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New Faculty Faces

J. C. TART

HOWARD THOMAS

DR. WALTER POSEY

DR. PAUL GARBER

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1943

No. 1

'Make Yourselves Known 7
Advice to All New Students

Behind the book marks bearing the signature of Christian
Association, welcoming cards of Student Government and
the friendly greeting you received when you arrived is the
work of four campus leaders Anne Ward, Student Govern-
ment president, Ruth Farrior, head of Christian Association,
Virginia Tuggle, number one girl

of Athletic Association, and Eliza-
beth Edwards, day student repre-
sentative.

Each of these girls has probably
welcomed every freshman and new
upperclassman personally in tne
two days since registration began,
and given a million words of wel-
come and advice to new students.
Here they are gathered as best
could be while the mad rush of
registration was going on.

From Anne Ward :

"It's exciting to welcome each
of you new Hottentots to the Ag-
nes Scott campus! We need your
enthusiasm, your loyalty, your
willingness to assume the respon-
sibility of being a real part of
the campus, community. Begin now
to take hold of every opportunity
for rich and varied experience
which will be yours at Agnes
Scott. Know what goes on here
on campus. Don't miss a thing!
To keep "in the know" on campus
affairs, make chapel attendance a
habit. It will prove to be one
of your most profitable and enjoy-
able ones.

"Along the line of rules and
regulations don't hesitate to ask
your House president or day stu-
dent representative about any-
thing that puzzles you. Their in-
terest is to make campus life for
day students and boarders alike
as pleasant and free from confu-
sion as possible."

Brief, but to the point is the ad-
vice given by Virginia Tuggle,
Athletic Association head:

"We'll expect cooperation from
all of you in making our five
hour gym classes successful. And
don't forget that the tennis courts
and the hockey field are yours
whenever you wish to use them."

To new students Ruth Farrior
says:

"The days ahead are filled with
making friends, taking part in
sports, having all kinds of fun, and
. nding new channels of growth.
These will be the most wonderful
day you can ever imagine. One
thing that makes your years here
so wonderful is that we grow our-
selves we feel the challenge to do

some real service, to help others,
and to find our work and place
in the world. You will be hearing
more about the work of C. A. and
how you can help us. We're going
to have a wonderful year so come
on and join us.

And to day students here's Eli-
zabeth Edward's advice:

"Start now letting the campus
community know that you're here
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Record Enrollment, Staff Shifts
Mark Opening of 55th Session

The fifty-fifth session of Agnes Scott officially opens this
morning at 11 with exercises in Gaines chapel. With the open-
ing of this session students find a faculty more changed by
retirements and resignations than usual. Four departments
have new heads, four faculty members have been promoted
to associate professors, and there

are a number of additions to the
faculty and administrative staff.

Howard Thomas, former acting
head of the art department of the
Woman's College of the Univers-
ity of North Carolina, will inaug-
urate this fall a new set-up in the
art department. Thomas is a
graduate of the Chicago Art Insti-

Read and Clip This Schedule of Events
It's A Guide to the Next Three Weeks

September 15 (Wednesday)

2- 4 P. M. Schedule Committee for
freshmen.

4-5 P. M. French and Spanish
placement tests for boarders.

7:30 P. M. Sophomore skit on
campus customs and meeting of
all freshman boarders in old
chapel.

September 16 (Thursday)

9- 11 A. M., 2-4 P. M. Schedule
Committee for freshmen.

11 A. M. Chapel exercises follow-
ed by Dr. McCain's talk to new
students.

12-1 Library classes for boarders
(A-N)

4:30P. M. Library classes for
boarders (O-Z).

7 :30 P. M. Sing on steps of Main.

8:15 P. M. Speech and musical
recital in Gaines chapel.
September 17 (Friday)

8:30 A. M. Classes begin.

10:30 A. M. Student meeting in
old chapel.

7:10 P. M. Vespers in old chapel.
September 18 (Saturday)

10:30 A. M. Chapel exercises.

8-9 P. M. Reception on quadran-
gle.

10- 11 P. M. Dormitory party in
Inman lobby.

September 19 (Sunday)
9:15 A. M. Dr. McCain's Bible
class for freshmen in Miss
Gooch's studio in Rebekah Scott
Hall.

3- 5 P. M. Open house in Murphey
Candler building.

6:45 P. M. Vespers in Maclean

auditorium.

September 20 (Monday)
5 P. M. Handbook classes for all

new students.
7:10 P. M. Vespers in old chapel.

September 21 (Tuesday)
5 P. M. Handbook classes for all
new students.

7 P. M. Sing on steps of Main.

September 22 (Wednesday)
10:30 A. M. Election of freshman

stunt chairman in chapel.
5 P. M. Handbook classes for all

new students.
7:10 P. M. After-dinner coffee in
Murphey Candler building.
September 23 (Thursday)
5 P. M. Handbook test in Buttrick

for all new students.
7:10 P. M. Vespers in old chapel.

September 24 (Friday)
10:15 A. M. Chapel exercises fol-
lowed by Mr. Stukes' talk on
study habits.
7:10 P. M. Vespers in old chapel.
September 25 (Saturday)

8 P. M. Athletic entertainment in
the gymnasium.

September 26 (Sunday)
6:45 P. M.- Christian Association
reconsecration service.
September 27 (Monday
7:10 P. M. Vespers in old chapel.

September 28 (Tuesday)
4:30 P. M. Day students sign Stu-
dent Government pledge.
October 2 (Saturday)
8 P. M. Sophomore party for
freshmen.

October 9 (Saturday)
8 P. M. Black cat stunt contest.

tute and has studied in other in-
stiutions including the University
of Chicago and the University of
Southern California.

Religious Advisor
Dr. Paul Leslie Garber of Dur-
ham, North Carolina, comes to Ag-
nes Scott as professor of Bible to
succeed Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker,
who retired last June. In addition
to being head of the Bible depart-
ment, he will serve as adviser for
religious services. Dr. Garber is
a native of Johnstown, Penn.
He completed his B. A. and B. D.
work at the University of Cincin-
nati, the College of Wooster, and
Louisville Presbyterian Theological
Seminary. He was awarded the
Ph.D. degree by the Divinity
School of Duke University in 1939.

As acting professor of classi-
cal language and literature, Miss
Susan P. Cobbs will direct the de-
partment formerly headed by Pro-
fessor Catherine Torrance.
Posey Heads History
Dr. Walter B. Posey has been
appointed head of the history de-
partment. Formerly head of the
history department and the divis-
ion of social sciences at Birming-
ham-Southern College, Dr. Posey
studied at the University of Chi-
cago, Cumberland University, and
Vanderbilt University.

Faculty promotions include the
advancement of Mrs. Florence
Dunstan to assistant professor of
Spanish, Miss Kathryn Glick to as-
sociate professor of classical lan-
guages and literatures, Miss Ellen
Douglas Leyburn to associate pro-
fessor of English, and Miss Kath-
erine Omwake to associate pro-
fessor of psychology and educa-
tion.

Other Changes

Other members have been added
to the faculty because of depart-
mental expansion and resignations.
As college physician, Dr. J. A.
McCullough replaces Dr. Eugenia
C. Jones, who is entering private
practive in Atlanta.

Miss Margaret Ridley, B. A. Ag-

An unofficial tabulation of the
1943-44 registration shows that
Georgia, South Carolina, and
Florida hold the top place in
boarding students registered.
From Georgia 119 students are
registered, from South Carolina,
42, and from Florida, 33. Repre-
sentation from other states is as
follows :

North Carolina 28

Virginia 23

Tennessee 18

Alabama 15

Kentucky 11

Mississippi 10

New York 9

West Virginia 5

Texas 4

Ohio 4

Louisiana 3

Arkansas 2

Missouri 2

Illinois 2

Washington, D. C 2

Pennsylvania 2

Indiana 1

Minnesota 1

New Jersey 1

Puerto Rico 1

Over two hundred day stu-
dents are registered. Total reg-
istration is approximately 545.

nes Scott, returns to assist in the
office of the dean of the faculty
and to teach English. Miss Ridley
was president of Student Govern-
ment while in college here, and is
now president of the Alumnae As-
sociation.

To meet the demand for more
classes in Spanish, Miss Ruth Dom-
incovich is joining the department
as instructor. She formerly taught
at the Friends' Select School in
Philadelphia.

Miss Lewis Lipps, B. A. Wes-
leyan College, is to be an instruc-
tor in biology; Miss Abbie Rut-
ledge, B. S. Texas State College
for Women, will assist in the phy-
sical education department; and
Miss Emma McGinty, B. A. Bre-
nau college, is an assistant in the
chemistry department.

Tart Takes New Duties

The major change in the ad-
ministrative staff of the college is
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makes it difficult for some to en-
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can keep on the inside of things
from the first by attending chapel
regularly, meeting as many board-
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Record Enrollment

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the appointment of J. C. Tart as
business manager-treasurer. Tart
thus takes over the duties of R. B.
Cunningham, business manager,
who retired this June, in addition
to his work as treasurer.

As assistant business manager-
treasurer the college has appointed
Howard MacGregor, a graduate
of the Johns Hopkins School of
Business Administration. Before
coming to Agnes Scott MacGregor

was treasurer of Queen's College
in Charlotte, N. C.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1943

No. 2

Student Government Week
To Present 1943-44 Theme

Student Government Week will be observed beginning
Tuesday, October 12, it was announced by Anne Ward, Stu-
dent Government president, this week. During the week
members of Student Government will present chapel pro-
grams introducing the association's theme for the year "To-
day's Agnes Scott Student To-

War Council
Names Girls
As Wardens

Squee Woolford, chairman of
War Council, this week announced
the appointment of air raid war-
dens for each dormitory. In addi-
tion to their duties during air
raid alarms, these girls will also
be in charge of the sale of war
stamps on their wing.

Dormitory wardens include Re-
bekah Scott, second floor, Mary
Quigley, Mary Russell, and Caro-
lyn Hall; third floor, Mary Mc-
Conkey, Bunny Weems, and Mary
Cargill; Main, second floor, Betty
Sullivan and Mary Alice Hunter;
third floor, Carolyn Calhoun and
Meg Bless; Inman, first floor, Mary
Ann Craig and Bippy Gribble; sec-
ond floor, Hilda Taber and Shan-
non DuBose; third floor, Mar-
garet Cochran and Mary Jane
Fuller; Gaines, Jane Meadows
and Harriette Dougherty; White
House, Ceevah Rosenthal and
Frances King; Boyd, Virginia
Bowie and Lib Farmer; Lupton,
Sara Milford and June Bedinger.

War Council requests that ev-
eryone become thoroughly famil-
iar with blackout signals and in-
structions.

At the "blue signal," one long
blast of the siren, students are to
turn out their lights, pull down
the shades and close the door to
their rooms, and either remain
quietly in their rooms or go to
the blacked-out hall in their dor-
mitory. Students who are in the
library or in Presser when an air
raid begins are to remain in the
blacked-out portions of those
buildings until the end of the raid.
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morrow's Citizen."

Anne Ward will speak on Tues-
day morning using the theme as
a subject. Molly Milam, student
body secretary, will continue the
week's series on Wednesday,
speaking on "Why Rules?"

Thursday's program will be
highlighted by a skit on "What
Student Government Does." Boxes
will be placed in the mail room
for suggesting rules and policies
of Student Government for discus-
sion on the program Wednesday.
Final Speaker
Miss Margaret Ridley will be
the final speaker of the week. Her
subject is the opportunity afford-
ed by the honor system for de-
veloping self control. Miss Ridley
is a former student body presi-
dent and is now teaching in the
English department. She is also
president of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association.

South Pacific Paintings
To Be Shown Here

A tentative schedule of exhibi-
tions in the art gallery in the li-
brary was announced this week by
Howard Thomas, professor of art.

Scheduled for' October 25
through November 10 are the
paintings of Reuben Gambril, for-
mer University of Georgia artist
now stationed in the South Pacific,
and Dr. Souchon of New Orleans,
a physician who gave up medicine
for paintingbut has recently re-
turned to the medical profession.

According to the tentative
schedule paintings and textiles by
Joseph and Anni Albers will be
shown from November 15 through
December 5.

The final exhibition of the quar-
ter will be a show of Mr. Thomas'
works to be on display from De-
cember 8 through January 9.

A student show is planned for
the middle of February.

Hugh Hodgson
To Be Soloist
On Music Hour

The 1943-44 series of music ap-
preciation hours to be presented
on the campus will begin Monday
evening October 11, with a pro-
gram of "Parallels and Contrasts"
by Hugh Hodgson, pianist. The
program will begin at 8 p. m. in
Maclean auditorium of Presser
hall.

Four preludes will make up the
first part of the program. They
are Bach's Fragment of a Suite,
Mendelssohn's Prelude in E Minor,
Preludes from Opus 28 by Chopin,
and Debussy's "Sunken Cathe-
dral."

Gavottes by Bach, Brahms,
d'Albert, and Prokofieff will be
presented on the second part, fol-
lowed by three nocturnes, Schu-
mann's Nocturne in F, Nocturne
in C by Greig, and Nocturne in
C Sharp by Chopin.

As the final part of the pro-
gram Mr. Hodgson will present a
group of etudes including Etude
in B Flat Minor by Mendelssohn,
Etude in D Flat by Liszt, Etudes
in F by Chopin, "The Tartar
Horseman" by Schytte, "If I were
a Bird," by Henselt, Etude in
C Sharp Minor by Scriabin, and
"Polka Dots" by Hodgson.

The programs, presented by Ag-
nes Scott in cooperation with the
University Center program are
open to the public free of charge.

Chinese Actress to Appear
At Emory This Evening

The Emory University Student
Lecture Association will present
Soo Yong^ well-known Chinese
stage and screen actress, in a pro-
gram of dramatic monologues to-
night at 8 o'clock in Glenn Mem-
orial Auditorium.

A sketch from the Chinese pop-
ular opera, "Hoong Ngan Nee,"
given first in English and then in
Chinese, will be Miss Soo's open-
ing selection. She will follow this
with a scene from the Chinese his-
torical drama, "The Rainbow
Pass," telling the story of the
treacherous staying of a Chinese
warrior and his wife's heroic re-
venge on the villain.

For her third selection Miss Soo
will present "Out From the Inner
Apartments," a complete playlet
portraying the gradual emergence
of Chinese women from their cen-
turies-old enforced seclusion to

their present-day active participa-
tion in public affairs.

SOO YONG

Blackfriars Tryouts
Scheduled Oct. 7

Upperclassmen who wish to try
out for Blackfriars will have an
opportunity tomorrow night at
7:30. The only requirement is the
completion of Speech 105.

Each girl trying out will give a
reading chosen from a list posted
in the reserve room of the library.
Members of the Blackfriars board
and the club faculty advisers,
Miss Frances Gooch and Miss
Roberta Winter, will judge the
tryouts. Results will be announced
as soon as possible so that new
members may begin participating
immediately in Blackfriars activi-
ties.

Jane Everett, properties chair-
man, and Emily Anne Singletary,
costume chairman, will assist in
the tryouts by providing a modi-
fied stage setting.

Blackfriars has not yet chosen
its first play, but Martha Marie
Trimble, president of the club, has
announced that a three-act play
will be given in November.

Silhouette Photos
Taken This Week

"White shirts, and not too much
lipstick, please!" urges Anne Jac-
ob, editor of the 1943-44 Silhou-
ette, in regard to the annual pic-
tures which are being taken this
week.

Pictures are being made in the
basement of Murphey Candler
building each day between 8:30
a. m. and 5:00 p. m.

Friday, October 8, is the last
day on which the pictures will be
taken. Girls who have not signed
for appointments are asked to do
so immediately.

Frosh Sophs to Vie
For Cat Saturday

Helen Roper and Jane Meadows
Head Rival Class Preparations

Class spirit and competition will run rampant Saturday-
night at 8:30 in the gym when the freshman and sophomore
classes present the Black Cat stunt. Helen Roper will lead
the sophs into the fray against the freshmen, headed by Jane

Meadows.

Exec Members
Choose Theme

The executive committee of
Student Government, meeting on
September 11 at Harrison Hut, se-
lected "Today's Agnes Scott Stu-
dent Tomorrow's Citizen" as the
association's theme for the year
and planned activities to carry out
the theme, according to Anne
Ward, student body president.

Progams, accordng to Anne, will
stress "the gain in self control,
personal^ development, and intel-
lectual integrity which will result
from living under an honor sys-
tem such as we have at Agnes
Scott."

Exec also made plans for gath-
ering campus opinion on Student
Government activities through
lower house representatives.

Member of lower house have
been asked to assist especially in
determining topics to be discuss-
ed at open forums.

Yearbook Wins
All American

The 1943 Silhouette was one of
seven yearbooks from women's col-
leges with enrollment of between
500 and 999 to be awarded All Am-
erican honor rating by the Na-
tional Scholastic Press Associa-
tion, according to an announce-
ment received by Ann Jacob, ed-
itor of this year's Silhouette.

The Silhouette was in competi-
tion with 23 other annuals of its
group. This is the sixth consecu-
tive year the Silhouette has won
this honor.

Last year's annual was edited by
Ruth Lineback, now a graduate
student at Yale University in
New Haven, Connecticut.

Forum Will Be Held
In Murphey Candler

Eudice Tontak, president of In-
ternational Relations Club, an-
nounced the organization's first
forum which will be on city gov-
ernment, will be held Thursday
evening October 7, at 8, in Mur-
phey Candler building.

The program is the first in a
series of a study of government,
the club's special topic for the
year.

Other officers of the club are
Marjorie Tippins, vice-president,
and Wendy Whittle, secretary-
treasurer.

All those interested are invited
to attend this and other meetings
of the International Relations
club.

According to custom, each class
creates and produces an original
skit, to be judged by faculty mem-
bers elected by the students. The
class showing the most originality,
skill, and ability wins a silver bell
to be inscribed with its initials and
then permanently put around the
neck of the famous Black Cat. A
class lucky enough to win two
years wins a gold bell the second
time.

Other sophomore committee
chairmen are: publicity, Jane Ann
Newton; program, Marjorie Naab;
decorations, Gloria Gaines; stage
settings, Harding Ragland; prop-
erties, Mary Argill ; costumes, Ted-
dy Bear; make-up, Doris Purcell;
cleanup, Frances DuBose. Sopho-
more cheerleaders are Mary Louise
Bealer and Marguerite Watson.

Freshman committee heads are
as follows: writing, Nellie Scott;
scenery, Ruth Gracy; decorations,
Louise Hoyt; properties, "Muff"
and "Fluff" Paisley; costumes.
Mary Jane Love. Betty Ann Zeig-
ler and Joyce Gilleland are fresh-
man cheer leaders.

Members of the junior class act
as advisers to their sister fresh-
men, while the seniors assist the
sophomores.

Program Will Stress
Parliamentary Law

On Thursday, October 21, Stu-
dent Government association will
sponsor a chapel program to pre-
sent to the student body the
fundamentals of parliamentary
law.

The program will begin with a
talk by Clare Bedinger, vice-presi-
dent of Student Government. Fol-
lowing this several members of
lower house will present a skit on:
the right and wrong ways to parti-
cipate in an open forum. At the>
close of the program, students will
be asked to hand in topics for the
first open forum of the year,
which will be held at an early
date.

Members of lower house who
will take part in the skit are Betty
Andrews, Dale Bennett, Kathleen
Buchanan, Mary Duckworth, Bun-
ny Gray, Ann Haggard, Martha
Polk, Betty Jean Radford, Jean
Rooney, Jean Stewart, and
Frances Stukes.

*7/iU Week.. .

Wednesday, Oct. 6-Friday, Oct. 8,
Silhouette pictures taken in
basement of Murphey Candler.

Saturday, Oct. 9 8 p. m., Black
Cat Stunt.

Monday, Oct. 11 8 p. m., Musical
in Maclean auditorium.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 8:30 p. m.,
Richard Crook, Bidu Sayao,
Municipal auditorium.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1943

Tentative Plans
Announced by
War Council

War Council has announced that
its financial project for the year
will be voted on by the student
body at an early date. Suggestions
for the project are already under
consideration by council members.

Plans for War Council include
several speakers on current events
for chapel and programs bringing
various aspects of the war before
the student body. War Council is
also considering another war con-
ference similar to the one held
last spring. An alternative sug-
gestion is to have several speakers
at different times throughout the
year.

Each dormitory wing will take
turns at selling war stamps in the
lobby of Buttrick from 9:00 a. m.
to 12:30 p. m. daily. Camilla
Moore will direct the can-smash-
ing with each wing being responsi-
ble for a week at a time. East
wing of second floor Main will
can-smash this week.

Girls interested in doing Red
Cross work such as rolling band-
ages, knitting, or secretarial work
as Red Cross staff assistants may
obtain information from any mem-
ber of War Council.

Squee Woolford, president of
War Council, will announce fur-
ther plans next week.

Three*Staff M embers 1
Added to Alumnae
Office^and Tea Room

Three new members have been
added to the staff of the Anna
Young Alumnae House to carry
on the work of the Alumnae asso-
ciation and manage the tea room,
according to a recent announce-
ment from the association.

Mrs. W. L. Rhodes, who as Jane
Guthrie graduated with the class
of 1938, has been appointed alum-
nae secretary and has taken over
the office in the tea house and is
supervising work on the Alumnae
Quarterly. Mrs. Rhodes succeeds
Miss Harriotte Brantley.

New managers for the Silhouette
Tea Room are Mrs. J. B. Bunnell,
former Sigma Nu housemother at
Emory, and Mrs. E. Q. Harris.

Tennis Tournament
Begins This Week

Agnes Scott's annual tennis sin-
gles tournament gets under way
this week.

Those participating in the tour-
nament and slated for first round
play are Betty Jean Radford,
Katheryn Dozier, Ruth Ryner,
Patty Dean, Joan Crangle Colin
Staton, Virginia Tuggle, Ann
Hough, Betty Andrews, Mary
Munroe, Mary Cumming, and
Gloria Gaines. Virginia Tuggle is
defending champion, Mary Mun-
roe last year's runner-up.

Ann Hough and Betty Andrews
were named to membership in
Tennis club after the final tryouts
Monday. Old members of the club
acted as judges for the tryouts.

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Posey Sparing
With B's Now

No. 131 College Place has been
hearing the tramp of men moving
in its new occupants Dr. and
Mrs. Walter Brownlow Posey and
their eight-year-old daughter
Blythe and tons of notes and
books on American history, es-
pecially the American frontier, for
Dr. Posey is the new professor
of history.

The name of Agnes Scott is add-
ed to Dr. Posey's long list of
schools in which he has been eith-
er a teacher or a student Vander-
bilt, Washington University, Pea-
body, Universities of Michigan,
Chicago, Hawaii, Alabama, West
Virginia Wesleyan, and Cumber-
land University.

In fact, it was at Cumberland
University, where he held his first
teaching position, that he met
Mrs. Posey, then Miss Grisham,
student. He chuckled as he re-
marked, "And I gave her one of
the few B's she ever got." Maybe
that was to attract her attention.
But he taught her of all things
financial organization. This is one
man who had better not talk about
his wife's budget keeping.

Dr. Posey says he meant to
practice law, but his early exper-
iences while teaching encouraged
him to continue, so 20 years later
here he is moving into another
faculty row home.

X-Ray Examinations
Thursday and Friday

All Agnes Scott students will
report for x-rays at the gymnas-
ium between 11 a. m. and 4 p. m.
on Thursday, and 11 a. m. to 2:45
p. m. on Friday.

Those who have scheduled gym
classes during any of these hours
need not sign up individually. They
should report for x-rays at their
regularly scheduled hour. Fresh-
men will come at thje time of
their "fundamentals" class. All
others will sign on the lists posted
on the back bulletin board in
Buttrick.

The faculty is urged to take ad-
vantage of the offer of the Georgia
Board of Health to give x-ray ex-
aminations to the entire college
community. Faculty x-rays are
from 11 to 12 on Thursday morn-
ing.

By Margaret Drummond

A botanist might say that fall
is when the leaves turn, the seed
pods form, and the golden rod
abounds; a zoologist, when the
creepy, crawling things depart this
earthly travail, the birds fly south,
and the butterflies (for 207)) are
practically non-existent; a physic-
ist, when a certain something
crosses a certain something in the
planetary orbit. A grammarian
would most likely impart this ^in-
formation; fall is the time the sea-
son between summer and winter,
the third season of the year called
in common parlance the "fall."

Hottentots, their interests in-
clined in slightly different direc-
tions, will recognize these as sure-
fire signs that it's time to get
hep to the signs of nature: the
echoes of "Fine, thank you. Did
you have a nice summer?" have
(thank gofodness!) faded into bliss-
ful oblivion; the plaintive plea of
"the books haven't come yet" is
no longer justification for forgot-
ten lessons; the wild shout of
"there's one," followed by a digni-
fied ( ? ) upperclassman, butterfly
net in hand, lunging in the direc-
tion of some small winged crea-
ture, is now a common cry on
campus.

All of which goes to say that
now's the time to get hep, chillun.
Come on down to the gym, and
work off that extra tonnage. Grab
a hockey stick, and get out on the
field. So what if you don't know
how; you know that old one
about not learning any younger.
There are plunge-periods, skating
and archery every day of the
week; the hours are posted on
the bulletin board. These crisp
fall days are invigorating; even
the most decrepit of us can may-
be re-discover that long-forgotten
spark of energy.

Guess Who?

You've met her, of course, but
did you know: that her favorite
book is Random Harvest, she was
president of her class during her
senior year at G. S. C. W., and
was rated among the Who's Who
of American Colleges and Univers-
ity Students, she is a striking
blonde, has a likable personality,
and has never been known (her

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Only the Black Cat Gang

By Pauline Ertz

Once upon a time there was a sophomore class and a fresh-
man class. There is both joy and pathos in this saga of the
frosh-soph Black Cat Stunt.

For days before the big night in the gym, the students
worked like beavers. Daily pep meetings led by rip-snortin'
cheerleaders no doubt caused

neighboring Decaturites to think
that Agnes Scott had installed a
football team.

Ha! Little did the outside world
know what went on in secret coun-
cils of state, behind locked doors,
and after lights. Script, costumes,
songs, scenery all went into the
creation of Black Cat stunt night.

Before the actual battle, of
course, there were some prelimin-
ary skirmishes, such as the raid
on the frosh in Inman, and the
"funeral" procession around the
Soph dorm.

But finally THE GREAT DAY
approaches, and jthen it is night
and the curtain in Bucher Scott
gymnasium parts and the actual
fun has begun. The audience sits
up in their seats. At the end of
tw r o hours the suspense is more
than they can bear. Which class
will win a bell to hang on the
revered ebony feline ? What is the
magic key to victory? What is
the secret?

(Dear reader, if we knew we
would now be retired on the mil-
lions made from distributing wise-
ly the information to both classes.)

associates declare) to Jose her
temper.

That her very favorite food is
French fried potatoes (with a
juicy thick steak running a close
second), her father owns a cattle
ranch in Texas, and she herself
has a love- of the "wide open
spaces," she likes light blue better
than any other color, and can do
rope tricks as well as many cow-
boys, that she loves sad, sad
movies, and admits "weeping buc-
kets" at " 'Til We Meet Again" ?

That she likes shrimp, loves
dogs and Agnes Scott (not to be
putting us Hottentots in any cer-
tain class, but ), she's a tennis
and badminton expert, and outside
of her major subject, physical edu-
cation liked government better
than any other subject in college,
that she's a Bette Davis and Rob-
ert Taylor (oh boy!) fan, and
made her debut at Agnes Scott in
the famous "Willie Rut" act of
some few weeks ago?

Who? Miss Rutledge, of course.

War Council

(Continued from Page 1)
At the all-clear, two short blasts
of the siren, all lights are to be
turnecj, on, and students are to re-
turn to their rooms.

Full instructions for blackouts,
together with the names of the air
raid wardens, are posted in each
room of the dormitories.

Lower House Elects
Elizabeth Osborne

Lower house held its first meet-
ing of the quarter September 30,
at 4:30 p. m. in Buttrick hall.
Martha Ray Lasseter, president
of the organization, told the new-
ly-elected members the plans for
the quarter and explained to them
their duties as representatives.

The members elected as secre-
tary Elizabeth Osborne, who will
meet with Exec before and after
each meeting of lower house.

Other representatives are Betty
Andrews, Dale Bennett, Margaret
Bond, Kathleen Buchanan, Betty
Campbell, Mary Cumming, Beth
Daniel, Mary Duckworth, Pat
Elam, Bunny Gray, Ann Haggard,
Louise Hoyt, Peggy Jones, Mary
McConkey, Aurie Montgomery,
Jessie Newbold, Bet Patterson,
Martha Polk, . Joan Race, Betty
Jean Radford, Jean Rooney, Nel-
lie Scott, Bess Sheppard, Jean
Stewart, Frances Stukes, Wendy
Whittle, and Smiley Williams.

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The Interfraternity dance at
Emory Saturday night was a real
success according to enthusiastic
bull sessions heard in all the
dorms afterwards. The student
orchestra was really in the groove
and the Little Auditorium echoed
with their jive. Robin Robinson
was there looking luscious in a
light blue dress that exactly
matched her eyes. Jean Chevvning,
Barbara Connally, Mary Ann
Courtenay, Narvie Lu Cunning-
ham, Eleanor Davis, Dootsy Gard-
ner, Lura Johnston, Stratton Lee,
Ann Murrell, Anne Noell, Mary
Louise Starr and Lucy Turner
were there.

Also seen were Maud Van Dyke,
Bunny Weems, Eva Williams,
Martha Rhodes, Patty Barbour,
Claire Bennett, Laurie Looper,
Gene Goode, Jean Williams, Mary
Frances Anderson, Barbara Omer,
Marguerite Watson, Katherine
Edelblut, Mary Neely Norris, Kit-
ty Kaye, Emily Singletary, Lois
Sullivan, Joyce Freeman, June
Lanier, June Thomason, Edith
Burgess, Margaret McManus,
Anne Scott, Mary McCalla, Kate
Ellis, Ruth Gracy, Mickie Derieux,
and Eleanor Calley.

Sig House Dance

The Sigma Chi house dance over
at Tech attracted Mary Beth Dan-
ielson, Mary Duckworth, Dale
Bennett, and Mynell Grove Satur-
day night.

Helping the Emory Delta Tau
Deltas enjoy the first signs of
fall at their picnic Saturday were
Maud Van Dyke, Lura Johnston,
Dootsy Gardner, Anne Murrell,
Gene Goode and Eleanor Davis.
There were colored leaves already,
and you should have seen that
clear October sky!

The Zip banquet and formal at

the Piedmont Driving club was an
event of Friday night. Elizabeth
Harris, Hilda Taber, Margaret
McManus, Glassy Beale, Wakie
Wakefield, Jeanne Robinson, Claire
Bennett, June Thomason, Carolyn
Daniels, Julia Harvard, Jean
Chewning, Narvie Lu Cunningham
and Julia Scott were there from
Agnes Scott. Did you see starry-
eyed Margaret Shaw, one of our
newest alumnae, there with her
husband-to-be ?

Alumnae on Campus

And speaking of alumnae,
wasn't it good to see Mary Anne
Cochran, who visited her sister
Margaret over the week-end?
Mary Anne is busy this year sup-
ply teaching in the high school
at home.

Nancy Moses McCullough was
on campus, too, visiting Eugenia
Jones. Nancy is on her way to
join her husband, after a short
visit home to Chattanooga. When
not busy with house-keeping
duties, Nancy says she enjoys vis-
iting across the Mexican border,
which is not far from McAllen,
Texas, where Lt. McCullough is
stationed.

Betty Sullivan, Sue Mitchell and
Yoli Bernabe enjoyed driving to
Roanoke, Ala., where they spent
the week-end at home with Elean-
or Manley. They went horse-back
riding early Sunday and drove
back in the afternoon, all par-
ticularly enthusiastic about Mrs.
Manley's cooking.

Gloria Gaines went home to
Anderson, S. C, Tommie Huie to
Jonesboro, Ga., Jane Everett,
Joanne Benton, and Laura Win-
chester to Macon, Betty Wade to
Cornelia, Ga.

Visiting Christina Yates was
her mother, while Martha Woodall
spent the week-end with her sis-
ter, Frances.

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Seniors Named
As Chaperones

Dean Carrie Scandrett an-
nounced this week the names of
seniors who, in accordance with a
custom of several years' standing
at Agnes Scott, will act as senior
chaperones.

Those who have accepted in-
clude Martha Ray Lasseter, Mary
Maxwell, Bobbie Powell, Mary
Frances Carter, Mary Florence
McKee, Bunny Gray, Meg Bless,
Anne Sale, Aurie Montgomery,
Barbara Connally, Miriam Wal-
ker, Clare Bedinger, Elise Tilgh-
man, Squee Woolford, Ruth Far-
rior, Marjorie Tippins, Ann
Wright, Ruth Kolthoff, Anne
Ward, Mary Carr, Cathy Stein-
bach, Betty Sullivan, Tommie
Huie, Pat Evans, Katherine Phil-
lips, Martha Rhodes, Camilla
Moore, Claire Bennett, Patty Bar-
bour, and Kathy Hill.

Each girl who has been ap-
pointed as a chaperone has filed
in the Dean's office the nights
when she will be most free to ac-
company freshmen on off-campus
dates.

Pre-Medical Exams

Pre-medical examinations will
be given November 5, at 3:00 in
5 Buttrick hall, to all girls plan-
ning to attend medical school.

The examination is an entrance
requirement for most medical col-
leges. No previous knowledge of
medicine is necessary, but the test
precludes some knowledge of
chemistry, biology, and* physics.

Any one preparing to take the
examination should notify Miss
Katherine Omwake, associate pro-
fessor of psychology and educa-
tion.

A fee of one dollar will be charg-
ed for the examination.

News Staff Tryouts

Tryouts for the staff of the
Agnes Scott News will be held
from October 8 through October
13. Any upperclassmen interested
should see Madeline Hosmer im-
mediately for details. Freshmen
are not eligible.

News Feature Editor Duffee
Combines Emory- ASC Studies

If the Agnes Scott News begins to look strangely like the
Emory Wheel, it's only because its feature editor, Mary Louise
Duffee, Agnes Scott student and Emory co-ed, is a member of
the staff of both the News and the Wheel and some day may
get her papers mixed.

As a journalism major Duffee (does anyone call her Mary
Louise ? ) takes her courses on the

Emory campus and is an ace re-
porter for the Wheel. She is one
of the few undergraduate co-eds
on the Emory campus and among
the first Agnes Scott students to
work for a degree in journalism.

At Agnes Scott she takes one
course and spends the rest of her
time on the campus ferreting out
material for feature stories and
for her editorial page column.

The only drawback to taking
courses at both schools, according
to Duffee, is having a class from
10 to ^11 at Agnes Scott and one

Spanish Club to Meet,

'iscuss /ear s

pi

ans

The Spanish club will hold its
first meeting of the year at 4:30
this afternoon in Murphey Candler
building.

At the meeting, called by Ade-
laide Humphreys, president, mem-
bers will discuss plans for the
year and tryouts for the club.

The purpose of the club is to
learn to speak Spanish freely, and
this year to study the Latin Amer-
ican countries through programs
by both members and outside
speakers. All meetings will be
conducted in Spanish.

Special entertainments, such as
a fiesta and a Pan-American Day
celebration, open to the college
community, will be given during
the year.

Students of Spanish who have
reached the 101 level are eligible
to try out whether they are now
studying the language or not. Try-
outs for the club will begin after
the Black Cat stunt.

Other officers of the club are
Julia Slack, vice-president and
Carolyn Calhoun, secretary-treas-
urer.

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Duffee comes by her journalis-
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itor and member of the staff of
the United Press.

Library Committee
Ask for Suggestions

The library committee met
Thursday night for the first time
at Miss Hanley's home. Plans for
the year were discussed. Betty
Long is the head of this commit-
tee. The class representatives are
Elizabeth Gribble, senior; Leila
Holmes, junior; Margaret Mizell,
sophomore; Margaret McManus,
freshman, and Betty Bowman, day
student.

The purpose of the library com-
mittee is to promote good will be-
tween the students and the library
and to keep students in the li-
brary conscious of the honor sys-
tem. Any suggestions from the
students will be welcomed by the
committee.

The committee will meet bi-
monthly to discuss getting books
which interest the students for the
rental library, to make posters in
the library, and to be in charge
of Book Week.

Kathleen Buchanan Heads
Freshman Bible Class

Freshman Bible Class for 1943-
44 is headed by Kathleen Buch-
anan as president and Florence
Paisley as vice-president. Other
officers elected recently are Joan
Race, secretary; Martha Paisley,
treasurer; and Agnes Harnsber-
ger, pianist.

/ The class' topic for next Sunday
will be "My Expense Account."
Meetings are held each Sunday at
9:15 a. m. in Miss Gooch's studio in
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Duffee Writes

Forty-Five Lines

By Mary Louise Duffee

(The little slip says, "45 type-
written lines of your usual fare."
Hosmer spells it "fair".)

We've been here long enough
now so that it's only every other
day that someone mentions how
cute the freshmen are, instead of
every other minute like at first
and everyone but me has met all
the new people. (I had to show a
passport at the dean's office the
other night.) I'm loyal though,
honest. A couple of weeks ago the
Emory Wheel ran an editorial en-
titled "Meet Miss Agnes."

Well, we hear PSG Anne
Ward has witnessed proof that
she's taking her new responsibil-
ities to heart. It seems a Sun-
day or so ago Molly Milam and
her crew were visiting so loud-
ly over at Boyd that they had
to be quieted and later called
down by Miss Symms, after
which they asked forgiveness
and not to be expelled or any-
thing. Bystanders insist that la-
ter, joining in the singing at
vespers, President Ward, who
had been approached by the
merry offenders on whether or
not they would be expelled for
their misdeeds, gave out un-
consciously with "Love divine
all love expelling . .
And speaking of BWOC's (Big
Women on the Campus) it's going
to seem funny not to have them
all Drawn and Quarter oops!
Drawn and Cut by Pobai Crane.
Conversation of two seniors:
"Maybe it's look OR, but I just
can't see the idea,"
"What idea."

"Changing the length of our
robes Squee distinctly told me
to measure from the top of my
head to the floor."

Naiveness, or "naivite" as we
French say, was responsible for
BettYE Ashcraft getting a
seat of honor the other day. It
was on a visit to Fort Mac to see
/iance Jeff that he and Ash-
craft decided to go to church at
the post chapel. They were a lit-
tle late, but Ash noticed the first
three rows were vacant except
for one elderly couple and trip-
ped daintily down the aisle with
Jeff and another lieutenant in
tow and sat with the officer and
his wife. It was not until the
chaplain began smiling and nod-
ding conspicuously in their direc-
tion that they began to feel un-
comfortable. Colonel Early, the
commandant, in whose pew they
were sitting, was being honored
at a special service on the occasion
of his retirement from the army.
Nothing makes you feel like
a senior more than sitting in the
(Iran's office at night (hatting
with the dean and watching the
freshmen and sophomores sign
in and out. No offense to the
juniors, but they always seem
to be the "lost" class socially
don't get around like the frosh
and sophs, but aren't as con-
spicuously on the shelf as the
seniors and "wa-ah widows." As
someone said, the only differ-
ence between freshmen and sen-
iors is that the seniors have
been here four years.
Note to freshmen: You are hav-
ing the time of your lives. Realize
it and enjoy every minute of it.
To paraphrase a fellow columnist
(Henry McLemore) : Being a fresh-
man can be more fun than being
on Frank Sinatra's draft board.
Pledged MLD.
And then there was the date
who added to the Dun and Brad-
street questionaire given to all
dates as they come into Main,
"blood-type i."

Hou,W Uck Ve. 1^ of J\ J

For Freshmen and Upperclassmen

Pity the poor freshmen! From the first mo-
ment they set trembling feet upon the campus
they are oriented to within an inch of their
life, and then in the first issue of the News
they find an editorial on how to get along as
a freshman written by an editor who hasn't
been a freshman for three years and, further-
more, admits that everything she learned at
orientation went in one ear and out of the
3ther!

Maybe it's just the excitement of a new
school, but a lot of orientation hints manage
to be forgotten. Here are a few reminders.

Being friendly is terribly important around
here. Maybe you were a little surprised when
on the very first day of school everyone
greeted you with a cheery "Hey, there," or
words to that effect. That's just Agnes Scott
no other way of explaining it. So carry on
the tradition of friendliness, won't you?

When the stunt's over and you settle down
to real campus life without the complica-
tions of practices and pep sessions, stop and
think there's a war on and there are plenty
of ways that we on the campus can back the
fighters at Salerno and Bizerte. Jump right
in and smash cans. It's the accepted campus
occupation for off hours. Maybe you too will
learn to "hate the American Can Company."
Try some Red Cross knitting. You can't study

Don't You Think

. . . that it's high time the mud hole down by
the gate was filled in? With the gate so
resplendent in its new paint job it seems a
little silly to have visitors disillusioned as they
enter the campus and step into the sand, or
even worse, mud in rainy weather.

. . . that the freshmen are a swell bunch ?
No elaboration needed.

. . . that we could make things easier for the
dietitians if when we eat cafeteria style we
take only the things we want, and waste noth-
ing? It's perfectly all right to go back for
seconds on the things that are plentiful, but
inexcusable to take something, like bacon at
breakfast, and then leave it untouched.

. . . that seniors should wear caps and gowns
on Saturdays at chapel after Investiture? It's
a link with the past that's worth keeping and a
part of the world for which we fight even at
this moment.

. that we could help the depleted library-
staff by keeping up the wonderful record for
quiet in the library? When every moment is
taken up with reshelving and checking out
books, they should not have to take time out
to keep discipline.

all the time and knitting is a good way of
relaxing when you're dead tired from chas-
ing flora and fauna for Biology 101 and hav-
ing reactions in chemistry lab.

There are newspapers and current events
magazines in the library especially for you,
and it's a very good idea to give them the once
over every so often.

But most important of all advice to fresh-
men is this it's not as bad as you think.
Look at all the seniors who survived being
freshmen with never a scar or a nervous
breakdown to show for it. Just remember
that being a freshman isn't likely to be fatal.
Relax!

And before you get any further along the
road to that B.A., learn to do what probably
200 per cent of the upperclassmen (especially
the editor) haven't learned. Make your reso-
lutions today and keep them today not to-
morrow.

The Bell Tolls

No longer do we have scholarship girls
to give us welcomed messages that "You're
wanted on the phone." Hence, it is necessary
to find a plan whereby a few kind-hearted
girls don't spend the night answering the
phone for the rest of us lazy creatures.

In some schools this plan, which seems
fairest to all, is used. The girl who receives
a call answers the phone and runs messages
until another receives a call and takes the
job over. Thus, the girls who receive few calls
don't have to play maid to those who do. And
the more calls, the more times to answer the
phone for someone else.

And is it too much to ask that we go to the
room and knock ? If no one is there, why not
leave a note that so-and-so called at such-and-
such a time ? And sign your name in case she
wants more information. Telephone calls can
be important.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, October 6, 1943 No. 2

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A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

The perils of writing a column
for the editorial page: sleepy on
a Monday morning after a Satur-
day deadline, no ideas of course
and everyone else on campus
asleep except the editor who sits
glowering on third floor Main wait-
ing for the forty-five lines. As
Madeline says: "Duff is very amus-
ing and you are very sickening.
Wonderful contrast."

First whirl of a new session
and the great flock of new faces
is settling down into recognition.
Freshmen, as is the plight of
all freshmen, moan "Time. They
want us to budget time! But
we don't have any." Themes,
then tests, then exams. And,
oh, yes, somewhere in between
the stunt, a hazy conglomera-
tion of colors and yells.
The autumn leaves have not yet
fallen, but we know it is autumn.
Botany students have been strip-
ping the trees even better than
nature. And at least nature does
not take the trouble to mutter in-
cantations over them "Is this
veined, is this veined, is this even
a leaf?"

The war has not yet struck
home. There are the few of us
who have lost friends or brothers.
But really it is still something
far-away that one glimpses mom-
entarily in headlines of a news-
paper, some word on the radio,
or the figure of the few maimed
or wounded soldiers that can walk
the streets.

War Council was organized on
the campus when the war began
that we might contribute our
share. The third war loan drive
has just finished but stamps must
yet be sold. Last year these sales
lagged on the campus miserably.
The means by which the stamps
were sold proved inadequate. The
clubs of the campus were asked
to be in charge of the booth in
the lobby of Buttrick. The first
month was good, but after a few
weeks enthusiasm died down. Few
stamps were sold. Only a few
girls regularly bought them. They
alone sustained the drive. Toward
the end of the year the booth was
given up entirely.

Heard In Mr. Hodgson's one
hour music class: Mr. Hodgson:
Will someone tell me the oppos-
ite of allegro? Strong voice:
II Penseroso.

Rumor has it (and she can keep
it) that there is a movement
among seniors to counteract the
chilly winters and the cold feet
one invariably gets in chapel Sat-
urday by wearing robes. How the
cold feet will be helped is a mat-
ter of conjecture. But those sen-
iors who are in favor point out
tradition (seems seniors always
wore then in past years), striking
picture to be made by black robes
and empty senior section (seniors
in traditional years did not come
to chapel on Saturday because
they had to wear robes) and the
fact that they will be warm.

The rive-hour gym program
which worried lust year's junior

class because they thought that
they would have to undergo it
has been beautifully solved by
them. They just aren't taking
any more gym.

Words of reproof before stu-
dent government gets around to
making it: whispering in the li-
brary is getting pretty bad. Now
with a greatly enlarged student
body it is even more difficult. If
you have anything to talk over let
it keep or go out of the library.
Speaking of the library, doe*
anyone notlee the Interesting
exhibits that the librarians put
up for us? They are always so
interesting and unusual.

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VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943

NO. 3

DOROTHY ROUND LITTLE and RUTH MARY HARDWICK, Brit-
ish tennis professionals, who will play matches here next week.

British Tennis Pros to Play
Exhibition Matches Oct. 20

Dorothy Round Little and Ruth Mary Hardwick, high
ranking British tennis professionals, will be on the Agnes
Scott campus next Wednesday for exhibition matches and a
tennis clinic sponsored by Athletic Association, according to
Virginia Tuggle, president of the association.

The two players, outstanding in both singles and doubles,

will play a singles exhibition match

Special Chorus
Gets Director;
Adds Members

Because of the large increase
in enrollment in the voice de-
partment this year, Lewis John-
son, professor of voice, will have
as his assistant Robert S. Low-
rance, Jr., of Atlanta, who will
direct the special chorus.

As director of the Glee Club
at North Fulton High School, Mr.
Lowrance is well known in At-
lanta music circles.

Besides a new director, the
chorus has added nine new mem-
bers, Elizabeth Gribble, Jean
Stewart and Ann Hightower, con-
traltos; Vivian Iverson, Frieda
Cook, Helen Roper, second so-
pranos; and Jean Chewning, 'Rite
Watson, and Jean Satterwhite as
first sopranos.

According to Barbara Connally,
president of the Glee Club, the
chorus will give their first per-
formance on Armistice Day, in col-
laboration with a group of Tech
boys. They will sing at an Armis-
tice Day program in Decatur spon-
sored by the DeKalb County
American Legion. They will sing
"Song of Liberty" and Kipling's
"Recessional."

"lltU Week...

Wednesday, Oct. 13, 8:30 p. m.
Sayao-Crooks concert at muni-
cipal auditorium.

Thursday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p. m. Pi
Alpha Phi debate.

Friday, Oct. 15, 4:00 p. m. Fresh-
man - sophomore, junior - senior
hockey games.

Saturday, Oct. 16, 6:30 p. m. Fac-
ulty Bacon Bat at Harrison hut.

Tuesday, Oct. 19, 10:30 a. m. Dr.
Garber to speak in chapel.

Wednesday afternoon, followed by
the tennis clinic. Later in the aft-
ernoon they will participate in a
doubles exhibition match.

Mrs. Little, born in Dudley,
Worcestershire, England, entered
her first tournament in Wales at
16. In 1927 and for the two years
folowing she won the Worcester-
shire Junior Championships at
Malvern. Her victories marked
the first time that these cham-
pionships had been won three years
in succession. She played at Wim-
bledon in the All England Cham-
pionships and in 1931 was selected
to represent Great Britain on the
Wightman Cup team to visit Am-
erica.

In 1934 Mrs. Little won her
greatest victory, defeating Helen
Hull Jacobs in the finals at Wim-
bledon and was proclaimed Wom-
an Champion of the World. Dur-
irg the winter of 1934 and 1935
sue toured New Zealand, Australia,
and Tasmania, winning the New
South Wale9 championships and
Australian championships, and was
ranked officially number one in
the world.

In 1937 she again won the Wim-
bledon championships and also the
mixed doubles championship with
(See page 2, column 2)

Frost, Niebuhr,
Wolfe to Speak
Here This Year

Three lecturers an internation-
al affairs expert, a poet, and a
philosopher will appear on the
Public Lecture Association's 1943-
44 program, according to an an-
nouncement by Miss Emma May
Laney, faculty chairman of the as-
sociation.

On Nov. 9 Henry C. Wolfe,
author of "The German Octopus"
and "Soviet Imperials," will open
the series with a lecture on "The
Next Act in Europe." Mr. Wolfe
is an authority on international af-
fairs who saw overseas service in
World War I. Since the beginning
of World War II he has visited Eu-
rope, Latin America and the Far
East.

Other speakers on the series are
Robert Frost, poet and three-times
Pulitzer prize winner, who will lec-
ture on Feb. 15, and Reinhold
Niebuhr, philosopher and profes-
sor of Christian ethics at Union
Theological Seminary, whose lec-
ture is scheduled for May 11.

For a fourth lecturer the asso-
ciation expects to bring a dis-
tinguished scientist, and if the
budget allows they plan to present
Vera Dean, well-known authority
on foreign affairs.

All lectures are held in Presser
hall, beginning at 8:30. Admission
tc students is free. Faculty mem-
bers and outsiders may purchase
tickets for 55 cents.

Crooks and Sayao
Launch Series Tonight

Bidu Sayao, "glamor girl of the
Met," and Richard Crooks, well
known American tenor, will be
presented as the first of the All-
Star Concert series tonight at
8:30 in the municipal auditorium.

The two artists will sing duets
from "La Traviata," "Manon,"
"Romeo and Juliet" and "La
Boheme.' Miss Sayao will sing as
her aria "Una voce poco fa" from
"The Barber of Seville" and Mr.
Crooks has selected "Come un bel
di di Maggio" from "Andrea
Chenier." Each will also sing a
group of songs.

Students Give $1000
To War Fund Drive

Faculty Also Makes $1000 Pledge-
To Give Play for Additional Funds

In cooperation with the United Community and War Fund
Drive, Agnes Scott students voted last Thursday to pledge
$1,000 as their contribution to the campaign. The money is
to be raised through personal donations and from proceeds
obtained by various organizational acivities. Plans for such

activities are being made in order

President Tells
Year's Theme

Introducing the theme "Today's
Agnes Scott Student: Tomorrow's
Citizen," Anne Ward, president of
Student Government, spoke yes-
terday in chapel. The year's
theme will be further emphasized
in chapel programs during the re-
mainder of the week.

Using as her general thought the
relationship between citizenship
on campus now and citizenship in
civil life later, Anne stressed the
need of acquiring an attitude of
active service rather than of pass-
ive apathy, selfishness, and indif-
ference.

"Good government," she said,
"requires a positive attitude on the
part of every citizen."

The four fundamental attitudes
(See page 3, column 2)

Stukes Stresses Value
Of Liberal Arts After War

By Martha Whatley Yates

The importance of liberal arts education in shaping the
postwar world was stressed by Dean S. G. Stukes in an inter-
view this week.

''Although many young men and women in our armed forces
are now being given special training in various subjects," he
said, "the leaders of the post war
world will be those who have had
a liberal arts education."

Mr. Stukes acknowledged the
need for specially trained men in
the service, but stressed the prob-
lem facing these men and women
when they return to the civilian
world, with little or no liberal
arts background, but with a spe-
cialty in one particular field.

He further pointed out that a
conviction of the importance of
liberal arts courses in producing
leaders is not only held, but is
vigorously acted upon by the Uni-
ted States Navy, which gives to
its enlisted personnel specialized
training, while to its future offi-
cers, in the women's reserve as
well as in the regular navy, it
gives an education beginning with
the liberal arts and gradually
working up to a particular branch
of naval skill.

In answer to the challenge pre-
sented to educators the world
over by the program of specializa-
tion Mr. Stukes quoted a resolu-
tion adopted in October, 1942, by
the American Association of Col-
leges. The resolution, unanimous-
ly adopted by the group, states
that "whereas the vigor and con-
tinuity of liberal education are
important to the health, welfare,
and safety of the nation, be it re-
solved that a commission of the
Association of American Colleges

DEAN S. G. STUKES

be immediately appointed to keep
continuously before the American
people the wisdom of maintaining
liberal education during and after
the war."

The same view was expressed
by England's Prime Minister Win-
ston Churchill in his recent speech
at Harvard, when he made a plea
for a more wide-spread liberal
arts educational program.

to reach the goal by March 1.

In presenting the project to
the student body, Squee Wool-
ford, chairman of War Council,
cited President Roosevelt's re-
quest that the USO and all other
war relief agencies combine their
fund-raising efforts. A committee
of laymen has thoroughly inves-
tigated all 48 agencies represent-
ed in the campaign.

She urged participation by all
students in meeting the $1,294,669
goal set for Fulton, DeKalb, Rock-
dale, and Cobb counties. "We are
spending nine months of the year
in a large community," she point-
ed out. "We should accept the re-
sponsibilities of this community,
as the transients in our home com-
munities are doing there."

The faculty, also with an objec-
tive of $1,000, is putting its cam-
paign plans in the hands of Miss
Susan P. Cobbs, professor of Latin
and Greek, and Miss Eugenia
Symms, secretary of the registrar.
According to Dr. McCain, the fac-
ulty members hope to complete
their pledges during the next week,
and plan the presentation of a play-
in order to raise additional funds.

The United Community and War
Fund is a combination of the Com-
munity Fund and the National
War Fund, which are collaborat-
ing at the request of President
Roosevelt under one major cam-
paign for the entire year. Includ-
ed in this one appeal are 48 groups
and agencies. A goal of $1,294,-
669 has been set under the motto:
"Give from a full heart!" This
money will be used for a threefold,
purpose, "to support our fighting
men, to aid our Allies, to protect
the homes and children of our own
community." Of the local dona-
tions, 54 7c goes to the Commun-
ity Fund and 469r goes to na-
tional agencies.

Decatur Service League
To Give Concert Series

Josephine Antoine, soprano star
of the Contented Hour, Erick
Hawkins, outstanding American
dancer from the cast of the musi-
cal hit "Oklahoma," and Freder-
ick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera ten-
or, will appear on the campus dur-
ing the winter and spring in a
concert series under the sponsor-
ship of the Decatur Service Lea-
gue.

The first of the concerts, to be
held in Presser hall, will be Jose-
phine Antoine on Friday evening,
Nov. 12, Erick Hawkins will ap-
pear on Feb. 4, and Frederick
Jagel on Apr. 21.

Season tickets for the series will
be on sale on the campus by
members of the Service League..

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

"On the winged feet and golden
hockey sticks" (as the more glib
sports columnists would put it) of
Zena Harris Temken, Ruth Far-
rior, Scottie Johnson, and Miriam
Walker, the combined senior-
sophomore hockey team raced to
a 4-0 victory over the impres-
sive but unsuccessful junior-fresh-
man team, in the season's open-
ing game last Friday afternoon.

Speculations this early in the
season may prove premature, but
Harding Ragland looks awfully
good for the sophs, and Alice
Harnsberger for the frosh. Before
her fall, Betty Jean Radford
showed decided promise, and her
return will mean a boost to the
frosh lineup. This season, as al-
ways, Ann Webb is playing her
usual fine game, as are Ruth Far-
rior and Zena Harris Temken.
Miriam Walker, with her expert
handling of the position of goalie,
seems to be the seniors' "dark
horse." Authority has it that she
plays as good a game with "just
her feet as most goalies play with
their feet and a stick."

Swimming Under Handicaps

On Friday, October 22, the Ag-
nes Scott Athletic Association is,
bringing as a speaker to chapel
Mr. Edward Shea, of the physical
education department at Emory,
who will speak on the subject,
"The Fundamentals of Swimming
As Taught to the Armed Forces."
Mr. Shea, a swimming expert in
his own right, has done extensive
research in the field of swimming
under handicaps diving into burn-
ing oil, etc.

This is the particular phase of
swimming now being taught to
the Army, Navy, Marines, and Hot-
tentots (every Tuesday afternoon
at 5 o'clock), though the latter
are not planning to put it to the
same use as the former. This class
is conducted by Agnes Douglas,
who took a course in functional
swimming this summer at the
Aquatic School in Brevard, N. C.
In the old days Hottentots were
carefully instructed to remove all
clothing to avert the danger of
drowning, but the modern plan of
functional swimming makes valu-
able use of all the outer garments.
It seems that certain buttons can
be removed, and the clothing bio 1

ASC Alumnae
Serve in WAC

Three Agnes Scott alumnae
have recently earned distinction
in the service, according to in-
formation received from the public
relations officer of WAC head-
quarters at Fort Des Moines,
Iowa.

Allene Blackwell Gordon and
Mabel Geraldine Samples have
been made second lieutenants and
are filling executive positions in
the Army, thereby relieving offi-
cers for combat duty. They were
selected for the officer training
program on the basis of their abil-
ity and record of work as auxiliar-
ies in the WAC.

Another bulletin reports that
Captain Ruth Virden of Jackson,
Miss., has been assigned to the
plans and training staff of the
Third WAC Training Center at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Captain Vir-
den graduated from Agnes Scott
in 1922.

If You're
on the Lookout for

SOLID
STUFF

Better shove in your
clutch and head
straight for

YOUNG ATLANTAN
SHOPS

Tennis Pros

(Continued from page 1)

Fred Perry.

She came to America in 1940
and became a professional player
in 1941 at the Seigniory Club,
Province of Quebec, Canada. She
now teaches at Lake Erie College.
Her husband, Dr. Douglas Little,
is now with the British Army.

Ruth Mary Hardwick, a native
of London, began playing tennis
in 1930. In 1931, at her second
tournament, she reached the semi-
finals of the Junior Champion-
ships. In 1936 and 1937 she rep-
resented Great Britain in the
Wightman Cup matches against
the United States and since 1937
has never been beaten by a British
player.

Her professional debut was
made at Madison Square Garden in
1941 against Alice Marble. After
a tour of the United States with
Donald Budge, Bill Tilden, and
Alice Marble, she devoted her
time to playing matches for Brit-
ish War Relief and Bundles for
Britain and also for the aid of her
own fund, "The Mary Hardwick
Wimbledon Fund," to provide mo-
bile canteens for the citizens of her
home town in England.

Miss Hardwick has been called
by King Gustav of Sweden, "My
favorite partner."

Hottentots
Pick Cotton

About twenty Hottentots be-
came acquainted with their clothes
in the raw Saturday afternoon
when the Decatur Methodist
church sponsored a cotton pick-
ing to help relieve the shortage
of farm labor.

Dressed in boys' overalls, slacks,
jodhpurs, and whatnot, girls from
Agnes Scott and boys from Emory
were taken to the Tanner planta-
tion out past Stone Mountain and
Snap Finger creek where they
were instructed in the finer points
of the art of cotton picking.

Howard Thomas, art professor,
remarked that although he has not
yet painted growing cotton, its
structure would make an interest-
ing composition. He also observed
that interesting from a sociologi-
cal standpoint was the fact that
he earned all of 18 cents from his
two hours of labor Saturday af-
ternoon.

Dressed in especially purchased
white overalls, Jane Everett pick-
ed the most cotton 18 pounds.
Also doing their share of war
work, however, were Mrs. S. G.
Stukes, wife of the dean of the
faculty, Mrs. Cilley, mother of the
asistant professor of Spanish, and
Miss Eugenia Symms, secretary
to dean of the faculty.

This Saturday, the self-styled
farmerettes plan to return to the
fields of cotton.

Sophomore-Senior Team Wins
Opening Hockey Game, 4-0

By Jeanne Addison

A large crowd of hockey fans crowded the field last Friday
to see the joint soph-senior team work off steam against the
juniors and freshmen in the traditional pre-stunt game.

With such old standbys as Scottie Johnson, Jo Young, Ru-
fus Farrior, and Zena Harris Temken in fine form, the sophs
and seniors breezed through to a '

4-0 victory, but they had more
competition than the score might
indicate.

Two spectacular drives down
the field with Molly Milam and
Mary Cumming at the head kept
the rooters on pins and needles

up to serve as ballast.

This fall Outing club is offer-
ing a series of organized hikes ev-
ery Tuesday afternoon from 5 to
6 o'clock. This particular activity
w ill probably appeal to the under-
classmen, as it can count as one
of their "outside" gym hours. In
case of rain and unforeseen events,
lectures on first aid and similar
subjects will be held in the gym-
nasium.

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Four Games Played
In Tennis Tourney

Four of the first-round matches
of the fall tennis singles tourna-
ment were played last week with
Ruth Ryner, Virginia Tuggle,
Mary Cumming, and Ann Hough
emerging as victors.

In the opening matches Ruth
Ryner defeated Pattie Dean, 6-2,
6-1; Virginia Tuggle defeated Ann
Webb, 6-0, 6-2; Mary Cumming
won over Gloria Gaines, 4-6, 6-2,
6-1; and Ann Hough defeated Bet-
ty Andrews, 6-2, 6-3; Betty Jean
Radford defaulted to Kathryn
Dozier.

Can Smashing Plans
Told by Camilla Moore

Camilla Moore, chairman of War
Council's conservation committee
this week announced plans for tin
can smashing, whereby the work
will be spread evenly among all
boarders.

Each dormitory wing will be
responsible for the salvage of cans
for one week, and two girls on
that wing will be named to sched-
ule the workers from day to day.
According to this plan, each girl
will participate in the can-smash-
ing only once during the entire
school year.

The schedule for fall quarter
follows: beginning Oct. 11, White
House, Ceevah Rosenthal, Eugenia
Jones, in charge; Oct. 18, Lupton,
Bess Shepherd, Sara Milford, in
charge; Oct. 25, Second Rebekah
east, Dot DeVane, Mary Quigley,
in charge. ,

Beginning Nov. 1, First Inman
north, Nelson Fisher, Betty Tur-
ner, in charge; Nov. 8, Second
Alain west, Pauline Garvin, Gen-
evieve Latham, in charge; Nov. 15,
Gaines, Frances, Anne Rogers, in
charge; Nov. 22, Second Rebekah
west, Gloria Gaines, Doris Purcell,
in charge; Nov. 29, Second Re-
bekah south, Peggy Perez, Lucy
Turner, in charge.

Soph-Senior

Long

R\V

B. Walker

RI

Johnson

CF

ChewninK

LI

Young

LW

Ragland

RH

Farrior

CH

S. Walker

LH

Dozier

RF

Temken

LF

Xellans

G

McCain Announces
Scholarship Contest

Announcement was made this
week by President McCain of the
1943-44 competitive scholarship
contest in which four Agnes Scott
scholarships will be awarded to
high school seniors.

Awards will be made on the
basis of the contestant's high
school record, an aptitude test,
personal qualifications, and a 1,500
word autobiography.

The winners of the scholarships,
one $600 award and three $300
awards, will be announced in late
February.

Students are asked to give to
Dean S. G. Stukes the names of
any high school seniors to whom
they would like information about
the contest sent.

Hockey Schedule

Hockey games this Friday will
start at 3:00 with a game between
the beginners' teams. At 4:00, in
the regular games, the freshmen
will play the sophomores and the
iuniors will play the seniors.

up until the last whistle. The
two freshmen in the starting line-
up, Ann Stine and Alice Newman,
also managed to distinguish
themselves by some really good
playing.

Scottie Johnson started things
off with a goal after six minutes
of play, and Jean Chewning fol-
lowed immediately with another.
In the last half Scottie repeated,
and Mary Maxwell shot one just
in time to bring the total up to
four.

The lineups follow:

Freshman-Junior

Milam
Kin
Cumming
Mack
Munroe
BedinRer
Stino
Newman
Rosenthal
Webb
Everett

Substitutions, Sophomore-Sen-
ior, Douglas, Maxwell; Freshmen-
Junior, Goode, Harnsberger, Car-
penter.

One of the most commented-on
features of the game was the
snappy new green uniforms
sported by the losers.

Exec Unveils Own Activity
In Chapel Skit Thursday

Tomorrow morning in chapel
the executive committee of Stu-
dent Government will present a
skit entitled "What Exec Does,"
or "How to Use a Rack." The
skit, complete with costumes and
campus slips, will purport to di-
vulge the events going on in Butt-
rick hall every Monday between
7:30 and midnight.

A skit on parliamentary law,
originally scheduled for October
7, will be presented on Thursday,
October 21, at a student meeting.

Emory to Present
Radio Show Thursday

Emory University will present
a half-hour radio show entitled,
"Emory University: Training for
War" over station WSB of At-
lanta this Thursday, October 14,
at 10:30 p. m. (CWT).

The program, written and di-
rected by Jack Gwyn, a Navy
V-12 trainee at Emory, will depict
a day in the life of a dry-land
sailor at "the university. The cast
will include more than 75 trainee
and civilian students, including
Mary Louise Duffee, Agnes Scott-
Emory coed.

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interesting character of its student activities.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943

Page 3

Frosh Succeed in Belling Cat
As Sophs, Shakespeare Moan

By Jane Bowman

Hats off to the freshmen and hats off to the sophomores
for leading the big Black Cat a merry chase Saturday night.
Congratulations to the frosh for belling the Cat.

When the curtain parted on scene one of the freshman
stunt William Shakespeare turned over in his grave, and by
scene three he was groaning loud-

ly. "Romeow and Juliecat," a
clever combination of Agnes Scott
and Shakespeare, clearly display-
ed the enthusiasm and creatative
ability of the freshmen. Amid a
series of the traditional take-offs
on the faculty, Romeow and Julie-
cat prowled from scene to scene
in the typical Shakespearean
manner, finally forsaking their
creator by refusing to die.

Upsetting tradition, the Sopho-
more production typified the in-
genuity and artistic ability of the
class. Suspense, mystery, and
comedy shrouded the trial of the
Cat of '46 who murdered the Cat
of '45. Until the end of the per-
formance the audience was kept

Nickelodeon Rental
Plans Considered

Business managers and treasur-
ers of all campus organizations re-
ceiving money from the student
budget met Tuesday afternoon to
discuss plans for the appropria-
tion of funds to pay for the nick-
elodeon in the gym.

A plan was discussed in chapel
last week by which all campus or-
ganizations would contribute pro-
portionately to the $224 rental
fee. The point was raised that
since costs of printing and paper
have gone up it would be difficult
for organizations like the Agnes
Scott News and Aurora to accept
any further cuts in their budgets
and that other groups may not be
as hard-hit by war conditions and
could better afford budget-trim-
ming.

It was decided the treasurers
and business managers should
study the problem and report its
findings to the student body.

DECATUR BEAUTY
SALON

Specialty
Cold Waves Cream Waves

in ignorance of the meaning of
G.I.T.T.S. the key to the mys-
tery. Highlights of the stunt were
characters, having no connection
with the plot, who wandered
through the audience and across
the stage.

Bible Club to Meet

Bible club will holds its first
regular meeting of the year next
Monday, October 18, at 4:30 p. m.
in the Round House.

The program for this meeting
will be the presentation of the
club's theme for the year, "Be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers
only," James 1:23. Jessie New-
bold will speak on the meaning
of the theme in the life of the
individual, and Betty Glenn will
discuss its application to various
phases of campus life.

Bible club officers include Bun-
ny Gray, president; Jessie New-
bold, vice-president; and Johnnie
Mae Tippen, secretary-treasurer.
Anyone who is taking Bible or is
interested in the club is eligible
for membership.

President Tells

(Continued from Page 1)

not only for Agnes Scott citizens,
but for future American citizens,
Anne evaluated as (1) respect for
property, (2) responsibility in tak-
ing advantage of cultural oppor-
tunities, (3) tolerance for the
rights and views of others, and (4)
balance in attitudes toward group
social rules and regulations.

To appreciate these four atti-
tudes it is necessary to develop
a mature outlook toward them and
to strive for them in everyday
practice, she said.

"By accustoming ourselves to
higher habits of living and think-
ing we will be better prepared to
face the world of tomorrow."

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DEarborn 5785

Dr. Garber to Speak
On C. A. Theme

An interpretation of Christian
Association's theme for this year,
"Not faithless, but believing," by
Dr. Paul Garber, professor of Bi-
ble, will feature the chapel pro-
gram next Tuesday, October 19,
according to an announcement
made this week by Ruth Farrior,
president of Christian Association.

Sunday vesper plans for the
quarter, as announced by Strat-
ton Lee, vesper chairman, include
a variety of programs. This Sun-
day, Oct. 17, a musical program
will be presented. On Oct. 24, Stew-
art* Smith, of Emory University,
will speak on "Discipleship."

Mrs. W. M. Elliott, Jr., wife
of the pastor of Druid Hills Pres-
byterian church, will lead a pro-
gram Oct. 31 on "The Christian
Home." The seniors will lead ves-
pers on the first Sunday in No-
vember, and the other classes will
be in charge of vesper programs
for the remainder of the month.

Other Christian Association ac-
tivities include the organization of
Freshman Cabinet, under the lead-
ership of Katherine Phillips, vice-
president of Christian Association.
The first meeting was held Mon-
day, Oct. 11. All freshmen are
eligible for membership.

Pi Alpha Phi to Debate
On Drafting of Women

Pi Alpha Phi, debating society,
will hold its first debate of the
year tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in
Murphey Candler. The subject,
Should Women Be Drafted?"
Martha Jean Gower and Betty
Glenn will support the affirmative,
while Jean Hood and Dottie Kahn
will defend the negative.

The public is invited to attend.
For those interested in becoming
members of Phi Alpha Phi, try-
outs will begin October 21. De-
tails will be announced later.

Meg Bless Announces
French Club Plans

As a highlight of its activities
for this year, French club plans
to hold a French Fair, similar to
the one given last year. Meg
Bless, president of the club, stated
that details and the date for pres-
entation would be disclosed later.

French club members also plan
to attend as a group the French
movies which will be presented
from time to time at various lo-
cal theatres.

Bee Miller, Ex-Instructor
Weds lennessean

Miss Blanche Miller, for several
years an instructor in the biology
department and a popular figure
on the campus, was married on
Oct. 7 to James Rigby, of Kings-
port, Tennessee.

Mrs. Rigby, a graduate of Agnes
Scott, majored in chemistry, and
received her master's degree at
Emory University. She is now liv-
ing in Kingsport.

Faculty Bacon Bat

Saturday night at 6:30 the sec-
ond year members of the faculty
will entertain new faculty mem-
bers at the traditional Bacon Bat,
to be held at Harrison Hut.

Miss Lucy Cline, in charge of
the Bacon Bat this year, announ-
ced that, due to war-time ration-
ing of meat, hamburgers and hot
dogs will not be served as in for-
mer years. Entertainment will
consist of singing and talking.
Guests will dress informally in
slacks or other sports clothes.

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

Anne Equen, a popular junior on campus, in addition to
her many activities here has been chosen president of Atlan-
ta's Debutante club for the season 1943-1944.

Other debs from Agnes Scott are Mary Cumming, June
Reynolds, Dot Archer and Ann Hightower. Also among them
is Elinor Sauls, who was here last

year. Already the debs have be-
gun a season of war activity from
cotton picking at a nearby farm to
the equally essential matter of en-
tertaining officers and maintain-
ing high morale.

Tech Dances

Agnes Scott was indeed well
represented as the Interfratern-
ity Council of Tech staged their
final dances of the season Satur-
day. The music was furnished by
Bob Allen and his orchestra. At
the dance Saturday evening were
Jo Tanner, Betty Manning, Mary
Carr, Dale Bennett, Louise Breed-
en, Claire Bennett, Mary Martin,
Sue Mitchell, Mary Louise Starr,
Jean Satterwhite, Betty Turner,
Nelson Fisher, Robin Robinson,
Lelaine Harris, Marjorie Tippins
and Gloria Ann Melchor.

Seen at the Tech-Athens Pre-
flight game and the tea dance fol-
lowing were Lelaine Harris, Peggy
Jones, Mary Louise Starr, Peggy
Wilds, Barbara Kincaid, Betty
Codrington, Conradine Frasier,
Ann Hightower, Martha Rhodes,
Liz Carpenter, Scotty Johnson,
and Camilla Moore.

Wasn't Scotty Johnson stun-
ning? She wore a watermelon
colored dress and on the back of
her head a little hat that matched.

At Emory

At the ATO steak fry and house
dance Saturday night at Emory
were Anne Wetmore, Mary Fran-
ces Anderson, Edith Burgess, Kath-
erine Edelblut, Alice Gordon, Mar-
garet Mace and Lelia Holmes.

Mary Neely Norris was attract-
ed Saturday by the SAE's.

Martha Baker celebrated her
birthday Sunday night at a party
in the Grill room at The Pig.
There was lots of chicken-in-the-
rough and everybody attending

had a wonderful time just ask
Carolyn Rose, Jane Bowman,
Peggy Kelly, Ruth Ryner, Puddin
Bealer, May Turner, Lib Keller,
Em Clepper, Dot DeVane, Harding
Ragland, and Scotty Johnson.
Mrs. DeVane, Dot's mother, was
also present. ,

Visitors on Campus

It was good to see Anne Wilds
and Mary Estill Martin back on
campus for the week-end. Ruth
Anderson's family was here while
both Alice Gordon and Laura Win-
chester entertained their sisters.
Other girls whose parents have
visited recently are Janet Liddell,
Dorothy Chapman, Margaret Mc-
Manus, Virginia Drake and Ann
Rogers.

Millie Evans met her parents in
Abbeville, S. C, and visited with
them over the weekend. Patty
Dean went home to Anderson,
S. C, and Kitty and Sarah Kay
to Byron, Ga.

Don't be
a drone;
Answer
the phone!
You'll bill

*N If it's

aggig sez itor you.

Silhouette Proofs

Proofs of the pictures taken
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
of last week have come in and may
be claimed in the basement of
Murphey Candler. The numbers of
those chosen for the Silhouette
should be handed in immediately.
Watch the bulletin board for fur-
ther news of this.

YOU'RE GOING TO -HAVE
SIX HUSBANDS

The people who make it put
a special "clinging agent"
Chrystallyne, in the polish to
make it cling to the nails like
ivy to a wall, and thus resist
chipping longer. Try Dura-
Gloss today.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943

Duffee Writes With

Nose to Ground

By Mary Louise Duffee

(Because it balances things
nicely with Tess on the other
side of the page.)

Having accidentally wandered
into the "Battle of Main" after
the stunt Saturday night I found
the decks swarming with blue-
jackets. "Who are they waiting
for?" says a junior, "Freshman,
of course." A middle-aged Tech
civilian (meaning not cradle loot
nor one exempted by his 38 years)
walks in the side door of Main: "I
want my date, please. Do I fill
out an application blank?"

V-P Senior Class Bobbie
Powell to Senior Ann Jacob:
"Oh, well we wouldn't have
known how to act if we'd won."
Some say we're the first class
to go through Agnes Scott with
four straight defeats on Black
Cat nights. But think of the
character-building, girls how
to lose successfully, and all that.
And think how this may help
the Class of '47 to start out as a
Class united something we've
never quite known.

Funny how some boarders
thought Jean Rooney's repre-
sentation of a day student in the
sophomore stunt was an exag-
geration.

Silhouetted figures of four sen-
iors on the corner of the street-
that-runs-by-Main-toward-the-gym
singing, "We did it before, and
we've done it again . . . "; Blitz
Roper, sophomore stunt chairman,
corsage laid away, dressed in old
slacks 15 minutes after the stunt,
ready to go backstage and lead the
clean-up gang.

Ask Kathy Hill wh-uh-what
she found in her bed one night
last week. The word "Happy-
rock" will help her remember.
What not to do: what Jinx
Blake did last Thursday evening
(according to a very productive
grapevine) when a long distance
call came through for her in Re-
becca just as the Freshman-Jun-
ior invasion reached that dormi-
tory. Able to hear only a faint
male voice, whose words she could
not distinguish, Jinx took it for
granted it was the Current One
and said, "Oh, Johnny, I can't
hear a thing, so just let me do
the talking until it quiets down
. . ." and she continued with re-
marks that she had been writing
him every day, etc, etc. When the
hall finally quieted, she found she
was talking to the Flame of Last
Year or fascimile not Johnny.
P. S.: The one who called is com-
ing down to see her anyway.
It's "time to change" at Emory
almost. There'll be at least
part of a new "fleet" in there
in November, what with the de-
parture of some of the blue-
jackets and marines for mid-
shipmen's and officer candidates'
schools, and some for boot
(amp or the fleet (we hope not
many.) Then it'll be "Mother
Put Up Your Service Flap:"
ask any of them to sing: it to
you.

Well, maybee you've been away
from Home and Him long enough
now to need a shot in the writing
arm. Here's a little offering you
may be able to use to advantage
they say it's very effective.

Words of wisdom oft I ponder:

"Absence makes the heart grow
fonder."

A saying of a different kind is

"Out of sight is out of mind."

I've tried them, dear, they both
are true:

The first fits me the second
you.

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Privileges and Responsibilities

At this time when we are considering what
student government means to us as individ-
uals and as members of this community, it
might be well for us to question whether we
are making the most of our opportunities. We
have been given the power to govern ourselves
because the faculty and administration have
thought that we were intelligent individuals
capable of enlightened group action. The
privileges of student government appeal to
us, and we guard them jealously, but the re-
sponsibilities do not seem half so intriguing.
We know that a few individuals will eventual-
ly assume our responsibilities for us if we
fail to do so ourselves.

It is true that we are in little danger of los-
ing the privilege of self government; and for
that very reason we have grown careless. Our
chief responsibility, which is to do our think-
ing for ourselves and make our decisions about
the problems which arise nSt according to
what our friends (and enemies) will think of
us, but according to what we believe is best
in the light of the thinking we have done, is
the very one we have so often neglected. It
does not seem to be too much to assume that
we are all capable of intelligent thinking. It's
just that it is easier to have someone else
do it for us. We are afraid others will laugh or
we are complacent and uninterested, so we
allow others to do our thinking for us. We
are fooling only ourselves if we think this
is self government.

The most recent example of our apathy was
the discussion of the United War Fund. There
is no question of the worthiness of the cause,
or of our willingness as a community to con-
tribute generously to it. However, in our zeal
to do our part, we fail to look at this fund
honestly. A thousand dollars is a fine sound-
ing figure, and as long as it may be raised
painlessly, by organizations, benefits, and the
faculty, we are only too willing to back it.
But when it comes home to us as individuals,
in terms of movies and cokes and Agnes Scott
specials which we will have to do without, we

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suddenly show an amazing reluctance to have
anything to do with a cause we have agreed
is certainly worthy of our greatest sacrifice.

It is unfortunate but necessary that we re-
mind ourselves of the trouble we had in rais-
ing the Red Cross quota last year. We have
forgotten, because it is painful to remember,
the humiliating pleas that had to be made to
us repeatedly toward the close of the drive,
and our indifference toward them at that time.

With one exception, we have all voted fur-
ther discussion of this new pledge unnecessary,
and therefore have all promised tacitly to ful-
fill the present figure. Let's not have this en-
thusiasm drop, and once more fall back to our
old ways of letting a few people do all the
contributing. Having decided to make this
pledge, we can now show our understanding of
the responsibilities involved in the privilege of
making our own decisions. (W. W.)

L' Affaire Nickelodeon

Last Thursday's student meeting brought to
light a situation which has been developing
over the past year.

The question of the nickelodeon is only an
incidental matter. The real problem is the
apportioning of the student budget to fit the
needs of the organizations concerned. The
fight made by Aurora and the News to keep
their appropriations untouched merely shows
how desperate they are to hold on to the few
dollars allotted to them by the budget.

The students whose money makes up the
student budget demand their money's worth.
They expect attractive and well-planned pub-
lications which are the only permanent rec-
ords of the ideas and trends of student life.

And as printing costs rise even the Increased
enrollment will not add enough to the. approp-
riations given to Aurora and the News to per-
mit them to keep up the usual standards. We
do not intend to allow the war important
though it may be to stop publication on the
campus. Contracts made with advertisers
make it impossible to publish a smaller num-
ber of issues of either the Aurora or the News
than were originally planned for before 'Taf-
faire nickelodeon."

Therefore we ask that regardless of the out-
come of 'Taffaire nickelodeon" the student
body again consider an emergency budget in
the light of present conditions and attempt to
reapportion the student budget according to
the actual needs of all groups, cutting down
on appropriations where possible in order to
give a greater percentage to those organiza-
tions which need it.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

Another Monday and another
column not yet written and this
time the editor who is Madeline
sits over me threatening "only
an hour and this goes to the prin-
ters."

Cotton-picking has its poetry
and its pains. The poetry first
Stone Mountain away in the
distance and the white powder
puffs of cotton. The pains hay-
ing been warned "you can ex-
pect your back to hurt," Flos-
sie McKee and I picked cotton
sitting down and do we hurt
(in the wrong places of course).
Anyway, next Saturday after-
noon another cotton picking
crew rides out to the plantation
and more cotton pickers are
needed. It really is fun!

With the lovely warm autumn
weather we have been having, at
least one member of the faculty
has solved the problem of students
gazing out windows. Miss Ham
conducts her advanced German
classes under the trees of the back
campus. Wanderers who wander
in on them can stay and listen
to the strange lovely sounds and
also get plopped on the head by
acorns that creep down from the
trees to hear better.

The day students make up
more than one-third of the stu-
dent body. And they don't even
have an attractive room in
which to eat lunch or have bull-
sessions. The day student room
where most of them meet is all
right If yon don't notice the
overhanging pipes, the bad
lighting (two lamps to begin
with and now one missing), the
lower half of the walls unpaint-
ed. Something will have to be
done. Either the day students
themselves will have to form a
committee and go about making
the room livable (using their
own money) or student govern-
ment will try to look after this
one third of its populace. True,
there are day student rooms In
Buttlick and on first Main but
they are inconveniently located
and the day students are too
many to use them all at once.
A story coming out of the pre-
stunt rehearsals. Two freshmen
walk across campus after rehear-
sal still in costume? the taller
one in pants and a man's hat. The
night is cold and they pass under
a street light walking very close.
Two juniors and their dates also
walk by and the juniors stand
astounded as the shorter freshman
attempts momentarily to disentan-
gle herself and the taller one yells
in a hurt voice "But, darling
The present senior class has
really set a record this time.
For the fourth year in succes-
sion it has lost the stunt can
anyone quote this record for any
other class in the history of
the college? But at least there
is still the senior opera where
there is no chance of losing ex-
cept at the box office.
What about filling in those long
pauses after dinner every night
while you wait, for the one table
in the room to begin dessert by
serving after-dinner coffee. Cof-
fee is no more on the rationing
list and it will give one a chance
to do more with the thumbs than
twiddle them.

Hockey matches have begun and
every Friday until the end of the
quarter the class teams will be
bashing in each others' shins racing
up and down the green turf. A
wonderful picture bloody shins
and setting suns and one last call
for your team. (Apologies to Ten-
nyson).

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VOL. XXEX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943

No. 4

Ration Book 4
To Be Issued

War ration book number four
will be issued upon registration
Oct. 21 and 22 throughout Fulton
and DeKalb counties, according to
district OPA officials. Plans for
registration on the campus have
not been fully completed. They
will be announced as soon as def-
inite instructions are issued to the
local board.

Copies of book three must be
shown at the time of registration.
The campus board will make -pro-
vision for this.

Students are urged to read the
bulletin board for further an-
nouncement of date and place of
registration. It is important also
that all students observe the times
posted by registering promptly,
so that all books may be issued this
week, in accordance with the coun-
ty plan.

Mortar Board
Quizzes Campus
On Etiquette

Questions such as "May butter
be put on potatoes with a knife"
and "Should a chaperone's ex-
penses be paid by the members
of a group who ask her to ac-
company them?" were answered
by students this morning in a pro-
gram presented by Mortar Beard
to acquaint the student body with
acepted forms of social usage.

Other questions asked included
"May a fraternity pin be worn
with evening clothes?", "Should
a girl introduce her date to the
person in the dean's office?", and
"At informal gatherings in Mur-
phey Candler is.it proper to take
about half a dozen cookies in order
that the girl serving will not
have to come back so often?"

The answers to the questions
1. No, 2. Yes, 3. No, 4.
Yes, 5. No, 6, No, 7. Yes, 8. Yes,
9. No, 10. Yes, 11. Yes, 12. No,
13. No, 14. No, 15. No, 16. Yes,
17. Yes, 18. Yes, 19. No, 20. No,
21. No, 22. No, 23. No, 24. No,
25. Yes, 26. Yes, 27. Yes, 28. No,
29. No, 30. No, 31. Yes, 32. No,
33. No, 34. Yes, 35. No, 36. No,
37. No, 38. Yes, 39. Yes, 40. Yes,
41. No. 42. Yes, 43. No, 44. Yes,
45. No, 46. Yes, 47. Yes, 48. No!
49. Yes, 50. No.

Sunday Hours
Announced for
Art Displays

Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, librar-
ian, announced this week that
the library is now open on Sun-
day afternoons from 2:30 to 5:30
so that students and the public
may view the art exhibitions ar-
ranged by Howard Thomas, head
of the art department.

The first exhibit, which opens
on October 25 and lasts through
November 10, will be a joint dis-
play of works by Reuben Gambrell
and Dr. Marion Souchon. Reuben
Gambrell, until recently an art
instructor at the University of
Georgia, is at present a corporal
in the United States Army and
has sent back many water colors
from the South Pacific, where he
is now on duty with an aerial
photography unit.

Dr. Marion Souchon, now past
70 years of age, began painting
as a hobby after he had retired
from a successful practice of sur-
gery in New Orleans. A critic
has said of his works, "Effusive
and bubbling as oldster Souchon
himself, his pictures make their
point not by depicting anything
in particular, but by the sheer
joyousness of their color." k

Besides the Sunday afternoon
hours, the gallery will be open
daily from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m.
and from 7:30 p. m. to 10 p. m.,
and on Saturdays from 8:30 a. m.
to 6 p. m. The displays will be
held in the third floor gallery.

Decatur Mayor
To Speak Here

Andrew Robinson, head of the
Decatur city commissioners, will
speak on the city manager system
of government at the Internation-
al Relations club meeting tomor-
row evening at 8 o'clock.

A comparatively new system of
city government, the city manager
system, as distinguished from the
traditional set-up of mayor and
city council, has proved to be
practical in Decatur and a num-
ber of larger cities where it has
been adopted.

International Relations club in-
vites the college community to
hear Mr. Robinson on this topic
cf general interest.

McKinney Book Award Plans
Told by Miss Janef Preston

Plans for the Louise McKinney
Book Award were announced this
week by Miss Janef Preston, as-
sistant professor of English on
leave of absence this quarter. The
award of $25 is given each year
to the student who makes during
the current year the most interest-
ing and discriminating additions
to her personal book collection.

At least 15 books must be en-
tered by each contestant. They
may reflect the entrant's general
or specific interests in any field.
Intellectual as well as physical
possession of the books will be the
basis upon which the winner will
be chosen. A faculty committee
will judge the collections by means
of a short oral examination, to be
given to the competitors next

spring.

The award was established in
honor of Miss Louise McKinney,
professor of English emeritus.
During her teaching career here
Miss McKinney did much to fur-
ther the students' appreciation of
literature, and encouraged them
to form a closer link between lit-
erature and life.

Since Miss Preston, the award
chairman, will not be on the cam-
pus this quarter, those who wish
to enter the contest should hand
in their names to any member
of the English department before
the end of the first quarter.

Laura Cumming, '43, won the
award last year, with Sara Jean
Clark receiving honorable men-
tion.

Day Students
Get New Room

Work on a room for day stu-
dents in the basement of Buttrick
has begun and the room will prob-
ably be opened next week, accord-
ing to Elizabeth Edwards, day stu-
dent representative.

The room, which was formerly
used by the art department to
house a valuable collection of
prints which have now been mov-
ed to the third floor studios of
the department, is being cleaned
this week. Furniture for it will be
selected by the day student com-
mittee of lower house with the
assistance of Mrs. Annie Mae
Smith, superintendent of dormi-
tories.

This action was taken by the
administration in response to re-
quests from day students who re-
ported that the two day student
rooms in Main were not sufficient
for their needs.

Colleges Adopt
Biology Text
Written Here

At least nineteen colleges and
universities besides Agnes Scott
are now using "Biology The
Science of Life," a text book writ-
ten by Miss Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall, professor of biology, in
collaboration with Dr. Robert
Hegher of Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity.

Adopted last spring for use at
Agnes Scott, the book was used
this past summer at several boys'
colleges operating under the navy
V-12 program.

Other schools in which the book
is being used are Northwestern
University, Dartmouth College,
the University of Virginia, Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh, Universty
of South Carolina, University of
Western Ontario, Emory Univers-
ity, Emory Junior College, Berea
College, Mercer University, Adel-
phi College, Atlantic Christian
College, Bradford Junior College,
Hollins College, Phillips Univers-
ity, Sisters' College, Vassar, Whit-
tier College, and several other col-
leges and universities.

Agnes Scott Grad
Is Marine Officer

Agnes Scott graduate Rebekah
Hogan recently won the distinc-
tion of being the first girl from
Atlanta to become an officer in
the women's reserve of the Mar-
ine Corps and also of being the
youngest member of her class at
the Marine indoctrination school
at Mt. Holyoke college.

Lieutenant Hogan, 21, and a
graduate of the class of 1941,
was on the staff of the personnel
division of the Retail Credit As-
sociation before she enlisted with
the leathernecks.

She is now on duty at the Mar-
ine base at New River, N. C.

Mrs. Roff Sims to Speak

On October 27 Mrs. Roff Sims,
assistant professor of history, will
resume her Wednesday chapel
talks on current events. Other
dates of her news reviews this
quarter are November 17 and De-
cember 1.

War Council to Tell
Program for the Year

Mobile Blood Unit to Visit Campus;
Plans Include Nurses Aides Course

Plans for campus-wide participation in war work will be
presented for approval in chapel tomorrow when Squee Wool-
ford, student chairman of War Council, outlines a program
for organizing faculty and students into competitive groups.

Working on a point system, these groups will receive credit
for such war activities as knit- '

ting, donating blood, buying war
stamps and bonds, rolling band-
ages, smashing tin cans, and the

Musicale to Feature
Two Pianos, Violin

A program of two piano and
violin selections will be presented
on the music appreciation hour
Monday night at 8 p. m. Artists
on the program willl be Miss Eda
E. Bartholomew and C W. Dieck-
mann, assisted by Miss Ruby Dab-
ney Smith, violinist, and Miss Alice
Gray Harrison, accompanist.

Miss Bartholomew and Mr.
Dieckmann will open the program
playing Saint-Saens "Variations
on a Theme" by Beethoven, ar-
ranged for two pianos.

Miss Smith, accompanied by
Miss Harrison, will play Franck's
"Sonata for Violin and Piano."

The program will conclude with
a group of two piano selections
played by Miss Bartholomew and
Mr. Dieckmann. They include
"Sicilienne" by Bach, "Le Matin"
and "Le Soir" by Chaminade, "Ta-
rentelle" by Pierne, and Grainger's
"Spoon River."

Skating Hours
Are Changed

New skating hours for this
quarter, as announced by Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn of the physical
education department, are Mon-
days, 5 to 6 p. m.; Tuesdays,
4 to 6 p. m.; Wednesdays, 5 to 6
p. m., and Saturdays, 4 to 6 p. m.
and 8 to 10 p. m.

On Saturdays skating is under
the supervision of Athletic As-
sociation, Cotillion club, Student
Government, Christian Association
and Mortar Board, and on week
days students working with the
physical education department are
in charge of skating.

Miss Wilburn explained that
skating is supervised to insure
keeping the skates in order and in
good condition.

Lower House to Present
Parliamentary Law Skit

Lower house will present a skit
in chapel tomorrow morning en-
titled "A Typical Open Forum,"
or "How Men Resemble Apes and
Vice Versa." The purpose of the
skit will be to teach parliamentary
law so that future opeYi forums
may be conducted in an orderly
fashion.

Clare Bedinger, vice-president
of student government, said, "I
hope all of us will come to chapel
Thursday to see ourselves as oth-
ers see us."

taking of special courses. Through
War Council, provision is being
made for much of this work to
be done at the college.

Opportunity for setting up blood
donation facilities on the campus
is given by the Red Cross if 75
people will volunteer, to be don-
ors. All students under 21 must
have a signed release from their

With pledges totalling $1,-
556.25, the faculty and adminis-
t ration bring to $2,556.25, the
amount subscribed by Agnes
Scott to the United Community
and War Fund. As previously
announced, students have voted
to contribute $1,000.

parents. Blanks may be obtained
in the dean's office, and students
are urged to secure them now so
that arrangements may be com-
pleted for bringing to mobile unit
here next month.

Appointment of committees to
arrange for tin can smashing and
the sale of war stamps has al-
ready been announced. Since Red
Cross knitting must be in by De-
cember 1, this quarter's allotment
has already been made. More wool
will be available after Christmas.

Courses in advanced first aid,
home nursing, and possibly Nurse's
Aide are being planned for the
winter quarter. Because of the
need for trained assistants to
work with children whose parents
are doing defense work, the physi-
cal education department may
give instruction in recreational
leadership.

Notices regarding these pro-
posed courses and other war ac-
tivity projects will be posted on
the bulletin board in Buttrick hall.

Agnes Scott's War Council was
organized in January, 1942, when
Dorothy Cremin became its first
chairman.

Activities were resumed in the
1942-43 session with Nancy Hirsh
as student leader. Four money-
raising campaigns were launched
and successfully concluded last
year.

The conservation committee con-
centrated their efforts on tin can
salvage. Mrs. Roff Sims' current
events talks in chapel were part of
the War Council program.

y/ud Week...

Thursday, Oct. 21, 8:30 p. m.
Demonstration of functional
swimming by Swimming club.

Friday, Oct. 22, 4 p. m. Hockey
games.

Saturday, Oct. 23 Mortar Board

Party for transfers.
Monday, Oct. 25, 8 p. m. Musicale

in Presser Auditorium.

Art exhibit of Souchon works

opens in library galleries.
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 10:30 a. m.

Mrs. Sims' talk in chapel.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

Remember that old game of
"thimble, thimble, who's got the
thimble"? Well, in case in the
near future, you happen to hear
that old rhyme all dolled up with
new words; in other words, to be
specific, if you should happen to
hear a certain faculty member
(not to mention any names) going
around asking, "Pants, Pants,
(pajama, incidentally), who's got
my pants?", don't be unduly
alarmed. Lend her a helping hand;
she's in dire distress.

All of which (not making any
sense at all) goes to say that come
Saturday, November 13, pande-
monium will break loose in and
around Atlanta, for on that day,
Athletic Board, those most mis-
chievous of all pranksters, (wit-
ness the aforementioned faculty
member in paragraph one), will
depart for a hilarious week-end at
Camp Civitania near Austell.

What with their already bound-
less energy (you get used to these
vitamin pills after a while), plus
that added pep camping out in
crisp weather gives, plus the fam-
ous "Willie Rut" team as chap-
erones, anything is liable to hap-
pen and probably will.

Junior-Senior Hockey

Rumor has it that it's been
"three long years" since the pres-
ent senior has beaten the junior
class in hockey, and also that the
same time has elapsed since the
former has even scored upon the
latter. Truth or not, events of

If You're

on the Lookout for

SOLID
STUFF

Better shove in your
clutch and head
straight for

YOUNG ATLANTAN
SHOPS

Tennis Club
To Hold Clinics

Beginning next week Tennis
club will sponsor a series of clinics
to be held every Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon at 5:00, ac-
cording to Gloria Gaines, tennis
manager.

The purpose of the clinics will
be to aid those who are interested
in improving their form and
strokes, and who want help in
raising their game to the stand-
ards required for admittance into
the club.

This activity may be counted as
an outside gym hour.

All those interested are urged
to attend the first clinic to be held
Tuesday.

Friday last relegate that old be-
lief to ancient history.

Exhibiting extraordinary team-
work and cooperation, the seniors
fought to a 1-0 victory, Gwen Hill
scoring the decisive point. Zena
Harris Temkin, cheered on by
brother Michael on the side lines,
made several beautiful drives
down the field. Billy Walker and
Josie Young played exceptionally
fine games also. "Mirabile victu,"
as Vergil would say, was the way
in which Lib Farmer dogged
"Tug's" footsteps, and that, on a
hockey field, is something you
dream about.

Soph-Frosh Hockey

Hockey seems to be the outlet
for that extra stored up energy
the sophs and frosh have left over
from the stunt. At any rate,
they carry their feudin' on, des-
pite the fact that that much
sought-after genus feline now
naps lazily in Inman lobby.

With their winning streak still
going strong, the freshmen raced
to a 3 to 1 victory over the sopho-
mores. Both teams played unus-
ually strong games.

About the tennis clinic A. A.
is sponsoring today: "Tug" an-
nounces that Frank Coyne, prom-
inent in tennis circles in Atlanta,
will be on hand this afternoon to
umpire. Also there will be no dou-
bles matches as originally plan-
ned, as extra time is needed for
the "clinic" part of the program.

At 6:30 tonight the college is
entertaining the two tennis stars
and those on campus responsible
for the clinic. In addition to the
players, those invited are Miss
Willburn, Miss Rutledge, Miss
Scandrett, Mrs. Lapp, Gloria
Gaines and Virginia Tuggle. Coffee
will be served at 7:30, to which
members of the board are in-
vited.

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Exec Lists Committees
On Student Council
For Student Reference

The following exec committees
mentioned in the student meeting
Thursday are listed here so that
students may have them for per-
manent reference.

Book store, Pat Elam and Dot
Lee Webb; handbook, Molly Mi-
lam, Aurie Montgomery and Mar-
jorie Naab; bulletin board, Mar-
jorie Naab; sewing machine, Mar-
jorie Naab; food and dining room,
Aurie Montgomery; Murphey
Candler, Betty Long; lower
house, Martha Ray Lasseter; Na-
tional Student Federation of
America, Julia Slack; chapel seat-
ing, Mildred McCain; library,
Betty Long; recreational board,
Mildred McCain; publicity, Wendy
Whittle; chapel committee, Julia
Slack, Mary Cumming and Eliza-
beth Edwards; tea house, Eliza-
beth Edwards.

Anne Ward, president of stu-
dent government said, "These exec
members are here to meet special
needs. Call on them at any time,
and they will be glad to help you."

Announcement also comes from
the executive committee that Dr.
McCullough has changed her of-
fice hours. The new hours are 10:30
to 12:30 a. m. every day at the in-
firmary.

Dr. McC ain Lectures
On Religious Living

At weekly meetings of the An-
nual Leadership Education School
for the Presbyterian Churches of
Atlanta, Dr. J. R. McCain will
deliver a course of six lectures on
"Personal Religious Living."

Dr. McCain's course includes a
discussion of "Facing Life With
Christ," and will cover the ques-
tions of living in fellowship with
God, of religious practices neces-
sary today, and of the effect on
the individual of living in a Chris-
tian way. The course is open to
leaders in Presbyterian church
work.

Spanish Club to Hold
Tryouts Next Week

Adelaide Humphreys, president
of Spanish club, announced this
week that tryouts for the club
will be held Oct. 26-29. Require-
ments are posted on the back bul-
letin board in Buttrick.

At the last Spanish club meet-
ing members sang Spanish songs
and played bingo in Spanish. It
was decided that all future meet-
ings will be conducted in Span-
ish.

Plans for the year include a
Christmas party, a feature of
which will be the singing of
Christmas carols in Spanish, and
a Spanish fiesta in the winter
quarter.

Blackfr iars Choose
7/ Schubert Alley"

Blackfriars, campus dramatic
organization, has chosen as its
first play of the year, "Schubert
Alley," by Mel Dinelli to be pre-
sented Saturday, November 28,
according to Martha Marie Trim-
ble, president.

The seven scenes of the play will
be in the form of flash-backs,
showing various scenes instru-
mental in the formation of the
course of the main character's life.

The cast will be announced
as soon as try-outs for the 19
roles in the play are completed.

Se niors, Freshmen Victors
In Friday's Hockey Bouts

By Bettye Lee Phelps

The first official class games
were played last Friday afternoon
with the senior and freshman
classes emerging as victors.

The seniors defeated the juniors
by a score of 1-0. At the half the
score was 0-0 with no serious
threats made by either team, and
with the teams being fairly evenly
matched. During the second half
the seniors scored one point. For
the seniors, Virginia Tuggle and

Betty Jean Radford
Will Head Ushers

Members of exec, meeting Mon-
day night with Lower House as
visitors, voted to have ushers at
chapel time to see that students
sit toward the front of the audi-
torium and to encourage prompt-
ness to chapel. Betty Jean Rad-
ford, a member of lower house,
will be in charge of the ushers.

Swimming Club Adds
Eight New Members

Swimming club has taken in
eight new members as a result of
the recent fall tryouts, according
to Agnes Douglas, president. The
new members are June Bedinger,
Edwina Davis, Ann Hightower,
Helen Hutchison, Betty Long, Bet-
ty Miller, Claire Rowe and Beth
Walton.

After the club's demonstration
of functional swimming tomorrow,
the new members will make their
debut in a number of swimming
formations.

Hockey Schedule

At 4:00 tomorrow the frosh will
meet the juniors, and the sophs
will play the seniors in hockey.

Zena Harris Temkin again did
most of the driving. Ann Webb
was the outstanding junior
player.

The freshmen played a nice
game as their first this season,
and several of the players showed
real hockey talent. In the first
half the sophomores made two
serious threats at the goal, but
failed to score each time. Just be-
fore the half the freshmen suc-
ceeded in making one goal. The
score at the end of the half was
1-0 in favor of the freshmen. At
the beginning of the last half the
freshmen again scored. The sopho-
mores, led by Scotty Johnson, re-
taliated by making their only
score. Late in the game the fresh-
men again succeeded in scoring
and the game ended 3-1.

Freshmen on Offense

The freshmen were definitely on
the offensive all during the second
half, and the sophomore defense
was not strong enough to hold
them back. The freshman defense,
however, was very strong with
Ann Stipe playing exceptionally
well.

The lineups follow:

Seniors

Juniors

Young

R W.

Milan

Lasseter

R.I.

King

Walker, B.

C.F.

Cumming

Hill. G. (1)

LI

Davis, B. J.

Tuggle

L.W.

Munroe

Bedinger, C.

R.H.

Farmer

Farrlor

C.H *

Mllford

Douglas

L.H.

Eque*

Montgomery

R.F.

Rosenthal

Temkin

L.F.

Webb

Walker, M.

G.

Everett

Substitutions :

seniors, Phillips, Doeier.

M. ; juniors, Mack, Kirtley.

Sophomores

Freshmen

Ryner

R.fV.

Omer

We ems

R.(.

Harnsberger

Johnson, S. (1)

CP.

Goode (3)

McCain

L.l

Johnson, K.

Stephenson

L.W. Martin, M. A.

Partee

R.a.

Newman

Burnett

C.H.

Stlne

Walker, S.

L.H.

Meyer

Davis, B.

R.F.

Currier

Neville

L.F.

Yates. C.

Noll.ins

G.

Denning

Substitutions :

sophomores,

Chewnlng,

McCain, Phelps;

freshmen' Fisher, Cochran,

Scott, Patterson.

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The most original party of the
week-end, and by far the most fun
according to Hugh Hodgson's
music appreciation class, was his
entertainment for them at his
home Saturday night.

The guests, asked to come dress-
ed as musical characters, show-
ed undue ingenuity and of-
fered unlimited amusement. Cee-
vah Rosenthal went as A minor,
wearing a short dress, socks, and
a big ribbon in her hair. Dr.
Runyon went as Robin Hood, and
Margaret Mace and Kate Webb as
William Tell and his son. Sue Mit-
chel was H a p p y-S u e-i n-B 1 u e
(Rhapsody in Blue) and winning
the prize for costumes was Claire
Bennett who wore a flower in her
hair with ribbons dangling in her
face and a big sign reading "Claire
da Loon" (Clair de Lune). The
evening was spent playing musi-
cal games and listening to Mr.
Hodgson play. Others attending
were Bella Wilson, Betty Camp-
bell, Molly Milam, Frances Stukes,
Julia and Elizabeth Harvard, Scott
Newell, Mary Neely Norris, Cathy
Steinbach, Mary Campbell Ever-
ett, Jo Young, Kathie Hill, Hilda
Goldman and Ruth Setel.

Tech this Week-end
Agnes Scott was well repre-
sented among the sponsors at the
semi-annual "Honors Day" of
Georgia Tech's naval units. The
formations Sunday afternoon at
Grant Field were the last for
many of the men who are leaving
for naval training elsewhere.

Among the sponsors, carrying red
roses and looking especially pret
ty, were Jean Satterwhite for bat
talion adjutant; Jane Smith, Com
pany D; Claire Bennett, Knowles
Dormitory; and Anne Equen
Swann Dormitory.

Seen at the Georgia Tech-Fort
Benning football game Saturday
afternoon were Nita Hewell, Lu
Cunningham, Peggy Jones, Puddin
Bealer; Anne Lee, Jean Satter-
white, Martha Ann Smith, Anne
Johnson, Jean Estes, Jeanne Ro
chelle, Sara Florence, Dale Ben
nett, Carolyn Fuller, Ceevah Ros
enthal, Barbara Frink, Betty
Campbell, Scott Newell, Jeanne
Robinson, Anne Equen, Pie Ertz
and Camilla Moore.

Delta Sig Formal
Betty Sullivan, Jeanne Robin
son, Julia Harvard, and Kathryn
Cameron were present at the Del
ta Sig banquet at the Driving Club
Friday night preceding the dental
fraternity's formal. Others seen
at the dance include Lois Mar-
tin, Claire Bennett, June Thorn
ason, Barbara Omer, Laurie
Looper and Carolyn Daniel-
Enjoying the sports dance Sat
urday night given by the Emory
Newman club at the Decatur Wo
man's club were Helen Beidel
men, Yoli Barnabi, Paule Trieste
Marjorie Tippins, Genevieve Har-
per, Maxine Paulk, Kathryn Edel
blut, and Bette Wade.

