertia to keep
them going. Everyone has learned his
duties and formed his habits for the year;
there is nothing creative to be done. "The
dead of winter" a truly descriptive term.

But in all this sameness, an idea has oc-
curred to several leaders on the campus.
They have become conscious of a fact
which escaped them as they took hold of
their organizations in the fall, meeting
new situations and new problems every
day. This fact which has emerged in the
lull is that they have been directing their
respective activities according to a tradi-
tion and pattern which they accepted un-
questioningly from their predecessors. It
is not based on their own thought, nor on
their own ideas of the fundamental needs
and purposes of the groups which they
lead.

So now, in the dead of winter, signs of
life are transpiring from a few organiza-
tions. They are meeting and working to
re-evaluate toward purposes which the
members themselves have set, after dis-
cussion and consideration of primary prin-
ciples.

This is a suggestion to the leaders of all
campus activities.

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Exchanges

For many thousands of students in American
colleges and universities, the third or fourth week
in January means "Examinations." Editors of
several of these college newspapers offer helpful
hints for exam week. At T. S. C. W. in Denton,
Texas, recommendations for quiet, sleep, and
study have been made as the best way to pass
exams. Students are cautioned, however, not to
use stimulants in order to stay awake. "Spending
Saturday nights together is being discouraged; no
permission will be given for feasts." The editor
of the Furman Hornet wonders if the university
students are ready for exams. The editor of the
Alabamian cautions readers that "honesty is the
best policy."

Beyond the Campus

Believed to be the first U. S. college student
to fight in the present European war, John C.
Baker, a Harvard undergraduate, will soon be sta-
tioned in the French Maginot line.

Reports reaching friends here said that Baker
had joined the American division of the French
Foreign Legion. While waiting his transfer to the
front lines, he is helping his family gas-proof their
Paris home.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1940 No. 12

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination
periods, by t he students of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey
Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year,
$1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

Vlrclnia Plower

Jeannette Cnrroll

Klalne Stubbs

Alumnae Editor

Assistant Editors

Susan Self

Florence Kills

Club Editor

Advertising Manager

Klol.se Lennard

Rebecca Drucker

Society Editor

Copy Editor

Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Betty Jenn O'Brien
Feature Editors

Lib Barrett
Olivia White
Anno Frlerson
Molly Oliver
Betty Sunderland

Virplnla Williams

Assistant Society Editors

Doris Wetnkle
Assistant Feature Editors

Ernestine Cass
Circulation Manager

Betty Jane Stevenson
Current History Editor

Lucille Gaines
Mary M. Templeton

Anno Martin

Edith Stover.

Sports Editor

Polly Ware

Hazel Solomon

Mary ML Wisdom

Exchange Editor

Circulation Assistants

Reporters: M. H. linger. B. Brailfleld. E. Burruss. J. Pates.
K ChamMess. L. Franklin. M. Gray, J. Lancaster, E. McCall.
J Osborne. T. Ripley. M. Settle. O. Slack. V. Stanley. J.
Steams. C. Stuckey. V. Watklns, C. Willis. J. Wltman.
Business Assistants: L Barrett. M. S DUlard. S. Kaulba^k.
W Leavltt. M. Oliver. S. Phillips. L. S'hwenoke. M. Simpson.
M Temrlcton. M. Toomey. P. Ware. M. Watklns, A. Wilds.

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

William E. Borah is dead, in his thirty-third
year in the Senate. The colorful Lion of Idaho
has been admired not so much for what he did
or did not do. Consistency was not in what he
did, fighting the monopolies
and trusts, preventing the
United States from entering
the League, demanding lib-
eralization of the G. O. P.,
opposing the Roosevelt neu-
trality bill. It was the atti-
tude of the man that gained
him sincere respect. Inde-
pendence of thought and ac-
tion is of value in itself. Stevenson

Further Adventures of a
Snow Cruiser

The third Byrd Antarctic Expedition has be-
gun in traditional style with one near disaster at
the unloading stage. The unlucky snow cruiser
fell from a ramp leading from ship to ice, and
was saved only by its driver, Dr. Thomas C. Poul-
ter. Byrd radioed the Navy Department that "He
(Poulter) applied full power. " It escaped, "throb-
bing and roaring, leaving a wake of splintered
debris behind. "

Fifty Below

The conditions of war at 5 0 below zero sound
worse than war itself. The adaptable Finns are
using all means to make existence not only pos-
sible but efficient on their icy northern front.
The white uniforms follow the example of the
Eskimos: they include two pairs of thick under-
wear, two pairs of socks, wind-proof fabric outer
garments, and last, wool or fur parkas. All rifles
and machine guns must be free of oil, which
freezes at ten below zero.

Post Office

A British-American squabble over mail inter-
ference seems a regular occurrence of every war.
Hull threatens to stop the flight of the Clipper
ships to Bermuda if censorship at that point is
not stopped.

The British charge that German sympathizers
in American are sending securities, checks, money
orders, and industrial diamonds through Ameri-
can mails to the Reich.

Cheer Leader

Winston Churchill can outspeak any other pub-
lic official in England. An occasional speech by
"Winnie" must seem to the English a great
strengthening of their own sense of righteousness.
In the current version, Churchill, with a nice
sense of diction, calls upon all neutrals for united
action: "Their plight is lamentable and will be-
come worse. They bow humbly to German
threats of violence. . . . Each one hopes that if
he feeds the crocodiles enough, the crocodile will
eat him last."

We Present the South
To Southerners

In presenting the third of its birthday
lecturers to the public tomorrow night,
the college and Lecture Association have
made an appropriate choice. Agnes Scott
has always aimed at being a distinctly
Southern institution. Its background, its
leaders, and most of its students have
been part of the pulse of the South.

Douglas Southall Freeman has devoted
his significant literary life to the South.
He has sought to get at its pulse in the
past, and at that of its leaders.

His most successful work has been the
biography of which he will speak tomor-
row night. His lecture will be a history of
a history.

Agnes Scott will, through him, give stu-
dents and public a contact with a South-
ern leader of the present. He, in turn, will
bring them a closer acquaintance with a
past leader. This is a fitting service, ren-
dered by a college which seeks to preserve
the best in its community.

Campus Camera

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

Which is more important
academic success or promin-
ence in extra-curricula activ-
ities ?

Annie Wilds, '42, says: "I
think you ought to strive for
both. Study well and play
well. Most of the people who
are promin-
ent in stu-
dent activ-
i t i e s are
'way up
yonder* i n
the aca-
demic
field."
Gay Swajr-
$?erty, '41,
says: "Ac-
ademic sue- u .
cess is more

important because, after all, that
is what we come to college for.
However, I do think activities
have their place. I think the ac-
tivities we choose to participate in
should grow out of our academic
interests."

Miriam Bedinger, '41, thinks:
". . . that neither is more impor-
tant. While you are in college the
main emphasis should be on the
academic, but at the same time you
should be learning by practice
how to appropriate your knowl-
edge in getting along with people."

Betty Henderson, '43, thinks:
". . . that activities are more im-
portant, because the leadership
that you will develop from activi-
ties will be more valuable to you
in after college life than just aca-
demic knowledge."

Lavinia Brown, '42, adds:
". . . the ideal situation would be
a mixture of both, but most peo-
ple have to choose between them.
I think the pleasure and training
one gets from activities will be
very valuable in after life, but I
think academic training will be
equally valuable."

Ernestine Cass, '40, concludes:
"... I think it depends to a great
extent upon what you want to do
after college. Some activities give

Freeman Reviews
Southern Literature

By Doris Weinkle

Douglas Southall Freeman's The
South to Posterity is an almost un-
believably inspiring and entertain-
ing answer to the question, "What
shall I read next?"" asked so fre-
quently by those who wish to learn
more about the Confederacy. Mar-
garet Mitchell's Gone With the
Wind and Clifford Dowdey's
Bugles Blow No More have so
aroused interest tin the Confederate
era that Dr. Freeman, author of
the Pulitzer Prize biography of
Robert E. Lee and an authority on
publications dealing with the Con-
federacy, has been approached by
not only Southerners and histor-
ians, but numerous Northern and
Western correspondents who have
"caught the spirit of the Confed-
eracy" so much so that one
"Connecticut lady of abolitionist
stock was alleged to have exclaim-
ed 'Those damn Yankees' as she
read Miss Mitchell's description of
Sherman's march to the sea."

Dr. Freeman explained in the
introduction to his The South to
Posterity that he was giving an in-
troduction to those books which
"have the most enduring interest
and possess those elements of con-
viction, of sincerity and of human
appeal that have brought a new
generation of Americans to an un-
derstanding of the Southern point
of view." Dr. Freeman discusses
contemporary diaries and letters,
"punctured by gunfire," writings
from the ashes of reconstruction,
official records, the letters of
women, the controversies of later
years, biographies, and histories.
He gives such well-chosen excerpts,
and so thrillingly presents the
spirit of the books reviewed that
one is moved to take his biblio-
graphy to the nearest library and
find at least some of the books he
introduces.

you practical experience in work
you want to do later. But in any
event a certain amount of aca-
demic success is necessary for any
kind of work you want to do."

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1940

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No. 13

Students Vote
On Queen
For May Day

One of Five Candidates
Wilf Preside Over
Unique Pageant

Student votes will fall among
five candidates tomorrow in the
election of the May Queen. Top
nominees emerging from last
week's ballot are: Carolyn Alley,
Jane Moses, Mary Reins, Ruth
Slack, and Grace Ward.

The May Queen this year will
preside over a pageant radically
different from those of former
springs; written by an alumnae-
student committee, it will trace
the history of woman from earliest
recorded time to the present day.
It will celebrate Agnes Scott's fif-
tieth anniversary, centering around
the part of the college in the
movement of women toward free-
dom.

Mr. C. W. EHeckmann, professor
of music, will compose the music
which will furnish the back-
ground for the action.

C. A. Distributes
Religious Questionnaire

A questionnaire to determine
trends and conceptions in religious
thought on the campus will be is-
sued by Christian Association to
the student body tomorrow. Pre-
pared by an Association committee
with the help of members of the
psychology department, the ques-
tionnaire is to be used as a basis for
religious work on this campus.

Filled blanks will be collected
Saturday from boxes in Buttrick,
Inman, and Rebekah Scott halls.

Student Leaders
Hold Conference

In response to an invitation is-
sued by Jack McMichael, president
of the American Youth Congress,
young leaders of Southern work-
ers' organizations, civic forums,
churches, and student groups are
making plans to send delegates to
the Young Southerners' Confer-
ence in Washington, D. C, Febru-
ary 9-12.

Executive Secretary Malcolm
Cotton Dobbs has asked Henrietta
Thompson, president of Student
Government, to encourage the sup-
port of the young leaders in this
area. Conference officials expect
to have at least a half dozen rep-
resentatives from each Southern
state.

Clemson Sends
Deputation

A deputation from Clemson
College will visit the campus Sun-
day, sent jointly to the Georgia
Tech and Agnes Scott Christian
Associations.

After a discussion with the Tech
YMCA cabinet, both groups will
meet Agnes Scott students for an
informal session in the Murphey
Candler building at 3:30, from
which they will attend vesper
services at 5:30 in the chapel.

Club Postpones
Harrison Hut Outing

The wiener roast which the
Episcopal Club planned to have
at Harrison Hut has been postpon-
ed indefinitely because of the
weather.

New Volumes Add Life
To Rental Shelf

By Jeanne Osborne

Philosophical essays, biography,
and novels are included among the
new books which will be placed
this week on the library rental
shelf, according to Miss Edna Han-
ley, librarian.

Wind, Sand y and Stars, by An-
toine de Saint Exupery, a philoso-
phical essay on flights and fliers
from the actual experiences of the
French aviator-author, should
prove especially satisfying to book
lovers. M. Exupery has flown the
mail over the Sahara, and across
the Patagonian Argentine. He was
in Spain during the recent war,
and something of his adventures
there is presented in the book. Ac-
cording to one critic's report, "The
book is drenched clean of all the
petty, cloying values of the earth."

Christmas Holiday, by Somerset
Maugham, relates how Charley
Mason, a nice young Englishman
from an ultra-respectable family,
goes to Paris for his Christmas
holiday, and through his friendship
with an embittered journalist, sees
chiefly the underside of life. He
returns to his comfortable home,
but he knows "the bottom has
dropped out of his world."

Ethel Vance's Escape is the
story of a German actress, for

many years a resident in America,
who returns to Nazi Germany on
a business matter, gets into trou-
ble with the authorities, is given a
secret trial, and condemned to
death.. Several people become in-
volved in her escape.

A novel which has become very
popular, Christ in Concrete, by
Pietro Di Donato, is the expansion
of a short story of the same title
which appeared in Esquire last
year. It is the story of the Italian
bricklayers in America. Paul, the
hero, is twelve when his father is
killed by the collapse of a flimsy
building. With courage beyond his
years, the boy attempts to follow
his father's trade in order to sup-
port his mother and younger
brothers and sisters.

Sun and Storm, by Unto Sep-
panen, is a long chronicle novel
tracing the fortunes of a Finnish
peasant's family from about 1870
to about 1920. Love of the soil
and love of country give it inner
unity.

Portrait of Jennie, by Robert
Nathan, the author of Whiter in
April and Enchanted Voyage, is the
story of Eben Adams' success be-
cause of his casual meeting with
Jennie.

Institute Here
Seeks Betterment
In Government

"Improvement of Local Govern-
ment in the South" forms the
theme for the series of addresses
and discussions sponsored |ointly
by the National Municipal League
and the Institute of Citizenship at
the Piedmont Hotel Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 6, through Thursday, Febru-
ary 8.

Ralph McGill, associate edi-
tor of the Atlanta Constitution will
act as toastmaster at the banquet
Wednesday night, and Mayor Wil-
liam B. Hartsfield, of Atlanta, will
deliver the principal address, "The
Engineer and Politics," at the first
evening session, February 6, at
8:00.

Speakers and discussion lead-
ers include outstanding civic
heads and sociologists; notable
among these are Dr. Reed, who
will talk on "Problems of Metro-
politan Areas" Wednesday after-
noon, and Miss Mildred Mell, pro-
fessor of economics and sociology
at Agnes Scott, who will preside
over the discussion of "County
Government" Wednesday morning.

College Broadcast
Presents Quiz

Program Concludes Series
Of Historical Sketches

"Fifty Years of Growth" will be
the subject of the Agnes Scott
radio program over WSB this aft-
ernoon at 5 o'clock. This pro-
gram, the fourth and last in the
historical sketches celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of the college,
will be in the form of a quiz.

This entire series of four pro-
grams is an adaption from the
booklet published last year by Dr.
J. R. McCain, which was based on
an earlier history by the first presi-
dent of the college, Dr. F. H.
Gaines.

Last week "The Agnes Scott
Ideal" was the subject of the
broadcast. The cast included Eliz-
abeth Barrett as narrator, Eugenia
Bridges, Mary Dean Lott, Marjorie
Simpson, Jackie Stearns, Mrs.
Martha Crowe, Mrs. Florence
Ferry, Mrs. Vera LeCraw, Barker
Bedingfield, Jim Hardin, and Bill
Hinson. Mrs. Caroline McKinney,
'27, was the voice of Agnes Scott.

He Tried to Come Anyway

Robert Frost
Postpones Lecture

Poet Hopes to Fill Engagement
Within Next Few Weeks

Robert Frost, scheduled to appear here February 6 as the
fourth speaker on the Lecture Association series, has post-
poned his lecture because of illness. A telegram received
early this week by Miss Emma May Laney, faculty chairman
of the Association, brought the news that "his "physicians
are unwilling" to allow the poet to fulfill his engagement
next week.

Civil Service Board

Opens Fields

To College Seniors

Finding interest and response
unusually lar^e when similar ex-
aminations were announced last
year, the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission has reannounced
examinations in 1940 for junior
professional assistant positions.

"To recruit young college grad-
uates for junior professional and
scientific positions in the Federal
Government," the examinations re-
quire formal college training but
no experience. With hundreds of
vacancies in the various fields each
year, the Commission announces
its intention of holding the exami-
nations annually. Twenty-eight
optional subjects are offered, in
fields ranging from the position of
Junior Librarian to that of Junior
Biologist (Wildlife).

Full announcements of the ex-
aminations are posted on the back
bulletin board in Buttrick Hall.
Application blanks may be ob-
tained at the Decatur postoffice.

The wire, coming at the end of
a day-long argument when Mr.
Frost's resolution to lecture as
planned was finally broken by his
doctors, implied that he would be
able to come within the next few
weeks.

Twice winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for poetry and acknowledged
the ranking poet among living
Americans, Mr. Frost holds the
Ralph Waldo Emerson fellowship
at Harvard University. His latest
volume of poetry the first since
his prize winning "Collected
Poems," 193 0 is "From Snow to
Snow," 1 93 6.

He will remain on the campus
for several days after the lecture, .
meeting in . conference with groups
interested i-n creative writing.

DR. DOUGLAS STEERE

Dr. Steere
Speaks in Chapel

Dr. Douglas Steere, professor of
Philosophy at Haverford College,
will speak in chapel Friday on
"Prayer and Worship." Presented
by Christian Association, he will
lead a discussion on the same sub-
ject Friday afternoon in the Mur-
phey Candler building.

Dr. Steere is a leader in Chris-
tian thought and youth work in
this country. His book, Prayer
and Worship, is available in the
Christian Association room in the
Murphey Candler building.

Coming This Week

Thursday, February 1 Pi
Alpha Phi Tryouts, 7:00
to 9:00 P. M.

Friday, February 2 Bas-
ketball game in Gym at
3:30. Dr. Steere leads
discussion in Murphey
Candler Building, 4:30.

Saturday, February 3
A. A. Open House, 7:00,
in Gym.

Monday, February 5 In-
stitute of Citizenship
opens four day session
at Piedmont Hotel.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1940

Juniors, Sophomores
Defeat Sister Classes

Undefeated Seniors Lose 37-22;
Junior, Frosh Players Trade Positions

Last Friday, for the first time this season, the junior team
won and the senior team lost a basketball game. In games
refereed by Miss Dorothy Fugitt and Miss Elisabeth Mitch-
ell, the juniors defeated the freshmen and the seniors lost
to the sophomores.

Dunn- the first half of the A A Q

senior-sophomore game, the senior /A. /V ODonsors

forwards, Slack, Milner, and Car
son, distinguished their playing
with some smooth teamwork in
passing and handling shots. The
sophomore guards, Hasty, Geller-
stedt, and Brooks, used a success-
ful system of zone guarding. In
the second period, the sophomores
started a scoring attack that end-
ed with their score 3 3 and the
seniors' 27. Ruth Slack led indi-
vidual scoring with 17 points, fol-
lowed by Dot Webster with 15.
Alta Webster scored 9 points,
Dunn scored 9, Milner scored 7,
and Carson 3.

The juniors, with a combina-
tion of long passes and accurate
shooting, were able to run up a
score of 3 2 to defeat the freshmen.
The junior guards went in as for-
wards toward the end of the game,
and the freshman guards and for-
wards swapped positions several
times. Dyar scored 22 points, and
Fisher made 10. Cundell made
three points for the freshmen, and
Percy, Frierson, and Bates made
one each.

Lineups: Seniors forwards,
Slack, Milner, Carson; guards,
Ware, Moses, Forman. Sophomores:
forwards, Dunn, A. Webster, D.
Webster; guards, Gellcrstedt,
Hasty, Brooks.

Juniors forwards, Dyar, Fisher,
McGarity; guards, Kendrick,
Klugh, Wilds. Freshmen for-
wards, Bates, 1 Iolloran, Frierson;
guards, Rountree, Cundell, Dale.

Substitutes: Seniors Salters.
Juniors Arbuckle, Williams, Tur-
ner. Freshmen Percy, Crocker,
Paisley, Cummings.

Cram Condemns
Cramming

Dr. S. Winston Cram believes
that students should take his name
in vain, for he urges all in his class-
es not to cram for his final exami-
nations. And to add to the effec-
tiveness of his no-cramming edict
at Emporta (Kans.) State Teachers
College, Prof. Cram says his stu-
dents may use "ponies" when they
write their answers to his quiz
problems.

Says the professor: "This plan
serves as an impetus to the student
to put m .i worthwhile review pro-
gram. He won't have to clutter up
his mind with numerous equations
which he can't remember. It makes
for more constructive review in-
stead of cramming. 1 1

So we hereby initiate a movement
to create more Crams and less
cramming in all collegeland!
(ACP)

Sport Week

Athletic Tournaments
Finish With Open House

February 19 begins a week of
accelerated athletic activity on the
Agnes Scott campus. Instead of
setting aside one day as Posture
Day this year, Athletic Associa-
tion has chosen the week of Feb-
ruary 19 through February 24 to
make the campus "sport cons-
cious."

The annual swimming pageant
will take place Monday night in
the Bucher Scott gymnasium pool.
Wednesday a health contest will
begin, with the finals on Friday
night. There will be fencing and
badminton exhibitions in the gym-
nasium Wednesday night.

The different basketball teams
for the dormitories, day students,
and faculty will participate in the
Brown Jug Tournament at 3:30
Friday afternoon. Last year the
team from Main was the winner,
and year before last, the day stu-
dents won. Saturday night A. A.
will appropriately close Athletic
Week by entertaining the college
community at an Open House in
the gym.

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Length of College
Term Shrinks

A University of Vermont stu-
dent of a hundred years ago, in-
stead of starting to think about
coming back to school from two
weeks of Christmas vacation for a
three-month grind of classes, would
just be looking forward to a two-
month lay-off, starting with the
first Wednesday of January, 1840.

But if this seems like a lot of
vacation compared to that allowed
the students of 1940, the picture
changes when the 1 840 catalogue
is consulted again, because it seems
that this eight-week recess was the
longest of the academic year.

The only other vacation came
after commencement, which was
the first Wednesday in August, and
consisted of four weeks. College
terms were two only, but they were
long. The autumnal term lasted
through September, October, No-
vember, and December. (ACP)

The Press keeps silence as

Dr. Freeman Out-talks
News 'Interviewer

A rejoorter for the News obtained an interview with Doug-
las Southall Freeman, southern author and third speaker on
the college lecture series, last week, finding that there is no
such thing as interviewing Douglas Southall Freeman. That
is, guiding the interview along prearranged lines asking

him questions and jotting down
answers. An interview with him
consists of being exposed for fif-
teen or twenty minutes to what-
ever he happens to be saying.

He met the News interviewer, as
agreed, in the college chapel be-
fore the morning service began
last Friday. \\ 7 hen he came in
with Dr. McCain, he was talking.
Still talking, he took off his over-
coat and headed gravely for the
radiator, rubbing his hands togeth-
er. There the interviewer stood,
notebook in hand, ready to ask
questions about the university cen-
ter movement.

Turning reflective blue eyes
courteously toward her, he smiled
briefly and continued to talk.

"The greatest mistake of most
young writers," he happened to be
saying in his deliberate, even way,
"is that they write about their own
interests instead of those of the
public. They should study the
market see what is in demand. . . .
Good morning," he broke off as
Miss Scandrett came in, bearing
three of his books to be autograph-
ed for an Atlanta bookstore.

"I'd better get these done," he
said apologetically to the inter-
viewer. And sitting down in a
chapel seat, he took them up one
by one, spelling out his name slow-
ly and carefully in small print.

When the third book was in-
scribed and laid neatly on top of
the others, the interviewer opened
her mouth to say something about
the university center movement.

"Another thing," he continued
gravely, "is that they fail to anti-
cipate future developments. For
instance, the June issue of a maga-
zine goes to press on or about April
twentieth. Despite the fact, inex-
perienced writers will send in June
stories on the last of May."

"Yes," said the interviewer, "by
the way . . ."

"And take historical biography
good morning," he smiled at two
students who drifted into chapel
through the side door," you have
to reason out what sort of people
will be in demand, and what sort
of stories. Good morning. For in-
stance, if you were starting a book
now, you should plan on its pub-
lication three years from now. i
That will be about the end of the |
war. So you should write a history
of a nation good morning in
the post-war reconstruction period.
Such as Europe after the Napo-
leonic wars."

"But," he warned as the organ
prelude began, "there is no sub-

College Talk
bwings to War

Despite the fact that most of the
war talk on the nation's campuses
is peace talk, there nevertheless is
a growing tendency among colleg-
ians and their campus superiors to
discuss what they believe to be the
bad effects of peace movements
that make collegians more con-
cerned with safety first than with
the fate of their nation.

First to focus attention on this
particular interpretation of the un-
dergraduate peace movements was
President-emeritus William Allen
Neilson, of Smith College, who
said: "For the moment, the atti-
tude of our academic youth seems
to be so largely self-centered that
one doubts whether the form in
which pacifism was brought to
them during these years was the
best for their spiritual health. The
young men of today seem to be
largely concerned with safety first
and the old men with $3 0 every
Thursday. Peace that is not the
crown of justice and liberty is a
peace that cannot last, and it would
have been more inspirin
young men and women
been more concerned
own safety." (ACP)

if our
today had
with their

stitute for good writing. Oh,
Dr. McCain, as I was saying .

He mounted the steps to
chapel platform.

Susan Self edits

Club Doings

"Resolved that legislation
should be enacted providing for
conscription of capital in time of
war" will be the subject of Pi
Alpha Phi's dual debate with the
University of Georgia February
15. Ann Hen-
ry and Mar-
garet Hopkins
will represent
the affirma-
tive side at
Agnes Scott
while M a r y
Lightfoot El-
can and Mar-
j o r i e Merlin
are at Georgia
defending the Self
negative. The debate here will
held at the regular meeting of

be
Pi

Alpha Phi at 7 P. M. in the Mur-
phey Candler Building.

Eugenia Bridges, president of
Blackfriars, has announced that
Blackfriars will hold Open House
from 3:30 to 5:30 Sunday after-
noon, February 11. Guests will be
members of the Emory Theatre
Guild, members of the Atlanta
Theatre Guild, Emory Players,
Agnes Scott Blackfriars Alumnae,
and members of the casts of recent
Blackfriars plays.

Miss Emma Laney, associate
professor of English and faculty
adviser of Poetry Club, lectured
on Robert Frost at an open meet-
ing of the club last Tuesday eve-
ning.

Dr. Marion M. Hull, head of the
Atlanta Bible Institution, will be
guest speaker at the regular meet-
ing of Bible Club February 5 at 4
P. M. in the Murphey Candler
building.

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Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working H

ours

Lennard

Sara Copeland went to the
AKK sleigh ride while Grace
Eliza beth,
Annette
Frankli n,
Frances
Butt
Cha rl ene
Burke,
and Grace
Ward
went play-
ing with
Dental
College
boys.

Auburn had its famous mid-
term dances this week-end. Among
those enjoying the music of Hal
Kemp and Eddie Duchin were
Frances Ellis, Julia Ann Patch, and
Eloise Lennard. And, of course,
Lib Barrett had an exciting week-
end at Mardi Gras.

Among those dining and danc-
ing at the Spanish Room at var-
ious times were Marion and Sue
Phillips, Hazel Solomon, Mary
Robertson, Edith Dale, and Frances
Ellis.

There were dances to be taken
in here in Atlanta. At the
Phi Delta Theta formal were
Aline Barron, Ruth Slack, Betty
Jan O'Brien, Marian Franklin,
Olivia White, and Bette Burdette.
At the Zip dance were Eugenia
Hailey, Anne Martin, Annette
Franklin, and Grace Elizabeth An-
derson, while Lutie Moore, Boots
Moore, and Becky Stamper were at
the Delta Sig party, and Mae
Crumley went to a sorority dance
at the IJiltmore.

Edith Schwartz went home for
the week-end. Mary Ann Cochran
and Mary Jane Auld had their sis-
ters as guests; Louise Runge's vis-
itor was Liddie Dunn.

At the SAE house Sunday
night were Sara Copeland, Mary

"Winter sports in the Sunny South. " We admit that the
sound of that statement is incongruous, but since Atlanta
has been snow-bound, sleigh-riding and snow-man building
have taken the place.

Klingensmith, and Annie Wilds.
Laura Cummings and Anne Frier-
son went to the Tech-Georgia
basketball game. Betty Henderson
went to the Psi Omega House,
as did Annette Franklin. Marjorie
Boggs, Anne Martin, Betty Waitt,
June Boykin, and Martha Dunn
went to the Sigma Nu house
dance Saturday night.

Freeman Looks
At Biography

By Gene Slack

In a delightfully informal lec-
ture Thursday night, Douglas
Southall Freeman, biographer and
journalist, discussed recent adven-
tures in biography.

Stresses Fact

Beginning with Lytton Strachey,
he summarized the style and com-
parative worth of several re-
cent biographers of importance.
"Strachey," he declared, "in effect,
is a literary craftsman: his English
is beautiful, his imagination re-
markable, his style good; but
Strachey misses the fundamental
basis of true biography he places
no importance on fact. In his
popular biographies, Eminent Vic-
torians, Elizabeth and lEssex, he in-
terprets rattier than uncovers
truth."

Truth vs. Fiction

"A true biographer," he con-
tinued, "lays bare the facts of
some cases as he understands it,
reading all available source mater-
ial in order to be unprejudiced.
Strachey could not present truth
even if he read all available source
material; he is too dramatic. He
does not portray characters as
they were, but as he imagines they
should have been."

Smiling whimsically, Dr. Free-
man repeated a good creed for the
biographer: "Though I speak with
the tongues of men and of angels
and have not fact I am become as
sounding brass or*a tinkling cym-
bal."

Among contemporary writers,
Dr. Freeman selected for discus-
sion Andre Maurois, who ap-
proaches biography through fic-
tion, and Emil Ludwig, who ap-

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One of chese five seniors
will be elected tomorrow in
chapel to reign over the
semi-centennial Mav Day
pageant this spring.

They ran close together
as top nominees in the pre-
iminary ballot cast last
week.

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Flu Epidemic Brings
Soup Hater to Prominence

By Virginia Williams

Sleds, overshoes, and Miss Mildred Hagy have ridden to
campus fame on the recent wave of inclement weather which
left quite a few sniffles in its wake.

Miss Hagy loves cats and canaries, and, hating soup, is
resident nurse at the infirmary.

This dual disposition of hers de-

t , . . . | . I vcloped early. Born in Bristol,

proaches biography through drama. TcnnesseCi she maintained a com .

Maurois is not a true biographer pamyely di ^ mfied existence in
any more than is Strachey, accord- ^ homc mwn; ^ when she went
ins to Dr Freeman. His Disraeli m Virgi ^ t0 d her summers
ustrates his faults. He accepts ^ bocanu . a perfect Tarzan,

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

'Snow use arguing, there's no use
talking about it, snow is the gen-
eral drift of the week, and really
flakes the cake! And speaking of
cake, it has
been the
downfall of
m any of
the great
and lesser
c harac ters
of our cam-
pus. Take
the re-
nowned
Henrietta,
if you want
her . . . tha

O'Brien

. . oh, take her

secondary source material and par
ades interpretation as biography,
[interpretation should be presented
as such. "Unfortunately (Lord,
how American colleges need to
know this)/' side-remarked Dr.
I reeman, "cleverness is no substi-
tute for thoroughness."

He added that the best selling
biographies oi very recent years
are good, long, authoritative works
rather than fictionized or drama-
tized biography for example, Van
Doren's I' rank! in, Sandburg's Lin-
coln, and Nevin's Hamilton Fish.

Mentioning two popular theories
of biographical study, psycho-
graphv and study of endocrines.
Dr. Freeman declared that "neither
is justified as yet. It is impossi-
ble," he continued, "to know at
any time what thoughts are pass-
ing in the minds of others." This
psychography is practiced by
Bradford.

Of endocrines he said merely,

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swinging through trees and bal-
ancing on the boughs. In fact,
her uncle gave her the nickname
of "Monkev."

Miss Hagy was a star baseball
player, and once while playing on
Sunday she broke her finger. When
not engaged in injuring herself
she devoted her time to playing
red cross, and bandaged, sometimes
by force, all the real or imaginary
injuries of her friends.

In high school she played bas-
ketball, and was an active mem-
ber of French Club, Latin Club,
and Girls' Hi-Y.

Though she had always planned
to be a nurse, Miss Hagy hadn't
exactly foreseen herself making a
snowman with green eyes for the
patients in the infirmary or con-
vincing an eager interne, who at-
tempted to invade the infirmary
during the flu epidemic, that the
situation was well in hand.

The ice and snow not only pro-
duced campus injuries amounting
to two thumbs, a knee, and an el-
bow, but the difficulty in getting
to the dining hall necessitated

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"Man cannot live by endocrines
alone."

Concluding his lecture with a
statement of the purpose and
worth of biography, Dr. Freeman
pointed out that good biography of
great men serves as an inspiration
to all posterity.* "A life fought
with honor," he said, "is a flame
for life fra tight with strife."

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anyway- Well, to slip on with the
story, Henrietta, after leading the
redoubtable Senior Storm Troops
to an overwhelming and unques-
tioned victory over the Sopho-
more Strugglers on the Campus
Hockiensis, was indulging in a lit-
tle skirmish with C. Forman. Up-
on pasting the Hon. V. P. right in
the eye with a well-placed and
hardened snowball, Miss T. turned
to flee lightly away like a gazelle,
when her underpinnings became
unaccountably impotent and she
sat forcibly down in ten inches of
snow. But tragedy struck, and so
did her knee cap, and the net re-
sult was that Mile. T. was unable
to rise. Despite the valiant at-
tempt of her comrades to carry
her away from the field of battle
on her shield (imaginary), she re-
mained prone where she had fallen.
But the age of chivalry is not yet
dead, only stunned, and from out
of the dim periphery of space
there rushed not one, not two, not
three, but four completely equip-
ped men, who lifted the wounded
hero up and tenderly carried her
up the steps of Inman, to the
amazement of the stupefied on-
lookers . . . and the extreme
amusement of Henrietta.

And so, like Pepys, to the lec-
ture. There even more startling
events awaited the college audi-
ence. Dr. Douglas Southall Free-
man, who might possess, in addi-
tion to his long list of distinguish-
ed honors, the title of Quarter-
master of Quips. His famous if
somewhat disconcerting conjecture
as to Dr. McCain's thoughts will
go down in history as what caused
the good Doctor to blush like a
bashful bov caught swiping jam.
And furthermore. Dr. Ireeman's
collection of dialects beat Schlep-
perman all hollow. In fact, he can
lecture on our platform any time
he wishes.

Break of the week: Ask Helen
Jester what inhibition she let loose
with at the reception after the lec-
ture. Or just ask anyone, except
Dr. McCain.

Miss Hagy's eating soup for a
whole week in the infirmary.

Miss Hagy likes steak, ham,
corn bread, music, baseball, eats,
and canaries. To this assortment
she adds her work. She even ap-
preciates the artistic snowmen in
fish bowls and the impromptu
poetry sent to infirmary patients.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1940

Hunt

Georgia Hunt gathers

Campus Quotes

Plans are now in progress for
doing away with student aid as
one feature of the National
Youth Administration. Stu-
dents on NYA grants in all col-
leges will be affected by the
change; ev-
idence o f
interest on
this cam-
pus is pat-
ent in this
week's
comments:

Sam Ol-
ive Grif-
fin, '40:
"O n e of
the weak-
e s t points
in past governments is the little
importance attached to education.
The great importance which the
present government attaches to it
is one of its strongest points. To
do away with NYA student aid
would cripple the educational
progress of our country. The gov-
ernment, because it has helped so
many worthy young people,
should not abandon this program."

Billie Davis, '42, thinks that
"... doing away with NYA help
would seriously handicap a great
many students. On the other hand
colleges would probably furnish
more scholarship aid so that the
number of deserving students
would not be greatly affected. "

Jane Taylor, '42, suggests-.

. . that doing away with student
aid will affect the prestige of the
NYA organization more than the
number of students it may help.
Financial aid to students is one of
the things that has made the NYA
so popular throughout the coun-
try."

Helen Jester, '41, says: "I
think that doing away with NYA
student aid will not affect college
attendance, because those students
receiving this aid could probably
get it from other sources."

Sarah Handley, '41, thinks
"... that surely the government
ought not do away with such aid
because it helps so many people
who could not otherwise come to
college. Even though there are
students in some institutions re-

To the Editor

Dear Editor:

Two virtues which are practically lack-
ing on our campus are punctuality and
dependability.

Nothing starts on time club meetings,
lectures or entertainments because no
one arrives on time, except perhaps the
poor speaker who then begins his lecture
ten minutes late and is interrupted for
the next thirty minutes by late comers.

It seems to be 3 break from a long
standing tradition to arrive on time, es-
pecially to chapel or an eight o'clock or
one-thirty class.

And another thing. It is a doubtful
policy to be more than forty-five minutes
late for a date or why did you give him
the date anyway?

Sincerely yours,

Colleges Attack
Student Frivolity

"The most profound comment*
that can be made about youth's in-
terest in religion is the simple one
that they ask the same questions
every year, take to the same types
of materials, and resent the same
attacks of satire and ridicule. They
want, ardently a quick and easy
solution and are impatient with the
philosophy of slowly resolving ideas
about significant matters." Sarah
Lawrence College's Kathryn Man-
sell points to today's collegiate
view of religion.

"The bull session is an American
institution. To let it slide into
greater disrepute would be a shame.
Next time the gang gets together
for a talk-fest why not try to do
something constructive, why not
try to reach a definite conclusion,
why not think through a problem?
The American student has brains:
the American student must learn
to use them. From the bull session
could come something fine and
valuable." The University of Iowa
Daily Iowan urges a more serious
purpose for those gab-fests that are
usually not so profound. (ACP)

ceiving aid when they really don't
need it, I think giving scholarship
aid should not be discontinued."

Mary Robertson, '42, con-
cludes: "A number of people
could not come to college without
this aid. Therefore the govern-
ment, in the interest of its young
people, should not discontinue this
service."

Campus Camera

E-^VARD HAS MAD THE
MOST RERR9SENTATIVES
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
CHAIR v ROOR BUT
TMEV HAVE REPRESENTED
ONLY TWO FAMILIES -
ADAMS ROOSEVELT/

THE AVERAGE PARADE BAND MEMBER MARCHES
160 MILES IN FORMATION DURING FOOTBALL SEASON /

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Pressure in the Balkans

Germany and Russia together are putting the
squeeze on Rumania. German penetration into
Galicia, supposedly Russian Poland, brings Ger-
many next door to King Carol's land. If Ru-
mania must yield to the Nazis' pressure for oil
and wheat, the way for quick delivery will be
open. One serious difficulty
for Hitler, however, is that
nearly all these oil wells are
operated with French and
British capital.

Odyssey

The Captain of the now
famous freighter, City of
Flint, Joseph Gainard,
brought his ship home after
113 extraordinary days. He
had several vivid pictures of btevenson
the unusual trip: German and American captain
politely conferring on navigation; machine gun
mounted in the chart room; German sailors
bristling with pistol and two hand grenades
apiece; the American crew begging Gainard for
a signal to tear into them; and the port of Mur-
mansk where he saw the Bremen.

Turkey for Germany

In spite of assiduous cultivation by the Allied
diplomatic corps, Turkey is being drawn again
into Germany's orbit in spite of itself. Trade
with the Reich is really a matter of necessity to
Turkey. Normally the Germans are the Turks'
best customers, consuming 60% of their exports.

Tall Tale

The whimsies of the civilian mind in war time
have fostered a luxuriant growth of rumors. A
few weeks ago the Allied papers had it that the
Germans were training gorillas to storm the Mag-
inot Line. This week a delicious story was spread
among German newspapermen in Holland that a
new gas would anaesthetize the whole of England
for two weeks allowing the German army to
move in without any fuss from a conscious pop-
ulation.

New Note for John L.

John L. Lewis last week gave the impression
of a man who has brooded long on an old bitter-
ness. He predicted "an ignominious defeat" for a
Roosevelt third term. The present mood seems
to date from Roosevelt's "plague on both your
houses." In the 1936 campaign the mine work-
ers of the C. I. O. gave $5 00,000 for Roosevelt's
re-election.

1940 Hopefuls

Farley in Winston-Salem called for fair play
toward business and moderation in solving eco-
nomic problems and a hint of opposition to a
third term.

Dewey in Portland, Maine, declared for an ade-
quate two-ocean navy jud against the big pub-
lic debt.

Wheeler rather cmbarrassedly accepted an ova-
tion from the C. I. O. as it unofficially endorsed
his candidacy for the Presidency.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1940 No. 13

Published weekly, excepc during holidays and examination
periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphcy
Candler building, lintercd as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year,
$1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

The first swr of

THE CIVIL WAR WAS
FIRED BY CADETS
FROM THE CITADEL.
AM Li VARY OXLBob OF S.C

Vlrcinia Clower

Jeannctte Carroll

Elaine Stubbs

Alumnae Editor

Assistant Editors

Susan Self

Florence Ellis

Club Editor

Advertising Manager

Elolse Lennard

Rebecca Drueker

Society Editor

Copy Editor

Anne Enloe
(leorgia Hunt
Betty Jean O'Brien
Feature Editors

Lib Barrett

OllTla White

Anne Frierson
Molly Oliver
Betty Sunderland

Virginia Williams

Assistant Society Editors

Doris Wolnkle
Assistant Feature Editors

Ernestine Cass
Circulation Manager

Betty Jane Stevenson
Current History Editor

Lucille Gaines
Mary M. Templeton

Anne Martin

Edith Stover

Sports Editor

Polly Waro

Hazel Solomon

Mary M. Wisdom

Exchange Editor

Circulation Assistants

C A. Seeks
Basis for Work

Last week there was an editorial on this
page commending several campus organi-
zations for their efforts toward re-evalu-
ating their functions. The questionnaire
to be distributed tomorrow by Christian
Association is a product of the movement.

Christian Association has found its
fundamental service to be the preserva-
tion and fostering of religious life among
five hundred students. To set about this
task with any hope for success, the Asso-
ciation realizes that it must first know
what sort of religious life already exists
among those five hundred. The carefully
prepared questionnaire seems a simple, di-
rect, and efficacious means to this end.

But only if the five hundred subjects
of the questionnaire cooperate in filling it
out thoughtfully, can it be used as a sound
basis for future Christian Association
work. This is a chance to help a major
campus organization in its sincere effort
toward growth and increased service
value.

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Exchanges

Embarrassing moment: Greater Boston's untold
thousands of debating fans were foiled a few days
ago when they sat down to listen to a Harvard-
M. I. T. word battle broadcast. Reason: Both
teams had prepared negative
arguments, and no one was
ready to uphold the affirma-
tive side. Result: Strauss
w r altzes were heard instead of
m the debate.

From the Emory Wheel
comes further evidence of the
cooperative system between
Agnes Scott and Emory. Eight
student violinists have joined
the Emory Little Symphony Solomon
Orchestra in its forthcoming presentation of the
Fifth Symphony of Beethoven, Dr. Malcolm
Dewey, director, has announced.

Some girls keep scrap books during their col-
lege days in order to preserve the memory of
campus and off-campus activity. Others collect
autographs of their college friends for the same
reason. But a more original way to keep one's
souvenirs is being discussed at Ward-Belmont.
The Hyphen reports that students may b$ able
to buy records of the campus sounds, selected by
lists of preferences for possible recording. "The
Bells of Ward-Belmont," sung by the students,
heads the lists. Second is the rendition of the
alma mater on the chimes.

Reporters: M. Bedlnper. B. Bradfleld, E. Burruss. J. Gates,
A. Chamhless. L. Franklin. M. Gray. J. Lancaster, E. McCall.
J. Osborne. T. Ripley. M. Seafcle. G. Slack. V. Stanley. J.
Stearns. C. Stuckey. V. Watklns. C. Willis. J. Wltman.
Business Assistants: L Barrett. M. S. Dlllard. F. Graham.
S. Kaulbark. W. Leavltt. If. Oliver. S. Phillips. L. Schwenrke.
M. Simpson. M. Templeton. M Tonmey. P. Ware. M Watklns.
A Wilds.

New Mexico School
Seek Better Life

Students here at Eastern New Mexico College,
cramped for room in which to study and hold
class, have their own way of seeking help.

Under a plan just devised, every legislator in
New Mexico will hear from one student in his con-
stituency, respectfully asking that legislator to
investigate conditions at the college and to decide
for himself whether the conditions are good.

Here arc the reasons for this unusual campaign.

1. Over 4)0 of the 700 students at E. N. M. C.
are working their way through under the college's
plan, which is almost unique in the United States.

2. More than half the student body has to
study on the steps, on the grass, in waiting busses,
or in the halls of our lone class-room building.
The library is so over-crowded at all hours that
six or eight sit at a table.

3. With an enrollment far greater than that
for any other similar school in New Mexico, the
college is receiving only a pittance in money as
compared with what these other smaller colleges
get.

4. The whole town of Portalcs helps make
E. N. M. C. the startling success that it is. Stu-
dents get a month's board in town for $15, and a
room for a month, and most of them work for
part of that. Students overflow the whole town,
working in every conceivable place.

Under the plan, a letter will be drawn up to
every legislator, and typewritten. Each student
then will get a copy of this letter and send it off
to the legislator for his particular district.
(ACP)

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940

Z115

No. 14

Forum Offers

Students

Transportation

Speakers, Leaders
Include Dr. Thomas Reed,
Miss Mildred Mell

Transportation facilities are be-
ing provided for any Agnes Scott
students who are interested in at-
tending discussions of "Improve-
ment of Local Government in the
South", sponsored jointly by the
National Municipal League, and
the Institute of Citizenship, at the
Piedmont Hotel, Tuesday, Febru-
ary 6 through Thursday, February
8, according to Dr. Philip David-
son, who is in charge of arrange-
ments for the Institute.

Speakers and forum leaders in-
clude some of the best known
civic leaders and sociologists in the
country. Among fthem are Dr.
Thomas Reed, originator of the
Reed Survey of conditions of local
government, who talks Wednesday
afternoon on "Problems of Metro-
politan Areas," and Miss Mildred
Mell, professor of Economics and
Sociology at Agnes Scott.

Ralph McGill, associate editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, is act-
ing as toastmaster for the banquet
Wednesday night. Mayor William
B. Hartsfield delivered the princi-
pal address, "The Engineer and
Politics, " at the opening session
February 6, at 8:00.

Mortar Board

onsors

Test

In an attempt to make the cam-
pus "etiquette-conscious," Mortar
Board is again sponsoring a social
usage test Wednesday afternoon
from 4:00 until 5:30 in 205 But-
rick Hall. The questions are to be
the same as those given last year,
but there will be no charge for tak-
ing the test; freshmen and new
students are especially urged to
take it. Plans are being made to
return the corrected tests which
were taken last year, if they can
be found.

As further incentive to improve
campus manners, copies of a new
etiquette book, written by mem-
bers of Mortar Board and edited
by Evelyn Baty to give pointers on
correct behavior, are to be distrib-
uted to students Friday, free of
charge. This booklet, which was
compiled from suggestions made
by the faculty and students, deals
with topics of both general and
campus interest. It includes infor-
mation ranging from how to go to
Decatur in safety, to how much to
tip the porter on a week-end trip.

Enough copies of the booklet
have been printed to give one to
each student enrolled this year,
with a surplus intended for next
year's freshmen and transfers.
Further publication will be under
the direction of succeeding chap-
ters of Mortar Board.

Alley Reigns Over May Court

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Carolyn Alley, chosen May Queen last week, will preside over the
festival May 4. Nominations for the court will be made in chapel Fri-
day. The program this year, entitled "The Heritage of Woman," was
written by a committee of alumnae.

Dr. McCain Heads
College Group

Association Seeks
Cooperation of Colleges

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
the college, and Dr. Philip David-
son, professor of history, returned
Saturday from Macon, where Dr.
McCain was elected president of
the Association of Georgia Col-
leges at the twenty-fourth annual
session of that body February 2
and 3.

The program this year was not
taken up by a consideration of any
specific problems. The members,
heads of the leading colleges, uni-
versities and junior colleges of
Georgia, discussed a variety of sub-
jects, one of the highlights being
a talk on "How Private and Pub-
lic Colleges May Coordinate Their
Work So As to Make the Greatest
Contribution to Society" by Dr.
Davidson.

Personnel Head
Discusses Careers

In connection with the program
of the class in Applied Psychology,
which stresses vocational guid-
ance, Miss Frances Rannells, head
o^ the Training Division of the
Personnel Department of Rich's,
will be in room 102, Buttrick Hall,
February 8 at 11:30 to talk on
"Careers for College Women in
Retail Stores." Miss Katherine
Omwake, assistant professor of
Psychology and Education, who is
in charge of the Applied Psychol-
ogy class, has issued an invitation
to all students who are interested
in learning about personnel work
as a career, and to anyone who may
be interested in knowing about the
various opportunities open to col-
lege women in a department store.

Dr. Long Conducts
Religious Week

Integrated Christian Personality 7
Forms Theme for Series of Talks

Dr. Roswell C. Long, pastor of First Presbyterian Church
of Greenwood, S. C, will be the speaker this year for Reli-
gious Emphasis Week, beginning Tuesday, February 13, and
extending through Saturday, February 17. Dr. Long has had
experience with similar services on other campuses and also
in summer conferences for young people. Throughout his

ministry, his work with youth has
been especially recognized.

Using as his theme "Integrated
Christian Personality," Dr. Long
will speak in chapel every morning
next week. Each morning address
except the one Saturday morning
will be followed the same after-
noon or night with a discussion
group. Students from Emory and
Georgia Tech are being invited to
take part in two of these groups.
To help acquaint Dr. Long with
the problems on this campus, a
group of representative girls has
been picked to discuss them with
him Monday night, February 12.
In addition to these groups there
will be an opportunity for per-
sonal conferences at various times
during the day. Appointments for
these may be arranged through
Jane Moses.

Tuesday, February 13, 4:30-
5:30, there will be an informal re-
ception for Dr. Long in the Mur-
phey Candler Building to which
the whole college community is in-
vited. He will be the guest of the
college in the dining rooms for
both lunch and dinner. Students
may make reservations with Jane
Moses to have him at their tables.

(A schedule of Dr. Long's visit
is on page 4, column 4.)

Coming This Week

Wednesday, February 7
Social Usage test for
freshmen 4:00 P. M.-
5:30 P.M., 105 Buttrick.

Thursday, February 8
Miss Rannells' talk
to Psychology Classes,
11:30 A. M.

Friday, February 9 Bas-
ketball game in gym
at 7:30. "

Saturday, February 10
Sophomore Candy Pull.

Tuesday, February 13
Religious Emphasis
Week opens.

Mardi Gras Spectators
Return With Suggestions

Plans for the junior class Mardi
Gras, scheduled for April 6, are be-
ing directed by Chairman Martha
Moody. So far no theme has been
selected, but the juniors expect to
start work next week, when several
members of the class return from
a visit to Mardi Gras in New Or-
leans with suggestions for present-
ing the campus production.

