Agnes Scott News 1944 45

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1944

NO. 1

Stanley Jones
To Speak Here

Dr. E. Stanley Jones, Methodist
missionary to India, will speak at
an extended chapel hour Friday
morning. He is visiting all the col-
leges in this vicinity, and a num-
ber of students heard him at Glenn
Memorial church Sunday night.

"The Christ of the Indian Road"
is probably Dr. Jones' best-known
book, while his newest, "The Christ
of the American Road," is en-
thusiastically hailed by critics as
"c)ear-cut and hard-hitting."

Dr. Jones cannot be here for
Relgious Emphasis Week for he
is going to South America this
winter. He has been a missionary
for 40 years.

Hugh Hodgson to Begin
Music Hours Oct. 2

Hugh Hodgson, of the University
of Georgia, will begin the series of
Monday night music appreciation
hours with a piano recital Oct. 2,
in Presser hall.

He will play four groups and will
include one of his own composi-
tions. The program is as follows:

Rameau-MacDowell, Sarabande;
Bach-Bauer, Jesus Joy of Man's
Desiring; Scarlatti, Three So-
natas; Gluck-Holgren, Ballet of
Blessed Spirits; d' Albert, Gavotte
and Musette; Brahms, Intermezzo
(Eb), Rhapsodie (Eb); Chopin,
Seven Preludes, Four Etudes;
Mempan, Three Magic Songs; de
Falla, Ritual of Fire; Hodgson,
Ichaway Dance; Liszt, Tarantelle.

New Members of Col lege Staff
Tell Lighter Side of Interests

By MARGARET KINARD

You've probably heard people
excitedly running around gasping,
"Have you seen fourth floor
Main?" "Don't you like the new
way they run the cafeteria?" or
"Aren't the freshmen cute?" Just
lots of new additions have been
made to Agnes Scott this year.
Among the most prominent are
the seven interesting new mem-
bers of the staff. We've all seen
them going about .on the campus,
so maybe you'd like a little of the
inside dope on what they're really
like.

Going toward Buttrick to reach
her 8:30 English class you might
see a little lady with auburn hair
and pretty brown eyes. This is
Miss Margret Trotter. Her home is
Amelia, Ohio, but she says she
feels closer to Cincinnati, having
lived there most of her life. Miss
Trotter studied at Wellesley, Co-
lumbia University, and Ohio State.
Her favorite dislike is jello, and
she is particularly fond of music
and riding. She is also a golf en-
thusiast.

AMES AT BALL PLAYING

Miss Barbara Ames is that new
gym teacher everyone's been want-
ing to know. She lives in Shef-
field, Ala. Miss Ames tells me she
wondered for the first three days
she was at Agnes Scott whether
she would like it, but after that
the place became absolutely like
home for her. She dislikes most
getting up early for breakfast, and
her favorite sports are swimming,
tennis, and badminton.

Hurrying toward Science Hall
so she'll have plenty of time to
get up those flights of stairs to the
biology department is their new in-
structor, Miss Martha Aiken. This
little brown-eyed brunette from
Atlanta finished Wesleyan cum
laude and then did graduate work
at Emory last year. She is to teach
technique, genetics, and freshman
lab. For sports she likes tennis
and ping-pong, and her favorite
pastime is playing the piano.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN COMES

This year we have a doctor all
our own who lives in Ansley. The
idea is grand, and everybody will
really be delighted on meeting Dr.
Margaret V. Burns. Her home is
Asheville, N. C, and last year she
worked with the health depart-

ment there. Her outside interest
lies in music, especially in playing
the violin. Dr. Burns says her one
dislike was always okra, but when
she arrived here and tasted Geor-
gia okra, she decided she liked
even that. She particularly likes
the older part of the Agnes
Scott campus, for she says the
buildings have much more char-
acter like a house that has been
lived in. You just get sick, and
Dr. Burns will be right there with
her medicine kit and her bag of
humor to fix you up.

FAVORITE RETREAT

On their way to the library to
open the doors so we can go in and
seek out our favorite stack will
be the new librarians, Miss Peeler
and Miss Humphries. Miss Peeler
heads the cataloguing room. Her
home is Huntingdon, Tenn., and
she comes to Agnes Scott from
Birmingham-Southern. Miss Peel-
er says she likes for pastimes mu-
sic, movies, and reading, particu-
larly historical novels.

The blond librarian with the
blue eyes is Miss Humphries. Her
home is Anniston, Ala., and she
has studied at Birmingham-
Southern and Emory. Miss Hum-
phries is the domestic Jype who
loves sewing and cooking, x but she
also especially likes reading. If
you'd ask her what she disliked
most, she'd immediately say but-
termilk and lazy people.
DEAN'S HELPER STUDIES TOO

The new member of the Dean's
office staff, Miss Jane Coughlin,
is from Jacksonville, Fla. She at-
tended Agnes Scott in 1938-39 and
is now taking courses in addition
to her work in the office. There's
only one thing this attractive new
person can say she dislikes pea-
nut butter. People fascinate her,
and she is also particularly inter-
ested in dress designing and inter-
ior decorating. She loves Ogden
Nash, music, and swimming.

Miss Coughlin has had some in-
teresting experiences since leav-
ing Agnes Scott. While a clerk in
an elementary school, she did ev-
erything from doctoring wounds to
visiting parents. Last summer
she and Miss Hunter met again at
Duke, and with that Miss Cough-
lin decided to return to Agnes
Scott.

You see, all the new staff mem-
bers are terribly nice. Let's get to
know them. How about it ?

MOLLY MILAM

Welcome, New Students:

How many times you've been
welcomed and "received," you
must be thinking! Please know
there is no gushing insincerity in
the constant repetition. It is mere-
ly for emphasis (N. B., you Eng-
lish 101 students). We old stu-
dents really mean welcome when
we say it.

You see, we who've been here
before feel pride as well as plea-
sure in sharing with you the good
things we've found here. We real-
ize, too, that you have much, your
own personalities, to share with
us.

At this point you are, one and
all, in the throes of handbook
classes. You are now very defi-
nitely aware that you are not only
new students here; you now know,
thanks to your handbook instruc-
tors, that you are also active
members of the Agnes Scott Stu-
dent Government Association. It
is my pleasure to welcome you
as such.

Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but may
I present my belief that since
we've come to a liberal arts col-
lege to learn the art of successful
living, we are privileged to have
student or self government as a
means of learning more about liv-
ing happily in a group. You are
now familiar with the fact that
our self government here, as well
as all phases of our college life, is
based on personal honor and rea-
sonable respect for those whom we
live with. The honor system we
have, I believe, assures this suc-
cessful living ... if the individual
is willing to face, and do some-
thing about, her responsibilities in
such a system.

Now, more repetition for sake of
emphasis. . . . The central idea
(English 101, Loc. Cit.) is: A sin-
cere welcome to you, and best
wishes for happy living in your
new community.

Sincerely,

Molly Milam,
President Student Govt. Assn.

Classes Pick Heads
For Traditional Stunt

History Dates Back to World War I Days;
Plan Begun by Dr. Sweet to End Hazing

With today's stunt chairmen
nominations and tomorrow's elec-
tions, the Black Cat again takes
over the campus while Agnes Scott
freshmen and sophomores, backed
by their sister classes, prepare for
the twenty-eighth Black Cat
Stunt, to be held Saturday, Oct. 14.

Voting in chapel tomorrow will
determine the leader of each op-
posing class in the coming battle
of wits, climaxed by the judge's
decision as to which class shall be
commemorated on Kitty's twenty-
eighth bell.

One of the college's best-loved
traditions, the Black Cat Stunt
originated in 1916, sponsored by
Dr. Mary F. Sweet, college physi-
cian from 1908 to 1937.

Just as interested in the yearly
contest as ever, Dr. Sweet recalled
last week that she suggested the
stunt as a much-needed substitute
for the rough hazing system which
was ruining clothes and digestions
and generally making freshman
lives miserable for the first few
weeks of each year.

Student-adopted and student-
organized, the Black Cat Stunt,
as a "battle of wits rather than a
battle of fists," was first held in
1916, and, according to faculty
members who were there, was
much the same as the annual pro-
gram today, with original songs
and clever acting and writing.

As it has in recent years, the
early class plays were usually
parodies on college life. Gradually
the hazing system gave way to
the yearly stunt as an even more
exciting expression of class riv-
alry than such previous horrors
as a black-robed "Sophomore Com-
mittee" which met each year to
punish "disobedient" freshmen
with its terrifying sentences.

Last year the cat reigned in In-
man lobby, after the freshmen ac-
complished the unusual by belling
the kitty. Jane Meadows, this
year's sophomore class president,
served as chairman for the win-
ning stunt. In 1942, the sopho-
mores marched off with the cov-
eted prize, led by their chairman,
Julia Slack, now orientation chair-
man. Molly Milam, president of
Student Government, led her class

into Kitty's good graces when the
freshmen won in 1941.

Articles on the stunt and on the
hazing system as far back as 1916
may be read in the library's pres-
ent exhibit of old copies of the
college newspaper.

Clarkson Trains
At WAC Fort

Pvt. Jean T. Clarkson, '44, is
now taking her six-weeks' basic
course with the WAC at Fort
Oglethorpe preparatory to enter-
ing an Army hospital.

Upon completion of her basic
course Oct. 19, Pvt. Clarkson will
be assigned to an Army hospital
for further training as a techni-
cian or physio-therapist.

Recipient of the B.A. degree
here last June, she was a member
of the Chi Beta Phi and Phi Sig-
ma honorary societies.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
M. Clarkston, reside at 32 Maddox
Drive, N. E.

Jep

Open

son and Melton
All Star Series

Post Wor Plans

Agnes Scott added to its plans for the distant fu-
ture when it bought two and a half acres of land this
summer on the south side of the campus beyond
Harrison Hut. Enlarging the former 45-acre cam-
pus, this land will some day contain a lake and an
arboretum.

Three streams on the land will be dammed to
form an artificial lake for fishing and boating. Sur-
rounding the lake in an arboretum will grow every
tree and shrub native to this climate.

After the war the streetcars on the South Decatur
car line are to be replaced by busses. When the
tracks are removed, the land will revert to the Col-
lege.

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Music-lovers at Agnes Scott will
be able to enjoy a varied season of
All-Star Concerts this year. The
schedule includes programs of vo-
cal, violin, and orchestral works, as
well as opera and ballet.

The first concert, on Oct. 12, will
present James Melton, and Helen
Jepson, of the Metropolitan Opera,
in a joint recital; on Oct. 20, the
opera "La Traviata" will be
staged; the violinist Yehudi Menu-
hin will appear on Nov. 11; and on
Dec. 12, the star will be Ezio Pin-
za, Metropolitan basso.

Pianist Rudolph Serkin will ap-
pear on Jan. 9; on Feb. 15, the
Philadelphia Orchestra will pre-
sent Helen Traubel, Wagnerian
soprano of the Metropolitan, as
guest artist; the Minneapolis Or-
chestra will follow on Feb. 23, with
the French pianist, Robert Casa-
desus, as soloist; and the final
program, on March 21, will again
be the Ballet Theatre:

Sophomore Cabinet Plans
Class Projects for Year

The first meeting of the sopho-
more cabinet will be held on Wed-
nesday, Sept. 27, at 7:00 o'clock in
Murphey Candler, it is announced
by Agnes Harnsberger, president.
At a meeting of the officers and
committee heads of the cabinet,
plans were made for a short, infor-
mal program to open the year's
activities.

A number of projects will be
suggested for the year's work, in-
cluding prayer groups in each
dormitory, and sending birthday
cards to each member of the soph-
omore class.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXX

Wednesday, September 27, 1944

No. 1

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second door Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
second class matter at the Decatur. Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year. $1.2.");
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EDITORIAL STAFF

Editor LEILA HOLMES

Managing Editor PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors

Mary Ann Courtenay
Jeanne Addison

Editorial Assistants

Pat Elam

Feature Editor

Jane Bowman
Sports Editor
Dorothy Lee Webb
Assistant Sports Editor

Ruth Ryner

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor

Carolyn Fuller

Reporters: Jean Mr-Curry. Martha Arnold. Olive Hansen, Elizabeth Scott, Connie Fraser,
Joyce (Jilleland. Alice Gordon, Anne Noell. Ann Seitzinger. Marjorie Cole. Joanne Benton.
Alice Beardsley. Marianne Jeffries. Helen dime. Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard. Peggy
Pat Home. Hale Bennett. Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston. Bet Patterson
Mary Azar.

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps, Barbara Omer.
Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson. Eloise Lyndon. Anne Lee.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager ELIZABETH CARPENTER

Advertising Manager MARY NEELY NORRIS

Asst. Advertising Manager

Jane Anne Newton

Circulation Manager

Hausell Cousar

Circulation Assistants
Mary Russell
Nelson Fisher

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie. Betty Andrews. Eleanor Calley, Louise Gardner,
Peggy Jones. Alice Newman. Laura Winchester. Mary Jane Schumaker. Eleanor Hewell
Doris Street. Ann Hough.

Our Theme

The News staff welcomes each new student as an individual
who may share in our theme we have chosen for the year.
"Development/' in one word, sums up the policy of this news-
paper with emphasis on the following applications of the
word:

First, the News shall endeavor to give you a complete ac-
count of development in your college life. Not only do we
want this paper to be a weekly account of the campus news,
but we want it to be a complete record of the year's progress
for future years.

Second, we want the News to be the true spokesman of the
campus. Only through you, its readers, can the News develop
into the mirror of public opinion, mean something to you, and
aid in development for the college. Your criticisms will be
welcomed, and not in vain, for we are an open-minded staff
and realize our imperfections. Letters to the editor will not
go into the trash basket, but will be printed with the hope
of bettering the college community.

Third, and last, we hope to develop in the journalistic field.

Welcome Class of '48

Freshmen are an eager, enthusiastic lot. They are here with
stars in their eyes.

Please, please keep that spirit, that liveness. Remember
that everyone can't be stunt chairman, class president, or even
proctor. But honestly, college is not just a club of B. W. O. C.'s.
College is an experience in community living, a privileged
way of completing the growing-up process. Its very substance
is in the knowledge acquired both bookish and mundane,
the lasting friendships made, the joys and experiences shared.

Enter into life at Agnes Scott be an integral part. Join
clubs, go to meetings, read the bulletin board, learn the cam-
pus and its traditions. Upperclassmen want to help you,
want to be your friends. Let them, won't you.

Welcome, freshmen. We are so very glad you are here.

Home, Sweet Home

Freshmen sat through those first long minutes at Agnes
Scott in the reception rooms in Main. A few of us have en-
tertained dates in those same parlors. And most of us have
waited for meals in the attractive lobbies of Rebekah Scott.
ALL of us have spent a more enjoyable time in these places
because of the cleaning and refinishing of furniture. For this
we are most grateful to Mr. Mac Gregor, who superintends
our buildings and grounds.

Since the decorating cost over $600. we can be sure that it
will not be done again for several years, probably not during
our stay here. Let's see, then, how long we can keep our lob-
bies and parlors worthy of our pride in them. We should be
willing to be careful when we remember that the revarnishing
of one table with coke rings cost about $10, that sitting on arms
of chairs and couches broke every arm of the red furniture
in Rebekah. and that five minutes' carelessness last year did
$45 worth of damage to one sofa.

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

The Natives Return

September again, and I return to
school to find that much new has
been added. Most conspicuous ad-
dition is the class of '48, a bunch
which seems to be orientated al-
ready. One of its members, ob
viously trying to flatter, asked if
I were a sophomore, so the wrin
kles evidently aren't as deep as I
thought. Another unfamiliar sight
is the flagstone "path" from Re-
bekah to the carline. With a run-
ning start one might be able to
hop from the first stone to the
second, but nothing human could
make it any further. The advent
of the worms removed any sense
of strangeness, as I followed the
general practice of stepping on
several.

Northern Trek

New York was honored this sum-
mer with visits from quite a few
of our number. Among these were
Bella, who very unexpectedly
found herself in Harlem; Mary
Munroe, who took a free taxi ride
and lived to tell it; Jean Hood,
who spent four hours in Grand
Central Station insisting that she
was not Lucy from California, and
Ceevah, who didn't bring back all
she took with her. Pennsylvania
found itself invaded by Wendy,
Inge, and Ginny, who "hosteled"
all over the state. A travalog of-
their journey will appear in the
Aurora, but I shall risk exterm-
ination and divulge the informa-
tion that an Army camp somehow
became included in the itinerary,
eggs were boiled for an hour and
then eaten raw, pigs usually in-
terrupted sleep, and one of the
three was referred to as a "slick
chick."

"Heat the Hemo!"

Such is the cry of Emily Higgins,
Anne Ward, Miss Symms, and oth-
ers who lived in Boyd before school
opened. These liked to gather
around the hotplate of a night and
brew this beverage. One night
Anne heard someone come up the
steps and, thinking it was Higgins,
bent the door outward with the
shout "Heat the Hemo!" She then
joyfully flung open the door and
found not Higgins but a WAC lieu-
tenant, who beat a hasty retreat.
Anne hasn't touched the stuff
since.

Theme

At its retreat last Saturday,
Mortar Board decided that the
theme for the year would be a
follow-up of that of last year,
which emphasized good breathing.
This year's emphasis will be on
animal husbandry.

CEEVAH'S SALON

You too can be beautiful. In a
burst of public spiritedness (and
with a desire to refill the treas-
ury), the senior class decided at
its first meeting to remodel the
student body. All remodeling will
be under the direction of Ceevah,
who will, for a nominal fee, either
take up where nature left off or
take off what nature left on.
Watch for an announcement of the
grand opening.

Thanks

The coffee intake has trebled
since one no longer has to go and
get it. The "co-op girls" who pour
it deserve a vote of thanks, as does
Miss Harris, for the packaged ce-
real, bottled milk, and very at-
tractive drapes.

Expose

Everyone knows it rained last
May Day, but does everyone know
why? The responsible two are
Addison and Stewart, past mas-
ters at black magic.

Vicky's Gory Stories

By Vicky Alexander

My summer was rather a gory
one as a human vampire, chief
bottle-washer, and errand boy for
the laboratory at the Veterans
Hospital near my home. My offi-
cial title was assistant labora-
torian, which sounds quite impor-
tant, but really just boosted my
ego.

Here is a sample day: At 6:30 I
would stumble out of bed, eat a
hasty breakfast, and dash for the
bus. This venerable bus line is
misnamed the City Rapid Transit
Company. When I reached the
hospital, a line of aged and infirm
veterans would already have
formed, and nothing is more mad
dening than to hear grumbling
patients at that hour of the morn
ing. I would ignore them, push my
way past, change into a uniform,
don a large white apron, and pre-
pare for action.

AMATEUR WORK

At first I was not allowed to
stick the victims, but soon I was
initiated into the vampires and
could stick the best of them (at
least, the biggest veins). But be-
ing rather green and easily rat-
tled, I was more of a menace than
a help. Of course my first two
vets fainted when I approached
them with the needle. It could
have been because of my palsied
hand or knocking knees. Somehow
they could always tell that I was
an amateur.

One day they decided to let me
give a basal metabolism test. Un-
fortunately, the victim was a
World War II veteran.

GIVE ME AIR
Imagine my embarrassment and
his condition when I found that
after stopping up his nose and put-

'Chiefs' oummer

Work ing in a uso,

Helping G. I. Joe

By Anne Register

How would you like to spend a
month in Miami next door to a
naval base? Imagine planning en-
tertainment for several hundred
naval officers and civilian work-
ers. Miss Wilburn had just this
experience this summer, working
as a staff member for the U. S. O.

For two months she was sta-
tioned in North Charleston, S. C,
as a vacation substitute. Most of
her hours were spent in planning
programs for parties for service
men at one of the larger clubs.
The "Chief" even taught a danc-
ing class composed entirely of men.
However, she relates that her
most interesting experience was
visiting Stark Hospital because
there she talked to convalescent
veterans recently returned from
war zones. She heard tales from
men who had been in far away
islands and from some who had
taken part in the invasion of
France.

During the month of July our
physical education director was
transferred to Miami. There her
assignment was mainly adminis-
trative. The U. S. O. club there is
very near the receiving station for
a sub chaser school and she says
that they were simply "swamped"
by men. However our last year's
Mortar Board president, Ruth
Kolthoff, came to the "rescue" and
from .-ill reports the month was
most enjoyable, and no doubt
helped keep up the morale of many
a sailor.

ting the tube in his mouth, I had
forgotten to cut on the oxygen.
The poor man was floundering
around and making gruesome
sounds which I thought proved
that he was shell-shocked. Fin-
ally, I realized my mistake, and
quickly gave him air.

The next thing I heard was a
wheezing sound as he breathed
which I diagnosed as asthma. But
no, I discovered after much in-
vestigation that the oxygen tank
leaked. At this point he asked me
if I was 13 or 14 years old. This
was too much for me! So the
whole test had to be regiven by
the regular lab technician.

SCIENTIFIC TYPE

I really was a terrible techni-
cian, and my boss told me it was
a good thing there was no lab
fee. He said I owed the govern-
ment money for letting me work
there.

I have come to the conclusion
that science isn't my calling but
the more cultural things of life.
Still, how does it happen that I
have four labs a week?

Alumnae House Has
Many New Attractions

By Nellie Scott

Would you like to know just
which Agnes Scott girl married
Nathan Homer Pieface III? Do
you wonder whether or not any
Hottentots have joined the Spars?
Perhaps you desire to sink your
teeth into a delicious piece of
fudge cake. If you are subject to
any such longings, the Alumnae
House is the place for you, because
its staff is always' glad to help
you.

BILLIE DAVIS NELSON

The Alumnae staff consists of
four hard-working ladies. Billie
Davis Nelson, a recent newcomer,
is associate secretary and editor
of the Alumnae Quarterly. Now
Mrs. Claude Nelson, Jr., she grad-
uated with high honor in 1942.
Billie was not only president of the
Christian Association, but she
wore a Phi Beta Kappa key and
a Mortar Board pin. Since grad-
uation she has been affiliated with
public welfare work in Fulton
county. Billie will begin work
here on October 1.

f:\ EC i t i v i : s f;< ret yr y
Another member of this group,
Miss Eugenia Symms, is a well-
!<nown figure on campus. As ex-
ecutive secretary, she will work
primarily on the plans for the new
alumnae fund to provide a living
endowment for the college.
SNACKS
If you have ever come to the
Tea Room seeking a hamburger
with real meat on it, you have
been met by the cheery smiles of
Mrs. J. B. Bunnel and Mrs. Ewing
G. Harris. These two are the
charming hostesses for the Alum-
nae House as well as the Silhouette
Tea Room. Reservations for house
guests, special dinners and parties
are made through these hostesses.