Also in Decatur Saturday night
was an S. O. S. dance (for soldiers
or sailors!) Helping keep up mor-

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'Draft Women/
Debaters Say

Dottie Kahn and Jean Hood, de-
fending the negative side of the
question, "Resolved: That women
should be drafted," capitulated to
the affirmative, supported by Mar-
tha Jean Gower and Betty Glenn,
in a debate last Thursday night at
the meeting of Pi Alpha Phi, col-
lege debating organization.

The affirmative contended that
conscription of women was essen-
tial to the increase of production
and the subsequent shortening of
the war, further stating that it
would increase Allied morale.

The negative replied that there
was as yet no necessity for draft-
ing women and held that such an
action would lead to a breakdown
in civilian life and would increase
the readjustment problem attend-
ant on the end of the war. Pi
Alpha Phi members and visitors
at the meeting acted as judges.

According to Claire Bennett,
president, the club will hold try-
outs for upperclassmen tomorrow
evening between 7:30 and 8:30 in
Rebekah Scott chapel. Those plan-
ning to try out should sign on the
back bulletin board in Buttrick,
where full instructions are posted.

Following are the subjects upon
which those trying out may de-
bate: "Resolved: That 18-year-
olds should vote"; "Resolved:
Tha*t this house approves war mar-
riages"; "Resolved: That Agnes
Scott should be co-educational."

Low Bass, Trombone Talent,
Lie Latent at College Place

From interest in music to the ministry to teacher is the road
followed by Paul Leslie Garber, new professor of Bible.

Way back in grammar grades and high school his interest
m music led him to sing low bass in his dad's church choir
and to play the trombone in the band.

Upon graduation his interest in church work had so grown
that he entered the College of

Woster, O., a ministerial school
He received his B. D. and Th. M.
degrees from Louisville, Ky.,
Presbyterian Theological Semin-
ary, and became a member of
Lambda Chi Alpha social fratern-
ity,, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Phi
musical fraternity and Pi Gamma
Mu honorary social science fra-
ternity. Still unsatisfied, he won
the Kearns Fellowship in Ameri-
can Religious Thought which he
took at Duke University in Dur-
ham, N. C.

Likes Durham

Durham seemed to hold him
with a peculiar fascination, for
he became pastor of Trinity Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church just off
the Duke campus. Here in his
capacity of chairman of the ad-
visory council Dr. Garber could
work with the 400 young Presby-
terian students at Duke.

Then, too, near the famed Duke
Chapel he met the freshman dean's

ale were Teddy Bear, Vicky Alex-
ander, Ann Jacob, Jane Jacob and
Jean Rooney.

Seminary Party
Several Agnes Scotties helped
the seniors at Columbia Seminary
entertain Friday night at a party
given for the new students. There
was a program of entertainment
by the students, and the refresh-
ments cider and doughnuts-
were in keeping with this first
fall weather. Seen there were
Bet Patterson, Barbara Smith,
Nellie Scott, Ann Pardington,
Aurie Montgomery, Hansell Cou-
sar, Popesie Scott, Leila Holmes,
Mary Ann Turner, Mary Miller
and Anne Register.

Dining and dancing at the Em-
pire Room Saturday evening were
Mia Hecht, Mary Jane Schumach-
er and Jean Rooney. -Seen at the
Rainbow Roof was Jinx Blake.
Out-of-Town
Out-of-town this weekend were
Margaret Kinard who went to
Clemson; Virginia Calloway, Dor-
othy Ann Chapman and Leo Jes-
person who went to Dublin, Ga.;
Carolyn Rose and Jane Bowman
to Valdosta, Ga., and Ann Hag-
gard to Anniston, Ala. Harding
Ragland and Peggy Kelly spent
the week-end in Spartanburg at
Converse, and Dot Donaldson went
to Auburn and the Alpha Psi
dance there Saturday night. Ethel
Reagan spent the week-end at
Shorter College. Mary Cumming,
Liz Carpenter, and Ann Hightower
spent the week-end at Ann's home
in Thomaston, Ga.

Blackfriars to Give
Costume Show Oct. 28

secretary who had gone to Con-
verse and had taken advanced
work in social science at Duke.
Probably he and she often chaper-
oned groups of young people.

Thirteen months to the day
later the two were married in
the Chapel under whose shadow
they had met.

Particularly striking to him, Dr.
Garber says, is the friendly atti-
tude between the faculty and stu-
dents who throw themselves into
their work and play with equal
abandon the noisy chatter just
before chapel replaced by quiet
reverence at the beginning of the
service.

Right now Dr. and Mrs. Gar-
ber, who have never been faculty
members before, are expectantly
looking forward to the time when
their house on 101 College Place
will be ready to open for stu-
dents to drop in for a chat.

On Thursday, October 28 at 8
p. m., Blackfriars will present a
three-act costume show. The last
act will be an open contest which
individual students, as well as
representatives from the various
campus organizations, may enter.
A prize will be awarded for the
best costume.

Tickets to the show are 10 cents,
and the fee for entering the con-
test is 25 cents. All the money
raised by Blackfriars will go to
the college War Fund drive, as a
contribution to the $1,000 student
pledge.

The scenario for the show is
by the play production class.

There will be a compulsory
meeting of the News staff Fri-
day afternoon at 5:15, immed-
iately after the hockey games.
Any reporter who misses the
meeting without sufficient cause
will be dropped automatically
from the staff.

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Mortar Board to Fete
ransfers This Saturday

Mortar Board will give a party
for all transfer students this Sat-
urday at 6 p. m. A picnic supper
will be served to the girls and
their dates, who have been invited
from Tech, Emory, Columbia Sem-
inary and the Dental college.

A skating party in the gym,
featuring an exhibition of fancy
skating, will complete the evening.

Katherine Phillips is in charge
of the entertainment.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943

Duffee Presents

Guest Columnist

Joella Craig

(Mary Louise Duffee, who us-
ually fills this space each week,
is in the throes of exams at Em-
ory. She presents Joella as guest
writer this week).

"Do to the faculty what I do
to the students," said Duffee in
her invitation, and to all of yon
let me say that their lives are
above reproach. It is with un-
told delight, but likewise with
much nervous alarm (sometimes
called trepidation) that the task
is begun. (Donations for a one-
way ticket to Walhalla will be
gratefully received in the book-
store!)

Having dispensed with the inevi-
table plug for the city, hear ye
the highlights of the Faculty Ba-
con Bat. The Bacon Bat is sur-
rounded by tradition equaled only
by the Black Cat Stunt. The name
itself is a sort of mystery only
the privileged ones of the faculty
and administrative staff who at-
tend, and who are pledged to
secrecy, know its meaning. At this
annual gathering the newcomers
are the honor guests and are es-
corted; the hostesses are the new-
comers of the previous year.
This time the yard of Harir-
son Hut was alive with smiling
Jack-o-Lanterns, with a strong
suggestion of Hallowe'en and
the Japanese lanterns which de-
parted this life in the rain after
the fall reception. A tragedy
befell one of these lanterns . . .
it caught on fire . . . and Mr.
Sims came to the rescue. The
fellowship around the big bon-
fire was so pleasing that some
sat on the ground Indian-style,
and to walk about it was neces-
sary to dodge the tin cups of
coffee nestled in the grass.
"Robin Hood" Runyon came cos-
tumed for Mr. Hodgson's party,
and brightened the circle with
his red and green outfit and
feathers. After the auction of
the remaining food, two of the
faculty members, whose names
are withheld for obvious reasons,
skipped home swinging hands.

Topic for conversation in those
silent moments at senior coffee:
the faculty dogs. Miss Omwake
and Miss Harn, after the death
of their little black kitten bought
"Mickie," as playful pup as was
ever seen. There is "Caroline,"
who belongs to Miss Leybum,
"Kate," who belongs to Miss
Glick, and the Stukes' dog "Car-
rie," named for our beloved dean.

This little bit of information
should really make bright the
hearts of the administration. Ac-
cording to the grapevine, there is
actually one junior who has paid
her $25 room reservation fee for
next year. Afraid you'd be left
out in the cold?

Besides her well-known book,
The Science of Life, Miss Mac-
Dougall has written poetry. She
has graciously consented to the
use of a favorite one here:
O little girls and lassies gay
W> love your sweet and winning
way.

But when you come with us to
stay

Please put your chewing gum
away !

And the biology department
is indirectly responsible for the
confusion of the freshmen who
believed the upperclassman who
said the M (imagine it a fresh-
man, too) on her biology- test
was the initial of the person
who graded it!

Respectfully submitted,
Joella.

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Only the Editor Would Write This

Honor roll students can relax and not study
Dccasionally; student body presidents can fra-
ternalize with the masses.

But the editor must be always pontifical.

The editor is supposed to know everything
that happens. It is taken for granted that she
already knows it so no one ever tells her any-
thing. Only the editor must always keep an
open mind, and at the same time be ready
to pass judgment on each daily occurrance.

Honor roll students see a constant row of
merits on their quarterly reports; student
body presidents hear complaints in open for-
ums.

Only an editor has to guess.

Only the editor has to grope blindly along,
trying to put out a paper for a student body
who will talk only behind her back, who will
never tell her what they like or don't like, who
will squawk loudly only when they are irre-
parably wounded, who never thank her when
she says anything nice about them or censor
anything objectionable, who have to be tracked
iown, cornered, and beaten insensible before
they will so much as give her a news lead.
Only the editor slaves for days on a good story
and then reads it on the bulletin board an
hour before the paper comes out.

Are You Guilty?

A chronic habit of Hottentots is that of be-
ing late. We all are guilty.

If he's asked you for a date, one usually sup-
poses it's because he wants to see you. He
won't think you forward or too eager just be-
cause you are on time. But if you sign in the
maid's office that you're waiting, you won't
waste the time of the information girl, the
maid, and the girl on your hall who finally
answers the phone and chases you down. Why
not surprise him by being different?

And if you're double dating, be considerate
Df the other couple w^ho may really want to
see the whole showbr actually go to the dance.
The age of the grand entrance is passe.

If you make a date, keep it! Maybe the
other person had to change her plans to suit
yours maybe she even refused a date.

And don't promise to do something and
promptly forget all about it. If you're to make
arrangements or get information, remember
that other people's work may depend upon the
completion of yours. If your deadline says
Friday 6:00, Saturday morning is not just as
ood. M. C.

In tfe mail **o f\ N ose |>| the Al>

By Tess Carlos

People have been coming up to
me and saying "I am getting tired
of the way you begin your col-
umn." So I am not beginning it.
There shall be no beginning or
end but a train of subdued
thoughts that will go on and on
until I get the required forty-
five lines written.

Here's one way of eounteraet-
ing the numerous questions of
passersby who view the pieture
of your best beau and exclaim
"Who is that hunk of man?"
In a senior room in Main hangs
this notice by the glorious pie-
ture of a man: "The address of
this glamour boy will be furn-
ished for a slight fee (to cover
cost of postage and handling).
Lay off the handling! THE
MANAGEMENT."
IRC (International Relations
club) is certainly having activities
this year. They are planning two
meetings a month. One an open
forum (which was two weeks ago,
led by Johnnie Mae Tippen and
Carolyn Calhoun) and the other
featuring an outside speaker. This
Thursday at 8:00 in Mur-
phey Candler building, Andrew
Robertson, chairman of the Deca-
tur city council, will speak on
city government, the theme of
this year's program. Also, the
club is noted for its refreshments.
Wendy Whittle, who is in charge
of refreshments, loves food and
likes to share it with the commun-
ity.

Here is a suggestion: so many
girls have one set of symphony
or suite records. And they get
to hear only that one. There are
a great many different sorts of
reeord collections on the cam-
pus. Can't there be some way
of pooling them or lending them
out so everyone can enjoy the-
mountain ballads, the Beethoven
symphonies, the numerous ren-
ditions of "Lay that Pistol
Down, Babe" (see following
item), and the (iershwin melo-
dies from "Forgy and Bess."
Rebekah is in an uproar. The
Sinatra craze has struck home.
Is Frankie ruining "Pistol-Packing
Mama"? Or is he improving it
by making it into a swing classic.
Two vehement letters of protest
and of approval have been duly
sent to the sponsors of the Hit
Parade. Results will come later.
Advocates insist "Frankie shows
his sense of humor." Opponents
yell "He stinks!"

War stamps arc being sold
every morning in Buttrlck, But
no one is buying them. The old
apathy again. The apathy that
has us subscribing sums of
money tor various funds the
World Student Serviee fund, the
Red Cross, the War Pond. And
never reaching our (juota. Why
do we want to do things when
We don't even care enough
abOUt them to carry them

through ?

Random thoughts: the number
)f broken, sprained, cracked limbs
of the students, hobbling around
... the swarms of multicolored,
multispecied dogs that stream
across the quadrange, into build-
ings, under the feet of students,
in chapel processions. . . . the
space in front of soph-frosh sec-
tions in chapel, five rows deep,
the gaps in the middle and the
triangular lines of seating that
move toward the back ... the
snapshot contest of Silhouette
perfect shooting weather these
days if film can be found . . .
(ho bicycle tours Miss Cobbs, Miss
Winter, Mr. Runyon, Miss Scan-
drett take the envy of bicycleless
students who yearn to travel oth-
pr than in street cars.

Honor roll students are an inspiration to
their teachers; student body presidents can
point with pride to a list of the year's achieve-
ments.

Only the editor never accomplishes any-
thing.

Only the editor has to see 540 of her 545
loyal readers, each and every week, turning
immediately to the gossip columns, ignoring
everything else in the issue; to find the layouts
over which her staff labored completely un-
appreciated; to feel her editorial campaigns
coldly ignored.

Honor roll students get unlimited cuts; stu-
dent body presidents get to introduce visitors.

Only the editor is silly enough not to want
to trade places with any of them.

And, when the truth is known, only the
editor has the satisfaction of knowing that
her thousand words a week are written in
words that cannot be erased; of sensing that
if she knew how to use it, she has the whole
state for her audience; of feeling that she is
doing a job for the students that no one else
could do in quite the same way; and last, but
hardly least, of being sure of a staff that, no
matter how hard she is forced to abuse them,
overwork them, deny them any reward for
their work, will be driven back for more.

And only the editor would gripe about it.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1943 No. 4

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, $1.25; single copies, five cents.

Editor MADELINE ROSE H0RMT5R

Managing Editor MARY CARR

Business Manager I JUNE LANIER

Assistant Editor? Feattfrt Editor

Betty Clenn Mary Louise Duffee

Inge Probsteln Editorial Assistant

Advertising Managers Tess Carlos

Liz Carpenter . Cartoonists

Franres King Sa T Ilv ' S ' ,e Stephenson

_TTj Jane Anne Newton

Sports Editor Ajm Lee

Margaret Drummond Circulation Manager

Society Editor Carolyn Calhoun

Camilla Moore Circulation Assistants

Copy Editor Mary Russell

Leila Holmes Marlon Leathers

Reporters: Marlon Knapp, Betty Bun-ess. Kathryne
Thompson Mangum. Martha Jane Mack, Jean McCurry.
Martha Arnold. Carolyn Fuller. Lib Farmer, Wendy Whit-
tle. Betty Wade. Louise Breedln, Pat Elam. Olive Hansen,
Martha Baker, Anne Register. Margaret Edelmann. Eliza-
beth Scott. Connie Eraser. Jeanne Rorhelle. Jeanne Addi-
son, Joyce Clllrland. Jane Bowman. Sara Jean Hark. Doro-
thy Lee Webb. Aline Cordon. Che Nellans, Anne Noell.
Jean Rooncy. Ann Soltzlnger. Martha Whatley Yates, Carol
Mason. Margaret Pear. Mary Anderson Courtenay.
Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner. Peggy Kelly. Sally Sue
Stephenson. Betty? Lee Phelps.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943

No. 5

Thirteen Seniors Named Leaders in "Who's Who

Students Hear Council Plans,
Approve War Conferences

The student body Thursday approved War Council's plan
to sponsor another week-end of conferences similar to the
one held last February. A definite date for the conference
cannot be announced until plans are nearer completion, but it
will be after the Christmas vacation.

Other work of War Council will
continue throughout the year

in

the form of a competition be-
tween five groups, the four dorm
groups and the faculty, according
to Squee Woolford, student chair-
man.

A large chart with the name of
Inmanites and freshman day stu-
dents will be posted in Inman.
Charts for Rebekah, the cottages
and Main will include sophomore,
junior and senior day students re-
spectively.

Individual participation will be
checked and points awarded to
the group on this basis. Total
points for the year will be work-
ed out on a percentage basis. The
winning team will be given a party
at the end of the year by the los-
ers.

Robin Hood to Head
Parade of Costumes
Tomorrow Evening

Attired in a Robin Hood cos-
tume that is, to quote, "out of
this world," Dr. Ernest Runyon
will head the parade of entries
in the contest which will feature
the costume show to be presented
tomorrow night by Blackfriars and
the play production class.

Other faculty members slated
to model costumes include Miss
Roberta Winter, Miss Melissa Cil-
ley, and Dr. J. R. McCain, whose
costumes promise to rival that of
Dr. Runyon. A cash prize will
be awarded for the cleverest or
most original costume entered in
the contest.

Blackfriars members will model
costumes appropriate for such
characters as Scheherezade, the
Sarong Girl, Juliet, and, yes, even
that fearful character, the Phan-
tom of the Opera!

Proceeds from the show, which
will be held at 7:30 in the Presser
auditorium, will be contributed to
the United War Fund Drive.

"Met" Stars to Give
Faust" Saturday

As a part of the All-Star Con-
cert Series, the Atlanta Music
club will present singers from the
Metropolitan Opera Company in
Gounod's "Faust" on Saturday,
Oct. 30, at 8:30 p. m. at the At-
lanta city auditorium.

In the role of Marguerite will
be Vivian della Chiesa, well-known
soprano of opera and radio.
Armand Tokatyan, tenor of the
"Met," will take the part of Faust
and John Gurney, basso, will
sing Mephistopheles.

Special cars for Agnes Scott
students will leave the underpass
at 7:30 p. m. About two hundred
and fifty people from Agnes Scott
attended the first concert on Oct.
13.

Bring this copy of your News
to chapel Thursday. We will
vote for beauty section of Sil-
houette from the following forty
nominations:

Ruth Anderson, Betty An-
drews, Patty Barbour, Claire
Bennett, Teddy Bear, Liz Car-
penter, Jean Chewning, Carolyn
Daniel, Cookie Devane, Ann
Equen, Mary Jane Fuller, Joyce
Freeman, Shirley Graves, G. G.
Gilland, Bippy Gribble, Gloria
Gormley, Harvard twins, Robin
T. Horneffer, Sue Hutchens, Le-
lane Harris, Tinkum Iverson,
Eugenia Jones, Mary Ann Jef-
feries ,Mary Jane Love, Laurice
Looper, Betty Long, Gloria Ann
Melchior, Montine Melson, An-
nette Neville, Scotty Newell,
Helen Owens, Joan Race, Mar-
tha Rhodes, Jeanne Robinson,
Robin Robinson, Ann Scott, Sal-
ly Sue Stevenson, Martha
Thompson, Smiley Williams,
Martha Yates.

Book Week Exhibit
To Open This Friday

Books, current and choice, will
be on exhibit at the library start-
ing Friday, October 29, during the
regular library hours as well as
from 2:30 to 5:30 p. m. on two
Sundays.

This year the collection features
much curent non-fiction on the
war, social problems, and recon-
struction. The library will show
its many recent acquisitions in
the field of South and Central
America. New fiction, biography,
poetry and the library's best books
on music, religion and art round
out the display.

The exhibit will last through
November 7.

Mortar Board to Hold
Recognition Service

Saturday, Oct. 30 will mark the
annual recognition service of the
Agnes Scott chapter of Mortar
Board, when the aims and ideals
of Mortar Board will be explained
to the new students.

Miss Susan Cobbs, acting pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek, will
speak on the way to achieve a
sane balance between satisfying
the engrossing needs of the pres-
ent and still maintain an active
interest in the finer things of life
that have lasted down to the pres-
ent time. It has been customary
in the past for the speaker to set
forth the theme of the chapter
for the coming year.

Mortar Board is a national hon-
or society to which seniors may
be elected for their outstanding
leadership, scholarship and service.
The number of members in one
chapter may vary from five to ten.
The members of the '44 Mortar
Board are Ann Jacob, Claire Bed-
inger, Ruth Kolthoff, Mary Max-
well, Katherine Philips .Virginia
Tuggle, Anne Ward, Elizabeth Ed-
wards, Bunny Gray, and Aurie
Montgomery.

W.S.S.F. Drive
Set for Nov. 19

The campus campaign for con-
tributions to the World Student
Service Fund will begin with a
chapel program on Nov. 19, accord-
ing to Eudice Tontak, president
of International Relations Club.

The drive will last for one week,
Nov. 19-26 under the sponsorship
of IRC. Money will be raised
through personal subscriptions.

The student organization has
not yet been completed, but it has
been announced that Mrs. Roff
Sims, assistant professor of his-
tory, and Miss Mildred Mell, pro-
fessor of economics and sociology,
will serve as faculty advisers.

The student organization and
the speaker for the opening chapel
service will be announced later.

Blackout

pioise, Sardine Sandwiches
Highlight Air Raid Test

By Pauline Ertz

Prowling around in pitch dark can be fun. Or fearful. Well,
to tell you the truth, we had lots of fun last week touring the
campus during the blackout. Of course we couldn't see any-
thing. We bumped into strange inanimate objects, and got
accused of being a saboteur.

To get on with what we didn't see. Over in Main-land every-
thing was nice and cozy and soci-

lectual diversion such as playing
bridge, polishing nails, heckling
Squee, etc. Then the two factions
got together and combined for a
rousing game of Percolator! (Ask
Leila Holmes about Errol Flynn.)
Inman Gets Noisy
A peep into Inman revealed ut-
ter chaos, mostly noise. It seems
that it was the first blackout ex-
perience for the freshmen, and so,
being rather afraid of the dark,
they calmed their fears by singing
(See page 2, column 3)

Mortar Board, Three Others
Cited by National Publication

"Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and
Colleges," annual index of outstanding students selected on
a basis of character, scholarship and leadership in extra-
curricular activities, and potentiality for future usefulness to

business and society, has accepted

able. A few unmentionables stay-
ed in their rooms and actually
SLEPT. But down to the day
student room in the basement
trekked most of the dorm. The
whole right wing, second floor,
came prepared for a party, dress-
ed in pajamas, coats and hats,
mittens and evening bags. It was
absolutely taboo to take off one's
chapeau for even a minute during
the blackout. The leftiests, not to
be outdone by the Madhatters,
contented themselves with intel-

Hayes to Speak
At Investiture

Ninety-nine black-gowned sen-
iors will be formally invested with
their senior rights and privileges
by Dean Carrie Scandrett at cere-
monies on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 11
a. m. in Presser hall.

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor
of English, who, with Miss Emma
May Laney, associate professor of
English, is the senior class adviser,
will deliver the address.

At the head of the seniors will
be their three-year-old mascot,
Gaines Wilburn, the great-great-
grandson of Colonel George W.
Scott, founder of Agnes Scott.
He is also the great-nephew of
Miss Lucile Alexander, professor
of French.

Plans are being made under the
direction of Bippy Gribble, for spe-
cial church services in Gaines
chapel on the Sunday morning fol-
lowing investiture for seniors and
their visitors. Dr. Paul L. Garber,
head of the Bible department, will
preach the sermon.

Silhouette

Editor Tells
Annual Plans

Ann Jacob, editor of the 1944
Silhouette, this week assured stu-
dents that, in spite of war-time
restrictions, the annual would def-
nitely appear this year, in no way
noticeably shortened or reduced
in quality.

"Because of the special interest
of the photographers, engravers,
and printers in Agnes Scott, we
are assured of obtaining paper, ink,
and other essentials," she stated.

If printing can be finished in
time, the staff hopes this year to
eliminate the usual hurried "hand-
outs" in the basement of Murphcy
Candler building by presenting the
annuals at a special program in
May.

Other innovations and added
attractions for this year's issue,
including the beauty section, will
be a staff secret until the end
of the year.

M

anan

And

erson

Will Sing Tonight

The Atlanta Music club will pre-
sent Marian Anderson, outstand-
ing Negro contralto, at the Muni-
cipal auditorium tonight at 8:30.
This concert is one of seven added
attractions presented by the Mu-
sic club to supplement the All-
Star Concert Series.

Miss Anderson's program will
include selections from Handel,
Scarlatti, Hayden, Brahms, Char-
les Griffes and Gabriel Faure,
Gounod, Ravel, and a group of
Negro spirituals.

13 seniors from Agnes Scott.

The girls named are Carolyn
Daniel, president of the senior
class; Ruth Farrior, president of
Christian Association; Smiley Wil-
liams, house president of Inman;
and the ten Mortar Board mem-
bers, Clare Bedinger, vice-presi-
dent of student government; Eliz-
abeth Edwards, day student repre-
sentative of student government;
Bunny Gray, Bible club president;
Ann Jacob, editor of the Silhou-
ette, Ruth Kolthoff, president of
Mortar Board; Mary Maxwell, vice
president of Athletic Association;
Aurie Montgomery, house presi-
dent of Rebekah Scott; Kather-
ine Phillips, vice president of
Christian Association; Virginia
Tuggle, president of Athletic As-
sociation, and Ann Ward, presi-
dent of student government.

The girls whose names were sub-
mitted through the office of Pres-
ident J. R. McCain were notified
Monday of their acceptance.

In keeping with the ideals and
church-school background of Ag-
nes Scott it is interesting to note
that 11 of the 13 girls have shown
a marked interest in the activities
of Christian Association. Seven of
the girls have served on student
government; two are on Athletic
Association and one represents the
three campus publications.

"Who's Who," first published in
1934 with 250 colleges represented,
now lists outstanding students
from 650 colleges and universities.

Editor Discloses
Aurora Plans

The fall issue of the Aurora,
campus literary magazine, will be
distributed Friday or Saturday of
this week, according to Tess Car-
los, editor.

This issue, according to Editor-
Carlos, will contain, along with
the usual short stories, essays,
and book-reviews, a number of
cartoons, a non-fiction article, and
a debate.

"We appreciate all material
submitted," says Tess, "but next
time we want the contributions
to be longer over a thousand
words, if possible."

There are to be four issues for
the year 1943-1944 instead of the
usual three. The deadline for the
winter issue is December 9.

IkU Week...

Wed., Oct. 27, 8:30 p. m. Marian
Anderson concert nt city audi*
torium.

Thurs., Oct. 27, 7:30 p. m. Black-
friars costume show.

Friday, Oct. 29-Sunday, Nov. 7
Book Week.

Sat., Oct 30, 10:30 a. m. Mortar
Board recognition service.
8:30 p. m. Opera "Faust" at
city auditorium.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

Being partial to things English
anyhow, this campus won't soon
forget its delightful visitors of
last week. Still being told and
retold are snatches of their quaint
conversation and anecdotes which
prove their incomparable sense of
humor. Just to pass on a few:

After the banquet which the
college gave for them last Wed-
nesday night in the alumnae
house, it seems the conversation
turned to coordination and the
fundamentals of physical educa-
tion as now being taught to the
freshmen. Our visitors were very
much interested and asked Miss
Rutledge to demonstrate. Within
a few minutes, unhooked and un-
zipped for action, the three were
going through all sorts of queer
monkey motions, which rendered
very doubtful (this from Mrs. Lit-
tle) the duration of their stay in
Milledgeville, their next stop.

The amazing thing was the
short time in which they learned
the coordination tricks; they were
able to do in a few minutes what
it takes some classes weeks to
learn (this from "Tug").

Delightful also were their Eng-
lish expressions. New to this cam-
pus was Mrs. Little's "Oh my god-
fathers," when she missed a shot,
and her "Oh I don't think I shall,"
while running back for a deep
drive. "Tug," who was there as
her partner, says she would turn
to her with a "Now let's get this
shot by the tail."

A red circled day on the Ath-
letic calendar is November 27. On
that day the council of the Ath-
letic Federation of College Women
meets at Shorter with Virginia
Tuggle presiding. They will
outline plans for the year, and
will, according to "Tug," who goes
off on a tangent like this ever so
often, "attempt to integrate the
standards and values of sports and
other related activities."

In common parlance, the
GAFCW is attempting to cooper-
ate with the government, and to
help college athletic associations
meet the new standards of physi-
cal fitness. Hence Agnes Scott's
new five-hour gym program, which
is a cog in the wheel turning to-
ward victory.

In the near future also is the
big "Birthday Hockey Game,"
which is scheduled for around the
23rd. In case you haven't heard,
three of A. A.'s notables, namely,
Virginia Tuggle, Jo Young and
Miss Rutledge, have birthdays on
and around said date. They plan
to choose teams, and play a classic
game (according to "Tug"), but
to a 101 mathematician like me,
three people choosing teams adds
up to three, and three teams play-
ing each other well, in ; the best
hockey circles, it just isn't being
done, not during war-times any-
way. This promises to be very,
very interesting.

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Tennis Tournament
Enters Second Round

The results of second-round play
this week in the annual tennis
singles tournament show Mary
Cumming and Ann Hough headed
for the semi-finals, each having
defeated her opponent by a safe
score. Other second-round matches
slated to be played soon are Ruth
Ryner vs. Kathryn Dozier and
Virginia Tuggle vs. Joan Crangle.

By defeating Mary Munroe 6-1,
6-1, Thursday, Mary Cumming
staged the major upset of the
tournament thus far. Munroe was
runner-up in the singles tourney
last year, and paired with Virginia
Tuggle won the doubles champion-
ship. The match was more excit-
ing than the score might indi-
cate, both participants being
steady players, full of grim de-
termination.

Ann Hough, one of the most
promising freshman players, de-
feated Doris Kissling 6-0, 6-0. The
match was a quick one, filled
with swift serves and hard drives
on the part of both players. In
the long run, Ann's superior en-
durance and control of the ball
gave her the victory.

Blackout

(Continued from page 1)

and general merrymaking that
lasted into the night. Just ask any
senior who was trying to sleep
there.

Freshmen again. This time in
Boyd. We have it on good auth-
ority, whom we won't reveal as
Wendy Whittle, that Boyd's plebes
had a contest to see who could
scream loudest in the blackout.
As an added attraction, a boxing
match took place between two
frosh around Mary Ann Turner's
bed, with Mary Ann in it, of
course.

On the other side of the tea
house, Lupton resigned itself to
communal sardine sandwiches,
star-gazing, and the inevitable cof-
fee pot.

From time to time advice would
come from Squee. Miss Scandrett
and Mr. Armistead were all over
the campus, nipping out stray
lights here and there.

Mystery of the Missing Bomb . .
Rumor had it that one of the

Jo Young Reveals
Hockey Schedule

Jo Young, hockey manager, this
week announced the schedule of
hockey games for the rest of the
quarter.

This week the sophomores will
cross sticks with the juniors, while
the freshmen will play an unde-
feated senior team. On Nov. 5
the sophomores will play the
freshmen, and the juniors will vie
with the seniors.

For the rest of the season
the games are scheduled as fol-
lows: Nov. 12, sophomores vs.
seniors and juniors vs. freshmen;
Nov. 19, sophomores vs. juniors
and seniors vs. freshmen; Nov.
26, varsity vs. sub-varsity; Dec.
3, varsity vs. faculty.

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day. Alice Newman and Kathryn
Johnson played nice defensive
games, but the front line didn't
have the drive necessary for scor-
ing. The score at the half was
2-0 for the juniors, and the final
score 5-0.

The lineups follow:

Sophomores

Seniors Remain Undefeated;
Juniors Beat Freshmen, 5-0

By Bettye Lee Phelps

In last Friday's hockey games the seniors retained their
record of straight wins by crushing the sophomores 3-0, and
the juniors trampled the freshmen 5-0.

The senior-sophomore game was
fast, with both sides making use
of long drives. Zena Harris Tern-
kin, Ruth Farrior and Harding
Ragland played especially well in
the backfield.

In the first half of the game
the seniors made five serious
threats to the goal and managed
to score twice. Che Nellans, soph-
omore goal keeper, playing ex-
cellently was largely responsible
for diverting the other three first
half senior threats. The sopho-
mores made no serious threats on
the goal during the first half,
which ended 2-0.

The second half saw the sen-
iors tally another score and the
sophomores fail in one attempt.
The whole senior team played well
and displayed good hockey tech-
nique. The sophomore defense was
particularly strong and worked
smoothly, but needed a more pow-
erful forward line to break
through the strong senior lines.

The junior-freshman game was
also faster than usual. The jun-
iors were very persistent at the
goal all through the game and
made several good drives and
passes.

The freshmen seemed to lack
their usual spark in the game Fri-

Seniors

Young
Lasseter
Walker, B. (1)
Hill, G. (1)
Tuggle* (1)
Phillips
Farrior
Douglas
Montgomery
Temkin
Walker, M.
Substitutions :

R.
R.I.
CP.
L.I.
L.W.
R.H.
C.H.
L.H.
R.B.
L.B.
G.

Juniors Kirtley (1), Mack
(1), Tanner. Freshmen Heery, Currie.

Substitutions : Seniors Maxwell, Dosder,
If., Bedlnger, C.

Freshmen

Coutenay
McCain
Long, B.
Chewning
Stephenson. S.
Ragland
Burnett
Walker. S.
Register
Neville
Nellang

Juniors

Milam
King

Cumming (3)

Davis

Munroe

Hunter

Mllford

Equen

Rosenthal

Webb

Everett

R.W.

R.I.

C.F.

L.I.

L.W.

R.H.

C.H.

L.H.

R.B.

L.B.

G.

Cochran
Harnsberger
Good
Hoyt
Martia
AndrewB
Newman
Meyer
Johnson. K.
Yates
Denning

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"bombed" and would have to be
evacuated to Presser. Well, every-
body waited to be told that they
were the lucky ones being bomb-
ed. And waited. And waited.
There just wasn't any bombing.
For corroboration see Ann Sale,
who fixed up Presser as a shelter
and then sat and waited for the
poor shivering evacuees-that-nev-
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Interestingly enough, the num-
ber of men on campus was nil
everyone with dates went off cam-
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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

A recent event of great social
interest was Anne Paisley's mar-
riage to Bill Boyd. The ceremony
was solemnized at the Stockbridge
Presbyterian church on Oct. 15 by
the father of the bride. Anne was
lovely in an ivory satin dress made
princess style with a low square
neck and a long train. The lace
in the neck of the dress was re-
pleated around the sleeves. Her
flowers were white roses and car-
nations. Her attendants, her sis-
ters Muff and Fluff, wore dresses
of peach taffeta and net and car-
ried bouquets of yellow chrysan-
themums. Kathrine Phillips and
Page Lancaster sang; other Agnes
Scott girls attending* were Kay
Bisceglia, Jessie Newbold, Betty
Vecsey, Pat Evans, Popsie Scott,
Aurie Montgomery and Ruth Kolt-
hoff.

AKK Dance

At Emory Saturday night at the
AKK med fraternity house dance
were Robin Robinson, Lucy Tur-
ner, Eva Williams, Margaret
Scott, Minnie Mack and Belle Da-
vis.

Dancing at the Empire Room
were Vicky Alexander, Carolyn
Bodie, Pie Ertz and Mary Camp-
bell Everett. . . . Seen at the Para-

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dise Room were Jane Ann Newton,
Beth Walton and Virginia Owens.
. . . Martha Rhodes was seen at
the Rainbow Roof.

Did you see Ensign Carolyn
Smith on campus during the week-
end? She has been home for a
short leave and is on her way to
be assigned to communications at
Miami.

"Camping out" at Harrison Hut
Saturday night under the chaper-
onage of Miss Rutledge were Ruth
Ryner, Harding Ragland, Carolyn
Rose, May Turner, Puddin Bealer,
Martha Baker, Peggy Kelly, Lisa
Marshall and Jane Bowman. Most
of the night was spent sitting
around the fire and there was
an ample supply of food and cof-
fee. Early Sunday morning the
campers rose and tramped back to
the dining hall for breakfast.
Visitors

Jinx Blake's and Ruth Simpson's
fathers visited them last week.
Anne Eidson's mother was here
so was Martha Ball's. Hilda Ta-
bor and Elizabeth Harris had their
sisters as visitors. Also Barbara
Wilson's famfly was here on cam-
pus.

Going home to Cordele, Ga., with
Lealine Harris were Mary Fran-
ces Anderson, Barbara Omer and
Dale Bennett. Doris Purcell vis-
ited Claire Rowe at her home in
LaGrange, Ga. Eleanor Manley
spent the week-end in Anderson,
S. C. with Betty Sullivan, and Mary
Russell and Rite Watson with
Bunch Beaver in Gainesville, Ga.

Spending the week-end in Ma-
con, Ga., was Laura Winchester
. . . Ann Martin in Easley, S. C.
. . . home to Jefferson, Ga., was
Frances Bryan . . . Ceevah Rosen-
thal and Anne Scott to Chatta-
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B. O. Z. Asks Three,
Poets Choose Two
In Recent Tryouts

B. O. Z. and Poetry club, the
campus' two literary organiza-
tions, held tryouts recently and
have elected new members.

B. O. Z. is the campus literary
organization devoted to the inter-
ests of creative writing. The club
meets twice a month to read and
discuss critically the manuscripts
written by its members. B. O. Z.'s
initials are significant for they
were the penname of Charles
Dickens.

Mary Florence McKee, presi-
dent of B. O. Z., has announced
that the new members are Sara
Jean Clark, Edwina Davis and
Wendy Whittle. Tryouts consisted
of submitting a prose composition
to the judges, the old members
of the club. The faculty adviser
is Miss Janef Preston.

Poetry club president, Tommie
Huie, announced this week that
new members selected on the basis
of competitive tryouts are Ruth
Simpson and Anastasia Carlos.
Judges were members of the club
and Miss Emma Mae Laney.

Baby

We Are Getting
On In Years

Agnes Scott's potential first
great-great-granddaughter is a
lovable dark-eyed brunette with
eleven teeth. She is Miss Zoe
Dixon, the fourteen-months-old
daughter of Mrs. Carlton Dixon,
the former Zoe Drake, who was a
member of the present senior
class, and the first Agnes Scott
great-great-granddaughter.

Mrs. Dixpn was at Agnes Scott
during her freshman year, the first
half of which she was a boarder
with Julia Scott as her room-mate.
At the end of the year, she left
her college career to marry Carl-
ton Dixon now in the Army Sig-
nal Corps, stationed in New York.

Little Zoe, whose mother, grand-
mother, and great-grandmother
were students at Agnes Scott, is
a big girl now. She walks, talks,
and looks like her daddy. Mrs.
Dixon and Zoe live with the baby's
grandparents in College Park, Ga.

Freshman Cabinet
Plans Activities

At the first meeting of freshman
cabinet Oct. 18, plans were made
for the coming year, according to
Katherine Phillips, senior advisor.

Programs planned will include
outside speakers and discussions
led by the students. There will
also be a devotional conducted by
a member. In the latter part of
November, officers will be elected,
who will then appoint program
and devotional committees.

The next meeting will be held
Nov. 1, and regularly every Mon-
day evening thereafter from 7:30
to 8:30 p. m. All freshmen in-
terested are urged to attend.

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Time Changes, Not the Girls,
Veteran Maids Reminisce

By Carolyn Fuller

Beloved by Hottentots for 31 years, Ella Cary, the maid in
the office in Main building, has seen two generations of Agnes
Scott girls come and go. At registration, freshmen often ask
for Ella, saying "Mother told me to be sure to see Ella." She
tells of the "regiment of boys who came to see the girls (of
bygone days, of course) on Sunday

afternoon." The rule required that much ' but aren,t nearl y as home "

sick, says Tabby. Ella says that

the girls haven't changed but the

times have.

the boys be kin to them. Accord
ing to Ella, some claimed kin and
some didn't.

Ella's first job on the campus
was in West Lawn cottage. Since
then she has worked "everywhere
except the infirmary and the
boiler room." Ella has been happy
here and is "going to stay as long
as she can walk."

Tabby's 30 Years

Tabby McCalla, who now does
pressing in the basement of Main
building, has also given many
years of service and is always
remembered by alumnae. Brought
here by Ella 30 years ago, she first
worked on second floor Inman un-
der Miss Miller, the matron. Af-
ter Miss Miller took her to work
in Main, she remained there for 24
years. She too, says "the longer
I stayed, the better I liked it."

According to Tabby, one of the
most entertaining girls at Agnes
Scott was Margaret Roe from
England. During World War I, as
Tabby was going on duty in In-
man one morning, she heard the
girls screaming and calling to her
to come to see Margaret, who had
broken out in a red rash. "Why,
she has the German measles,"
Tabby immediately diagnosed. The
girl wailed, "Oh, I'd rather have
anything than that now."

Both Ella and Tabby think girls
of today are much the same as
their mothers. They enjoy fun as

Debating^Club Elects
Eight New Members

According to Claire Bennett,
president of Pi Alpha Phi, new
members elected to the club on
the basis of tryouts held last week
are Peggy Jones, Mary Reynolds,
Ruth Setel, Shirley Heller, Bunny
Weems, Mary Ann Courtenay,
Anne Noell, and Elizabeth Os-
borne.

Tomorrow night Patty Barbour
and Liz Carpenter, defending the
negative will debate Judy Moody
and Sylvia Mogul, supporting the
affirmative, on the question, "Re-
solved: That this house approve
socialized medicine." The college
community is cordially invited to
attend.

Two Local Debs
Among 16 Asked
By Cotillion Club

Including Atlanta debs, Anne
Equen, president of the Debutante
club, and Mary Cumming, 16 new
members were elected to Cotillion
club this past week, according to
an announcement by president
Julia Harvard.

Seniors head the list with five
members chosen: Polly Cook, Car-
olyn Daniel, Miriam Davis, Bobbie
Powell and Betty Sullivan. The
new junior members, in addition to
Anne Equen and Mary Cumming,
are Eugenia Jones and Jeanne
Robinson.

Sophomores elected are Mari-
anna Kirkpatrick, Ruth Limbert,
"Robin" Robinson and Rite Wat-
son. Sue Hutchens, Helen Hutch-
ison and Ann Scott are new
freshman members.

Cotillion club functions as a
purely social organization. It was
active last year in holding classes
to teach students the latest dance
steps.

From time to time throughout
the year the club sponsors dances
which keep the girls in practice for
their off-campus dancing dates.
Plans are also being made this
year for the club to make arrange-
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943

Duffee Writes

One Column

By Mary Louise Duffee

(of type about types on the
campus.)

Theme of the week: They're
either too young or too old.

Take Carol Mason, or Nita
Hurst, for instance (or any other
senior). Ask them how old they
are or what year they are in col-
lege and they shudder.

If Anne Equen's luck holds out
she'll soon be moving in the real
White House (you know, the only
place in Washington where the
rent hasn't gone up because of
crowded conditions). Besides re-
cently making Agnes Scott's Co-
tillion Club, and being No. 1 in
Atlanta's Debutante Club, well
how'd you like to receive a vir-
tual collection of orchids air-ex-
press from Guatemala. (The med-
ical major who sent them probably
thought he'd done his duty but
the Equens had to pay it on the
package.)

Boo Boo is back.

Back South too, on Sunday was
"Lanky" Flowers (Mr. Bobby
Powell) who, they say, stepped off
the plane with a 3-year-old child
in his arms.

Picture of the week: "Hers to
Hold" at the DeKalb and along
the same theme the new kodacolor
snap of Frances Brougher's
"Chris" in* his army whites.
(BettYE Ashcraft says she's go-
ing to get a 12x14 likeness of Jeff.
What she wants is not a picture
but an almost life-size portrait.)

The grapevine says Investiture
isn't to be the only event of Nov.
6.

What hairdos can do! They say
the dean's office didn't recognize
Alumna Anne Wilds the other
night when she chaperoned a
group. She has a new feather-cut,
it seems.

Miss Hunter can now become
(this is the only place I've ever
written they didn't count off for
split infinitives) a full-fledged
member of the faculty Bike Set.
It was announced over the week-
end that she had acquired a
brand-new second-hand balloon-
tired job WITH GEARS. Miss
Scandrett says the group's next
trip will be all the way to Stone
Mountain, which is so far away
we students have to get out-of-
town permission for it.

Tribute should be paid here to
ex-ASC, now Second Lieutenant
Ruth Bastin, who recently sub-
scribed to the News. She's as-
signed to the Army Air Forces
hospital at , Greensboro, N. C.

Sophomore Saga: It's about the
sophomore who, when tripping
over to Inman to visit during the
ALL-PERSONS-INSIDE-PLEASE
part of the blackout, collided with
Air Warden McCain. After a chase
which she says lasted all around
Murphey Candler and the quad-
rangle, she got safely and un-
identifiedly back to Rebekah but
with a lesson.

Freshman Fumble: Made by the
one who, at the first of school,
asked the Agnes Scott switchboard
operator to ring "Dee Eee airborn
1665."

Contradictory: "The pickin's
are poor and the crop is lean"
around here on weekends, maybe,
but Hottentots picked 160-some
odd pounds of cotton Saturday.
Now they can complain patriot-
ically of having rough, red field-
hands.

Cheer up, Main-stays. Maybe
Grampa'll call you for that snappy
game of chess.

Unpledged.

Our Cultural Advantages

Fortunate indeed is the Agnes Scott com-
munity which can share the many and varied
cultural advantages which the Atlanta met-
ropolitan area affords its residents in art,
drama, lectures and music.

An excellent collection of paintings and
sculpture is always on exhibition at the High
Museum of Art in Atlanta. At present the
directors are also presenting each Sunday aft-
ernoon a program of cathedral singers. With
the enlargements of the art department and
the addition of Howard Thomas as professor
of art, Agnes Scott plans to have a number of
interesting exhibits on display on third floor
of the library during the year. Authoritative
speakers are invited to point out factors in
judging and enjoying art. In the past we have
been fortunate in having such speakers on our
lecture series as H. S. Ede, former curator
of the National Gallery of British Art in
London.

Opportunities for seeing Broadway produc-
tions and for hearing excellent lecturers on
various fields current events, philosophers,
politics, literature are unexcelled for this sec-
tion of the country. Such well-known actresses
as Helen Hayes, Katherine Hepburn and Ger-
trude Lawrence have appeared here.

In addition to interesting speakers brought
to Atlanta by Emory University and organiza-
tions in Atlanta, our own public lecture asso-
ciation has already made plans for three in-
teresting speakers this year Henry C. Wolfe,
international affairs expert; Robert Frost,
poet, and Reinhold Niebuhr, philosopher.

Perhaps most of Atlanta's cultural oppor-
tunities lie in the number of musical artists
who appear here frequently. This season we
are extremely fortunate in the number and
excellence of appearing artists. In addition
to the All Star Concert Series of eight pro-
grams including Kreisler, Horowitz, the
Minneapolis Symphony, and "Faust" which
will be presented this Saturday evening five
added attractions are offered: Marian An-
derson who will sing tonight, Jeanette Mac-
Donald, Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Levant, and

the Philadelphia Opera Company, which will
present "Die Fledermaus." In addition to
the Ballet Theatre included on the series, the
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo will present two
programs.

In Presser hall the Decatur Service League
will present during the current session Jos-
ephine Antoine, soprano star of the Contented
Hour, Erick Hawkins, dancer from the musical
"Oklahoma," and Frederick Jagel, "Met"
tenor.

Atlanta offers its own talent through the
Atlanta Civic Opera and the Atlanta Civic Bal-
let, which will present "Naughty Marietta"
opening Tuesday.

Here on campus we have each year a well
produced Christmas carol service. Last but
not least, a great source of enjoyment is the
musical programs presented every other Mon-
day night in Presser hall under the direction
of Hugh Hodgson, foremost pianist in Georgia,
and C. W. Dieckmann, professor of music.

By taking full advantage of these oppor-
tunities in art, drama, lectures and music,
Agnes Scott students should easily acquire a
speaking acquaintance with these fields. M.C.

Have We Forgotten?

Was it two weeks ago we voted in chapel
to give $1000 to the War Fund Drive? Two
weeks ago that we were almost overcome by
our enthusiasm and came near subscribing
$2000? Already the enthusiasm of that stu-
dent meeting has died.

If something isn't done pretty soon we're
going to forget the applause which broke out
spontaneously that morning when we realized
that we had pledged twice our usual amount.
Maybe the applause was indicative of our sur-
prise for we were surprised when we did it.

Before we loose sight of our goal let's start
individual pledging. Entertainments are all
right in their place, but why not simply give
$2 per student and for once in our lives give
something in return for nothing more than a
feeling of a job well done?

Don't Let Their Victories Kill Them!

A man just died. In Africa, in England, in
Russia, on the Aleutians, in the South Pacific.
Died because there was no blood plasma on
hand to save him, no "dried life" to bring him
out of the gray-faced shock of the seriously
injured. Died because a few hours before
someone three thousand miles away had read
the triumphant headlines of the morning
paper and said, "We're winning. No need for
me to give my blood."

Yes, we're winning. Inch by inch we're
winning our way toward the day of freedom.
But every inch of that way is marked by
crosses of American, British, Fighting French,
Russian, Polish dead who might have lived.
Might have lived, had the headlines not painted
such a bright picture and lulled us with their
false security.

American casualties from Salerno to Naples
were 8,307: 5,428 wounded, 511 killed, 2,368
missing. It's safe to say that one-third of
those listed as "killed in action" could have
been saved by blood plasma had the supply
been sufficient. But it wasn't. The victories
those men had won before Salerno and Naples
cost them their lives later. The cheerful head-

From the Reader

Dear Editor,

I wish to ask you a simple question. As a
day student (the day students compose at
least a third of the school's student popula-
tion) I want to know why our day student
room in Main has to look like a hole?

Why can't the walls be painted? Why can't
we have some curtains? How about some
color and a little life down there? We would
like a decent room. Please don't let the new
room in Buttrick be a repetion of the Main
affair.

Give the day students a decent room both
in Main and Buttrick.

We day students are a human lot. Give us
a nice room and see if we don't keep it ship-
shape.

Sincerely,

Ann Seitzinger.

lines they helped write turned against them
and killed them.

We're intelligent people we go to college.
We take psychology. We know what happens
to people when they hear good news. It hap-
pens to us too. But it must not happen. We
must not be the people who, reading the morn-
ing paper, say, "Things are looking up. Think
I'll cancel my appointment at the blood bank."

We must be the ones who see behind the
headlines the endless miles of blood-stained
stretchers bearing men who can be saved by
our thirty-minute visit to the blood bank, who
need not become names on casualty lists, gold
stars on service flags, who win by their vic-
tories not death because of those triumphs,
but life to enjoy them.

We must be the ones who think when the
morning's headlines are spread before us, 'Vic-
tories mean wounded men who need blood
plasma, and I'm the one to give it."

It's our job to see that another man does not
die.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1943 No. 5

Published weekly, except durinf? holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Apnes 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, $1.25; single copies, five cento.

Editor MADELINE ROSE HOSMER

ManaKlnp Editor MARY CARR

Business Manager JUNE LANIER

Assistant Editor* Feature Editor

Betty Glenn Mary Louise Duffee

Inj?e Probstein Editorial Assistant

Adve T 7J s, " ' cStoSuff

innri^nt Sue StephODBOn

France* kins Jane Anne N ' ewton

Sports Editor An Lee

Margaret Druramond Elolse Lyndon

Circulation Manager

Society Editor Carolvn Calhoun

Camilla Moore Circulation Assistants

Copy Editor Mary Russell

Leila Holmes Marlon Leathers

Reporters: Marion Knapp. Betty Burress. Kathrvne
Thompson Mancrum. Pauline Ertz. Jean McOurry
Martha Arnold. Carolyn Fuller, Lib Farmer. Wendy Whit-
tle. Betty Wade. Louise Breedln. Pat Elam. Olive Hansen,
Martha Baker. Anne Register. Marparet Edelmann. Eliza-
beth Scott. Connie Frasor. Jeanne Rochelle. Jeanne Addi-
son. Joyce Gllleland. Jane Bowman. Sara Jean Clark, Doro-
thy Lee Webb, Alice Gordon. Che Nellans. Anne Noell,
Jean Rooney. Ann Seltzlnper. Martha Whatley Yatea. Carol
Mason. Margaret Bear. Mary Anderson Courtenay, Mar-
jorle Cole.

Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner, Pejrgy Kelly. Sally Sue
Stephenson. Bettye L*e Phelpt.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

This is the way is always is.
You write copy and struggle with
ideas and then the editor writes
you a harsh note inviting the staff
to a compulsory meeting. The
News Room in Murphey Candler
is as hot as blazes and no one
seems to worry about the heat
since they optimistically hope that
ii will suddenly turn cold and the
heat will then be turned on and
that way they will be in the same
situation.

Madeline arrives fetchily at-
tired in sweater, skirt, and shoes
(it's getting cold these days
explanation to any northern
readers) and wearing a becom-
ing sycamore leaf over the mid-
dle part of her hair. The effect
is stunning, the way lightning
leaves you. The staff is duly
impressed.

Mary arrives in red and sees
red throughout the meeting, mut-
tering about how do you expect
issues to come out be hounds,
track down your stories (here, the
cry of a lone wolf is appropriate.)

Inge and I sit together, one
of us on the table and the other
on the open end of a wooden
waste basket. (Guess who sat on
the basket? Of course.)
Some one asks about aims and
purposes and there are none furth-
er than the egoisms of the auth-
ors of' those aims and purposes.
The News staff are frustrated
philosophers.

Then we are told straight out
that we are no good which we
admit and that we ought to get
kicked out which we would love
to do. So Madeline and Mary
give out orders and so does ev-
eryone else. And the main result
is that this column is two days
late. And I may never write it
again which is altogether a good
thing.

The various funds for the relief
of national and international tyr-
annies are soliciting money. To
date nothing has been done. Just
as in the past nothing was done
about war stamps and bonds, Red
Cross donations and the World
Student Service Fund.

International Relations is now
sponsoring the W.S.S.F. They
are setting up a competent or-
ganization that will fail unless
the campus community is willing
to help it. Otherwise, it deserves
to die. There is no need for us
to pat ourselves on the back and
contrawise to berate our aspira-
tions. But it will have to be an
allout fight or it isn't worth it.
The lighter side of campus life:

Professor: Do you have anything
to contribute to the arguments or
say? Student: Not that I know
of . . .

Too bad that the latest food
poisoning episode came too late
to make a feature out of it. But
as things stand we can congratu-
late ourselves on having an issue
of the paper at all this week. Three
of the four hard-working editors
wrestled with the gremlins of dis-
ease after the paper had been "put
to bed" Monday night. But after
all's said, the tragedy would have
been more inopportune yet on in-
vestiture weekend. ePrhaps Miss
Scandrett would have had to offi-
ciate at the Infirmary. Horrible
thoughts arise . . .

When thf-rr's nothing, posl-
tively nothing, to etherealize
about, there's always the weath-
er. 80 for this week's hymn of
praise the black, low-driving
clouds that "tragic sky** Mr.
Thomas had his art class paint
when he went to Athens.

t

Th

Agnes Scott News

No. 6

Vol. XXIX. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1943

Dean Will Invest 98 Seniors

Ex-Hottentots
To Meet Here
Next Tuesday

"Relaxation and Good Fellow-
ship" will be the theme for the
annual Alumnae Day to be held
Tuesday, Nov. 9, according to Mrs.
Jane Guthrie Rhodes, alumnae
secretary.

Alumnae will begin to arrive on
the campus shortly before 4 p. m.,
when they will register and pur-
chase tickets to the Wolfe lecture
to be held Tuesday evening.

Upon completion of registration,
Howard Thomas, professor of art,
will speak, after which the alum-
nae will go en masse to the
third floor of the library building
to see the art exhibit. Also in the
library will be the book exhibit,
which Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, li-
brarian, has agreed to hold over
for the guests.

From 6 to 6:45 p. m. is schedul-
ed a cafeteria-style supper, to be
followed by coffee in front of the
big fireplace in the library. Here
new faculty members will be in-
troduced and old ones will be on
hand to discuss old times. Guests
will then attend the lecture, which
begins at 8:30 p. m.

Members of Granddaughters'
Club have volunteered to take care
of children who cannot be left at
home. Beginning at 4 p. m.,
Granddaughters' Club members
will entertain the children with
games and a tour of the campus
and will take them to supper.

In announcing that only two
formal speakers were scheduled
for this year's Alumnae Day, Mrs.
Rhodes explained that this year,
as never before, alumnae feel the
need of getting back in touch with
each other and with their college
itself. "Alumnae want to get back
in touch with Agnes Scott," she
said, "for it will be their duty
to perpetuate its ide^als for this
generation and for the ones to
come."

May Day Scenarios
Due November 29

May Day scenarios should be
turned in to the May Day com-
mittee before Nov. 29, according
to Jean Clarkson, chairman of the
committee. All students are in-
vited to enter the competition by
writing a scenario for the annual
May Day pageant.

Members of the committee met
on Oct. 28 to discuss plans for the
celebration, to be presented on the
first Saturday in May. Committee
members are Catharine Kollock,
business manager; Barbara Frink,
Anne Equen, Dot Almond, cos-
tumes; Frances Brougher, Jeanne
Carlson, Betty Miller, properties;
Jane Everett, Louise Gardner,
dances; Betty Jane Hancock, Betty
Dickson, music; Jane Ann Newton,
publicity, and Kathryn Dozier, art.

Hayes to Speak at Capping;
Little Girls' Day to Be Friday

The rights and privileges of seniors will be conferred upon
98 students Saturday morning when they are capped by Miss
Carrie Scandrett, dean of students, at ceremonies to be held
at 12 o'clock in Gaines chapel.

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor of English and a senior class

adviser, will speak on "Investi-
ture." Miss Emma May Laney, as-
sociate professor of English, is the
other senior adviser.

Leading the black-gowned sen-
iors will be their mascot, three-
year-old Gaines Wilburn, the great-
great-grandson of Dr. F. H. Gaines,
first president of Agnes Scott and
great-nephew of Miss Lucile Alex-
| ander, professor of French. Gaines'
grandfather was an Agnes Scott
alumnus, having attended the co-
educational Decatur Female Sem-
inary, which later became Agnes
Scott. During the ceremony
Gaines will sit in a small chair
traditionally provided for the mas-
cot by the dean of students.
Investiture a Tradition
Investiture is a tradition orig-
inated on this campus. In 1913
at the suggestion of Miss Mary
Cady, then professor of history,
Agnes Scott started investiture as
a symbol of receiving senior rights
and privileges. Since then this cus-
tom has been established in a
number of other schools.

The pillow on which the sen-
iors will kneel for the capping
ceremony belonged to Miss Nan-
nette Hopkins, the first dean of
Agnes Scott, and has been used
for investiture every year since
the beginning of the ceremony.
Upon her retirement Miss Hop-
kins gave the pillow to the col-
lege to be used in future investi-
ture services.

Friday, the day before investi-
ture, the seniors will observe "Lit-
tle Girls' Day," just as has always
been done in past years, with the
exception that there will be no
dining room parade this year. Un-
til noon all the seniors will dress
and act like first-grade children,
eating lollipops, carrying dolls, and
playing on the quadrangle during
chapel period.

DR. GEORGE P. HAYES

Seniors to Hold
Church Service

Dr. P. L. Gather
Will Speak

Innovating what they hope will
become a tradition among future
graduating classes, the seniors will
sjponsor the regular church serv-
ice Sunday, Nov. 7 at 11 a. m. in
Gaines.

President J. R. McCain will
preside and introduce the speaker,
Dr. Paul L. Garber, whose subject
will be "Watchman, What of the
Night?" Dr. Bedinger, father of
Clare and June Bedinger, will of-
fer the morning prayer.

The service will be held in
Gaines chapel. Representatives of
the junior and freshman classes
will take up the offering and soph-
omore representatives will usher.

The college choir will sing the
anthem, "Oh Lord Most Holy" by
Franck. The solo, "Prayer," by
Guion will be sung by Ellen Ar-
nold.

Heads of committees are as fol-
lows: decorations, Ellen Arnold;
publicity, Johnnie Mae Tippen;
bulletins, Elise Tilghman; music,
Barbara Connally; ushers, Ann
Wright.

The college community is invit-
ed to attend.

Miss Smith to Speak
On State Government

Miss Florence E. Smith, associ-
ate professor of history, will speak
on "State Government" at the In-
ternational Relations club meet-
ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
in Murphey Candler building.

Eudice Tontak, president of the
club, announced that the college
community is invited to hear Miss
Smith speak.

Wolfe to Speak on
'Next Act in Europe'

International Affairs Expert to Open
Lecture Association's 1943-44 Series

Just back from the European battlefields, Henry C. Wolfe,
author and expert on international affars, will open the Pub-
lic Lecture Association's 1943-44 series Tuesday night when
he speaks on "The Next Act in Europe." The lecture is sched-
uled to begin at 8:30 p. m. in Presser hall, according to Miss
Emma May Laney, faculty chair-

man of the association.

Mr. Wolfe returned to the Uni-
ted States on Oct. 28 from a tour
of England and Ireland. While in
England he attended sessions of
Parliament and conferred with
members of Parliament.

Mr. Wolfe, who has been decor-
ated by six governments for his
brilliant work in the field of in-
ternational relations, is the man
who predicted the Nazi-Soviet pact
four months before it actually oc-
curred, and then predicted that it
would be broken.

Months before the pact was
broken Mr. Wolfe said, "The Nazi-
Soviet relationship is not based on
friendship. It is not a genuine al-
liance. It is a working relation-
ship of two revolutionary regimes
that serves the immediate pur-
poses of both. But inasmuch as
both these dictatorships are guided

Student's season tickets for
the lecture series may be ob-
tained from Joella Craig in the
book store this week. Since this
ticket is used for admission to
all lectures, students are urged
to get theirs immediately.

Tickets for faculty and out-
siders may be purchased in the
book store or at the lecture for
55 cents (tax included).

by oportunism, their cooperation
could end just as suddenly as it
started."

In World War I

His experience in international
affairs began in the first world
war when he served on the French
front. Later he served on the Ital-
ian front with a small volunteer
unit which included Ernest Hem-
ingway and John Dos Passos.

In the post-war era he saw
service in Soviet Russia as a mem-
ber of the Hoover Commission, and
afterward did social reconstruc-
tion work in the Balkans and Tur-
key.

He witnessed the chaos in Re-
publican Germany during the in-
flation period and has made fre-
quent visits to the Third Reich of

Mortar Board Taps Jo Young;
Miss Cobbs Stresses Balance

Jo Young was named to membership in Mortar Board by
Ruth Kolthoff, president, at the group's recognition service
in chapel Saturday. Jo, who attained senior standing after
attending summer school, was admitted to Mortar Board in
accordance with the national organization's new policy to
add accelerated students during the year.
She was selected on the basis . sary in a war-torn world. Miss

of her scholarship, leadership and
service, having served Student
Government, Athletic Association
and Christian Association.

The faculty advisers of Mortar
Board are Dr. Schuyler Christian,
Miss Leslie Janet Gaylord and
Miss Susan Cobbs.

Wartime Balance

Turning to the Greeks for help
to present Mortar Board's theme
for the year, Miss Cobbs, acting
professor of Latin and Greek, used
the word "sophrosune" to de-
scribe the ideal of balance neces-

Cobbs emphasized the value of
a liberal arts education in main-
taining our place of balance "be-
tween the precipices of extremes."

As three necessities in perpe-
tuating this temperance or self-
control she cited conscientious
study in college, interest and par-
ticipation in the community war
effort, and finally upholding our
standards of conduct.

The wisdom that comes from
"sophrosune," Miss Cobbs con-
cluded, quoting Plato, "makes men
stronger than themselves."

HENRY C. WOLFE

Adolf Hitler to observe the de-
velopment of Nazism.

Munich Crisis
Mr. Wolfe was in Czechoslo-
vakia during the Munich crisis,
and in 1939 the crisis period of the
second world war took him to the
trouble centers in Poland, Russia,
Italy, Finland and Roumania. He
(See page 4, column 5)

Stagger Plan
Adopted for
Yule Vacation

Christmas holidays will begin
this year with the end of each stu-
dent's last exam and end with
winter quarter reorganization on
January 4, according to President
J. R. McCain.

"The government has asked us
to restrict travel between Decem-
ber 15 and January 15. We felt
we could best cooperate by adopt-
ing the stagger system," said Dr.
McCain. "We also did not feel it
advisable to go without spring va-
cation again this year, so the pres-
ent plan was devised."

Miss Leslie Gaylord and Miss
Carrie Scandrett will begin work
on the examination schedules this
week. Because the students have
two extra holidays this year,
there will be no special exams
or changing of sections except for
emergencies.

Spring vacation will begin after
winter quarter exams, as announ-
ced in the catalogue.

1UU %eek..l

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p. m.
Swimming meet.

Thursday, Nov. 4, 8 p. m. Miss
Smith's talk on state govern-
ment at IRC meeting.

Friday, Nov. 5 Little Girls' Day.

Saturday, Nov. 6, 12 noon In-
vestiture.

Sunday, Nov. 7, 11 a. m. Senior
church service in Gaines chapel.
3 p. m. Jeanette MacDonald
concert at Atlanta auditorium.

Tuesday, Nov. 9 Alumnae Day.
8:30 p. m. Wolfe lecture in
Gaines chapel, followed by a re-
ception in Murphey Candler.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

As the poet has so aptly put it:
"This is a song of all the world's
lost things . . To be specific,
sleep, energy, illusions, dignity,
sense of humor. In other words,
to be presented forthwith are the
trials and tribulations of a sports
columnist, or "you just don't know
the half of it," or, for gosh sakes,
Mary Estill, for how long can this
go on?

That hapless soul (the col-
umnist) takes pen in hand, nigh
onto midnight of the night be-
fore a 8:30 deadline, gets set-
tled in a comfortable chair (fa-
tal mistake), optimistically ar-
ranges several sheets of clean
paper before her, and if she's
fortunate (?), manages to keep
one eye half open, that one eye
being more than sufficient to in-
form her that absolutely nothing
is being written down on said
paper.

After a week-end in the country,
chigger bites itching, briar
scratches stinging, muscles ach-
ing, eyes closing, the first consid-
eration is: does Madeline really
need a sports column for this
week anyway? What a fine speci-
. men of journalistic endeavor the
A. S. News would be without that
obviously labored over, obviously
trivial forty lines called "Speaking
of Sports." At a moment like this,
nothing seems more remote than
last Friday's hockey results, or
next Wednesday's swimming meet.

That question settled, and dis-
missed from mind (pure heresy
in the first place), the next item
considered comes under the com-
mon heading of "the news." Just
to make the situation complete
for a nervous breakdown, "the
news" for this week is absolute-
ly nil. A frantic phone call or
two (limited to five minutes,
please) brings in a mere dribble.

Yes, there was a hockey game
last Friday. The usual people
played their usual good game,
nothing spectacular no angle
there. Next Friday's game starts
the class schedule all over again,
freshmen against sophomores, jun-
iors against seniors no angle
there, either. Yes, there'll be a
swimming meet on Wednesday
night at 8:30, but there's no news
until the results are known. Ad-
vance publicity is good, no doubt
of it, but there's nothing to say ex-
cept that there will be one, and
once said, that's that. Well
maybe there'll be tennis finals this
week, but on the other hand may-
be there won't. Ann Hough has
gotten to the finals, and "Tug"
has her semi-finals match yet to
play. *The question looms large:
when? Well, but what's the sense
in putting in this week's paper

Costume Show
Launches Fund

Blackfriars, with its costume
show last Thursday night, became
the first organization to contribute
to Agnes Scott's Fund pledge with
its net take of $20.

The winner of the $2 cash
prize was Miss Llewellyn Wilburn,
who modeled a 1927 bathing suit.
The applause was loud and long
for Dr. Ernest Runyon as Robin
Hood, Miss Frances Gooch's 1912
model, Miss Roberta Winter's 1860
number, and Miss Bella Wilson in
a gym suit of the Agnes Scott
Institute period. President Mc-
Cain's repeat performance of his
celebrated St. Peter role in last
year's Faculty Revue was en-
thusiastically received by the aud-
ience.

Emily Singletary was commen-
tator for the first act, which in-
cluded costumes of the revolution-
ary period, the War Between the
States, and the Roaring Twenties.
Pie Ertz acted as master of cere-
monies for the second act of "Hol-
lywood Stars Re-enacting Their
Most Celebrated Roles" and V\e
third act which was an open com-
petition between student organiza-
tions and faculty members.

Students Pick
Forum Topics

Topics for this year's open for-
ums were discussed and tentative-
ly chosen at a student meeting
held in chapel Thursday, Oct. 28.

Exemption from examinations,
compulsory chapel on Thursdays,
and War Council's plans for a
week-end of conferences were the
three suggestions received most
enthusiastically. One of these three
will be the topic for the first
forum of the year on Thursday,
Nov. 11.

Extended Christmas- holidays
was among the favorites until
Clare Bedinger, vice-president of
student government, and chairman
of open forum, announced that
the U. S. government decides this
for the school due to the com-
plexity of the transportation prob-
lem.

Other topics suggested were
change from the merit system of
grading, cutting before holidays,
elections of day student repre-
sentatives by day students, and
dormitory representatives by
boarders, church on the .campus
one Sunday in every month, and
signing ballots as a contradiction
of the honor system.

Dignity

next week's news, exhausting the

future's supply?

At this point, the columnist
(?) goes quietly stark raving
insane, and in such condition
sits up until two, writing dribble
like tli is, which Madeline prob-
ably won't print anyhow.

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Sunday-Monday -- November 7-8

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Seniors Discuss
Wearing Robes

Wearing academic robes to
chapel and classes on Saturday
mornings was given approval by
50 of the 71 seniors interviewed on
the subject this week by News re-
porters. Three of the girls whose
opinions were asked said that they
would like to wear their robes
just to chapel. Two had no opin-
ion and 16 were against the sug-
gestion.

Whether or not the seniors adopt
this suggestion depends on a vote
by the entire class.

Most of the students in favor of
the idea gave as their reason the
fact that wearing robes would give
seniors an added feeling of dignity
and that it would add atmosphere
to the campus.

Those opposed to the sugges-
tion gave as their reasons the trou-
ble in dressing, and the fact that
wearing gowns would cause too
much class distinction and would
detract from special occasions.

Mary Florence McKee proposed
a solution for both camps when in-
terviewed. She said, "Some seniors
would get a dignified feeling from
the idea; some would get amuse-
ment at the sight of themselves.
All would have a nice warm wrap
if the heating system got frac-
tious. So why can't we wear them
every Saturday and still have ev-
everyone happy?"

Jeanette MacDonald
Will Give Concert

Jeanette MacDonald, well-
known soprano of opera and radio,
will appear in a concert Sunday,
Nov. 7, at 3 p. m. at the Atlanta
city auditorium. Miss MacDonald
will present a varied program.

Tickets for the concert are on
sale at the Cable Piano company
for $2.75, $2.20, $1.65, and $1.10.

Se niors Stil Undefeated as
Juniors and Sophs Tie, 3-3

By Bettye Lee Phelps

Friday's games saw the seniors remain undefeated and un-
tied when they swamped the freshmen by a score of 6-0. The
juniors and sophomores battled it out to a 3-3 tie.

The senior-freshman game was fast and full of thills. The
first half ended with Zena Harris Temkin "laid out" on the
hockeyfield after having been hit

on the head with a hockey stick.

Billy Walker, center forward,
for the senior team, played ex-
cellently and tallied four points in
the first half. The freshmen made
one serious threat at the senior
goal, but the strong senior defense
managed to keep them from tally-
ing.

During the second half the sen-
iors were also mainly on the of-
fensive. Billy Walker made two
more goals and the game ended
6-0. The senior defense played
especially well and allowed the
freshmen to* bring the ball deep
into their territory only twice dur-
ing the whole game. Christina
Yates and Gisela Meyer play-
ed especially well for the fresh-
man team which, was just not
strong enough to break through
the senior lines.

Close Score

The sophomore-junior game
was the more exciting of the two
games because of the close score
throughout. During the first half,
the sophomores started by driv-
ing straight down the field to
make the first goal. Then the jun-
iors retaliated by making their
first score. Toward the end of the
first half the sophomores after
failing at an attempt on the goal,
finally came back after a 25-yard
drive to score as the half ended
2-1 in favor of the sophomores.
Sarah Walker, left half back for
the sophomores, executed some
beautiful drives and played an ex-
cellent defensive game. Ceevah
Rosenthal, of the junior team, also
played a nice defensive game.

The second k half saw the juniors
score twice out of four senior

threats, and the sophomores man-
aged to score one out of four at-
tempts. Ann Webb and Mary
Munroe lived up to their usual
good form and the whole junior
team worked nicely together. The
outstanding feature of the sopho-
more team Friday was its strong
defense. Ann Register, Harding
Ragland and Katherine Burnett
all played nice games.

The lineups follow:

Classes to Compete Tonight .
In First Swimming Meet

Neptune's daughters will battle it out tonight at 8:30 in
the gym pool, when members of swimming club and the girls
in swimming classes will participate in the first meet of this
year, as announced by Agnes Douglas, swimming manager.

Each class will make separate entries in the competitive
class events; there will also be an
event in which all entrants may
take part. The class managers,
Helen Hutchinson, freshman; Mar-
garet Scott, sophomore; Joyce
Freeman, junior, and Elizabeth
Harvard, senior, have been coach-
ing their entrants daily for the
past few weeks.

Virginia Tuggle will announce
each event and the name of the
entrants.

The schedule of events includes
a 40 yard dash (two lengths) free
style form swimming, elementary
backstroke, side stroke, breast
stroke, and surface diving. There
will also be a 20 yard dash of one
length of the back-crawl.

The climax of the events will
be diving two standard, running
front or swan, jack and back,
and one optional dive.

A clothes pin relay, in which all
the swimmers may participate,
will close the meet.

Seniors

Young
Lasseter
Walker, B
Hill, G.
Toggle
PPhlllips, K.
Farrior
Douglas
Dozler, M.
Temkin
Walker, M.

(6)

R.VV.

R.I.

C.F.

L.I.

L.W.

R.H.

C.H.

L.H.

R.F.

L.F.

G.

Freshme*

Fossott
Hoyt
Harnsberger
Meadows
Cochran
Newman
Stlne
Meyer
Currle
Yates. C.
Denning

Substitutions: Seniors Maxwell, Mont-
gomery, A. Freshmen Go ode.

Sophomores

Juniors

Courtnay

R.W.

Milam

Jones, P. (1)

R.I.

King

Long, B.

C.F. Cummlng (1)

Chewning (1)

L.I.

Mack

Stephenson (1)

L.W. Munroe (1)

Ragland

R.H.

Farmer

Burnett

C.H.

Milford

Walker. S.

L. H.

Equen

Register

R.F.

Webb. A.

Neville

L. F.

Rosonthal

Nellans

G.

Everett

Substitutions

Sophomores

McCain,

Alexander, V.

Juniors Kirtley

(1), Bed.-

inger, J.

Hockey Schedule

At 4:00 Friday afternoon, the
sophomores will cross hockey
sticks with the freshmen, while
the juniors will vie with the un-
defeated seniors.

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PHARMACY
Phone DE. 1665
309 E. College Avenue
Decatur, Ga.

NOTICE

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AGNES SCOTT

Nov. 8 Music Hour
Cancelled by Lecture

There will be no music appre-
ciation hour next Monday, Nov.
8, because of the Wolfe lecture
to be held the following eve-
ning. The date of the next mus-
ical will be announced in the
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Page 3

Dick"

Former Flunker
Becomes Dean

Take heart freshmen, as a Hot-
tentot, Miss Carrie Scandrett, now
dean of students, was actually
called into the office of one J. R.
McCain, vice-president, to be
warned about her grades. She even
confesses she almost didn't come
back her sophomore year.

Miss Scandrett can also sympa-
thize with struggles with the life
cycle of the mosquito, for she,
too, had the life cycle under Miss
''Mac." As a major in chemistry
and Latin, "Dick" as she is af-
fectionately called by classmates,
also was taught by R. B. Holt and
Miss Catherine Torrance. And the
requirements included English 211,
math, Latin, two years of French,
and speech and hygiene without
credit.

After a year of work with the
Atlanta YWCA, the future dean
returned to Agnes Scott as secre-
tary to Miss Nannette Hopkins,
the only other dean of students
Agnes Scott has had.

Pre- Ann Ward

As a former Hottentot, Miss
Scandrett understands the stu-
dents' viewpoints, for as a fresh-
man she served on exec; she was
sophomore class president; secre-
tary or treasurer (she can't re-
member which) of exec, and as a
senior she was president of stu-
dent government.

Having received her masters
from Columbia and having served
as assistant dean in charge of
counselling at Syracuse Univers-
ity during a leave of absence, Miss
Scandrett returned to Agnes Scott
where she took over the heavier
duties of Miss Hopkins and at her
death in 1937 became dean o* stu-
dents.

This all goes to prove that if you
get reprimanded severely for low
grades, take heart, you, too, may
some day be the oae to whom 98
seniors kneel to be capped at in-
vestiture and you, too, may some
day be the one to trek to Main
to scare away the boogy man at
12:30 a. m.

If You're

on the Lookout for

SOLID
STUFF

Better shove in your
clutch and head
straight for

YOUNG ATLANTAN
SHOPS

I

Souchon-Gambrell Exhibition
Should Prove Eye-Opener

By Inge Probstein

The Souchon-Gambrell exhibit in the library art galleries
should prove an eye-opener to some people who believe they
have achieved the acme of tolerance in gazing unflinchingly
at a Van Gogh for three solid minutes.

Vigour and solidity seem to be Dr. Souchon's most obvious
characteristics. These qualities "Midsummer," "Duck Pond," and

are carried out in the line, color,
and form of his works, especially
in such canvasses as "The Tem-
ple" and the simplified flower
pieces "Blue Lilies." The omis-
sion of faces from the figures,
for instance, seems to add to their
strength.

The color of all his canvasses
is remarkably intense, raw, and
yet strangely harmonious, succes-
ful in the creation of a definite
atmosphere in such works as

Day Students Discuss
Cooperation, Lunches

At a compulsory day student
meeting on Oct. 29, day students
were urged by Elizabeth Edwards,
their representative on the execu-
tive committee, to make sugges-
tions to student government and
to the school in general through
their day student representatives,
to take better care of the facili-
ties given to them, and to cooper-
ate to a higher degree with the
school's practices.

The day students voted on the
feasibility of having plate lunches
served at the tea house during the
noon hour. They discussed price,
kind and quality of the food. This
information will be turned over to
the tea house committee who will
present it to the tea house per-
sonnel.

Elizabeth asked the girls to take
better care of the day student room
in Main as well as the new room
in Buttrick. Girls were also asked
to remove their books from the
maid's office in Buttrick.

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Impresionism

Primitive and original as Dr.
Souchon is in his work, he shows
the seemingly inevitable traces of
French Impressionist influence.
"Carnival Memories," for instance,
might pass as a particularly vigor-
ous Pissaro or Monet. "The Opera"
is reminiscent of Daumier, and
"Blue Lilies" suggests Cezanne's
balance of a tree grouping.

Reuben Gambrell presents a
rather conventional contrast to the
Souchon canvasses. His sketches
and water colors show good crafts-
manship, draftsmanship, not too
much else however at this stage.
He seems best in the less finished
sketches when his brushstrokes
stay broad. In such studies as "On
the Bay" and "Through the Jun-
gle," the last an excellent tree
study, he creates good atmosphere
with few visible means. Mr. Gam-
brell's development should be in-
teresting to watch.

Miss MacDougall
Begins Research

Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall,
professor of biology, this weekend
made a short trip to Columbia,
to continue her work begun last
week, on the cytology of the ma-
laria parasite.

Using as subjects malaria-infes-
ted soldiers brought back from
tropical battle zones for hospitali-
zation at Columbia, Miss Mac-
Dougall is trying to work out the
chromosome relationship in the
cells of the malaria parasite.

"Because of the intense magni-
fication necessary, no one has ever
succeeded in working this out cor-
rectly," Miss MacDougall stated,
"but I intend to work on it all
winter or until I get it."

GAMBRELL ART "Our Shower," above, and "Camp," left, are
two of the paintings by Reuben Gambrell, former instructor in the
art department of the University of Georgia, being shown in the third
floor gallery of the library. Paintings by Dr. Marion Souchon are
also on display.

Dr. McCain Predicts Survival
Of Small Liberal Arts College

By Carol Mason

The well-established liberal arts
colleges will survive the present
emergency, according to President
J. R. McCain in reference to an
article in a recent Saturday Eve-
ning Post, "Can the Small Col-
lege Survive?" by Dr. Felix Mor-
ley, president of Haverford Col-
lege.

Contradicting those who pre-
dict the disappearance of the small
college from the American scene
and the coming of governmental
control of institutions of learning,
Dr. McCain said, "There have
been prophets of doom in regard
to the future of the liberal arts
college from the time of the found-
ing of Harvard to the present. As
a matter of fact these colleges
have multiplied rather than dim-
inished."

Dr. McCain agrees with Morley
in his conclusion that weak and
inefficient colleges will perish and
good ones will not only survive,
but become increasingly fruitful.

Planning post war readjust-
ments for Agnes Scott, a commit-
tee consisting of Miss Mildred
Mell, Miss Muriel Harn, Dr. Sch-
uyler Christian, Miss Carrie Scan-
dress and Mr. S. G. Stukes has

been working since last spring. A
tentative report on their findings
has been presented to the faculty
and final results of this study
will be announced Christmas.

Dr McCain believes with Mor-
ley that liberal arts colleges for
women will not only survive the
present emergency but will render
conspicious service in the post war
period.

"We believe," said Dr. McCain,
"that Agnes Scott will be such a
college. In obtaining our best de-
velopment, we will need the inter-
est and co-operation of students,
faculty, alumnae, trustees and pa-
trons."

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

"No cake have we on account of
ration

But here at least is the decora-
tion."

Rhymes like this one accompan-
ied all the gifts at the surprise
birthday party given for Lura
Johnson Friday night. Mary Anne
Courtenay, Dorothy Spragens,
Stratton Lee, and Eleanor Rey-
nolds were hostesses who provid-
ed lots of fun and food for every-
bodyin spite of the apparent
lack of cake! Happy birthday,
Lura, from us as well as from
your wing of Rebekah.

Football Game

The Georgia Tech-Duke football
game at Grant field Saturday af-
ternoon was a chief attraction
for the week-end. Seen there
were Jane Smith, Betty Sullivan,
Anne Register, Dot Archer, Mary
Campbell Everett, Eugenia Jones,
Mary Reynolds, Alice Gordon,
Bunch Beaver, Jean Chewning,
Scotty Johnson, Nita Hewell, Lucy
Turner, Joyce Gilliland, Jeanne
Rochelle, Nellie Scott, Joan Stev-
enson, Betty Glenn, Kathryn Cam-
eron, Kathleen Wade, Julia Moody,
Mary Azar, Helen Paty, Maxine
Paulk, Connie Fraser, Betty Al-
len, Dot Chapman, Jane Meadows,
Leo Jesperson, Betty Pope Scott,
Ruth Farrior, Ann Stein; Martha
Rhodes, Mary Frances Anderson,
Harriet Daugherty, Soozi Rich-
ardson, Dale Bennett, Minnie
Mack, Betty Jane Hancock, Ann
Hightower, Virginia Owens, Cam-

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lyn Calhoun. And did you see Jane
Anne Newton there in that pretty
yellow, green and brown plaid
suit? And did you see Mary Carr
there ?

Hallowe'en Ball

Anne Equen, president of the
Atlanta Debutante club of 1943-
44, Saturday evening led the grand
march at the Driving club, opening
the formal winter season. Midst
the jack o' lanterns, sheaves of
corn, and such Hallowe'en decora-
tion, the Debutante club made its
first appearance at the traditional
ball. Dot Archer wore a beautiful
yellow marquisette off-the-shoul-
der gown and lavender elbow-
length gloves. She wore lavender
orchids in her hair. June Rey-
nolds was in an ice blue satin
dress with rhinestone shoulder
straps and Mary Cumming was
pretty in a dress of white net
and lace.

At the Roof

Dancing at the Rainbow Roof
this week-end were Anne Register,
Mary Louise Starr, Eva Williams,
Ann Hightower, Martha Polk, Bit-
tie King, Martha Rhodes, Camilla
Moore, and Beth Daniels, while
seen at the Paradise Room were
Cathy Steinbach and Kathie Hill.
At the Empire Room were Eu-
genia Jones, Jinx Blake, Margaret
McManus, Frances Anderson,
Mary Brown Mahon, and Claire
Bennett. Laurie Looper was seen
at the Mirador Room.

Daisy Sunday was maid of hon-
or in a friend's wedding in Moul-
trie, and Emily Higgins, wearing
a light wine wool dress, took part
in her brother's wedding in At-
lanta Sunday.

Going Home

Bettye Ashcraft, Patty Barbour
and Miriam Davis went home with
Polly Cook to Newnan, Ga. Spend-
ing the week-end in Clinton, Tenn.,
with Carolyn Hall were Grace
Love, Betty Miller, Mary Kather-
ine Vinscent, Bettye Smith and
Gilmore Noble. Ann Jackson went
home to Winder, Ga., and Kitty
Stanton to Athens. Louise Breedin
went home with Sue Mitchell to
Copperhill, Tenn. Jane Everett
spent Sunday in Marietta.

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Red Cross Unit
To Come Here
In November

Agnes Scott students who wash
to give blood to the Red Cross
Blood Bank will have an oppor-
tunity when the Atlanta chapter
of the American Red Cross sends
its mobile unit to the campus in
November. The unit will visit the
Agnes Scott campus provided that
75 students volunteer for dona-
cions. To date 50 girls have sign-
ed the blood donor list on the back
bulletin board in Buttrick.

According to Dean Carrie Scan-
drett the unit will be here on Nov.
17 and 18, probably in the after-
noon from 12 to 3, but both the
date and hours are indefinite.

"The college is providing a
means," said Miss Scandrett, "for
those students who feel that they
should like to give blood, but we
are in no way insisting that a
student make a donation."

Prospective donors must be
twenty-one years old, or present
permission from parents or guar-
dian if between the ages of eigh-
teen and twenty-one, and must
weigh at least 110 pounds. They
must have no cold or symptoms
of hay fever or arthritis and no
exposure to contagious diseases.

A recent tooth extraction or
any sort of infection automatical-
ly disqualifies one as a blood don-
or.

Being subject to rheumatic fev-
er, heart disease, or fainting
spells; having a history of malaria
within the past fifteen years, of
yellow jaundice within the last
year, or of any serious illness
with the last three months also
makes one ineligible for donating
blood.

Donors must also conform to the
following diet rgeulations: for a
morning appointment, breakfast
may consist of dry toast, coffee
without milk or cream, fruit or
fruit juice, clear tea, or Coca-Cola.
No dairy products or fats permis-
sible.

If the appointment is in the af-
ternoon, a regular breakfast may
be eaten, but no food other than
listed above may be eaten within
six hours of the time of the ap-
pointment.

According to Red Cross ruling, a
period of eight weeks must elapse
between the first and second or
second and third donations, while
four to six mor\ths must elapse be-
tween the third and fourth dona-
tions.

Reception to Honor
Wolfe, Fi rst Lecturer

A reception honoring Henry C.
Wolfe, international affairs expert
just returned from Europe, who
will open the 1943-44 lecture series
Tuesday evening, Nov. 9, will
be given in Murphy Candler im-
mediately after his address.

Guests at the reception, given
by the Public Lecture Association,
will be members of the lecture
audience and college community.

In the receiving line will be Mr.
Wolfe, Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of the college, Miss Emma
May Laney, faculty member of the
lecture committee, and Betty Sul-
livan, student chairman of the
committee.

Miss Leslie Janet Gaylord and
Miss Kathryn Glick, faculty mem-
bers, will pour. The lobby of
Murphey Candler will be dec-
orated with fall flowers.

Other members of the Lecture
Association who will assist are
Frances King, Shirley Graves, Bet-
ty Dickson, Frances Brougher,
Meg Bless, and Jeanne Robinson.

Summer Teaching Experiences
Show 'Boys Frank, Girls Nicer

By Martha Baker

Two Agnes Scott faculty members who have gone co-educa-
tional as far as their teaching is concerned are Dr. George P.
Hayes and Dr. S. M. Christian, who taught this summer at
boys' schools.

Dr. Hayes, who is head of the Agnes Scott English depart-
ment, was a member of the fac-

ulty at Tech this summer, teach-
ing English, but studying geogra-
phy.

With boys from all over the
United States enrolled in the
Army, Navy and Marine training
programs at Tech, Dr. Hayes
learned about the land from Chap-
ter 1 to Chapter 17.

"You know," he said, "I haven't
finished that book yet."

According to Dr. Hayes, the
whole experience was very en-
lightening since his students had
had such varied backgrounds and
experiences. One boy had learned
the art of falconry from the In-
dians, while some students had
seen actual combat duty in the
war.

Geography and speech^were fav-
orite courses at Tech, according
to Dr. Hayes, but freshman Eng-
lish ranked pretty low on the chart
of Uncle Sam's boys.

"Sissy"

On his first day in class, Dr.
Hayes reports that he was greeted
by shouts of "sissy," the word evi-
dently having gotten around that
he taught in a girls' school.

Dr. Christian, on the other hand,
said that no such gibes were made
when he appeared to teach his
first group of V-12 trainees at Em-
ory University.

Flunking Can be Fun

However, he reports that for the
first time he found a student de-
liberately trying to flunk physics.

"Yes, he just wanted to be a
plain private in the Marines. By
failing he would be sent straight
to "boot camp." But there were
others who took the opposite view.
One man said it was 'heaven just
heaven.' That, however, was be-
cause he was on the outside look-
ing in not a student, but a mem-
ber of the Navy administrative
staff!"

Dr. Christian reports no differ-
ence in teaching boys and girls,
but Dr. Hayes said, "Boys are
frank, girls nicer."

3UO Boarders Take
All Domitory Space

Filled to capacity and then
some, the Agnes Scott dormitories
this session house a total of 340
students. The freshmen and up-
perclassmen in Inman, 102 in num-
ber, run a close second to Re-
bekah Scott's 103 sophomores. 76
girls, most of them seniors, live
in Main.

Last year's Freshman shoe shop
and an extra study room in Inman
have this year been converted into
sleeping quarters, and several
singles in Rebekah are occupied by
two students. Atlanta students
filled two last-minute vacancies
in Boyd Cottage, bringing the
number there to 17. In White
House there are 16 boarders, in
Gaines 15, and in Lupton 11, ex-
cluding faculty residents.

Wolfe

(Continued from page 1)

witnessed the early weeks of the
war in France and during 1940
visited South America for further
study of the totalitarian challenge
to the western hemisphere.

In line with his reputation of
being on the scene when trouble
happens, he has spent the past five
months in the Orient and in Eu-
rope investigating and analyzing
the situation at first hand.

The author of "The German Oc-
topus," the story of Hitler's bid for
world power, Mr. Wolfe has also
contributed articles on interna-
tional affairs to magazines, includ-
ing Harpers and the Atlantic
Monthly.

McCON NELL'S 5 & 10

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112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943

Page 5

Miss Hunter Insults Prodiggy's Intelligence;
Dr. Runyan Sets High Standard for Bike Club

Seeking to avoid the diet table, or should we say wanting
to eat their cake and have "it" too, several members of the
faculty have formed a bike set.

Hampered by an unsympathetic OPA, they have resorted
to scanning the want ad columns, carefully tracking down

all second hand possibilities that
may lead to the acquistion of one
of the prized vehicles.

These explorations have lead to
some singular situations. Miss
Hunter, having finally located a
bike, was asked to entertain the
baby while the wheel was being
carried to her car. The infant
proved to be most intelligent, for
when Miss Hunter tried to teach
him to count to three, the prodigy
indignantly added "FOUR."

Dr. Runyon is a constant source
of inspiration and sets a high stan-
dard for the club. He took up the
two-wheeled method of transpor-
tation when the four tires of his
car showed symptoms of decay.
Daily now he can be seen pedaling
lustily to school. Source of envy
and admiration of the bike set,
he comes up the hill of McDon-
ough street without once dis-
mounting from his iron steed. The
rest of the club sighs for such
admirable muscles.

The group is now planning a
tour to Stone Mountain. Mosl: of
its members showed considerable
foresight in taking a First Aid
course last spring; they might pass
a wreck on the road, of course.

Other members of the club so
far include Miss Carrie Scandrett,
Miss Phillippa Gilchrist, Miss Sus-
an Cobbs, Miss Jessie Harris, Miss
Lucy Cline, and Miss Carolyn
Hewitt.

Mortar Board to Fete
Frosh at Four Parties

Mortar Board will give its an-
nual parties for the freshmen on
Nov. 10, 13, 17 and 20. Boys ftom
the Army, Navy and Marine units
at Tech and Emory have been in-
vited to meet the freshmen. Skat-
ing will be a main feature of the
parties.

As sister class, the juniors this
year are to help in the entertain-
ment and assist as hostesses. Vari-
ous class members are in charge of
the committees. Volunteers from
the class will serve on the commit-
tees. Margaret Dale is in charge
of the invitations for the girls;
Scott Newell, invitations for the
dates; Frances Brougher, enter-
tainment; Lois Sullivan, refresh-
ments, and Mary Neely Norris,
decorations.

Alumna Red Cross
Serving in Cario, Egypt

An Agnes Scott alumna, Rita
Hurley,, is among Red Cross work-
ers serving the armed forces in
Egypt.

The girls, one of whose duties
is entertaining the servicemen at
the Cario Military hospital, have
thought of many* ways to make
the boys' stay there more pleas-
ant. They find out the dates of
the men's birthdays and then make
a card, a ditty bag, and a bouquet
for each patient.

Tours to the Sphinx and the
Pyramids are organized for the
soldiers who are well enough. The
Cario Red Cross Chapter also
sponsors weekly dances.

AGGie S2

From the
Seniors
Take your
cue,

this Sunday
In Gaines
Fill a
i pew.

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We Recommend
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For Fine Foods

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Just Below the Candler Bldg.

She Wanted a Part in Winning the War!

ANN, A REAL AMERICAN GIRL, JOINS THE WAVES

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No. 5

E-e-e-e-e-/:

The Night Before Monday

By Leila Holmes

Hottentots shaking

'Twas Hallowe'en night

When all thru the dorm,

Not a creature was stirring,

Not even a worm (poetic license).

The stockings were strewn o'er
the room without care,

Camilla had washed hers, and hung
up the last pair.

The seniors were tucked all snug
in their beds,

While visions of investiture danc-
ed through their heads.

With Bobbie in the bathtub,

And me in the bed,

"Moon River' was going full blast
at my head.

When out on the lawn arose such
a scream,

We sprang to the windows awak-
ed from our dreams.

We blew for Jones quick as a flash,

And up came Miss Scandrett, gray
as an ash

When what to their wondering
eyes should appear,

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Nothing but
with fear.
A black sedan drove up pretty
quick,

And I knew in a moment it must

be a dick. (Cop, to you)
More rapid than most, the cops

ran around Main,
And Miss Scandrett looked up and

called us by name
"Now girls, back to bed," was all

she could say,
"We'll look in the tunnel and

around the school hall
Now dash away, dash away, dash

away all."
As I drew in my head, and was

turning around,
Down came Mary Carr, the chief

newshound.
She was dressed in her night

clothes, and looked like a droop,
But still she was there awaiting

a scoop.

A big chocolate cake Peggy had in

her pack
And she rated that night as we all

turned back.
Soon the dean came back, her

jolly old self,
And I smiled when I saw her in

spite of myself.
A wink of her eye and a twist of

her head
Was all we needed to go safely to

bed.

But I heard her exclaim 'ere she

went out of sight
"I was more scared than all but

to. all a good night."

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and

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Lamar Dodd Will Speak To Art Students Friday

Lamar Dodd, head of the art
department of the University of
Georgia in Athens, will be on the
campus again Friday to speak to
the art students.

On his last visit to the campus
Mr. Dodd gave an assignment to
the students which he will criticise
Friday.

The college community is invit-
ed to hear Mr. Dodd at 2 p. m. in
Buttrick.

He will return later in Novem-
ber to spend a day painting on
the campus. He will be a frequent
lecturer here this year, according
to Mr. Howard Thomas, professor
of art.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943

Duffee Writes

A Few Words

By Mary Louise Duffee

The annual announcement of
WHO MADE WHO'S WHO al-
way holds a surprise somewhere
humorous or otherwise. It was
only last year that a skeleton, the
famed Mr. "Goodrich C." Dooley
of the Emory medical lab, was
nominated and accepted as a Who
even to being listed in the pretty
book. This year, it was the jinx-y
number of 13 who made it at Ag-
nes Scott. Many college students,
including some of those who made
it, have for the past year or so
been wondering Who is Who.
Campus seen: Take a black
convertible, an ensign, and the
stretch of College avenue that
runs in front of the gate. Add
two seniors, and imagine in your
own mind what they said to
themselves when the car and
ensign passed in front of them.
Patty Barbour and Polly Cook
nearly fainted when the car
stopped and backed up. "Uh-oh"
they thought. Then, to ruin good
suspense, it turned out to be
Hugh, from Way-off-yonder and
Long-since, come to see Claire
Bennett.
There may be lots of disad-
vantages to being a day student,
but oh, that creamed chicken at
home.

Picture: Miss Wilburn, 30 min-
utes late and with a pink rose
in her hand, arriving at her own
housewarming party in Main.

They tell me the members of
the News staff who live on the
campus practiced packing in a
hurry this week. Got it down to
three and a half minutes just tak-
ing essentials, like Mother's pic-
ture and a few dresses.

People who knit socks for
Christmas always have trouble
with the heels. (Awful, isn't it.)

The penny-bank on Kathy and
Squee's door is getting heavy. We
can't figure out whether they just
want to have a party, or whether
it's really hard for them to control
their tempers even when it costs.
You see, when any of the 2nd
Main crowd loses their temper to
the extent that they express them-
selves in an unladylike way, they
have to pay. (Rime.)

Kathie Writes

A Little More

By Kathie Hill

Duffee's train just left, so I'm
taking over. I'm glad to be back
again if only for a visit. Of course,
Miss Scandrett and several oth-
ers blanche when I slyly and si-
lently slink subtly to said suffer-
ers' sanctums and slowly say,
"Anything funny today?" But
they have only to remember that
this is a temporary mishap and
will be remedied next week.

There are those who have had
the good fortune to see the fam-
ous and lovely screen star Norma
Shearer who is visiting in Atlanta.
But from the awe struck lips of
each came startling information.
"She went right out of the book-
store and got onto a victory bicy-
cle!!" said one admirer. "Right
down main street she rode, too."
But it was Biddy King who had
the doubtful honor of tripping
Miss Shearer on the dance floor.
Miss King and Miss Shearer were
actually sharing the same dance
floor and Miss Shearer was un-
fortunate enough as to get too
near our bubbling Biddy, and Biddy
was unfortunate enough to stick
her foot out at the wrong time
and Miss Shearer's public nearly
watched a star fall.

Expression Through the Right Channels

There was a day student meeting last Fri-
day after chapel. There seemed no apparent
reason for this meeting. And since there
never has been more than one day student
meeting a quarter, the day students thought
it might prove important.

The day students were told that from now
on it would be better if they presented their
complaints and suggestions through the "right
channels" and not bring them before the whole
school through the columns of the News or
by open discussion. More could be accom-
plished by the "right channels," they were
told.

In the light of this, it would be interesting
to remember what happened to a day student
petition before student government last year,
asking that an investigation be conducted on
the fairness of having the whole student body
elect day student representatives.

In a short, hurried meeting the petition was
squashed after little discussion. But thor-
oughly! There was no attempt to consider the
Tightness of the request. Petitions are not
circulated unless there is a reason.

There has been a great deal of misunder-
standing in the past few weeks between exec
and the day students. The misunderstanding
exists only because neither knows the wishes
of the other. Both have been kept in the dark
of the other's wishes by the same interme-
diaries who are supposed to represent them.

The day students who have expressed
themselves publicly or in private conversa-
tions among themselves and who merely wish
to clarify the situation and the misunderstand-
ing because they are interested in the greater
participation of the day students in student
government repeatedly spoke to their repre-
sentatives about one thing only: getting some-
thing done about the distressing appearance
of the room in Main. Their suggestions were
repeatedly promised fair hearing. But noth-
ing was heard of them. When, disgusted by
the run-around, they asked why nothing was
being done, the representatives suggested
waiting until things were more settled until
the end of the war!

The News took the initiative in its columns

because there was no other organ by which to
call attention to the suggestions. The day
students involved merely wanted an improve-
ment of the present facilities. They never ex-
pressed any desire for a new day student room.

That the administration was contemplat-
ing doing something is unfortunate. Because
no one of the day students was told of this.
They met silence from their representatives.
And they learned of the plans later when they
were accused of ungratefulness and of trying
to stir dissension.

Therefore, we insist upon open free discus-
sion of the problems faced by all students not
only the day students but of everyone who
wishes to speak but hesitates because of pos-
sible reproof.

The "right channels" fail because the stu-
dents have no way of knowing what they are
doing or planning, nor they of what the stu-
dents are really thinking!

All right. The News intends to help the
"right channels." We promise to continue giv-
ing all of you the fair hearing of your opin-
ions. That is behind the principle of freedom
of the press and the purpose for which this
newspaper exists. We hold to no special group.
We merely express the trends of thought and
discussion on the campus as they are brought
to us.

This is our only purpose. We are merely
writing and publishing what you think. Ad-
vance your opinions. That is what we want.
And only then will something be done. No
good will come of trying to stop the free ex-
pression of the individual student's ideas.

The Agnes Scott News

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Two Noses
In the Air

(By Ann Seitzinger and Martha
Whatley Yates or Martha What-
ley Yates and Ann Seitzinger.)

What are we doing here ? Where
is our Tess? What are we going
to say for five hundred words?
Let's see, we have used twenty-
four words already and maybe we
can babble through the four hun-
dred and seventy-six others that
are still alloted to us. From a
greenish-yellowish color creeping
up her neck, the doctors sum-
marized that something was a bit
wrong wtih our Tess and they
diagnosed her case to be malaria.
So while our Tess relaxes at home
surrounded by medicine, we are
at her bidding, doing our feeble
bit to compose copy worthy of her
column.

Tess usually writes about the
meetings she attends, but we are
the unpopular type and we nev-
er go to meetings. We may not
go to interesting meetings, but
we can ask questions. TO DUF-
FEE: WHO OK WHAT IS BOO
BOO? AND WHERE IS HE,
SHE OR IT BACK FROM?
AND WHY? AND SO WHAT?

If there are any small mistakes
in spelling or sentence structure,,
it is because this typewriter, suh r
was used by the army of occupa-
tion. (Gen. Grant's army, natch).
Also, there is a certain key which,
when hit, sends the typewriter
carriage flying across the room
to ricochet from the opposite wall.
As we brush aside the beard from
this ancient machine and lay our
fumbling fingers on these shaking
keys, we are again faced with the
problem of What to Say.

Things to wonder about: Will
Terry get Grett? Will Christ-
mas come THIS YEAR? What
will happen to the stamps we
didn't use for coffee because the
item is not rationed now and
why ? When is George coming
home ? ? What has happened to
the worms that appear on the
brick walks when it rains?

There are some things that al-
ways baffle us. We'd like to throw
these random thoughts your way:
The bewildering looks on the
freshmen's faces the first time
they attended open forum. The
way the juniors are still gazing
lovingly at their new Agnes Scott
rings which denote that they are
truly members of the upperclasses.
The unpopularity of the war stamp-
booth in Buttrick compared with
the constantly overflowing tea
house and bookstore. The presence
of the pigeons on the lofty turrets
of Fortress Buttrick what a nice
accompaniment they will make
during exam week. The strange
fact that out of a comparatively
healthy student body of 545 girls,
ONLY 50 so far agreed to give a
pint of blood to the Red Cross.

The column is gHting filled
almost to the bottom.

And now we uro baek at that
old question What are we giv-
ing to say?

In all this maze of "PROGRES-
SIVE" education in the fullest
sense of the word, with students
studying in every nook and comer
of the campus, with meatless
Tuesdays, with war council speak-
ers and exams coming up, there
are two things to be thankful for
George is a sergeant and "Pal"
is a big boy now.

With these happy thought*
(which you no doubt cannot
understand) we leave you to
your own destruction.

"Colyummmm Dismissed . . . *

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943

No. 7

Students to Compete
In War Activities

War Council Will Post Charts in Dorms;
Mobile Blood Unit to Be Here Nov. 17

Charts showing student participation in war activities will
go up in the dormitories this week, Squee Woolford, chairman
of War Council, announced Monday.

The student in each dormitory who earns the most parti-
cipation points will receive an award. The dormitory with
the highest total of points will

THEY'RE SENIORS NOW. At the entrance to Presser hail, 98 seniors form an aisle for faculty mem-
bers as they march to be invested. Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Blackfriars Announce
'Schubert Alley 7 Cast

A tentative cast for Blackfriars'
first production of the year, 'Schu-
bert Alley," was announced re-
cently by Miss Roberta Winter,
play director.

The tentative cast includes the
following girls: Chris, Mary Doz-
ier; Fay, Agnes Douglas; Beulah,
Ceevah Rosenthal; Anita, Eliza-
beth Carpenter; Hester, Carolyn
Hall; Elsie, Peggy Willmon; Miss
Elliott, Kathryn Dozier; Rita,
Shirley Graves; Madge, Ellen
Hayes; Hattie, Zena Harris Tern-
kin; Lucia, Pauline Ertz; Nancy
Ann, Martha Jane Mack.

Helen, Martha Polk; Miss Whit-
ney, Jean Hood; Patricia, Carolyn
Daniel; Miss Shuman, Martha
Polk; Poppy, Mary Louise Duffee;
Miss Royce, Martha Marie Trim-
ble; Nellie, Peggy Willmon.