Mumps, Dame Nature

Retard Growth of New Building

By Bee Bradfield

Very few of us realize just how much detail there is to building a structure such as the
Presser Building Most of us have a vague idea about a few blue prints, a pile of planks,
and a few stones being tossed together result, a Gothic building. It is rather shocking
to find there are dozens of blue prints, a certain ki nd of plank for each structure, and a

particular stone for every purpose.

When asked how the "new
building" (as the Presser structure
has bee"n definitely dubbed) was
progressing, Mr. Cunningham ob-
ligingly brought out two dozen
blue prints and explained what has
been happening over beyond Butt-
rick while we were bus^ trying to
keep afoot on the ice-covered cam-
pus.

The architect, unfortunately,
has a case of good old-fashioned
mumps, but the man in charge of
the carpenters is right on the job
up to his knees in galoshes and
other keep-dry apparel. Inciden-
tally, when he walks up to the
building, then leisurely backs off
to a nice sunny spot by Buttrick,
sticks his hands in his pockets, and
gazes fondly at the rising columns,
he is NOT day dreaming of the

finished auditorium as most of us
are. He is just making sure every-
thing is in line, and no delay will
be caused by a mislaid board.

Unlike most construction jobs,
vthe one here had to employ a fire-
tender due to inclement weather!
The reason for these fires around
our chapel-to-be was discussed pro
and con by ASC's interested and
mystified students. The final con-
clusion of one junior who had giv-
en the matter her serious thought
between the library and Rebekah
one night was that automobiles
might run into the new founda-
tions! She was right in the fact
that it is a protective measure,
but just a wee bit mistaken about
WHAT the building was being
guarded against. If she had fol-
lowed the motto of the French
police, "Cherchez la femme," she'd

have found Dame Nature to be
responsible for the row of fires.
The object was to keep the newly
poured concrete from freezing.
Trying to avoid delay, the men
had poured it; then the tempera-
ture dropped from over 50 to 18
degrees. Naturally, it was danger-
ous, but no one can tell yet wheth-
er any damage has been done or
not because the concrete cannot
be unwrapped until it has thor-
oughly set. And that is the "set-
up" as we see it today.

As a whole, however, the prog-
ress on the building has been as
constant as weather would permit,
and barring any more freak antics
of the elements, we should be en-
joying the soundproof (Happy
Day!) practice rooms and comfor-
table auditorium by next Septem-
ber.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1940

Postmistresses Reveal
Pet Complaints

By Virginia Williams

"Using Dr. Davidson as the head of a home-making de-
partment and acting as a lonely hearts bureau are only parts
of the job of a postmistress," say Mary Ellen Whetsell and

Mary Hollingsworth

A lonely Citadel freshman wrote
a pathetic card to "box 408," say-
ing that he had box 408 at the
Citadel and he wished that box at
Agnes Scott would write to him.
Unfortunately, Agnes Scott has
no box 40 8. The nearest number
to it is on the box of Dr. Hayes.

Dr. Philip Davidson gets all the
mail pertaining to domestic mat-
ters. As the head of the non-ex-
istent home economics department,

his mail of helpful hints to the
housewife is abundant.

The postmistresses have numer-
ous pet complaints. Mary Hol-
lingsworth wishes that people
would stop signing "Self" when
they get their packages, because
that makes Susan Self appear re-
sponsible for practically all the
packages which come.

About 150 letters come in each
mail, but Mary Ellen and Mary

Miss Imelda Mullens, one of the Singing Mullens Sisters Trio, demonstrates the
correct apparel for a vacation in the West: red silk shirt and matching neckerchief,
boots inlaid with miniature steer-heads, riding trousers, and a nail-head-studded belt.
Her advice comes through courtesy of the CBS Fashion Service.

Granddaughters
Conduct Radio Program

The Granddaughters Club will
produce the Agnes Scott radio pro-
gram over ^y/SB this afternoon at
five o'clock. Through letters of
Agnes Scott students and their
mothers who were Agnes Scott
graduates, the broadcast will show
the changes made by the college
in fifty years.

groan that it's not the letters that
are the bane of their existence, but
the notices; that is, tiny notices
which - are not arranged alphabeti-
cally and which take ten minutes
to unfold.

Another problem for the mail
room is the Smiths. There are three
boarder Smiths and three day stu-
dents. "Names do get you," sigh-
ed Mary Hollingsworth. "I go to
sleep at night saying Willstatter,
Wilson, Wisdom, or Woodford,
Woolford, Woodall."

On Tuesday the mail room is
faced with the problem of getting
three New York Times into Betty
Prosnit's box. It is a physical im-
possibility. Dr. Swanson's samples
are another matter to develop the
gray hairs of the postmistresses.

Among a host of woes people
yelling while they put up mail, not
signing for packages there is one
happy possibility for the keepers of
the mail.. Sometimes seniors grad-
uate leaving subscriptions to maga-
zines. But Mary sheds gloom over
even this simple joy by reminding
Mary Ellen that Martha Marshall's
subscription to Mademoiselle has
just expired.

Journalist Speaks Here;
Debaters Choose

Mr. Jim Brumby, advertising
manager of the Atlanta Journal,
will address KUB at an open meet-
ing of the club Wednesday after-
noon at 4:3 0 in the Murphey
Candler Building.

Nine new members were admit-
ted to Pi Alpha Phi as a result of
recent tryouts. They are Jeanne
Eakin, Bette Burdette, Judith
Grccnburg, Dot Grumann, Thyra
Gwin, Mary Lovelace Moody, Mary
Klingensmith, Susan Spurlock, and
Mary Ward.

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Of course an ideal society column would list every single
person who went to certain functions. However, Agnes Scott
girls go to so many different affairs, and in such large num-
bers, that even the most wide-awake staff can't know what

everybody does. This fact is es-
pecially true

when a number of
d i f f e ren t
schools and
organi-
zations
choose the
same week-
e n d to
have their
functions.

To begin
with, Tech
had three
days of
dancing,
Eddie Duchin.
Among those there at one time or
another were Marjorie Wilson,
Mary Klingensmith, Marion Phil-
lips, Dot Holloran, Carolyn Alley,
Sue Phillips, Margaret Mary
Toomey, June Boykin, Mary Louise
Palmour, Edith Dale, Glenwyn
Young, Betty Lee Clarkson, Mar-
tha Dunn, Hartwell Bishop, Lil-
lian Gudenrath, Laura Cumming,
Margaret Downie, Nancy Hirsch,
Betty Jean O'Brien, Katsy Blair,
Mary Robertson, Susan Cochran,
Pat Perry, Irene Gordon, Kay Wil-
kinson, Grace Ward, Georgia Tate,
Frances Abbott, Margaret Hart-
sook, Anne Gellerstedt, Eugenia
Hailey, Helen McFayden, and Judy
Greenberg.

Friday night the KA's had
their formal. Val Nielson, Ruth
Slack, Sara Copeland, Margaret
Downie, Sara Gray Hollis, and
Mary Dean Lott were present there,
while at the med dance that same
night, Olivia White, Shirley Ann
Smith, Marjorie Boggs, Grace Eliz-

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On Saturday night, among those
going to Interfraternity were
Olivia White, Carolyn Alley, Katsy
Blair, Iddy Boone, Lillian Guden-
rath, Marian Franklin, Barbara Lee
Murlin, Eloise Lennard, Pat Flem-
ing, Sara Copeland, Ann Geller-
stedt, Bette Burdette, Harriet
Vaughn, Dot Holloran, Jane Mc-
Donough, Mary Matthews, Bizelle
Roberts, Jessie MacGuire, Margaret
Hamilton, Ida Jane Vaughn, Nina
Broughton, Florrie Guy, Charlene
Burke, Betty Waitt, and Susan
Self.

Of course, that group of girls
who went home with Lib Barrett
for Mardi Gras deserves space m
this column. They are Margaret
Murchison, Flonnie Ellis, Lil-
lian Schwencke, and Rowena
Barringer. Also out of town
were Sara Lee, Pattie Patterson,
and Grace Walker, who went to
dances at Davidson, Gloria Brain-
lette, who went to fancy dress at
W. & L., and Mary Robertson,
who attended Sewanee mid-win-
ters. Susanne Kaulbach also went
to Athens for the KA dance
there.

Faculty Members Attend
University Center Meet

Dr. Philip Davidson and Dr.
Mary McDougall are in Athens at
the University of Georgia for a
conference connected with the
University Center project.

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3

Students, Faculty
Give Varied Definitions

By Anne Enloe

"She has a wonderful sense of humor!" says Henrietta
Thompson, president of Student Government. "But she may
be terribly bothered by other peoples' alleged sense of hu-
mor," adds Miss Muriel Harn.

"She is a seeker after the truth, and I don't mean the melo-
dramatically. I think that is what she really comes to col-
lege for,'* insists Ruth Slack, whose

nickname should certainly not be
"Stupie."

"The virtues I most admire in
her . . . she never gives me a lot of
alibis. And when she doesn't know
the answer to a question, she
frankly says she doesn't know, and
doesn't put up a lot of bluff or
beat around any bushes. She is al-
ways honest in that respect." That
from Miss Thelma Albright, and
the interviewer asked, "Do you
mean 'bulling' when you say
'bluffing'," for Miss Albright is
new at Agnes Scott. And she af-
firmed my idea.

"She is well xounded, but she
gives first thought always to the
actual knowledge that she is gain-
ing, for that is the part of her col-
lege life that will stay with her
longest. She never makes that ex-
cuse that her extra-curricular
work keeps her from her class
work." Coming from Miss Carrie
Scandrett this should be seriously
considered, for she has seen many
successes and failures go away
from the sheltering arms.

Ail these testimonials are not
given in honor of a certain senior,
whose name would immediately

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Taken at Emory

As a part of the cooperative pro-
gram between Agnes Scott and
Emory, Agnes Scott students who
want to major in journalism or
business administration will be
able to take courses in these sub-
jects at Emory next year.

At the present time a few Ag-
nes Scott students are taking elec-
tive courses at Emory. Under the
new plan students from this cam-
pus are eligible to take courses at
Emory for any of the sixteen Ag-
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According to President J. R.
McCain, of Agnes Scott, details of
the courses will be explained in
the new catalogue which comes
out next week.

come into the mind of any of her
friends who read them. Instead
they are attributes that each of the
above people would consider the
property of "the perfect student,
if there were one."

Whether it is a compliment or
a dirty dig, it should be added that
every single person interviewed
wanted to know first of all if the
requirements were for the perfect
student or the perfect college girl.
After hearing the answer to the
puzzling question, we still wonder
which was meant.

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Seniors/ Sophs
Repeat Victories

Freshmen Lose, 8-22;
Seniors Make 43 Points

The seniors and sophomores add-
ed another victory to their records
by defeating the juniors and fresh-
men Friday afternoon. The score
in the freshman-sophomore game
was 8-22, and in the junior-senior
game, 35-43.

In the freshman-sophomore
game, the freshmen showed a
marked improvement in their
shooting and guarding. The sopho-
mores missed more balls than usual,
but chalked up 1 1 goals to win.
Dunn and D. Webster each made
four goals, and A. Webster, A.
Wilds, and Thomas shot one apiece.
For the freshmen, Moore and Bates
divided honors, making four points
each.

Milner Leads Scoring

The juniors and seniors battled^
furiously to a close finish. The
forwards of both teams scored goal
after goal. Milner led both teams
in scoring all of 2 5 points, fol-
lowed by Dyar with 22 points.
Slack made twelve points, Stubbs
nine, MacGarity four, and Carson
made three goals, one of which was
a long over-hand shot from a far
corner.

The lineups were:

Seniors: Milner, Carson, Slack,
Moses, Ware, Forman.

Juniors: Dyar, Stubbs, McGar-
rity, Klugh, Kendrick, Williams.

Sophomores: D. Webster, A.
Webster, Dunn, Brooks, Geller-
stedt, Lott.

Freshmen: Wiesmann, Moore,
Bates, Dale, Rountree, Cummings.

Substitutes: Bradfield, Long,
Currie, MacGuire, Wilds, Thomas.

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Campus Quotes

"Which is more important, so-
cial activity or extra-curricular ac-
tivity on the campus in college?"
has been a question of vital con-
cern to today's college student.
Here a cross-section of students
choose be-
tween the
"social but-
t e r f 1 y"
and the
BWOC.

Mary
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Elcan, '42,

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a stu-
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do everything. I think that one of
the hardest things a girl has to
face is drawing the line between
the purely social and the extra-
curricular activities. But I believe
that the experience that a girl gets
on the campus will ultimately be
of more value to her."

Anne Paisley, '42, says:

. . that the activities in which
a girl engages along the extra-cur-
ricular line will probably do more
to develop her character than just
being a 'social butterfly.' I think
that if a girl really wants to, she
can balance her activities."

Bee Bradfield, '42, says:
"* . . neither is more important.
You can't leave off your purely so-
cial life for four years, then start
up again all of a sudden. If you
have to make a choice, choose the
four years of activity on the cam-
pus."

Caroline Smith, 43, feels:
that meeting and knowing the
people on our own campus through
extra-curricular activities is more

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the candy pull, the sophomores
offer a barn dance, a floor show,
and a sing for entertainment. Ad-
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McDonough Fills Vacancy
On Executive Council

At the last meeting of the fresh-
man class, Jane McDonough was
elected freshman representative on
Student Government to fill the
vacancy left by Margaret Gal-
laher's resignation.

Student Government will not
hold the regular monthly open
forum in chapel February 8. Hen-
rietta Thompson has announced
that the period will be turned over
to Christian Association to use in
connection with its program dur-
ing Religious Emphasis Week.

valuable. I just don't see how an
Agnes Scott girl could get along
without knowing all the wonderful
people here."

Anne Scott, '43, thinks:
. . that the social activity on
the campus should be more impor-
tant to a college student, because
her fellowship can be more mean-
ingful than that which she would
get at dances and other purely so-
cial activities that are in no way
connected with school life."

Ruth AllgOod, '41, adds:
. . it depends on what a girl
wants to do after she leaves college.
If she wants to be a 'social success'
she had better begin now. If she
wants to be a 'civic leader' she had
better begin now. But in either
case I think that the contacts that
she had off the campus will be
good because the environment of
only one place may tend to narrow
her point of view."

Lutie Moore, '40, concludes:
*. . . It would be bad to have to
make the choice. To be balanced
you have to have both. Extra-cur-
ricular activities certainly help to
develop your leadership and sense
of responsibility, but you don't
have much of a chance to learn to
work with men. After all, half the
people in the world are men, you
know."

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Doctor's Bldg.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940

Campus Camera

Albert and Thomas Palnaerlee v
twin algebra instructors at the
univ. of kansas, confuse students
with duplicate faces as well as
' ' ' duplicate problems '

Negro butlers of ike u. of
alabama fraternities have
a fraternity of their own
-tub sigma king /

Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

>eing ex-

These days you never can tell
what's going to happen next. Why
look at Scotty Wilds. You
wouldn't think of
actly the
v a m p i r e
type, with
sloe eyes
and raven
locks, that
lures men
to their
destruction.
No, be-
cause she's
a blonde
and Gen-

O'Brien

tlemen prefer blondes. . . . But
wait. . . . The other night when
Scotty was plugging away at the
switchboard, a masculine voice
rang in and inquired whom he was
addressing, and Miss Wilds inform-
ed him with never a thought of the
fate she was bringing down on her
unsuspecting head- Well, this slug
(for he turned out to be no gen-
tleman, and there's no use in de-
luding the public) carries on quite
a conversation, and declares he is
mortally stricken in his left ven-
tricle by the vocal charms of the
voung lady and must needs come
out and worship at her shrine. She
cuts him off like a leaky faucet
and thinks no more about it. But
that night she returns to the cam-
pus to find that an ardent suitor
has called her millions of times,
and finally declared his firm in-
tentions of visiting Miss "Wars'*
a slightly garbled version of the
surname aforestated. After throw-
ing Rebekah into an uproar, the
young gentleman finally makes his
appearance in .i slightlv inebriated
condition, not in the Main Build-
ing where "all business is transact-
ed and visitors arc received," but
m the lobby of Reb! Oh horrible,
horrible, most horrible!! (Apolo-
gies to Shakespeare and Dr. Hayes.)
Such devotion as the above must
be deserved. Moral: If vou can't
join the Lonely Hearts become an

Agnes Scott switchboard operator.

Professorial Presentations :

Dr. Hayes solemnly observed in
European classics the following an-
achronism: "Aristotle said in his
letter to Sir Walter Raleigh . . ."
Some correspondence. . . . Now
we come to the sad story of Mrs.
Fox, who stood in line and bought
tickets for GWTW, and the day
preceding the performance, her
husband fell down stairs and broke
his arm. She stood in line again and
purchased two more, and she came
down with the flu the day before.
And /hen, she stood in line again
and bought tickets, and every pre-
caution was taken to prevent any
possible mishap, and the street car
on which they were to triumphant-
ly ride to town with twenty-five
minutes to spare jumped the track
for the first and only time in re-
cent history, and after all this
Foxyssey they didn't get to the
show until after the barbecue . . .
in the picture. . . . Ain't that
fierce?

And won't you take a peek at
Miss Harn, who caught the Arctic
lever and, like a polar bear, but
with a different pelt, appeared in
.i new and gorgeous fur coat.

Anonvmi: There was the girl
in the infirmary who was struggl-
ing valiantly to think of Hor-
tense's name, and began shouting
"Hosannah" at the top of her
voice. Fortunately there w r ere no
witnesses to answer "Amen." . . .
The nightmare of all g6od A. S. C.
girls has come true; the one of get-
tin- stuck in the mud at the end
of Fraternity Row at Emory, when
you were only just passing by.
Three of the girls did that very
thing, and were actually stuck in
the mud and couldn't get out, un-
til the heavens opened and SAE's
poured out and chivalrously help-
ed the girls from the Slough of
Despond. . . . And they really
hadn't gone to see anybody. . . .
And of course the freshman who
came up to the Student Gov't
booth at the President's Council
Tea, which booth was profusely

Stevenson

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Collective Insecurity

The importance of the Balkan Entente was
negated at the first session. They agreed that each
of the four countries (Rumania, Yugoslavia,
Greece, and Turkey) must fend for itself in the
future. This looks rather
bad for Rumania, who had
hoped for a binding military
alliance. "Economic neutral-
ity" is in the air, but Greece
and Turkey are probably
bound too closely to England
already for it to function.

If Winter Comes

The Finnish men behind
the barricade of the Manner-
heim Line never fought bet-
ter than last week. New
techniques were used by the Russians in the heav-
iest attack yet: armored sleds to guard a tank
advance, planes above, heavy artillery, all at
once. Yet President Kallio's offer of an "honor-
able peace" recalls the menace of overwhelming
odds that will exist with the coming of spring.

State of a Nation

The Japanese people seem far from happy in
their war. There are rumors of food and fuel
shortages and liberal newspapers whisper disap-
proval. Words never seem to keep the militarists
from pushing through their programs, but at
least definite, open criticism was spoken in the
Diet. In an argument over a huge new seven year
arms program, Takao Saito called on the govern-
ment openly to withdraw their troops from China.
Result: his resignation from the leadership of the
strongest political party in Japan.

Cactus Jack

National events are intervening (purposely?)
to shed a brighter light on Georgia's local fight
on a preferential primary. The public exchange
of letters between Senator George (soliciting)
and Vice-President Garner (accepting an invita-
tion) to place the latter's name on Georgia's
hypothetical primary should make the whole af-
fair more lively. Of course, Governor Rivers, as
head of the Democratic Committee in Georgia,
may do as he pleases, but the publicity will make
it harder for him to resist future pressure.

Election Year Economy

It's an unusual situation when Congressmen
are extravagantly economical. Election year is
having the regular effect, only more so. The cuts
on next year's farm bill are 50% below this year's
appropriation and 20% below the President's
budget estimate. The cut alone is equal to the
annual cost of the entire maintenance and opera-
tion of the government of the U. S. before the
World War. "

Religious Week-
Take or Leave It

Psychologists have found that a change
in religious thought occurs in the average
individual during college years. Doubt,
they say, enters the mind of the normal
youth, causing him to think the problem
out for himself. Questions rise within
him; he has learned to question and rea-
son in academic work.

"And many a knot unravelled by the way,
But not the master-knot of human fate."

When the annual Religious Emphasis
Week opens Tuesday, Christian Associa-
tion will have brought a man here to help
answer these questions. Dr. Long has
proved himself valuable in work with
young people; he comes to the campus
highly recommended. His group discus-
sions are reputedly stimulating and well-
directed. He brings wide experience and
specialized thought to the task of working
out common problems.

Of course, the individual must draw his
own conclusions as to religion; the Reli-
gious Emphasis Week leader comes to
tell us not what to think, but how. His
purpose is to (1) stimulate and (2) dirod.

Furthermore, the week is not designed
exclusively for ministers' daughters and
CA cabinet members; it is for average
people who have never let religion pother
them particularly. These are the people
who make it worth the trouble; and,
strange though it seems, they are the
ones who will be most interested in the
discussions if they will just step out of
character and come to them.

Editorial Notes

Etiquette Week
Neglects Mail Room

"Yes, and the only thing wrong with
two cotton stockings is, they're cotton. "
If this is your reaction to yesterday's
chapel talk, you're too busy matching
hair-ribbofis and shoestrings.

The story was pushed off the news
pages; but we feel it our duty to remind
you that "No Time for Comedy," with
Katharine Cornell, is coming to Atlanta
next week.

This being Etiquette Week, we are sur-
prised though not very that the mail
room at 8:57 has not changed a bit.

decorated with "busy" signs and
suchlike S. G. impedimenta, and
inquired as to whether that was
the Phi Beta Kappa Booth in a
brown study. . . . Henri, of course,
who was an inmate, quickly en-
lightened her . \ .

Nomination lor the Week's
Fur - Lined Bathtub: Lutie

Moore strolling with what she
tirmlv hoped was a nonchalant air
into her nine o'clock class in her
evening dress, etc. . . . Explanation
concerns shift of cars and over-
night bag and is irrelevant here . . .

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV No. 14

Wednesday, February 7, 1940

Published weekly, except holidays
and examination periods, by the stu-
dents cf Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on
scond floor Murphey Candler building.
Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip-
tion price per year, $1.25; single
copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor
Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

CA Announces Dr. Longs Schedule

MORNING

AFTERNOON

Feb. 12

Feb. 13 "Integrated %
Christian
Personality"
(Chapel)

Feb. 1 I "Integrated
Christian
Personality
and Race"
(Chapel)

Feb.] 5 "Integrated
Personality
and War"
(Chapel)

Feb. 16 "Integrated
Christian
Personality
and the Eco-
nomic Order"
(Chapel)

Informal Recep-
tion

(4:30-5:30)

Discussion on

"Race"

(4:30-5:30)

Individual confer-
ences with Dr.
Long may be ar-

NIGKT

Discussion of
Campus problems
with representa-
tive group
(7:30-8:30)

Discussion group
on "Integrated
Christian
Personality"
(7:00-8:00)

Discussion with
C. A. Cabinets
(7:00-8:00)

Discussion group
with boys on
"War"

Discussion group
with boys on *The
ranged on these Economic Order"
afternoons. (7:00-8:00)

Feb. 17-

-"Integrated
Christian
Personality
and All Areas
of Living"
(Chapel)

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940

Z115

No. 15

Arkwright
Directs Center
Program

Alumnae Set $100,000
For Hopkins Hall;
College Plans Opening

Mr. Preston S. Arkwright, Presi-
dent of Georgia Power Company,
was .unanimously chosen chairman
of the University Center Move-
ment at the mass meeting of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
last week. Mr. Arkwright is well-
known for his interest in southern
educational^ institutions; he was
chairman of the campaign of 1915
in which a million dollars was
raised to move the site of Emory
University from Oxford, Ga., to
Atlanta.

The objective of the present
campaign is $7,500,000 for which
Agnes Scott must raise $1,000,000
and Emory $4,000,000 in order to
earn the $2,500,000 which the
General Education Board of New
York has offered to promote the
University Center.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation has set $100,000, to be
used to erect a new dormitory,
Hopkins Hall, as a memorial to
Miss Nannette Hopkins. Dr. J. R.
McCain and the Alumnae Associa-
tion hope that the building will be
completed by the time school
opens in 1941.

Class Appoints Thompson '
Senior Opera Chairman

The senior class has elected Hen-
rietta Thompson chairman of the
committee in charge of plans for
the annual senior opera, to be pre-
sented Friday evening, May 3. An-
nouncement of plot and characters
is to be made later.

Seniors Prepare
For Founder's Day

Enloe Heads
Program Committee

Skits in White House and Rebe-
kah Scott dining halls, followed
by a holiday banquet and a dance
in the gym for the college com-
munity, will be features of the an-
nual Founder's Day celebration
held in honor of George Washing-
ton Scott on February 22.

Anne Enloe is program chair-
man, Boots Moore is in charge of
decorations, and Barbara Lee Mur-
lin has charge of the costuming.
The skits will emphasize colonial
events and costumes; the dancing
will include a minuet by members
of the senior class.

Alumnae celebration of Found-
er's Day will take the form of a
banquet at the Atlanta Athletic
Club Thursday night. Scott Cand-
ler will be the guest speaker, and
one feature of the entertainment
will be a group of songs corres-
ponding in point of time to the de-
velopment of Agnes Scott College.

Students Jump to Define
Ideal Faculty Member

"What is the ideal faculty member?" With this question
as bait, the interviewer was stampeded with shouts from all
over the campus, from all classes and all types the P. B. K.
and the "inel."

"It's Dr. Davidson!" cried one prominent senior athlete,
swooning atthe very thought. But when asked please to get
away from personalities, the blonde with long tresses who
was with her said: "The ideal faculty member is one who

sees things, from your point of view
occasionally and doesn't try to drill
all her own conceptions of things
into your skull."

"He or she is a human being and
isn't shy about letting her stu-
dents know that she is one. AND
above all things she has a sense of
humor and lets it out to graze
even during class hours," says an
alumna who is back on the cam-
pus this year. And her views might
be taken as the general campus
opinion.

"She is as nice in conference as
she is in class, or vice versa," is
the opinion of one freshman. "She
is impersonal in class," says anoth-
er. "But she is interested in each
member of her classes as a person,"
adds the third. And all the class
of 1943 seems to be of one mind
in the idea that the perfect prof
gives a cut once in a while; it helps
the pride when one hasn't any cut-
ting privileges of her own.

Approaching a group of sopho-
mores, the press gleaned some more
mature views. Said one, "The ideal
teacher is above all else a student."
"And he doesn't use violent meas-
ures such as desk pounding and
shouting at the cringing class,"
was another idea expressed. "She
organizes her lecture so as to per-
mit the taking of intelligible notes,
but she doesn't organize them to

the extent of excluding any valu-
able discussion the class may want
to bring up." "But on the other
hand," returned another, "I don't
think she takes up time with in-
consequential matters."

And a junior pounces on the
above soph opinion with, "He
makes you think, no matter what
method he has to use." Another
says, "He is human and all that,
but above all he is a scholar and a
teacher."

A senior BWOC says, "She wel-
comes student opinion. And she
encourages intelligent discussion in
her classes instead of scaring peo-
ple out of their wits. In somewhat
the same manner she makes you do
your outside work, but makes you
do it because you are interested in
the course rather than because you
are scared not to."

That reminds us of the remark
made by a certain teacher, who is
considered tops herself, to the ef-
fect that she never wanted a stu-
dent to cut her classes because she
had not read the lesson. "Read it
if you possibly can, but don't stay
away if you haven't had time to;
I'd rather have you here unprepar-
ed than not have you here at all."
Give us more faculty members
like that and we'll approach our
ideal.

Dr. McCain Opens
Radio Series

Dr. J. R. McCain and Mrs.
Murdock Equen, '21, president
of the Alumnae Association, will
inaugurate a series of four discus-
sion programs on "The Future De-
velopment of the College" this aft-
ernoon at five o'clock over WSB.

The program last Wednesday
afternoon was under the auspices

of the Granddaughters' Club.
Those on the program were Gene
Slack, Katherine Patton, and Mrs.
S. G. Stukes, '24. Laura Sale, '41,
was the voice of Agnes Scott.

Juniors Plan
Fashion Parade

Fashions to suit the taste of both
the conservative and the super-
stylish will be paraded in the jun-
ior class Fashion Show February
20 at 7:3 0 in the chapel. Most of
the 3 6 to 40 outfits to be shown
were selected at Davison-Paxon,
and every one was passed on by a
number of style experts.

Costumes for morning, noon,
and night will be modelled by Mar-
tha Dunn, Jean Dennison, Frances
Bourke, Charlene Burke, Martha
Moody, Nina Broughton, Weezy
Sams, Margaret Murchison, Ethe-
lyn Dyar, Doris Dalton, Ann
Fisher, and Rebecca Hogan.

Class Cabinets
Meet in Retreats

In an effort to share their activ-
ity, the sophomore Christian Asso-
ciation cabinet have invited the en-
tire sophomore class to join them
in their winter retreat Saturday,
February 17, at Harrison Hut, to
discuss "Maximum Christianity."
Miss Carrie Scandrett, Dean of
Students, has been asked to attend
and join the discussion.

The freshman cabinet held its
retreat Saturday afternoon, Febru-
ary 10, at the home of Miss Scan-
drett. Miss Bee Miller was invited
to help in the interpretation of the
theme, "Maximum Christianity."

Explorer Lectures
At Emory

Sir Hubert Wilkins, polar ex-
plorer, scientist, ana 1 lecturer, is
appearing at the Glenn Memorial
Auditorium Monday, February 19,
at 8:30, to deliver a lecture on
"Exploration Over and Under the
Polar Regions by Airplane and
Submarine," illustrated with his
technicolor motion picture.

Sir Hubert's story of the
achievements in polar exploration
is based on his own experience in
the Arctic and Antarctic during
the past twenty-five years. He was
a companion of Stefansson and
Shackleton on their history-making
expeditions, and has himself com-
manded seven different expedi-
tion to the polar regions.

General admission is seventy-five
cents for adults, twenty-five cents
for children. Tickets may be pur-
chased at the door of the auditor-
ium from members of the Student
Lecture Association of Emory.

Dr. Long Discusses
Negro Problem

Speaker Condemns Antagonism
In Integrated Christian Personality

"The Negro race constitutes one-tenth of the population of
the United States, and it can only reach its proper place in
social progress through the mutual cooperation oi all groups,
and the cordial recognition of the great contributions made
by members of this race," said Dr. Roswell C. Long in his

discussion of "Integrated Christian

Vocation Authority
Advises Students

As part of the work in voca-
tional guidance done by the Ap-
plied Psychology class, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Gregg MacGibbon, author of
"Manners in Business," published
by Macmillan Company in 1936,
will talk on "Careers for College
Women" in 102 Buttrick Hall,
Friday, February 16, at 11:30. All
students are invited to hear Mrs.
MacGibbon's discussion, and to ask
her questions about vocations for

Institute Urges
Public Concern

Assembling a large number of
prominent authorities on political
science and leaders in government
from all over the South, the joint
conference of the Institute of Citi-
zenship and the National Munici-
pal League was held in Atlanta last
week, February 6-8.

Sponsored by Emory, Agnes
Scott, and Georgia Tech, the pur-
pose of the conference was to pro-
mote adult education in politics,
the subject dealt with being Im-
provement of Local Government
in the South.

"The county in relation to the
state" was the topic for the first
meeting, with Professor Paul Wag-
er, of the University of North
Carolina, as speaker.

Citizen organizations and the
citizen's part in local government
were considered in the Wednesday
morning session. Lamenting the
average citizen's lack of interest in
governmental affairs, J. Thomas
Askew, Dean of Armstrong Junior
College, said that if we took as
much interest in local politics as
we do in European affairs, there
would be nothing to worry about.

The county unit system of Geor-
gia, defended by Tate Wright, of
Athens, and condemned by Lyle R.
Chubb, Consultant on Local Gov-
ernment, Chamber of Commerce
of Atlanta, formed the subject for
a debate Wednesday afternoon.

At the same session, Frank Bane,
Executive Director, Council of
State Governments, Chicago, up-
held Social Security as absolutely
necessary, and expressed doubt that
an acceptable substitute could be
devised any time soon.

Specific instances in well-run and
poorly-run city government plans
and individual problems were dis-
cussed in Open Forum on Thurs-
day.

The conference may be held at
Agnes Scott next year.

Personality and Racial Antagon-
ism" in chapel this morning.

Remove Barriers

Dr. Long proposed that the
problem be considered with special
emphasis on removing the eco-
nomic and social barriers between
the races by improving the living
conditions of the negro. Demon-
strating what can be done to solve
the problem of racial antagonism,
he cited a survey of health and
housing conditions which, made by
a church in a typical negro neigh-
borhood in a Southern town, re-
sulted in the cooperations of local
churches and civic organizations
of the community in building and
maintaining a Negro hospital, in
establishing classes in home hygiene
and care of the sick, and in open-
ing an agency which acts as a
clearing, house for employing Negro
servants.

Negro Has Place

"The Negro has made his own
place in the social order," contin-
ued Dr. Long. "This place has
been delineated by such Negro
leaders as Booker T. Washington,
James Weldon Johnson, and Ezek-
iel Chappelle as continued coopera-
tion with the white race, and ac-
ceptance of opportunities and jobs
according to his capacity. Only
those people who mean that the
Negro has no place still say that
there is the problem of keeping the
Negro in his place."

Source of Prejudice

Stating that prejudice springs
mainly from two classes, the poor
whites who are in economic com-
petition with the Negro, and the
aristocracy which patronizes the
race which it considers distinctly
Continued on Page 2, Col. 1

Coming This Week

Thursday, February 15
Eta Sigma Phi meeting
and banquet, 5:00 until
7:00.

Pi Alpha Phi meeting
and debate, 7:30.

Friday, February 16 Mrs.
MacGibbon's talk to Ap-
plied Psychology class,
102 Buttrick Hall, 11:30.
Basketball game in gym.

Saturday. February 17
Junior Banquet, 6:00 in
Rebekah Scott dining
hall.

Sunday, February 18-24
A. A. week.

Monday, February 19
Water pageant in gym at

8:30.

Tuesday, February 20
Junior Class fashion
show.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940

Sophs, Seniors, Triumph
In Exciting Games

Juniors Trail All Way;

Both Games Feature Razzle-Dazzle

In the fastest and roughest game of this season, the sopho-
mores and seniors again defeated the juniors and freshmen
Friday night at basketball. These two games afforded more
thrills and excitement than any previous ones.

The sophomores scored one more point in the first half
than the juniors did in the whole game. Thomas, Dunn, and
Webster, sophomore forwards, shot

m

one goal after another to run up
a score of 54
points by the
end of the
game. The
junior team
was unable to
keep up with
the razzle-daz-
zle of its op-
ponent, and
made 16 goals
and one free

shot. The Martin

sophomore guards kept the for-
wards from getting close to the
goal often, and the majority of
goals were long shots by Fisher,
Dyar, and McGarity. Dunn, play-
ing her best game this year, scored
24 points for the sophomores. D.
Webster and Dyar each made 18
points, Fisher 12, McGarity three,
Thomas eight, Brooks and Mac-
Guire two.

Guards Star

The seniors defeated the fresh-
men by a large margin, 31-7. The
freshmen played an excellent game,
but scored only once in the first
half, and three times in the second
half. Their guards, Rountree, Cun-
dell, Cummings, and Dale, held
the seniors down surprisingly well.
In this game, the ball went up and
down the court swiftly from end
to end, and changed hands num-

Swimming Club
Gives Pageant

Matthews, Moseley
Star in Narcissus Myth

The mythological story of Nar-
cissus and Echo will be the theme
of the annual swimming pageant
presented by the swimming depart-
ment on February 19, at 8:30, in
the gym.

Echo, played by Sally Matthews,
attracts the attention of Juno,
Nina Broughton, by her never-
ceasing gossip about Jove, Virginia
V/atkins, who plays with nymphs.
To punish her, Juno makes her fall
in love with Narcissus, played by
Julia Moseley. Narcissus, the beau-
tiful son of the sea nymph Liriope
and the river god Cephissus, spurns
Echo's love. Because Narcissus re-
fuses to respond, Juno causes him
to fall in love with his own image
reflected in the water. Narcissus
goes mad and dies, and Echo is re-
venged.

There will be other minor charac-
ters, and formations by members
of the swimming club, and classes.

Dr. Long

Continued from Page 1
inferior to itself, Dr. Long made
the plea that "Christian youth
coming to maturity in a land
which wastes much of its material
resource may not further burden
this our land with hate and preju-
dice, but exercise the Jesus ideal of
brotherhood as given the parable
of the Good Samaritan."

Dr. Long opened his series of
talks Tuesday morning in chapel
with a discussion of "What Is In-
tegrated Christian Personality?"
He defined a wholesome Christian
personality as one which is oriented
and has God-control, giving the

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bers of times before either team
would score. Milner led the sen-
iors in scoring 21 points, followed
by Forman with six and Carson
with four. For the freshmen,
Moore scored five points, and
Frierson two.

Lineups:

Seniors: Carson, Forman, Mil-
ner, Salters, Ware, Moses.

funiors: McGarity, Dvar, Fish-
er," Arbucklc, Klugh, Wilds.

Sophomores: D. Webster, Dunn,
Thomas, Lott, Brooks, Gellerstedt.

Freshmen: Frierson, Holloran,
Moore, Dale, Rountree, Cundell.

Substitutes: Sophomores Cur-
rie, MacGuire, Bradfield, Davis;
freshmen Cummings, Crocker.

Collegians Oppose
Government Aid

U. S. college and university stu-
dents do not favor the government
as a source of financial aid or as a
job haven after graduation.

This is the assertion of Colum-
bia University's journalistic dean,
Carl W r . Ackerman; and he cites
figures gained from a special sur-
vey of 1 S campuses by Professor
Elmo Roper to prove his point.

"The real significance, I think,
,of present student opinion toward
the financing of education is the
opposition to government aid,"
Dean Ackerman said. "Students do
not favor a spending-lending pol-
icy to help them make their way
in the world. Only 7.4 per cent of
the students interviewed considered
aid by the federal or state govern-
ments as desirable. This, I think,
may be interpreted as a vote of
confidence in the continuation of
the student-aid policies of educa-
tional institutions such as Colum-
bia University.

"Those who have been charging
that some of the leading universi-
ties in the United States have be-
come centers of socialistic and
communistic theories of govern-
ment and economics should study
these statistics. University stu-
dents today are not applying the
prevailing debt theory. (ACP)

Etiquette Booklet
Lists "Besetting Sins"

Articles with such titles as From
Campus to Class, In the Chapel,
With the Faculty, Gilding the Lily
give tips on behavior for Agnes
Scott girls in Mortar Board's book-
let, Campus Code, edited by Eve-
lyn Baty and illustrated by Hen-
rietta Thompson. The booklet was
distributed to all students Satur-
day, and enough copies have been
printed so that every member of
the new freshman class next year
may have one.

Ignoring "Busy" signs, shouting,
"Telephone, Mary, it's a man!"
down dormitory halls, and going
to breakfast with that just-out-of-
bed-and-it's-awful look are listed
among the besetting sins on the
campus, while behavior off campus
is criticized with reference to con-
duct at concerts, in theatres, and
on street-cars.

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Fetes Neophytes

The Agnes Scott chapter of Eta
Sigma Phi, national honorary class-
ical fraternity, will entertain at a
banquet at the Candler Hotel
in Decatur Thursday night, honor-
ing the new members after their
initiation at 5:00 on the Agnes
Scott campus.

Highlights of the banquet will
be the presence of Atlanta alum-
nae, who have been invited this
year for the first time, and the
presentation of excerpts from one
of Plautus' plays instead of an
after-dinner speaker. Eva Ann
Pirkle is president of the local
chapter.

Juniors Announce
Guest List for Banquet

The junior class has set 6 P. M.,
Friday night, February 17, as the
time for the annual class banquet.
Dinner will be served in Rebekah
Scott dining hall with the music
of the Emory Aces as background.
Guests invited for the occasion in-
clude:

Joe Oliver, Charles Schearer, Bill
Chamberlain, Rhame Guyton, Bill Scan-
ton, Ed Cook, Jr., Herbert St. Goar,
Brand Laseter, Tom Kell, Otho Perritt,
Ralph Bridges, Chase Brenizer, Hal Clark,
Billie Richards, Bill Trotter, Walter Cot-
tingham, Leonard Posey, William Hinson,
Bill Crane, Albert Trulock, Jack Ouzts,
Joe Albert, Bill Marquees, Leland Fer-
rell, Haines Hargrett, Norwood High-
smith, John Farmer, George H. Boyd, Jr.,
Bill Culter, James MacRay, Dick Candle,
David Chewning, Clark Osgood, Ralph
Dasher, Billy Lamby, Barnes Sale, Elmer
Enloc, Samuel Gordon, Vernard Robert-
son, V. C. Plunkett, Winfield Cleveland,
Carl Fox, Jr., Wynton Pendergast, Cash
Peacock, Bill Lester, Pierce Allgood, Guer-
ard Spratt, Asmond Maxwell, Rube Smith,
George Stubbs, Charles Carver, Gene
Branch, Alfred Bayliss, Joe D. Tindall,
Robert M.irsden, Albert W. Gates, Bill
Funk, Mark Hagcny, A. C. Cowles, Jr.,
Mac Williams, Jimmie Williamson, Bill
Owens, Sam Miller, C. P. Crosby, Edgar
Kann, Gene Brooks, Robert Evows, Bob
Schulze, Jay Smith, Phillip Briscoe, How-
ard Gates, Jimmie Billups, Bob Tulane,
George Hammctt, Julian Pate, Henry
Harrison, Robert Wood Findley, Jimmie
Fruk, Walter Becham, George McKinncy,
David Wamble, Tom Hoover, John Beard,
Milner La Hotte.

Jarman Talks
AtKUB

Journalist Debunks
Popular Idea of Glamour

According to Mr. Rufus Jar-
man, feature writer and news re-
porter on the Atlanta Journal
staff, there are three stages in the
life of the newspaperman: first,
great expectations; second, stern
reality; third, resignation.

Personal Experience

Mr. Jarman painted a picture of
newspaper life based on his own
experiences when he addressed
KUB members last Wednesday
afternoon. Reminding local jour-
nalists that "glamour and money
are scarce in the newspaper busi-
ness," he said that he covered one
good mob scene to every 5,000
chamber of commerce talks, and
that he began his newspaper career
on $10.00 a week plus permission
to cover banquet assignments.

Necessary Abilities

A screwy mind, power to en-
dure after-dinner speakers, ability
to see something tragic or amusing
in every situation, and a back-
ground of English and economics
these are essential to the man in
newspaper work.

Covering the Louisville flood
was Mr. Jarman's biggest assign-
ment. It was there that he drank
Coca-Colas for water, roomed in a
bridal suite, and discovered a
stranded Chicago heiress turned
waitress.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940

3

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

No matter how blase or sophisticated a girl may become,
she still gets a thrill out of getting flowers. And now that
the season for fraternity formals is in full swing, orchids,
gardenias, and such have become quite the usual thing for

the maid's office in Main. Just I

this week-end there were several | i

important affairs which come un- | p CTSOnnCl I iCciCl

der the,

formal
heading.

The Chi
P h i's at
Emory
gave a very
swanky
dinner-
dance at
the Driv-
ing Club.
Among

those who Lennard

went were Carolyn Alley, Char-
lene Burke, Barbara Lee Murlin,
Eugenia Hailey, Ducky Copeland,
Florrie Guy, and Val Nielsen.

At the Dental College, the
Alpha Omega fraternity gave its
formal. To find out about what a
brilliant function it was, just ask
Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Flonnie
Ellis, Betty Ann Stewart, Becky
Stamper, Boots Moore, Mildred
Joseph, Betty Henderson, and Mary
Lang Gill.

Saturday night there were sev-
eral house dances. Betsy Banks,
Edith Dale, Neva Jackson, Eloise
Lennard, Charlotte Shepherd, and
Nell Pinner went to the Pi KA
house, while the SAE affair was
attended by Olivia White, Katsy
Blair, and Elizabeth Jenkins, and
at the Phi Chi house dance were
Shirley Ann Smith, Ida Jane
Vaughan, and Lucy Bryan.

At the Sigma Chi buffet sup-
per Sunday night, were Lib Bar-
rett, Katsy Blair, and Lillian
Schwencke. And during the week-
end, Helen Gilmer went to the

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Gives Job Tips

"Department store work is in-
teresting work and does not re-
quire too much preparation in ad-
wince," Miss Frances Rannells told
the Applied Psychology students
in her discussion last Thursday of
careers for women in retail stores.
Miss Rannells is head of the Train-
ing Division of the Personnel De-
partment of Rich's.

She went on to explain that a
person interested in such work
could go into one of four phases:
merchandise, publicity, finance, or
service.

In merchandise one can work
her way up to a buyer or merchan-
dise manager, according to Miss

KA house, and Mary Louise Pal-
mour was seen at the Phi Delt

house.

As usual, there was a number of
people off-campus over the week-
end. Anne Frierson and Marjorie
Wilson went to Clemson. Laura
Cummings, Marian Franklin, Sara
Gray Hollis, Frances Abbott,
Georgia Tate, and Anne Hillsman
all went to their respective homes,
as did Marion and Sue Phillips.
Charlene Burke took Nina Mae
Snead home with her, while Lillian
Gudenrath took Hattie Ayres, Vir-
ginia Stanley, and Carolyn Dunn
with her. Others away were Joyce
Geist, Bette Burdette, Harriet
Vaughn, Shirley Gateley, Bizelle
Roberts, Kay Wright, and Phil
Peterson.

Eva Gary Copeland was the
guest of Carrie Gene Ashley and
Betsy Banks, while Betty and Mimi
Nininger visited Neva Jackson,
and Mrs. Schwencke came up to
see Lillian on her birthday.

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News Announces Dates for
Apprentice Issues

The next two issues of
the News will be appren-
tice issues, edited and made
up by the two assistant ed-
itors, Virginia Clower and
Elaine Stubbs. Each as-
sistant editor will be in
complete charge of her is-
sue; under the present set-
up the managing editor has
charge of all make-up. Vir-
ginia Clower will lead off
next week.

Mary Frances Guthrie,
editor of the Agonistic
during the year of 1938-39,
initiated the plan last year
to give the assistant editors
an opportunity to learn
from practical experience,
and the campus a chance
to see the work of the two
students.

Rannells. Explaining the various
duties of members of this depart-
ment, she pointed out that a buyer
is not only the romantic globe-
trotter as ,we think of her but a
hard Worker if she is a success.
"Going to market and having doz-
ens of people pounce on you with
merchandise for hours and having
to decide which is best is not an
easy task," she said, "but it is fas-
cinating."

Publicity Field

The publicity department offers
an opening for girls who may have
a talent for that sort of thing, she
said. It includes the advertising,
both newspaper and radio, and the
display department. She added
that women have just recently be-
come, active in the display depart-
ment and many jobs are open in
this line.

"The finance department," con-
tinued Miss Rannells, "is the larg-
est single unit of women in the
store. People like to deal with
women about credit."

Fun in Personnel

Miss Rannells then discussed her
own personnel department, which
comes under the general head of
Service Department. She said,
"There is more big money in mer-
chandise, but if you want a job
that means more to you person-
ally, perhaps you would rather go
into personnel work." Extra in-
ducement for such work is found
in Miss Rannells' statement that
there are not enough people to fill
the jobs that are opening up in the
field, and if a girl is going into per-
sonnel work she is almost sure to
get a good position.

Success Story

Miss Rannells concluded by
summing up the qualities necessary
for a successful retail worker as
"being interested in people and in
serving people, being able to sell
yourself, and being willing to
start from the bottom and learn
the work as you go along."

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Junior Banquets of Past
Feature Romance

By Virginia Williams

Plays suggestive of matrimonial joys, decorations worthy
of Cupid, and song-and-dance selections have comprised the
entertainment of the junior banquets of the past.

Blackfriars did their part toward directing the dates'

minds in the right channel by pre-
senting "Craig's Wife" in 193 5,
followed in 193 6 by a still more
pointed hint, "Bridal Chorus."

In 1937 the decorations com-
mittee took matters in their hands.
A 1937 "Aggie" reads: "Red and
white streamers will hang from the
ceiling to the lights, on each of
which will be strung a large red
heart."

* The programs for the banquets
have been varied. In 1932 there
was a program of "dance and musi-

cal numbers," including a Spanish
tango, a tap dance routine, xylo-
phone music, and popular song
selections. The athletic association
orchestra also contributed to the
program.

The 1931 banquet, known as the
Junior Prom and sponsored by
HOASC, was enlivened by a "song
and dance routine by the Thomp-
son Twins." Henri's glow worm
act could still uphold the Thomp-
son rep.

To Ella Carey, the banquet
means new dresses and swarms of
dates; but as maid she admits that
her most vivid memories are of the
times there were so many coats
that the coat rack fell down, and
of the chaos the banquet always
leaves in the kitchen.

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Educator Lauds
College Chapels

American college chapels are
performing a vital service for the
cause of religion in being "inter-
denominational adventures in
church unity, prophetic of an in-
creasing unity among all men and
women of religious good will."

This is the belief of Harvard
University's Dean Willard L. Sper-
ry, chairman of the Board of
Preachers, as stated in his annual
report.

"Churches which are not ready
to meet and match, in the conduct
of their own affairs, the tolerance
and sympathy which mark the col-
lege chapels, must expect to for-
feit the enthusiasm of returning
graduates and to suffer according-
ly," he stated.

"The college chapels are not, as
is so often charged, the centers of
denatured religion, shorn of strong
convictions and reduced to some
lowest common denominator,"
Dean Sperry said.

"They are inter-denoVninational
adventures in church unity, con-
ducted under the conditions nat-
ural to life of the place.

"They are a meeting place for
all sorts and conditions of persons
more concerned for the Christian
religion in its entirety than for a
particular sectarian statement of
that religion.

"Thousands of young people go
on into life from our American
colleges, not merely familiar with,
but believing in, the non-sectarian
and interdenominational 'character
of the chapels which they have at-
tended in student days. If they re-
turn to the churches from which
they came, they ask of those
churches something of the toler-
ance and catholocity which they
have found in their chapels."
(ACP)

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1940

Eclecticism
Looks Homeward

Whether or not the American countries
should pursue a policy of isolation has
been a big question of late. We have de-
bated on trade with Germany, credit to
England, aid for Finland, treaty with Ja-
pan. We have warned each other about
the results of unwise action in these mat-
ters. In most cases, we have acted so as to
dig a wide ditch, w T e think, between us and
the war fires of Europe, spreading and 0
crackling and spreading again in the dry
forests of greed and hate. We have tried
to keep economically and politically free
of entanglements.