Don't wait until you are blessed
with fifteen grandchildren or con-
fined to the "ole rocking chair" to
realize that you are a bona fide
alumnae of Agnes Scott. The
members of the staff and Associa-
tion invito and urge you to visit
the Alumnae House, Tea Room,
gardens, and office on the second
floor of the house. Read their
Quarterlies that can be purchased
in the book store. The July issue
is on sale now.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1944

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Hindus to Lecture
Here on Jan. 18

Maurice Hindus is the first
lecturer scheduled for the cur-
rent school year, according to
Jeanne Robinson, president of
Lecture Association. He is
scheduled to talk here on Jan.
18. The Aurora box in the mail
room is being used to receive
suggestions about lecturers or
subjects. Suggestions may also
be given to Jeanne Robinson,
Lois Sullivan, Scott Newell,
Harding Ragland, Shirley
Graves, Ellen Hayes, and Dale
Bennett, members of the com-
mittee.

For Prompt Service Call

DECATUR SAFETY
CABS

CR. 1701-1702

We Never Close Decatur, Ga.

Class Meetings Set
For This Quarter

Special days have been set aside
for class meetings this quarter. On
these days class meetings only
will be held. The following dates
have been set aside: Saturday,
Oct. 7, Friday, Oct. 27, and Friday,
Nov. 17. The meeting places will
be announced later by the class
presidents.

Upperclassmen who did not
stay for graduation in June or
who failed to secure a copy of
the News may come to the News
room in Murphey Candler. The
graduation issues will be on the
table as long as they last.

HOTEL CANDLER

T. J. WOODS
Operator

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

The Belles of St Ag nes

By Carolyn Fuller

Wedding bells rang out for many
Hottentots during this summer. In
June Bobbie Powell and Langdon
Flowers were married, Mary
Louise Duffee and Frank Philips,
Bunny Gray and Dale Click, Caro-
lyn Daniel and Harvey Paine,
Martha Rhodes and Ivan Bennett.
Later came the weddings of Julia
Harvard and Bob Warnock, June
Lanier and C. M. Beckham, Anabel
Bleckley and Bob Bickford, and
Alvara Frazer and Dale Allen.
Saturday night Mary Frances
Carter wed P. K. Dixon in Jones-
boro; Hansell Cousar was a brides-
maid.

Engagement rings are shining
on the third fingers left hand of
Margaret Wilson, Betty Long, B.
A. Ziegler, Ann Stine, and Eu-
genia Jones.

We're welcoming to the campus
the sisters of Hottentots Anne
Woodward, Lib's sister; Susan
Pope, Helen's sister; Harriet Reid,
Louise's sister; Amelia Davis,
Eleanor's sister; and Beth Jones,
Rosemary's sister.

Out-of-Town

Emily Higgins, Barbara Frink,
and Eugenia Jones went to Griffin

for the week-end with Mary Cum-
ming. Also there were Daisy Sun-
day and Shirley Graves with
Mary Russell.

Mildred Claire Jones and Mar-
tha Polk went to Thomaston.

Kittie Kay and Lois Sullivan
spent the week-end in Byron.

Betty Andrews went up to
Wrightsville Beach at Wilmington,
N. C, for a house party.

"Bunch" Beaver went home to
Gainesville, and Valerie Brown
was in Fort Valley.

Round Town

Barbara Coith, Nancy Geer,
Jean Goode, and Mary Beth Lit-
tle attended the Delta Tau Delta
swimming party and dance at Em-
ory.

At the Tech dance Saturday
night were Dale Bennett, Mary E.
Martin, June Thomison, Anne
Woodward, Giva Harper, and Mar-
garet Anne Richards.

Leila Holmes, Leila Powell,
Anne Register, Annette Neville,
and Doris Purcell had an exciting
day Saturday the Dogwood
Room in the afternoon and the
Rainbow Roof in the evening. Also
at the Roof were Betty Turner,
Lib Woodward, and Frances
Brougher.

On Campus

The campus gathered on the
quadrangle Saturday evening to
welcome the freshmen and see all
the old girls missed in the rush of
registration. In the receiving line
were Molly Milam, Dr. McCain,
Ginny Carter, Miss Scandrett, Dot
Hunter, and Mr. and Mrs. Stukes.
Our "first lady of the campus,"
Miss Scandrett, was looking es-
pecially lovely in a beige dinner
dress bound with a crimson gir-
dle.

The freshmen were entertained
again Sunday afternoon with an
open house at Murphey Candler
with the seniors as hostesses.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Ruth Ryner

The handbook has no doubt be-
come the order of the day and
night. Registration, classes, and
signing up for gym! What a mil-
lion things little Aggie the fresh-
man has to put in her memo! But
now "Chilluns" drop everything
and take heed, there's a lot of
news stirring up from around the
gym and it's time to start talking
about it.
LEAVES, AUTUMN, HOCKEY

With falling leaves, little au-
tumn breezes, and slippery fruit
from a well known campus tree
that's worse on sidewalks than ice
in winter, come thoughts of Ag-
nes Scott's great fall sport, hoc-
key. Scotty Johnson, school hoc-
key manager, is back from hockey
Camp Tigawitha in the Pogono
mountains of northern Pennsyl-
vania with very enthusiastic re-
ports. Headed by Miss Appleby,
a famous English coach, the 150
girls were there to master stick-
work, learn hints about coaching,
to dig into some theory and really
learn to play hockey. The best re-
port we've heard, however, is
about Scotty's trudging through
Grand Central Station attired in
a slinky black dress and veil carry-
ing her blankets wrapped in a
paper sack with a giant hockey
stick protruding from the top. As
she hurried madly about, a taxi
driver rushed up and asked breath-
lessly, "Miss Davis, Bette Davis,
may I have your autograph?"
While the driver stared at the
hockey stick, Scotty calmly an-
swered, "I'm not Bette Davis, I'm
from the 'Sooth' and going to the
Pogono mountains!"
NEW HOCKEY FIELD, CLASS
MANAGERS

Everybody is enthused over the
new hockey field which has been
plowed up, leveled off, had new
grass planted, and is said to be in
excellent condition. All the teams
are sure to be proud of their new
hockey managers. Jean Denning
will be manager for the sopho-
mores, Jean Chewning for the jun-
iors, Mary Cumming for the sen-
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Party in Gym Sept. 30

The recreational council will
entertain the freshmen and the
sophomores with a party in the
gymnasium on Saturday night.
Sept. 30, from 8:00 to 10:00. The
purpose of the party is not only to
better acquaint the two classes but
also to discover hidden talent with-
in each class.

The recreational council is com-
posed of a representative from
each major organization on the
campus. The representatives are:

Christian Association Mary
Poissell, in charge of refreshments.
Athletic Association Anne Webb,
in charge of entertainment. Co-
tillion club Scott Newell, chair-
man. Mortar Board Barbara
Frink, in charge of decoration.
Student Government B. J. Rad-
ford, entertainment.

pects big things from the fresh-
men. A new system has been de-
vised this year whereby practice
will be scheduled for the regular
teams and will be coached by the
managers. All beginners and oth-
ers will attend earlier practice pe-
riods, have their own scheduled
games, and will be coached by
Miss Wilburn.

SIMMER SPORTS

Ann Stine, school swimming
manager, attended aquatic school
at Rollins College this summer and
is full of reports for swimming
club. Besides working on form
swimming, Ann learned much
about the all-important water tac-
tics being taught to the armed
forces. Betty Andrews, tennis
manager, can tell you not only
about fall tennis club tryouts but
also about aquatic school at Bre-
vard, N. C, which she attended
this summer.

CARPE DIEM

And so, the sports calendar
opens with hockey, the fall sport
as well known to Agnes Scott as
the falling leaves and the tangy
air of autumn. Take hold you
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you superior juniors, and even you
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of the blitz without Jesus Christ,"
said the Rev. Michael Coleman, vi-
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day. "God gives courage," he de-
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Rev. Coleman, in Atlanta for a
four day mssionary tour, recalled
giving communion to all kinds of
hardened individuals in unusual
places.

All Hallows lives in history,
he noted, for there William Penn
was baptized. Samuel Pepys did
much of his diary writing, and
John Quincy Adams was married.

After his talk Rev. Coleman of-
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of Agnes Scott students who would
like to correspond with students
their age in England.

Art Department to Open
Season of Exhibits Soon

An exhibition of the paintings of
Miss Harriet Fitzgerald will open
the season for the Art department,
Howard Thomas, head of the de-
partment, has announced. The ex-
hibition will begin early in Octo-
ber and will be held in the library
building.

Miss Fitzgerald is a private
teacher in New York City, and has
had her works on exhibit both
there and in Virginia. A native of
Danville, Va., she graduated from
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
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VOL. XXX. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OC TOBER 4, 1944 NO.

Investiture Slated for Nov. 4

Investiture will be Saturday, Nov. 4, the seniors decided at
a class meeting last Thursday. The class also voted to continue
the tradition begun last year of having a church service on
campus to complete the week-end.

The Friday before investiture is known as Little Girls' Day.
The custom is for the seniors to wear little girl pinafores and
baby dresses above their knees, and frolic on the quadrangle
before being capped by Miss Scandrett the next day, and
assuming senior dignity.

The investiture speaker and the minister for the church
service will be announced later, according to Minnie Mack,
senior class president.

Sophs Take Lead
On Honor Roll
For Past Year

Forty-four sophomores, juniors
and seniors were named to the Ag-
nes Scott honor roll on Saturday,
Sept. 30, in recognition of high
scholastic achievement during the
1943-1944 session.

Since the college is fully accred-
ited by all educational agencies
and has a chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa, honor roll rating is an in-
dication of distinction in class
work. It carries with it the priv-
ilege of voluntary class attend-
ance.

The list of students attaining
this scholastic record follows:

Class of 1945: Ann Anderson,
Lithonia, Ga.; Virginia Bowie,
Frederick, Md.; Virginia Carter,
Norton, Va.; Betty Jo Davis, At-
lanta, Ga.; Pat Elam, Americus,
Ga.; Betty Glenn, Atlanta, Ga.;
Martha Jean Gower, Decatur, Ga.;
Marion Leathers, Decatur, Ga.;
Inge Probstein, Drexel Hill,
Penn.; Joan Stevenson, Atlanta,
Ga.; Lois Sullivan, Anderson, S. C;
Jodele Tanner, Atlanta, Ga.; Doro-
thy Webb, Atlanta, Ga.; Wendy
Whittle, Luray, Va.

Class of 1946: Jeanne Addison,
Washington, D. C; Margaret
Bear, Richmond, Va.; Lucile Bea-
ver, Gainesville, Ga.; Marjorie
Karlson, Decatur, Ga.; Stratton
Lee. Danville, Ky.; Betty Long,
Richmond, Va.; Marjorie Naab,
Atlanta, Ga.; Anne Noell, New-
port, Ark.; Elizabeth Osborne,
Morganton, N. C; Mary Russell,
Griffin, Ga.; Ruth Simpson,
Gainesville, Fla.; Dorothy Spra-
gens, Lebanon, Ky.; Peggy Will-
mon, Decatur, Ga.; Elisabeth
Woodward, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Class of 1947: Betty Andrews,
Flat Rock, N. C; Margaret Bond,
Charleston, W. Va.; Helen Currie,
Scarsdale, N. Y.; Mildred Derieux,
Columbia, S. C; Mary Katherine
Glenn, Atlanta, Ga.; Agnes Harns-
berger, Brunswick, Ga.; Margaret
Kinard, Clemson, S. C; Janice
Latta, Goshen, Ind.; Ann Hagood
Martin, Easley, S. C; Gisela Mey-
er, Atlanta, Ga.; Betty Patterson,
Winston-Salem, N. C; Sophia Pe-
dakis, Pensacola, Fla.; Betty Jean
Radford, Decatur, Ga.; Betty Tur-
ner, Thomasville, Ga.; Laura Win-
chester, Macon, Ga.; Christina
Yates, Augusta, Ga.

Library Gets
$11,000 Grants

Agnes Scott's library fund for
this year now totals $16,000. The
regular appropriation from the
college funds was supplemented
by a $5,000 donation from the
General Board of Education and
$6,000 donated anonymously.

There is a large specified grant
for the English department. The
rest of the funds will buy books
for all the departments. Miss Han-
ley and the library committee have
made up a list of needed books,
including Ann Lindbergh's "The
Steep Ascent," Raymond Nixon's
"Henry W. Grady," J. P. Mar-
quand's "So Little Time," and Al-
len's "Bedford Village."

Stunt Heads
Name Aides

Dabney Adams, freshman, and
Nellie Scott, sophomore, newly-
elected chairmen for the Black
Cat Stunt, Oct. 14, have announced
their committees and have agreed
on several changes in regulations
which will better satisfy the pur-
poses of the stunt.

Writing the sophomore script
are Bet Patterson, Joanne Benton,
Helen Currie, Margaret Kinard,
Doris Kissling, Janice Latta, and
Phia Pedakis.

The freshman director has nam-
ed Lida Walker chairman of the
writing committee, Nan Nettles
pianist, Nancy Haislip chairman of
costumes, Anne Clark Rogers
scenery, Louise McLaurin decora-
tions, Dorothy Stanton and Sister
Davis properties, Louise Cousar
typing.

Singing

With the emphasis on singing
rather than on cheering, Janet
Dox and Caroline Hodges will lead
freshman songs, and Ann Stine
and B. A. Zeigler will direct the
sophs. Judges will select the pret-
tiest songs, for which the sister
classes will award prizes on the
night of the stunt.

Improve Spirit

At a meeting with Miss Scan-
drett, the class leaders decided to
improve the spirit of the contest
by abolishing all hazing, yelling,
and storming of dormitories.

Virginia Tuggle Enters
Woman's Med College

Virginia Tuggle, '44, has entered
the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania.

Miss Tuggle is a graduate of
Girls' High School and of Agnes
Scott, where she was president of
Athletic Association last year.

The Woman's Medical College is
the only institution in the United
States devoted exclusively to the
education of women in medicine.

STUDENT GOV'T WEEK

The week of Oct. 16-21 has
been designated as Student Gov-
ernment Week on the campus.
Chapel periods throughout the
week will be devoted to pro-
grams presenting this year's
theme "Working to Live in a
Happy College Community."

News Reports
Plans for Year

Howard Mumford Jones, pro-
fessor of English Literature at
Harvard, will visit the Agnes Scott
campus in February, Mr. George
P. Hayes has announced.

Brought here by a fund recently
donated to the English depart-
ment for this purpose, Mr. Jones
will lecture formally, speak in
chapel, and discuss American life
and literature with small groups
of students.

He is the author of a number
of books and is now on leave of
absence from Harvard to write
another. Formerly dean of the
graduate school of arts and sci-
ences, Mr. Jones has taught at the
Universities of Michigan and
North Carolina also.

Mortar Board Plans
Picnic for Transfers

Mortar Board will entertain
transfers and special students
at a picnic on Stone Mountain,
Saturday, Oct. 7. All transfers
and special students are asked to
meet in front of Main at 4:30.

Medical students and men from
the Naval Air Base, the Fourth
Service Command, and the Ninth
Corps have been invited to attend
the picnic.

Chairmen of committees are:
Julia Slack, refreshments; Molly
Milam, entertainment; Elaine
Kuniansky, invitations.

2

VIRGINIA CARTER

C. A. Reveals
Theme for Year
InChapelTalks

Cabinet to Hear
Father Fleming

Father Fleming, of the Church
of Our Savior in Atlanta, will
speak to sophomore cabinet to-
night at 7:00 in Murphey Candler.

The Episcopal minister will be-
gin a series of talks planned by
the cabinet to bring about a bet-
ter understanding between the
several denominations. Similari-
ties, rather than differences, of
doctrine will be discussed and in-
teresting variations in form will
be pointed out.

Date Book

Wednesday, Oct. 4 Father Flem-
ing to speak at Sophomore Cab-
inet at 7:00.

Thursday, Oct. 5 Blackfriar's
meeting at 7:30.

Friday, Oct. 6 Class meetings at
10:30.

Meeting of News staff at 1 :30 in
the News room.

Saturday, Oct. 7 Mortar Board
picnic at 4:30 for transfers and
special students.

Spanish Professors Spend
Summer South of Border

By Jane Bowman

Miss Muriel Ham and Mrs. Florence Dunstan, just back
from a six-weeks' stay in Mexico City, are finding it hard to
once more settle down to life in a small town. The purpose of
the trip was to attend the Instituto de la Lingua Espanola at
the National University of Mexico, to which were chosen
ninety-four members from the

Spanish teachers of the high
schools and universities in the
United States. However in a place
as romantic and exciting as Mex-
ico City they found much more to
do than study.

The two, being very agreeable,
made perfect traveling compan-
ions. As soon as their train
crossed the Rio Grande they for-
got the mother tongue completely
and became las senoras. Neither
is fond of Mexican food so they
took many of their meals at Am-
erican restaurants which, they
said laughingly, are quite popular
with Mexicans.

An outstanding event of the trip
was the dinner in honor of Mrs.
Dunstan at the Club France given
by Senor Gonzales Pena, outstand-
ing literary figure and author of
the "History of Mexican Litera-
ture," which she has recently
translated into English.

Famous People

Being naturally friendly and vi-
vacious, Miss Ham and Mrs. Dun-
stan made many acquaintances, a
number of whom are socially and
internationally prominent. Among
them are Senor Alfonso Caso, who
is responsible for the discovery of
the ruins of Monte Alban, the fa-
mous author Senor Jimenez Rueda,
Senor Manuel Toussaint. authority

on colonial art and literature,
Senor Justino Fernadez, author-
ity on art, and Senor Edmundo
Ogorman, formerly professor at
Brown and now instructing at the
National University of Mexico.
They also studied under the bril-
liant Senor Manuel Alcala, who
formerly taught at Vassar. Also
they met Senora Amalia Castillo
Ledon, vice-president of the In-
ternational Pan American organi-
zation, and Dr. Charles H. Stevens,
cultural attache of the U. S. em-
bassy-
Mexican Family
Both Mrs. Dunstan and Miss
Harn agreed that one of their
most enjoyable experiences was
that of living with a socially prom-
inent Mexican family. Their host-
ess, Senora Aymes, is a leader in
social work in Mexico City.

Through a personal friend of
theirs, Miss Harn and Mrs. Dun-
stan met the well-known artist,
Senor Diego Rivera. After visit-
ing his studio and conversing with
him both agree that he is exceed-
ingly cordial and quite fascinat-
ing.

Varied Activities

Aside from being honor guests
at not less than three dinner par-
ties a week, the two entertained
(Continued on Page 3)

The editorial staff of the News
reports that a new plan is effec-
tive this year, whereby all repor-
ters may have an opportunity to"
see the various procedures of put-
ting out the paper. At least one
reporter will be invited to the
News room each Monday night,
before the paper goes to press,
where she will become acquainted
with the technique of newspaper
make-up, headlines, proofreading,
and other journalistic proc^tmgjs.

All upperclassmen who wish to
try out for the position of reporter
on the Agnes Scott News may do
so next week, according to Leila
Holmes, editor. Girls interested
are asked to sign their names on
the list posted on the back bulle-
tin board in Buttrick immediately.
Tryouts begin on Oct. 9.

An important meeting of the
editorial staff is scheduled for Fri-
day, Oct. 6, at 1:30 p. m. in the
News room in Murphey Candler.

H. M. Jones
To Visit Here

"Jesus Christ the Same Yester-
day, and Today, and Forever/'
Christian Association's theme for
this year, is the central thought of
plans for C. A. week, which began
yesterday in chapel with a service
led by Virginia Carter, president,
and Mary Munroe, vice-president.

This morning's chapel program,
directed by Cookie DeVane, pre-
sented the service activities of
Christian Association helping at
Scottish Rite Hospital, Boys' Club,
Y. W. C. A., Industrial Girls'
clubs, the Syrian chapel, the Chi-
nese Sunday school and the Christ-
mas party on campus.

Tomorrow morning Stratton
Lee, C. A. treasurer, will present
the budget, which has been re-
vised this year in several places
to meet present needs.

Miss Susan Cobbs, one of the
faculty advisers, will close the
C. A. chapel series Friday morn-
ing with an interpretation of the
theme. Christian Association week
will end Sunday with the recon-
secration service to be led* by Vir-
ginia Carter at the regular Sun-
day vesper hour, 6:30 o'clock, in
Maclean Chapel.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1944

National Newspaper Week

This week is National Newspaper Week. At a time like
this it seems fitting to stop and think of ourselves as the luck-
iest people to be able to enjoy the four freedoms.

Freedom of the press is a privilege which we possess that
many of the countries in the world today do not have. It is
one of the freedoms for which our brothers, sweethearts, and
husbands are fighting.

In this country public opinion may be read and heeded
through the newspaper.

At Agnes Scott public opinion is welcomed so that the
News can represent the whole campus, and not just the opin-
ions of the few on the staff.

On Sleep

Juniors and seniors, we are the privileged few who can burn
the midnight oil. There are some" among us who pursue our
intellectual guests in the fields of higher learning all night,
which is commendable, but definitely tiring to the mind and
body the morning after.

There are others among us who decide to wash clothes or
take a shower at 1:00 A. M. This cannot be done quietly, no
matter how hard we may try. Several people, gathered in
the hall to discuss their dates, can be very disconcerting to
the unfortunate freshmen and sophomores who are trying
futily to count sheep.

The worst outcome of the whole night problem is the
aftermath, which the infirmary gets when you stagger down
and say that you are tired and you can't imagine why. The
doctor takes time out to examine your weary form and imme-
diately orders a hemoglobin test. Think of the newspaper
you will receive if everyone has to have hemoglobins done.

If you don't want to feel "nervous, lazy and run-down," as
the ads read, don't take medicine get some sleep.

Reading Is Important

Little Francey in Betty Smith's best-seller U A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn" made it a practice to read one book a day. That
may be next to impossible for students at Agnes Scott, but
it is a worthwhile goal.

Even half a book, or half a chapter a day would add in some
way to that wonderful fund of knowledge of wonderlands,
peoples, history and modern times that comes from reading.

The Louise McKinney Book Award contest is designed to
stimulate the students' interest in literature and good books,
and the collections submitted each year are always gratifying.

Our library has recently received $11,000, to be spent on
BOOKS. Aside from filling departmental needs, Miss Hanley
intellectual quests in the fields of higher learning all night,
has on hand or ordered exciting new books in fields of fiction,
mystery, geography, and current events.