The play, Mel Dinelli's story of
the rise to fame of a young ac-
tress in New York City, will be
presented at 8:30 p. m. on Nov.
26 in Presser hall.

New Tamily Worship 7 Service
Inaugurated by Senior Class

A new tradition was initiated by the Senior class last Sun
day in the simple, but impressive "family worship'' in Gaines
chapel at eleven o'clock. Friends and families of the Seniors
nearly filled the auditorium, in spite of the rainy weather.

Dr. Paul Garber, new head of the Bible department preach-
ed the sermon. He told how Isaiah, "a young man
with a Pearl Harbor experience," asked the watchman

on the wall outside of Jerusalem,

Oh-Boys!

*1UU Week . . .

Wednesday, Nov. 10, 8:00 p. m.
Mortar Board party for fresh-
men.

Thursday, Nov. 11, 10:30 a. m.
Open forum discussion of com-
pulsory Thursday chapel.
7 :30 p. m Debate with Univers-
ity of Georgia in Murphey Cand-
ler.

8:00 p. m. DeKalb county mem-
orial service in Gaines chapel.
9:30 p. m. IRC "Fireside Chat*
on the hockey field.

Friday, Nov. 12, 8:30 p. m. Jose-
phine Antolne concert in Gaines
chapel.

Saturday, Nov. 13, 8:00 p. m.
Mortar Board party for fresh-
men.

Monday, Nov. 15-Dec. 6 Exhibit
of Mr. Thomas' work in library
aft gallery.

White House Plans
Pin-up Contest

Pin-up boys will vie for top hon-
ors in manliness, good looks, and
cuteness in a contest sponsored by
White House as its War Fund pro-
ject, it was announced today by
Ceevah Rosenthal, organizer of the
contest.

Anyone may enter the contest
by submitting any masculine pic-
tures she may possess. The fee
is 15c for the first picture and
10c for each additional entry.

The pictures will be on view all
day Friday, Nov. 19, at the White
House "galleries" for an admis-
sion charge of 10c. Admission is
free to those who have entered
pictures.

Howard Thomas, Howard M.
MacGregor, Dr. Paul Garber and
Dr. Walter Posey will judge the
beauties on Friday, Nov. 19, at
8:30 p. m. Admision to the judging
is free to contestants, 10c for all
others.

White House girls will get in
touch with everyone this week to
solicit pictures for the contest
Starting tonight they will take up
entries from 10-10:30 every night
through next Thursday. A time
will be posted telling day students
where to submit their pictures.

The Agnes Scott News will print
the pictures of the three winners
and the names of their proud own-
ers.

"What of the night," in his peo-
ples' blackest hour, and received
these words in answer: "The morn-
ing cometh, but also the night."

Using these words as his text,
Dr. Garber went on to show how
this is true today, even in the war-
torn countries of Europe, which
seem the darkest. Said he, "Do
not so concentrate on the candle
that you forget the darkness
around it," but also remember
that "all the world's darkness can-
not extinguish one of God's small
candles."

Organ music for the occasion
was provided by Dr. Ernest Run-
yon, and the choir, managed by
Barbara Connally, marched in
singing the Agnes Scott hymn,
"God of the Marching Centuries."
The prayer was led by Dr. R. B.
Bedinger, and the offertory sung
by Ellen Arnold. All the partici-
pants were chosen by the senior
class, with Bippy Gribble in
charge of the whole service.

be given recognition by the other
dormitories. Day students will
work with the dormitory in which
members of their respective classes
live f> as nearly as possible.

Point Scale

Such activities as donating blood,
rolling bandages, and giving junk
jewelry for barter will receive
points. Anne Sale and Dr. S. M.
Christian are now working on a
scale to determine the number of
points to be allowed for each ac-
tivity.

The score of each girl in school
will be posted on the charts in
the dormitories regularly.

With dormitory and day student
chairmen will work a boarder
chosen from each wing, and a day
student chosen from each ten day
students. These will head sub-
committees which will be announ-
ced next week.

The chairmen are Bippy Grib
ble and Nellie Scott, Inman; Lau
rie Looper and Scott Newell, Main;
Maude VanDyke and Ellen Hayes,
Rebekah, and Virginia Bowie and
Frances Brougher, cottages.

Mobile Unit

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, the mo-
bile unit of the Red Cross blood
bank will come to the Agnes Scott
campus for blood donations. Hours

during which the unit will be on
campus will be 12 noon to 3 p. m.
Any student who has not signed
up, but who would like to give
blood, should get in touch with
Squee Woolford, chairman x of War
Council.

WSSF to Begin
Drive Nov. 19

A chapel program on Friday,
Nov. 19, will inaugurate the
World Student Service Fund cam-
paign on the Agnes Scott campus.
The goal this year is $500, accord-
ing to Eudice Tontak, general
chairman, and everyone will be
given an opportunity to contribute
during the wek of Nov. 19-26. An
advance contribution was made by
the senior class with the dona-
tion of the collection at its church
service Sunday morning.

Others on the committee, which
is sponsored by International Re-
lations club, are Marjorie Tippins,
publicity director; Ann Wright,
treasurer; Marguerite Watson,
chairman of solicitation of board-
ers; and Johnnie Mae Tippen,
chairman of solicitation of day
students.

Miss Antoine, 'Met' Soprano,
To Sing Here Friday Night

Mortar Board to Fete
Freshmen Tonight

Mortar Board will entertain a
group of freshmen tonight in Mur-
phey Candler at the initial party
in a series given annually by the
group in honor of the new students
on the campus.

Members of the junior class, sis-
ter class to the freshmen, will help
with the entertaining and serving.

The other three parties will be
on the evenings of Nov. 13, 17,

and 20.

Josephine Antoine, well-known
coloratura soprano, will appear in
a concert in Presser hall on Fri-
day, Nov. 12, at 8 p. m. in the
first of a series of three concerts
to be presented by the Decatur
Junior Service League.

In addition to her concert ap-
pearances. Miss Antoine is also
well -known as an opera snger and
as the star of the Carnation Milk
Contented Hour on the radio. She
has in recent years majEie frequent
appearances in Georgia and
throughout the South. She will
sing tonight in Marietta, Georgia.

Other artists slated to appear
on the "Three Star Attractions"
series of concerts include Erick
Hawkins, ballet dancer, formerly
a member of the "Oklahoma" cast,
who will appear on February 4,
and Frederick Jagel, leading tenor
of the Metropolitan Opera Com-
pany, who will sing here on April
21.

Both season and single tickets
for these concerts are available.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go
to charity.

Miss Antoine's program will in-
clude selections from Mozart,
Pergolesi, Godard, Hahn, Dalcroze,
Rossini, Haydn, Kramer, Bellini,
and Bishop.

JOSEPHINE ANTOINE

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

There's a saying somewhere
about the "ups and downs" of life.
It's too trite to be restated here,
but you get the idea. It seems
the senior class traveled life's
bumpy road last week, coasting
down the slopes of success to the
depths of defeat, with the reck-
less bravado of a daring driver.
Last Wednesday night, for the
first time in the history of this
generation, the seniors won top
honors in the swimming meet.
Nobody seems to want to com-
mit themselves on the date of
the last senior victory, but "Tug"
went so far as to say that such
an event is "highly irregular."
At any rate, the class rallied this
year, mounted up a total of 45
points to the freshmen's 31.
The high-light of the evening
was a clothes-pin relay, won by
the sophomore class. Ruth Farrior
announced each event, and Miss
Wilburn, Miss Rutledge, and Miss
Hunter were judges. Miss Gay-
lord kept score.

Friday afternoon the seniors
were scored upon for the first
time in the present hockey sea-
son. In the senior camps that
afternoon, as in Mudville on a
certain day when a certain ball
player struck out, there was no
joy, no laughter.
With Tug and Billy both out
taking medical aptitude examina-
tions, the seniors' was a decided-
ly make-shift line up. Good auth-
ority, however, reports that the
score was due not to the seniors'
line up but to the valiant fight
put up by the juniors. And fight
it was! Senior casualty: Zena Har-
ris Tempkin, out with a broken
finger.

The tennis tournament, spon-
sored by the tennis club, culmin-
ates this week in the finals
match between Virginia Tuggle
and Ann Hough. Ann has defeat-
ed Betty Andrews and Mary
dimming. Tug has been vic-
torious over Ann Webb and Ruth
Ryner

Either Agnes Scott has taken to
studying in earnest, or the walk-
ing bug hasn't bitten yet, or sum-
p'n. At any rate, Outing club
continues its hiking every Tuesday
from 5 to 6, despite the fact
that its numbers are definitely on
the slim side. It seems that in
the fall a Hottentot's fancy just
doesn't turn to thoughts of walking.
(That rumble was Tennyson turn-
ing over). The invitation is still
good, however, and especially urg-
ed to come out are those girls
who signed up "walking" fop their
extra gym hours.

Swimming club announces
that, after extensive try-outs,
it has admitted to its member-
ship Ann Haggard, Eva Wil-
liams, Helen Owen and Aurie
Montgomery.

DeKalb Heroes
To Be Honored

At a program taking place to-
morrow at 8 p. m. in Gaines chapel
the Decatur Last Man Club will
honor DeKalb county servicemen
who have lost their lives in com-
bat.

Dean Raimundo de Ovies, dean
of the Cathedral of St. Philip, will
deliver the memorial address. The
Agnes Scott and Georgia Tech
glee clubs will combine in sing-
ing Kipling's "Recessional."

An added attraction on the pro-
gram will be the appearance of
Miss Josephine Antoine, Metropol-
itan Opera soprano, who is sched-
uled to sing Friday night in Pres-
ser under the auspices of the De-
Kalb Service League. Miss An-
toine has agreed to arrive a day
earlier to sing on the program.

The Last Man club is an organ-
ization of World War I veterans
who erected the bulletin board in
front of the DeKalb county court-
house honoring 8,000 DeKalb
county service men and women.

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Asnes Scott, Georgia
To Debate Thursday

In a non-decision debate with
the University of Georgia on
Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p. m.,
Pi Alpha Phi will take the nega-
tive side of the question, "Resolv-
ed: Roosevelt should run for a
fourth term." Betty Glenn and
Claire Bennett will be the debat-
ers for Agnes Scott. The college
community is invited to attend the
debate in Murphey Candler.

On Nov. 16, Julia Moody and
Martha Jean Gower will return
the visit to the campus of the
University, upholding the negative
of the subject, "Resolved: Worn
en should be drafted."

Spanish Club Admits
Five New Members;
To Meet Tonight

New Spanish club members, ad-
mitted after recent try-outs, are
Frances Woodall, Ruth Gray, Sus-
an Kirtley, Joan Crangle, and Har-
riet Frierson.

The club's next meeting will be
held tonight at 7:30 in Murphey
Candler. Short talks on "Music in
Latin America" will be given by
Yoli Bernabe, Julia Slack, Mary
Alice Hunter, Carolyn Calhoun,
and Alvara Fraser.

Latin American musical num-
bers will be given by Betty Vecsey,
Cookie DeVane and Margaret
Dale.

In addition to Spanish club
members and members of the
Spanish faculty, all those interest-
ed in Latin America are invited
to attend. Refreshments will be
served.

Marjorie Tippins Heads
Nawman Club on Campus

Catholic students at Agnes Scott
have recently formed a branch of
the Newman club, national Cath-
olic youth organization, in affilia-
tion with the Emory Newman
club.

At a recent meeting members
of the club drew up a constitution
and elected the following officers:
president, Marjorie Tippins;* vice-
president, Bette Wade: secretary-
treasurer, Helen Beidelman.

The purpose of the Newman
club is the promotion of closer
student contact with Catholic
work and programs. Father John
Morris, sponsor of the club, is in
charge of religious talks.

The club will meet every first
and third Thursday of the month
at 4:30 in Murphey Candler.

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Hayes Defines Love, Places
Emotions in Plan of Life

The place of the comic view, the tragic view, and the religi-
ous view in life was stressed by Dr. George P. Hayes at Agnes
Scott's 31st Investiture service Saturday, where parents and
friends saw Miss Carrie Scandrett cap 98 seniors. "There
must be laughter," he said, "and tears, and there must be
meditation and prayer."

"Malvolio is a worthy person,"
Dr. Hayes began, "but he lacks
a sense of humor."

Giving his sophomore classes "a
break," the English profressor
drew upon the characters of
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"
and other plays to show the folly
that comes from pride. To act
like a fool is to give the world
a laugh.

The consequence of folly the
speaker termed as tragedy. That
men act like fools when they are
endowed with infinite intelligence
is tragic, %e went on to say, af-
ter telling Homer's story of
Achilles/

"Have you ever been in love?"
Dr. Hayes asked his audience. "If
you have received notice from one
far worthier than you and felt
that it was because of his mercy,
then you have loved," he told them.

Turning from the poets to the

Are you majoring in

Glamour? ... or

Glamour ing for a

MAJOR?

Whichever it is, we're
on your side and we
gals stick together in

Sophomores Defeat Freshmen;
Seniors and Juniors Tie, 1-1

By Bettye Leg Phelps

Class spirits rose to great heights Friday when the sopho-
mores defeated the freshmen by a score of 2-1 and the seniors
and juniors battled it out to a 1-1 tie.

The first half of the sophomore-freshman game was to
the sophomore's advantage. Out of four serious threats at
the goal, the sophomores managed

to score on two.

Peggy Jones scored the first
with a nice drive from her right
inner position, and Betty Long
tallied the second during a scram-
ble at the goal.

Freshmen Take Offensive

In the second half of the game
the freshmen took the offensive.
They made three serious goal
threats and Mary Ann Martin,
right wing, scored with a long
drive durng the freshmen's first
offensive of the second half. How-
ever, the last half was marred
by freshmen "turning" on the ball,
or obstructing. Che Nellans, soph
goalie, and Gene Goode, freshman
center forward, because of a foul
at the goal made by Che Nellans,
had a bully. The bully, made
while all the other players of both
teams are behind the 25-yard line,
went to the freshmen, but the
sophomores managed to get the
ball out of the scoring circle.

The senior-junior game started
with the seniors lacking two stars,
Virgnia Tuggle and Billy Walker.
Zena Harris Temkin shifted from
fullback to center forward and
tallied the only senior score. Dur-
ing the first half the juniors made
four threats at the goal and Mary
Cumming made the only junior
score of the game.

Help for Seniors

Virginia Tuggle and Billy Wal-
ker entered the game in the second
half. The senior team, however,
with all players present, could not
score again. 25-yard bullies in
junior territory abounded in the

second half. The strong junior de-
fensive, however, managed to di-
vert the ball from their goal each
time. Jane Everett, junior goalee,
played excellently. The juniors
made two threats at the opposite
goal but failed to score. The jun-
iors were proud of the 1-1 tie, since
before Friday's game, the seniors
had been undefeated and untied.

The lineups follow:
Sophomores

sophomores
Martin

Courtenay
Jones (1)
Lonp (1)
Chewnlng
Ryner
Ragland
Burnett
Walker, S.
Register
Neville
Nellans

Subs :
S. ; freshmen
Seniors
Lasseter
Maxwell
Temkin. (1)
Hill
Young
Phillips
Farrior
Douglas
Dozler
Montgomery
Walker, M.

Subs. : seniors
inger. Juniors :

R.W.

R.I.

C.F.

L. I.

L.W.

R.H.

C.H.

L.H.

R.F.

L.F.

G.

McCaiu,

M. A

Freshme*

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Harnsberger
Good
Johnston
Fossett
Newman
Stlne
Meyer
Currie
Dobbins
Yates. C.
Stephenson.

R.W.
R.I.
C.F.
L. I.
L.W.
R. EL
C.H.
L. H.
R. F.
L.F.
G.
Tuggle.

Mace, Hunter, D.

(1), Hoyt.

Juniors
Milam
Munroo
Cumming (1)
Davis
Kirtley
Farmer
Mllford
Equen
Sheppard
Rosenthal
Everett
Walkor, B., Bed-

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

Investiture week-end, for the seniors at any rate, was one
of the busiest all year. From little girls to invested seniors in
one day involved greatest activity, in addition to entertaining
hosts of out-of-town friends and relatives. Parents here for
investiture enjoyed the continuation of the week-end through
Sunday, including the church
service in Gaines chapel and the
senior coffee Sunday afternoon.

Hostesses at coffee were Bar-
bara Connally, Aurie Montgomery,
Bippy Gribble, Ruth Farrior,
Clare Bedinger and Ann Ward.
The decorations were lovely, and
consisted of huge bowls of yellow
chrysanthemums and yellow can-
dles.

Parents visiting on campus for
the Investiture week-end included
those of Betty Ashcraft, Bobbie
Powell, Mary Carr, Betty Sul-
livan, Clare Bedinger, Barbara
Connally, Cathy Steinbach, Lau-
rie Looper, Betty Wade, Jo Young,
Flossie McKee, Agnes Douglas,
Anne Ward and Quincy Mills
Jones.

Did you see Martha Ray Lasse-
ter's beautiful corsage of gar-
denias Sunday morning?

Rush Parties

Lots of girls from Agnes Scott
helped with rush functions at
Georgia Tech. Patty Barbour and
Laurie Looper enjoyed the Pi KA
dance at the Georgian Terrace
Saturday night, while Clare Ben-
nett, Carolyn Fuller, Nelson Fish-
er, Betty Mann, Betty Turner, Dot
Peace, Edith Burgess, Janet - Lid-
dell and Margaret McManus at-
tended the KA house dance . . .
Jeanne Rochelle, Anne Wiedeman
and Connie Fraser were seen at
the Delta Tau Delta House. . . .
Peggy Gregg, Joyce Gilleland, and
Sue Hutchens at the Sigma Chi
hay ride. . . . Jean Hood and
Ginny Carter having fun at the
Sigma Nu house dance. . . . Jean
Stewart and Em Clepper at the
SPE dance. ... At the OBX
script dance were Jean Estes,
Anne Johnson and Joanne Fossett.

The Georgia Tech-L. S. U. game

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Saturday afternoon attracted
Squee Woolford, Sissy Jefferies,
Anne Eidson, Anne Scott, Carolyn
Rose, Betty Andrews, Celetta
Powell, Bobbie Powell, Rite Wat-
son, Mary Russell, Robin Robin-
son, Bunch Beaver, Martha Polk,
Lucy Turner, Jane Bowman, Mary
Martin, Gilmore Noble, Bettye
Smith, Eva Williams, Connie Fra-
ser, Jeanne Rochelle, Joyce Gille-
land, Jean McCurry, Sara Flor-
ence.

At Emory

At the AKK medical fraternity
house dance Saturday* evening
were Minnie Mack, Beth Shep-
herd, and Betty Davis. . . . Anne
Stubbs, Jean Chewning, Narvie
Lu Cunningham . and Margaret
Johnson enjoyed the SAE house
dance. . . . Seen at the KA house
were Bunch Beaver, Rite Watson,
Harding Ragland, and Mary Rus-
sell. . . . Minnewil Story at the
ATO house.

Also Dancing
Dining and dancing at the Em-
pire Room recently were Susan
Kirtley, Julia Harvard, Carolyn
Daniels and Laurice Looper. . . .
The Paradise Room attracted Anne
Equen, Barbara Frink, Cathy
Steinbach, Ann Hightower, Mar-
tha Ray Lasseter, Joyce Freeman,
Bitty King and Liz Carpenter. . . .
Jane Bowman, Carolyn Rose, and
Kathy Hill were seen at the Rain-
bow Roof.

"Naughty Marietta" and the
Jeanette MacDonald concert pro-
vided entertainment for many of
the music lovers on the campus.
. . . Mary Frances Anderson and
Dale Bennett have just returned
from Athens where they attended
University of Georgia homecom-
ing dances. . . . and just ask Leila
Holmes if she enjoyed her visit
home to Macon. . . . Going home
to Eastman, Ga., with Alice Gor-
don were Lisa Marshall, Lib Wood-
ward, and Peggy Jones.

A novel occasion of social inter-
est closing the week-end was an
entertainment Sunday evening at
Pig 'N' Whistle given by Kathie
Hill, Squee Woolford, Patty Bar-
bour, Claire Bennett, Bettye Ash-
craft, Polly Cook and Julia Ann
Florence Emmett. Fudge cake
was enjoyed by all and "Happy-
rock" was guest of honor.

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person of Elise Tilghman at last Friday's Little Girls' Day frolics.

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Campus Cuties Capture College Community
Before Serious Seniors Show Solemnity

By Leila Holmes

"Shoo-fly, don't bother me, shoo-fly, don't bother me." At
this point, the college community sighs with relief as they

add the new line, "Thank good-

ness, they're invested."

After Little Girls' Day on Fri-
day, starting at 6:45 a. m., with
alarms and seniors going off (both
at the head) and ending in hilari-
ous remarks in classes, it was
quite a shock to see dignified ( ? )
seniors again

Will you ever forget how at
breakfast they heralded every-
one's arrival by singing "Good
morning to you"; Carolyn Daniel
posing for everybody's camera,
with her best toothpaste smile;
Zena, Duffee, Squee, and Miriam
posing as the four "most bow-leg-
ged"; Patty getting her feelings
hurt because her playmates called
her freckles "black measles"; the
prize remark in class when Dr.
Posey called on Miss Maxwell and
she replied, "My mother calls me
Mary."

Then there was the pop test in
psych on which the seniors just
drew pictures; Mr. Tart giving pen-
nies to the infants; Dr. McCain, Dr.
Garber, Dr. Gillespie, and Dr. Posey
playing "Farmer in the Dell" with
the little girls during chapel; Miss
Glick saying, "Scram" to some
hecklers outside the door of her
class; Bobbie's explanation of
Kathie's absence from class, and
someone hitting me from behind
with spit balls. (I'll never forget!)

Later, who could miss the pain-
ful groans as the weary seniors
fell into their beds, tired but happy
little girls. They slept for twen-
ty years and the next day they
were invested.

Exhibit to Show
Thomas Oils

Howard Thomas, professor of
art, will exhibit 50 oils, watercol-
ors, graphics, and drawings in the
library gallery Nov. 15 to Dec. 5.

Mr. Thomas, who has been rep-
resented in national exhibitions
since 1935, received his training
at Ohio State University, Chicago
Art Institute, and the University
of Southern California. He was
formerly head of the department
of art at the Woman's College of
the University of North Carolina.
He has also served as president
of the Wisconsin Painters and
Sculpters.

In 1930 Mr. Thomas was award-
ed the Milwaukeee Journal prize
for work in oils. More recently
he has received the Milwaukee Art
Institute Medal, and first prize for
watercolors at the Wisconsin
Salon with his "Boat and Turtle"
which he will exhibit.

Fire Side Chat 7 to be
IRCs Fund Project

A "fire side chat" on the hoc-
key field tomorrow night will be
International Relations Club's
contribution to the War Fund
drive to raise $1000.

From 9:30 to 10:30 the campus
community will toast marshmal-
lows, eat apples, and sing for the
benefit of the campus War Fund
drive.

The IRC members at Emory
have been contacted and plan to
attend.

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309 E. College Avenue
Decatur, Ga.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943

Duffee Puns

Seen; or on the
Campus Herd

By Merry Ell Duffee

Puns should be spoken, not
written. Duffee.

A pun is the lowest form of wit.
Somebody (I looked it up.)

How every fool can play upon
the word. Shakespeare.

A pun is a noble thing per se
it is perfect as a sonnet; better.
Charles Lamb.

Thanks, Lamb.

Blackfriars is anxiously inform-
ing everyone that their forthcom-
ing production, "Shubert Alley," is
NOT a drama of dead-end kids.
Fact is the name comes from the
setting, which is behind the fam-
ous Shubert theatre in New York.
(We know the theatre is actually
in N. Y., because Bob Battle,
who just finished midshipman's
school at Columbia and immed-
iately reported for active doty
here at A. S. C, saw it just a few
weeks ago.) Advance notices say
its a "must." Variety.

A constant source of amaze-
ment to people who stay around
this campus long enough to know
it well is the storehouse of in-
formation that rests in the "dean's
office" and with its inhabitants.
They know the glad things, the sad
things, and yes most of the
things that people don't think they
know. In the hands of just any-
one, all they know could be un-
fortunate, but we (this column
and I) think that little room is
the nerve center of the campus
and is the main reason why the
student body lives as smoothly,
(then you must immediately admit
that life could be a lot rougher.)
May they always guide, never run
and here's to them.

Yes, it isn't like me but I'm
a senior and was not only invest-
ed but touched on Saturday.)

No foolin' though, someday a
book's going to be written about
the people here, and the dean's
office will be a big part of it.
Can't decide whether that chap-
ter should be titled "Dean's Office
Dick," "The Fact Hunter," or "For
Whom the Bella Told."

Most appropriate for our class
to have a little boy for a mascot.
We just love little boys. Especial-
ly about 21-23 years "and don't
Uncle Sam dress 'urn cute?"

Ceevah Rosenthal answering
the telephone: "White Hoose."

Rosemary Jones' article in the
Aurora reminded most everyone
of the way they felt their fresh-
man year although all of us
didn't even claim that we tried
to do all the studying we were sup-
posed to do. We just agreed there
was too much to do. Never will
forget how Miss Hunter howled
when I presented my own tenta-
tive schedule, written out, with
RECREATION scrawled over two
hours every afternoon.

Seriously, though, her question
was well-answered this week by a
junior, who talking to a senior,
said, "Did it take you 'til your jun-
ior year to realize why you were
here? Why, I'm really enjoying
every course but one I'm taking
this year."

Oooo . . . The nostalgia is get-
ting me. Sign of age. I must
stop and so must you.

P. S. The appearance of senti-
mentality and favorable comment
in this column does not necessar-
ily denote endorsement of the
same by this columnist nor the
NEWS since we do not generally
endorse any type of sentimental-
ity. Too often it retards progress.

M.L.D.

Apathies Aren't Funny Any More

There's been a lot of talk on the campus
lately about the apathy of the student body
toward matters which concern the war effort
blood donations, war stamp buying, and War
Fund participation. As is usually true with oft
repeated phrases, our "apathy" has become
a campus joke. We laugh forgetting that if
carried too far this apathy can be serious.

Consider the record 80 donors out of a
total of perhaps 300 eligible to give blood,
$20 a week in war stamp sales when $50 a
week is nearer what we should be buying.
(That's only one 10 cent stamp a week per stu-
dent, or today's visit to the book store or tea
house cancelled!) Look further $1,000
pledged for the War Fund drive, and less than
$100 actually raised. At that rate our pledge
will become a burden on future qlasses, as
have so many other pledges made on this
campus.

We can hardly give the excuse that we
haven't the time to give to these three most
important activities. Donating blood takes
about 30 minutes, buying a war stamp or
bond is a matter of a few seconds, and con-
tributing to the War Fund is as simple as
saving $2 from our whole year's budget and
turning it in to War Council.

Our individual apathy toward the War Fund
can perhaps be excused by the fact that noth-
ing has been said to us about contributing as
individuals. But we must realize that when
in chapel we voted to pledge $1,000 we must
have realized that it meant $2 per student.
Money raising by organizations is fine, but
takes time. (Remember last year's Red Cross
kit drive?) If we waited to raise the quota
by merely attending functions given by cam-
pus groups it would take important time
time which can be used for other war work.

Hymns of Praise

Praise be to second Main's telephone an-
swering system. The ingenious girls there
have posted a chart on which black and red
lines record who's answering whose calls. A
black line stands for calls answered, a red
line for the number of calls the girl received.
When the length of the red line exceeds that
of the black one, the girl concerned is "in the
red," for not answering as many calls as she
received. An object of public scorn, her
position is not an enviable one, and she will
probably mend her ways.

Praise be to the dining room set-up for
the curtains in the cafeteria, a sweet ges-
ture; for coffee last Saturday night; for good
Sunday night suppers this year; and for pan-
cakes despite difficulties on Sunday morning.

Praise be to all the people who manage to
look clean and cheerful at dinner, who can
converse about things other than the tests
they've flunked, are flunking, and will flunk.

Praise to all people who work for the im-
provement of our common lot, if in little ways.

(LP.)

From Other Campuses

"We ought to realize, without being told
over and over again, the necessity of purchas-
ing war bonds and stamps.

"One writer has compared the war to a
gigantic football game in which the men ac-
tually fighting on the front are playing in the
backfield. He points out that in any game the
linemen must open the way for the backs. We
civilians at home are the linemen who enable
the fighting men to win the battles. We open
up holes in the line by our purchase of stamps
and bonds, a purchase which helps to supply
the men with necessary equipment and war
materials." The Daily Cardinal, University of
Wisconsin, Madison.

"Yes, the totals are In.

"Probably it will be of no more avail to
discuss the Campus War Chest now that it
has been previously, hut with the computed
figures released, silence on the matter is
hardly conceivable.

"So Syracuse university is a group of peo-
ple supposedly representative of a decidedly
important portion of the United States.
That portion which is also supposedly edu-
cated, from which comes the thinkers, many
of the leaders, the professional group, the
foundation of the 'back bone' of the nation!

"Yes, the totals are in and we wonder . .
Daily Orange, Syracuse University, Syra-
cuse, N. Y.

If the general student contribution should be
$2, that means that we would have to attend
at least eight parties or similar entertain-
ments and spend at least 25 cents at each. At
least eight hours of our time gone already
not to mention the hours spent on the enter-
tainment by the members of the group spon-
soring it. Yes, I know recreation is a grand
thing and it's nice to meet your fellow stu-
dents at other places besides the library but,
don't we do enough of that already?

(Note to organizations planning to have en-
tertainments for War Fund. This is not so
much directed at you as it is to the students
who have not yet realized their responsibili-
ties.)

About blood donors. Maybe enough has
been said, maybe not. But remember that on
the day before the Armistice in 1918, 35,000
Allied soldiers died. We should not become
over optimistic, simply because we are on top
at the moment. Our blood plasma may save
some of the Allied casualties on the day be-
fore the World War II armistice.

And then we have war stamps. They are
on sale every day in the lobby of Buttrick, you
know. Lack of enthusiasm on the part of the
girls in charge might be responsible for the
slow sales, but more responsible is the lack of
enthusiasm on the part of the 'students. We
shouldn't have to be sold war stamps. We
should buy them.

The best step yet made on this campus to
end our apathy for once and for all is War
Council's scheme of posting the score of each
student's war activities on posters in each
dorm. Perhaps when our activities are put
on a competitive basis we will begin to wake
up to their significance.

The Spirit of the Law

Here at Agnes Scott we hear a lot about
observing the spirit as well as the letter of
rules. Student Government emphasizes that
we should uphold the spirit as well as the let-
ter of all its regulations.

Recently there occurred an incident, in
itself no cause for great excitement, which
indicated to some that perhaps students
have become a little careless in their ob-
servance of Agnes Scott's high standards.

When a professor found it necessary to
be absent from her class, she requested an-
other to put a quiz on the blackboard. Hav-
ing written the quiz on the board, this pro-
fessor left the room. To her amazement, as
she stood in the hall near the classroom,
several members of the class, having read
the quiz and decided that they did not wish
to take it, calmly left the scene. When the
professor question them as to their action,
they replied that some others had gotten away
by leaving while she was still at the board
checking over what she had written, and that
they just thought they would leave, too.

Had the teacher of the class been present
and given a quiz, members of the class would
never have dreamed of getting up and walk-
ing out because they didn't like the assign-
ment made. Yet they felt not the slightest
compunction about leaving when the pro-
fessor was not there to check up on them.

This occurence is not, in itself, a particular-
ly serious violation of rules It would, how-
ever, be extremely serious if it were an in-
dication of a general tendency among the
student body toward a let-down of standards
of personal honor "in every phase of college
life." The spirit of wanting to "get by with"
things is at opposite poles from the spirit of
Agnes Scott's honor system.

Let's hope that this incident was just a re-
grettable case of thoughtlessness; and let's all
work together to keep bright our personal
honor and that of our Alma Mater. (B.G.)

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Nov. 10, '1943 No. 7

Published weekly, except durlnjj holiday* and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Of-
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A Nose in the Air

By Kathryn Johnson

First I was asked to write a
column about anything. Then, af-
ter I'd planned to make it light
and amusing, Tess said to make it
critical . . . "but, since you're
only a freshman, not too critical!"
So, I thought I'd write about the
only thing a freshman knows any-
thing definite ( ? ) about, the fresh-
men.

Things that impress the
freshmen: Seniors (?), chapel,
' Student Government and Open
Forum, War Council and Mor-
tar Board.
Most popular questions asked
by freshmen: "What is 'time'?"
"How do you get to be seniors?"
Things that we're always
talking about but never seem to
do anything about: the sale of
War Stamps and Bonds; com-
pulsory chapel on Thursday;
walking on the grass instead of
the walk.

Overheard: Two freshmen who
wished that they were eighteen
so they could be blood donors.
If you hear freshmen reciting,
with one hand on their dia-
phram: "One, . . . Era . . . hu .
hun," don't think they're "era . .
hey . . . hey . . . azy," they're
just doing their "Sp . . . he . . .
heech" homework!
What freshmen never think
about doing: Looking on ^he bul-
letin board and turning in sug-
gestions to Student Government.
We don't know whether to
dread Christmas or not, because
with it comes exams as well as
home !

If you've heard girls talking
about plants that can walk and
swim and fly, they're only Dr.
Runyon's biology class evolution-
izing another plant.

Speaking of sports: Hockey
has really made a hit with the
freshmen. It seems that those
who play hockey are in one of
two classes the upperclassmen
who study and play hockey and.
the freshmen who play hockey,
and study.
Miss Wilburn could easily com-
bine human biology and freshman
fundamentals. Everytime we learn
a new exercise, we discover the
next day (and how!) that we have
a new muscle.

Campus scene: two freshmen
arguing as to which had the
deepest shadows under her
eyes. (That's one thing all Hot-
en tots have in eommon.)
Tabby, the maid in the basement
of Main, was given a birthday
gift- by the day students in honor
of her 69th birthday Wednesday.
Tabby practically danced a jig on
receiving the gift.

Odds and ends: Our thanks
to Mortar Board for the frosh
parties starting Wednesday. . . .
Did you notice the freshman rr>-
actlon to "Little (iirls' Day"?
We just can't believe those sen
iors who were invented Satur-
day were actually the same lit-
tle" girls we saw Friday morn-
ing. . . . Why the sudden homo-
si( kness, freshmen?
Freshman theme song:
"O Happy Day . . . 'Mill on the
Floss* is put away!"

From the very first day of
sc hool, the friendliness of the up-
perrlassmen (even the sophs!)
has made a lasting impression on
all freshmen. We horn' we'll live
up to what you expect of us.
We should, with so many help-
ing hands . . .

And our favorite pastime is
Chasing to the dean's office, to
second Main, to third Main, any-
where to find the answer to the
$64 question: Where can I find ar
senior chaperone?

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943

No. 8

Wolfe Attacks Nation's Apathy
In First Lecture of the Year

Attacking the foolishness of public opinion which under-
estimates the powers of our enemies, Henry Wolfe, interna-
tional affairs expert who opened Agnes Scott's lecture series
last week, pointed out in an interview after his lecture that
our position is rather like that of a football team we should
never misjudge our adversary.

"You never hear a football cap-
tain," he said "telling his men
that the game they're about to
play is a pushover. No. He tells
them that they've got to fight
hard to win and makes them real-
ize what they're up against. We,
in our warfare, should follow the
same practice."

Mr. Wolfe, who delivered his
second lecture since his return
from England at Agnes Scott,
said that in speaking on "The Next
Act in Europe," he was not speak-
ing merely from the experience
of his ten-weeks visit but from
26 years of work in international
affairs.

International relations, he ex-
plained, are continuous, "not a
thing which we can turn our backs
on." *
"Nobody Knows"

In answer to the question,
"When will Germany crack?", he
answered, "Nobody knows."

American army leaders receiv-
ed high praise from the lecturer,
who gave special mention to Gen-
eral Jacob Devers, commander of
the European Theatre of Opera-
tions in his estimation "an A
Number 1 general."

Mr. Wolfe was especially critical
of the apathy of the American peo-
ple toward the war, both in his ad-
dress and later while being inter-
viewed. "Americans," he said, "are
doped by Japanese propaganda to
the point of believing that we can
win the war in a week."

"No such attitude prevails in
England," he reported, "where the
war is more real to the citizens."

"We had air raids the last six
nights I was in England, and
there's nothing like an air raid
to impress you with the reality
of war."

Christmas Holidays
Extended One Day

The winter quarter will official-
ly begin Wednesday, Jan. 5, in-
stead of Jan. 4, the date previous-
ly announced, according to Presi-
dent J. R. McCain. Because of
this addition to the Christmas
vacation, students will attend
classes Feb. 22, traditional holi-
day at Agnes Scott.

According to academic regula-
tions, students cutting classes the
first day of the quarter will forfeit
all cuts for that quarter.

Students May Sign
For C. A. Work

C. A. has placed a chart in the
mailroom on which students may
sign up for off-campus social
work.

Freshmen, too, are eligible for
these activities which include visit-
ing and entertaining the children
at Scottish Rite Hospital on Sat-
urday afternoons, teaching and
playing with the children at Negro
and Chinese missions, and eating
with the Industrial Girls club of
Atlanta Tuesday nights.

Charts to List
Activity Points

Charts recording points won for
various war activities will be post-
ed in the dormitories and cottages
after Monday. Main, Rebekah, In-
man, and the cottages will be riv-
als in the contest. 51 day students
have been attached to each of the
dormitory groups to aid in the
competition.

Next Monday and every Monday
group leaders will be in Murphey
Candler tc receive reports of in-
dividual students war activities and
lo record the points on the charts.
Each student will report her
individual efforts for the week. If
the group leaders are not there in
person, they will leave slips of pa-
per on which students may sign up.

Credit will be given for war
work as follows: blood donors will
receive ten points, contributors to
the United Community and War
Fund, five. A gift of jewelry or
the purchase of war stamps will
count one unit. Several courses in
first aid, recreation, and training
for Nurses' Aides and Red Cross
staff assistants will be offered
on and off campus. Each off-cam-
pus hour, of work completed will
count three points, on-campus
hours two points.

A navy sweater completed will
credit the knitter with 50 points,
an Army sleeveless sweater will
count 22, an Army helmet 15,
Navy watch cap 18, and gloves 15
points.

As has been announced, the win-
ners will be entertained by all
other groups at the end of the
year. A bonus will also be award-
ed the group first to achieve the
100 per cent activity record. This
means that each girl in the group
would have participated in each
activity for which points can be
given.

Rabbi Discusses Need
Of Brotherhood Today

"What we need today is not all
Christians or all Jews, but better
Christians and better Jews." With
this as keynote, Rabbi Abraham
Feinstein spoke at chapel on Fri-
day, Nov. 12. His talk was based
on the need for a brotherhood of
nations today.

The soft-spoken Rabbi from
Chattanooga told of the already
present evidence that a brother-
hood could and does exist. This
nation is our own country, accord-
ing to Rabbi Feinstein.

He emphasized that we need not
only tolerance for other races,
creeds and religions but also an
understanding and an apprecia-
tion of these differences. Con-
trasts make for beauty in nature;
the same is true for races and peo-
ples.

Rabbi Feinstein was sent to the
college as a member of the Jewish
Chautauqua Association.

WSSF Drive to Start Thursday

From Students to Students

The World Student Service Fund drive beginning on
the campus this week is an appeal from students to stu-
dents.

In German prison camps U. S. Army Air Corps officers
will receive books provided by the W. S. S. F. To these
men, most of them college graduates of the last few years,
these books will mean a chance to continue the studies
they left for a job temporarily more serious a chance
provided .by fellow students.

Strictly for students, this appeal is our chance to show
that we who are still in school remember the sacrifices
made by those who represent us. This is one appeal in
which we alone are responsible for the results we alone
are to blame if we break faith with those who short
months ago were our fellow students.

It must not happen! Contribute to the W. S. S. F.!

Hayes, Hodsson
Join to Present
Poetry and Music

A program of poetry integrated
with music will be presented by
Dr. George P. Hayes, professor
of English, and Hugh Hodgson
Monday, Nov. 22, at 8 p. m. in
Maclean auditorium.

The program follows: "Jesus,
Joy of Man's Desiring," words
from cantata "Herz and Mund,"
Bach; "Come, lovely and soothing
Death," Whitman, and "Come,
Sweet Death," Bach; "To a Scar-
latti Composition," Hillyer, and
"Pastorale," Scarlatti; "Euclid
Alone Has Looked on Beauty
Bare," Millay, and "Sarabande,"
Hameau-McDowell ; "Talkative,' 1
Ujejski, and "Mazurka," Chopin;
"Chorus from Empedocles on
Etna," Arnold, and "Dance of
Delphi," Debussy; "Ode on Death
of Duke of Wellington," Tennyson,
and "Funeral March" Prelude),
Chopin; "Run, Run, Run," and
"March, Little Soldier," Pinto;
"Dover Beach," Arnold, and "Noc-
turne," Chopin; "Lamb," Walfe,
and "Elves," Schumann; "Silver,"
de la Mare, and "Claire de Lune,"
Debussy; "Epitaph Placed on his
Daughter's Tomb," Mark Twain,
and "Adagio," Schonberg; and
"The Congo," Lindsay, with "Alle-
gro Barbaro," Bartok.

Miss Kathryn Glick
To Speak in Chapel

In keeping with the student
government theme, "Today's Ag-
nes Scott Student: Tomorrow's
Citizen," Miss Kathryn Glick, as-
sociate professor of Latin and
Greek, will speak in chapel Friday,
Nov. 19 on intellectual integrity.

Miss Glick will speak on the
responsibility of Agnes Scott stu-
dents in making the most of their
opportunities in a world at war.

lltU Week . . .

Thursday, Nov. 18, 19:30 a. m.
WSSF chapel program.
8:30 p. m. Swimming meet.

Friday, Nov. 19, 10:30 a. m.-12
noon, 2-5 p. m. Lamar Dodd to
visit art department.

Monday, Nov. 22, 8 p. m. Musi-
cale in Pressor.

Tuesday, No. 23, 5 p. m. Fresh-
man fundamentals demonstra-
tion in the gym.

Chairman Announces
Nov. 20 As May Day
Scenario Dead Line

Although May Day is still six
months away, plans for the festi-
val are already under way. Chair-
man Jean Clarkson is urging all
students to write a script or
scenario on which the annual
spring fete may be based. Nov.
20 is the final date for handing in
scripts to Mrs. Lapp in the gym.

Theme of last year's May Day
was the Four Seasons, and the
year before that, Americana. Oth-
ers in the past have been Peter
Pan, Comus, Orpheus and Eury-
dice, Midsummer Night's Dream,
and International Day.

Assisting the chairman this year
are the following girls: Catharine
Kollock, business manager; Bar-
bara Frink, Anne Equen, Dot Al-
mond, costumes; Frances Brough-
er, Jeanne Carlson, Betty Miller,
properties; Jane Everett, Louise
Gardner, dances; Betty Jane Han-
cock, Betty Dickson, music; Jane
Anne Newton, publicity; and
Kathryn Dozier, art.

Student Directory
To Appear Dec. 1

Martha Sunkes, chairman of the
sophomore committee for the pub-
licaton of the student directory,
revealed this week that the direc-
tory is expected to go on sale
about Dec. 1.

As an added attraction this year,
she disclosed, the directory will
include telephone numbers of day
students in addition to the names
and addresses of students and fac-
ulty, birthdays of all students, cam-
pus addresses of boarders, and
Christmas addresses. Director-
ies will sell at 25 cents per copy
and may be bought at the book
store, in the maid's office, at the
tea house and in the dormitories.

In former years, the directory
was published by various classes.
This year, however, its publication
becomes an exclusive sophomore
class project.

Girls serving on committees for
the publication of the directory
include Peggy Willmon, co-chair-
man; Jean Rooney, ads; Jane Anne
Newton, art; Rite Watson, busi-
ness manager; Anne Noell, typist.
Assistants will be Teddy Bear,
Mary Ann Courtenay, Shirley
Graves, Lura Johnston. Mildred
McCain, and Mary Quigley.

Espey to Inaugurate
Drive for $500 Goal
For Service Fund

Mr. R. H. Edwin Espy, executive
secretary of the national student
division of the Y. M. C. A., will
speak tomorrow in chapel. The
World Student Service Fund, with
Eudice Tontak as chairman, will
launch its campaign for $500 with
this program.

Mr. Espy was a principal speak-
er at the War Emergency Confer-
ence held this week in Raleigh.

One phase of the work being
done by the W. S. S. F. is that of
sending books and materials to
prisoners of war so that they will
be able to continue their studies.
In accordance with the Geneva
Convention of 1929, books are be-
ing sent into all major prison
camps in Germany. Oxford, Cam-
bridge, and the University of Lon-
don are now sending examinations
to British prisoners. It is hoped
that arrangements may be worked
out so that work done by prisoners
may be accredited.

Distribution

Funds will be distributed as fol-
lows: 16.5 per cent for the educa-
tional program and operating ex-
penses of the W. S. S. F.; 22.3 per

cent for prisoners, refugees, evac-
uees and internees in the United
States and Canada; 33.6 per cent
for Chinese students dispossessed
from their universities, and 27.6
per cent for American and Eng-
lish student prisoners, evacuees,
refugees and internees.

"I hope that all the students will
contribute generously to the fund,"
Eudice Tontak, chairman of the
W. S. S. F., urged. "We students
in the United States have a real
responsibility for students in the
war-torn areas of the world."

Contributions to the campaign,
which will last through next Fri-
day, November 26, will be made
through personal solicitations by
students in each dormitory and
among the day students.

Student Heads

Rite Watson is in charge of col-
lection in the dormitories, while
Johnnie Mae Tippen will supervise
collection from the day students.
Jean Stewart will collect for Rebe-
kah, Jane Meadows for Inman,
Paule Triest in Main, Blitz Roper
in White House, Lilaine Harris in
Gaines, Jean Hood in Lupton and
Virginia Bowie in Boyd. For the
day students Sylvia Mogul will col-
lect for the seniors, Scott Newell
for the juniors, Ellen Hayes for the
sophomores, and Kathryn Johnson
for the freshmen. Mrs. Roff Sims
and Miss Mildred Mell are in
charge of solicitations from the
faculty.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

(In accordance with this pap-
er's policy of having guest col-
umnists, this column was written
this week by Gwen Hill's black
cocker, Patsy, who went along
on the Athletic board's over-
night hike last week-end, and
who presents an unbiased dog's
eye view of all that went on.)
Without making the slightest ef-
fort to be punny, I'd like all con-
cerned to know that I have cer-
tainly led a dog's life this week-
end. Some outspoken individual
might tactlessly remark that I am
a dog, but such a comment we
shall proceed to ignore.

When my mistress informed
me on Friday last that I was in-
vited to go along, as sort of un-
official mascot, on the A. A.
board's camping out party, I was
just about the happiest little
four-footed canine you ever did
see. All I could do was run
around the house, barking loudly
my excitement, my long silky
ears flopping as I ran. In prep-
aration, I dashed madly out of
the house, and buried my fresh-
est bone (what with the meat
shortage and scarcity of points,
you never can tell).
On the way out to the camp Sat-
urday afternoon, I suffered the in-
dignity of having to sit on some-
one's lap, but since it was on the
front seat, I had the advantage of
over-hearing all that went on.
Discussed were such things as the
hockey game on Friday, the com-
ing basketball season, what good
goalies Jane and Miriam are, and
when the varsity is to be voted on.
You can laugh about the busman's
holiday if you want to, but let it
be clearly understood that this
group has got it all over that pro-
verbial conductor. Their minds
just seem to run in channels of
tennis, hockey, basketball, bad-
minton and volleyball.

That night, after we arrived,
everyone was concerned with
preparations for supper, so I
just trotted around from ^roup
to group, and the plots and plans
I overheard were enough to
make you cringe. People would
just pat me on the head, and say,
"Nice dog, Patsy"; they thought
m y doggy mind couldn't under-
stand what was going on. So
jusl tot that I'll tell you, hut
don't say I told you.
For instance, there was the
conspiracy to make Miss Rutledge

Open Forum Defeats
Compulsory Chapel

A motion to institute a compul-
sory chapel, whenever student
government or the administration
felt the need of such a meeting,
was defeated at the open forum on
Thursday, Nov. 11.

Clare Bedinger, vice-president
of student government, presided
over the open meeting. Possible
punishments were decided upon,
and after some discussion the stu-
dent body decided to have a 10
cent fee for a compulsory meet-
ing dismissed. When the original
motion was defeated, however,
this amendment was defeated also.

There will be one other open
forum this quarter. The next sug-
gestion among the votes recently
taken at chapel is to discuss the
possibility of exemption ' from
exams.

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a pie-bed and to tie her pajamas
in knots, but Miss Rutledge and
Miss Wilburn heard them talking,
and rushed in, and everybody
started yelling, and they shoved
the faculty out the door into the
cold, which I didn't approve of at
all, since they have always been
very nice to me, and don't talk
baby-talk like some people who
have cockers of their own.

Then there was the "Chinese
wedding" that Miss Wilburn and
Josie conducted. Everybody
skipped around the room, and
suddenly sort of fell all over the
floor, but they laughed, so I
guess it was all right. Some
bridge fiends tried to play by
fire-light (the lamps were for-
gotten), and the others gathered
around while my mistress read
poetry. Now Keats and Milton
and Gray may suit some people,
but I really enjoy something a
little more meaty, like the one
about the gingham dog and the
calico cat.

Some things went on that I just
couldn't understand. People kept
talking about the "Chief" losing
her pants, and getting her shoes
muddy, and kept asking each other
if they had seen some person
named "Algae." We even went
out on a long hike just to look for
her, but then somebody said it was
probably too cold for her now, so
we came jpack.

Oh, yes, there was plenty of
wonderful food (I sampled most
of it in the dark), square danc-
ing, singing, hiking^ and laugh-
ing. Someone even gave Miss
Wilburn a "hot foot," and she
just smiled and said, "Oh, isn't
it pretty?" I guess she didn't
understand.
Well, when night came I was so
tired, and it was so cold (I had
forgotten to bring an extra sweat-
er), I just crawled under the blan-
kets, and went sound asleep.

Seniors Vanquish Sophs, 2-0;
Freshmen Rout Juniors, 6-3

By Peggy Kelly

Sisters fought sisters in exciting games Friday afternoon
on the hockey field between the seniors and sophomores and
the freshmen and juniors.

The seniors jumped right into the game with great spirit.
In the first half Billy Walker scored the two goals which
brought the seniors final victory

The sophomores got the ball down
into the senior scoring area many
times, but the interference was
too great. Betty Long and Mary
Ann Courtenay tried to get
through Miriam Walker's defense
of the goal but they were not suc-
cessful.

In the second half, both teams
again attempted to score. Sally
Sue Stephenson manuevered the
ball down within a few yards of
the goal, only to be attacked by
the precision rushing of Gwen Hill.

The junior-freshman game was
a faster contest with the freshmen
winning 6-3. Molly Milam urg-
ed the team on with, "Remem-
ber, juniors, we've been playing
this game two years longer than
our sisters." But, Louise Hoyt,
Gene Goode, and Agnes Harns-
berger didn't look at the situa-
tion in that light. Captain Gene
Goode was the high scorer for the
day with three goals to her credit
and an enthusiastic team behind
her. Mary Munroe, Mary Cum-
ming and Betty Davis finally got
the ball rolling for the juniors
with the result of three goals.

One of the most interesting
parts of the game took place in
the second half of this game. Alice
Newman drove the ball down to-
ward the goal. There was great
confusion and kicking around. The

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All weddings are romantic, but
there was one recently that made
Camilla Moore feel like a fairy
godmother. Last May Camilla
asked Senior Margaret Shaw to
have a blind date with one Jimmy
Allred, a dental student from Flor-
ida.

Last July, Margaret wrote Ca-
milla she wanted her to be a
bridesmaid sometime in the fall.

Last Friday, Camilla was a
bridesmaid when Margaret mar-
ried Jimmy Allred, a dental stu-
dent from Florida.

But there's even more than that
to the story. Camilla loves to tell
about it. "It was so funny," she
says. "Margaret looked entirely
too starry-eyed for a first date
that night when we came in, so I
said, in a joking way, 'O. K., Mar-
garet, I want to be in your wed-
ding'."

The letter that reached Camilla
at home in Roswell, Ga., said, "O.
K., Camilla, I want you to be in
that wedding."

The wedding was planned first
for the last of November, but be-
cause Jimmy is in the naval re-
serve and an uncertain state, Mar-
garet pushed the date. On Novem-
ber 12, at the Covenant Presby-
terian church in Atlanta, Cupid
Camilla, Ex-roommate Sterley Le-
bey, and Jimmy's sister held flow-
ers while Margaret swapped Shaw
for Allred.

Camilla not only writes society
it's beginning to look as if she
frames her stories.

Classified Ads

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climax came when junior Betty
Glenn kicked the ball right into
the freshman cage.

The set-up for championship
favors the seniors as they have
not as yet been defeated, having
tied with the juniors once.

The line-ups follow:
Seniors

Voun- E.W.
asseter R.I.

C.F
L.I.
L.W.
R.H.
C. H.
L.H.
R.F.
L.F.
G.

Walker, B.
Hill
Tugcrle
Reclinper, C.
Farrior
Douglas
Tern kin
Montgomery
Walker. M.

Substitutions
Dozier. M
Juniors
Milam
Munroe
dimming
Davis
Kirtley
Farmer
Hunter
Equen
Sheppard
Webb
Everett

Substitutions :
Glenn : freshmen

Sophomores

Stephenson
Kyner
Long
Jones
rourtenay
Ragland
Burnett
Walker
Register
Neville
Nellans

sen iors M a x well . Phillips,
sophomores -Wccms. Chewning.

Freshmen

R. \Y.

R.I.

C.F.

L.I.

L.W.

R.H

C.H.

L.H.

R.F.

L.F.

G.

juniors - - Bedinger,
-Johnson, Henny.

Martin
Hoyt
Goodo
ETarnsburgei
k Fossett
"Newman
Stein
Coclira d
Curry
Yates
Denning
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Swimmers to Hold
Final Meet Tomorrow

Swimmers competing in the
final swimming meet of the sea-
son tomorrow night at 8:30
have excellent records to try to
equal or excel. Joyce Freeman,
junior swimming manager, holds
the college record for the twenty-
yard back-crawl dash, in 13.4 sec-
onds, and Soozi Richardson, a
sophomore, has a 14.8 second rec-
ord for the difficult twenty-yard
breast-stroke dash.

The junior class swam the 80-
yard free-style relay in 60.2 sec-
onds, the class of '46 running them
a close race with 64.2 seconds.
The 80-yard free-style and back-
crawl relay was captured last year
by the class of '46 with a .59.0
seconds record, the juniors fol-
lowing with a 59.2 seconds record.

The meet should be a very
close battle between the seniors
and the freshmen, but the juniors
and sophomores may be expected
to make bids for places in several
events. In addition to the usual
events, this meet will include the
back surface-dive for form, an
entirely new event.

Fundamentals Classes to Give
Demonstration November 23

Under the direction of Miss Abbie Rutledge, of the physical
education department, freshmen are undergoing strenuous
practice this week for the exhibition of fundamentals to be
held next Tuesday, Nov. 23, at 5 p. m. in the gym.

Every freshman who is physically fit has been required to
participate in this new program.
Its purpose is to locate weak
areas and to correct these through
conditioning exercises, which de-
velop agility, flexibility, strength,
endurance, and coordination.

At the exhibition one hundred
and twenty girls, led by twelve of
the best students, will 'do approxi-
mately eleven exercises without
stopping. They will be dressed
alike and will be in either diagonal
or horizontal line formation. Im-
mediately after the demonstra-
tion there will be folk dancing for
everyone.

Commenting on the progress of
these girls, Miss Rutledge said,
"The progress they have made is
amazing. At first they were slow
and had hardly any endurance, but
now they are able to perform for
ages with speed and skill."

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Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

Activities began early last week-end with the Dental Col-
lege interfraternity dance, the last one before their gradua-
tion. It was held at the Biltmore hotel with Bill Clark's
orchestra supplying the music. Agnes Scotters there were
Carolyn Daniel, Claire Bennett and Miriam Davis. . . . Friday
night at the Phi Chi medical

fraternity steak-fry and house
dance were Laurie Looper, Jean
Chewning, and Lu Cunningham.

K. A. Rush Function

On into the week-end was the
KA rush function Saturday night,
beginning with a buffet supper at
the house at Tech and progress-
ing to Emory for a house dance.
Harding Ragland, Jane Anne New-
ton, Claire Bennett, and Anne
Scott were present, also were Gee-
Gee Gilliland, Betty Turner, Nel-
son Fisher, Mary Frances Ander-
son, Barbara Wilson, Mary McCal-
la, Ann Whitmore, Louise Craw-
ley, and Louisa Aichel. . . . Danc-
ing at the Phi Delt house at Tech
Saturday night were Helen Owen,
Cissy Jefferies, Lu Cunningham,
Eva Williams, and Vesta Ann
White.

Tech-V. M. I. Game

Ann Scott, Leila Powell, Mary
Azar, and Marjorie Cole attend-
ed the V. M. I.-University of
Georgia football game at Grant
Field Saturday afternoon. Among
the sponsors for the V. M. I.
cadets were Barbara Frink, Caro-
lyn Fuller, and Anne Equen, who
later attended a party given by
the V. M. L alumni here. . . . the
phone call of the week was one
received by "PK" Kelly Thursday
night from Macon.

And did you see Alice Gordon
and Peggy Jones in Main on Fri-
day night? Alice, unable to ac-
cept two calls, persuaded Peggy
to take one for her. When Peggy
received a call on the third phone

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in the hall the two girls scurried
back and forth from booth to
booth, and all marveled that their
dates weren't hopelessly confused.
Squee x Woolford left last Tues-
day night for Camp Lee, Virginia,
where she attended her brother's
graduation from OCS. She per-
sonally attended to pinning on his
bars and they both returned to
Atlanta Saturday for the rest of
the week-end. And incidentally,
you might ask Squee about her
stop-over on the trip going north.
Dancing at Paradise Room
Dancing at the Paradise Room
were Mary Neely Norris, Anne
Equen, Katherine Anne Edelblut,
Sweetie Calley, Betty Campbell,
and Leila Powell. Barbara Frink
was there wearing a beautiful
orchid, and Anne Eidson, Martha
Ball, Cathy Steinbach, Betty An-
drews, and Betty Sullivan were
all there, too.

Betty Codrington went home to
Lake City, Fla., Jinx Blake to
Carlisle, Ky., Rite Watson to
Batesville, S. C, and Annette
Neville to Walhalla, S. C. . . .
Betty Sullivan attended a dance
at the Officers' club at Fort Mc-
Pherson. . . . Dancing at the Rain-
bow Roof were Mir House and
Louise Breedin. . . . Ann Martin
went home to Easley, S. C, and
Emily Higgins to Dalton, Ga. . . .
Zena Harris Temkin visited her
husband, Lt. L. B. Temkin, at
Charlotte, N. C. . . . Mary Rey-
nolds went home to Marietta, Ga.,
and Eleanor Manley, Anne John-
son, and Virginia Owens to Roan-
oke, Ala. . . . Lois Sullivan went
to Augusta, Ga., Sue Hutchens
to Athens, and Ceevah Rosenthal
went home to Lynchburg, Va. . . .

A steak-fry at North Fulton park
attracted Shirley Heller and Pie
Ertz. . . . Janice Latta entertain-
ed a visitor from Ft. Benning,
Ga. . . . Betty Sullivan's mother
and sister spent the week-end here
. . . Minnie Mack's mother visited
her last week-end. . . . Jean Hood
looked pretty as a bridesmaid in
a wedding in Commerce, Ga.

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Local Pi Alpha Phi
Opposes Georgia in
Non-decision Debate

"Resolved: that Roosevelt
should have a fourth term" was
the topic of the non-decision de-
bate last Thursday night between
Agnes Scott and the University of
Georgia in Murphey Candler. Dick
Steinbach and Norman Murray,
debaters from the University, up-
held the affirmative side of this
question, while Betty Glenn and
Claire Bennett of Agnes Scott's
Pi Alpha Phi chapter defended
the negative.

The debate was a non-decision
one, but both sides put forth con-
vincing arguments. The affirma-
tive rested its case on three main
points. They showed how success-
ful the present administration has
been in the past, pointed to the
fact that there is no able candi-
date in the field of opponents, and
finally stated that the President
is indispensable both to. the suc-
cessful prosecution of the war and
to the peace which shall follow.

The negative upheld two main
points, declaring first that the ad-
ministration has not done what it
should have done in the past; and
second, that the holding of such an
important office by any one man
for so long a time constitutes a
threat to democracy.

Pi Alpha Phi was represented
yesterday by Julia Moody and
Martha Jean Gower at a debate
given in chapel at the Uni-
versity of Georgia on the ques-
tion: "Resolved that women should
be drafted." The girls upheld the
negative side of the question.

Chi Beta Phi Elects
Seven New Members

At a meeting held Nov. 8, the
local chapter of Chi Beta Phi, na-
tional honorary science fraternity,
elected the following new mem-
bers: Pat Elam, Dot Hunter, Betty
Jo Davis, Jo Young, Margaret
Drummond, Dot Lee Webb, and
Mary Beth Danielson.

Claire Bennett, president of the
Agnes Scott chapter, announces
that new members will be in-
formally initiated at the organiza-
tion's annual banquet, to be held
in the tea house Nov. 17 at 6 p. m.

Election to Chi Beta Phi is bas-
ed on scholastic standing and a
major interest in science, combin-
ed with other general interests.

New members must be elected
unanimously by the old chapter.

Classes to Meet
In Two Monthly
Chapel Periods

Instead of the regular chapel
service on Fridays, separate class
meetings will be held twice a
month hereafter to avoid confus-
ion after the usual exercises. The
classes will hold their own devo-
tional service and then have their
class meetings. This will afford
more time to present the business
of the class and to finish without
outside disturbances.

On Friday, Nov. 5, the juniors
met in Presser, the spohomores in
the Old Chapel in Rebekah, and
the freshmen in MacLean auditor-
urn.

I'm Sorry

/ Have No Outside Lines

By Inge Probstein

Its secret guarded by a formidable "No Admittance" sign,
the little room behind the Dean's office is to most students
an enigma of broken-record voices purring an everlasting
song of "Agnes Scott . . . Thank you . . . One moment, please
. . . I'm sorry, I have no outside lines ..."

The room houses Agnes Scott's own switchboard, a maze of
plugs, holes, buttons, keys, and a

series of white, yellow, and red
lights that flash on and off to give
the operator news of the inner
mystery of this machinery. A dial,
earphones, speaking tube,- and fin-
ally the operator complete a setup
that works on the complicated
principles of push, pull, plug,
speak; push, pull, plug, speak and
so on.

Although it takes little time to
master the actual technique of
switchboarding, an operator's
training period is not over when
she passes her test at the end of
twenty hours of supervised work-
ing-exeprience.

Slowly an operator acquires the
wide general knowledge that she
needs to answer the inquiries of
her large public. Do Agnes Scott
girls use DeLuxe or Safety cabs
and why?; what are the chaper-
onage rules concerning all stu-
dents? (this last from a stern
voice which sounded too much like
a trustee to be answered with inde-
cision); what is Dr. Garber's mid-
dle name?, and is Dr. McCain us-
ually busy in the morning?

A good operator knows when
someone asks for Chromium 3495
that the chemistry major is con-
fusing a chemical symbol with the
Crescent exchange. She knows
what the Emory V-12's mean by
"Main, 2nd Deck," and "have the
girls gone to 'chow' yet?"

Versatility is a useful qualifica-
tion for switchboard work. Re-
cently when a faculty member
dialed zero and asked for an out-
side line, the operator forgot the
mechanism by which the lady
could dial her own number. (This
privilege is strictly reserved for
the faculty). The operator, not
wanting to dim the honor of her
group, decided the most business-

Bible Club Holds Quiz

The regular monthly meeting of
Bible club was held Nov. 15
at 4:30 p. m. in the Round House.
The program was an informal Bi-
ble quiz in which all members
present participated.

Lamar Dodd to Paint
Negro Model Friday

Lamar Dodd, of the art depart-
ment of the University of Geor-
gia, will paint from a Negro model
this Friday in the studio on third
floor Buttrick. Everyone is in-
vited to come and watch from
10:30 a. m. to 12 noon and 2 to
5 p. m.

like thing to do was to simulate
the city operator and not to admit
her ignoranjce. She waited a mo-
ment, noisily clicked some swit-
ches, tapped madly on the desk
with a pencil to create the busy
atmosphere of the city exchange,
then said in her most shop-worn
and honeyed voice, "special opera-
tor. Your number pulleaze."

The act worked well, the facul-
ty member gave her number with-
out hesitation, and the honor of
the local switchboard was saved.

The greatest tribute an opera-
tor can receive comes from the
long distance operator when the
latter signs off with the profes-
sional salute, "Thank you, opera-
tor. What a disappointment when
an unthinking long-distancer once
purrs, "Thank you, honey."

C. A. Plans Services,
Party, and Caroling

Christian Association plans for
the rest of the quarter include
a Thanksgiving service, a firelight
prayer service, a Christmas party
for the underprivileged children
of Decatur, and Christmas carol
services, according to Ruth Far-
rior, president of the organization.

The Thanksgiving services will
be under the direction of the
freshman Bible class who will con-
duct the service on Thanksgiving
day at 10 a. m. in the old chapel.
The day will close with a firelight
prayer service in Murphey Candler
at 10 p. m. sponsored by the fresh-
man cabinet.

On Thanksgiving Sunday the
Bible Class will take baskets of
food to the needy in Atlanta.

C. A. will entertain the under-
privileged children of Decatur at
its annual Christmas party on
Dec. 11.

Class carol services will be held
soon in the old chapel and will
probably take place during the
first two weeks in December.

HOTEL CANDLER

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943

Duffee Tells Freshmen to

Be a B. W. O. C!

By Mary Louise Duffee

This is dedicated to you, fresh-
man class. You, the "greenies,"
the frosh, the cutest girls in school
every year.

This is to enlighten you so
that your paths to being well-
known seniors will not be so
rocky nor mysterious. This is
to tell you what the handbook
does not how to become a B. W.
O. C. (Big Woman on the Cam-
pus). These are the impersonal
views of one who is not one, and
any resemblance to persons liv-
ing or dead is purely coinciden-
tal.

First, remember what you have
probably been told a dozen times
already especially at election
time that there is no politics
on this campus. Any A. Scotter will
tell you that the nearest things we
have to political parties are senior
coffees, and they are all just be-
tween friends.

Next, learn everyone's name,
particularly upperelassmen and
the officers of organizations and
clubs. Volunteer to work on ev-
erything while you're a fresh-
man, 'cause the rules keep them
from accepting you, but you'll
get credit for trying and they
may remember your name.
Take at least some participation
in Christian Association. (Refer
to Who's Who, Mortar Board, Stu-
dent Government.) (NOTE: A
few have made the grade without
this, but they are rare.)

Take advantage of the faculty-
free-for-dinncr-rule.
Besides the "play hockey and
work on the black cat stunt" that
your junior sponsor told you, ac-
cept class committee jobs and do
them well. You have to be on" the
home team to play ball at all, you
know.

If you date a lot, don't be ob-
jectionable about it. Especially
do it quietly when there is a big
faculty tea and a dance at Em-
ory or Tech the same night. In
connection with this, keep ev-
erybody guessing as to your
opinion. Then you'll be in
good with both sides. (Oops
forgot no sides well, then you
ain't mad with nobody.)

Keep up your merit hours, but
don't let studying become an ob-
session with you to the exclusion
of everything else. Remember
you came to college to get an
education, not an average. Using
your time well means being able
to have leisure time. You
needn't worry about taking too
much leisure you won't be here
that long.
Last but not least, if you want
more than anything to work on
one of the publications, don't talk
about it too much or you won't be
taken seriously. They may not
hurt your position, but they prob-
ably won't help you (odds 3 to 1).
"Get into something vital."

Who are the present B. \V.
O. C.'s? Well, there are Clare
Bedinger, Elizabeth Edwards,
Bunny Gray, Ann Jacob, Ruth
Kolthoff, Mary Maxwell, Aurie
Montgomery, Ratherine Phillips,
Virginia Tuggle and Ann Ward,
all of whom made Who's Who
AM) Mortar Board. Then there
are Carolyn Daniel, Ruth Farrior
and Smiley Williams, who made
Who's Who, and there is Jo
Youn^, who made Mortar Board.
And then there are others, like
Claire Bennett, Mary Carr, Toss
Carlos, M. Rosio Hosmer. Bobbie
Powell and "Popesy" Scott, who
have worked for four years, but
read this column four years late.
I notinate them for another socie-
ty "Martyr Bored."

?Ti THESE WOMEN! ^ fytp*y d'a*X4<, y .

99% Is Not Enough A Nose in the Air

A CONTIIIUTlON TO VICTOt by
AMEBIC** SOCIETY Of MAGAZINE CARTOONISTS

"Why, David are you trying to say you want me to be
coowner on your War Savings Bonds from now on?"

To the Editor

Dear Editor:

Now that the twenty hectic minutes from
10:40 to 11:00 on Thursday last are over
but not forgotten, I'd like to belatedly ex-
plain what open forum was all about.

The majority of us realize that we will
have to have rare compulsory chapels for ab-
solutely necessary announcements, as we've
had in the past. This forum was meant
to determine how the students felt about
having more frequent compulsory attendance,
how it should be enforced, what should con-
stitute a valid excuse, etc. I realize that
very few of us (including the bewildered
chairman) were aware that these decisions
should have been our goals, and thereto lies
the reason for failure.

The problem we now face is the choice of
the topic for the forum of December 2. Next
week the News will contain a voting blank,
upon which each thinking citizen of the Agnes
Scott community should write her choice for
a forum and drop into the Student Gov-
ernment suggestion box in the mail room
(before turning to page 3 to see who went to
the Paradise Room Saturday night). The sub-
ject receiving the highest number of votes
will be the one. The current topics which
seem to be upon Hottentot thoughts are: ex-
emption from exams, church on campus once
a quarter, day student election of their repre-
sentatives and boarder election of their house
presidents.

I would like to suggest a fourth for con-
sideration an open forum on open forums.

We need to clarify our attitudes and give
much deliberation on questions as: why have
a time when we can get together to debate
certain problems and take corporate action
to solve them; whether it would be wise to
follow a definite program of action presented
by the chairman in order to prevent waste of
time and irrelevancies; whether forums pre-
sent the opportunity for developing demo-
cratic ideas and encouraging demoncratic be-
havior?

Let's give these suggestions some careful
thought; let's behave like rational citizens
in chapel on December 2, so that no fresh-
man will leave as one did last Thursday
saying dejectedly, "I never thought I'd be
so disgusted with upjper classmen!"

Hopefully,

Clare Bedinger.

From Other Campuses

"In a very short time, the majority of us
will be in the midst of final examinations,
the purpose of which is to determine the
ability of the student to grasp and retain
the knowledge ho has gained from a sem-
ester of college work.

"These examinations can be no measure
of the student's ability, however, if the paper
which he turns in contains not his work, but
rather the work of one of his fellow stu-
dents.

"Like many other schools, Tech has no
honor system to insure against that degrad-
ing practice of dishonesty known as cheat-
ing. Yet the honor of the student is def-
initely tested in each exam which he fakes."
The Technique, Georgia School of Technol-
ogy, Atlanta.

Classroom standards don't hold good on the
battlefield. Former college men now stationed
at remote army posts are learning that there
is "no coasting through" this war. A soldier
on a South Pacific island won't get by a Jap
sniper with only 65% alertness. A torpedoed
sailor won't survive on a life raft with only
70% of the necessary endurance. In those
tests of war there is no middle ground. A man
excels or fails.

We who still enjoy the security of the cam-
pus are being tested too. We are up for exams
in faith, understanding and effort in the war
program. A 65% belief in democracy is not
enough. A fair understanding of our war
economy won't do. We can't crib through this
war by leaving it up to our fellow students to
do the saving and economizing necessary to
prevent inflation.

We who have so much to gain in a sound
post-war world cannot be satisfied with less
than excellent in these crucial tests. We must
give complete support to the War Savings
Program.

Every War Stamp or Bond we buy raises the
average of general welfare. Every cent we
spend on non-essentials puts victory further
away. We must be 100 percenters we can-
not maintain the standards of our currency,
we cannot provide vital military equipment,
we cannot win the peace with less.

Now Is the Time

When we are not in the throes of excite-
ment connected with campus elections seems
to be the ideal time to discuss methods of
selecting officers. Since the nominating com-
mittee will not meet until the middle of next
quarter and present officers have been in for
about half their term, now seems to be the
time when we can discuss objectively trie prob-
lems connected with committee nominations.

The nominating committee is composed of
the elected heads of organizations 15 girls
who work closely with the underclassmen who
will succeed them. But should these 15 girls
have more influence in deciding who should
head the organizations next year than the
general student body? And should they be
subjected to more than their share of criti-
cism for their suggestions for candidates for
the positions?

Oftentimes two girls are eligible for an
office one has worked exceptionally hard
and faithfully, the other has more natural
talent for the position. Which should the
committee nominate? Supporters of the un-
nominated one have good arguments to back
up their disapproval. Although devoting about
the same amount of time to two organiza-
tions, a girl may be more interested in one.
Yet when asked if she will accept the com-
mittee nomination for the other, she usually
accepts "because the committee nominee al-
ways wins." Yet the purpose of the committee
is to suggest possible candidates for the office
which the general student body may not have
thought of.

A method fairer both to the nominating
committee and to the nominees seems to be
the suggestion of printing together in alpha-
betical order the popular nominees and the
committee nominee because of those who are
vitally interested in the outcome of the elec-
tion and because of those who are indifferent,
yet vote.

Those who are extremely interested will
not have the opportunity to criticize the com-
mittee for their selections and no one nom-
inee will have an advantage. The indifferent
voters will not be so prone to "just vote for
the committee nominee they always win
anyway."

Would it not be a sensible plan to discuss
this issue at an open forum at an early date
while we are still objectively interested in it?
M. C.

By Tess Carlos

In publishing signed columns the editorial
staff does not necessarily endorse the opin-
ions expressed therein.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1943 No. 8

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Acnes Scott Collepe Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Bulldinj;. Entered
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Subscription price per year. $1.25; single copies, five cents.

Editor MADELINE ROSE HOSMEB

Manatrlng Editor MARY CARB

Business Manager "_ JUNE LAMER

This business of vyriting a col-
umn again after two weeks of
glorious leisure not worrying about
deadlines and what to say and
whom to see about saying some-
thing and what to think about say-
ing if those you have to see won't
say something is confusing.

The trouble with coming back
to school after an illness is that
you have to get completely reac-
quainted with everyone and ev-
erything that meant a part of
every day to you. That takes a
lot of time and a lot of thought.
You would think that having to
lie in bed would mean time to
loaf and think. But it is just the
opposite. An oblivion in whieh
the impersonal bed holds you
up and time passes rapidly or
slowly you can't remember
which.

Well, we're at it again. Open
Forum, of course. Or would it be
wiser to call it Open Bedlam? For
that is what it amounts and has
amounted to from time immemor-
ial. The subjects discussed (can
one call it discussion?) are trivial,
stupid, uninteresting. The objects
attained are if you can think of
any please tell me. Other than
arousing such comments: "Well,
it was kind of fun voting and pass-
ing and unpassing amendments but
what was the subject?" Natural-
ly it is fun, a kind of game to play
between classes. Then why not
pick up more interesting subjects
to pass amendments on. Sugges-
tions: seniors to be invested in
kid's clothes; goats to crop the
grass of the campus because of
the manpower shortage; bicycles
to make the run from Presser to
Buttrick during days of Open
Forum when only twenty minutes
is given to get anything done;
skating race down the front drive-
way between faculty and students.
Overheard (and over the head)
in Russian history class: "Thesis
and antithesis combine to form
synthesis which is progress."
A senior dashes madly about the
reserve room after an education
test. "You know just five min-
utes before the bell, I realized that
I had twice as many falses as
trues and I had a hard time even-
ing them up before the bell. I
always like to have them come out
even."

The senior class has not yet
made its momentous decision:
robes on Saturdays or freeze to
death during chapel. The News
is an unofficial poll a few works
ago revealed that a majority of
seniors Interviewed were In favor
of wearing robes. But the senior

class lias delayed Coming to a
decision. Because of reports that
it shall be a mild winter?

One discouraging thing about
putting out a paper, worrying over
editorials (not me, of course, but
the News staff in general), try-
ing to get the student body inter-
ested in the war, trying to get
them out of their thick shell of
complacency is to see the sale of
war stamps in Buttrick decreas-
ing, the number signing up for the
Blood Bank nil in proportion to
the number of the student body,
the War Fund and the W. S. S. F.
drive coming up -with few inter-
ested in its outcome.

Two seniors discussing the
planned IRC Fireside Chat on the
hockey field. "If Eudice Tontak
thinks I'm going to go out there
and chatter over world affairs in
this cold weather . . ." "But dear,
I hear they're going to roast wat-
ermelons!" Steady there. Only
two and one-half quarters to go.
So hold on. Hard.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1943

No. 9

Pin-Up Boys

O. K. MISS AGNES? But definitely! Here are the three winners in White House's pin-up boy
contest. Chosen from 257 entries by Professors Posey, Thomas, Garber, and Businessman Mac-
Gregor, they are, left to right: Capt. Ad Grove, most handsome, entered by Freshman Peggy
Gregg; Lt. Charlie Turner, cutest, entered by Junior Eugenia Jones; and Bill Cochran, most
manly, entered by Sophomore Shirley Graves. Judges had most trouble defining the word "cute"
in reference to men, ate coffee and doughnuts, apparently enjoyed the whole affair. Said Dr.
Garber when asked an opinion on one of the many pictures in the finals, "Is he handsome?
Now I don't know I took to him right away, but it didn't last." Said Artist Thomas, "I see,
cute must mean the kind of fellow you'd like to sit out in a boat with all day and fish?"

WSSF Campaign to End Friday;
Pledges to Date Total $120

Total pledges to date toward Agnes Scott's $500 goal for
the World Student Service Fund campaign, which began last
Thursday, Nov. 18, amount to $120, according to Eudice
Tontak, chairman of the campaign.

To inaugurate the drive R. H. Edwin Espy, executive sec-
tary of the national student di-

War Fund Discussions
Scheduled for Meetings

vision of the Y.M.C.A., spoke in
chapel last Thursday morning on
the need for realization among the
students of America of their re-
sponsibilities toward fellow stu-
dents who are prisoners of war,
evacuees and internees in the war-
torn areas of the world.

"We must keep alive not only
their bodies," he stated, "but also
the ideals which they have imbed-
ded in their minds."

Money VVil Reach Objective

Mr. Espy especially stressed the
certainty that the money raised
by this campaign would reach its
objectives and not fall into enemy
hands. The work will be accom-
plished, he explained, through neu-
tral channels.

Collection for the WSSF is be-
ing made on the campus this week
by personal solicitations on the
part of representatives among the
day students and boarders.

IRC. Dean's Office Staff
To Entertain at Coffee

International Relations club will
entertain the college community
at coffee Thursday evening in Mur-
phey Candler building after the
formal Thanksgiving dinner, ac-
cording to Eudice Tontak, presi-
dent.

The dean's office staff will en-
tertain at after-dinner coffee on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 7 in Mur-
phey Candler. This is the night be-
for exams begin, and Miss Carrie
Scandrett, Miss Charlotte Hunter,
Miss Bella Wilso, and Miss Eu-
genia Symms urge everyone to
come for "the lighter touch" be-
for the serious work begins.

At the class meetings to be held
Friday, Nov. 26, at chapel time,
the main topic for discussion will
be the War Fund drive. Plans will
be made so that each class can get
its project under way, and begin
contributing to the Fund.

The junior class will make ini-
tial plans for the annual junior
banquet which will take place in
the winter quarter. Part of v he
meeting will be devoted to voting
for members of the '44-'45 Mortar
Board. Ruth Koltoff, president of
Mortar Board, will be guest of the
junior meeting.

Besides discussing their class
project for the War Fund drive,
the sophomores will make definite
plans for the sophomore dormitory
party to be held next quarter.

Jane Meadows, newly elected
president of the freshman class,
will preside Friday for the first
time. This meeting will be impor-
tant for the freshmen will elect
members to exec and A. A. board.

Jane Meadows Heads
Freshmen Class

At a meeting Saturday morn-
ing the freshman class elected
Jane Meadows, who served as
freshman chairman in the Black
Cat Stunt, as president.

Other class officers, including
representatives to the executive
committee and vice-president and
secretary-treasurer, will be elect-
ed this week

Glee Clubs
Will Present
Carol Service

The combined Christmas carol
choirs of Agnes Scott and Geor-
gia Tech will present their annual
Christmas program in Presser
hall on December 12, at 4:30 p. m.

According to Lewis Johnson, di-
rector of the Agnes Scott choir,
definite selections have not been
made as yet. The first half of the
program will feature the girls'
choir, which will sing two groups
of carols. Selections from Han-
del's Messiah by both choirs will
conclude the program.

Each year at this time the best
soloists of Atlanta sing with these
groups and assist them with their
program. Well-known Atlanta sin-
gers who will support the choirs
this year include Mrs. Paul McGee,
soprano; Mrs. S. G. Stukes, con-
tralto; Vaughn Ozmer, tenor; and
Walter Herbert, bass.

Robert Lorrance, director of the
special chorus, and Walter Her-
bert, director of the Tech Glee
club, will direct the choirs.

Children's Theater
To Give Cinderalla

The New York Children's Thea-
ter Group will present "Cinderel-
la," in Presser hall on Dec. 15
at 3:45 p. m. The organization
under the direction of Claire Tree
Major is in its twentieth season
of presenting children's classics,
and will make its sixth appear-
ance in Decatur.

"Cinderella" will be the first of
a series of three plays to be spon-
sored by the Decatur Recreation
Board. Maeterlinck's "The Nurem-
burg Stove" will be presented on
Feb. 23, and Alcott's "Little Men"
on April 18.

Blackfriars Will Give
First Play Friday

'Shubert Alley 7 Features Large Cast;
Mary Dozier Will Play Leading Role

Blackfriars, college dramatic club, will present "Shubert
Alley," by Mel Dinelli, this Friday, November 26, at 8:30 in
Presser, under the direction of Miss Roberta Winter. Not the
conventional three acts but seven swiftly moving scenes is
the framework of Blackfriars' first production this year.

The plot of "Shubert Alley" cen-

Fritz Kreisler
To Play Nov. 30

Fritz Kreisler, world-renowned
violinist, will appear in concert
Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 8:30 p. m., at
the Atlanta municipal auditorium,
as a feature of the All Star Con-
cert Series, under the manage-
ment of Marvin MacDonald and
sponsored by the Atlanta Music
club.

The program for the Kreisler
concert will include a variety of
selections. The exact program for
this and for the joint recital by
Luboshutz and Nemenoff, duo
pianists, and Nathan Milstein,
violinist, to be held Dec. 11, will
be announced in the Atlanta pa-
pers.

In addition to his career as a
violinist, Mr. Kreisler is a pianist
and painter and an ardent student
of Latin and Greek, which he
speaks fluently. He is also a col-
lector of fifteenth-century manu-
scripts. He has been giving violin
recitals for 61 years, since he was
seven years old.

Cotillion Club to Give
Thanksgiving Dance

Julia Harvard, president of Co-
tillion Club, announced this week
that the annual Thanksgiving
dance sponsored by the club will
be held in the gymnasium Thurs-
day, November 25, from 8:30 to
10 p. m.

"We want every one to be sure
to plan to come," urged the presi-
dent,, "for we're planning a won-
derful time." In addition to the
dancing, members of Cotillion club
will serve refreshments.

Serving on the committees for
the dance are Scott Newell, Ruth
Limbert, and Gloria Melchor, in-
vitations; Ann Scott, Sue Hut-
chens, Bobbie Powell, Bettye Ash-
craft, Liz Carpenter, and Betty
Campbell, decorations; Eugenia
Jones, Kittie Kay, Claire Rowe,
and Peggy Jones, refreshments;
and Bitty King and Anne Equen,
flowers.

*tku Week . . .

Thursday, Nov. 25 IRC after-
dinner coffee.

8:30-10:30 p. m. Cotillion Club
dance.

Friday. Nov. 26, 8:30 p. m. Black-
friars play, "Schubert Alley," In
Presser hall.

Tuesday, Nov. 30 Miss Savage,
Navy Nurse, speaks to physical
education classes.
8:30 Kreisler concert at Atlan-
ta Municipal Auditorium.

ters around the success story of a
young actress, Chris, played by
Mary Dozier. The supporting cast
includes Carolyn Hall as Hester,
Chris' grim, gaunt stepmother::
Agnes Douglas as Fay, Chris' sis-
ter who is responsible for much
of Chris' success; Ceevah Rosen-
thal as Beulah, and Liz Carpenter
as Anita, both of whom add much
to the comedy in the play.

Zena Harris Temkin will play
the role of Hattie, capable secre-
tary who is responsible for much
witty repartee; Martha Marie
Trimble will appear as Miss Royce,
a tempermental actress; Kathryn
Dozier as Miss Elliott, department
store head; and Pauline Ertz as
the glamourous stage actress, Lu-
cia Bennett.

Jean Hood will take the part of
the austere Miss Whitney, who
interferes with Chris' love af-
fair. Other actresses and their
parts include Shirley Graves as
Rita, one of the girls in the de-
partment store; Ellen Hayes as
Madge, Chris' friend; Mary Louise
Duffee as Poppy, a young actress;
and Martha Jane Mack as Nancy
Ann, a lovable little girl.

Play Dual Roles

Dual roles are played by Peggy
Willmon as Elsie, department
store model, and as Nellie, an old
flower woman; and by Martha
Polk as Helen, a mean little girl,
and as Miss Shuman, successful
New York playwright.

General admission Will be 35
cents, and reserved seats will be
50 cents. Students and faculty*
who are admitted free, may pur-
chase reserved seats for 15 cents.

The following are serving as
technical committee chairmen:
props, Jane Everett; costumes,
Emily Ann Singletary; lights, Jean
Hood; stage manager, Martha
Marie Trimble; stage props, Caro-
lyn Daniel; stage scenery, Zena
Harris Temkin; prompters, Bar-
bara Kincaid and LaNelle Wright;
publicity, Jane Anne Newton;
program, Penny Espey; business
manager, Pauline Ertz.

Speech Students Will
Give Recital Dec. 3

Members of the advanced speech
classes will present a recital on
Friday, Dec. 3, at 4 p. m. in
Maclean auditorium.

The program will consist of one-
act plays read by members of the
class, each of whom will present
her own interpretation of the play.
Members of the class, which deals,
with platform interpretation of
drama, include Mary Dozier, Eliz-
abeth Carpenter, Martha Trimble,
Emily Ann Singletary, Zena Tam-
kin, Jane Everett.

The entire college community is
invited to attend the recital.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1943

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

There comes a time, at the turn
of a quarter, when both a back-
ward glance and a forward look
seem necessary. The accomplish-
ment of such a feat, however, lies
more probably within the abilities
of Janus, the two-headed god of
old, than within those of a sports
columnist. But this generation,
forsaken by its old gods, and being
unable to invoke them for super-
natural aid, must, of necessity,
rely on its own resourcefulness,
string along with second best.
Hence the following inadequate
resume and hint of things to
come.

In retrospect the fall athletic
program at Agnes Scott has
been a full and successful one.
There has been an unprecedent-
ed all-out interest in the tourna-
ments, meets and matches spon-
sored by A. A. The hockey
grand-stand has been filled to
practically overflowing every
Friday at 4. The few who have
tried to heed the call to study
at that time have been unable
to resist the yells and shouts
outside. The numbers of stu-
dents participating in the game
has steadily increased, until last
Friday it reached 75. At every
swimming meet students have
crowded the benches beside the
pooL Faculty, students and ad-
ministration alike turned out
en masse to see the English
tennis stars play. A substantial
number of hearty souls even
braved the wintery blasts of
last week to see Virginia Tuggle
and Ann Hough play their finals
match.

And these signs are good. The
efforts put forth have not been
without fruitful results. The en-
tire campus faces exam-time and
holidays with stronger, healthier
bodies, with the calmer state of
mind that comes with relaxation
from the strain of studies.

The winter quarter offers the

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13 Edgewood

Social Engraving

Special Rates
for

Agnes Scott

Jo Young Lists
Varsity Teams

Between halves of the class hoc-
key games on Friday, Nov. 19, Jo
Young, hockey manager, announ-
ced the names of girls who had
made varsity and sub-varsity
teams.

Billy Walker, Gwen Hill, Marv
Munroe, Virginia Tuggle, Jo
Young, Ann Stein, Ruth Farrior.
Sarah Walker, Zena H. Temkin.
Ann Webb, Miriam Walker, and
Jane Everett were picked for the
varsity squad.

Those who made the sub-varsity
are Mary Cumming, Molly Milam,
Betty Long, Jean Goode, Agnes
Hamsberger, Harding Ragland,
Catheryn Burnett, Alice Newman,
Che Nellans, Jean Denning, Chris-
tina Yates, and Aurie Montgom-
ery.

Zena Harris Temkin awarded
the hockey stick to Sarah Walker
after the first half of the junior-
sophomore game. The award is
made each year to the sophomore
who excels in stick work and has
proved of most value to her team.

Jo Young won the hockey stick
last year.

same balanced, well-rounded
program, differing only in the
specific courses offered. There
will be modern, folk and social
dancing taught by Miss Dozier,
and natural dancing taught by
Mrs. Lapp. Basketball will be
the team sport offered, and this
year, in addition, there will also
be badminton. Miss Rutledge,
who will direct both sports, is
an enthusiastic badminton play-
er and is anxious to organize
a badminton club.
In the swimming department,
Agnes Douglas will teach life sav-
ing. There will also be the usual
classes for beginning, intermed-
iate and advanced swimmers. Stu-
dents needing special corrective
exercises will be given an oppor-
tunity in I. G. classes under Miss
Wilburn.

According to Miss Wilburn a
need has been felt for a recrea-
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Seniors End Season Unbeaten;
Sister Class Wins Last Game

By Peggy Kelly

It was the seniors' day Friday. They appeared on the hoc-
key field in their black robes and initiated the fun with a fare-
well song.

The senior-freshman game was first. Billy Walker started
the ball rolling by making the first and second goals for the
seniors. Tuggle followed up Ruth

Farrior's drive, scoring the third
goal. After much playing in the
freshman area which did not
amount to anything, the seniors
got the ball down on their home
ground. The teamwork of Tuggle,
Gwen Hill, and Billy Walker re-
sulted in another senior goal final-
ly made by Billy. Next Mary Max-
well scored, ending the first half
of the game 5-0.

In the second half the fresh-
men attempted a goal, but "Rufus"
marred their chance by a fine ex-
hibition of interference. Twelve
minutes of dilly-dallying passed
with neither team scoring. This
monotony was finally broken by
a senior goal, which Billy made.
Just one minute later she scored
again. The game ended with the
seniors victorious and undefeated
in their last game. The final
score was 7-0.

Other seniors displaying their
undefeatable spirit and skill were
Captain Zena Temkin, Jo Young,
and Miriam Walker. Never hav-
ing been defeated and only once
tied, the seniors are the season's
winning class team.

The sophomore-junior game be-

Navy Nurse to Speak
To Gym Students

Miss Pauline Savage t>f the
Navy Nurse Corps will speak to
the physical education classes
Tuesday, Nov. 30, on physical fit-
ness.

Miss Savage, who received her
appointment to the Navy Nurse
Corps in September, represents
the National Nursing Council for
War Service and the U. S. Cadet
Nurse Corps, the new government
plan which offers free professional
education to qualified students.
Her visit to Agnes Scott is part
of a nation-wide endeavor to re-
cruit 65,000 student nurses this
year for wartime replacements,
and also to interest college women
in preparation for postwar nursing
careers.

A recent graduate of the Uni-
versity of California, where she
majored in political science and
nursing, Miss Savage will, in addi-
tion to her discussion of physical
fitness, tell of the opportunities
for college women in the field of
nursing, which she considers to be
"a war work with a future."

Miss Savage will hold individual
conference.

Faculty to Play Varsity
In Annual Game Dec. 5

According to Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn of the physical education
department, the probable faculty
line-up for the annual faculty-
varsity hockey game will include
Dr. J. R. McCain, Dr. George P.
Hayes, Miss Abbie Rutledge, Miss
Ruth Domincovich, Dr. W. B.
Posey, Dr. P. L. Garber, Miss Wil-
burn and several others.

The game will be played Friday
afternoon, Dec. 3, at 4 o'clock.

Miss Florence Smith, sub-
chairman of war council, urges
that all sweaters, finished or un-
finished, be turned in by Dec. 1
so they may be sent with the
shipment leaving soon.

gan with much confusion in the
junior area. Despite this fact,
forty seconds after the opening
bully, Susan Kirtley scored the
first goal for the juniors. To Man-
ager Harding Ragland the sopho-
mores owe much. She succeeded
in interfering with many of the
juniors' long drives and initiating
many drives resulting in goals.
Betty Long made the next two
goals. The first half ended with
the score 2-1 in favor of the soph-
omores.

The second half began with
four roll-ins by the sophomores.
After a few skirmishes in the soph-
omore area, Jean Chewning made
the third goal for the sophomores.
Then the juniors stole the lime-
light by scoring two goals, both
by Mary Cumming, making the
score 3-3. Jean Chewning scored
the winning sophomore goal, mak-
ing the final score 4-3 in favor
of the sophomores.

Sarah Walker, Mary Ann Cour-
tenay, Catherine Burnett, Anne
Register, and Annette Neville
played good games, contributing
to the final soph victory.

The line-up follows:

Seniors

Freshmen

Young

R.W.

Martin

Maxwell, (1)

R.I.

Hoyt

Walker, B. (5) C.F.

Goode

Hill

L.I.

Johnson

Tuggle (1)

L.W.

Newman

Redinger, C.

R.H.

Andrews-

Farrior

O.H.

Stein

Douglas

L.H.

Meyer

Montgomery

R.B

Yates. C.

Tom kin

L.B.

Currle

Walker, M.

G.

Denning

Substitutes

seniors Phillips,

Dozier, M..

Redinger. C. ;

freshmen- -Scott, Fossett. New-

man, Honny.

Sophomores

Court enay

Jones

Long (2)

Chewning (2)

Stephenson

Ragland

Burnett

Walker. S.

Register

Neville. A.

Nellans

Substitutes :

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I.R.
C.F.
L.I.
L.W
R.H
C.H
L.H.
R.B.
L.B.
G.

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Juniors

Milam
Anderson
Cumming (2)
Davis
Kirtley (1)
Farmer
Elam
Hunter. D.
Rosenthal
Webb. A.
Everett

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Seniors Win
Water Tourney

Climaxing the quarter's swim-
ming activities, seniors placed
first in the meet last Thursday
night, with 58 points. The sopho-
mores captured second place with
29 points and the junior and fresh-
men placed third and fourth re-
spectively with 26 and 19 points.

Results of the individual events
follow: 60-yard dash, front crawl:
Betty Miller ('46), 43.6; Aurie
Montgomery ('44), 45.8; Mary
Maxwell, ('44), 46.4.

20-yard dash, breast stroke: Ag-
ness Douglas ('44), 15.5; Inge
Probstein ('45), 16; Mary Cum-
ming ('45), 17.4.

80-yard relay, 2 lengths front
crawl, 1 length breast stroke, 1
length back crawl: seniors, 56;
juniors, 62.4; sophomores, 65.4.

Form swimming front crawl:
Agnes Douglas ('44), Betty Lee
Phelps ('46), Julia Harvard ('44).
Back crawl: Elizabeth Harvard
('44), Julia Harvard ('44), Sally
Sue Stephenson ('46).

Front crawl tandems: Julia and
Elizabeth Harvard ('44); tie: Dot-
tie Kahn, Inge Probstein, ('45),
and Sweetie Calley, Helen Owen
('47); Sally Sue Stephenson, Betty
Lee Phelps ('46). Back crawl tan-
dems: Julia Harvard, Elizabeth
Harvard ('44); Sally Sue Steph-
enson, Betty Lee Phelps ('46);
Helen Owen, Helen Hutchison
('48).

Back surface diving: Lilaine
Harris ('48); Elizabeth Harvard,
('44); Sally Sue Stephenson ('46).

Diving: Lilaine Harris ('48);
Molly Milam ('45); Dot tie Kahn
('45).

Officials for the meet were
judges and timers, Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, Miss Abbie Rutledge and
Miss Eugenia Symms; scorer,
Miss Leslie Janet Gaylord, assis-
tant, Claire Bennett; referee, Mrs.
Harriette Lapp; announcer, Vir-
ginia Tuggle.

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

Bettye Ashcraft's marriage to Jeff Seater has been changed
to the Christmas holidays, and all Main as well as Bettye is in
a dither with the preparations. Dresses, invitations, flowers
to plan in addition to term papers and exams this quarter,
as Betty wants to carry out her

former wedding plans as well as
finish this quarter here at school.

Bettye and Jeff met on a blind
date her junior year at Agnes
Scott during Jeff's internship at
Grady. Bettye received her ring
last August and had planned to be
married soon after graduation un-
til a change in army orders alter-
ed that.

At Tech

It's the spirit of the thing that
counts that was proved at the
Delta Tau Delta weiner roast at
North Fulton park Saturday night.
The weiners (which were forgot-
ten somewhere in the process of
getting to the park) weren't neces-
sary in the least, for the party to
be a wonderful success. Just ask
Ann Webb, Jeanne Rochelle, Con-
radine Fraser, Scotty Johnson,
Anne Murrell, Vicky Alexander or
Martha Baker who enjoyed the
picnic just as much as the house
dance following.

And again, there was the Pi KA
"possum hunt" Saturday night
minus the possum, but the hunt
and the house dance following
were lots of fun anyway, accord-
ing to Jean Stewart, Ann Register,
Louise Starr and Laurie Looper.

The Sigma Chi house dance Sat-
urday at Tech attracted Mynelle
Grove, Mary Duckworth, Peggy
Gregg, Dale Bennett, Barbara
Omer, and Mary Beth Danielson.

At the Georgia Tech-Clemson
football game Saturday afternoon
were Conradine Fraser, Anne
Johnson, Jean Estes, Peggy
Gregg, Kathie Hill, Jean Chew-
ning, Annette Neville, Narvie Lou

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Marguerite Madison, Anne Mar-
tin, and Peggy Jones.

Devotees of the Drama
At the Erlanger Saturday to see
"Doughgirls" were Kitty Kay,
Betty Manning, Sue Mitchell, and
Louise Breedin. Zena Harris Tem-
kin was there on the thirteenth
row, which must be her lucky num-
ber, since that's where her hus-
band finally found her after fly-
ing down for an unexpected leave.

Attending the KA rush dance
Saturday night at Emory were Ro-
bin Robinson, Eva Williams,
"Bunch" Beavers, Rite Watson,
Gloria Gaines, Claudia Brownlee,
Lucy Turner, Vesta Ann White,
and Ruth Ryner. . . . Saturday
night at the Phi Chi house dance
were Lura Johnson, Cockie Coch-
ran, Ann Stein, Smiley Williams,
June Thomison, and Virginia
Drake. . . . Margaret McManus,
Mary Davis, Minnewil Story, Mir
House, and Eugenia Jones were
at the ATO house dance Saturday.
Seen Here and There
At the student dance Friday
night at the Emory Little Auditor-
ium were Dot Almond, Mary Carr,
Beth Walton, Mary Louise Starr,
and Mary Martin. ... At the V-12
dance at Tech Friday were Jane
Ann Newton, Gloria Melchor,
Jean Rooney, Betty Manning, Bar-
bara Kincaid, Betty Turner, Nel-
son Fisher, and Peggy Wildes. . . .
Seen walking briskly past the
Open Door Canteen Saturday
amid many whistles was Gloria
Ann Melchor . . . Martha Rhodes
spent last week in Arkadelphia,
Ark., where she was bridesmaid
in her cousin's wedding. . . . Mar-
jorie Cole at a dinner dance at
the Piedmont Driving club Tues-
day. . . . Wednesday night Betty
Sullivan and Elizabeth Harvard
attended the farewell dance giv-
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college at the Biltmore hotel. . . .

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A. S. Debaters Visit
University of Georgia
In Non-Decision Bout

Agnes Scott's Pi Alpha Phi re-
turned the visit made by Univers-
ity of Georgia debaters to this
campus recently, when Martha
Jean Gower and Julia Moody de-
bated against the Georgia Student
Assembly at the University in Ath-
ens last Tuesday in a non-decision
debate. The subject of the debate
was "Resolved: Women should be
drafted into military and labor
services."

Georgia debaters, supporting the
affirmative, stated that there is
a definite need for such a draft
and that no other plan would be
able to solve this problem. The
girls upheld the negative side,
pointing out that there is no need
for such a draft, and that the la-
bor problem can be solved in oth-
er ways. They further maintain-
ed that a draft of this kind would
be detrimental to society.

After the debate, the girls were
entertained at lunch and were
shown the campus by the Geor-
gia debaters and their manager.

One of the debaters for Georgia
was Norman Murray, who visited
this campus when the University
debated here last week.

Black Eyes, 'Puck' Armistead
Characterize Play Rehearsals

By Leila Holmes

"Stage, stage, which is the
stage?" Several Blackfriars have
wondered this, when they have
walked onto the wrong side of
the double stage at the rehearsals
i'or "Schubert Alley." One ac-
tress said she felt like "the poor
player who struts onto the empty
stage and wishes she coull be
heard no more." (Her apologies to
Shakespeare).

One of the funniest things in the

McCain, Stakes Will
Attend Meeting Here

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott, and S. G. Stukes,
registrar, will attend a meeting
of the Southern University Con-
ference to be held in Atlanta on
Dec. 15.

Delegates to the meeting, who
will include representatives from
41 leading southern colleges and
universities, will outline and dis-
cuss plans for the present emer-
gency and for postwar educa-
tion.

University Center Plans Study
Of Graduate Work Facilities

At a meeting last Tuesday, Nov.
16, the Advisory Council of the
University Center of Georgia dis-
cussed plans for the future work
of the Center.

According to S. G. Stukes,
dean of the faculty and registrar
of Agnes Scott, plans made by
the council include a study of li-
brary facilities available for grad-
uate work among the colleges and
universities composing the Uni-
versity Center, three of which of-
fer graduate work.

"Since none of the institutions
making up the University Center
have enough money for a com-
plete graduate school, it is plan-
ned to have each library special-
ize in certain fields," Mr. Stukes
explained. "For example, the Tech
library would specialize in engin-
eering books, and other libraries
would offer authoritative volumes
on various other subjects. Thus
graduate students at any of the
schools would have access to the
facilities of the others, and dupli-
cations would be avoided."

The Council also discussed the
annual awards made by the Gen-
eral Education Board to persons
interested in doing research work
in the Center's institutions. Mem-

Mortar Board Tells
Marriage Class Time

Although plans have not been
completed for the marriage classes
sponsored by Mortar Board, Ruth
Kolthoff, president of the organi-
zation, has announced that the
classes will be held in the winter
quarter. This arrangement of the
classes was made by vote of the
senior class.

Marriage classes are open to sen-
iors and engaged girls.

Ruth Kolthoff urged that sen-
iors hand in their suggestions for
class discussions and speakers.

bers of the University Center in-
clude the University of Georgia,
Emory University, Georgia School
of Technology, the Atlanta Art
Association, Columbia Theologi-
cal Seminary, and Agnes Scott
College.

play is the fight which Duffee and
Martha Marie have. One of them
receives on her face in the upper
right corner (cornea) (corny, eh?)
something to which the applica-
tion of beefsteak is a great help.
You'll be surprised who inflicts
this fatal blow. Or maybe you
wouldn't. Of course I can't tell
anything that is a part of the
plot, but I just gave out that sub-
tle hint to create interest.

Ceevah and Zena have had a lot
of trouble with their coats in
the play. Every time Zena is sup-
posed to put on her coat on the
stage, she looks up to see Ceevah
in it.

Mr. Armistead, the organist,
resembles "Puck" nearly every
night at rehearsals as he reclines
on top of the organ leaning on
his elbow to watch the play.

Trying on clothes in Main to
get the right costumes has been
hilarious to the bystanders. "Do
I look like the typical New York
business woman?" asked one ac-
tress innocently as she tried on
a stunning suit with her saddle
shoes and socks. Painting scen-
ery has had its ups and downs too.
Mr. James has done most of the
painting, and Mrs. Howard Mc-
Gregor has lent her artistic hand.
As her small daughter would say
to get her friends to come to the
show:

One for no money.
Two it will be a good show.
Three to make ready.
And four everybody go.
And five tomorrow, leave me
alive.
Curtain!

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1943

Mitchell Writes

Catty Remarks

By Mitchell Duffee

I'm red-and-white and half-
Persian, and people say I'm
very, very intelligent and it
seemed to me I might add some-
thing appropriate to the old
lady's (Mary Louise's) column,
so here I go pawing out the
hunt-and-pec k system. The pa-
per will have to go to bed (my
mistress taught me that journal^
istie term) early this week be-
cause Falla's master said we
should observe Thanksgiving
this week and the printers want
a holiday. So I can trot up to
the printer's with this in my
mouth before Rosie or M. L.
even notice it.
First let me pass on something
I just heard when the telephone
rang a minute ago. "Pickle" (Har-
rold Herrin) is back in Georgia
after five-months-and-no-letters
at sea, so if this issue of the News
looks like a special edition in cele-
bration of Merchant Marine Day,
you'll know the editor is just ex-
cited.

Heard one of those girls who
comes over here to our house to
spend the night say just the oth-
er day that Rosle Hosmer and
Patty Barbour had been arguing
over who was more of a war
widow. Now Pickle and Jim are
both back in port the same
week. This is really Thanksgiv-
ing week for Main, they said,
what with Ashcraft's Jeff, Pat-
ty's Jim, Rosie's Pickle, and
Leila's Jack all here or coming.
Thanksgiving elsewhere, too, on
account of Julia Harvard's John,
Elizabeth Harvard's Claude,
Lela Powell's Harry, Carolyn
Fuller's "Bud," and Zena Harris
Timken's Isadore Benjamin, all
of whom made people glad with
visits or visits-to-come. Kind of
a pin-ups -come-to-life week.