But we have not cut ourselves off from
the good and the vital in those warring
countries; we have not shut out ideas. We
have tried to listen to all sides, thus to
find the answer. We hear Hitler's broad-
casts; we invite Duff Cooper to lecture:
we print Finnish communiques; we inter-
view the Japanese minister. Ours is an
eclectic attitude. We are proud of it, and
hope to remain thus.

But how about this campus? Do we
keep our ears open to ideas from other col-
leges, with the purpose of combining the
best for ourselves? As young people, do
we pay attention to what other young peo-
ple are doing and believing?

We do not. We shut ourselves up here,
intellectually, and bound our ideas by
Candler and McDonough Streets. We
hear of youth movements, but are not even
cui-ious as to what they are moving to-
ward. We regard this or that organization
with vague disapproval, linking it with a
student strike or a Dies investigation, but
not knowing what its purposes are. And
w r hen we get out of college and teach in a
high school, we cannot give pupils open
and strong attitudes because we do not
know what forces will try to win them in
college. We are sticking our heads in the
sand.

What is the American Youth Congress,
now meeting in Washington? What is the
American Student Union? How about the
Young Communists League? What is the
Intercollegiate Council? What is NSFA ?
And what are Fritz Kuhn's followers doing
now? W T hat is the difference between the
YWCA and the Christian Front?

It is time we found out.

Student Government Association thinks
so,' too. In a series of chapel programs be-
ginning soon, Association members will
give fundamental information on today's
youth movements.

This is another organized attempt to
broaden our horizon. The dates of these
programs will be no times to cut chapel.

Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

Scenes With a Switchboard Operator

(Continued): Barbara Lee Murlin was minding
the switchboard and her own business one day
last week, when a feminine voice inquired over
the wire for "The Most Popular Girl on the Cam-
pus." Being a modest girl and a day student, B.
Lee replied that there was
no one with that official
title, hence the informa-
tion was not available.
After a whispered confer-
ence with some higher
power the mysterious in-
quirer asked B. L. what
bet name was. Upon re-
ceiving the obvious an-
swer, she asked sweetly,
but not dicelv, "Would
you like a new pair of
shoes, which 1

O'Brien

Shoe Store would give you, if vou would tell ev-
eryone where they came from?" Barbara Lcc an-
swered with alacrity in the affirmative, natcherly.
So now Miss Murlin, like Baby, has a new pair of

shoes, and ' has some advertising of

which this column is not a part (i. e., we have
no sole) ....

Pot Shots: Overheard in the library, Gene
Slack, after reading the last page of a book, "Oh,
that's terrible!", gasp, sigh. . . . After silentlv ac-
cusing Miss Slack of reading a murder mystery of

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Cheerful Giving

Monetary help for Finland is booming spon-
taneously in this country. At the moment when
Americans would feel no scruple in sending arma-
ments to Finland, the Congress is barred effec-
tively from doing just that.
Yet Congress cheerfully ad-
vances $30,000,000 credit;
Herbert Hoover's relief fund
swells to $1,300,000; eleven
Broadway shows give bene-
fits; and the cheers for
Paavo Nurmi at Madison
Square Garden last week
probably foretell more cash.

Welles' Tour

Looking forward to peace Stevenson
and international economic co-operation (it seems
eens hence) Cordell Hull is sending his gifted
Under Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, on a
tour of Europe with stop-offs in Rome, Berlin,
Paris, and London. Besides visiting the war cap-
itals, and more significantly, Welles will sound
out opinion in neutral countries.

Conundrum

An old fear is haunting England a Russia that
threatens India. The Near-East, from Turkey to
Afghanistan, is fermenting with rumors. German
technicians are dismissed wholesale in Turkey
with only 48 hours to leave; Russia concentrates
three divisions on the Iran-Afghanistan border,
all the region hears stories of a Russo-German
drive south to the Persian Gulf or Franco-British
attack on the Baku oil fields. In Egypt, the
British war chiefs confer with the French, east-
Mediterranean commander, General Maxime Wey-
gand.

The "Trouble"

The English hanged two bomb-throwing ter-
rorists of the Irish Republican Army. The I. R. A.
is an outlawed but active minority. Yet all Irish-
men from De Valera down feel an ingrained sym-
pathy for the aims (union of Ulster with Eirie)
if not the methods of the I. R. A. Old bitterness
is carrying everything else before it. The result
seems, to the uninitiated, all out of proportion to
the cause, or excuse; mobs of 10,000 burning the
Union Jack in Dublin, De Valera in danger of
losing control, Ireland on the brink of civil war.

Economics and Embargoes

Americans generally realize neither the poten-
tial weapon they hold in embargo nor the deadly
seriousness with which the Japanese regard possi-
ble application. Japan's trade with the United
States, and especially now in wartime, is nothing
less than a. life and death matter. Already econo-
mic difficulties have been anticipated in Parlia-
ment, with the idea of expulsion of Americans
from China.

Little Tin God

The curious kind of mentality responsible for
an anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi leader in the United
States was exhibited last week in William Dudley
Pelley, head of the Silvershirt Legion. He ar-
rived at Congress, overdue on a summons, dropped
pearls of wisdom to all who might hear, and de-
parted in unruffled complacency. He apparently
cleared Representative Dies of intimacy with the
Silvcrshirts, but blandly gave his blessings to
Dies as an adequate substitution for his own or-
ganization.

the third degree in the well-known local abode
of the Muses, someone sneaked over to find out
it was "La Princesse de Cleves' 1 and Gene was
just disappointed because she (the princess) didn't
get her man. . . . Miss Jackson, in discussing the
Bolshevik revolution recently pigeonholed the
Menshiviks (the opposition) by scornfully re-
ferring to them as "pinks". . . . Grace Ward re-
ceived manv presents for her recent birthday,
some of which were very useful. . . . They ranged
all the way from Lux and Kleenex to 22 roses.
. . . That's really the gamut of success, isn't it?
Award for the Week's Nickel-Plated

Cup-Cake: The date lor the Junior You-Know-
What is rapidly approaching, and excitement is in
the air. ... In fact, one of the ardent suitors, who
goes with a red-head whose initials are T. G., the
second of which stands for a color not red, was so
wrought up over the forthcoming event that he
arrived this last week-end, instead, and declared
himself ready to attend immediately. . . . Mavbe
she got her dates mixed . . .

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Campus Quotes

Hunt

Many colleges follow the pro-
gram of having one week during
the school year set aside for Reli-
gious Emphasis. Some students
may approve,
some may not.
Students a t
Agnes Scott,
however, ex-
press the fol-
lowing opin-
ions:

E 1 i s e
Smith, '42,
says: "I think
that there is a
definite need
on every cam-
pus for a week of religious em-
phasis. My personal experience is
that I enjoyed last year's week of
religious emphasis more than any
other week of the year. Having
one speaker to direct the thought
of the campus for one whole week
is constructive to each student as
well as to the whole group."

Tade Merrill, '42, thinks ".
that a religious emphasis week is a
fine thing for every campus to
have. I think the most valuable
result of having such a college
program is the stimulation of reli-
gious thinking among all the peo-
ple on the campus."

Dot Webster, '42, comments:
"... that a week of religious em-
phasis is helpful to the college and
to the individual student. It is
something, I think, which the
whole group looks forward to be-
cause it gives us an opportunity to
think about things which we ordi-
narily don't have time to think
about on the campus.."

Hetty Jean O'Brien, '40, be-
lieves: ". . . that a week for reli-
gious emphasis is both valuable and
necessary because it emphasizes one
part of ;i student's character which
may so often be neglected in the
run of her college activities."

Sylvia Cohn, '42, thinks: ". . .
Religious Emphasis Week is very
helpful to those people who are re-
ligious-minded but not particular-
ly helpful to those people who
aren't."

Mary Ivy, '41, says: "... I

think that every college student
needs one week of concentration
on religious thought, because so
often she may forget about things
of that nature in the activities of
her college life. I think that this
period set aside will be helpful as
a period of meditation along
thought which we need to con-
sider."

Margaret Ratchford, 40,

thinks: ". . . that having a whole
week of religious emphasis is valu-
able to the campus because it unites
the whole campus in thinking
about spiritual things. Bringing a
religious leader to the campus and
providing time for students to
know him is of great value to the
individual."

Gene Slack, '41, says: "Reli-
gious Emphasis Week is good be-
cause it gives the whole group an
opportunity to think about things
which we might often neglect un-
less they are very forcibly brought
home to us. I think that this
year's Religious Emphasis Week
will be especially good because we
have had such fine preparation for
it in having Dr. Steeve and Dr.
Judd to stimulate our thinking
along religious things."

Susan Self, '41, concludes: "I
think a week of such emphasis is
good, but I feel that we ought not
to emphasize our religious thinking
only one week to the exclusion of
all the other weeks of the college
year."

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV No. 15

Wednesday, February 14, 1940

Published v/eefcly, except holidays
and examination periods, by the stu-
dents of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on
scond floor Murphey Candler building.
Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip-
tion price per year, $1.25; single
copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor
Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

The Agnes Scott News

VOL XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1940

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No. 16

Miss Dexter
Makes Speech
In Chapel

Guest Speakers Discuss
International Problems
Facing Students

An address by Miss Emily Dex-
ter on "Intellectual Honesty" and
talks by guest speakers on the
problems students must face in the
world will constitute student gov
ernment programs in chapel for
the next several weeks. Louise
Hughston, of Christian Associa-
tion, and Grace Ward, of Student
Government, are in charge of plan-
ning these programs, which will
carry out the idea of citizenship
and the social emphasis expressed
during Religious Week.

According to Henrietta Thomp-
son, president of Student Govern-
ment, an open forum will be held
Friday to settle the problem of
lengthy conversations over the
telephones.

Mary Evelyn Francis, president
of Day Students, will call a meet-
ing this week to decide whether
or not the day student organization
should be abolished.

College Plans to Offer
Course in Journalism

Dr. S. G. Stukes, Dean of the
Faculty, announces that tentative
plans are being made to arrange a
course in Journalism next quarter.
The class will meet for one hour,
five afternoons a week, and will
carry five quarter hours credit
with it. Students who are interest-
ed in taging Journalism are request-
ed to sign up in the Registrar's Of-
fice.

Tech Exhibits
Skill in Fencing

As a part of the program spon-
sored here this week by Athletic
Association, several members of
the varsity Fencing Team at
Georgia Tech are coming to the
gym Wednesday night at 7:30 to
give an exhibition match. Duels
with foil, saber and epee will be
given, with a brief explanation of
each tyoe of weapon used, and the
differences in the method of hand-
ling each.

A. A. Selects Ideal
For 'Miss Health'

Selection of Agnes Scott's "Miss
Health" will be made from among
representatives of campus organi-
zations in the contest sponsored by
Athletic Association in the gym
Friday night at 7:3 0. Contestants
are to be judged on posture, feet,
carriage and general appearance.
Preliminary inspections were held
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of this week.

Those entered in the contest in-
clude: For Christian Association,
Mardia Hopper; Agnes Scott News,
Anne Martin; Athletic Association,
Dot Webster; sophomore class, Pat
Reasoner; junior class, Ethelyn
Dyar; senior class, Ruth Slack;
Mortar Board, Lutie Moore; Sil-
houette, Frances Abbott; Black-
friaAs, Louise Musser; Lecture As-
sociation, Mary Louise Palmour;
May Dav, Jean Dennison; Bible
Club, Ellen Gould; B. O. Z., Wal-
lace Lyons; Chi Beta Phi, Mary
Elizabeth Leavitt; Cotillion Club,
Elizabeth Jenkins; Eta Sigma Phi,
Rebecca Hogan; German Club,
Nell Pinner; Glee Club, Mabel
Stowe; Granddaughters, Weezie
Sams; Current History Forum,
Florrie Guy; K. U. B., Betty Jean
O'Brien; Pi Alpha Phi, Jane Tay-
lor; Poetry Club, Neva Jackson;
Spanish Club, Alta Webster; Day
Students, Gene Slack.

Alumnae Give
Radio Program

Broadcast Features
Graduates' Contributions

The contributions of the Alum-
nae Association to the college will
be featured on the radio program
this afternoon at five o'clock over
WSB. Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann,
Mrs. Dowse Donaldson, Miss
Louise McKinney, and Miss Lucile
Alexander, who have been inter-
ested in the Alumnae Association
since its early days, will tell the
history of the organization and its
work in aiding the progress and
prestige of Agnes Scott.

Students taking part in the pro-
gram are Elizabeth Barrett, Eu-
genia Bridges, Florence Ellis, and
Margaret Hopkins. The voice of
Agnes Scott will be Katherine
Printup, '37.

S

eniors

An

nounce

Council Offers
Harrold 'Award

Applicants are now being con-
sidered for the Quennelle Harrold
Award for graduate study, estab-
lished with a gift of $10,000 by
Mrs. Thomas Harrold, of Ameri-
cus, Ga., in honor of her daughter
who graduated from Agnes Scott
in 1923. The award, about $450,
which consists of the interest ac-
cruing from the invested principal,
is made every other year by the
Academic Council of Agnes Scott.

Any member of the class of
1940 is eligible for the award, if
she plans to continue study at an
accredited institution in some
major course offered by Agnes
Scott. Alumnae who have graduat-
ed within the last four years and
have not attended any other insti-
tution are also eligible.

Banquet Performers

Tech Orchestra Plays for
Founder's Day Dance

Skits in White House and Rebekah Scott dining halls, fol-
lowed by a banquet and dance in the gymnasium, will com-
pose the entertainment for Founder's Day, the celebration
for George Washington Scott, on Thursday, February 22.

The entertainment will be in the

Courtiers Talk It Over as May Day Approaches

Members of the recently elected May Court, shown above, include, from left to right:
Jean Dennison, Val Nielson, Jane Taylor, Grace Ward, Margaret Hamilton, Ruth Slack,
Anne Chambless, with Eloise Lennard in the center. Others in the court, not shown are-
Martha Dunn^ Jane Moses, Betty Moore and Mary Reinz. _ Photo Comiosy Atlanta Journal

School Alters
Exam Rules

Requirements of the annual ex-
aminations for the $700 and $500
freshman scholarships have been
completely changed for those en-
tering the competition held on
March 1 of this year. According
to Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, who
is in charge of the examinations,
the tests this year will consist of
one general intelligence test and
one general information test. For-
merly contestants were required to
take a test in English, one in a
foreign language, and one in either
history, mathematics, biology, or
chemistry.

Students from any accredited
high school are eligible to enter the
competition. Entrants from At-
lanta and Decatur schools take the
tests in Buttrick Hall; they are the 1
guests of the college during the
day.

Out-of-town contestants will
take the tests at their own schools
under the supervision of teachers
and principals. Winners of these
scholarships arc required to come to
Agnes Scott as resident students,
regardless of whether their home is
in the vicinity or out-of-town.

About one hundred and fifty
girls are expected to enter the com-
petition this year.

Dr. Long Closes
Religious Week

Concluding his series of chapel
talks on integration of Christian
personality, Dr. Roswell C. Long
Saturday urged young people to
"fall in love with some great per-
son, or some great cause." He
said that advice can do little for a
person who has no great central
theme in life around which to in-
tegrate, and he suggested that
Jesus is the ideal integration point.

Friday Dr. Long discussed war
as the challenge to youth, and
Thursday he spoke on the economic
problem. "From your standpoint
as a Christian in the South today,"
said Dr. Long, "the wasted land
caused by years of cotton planting
and the great tragedy of migration
of thousands of homeless people
are the most important problems
you face."

In a series of discussion groups
following his chapel talks, Dr.
Long led consideration of inte-
grated personality in relation to
problems of youth today. On
Wednesday, February 14, a group
of young men from Emory and
Columbia Seminary joined the Ag-
nes Scott group discussion of war.

form of toasts made by members
of the senior class taking the parts
of colonial characters. The sopho-
mores will compose special music
as replies to the poems of their sis-
ter class.

Colonial Characters

The guests will be welcomed by
'George Washington, whose part
Henrietta Thompson will play in
Rebekah and Virginia Milner in
White House. The other characters
are: In Rebekah, as Martha Wash-
ington, Louise Sullivan; as Paul
Revere, Betty Jean O'Brien; as
Daniel Boone, Julia Moseley; as La-
Fayette, Frances Abbott; as Betsy
Ross, Barbara Lee Murlin; as Pat-
rick Henry, Jane Moses; as Benja-
min Franklin, Ann Enloe; as Lord
Cornwallis, Margaret Hopkins; in
White House, as Martha Washing-
ton, Ruth Slack; as Paul Revere,
Georgia Hunt; as Daniel Boone,
Eleanor Hutchens; as LaFayette,
Katherine Patton; as Betsy Ross,
Grace Ward; as Patrick Henry,
Violet Jane Watkins; as Benjamin
Franklin, Ruth Kaplan; as Lord
Cornwallis, Elizabeth Davis.

Cotillion Dance

Following the banquet there will
be dancing in the gym to the music
of Georgia Tech's Ramblers, spon-
sored by Cotillion Club. An old-
fashioned minuet will be led by the
following seniors: As men, Henri-
etta Thompson, Virginia Milner,
Betty Jean O'Brien, Georgia Hunt,
Julia Moseley, Frances Abbott,
Katherine Patton and Jane Moses;
as women, Ruth Slack, Louise Sul-
livan, Grace Ward, Mary Evelyn
Frances, Mary Matthews, Barbara
Lee Murlin, Carrie Gene Ashley
and Betty Alderman.

Alumnae celebration' will take
the form of a banquet at the At-
lanta Athletic Club Thursday
night. Scott Candler will be the
guest speaker.

Coming This Week

Wednesday, February 21
Fencing and Badmin-
ton exhibitions in gym,
7:30.

Thursday, February 22
Founder's Day Celebra-
tion.

Friday, February 23
Basketball game in
gym, 3:30.

Health contest in gym,
7:30.

Emory Glee Club Con-
cert, Glenn Memorial
Auditorium, 8:30.

Saturday, February 24
A. A. open house in
gym, 7:00.

Monday, February 26
Non-activity week be-
gins.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940

Juniors, Sophs Win
In Closing Games

Freshmen Bow To Sister Class 25-7;
Sophs Overcome Early Senior Lead

Friday afternoon the juniors and sophomores were vic-
torious in the final basketball games of this season. The
seniors lost their last game, and the freshmen closed their
unsuccessful season with another losos.

The juniors defeated the freshman team by the wide mar-
gin of 25 to 7. The freshmen guards were unable to stop the
scoring attack made by Dyar and Fisher, who gained points
steadily after the first half. At the end of the first quar-
ter the juniors were ahead only two
points and at the end of the half
led by seven points. The lead shot
up 10 points in the third quarter,
and the freshmen were eighteen
points behind at the final whistle.
The host of freshman forwards
made many unsuccessful attempts
to score, but were unable to shoot
very accurately. Moore scored five
points and Frierson two. For the
juniors, Dyar chalked up ten, fish-
er thirteen, and McGarity two.

Webster and Dunn Star

The score in the senior-sopho-
more game was 34 to 23 in favor
of the sophomores. The seniors
were ahead at the end of the first
quarter, but Webster and Dunn
settled down to work and kept the
sophomores ahead two points for
the next two quarters. Milner,
with twelve points, and Slack with
eleven points, kept up their good
records as members of their class
team. Ware, Forman, Moses and
Saltcrs upheld their class team tra-
dition by playing a hard, fast game.
For the sophomores, who closed
their most successful season with
this victory, Webster and Dunn to-
gether scored 3 0 of the 34 points.
Thomas and Hasty made the other
four points.

Line-ups:

Seniors Milner, Slack, Forman,
Moses, Salters, Ware.

Juniors Dyar, Fisher, McGar-
ity, Williams, Wilds, Arb'uckle.

Sophomores Webster, Dunn,
Thomas, Brooks, Lott, Gellerstedt.

Freshmen Holloran, Frierson,
Moore, Cundell, Dale, Rountree.

Substitutes Juniors: Kendrick,
Barringer; freshmen: Cummings,
Bates, Wcissman, Crocker; sopho-
mores: Hasty.

Clubs Have Banquets,
Initiations, Outside Guests

Virginia Glower, Peggy Stixrud,
and Sophie Montgomery will read
at the meeting of BOZ on Friday
evening at 7:00. Club members
will be the guests of Miss Preston.

A non-decision debate with
three co-eds from the University
of Georgia was the highlight of Pi
Alpha Phi's meeting February 15.

Betty Lee Clarkson, Wallace
Lyons, and Julia Means were
initiated into Eta Sigma Phi last
Thursday prior to the club ban-
quet.

Alma College
Discards Exams

Elimination of final examina-
tions at Alma College as an experi-
ment for the next two semesters
has been announced by Prof. Roy
Hamilton, secretary of the faculty.
Prof. Hamilton said that the
change was being made with a view
to stimulating students to keep up
on their daily work. Frequent tests
will be given, he said.

Primary reason for the elimina-
tion of final semester examinations
is the practice of a great many stu-
dents to neglect their work during
the semester, and then stay up late
during the last few weeks in an
effort to cram for the tests. This
system Prof. Hamilton scored as
being injurious both to the stu-
dents' health and to the educational
interests of any college.

Under this new system of class-
room examinations based on daily
work, all students will be graded
three times a semester, as has been
the custom for freshmen. (ACP)

This week's issue of the
News was edited and made
up by Virginia Clower, as-
sistant editor of the paper.
The next issue is to be in
charge of Elaine Stubbs,
assistant editor.

This idea of apprentice
issues was originated last
year by Mary Frances
Guthrie in order to give
subordinate members of
the staff an opportunity to
learn about editing and
make-up from practical ex-
perience.

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Emory Glee Club
Stages Concert

Home from a tour which in-
cluded seven southern states, the
Emory University Glee Club will
present its annual Atlanta concert
in Glenn Memorial Auditorium
Friday night at 8:30.

The two-part program will con-
sist of a panel of compositions by
Haydn, Scarlatti, Morley, and Dow-
land, followed by a religious group
with compositions by Handel,
Carissimi, Gaines, and a group of
well - known Negro spirituals.
After a brief intermission, Grieg's
"Olav Trygvason," then a panel of
adaptations of nursery rhymes by
Hughes and Hutchinson will be
followed by Harvey Ender's musi-
cal setting for Vachel Lindsay's
"Daniel."

Students Visit Capital
For Discussions

Last week-end the capital city
saw the largest influx of young
people who have ever visited it in
the interests of learning more about
their government. Washingtonians
are used to high school civics
classes, student travelers, and there
have been large youth pilgrimages
in the past. But never before have
five thousand young people gath-
ered together to talk about their
mutual problems. The giant audi-
torium of the Department of La-
bor could not hold the assembly
and the overflow had to be taken
care of in smaller rooms connected
by an amplifying system.

Club Mem oers
Visit Art Museum

Pen and Brush members enjoyed
an exhibition of "Art Through the
Ages" at High Museum in Atlanta
on Friday afternoon, February
16th. The exhibition included a
collection of "Five Centuries of
Painting" from the E. T. A. Silber-
man Galleries, Inc., of Budapest
and New York.

Betty Jean O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

O'Brien

This may be trite but the main
news-of-the-week is about the Jun-
ior Banquet. . . . And there isn't
any definite event of the evening
that we are referring to, but just
everything in general, like vegeta-
ble soup.
...Of
course, now
that the
tumult and
the shout-
i n g has
died, we
can see a
few hu-
morous sit-
uations i n
the thick
cloud of "Stop, it's wonderful (or
was)." For instance, there was the
sad case of Marian Phillips, who
not only fell down stairs and near-
ly broke her word, but also had
the misfortune to have a date, who
did not arrive until approximately
nine because of the excessively in-
clement weather. . . . Well, that's
just adding inquest to injury. . . .
Somewhat ludicrous sight was
Hutchens Saturday night, leading
the Junior B. gourmets across the
colonnade to Rebekah in the man-
ner of leading lambs to the slaugh-
ter. . . . Faux pas of the banquet
may be attributed to Va. Corr's
date, who, upon being told that
they were all going to the Fox, de-
clared in no uncertain terms that
he "had already seen that picture,
and it was lousy . . ." It was only
too late that he found out they, had
already bought the tickets. . . .
Just to ease your mind, Tine
Gray's date showed up this week-
end again, ready, willing, and able
to go to the banquet. In fact, just
to make sure there was no question
in anybody's mind, she and G.
Slack ambled down the aisle of
Dec. Pres. Church (now don't get
excited and draw the wrong con-
clusions!) with their dates on one
arm and corsages on the other at
approximately five minutes after

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exhibitionism, we calls it . . .

Hearts and Flowers . . . Val-
entine's Day likewise came this
week, and called forth several
rather odd sentiments. . . . Misses
Home and Pinner conspired to-
gether and sent a telegram to their
gentlemen friends who live in the
same house . . . The wire read as
follows:

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Ain't love wonderful? . . . Sev-
eral girls had the uneasy feeling of
going down to the maid's office to
find out to whom their alleged
loves were sending boxes of candy,
flowers, etc. . . . There was one
whooping big practical joke which
we have been requested not to
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chell feels brag, brag), but if
you, gentle reader, and I do mean
you, are interested, just ask Ginny
Williams.

Imagine How I Felt Depart-
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lie Davis was down in the mail
room, getting, of all things, her
mail, and saw Lucile Gaines parsing
by. Being a sociable girl, she called
out cheerily, "Hey, Lucile," and
to her excessive chagrin observed
Miss Lucile Alexander turn around
to speak to her, without ever see-
ing L. Gaines at all. . . . This
might serve as an explanation . . .

Those fortunate (or curious)
souls who happened to peek in the
window of R. Scott dining hall
after the J. Banquet really got in
on a jam session, staged by the
Emory Aces and the Agnes Scott
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3

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After W<

orking Hours

First honors in the social whirl of Agnes Scott go this
week to the juniors for their lovely banquet. If it weren't
for a lack of space, we'd tell all about the beautiful dresses
which the girls wore (or perhaps the wonderful men whom
they invited!) Anyway, the juniors really are to be con-
gratulated for their brilliant function.

Scads of juniors went places
after the banquet. Among the sev-
eral dozen at the Rainbow Room
were: Flonnie Ellis, Lib Barrett,
Lillian Schwenke, Rowena Barrin-
ger, Marian and Sue' Phillips, Molly
Oliver, Florrie Guy, Keeker New-
ton, and Charlene Burke. In fact,
there were so many Agnes Scott
girls there, the orchestra honored
them with a lead-out all their own.

For those in our midst who don't
read papers from Birmingham and
Montgomery we'd like to say that
Betty Henderson did right well by
getting her picture in the Sunday
editions of both for leading the
S. P. E. dance at Auburn. Also
going down for this affair were
Mabel Stowe and Kay Wilkinson.

There were other important out-
of-town dances and we find Joyce
Geist and Dusty fiance at the Uni-
versity of Virginia for mid-win-
ters. Tade Merrill and Sara Cope-
land were among those at the mid-
term dances at the University of
North Carolina.

At the Emory Campus Club
dinner dance, Agnes Scott was
represented by Marian Franklin,
Iddy Boone, and Stewart Arbuckle.

Annette Franklin, Frances Ab-
bot, Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Grace
Elizabeth Anderson, and Mildred
Joseph went to the Psi Omega
house dance Friday night. Other
fraternity news shows that Annie
Wilds was at the SAE house
for their date night." Susanne Kaul-
bach and Mary Lightfoot Elcan
were seen at the KA house, while
Alice Inzer and Mary Louise Pal-
mour went to a Phi Sigma

Kappa function.

Lillian Gish went to the Henry
Grady, while at the Ansley Rain-
bow Room we find, at one time or
another, Val Nielsen, Helen Jester,

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Executive Urges
Sell-Peace Move

Sell peace to the United States
through a giant advertising pro-
gram to be financed by asking
each citizen to pay a dollar for the
campaign's expenses.

This was the new peace proposal
made to Williams College under-
graduates by Paul Hollister, execu-
tive vice-president of R. H. Macy
& Co., of New York City.

"Using the classic technique of
modern advertising, let us buy one-
fifteenth of the total time and re-
sources of the advertising people
and media owners of the country
and mobilize them," said the de-
partment store executive.

"They will prepare and carry on
the most educational, dramatic and
urgent, campaign of which they are
capable, but their product will not
be a can of food, a bar of soap, or
a motor car or a health examina-
tion. Their product will be peace
America's active self-interest in
keeping at peace. They will duly
place this copy before the Ameri-
can people as they alone best can.

"If the product be meritorious,
neither you nor I dare say that the
response would not be proportion-
ate to the response to any other ex-
pert advertising effort. To know
securely that our nation was guar-
anteed to peace for at least a year
would certainly be worth a dollar
a head.

Kay Rhodes, Mary Lou Longino,
Elizabeth Jenkins, and Betty Lov-
ett.

Isabella Robertson and Jeanette
Carroll have as their guest Jack
Hawks, while Mary Jane Auld's
visitor was Blanche Poole.

Among those away for the
week-end were Marjorie Weissmann
and Jane Coffer. Those going
home were Julia Ann Patch, Eloise
Lennard, and Claire Purcell.

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Register for Voting

The 113 Agnes Scott
students who will be old
enough to vote in the pres-
idential election next No-
vember are urged to reg-
ister at their home offices
during spring vacation.
The deadline \ for registra-
tion in most states is in
early May.

Writing Committee
Plans Senior Opera

annual senior opera, on the evening
of May 3, are under way with the
selection of a writing committee
composed of Sophie Montgomery,
Ruth Kaplan, Ann Enloe, Betty
Jean O'Brien, and Eleanor Hutch-
ens. Announcement of the plot and
characters will come later.

Business Authority

Adv ises Training

'Go Where Diploma Valued'
Says Mrs. MacGibbon

"I should be telling you to mar-
ry and have babies and save the
country/' said Mrs. Elizabeth
Gregg MacGibbon in her talk on
careers for women Friday, "but
nowadays every girl expects to
work whether she needs to or not."

Talking before Miss Omwake's
Applied Psychology class, Mrs.
MacGibbon, who is an authority
on business openings for women
and is author of the book Manners
in Business, discussed the various
fields where there is a place for
college women.

Personnel work is an open field,
particularly in department stores
and in educational positions. In the
other two branches of this work,
industrial and office personnel,
there is no place at all for a col-
lege woman. "A girl must realize,
however," warned Mrs. MacGib-
bon, "that she cannot receive her
college diploma and immediately
set in as a manager or employer of
people. Any type of personnel
work requires experience, long
hard work, and additional train-
ing.

Stenographic work can be very
congenial to the university woman
if she can get the right kind of job.
The happiest stenographers are
those who work in professional of-
fices where education is valued
law firms, doctors' offices, etc.

A private secretary is a rare lux-
ury these days, only a few out-
lasting the depression. These few,
however, have a well-paid and in-
teresting work.

According to Mrs. MacGibbon
the scientific field offers little to
the college woman, the few places
it has to offer being so poorly
paid as to be unattractive. School-
teaching as a profession is all right
but will be on the decline in the
near future, due to the alarming
decline of the birth-rate.

For mathematicians there is a
wide field in statistics; there is also
an untried field in beauty culture,
"where college women are extreme-
ly rare but very much in demand."
Civil Service jobs also offer excel-
lent opportunities for the alert col-
lege woman of today.

"The college graduate," advised
Mrs. MacGibbon in closing,
should try to go into work where
education is valued. Otherwise she
will probably not be happy."

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Endymion and Mazie wash too much, sleep too much, and
scratch too much, grumble Weezie Sams and Keeker New-
ton. Weezie and Keeker are two members of the Experi-
mental Psychology class, which is currently interested in
studying the intricacies of learning by teaching white rats

to run a complicated maze, then

timing the little animals as they
follow the right path to the food
bax at the other end. It isn't
as simple as it sounds. Endy-
mion, the more unobliging of
the two obtuse rodents in the lab
here, has taken from fifty-seven
minutes to two hours to run the
maze. Of course, the two hour
period was on a Saturday after-
noon, and the experimentors con-
fess that it would have taken long-
er if they hadn't given up after so
long a time.

Maybe you can guess how Mazie
got his name, but the christening
of Endymion was a bit more com-
plicated. The original Endymion
was a lad granted eternal youth
and sleep by Zeus. Since the rat
possessed, in addition to his won-
derful capacity for sleep, a strict

conscience about his daily bath
his whole name evolved into Endy-
mion Catharsis.

It requires an extra five minutes
to prevail upon Endymion and
Mazie to drag their tails into the
trap after they once get their bod-
ies in. Imagine being in a hurry
and dropping the trap too quickly,
only to pinch off the tail of the
namesake of a god!

Weezie and Keeker agree that he
is "clean and sweet even if he does
have fleas, but he is also dumb, in
spite of the fact that he was ac-
quired from Emory Med School."
Ah, but there was one glorious day
when, weary of seeing Endymion
stop in his tracks to wash, scratch,
and sleep, his exasperated trainers
lost their calm, scientific patience
and poked and scared him through
the maze in two seconds flat.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1940

Is it Fair?

The question of "Embargo vs. Treaty
With Japan" has aroused such a storm of
comment on this campus as might well
make the supporters of the often-leveled
accusation, that college students are too
sheltered to feel a vital interest in outside
affairs, take notice. Recently we had a
dynamic and attractive speaker, Dr. Wal-
ter Judd, medical missionary to China,
on fire with a great purpose : to put^ an
end to the Japanese occupation of China.
He spoke with great feeling of the ruth-
less bombing of Chinese civilian popula-
tions by Japanese airplanes made in the
United States by American engineers and
manufacturers, burning American gaso-
line, and armed with American munitions.

Dr. Judd left behind him a wake of
moral indignation and intellectual deter-
mination. The student body expressed it^
self heatedly in open forum Japan was
convicted, China commiserated, and a res-
olution was passed to put the students of
Agnes Scott on record as standing square-
ly behind the embargo on shipping arms
to Japan. A committee was appointed to
compile a list of leaders influential in poli-
tics and industry, and individuals were en-
couraged to write to these people and to
their senators and congressmen, express-
ing an opinion in an attempt to influence
legislation. It was a characteristically
democratic method of procedure, carried
out in the surety of producing results.

Yet, how can we, as intelligent and fair-
minded citizens of one of the most pow-
erful nations on the globe, be so blinded
by one viewpoint as to flatly condemn
shipping arms to Japan for economic gain,
and at the same time disregard the fact
that there is another war being waged in
the world today ; a war no less devastating
than the one in the Orient ; a war in which
we are taking an active participation by
shipping arms? How many of us feel the
same thrill of moral indignation when we
reflect that the United States is sending
supplies to England and France, enabling
them to carry on war with Germany, that
we get when we think of American prod-
ucts being used to destroy Chinese prop-
erty and lives? Yet the principle is the
same.

In our consideration of the facts, let us
not be so swayed by emotion as to disavow
this principle. It can make no difference
that our sympathies are naturally allied
with the democracies in Europe, as they
are with China. Our participation in any
foreign war is a real menace to peace and
prosperity at home, and our embargo on
sending armament to belligerent nations
should be all-inclusive.

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Exchanges

Similarities in the News: It has been said
that there is nothing new under the sun and the
duplications one finds in reading college papers
certainly prove this statement. For instance, Am-
herst and Mount Holyoke re-
cently cooperated to produce
Gilbert and Sullivan's lolan-
thc. One is reminded that
Emory and Agnes Scott are
working together to give this
same light opera.

Campus holidays are also
a point in common. The
Periscope of Shorter College
reports that classes were sus-
pended for one day after the Solomon
exam period. Agnes Scott Hottentots will have
a holiday February 22 in celebration of Founder's
Day. Hollins' Founder's Day is February 21.

Marriage courses are legion. Among those
colleges offering courses or lectures on marriage
and the familv are Ward-Belmont, Hollins Col-
lege, and Agnes Scott.

MacMurray College students in Jacksonville,
Illinois, recently conducted a survey on nail
polish. About 93 per cent of the students an-
swered "Yes" to the question "Do you wear nail
polish?" About 63 per cent of the seniors wear
it, but choose medium polish. Freshmen wear

Stevenson

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Fifty to One

By sheer force of numbers, by sending wave
after wave of living men over dead, the Russians
have advanced on the Mannerheim Line. The
Finns face their worst period. On the front, ar-
tillery pounds with a higher concentration than
ever in the World War. On
the diplomatic front, the
government learns that
Sweden refuses direct mili-
tary aid. President Kallio
speaks: "We really hope our
cause might stir onlookers
abroad. . . . We would still
carry on our fight, if it must
be alone ... we have no
choice but to fight to the
last man."

Rescue

Pirate fashion, the British destroyer, Cossack,
boarded the German steamer and prison ship, Alt-
mark, and removed 326 British prisoners. They
had been locked in a filthy hold and ignored by
a Norwegian inspection. No one is happy about
the affair but the British. The Norwegians pro-
test the hand-to-hand fight in their territorial
waters; the Germans call the killing of the Ger-
man seamen "swinish" and threaten undeclared
sea war.

John Buchan

People who know a literate thriller when they
read it, those who appreciate first rate biography
and history are sorrier for the death of John
Buchan than for that of Lord Tweedsmuir. This
Scottish writer had an amazing career: from of-
ficer in the Intelligence Service in the World War
to Peer and Canadian Governor General.

Fishing in Troubled Waters

President Roosevelt teased reporters by telling
them his mysterious destination was the Cheruble
Islands (of Edward Lear's fancy) . The fishing
has assumed a secondary importance on the cruise.
It has led first to the Panama Canal where the
President inspected new defense fortifications.
Rumors persist, not officially discouraged, of
naval conferences at sea. /

Girding for Battle

The political temperature is rising. All the pro-
fessional party men feel the time for supreme ac-
tion approaching. The Republicans meet in con-
vention June 24 in Philadelphia, and the Demo-
crats three weeks later in Chicago, July 15. The
indifferent will be ignored and unlucky as the
country gets involved in its campaign.

Alcatraz

The new Attorney General, Robert H. Jackson,
has dropped any plan for transforming Alcatraz.
Frank Murphy described the island prison for in-
corrigibles as an American Devil's Island and a
blight on the Pacific coast. He planned a substi-
tute inland farm prison. Nothing will come of
this plan now, under Jackson.

bright polish, and about 2 8 per cent of their class
choose "Wicked Woman" shades. (The MacMur-
ray College Greetings.)

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV Wednesday, February 21, 1940 No. 16

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination
periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on second floor Murphey
Candler building. Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year,
$1.2 J; single copies, five cents.

Campus Camerq

Eleanor Hutchens__

Evelyn Katy

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Editor

_ .Managing Editor
Business Manager

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Elaine Stubbs
Assistant Editors

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N THE I840 % S
OBERUM COLLEGE
COEDS SCRUBBED
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ROOMS, WASHED
AND MENDED
THE YOUNG
MEN'S CLOTHES.
IN

PAYMENT
THEY RECEIVED
2^4* AN
HOUR /

Ohio state u.
celebrates an
annual mistletoe
da/ by hanging
mistletoe on all
of the campus
buildings /

PRESIDENT

ROOSEVELT

WAS FLUNKED
IN ONE OF HIS
LAW COURSES
AT COLUMBIA
BY HARLAN F.
STONE x NOW A
SU8REME COURT
'JUSTICE /
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Georgia Hunt polls opinions in

Campus Quotes

The Gallup Polls indicate that
the American public is concerned
about the Sino- Japanese situation.
Similar polls among college groups
show that stu-
dents, too, are
vitally inter-
ested in this
international
problem. Stu-
dents of Ag-
nes Scott ex-
press the fol-
lowing opin-
ions about the
situation:

Guy Cur-
rie, '42,
thinks: . . . Hunt

that the U. S. ought to put an ab-
solute embargo on goods to Japan,
because we have no right to sup-
port another country's war. But
above all I believe that it is wrong
for a country to support financial-
ly a cause which it morally con-
demns."

Mickey Jones, 43, says: *, .
it is the duty of the U. S. to use
its financial support on the side of
China to curb Japanese aggression.
I really feel that the U. S. should
do something about the situation
and I think the best way is to sup-
port the defensive nation finan-
cially."

Lillie Belle Drake, '40, would
like ". . . to see the U. S. put an
embargo on the sale of war ma-
terials to Japan. I don't feel that
this participation would necessarily
involve the U. S. in the war. I feel
that it is the duty of the U. S. to
yield its support in the curbing of
[apancse aggression. We have been
entirely too negative toward the
whole problem."

Mary Ann Faw, 42, feels

". . . that the U. S. should do its
part in the stopping of Japanese
aggression by putting an embargo
on all goods to Japan. 1 feel that
an absolute embargo would be the
only effective weapon to use."

Carolyn Forman, '40, sug-
gests \ . that the U. S. ought to
renew its trade treaty with Japan.
I feel that this treaty should pro-

vide for an embargo on war ma-
terials only."

Theodosia Ripley, '42, believes
that America's financing of Japan's
war is particularly bad from a hu-
manitarian viewpoint. Of course,
it is rather hopeless to urge an em-
bargo on shipping arms to Japan
by stressing that and ignoring eco-
nomic gain, but we should certain-
ly consider it."

Mary Dean Lott, '42, how-
ever, says: "Putting an embargo
on the sale of munitions to Japan
won't help curb aggression. Japan
can get her war supplies from
other countries."

Nancy Hirsch, '43, concludes:
"I- favor an absolute embargo on
all goods to Japan. We are cer-
tainly responsible in great measure
for the situation in China today
because we have been helping the
Japanese financially to carry on
their war. We have no right to
put an embargo on all goods to
Japan!"

Editorial Notes

Busy Spring Quarter
Comes in View

This is the last issue of the News
until after examinations and spring
holidays. We can look beyond those
to a short spring quarter which
must, somehow, include elections,
Senior Opera, May Day, final ex-
ams and graduation. And we can
.still hope for Robert Frost.

We wonder who thought of put-
ting up a poster in Buttrick, dur-
ing the recent epidemic of bad
colds and flu, reminding us to be
careful of ourselves and others?
It's still a good idea particularly
now when the variable weather is
making sniffles common again.

The Founder's Day celebration
comes tomorrow as a welcome lull
before the last minute gathcring-
up- tag-ends of non-activity week.
Cotillion Club's dance in the gym
is a gay climax to a holiday.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940

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No. 17

Glee Clubs
Combine to
Stage Operetta

New York Guest Directs
Thursday, Friday Night
Productions of lolanthe

The role of Phyllis will be played

by Jeanette Carroll and Ruth Tate,

and that of Strephon by Harry

Hutchins when the curtain rises

on the production of the Gilbert

and Sullivan operetta, lolanthe, on

March 29 and 3 0 by the Agnes

Scott and Emory Glee Clubs.

Mr. Warren Lee Terry, of New
i

York City, will be the guest direc-
tor; Malcolm H. Dewey, of Emory
University, the conductor, and
Lewis H. Johnson, of Agnes Scott,
the assistant director. The Emory
Little Symphony Orchestra will be
in the pit.

Other members of the cast are:
Warren Lee Terry, the Lord Chan-
cellor; Betty Kyle, lolanthe; Jack
Boozer, Earl of Mountararat; Annie
Wilds, the Fairy Celia; Louise
Newton, the rairy Lelia; Florence
Ellis and Gene Slack, the Fairy
Fleta; Powers McLeod, Earl Tol-
loller; Sam Wise, Private Willis;
Amelia Nickels and Jane Moses,
Queen of the Fairies.

Members of the Agnes Scott
Glee Club will be the Chorus of
Fairies, and members of the Emory
Glee Club, the Chorus of Peers.
Glen C. James and Edward Gazelle
are in charge of lighting and scen-
ery, j

Miss Elizabeth Jackson is con-
cert master of the orchestra. Miss
Florence E. Smith and Miss Evelyn
Wall, of Agnes Scott, are in the or-
chestra.

(Continued on Page 2, Col, 1)

Miss Jackson
Presides at Meet

A. A. U. W. Holds Biennial
Conference in Miami

The South-Atlantic section of
the A. A. U. W. will hold its bien-
nial conference next week-end,
March 29-30, at the Miami-Bilt-
more Hotel in Miami. Miss Eliza-
beth Jackson, director of the
South-Atlantic section, will pre-
side at the conference, which dele-
gates from most of the eighty-six
branches will attend.

Dr. Kathryn McHale, general di-
rector of the A. A. U. W., is to be
present at the conference. This
week she has been the guest of Miss
Jackson at her home. Today Miss
Jackson gave a luncheon in honor
of Dr. McHale. Those present
were Miss Carrie Scandrett, Dr.
J. R. McCain, Mr. S. G. Stukes,
and Dr. Philip Davidson.

Dr. McHale is the former head
of the philosophy department of
Goucher College. She has been gen-
eral director of the A. A. U. W.
ten years; in that time the mem-
bership has become more than dou-
ble that of the forty-nine previous
years of the organization.

Founder of Kingsley Hall
Speaks on Social Work

Muriel Lester, founder of Kings
ley Hall in London and author of
several books on sociology, includ
ing the recently published 7/ Oc
curved to Me, will speak on some
of the most important phases of
her social work Wednesday, April
3, in chapel.

Miss Lester plans to be in At
lanta for two days while she ad
dresses various audiences. She
comes, to Agnes Scott at the invi-
tation of Christian Association.

Alumnae Fi
Play Roles

May Queen Carolyn Alley will
be Memory, who evokes the charac-
ters depicting "The Heritage of
Woman," in Agnes Scott's semi-
centennial May Day pageant, May
4, at 5:00 P. M.

Many principal roles will be
taken by alumnae, and members of
the choruses and dancing ensem-
bles are from the student body.
The May Court will represent the
nine Muses and the three fates.
Grecian characters already named
include Mary Ann Kernan, '3 8, as
Socrates; Betty Jean O'Brien as
Xantippe, Helen Moses Regenstein,
'39, as Sappho.

In the Renaissance period, Betty
Alderman will portray the Renais-
sance Lady of fashion. Characters
from the Civil War period include
Marie Stalker, '37, as a tutor, and
Page Lancaster as her recalcitrant
charge. Jackie Stearns will repre-
sent a negro mammy, Kathleen
Houck a Southern gentleman, and
Elizabetji Young, '3 5, a little
Southern girl.

Of the allegorical characters,
Helen Schukraft will be Human-
ity, Hazel Solomon, Evil Power,
and Mary Matthews, Woman.

Seniors Attend
Marriage Classes

Mortar Board Presents
Seven Lectures

A series of seven marriage classes
for the seniors, and students who
are to be married this summer, will
be sponsored this quarter by Mor-
tar Board under the direction of
Dr. Swanson. The course will be-
gin Thursday, April 4, classes to
be held each succeeding Friday aft-
ernoon.

The topics which have been
chosen are: "What to Look for in
a Husband," "The Anatomy and
Physiology of Marriage," "Birth
Control and Pregnancy," "Mother-
hood," "Psychological Adjust-
ment," "The Family As a Social
Unit," and "Making Marriage Fi-
nancially Sound." An authority on
each subject will lecture the first
half hour of the class, after which
students will be given a chance to
discuss and ask questions.

The discussions will also include
such matters as the effect a wom-
an's career has on marriage, home-
making, and the relative advan-
tages of a career and marriage.

The speakers will be announced
soon.

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.
Harry Hutchins, Jane Moses and Betty Kyle decide to practice for
their parts in "lolanthe," the operetta scheduled for the week-end.

COMING THIS WEEK

Wednesday, March 27
Harlow Shapley lectures
in the gym, 8:30.

Thursday, March 28 Stu-
dent body elections.

Friday, March 29 Glee
Club presents "lolan-
the" in gym at 8:00.

Saturday, March 30
Glee Club presents "lo-
lanthe" at Emory.

Monday, April 1 Agnes
Scott vs. Florida de-
bate, 4:30.

Tuesday, April 2 Fresh-
man class sponsors Jit-
terbug Contest.

Noted Astronomer
Lectures Tonight

Dr. Harlow Shapley Speaks on
'Exploring Stars and Galaxies 1

Bringing accounts and moving pictures of revolutionary
discoveries in the distant parts of the universe, Dr. Harlow
Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory and foremost
American astronomer, comes to the college lecture platform
tonight with an illustrated lecture on "Exploring Stars and
Galaxies."

He will appear on the free lecture series presented to the
campus and to the public by the Lecture Association and the

college. His lecture

Photo Courtesy Constitution.

Dr. Harlow Shapley

Debaters
Meet Florida

Resolved, that the United States
should enact legislation providing
for conscription of capital in the
event of war will be the subject of
the Agnes Scott-University of
Florida debate at 4:30 April 1
in Murphey Candler Building.
Margaret Hopkins and Mary
Lightfoot Elcan will present the
affirmative side of the debate
against the Florida team coached
by Margaret's father, Mr. A. A.
Hopkins.

Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Ann
Henry, Margaret Hopkins, Mar-
jorie Merlin, and Dr. Hayes will
leave with Mr. Hopkins and four
Florida debaters on the evening of
April 1st to participate in the
tournament of the Southern Asso-
ciation of Teachers of Speech at
Chattanooga, Tenn. Margaret
Hopkins and Marjorie Merlin won
third place in the same tournament
which represented leading South-
eastern schools and colleges and was
held in Baton Rouge last year.

Freshman Cabinet
Leads Red Cross Drive

The annual Red Cross member-
ship drive reaches the campus this
week under the direction of Chris-
tian Association's freshman cabi-
net. Led by Chairman Mardia Hop-
per, the sixteen members of the
cabinet will sell enrollment but-
tons at 2 5 cents each. This is a
special college reduction from the
regular membership fee of one dol-
lar.

represents a
part of the design of the series to
bring to the Bucher Scott platform
outstanding men in five different
fields of accomplishment. Illustrat-
ing his account with slides and a
moving picture showing recent
progress in the study of stars and
galaxies and the activities on the
sun, he will tell of his own work
and new explorations into faraway
star systems.

Dr. Shapley, owner of five
major degrees, winner of six med-
als from national and international
scientific institutions awarded in
the past fourteen years, writer of
three authoritative books in his
field, president of two international
commissions for astronomical re-
search, is the author of methods of
research and exploration which
have extended the range of astron-
omy far beyand its former limits.
Flis work at the Harvard Observa-
tory has been concentrated on map-
ping the stars and supersystems of
stars, with the greatest classified
plate collection of sky photographs
in the world.

Recent results of his work in-
clude:

(1) Determination of the di-
mensions of the Milky Way, found
to be surrounded by a great sparse
globe of stars.

(2) Discovery of "windows"
through the cosmic clouds of dust,
enabling astronomers to observe
distant star systems.

(3) Gradual discovery that stars
and star conglomerates form a rea-
sonable systematic universe.