"What the modern student fails utterly to realize (in not
reading books) is that he is missing ... a great opportunity
for recreational amusement, jolly fun, and painlessly acquir-
ing information ... a careful, reflective study of the master-
works is essential to the full life. But just reading for pleasure
is important." Emory Wheel.

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Vol. XXX

Wednesday, October 4, 1944

No. 2

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The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Carrots or Curls?

Quite a few found the choice be-
tween beauty and food a hard one
to make at lunch last Friday.
The uncurled spectators enjoyed
watching the developing drama, or
farce. First, the carefree entrance,
at which time the spectators start
betting as to whether she will get
by Mickey, who's on hostess duty.
Next, the argument with Mickey,
ended when reinforcements arrive
in the person of Miss Harris. Fin-
ally, the retreat of the beker-
chiefed one, who looks calculating-
ly at the food, trying to make the
great decision. A census taken
showed that in the majority of
cases, beauty lost.

Watch Your Words

Bitty King to Ceevah, who had
just shown her a lovely diamond-
studded wrist watch: "Why Cee-
vah, it's so big it looks almost
real!" Dale Bennett to Lilaine
Harris, who had a watch pin on
her lapel: "You'll have to take it
back; it's upside down."

Dry cleaners Please Note

Passing by the tennis courts the
other day, someone happened to
see Katy and Sally MacGregor
sliding down the bank. A second
look revealed Mr. MacGregor, who
was ignoring his light-colored suit
and sliding right with them.
Base Error

They're telling this on Anne
Register. She was, so the story
goes, deep down in the basement
of the science hall studying for a
biology practical. Looking around
at the creatures in the jars, she
came across something unfamiliar
and slowly read aloud the label on
the jar. "BASEMENT. What
in the world is that?"

Loses Shirttail

While Sept. 19 found most Hot-
tentots back in the sheltering
arms, it found Mary McCalla far
away with her head in the clouds.
On the 19th Mary soloed for the
first time and lost her shirttail.
No, she didn't crack up or back
into a propellor. Her instructor,
following an old pilot's custom, cut
it off when she came back to earth.
She brought her license to school,
and it looks very impressive on
the wall.

Overheard

In the library: "If you so much
as sneeze they put it in the paper!"
(Not- in this column. I can't spell
a sneeze.)

In the gym: "Hang one fore and
one aft."

These Math Majors

Since the spring of '43 when
Jean, the lucky girl who lives with
me, decided to major math, I have
feared the worst. Last week my
fears were realized. She rushed
into the room and threw a sheet
of paper at me, saying, "I've fin-
ished my homework. Isn't it beau-
tiful?" I looked at the paper and
saw, not rows of respectable X's
and Y's, but what looked like a
three-year-old's efforts to draw a
purple cow in a green barn. Won-
dering where I could find a strait
jacket and speaking soothingly. I
tried to lead her to the infirmary.
She became quite violent and said
something that sounded like
"curve tracing." Another math
major, trying to hide the awful
truth, told me that it wasn't a cow
in a barn but "the place where the
curve can't go." As the cow seems
more plausible, I am keeping close
watch on both of them, and keep
Jean locked securely in a box at
night.

A Boyd's-Eye View

of Wendy Whittle

By Jeanne Addison

Of course the real purpose of this column is to put in a
bit of a plug for the little Boyd's Nest on the edge of the
campus, but we'd also like to tell you in passing about some
of the other interesting people around. Wendy Whittle for
instance.

Wendy is vice-president of Student Government, but she

is interesting for lots of other rea-
sons, too. If you don't know her,
you've probably at least seen some-
one with very black hair, a very
red coat, and a very blonde room-
mate somewhere on campus; and
you've surely heard rumors of a
famous hostel trip in which she
was one of the chief participants.

Miss Whittle is an ardent de-
votee of Winnie-the-Pooh her
favorite chapter being the one
Hefalumps a fact which proves
the largeness of her mental grasp.
She is also a champion among cof-
fee-drinkers, and the surest way

'Beauty's Your Duty'
DuBarry Success

By Ceevah Rosenthal

I came seeking beauty and
knowledge; I saw the quick cure
for bulges, bumps, bunions, blis-
ters, and boils; I succeeded in
becoming DuBarry's failure.

"You, too, can be thin" the ad-
vertisement says. I agree. All you
have to do is to stop eating. "You
too can be the life of the party."
Again I agree. All you have to
do is to go one better than the
girl who says "I don't drink" by
saying "I don't eat." "You too can
have good posture." It's easy.
Briefly, all you have to do is stand
with your knees relaxed, neck
tense, waist out, tummy in, ribs
up, shoulders down, chin out and
temper in!

The memories I have of the
wonderful (?) summer spent in
New York center around the
steaks, roast beefs, cakes, pies,
vegetables, bread, and potatoes
that I didn't eat. For six weeks I
dieted on oranges and oranges and
oranges and an occasional grape-
fruit and oranges. Inline way of
exercises, I can picture double hip
things, knee straps, thigh bumps,
shoulder rolls, soothing, scorching,
and screaming. As far as intellec-
tual attainment is concerned, the
only passage I remember from the
Romantic Poets is one in which
Byron describes the meal prepared
for Don Juan!

But don't think New York, Du
Barry' and Columbia didn't have a
lot to offer. They did. (Right now
I just can't happen to think what,
but I'm sure they did.) I remem-
ber now. New York's personality
made starvation possible (in the
sense of bearable). Starvation at
DuBarry's made Romantic Poets
passable. (My stomach often an-
swered when I couldn't.) Romantic
Poets made the family passifiable!
In closing I feel I ought to say
DuBarry's great in every way.
"Beauty's your duty," I've learned

to know

And 1 11 have classes to tell you so.
For all I've said my soul repents
But it'll probably cost you fifty
cents.

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to lure her into your parlor is to
put the coffee on she'll turn up
by instinct in no time at all.

In order to be perfectly honest
and maintain our journalistic in-
tegrity, we feel we must add that
Wendy also has two Great Vices,
which she sometimes fails to rise
above: (1) she has a weakness for
early morning hours, (2) she plays
the flute. However, we understand
that in time one learns to overlook
these drawbacks and to appreciate
her sterling qualities of intellect,
her sense of humor, her loyalty,
and her great powers of discern-
ment. If you haven't discovered
these yet, don't give up drop in
on her in her "Confessional" (es-
pecially designed for confidential
hours) in Lupton and find out for
yourself.

'Swing Shift Maisie'
Becomes Domestic

By Martha Baker

"Hey, Liz, what shift are you
on?" Nope, this isn't "Swing Shift
Maisie" out at Bell Bomber plant
but "Hettie the Hottentot" on her
way to dining room duty.

Don't think for a second "Het"
doesn't get plenty of laughs out
of the "co-op" system. The battle
cry of any experienced kitchen
hand is, "Hey, how you crumbing
along?" Ok, so you don't like
puns with your coffee! But there
are trials and tribulations in the
form of pouring water in some-
one's lap, brushing off the table
while everyone is still eating and
then in a forced tone saying, "Oh
really, I didn't mean to rush you,"
or trying to figure it out when
Miss Harris says, "When you sub-
stitute for someone, you're not
you, they're you and you're they,
no matter who."

And all the qualities (better or
worse) come to light. Maybe after
experiencing such "domestic bliss,"
Het" will practice it elsewhere
han under "the sheltering arms."

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Ruth Marie Lineback, '43, was
married to William Stelling von
Arx, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 1, in
the Dwight chapel of Yale Uni-
versity.

Miss Lineback graduated from
Agnes Scott with high honor,
was editor of the Silhouette and
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Mortar Board, Chi Beta Phi, and
Phi Sigma. She was awarded the
Mortar Board fellowship for grad-
uate study and attended graduate
school in Zoology at Yale Univer-
sity.

Miss Lineback is now graduate
assistant in instruction in the Zool-
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Spanish Professor

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at informal teas, and attended the
opera, the movies, and the theatre.
Miss Harn, who has a keen dis-
like for bull fights and shopping
in Mexican markets, admitted that
someone else did those things for
her. Mrs. Dunstan returned with
quantities of jewelry and is confi-
dent that being able to speak
Spanish enabled *her to purchase
it at somewhat bargain prices.

When asked if it was necessary
to burn the midnight oil to keep
up their courses in Mexican Civili-
zation and Culture, Mexican Lit-
erature, and Advanced Conversa-
tion, they replied with a smile that
there is a shortage of electricity
in Mexico. So if any studying was
done after sundown, it was done
with the aid of the proverbial mid-
night oil.

The Sty/e Center of the South

Baby Clinic Plans

Agnes Scott, in the near future,
will be the home of not only "Hot-
tentots" and stray Decatur pets,
but also a Well-Baby Clinic which
will be located in the proposed In-
firmary building. The clinic will
cater to the babies of Decatur and
Atlanta families, especially those
of the alumnae.

It is hoped that some arrange-
ment between the psychology de-
partment and the clinic can be ar-
ranged. The clinic will be in the
basement, having a separate en-
trance so as not to disturb patients
in the infirmary.

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The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Last week-end was a gay one
starting Friday night with the In-
terfraternity Council Dance at
Emory. "Dootsie" Gardner, Dot
Spragens, Maudie Van. Dyke,
Marie Bright, Bess Sheppard,
Nancy Deal, Nancy Geer, Mary
Beth Little, Louise Starr, Clare
Jones, Betty Allen, Mary Jane
Fuller, Anne Scott, "Cissie" Jeff-
ries, Betty Turner, Eleanor Davis,
"Robin" Robinson, Sue Hutchens,
Polly Grant, Dot Chapman, Peggy
Gregg, Mary Anne Gaunt, June
Thomason, Lanie Harris, and Liz
Harris. After the dance Peggy
Gregg and Sue Hutchens went to a
Chi Phi breakfast.

Football Fans

At the Tech : Clemson game Sat-
urday afternoon were G. G. Gilli-
land, Sue Hutchens, Ann Wiede-
man, Hilda Tabor, Janet Lidell,
Dot Chapman, Mary Anne Gaunt,
Peggy Gregg, "Rusty" Raifield,
Lida Walker, Jackie Jones, Nan
Honour, Lady Major, whose twin
brother was here from Clemson
to go with her; Claire Rowe, "Doot-
sie" Gardner, Jean Stewart,
"Cocky" Cochran, Virginia Dixon,
Lorenna Ross, Carolyn Squires,
Margaret McManus, Gloria Gaines,
Bobby Whipple, Peggy Jones,
Jeanne Robinson, B. A. Ziegler,
mary Brown Mahon, Dot Peace,
Betty Mann, Mary Jane Fuller,
"Punky" Mattison, Liz Carpenter,
and Anne Hightower. Lots of the
girls went on to the Interfrater-
nity Council tea dance.

At the evening I. C. dance were
Ruth Ryner, "Scotty" Johnson,
Jean Estes, Jane Bowman, "Robin"
Robinson, Betty Andrews, Jean
Stewart, "Dootsie" Gardner, Ann
Murrow, Liz Harris, Maudie Van
Dyke, Ann Hightower, Beth Wal-
ton, Janet Lidell, Martha Ball,
Nelson Fisher, Betty Allen, Jane
Smith, Connie Frazier, Jane Ann
Newton, Barbara Price, G. G. Gil-

liland, and Charlotte Clarkson.
Anne Wiedeman was wearing a
lovely deep purple net dress.
Janet Lidell was third in the
grand march, since her date is
I. C. secretary.

v Joseph Cotten

Dancing at the Rainbow Roof
Mary Manly, Emily Higgins, Mary
Jane Fuller, Joan Crangle, Jeanne
Robinson, and . . . JOSEPH COT-
TEN! At the Biltmore Empire
Room were Scott Newell, "Toot-
sie" Harrison, Pie Ertz, Marianna
Kirkpatrick, Mary Cumming, and
Louise Isaacson.

The Delta Tau Deltas at Emory
gave an "early" Hallowe'en
(please note similarity to Thanks-
giving) party Saturday night, com-
plete with "horror chamber."
Among the screaming girls were
Jean Goode, Anne McCaulla, and
Nancy Geer.

Out-of-Town

Annette Neville went home to
Walhalla, S. C; Dot De Vane to
Greenville, S. C: Alice Gordon to
Eastman; May Turner to McDon-
ough; "TeeToe" Williams to Mar-
ietta; and Beth Jones to Vining.
Betty Long went to Richmond to
be a bridesmaid in her brother's
wedding*

Ann Wheeler was in Gainesville
for Sunday. Millie Evans went
over to Athens for the week-end.

People are talking about Dale^
Bennett's beautiful strapless eve-
ning dress of pink satin Anne
Stine's O. A. O. "dropping in" last
Tuesday Anne Ward's Hemo par-
ties; White House's telephone call
from Joseph Cotten Betty Mann's
"fellow on a furlough" from
Greenville still Ceevah's real
"sylph-like" figure.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Ruth Ryner

Hockey

Hottentots are steadily gather-
ing after two weeks of "getting
settled" and the scene of action is
the gym. Hockey practices have
started off with a bang and every-
body is looking forward to the
first games a week from Friday
when the enthusiastic frosh will
meet the experienced seniors,
and the juniors and sophomores
will renew their ancient rivalry.
In another week, though, hockey
will really be in the limelight, so
for now let's spy around and see
what else is stirring.

Plunge In and Try-Out

In case some of you haven't
heard, the doors of the swimming
pool are swung open every after-
noon at 5:00 and you're perfectly
welcome to come in and splash
your worries away. Also, take a
note: tryouts for Swimming club
will be held this week and next.
"Scotty" Scott, swimming man-
ager, has posted the requirements
in the gym and in Buttrick so stop
and take a look.

"Apples and Will Tells"

Apples and William Tells will
soon be in order here for great
plans are being made for the
boosting of that intriguing sport,
archery. Besides five regularly
scheduled classes, open periods
have been arranged for all who
like to shoot. Now's the time to
take heed, chillun, so grab a little
bow and arrow and trot out on
the archery range around 2:00 any
day from Monday through Fri-
day, or at 4:00 on Wednesdays and
Thursdays. There's also some talk
in the air about the organization
of an archery club so start now
and go places fast.

Outing: Club

Now for the lovers of the great
out-of-doors, a little bit about Out-
fng club. With Vicki at the head,
they're planning a lot of activities
and good times to come but not
until some new members are taken
in to share in the fun. The girls
who signed up to "try out" must
attend a class held each Monday
from 5:00 to 6:00 p. m. for three
successive weeks. The first class
on first aid will be taught by Miss
Eugenia Symms. On the second
Monday, Maude Van Dyke will dis-
close facts about camping, and on
the last Monday Betty Davis will
teach nature study.

"Hit the Bold"

One last bit that comes under
the classification of "good news"
is about badminton. We've gotten
the "word" that the old tennis
courts next to Rebekah are to be
converted into badminton courts
sometime in the near future. Keep

Liberal Arts Conference
Attracts Hayes and Posey

Mr. George P. Hayes and Mr.
Walter B. Posey attended a week's
conference at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity this summer, at which recom-
mendations concerning the place
of the humanities in the genera!
liberal arts program of southern
colleges and universities were
drawn up.

The Nashville conference, cen-
tering on the humanities, was the
first of three southeastern meets
whose joint findings will be com-
bined with those of meetings in
other parts of the country toward
the development of a sound post-
war educational program for the
nation. Delegates from Agnes
Scott will attend the natural
sciences conference at the Univer-
sity of Georgia and the social
sciences meet at the University of
North Carolina, both of which are
planned for the near future.

Mr. Hayes, with other study-
committee members, made a sur-
vey from November, 1943, to July,
1944, of aims in the study of Eng-
lish, aims of each of the six sub-
jects in the humanities group in
relation to liberal arts, and aims
of the liberal arts college in rela-
tion to present-day social condi-
tions. His report, presented at the
July meeting, is incorporated in
recommendations now serving as
the basis for further study.

The series was prompted by the
tendency during recent years to-
ward over-specialization rather
than toward a liberal education.

your fingers crossed, girls, "it
could happen."

Well, kids, that's the latest
what's what from you know where,
so see you around the gym!
Tech Tennis Stars

P. s. Just as we rush to meet
the deadline, Betty Andrews tells
us that a very "extra special"
event is on schedule for tennis fans
next week. Frank Willett and
Howard McCall, very well known
Georgia Tech tennis stars, will be
out to play some exhibition
matches on the Agnes Scott courts.
Both boys were top-notch players
in the Atlanta City Tournament
last spring and also attended the
National Inter-collegiate meet in
Chicago this summer. Let's all
turn out for this for it should be
well worth the time.

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Each year the Louise McKinney
Book Award of $25 is given to the
student who acquires, during the
year, the most interesting and dis-
criminating personal library and
who reveals real understanding of
her books.

To be eligible for the award, a
collection must contain at least
fifteen books. These may be in-
expensive editions or second-hand
books; it is expected, however,
that the collector will choose, as
the foundation for a lasting li-
brary, the best standard editions
and well-made books in good con-
dition. For information concern-
ing the best inexpensive editions
of standard works, collectors
might consult librarians, faculty
members, and publishers. A col-
lection may contain gifts, or books
acquired through other sources;
but also the collection is expected
to give ample evidence of the col-
lector's own initiative and dis-
criminating choice. In whatever
way books are acquired, they
should represent the owner's
tastes, either in several fields of
interest for example, fiction,
biography, philosophy, poetry,
drama, history, art, music, etc.
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The winner of the award is ex-
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Volunteer Choirs Formed
To Be Chapel Leaders

A new system of chapel choirs
is being initiated starting this
week. Choir membership will not
count as student aid, but will be
on a voluntary basis. Each of the
classes is to have a separate choir
and the four are to serve alter-
nately with occasional special pro-
grams by the Glee Club. Every-
one interested in being in her
class choir should see Miss Hun-
ter. .

pictures or of music records.

Book collectors should enter the
contest by the end of the first
quarter. Members of the English
department will receive the names
of contestants. On May 15 the
book collections will be examined
by a committee of judges and the
book owners informally inter-
viewed concerning their books. The
name of the winner of the award
will be announced at Commence-
ment.

The Louise McKinney Book
Award was established a number
of years ago as a memorial to Miss
Louise McKinney, professor emeri-
tus of English, who, during her
years of teaching, awakened in
many Agnes Scott students a love
of reading and a delight in the
ownership of books.

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Nell Elkin, class of '46, has en-
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Agnes Scott in '42-'43 as a day
student. She will leave for Hunter
College, New York, in November.
During the past year Nell at-
tended Marquette University.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944

NO. 3

SATURDAY IS STUNT NIGHT

Will Durant W
On 'Philosophy

Will Durant, Maurice Hindus,
Robert Frost, and Vera Micheles
Dean will lecture here this year,
Lecture Association announces to-
day.

Will Durant will talk on "Phil-
osophy and the War" in the open-
ing lecture presented in the series
in Presser hall on Nov. 9.

Dr. Durant is regarded as one
of America's leading philosophers
and historians. He is the author
of "The Story of Philosophy,"
"Philosophy and the Social Prob-
lem," "Transition," "The Life of
Greece," and other books.

Maurice Hindus, Russian war
correspondent, and author of a
number of books on Russia, will
speak on Russia here Jan. 18. Rus-
sian-born, he has spent a large
part of his life in America. He
has been in Russia, however, for
. the past year and a half closely
associated with government and
military leaders. He plans to re-
turn to America in December.

In the library we have many
of Maurice Hindus' books: "Hum-
anity Uprooted," "Moscow Skies,"
"Mother Russia," and "To Sing
With the Angels."

Robert Frost, the most dis-
tinguished American poet, will be
on the campus Jan. 25-6 to lec-
ture. Among his best known poems
are "A Boy's Will," "A Farther
Range," and "New Hampshire."
These may be found in the library.

The April lecture has not been

Poetry ClubTrials
Set Oct. 16-25

Tryouts for Poetry club, open to
sophomores, juniors, and seniors,
are to be held from Oct. 16 to Oct.
25. Anyone wshing to try out may
hand in two poems to Anne Mur-
rell, box 317.

Poetry club has monthly meet-
ings at which original poems are
read and criticized, and forms are
studied. The club sometimes en-
tertains guest poets.

Keener emotions due to the war
are making poetry more wide-
spread, according to Miss Laney,
faculty advisor.

Date Book

W ednesday, Oct. 11 Pi Alpha Phi

meeting in Murphey Candler.
Thursday, Oct. 12 Jepson-Melton

Concert at 8:30
Friday, Oct. 13 Preview of

sports calendar in chapel

First hockey game

Sophomore dress rehearsal in

gym at 7:00
Saturday, Oct. 14 Black Cat

Stunt

Sunday, Oct. 15 Group leaves for
Lawson Hospital at 2:15

Tuesday, Oct. 17 Agones Scott
night at Decatur Red Cross, 7 :30

Wednesday, Oct. 18 Mrs. Sims'
review of "The Time for De-
cision" by Welles and "XL S. War
Aims" by Lippmann at 4:45 in
Murphey Candler

ill Lecture
and War'

definitely scheduled. Vera Mich-
eles Dean, Director of Foreign
Policy Association, probably will
speak then. She is author of
"New Governments in Europe,"
"Europe in Retreat," and is one of
the most distinguished women in
public affairs in America.

Student tickets for the first lec-
ture may be obtained in the book-
store between Oct. 30-Nov. 8.
Tickets are free to all students.

Debaters Name
New Members

New Pi Alpha Phi members
chosen in tryouts Monday night
are Marie Beeson, Mickie Derieux,
Peggy Pat Home, Margaret Kin-
ard, Lidie Lee, and Dot Peace.

Choosing as their subject the
coming presidential election, the
debating club members will have
their first regular meeting of the
year tonight at 7:30 in Murphey
Candler.

Pi Alpha Phi is planning a de-
bate to be given in chapel Oct.
25 on the presidential election.
Elaine Kuniansky will take the
side of the Democrats, and Jean
Hood will speak for the Republi-
cans.

Honor Speech
Will Keynote
Student Week

"Respect, Share, Participate
Live in a Happy Community" is
this year's theme of Student Gov-
ernment, to be presented during
Student Government Week, Oct.
17-21.

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, Miss Scan-
drett will address a student meet-
ing on "The Broad Conception of
the Honor System." Molly Milam.
Student Government president,
will speak on Wednesday, present-
ing the theme and plans for the
year. The regular student meet-
ing is scheduled for Thursday, and
on Friday, members of the execu-
tive and judicial committees will
present a skit showing how Stu-
dent Government operates and
what the duties of the various rep-
resentatives are.

On Saturday evening, the en-
tire campus is invited to a party
to be given by Student Government
heads in the gym. A program of
entertainment has been planned
and a large group is expected.