Speaking of Zena's husband, I
heard he made the beautiful twist-
ed gold wedding ring she wears.
Who was that who brought a
DOG to the pin-up contest? I
wasn't invited!

Ann Jacob sent in a special mes-
sage to be conveyed by this col-
umn. She offers an apology to the
whole campus for the get-up she
wore one day last week a loud
striped shirt and a loud checked
skirt together. She changed it
after several members of her so-
ciology class complained of being
dizzy.

I know something. You know
how kittens are about snooping
among books. Well, in a back is-
sue of the Silhouette it says Carrie
Scandrett is a representative type
of student on the campus because
of her good disposition. In anoth-
er place in the Silhouette it had
this quotation under her picture:
"Who mixed reason with pleasure
and wisdom with mirth."

Citiess that's enough. Don't
want to overstep my bounds be-
cause people would say I'm just
a "cat's paw."

Autobiographical note: I am
eight months old. My mother be-
longs to Madeline Hosmer and my
grandmother did too. My grand-
mother once caught two mice at
one time. I have caught one. My
little sister (or half sister) "Rob-
in" belongs to Nita Hurst. My
name is Mitchell because T purr
so loud they say I sound like I
had the twin engines of a B-25.
My ambition is to come over to
the campus and look up that lit-
tle black number the freshmen
and sophomores fight over every
fall.

WAR STAMPS

'What Color War Stamps Do You Think Go Best With Red Hair?"

Salute Their Courage Don't You Think

There was a time when we could listen
to the appeals for the World Student Service
Fund and then say, "Why contribute? I'm
not concerned."

Those days now belong to the past. Un-
fortunately we are concerned vitally con-
cerned with the fate of several hundred
thousand of our fellow students who at the
moment are attending classes either behind
the barbed wire of prison camps or on the
muddy roads from the site of a bombed-out
university to a new location perhaps in
some mountain cave.

To these prisoners and students-in-transit
so little means so much. Ten dollars will
do wonders for an ill student in a Chinese
university-on-the-march, even two dollars will
provide an amazing amount of study materials
for an American prisoner in Germany.

Equally as important is the work being
done among German and Italian prisoners in
the United States and Canada. This may well
mean that 20 years hence another student
generation may not have to suffer from a
dictator's tyranny as today's students do.

Salute the courage of today's students
under fire by making your W.S.S.F. contribu-
tion large and by making it now.

We Nominate

We nominate for recognition those 51 girls
who gave blood when the mobile blood donor
unit visited the campus last Wednesday after-
noon. That little prick in their arm and the
bronze pin they wear proudly may actually
mean a soldier someone's brother, friend,
sweetheart may have a chance to fight again
for us. That small prick is a badge of honor.

We nominate also for recognition those 16
girls who on Thursday afternoon gave up the
picture show and other alluring attractions
to go to the Decatur Red Cross centen to fill
war kits 576 of them in two and one-half
hours, which officials say is more than the
regular women usually fill in a week.

Especial recognition should go to those girls
who, having given blood on Wednesday after-
noon, had a legitimate excuse for not doing
war work the following day; yet some of these
girls were among those who appeared Thurs-
day afternoon to fill the kits.

We should not let these girls put to shame
the rest of us who have done little or nothing
yet in the current war work campaign. We
can do our part to send up the charts in the
dormitories by spending an hour or so any day
in the week until 4:00 p. m. except Saturday
making surgical dressings at the production
headquarters on Sycamore street in Decatur.

M. C.

Because of a change in the printers'
schedule due to the Thanksgiving holiday
Thursday, this issue of the News, the last one
before non-activity week and exams, is being
published a day earlier than usual. The next
issue will appear January 12.

That the dining room should remain open
longer on Monday mornings since classes do
not begin until 9:00 and on Sundays which is
the one day to sleep fairly late?

That the seniors should end the suspense of
the "Case of the Robe" by voting soon on
the question?

That the book store should close 15 min-
utes after the class bell instead of with the
bell for the convenience of students who have
classes but also must get something from the
store ?

That organizations should resume Wednes-
day night coffee just for mid-week relaxa-
tion?

That package call should last at least 20
minutes extending from 9:20 to 9:40 a. m. so
that students from first and second period
classes may get their packages? And that
packages, especially perishables, should be
distributed as long as any one is in the
mail room ?

That boarders should be allowed to return
books on Monday mornings by 9:00 instead of
8:30?

That seniors, who will not be affected by
changes in rules, regulations, policies, etc.,
next year , should be allowed only one-half
vote after spring quarter elections?

That cement should be used generously
on the campus in the hole at the front gate
and in the trench between Rebekah porch
and the carline?

That the tea house should serve short
orders through dinner time on Friday night
for avid fish haters?

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1943 No. 9

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
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Jo ie Cole.

Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner. Peggy Kelly, Sally Su
Stephenson. Bettye Lee Phelps.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

Seems to me that for once I
ought, to write a column that has
been planned long in advance, that
is polished to that ultimate inco-
herence which so distinguishes my
style, that is in before or during
the deadline. Well, it seems to
me.

Now to get down to writing
this a number of days, hours,
and hemispheres late; incoher-
ent as only lack of time and the
fact thai I can't type fast can
make me; and planned because
sometime last night when I
awoke from dreams of coming,
exam week I jotted down the
few worthy things left to talk
about.

Who is S. ML? Who is she, he,
or it ? Shakespeare may know. .
Or even you may be the lucky
winner. Conjectures as to "its'*
identity range from Sue Mit-
chell, Sara Milford, and Sylvia
Mogul, whose initials are S. M.
from anyone who has S, M, or
any other letter of the alphabet
as their initials to Super Man.
Best guess is that some senior,
despairing of ever getting a man,
threw caution to the winds and
addressed a plea to "Some Man."
any man, to meet her.

The editor of the News, which
published the classified ad states:
"With our depleted budget, with
expenses piling up, with my hair
practically gone from the rigor
of this newspaper life, you ask me
why we accept ads like that.
Money the root of all evil. We
need it so bad we're willing to
find men or husbands for any sen-
ior, junior, sophomore, or even
freshman. For a consideration, of
course."

The nominating committee
what are you going to say about
it that hasn't already been said
better and plainer? When I was
a freshman, the student body
was trying to abolish or reform
it. And they are still at it. An
organ which is attacked so of-
ten and by so many of the stu-
dent body ought to be changed.
It is a hangover of a belief that
government of the people must
be regulated by the ones who
THINK they know what is best
for the people. Its influence and
power, though denied, is great.
Too great to allow for the func-
tioning of democracy. Hitler
thought that the best way to
make people happy was to let
them vole yes or no. The Nom-
inating Committee thinks it best

for the student body to vote
yes or no to its nominations.
Well, What are you going to do
about it ? (This is not a paid
endorsement, sin< -e this column-
ist, against her will, is on the
Nominating Committee.)

A bright ray to bolster those
who face the problem of whether
to study now or just keep on not
studying: a rumor that day stu-
dents are going to be abolished be-
cause of the chaotic conditions of
war time. Like the Martian In-
vasion it spread like wildfire
among the more thoughtful and
consequently less studious students
of the campus. Boarders are now
wondering if something can't be
done for them.

The blood bank has. come and
gone. But not for good. We
hope. Not enough of the stu-
dent body gave their blood the.
first time. And those who did
can be donors again in eight
weeks. Will the blood bank unit
be back on the campus after
Christmas holidays? There are
no obstacles In its way.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944

No. 10

Committee Will Consider
Student Government Changes

The administrative committee
of the college, composed of faculty
and student government represent-
atives, will meet on Monday, Jan.
17, to consider and re-evaluate the
organization of student govern-
ment.

A committee from student gov-
ernment, headed by Wendy Whit-
tle, will report to the Administra-
tive committee on suggestions for
changes in the student government
organization and procedure. Other
members of the committee are
Clare Bedinger, Virginia Dickson,
Pat Elam, Margie Naab and Mil-
dred McCain.

This committee has studied con-
stitutions and handbooks from oth-
er colleges comparable with Agnes
Scott and has prepared a report on
their findings.

The findings and recommenda-
tions of the administrative com-
mittee will be reported to the stu-
dent body at a student meeting.

Members of the administrative
committee are President McCain,
Miss Carrie Scandrett, dean of
students; Dean S. G. Stukes, Miss
Florence Smith, associate profes-
sor of history; Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn, associate professor of physi-
cal education, and Miss Charlotte
Hunter, assistant dean of students,
Anne Ward, Clare Bedinger, Molly
Milam, Mary Cumming and Aurie
Montgomery.

War Council Requests
Girls to Give Blood

Squee Woolford, chairman of
War Council, has requested that
all Agnes Scott students who are
able to do so give blood at Red
Cross headquarters in Atlanta
within the next few weeks.

"There is a serious shortage of
blood donors now because of the
flu epidemic," she explained. "Ev-
eryone who does not have a cold
or other infection and who is oth-
erwise qualified to donate blood
is urged to do so."

Squee added that War Council
is making an effort to have the
Red Cross mobile blood unit come
to the campus as it did Nov. 17.
Those who made their first blood
donation at that time are eligible
for a second one now.

Those between 18 and 21 who
wish to donate blood must have
written permission from their par-
ents, even if they have already
made one donation. Blanks are
available in the dean's office.

Book Store Hours Change

Changes in the bookstore
hours were announced this week
by Joella Craig, in charge. On
Saturday the bookstore will re-
main open until 12:10 p. m.
Monday through Friday it will
remain closed from. 1:10 p. m.
to 2:10 p. m. instead of 1 p. m.
to 2 p. m. as formerly.

Group to Study
Nominating Committee

A committee of student govern-
ment has been appointed by Anne
Ward to work on re-evaluating our
present system of having a special
committee to nominate candidates
for spring elections.

The committee, composed of
Mary Cumming, Marjorie Naab
and Clare Bedinger, began work
last week comparing Agnes Scott's
methods of nominating with those
used in other schools and consid-
ering suggestions turned in by
students.

Findings of the committee will
be reported in a student meeting.

Student Body
Will Discuss
Town Meetings

The proposed plan of Town Hall
meetings already partly explained
in open forum, on Dec. 2, will come
up for further discussion in tomor-
row's student meeting, according
to Clare Bedinger, vice-president
of student government. The pur-
pose of this discussion is to decide
on definite plans for the meetings
and efficient methods of carrying
out these plans.

The purpose of the Town Hall
meetings would be to give more
time for informal discussion of im-
portant campus issues than is
available during open forums and
student meetings. A findings com-
mittee from the Town Hall meet-
ings would later present a report
to open forum.

Problems confronting the plan
are the choosing of a time for
meetings which would suit both
day students and boarders, how
the Town Hall plan would fit into
the organization of student gov-
ernment, and who would have
charge of the organization and
leadership of the meetings.

Campus Clubs
Plan Activities
For Winter

With the coming of 1944, or-
ganizations on the Agnes Scott
campus are making plans for the
winter quarter.

In the gym department, A. A.
met and made plans for the bas-
ketball season. The inter-class
tournament games will be played
off in six successive Friday ses-
sions followed by the varsity game
with the Brown Jug tourney cli-
maxing the season. Swimming club
has set February 24 as the date
of the annual water pageant and
plans are now under way. Outing
club, another part of the Athletic
Association, has plans which in-
clude a week-end bicycle trip.

In the dramatic phase, Black-
friars plan to put on two or three
one-act plays and at the beginning
of the spring quarter to give a
three-act performance.

The Glee club will give Gilbert
and Sullivan's "Pinafore" Febru-
ary 11 and 12.

Pi Alpha Phi will participate in
a debating tournament at Emory
on Feb. 5 when the question will
be, "Resolved: The United States
should cooperate in the establish-
ment of an international police
force at the close of the war."

Besides offering marriage
classes to seniors and engaged stu-
dents, Mortar Board has planned
three sophomore parties on Jan.
26, 27, and Feb. 2. Day students
are planning a parents' tea.

In addition to these plans, the
following organizations are mak-
ing plans to sponsor a war fund
benefit: IRC, senior, junior, sopho-
more and freshman classes; Chris-
tian Association, French club and
Eta Sigma Phi.

Bunny Gray Leads
In war Activities

Main Dormitory Ahead With 406 Points;
Rebekah Scott With 211 Places oecond

With a total of 132 points to date, Bunny Gray, a senior,
living in Main, leads the student body in points received for
participation in activities sponsored by War Council.

A check-up by dormitories re-

College Must Collect $33,254
To Receive Rest of GEB Gift

President J. R. McCain this week announced that the col
lege faces the job of collecting $33,254 by March 1 in order
to receive the remainder of the $500,000 pledged to Agnes
Scott by the General Education Board as part of the Univer-
sity Center movement.

This sum was pledged on the condition that $1,000,000 be

" raised by the college. Friends of

Kirtley Mather
To Speak Here

Professor Kirtley Mather, Har-
vard geologist, will speak in Pres-r
ser hall on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at
8:00, according to Miss Emma May
Laney, chairman of Lecture Asso-
ciation. The subject of his lecture
will be "Strategic Minerals in War
and Peace."

Dr. Mather, who has devoted his
entire life to the study of minerals,
has been professor of geology and
director of the summer school at
Harvard since 1934. In addition,
he has carried on commercial geo-
logical explorations in Bolivia and
has written numerous books, gov-
ernment bulletins, and technical
articles for the Atlantic Monthly
and Forum.

Betty Sullivan is president of the
association and Meg Bless is treas-
urer.

Eta Sigma Phi
Will Hold Bee

Eta Sigma Phi, national honor-
ary classical fraternity, will
sponsor a spelling bee January
20 at 8 p. m. in McLean auditor-
ium as its War Fund project.
Representatives of the four classes
and the faculty will compete.

Virginia Drake, Janice Latta,
Bet Patterson, Nellie Scott, and
Betty Andrews will spell for the
freshmen ; sophomores Dorothy
Spragens, Peggy Willmon, Mar-
jorie Naab, Jeanne Addison, and
Anne Noell will match wits with
juniors Inge Probstein, Betty
Glenn, Pie Ertz, Pat Elam, and
Wendy Whittle, and seniors Eud-
ice Tontak, Bunny Gray, Claire
Bennett, Ruth Wolson, and Anne
Ward.

Five girls from this group will
be chosen to compete against five
faculty members.

the college subscribed $1,501,026.64
to the fund of which $33,254 re-
mains uncollected. This is in ad-
dition to the pledges to a joint
Agnes Scott-Emory fund.

In the event of the failure of
Agnes Scott to collect the unpaid
pledges the remainder of the GEB
gift would be forfeited by the col-
lege.

Dr. McCain stated that the
friends of Agnes Scott have work-
ed loyally toward making the cam-
paign a success, and added that
he hoped all pledges would be paid
in full within the next month.

With the money raised under the
University Center program, Agnes
Scott has built Presser hall, re-
modeled the interior of Main build-
ing, added more than $400,000 to
the endowment funds, and estab-
lished several scholarship funds.
The additional funds are needed
for the construction of the pro-
posed new science building and
dormitory.

Betty Brougher Shown
In WAVE Booklet

In a recent official Navy recruit-
ing publication, "The Story of You
in Navy Blue," appears a picture
of 1943 alumna Betty Brougher
being sworn in as a WAVE.

Betty, now Ensign Brougher, is
the daughter of Brigadier-General
and Mrs. W. E. Brougher and the
sister of junior Frances Brougher.

Although she comes from a dis-
tinguished Army family her fa-
ther is a prisoner of the Japanese
on Formosa Betty chose the
Navy.

During her freshman year at
Agnes Scott she was a reporter
on the News. The next year she
transferred to the University of
the Philippines when her family
moved to Manila. When Mrs.
Brougher, Frances and Betty were
evacuated from the Philippines in
1941, Betty returned to Agnes
Scott to major in history.

Ensign Brougher is now on duty
in Miami.

vealed Main in first place with
406 points. Rebekah Scott dormi-
tory is in second place with a to-
tal of 211 points to its credit, while
Inman has 203 points. An accur-
ate report of points won by the
cottages has not yet been made.

Posters with the names of all
students and lists of the types of
war work have been placed in each
dormitory by members of War
Council. A student has been se-
lected from each dorm wing to
record points.

Points are awarded according to
the following system, worked out
by War Council under the direc-
tion of Anne Sale: blood donation,
ten points; contribution to United
Community and War Fund, five
points; courses such as Nurses'
Aide or Staff Assistant taken off
campus, three points; courses such
as First Aid or Recreation taken
on campus, two; gift of jewelry or
paper, one; one war stamp pur-
chase, one; knitting a Navy sweat-
er with sleeves, 50; knitting an
Army sleeveless sweater, 22; Army
helmet, fifteen; Navy watch cap,
18; gloves, fifteen points.

War Fund Collections

Squee Woolford, chairman of
War Council, has asked that all
students who have not contributed
to the War Fund drive do so as
soon as possible. $108 of the $1000
pledge has been collected to date.

Musicale Series to be
Resumed Monday

The next of the semi-monthly
musicales under the joint sponsor-
ship 6f Agnes Scott and the Uni-
versity Center of Georgia will be
presented Monday, Jan. 17, by
Hugh Hodgson, pianist.

The program for the event,
which will begin at 8 p. m. in
Presser hall, has not yet been an-
nounced.

IRC 'Fireside Chat'
Tomorrow Night

International Relations club is
sponsoring a "Fireside Chat" to-
morrow night at 9:30 in Murphey
Candler. The party is to raise
money for the War Community
Fund drive pledge which the col-
lege has promised for the year
1944.

Highlights of the occasion will
be a quiz program, a fortune teller
and a variety of games. Refresh-
ments will be served.

The Emory university chapter of
IRC is also invited to attend. The
admission is ten cents.

lltU Week . . .

Wednesday, Jan. 12, 4:30-5:30 p.
m. Sophomore Tea in Rebekah
Scott lobby.

5 p. m. Marriage class
Thursday, Jan. 13, 9:30-10:30 p.
m. IRC Fireside Chat in Mur-
phey Candler
Friday, January 14, 8 p. m.
Freshman-sophomor^ junior-
senior basketball games
Saturday, Jan. 15, 2:30-5 p. m.
Senior Bridge Party in Murphey
Candler

8:30 p. m. Horowitz on All Star
Concert series in Municipal Aud-
itorium

Monday, Jan. 17, 8 p. m. Musicale
in McLean chapel.

Tuesday, Jan. 18, Wednesday, Jan.
19, 8:30 p. m. Ballet Russe at
Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 5 p. m. Mar-
riage class.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

Agnes Scott's winter quarter
athletic program opens this year
amid moans and groans from the
tennis and golf enthusiasts, who
return to find, alas! their season
has flitted by all too swiftly; amid
sighs of relief and shouts of re-
joicing from the freshmen, who
have known from the beginning
that either they or fundamentals
just couldn't last forever.

To the latter group we heart-
ily recommend the new course
in tumbling and reconditioning
exercises offered by Miss Rut-
ledge. Tumbling will come in
handy in case you ever decide to
join the circus, and a general
reconditioning is probably just
what you need, regardless of the
shape you're in or are. For the
former group we philosophically
quote: "But oh! when winter
comes, can spring be far be-
hind ?" Then, when the oppor-
tunities are plentiful, "Gather
ye rosebuds while ye may."
A new course for would-be rec-
reation leaders is being offered for
the first time this year, under the
leadership of Miss Wilburn, who
is serving as co-ordinator. The
group will meet every Tuesday at
7:30, and every Thursday at 4:30
for about six weeks. About 30 or
35 attended the first meeting last
Thursday.

The purpose of the group is to
serve the community as student
leaders of such organizations as
the Camp Fires and Girl Scouts,
and to plan recreation projects for
the soldiers, and various city play-
ground centers. The entire sopho-
more cabinet is taking the course,
and, along with War Council and
the physical education depart-
ment, is a joint sponsor of it. Pres-
ent plans provide for lectures from
various recreation leaders from in
and around Atlanta.

A casual observer, upon seeing
scraps of paper containing jum-
bled messages, and upon hearing
information whispered about in
dark corners, might come to the
conclusion that espionage is
afoot on the Agnes Scott cam-
pus. This is to inform such an
observer that nothing is afoot,
only basketball is at hand. In
basketball, as on the Kirovograd

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Among American Red Cross
workers in England are two Ag-
nes Scott alumnae, Mary Ramage
and Eliza King.

Miss Ramage only recently
went across and is a Red Cross
hospital social worker. Before
joining the overseas unit, she was
a case worker for the Commun-
ity Service Society and Charity
Organization Society of her home
town, New York City. She was
also a supervisor of the New
York School of Social Work, and
editor of a society magazine in
Atlanta.

Upon graduation from Agnes
Scott in 1928, she and her twin
sister IJmily entered upon play
writing careers in New York. La-
ter Mary received her master's de-
gree in social work from Colum-
bia University.

Eliza King arrived in England
nearly a year ago and has been
working with a clubmobile unit
visiting airfields with doughnuts,
coffee, and always a cheery smile
for the soldiers. She is a favorite
especially among the Southern
boys because of her characteristic
southern drawl.

She received her A.B. in 1938.
While at Agnes Scott, she was
on Mortar Board, elected to Phi
Beta Kappa, and has recently
been elected life president of her
class. Before her appointment
with the Red Cross, she worked
for the N.Y.A. in Atlanta.

front, strategy is the thing. Next
Friday night at 8:00, strategy
will meet its test, when the
freshmen meet the sophomores,
and the juniors play the senior
juggernaut.

Outing club is planning a bicycle
trip for the near future. According
to Gwen Hill, plans are not yet
completed, but a week-end trip to
a hostel near Lithonia, about
eleven miles northwest of Atlanta,
is under consideration of the club.
Depending upon the success of this
excursion, and the muscles of the
cyclers afterwards, the members
are planning bigger and better
things for the spring holidays.
Taking their usual raeing dive
into the midst of things, Swim-
ming club is already getting un-
der way with practices for its
annual water pageant, this year
to take place on February 24.
Molly Milam and Mary dimming
are co-chairmen of the writing
committee.' Agnes Douglas is at
present completing plans for the
other committees. February 24
will be a red-letter day for all
swimming enthusiasts, so circle
the day on your calendar.

Thursday afternoon all who
are interested in having a bad-
minton club on campus are in-
vited to meet in the gym at 3
o'clock to make plans for its
organization.

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C. A. Announces Plens
For Chapel, Vespers,
Religious Emphasis

At a retreat held last week-end,
Christian Association made plans
for Religious Emphasis Week, for
its War Fund project, and future
morning watch, Cabinet, vesper,
and chapel programs to be held
throughout the quarter.

Dr. Kenneth Forman, professor
jf Bible at Davidson College and
leader of many Young People's
Conferences, will be the speaker
during Religious Emphasis Week,
to be held Feb. 29 through Mar. 4.

Dr. Forman will lead two dis-
cussion groups on Tuesday and
Thursday night. A box will be
put in the maid's office in Main
where students can leave the ques-
tions they would like to hear dis-
cussed at the evening programs.

Betty Bowman is in charge of
arranging personal conferences of
students with Dr. Forman.

On Jan. 18, 'Rev. Marc Weersing
of Oakhurst Presbyterian Church
will speak in chapel on the Chris-
tian Association theme, "Not
faithless, but believing."

A musical program is planned
for chapel Feb. 1. Betty Jane Han-
cock Moore is in charge.

Billy Walker Reveals
Basketball Schedule

Billy Walker, basketball man-
ager, this week announced the
basketball schedule for the quar-
ter.

Friday night, Jan. 14, the fresh-
men will battle the sophomores,
winners of last year's champion-
ship. The juniors will vie with the
senior team.

Friday afternoon, Jan. 21, the
sister classes will clash, with the
freshmen battling the juniors and
the sophomores versus the seniors.
On the night of Jan. 28, the fresh-
man team will meet the senior
sextet, while the sophomores and
juniors will play each other.

The second round of the tourna-
ment will begin Friday afternoon,
Feb. 4, with the freshmen playing
the sophomores and the juniors
playing the seniors. Also an after-
noon event will be the second
meeting of the sister classes on
Feb. 11. Friday night, Feb. 18,
marks the end of the tournament,
the clashes being between the
freshmen and seniors and the
sophomores and juniors.

On the night of Feb. 25 the var-
sity will contend with the sub-
varsity. The Brown Jug tourna-
ment, in which teams representing
the various dormitories and day
student groups play, will conclude
the season on March 3.

Underground Man Comes Up,
Divulges Secrets of Furnace

By Mary Ann Courtenay

"Why ? I didn't know that the students knew there was a
fuel shortage, the way they open their windows every time
the room is too hot," laughed B. S. Armisted, campus engineer,
leaning back in the chair of his well-heated office, when ques-
tioned about the problem of keeping warm at Agnes Scott.

The man who keeps things going in the underground pipe
passages as well as above ground

Juniors Lead Drive
To Collect Paper

In cooperation with the govern-
ment's effort to conserve all waste
paper, the junior class plans to col-
lect paper from the different build-
ings on the campus.

Juniors will collect paper from
the bookstore every day, from the
dormitories one night a week, and
from the other buildings at wider
intervals. Day students are asked
to stack their waste paper in the
senior dry-cleaning room in the
basement of Main, where it will be
picked up by the juniors.

Newspapers, magazines, card-
board, wrapping paper, letters
( stacked in cardboard boxes), and
all kinds of scrap paper are needed.

Betty Davis is in charge of col-
lection.

went on to say that as much coal is
used when the outside temperature
is 50 degrees as when it is 20 de-
grees.

"Just look at Buttrick some day,
and you'll find four-fifths of the
windows open," he added as ex-
planation. The Agnes Scott build-
ings, planned for a southern cli-
mate, allow as much circulation of
air as is necessary, even when all
windows are closed.

Figures on Fuel

Mr. Armistead has at his com-
mand startling figures about the
quantities of coal used for the last
several years. Our coal pile now
contains 1200 tons, or almost
enough for the rest of the year.
Foreseeing the fuel shortage, the
college two years ago put in a
2000-ton reserve, part of which
has already been used.

Partly because of this reserve,
the engineer had no particular
worries about future supplies.
"This has been an unusual year,"
he said, "in that there have been
only three days since Sept. 26 that
the steam was cut off." We have
used more coal this year than last.
The furnaces burn 14 tons a day
when the steam heat is on, as com-
pared with only three tons for
each day's hot water, laundry, and
cooking. The coal shortage actual-
ly affects the quality of coal
bought more than the quantity,
but for the lack of fuel Mr. Arm-
istead blames transportation and
labor shortages as well as strikes.
Function of Furnace

Three men work in shifts to fire
the two underfed stokers of the
furnaces. Although the inner
workings of a furnace may still
be a secret, there is a lot to be
learned from Mr. Armistead about

its function. In our central heat-
ing plant only one furnace is, op-
erated at a time, for a 1400-hour
period. It furnishes heat and hot
water to 39 buildings, including
Dr. McCain's residence and other
faculty houses.

To anyone who would like to
learn more about how the college
is heated, Mr. Armistead extends
a cordial invitation to inspect the
huge furnaces and to tour the un-
derground passageways to the gym.
Maybe such a tour would remind
us that there is a fuel shortage,
which can be lessened by keeping
windows closed.

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Concert to Feature
Horowitz and Ballet

Vladimir Horowitz, world-fam-
ous piano virtuoso, will appear in
concert at the Municipal Auditor-
ium in Atlanta Saturday, Jan. 15,
at 8:30 p. m.

Mr. Horowitz' program, one of
the regular concerts in the All-
Star series, will include selections
by Bach, Scarlatti, Prokofieff,
Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Liszt.

Next Tuesday and Wednesday
nights, January 18 and 19, at 8:30
the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
will present the traditional "Swan
Lake" and several new ballets.
Featured performers will be Igor
Youskevitch, Alexandra Danilova,
and Nathalie Krassovska.

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Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

After-Christmas activities began early in the week with
the rush functions at the Atlanta Dental College. Seen at
the Zip house dances were Lucy Turner, Gilmore Noble,
Bettye Smith, Dootsie Gardiner, Jeanne Robinson, Julia and
Elizabeth Harvard, Eugenia Jones, Carolyn Fuller, Beth
Walton, June Thomason, Mary

Frances Anderson, Anne Rogers,
Barbara Omer, Dale Bennett and
Frances Bryan . . . Claire Bennett
and Carolyn Daniel were rushing
for Psi O's.

The series of functions contin-
ued with dances at the Delta Sig
house, which attracted Eleanor
Manley, Sweetie Calley, Betty An-
drews, Anne Idson and Nelson
Fisher. At the Delta Sig buffet
supper Sunday night were Sweetie
Calley and Camilla Moore.
Emory Houses

House dances at Emory were the
choice of Louise Starr and Jean
Stewart who were seen at the Chi
Phi house . . . Betty Manning,
Mary Turner and Rite Watson en-
joyed the K. A. house dance ... at
Roy Sewells house Saturday night
the Sigma Chi's entertained with
a dance, and one of the main
events of the evening was the pres-
entation of the Sigma Chi sweet-
heart and dates.

Agnes Scott girls attending were
Anne Murrell, Dootsie Gardner,

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ginia Calloway.

Med Dances

As for the Med fraternity at
Emory there was a house dance
at the AKK house which attracted
Eva Williams, Lucy Turner, Lou
Cunningham, Jodelle Tanner and
Robin Robinson Saturday night.
At the Phi Chi house were seen
Jean Chewning, Bess Shepherd,
Gloria Gaines, Lura Johnston, Mar-
tha Rhodes, Laurie Looper, Meg
Bless, Jane Everette and Dot Al-
mond.

Marjorie Tippins and Betty Sul-
livan were seen dancing at the
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were Blitz Roper and Soozi Rich-
ardson with a good-looking ensign
and a Marine lieutenant . . . Lois
Sullivan recently returned from
Augusta wearing a beautiful or-
chid . . . Julia Scott was seen at
the Paradise Room . . .

Thursday afternoon the auxil-
iary of Holy Trinity Episcopal
church entertained for the Episco-
pal students with tea at the home
of Mrs. R. P. Glover on Greenwood
place. Attending were about thir-
ty of the Episcopal students and
faculty members.

Diamond Rings

Solitaires received during the
holidays are sparkling over the
campus everywhere, and new fra-
ternity pins appeared in all the
dorms . . . Dale Bennett attended
the Tech-Mercer basketball game
at Tech Saturday night . . . Mary
Carr was dancing Saturday night
with a party of fourteen. She ar-
ranged dates with Emory V-12's
for several Agnes Scott girls
Cathie Steinbach, Sue Mitchell,
Louise Breedin, Edith Burgess,
Mary Reynolds and Alice Gordon
. . . Betty Sullivan is spending the
week-end and early part of the
week at home in Anderson, S. C. . . .
Betty Wade went home to Cor-
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Albers' Works rrove
Interesting Departure
From WellJrod Paths

A joint exhibition of the work of
Josef and Anni Albers is being
shown in the art gallery in the li-
brary.

Albers and his wife received
their training at the celebrated
Bauhaus in Germany and taught
there until forced to flee to the
United States. He is now profes-
sor of art at Black Mountain Col-
lege, Black Mountain, N. C, and
for four years was a guest lec-
turer at Harvard University. Mrs.
Albers is assistant professor of
art in the textiles department at
Black Mountain.

Josef Albers' work is a radical
departure from conventional
paintings, lithographs and wood-
cuts, and it is a challenge to the
art public. He himself says: "We
cannot remain in one 'viewpoint,'
we must change 'standpoints' . . .
for the sake of freedom of seeing."
His work demonstrates a subtle
sense of color and form, and such
titles as "Mantic" and "Prefatio
5/30" seem to indicate a sense of
humor as well.

Mrs. Albers' weavings are equal-
ly interesting. She and her stu-
dents use all sorts of fibers, from
coarse hemp to cellophane. She
was one of the first to use the lat-
ter material in weaving.

Stratton Lee Attends
Religious Conference

Speaking yesterday morning in
chapel Stratton Lee told of her
experiences while representing
Agnes Scott Christian Association
at the Conference of the World
Mission of the Church held at
Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio,
December 28-January 3.

Over 500 representatives from
the United States, Canada, Mex-
ico, and eighteen foreign coun-
tries attended the conference,
whose purpose, according to
Stratton, was the consideration
of how Christian young people
may further the work of Chris-
tianity in different walks of life.
The fields of foreign missions, home
missions, and secular vocations
were emphasized at the confer-
ence.

The meeting consisted of a series
of lectures and seminars on types
of Christian work within the
church itself and in various secular
vocations.

Seniors Plan Bridge
To Benefit War Fund

The senior class is sponsoring
a bridge party for the benefit
of the War Fund on Saturday,
Jan. 15, from 2:30 to 5 p. m.
in Murphey Candler, Ruth Wol-
son, chairman for the event, an-
nounced.

Bridge players may come alone
or make up their own tables.
There will be "food, fun, frolic,
and prizes," all for 25 cents ad-
mission charge. Home-made cook-
ies will be sold.

sister from Norfolk, Va., spent the
week-end here on campus . . .
Anne Stubbs and Sue Hutchens
went on an Emory hayride Satur-
day . . . Bittie King and Polly
Cook went home to Newnan for
the week-end and Emily Higgins
and Eugenia Jones to Dalton, Ga.
Mary Neely Norris, Kitty Kay,
Mary Turner and Jane Everett had
supper Sunday at the Pig with
Jackie Burns Bain (Mrs. Bain to
you), who was visiting on campus.

Holidaze

Flu, Weddings and Rings
Highlight ASC Vacations

By Pauline Ertz

After a two-day Gallop-ing poll we have reached the fol-
lowing conclusions concerning Christmas vacation: during
the, holidays, Agnes Scott students did one (or maybe more)
of three things either got engaged or married, came down
with the flu or some other illness (we admired hospital walls
for five days ourselves), or else led f

a quiet existence with the folks at omitted please inform society ed-

* - - itor Camilla Moore.)

Working Gals
Ask Eugenia Jones to tell you
some of her rare experiences sell-
ing men's clothing. Emily Higgins
went to visit Eugenia in Green-
ville. Also working during vaca-
tion was Hilda Goldman for her
father in West Point, Ga. Molly
Milam worked in a jewelry store
in Atlanta. (Ask her about sup-
per money profit.) Madeline Hos-
mer tripped off to Birmingham
where she made interesting ad-
vertising surveys.

Debutantes Bow

Ann Equen, Mary Cumming,
June Reynolds and Dot Archer all
made their debuts to Atlanta so-
ciety and enjoyed a vacation
crammed full of parties.

home and worked.

Wedding Bells

Betty Jane Hancock was mar-
ried to Jimmy Moore and the two
honeymooned in sunny Daytona
Beach, Florida. Now Betty Jane
is back at school and Jimmy is at
Harvard Army Chaplains' School.
Harriet Kuniansky met her
fiance, Jerry Ross, in Chicago
where they were married. Harriet
is now back at school after a hon-
eymoon in Galesburg, 111.

Bettye Faye Ashcraft exchanged
marriage vows with Lt. Jeff Sen-
ter, of the Army Medical Corps.
Ash couldn't resist and didn't
come back to school. Zena Harris
Temkin stayed with her husband
at Ft. Bragg, N. C, but is back
at school after a delightful three
weeks.

Returning to school with devas-
tating diamonds rings were Joyce
Freeman, Bippy Gribble, Julia
Scott, Martha Rhodes' and Bobbie
Powell. Alvara Frazer, who re-
ceved her engagement ring a long
time ago, got a lovely jeweled fra-
ternity pin from her fiance, as did
Ann Haggard.

(Note: If there are any girls
whose names I have inadvertently

McCain Meets
With Educators

Dr. J. R. McCain .left Decatur
this week to attend the 30th an-
nual meeting of the Association of
American Colleges being held Jan.
12-14 in Cincinnatti. The meet-
ing's theme is "Colleges Prepare
for Peace."

Topics to be discussed at the
meeting include general education
for armed forces, aviation training
in colleges and universities, les-
sons of wartime education, the
'Big Four" and the future, recon-
struction of liberal education, win-
ning the peace, international re-
sponsibilities.

Of particular interest will be
those discussions about changes in
curricula, requirements for ad-
mission, permitting credit for war
work towards a degree, perhaps
allowing one semester credit for
overseas service.

Viscount Halifax, who has been
particularly interested in Ameri-
can colleges and universities, will
be an outstanding speaker at the
meeting.

Juniors Fete Freshmen
At Informal Tea Jan. 7

Juniors welcomed the freshman
class back to school with a tea last
Friday, Jan. 7, in Murphey Can-
dler. Miss Carrie Scandrett, Mrs.
Roff Sims and Miss Bella Wilson,
sponsors for the junior class; Bar-
bara Frink, president of the jun-
ior class; Joyce Freeman, junior
vice-president; Martha Jane Mack,
secretary of the juniors, and Jane
Meadows, president of the fresh-
man class, received the guests.

Day Student Room,Library
Get New Coats of Paint

Among the repairs and improve-
ments greeting students on their
return from the holidays were a
completely repainted day student
room in Main and a new paint job
in the basement of the library.

The day student room in Main
was completely redone in cream
color and the room in Buttrick
receiving a similar treatment.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944

Duffee Rambles

Proud and
Predjudi'ced

By Mary Louise Duffee

Tra la, the belles are ringing, for
me and my class. For me, because
it's good news to write, and for my
class, because that's what most of
them are in, and we do want to
hold up the marriage average.
Soooo, just as a matter of rec-
ord (you'll appreciate this when
you read through the files of
the News ten or fifteen years
from now), among- those who
made the team and got their
rings over the holidays were
Bobbie Powell, Bippy Gribble,
Martha Rhodes and Joyce (how
did that junior get in) Freeman.
Of course, the former Bettye
Ashcraft, the former Betty Jane
Hancock, the former Carolyn
Mason and the former Harriet
Kuniansky also got rings wed-
ding rings and husbands Sen-
ter, Moore, Mayes and Ross, re-
spectively. Coming attraction :
June Reynolds wedding.
For most of the rest of us, the
holidays just confirmed I our belief
that the state we're from is the
best in the union, and that our
hometown friends are the best in
the world. (Whizzzzz you can
say that again Mississippi is a
wonderful place, and oh, New
Year's Day in New Orleans!)
Noticeable since the holidays:
Grey sky, dark circles, sleepy
eyes, renewed interest in letters.
And then there was the day stu-
dent who walked in the ration
board office and said, "Here's my
supplication for more gas."

Alliteration: A train wreck at
Emory; Nita Hurst's automobile
wreck in Louisiana; the Rambl-
ing W rec ks beat Tulsa; every-
body else is a physical wreck
from lack of holiday sleep un-
less they live in a VERY small
town and had no car.
The campus scene has been quiet
as usual this first week back. The
first sweet faint stirrings of spring
and election talk should show
themselves soon, however. Watch
for buds and buddy-buddies.
There's to be a cat show at the
Kimball House in Atlanta this
month. Ever seen a cat?

And incidentally thanks to the
kind friends who have inquired
about Mitchell Duffee's welfare.
He spent a happy C hristmas hol-
iday with his mother, Hepple-
white Hosmer. He saw his moth-
er for the first time since he was
seven weeks old and growled
at her.

Higgins and company are com-
fortably settled in White House for
the winter season with more and
better jokes.

Inmanites are beginning to say,
like freshmen med students just
think, one more quarter after this
one and we'll be sophomores. Live
until you're a sophomore and you'll
live, they say. But what are they
kickin' about? So the work is
hard- at least you're not three
years older than the V-12 boys.
Girls used to report on blind
dates by saying whether he was
eute or not. Now they tell how-
old he was.

The radio announcer said, "Old-
fashioned couples, dancing to the
tune of the Blue Danube Waltz . . ."
"Huh," said the senior, "old-fash-
ioned couples dancing!"

Hottentots go to Washing-
ton. We heard they had a man
to every seven girls up there.
Latest recruit for the army of
knowledge seekers Micky Ham,
canine member of the Horn-Om-
wake household, has received of-
ficial permission to sit in on Miss
Jackson's history of Italy class!

GV6TS SH HASN'T HSARD MOOT 77/6 DMG6fiS

Preparing for Post War Careers

In a world at war every college girl can fair-
ly easily find work upon graduation. Practi-
cally every field not curtailed by shortage of
materials is begging for workers. Numerous
offices are willing to take girls who have had
absolutely no business experience; schools are
lowering standards to provide teachers for
their students; newspapers are- willing to take
girls who know only the fundamentals of Eng-
lish.

But the end of the war will bring home the
fighting men and women women who have
been well fitted for their work by the gov-
ernment.

Competition will be keen. We who are for-
tunate enough to be yet in college should be
preparing to meet the post-war competition.

Vocational guidance tests should be given
to all students freshmen through seniors
so we can discover our particular field. Per-
haps this could be done through the psychol-
ogy department.

If the administration will not assume the
responsibility of providing exponents of vari-
ous careers interesting to Agnes Scott stu-

From the Editor

In a voice now weak and weary from
shouting about the subject we whisper this
observation $108 has been collected in three
months toward our $1000 War Fund pledge due
in March. Is the point obvious, or must we
shout again?

Last Sunday afternoon Student Government
started what is hoped can become a Sunday
afternoon custom open house in Murphey
Candler. Nothing formal no receiving line
just sitting around the fire drinking tea, talk-
ing, and listening to the radio. (When it func-
tions.)

The only drawback is that not many people
showed up Sunday perhaps because they didn't
know about it. At any rate the open houses
will continue if enough people turn up to
enjoy them.

Suggestion: Why don't the art classes use
their creative genius to whip up some posters
for the scrap paper drive and War Fund?

Another suggestion: Why don't we indulge
in a "Do-Without" day. Make it a day for
testing our powers of self-denial. Instead of
going to a movie, stay at home and read a
magazine (from the library of course don't
spend money on one), do without those cokes
at the drug store. Be Spartan. No extra
snacks, no new lipstick, no costly fun noth-
ing but war stamps to fill that neglected al-
bum.

This week's hymn of praise thanks to Mr.
Tart and Joella for changing the bookstore
hours. Those extra ten minutes on Saturday
are a boon for those of us who don't get
through until 12.

Also thanks to the powers that be for the
new paint job in the day student room. Makes
it almost worth being a day student.

dents, a student organization exec, Mortar
Board should arrange throughout the year to
have speakers from the field of teaching,
newspapers, fashions, advertising, secretarial,
personnel, medicine, civil service, to discuss
with students the qualifications, the advan-
tages, the disadvantages of the work, recom-
mend schools for advanced preparation, and
discuss the future of their field. M. C.

To the Editor

Dear Editor:

At the end of November Agnes Scott began
a drive to collect $500.00 for the World Stu-
dent Service Fund. The committee working
on the campaign was a bit fearful of the
apathetic state of the campus as was also a
well-known columnist on the News. The con-
stant articles on our apathy and the excellent
editorials about the Fund which appeared in
the News did arouse the campus. In fact, we
decided to prove that we did recognize our
responsibility to less fortunate students in
war-torn areas. And we did. We are very
proud to report that the Agnes Scott commun-
ity exceeded its goal of $500.00. Our contribu-
tion to the WSSF was the magnificent sum of
$600.88.

We want to thank each student for the won-
derful cooperation and especially the News for
the editorials which served to make us alert
to our responsibilities. All of us extend to
the News our wishes that it have a successful
year and more power with which to keep this
campus alert to world problems.

Sincerely,
Eudice Tontak.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1944 No. 10

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the studenta of Ajrnes Scott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Bnterd
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.
Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, fire cents.

Editor MADELINE) ROSE H0SMBB

Managing Editor , MARY CARE

Business Manager JUNE LANIER

Assistant Editors Assistant Editors

Betty Glenn Editorial Assistant

Inge Probsteln Feature Editor

Mary Louise Duffee
Advertising Managers Tess Carlos

Liz Carpenter Cartoonists
Frances King Sally Sue Stephenson

Jane Anne Newton
Sports Editor Anne Lee

Margaret Drummond Elolse Lyndon

Circulation Manager
Society Editor Carolyn Calhoun

.Camilla Moore Circulation Assistants

Copy Editor Mary Russell

Leila Holmes Marlon Leathers

Reporters: Marlon Knapp, Betty Bun-ess. Kathryne
Thompson Manpum. Pauline Ertz, Jean McCurry,
Martha Arnold. Carolyn Puller, Lib Farmer. Wendy Whit-
tle. Betty Wade. Louise Breedln. Pat Elam, Olive Hansen,
Martha Baker. Anne Register, Margaret Edelmann. Eliza-
beth Scott. Connie Fraser. Jeanne Rochelle. Jeanne Addi-
son. Joyce Cilleland. Jane Bowman, Sara Jean Clark, Doro-
thy Lee Webb. Alice Gordon. Che Nellans, Anne Noell,
Jean Rooney. Ann Seitzlnger, Martha Whatley Yates, Carol
Mason. Margaret Bear. Mary Anderson Courtenay, Mar-
jorle Cole.

Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner. Peggy KaJly, Sally Sue
Stephenson. Bettye Lee Phelps.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

The days are bleak now and
dark. The sun never seems to come
out and sitting here at eight in the
morning I am surrounded by the
gray darkness of the News room.
Somewhere around here there is a
light switch. On the wall? On the
floor? Under the editor's desk?
So I shall wait for daylight to come
and as I wait I might as well prac-
tice up on my typing.

It is a little late for New
Year's resolutions. And those of
us who were going to make them
have already done so. That is, as
individuals. But collectively as a
school we always seem to for-
get about them. The holidays
have dimmed ideas about im-
provement and we think we are
going to begin a new year with
a clean slate.
Most of us, however, forget that
we left much undone the previous
year. There is the question of the
War Fund. True, the organiza-
tions and the classes are going to
do something about it. But is that
enough? Is it enough to go to the
senior bridge party or the IRC
"watermelon" roast or the Eta
Sigma Phi spelling bee, pay the
small entrance fee and have a good
time ? The words War Fund imply
more than that. Sometime long
ago when I was a sophomore and
the war had just broken out, there
was wild enthusiasm on the cam-
pus about knitting, making ban-
dages, taking first aid. There was
wild enthusiasm.

Now, too, there is still the
problem of student government.
Though we may not know it or
practice it, student government
means active participation by
all the students. Something
should be done to facilitate the
making of suggestions or the ex-
pression of opinions before the
student body. Fifteen hurried
minutes in chapel are not stu-
dent government. The assump-
tion that what was good five
years ago is good enough for
another tit I x is not student gov-
ernment. Nominating commit-
tee begins to meet this quarter.
It is made up of the heads of the
most important campus organi-
zations. But are they student
government ?

The library may become for
some of us that place where you
go when you have to look up that
page in the second volume of that
biology book so you won't flunk the
quiz. We manage to miss the in-
teresting weekly displays that the
library puts up. We give up the
chance of seeing good art because
it means climbing up three flights
of stairs to get up to the gallery.
We forget that new, interesting
books are coming in all the time.
And it is a pity.

It is nOW light. And I need no
longer worry ahont finding the
light switch. Xow I can begin to
write my Column. Mm, I see that
my typing is improving. Now
what can I talk ahout this time?
Something constructive this
time. Not destructive. Some-
thing praiseworthy and ffOO<L Ah
yes, I shall just copy out one of
my old columns. I wonder where
the editor hides old copies of the
paper? I wish slo- wouldn't.
But I suppose she has to. To
keep them from falling into the
wrong hands.
"Your column needs another
inch " Hosmer catches me biting
into the third piece of chocolate
cookie at Eta Sigma Phi meeting.
So forsaking the plays of Aeschy-
lus I rush up and must now meas-
ure this to see if it is an inch.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944

No. 11

'Miss Mac Recognized
By Atlanta Educators

Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall, Agnes Scott's beloved "Miss
Mac," was named Atlanta's Woman of the Year in Education
last Friday. During -the past year the head of the college's
biology department has gained increasing renown as the
author of a widely-adopted biology textbook, "Biology: The
Science of Life." But not until a
committee of Atlanta educators
bestowed a new title of honor on
her last week was public notice
given to her many other accom-
plishments.

Besides a heavy teaching
schedule here, Miss Mac holds an
appointment as a special consul-
tant for the United States Public
Health Service with a commission
to do malarial research, served as
president of the Association of
Southeastern Biologists during
1943, and is writing on a lab man-
ual to be used with her textbook.
One of Seven
As Atlanta's Woman of the Year
in Education, Miss MacDougall is
one of seven women in the city
being honored as outstanding in
their respective fields. At a ban-
quet at the Biltmore Hotel at |
7:30 p. m. Jan. 21, one of these
seven will be named THE Woman
of the Year for Atlanta. Each of
the seven will be presented silver
trophies.

Besides the Atlanta title, Miss
Mac has been invited to appear
in Who's Who in America. She is
already listed in American Men
of Science.

Commenting on her traits as
well as her accomplishments, the
educational committee who confer-
red the honor said, in part, "With
all her training, recognition, and
honors, she is a very quiet lady
who never seeks publicity and who
is very much absorbed in her
teaching and in her students . . .
She is greatly beloved."

A committee of Atlanta's out-
standing educators chose Miss
MacDougall from among several
women prominent in the educa-
tional field.

Those on the committee who
chose her included Dr. M. L. Brit-
tain, president of Georgia Tech;
Dr. Goodrich C. White, president
of Emory University; Dr. James
R. McCain, president of Agnes
Scott; Dr. J. McD. Richards, pres-
ident of Columbia Theological
Seminary; Dr. Willis A. Sutton,
former superintendent of Atlanta
schools; Jere Wells, superinten-
dent of Fulton County schools, and
Col. W. | R. Brewster, head of
Georgia Military Academy.

o3i u p b ,Til s I Kirtley Mather Comes

As Second Lecturer

Students vs. Faculty
In Bee Tomorrow

Miss Emily Dexter, associate
professor of psychology, heads the
list of faculty members who will
compete in the spelling bee to be
sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, hon-
orary classical organiation, tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock in Maclean
auditorium.

Four other faculty members,
whose names have not yet been
announced, will join Miss Dexter
in spelling against five students
chosen in a preliminary contest
from among the 20 girls entered
by the different classes. Proceeds
from the spelling bee will be con-
tributed to the War Fund.

MARY STUART MACDOUGALL

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

First 'Town Meeting 7
To Take Piece Soon

In a student meeting held last
Thursday the student body pass-
ed a motion to create a campus
"Town Meeting."

The first meeting will be held
Friday, Jan. 28, at 4 p. m. in Mur-
phey Candler building. A chair-
man will be elected from the floor
at this time. Inge Probstein is
chairman pro tern.

"Town Meeting" will provide
more time for students to discuss
common problems, campus or
world. The meetings will be as
free of formality as possible. They
are not sponsored by any one
group, the idea being to make
them as unbiased and representa-
tive as possible.

The function of the chairman
is to present the problem previous-
ly chosen by student suggestion,
to start the discussion by pointing
out some of the basic aspects of
the question, then to guide the dis-
cussion by analyzing the trend of
thought.

"Town Meeting" will have a
channel of action through lower
house. If the meeting's subject
should coincide with the open
forum discussion, "Town Meet-
ing" would act as a center of pre-
paration and thought for the
shorter student meeting in chapel.

Revision Plans
To Committee

The administrative committee
of Student Government meeting
last Monday heard a program for
the revision of the Student Gov-
ernment organization presented
by a sub-committee headed by
Wendy Whittle.

The proposal calls for a separa-
tion of the executive and judicial
branches of the present organiza-
tion. Thus the executive branch
would become more of a policy-
forming group and the judicial
would be restriced to providing
penalties and upholding rules and
regulations.

Under the plan proposed by the
committee the new executive com-
mittee would consist of the presi-
dent of Student Government, the
vice-president, who will be chair-
man of the judicial committee, the
chairman of freshman orientation,
the chairman of open forum and
lower house, the secretary and
treasurer of Student Government,
the student recorder, the day stu-
dent representative, the four class
presidents, and representatives
from C. A., A. A., War Council,
the News, and possibly Silhouette
and Aurora.

The function of this group as
a whole, as explained by the
changes committee, would be to
act as "a means of bringing to-
gether the individual parts of the
campus community in one central
group, which will not only enable
the various campus groups to
represent their interests and make
suggestions to Student Govern-
ment, but will enable Student Gov-
ernment to teach in turn these
groups, whose functions should be
correlated with those of Student
Government."

The executive group would also
discuss suggested changes in rules
and evaluate existing regulations.

Members of the judicial groups
would be the vice-president of
Student Government, acting as
chairman, house presidents of the
large dorms, cottage house presi-
dents (or three juniors if cot-
tages are not in use), three sopho-
mores, two freshmen, the day stu-
dent representative, and the presi-
(See p. 3, c. 3)

KIRTLEY F. MATHER

sists of the gradual harmonious
unification into the rainbow of a
variety of conflicting colors. Each
color, boasting of her splendor,
leads out dancers representing her.
Finally, the court of nature unites
all the colors into a rainbow.

The chairman stated that she
and her six committees have al-
ready begun work on the organiza-
tion of the pageant, an annual
event at Agnes Scott. At a meet-
ing in the near future the com-
mittees will decide upon exact
dates for both the selection of
the queen and court and the pres-

Expert on Oil Resources to Speak on
"Strategic Minerals in War and Peace"

Kirtley Fletcher Mather, eminent Harvard geologist and
explorer in the oil fields of the western United States, Bolivia
and Alaska, will lecture next Tuesday evening in Presser hall
as the second of Lecture Association's speakers for the current

I school year.

His lecture on "Strategic Min-
erals in War and Peace" will be-
gin at 8:30 p. m., according to
Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of Lecture Association.

Professor Mather was educated
at Denison University, the Uni-
versity of Chicago, and Colby Col-
lege. A member of Phi Beta Kap-
pa, he has received two degrees
of Doctor of Science, one from
Denison and another from Colby.
He earned his Ph.D. at the Uni-
versity of Chicago.

He has been a member of the
faculties of the University of Ar-
kansas, the University of Chicago,
Denison, Harvard, and Queen's
College in Kingston, Ontario.

He is at present professor of
Geology at Harvard, a position he
has held since 1927. For the past
ten years he has been director of
the university's summer school.

His work also includes being
chairman of the editorial board
of the Scientific Book club and
president of the Institute of
Propaganda Analysis.

In recent years Dr. Mather has
done extensive research on the oil
resources of the United States and
has published many magazine ar-
ticles on the subject.

Explorer
Aside from his work in the fields
of education, Professor Mather has
done outstanding work in the
realms of exploration. He has
been a geologist with the U. S.
Geological Survey since 1919.

Dr. Mather is a frequent con-
tributor to government bulletins,
technical periodicals, and other
leading magazines. He is the auth-
or of several books including
"Science in Search of God," "Sons
of the Earth," and "Mother
Earth."

His most recent work is
"Enough and to Spare; Mother
Earth Can Nournish Every Man
in Freedom," to be released by
Harper and Brothers early in
March. Professor Mather expects
to use some of the material in
this new book in his Agnes Scott,
lecture.

Student admission to the lecture
is by the student lecture ticket
given to each student last fall.
Admission for outsiders is 55 cents,
tax included.

J/ud Week . . .

Thursday, Jan. 20 8:00 p. m.
Eta Sigma Phi Spelling Bee in
Maclean.

Friday, Jan. 21 A. A. recognition

program in chapel.
Saturday, Jan. 22 8:00 p. m.

War Council films in Maclean
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p. m.
Kirtley Mather lecture in Gaines
chapel, followed by reception
Wednesday, Jan. ?6 Mrs. Sims'
talk in chapel.

Mrs. Sims Schedules
Four Chapel Talks

Mrs. Roff Sims, assistant pro-
fessor of history, will give an
analysis of current events at the
following Wednesday chapel hours :
Jan. 26, Feb. 23, April 15 and May
3.

No analyses will be given during
the month of March.

May Queen Nominations
Will Begin Tomorrow

Nominations for the Queen of
the 1944 May Day Court will be
made between Jan. 20 and Jan.
27. Boxes for nominations are be
ing placed in the lobby of Buttrick
and in the gym.

Voting for the Queen, who must
be a senior, will be held the fol
lowing week.

Tommie Huie Wins Contest
With 'Making of Rainbow 7

Jean Clarkson, May Day chairman, announced this week
the selection of Tommie Huie's "The Making of the Rainbow"
as the scenario to be used in this year's May Day festival.
Jean Rooney, whose "Fairy Land" won second place in the
contest, will work with Tommie on the revision of the scenario.
The action of the story con-

entation of the pageant itself. Ac-
cording to the usual custom, nom-
inations for the queen and court
will be made some time during
the last part of January or first
part of February.

As has been done for several
years past, Mrs. Adolph Lapp and
Miss Eugenie Dozier, instructors in
the physical education department,
will again direct the dancing. Act-
ing as faculty advisors will be
Miss Ellen Douglass Leyburn, as-
sociate professor of English, and
Miss Susan Cobbs, acting professor
of Latin and Greek.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

In view of its overwhelming
popularity and success, the Re-
creation Leaders course, under the
direction of Miss Wilburn, is con-
tinuing to meet each Tuesday and
Thursday. About 47 students are
taking the course.

The group's two meetings have
been well and enthusiastically at-
tended. Last Tuesday evening Miss
Dorothy Fugitt, of the Napsonian
school, was guest speaker. She
discussed game leadership and
the meeting was climaxed by the
playing of various games by the
group. On last Thursday Mr. Milo
Henke, secretary of Boys' Work
at the Atlanta Y. M. C. A., lec-
tured on "The Basic Principles of
Group Work."

Week after next, on Tuesday,
Jan. 25 at 2 o'clock, the group is
planning to entertain on campus
Miss Helen Dauncy, of the Na-
tional Recreation Association, who
will tell of her work in New York.
Miss Dauncy is being brought to
Decatur by the Decatur Recrea-
tion Department to lead their con-
ference on recreational leadership.
The basketball season really
got underway last Friday night
with two breath-taking games,
in which the seniors and the
sophomores proved victorious.
The seniors trampled the jun-
iors to a 27-19 victory, in spite
of the beautiful work of the
junior's forwards. The fresh-
men and the sophomores battled
a close game, until fate inter-
vened, and the end of the game
found the sophs on top, 26-24.

This Friday at 4 o'clock the
seniors meet the sophomores,
and the juniors meet the fresh-
men. What happens when those

Frosh Elect Sponsors

At a class meeting Friday the
freshman class elected Robert B.
Holt, professor of chemistry, and
Miss Abbie Rutledge, instructor in
physical education, as class spon-
sors, whom they will honor at a
tea Jan. 20.

During the meeting the fresh-
men also created a freshman
council to aid the class officers
with their duties. Elected to the
council were Mary Jane Love,
Nellie Scott, Margaret Kelley,
Betty Andrews, and Shannon Du-
Bose.

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junior forwards face those de-
termined freshman guards
should provide a game worth
seeing.

The shuttlecocks are flying these
Thursday afternoons in the gym,
so grab a battledore (a racket to
you), and come on down. About
thirty attended the first meeting
of the badminton club last Thurs-
day, and many others expressed
interest. There are no try-outs;
whoever is interested may join.
If you can hold a racket, and can
see the shuttlecock (oh, well,
Thursday afternoon was incon-
venient for me anyway), there's a
place for you in this club. Inci-
dentally, if Thursday afternoon is
inconvenient for you too, the meet-
ings will alternate, half during the
afternoons and half at night.

Scene Around the Gym The
enthusiasm of the freshmen (they
must take vitamins) . . . the
faces of the two new Board mem-
bers: Ann Stein, the freshman
representative, and Zena Harris
Tempkin, the new badminton
manager . . . Miss Dozier, whose
arrival we all look forward to
winter quarter, and whom we al-
ways like to see around . . . the
junior forwards, whose teamwork
is beautiful to behold . . . signs
of May Day plans . . . roller skates
getting oiled . . . wet tennis courts.

Not Seen The crank that
closes the windows in the gym,
and Mrs Lapp. The crank came
home. We all hope Mrs. Lapp
will soon.

AA to Fete Winners
Of Athletic Contests

A summary of fall quarter ath-
letic activities will be the theme
of an athletic association chapel,
Friday, Jan. 21. Highlighting the
program will be the presentation
of the tennis plaque for singles,
which goes for the fourth succes-
sive time to Virginia Tuggle, and
the awarding of the swimming
plaque to the senior class. The
varsity and sub-varsity hockey
teams and the new members of
the various active sports clubs
will be read.

A. A. pins are to be awarded to
a number of girls whose names
have not yet been disclosed. The
A. A. pin has taken the place of
the "letters" for the 'past few
years. To receive a pin, a girl
must have a total of 1600 points,
which may be obtained by active
membership in sports clubs, vars-
ity and sub-varsity teams, and by
participation in tournaments.

New Art Exhibition Shows
Work of Georgia Artists

The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Association of
Georgia Artists came to the campus last week for a showing
to last through Jan. 24. The exhibition is being shown in the
art gallery on the third floor of the library.

Included in the show are works by Lt. George Cress, Lor-
rain Harris, Harold Sheffield, and

29 through

Ted Waters, winners of purchase
prizes; and Laura Blackshear, Ath-
ens painter; Marjorie Bush-Brown,
of Atlanta; Lamar Dodd, head of
the art department of the Univers-
ity of Georgia; and Howard Thom-
as, art director at Agnes Scott.

The jury for the show included
Howard Thomas, Marjorie Bush-
Brown, and Eugene Payor of Ath-
ens.

Gallery hours at Agnes Scott
are daily from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m.
and 7:30 p. m. to 10:00 p. m., Sat-
urday from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m.

The next exhibition will be water
colors by Holderman and Olsen to

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Sophs Defeat Frosh, Seniors
Down Juniors in Opening Tilt

By Ruth Ryner

Basketball season was officially ushered in Friday night
by two contests in which the sophomores downed the fresh-
men 26-24, and the juniors bowed to the seniors, 27-19.

The freshman-sophomore clash was a wild affair through-
out, showing the keen rivalry between both players and spec-
tators. In the opening few min-
utes of the game the frosh gain
ed a quick lead which they man
aged to hold well into the second
quarter of play. Just before half
time the sophs rallied and sank
several short shots to come out
at the half leading by two points
14-12.

Defensive Play Good

The second half featured excel-
lent defensive play. Sophomore
guards Kelly, McCain and Phelps
showed real teamwork in dribbling
and passing. The sophs managed
to hold a slight lead despite con
tinued threats by the determined
frosh.

In the last quarter the two
teams kept matching goals until
the sophomores, with a close two-
point lead, succeeded in "freezing"
the ball until the final whistle.
The final score stood 26-24.
Juniors Take Lead
The tilt between the juniors
and seniors got off to a quick
start with the junior forwards run-
ning up the score in the first few
minutes of the game. Their ac-
curacy in passing and shooting
kept the seniors on the defensive
until the second quarter, when the
tide started to turn. The senior
forwards started breaking toward
the goal while the guards held the
junior scorers back The score
at half time gave the seniors a
safe lead, 19-13.

In the second half the juniors
tried to overtake the small senior
lead but were unable to start a
strong offensive move. The sen-
iors' excellent dribbling and
shooting, led bf Virginia Tuggle
and Ruth Farrior, kept them on
the offensive throughout the rest
of the game. When the game end-
ed, the seniors won 27-19.

The line-ups for both games are
as follows:

be shown from Jan.
Feb. 15.

Lamar Dodd Begins
New Art Series

A new series of art lectures by
Lamar Dodd, head of the art de-
partment of the University of
Georgia, and frequent visitor to
the Agnes Scott campus, began
last Friday when he gave the first
in a series of illustrated discus-
sions in the field of painting. His
subject was "Comparisons."

Speaking of the series, Howard
Thomas, head of the Agnes Scott
department of art, said, "In gen-
eral the lecture will attempt to
answer these questions: What do
we see? How do we see? What
is the creative process in paint-
ing? What are the fundamental
elements in painting? What are
the fundamental forms in paint-
ing?"

Other lectures in the series will
be given on Jan. 28, Feb. 11, and
Feb. 25 at 5 p. m. in 103 Buttrick.

The Varsity

Curb Service

Sophomores

Freshmen

Melchor (2)

R.F.

Hough (3)

Ryner (6)

L.F.

Andrews. B. (6)

Purcell (8)

C.

Heery (13)

McCain

B.C.

Dennlne

Phelpe

L.G.

Radford

Kelly

C.

LI dell

Substitutions :

Sophomores. Stephenson.

Johnson (6). Limbert (4),

Miller.

Seniors

Juniors

TucRle (11)

R.F.

CumminR (9)

Farrior (10)

L.F.

Milam

'>av. B. (4)

C.

Munroe (8)

Walkor. B

B.C.

Gray. R.

Donglii

L.G.

Webb. A.

Hill. G.

C.

Carter. V.

Substitutions :

Seniors.

Harvard (2).

D'ummoud. Young.
Bowie.

Juniors, Holmes (2),

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Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The prize for really getting around this week goes to "G. G."
Gilliland, Dot Pierce and Louisa Aichel who were seen at the
McArthur Room, Ship Ahoy, Paradise Room and the Royal
Palm all during the course of Saturday evening. At the Rain-
bow Roof Saturday was Shirley Heller, while Louise Starr,
Emily Higgins, and Jean Satter-

while were at the Royal Palm.
Betty Sullivan was dancing at the
Paradise Room.

Still rushing at the Dental Col-
lege last week were Claire Ben-
nett and Carolyn Daniel who were
seen several times at the Psi O
house. "Squee" Woolford and
Sweetie Calley attended the Delta
Sig house dance Tuesday night;
Dot Wadlington rushed for the
Zip's.

Athletic Dates

Many of the dates during the
weekend must have been feeling
athletic because sports have offer-
ed a large part of the entertain-
ment recently. Julia Harvard, Pat-
ty Barbour, Polly Cook, and Leila
Holmes attended the swimming
meet at Emory. Horseback riding
not long ago were Shannon Du-
Bose, Frances DuBose, v Tommie
Huie and Tess Carlos. And did
you see Alice Gordon, Cathy
Steinbach and Mary Carr bowl-
ing Saturday night?

Agnes Scott girls attending the
city wide Baptist Skating Party
were Jean Dunham, Cookie De-
Vane, Peggy Trice, Nancy Moore,
Lorraine Griffin, Mary Louise
Law, Johnnie Mae Tippen, and
Dottie Dunstan.

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Seen at Tech
At Teeh last weekend were Jean
Stewart and Dootsie Gardiner at
the Pi KA dance. Anne Wheeler,
Glassel Beale and Louise Crawley
were at the SPE dance Saturday.
At the Sigma Nu banquet and
dance Friday night at the Driving
Club were Kitty Kay, Betty
Glenn, Betty Davis, and Hansell
Cousar.

Some of the interesting out-of-
town visitors have been Peggy
Kelly's Tommy from Camp
Wheeler, and Joan Crangle's and
Gloria Gaines' visitors from Fort
McClelland. Margaret McManus
had company from Clemson, while
Bety Jean Radford's was from
Emory-at-Oxford. Sweetie Calley's
unexpected guest was from Spence
Field in Moultrie. Visiting Athens
arid Lu Cunningham's brother,
who is stationed there in the pre-
flight training school, were Lu,
Jean Chewning, and Robin Robin-
son.

Betty Allen gave a birthday' par-
ty on first floor Inman for "Tin-
kum" Iverson . . . the concert at-
tracted many Agnes Scott girls and
their dates Saturday night . . .
Martha Rhodes is wearing Ivan's
Boy Scout pin! . . . Nita Hewell
went to Athens for the weekend
. Happyrock entertained with
a steak supper Friday night for
his friends in Main . . . Carolyn
Fuller spent the weekend in Lynch-
burg, and Barbara Frink is
just back from Washington . . .
Ruth Setel was seen at the Em-
pire Room.

Elizabeth Harris and her father
took Hilda Tabor, Mary Ann
Gaunt, Martha Ball, and Betty
Turner to the Paradise Room
Thursday night for dinner. Fri-
day night Martha Ball's daddy
took Elizabeth Harris, Anne Eid-
son, Mary Ann Gaunt, Mary Anne
Jefferies, Hilda Tabor and Martha
Ball to the Paradise Room again.
What a life!

Save This Paper

There is a critical shortage of
paper. Even this copy of the
News, in the hands of the waste
paper salvage committee of the
junior class becomes a potential
material of war. Save all dis-
carded newspaper, magazines,
and other paper products so
that they may be made into
containers for blood plasma and
food for the fighting men. Have
your waste paper ready when a
junior comes for it.

Mather, Defender of Evolution
Makes Even Earthquakes Fun

By Mary Ann Courtenay

At the lecture which eminent geologist Kirtley Mather will
give here next Tuesday, Miss Ruth Domincovitch, instructor
of Spanish, will probably sit on the front row and expect to
answer questions from her former geology teacher. To fill
her science requirement at Radcliffe College, Miss Dominco-
vitch chose a course, Geology 1,

Lecture Association,
Science Department,
Others to be Hosts

Chi Beta Phi and War Council,
assisting Lecture Association, will
present Professor Kirtley Mather,
Harvard geologist, at a reception
in Murphey Candler following his
lecture Tuesday night, Jan. 25.

Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of Lecture Association,
with Betty Sullivan, student chair-
man of the organization, and Pro-
fessor Mather will form the re-
ceiving line.

Mrs. Schuyler M. Christian and
Mrs. Ernest H. Runyon will pour
coffee.

The following faculty members
will act as hosts: Miss Mary S.
MacDougall, Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert B. Holt, Mrs. William Fox,
Miss Francess McCalla, Miss Lew-
is Lipps, Miss Emma McGinty,
Miss Mildred Mell, Miss Emily
Phillips, Miss Florence Smith,
Miss Annie May Christie, Miss
Philippa Gilchrist and Mr. Ernest
Runyon.

The college community is in-
vited to attend with friends and
families.

at "The Museum" under the' fam-
ous Harvard professor.

She looks back with enthusiasm
at the times he used to color his
classes with moving pictures and
the experiences he had while tak-
ing them. He was showing slides
of erupting Vesuvius one day, she
recalls, and was explaining that
the heat had singed the hair off
his hands. He finished the lecture
by the remark, "Now I have done
my bit for geology 1."

Earthquake Tales

Another instance she remem-
bers came in a lecture on earth-
quakes. First he precautioned the
class to stay in the innermost
corner of a room, to look at their
watches, to note which way the
chandelier was swinging, and to
notify the Harvard Geological So-
ciety when one occurred. Then he
told them a story of a traveling
salesman who was the only hotel
occupant to refuse to evacuate his
bed during an earthquake. He just

turned over and groaned, "Chang-
ing cars at Altoona."

Although he himself is from the
midwest, Kirtley Mather is one
of the old Cotton Mather family.
He is a popular speaker at Cam-
bridge, where Miss Domincovitch
and her classmates used to go en
masse to hear him address the
young people at the nearby Bap-
tist church.

In Scopes Trial
Dr. Mather defended evolution
in the famous Scopes case in
which John T. Scopes was tried
for teaching evolution in a Dayton,
Tenn., school. Mather, according
to Miss Domincovitch, was award-
ed a medal with a monkey's pic-
ture on it.

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dent of Student Government, ex
officia. They would have all juris-
diction in both major and minor
cases.

During the discussion of the
proposal President McCain sug-
gested that as an experiment the
present executive committee be
divided into judicial and executive
groups to try out the suggested
changes.

Student Government President
Anne Ward, the changes commit-
tee and those who would be mem-
bers of the new executive body
if accepted will meet on Thursday
to discuss the matter further be-
fore presenting it to the student
body as a whole.

War Council to Show
Films Saturday Nisht

Marjorie Tippins, student chair-
man of public instruction, an
nounced yesterday that War Coun
cil will present two films, "Desert
Victory" and "The Pilot Is Safe,"
Saturday, Jan. 22, at 8 p. m. in
Maclean . auditorium.

"Desert Victory" has just been
chosen by the National Board of
Review of Motion Pictures as the
best documentary film of the year.
Admission ten cents.

Classicists Elect Four

Eta Sigma Phi, honorary classi-
cal society, initiated its four new
members at a meeting held Mon-
day, Jan. 17. The initiates are
Tommie Huie, Lib Osborne, Mar-
guerite Toole, and Jane Smith.

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At the invitation of Miss Angela
Campbell of the Spanish depart-
ment at Rollins College, Miss
Eugenie Dozier, instructor in the
physical education department,
will participate for the second
time in a program of Spanish
dances at "Casa Iberia," a well-
known center of Spanish culture
in this country at the Inter-Amer-
ican Center of Rollins College,
Winter Park, Florida.

The program of Spanish dances
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Secuona, "Sevilla" and "Legenda"
by Albeniz, and "Gitanaza," a folk
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944

Duffee Writes

Column Left

By Mary Louise Duffee

(Not red. but read; left, may-
be, but not forgotten we hope.)
The red will be in the face if
anywhere; conservative air may
be breathed in this space.

Student government is study-
ing" student government may
it be objective and subjective.
And may the student body study
the student body and then
throw the first stone. But that
is for Tess . . .

But, having fudged on Tessie's
column, I might as well get in
on Drummond's Sports. The most
outstanding sport at the basket-
ball games Friday night was Peg-
gy Kelly, who uses the principal
of psychological warfare while in
combat. No athlete, I wouldn't
come near her stamping foot for
any little old ball.

And then there's wrestling
which I report from an eyewit-
ness account. It seems that last
Wednesday evening, while Day
Student Virginia Tuggle sat
reading in the room-pro vided-
for-her-class-of-student-to-study
in-in - the - basement - of - Main,
Mary Florence "Flossy" McKee
walked in and challenged Tuggle
to a "wrestling match." Tuggle
laughed, refused, was told she
must be scared, got up from her
chair. Outstretched foot-bang-
I crash-finish. Said Flossy: "This
is the most inglorious defeat I
have ever suffered." (Why, Flos-
sy, what were the others?)
Chuckled Tuggle: "I don't get
it yet."

Ever noticed the colors of the
class uniforms ?
The freshmen are green,
The seniors are blue;
The sophomores are peaches,
(And I blush when I say that the
juniors are yellow!)
Headline: "Billy Walker Re-
veals Basketball Schedule"
Where you been hiding it, Billy?
Classified ad: Anyone seeing
Carolyn Fuller floating around the
campus will please return her to
her room in White House or turn
her over to one of her friends.
Joyce Freeman is having a
schedule conflict with trains.
While making wedding plans she
found that even when the Army
will cooperate with a leave,
the railroad company won't with
a departing train until five or
more hours after the wedding.
The following notice is promin-
ently displayed in Boyd cottage:
"Applications for night passes
should be placed at house meeting.
Please consider carefully before
making a request. (Signed)
G. P. U."

Poem: Or, "He Gets a Week-
. end Pass and Comes to See Her"
Communicate,
Elaborate,
Wait;
Associate,
Celebrate:
Recuperate.
Date? Fate.
Speaking of babies (who was?j
did you see Mary Martin's very
young niece causing all the ex-
citement in the dining room Mon-
day night, and Miss Hunter pre-
siding at the readjustment of the
infant's three-cornered garment?
And then there is the junior who
writes "Babyland" instead of
Babylon on all of her Bible notes!

The science and psychology
majors aren't the only ones con-
ducting an experiment. Mr. Thom-
as' beginners' art class is doing
research on "How long it takes
fingers to become numb while
they are in motion drawing trees
outside in freezing weather."

3ut I only want to see what my War

BnnHs art* hii^rin6 "

Now Is the Time for Student Action

On the front page of last week's News were
two significant headlines. One said "Commit-
tee Will Consider Student Government
Changes," and the other, "Group to Study
Nominating Committee."

Those statements have the potentiality of
meaning more to the student body than any
that have been made in several years. They
mention changes and changes should mean
progress.

There is undoubtedly something wrong with
every form of government, and there are al-
ways complaints to be heard from the people
living under any government. The unique
thing about the student body on this campus in
the past has been that they complained en-
thusiasticallyand passed up chances for ac-
tion with indifference. If the findings anq[
recommendations of the committee consider-
ing student government changes are met with
indifference, or even passive or unthinking ac-
ceptance, then the criticism from now on
should be for the lethargy of the student body
not for the structure of government which
it theoretically creates.

Certainly the investigation steps taken have
been the result, at least in part, of student
pressure and complaint. How far the steps
will go or what they will mean will also de-
pend on the students, in the final results.

By "considering" changes in government
and "studying and re-evaluating" the nomina-
tion committee, the administration and the

From the Editor

Strictly for Georgians if you're over 18
and haven't registered to vote in state, coun-
ty and city elections yet, do it immediately.
It's bad enough to have that indifferent atti-
tude toward school voting, but this is a
more important matter. We won the right
to vote the hard way, and we were the first
teen agers in the nation to do it. Please don't
fall down on the job now, when the critical
eyes of older voters are turned on us, search-
ing for some mistake so they can cry "I told
you so."

Everything possible has been said. Now
all that remains to be done is to make an
appointment at the blood bank. At the mom-
ent it seems to be rather indefinite when, or
if, the mobile unit will return to the campus.
If there's no news by next week the Atlanta
center is still there and begging for donors.

Question: Why go to chapel if you're going
to study instead of listening? From a logical
standpoint it would be more efficient to stay
away from chapel when you wanted to study
and go to chapel when you were really inter-
ested in listening. Or so I have found. At any
rate, chapel is not the place to catch up
on French verb declensions. Chapel is the
place where we are all supposed to be five
mornings a week.

student government executive committee have
cracked the door of opportunity for student
body action.

The door is cracked for goodness sakes,
students put your foot in it! For every kick
you have, vote when a vote comes up; for ev-
ery rule you dislike or think unfair, go to
chapel and take part in a student meeting.

M. L. D.

Woman of the Year

Recognition came last week to one of the
most beloved people on the Agnes Scott cam-
pus Miss MacDougall. In naming her "At-
lanta's Woman of the Year in Education,"
the committee of Atlanta educators mirrored
the feelings not only of the hundreds of biology
majors taught by Miss Mac, but also of all
those on the campus who have watched her
go her quiet unassuming way, never quite
realizing whaf a great person she was.

The committee who chose her made these
observations "With all her training, recogni-
tion, and honors, she is a very quiet lady who
never seeks publicity and who is very much
absorbed in her teaching and in her students.
. . . She is greatly beloved."

At the end of this week Miss MacDougall,
along with the other six "Women of the
Year" will attend a banquet, perhaps to be
named THE "Woman of the Year." How-
ever, no matter what the outcome, "Miss Mac"
is always our Woman of the Year, for the
quiet way in which she does her work and
for the many traits of character which have
endeared her to students for almost 24 years.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1944 No. 11

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Asnes 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, $1.25; single copies, five cents.

Editor MADELINE ROSE H0SMER

Managing Editor . MARY CARR

Business Manager JUNE LAN IKK

Assistant Editors Editorial Assistant

Betty Glenn
Inge Probsteln Feature Editor

Mary Louise Duffee
Advertising Managers Tess Carlos

Liz Carpenter Cartoonists
Frances King Sally Sue Stephenson

Jane Anne Newton
Sports Editor Anne Lee

Margaret Drummond Elolse Lyndon

Circulation Manager
Society Editor Carolyn Calhoun

Camilla Moore Circulation Assistants

Copy Editor Mary Russell

Leila Holmes Marlon Leathers

Reporters: Marlon Knapp. Betty Burress. Kathryne
Thompson Manpira. Pauline Ertz, Jean McCurry.
Martha Arnold. Carolyn Fuller, Lib Farmer, Wendy Whit-
tle, Betty Wade. LoOMfl Breedln. Pat Elam, Olive Hansen.
Martha Baker, Anne Register, Manraret Edelmann. Eliza-
beth Srott. Connie Fraser. .Tr-anne Rochelle. Jeanne Addi-
son. Joy^e Gllleland. Jan<- Bowman. Sara Jean Clark. Doro-
thy Lee Webb. Alice Gordon. Che NHlans. Anne Noell.
Jean Rooney. Ann Soltzlneer. Martha Whatley Yates, Carol
Mspon, Margaret Boar. Mary Andorson Courtenay. Mar-
jorie Cole.

Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner. Peggy Kelly, Sally Sue
Stephenson. Bettye Lee Phelps.

Column Right

By Tess Carlos

The very passage of the plan of
Town Hall meetings to be held ev-
ery other Friday afternoon points
out the need for which the plan
was suggested. The meeting held
to consider the proposal lasted
about four minutes two of them
taken up by the committee of in-
vestigation, one for voting, and the
remaining one for incidental con-
fusion. And the general consen-
sus of opinion ran like this "If
the student body had a chance to
speak, they would have made so
many changes and passed and un-
passed so many amendments that
the plan which is the best sug-
gestion yet made to remedy the
situation would have been a mis-
erable failure? Whose fault is it?
Town Hall meetings should not
imply argumentative bull sessions
they are an advance in the right
direction. It is now up to the
student body to make them work
since they are the only free chan-
nel of campus opinion.

Since student government has
been so active Lately in form-
ing committees, perhaps it
would be wise to look at the
two main committees formed.
One committee will consider stu
dent government changes and
the other the nominating; com-
mittee. All this is well and
good. But the observer is struck
by these two defects a dupli-
cation of committee members,
and no possible way for students
to give their own suggestions!
The committee considering
student government changes is
made up of a chairman and five
members. The student members
of the administrative committee
which considers the findings of
the changes committee, are five.
The student government commit-
tee studying the unfair nominat-
ing committee is made up of
three members. Two members of
the changes committee make up
two-thirds of this important com-
mittee considering the most con-
troversial nominating committee.
And two students on the admin-
istrative committee which is to
pass on the findings of the changes
committee are on the changes
committee itself.

Is there such a lack of good
minds ? In the announcements of
the formation of the committees
as published in the Agnes Scott
News last week no mention was
made Of how interested students
could inform these student gov-
ernment committees of what
the thought. Therefore, is that
prohibited ?
Here is a suggestion that may
help out in the recording of pomts
received in War Council activities.
The charts made up of two sides
and including day students are up
in the dormitories. Most day stu-
dents know nothing of this. Most
of the student body can not re-
member the number of points
gained for each activity since
there is no listing of this on the
chart. Perhaps the charts can be
located more central places (But-
trick), the number of points for
each activity given on the chart
itself, competition between the
sides played up more.

The success of the IRC fireside
chat and the senior benefit
bridge was overwhelming. Now,
on Thursday night at 8 in Mac-
lean Eta Sijcma Phi is holding
a spelling match preliminaries
first between the four classes
and a final match between stu-
dent champions and five facul-
ty members. Here, too, all prof-
its go to the war fund drive.
It promises to be a lot of fun.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944

No. 12

Eta Sigma Phi, IRC, Seniors
Collect $63 for War Fund

Cathy Steinbach, chairman of the War Fund drive, an-
nounced this week that a special drive for individual con-
tributions will be made through February 5.

To date only $160 of the total $1,000 pledged has been raised,
$63 of this amount having been contributed in the past two

weeks by the senior class,

Geologist Tells
Of Experiences

From geologist to witness in
the famous Scopes trial to presi-
dent of the Institute of Propagan-
da Analysis sounds more like a
football play than the course of
the career of Kirtley Mather, Har-
vard geologist, who lectured in
Presser last night.

"It's not as impossible as you
would think," said Dr. Mather in
an interview Tuesday morning.
"One thing just naturally led to
another. As a geologist I was in-
terested in adult education con-
vincing the world that there is
enough and to spare of the world's
resources. My interest in adult
education led to an interest in
propaganda and the first thing I
knew I was president of the In-
stitute."

"As for the Scopes trial, I was
a natural. A geologist, with an
interest in paleontology, a deacon
in the Baptist church, and teach-
er of an adult Sunday School
class nothing could have been
better to prove that religion and
the ideas of evolution do not con-
flict."

His interest in paleontology was
acquired while he was a professor
of geology at the University of
Arkansas. The reason for his be-
ing at the University is an inter-
esting story.

"You see," he said, "I left grad-
uate school at the end of my sec-
ond year, because I had a girl and
wanted to get married. So I took
the professorship at the Univers-
ity of Arkansas and we were mar-
ried. And the research in paleon-
tology that I did there was re-
sponsible for my being in Dayton,
Tenn., in 1925."

Dr. Mather, who lectured on the
strategic position of minerals in
war and in peace, placed the date
of the surrender of Germany to
the United Nations at between
May and Novmber of this year.
In his opinion the defeat of Japan
will take from one to two more
years.

"And I don't think that Ger-
many will surrender until they see
the bayonets of the enemy over
the tops of the fox-holes. Air force
alone will not accomplish the end."

Blood Bank Cancels
Visit This Quarter

Due to a full schedule which
was booked several months in ad-
vance the Red Cross Blood Donor
Bureau will be unable to send its
mobile bank to Agnes Scott.

The need for blood donors is
still great, and all students are
urged to meet it. Appointments
can be made through Mrs. Robert
B. Holt at the Blood Donor Bu-
reau in the First National Bank
Building in Decatur, DE. 5624, and
at the Blood Donor Center, 291
Peachtree, N. E., in Atlanta.

Eta

Sigma Phi, and the International
Relations club. Chairman Stein-
bach emphasized that it is individ-
ual contributions which are most
needed.

Representatives among the
boarders and day students will
collect contributions during the
week of the special drive. A con-
tribution of approximately $2 from
each student would fill the total
amount pledged.

Class organizations have also
announced War Fund projects,
the first of which will be the
juniors' combination cabaret par-
ty and Mardi Gras, to be held in
the gym on a date to be an-
nounced later. Joan Stevenson is
in charge of arrangements for the
entertainment, which this year
will take the place of the tradi-
tional junior banquet.

The sophomores plan to present
a musicale of popular classics on
April 26 in Presser hall, the pro-
ceeds to go to the War Fund.
Rosemary Jones will be in charge
of the Freshman Shoe Shop, which
will be operated for the War
Fund's benefit.

Nominating System Under Re-
investigating Group to Report

Quarfef Plays
With Hodgson

Hugh Hodgson, part-time pro-
fessor of music at Agnes Scott,
spent last weekend in Chicago,
where he played with the Roth
String Quarter in a concert given
at Kimball hall on Sunday after-
noon.

Mr. Hodgson and the quartet
played the "Shostakovich Quintet"
which they presented together last
fall when Mr. Hodgson was in
New York.

The Roth Quartet will be in
Georgia, Feb. 10 and 11, to play
for the Music Festival at the Uni-
versity of Georgia. On Saturday,
Feb. 12, at 8:30 p. m., they will
appear with Mr. Hodgson in a
concert at the Woman's Club of
Atlanta sponsored by the choir of
St. Luke's Episcopal Church for
the benefit of the Organ Fund.
The "Shostakovich Quintet" will
be presented again on this oc-
casion.

Plans are being made for a per-
formance in Washington some
time this spring, where one of
Mr. Hodgson's own compositions is
to be played.

NeWest Library Exhibits
Feature South, Vocations

The words "Way Down in Dixie," fashioned from real cot-
ton, herald the library's latest exhibit glorifying the South in
all its aspects economic, social, humorous, political, folkways
and artistic. Librarian Edna Ruth Hanley, ever ingenious,
unearthed a road map of the southeastern states to comple-
ment the exhibit.

Some of the exciting sounding
and looking books on display are
"Women of the Confederacy";
"Slave Songs of Georgia Sea Is-
lands"; "The Fighting South";
"Roll, Jordan, Roll"; "Fanny
Kemble, a Passionate Victorian";
"Race: Science and Politics," and
many, many others.

Women in Medicine

Mortar Board is sponsoring a
weekly series of vocational ex-
hibits. This week the exhibit is
Women in Medicine. Catalogues

Frosh Double Dates,
Church Cuts Granted

Members of the freshman class
were given the double-dating priv-
ilege upon their return from the
Christmas holiday, according to
Dean Carrie Scandrett.

According to Miss Scandrett,
"Double-dating is a privilege, and
each girl carries the success of the
plan as a personal responsibility."

The plan of allowing unlimited
church cuts for winter quarter,
announced at house meetings last
week, is an experiment of Student
Government. Although there is no
limit to the number of times a
boarder may cut church this quar-
ter, she is asked to sign for church
cuts in the housebook as usual so
that accurate results of the exper-
iment may be obtained.

from nursing schools all over the
country are shown. Especially
stressed is the government's re-
quest for volunteers in the U. S.
Cadet Nurses Corps. Miss Han-
ley urges all interested students
to come in and find out about
this much-needed program financ-
ed by the government.

Miss Hanley has announced that
the next vocational guidance ex-
hibit will be on radio, journalism,
and writing, listing opportunities
and various types of work open to
women. The exhibit will include
"On My Own," autobiography of
Mary Lamar Knight, a foreign
correspondent. Mary Knight is an
Agnes Scott graduate of the class
of 1022.

The Unconquerables

A new exhibit, designed to make
students more conscious of the re-
cently inaugurated Fourth War
Loan Drive, will consist of Joseph
Auslander's tribute to the sub-
merged peoples of Europe. The li-
brary will display five colorful pos-
ters and poems, each entitled "An
Open Letter." They are addressed
to the unconquerable Norwegians,
Poles, Dutch, Czechoslovaks, and
Greeks.

Also on display is Mr. Ausland-
er's new book, "The Unconquer-
ables," comprising the above-men-
tioned poems and many more. The
author subtitles his volume "Sa-
lutes to the Undying Spirit of
the Nazi-Occupied Countries."

Suggestions from members of the student body concerning
changes m the nominating system resulted in the appoint-
ment of a committee from exec to study the present system
and suggestions.

Tomorrow in chapel studen ts will hear the report of the
~ ~ committee, composed of Mary

Town Meeting to Gather
In Maclean Chapel Friday

Due to plans previously made
for a freshman tea in Murphey
Candler, Friday, Jan. 28, the
Town Meeting will be held in the
Maclean chapel at 4:00 p, m.

Regularly Town Meeting will
gather in Murphey Candler on
alternate Fridays.

Co-Translators
Win Acclaim

A translation of Carlos Gonza-
lez Pena's "History of Mexican
Literature" by Mrs. Florene John-
son Dunstan, assistant professor
of Spanish at Agnes Scott, and
Gusta B. Nance, assistant profes-
sor, of comparative literature at
Southern Methodist University, has
recently been released.

"The present work appears at
a most auspicious moment," says
Angel Flores, of the Division of
Intellectual Cooperation of the
Pan American Union, "Gonzalez
Pena's History of Mexican Litera-
ture" is, beyond any doubt, the
most sober, best rounded work on
the subject . . . one that delves
into the economic, social, and po-
litical factors which ultimately
determine cultural phenomena."
The translators are to be con-
gratulated, says Angel Flores, on
their work and on their choice of
an author.

Mr. Pena covers the history of
Mexican literature from the 16th
century to the present day. "He
tells the supremely thrilling story
of real men and women dram-
atic, varied, individual against
the background of Mexico's four
centuries of conflict and creation."

A grant was advanced for the
publishing of the translation by
the Office of the Co-ordinator of
Inter-American Affairs. It was
felt the work would further a
much-needed understanding of
Mexican culture.

Rebekah Switzer, author of the
text used in Spanish 101, and a
widely recognized authority on
Spanish literature, has given the
work favorable comment in the
Southwest Review. The work will
be reviewed by the Saturday Re-
view of Literature and other na-
tional literary magazines.

Musicale to Feature
Piano and Violin Music

The semi-monthly musicale to
be presented on Monday, Jan. 31,
will be a program of piano and
violin music presented by C. W.
Dieckmann, professor of music;
Miss Eda E. Bartholomew, pianist,
and Miss Ruth Dabney Smith, vio-
linist. The program will begin at
8 p. m. in Presser hall.

Cumming, Clare Bedinger, and
Marjorie Naab.

The present system is a com-
bination of popular and commit-
tee nominations, one candidate
being nominated by the nominat-
ing committee for each office
on the ballot. Popular and com-
mittee nominees are posted at
the same time. The nominating
committee is composed of the
presidents and vice-presidents of
Student Government, Christian
Association, and Athletic Associa-
tion; the editors and business
managers of Silhouette, Agnes
Scott News, and Aurora; the stu-
dent recorder, the day student
representative, and the president
of Mortar Board.

The committee appointed from
exec has considered the question
of the nominating committee in
two ways: first, by taking stu-
dent suggestions, and second, by
making a survey of the methods
used in other schools similar to
Agnes Scott.

From the students have come
the following suggestions:
Suggested Changes
1. The nominating committee
should be retained, but with some
changes :

A. The committee should put up
two candidates instead of one.

B. The distinction made be-
tween committee and popular
nominees should be changed:

1. List the committee nominee
along with the popular nominees
alphabetically.

2. Underline the committee
nominee instead of placing it
apart from the popular ones.

C. The representation on the
committee should be altered:

1. Underclassmen should be in-
cluded on the committee.

2. A representative from each
office on the ballot should be on
the committee, which would then
include the chairmen of War Coun-
cil, Lecture Association, and May
Day.

D. The function of the commit-
tee should be altered:

1. Students make nominations
by secret ballot.

2. The several popular nominees
for each office are considered as

(See page 2, c. 3)

Week

Wednesday, Jan. 26, 5 p. m.
Marriage class

Wednesday, Jan. 26, 8 p. m. Skat-
ing party for sophomores in

gym

Friday, Jan. 28 Town meeting in
Maclean at 4:00.
Freshman tea for Juniors at
5:00.

Saturday, Jan. 29, 8 p. m. Barn
dance for sophomores in gym

Sunday, Jan. 30 Tea from 3:30
to 5:00 in Murphey Candler for
parents of day students and fac-
ulty.

Wednesday, Feb. 2, 8 p. m. Skat-
ing party for sophomores.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

As Tennyson buried his "Great
Duke" with "an Empire's lamen-
tation to the noise of the mourn-
ing of a mighty nation," so the
senior class' basketball team was
sorrowfully interrred last Friday
at 4. With the great bard they
mourn "when their leaders fall
and sorrow darkens hamlet and
hall."

At such a time words fail. "For
I am but an earthly Muse ( ?), and
owning but a little (!) art, to lull
with song (?) an aching heart."
And lest I present a biased point
of view "Hush, the Dead March
wails in the people's ears : the dark
crowd moves, and there are sobs
and tears."

At the Athletic Association's
chapel program last Friday, Ag-
nes Scott pins were awarded to
Agnes Douglas, Dot Hunter and
Molly Milam, for the accumula-
tion of a minimum of 1600 points
for athletic activities. Agnes
won her pin for her work in
basketball, hockey, swimming,
and for her service on the Ath-
letic Board. She is at present
the swimming manager on the
Board.

Molly's points were obtained
in the fields of basketball, hoc-
key and svviinming. She is a
member of the swimming club,
Ln the fields of basketball, hoc-
key sub-varsity. Dot's activities
range from hockey to svvimming
to service on the Board; she is
secretary.

Gwen Hill and Billy Walker
were awarded guards for addi-
tional points, both having won
their pins last year. It would
be easier to list what they
haven't done than what they
have. For both the list of "have
dones" include hockey, basket-
ball, volleyball and service on
the Board. Gwen is Outing club
president, and golf winner for
two years. Billy is the present
basketball manager.
Headline: "Billy Walker Re-

Dr. John R. Mott
Sh ows Mi ssion Need

Dr. John R. Mott, eminent Pres-
byterian minister, emphasized the
need for missions when he spoke
before a small group in Murphey
Candler last Friday night.

"The best days of the mission-
ary movement are ahead," he said,
"Because of the experiences of the
past, the doors all over the world
are open. We're facing a greater
concentration of problems than
ever before."

"The needs of the world are in-
creasing. The countries that give
the most difficulties are more full
of opportunities. The fields are
limitless in China, Africa, India,
and Latin America. As to recon-
struction in Europe, let's wait un-
til they ask us. There will be plen-
ty of construction in other parts
of the world to be done."

Dr. Mott first became interest-
ed in missions at a conference led
by Dwight L. Moody, which he at-
tended at the end of his sophomore
year of college. He was head of
the Student Volunteer Movement
in 1888 and chairman of this group
until 1919.

THREADGILL
PHARMACY
Phone DE. 1665
309 E. College Avenue
Decatur, Ga.

NOTICE

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AGNES SCOTT

Juniors to Forego
Traditional Banquet

Due to war-time difficulties of
food and transportation, the jun-
ior class has this year decided to
forego the traditional junior ban-
quet.

According to Joyce Freeman,
vice-president of the class, defin-
ite plans are being made to use
the money set aside for the ban-
quet to give an entertainment for
the benefit of the War Fund. She
emphasized that this arrangement
is only a temporary one due to
war conditions and is not intended
to serve as a precedent for not
holding the banquet.

veals Basketball Schedule." Com-
ment of a certain columnist on
a certain paper: "Where have you
been hiding it, Billy?"

Reply to said columnist from
aforementioned B. Walker: "There
are five schedules of the basket-
ball games for this season posted
at strategic points on campus: one
in Dr. McCain^s office, one in
Miss Scandrett's office, one on the
bulletin board in the gym. These
schedules have not been hiding.
To be prosaic, all things are re-
vealed to those who make proper
use of their optical orbits."

The above is a paid political ad,
and constitutes an endorsement of
the party, and its policy, by this
paper.

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Nominating

(Continued from p. 1)

formerly, by the nominating com-
mittee for their eligibilities and
capabilities for that office.

(The nominating committee
then gives those nominated for
more than one office the oppor-
tunity to chose for which office
they will run.)

3. The several popular nominees
for the different offices, each ap-
proved by the nominating com-
mittee (consequently no prefer-
ences indicated are voted on by
the student body.)

E. Students should only nom-
inate officers of organizations
whose memberships include the
whole student body, such as Stu-
dent Government, Athletic Asso-
ciation, and Christian Association.
Nominating committee should sug-
gest nominees for all other offices.

EL The nominating committee
should remain and function as it
does now.

HE. In addition to popular nom-
inations, each organization should
nominate its own future officers,
instead of a general nominating
committee doing so.

IV. The nominating committee
should be abolished. The substi-
tute plan calls for an open elec-
tion system with two primaries
and a volunteer candidate system.
Candidates' cards giving the quali-
fications and experience of each
candidate would be put on a
bulletin board in the front lobby
of Buttrick sometime before the
first primary. In this way stu-
dents could acquaint themselves
with the qualifications of each
girl running for office.

Any group of students might
put up on the bulletin board the
name of .any girl (with the girl's
permission) as a candidate for of-
fice whether she had previously
participated in that activity or
not.

From the survey of systems in
other colleges it has been found
that most schools similar to Ag-
nes Scott have a nominating com-
mittee. Sophie Newcomb is the
only exception. A nominating
committee with representation in-
cluding all classes, with the
equivalent of our president of Stu-
dent Government as chairman,
was found in the election systems
of Sweet Briar, Mills, Wilson,
Wheaton, Converse, and Mt. Hol-
yoke colleges.

Shoe Shop Becomes
Freshman Tradition

In a humorous skit presented
last Thursday morning in chapel,
the sophomore class officially
turned over to the freshmen the
tradition of the Freshman Shoe
Shop.

Originated by the present soph-
omore class, the shoe shop speedily
became an institution on the cam-
pus. Services included polishing
shoes, taking them to the shoe
shop in Decatur for repairs, and a
pick-up and delivery service.

Members of the sophomore class
took part in the skit, which was
written by Jean Stewart.

Freshmen, Sophs Victorious
Over Sister Classes Friday

By Ruth Ryner

Sister classes battled it out Friday afternoon in two fast
games in which the sophomores trumphed over the seniors
43-17, and the freshmen downed the juniors 44-33.

In the sophomore-senior classic, in the first quarter, the soph-
omores stated a strong offensive

drive which the seniors were nev-
er able to stop. Displaying excel-
lent teamwork throughout the
first half, sophomores continued
to run the score up, holding the
seniors down to only two goals.
At half time the score was 20-4
in favor of the sophs. After half
time, the seniors with Ruth Far-
rior in the game attempted a
quick comeback, but not playing
their usual swift game, were un-
able to match the sophomore
scorers, or break through the ex-
cellent sophomore zone defense.
The final score showed the soph-
omores victorious, 43-17.

Freshman-Junior Tilt
The freshman-junior tilt turn-
ed into a more exciting affair,

Art Exhibit to Show
Watercolors, Drawings

Watercolors and drawings by
John Olson and Robert Holderman
will be exhibited in the library
galleries Jan. 29 to Feb. 15, ac-
cording to Howard Thomas, pro-
fessor of art.

Mr. Olson has taught at the
Woman's College of North Caro-
lina, at the University of Iowa,
and is now at the University of
Southern California.

Mr. Holderman is vice-president
of the California Watercolor So-
ciety and is working as a de-
signer for the Walt Disney
Studios.

though it was victory all the way
for the frosh.

Just before half time, the junior
forwards started breaking through
the freshman defense and ran up
their side of the score to come
out at the half only a few goals
behind, 27-19. During the second
half of play it could have been
anybody's ball game, but the su-
perior teamwork of the freshmen
made it theirs. Led by Mary dim-
ming and Mary Munroe, the jun-
iors continued their late offensive
drive, but being weak on defense,
were unable to stop the freshmen
long enough to threaten their lead.
The two teams matched goal for
goal until the final whistle blew,
giving victory to the freshmen by
a safe score, 44-33.
The line-ups follow:

Sophomores Seniors

Johnson, S. (4) R.F. Eagan, A. (4)

Ryner, R. (12) L.F. Tuggle, V. (3)

Purcell, D. (11) C. Harvard, E. (2)

McCain, M. R.G. Walker, B.

Phelps, B. L. L.G. Hill. G.

Kelly, P. C. Douglas, A.

Substitutions: Sophomores, Limbert (2),

Stevenson (14), Courtenay, Miller, Toole,

Walker. Seniors, Gray (2), Parrior (6),
Jacob.

Freshmen Juniors

Hough, A. (10) R.F. Cumming, M. (16)

Andrews, B. (5) L.F. Milam. M. (4)

Heery. G. (14) C. Munroe, M. (13)

Liddell. J. R.G. Gray, R.

Denning, J. L.G. Equen, A.

Radford, B. J. C. Webb. A.

Substitutions : Juniors, Klrtley. Fresh-
men. Dickson (6), Kay (9), Stein, Hoyt.
Goode, Van Hooke.

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Page 3

Jane Withers was there, jitterbug-
ging to the music of the Negro
band.

Agnes Scott girls at the dance
were Lanie Harris, Aurie Mont-
gomery, Rite Watson, Nita Hewell,
Anna Haggard, Susan Kirtley, "G.
G." Gilliland, Frieda Cook, Ann
Hough, Mary McCalla, Louise
Crawley, Emily Clepper, Harding
Ragland, and Robin Robinson.

At the E. N. O. formal Satur-
day were Minnie Mack, Bunny
Weems and Dot Almond. Minnie
looked especially pretty wearing
a light blue dress of satin and net,
with a beautiful orchid and fuschia
gloves.

Inter-Frat Dance

At the Emory interfraternity
dance Friday night were Robin
Robinson, Martha Thompson,
Kate Ellis, Betty Mann, and Nita
Hewell. ... At the ATO house
dance were Margaret McManus,

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

Long swishing skirts and lots of flowers brightened the
campus as winter formals offered entertainment last week-
end. One of the best was the Phi Delt formal Saturday night
at the Biltmore Hotel.

The decorations consisted of a huge floral Phi Delt pin,
jeweled with red carnations.

Ann Whetmore, Louise Starr,
Minnewil Story and Lucy Tur-
ner. . . . Spending the weekend
at Sewanee for the dance there
were Mary Cumming, Betty
Campbell, Liz Carpenter, Ann
Equen, Betty Andrews, and Mary
Jane Fuller.

Betty Campbell, Ann Jacob, Em-
ily Higgins, Pattie Barbour, Dot
Peace, Claire Bennett were seen
dancing at the Rainbow Roof . . .
Lisa Marshall, Dootsie Gardner,
and Mary Reynolds had Saturday
lunch at the Paradise Room. . . .
Saturday night at the Royal Palm
were Eva Williams, Lucy Turner,
and Louise Starr. Also there were
Ann Hightower and Penny Espey.

. . More girls seen at the Para-
dise Room Ginny Carter, Jodele
Tanner, B. A. Zeigler, Frances
Anderson, and Louise Eichols. . . .
Dining at the Ship Ahoy Saturday
were Betty Turner and Anne Reg-
ister.

Naval Hop

Mynelle Grove was in the lead-
out at the Naval dance at Tech
Friday night. Lanie Harris was
there, wearing black velvet and
lace. Dale Bennett wore a striking
dress of green and lavender tulle.
Helen Owens, Janet Liddell, Betty
Turner, and Nelson Fisher were
among those present.

Cissy Jeffries went to Athens
for the pre-flight dance. . . . Miss
Rutledge chaperoned twelve soph-
omores to the movies Friday night.
... It looked as if the air corps
had "landed" here not long ago
flying officers from various bases
visited Betty Turner, Anne Reg-
ister, Eva Williams, Robin Rob-
inson, Madeline Hosmer, and Mary
Ann Turner. . . . Going home for
the weekend were Gloria Gaines,
Annette Neville, Margaret Scott,
Anne Jackson, Joella Craig, Bitty
King, Emily Higgins, and Joyce
Freeman. Frances Woodall was
seen Friday heading toward Ath-
ens to visit friends, and Jane Ev-
erett went to Savannah.

Day Student Parents
To Be Guests at Tea

Day students' parents will meet
the faculty at a tea in Murphey
Candler, Jan. 30, from 3:30 to 5
p. m.

Robin Taylor Horneffer is in
charge of the program which in-
cludes an art exhibit in the library
and vespers at 5 p. m. led by
Claire Bennett.

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Freshmen to Honor
Sponsors at Tea

The freshman class will enter-
tain at a tea Friday, Jan. 28,
from five to six o'clock in Mur-
phey Candler in honor of their
newly-elected sponsors, Rob-
ert B. Holt, professor of chemis-
try, and Miss Abbie Rutledge, in-
structor in physical education.

As a special feature of the af-
ternoon's entertainment, a string
ensemble composed of members
of the freshman class will present
several selections.