(4) Discovery of a new, inter-
mediate type of star system.

(5) Discovery of important
gradients in the distribution of
galaxies in space, significant for
theories of the development of the
cosmos.

Dr. Shapley will be the guest of
the science department on the
campus before his lecture tonight.
Thursday night he will speak to the
Harvard Club in Atlanta.

He is not making a lecture tour
this year, being, as he wrote to
Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of the Lecture Associa-
tion, "very close to my researches
on problems in the expanding uni-
verse/' He was struck by the col-
lege's Fiftieth Anniversary celebra-
tion, terming it "very meritorious,"
and accepted the engagement last
October.

The lecture will begin at 8:30
in Bucher Scott gymnasium. Im-
mediately following it will be the
customary reception, with Dr.
Shapley, Miss Laney, Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, and Margaret Hopkins, stu-
dent chairman of the Lecture As-
sociation, receiving in the Mur-
phey Candler building.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940

Sophs Challenge
Sister Class

The sophomore class opened the
spring quarter sports season by
challenging the senior class to a
baseball game. The game is sched-
uled for Friday afternoon at 3:30
on the hockey field. Betty Ann
Brooks has charge of the sophomore
team, and Eleanor Hutchens leads
the seniors. Any member of each
class may play on the team. Miss
Frances McCalla will referee.

Blackfriars Names
Cast for Play

Blackfriars announces the cast
for Noel Coward's Leave It to
You to be presented on the eve-
ning of April 20th in Bucher Scott
gymnasium. Vera Pruet Le Croux,
Blackfriars' alumna; Laura Sale,
xMargaret Hopkins, Elizabeth Bar-
rett, Louise Musser, and Florence
Ellis from Blackfriars; Markham
Berry, of Emory Players; Hugh
Ivey, and Sidney Owen, of the At-
lanta Theatre Guild, will take the
leads.

Dr. Lapp read selections from
Nietzche's poetry at the regular
meeting of German Club last
Wednesday afternoon.

BOZ met at the home of Wal-
lace Lyons last Friday night. Mir-
iam Bedinger, Pattie Patterson, and
Cornelia Willis read original stories
after which Mr. Lyons entertained
the club with readings from a col-
lection of George W. Harris' short
stories.

Jane Salters attended the Inter-
national Relations Club confer-
ence at the University of North
Carolina March 21 through March
23.

Blackfriars' spring try-outs
will be held on April 1st.

Student Government, C. A.
Arrange Joint Programs

Louise Hughston, of Christian
Association, and Grace Ward, of
Student Government, are working
together to arrange a series of joint
C. A. and Student Government
programs this spring.

Polly Heaslett, student recorder,
announces that a number of revi-
sions in the point system will be
brought out in the new hand book.
Revisions in the budget system are
under consideration now; a com-
mittee is reapportioning the money
with plans to give the Glee Club
and Athletic Association a larger
percentage.

Operetta

(Continued from Page 1)
lolanlhe will be produced Friday

evening, March 29, 8:15 P. M., at
Agnes Scott, and Saturday evening,
March 3 0, 8:15 P. M., at Emory
University. Admission is fifty
cents.

The story concerns the mar-
riage of a fairy, Iolanthe, to a mor-
tal , her banishment from the fairy
queen's court, and the love affair
of her son, Strephon, with a shep-
herdess, Phvllis.

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Early Morning Light
Discloses Varied Activity

By Virginia Williams

Many an Agnes Scott girl comes in with the milkman,
flowers are used to protect furniture against dates, and Pres-
byterians are a harmless lot. These are the astonishing facts
uncovered by an effort to find out what goes on on the cam-
pus before 7 A. M.

Ella Carey and Gladys, maids in Main, arrive about six-
thirty. First they mop the whole hall and clean Miss Scan-

and

Constitution Staff Photo Pete Roton.

"B ow, b w, thou wint3r .;ind "
Thou seemest more unkind
In Southern latitudes . . .
The Easter Sunday chill meant nothing to Jane Taylor and Mary Lightfoot Elcan,
caught above in spring foliage.

Freshmen Sponsor
Jitterbug Contest

The freshman class is sponsoring
its second anunal Jitterbug Con-
test in the Murphey Candler build-
ing Tuesday, April 2, at 4:00.
Prizes of a pair of saddle oxfords,
donated by Thompson, Boland,
Lee, and a spoon pin, given by
Freeman Jewelry Company, will be
awarded to the best pair of jitter-
bugs. Last year's winner, Anne
Martin, is among the entrants al-
ready registered.

An exhibition by two guests will
be a feature of the program. Punch
will be served to contestants and
spectators. Tickets are ten cents
and mav be purchased from any
member of the freshman class.

New Dictionary Includes
Collegiate Slang

Dictionary Dope: The newest
volume of the Dictionary of Am-
erican English being published by
the University of Chicago is hand-
ing down to posterity many words
and phrases dear to the hearts of
slang-minded collegians.

For instance, "flunk" is defined
as "complete failure in a course,
examination, or an etcetera." "Gas"
is unpretentious talk', especially of
a political kind. (ACP)

drett's and Mrs. Smith's offices.
Next they begin to restore order in
the date parlors. Sometimes "we
find chewing gum wrappers and
cigarettes even under the rugs,"
mourned Ella. "And last spring
holidays the rugs were cleaned by
special men from Atlanta."

Ella wishes the girls and their
dates would treat the parlors bet-
ter. "Any young man who comes
to see Agnes Scott girls should see
how neat and nice everything has
been done for their comfort and
treat the parlors nice." The girls,
she says, are neater than the boys.
The girls' worst fault is their tak-
ing the light bulbs out of the
lamps. Even the boys are more
careful of the parlors than they
used to be.

More alarming to Ella than dis-
order in the parlors is the fact that
the boys waiting for dates have a
tendency to sit on the table in the
hall. She has seen as many as
three of them on it at the same
time. The flowers have come to be
put there more to protect the frail
table than to appeal to the taste of
visitors.

The Presbyterians are in high
I favor with Ella now because dur-
ing the recent conference they
didn't mess up the parlors and
were careful where they put their
chewing gum wrappers.

Even before Ella and Gladys ar-
rive there is activity on the cam-
pus. Mr. Jones doesn't go off duty
until around six and from twelve
to six he makes a round of the
campus every hour.

About five-thirty Mr. Osborn,
who is fireman at the steam plant
from twelve P. M. until nine

Microfilms of dailv newspapers
are being made at the University of
Michigan library in order to con-
serve storage space

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A. M., turns on the steam for the
dormitories.

At six the cook, waiters, iceman,
and breadman arrive. The cook
used to come at five- thirty to get
the big coal stove hot; but now,
using gas, he can sleep longer.

Preparation for breakfast in-
volves a crew of ten servants in
White House and eleven in Rebckah
Scott. Every man has his duty.
The Kitchen Committee includes
the cook, assistant cook, and the
pot washer. The Salad Room Com-
mittee of three attend to the prep-
aration of fruits and cereals. The
Dining Room Committee of a head
waiter and three assistants finish
setting the table, check the dishes
and attend to the general order of
the dining room. The head waiter
has another important job he
starts the water heating for the
coffee. The store room boy brings
out the cream and tests it in hot
coffee, brings out the cook's sup-
plies, and checks the supplies for
the day.

The one disillusioning point of
the military order in the kitchen
while the majority of Agnes Scott
is still fuzzy with sleep is the ar-
rival of the milkman. Contrary to
all tradition he arrives not by the
dawn's early light but in true mod-
ern fashion, at 11:30 A. M.

Capital University has an annual
Liquidation Day on which all stu-
dents are expected to settle their
indebtedness and pay their bills.

More than 600 high school stu-
dents participated in a mock Re-
publican national convention at
Temple University, nominated
Vandenberg for the presidency.

HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS
AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES

By Dalea Dorothy Clix

Dear Miss Clix: Please help me decide ! Two men from R

University (near our school) have fallen in love with me. Both
are Seniors, brilliant, all intellect. One, an entomologist,
wants me, he says, to be "his life partner in his chosen life
work" studying the boll weevil. The other is a paleontologist,
who dreams of spending his whole life in the Gobi Desert. But,
Miss Clix, I love life, laughter, gaiety, dancing, sophisticated

people! What shall I do?
Dear Quandary : I may be

wrong, but I see very little
dancing and gaiety loom-
ing up for you in the Gobi
Desert or the places where
you catch boll weevils.
Since two people if ento-
mologists and paleontolo-
gists are people-have fall-
en for you, you must have
something \ and I don't mean
all intellect. So why not
devise some "protective
coloratidn" to make your
charms visible to the mun-
dane kind of bird you
might easily ensnare ? Why
not try sophisticated hair-
do's, a good perfume, and
beautifully polished fin-
gernails?

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940

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Emory Presents
Julien Bryan

War Correspondent
Shows Uncensored Films

Julien Bryan, war correspondent
and photographer, is appearing at
Glenn Memorial Auditorium on
Thursday, April 4, at 8:30, pre-
senting an illustrated lecture on the
siege and fall of Warsaw. Mr.
Bryan's film is 1 the only uncensored
record of the German invasion of
Poland; the motion picture and the
colored lantern slides offer the
complete story of the ruthless de-
struction of Warsaw.

The lecture will open with three
reels of Poland before the war,
taken by Mr. Bryan in 1937, giv-
ing the audience an idea of the sort
of civilization the Poles had de-
velopei during their twenty years
as an independent nation. These
will be followed by the exclusive
pictures of the bombardment and
-surrounding of Warsaw.

Tickets may be purchased at the
door of the auditorium on the eve-
ning of the lecture. The prices are
seventy cents for adults and twen-
ty-five cents for children.

Eloise Lennard checks up on

After Working Hours

All the Agnes Scott girls can,
like the Little Fox, sing "Yanh,
yanh, yanh" to any of those
skeptical folks who thought that
being away for Spring Holidays
might give their staunch sup-
porters a chance to stray off and
seek new fields. But the girls re-
turned to find faithful swains with
activities already planned for their
entertainment this past week.

Among the outstanding events,
the formal given by the Delta
SigS from the Dental College, cre-
ated quite a bit of favorable com-
ment. Present at this dance were
Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Sara
Copeland, Helen Gilmer, Nina
Mae Snead, Eloise McCall, Mary
James Seagle, Annette Franklin,
Betty Lovett, Gary Home, Ellen
Stuart, Mary Lang Gill, Rebecca
Stamper, and Boots Moore.

Also attracting much social at-
tention was the dance given by
those med students who belong to
the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity.
Among those who attended this af-
fair were Elta Robinson, Shirley

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$ 1 30 per month.

The average freshman male at
the University of Toledo is six
inches taller and 20 pounds heavier
than his average feminine class-
mate.

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RICH'S

Ann Smith, Elizabeth Jenkins,
Eloise Lennard, Lib Davis, Pat Rea-
soner, Margaret Smith, and Mar-
jorie Simpson.

Atlanta was the spot chosen for
the Southeastern Interfratern-
ity Council Conference. At the

dinner-dance given for the visitors
were Lillian Schwencke, Jane Still-
well, Grace Elizabeth Anderson,
Weezie Sams, and Frances Bourke.

As usual, the Rainbow Room
attracted many of the Agnes Scott
girls, and some of those who were
there during the week-end were
Ruth Slack, Marjorie Gray, Frances
Bourke, Kay Rhodes, Frances Ellis,
and Stewart Arbuckle.

And still more dancing was done
by Alice Clements and Clara Roun-
tree at the Decatur Military
Ball, while Mary Ellen Whetsell
and Helen Jester chose to be in-
formal and went on a picnic to
Stone Mountain.

With the Greeks . . . At the

Chi Phi House at one time or
another, Ann Hilsman, Georgia
Tate, Nell Pinner, Helen Hale, Bet-
ty Wade, Harriet Vaughn, and
Carolyn Alley . . . with the Sigma
Nu's for Sunday night supper
were Martha Dunn, June Boy-
kin, and Marjorie Simpson . . .
at the Sigma Chi wiener roast
and picnic Saturday night, Ade-
laide Gregory, Martha Dunn, Ann
Bumstead, Ethlyn Dyar, and
Katsy Blair . . . and at the
Sigma Pi house for supper Sun-
day night were Nell Pinner and
Betsy Banks . . . while Tuesday
night found Olivia White and Mar-
ian Franklin with the Phi Delta
Phi's.

Away for the Week-end . . .

Ann Martin and Marjorie Boggs to
Clemson . . . Keeker Newton to a
Sea Island house party . . . Mary
Klingensmith, Dot Holloran,
Laura Cummings, Phyllis Peterson,
and Pat Perry off-campus for vari-
ous reasons . . . Hazel Solomon vis-
iting at Brenau . . . and the great'
number who felt that Eastertime
is the time to go home included
Tine Gray, Eugenia Hailey, Sally
Hollis, Charlotte Shepherd, Mar-
jorie Wilson, Nancy Thomason,
Mickey Jones, Charlotte Gardner,
Louise Runge, Susan Cochran, Hat
Stimson, Jessie MacGuire, Jane
Coffer, Margaret Shaw, Maria Fel-
ber, Val Nielsen, who took Mar-
garet Murchison with her, Marian
and Sue Phillips, who took Row-
ena Barringer and Connie Watson
with them, and Virginia Stanley,
who took Lillian Gudenrath, Caro-
lyn Dunn, and Ruth Biggs with
her.

Among the miscellaneous activ-
ities were the dinner parties given
by Louise Sullivan and Betty Jean
O'Brien, which included Sally Mat-
thews, Gene Slack, and Sophie
Montgomery. Then, too, Mary Mc-
Quown served as a bridesmaid in a
friond's wedding.

DUKE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF NURSING

DURHAM, N. C.

The Diploma of raduate Nurse is
awarded after three years, and the
Degree of Bachelor of Science in
Nursing for two additional years of
approved college work before or
after the course in Nursing. The
entrance requirements are intelli-
gence, character and graduation
from an accredited high school.
After 1940 two years of college
work will be required. The annual
tuition of $100 covers the cost of
uniforms, books, student govern-
ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli-
cation forms and information about
college requirements may be ob-
tained from the Admission Com-
mittee.

Students
Name Officers

Following is the list of popular
and committee nominations for of-
ficers of the various campus or-
ganizations. Elections are to be
held in chapel Thursday and Fri-
day of this week. Students are
asked to bring this list with them
to facilitate voting.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Popular Norn. Committee Norn.

President

Frances Breg Frances Breg

Jean Dennison

Betsy Kendrick
Vice-President

Betsy Kendrick Betsy Kendrick

Frances Breg

Jean Dennison

Martha Boone
House President of Rebekah

Betsy Kendrick Helen Hardie

Ann Henry

Martha Boone
House President of Main

Martha Boone

Martha Boone

Betsy Kendrick

Tine Gray

Ida Jane Vaughan

Anne Fisher
House President of Inman

Tine Gray Tine Gray

Martha Boone

Betsy Kendrick

Pattie Patterson

Ann Henry
Secretary

Betty Ann Brooks Virginia Mont-
Virginia Mont- gomery
gomery

Jane Taylor
Treasurer

Jane Taylor Jane Taylor

Virginia Montgomery

Betty Ann Brooks
Student Treasurer x

Betsy Kendrick Cornelia Willis

Freda Copeland

Cornelia Willis
Student Recorder

Martha Boone Ann Henry

Jean Dennison

Ann Henry
Day Student Representative

Jean Dennison Frances Spratlin

Gay Swaggerty

Gene Slack

Martha Dunn

Frances Spratlin

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
President

Scotty Wilds Scotty Wilds

Grace Walker

Tine Gray

Betty Kyle

Louise Musser
Vice-President

Scotty Wilds Grace Walker

Grace Walker

Tine Gray

Betty Kyle

Louise Musser
Secretary

Billie Davis Anne Chambless

Anne Chambless
Mary Dean Lott
Doris Hasty
Treasurer

Anne Chambless Doris Hasty
Billie Davis
Mary Dean Lott
Doris Hasty
Wallace Lyons

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Prseident

Ann Fisher Ann Fisher

Ida Jane Vaughan

Ethelyn Dyar

Berly Healy

Frances Spratlin
Vice-President

Ida Jane Vaughan Ida Jane Vaughan

Ann Fisher

Ethelyn Dyar

Frances Spratlin

Berly Healy

Anne Martin
Secretary

Dot Webster Gay Currie

Margaret Hamilton

Betty Ann Brooks

Doris Hasty

Alta Webster

Ann Gellerstedt

Gay Currie
Treasurer

Dot Webster Betty Ann Brooks

Margaret Hamilton

Doris Hasty

Gay Currie

Ann Gellerstedt

Alta Webster

Betty Ann Brooks

SILHOUETTE

Editor-in-Chief

Gene Slack Gene Slack

Mary Madison Wisdom

Ann Martin

Lucille Gaines

Beatrice Shamos
Assistant Editor

Mary Ann Faw Mary Ann Faw

Elise Nance

Mary Louise Palmour
Business Manager

Helen Klugh Helen Klugh

Betty Waitt

Val Neilsen

Florrie Guy
Advertising Manager

Mary Louise Palmour Mary Louise

Mary Robertson Palmour
AURORA

Editor-in-Chief
Sabine Brumby Sabine Brumby

Pattie Patterson
Betty Jane Stevenson

And, to close, we'd like to
say (if the editor will allow)
that it's been fun keeping up
with Agnes Scott social activ-
ities. Best of luck to next
year's society staff!

Reins States Theme
Of Christian Exchange

The problem of relating indivi-
dual religion to the international
crisis forms the theme for the sec-
ond edition of the Christian Ex-
change, edited by Mary Reins,
which appears April 2.

The publication incorporates vol-
untary student opinion on the
theme, which was suggested by
Dr. Judd's chapel talk on the Far
Eastern situation. Discussions in-
clude a consideration of the Chris-
tian's attitude toward shipping
arms to warring nations, and an
article on the individual's return to
the fundamental values of religion.

This edition also includes a re-
port of the denominational activi-
ties on the campus and a summary
of the work of the freshman and
sophomore cabinets.

U. S. Seeks
New Employees

The nation's collegiate job-hunt-
ers can take heart there are at
least 2 5 1,000 jobs "going begging"
in the nation! That fact has been
revealed by the University of Wis-
consin's Dr. A. H. Edgerton, who
has just completed an exhaustive
survey of the employment situation
in 29 states.

"Amidst the scarcity of work
opportunity last year, more than
251,000 good jobs were discovered
going begging in 29 states," Dr.
Edgerton said the survey showed.
"These 2 51,000 jobs were uncov-
ered in the 1*2 -month period ending
December 20, 1939. There may be
more today, for somewhat improv-
ed business conditions have increas-
ed demands for workers trained to
fill the better positions."

Two words "adequately train-
ed" were blamed by Dr. Edgerton
for the unfilled jobs, and they
spelled the difference' between em-
ployment and unemployment for
at least a quarter million men and
women, he said. This does not mean
merely that they must be skilled in
technical processes of occupation,
he explained, but it does mean that
they must possess the fundamental
knowledge on which those pro-
cesses are built, and that "they
must be able to adjust and adapt
themselves to changing condi-
tions." (ACP)

Jeanne Osborne

Come to
GLENN'S PHARMACY

Assistant Editor

Edith Dale

Neva Jackson

Isabel Miller
Business Manager

Florrie Guy Lib Barrett

Mary Madison Wisdom

Lib Barrett

Val Neilsen

Lucille Gaines

Helen Klugh

Betty Waitt

Florence Ellis

Molly Oliver

AGNES SCOTT NEWS

Editor

Elaine Stubbs Virginia Clower

Virginia Clower

Susan Self

Gene Slack

Lib Barrett
Managing Editor

Virginia Clower

Elaine Stubbs

Virginia Williams

Anne Martin
Assistant Editors (2)

Bee Bradfield

Jeanne Osborne

Theodosia Ripley

Margie Gray

Betty Sunderland

Olivia White
Business Manager

Florence Ellis

Mary Madison Wisdom

Lib Barrett

Lucille Gaines

Lillian Schwencke

Molly Oliver
Advertising Manager

Suzanne Kaulback

Annie Wilds

Martha Sue Dillard

Margaret Mary Toomey

LECTURE ASSOCIATION

President

Betty Waitt

Florrie Guy

Frances Spratlin
Treasurer

Florrie Guy

Frances Spratlin

Betty Waitt

Pattie Patterson

MAY DAY

Chairman

Jean Dennison Sarah Rainey

Sarah Rainey
Sabine Brumby
Betty Waitt

Elaine Stubbs

Bee Bradfield
Theodosia Ripley

Florence Ellis

Suzanne Kaulback

Betty Waitt

Pattie Patterson

4

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940

O'Brien takes notes

For the Record

fr T/s the last 'For the Record'
Left blooming (%) alone
For the old staff is leaving
All withered and gone."

In order to leave an indelible
impression of informedness on the
pore benighted readers of this rag,
this week will be one solid mass of
juicy bits gleaned from our far-
flung network of news gatherers.

The holidays seemed to have
caused quite a thick fog, otherwise
known as spring fever, to settle on
the alleged minds of Hottentots;
e. g., Ginny Williams, with bated
breath and flying feet, stormed the
heights of Buttrick shortly very
shortly before 8 A. M. on Mon-
day, March 18. For Ginny was all
set to begin the third quarter one
day early. The same Miss Williams,
with her tongue in her cheek, left
a nickel placed ostentatiously on
her dresser during vacation. Pur-
pose: To test the honesty or
temptability of the Scotch Presby-
terians who attended the conven-
tion.

Val Nielsen had a birthday dur-
ing the same fateful period and, as
a birthday present to end all birth-
day presents, her best friends pool-
ed their resources and purchased
her the removal of one wart, pre-
paid!

Concluding Goldfish Episode:

Not even the finny tribe c# the
Alumnae Garden is safe any more
for Judith Greenberg was over-
come the other day by the lure of
the "cool green depths" and gently
but firmly plumped herself in

Deus Ex Machina:

The great mind of "Little
Stupic" has come to the rescue
again much chagrin has resulted
from the practically ringless state
of the class of 1940, which is re-
lieved only by two or three bright
and shining exceptions. Hence the
exultation when Miss Slack bril-
liantly and with verisimilitude lays
this formerly sad state to the loft-
iness of the "high ideals" of the
class. Whce!

The prelude was progressing rap-
idly last Wednesday, when the
somnolent student body woke up
to the fact that there was a great
absence of conductor on the stage.
Upon the vehement frantic urgings
of her cohorts on the first row,
Jane Moses leaped heroically into
the breach and extemporaneously
conducted chapel. Upon conclu-
sion (somewhat abrupt) of the
benediction, Jane retired. To every-
ones' amazement, Mr. Dieckmann
got meekly up and read a long list
of announcements. Finally the sad
tact seeped through the assembled
gray matter that Mr. Dieckmann
had been in charge of chapel all
along, and the breach was non-cx-
istant.

Hon Mot of the Week:

This expression should be put in
the handbook along with the en-
trance requirements:

A term paper is a hectic con-
glomeration of hasty inaccuracies."
Dr. J. T. Gillespie.

Recently by some strange twist
of fate two members of our fac-
ulty were mentioned in connection
with Heaven. At an open air
meeting of the News staff.

News Holds Tryouts

Tryouts for reporters on
the News are being; held
the week of April 1. A
paper will be posted on the
back bulletin board Mon-
day; anyone interested in
trying out should sign up
by Wednesday noon. As-
signments will be given im-
mediately, and should be
put in the box in the News
room by Friday at 5:30.

Look Out, Bunny

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Coming round the Round House are patrons of the Chi Beta Phi Easter egg hunt which flourished
wesi of Rebekah Friday afternoon. Mary Dean is leading the race with a Lott of enthusiasm; and Betty
Ann, for once, Brooks some interference in the game. The sophomores are not alone in the race, however;
V. J. is just Watkins and waiting.

wherein Hutchens the Hectic was
delivering her "Ave Atque Vale''
speech, M-iss Laney chanced to
pass by and quite reasonably in-
quired whether this was a revival.
Whereupon Hutchens turned
around and, in her most sepulchral
voice, replied, "Yes, and are you
saved?"

Miss Jackson is the heroine of
the other paradisical episode. After
considerable urging she broke down
in class and narrated an apocryphal
story told on her by one of her
friends. It seems Miss J. was in
Heaven, but was unhappy, just
playing the harp, and was also
very lonely. St. Peter, upon notic-
ing her dissatisfaction, asked what
was the matter. She explained that
she was lonesome for some of her
fellow A. A. U. W. workers. Upon
hearing that she was a laborer in
that organization, St. Peter ex-
claimed. "Why child, this is no
place for you. You belong in Sev-
enth Heaven!"

In closing, let me state (pardon
for dropping the editorial "we")
that I appreciate most heartily that
willing band of workers who have
so heart ily cooperated with me in
discovering the interesting sayings
and doings of the campus. In fu-
ture I beg to remain "For the
Record."

Your Obedient Servant,
Betty Jean O'Brien.

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Raps, Thrills Mark
Job of Feature Editor

By Anne Enloe

The feature editor is always to blame. If the paper's a
great success this week, the editor will thank the feature
writers, and if the paper flops, she'll give them more or less
figurative kicks in the teeth according to the degree of flop.
But the feature editor really reaps the thrills of the business,

even if her life does have its em-
barrassing moments.

She has all the fun of interview-
ing the celebrities, she lunches with
the Alfred Duff Coopers, so as to
get a load of their Manners, Diana
and otherwise. Then she gets to sit
by and blot while Andre Maurois
autographs books and ask him any
questions that she can find cour-
age enough to think up. Another
time she has the fun of hearing the
inside dope on all Evelyn Hanna's
college day pranks.

But at times trials and troubles
feature her life. Dr. Hayes flatly
states that he does not want to be
a campus celebrity this week, so
she goes off in despair and inter-
views Henri Thompson, who
promptly gets so tickled in recall-
ing her childhood that she cannot
utter a coherent sentence. Or per-
haps the day that Miss Omwake
disliked the idea of being a co-cele-
brity in a sort of double feature
was even worse.

Then there arc the times when
the poor feature writer's assign-
ments are so vague sne has to pull

material out of the air and go delv-
ing into the construction plans of
the new building or make news
herself. (Moral: Don't get stuck
in front of a fraternity house; it
works too well! )

And consider how red your face
would be if you asked an austere
faculty member what her impres-
sions were when she made Phi Beta
Kappa, only to hear the answer: "I
am not a member of that organi-
zation." Or the fatal day she asked
a professor if she had spent the
summer working toward a degree
and found herself squelched to a
pulp with:

"I have all the degrees."

Educator Praises
College Youth

"The youth of America comes
to the doors of our colleges with
hope and vision. Their spirit is
the spirit of adventure. Their urge
is the urge of growth. Their prin-
ciple qualification for admission is
curiosity. Their most valued rec-
ommendation is the desire for bet-
ter things. Their finest equipment
is courage and determination to
succeed in a world of opportunity.
They are endowed with the talents
of normal human beings and are
burdened with the frailties com-
mon to all men. This is the mater-
ial with which the college works
and no finer task may be found in
all time than to create from this
material a product that can be rec-
ognized as a gentleman and a
scholar." Rutgers University's Dr.
Fraser Metzger aptly describes the
"raw material" of higher educa-
tion. (ACP)

Mozart's comic opera, "Abduc-
tion from the Harem," will be pre-
sented in its entirety for the first
time in the U. S. by the music de-
partment of the University of
Michigan.

The dateline "Thursday, Febru-
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pers again until 1968.

The University of South Caro-
lina extension division conducts a
safety school for truck and bus

Motion pictures are being taken
of student orchestra conductors at
Northwest Missouri State Teachers
College so that they may study
their faults.

Largest employers of student
help at the University of Florida
have signed a code governing
wages and labor conditions.

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5

Moody Names April 6
For Mardi Gras

Movie Titles Furnish Theme;

inizations Plan Floats, Elect Rulers

Orgai

With lloats, costumes, music, and royalty, Agnes
annual Mardi Gras is coming to the campus with
gaiety and excitement of the New Orleans festival.

The day for the celebration announced by Martha
chairman, is April 6. Plans for events leading up to
night are under way now under the
direction of the junior class.

On Tuesday, April 2, the kings
and queens chosen by each class
will be presented and voted on. It
is customary for the royal couple
receiving the largest number of
votes to rule over the Court of
Kings at Mardi Gras. The identity
of the class representatives will be
kept secret until Tuesday when
they are officially presented in
skits.

The theme for floats this year,
timely because of the local fad for
playing the game, is Movie Titles.
Every organization on the campus
enters a float in the parade which
precedes Mardi Gras entertainment.
Blue ribbons are awarded the floats
judged most original and most
beautiful.

At the Mardi Gras celebration
proper, held in the gymnasium,
the King and Queen for a night
will rule supreme, supported by
their court. There will be a lively
program of entertainment, Chair-
man Moody revealed.

Heads of the various committees
of work as named by Chairman
Moody are as follows: Program,
Ann Fisher; Publicity, Helen
Hardie; Floats, Sarah Rainey;
Skits, Sabine Brumby; Finances,
Scotty Wilds; Refreshments, Freda
Copeland; Decorations, Louise
Musser; Seating, Florrie Guy.

Mardi Gras is given each year for
the benefit of the junior class. The
college community is urged to
come in costume.

Scott's
all the

Moody,
the big

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Wednesday next week. The object
of her visit is to study the laws and
workings of the college Student
'Government in order to get new
ideas for Queens. She plans to
speak in chapel on one of the days
of her visit.

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A scraping of chairs then momentary silence as amaze-
ment set in on the Rebekah Scott Commentary, which func-
tions faithfully each day from 12:30 to 1:15. Several of its
members reached up to see if perhaps they had forgotten to
remove their dark glasses, and thus were getting that tinted
effect of the people leaving lunch others glanced hastily at
the windows to be sure shadows were not creating those two-
toned complexions on otherwise

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with the dress if you're too fragile for those early Spring breezes.

Gettysburg

Finds a New Way

"The chaos of modern civiliza-
tion can scarcely be attributed to
acts of God. The structure of hu-
man society is not t rotten but
sound. It is the defective utiliza-
tion of human culture that lies at
the bottom of our/ present troublei
The most exigent task in education
today is the appraisal of the biolo-
gical and consequent social capac-
ity of the individual so that his
proper niche if any can be
found and he can be stuffed into
it." Harvard University's anthro-
pologist, Dr. Ernest M. Hooten,
oresents his own blueprint for
Utopia. (ACP)

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seemed to understand, and the
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in bold white letters across the
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you're in the wrong position."
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normal looking students and the
more inactive, thoughtful observers
merely folded their hands and com-
mented that it did seem as if the
water should have cleared up in
the pipes by NOW! But before
the procession under the discussion
had reached the door, word was
spreading that it was not a group
of afflicted people at all, but just
a few of the Hottentots who had
spent their spring vacation in Flor-
ida and were back again with that
healthy, dark look about them.

Considering the number of Ag-
nes Scotters who packed bathing
suits and traveled south to recover
from exams, one might suspect an
attractive travel agent of circulat-
ing folders, or the DeKalb of show-
ing extra-good travelogues. But
whate'er the cause and we ain't
saying the middle of March
found seniors, juniors, sophs, and
frosh alike enjoying California's-
greatest-competitor from its high-
est point down to its lowest grain
of sand.

Lost Luggage

And when we say enjoy we do
mean enjoy! Lost luggage did not
daunt the sophs who found them-
selves in Daytona with only their
purses as reinforcement. They
simply grabbed their chaperon by
the arm "and stalked out on the
beach in their traveling clothes, as
if they had just arrived and were
looking the place over. However,
they were mighty happy chillun
when they could relax in proper ap-
parel, put the sand back in its
proper place, and, above all, dis-
miss those suspicious looks from the
beach'-lollers who were not so sure
they were new arrivals the third
time they passed by! It seems that
the Super-Streamlined was just a
bit ahead of the Decatur Special
and connections were missed.

Sophs Economize

Yes, and true to form, this same
crew of sophs lived in luxury dur-
ing their trip not by virtue of a
raised allowance, but by applying
their liberal arts (as offered by
ASC). When they found that the
reservations for their ^sumptuous
6- woman- 1-room apartment had
not been regarded, they, in unison,
raised their eyebrows (saved for
just such an emergency) and be-
fore the ocean could wave again
they were established in a three-
room apartment with a sea breeze!
Who said one got no practical
knowledge here?

But even in Florida it is the sen-
iors who show supreme intelligence,
and make these traditional south-
ern jaunts college history and not
mere campus chatter. One would
hardly expect a senior to spend her
week lying in the sun, enjoying life

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lazily, when she could be enjoying
it and developing her mind simul-
taneously. It is suspected that this
conservation of time is a hangover
from time-schedule years, but
whatever the cause, some potential
"Phi Bait" material definitely came
to light when this group went
through the fruit groves. There an
intelligent discussion was held
about the waste of raising oranges
on trees instead of raising them in
crates where they belong. Anyone
who dares take a juicy subject like
that and treat it intelligently cer-
tainly deserves to receive the shock
of her life and risk swallowing her
Adam's apple when a Phi Beta
Kappa official reads her name out
in chapel!

Reunion in Daytona

Natives of the state were a bit
amazed, no doubt, when fifteen
people appeared on Daytona in sev-
eral separate groups, apparently un-
aware of each other, then suddenly
began screaming and yelling,
"Where did you come from? Well,
fancy meeting you here!" and
other conventional screeches of
surprise. We hear that there was a
dash for the life boats because they
were trying to drown each other
out, but no harm was done, and
once again the world was proved to
be a small place.

Still another ^tale of a happy re-
union remains to be told.

A small group of interested tour-
ists was quietly listening to a guide
who was explaining the surround-
ings of the Fountain of Youth.
Suddenly, from the direction of the
Fountain itself were heard loud
"Helios" and "Look!" Shortlv five
girls came dashing in, single file, to
greet their friends in a loving man-
ner, and give detailed accounts of
their five-day tour in five minutes.
Meanwhile the guide droned on to
an audience which was temporarily
wondering if everyone who drank
from the Fountain came back be-
having as jovially as this quintet.

So far, far into printed space
could one recount the highlights of
the experiences of the traveling
Hottentots. The new motto seems
to be "Go South, young woman,
and vote for re-peel!"

Blackfriars
Rent Costumes

In answer to constant demands
for costumes for stunts and skits,
Blackfriars has opened a Costume
Rental Bureau to students. "Al-
most any kind of costume may be
rented," said Sarah Rainey, in
charge of the bureau. She also an-
nounced that the cost of renting
would be very small, ranging from
five to fifteen cents.

ROGERS STORE

6

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940

Campus Camera

IF YOU'RE AM AVERAGE COLLEGE
CO-ED YOUvSPEND l!76 HOURS
OR 49 DAYS BEFORE A MIRROR
DURING YOUR 4 COLLEGE YEARS/
AND IF WRE AN AVERAGE COL-
LEGE A/VAN YOU NOW KNOW THE
REASON FOR THOSE "LONG WAITS*.

Georgia Hunt polls opinions in

Campus Quotes

The tradition, honored system of
committee nominations on the
campus is getting its spring "airing
out" and students here express the
following opinions as to whether
such a system is a help or a hin-
drance in student elections:

Annette Franklin, '40, says:
"I think the committee nominations
are a definite help in student elec-
tions because the majority of stu-
dents do not know which people on
the campus are best qualified to fill
the offices. The committee nomi-
nations represent the careful and
thoughtful opinion of the people
who really know."

Florence Graham, '40, thinks:

. . that our present system of
committee nominations is not en-
tirely democratic because it intimi-
dates students from expressing
their own opinions to the fullest ex-
tent."

Cornelia Willis, '41, believes:
*\ . . that the committee nomina-
tions are both a help and a hin-
drance in student elections a help
to the freshmen and new students
because they may lead them in the
right selections, but a hindrance
to the majority of other students
because they tend to make voters
not think for themselves. If some
other method of acquainting new
students with people in office
could be devised I would say do
away with the committee system."

Julia Lancaster, '41, consid-
ers: ". . . the system of committee
nominations helps in student elec-
tions because it furnishes a guide
for students who do not know the
people best suited for office. The
system is democratic because it al-
lows each student to vote as she
chooses and at the same time it of-
fers thoughtful suggestions as to
who is best qualified."

Hetty Sunderland, '41, com-
ments: ". . . that many students
do vote as the committee suggests
but they do it because they want
the thoughtful opinion of people
who can really say who is best
qualified for a certain position. I'm
afraid," she continues, "if students
voted haphazardly without a
thoughtful guide our elections
might end up with a group of in-

efficient people in office."

Isabel Miller, '42, thinks: . .
that the opinion of the nominating
committee is to be trusted. Such a
system is a help in student elec-
tions because it suggests the best
qualified students for office to
people who don't know. The dem-
ocratic spirit of such a system
should not be questioned because
it offers to every voter the right
to make his own personal choice."

Virginia Lambeth, '43, adds:
. . that the system of commit-
tee nominations is a help tspecially
to freshmen who do not know the
people best suited for an office. It
should be, I believe, a help to up-
per classmen in choosing the best
suited people for office because it
represents the thoughtful opinion
of the group who can best submit
nominations."

Clara Rountree, '43, con-
cludes: . . that the committee
system is good for students who
don't know those best qualified for
office but, on the other hand, it
sways t?he choice of other students."

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV No. 17

Wednesday, March 27, 1940

Published weekly, except holidays
and examination periods, by the stu-
dents of Agnes Scott College. Member
Associated Collegiate Press. Office on
scond floor Murphey Candler building.
Entered as second class matter at the
Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscrip-
tion price per year, $1.25; single
copies, five cents.

Eleanor Hutchens Editor

Evelyn Baty

Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

VirRtnia Clower
Elaine Stubbs
Assistant Editors
Florence Ellis
Advertising Manager

Rebecca Drucker
Copy Editor
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Betty Jean O'Brien
Feature Editors
Virginia Williams

Doris Weinkle
Assistant Feature
Editors

Betty Jane Stevenson
Current History
Editor

Anne Martin
Sports Editor

Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor

Jeannette Tarroll
Alumnae Editor

Susan Self
Club Editor

Eloise Lennard
Society Editor

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Reynaud for Daladier

A new face decorates the news stories from
France. It may be supplanted soon. The new cab-
inet of Paul Reynaud seems shaky. He broadened
the base of the government, letting in three So-
cialists, excluded by Daladier. But the rightists
are rumored to be demanding a military dictator-
ship under General Gamelin. Applause in the
Chamber of Deputies was mild on Reynaud's first
appearance, and he got only a one vote majority
in a vote of confidence.

Retaliation

The seven hour mass bombing of the German
fortified island of Sylt was the first big air at-
tack of War No. 1 in Europe. American corres-
pondents found little damage there. The British
may or may not be right that the Germans lead
the American newsmen on a special (restricted)
propaganda tour.

Public morale in Britain has had an upswing
since this raid. Chamberlain is stronger than ever.
It seems to them an answer to the last German
raid on Scapa Flow. '

Debut

James H. R. Cromwell's career as diplomat be-
gan less than auspiciously. His maiden speech, un-
authorized and strongly pro-Ally, drew a public
rebuke by telegram from Secretary Hull. Can
this be part of the State Department's inner strug-
gle over career vs. society diplomats?

Hat in the Ring

There will be at least one skilled party man in
the race for the Democratic nomination. Farley
stated unequivocally that he does choose to run.
He said to newspapermen "To clear up any mis-
understanding, let me say that my name will be
presented to the Democratic National Convention
at Chicago, and that's that. I am sure that any-
one who has known me during my political car-
eer will know that I make this statement frankly
and without reserve."

High Finances

Money-minded citizens watch with breathless
interest the United States public debt mount near
to the ultimate $45,000,000,000 limit. Morgan-
thau's attitude is nonchalant. The Secretary of
the Treasury believes a legalized $50,000,000,000
limit should cause no alarm. The need for Con-
gressional action is closer since the Senate passed
the new farm bill $1,000,000,000 worth.

Home Sweet Home

Georgia was once synonymous for the rest of
the United States with cracker, Sherman, and
G\VT. The news of the last few weeks gives
crackerland a more sinister complexion: floggings,
arrested governors, and suspect Congressmen may
come to mean more than magnolias and "you-all."
Assistant Attorney-General Rogge is eyeing Geor-
gia as fair ground for federal investigation in the
style of the recent New Orleans probe.

Let Blank Slates
At Least Be Clean

The annual job-hunting- season is open-
ing this month. Seniors are adding up
their major hours, writing letters, and
having interviews. Upperclassmen are
thinking of summer jobs. And everybody
is asking for recommendations.

This is the time when seniors look back
over their four-year records and wish they
had something to write under "Academic
Honors'" or "Extra-curricular Activities"
on the application blanks. Struggling to
remember every petty office they have
held since freshman year, they long for
something really impressive say Phi
Beta Kappa to enter on the records as
proof of accomplishment. And they finish
by hoping that the people whose names
they give for reference will be kind.

Most of us do not realize how close a
check the college officials keep on us, and
how carefully they weigh the evidence be-
fore writing recommendations. Every-
thing indicative of character, however
trivial, is considered. A long-unpaid bill
at the tea house, for instance, or scholar-
ship dutv done poorly.

It is well for each of us to look over her
personal situation before asking to be
recommended by the college. We cannot
go back and make Phi Beta Kappa; but
we can tie up whatever loose ends are still
dangling.

We Look
Before and After

Growth is difficult to measure. When
the very new, very ignorant, and very
hopeful News staff began its work last
spring-, it set up for itself the goal of pro-
moting growth on our campus. Now that
the same staff, older, somewhat less ig-
norant, but equally hopeful, looks back
over its efforts, it can attempt no evaluat-
ing nor interpretation of its work. It re-
mains for those who follow, with their
greater perspective, to give to each step
its proper place in the building of Greater
Agnes Scott. *

There are, of course, the obvious
changes. Continuing the "streamlining"
policy begun last year, the staff has en-
deavored to make the News grow into a
more easily readable paper ; larger papers
have furnished ideas, headline types have
been simplified, and assistant editors have
struggled to keep a verb in eveiy head.
National advertising has appeared, and
made possible the six-page and eight-page
editions.

The campus, we think, has grown too.
Through editorials and Campus Quotes
the staff has wished to keep alive the self-
searching and constructive criticism that
is the basis of all real progress. Our
thoughts have not lingered too much on
the relative values of Latin and Religious
Emphasis Week ; they have sought also an
understanding of that world outside our
busy, self-sufficient walls through world
famous lecturers, through discussions on
Finland's struggle, through resumes of in-
ternational happenings, and through news
from other colleges.

No one organization can establish on
the campus the desire for growth, nor can
it effect miraculous progress. Its only
hope lies in stimulating the individual stu-
dent to deeper thinking, wider interest,
more integrated action. "If Heaven would
make me such another world . . Heaven
has no intentions of giving the seniors
"such another world" as this one young,
earnest, and growing. We leave that world
to you who remain; make of it what you
will. (E. B.)

Hazel Solomon sifts the

Exchanges

The political pot has begun to boil on every
campus from Maine to California, now that spring
has brought back-slapping, scheming, promise
making and breaking, and voting for next year's
officers.

Cleaner Politics

To prepare the various student bodies for elec-
tion, editors of college newspapers have written
editorials about the true democratic spirit which
should prevail at election time. The editor of the
Hollijis Student Life has made a plea for honesty
in selecting candidates. The student government
association of T. S. C. W. at Denton, Texas, re-
cently held a general house cleaning preparatory
to the elections, and the functions of student gov-
ernment were explained.

Improvements

Several colleges and universities are seeking im-
provements in the electoral systems while others
want to create new positions or renovate existing
ones. Emory University students are working to
rejuvenate their Student Activity Council. They
claim that the present council does not represent
the entire campus. Under the proposed system of
more representative government, each member
would represent a definite group of students from
the campus, and class spirit would be developed.
The new system would "effect a better organized,
more representative, stronger, and more active
Student Government which would stimulate gen-
eral interest in the university and in student af-
fairs.

At Furman, campus leaders are attempting to
eliminate the legislature and student body officials
as such, while adding to the prestige of the Stu-
dent Council. At F. S. C. W. at Tallahassee,
Florida, selection of candidates by holding a pri-
mary election will replace nomination by a com-
mittee. The nominating committee still functions
at Converse, Mt. Holyoke, Alabama College at
Montcvallo, at the Georgia Teachers College at
Collegeboro, Georgia. *

I Is it true what they say a -bout AGGIE?

Lecture Committee
Climaxes Anniversary

Or: Cable Bores Again

Coming as perhaps the most eagerly awaited lecturer of
the year, Dr. Glark Cable arrives on the campus today for a
week's stay. He is to be totally at the mercy of the young
ladies during his visit, and will be willing to have private
five minute conferences throughout the day and until eleven
forty-five at night. Students wishing to arrange for appoint-
ments are requested to contact the Lecture Committee
through one of their temporary of

fice force in the specially con-
structed office on the lot between
Buttrick Hall and South McDon-
ough Street.

Dr. Cable, whose visit has been
postponed several times because of
his need for extensive preparation,
is well known in this section as an
exponent of Southern charm,
sugar and spice and everything
nice. His greatest work, "Goo Woo
thoo Woo," is fast climbing as a
best seller and is expected to do
rather well as a thumb nail sketch
of the Civil War.

Dr. Cable is also peculiarly well-
fitted to lecture on the subject
chosen for him, "Nudism As a
Hobby," or "Do Clothes Make the
Man?" This subject brings to
mind current events in natural
phenomena involving apparent loss
of control in the law of gravy and
the dangerous aspect of spots on
the vest.

In being asked to comment on
present conditions of the west
coast stellar system, Dr. Cable
tersely stated, "Frankly, Mrs. But-
ler, I don't give a damn!"

As a special attraction, to help
swell what is feared would be an
otherwise puny crowd, this lecture
is being presented absolutely free
of charge. This is being done in
collaboration with the Government
in celebration of the 450th (cirea)
anniversary of the discovery of
America.

Jane Moses conducted chapel

Wake Up
The Editor

Dearest Editor:

I wish to complain of the exces-
sive heat in the library. How can
one work in such a stifling, sultry
atmosphere? Even chewing gum is
too much of an exertion. Were it
not for the Ovaltine served at four
every afternoon to ward off insom-
nia, the situation would be unbear-
able.

I'm sure you will cooperate in
giving us the cold shoulder.

Love and kisses,

May B. Wright.

P. S. Jane Moses conducted
chapel.

Chief evidence for the prosecution is reproduced above in
the News' exclusive picture of the detailed map of the cam-
pus found in the possession of spy ring uncovered this week.
The incriminating numbers plainly indicate plans to destroy
the principal buildings in order. The photograph at the bot-
tom shows two suspects swapping alibis before being taken
before Motor Board for questioning.

Leader Continues
Plug for High Ideals

The rain may have ruined the
hopes of Easter paraders from
Maine to California, but it didn't
slacken the spirit of one Agnes
Scotter. When asked to give the
secret of her success in always
snatching a place in the leadout, as
she is here shown triumphantly
conducting an Emory march, she
said t-Ruthfully and earnestly,
"The answer can be found in two
words High Ideals/' She is plan-
ning to make an extended tour
soon to all women's colleges to
teach the students how to win
friends and lower marriage percen-
tages with these same ideals.

Fearless Reporter
Exposes Spy Ring

Disguised Termites Plot
Devestation of Woodwork

Through the untiring efforts and clever deductions of a
reporter of this daily, a spy ring comparable to the famous
Kuku Klan has been exposed on the campus this week. Plan-
ning- to undermine the chief buildings of the campus with a
carefully-trained and fully equipped army of termites, and
to betray the secrets of the notorious beer-cellar putsch, the
ring when captured was almost at the culmination of its
deadly plot.

According to our intrepid in-
vestigator, whose name is being
withheld for obvious reasons, the
diabolical scheme was to have re-
sulted in the complete devestation
of the woodwork in Buttrick Hall,
Main Building, and the Library
sometime this week. Plans for im-
porting two thousand trained
Dashhounds to undermine the
foundations of other key buildings
on the campus were also disclosed
in a search under the left-over
Shakespeare books on the book
store shelves.

The plot was first suspected
when the News reporter became
suspicious of a buzzing noise in an
adjoining room and, picking up a
convenient sledge hammer, burst
into the room to find the termites.
Other occupants of the room are
being held pending investigation,
though they declare their inno-
cence of any duplicity. "We
didn't know they were termites, ,,
explained Henri de Thompson, who
was found underneath a bed. "We
thought they were fruit flies escap-
ed from Genetics lab."

Campus leaders were shocked at
the sudden disclosure. Ruth Smoke
Stack, president of the Society for
the Prevention of Walking on the
Grass, announced that her organi-
zation would encourage any prose-
cution of the offenders. "Termites
are the worst enemies of grass," she
said. "Why, an army of termites
can trample down a lawn in no
time."

Dr. McCain declined to com-
ment on the situation beyond stat-
ing that Jane Moses conducted
chapel.

Who Wants to
Get Married
Anyway?

A jolly time was had by all
members of the senior class Satur-
day night when, under the chaper-
onage of Mr. Stukes, the girls hiked
into Atlanta on a field trip. The
purpose of the jaunt was to see the
motion picture, "Too Many Hus-
bands," which was reported to be
of considerable instructional value.

Jane Moses conducted chapel.

No Comment

E. Hutchi laps up

The Wrong News

Georgia got her biggest boost since WG
last week when an advocate of the Incubator
Clean Politics Bill designated the state as a model
to be followed by others in organizing political
machines.

"Georgia, " thundered the white-haired crusader
for honest government, "has never sustained a
smirch against her fair name as an efficient state,
efficiently and smoothly governed. Her execu-
tive and judiciary departments are particularly
praiseworthy for their harmony of operation."

Jane Moses conducted chapel.

Scientists and research men at Georgia Hech,
turning from their outstanding work in graphing
the gradients and comparative extent of the ap-
proximate pulsitude of Ann Sheridan, announced
this week a new advance in man's search for truth.

It is a "Please" sign radiating a green glow over
its surroundings, causing the passerby to think
there is really grass there and therefore to stay
on the sidewalk.

Con Wallback, editor of the Hechsqueak, gal-
lantly dedicated the find to the purposes of the
Agnes Scott grounds committee this morning.

Adolf Hitler yesterday took the initiative in a
drive for cordial relations among different Euro-
pean nationalities which have not felt as close
recently as in former days.

"What we need," said Der Phooerer in a sober
speech to the Reichdoe, "is race relations. Interests
outside the ivy-covered Westwall, beyond our
narrow little Aryan horizon. I suggest informal
social gatherings, where we may mix in whole-
some contact with others. Race relations, that's
what we need."