Plans for Student Government
Week are made by the Student
Government Program Committee,
including Mary Cumming, chair-
man; Margaret Bond, and Jean
Stewart.

Sophomores Seek Black Cat
For Second Consecutive Year

Seeking to bell the Black Cat for their second consecutive
year, the sophomores are preparing for Friday's dress re-
hearsal of the big event Saturday night. Last year their
take-off, "Romeow and Julicat," won over the present junior
class' stunt. Freshmen will rehearse tonight.

In spite of the fact that Jane

Miss Hanley Plans Exhibits
To Coincide With Events

With her usual awareness of what is topmost in campus
thought each week, Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, librarian, has
announced plans for a series of library exhibitions timed to
coincide with college events. i

Although we pass the bulletin board and exhibition case

several times a day, few of us
realize the time and trouble that
each exhibit represents.

Following the recent announce-
ment of Aurora's early deadline,
for instance, the library exhibit
this week features old copies of
the student magazine, dug out of
the files for the purpose. High-
lighting the display are copies in-
cluding examples of the college
literary work of two members of
the English faculty, Miss Janef
Preston and Miss Ellen Douglass
Leyburn. Work by Miss Roberta
Winter and by other alumnae fac-
ulty members also has been put on
exhibit as a model for this year's
literary aspirants.

For last week's display of back
copies of the Agnes Scott News
tracing the history of the Black
Cat Stunt, Miss Hanley not only
selected those copies from the files,
but compiled a list of the stunt
winners for each year since 1915.
As a crowning touch of imagina-
tion the librarian placed the cov-
eted Cat herself beneath the list.

Next week Miss Hanley hopes
to collect several books which have
been included in student entries
in the Louise McKinney Book
Award Contest, as an aid to stu-

this

dents wishing to compete
year.

Shirley Graves won the Louise
McKinney Book Award of $25 last
year for the most discriminating
collection of books. The award is
given each year as an incentive for
students to choose books for their
collections which are worthwhile.

So next time you go in the li-
brary, take a few minutes off to
look at the case and bulletin
board. You'll find the exhibits in-
teresting and right up to the min-
ute.

All-Star Series Opens
With Jepson and Melton

Operatic duets, arias, and other
songs will be included in the Helen
Jepson-James Melton concert to-
morrow night at 8:30, first on the
All-Star Concert series.

Together, the two Met stars will
sing the first act duet from
"Manon," the Garden Scene from
"Faust," and several selections
from "Porgy and Bess." Miss Jep-
son's solos will include songs by
Rachmaninoff, and Moussorgsky,
and the Jewel Song from "Faust."
Mr. Melton will sing the Prize
Song from "Die Meistersinger"
and selected numbers.

Meadows, sophomore class presi-
dent, had an appendectomy and
Dabney Adams, freshman stunt
chairman, is in the infirmary, frosh
and sophs are busy painting
scenery, sewing costumes, and
planning decoratons in a last ef-
fort to claim the Black Cat on
Saturday nght. Nellie Scott is
sophomore chairman.

Miss Charlotte Hunter will pull
for the freshmen while Miss Mar-
garet Ridley will favor the soph-
omores. There will also be a
neutral judge elected by the two

Edwin Mims
Will Launch
Series Here

Dr. Edwin Mims, widely known
as an English scholar in the south,
will be the first lecturer in the
series to be sponsored by the Eng-
lish department here. He will lec-
ture on Monday night, Nov. 13,
and probably in chapel Tuesday
and again Tuesday afternoon. Oth-
er lecturers in the series will
be Howard Mumford Jones in Feb-
ruary and Mary Ellen Chase in
April.

Author of "The Life of Sidney
Lanier" and "The Advancing
South," Dr. Mims has toured edu-
cational institutions throughout
England and spoken all over this
country. He is professor of Eng-
lish at Vanderbilt and has train-
ed many young teachers of Eng-
lish. He has also edited numerous
publications and contributed to
the Encyclopedia Britannica, En-
cyclopedia Amerjicana, and the
Dictionary of American Biogra-
phy.

The topics of Dr. Mims' talks
are uncertain, but during his last
visit here in 1942 he spoke con-
cerning the education which
scholars strive to attain.

Telephone Co.op
Gets Under Way

The new student co-operative
plan for answering telephones is
ready to be put into use, said Miss
Bella Wilson at housemeeting
Tuesday night. This system, as set
up by the Dean's office, will be
carried out by the proctors on each
hall. Though only the heaviest
hours of calls will have specific
students on duty, each girl is urged
to feel a responsibility for answer-
ing the phone when she is in the
dormitory. It is hoped that this
plan will relieve those who live
near phones and will lead to a
more efficient manner of reaching
students by telephone.

classes. The stunt will be judged
on the following basis:

1. Cheering emphasis will be
placed on

a. clearness

b. orginality

2. Decoration

3. Stunt itself considering

a. plot

b. acting

c. originality

d. staging, including costumes,
scenery, and general effect.

4. Expense

a. cost is to be under $20

b. emphasis is to be on ingenu-
ity

Upperclassmen will wear their
sister class' colors as they parade
into the gym before the cheering
begins. The freshman colors are
blue and white, the sophomores'
black and gold. Songs are to be
judged for music rather than
noise. Writers of the prettiest
songs will receive prizes.

The Black Cat stunt is staged
yearly to acquaint members of the
two classes with their fellow-work-
ers, to organize freshmen into a
working unit, to have a contest of
wits wth a feeling of good sports-
manship, and to have a lot of fun.

Mrs. Sims Talks
In Chapel Today

Mrs. Roff Sims, assistant pro-
fessor of history, resumed her dis-
cussions of world events in chapel
today. These talks, sponsored by
War Council, will be given month-
ly. Another discussion will take
place on Nov. 15.

On Oct. 18 at 4:45 P. M. Mrs.
Simms is scheduled to review two
popular books dealing with war-
time problems: "The Time for De-
cision," by Sumner Welles, and
"U. S. War Aims," by Walter
Lippman. The committee in charge
of public instruction includes Lura
Johnston and Maude Van Dyke.
Attendance to this meeting is es-
pecially urged by War Council.

Silhouette

Hottentots, don't be surprised
at any time to see a little man
with a camera snooping around!
He's only taking pictures for the
Silhouette; so don't run, and
don't grin and pose for him.
Just keep right on with what-
ever you're doing. Then next
s I>ring, you may see yourself
among the notables in the col-
lege yearbook!

After a staff meeting last
Thursday, Elaine Kuniansky, ed-
itor of the Silhouette, announced
that the staff will work under a
shortened deadline this year so
that the printers and engravers
can have the Silhouette ready
for us before we leave school.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944

Christmas Cheer

Are you doing your Christmas shopping early? Packages
for our boys overseas must be mailed by Oct. 15.

Christmas to us means holidays with mistletoe, a turkey
dinner, and home. But Christmas to many overseas is just
another day of fighting to keep those things forever. Retro-
spection is their only means of seeing a normal Christmas.

A thought from home for these boys can take a little of
the spirit of Christmas to the foxholes. And if we are to
bring that spirit to them, we must do it now.

When we are rushing madly around the day before Christ-
mas, it will be too late then to think of G. I. Joe.

Blood Bank

Have you been to the Blood Bank? Several people on cam-
pus are members of the "gallon" club.

Nevertheless, there are many of us who are healthy and
yet haven't given a single pint.

Atlanta is falling short of its quota. In one day there are
supposed to be 170 donors. The other day there were only
89 donors. The Red Cross worker with a helpless look on
her face said that they were 350 pints short for the week.

She said that at first people gave for the novelty of giving.
Now they just don't give.

It's up to you to act as a patriotic individual and give as
much as you can spare to save lives!

National Health Week

One may get tired of hearing about National Something or
Other Week. But the intelligent reader realizes such observ-
ances are proclaimed to make us more aware of important
factors in our everyday life, which if left unreminded may
encourage collegiate apathy.

National Health Aid Week has been set apart in the nation
to stress the importance of keeping well and on the job.

Let us urge the observance of simple health rules plenty
of sleep, exercise, and fresh air, regulated meals, cleanliness,
knowledge of first aid. Watch your health you owe it to
yourself.

Are You a Sitter?

We have always heard that it is not polite to "eat and run."
But we have also heard that there are exceptions to all rules.
We wish to suggest such an exception.

The cooperative system of dining room duty is new to us
this year. As each day goes by, we discover new ways of
making the work easier for those who are serving.

And that's why we mention the exception to the rule. The
dining room is certainly a place for good fellowship. But
when we linger around the table, passing the time of day, we
detain the "crumbers" A library book or an important date
must wait until the tables are crumbed. So let's do our part,
girls! Eat leisurely to avoid indigestion, but do your gossiping
elsewhere.

Remember the GOLDEN RULE!

The Agnes Scoff News

Vol. XXX

Wednesday, October 11, 1944

No. 3

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HUE. I

A Boyd*s-Eye View

of Betty Paws

By Mary Ann Courtenay

An ordinary person would be a senior her fourth year at
college, but the Boyd's Eye this week penetrates beyond the
ordinary to one who is "neither fish nor flesh" but a small
mass of protoplasm hovering over microscopes in the biology
lab.

Split Personality

Betty Jo Davis wanders in com-
plete bewilderness when it comes
to her class standing. Though not
a senior, she will graduate in June
with her class. Though not a fac-
ulty member, she instructs fresh-
man lab and, in addition to the
usual duties of a fellow (which ti-
tle she claims before becoming a
B. A.) takes charge of the com-
parative anatomy lab. The ques-
tion of Betty's social privileges
caused so many trips to the dean's
office at first, that now she and
Miss Scandrett meet with a laugh.
Being on the faculty in this re-
spect has its advantages. Betty
can act as a chaperon, and she
doesn't have to sign out in the
housebook, attend house meetings,
or sign chapel slips. However, the
student in her does have to sign
out on pink slips for dates.
Secret of Success

How did she get into this predic-
ament? That's a long and enter-
taining story, which only she, if
even she, understands. It goes
something like this: If you go to
Emory for summer school, if you
are granted a biology fellowship
here, and if you take just one or
two courses a quarter, then
you're one of what she is. At Ag-
nes Scott she's taking biology tech-
nique and Mr. Hodgson's music ap-
preciation (which reminds us that
she has a good voice and studied
singing last year).

At Emory she is the only coed
finishing up some courses in pre-
med and psychology. A printable
incident among the many "inter-
esting" ones in her abnormal class
was an experiment proving that
two stimuli increase the strength
of one response (Miss Omwake,
please note). The class was soon
convinced that when Betty held
his hand, the subject gave a
stronger reflex!

Scientists N. B.

Science majors who remember
the experiments conducted last
vear can imagine what a sense of

humor is necessary to -date a num-
ber of med students. Get Betty
to tell you about Lucy Lupton's
trials and tribulations at one of
the med dances. But to one with a
medical turn of mind, it's all in the
interests of science anyway.

If she isn't already, Betty will
soon be an authority on campus
social life. After transferring
from Wesleyan, she roomed with
Molly and Dot Hunter in the tower
room on second Main. This year
she finds that sound travels equal-
ly as well from the quadrangle to
fourth Main, where you'll find her
trying to rent the huge closet that
protrudes through the middle of
her room.

Sleeping Beauties

Dear editor:

In your editorial of last week on
sleep, you advocated our turning
in early instead of burning the
midnight oil. We, the "twisters
and turners," have a question to
ask you. How do you think that
we can sleep when some of our
beds are so very uncomfortable?
Most of our "beauty rests" are
more like roller coasters than any-
thing else. You go up in places
and down in others. Sometimes
you have to hold on to a side to
keep from rolling off, and once one
gets into her "trench" there she
stays 'til morning. Now we real-
ize that wartime restrictions pre-
vent many things, but beds are not
rationed and we would appreciate
tr.y help in this matter, so that we
won't have to go to the infirmary

to get a good bed!
The Cottagers' Saturday night.

The senior class is turning in
lists of Who's Who in American
colleges to be VOtftfl on by the
faculty. Today is the deadline.
So seniors, write down 12 out-
standing classmates and turn in
the names to Minnie Mack, pres-
ident, right away.

By Pat Elam

Financiers

Last week when Mr. Jones and
Mr. Tart were at the fair, they
stopped to watch a demonstration
of potato peelers. They learned
that these handy gadgets costs 59c
apiece or two for $1.00. Deciding
that such a large discount must
not be missed, they each put up
50c and took home a peeler. Their
satisfaction was ended when Mrs.
Tart produced an identical peeler
which she had bought the day be-
fore price 10c.

Si Si

Scotty Johnson was sitting in
Ol Spanish class trying to under-
stand the words that flowed from
the lips of her teacher. Suddenly
she realized that a question was
being addressed to her and an-
swered with the favorite phrase of
all Ol Spanish students "Si, si."
The teacher looked annoyed and
translated the question. She had
asked Scotty if she waited until
she got to class to prepare her les-
son.

Saints Alive!

Mr. Stukes has been to Heaven.
Furthermore, he has told his So-
cial Psych class how one may
become a saint. The paradise to
which he referred is owned and
operated by Father Divine.
Cottage Chatter

The inmates of White House no
longer pay any attention to their
watches or to the bells. Instead,
they use railroad time, counting
not hours but trains. When they
hear a whistle blow, they know
it's time to think of going to class.
When the house begins to shake,
it's really time to get a move on.

Setting a worthy example, the
" 'fowls' from the Boyd's" spent
Saturday afternoon cleaning up
their back yard, not even going
in out of the rain. The weeds
were obstructing the view of a
rose, which the "Yardbirds" felt
would brighten their drab lives.
Romance ?

Recently Inge has been poring
over a brides' issue of "Mademois-
elle." This might pass unnoticed,
were it not such a complete change
from her attitude as of three
weeks ago, when she was bewail-
ing the fact that roommates were
given two dressers and only one
desk. And ask Kitten about that
bunch of flowers.

Sterling scheme

The seniors, who want to have
a mural of themselves painted on
the floor of Buttrick as their gift
to the college, need funds. $75.00
will be dropped into the coffer if
100 students will drop by the
Alumnae House next Friday and
look at patterns of flat silver. If
you have any time from 11 to 1
or 2 to 4, go by and tell them
what you'd choose to put in your
hope chest. (Unpd. advt.)
Further Exposure

Last week's character sketch of
Wendy neglected to mention that
her mind is going fast. Awaking
late one afternoon from a catnap
that had stretched into several
hours, she heard a bell, dressed,
and dashed off to breakfast. While
she waited for the dining room
doors to open, she noticed with
alarm that it was getting darker
rather than lighter. She worried
over this phenomenon until some-
one came along and explained that
ft was night.

Big Blow-off

Peggy Trice was talking to Jean
MeCurry in organic chemstry lab:
"O. K., Jean, let's go explode."
And they did.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944

Page 3

Crystal-Gazing Can Prove
Enlightening and Real

By Teddy Bear

Crystal-gazing became bitter reality to one of the uninit-
iated this summer. I saw it everywhere, in front of me, in
mirrors, and in mirrors in which I could see mirrors in which
I could see crystal. I not only gazed at it, but sold it, dusted it,
hauled it around and all too often dropped it. For you see I
was a sales person in the crystal

department of Miller & Rhoads
Department Store in 'Richmond.
Speech Impediment
And what I didn't learn! From
an uncouth beginner who develop-
ed an impediment in her speech
everytime she tried to say, "Can
I help you?" I became the super
smooth beat 'em on the head
salesman who not only loaded the
customers with gifts and what-
not (mostly what not) but made
them buy a shopping bag to carry
it home. At first it was muchly
terrifying. I sold wine glasses for
stem cocktails; found fascination
in a time clock one day and for-
got to get back on the floor; an-
gered, but worse amused my floor
manager by my complete and ut-
ter ignorance of crystal and its in-
herent value to the world.

Stockroom Disaster

I became enthralled by ttie
musty stockroom in which was
row upon row of fragile mer-
chandise which we had to haul
down with our own dainty hands.
One day I was aiming for the
top shelf. Naturally! my merchan-
dise was only of the highest var-
iety. I gaily dragged the twelve
foot ladder to the shelf, but some-
how it got hung and toppled with-
in a fraction of a shelf of crystal.
After the frantic stock room per-
sonnel finished examining the un-
touched glassware, they picked up
the shaking, teary figure which
was me unharmed, but scared
to death.

Handwriting

My own style of handwriting
became the target for much bom-
bastic comment from all who had
to deal with it. On the average of
twice a day the packer would
come storming out "where is
1711?" And meekly I would trot

Dr. Garber Will Teach
Decatur Church School

Dr. Paul Garber, Bible profes-
sor, will teach at the Religious
Education school for Presbyterian
churches for six consecutive Mon-
day nights, having started Oct. 9,

"The Old Testament: Its Con-
tent and Values" is the subject of
Dr. Garber's course. The leader-
ship course will be held in the
Educational building of the Cen-
tral Presbyterian church from
7:30 to 9:35.

back to explain the hyroglyphics,
to take the blast of names and
to drink the coke he always pro-
vided after such a tirade. It
seems his bark was worse than
his bite, but if you could have
heard the bark!

Compensations

There were compensations. I
talked to Betty Smith of "Tree
Grows in Brooklyn' 'fame, but
didn't know it till afterwards.
She asked me where the tearoom
was and I told her in two words,
"over there." The tearoom shared
its host of celebrities with us who
could see and hear all, since our
department and the tearoom made
up the floor. We heard the Don
Cossacks, Betty Smith, and organ
muse at lunch. Scotty Johnson
modeled there for the College
Board, so we chattered as she
flashed by in some sharp costume
or other.

Jive Session

Most potent of memories was
the rainy morning episode. Since
business was slack, we salespeople,
were following a little vocal jive
session. The most hep of us all was
a dear little white haired lady who
often remarked she was solid as a
cinder, bear, and smooth to the
gait. We'd been singing "It Could
Happen to You," when we spied a
customer. People who work on a
commission don't hesitate. And
being the youngest, I reached her
by a nose, which was odd if you
could have seen one of the clerks.
Breathlessly I tried to look my
most kind-to-my motherish and
murmured, "Could I Happen to
You?"

It seems I couldn't.

Senior Class Sponsors
Towle Silver Exhibit

The Towle Silver company will
have two representatives on the
campus Friday, Oct. 13. Every-
one is invited and urged to come
and look at silver patterns.

The senior class is sponsoring
the display. This is the first year
that a representative has come
to talk about favorite patterns.

Anne Equen will be in charge
of showing people the silver in
the date parlors in Main. Ap-
proximately 25 girls will be taken
in one hour. Times for the show-
ings will be announced later.

T T T T T T i

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

Wounded Men
Are Cheerful

By Pauline Ertz

A missing arm or leg, a para-
lyzed hip, or maybe a flattened
and useless hand all are common
to the wounded and convalescent
soldiers at Lawson General hospi-
tal.

But not for one moment do the
returned fighting boys let it get
them down. Their cheerfulness
and indomitable spirit is hearten-
ing.

The general recreation room is
filled with boys lounging, relaxing
and indulging in a little gentle
horseplay perhaps. One husky chap
is playing a sharp game of pool
in spite of his bandage-swathed
head. Another chap, with one leg
gone, is all over the place, via his
crutches. He takes time out to
do a little kibitzing on a heated
game of Monopoly which Penny
Espey and Margaret Mace are
playing with two patients. Sud-
denly one of them jumps up the
loudspeaker has called him to the
main desk to receive a long dis-
tance call from home. And his day
is complete.

One-Handed Skill

Dotty Kahn and I stop to talk
to two of the boys seated at a
card table. They are George and
Haverd, from Louisiana and Miss-
issippi. Although Haverd's right
hand is quite useless, he deals
cards and lights matches with his
left hand quicker than anyone I've
ever seen. George doesn't say
much except that he thinks he
has aged ten years in the last four.
And he proudly exhibits his collec-
tion of English coins.

All afternoon a limping sergeant
with thinning hair sits at the piano
at one end of the big room and
plays one tune after another. From
Mairzy Doats" he swings into
"Liebestraum."

Jane Jacob went into the wards
where the bedridden, cases are
confined. She chatted with John,
a wounded soldier and she prom-
ised to get him some shaving
cream he had been wanting.

And so the minutes speed by and
it was time for the Agnes Scott
and Decatur girls to board the
special bus home.

One of the girls, as she was
leaving, said "I enjoyed coming so
much." The soldier she addressed
just stood there, looked with clear
blue eyes, and said simply, "You
couldn't possibly have enjoyed it
half as much as we did." What
more could anyone want to hear?

Hottentots Display Sterling
Qualities On Campus

By Jane Bowman

The array of sterling silver on the campus this fall is a
sure indication of brighter days ahead. There is hardly a
Hottentot who has not dressed up her coiffeur with at least
one silver clip.

It is interesting to note that certain schools have adopted

one style as their very own. Ran-
dolph-Macon girls have been wear-
ing the sterling circular clip for
two years. The silver bar clip
bearing the wearer's name has
gone over big with Mary Baldwin
students. However no preference
is being shown here at Agnes Scott
where clips of both styles are being
worn.

A word must be said for the
simplicity of the current campus
hair-dos. Sophisticated swoops and
curls have given away to the lit-
tle girl coiffeur which looks per-
fect with cotton dresses and skirts
and sweaters. For that chic ef-
fect some girls are pulling their
hair back, pushing it into snoods
and using ornate combs to hold
them in place. Since these styles
can be arranged with such ease,
we predict that fewer kerchiefs
will be worn this year!

Little jewelry, other than the
ever-smart strain of pearls, is be-
ing seen at Agnes Scott this fall.
However a number of freshmen
who are wearing quite a collec-
tion of link bracelets will, no
doubt, start the ball rolling in that
direction.

Carnegie Exhibits
Dodd's Painting

Lamar Dodd, head of the fine
arts department of the University
of Georgia and frequent lecturer
at Agnes Scott, has been asked to
show his canvas, "Winter Valley,"
at the "Founder's Day Exhibition"
at Carnegie Institute department
of fine arts in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Oct. 12-Dec. 10.

This will be of particular inter-
est to the Agnes Scott art stu-
dents, who remember seeing Mr.
Dodd work on this painting at his
home in Athens. "Winter Valley"
is a scene of the town of Athens
viewed from a nearby hill and is
"typical of Lamar Dodd," accord-
ing to Howard Thomas, head of
the Agnes Scott art department.

Approximately 300 other artists
will be represented and will be
judged by three museum directors
awarding a set of seven prizes.
Also, a popular prize will be
awarded on the vote of the spec-
tators.

Landscapes, seascapes, and still
lifes number among the paintings
of Harriett Fitzgerald now on ex-
hibition in the library.