Jane Meadows, president of the
freshman class, announced that
Betty Andrews is in charge of
arrangements for the tea, while
Shannon DuBose and Mary Jane
Love head the decorations com-
mittee.

Class officers, the sponsors, and
freshman student government
representatives and members of
the freshman council will make
up the receiving line.

Artists Want Suggestions

Pen and Brush Club plans to
change its name, according to Dot
Almond, president. The club
would like suggestions for a new
name, which should be given to
Howard Thomas, head of the art
department, or to Dot Almond.

Blue-Back Speller Over-Dose
Proves Fatal for Faculty

By Pauline Ertz

Overcoming such jaw-breakers
as phthisic, monosyllabic, and
idiosyncrasy, four Agnes Scott
students, freshman Bet Patterson,
junior Betty Glenn, and seniors
Bunny Gray and Ruth Wolson
succeeded in downing the faculty,
represented by Misses Ruth Dom-
incovitch and Roberta Winter and
S. M. Christian and C. W.
Dieckmann in the spelling bee last
Thursday night sponsored by Eta
Sigma Phi for the benefit of the
War Fund.

With Catherine Kollock, Eta
Sigma Phi president, wielding the
famous Blue-Back Speller, the
students, originally twenty in num-
ber, were eliminated like flies.
Star of the bee was Bet Patter-
son, spelling whiz par excellence.

Here is a play-by-play descrip-
tion of who went down on what.
Jeanne Addison misspelled samp-
ler, while Nellie Scott found sal-
ient a little hard. Counterfeit
caught June Bedinger, and man-
euver outmaneuvered Anne Noell.
Claire Bennett went down on ag-
gressor, and Virginia Drake miss-
ed out on piccolo.

Hypocrisy fooled Martha Ray

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Doctor s Daughter From Orient
Eats Eels and Ersatz Eggs

By Mary Ann Courtenay

Helen Paty, junior day student and transfer, is one of the
many "Chinese" girls at Agnes Scott. Having lived near
Shanghai for 16 years, she returned to San Francisco a year
after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Since then she has attended
Ward-Belmont, where she completed her high school course
begun at Shanghai American
School and also Duke University.
Helen came to Agnes Scott when
her father became associate dean
of the Emory Medical School.

In China Dr. Paty was superin-
tendent and chief surgeon of the
hospital near Shanghai. "You
know how many hospitals there
are in Atlanta," Helen observed
by way of comparison. "Since the
Chinese have only one hospital for
a million people, they have to wait
until they are almost dead before
going to a doctor. What China
needs most," she said, "is her own
medical schools and her own
trained workers."

Attractions of Orient
Living in the Orient has its at-
tractions for Helen. The Chinese
servants are easy and cheap to
hire and very intelligent help.
From her maid and the few Chin-
ese in her class at S. A. S. she
learned that the people live "just
like ordinary people." Struck by
their intelligence, she told the
story of a Chinese classmate of
hers who is now serving with the
U. S. Army Air Corps.

Helen agrees that nearly every-
thing you hear about China and
Japan is true. "The Japanese sol-
diers are beasts, but the people
are nice, especially in their treat-
ment of tourists."

Most of her contact with the
Japanese was in the stores, since
she vacationed in a lake resort
for Americans. In the summer of
1939 silk was not to be had, and
towels were of such poor quality
that they were too small to use
after a short time. The people
are very frugal, and a variety of
food is limited or at least hard to
buy.

She sampled ersatz food, such as
egg powder, "just for fun" and
acquired a relish for fried sea-
weed and fried eels.

Lasseter, and Peggy Willmon left
out one of accommodated m's.
Dotty Kahn had trouble with
proselyte, and Pie Ertz forgot
about the e in temerity. Betty
Andrews missed assimilate, while
Marjorie Naab had never heard
of salubrious. Exuberant proved
too much for Eudice Tontak and
Inge Probstein missed conscienti-
ous. Dot Spragens took the count
on anatomic and Janice Latta on
ecstasy.

In the final elimination Miss
Domincovitch succumbed to idio-
syncrasy, Mr. Dieckmann missed
labyrinth, Dr. Christian scrambled
the letters in lynx, and Bunny
Grey fell down on gourmand. Miss
Winter sustained the faculty repu-
tation single-handed for a long
time, but finally her spelling of
diligence with two l's spelled her
downfall.

The evening's entertainment
netted $11 for War Fund.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944

Duffee Writes

Bitter Sweets

(hard to get for the duration)

By Mary Louise Duffee

"Have you seen 'Madame
Curie'?"

"Oh, yes!" said a freshman,
"and wasn't there a darling com-
edy?"

In the want ad column of the
Sunday paper: Wanted school
superintendent for Georgia city.
Wanted share-cropper for farm
in DeKalb county. Seniors will
please note. Remember, Mr.
Stukes told us jobs would be
harder to get this year.
Some night when you're on sec-
ond Main drop in and see Oneida
("Squee," I believe you call her)
Woolford's hand-painted soup
mug. Very artful, it has cactuses
and her name on it in colors.
Cactus must be the Texas state
flower. Sharp.

Did you get to the reception
after the lecture Tuesday night?
Tea for Two hundred.

Retraction: In last week's col-
umn I inadvertently quoted Mary
Florence McKee as having utter-
ed a split verb. Apologies. I'm
quite sure Flossie wouldn't split
a verb. (Linotype operators please
copy correctly.)

Popular WAC rejects which
can be seen in the dorms: gar-
ments with elastic all the way
around, too. They say later on
you'll be able to buy a lot of
army equipment for private use.
Imagine handie-talkies in each
room so you could talk to your
date downstairs (we'd have
them too then) or your friend
in the mail room; a yellow life-
raft in the swimming pool;
sheep-lined flying suits as stand-
ard equipment for the winter
art classes; Dr. McCain riding
up to But trick in a purple and
white jeep. The post-war world
will bring marvelous things.
One suggestion I have to make
for the college's post-war building
program is one which will fill a
crying need. We should have a
large and conveniently located
sun-bathing pavilion. The porch
of Rebekah is only useful for an
hour or two before noon; the In-
man porch will only hold a dozen
or so at a time with crowding;
the occupants of Main must walk
to one of these places to get any
sun at all; and to top it all, they
tell me the roof of White House
has been repaired so sunning is
no longer practical there. The
matter should certainly be brought
to the attention of the planning
board. Are we going to let most
of our college population walk
around all spring pale as ghosts
while only a dozen freshmen are
beautifully tanned?

Looks as if we may not have
to wait another year for a post-
war government here. The Bat-
tle of Buttrick is still raging
and the student body has a good
chance to win at the peace
conference.
Jane Withers and Agnes Scott
girls jitterbugged side by side at
the Phi Delt formal Saturday
night. Only difference was, Jane
put more "interpretation" into her
dancing than did the Hottentots.
But then she makes a living that
way.

They tell me Editor Ilosmer
received a notice that the class-
ification of the Agnes Scott
News has been changed official-
ly. It is no longer to he con-
sidered a campus weakly.

And there's probably not a
shadow of a doubt about the
Silhouette, either.

The Nominating Committee Must Go

Something must be done about our nom-
inating system. By that I mean the abolition
of the nominating committee abolition of
that system which practically assures the
continuation of the line of the "handpicked
few" from year to year, the system that often
discourages participation in activities because
students realize how very hard it is to get
anywhere without the approval of the nom-
inating committee. (How often have you
heard, or perhaps said yourself, "Why try
out? You never get anywhere unless you
have the nominating committee behind you.")

If having the nominating committee be-
hind you is what makes campus leaders, then
this is an awfully queer sort of democracy.
If a group composed of fifteen students is
allowed to say who should hold campus offices,
often without much consideration of whether
the girl in question is capable or whether
she want's the job, something is wrong. And
that is exactly what is done. Anything smack-
ing of politics seems to be expressly forbidden
on our campus, and the system of nominating
committee dictatorship seems to bear official
approval.

Not all of our campus leaders hold offices.
Not all office holders are leaders. By sub-
stituting a system free from the nominating
committee those students who are capable and
who actually want offices (or is such a thing
taboo?) would be encouraged to speak for
themselves instead of waiting for committee
approval which sometimes does not come.

As a member of the nominating committee

On Nominating

The following was written by Student Gov-
ernment President Anne Ward as an explana-
tion of the present nominating system.

Since this Thursday is the time when the
report of the committee studying our system of
nominations of student officers will be present-
ed in chapel, it seems wise that we note, espec-
ially for the benefit of freshmen, just how our
present system works.

The present system of nominations is oper-
ated as follows:

(1) Popular nominations

To help students individually in making
their poplar nominations, the following things
are done:

(a) A month before spring holidays, an "al-
phabetical list of girls who have worked in
any year in various organizations and the posi-
tions which they have held" is posted by the
Student Recorder in order that students may
familiarize themselves with the experience of
these possible nominees. It is not necessary,
however, for a girl to have served on an or-
ganization for her to be considered for nom-
ination.

(b) Through the News or in chapel during
the month previous to elections, the heads of
campus organizations "make known . . . the re-
quirements for the positions in her organiza-
tion which are elected."

Popular nominations take place the first
Saturday after spring holidays. At this time,
students nominate by secret ballot their
choices for each office. Students make their
nominations on the basis of their individual
knowledge of those students who seem to
them the potential leaders of the campus and
on the basis of the posted list of previous ac-
tivities of students.

(2) Popular nominations posted with com-
mittee nominations

After popular nominations are tabulated,
they are posted together with one committee
nomination for each office; committee nomina-
tions are thus not posted until after students
have made their popular nominations. The
nominating committee is composed of the pres-
ident and vice-president of Student Govern-
ment, A. S. C. A., and A. A.; the editor and
business manager of the three publications,
the Student Recorder, the Day Student Repre-
sentative, and the president of Mortar Board.
"The committee nominations represent the
careful thought of people who have worked
with candidates and thus know the ability of
each; the student body does not accept com-
mittee nominations necessarily, for popular
nominations carry as much weight. The two
balance each other and offer a democratic
way of handling elections."

I condemn it. As a student who went into
office as a result of its work I still condemn
it. Being on that committee gives one a feel-
ing of importance of being the "power be-
hind the throne" perhaps. But a far more
satisfying feeling would be knowing that win-
ners in campus elections were victorious be-
cause of their worth and ability rather than
because they had friends on the committee.

It's certain that we're not the first genera-
tion of Agnes Scott students to realize that
something is wrong with our system. And
it's certain that we're not the first generation
to try to do something about it a few changes
were made in 1941. But it is certain that we
must be the generation that really sees that
something gets done.

Are We Isolationists?

Christian Association urged us in a chapel
program on Tuesday to help them in their
social work program at Scottish Rite hospital,
at the Atlanta Boys' club and the mission in
the slum section.

Freshman cabinet asks us to make it a
personal matter to contribute to the Infantile
Paralysis Fund.

And always there's the War Fund, the
many activities that War Council sponsors,
the Red Cross in Decatur and the repeated
appeals from the blood bank.

The Fourth War Loan drive has just been
launched, and we are again asked to invest in
war bonds and stamps.

Opportunities for giving, for contributions,
for service, are certainly not wanting. In fact
they are so plentiful that we often meet new
charges with a sigh and a most unenergetic
shrug of the mental shoulder, with not even
a little prod to the conscience at all.

Buying war stamps is no inconvenience, for
we almost have to go out of our way (perhaps
some of us do to avoid the girls who are sell-
ing them every day in the lobby of Buttrick.

We rationalize, oh, well, I have enough to
do as a college student. We adopt a policy
of isolation, so to speak, toward the outside
world. And then we turn around and accuse
the college of not "being the real thing," of
being an unreal, temporary situation in a real,
permanent world. We look at our college life
as a period of privileged seclusion to which
we are by divine right entitled, though our
conscience will at times kick up its heels to
blame not ourselves, oh, no, the college!

Isolation is an unworkable, indefensible
position. Service, if we are willing to give it
in any measure, must extent to giving in every
measure.

Of necessity it will demand much, but Life
and the World and Being all these are large,
dynamic forces, a small static force can never
meet them.

Therefore should we not meet these de-
mands in our small way by contributing our
time to these less privileged and by giving
our money to these funds ? I. P.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1944 No. 12

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A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

The days are getting longer
and dawn now smashes the hori-
zon at least three minutes earlier.
Or so groping day students can
now report. As one exultant one
gasps "If this keeps up and it
gets lighter and lighter, I may
be able to see what my family
looks like by April. Won't that
be wonderful? Or would it?"
The selling of war stamps in
Buttrick is a story of continued
failure. One is too prone to
blame the student body for its
apathy, but there is some right
in the claims that you are never
quite sure when stamps are go-
ing to be sold and that often
you do forget your money and
that sometimes the booth is so
under supplied with stamps to
sell that you can only buy ten
cent ones for a fifty-cents al-
bum. Couldn't something we
worked out on the order of sell-
ing junior chocolates (as of last
year) ? with a regular hour each
night in the dorms when they
can be canvassed. More war
stamps will be sold and more,
often. The booth in Buttrick
could be continued to reach any
buyers not touched.

The junior waste paper cam-
paign is reaching tremendous
heights judging last week from
the huge boxes of old exams and
papers Inge Probstein and Wendy
Whittle were carting around. But
their work is only beginning. More
and more paper is needed. And it
merely means giving away what
you would throw away ordinarily.
The two new members were
going to be initiated and they
had been instructed to bring
their five dollar initiation fee.
A black-robed senior met them,
at the door and with great
solemnity asked for the money.
They with even greater sobriety
gave over ten dollars in pen-
nies, nickels, and three cent
stamps. The senior was so
flustered she giggled through-
out the initiation and may even
yet be expelled from the club
for suspicious conduct.

This is a belated thank you..
The tea house service this year
has been wonderful. The special
lunches for the day students have
helped to give them the energy to.
struggle through the long lab af-
ternoons.

On the back bulletin board in
Buttrick the plan drawn up by
the committee on student gov-
ernment changes along with
suggestions made by the admin-
istrative committee and a group
of organization heads. The plan
is interesting, well-done, and
a good remedy to the problem
of representation. This plan
worked out by a committee
headed by Wendy Whittle will
be presented to the student hody
in an open forum Feb. 8. It
would he well for all who can
to read it over and understand
it and be ready to make sug-
gestions.
Needed in the day student
room a bottle of ink.

One thing is certain no mat-
ter what may happen in the
next seven weeks this year we
get a few days for spring holi-
days (that is if we are alive to.
enjoy them.)

Then there is the exchange
editor of one of the publications
who uses exchanges to pad her
coats during the sudden cold
morning spells. When it gets
warm, she hands over the
crumbled copies to the junior
waste paper collectors.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1944

No. 13

Glee Clubs Will Present
'H. M. S. Pinafore' Feb. II

Performances to Be
At Agnes Scott, Tech

On February 11 Hottentots will
have the opportunity of hearing
their favorite Gilbert and Sullivan
songs and of seeing real men on
the Presser hall stage when the
combined glee clubs of Tech and
Agnes Scott present "H. M. S.
Pinafore."

The five Georgia Tech stu-
dents who have featured roles
are Tommy Byerley as Sir Jos-
eph Porter, Alex Lumsden as Cap-
tain Corcoran, Ralph Marquiss as
Ralph Rackstraw, John Osborne
as Dick Deadeye, and Bill Brpugh-
ton as the Boatswain.

Agnes Scott girls in the cast in-
clude ' Barbara Connally and
Joella Craig as Josephine, Bettie
Manning and Gilmore Noble as
Hebe, Margie Naab as Buttercup,
and Rite Watson as the Midship-
mite. The chorus is composed of
members of both glee clubs.

The performance in Presser hall
at 8:30 p. m. on Friday, Feb. 11,
will be the only one open to the
public. A second performance at
the Tech Armory will be open to
Tech men, their guests, and naval
officials only. Warren Lee Terry
will be here Feb. 4 and 5 to as-
sist in direction, although he will
not be able to stay for the per-
formances.

Tickets for the operetta are
55 cents and 75 cents and will
be on sale in the lobby of Buttrick
from Feb. 7 through Feb. 11. All
seats are reserved.

Debaters Will
Clash Feb. 5

Debating the question, "Resolv-
ed: That the United States should
cooperate in establishing an in-
ternational police force at the
close of the war," two teams re-
presenting Agnes Scott will com-
pete in the State Intercollegiate
Debating Tournament to be held
at Emory University this Satur-
day, Feb. 5.

Under the direction of Dr.
George P. Hayes, professor of
English and faculty adviser of Pi
Alpha Phi, college debating club,
members of the two teams are
working on various aspects of
problems of postwar organization,
including the problems of nation-
alism, national sovereignty and
other important phases.

Members of the affirmative, Ca-
thie Steinbach and Betty Glenn
forming one team, and Martha
Jean Gower and Marjorie Tippins,
composing the other team, will
present plans for the organization
of an international police force.
Ruth Kolthoff, Claire Bennett, Lib
Osborne and Bunny Weems, tak-
ing the negative side of the ques-
tion, will oppose their plans. Mem-
bers of the two intercollegiate de-
bating teams to compete in the
tournament were chosen in try-
outs held two weeks ago.

The tournament will begin at
lpm. Saturday, and each team
will debate several rounds in the
course of the afternoon.

ALFRED NOYES

Alfred Noyes
To Speak Here

Alfred Noyes,
lish poet whose
man" is known
child, will speak

celebrated Eng-
"The Highway-
to every school
at Agnes Scott

on Feb. 28 as the third guest on
this year's Student Lecture As-
sociation series, according to Miss
Emma May Laney, faculty chair-
man of the group.

Dr. Noyes, whose engagement at
Agnes Scott last year was can-
celled, will speak in place of Rob-
ert Frost, who has been forced
to postpone his lecture, original-
ly scheduled for Feb. 15, because
of ill health.

Dr. Noyes today is one of the
best known and best loved poets in
the English speaking countries.
He was forced into temporary
exile in Canada, along with his
wife and three children, when his
home on the Isle of Wight was
bombed by the Nazis in 1940. At
present he devotes the greater
part of his time to writing and
lecturing.

Erick Hawkins
To Dance Here

Erick Hawkins, well-known
young dancer from the cast of
the musical comedy "Oklahoma"
will make his appearance on the
stage of Presser Friday night un-
der the auspices of the Decatur
Junior Service League. The pro-
gram will begin at 8 p. m.

Hawkins, although he has 'stud-
ied with the Monte Carlo Ballet,
is widely acclaimed for the Amer-
icanism of his dancing. He was
reared in the Mark Twain coun-
try and has received all his train-
ing in the United States.

His first number will be "Yan-
kee Bluebreeches," a dance based
on "Yankee Doodle," one of the
oldest pure American songs. Oth-
er dances will be "Pilgrim's Pro-
gress," "Soldier's Farewell," "Un-
cle Sam and his Best Girl," and
"Trail Breakers Kentucky."

Josephine Antoine, who sang
here last October as the first ar-
tist on the Junior League series,
said of Aawkins' coming appear-
ance, "a real treat i in store."

Proceeds from the program will
go to the DeKalb County Pedi-
atrics Clinic, which is supported
by the Decatur Junior Service
League.

Chairmen Announces
May Queen Nominees

Bippy Gribble, Robin Taylor
Horneffer, and Martha Rhodes
were nominated as candidates
for May Queen last week, accord-
ing to Jean Clarkson, May Day
chairman. Balloting for the Queen
wil be held on Friday in chapel.

As is customary, the committee
is now compiling a list of candi-
dates for the May Day court.
They hope to have the list ready
for voting next week.

May Day, to be held this year
on May 6, will feature Tommie
Huie's "The Making of the Rain-
bow."

Ballot on Nominating
Set for Tomorrow

Student Vote in Chapel Will Decide
Fate of Present Nominating Committee

Action on the nominating committee front continued this
week as representatives from all major campus organizations
met and agreed to bring the question to a vote in student
meeting tomorrow.
At this meeting it was revealed that the negative motion

proposed last week in student

Office R equests Schedules

All students who have not
done so are asked to hand in
two copies of their winter quar-
ter schedule to the Dean's Of-
fice immediately. No work on
examination schedules can be
made until all students have
complied with this request.

Dr. Davidson
To Speak Here
At Graduation

Dr. Philip Davidson, dean of
the graduate school at Vanderbilt
University and formerly profes-
sor of history at Agnes Scott,
will deliver the commencement ad-
dress to the senior class Tuesday,
May 30, according to President
J. R. McCain.

Dr. Davidson came to Agnes
Scott in 1928 after receiving his
B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at
the Universities of Mississippi and
Chicago. He served as secretary
of the University Center. His
book, "Propaganda and the Amer-
ican Revolution," was published in
1941 by the University of North
Carolina Press. In 1941 he re-
signed to take his present posi-
tion at Vanderbilt.

The speaker for the baccalaure-
ate service has not yet been se-
lected. His name will be announ-
ced as soon as plans are com-
pleted.

meeting by Tess Carlos and re-
jected by Clare Bedinger was not
illegal as stated.

A proposal was made in the
form of a motion to elect a com-
mittee of representatives from
each class to be elected by the
classes and a chairman elected
by the entire student body. This
group was to choose two or three
plans from those suggested by
students and to bring these be-
fore the student body for a vote.

This motion is still on the floor,
but Ruth Kolthoff, who made the
motion, indicated Monday after-
noon that she would withdraw the
proposal at tomorrow's student
meeting so that a vote on the
question may be taken immediate-
ly.

Students will vote whether to
completely abolish the nominating
committee, to retain it with
changes, or to retain it unchanged.

Senior Proposes System for Nominations

Since the function of the pres-
ent nominating committee was
explained in the News last week,
this week the proposal to abolish
it, submitted by senior Mary Lou-
ise Duffee, is being printed in full
so that students may form their
opinions before attending tomor-
row's student meeting.

Executive Committee on Nomina-
tions,

Student Government,
Agnes Scott College.

The following suggestions in re-
gard to the nomination and elec-
tion of student officers are submit-
ted for what they may be worth.
I hope you will consider them.
Purpose of Committee

The reason for the existence of
a nominating committee which has
been most given, as I understand
it, is that the student body is of-
ten unfamiliar with the girls who
are eligible for nominations, and
who have the most qualifications
for jobs, and that such a body is
needed to investigate said qualifi-
cations, and guide the decisions of

those who literally know nothing
about them. That reasoning, in
theory, is obviously sound. But
isn't there a way to make the
minds of the uninformed work for
themselves, by simply giving them
a chance to inform themselves be-
fore election or even nomination
time?

As I understand it, the nomina-
ting committee does, in effect,
what every thinking student
should do before voting. It takes
the names of those girls who are
eligible for the different offices,
weighs their experience, capabili-
ties, and qualifications, and to-
gether with the recommendations
of the head of the activity involv-
ed, chooses the girl who seems to
deserve the place most. The wishes
of the girls involved do not offi-
cially enter into the consideration
until she refuses or accepts the
committee nomination.

Student Intelligence

Why, in a college student body
where all of us are supposed to
be in the upper two per cent of
the population intellectually, can't

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the students be made to make just
such a weeding-out process for
themelves? Of course, they'll
make mistakes, but hasn't the
committee at times ? If they make
mistakes bad enough for them to
feel the effects of them, they'll
be more careful next time. If the
mistakes aren't that bad, then
they weren't so serious anyway,
were they?

One argument that has been
given me in the past for the func-
tion of our present nomination
system is that it often brings for-
ward for a job a girl who is quali-
fied but it too timid to push her-
self for a general nomination. Af-
ter that girl leaves college no one
is going to do her job interviews
for her. Wouldn't it be better to
encourage her to develop some
confidence? Anyway, what kind
of a leader or organizer will a
girl make generally speaking, if
she is too shy to put her name up
with five or six others to be voted
on for an office. The nominating
committee could still do some
(See page 3, column 3)

First Town Meeting
Discusses Nominations

The first Town Meeting was
held last Friday in Maclean with
the nominating committee as the
subject of discussion.

In the discussion, over which
Inge Probstein presided as mod-
erator, one group maintained that
the nominating committee must
be abolished because it was un-
democratic and did not necessar-
ily give offices to the best and
most representative people on the
campus and that potential leaders
are often overlooked. It was main-
tained that a system of posting
oneself for an office would over-
come these defects.

The other group claimed that
the nominating committee was
best suited to discover leadership
and investigate qualifications, and
that the committee furnished a
guidepost to guard against blind
voting by uninterested groups and
freshmen who may not know all
the popular nominees.

The suggestion was made by Lib
Farmer that the nominating com-
mittee be regarded as a neces-
sary evil, that it be kept for the
purpose which it does fulfill, and
that those who advocate abolishing
the committee should set out to
(See page 2, col. 8)

*1Uu Week

Wed., Feb. 2, 8 p. m. Skating
Party for sophomores in gym

Thurs., Feb. 3, 7:45 p. m. Dr.
Kite's lecture in Buttrick

Fri., Feb. 4, 10:30 a. m. Voting
for May Queen in chapel
8 p. m. Erick Hawkins, dancer,
in Buttrick

Sat., Feb. 5, 8 p. m. French Fair
in Murphey Candler.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Margaret Drummond

Now that the class basketball
games are half through the sche-
dule for the season, now that sis-
ter classes and rival classes have
clashed on the courts, the time
seems propitious for a few pre-
dictions. Although at the present,
the sophomore class boasts the
only undefeated team, conditions
are more than favorable for a
freshman victory.

In spite of the fact that in
the initial game of the season,
the sophomores topped the
freshmen by a score of 26 to 24,
the score was close, and the
game was closer. The teams
were almost evenly matched.
Since then the freshman and
sophomore victories have been
almost equally decisive. The
freshman-junior score was 44 to
33, the sophomore-junior, 51 to
30. The freshmen won from the
seniors 33 to 15, the sophomores
from the seniors, 43 to 17.
Although the actual scores seem
to give the sophomores a slight
edge, the freshmen have the en-
thusiasm, coupled with determina-
tion, which, in any game, proves
an unbeatable combination. Their
forwards, especially Ann Hough
and Betty Andrews, possess an
amazing accuracy in passing and
shooting. Any guard, no matter
who or how good, is up against a
difficult proposition when attempt-
ing to guard these two. The
freshman guards, Radford, Den-
ning, and Liddell, all play a de-
termined, if a bit rough, game.
The end seems to justify their
methods, however, for their guard-
ing is, to say the least, effective.
The sophomores have an ex-
cellent forward line-up, consist-
ing of Melchor, Ryner, Purcell
and Johnson, all of whom are
adept at dribbling, passing, and
shooting. But, as was the case
in the opening game, even they
seem to be battling against a
brick wall, when trying to break
through the frosh's new zone

Dr. Kite to Speak
To Science Group

Dr. J. H. Kite, eminent bone
specialist from Scottish Rite hos-
pital will lecture tomorrow night
in 103 Buttrick as a presentation
of Chi Beta Phi, honorary science
fraternity. The lecture will be-
gin at 7:45, according to Claire
Bennett, president.

Dr. Kite will illustrate his lec-
ture with slides. Everyone inter-
ested is invited to attend the lec-
ture, for which there will be no
admission charge.

defense. In that game, the
frosh's guarding was so effec-
tive that almost each attempt
of a soph forward to break the
guard, or to shoot, was ruled a
foul by the referee as "charg-
ing."

Since predictions seem to be
the order of the day, here is
this columnist's choice for the
1944 varsity and sub-varsity:

Varsity

Sub- Varsity

Tuggle

F

Milam

Warrior

F

Hough

Andrews

F

Munroe

humming

F

Stephenson

Radford

G

Gray

Hill

G

McCain

Kelly

G

Webb

B. Walker

G

Denning

To provide an "escape corri-
dor" (and that puts me and
the Germans in the same class),
in case these predictions should
backfire, let it be said that any-
thing can happen in the remain-
ing half of the games scheduled,
and probably will. But should
the worst happen, well move
over, ostrich.

Frosh Players
Give Recital

The newly formed freshman or-
chestra gave its first recital of
semi-popular classics at the fresh-
man tea for their class sponsors
last Friday, Jan. 28.

Members of the orchestra are
Dorothy Wadlington and Doris
Kissling, violins, Virginia Calla-
way, Barbara Wilson and Mary
Louise Boone, clarinets; Sarah
Cooley and Betty Crabill, flutes;
Carolyn Squires, accordion, and
Helen Hutchison, piano.

Another recital by the orchestra
is scheduled for the Junior Cab-
aret on Feb. 19.

Miss Scandrett commented,
"The orchestra is remarkable.' 1

Town Meeting

(Continued from page 1)

make the student body aware of
its responsibility to nominate and
elect its own candidates after in-
vestigating their qualifications.

It was also suggested that the
names of students who have work-
ed on organizations be posted in
the front lobby of Buttrick instead
of on the back bulletin board so
that they may be more easily
seen and considered before popu-
lar nominations are made.

Jane Everett, secretary of
lower house, will serve as secre-
tary of Town Meeting and pass
on to lower house its sugges-
tions.

The next Town Meeting will be
held in Murphey Candler on Feb.
18 at 4 p. m., with Inge Probstein
as permanent chairman.

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Frosh Triumph Over Seniors;
Sophomores Down Juniors

By Bettye Lee Phelps

In two unusually fast games last Friday night, the fresh-
men and sophomores succeeded in lengthening their winning
streaks by downing the seniors and juniors, respectively.

The strong zone defense of the freshman guards was largely
responsible for their 35-14 victory over the seniors. Ann

Hough set the pace for the vic-
tors with 14 points scored, and
Betty Andrews, scoring 13 points,
played a beautiful game.

The seniors, unable to get close
to the goal, were forced to rely
on long shots. Virginia Tuggle
led the senior scoring with four
field goals and one free shot, a
total of nine points.

The sophomores, after a fiercely
contested game, emerged victori-
ous over the juniors with a score
of 51-30. Mary Munroe was high
scorer for both games with 21
points, most of which were gained
by beautiful long shots.

Scoring was rather evenly dis-
tributed among all the sophomore
forwards, Scotty Johnson leading
with 16 points to her credit. Sally
Sue Stephenson with 12 points,
Doris Purcell with 11, and Ruth
Ryner with 10 were close behind.
The sophomores used the "five
man defense," which proved very
successful in interfering with
passes from the junior guards
across the center line to their
forwards.

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Lamar Dodd Continuing Series,
Lectures on Abstract Art

Lamar Dodd, head of the art department at the University
of Georgia, lectured last Friday afternoon in Buttrick on
u Abstract Art." The talk was the second in a series.

Illustrating with slides, Mr. Dodd showed that there is
abstract structure beneath the painting of even the literal
artists. He reduced paintings by
Giorgioni, Botticelli and Cezanne
to abstract design. The Cezanne
painting of a street with houses
was represented by a cube sur
rounded by other cubes.

Appreciation of abstract art, ac-
cording to Mr. Dodd, does not
come with one glance. Because
it is so new and strange when
first seen, he explained, one must
simply become better acquainted
as one does with people in order
to enjoy and appreciate it. Mr.
Dodd also showed the influence
of abstract art on architecture.

On Feb. 10, Mr. Dodd will dis-
cuss American painters. On Feb
25 he will present a demonstra-
tion of painting.

Classes Discuss War Fund;
Make Plans for Projects

Ways and means of making
money for the War Fund were the
main discussions at the various
class meetings last Friday.

In Buttrick, senior Ruth Wol
son reported that proceeds from
the senior bridge benefit amount-
ed to $36.

Juniors made further plans for
their Cabaret, which will be in
the gym on Saturday, February
19.

In Gaines chapel, sophomores
set Monday night, March 27, for
the date of their musicale.

Freshmen, under leadership of
Jane Meadows, discussed their
War Fund project, the shoe shine
shop, which began functioning
Monday.

Mrs. Dorothy Bagwell
Teaches Dance Classes

Mrs. Dorothy Bagwell, former
instructor of dancing at the Uni-
versity of Utah and at LSU, is
now teaching natural dancing
classes, until the return of Mrs.
Adolf Lapp, who is recuperating
from pneumonia.

Mrs. Bagwell, whose husband is
head of the Naval physical train-
ing unit at Emory, has studied
with Martha Graham, exponent of
the modern dance.

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112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Are.

Freshmen (35)

Heery, G. (5)
Andrews, B. (13)
Rough, A. (16)
Denning. J.
Liddell. J.
Radford. B. J.

R.F
L.F.
CF.
R.G.
L.G.
CG.

Seniors (14)

Tuggle. V. (9)
Farrior. R. (2)
Eagan. A.
Walker. B.
Douglas. A.
Hill. G.
Kay (1) ; seniors :

Substitutes : Freshmen
Harvard ; Gray. B. (3).
Sophomores (51 Juniors (30)

Stephfnson. S. (12) R.F. Milam, M. (9)
Ryner. R. (10) L.F. Munroe, M. (21)
Tnhnson. S. (16) C.F. Holmes, L.

McCain, M. R.G. Gray. R.

Phelps. B. L. L.G. Carter. V.

Kelly. P. C.G. Bedlnger. J.

Substitutes: Sophomores: Purcell. D.
(11) : Courtenay. M. (2). Walker. S., Miller,
B. ; Juniors : Webb. A.

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French Club
To Hold Fair

Meg Bless, president of French
club, announced this week plans
for the annual French Fair, to
be held Saturday, Feb. 5, at 8
p. m. in Murphey Candler.

Among special features will be
a Punch and Judy show, French
folk-dancing, a French play, and
French songs. Plans also include
fortune-telling booths, grab-bags,
and potted plants and real French
pastry for sale.

A small admission fee will be
charged. All money taken in at
the fair will go to the United
Community and War Fund.

Biographer Emil Ludwig
Will Speak on Feb. 4

Emil Ludwig, internationally
famed biographer, lecturer, and
student of human relations, will
speak under the auspices of the
American Association of Univers-
ity Women Friday night at the
Atlanta Woman's club at 8:15 on
"What Kind of a Peace Shall We
Make with Germany?"

Tickets may be secured from
Miss Elizabeth F. Jackson, pro-
fessor of history.

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

ie Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

June Reynolds' marriage to Lt. D. M. Metzger highlight-
ed the social events of the weekend. The wedding took
place Friday evening in the Second-Ponce de Leon Bap-
tist church. June was a beautiful bride wearing a dress
of white satin made princess style with a fitted bodice,
long sleeves appliqued with rose
point lace, and a full skirt
with a full-length train. Her rose
point lace veil was fastened to a
coronet bordered with seed pearls
and orange blossoms; her flowers
were a shower bouquet of white
orchids.

Among the bridesmaids were
Anne Equen, Mary Jane Schu-
macher, Betty Burress, Mia Lotte
Hecht, Jeanne White, and Eugenia
Jones. They wore dresses of hya-
cinth blue lace and net and carried
French bouquets of pink and blue
snapdragons, blue forget-me-nots,

Latin-American Boys
To Visit Spanish Club

Extending the good neighbor
policy, members of Spanish club
will have as their guests Friday
night a group of Latin-American
students from Emory. The meet-
ing will begin at 8 p. m. in Mur-
phey Candler.

Plans for the evening include
a Spanish quiz, Spanish games and
Spanish refreshments.

Adelaide Humphreys, president
of the club, reports that they are
working on plans for a fiesta to
be presented in the spring as a
War Fund project.

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and pink carnations, backed with
pale pink maline. Anne Equen
caught the bride's bouquet.

Among those assisting at the
reception immediately following
the ceremony were Dot Archer
and Mary Cumming. Many Agnes
Scott girls attended the ceremony.
Chi Phi House Dance
At Emory Saturday night the
Chi Phi house dance attracted
Bunny Weems and Martha Polk.
. . . Beth Walton danced at the
Sigma Chi house. . . . Jeanne
Rochelle was at Tech Saturday
at the Delta Tau Delta rush par-
ty. .. .

The Freshman Bible class en-
joyed a party at Dr. McCain's
Saturday night. About twenty-
five girls were there having a
wonderful time pulling taffy and
singing.

At the Psi O Dental fraternity
house dance Friday night were
Claire Bennett, Patty Barbour and
Carolyn Daniel. . . . Seen at the
Empire Room were Jeanne Rob-
inson, Laurie Looper, Jean Dun-
ham, Pie Ertz, and at the Para-
dise Room were Martha Rhodes,
Esther Sloan, Jane Everett, Leila
Holmes and Lura Johnston. . . .
At the Rainbow Roof were Mary
Wakefield, Kate Ellis, Edith Bur-
gess and Jean Estes.

At the President's Ball Satur-
day night at the municipal audi-
torium were Carolyn Calhoun,
Anne Johnson, Anne Stephens,
Dootsie Gardiner, Ann Murrell and
Genevieve Lathem. Genevieve
wore a beautiful corsage of yellow
roses.

Kathie Hill spent the week-end
in Anderson, S. C, with Betty
Sullivan. . . . Did you see Mary
Cargill's beautiful blonde twin sis-
ter on the campus recently? El-
eanor Manley entertained at the
tea house with a bird supper Fri-
day night. Those present were
Miss Scandrett, Miss Hunter, Miss
Omwake, Miss Laney, Martha
Rhodes, Yoli Bernabe, Camilla
Moore and Squee Woolford.

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Committee to Report
On Exec Revision

Discussion of changes in stu-
dent government organization has
been postponed until the question
of the nominating committee has
been settled, according to Anne
Ward, president of Student Gov-
ernment.

A new report from the commit-
tee appointed to study the or-
ganization of Student Government
will be given at a student meet-
ing next week.

Nominations

(Continued from page 1)

guiding it could encourage quali-
fied students to run for offices.

All this has been necessary
background for the plan I wish to
suggest. I know this plan has
faults perhaps faults so big that
they will render it impracticable.
But even in this rough form I be-
lieve it answers, or offers a solu-
tion for, some of the criticisms
that the present system has. re-
ceived.

Front Bulletin Board

The first requirement of the
plan is a large bulletin board
which can be placed in the FRONT
lobby of Buttrick to carry elec-
tion information. The regular
board is too small to carry it all,
and my guess is that five out of
ten girls will pass a thing up rath-
er than walk down the hall to the
back board to see it.

Let the description of offices
and their duties, published in the
News before election, be contin-
ued.

Before the nomination primary,
let a card, such as the one at-
tached, be filled out for every girl
who is eligible for each office, or
rather has worked in that activity
and is in line for the job. Let
a notice be posted by the name
of each office, giving specific re-
quirements (any member, senior
class, etc.)

On the departmentalized bulle-
tin board (divided for A. A., C. A.,
News, Silhouette, Student Gov-
ernment, etc.) make a heading
card for each office (president, v-
pres., etc.) Under these headings
post the cards of each of the
candidates. In the case of offices
such as student recorder which
have no logical pre-requisite, let
girls who meet class and average
requirements "run" for the nom-
ination by posting their cards un-
der the proper heading.

(They should of course submit
their cards to the committee for
checking.)

Gives Qualifications

The point of this whole system
is that this descriptive qualifica-
tion card should tell the story of
the candidate. By comparing the
cards of all the girls running, the
student voter can draw in most
cases a pretty wise conclusion as
to qualifications, even if she does
not know the girls personally or
their background and experience.

If for any reason a girl does
not want to be nominated for an
office in the first primary, she
may notify the committee, and
withdraw her card from the board.
After the nominating primary, if
a girl receives nomination for
more than one office, and wishes
to withdraw from one race to
keep from splitting her vote, she
may withdraw from any she
wishes, as in the past.

Committee Nominee

If the student body should ac-
cept such a plan, but deem it
helpful to have still a nomination
suggestion from the committee af-
ter the first primary, why not in-

McCain Helps Ministers
With War Relief Plans

President J. R. McCain met last
week with a committee of minis-
ters from the Southern Presby-
terian church to make plans for
next year's campaign to raise
money for war relief among
churches.

Specific plans for the money in-
clude China relief, support of or-
phan missionaries, Bible study
work among soldiers, aid to des-
troyed Protestant churches in
England, and aid to college stu-
dents whose studies have been af-
fected by the war.

Hypnotist Franz Polgar
To Perform at Erlanger

Dr. Franz Polgar, master in
the field of telepathy, hypnosis,
and other psychic phenomena, will
perform at the Erlanger theatre,
Friday, Feb. 4, under the auspices
of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee
Guild.

dicate their choice by starring the
card, having it marked according-
ly, or simply placing it at the top
of the list. I think, however, that
the necessity for a committee
nomination at all could be over-
come. Remember the suggestion
made above that if a girl should
be good for the job but hesitates
to put herself up as the candidate,
the committee could urge her to
do it, ask her to do it, or just
put her card up and see if she's
retiring enough to take it down.
It is naturally hard to include

Mortar Board, Seniors
Entertain Sophomores

Two parties in the series spon-
sored by Mortar Board and the
senior class to entertain the soph-
omores have already been given
and plans are completed for the
third which will take place to-
night in the gym.

Tonight's entertainments will
be a skating party with exhibition
skating by Peggy Kelly and Scott
Johnson. A similar party was giv-
en last Wednesday night.

Carolyn Daniel, senior class
president, is in charge of the
parties. Her assistants are Bob-
bie Powell, decorations; Ann
Wright, food; Martha Rhodes and
Camilla Moore, invitations; and
Mary Carr and Mary Louise Duf-
fee, entertainment. Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Leslie Garber, and Dr. and Mrs.
George P. Hayes were the chaper-
ones.

all the fine points of such a plan
in writing without making it a
book. So, if you think this plan
worthy of consideration but not
clearly defined in this form, I
shall be happy to explain my ideas
about any point, or try to answer
any arguments against it. Please
call on me if you want me. There
has been dissatisfaction with the
present plan for at least four
years, and this is an humble ef-
fort to help remedy the voting
situation into a more truly dem-
ocratic form.

Respectfully submitted,
Mary Louise Duffee, '44.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1944

Duffee Writes

Quotations

By Mary Louise Duffee

(Read this it may be yourself.)

From the Senior-Mortar Board
party for the sophomores:

"Where are the girls?"

"Tell me the truth, Cary are
you having a good time? Do you
think most of the boys are?"

"Oh, you did enjoy it I'm so
glad. And how would you like to
come Saturday and Wednesday
and bring your friends?"

"Yes, I know there are two sail-
ors that aren't joining in at all,
but I think they're incorrigible^ "

"Someone moved the crepe pa-
per. We'll just have to have a
bare wooden punch table."

"Wouldn't you like to help me
carry chairs until the girls get
here?"

From Town Meeting Friday:

"What is this mysterious, sinis-
ter influence of the administra-
tion?"

"She's profound, but I don't get
her."

"Will you PLEASE adjourn the
meeting officially so I won't have
to take any more minutes? Then
you all can go on talking I've
got to be somewhere else."

"The trouble is with the stu-
dents they don't think." "Of
course they don't think you have
to tease them into doing it."

From beginners' art class:

"Look! That girl acts as if she
can draw."

"Is that a rung or a chair the
girl in that picture is sitting on?"
"It doesn't matter."

"You've never seen a huge pres-
sure gas storage tank? Where
have you been all your life?"

In Seniorpolitan opera writing

committee :

"Somebody name some operas."
"Aw, we don't need operas our
own ideas will be better."

"We ought to meet somewhere
else. Er . . uh eating always
helps me to think."

"So you just got back from giv-
ing your blood, Kathy well, 'you
didn't have to give all of it."

From around the campus by
the students:

"A freshman told me the other
day she thought things on the
campus would clear up anyway,
when the present seniors left."
(The clouds have been gathering
a long time, dearie.)

"Whatchu gonna write on?"

"I'm gonna write on 's

Conception of the Being. Come
on, I'm hungry."

"Which would bring the most
campus? Forgetting to sign out,
or leaving an unsigned slip?"

From around the campus by
the faculty:

"It seems to me so ... "
"Do you see what I mean?"

"Wel-11, Miss ! What

can I do for you?"
"Really, Miss

, it is un-
necessary to taste all the fruit in
the basket to ascertain its qual-
ity!"

"That's all there is to it pure
and simple!"

"That's just right, Miss ,

exactly so! Now isn't that the
easiest thing in the world?"

"Will you please let me in at
the head of the line? I have an
8:30 class."

VICTORY^

REGISTER HERE

But We Didn't Mean RIDING Crops."

Opinions Vary on the Nominating System

it is except that the committee nominee should
be included with the popular nominees and
underlined. The way the campus is now I
think it would be best because it would be
more democratic and yet would keep the
suggestion of the Committee." Minnie Mack
(junior).

"In my opinion this is all a tempest in a
teapot." Frances Brougher (junior).

"I don't know, but what I suggest is to
let the freshmen have a part." Charlotte
Clarkson (freshman).

"I think that we should get the student
vote before a committee of eight is appointed
if the motion by floor is passed as to whether
they want it as it is, or with changes/ or
abolished completely." Ann Jacob (senior).

"I'd like to see the three changes that
would suit me fine." Jane Everett (junior).

"I think the nominating committee should
continue but with increased class representa-
tion. The committee nominees should be dis-
tinguished. We ought to consider their views."
Peggy Perez (sophomore).

The Agnes Scott News

The following opinions on the nominating
committee are presented just as they were
given to Agnes Scott News reporters. The
News welcomes opinions and will be glad to
print any opinions received provided they
do not exceed 200 words.

"I think that every organization ought to
nominate its own officers except student
government, C. A. and A. A., which ought
to be elected by the student body." Ellen
Rosenblatt (freshman).

"Since the students voluntarily vote for
the committee nominee and since most schools
of our type do have a nominating committee,
I think we need such a committee.. If the
students feel that the committee has too
much influence, then change the method of
presenting the committee nominee and change
the representation on the committee, but
our organizations." Stratton Lee (sopho-
more).

"Keep it the way it is." Mary Codington
(senior).

"I think that it would be better to have
only the popular nominee without any com-
mittee nominee." Kathleen Wade (sopho-
more).

"I like it the way it is." Margaret Drum-
mond (senior).

"I think the Nominating Committee should
be changed because it sways the election. If
you don't know the nominees you will prob-
ably vote for the committee nominee." Sue
Mitchell (senior).

"As an underclassman I don't feel qualified
to know all the outstanding leaders on cam-
pus, and therefore advocate the Nominating
Committee, who have worked with and seen
in action the candidates for the offices of
our organizations. Stratton Lee (sopho-
more).

"I, like most of the other freshmen, am
thoroughly confused about the whole issue
at stake. For our sake and for the sake
of any others who may not be clear on all
the fine points I wish we'd have another
meeting at which the whole issue is calmly
presented." Betty Turner (freshman).

"I don't like the Committee because it
makes for too much confusion and many peo-
ple vote for Committee nominees just be-
cause they don't know the others." Mir
House (senior).

"I think the Committee should be kept as

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1944 No. 13

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Scott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Bntered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, poet office.
Subscription price per year, $1.25; single copies, five cents.

Editor MADELINE ROSE HOSMER

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Cartoonists
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Reporters: Marion Knapp, Betty Burress, Pauline Ertz,
Jean McOurry, Martha Arnold, Carolyn Fuller. Olive Han-
sen. Martha Baker, Anne Register, Elizabeth Scott, Connie
Fraser, Jeanne Rochelle. Joyce Gllleland. Jane Bowman,
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Nellans. Anne Noell, Jean Rooney, Ann Seltzinger. Martha
Whatley Yates. Margaret Bear, Mary Anderson Courteoay,
Marjorle Cole.

Sports Reporters: Ruth Ryner, Peggy Kelly, Bettye Lee
Phelps.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

A freshman who isn't quite
sure what it is all about asks,
44 Tell me what all this mess
about the Nominating Committee
means?" She is not alone in mis-
understanding or not understand-
ing the present uproar about our
elective system. Because frankly
not even a mental giant could be
expected to understand the com-
plicated smoke screens and alibis
being put up to confuse the stu-
dent body.

It all begins, as all fairy stor-
ies must, with a villain, the
Nominating Committee, a hero
yet to be cast, and the helpless
heroine, the student govern-
ment. For years now the vil-
lain has dominated the thoughts
and actions of the poor, bewil-
dered heroine. He has set up a
complicated hierarchy of succes-
sion (hat rivals that of any
royal house in Europe.
For it seems that every year
the student body has elections.
The student body is supposed to be
rather befuddled about it all and
not quite here. So to help them
along, to tell them what is good
for them the Nominating Commit-
tee made up of a majority of the
Nominating Committee nominees
of the year before meets secretly
and very secretly and very know-
ingly assumes to know what is
best for five hundred and fifty
girls. A committee of fifteen de-
cides for five hundred and fifty.
That is democracy and represen-
tative government.

Of course the student body
does protest. But let them pro-
test says our villain. It will
do them good. Let them yell.
They may know what they want
when they come together to
meet but we will confuse them
and we will be ready to take
advantage of their ignorance.
We know more than they do
anyway. After all we are a
hand-picked few out of a hand-
picked few. Some of us might
squirm at doing what we have
to do. But after all the dynasty
must be continued. We know
what we want. Let the student
body yell. Let them think that
they may get something done.
We will let them meet and
argue and then wait until the
bell rings for the end of chapel
and pass a few quick amend-
ments that nobody wants but
we do. And everything will be
all right. We have time on our
side. And besides no one of the
student body knows enough
parliamentary law, or we should
say as much as we, to catch
us on all the faux pas we make.
So no matter how you look at
it we get what we want. We
are already meeting and mak-
ing our little lists and deciding
on our own candidates and they
shall get elected. They always
do.

So the committee lets you meet
in short, planned meetings. They
hope that you will pass motions
to approve of further committees
to study the work of previous
committees. Student government
is merely a pile of reports made
year after year on the same ever-
lasting subjects. And the student
body, after all, though hand-
picked, is not hand-picked as the
Nominating Committee.

As a member of the committee
I am willing to be influenced-
Whoever wants an office can
come by and see me. Because
once you get to be a senior and
hold an office unfairly attained
and are on the Nominating Com-
mittee, you can get anything you
want. Except self-respect.

Th

Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX.

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1944

No. 14

Nominating Changes
To Face Vote Friday

Terry Arrives
For Rehearsals

With the arrival last week of
Warren Lee Terry, New York di-
rector of Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas, the Agnes Scott and
Tech glee clubs made final pre-
parations for the presentation of
"H. M. S. Pinafore" next Friday,
Feb. 11, at 8:30 p. m. in Presser
hall

As announced last week, Agnes
Scott girls singing leading roles
in the operetta include Barbara
Connally, Joella Craig, and Rite
Watson. There will be in addition
a chorus of about 25, and five
members of the Georgia Tech glee
club singing leading roles. Blitz
Roper is publicity manager.

Admission to the show Friday
night will be 55 cents for regular
seats and 75 cents for reserved
seats. There will be a second pri-
vate performance of the operetta
Feb. 12 for Tech students, their
dates and Army and Navy per-
sonnel. The proceeds of this show
will go to charity.

Agnes Scott Donates
$36 to Polio Drive

Agnes Scott's contribution to
the infantile paralysis drive to-
taled $36, according to Miss Car-
rie Scandrett, dean of students.

In charge of the campaign on
campus were Mary Jane Love and
Ruth Farrior. Freshman Cabinet
placed contribution boxes in all
dormitories and in the various
buildings on the campus.

In addition to the contributions
to the campaign made on the
campus, students and faculty made
donations at theatres and through
other sources.

'Painters I Have Known 7
To Be Dodd Subject

Lamar Dodd, head of the art
department of the University of
Georgia, will speak on "American
Painters I Have Known" tomor-
row, February 10, at 4:45 p. m.
in 109 Buttrick.

This is the third lecture in a
series of lectures on art conducted
by Mr. Dodd at Agnes Scott.

"Comparisons" and "Abstract
Art" were the topics for his two
previous lectures.

Plans to Be Announced

Final revisions of plans for
the re-organization of Student
Government are now being
made, according to Anne Ward,
president of Student Govern-
ment.

The proposed changes will be
posted on the mail room bulle-
tin board at the end of the
week. Next week's News will
carry details of the plans.

Two days of heated debate at
student meetings last Thursday
and Friday about Agnes Scott's
nominating committee and sys-
tem of campus election finally
crystallized into definite action at
Friday's meeting, when two
amendments to the constitution
were proposed for the student
body's consideration.

The amendment to article 11 of
the constitution proposed by Bun-
ny Gray included the following
changes and addtions to the elec-
tions system: (1) in addition to
the alphabetical list of candidates
posted one month before spring

NOMINATING COMMITTEE
HAS MET

holidays there will be a list posted
opposite with a complete list of
qualifications for all offices; (2)
Presidents or editors of organiza-
tions may present the lists in
chapel or in the Agnes Scott
News; (3) A special election bul-
letin board will feature both lists
and will be placed in a prominent
position in the front of Buttrick;
(4) New members of the nominat-
ing committee are to include the
chairmen of War Gouncil and May
Day and the President of Lecture
Association; (5) Instead of two
separate lists, popular and commit-
tee nominations will be grouped
alphabetically in one list, with the
committee nomination underlined.
Candidate Cards
Madeline Hosmer's amendment
to article 11 of the constitution
proposes the following changes in
our system: (1) Instead of lists
of nominees, there will be candi-
date cards posted by girls desir-
ing offices listing a girl's major
subject, past experience and quali-
fications; (2) all candidates must
be declared eligible by the nom-
inating committee, but otherwise
the nominating committee will
have no say as to who shall be
candidates; (3) Elections shall
take place at polls on the ap-
(See p. 2, c. 2)

Debaters Win
State Contest

With a total of ten victories out
of twelve rounds, Agnes Scott
emerged the victor among the six-
teen teams entered in the State
Intercollegiate Debating Tourna-
ment held last Saturday after-
noon, Feb. 5, at Emory University.

Ruth Kolthoff and Claire Ben-
nett, negative, won all three of
their clashes, and Cathy Stein-
bach and Betty Glenn, affirmative,
won their first two rounds and lost
the third. Martha Jean Gower
and Marjorie Tippins, affirmative
on Agnes Scott's other team en-
tered in the tournament, won all
three rounds, while Bunny Weems
and Lib Osborne, negative, won
two.

Judging was done on an individ-
ual point basis, with grasp of sub-
ject matter, teamwork, and man-
ner of presentation comprising the
points judged.

For best individual debating cer-
tificates were awarded to Ruth
Kolthoff and Claire Bennett, nega-
tive, for first place, and to Martha
Jean Gower and Marjorie Tippins
in second place.

Certificates were also given to
the seven debaters who, in the
judges' opinion, deserved honor-
able mention.

Results of the team debates are
Agnes Scott, ten won, two lost;
Atlanta Junior College, four won,
two lost; Martha Berry School,
four won, two lost; Emory, six
won, six lost; and Tech, one won,
eleven lost.

Wedding Etiquette Is
Marriage Class Topic

A representative from Rich's
Bridal Shop, Mrs. V. B. Cheek,
will speak to the marriage class
Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 5 p. m. on
the subject of planning a wedding,
according to Ruth Kolthoff, presi-
dent of Mortar Board, which spon-
sors the marriage classes. Mrs.
Cheek will discuss trousseaus and
the etiquette of weddings.

Mardi Gras Belongs to Past
As Juniors Plan for 'Joint'

"The Junior Joint," sponsored
by the junior class to make money
for the War Fund, will occupy
Bucher Scott gymnasium Saturday
night, Feb. 19, from 8:00 to 10:00
p. m.

Each class has elected its play-
boy, who will choose his deb, tak-
ing the places of the traditional
Mardi Gras king and queen. One
of the playboys and debs will win
the title of "Playboy and Deb of
the Junior Joint." Votes cost 1
cent each.

Each class will present its play-
boy in skits Wednesday night, Feb.
16. The names of the debs will
not be revealed until Feb. 19.
Continuous Floor Show

The floor show will be continu-

ous for two hours and will con-
sist of acts presented by each cam-
pus organization, each of which
will pay a 50 cent admission fee.
A junior presentation will climax
the floor show.

The gym will be decorated to
represent various night spots. Soft
drinks will be on sale. Tickets to
the "Junior Joint' may be obtained
from any junior. Admission will
be 15 cents per person or 25 cents
per couple (boy and girl).

Joan Stevenson is chairman of
the committee making plans for
the "Junior Joint," and commit-
tee chairmen include Eloise Lyn-
don, decorations; Dot Lee Webb,
refreshments; Mary Cumming,
floor show; and Anne Equen,
publicity.

Robin Taylor Horneffer
To Reign As May Queen

Martha Rhodes Becomes Member of Court;

Committee Selects 42 Other Candidates

Robin Taylor Horneffer, who resigned from last year's May
Day Court to become the bride of Ensign L. G. Horneffer,
will reign this year as Queen of the May, according to Jean
Clarkson, May Day chairman. Robin was elected last Friday
in chapel. The other candidate, Martha Rhodes, automatically

becomes a member of the court.

Dramatic Club
To Give Plays

Blackfriars will present three
one-act plays, "Rehearsal," a
comedy by Christopher Morley;
"Women Who Wait," a tragedy
by Lyda Nagel; and "Queens of
France," a historical play by
Thornton Wilder on Thursday,
Feb. 17, at 7:30 p. m. in Presser
hall, according to Martha Marie
Trimble, president.

"Rehearsal" deals with a group
of school girls rehearsing an Irish
tragedy. The cast includes Pauline
Ertz as Freda, the director; La-
Nelle Wright as Christina, a play-
er; Zena H. Tempkin as Barbara,
a player; Mary Dozier as Ger-
trude, a player; Barbara Kincaid
as Sonja, a player; and Carolyn
Daniel as Marjorie, stage carpen-
ter and property man.

Flyers' Wives

The cast of "Women Who Wait,"
a tragedy about women whose hus-
bands are flyers, includes Martha
Marie Trimble as Devon; Emily
Ann Singletary as Mrs. Norris;
Doris Purcell as Mary; Jane Ev-
erett as Willow; Carolyn Daniel
as Bryce; and Martha Jane Mack
as Janie.

The third play, "Queens of
France," is a comedy telling the
story of the descendants of Marie
Antoinette and Louis XVI. The
cast includes Bettie Manning as
Marie Sidonie Cressaux; Elizabeth
Carpenter as M. Cahusac; Eliza-
beth Carpenter as Mme. Pugeot;
and LaNelle Wright as Mile. Poin-
tevin.

The May Day committee, ac-
cording to custom, has compiled
a list of 42 outstanding beauties
on campus, as candidates for the
May Day court. The girls are
judged on appearance, carriage,
poise, and grace.

Four seniors, three juniors,
three sophomores, and two fresh-
men will be chosen from the 42
by the student body.

The candidates are as follows:

Seniors, Claire Bennett, Caro-
lyn Daniel, Mary Louise Duffee,
Julia Harvard, Elizabeth Harvard,
Laurie Looper, Julia Scott, Mar-
garet Drummond, Martha Rhodes.

Juniors, Carol Barge, Elizabeth
Carpenter, Joyce Freeman, Bar-
bara Frink, Eugenia Jones, Eliza-
beth Keller, Marion Leathers,.
Scott Newell, Jean Robinson, Jean
Satterwhite.

Sophomores, Teddy Bear, Jinx
Blake, Jean Chewning, Anne High-
tower, Peggy Kelly, Betty Long,
Gloria Anne Melchor, Annette Ne-
ville, Harding Ragland, Robin
Robinson, Claire Rowe, Elizabeth
Woodward.

Freshmen, Dorothy Archer,
Kathleen Buchanan, Virginia
Dickson, Lilaine Harris, Sue Hut-
chens, Kathryn Johnson, Helen
Owen, June Thompson, Martha
Thompson, Ann Scott, Ann Wheel-
er.

lltU Week

Thursday, Feb. 10, 4:45 p. m.
Lamar Dodd art lecture in 103
Buttrick

Friday, Feb. 11, 8:30 p. itl
Operetta, "Pinafore," in Presser
hail

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Kathryn Johnson

The freshmen and sophomores
started out in*a smashing game of
"do or die" Friday afternoon with
the frosh winning by seven points.
The referees clamped down on
The passing and shooting of the
game was slowed up considerably,
but the second quarter speeded up
with both teams keeping the score
fairly even. At the half the score
stood 13-12 in favor of the frosh.

The freshmen displayed excel-
lent teamwork and enthusiasm.
The passin gand shooting of the
forward line was beautiful to
watch. Outstanding forward was
Genet Heery.. The whole team,
however, played heads-up ball and
showed plenty of spirit and hustle.
The frosh guarding was, as usual,
effective. j

Competition was keen, though
the sophs weren't up to their usual
standard. Their forward line rang
quite a few difficult shots while
their defense was particularly suc-
cessful in interfering with fresh-
men passing.

Though neither the juniors nor
the seniors displayed the grim de-
termination of the frosh and sophs,
the scoring was so close, it could
have been anybody's game. Dur-
ing both halves, each team
matched goal for goal with the
seniors coming out in the lead in
the last few minutes of the final
quarter. The junior forwards, es-
pecially Mary Munroe, showed
great accuracy in scoring. Both
the juniors and the seniors were
strong on the defense. The final
score was 33-29 for the seniors.

Practices are already underway
for the water pageant in swim-
ming classes. The Badminton
club, too, seems to have gotten off
to a good start.

Mention must be made of the
laugh oops! the "pride" of Miss
Rutledge, the tumbling class. "It
was nice knowing you in one
piece" is the farewell parting
tumblers receive before going to

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$500 Needed
For War Fund

Squee Woolford, student chair-
man of War Council, announced
this week that to date $500 ef
the $1000 pledged to the War
Fund has been collected. With
only 20 days left in which to give
the remaining $500 the students
are urged to remember the pledge
they made last fall. The pledge
can be met if each girl donates $2.

One girl on each wing has been
appointed to collect contributions
from boarders. Day students are
asked to give their contributions
to Frances Brougher and Scotty
Newell.

War Council asks that students
adopt Atlanta's War Fund Drive
motto, "Make your gifts as big
as your heart!"

Pi Alpha Pi to Debate
National Service Act

Resolved: that Congress should
pass a national Service Act, is the
subject for debate at the meeting
of Pi Alpha Phi tomorrow night.
Defending the affirmative will be
Anne Noell and Liz Carpenter;
Mary Reynolds and Peggy Jones
will uphold the negative.

The meeting will be held in
Murphy Candler at 7:30 p. m.

Mrs. Sydenstricker
Here for Visit

Mrs. Alma Willis Sydenstricker,
professor of Bible at Agnes Scott
from 1917 until her retirement
last June, arrived on the campus
last Friday for a brief visit.

Mrs. Sydenstricker, who is now
living with her son in Lebanon,
Tennessee, is en route to Florida,
where she plans to remain for a
month. While on campus she is
spending most of her time at the
Alumnae House and is also visit-
ing Miss Frances Gooch, associate
professor of English and speech.
Mrs. Sydenstricker will be here
until next Friday.

Nominating

(Cont. from p. 1)
pointed day from 8:30 a. m. to 6:00
p. m. f instead of the half hour dur-
ing chapel; (4) Each student vot-
ing shall be provided with a prin-
ted ballot.

The student body voted to have
these amendments posted for one
week, and at the end of that time
a vote will be taken. Debate and
voting on the amendments will
take place on Friday according to
Student Government president,
Anne Ward.

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Lower House Members
Announced This Week

New members of the lower
house of student government
were announced this week by
Anne Ward, president of the ex-
ecutive committee.

Jane Everett will serve as sec-
retary of lower house.

The new members are Mary
Frances Carter, Ann Wright,
Genevieve Lathem, Shirley Heller,
Claudia Brownlee, Nita Hewell,
Helga Stixrud, Frances Bryan,
Sara Milford, Carolyn Fuller,
Millie Evans, Grace Love, Betty
Miller, Betty Bowman, Beth Dan-
iel, Jean Rooney, Nellie Scott,
Janice Latta, Carolyn Gilchrist,
Ann Wheeler, Isabel Asbury, Ann
Stine, and Ann Martin.

Hobbies on Exhibit
in Library This Week

A "Hobby Exhibit" of books and
articles on hobbies, a list of fac-
ulty hobbies, and actual samples
of handicrafts, stamp and coin
collections, fans, and vases col-
lected by members of the faculty,
have been placed on exhibit in
the library by Miss Edna Ruth
Hanley, librarian.

"Bet" Patterson's self-made
shepherd's pipe, an afghan started
by Miss Carrie Scandrett and com-
pleted by Miss Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall, and Miss Hanley's collec-
tion of coins are included in the
display.

Asnes Scott Students
Attend First Aid Class

A number of Agnes Scott stu-
dents are enrolled in the first aid
class which began this week at the
Decatur Boys' High School under
the direction of Mr. J. A. Wein-
gartner of Decatur.

The class, which is composed of
residents of Decatur as well as Ag-
nes Scott girls, will meet every
Monday and Wednesday nights
from 7:30 to 9:30 until the twenty-
hour course is completed.

Agnes Scott students attending
the class include Stratton Lee,
Eleanor Reynolds, Rite Watson,
Louise Starr, Adelaide Humphreys,
Sylvia Carter, Bonnie Hope, Har-
riet Frierson, Marjorie Tippins,
Anne Sale, Peggy Jones, June
Thomann and Ruth Gray.

Script for Opera
Begun by Seniors

Plans for this year's presenta-
tion of the annual Senior Opera to
be given May Day are now well un-
der way, according to Kathie Hill,
chairman of the writing commit-
tee.

Other members of the writing
committee include Tommie Huie,
Mary Florence McKee, Mary Carr,
Camilla Moore, Mary Louise Duf-
fec, Madeline Rose Hosmer, Zena
Harris Tempkin, Tessie Carlos,
Quincy Jones, and Virginia Tug-
gle.

Freshmen Top Sophomores,
Seniors Edge Out Juniors

By Anne Register

Battling valiantly, the previously undefeated sophomore
team went down before their rival class, the freshmen, 31-23,
and the juniors were edged out 33-30 by the seniors Friday
afternoon in two topnotch games.

Before this game the sophomores had boasted the only un-
tied, unbeaten team and in a pre- '
vious tilt with the freshmen, top-
ped them 26-24. Friday's battle
was unusually rough and fouls
were called on many plays.
Freshmen Determined
Though the freshmen were a
determined bunch, their margin of
12 points consisted of nine points
made from free shots given by

'Hottentot 7 Jewelry
To Go to Hottentots

"There's going to be a sweeping
report made soon," warned Betty
Bowman, publicity chairman for
War Council, this week, "and if
you don't want to be embarrassed,
you had better get busy knitting."

An account of points on the
dormitory charts will be taken,
and these charts will continue to
be used. Each girl who has knit-
ted, bought war stamps, donated
blood, or earned points in any
other way, should report her num-
ber of points to the representa-
tive on her wing.

Feb. 22, Founder's Day, has been
set as "Junk Jewelry E>ay," ac-
cording to Betty Bowman and
Squee Woolford, president of War
Council. The jewelry collected
that day will be sent overseas
to American soldiers to use in
bartering with the natives. As
Dr. S. M. Christian, professor of
physics, suggested, Hottentots
should give up some of the finery
that the real Hottentots would
like to wear.

fouls. Betty Andrews, with 17
points to her credit and Genet
Heery, with 11 points, played ex-
ceptional games. Doris Purcell
was the top ringer for the sopho-
mores with eight points and Ruth
Ryner with six was close behind.

The final championship struggle
is now between the two under-
classes who are tied each having
been defeated once. Unless one of
the teams is downed again, an
extra game will possibly have to
be played to decide the tie.
Twins Score
The Harvard twins spurred the
seniors to victory in a close and
fiercely battled contest. Combin-
ing effective passing and beauti-
ful shooting they managed to
chalk up 22 points between them.
Julia placed six balls for 12 points
with Elizabeth tallying 10.

For the juniors Mary Munroe's
renowned long "fadeouts" were
the main attraction and accounted
for 14 points. It seemed for a
while that the juniors would be the
victors, but in the end they trailed
by three points.
Line-ups follow:

r reshmen (31)

Houph. A (S)
Andrews, B. (17
Heery, G. (11)
Uddell, J.
Denning, J.
Radford. B. J.
Substitutes

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LK
CF
RG
LG
CG

Sophomore*

phenson (4). Johnson, Miller,
Juniors (30)

Milam, M. (4) RF

Munroe, M. (14) LF

Humming, M. (4) CF

Equen, A. RG

Webb, A. LG

Gray, B. CG

Sophomores (23)
Ryner, R. (6)
Melchor (5)
Purcell (8)
McCain. M.
Phelps, B. h,
Kelly. P.
Limbert, Ste-

Substitutes
iran ; Juniors,

Seniors
Holmes (6)

Seniors (33)
Farrlor, R. (9)
Harvard, J. (12)
Harvard, E. (10)
Hill, O.
Walker, B.
Douglas, A.
Tuggle, Gray, Ka-

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The view from a window just over the front door in Main
was one full of activity last week-end. Saturday night Mar-
garet McManus and Anne Stubbs seemed to float down the
front steps in their formal dresses and orchids in their
hair. They were directed to the good-looking convertable
that was in front of the door and

were on their way to the ATO
formal at the Henry Grady Ho-
tel. The negro orchestra was good,
they said, and everybody had loads
of fun. Other girls from Agnes
Scott attending were Robin Rob-
inson, Anne Whetmore, Martha
Rhodes, Margaret Johnson, and
Margaret Mace.

Tech Dance

The Interfraternity Council
dance at Tech was another oc-
casion for flowers and best
dresses. There were two dances
there Saturday a tea dance dur-
ing the afternoon and the formal
Saturday evening. Katherine Edel-
blut, Patty Barbour, and Claire
Bennett were there; also Jeanne
Rochelle, Joyce Gilleland, Sarah
Smith, Barbara Wilson, Janet Li-
dell, Betty Turner, Anne Eidson,
Camilla Moore, Anne Scott, Gen-
evieve Harper, Peggy Wilds, Edith
Burgess, Glassell Beale, Jean
Stewart, Vickie Alexander and
Bettye Smith.

Leila Holmes and Betty Glenn
attended the Sigma Nu house
dance at Emory Saturday night.
. . . Mary Turner, Mary Martin,
and Tinkem Iverson hiked up
Stone Mountain on a weiner roast
given by Columbia Seminary. . . .
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weiner roast Saturday were Betty
Andrews, Sweetie Calley, June
Thompson, and Mary Frances An-
derson. . . . Betty Sullivan, Lucy
Turner, June Thomison, Beth
Walton, and Camilla Moore at-
tended the dinner and dance at
Lakemoore Friday evening, given
by the naval students at the Den-
tal College. . . .

Alvara Fraser entertained at
her home Sunday night with a
buffet supper. Decorations fol-
lowed the Valentine motif. Ag-
nes Scott girls there were Betty
Scott, Pie Ertz, Vera Orem, Ann
Stevens, Jane Smith, and Jane
Kreiling. ... A birthday luncheon
was given Saturday for Maggie
Toole at the Empire Room. Those
present were Shirley Heller,
Jeanne Hale, Barbara Kincaid,
Hurdy McAllister, Ann Haggard,
and Betty Codrington.

Visitors

Freddy flew down from Charles-
ton last Sunday to see Pie Ertz
. . . Harry was here to see Leila
Powell. . . . Mary Neely Norris
attended a dance at F. S. C. W.
in Tallahassee, Fla. . . . Have you
heard that Bunny Gray plans to
go to Africa in July, after her
marriage in June?

At the Paradise Room recently
have been Shirley Slaughter, Lou-
ise Crawley, Anne Stein, Mary
Carr, Squee Woolford, Leila
Powell, Sue Mitchell, and Martha
Rhodes. . . Puddin' Bealer and
Ruth Ryner were seen at the
Royal Palm. ... At the Rain-
bow Roof were Nelson Fisher,
Betty Turner, Smiley Williams,
Marjorie Tippins, Alice Gordon,
and Susie Richardson.

Zena Harris Temkin is spending
a week at Ft. Bragg, N. C.

Miss Winter Appears
On WATL Pro g ram

Miss Roberta Winter of the
speech department appeared on
the Southern Panorama program,
broadcast over radio station
WATL last Thursday, Feb. 3.

The subject of the program was
'Southern Speech Treated and
Mistreated." Appearing with Miss
Winter were another Southerner
and a Bostonian.

The broadcast was in the form
of a round-table discussion, pre-
senting criticisms of and informa-
tion about the southern voice and
diction.

According to Miss Paralee Brock,
member of the WATL staff and
director of the program, the pur-
pose of this series is the stimula-
tion of interest in and discussion
of the problems of the South, pres-
ent and future. Dr. J. R. McCain
and other prominent southern edu-
cators appeared on the Jan. 20
program, the subject being "The
Promotion of Higher Education
in the South'.'

Other members of the Agnes
Scott faculty who will appear on
the Southern Panorama Program
in the near future include How-
ard Thomas, professor of art, and
Hugh Hodgson, part-time profes-
sor of music.

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Faculty War Bond Purchases
Exceed Government's Request

Sixty-four members of the fac-
ulty bought a total of $27,070 in
War Bonds last year, according
to Dean S. G. Stukes. These pur-
chases were made from June, 1942,
to June, 1943.

"We have no definite payroll
plan for bond deductions," said
Mr. Stukes. "All purchases are
voluntary. It is easy to see, how-
ever, that the contributions are
exceeding the ten per cent reques-
ted by the government."

No record is kept of individual
purchases, but each member of
the faculty, after buying a bond,
is asked to drop a note inscribed
with the amount of the purchase
in the "bond box" located in the
registrar's office. In this manner
an accurate record of total pur-
chases may be retained.

Student stamp sales in the lobby
o But trick last year amounted
to $485.60. Records up to Janu-
ary 21, 1944, show that stamp
sales this year have reached a
total of $301.30.

In every drive for funds at Ag-
nes Scott the faculty has gone be-
yond its quota.

Information Please

'Is Miss - Expecting You
Brings Unusual Answers

By Anne Noel I

When Hottentots returned to the sheltering arms last Sep-
tember they found that "something new had been added."
Men were no longer forced to find their way to the maid's
office to have their dates called, but were to be received in
the central hall of Main by a student hostess who takes the
caller to a seat in a parlor,

in a parlor, and
summons his date.

Naturally, some opposition has
arisen to the "application forms,"
as the blanks have come to be
known, but since September a lot
of kinks have been ironed out and
the entire system is running
smoothly. Efficiently, too, accord-
ing to Bella Wilson, who has to
keep track of callers and dates
for the Dean's Office records.
Yes or No?
Whether your date realizes it
or not, every blank on that paper
when properly filled has a very
definite use. If the answer to "Is
she expecting you?" is "No," the
hostess has the maid call the girl,
but if the answer is "Yes," she
is expected to come of her own
accord. Of course, some unfor-
tunate fellows have learned that
the way to have a lazy date hur-
ried is to answer "No." On the
whole, however, the boys have
been most considerate and coop-
erative once they learn the "rea-
son why," and students are learn-
ing the value of punctuality.

Several times a night a boy con-
fesses that he doesn't know for
whom he is calling, that she is
"Johnny's date's room-mate." In
this case the hostess keeps an
eye out for Johnny's date and fills
in the name of whoever is going
with her.

But at least once the hostess
in her zeal to let no one pass un-
registered signed up three soldiers
who only wanted to go to a con-
cert in Presser hall.

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Roth String Quartet

Hugh Hodgson, part-time pro-
fessor of music at Agnes Scott,
will appear in a chamber music
recital with the Roth String Quar-
tet on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 8:30
p. m. at the Atlanta Woman's Club
auditorium.

The program includes the
Haydn Quartet in D Major and
several short Debussy, Wolf, and
Schubert studies.

Mr. Hodgson will play the piano
portion of the Shostakovitch
"Piano Quintet" which he pre-
viously performed with the quar-
tet in Chicago and New York.

The group will play at the Sev-
enth Music Festival at the Uni-
versity of Georgia in Athens on
Thursday and Friday, Feb. 10 and
11.

Saturday's concert is given for
the benefit of the organ fund of
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
where Mr. Hodgson is organist.

Aurora's winter issue will be
out Friday or Saturday of this
week, Toramie Huie, acting edi-
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1944

Duffee Writes

Goulash

Two Sides to This Nominating Question A Nose in the Air

By Mary Louise Duffee

(This recipe serves 545)

Name: Tommy Huie and others.
Destination: the Theatre in
town.

Chaperone: Miss Omwake.
Scene: Corner where the street
car stops.

Two sailors drive up in a car.
"Don't you girls want to ride to
town?" All heads swing in the di-
rection of Miss Omwake. There
is silence. "Well," say the sailors,
and press the invitation. More
glances, more silence. "No-er
thank you, we're taking the street
car," finally stutters one of the
girls.

The car slides off, returns af-
ter going around the block. Vickie
Alexander and her double date get
up from where they have been
crouching low in the car and say:
"Whatsa matter? Didn't you want
a ride?"

Ask Tinkem Iverson how she
got her name.

Everyone who knows about the
Boyd cottage snap-and-BB-shot
incident (and who doesn't) wants
to know what happened to the roll
of film in the candid camera.
(Anyone having campus pictures
for the annual can turn them in
to Zena Harris, Ann Jacob, or any
staff member. However, you'd
probably make more on this roll
by selling it to the occupants of
Boyd.)

There is one way this whole
nominating committee discussion
could be cleared up without fur-
ther ado. Just disfranchise the
entire student body by requiring
them to interpret our Constitu-
tion.

And why not stick one's neck
out a little farther by asking why
the new plan for student govern-
ment organization, if adopted,
couldn't go into effect this year
if presented for student vote in
written amendment form? For
every "can't because" there may
be a "can because."

Overheard: (Freshman talk-
ing) "Oh, is THAT what the vote
in (Impel was about? We
couldn't hear back there and
two groups got up and shouted
at each other and we all just
voted when they said to."
Now they say Willkie is going
to run for vice-president on the
Democratic ticket. Poor man.
Guess he failed to get the com-
mittee nomination and is doing the
best he can. As the cook used
to say, "It ain't what you want,
it's what you get."

Wouldn't you like to know
your exam schedule now so you
could know how long your
spring holidays will be? Well,
the dean's office can't put up
the schedule until every girl
has turned in two copies of her
class schedule for this quarter.
Please ?

Pome: There was a young junior
at Agnes Scott

A really and truly good Hotten-
tot

But when she lost the election
By missing THE selection,
She didn't mind not getting an
office she had worked for
for three years because
she knew she could serve
on the campus by smash-
ing tin cans and doing
her lot.

Leila Holmes' prize "fo-pas":
"All these young girls! They
make me feel like an old maid
grandmother!"

By Bunny Gray

Three years ago in the spring, when young
girls' fancies should have been turned to
thoughts of love, they turned instead to the
nominating committee. The attack was swift
and sure; the battle raged. To me, a most
bewildered freshman, it seemed the "war to
end all wars." It was not. Times have
changed. We are older now and wiser, I hope.
And so it has seemed necessary to consider
new ideas because nothing that is static is
worthwhile. Let us be perfectly sure, how-
ever, that the progress we make as a student
body is completely in accord with the high
ideals of Agnes Scott.

Our system of nominations for student of-
fices includes both popular and committee
choices. To doubt the sincerity of the mem-
bers of the nominating committee is unfair. It
is wholly apparent to any thinking person that
the heads of the organizations spend a great
deal of time and thought on their job, which
is to suggest a capable person for each student
office. To accuse the nominating committee
of forcing their suggestions down the throats
of the student body is unreasonable. Whether
a girl is elected to an office depends, not on
the vote of the nominating committee, but on
the vote of the entire student body. Popular
and committee nominations carry the same
weight. The decision lies with the students.

The nominating committee in its present
form, therefore, has a purpose and sincerely
tries to carry out that purpose. There are,
however, two changes which, in the opinion of
many students, would make this body more
representative of the whole campus and effect
a greater balance between its suggestions and
the popular nominations. (1) The member-
ship on the nominating committee should be
enlarged to include the heads of May Day,
Lecture Association, and War Council. Thus,
every organization which has offices elected
by the student body will have a representative
on the nominating committee. (2) The com-
mittee nominees should be listed alphabeti-
cally with the popular nominees and under-
lined. When the two were listed separately,
there was the criticism that the committee
nominee carried too much weight. Simply
shoving the committee nominee over to the
beginning or end of the popular column would
not remedy this because then it would either
carry more weight than ever or else seem to
be in the same category as a popular nominee.
It seems then that the fairest way to balance
the two would be to list all nominees in alpha-
betical order. Then in order that a student,
who does not know any of the candidates or
their efficiency, may know the thoughtful
suggestion of the committee which has worked
with all the candidates the committee nom-
inee should be underlined. This would pre-
serve the necessary balance between the pop-
ular and committee nominations.

In order that the importance of elections
may be brought more to the attention of the
student body, it is suggested that a special
Elections Bulletin Board be placed in the
front lobby of Buttrick a month before pop-
ular nominations. On this bulletin board
would be posted an alphabetical list of girls
who have worked on any organization during
any year. Directly opposite each list would
go the qualifications for each elective office
in that organization. This would be a constant
reminder to the thoughtful student of the rela-
tion between candidates and the qualifications
for the offices they are to fill.

Students of Agnes Scott, is it more demo-
cratic to elect girls to office through thought-
ful nominations of the entire student body
and the suggestions of organization heads; or
is it more democratic to elect girls to office
by a system of group politics with its ensuing
slander and malice?

The Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 issues of the Agnes
Scott News will be apprentice issues, assistant
editors and advertising managers assuming
the work of editors and business managers
respectively. Inge Prohstein will edit the
News Feb. 16, with Liz Carpenter as business
manager. Betty Glenn will act as editor for
the Feb. 23 issue, while Frances King will as-
sume the duties of business manager.

The purpose of the apprentice issues is to
give the editorial and business staffs experi-
ence in editing and handling the business of
the paper.

By Mary Louise Duffee

Soon the student body is to vote on and
decide between two proposed amendments to
the student government constitution which
alter the present status of nominating com-
mittee.

The fact that the student body voted to
consider amendments altering the functions
of the committee is concrete proof that they
recognized evils in the nomination system as
it now stands. You, who are reading this, are
the student body. You are the one who will
vote for one of these amendments. YOU will
be the one to either correct or retain these
evils you have recognized by the way you vote.
Vote the way you see fit but do some honest
and sound thinking before you vote.

I say the evils of the present system will
be retained or corrected by the way you vote
because it is evident that one of these pro-
posed amendments not only retains the great-
est objection to the old system it also takes
away what vestige of democratic choice the
old system had.

This is what I mean. One amendment in
question, submitted by Bunny Gray, suggests
that the committee nominee, designated by
underlining, be added to the list of popular
nominees, and the whole list rearranged in al-
phabetical order. Thus,

1. We still would have a committee nom-
inee, clearly separated from the popular
nominees by underlining.

2. We would lose the one democratic as-
pect of the old system that of having
the student body's popular nominees
listed in the order of the number of votes
they received.

If the selection of one girl by the nominat-
ing committee tended only to enhance that
girl's qualifications, the system might not be
so unfair, but the designation of one nominee
over the popular nominees tends to disqualify
all the others. The amendment which would
list these others in alphabetical order further
hinders the voter's mind because it does not
allow her to study comparatively the attitude
of the student body as a whole toward the
various popular nominees. Thus the opinion
of the committee is emphasized and the
opinion of her fellow students as a body is
wiped away.

As I have said, the vote (unless other
amendments are recognized) will be between
these two, the one just discussed and another
introduced by Madeline Hosmer and Tess
Carlos.

In this amendment, the popular nominations
of the student body would be emphasized.
The nominating committee would carefully
consider the qualifications of the nominees.
If for any reason the student leaders who
make up nominating committee would con-
sider a girl technically or theoretically dis-
qualified to hold office, they would notify the
girl and discuss it with her and ask her to
withdraw. All disqualifying would thus be
done with the knowledge and understanding
of the girl involved, not in a secret meeting
closed to her. Nor would any one girl receive
special qualifications by receiving the com-
mittee's stamp of special recommendation
based only on the personal opinions of the
members of the committee. Then the only
"special recommendation" any of the nom-
inees would receive would be the democratic
vote of the student body at large which would
give them the office.

Some people say that a system of entirely
popular nominations would bring on pontics.
Could the expressed opinion of various groups
within the student body be called bad politics
any more than the opinion of one group the
one which comprises the nominating commit-
tee?

Is it democratic to vote blindly for a girl
who is the committee nominee, chosen by
personal opinion, than to elect her by the
vote of the student body as a whole, informed
through a statement of each girls' qualifica-
tions?

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1944 No. 14

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the students of Agnes Soott College. Of-
fice on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.
SubacrlpUon price per year, $1.25 ; single copies, five ceaU.

By Tess Carlos

Do you know what you are
afraid of? If you wake up in the
dark of the night and even allow
yourself to stop the sleepiness, you
become afraid. Most of us should.
We are afraid and won't admit it.
We are afraid to think, afraid to
think clearly and to talk, afraid
to talk clearly. We want to throw
the job off on others. Let us lie
in our snug little beds in our warm
rooms. And not think. Or talk.

That is why we shall always
need a nominating committee.
We let the nominating commit-
tee do our job. We let them
make the decisions that ought
to be ours. We say: we are
afraid that we don't know. You
must do this for us. We are
afraid that whomever we choose
may not be the right person for
the right job. That the person
chosen will rule over us does
not seem to come into the ques-
tion. We are afraid to stop and
think and consider and know.
And then come together and
talk, talk, talk. And make
sense. We can come together
all right. The majority of us
don't talk. We are afraid. Even
in Open Forum we let a few do
most of the talking. Why? Is
it that those few are at the pin-
nacle of geniushood and know
what is going on ?
This is the fundamental wrong
with the Nominating Committee.
No change as to listing of lists
or making of bulletin board can
get rid of this one thing. The
Nominating Committee is there to
do your thinking. They don't real-
ly know who the best girls are.
They haven't really worked with
them. Student Government offi-
cials work with student govern-
ment officials. Members of
Aurora staff work with members
of Aurora staff. They never over-
lap. The head of student govern-
ment knows the work of her organ-
ization alone. The head of Aurora
knows the work of her organiza-
tion alone. Just because they are
members of a Nominating Com-
mittee does not mean that what
they really believe will be the be-
lief of the Nominating Committee.
You hear this: how can you
choose between two girls who
are running for tin* job? What
makes you think the committee
can if you can't? Why can't
the choice be your own since
there has to be one? Why must
the committee make it ? Why
are you afraid to exercise a lit-
tle common sense? Why are
you so afraid of coming out and
discussing? Why do you let oth-
ers do your thinking? Why?
The consequences of thought
should be action. That is the lit-
eral implication. We have allowed
the nominating committee, the so-
called leaders of the school, to say
how we should think. Consequent-
ly when times come and we have
to do things, we are unable. Open
forum stumps us. We don't know
what to say. Wc have been will-
ing too long to let someone else
tell us what to do. The whole sit-
uation has been full of confusion.
And this one thing must result
from it: the realization that we
are actionless, that we are unable
to get right down and do what we
want. We have been dependent
too long. Perhaps it has come to
the point where we can no longer
do anything. Wo have lost the ca-
pacity to think or to act. It would
be tragic if this were so. And at
times many wonder if that per-
haps is not what is wrong with us.
We are being stirred by changing
winds. We are afraid to free them.
And they shall defeat us.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1944

No. 15

Agnes Scott Will Not Observe"
Founder's Day This Year

Due to war conditions, Agnes Scott will be unable to observe
Founder's Day, Feb. 22, in the customary manner, according
to President J. R. McCain.

Until last year Feb. 22, the birthday of Col. George Wash-
ington Scott, who gave $200,000 to establish the institution,
has been a holiday at Agnes Scott, with classes suspended
in the morning and a formal ban-

quet, followed by an old-fashioned
minuet, being held in the evening.
This year, however, as last year,
there will be no such observance
on the campus.

No Broadcast

Because of crowded conditions
on the radio networks, Agnes
Scott will not present its Found-
er's Day broadcast, which has been
a feature of the day of several
years. To replace the broadcast,
which consisted of a resume of the
college's history and a brief ad-
dress by some member of the fac-
ulty or administration, Dr. Mc-
Cain announced that a letter was
sent to all alumnae.

In his letter, Dr. McCain paid
tribute to Col. Scott, adding that
two of his grandchildren, Julius
Scott and Scott Candler, are now
trustees of the college and that
three great-grandchildren, Betty
Pope Scott, Nellie Scott, and Mar-
garet Scott, are now students here,
while several others are graduates
of recent years.

War Changes

Dr. McCain spoke of new of-
ficers and teachers who have come
to Agnes Scott and mentioned
changes due to war conditions. He
also told of progress on the pres-
ent campaign to raise funds for
the college and spoke of the rec-
ord number of students enrolled
during the current session.

Dr. McCain closed his letter
with these words, "On the very
first day that our institution open-
ed, it was dedicated to the glory
of God. . . . We are sure that
any progress made to date has
been under His guidance, and we
hope the growth through the years
ahead will be according to His

NVill."

Mrs. William Rhodes, alumnae
secretary, announced that Dr. Mc-
Cain's letter will be read in the
59 Agnes Scott clubs throughout
the nation on Founder's Day.

'Junior Joint'

A second Town Meeting will
gather this Friday afternoon,
Feb. 18, at 5 o'clock in Murphey
Candler, according to Inge Prob-
stein, chairman of these meet-
ings.

IkU Iteek . . .

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p. m.
Skit to introduce playboys in old
chapel.

Thursday, Feb. 17, 7:30 p. m.
Three one-act plays by Black-
friars in Presser

Friday, Feb. 18, 5 p. m. Town
Meeting in Murphey Candler.

Saturday, Feb. 19, 8 p. m. "Jun-
ior Joint," in Bucher Scott gym-
nasium^

Tuesday, Feb. 22, 8:30 p. m.
Minneapolis Symphony at mun-
icipal auditorium
Junk jewelry drive.

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 10:30 a. m.
Mrs. Sims' war analysis in
chapel

Playboys Vie
For Title

Tonight in the old chapel each
class will present a skit to intro-
duce its playboy for the "Junior
Joint." The junior class project
for the War Fund, the "Junior
Joint," will be held on Saturday
night, Feb. 19, from 8:00-10:00 in
Bucher Scott gymnasium.

Each playboy has chosen a
campaign manager to solicit votes
to make him the most popular
playboy. Voting may begin now
and continue through Saturday
night. The winning playboy will
not be announced until the end of
the party. Each playboy has chos-
en a deb to be his date. These will
not be introduced until Saturday
night.

Campus organizations will par-
ticipate in the continuous floor
show which will last throughout
the party. A prize will be award-
ed for the most entertaining skit
of the floor show. Judges for the
skits will be Miss Abbie Rutu-
ledge and Miss Leslie Gaylord.

To climax the evening's enter-
tainment the junior class will pre-
sent a grand finale for the reign-
ing playboy and deb of the "joint."

C. A. Completes Plans
For Foreman Talks

Dr. Kenneth J. Foreman, pro-
fessor of Bible at Davidson Col-
lege, will be the speaker during
Religious Emphasis Week, Feb.
29-Mar. 4. His theme for the
week, according to Ruth Farrior,
president of Christian Association,
will be "Our Questions and God's
Answers."

Alfred Noyes to Give
Conference to Writers

Alfred Noyes, distinguished
English man of letters, has con-
sented to remain on the Agnes
Scott campus the day following his
lecture in Presser hall Tuesday
night, Feb. 29, at 8:30 p. m.

According to Miss Emma May
Laney, faculty chairman of
Lecture Association, plans are be-
ing made for students interested
in creative writing to have a
group conference with Mr. Noyes.
Interested students should contact
either Miss Laney or Betty Sulli-
van, student chairman, so that
plans may be completed.

Miss Laney further stated that
Mr. Noyes will probably be able
to autograph books; she therefore
urges that students who want
his autograph get one of his books
from Atlanta soon, because they
will not be on sale in the book
store.

Students Veto
Proposals for
Election System

Agnes Scott's student body ve-
toed two proposed amendments
to article 11 of the constitution
dealing with the nominating com-
mittee and campus elections in a
decisive vote at student meeting
in chapel last Friday.

Elections this spring will take
place as usual, with the nominat-
ing committee functioning as in
previous years. Under this sys-
tem, there is a committee nominee
and a list of popular nominees.

The amendment proposed by
Madeline Hosmer and Tess Car-
los, which would have instituted
open elections and a committee
to supervise elections, received
181 positive votes. 177 people vot-
ed against it. Bunny Gray's
amendment, which added mem-
bers of May Day War, Council
and Lecture Association, and
changed listing of popular and
committee nominees, got 177 votes
for, and 146 against. Both amend-
ments polled a majority vote but
lacked the two thirds vote re-
quired for adoption.

Student Government
To Present Change

Before Christmas vacation, a committee was appointed
from the Executive Committee to study the present organiza-
tion of student government. Reports of this committee have
been made during the last month to the Executive Committee,
the Administrative Committee, and to a group of heads
and junior representatives of ma-

Students are asked to bring
their copies of the News, con-
taining the new Student Govern-
ment proposal, to chapel on
Thursday.

Minneapolis Symphony
To Play Here Tuesday

Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pian-
ist, will be the soloist with the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Dmitri Mi-
tropolous in a concert at the
municipal auditorium in Atlanta,
Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8:30 p. m.

The program includes the Grieg
Concerto for Piano and Orches-
tra in A Minor, Brahms' Sym-
phony No. 2 in D Minor, and the
"Leonore" overture No. 2 by
Beethoven.

jor campus organizations. The
final report of this committee will
be made in chapel Thursday, Feb.
17 in the form of a resolution
which will recommend that certain
changes be made in the organiza-
tion of student government, and
that they be accepted on a trial
basis for a year, at the end of
which time the student body will
vote to incorporate the changes
in the constitution as an amend-
ment, or to extend the trial period.
A majority vote of the student
body is necessary to pass the reso-
lution, which if passed will go
into effect immediately.

The committee appointed from
the Executive Committee of the
Student Government Association
to study the present student gov-
ernmen organization recommends
that the following changes be
made in the existing organization
for a trial period of one year, at
the end of which time the student
body will vote to incorporate it
into the Constitution as an amend-
ment or to extend the trial period.
I. Executive Committee.

A. Membership. Additions and
changes. 1. The vice-president of
the association shall be chairman
of the judicial work of the Com-
mittee.

The vice-president will no lon-
ger be chairman of open forum,
orientation, and Lower House. 2.
There shall be a chairman of
freshman orientation. 3. There
shall be a separate chairman of
Lower House. 4. There shall be an
additional day student representa-
tive to do primarily judicial work.
5. There shall be two senior cot-
tage presidents. 6. There shall be
two junior cottage presidents. 7.

Triple Feature By Blockfriars
Promises Dramatic Variety

By Pauline Ertz

Under the deft direction of Miss Roberta Winter, Black-
friars' triple one-act dramatic offering, to be presented at
7:30 in Presser hall tomorrow night, Feb. 7, promises a farce,
a tragedy and a historical comedy on one program.
Shades of Eire

The first, a farce, "Rehearsal,"
by Christopher Morley, deals with
the trials and tribulations of a
group of high school girls practic-
ing an old Irish tragedy. Zena
Harris Temkin plays the stricken
old Shawn O'Connell and Mary
Dozier portrays his daughter who
has brought shame upon the house.
Their Irish accent is very
well done. Others in the
cast of "Rehearsal" are LaNelle
Wright, Pauline Ertz, Barbara
Kincaid, and Carolyn Daniel.

"Women Who Wait," by Lyda
Nagel, is a moving play about
the wives of aviators at an Alas-
kan post. There is excellent char-
acter development as the play
moves steadily to a powerful clim-
ax. The cast includes Jane Ev-

erett, Martha Marie Trimble,
Emily Anne Singletary, Martha
Jane Mack, Carolyn Daniel, and
Doris Purcell.

Too Many Queens
Thornton Wilder's "Queens of
France" is the historical comedy
whose scene is laid in the New
Orleans of the '80s. This one-act
play is about a number of women
all claiming to be descendants of
the French royal family. Queens
succeed each other rapidly, each
one convinced of her own royal
blood. In the cast are LaNelle
Wright, Liz Carpenter, Jane
Smith, and Betty Manning. The
costumes for this play will be
of special interest. Mary Dozier
is attempting to make them as
authentic as possible.

There shall be an additional soph-
omore representative.

B. Duties and Powers. Changes
in duties and powers are suggest-
ed toward the end of dividing the
Executive Committee for practical
purposes into two groups, one
working primarily with executive
affairs, the other with judicial
matters.

1. Duties and powers of new
members, a. The vice-president of
the association as chairman of the
judicial work of the committee
shall amass material for cases,
work with individual cases, inform,
the Dean's office of judicial decis-
ions, and head all judicial work. b.
The chairman of orientation shall
work with junior sponsors and a
committee of two juniors one soph-
omore and one freshman and shall
work with incoming freshmen
throughout the year. c. The Low-
er House chairman shall be parl-
iamentarian of the Student Gov-
ernment Association.

2. Changes in duties and pow-
ers of present members. The pres-
ident of Student Government As-
sociation shall be chairman of
open forum, b. The student record-
er (a junior) shall be secretary
of the executive and legislative
work of the committee, secretary
of the Representative Council, and
shall take the minutes of open
forum and student meetings, c.
The treasurer, with a committee
consisting of the treasurers and
business managers of the campus
organizations, shall supervise the
auditing of books of the organiza-
tions, and shall apportion the stu-
dent budget. She will not be a
cottage president. This office shall
incorporate that of the present
student treasurer, d. The secre-
tary shall handle only the judi-
cial side of the records, and shall
not be a cottage president, e. The
day student representative (sen-
ior) shall edit the handbook.

C. Elections. 1. The vice-presi-
dent of the Student Government
Association, orientation chairman,
and Lower House chairman shall
be elected by the student body. 2.
The day student representative
(senior) shall be elected by the day
students. 3. Class representatives. .
a. The two senior representatives
shall be cottage presidents and
elected by the senior class, b. The
three junior representatives shall
be two cottage presidents and a
day student representative, elec-
ted by the junior class, c. The
additional sophomore representa-
tive shall be elected by the sopho-
more class.

II. Lower House.

A. Duties and Powers. Lower
House members shall be in charge
of those services previously atten-
ded to by the Executive Commit-
tee such as care of the mimeo-
graph machine, the second hand
book store, etc.

B. Term of Office. Lower
House members will be elected

(CoiTt. page 2, col. 3)

Page I

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Magaret Drummond

Remember way back in the
dawn of civilization (and gram-
mar school) the wigwam that
stood on the shores of Gitchegoo
mee, by the Shining Big Sea-Wat-
ers? Remember the little Indian
lad, Hiawatha, who, with his bow
and arrow and his little wild
friends, made the first grade bear-
able?

Well, now it seems, as it must
to all men, manhood has come
to Hiawatha. He has put away
childish things, and has donned
the feathers of a brave. And
brave he is too, in more than
one sense of the word, for now
he is anticipating embarking
upon that most perilous of all
adventures.
On Feb. 24, at precisely 8:30 in
the evening, Hiawatha, grandson
of Nokomis and bravest of the
braves, will make that long trek
(or rather, swim) down the aisle
(or rather, across the pool) to
meet his blushing bride Minne
Ha-Ha, Laughing Water, and with
her to join in the holy bonds of
matrimony. Swimming club will
be on hand for the ceremony, and
hopes that you will too. The
scene: the pool in the gym; the
occasion : the wedding of Hiawa-
tha and Minne Ha-Ha;. the pur-
pose: obvious, but also, incidental-
ly, to raise money for the War
Fund; the sponsors: the Athletic
Board and Swimming club; the
price: twenty cents.

Margaret Scott will be Hia-
watha; Agnes Douglas, Minne
Ha-Ha, and the "Chief" will,
strangely enough, be the "Chief."
In case that's confusing, Miss
Wilburn will take the part of
Hiawatha's grandfather, the Ar-
row-Maker. Swimming club

Council to Post
New Charts

New war-work charts will be
posted in the dormitories this
week-end to stimulate lagging in-
terest in the recording of activi-
ties. A check-up Saturday reveal-
ed that few entries have been
made since early last month.
Can Smashers Needed
Although the dormitory wings
are still in charge of smashing
tin cans, additional volunteers are
needed to take care of the increas-
ed number of point-free canned
good now used in the kitchen.

About sixty students will receive
points upon the completion of hel-
mets, sweaters gloves and watch
caps which they are knitting for
the Red Cross. More girls have
volunteered to knit during this
period from January to March 25
than at any other one time.

The drive to reach the $1000
War Fund goal is still being push-
ed, with several organizations
scheduling events to raise money
for the effore: the Junior Joint /
Saturday; the Chi Beta Phi quiz
program March 23; the sophomore
musical program March 27; and
the freshman class and Spanish
club programs Apr. 1 and Apr. 22.

Student Government

and others will participate as
braves, squaws, medicine men,
and whatever else Indian tribes
have. All will be resplendent in
war paint and feathers.
Anything can happen when a
group as versatile as Swimming
club gets hold of a plot as adapt-
able as the story of Hiawatha.
There will be war dances, feats of
prowess by the braves, as the
victor of which Hiawatha wins
the hand of his beloved, and vari-
ous tribal dances, the whole show
climaxing with the wedding.

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for the college year instead of for
one quarter.

C. Meetings. Lower House shall
meet twice a month.
III. Representative Council.

There shall be a Representative
Council.

A. Membership. 1. President of
Student Government Association
(ch). 2. Vice-president of Student
Government Association. 3. Stu-
dent recorder (sec'y)- 4. Treasur-
er of student Government Asso-
ciation. 5. Orientation chairman.
6. Day student representative (sen-
ior). 7. President of Mortar
Board. 8. President of Christian
Association. 9. President of Ath-
letic Association. 10. Editor of the
News. 11. Chairman of War Coun-
cil. 12. President of the senior
class. 13. President of the junior
class. 14. President of the soph-
omore class. 15. President of the
freshman class.

B. Duties and Powers. 1. To set
up a campus-wide program for
the year. 2. To act as a group
where basic campus problems may
be discussed. 3. To refer to the
Executive Committee those prob-
lems and suggestions which do not
involve an extension of the pow-
ers of student government and to
discuss with the Administrative
Committee those problems and
suggestions which do involve an
extension of existing powers, and
to refer to other campus organiza-
tions those matters that pertain
to their particular organizations.

C. Meetings. The Council shall
meet four times a year.
IV. Administrative Committee.

A. Membership. 1. Present
membership. The dean of stu-
dents, who is chairman; the presi-
dent of the college; the dean of
the faculty; the resident physi-
cian; the assistant dean; one mem-
ber of the faculty; the president,
vice-president, secretary, treasur-
er, and one senior member of the
Executive Committee.

2. New Membership. The pres-
ent administrative committee
shall be changed in the following
manner. The student representa-
tives of the committee shall be the
members of the Representative
Council instead of the present
members of the Executive Com-
mittee. The administration and
faculty representatives shall re-
main unchanged.

B. Duties and Powers. To de-
cide all matters which involves
more power than is delegated to
the Executive Committee, and to
discuss as a group those matters
referred to it by the Representa-
tive Council that seem to need
the attendtion of all elements of
th campus community (Students,
Administration, and Faculty).

C. Meetings. The Committee
shall meet four times annually.

Correction

In last week's issue of the Agnes
Scott News the wrong address was
printed in L. Jerry Karol's adver-
tisement. The correct address is
1079 Boulevard, not 1097 Boule-
vard, as was stated last week.

Karol's advertisement is printed
correctly on page 3 of this week's
Agnes Scott News.

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave,

Seniors (10)

Farrior, R. (4)
Gray, B. (3)
Tuggle, V. (1)
Walker. B.
Douglas, A.
Young, J.

Frosh, Sophomores Win Again;
Tied in Championship Battle

By Peggy Kelly

Sisters clashed against sisters in close games Friday. The
sophomores and seniors started the game with fast playing
and great skill. The seniors, with "Rufus" Farrior and Vir-
ginia Tuggle starring, were held down to minimum shooting
by the freshmen guards. Especially fine guarding was done
by Betty Miller, who intercepted '
many of the senior passes and
Billy Walker, who intercepted
many of the sophomores' efforts
to score. The sophomore* for-
wards ran up the score early in
the game. Top scorers were Sally
Sue Stephenson with 13 points and
Scotty Johnson and Gloria Anne
Melchor with six points each.
The juniors started out with fast
playing and made some progress
against the freshmen's skilled
players. Playing a fine game were
Ann Webb and Ann Equen plus
the "big three," Molly Milam,
Mary Cumming, and Mary Mun-
roe. However, the freshmen for-
wards after a first half started
sinking some long shots. Betty
Andrews led the top scorers with
18 points, while Genet Heery rang
up 16 points..

As the scores stand now, the
freshmen and sophomores are even
in the tournament, each having
only lost once and to each oth-
er. Arrangements will be made for
a game to determine who will get

the cup if they both win their last
games Friday.
Line-ups follow:

Sophomores (27)
Ryner, R. (2) RF
Step'son, S. S. (13) LF
Johnson, S. (6) CF
Miller, B. RG
Phelps, B. L. LG
McCain, M. CG

Substitutions : Sophomores, Melchor (6) ,
Kelly, Toole, Walker. Seniors, Harvard, J..
(Jray. Hill.

Freshmen (46) Juniors (30)

Heery, G. (16) RF dimming. M. (10)
Hough, A. (12) LF Munroe. M. (8)
Andrews, B. (18) CF Holmes, L.

Denning, J. RG Gray, R.

Liddell, J. LG Equen, A.

Radford, B. J. CG Webb, A.

Substitutions : Freshmen, none.
Milam (12).

Juniors.

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The Five Hundred

By Martha Rhodes

This is her roommate tattling on Camilla Moore, who is
visiting her family in Roswell for the week-end. In spite of
the cold, cold weather, quite a few Hottentots trotted out-
of-town. Ann Wheeler went home to Gainesville, and Mar-
garet McManus visited her home in Greenville.

Rufus Farrior returned with

tales of the week-end spent in
Clarkston "eating gingerbread and
riding around in a convertible.''
Laura Winchester went to 'Ath-
ens to see how they operate at
the University there; "good," she
says. Kitty Stanton also went to
Athens to visit her folks.