Amid the applause of his audience, Hitler stood
silent for a moment, the Berlin breeze whistling
through his lebensraum. Concluding in a firm,
ringing voice, he quoted in English,

"Come and trip it as you go
On the light fantastic toe . . .
Come on chillun, y'es dance!"

Appropriate to this festive season come echoes
from hither and yon. That interesting little col-
lege up in the foothills of Jawja, U. B. E. T.,
sends "A merry, merry Christmas from all of us-
all to all of you-all."

The twenty-five students at O. O. O. Univer-
sity have voted against having a Yuletide vaca-
tion. "We cannot waste time at home," says Ed-
itor (name censored). "Duty calls

and we must surrender ourselves to its lovely

voice." Editor speaks for the

whole student body, who were locked in the li-
brary and therefore not reachable for comment.

"Christmas? What's that?" roared the Florida
Rhinoccras.

"Yes, Thanksgiving is a very nice season,"
added the Alabama Pink and White.

"Yes, indeed," insisted A. A. U. W.

We wanted to ask some more, but there weren't
any. Schools all closed up. So sorry.

Jane Moses conducted chapel.

"Over 10% of
modern college grad-
uates get jobs," Dr.
A. B. Castinezzie
(right), of Penquin
College, encourages
ambitious students
with these startling
statistics.

( Photo Courtesy
Emory Heel.)

This well-known artist and alum-
na, will return to the campus to take
a leading role in the May Day pro-
duction May 4. Here she is shown as
she appeared in her first major tri-
umph, "Only Angels Have Wings."

Let Your Dirty Slates
At Least Be Blank

As we approach the solemn time of graduation
and the last mad scramble for enough Merit Hours
to get by the Advanced Standing Committee, let
us think of the records we leave behind us. It is
too late now to join every club on the campus in
a final attempt to blend a little extra-curricular
activity with our over-emphasis on dates, trips to
Dec in the afternoon, and going to the library to
read Esquire besides, the point system stymies
you there but it is never too late to gather up
loose ends.

Have you ever thought of the effect of loose
ends? The faculty keeps such close check on you
that you hardly know when your past will cloud
your future. Remember that a recommendation
from the college is necessary for you to get a job.
Start gathering up your loose ends now; pay that
bill for cigarette holes burned in the date parlor
carpet; resolve to pick no more flowers from the
alumnae garden.

We appeal to you as Females and Seminarians
Gather up your loose ends. Think of your pres-
ent; think of your future; think of your knitting!
Never forget Jane Moses did conduct chapel.

Mr. Shapley doubtless does not realize Har lowe
he brought the student body by putting a frost
on them with his mention of galaxies. My stars,
Har vard into space does he want to go?

MEN/

It has always been said thatfspring is the time for romance
the time that hearts go in leaps and bounds, and the hopes
of the social buterflies fly high. But as far as we can see,
not even the Tech spring formulas nor Emory's brawls have
been able to lure the hard-w orking seniors and bedraggled

Hottentots from their thornv path

Rick Racket
Meets a Foe

of learning.

The outstanding event of this
week was the TURKEY DINNER
given by the PiKA's. Lib Barrett
and Flonnie Ellis were extremely

Of interest to Hottentots and
any available faculty (of mind or
administration) was the novel con-
test held recently between Rick
Racket and Nary-Tary Taylor. As
a matter of astonishment, Rick is
one of the recently imported
coo-eds from Emory and Nary-
Tary is our own champion of the
newly introduced game of Good-
mitten so called because of its
lack of resemblance to the English
Badminton. Incidentally, to cause
confusion, we might say here that
Nary-Tary got her nickname from
her quaint ability to trip on the
light fantastic in Agnes Scott's an-
nual spring spree, held in bare feet
and the May Day Dell and presided
over by the queen of May-Not-
Court.

Naturally, students who failed
to see the game will know quite as
much about it as those who did,
but to be sure they did not miss
anything. We will break newspaper
tradition and get specific in a
sports column. Goodmitten is play-
ed on a court, rather like the an-
cient tennis court, except that it
has lines to make the astigmatic
player feel at home, and the net
has been eliminated because people
complained of its getting in the
way. Instead of racquets, light
wood frames are used to give the
resonance necessary for the encour-
agement of science students, and
and absence of strings makes the
game a perfect pastime for the
people who used to spend all their
time in tennis trying to make con-
tact between string and ball, and
thus had not time left to play the
game. The game was originated on
a Phi Beta Kappa retreat, and they
promise to furnish an object for
the frantic frustrations of the par-
ticipants as soon as they finish
their present project, which is a
revision of tiddly-winks for tiny
tots.

Mount Mitchell refcreed the
aerial part of the game, and her
only comment was that she might
have gotten balled up except there
was no ball. The Little Man Who
Wasn't There was to have been
lineman, but, according to the lat-
est report, he was lost in a vacuum
looking for an article on cleaner
sports, and has not been located as
yet.

And, to close, we'd like to say
(if the editor will allow) that Jane
Moses conducted chapel.

am not a tee totaler, but we must
think of the milk man. Every glass
of gin would take bread out of the
mouths of his little children. We,
the privileged, must think of them.

elated over not being invited, and
only bemoaned the fact that they
were forced inappropriately to eat
Easter eggs, plain, otherwise, or
peanut butter spread

mixed with
instead.

TOMMY
RAINBOW

DORSEY at the
ROOF caused Miss
Hanley great concern about how
she could handle the overflow in
the library. The higher intellect of
the Decatur Female Seminary wom-
en looked askance at the popularity
of the pinks and withdrew further
into their shells of learning.

Notable by her absence at the
DENTAL COLLEGE dance was
Mary Lang Gill.

Campus Royalty Scene: Picking
up the spirit of simplicity in in-
formal dress was Hat Stimson, seen
walking from Rebekah to Buttrick
in a campus slip. Vying for honors
with her was roommate Kat, whose
garb showed the true spirit of slop-
pistication.

Sage
Saws

Students air opinions on whether
to be or not to be or whether li-
quors, before, with, or after meals
would be a boon to the scholars of
Agnes Scott.

Katherine Patton, '40: "I def-
initely know liquors to be a fine
physic, unsurpassed stimulant, and
the basis of good fellowship. I have
no doubts that it would create a
broader understanding on the cam-
pus between students and faculty.
It would promote neatness on the
campus and decrease the number of
cigarette stubs on the floors be-
cause the girls and boys could drop
them in the empty glasses."

Gay Curry, '42: "I really don't
know! Maybe a good stiff drink
would put some pep into the
sophomore class. A little beer
might serve the purpose, or perhaps
hot buttered rum."

V. J. Watkins, '40: "I hate
dastardly intoxicants. I shall re-
sign my place as an alumnae if the
vile smelling stuff flows in our
stately halls. If it comes to a
choice between Miss Agnes and the
Woman's Temperance Union there
can be no vascillation. My decision
is made. Violet Jane must do her
part to keep sober industry alive."

Cornelia Willis, '41: "I favor
whiskey strongly as a new disguise
for eggs. Good bye to yellow goo.
Long live egg nog."

Lois Hutfhston, '40: "No! I

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR. GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

Z115

No. 18

News Attains
Ail-American
Honor Rating

Associated College Press
Awards High Grading
Te Georgia Publications

The Agnes Scott News, edited
by Eleanor Hutchens, with Evelyn
Baty as managing editor, received
Ail-American honor rating in a
nation-wide survey of college
newspapers, according to the Asso-
ciated College Press grading receiv-
ed last week.

Reports from the Associated
College Press in Minneapolis show
that 406 institutions in 43 states
were represented in the survey.

Of the other colleges in the
United States with enrollment of
less than 5 00, only three weeklies
received All-American honors. Six
publications in the country were
named "pacemaker," the pick of
the Ail-Americans. The Daily-
Texan, of the University of Texas,
was the only southern newspaper
to attain this honor.

The Mercer Cluster was the only
other Georgia paper to receive All-
American rating, while the Watch-
tower of Wesleyan and the Colon-
nade of G. S. C. W. received first
class honors. Second class honors
went to Oglethorpe's Stormy
Petrel and the University of Geor-
gia's Red and Black.

Last year the Agonistic, edited
by Mary Frances Guthrie, received
first class honors, while the 1937-
193 8 publication made second class
rating.

Lost: One Hour's Sleep

Atlantians will lose one
hour of sleep Saturday at
midnight when daylight
saving time is officially in-
augurated for 1940. In or-
der to prevent any compli-
cation^ such as oversleep-
ing and arriving late at
church, students are re-
minded to set back their
clocks exactly one hourv

Metropolitan Gives
Tannhauser #

The Metropolitan Opera will
present Richard Wagner's "Tann-
hauser" in Atlanta tonight with
Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann,
and Kerstin Thorberg in the lead-
ing roles. Erich Leinsdorf will
conduct, with a supporting cast in-
cluding Norman Cordon, Maxine
Stellman, John Carter, and Arnold
Gabor.

The story of the opera is that of
Tannhause", a knight who returns
to earth after his revels with Venus
and falls in love with Elisabeth.
When she discovers his former pro-
fane love, she spurns him. Refused
pardon by the Pope, Tannhauser
prepares to return to the Hill of
Venus, but a miracle astonishes the
Pope and persuades him to grant
pardon to the penitent sinner.

This opera will be the last of a
series presented by the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company in its first ap-
pearance in Atlanta after an ab-
sence of ten years. April 22 the
company presented Guiseppi Ver-
di's "La Traviata" and on April
23, Giacomo Puccini's "La
1 Boheme."

Debater

Junior High Students
Bewilder Seniors

Pedagogy isn't what it's "cracked up to be," according to
a group of seniors who did practice teaching on March 29 at
Murphy Junior High School while some of the teachers at-
tended a convention.

Hurling spitballs, tearing Os-
car's heart out, and shooting pins
at little girls were student practices
with which the harassed teachers
had to cope.

When Ruth Slack authoritative-
ly stepped up to the front of her
ninth grade class and started call-
ing the roll, a little girl rushed up,
snatchec) the book from her hand,
and said, "I do this every morn-
ing." Miss Slack retreated, suffi-
ciently abashed.

In biology class some of the boys
wanted to play with Oscar, a bio-
logical model whose members could
be taken apart. After assuring
Ruth that their teacher permitted
the practice, they rushed off to
find him. A few minutes later
Ruth came upon them battling
fiercely over poor Oscar's heart
after having already crushed one
lung.

During Eva Ann Pirkle's classes,
attention was divided between the
teacher in the front and Louise
Sullivan sitting in the back. In
fact, Louise attracted so much at-
tention that one inquisitive young-
ster asked her how old she was and
if she were married. According to

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.
MARGARET HOPKINS

Louise, the children staunchly
vowed they had never had the
arithmetic problems on the board,
although it was supposedly a re-
view lesson.

Ruth Eyles' class informed her
that she and Carolyn Forman
looked exactly alike. But this re-
mark about resemblances was by
no means the most startling event
of the day. Imagine, if you can,
dignified Jane Salters calling the
roll of her class. Everything was
apparently in order until she came
to a name that gave no familiar
"Here." Just as she was marking
him absent, a snicker gave warn-
ing that something was amiss. Jane
looked up just in time to see the
"absentee" crawling from under
his desk, where he had been hiding,
for reasons still unknown!

The age and wisdom of the
teachers must have been apparent
at the very beginning of the excur-
sion. Upon calling a taxi and
stating Murphy Junior High as
their destination, Eva Ann Pirkle,
Jane Salters, and Louise Sullivan
were much chagrined by the some-
what forward driver, who remark-
ed, "You girls look old enough to
be out of high school."

Hopkins Receives
Debating Honor

Winning honors unprecedented
in Agnes Scott debate history, Mar-
garet Hopkins received the debate
cup for the third consecutive year
from Dr. George P. Hayes, profes-
sor of English, in chapel this morn-
ing. In presenting the cup, Dr.
Hayes pointed out that Margaret
is the first student who has ever
won the cup for three years.

This year Margaret participated
in the English debate here, the
Florida debate here, and in the de-
bate tournament at Chattanooga,
Tenn., where the Agnes Scott
teams placed third.

The cup, filled with names, will
go into retirement.

Agnes Scott debaters have this
year participated in three tourna-
ments at G. S. C. W. in Milledge-
ville Ga., at Rock Hill, S. C, and
at Chattanooga, Tenn.

They have opposed Southwest
Missouri, the winner of the tourna-
ment in Rock Hill; the University
of Miami, the University of Flor-
ida, the University of Georgia, and
an English debating team.

Eta Sigma Phi Elects
Harriette Cochran

Harriette Cochran was elected
national treasurer of Eta Sigma
Phi at the annual convention held
in New Orleans April 11, 12, 13
Eta Sigma Phi, a national honorary
classical fraternity, has chapters at
universities and colleges through-
out the nation.

The fraternity is active in pro-
moting appreciation of Latin and
Greek. Representatives of the lo-
cal chapter at the convention
were Harriette Cochran, Eva Ann
Pirkle, Louise Sams and Rebekah
Hogan.

M

oses,

Hutch

ens

Sing Opera Leads

Seniors Give Costume Ball
On Eve of Performance

With Jane Moses and Eleanor Hutchens singing the lead-
ing roles of Ruby O'Horror and Rhatt Butler, the senior
class will present a completely modernized version of the tra-
ditional Senior Opera, when the curtain rises on "Give Him
the Aria, or Gone With the Draft," Friday, May 3, at 8:30
P. M. in the Bucher Scott gymnasium.

Georgia Hunt as Ghastly, Jean-

Youngest Runyon Reveals
High /. Q. On Test

Recently Miss Dexter was giving
Phyllis Runyon an intelligence
test. She was asking the child ques-
tions, and showing her cards to
suggest answers. The teacher held
up a picture and asked, "Phyllis,
where do we get milk? ,,

Dr. Runyon's youngest gift to
the population looked quite puz-
zled, then replied, "There's not any
milk bottle on this card!"

When asked what she would do
if it were cold, the child promptly
said, "Freeze to death."

Thus comes the truth from the
mouths of babes.

Educators
Visit College

Agnes Scott will be host May 9
to important members of the Gen-
eral Education Board, who are to
make an inspection tour of all the
schools to be included in the new
$7,500,000 University Center. The
visiting group will include Dr.
Raymond D. Fosdick, president of
the Board; Dr. A. R. Mann, vice-
president, as well as chairman of
the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr.
W. W. Stewart and Dr. Jackson
Davis, head of the Southern De-
partment. Agnes Scott, Georgia
Tech, Emory, and the University of
Georgia will all be stop? on their
tour.

Elect McCain

Dr. J. R. McCain has just been
elected a member of the board, suc-
ceeding John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
who served on the board continu-
ously from its establishment in
1902 until his retirement in April,
1940. Agnes Scott's president takes
his place among a distinguished
group of educational leaders, as
the board numbers among its trus-
tees the presidents of Princeton,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, the University of Califor-
nia, and Leland Stanford. Its
chairman, Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins,
is president of Dartmouth.

Douglas S. Freeman, a famous
biographer, who visited the campus
this year, is a member representing
the Richmond News-Leader, of
which he is editor.

John D. Rockefeller, III, and
Harold H. Swift, chairman of
Swift & Co., are also on the board
roster.

r Hold Drive

A drive to raise Agnes Scott's
$1,000,000 pledge for the Univer-
sity Center fund begins April 29.
If this sum is collected promptly,
the college will be able to share in
the $2,500,000 endowment with
Emory, and greatly improve its
educational facilities.

The women's division of the
campaign contains six groups,
marshaling thirty-eight active At-
lanta matrons, under the leader-
ship of Mrs. J. N. McEachern, Sr.,
who has as her co-chairmen Me.s-
dames Preston S. Arkwright and
S. M. Inman.

nette Carroll as Felonie, Rocky
Kaplan as Mammy, Evelyn Baty
and Katherine Patton as Horti and
Agi, the Culture Twins, Carolyn
Forman as Dr. Open Forum, and
Elizabeth Davis as Belle Waddling
will complete the cast of charac-
ters.

Scene of Action

Most of the action takes place
at O'Horrison Hut, where the fif-
tieth anniversary of its construc-
tion is being celebrated. Among
the several groups and choruses are
the I. Q. Clucks Clan and Faces on
the Cutting Room Floor.

Chairman Henrietta Thompson
announced today that the Senior-
politan Opera Company would pre-
cede the world premiere of "Gone
With the Draft" with a ball
Thursday evening, May 2, in the
Murphey Candler Building. The
cast will lead out at 9 o'clock in
the costumes they will wear for the
performance. Admission to the
ball is ten cents.

Chairmen

Committee chairmen working
with Henrietta Thompson, Opera
head, include: Sophie Montgomery,
writing; Polly Heaslett, programs
and librettos; Evelyn Baty, pub-
licity; Louise Sullivan, tickets;
Nell Pinner, advertisements; Betty
Alderman, costumes; Mary Reins,
scenery; Elizabeth Davis, proper-
ties; Eugenia Bridges and Margaret
Hopkins, directing assistants; Penn
Hammond, lighting; and Eloise
McCall and Widdy Leavitt, dances.

Eloise Lennard and Boots Moore
will furnish the music.

Coming This Week

Wednesday, April 24
Metropolitan Opera,
"Tannhauser/ 7 8:30
P. M.

Thursday, Friday, April
25, 26 May Day prac-
tices, 7 P. M.

Friday, April 26 Chris-
tian Association Open
Forum, 4:30 P. M.

Saturday, April 27 A. A.
Open House in gymna-
sium, 7:30 P. M.

Monday, April 29 Atlan-
ta Campaign for Uni-
versity Center Project
Opens.

Tuesday, April 30 May
Day dress rehearsal, 4
P. M.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

Tennis, Golf, Horses
Keep Athletes Busy

Even with A. A. Presidents Ann Fisher and Virginia Mil-

ner at the National Collegiate Athletic Convention at the

University of West Virginia, the tennis doubles tournament,

the golf tournament, plans for Open House on April 27th,

and for the Horse Show on May t . "L ,

In the second bracket, Klugh,

Guthrie, Florence, Vaughan, Patch,

and Fisher drew byes for the first

round. Hollis lost to Dyar, 4 and

Forman defeated Tine Gray.

A. A. Vice-President Ida Jane

Vaughan announces plans for Open

House at the gym Saturday night,

April 27, from 8 to 10. Bowling,

ping-pong, badminton, darts, and

shuffle board will be offered.

11th have kept Agnes Scott ath-
letes concentrating.

Practice has already begun for
the Gymkhana, the horse show to
be held at Georgiana Stables Sat-
urday, May 11th, from 2 to 4.
Highlights are a Beginner's Three
Gait Class, Advanced Three Gait
Class, Bareback Class, a Paired
Class of Walk, Trot and Canter,
Musical Chairs, Saddling and
Bridling Race, a Bending Race in
which two horses canter at once
around posts in double figure "8,"
and the javelin throw through
hoops from cantering horses. Class
captains for the show are Marna
McGarraugh, freshman; Olivia
White, sophomore; Margaret Mur-
chison, junior; and Hazel Solomon,
senior.

Tennis Doubles

April showers did their part to
halt progress in the tennis doubles
tournament, and the first round,
due to be played off by May 13,
remains with only three of the
eight matches completed.

Carson and Taylor, 1939 cham-
pions, won their first match from
Nix and Merrill, 6-4, 6-0. O'Nan
and Willis took Prosnit and Geist,
6-0, 6-0. The Websters, Dot and
Alta, transferred their talent from
basketball to tennis court, and won
from Ann Frierson and V. Mont-
gomery in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0.

Other pairings show Slack and
Forman vs. Gellerstedt and Nance,
Butt and Eakin vs. Ailsman and
Weismann, Patterson and Ivy vs.
Pal mou r and Gaines, Robertson
and Thomas vs. Stuart and Boggs,
and last year's runners-up, Fisher
and Dyar, slated to meet Stuckey
and Brooks.

Golf Tournament

In the first bracket of golf com-
petition, Jeanne Davidowitz, de
fending her title for the second
time, out-putted Sophomore Mary
Olive Thomas to win her match
2 and 1 after both had drawn byes
in the first pairing. Crockcr
dowtied Strozier 2 and 1. Guden
rath won her match from Ayres
and defaulted to Crocker. Wisdom
outplayed Kaulbach, 3 and 2, while
Spratlin won from Davis. Spratlin
took her match with Wisdom, 1
up. Carson and Utterback met
after having drawn byes for the
first round. Carson took the
match, 4 and 3.

Clubs Elect
Leaders For '40-'41

B. O. Z. At the regular meet-
ing of B. O. Z. Virginia Williams,
Betty Kyle, and Cornelia Stuckey
read. The time limit for tryouts
to be submitted has been extended
to May 1.

Bible Club. The last meeting
of the Bible Club was a supper hike
to Harrison Hut. Margaret Ratch-
ford led the devotional. The new
officers will be elected Wednesday,
April 23.

French Club. The French
Club program consisted of a musi-
cal program of selections from fa-
mous French composers. Tryouts
were held Thursday and Friday.
The new members will be an-
nounced this week.

Poetry Club. The Poetry Club
tryouts may still be handed in. The
new members will be admitted in
time for the next meeting, which
will be held with Miss Emma Mae
Laney, the club sponsor, at her
home.

Special Chorus. Last week the

Special Chorus sang on the pro-
gram of the Southern Association
of College and Secondary Schools,
which met in Atlanta. Thursday,
May 6, the chorus will sing to the
Rotary Club of Atlanta.

Spanish Club. Thursday night
the Spanish Club had a supper
hike at Harrison Hut. The new
officers elected were: president,
Charlene Burke; vice - president,
Fletcher Mann; secretary, Dorothy
Travis; treasurer, Alta Webster;
music chairman, Lillian Gish; and
social chairman, Carolyn Long.
Plans were discussed for a cake
walk to be held in May.

Eta Sigma Phi. Dr. Alexan-
der, archaeologist, gave an illus-
trated lecture to Eta Sigma Phi at
the last meeting. Dr. Alexander
studied at Emory University, later

News Sponors
Straw Ballot

Students to Nominate
Presidential Candidates

In order to give students a
chance to show their interest in the
choice of the chief executive of the
United States, and to acquaint
them with next term's presidential
timber, the Agnes Scott News will
conduct a straw ballot. The pri-
maries will be conducted according
to form, and in chapel tomorrow
morning each girl will receive a
ballot with places for her Demo-
crat, Republican, and personal
choices.

Nominees Posted

The list of presidential possibili-
ties has been posted on the bulletin
board in the reserve room of the
library to remind students of the
coming election. As rated by the
leading newspapers in the country,
the Democrats listed on the ballot
will be: Mull, Secretary of State;
Garner, Vice-President; Roosevelt,
President; Wheeler, Senator from
Montana; McNutt, Governor of
Pennsylvania; Byrd, Senator from
Virginia; Jackson, Attorney Gen-
eral; Farley, Postmaster General;
Clark, Senator from Missouri;
Grass, Senator from Virginia.

Republicans Listed

The leading Republicans on the
ballot will include: Vandenburg,
Senator from Michigan; Dewey,
District Attorney for New York
City; Taft, Senator from Ohio;
Hoover, former President; Gan-
nett, newspaper publisher; Bricher,
Governor of Ohio; Martin, Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts;
Wilkie, business man; Bartin, Rep-
resentative from New York State;
Landon, former Governor of Kan-
sas; and LaGuardia, Mayor of New
York City.

November Elections

The actual elections will be held
next November under the guid-
ance of Miss Florence Smith, asso-
ciate professor of history. The
campus will witness a presidential
campaign and election exactly like
the national ones. There will be
campaign speeches, registration,
and polls for voting.

A box for votes will be placed
in the lobby of Buttrick.

Pho

Atlanta Constitution.

Pictured above is John Guerney, who will smg the role of Reinwar
in Richard Wagner's 'Tannhauser" tomorrow night. The .Metropolitan
Opera star is shown with Mrs. Charles Kullntan.

Wisconsin Survey Reveals
Active Life for Average Co-ed

There are over 3,000 co-eds at
Wisconsin.

In a typical year the average
girl would have quite a round of
activities to cover. She would have
210 quarts of "coke" to imbibe,
and 20 pounds of candy to ruin
her complexion with, not to men-
tion 20 feet of gum to chew.

Freparing for her 80 days of
dates, she would sleep \\j days
for beauty, spend three days put-
ting her hair up, and 16 combing
it, bathe 90 hours, and zip 1,000
zippers.

She would also turn down 12 5
dates, receive five declarations of
tender sentiments, and be the ob-.
ject of J 00 kisses (these statistics
included several "steadies"), which
transaction would speed the yearly
consumption of six inches of lip-
stick.

Besides these pursuits, she would
spend 13 days clinging to a tele-
phone. In the chase r the oppo-
site sex she would annihilate SO
pairs of stockings, absorb two
pounds of cold cream, and buy a
quart of "My Sin" or "Moonlight
Madness" perfume. (ACP)

going to Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. He has just returned from
northern Greece where he investi-
gated ruins. As a part of the meet-
ing, officers for the coming year
were elected. They are: president,
Harriet Cochran; vice-president,
Bettv Medlock; treasurer, Dale
Drennan; recording secretary, Wal-
lace Lyons; and corresponding sec-
retary, Dorothy Travis.

NSFA S P o nsors
Open Road Tours

Mary Lllen Whetsell, NSFA of-
ficial, has recently received word
that the Open Road, a membership
organization which has as its ob-
ject the promotion of inter-re-
gional and international under-
standing, will conduct tours for
students through Mexico and
through New York state this sum-
mer.

The Mexican program will in-
clude not only sight-seeing, but a
few lectures by authorities on the
history, economics, and govern-
ment of the country, and social
and hospitable features such as
parties in Mexican homes, excur-
sions, picnics, and dances.

All who are interested should see
Mary Fllen for information.

Celebrating Our
12th Anniversary

April 29th Throush May 4th

Special Features Every Day This Week
Jimmy Beers At the Organ Each Evening 5:00 to 8:00

HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS
AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES

By Dalea Dorothy Clix

Dear Miss Clix: Pity the girl-that's me !-who goes on a blind
date and then falls in love! My roommate took me to a fra-
ternity dance over at X College (near our school) and

I met the captain of the basketball team. Once he started to
hold my hand and then he suddenly said "any man who had
you for a sister would be lucky." Oh, Miss Clix, what can I do
to make him think of me . . . not as a sister? HEARTSICK

Dear Heartsick: 5four
plight is not hopeless. After
all, supposing he wouldn't
even want you for a sister !
However, you gave me one
very significant clue. Why
did he make that remark
after holding your hand?
How do your hands look-
like a day laborer's? Be
honest, now were your
nails beautifully groomed,
impeccably manicured and
tinted? That is a good
way to begin climbing out
of the blind date class,
isn't it?

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

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Audi

Mi:

lence misses
Main Performance

By Gloria Bramlette

"I'll Leave It To You" was really a doubleheader perform-
ance. The audience in front enjoyed an entertaining comedy;
the ones behind the back drop saw a good show themselves.

First of all, of course, there were

Laura Sale, Billy Hinson, and Lib Barrett find themselves penniless in the Blackfriars' production of
"I'll Leave It To You," given Saturday night in the gymnasium.

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Company

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DUKE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF NURSING

DURHAM, N. C.
The Diploma of raduate Nurse is
awarded after three years, and the
Degree of Bachelor of Science in
Nursing for two additional years of
approved college work before or
after the course in Nursing. The
entrance requirements are intelli-
gence, character and graduation
from an accredited high school.
After 1940 two years of college
work will be required. The annual
tuition of $100 covers the cost of
uniforms, books, student govern-
ment fees, etc. Catalogues, appli-
cation forms and information about
college requirements may be ob-
tained from the Admission Com-
mittee.

Dewey Leads in
MacMurray Voting

"Dewey is our presidential fav-
orite," proclaimed students of Mac-
Murray College in a recent straw-
vote. Thomas Dewey led the vote
with seven times as many support-
ers as his closest opponent, Frank-
lin Roosevelt; Vandenberg and
Hull followed in preference. The
girls at MacMurray showed their
opposition to the President's run-
ning for a third term when 79%
of the girls voted against "four
more years."

Play Shoes

For Third Quarter Work

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They'll take you flying across
the campus to those 8 o'clocks
this spring quarter! They'll
whirl you down the stairs in
time for Wednesday night
dinner and show off that new
cotton evening dress to best
advantage! They'll be the
shoe of the Quadrangle in
white, multicolor, blue and
white, caramel. Spool heeled;
3-9; narrow, medium.

RICH'S

the preliminary preparations. The
"property girls" were running
around wildly, getting last minute
necessities. Ida came in a little late,
looking rather haggard. It seems
she had been looking everywhere
for an English water pitcher; fin-
ally, after a long and arduous
search, she had located one, only to
find that Miss Gooch had decided
not to use it. The makeup com-
mittee was busy putting on faces
with rosy powder and a black pen-
cil glamorizing the former
Hunchback of Notre Dame, and
literally making Louise Musser old
before her time. The performers
themselves with shaking fingers
were dressing, looking quite mod-
est wearing a big red rag to pro-
tect Nature's aids.

Actor Goes Astray

And then suddenly, with the
help of several pairs of hands, the
curtain reluctantly parted, and the
real play was in progress. This .did
not deter the impromptu perform-
ance in the rear, however. Between
the nervous treks to the water
pitcher for a last swallow and the
agonized "shoo" of Miss Winter as
somebody lightly stomped behind
the scenery from one side to the
other, the actors themselves had no
small amount of fun. They shriek-
ed once a little heartlessly, per-
haps at one of their fellow play-
ers who turned left instead of right
as he made his exit, and came to a
dead end. There he was no way
to get out and he couldn't go back,
for the audience would certainly
see him. Is it any wonder he was
tearing his hair until someone
watching recovered enough to
gasp out instructions about how he
could crawl through on his hands
and knees, and be ready for his
next entrance.

Towel Saves Day

Miss Winter's little monologue,
however, was the climax. In the
middle of the play she suddenly
tip-toed to a screen leaning against
the wall. After arranging it until
it suited her, she began to glance
around as if looking for something.
She had just triumphantly spied a
knitting bag and was starting off
with it, when she was waylaid by
one of the property girls. It seems
she was walking off with one of
their most valuable possessions.
Undaunted, she next picked up

someone's coat and went behind
the screen, only to return a few
seconds later to declare it "too
good." The same thing happened
several times, nothing seeming to
"just suit," until she located an old
towel which appealed to her. With
this she retired, quite satisfied. Un-
able to repress his curiosity longer,
someone asked, "What is Miss Win-
ter doing?" "Oh, she's muffling
the horn!" was the reply. That
realistically distant "hee-ooo-gat"
of Uncle Danny's car was behind
the screen under a rag! "Thank
goodness that worked," laughed
Miss Winter as she came out of
her seclusion.

Then, soon after, the play was
over, and the audience crowding
up to give well-earned congratula-
tions to the cast and the directors,
not knowing they had missed one
half of the performance. What a
shame they could not have seen it
all!

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Phi Beta Kappa
Elects Alumnae

Mrs. Archie Maclnnes Palmer,
'2 5, and Miss Margery Speake,
'2 5, have recently been elected to
the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kap-
pa at Agnes Scott. Mrs. Palmer
(Elizabeth Cheatham) and Miss
Speake played prominent parts in
campus activities while they were
students at Agnes Scott. Both were
members of Hoasc, the honor so-
ciety preceding Mortar Board.

After her graduation from
Agnes Scott, Mrs. Palmer did grad-
uate work at Cornell, in France.

Miss Speake received her Mas-
ter's Degree from Columbia Uni-
versity. She was later sent to
China by the Board of American
Colleges.

The newly elected officers of
the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kap-
pa have been announced as fol-
lows: president, Miss Emma May
Laney, associate professor of Eng-
lish; vice-president, Miss Florence
E. Smith, associate professor of
history; secretary, Miss Muriel
Harn, professor of German and
Spanish; and treasurer, Dr. Ernest
H. Runyon, associate professor of
botany. Mr. Samuel Guerry Stukes,
dean of faculty and professor of
philosophy and education, is a
member of the new executive com-

mittee.

News Adds to Staff

The following students
have been added to the Agnes
Scott News staff as report-
ers: Gloria Bramlette, Mar-
tha Dale, Rebekah Hogan,
Dot Holloran, Alice Inzer,
Frances Kaiser, Ruth Line-
back, Mary Estill Martin,
and Mary Wolford.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24. 1940

Mrs. Christian Shuns Math;
Likes Teaching, Sewing

By Virginia Williams

Now that Dr. Christian has a fellowship with the General
Education Board, Mrs. Schuyler Christian is back in the
biology department with the additional responsibility of
keeping- house and managing two daughters, aged five and
three. She taught at Agnes Scott three years before her
marriage but, because two members of the same family can-
not be on the faculty, she gave up her position when she
married.

Mrs. Christian hates math, has
never studied physics, and discusses
with equal vividness the art of
shoeing mules, the flavor of but-
termilk pie, and the making of
hominy.

Summer School Romance

Born in Atlanta, one of eleven
children, she attended Girls' High,
Agnes Scott, and Emory. It was
at Emory that she met Dr. Chris-
tian. He was teaching organic
chemistry in summer school. At
first she "didn't take him serious-
ly." Because he had ideas about in-
structors not going with students
they didn't have a date all summer.
He did take her home several times,
however. After that she saw quite
a bit of him and there were "ups
and downs" through the mail with
evident results.

Mrs. Christian loves to teach
and hadn't realized how much she
missed it. "But," she insisted, "I'm
sure I study much harder than any
of my students. I've forgotten so
much." She finds her French and
German especially hard to remem-

2.
3.

4.
5.
6.
7.

May Day Cast
Rehearses

The gym department announces
the following schedule for May
Day rehearsals: Episode I practices
in the gym Thursday, April 25,
from 7:15 to 7:45, and Episode II
rehearses Friday, April 26. The en-
tire cast is to rehearse in costume
on Tuesday, April 30, and Thurs-
day, May 2, at 4:00-6:00.
Episode I includes the following:
1. Narrator

Woman and Evil Forces
Evil Power and Women in

Bondage
Muses, Graces, Memory
Primitive Peoples
Woman (pantomime)
Narrator
Classical Age

a. Sappho and Greek Maid-
ens

Greek Games
Spartan Women
Socrates, Xantippe, Greek
Men

Woman (pantomime)
Vestal Virgins of Rome
Narrator
Middle Ages

a. Fishwives, Wash Wom-

en, Merchant, Appren-
tices

b. Lady of Fashion, Com-

panions, Minstrel

c. Nuns

Episode II includes these:

1. Narrator

2. Renaissance

a. Two Men and a Woman

b. Women, Page, Jesters,

Men Scholars, Da Feltra

3. Narrator

4. Modern (1850)

a. Bov, Tutor

b. Little Girl

c. Girls

cl. Children and Mammies
e. Father

5. Daisy Chain (1890-1910)

6. Professions

7. Narrator

8. Woman and Evil Forces

9. Evil Power and Women in

Bondage

10. Liberal Arts and Agnes

Scott

11. Memory, Woman, Muses,

Graces

12. Exit all.

b.
c.
(I.

e.
f.

9.
10.

American Service Group
Sponsors Work Camps

Desirous of extending the work
camp idea flourished in the enthu-
siasm of students and working
youth of European countries as
well .is in the United States
through the American Friends
Service Committee, an organiza-
tion known as "Work Camps for
America" has announced five
camps for this summer, each un-
dertaking specific work projects.
It is extremely important for
youth to understand the character
of their country; understanding
lies in living next to insecurity
and waste, and in association with
men and women who meet these
problems daily understanding is
not found simply in the words
"social security," "collective bar-
gaining," "soil conservation."

The campers will be college, la-
bor and farm youth, church and
union leaders, young people of dif-
ferent religions and backgrounds
with a desire to discover a life bal-
anced with work, study, service to
others and recreation with friends.

Biologists Attend

Southeastern Meet

Dr. Ernest Runyon
Reads Scientific Paper

Representing Agnes Scott at the
Southeastern Biologists' Conven-
tion at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn., April 19 and 20,
were Dr. Mary MacDougall, pro-
fessor of biology; Dr. Ernest Run-
yon, assistant professor of botany;
Miss Blanche Miller and Miss
Frances McCalla, instructors in
biology; and Miss Mary Ellen
W'hetsell, fellow in biology.

Delegates from southeastern
states met as guests of Vanderbilt
to read papers on biological sub-
ject. Dr. Runyon contributed a
paper entitled "The Problems of
Intercellular Influences in Dic-
tyosteliaceae."

This organization of biologists
was started at the University of
Georgia and is now in its fourth
year. Miss MacDougall is a mem-
ber of the executive committee.
Dr. Blonguit, professor of botany
at Duke University, is president.

ber.

Scientific Curiosity

During the interview, her
daughter, Sarah, was too absorbed
in her own interests to take notice
of what her mother was discussing.
She was playing with something
that looked like a test tube, but her
mother assured us that it was only
a tooth brush holder and that
Sarah was, as yet, unable even to
recognize a cat without its skin.
Her only promise of a scientific
mind just now is a very, very in-
quisitive nature.

Mrs. Christian plays with paints
a bit and loves her flowers. Her
flowers she finds rather discourag-
ing. She plants them and then has
to go away in the summer and no-
body waters them. For the past
summers. Dr. Christian has been
working in the chemistry lab at
Harvard, but last summer he be-
gan his new work with his fellow-
ship. Mrs. Christian still optimis-
tically plants flowers. They moved
into a new home in February and
she has already begun planting,
even though she is leaving the mid-
dle of May to join her husband.

Sarah Tells on Mother

Sarah Christian was at this
point busily imitating Pinocchio
but she interrupted herself long
enough to volunteer information
about her mother, "I know she
likes cake." Mrs. Christian admit-
ted that she loves sweets. Another
favorite of hers is hominy (not
grits, lye hominy) with ham gravy.
She might even like to cook if
someone else would clean up.

As for books, she loves to read
so well that she doesn't dare begin
reading while busy. Dr. Christian
likes Alice in Wonderland and has
already read it to the children, but
his wife always preferred such
books as Uncle Reruns and Brer
Rabbit stories.

Girls High Editor
Wins Scholarship

As editor of the Girls' High
Times, which recently won first
place in the Emory-Journal South-
eastern High School Newspaper
Contest, Mary Eloise Henry will
receive a $200 scholarship to Ag-
nes Scott. The trophy, offered
jointly by the Atlanta Journal and
the journalism department of Em-
ory, was awarded as a permanent
possession to the Girls' High
Times.

The Journal and Emory give
scholarships to the editors of the
five winning papers. Mary Eloise
Henry will take her scholarship at
Agnes Scott since Emory does not
receive women students. The win-
ning editor has been on the staff
of the Girls' High paper for three
tyears, serving as freshman editor,
columnist, and editor.

The Girls' High Times rolled up
a total of 925 points out of a pos-
sible 1,000 in the score sheet of the
contest.

Dr. Duggan
Discusses War
On Campus

In an article entitled "The War
and the Campus," appearing in
March News Bulletin of the Insti-
tute of International Education,
Dr. Stephen Duggan says: "Con-
sider the effects of the opening of
war upon the college campus.
Young men are conscripted into
the war. They are cheated of their
just due, their fullest self-develop-
ment. It will be conceded, I am
sure, that the years spent in the
trenches are lost years, lost forever.
The future careers of these college
conscripts or volunteers are fre-
quently ruined, for they are the
years planned to provide the ele-
ments of knowledge necessary in
the competition among men for
place in their chosen field. These
"legionnaires" return from the
trenches to a disrupted, sometimes
a ruined world. They return often
ill, sometimes disillusioned and dis-
couraged, frequently with diffi-
cultv making a new orientation.
And what of those left behind on
the campus, the unconscripted?

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Courtesy CBS Fashion Service.

CA Plans Retreat
At Harrison Hut

Hoping to complete the plans
for this year's program, the Cabi-
net of Christian Association will
go on its spring retreat at Harri-
son Hut April 27.

Among the projects already
planned are two discussions on the
general subject, "Authorities Other
Than God," scheduled for April
26 and May 10. A leader has not
yet been chosen for the first dis-
cussion, but the second will be led
by Miss Celestine Smith, national
secretary of the Atlanta Y. W.
C. A.

Suzanne Kaulbach, on the sub-
council of C. A., will represent the
Cabinet on the Intercollegiate
Council. Ruth Lineback, also on
the sub-council, will be in charge
of the bulletin board in the mail
room and a new one in the library.
Ruth Allgood will keep the cam-
pus in touch with the Industrial
Group of the Atlanta Y. W. C. A.

The other officers chosen in-
clude: Betty Sunderland, social
service work in the Decatur Fam-
ily Welfare Office; Annie Wilds,
mission playground; Matilda Cart-
ledge, Christmas party; Elizabeth
Russell, Scottish Rite Hospital;
Mary Jane Auld, Carolina Smith,
and Louise Musser, recreation;
Martha Dale, assistant on Christian
Exchange; Ann Frierson, Morning
Watch; Mamie Sue Barker, discus-
sion group, "Religious Resources";
Dale Drennan, the chapel; Mary
Blakemore, Maids' Sunday School

Class; Kathleen Huck, Negro Girl
Scout Troop; Fletcher Mann,

Negro Mission.

Some chapel programs have been
planned in cooperation with stu-
dent government. Thursday, May
5, Judge Watkins will speak on
"Juvenile Delinquency." Dr. Da-
vidson will talk on "Foreign Pol-
icy" May 3 0. Jerome Jones will
speak May 5. May 9, Scotty Wilds
will report on the National Con-
vention of the Y. W. C. A., which
she attended.

Dies Committee
Investigates Books

A new and particularly ominous
note was sounded by the Dies Com-
mittee the other day when they an-
nounced that they would soon turn
to investigating textbooks for "sub-
versive" material. This kind of
censorship is an old game which
has long plagued institutions of
free learning. Students who have
not already read Mother Goose's
Nursery Rhymes should hasten to
do so. Judging from past criteria
established by Dies as to subver-
siveness, it is not certain that even
these times will escape. After all,
what about Little "Red" Riding
Hood? (NSFA)

Certainly they are better off than
the others. But they must often
pursue their studies in a desiccated
environment with inadequate ma-
terials and resources, with changed
curricula and shortened courses.
It may be that their best teachers
have been called away in the serv-
ice of Mars like themselves."

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

5

Virginia Clower takes notes

For the Record

Not to give anybody ideas, but it seems that the latest
thrill on the campus is being locked in the library at ten
o'clock. The report is that during the past three weeks no
less than four people have been rescued from the stacks
after the sanctum was duly locked for the evening. We can't
vouch for the others, but one first-hand account comes from
Virginia Collier. Virginia had sought the nethermost regions
of the lower stacks and was so deeply immersed in a lather

of differential equations that she
was overlooked when the stack
lights were turned off. She re-
turned from her fifth dimension of
concentration only when the lights
went out in the carrels, and her
shout of dismay brought nary a
flicker of response. Making a head-
long dash into several shelves of
assorted journals and abstracts, she
clutched madly at the nearest door
knob, only to find that the door
was locked fast! Further explora-
tion showed that the windows were
bolted. Virginia claims she wasn't
scared, but she does admit to yell-
ing then, experimentally first, then
two or three good screams which
should have stretched the arches in
the building by inches. It didn't
do any good, however; our heroine
had just about decided that she
would have to spend the night in
the chilly clutch of the abode of
learning, and was casting about
for the best place to sleep, wonder-
ing a little about the finesse of
Aida, that lady of operatic fame
who managed to be entombed
alive, yet look calm and sing in
such an unruffled fashion.

Free At Last!

Well, it makes a better story to
stop right here, but editorial ac-
curacy forces us to admit that Vir-
ginia discovered she had been
struggling with the wrong door
knob in the darkness, and that she
finally escaped from the lower re-
gions to the comparative comfort
of Miss Handley's office, whence
she telephoned the Dean's office.
Chance visitors to that center were
intrigued by hearing Miss Wilson
gasp into the phone, "No, don't
climb out the window; I'll send
Mr. Jones right over with the key,"
then wave her hands agitatedly
and rush out. In due time Miss
Collier was liberated. Now she only
goes to the library in broad day-
light, and she confines her area of
activity to the big dictionary on

first floor.

The library was the villian in
another thumbnail drama last
week. Barbara Lee Murlin had left
her large and varied collection of
textbooks on one of the tables
downstairs while she went upstairs
to use the card catalogue. Imagine
her chagrin to come back half an
hour later and, after a flustered
search, find her books riding one
of those little carts, while a be-
wildered student assistant tried to
decide on just which shelf to put
them.

Natural History Note

Did you know that Agnes Scott
is harboring a confirmed-er not
icthyologist, that's a fishy expert
herptologist? (Translation: Au-
thority on snakes. No, little Aud-
rey, I don't mean a snake charmer.)
Of course, it wouldn't be discreet
to mention names, especially since
the aforesaid expert's neighbors
don't realize that they are living
right under the same roof with a
charming little green snake about
six inches long. We just wanted to
warn you that if you find such a
reptile in your bed some night, it
probably isn't what you think it is.
Doryt reach for the aspirin, just
insert an ad in the classified col-
umn, and the owner will claim her
property. P. S. She absolutely re-
fuses to be held responsible for any
lavender dragons with yellow polka
dotted tails.

S' prise

Margaret Hopkins was genuine-
ly surprised when she was awarded
the debate cup this morning; she
hadn't the faintest idea she'd get it
again. In fact, she was so sure she
wouldn't that even her best
friends were almost convinced.
One of these friends, on being told
the secret in strictest confidence,
was so surprised she had to avoid
Margaret for the next day in or-
to keep from "spilling the

der

beans."

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Receive Delegates

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Southeastern Federation of College
Student Government and Publica-
tions Representatives, to be held in
April, 1941. The selection was
made at the closing luncheon of
this year's convention in New Or-
leans, Louisiana.

The New Orleans convention
took most of Agnes Scott's organi-
zation heads off -campus for an ac-
tive three days spent in discussing
problems of student government,
the press, and yearbooks.

Frances Breg, president, and
Betsy Kendrick, vice-president,
represented student government.
Elaine Stubbs, editor; Virginia
Clower, managing editor; and
Florence Ellis, business manager,
appeared in behalf of the Agnes
Scott News, while Gene Slack rep-
resented the Silhouette.

Mary Ellen Whetsell, chairman
of the Southeastern section of
N. S. F. A., led one of the group
sessions at the convention, discuss-
ing the subject, "Where do student
governments fail? What are some
ways and means of stimulation?"

Collegiate Press
Comments on Census

. The nation's college press, al-
ways ready to choose up sides for
a healthy editorial slugfest, is in
virtually unanimous agreement this
week on one topic that has stirred
bitter debate in other quarters.

The national census, those who
guide the student publications be-
lieve, is not taking undue liberties
by prying into private lives. Stu-
dents in the nation's colleges and
universities are being advised to co-
operate fully in the decennial nose-
count. And they're being remind-
ed that statistics available only
through the census are vitally
needed in solution of the nation's
ills.

The census bureau, it is pointed
out by the Glenville, W. Va.,
Teachers College Mercury, "needs
in two ways the help of students in
the gigantic task of assembling
facts about 132 million Americans:
First, by making sure that their
parents will report them to the
census enumerator, and second, by
supplying their parents with cer-
tain information they will need in
order to report on them accurately.

The University of Kansas Daily
Kansan, while conceding that "the
list of questions Uncle Sam has
prepared,, for his Q-Men to ask are
personal and intimate as well as
multitudinous," adds that "co-op-
eration with the 1940 census takers
in every way, by every person in

Molly Oliver checks up on

After Working Hours

Going the weatherman one better seems to have been the
pastime this last week. Every time that ominous note of
warning crept into his voice, another flowered bonnet
bloomed in gay colors or another fraternity offered a "cov-
ered hayride."

GLENN'S PHARMACY

Is the Store To Go For

Your Needs
Masonic Temple Bldg.
Decatur, Ga.

Dr. A. F. Raper Sees
Tenancy Problems

"If we have any intention of
safeguarding democracy, we will
have to think in terms of the rural
folk, the farm tenants," declared
Dr. Arthur F. Raper in a talk to
the student body Friday morning
at 10 o'clock. "We will have to
work in terms of health, education,
voting, and housing, and speed
must be our keyword."

Applying the farm tenant ques-
tion to Agnes Scott students, as
Southerners, Dr. Raper stated that
the "South land farmer epitomizes
the problem to which we want to
turn ourselves if we want to save
democracy. Statistics show that
there are upward of 10,000,000
people living on land and owning
not a pint of dirt." Making a
startling statement, he called at-
tention to the fact that the poorest
people in Georgia lived on the rich-
est land. "These people," he con-
tinued, "don't vote, eat poorly, are
illiterate, live in the poorest houses,
and on the richest lands, and it
doesn't make sense."

"College students," he said,
"must get facts before they are
overwhelmed by propaganda. Since
the amount of cotton produced in
the United States grows smaller
every year, soon the people living
on lands will move."

a What makes the situation the
most terrifying," he added, "is ithat
this is the group that says things
aren't working out right, though
they're willing to try. This is the
group that will start a Nazi rebel-
lion."

Telling us that we must prepare
to act, he concluded: "Choose ye
this day, not tomorrow, which
choice you will make."

Dr. Raper was professor of so-
ciology at Agnes Scott last year.

the country, will pay dividends in
a number of ways."

Pointing out that revealing of
financial secrets in income tax re-
turns has stirred no storm of dis-
approval, The Daily Iowan at the
University of Iowa observes that a
more universal survey occuring
only once every ten years should
not jneet with any resentment.
More important than the mere ac-
cumulation of figures is the neces-
sity for full data for use in a long-
needed attack on the unemploy
ment problem.

"Two things," believes the Uni-
versity of Minnesota Daily,
"should keep the census above poli-
tical taint. In the first place, the
questions for the new census are
not the product of a few bureau
crats, but have been prepared over
a fairly long period with the aid of
suggestions from private citizens
and organizations.
(ACP.) .

At the SPE Formal Friday
night were Frankie Butt, Anne
Bumstead, Marjorie Simpson, Eliza-
beth Steadman, Mary Anne Atkins,
Martha Sue Dillard, Adelaide Greg-
ory, Anne Hillsman, Eugenia
Hailcy, Jane Stillwell, and Eloise
McCall.

At the Tea Dance Friday at
Emory we noted Anne Bumstead,
Frances Ellis, Frankie Butt, and
Eloise McCall.

The Emory Spring Dances
Saturday afternoon and night at-
tracted Martha Dunn, Marjorie
Simpson, Allie Malone, Jacqueline
Smith, Ailene Barron, Margaret
Smith, Sue Heldman, Jane Still-
well, Frankie Butt, Caroline Alley,
Sara Copeland, Betty Waitt, Grace
Walker, Dot Holloran, Mary Klin-
gensmith, Nancy Hirsch, Kay
Wright, Iddy Boone, Bette Bur-
dette, Anne Frierson, Jane Mac-
Donough, Stewart Arbuckle, and
Ida Jane Vaughan.