Names Tell Story

Once upon a time there was a
BAKER who lived near a BOW-
MAN on the STREET with a CAR-
PENTER. This MANN was just a
LITTLE afraid of having a ROWE
with JOHNSON, whose name was
FRINK. So he sent for the KING
to ask what to do. When he saw

him CUMMING, from the GLENN r
over the HILL, he blew his
HORNE loudly. The FARMER
and the HUNTER came running.
But the king rode up in a HOUGH,
and with a HARDY laugh, like a
BEAR, scorned the crowd. His
laugh did not REGISTER on the
crowd, and they shouted "LONG
live the king"

He finally got over his anger,
and made PEACE with his people.

(The author WOOD go on, but
someone came and TUCKER
PENN away.)

The Varsity

Curb Service

GOLD
SHIELD

60
Years of
Service

To
Atlanta

LAUNDRIES

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1944

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

At the Tech-North Carolina
game Saturday were Louise Starr,
Peggy Jones. Ann Hightower,
"Robin" Robinson, Jean Chewn-
ing, Narvie Lou Cunningham, Mil-
lie Evans, Ann Rodgers, Libby
Woodward, Mary C u m m i n g,
"Sweetie" Callay, Beth Walton,
Mary Azar, Chris Yates, Carolyn
Squires, Kittie Kay, Mac Craig,
Kate Ellis, Edith Burgess, Ther-
esa Kemp, Louisa Aichel, and
Mary Frances Anderson.

Dancing at the Rainbow Roof
Saturday were Libby Woodward,
Penny Espy, Frances Brougher,
Emily Higgins, Harriet Daugher-
ty, Joan Crangle, Lanelle Wright,
"Bitty" King, and Anne Equen.

Attending an open-house at
Whit Wright's were Ann Scott,
"Sweetie" Callay, Betty Andrews,
Nina Andrews, "GeeGee" Gilliland,
Kathleen Hewson, r and Ann Weide-
man.

Hottentots at the Beta Theta Pi
house dance at Tech Saturday
night wer^ Peggy Jones, Ann
Hightower, and Alice Gordon.

"Puddin' " Bealer, Mary Amer-
ine, "Scotty" Johnson, and Jeter
Starr looking smart in sapphire
blue were at the Paradise Room
Saturday night.

Nancy Geer and Mary Beth Lit-
tle went to Emory's Delta Tau
Delta party Saturday.

Pie Ertz was at the Ft. McPher-
son officers' club Saturday night.

Betsie Powers and Harriet
Daugherty were at the Emory
Dental School buffet supper Sun-
day.

Seen at the Biltmore Saturday
night were "Tootsie" Harrison,
Jeanne Carlson, Harriet Jordan,
Mary Jane Shumacher, Ruth Lim-
bert, Mariana Kirkpatrick, and
Scott Newell.

At the Phi Gam house dance
Saturday night at Tech were Helen
Owen, Martha Polk, June Thomp-
son, Mary Frances Anderson, Beth
Jones, and Mildred Claire Jones.
Out of Town

Freshmen, in considerable num-
bers, have contracted the dread
disease, homesickness, and have
taken the safest cure "Go home,
young lady." Fran Ninnger was
in a big hurry and so went by
plane to Louisville, Ga. Margaret
Ann Richards went to Columbus,
Ga., taking roommate Anne
Woodward. Charlene Sinns went
to Dothan, Ala.; Gale Stewart and
Julia Ann Coleman to Tallapoosa,
Ga.; Beth Jones to Vinings, Ga.

Mary Russell went home to Grif-
fin, Ga.; Margaret McManus, Bet-
ty Mann, and Dot Peace, whose
guest was Ruth Ryner, to Green-
ville, S. C; Martha Ball, Ann
Eidson, Betty Turner, and "Cissie"
Jeffries to Thomasville, Ga. Lor-
ena Ross went home with Ann
Wheeler to Gainesville, Ga. Susie
Watkins went to Macon with Jane
Everett.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING
ABOUT . . . Betty Campbell's An-
dre, zee Frenchman . . . the O. A.
O.'s on campus, Joan Crangle's
Alex, Mary Jane Schumacher's
Marine captain just back from the
South Pacific, and "Dootsy's" Dan.
. . . Lanie Harris' wonderful trip
to Annapolis for a game and hop,
then on to New York with her fa-
ther a few days, and, to topt it all,
flying back to Atlanta. Are we
green with envy? . . . nylon hose
offered as a prize at the Fair in
game of chance . . . better still,
Susan Pope's two pair of real silk
hose from Brazil. Lucky girl! . . .
Lida Walker getting phone calls
every hour on the hour Saturday.

Z*Z ~Uk.

Mortar Board Lists
Services of Groups

Mortar Board this week com-
piled a list of services done by the
various campus organizations. The
data is as follows:
Executive Committee of Student
Government

Distribution of yellow paper dur-
ing exams.

Running second-hand book store.

Keeping record of tea-house at-
tendance.

Conferring with dietitian, sub-
mitting complaints, getting an-
nouncements concerning food and
dining hall.

Caring for Main mimeograph
machine.

Caring for Main sewing ma-
chine.

Ushering in chapel.

Conferring on library condi-
tions.

Classes

Seniors Dry cleaning.
Juniors Scrap paper drive,
Reader's Digest subscriptions.
Sophomores Student directory.
Freshmen Shoe-shine shop.
A. A.

Nickelodian in gym.
Treasurers of A. A., C. A., and

S. G.
Lost and found.

C. A.

Freshman cabinet.
Sophomore cabinet.
Sunday night vespers.

Miss Cobbs Urges
Renewal of Faith

Speaking in chapel Friday on
Christian Association's theme for
the year, Miss Susan Cobbs re-
affirmed the fact that "periods of
adversity lead men to probe more
deeply into the natnre and mean-
ing of human life and are sea-
sons of a genuine renewal of the
Christian faith." She cited the con-
viction of such men as Reinhold
Niebur, Michael Coleman, and
Stanley Jones as proof that such
a renewal is being experienced to-
day.

On the other hand, she con-
tinued, in time of success and
prosperity man "is inclined to for-
get his finite nature and trust
in himself as being of infinite
power." We ourselves have just
passed through such a period of
success, but the trials of the pres-
ent are turning men back "to an
analysis of the fundamental condi-
tons of life and a realization that
they rest on Christ, the same
yesterday and today and forever."

Miss Cobbs concluded that such
a cycle from renewed faith, to
success, to pride, to disaster is not
inevitable. Christian Association's
theme "bring us a challenge that
when these days are past and
peace is a reality, we shall not
forget the sense of the nearness
of God, the feeling of spiritual
enrichment that has come to so
many people in so many places of
the world."

BCG U S Pi*T Ctf

Mortar Board Fixes
Recreation Room

Mortar Board set up a book room in the former faculty
dining room of Rebecca Scott dormitory this week for the
recreation of both boarders and day students. Reading mat-
ter consists of daily papers, current magazines, and books con-
tributed by girls of the campus.

Both The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution are
on file there. Mortar Board subscriptions to Mademoiselle,
Good Housekeeping, The Ladies' Home. Journal, Life, The
Reader's Digest, and The New Yorker are among the equip-
ment. Soon the chapter will begin campaigns for gifts of poc-
ket-size editions of current novels.

"Far From the Reach''

Lt. Ruth M. Bastin, Army Nurse
Corps, stationed in Greensboro,
N. C: "I personally long for the
easy serenity, the intellectual sat-
isfaction, and the healthy atti-
tudes of Agnes Scott. . . . Tell all
the girls hello for me and tell them
how lucky they are to be there.
Few of us in this country have
much to complain of and the Hot-
tentots seldom realize how super-
ior their lot is."

Virginia Tuggle writes back
from medical school in Pennsyl-
vania: "After only a month, I am
thoroughly in love with the work.
. . . My only complaint is that I
am now an ex-athlete and am
doomed to a comparatively seden-
tary existence. There is a hockey
field just down the street and
whenever I pass, I almost forget
myself, rush out and take over
left wing, fully expecting Gwen
and Billy to be galloping along be-
side me."

Mary Maxwell tells about her
interesting job for the Navy in a
recent letter to the News: "I'm
a senior engineering aid in the
Radio Division of the Bureau of
Ships, Navy Department. I'm re-
sponsible for the design and de-
velopment of all the loudspeakers
and amplifiers the Navy needs.
What I really do is talk to the
officers returning from the fleet

FOOTE AND DAVIES:

Announces its new
College Annual Department <
250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor-
dially invited to visit the con- J
venient and comfortable work-
ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

Seniors Choose
Class Mascot

Kady MacGregor has been
chosen mascot for the senior class,
and will march in the procession
to investiture, with Minnie Mack,
class' president.

The senior class is ordering caps
and gowns this week in prepara-
tion for the investiture exercises
which will be on Saturday, Nov. 4
in Presser hall.

to see what changes and what new
equipment is needed. My work
involves traveling to New York,
Chicago, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne,
and other places. Imagine me hav-
ing conferences with all these
manufacturers and going out to
dinner on their expense accounts!"

From Squee Woolford, who is
working at an Army base in Gal-
veston: "Life is going merrily on
its way here. I'm scheduled to get
a raise on the first of October,
which I think I should have had
the first of August, but the Army
didn't quite agree with me. I think
I'm going to change work from
the Quartermaster to the Engi-
neers and then I will be in line for
rapid promotion and the work will
be quite interesting."

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

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944

Page 5

Expenditure of
War Service Fund

War Council tentatively
plans to channel $750 of its
$2500 budget to the Red Cross,
$500 to the World Student Serv-
ice Fund, $250 for miscellane-
ous, and $1000, as we pledged,
to the War Fund. These first
Uiree sums will be pledged later
on in the year and if they can
be more than adequately met,
the $1000 War Fund itself may
be increased. Therefore our in-
dividual and organizational con-
tributions are of vital import-
ance.

It is easily possible for us to
exceed the $1000 minimum,
paying in installments during
the next six months, our $4.00
or more per person. This is the
only i drive of its kind on cam-
pus so let's do our best to more
than meet it. For further in-
formation, see Frances Brough-
er, chairman of War Council,
Jo Ann Stevenson, senior repre-
sentatve, Jean Chewning, jun-
ior representative, Virginia Dix-
on, sophomore representative,
and Kathleen Hewson, freshman
represen tative.

Council Plans
Student Projects

This year the organizations and
funds necessary for carrying on
the war need support more than
ever before, and War Council is
providing ways for the students
here to help. The war stamp ta-
ble in Buttrick is now open. This
table will serve as a place to make
appointments for blood donation
as well. Release blanks necessary
if you are under 21 can be obtained
here also.

Every Tuesday night will be Ag-
nes Scott night at the Decatur Red
Cross. Those wishing to go will
meet Miss Ridley in front of Main
at 7:30. Another interesting and
very helpful project is the group
of girls to go to Lawson General
Hospital on Sunday afternoons. A
list will be posted in the mail room
for those wishing to go. The bus
leaves Jacobs Drug Store in De-
catur at 2:15.

The success or failure of these
projects depends entirely on the
student body make it a habit to
do some sort of war work every
week.

DEKALB THEATRE

Wednesday -Thursday
"Double Indemnity"

Friday
"The Hitler Gang"

Saturday
Til Sell My Life"

and

"Song of the Saddle"

Monday-Tuesday
"Two Girls and a Sailor"

McCON NELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

The following people have made
appointments to donate blood:
Molly Milam
Anne Woodward
Lib Woodward
Harriet Daugherty
May McConley
Martha Jane Mack
Mrs. George P. Haye*
Susan Kirtley
Puddin Bealer
Jean Chewning
Xarvie Lou Cunningham
Martha Humber
Harriet Reid
Daisy Sundy
Jenny Wren
Kate Ellis
Bess Sheppard
Angelee Pardington
Minnie Hamilton
Bett Patterson
Sophia Pedakis

From Oct. 5-Oct. 7, $22.65 has
been sold in war stamps.

Quality

Pays Dividends

Today's fur coat is a long-time
investment. It is bought with
the intention of living with it
for many seasons. It must be
GOOD to retain its beauty and
the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
you choose your furs from
Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
tional high standards that have
built our reputation for us.

220 PEACHTREE

Summer Study
Can Be Fun

By Mary Cumming

The best train is the Stream-
liner. It pulls out at 8:15 p. m.
E. W. T. By catching a bus in
Greensboro you can reach Chapel
Hill by morning. Chapel Hill, the
University of North Carolina,
Paradise! Everything ever heard
about the place is true, and then
some. Upon arrival, Molly,
("Madame President"), and I took
a nap in order to be rested -by
afternoon when we hoped to "see"
Carolina. All of a sudden we
awoke. The building was on fire!
I fell out of the upper bunk only
to knock Molly down as she strug-
gled to her feet from the lower
one. Madly we dashed down the
hall to be confronted by a startled
girl who was innocently indulging
in that habit best suited to men.
Of Men!

And speaking of men you can
magine our SURPRISE when we
started for a walk and to get a
sandwich. Men, men, everywhere!
(Incidently, we forgot the sand-
wich.) We were goggle-eyed, es-
pecially Molly when the French
cadets smiled in a friendly fashion.
(P. S. Mary Cumming had bet-
ter be glad I'm not writing this
article! Signed: Molly Milam.)
But don't let me exaggerate on
the men because you must realize
there is a manpower shortage.
Why, there were only 5000 at
Chapel Hill, including Pre-Flights,
V-12s, N. R. O. T. C, Marines,
medical students, and civilians.
Nevertheless, we managed to en-
joy and experience life through
studies.

We Labored

Believe it or not, I did work.
(Molly can speak for herself.)
German and chemistry took up
my time while Molly read parallels
in the library, a building in which
one's powers of concentration are
somewhat inhibited. Around sup-
per time we would either play ten-
nis or go swimming. The Navy
pool, crowded as it were, was open
to the public at certain hours. The
favorite game was to line up on
the bank, dive in at the same time,
and see how few people we could
hit before reaching the other side.

In all seriousness, though,
Chapel Hill is not a paradise just
to those who enjoy coed life. The
dormitory life, the new friends,
the classes, the cokes between
classes, the discussion groups, the
picnics, the dances all helped to
make up the friendly, delightful,
happy atmosphere. Summer school
was grand, and I know I speak for
all who went regardless of where
they went. However, I can only
recommend Carolina!

By the way, Molly and I are
headed that way for a weekend
soon. We'll be glad to share the
seats!

Versatility Plus

Freshmen Decorate Rooms
With Pinup Men, War Maps

By Martha Baker

A college girl's room is indicative of her personality, so
I sez. And "Frannie Frosh" is no exception. And I'll prove
that statement.

Let's take a "Galloping Poll" through Inman and under the
pretext of "Annie Mae F.'s assistants" take a quick look-
around. Now, do you see what I '

mean? The Agnes Scott fresh-
man is a versatile creature. She
hangs haunting "Back Home For
Keeps" pictures up by the side of
her map of the South Pacific. And
see, she's even tracing the battles
. . . there's Palau. Now isn't that
inconsistency plus, or is it.

Look, that's more like it . . .
a bulletin board filled with "snaps"
of the crowd, Joe, the family, and
all.

See, here's a sign "Cum Inn."
Let's try it might lead to "magne"
things. "Game Room For Officers
Only" rather appropriate, don't
you think.

Say, is this winnie the Pooch
and all his frends on the bed?
I'd almost believe it but then they
do look kinda cute with theis shoe-
button eyes staring from their
stuffed bodies. I'd like the Panda
or Donald Duck.

Surely she isn't making those
curtains. But, I do believe, she
is. They're out of sea island,
aren't they, with blue upholstery
fringe. Seems as if they're as
useful as they are attractive.

Well, that sign must be meant
for us, "No Parking Here" All
right, just don't rush me. But you
do see what I mean.

Frannie Frosh's room does show
her personality for she's versatile.
She can hang her pin-up men
next to her war map. Sure she's
keeping up with world events for
the time when he's coming back.
And she can keep her album of
Brahms, Beethoven, and the rest
in with her "T." Dorsey collec-
tion and Sammy Kaye. Shakes-
speare feels no offense at being
placed side by side with the cur-

rent best seller.

There are her books on the desk.
Look them over freshman Eng-
lish, biology, math, and French.
Ah, over to the side what's that ?
I thought so. You did say, "Good
Housekeeping," didn't you? Now
what'd I tell you. Frannie's here
for a liberal arts education and
she's going after it in a well-
rounded fashion.

BUZZN'
BETTY!

Watch my col-
umn for news
tips and latest
hits!

I'm strictly your

pal!

BUZZN'
BETTY

RICH'S

DECATUR THEATRE

Wednesday, October 1 1
"Henry Aldrich Haunts a
House"

Thursday and Friday. October 12-13
"Bombardier"

Pat O'Brien - Randolph Scott

Saturday. October 14
"The Dude Cowboy"
Also
"Truck Busters"

Monday and Tuesday. October 16-17
"The Purple Heart"

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Ruth Ryner

If you're not planning to come
out for the big hockey game Fri-
day, now's the time to start chang-
ing your mind. All the teams are
looking for big things ahead, and
an all-out attendance by the stu-
dent body will not only add to
the excitement but boost that class
spirit. All reports say that the
freshman team looks promising
and is apt to give everybody a
big struggle. Bobbie Plummley,
freshman manager, looks awfully
good at the right wing position and
is sure to lead her team through
a good season. Don't forget, they
start at 4:00 and the sophs will
play the juniors, and the frosh and
seniors will meet.

An Apple a Day

Incidentally, Outing club will be
on hand to sell those big, juicy, red
apples. Don't forget to take the
little pocketbook along. FIVE
CENTS is the price.

It seems "out of sight, out of
mind" is not the way our alumnae
think of us. One at least remem-
bers the fun had at the gym and
all the personalities who made it
so. "Tug" Tuggle, now a med stu-
dent at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, writes to remember her to
all the loyal supporters of "the
sports." She writes that her cada-
ver is named "Beulah." Tug can
always find humor in any situa-
tion.

Golf Manager

Congratulations are extended to
Dotty Kahn, who is the newly-
elected golf manager. It's a fact
she'll be a good one.

If anyone had been anywhere
around "Coffee Hill" last Friday
night, they would have heard ex-
cited shrieks. Nope, it wasn't any-
thing serious, just the first of the
rowdy (this isn't libel, only liable
to be thought it is) Outing club
excursions. Billy Walker and
Frank McCalla came back for the
grand occasion and it was great
to see them. Ask Maudie and
Dootsey about that black coffee.

Friday's red-letter day for A. A.
at chapel, the heads of the differ-
ent sports will review plans for the
year. See you chillun there.

GILL BROS.

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FLOWER SHOP

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Athletic Group to Give
Sports Chapel Program

The Athletic Association will
present a preview of the sports
calendar for the year in a chapel
program Friday, Oct. 13.

Managers of all the fall sports
will give interesting information
about the events occuring in their
special fields during this quarter.
Ann Stine will preside.

Scotty Johnson will be on hand
to tell hockey lovers about their
favorite sport's activities. Mar-
garet Scott will have the informa-
tion for those interested in swim-
ming and the Swimming club.
Kathryn Burnett will represent
archery. Betty Andrews, Tennis
club's manager, will be there, and
Vicky Alexander will be on hand
to tell you about Outing club.

Mistaken
Identity

He had said a black Buick.
This was the only one in the
parking space. It had to be it.

"But this isn't like Uncle's at
all."

"Oh, it probably is. Why don't
you look through the compart-
ment just to make sure."

She reached gingerly inside
the pocket and began to look
over the articles it contained.
She had just put the last one
back when she heard a voice say,
"Young ladies, may I take you
back to school."

With this, two embarrassed
freshmen made a mad dash from
the "black Buick" for the trol-
ley line and left a bewildered
college president standing in the
hot Sunday sun.

Decatur contributed five Hottentots to the list >( 44 "brains" who recently made honor roll. Read-
ing from left to right, the Decatur girls are Marj >rie Karlson, Martha Jean Gower, Peggy Willmon,
Marian Leathers and B. J. Radford.

Timber.

Watch out for falling timber
when using the quadrangle path
next to Murphey Candler these
days. The college is having all
the deadwood from the large oak
tree lining the path trimmed, and
for several days now, workmen
have been sawing away. Many an
unwary Hottentot has barely es-
caped a woody conk on the head.

H. M. MacGregor, assistant bus-
iness manager-treasurer of Agnes

First Hockey Skirmishes
Slated Friday Afternoon

The custom in years past has been for the freshmen to
battle the sophomores in the first hockey game of the season.
This year, however, the lively freshmen will meet the ex-
perienced seniors and the long time rivals, juniors and sophs,

and will depend on such strong
players as Ann Stine and Chris

will battle

Perhaps the date, Friday, 13,
will be significant. The new Hot-
tentots have on their team several
girls who have had much hockey
experience and should make a
good showing this game. The sen-
iors have Ann Webb as a strong
back and forceful forwards such
as Liz Carpenter, Mary Cumming
and others.

The campus is always interested
in games between the present jun-
iors and sophomores. For the jun-
iors. Scotty Johnson, just back
from hockey camp, should spur
her home team on to some fast
and furious playing. The sophs
are not to be outdone, though,

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Scott, revealed that in addition to
the deadwood pruning, the next
10 days will see limb snipping on
all trees that hang low over side-
walks hence no more sudden
showers on casual passersby from
rain-laden trees long after the rain
has stopped.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944

NO. 4

Pi Alpha Phi
Holds Rally
In Chapel

The entire chapel period on
Wednesday, Oct. 25, will be de-
voted to a debate between Pi
Alpha Phi members Elaine Kun-
iansky and Jean Hood on the
relative merits of the two pres-
idential candidates, President
Roosevelt and Governor Dewey.

There will be no formal ques-
tion, and no decision, but a lively
debate is expected between Elaine,
an ardent Democrat, and Jean, a
Dewey supporter. The whole affair
will have the appearance of a
political rally, with Roosevelt fol-
lowers seated in a group on the
left side of the room, in the sen-
ior and sophomore sections, and
the G. O. P. girls in the remaining
seats.

Each side will be well repre-
sented by the two girls, who are
among the school's best debaters,
and each will have five minutes
to "put over" her arguments, fol-
lowed by a three minute rebuttal.
After the debate there will be a
ten-minute period, when questions
will be asked by the audience, and
answered by Elaine and Jean.

Feeling on the campus has ris-
en during the past weeks, and this
will be an opportunity for reliev-
ing some of the tension caused by
the coming elections.