Other trotting Hottentots were
Fluff and Muff Paisley, who went
to Stockbridge. Dublin Ga., glimps-
ed Dorothy Chapman during the
week-end, while Mary Emily Har-
ris went to Asheville, N. C. It
was orchids and roses for Sissy
Jefferies when she arrived in Au-
gusta for the Med dance Satur-
day. Lisa Marshall went to Sparta,
S. C, Ann Register to Fitzgerald,
and Doris Purcell to Carnesville
for wonderful week-ending at
home.

Coot Rose also went home, as
did Mary McConkey. Bitty King
went to Newnan, while Sara Kay
traveled toward Byron. Green-
ville, S. C, was the destination
of Sara Milford who took Bess

Shepard with her. Special busi-
ness carried Joyce Freeman home
to Albany this time she's begun
already to buy her trousseau. And
speaking of such things, Bobby
Powell's mother came up this Sat-
urday to help her select things
for her trousseau.

Emory's interfraternity formal
was the occasion of great Hotten-
tot activity Friday night. Scott
Newell was presented as KA spon-
sor. Also there were Ann Mur-
rell, Betty Codrington, Lura John-
ston, Ruth Ryner, Betty Glenn,
Betty Brown, Mary Ann Courte-
nay, Robin Robinson, Maude Van
Dyke, Patty Barbour, Katherine
Edelblut, Bunny Weems, Lilaine
Harris, Beth Walton, Barbara
Omer and Peggy Kelly.

The Tech and Emory chapters
of Sigma Chi combined forces to
give a wonderful formal dance at
the Biltmore hotel Saturday night.
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Classes Vote
On 'Playboys'
For 'Joint'

The chief topic under discussion
at class meetings last Thursday
was the election of "playboys" to
represent each class at the "Jun
ior Joint," Feb. 19.

Freshmen heard an unbiased
report of the present nominating
system by Virginia Dixon. Jane
Meadows, president, announced
that in the eight days of the fresh-
man Shoe Shop eleven dollars has
been made. The class also discus-
sed further development of the
freshman orchestra which has
played once before at the fresh-
man tea.

"Sophomore Attack"

The "sophomore attack" on
coats and books left in the lobby
of Rebekah Scott was explained
to the class by Carolyn Hall, class
president. Lisa Marshall and Jane
Bowman were appointed to write
the sophomore entertainment for
the "Junior Joint" and Jinx Blake
was named to edit a skit for the
presentation of the "class play-
boy."

The juniors were busy forming
various committees and making
definite plans for the "junior fin-
ale" at their War Fund party.
Each girl was reminded of the
scrap-paper drive. A posted sched-
ule giving the building and floor
assigned to each girl for paper col-
lection was made known to the
class.

Betty Dixon was named chair-
man of Senior Opera at the senior
class meeting. The seniors were
urged to cooperate with a recent
offer of the Towle Silver Company
to pay 25 cents for comments on
various silver patterns.

Council Wants
Junk Jewelry

A canvass of all dormitories
on Feb. 22 will bring to War Coun-
cil all the junk jewelry that "Hot-
tentots" can find to send to their
fellow Hottentots, the natives of
Africa. The pins, bracelets, neck-
laces, and other trinkets will be
sent overseas to American soldiers
for barter with the natives.

Student contributions to the
United Community and War
Fund drive so far amont to
$600, acording to Cathy Stein-
bach, chairman of the drive.
Only thirteen days remain in
which to collect the rest of the
$1000 pledge.

Beth Danielson, Joyce Gilleland,
Martha Rhodes, Billy Parrigin,
Julia Slack, Eva Williams, Dootsie
Gardiner, Lilaine Harris, Mary
Frances Anderson, Barbara Omer
and Beth Walton were there. Dale
Bennett and Ann Equen wore or-
chids, and Betty Davis had a
beautiful corsage of white roses.

The SAE's also gave a house
dance, with Lilaine Harris, Mary
Frances Anderson and Barbara
Omer from Agnes Scott attending.
The AKK medical fraternity saw
Lucy Turner, Louise Starr, Mar-
garet Scott, and June Thomason
dancing at their house dance.

The Atlanta Dental College fra-
ternity, Psi Omega, also gave a
house dance which Dootsie Gardi-
ner, Mary Frances Anderson and
Claire Bennett attended.

Mary Beth Danielson, who is
getting married next Saturday,
was honored at a lingerie shower
by Marjorie Cole and Minnewil
Story Friday afternoon.

Lack of Breeding, Long Ears
No Obstacles for Faculty Pets

By Leila Holmes

Are you one of the faculty pets? Although most people do
not approve of this species and say that such a thing shouldn't
happen to a dog, still it has happened here at Agnes Scott to
% quite a number of dogs.

Miss Omwake and Miss Harn obtained their extraordinary
mixture of a dog at the city

pound. "Mickey" makes up for
her slight lack of breeding by
an incomparable personality. How-
ever she spent last week at the
Dog Infirmary being treated for
an unmentionable disease. (Miss
Omwake said she'd flunk me and
all my friends if I mentioned the
disease.)

Colonel Beebee

One of "Mickey's" friends is
"Colonel Beebee," the Posey's
new cocker spaniel pup. He is
the namesake of a retired Army
officer who presented him to the
Poseys' daughter, Blythe, as a
Christmas gift. "Beebee" sports a
solid black coat and a white tie
under his chin rather a formal
attire for one so young, four
months. The Posey's cat has now
gotten over her original dislike of
the "Colonel," and they eat from
the same dish, the only hazard be-
ing the "Colonel's" ears which are
long and flop into the dish from
time to time.

"Katie Whiskers," Miss Glick's
wirehair terrier, certainly gets
around. She started her travels
quite early in life, going at the
age of eight weeks from Penn-
sylvania to Indiana in a zipper bag.
Later in life "Katie" made the
journey from Baltimore to Deca-
tur. "You really have to know her
to know her charms," says Miss
Glick.

And Carrie

The Stukes' dog, "Carrie" was
named by their daughter Mar-
jorie for Miss Scandrett. Mr.
Stukes is not one of those people
who raves over a dog, but he
did praise "Carrie" for her sensi-
ble habits; she eats exactly what
a dog should eat dog food.

"Rex" and "Weagie," a German
police and an "Alley Dog," re-
spectively, belong to Mr. Armisted.
Rex is no ordinary dog. He shakes
hands at the sound of the magic
word "Five," and he sits up for
his dinner not even using his el-
bow for a prop.

One day last winter Wallace
Lyons rode up to school with her
bicycle filled with little six weeks
old pups all half fox and half
Boston Bull (Figure that one out).
Miss Preston couldn't resist one,
so that is the origin of "Skeeter"

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harness, catches a ball in mid-air,
leaps like a deer and stands on
his hind legs for food. "He's real-
ly so smart we have to spell in
front of him." The most amazing
thing about "Skeeter" is that he
is not at all awed by the faculty.
He even jumps all over Miss
Laney.

"Prince," Mr. Jones' Spitz, is
three years old. His love for his
master is touching. Every after-
noon at 4:00 "Prince" barks to
wake up Mr. Jones so that he will
play with him. He should be a
strong dog because he has a pe-
culiar liking for turnip greens.

The Johnsons have another mu-
sician in the family, for their Bos-
ton bull, "Mickey" plays the piano.
She has a special solo which she
plays with the same motion, al-
though not the same tune, each
time.

One can see the group of facul-
ty pets is talented and full of per-
sonality; long ears and lack of
breeding are no obstacles. Do you
think you can make the grade and
join the privileged band? As for
me, remember, I didn't mention
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Page 4

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1944

Duffee Writes

Jambalaya

By Mary Louise Duffee

Another month 'til exams. An-
other quarter 'til the end of school
and summer vacation. And that's
still another thing for seniors. Are
you going to work, or get mar-
riedand work? These days
there are lots of 'ladies waiting'
but no maids for those who go
ahead and get married.

So the nominating committee
amendments have been voted
on. So we still have a nominat-
ing committee and tradition un-
touched. Oh, well, President
Wilson had a plan too . . .
Henceforth it is promised, quiet
shall reign here on the subject,
except for one last final word.
Humble voter, humble student
body member remember this
we conceivably could have
politics on this campus without
and open election system. There
conceivably could exist politics
now, of a sort. Personally, I
don't know.

Here's a goody, copied from a
printing trade publication:
"We've often thought women are
like newspapers
They both have forms.
They always have the last word.
Back numbers are seldom in
demand.

They are well worth looking over.
They have a great deal of in-
fluence.

You cannot believe everything

they say.
They carry the news wherever

they go.

Every man should have one of
his own and not borrow his
neighbor's."

Tommy Huie (who, by the
way, should take up law) must
be excused for almost knocking
down her guests trying to get
to her own senior coffee on time
Sunday-bef ore-last. You see,
she had to get there to be in
the receiving line. Tess Carlos
and Flossie McKee, who were
also hostesses, were wearing
clashing shades of red and she
had to be there to stand between
them.

Latest gossip is that Mrs. Mc-
Gregor is wearing Mr. McGre-
gor's ATO pin.

Kathryn Dozier, whose pic-
ture, with NTita Hurst's, appears
on the cover of the new Aurora,
insists the picture was supposed
to be a silhouette and not a
photograph. Says she never
would have worn a flowered
smock with a plaid skirt. And
maybe you would be painting on
paper, too, huh ?

With this issue, the Aurora

deserves it's name, sho' nuff., (i e.

"light of dawn")

I welcome "Emma Rey," new
member of the Emory Wheel
staff, as a fellow columnist.
I'm jealous, though she gets
her picture run by the column.
Note: Ask some member of

exec what is meant by the term

"loyal opposition."

If anyone ever doubts yoii
when you start talking about
the high scholastic requirements
at Agnes Scott, back your state-
ments up with proof. Here's an
exam question that's a good ex-
ample, said to have come from
a final here last quarter: "Ex-
plain why the 'liberties' of the
medieval clergy- and aristocracy,
slices of sovereignty held in
private or corporate hands,
were resumed in favor of the
liberty of the ordinary English
subject, sheltered behind the
power of the state."

Short Catechism on Student Government

While the two chief objectives of the pro-
posed plan for the reorganization of student
government divided responsibility within the
Executive Committee and broader represen-
tation are self evident, some of the details
may not seem logical or necessary to the
innocent bystander. As disagreement over
the minor details of the resolution might well
destroy what it hopes to accomplish, it is
hoped that, while not accepting it blindly,
the student body will vote for or against the
entire proposal as a whole, and not haggle
over details. These questions hope to antici-
pate some of those which will be asked about
the details of the proposed change.

Why is a change necessary? Under the
present system of student government, there
is no coordination of major campus organiza-
tions in one central group where problems
of campus wide interest may be discussed. Stu-
dent government should be the group which
ties all the parts of campus life into a unified
whole. At present there is nothing but a
rather defunct President's Council fulfilling
this important function. Too, if student gov-
ernment is to perform all its functions ade-
quately, the duties of some individual mem-
bers of the Executive Committee need to be
reduced or more clearly defined. The new
plan also calls for a division of the commit-
tee for practical purposes into one group do-
ing primarily executive work, and one group
dealing principally with judicial matters.

Why have two senior cottage presidents?

When the Executive Committee divides to do
executive and judicial work, there would be
more juniors than seniors on the judicial side.

Why have the additional day student repre-
sentative? The two junior representatives are
cottage presidents and necessarily boarders,
and there might be a tendency to elect a
day student to another junior position (such
as Secretary or Treasurer), whether the day
student had the qualifications for that par-
ticular job or not. By having a day student

Birthday Without Cake

That the college will not "observe"
Founder's Day this year is the gist of a news
story on page one of this issue. In a news
story the truth of that statement is perfectly
valid. In this editorial I would like to mini-
mize the truth of that statement.

i

One need not point out that "observance,"
when it takes the form of minuets and formal
dinners and suspension of classes is all a very
pleasant thing; no one would pretend, however,
that these are the only elements that make our
Founder's Day. And everyone will readily
agree that Founder's Day, like a regular birth-
day, can exist quite independently of the birth-
day cake that embellishes it.

Founder's Day is a birthday of ideals, one
might say, and is marked by a spirit of eval-
uation of the realization of these ideals. As
on our birthday we might look at a mirror
and see whether we really look better at
21 than at 20, so Agnes Scott measures her-
self against the ideals that were in the minds
of its founders.

Dr. McCain, in his letter to Agnes Scott
alumnae this week, looked to the progress of
our institution in the past and in the present
and it is a progress of which we are duly
proud.

The letter and the whole spirit of Founder's
Day suggests a viewpoint which might help
us throughout the year, that long-term view-
point of the ideals and the principles to which
our actions and labors should be subordinated.

We have a tendency to regard our ideals as
fine statements in a handbook, somewhat like
people who adopt a philosophy of life and then
proceed to live completely without a phil-
osophy.

The ideals of our institution can be applied
to every phase of our life here, to the very
matters in which we are this week involved:
trying to meet our War Fund campaign pledge,
thinking constructively about a reorganization
of Student Government, and let it not be
least trying to keep the Rebekah lobby
cleared for free passage.

If we do this sort of thinking about the ap-
plication of our ideals on Founder's Day no
amount of birthday cake or "observance" can
help to make our "birthday" more real and
significant.

-d. P.)

elected by the class as a class representative,
this danger would be eliminated. Too, the
junior day student representative would do
primarily judicial work, freeing the senior
day student representative from that responsi-
bility.

Why an extra sophomore? There would be

nine seniors, seven juniors, three sophomores,
and two freshmen without the extra sopho-
more on the executive committee under the
new plan. Another sophomore would give the
underclassmen better representation.

Why have the Representative Council rep-
resent the students on the administrative com-
mittee rather than Exec members as at pres-
ent? Because the administrative committee
can now work directly with all organizations
whose functions concern the entire student
body instead of with just the executive com-
mittee.

The changes are proposed only on a trial
basis. If you think there is enough good in
the proposed plan to try it for a year, vote for
it. If you think it is no improvement over
what we have now, vote against it. But as
with Our Boy Frankie, it's a case of all or
nothing at all.

Wendy Whittle.

Dear Editor:

This is a suggestion which I hope will help
us in our thinking about the nominating sys-
tem.

L No committee nominations.

2. Two sets of popular nominations:

A. The first to take place the week
after spring holidays by written secret
ballot. When the list is posted, the can-
didates may strike their names from
offices they do not wish to hold, under-
line a special preference, or they may
do neither, and leave the choice up to
the students.

B. Because popular nominations
sometimes result in several strong can-
didates for one office and few in another,
and because omissions may become ap-
parent after the list is posted, there will
be a second chance to nominate a week
following the first nominations. Any girl
eligible for the first nomination will be
eligible for the second. Nominees of the
first nomination may be nominated for
other officers. This would help distrib-
ute the candidates, and remedy "bunch-
ing" around an office. This second nom-
ination will eliminate errors due to
chance. The names from the second
nomination will be added to those of the
first to form a new list. Striking and
underlining will take place again.

3. The following week students will vote
as usual.

Respectfully,

Martha Arnold.

Inge Probstein acted as editor of this
week's News, while Betty Glenn took over
Mary Carr's job of managing editor. The
editor and managing editor aeted as as-
sistant editors. Frances King took over the
position as business manager.

The Agnes Scott News

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Marjorie Cole.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

Well. Though the student body
voted down the changes presented
concerning the nominating com-
mittee, they will have further
chances to think about reform
this year. The question of nom-
inating committee is theoretically
closed, for the time being at least.
And now attention will be taken
up with a resolution involving
planned changes in the set-up of
student government.

The proposed changes will
better facilitate the work of
the present over-burdened exe-
cutive committee and they seek
to empower the student body
with a little more representa-
tion. The work of condering
these changes and of drafting
them through the various phases
of consultation and rechange has
been ably done by Wendy Whit-
tle and a committee from stu-
dent government.

It will not be a permanent
change. The form that it is be-
ing presented in, as a resolu-
tion, stipulates a subsequent
vote by the student body after
the proposal has been at work
for a year.

This is a chance to get some-
thing done. A little something.
It is a beginning. A noteworthy
beginning. One of the causes of
complaint concerning the opera-
tion of student government has
been the lack of representation
and the stupendous amount of
work which has faced the execu-
tive committee. The plan to be
presented to the student body at-
tempts to divide out the functions
of the present committee.

The changes accomplish as
much as can be expected. They
are not all-out. They could
perhaps be more liberal. But
what they do accomplish is
good. What they will accom-
plish remains to be seen. There
is great hope that the proposed
changes Will allow the student
body a greater voice in student
government. The final outcome
of any reform depends upon
the reception it receives from
the student body.
The student body has shown
that it wants something concrete
done. The failure to get some-
thing accomplished by way of
changing the nominating commit-
tee may yet be rectified by the
adopting of a proposal like this.
Those who have had anything
to do with the working out of
this change are Confident that
it will do more by way of un-
derstanding student opinion and
acting upon student thought

than ius ever been possible.

The changes are not revolu-
tionary. They involve a rare-
ful resitting of powers and
functions. They may be the
means of eventually getting

something done. The now
changes need student support.
And only with studont support
can any ttiing over get done.

We show a tendency to be di-
vided. Most of us are conscious
of the needs, but we are seeming-
ly unwilling to get together and
do something about them. We
tend to allow ourselves to become
split up over minor details and
refuse to see the whole picture.
We don't seem to realize that
whatever gets done can only be
accomplished by united action. A
pungent statement was made af-
ter the voting last week concern-
ing the nominating committee. It
explains in its sarcastic way ex-
actly what is wrong with us. "I
bet if we were voting on whether
we wanted Hitler or not, we'd be
divided in our vote."

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944

No. 16

Student Body Votes to Accept
Student Government Changes

The student body voted unanimously last Thursday to ac-
cept the recommendation of the Student Government com-
mittee headed by Wendy Whittle to put into effect for a
trial period of one year the new plan for Student Govern-
ment organization. 0

Anne Ward, student government president, has requested
that all students study carefully

the changes in duties and qualifi-
cations of Student Government re-
presentatives as they appear in
this week's News and on the bulle-
tin board.

Qualifications for other offices
on the student ballot will appear
in next week's News. Students
are requested to save the qualifi-
cations lists until Saturday, Mar.
1, when popular nominations will
be held.

Notice particularly the duties
and qualifications for S. G. of-
fices and the classes from
which they are to be elected.
The resolution passed last
Thursday makes important
Changes in the distribution of
duties.

Student Government
President: (a senior)
Duties: Direct executive work
of student government; preside
over student meetings; act as
chairman of the Representative
Council; act as chairman of open
forum; act as secretary of the
Administrative Committee; pre-
side over elections; appoint spe-
cial committees to study student
problems.

Qualifications: Real interest in
all the parts of campus life so
that she may work toward in-
tegration of student activities;
ability to represent students to the
administration; ability to handle
groups of people in student meet-
ings^

Vice-President (Judicial Chair-
man): (a senior)

Duties: Assume primary respon-
sibility for the judicial work of
student government; amass ma-
terials for cases; work with indi-
viduals involved in cases; work
with secretary on records of cases;
assume duties of the president
in her absence or at her request.

Qualifications: Ability to think
clearly or logically; ability to pre-
sent cases in an unbiased man-
ner; tactfulness and a sympa-
thetic interest in individuals.
Orientation Chairman: (a senior)

Duties: Plan orientation pro-
gram; direct orientation commit-
(Con't. page 2, col. 4)

Dodd Paintings
To Be Shown

The exhibit of a number of
paintings, water colors, and sket-
ches by Lamar Dodd will be for-
mally opened at a tea, in Mur-
phey Candler Feb. 27 at 3 p. m.
according to Howard Thomas, pro-
fessor of art. Mr. Dodd, head of
the art department at the Univers-
ity of Georgia at Athens and an
artist of national fame, will be
guest of honor. From the tea
guests will go to the art gallery in
the library where the pictures will
be shown. Mr. Dodd will have
showings in Montgomery and
Tuscaloosa, Ala., at the same
time.

The exhibit, which will continue
through March 15, consists of a
wide variety of pictures including
the campus at Athens, Ga., Sa-
vannah fishermen drying their
nets, South Carolina coast scenes,
Hollywood mansions, and views of
Cape Cod.

*lltU %eek . . .

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 4:30 p. m.
M. H. Bruner to speak at Chi
Beta Phi in chemistry lecture
room

5 p. m. Mr. MacGregor to speak
at marriage class in 3 Butt rick
hall

Thursday, Feb. 24, 8:30 p. m.
Water pageant in gym

Friday, Feb. 25, 1:30-2:00 Fresh-
man open house in Murphey
Candler

Sundnay, Feb. 27, 2:30 p. m. Tea
for Mr. Dodd and art exhibit
in library

4:30 p. m. Sophomore open
house in Murphey Candler
Tuesday, Feb. 29 through March
4, 10:30, Dr. Foreman to speak
in chapel

Noyes Cancels
Lecture Here

Because of continued ill health,
Alfred Noyes, famous British poet,
will be unable to lecture here next
Monday night, Feb. 28 according
to Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of Lecture Association.

"The Lecture Association great-
ly regrets the failure of its plans
to bring a poet to the campus, and
next year, hopes to secure Rob-
ert Frost," Miss Laney stated.
She added that upon receipt of
the telegram disclosing that Dr.
Noyes would be unable to fulfill
his engagement, the Association
attempted to secure Carl Sand-
burg, well-known American poet
and author. Mr. Sandburg, how-
ever, will be unable to come be
cause of work on the film, "The
American Cavalcade," for which
he has been drafted by the gov-
ernment.

Two lectures are scheduled for
spring quarter, the first to be a
speaker on postwar adjustment.
Reinhold Niebuhr, philosopher and
author of the book, "The Nature
and Destiny of Man," will speak
on May 11. Other lecturers this
year have been Henry Wolfe and
Kirtley Mather.

Betty Sullivan, student chair-
man of Lecture Association, will
announce later the name of the
speaker on postwar reconstruction
and the exact date of his lecture.

Chi Beta Phi to Hear
DuPont Consultant

H. H. Bruner, agricultural
consultant for the DuPont com-
pany, will lecture this afternoon,
Feb. 23, at -4:30 in the chemistry
lecture room. Chi Beta Phi, hon-
orary scientific organization on
the campus, and sponsor of the
lecture, invites the college com-
munity to hear him.

Mr. Bruner will be here at 4
p. m. so that those desiring con-
ferences before the lecture will
have the opportunity of talking
with him.

James Fowle Will Be
Baccalaureate Speaker

Dr. James L. Fowle, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Chattanooga, Tenn., will be the
speaker on Baccalaureate Sunday,
May 28, according to President J.
R. McCain. He is the uncle of Dr.
Ferguson Wood, pastor of West-
minster Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta.

Dr. Fowle attended Davidson
College, Union Theological Semi-
nary, and did graduate work at
Johns Hopkins University and
Princeton Theological Seminary.

Dr. Kenneth Foreman
To Be REW Speaker

Five-Day Series to Emphasize
'Our Questions, God's Answers'

Religious Emphasis Week, with Dr. Kenneth J. Foreman
as speaker, will open on February 29, according to Ruth
Farrior, president of Chrfistian Association. Theme for the
five-day series will be "Our Questions and God's Answers."
Plans for the week include chapel talks by Dr. Forman from

Tuesday through Saturday, dis-
cussions on Tuesday and Thursday
nights on fundamental beliefs and
questions which may arise during
the course of the week, and a
coffee on Wednesday night at
which the faculty and student body
may meet Dr. Foreman. Those who
would like individual conferences
with him may sign for them in
the Dean's office.

Devotional booklets have been
prepared for Religious Emphasis
week and will be distributed to
each student. A short thought
for each day has been prepared
by some member of the faculty.

The speaker, Dr. Foreman, is a
member of the philosophy depart-
men and professor of Bible at Da-
vidson College. He attended Da-
vidson, Princeton University and
Seminary, and received degrees
from Yale University and Wash-
ington and Lee. A member of
Phi Beta Kappa and O D K, he is
a noted teacher, preacher, editor,
and lecturer. He is associate edi-
tor of the "Presbyterian of the
South."

Unlike the last two speakers,
who were residents of Atlanta, Dr.
Foreman will be a guest on the
campus.

Boxes for questions will be
placed in Buttrick hall and in the
Dean's office for those who would
like to have them discussed at
the informal gatherings on Tues-
day and Thursday nights.

Joint' Features Fun, Floor Show,
Food and Faculty Frolics

By Leila Holmes

Dancing-dolls, gay nineties
chorus girls, and sedate bicycling
grandmothers ' characterized the
floorshow of the "Junior Joint"
Saturday night. Barbara Frink,
president of the junior class, pre-
sided over the joint.

Four class playboys and debs
were there enjoying the night life.
The freshman playboy, Margaret
McManus, and deb, "G. G." Gilli-
land were voted the most popular
of the four. "G. G." received a
lovely orchid as prize, and the
War Fund received over $40 of
freshman votes.

The seniors took the blue rib-
bon for the most entertaining skit
entered in the floor show. Under
the direction of Bippy Gribble,
students, faculty, and members of
the armed forces chosen from the
audience came up and walked un-
der a pole, without touching it.

Finally Miss Scandrett, Miss
Eugenia Symms, John Inman, and

Ivan Bennett wriggled on their
backs under the pole, which was
by then about five inches from
the floor.

The Freshman Doll Shop won
the ribbon given for the most or-
iginal skit of the floor show. Bar-
bara Omer as the customer, dress-
ed in top hat and tails, sang
"Paper Doll," while Louisa Aichel,
the proprietress, showed her dis-
play of dolls.

To the tune of "Who Wouldn't
Love You?" the junior dancers
(or could they be called that),
whose chorus climaxed the floor
show, did a tap routine.

The deceased (temporarily, at
least) Junior Banquet and Mardi
Gras must have turned over in
their graves when they .saw how
their successor the "Junior Joint,"
combined their fun with making a
real contribution to the War
Fund a total of over $100.

DR KENNETH J. FOREMAN

Miss Cilley's
New Textbook
In Wide Use

More than 2000 copies of "A
First Portuguese Reader" writ-
ten by Professor Melissa A. Cilley
of the Agnes Scott Spanish depart-
ment in collaboration with Charles
L. Canlon, professor of Portuguese
at Marquette University, have
been sold since its release last
September, according to a recent
announcement.

The text, published by the Ox-
ford University Press, has been
adopted for use by the schools of
New York City, Columbia Uni-
versity, Northwestern, Dartmouth,
Vanderbilt, the University of
Minnesota, the University of
Missouri, and other state institu-
tions.

The vocabulary and grammar
exercises in the text were written
by Professor Scalon, white Miss
Cilley wrote the literary selections
during the summer of 1941.

Until the publication of the text
it was used as an elementary Por-
tuguese text by the government
in mimeographed form.

Miss Cilley is well qualified to
write on Portuguese life and cus-
toms because of many summers
spent at the University of Coim-
bra in Coimbra, Portugal, where
she taught comparative literature.

Voting lor the May Court
by the student body will take
place in chapel Thursday, Feb.
24. Twelve tfirls will be chosen
from a list of candidates pre-
viously announced. Martha
Rhodes, as candidate for May
Queen, automatically became
a member of the court.

War Council Collects
Jewelry, Scrap Paper

Squee Woolford, War Council
chairman, announced yesterday
that progress has been made this
week in several War Council ac-
tivities.

On "Junk Jewelry Day" Feb, 22 r
trinkets were gathered from the
dormitories and turned over to
Dr. Christian. The junior class do-
nated over $100 to the War Fund
from their Junior Joint Saturday
night.

According to Barbara Frank,
junior class president, the drive
for waste paper brought between
4000 and 5000 pounds in three
weeks, four times the amount re-
ceived in the first collection. The
project will continue on Thursday
nights, not only serving War
Counncil's conservation program,
but also replacing the junior choc-
olates project.

New activity charts have been
distributed to all dormitories ex-
cept Main, which will use the old
ones. Points will be added at the
end of this quarter, Betty Bow-
man, publicity chairman announ-
ces. Next quarter points will be
posted monthly instead of week-
ly.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Magaret Drummond

This week seems the propitious
time for picking up loose ends,
re-emphasizing certain facts, an-
nouncing events to come. With the
notable exception of the announce-
ment of the basketball varsity and
subvarsity, this week just past, for
extra-curricular activities at any
rate, has rocked along lacadaisi-
cally in the characteristic rainy
quarter, two-weeks-before-exams,
style.

The freshmen and the sopho-
mores, fighting their traditional
battle, seem the only ones with
energy sufficient to get worked
up over anything. Judging from
their game last Friday, the sen-
iors are certainly passive enough
about it all. The juniors, however,
got fightin' mad, for one night any
way, but that was time enough
to jeopardize seriously the sophs'
chances for the cup.

The loose ends needing picking
up is the Recreation Leaders
course, completed on Thursday
last. More than thirty attended
all the meetings, and stuck with it
to the end. At least fifty came
spasmodically, when the urge
struck. According to Miss Wil-
burn, at the final meeting last
Thursday, everyone's notes were
pooled, and the plan is to have a
complete set mimeographed for
future reference. Suggestions were
made, and gratefully received, for
improvements in the course for
next year.

As is known, the purpose of the

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course was to provide trained
leadership for camps and play-
grounds. Miss Wilburn says she
has several letters from camps
throughout the south and east,
asking for counselors for next
year. Another plan, under con-
sideration by the Decatur Recrea-
tion committee, is to place paid
supervisors on the Decatur play-
grounds during the spring and
summer.

The fact needing re-emphasizing
is swimming club's water pageant,
'The Story of Hiawatha," which
comes up Thursday night at 8:30,
all the proceeds of which will go to
the War Fund. Remember the
thousand dollars you've pledged,
and when someone, ticket in hand,
approaches you, buy one; it's no
more than what you've promised.

The announcement of things to
come is badminton club's exhibi-
tion on Thursday night, a week
hence. Though a new club on

onager Tells
Varsity Teams

Billy Walker, basketball man-
ager announced members of the
varsity and sub-varsity teams be-
tween games last rFiday.

Players were chosen on the basis
}f ability, shortsmanship, and val-
ue to their respective teams.

Varsity players include three
freshman forwards, Genet Heery,
Betty Andrews, and Ann Hough,
and two junior forwards, Mary
Cumming and Mary Munroe.
Guards are Betty Jean Radford,
freshman, sophomores Peggy Kel-
ly and Mildred McCain; and sen-
iors Billy Walker and Gwen Hill.

Those chosen for the sub-varsity
team are Doris Purcell and Sally
Sue Stephenson, sophomore for-
wards and senior forward Ruth
Farrior; Ruth Gray and Anne
Webb, junior guards, and freshmen
guards Janet Liddell and Jean
Denning.

campus, the badminton club has
the pep and enthusiasm to go
places. The members turn out en
masse for the meetings, play for
an hour and a half or two hours
straight, and are ready to return
any afternoon, or night, that the
nets are up.

Sophomores Trim Juniors;
Freshmen Down Seniors

By Bettye Lee Phelps

The sophomores edged out the juniors 20-16 and the fresh-
men defeated the seniors 48-16 in the last of the regularly-
scheduled class basketball games Friday night.

The freshmen started their second string forwards, who
piled up 44 of their 48 points. Sarah Kay, playing excellently,
rang up 30 points.

The senior guards were forced
to change from zone to man-to-
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freshmen's remarkable accuracy
at making goals. Elizabeth Har-
vard led the senior forwards with
eight points, and Ruth Farrior tal-
lied six points.

The juniors and sophomores
fought hard and fiercely to the fin-
an whistle. The game was fast
and rough but few fouls were
called.

Mary Munroe was high scorer
for the juniors with 12 points, four
of which were free shots. The
junior guards played a close, man-
to-man game, with Ann Equen
playing an exceptionally good
game.

Scotty Johnson tallied six points
for the victors, and Doris Purcell
rang up five points. The sopho-
more guards stuck to their zone
guarding, which proved very ef-
fective against the junior for-
wards. The score at the half was
tied 11-11, and the score at the
end of the third quarter was also
tied 16-16.
The lineups follow:

Freshmen (48) Seniors (16)

Kay, S. (30)
Moyt (6)
Dickson (8)
Denning
Uddell
Radford

SuS>stltutlons : freshmen. Heery, Hough,
Stein, Andrews (4) ; seniors, Farrior (6),
>rummond.

Sophomores (20) Juniors (16)

Stephenson, S. (3) RF Munroe (12)

Limbert CF Milam

Melchor (4) LF dimming (4)

McCain RG Equen

Phelps LG Gray. R.

Kelly CG Slack

Substitutions : sophomores. Purcell, D.
(."). Kyner. R (2). Johnson. S. (6).

RF

Tuggle (2)

CF

Howard. K. (8)

LF

Gray. B.

RG

Walker. B.

li;

Douglas. A.

CG

Hill. G.

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(Con't. from page 1)

tee and the work of the sponsors;
direct orientation committee and
the work of the sponsors; work
personally with freshmen through
the year.

Qualifications: Ability to organ-
ize and direct effectively the
orientation program; warm per-
sonal interest in people.

Student Recorder (A junior) :
secretary of the executive work of
student government.

Duties: Keep record of stu-
dents' points; keep minutes of
Representative Council, of open
forums, and of student meetings;
attend to the correspondence of
student government association.

Qualifications: ability to do de-
tailed work efficiently.

Secretary (a junior) secretary of
the judicial work of student gov-
ernment.

Duties: Keep all files of judicial
cases; send out campus slips.

Qualifications: Dependability;
efficiency; ability to think clearly;
interest in campus as a whole
and in individuals.

Treasurer (a junior)

Duties: Work with a budget
committee in apportioning the stu-
dent budget and in supervising the
auditing of the books of all cam-
pus organizations.

Qualifications: Ability to keep
(Con't page 3, col. 3)

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Water Pa geant Theme

"The Legend of Hiawatha,"
adapted by Edwina Davis and Bun-
ny Weems with the help of a writ-
ing committee headed by Molly
Milam and Mary Cumming, will be
the theme of the annual water
pageant to be presented by Swim-
ming Club, Thursday, Feb. 24, at
8:30 p. m. in the gym.

The pageant features Margaret
Scott as Hiawatha and Agnes
Douglas as Minne-Ha-Ha. Mary
Maxwell will be Old Nakomis and
Miss Lewellyn Wilburn, associate
porfessor of physical education,
will take the part of the Arrow-
maker. Martha Marie Trimble
will act as narrator.

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be charged.

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Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The Emory med dance Friday evening was held in the
ball room of the Biltmore hotel with music by Bill Clarke's
orchestra, Martha Rhodes, heading the sophomore lead-out,
was a vision in pink from the bow in her hair to the tip of her
matching ballet slippers. The bodice of her dress was pale
pink and blue plaid taffeta fitted
to a gathered skirt of frothy pink
marquisette. Julia Harvard, Car-
roll Taylor, and Mary Turner were
there; also Bess Shepherd, Jean
Hood, Dot Almond and Beth Wal-
ton. June Thompson was striking
in a dress of red net with spark-
ling rhinestone ornaments.

Katherine Edelblut has just re-
turned from Lincolnton, N. C, and
her brother's wedding. He mar-
ried Mary James Seagle, who grad-
uated from here several years ago.

Wasn't it good to see Bettye Ash-
craft Senter last week-end? She
spent a few days here on her way
from a visit to Mobile back to
Charlotte, N. C, where Jeff is sta-
tioned now. Bettye is busy keep-
ing house and moving frequently
to comply with army orders.

Beth Walton and Miriam Davis
were seen recently at swimming
meets at Emory. Jodelle Tanner
attended the Tech-Georgia basket-
ball game Saturday night.

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a birthday party Sunday night and
a beautiful orchid. . . . Mary Fran-
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Ann Weideman went home with
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Kathryn Cameron gave a mis-
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enson, whose marriage to Leon-
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DeKalb County Scouts
Contribute to Memorial

Representatives of the 26 troops
of the DeKalb County Girl Scout
Association made their contribu-
tions to the Juliette Low World
Friendship Memorial Fund in a
program at Presser Hall Sunday
afternoon.

The program included an invo-
cation by Father Finn of the De-
catur Roman Catholic Church, a
processional with flags, and an ad-
dress by the Rev. Marc Weersing,
pastor of the Oakhurst Presbyter-
ian Church. Marjorie Stukes,
daughter of Dean and Mrs. S. G.
Stukes, was mistress of ceremon-
ies. Mrs. J. Sam Guy is chairman
of the Association, which is a
part of the Atlanta Council, and
Mrs. Wesley Buck was in charge.

Student Body

(Con't. from page 2)

books efficiently (math courses
helpful).

Day Student Representative (a

senior elected by the day stu-
dents)

Duties: To edit the HAND-
BOOK; to preside over day stu-
dent meetings; to represent day
students on the executive com-
mittee.

Qualifications: Preferably some
experience in working with publi-
cations; ability to represent vari-
ous day student groups; interest
in integrating boarder and day
student activities.

House Presidents (3 elected:
seniors) t

Duties: To be in charge of the
dormitories; to meet with the ex-
ecutive committee on cases and
to represent students on the ex-
ecutive committee.

Qualifications: Ability to inspire
cooperation; a friendly, sympathe-
tic and understanding personality
(a sense of humor is valuable);
impartiality in dealing with all
students; carefulness in details.

Lower House Chairman (a jun-
ior)

Duties: To head the work of
lower house, setting up committees
and directing their work; to act
as parliamentarian of the student
government association; to be in
charge of fire drills.

Qualifications: Ability to work
with people effectively; an interest
in making the campus more pleas-
ant by attention to details of cam-
pus life; a willingnenss to learn
and put over to the student body
the fundamentals of parliamen-
tary procedure.

the Presbyterian Weiner Roast.
Friday evening, meeting at
Threadgill's a group of Scotties,
Seminary boys, and others, took
the trolley to Stone Mountain. A
climb up the mountain aroused
huge appetites for the weiners and
marshmallows that were eaten af-
terwards. Among those participat-
ing in the fun were Eleanor Bow-
ers, Angela Pardington, Betty
Pope Scott, Nellie Scott, Martha
Sunkes, Jane Anne Newton, Mar-
tha and Florence Paisley, Mary
Martin, Margaret Scott, and Jean
Rooney.

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The Hottentrots Get It All

'Mid traffic jams and jelly jams, 'mid screaming students
and dawdling dessert dabblers trot the Hottentrots, table-
waiting students who are, as Dean Carrie Scandrett pointed
out at the beginning of the year, starting an Agnes Scott
tradition.

They cannot be called a shiftless group, for all their work
is divided into shifts. Seven girls

are in each of seven groups that
operate in a seven-week work cy-
cle that allows each one to be
off duty' two meals a week, includ-
ing three Sundays out of the sev-
en. Miss Charlotte Hunter, as-
sistant dean of students, worked
out the plan, which is still a mys-
tery to most of the 49 girls.

Also a mystery :% the assigning
of tables in rotation each night,
assuring each waitress of differ-
ent scenery, which may include
any of the 34 tables in the main
dining room or the three faculty
tables in the room across Rebe-
kah's lobby from the main one.

"They also serve who only stand
and wait" is especially true of the
Hottentrots, whose chief occupa-
tion is to stand waiting for people
to finish eating. Having finished
their own meal long before setting
their tables, they have strength for
the ordeal but often find it hard
to be patient with the slowpokes
who keep them waiting long after
the rest of a table has finished.
Hearty eaters, they love, but not
bread-morsel clutchers who dan-
gle the Staff of Life in their fin-
gers and give a five-minute talk to
their neighbors before every bite.

Despite the dabblers who mess
up puddings without eating any,
despite even the table-leaners who
make it well-nigh impossible to
find a little dish between their
sprawling elbows, most of the girls

FOOTE AND DAVIES

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Social Engraving

Special Bates
for

Agnes Scott

would rather wait on tables than
do any other kind of student aid
work. They get five hours' work
credit for four meals a week and
do not have to make up for holi-
day hours or exam week, when all
meals are served cafeteria style.
For hungry people there is the joy
of eating 50 minutes early, and for
sociable people there is the joy of
learning the names and habits of
all the boarding students and fac-
ulty.

The greatest joy of all is the
ever-glimmering hope that fewer
people than were expected will
come to dinner. When that hap-
pens, the Hottentrots get extra
desserts.

What Makes

A Dress

So Feminine?

The Bolero

The Brief Bare Look

The You Neckline
and Ruffles Every
where!

See our Feminine
Fashions

Third Floor

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Delectable, delightful,-yes,-
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"Lovable Brassieres" are styled to sell for
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944

Duffee Writes

Tsk, Tsk-

By Mary Louise Duffee

The. way the News has been
changing editors every week late-
ly, you'd think the staff had been
naughty in some way. Just prac-
tice, though, they say.

Rumor has it that Mortar
Board will soon make known
the results of their new election
to nominating committee before
elections. Rumor aiso has it
that Martyr Bored will not
choose their new members until
after elections.

You hear everyone singing the
Wooden Shoe song. (You know, "A
kid'll eetivy too, wooden shoe?")
Probably most people learn it
just to prove they can sing it.

And since the juniors have
broken custom with a Junior
Joint, the seniors are suggest-
ing a "Holiday for Strings" so
they can get out a little.
Pity the lecture association.
Now the speaker (Alfred Noyes)
who was to substitute for the
speaker who couldn't come (Rob-
ert Frost), can't come himself.
Never mind, committee, those cer-
tainly were interesting people who
were supposed to come.
Humphreys

Everyone always writes what
they think is poetry at one time
or another. People encourage
them to, and then criticise the
verse form, content, rhythm,
and other things depending on
the time they have. Here's the
anyone can use it without being
a plagiarist :

There was a young man from
Siam

Whose verses just wouldn't
scan ;

When told so by a poet,

He said, "I know it,

But I always get just as many

words in the last line as

I possibly can."

Soozi (whom we should elect
Honorable General Flunkie, which
wouldn't require class standing)
was having a wonderful time play-
ing with her brand new box of
water colors for the first time in
art lab the other afternoon. Sud-
denly embarrassed to find the
teacher looking at what she was
doing, she said, "Er, uh, I thought
you said you got gray when you
mixed all th ecolors together."
To which the teacher replied,
"Look here, class Miss Richard-
son has an interesting problem
here she's trying to get a pure
gray by mixing the other colors."

Wonder what made Hig^ins
beat her head against the wall
the other night ?

With the increased number of
students on student government
under the new plan my, my
what' 11 we do for leaders? But,
then, maybe the leadcrs'll make
the offices instead of the offices
the leaders. It has been done.

Pome:

Teddy Bear and Bunny Gray
Gamboled on our green.
My! That is unladylike
Suppose someone had seen!

Where there's smoke there's
fire; where there's fire there's
warmth; where there's warmth
there's good cheer; college girls
are frequently recognizable by
their cheerful attitudes toward
life.

Dry water is a paradox un-
less it's Canadian.

Some claim In-guh Probstein
can whistle a quartet from Moz-
art.

Platitudes

And More Platitudes My Day

"Why on earth," the reader will say, "does
that editor call the editorial 'Platitudes'?
It's bad enough to write nothing but plati-
tudes, but to admit it well, there's no sense
in that!"

But really, why not? After all, a plati-
tude wouldn't be a platitude if it weren't a
long-standing, generally accepted truth. Hence
the headline.

There are lots of things that we students
hear dinned in our ears day in and day out,
so much so that they become just what the
headline calls them platitudes. But does that
name change their essential character, does
it alter the fact that they are so?

For instance, we are told to think before
we act, not to rush headlong into things.
"Of course," we hasten to agree, nodding
our heads in vigorous affirmation, "of course
we must think." But what do we do? That's
right, nine times out of ten we rush ahead
pell-mell without considering the consequen-
ces.

NOW, however, with nominations scheduled
to take place right after spring holidays,
we have an opportunity to prove that we
mean w r hat we say. The recent controversy
concerning nominations shows us that elec-
tion of student officers is something impor-
tant, something that requires careful and
thoughtful consideration. Surely, if we real-
ly represent the more intelligent portion of
the population the upper two per cent we
should use our intelligence in attending to
this matter. Lists of qualifications and duties
for the various offices are posted conspicuous-
ly in two places, as well as lists of all girls
who have worked with the organizations.
In addition, qualifications a/rrl duties of Stu-
dent Government, officers are printed in this
week's News, and those for other offices
will be published next week.

We have the subject to think about, and
we have the brains to think with. All we
have to do now is think. Why not do it?

If you were in chapel last Thursday, or if
you read the front page of this paper, you
know that the student body voted to accept,
on a trial basis, the new plans for Student
Government organization.

"Well," we exclaimed, breathing a sigh of
mingled amazement and relief, "we are fin-
ally going to get something done!" But are
we?

Now that we have voted to try this new
Student Government plan, are we willing to
give it a fair trial, to get behind it and really
make it work? It all boils down to this:
No matter how much we talk about a thing,
no matter how many fine words we say
about it, it cannot be a real vital thing un-
less we are willing to give it our loyal and
untiring support.

And this principle applies not only to our
support of the new Student Government plan,
but also to any number of other things
like War Fund, for example. We voted to
give $1000 as our contribution to the United
Community and War Fund. To date, we still
lack some $300 of meeting this total. What
are we going to do about it?

And what about our other war activities?
The charts posted in the various dormitories
are full of big blank white patches, showing
our neglect of buying war stamps and bonds,
knitting, giving blood, smashing cans, and
any number of other things that we could do
as our small part in the war effort. The
war, just like our Student Government plan,
will not be a success unless each person takes
it as his personal responsibility to get be-
hind it, to work unstintingly and unceas-
ingly until it is carried out successfully.

There may not seem at first glance to be
much connection between Student Govern-
ment reorganization and the progress of the
war, but there is a very real connection.
And it's just this. We're in both of them,
and it is vital that both of them be a suc-
cess. The only way to make a success of
either of them is to work. We aren't lazy;
let's show what we can do!

'Faith of Our Founders

Yesterday morning, Founder's Day, Betty
Pope Scott, great-great-grdnddaughter of
Mrs. Agnes Scott, in whose honor the col-
lege is named, spoke to us in chapel on the
ideals and spirit of faith of the college's
founders.

"May we count this spirit of faith our
priceless heritage and unwaveringly hold to
it always," she said.

And now that the birthday of our founder
has just passed again, may we examine our
ideals and the spirit in which we go about
our daily tasks. Are our ideals those of our
founders, and is our spirit theirs? Do we,
in this time of strain, as the war effort makes
ever more and more demands on us, and es-
pecially as examination time draws near,
maintain the spirit of faith in God that was a

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

We wonder if those who endorsed the ar-
ticle on smoking in the winter issue of
AURORA, read what Dr. Albert E. Wiggam
wrote in the Atlanta Journal, February 13.

Someone asked him, "Do women smoke
because they like to smoke?" His reply was,
"My notion is, no . . . Most girls have a
long hard struggle to acquire real taste
for tobacco, and many of them would not
persist if it had not become the smart thing
to do. It's all right with me, although both
girls and boys should know that even moder-
ate smoking shortens life much more than
moderate drinking almost as much as heavy
drinking."

And may we add that we fail to see that
Agnes Scott's smoking rule is a hindrance
to our moral development ? The rule does
not say "D6 not smoke." It merely asks
that students do not smoke on campus; we
are entirely free to choose whether we
smoke off campus or not. It seems to us that
the least we could do is to abide by one of
the few rules of the school.

Sara Jean Clark,
Kathryn Burnett,
Gisela Meyer, day students

vital force in the lives of our founders?

Times have changed, but the effect of a
vital religious faith, whatever particular creed
it may follow, on the lives of men and women
has not changed one iota. If we don't pos-
sess this spirit of faith, it would be worth
our while to try it.

Betty Glenn acted as editor of this week's
News, while Inge Probstein took over the
job of managing editor. Liz Carpenter act-
ed as business manager. The regular editor
and managing editor acted as assistant edi-
tors.

Next wee the members of the News staff
will resume their usual duties.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1944 No. 16

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, $1.25 ; single copies, five cents.

Mnbcr

Plssociafed GolIe6iate Press

Editor MADELINE ROSE HOSMEB

Managing Editor , MARY CARR

Business Manager JUNE LAN HSR

Assistant Editors

Betty Glenn
Inge Probstein

Advertising Managers

Liz Carpenter
Frances King

Sports Editor

Margaret Drummond

Society Editor

Camilla Moore
Copy Editor
Leila Holmes

Editorial Assistant

Tess Carles

Feature Editor

Mary Louise Duffee

Cartoonists
Sally Sue Stephenson
Jane Anne Newton
Anne Lee
Eloise Lyndon
Circulation Manager
Carolyn Calboun
Circulation Assistants
Mary Russell
Marion Leathers

Reporters: Marion Knapp. Betty Burress. Pauline Ertz,
Jean MrCurry, Martha Arnold. Carolyn Fuller. Olive Han-
sen. Martha Bak-r. Anne Register. Elizabeth Scott. Connie
Fraser. Jeanne Rochelle, Joyce Gilleland, Jane Bowman,
Sara Jean Clark. Dorothy Lee Webb, Alice Gordon. CTie
Nellans. Ann^ Noell. Jean Rooney, Ann Seitzlnger, Martha
Whatley Yates. Margaret Bear, Mary Anderson Courtenay.
Marjorie Cole.

By Jinx "Eleanor" Blake

I can't explain why I am at-
tempting to fill a column w r hen
most of my thoughts have not ris-
en higher than thinking out the
art of eating around the worm-
hole of an apple or acquring a
package of O. P. A. bobby-pins,
but as someone once said, (I've
forgotten who) "There has to be
a starting point for everything."
Now, what to talk about? Be-
ing a soph, I know of no more
entrancing subject than MY
experiences, so shall dwell on a
recent one. NOTE: Tired al-
ready? It Duffee'S column
may be read on the opposite side
of this page!
Well, the other afternoon, after
pole-vaulting all over the capitol
building, and pulling every politi-
cal string I knew of, I fianliy man-
euvered myself into Governor Ar-
nall's office. I want to put some
of this interview down because
it's a time when people are see-
ing so many other people every
day, and talking so hard and so
fast, that almost nobody can re-
member from one day to the next
what he or she has said to whom
and thus we all keep repeating
ourselves to the same hearers end-
lessly. (But, after all, it really
doesn't matter. They're not listen-
ing.) Digressing, aren't I? It
would be far from truth to say
I was calm as I was ushered into
the presence of his excellency, the
Governor. My shoes felt full of
feet and my mouth reminded me
of the frothy morning I brushed
my teeth with father's shaving
cream. At first, I was at a loss
for words. It was one of those
days when one doesn't ask if "it's
hot enough" or "cold enough for
you" because it was raining. But
the Governor soon put me quite
at ease. When he speaks, he gives
the general effect of that of a
coach gving a pep talk to a foot-
ball team, he gesticulates graph-
ically with one hand, or both,
seems utterly relaxed, laughs con-
tagiously, and the smile lines at
the corner of his eyes look over-
worked. In general, he was like-
ably human and quite charming.
He discussed his 18-year-old
vole law in Which he set forth
his only two qualifications for
a voter in a democracy. (1)
genera] Intelligence, and (2)

genuine interest in one's
government and how it is being
run. The Governor added, "I
was elected by the college stu-
dents of this state, and and I
put full trust in them, (iovern-
ment needs the idealism, the
candor, the unselfishness of
these young people's influence
in public affairs. More is Deed-
ed of the 'starry-eyed 1 enthus-
iasm of youth to lead forth
democracy. You college girls
live democracy, students and
faculty members alike share the
responsibilities of self-govern-
ment, whose backbone is the
honor system. After four years
of direct experience in such a
society, girls carry into the
world a way of life which they
will always cherish and for
which they would willingly fight
and sacrifice." Remember this,
Hottentots. Dependence is auto-
matically put upon us, even by
democracy. S'long, Jinx.

Because one of the Agnes Scott
students recently received a
ticket for jay-walking in the
heart of down-town Atlanta,
Miss Scandrett has requested
that the rest of the student body
exercise particular care in ob-
serving traffic regulations.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944

No. 17

West Point Cadets Judge
Silhouette Beauty Section

For he first time in its history the United States Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y., is judging the beauty section
for a college yearbook. The thus honored annual is the
Agnes Scott Silhouette.

Through the aid of Col. Henry A. Robinson, former profes-

I sor of mathematics at Agnes Scott,

* the suggestion of selecting the sev-

Girls' Campus
Original Home
Of CA Speaker

By Pauline Ertz

Dr. Kenneth J. Foreman, speak-
er for Religious Emphasis Week,
went to college and never got out!
In an interview yesterday, Dr.
Foi .man related that he was born
in a girl's boarding school where
his parents were teachers. Natur-
ally, the campus guest, who is
a distinguished minister and mem-
ber of the philosophy department
and professor of Bible at Davidson
College, feels quite at home at
Agnes Scott with its 545 Hotten-
tots.

We wondered what was the
most unusual event in Dr. Fore-
man's life. He said that the
most extraordinary thing that
ever happened to him was that
his wife accepted him! They both
worked for the same firm, but in
different departments. Dr. Fore-
man confessed, "I don't think we
ever were formally introduced."

As a faculty member at David-
son, Dr. Foreman chuckles at
some of the classroom boners pull-
ed by the boys there. In a test
he asked the students to tell about
the social work of the early
church. One answer was "The
early church had no social work
because cards weren't invented
and dancing was forbidden." An-
other student said that the Israel-
ites fell down and worshipped the
Golden Cafe. And then there was
the boy who said that Esau sold
his birthright for a mess of pot-
ash.

Never will Dr. Foreman forget
the time he arrived at a place
he was scheduled to speak, and
in large letters for all to see was
this announcement: "Dr. Foreman
will speak." And right below that
was the following quotation from
A. E. Houseman:

The troubles of our proud and an-
gry dust

Are from eternity and shall not
fail.

Bear them we can and if we can
we must.

lltU %eek . . .

Wed., March 1 C. A. coffee in
Murphey Candler after dinner

Fri., March 3, 4:30 p. m. Brown
Jug Tournament in the gym.

Mon., March 6, 8 p. m.-
in Presser hall

-Musicale

Tues., March 7 IRC mock elec-
tions

en most beautiful girls was pre-
sented to the Academy. Cadets O.
B. Patton and W. C. Kennedy were
in charge of taking the poll
throughout the second battalion,
second regiment, commanded by
Cadet G. W. Blanchard. The win-
ners of ths poll will be revealed
when the Silhouette comes out in
the spring.

21 Beauties

In keeping with the military
trend of today the Silhouette staff
chose West Point as its judge for
the beauty queen. The twenty-
one photographs to be judged were
submitted to the four companies
of the battalion who immediately
began their work of selecting the
winners.

Letters from several of the ca-
dets speaking for the Academy,
assured the annual staff, "We
should be honored indeed to have
this battalion make a choice for
you, and the battalion tells me it
would consider itself very high-
ly honored."

The judges requested that the
names of the entries be placed on
the photographs. Several of the
campus beauties have already re-
ceived letters from the cadets
and a few girls who knew cadets
there have heard from them of
"the most enjoyable" time they
are having "with this unique ex-
perience."

"The Pointer"

At first the cadets suggested
publishing the photographs in "The
Pointer," the official publication
of the Corps, but this idea had
to be abandoned since they could
not afford to establish such pre-
cedents unless theV were able to
do the same for other schools.

In addition to the pictures of
the beauties in the Silhouette there
will be pictures of the judges at
work. As usual, pictures of each
of the twenty-one contestants will
appear in the Silhouette.

Officers List
Qualifications

Christian Association

The first prerequisite for all of-
ficers of C. A. is a strong, work-
ing Christian personality, having
the inner resource of a vital rela-
tionship with God.
President

Duties: Preside over cabinet and
council meetings and retreats;
keep in touch with all phases of
C. A. work; see that the program
planned for the year is carried
forward.

Qualifications: A primary and
enduring interest in the spiritual
growth on campus; a vision of the
scope of work on our campus, of
Christian works in other colleges
and throughout the world; a per-
sonal contact with the campus;
ability to recognize varying abili-
ties and opinions, and to maintain
an attitude of fellowship and co-
operation.
A'ice President

Duties: Have charge of writing
letters of welcome to the fresh-
men; direct the meeting of fresh-
men at trains; advise freshmen
work.

Qualifications: Enthusiasm, un-
derstanding, sound judgement, gift
of drawing out the ideas and pos-
sibilities in others.
Secretary

Duties: Correspondence with
speakers, keeping minutes of cab-
inet meetings and retreats, keep-
ing in touch with the various ac-
tivities of C. A.

Qualifications: Initiative,
promptness, contact with campus.
Treasurer \

Duties: Collecting pledges, send-
ing out pledge envelopes, keeping
up payments specified in the bud-
get.

Qualifications: Ability to take
responsibility in money matters,
carefulness, attention to details.

Athletic Association
President

Duties: Call and preside at all
association, board, and executive
council meetings; appoint sport
managers for her board with the
help of other officers and physi-
cal director in the spring when
she takes offic^; appoint all com-
mittees and be ex-officio member
of them.

(Cont'd on page 2)

Red Cross to Begin
Campus Drive Today

"Every Student a Member" is the goal of the campus
Red Cross Drive, which begins officially today and lasts
through next Tuesday, March 7.

"This is a personal campaign," stated Dr. Walter B. Posey,
chairman of the campus Red Cross committee. "There will

not be a great deal of publicity,

Signs of Spring

Beauties Form May Court
For Queen Robin Horneffer

Twelve campus beauties were elected in balloting last
Thursday to serve in the 1944 May Day Court as attendants
to Queen Robin Taylor Horneffer.

Members of the court, as announced by Jean Clarkson, May

Day chairman, are seniors Martha Rhodes, automatically a
member because she was a candi-
date for queen, Julia and Eliza-
beth Harvard, and Laurice Loop-

er, f junior members are Joyce
Freeman, Scott Newell, and Bippy
Gribble; sophomores Gloria Ann
Melchor, Betty Long, and Teddy
Bear; and freshmen Ann Scott
and Virginia Dickson.

Committees for this year's pres-
entation, "The Making of the
Rainbow" by Tommie Huie, are
already at work. Tryouts will be
held tomorrow 9:30, 11 a. m. and
5 to 6 p. m. Dancing will be under
the direction of Mrs. Adolph Lapp
and Miss Eugenie Dozier.

Campi

us Meets
$1000 Pledge

Squee Woolford, chairman of
War Council, announced this
week that the campus has met
its campaign pledge of $1000
to the War Fund. Accounts of
individual contributions have
not been completed yet. 377 stu-
dents contributed a total of over
$440. An itemized account of
club and class contributions fol-
lows:

Fresman Class, Shoe Shine

Business $ 10.00

Sophomore Class 20.00

Junior Class, Magazine
Subscriptions $27.42, Jun-
ior Joint $150.00 177.4 >

Senior Class, Benefit Bridge
$36.23, Class Contribution
$50.00 86.23

Student Government Asso-
ciation 25.00

Christian Association .... 25.00

Athletic Association, Facul-
ty-Varsity Hockey $19.80,
Water Pageant $35.00,
Additional Contribution
$30.00 84.80

Glee Club Operetta 25.00

White House Pin-Up Con-
test 40.13

International Relations

Club 22.83

War Council Moving Pic-
ture 2.30

Eta Sigma Phi Spelling

Bee 12.25

French Club 12.00

Mortar Board 20.00

Total $562.96

but each student will be contacted

H mm Politics

IRC to Hold

Mock Election

A mock election, complete
with registration, campaigning and
voting, will be featured at a spe-
cial meeting of IRC set for next
Tuesday night.

After registration, for which a
poll tax of 1 cent, to go to War

Eudice Tontak, president of
IRC, urges that all students
who are citizens of Georgia and
18 years of age or older, regis-
ter to vote in the coming elec-
tions when they are home for
spring vacations. Voters under
21 do not have to pay poll tax.

Fund, will be charged, Roosevelt
and Willkie will open their cam-
paigns. Voting will follow the
campaigning.

According to Marjorie Tippins,
in charge of the program, the
meeting is open to the entire stu-
dent body. Refreshments will be
served.

DR. WALTER B. POSEY

personally, and we hope that ev-
eryone will respond."

Dr. Posey further explained that .
although the national campaign
extends through the month of
March, Agnes Scott is getting off
to an early start because of Reli-
gious Emphasis Week, exam
week, and spring holidays, all of
which take place this month.

Carolyn Daniel, Barbara Frink,
Carolyn Hall, and Jane Meadows,
class presidents, are in charge of
student memberships. The classes
will be divided into groups of ten,
With one girl responsible for each
group.

Miss Helen Finger, Miss M.
Kathryn Glick, Mrs. Annie Mae
Smith, B. S. Armistead, Dr. S. G.
Christian, and Dr. W. B. Posey
will solicit the faculty.

The minimum fee for Red Cross
membership is one dollar.

Hodgson to^ Present
M usic Hour Mar. 61

The next Music Appreciation
Hour, under the direction of Hugh
Hodgson and featuring Roosevelt
Walker, tenor, will be held March
6 at 8 P. M.

The program will include the
following selections from classical
and folk music: Piano solos from
classic school; four sonatas (Scar-
latti); Traditional English ballads
Lord Rendal, False Lamkin, Sir
Patrick Spans (arr. Mildred Hard-
ing); The Two Magicians, O No,
John; Piano solos from Folk
Sources; Juba Dance (Dett), Har-
monica Player (Guion) Ichauway
Dance (Hodgson); Traditional
songs from the Blue Ridge; Shen-
andoah, Groundhog, When I Lays
Down, Fair and Tender Ladies,
and Preacher Man.

Study Qualifications for Campus Offices Carefully

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Magaret Drummond

The spring season seems to
have had a rather disastrous ef-
fect on the poet's "young man,"
but Hottentots, being hale and
hearty souls, in the spring let their
fancies lightly turn to thoughts

of well, things like golf,

volleyball, archery and tennis.

As such a time, the pungent
odor of onions wafting into the
library stacks from over the
hockey field recalls memories
of last year's volleyball prac-
tices, and make exam-cramming
well nigh impossible. The green
of the golf links and the red
clay of the tennis courts, even
in their present sodden condi-
tion, hold a certain inescapable
lore. If the romance of scholar-
ship, aided and abetted by a
little self-prodding at frequent
intervals, can carry you through
the next fifteen days, all these
things can be yours for the ask-
ing.

Inevitably with the spring sea-
son comes the call of the out-of-
doors. Those who played volley-
ball last year will vouch for the
fact that there's nothing compar-
able to a strenuous and enthusias-
tic game on a warm afternoon.
Though last year marked its ini-
tial appearance on campus, stu-
dents and faculty alike took to it
like ducks to you-know-what. Re-
member the faculty-varsity game?
Although the legions of learning
took a beating that day, they put
up a valliant struggle, and will
probably come back much stronger
this year. Both golf and tennis
clubs will open their doors for new
members this next quarter, the
time of the try-outs to be announ-
ced later. Tennis club will also
have its annual doubles tourna-

McCain Named
Aide to Arnall

President J. R. McCain was
honored last week when he was
named by Governor Ellis Arnall
as a member of the governor's
staff.

The staff is composed of a
representative group of Georgians
who act as personal advisers to
the governor in matters of state
and advise him on projects in
their fields.

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Brown Jug Tourney
To Be Held Friday

Teams representing each dormi-
tory, the cottages, and Atlanta
and Decatur day students will
vie with each other in the annual
Brown Jug basketball tournament
to be held Friday afternoon at
4 o'clock in the gym.

According to Billy Walker, bas-
ketball manager, preliminary
rounds of the tournament, two
games will be played at one time
on the smaller cross-courts while
in the final the contestants will
play on the large court.

Teams from the alumnae and
faculty may also participate in the
tournament.

ment, so glance around for your
partner now.

Outing club, after training
through the cold and blustery
winter, should be in excellent
form this spring. They are still
hoping to extend their weekly
bicycle outings to something a
little more lengthy, like a week-
end trip.
The spring season will, of course
be predominated by the activities
of May Day. The idea of the sea-
sons as a theme holds promise
of great things. Already the com-
mittees are meeting, and any day
now you may see a gusty winter
wind blow across campus, or snow
flakes fall, or crocuses pop up
from the ground. Or who knows?
Although they'll be out of season,
maybe even a few autumn leaves
will fall.

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Officers List

(Continued from page 1, col. 3)

Qualifications: Skill in sports
and interest in A. A.; executive
ability; willingness to work and
cooperate with physical directors;
friendliness.
Vice President

Duties: Perform all duties of
president in her absence: take
charge of all recreational activities
pertaining to A. A.; represent A.
A. on co-recreational council.

Qualifications: Interest in
sports and in A. A.; ability to di-
rect open house or other social
functions with mixed groups; will-
ingness to cooperate.
Secretary

Duties: Keep record of all pro-
ceedings of A. A. Board; conduct
all regular correspondence pertain-
ing to A. A.; keep a permanent
record of all persons winning
points; send out notices of all
meetings; keep record of attend-
ance at A. A. board meetings.

Qualifications: Dependability at
all times; ability to give attention
to detail; interest in A. A.; prompt-
ness.

Treasurer

Duties: Take charge of A. A.
funds and record report; pay out
money on order of the president;
order and take charge of awards.

Qualifications: Ability to keep
accurate books; dependability.
Silhouette

Editor

Duties: Sign all contracts with
printers, photographers, and en-
gravers; plan the annual: includ-
ing theme, layouts for each page,
and contents of each section; su-
pervise and check all writing and
proof-read final copy; be responsi-
ble for having photographer take
all necessary pictures.

Qualifications: A marked sense
of responsibility for getting things
done on time; ability to write
clearly; some originality; ability
to get along well with faculty,
students, and contractors; close
cooperation with business manag-
er so as to plan within a budget.
Associate Editor

Duties: Help plan annual; work
specifically on front section; co-
operate with editor; make final
check on class sections, names and
pictures.

Qualifications: A marked sense
of responsibility; ability to write
clearly; interest in annual work.
Two Assistant Editors

Duties: One assistant will have
charge of the faculty section, and
the other the club section. For
her section each will have to do
the writing, supervise the photo-
graphy, and take part in planning
the page layouts.

Qualifications: Sense of respon-
sibility for doing work on time;
ability to write.
Business Manager

Duties: Manage advertising in
the Silhouette; sell ads; collect
payments; draw up copy when
necessary; sell extra orders of pic-
tures for Gaspar-Ware; sell pages
to school organizations and clubs.

Qualifications: Definite business
ablity; ability to keep accurate
and comprehensive records; abil-
ity to meet business people and
talk to them; ability to choose a
capable staff; definite sense of re-
sponsibility.
Advertising; Manager

She is the assistant of the busi-
ness manager in the advertising
field and may be in charge of trade
ads.

Agnes Seott News

Editor

Duties: Select an efficient edi-
torial staff, organize and direct it;
determine editorial policy and
write editorials; plan content of
(Continued on page 3, col. 2)

Varsity Players Victorious;
Upset Sub-varsity Team 35-25

By Ruth Ryner

The varsity team nosed out a battling sub-varsity sextet
Friday night by a handsome score, 35-25. It was varsity all
the way, although the sub-varsity, handicapped by having no
available substitutes, made quite a battle of it during every
period of play.

Betty Andrews, freshman varsity player, took scoring

honors for the night, piling up a

total of 15 points, while Sally Sue
Stephenson, sophomore sub- vars-
ity forward, hitting from almost
every angle was close with 14.
Early Varsity Lead
Varsity forwards had no trouble
in breaking through the sub
varsity guard line soon after the
opening whistle to run up their
side of the score. Immediately
following, the sub-varsity for-
wards came through with two suc-
cessive goals, but were unable to
scpre freely because of the excel-
lent zone defense of the varsity
guards. The score after the first
quarter showed the varsity team
leading 12-3.

During the next quarter, how-
ever, the sub-varsity forwards
staged a strong offensive, although
guards Ann Webb, Janet Liddell
and Ruth Gray started clicking
on the defense, but the team was
behind at the half, 20-15.

Throughout the last half the
sub-varsity team fought valiantly
and it looked as if they might
come through to even the score

Wings Must Smash Cans,
Camilla Moore Reminds

Camilla Moore, in charge of
tin can smashing on the campus,
asks that students be sure to
collect all cans in back of the
Rebekah dining room instead
of merely smashing those that
are already in the basement of
Murphey Candler.

If the wings assigned assume
their responsibility to smash
cans every day, there will not be
a necessity to ask for volunteers
to smash cans that have collect-
ed during the week.

Call DE. 4922
One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc.
DECATUR CAKE BOX

until the last quarter of play when
the varsity forwards scored rapid-
ly and heavily to leave them far
behind. The score at the end of
the third quarter was 26-22
Effective Guards
Mildred McCain, Peggy Kelly
and Betty Jean Radford proved
to be an exceptionally good guard-
ing combination for the varsity.

Radford, freshman, captained
the victorious varsity, and Ruth
Farrior, senior forward, was cap-
tain for the losers.
Line-ups follow:

Varsity

Hough. A. (G) R.F.
Heery. G. (f>) L. F.

Andrews. B. (15) C.
McCain, M. R.G.
Kelly, P. L.G.
Radford. B. J. C.

Substitutions : Varsity, Gumming
roe (S). Walker and Hill.

Sub-varsity

Pureell. D. (5)
Step'nson. S. (14)
Farrior. R. (6)
Webb. A.
Liddell, J.
Gray. R.
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944

Page 3

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

The trottin' Hottentots this week-end have enlarged their
field of travel and many of them are out-of-town for a few
days now. Betty Sullivan is seeing the sights in New York
City and Bobbie Powell is in Boston for the M. I. T. gradua-
tion exercises. Not quite so far away, but just as much
fun, was Jane Everett's, Ruth An-
derson's, and Mary Turner's trip
to Macon for the week-end to cele-
brate Jane's leap year birthday.
Leila Holmes went home to Ma-
con, too, and so did Helen Owen
to visit Laura Winchester. Kath-
erine Anne Edelblut and Frances
Woodall visited their families in
Augusta, while Ellen Arnold spent
the week-end in Savannah. Dot
DeVane and Mary McCalla enjoy-
ed their trip to Greenville, S. C,
Martie Mizell went home with Rite
Watson to Batesburg, S. C.

Jane Bowman and Louise Starr
were seen at the Chi Phi house
Saturday evening. . . . Carolyn
Fuller and Patty Barbour went
to the K.A. house Friday night. . . .
Claire Bennett and Maggie Toole
had supper Saturday at Aunt Fan-
ny's in Marietta. . . .

In celebration of Yoli Bernabi's
birthday several days ago there
was a party at the Paradise Room
Saturday. Marilyn Campbell,
Yoli's visitor from Lake Erie Col-
lege, was there then, and so were
Marjorie Tippins, Mary Carr,
Paule Triste, and Eleanor Manley.

Visitors on campus this week-
end included Teddy Bear's father,
and Patty Dean's, Virginia Callo-
way's, and Mary Martin's mothers.
Patty B&rbour had a visitor up
from Fort Benning and Ruth Gray
from Clemson. ... A future Hot-
tentot, Hansell Cousar's cousin
Louise, was here for a few days
last week. . . . Elizabeth Home's
exciting visitor is here on a ten-
day furlough now.

Anne Noell's father took a group
of her friends to Ship Ahoy for
dinner Saturday and then to see
"North Star." The party includ-
ed Peg Perez, Bunny Weems, Lib
Osborne, and Helen Pope.

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Officers List

(Continued from page 2, col. 3)

each paper, assemble lists of news
stories and decide on topics for
feature stories; do final editing of
each copy before sending it to
printers; supervise work of whole
staff.

Qualifications. The editor must
be able to write clearly and cor-
rectly, and should have a keen
interest in the News. A knowledge
of editing, advertising, and a sense
of responsibility are necessary. She
should have good judgement, exe-
cutive ability, and should be able
to cooperate with the business
manager and other staff members.
A knowledge of journalism is
necessary.
Managing: Editor

Duties: Plan the make-up of pa-
per; decide on style and size of
headlines; lay out paper with help
of assistant editors; direct print-
ers in actual lay-out and check
proof at printers; write some edi-
torials.

Qualifications: She should be
able to take the initiative and as-
sume entire responsibility for the
make-up of the paper. She needs
to have enough executive ability
to direct the assistant editors in
helping her lay out the paper and
to supervise the printers. Judge-
ment as to the relative importance
of articles and originality in ar-
ranging them are distinct assets.
Knowledge of journalism is neces-
sary.

Two Assistant Editors

Duties: Send assignments to re-
porters; see that all copy is turn-
ed in; do preliminary editing of
copy; re-write headlines when
necessary; assist with make-up.

Qualifications: The two assis-
tant editors must be interested
in the News, must be able to write
clearly and correctly and to cor-
rect copy, and must be absolutely
dependable.
Business Manager

Duties: Keep books; handle all
money, paying and receiving
checks; do collecting for advertis-
ing; select and oversee whole busi-
nes staff.

Qualifications: She must have

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Artists Reorganize;
Honor Lamar Dodd

Pen and Brush Club has been
reorganized under the name of
the Art Students' League of Agnes
Scott and will be known by the
initials, it was announced by Dot
Almond, president.

At thejneeting last week plans
were completed for the tea given
for Lamar Dodd in the gallery
Sunday afternoon. Art students,
the faculty, and friends of Mr.
Dodd were guests at the tea,
which opened the exhibition of his
work.

Plans were made to go as a
group to sketch and to the High
Museum.

Mary Codington is vice-presi-
dent and Louise Cantrell, secre-
tary-treasurer.

had experience in selling ads and
must be able to do business suc-
cesfully with businessmen. She
must be businesslike and thor-
oughly responsible. She should be
able to keep accurate records and
to write clear business letters.
Two Advertising Managers

Duties: Get weekly advertising;
get ads to editors on time; select
staff of assistants and direct their
work.

Qualifications: She should have
had experience in selling ads and
should be able to make a good ex-
perience on prespective advertis-
ers. She must be very dependable,
and must have initiative in think-
ing of new places to get ads.
Ability to organize a capable staff
is necessary.

Aurora

Editor

Duties: She will be in charge of
forming policy, getting a good'
staff together, maintaining dead-
lines. It will be her duty to see
that the magazine continues its
present aims of reaching all groups
on the campus.
Managing Editors

Duties: They must work closely
with editor in all phases of edi-
torial work and see that proof
and corrections are made and
make-up is done.
Business Manager

Duties: To manage advertising
in the Aurora.

Qualifications: Definite business
ability; sense of responsibility.

Lecture Association
President

Duties: Act as chairman of stu-
dent committee of Lecture Asso-
ciation; cooperate with the facul-
ty committee in making the lec-
tures a success; entertain the lec-
turers; make welcoming address
at each lecture; and receive at the
receptions.

Qualifications: Membership in
senior class with academic stand-
ing suitable for graduation; inter-
est in intellectual and artistic sub-
jects, possession of a personality
and appearance suitable for repre-
senting the college, poise and some
executive ability.
Treasurer

Duties: Take charge of securing
and selling tickets for the lectures,
take care of all the financial mat-
ters of the organization.

Qualifications: Some general
qualifications as for president and
sufficient knowledge of mathemat-
ics to assume the responsibility of
handling all the finances of the
organization.

War Council

Chairman

Duties: Organize war activities
on campus; receive and fulfill cam-
pus requests and suggestions for
methods of aiding the war effort
on the college campus.

Qualifications: Sense of respon-
sibility; ability to work with fac-

'I'm Not Scared Yet, But '
Says Australia-Bound Student

By Sara Jean Clark

A trip on a Swedish freighter through Jap-infested waters
to Australia is the adventure that Mary Ann Derry, until this
quarter a student at Agnes Scott, and her mother will begin
about the end of March. They are returning to Sidney, Aus-
tralia, where Mary Ann's father, Charles H. Derry, is an
American consul in the American i

foreign service.

"We've been waiting so long,"
Mary Ann laughed, "that I've lost
some of the excitement of looking
forward to a long trip, but I guess
I'll get it all back when we ac-
tually start. The trouble was that
we couldn't get a ship to sail on.
It wasn't so hard to get a pass-
port because since September all
the families who lived in Australia
before the war have been permit-
ted to go back.

Passport Troubles

"Our passports came two weeks
ago. I sent a fairly decent picture
to Washington, but you should see
the one on the passport that came
back. They have stamped a big
eagle on my face with feathers
on my nose and stars on my fore-
head. But passport pictures are
never any good. I remember com-
ing over, we were in the Fiji Is-

ulty and .students; intense inter-
est; ability to put plans into opera-
tion.

May Day

Chairman

Duties: Selection of capable
committee; hold conferences with
faculty advisors for planning May
Day meetings; hold a contest for
selection of a scenario; hold elec-
tion of May Queen and court; get
each different committee to start
working separately on necessary
jobs; set dates for practices, May
Day, etc.

Qualifications: Willingness to
work hard; plenty of time spring
quarter to devote to her job; re-
sponsibility and dependability;
ability to work with other people
and get along with them; openness
to suggestions.

lands, and a big Fijian had Moth-
er's passport. He looked at it and
looked at Mother. Then he just
laughed and laughed."

Mary Ann and Mrs. Derry left
Australia a short time after Pearl
Harbor and have been making ar-
rangements to return since Sep-
tember.

"I'm not scared yet," Mary Ann
said, "but I will be. I was petri-
fied coming over so I know I will
be going back. I hope the boat
doesn't have to go near the Japs.
We won't be in a convoy, and we
may have to have lights, so that
makes added dangers. Yet this
freighter has made 64 crossings
safely so maybe there isn't so
much to worry about."

Seasoned Travelers

Mary Ann, however, is accus-
tomed to traveling. Born in Ma-
con, Georgia, she lived in Wash-
ington, D. C. until she was six.
Then her father was sent to Paris
where they lived until she was 11.
From there to Mexico and then at
14 she went to Australia where
her father decided to send his
family home.

As soon as Mary Ann returns
to Australia, she plans to continue
her college work in one of the
universities there.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1944

Duffee Writes

Next to Last

By Mary Louise Duffee

(column of the year)

Sunday afternoon should have
been the busiest picture-taking
time of the year for the annual
staff. Without photographic proof
no one will believe there were
that many eligible men on the
campus at one time in this year of
the war, 1944. In short, the soph-
omore's thoughtful open-house for
lonely cadets was a real success
for the sophomores. Pie and punch
were also served.

Bobbie Powell is the one high
in the clouds this week so
much so about the only way to
reach her would be with radar.
They say she will react to the
words "All Aboard," and "Lan-
ky."

The reverse of the usual situa-
tion happened at the concert last
Tuesday night at the auditorium
in Atlanta when a small group of
Hottentots were frantically search-
ing for their chaperons who had
gone off in the streetcar without
them. It seems there were crowds
and mobs and large groups of
people all blocking doorways, etc.
Joella Craig is under nomina-
tion for MOST INTELLIGENT
POSTMISTRESS OF THE
YEAR. The other day a letter
was correctly delivered to Pie
Ertz. It's address: 3.1416, Ag-
nes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.
(If you don't get it, ask a math
major.)

Leila (What's your blood type?)
Holmes received a gift from her
roommate (whose name has al-
ready been mentioned once this
week and it isn't our policy to
give too much mention to one per-
son) after lunch the other day. It
was small, but you'll have to get
the other details from Leila.
Leila, by the way, radiantly
returned from Macon Sunday
night, bringing with her what
she called Macon Perfection
Pinks. They weren't like Atlan-
ta pinks though. These were all
camellias.
And this is to get back a little
at Kathie Hill, (See Agnes Scott
News, 1942-43) who used to write
about everybody else's off mo-
ments. Seems the other night Joe
(of "Joe, Joe, answer me Joe"
fame) called her from Philadel-
phia. When the operator said, "Is
this Miss Kathie Hill?" Kittenish
Kathie shouted, "This is she, just
a minute I'll call her!" What,
Kathie, your inner self?

Ask Minnie Mack about per-
suading boys to sign up for dates
while she was on hostess duty.
On the weekend sign-in book
Dean's Officer Eugenia Symms
found the following entry Sun-
day night: Honey Chile Magnolia,
1440.

Mr. Jonee hoard frantic
splashes in the gym pool Sun-
day night they say and rushed
down to make a rescue. But a
rescue wasn't exactly what was
needed for the group who were
thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Because we don't have a com-
plete list of those attending the
function, I won't mention any of
them. But from all heard, it was
a VERY representative group.
Maybe they were trying to out-
do the library sleepers if so, they
did so rather successfully. One or
two more occasions and I'll have
enough material for a book en-
titled Nancy Lou's Boarding School
Days and How They Flew. A good
idea for the next stunt might be
tree-sitting in the quadrangle.
Elise Tilghman and Adelaide
Humphreys.

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Who Paid YOUR War Fund Pledge?

After six months the War Fund goal has
been .passed. At present S1002.96 has been
collected.

Of this amount $562.96 was contributed by
14 organizations.

Of the 545 students enrolled, 377 contribu-
ted a total of $440. This is only a little
more than one dollar each for those who did
contribute, while there remains 168 who did
not give anything.

Included in the $440 are the contributions
of two girls who gave $25 each and not for
publicity purposes, because they were so in-
sistent that their names be withheld, that
even the News was not allowed to know their

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor

With another quarter drawing to a close,
it is time for checking-up not only by tak-
ing exams, but also by giving accounts of
other work we have done.

A report on the war work done during fall
quarter resulted in shame for some and mod-
est self-respect for others. We are hoping
that modest self-respect will be the prevailing
feeling when the reports from the dormitory
war work charts are posted in the mail room
at the beginning of next quarter. These re-
ports will show how many points have been
earned by every girls at Agnes Scott.

If you want to be self-respecting, be sure
to report to your dormitory leader how many
war stamps you have bought, whether or
not you have contributed to the War Fund,
smashed tin cans, or given blood, and what
war courses you are taking such as First
Aid or Recreational Leadership.

Those who live in Inman, should report
to Bippy Gribble, those in Boyd and Lupton
to Virginia Bowie. Girls in White House or
Gaines should report to Frances Brougher,
those in Main to Laurie Looper, and those
in Rebekah to Maudie Van Dyke. Freshman
day students should report their war work
to Nellie Scott, sophomores to Ellen Hayes,
juniors to Virginia Bowie or Frances Brough-
er, and seniors to Scottie Newell.

In short, all Agnes Scott girls should re-
port all their war work before the end of
the quarter. War Council also recommends
that we all cooperate with the junior paper
and the Red Cross drive.

Betty BowTnan,
War Council Member.

Examinations aren't very far away, and the
time has come for some concentrated work in
the library which does not include spending
the night! However, that might have been
the only time that complete quiet could have
been found! Moral be quiet in the library
don't encourage over-night guests.

names. The generosity of these two girls
should make the rest of us hang our heads
in shame.

Yes, the SI 000 goal was reached during
the last week of the drive but we had to
be bribed by magazines, -games, pageants,
exhibitions, programs and entertainments in
return for our "contribution."

By the way, who paid your pledge?

(M.C.)

From the Editor

To many of us who are 18 or older comes
a rare opportunity an opportunity enjoyed
only by the 18-20-year-old citizens of Georgia.
We can vote. We earned the right to vote
through the confidence of the older voters of
the state. To do less than live up to their
expectations for us would be failing to merit
that confidence so generously given. The
first thing to do is to register and quickly
so that we will be eligible to vote in the
coming elections. They trusted us we must
not disappoint them.

In spite of the fact and the culprits real-
ize it, too that the Sunday night swimming
escapade was rather silly, childish perhaps,
we still think that it deserves to go down
in the annals of the college as one of those
events that prove we're only human and that
such things can (and must) happen even in
the best regulated colleges.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Mar. 1, 1944 No. 17

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, $1.25 ; single copies, five cents.

Member

Pbsociated GoUe6c4e Press

Editor MADELINE ROSE HOSMER

Managing Editor . MART CARE

Business Manager JUNE LANIER

Assistant Editors

Betty Glenn
Inge Probstein

Advertising Managers

Liz Carpenter
Frances King

Sports Editor

Margaret Drummond

Society Editor
Camilla Moore
Copy Editor

Leila Holmes

Editorial Assistant

Tess Carlos

Feature Editor

Mary Louise Duffee

Cartoonists
Sally Sue Stephenson
Jane Anne Newton
Anne Lee
Eloise Lyndon
Circulation Manager

Carolyn Calhoun
Circulation Assistants
Mary Russell
Marlon Leathers

Reporters: Marion Knapp. Betty Burress. Pauline Ertx.
Jean McCurry. Martha Arnold, Carolyn Fuller. Olive Han-
sen. Martha Baker, Anne Register. Elizabeth Scott, Connie
Fraser, Jeanne Rochelle, Joyce Gilleland, Jane Bowman,
Sara Jean Clark. Dorothy Lee Webb, Alice Gordon. Che
Nollans, Anne Noel I. Jean Rooney, Ann Seitzinger. Martha
Whatlcy Yates. Margaret Bear, Mary Anderson Courtenay,
Marjorle Cole.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

There are three people in this
room (counting me). All of whom
are trying to get out of WTiting
this column. But they are all
helping in their own weird ways.
I write one sentence; Zena writes
another sentence; and Shannon
writes another.

Spring has come again, (this
is Carlos' sentence). No one
loves the poor business man-
ager except one's husband, we
hope (Zena is married). How
did I got roped in on this any-
way? (Shannon is only a fresh-
man). The rest is up to you,
Zena mutters and leaves. The
rats are leaving the sinking ship.
Now we are two. Do nothing
till you hear from me (this off-
stage from Zena namely some-
where outside the building). Which
to-wit is Murphey Candler (Shan-
non likes to be explanatory; she
is only a freshman).

The time has come. (I, Tess,
am in a mood of welcome this
morning and everything is com-
ing to me; possibly a rejection
slip from the editor for this, I
would imagine). Your line, I tell
Shannon, and she begins to
think creatively. I restrain
Shannon from leaping out the
window since thus tar we have
only written about a third of
the column. Well, it's Monday.
Yes, and yesterday was Sunday
and tomorrow will be Tuesday.
And interesting things happen
on Sunday (Shannon says). And
Tuesday is C. A. Day. And Mon-
night is Exec. Monday night
they work on the paper too.
uo you lead a beautiful life?
Well, there are a number of things
which might be said about that.
What, for instance? What does
Webster say about a beautiful
life? What does Webster know
about a beautiful life? I don't
know. I've never seen Webster. My
line is not very good, they tell
me. You're telling me. But I do
have ideals. But does everybody
call you mother? Why, Shannon I
How many more hours do I
need before I can graduate?
About fifteen minutes, I would
say. Let me think, says Shan-
non, we've got to pull this col-
umn out of the gutter. Or,
wherever else it may be. As
the case may be. Now I've done
three sentences and this makes
four. You write some.
Dead silence. That makes six
for Shannon. Dead silence. Copy
cat! You know Hosmer is going
to kill me for this. Chalk three
up for Carlos. See what the boys
(on this campus) in the back room
(exec room we mean) will have?
Spring fever can be fatal*
That came out <>f last year's
news. This is our policy: re-
petition for emphasis. Birds
are singing. I am sleepy. Me
too. Fawn (Shannon). Surely
you're not putting all this in?
I'm that desperate for words.
So I see.

Bell for first period class. You
don't say? I believe I have one.
And you? No thanks I don't in-
dulge this early in the morning.
How shall we leave? By the door.
No, the window seems more ap-
pealing. After you? No, after
you. Time is fleeting. Life is so
transitory. How true!

Editor's note: (written by col-
umnist) This is the last column
of this series to ever appear in
this paper. We like to split
infinitives.

Editor's note: (written by edi-
tor) : This is not the last column
in this series. Our Tess still
has one more to write.

Tk

Agnes Scott News

Dear Readers

Pardon us please for taking such liber-
ties with your paper. But we were just cur-
ious to see how it would look PM style with
no news just headlines on the front
page. How do you like it?

Vol. XXIX. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., Wednesday, March 29, 1944

No. 18

THE RED CROSS SCORE

Students . . $378.50
Faculty . . . $827.00

. . . Page 4

Hottentots Help

in

Decatur Recreation

Program

. . . Page 4

Elections
Tomorrow

. . . Committee and popular
nominees vie for 40 campus
offices Page 3

. . . Take the News to chapel
with you. Election guide is
on Page 3

Mortar Board to Name
New Members Saturday

. . . Page 5

Postwar Plans

Norman Cousins
Coming on April 12
For Two Lectures

Martyr Bored membership undecided

. . . Page 5

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944

Speaking of

SPORTS

By Magaret Drummond

Traditionally, or so the oppos-
ite sex says anyway, it has been
a woman's prerogative to have
the "last word." This, the final
column of the present ageing gen-
eration, offers an excellent op-
portunity for getting in a final
say. Bowed under the weight of
the centuries, heads hoary with
age, we feel much like Father
Time, slowly descending the hill
of life, leaving his burdens, hopes
and dreams with a laughing chub-
by infants (Juniors, please take
no offense.)

Although advice has gone in
one ear and out the other, and
with such speed as to leave
nary a trace (that murmur is
Madeline saying "Amen" to the
above sentiment), experience
has taught us much. You, to
whom we soon shall hand down
our headaches and tribulations,
our joys and ambitions, please
heed these words of wisdom (?)

First and foremost, eleven o'-
clock of a Sunday night, before
an eight-thirty Monday morning
deadline, is not a propitious time
for writing a column. Weary, ach-
ing muscles, scratched and bleed-
ing extremities, brought on by a
spring week-end (however glori-
ous) in the country, are hardly
conducive to the thinking of wit-
ty trivialties.

And before proceeding furth-
er, let it be stated that the ab-
solutely essential prerequisite
for a good columnist is (so the
editor makes clear by frequent
adamant note) that he or she
be burning with a crusader's
zeal to further some worthy
cause, to enlighten an unen-
lightened world. Since last
spring, however, it has been
evident that this column is the
exception, due to the fact that
the columnist unfortunately be-
longs to the latter group her-
self. But with the manpower
shortage and all, the editor has
had to do with what little she
ha*s had.

The ability to write, so time has
proved, is questionable. It just
doesn't seem to make much dif-
ference (witness again this col-
umn). The requirements seem to
be: to be able to throw a few
hundred words together, enough
to total five hundred words (too
few will leave unsightly gaps);
to spell correctly (any moron can
use a dictionary); to get people's
especially professors', names
right; and this above all, to type
the finished product! And, of
course, it's better too, if the col-
umn is turned in on time. The edi-
tor doesn't seem to wax enthus-
iastic in the role of a sleuth,
tracking down a lost column in
the odoriferous atmosphere of the

CollegeWomen
May Qualify As
WAC Officers

Women may enter WAC officer
candidate school following basic
training if a college gradute, with
no business experience but with
a college record of responsibility,
resourcefulness and leadership.

WAC officers' duties are varied
and interesting. They serve as
company commanders, teach basic
training and courses in WAC spe-
cialist schools and administer the
affairs of the WAC in training
centers.

Officers also are assigned as as-
sistants to high-ranking officers in
practically all phases of operation
jobs. They work in Public Rela-
tions, Personnel and Recruiting
and are assigned to the staffs of
commanding generals in all serv-
ice commands and overseas.

When the officer-qualified wom-
an joins the WAC, she will go
through basic training as an Of-
ficer Candidate and be sent di-
rectly to Officer Candidate
School when she has cbmpleted
the basic courses. At the end of
eight weeks of officer training,
successful graduates are commis-
sioned second lieutenants in the
Army of the United States.

Opportunities for advancement
are many. Interested college wom-
en should contact the recruiting
office nearest them.

Scholarship Contest
Winners Announced

Winners in the annual Agnes
Scott College competitive scholar-
ship contest were recently announ-
ced by President J. R. McCain.

Dabney Adams, of Asheville, N.
C, is the winner of a $600 scholar-
ship, while Barbara Ann Blair, Gas-
tonia, N. C, Jane Alsobrook, New
Orleans, and Martha Krauss,
Louisville, Ky., received $300
awards.

AT LAST! Emory University's trainees and civilians sat up and took notice last week when si\ Agnes
Scott students showed up for Journalism classes, offered under the University Center plan. Formerly the
inter-institution cooperation has been limited to the few students (total four) who could convince Ag-
nes Scott officials that they really wanted journalism. Hottentots taking introductory journalism are,
first row, left to right, Maxine Paulk, Edwina Davis, Pie Ertz, and Che NeUans, second row, Helen Paty
and Mary Azar. The girl on the back row is Elsa N orris, Atlanta deb and special student at Emory.

(Photo by Worth McDougald, Emory Wheel)

science building. The delicate
aroma of a freshly dissected feline
or of a newly prepared hydrogen
sulfide generator strikes no res-
ponsive note in her heart, only
an unresponsive one in her stom-
ach.

Having followed the above
advice to the extent of throwing
together in a jumbled, incompre-
hensible hodge-podge approxi-
mately four hundred and thirty
five words (if there are any
gaps, you'll know why), perhaps
it would be wise at this point,
to sign "thirty". Especially be-
fore Madeline comes storming
over, to track me down in my
biology lab hide-out, demanding
her now eight hour overdue
column. But oh! wasn't the
week-end wonderful ? You
should have seen the early
spring flowers in the country.

New Art Exhibit
Features Work of
Carolinians

The work of Gregory D. Ivy,
head of the art department at
the Woman's College of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, and
Mary Leath Stewart, assistant
professor of art at the same
college, is now on exhibit in the
Agnes Scott art gallery on the
third floor of the library.

The exhibit is principally of
watercolors, with a few oils by
Miss Stewart.

Mr. Ivy, who was honorably
discharged from the armed for-
ces in 1943 and collaborated on a
text for camouflage instruction
in army camps, has been a regu-
lar exhibitor in important nation-
al exhibits. His work shows a
preponderance of Mexican themes
and a fondness for animals.

Miss Stewart, a graduate of
GSCW, has exhibited in Philadel-
phia and New York as well as in
the South. She is chiefly interest-
ed in painting trees and houses, as
shown by her "Pale Trees." Her
rather whimsical turn of mind is
shown in "Madonna and Child,"
a water color of a mare and a
colt, and in her gouache, "Saints'
and Sinners' Rest."

The exhibition will close on
April 21.

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

Father of Alumna
Will Succeed Patton

Agnes Scott students learned
with interest last week that Major
General Alexander Patch, father
of 1942 graduate Julia Ann Patch,
had been named to head the Amer-
ican Seventh Army, succeeding Lt.
General George Patton.

While at Agnes Scott, Julia
Ann, now Mrs. Charles Drum-
mond, was editor of the Silhouette.
She was elected to Phi Beta Kap-
pa and was a Mortar Board mem-
ber.

Her father, an Army officer of
30 years experience, commanded
troops which relieved the Marines
on Guadalcanal and also com-
manded troops on New Caledonia.
Only recently he was decorated
for his efficiency in the work he
directed on these islands.

War Stamp Joe Speaks . . .

By Pauline Ertz

"My name is Joe. I come in red, green and gray. My
Uncle Sam says I'm worth ten cents, twenty-five cents and
fifty cents. I'm on sale every day in Buttrick."

Oh, we know all the facts, Joe; that each week a dif-
ferent dorm has charge of the booth, that Ann Sale man-
ages you beautifully, that your showing at Agnes Scott
could be better but give us some inside dirt on Life in a
War Stamp Booth. What's the lowdown, Joe?

"Well, let me see. Say, there was that day last No-
vember when Wendy Whittle sold $30 worth of me at one
crack. Gosh, I'm going to tell that one to my grandchil-
dren. But that was really very unusual. Betty Andrews
collected $10 in one hour at the booth one day in January.
Two days later Kitty Stanton totaled $8. The Hottentots
must have decided to spend their Christmas money wisely.

"But I have to admit that such reports are the excep-
tion. My days are mostly a string of ten, twenty-five and
fifty cent sales. It makes me feel like a wallflower. Do
you suppose you could tell the students that they just
must buy me, if they want the war to be over as soon as
possible. It would be a swell idea if each girl would buy
a stamp a week for some relative or friend who is in the
service. "

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944

Election Set to Fill
40 Campus Offices

Changes Made in Agnes Scott News,
Student Government Offices

Elections for next year's campus offices will be held dur-
ing lengthened chapel periods tomorrow and Friday with
Student Government President Anne Ward, presiding.
Committee and popular nominations were announced Mon-
candidates for office

day, and
were given until yesterday at 3
p. m. to scratch if they desired
to.

New Offices

In student government, two new
offices have been created, to be
filled by seniors: orientation chair-
ma nand Lower House chairman.

The duties of the president have
been changed somewhat in that
she will do executive work prim-
arily while the vice president will
have the major responsibility of
the judicial work.

The day student representative
will edit the Handbook in addition
to her usual duties, thus relieving
the Student Recorder.

The office of Treasurer unites
the duties of student body treasur-
er and treasurer of student gov-
ernment, separate.

Advertising Manager

Students will also elect an ad-
vertising manager for the News,
to direct the soliciting and writing
of ads.

Final outcome of each balloting
will be posted on the bulletin
board as soon as the votes are
counted.

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Martha Marie Trimble, presi-
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this week that the first production
of th espring quarter, "Cradle
Song," the story of life in a con-
vent, will be presented Friday
night, April 20, at 8:30 in Pres
ser Hall.

Nuns from the Sacred Heart
convent in Atlanta have been tu
toring the members of the cast
in the technicalities of convent
life, in order to assure realistic
portrayal of nuns and their ac-
tivities.

The cast, according to Miss Ro
berta Winter of the speech de
partment, includes Martha Jane
Mack as Sister Sagrario; Eliza-
beth Carpenter as Sister Marcella;
Pauline Ertz as the prioress; Mar
tha Marie Trimble as Sister Jo
anna of the Cross; Jean Hood as
mistress of the novices; Mary
Dozier as the vicaress; Emily Sin
gletary as Sister Tornera; Jane
Everett as Sister Inez; Sydney
Owen as the doctor; Kathryn Doz
ie ras Sister Maria Jesus; Zena
Tempkin as Teresa; Tom Down-
ing as Antonio; and Marguerite
Watson, Barbara Kincaid, Kate
Webb, and Mtha Polk as nuns.

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This list has been corrected up to 4 p. m. Tuesday. The nominating committee
Tuesday at 4:40 p. m. Consult the bulletin board for their new nominations.

Organizations

Student Government
President:

Vice President:
Secretary :

Treasurer :

House Presidents:

Rebekah Scott:
Main :

Inman :

Orientation Chairman :
Lower House:

Student Recorder:

Day Student Repi esentative :
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
President:

Vice President:

Secretary :

1 reasurer :

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION:
President:

Vice President:
Secretary :

Treasurer :

SILHOUETTE
Editor-in-chief :
Associate Editor:

Assistant Editor:
(two elected)

Business Manager:

Advertising Manager:

AGNES SCOTT NEWS
Editor:

Managing Editor:

Assistant Editors:
(two elected)

Business Manager:

Advertising Manager:

Assistant Advertising Managers:
(two elected)

AURORA
Editor:

Managing Editor:
Business Manager:
LECTURE ASSOCIATION
President:

Treasurer :
MAY DAY

Chairman :

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Committee Nominations

Milam, Molly

Whittle, Wendy

Long, Betty

Beaver, Lucille

Slack, Julia
Elani, Pat

Mack, Minnie

King, Bittie

Watson, Margerite

Naab, Marjorie

Yates, Martha Whatlej

Carter, Virginia

Munroe, Mary

Bear, Teddy

Lee, Stratton

Hunter, Dot

Walker, Sarah

Melchor, Gloria Ann

Leathers, Marion

> Van Dyke, Maude
Powell, Celetta

Ertz, Pauline

Baker, Martha

Holmes, Leila

Glenn, Betty

Addison, Jeanne
Courtenay, Mary Ann

Espey, Penny _

Newton, Jane Anne
Reynolds, Mary

Probstein, Inge
Bowie, Virginia
Melson, Montene

Robinson, Jean

Everett, Jane

Popular Nominations

Milam, Molly
Gumming, Mary

Whittle, Wendy
Slack, Julia

Long, Bettv
McCain, Mildred

McCain. Mildred
Beaver, Lucille

Slack, Julia

Elum, Pat
Slack, Julia

Mack, Minnie
King, Bittie

King, Bittie
Slack, Julia

McCain, Mildred
Hall, Caroline
Osborne, Lib
Watson, Margerite

Naab. Marjorie
Roper, Helen

Webb, Dot Lc-e

Yates, Martha Whatley

Carter, Virginia
Munroo, Maiy
Devane, Cordelia

Carter, Virginia
Munroe, Mary
Devane, Cordelia
Mack, Minnie
Daugherty, Harriet

Bear, Teddy
Lee, Stratton
Cargill, Mary

Lee, Stratton
Cargill, Mary
Bear, Teddy

Hunter, Dot
Webb, Ann
Munroe, Mary
Camming, Mary

Webb, Ann
Munroe, Mary
Hunter. Dot

Walker, Sarah
Stephenson, Sally Sue
Melchor, Gloria Ann

Stephenson, Sally Sue
Walker, Sarah
Melchor, Gloria Ann.

Kuniansky, Elaine

Equen, Ann
Leathers, Marion

Van Dyke, Maude

Powell, Celetta

Mizell. Margaret
Johnson, Lura

Ertz, Pauline
Equen, Ann
Leathers, Marion

Baker. Martha
Watson, Margerite

Powel, Celetta
Ragland, Harding
Heller, Shirley

Glenn, Betty
Holmes, I eila

Glenn, Betty
Holmes, Leila
Ertz, Pauline

Courtenay, Mary Ann

Addison, Jeanne
Baker, Martha
Hall. Caroline
Bowman, Jane
Clark, Sara Jean

Carpenter. Liz
Espey, Penny

Leathers, Marion

Newton. Jane Anne
Reynods, Mary
Russell, Mary

Baker, Martha
(iardncr, Dootsie

Probstein, Inge

Bowie, Virginia

Melson. Montene

Robinson, Jean
Brougher, Frances

Robinson, Jean

Everett, Jane
Carlson, Jeanne
Almond, Dot

Brougher, Frances

Stevenson, Ji an
Brougher, Frances

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944

Camilla Tattles on

The Five Hundred

By Camilla Moore

It was house dances last week-end that kept the Hottentots
trottin'! Gloria Gaines went over to Emory to the Phi Chi
house dance Friday night and Saturday night Mary Brown
Mahon, Betty Mann, G. G. Gilliland and Mir House were at
the ATO house dance. Nulla Norris, Betty Glenn, Peggy

Jones, Kitty Kay, and Ann Ty-

ler went on the Sigma Nu hike
and weiner roast Saturday after-
noon and returned for a house
dance Saturday evening.

At Tech Friday night for the
KA rush party and house dance
were Betty Turner, Nelson Fish-
er, Janet Lidell, Elizabeth Harris,
Claire Bennett, Hilda Taber, Vir-
ginia Dickson, and Jean Estes.
Dootsie Gardiner, June Thomas
and Jean Chewning were at the
Psi Omega house dance Friday
night.

Seen at the Zip (Dental fra-
ternity) house Saturday evening
were Jinx Blake and Coot Rose . . .
Ruth Ryner, Betty Glenn, Jean
Rooney, Martha Rhodes, Lura
Johnston, Betty Davis, Edith Bur-
gess, Beth Walton, Nulla Norris,
and Kitty Kay were at the Para-
dise Room this weekend. . . . Daisy
Sundy spent the week-end at Se-
wanee for the spring dances there.
... At the Rainbow Roof were
Claire Bennett, Leila Holmes,
Robin Robinson, and Joyce Gille-
land. . . . Gisela Meyer was at
the Royal Palm and Sara Saul
at the MacArthur Room Sat-
urday. . . . Carolyn Calhoun and
Frances Wooddall took in the Em-
pire Room.

Mas House was here for a few
days last week visiting Mir. . .
Ruth Wolson, who is a boarder
these days, spent the week-end at
home entertaining a visitor from
Fort Benning. . . . Ruth Ellis has
recently had a visitor from Fur-
man and Puddin Bealer one from
Augusta. . . . Mickey Beman
spent the week-end in Milledge-
ville and Mary Bloxton in Athens,

Student Government
Leads Activity List

Agnes Scott News reporters,
gathering campus opinion on stu-
dent activities this week, discover-
ed that student government rates
as the most important campus ac-
tivity, with the Agnes Scott News,
Christan Association, Athletic
Association, and the Silhouette
ranking next in imporance.

Student government was named
as first choice by 64 percent of

named the News, and 16 percent
named Christian Association.

Science Club
Holds Quiz

The Agnes Scott chapter of Chi
Beta Phi, national honorary sci-
ence fraternity, sponsored a facul-
ty quiz last Thursday night, March
23, in Maclean auditorium for the
benefit of the War Fund.

Contestants participating in the
quiz included Miss Ellen Douglass
Leyburn, associate professor of
English; Miss Susan Cobbs, acting
professor of Latin and Greek;
Miss Emily Dexter, associate pro-
fessor of psychology. Virginia Tug-
gle, as Professor Quiz, presided.

One question which puzzled the
faculty contestants most was
"Who is the king of swing?"

At another time the audience
became so engrossed in the quiz-
zing that one spectator unconsci-
ously answered aloud the ques-
tion, "Who says, 'Hi-yo, Silver'?"

At the end of the program Dr.
Posey was proclaimed winner' of
the quiz and was awarded the
grand prize, a twenty-five cent
war stamp.

Last year a similar quiz was
sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, na-
tional honorary classical fratern-
ity.

Music Hour

The next Music Appreciation
hour, sponsored jointly by Agnes
Scott and the University Center

sent a program of piano music.

Red Cross Drive
Brings $1205

Latest reports show that Agnes
Scott students and faculty have
given $1,205.50 to the campus Red
Cross drive. Of this amount,
S130.25 was contributed by fresh-
men, $108.75 by sophomores,
S65.50 by juniors, $74.00 by the
seniors, and $827.00 by the facul-
ty.

"The drive has been a great
success," said Dr. Walter B. Posey
chairman, "and we are indeed
grateful to all those who so gra-
ciously contributed."

Dr. Posey added that the goal
of "Every Student a Member" has
not yet been reached, and it is
his hope that students who have
not joined will do so today and
tomorrow by bringing their mem-
bership fees of $1.00 to the regis-
trar's office.

The drive ends March 31.

Miss Rutledge
Wins Honors

Miss Abbie Rutledge of the phy-
sical education department will
participate in a badminton exhibi-
tion at the Georgia Tech gymnas-
ium next Wednesday, April 15.