Sharing the spotlight Saturday

night at the Sigma Nu Supper

were Allie Malone, Marjorie Simp-
son, and Martha Dunn.

Over at the same house Sunday
night was Margaret Smith.

The Delta Sigma Lodge
Thursday evening entertained
vMytee Wells, Betty Medlock, and
Virginia McWhorter.

The past week-end also found
Mary Lou Longino in Newnan,
Elta Robinson up at Washington
and Lee, and Betty Lovett enjoying
herself at the University of Vir-
ginia, while Helen Hale amused
herself at the Spanish Room in the
Henry Grady. Kay Wilkinson went
to Auburn, and Taps at Clemson
drew Marjorie Wilson.

Campus Queen Scene: Grace
Ward takes a bow this week in a
smart redingote of contrasting
blues, very chic, and definitely be-
coming.

Sowen Press

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Tarleton Collier
Discusses Criminology

Defining criminology as a field
"embodying knowledge and use of
everything from glands and diges-
tion to the Sermon on the Mount"
in his talk in chapel Tuesday morn-
ing, Tarleton Collier deplored the
lack of trained criminologists in
the Georgia penal system.

"Over half the nearly ten thou-
sand prisoners in Georgia state in-
stitutions today are there for
crimes relating to theft," declared
Mr. Collier. "These people are vic-
tims of a social order which denies
them education, equality of privi-
lege, and proper environment.
They need the guidance of trained
experts to help them find a place
in the world to which they re-
turn."

To remedy conditions, Mr. Col-
lier suggested that the state camps
be enlarged to accommodate pris-
oners who are now farmed out to
counties, and that prisoners be
taught trades and trained for good
citizenship.

ROGERS STORE

6

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

The News Takes
Forward Aim

With this issue of the Agnes Scott
News, a new staff takes the reins. Our
page is blank. Looking at this vacuity,
the question arises: With what shall we
fill the pages, what will be our aims, our
policies?

We answer the question first by a brief
review of the Agnes Scott News of the
past. Three years ago the Agonistic re-
ceived second class rating. Last year's
Agonistic climbed one more rung to first
class. This past year the News reached a
new height, a station coveted by every col-
lege staff Ail-American honor rating.
Gleaning one truth from these facts, it is
clear that the path of the News lies in
one direction: toward growth, progress,
development, and change where it may be
profitable.

More specifically, the aims of the news-
paper are threefold. First, we wish to act
as a mouthpiece of information for all
coming, current, and past events of inter-
est to the campus. By recounting these
events we wish not only to inform the
campus, but to tset down the history of
Agnes Scott for a permanent record.

Our second aim is to act as an organ of
student opinion on all matters which are
constructive and which may be of service
to the college. We shall encourage and
welcome all letters to the editor; however,
we take this chance to state that all un-
signed student opinion will go no farther
than the editor's hands. We hope through
our student opinion columns in some way
to unify and bring closer to a head the
ideals and objectives of the institution it-
self.

As a definite editorial policy, we adopt
the stimulation of interest in national and
world affairs. Today, necessarily, our in-
terest is centered on Europe, on each re-
action of the nation's bigwigs to each
change in Europe. Through a current his-
tory column, student opinions on current
events, and editorials, it is our hope that
we may arouse, express, and to some
slight degree direct ideas along the line of
intercollegiate and world affairs.

We are hopeful. We pledge our support
to any project which may reflect the best
on the campus. In all our work, we real-
ize our dependence on the students and
faculty, the value of their suggestions and
criticisms. It is up to the reader to advise
us, to criticize us, and to support us. This
is what we ask in return for our efforts.

Anne Chambless gathers

Campus Quotes

Along with the choosing of courses for next
year, students have been discussing recently the
"pros" and "cons" of five-hour courses and three-
hour courses. Some current opinions on the sub-
ject follow:

Grace Walker, '41: "I prefer the five-hour
courses. Although they seem to be harder than
the three-hour courses, I like the condensed, in-
tensive study."

Cornelia Willis, 41: "I like the three-hour
courses better because you have time to catch your
breath in between classes and can better grasp the
material. I think, however, that it is better to
have all courses the same."

Betty Jean O'Brien, '40: "The five-hour
classes are all right over short periods of time, but
1 don't think that one course should last more
than one quarter."

Gay Swagerty, '41: "I think the five-hour
courses are a fine change, but the schedule with
the three-hour classes will have to be worked out
to be more satisfactory for the students."

Claire Wilson, '40: "1 like the three-hour
courses better because they are spread out more
than the five-hour classes. If a person has more
than one or two classes meeting every day, her
preparation for them is too heavy."

Mary Lang Gill, '40: "I don't think that a
person learns as much in five-hour courses as in
three-hour courses. Psychologists say that it is
better to learn over a rather extended period of
time and I agree with them."

Boots Moore, '40: "I don't like five-hour

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

War in Norway

News in the last week has
pieced together a picture of
the speed and success of the
German initiative in Nor-
way. Repeated practice on
their own coastal towns as-
sured a flawless technique in
the attack. Waves of trans-
port planes more than sup-
plemented warships trans-
porting troops through the
British mine fields. False orders of surrender were
sent to Norwegian generals; guns were spiked;
"fifth column" treachery aided in handing over
all important ports to the Germans the first day.

The present situation finds the Germans en-
trenched in all the west coast port towns. The
status of Narvik in the North is uncertain. In
the South the Nazis hold Oslo and are fanning
out in all directions. The Germans hold one west-
east railroad cutting Norway i n two near the
center of the country.

The allies' situation is difficult but hopeful.
British and French troops have landed at several
points on the west coast. The point to watch is
Trondheim. Allied troops have landed at Namso
above and Molde below; an encircling attack is
expected to a west to east drive .north of Oslo.
The British are making an effort now also to cut
off the German supplies from the air.

Trojan Horses

Certain tourists sauntering the squares of Bel-
grade, merchants, and cabaret performers in Tur-
key, experienced a bad week. When it is under-
stood that these harmless-seeming cathedral-gaz-
ers and industrious workers have all recently come
in to the Balkans and are all pronounced Teutons,
the actions of the Balkan governments seem less
whimsical.

All this surface flurry is only an indication of
the absolute lack of security in every small coun-
try in Europe. For instance, in Budapest, a sud-
den panic drove French and British residents away
one night while uneasy searchlights swept the sky
above the city and below in the dark streets
prowled the air raid patrols.

Tightrope Artist

Ir/ Italy uneasy lies the head not of a king,
but of a dictator, a man growing older than his
ardor. Mussolini is not happy in this war.

Italy cannot fight without ruin. Yet, all his
reign, Caesar Mussolini has preached the joy and
purification of war. Disorder in the Balkans may
prove more of a temptation to the acquisitive in-
stinct than a warning of danger.

The South Adriatic port of Bari has been
closed for gunnery practice. It was from Bari
that Italian soldiers sailed to take over Albania.

Keep Off the Grass

The Netherlands gratefully thanked Cordell
Hull for warning all whose envious eyes were
straying to the girdle of the rich Dutch East In-
dies. The Dutch have arranged for independent
government there in case.

Japanese statesmen answered smoothly that
Japan was equally concerned for the protection
of the status quo in the Indies. They went so far
as to claim the idea as original with them.

Strong Language

The most sensational charges against any em-
ployer in an NLRB case were made recently in
connection with labor troubles in the Dallas plant
of the Ford Motor Company. Robert N. Denham,
a Labor Board examiner, asserted that "Senior of-
ficials of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn
knew of, helped plan, and subsequently approved
the program of terrorism."

Denham specified that the strong arm squad
had made use of "blackjacks, loaded hose, cat-o'-
nine tails made of rubber stripping and electric
light wire" in intimidating union sympathizers.

courses, because I get too tired of studying so
much of one thing every day. Five-hour courses,
which have been made over from three three-hour
courses are too hard for students."

Jo Cates, '41: "I think that it is hard to keep
up with your work in five-hour courses, but the
material that you study stays more fresh in your
mind than it does when there is an interval be-
tween classes."

Betty Kyle, '41: "I think that a person gets
more done in five-hour courses, and it seems that
one gets through the courses faster that way. I
don't think, however, that the study for these
classes can be as thorough as for three-hour
courses."

Campus Camera

Editorial Notes

Letter to Editor
Opens Discussion

Although not timely for this
year's Mardi Gras, the letter to the
editor this week comes into wel-
coming hands. Since the junior
class will undoubtedly continue to
sponsor this spring festival, we
would like to receive more campus
opinion on the suggested change of
name.

Many thanks to the laundry for
the new folding tabs. The innova-
tion not only saves wear and tear
on socks, but also time and finger-
nails.

Debate attendance is a good
standard measure for divining the
amount of college interest in na-
tional and international affairs. We
cannot judge the intelligence of
the community concerning current
events by the words of the inter-
ested, informed, and trained par-
ticipants. The size of the audience
tells us more. The size has been
deplorably small.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

I am writing not to complain
of the spirit, but the name of
"Mardi Gras" at this time.

As we all know, Mardi Gras is
French for "Fat Tuesday" and is
really Shrove Tuesday before Ash
Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
In New Orleans, it ends the
carnival season preceding Lent.
Having the Mardi Gras now is
like decorating the tables for
George Washington's birthday
with Thanksgiving pumpkins. It's
out of season.

Of course, the spirit of our
Mardi Gras is never out of season.
But we can have loads of flip with-
out calling it Mardi Gras. As
Shakespeare said,

"What's in a name, That which
we call a rose
By any ether name would smell
as sweet."
Why don't we call our festival
"Spring Frolics" or "Comus' De-
light," and leave Mardi Gras in its
conventional place, Shrove Tues-
day?

Virginia Watkins.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV

Wednesday, April 24, 1940

No. 18

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(Charter P r [Member)

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphcy Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per
year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Elaine Stubbs

Virginia Clower _

Florence Ellis

Bee Bradfleld
Theodosla Ripley
Assistant Editors
Suzanne Kaulback
Advertising Manager
Carolyn Strozier

Copy Editor
Virginia Williams

Feature Editor
Matilda Cartledge
Jeanne Osborne
Assistant Feature Editors

Betty Jane Stevenson
Current History Editor

Susan Self
Sports Editor

Edwlna Burruss
Exchange Editor

Cornelia Stuckey
Club Editor

Molly Oliver
Society Editor

Editor

Managing Editor
Business Manager

Lib Barrett
Anne Frierson
Betty Sunderland
Olivia White
Assistant Society Editors

Luelle Oaincs
Circulation Manager

Mary Ivy
Bennye Llnzy
Mary Madison Wisdom

Anita Woolfolk
Circulation Assistants

Reporters: C. Bramlette. J. Cates. M. Dale, L. Franklin, M. Gray, R. Hogan, D. Holloran,
A. ElUSer, F. Kaiser. J. Lancaster. R. Llneback, M. E. Martin, M. Beagle. V. Stanley,
J. Stearns. V. Watkins. C. Willis. M. Wolford.

Business Assistants: M. Barker. L. Boone, B. Brouffher. A. BumMead, A. Clements.
J. Craig. M. Dillard, D. Hopkins, B. Moore, M. Toomey.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940

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No. 19

Pageant Shows
Woman's Part
In Education

Martha Skeen Narrates
Alumnae Story
Saturday in Dell

Carolyn Alley, as Memory, will
reign over the annual May Day
celebration Saturday in the May
Day Dell at 5 P. M., in the presen-
tation, "The Heritage of Woman,"
written by an alumnae committee
which includes Mary Anne Ker-
nan, '3 8, chairman; Margaret
Bland Sewell, '20; Hortense Jones,
'3 8, and Lita Goss, '36.

Martha Skeen, '34, will narrate
the story. The principal characters
include Mary Matthews as Woman,
Hazel Solomon as Evil Power,
Helen M. Regenstein, '39, and
Mary Anne Kernan, '3 8, as Sappho
and Socrates, respectively, and
Betty Jean O'Brien as Xantippe.

"The Heritage of Woman" is a
presentation showing the growth
and development of woman from
the primitive ages to the present
time. Woman, who, after failing
in her attempt to free a group of
women from the spell of Evil
Power, receives comfort from
Memory and her nine Muses and
three Graces.

In order to give Woman
strength to bear her sorrow, Mem-
ory calls up the past. The primi-
tive women give Woman much
pleasure by quickly resuming their
tasks which had been interrupted
when their- husbands wished to
move on to new hunting grounds.

In the Greek Classical Age

(Continued on Page 2)

News Wakes Up

When the Agnes Scott
News Staff held its private
session in church last Sun-
day, long after time-wise
worshipers had left, they
realized they should not al-
ways believe literally what
they read in their publica-
tion. Let it not be said that
the Staff does not recog-
nize its errors. If Daylight
Saving Time snuck up on
you, too, in the dark of
night, it is suggested that
you turn your clocks UP.

J. A. Nixon Takes
Fingerprints

Cooperating in the nation-wide
effort to obtain fingerprints of all
United States citizens, Current
History Forum and the Agnes Scott
News will ^sponsor a fingerprint
taking project the week after May
Day, under the direction of Mr.
John A. Nixon, member of the At-
lanta Junior Chamber of Com-
merce and employee of the South-
ern Life Insurance Company.

A committee of ten students,
taught how to take fingerprints,
will station themselves at tables in
the mail room at appointed hours
to take the prints. They will be
able to attend to approximately
fifty students an hour.

Mr. Nixon announced that the
fingerprints taken are for the file
of civilian fingerprints in Wash-
ington, and have nothing to do
with crime.

Orchestra, Singer
Give Concerts

Atlanta Hears
Symphony and Anderson

Agnes Scott students will hear
two musical presentations this
week, the Philadelphia Symphony
orchestra, under the direction of
Eugene Ormandy, at 8:3 0 in the
City Auditorium, and the Marian
Anderson Concert on Saturday,
May 4.

The Philadelphia orchestra will
play the Cesar Franck symphony
in D minor, and as opening num-
bers, two Bach choral preludes.
Other selections on the program
include: the Ballet Suite, "The
Machine Man," by Zador, "Bol-
ero," by Ravel, and the "Emperor
Waltz," by Strauss.

Marian Anderson will offer
many German lieders on her pro-
gram. Kosti Vehanem will accom-
pany the singer. The numbers on
the program are: "When I Am
Laid in Earth," Purcell; "A Pas-
toral," Verachini; "Plaisir d'Am-
our," Martini; "Die Rose," "Auf
Dem Wasser Zu Singin," Der Dop-
pelanger, and "Erlkonig," Schu-
bert; the card scene from "Car-
men," Bizet; "The South Wind,"
Parker; "Thoughts of Home," Bed-
ford; "Songs to the Dark Virgin,"
Price; and "I Hear An Army,"
Barber.

She will also sing the following
Negro spirituals: "Steal Away,"
"Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells," ar-
ranged by Burleigh; "Crucifixion,"
arranged by Payne; and "Didn't
My Lord Deliver Daniel?" ar-
ranged by Brown.

Roman Women Dance in Pageant

Al umnae Reveal
Homecoming Plans

Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Boggs

Deliver Commencement Addresses

Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, president of the University of
Georgia, and Dr. Wade H. Boggs, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, have accepted invi-
tations to speak at the commencement and baccalaureate
services June 4 and June 2, respectively, Dr. J. R. McCain

announced this week.

Dr. Caldwell has not announced
the subject of his address, but he
has been asked to speak on some
phase of the University of Georgia,
in order to better acquaint Agnes
Scott students with one of the sis-
ter schools of the University Cen-
ter project.

Native of Georgia

A native of Meriwether County,
Georgia, Dr. Caldwell was grad-
uated from the University of Geor-
gia, and did graduate work at
Harvard, Mercer, and Emory Uni-
versities. From 1924 to 1926 he
was assistant professor of law at
the University of Georgia. Since
193 5 he has been the president of
that institution.

Dr. Boggs is the father of Mar-
jorie Boggs, a member of the grad-
uating class. Before transferring
to Shreveport, he was pastor of the
Druid Hills Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta.

Schedule of Week

Other activities for commence-
ment week-end, beginning Friday,
May 31, and continuing until
Tuesday, June 4, scheduled by the
administration offices and the
Alumnae Association, include:

May 3 1 : Decatur Club's party
for children of former graduates at
4 P. M.

June 1 : Trustees' Luncheon in
Rebekah Scott Dining Hall at 1
P. M., followed by a meeting of
the Alumnae Association to elect
new officers. Phi Beta Kappa
banquet and initiation, 6:30 P. M.,
in the Alumnae House. Black-
friars' production of Noel Cow-
ard's e TH Leave It To You," 8:30
P. M., in the Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium.

June 2: Baccalaureate Service,
11 A. M., in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium. Senior Class Vespers at 6
P. M., in Gaines Chapel. Alumnae
Open House for graduates and vis-
itors, 6:3 0 P. M., in Alumnae Gar-
den.

June 3: Class Reunion Lunch-
eons, 1 P. M., Alumnae House.
Class Day, 4 P. M., in May Day
Dell. 1939 Reunion Dinner, 6:30
P. M. Concert sponsored by Music
Department, 8:30 P. M., in Gaines
Chapel.

June 4: Commencement Exer-
cises, 10 A. M., Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium.

Kendrick Lists
Sponsors

Betsy Kendrick, vice-president
of Student Government, has an-
nounced the appointment of eighty
sponsors, taken from the junior
and senior classes, who will be in
charge of the orientation of new
students in the fall.

The list includes: Ruth Allgood,
Mary Stuart Arbuckle, Bee Brad-
field, Betty Brock, Nina Brough-
ton, Sabine Brumby, Edwina Bur-
russ, Matilda Cartledge, Anne
Chambless, Harriette Cochran, Su-
san Cochrane, Sarah Copeland,
Dorothy Cremin, Mae Crumbley,
Betsy Culver, Gay Currie, Edith
Dale, Billie Davis, Martha Sue Dil-
lard, Dale Drenftan, Ethelyn Dyar,
Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Peggy Fal-
kenberg, Mary Ann Faw, Lucile
Gaines, Lillian Gish, Margery
Gray, Sarah Hanley, Margaret
Hartsook, Doris Hasty, Beryl
Healy, Rebekah Hogan, Alice In-
zer, Beth Irby, Mary Ivy, Neva
Jackson, Aileen Kasper, Suzanne
Kaulbach, May King, Betty Kyle,
Fletcher Mann, Marcia Mansfield,
Anne Martin, Sarah Massey, Judy
Means, Betty Medlock, Margaret
Murchison, Louise Musser, Elise
Nance, Louise Newton, Molly
Oliver, Jeanne^Osborne, Julia Ann
Patch, Pattie Patterson, Claire
Purcell, Mary Robertson, Elta
Robinson, Elizabeth Ruprecht,
Elizabeth Rrussell, Laura Sale, Hel-
en Schukraft, Lillian Schwencke,
Beatrice Shamos, Elise Smith, Shir-
ley Ann Smith, Rebecca Stamper,
Carolyn Strozier, Cornelia Stuckey,
R.osalyn Sugarman, Betty Sunder-
land, Gay Swagerty, Mary Olive
Thomas, Margaret Mary Toomey,
Ida Jane Vaughan, Lila Peck Wal-
ker, Virginia Watkins, Alta Web-
ster, Dorothy Webster, Myree
Wells, Virginia Williams, and
Glenwyn Young.

Julie Ann Patch, Lillian Gish, Beth Paris, Patricia Fleming, and,
take the part of Roman warriors in the May Day production Saturday

Photo Courtesy Constitution.

in the background, Leona Leavitt,

Coming This Week

Wednesday, May 1 All-Star
Philadelphia Svmphonv, 8
P. M.

Thursday, Mav 2 May Day
Dress Rehearsal, 4:30 P. M.
"Gone With Draft" cos-
tume ball, 9 P. M., Murphey
Candler Building.

Friday, May 3 Senior Opera,
8:30 P. M., Bucher Scott
(gymnasium.

Saturday, May 4 May Day
Festival, 5 P. M., Mav Day
Dell.

Marian Anderson Concert,
8:30 P. M.
Monday, May 6 Daughters
of Rotarians' Luncheon.

Lecture Association
Elects New Members

Lecture Association has chosen
its new members for next year, ac-
cording to Betty Waitt, president
of the organization. The members
are: Jane McDonough, sophomore
representative; Julia Ann Patch,
junior representative; Mary Bon
Utterback, senior representative
and social chairman; Theodosia
Ripley, publicity; Ruth Lineback,
posters; and June Boykin and
Frances Spratlin, day student rep-
resentatives.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940

Golf Lesson

Ann Fisher Announces
Board Members

Tennis Tournament Enters Second Week
As Competition Grows

Ann Fisher, recently elected president of Athletic Associa-
tion, announced today a list of new A. A. Board members.
They are Ida Jane Vaughan, vice-president ; Gay Currie, sec-
retary; Ann Gellerstedt, treasurer; Dot Webster, hockey
manager; Betty Brock, archery
manager; Mary Olive Thomas, ten-
nis manager; Ann Frierson, basket-
ball manager; and Martha Dale, so-
cial chairman.

Competition grew keener as Ag-
nes Scott netters entered the second
week of tournament play, and re-
sults show three of the matches go-
ing into three sets. The sophomore
team of Robertson and Thomas,
after meeting with some difficulty
in eliminating Stuart and Boggs,
4-6, 6-4, 2-6, lost to Alta and Dot
Webster, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Slack and
Forman took their match with
Nance and Gellerstedt, 4-6, 6-3,
6-3. Fisher and Dyar, among the
favorites in this year's tourney,
found little trouble in defeating
Stuckey and Brooks, 6-3, 6-1. Butt
and Eakin won from Hilsman and
Weissman, 6-0, 6-3.

Out at Forest Hills Frances
Spratlin advanced to the quarter
finals in the golf tournament by
defeating "Mighty Midget" Helen
Carson, 1 up. Charity Crocker
will meet twice champion Jeanne
Davidowitz this week in the other
first bracket match.

Progress in the second bracket
has been slow. Patch defaulted to
Fisher, and Florence ceded her
match to Vaughan. Forman, by
virtue of her win over Gray, will
meet Klugh in the second round of
tournament play.

Costume Ball, Opera Stars
Attract Students

A romantic segment of ante-
bellum Atlanta will be revived
Thursday night when the senior
class entertains with a "Gone With
the Draft" ball at 9:00 P. M. in
the Murphey Candler Building.

Features of the gala affair,
which heralds Seniorpolitan Opera
Company's Friday night presenta-
tion, will be the grand march of
the entire cast in the costumes
they wear n the opera, and "mint
juleps" (lemonade disguised with
sprigs of mint) for refreshment

May Day

(Continued from Page 1)

Woman sees the peaceful, joyful
dances of Sappho and her women,
and the vigorous gymnastics of the
Spartan women. However, she is
again grieved by the shrewdish
Xantippe, who discovers her hus-
band, Socrates, with a group of
young men. She routs the men and
drives the dejected Socrates home.
In the Roman Classical Age, Wom-
an sees the Vestal Virgins, worship-
ing before the ceremonial altar and
replenishing the sacred and ever-
burning fire.

The Middle Ages contrast the
frivolity of a lady of fashion and
the diligence of the nuns. While
the disdainful lady tosses a rose to
a serenading minstrel, the nuns
quietly take out their books to
study.

The advancement of the Renais-
sance encourages Woman. She sees
one man satisfied with a girl using
a spindle and a distaff, but the
second man tosses the spindle aside
and gives her a book, showing that
she is capable of receiving a liter-
ary education. Woman also sees a
group of girls, encouraged by Vir-
torina de Feltra, t\\c humanist
scholar, join a discussion group
composed of boys.

Woman g.iins strength from the
picture presented by the Modern
Age. She also sees a group of
women representing the fifty
years of Agnes Scott College.

Student Body Names Roosevelt
Most Popular Candidate

A largely Democratic student body thinks that Franklin
D. Roosevelt should be the next President of the United
States, it was revealed by a straw ballot sponsored by the
News last week. According to the ballot, Roosevelt should
win 5 to 1 in a race against Thomas E. Dewey, district attor-
ney of New York City. Campus opinion also favors Cordell
Hull, Secretary of State, over

-Photo Courtesy Constitution.

Mr. Harold Sargent, Atlanta golf professional, shows Mary Bon Ut-
terback how to improve her grip in a recent lesson on the hockey field.

Dewey, 24 percent to 9 percent.
Roosevelt received 45 percent of
the votes.

The straw ballot, to which 3 5
percent of the student body re-
sponded, asked for the voters' per-
sonal choices for president, and
their choices for Democratic and
Republican nominees.

McNutt Second

Democrat McNutt, ex-high com-
missioner of the Philippines, fol-
lowed Dewey with 6 percent of
the votes, while Glass, Taft, Far-
ley, Vandenburg, Wilkie, Garner,
Landon, Bricher, Hoover, and
Starke trailed far behind the favor-
ites with no appreciable vote.

The vote for Democratic and
Republican nominees showed
choices for the Democratic candi-
date divided between Roosevelt
and Hull, while Dewey carried the
Republican side by a wide major-
ity. The statistics reveal, too, that
a majority of the Republicans pre-
fer Hull as the Democratic oppo-
nent, while Democratic preference
among the Republican presidential
possibilities runs to Dewey, with a
great scattering among the others.
The Republicans are definitely
against Roosevelt. The question-
naire did not show whether divi-
sion of the Democratic choice was
due to a feeling against a third
term or opposition to Roosevelt.

Hull Follows Roosevelt

Roosevelt, however, led the
Democrats with 45 percent of the
votes, followed by Hull with 34
percent. McNutt carried 8 per-
cent, and Carter Glass, Senator
from Virginia, 4 percent. Students
prophesy that Farley, Garner,
Byrd, and Clark will be among the
"also-rans."

didates, the straw vote gives
Dewey a majority, with 49 per-
cent. Vandenburg, Senator from
Michigan, and Taft, Senator from
Ohio, each carry 13 percent of the
votes. Democratic votes for Re-
publican candidates give Fiorellp
LaGuardia, Mayor of New York
City, 6 percent. The ballot showed
Landon and Wilkie to be ahead of
Former President Hoover, and
Bricher, Governor of Ohio. Hoover
retains very little support among
the student body.

Some of the ballots were re-
turned with comments, both seri-
ous and not serious. One loyal
Democrat left the statement, "Re-
publican possibilities all weak,"
while another not-so-particular stu-
dent said, "Anybody but Hoover."
Several votes went to Gracie Allen.

One student wrote on the back
of her ballot, "How* does Landon
have the nerve to run again?"

And the answer to the question
by the student next to her was:
"Why shouldn't he? What did he
do?"

Gene Slack Announces
Annual Staff

Gene Slack, editor of the Sil-
honcttCy announced the new mem-
bers of the 1940-41 staff this
week.

They include: Mary Ann Faw,
assistant editor; Mary Madison
Wisdom, kodak editor; Mary
Lightfoot Elcan, club editor; Julia
Ann Patch, organization editor;
Lucile Gaines, photograph editor;
Betty Henderson, sports editor;
Jean Tucker, class editor; Elta
Robinson, feature editor; Beatrice
Shamos, art editor; Evelyn Save,
assistant kodak editor; and Ruth
Lineback, assistant art editor.

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Brumby Names
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The new Aurora staff, headed
by Sabine Brumby, editor, and Pat-
tie Patterson, associate editor,
have announced plans for a more
systematic organization next year.
They intend to have an office in
which to meet and organize ma-
terial in an* orderly filing system.

Assisting Sabine and Pattie on
the staff are: Jeanne Osborne, as-
sistant editor; Betty Jane Steven-
son, feature editor; Edith Dale,'
make-up editor; Isabel Miller,
freshman work editor; and Beatrice
Shamos and Ruth Lineback, art

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940

Venetian Club entertained Theo-
dosia Ripley
and Esthere
Ogden.

Over at the
Phi Delta
Theta House
Dinner and
Dance eating
and dancing
were Mary
Louise Pal-

mour, Katsy Blair, Olivia White,
Betty Henderson, Imogene King,
Betty Brougher, and Jane Stillwell.

On their hay ride the Phi Delts
also entertained Clara Rountree,
Betty Henderson, Margaret Dow-
nie, Mary Louise Palmour, Hart-
well Bishop, Katsy Blair, Edith
Dale, and Mary Robertson.

Speaking of hay rides we might
mention the Delta Tau Delta
function Margaret Shaw and
Jean Tucker.

Also the Sigma Chi affair
Pattie Patterson, Mary Ward, Tony
Newland, Ailene Barron, and Ade-
laide Gregory.

Tech diverted with a real Old
Fashioned Barbecue Sunday

afternoon Judy Greenburg, An-
nette Franklin, and Betsy Banks.

The Biltmore was the scene of
one of the Emory ATO dances
dances this week at which were
Dot Holloran, Betty Burdette,
Bizelle Roberts, and Elta Robinson.

The Sigma Nu's attracted the
following with a dance Friday
night: Margaret Downie, Gloria
Bramlette, Ann Hilsman, Shirley
Gately, Betty Wade, Louise Runge,
Harriet Vaughn, Rebecca Andrews,
Marjorie Simpson, Mary Anne At-

Molly Oliver checks up on

After Working Hours

At long last the Spring has been released, and the great
outdoors is definitely alluring. What with the white flurries
of dogwood, the enchanting songs of birds, and the new crop
of kid parties, everybody flings worry to the skies and plays.

The Buttermilk Ball at the ^ Fnmces ^ Alice Clements,

Margaret Mary Toomey, Frankie
Butt, Stewart Arbuckle, Ida Jane
Vaughn, and Ducky Copeland.

The Med students took a little
time off Saturday night and the
Theta Kappa Psi Dance was fun
for Margaret Smith and June Boy-
kin.

At the Delta Sig Hobo Party

were Betty Anne Stewart and
Becky Stamper.

The SAE's were popular this
week with their smooth house
dance at which were Julia Anne
Patch, Annie Wilds, Ducky Cope-
land, Elizabeth Jenkins, and Olivia
White.

Jack Teagarden played es-
pecially for Hattie Ayres and Mar-
garet Hartsook.

Up at Furman for the SAE
dances and house party was Anne
Frierson, while Helen McFayden,
Joella Craig, Marjorie Wilson, and
Mary Craig Roberts had a marve-
lous time at Davidson and their
dances.

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The Georgia Public Forums is
sponsoring a series of seven pro-
grams in observance of National
Youth Week, April 2 8 -May 4.

Mary Ellen Whetsell, southeast-
ern regional chairman of the Na-
tional Student Federation of Amer-
ica, and Eliza King, associate edu-
cational co-ordinator of NYA,
took part on the first program last
Sunday. The girls, both Agnes
Scott alumnae, gave their opinions
on the topic, "Is Youth Doing Its
Share?"

A forum, to be conducted by
Dr. M. Ashby Jones, will be held
tomorrow at Wrens, Georgia, on
"The Church's Place in the Present
Crisis." Tuesday, Boisfeuillet Jones
will conduct forums at Sparta,
Georgia, and at Greenville, Geor-
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Virginia Clower takes notes

For the Record

Everybody knows about the cat
that went to look at a king, but it
took Evelyn Baty to escort a pair
of goldfish to a party. Evelyn was
supervising decorations for Laura
Sale's birthday party Memorial
Day, but she forgot that the stores
would be closed half a day and
was left at the last minute without
a centerpiece for the table. She
spied the goldfish bowl, containing

Henry and (the second one

hasn't been named; can you think
of a fit name for the companion
of the mighty Henry?) just as she
was about to despair of concocting
.my thing suitable, and presto
Henry and the nameless wonder
turned up at the party, right in
the middle of the table. The editor
of Campus Code admitted that she
felt sorry for the poor fish; after
all, they lead a somewhat restricted
life, and never get to go to parties.

The Purloined Letter

If you've ever wanted to fall
right through the floor, you'll
sympathize with Helen Klugh. She
meandered nonchalantly into the
day students' room one day last
week and put her hand into her
mail box. Surprisingly enough, be-
sides a notice from the library and
four newspapers left over from the
preceding week, there was a letter
in the box. Helen snatched it out
and ripped it open without even
looking at the address. Well, you
can conjure up for yourself the
mingled emotions with which she
saw the salutation: "Dear Aileen."
Hele nwas standing there with her
mouth wide open in shock, won-
dering frantically whether she
should just stick the purloined
missive back in the box and fade
away, or whether she ought to try
to explain her mistake, when in
walked Aileen Kasper, the rightful
owner. Aileen rescued her prop-
erty and left. The scene closes on
Helen still speechless, slowly curl-
ing up around the edges.

"May I Present "

It's just too bad for one junior
day student that we acquired two
Miss Ws on the faculty within
such a short time. That probably
explains why this mercifully anony-
mous culprit introduced Miss
Willis as "Miss Winter" to a vis-
itor at coffee Sunday. On being
stared at, she realized her mistake,
but became so confused she
couldn't think of "Willis" at all,
and was forced to stand by in
tongue-tied embarrassment while
someone else performed the intro-
duction correctly.

Inquiry Probes
Regulations for Cuts

Although college and university
cut regulations vary in length and
complexity, the general tendency
in most is to make the subject of
unexcused class absences increas-
ingly a discretionary matter be-
tween students and officials of the
institution.

This is the finding of Haverford
College's Dean H. Tatnall Brown
in questionnaires returned by 16
institutions.

'Gone With the Draft'
Climaxes Opera Season

By Jeanne Osborne

True, the Metropolitan Company has left Atlanta, but not
so the opera arias nor the artistic ability of singing stars.
Agnes Scott will unofficially open and close its Grand Opera
season this week-end with "Gone With the Draft," and re-
ports have it that the action runs

pretty fast and the sophomore or-
chestra a little faster!

As the Seniorpolitan Opera
Company goes into seclusion for
its last week of hair-tearing re-
hearsals, we find Milner's antics,
Rockie's alarming screams, and
manifestations of Henri's ignor-
ance among the disturbing inci-
dents taking place behind closed
doors.

Milner Obliges

Since several deaths are called
for in the libretto, Virginia Milner
very kindly offered to demonstrate
the proper way to die. As the re-
sult of her graceful, corkscrew-
like contortions, she reports num-
erous black and blue spots. How-
ever, the cast can now die grace-
fully.

Rockie Kaplan's role of Mammy
required a piercing scream. Dur-
ing the first rehearsal, Rockie
played her part so well that the
cast jumped out of their skins as
her shrill scream was wafted on
the breezes. Efforts at subsequent
rehearsals have centered around
toning down Rockie's scream to a

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Innocent Henri

When Anne Enloe suggested that
mint juleps in old Southern style
be served at the ball, Henrietta
Thompson brightly suggested that
green color be added to make them
look real. At this manifestation of
Henri's ignorance concerning mint
juleps, Eleanor Hutchens almost
swooned. Now one member of the
opera committee is posted at each
rehearsal to explain and clarify all
obscurities to Henri.

The cast, practicing in Mr.
Dieckmann's studio, became quite
chagrined because he had to chase
them out so many times in order to
hold his classes. One day when
they espied Mr. Dieckmann ap- %
proaching, they snatched their
books, passed from the room, and
ducked into another room. Mr.
Dieckmann came in, did nothing
but get his hat, and walk out, un-
conscious of the furor his approach
had created.

Sally Hides Secret

When the subject of the opera
was still a dark mystery, Sally Mat-
thews was discussing the opera
with another senior in Murpjiey
Candler when she heard someone in
the building. In a loud voice she
confided to her friend that she
thought Jane Moses would be a
lovely Gretel. Betty Ann Brooks,
the intruder, said, tc Oh, I know,
the opera's going to be Hansel and
Gretel" However, she kindly
promised not to tell anyone.

Clubs Conclude
Spring Elections

Bible Club: The Bible Club
has selected its new officers as fol-
lows: president, Louise Sams; vice-
president, Harriette Cochran; re-
cording secretary, Fletcher Mann;
corresponding secretary, Dale
Drennan; and treasurer, Flora
Campbell.

French Club: As a result of
recent tryouts, the French Club has
taken in Mary Robertson, Julia
Ann Patch, Dorothy Wheeler,
Margaret Shaw, Frances Hinton,
Frances Tucker, Martha Buffalo,
Margery Gray, Mae Crumbley, and
Elisabeth Ruprecht as new mem-
bers.

Pi Alpha Phi: The new offi-
cers of Pi Alpha Phi are: president,
Mary Lightfoot Elcan; vice-presi-
dent, Mary Madison Wisdom; sec-
retary, Mary Olive Thomas; treas-
urer, Mary Ward; social chairman,
Martha Moody; and parliamentar-
ian, Suzanne Kaulbach.

German Club: The German
Club's new officers include: presi-
dent, Nancy Willstatter; vice-pres-
ident, Marion Williams; secretary,
Margaret Smith; and treasurer,
Anne Martin. New members have
also been elected. They are Lib
Ruprecht, Wanda Hamby, Marion
E. Philips, Dorothy Cremin, Betty
Moore, Edwina Burruss, Louise
Meiere, Helen Hale, Bizelle Rob-
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940

Voting Creates
Problem

The lack of response to the straw ballot
this week reveals a low rate of student in-
terest in the final outcome of the presi-
dential election in November. Working on
the theory that action is more effective
than occasional reform editorials and stu-
dent opinion columns, the News hoped to
arouse interest by giving the student
body a chance to participate in a project
of off-campus interest. On ballots that
were mimeographed and put into students'
hands as they entered chapel, only 35
percent of the student body cast votes.
The blame goes partly to the News staff
for lack of publicity; it goes primarily to
the students for lack of interest.

If only 35 percent of the student body
responded to a voting procedure compara-
tively simple, we can safely prophesy that
an even smaller percentage of students
able to vote will go through the red tape
of registration and absentee voting for
the elections in November. And our vote
is needed.

College, instead of stimulating our in-
terest in national affairs, so far removes
us from community life that we are apt
to feel distant from it. We feel that we
have no part in the affairs of the democ-
racy. Far from feeling this way, we should
consider our responsibility to our nation
in proportion to our privilege of educa-
tion. Our higher education undoubtedly
teaches us HOW to be better citizens, but
our education will become completely
valueless if we keep the benefits we de-
rive from it to ourselves. #

Therefore it behooves Agnes Scott stu-
dents to register either for absentee votes,
or to plan to take the sometimes easier
method of going home to the polls. Though
the absentee voting situation is deplor-
able, there is nothing we can do but pas-
sively accept it. We can actively accept
our responsibility as citizens, though, and
register at the Court House by May 4.

Matilda Cartledge gathers

Campus Quotes

The letter to the editor in last week's paper
seems to have cleared the path for a number of
ideas concerning the appropriateness of the name
of Mardi Gras celebration. And it looks as if the
general opinion is in favor of change.

Miss Gaylord*. "I'm decidedly for changing
the name of Mardi Gras.
The words mean "Fat Tues-
day," and to apply them to
a celebration which invari-
ably occurs on Saturday
makes it appear that we can't
translate the two simple
French words. We might as
well observe Ash Wednesday
on Friday."

Wallace Lyons, 42: "I
think a name more closely
identified with Agnes Scott would be better. I
don't think it's as much a question of the literal
meaning of the words as it is of the individuality
of a more distinctive name."

Ann Paisley, '43: "It seems to me that the
name of Mardi Gras should be changed. In the
first place, it is on the wrong day and at the
wrong season. But more than that, it is one of
the traditions of Agnes Scott, and its name should
connect it more closely with the school."

Edith Schwartz, '42: "I think the name
should remain as it is. The name Mardi Gras in
connection with these festivities is just as much
a part of the tradition as the celebration itself.
And it certainly connotes the real spirit and char-
acter of the event."

Miriam Bedinger, '41: I think that the
name of our Spring Festival should be changed
because of the inappropriateness of the name for
the day and the season in which it is given. The
name in Itself is not important enough to retain
if it will create a false impression or offend."

Edith Henegar, '41: "1 think that the spirit
of Mardi Gras is the most important element. It
is the character of the festival rather than the
name that is so much a part of the tradition, and,
since it rcallv is inappropriate, I believe that it
should be changed."

Campus Camera

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Parade of Opinion

"America's problem of keeping
out of the European war grows in-
creasingly difficult," warns the
University of Texas Daily Texan.
"Allied propaganda that at the be-
ginning of the conflict had little
influence oh public opinion in Am-
erica rapidly grows in potency.

"As it reviews the long list of
President Roosevelt's protests to
powerful nations against conquest
and rule by force, the pubic grows
impatient and begins to ask if this
is all we are going to do about it."
"But," concludes the Texan, "if
American opinion can be brought
around to Congressman Fish's
opinion that our actual participa-
tion in the war would mean 'the
blackout of American liberty and
the establishment in the U. S. of a
dictatorship as bad as the Nazis','
there is not much danger of Am-
erica's entering the war even if the
Allies should suffer a crushing de-
feat."

"No one, probably not even Hit-
ler himself, knows how far this
(Scandinavian) campaign will go,"
says the Daily at the University of
Oklahoma. "Cannons continue to
belch smoke and death, and babies
still cry for daddies who will never
come home. War, as the man said,
is indeed hell."

"England is rocked and fright-
ened to its very foundations," says
the Daily Cardinal at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. "Chamberlain,"
continues the Cardinal, "is finally
forced to prove himself and the
British forces. Power politics has
given way to the military and
naval action that spells the final
score." (ACP)

Burruss

Burruss sifts the

Exchanges

With the May queen represent-
ing Grace and Beauty and the king
portraying Thought and Wisdom,
the Alabama State College for
Women will hold their May Day
festival. Their
paper, The
Alabamian, re-
ports: "The
'Rebirth of
Peace' will be
the general
theme of the
program; a re-
birth which
results from
the strife and
conquest of war and misunder-
standing by grace, thought and
wisdom, an interpretation arranged
and presented by the dance group.

"Following the conquest and
confusion, Grace, the May Queen,
with her attendants, and Wisdom,
accompanied by the honor group,
will appear to rule over the re-
mainder of the festival."

According to the Mount Hol-
yoke News: "The Mount Hol-
yoke and Amherst Dramatic Clubs
are now formulating plans for the
production of 'Spring Dance,'
which is to be presented to an au-
dience here on the night of the
May Day pageant."

The Blue Stocking of P. C.
reports: "Margaret Mitchell's epic
of the south, 'Gone With the
Wind,' is still popular reading ma-
terial with Presbyterian College
students, according to library sta-
tistics recently released. The his-
tory-making best seller ranked first
among the fiction in popularity
with P. C. students and faculty.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV

Wednesday, May 1, 1940

No. 19

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey. Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription price per
year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Advance

The Germans have used surprise tactics
against the Allies again. New motorized units
have gained as much as fifty miles in twenty-
four hours. In an effort to fight the Nazi ad-
vance indirectly Allied planes
have bombed a principal air
base outside Oslo. The Ger-
man puppet government is
putting Norwegian civilians
to forced labor repairing and
enlarging this flving field.

Words) Words, Words

Norway provoked the war.
How? By resisting Germany.
Germany saved Norway.
How? By arriving in the
nick of time to forestall the British invasion.

Or so Ribbentrop claims. He is very positive
over the fact that Germany discovered documen-
tary plans of the British invasion, left carelessly
in Norway.

Sir Samuel Hoare answered the charge for the
benefit of outraged British opinion: "We know
this man. He is a dangerous adventurer ... I
need only say it is a despicable lie . .

Special Correspondent

It seems incredible to think that Peter Fleming
is dead at 30, killed in an air raid in Norway.
Someone once called him a misplaced Elizabethan.
He endured the burden of post war disillusion
lightly. He deprecated and debunked all heroism.
His sophisticated understatement of danger was
all the more hair-raising in Brazilian Adventure,
One's Company, and News from Tartary. One of
the few stylists who wrote travel books, Fleming
was always skipping off nonchalantly upon the
most appalling trips. He seems indestructible.

Feud

While the cat's away . . . With Roosevelt in
Georgia the opposition in the House of Repre-
sentatives has been busily drawing up amend-
ments to the wage-hour law. One of the advo-
cates of a great many exemptions is Cox of Geor-
gia. He and his colleague, Ramspeck, are pitted
against each other, even vocally. Said Ramspeck:
"I am one of those from the South who believes
the time has come when the South cannot live in
a different strata from the rest of the country."

Dark Horse

Everybody, even his worst enemies, admires
Wendell Wilkie. No one believes he will be nom-
inated. The New Republic calls him an opponent
worth fighting. After a meeting of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers' Association, where
Wilkie spoke, Raymond Clapper wrote regret-
fully, "It would be a pity if the Republicans nom-
inated Wendell Wilkie for the presidency, because
then he would have to stop talking blunt horse
sense and confine himself to drooling the phrases
of the campaign ghost writers." A Republican,
of the inner circle, admitted they wouldn't touch
him "with a ten foot pole."

Laying Up for a Rainy Day

John L. Lewis, disgusted out loud with every-
body, seems looking forward to 1944.

He appealed last week to the National Negro
Congress to join in a working affiliation with
Labor's Non Partisan League. This was in the
same hall where he talked to the Youth Congress.

Elaine Stubbs Editor

Virginia Clower Managing Editor

Florence Ellis Business Manager

Editorial Notes

B. O. Z. Song Contest
Inspires Originality

Honors of the week go to B. 0. Z. for
launching the new song-writing contest.
The too-familiar strains of "I'd Rather Be
a Hottentot" in the chapel skit Friday re-
minded all of us that campus originality
and creative ability are much in demand.
And we shouldn't have to ask Fred War-
ing's help, either.

The announcement that the list of spon-
sors again includes both juniors and sen-
iors proves that last year's change in the
system was successful. The increase in
membership from sixty-one to eighty
promises to be a forward step, since the
alteration will insure more attention for
each new student.

When we listen to the music for May
Day, we should remember that the com-
plete score was written by Mr. Dieckmann.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1940

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No. 20

Robert Frost
Concludes
Lecture Series

Poet Comes Here May 16
To Fulfill Engagement
Postponed by Illness

Robert Frost, who has been
called the most rewarding
and most richly integrated
poet of his generation, comes
to the campus Thursday-
night, May 16, as perhaps the
best-known and most 'popular
speaker to appear here in the
series of outstanding lectur-
ers presented to the public by
Lecture Association as its
contribution to the semi-cen-
tennial celebration of the
school.

Mr. Frost visited Agnes
Scott in the fall of 1935 on
one of his rare and eagerly
welcomed lecture tours. His
talks are characterized by
the combination of philosophy
and practical wisdom which is so
cherished in his poetry, and his
sensitive feeling for nature, inten-
sity of emotion, and ability to take
an audience through all varieties
of feeling, have endeared him to
the public.

He speaks informally, interspers-
ing his lecture with humorous
and quietly dramatic illustrations,
keeping his scholarship in the
background, yet coloring his words
with a depth of rich knowledge
and understanding.

This poet who, though born in
San Francisco, has become famous
through his presentation of typi-
cal New England, never fails to
reward his listeners with the human
touch and local color which per-
meates his verse. His genius in
creating photographic effects verb-
ally by the use of that imagery
and after-imagery which he him-
self has defined as "about all
there is in poetry" not only won
him the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
in 1930, but has made him one
of the most memorable speakers
ever to appear on American lecture
platforms.

New England Poet Lectures

Sister Class Sponsors
Senior Luncheon

With decorations and programs
carrying out the old-fashioned
idea for the semi-centennial cele-
bration, the sophomores will en-
tertain the seniors with a luncheon
at the Druid Hills Golf Club
May 18.

The committees for the lunch-
eon include: Transportation, Mae
Crumbly, chairman; Dot Webster,
Ann Gellerstedt, Sue Heldman.
Seating, Billie Davis and Elizabeth
Russell. Arrangements, Mary-
Louise Palmour, chairman; Frances
Ellis, Suzanne Kaulbach, Theodosia
Ripley. Decorations, Patsy Flem-
ming and Betty Medlock, chair-
men; Anne Chambless, Dale Dren-
nan, Mary Anne Faw, Alice Inzer,
Evelyn Saye, Becky Stamper, Mary
Robertson. Entertainment, Betty
Sunderland, chairman; Betty Ann
Brooks, Matilda Cartledge, Grace
Harbour, Neva Jackson, Jessie
MacGuire, Virginia Montgomery,
Helen Schukraft, and Jackie
Stearns.

-Photo Courtesy Aurora.

University Center
Spurs Drive

Atlanta Campaign Group
Reports Total of $3,100,100

Reaching a total of $3,100,100,
the University Center Campaign
continues its drive for a goal of
$7,500,000. Today, the Atlanta
campaign group meets at the Ans-
ley Hotel for the third report
luncheon. At the last luncheon on
Friday, May 1, Mrs. Murdock
Equen, president of the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association, pre-
sided, announcing the additional
contribution of $278,444 by the
Special Alumnae campaign group.

Speakers for the Friday luncheon
were Samuel C. Dobbs, who recent-
ly contributed $1,000,000 to the
College of Arts and Sciences at
Emory University, and Preston S.
Arkwright, general campaign chair-
man. The reports made by the
various divisions of the Atlanta
campaign are as follows:

Initial Gifts Committee, Thomas
K. Glenn, Charles Havard Cand-
ler, and Robert W. Woodruff, co-
chairmen, a total of $684,700;
Advance Gifts Committee, George
Winship, chairman, a total of
$75,975.

Educational Division, Dr. Willis
A. Sutton, chairman, a total of
$15,713; Men's Division, Harrison
Jones, chairman, a total of $2 3,-
434; Women's Division, Mrs. J. M.
McEachern, Jr., chairman, a total
of $17,043.

Coming This Week

Wednesday, May 8 College

Broadcast, 4:15 p. m.

Mortar Board Treasure

Hunt, 5 p. m.
Thursday, May 9 Visit of

the General Education

Board.

Sponsor's Meeting, 4:30
p. m.

Friday, May 10 Open For-
um, 4:30-5:30 p. nu, Mur-
phey Candler Building.
Spanish Club Cake Walk,
7 p. m., Gymnasium.

Saturday, May 11 Horse
Show, 2-4 p. m., Georgiana
Stables.

A. A. Open House, 8 p. m.,
Bucher Scott Gymnasium.

Jane Moses
Announces
Recital Program

Singing five groups of songs,
Jane Moses, contralto, will give a
recital Wednesday, May 22, at
8:30 in the Gaines Chapel, assisted
by Jeannette Carroll, soprano.
Jane's program is made up of five
groups of songs, German, Italian,
French, and English numbers.

The first group of selections on
the program includes "He Shall
Feed His Flock," an aria from
Handel's "Messiah," and "My
Heart at Thy Sweet Voice," from
"Samson and Delilah," by Saint
Saens.