Poll Favors
F. D. R.2to1

Nov. 7, election day, is getting
closer and closer and arguments
are getting hotter and hotter. Over
the week-end we took a "gallop
poll" around the campus finding
that the odds are two to one in
favor of President Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Dewey Undecided
122 68 16

Puddin' Bealer, "I would vote
for Roosevelt because I think
that's the quickest way to finish
the war."

Ann Hightower, "It is unheal-
thy for this nation to get in such
a condition of having one man
where there are others who can do
the job."

Susan Richardson, "I would vote
for Roosevelt. It is very simple
merely the matter of an ama-
teur and a professional."

Alice Beardsley, "Dewey will
make a better peacetime presi-
dent."

Lida Walker, "I don't think we
ought to change presidents in the
middle of a war."

Liz Carpenter, "In the twelve
years of the present administra-
tion things have become stagnat-
ed in Washington. A change will
help. Roosevelt as an internation-
al figure and diplomat will in-
fluence in post war planning;
therefore his influence for good
will not be lost."

Dr. Threadgill Enjoys Life
In Haven of Hottentots

By Joanne Benton

"Doctor" Selman L. Threadgill is a man of many varied
hobbies and interests and he pursues them all behind the
counter in the drug store which has served as the refuge of
book-weary Agnes Scotters for the past six years.

The fulfillment of a childhood ambition, Dr. Threadgill's
work as owner of the familiar

"Threadgill's" keeps him one of
the most contented people we've
ever met.

"You know," he says, "when I'm
away from the store, I'm miser-
able. The work is my hobby and
vacation."

Anyone who is in the habit of
dropping into Threadgill's for a
snack will bear witness to his en-
joyment of his work Dr. Thread-
gill is always ready with a smile
and a joke for his customers and
seems to know all Decatur by his
or her first name.

Back in high school in Selma,
Ala., he decided that pharmacy
was to be his career. "I had a good

Girls Needed
At Canteen

War Council is sponsoring an-
other project to let Agnes Scott
girls do their bit in helping the
war effort. Each Wednesday
night Miss Eugenia Symms will
chaperone any girls desiring to
go into Atlanta to the Service
Men's Canteen. The plan as it
stands now is for the group to
leave here at about 6:00 p. m..
The Canteen closes at 9:00 so
everyone will be back by at least
9:45.

friend in the drug business who
used to take me back in the pre-
scription department of his store,"
he explains. "I became interested
in it and have been ever since."
B.S. at Auburn
Becoming a registered pharma-
cist involves four years in a class
A college, so Dr. Threadgill en-
tered Auburn University, where he
received his. B.S. in Pharmacy in
1920.

Meets Future Wife

A few years later he met
his wife, Grace, in Oklahoma City.

"Grace was working in the Cap-
itol Building," says Dr. Thread-
gill with a reminiscent grin. "I
happened to meet a friend of mine
on the street one day who prom-
ised me long before to introduce
me to a good-looking girl. I re-
minded him of the promise and
inside of an hour I had met her."
Inside of four months they were
married.

Keeping up the family tradition,
their oldest son, Selman, Jr., is
working for his B.S. degree in the
Pharmaceutical School at Auburn,

He left Auburn after a
year and a half to join the Navy.
He is now stationed in Midship-
man's School at Northwestern Un-
iversity.

By the way, Dr. and Mrs.
(Continued on Page 4)

Music Hour
Set Oct. 23

The second in the series of mus-
ic appreciation hours will be
given Monday night, Oct. 23, at
8:00 in Gaines Chapel by C.
W. Dieckmann, at the organ, as-
sisted by Miss Mary Katherine
Glenn and Mrs. J. M. Moore, at
the piano.

The program is as follows: piano
and organ Fantasie by Demar-
est, Mrs. Moore and Mr. Dieck-
mann; organ First Movement,
Sixth Sonata by Mendelssohn, Mr.
Dieckmann ; two pianos Polka
and Fugue, from "Schwanda," by
Weinberger, Mrs. Moore and Mr.
Dieckmann, and Come, Sweet
Death by Bach, Mr. Dieckmann;
piano Concerto, Op. 54, A-minor,
First Movement, by Schumann,
Miss Glenn (orchestral part on
the organ).

Juniors Begin Drive
For Reader's Digest

The campaign for subscriptions
to the^Reader's Digest began Oct.
14. according to an announcement
by Evelyn Hill, chairman of the
drive. This is one of the junior
class projects for the year.

The price of the student sub-
scription is $1.00 for seven months
or 50 cents for three months.
Subscriptions are on sale also
for members of the U. S. armed
forces or the R. A. F. in the Uni-
ted States or Canada. The price
of these subscriptions is $1.50 for
one year. Only by special request
can subscriptions be sent to the
armed forces on overseas duty.

The price of a civilian sub-
scription is $3.00 for one year or
$5.00 for two years.

Roses to Be Replanted

Mr. Howard MacGregor said to-
day that plans are being made to
replant the rose garden adjoining
the alumnae garden. During the
last few years this garden has
run down, but beginning the first
part of December, 150 new plants
will be set out to help beautify
the campus.

Date Book

Wednesday, Oct. 18 Mrs. Sim's
book review at 4:45 in MacLean.

Thursday, Oct 1 9 Blackf riars'
play, "Enemy," for members,
guests in speech studio in Re-
bekah.

Friday, Oct 20 First hockey
game at 4:00.

Holy Trinity tea for Episcopal
Kir Is at Mrs. George M. Lee's at
Candler Street from 4:30-5:30.
Saturday, Oct. 21 Student Gov-
ernment party in the gym at
7:30.

Sunday, Oct 22 Group leaves for
Lawson General at 2:15.

Monday, Oct. 23 Music Apprecia-
tion Hour in Gaines Chapel at
8:00.

Miss Lucy White to interview
prospective nurses.
Tuesday, Oct. 24 Agnes Scott
night at Decatur Red Cross,
7:30.

Student Government Climaxes
Week by Party for Campus

Caricatures of each of the 20 representatives of Student
Government will be one of the features of the Student Gov-
ernment party Saturday night, to be given in the gym at 7:30
as a climax of the special activities of Student Government
week.

In addition to decorations painted by Joan Crangle
and Sally Sue Stephenson, there
will be refreshments of cokes and
hamburgers, and a program of en-
tertainment including a cake walk
for campused girls and a song by
Mac Craig.

"Everybody on the campus is in-
vited to the party," asserted Mar-
gie Bond, member of the Student
Government program committee,
"and we're expecting a large crowd
to attend."

Claire Rowe is head of the dec-
oration committee, and Mac Craig
and B. J. Radford are in charge
of refreshments.

Carrying out the student gov-
ernment theme of "Respect, Share,
Participate Live in a Happy Com-
munity," Miss Carrie Scandrett
addressed the student body this
morning in a talk on "The Broad
Conception of the Honor System."
Tomorrow Molly Milam will ex-
plain the theme and give the plans
of student government for the
year. Friday the student govern-
ment staff will participate in a
skit, written by Mary Cumming,
Margie Bond, and Jean Stewart,
which will show the duties of each
representatives. Next Tuesday a
regular student meeting will be
called in chapel.

Dancing Group
Plans Program

A recently organized dancing
group, directed by Mrs. Harriette
Lapp, plans to give a program
with the string ensemble some-
time in February, according to
Dootsy Gardner, student leader.

The group is the first organiza-
tion of its kind for several years
and is composed of about 20 ad-
vanced dancing students.

Annual Wins
Ail-American

A rating of All-American has
been awarded the '44 Silhouette,
edited by Ann Jacob. The Na-
tonal Scholastic Press Association
gave the yearbook a "superior"
rating. It was judged in a class
with other colleges of 500 enroll-
ment.

For the past several years the
Silhouette has receved an All-
American rating, the highest pos-
sible to achieve. a

Frosh Take Cat
In Close Decision

The freshmen hung their bell
on the Black Cat Saturday night
with "For Him the Bell Told"
(or "A Puss With a Purr-puss").
The judges, Miss Ridley for the
sophomores, Miss Hunter for the
freshmen, and Miss Cobbs, neu-
tral, had a hard choice to make
but the frosh skit finally won a
close decision over the sophomore
"Alaggie's Wonderful Lamp."

The freshmen, under the lead-
ership of Dabney Adams, set
chemists No. 1947 and 1948 to
work to create a bell for Queen
Agnes' favorite black cat; the '48
chemist was successful, but '47's
concoction blew up to the tune
of off-stage firecrackers.

The sophomores, with Nellie
Scott as chairman, presented the
story of Alaggie, a poor dateless
soph who dreamed herself into
the Arabian Nights with a magic
lamp, a genie, and a handsome
prince to bring about a happy
ending.

Highlights of the frosh stunt
were the clever decorations and
the introduction of the first
freshman Alma Mater, written by
Nan Nettles, Janie Coith, and
Betty Powers.

The soph skit was distinguish-
ed by its colorful scenery and
original costuming. Jane Mead-
ows, class president convalescing
from an appendectomy, was able
to attend in v a wheel chair.

The two sides of the gym were
decorated in the class colors, blue-
and-white for the freshmen and
yellow-and-black for the sopho-
mores. The senior and juniors sup-
ported their sister classes, wear-
ing sweaters and skirts of ap-
propriate colors.

Between the two stunts, prizes
were presented to the writers of
the best songs in each class; they
were Janie Coith, freshman, for
"Baby Hottentot" and Ann Stine,
Millie Evans, and Kathleen Buch-
anan for the sophomores' "Down
Yonder in Georgia." Cheer-lead-
ers for the freshmen were Janet
Dox and Barbara Hodges, assisted
by juniors Rite Watson and Pud-
din' Bealer; the sophs were di-
rected by Ann Stine and Punky
Mattison, with seniors Liz Carpen-
ter and Hansell Cousar.

SAVE WASTE PAPER

Attention all boarders! The junior class is sponsoring
a drive to collect all waste paper from the dormitories
and the library. All boarders are asked to collect news-
papers, magazines, large envelopes, cardboard, and paper
"boxes to contribute as their part of the war effort.

Members of the junior class will be in the dormitories
at 10:00 each Thursday night. Proceeds of the drive will
go to the junior class.

Faculty members who wish to have paper collected may
sign on the faculty bulletin board.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Vol. XXX

Wednesday, October 18, 1944

No. 4

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agues Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
second class matter at the Decatur. Georgia, postoffiee. Subscription price per year, $1.25 ;
single copies, five cents.

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EDITORIAL STAFF

Editor LEILA HOLMES

Managing Editor PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors

Mary Ann Courtenay
Jeanne Addison

Editorial Assistants

Pat Elam

Feature Editor

Jane Bowman
Sports Editor
Dorothy Lee Webb
Assistant Sports Editor
Ruth Ryner

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor

Carolyn Fuller

A BoycTs-Eye View

of Susan Neville

By Jeanne Addison

Have you heard any strange sounds coming from second
floor Gaines lately? Such as a rather one-sided conversation
in Portuguese maybe? Setting out to investigate rumors of
this phenomenon, we discovered that Susan Neville was the
responsible party and her roommate was the silent partner
or innocent victim depending on how you look at it
It seems that Susan has spent "

Reporters: Jean McCurrv. Jean Rooney. Martha Whatley Kates. Connie Fraser. Joyce
Gilleland. Alice Gordon, Anne Noell. Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardsley. Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson. Lidie Lee. Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson. Mary
Azar. Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher.
Sports reporters: Anne Register. Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle. Sally Sue Stephenson, Eloise Lyndon. Anne Lee.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager ELIZABETH CARPENTER

AdSnf ^U^I^""Z^ZZL^. MARY NEELY NORRIS

Asst. Advertising Managers

Louise Gardner
Jane Anne Newton

Circulation Manaier

Hansell Cousar

Circulation Assistants

Mary Russell
Doris Purcell

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie. Betty Andrews. Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones, Alice
Newman. Laura Winchester, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street, Ann Hough, May
Turner, Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

War Service Fund

Sometime during the next two weeks one of your class-
mates will approach you on the subject of the Agnes Scott
War Service Fund. Her purpose will be to get you to sign
a pledge card, stating the amount of money which you wish
to contribute to this fund and stating the conditions under
which you prefer to pay.

Be thinking now about how much you want to give. Bear
in mind the fact that this is the only time during the school
year that we will ask you for individual contributions. Re-
member that the Agnes Scott War Service Fund includes your
contribution to the National Community and War Fund (to
which we pledged $1000.00), the Red Cross, to the World Stu-
dent Service Fund and to any other relief organization in
which we want to participate. The amount that we give for
these great causes depends entirely upon the amount which
the student body pledges as individuals.

Give a thought to the comparison between what we girls
are doing to help win this war and what our fathers, brothers,
sweethearts and friends are doing. One thing we can do is
dig into that allowance and give all that we can possibly spare
to support the organizations that are really helping them!

We are mighty lucky to be able to be here in college not
laboring in a concentration camp, not having bombs and
shells falling all around us 24 hours a day. Let's show our
appreciation by pledging generously by pledging all that
each one of us can. You can pay all at once right away or
any time before the end of April. Or you can pay a part each
month for six months from November through April. In this
case each month we will provide you with a collection enve
lope to be sent through the local mail.

In either case make your contribution to the Agnes Scott
War Service Fund one which is worthy of you one which
is worthy of those brave men for whom your contribution
will be spent. Remember, the most that you give is the least
that they deserve. Frances Brougher.

For Students Only

Now that those first busy days of school are over, the Stunt
is in the past, and everyone is well acquainted, we find that
tests are upon us.

If we have studied day by day, these little intellectual cur-
iosities are no shocks to our nervous systems. For these peo-
ple this editorial is not intended, but it is for those who "put
off today what they hope they can do tomorrow. " Suddenly
they wake up to the fact that a test is coming up the next
day. Cramming the month's work into one light cut the night
before is almost impossible. So with a sick feeling as they
walk to the "gallows," they take the test or the test takes
them.

These faculty masterpieces are merely previews of their
coming attractions which will be held from December 6-13
Daily study is the necessary step to take to be prepared for
that week of all weeks.

So "buckle down, you students, buckle down."

all but about four years of her
life in Brazil. Her parents are
missionaries and she has always
spoken English with them, but she
says that she still thinks in Por-
tuguese about half the time, which
accounts for the difficulties of
her roommate. She even takes
some of her notes in Portuguese
which sounds very confusing but
apparently isn't.

I lvin* Down to Rio
Susan was born in Augusta,
Georgia but had arrived in Rio
by the time she was eleven months
old. She has lived mostly in the
country near the point where the
bulge in the Brazilian coastline
comes closest to Africa. This prox-
imity meant lots of excitement in
the days of the invasion of Africa,
she recalls. The climate is not
as healthful as that in southern
Brazil, and missionaries are given
furloughs every five years instead
of the usual seven.

Since the form of Susan's edu-
cation has been rather unortho-
dox, she is entered here as a spe-
cial student with junior privileges.
She went to the seventh grade in
the states and started high school
here, but most of her education
has been in the form of private
instruction. She was unable to
return to the United States when
she finished the equivalent of high
school because of war conditions.
Competing With USO
When the United States started
building bases in Brazil at the
time of the African invasion, the
need for interpreters became
acute. Susan finally persuaded
her family to let her take such a
job in Recife. She lived at Ag-
nes Erskine Presbyterian Mission
School here and found out about
American people from the dozens
of American boys she met at the
Army Base where she worked.
The mission school practically ran
competition for the USO, Susan
said, and the boys really looked
forward to talking to English-
speaking women again.

Americans were not very popu-

lar at first in Brazil, although the
girls found them "very good look-
ing." In the last two years, how-
ever, practically all the natives
of Recife have picked up English,
and relations with the foreigners
have improved.

Back to States
Susan worked until the middle
of the summer and after that her
life was a breathless whirl of
packing, preparations, and plane
trips until she finally found her-
self at Agnes Scott. She was much
impressed by the huge American
base at Natal, and the beautiful
plane trip from Trinidad to Miami.

Life at Agnes Scott has proved
difficult in some ways Susan
can't get used to the rushing
around we do and would rather
miss her meals than hurry
through them as most of us do.
English is the subject she finds
hardest, but chemistry runs a
close second. On the whole she
likes it here, though, especially
the plentiful supply of fresh vege-
tables which are very rare in
Brazil.

Nurse to Interview Girls

Miss Lucy White, representa-
tive from National Nursing
Council for War Service will
be on campus Monday, Oct. 28,
to interview girls interested in
nursing. Sign on back bulle-
tin board in Buttrick for an ap-
pointment.

The Tattler

War Work

From Oct. 9-14:
$39.25 of war stamps were
sold.

The blood donors:
Sara Milford
Margaret Scott
Ellen Hayes
Maggie Tcrole
Carroll Taylor
Anna Dobbins
Louise Cantrell

By Pat Elam

Warning

Any humor which may stray
into these lines will be of the
bitter, vitriolic type. A slight
tang of sour grapes may be not-
iced. If so, blame it on the
typewriter, which didn't want to
be dusted.

Some Gotta Win

And '48 did. By a vocal chord
rather than a nose, however. The
things that tipped the scales were
the weary, cracked voices of the
seniors, who were off pitch at
their first stunt and who will
probably be flat on the Alma
Mater next June. Both skits were
unusually good, with faculty take-
o'ffs conspicuously and happily ab-
sent. The ladies of both courts
looked very dazzling indeed, and
Dale's dance should have lasted
much longer. Each side applaud-
ed the other, the yelling wasn't
prolonged, and a very peaceful at-
mosphere prevailed. Inman wasn't
raided, there were no concussions,
yet everyone enjoyed herself. Mary
Jane Love, who visited on campus
last week-end, sent the following
message to Clare Bedinger:
"Freshmen won. You prayed hard-
er than I did."

Man Shortage?

No one who saw Barbara Frink's
dinner escorts last Saturday night
will believe it. There were six of
them, two in uniform. The six are
Barbara's nephews, ranging from
2 to 10 years, and the uniforms
have GMA on the shoulder.
Quote

Ann Hightower divulged this bit
of possibly helpful information:
"The way to a man's stomach is
through his mouth."

This Crazy World

Last week Betty Davis, who
takes abnormal psych at Emory,
went with the class on a trip to
the state asylum in Milledgeville.
When they arrived, a man stand-
ing by the entrance motioned in
the direction he wanted them to
take. Thinking him an inmate,
they decided to humor him. Then
he turned and they saw the very
official-looking gun which was
strapped on his hip. In one of the
wards, they saw a woman who
thought she was a radio, but who
refused to talk, as she wasn't turn-
ed on. Finally she told them she
was a radio in the Bank of China.
In a corner stood a man who had
murdered his wife. He was preach-
ing a sermon. Another believed
people were giving him electric
shocks by mental telepathy. There
was the "owner" of one of the
buildings, who arose early every
morning to clean up the yard. As
Betty walked by one man's door,
he called out "Hi, Cutie!" "He's
not crazy," said one member of the
class.

(iory Story
Minnie Mack went down to the
blood donor clinic recently to give
her pint and went through the or-
deal very well, she thought, until
her knees began wobbling. Then
she was put on a cot, bloodpres-
sured, and shot several times. Af-
ter an hour or so of this, she final-
ly convinced them that she would
live and they let her leave. As a
finishing touch, they sent her home
in a Motor Corps car.

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP
301 Church St DE. 3309

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944

Page 3

Cut, Cut, Cut?

Molly Blackmails Mary
Or 'Chapel Hillward'

By Molly Milam

(The editor told me this column should be written in true
journalistic style the lead containing the who, when, why,
what, where, and how . . . and the body of the story being
written so that the most important events come first. Well,
as I see it, the where is all that's necessary because the where
is Chapel Hill. It follows that the other four w's and the h are
obvious. And as for some of the happenings being more re-
markable than others, that's hard to decide. Therefore, here-
with follows a chronological account of a week-end of what
is known to those who know as Paradise.)

As Mary said, the Streamliner

The Belles of St Agnes

leaves Atlanta at 7:15 p. m. At-
lanta time. (Pause for advice:
Take your Chaucer book along to
hold your seat while you observe
human nature in the club car.)

The climax of the pilgrimage
Chapel Hillward begins when you
get off the bus in front of Spencer
dorm, and it lasts as long as you're
courageous enough to cut your
classes and throat.

Chem Building First

Ask Mary Cumming why our
first project was to walk swiftly
and directly to the chemistry
building. Yes, it was 'cause she
wanted to see her ol' prof. ... It
was merely coincidental that she
found her way to the balance room,
where ONE chemist was weighing
his compounds and elements.

Friday was a day! There was a
dramatic encounter in the Y court.
Maybe we should have insisted

that the V-12 of above mentioned

DECATUR THEATRE

WEDNESDAY. OCT. 18
Virginia Gilmore - James Ellison in
"That Other Woman"

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCT. 19-20
John Wayne Martha Scott
"In Old Oklahoma"

SATURDAY. OCT. 21
"Cowboy Serenade"
"Charlie Chan in Secret
Service"

DEKALB THEATRE

WEEK OF OCTOBER 18
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY

"Home in Indiana"

FRIDAY

"Secret Command"

SATURDAY

"Man From Frisco"
and

"Henry Aldrich Flays Cupid"

MONDAY - TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
Bing Crosby
"Going My Way"

encounter not cut his English
(Chaucer!) quiz. But then it had
been a long time since we'd danced.

Friday afternoon we went to the
med school and saw the stiffs, and
the would-be-doctors-if-it-weren't-
for-med-school, hard at work.

Saturday, Mary and I each had
a date with a med student. Re-
member Irene McCain? Great
game. Beautiful stadium.

Men Beg for Dates

Next came Saturday night and
the same old monotonous situa-
tion: cadets, marines, V-12's, etc.,
begging for dates. It goes without
saying all the coeds had dates al-
ready .

Sunday: Church, dinner at Caro-
lina Inn, just Chapel Hill after-
noon, and snapshots, till time to
leave, come back, and face the
music of having cut, cut, cut.

Eleven o'clock Monday morning
and back again. . . . True, time was
lost from books, but then being a
psych minor, I contend that some-
times people are more important
than books. Believe me, there are
interesting people in Chapel Hill
. . . and from a social psycholo-
gist's point of view, I'd say U. N. C.
is just the place to study psychol-
ogy of the large group. There's
safety in numbers, you know. Or
is there Mary?