Ken Davidson, several times
winner in national badminton
doubles tournaments, and several
other badminton professionals
will also participate in the tour-
nament. Miss Rutledge will play
in the women's doubles, while oth-
er players will give exhibitions in
men's singles, men's doubles, and
mixed doubles.

In addition to being asked to
participate in the badminton exhi-
bition, Miss Rutledge also receiv-
ed notice just before spring holi-
days of her election to serve on
the tennis board of the National
Section of Women's Athletes. Five

Our WAVE

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of Georgia, will be on Monday, or six women from all over the
April 3. Hugh Hodgson will pre- United States are chosen each

year to serve on this board, which

C. W. Dieckmann, professor of is sponsored by the National
piano, will be in charge of the Health and Physical Education
April 17 program. Association.

Agnes Scott Students Lead
Sports in Decatur Schools

At the request of the Decatur Recreational Board a num-
ber of girls who took the recreational leadership course of-
fered during winter quarter are now serving as recreational
aides in Decatur schools.
The girls, Vicky Alexander, Lura Johnston, Betty Long,
those questioned, while 20 percent Mildred McCain, Mary Ann Mar-

tin/ Sara Walker, Mary Ann Cour-
tenay, and Martha Baker, go in

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groups one afternoon a week to
the Clairemont, Ponce de Leon,
Fifth Avenue, or Oakhurst schools
to coach softball, volleyball, bas-
ketball, and other sports. They
are also helping plan for May Day
and Field Day in the various
schools.

Leila Powell, who also took the
recreational leadership course,
volunteered to take charge of a
Brownie Troop in one of the
schools.

Miss Llewellyn Wilbum, asso-
ciate professor of physical educa-
tion, stated that if the present
system continues to prove success-
ful, the physical education depart-
ment hopes to be able to meet the
needs of various communities in
Decatur for recreational leaders,
thus enabling Agnes Scott girls
not only to be of aid but also to
gain valuable experience.

This is the last regular issue
of the Agnes Scott News put
out by the present staff. The
new staff's first paper will ap-
pear on April 26.

Betty Brougher, '43, shown here taking the oath before going to
WAVE officer candidate school. (U. S. Navy photo)

Sophomores Present
Musical Program

The sophomore class presented
"A Study in Black and White,"
a program of modern music, for
the benefit of the War Fund, Mon-
day night in Maclean auditorium.

A reading of Thomas Carlyle's
"The Inward Harmony" by Betty
Long opened the program. A
chorus of sophomores sang "Danc-
ing in the Dark," Schwartz; "You
Go to My Head," Coots; and Two
Gershwin numbers, "The Man I
Love," and Embraceable You."

Mary Quigley played the violin
solo "LeGitane" and Kathryn Doz-
ier played "Intermezzo" as a vio-
lin solo.

Bunny Weems played the oboe
solo, "Tomorrow," while Ruth
Simpson played Debussy's "The
Sunken Cathedral" and Louise
Reid, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in
Blue."

A special feature of the pro-
grame were the guest artists pre-
sented by each class. Helen Hut-
chison, freshman, played the piano
solo, "Begin the Beguine"; Bettie
Manning, junior, sang "Night and
Day"; and Aurie Montgomery,
senior, played "May Night" on the
organ.

Spanish Club to Hear
Tech's Spanish Prof

Gordon Brown, professor of
Spanish at Tech, will speak on
Spain as he saw it in 1940 to
members of the Spanish club at
their Friday night meeting. The
meeting will begin at 8 p. m. in
Murphey Candler.

Mr. Brown will bring a group of
Latin American students from
Tech with him.

Information concerning Spanish
club tryouts to be held beginning
today through April 3 is posted on
the bulletin board.

April 22 has been set as the
date for the Fiesta, sponsored by
the club.

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Editor Norman Cousins to Speak
On 'Postwar Reconstruction"

Saturday Review Executive
Will Give Two Lectures

Norman Cousins, executive editor of the Saturday Review
of Literature, will lecture on "Postwar Reconstruction," Wed-
nesday, April 12, during a long chapel period. The lecture,
open to the whole college community and the public, will be
sponsored jointly by War Council and Lecture Association.

A discussion hour will follow
the formal talk, at which time
the audience will have an oppor-
tunity to take part in the discus-
sion and to -ask prepared ques-
tions if desired.

Mr. Cousins will lecture a sec-
ond time on Wednesday at 5
p. m. in Maclean chapel, on "A
Review of Current Literature."

This lecture, similar in subject
to last year's lecture by Edward
Meeks, has been added to balance
the range of subjects discussed
throughout the year and to take
the place of tthe literary lecture
that Alfred Noyes or Robert Frost
would have given.

Well qualified to speak on cur-
rent world affairs as well as mod-
ern literature, Mr. Cousins prior

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to his editorship of the Saturday
Review served for five years as
editor of the magazine Current
History and has had contacts with
the leading reporters and news
analysts of the world.

Twice he has been called to the
national capital to advise con-
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Agnes Scott Debaters
Attend Tournament

Four members of Pi Alpha Phi
debasing club, represented Agnes
Scott in the debating tournament
sponsored by the Southern Asso-
ciation of Teachers of Speech
March 21-22 in Jackson, Miss.

Agnes Scott's team, composed
of Martha Jean Gower and Betty
Glenn on the affirmative and Julia
Moody and Lib Osborne, negative,
won three and lost three decisions
on the question, "Resolved: That
the United States should cooper-
ate in establishing and maintaining
an international police force upon
the defeat of the axis."

More than 100 contestants re-
presenting a number of schools
from all over the South attended
the meeting, which included con-
tests in oratory, after-dinner
speaking, and similar events, in
addition to the debating.

Glee Club Plans
Elijah 7 presentation

Joella Craig and Barbara Con-
nally will sing the leading soprano
roles in a program of music from
Mendelsohn's "Elijah" to be pre-
sented on the Music Appreciation
hour onw May 15.

Guest artists, among them Wal-
ter Herbert, director of the Geor-
gia Tech glee club, will join with
the Agnes Scott glee club for the
presentation. Mr. Herbert will
sing Elijah.

Other members of the cast and
a more detailed program will be
announced lated.

Cotillion to Sponsor
Spring Fashion Show

At its last meeting, Cotillion
club began making plans for
sponsoring a spring fashion show.
Members of the club will model
the latest styles from the spring
editions of Mademoiselle, Vogue,
and Harper's Bazaar.

The date has been set for the
evening of April 5, in Murphey
Candler after formal dinner and
coffee.

Admission will be charged, the
proceeds to go to the War Fund.

War Stamp Sales
Total $427.55

Last quarter's war stamp sales
amounted to $217, an increase of
$6.45 over fail quarter's total,
according to Anne Sale, war stamp
chairman of War Council. This
brings the total so far this year
to within $58.05 of last year's
complete total of $485.60. War
stamps are on sale daily in the
lobby of Buttrick.

Vocational Interest Tests

Mortar Board is sponsoring this
week Vocational Interest tests,
which are available to all students
interested.

The tests, given under the su-
pervision of the psychology de-
partment, are being held in room
3 Buttrick hall at 4:30 p. m. to-
day and tomorrow. Students are
asked to bring five cents to cover
cost of the tests.

Ah, Peace

Leaders Say Goodbye
As Term of Office Expires

By Mary Ann Courtenay

As the burden of office is lifted from the outgoing presi-
dents of Student Government, A. A., C. A., and Mortar Board,
each officer will heave a sight of relief and utter a few "last
words" as her ultimate claim to fame.

Anne Ward's lo yalty to Student Government will make its

mark as "footprints on the sands

Council Holds
Activities Tea

Presidents' Council held the an-
nual Activities Tea last Friday
afternoon, March 24. A number
of campus organizations presented
displays designed to acquaint
freshmen and transfers with their
activities and to interest them in
the organizations.

Athletic Association's display
was a doll whose head was made
from a basketball, arms from ten-
nis rackets, and legs from hockey
sticks. War Council was repre-
sented by tin cans, jewelry, and
knitting. Yoli Bernabe, dressed
in a black evening dress and black
mantilla, presided over Spanish
club's display.

Other organizations represent-
ed were B. O. Z., Aurora, Poetry
Club, Agnes Scott News, Student
Government, Silhouette, Black-
friars, International Relations
club, Lecture Association, May
Day, and Pi Alpha Phi.

Alumna Louise Newton
With New Opera Co.

Louise Newton, a member of the
class of 1942, has just signed a
contract with the New Opera
Company of New York City, ac-
cording to Louis Johnson, profes-
sor of voice.

Miss Newton, who studied voice
here and in New York, is the sis-
ter of Jeanne Newton, ex-1945,
now also studying voice in New
York.

of time" rather than footsteps on
the grass seeds of the quadrangle.
Anne is especially grateful "that
grace has been granted me to
remain in office without being
impeached." She feels reasonably
sure of the privilege to complete
her term of office unimpeached
since only 24 hours more remain.

Her assistant, Clare Bedinger,
has attained fame in various
branches of Student Government
vice freshman orientation, open
forums, and fire drills. Now all
she needs is "a collection to be
taken up on campus to replace
any hairs pulled, lost, or turned
gray."

Inspiration

"Rufus" Farrior exits, pronoun-
cing her benediction on the cam-
pus and giving the advice she
learned too late. Recently she was
informed that the president of
Christian Association should be
able to inspire people by her looks.

Deprived of so many duties,
responsibilities and meetings, the
big women on campus should be
planning how to use their leisure
hour. Evidently having forgotten
such delightful institutions, they
all chorused "What spare time?"

Ruth Koltoff, however, has plan-
ned ahead, as a good Mortar
Board president should do. "Koko"
will bake in the sun for the rest
of the spring quarter.

Tuggle also has looked to the
future, as far as med school in
August. The chief ballerina of
Athletic Association quotes from
herself the following plan: "After
my athletic life in college, I will
settle down to a purely sedentary
existence."

Mortar Board to Announce
New Members Saturday

Ruth Kolthoff, president of Mortar Board, will announce
members of next year's Mortar Board in a service to be held
Saturday morning, April 1, at chapel time. Dr. W. B. Posey,
professor of history, will speak on the ideals of Mortar
Board service, scholarship, and leadership.

The purpose of Mortar Board, as stated in the preamble to
the constitution of the organiza- "

tion, is "To provide for the co-
operation between senior honor so-
cieties for women, to promote col-
lege loyalty, to advance the spirit
of service and fellowship among
university women, to maintain a
high standard of scholarship and
to recognize and encourage lead-
ership, and to stimulate and to
develop a finer type of college
woman."

Mortar Board is a national hon-
orary organization, HOASC, was
founded in 1916 and became af-
filiated with Mortar Board in 1931.
New members, chosen on the basis
of the three ideals of Mortar
Board, are always announced on
the Saturday following the com-
pletion of campus elections.

Members of this year's chapter
include Ruth Kolhoff, Aurie Mont-

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944

Duffee Writes

Swoose Song

By Mary Louise Duffee

(hall swan song, half goose song)

Since it's customary for editors
to write a swan song in their last
issue, a swoose song seemed what
this column ought to have. (A
swan song, of course, is sort of an
editorial obituary, or "well-my-
work-is-done-it's-been -a-great-
fight" editorial from the editor.)

I do not have to work up a
mood to write this in a sad
vein. It is with real pain that
I begin to writer because I
skinned my thumb as I was
taking the cover off the type-
writer for the last (sigh) time.
Besides, I'm in the midst of
writing my last college term
paper (with luck), and you can
all imagine what a sad and
sentimental feeling that would
give you. Like hurrying to get
out of your burning home.

But seriously, it's a good year
on the whole that the campus
community can look back on al-
ready. Elections right after spring
holidays bid fair to make it an
even better one may it please
be so. Because more people will
be active on student government
through the newly-formed student
council set-up, more minority
groups on the campus automat-
ically will be represented, and that
should make for a happier cam-
pus on the whole.

Socially, war has lowered not
only the average age of men
available for dating, but has
also lowered the marrying age
through the classes. We hear
the ever-proud seniors are con-
sidering a ring dance instead
of a spring dance for May Day.
The title would just be changed
to "At the Foot of the Rain-
bow."

Men seen in the halls of Main
generally have been shorter, their
voices higher, their clothes monot-
onously blue or khaki. Their dates
increasingly have been freshmen
and sophomores, with the seniors,
who used to have their social fling
the last year, throwing a big one
by going to the show in Decatur
at night in a group.

On the campus, not only new
rings, but other good things.
The number of art students
around the hundred mark, for
instance, and throe little Mac-
Gregors; Miss Mac not only
our woman of the year but
one of Atlanta's; Journalism
again offered to Agnes Scott
students (legitimate plug).

Because Agnes Scott girls are
what they are, there'll always be
good new things to remember at
end of a year and because they
are human beings, there'll always
be a place in the paper for a
column such as this one has tried
to be. A dirt column it is not.
It has tried to be a column about
the students the good and the
funny and the unfortunate about
them so long as it was con-
structive but not malicious. If
the discussions in this column
have been unpleasant to some,
this never has been intentional-
ly so except as based on the
writer's opinion that some
things unpleasant to a few are
necessary for the good of the
student body as a whole. If in
fault at times, this column at all
times has been sincere.

Thanks for an uncensoring
and ethical editor and a recep-
tive campus.

"Duffee"

An Editor Must Have a Purpose

"An Editor must have a purpose."

Joel Chandler Harris, great Southern
editor, was the first to put into words the
feeling that editors must do more than fill
a certain number of newspaper inches with
news.

In this, my swan song, I'd like to add my
feeble echo to Harris' words.

Perhaps the majority of students on this
campus believe that it is not the duty of the
editor to do more than gather and write
the news, and compose a few amusing and
non-controversial editorials.

It is to those people that the News has
been directed this year. To those people who
refuse to open their eyes and see what fools
we all are.

This year is only a beginning I hope. We
can't expect in one college generation to

Briefs

By now I imagine enough has been said on
how and how not to vote. My only advice is
think and then vote.

In a remark recently overheard, a mem-
ber of the student body expressed the opinion
that if, as suggested, campus leaders did not
exactly agree with recent administrative ac-
tion they should publicly let their opinion be
known by resigning.

A word of advice for the would-be reformer.
Suppose, for example, that the president of
student government or the News editor resign-
ed in protest to administrative action. Can't
you see that that would be just what the
administration would want that it would be
playing into their hands. They could then
deal with us according to their own wishes
we would have no leaders to turn to.

Unless of course the publicity which would
naturally attend any resignation proved too
much for the administration.

And then there was the wit who suggested
that the class of 1944 leave behind as their
gift to the school a bag of cement to patch
holes in the walkways. Business office please
note.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

To many of us the recent vote to maintain
the status quo of our electing system was a
great disappointment. But once again we are
arrived at election time and if we cannot
have a new method, we must do our best with
the old.

In order to do that best it seems necessary
that three procedures be considered. If, for
example, we know none of the candidates run-
ning for a certain office, we should either vote
for none of them or make it our businesses
to seek out their qualifications before elections
tomorrow and Friday.

If, for another example, if we do agree with
the Committee candidate, if we would have
voted for that girl anyway, the very fact that
she has been put up by the Committee should
not cause us to turn up noses and mutter,
"Why should I vote for her? She's a commit-
tee nominee!" Tsk! Tsk! The Committee's
choosing a girl is not meant to be a "kiss of
death" designed to keep that girl out of of-
fice ;sour grapes and narrow prejudices have
never been just cause for keeping a qualified
and capable candidate from a job she can
do well. If we agree with the Committee
and despite their many obvious defects they
are right sometimes let us have the cour-
age of our convictions and express that agree-
ment.

Surely from all the intellectual air that was
exhaled by both factions during "The Battle"
last quarter, and although nothing else comes
of it, surely from all the controversy should
come an election marked by more thought,
more careful consideration, and more intelli-
gent voting than has been manifested in the
elections of the past three years. At least let
us try to approach the ideal in student offi-
cers for which we are striving.

Sincerely,

Zena Harris Temkin.
(Thank you, Zena. You save me the trou-
ble of writing an editorial on voting. MRU).

change traditions which we have found dis-
tasteful, but we can begin.

It is my hope that future editors will real-
ize that they do have a purpose and do
something about it.

Of course, I don't mean that future editors
should have my purpose. I don't care what
their purpose is so long as they have one.

Part of this swan song should also be di-
rected at the other officers who will be elected
tomorrow and Friday. There's plenty for you
to do. Please do it. My best piece of advice to
you is to go ahead with what you want and
don't be afraid. You'll get frowned upon more
often than you'll be smiled upon don't let it
worry you. Most of the people who frown will
eventually smile. It's amazing what success
can do to people's attitudes.

And then there's a word for the rest of the
student body those who didn't get elected.
Just because you're not an officer don't think
that you're out of things. If I know officers
they'll welcome your ideas and suggestions.

I've learned a lot about the Agnes Scott
student body in the last year. Perhaps, I've
too often taken the attitude of "everything
stinks." Perhaps everything does stink. Per-
haps I was really concerned with the apathy
of the 545.

At any rate, in spite of my ranting and
raving I've enjoyed this year.

Thanks to the staff (wonderful people!),
the students and the administration for not
impeaching me.

'The Battle'

Two comments . . .

At Agnes Scott a nominating commit-
tee of 15 decides for 500 students who its
nominees for office will be. This commit-
tee is made up of a majority of the nom-
inating committee nominees of the year
before. A student vote in chapel will soon
decide the fate of this present nominating
committee. Students will vote whether to
completely abolish it or retain it with
changes or retain it unchanged. FSCW
student newspaper.

This is war at Agnes Scott . . .

The minor "battles" waged recently by
students against (1) the present nominat-
ing system, and (2) the present organiza-
tion of Student Government. After many
stormy chapel sessions, No. 1 stayed the
same, No. 2 submitted to a general re-
shuffling of duties and qualifications the
most important change being, perhaps, a
separation of the executive and judicial
branches of the organization. War casual-
ties the Founder's Day Dinner, the Min-
uet, the Junior Banquet. Agnes Scott
Alumnae Quarterly.

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Mar. 29, 1944 No. 18

Published weekly, except during holidays and examina-
tion periods, by the studenta of Agnes Scott College. Of-
floe on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered
as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, poet office.
Subscription price per year, $1.25 ; single copies, five cents.

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Society Editor

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Cartoonists
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Jane Anne Newton
Anne Lee
Eloise Lyndon
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Reporters: Marlon Knapp, Betty Burr ess. Pauline Erie.
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Whatley Tates, Margaret Bear. Mary Anderson Courtemaj,
Mnrjorle Coin.

A Nose in the Air

By Tess Carlos

This is to my successor. God
help her! It will consist of a few
plain words of advice: Don't be
afraid. It will consist of many
moralizings. It will be an objec-
tive attempt (as objective as one
can be about something that
means a great deal) to consider
the aspects of writing a column in
a newspaper in a school in a state
in a nation where presumably we
live under the glorious ideal of
freedom of the press.

I say presumably because
along with many ideals I have
managed to lose that one very
rapidly. Writing a column is
not the fun you would think.
It is trying hard to say what
you hope is the truth. It is
trying hard to keep even and
calm and not to cry out like
Cassandra over and over again:
You fools, don't you see. Dan-
ger is eating you up. It is try-
ing to understand a way and a
system of pseudo-thinking that
denies all that you wish and
hope for yourself and the
world. And in the end you be-
come disillusioned. You prob-
ably knew all along it was go-
ing to be that way. But you
rather hoped that people were
not as vicious, self-seeking,
stupid, unthinking. It is a dis-
appointing truth to discover. It f
is even harder to realize that
you yourself are among them.
Writing a column leads you
eventually to the realization that
there is no such thing as optimism
or the hope of good will on earth
or the thought of understanding
from those who should under-
stand and should help. Writing a
column leads you to many strange
places among many new people
and many, too many reactionary
ideas. You see those who think
they are the leaders weaker than
yourself. It is heart-breaking to
encounter shriveling selfishness in
those who display smiling, loving
exteriors. It is a sad commentary
on the way of life a campus ex-
emplifies.

But there is this heartening
thought. If you wish to call it
heartening. If you wish to
cling to a sinking straw. If you
are willing to live in self-de-
ception. All phases of student
life are regimented. You can
not decide upon whom to vote.
A Nominating Commit tee must
lean over your shoulder solicit-
ously and saying: Now, dear,
Mama knows just what is ood
for her little darling. Mama
has always known best. Mama
is infallible. You ean not think
for yourself. There are too
many Mamas around to decide
for you.

But there is this heartening
thought: we are being prepared
to face the future. For outside of
school we shall find our niches and
there too since we are so select
we have to be given our thoughts
tenderly picked over, there too we
shall find further Mamas to pro-
tect us from the callous dirt of
reality. Except out there they are
not called Mamas or Nominating
Committee. They are known by
the worldly name of dictators.

But then even if those terrible
dictators menace us out there, we
will be safe for we will be the first
to run to thm, for protection.
People like us are the first to
run away crying for help, from
the small fears of a big world.
We become so preoccupied with
the small non-essentials we do not
stop to question the huge impor-
tnat questions. We are the weak
of the earth, the peace-makers in
time of crisis.

Tha ASneS S^oU SnQo*e

VOL. XMMMMMMMMM UNIVERSITY OF HOTTENTOTS, SOUTH DECATUR, APRIL FOOL'S DAY WRONG NUMBER

Frank Sinatra Plays Here for Spring Formal

Agnes Scott campus have
f, much as we would like to
i our solution as briefly as
rting anyone's feelings,
ilorable, even drastic. In the
is one cannot take too light
t is becoming more undesir-
itinue. But we are helpless,
atioh have aided immeasur-
ings, however, have been to
d with it.

d more than helpful. Their
ection were admirable, yet
rimination cannot solve our

mce that something be done
lation at this very moment
idea of Agnes Scott, merely
erless to resist. If we could
aid proudly hold our heads
leifhsk ng otheorjs" (eg!)
it we now face? Isn't there
Students, the time is now.
T BE TAKEN. THIS CON-
ERDAY.

Annual Dance in Library;
Breakfast in 'Palm Room 1

The annual Agnes Scott Spring Dance last Monday was the
highlight of the whole school year. Tables were removed
from the main reading room of the Library and Hottentots and
their dates jitterbugged from ten till two. The music was
furnished by Frank Sinatra, whose orchestra was lo-
cated in the alcove before the fire-

place. Lemonade was served at
the bar formerly the loan desk
to the right of the ballroom.
Home-grown magnolias were the
only decoration. For those not
wishing to dance, there were rou-
lette and poker games in the re-
serve room below.

The highlight of the evening
was the leadout. Anne Ward,
president of Student Government,
led the grand march with Frank
Sinatra. Following close behind
were Clare Bedinger and her
blind date, John Garfield. Other
campus leaders followed with

uojpajg Suiuu^ }Q

Announcements from the campaign headquarters of J. R.
McCain, who has entered the race for Governor of Georgia
against Ruth Kolthoff, political wizard par excellence, indi-
cate that Dr. McCain has no hopes of losing the race.

McCain's campaign manager, Ver E. Shrewd, is basing his
hopes of defeat on his candidates

remarkable record as a member
of former Governor ArnaH's staff.
He points winth great pride to the
chic way in which Dr. McCain
wore his lieutenant-colonel's uni-
form and the prompt and quick
action he took on cannonizing
Gene Talmadge.

Miss Kolthoff, who is relying on
the number of times she changed

her nailpolish during nominating
committee sessions to win her a
large number of votes, especially
from the freshmen, among whom
she has great influence. Her re-
markable interest in politics dur-
ing her college years is also coun-
ted on to poll a large number of
votes.

Remember vote and then
think.

Camilla Cackles on

The Lucky Few

their dates, and formed the let-
ter "Q" in honor of this year's
May Queen, who hasn't been
chosen.

Chaperones for the evening
were the Granddaughters' club.

After the prom there was an
elaborate breakfast held in the
"Palm Room" of Main building.
Soft music boomed out from the
ceiling, coming from the second
floor. The tables were festooned
with holly and parsley, and a
Thanksgiving dinner was served.

The first course consisted of a
choice between soup or nuts. The
next course was either jello or
"yellow goo." Only the main
course was omitted, due to war-
time and a lack of points.

At 4:00 o'clock the Hottentots
decided to stay up to see the sun-
rise; so "Frankie" Sinatra played
'til dawn in the May Day dell.

Dates for the evening were
plentiful among the four boys. The
whole affair concentrated on be-
ing non-military. No boys in the
armed services were allowed to
come.

'Aunt Eleanor 7 Resumes
Duties at Agnes Scott

Eleanor Roosevelt, after her
extensive Caribbean cruise, will
resume her duties at Agnes Scott
as chief consultant for "busy bod-
ies" here. All interested students
can find "Aunt Eleanor" in her
office in the May Day dell any
time you can catch her.

Recent conditions on the Agnes Scott campus have
made this editorial mandatory, much as we would like to
omit it. We will try to state our solution as briefly as
possible in order to avoid hurting anyone's feelings.

Really the condition is deplorable, even drastic. In the
light of present circumstances one cannot take too light
an. attitude toward it. Daily it is becoming more undesir-
able that it be allowed to continue. But we are helpless.

The faculty and administration have aided immeasur-
ably by urging us. Their urgings, however, have been to
no avail and we still are faced with it.

Students, too, have proved more than helpful. Their
daily discrimination and selection were admirable, yet
we now know that even discrimination cannot solve our
worries.

It is of the utmost importance that something be done
immediately. All over the nation at this very moment
people are getting the wrong idea of Agnes Scott, merely
because of what we are powerless to resist. If we could
only conquer it, then we could proudly hold our heads
high and say, "Anf jtuthifhgheifhsk ng otheorjs" (eg!)

Is it worth the shame that we now face? Isn't there
something else we can do? Students, the time is now.
IMMEDIATE ACTION MUST BE TAKEN. THIS CON-
DITION MUST END YESTERDAY.

De-Frosted

Frost Lecture
Cancelled Again

Word has just been received
in the Snooze office that the Lec-
ture to have been presented by
Robert Frost, prominent Ameri-
can poet, has been again cancell-

ed. (Weather Forecast no frost).

However, Stupid Lecture Asso-
ciation is pleased to announce that
they have just signed a contract
with ETAOIN SHRDLU, anemic
commentator, who was awarded
the Poor Circulation prize last
year. Mr. Shrdlu's last book (or so
his publishers hope) is entitled
"Swimming in the Dark" or "No
cuts-no nothin'."

The newly signed lecturer will
be accompanied here by his twelve
wives and the Buddist priest who
is his constant companion.

Admission to the lecture will be
three signed chapel slips.

Bulletins

Martyr Bored will meet tonight
at 10 in the usual place. All mem-
bers are urged to attend. Heavy
discriminating will go on. Bring
your own arsenic.

Students are reminded that in
case of an air raid they should
rush immediately to the nearest
dean's office and sign up for
chapel.

In the future all pigs found
trampling the flower gardens
should be turned over to the office
of the Supervisor of Pigpens (sec-
ond Boyd).

Athletic Association has started
a new policy with their new offi-
cers. Seniors alone will be re-

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quired to take gym next year.

Frank Sinatra, Junior, will be
present at the marriage class on
Wednesday for demonstration of
the "effect of swoon-crooning on
your child."

Martha Whatley, charter mem-
ber of the Old Maid's Club enter-
tained that organization Saturday
evening after their weekly meet-
ing at which Betty Jane Han-
cock gave a dissertation on "The
Care and Feeding of Black Can-
aries." The table was decorated
with pink and blue petunias from
Quincy Mill's flower box and re-
freshments of buttermilk and rye
ensps were served. Guests in-
cluded Mary Beth Danielson,
Mary Frances Walker, Robin Tay-
lor, and Katneryne Thompson.
Bettye Faye Ashcraft was unable
to attend.

The biggest brawl of the week-
end was the Med dance Friday
evening at which many Agnes
Scott girls were seen. . . . Polly
Cook and Patty Barbour were seen
at chapel yesterday wearing iden-
tical dresses heavenly creations

By Camilla Moore

of radiant red rayon. . . . Fran-
ces Woodall and Carolyn Calhoun
were seen at the Empire Room.

(CENSORED)

. . . Neither Claire Bennett nor
Laurice Looper has had a date all
week. . . . Bob's here. . . . and
Miss Scandrett wore a beautiful
scarf of rose point lace to din-
ner Wednesday night. . . . Mary
Reynolds visited the Agnes Scott
campus last week-end. . . . Squee
Woolford's favorite Fido won first
place in the semi-annual dog show
sponsored by the Kampus Kennel
Klub.

There will be no sponsor sys-
tem next year in view of the fact
that Eleanor will be here. She
will bolster all freshman morale
for the duration and six months
after.

On her arrival she will first
visit the infirmary to' cheer the
sick. It is hoped that a cure will
be effected when she visits B. J.
Radford.

Students Urged

To

An official announcement
from the office of the Dean of
Men reminds students that they
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chape!
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chapel
are urged to sign up for chapel.

However, the announcement
continued, students who do not
wish te remain in school need
not follow this course of action-

Snapped while on an unofficial tour of the campus are Congress-
man O'Malley (note the pink wings) and Yehudi. They expressed
great pleasure with the state of the campus, especially the remark-
able chapel attendance.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

NO. 19

The 1944-45 chapter of Mortar Board, announced in chapel April
1. i* pictured above. Seated in the first row, left to right, are Elaine
Kuniansky, Betty Glenn, secretary; Mary dimming, vice-president;
Frances Ring, treasurer; Molly Milam. Standing in the back row
are, left to right. Dot Hunter, Virginia Carter, Barbara Firink, presi-
dent; Julia Slack, Mary Munroe. Not in the picture are Wendy
Whittle and Inge Probstein, corresponding secretary to Mortar
Board Quarterly.

Eugenia Symms Named New
Alumnae Executive Secretary

Miss Eugenia Symms, former secretary to Mr. Stukes in
the registrar's office, replaced Mrs. William Rhodes April 1
as executive secretary of the Alumnae Association. Mrs.
Mary Walker Fox, laboratory instructor in the chemistry
department, has assumed the duties of Miss Symms' office
in Buttrick.

According to Miss Symms, all
students, particularly the grad-
uating class and those students
who may transfer or may not re-
turn to Agnes Scott next year,
should become fully acquainted
with the many services offered
by the Alumne Association. She
stated, "Every student who at-
tends Agnes Scott, whether she
graduates or not, is considered an
alumnae since leaving Agnes
Scott." Miss Symms entered a spe-
cial plea to students to donate any
pictures, clippings or any informa-
tion they might have on any alum-
nae. Students who do have some-
thing to contribute to the scrap-
books are asked to send them to
Miss Symms through the local
mail or to bring them in to the
alumnae office on the second
floor of the Alumnae House.
Busy With War Problems

In a country at war, the Asso-

Kitten Phillips Plans
To Finish Education
As Mailroom Martyr

Kitten Philips has recently de-
cided that she can't leave Agnes
Scott without seeing the Freshmen
through another year. She is going
to take Joella Craig's place in the
bookstore for the 1944-45 session.
As her position requires, Kitten
will also put up the mail and
live in one of the cottages. She
does not know yet which cottage
she will have. In addition to her
work, she plans to take organ.

As Kitten tells it, a few days
before spring holidays Mr. Tart
sent word for her to come to his
office. Being Treasurer of Mor-
tar Board, she began to "get
scared." She wondered why Mr.
Tart should be calling for her, and

ciation is especially busy with sne put the meeting off as long

various war problems: keeping up
with the shifting addresses of
members, and supplying reports
of alumnae in service to the gov-
ernment.

Important adjuncts to the du-
ties of the association are publish-
ing of the Campus Quarterly
which covers campus news as well
as alumnae activities, sponsorship
of Granddaughters club, and keep-
ing up the Alumnae House and
garden.

The Alumnae Association re-
ceives its income from three sour-
ces: gifts from the college, con-
tributions and dues from alum-
nae, and income from the house
which includes the Teahouse.

Since the last issue of the
News was on March 29, this
first issue, put out by the new
staff, contains much of the news
of the past few weeks.

as possible. When they finally
met, she was undoubtedly relieved
to find that he merely wanted to
offer her the bookstore position
for next year. After careful con-
sideration she accepted the work
and plans to be back here on the
job next fall.

Ever since Kitten accepted the
position, she has been learning all
of Joella's tricks of the trade.
She's learned a lazy-man's way of
getting the bookstore shades up
in the morning, and, even more
valuable, how to keep down fool-
ish questions in the mail room
while she is tending to her bus-
iness. Kitten also has been learn-
ing the mail routine, and at her
first try found six letters and a
package for herself. The second
time, her success was not so good,
but she's hoping for more good
luck.

C.A. Organizes
For Next Year

Last weekend at an inspiration-
al retreat Christian Association
Cabinet planned its work for the
rest of this year and selected next
year's Council members. After a
planning session Saturday night
at Harrison Hut, the group met
Sunday afternoon in Murphey
Candler with its faculty advisers,
Miss Susan Cobbs, recently elect-
ed to succeed Miss Bella Wilson;
Miss Lucile Alexander, S. G.
Stukes, and ex-officio members
Miss Carrie Scandrett and Dr. J.
R. McCain.

President Virginia Carter has
announced that the following girls
will serve on Christian Associa-
tion Council next year: Kathryn
Burnett as Syrian Chapel chair-
man; Bunny Weems and Mary
Cobb McEver as chairmen for
Boys' Club, a new council activity;
Grace Love, Glassell Beale and
Doris Kissling, Scottish Rite chair-
men; Mary Turner and Sara Mil-
ford, Christmas party chairmen;
Hansell Cousar, Harriet McAllis-
ter and Elizabeth Horn, Indus-
trial Girls' Club chairmen; Mary
Ann Martin, Recreation sub-
chairman; Angela Pardngton,
Chinese mission chairman; and
Mary Catherine Vinsant and
Peggy Pat Horne, artists. Inter-
denominational representatives
and Bible club president, also
members of the Council, have not
been elected.

"Launch Out Into the Deep"
will be the theme for class ves-
pers, which will be in Mclean
chapel beginning Sunday evening,
May 7, and continuing on the next
three Sundays. A speaker from
each class beginning with the
freshmen, will present a different
part of the theme each week.
Mary Cargill, vesper chairman,
is arranging for the series.

During the Cabinet retreat
Mary Munroe, secretary, Mary
Jane Love, worship chairman, and
Helen Somerville, discussion
chairman, led devotional services.
The group planned immediate ac-
tion to encourage quiet worship in
chapel each morning before the

Seniors Ready Plans
For Opera on May 6

'Porky Is Best 1 Is Big Secret;
Betty Dickson Reveals Cast

The senior class will present "Porky Is Best," or "Senior
Hash," or "Irrational, Isn't It?" on Saturday night, May 6.
The opera is not based on Porgy and Bess, but the plot is a
secret which will not be revealed until the night of the per-
formance. Betty Dickson is chairman and Ruth Wolson, di-
rector.

At Rehearsal:

Senior Opera questions. . . .
What four ballet dancers have
joined the class for a special
"Bronco Ballet"? . . . What
musical morons are singing all
the leads because the "Voices

of '44" have no time? . . .
Where else can be found the
conspicuous lack of senior dig-
nity? . . . Where else can Mr.
Thomas be found examining the
color spots on an orange? . . .
"Oh leave it in there; they've
got to take something out when
they censor it?" . . . "11 they
catch on to that they're evil-
minded" . . . "What we need
is organization ORGANIZA-
TION! When people say sure-
r 1 1 - take-a-part-if -I-don* t-have-to
come-to-practice !" All right,
Wolson, give us a demonstra-
tion ....

program begins and also during
the devotional period. They dis-
cussed the freshman picnic to be
given by Christian Association
next Monday, May 1, and passed
on the annual questionnaire giv-
en to students for their sugges-
tions for C. A. programs and
improvements.

During the retreat tentative
plans were made to have month-
ly student discussions sponsored
by C. A. next year and to arrange
for a more convenient weekday
vesper time than the present one.
The Cabinet also began discussion
of plans for next year's Religious
Emphasis Week.

May Day Plans for Practices,
Costuming Told by Mrs. Lapp

Freshmen Publish
First 'Frannual'

Members of the freshman class
under the editorship of Virginia
Drake will publish a mimeograph-
ed freshman annual, The Fran-
nual. The tentative date-of publi-
cation is May 15.

The annual will present events
of the freshman year in chronolog-
ical order, the class officers,
Freshman Cabinet officers, Bible
Class officers, Class Sponsors, a
list of the freshmen participating
in the various athletic events, the
members of the freshman varsity,
cartoons, caricatures, and a
prophecy of the freshman class.

Members of the staff are: Edi-
tor, Virginia Drake; Literary Edi-
tor, Nellie Scott; Publicity Man-
ager, Mary Ann Martin; Art Edi-
tor, Cookie Miller; Materials,
Virginia Dixon, and Mimeograph-

Costuming, episode practices,
and other preparations for May
Day are in progress, according
to Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp,
assistant professor of physical
education.

The May Day performance will
take place Saturday afternoon,
May 6, at 5 o'clock.

"The Making of the Rainbow"
is the theme of the May Day pro-
gram, for which Jeanne Clarkson
is chairman. Mrs. John J. Espey,
Jr., of Decatur, accompanies the
dances with music written by Mr.
Christian W. Dieckmann. Miss
Eugenie Dozier and Mrs. Lapp
are directing the dances.

Dancers, who have not already

ing, Kathleen Buchanan.

The Frannual will be presented
free to the freshmen, but a fee
of 25 cents will be charged the
other classes, proceeds of which
will be given to the War Fund.

Committee chairmen include: Jo
Young, stage and scenery; Mary
Maxwell .property; Carolyn Dan-
iel and Mary Dozier, makeup;
Mary Dozier, costumes; Kathie
Hill, Mary Carr, and Quincy Mills
Jones, writing, Aurie Montgom-
ery, program, and Marjorie Tip-
pens, music.

All parts have not been cast, but
those which have been are: Porky,
the hero, Mary Louise Duffee;
Poinsetta, the heroine, Martha
Ray Lasseter; Fishy, the villain,
Zena Harris Temkin; Beefy, Por-
ky's colored helper, Squee Wool-
word; Honey Lamb Chop, Poin-
setta's colored maid and confi-
dante, Barbara Connally; Miss
Leg Bone, Mary Dozier; Miss Har-
ass, Pat Evans; Mr. Thomas,
Claire Bennett; a bride, Martha
Rhodes.

Tickets will go on sale about
May 1, according to Catherine
Kollock, chairman of the ticket
and libretto committee.

Glee Club to\Give
Concert, Oratorio

The Agnes Scott Glee Club, di-
rected by Mr. Robert Lowrance is
planning a program of music from
Mendelssohn's "Elijah" to be giv-
en on May 15. The Georgia Tech
Glee Club will assist in this pres-
entation. Mr. Lewis Johnson will
be the director, and the guest ar-
tists will be Mr. Walter Herbert
and Mr. Lowrance. Other mem-
bers of the cast will be announced
later. This program will take
the place of the usual Music Ap-
preciation hour on that night.

The Agnes Scott Glee Club will'
present the first formal concert it
has given in several years on Sat-
urday, April 29, at 8 o'clock. The
program will include the follow-
ing: "Emitte Spiritum Tuum,"'
Schuetky-Singenberger; "O Divine
Redeemer," Gounod-Cain; "God
Is a Spirit," Scholin-Gore; "Dawn"
Curran; "Clouds," Bircsak; "Song
of the Winds," Hawke; "Snow,"
Elgar; "On the Steppe," Gretchan-
inoff-Bement; "Last Song," Rog-
ers-Harris. Agnes Harnsberger
will be the accompanist. The
college community is cordially in-
vited to attend.

done so, are urged to have their
costumes fitted by tomorrow, so
that they can finish sewing them
before the dress rehearsals on
May 2 and 4. Besides these, an
additional practice has been set
for tomorrow, April 27, at 7:30.

Dancers representing fruits and
flowers of varied colors will form
the rainbow. To climax the pro-
gram in May Day Dell attendants
of the May Court will crown
Robin Horneffer as May Queen.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX

Wednesday, April 26, 1944 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, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1.25 ;
single copies, five cents.

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EDITORIAL STAFF

LEILA HOLMES

___ PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors

Mary Ann Courtenay
Jeanne Addison
Editorial Assistants

Pat Elam
Inge Probstein

Feature Editor Assistant Sports Editor

Betty Glenn Peggy Kelly
Assistant Feature Editor Copy Editor
Jane Bowman Martha Baker
Sports Editor Society Editor

Dorothy Lee Webb Carolyn Fuller

Reporters: Jean McCurry, Martha Arnold. Olive Hansen, Elizabeth Scott. Connie Fraser,
Jeanne Rochelle, Jovce Gilleland. Sara Jean Clark, Alice Gordon. Che Nellans. Anne
Nbell Jean Roonev. Ann Seitzinger. Martha Whatley Yates. Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton,
Virginia Drake, Alice Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie. Nellie Scott, Margaret
Kinard. Peggy Pat Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee. Lura Johnston
Grace Love, Bet Patterson, Mary Azar.

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Ruth Ryner, Bettye Lee Phelps, Barbara Omer.
Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Elolse Lyndon, Anne Lee.

BUSINESS STAFF

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Anne Haggard, Peggy Jones, Jane Meadows. Alice Newman. Peggy Wilds, Laura Win-
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Ann Hough.

This Is Our Policy

As it is customary, cultural, and almost compulsory, the
News staff would like to announce its theme and policy for
the coming year. DEVELOPMENT will be the theme of the
1944-45 staff, with the following applications of the word:

First, the News shall endeavor to give you a play-by-play
description of development in all phases of campus life. Not
only do we want the paper to be a weekly report of the out-
standing news, but we want it to present a complete record
of the year's achievements for the future.

Second, we want the News to develop into the true spokes-
man of the campus. This is the readers' paper. Your con
tributions and criticisms will be appreciated and presented to
the campus. Only through your help can the newspaper be-
come the mirror of public opinion, aid in development for the
school, and mean anything to you.

Third, and last, our staff wants to develop in the journalistic
field. We hope to maintain the high standards set forth in the
past, and to hitch our wagon to a star, so that we may give you
a college newspaper of which you will feel proud.

Mind Your Manners

Cafeteria meals have proven to be the solution to the serious
servant shortage. But what have they done to our manners?

Everyone will agree that cafeteria style is very convenient.
To be able to eat at a time that suits your busy schedule is
not only a pleasure, but one of those rare privileges which in
the past belonged only to seniors.

Meals have become to some of us a mere "stopping place"
on our way home from the library or class. We rush madly
into the dining room, and in five minutes flat, have resumed
our studies, priding ourselves on not losing any time to eat.
But, do we stop to think how we look with hair flying, hands
besmeared with ink, and coats trailing along behind?

After getting seated at a table, we hurriedly swallow the
meal, and ignore our unfortunate neighbors as we elbow our
way to the salt and pepper. As we down the last mouthful,
we scrape back our chairs, and beat a hasty retreat by merely
saying, "Excuse me."

When we stop and think after such a meal, what have we
really gained besides a little time? We have not added any-
thing to the enjoyment of others, or to the general atmos-
phere of the dining room, or to the health of ourselves.

Tribute to a Friend

The Agnes Scott News had planned to run a feature in the
very near future on kindly Mr. West at the Decatur railroad
express office. He served Hottentots for the past 15 years.

A few weeks ago, Mell Hart West died. Each Agnes Scott
student who knew Mr. West feels a loss at the death of the
genial, affable man who would go far out of his way to see
that our packages got off.

Agnes Scott students miss Mr. West. His cheeriness and
friendliness will be long remembered.

The Spectator

By Inge Probstein

As for this matter of policy
one short quote for which I offer
absolutely no apology: "Consis-
tency is the hobgoblin of little
minds," says Emerson. This I
firmly believe whenever necessary
to defend my own practice along
that line. Should I be wrong in
this may I state that I have been
ever willing to jump down anyone
else's throat for the same practice
to atone for any possible mistake
on my part. This is as it should
be.

Now I shall try to be as honest
as my public desires me to be.
After a certain point the gain in
honesty is balanced by an equal
loss in validity, which is a fine
consideration. Ah, I feel too in-
tensely on the matter to speak of
it here. Then, too, I realize how
it might readily lead toward cyni-
cism. There is little more harmful
to the facial muscles than cyni-
cism, there is little that attacks
the gastric juices as avidly. And
I take it to be the aim of the
college community to grow old
gracefully.

My column will offer a wide
variety of aesthetic and intellec-
tual diversion including helpful
hints on the care of the coffee pot.
Some people are gullible, but all
may believe me, for I am an auth-
ority on every subject I attack.

Someone told me recently that
Aurora should carry articles on
feminine beauty. The staff is cast-
ing around for experts, our only
demand being that their advice on
the cure of chapped/ elbows be
literary. What do you mean, "lit-
erary," they retort. What crass
ignorance! As the percentage of
illiteracy dwindles to the vanish-
ing point the percentage of the
illiteracy is reaching frightening
proportions. (For further support
of this theory see my book, Sad-
ism in Advertising and Its Influ-
ence on Our Boys.

There is a notice in the Maid's
office to the effect that someone
has lost a notebook containing a
whole quarter's notes; will the
finder please return it to the los-
er. Now here is a fine subject
for a Platonic dialogue, is the
notebook more lost without the
girl or the girl without the note-
book. If we find the latter to be
the case, Socrates, may we not say
that the loss of the loser is greater
than the loss of the notebook, and
that therefore our basic proposi-
tion is false. Yes.

Which leads me to observe that
we college students are slaves
to the notebook. In a 9:30 class
recently I noticed someone taking
notes outlining a letter she was
then perusing she may have been
somewhat distracted of course by
the noise the teacher was making.

I'm sure I ought to be giving
somebody else credit for the ideas
expressed below, but I just don't
know whom: The rain-lover is in-
imical to the basic principles of
democracy. The condition neces-
sary to produce his happiness, i.
e. rain, is the source of suffering
of the myraids of sunlovers every-
where. Therefore the rain-lover
cannot be tolerated in a free coun-
try where men must be careful
that their desires do not encroach
upon the welfare of their neigh-
bors. I am going to suggest to
one of our patriotic societies that
they propose the suppression of
rain-lovers throughout our land.
It is better that we be united in
our misery than to have this voice
of dissent in our midst.

Confession of a columnist: I am
in a wicked and satirical mood
today.

Rosy Does It

Meet Your Ex-Editor
Jill-of-AII-Trades Hosmer

By Mary Louise Duffee

Name a pastime, occupation, or activity. It's an even bet
she's either tried it, plans to, or is willing to try it.

"She"is Madeline Rose Hosmer, retiring editor of the Agnes
Scott News, one of the campus figures whom everyone knows
but few know much about.

Last August you probably read
the Associated Press story in your
home town paper about her the
girl who held the title of editor
of not one, but two college news-
papers at the same time. Al
though that situation only lasted
six weeks (her appointed term as
editor of the Emory Wheel end-
ed when she started classes here
in September), the variety of her
activities still sounds like a prob
lem for an efficiency expert.

To begin with, ex-Edtor Hos-
mer is scheduled to graduate with
a double major in journalism and
German, and is still going back
and forth to Emory for classes
as she has been doing for two
years. During the past year she

The People I 'Seen
On the Decatur Car

By Carolyn Hall

When I first rode the Decatur
street car, I decided I hadn't seen
so many people since the night
Al Carden's chicken brooder
burned. Since then I've gotten
use to it, and have even learned
to love the patient, nose blowing
crowds.

You take that woman who sat
beside me Saturday. She had a
"Don't put your cap pistol in the
oatmeal" expression and looked
like she'd have a devotion for pot-
ted plants. There were others
too a cross-eyed man in a pair
of exhausted overalls; a woman
who was telling a triend about her
husband's gall bladder attack; a
child burdened with a corrupt
looking cabbage head. Next time
you go to Atlanta, look for some-
body interesting! Some whole
some wholesome face might move
you to write a poem such as this
"Ode To Transportation"
Take your feet off the seat, little
Willie

And let the nice lady sit down
She suffers wth varicose veins,
son

And can't stand all the way into
town.

From Far
And Near

At AGNES SCOTT, Decatur,
Ga., an enterprising editor put
out an issue of the Agnes Scott
News in PM style. There is no
news, only headlines on the front
page of the March 29 six-page
issue. In her closing editorial,
the editor, Madeline Rose Hos-
mer, thanks the staff and the
students for not impeaching her.
"The Hyphen," Ward-Belmont.

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has served as secretary of the
Emory Players, worked in the
publicity office at Agnes Scott,
and made occasional surveys for
an advert isng agency "in extra
time." She has been an ardent
young people's worker in the
Episcopal church, and still finds
time for her favorite hobby
ballet.

As if stopping work on the
News this quarter were going to
leave her with too much free time,
Rosy recently added a new ac-
tivity she's working at the At-
lanta office of the Associated
Press three nights a week!

As someone said, "Rosy's" fam-
ily tree reads like a masthead. Her
grandfather publishes a weekly in
Fort Myers,- Fla., and her grand-
mother was a journalist, too. her
father worked seven years under
William Randolph Hearst, and her
mother is an artist and the author
of a textbook on hand lettering.

To those who queston her abil-
ity to keep so many extra-curricu-
lar activities and her school work
too, Madeline need only point to
her grades, which are well above
average.

At home (in Decatur) you are
liable to find her and her family
doing almost anything from mak-
ing pottery to cooking rare dishes
with unpronouncable names. The
family cat, Hepplewhite, has pro-
vided pets for more than one
Agnes Scott girl.

And after May and Agnes
Scott? Well, right now Rosy
thinks her fifth ideal to attain
will be to go to work for Asso-
ciated Press this time full time.
Before that she plans to go back
to Episcopal camp as a counselor
for a couple of weeks.

All this, and she has a social
life too but definitely. (Ask her
bout fraternity pins).

She has accepted two within
the past year consecutvely, of
course. Madeline is an easy-going,
apable girl who does a jam-up
job as a "jill-of-all-trades."

It Isn't Raining Rain
at RICH'S
It's Raining . . .

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raindrop!

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flowers!

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or play by night and day!

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

Page 3

The Belles of St Agnes Date Book

By Carolyn Fuller

Last week close friends of Joyce
Freeman, who will become the
bride of Cadet E. L. Marting on
June 8, gathered for two parties
at the Alumnae House in her hon-
6r. Mary Cumming entertained
Thursday evening at a dinner par-
ty. The guests found their places
at tables which formed a U, de-
corated with garden flowers. "Joo-
Froo" was presented with a pur-
ple orchid and beautiful lingerie.
The next afternoon "Penny" Espy
and Jean Satterwhite received at
a seated tea at five o'clock. Mix-
ed bouquets decorated the recep
tion rooms.

Mary Anne Martin, Lib Os-
bourne, Margaret Johnson attend
ed a theolog banquet Thursday
evening at Emory.

At the Theta Kappa Psi Med
dance Friday evening at Georgian
Terrace were Lura Johnston, Lucy
Turner, Robin Robinson, Jane
Ann Newton, Gloria Gaines, Mar-
garet Mizell, Margaret Scott and
Louise Crawley.

Saturday evening, Hottentots
donned costumes for the Artists
Ball given by the Georgia Tech
chapter of Delta Tau Delta at the
Biltmore Hotel. The sweetheart
of the fraternity, Ann Wiedeman,
in a Hawaiian costume, was

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crowned Queen of the Ball, with a
high crown of fresh flowers.
Jeanne Rochelle, Jeanne Robinson,
Conradine Fraser, Camilla Moore,
Helen Paty, and "Wakey" Wake-
field, were there.

The Emory chapter of Delta
Tau Delta was also entertaining
Saturday evening. At their house
dance were Martha Baker, Maude
Van Dyke, Shirley Heller, Lura
Johnston.

Lisbeth Harris, Nelson Fisher,
and Ann Wheeler went on the
KA hayride Saturday evening at
Adams Park.

Elaine Kuniansky entertained a
group of Hottentots and med and
dent students at her home Satur-
day night.

AROUND TOWN Caroline
Squires and Lorenna Ross having
dinner with "Cocky" and Mary
Ann Cochran, Celetta Powell and
Betty Long at the Paradise Room
Saturday evening. General Maur-
ice Miller of Fort Bragg, N. C,
and daughter, Betty. Maxine Paulk
at the Samoan Room. "Popsey"
Scott and Ruth Setel at Wisteria
Gardens.

OUT-OF-TOWN Going home
for the week-end were Lucille
Beaver to Gainesville, Ga., Doris
Purcell and Clare Rowe to visit
Doris' family in Carnesville, Ga.
Anabel Bleckley to Clayton, Ga.,
and "Bobbye" Powell to Thomas-
ville, Ga.

"Bunny" Weems and Peggy Per-
ez went to a Methodist Retreat
at the Salem Camp Ground near
Conyers, Ga., over the week-end.

"Dootsie" Gardner attended
dances at Riverside Academy in
Gainesville, Ga.

Harding Ragland spent the
week-end in Nashville, Tenn., to
be a bridesmaid in her cousin's
wedding.

Visiting in Charleston, S. C,
was Ann Stine Make up your
mind, Ann!!

Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson
attended a convention in Macon
Ga., and Miss Roberta Winter
attended a speech conference at
Milledgeville, Ga.

Wednesday, Apr. 26, 7:30 Pi Al-
pha Phi tryouts

Thursday, Apr. 27, 10:30 WAC
talks in chapel

Friday, Apr. 28, 5:00 Representa-
tive Council meeting
6:00 New staff picnic

Sat., Apr. 29 Presbyterian Rally
at North Avenue

Saturday, Apr. 29, 8:00 Glee club
concert

Monday, May 1, 5:30 p. m. C. A.
picnic for freshmen
8:00 p. in. Hodgson concert

PIUS
TAX

Spanish Fiesta
Saturday Night
Nets $40 for Fund

An atmosphere of Spanish gaie-
ty created by Spanish music, danc-
ing, and other entertainments
made the Fiesta Saturday night
a big success. Profits exceeding
$40 were turned over to the War
Fund by Adelaide Humphries,
president of Spanish club.

The musical program included
solos in Spanish by Joella Craig
and Eva Williams, and appropri-
ate songs by Barbara Connally,
Smiley Williams, and Frieda
Cook. Members of Miss Ruth
Domincovitch's classes also enter-
tained with singing.

For the floor show, planned by
Julia Slack's committee, Miss Eu
genie Dozier gave an exhibition
dance. Other attractions were
Yoli Bernabe and Paule Triest
doing the tango, and a rhumba
by Peggy Jones and oJan Crangle.

Spanish delicacies were anoth-
er feature of the evening. Re-
serving cookies for those with
purely American tastes, Molly
Milam and Frances Wooddall serv-
ed mate, dulce de leche, guave
paste, Mexican chile, and bananas
to most of the guests.

Amidst the palm trees which
Mary Alice Hunter set up in Mur-
phey Candler building, visitors
were attracted to booths arranged
by Carolyn Calhoun and to a com-
edy skit with special costumes.
"Pinota," a Spanish game, climax-
ed the evening's entertainment.
Miss Abbie Rutledge, most suc-
cesful of the blindfolded contes-
tants, split the pinata or basket
with her stick and scattered can-
dy to the floor.

Debaters Hold
Tryouts Tonight

Tryouts will be held Wednesday
night for Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes
Scott's debating society. Judges
will be on hand from 7:30 until
9:00 in Rebekah Scott Chapel to
lsten to prospective members.

Topics for debate are: (1) Re-
solved that Roosevelt should be
elected for a fourth term; (2) Re-
solved that Congress should pass
a National Service Act; (3) Re-
solved that this house approves
war marriages. Time will be giv-
en for a five-minute speech and
a three minute rebuttal.

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p Chrystallyne, in the polish to make it hold well to the finger-

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Betty Long

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Rebekah Scott House President Mary Cumming

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Inman House President Frances King

Orientation Chairman Julia Slack

Lower House Chairman Helen Roper

Student Recorder Marjorie Naab

Day Student Representative Martha Whatley Yates

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

President Virginia Carter

Vice President Mary Munroe

Secretary . J Teddy Bear

Treasurer Stratton Lee

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

President Dot Hunter

Vice President Ann Webb

Secretary Sarah Walker

Treasurer Sally Sue Stephenson

SILHOUETTE

Editor-in-chief Elaine Kuniansky

Associate Editor Marian Leathers

Assistant Editors Maud Van Dyke

Celetta Powell

Business Manager Penny Espey

Advertising Manager Martha Baker

AGNES SCOTT NEWS

Editor Leila Holmes

Managing Editor Pauline Ertz

Assistant Editors Jeanne Addison

Mary Ann Courtenay

Business Manager .Liz Carpenter

Advertising Manager Mary Neely Norris

Assistant Advertising Managers Jane Anne Newton

Mary Reynolds

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Managing Editor Virginia Bowie

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

The Lowly Egg

Double Talking White Ovals
Now Found in Soup to Nuts

By Betty Glenn

Much paper and ink have been
consumed, especially in the past
few weeks, in celebrating the
famous "Easter bonnet." Not its
due measure of attention, how-
ever, has been paid to that other
important feature of the season,
the egg.

Time was, and not so long ago,
when hens' eggs were scarce as
the proverbial hens' teeth. Even
when they were anywhere to be
found, their price scared off many
a would-be egg-eater.

With the coming of spring, how-
ever, things have changed. The
production curve in chicken houses
has risen sharply, and eggs all
colors, sizes, grades, and ages of
them have become plentiful. Eggs
are now available in huge quanti-
ties for Easter egg hunts (it's a
little past the season for this now,
of course, but had you heard
about the super-egg-hunt held a
couple of weeks ago by the in-
habitants of'a certain cottage?),
for throwing at enemies, and, of
course, for the customary purpose
of eating.

Day students are bringing hard-
boiled eggs or egg sandwiches for
lunch. Boarders find eggs soft-
boiled, hard-boiled, shirred, poach-
ed, fried, coddled, creamed, in the
form of French toast, omelets,
scuffles, salads, and custards, and
prepared in almost every way con-
ceivable greeting them in the
dining room. Eggs have replaced
point-requiring hot dogs or ham-
burgers as the piece-de-resistance
at picnics. And the amazing thing
is that eggs, in addition to being
plentiful and cheap and supplying

a whole alphabet full of vitamins,
really taste good!

Yes, the lowly egg has come into
its Own at last. As the writer of
a recent song-hit would express
it

Manzdegs and boyzydegs
And little girzydomelets
A kidlydomelets too, wooden
shoe?

New Features for
Summer Music Camp

The Cape Cod Musical Arts Cen-
ter at East Brewster, Mass., will
inaugurate some new features
during its Summer session June
29 to August 23. The camp offers
more than the usual vacation ac-
tivities in the way of a healthy
cooperation in music and ballet.
Professonals and amateurs asso-
ciate with serious artists and par-
ticipate in public performances.
Major interests center about the
personal contacts of camper-ap-
prentices in the field of musico-
dramatic arts. The training group
learns to work in a theatre where
performances of light-opera and
ballets are produced. Other groups
are trained to function with
chorus, band and orchestra, while
ballet students learn the terpsi-
chorean ways and means toward
a successful career. Arts and
crafts too come in for special at-
tention to the elements of theatri-
cal design, both scenic and cos-
tume.

The Center is easily reached by
train and bus from Boston and
New York.

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The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Foreword

Everyone on a paper staff has
to have a policy, so I'm adopting
with a few reservation, the fol-
lowing. It was good enough for
Thackeray, so don't complain.

"Ah, ye knights of the pen!
May honor be your shield and
truth tip your lances. Be gentle
to all people. Be honest to wom-
en. Be tender to children. And
as for the Ogre Humbug, out
sword and at him."

Ogre Humbug sounds like some-
thing you'd catch in a butterfly
net rather than carve up with a
sword. But a shield will help and
naturally the lances will be tip-
ped with truth, although it may be
spread rather thin in places.
Spring Fever

A couple of weeks back, deep
in the throes of term papers and
nominating committees, Cordelia
Anne Ward decided her morale
needed a lift. So, taking care not
to "charge across the grass," she
sped to town in search of a hat.
She found one. And, being slight-
ly unbalanced at the time, bought
it. It was a beautiful pea green,
the offspring of a sombrero and a
soup bowl. The next day sanity
was restored, and so was the hat.
However, there appeared a few
days later, as a small token of
esteem from the outgoing execu-
tive committee, the hat's country
cousin, a greener number in the
Mortimer Snerd motif, which is
well worth a climb to third Main
to see.

Faculty Calls Names

The faculty dogs have been pre-
sented to the world, but does any-
one know anything about faculty
nicknames? Coming out of chapel
the other day, Professor Holt
turned to two lingering compan-
ions and said, "Well, come on
Bishop. And you, Napoleon."
Have you guessed who they were?
That's right, Professors Gillespie
and Posey. Unfortunately no one
heard what they replied.

Telephone Tangle

Recently the phone rang on sec-
ond Main (imagine!) and Leila,
after letting it ring the required
fifteen times, answered it. A fe-
male voice asked to speak to Pie
and was told that Pie was out.
Then came mournfully, "But I just
must speak to her." Then Leila
was asked if she knew anything
about college newspapers and ad-
mitted that she knew a little, upon
which the day student, a would-be
feature writer, asked her to criti-
cize an article, confessing that
she'd never written one before,
Leila agreed, and thought the ar-
ticle was pretty good. The final
blow then fell. "But do you know
anything about it?" "I hope so,"
said Leila. Still unconvinced, the
girl hung up. The next day Pie
gently broke the news that she'd
been talking to the editor.
Sugar Without Coupons

The first grandmother of the
class of '44 is Gwen Hill, who has
five little red grandsons, with big
floppy ears. The proud mother,
Gwen's cocker spaniel, has nam-
ed them (with the help of god-
mother Tuggle), Arabinose, Man-
nose, Ribose, Fructose, and Mal-
tose. Those who do not patronize
Lowry Science Hall may take my
word that it all means sugar, or
go look it up.

A Different Kind of "Teacher"

KPB MA-154

An officer of the Women's Army Corps instructs two of her WAC
pupils in the intricacies of military training charts at Fort Oglethorpc r
Georgia. Wacs are now filling 239 Army assignments.

WACS to Talk
To Students

A special women's college re-
cruiting team, with a representa-
tive from the United States Army
Recruiting Station in Atlanta, will
visit the campus Thursday, April
27. Arrangements have been made
for them to address the student
body at chapel to point out the
urgent need for college women in
the Women's Army Corps.

This team is made up of college
graduates and headed by WAC Lt.
Nell B. Johnson, whose home is in
Athens, Ga. Other members of the
team are Lt. Nancy A. Baldwin;
Air WAC Lt. Mary E. Carroll,
Sgt. Quinelle B. Taylor, and Lt.
Bruss S. Taylor, Corps of Military
Police, who has recently returned
from overseas duty.

The team will be at the college
all day to interview students.
Those interested are urged to take
advantage of this opportunity to
learn how they can fill one of
the 239 vital Army jobs now being
filled by WACs.

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In Passing . . .

Let it be recorded: that election
at Agnes Scott showed, not apa-
thy, but real interest of students
in voting.

That with the naming of the
new Mortar Board came a renew-
ed interpretation of its ideals in
the life of Anna Howard Shaw by
the speaker, Dr. W. B. Posey.

That Norman Cousins, editor of
the Saturday Review of Litera-
ture, suggested to a large aud-
ience the measures toward mak-
ing an effective peace, foremost
among them "to recognize a hu-
man being when you see one."
Perhaps Mr. Cousins will be re-
membered best as Bustave La Mar-
tine, milliner and crusader for in-
dividual critical thinking.

That the String Ensemble, con-
ducted by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann
and accompanied at the organ by
Miss Eda Bartholomew presented
its first concert of the year.

That sophomores and the facul-
ty went through a hectic week
selecting majors and minors and
signing buff cards.

That Dr. Batcheller of the At-
lanta Penitentiary demonstrated
the Rorsharch ink blot test of
emotional stability to psychology
studets.

That the well-known Puerta
Rican poet Mese'n read some of
his works to members of the Span-
ish department. He spent five ex-
tra minutes before chapel compos-
ing an extemporaneous poem,
"Cinco Minutos," which, according
to his Atlanta hosts, he wrote
down after leaving his lecture.

College Fetes
Future Frosh

About one hundred potential
freshmen visited the campus on
the annual High School Day, last
Saturday, April 22, as seniors
from Atlanta and Decatur Girls'
High, Sacred Heart, Napsonian,
and other suburban schools were
feted as guests of the college.

After regstration and Hunch,
groups were conducted on a tour
of the campus by hostesses chosen
from the Freshman class. At three
o'clock, they were shown the light-
er side of campus life at an en-
tertainment in the gymnasium.
Blackfriars contributed a one-act
play, "Queens of France," and the
Sophomore sextet sang several
numbers. After an exhibition of
fancy skating by Mary Cumming
and Scotty Johnson, the Tumbling
and Fundamentals classes display-
ed their skill. The program con-
cluded with a demonstration by
members of the Swimming club.

The guests were then given an
opportunity to meet the officers
of the administration and of the
major student organizations when
punch and cookies were served
in the Presser-Buttrick quadran-
gle.

The affair was intended to give
local girls an opportunity to learn
about campus life and to interest
them in coming to Agnes Scott.
Mortar Board and the Freshman
class sponsored the day's enter-
tainment.

Chi Beta Phi Chooses
Members and Officers

Recently elected to Chi Beta
Phi for their outstanding work in
science, juniors Ann Anderson,
Mary Louise Law, and Ann Webb,
and sophomores Vicky Alexander,
Blitz Roper, and Sarah Walker
will be initiated at the first meet-
ing in May.

New officers of the national
science fraternity are Betty Jo
Davis, president; Pat Elam, vice-
president; Ann Webb, correspond-
ing secretary; Ann Anderson, re-
cording secretary; Mary Jane
Law, treasurer.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

Page 5

Bowman Lauds Players Picture
Of Nuns Life in Cradle Song

By Jane Bowman

Blackfriars played to its big-
gest audience in five years last
Thursday night when it put on
Sierra's "Cradle Song." The
Spanish classic, definitely in the
higher brackets of drama, was
warmly received, and was a wel-
come relief from the usual frothy
offering of college theater groups.

Set in a Convent of Enclosed
Dominican Nuns, "The Cradle
Song" depicts the extraordinary
unity and at the same time the
extraordinary variety and individ-
uality of life in a convent, one of
the great paradoxes of Catholi-
cism. Act I opens upon the Prior-
ess and a group of nuns and no-
vices seated in a room leading
to the cloister. The serene at-
mosphere is made delicately hum-
orous by the impulsiveness of Sis-

ter Marcella and the sharp tongue
of the pious Vicaress. The en-
trance of a canary, the doctor,
and a foundling, three creatures
from the outside world, heightens
the interest of the act. With the
emotion of the last scene in which
Sister Joanna f the Cross fondled
the baby the audience became
completely absorbed in the play.

The transition from Act I to
Act II in which a period of eigh-
teen years elapsed was done in an
interlude effectively spoken by
the Poet. In Act II Teresa who
entered the convent as a baby
in Act I is the center of conversa-
tion and action such as it is.
Due to her approaching marriage
the convent seems depressed. The
act is brightened by the entrance
of Teresa's bridegroom, Antonio,
who comes to pay his respects
to the nuns, and it is saddened

Anne Ward to Take
Place of Miss Wilson

Miss Isabella Wilson, secretary
to the Dean of Students, will leave
Agnes Scott next year for an ex-
tended period. "Bella," as she is
known to students and faculty, has
been granted a leave of absence
to do graduate work at Columbia
University, where she will work
toward her master's in personnel
work. She will be here, however,
first quarter, leaving in January.

Anne Ward, this year's president
of student government, and a
member of the present senior class,
will assume Miss Wilson's duties
in Miss Scandrett's office.

by the arrival of the doctor who
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of the nuns, the emotion is deep
and beautiful, and through the
skillful acting of ena Harris
Temkin as Teresa and Martha Ma-
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Joanna of the Cross, the somewhat
slow act is strikingly closed.

Throughout the performance
Mary Dozier handled the part of
the Vicaress in a professional
manner. The naturalness and sin-
cerity which Pauline Ertz and
Elizabeth Carpenter put into their
roles of the Priooess and Sister
Marcella, respectively, was keen-
ly felt and appreciated by the
audience.

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on, in this scene from Blackfriars' recent production of "Cradle
Song." Reading from left to right are Pauline Ertz, Martha Marie
Trimble and Zena Harris Temkin.

Zena Harris Temkin
Wins Bennett Trophy

In recognition of her outstand-
ing acting during the past year,
senior Zena Harris Temkin was
awarded the Claude S. Bennett
trophy Wednesday evening, April
20. Attended by Blackfriar mem-
bers and friends, the informal
ceremony took place in Presser
audtorium following the presen-
tation of "The Cradle Song."

In making the award, Mrs.
George Erwin, Agnes Scott alum-
na and former member of Black-
friars, said, "People rarely like
to be classified as types; but the
Agnes Scott type is a title all
Hottentots are proud to bear and
is a type of which an outstanding
example is Zena Harris Temkin!"

Durng this year Zena has given
commendable performances as
Hattie in the fall production,
"Schubert Alley"; as Barbara,
one of the actresses, in the one-
act play "Rehearsal"; and as
Teresa, the girl reared by the
nuns, in "The Cradle Song."

Judges who decided upon the
rceipient of the cup, which is giv-
en annually to the girl doing the
best individual acting for the year
by Claude S. Bennett of Atlanta,
were Miss Maureen Beall. Mrs.
Bealy Smith, and Mrs. Erwin.

Miss Leyburn to Speak
At Annual C. A. Picnic

Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn is
scheduled to speak at the annual
Christian Association supper pic-
nic for Freshmen, Monday, May
1, at 5:30 p. m., on the little quad-
rangle,, Virginia Carter, C. A.
president, announced last week.

Both boarder and day students
members of the freshman class
are invited to participate in the
program, which will include a
reading by Betty Long, music by
Kitten Philips and her accordian,
and group singing. Mary Munroe
is in charge of the entertainment.

Mary Russell and Stratton Lee
are in charge of the food and in-
vitations, respectively.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26, 1944

Spying on
Sports

By Peggy Kelly

The sports news having been
unrecorded for many weeks has
rather piled up; so ye ole spy will
attempt to bring it up to the pres-
ent. Games and games have been
played, but the "volleyers" seem
to have really enjoyed a recent
game with unusual players. Boys
from Columbia Seminary came
over last week for a quick round
of volleying. They divided up
half the "gang" team and half on
the "winners" team.

The Outing Club has been out
sporting. They walked into At-
lanta for breakfast one early,
rainy Monday morning. Recently
the members went on a grand
hike to coffee hill where they re-
clined, ate, and forgot ole Agnes.
They ended up by singing all the
fireside songs and those of "th'
West Virginny" caliber. Then the
club sponsored a trip to Stone
Mountain which about fifteen
"eager beavers" took.

The shuttlecocks ,pingpong
balls, and tennis rackets seem to
be doing the most flying these
days. The tennis tournament is
under way and, in spite of the
rain, is progressing.

A. A. Board has been making
plans for their annual banquet.
It's all hush-hush as to the kind
of banquet it's going to be since
the regular seated affair is out
for the duration .From all reports
though, it's to be something new
and exciting.

But the big news from A. A.
seems to be the new members
chosen for the board. "Scotty"
Johnson is to represent hockey
and is going to Mt. Pocono, Pa.,
for further instruction in the
game. Vicky Alexander has tak-
en over Gwen's job as president
of the Outing Club. Ann Stein
has been appointed badminton
representative while Betty An-
drews is tennis member on the
board. Genet Heery is to be in
charge of basketball, and Mar-
garet Cochran of volleyball. Mar-
garet Scott is swimming repre-
sentative. "Cookie" Miller is the
board's publicity agent and Dot
Lee Webb is the News member.
With these new members there
should be "good sporting" for all.

Girls who took the Recreation
Leadership course, which was a
big hit on the campus, are now
putting the preaching into prac-
tice. They are helping at Ponce
de Leon, Fifth Avenue, Winnona
Park, and Oakhurst schools.
Among those who are teaching
games, pacifying crying children,
and getting a big kick out of it
all are Martha Baker and Mary
Ann Martin, who have been help-
ing with May Day projects; and
Sarah Walker, Maudie Van Dyke,
and Vicky Alexander doing other
recreational work.

Hangin' 'Round the Gym. . . .
many would-be tennis players sub-
stituting a pingpong table for a
wet tennis court. . . . wet hair
and red eyes on those trying to
swim 88 lengths of the pool as
their tickets to the A. A. picnic.
. . . participants in the high school
day practicing up. . . . members
of the new diving class working
time and over-time to protect their
twists and turns. . . .

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The "Swim A Mile, Freestyle"
contest sponsored by the swim-
ming club is well under way ac-
cording to Agnes Douglas. Eigh-
teen girls have completed the
necessary 88 lengths and many
more are expected to before the
contest closes.

For the successful participants
swimming club will give a picnic
on May 7 at Harrison Hut. Those
who are the "champions" are Ag-
nes Douglas, Cookie Miller, Mar-
garet Scott, Bettye Lee Phelps,
Dotty Kahn, Dot Hunter, Betty
Miller, Lilane Harris, Helen Hut-
chinson, Esther Sloam, Molly Mi-
lam, Vicky Alexander, Scotty
Johnson, Inge Probstein, Helen
Owen, Ann Stubbs, and Helen
Currie. "H." Owen leads the line,
however, having swum a mile and
a fourth.

For High School Day, the Har-
vard twins and Agnes Douglas
gave an exhibition of formation
swimming and Molly Milam, Dot-
ty Kahn, Lilaine Harris, and
Cooky Miller gave diving demon-
strations.

Varsity Wins Last
Volley Ball Game

Members of the newly chosen
Varsity and Sub-Varsity Volley
Ball teams met in the final game
of the season last Friday. The
Varsity captained by Billie Wal-
ker, rang up a score of 42-20
against the Sub-Varsity with Ann
Webb at their head.

The regular stars of the Senior
team were working like clocks
for the Varsity and Sarah Wal-
ker and Sally Sue Stephenson also
distinguished themselves. Stars on
the Sub-Varsity were Cockie
Cochran, Jane Everett, and Anna
Dobbins. Members of the teams
were: Varsity: Catherine Kollock,
Billie Walker, Virginia Tuggle,
Gwen Hill, Sally Sue Stephenson,
Margaret Drummond, Jeanne Ad-
dison, Mildred McCain, Sarah
Walker and Anabel Bleckley;
Sub-Varsity: Harriet Hargrove,
Cockie Cochran, Anne Webb
Helen Hutchinson, Ann Stine, Jane
Everett, Helen Pope, Anna Dob-
bins, Julia Harvard, and Elizabeth
Harvard.

The season ended with the Sen-
ors holding first place and the
Freshmen coming in second. The
Sophomores were third and the
Juniors fourth.

Tuggle Serves
Georgia Athletes

Virginia Tuggle, this year's
president of Athletic Association,
has recently been elected presi-
dent of the Georgia Athletic Fed-
eration of College Women and will
preside at the conference to be
held May 6 at the Piedmont Ho-
tel. Dot Hunter, newly elected
president of A. A., and Sarah
Walker will represent Agnes
Scott as delegates to the confer-
ence.

This state wide federation com-
posed of eleven Georgia colleges,
was first organized at Agnes
Scott in 1931. It's purpose
then as now is to integrate in-
tensity standards and values in
sports and related activities, and
to be a resource of research, serv-
ice, and interest, as well as to
create fellowship among colleges
and college women.

'William Tells 1 Vie
For Archery Title

Virginia Bowie, Archery man-
ager, announces plans for the ar-
chery tournament to be held here
between May 8 and May 12. Win-
ners of the Agnes Scott tourney
are eligible for the AA's Tele-
graphic tournament for college
students to be held during the
week May 13-20 from two to
three or other arranged hours.
Anyone interested may partici-
pate.

Picnic Honors News Staff

The 1944-45 News staff will
entertain the retiring members of
the staff at Harrison Hut on Fri-
day April 28 at 6:00.

The committees are as follows:
Invitations, Chairman Mary Neely
Norris, Eleanor Calley, Alice Gor-
don; refreshments, Chairman Liz
Carpenter, Betty Andrews, Vir-
ginia Drake, Pie Ertz, Joan Cran-
gle, Leila Holmes, Anne Register;
Clean-up, Chairman Laura Win-
chester, Alice Newman, Nelson
Fisher.

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The Representative Council
will meet on Friday, April 28,
at 5:00 in the exec room.

On the council are: President
of C. A., president of A. A.,
president of Student Govern-
ment, Student Recorder, Orien-
tation chairman; Day Student
representative, Editor of the
News, treasurer of Student Gov-
ernment, Mortar Board, presi-
dent of War Council, and vice
president of Student Govern-
ment.

At the meeting Friday night
plans will be discussed for the
coming year.

Dr. Posey Reads Paper
To Historical Society

Dr. Walter B. Posey, head of
the history department attended
the 37th annual meeting of the
Mississippi Valley Historical As-
sociation, April 20-22 at St. Louis.

At the convention Dr. Posey,
who was a member of the execu-
tive committee 1938-41, read a pa-
per "The Early Baptist Church in
the lower southwest" in connec-
tion with the topic "History of
the South."

The Mississippi Valley Histori-
cal association is the largest his-
torical association devoted to
American history. It publishes the
Mississippi Valley Historical Re-
view.

Anne Equen
Attends College
Fashion Board

By Jeanne Rochelle

Agnes Scott will really be "in
the know" about 1944 fall fash-
ions with Anne Equen here to
give us advance information. Anne
returned last week from a four
day trip to St. Louis where she
and seventeen other college girls
selected the Minx Mode college
fashions that will appear in the
stores this fall. This junior board
of review consisted of fourteen
college girls from in and around
St .Louis and four girls from out
of town colleges. Anne was the
only representative from the
south.

After a banquet Tuesday night
the board saw the new fashions
and voted on the ones they likecL
Out of the seventy-five styles
shown, the board selected about
thirty. Besides watching fashion
shows, Anne saw the river boats
on the Mississippi, went through
the Lindberg museum, inspected
a dress factory, and appeared on
a local radio program. Anne sum-
med up her trip with the old Ag-
nes Scott refrain, "And we ate
the whole time."

Davison-Paxon Department
store suggested Anne as a mem-
ber of the junior baord.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944

NO. 20

Robin Horneffer Will fg%%
Reign as May Queen

"Making of the Rainbow" Play
To Highlight Entertainment

Robin Taylor Horneffer will be crowned Queen of the May
at Agnes Scott's annual May Day exercises on Saturday after-
noon, May 6, at 5 p. m. in the May Day dell.

Attending the May Queen will be her court of 12 girls,
who will be dressed in pastel shades and carrying bouquets
of garden flowers. ~

Christian, Dexter
And MacDougall
Attend Meeting

The members of the May Court
are: Martha Rhodes, Laurie Loop-
er, Julia and Elizabeth Harvard,
Joyce Freeman, Scott Newell,
Bippy Gribble, Teddy Bear, Betty
Long, Gloria Ann Melchor, Anne
Scott, and Virginia Dickson.

The program, "Making of the
Rainbow," written by Tommie
Huie, will be presented for . the
audience and the May Court. Solo
dancers, representing the six col-
ors, will introduce their groups of
dancers in the colors red, yellow,
orange, blue, green, and violet.
Jodelle Tanner, dressed as white,
will crown the May Queen as the
climax to the program.

Mrs. Lapp and Mrs. Dozier are
in charge of the dances. Mrs. Es-
pey will be pianist.

Dean Visits Two
Virginia Schools

After a four day trip to Vir-
ginia, Miss Scandrett returned
Sunday morning from a visit to
Mary Baldwin and Randolph Ma-
con Colleges. She had been invited
to be the special speaker at the
installation service for the new
Student Government officers at
Mary Baldwin college, and was
the guest of Miss Orra Hopkins
and Mrs. De Jarnett during her
stay there. On the return trip
Miss Scandrett stopped at Ran-
dolph Macon College in Lynch-
burg for a short visit on Satur-
day, where she saw the Greek
play "Antigone" which is present-
ed there annually.

Date Book

Thursday, May 4 Meeting
Administration Council

of

Friday, May 5 Faculty- Student
volley ball game at 5 p. m.

1 roshmen-Day Student tea at
1:30 in Murphey Candler

Saturday, May 6 Phi Beta Kappa
announcement in chapel
May Day program at 5 p. m. in
May Day dell

Sunday, May 7 Picnic for thv
mile-swimmers

Wednesday, May 10 Junior-Sen-
ior picnic

Barbara Conn ally's vocal reci-
tal at 8 p. m. in Gaines chapel

Announcement

The senior class announces
that there will be no senior
opera this year. It was schedul-
ed to follow the May Day pro-
gram on Saturday, May 6.

Dr. S. M. Christian, Miss Emily
Dexter, Miss Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall last week attended the
annual meeting of the Georgia
Academy of Science, in Augusta,
Ga. According to Dr. Christian,
Past President of the Academy,
it is the only one of its kind in
the state, and has a membership
of 180.

The chief speaker at the meet-
ing was Dr. Derrick, of the Jun-
ior College of Augusta, who is
working on dehydration of sweet
potatoes.

Twenty scientific papers were
read, among which were papers
by Dr. Christian, Miss Dexter, and
Miss MacDougall. Dr. Christian's
was on "Eclipses of Other Plan-
ets"; Miss Dexter's was on the
"Correlations Between Speed,
Comprehension and Intelligence in
Reading"; and Miss MacDougall's
was on "Chromosones of the Plas-
modium Vivax," dealing with ma-
laria.

The meeting, at which ordinary
business was conducted, and new
officers and members were elec-
ted, was, as Dr. Christian said,
"very satisfactory."

Silhouette

The 1944 issue of the Silhou-
ette will come out around the
last of May, it is announced by
Ann Jacob, editor. Due to the
labor shortage the printing has
been delayed, and the annual
will not come out according to
seh*Klule, but as soon afterwards
as is possible.

The new Representative Coun-
cil, composed of 14 organization
heads of 1944-45, met for the
first time Friday, April 28. The
group agreed to schedule a meet-
ing of the Administration Coun-
cil for May 4.

Under the new organization
plan of Student Government now
on trial, the May 4 meeting will
initiate the inclusion of all Repre-
sentative Council members as
student representatives to meet
four times annually with faculty
and administration members of
the Council. Formerly, five ex-
ecutive officers of Student Asso-
ciation were on this board.

The duties and powers of the
Representative Council are three-
fold. First, it is to set up* a cam-
pus-wide program for the year;
secondly, to act as a group where
basic campus problems may be
discussed; and thirdly, to refer
these problems and suggestions to
the proper group; Executive Com-
mittee if they do not involve an
extension of Student Government
powers, Administrative Council if
they would involve such an exten-
sion, or to various campus or-
ganizations those problems per-
taining especially to them.

Under the chairmanship of Mol-
ly Milam, new president of Stu-
dent Government, Representative
Council reviewed the duties and
powers of its organization, and
offered tentative suggestions con-
cerning the work next year of such
campus organizations as Chris-
tian Association, and Athletic As-
sociation. These suggestions must
be referred to the proper groups
for discussion before they may be
acted upon.

With reference to next fall's
Freshman-Sophomore party, the
chairman stated that the policy
would be to reduce all hazing
to a minimum.

Miss Scandrett warned organi-
zation heads through the Council
not to overcrowd next year's cal-
endar with too many campus ac-
tivities.

Molly emphasized the desire
held by Student Government
leaders that all students read
over the outlined trial plan of
organization. A copy is kept in
the Exec room to which all stu-
dents are free to refer.

Barbara Connolly to Give
Vocal Recital in Gaines

Barbara Connally will give a
vocal recital on May 10 in Gaines
Chapel at 8:00 p. m. Elizabeth
Edwards will accompany her on
the piano and also play a group
of solos.

Barbara's program will include:
"Hear Ye, Israel," from the "Eli-
jah" by Mendelssohn; "Whim,"
Schubert; "Standchen," Strauss;
"O Mer, Ouvre Tei" Delihes;
"Ouvre Tes Yeux Bleus," Mosse-
net; "Vissi d'Arte," from "Tosca,"
by Puccini; "II est Doux," from
"Hirodiade" by Massenet; "A Cy-
cle of Life," Ronald; "Prelude,"
Clokey; "Wings of Night," Watts;
"A Birthday," Woodman; "Tell
Me, Oh Blue Blue Sky," Gianinni,
and, "Ecstasy," Rummel.

Elizabeth will play four selec-

Reinhold Niebuhr Set
To Lecture May 11

Theologian's Subject Will Be
"Total Crisis of Civilization 1

Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of the Philosophy of Religion
at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, editor of
the quarterly "Christianity and Society," and author of "The
Nature and Destiny of Man," will speak at Agnes Scott College
under the auspices of the Lecture Association on Thursday

"evening, May 11, at 8:30. His sub-

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

tions on the piano. These are
Bach's "Fugue in C Minor"; Bee-
thoven's "Rondo" ; Debussy's
"Minuet"; and, a selection of
Brahms.

Barbara starred in the Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas put on for
the last two years by ' the Agnes
Scott and Georgia Tech glee clubs.
Last summer sh,e and Joella Craig
sang with the chorus of the Chau-
tauqua Opera Company in Chau-
tauqua, N. Y., appearing with
guest stars from the Metropolitan
Opera Company of New York.

DR. PATTON SPEAKS

Dr. J. G. Patton, acting minister
of the Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta, spoke in chapel
yesterday on "Stewardship."

Peggy Perez Tells
Plans of Fellowship

In chapel last week Peggy
Perez told the student body about
the Lisle Fellowship. This is a
group of college students who
live together for six weeks to
learn the important fundamentals
of living in a world citizenship.
The founder and present director
of the group, DeWitt Baldwin,
visited on the campus with a group
of Agnes Scott girls in March of
this year, and they were very im-
pressed with the program which
he advocated.

The six weeks begin with an
orientation period in which speak-
ers on different subjects of im-
portance come to the center. Aft-
er that, the students stay three
days of each week at the center
and during the other four they go
out in teams to surrounding com-
munities where they spread their
message of fellowship by having
Vacation Bible schools, leading
worship groups, and just living
among the people.

There are two centers of the
Lisle Fellowship) one at Lisle, N.
Y., and the other at Lookout
Mountain, Colorado. To each of
these a group of students will go
this summer to get an "education
for living in a world fellowship."

Junior-Senior Picnic
To be Held May IO

The traditional Junior-Senior
party will take the form of a pic-
nic this year, according to Minnie
Mack, in charge.

It will be held on the small
quadrangle between Buttrick and
Presser at 6:00 on Wednesday,
May 10. Each junior will take one
senior, and food for the oicnic will
be served from the dining ioom.

ject will be "The Total Crisis of
Civilization."

Dr. Niebuhr is internationally
known. He is one of the five
Americans who have given the Gil-
ford lectures in Edinburgh, and he
accepted the invitation of the Brit-
ish Council of Churches to speak
throughout England in May and
June of last year. At the conclu-
sion of his, lectures he was hon-
ored by a doctor's degree from
Oxford University. He has lec-
tured and preached widely in the
United States and has always been
received with enthusiasm. He is
the favorite lecturer of the Yale
undergraduates, and is invited al-
most every year to address them.

His book, "The Nature and Des-
tiny of Many,'" has been review-
ed by The New York Times as
of first importance to contempor-
ary thinking and by The New Re-
public as the most lucid and bal-
anced statement of orthodox Pro-
testantism that the public is like-
ly to see for a long time.

This lecture concludes the ser-
ies offered by the Lecture As-
sociation this year and rounds out
a well balanced program in spite
of the many difficulties presented
by unfortunate occurences in se-
curing speakers. The members of
the Association offer to each stu-
dent one guest ticket which may
be obtained in the bookstore along
with the regular season ticket.

Maj. Jepson
Stationed at
London Post

Major Florence C. Jepson, Ag-
nes Scott alumna, '33, is the first
WAC to become an assistant mili-
tary attache and has arrived in
London for duty at the U. S. Em-
bassy, according to announcement
from U. S. Army headquarters.

Well-known to the student body,
Maj. Jepson was a guest speaker
at War Council's week-end con-
ference last spring. Several years
ago, when affiliated with Rich's
personnel department, she spoke
on opportunities in personnel
work, as part of a vocational guid-
ance series sponsored by Mortar
Board.

Major Jepson was commissioned
a third officer in September, 1942,
and was assigned to the WAC per-
sonnel division in Washington,
D. C. She was promoted to cap-
tain in December of the same year
and to major in August, 1943.

Maj. Jepson, of 578 Montgomery
Ferry Drive, Atlanta, is the widow
of Lt. James Jepson, former RAF
airman who was lost on a combat
mission.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX

Wednesday, May 3, 1944 No. 20

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Anne Haggard, Peggy Jones, Jane Meadows, Alice Newman, Peggy Wilds
cheater, Mary Jane Schumaker, Eleanor Hewell, Kathleen Buchanan,
Ann Hough.

Laura Win
Doris Street,

A Gentle Rebuke

There is announcement elsewhere in this paper that the
Seniorpolitan Opera, for years a traditional part of May Day,
has been cancelled this year.

Underclassmen have been criticizing the seniors who have
been forced to defend their action. We do not propose to say
here whether the class of ? 44 was right or wrong.

Obviously the hard-working committee chairmen regret
having to call off the opera. The seniors as a whole regret that
it is their class that had to break the tradition.

But behind every misstep lies a reason. In this instance the
reason may be lack of time, lack of organization, lack of spirit,
lack of willingness to work, lack of cooperation, or even lack
of talent. Or perhaps the seniors are just too busy this year,
for graduation comes a whole week earlier than usual.

Whatever the reason, the fact remains that a script was
prepared and was put into rehearsal. Senior leaders say the
script was more like a stunt than a mock opera, and that class
members would not learn even the fewest of lines nor attend
rehearsals regularly. Granted this is true, those seniors guilty
are no doubt now wishing for the second chance that seldom
comes. We commend those few seniors that gave of their time
and energy in the face of such odds.

The class of '44 has acted wisely, it says, but not courag-
eously, we say.

D-Day

The coming day of invasion of Europe, termed D-Day by
the army, is expected by the American people in the very
near future.

Our army has prepared well for this invasion, and the sol-
diers going into this battle are the best-trained in the world.
Here at home civilian defense workers have been faithful to
their jobs, and will man their posts on this most important
day of the war. This will symbolize the backing of the army
here at home.

Churches all over the country will open their doors on that
night from 7 until 8 for prayers in behalf of the sons, fathers,
brothers, sweethearts and husbands of the American people.

Not one of us will remain unaffected by the invasion of
Europe. Although we are far removed from the horrors of
war here at school, our prayers are constantly for those who
are defending with their lives our rights as a free people.

On that day, whenever it comes, we should have a special
service for those who wish to come and pray for their loved
ones.

A Word of Welcome

We are very fortunate in having, on May 11, Reinhold Nie-
buhr as the climax to our splendid lecture series. Dr. Niebuhr
has traveled widely, and is internationally known as a lec-
turer and preacher. His lecture will be received here with
.enthusiasm by the campus.

The Spectator

By Inge Probstein

Sunday afternoon the shadows
growing longer on the lawn, tree
and grass reciprocating in a cool,
green pact of shade, the radio
contentedly working out the soar-
ing cadences of Liszt and only the
Stone Mountain street car to dis
turb the peace periodically and
rumble weightily past the house.

The shadows and Liszt are a
sort of city pastoral as much of
a pastoral as Sunday in a city can
offer. Only in the interruption
does one realize how much con
tent one can bear unwittingly in
comparison to the small amount of
discontent it takes' to annoy one
thoroughly. What weapons has
bliss to match even the subtlest
form of pain headache? We are
seldom keenly conscious of happi-
ness until we are no longer happy,
but there is hardly a greater and
more immediate certainty than
that of pain. The consciousness
of a toothache is in fact a most
effective deterrent from any oth
er consciousness.

I had quite forgotten the Stone
Mountain car in the midst of
these considerations and resigned
myself wholly to the satiety of the
little astoral again, the shaded
lawn view with the nicely accul
tured background of "Les Pre
ludes," when the rumble and rude
clatter of the next Stone Moun
tain car put the final seal of
approval on the theories I had
spun out in its absence.

Of Mice and Fears
Strange that one runs from mice
and rats but trusts squirrels so
implicitly. Why, any smart rat
could equip herself with a squir-.
rel's bushy tail and fool us one
dark night. But that's just it,
rats aren't that smart. We prob-
ably fear a mouse because of her
notable lack of discretion, which
might cause her to run as readily
over our face as over the wooden
floor. Squirrels we credit with a
healthy addiction to the pursuit
of acorns, which produces in them
a sane attitude (akin perhaps to
the human equivalent, sophro-
syne?) We assume then that a
squirrel has the power also of
discriminating an acorn from a
big toe and that in its pursuit
of the former it will not attack
the sanctity of the latter conse-
quently the squirrel is expected to
run before we do, and if the thing
doesn't, you may be sure that it is
a camouflaged rat, one of the in-
telligentsia presumably.

There is little more disarming,
speaking of fear, than the sudden
loss of consciousness of the You.
(It happens to me when I look in
a mirror occasionally, but I shall
refrain from drawing inferences
about other people from this evi-
dence.) They are thin threads
really that bind us to our aware-
ness of the 20th century. An un-
usually heavy earthquake could
sweep away the physical evidence
of our century overnight. And I
wonder whether our minds would
not quite placidly have fitted into
almost any era one could name,
given a fair dose of anemia to
forget the prejudices of today, the
more readily to take on those of
yesterday.

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Crime Does Not Pay

Time: 3:00 A. M.
Place: Harrison Hut.
Occasion: C. A. Retreat.
Characters: Mrs. Garber, the
victim; Mary Munroe, an unwit-
ting accomplice; Teddy Bear, the
villain.

(As the scene opens, the sleep-
ing forms of C. A. Council mem-
bers are seen strewn around. One
of them arises steathily.)

Villain: Me thinks Munroe is
sleeping much too peacefully. I'll
pay her a flying visit.

(Villain makes a flying leap,
giving a severe jolt to Munroe
she thinks.

Munroe (speaking from the next
bed) : Goody, you missed. That's
Mrs. Garber.

(The scene closes, showing the
villain retiring from view by pull-
ing the mattress over her head.)
Bright Bunny
No one would think a rabbit
could have much influence over
a dog, but, according to Ruth Wol-
son, such things do happen. In
her backyard there lives a rabbit
of such a forceful, dominating per-
sonality that he has quite hypno-
tized the family hound. Rover fol-
lows him around like a shadow,
and has become a vegetarian, eat-
ing carrot tops, rose bushes, and
oak leaves. Further evidence of
his going rabbit is seen in his new
method of locomotion a half trot
and half hop, which becomes more
hop daily.

Sew What ?

Why,, potholders, of course. Also
sox, scarves, and nightgowns. If
you don't know how, ask Inge,
who, growing confidential over a
cup of coffee, talked about her
grammar school days, when she
used to ply the needle. In the
first grade, she knitted potholders
In the second, she crocheted pot-
holders. In the third, she cut holes
in sox and scarves and then darn-
ed them with blue and red thread
The next year, she made a night-
gown with a white ruffle. In the
fifth grade, alas, she was forced,
and I quote, to "repeat the night
gown," as she forgot the year be-
fore and sewed up the neck and
sleeves. The bell rang before sixth
grade struggles could be revealed.
Grime Doesn't Pay, Either
Reggie has been all wet recent
ly. Four times in the past two
weeks she's been deposited, clothes
and all, in the tub. Some people
are awfully slow at taking a hint,
aren't they?

Quotes of the Week
. . I just can't get used to the
skull hanging over your bed.

We have to keep up with
things. After all, this is 1943

I've had so many blind dates
I feel like I'm searching for the
golden fleece.

From the size of this brain
I'd say this frog was a low grade
idiot.

Owed

Sing a song of operas,
Lyrics, tunes, and such.
Half a dozen writers
Who don't sleep very much.
When they get one written,
No one wants to sing.
Who'd have thought a thing like
that

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Young Girls' Fancy'

By Betty Glenn

Have you noticed red, peeling
noses, the hum and clack of lawn-
mowers on the quadrangle, the
thud of tennis balls down by the
gym, day students arriving and
leaving in convertibles with the
tops down, a general attitude of "I
just can't keep my mind on this
stuff?" If you've observed these
things, you need not finish this
article, for you already know
spring has come to Agnes Scott!

The library terrace has blos-
somed with gay-colored umbrellas,
the whole campus has blossomed
with even gayer-colored cotton
dresses, while the somber, wintry
navy-blue uniforms that dot the
campus on week-ends have been
replaced by dazzling white. A con-
tinual procession of sun-bathers
laden with blankets, books, dark-
glasses, cushions, sun-tan oil, and
innumerable other paraphernalia
streams through the hall of In-
man going to or from the roof.

Day students have begun again
to eat lunch on the lawn, while
boarders, taking advantage of the
long days and accompanying lat;e
time-limit, take leisurely strolls
after dinner. Down in the
gym May Day preparations go on
apace; behind the library follow-
ers of William Tell shoot by the
hour; and inside the library girls
sit with open books, looking long-
ingly at the open windows and lis-
tening to the sounds outside,
thinking about well, definitely
not what's in the books.

Less than three weeks of actual
class-work remain; term papers
and exams loom large on the
horizon; commencement is right
around the corner; vacation lies
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Page 3

Eight Seniors
To Walk Down
Aisle in June

By Jane Bowman

For eight excited seniors Lohen-
grin's "Wedding March" is number
one on the hit parade, June is the
month encircled in red, and Emily
Post is the consultant for church
weddings.

Those "navy blues" have won the
hearts of three seniors. On Satur-
day, June 3, Bobbie and "Lanky"
will take their vows in the First
Presbyterian church in Thomas-
ville. After June 6, Marjorie Smith
will become the bride of a lieuten-
ant (j. g.), and will reside in
New York City. Martha Rhodes
whose wedding to Ivan Bennett is
set for June 22 in the Little
Chapel at Emory will live near the
campus while her husband in-
terns at the Emory hospital.

The army, not to be outdone by
the lads in blue, will also claim
three Agnes Scott girls next

month. The first week in June
will find Julia Scott flying to
Santa Ana, Calif., to become the
wife of 2nd Lt. Pete Bailey. Sur-
rounded by six bridesmaids and
a maid of honor "Joo Froo" Free-
man and Lew Marting will plight
their troth June 8 at 8:30 p. m.
in the First Presbyterian Church
in Albany. Exactly eight days la-
ter on June 16 Carolyn Dan-
iel will become the wife of a den-
tal student and they will live in
Atlanta until his graduation in
August.

Bunny Gray is busy collecting
"something borrowed, something
blue, something old, something
new" for her church wedding
June 9. After the honeymoon
she and Dale will work in home
missions in California.

On June 8 wedding bells will
also ring for Yoli Bernabe who
will become the bride of Bob
Stanton, the Viscount of Dunster,
wing commander in the R. A. F.
The ceremony will take place at
the Sacred Heart Church in At-
lanta. After a honeymoon in Cal-
ifornia (that popular place!) the
two will live in Montreal, Canada,
for the duration.

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

On Sunday evening at 5:30 o'-
clock Ensign Betty Brougher, '43,
was married to Lt. (j. g.) William
Campbell in the Little Chapel at
Glenn Memorial Methodist
Church.

Frances Brougher, her sister's
only attendant wore a dress of
pale green net and lace and a pur-
ple orchid in her hair and carried
a mixed bouquet tied with purple.

At Agnes Scott Betty was Fea-
ture Editor of the Silhouette and
a member of War Council, Cotil-
lion Club, and the May Court.

Orchids in evidence Yoli Ber-
nabe's fiance, Robert Stanton, was
here Friday. He flew over from
England.

On Friday night at the S. A. E.
House dance at Emory were Mary
Jane Fuller and Peggy Wilds.

Robin Robinson, Scotty John-
son, Laurie Looper, Jane Bowman,
Mary Ann Courtenay, and Lura
Johnston went to the Phi Chi
Dance at Emory Saturday night.

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Janice Latta and Mickey Der-
rieux at the Paradise Room with
Lieutenants.

Dancing at the Piedmont Driv-
ing Club Liz Carpenter, Betty An-
drews, Anne Equen, Anne High-
tower, and Janice Latta. By the
way, Betty's date flew in on a
B-24 to spend the week-end.

Shirley Slaughter with some
good-looking Lieutenant her sister
sent down from Lynchburg. Some
present!!

Ruth Setel and Pie Ertz at a
Phi D. E. steak fry in North Ful-
ton Park Friday night.

At the Pig Shop Janet Liddell
and Ruth Gracey with visitors
from Fort Benning Sunday.

Dinner and dancing . . . Anne
Scott and "Dear John."

At the Capital City Club Sat-
urday evening, Mary dimming,
Anne Eagan, Marianna Kirkpat-
rick, and Ruth Limbert with dates
from Fort Benning.

SCOOP!! James Merrette from
Fort Benning and Anne Haggard.

Having dinner at the Ship Ahoy
were "Dootsy" Gardner and "Ted-
dy" Bear with guests from Fort
Benning Saturday.

June Thoman and her "best
beau," Mr. Fred Thoman, her fa-
ther, down from New York to see
her.

Margaret McManus having Sun-
day dinner at A. T. O. House at
Emory.

Susan Kirtly at the Empire
Room.

Miss Roberta Winter and the
play production class having din-
ner at the Pig'n'Whistle.

At the Rainbow Roof Friday
night was Mary Turner in a smart
aqua wool suit.

Claire Bennett, Patty Barbour,
Polly Cook, and Miriam Davis and
guests from Fort Benning.

Around campus Jean Stewart
Murphy has the mumps! Double
exposure!

OUT-OF-TOWN . . .

Home for the week-end were
Ellen Arnold in Savannah, Ga.;
Bess Shepherd in Waynesboro,
Ga.; Frances Woodall in Augusta,
Ga.; Kittie Kay and Betty Man-
ning at Bettie's home in Moultrie,
Ga.; Meg Bless and Betty Wade
at Betty's home in Cornelia, Ga.;
Anne Eidson in Thomasville, Ga.;
Dot Pearce and "Cocky" Coch-
ran taking Caroline Squires, Lor-
enna Ross and Ann Stine to

Greenville, S. C; "Muff" and
"Fluff" Paisley and Peggy Pat
Home to the Paisley home in
Stockbridge, Ga.; Helen Hutchin-
son and Frieda Cook at Frieda's
home in Augusta, Ga.; Gloria
Gaines, Bettye Smith and Dot
Hunter at Gloria's home in An-
derson, S. C; Lu Cunningham,
Em Clepper and Dot DeVane at
Dot's home in Greenville, S. C;
Clare Rowe in LaGrange, Ga.;
Frances Bryan in Jefferson, Ga.

Most exciting trip of the spring
to Annapolis. How 'bout it,
Mary Nulla?

Virginia Owen took nearly all
of Gaines Cottage home to Roan-
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party. In the group was Barbara
Omer, Lilaine Harris, Mary
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944

Spying on
Sports

By Peggy Kelly

Ye ole spy is at it again. Big
game of the week was a contest
between the "odds" and "evens"
in volleyball. The evens (classes
of 1944 and 1946) were victors.
The odds were aided by Miss Wil-
burn, Miss Rutledge, and "Frank"
McCalla, but the evens seem to
have most of the varsity on their
side. The seniors and sophomores
(imagine!) worked together won-
derfully, winning the game by
only one point.

A. A. Board is still urging all
swimmers (?) to gin down to the
gym and join the "88-ers" club by
swimming the mile. This week
Ann Haggard, Ruth Ryner, Kitty
Stanton, and Martha Baker have
won their meal ticket to the pic-
nic which will be given May 7.
Why not try? (You can count
for yourself).

Mr. Shea, head of the physical
education department at Emory
University, and one of the fore-
most authorities on swimming in
the South, spoke to the diving
class last week. He gave the
girls the low-down on the basic
elements of good diving. He en-
couraged the timid numbers in
the group by telling them about
some of the V-12ers. Some of them
practically have to be hit in the
head before they will make the
fatal jump.

The faculty too often has the
last laugh on some of us. How-
ever, this lil situation may be re-
versed this Friday afternoon when
some of the members meet the
stoodents on an equal level on the
volleyball court. The game should
be very entertaining, and dare I
say "funny"?

The first annual of the Recrea-
tion Leadership Course is now av-
ailable to all the girls who took
part in its composition. It is only
fitting to mention here the appre-
ciation felt by all those who took
the course for Miss Wilburn. She
gave each member her attention
and helped each girl feel that
maybe recreational leadership
could be attained. Many tanks,
Miss Wilburn. I hasten to men-
tion that for the first time in the
history of the present sophomore
class they are given credit (by
themselves) for the sponsorship
and fine job.

With the prevailing rain slack-
ing up, tennis fiends are return-
ing reluctantly to the courts.
Many of the old players have
rather enjoyed substituting bad-
minton and pingpong. It's a pity
that the latter has declined to just
a rainy day indoor sport (about
on the same level with the great-
est indoor sport worrying). The
tables are located in the basement
of Murphey Candler and the gym.

Scene at the gym . . . the new
display of sports-on-paper on the
front bulletin board. . . . Miss Dot
dealing out bathing caps, recover-
ed combs, and sympathy to the
sporters. . . . flashy colors loping
around on May Day participants.
. . . members of the Milk Shake
Gaining Association declaring the
scale to be weight-off.

Rain Slows Tournament

Only two matches have been
played in the tennis doubles tour-
nament because of the rain. Anne
Register and Ruth Ryner defeated
Scotty Johnson and Katherine
Burnett 6-2; 6-1. Saturday after-
noon Joan Crangle and Mary
dimming lost to Ann Hough and
Betty Andrews. The scores were
6-3; 10-8.

Jean Hood Will Head
Blackfriars Next Year

At a meeting on Tuesday, April
25, the Blackfriars chose their
officers for the coming year. Jean
Hood was elected president; Em-
ily Ann Singletary, vice-president;
Peggy Willmon, secretary, and
Jane Anne Newton, treasurer. The
various managers are: publicity,
Rite Watson; costumes, LaNelle
Wright; properties, Cookie Mil-
ler, and program, Barbara Kin-
caid.