In the second group Jane will
offer "O Del Mio Dolce Ardor,"
by Gluck, and "L'Heure Exquise,"
by Reynaldo Hahn.

The third group of numbers is
German, consisting of "Allersee-
len," by Richard Strauss; "Gute
Nacht," by Dvorak, and "Er der
Herrlichte von Allen."

The remainder of the recital will
be in English, the fourth group in-
cluding "Through the Years," by
Vincent Youmans; "Lift Thine
Eyes," by Logan; "Into the Night,"
by Clara Edwards, and "Dawn,"
by Ernest Charles.

Jane will conclude the program
with "Secrecy," by Hugo Wolf;
"Do Not Go, My Love,"" by Rich-
ard Hagcman, and "The Snow
Song," by Roy Newman.

Jeannette will offer selections
after the second and fourth groups.

Mortar Board Honors
Outgoing Members

Newly-elected members of Mor-
tar Board will entertain the out-
going chapter and faculty advisers
with a treasure hunt and supper
this afternoon at 5 p. m. Clues will
lead the seekers from the college to
the destination in a round-about
way through Decatur.

Committees for the entertain-
ment include Ann Henry and
Gene Slack, clues; Elaine Stubbs 1
and Frances Breg, food; Sabine
Brumby, invitations; and Jean Den-
nison, transportation.

Rockefeller, Fosdick
Head Delegation
Of Board Members

Education Board Arrives Tomorrow
To Inspect Campus for
Study of University Center

Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller
Foundation and the General Education Board, will visit here
tomorrow morning- to inspect the campus in connection with
a study of all the schools included in the new University
Center.

Emma McMullen
Talks on Broadcast

This afternoon at 4:15 o'clock
the college broadcast over WSB
will add another program to their
long list when Emma McMullen,
graduate of the class of '39, is in-
terviewed on her position as floor
manager at Rich's department
store.

The purpose of the series being
presented now is to show the prac-
tical value of the liberal arts edu-
cation.

The Amplifier will give news of
interest about other graduates. The
voice of Agnes Scott will be Mamie
Sue Barker. *

Miss Roberta Winter, assistant
professor in the speech depart-
ment, has asked that the student
body be reminded of the time
change from 5 p. m. to 4:15 p. m.

Sophomore Adds Color
To Night Life in Main

A flash of red disappeared around
the corner and the two students
who were braving the creaky floors
and musty rooms of fourth Main
to find peace and quiet suddenly
decided that perhaps the room-
mate's chatter was quite conducive
to concentration, after all. How-
ever, being true Hottentots and
having the proverbial feminine
curiosity, the girls quieted shaking
knees as best they could, and sup-
ported each other down the hall in
the direction the figure had taken.
Mr. Jones soon made his appear-
ance from regions below, and made
an effort to quiet the agitated
sophs by making an unsuccessful
manhunt through dust which had
not been disturbed since Hal-
lowe'en. As he was leaving, a door
on third opened to reveal Ann Gel-
lerstedt clad in red pajamas. The
playful prowler calmly explained
that SHE had been the subject of
the lively discussion! Knowing her
pals were right behind her, she had
climbed out the window, done a
Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame act on
the ledge, ducked in another win-
dow, and so to her room.

Student Government Makes
Boone Representative

Martha Boone will serve as sen-
ior representative to the Adminis-
trative Committee next year, hav-
ing been elected by the executive
committee of student government,
Frances Breg, president, announced
this week. The Administrative
Committee, composed of represen-
tatives from the faculty and stu-
dents, decides upon major changes
affecting the school.

Three other eminent members of
the board will accompany him, and
the entire party is to have lunch-
con at the college with Dr. J. R.
McCain, president. The visitors,
besides Dr. Fosdick, are: Dr. Wal-
ter W. Stewart, chairman of the
Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. A. R.
Mann, vice-president of the board
and director for southern educa-
tion; and Dr. Jackson Davis, asso-
ciate director of the General Edu-
cation Board.

Arrived Today

John D. Rockefeller III paid a
short call here today, during the
few hours that he was in Atlanta
from the time of his arrival last
night with Dr. McCain until his
departure early this afternoon.

Dr. Fosdick, author of five
books, was an overseas civilian aide
to General Pershing in 1919, and
an under-secretary general of the
League of Nations from 1919 to
1920. He is a commander of the
Legion of Honor, and holds a Dis-
tinguished Service Medal. He has
made many studies of police sys-
tems in both Europe and America.

Economic Adviser

Dr. Stewart is a native of Mis-
souri, where he taught economics
for many years. From 1928-30 he
was an economic adviser to the
Bank of England. In 1931 he was
the American member of a special
committee of the Bank of Interna-
tional Settlements, which investi-
gated Germany's ability to pay her
war debts under the Young Plan.

Dr. Mann, vice-president of the
Board since 1937, is a graduate of
Cornell's New York State College
of Agriculture, where he was Dean
for many years. He has won in-
ternational recognition (honors
from Finland, Belgium and Czecho-
slovakia) for his work in agricul-
tural education, and was a member
of the President's Committee on
Farm Tenancv in 1936-37.

Davis, Field Agent

Dr. Davis, prominent Virginia
educator, was a general field agent
of the General Education Board as
early as 1915. He has been secre-
tary of the International Board
since 1923.

Following their tour of the col-
lege, the visitors are to go to Em-
ory University, where they will
make a similar inspection of its
campus, and will be given an in-
formal reception. They will dine
at the home of Mr. Thomas K.
Glenn, Atlanta banker, in the eve-
ning, and leave for Tennessee Fri-
day morning, accompanied by Dr.
McCain.

Yesterday the party was in Ath-
ens, at the University of Georgia,
and the morning of May 8 they
visited Atlanta University and
other Negro institutions of higher
education.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940

Gymkhana, Golf, Tennis
Hold Athletic Spotlight

'New Patterns For Old' Furnishes
Theme for Annual Banquet

By Susan Self

The discontinuation of gym classes has done nothing to
upset athletic activities, and next week will feature the golf
and tennis tournament finals, and the Gymkhana at Geor-
giana Stables Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4.

Class Contestants

If practice makes perfect, the
Gymkhana should be a bit of all
right. A score

or more girls
will ride at
the Georgiana
Stables every
afternoon this
week in prep-
aration for the
show. Class
Captains
Hazel Solo-
mon, Margaret
Murchison, Olivia White, and
Marna McGarraugh today named
class contestants in the various
events. They are:

( 1 ) Beginners' Three Gaited
Class: Imoene King, freshman;
Donata Home, sophomore; Beryl
Healy, junior; Sara Lee, senior.
I (2) Advanced Three Gaited
Class: Marna McGarraugh, fresh-
man; Margaret Smith, sophomore;
Margaret Murchison, junior; Hazel
Solomon, senior.

(3) The Javelin Throw Through
Hoops from Cantering Horses:
Marna McGarraugh, freshman;
Olivia White, sophomore; Mar-
garet Murchison, junior; Hazel
Solomon, senior.

(4) Bareback Class: Marna Mc-
Garraugh, freshman; Donata
Home, sophomore; Pattie Patter-
son, junior; Rebecca Druckcr,
senior.

(5) Paired Class Forming Fig-
ure "8": Imogene King and Mar-
na McGarraugh, freshmen; Olivia
White and Dusty Hance, sopho-
mores; Margaret Murchison and
June Boykin, juniors; Betsy Banks
and Hazel Solomon, seniors.

(6) Saddling and Bridling
Race: Laura Cummings, fresh-
man; Donata Home or Dusty
Hance, sophomore; June Boykin or
Kay Rhod es, junior; Rebecca
Druckcr, senior.

(7) Rumble Seat Relay: Marna
McGarraugh, Laura Cummings,
and Jackie Smith, freshmen; Don-
ata Home, Dusty Hance, and Oli-
via White, sophomores; Nancy
Willstattcr, Pattie Patterson, and
Kay Rhodes, juniors; Betsy Banks,
Rebecca Druckcr, and Hazel Solo-
mon, seniors.

(8) Musical Chairs: Jackie
Smith and Marna McGarraugh,
freshmen; Marion Williams and
Dusty Hance, sophomores; Kay
Rhodes and Helen Jester, juniors;
Hazel Solomon and Mary Reins,
seniors.

Five Teams Remain

With only five doubles teams
left in the running, there is little
doubt that the tennis doubles
championship will be determined
by cup-giving time at the A. A.
banquet on May 15. Title defend-
ers Carson and Taylor had no trou-
ble eliminating Butt and Eakin,
6-2, 6-2, and will meet O'Nan and
Willis in the first bracket semi-
finals. The sophomore team of
Webster and Webster will meet the

winner of the Slack-Forman, Fish-
er-Dyar match in the second
bracket semi-finals match.

Golf Semi-Finals

Out at Forest Hills last Thurs-
day afternoon, Jeanne Davidowitz
outshot Number 1 freshman golf-
er, Charity Crocker, to take the
match, 2 up. She will meet Fran-
ces Spratlin in the semi-finals.
A. A. President Fisher was forced
to go eleven holes before winning
from Vice-President Vaughan, 1
up. Fisher will play Helen Klugh,
who eliminated Carolyn Forman.

A. A. has begun making plans
for the annual banquet to be held
on May 15, according to Chairman
Mary Nell Taylor. New Patterns
for Old is the theme of the banquet
at which the days of bathing dress-
es and basketball bloomers will be
contrasted with today's sports and
modern sports attire. There will be
the usual awarding of plaques and
cups and the installation of the
new A. A. board. Mary Nell has
named the following committee
chairmen: Edith Dale, decorations;
Ernestine Cass, invitations; Mar-
garet Hamilton, place cards; and
Ann Fisher, programs.

C A. Gives Picnic
For Freshman Class

The Christian Association will
give a picnic supper Friday, May
17, for the freshman class at Ice
Cream Springs. The new cabinet
will invite all members of the re-
tiring Christian Association Cabi-
net.

Miss Bella Wilson will speak at
the picnic on "Looking Forward
to Next Year." Entertainment,
planned by Louise Musser, will in-
clude cooking supper and singing.
Grace Walker is in charge of invi-
tations, while Miriam Bedinger
will plan the refreshments.

Councils Conduct Surveys
For Student Participation

Extra-curricular activities are
coming into their own again. At
least two student councils have
undertaken surveys to estimate the
amount of participation their stu-
dent body gives to these projects.
The results show an increase in
participation each year, which is
gratifying in the face of the
amount of work that goes into
making a well-rounded extra-cur-
ricular program. It seems to be
t airly well accepted now that such
a program is an asset to the college
community. Recently, when Presi-
dent Frank B. Snyder of North-
western University suggested that
freshmen be barred from extra-
curricular activities, he was vigor-
ously opposed by the college news-
paper, The Daily Northwestern,
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Ra iney Sees
Labor Problem

In a talk on labor organizations
in chapel last Thursday, May 2,
Mr. Glen Rainey, professor of
English at Georgia Tech, stated
that there should be "a bill of
rights for labor in the industrial
pattern just as there is for the
citizens in this democracy."

Continuing, he said that "the
right to organize is fundamental.
The professional groups have their
organizations, often for reaction-
ary purposes, and yet they are not
questioned. Labor organizations,
on the other hand," he stated,
"are unfairly considered hot beds
of Communism and revolution.
With all their supposed power the
workers are still unfairly treated.
Those who are not organized are
reduced to abject slavery."

Giving a brief summary of the
work of labor organizations, Mr.
Rainey v > explained two types, stat-
ing: "The craft type, such as the
A. F. of L., is a loosely-knit, un-
satisfactory organization of various
craft groups. The industrial or-
ganization, such as the C. I. O.,
comprises one whole industry and
develops the interests of all con-
cerned in the success of that par-
ticular industry."

Mr. Rainey closed, saying, "I am
confident that from the battle
which is raging today between em-
ployer and employees industrial or-
ganization will emerge aaid, even-
tually, industry will become a pat-
tern of mutuality in which both
sides will cooperate."

Blackfriars Elects

Alumnae Entertain
Senior With i eas

The Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation will entertain the senior
class today and tomorrow with two
teas in the Anna Young Alumnae
House. Mrs. Still well Robinson,
chairman of the entertainment,
planned the parties.

Dividing the class into six
groups for alumnae work, the As-
sociation will give a tea for three
groups each afternoon. Mrs. John
J. Eagan, vice-president of the
Alumnae Association; Mrs. Wil-
liam Schley Howard, executive
secretary; and Miss Mamie Lee
Ratliff, assistant secretary, will re-
ceive.

Assisting in serving on Wednes-
day will be Misses Bella Wilson,
Frances McCalla, Mary Hollings-
worth, Mary Ellen Whetsell, and
on Thursday, Misses Lou Pate,
Mary Pennel Simonton, Julia Sew-
ell, and Jeanne Flynt. Mrs. Don-
ald Hastings will arrange flowers
and decorations for the occasion.

HOTEL CANDLER

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Organizations
Name New Heads

B. 0. Z. The newly-elected of-
ficers of B. O. Z. are: president,
Virginia Williams, and secretary-
treasurer, Wallace Lyons.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma has elect
ed its new officers. They are:
president, Nina Broughton; vice-
president, Freda Copeland; record-
ing secretary, Hazel Scruggs; cor-
responding secretary, Aileen Ras-
per, and treasurer, Margaret Fal-
kinburg.

At a meeting Thursday Cotil-
lion Club elected the following
officers: Val Nielsen, president;
Olivia White, vice-president; and
Anne Hilsman, secretary-treasurer.

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Heading Blackfriars dramatic
club for next year are: top row,
Laura Sale, president, and Mary
Lightfoot Elcan, treasurer; and
bottom row, Elizabeth Barrett,
vice-president, and Gay Swaggerty,
secretary.

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entrance requirements are intelli-
gence, character and graduation
from an accredited high school.
After 1940 two years of college
work will be required. The annual
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The past comes to light as

Search Discloses
Old Letters in Inman

An all-day treasure hunt raged in Inman last week when
Betty Brougher, after tearing up her room for a letter that
had just fallen off the back of her desk, called in Jane Mc-
Donough and Mary Craig Roberts to help her in the search.

They were just about to give up . . . ., , ,

tremendous hair ribbons. 1 he laun-
dry slip belonged to Mary Greene's
roommate, Victoria Howie, who
evidently wore quite an assortment
of strange clothes, including corset
covers, drawers, night dresses, vests,
and union suits.

Poor Priestly

Then last of all they found a let-
ter written to Virginia Allen in
1916 by a boy named Priestly at
Chapel Hill. It has quite a modern
ring to it, and except for a few
dated phrases, could easily have been
written yesterday. It seems that
Priestly had heard rumors that Vir-
ginia and another boy named Will
"had a case up" and he was asking
her if it were true and wanted to
know where he stood and if he had
a chance. But in the end neither
Priestly nor Will stood much of a
chance, it seems, for Virginia is
now Mrs. Winfield Potter, lives in
Greenville, and has a very attrac-
tive high school daughter, who we
hope will be a Hottentot in an-
other year or so.

After cleaning out all the cracks
in that room, Jane, Betty, and
Mary Craig went all over Inman
peering down all the cracks in
every room, but strangely enough
there was nothing to be found in
any of the others.

when one of them noticed a crack
between the baseboard and the wall
down near the floor, and sure
enough, there was Betty's letter.
But the surprising thing was that
it seemed to have quite a bit of
company down in its dark crack,
so with the aid of the dresser lamp,
a hammer, a ! knife and a pair of
long pointed scissors they started
digging for their buried treasure.
Where is Willie?

The first thing they found was
a letter written in 1934 to Lise-
lotte Ronnecke, a German ex-
change student, from her parents.
Maria Felber translated it, but it
was terribly long and not a bit un-
usual. The next one, though, was
much better. It was written to
Mary Greene in 1924 by her 15-
year-old brother. It was a typical
letter of a boy that age he calls
it his "semi-annual letter" and tells
about baseball games, fishing, au-
tomobile wrecks, and parties. He
mentions girls very casually, then
ends with, "Oh dear, life is so un-
certain. Yours till the cows give
ice cream, Willie." A search
among the alumnae records the next
day revealed that Mary Greene is
now teaching at East Carolina
Teachers' College in Greenville. I
wonder where Willie, now aged
31, is and what he would think of
that letter if he could see it today?
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After fishing around awhile
longer, they pulled out a laundry
slip and a snapshot of two girls
taken back in the days when they
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compiling this table, which has received wide comment in the student world. Similar surveys are being
made at Bennington College and Stevens College and other colleges are interested in starting them soon.

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Create Fads

A student writer at Louisiana
State University fears co-eds there
are getting into a rut because they
haven't come up with any new
fads that recently blossomed at the
following schools:

At Smith College five girls ap-
peared 4or supper in very short
skirts, all exactly alike but in dif-
ferent colors.

At Vassar recently the girls
went on a hairdressing rampage,
cutting bangs and wearing harle-
quin glasses.

At Wellesley a student borrowed
a milkman's suit and wore it for
study during exam week. Now the
girls can hardly study without
their overalls.

From Smith College also comes
the craze for red flannel shirts and
faded blue jeans. At Bryn Mawr
they cram for exams in dungarees
rolled to the knee and the wildest
plaid shirts they can find.

At Northwestern they have a
special speech school bob really
just another version of the Floren-
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Golf Class Learns To Putt

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Harold Sargent, assistant golf pro at the East Lake Course, shows aspirants the correct stance in a regular golf lesson on the hockey field.
Pictured left to right, the students are: Ethelyn Dyar, Helen Klugh, Mary Bon Utterback, Jeanne Davidowitz, Sara Gray Hollis, Harriet
Ayers, Carolyn Strozier, Mary Madison Wisdom, Susan Guthrie, Suzanne Kaulbach, Ida Jane Vaughan, and Lillian Gudenrath.

Virginia Clower takes notes

For the Record

If you have
just how many

trouble deciding
's to put in em-
barrass, and if you use dryed-up in-
stead of desiccated because it looks
right but is wrong spelled dessi-
cated, and if you never can re-
member whether alright is all right
or not gaze with awe upon Er-
nestine Cass. Ernestine and Penny
Simonton took part in a spelling
bee in which St. Mark's Church in
Atlanta faced the Atlanta Kiwanis
Club over the radio last week. The
two put up a good show for high-
er education, too. Penny finally
went down before "epistolary/'
which absolutely decimated the
ranks of the Kiwanians before
Ernestine managed to get the "o"
in the right place. A lot of peo-
ple missed "silhouette," too, but of
course that was easy for Ernestine,
who had plowed her way through
such tricky ones .as "heiress," "pre-
pense" and "immensity," and was
the last one left standing on her
side.

With Apologies to Dorothy

Dix What Agnes Scott needs is
an advice to lovelorn bureau.
Things have gotten so bad that
people arc even putting notices on
the bulletin boards. For instance
the last item on the regular list of
mislaid articles published by Lost
and Found on the bulletin board in
the lobby of Buttrick last week
was this pathetic note: "Lost: One
heart, slightly damaged." Really,
something should be done about it!

Brititf 'Em Back Alive Pat-
ton Who would ever have
thought ot cherubic Kat Patton on
a man-hunt? That's just what
happened last Thursdav. Kat, aid-
ed and abetted by Evelyn Baty,
absolutely scoured the campus,
acosting passersby and subjecting
them to a regular routine. A typi-
c.il interview ran something like
this: Kat: Don't you have a
bh>ther? Innocent Bystander:
Why, yes. Kat: How big is he?

(Here the party of the second part
either flees or, producing a satis-
factory set of dimensions, is fur-
ther interrogated by Kat, in whose
eyes is a glint of desperation.)
Kat: Well, does he have two pair
of pants just alike? By this time,
things were usually in such a state
of collapse that Evelyn took a
hand and explained that she and
Kat, being Horti and Agri Culture
in Senior Opera, were in dire need
of twin pairs of pants. That they
did succeed in getting said twin
trousers, there is no doubt, since
Kat and Evelyn appeared Saturday
night in identical blue slacks ....
And did you hear that one music
lover, absolutely overcome with
the magnificence of "Gone With
the Draft," rushed back stage in
search of Jane Moses, and spying
someone standing near the wings,
with one of Jane's costumes over
her arm, simply took it for granted
that the lady was Jane's mother.
The enthusiast rushed over and
gushed, "Oh, your daughter has a
glorious voice; she sings beautiful-
ly. Why, she should go into grand
opera ," ct cetera, et cetera, to
the growing bewilderment of Mrs.
Hutchens, who had certainly never
before considered Eleanor as the
logical successor to Bori or Pons.

Shakespeare Vs. Stubbs

This noble publication almost
lost its editor-in-chief Tuesday-
morning when a volume of Shakes-
peare came bounding over the ban-
nister in Rebekah and smote Stubbs
a mighty blow on the head. The
wrathful hurler was Eloise McCall,
who, inspired by weather, no
doubt, had quite literally flung her
cares, along with Master William,
down the stair well.

Parade of Opinion

Increasing attention in Ameri-
can colleges and universities to the
subject of labor is reflected in the
college press. Virtually the full
spectrum of opinion is seen in col-
lege surveys on labor unionism, the
National Labor Relations Board,
and the American Federation of
Labor versus the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations. The sur-
veys while evidencing sympathy
with the general aims of labor as a
group, nevertheless sounds a
gloomy note over solution of AFL-
CIO difficulties and over strength-
ening the position of the NLRB.

Tulane Comments

A typical comment is voiced by
Tulane University's Hullabaloo,
which observes, "We have never
had much patience with the con-
tinual bickering, of the AFL and
the CIO, since they never seem to
make any attempt to meet on some
common ground and smooth out
some of the rough spots, but are
instead always looking for the op-
portunity and the place to take an-
other jab at each other."

Illinois Regrets Battle

"No matter how many 'gestures'
labor leaders or governmental
agents may make," opines the Uni-
versity of Illinois Daily Illini, the
boys in the CIO and AFL won't be
out of labor's trenches in the near
future. "And when they do come
out," this publication continues,
"perhaps it will be too late to bene-
fit organized labor. For organized
labor then may have crumbled into
a sad state of insignificance by the
continued stubborness, fear and
desire for power that move Mr.
Lewis and Mr. Green to bash their
heads against a stone wall of non-

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As " to the possible fate of the
New Deal's National Labor Rela-
tions Board, the Capital Chimes at
Capital University, Columbus,
Ohio, notes that "business can tol-
erate the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Federal Trade
Commission, but the NLRB is too,
too dastardly. The best known
charge that the anti-labor brigade
hurls is that the board is prosecu-
tor, judge, jury and janitor. It
hales you into court, prosecutes
you, passes sentence, and then
sweeps up the pieces. Labor grum-
bles about employes' rights and col-
lective bargaining." In the long
run, however, "Most of the
NLRB's trouble comes from the
men on the board rather than the
act itself," the Chimes believes.
Colleges Take Sides

Thus, while the NLRB, CIO,
AFL, and labor unionism generally
find ardent champions and bitter
critics in the nation's colleges, de-
pending on the particular institu-
tion polled, it seems these diver-
gent opinions tend to come togeth-
er in the non-optimistic belief that
the arrival of labor's millenium
does not have a square on any wall
calendars currently in use. (ACP)

Representative
Meets Mishaps

By Gloria Bramlette

For the past few weeks Bee Mil-
ler has been traveling for the col-
lege, "marching through Georgia,"
organizing the alumnae in the
towns near Atlanta into a working
unit for the campaign and going
into the southwest part of the state
to solicit aid from the old "grads."
"It was a lot of fun seeing old
friends," she said, "and husbands
and babies." She also met some
former students who had not been
on the campus since the time when
Main and White House were the
jonly buildings then in existence,
and they couldn't imagine all the
changes she told them about. Her
difficulties while locating some of
ihese people created some strange
situations.

At one place she called one of
the persons whose name was on
her list and asked if she could see
the woman the next day. She was
most cordially welcomed and urged
to come out.- At the appointed
time Bee arrived, only to find she
had the wrong woman! Imagine
her chagrin in having to tell the
woman, who had gotten all dressed
up for the occasion, that there was
a mistake! Picture her consterna-
tion at being told that the right
Mrs. B lived over on the op-
posite side of town.

Then there was the time when
the "traveling representative" tried
to get a sandwich in one of the
smaller places on her route. Her
first stop was at the drug store
no luck there! She was directed to
the cafe around the corner. On ar-
riving there, she found it had gone
out of business. Her next place
was a hotel or the nearest thing to
a hotel that the town boasted. Find-
ing the office empty and seeing no
sign of a coffee shop, she was
about to despair, when, at the very
back of the building, she found a
deserted room that bore a faint re-
semblance to a dining room. The
hostess, however, said she didn't
have anything to eat, because she
had just fed all she had to travel-
ing men. After a little argument,
though, she agreed to fix a sand-
wich, and asked: "What kind?"
When Bee counter-questioned with
"What kind have you?" she was
told that she could get a pineapple
sandwich and pineapple she got
with buttermilk, after that long
search.

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on Graduation
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940

5

Molly Oliver checks up on

After Working Hours

May Day, now a pleasant memory, marked the end of a
memorable week which included the playing of the Philadel-
phia orchestra, the clever lining of the senior opera, the sing-
ing of Marian Anderson, and a horde of visitors, alumnae,
and parents. The cool, bright

weather continued to lure half the
population off the campus to other
spots. C'etait une tres bonne af-
faire, mais oui . . .

Little Commencement drew
Rowena Barringer, Keeker New-
ton, Lib Barrett, Allie Malone,
Frankie Butt, and Joy Geist.

The Military Ball Friday night
attracted Marjorie Simpson, Louise
Meiere, Nina Broughton, Louise
Musser, Hazel Solomon, Eloise Mc-
Call, Anne Martin, Margaret Hart-
sook, Marjorie Wilson, Hazel
Scruggs, Virginia Corr, Claire
Purcell, Matilda Cartledge, Caro-
lyn Dunn, Judy Greenberg, Mary
Louise Palmour, Mary James Seagle,
Anne Frierson, Louise Runge, Mar-
garet Downie, Betty Wade, Lucy
Bryan, Margaret Shaw, Ann Hils-
man, Martha Dunn, Virginia Clow-
er, Betty Ann Brooks, Ruth Slack,
Ernestine Cass, Frances Ellis, and
Aileen Kasper.

Pi KA's Friday evening were
hosts to Iddy Boone and Harriet
Vaughn.

Eloise McCall was at the Pi
KA's dance Saturday night over
at Tech, while Jane Stillwell en-
joyed herself at the Phi Delta
Theta Sunday night supper.

Annie Wilds and the SAE's
had fun at a skating party and
barbecue.

Date night with the SAE's also
drew Betty Waitt, while their hay
ride dates included Nina Mae
Sneed, Mary Klingensmith, and
Ducky Copeland.

Tony Newland was over at the
Sunday night Sigma Chi buffet
supper.

The Tech Foil and Mask Formal
Saturday night drew Thcodosia
Ripley, Ernestine Cass, and Vir-
ginia Clower.

Off for the week-end were:
Katsy Blair at Duke and Randolph
Macon; Betty Ann Stewart, Har-

riet Ayres, and Louise Newton vis-
iting Lillian Gudenrath; and Irene
Gordon in Columbia, South Caro-
lina.

Among visitors on campus were
Mary Crawford visiting Beth Ir-
by, Miriam Jones being entertained
by Mary Ivy, and Helen McCamy,
oi Dalton, here with Carolyn Al-
ley.

Campus Queen Scene: Lucile

Gaines drew attention by wearing
a rose summer linen, inserted with
white, that was both crisp and
becoming.

Rotary Club Entertains
With Luncheon

The Atlanta Rotary Club enter-
tained the college's daughters of
Rotarians with a luncheon at the
Ansley Hotel Monday, May 6, at
12:30 p. m., with Frances Spratlin
in charge of the program.

Elizabeth Barrett, junior, spoke
on the work Atlanta is doing for
the University Center Campaign,
while Elta Robinson, also a junior,
discussed "A Rotarian Daughter's
Appreciation of Rotary."

Other speakers on the program
included Florrie Guy, Marcia Mans-
field, Grace Anderson, and Mar-
garet Hamilton.

The special chorus opened their
program with a Stephen Foster
medley, following it was an en-
core, "Supposing." The remainder
of their songs included "Only a
Rose," "Sylvia," and "The Year's
at the Spring." Encores for this
group were "Chit Chat" and
"Carissima,"

Jane Moses, the only daughter of
a Rotarian in the chorus, offered
a solo, "Through the Years," fol-
lowing it with "Philosophy."

HOW TO WIN BOY-FRIENDS
AND INFLOENCE STAG-LINES

By Dalea Dorothy Clix

Dear Miss Clix: I just received the intercollegiate grand prize
for sculpture for my allegorical figure called "Womanhood",
and the newspapers say I am the most "promising" sculptress
of any college woman today. I love my work, of course, and
spend a great deal of time with my hands dipped in modeling
clay, but oh, Miss Clix, the men just pass me by for the other
girls in school here. Yet people say I am attractive. What can
I do to make nice men notice me? WONDERING
Dear Wondering: I have a

hunch you spend so much
effort on sculpture that
you spend practically none
at all "sculpturing" your
own physical charm. How
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News Staff
Holds Banquet

The recently elected staff of the
Agnes Scott News has set Monday,
May 13, at 6:00, as the date for
the entertainment in honor of last
year's staff. The banquet this year
will be at the Tavern Tea Room in
Atlanta.

Committee heads in charge of
planning the affair include Vir-
ginia Williams, chairman of Enter-
tainment Committee; Jeanne Os-
borne, chairman of Invitations
Committee; Ruth Lineback, chair-
man of Place Cards and Decora-
tions Committee; and Frances
Kaiser, chairman of Transporta-
tion Committee.

Outgoing staff members include
Eleanor Hutchens, editor; Evelyn
Baty, managing editor; and Mary
Louise Dobbs, business manager.

Hooten Criticizes
Study Habits

"Half the persons put through
the courses in United States schools
cannot absorb instructions. An-
other ten per cent doesn't know
what to do with the information
when it is absorbed." Dr. E. A.
Hooton, Harvard anthropologist,
expresses concern over what he
terms senseless multiplication of
humanity without economic or
social use or reason.

"The .purpose of a college edu-
cation is self-development more
than an imposed development; the
strengthening of character and the
unfolding of the whole personality
are more vital than even the train-
ing of the mind. However, youth-
ful misconceptions of the new free-
dom are undermining many strong
nervous systems. In liberating the
body from many harmful conven-
tions, the new freedom has not
liberated the body from the time-
less sovereignty of the moral law,
which the freedom of a university
cannot suspend." Dr. Frank P.
Graham, president of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, sounds a
note of caution on the subject of
college freedom. (ACP)

Visiting Alumnae Recall
Pageants, Operas in Past

By Virginia Williams

Former Agnes Scott girls returning to attend Senior Opera
and May Day filled the Alumnae House to capacity, while
many of them were guests of friends on the campus or in
town. Those in the Alumnae House included Janet McDon-
ald, Myrtle Blackmon, Marion

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Dr. McDonald, Ph.D., from the
University of Chicago and profes-
sor of history at Wesleyan College,
admitted that she couldn't remem-
ber a thing about the May Day of
her senior year, but she did remem-
ber fenior opera. "It was an Ital-
ian thing. The hero was supposed
to commit suicide in a tower win-
dow. As he stabbed himself the
drops of blood (pieces of red paper
strung together) were supposed to
flow down." The sad story is that
the hero forgot to give the blood
the essential push, so it remained
suspended in the air until the cur-
tain fell.

History Professor

Dr. McDonald's reaction to
changes that have taken place on
the campus was a positive one. She
came back this week-end "for
fun," and doesn't believe that she
"could be very upset" by any
changes, unless, of course, the
"black cat" should cease to be.
Recognizing definite developments,
she noticed that the once "Silhou-
ette tea room no longer has silhou-
ettes on the wall, the social regula-
tions are more liberal, and Main has
been turned into parlors." All of
these steps forward please her be-
cause she likes progress.

Miss Myrtle Blackmon, librarian
of the high school in Columbus,
Georgia, remembers two facts
about the May Day of her senior
year, that the performance took
place in front of Main building,
and that she was a Greek youth
who threw the discus.

As for Senior Opera, she couldn't
decide whether it was Samson and
the Liar or The Frying Dutch m an.
She was quite certain, however,
about a campaign for a greater
Agnes Scott. "I don't know how
much money we were trying to
raise but we raised it and got a
holiday." (History precedes it-
self.)

Former Home Ec Building

When Miss Blackmon was here
there was a home economics build-
ing and a gym where Buttrick is
now. The pool in the gym was
"hardly more than a bath tub."
The hockey field was where the
gym is now and Dr. Gaines lived

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Instead of sponsors for the
freshmen, all the juniors and
seniors had freshmen "grandchil-
dren" and every year there was a
party for the grandmothers and
little girls. The one thing about
which Miss Blackmon^ feels cheat-
ed is the junior banquet. There
was no such entertainment.

There were numerous other
changes she had observed, but she
interrupted herself to assert that
"Mary Cox and Ella Carey are ab-
solutely the same. And," she said
beaming, "Ella recognized me."

Marie Merritt and Dot Jester
are a little new yet for any reminis-
cing. Dot is secretary in an insur-
ance office in Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, and Marie is doing social
work in Mississippi.

Miss Kingdon was unavailable
for comment, as she was indulging
in the un-Agnes Scott luxury of
having breakfast in bed at eight-
thirty!

College Girls Prefer
'Hero Dead'

Due to some diligent investiga-
tions by Williams College students
a few salient facts have been dis-
covered concerning the attitude of
Smith and Vassar girls. The Smith
lasses were recently queried on the
question, "If it were a matter of
choice, would you rather have
your husband imprisoned for con-
scientious objection or killed in
Europe?" and returned a verdict in
favor of the latter alternative.

Evidently possessing much of
the Madams Defarge in their cold-
blooded little hearts, the young
ladies felt that a "hero dead" would
be preferable to a "coward alive."
Of course, the traditional Smith
feeling that "you can always get
another" may have in part prompt-
ed this display of pseudo self-sac-
rifice on the altar of their coun-
try, but we are more inclined to
credit it to their self-styled "dash-
ing love of adventure."

Vassar, on the other hand, offers
an understanding heart to the
youth who refuses to fight in a
senseless combat. The lad who ex-
pects to be a conscientious objector
in the event that the United States
is drawn into foreign entangle-
ments had best begin some week-
end prospecting tours to Pough-
keepsie, for the adopted daughters
o*f Matthew Vassar, would prefer a
husband in irons to a husband en-
tombed, any husband being better
than no husband.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940

We Recognize
The President

Agnes Scott and Atlanta news this year
has been full of accounts of Dr. McCain's
achievements both in regard to the cam-
paign and to his recent election to the
General Education Board, besides lesser
work which he has undertaken. One honor
after another has been bestowed upon
him, and it is fitting that we recognize
how significant are these honors in re-
spect to the reputation of the college.

Glancing through the News issues of
the past year, we find various items con-
cerning Dr. McCain's activities. Among
the most outstanding of these notices we
first see an account of his presiding over
the Southern University Conference, rep-
resented by forty-one colleges, on October
31; November 1, a headline announces,
"Dr. McCain Tours Colleges/' stating fur-
ther that he had spoken at Erskine Col-
lege, Vanderbilt University, and the Chat-
tanooga Rotary Club; the February 7 is-
sue tells that he was elected president of
the Association of Georgia Colleges; Feb-
ruary 14 he opened a series of radio pro-
grams on the future development of the
college; and, finally, the April 24 edition
announces that "Agnes Scott's president
takes his place among a distinguished
group of educational leaders," when it
tells of his election to the General Educa-
tion Board.

With his activity at the formal opening
of the campaign last week and his recep-
tion of distinguished members of the Gen-
eral Education Board on the campus to-
morrow, Dr. McCain is helping greatly to
bring together the forces which will make
the University Center plan materialize.
And the project will undoubtedly bring
countless benefits to the college and to the
South.

The success which he has attained in
various fields reflects honor not only upon
him but -also upon us. We appreciate this
fact, and feel that others have only recog-
nized what the college and students have
long realized his exceptional ability and
intellectuality.

Matilda Cartledge gathers

Campus Quotes

Now that the new Student Government has
taken over the reins, the question of "Open
Forum" has come up. Here's the general campus
attitude toward the subject:

Mary Scott Wilds, '41 :

"I think we should have
more 'Open Forums.' And
the subjects should be defi-
nite something that will
call for active discussion
rather than just f yes' or
'no.' "

Billie Davis, '42: "The

'Open Forum' is the most
democratic means on the
campus for giving people a
chance to express their opinions. Too many -peo-
ple don't take advantage of this opportunity, and
I think that if the topics could be announced
ahead of time there would be a more general dis-
cussion; we would have had time to think seri-
ously about the subject."

Penn Hammond, '40: " Open Forum' is one
of the best things on the campus, and it should
be held more frequently. There is nothing like
it to stimulate interest in campus activities; and
I think the discussion should be limited to cam-
pus problems."

Suzanne Kaulbach, '42: "The student body
should feel more responsibility for their part in
the 'Open Forums.' They are one of the best
ways we have of giving everyone a chance to
learn what's going on here on the campus. I
think they should be held more often and should
be carefully planned to bring out general discus-
sion."

Imogene King:, '43: "I think that the Open
Forum' should be restricted to the discussion of
campus problems, or at least questions in which
we can take active steps in solving. International
problems, though interesting, have usually too
great a scope for us to do much about."

Betty Prosnit, '43: "I believe that we would
have more general discussion if we knew ahead of
time what we were to discuss. Maybe a short

Cartledge

Betty Stevenson boils down

The Real News

Life and Death of a Norse Town

Namsos was once a village with a medieval
flavor. Last week it was smashed to the ground
in continuous bombing. A great hole yawned at
what had once been the quay where green British
BBfijBHH Blf troo P s had disembarked. Some
of these soldiers were killed
the instant of landing. Some,
going without food for two
days at a time, without artil-
lery and tanks, took part in
a suicidal advance south to-
ward Trondheim. The rest
left Namsos precipitately as
the British withdrew from
all of southern and central
Norway.

The British had no adequate flying bases, and
the German planes were so effectively armored
that anti-aircraft fire was of little use.

The retreat on the Scandinavian front with
Narvik the only battle point left, has apparently
proved the supreme importance of air superiority.

Diplomatic Pressure

Mussolini was glad to assure the American am-
bassador, William Phillips, of Italy's peaceful in-
tentions for the next ten days. The next day,
Count Ciano disclaimed an aggressive purpose in
Yugoslavia: two days later Belgrade was thrown
into a panic over a rumor of civilian evacuation.

President Roosevelt, in Washington, following
a systematic attempt to restrain Italy in an aus-
picious moment, saw the Italian ambassador at
the White House: the State Department seemed
doing its best to assist England in removing temp-
tation from Mussolini's path.

Day of Reckoning

The lid is on till Tuesday, May 7, in England.
That day may see Chamberlain go. What he told
the Commons last week was hard to take: all
of southern and central Norway abandoned, six-
sevenths of the Norse population and all of the
industrial centers under Germany, and naval
losses amounting to (at least) four destroyers,
three submarines, one storeship, one sloop, five
trawlers, and five*other war ships damaged.

No amount of glossing over can disguise a ma-
jor defeat. Opposition in parliament is being held
in leash. No good news before the debate may
mean bad news for Chamberlain, Hoare, et al.

Sore Spot

The Slovakians, under German tutelage, have
developed a vocal indignation over their com-
patriots under Hungary. Slovakian (German)
planes showered that region with pamphlets. At
the same time Russian troops gathered near by in
Ruthenia. It looks as if Hungary might be Num-
ber 1 on Hitler's Balkan list.

A Dare

Tom Sawyer drew a line in the dirt with a
bare toe and dared the "new boy" to step across.

England has given the dare to Italy in the
Mediterranean. After vague threats from Musso-
lini, England aggressively took the Duce at more
than his word. All British mercantile ships were
ordered out of the Mediterranean region, and a
French-British battle fleet steamed toward Alex-
andria. Egypt ostentatiously began defense exer-
cises.

Italy must back down or step lucklessly across
the fatal line.

Home Thoughts

The House of Representatives gave a less than
endearing exhibition last week. For seven days it
argued amendments to the wage-hour bill. Mem-
bers yelled through amendments, others voted so
often that they lost track, while noise, smoke,
and confusion covered up any real issue. The au-
thor of a bill disowned his own brain child in
despair after several factions loaded it with their
own ideas. Norton and Bardcn each sponsored
new exemptions to the bill. One would have re-
moved the protection of the thirty cent per hour
day from all fruit packers and cannery workers.

After seven days and $5 00,000 spent, the
House voted to drop the whole matter.

Campus Camera

discussion of the problem in chapel the week be-
fore 'Open Forum' would arouse interest. More
people would come, and more would be able to
know and have ideas about the subject to be de-
bated/'

Julia Lancaster, '41: "I think Open
Forum* is fine and that we should have more of
them. It seems to me that it would be a good
idea to discuss problems of national and interna-
tional importance as well as campus problems.
They would be stimulating and give the whole
college community a better chance to keep in
touch with the outside world."

KAFFE KALAS

IS ENJOYED EVERY AFTERNOON
EY THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY
OF AUGUSTANA COLLEGE THOSE
FUNNY WORDS MEAN ROLLS N RUSKS ^
AND COFFEE ON THE TABLE.
THE SPREAD IS OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS,
AND TV.E TOTAL CDST IS WHAT YOU PUT
YOUR HAND ON FIRST WHEN YOU REACH
IN YOUR. POCKET/

Burruss sifts the

Exch

Burruss

xchanges

The Furman Hornet In re-
cording the popularity of the mar-
riage courses reports: "The in-
creasing menace of divorce to the
stability of the
American
home has
caused social
minded educa-
tors much
worry for
some time. To
cope with this
menace, many
schools, feeling
that divorce
in some cases is due to ignorance of
true marriage relationship, have
begun to give courses in marriage.
The University of North Carolina
was the first to begin this practice
fifteen years a%o."

Furman University is one of the
sixty southern colleges offering
such courses.

Taking a lighter view of mar-
riage, the Florida Flambeau con-
ducted a search for F. S. C. W.
girls' views of ideal husbands. Their
requirements demand the person-
ality and the looks of Prince
Charming. One girl is looking for
"a personality that is a combina-
tion of Einstein and Joe Pcnner
. . . the voice of Orson Welles."

The Salemite reports the first
annual intercollegiate bridge cham-
pionship tournament at the Ritz-
Carlton Hotel in New York: "The
championship is not only the first
bridge event ever held among a
number of colleges, but it also will
be the first tournament of any kind
in which women's and men's col-
leges will compete on an equal
basis."

Sabine Brumby
Reviews
Frost's Poems

Collected Poems of Robert Frost,
New York, Henry Holt and
.Co., 1930.

Roam through the pages of Rob-
ert Frost's Collected Poems. Read
"The Death of the Hired Man"
and when its somber pathos has
sunk deep, turn to "To the Thaw-
ing Wind" and feel how swiftly
the poet's own exultation drives
your sober mood away. The greater
the poet, the greater his ability to
snap us from one mood to another,
snap up quickly and completely,
leaving no blurred feelings, or half-
finished images. There are poems
here for every mood: amusing
verses like "Revelation" and "In
Neglect." "The Fear" holds us in
a chilled suspense, then lets us go
suddenly. "The Road Not Taken"
sets our minds wandering along
new paths which we wish we had
tramped before. In the simple
words and music of Robert Frost's
poetry we get feeling, strongly
compressed.

Critics call Mr. Frost the poet
who has laid by for us the spirit
and spice of New England in a
way that no other poet has. "Mend-
ing Wall," "The Star-Spitter," and
"Paul's Wife" we read to get a
morsel of New England's wit and
character, "Birches," and "Stop-
ping By Woods On a Snowy Eve-
ning" for fragrance. Collected
Poems is a book for modern read-
ers, captivating, spirited not sen-
timental, nor ever-dramatic, nor
too lofty!

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXV

Wednesday, May 8, 1940

No. 20

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. S^ttered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office. Subscription prite per
year, $1.2 5; single copies, five cents.

Elaine Stubbs Editor

Virginia Clower Managing Editor

Florence Ellis Business Manager

COMMENCEMENT EXTRA

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1940

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No. 21

Dr. McCain
Gives Honors,
Scholarships

Graduating Members,
Underclassmen Gain
Recognition from College

The Hopkins Jewel Given by
the College in honor of Miss Nan-
nette Hopkins, former Dean of the
College. It is awarded by a com-
mittee of the faculty to the mem-
ber of the senior class who most
nearly measures up to the ideals of
Miss Hopkins, as the committee
can interpret them, including con-
spicuous loyalty to the College,
ideals of service, ability to coop-
erate, physical fitness, poise, and
graciousness. Awarded this year^to
Ruth Slack.

The Collegiate Scholars/jip
Awarded by the faculty to the stu-
dent in the junior, sophomore, or
freshman class who makes the best
all-round record for the year. It
covers tuition $285 for the next
session. Given this year to Billie
Gammon Davis. Honorable men-
tion Susan Dyer.

Quenelle Harrold Fellowship
Established by Mrs. Thomas Har-
rold in honor of her daughter,
Quenelle, of the Class of 1923.
The income on $10,000 awarded
by the faculty to an alumna or
member of the senior class for grad-
uate work in some institution of
high rank. Given this year to
Ruth Eyles of the Class of 1940.
Eva Ann Pirkle, of the same
class, has been designated as alter-
nate.

Rich Prize The sum of $50
given annually by Rich's of Atlan-
ta to the member of the freshman
class making the best record- for
the session. Given to Charity
Crocker.

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Class 'Poem

Once in a banquet hall where fire-
light shone

Upon bold faces and old suits of
mail,

A minstrel sang of men who fought
alone;

Of valiant deeds and warriors was
his tale.

As generations passed, the story
grew,

New heroes brought new ventures

brave and great,
New singers lifted lutes and sang

anew %>
Of noble men, and truth, and God,

and fate.

So Euclid in his day saw beauty
clear,

And Newton changed the mighty

world of thought;
So Shakespeare told man's story

through King Lear,
In terms of what the ages then had

brought.

So we some day will come to tell

the story
And add new thoughts, new deeds,

new tales of glorv.

MARY MATTHEWS

Miss Carlson Receives
Foundation Fellowship

Miss Helen M. Carlson, acting
assistant professor of French, will
leave next year for Columbia Uni-
versity, New York City, where
she has accepted a fellowship of-
fered her by the Rockefeller
Foundation to complete work for
her Doctor's degree.

Miss Martha Crowe, Agnes Scott
graduate and former instructor in
French, will return to the French
department following an absence
of four years.

Dr. Boggs
Delivers Sermon

Father of Senior Speaks
On Abundant Life

With the subject, "The Thrill-
ing Life," and the text from John
10:10, "He came that they might
have life, and that they might have
it more abundantly," Dr. Wade H.
Boggs, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of Shreveport, Louis-
iana, delivered the Baccalaureate
Sermon Sunday at 11 A. M. in the
Bucher Scott Symnasium.

Dr. Boggs introduced his sub-
ject by pointing out, "To be thrill-
ing, life must be positive in char-
acter," and study of the life of
Christ is so thrilling that it lures
the mind and adds immeasurable
thrills to one's life.

"Christ came to make human life
perfect and to expand it indefi-
nitely," he said.

To prove this point, Dr. Boggs
asked his audience to consider the
differences in this world and its
principles, and the Lord's world
and its principles. He illustrated,
"The Lord says, T give.' The world
says, 'Give me.' The Lord says, 'It
is better to give than to receive.'
The world says, 'It is better to re-
ceive than to give.' "

Right and Life

The speaker went on to discuss
the different ways of looking at
r'^nt and life. To him, those peo-
ple who think life is narrow have
only seen the negative part of the
Bible. In his words, "They have
gotten to the point where it says,
'Do not' and stopped." One must
know the positive side to live
abundantly.

"It is necessary," he said, "to
keep in mind that Jesus was a joy
bringer and not a joy taker. He
tears down hedges in our lives, does
not build them up. He enriches
life, does not impair it."

Continuing his sermon, Dr.
Boggs remarked that the person
who commits sin is taking from
the highest point of life rather than
adding to it. He added, "Only
when one lives in the spiritual
realm with Christ is life full and
thrilling. Apart from Him a thrill-
ing life is impossible. It follows
that only a Christ-centered life can
interpret Christ's world to this
world."

Consideration of Life

Dr. Boggs explained that in
Christ we see God as He is, in un-
derstandable form to us. In Him
we see man as God meant man
to be.

Talking directly to the seniors
about their current consideration
of life's problems, the speaker said,
"One often makes his horizons so
narrow he cannot appreciate life's
fullest values."

He pointed out that the person
who considers his life as that of an
actor on the stage consisting of
Life, Love, Struggle, and Death
is bound by limits entirely too nar-
row.

"Such a person," he said, "makes
God marginal in his life, and if we
make God marginal, we cannot be-
come co-workers of God." And,
according to Dr. Boggs' interpre-
tation, God wishes to make us co-
workers in an immortal plan to be
achieved infinitely. If this plan is
to be carried out, he proceeded,
"we must allow Him to break the
shackles from our souls."

"One cannot live creatively," he
declared, "if he is dominated by
the shackles of custom. It is a sin
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Speaker

HARMON CALDWELL

Anne Enloe records

Class H i story

At the front of old Main Building

One September afternoon,

Stood a group of green, green Freshmen

Dumped from out a yellow cab ;

Pounced upon by Student Government,

Pounced upon by Mr. Tart,

Filled with slush about an angel,

Called, on earth, "your new roommate,"

Dressed in that fall's smartest tweed suits,

Led by Seniors cool in linen.

Staggered up to third floor 'Inman

Bidding childhood fond farewells.

Comes the dawn just three weeks later,

'Twas a different tale that day.

Those poor greenhorns were a class now,

Most had even found a friend.

Came then the time the black cat reigned ;

Came the Freshmen's first defeat,

Though they thought their stunt a marvel,

Judges thought it just a mess.

But, at that, it served its purpose,

Made them feel their sisterhood

Under Margie Boggs, the chairman,

Each committee really worked.

Came the day for class elections

We decided on Ruth Slack.

Just about that time we started

Counting every day and hour

Till the time for us to go home,

Home for Christmas holidays !

But before that happy hour

Freshmen had their first exams.

During that first dread exam week

Green ones once more met defeat.

"Nine more days until vacation

Then we'll go to the station,

Back to civilization,"

Sang the happy Freshmen now.

Back again just two weeks later

Wishing it had been two years.

Came again the old homesickness,

Came again those Freshman themes.