By Carolyn Fuller

Stunt week-end is the time for
visitors on campus. . . . Bemie
Hay from Auburn came to visit
Martha Hay, June Griffin from
Brenau College with Gail Stew-
art, Jat Pope from Acworth with
Beth Jones, "Sister" Thomas from
Griffin with Virginia Tucker, Juny
Major from Anderson, S. C, with
Lady Major; Carolyn Cunningham
from Eatonville, Ga. with Edna
Clare Cunningham; Eleanor Bear
from Richmond, Va. with sister
Teddy. "Rusty" Raefield's mother
came from Montgomery, Ala. Jan-
et Dox's father from Jacksonville,
Fla. was with her. For a sur-
prise Margaret McManus' sister
waited till after the Stunt to tell
her she was here from Greenville,
S. C. Martha Humber's mother
came to see her from Clarkdale,
Miss. And even better . . . Bar-
bara Blair had her mother, fath-
er, and sister from Gastonia, N. C.

Naval Dance

At the Naval R. O. T. C. dance
Friday night at the Georgian Ter-
race Hotel were Gloria Ann Mel
chor, Janet Liddell, Betty Turner,
and June Thomason.

Gloria Ann Melchor, Liz Car-
penter, Jean Hale, Mary Cargill,
Harding Ragland, Louise Starr,
Jean Chewning, Emily Higgins,
Mary Helen House, Margaret Anne
Richards, Beth Jones, Martha
Hay, Eleanor Reynolds, Sue Hut-
chens, and Anne Scott went to
the Tech-Auburn game Saturday
afternoon.

HOUSE DANCES. . . . Saturday
night Anne Scott and Sue Hut-
chens were at the Chi Phi house
dance. Page Violette was at the
S. A. E. house at Emory Satur-
day night. At the Zip house on
Saturday night were Emily Hig-
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Edelblut, Sue Mitchell, and Lucy
Turner. Mary Mohr and Sally
Bussey went to the Hallowe'en
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a black suit and accessories with
white gloves. . . . Betty's black
sport coat was accented by a
white scarf.

OUT OF TOWN. . . . Kathleen
Hewson went home to Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Ann Hough, Mary
McCalla and Alice Newman went

to Mary's home in Greenville, S.
C. for week-end. Nancy Geer was
visiting in Columbus, Ga.

FLASH. . . . Ann Stine left col-
lege Monday, going home to be
married to Lt. John Hughes on
Nov. 12.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944

Spying On Sports

By Dale Bennett

Biggest sports news of the week
is the addition of seven members
to Swimming club. The stren-
uous tryouts lasted from Oct. 2-13,
with the greatest response from
the freshmen and sophomores. In
tact, all of those who completed
+ he requirements and will be ad-
mitted to the club are from these
two classes. Congratulations are
\n order to Betty Andrews, Sweet-
ie Calley, Jenny Wren, Cookie
Miller, Janet Liddell, Anne Stine,
and Ann Sproesser.

Tryouts for Outing club are
still in progress. There are 37 peo-
ple who have completed the third
class and will take the final test
next Monday. On Friday the old
members will hike to the Pig'n
Whistle for supper with those who
are trying out. Keep at it, girls
just one more test to go and you'll
be full-fledged members, able to
hike to the Waffle Shop at 6 a. m
and still be cheerful all day.

Tennis club and Archery club
are just beginning their tryouts
this week. Betty Andrews tells us

Dr. Threadgill

(Continued from Page 1)
Threadgill are planning a little
trip to Chicago in January, when
Selman, Jr., will graduate as an
ensign. But, like his father, he
still plans to finish his pharmacy
course and set up in business.

Everybody at Agnes Scott
knows the youngest Threadgill,
Jimmy of the red hair and freckles
who jerks sodas so efficiently ev-
ery afternoon when school is out.
Jimmy is a senior at Decatur
High.

Mrs. Threadgill, famous for her
amazing willingness to sell a
cheaper brand if it's a better bar-
gain, likes helping out her hus-
band, but, unlike him, she has oth-
er occupations she likes even bet-
ter. Beginning last Monday, she
joined the "Gray Ladies," and now
spends much of her time helping
the wounded veterans at Lawson
General by writing letters or shop-
ping for them.

Many an Agnes Scott girl who
wonders how poor Dr. Threadgill
gets along in summer is due for
a shock when she learns that his
soda fountain business picks up
with the beginning of hot weather
in June and that his total business

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that the first round match should
be completed by the end of the
week and that a lot of new, red
blood is expected in Tennis club to
fill in the gaps made by the loss
of such seniors as Virginia Tug-
gle. Archery club has named its
managers: senior, Emily Higgins;
junior, Doris Street; sophomore,
Louisa Aichel; and freshman,
Ruth Blair. Their tryouts will be
each day from 1 3 till 4 on the hoc-
key field.

And the plans of all A. A. board
sound grand in this neck of the
woods. With chaperons the mem-
bers plan to go to Camp Civitania
on a camping trip next week-end.
Have fun, but don't come back
with poison ivy!

Council to Christen
New Recreation Room

The Recreational Council will
start its activities for the year
with a room warming for the new
recreation room in the back of
Old Chapel. Ping pong exhibi-
tions will highlight the opening
Wednesday evening at 6:15. The
room will also contain bridge ta-
bles and a shuffle board on the
Rebekah Scott porch.

Plans for a Hallowe'en square
dance are under way and will be
announced later.

Swimming Club
Chooses Seven

Swimming club has accepted
seven new swimmers this week and
will complete tryouts soon. New
members are Betty Andrews,
Sweetie Calley, Jenny Wren,
Cookie Miller, Janet Liddell, Ann
Stine, and Ann Sproesser.

Class spirits will reach new
heights when the Hottentots stage
their first swimming meet of the
year on Oct. 26. The class
managers have been selected: Dot-
ty Kahn, senior; Edwina Davis,
junior; Beth Walton, sophomore,
and Jenny Wren, freshman.

All students with regular class
standing who are now taking
swimming or who are members
of the swimming club are eligible
to participate and several of the
new members are expected to
"shine" in this initial meet.

Because there were so many
requests by students to have ad-
ditional times to swim, the pool
is open on Tuesday nights from
9 to 10. The regular plunge
period is from 5 to 6 on Mondays
through Fridays.

after the last Hottentot has board-
ed her train only drops five per
cent.

Misses Hottentots

"But we certainly miss the girls
in the summer," adds the pharma-
cist. "We get to know a lot of
them and enjoy having them come
in."

What is it about owning a drug
store that is as fascinating to him
today as it was when he was in
high school?

"It's the variety of people and
ailments and stories and news,
good and bad, that come in every

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That's why we say Dr. Thread-
gill is one of the most contented
people around and that's one rea-
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AGNES SCOTT

Administration At
Purchasing Meeting

Dr. J. R. McCain, Mr. Howard
MacGregor and Mr. J. C. Tart at-
tended a meeting of the Purchas-
ing Agents Association of Geor-
gia Monday night. This associa-
tion is an affiliate of the National
Association of Purchasing Agents
and was attended by representa-
tives from all the leading business
firms, colleges, and universities in
the Atlanta vicinity.

The speaker at the meeting was
Stuart Henri tz, editor of Purchas-
ing Magazine, who spoke to the
group on "What's New in Pur-
chasing."

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944

NO. 5

Sixteen Seniors Selected for / Who x s Who 7

Hayes to Be Investiture
Speaker Saturday, Nov. 4

Martha Jane Mack, president of the senior class, has an-
nounced that Mr. George P. Hayes of the English department,
will speak at Investiture Saturday morning, Nov. 4 at 12:00,
and that Dr. W. A. Smart, professor of Biblical theol-
ogy and university chaplain at Emory University will

speak at the college church serv-
ice on Sunday morning, Nov. 5,
at 11 o'clock in Gaines chapel.

Requested by the senior class
to be their speaker on the occasion
when Agnes Scott seniors are offi-
cially invested with senior stand-
ing, Dr. Hayes will talk on liberal
education. He will include in his
talk some of the knowledge he
gained at the Liberal Arts confer-
ence which he and Dr. Walter B.
Posey of the history department
attended at Vanderbilt during the
summer.

Following the tradition set by
the class of '44, the present seniors
have included in their investiture
weekend a church service here at
the college. The class asked Dr.
W. A. Smart of Emory to be
speaker at the service.

According to Minnie Mack, the
senior class invites the entire col-
lege community to attend and
bring their friends to the investi-
ture services.

The weekend when the seniors
for the^ last time appear as little
girls and for the first time are of-
ficially impressed with their sen-
ior dignity, will be made more
enjoyable for the seniors, says
Minnie Mack, by the presence of
parents and friends.

GEORGE P. HAYES

'La Traviata'
Slated Nor. 1

"La Traviata," Verdi's opera in
three acts, will be presented' Wed-
nesday night, Nov. 1, as the sec-
ond attraction of the All-Star
concert series.

First given in Venice in 1853,
the opera is based on Duma's "La
Dame aux Camelias." The story
takes place in Paris and vicinity
during the reign of Louis XIV.
Violetta, a courtesan, gives up
her gay life to live in a humble
apartment with Alfredo. His fa-
ther persuades her to release him.
She returns to Paris. Alfredo, ig-
norant of the cause of her de-
sertion, insults her publicly. Too
late he discovers the truth about
the nobility of her sacrifice. Full
of remorse he visits her, only to
find her dying of consumption.
With words of forgiveness on her
lips, she expires in his arms, as
the curtain falls.

The cast includes Nadine Con-
ner as Violetta; Mack Harreld as
Alfredo; Armand Tokatyan as the
father of Alfredo, all of the Metro-
politan Opera Company. The or-
chestra will be under the direc-
tion of Guiseppe Bamboshek for-
merly Metropolitan conductor.

Meet Will Be Held
Tomorrow Night

The first swimming meet of the
year will be held at 8:00 tomor-
row night in the gym. Mrs. Doro-
thy Vogel of the Atlanta YMCA
will judge the events.

Three additional members have
just completed tryouts for the
swimming club, Marie Beeson,
Dale Bennett, and Lilaine Har-
ris. They will participate in the
meet with other members of the
club and the swimming classes.

Emory to Hold
State Meeting

More than 300 Georgia college
students, including about 10 repre-
sentatives from Agnes Scott, are
expected to attend the Georgia
Methodist Student Conference at
Emory University Oct. 27-29.

With "Know Thy Neighbor" as
a theme, the conference will fea-
ture discussion groups concerning
various countries and minority
groups of the world.

Dr. Hornell Hart, professor of
sociology at Duke University, will
be the main speaker for the two-
day meet.

Agnes Scott students will have
an opportunity to schedule con-
ferences with Rev. Claud Single-
ton, state director of student
work, and with Dr. DeWitt Bald-
win, secretary, who will be on
campus Tuesday, Oct. 31. Mar-
garet Johnson will arrange ap-
pointments for those wishing con-
ferences.

Dr. Baldwin will address the
Methodist students of Agnes
Scott Oct. 31 at 4:30 p. m., in
Murphey Candler.

Martha Jane Mack, senior class
president, served as secretary of
the state student conference last
year.

Edwin Mims
Will Lecture,
Visit Classes

Dr. Edwin Mims, professor
emeritus of English at Vander-
bilt University, will deliver a pub-
lic lecture on "Education, Cul-
ture and Religion" in Gaines
Chapel Monday night, Nov. 13. He
will speak at an extended chapel
period the following morning on
"Poetry as a Personal Resource"
and will visit in the various Eng-
lish classes on both days, Profes-
sor George P. Hayes has announ-
ced.

The first of several men of let-
ters to come to the campus un-
der the auspices of the English
department, Dr. Mims is recogniz-
ed as an outstanding scholar. In
1935-'36 he was the Carnegie vis-
iting professor to St. Andrew's
University; Trinity College, Dub-
lin; the University of London; and
the University of Wales, Exeter.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kap-
pa, author of a number of books,
and a contributor to both the
Encyclopedia Britannica and the
Encyclopedia Americana. He ser-
ved as a special lecturer for the
Association of American Colleges
in 1942-'43, immediately follow-
ing his retirement from active
teaching.

Chi Beta Phi
Taps Seven

Seven new members have been
named to Chi Beta Phi, national
honorary science fraternity, Pres-
ident Betty Jo Davis announced
today.

They are Mary Cumming, Strat-
ton Lee, Mildred McCain, Jane
Oatley, Dot Spragens, Jean Stew-
art, and Suzanne Watkins. Re-
quirements for membership are a
major in science and a merit av-
erage.

The new members will be initia-
ted at a formal banquet in the tea
house Nov. 17. Guests will in-
clude the science faculty.

On Nov. 2, Chi Beta Phi will
present its first lecturer of the
season, Dr. J. G. Lester, professor
of geology at Emory, who will
talk on his trip to Mexico and the
new volcano which is erupting
there.

Transfer Picnic Date
Changed to Oct. 28

The Mortar Board picnic for
transfers and special students pre-
viously planned for Oct. 8, will be
given Saturday, Oct. 28. All
transfers and special students are
asked to meet in front of Main
at 4:15 p. m.

Chairman of committees are:
Julia Slack, refreshments; Molly
Milam, entertainment; Elaine
Kuniansky, invitations.

Outstanding Seniors Chosen
For National Publication

Sixteen seniors have been se-
lected by a joint decision of the
senior class and a faculty com-
mittee to have their biographies
appear in the 1944-45 edition of
Who's Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col-
leges.

Those sharing this distinctive
honor include such campus lead-
ers as the members of Mortar
Board,, the president of War Coun-
cil, president of the senior class,
house president of Main, and the
editor-in-chief of the Agnes Scott
News.

The following girls, selected
on a basis of character, scholar-
ship and leadership in extra-
curricular activities, and po-
tentiality for future usefulness
to business and society, will
reprsent Agnes Scott in the
1944-45 edition of Who's Who:

(1) Frances Brougher, chair-
man of War Council.

(2) Virginia Carter, president
of Christian Association.

(3^) Mary Cunruning, house
president of Rebekah.

(4) Pat Elam, house presi-
dent of Main.

(5) Barbara Frink, president
of Mortar Board.

(6) Betty Glenn, president of
Pi Alpha Phi.

(7) Leila Holmes, editor of
the News.

(8) Dorothy Hunter, presi-
dent of Athletic Association.

(9) Frances King, house pres-
ident of Inman.

(10) Elaine Kuniansky, editor
of the Silhouette.

(11) Martha Jane Mack, pres-
ident of the Senior class.

(12) Molly Milam, president
of Student Government.

(13) Mary Munroe, vice presi-
dent of Christian Association.

(14) Inge Probstein, editor of
the Aurora.

(15) Julia Slack, freshman
orientation chairman.

(16) Wendy Whittle, vice
president of Student Govern-
ment.

In a letter informing these sen-
iors of their election, H. P. Ran-
dall, editor of the directory, stated
that "the distinction won is a
real honor based entirely upon
outstanding achievement." Each
girl also received a questionnaire
covering her biography and her
personal opinions on current top-
ics.

The object of the publication,
though little known to the gen-
eral public, is to help the students
to make contacts with firms of
their choice. Even before the 1944-
45 edition will be off the press,
copies of the students' biographies
will be sent to various companies
to be filed.

Who's Who, first published in
1935 with 250 colleges represented,
now lists outstanding students
from 600 colleges and universities.

Talks, Exhibits Scheduled
For Homecoming Alumnae

Nov. 9 has been designated as Alumnae Day at Agnes Scott
this year. Other years Alumnae Association has allotted a
week-end for this special gathering, but because of wartime
difficulties, the program has been cut down to one day.

Three short talks will follow registration in Presser Hall
at 4:00 p. m. Dr. J. R. McCain,
president of Agnes Scott, and
Mrs. Katherine Woltz Green,
president of the Association will
welcome the visitors. Miss Emily
Woodward, director of Georgia
Public Forum, having recently re-
turned from England, is scheduled
to speak on "My Visit to Britain."

The library will feature a book
exhibit on the main floor and
a display of paintings by Harriet
Fitzgerald on the third floor. Miss
Edna Ruth Hanley, librarian, has
also arranged for visitors and fac-
ulty to have coffee in the library
at 7:00 p. m. The alumnae will
eat in the cafeteria as guests of
the college.

Dr. Will Durant, first on Lec-
ture Association's program for the
year, will discuss "Philosophy and
War" in fresser at 8:30 p. m.

JThe Granddaughters* Club will
help with the registration in Pres-
ser, and members will entertain
children of the alumnae from 4:00-
7:30. Harriet Daugherty and Kate
Ellis are in charge..

Date Book

Wednesday, Oct. 25 Cotillion
Club tryouts Wednesday and
Thursday 4:30-5:30 p. m.

Thursday, Oct. 26 Pi Alpha Phi
debate at 7 :30 in Murphey Cand-
ler

Swimming meet at 8:00
Friday, Oct. 27 Georgia Metho-
dist Student Conference begins
at Emory

Hockey games at 4:00. Fresh-
men play sophomores and jun-
iors play seniors.

Saturday, Oct. 28 Mortar Board
picnic for transfers at 4:15

Sunday, Oct. 29 Group leaves for
Lawson Hospital at 2:15

Tuesday, Oct. 31 Agnes Scott
night at the Decatur Red Cross

Wednesday, Nov. 1 War Coun-
cil to sponsor talk by Miss Wil-
burn in chapel

La Traviata to be presented at
the Municipal Auditorium at
8:30

2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Published weekly, except during holidays aud examination periods, by the students
o 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

MAriAfrin"- Editor

PAULINE ERTZ

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Jeanne Addison

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Feature Editor

Jane Bowman
Sports Editor
Dorothy Lee Webb
Assistant Sports Editor
Ruth Ryner

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor

Carolyn Fuller

Reporters: Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Kates, Connie Fraser, Joyce
Gilleland, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
Azar, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher.
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Cartoonists: Joan Crangle. Sally Sue Stephenson, Eloise Lyndon, Anne Lee.

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Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodle. Betty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones, Alice
Newman, Laura Winchester, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street, Ann Hough, May
Turner, Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

Time Marches On

While riding on a bus Sunday, I met a soldier who had
just returned from 52 bombing missions over Italy. He said
he felt as if he were living on "borrowed time," for out of 28
planes in his squadron, his was the only one to return.

We can only imagine a small part of what our men are do-
ing in this war. As we sit here, sheltered from the horrors
of war, what are we doing with our time? Rolling bandages,
knitting, going to the canteen, and going to Lawson General
are small, but important things that we can do to help. Each
of us can find the time to do some of these vital projects.

Think of the hours we waste in idle talk, accomplishing
nothing. Think of the soldier who felt that he was living on
"borrowed time." Every bandage, every sweater, every
cheerful smile at the canteen or hospital is a help toward
winning the war.

Make the most of your time!

Results

The co-operative plan has been under way since a little
less than a week after the formal opening of school. Have
you noticed any results? Any change in atmosphere? Look
around you.

At dinner you can hear your neighbor without straining.
The constant rising and falling inflections of 300 or more
voices, so characteristic of last year, is missing. No need to
search frantically for a place; the hostess smiles as she shows
you a vacant table. In every respect, there is a calmer, more
pleasant atmosphere in the dining room. And that third cup
of coffee surely tastes good without walking for*it.

Now, the co-operative plan has extended to telephone duty.
Watch the bulletin boards in the dormitories for when you
are on duty. Create the same quiet surroundings here and
above all, be proud to say, "We have the co-operative system."
It's the pulling together that makes for success. (M.C.B.)

Listen, You Guys

Listen, you campaign orators:

1 We are tired of hearing about Tired Old Democrats.

2 We are tired of hearing about Immature Republicans.

3 Leave GI Joe out of this.

4 Ditto for GI Jim.

-5 George Washington isn't running.

6 Thomas Jefferson isn't running.

7 Andrew Jackson isn't running.

8 Abraham Lincoln isn't running.

9 Neither are Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.

10 A man named Franklin D. Roosevelt is.

11 So is a man named Thomas E. Dewey.

12 There is a war on.

13 Speeches change darned few votes .

14 Most of you orators aren't so hot, anyhow.

15__G'by, please.

Buffalo Courier-Express.

A Boyd's-Eye View

of Leila Holmes

By Mary Ann Courtenay

It may be a bit irregular for a columnist to blackmail her
own editor, but such an illustrious person as Leila Holmes
cannot pass unnoticed. As one of the faculty put it "Are you
the editor, Leila? I thought you were majoring in chemistry!"

Leila stayed out of Ag nes Scott after her sophomore year
to earn her lab technician's certi-
ficate at a Macon hospital. By do-
ing this she deprived herself of
the opportunity for assistant edi-
torship, but became copy editor
and later editor last year.

Which of her diverse interests
she enjoys most, it's hard to tell.
That same dash of excitement
that thrills her at the mere men-
tion of an operation gives her a
boundless enthusiasm for digging
out scoops and arranging inter-
views with such persons as Molly,
Miss Steele and Joseph Cotten.
Her editors sit spellbound by the
detailed account of the summer's
work in an obstetrician and
gynecologist's office and yet
more amazing than the experien-
ces themselves is her ability to
have all headlines written by the
end of that evening.

Appendicitis epidemics cause
Leila as much concern as six-
page issues or "typographical er-
rors," which sometimes take all
her will power to correct. She runs
blood counts, metabolism tests,
etc. in the infirmary eight hours
every week. When she isn't edit-
ing the News on Sundays, Mon-
days, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays,
she finds time to merit her cour-
ses, and she is always ready to
indulge in her favorite pastimes,
eating and talking.

Her roommates, Bobby and Lei-
la Powell, have borne the situa-
tion bravely, serving as guinea
pigs for everything from hypo-

LEILA HOLMES

dermic needles to abnormal psych
experiments. They have shared
with their cousin their valid ad-
vice to the lovelorn one, who
wears a fraternity pin occasional-
ly, but who heads toward "Mary
Ruth's" every weekend for an ex-
citing time with a hypnotist or
at least an interne.

In fact, Leila has a date to-
night. When she reads this on the
proof, she will let out her good-
natured "he-he-he-" and in true
Macon fashion will drawl, "Oh,
youall!"

Applications for blood donors
this week:

Ann High tower

Jeanne Robinson

Billie Davis Nelson

Doris Reddick

Virginia Tyler

Margaret Ridley

War stamp sales week, Oct.
18-25 total $30.75.

ACROSS

1 President of Agnes Scott
8 Opposite of yes
10 Dry

15 Which way your grades should
go.

19 Musical note

24 Cry of black cat

28 Girl's college in South (ab-

brev. )
31 Tramp

39 Quoth the Raven, "

more"

46 Part of an overseas address
50 Great Lake
57 Back side

64 Freshman says "Will I -

be a senior?"
71 I ( poss. )

DOWN

1 Agnes Scott has a large per-
centage of alumnae in this in-
stitution

2 What we do during exams

3 Roman numeral for 101

4 What a business manager has
to sell

6 What a switchboard operator
deals with
16 City in Illinois
27 Armed service for women

31 What you hear in every crowd
of women

32 Above

39 A small nodule
53 Kind of tree
58 Either

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

The Quest of the Olive
Betty Campbell, one night last
week, got a sudden craving for
olives. As they had been on the
dinner menu, she decided to go
and request a handout of Miss
Harris. Entering by the side door,
she found Miss Harris and made
her wants known. "Each girl is
allowed three olives," said Miss
H. "How many did you have at
dinner?" "One," replied Betty.
She was told that she could have
two more, but that she'd have to
leave and come in through the
front door in order to get them.
She did, received the olives, and
was walking out with them when
she was stopped with the remin-
der that no food could be taken
from the dining room. Betty sat
down and ate her olives wkh
relish.