This year the number applying
for technical membership is the
highest yet. Each candidate has
been given a series of assignments
which include reading of the pro-
per material, working on a par-
ticular crew headed by one of the
Blackfriars, and submitting a re-
port of her activities. The execu-
tive board of the dramatic club
will determine membership, the
basis for each decision being the
efficiency and ability of the con-
testant.

According to Miss Winter, the
work done by the applicants this
year has proved to be more in-
teresting and thorough than that
of any previous year. Announce-
ments of technical membership
will be made by the board about
the middle of this week.

Pi Alpha Phi Chooses
New Members, Officers

Seven new members have been
chosen for Pi Alpha Phi as a re-
sult of last week's try-outs. They
are sophomores Peggy Willmon
and Mary Cargill, and freshmen
Louisa Aichel, Kathleen Buchan-
an, Doris Kissling, Mary Ann Mar-
tin, and Jane Meadows.

At the regular meeting of the
club last week officers were elec-
ted for the coming year. The new
officers are as follows: presi-
dent, Betty Glenn; vice-president,
Martha Jean Gower; secretary,
Alice Gordon; treasurer, Mary
Ann Courtenay, and social chair-
man, Martha Whatley Yates.

It was also announced that fin-
als in the club tournament would
take place on May 8, with the top-
ic for debate being "Resolved that
the Allied quarantine should be
lifted from Ireland."

Sylvia Mogul and Martha What-
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944

NO. 21

Graduation Week
Will Begin May 27

Dean Philip G. Davidson, Jr., of Vanderbilt University,
will address the senior class at graduation on Tuesday, May
30, in Gaines chapel at 10:00 a. m. Mr. Davidson was
formerly head of the history department here.

Rev. James L. Fowle, pastor of the First Presbyterian

church in Chattanooga, will preach

A. A. Will Hold
Special Chapel
Service May 17

Pictured are the new members of Phi Beta Kappa, announced in chapel last Saturday. They are,
reading from left to right, Gwen Hill, Mary Codington, Claire Bennett, Barbara Connally, Mary Flor-
ence McKee, Anne Ward, Ruth Kolthoff and Eudice Tontak. Bunny Gray was out of town. Dr. J. R.
McCain introduced Miss Muriel Ham, president of the local chapter, who gave the history of Phi Beta
Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. She also stated the principles of Phi Beta Kappa
which are fraternity, morality and literature. The names of the members of the class of 1944 elected to
the fraternity were announced by Miss Margaret Phythian, secretary to the Beta Chapter of Georgia.

Dr. McCain to
Attend Meets

President J. R. McCain will ad-
dress a joint meeting, May 16, of
six civic clubs in Nashville on the
subject of juvenile delinquency.
The speech will be made at a
luncheon meeting, with an expec-
ted attendance of six hundred, and
will be broadcast. These civic club
members expect to use Dr. Mc-
Cain's address as a basis for their
study of the problems of juven-
ile delinquency in Nashville.
Earlier this year he made a simi-
lar address to the Atlanta Rotary
Club.

From Nashville Dr. McCain will
fly to New York City for a meet-
ing of the Executive Board of the
General Education Board on May
19. Although he has been a trus-
tee for a number of years, this is
his first meeting as a member of
the Executive Board.

Dr. McCain has also been ask-
ed to give the commencement ad-
dress at West Georgia College in
Carrollton on June 2. His subject
will be "Cooperation Between the
College and the Community in the
Promotion of Good Citizenship."
This is a topic for special study
at West Georgia.

Date Book

Wednesday, May 10 Jr.-Sr. picnic
at 6:00 on the little quadrangle

Thursday, May 11 Student meet-
ing in chapel to vote on proposed
changes of the nominating com-
mittee

Niebuhr lecture at 8:30, followed
by reception in Murphey Candler

Friday, May 12 Individual class
meeting's during chapel time

Faculty advisers' informal party
in Alumnae Gardens for Jr. class

Niebuhr to Lecture Here
On 'Crisis of Civilization 7

Reinhold Niebuhr, outstanding
thinker in the fields of religion
and social thought, editor, author,
and professor of the Philosophy of
Religion at Union Theological
Seminary in New York City, will
speak on "The Total Crisis of
Civilization" tomorrow evening,
May 11 at 8:30 in Gaines chapel.

Internationally known, Dr. Nie-
buhr has been called "a contradic-
tory conspicuous figure in the
two worlds of religion and poli-
tics." Realizing the imperative
task at hand of defeating the ex-
ponents of tyranny, he is strongly
opposed to any religious isolation
which might interfere with this
ultimate goal

Mr. George P. Hayes, head of
the .English department, an ar-
dent admirer of the theologian,
says "No one can read Niebuhr
carefully without having his in-
tellectual center of gravity shift-
ed thereby. His profound grasp
on the problem of sin is particu-
larly needed by us today. He has
also shown in a conspicuous man-
ner that it is possible to be con-
servative in religion and at the
same time a true liberal in the
realm of social action." Miss Sus-
an Cobbs shares the same enthus-
iastic view. Miss Cobbs heard Dr.
Niebuhr speak some years ago at
Randolph-Macon and says he is
a most "stimulating speaker who
makes you think as he speaks."

Another faculty member, Dr.
Paul Garber, Bible department
head, is well qualified to judge Dr.
Niebuhr, being a former pupil of
the outstanding theologian. "He
is an excellent speaker, but don't
be alarmed if he leads you in deep
water at times, for that's the only
way you learn to swim."

An exhibit of Niebuhr's books
and magazine articles is on dis-
play in the library. The campus

community is very interested in
Dr. Niebuhr's arrival and several
social events have been planned.
The Student Committee of the
Lecture Association is honoring
Dr. Niebuhr with a dinner in the
Alumnae Tea Room at 6:30 the
evening of the lecture. Covers
will be laid for ten, and Betty
Sullivan, chairman, will act as
hostess. Immediately following
the lecture, a reception will be
held in Murphey Candler.

BoardersAdopt
Co-op System

A new plan of cooperative house
keeping work will be adopted for
boarding students here next year.
There will be a compulsory meet-
ing of all boarding students on
Tuesday night, May 16, in the old
chapel to discuss the new arrange-
ment.

"Agnes Scott's plan will be simi-
lar to that of Vassar," stated Dr.
McCain. In our 1944 catalogue
a statement of the plan appears
as follows: "As is true of many
leading institutions, the College
expects its boarding students to
share in the housekeeping ar-
rangements during the emergency.
Each girl may be asked to give
an average of one hour per day
to community activities, cleaning
her own room, helping with tele-
phones, hostess duty, waiting on
tables, or the like.

Such work not only releases la-
bor for war service and reduces
the cost of education, but also
develops individual and group re-
sponsibility

Any questions of the students
on the cooperative plan may be
raised at the meeting.

This year a special chapel pro-
gram will take the place of the
annual Athletic Association ban-
quet. The service will be held on
May 17th, with Virginia Tuggle
and Dot Hunter, 1943-44 and
1944-45 presidents of A. A., res-
pectively, presiding.

The' presidents will outline the
activities of the past year and
will present a number of awards,
including the athletic cup. This
cup is awarded each year to the
class which has accumulated the
largest number of points on the
basis of first and second place
standings in athletic events
throughout the year.

Among the other awards will
be several A. A. pins, which go
to those girls who have made 1600
points through participation
several sports, the tennis doubles
and the volley ball players, and
the golf and the archery cups.

It was found impossible to hold
the traditional banquet because of
lack of sufficient help to carry
out easily and successfully a seat-
ed meal for nearly two hundred
persons.

College Revises
Church Cuts

Voluntary church attendance
with compulsory signing up for
cuts is a change for next year
that is being announced to the
student body. Acting upon stu-
dent suggestions, the judicial com-
mittee studied the situation and
planned a new system which has
been approved by the adminis-
trative committee.

The new plan, which is similar
to the trial method of winter quar-
ter, calls for voluntary rather
than compulsory church attend-
ance but retains the practice of
signing for cuts. During the trial
period there was only a slight
difference between the number of
cuts taken that quarter and the
number taken the preceding one
in which attendance with five al-
loted cuts was compulsory. Three
of the cottages reported fewer
cuts during the winter than dur-
ing the fall period.

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One dime from each of us
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the Baccalaureate sermon on Sun-
day, May 28, at 11:00 a. m. in
Gaines chapel.

The Commencement Program
will begin on Saturday, May 7, at
1:00 P. M. with the Trustees'
luncheon for the alumnae and sen-
ior class. After the luncheon there
will be the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association at 3:00 p.

The Sophomore-Senior luncheon
will be on Monday, May 29, at the*
Paradise Room. At 4:00 P. M.,.
senior Class Day exercises will
take place in the May Day dell.
Monday at 8:30 the department of
speech will present a program.

Degrees will be conferred on
Tuesday, May 30, after Mr. David-
son's address to the seniors.

Commencement Program

May 27, Saturday

1:00 P. M., Trustees' luncheon
to the alumnae and senior class.

3:00 P. M., Annual meeting of
the alumnae association.
May 28, Sunday

11:00 A. A., Baccalaureate
sermon, Rev. James L. Fowle,
D. D., First Presbyterian church
Chattanooga, Tenn.

5:30 P. M., Senior vespers.

6:30 P. M., Dessert coffee,
alumnae garden.

May 29, Monday

1:00 P. M., Sophomore-Senior
luncheon.

4:00 P. M., Class Day exer-
cises.

8:30 P. M., Program present-
ed by the department of speech.
May 30, Tuesday

10:00 A. M., Address to the
senior (lass, Dean Philip G.
Davidson, Jr., Vanderbilt Uni-
versity,

Conferring of degrees.

Dot Hunter Is
GAFCW Head

Delegates from all over the
state of Georgia met Saturday,
May 6, at the Piedmont Hotel for
the Georgia Athletic Federation
of College Women convention, and
elected Dot Hunter as their next
president.

The fact that Dot Hunter suc-
ceeds Virginia Tuggle as president
of G. A. F. C. W. is of particular
interest since this makes Agnes
Scott the first college from which
G. A. F. C. W.'s president has
been chosen for two consecutive
years.

Virginia Tuggle, president, pre-
sided over the meeting at which
reports were presented to the
members by the various delegates.

Dot Hunter, in her discussion
about the importance of the Ath-
letic Association to the college
community, placed particular
stress on the value of the
Recreational Leadership course
introduced here on campus this
year.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXIX

Wednesday, May 10, 1944

No. 21

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
<rf Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1 25 ;
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Virginia Drake, Alice Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret
Klnard. Peggy Pat Horne, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston,
Gra.ce Love, Bet Patterson, Mary Azar.

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Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Elolse Lyndon, Anne Lee.

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JLmme Haggard, Peggy Jones, Jane Meadows, Alice Newman, Peggy Wilds,* Laura Win-
chester, Mary Jane Schumaker, Eleanor Hewell, Kathleen Buchanan, Doris Street,
sol Hough.

The Other Half

As Carolyn Hall pointed out two weeks ago, the people
on the Decatur street car can lead one to almost anything
even poetry.

We have not reached the poetry stage yet, but it did occur
to us the other day after careful contemplation of these in
teresting people, that not more than two of them probably
knew the difference between simple and autonomic reflexes
or cared. But we would be willing to wager that all of
them have known for some time that 1944 is an election year
and that there has been some talk about an invasion in the
near future. We have reason to believe that Agnes Scott girls
have been recently amazed to discover both of these facts.

Now we do not mean to suggest by these remarks that Ag-
nes Scott girls in general spend too much time in intellectual
pursuits. We believe that now, more than ever, women in
a liberal college should recognize their responsibility to
books. But there is another side to the picture.

Even in normal times only 15 per cent of the population
goes to college. The other 85 per cent is already out doing
things, and it is part of our job to keep up with what they
are doing.

Good Things of the Mind

The library, it is true, may be the place from which you've
been viewing the great out-of-doors during these last few
weeks of springtime, but in the next few weeks of exam-time
the viewing done by almost everyone will have to be in-
side books, not outside windows. To study most effectively,
we must take advantage of what the library has to offer us.

First of all, we expect the library to provide a quiet place
for study. Responsibility toward that end lies not only with
those who dash in for a few notes after the bookstore closes,
but also with bookworms whose whole livelihood, intellectual
and social, is centered in the library.

In addition, we expect to find the books we need when
we need them. Honor in the library means to avoid the petty
practice of hoarding or hiding books or keeping the cards.
The cards in the reserve room have been designed to locate
books. Your name and the date suggest how to find a book
in use or a misplaced one. Writing the date on an overnight
card is a protection to you. There is another reason, which
you may not know, for signing the green and white cards.
Statistics are kept on the number of times a reserve shelf
is used, and there are compared with those of other colleges.

If, between courses, you need relaxation to prevent retro-
active inhibition, the library can help you in this too. There
are the art gallery, Miss Hanley's special exhibits, newspapers,
and magazines to divert your attention.

And if, under the burden of study and knowledge-seeking,
you become lost and need motivation, look up to the rafters
to the English and Greek maxims. "Seek ye first the good
things of the mind," they say, for "Happy is the man that
findeth wisdom." Obey them by using the library effectively

The Spectator

By Inge Probstein

"Let the Boys Know What
They're Fighting for: Help Up-
lift the Morale of Our Service-
men; Give Them a Subscription
to PM; says the circulation of
PM, the "hypothyroid" little
Manhattan newspaper in our li-
brary. This leaves one wonder-
ing whether the circulation de-
partment is being somewhat
facetious or just doesn't read
PM.

PM is the gadfly in the oint-
ment of easy optimism. It at-
tempts to stir up a minor tem-
pest in the national teapot. It
is an excellent irritant to com-
bat the soothing syrups of vic-
tory in the international scene,
not the morale builder-upper as
such.

Due to the fact that PM car-
ries no advertisements it need not
fear to bruise the tender hearts
of any possible advertising pat
rons. Thus it leans over back
ward to give the public what
it considers "all the dope.'
It is in a unique position to
champion the rights of labor and
minority groups. And it does so
avidly in double and triple spreads
whenever the occasion allows.

Currently PM is playing up
the development, or rather lack
of development, of the sedition
trials in Washington. Last week
it carried a full and most needed
expose of the Avery (Montgom
er.y-Ward) case of civil disobed-
ience. At the same time it is
agitating Mr. Dewey and the rest
of the state of New York on be
half of the soldier vote in the
coming presidential elections. PM
bitterly commented on the "dem-
ocratic" tendencies exhibited by
North Carolina politicians recent-
ly in scrapping their Primary stat-
utes in order to avoid government
interference which might jeopard
ize the white supremacy principle
in the North Carolina Primaries.

PM made much of the recent
DAR convention in New York and
the wisdom of its delegates in
adopting a resolution proposing a
five year period of non-immigra-
tion to the U. S. after the war.
The Atlanta Journal wrote the
same story up on its society page
and put prime emphasis on the
accurate description of the res-
plendence of Mrs. Talmadge's (not
Gene's wife) dress as seen beside
the effulgence of the stuffed dress
next to her.

All this serves as a rather
lengthy prelude to a lament for
PM. PM could bo a highly ben-
eficial stimulant to the creation
of the more sane attitude that
will be needed after the war,
and the realization that dem-
ocracy can not go back to the
easy irresponsibility of the doc-
trine "business as usual./' We
must realize that peace demands
as much effort if not more than
war. The armchair strategy of
peace, we should have learned
by this time, is hardly defensible
if one falls asleep in the arm-
chair.

The people who should read
PM are the very ones whom its
policy wilP offend most. For PM's
sensationalism on behalf of real
problems takes on, at times, the
inferior hue of other tabloids
which resemble it only in size,
and least in purpose. PM's lib-
eralism too easily takes on the
color of still dreaded radicalism.
Its tolerance of minority groups
extends almost to an equal intol-
erance of majority groups guilty
of the same fault.

And so this is my lament for
PM, but I wish more people would
read it.

Seniors Planning Last Fling-
Picnic, Bonfire, Capping Rite

By Nellie Scott

After the last term paper is
written and the ink is faded and
dry, the Seniors may heave those
long-awaited sighs of relief and
look forward to many pre- grad-
uation entertainments. Among the
first of these will be the senior
picnic at East Lake club, Friday,
May 26. Where there are Hot-
tentots, there are "eats," and each
girl will bring her share of the
"grub." The ladies of leisure will
spend the day swimming in the
warm lake, chatting on the big
white raft, or struggling to forget
Diplomatic History.

Book burning and the capping
of the juniors are the last two
events before graduation. On
Monday night, May 27, each sen-
ior will cast into the flames the
book that, as class prexy Carolyn
Daniel expresses it, "She hates
most."

We once heard of a student
of genetics who, before throwing
her books and notes to the flames,
read this poem, called "Ode to a
Chromosome":

"This gruesome genetics has ruin
ed me!

What do I care for the breed of
a flea?

This one thing I know, and do
despise,

I'm dead tired of raising flies."
After book burning, the jun-
iors, clad in white and carrying
their candles, will go down to the
May Day dell where capping oc

curs. In the ceremony, each sen-
ior removes her cap and puts it
on the particular underclassman
she has chosen. Thus the grad-
uating class passes down to each
succeeding one the responsibili-
ties and privileges of being a sen-
ior.

May Day Comments

Occasion: May Day
Time:

Saturday afternoon
Place:

Windowsills in all dorms
Play-by-play weather forecast
All morning Beautiful sun-
shine

4:00 Beautiful sunshine
1:15 Clouds
4:30 Rain
4:45 Hail

5:00 Beautiful sunshine
again

Outcome:

Postponement of May Day
for first time in 40 years

Two days later: Monday, 5:00
More beautiful sunshine

5:05 May Day, one of the
loveliest yet, with its theme
"The Making of the Rainbow"
an apropos title to say the
least.

"Frogs Are So-o-o
Wonderful

By Carolyn Hall

They told me I'd love biology:
"You'll be wild about primitive
digestion," they said; "And there's
nothing like the patter of a hepat-
ic vein." Even Aunt Flo, in a
burst of feeling for the organic,
declared that, "it don't hurt no-
body to know about internal func-
tions " So I, straining toward
a well-rounded education, flung
myself into the flow of gastric
juices and the functions of the
pancreas. I got along pretty well
with zoology's grasshoppers and
botany's dandelions, but then with
third quarter came tests on hu-
man saliva. (I hadn't known that
it was scientific to spit!) And
finally the frog! When I saw my
frog, cold and raw, I decided the
best policy to follow would be that
of fellowship so as I submerged
into its life processes (delved into
digestion; sought for circulation;
and exclaimed over excretion) I
tried to keep a glad heart and a
friendly face. All in all, the study
of the frog gave me a hearty view
of nature in general. When you've
become intimate with an animal's
organs, when you've probed among
body parts to find a ductless
gland, you come to feel a love
for that animal and can say with
much feeling

Little frog, little frog

There by the river,

I have a devotion

For the lobes of your liver.

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Page 3

News From the Art Department The Belles of St. Agnes

Thomas Is Versatile

Although he has only been in
Georgia and at Agnes Scott for
10 months, Mr. Howard Thomas,
of the Agnes Scott Art depart-
ment, has become very active in
Atlanta and Georgia art in vari-
ous ways.

Just last Saturday he acted as
one of the three judges in the
First Exhibition of Georgia Stu-
dent Art. The other judges were
Jean Chariot, of the University of
Georgia, and Miss Verne Bradley,
head of art in the Birmingham
schools. They selected about 250
pieces from a group of 900 enter-
ed by various elementary, junior
high, and senior high schools and
Junior Colleges throughout the
state of Georgia. Scholarships and
awards will be given the winners
and the pieces selected will be on
exhibition in the Fine Arts Gal-
lery at the University of Georgia
from May 2-13.

Also Mr. Thomas is interested
in work with the U. S. O. Since
last January he has been an ad-
visor for this organization in the
states of Tennessee, South Caro-
lina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
and Georgia. His work is to give
guidance to the volunteers and
staff workers who plan the arts
and crafts activities in the U. S. O.
clubs. He plans to make a tour
of several of these clubs in the
near future.

This is the last regular issue
of the Agnes Scott News this
year except for the commence-
ment issue May 30.

v FOOTE AND DAVIES

13 Edgewood

Social Engraving

Special Rates
for

Agnes Scott

Student Art Exhibit

Mr. Howard Thomas has an-
nounced that there will be a Stu-
dent Art Exhibition in the Library
May 16-30.

Each art student will choose
what she considers the best piece
of work and enter it in the exhibi-
tion. These paintings and draw-
ings will come from the class in
Art Structure, and the class in
Design, Drawing and Painting.

There will also be a "special"
corner in the exhibit for works
by exceptional students. The art
students themselves will nominate
and elect the five girls whom
they think have done the best
work in art this year. Each of
the girls who is chosen will ex-
hibit two of her best works in the
"special" corner of the exhibit.

This is Agnes Scott's first stu-
dent art exhibition and will at-
tract wide interest.

Throughout the year, Miss Han-
ley has cooperated with the Art
department in setting up excellent
exhibits which draw many specta-
tors.

Dodd's 'Off PawleyV

"Off Pawley's," an oil painting
by Lamar Dodd, was recently pur-
chased by the college, and will be
placed on display temporarily in
Rebekah Scott, along with other
works by Miss Louise Lewis,

Those who saw the Lamar Dodd
exhibition in the Library last
March, will remember this paint-
ing with its sea oats and clumps
of grass amid white sand dunes,
and its very blue water set against
a dark sky. "Off Pawley's" is a
significant interpretation of a
subject which has gained a na-
tional recognition for Mr. Dodd,
head of the art department at the
University of Georgia. The 20x20
canvas was painted in the summer
of '43.

Through donors, interested in
the art collection of the college,
four paintings by Miss Lewis were
acquired in 1943. Mr. Dodd's
painting was the last addition to
this collection. .

Jean Chariot Lectures

Jean Chariot, artist-in-residence
at the University of Georgia, who
has long been identified with dis-
tinguished Mexican art, lectured
here last evening under the aus-
pices of the Art Department. His
subject was "Geometry and the
Masters."

Mr. Chariot is well qualified
to speak on this subject, because
according to Mr. Howard Thomas,
head of the Agnes Scott Art De-
partment, his work is architectur-
al. This geometric quality is used
to great advantage in Mr. Char-
lot's recently dedicated mural in
the University of Georgia's School
of Journalism.

Now an American citizen, Mr.
Chariot has done work for the
Mexican Government as well as
for the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. He is represented in
collections of the Metropolitan
Museum and the Museum of Mod-
ern Art, New York, and the Phil-
lips Memorial Gallery, Washing-
ton, D. C. He is also known for
his work in illustrating children's
books.

Art lovers will remember the
exhibit of Mr. Chariot's work in
the library earlier in the year.

Spanish Club Elects
Officers, Members

The Spanish club's new officers
are Joan Crangle, president; Bet-
tye Smith, vice-president; Mary
Alice Hunter, secretary; Susan
Kirtley, treasurer; Ruth Gray, so-
cial chairman; Harriet Frierson,
publicity chairman.

New members have also been
chosen. They are Mary Bloxton,
Peggy Jones, Claire Rowe, Daisy
Sundy, Kitty Stanton, Mary Ann
Martin, and Marjorie Harris.

$50 was turned over to the
War Fund as proceeds from the
Fiesta. -

The Spanish club was re-formed
last spring after a number of years
of inactivity.

By Carolyn Fuller

May Day brought many visitors
to the campus last week-end. Some
had their parents with them. Mrs.
McManus and Sue McManus and
Mrs. Heyward Mahon were down
from Greenville, S. C, to see Mar-
garet and Mary Brown. Shannon
Dubose, Ruth Ellis, Carolyn Hall,
Ann Register, Kathryn Johnson,
and Ann Scott also had their
mothers with them for the week-
end. Mr. Currie came from New
York to visit Helen. The Paisleys
and Mrs. Jarbeau were visiting
"Muff" and "Fluff" Paisley. Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Chapman came
to see daughter Dot.

Laura Winchester's visitors
were Jane Sparks from the Uni-
versity of Georgia and Harriotte
Winchester from Macon. Lula
Browne came from West Palm
Beach, Fla., to see "Kitten" Phil-
ips. Other Inman guests were
Pat Patterson and Marie Poulos
from Sumter, S. C, to see Bet
Patterson; Jane Walton, Sara Mil-
ligan, and Robertine Roberts to
see Hilda Taber and Lisbeth Har-
ris; Rhoda Daniels from Toccoa,
Ga., to visit "Tinkem" Iverson.
Roilene Trent from Ninety Six,
S. C, to visit Margaret Kinard;
and "Tim" Castner from Louis-
ville, Ky., to see Betty Allen.

Lisa Marshall and Margaret
Scott's brothers were here for the
week-end.

White House was over-flowing
with week-end guests. Patsy
Jones, Eugenia's sister, was here.
Mary Cumming had her sister,
Jan, and Polly Teasley Wax, Bet-
ty Millikan, Mimi Arnold, Mon-
tese Thomas, and Dale Musser
from Griffin, Ga. Florence Mars
came to see "Joo-Froo." Mrs.
Craig and Sterly Lebey were vis-
iting Joella.

Mary McCalla, Robin Robinson
"Puddin" Bealer, Louise Stan>
Lucy Turner, Jane Anne Newton,
"Leila" Powell, Betty Smith, Glor-
ia Gaines, Eva Williams, Jean
Chewning and Lu Cunnningham

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From a Diamond Merchant

went to the A. K. K. Med dance
at the Biltmore Friday night.
Margaret Scott, looking lovely in
a blue crepe dress, was presented
as sponsor.

Dale Bennett, "Wakey" Wake-
field, Barbara Kincaid, Ruth Ry-
ner, Rite Watson and Shirley Hel-
ler were at the student council
dance at Emory Friday night.
AROUND TOWN

Dancing at the East Lake Coun-
try Club were Mary Jane Fuller,
"Punky" Mattison, Peggy Wilds,
Alice Newman, and B. A. Zeigler,
while Ann Hough, Mary McCalla,
Glassell Beale and "Wakey"
Wakefield were at the Rainbow
Roof.

Pie Ertz, Dot Kahn, Ruth Setel
and Miss Scandrett having dinner
at the Standard Club.

Genia Jones and the Cutest
Man, Lt. Charles Turner, dancing
at the Empire Room.

Louise Breedin, Cathy Stein-
bach, Pie Ertz, and Louise Isaac-
son dancing at the Paradise Room
Wednesday night.

Dancing at the Rainbow Roof
Thursday night were Mary Cum-
ming with Waldo Malory and "Bit-
tie" King with Donald Banks, the
guest of White House. Judging
from the beautiful orchid, he must
like "Bittie" the best.

Ken Miller and his accent, from
Princeton via Fort Benning, and
"Leila" Powell, from the deep
South.

Tall, dark and handsome Joe
Davis, from Philadelphia, Pa.,
and Kathie Hill in the cafeteria
line.

Albert Staley from Emory-at-
Oxford and B. J. Radford.

Eleanor Manley and Paule
Triest entertained at a luncheon
and gadget shower at the Para-
dise Room Saturday for Yoli
Bernabe, who will be married on
June 8. Guests included Yoli's sis-
ter, Helen, Marjorie Tippins, Mary
Carr, Betty Sullivan, Ann Wright,
Martha Rhodes, and Camilla
Moore.

Peggy Gregg and Sue Hutchens
gave a tea Sunday afternoon from
4 till 6 o'clock at Peggy's grand-
mother's home. About 50 board-
ers and day students attended.

At the E. N. O. dance at Emory
Saturday night were Mary Mar-
tin, Lib Osborne, Mary McConkey,
and "Minnie" Mack.

Scotty Newell, Elaine Kunian-
sky, Mary Neely Norris, and Mar-
tha Rhodes attended the Emory
DVS banquet at the Biltmore.
OUT-OF-TOWN

Going home for the week-end
were Ann Jackson to Winder, Ga.;
Martha Polk to Thomaston, Ga.;
Em Clepper to South Pittsburg,
Tenn.; and May Turner to Mc-
Donough, Ga.

Janet Liddell attended the Kap-
pa Kappa Gamma house party at
the University of Alabama.

Frieda Cook spent the week-
end at Wesleyan College in Ma-
con, Ga.

FLASH! Julia Scott and Lt.
Pete Bailey were wed this past
week-end in Albany.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944

Spying on
Sports

By Peggy Kelly

After spending a rainy, disap-
pointing May Day, watching hail
and a modified form of the big
show, Agnes Scott students be-
came over-joyed by "Monday's
Re-showing." Saddest sight on
Saturday were the tumblers,
scraping the skin off with the
chalk make-up before they were
able to perform. Their show
couldn't go on because of the
hardness of the gym floor. Con-
grats to all those who persevered
and participated in either per-
formance, and especially to Mrs.
Lapp, Miss Dozier, and Tommie
Huie.

This year we're going to con-
tinue having organized gym
classes until exams. Relaxation in
the sports department before the
fateful weeks should help any
"brain-strainers" (if there be sech
in th' Spring). May-Dayers will
have a choice as to which sport
they wish to indulge in to finish

Glee Club to Give
Oratorio, "Elijah"

Selections from Mendelssohn's
"Elijah" will be presented on May
15 at 8:00 p. m. by the combined
Agnes Scott and Georgia Tech
Glee clubs under the direction of
Mr. Lewis Johnson.

The guest artists will be Mrs.
Frances G. Stukes, contralto so-
loist, Mr. Walter Herbert, bass
soloist, and Mr. Vaughn Ozmer,
tenor soloist. Members of the glee
club in the cast are Barbara Con-
nally, Joella Craig, and Cordelia
DeVane, soprano soloists. Mr.
Dieckmann will be organist.

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Get on the
Sunny Side!

and bare your back
in

Sunsuits

Swimsuits

Slacks and Halters

Rich's Third Floor Is
ready for Summer
Sun and Fun.

I the year. It's been a swell year
for the "sporters" so let's keep
on to the bitter end.

The A. A. Board-sponsored pic-
nic was held at Harrison Hut
Tuesday aft. Between eating and
singing, the group had a gay ole
time. Apologies are in order to
Sally Sue Stephenson, who swam
90 lengths and whose name was
omitted in the last two issues of
this column.

Now that we are having a lit-
tle sun (well, once a week is good
for Atlanta weather), we should
be able to play off the tennis tour-
nament matches. Ryner-Register
are to play Andrews-Hough to see
which team will enter the semi-
finals. Tuggle-Monroe are to
play Turner-Kelly; Webb-Gaines
are to play Slack-Milam. The
winning team of these two mat-
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A Bedtime Story
Once upon a time there lived
a happy junior, who sang and
danced and went to lab all day
long. One day, as she was stand-
ing in lunch line, feeling no fore-
boding of evil, another junior
came up and started talking to
her. Now this other junior, in
spite of her friendly, innocent
appearance, turned out to be an
editor. Speaking in guileful, hon-
eyed tones, and using the editor-
ial we, she said, "My dear, how
well you look. Will you be one
of our columnists?" "A column-
ist?" quizzically replied the jun-
ior, who wasn't very bright. "What
is that?" "Why," said the editor
thinking fast, "a columnist is
one who writes a column. We
want you to write a humor col-
umn." "What is a humor col-
umn?" asked the junior. Quot-
ing from the Survey of Journal-
ism, which she had memorized
from cover to cover, the editor an-
swered, "The humor column is a
melange of editorial paragraphs,
epigrams, gags, wisecracks, hu-
morous and sentimental verse,
puns, and verbal and typographi-
cal oddities." "Why, it seems very
simple," said the junior. "I ac-
cept." "That's fine," said the edi-
tor, then added with a leer, "You
know, of course, that you must
write five hundred words and must
always turn them in on time. Lit-
tle columnists who are late don't
live very long. Heh! Hen!" "Hey,
wait a minute," said the junior,
but the editor had disappeared.

From this time forth, there ap-
peared a radical change in the
junior. She no longer sang and
danced and went to lab all day.
Instead, she hid behind doors and
under beds, always listening, lis-
tening. From a retiring introvert,
she became a person who walked
up to strangers and said, "Pardon
me, but you look as if something
funny might have happened to you
once. Did it?" Her friends, not
wanting to have their every word
and deed presented to the public,
began to avoid her, subtly slam-
ming their doors when she ap-
proached, and lapsing into silence
when she managed .to climb in
their windows. Unlike the other
girls, who loved to see the week
ends come, the junior dreaded the
approach of Saturday, when once
again she must take her typewrit-
er in hand. She learned, the hard
way, that "There are fields, of
course, that the columnist learns
to avoid, from being bruised on
previous invasions." Things rap-
idly grew worse. Graduation and
exams were approaching, and no
one would be funny. Tragedy fill-
ed the air. "Well," said the jun-
ior, "since humor is lacking, I
will turn to the serious things of
life. I will write a tragedy and
call it 4 A Bedtime Story'." And
she did. And isn't it tragic?

Speech Department to
Present Choral Program

The Speech Department will
present a choral speaking group at
the Commencement Program on
April 29 in Presser Hall. The
group is made up of around 20
girls who will read three groups
of three poems each.

The group who will read the
poems is being directed by Miss

Frances Gooch.

Martha Marie Trimble, Mary
Dozier, Marguerite Watson, Peggy
Willmon and Betty Long are
among those who will give indi-
vidual readings. N

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camp.

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Now the organ's strains are dimming
Debby and her love are fJovra

O'er the road of life they re skimming -
While the losers, lifeless, moan.

There goes Debby, happ'ly wedded!

(May her life be milk and moss!)
And, my dears, if you'd be headed

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944

NO. 22

Forming? a procession to Presser hall today were 94 seniors who received their degrees at the 55th
commencement exercise held at Agnes Scott.

Jo Young Wins Jewel
As Hopkin's Ideal

Virsinia Carter Wins Collegiate Scholarship;
7 Seniors Graduate With High Honors

At commencement exercises this morning in Presser hall,
Dr. J. R. McCain announced the following awards for the
1943-44 session:

The Hopkins Jewel Given by .ington, D. C, and Miss Marjorie

Davidson Stresses

COMMUNITY, EDUCATION,
TRUSTS OF CITIZENSHIP

(Complete text of eommenre-ment address by Dean Philip G.
Davidson, of Vanderbilt.)

Two hundred years ago this year a little handful of stu-
dents were graduated from the only two colleges in English
America and began their careers, as will this class in the midst
of war. It seems a long time ago, those two hundred years,
a different age. Gentlemen wore knee britches and read by
oil lamps as did the Greeks, and '

even sixty years later Jefferson
could get from his home in Vir-
ginia to the White House no fast-
er than could Caesar from the
Rubicon to Rome. James Watt
was a seven-year-old youngster
who had probably never seen a
Newcomen engine, and railroads
were still three quarters of a cen-
tury off, automobiles and airplanes
a century and a half.

In that far-off day, Asia trou-
bled no one in Europe. Japan was
asleep in the years of great peace,
and Australians and Hawaiians
had another thirty years before be-
ing discovered by Captain Cook.
Germany was a pitiful bundle of
three hundred states, and Italy
loafed in the Mediterranean sun-
light while Edward Gibbon poked
among its ruins and brooded upon
its past.

English America was a little
band of less than a million colon-
ists huddled between the moun-
tains and the ocean with not even
a stage coach operating regularly
between any of its towns, and little
or no unity among its disparate,
quarrelsome governments.

It seems a long time ago, those
two hundred years, for never in the
world's history have so many and
so great changes taken place. The
rate of change itself has acceler-
ated each year, so that now noth-
ing is more lifeless than last
week's newspaper, and a Model T
Ford and Lindbergh's airplane
seem as strange and remote in
time as the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don's carriage.

Changes

In the industrial revolution, the
American and French Revolutions,
and the nameless but perhaps even
more upsetting revolution in
thought were generated those en-
ormous and accelerating forces
which have produced the violent
events of our own lifetime. The
members of this class in the short

twenty years of their lives have
gone from the peak of prosperity
under Coolidge and Hoover
through the global depression of
the thirties to this greatest of
wars.

These forces affect every fea-
ture of our lives, and under their
drive we seem whirled along
through events of great magnitude
and complexity.

Size

Every trend of our day is toward
size, and every problem seems
magnified beyond solution. World
government and world currency,
super banks and super markets
are commonplaces of conversation.
Huge government and huge busi-
ness grow hand in hand. When
this war is over, the United States
will have the greatest producing
power any nation ever had. We will
have the greatest supply of trained
labor, the greatest savings and in-
come for purchasing power, and
the greatest pent-up demand for
goods in the history of the world.
The resources of the future are
almost beyond comprehension.
Problems

Our social adjustments are on
the same vast scale. Twenty-seven
million will have to shift employ-
ment when the war is over, whole
communities will be moved. Race
tensions mount on a global, not a
domestic front, and organized la-
bor like big business has trans-
cended the size of many govern-
ments. The proposed standing
army of two million men and com-
pulsory military service for every
American boy will make radical
changes in the pattern of our lives.

Here then are the massive move-
ments of our time. As we face the
task of living under them and try-
ing in some degree to control them,
we seem tiny, dismayed and fright-
ened.

Past Ages

But the world has always had
(Continued on Page 4)

Faith, Hope,
Charity
Dr. J. T. Fowle

Scripture 1 Corinthians 13.
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:13.
"Aiitl now abideth fait/?, hofe,
love, these three, but the great-
est of these is love."

A few days ago at the courthouse
in Chattanooga I was present with
125 of our boys from Hamilton
County who were inducted into the
armed forces of our country. As I
stood with mothers and fathers
and sweethearts and friends and
said "Good-bye" to these young
men. so many of whom I knew
by name and had seen grow up in
my own church, a question kept
coming to my mind which could
not be denied "What are they
taking with them?" Perhaps a
photograph, a letter, a Testament.
They faced an unknown future,
taking with them the hopes and
fears and prayers of us all.

You are passing today another
milestone in the onward advance
of your progress. As you face to-
morrow with its uncertainties, its
dangers and its challenges, what
are you taking with you? What
(Continued on Page 8)

the College in honor of Miss Nan-
nette Hopkins, former Dean of
the College. It is awarded by a
committee of the faculty to the
member of the senior class who
most nearly measures up to the
ideals of Miss Hopkins, as the
committee can interpret them, in-
cluding conspicuous loyalty to the
College, ideals of service, ability
to cooperate, physical fitness,
poise, and graciousness. Awarded
this year to Miss Josephine Young,
Anderson, S. C.

The Collegiate Scholarship
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 part tuition $285.00
for the next session. Given this
year to Miss Virginia Carter, Nor-
ton, Virginia. Honorable mention:
Miss Inge Probstein, Drexel Hill,
Pa.; Miss Peggy Willmon, Deca-
tur, Ga. (Miss Jodele Tanner of
Atlanta did exceptional work, but
could not be considered for this
award because she is an acceler-
ated student.)

Rich Prize The sum of $50.00
given annually by Rich's of At-
lanta, to the member of the fresh-
man class making the best record
for the session. Divided between
Miss Helen Currie, Scarsdale, N.
Y., and Miss Christina Yates, Au-
gusta, Ga. Honorable mention:
Miss Ann Hagood Martin, Easley
S. C.

Piano Scholarship Divided be-
tween Miss Mary Katherine Glenn,
Atlanta, and Miss Ruth Simpson,
Gainesville, Fla.

Voice Scholarship Divided be-
tween Miss Barbara Frink, Wash-

Naab, Atlanta.

Speech Scholarship Miss Peggy
Willmon, Decatur, Ga.

Laura Candler Prize in Mathe-
matics Given by Mrs. Nellie
Candler of Decatur for best work
in the department. Given this
year to Miss Claire Bennett, Yazoo
City, Miss.

Louise McKinney Book Award
of $25.00, named in honor of Pro-
fessor Emeritus Louise McKinney
and given for the most discrimin-
ating collection of books acquired
during the past year. Won by Miss
Shirley Graves, Atlanta. Honor-
able mention: Miss Ceevah Rosen-
thal, Lynchburg, Va.; Miss Fran-
ces DuBose, Greenville, S. C.

Senior Honors (Based on the
work of the session 1943-1944
only) : Claire Bennett, Yazoo City,
Miss.; Mary Codington, Atlanta,
Ga.; Barbara Connally, Tampa,
Fla.; Martha Jane Gray, Smith-
ville, Ohio; Gwendolyn Hill, Atlan-
ta, Ga.; Ruth Kolthoff, Miami,
Fla.; Katheryne Thompson Man-
gum, Atlanta, Ga.; Mary Florence
McKee, Columbus, Ga.; Anne Sale,
Atlanta, Ga.; Anna Sullivan, At-
lanta, Ga.; Eudice Tontak, At-
lanta, Ga.; Mary Elizabeth Wal-
ker, Decatur, Ga.; Anne Ward,
Selma, Ala.; Ruth Wolson, Atlan-
ta, Ga.

Graduation Honors (Covering
the work of the entire four years) :
"With high honor": Claire Ben-
nett, Yazoo City, Miss.; Martha
Jane Gray, Smithville, Ohio;
Gwendolyn Hill, Atlanta, Ga.;
Ruth Kolthoff, Miami, Fla.; Mary
Florence McKee, Columbus, Ga.;
Eudice Tontak, Atlanta, Ga.; Anne
Ward, Selma, Ala. "With honor":
Mary Codington, Atlanta, Ga.;
Barbara Connally, Tampa, Fla.

Hottentots Strike Medium of Work
And Play In Varied Vacation Plans

By Martha Baker

"Summertime, and the darkies gay.
Summertime, and the darkies singing "
Summertime and where is the hottentot? As I pick each
daisy. I listen intently. Plans fill the air for prospects of sum-
mer fun and work.

First on the list of vacation thrills for Agnes Scott girls is
the house party up above Walhal

la, S. C, where Annette Neville
is taking a crew of juniors. Could
it be that she will attempt to
convert them to the customs of
the Walhalla hills and devulge the
secret of the mountaineers' power
to harmonize? "Reggie," Joan
Crangle, "Beetle," Claire Rowe,
Martha Polk, Doris Purcell, and
Mary Russell are those counted
in on the occasion.

Not to be outdone, six of White
House's crew plan to "blitz" Myr-
tle Beach after graduation. A

whole week of sun, song, and so-
cializing, climaxed by rushing
down to Joofroo's wedding in Al-
bany, Ga., will start the summer
of these newly dignified seniors.

Robin Robinson, Bunch Beaver,
Lucy Turner, Julia Harvard, Mar-
garet McManus, Joyce Gilleland,
and Claudia Brownlee plan to hit
the navy for June Week at An-
napolis.

But perhaps you wonder if the
whole summer will consist of
houseparties and June Weeks for

Miss Agnes' girls. Here you are
wrong, for minds of all Hotten-
tots are turned to more construc-
tive ways. Any number expect
to go to "summer school." The
speed of wartime acceleration
urges us onward, and three
months of vacation means mere-
ly a change of work . . . perhaps
in a more pleasant form.

Those taking advantage of the
Recreational Leadership course
are "Dootsie" Gardner, Anne
Stine, Janet Liddell, Alice Gor-
don, Sally Sue Stephenson and
several others, who will be coun-
sellors at summer camps. They
will gain valuable experience
for "mothering" next year's
"Fresh."

White Collar Jobs
A number of girls are planning

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944

The Agnes Scotf News

Vol. XXIX

Wednesday, May 30, 1944

No. 22

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Ann Hough.

Do You Remember

SEPTEMBER

13 Registration (we Hottentots
stood in line for hours. The
upperclassmen caught up on
the summer's gossip and the
freshmen got acquainted.)

14 C. A. picnic where sponsors
and freshmen ate and sang to-
gether.

17 Classes began.

18 Reception on the Quadrangle
(The freshmen met the fac-
ulty, and everybody went for-
mal.)

25 A. A. Circus in the gym. (Mrs.
Lapp, as the trained seal; Miss
Rutledge and Miss Willburn
as Willie-Rut, the horse!)

OCTOBER

2 Sophomore party for the
freshmen in the gym.

9 Black Cat stunt with the
freshmen victorious in "Ro-
meow and Julicat" over the
sophomores' "G.I.T.T.S."

16 Faculty Bacon Bat.

20 Tennis clinic where we saw
the professionals, Mary Hard-
wick and Dorothy Round Lit-
tle.

23 Skating party for the trans-
fers with Mortar Board as
hostesses.

28 Blackfriars* costume show for
War Fund. (Remember Miss
Wilson's gym suit, and the
prize winner, Miss Wilburn,
in an attractive bathing suit
and red parasoL)

NOVEMBER

3 Swimming meet. (Who can
forget the perfection of the
Harvard twins' tandems?)

5 Little Girls' Day when the
seniors played "Farmers in
the Dell" with three important
males on the quadrangle.

6 Investiture when the seniors
took on that lasting (?) dig-
nity, and were capped by Miss
Scandrett.

10, IT, 20 Freshman parties giv-
en by Mortar Board.

17 Blood unit here, and W.S.S.F.
in chapel.

23 Freshmen Fundamentals dem-
onstration.

25 Cotillion club dance.

26 "Shubert Alley." Blackfriars'
fall production.

DECEMBER

3 Faculty-Varsity hockey game.
8 Exams begin, and freshmen

got their first taste of blue

books and the stacks.
11 C. A. Christmas party for chil-

dren, with presents for all the
kiddies and Molly as Santa.

12 Carol service in Presser.

15 Christmas vacation began of-
ficially. (And a glorious three
weeks at home seeing the fam-
ily, girls, and boys who could
get leaves. We did not for-
get that it was a wartime
Christmas though.

JANUARY

5 Classes began at 8:30. (Every-
one was raving over new pins
and engagement rings. We
had a prosperous Christmas.

7 Junior tea for freshmen.

13 I. R. C. apple roast for the
War Fund.

20 Eta Sigma Phi spelling match.

26 Mortar Board's sophomore
party.

FEBRUARY

11 "H. M. S. Pinafore" put on
by the Agnes Scott and Tech
glee clubs.

17 Blackfriars' one act plays.

19 "Junior Joint" for the War
Fund. Remember the fresh-
men's "Doll Shop" skit which
won the prize for originality
and the seniors' skit of go-
ing under the pole?

23 Swimming pageant, "Hiawa-
tha."

25 Town meeting.

29- 4 Religious Emphasis Week

with Dr. Kenneth Forman.

MARCH

3 Brown Jug basketball tourna-
ment.
9 Exams again

16 Spring vacation short, but
sweet !

21 Spring quarter begins "and
in the spring ..."

23 Chi Beta Phi "Quiz Kids" pro-
gram for War Fund.

24 Activities tea where the
freshmen met the big shots
and told their interests in
campus activities.

27 "Study in Black and White"
a musicale by the sophomores
for the War Fund.

30- 31 Elections.

APRIL

1 Mortar Board was announced
with everybody happy. Fresh-
man boarder-day student
spend-the-night party in In-
man.

9 Easter and the Maid's Office
was filled with corsage boxes.

20 Blackfriars' "Cradle Song."
Zena won the Bennett cup for

Class Poem

By Tommie Huie

We who have shared the lavish
shelter

Of Inman, of Rebekah, of Main,

Who quite by chance,

Because of birth and fate and

accident
Have come together
And been called a class
Are not a perfect group.

With our various faiths and
tempers

With the cleavage of our college
years

By war

We are a restless class:
Dissenting ....
Resenting . . .
Lamenting . . .

A schizoid class

But not without a certain
harmony

Enhanced perhaps by discord.

We were audacious to break
traditions.

We were courageous to make tra-
ditions.

Our victories were few

But for losing also there's a talent.

We are not an inglorious class:

Repenting . . .

Consenting . . .

Inventing . . .

So in these last days
We pause for introspection
And look upon our baffling, ran-
dom unity.
We roam once more through
Rebekah, through Inman, through
Main

Through the basement haunts of

day-students
We search each other's faces
We doff our mortar boards
And part.

being the best actress of the
year!

22 Spanish Fiesta for War Fund.

28 Representative Council met.

29 Glee club program.
MAY

1 C. A. picnic.

6 Phi Beta Kappa announced
in chapel.

May Day, but it rained for the
first time in 40 years.
8 May Day again with the
weather beautiful. "Making
of the Rainbow" was lovely,
and Robin was a beautiful
May Queen.

10 Junior-Senior picnic on the
little quadrangle. (Joella sang
and Miss Scandrett guessed
the sign on her back as "Bet-
ty Boop."

11 Reinhold Neibuhr's lecture on
the "Total Crisis of Civiliza-
tion."

19 Fact test for 211. The soph-
omores knew quotations bet-
ter than Shakespeare who
wrote them.-

22 Exams for the last time this
year. (We lived in the library,
coming up for air and meals.-

26 Senior picnic at Venetian pool.
(They returned weary and
sunburned but happy.

28 Baccalaureate sermon by Dr.
J. L. Fowle.

29 Class Day in the May Dell
with the sophomores' daisy
chain. Besides this, the soph-
omores had to carry the bags
under their eyes from two
nights of no sleep. Rain.
Speech recital.

30 Commencement Dean Philip
Davidson addressed the sen-
iors, they got their sheepskins,
and the year of 1943-44 was
over. It was a busy year,
but a wonderful year, packed
with fun.

Prophet Tuggle Sees Future
For Hottentot Class of 1944

By Virginia Tuggle

The prophecy for the class of 1944 is filled with happiness
and success for some, excitement and adventure for many
others.

This morning, May 29, 4963, Ellen Arnold, of the class of
1944, was seen arriving at Candler Field flying the Army's
new B-29. She looked very trim '

in her khaki uniform of the WASP.

Claire Bennett and Anne Sale,
of the T. V. A., were seen lunch-
ing with Betsey White, a chemical
engineering aide from Wilson Dam.

Robin Taylor Horneffer, Kath-
ryn Thompson Mangum, Quincy
Mills Jones, Mary Frances Walker
Blount, Mary Beth Danielson Wal-
ker, Bettye Faye Ashecraf t Senter,
Zena Harris Temkin, Harriett
Kuniansky Ross, Julia Scott
Bailey and Lib Beasley Jordan
were all attending the Young
Mother's Club of Agnes Scott
Alumnae for a course in child care.

Major Jean T. Clarkson, of the
WAC, was in town yesterday for
a conference with General Fred-
erick E. Uhl, of the 4th Service
Command. f

New Drug

Mary Codington and Margaret
Drummond, of the Emory Univer-
sity Department of Chemistry,
have just published a paper ex-
plaining the use of a new drug
synthesized by them, alpha amino
beta oxyphenyl, 3-methoxy, 4-hy-
droxy benzaldehyde, by name.

Katherine Philips, whom you
probably remember as "Kitten,"
has just celebrated her 19th year
as head of the Agnes Scott Book
Store long live Kitten Philips!

Mary Carr, Ruth Wolson and
Camilla Moore are often seen
around Rich's, where they are pop-
ular executives.

A familiar figure with a rapt
expression is often seen about the
cold Royal Libraries in London.
She is Dr. Mary Florence McKee,
who for the past twenty years has
been attempting to trace the rise
and fall of the Romance of Schol-
arship. It is rumored that she also
has an interest in c[og skeletons.
Letter from Bunny

Letters are often received from
Bunny Gray Click, who is the wife
of the Wrong Reverend E. Dale
Click, who is President of the Cali-
fornia Sinners. Bunny has written
that the field is badly in need of
cultivation.

Mary Maxwell, whom you prob-
ably remember in connection with
that admirable organization, the
Agnes Scott Athletic Association,
is now teaching the science of
mathematics to the children of
Ubangi Land, whom Mary claims
can factor (x2 plus y2).

Several weeks ago Miss Pat
Evans, 2nd International Vice-
President of Librarians Guild of
America, visited Ann Jacob, who
spends her days in the cultivation
of her 199 acre victory garden in
upper New York State.

Physical Education

Ruth Farrior and Agnes Doug-
las are in Maine attempting to edu-
cate the physically uneducated
through teaching physical educa-
tion.

Catherine Kolloch has just set
sail for the Aegean Sea, where she
will seek an answer to the age-old
question of "at what altitude was
Icarus when he fell" and did he
or did he not surpass the flight of
the Wright Brothers at Kitty
Hawk.

Popsey's Book

Betty Pope Scott has begun her
work on a book entitled "Why Hot-
tentots Have Bags Under Their
Eyes" and all Agnes Scott Alum-
nae are looking forward to its pub- I

lication with a great deal of pleas-
ure.

Miss Cordelia Ann Ward is often
seen about the campus carrying
her volume of Dante (as of yore)
and efficiently executing her many
duties as first executive secretary
to Miss Carrie Scandrett. ,
Medically Minded

Aurie Montgomery, Elise Tilgh-
man, Miriam Walker and Ann
Wright visited Captain Jo Young,
of the Army Nurses' Corps at Pres-
byterian Hospital in New York.
Aurie, Elise, Miriam and Ann are
in New York for the annual con-
vention of Medical Technologists.

Speaking along medical lines,
last Friday Dr. Mary Elizabeth
Walker and Dr. Virginia Tuggle
made a cross-country hop in order
to attend the cocker spaniel of
Gwen Hill. Gwen's dog was taken
to the hospital at Chapel Hill,
where an operation will be per-
formed to remove a Phi Beta Kap-
pa key from her esophagus, which
she swallowed while teething.
Marriage Class

Next week, Miss Eudice Tontak
will speak to the Marriage Class
at Agnes Scott on the subject "The
Family As a Social Unit." Many of
her friends are hoping to see her
during her stay in Atlanta.

The press has just released the
volume of nation-wide interest:
Etiquette of the Engaged Girl, or
Little Lambsie Divy. The joint
editors Carolyn Daniel, Miriam
Davis, Lib Edwards, Bobbie Pow-
ell, Marjorie Smith, Smiley Wil-
liams, Kay Bisceglia, "Miss Squee"
Woolford and Mary Frances Car-
ter have agreed to serve on the
Agnes Scott Matchmakers Com-
mittee. This committee will carry
on the work begun so admirably by
Lt. Col. Robinson, formerly of the
Mathematics Department.

Julia and Elizabeth Harvard,
"The Tall Talented Twins of the
Tacoma Tank Team," were seen
taking all honors in tandem swim-
ming in a recent national meet.
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Page 3

Kitten Reviews Colorful History
From Freshmen to Graduates

By Katherine Phillips

Do you remember that day when you were just about to
melt in your new woolen suit, felt hat, stockings, gloves, etc.,
all for the sake of wearing your new fall outfit to your new
home at Agnes Scott? Well, all of us were found 'guilty of
this in September, 1940.

We freshmen were not only
''cohorts in misery" as when we
labored over those entrance exams,
but also we knew we were going
to like it at dear old "Agony
Spot," because we liked those peo-
ple we met on the quadrangle at
the Formal Reception, down at
Harrison Hut at the C. A. picnic,
on the steps of Main singing after
supper, and in the lobby of Inman
at the pajama party. Then we got
real familiar with the term "101,"
because there was English 101,
History 101, Biology 101, etc. Con-
sequently, we settled down to liv-
ing by alarm clocks and bells.
Black Cat Blues

Another bell that got a good
bit of our attention about this
time was the one we wanted to
put on the black cat at the stunt.
Our competitors, the sophomores,
invited us to come to a shipwreck
party not long before the stunt,
and we were to come as we were
when the ship went down. Don't
ask what we wore because it was
evident some of us were not ex-
pecting the ship to go down when
it did. Anyway, we worked hard
on our stunt, but "From Circus
Lots to Hottentots" or "The Ad-
ventures of Greenling Brothers'
Circus" or "We Got the Black
Panther" did not exactly bell the
black cat.

About Hallowe'en, Mortar
Board thought we needed social-
izing and they even imported men
from Tech and Emory. Then that
don't say you've forgotten the
appendicitis epidemic, Squee! Al-
most thirty other appendices were
allergic, too even Dr. Jones was
among the number in the hospital
before the epidemic was over.

Then we had our first experi-
ence with the little blue exam
books. By the time we heard the
college Christmas choir with the
candles and white dresses at the
annual Sunday afternoon carol
service, we were so thrilled about
going home for the holidays, we
even got up before day the last
day we were here to join the rest
of the campus in caroling at our
faculty homes.

We had a wonderful two weeks
at home, but we got back just in
time for the flu epidemic.

We Become Joiners

It wasn't long before we faced
those exam schedules and little
blue books again. Then we were
at home for spring holidays and
back again. Time was really fly-
ing. Then we started trying out
for the clubs on campus that ap-
pealed to us the most. It's nice
that we appealed to them too; at
least, they took us in and we
felt more and more like we be-
longed here.

Then we tore hair, trying to get
all we possessed into one trunk,
two suitcases, and a box, and at
the same time, studying for our
final exams one was almost as
bad as the other, but not quite!
Our first year at college was over,
and amidst a few tears and dashes
back up the steps for things we
had forgotten, we said "goodbye"
for three months to the place we
called our Alma Mater.

We weren't home much longer
than the time it required the reg-
istrar to send us our grades and
for us to recuperate from the ef-
fects of them some of us had

Katherine Phillips

been pleasantly surprised and
then some of us were just surpris-
ed! Then, as "Sophomore helpers"
we wrote to those freshmen whom
we were so anxious to show
around the place when we got
back in September '41. One of the
highlights on campus was our
wonderful abode the beautifully
rejuvenated Main.

In one of our first chapels of
the year, we were real proud of
the eleven out of thirty-one hon-
or roll students announced from
our class for the previous year.
Then we started getting excited
about the Black Cat stunt again
but we didn't get quite excited
enough because we still couldn't
get that bell around the -cat's
neck.

Then the day came to form the
aisle in our white dresses for our
sister class to walk down at In-
vestiture.

Then that Sunday afternoon
came when we were startled about
Pearl Harbor. We felt a new ser-
iousness the next day when we lis-
tened to the radio, whether in a
class or the dormitory, to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's declaration of
war. We went home that Christ-
mas being more and more im-
pressed that we lived in a coun-
try at war.

Proud of Our War Effort
When we got back a new addi-
tion to the campus was our war
council and we set $1000 as our
war fund goal. We learned that
things cost not only money but
coupons. We saved paper, smash-
ed tin cans, enrolled in first aid
classes, started planning programs
to raise money, and also ways to
spend the time in the basement of
Presser between two and three
o'clock A. M., during an air raid.

We felt real happy about the
success of our Sophomore Bond
Night.

Then we struggled over choos-
ing our majors and minors.

In May we had a very special
occasion real, live military and
naval escorts were in our May
Court. After some more "chal-
lenges," better known as final
exams, we really had a time! All
night long before class day, we
were on Inman porch tying little
bunches of daisies on the long
daisy chain which was ours to
carry this year. How those In-
maninies loved us for keeping
them awake all night and for
filling their bath tubs with daisies
and daisies and daisies and some
more daisies. We hated to tell
our sister class "good-bye," be-
cause we hardly knew Agnes Scott
without them.

We Sponsor the Frosh
September came again tho' and
we felt real important as spon-

sors. One of the first places we
wanted to show our sponsorees
was our new skating rink which
has more recently become famous
for Mortar Board parties, skating
reviews, and unpleasant souvenirs
for us beginners.

Then came that wonderful an-
nouncement: one month for
Christmas holidays but: P. S.
No spring vacation.

In February Religious Emphasis
Week brought Bishop Moore
whose messages made us think.
Then we did more thinking over
the concentrated war weekend.

Then came the day we had
looked for ever since we were
freshmen looking through the din-
ing room windows yes, it was our
Junior Banquet day. Ours was
different because everything was
different in wartime. We had no
corsages and our men were in uni-
forms. Afterwards we entertained
our dates at Blackfriars' play
"Time for Romance" subtle,
weren't we?

And who doesn't remember St.
Peter, Gabriel, and the guardian
angel in "Our Day and Welcome
to It." No college generation
should miss that Faculty Review!
Then eleven of us were elected to
Mortar Board. Our turn came to
sponsor Mardi Gras.

After a beautiful May Day
came the A. A. Banquet, and we
took the Athletic Cup for the year
home with us.

It was exciting to hold a candle
for a senior at bookburning and
go to the private capping service
afterwards but it startled us too
we were the rising seniors af-
ter that!

Seniors at Last

When we got back in September
'43, there was no doubt in our
minds that we were those people
called Seniors because we sudden-
ly got popular. In other words, we
were the senior chaperones.

We were real proud of Agnes
Scott's new Art Department and
it was much fun to catch up on
the summer's happenings in our
new cafeteria line.

Then our weekend came. On
a certain Friday, we wore oursel-
ves out just playing as little
girls. We even had three disting-
uished gentlemen on our campus
playing "The Farmer's in the
Dell" with us. But then on Sat-
urday we robed ourselves in our
black senior dignity and listened
to Dr. Hayes at Investiture.

When we saw the blood bank
truck on campus, we were remind-
ed again of our responsibility in
this war. After Christmas we
started attending marriage classes
for seniors and engaged girls. Our
class made $40 on our project for
the $100a war fund drive.

"Cradle Song" will never be
forgotten, and we were so proud
of Zena with the Claude S. Ben-
nett Cup. The distinguished Rein-
hold Niebuhr came to Agnes Scott
this spring. Then came the day
when everyone was looking up.
Remember when we were chang-
ing our guesses every fifteen min-
utes as to whether the clouds
would blow over or not. Maybe
Tommie should not have named
the scenario "Making of the Rain-
bow"! However, we had May Day
on Monday, and Robin reigned as
queen.

Brains and Brawn

That weekend we not only saw
beauty among us, but brains-
nine of us made Phi Beta Kappa.
We have the brawn too at the
A. A. recognition service they
gave us the Athletic cup again.
From then on, we did not know
who our roommates were because
we spent all our time in the li-
brary and exam rooms. Evidently
we made the grade, because here

Hottentots

(Continued from Page 1)

to "pound the typewriter" and
pursue the "white Collar girl jobs".
Many will put in practice the re-
sults of this school year. "Blitz"
Roper plans to work in the East-
man Kodak Company in the lab-
oratory.

Also working in laboratories
will be Vicky Alexander, Jean
Stewart, and Leila Holmes. Alice
Newman will- be taking a Nurses'
Aide course.

The Paisley twins will stay in
Atlanta not far from "the shel-
tering arms" where they will be
typists in the Candler Warehouse.
Anne Stubbs is going to work at
the Atlanta Telephone Company.
Government Gals

"Government gals" will be Edith
Burgess, who has a job with the
State Revenue Department in Ral-
cigh. and Lorenna Ross, who will
work for the O. P. A.

Hikers

Pie Ertz is going to work for
Associated Press in Buffalo. Mary
Jane Love will teach in the Bible
schools in Charlotte, where she
has a "car, good salary, and good
hours" all furnished.

"Giny," Inge, Mary Cumming,
Wendy, Anne Ward, Pat Elam,
and Lib Farmer are planning an
interesting trip walking on a
hostel way "up in the hills" for

we are today. Eight of us are
Mrs., some of us are still Miss,
and the rest are in the transition
period.

We have our pink noses from
the senior picnic, we've met the
Alumnae Association, and had
our Bacculaureate sermon. Last
night we burned books and cap
those who will take our places. To-
day we hear Dr. Davidson, Miss
Scandrett puts our hoods on us,
we sing our Alma Mater, and walk
out with a degree. But our history
is not ended. Our life at Agnes
Scott the discouraging, as well
as the encouraging, the hard, as
well as the happy parts of it-
has helped make the foundation
stronger on which we stand as we
look into the unsettled world of
1944.

two weeks. They plan to drive
a cow in front so that they can
have milk every day. On the last
day they are going to kill the
cow and have steak. While the
others walk, Pat and Lib say they
are going to ride behind in a car
and laugh at the hikers.

The typical summer of the Ag-
nes Scotters consists of a happy
medium of fun and work. Sep-
tember will find browned individ-
uals hurrying into Main, talking
madly of summer work and play.
Now excitement bubbles high,
though, for "the summertime" lies
ahead.

Earn While
You Learn

This is not a commercial school,
but one of the largest operators
of photograph studios in the
southeastern states. We are of-
fering, to qualified applicants,
an opportunity to learn photog-
raphy. This offer is open to
women only and is limited in
the number of applicants that
will be accepted. To qualify,
applicant must have at least a
High School Diploma, prefer-
ably two years of college, not
under twenty-one years of age,
or over thirty-five. You will be
paid a nominal salary while
training and if you qualify, on
final examination, you will be
given a one year contract at a
salary commensurate with your
ability, as established in the pro-
fession of photography. You
may be assigned to any one of
the large southern cities after
completing training. Write J. C.
Whitlock, Studio Laboratories,
334 West Peachtree Street, At-
lanta, Georgia, giving full par-
ticulars about yourself and en-
close a small photograph. Do
not call in person for interview
until requested.

Now the organ's strains are dimming
Dcbby and her love are flown

O'er the road of We they're skimming
While the losers, lifeless, moan.

There goes Debby, happ'ly wedded!

(May her life be milk and moss!)
And, my dears, if you'd be headed

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY. MAY 30, 1944

Community

(Continued from Page 1)

problems, at bargain prices and in
any quantity. Consider those grad-
uates of the class of 1744. They
entered upon their careers in the
middle of an eight-year war and
brought up their families during
the hardships of a seven-years'
war, when Indian massacres, fam-
ine, brutality, and disease were
the common lot. Or consider the
child born in 1844, just a hundred
years ago, on the eve of the Mexi-
can War. She finished college in
1864, just when Grant was batter-
ing his merciless way from the
Wilderness to the James River at
a cost of 55,000 men, 12,000 at Cold
Harbor alone, and she had to rear
her family in the hatreds and frus-
trations and fears of reconstruc-
tion.

We are troubled by the race sit-
uation, but remember those days
of reconstruction and see how far
we have come. Dr. Charles John-
son has written a great book on
patterns of racial segregation, but
in another study a young student
sees the other side of that story
the patterns of racial cooperation,
and the record of progress we have
made is a cheering one for the dis-
heartened.

Is juvenile delinquency disturb-
ing us ? Remember the days when
30,000 homeless children walked
the streets of New York, when
there were no orphan asylums, no
juvenile courts, and only a common
cell for the criminal, the insane,
and the homeless of both sexes.
Control

No, it is not the fact of prob-
lems that constitutes the greatest
problem of our day. The central
issue in our generation is whether
we have any control over them,
whether when we go back to Al-
bany, or Yazoo City, or Little Five
Points or Nashville, we can do
anything about them, because it is
our task, if it is humanly possible,
to help guide these movements
down the highway of human wel-
fare.

The opportunities and problems
are of such magnitude, the com-
munities we go to so disorganized,
and the decisions made so far from
us, in Moscow, in Teheran, that
we have lost all feel of control.
Crossroad Decisions

Yet I contend that the major
issues of our national life can still
be decided in the communities and
crossroads of America, and that it
is within our power to affect for
good even the largest of them.

A perfect illustration is the fail-
ure of the Senate in 1935 to ratify
the bill providing for American ad-
herence to the World Court. Be-
fore it was taken to the Senate, the
friends of the court had definite
commitments from a sufficient
number of Senators to pass it. Im-
mediately that it went to the floor
of the Senate for discussion, how-
ever, Senator Johnson and Father
Coughlin fought it on the radio and
in the newspapers, urging the peo-
ple to wire their Senators not to
commit this folly. Within a week
messenger boys were delivering
not handfuls and packets of tele-
grams but mail sacks full, and Sen-
ator after Senator reluctantly
changed his vote. The telegrams
* were pathetically wrong "For
God's sake, don't send my boy ov-
erseas.'* but they beat the bill,
and with votes to spare. /

It can be done, when we know
what we want. The crossroads of
America still determine our do-
mestic concerns. They still de-
termine our foreign policies, and
in so far as the United States can
make the decisions, the great mat-
ters of international police and

world government may be decided
there.

The Task

The task that needs to be done
in our generation does not have to
be done in Washington or Moscow
or from a position of great influ-
ence and pow r er. Indeed, I do not
think it can be done there, and I
am sure it should not be. It is a
task, though, that requires leader-
ship and vision, and a profound
sense of social responsibility. It re-
quires that union of a compelling
personality and a compulsive idea
that has been produced here at
Agnes Scott College time and time
again.

Without expecting too much,
without hoping to solve all these
problems, we can yet do much to-
wards determining that the great
resources of our time shall be used
for human good. Three things in
particular are within the capacity
of every graduate, wherever she
may live, whatever she may do,
three things that I believe are es-
sential in the control of even the
vastest of our movements.

We are completely depen-
dent on each other because of
the minute divisions of labor we
have developed. We are all spe-
cialists, and we have lost our in-
dependence. In a complex and
highly specialized economy like
ours, a strong sense of mutual de-
pendence and common interest is
imperative. Without it, we are
truly but a "feeble, wavering
line" of mankind in the rocks and
wastes of the world.

The disintegration of our com-
munities was in progress before the
war and has been greatly accel-
erated by it. A familiar story even
in the files of so stable a group as
the Agnes Scott alumnae is of the
young married couple, both work-
ing, who rent two or three rooms,
have one little child, frequently
considered a nuisance, and who
move every year. When they leave,
they have no one to tell goodbye
but the corner drug store clerk or
the grocer.

To hearten and encourage com-
munity life, to rehabilitate its lo-
cal culture, and to give it a friend-
ly sense of unity and common pur-
pose can be done only by people
who live in and identify themselves
with it.

In our local communities, indeed
within the family itself, will be
fought the great moral issues of
the day. Every war has been fol-
lowed by a prolonged period of
lowered public and private morals,
from the Revolution down through
the disgraces of Grant's adminis-
trations and the tragedies of Hard-
ing's. It need not be so but the
present conditions of our family
life make it difficult to avoid.

At present whole families are
working, with incomes at absurd
levels. Two and a half million high
school students are permanently
employed, and as we look to the
opportunities of full employment

after the war we must ask our-
selves squarely what we mean and
whether we wish so completely to
alter the life of our families and
our communities. No more basic
social issue confronts us, yet its
decision is not even a community
but a personal one.

2. Our second task is the pro-
saic one of mass education in the
issues we hope to affect. Ameri-
ca's position in the modern world,
we glibly say, will require that we
have more knowledge than we
have ever had and a deeper sense
of our responsibilities, yet few of
us realize how ignorant we actual-
ly are and what a task it will be
to educate ourselves as a people.
If there is any one issue that was
thoroughly discussed and that peo-
ple knew about, it was Wilson's
proposal that the United States
join the League of Nations. Yet
not long ago a confidential poll
showed that 30 per cent of the Am-
erican people actually believed
that the United States was a mem-
ber of the League and another 26
per cent did not know whether it
was or not. If American foreign
policy is fundamentally a demo-
cratic process, as I believe it to be,
we have a long, slow task ahead

Can Grandmothers join
the Elves, Leprechauns,
Gnomes, and Little Men's \
Chowder and Marching
Society, Mr. O'Malley?

li

No, Barnaby. . .But
they're enlisting in
the Grandmothers
War Bond League,

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in which all that anyone of us can
do will not be nearly enough.

3. In the third place, we must
accept every responsibility of citi-
zenship. In so far as the control
of issues is political, here is the
real test. We can delegate author-
ity, but we cannot delegate citi-
zenship. Through its exercise we
can have any kind of government
we as a people want, any kind of
public officials. New Jersey need
not have Hague any more than
Kansas City had to keep Pender-
grast. We have had a demonstra-
tion here in Georgia of what can
be done by a determined and unit-
ed electorate and it can be done
anywhere. But it must be done
and done again. The people must
constantly be reaching up to pull
power down to themselves from
where it concentrates above, and
we must remember that no politi-
cian is ever completely and per-
manently defeated. If truth crush-
ed to the earth will rise again, so
will a politician, and our task is
one of constant vigilance.

Action

It is a manageable job, this one
of building here the kind of life we
want, and one we need not wait
to start. Postwar planning is a

fine and necessary thing, so long
as the planning leads to action
now. If the action is to be post-
poned to some distant, some re-
mote, postwar world, then postwar
planning is the great illusion. The
future is all too frequently a mir-
age; the present, not the future,
is the golden day.

Thus the world seems to be
shaping itself towards tremendous
conclusions and tremendous ori-
gins through massive movements
of our time, and though we may
not be able to marshall all the
hosts of mankind, we may yet do
some small work of which we may
be proud. In the simple ways and
with quick hands, warm voices,
and friendly faces w r e may mar-
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Page 5

Seniors Choose
Lifetime Heads

The senior class at its last
meeting, May 24, elected Anne
Ward lifetime president and Kit-
ten Philips lifetime secretary.

Anne led her class as a junior
and headed Student Government
this year. Kitten acted as vice-
president of Christian Association
this year. Both will stay on cam-
pus next year, Anne in the dean's
office and Kitten in the book
store.

With covers laid for 200, the
seniors and sophomores reserved
the entire downstairs floor of the
Paradise Room for their luncheon
yesterday.

Each sophomore invited a senior
to be her guest at this year's par-
ty for the sister classes. Other
guests at the luncheon were the
class advisors, Miss Emma May
Laney, Miss Ellen Douglass Ley-
burn, and Miss Llewellyn Wilbum.
Mr. George P. Hayes, one of the
senior advisors, was out of town.

A floor show furnished enter-
tainment for the party. The menu
included shrimp cocktail, chicken
a la king, green peas, parsleyed
potatoes, iced tea, and ice cream.
Carolyn Hall, sophomore class
president, was in charge of ar-
rangements.

Trustees Approve
Alumnae Fund

An enlarging of the Alumnae
Association's sphere of influence
has taken definite form in the re-
cent meetings of the alumnae and
trustees, according to Miss Eu-
genia Symms, secretary. A new
financial plan will abandon dues
and replace them by an Alumnae
Fund.

At their meeting on May 26 the
trustees of Agnes Scott approved
the Alumnae Fund plan and guar-
anteed its success by a financial
backing of $5000.

The functions of this fund, as
Miss Symms lists them, are "to
enlarge the staff, to better the
files by keeping in closer touch
with all alumnae, (non-graduates
included), to care for the house
and garden, to cooperate with ex-
isting clubs and assist in organiz-
ing new ones in many cities." The
association will also aid each
class's work, by helping plan re-
unions and gather news. In ad-
dition, the residue of the Fund
each year is to be presented to
the college at commencement as
scholarships, special gifts, or as
whatever the alumnae sees fit.

Sophs Honor Senior Class
At Traditional Luncheon

With covers laid for 200 the
seniors and sophomores reserved
the entire downstairs floor of the
Paradise Room for their luncheon
yesterday.

Each sophomore invited a senior
to be her guest at this year's par-
ty for the sister classes. Other
guests at the luncheon were the
class advisors, Miss Emma May
Laney, Miss Ellen Douglass Ley-
burn, and Miss Llewellyn Wilburn.
Mr. George P. Hayes, one of the
senior advisors, was out of town.

A floorshow furnished enter-
tainment for the party. The menu
included shrimp cocktail, chicken
a la king, green peas, parsleyed
potatoes, iced tea, and ice cream.
Carolyn Hall, sophomore class
president, was in charge of ar-
rangements.

Phi Sigma Taps
Eight Hottentots

The University System's chap-
ter of Phi Sigma, national honor-
ary fraternity for advanced biol-
ogy students, initiated several Ag-
nes Scott seniors and juniors at
a meeting on the Emory campus
last Thursday afternoon.

Initiates were Jean Clarkson,
Margaret Drummond, Aurie
Montgomery, Virginia Tuggle, and
Billie Walker, seniors; Mary dim-
ming, Betty Jo Davis, Ruth Gray,
Mary Louise Law, and Ann Strick-
land, juniors.

The society encourages interest
in biological research and study.
Carolyn Daniel, elected last year,
is vice-president of the chapter.

Prophet

(Continued from Page 2)

Patty Barbour, Betty Bowman,
Polly Cook, Martha Rhodes and
Betty Sullivan attended the recent
meeting of the National Educa-
tional Association, where Dr. Mar-
jorie Tippins presided. Dr. Tip-
pins presented a thesis on the sub-
ject: "Why it is easier to grade
exams than to take them."

Martha Trimble and Mary Doz-
ier were both awarded Oscars for
their outstanding performances in
"Old Acquaintance."

Kathie Hill, executive secretary
of the National Association of
Scenario Writers, has just had
erected in front of her office an
alternating neon sign reading,
"Quiet, Kathie at Work"; "Joe's
the Sweetest Boy in the World,"
and "Ancient of Days."

Hosmer and Duffee

Hosmer and Duffee, of the As-
sociated Press, have collaborated
on a super duper feature article
on the new poet-laureate of Geor-
gia, Miss Ida Louise Huie.

Jessie Newbold, proprietor of
the Newbold Book Store, has writ-
ten the Alumnae Office that Betty
Vecsey's new book on music is
one of the best sellers. Speaking
of music, Barbara Connally is now
known as the Golden Voice of the
Metropolitan.

Johnnie Mae Tippen, Clare Bed-
inger and Mary Bloxton travel
from Round House to Round House
directing Religious Education work
among college students. By the by,
Kolthoff is teaching the theologs
over at Columbia Seminary.

Meg Bless, Mir House, Louise
Breedin, Betty Burress, Adelaide
Humphreys and Yoli Bernabe are
recent additions to the faculty in
the Department of Romance Lan-
guages at the Little Girls Private
Academy.

Pauline Garvin and Anna Sulli-
van are in the throes of research
work on differential equations.
Also Nita Hurst is now assistant
to Dr. Walter B. Posey, editor of
the Mississippi Valley Historical
Review.

Paris

On their return from a Paris
fashion show, Laurie Looper and
June Lanier ran into Bette Wade
and Vic, who were celebrating
their wedding anniversary by a
trip to Europe.

Elizabeth Blincoe, Carolyn Cal-
houn, Tessie Carlos, Barbara Dan-
iels, Sara Florence, Olive Hansen,
Anne Eagan, Sara Johns, Marion
Knapp, Barbara Pennell and Syl-
via Mogul are now outstanding
civic leaders in the Atlanta Com-
munity. They have agreed to lead
a drive for the raising of funds to
provide seeing-eye dogs for the
Agnes Scott seniors.

Cathy Steinbach was elected the
new senator from South Carolina
to Congress. She won the cam-
paign because of her ability to de-

bate faster than any other candi-
date.

Lois Martin is in Palestine try-
ing to find out what happened to
the Eighth Century Prophets.
Opera

Scoop! Martha Ray Lasseter,
secretary to the Registrar, reports
to Betty Dickson, chairman of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, that
the members of the vanishing cast
were found in Mr. Stukes' safe. It
took Martha Ray lo these many
years to learn the combination.

Today in 1963, nineteen years
after our graduation, we look on
the class of '44 with pride mingled
with regret and remember those
happy days before we began to see
Time's furrows on each others'
brows and we were just all girls
together. Long live our class, and
all its creaking members.

Books Glow in Fire;
Junior Faces Glow

It was dark Monday night but
there was a "hot" fire in front
of Main when the traditional book
burning was held. Not to be out-
done by the previous classes, in
spite of the paper shortage, 93
seniors gleefully walked to the
fire and pitched the notes of their
most despised course into the
roaring flames.

With malice toward none but
because of nights of struggling
with Mr. Frog's circulation in
freshman biology; or battles with
English 211, each girl murmured
a spicy verse and bade farewell
to these memoirs.

Immediately following this gala

Paper Wins
High Rating

First Class honor rating was
the judgment of the Associated
Collegiate Press in scoring the is-
sues of the News edited by Made-
line Hosmer this year.

Mary Carr, managing editor,
and Betty Glenn and Inge Prob-
stein, associates, contributed to
the winning of the "excellent"
rating.

occasion, the sacred and very sec-
ret capping of the juniors was held
in the May Day dell. Each senior,
with possibly a word of advice to
her forthcoming successor, sol-
emnly placed the cap on her head.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944

'Popesy' Pronounces Senior
Last Will and Testament

By Betty Pope Scott

STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF DEKALB.

We the wise and aged members
of the Senior Class of 1944, hav-
ing come to the end of our life
here at Agnes Scott, and, at this
moment frail in body but strong
in spirit, are ready to pass on to
higher things. Here and now we
determine to reveal our last will,
leaving to the college those traits
and characteristics for which we
are so well known.

To the Board of Trustees, the
Administration, and faculty, we
leave a thanks that ne'er can be
expressed for their encourage-
ment and help in bringing us to
this commencement time. Our
gratitude to you will be even more
deep when the "sheepskins" are
distributed to the flock on May
30.

To our friends, members of the
Junior Class, and other fellow stu-
dents we bequeath the following:

I, Carolyn Daniel, who am head-
ed for more trouble after gradua-
tion, resign my place as President
of the mighty Senior Class, and
along with it the little black note-
book, to Minnie Mack.

Goodbye Greek

We, Kay Bisceglia and Jessie
Newbold, determined never to go
back to the Greeks again, make a
gift of our marked and scarred
Plato books to Mary Cargill and
Maggie Toole with the hope that
they will be able to breeze through
third quarter Greek exam as
rapidly as we did.

I, Madeline Hosmer, together
with June Lanier and Nita Hurst
present my fraternity pin to the
Freshmen in Gaines Cottage who
seem to have made more progress
in one year, in collecting them
than we have made in four.

I, Sarah Johns, leave my pa-
tience, even though I have two
vivacious roommates, to Wendy
Whittle. She needs it.

Ah, Glamoure

We, Anne Jacob and Zena Har-
ris Temkin, believing that glamor
is virtuous, will our part in the
effort to glamorize the Hotten-

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with the plea that they continue
to uphold the cause of glamor as
we have done.

I, Johnnie Mae Tippen, willingly
leave to Beth Daniel the S that
doesn't belong on the end of my
last name. It doesn't belong on
hers either, but let her get rid of
it the best way she can.

Win M.R.S. Degree

We, Mary Frances Walker
Blount, Robin Taylor Horneffer,
Mary Beth Danielson Walker,
Harriet Kuniansky Ross, Julia
Scott Bailey, and Quincy Mills
Jones will our ability to secure an
M.R.S. and a B.A. degree in four
short years to any six members
of the Junior class who are will-
ing to word as hard as we did to
get both of them.

We, Meg Bless, Louise Breedin
and Betty Wade, surrender our
senior dignity and reserved man-
ner to the three most agressive
and obstreprous Juniors Harri-
ette Daughtery, Genevieve Lath-
em, and Ann Anderson.

I, Betty Burress make a gift of
my beautiful black hair and soft
brown eyes to Hansell Cousar.
May they gain for you as many
admirers as they gained for me.

I, Katheryn Thompson Man-
gum, a living witness to the truth
of the apostle's statement, "The
tongue can no man tame," grant
my loquacious way to Emily Hig-
gins with the firm conviction that
she will make full use of them.

I, Yoli Bernabe, who often have
had difficulty in making my na-
tionality known because of my
speech, pass on my difficulty to
Katherine Edelblut. However,
her nationality will be questioned
not on account of her speech, but
on account of her most unusual
color.

Doctor In House

We, Margaret Drummond, Gwen
Hill and Virginia Tuggle, the girls
with the athletic build, bestow
upon Betty Davis, Dot Hunter and
Dot Lee Webb our interest in the
advancement of Science, with this
last request from Tug that when
she becomes Dr. Tuggle, Dot, Bet-
ty and Dot Lee will remember
her suffering patients with valley
lilies .

We, Barbara Daniels, Betsy
White and Anna Sullivan, willing-
ly relinquish our places in Eng-
lish 211 class to any Freshmen
who are contemplating putting
211 off until their senior year.
Our advice to you is this Re-
member the eveils of procrastina-
tion and take heed!

I, Bunny Gray, who am jump-
ing from Glick to Click, leave
to Moppy Miller my mutilated
picture of Dale and my interest
in missions to the other Hotten-
tots.

I, Smiley Williams, who am of-
ten rough and "rudy" in my ac-
tions, thrust upon Alvara Frazer
my sinus headaches with the hope
that she will find the right doc-
tor to relieve her suffering as I
have done.

Practice Teaching Is Fun

We, Betty Bowman and Mary
Maxwell, who seem to have no
difficulty in gaining the admira-
tion of our pupils evidence of
this being that Miss Bowman has
already received attention in a
quite unusual way from one of her
young gentlemen admirers -leave
to Mary Alice Hunter and Helen
Summerville our more boisterous
and troublesome pupils .

I. Oneida Woolford, Squee I be-

Juniors have a last carefree get-together before assuming their senior dignity. Reading from left to
right are, front, Emily Higgins, Barbara Frink, Carolyn Fuller. Back, Joyce Freeman, Joella Craig,
Jean Satterwhite, Helen Roper, Francos King, E genia Jones, Ceevah Rosenthal, Liz Carpenter, Penny
Espey and Betty Campbell.

lieve we call her, will my unwav-
ering loyalty to my home state to
Claudia Brownlee and Mary Mar-
tin, who seem to be increasingly
interested in Texas. I trust that
your concern for the welfare of
Texas will not lead you to war as
it has often led me.

I, Betty Sullivan, bequeath to
my successor Jean Robinson my
charming ways and my ability to
laugh graciously at any and all
jokes of the lecturers, even if I
don't catch on.

We, Lois Martin and Elizabeth
Blincoe, leave our alert appearan-
ces and enthusiasm for living to
Rite Watson and Teddy Bear,
with this advice "Rite and Ted-
dy, don't give up the ghost Life
is worth fighting for."

I, Bobbie Powell, just for the
sake of Auld Lang Syne, leave
to my dear sister Leila my respec-
ted place in the senior class which
wil be reserved for her for two
years.

We, Patty Barbour and Polly
Cook, the aristocratic members of
the Senior class, present our emp-
ty gas rationing books to two Jun-
iors who are lucky enough to
have cars at school.
Importance of Being Footnoted
We, Tess Carlos and Barbara
Pennell, make a gift of our Posey
history papers with footnotes con-
nected to Mary Duckworth and
Anne Haggard with this warning
If your footnotes aren't right
you can't merit, you just can't do
it! (quote Posey).

I, Pat Evans, give over my ab-
solute devotion to Davidson Col-
lege to Mary Jane Love, with the
unalterable belief that since Dav-
idson called me once Davidson
will call me again!

We, Mary Carr, Mary Frances
Carter, Miriam Davis, Elizabeth
Edwards, Martha Rhodes and Mar-
jorie Smith, the diamond fin-
gered girls of the class of '44 (of
whom the senior class is rightly
proud) leave to all the underclass-
men a word of encouragement and
hope that someday their left hands
too may sparkle when the right
one comes along.

I, Anne Cordelia Adolph Ward,
who have put forth all my efforts
this year to get two amend-
ments added to the Student Gov-
ernment constitution: (1) that the
president of Student Government
be vested with the power of "knob
scabbing" and (2) that the sole
right to expectorate in the eye
be granted to the president to
be used at the committing of such

acts as breaking in the cafeteria
line and walking on the grass, do
grant my fruitless attempts to
Milly Milam with the hope that
her regime will be more success-
ful than mine.

Si, Si, Cara Mia

We, Carolyn Calhoun and Ade-
laide Humphreys, the Spanish
minded Senoritas, bestow upon
Dot Almond and Bess Shepherd,
our complete knowledge of Span-
ish irregular verbs.

I, Mary Florence McKee, leave
to Virginia Bowie my unsuccessful
yet never ceasing efforts to con-
vert my friends to classicism.

We, Clare Bedinger, Betty Vec-
sey and Jo Young, having no bad
traits to leave, bestow upon Ruth
Anderson, Jane Everett and Mary
Turner our sweetness, our happy
dispositions, our constant helpful-
nes, and our contagious laughs.

We, Martha Marie Trimble and
Mary Dozier, will to Liz Carpen-
ter and Pie Ertz our much studied
scripts, hoping they never will
miss a cue during all their
careers of acting.

I, Ruth Wolson, bequeath to Inge
Probstein my alert mind and my
fondness of six cylinder words.

We, Ellen Arnold and Barbara
Connally, devotees of the art of
singing, leave our melodious
voices which are heard anywhere
and everywhere on campus, to
Freida Cook and Anne Martin.

We, Ann Wright and Marjorie
Tippens, realizing that precious
things come in small packages,
leave our smallness of stature and
our place on the front of the Sen-
ior line to Midge Haddock and
Martha Patterson.

Dignity It's Wonderful

We, Sara Florence, Pauline
Garvin, and Marion Knapp, leave
to Jane Kreiling, Montene Melson
and Elaine Kuniansky our calm,
quiet lady-like manner which will
be a great asset to the college.

I, Mary Bloxton, pass on to
Martha Arnold my technique for

writing Bible papers in two hours
and still make a merit.

I, Jean Clarkson resign my cute
winning ways and my bright red
hair to Mary Neely Norris.

Wq, Mary Codington, Eudice
Tontak, and Claire Bennett, be-
queath to Betty Glenn, Jodele
Tanner, and Martha Jean Gower
our Phi Beta Kappa keys with
the request that they wear them
to class as faithfully as Miss Mell
wears hers.

I, Tommie Huie bestow upon
Bunny Weems my desire to get
close to nature and my genius for
writing poetry. But, Bunny, don't
forget the inspiration to write
comes only when the midnight oil
burns low.

I, Laurie Looper, make a gift
of my good looks and arched eye-
brows to Joo-Froo not that she
needs them.

We, Miriam Walker and Elise
Tilgham, will our distinguished
walk to Frances Stukes and Shan-
non DuBose.

We, Catherine Kollock and Bet-
ty Dickson, being tired of waiting
for Miss Steele, leave our ride to
and from school in her car to any
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Page 7

Miss Gooch Tells of Teaching
Soongs, Chinas First Family

By Mary Ann Courtenay

Although Miss Gooch never actually taught the present
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, she knew her well as a child who was
"much like American children, but more polite." May-Ling
Soong, when 11, roomed at Wesleyan with her two other
sisters who were pupils of Miss Gooch. May-Ling was very
conscientious about keeping the

rules of the college, Miss Gooch
observed.

Because she was younger than
any other boarding students, the
president's young daughter tried
to lead her into mischief, but the
little Chinese girl always refused.
Outside school hours with her spe-
cial tutor, May-Ling used to dis-
cuss questions of government with
Miss Gooch. Even at the age of
11, she showed a remarkable
knowledge of American and Euro-
pean history.

Agnes Scott's professor of
speech has many interesting
things to tell about the elder
Soong sisters, whom she taught
for three years and whom she
has seen several times since. E-
Ling, the oldest, was "an excell-
ent reader," Miss Gooch recalls.
Strange to say, her accent is more
English than Chinese or Ameri-
can, because her teacher in a
Shanghai mission school was Eng-
lish. The sisters spoke Chinese
among themselves, and through
the years only Chun-Ling has re-
tained her Chinese accent. May-
Ling, only 10 upon arrival in the
United States, sounds like an
American woman when she
speaks.

E-Ling and Chun-Ling

E-Ling "had nothing to say to
men" in this country, Miss Gooch
remembers. This studious and
reserved Chinese girl became the
wife of H. H. Kung, leading finan-
cier of China. Continuing the his-
tory of the family, Miss Gooch
describes Chun-Ling as "the co-
quette of the three." After leav-
ing San Francisco, her boat stop-
ped in Yokahama enroute to
China. There she was unexpected-
ly met by her father, then in tem-
porary exile from China for ad-
vancing the cause of democracy
more quickly than the people
could grasp it. With his father in
exile was Sun Yat Sen, a young
liberal, who was to become China's

first president and Chun-Ling's
husband.

The family's interest in Amer-
ica had started with father
Soong, who ran away from home
to seek liberty and opportunity.
The stowaway landed in Charles-
ton, S. C. There a man recogniz-
ed that he was not the "Chinese
laundry" type of immigrant, and
paid his board and tuition at Van-
derbilt for four years. Upon
Soong's return to China he repaid
the Charlestonian with money
earned at his uncle's flour mill.
He reared his children in love for
democracy, and education and sent
them to school in the country that
could offer most.

Mme. Chiang at Front

A background of belief in dem-
ocracy and of education in a dem-
ocratic country led the Soong sis-
ters to the tasks of bettering re-
lations within their own country
and between China and America.
Mme. Kung and Mme. Sun Yat
Sen are busy today helping the
women of China adjust themsel-
ves to war conditions. Mme.
Chiang Kai-Shek is at the front
lines acting as interpreter, pin-
ning honors on American soldiers
in the fighting lines, and speak-
ing to all groups in China rich
and poor, refugees and soldiers,
Christians and non-Christians.
Contrary to the belief of many
Americans, some of the Chinese
approve of forbidding immigration
of orientals to this country. Mme.
Chiang realizes that most emi-
grants are not the type China
would like to represent them.

The Chinese do not believe in
intermarriage of races, especially
when their cultures are so dif-
ferent. However, they do realize
that contact with outsiders will
improve tfreir people and dis-
prove harmful superstitions. For
these reasons they welcome mis-
sionaries and are anxious to con-
tinue educating some of their

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president of the Woman's Theolog-
ical Association of the Southern
Presbyterian Church U. S., being
"donne" with Agnes Scott and
having made this my life motto
"Theology ever, Marriage never"!
leave to Barbara Frink my book,
From Mortar Board to Marriage
believing that she will profit more
from its instruction than I have.

I, Popsey Scott, signing my
name to this last will and testa-
ment, leave to no one my grades,
my poor eyesight, and my frail
skeleton like form.

Signed this the 30th day of May,
1944 A. D., on the grounds of our
beloved Alma Mater, where the
wild onions grow in old Decatur,
Georgia.

Popesy Scott.

Witness :

Ross the boss and
Guerry the gleeful.

'Popesy 7

(Continued from Page 6)
day students who possess more pa-
tience than we.

I, Anne Eagan, resign my sweet,
tiny little voice that can hardly
be heard in class to Sylvia Car-
ter.

I, Mary Louise Duffee, our co-
ed from Emory, leave to Leila
Holmes my enthusiasm for news-
paper work. May your experien-
ces be as thrilling as mine have
been.

Chewin' Chawing Gum

We, Camilla Moore and Kathie
Hill, make a gift of our beat-up
chewed-down chewing gum to
Ceevah Rosenthal and Frances
Brougher.

I, Aurie Montgomery leave my
dampened enthusiasm for Colum-
bia Seminary to Jean Stewart
somehow her last name appeals
to me.

We, the Harvard "susters" be-
queath our tall, slim and graceful
figures to the other twins on
campus, Muff and Fluff.

I, Saint Rufus Farrior, share
with Virginia Carter, my inspiring
and uplifting appearance and my
sanctimonious ways. They will
indeed be a help to you as they
have been to me.

I, Mir House pass on to Carolyn
Fuller, my perfect and undivided
attention in sociology class, hoping
that she will continue to work as
hard as I have on sociology.

I, Martha Ray Lasseter, pardon
me, Secretary Lasseter, leave to
Bitty King my interest in royalty
as I undertake to delve into the

young leaders in American insti-
tutions.

Just before the war began Mme.
Kung visited Miss Gooch in De-
catur before returning to her na-
tive land. She wanted their life-
long friendship to continue in
China and so invited her former
teacher to tutor her children in
English. Miss Gooch recalls the
special inducements Mme. Kung
offered to have a special maid,
to have an apartment with the
Kung family in Shanghai, and to
have meals with the family when
she was to talk English. "But
everyone knew that the war was
coming," she added as explanation
for her turning down an opportun-
ity to live with one of the most
interesting families in one of the
oldest, yet newest civilizations of
the world.

archives of Mr. Stukes files.
Lament for Philip

We, Cathie Steinbach and Syl-
via Mogul leave our interest in
history and our fondness for Dean
Philip Davidson to those old
hounds at Vanderbilt who snatch-
ed him away from us.

I, Kitten Philips, undisturbed
by term papers, "Petty" affairs
or alarm clocks, will to Mary Mun-
roe my big-heartedness, my love
and understanding of all freshmen
and my untouched bed.

I, Olive Hansen, an ardent de-
fender of the Baptist faith, be-
stow upon Cookie DeVane my
zeal for winning Agnes Scott to
Baptistism.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS. TUESDAY, MAY 30. 1944

Alumnae Engage in War Work;
Thirty-one in Armed Forces

By Pauline Ertz

No less than 31 Agnes Scott alumnae proudly wear the natty
blue of the Waves, the trim khaki of the WAC and Army
Nurses Corps, and the dark green of the Marines.

Far in the lead are the Waves, with 23 former Agnes
Scotters enrolled. The most recent alumnae in the Waves
include Betty Brougher, Marjorie

Weismann, Caroline Smith, Mar-
tha Stone, Mary McQuown and
Lou Pate.

Ensigns Brougher and Smith vis-
ited the campus recently, enthus-
iastically singing the praises of the
Waves.

In the WAC are five alumnae:
one major, two second offi-
cers, and two auxiliaries. Major
Catherine Happoldt Jepson was
one of the speakers at War Coun-
cil Conference last year.

Ruth Bastin, former student
here and at one time a nurse in
the Infirmary, is now in the Army
Nurses Corps wearing the gold
bars of a second lieutenant. Ruth
would like to see foreign service.

No service story would be com-
plete without mention of the Mar-
ines. Two Agnes Scott alumnae
have "jined up." Present students
will remember Rebekah Hogan,
who is now a second lieutenant.

But Agnes Scott's patriotism
does not stop with the armed for-
ces. Some 39 alumnae are work-
ing for the war department and
allied fields as civilians.

The most recent records indicate
that there are seven chemists, in-
cluding recent graduates Jean
Beutell Abrams, Elizabeth Rus-
sell, Mary Margaret Toomey, Mar-
garet Wade, Olivia White, and Pat
Reasoner in government work.
Working for the TV A are Martha
Buffalo, Cornelia Stuckey and Dar-
leen Danielson.

IBM operators at Conley are
Becky Andrews, Edwina Burress,
Sue Heldmann and Marjorie Simp-
son. Among the five alumnae who
are technicians are Caroline Long,
Mary Jane Bonham and Suenette
Dyer. Dorothy Cremin is a link
trainer instructor.

Working directly for the War
Department are Betty Sunderland,
Margaret Sheftall, Ann Wilds, Vir-
ginia Watkins, Lavinia Brown,
Jean Lee and Mary Jane Seagle.

Four alumnae are Red Cross di-
rectors, one is a draftswoman for
a Navy Yard, one in military in-
telligence, one an interpreter for
the War Department Carolyn
Taylor, a Spanish translator.

And so the list goes. Every day
more alumnae are serving their
country far from the reach of its
sheltering arms.

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have these years of preparation
and study given you to equip you
for the larger demands that life
shall make upon you? Like the
boys, you, too, are taking with you
the tyopes and fears and prayers of
those who have known you and
loved you. But in addition to this
I suggest that you carry with you
the triad of Christian virtues that
is expressed in the words of our
text "Now abideth taith, hope
and love, these three, but the
greatest of these is love."
I FaitJi.

As we pass through the storms
of war and realize that the whole
world is involved on the land, in
the air, on the sea, we need a
great faith to deliver us from pes-
simism and despair. Our faith
must keep our eyes upon God. We
must not forget that God is still
the Sovereign of this universe and
that He who watches the sparrow's
fall understandeth the needs of
our hearts.

Sometimes young people go to
college and lose their faith in God.
Their childish conceptions of God
do not keep pace with the unfold-
ing of their minds in the light of
philosophic and scientific truth.
Their God is too small to keep
pace with an expanding knowledge
of the universe. There are others
who see the hand of God in the
formation of scientific law, who,
like Kepler, the scientist, read the
thoughts of God as they view the
starry heavens above, who won-
der at the intelligence of God
when they see by the aid of the
microscope what He has wrought,
and who rejoice in His overruling
providences as empires rise and
fall.

Faith in Success

You who have enjoyed the bene-
fits of preparation at Agnes Scott
have seen the universe grow great
and have dreamed for it a greater
God. You will take with you a
greater faith in a great God.

Success in life demands faith.
Thomas Jefferson, George Wash-
ington, Abraham Lincoln and
Woodrow Wilson proved this.

"And what shall I more say?
For time would fail me if I should
tell of that unnumbered host, the
unnamed and obscure citizen who
bore unimagined burdens, sacri-
ficed in silence and endured nobly,
that a government of the people,
for the people, and by the people
might not perish from the earth."

Faith in a great God will not
mean that you will marvel at His
might and power alone, but you
will also remember to approach
Him in the words that the Lord
Jesus has given us, when He said
"Our Father." If God is our Fa-
ther we shall not shrink before
Him in craven fear. We shall love
Him and trust Him and walk with
Him through all the days that lie
ahead. We shall face the future
with courage and faith as did our

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own Southern poet, Sidney Lanier,
when he wrote

"As the marsh hen secretly builds

on the watery sod,
Behold, I will build me a nest on

the greatness of God.
I will fly in the greatness of God

as the marsh hen flies
In the freedom that fills all the

space twixt the earth and the

skies.

By so many roots as the marsh
grass sends in the watery sod,

I will heartily lay me hold on the
greatness of God."
II Hope.

We shall face tomorrow with
hope in our hearts. We do not be-
long to the group of those who
have no hope and who are without
God in this world.

The great days are not all past.
The golden age of promise still
lies ahead. Legends of golden ages,
of simpler times and ways, of years
when faithful toil never went un-
rewarded, when the domestic and
public virtues flourished unimpair-
ed, and universal contentment was
expressed on every face such leg-
ends have a particular appeal in
times like these. They are like a
middle-aged man's memories of
his youth, which he sees through a
kind of golden twilight.

No Stability

At no time has there been sta-
bility. For more than 250 years
the westward movement kept the
country in a turmoil and reflected
a widespread restlessness and dis-
content. High hopes rode in the
covered wagons, but there were
graves beside all the trails.

We make a mistake when we
look back and see only quiet farms,
picturesquely antiquated towns,
horses jogging peaceably while the
drivers dozed, families gathered
around the table in the firelight.
There were dolorous issues then as
now. Our democracy has never
been static. Each generation has
presented it with new situations,
new problems and uncertainties,
and always we have had a sense of
insecurity.

There shall yet come a time
when the dreams of the prophets
shall be fulfilled, when men shall
beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning
hooks, when nation shall not rise
up against nation and men shall
not give themselves to the ways of
war. This hope which we carry
with us as we face tomorrow is
centered in the God we trust.

III. Love.

The third of these Christian vir-
tues that we take with us to face
tomorrow is love.

A. Definition.

When we talk about love we do
not mean that bedraggled some-
thing of fiction, nor that which is
sordid or salacious, no wild dream
of pleasure or gushing fondness,
or mere sentiment, or genial am-
iability, or all-inclusive toleration.
Love to the Apostle Paul was a
pure affection that puts God first,
others second, self last. Love is
the force that motivates life;
there is no greater power. Hate
blinds us to human need. Love
opens wide our eyes so that we
are enabled to see.

Love not only gives a seeing eye
but a tender hand.

B. Objects. In facing our to-
morrow we must cherish a deep
and abiding love for liberty, our
country and God.

(1) Liberty. I shall never for-
get the first time I thrilled to the
sight of the Statue of Liberty as
our shjp came through the Nar-
rows into New York Harbor. The
God-given liberties that we enjoy
must not be taken for granted.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
their possession. The liberty we
enjoy today was purchased by our

forefathers by the shedding of
their life's blood. We must be
ready to preserve what they have
achieved. Liberty is our heritage;
its conservation is our sacred
trust.

(2) Our Country. It is right,
too, that we should love our na-
tive land. God has given us one of
the greatest nations on the face
of the earth.

The United States has been the
haven of the oppressed, the open
door of hope to the defeated and
the persecuted. It champions to-
day the cause of the minority
groups of the world against tyran-
ny and oppression. I am sure we
all echo in our hearts the senti-
ment of our National Hymn.

(3) God. As we face tomorrow-
there must also be a great love in
our hearts for God. This experi-
ence came to me recently. I was
called to the home of a man who
was in great distress. His only boy
was sailing to Australia, perhaps
to experience death by means of
the submarine at sea, or from the
bombs of a Japanese airplane. I
had talked to him before about
giving his heart to God. He had
always been bitter toward God and
would have nothing to do with
Him. As I entered his home I
found his attitude had completely
changed. He said to me, "Dr.
Fowle, I never realized before
what it cost God to give His son to
die on the cross for me. As I have
given my own son I have realized
what it must have cost God to give
His son."

"Women's Responsibility
As you face tomorrow with the
splendid mental equipment you
have received at Agnes Scott, take
with you this triad of Christian
virtues, faith, hope and love, and
upon foundations that are secure
you can build a most worthwhile
life.

Yours is the responsibility for
conserving our great spiritual
values. Young women play a most
important part in this. There is no
greater calling nor more useful
field of service than the establish-
ment of a Christian home. Many
of you will find the fulfillment of
your lives in the establishment of
such homes. Upon the homes of
our land rest government, educa-
tion and religion. Some of you, like
Madame Curie, will find time in
scientific fields to discover many
marvelous things. Radium is not
the last word in scientific discov-
ery. Perhaps some of you like Dr.
Catherine MacFarland, a modern
miracle woman, chief of gynecol-
ogy at Philadelphia's great city
hospital, will render a memorable
service in mitigating pain and al-
leviating the suffering of your fel-
lowman. Great fields of service ex-

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today. The award is given to the
student who acquires, during the
year current from May to May,
the most interesting and discrim-
inating personal library and who
reveals real understanding of her
books.

The winner of the award is ex-
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or for some other kind of intellec-
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The collection must include at
least fifteen books. They may be
gifts or books acquired through
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give ample evidence of the col-
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tend their hands to you in every
direction. Eighty per cent of war
industry is open to women. Life is
not a destination^ it is a journey,
it is a crusade, it is an adventure.

Take with you the Christian vir-
tues of faith, hope and love. With
courage in your hearts, be not
afraid to live life to the fullest.
Undertake to make a real contri-
bution to the day and generation
in which you live. May the world
be better and finer because you
have had a part in shaping its des-
tiny.

Shaping the World

There is One who desires to
journey with you, a companion in
all life's experiences, who will re-
joice in your achievements, whose
altruistic spirit will inspire you to
great endeavors. Whose promise
to you is "Lo, I am with you al-
ways." Who will walk with you
through the valley named "Of the
Shadow," and who will abide with
you to your journey's end, and be-
yond. The Christian virtues of
faith, hope and love find their high-
est exemplification in Him, and
the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians.

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