Six more months until vacation,

How're we going to stand the strain?

Sooner than we thought could ever

Passed that winter quarter by.

Soon came all the joys of June week

Freshmen had to take the back seats.

Sophomores gathered all the daisies,

Sophomores went to all the luncheons

Next year we would be the Sophomores

Freshmen now, but never more!

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Margaret Hopkins
Wins Dramatic Cup

Margaret Hopkins, senior, re-
ceived the Claude S. Bennett
Trophy, a dramatic cup awarded
for outstanding acting during the
year, at Blackfriars' second produc-
tion of Noel Coward's Til Leave
It To You," presented in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium Saturday
night. The cup is awarded each
year to the student doing the best
individual acting, the choice being
based on excellence of interpreta-
tion, voice, poise, and stage pres-
ence.

Margaret took part in both of
the Blackfriars' plays this year. In
"Seven Sisters" she played the part
of Katinka, a practical young ma-
tron. In "I'll Leave It To You,"
she enacted the role of Sylvia, a
brilliant young actress.

The judges, selected by Miss
Frances K. Gooch, professor of
speech, included three Blackfriars'
alumnae from Atlanta. They were
Mrs. Herbert S. Alden, Mrs. W. \V.
Davison, and Mrs. J. C. Massee.

College President
Addresses Graduates

Harmon Caldwell Speaks on
Values of Ideals, Science

I count is an honor and a privilege to be the guest of Agnes
Scott College on this occasion. The worthy aims and the high
standards of this college have given it a place of distinction
among the educational institutions of America. The work of
Agnes Scott College during the past fifty years has benefited
thousands of homes and hundreds of churches and schools.
To President McCain and his colleagues and also to their
predecessors, Georgia and the nation owe a debt of gratitude.

The results of their efforts will

Dr. Davidson
Discusses
Center Plans

The University Center Project
furnished the theme for the ad-
dress delivered by Dr. Philip G.
Davidson, professor of history and
executive secretary of the Center's
faculty council, at the Trustees'
Luncheon in Rebekah Scott dining
room Saturday.

After explaining the purpose of
the University Center Project, "to
help private and public institutions
pool resources in order to do a bet-
ter job," Dr. Davidson continued:
"Take the Center collectively as
one institution. It has over 200
buildings, 12,000 students, an an-
nual graduating class of 1,700,
3 5,000 graduates, total resources
of $25,000,000, and a faculty of
1,000 members. That's a big
place."

He stressed the need for a grad-
uate school, saying that the faculty
council must plan it. "And if we
get it, it will be as good as the
best," he claimed.

Considering the needs at hand,
Dr. Davidson questioned: "What
resources, human and physical,
have we? Where is help needed?
In the library? In science? How
can we work cooperatively to fill
the needs?"

"There will not be curtailment
in the work of the individual in-
stitutions, but enrichment. There
will be no moving. I sincerely
hope the University of Georgia
will stay where it is. I hope also
that we stay where we are," he
continued.

Dr. Davidson explained further
how a Ph.D. can be taken from
Emory and Georgia, with the stu-
dent getting the best members of
each department in his course by
going first to one university, then
to the other.

Concluding, the executive mem-
ber of the faculty stated that there
has been progress toward the goal
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IN THE NEWS

Awards _ 1

Baccalaureate 1

Calendar of Events 6

Graduation Speech 1

History 1

Poem 1

Prophecy - _ 3

Will 2

long be felt.

1 wish to take this opportunity
to congratulate Agnes Scott on the
successful completion of a drive for
funds with which to enlarge its fa-
cilities and to increase its endow-
ment. A long step has been taken
toward building in this state a great
university center whose influences
will stimulate and enrich the lives
of our people. All are helped by
the work of institutions which have
as their aim the raising of the in-
tellectual, cultural, and economic
levels of the people of a region; all
should be glad, therefore, to see
such institutions become strong
and more useful. The University
of Georgia is happy to have the
privilege of working with Agnes
Scott and the other institutions of
the University Center. This co-
operative effort means that all of
us can strive more effectively for
the achievement of our several pur-
poses and that all of us will move
more rapidly toward our common
goal.

Reality of Ideals

We are assembled here today to
celebrate the completion by these
young women of their prescribed
courses of study. Let us offer them
our sincere congratulations on their
educational accomplishments; they
have reason to be proud of this
academic recognition from Agnes
Scott. Let us also offer them our
best wishes as they go forth into
life to make realities of those ideals
which have been held before them
by this College and which they
have adopted as their own. This
suggests the subject about which
Ishould like to speak to you briefly
today the ideals on which you and
I, as citizens of one of the few
surviving democratic states, should
fix our thoughts in these perilous
and uncertain days, in these times
that try the souls of men.

Role of Ideals

Did you ever take time to think
carefully about the importance of
ideals? They are the intangible
forces which make men and thing,
which build civilizations and de-
stroy them. In the life of a man
an ideal plays the part which in
plant life is played by that mys-
terious force which shapes the tree
and fashions the delicate and sym-
metircal design of the flower. A
man's work is the expression of his
thought and ideals. The statue of
the Olympian Jupiter by Phidias
was one of the greatest achieve-
ments of Grecian art. That statue
existed in the mind of Phidias be-
fore it existed in marble. It was
the tangible expression of Phidias'
thought. The opera Lohengrin ex-
isted as a conception of the mind
of Richard Wagner before its har-
monies and melodies moved the
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1940

Seniors Draw Up Last
Will and Testament

Graduates Bequeathe Talents,
Material Possessions to Underclassmen

"The day is cold and dark and
dreary;

k rains and the wind is never
weary.

The vine still clings to the mould'-

ring wall,
But with each fresh gust the dead

leaves fall.
The day is dark and dreary/'

(Longfellow I think).
It is midnight in the city,
Not a streetcar is in sight.
Down the street there comes a hag,
Old, dull, alone within the night.
On her face is seen a smile,
Upon her left hand is a ring,
On her gray locks is a Mortar

Board.

She is gay, begins to sing.
As she goes around the corner
From her pocket all some sheets.
Those who pass by stop to read
them

And their eye the following meets:
We ,the Senior Class of 1940, of
Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Georgia, a college for women wide-
ly known and recommended for
further information call oh, well,
anyhow, this class, being of sound
mind and even sounder body (see
athletic cup), feeling that it is
now or never, and not wishing to
depart college life without leaving
some token of our high ideals be-
hind, do herewith will, bequeath,
leave, and abandon the following:
I, Frances Abbot, leave my un-
shakable devotion to Shakespeare,
and my vast knowledge of spot
passages to Mary Bon Ulterback,
so she can certainly pass next year.

I, Betty Alderman, leave my
place of honor as the only girl in
the U. S. of A. to pledge ODK to
Betty Waitt. I'd leave her the pin,
too, but I don't think she has room
for it.

I, Grace Elizabeth Anderson, will
not leave too loo to any of those
fast-working little juniors. But if
they really want something to tie
up to, try Columbia Seminary.

I, Helen Carson, leawe my lovely
wine Chevrolet, with knee-action,
finger-tip gear shift, and accesso-
ries to Martha Moody.

I, Ernestine Cass, leave my
earnest efforts to conduct Outing
Club hikes in spite of wind, rain,
snow, sleet, hail, or high water,
to Anne Martin. May she get
along with the weather man much
better than I did.

I, Dibba Davis, leave my fatal
attraction for the Tech football
team to Lillian Schwencke. And I
hope she doesn't get her signals
mixed.

I, Lillic Belle Drake, leave my
late hours and numerous pranks of
all sorts to Miriam Bedingcr. But
let me warn vou, anything less than
fourteen hours' sleep a night is ab-
solutely nerve-racking.

I, Anne Enloe, leave my job as
t"eature-\vritcr-of-all-\vork to B e e
Brad field. She mav also have a box
of Kleenex to crv into when re-
buffed by irate faculty members.

I, Mary Evelyn Francis, leave
mv "wounded dog" bark, and "set-
ting hen" cackle to Tine Gray. She
can add them to her already numer-
ous collection.

I, Louise Hughston, leave my
subscription to The Daily Worker,
and mv sociological discussions with
Miss Jackson to Betty Jane Steven-
son. I hope she maintains the po-
sition of the proletariat.

I, Mary Caroline Lee, leave my
secret recipe for angel food cake to
Florrie Guy. Naturally, she can't

be as good a Baker as I can.

I, Virginia Isabelle Milner, leave
my photogenic face, resulting in
so many good pictures in the An-
nual, to Marjorie Merlin.

I, Sophie Montgomery, leave my
inexplicable attachment to the
name Paul Crane to my sister, Vir-
ginia, and I hope she enjoys the
poetry as much as I have.

I, Lutie Moore, leave my stupen-
dous and thankless task of escorting
Mr. Ware from place to place, and
incidentally, of putting out the
Annual, to Gene Slack. I'm sure
she realizes she's "hand-picked"
unquote.

I, Barbara Lee Murlin, leave my
position at the switchboard as "hear
all, know all, and tell everything
girl" to Gay Swagerty. She al-
ready has a pretty good start.

I, Virginia McWhorter, leave my
almost constant habitation of the
dark room in Science Hall to Eliz-
abeth Ruprecht. I guarantee the
lack of sun will work wonders for
the lily-whiteness of your skin.
Just look at mine!

I> P e gy Stixrud, leave my pref-
erence for athletes, especially wres-
tlers, to Beryl Healy. She can
break any hold.

I, Edith Stover, leave my wide-
awake attitude and rapid-fire con-
versation to Martha Dunn, whose
nickname is "Sleepy."

I, Mary Nell (Polly Pegleg) Tay-
lor, leave my ever-present blush at
the mere mention of a loaf of
bread, to Louise Musser. And don't
forget, Colonial is the freshest
thing in town. (Adv.)

We, Mary Elizabeth "Widdy"
Leavitt, and Emily Underwood,
leave our never-failing but some-
times inadequate answers in Fresh-
man Chemistry lab to Peggy Falk-
inburg and Margaret Wade. May
they achieve the impossible by
teaching the Freshmen the differ-
ence between H20 and H2S04.

We, V. J. Watkins and Eva
Ann Pirkle, leave our Phi Beta
Kappa minds to Weczie Sams. Aft-
er all, with that combined mass
of gray matter, even the squirrels
could get a B. A.

We, Martha Claire "Lily Pearl"
Wilson, Betty Ann Stewart, Elo-
ise Weeks, leave our variegated
mass of good old red hair to Elta
Robinson and Molly Oliver. And
if that doesn't work, try henna.

I, Jane Moses, leave my second
best song, "The Man I Love," com-
plete with request slips, to Pattie
Patterson. After all, "Chloe"
may some day lose its popularity.
So may Coca Cola.

I, Rocky Kaplan, leave my co-
lossal, tremendous, and overwhelm-
ing success as Mammy in "Giving
Him the Aria," and my prowess
as a dancer of no mean merit, and
I do mean merit, to Laura Sale.
She's had seven daughters already,
according to Blackfriars.

We, Anna Margaret Bond, and
Eugenia Bridges, leave our collec-
tive quantity of long brown hair,
with all the hairpins thereunto ap-
pertaining, to Ann Fisher.

I, Annette Franklin, leave my
strange fondness for houses with
pillars, golf, and Virginia (the
state) to Val Nielsen.

1, Sally Matthews, leave my spe-
cially reserved spot in the middle
of the archery field, with an iden-
tification badge, in case some of
the arrows should go wild, to Nina
May Snead. And I hope she knows

Brain Trust

Recently elected members of Phi Beta Kappa shown above are, left
Mary Evelyn Francis, Margaret Hopkins, Mary Matthews, and Violet Jane

to right, Elizabeth Alderman,

Watkins. Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

what the sco' is without looking
at the sco' boahed.

We, Lenora Jones and Jane
Knapp, leave our intimate knowl-
edge of the private lives of white
rats and faculty children to Grace
Walker and Susan Self.

I, Bobby Brown, leave my favor-
ite song, "Night and Day," to Lu-
cile Gaines. And I don't think
that's asking T.O. much, do you?

I, Wilma Griffith, leave my ever-
ready answer to Miss Alexander's
masterful "Oui ou non?" to Toni
Alston. N'est ce pas?

We, Sam Olive Griffin, Mar-
garet Ratchford, and Isabella Rob-
ertson, leave our Bible 205 notes
to some poor soul who doesn't get
in all of her hours until too late,
and finds the Smiths and Schurers
all gone.

We, Grace Duggan, and Char-
lotte French, leave our ideal sched-
ules for the senior year to any jun-
ior who can duplicate them. With
no classes on Saturday we can say
with feeling, "All this, and Heav-
en, too."

I, Kathleen Jones, leave my one-
woman taxi-service to Helen
Klugh. She seems to have made a
pretty good start.

I, Carrie Gene Ashley, leave my
unbreakable calm and expression-
less poker face, especially while
counting votes, to Marion Wil-
liams.

I, Ruth Slack, leave my conceit-
ed bragging, unbelievable rude-
ness, and obnoxious personality,
along with a copy of "How to Win
Friends and Influence People," to
Jean Dennison. You might also
try a good dose of oh, well,
they're just 2 5c.

I, Katherinc Patton, leave my fa-
vorite dress, colored pink, to Fran-
ces Spratlin. Under the circum-
stances, you don't really need it.

I, Eleanor Hutchens, leave the
distinguished privilege of writing

the class prophecy to Elaine Stubbs.
And if that isn't adding insult to
injury, I'll go shoot a city editor.

This document signed, sealed, and
witnessed, this 3rd day of June,
1940.

B. J. O'Brien, undertaker and
sucker.
Witnesses:

Mr. Jones (he's always a wit-
ness.)

Your Friend (unsigned).

The Bats in the Belfry (any-
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Prophet Pred
Thompson as

By Eleanor Hutchens

If this view of the future's not
fashioned to suit you,

Remember that I'm not an oracle;

And when time and the Nazi prove
I'm not so hazi,

Please pretend it was all allegorical.

In forecasting the fates of my sev-
eral classmates,

I've consulted, not stars, but their
palms,

And for nominal sums have agreed

to be dumb
On past matters causing them

qualms.

My vision appears, showing twenty

long years
Since we gave back our hoods, have

elapsed;

And, to spite Robert Frost, not a
life has been lost,

Although several minds have col-
lapsed.

I envision this nation in sad situa-
tion,

Not entirely unknown in the
world;

For a dictatorship holds us all in
its grip,

And the flag of H. Thompson's
unfurled.

Yes, our Henrietta has used the
vendetta

To climb to the top of the heap;
But a dozen side-kicks must explain

all the tricks,
While the other twelve catch up

on sleep.

Storm troopers Ward, Gill, and

Stimson work hard;
But what do they do? You'll be

sayin',

Well, the storm troopers labor to

tell 'the dictator
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The youth of the land seem to be

well in hand
For future peace pact aberration,
As Forman and Heaslett teach

them all honor pays less . . .
They call it orientation.

Nor yet are they slight in sheer

physical might,
But meet almost daily in sessions
Where Boots and Jeanette teach

them muscles to get
For resisting minority oppressions.

The secret detectives with manners

suspective
Keep the realm terrified of their

spying;

If they've something to fear, the

proletariat keep clear
Of Solomon, Moss, and O'Brien.

But the dictator's heart's ever
with the fine arts;

She believes in hand-picked educa-
tion.

She's handed out jobs to friends

Matthews and Dobbs,
Who are teaching Shakespeare spot

quotations.

Evelyn Baty has got pretty weighty
As Wagnerian star of the Met;
Julia Moseley pursues Terpsichore

the muse,
In Eloise Lennard's ballet.

There appears on this scene a great

beauty queen
Who's the idol of blitzkriegers,

really;

They think she's so sweet that

they've named a new street
For her, calling it Carolyn Alley.

She sweeps through the show and

leaves the front row
A quivering mass in her train,
While follow her, freezing, but

none the less pleasing,
M. Franklin, Sara E. Lee, and

Reins.

But enough of the stars; the real
business is wars,

In which General Chalmers sur-
passes,

As little Ruth Eyles checks the

chemistry files
Making sure there's enough poison

gases.

Photographer Banks snapshoots

enemy tanks,
While Ghastly Hunt squirts with

finesse.

Surgeon Florence endeavors to bind

up the severed;
Mildred J. tries to clean up the

mess.

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Susie Blackmon's a terror as she

bombs without error
From perilous enemy skies;
The atrocity chairman is fearless

Penn Hammond,
Mathematically gouging out eyes.

In her submarine ship, Mac Tem-

pleton's no drip
At harassing democracy's bays;
And Mary V. Brown adds up as

men drown
Statistics for communiques.

But all is not harmony in Henri's

autonomy;
A fifth column raises its head. -
Jane Witman declines to bombard

foreign lines,
Preferring to hear them instead.

No ads will be took for the dicta-
tor's white book,

No matter how hard Graham
tries;

And Manager Pinner is ready to
skin her

For telling the merchants no lies.

For no valid reason an overt act of
treason

Is committed by Comrade McCall,
Who wins a bridge prize out from

under the eyes
Of Gymnastics Director McPhaul.

Sullivan, Louise, is at odds with
police

For swiping a government plane.
When arrested in Charlotte, having

lit in a car lot,
She flatly refused to explain.

Polly Ware, for imprudence in
teaching her students,

Is removed from her school teach-
er's bench;

A similar sucker is little Bee
Drucker,

Who was caught speaking to them
in French.

Ruth Ann Byerley's dishonored en-
tirely

And ostracized by edict firm;

By her colleagues impeached for

deli vering a speech
In favor of Roosevelt's eighth term.

Beth Paris is jailed and her family
trailed

For offering Boss Thompson her
lyre;

The dictator claims she was calling

her names,
And in spelling no one dares defy

her.

Calcutt and Woodall set bombs in

a beer hall,
And Prissy to prison was sent.
But Inez is excused for igniting the

fuse,

Since she brought up the well-
known percent.

Eluding all halters is maniac Jane
Sa Iters,

Whose crimes have been rather ex-
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the Class of 1940 last week.

Davidson

(Continued from Page 1)

in committee meeting and student
exchange. There must be headway
also in joint seminars and library
facilities. "Each of the seniors must
recognize the importance of the
project and act according to her
opportunity/' he concluded.

Dr. Davidson was the principal
speaker on a program that includ-
ed talks by Mr. George Winship,
chairman of the Board of Trustees
and Master of Ceremonies; Miss
Carrie Scandrett, dean of students;
Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar; Dr.
J. R. McCain, president, who ex-
plained the progress of the cam-
paign; Mrs. Murdock Equen, presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association;
and Louise Sullivan, president of
the graduating class.

Miss Mamie Lee Ratliffe, assist-
ant secretary of the Alumnae As-
sociation, announced the engage-
ments of the following seniors:
Inez Calcutt, Gary Home, Polly
Taylor, and Louise Sullivan.

The doctors relate her unfortunate
state

Results from childhood compre-
hensives.

Marge Hopkins, exiled, has sought

British Isles,
Where she's married an Oxford

debater;

And when Junior is near, she's ad-
dressed by the dear
No more as debater, but mater.

But the saddest of fates among our

classmates
Isn't that of war victim or tramp.
Poor Gary and Boggs still check

catalogues
In the Carnegie concentration

camp.

Boggs

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for a person to be content in this
our day in not achieving the high-
est possible in him." The fact that
it is sinful not to live up to the
highest possibilities in our person-
alities is revealed clearly and dis-
tinctly in the word of God, he ex-
plained.

"Human beings," he told his lis-
teners, "can fill the places of good
parents and friends; only Christ
can push back life's horizons,
break the shackles, and make us
proud to bear the name of our
Lord."

Dr. Boggs, considering fear one
of our most prevalent forms of
spiritual shackles, said, "We like to
realize we have a companion in
whose hands lies not only the breath
of our lives, but also the power of
heaven and earth. This companion-
ship is God's greatest remedy for
tear. With it we can walk through
life with the thrilling confidence
enly He can give."

In concluding, the speaker brief-
ly discussed the three necessary
characteristics of a thrilling life.
Namely, one must live a life of
great spiritual vitality; one must
have a conception of life broad
enough to include the world and
humanity, and must obtain this
scope by broad interests; one must
live a life of deep and abiding joy,
such as the disciples found in
breaking the bread, because they
were united by a singleness of pur-
pose.

He closed, "Such a life brings
happiness unspeakable and a life
full of glory."

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1940

Frost Visits

History

Constitution Staff Photo Pete Roton.

Betty Waitt, president of Lecture Association for next year, and
Margaret' Hopkins, this year's president, are shown above as they chat-
ted with Robert Frost before his lecture here recently.

Honors

(Continued from Page 1)

Piano Scholarship Ida Jane
Vaughan.

Voice Scholarship Elizabeth
Kyle.

Speech Scholarship Neva Jack-
son.

Art Scholarship Beatrice
Shamos.

Laura Candler Prize in Mathe-
matics Given by Mrs. Nellie
Candler of Decatur for best work
in the department. Given this year
to Mary McCulloch Temple-
ton.

Morley Medal in Mathematics
Given by the head of the depart-
ment for the most original work in
the subject. Awarded this year to
Susan Dyer.

Louise McKinney Book A ward of
52 5, named in honor of Professor
Emeritus Louise McKinney of our
English department and given an-
nually to the student who has
made, during the current year, the
most interesting and discriminating
collection of books. It goes this
year to Carolyn Form an, with
honorable mention to Frances
Breg and Nicole Giard.

Certificate in Voice Jane
Thatcher Moses.

Graduation Honors (Covering
the work of the entire four years) :

"With High Honor" Evelyn
Baty, Ruth Lvles, and Eva Ann
Pirkle.

"With Honor" Elizabeth Al-
derman, Mary Evelyn Francis,
Mary Todd Heaslett, Margaret
Hopkins, Mary Matthews, Sophie
Montgomery, Mary Reins, jane
Salters, Ruth Slack, Louise Sulli-
van, and Violet Jane Watkins.

Senior Honors (based on the
work of the session 1939-1940
only): Elizabeth Alderman, Eve-
lyn Baty, Ruth Eyles, Marv Eve-
lyn Francis, Marv Todd Heaslett,
Margaret Hopkins, Mary Mat-
thews, Eva Ann Pirkle, Ruth
Slack, Louise Sullivan. Mary Mc-
Culloch Templeton, and Violet
Jane Watkins.

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Seniors Recall
Embarrassments

The embarrassing moments of
the class of '40 are numerous, but
among the classics are such mo-
ments as make history.

Jane Moses has no doubt of her
chief blunder. It occurred the day
Mr. Dieckmann was supposed to
conduct chapel, and Jane, thinking
no one was in charge, resolved to
do her duty. Only after a slight
disturbance did Mr. Dieckmann get
his just rights. ,

Ruth Slack was most prompt in
saying that her worst moment was
the night she invited Mr. and Mrs.
Stukes to dinner and was half an
hour late.

Of course, there was the time
when Margaret Hopkins was in the
receiving line with Lady Diana
Manners. A lady approached Mar-
garet and praised her acting which
she had seen "on the stage in New
York 1 5 years ago."

Georgia Hunt recalled without
difficulty the occasion on which
she interviewed Miss Leyburn about
her reaction on being elected to Phi
Beta Kappa. Miss Leyburn replied
definitely, "I am not a member of
that organization."

Mary Evelyn Francis wasn't ex-
actly happy when she fell off the
top of the closet on an upper class-
man who had come to tell them
to get quiet.

When Rocky Kaplan sat on the
little boy in the picture show, the
little boy must have been most con-
cerned, "but he just sat real quiet
and didn't say anything."

Other memorable occasions were
the time when Evelyn Baty fell
sprawling in front of Inman for no
reason at all, and the time Becky
Drucker's .shoe heel stuck in the
street car track and came off in
the middle of traffic.

Some seniors said their blushing
memories wouldn't do for print,
and others, as Mary Lou Dobbs
said they weren't easily embarras-
sed.

(Continued from Page 1)

Came we back next year as Sophomores

Out to win the old Black Cat.

The Stunt that year was "Martins and

Coys"

Mountain music on grand scale.
Under Chairman Henri Thompson
Came our very first triumph.
Dressed in white we led the Seniors
Down to their Investiture
Feeling all of our importance
Formed we there a stately line.
Sophomores won the hockey banner.
Carolyn won the hockey stick.
Triumphed again in basketball
We put three on Varsity.
We mopped up on the swimming meets
Polly took care of the tennis.
At Mardi Gras our float won out
And Jane Moses was the king.
Jane Salters won the scholarship.
M;trg;uot Hopkins won the cup.
And that year we cut the daisies
Wished to be once more Freshmen.
Up again at four next morning
Tying t lie things into a chain.
Under President Carolyn Forma n
Sophomores worked themselves to nubs.
With our blistered fingers prominent
Dressed in pure and spotless white
Walked with academic dignity
In processions to the gym.
Bore our weary load on class day
Repaid by their Senior Breakfast.
Valuing our part in tradition
Loving being Sophomores
Went we sadly homeward that June.
Sad because the year was past.

Next fall we came back as Sponsors
Showing neophytes around.
We were scattered o'er the campus
Rebekah. Boyd. Gaines, and Lupton.
Lent our loyalty to the Freshmen
Thought we helped them win the stunt.
Came the time we long had lived for
Junior Banquet night of nights!
Beamed upon our one and onlys
Looked sweet as the flowers they sent.
Tactfully ignored the presence
Of three dressed just alike !
Felt a let down feeling next day
As if joys of youth were past.
Plunged we then into the campaign
Grave our all for Agnes Scott.
Watched the boats in Buttrick Lobby
Trying to push ours out in front.
But we couldn't win that contest
But we could ourselves console
We may be poor but we have brains.
Money, no, but character, yes I
Came the season of elections
Juniors were important things.
That we were the ones elected,
Hard we found it to befTfeve.
To see our class as Mortar Boards,
Presidents, vice and otherwise.
Seemed a goal we never could reach,
But at last we had got there.
Came the night we held the candles
While the Seniors burned their books ;
Came the thrill of Junior capping,
One we never can forget.

Now at last we too were Seniors

Looking down on all the rest.

Feeling now an air of finality

On each little thing we did.

Feeling proud as any Freshmen

When they read the Honor Roll,

Finding that our class had more on

That time-honored list of brains,

Than any class had ever had,

Even that of thirty-nine.

Aside we tossed our brains and poise,

Played as children with our toys,

When we came to Little Girls' Day,

That so cold November morn.

Then we danced around at breakfast,

Sang "Shoo fly, don't bother me."

Sang the next day. Alma Mater,

In a very different mood.

On that day we were invested,

We felt all our dignity.

Felt as if the end were coming,

Felt, the tears rise In our eyes.

Listened as Miss Carlson: told us

Of our place out In the world.

Kissed our families waiting outside,

Rushed off to the football game.

Then one morning came a rapping,

Tapping on that vacant lot

Where for years it had been rumored

Our new chapel was to be.

Down we rushed to pay our pledges

Trying to speed the building on.

Came the time when all good Seniors

Have on an engagement ring;

But we've ruined the marriage percentage,

Been laughed at by Mr. Stukes.

Been looked down on by the campus,

Given the horse laugh by the press.

We set our standards up so high

We could find no one to fit.

Rowdy Tech nor pious Emory

Or Columbia Seminary ;

Even before the Spring Vacation

Senior Opera started in.

Now the opera all Is over.

May Day had Its little day;

For the fourth year In succession

Our class won the A. A. cup.

Miluer won the archery tournament,

Enloe passed her swimming test. *

We have taken In all parties.

One a day for several weeks.

We have passed our last exam week,

Mailed our Invitation out.

We've made Louise Sullivan our life

president.
Wept some private bitter tears.
But this is no day of sadness,
So perhaps I'd best stop here.

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souls of those who heard it. Insti-
tutions and nations have their ideals
good and bad. Dr. F. H. Gaines,
one of the founders of Agnes Scott,
expressed the ideal of your college
in these words, "Glory of God is
the chief end of all.'* In later
years Dr. Gaines wrote: "What the
architect's plans are to the future
building, this Ideal was to the In-
stitution. . . It dominated in the
development of the Institute, was
strictly adherred to in all its strug-
gles, and is still its Magna Carta."
This institution is the product of
a great ideal. We do not have to
look far today to find conditions
that, beyond question, are traceable
to base and ignoble ideals. In the
last century there lived a German
philosopher by the name of Nietz-
sche who taught that man may
perfect himself through forcible
self-assertion a>nd that the strong
man is beyond good and evil. To-
day we see a tangible expression
of the philosophy and ideals of
Nietzsche. The ideals of a man
have permeated the thinking of a
whole people and have become the
soul of their civilization.

Other Conditions

Let us look for a short time at
some of the other conditions and
states of mind in the world about
us. Let us ask what thoughts are
responsible for these conditions and
what changes in attitudes, philoso-
phy, or ideals may rectify those
conditions which need correction.

Most persons will agree, I be-
lieve, that the world of our day
places too much emphasis on ma-
terial values and too little empha-
sis on human values. For this con-
dition there may be several contrib-
uting causes. Undoubtedly one of
the chief causes is the manner in
which we have allowed the marvel-
ous scientific development of re-
cent years to influence^ our think-
ing.

Science has given us new meth-
ods of manufacturing, of transpor-
tation, of communication. It has
been responsible for the growth of
great urban centers and the devel-
opment of an industrial civiliza-
tion which is gradually displacing
the agricultural civilization of an
older day. Science has brought us
phvsical comforts and conveniences
of which our forefathers never
dreamed. The new civilization has

Lecture Association
Gives Financial Report

Mary Virginia Brown, outgoing
treasurer of Lecture Association,
presents a financial report for the
year 1939-1940 as follows:
RECEIPTS

Balance from last year $ 4.83

Student budget 1,169.28

Cash returned .75

Total $1,174.86

DISBURSEMENTS
Lecturers

Alfred Duff Cooper $ 500.00
Harlowe Shapley 3 87.50

Total $ 887.50

Receptions and Entertain-

Programs 38.00

ment 3 8.82

Telephone calls, corres-
pondence, stamps, pos-
ters, etc. 29.52

Silhouette 14.63

Campaign pledge 100.00

Total $1,108.47

Total income $1,174.86

Expenses 1,108.47

Balance on hand $ 66.39

Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
adviser of the Association, an-
nounced that the school had fur-
nished funds for Douglas Freeman
and Robert Frost.

Rainey Announces 1941
May Day Committees

Sarah Gray Rainey, chairman of
May Day for next year, announces
the following committees for the
year 1940-41: Business Manager,
Pat Reasoner; costumes, Betty Med-
lock, chairman, Margaret Smith,
and Martha Sue Dillard; dances,
Mary Ann Faw, chairman, Lillian
Gish, and Neva Jackson; proper-
ties, Rebecca Stamper, chairman,
Darleen Danielson, and Helen Schu-
kraft; publicity, Beth Irby, chair-
man, and Dot Wheeler; music,
Margery Gray; and faculty advis-
ers, Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn,
assistant professor of English, Miss
Catherine Torrance, professor of
Greek, and Miss Thelma Albright,
instructor of English.

been created by the forces of sci-
ence. It is understandable, there-
fore, that many should look upon
science as virtually the god of the
new age; that they should look to
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science for the solution of every
problem. The remedies for the dis-
locations produced by science is,
they say, more science.

Force of Science

Modern scientific research has
loosed in the world new and pow-
erful forces. These forces, from a
moral standpoint, are neutral. They
may be used for the advancement
or the destruction of mankind, for
the building of a greater civiliza-
tion or for the tearing down of that
which we have. Our people have
been so busy with science and its
practical applications that they have
failed to cultivate the spirit and
acquire the wisdom which would
assuredly give proper direction to
the new forces which science has
brought into existence. They have
given their attention to the mate-
rial results which science could pro-
duce rather than to the develop-
ment of that spirit which ought to
inspire all creative work. We have
tended to become materialists; to
make things, money, and power the
goal of our endeavors; to measure
the value of all things by material
standards.

It is surprising to observe the
extent to which the methods of sci-
ence, its terminology, and its spirit
have been carried over into other
fields. Sociology, economics, and
history have become the "social sci-
ences"; methods of education have
become "scientific"; law is now de-
scribed as the "science of social en-
gineering." In reading the bulle-
tin of one of our large universities,
I noticed that its School of Theol-
ogy had recently been converted
into a "School of the Sacred Sci-
ences."

Our colleges have tended to move
with the trend of the times. Like
commercial organizations, they
have talked of their size, physical
equipment, and financial resources
as if these things were ends in them-
selves. They have said so much
about the pecuniary value of a col-
lege education that their graduates
feel they have been cheated if the
doors of the business and profes-
sional world do not open before the

magic wave of diplomas.

Although I believe heartily in vo-
cational training, I wonder if some
of our colleges have not been too
strongly influenced by the spirit of
a scientific and practical world.
So-called practical courses have
been developed to prepare students
for every conceivable vocation and
avocation. In recent college cata-
logues, I have seen listings of cours-
es in salmon fishing, dancing, em-
balming; courses telling how to
teach English in the. third grade;
other courses in how to teach Eng-
lish in the fifth grade and in the
seventh grade. I am told that in
one catalogue there is listed a course
bearing the title, "How to Manage
the School Janitor." The funda-
mentals of the old cultural courses,
the classics, arts, literature, phi-
losophy seem to be in disfavor.
Students shun those studies whose
humanizing influences are needed
to offset the emphasis on the prac-
tical and to guide into proper chan-
nels the forces of the new world of
science.

Materialism

If our colleges and their gradu-
ates are content with a philosophy
of scientific materialism, a philoso-
phy that thinks of the advance of
civilization in terms of technologi-
cal development, a philosophy
which subordinates human interests
and human values to things and
material power, what will be the
future of our civilization? Per-
haps we shall be content to read,
as I did recently, an article entitled
"The Influence of Coal Tar on Civ-
ilization," without thinking of the
influence of ideas and ideals on civ-
ilization; perhaps we shall be will-
ing to read about "The Modern Po-
tato Problem" and give no thought
to vital human problems; perhaps
some of our best minds will devote
all their energies to the creation
of an artificial demand for cigar-
ettes, chewing gum, and hundreds
of other harmless but useless com-
modities, untroubled by the thought
that they ought also to be minis-
tering to deeper human needs; per
haps the soulless form of science
will ultimately become a Franken
stein monster and destroy those who
have created it.

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of life and our almost total lack
of appreciation of spiritual and hu-
man values, I think of a certain
newspaper's account of a robbery.
It said that the victim had put his
valuables "into his safe just before
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lost nothing but his life.

There are those who, alarmed by
the trend of the times, would sup-
press science altogether, believing
that it is a menace to the human
race. Ghandi, for instance, con-
demns all scientific discoveries from
cotton machinery to prevention
medicine. Certainly these are wrong
attitudes. That which is poten-
tially good should not be cast aside.

Combination

We should encourage the expan-
sion of scientific knowledge and its
practical applications, but we
should also encourage the develop-
ment of those attitudes of mind,
those habits of thought, that wis-
dom which can give proper direc-
tion to the vast new power at our
command. Science must not be the
master; it is the servant. If man-
kind is to progress, science must be
the servant of all and not of a few
who would use it for the promo-
tion of their own selfish interests.

I have urged you to give first
place in your thinking to human
and spiritual values. If this should
be done universally, I am wonder-
ing if it would not mean the end
of much of the suffering, strife,
and bloodshed that through the
centuries have filled the world with
misery and horror. If we sincerely
believe that an individual may be
worth more than money and things
more, even, than our own money
and our own things can there any
longer be merciless exploitation of
human beings by their fellows?
Will there exist any longer a cause
for class hatreds and bitterness?
When the lives and happiness of in-
dividuals weigh more heavily in our
thinking than do our notions about
racial superiority and national gran-
deur, there will be fewer racial and
national conflicts in which individ-
uals and their happiness are de-
stroyed. The conception we need
is that of the brotherhood of all
men. The attitudes and thoughts
flowing from this conception will
bring tolerance, understanding, and
love to our hearts.

The State

I have spoken about our attitude
regarding our relation to other per-
sons and to things. Let me say a
word regarding the ideals which
should govern our thinking about
our relation to the State. Our dem-
ocratic institutions are threatened
as never before in their history. Al-
ready from more than half the
countries of the world democracy
has disappeared. With democracy
have gone the things that democ-
racy stands for freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of re-
ligious worship, and other privi-
leges guaranteed to us by our Bill
of Rights. Our own institutions

are imperiled by crime and corrup-
tion and by the indifference of our
citizens. Millions of our people do
lip service to the principles of de-
mocracy; from time to time they
utter a few feeble words of criti-
cism of dangerous trends but they
arc unwilling to do anything that
requires any considerable effort.
Millions refuse even to exercise
their privilege to participate in the
selection of public officials. Ed-
mund Burke said that democracy
might fail because of citizens' feel-
ing of irresponsibility. This is the
thing which' is about to happen to-
day. What we need is a deep con-
viction of the worth of our dem-
ocratic institutions; the ability to
analyze problems of government in
terms of the human interests in-
volved; the intelligence to recog-
nize that some internal conditions
may be as dangerous as external
enemies; an appreciation of the
duty that rests upon each individu-
al citizen to take affirmative action
to defend his state and to perpetu-
ate its ideals and traditions; the
courage to fight for the preserva-
tion of all that is good in our gov-
ernmental and social order. In the
field of government, our ideal
should be one of constructive pa-
triotism.

The Home

What should be our attitude
about the home? What ideal should
shape our thinking about this in-
stitution? It is sometimes said that
the home is disintegrating under
the influences of modern civiliza-
tion and there is undoubtedly some
truth in the statement. Is the home
worth saving and, if so, what kind
of a home should it be? No other
institution has been found which
can rear satisfactorily the youth of
the land. The home is essential to
the preservation of society as we
know it. Henry Grady said that
it was the strength of the Ameri-
can Republic. It is in the home
that the ideals of youth are form-
ed; it is there that the forces are
at work that determine whether
civilization shall go forward or
backward. Long ago it was said
that the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world. The importance
of the work of the home and its
potentialities for good cannot be
overestimated. It is the task of the
wife and mother to provide in the
home food and fire for the mind
as well as for the body. This work
requires all the training, experience,
and wisdom which any college can
give. Certainly no woman who
builds a home should feel that her
abilities have been wasted. The
highest product to social evolution
is the civilized home. The making
of such a home should be the ideal
of the vast majority of college
women.

What should be our attitude re-
garding the sort of individual that
should be produced in our homes
and schools? What should be his
dominating purposes? In what sort
of things should he be taught to

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find his pleasures and enjoyment?
May I offer one or two suggestions?

Eternal Values

First of all, he should have an
appreciation of eternal values. He
should have an abiding conscious-
ness of the Infinite. Only as a man
gains some faint conception of the
Creator and His purposes, will life
have any meaning for him. In ev-
ery human soul, there is a yearn-
ing for something that lies outside
the range of human experience;
there is a longing for a closer con-
tact with the source of all wisdom
and power. Man is instinctively
religious and he can be completely
happy and satisfied only when this
instinct is allowed full and free ex-
pression. Science is no enemy of
religion; its recent discoveries con-
firm the age-old belief that man's
personality is not the product of
his brain and glands but that it is
a spiritual thing. Science takes us
to the very brink of the Infinite.
Although it cannot tell us the na-
ture of the world which lies beyond
the reach of our material senses, it
helps us to appreciate the mysteries
of the Universe about us and en-
ables us to feel a sense of awe and
reverence in the presence of the in-
finite intelligence and power which
we cannot fully understand.

Expression

Another ideal for the individu-
al is freedom of expression of the
human spirit. The monotonous
and routine work of the world
particularly since the advent of the
Machine Age has tended to numb
the senses of the worker. The con-
stant dreary grind has tended to
destroy his initiative and hope and
has made of man a being without
deep feeling and without the sensi-
bilities that would enable him to
respond to the beauties and joys of
existence. Edwin Markham, after
seeing Millet's painting of the Toil-
er, wrote:

"Who made him dead to rapture

and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that

never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to

the ox?

How will you ever straighten up

this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and

the light; 4

Rebuild in it the music and the
dream . . ?*'

Markham is describing the work-
er, but isn't his description equally
applicable to any man whose spirit
is bound in the chains of a sordid
materialism? Those who are inter-
ested in the full development of the
fine potentialities of the individual
must strive to free the human spirit
from those influences that would
crush it. Our ideal should be a
social and economic order that pro-
vides for every individual the op-
portunity for some creative work.
An intelligent man is happier when
he is making his own plans and de-
cisions than when he is being re-
quired to follow to the letter the
orders and directions of another. I
agree with those thinkers of our
time who say that we should have
more individual ownership of prop-
erty and more personally controlled
and directed business enterprises as
distinguished from those which are
subject to corporate control. All
our people must know the joy of
creative effort a joy that is dif-
ferent in kind and quality from the
crude satisfaction afforded by even
the successful performance of rou-
tine duties or the accumulation of
money and things of the human
spirit by making ourselves and oth-
ers more interested in literature,
music, art, the crafts. As educated
men and women we should under-
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1940

Diversity of Events Proves
1939-1940 Busy Year

Sept. 18 Doors of Agnes Scott open for the fiftieth session
of the college, as registration begins.

Sept. 20 Dr. McCain officially welcomes the college com-
munity at the opening exercises.

Sept. 21 Bewildered freshmen in frilly frocks meet college
dignitaries at the Christian Association Tea in the alum-
nae garden.

Sept. 22 Books open and the serious side of college life be-
gins.

Oct. 14 Undefeated sophs win once again the time-honored
black cat in the annual stunt.

Oct. 23-28 Student Government offers student, business,
and religious speakers in honor week series.

Oct. 26-28 Hutchens, Dobbs, Moore, and Pinner journey up
to Des Moines, Iowa, to learn about publications of the
A. C. P. Convention.

Oct. 27-28 Dr. William Abbot Oldfather lectures; Latin
teachers convene on the campus.

Nov. 3 Seniors become little girls again in last fling before
caps and gowns and senior dignity overtake them.

Nov. 4 Miss Helen Carlson speaks at traditional Investiture
ceremony, when Miss Scandrett caps ninety-five seniors.

Nov. 6-7 Sophomores meet the pick of Atlanta and Decatur
young men at the parties given by Mortar Board.

Nov. 8-10 Mrs. Mildred Morgan, authority on social and
family relations, asks us, "Are We Acting Our Age?"
in series of talks.

Nov. 15 The Honorable Alfred Duff Cooper, famed English
statesman, "packs them in" when he speaks on "The
Survival of Liberty," in year's first lecture as crowds of
disappointed attendants are turned away.

Nov. 17-18 Alumnae return to their alma mater for week-
end of reminiscing.

Nov. 18 Blackfriars score their opening hit of the season
with "Seven Sisters."

Nov. 17-24 Book Displays in Library draw students for
reading and browsing during book week.

Nov. 23 Thanksgiving comes with a much-welcomed holi-
day.

Nov. 24 Margaret Hopkins and Marjorie Merlin defend
Agnes Scott against Oxford debaters who visit here on
tour.

Nov. 25 Mortar Board holds its annual recognition service
with Dr. George P. Hayes speaking.

Dec. 3 Agnes Scott joins in the pigskin scramble in first
football game on campus.

Dec. 4-11 Activities cease, and writing in little blue books
becomes life's sole interest as exams occupy the time.

Dec. 11-12 Ernest Hutcheson delights us with a lecture-re-
cital, and with "a lighter program" in chapel the next
day.

Dec. 16 Christian Association gives party with Santa Claus,
stockings, and goodies for underprivileged children of
Decatur.

Dec. 17 College choir inspires everyone with the Christmas

spirit at the annual carol service.
Dec. 19 Christmas vacation calls us home.
Jan. 4 Classes resume after holiday season.
Jan. 14-15 Young men meet the freshmen at the Mortar

Board parties.

Jan. 19 Everybody "smiles at the little birdie" when the

college picture is taken.
Jan. 20 Eva Anne Pirkle, Jane Salters, Evelyn Baty, and

Ruth Eyles receive the much-coveted honor of Phi Beta

Kappa.

Jan. 23 Snow transforms campus.

Jan. 25 Douglas Freeman, journalist, speaks as the third
lecturer.

Feb. 2-3 Association of Georgia Colleges again elects Dr.
McCain president at its convention.

Feb. 7 Students choose Carolyn Alley to reign over semi-
centennial May Day Pageant, while voting for May Court
continues.

Feb. 13-17 Dr. Roswell C. Long conducts Religious Empha-
sis Week.

Feb. 17 The big moment in the life of a junior arrives when

the class celebrates its annual banquet with formal- dress,

corsages, and reception.
Feb. 21 May Court attendants announced.
Feb. 22 Founders Day celebration takes place with banquet

and cotillion dance as the features of the occasion.
March 4-11 Once again, brains become crammed, and pens

get busy as spring examinations take place.
March 12-18 Springtime takes us away for another season

of vacation.

March 27 Harlowe Shapley takes us from "this terrestrial
globe" to the heavens in his lecture-picture on "The Stars
and Galaxies."

March 28 Excitement reigns supreme as elections for next

year's officers begin.
Mar. 29-30 Emory and Agnes Scott join their voices in

song as they present "Iolanthe," a Gilbert and Sullivan

operetta.

April 1 Dr. James R. McCain receives election to the General
Education Board. Agnes Scott is host to Florida de-
baters.

April 2 Freshmen swing out and sponsor jitterbug contest.
April 6 Mortar Board receives Frances Breg, Sabine Brum-

Caldwell

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take to bring to others an under-
standing and an appreciation of the
need for the expression of the cre-
ative instincts that reside within the
individual and of the^ simple and
wholesome pleasure which such ex-
pression affords. The peoples of
many lands have come to know the
value of folk dances, songs, pa-
geants, plays, music, opera, and
other forms of artistic expression.
Our American people have not
made the progress they should have
made in this respect. It is encour-
aging, however, to see the grow-
ing enthusiasm for all phases of art.
One of America's great painters re-
cently said that the modern Amer-
ican movement in this field is com-
parable to the Renaissance which
followed the darkness of the Mid-
dle Ages.

I have not urged upon you any
specific program of action; I have
merely suggested certain attitudes
to his Creator, his fellowmen, his
State, and his home, which, I be-
lieve, are worthy of your consider-
ation. If these attitudes and ideals
are yours, they will influence your
thoughts and actions throughout
the years to come and the thinking
of those with whom you come in
contact will be appreciably af-
fected.

Opportunity

I have called your attention to
these attitudes because, as educat-
ed women, you will have far better
opportunities than others for mak-
ing them effective. Indeed, upon
educated women has devolved a
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putting the proper ideals and atti-
tudes into the stream of thought
that flows through the minds of

our people.

There was a time and it has not
been so long ago when women
had no opportunities to go to col-
lege, when the average' woman was
little more than a domestic drudge.
It was the fashion for women to
marry early and die young. A cen-
tury ago there prevailed even in
America a philosophy similar to
that of Schopenhauer, who said:
"She (woman) is not called to
great things. Girls should be

by, Jean Dennison, Ann Henry, Betsy Kendrick, Gene
Slack, Elaine Stubbs, Ida Jane Vaughan, and Grace
Walker as new members.

April 4 Marriage classes for seniors begin.

April 20 Blackfriars chalks up another successful perform-
ance with 'Til Leave It To You."

April 24 Margaret Hopkins wins debate cup for third time.

April 29 University Center Campaign to raise a million dol-
lars opens to the public.

May 2 Seniors entertain senior opera stars in authentic cos-
tumes at "Gone With Draft Ball."

May 3 The Seniorpolitan Opera Company presents its orig-
inal performance, "Gone With Draft," starring Jane
Moses and Eleanor Hutchens as Ruby O'Horror and
Rhatt.

May 4 Semi-Centennial May Day festival gives "Heritage
of Woman."

May 8 John D. Rockefeller and the General Education Board

honor the college with a visit.
May 11 Horseback riders perform in Gymkhana.
May 16 Lecture Association proudly presents Mr. Robert

Frost, America's foremost living poet, who spent three

days on the campus.
May 18 Giving a view of Agnes Scott fifty years ago, the

sophomores entertained the seniors with a luncheon at

Druid Hills.

May 22 Jane Moses gives voice recital, including German,

Italian, French and English songs.
May 26 Excited students stop everything to pour over the

pages of the 1940 Silhouette.
May 31 Phi Beta Kappa recognizes Betty Alderman, Mary

Evelyn Francis, Margaret Hopkins, Mary Matthews, and

Violet Jane Watkins.
June 1 Trustees luncheon at Rebekah Scott. Alumnae elect

new officers.

June 2 Dr. Wade H. Boggs delivers baccalaureate sermon.

Sophs return weary from picking daisies.
June 3 Seniors take the sophomores to breakfast. O^^en,

Enloe, Hutchens, Matthews read at Class Day exeu^es.
June 4 Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell speaks at Commencement

as the 1940 class members receive their degrees, and

Agnes Scott sends out another group of alumnae.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. 2 5 Tuesday, June 7, 1940 No. 21

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Filtered
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brought up to the ^abits of domes-
ticity and servility." This philoso-
phy regarding woman's place in the
world is being revived today in the
totalitarian states. The current
doctrine in Germany is to the ef-
fect that woman's sphere of work
is in the kitchen, cellar, nursery,
schoolroom, and church. A hun-
dred years ago it was doubted even
in America that women had the in-
tellectual capacity to receive a col-
lege education. The first college
in the United States for men was
established in 1636 but two hun-
dred years passed before the first
woman's college was established.

Position in Future

Today the situation is quite dif-
ferent in America. Women have
the same opportunities for educa-
tion as men have and they have
demonstrated their ability to hold
their own with men, not only in
college but also in the business and
professional world. Women occu-
py positions of power and influence
in practically every field of human
endeavor. Those tasks to which
American women set themselves
with determination, they accom-
plish. It is apparent even to the
casual observer that to an ever
greater extent women are becom-
ing the dreamers of the race; that
they are assuming more and more
of the responsibility for fashioning
the ideals of our people; that they
conceive and execute plans of po-
litical and social reform; that they
demand and get better educational
opportunities for their children;
that they lay out the lines which
our cultural development shall fol-
low; that they determine how civi-
lization shall J -velop and what its
ultimate r shall be. Young
women, your capabilities and your
position in the modern world make
you potent influences in shaping
the world of tomorrow. Your ideals
and your attitudes will have much
to do with the future of our peo-
ple and civilization.

Allow me again to congratulate
you on the fact that you arc now
graduates of Agnes Scott College
and that you are going out into the
world at a time when woman's
powers and opportunities are great-
er than at any previous time in
history. Our prayer is that you
will be able in your homes, your
schools, and your communities to
realize fully the high ambitions and
purposes which have been instilled
into you by this grand old institu-
tion. May our fondest hopes for
your success and happiness be ful-
filled!