Quotes of the Week

Mr. Christian to 101 Physics
class: Cranes are like storks ex-
cept that they bring tanks.

'Phia Pedakis to Inge: A
career's all right but you can't
run your fingers through its hair.

Kady MacGregor to Miss Han-
ley: Hi, Edna!

Frosh at Student Government
party: Do they ever take those
robes off?

Heil Higgins

The senior class has been aware
of Emily's organ playing abilities,
as each of its class meetings is
held to the tune of "Narcissus,"
but not until last Friday was the
rest of the college community en-
tertained with this rendition. Still
more laurels were heaped upon
her brow in the afternoon hockey
game, where she glorified the posi-
t*)n of right inner. Overlooking
the fact that at one point she
walked out of the game, thinking
it to be over, she got through
without mishap and succeeded in
scoring. This is something of a
feat, as before this fall she had
never touched a hockey stick.
Says Higgins, "I owe it all to
Hemo."

Vicky Gets Hot Toot

Vicky Alexander had quite a
time on the week-end camping
trip that A. A. took. She was
sitting blissfully by the fire, harm-
ing nobody, when those around
her began laughing hysterically.
Sensing that she was in some
way being made the goat, she
looked diligently for a possible
source of humor, and finally dis-
covered that someone had given
her a hotfoot with a cup of steam-
ing coffee. This wasn't the end
of her troubles, for she lay awake
until four o'clock, counting blue
and red sheep, and feeling, so
she says, like compressed air.
Plaid Party

A bunch of would-be Outing
Clubbers, whose names I could
mention but won't, feeling sure
everyone will know who they are,
rose early Sunday morning to hike
to the Pig for breakfast. When
they got there, they found it clos-
ed, so they continued their weary
way to Peachtree, where, clad in
the glory of faded plaid shirts,
they boarded a streetcar and went
to a coffee shop. Not wishing to
bring reproach upon their Alma
Mater, they carefully turned their
class rings around, and, slinking
under the table from time to
time, had breakfast.

Nominate Beauties

Come to chapel Thursday and
nominate 20 girls for the beauty
section of the Silhouette.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944

Page 3

1945." Little things her plump
blue uniformed figure walking
across campus carrying a big
bunch of yellow flowers, her
brown smiling face with its spark-
ling black eyes, and her happy
laughter. Little things her laugh-
ing again at the March wind and
rain as everyone else grumbles and
runs for shelter, and her calling
out "March is jus' an ole hypo-
crite"; her singing at the ironing
board "I've sang a million songs
here." Little things "This is my
home, Agnes Scott, and I'll stay
here till they asks me to go."
"I knows all the girls' faces now
. . . they has always been so
lovely, I couldn't help loving
them." Little things but they all
add up to big things which tell us
about Tabby . . . laughter, love,
and loyalty.

"Grandchildren"
To those of us who had moth-
ers here, it brings a thrill to hear
Tabby say, "Miss Louise? Why, I
used to wait on her table in the
dining room when she was here,"
or "Honey, you is Tabby's grand-
child." But then every girl at Ag-
nes Scott is Tabby's "grandchild."
She loves to tell about those old

Laughter, Love and Loyalty
Endear Tabby to Agnes Scott

By Margaret Mizell

If there is even a slight "flaw" in her work, Tabby will not
hand back the dresses she irons in the basement of Main.
But there are other more outstanding things about Tabby
than her job . . . things which make her as loved by us now
as she was by other students when mothers were here, "thirty-
three years ago come January, , . A _

days, especially about how little

she was then "only ninety-four
pounds." Tabby likes to tell how
she almost didn't get a job at Ag-
nes Scott because Miss Calhoun,
the matron, then, told her when
she saw how small and delicate
she was that she didn't hire
"girls." Tabby had grown children
then. It flatters her even now,
she says.

End "of War

Many interesting things has
Tabby seen at Agnes Scott. The
most exciting day of all was the
day when she was working in the
maid's office, and the Atlanta
Journal called and told her to take
a message to President Gaines
that World War I was over, and
armistice was declared. Al-
though she was so excited her hand
shook, she wrote the message care-
fully, "put periods where they
ought to be," and took it to Dr.
Gaines in the dining room. And
when he announced it "such
shouting you has never heard."
Stocking Trouble
One of the funniest things Tab-
by likes to remember is right af-
ter the first World War when
girls couldn't get stockings. She
was the maid in Inman then and
a committee of girls went into At-
lanta and bought "500 pairs of
white stockings" for Inman, and
all that night they dyed them tan.
Something went wrong, says Tab-
by and the next morning "those
girls found 500 pairs of beautiful
bright red stockings." They were
so disappointed, Tabby wanted to
help out, so she took them home
and dyed them tan by her "secret
formula." After < this war, she is
ready to do the same!

"Tabby" has seen many chan-
ges, but the Agnes Scott girls
never change in her opinion. She
says, "I found sweet womanhood
then, and I find it now. I see no
difference in attitudes they was
sweet then; they is sweet now."
And Tabby is the same too. We
would not want her to be chang-
ed. She just called out, "Don't
you put my real name in that ar-
ticle. Everybody just knows me as
Tabby'."

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SATURDAY

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Plans were made for tryouts
for new members. All sophomores,
juniors, and seniors are eligible
to submit for membership any
literary effort except poetry. The
deadline for entries is Oct. 30.

B. O. Z. was organized in 1916
by Dr. Jacob D. M. Armistead
who at that time was head of the
English department. The name
B. O. Z. was chosen for its mys-
tery and its literary significence.
The initials are the pen name of
Charles Dickens.

Miss Janef Preston has been
the faculty advisor of the club
for the past several years. "The
standards of the club are high,"
Miss Preston said. "One time we
had 30 tryouts and accepted only
two members.

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

The Tech-Navy game Saturday afternoon proved to be one
of the most exciting even to those by the radio. Scott Newell,
Frances Brougher, Ann Hightower, Mary Cumming, "Nina"
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Traffic Terrifies
Jail-Bound Car

"Come on, step on it," they
shout. "Don't forget, we can't be
late and we've only ten minutes
left to make it." The trolley rum
bles past and three little boys on
their way to football practice
whistle at the black convertible
piled with girls.

If you are the gremlin under-
neath the hood, you would hear
such choice tidbits as, "Do you
guess the judge'll be nice . . . Say,
I hope they won't lock us up. . . .

They groan as they "catch" each
traffic light against them. The
minutes tick by. Here's the street
and only eight more blocks to go.

The black convertible pulls over
to the side . . . traffic stops and
the black convertible tries to
parallel park. It can't get in
for there's a street vendor's push-
cart in the way. "Oh, we'll never
make it now." More giggles. The
door slams as two girls jump out
and push the cart back 30 yards
or more. Horns blare as traffic
waits.

The black convertible parks.
The girls glance self-consciously
around. The way is clear as they
dash for the Atlanta jail house.

Note: This is not a case for
Dick Tracy, only the feeble at-
tempts of four Agnes Scott mem-
bers of the Emory University
Journalism class to meet their
professor, Dr. R. B. Nixon. Why,
at the jailhouse? . . . Surely Stu-
dent Government doesn't inflict
such severe penalties . . . jail . . .
Oh, no, they're merely on their
way to follow through a typical
day of a reporter on his police
"beat" at the "station house."

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Jane Fuller, Beth Walton, "Cissy"
Jeffries, Jean Chewning, Rite
Watson, Peggy Jones, Eleanor
Davis, Mickey Beman, Margaret
Mace, Pie Ertz and Frances Wood-
all attended the game.

Hallowe'en

The goblins and ghosts were
out about the A. K. K. house Sat-
urday evening for the Hallowe'en
dance. "Puddin' " Bealer, Martha
Baker, Harding Ragland, Lucy
Turner, Eva Williams Rite Wat-
son, Dot Archer, Kittie Kay, Jet-
er and Louise Starr, Dale Ben-
nett, Hansell Cousar, and Mary
Frances Anderson, were bobbing
for apples with them.

Ruth Ryner, Betty Lee Phelps,
Mary Frances Anderson, Mary
Brown Mahon, Katherine Ann
Edelblut, Jeter Starr went to the
Hallowe'en dance at the Psi O.
House Friday night.

Tne Phi Delts at Emory had a
Hallowe'en party Saturday night
also Lilaine Harris, Peggy Gregg,
and "GeeGee" Gilliland were out
with the "spooks" for it.

"Pagie" Violette, Mary Manley,
and June Irvin attended the S. A.
E. formal banquet on Saturday
night.

Seen dancing at the Empire
Room were Betty Campbell, Inge
Probstein, and "Cissy" Jeffries
with her handsome lieutenant.
Robin Robinson, Margaret Scott,
Betty Brown, Gloria Ann Melchor
were, at the Rainbow Roof.

OUT OF TOWN ... Liz Car-
penter and Daisy Sun went
over to Augusta for the o week-
end. Lisa Marshall and Jane
Bowman visited Mary Reyonlds
in Marietta. Margaret Kelly went
to a wedding in Louisville,
Ky. Patty Dean spent the week-
end at Georgia with Mary Quigley.
Margaret Kinard was in Clemson,
S. C.

Going home for the weekend
were Betty Dennis to Montgomery,
Ala.; "Teetoe" Williams to Mar-
ietta; Cathy Carling, Beth and
Rosemary Jones to Vinings, Ga.;
Margaret Ann Richards to Colum-
bus, Ga.; Gail Stewart to Monroe,
La.; Barbara Frink and Eugenia
Jones to Genia's home in Green-
ville, S. C; Mildred Claire Jones
to Thomaston, Ga.; Emily Higgins
to Dalton, Ga.; "Mickey" Derieux
to Columbia, S. C; Laura Win-
chester to Macon; Janet Liddell
to Camden, Ala., for a wedding;
Martha Ball and Dot Chapman to
Dublin at Dot's home; Alice Gor-
don to Eastman; Millie Evans,

Lorenna Ross, Carolyn Squires to
Charlotte, N. C; Leila Holmes to
Macon; Ann Register to Fitzger-
ald; Claire Rowe to LaGrange;
Claudia Brownlee, Ann Murrell,
and Maudie Van Dyke to Claudia's
home in Anderson, S. C; Marie
Adams to Seneca, S. C; and Lois
Sullivan to Anderson, S. C.

Let's Spell

By Margaret Kinard

How's your spelling today?
Good, bad, or sort of indiffer-
ent? I can see you now after
reading that question turning
up your noses and saying,
"Spelling, why that's child's
play." I think differently. I'll
bet you'd be surprised at your-
self, and ashamed too, if you
had to spell even the simple
names of the buildings.

L How do you spell that
familiar building where we find
Dr. McCain's office and many
classrooms ?

2. What about spelling for us
the name of the little chapel in
Presser ?

3. We call it Science Hall,
but it's got another name too.
How do you spell it?

4. Our library was named in
honor of a great man. Spell its
name.

5. How about spelling the
name of the place where we
have coffees and club meetings?

6. Do you know the correct
name for the building which is
headquarters for the dean of
students ?

7. Can you spell the name of
the building in which we have
meals ?

8. What's the name of our
alumnae house?

9. Hit the jackpot and spell
the name of our gym!

Turn to page 4, column 2 for
correct answers.

_

DEKALB THEATRE

THURSDAY - FRIDAY

"Sensations of 1945"

SATURDAY

"Rosie The Riveter"
and

"Cherokee Strip"

MONDAY - TUESDAY

PHIL BAKER In
"Take It or Leave It"

WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY

"Wing and a Prayer"

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Ah, Wilderness!

Scene: Camp Civitania, Satur-
day night, October 21, 1944.

Characters: Members of the
A. A. board, chaperones, and visi-
tors.

Occasion: A. A. Board's annual
over-night camping trip.

Action: Piercing screams are
heard echoing from hill to hill.
Careful thought on the part of
campers cause them to decide
the voice of the victims are those
of some of their fellow-campers.
The small group of girls who are
doing the dishes on the back
porch rush to the rescue by send-
ing the gleam of their flash lights
to the wandering members. After
a long struggle, Kathryn Burnett
and Genet Heery appear before
Dot Hunter and rescuing staff.
The gals had pulled a Lewis and
Clark exploration stunt to find
water to be used in washing vari-
ous faces, but, unfortunately,
couldn't see well enough in the
utter darkness of the night to
find their way home.

Tech-Navy, and Steak

This escapade followed an ex-
citing afternoon of listening to
that unbelievable Tech-Navy
game. Rooters for each team were
violently present. But, as the
Sophs say, "Some gotta win, some
gotta lose," and that's just what
Miss Wilburn and Billy Walker
(of former A. A. fame) did. Billy
bet on the wrong team.

The whole camping trip was fun
for all who went. Girls learned
how dark it can be where there
are no electric lights, and how
harmonious the voices of school
mates can seem when they are
far from civilization. After a
brisk Sunday morning walk, the
campers came home a wee bit tir-
ed, but quite experienced in the
art of roughing it.

Hockey Season Starts

The first hockey games of the
year were played last Friday, with
the seniors defeating the sophs,
and the juniors winning over the
frosh. From here all the teams
look promising, and the season
should be a lively one, despite the
fact that the Friday-the-13th jinx
kept the games from starting the
week they were scheduled.

Hockey Opener

BUZZN'
BETTY

sez:

SENIORS

Position

SOPHOMORES

.Milam

right wing

Cochran

HI reins (1)

right inner

Harnsberger

Gumming (D

center forward

Goode

Munroc (Si)

left Inner

K. Johnson

Kirtley (1)

left wing

Radford

Farmer

right half

Newman

Carpenter

centjr half

Heery

Equcn

left half

Meyer

Arnold

right back

Currlo

Webb

left back

Yates

Lee

goalie

Dobbins

JUNIORS

Position

FRESHMEN

Courtenay

right wing

Plum ley

Cbewnittg

right inner

V. Andrews

S. Johnscn t"

) center forward

Hatch

Loi- ill

left inner

Dunn

Stephenson

loft wing

Davis

Katfland

right ha.f

Dieckmann

Burnett

center half

Bryant

Walker

(eft half

McLaurln

Neville

right back

Hayes

McCain

left back

Hntsiip

Phelps

goalie

Orr

ANSWERS

TO LET'S

SPELL

Faculty Bats Bacon

Although it's a deep, dark se-
cret, the faculty admits that its
annual Bacon Bat will take place
Saturday night at 6:00 in Harri-
son Hut.

Each year the faculty mem-
bers who have been on campus
for one year, are hosts to the new
faculty members. The Bacon Bat
entertainment "is a carefully
guarded secret and details are
NEVER divulged," according to
Miss Margaret Ridley, one of this
year's hostesses.

Seniors Down Sophs 6-0
Juniors Beat Frosh 8-2

In two hard-fought opening games Friday, the seniors
emerged victorious over the sophomores by an easy score,
6-0, and a new but determined freshman team bowed to the
mighty juniors, 8-2.

The seniors started their hard downfield drives toward
the game when Mary Munroe
fought through to score first, and
was quickly followed by Mary
Cumming with another goal. The
sophs were able to prevent fur-
ther scoring first half but were
unable to drive through and
threaten the senior lead. The sec-
ond half proved more exciting as
the sophs started off by getting
the fall to the 25-yard line, be-
ing awarded a free hit, and then
allowing the seniors to break in
and recover the ball. A series of
very fast plays up and down the
field followed before the seniors
were able to score again. Though
the soph defense was doing some
excellent playing, fast dribbles
down the field and quick, short
passes enabled the seniors to make
three more successive scores be-
fore the game finally ended.

In the freshmen-junior game,
the frosh started off with strong
defense playing, blocking the jun-
iors' first two efforts to score in
the opening minutes. However,
soon afterwards, Scotty Johnson
managed to score twice for the
juniors giving them an early lead
which they held throughout the
remainder of the game. Barbara
Plumley scored first for the
freshmen by capturing the ball
near the center of the field and
quickly dribbling down to the goal.
After this the juniors couldn't be
stopped and drove down to score
four more times before the half
finally ended. Playing was fast
in the second half, but due to good
defense- play by both teams, scor-
ing was slight. Scotty made the
last junior goal in the final min-
ute of the game giving them an
8-2 victory.

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Recreational Council
Plans Square Dance

Recreational Council will spon-
sor a square dance in the gym Sat-
urday night, Nov. 4, for all stu-
dents, faculty members and guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Collette of
Atlanta will call the dances and
will bring a three piece band.
Some students will don overalls
and be escorts. Price is 10 cents
stag, 20 cents drag.

The Council is represented by
Athletic Association, Christian
Association, Student Government,
Miss Carrie Scandrett, and Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn. A committee
composed of representatives from
the day students, faculty, and
boarders will plan further details.

Mickey Beman wins a free
theatre ticket to the Decatur
Theatre for this week. See
Mary Xeely Norris to get your
ticket

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8. Anna Young Alumnae House

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, G A., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944

NO. 6

Mims Lectures
Set Nov. 13-14

Edwin Mims, professor emeritus
of English at Vanderbilt Univers-
ity, known throughout the country
as a man of letters, will be on
the campus Monday and Tuesday,
Nov. 13 and 14, under the aus-
pices of the Agnes Scott English
department.

Dr. Mims will lecture Monday
night, Nov. 13, in Presser, on "Ed-
ucation, Culture, and Religion"
and in chapel the following morn-
ing he will talk on "Poetry As a
Personal Resource."

According to Professor George
P. Hayes, head of the Agnes Scott
English department, Dr. Mims is
beloved by Vanderbilt students he
has taught, even though he is fam-
ous for requiring his students to
memorize great amounts of poe-
try. Dr. Hayes commented that
in spite of this fame, Dr. Mims
has received letters from former
students, now on the fighting
fronts, who write that the myriads
of lines of poetry he required them
to memorize have been sources of
courage and endurance in difficult
situations.

Dr. Mims has been on the Agnes
Scott campus before, as a lec-
turer and as a commencement
speaker. At present he lives at
Vanderbilt and makes lecture
tours throughout the country. He
is the author of several books,
among which are "The Advancing
South," "Chancellor Kirkland of
Vanderbilt," "Sidney Lanier," and
"The South in the Building of
the Nation."

Piano Program

Hugh Hodgson will present a
two piano program in Gaines
chapel on Nov. 6, at 8:00 p. m.

date Book

Wednesday, Nov. 1 "La Traviata"
at the municipal auditorium at
8:30 p. m.

Group leaves for Atlanta Can-
teen at 6:00 p. m.
Thursday, Nov. 2 Practice for
senior Investiture 5:00-6:00 p. m.
"The Jinx from Alabama/' a
one-act play for members of
Blackfriars and guests at 7:30
p. m.

Friday, Nov. 3 A. A. chapel
Little Girls' Day
Sophomore- freshman open house
in Murphey Candler 1:00-2:00
p. m.

Hockey games at 4:00. Seniors
play freshmen and juniors play
sophomores
Saturday, Nov. 4 Senior Investi-
ture at 12:00 in Gaines chapel
Granddaughters' club picnic
Square dance in the gym at 8:00
p. m.

Sunday, Nov. 5 Agnes Scott
church service at 11:00 in
Gaines chapel

Group leaves for Law son Hos-
pital at 2:15

Monday, Nov. 6- -Music Apprecia-
tion hour in Gaines chapel at
8:00 p. m.

Tuesday, Nov. 7 Agnes Scott
night at Decatur Red Cross

WILL DURAXT

Will Durant
To Talk Here
Next Thursday

Dr. Will Durant, author, phil-
osopher and historian, will lecture
here Thursday, Nov. 9 on "What
Are the Lessons of History?" as
the first speaker brought to the
campus this year by Lecture As-
sociation.

In his lecture Dr. Durant will
discuss the light which the past
throws on present and contempor-
ary problems. He is the author
of "The Story of Philosophy,"
"Transition," "The Mansions of
Philosophy," and "Adventures in
Genius." His latest book is "Cae-
sar and Christ," the third volume
in a "History of Civilization,"
which he has been working on
for several years. Students may
get him to autograph books if
they wish.

Each student may obtain her
season ticket from the book store,
Nov. 2-9. A small surplus from
last year enables the Lecture Com-
mittee to give each student one
guest ticket which should be se-
cured at the same time as season
tickets, according to Miss Emma
May Laney, faculty advisor of the
Agnes Scott Lecture Association.

Dean to Cap
89 Seniors

Eighty-nine seniors will official-
ly receive their class standing at
Investiture, Saturday, Nov. 4, at
12:00 in Gaines chapel,' Presser
Hall. Professor George P. Hayes,
head of the English department,
will speak on liberal education.
After his address, Miss Scandrett,
dean of students, will cap each
senior. The sophomores will act
as guards of honor for their sister
class in the processional.

As part of Investiture weekend,
Dr. W. A. Smart of Emory Uni-
versity, will ' conduct the church
service here Sunday morning in
Gaines chapel at 11:00. His sub-
ject will be "The Social Debt of
Education."

Many parents and friends are
expected for the weekend. The
seniors will practice for the serv-
ice Thursday afternoon from 5:00
to 6:00 in Gaines chapel.

Yarn to Arrive
For Knitting

Knitting for the Red Cross is
under the direction of Miss Susan
Cobbs. Girls who are interested
have signed up and articles have
been assigned them for the local
Red Cross Chapter in Decatur.

Since the new quota of yarn has
not yet arrived only six pairs of
Navy gloves and two turtle neck
sweaters have been distributed
thus far,

Blackfriars Will Present
Spider Island' Nov. 22

"Spider Island," a three-act melodrama by Joseph Spalding,
will be given as Blackfriars' fall production Wednesday night,
Nov. 22, according to announcement by director Roberta
Winter.

The cast includes Jane Everett as Abbie Mayo. Jane was
seen last year in the one-act

"Women Who Wait," and in the
spring production "Cradle Song."

Peggy Willmon who will enact
the role of Salem Mayo, sister
of Abbie, was in "Shubert Alley"
last year.

LaNelle Wright will make her
initial performance in a three-act
play here as Star Mayo, niece of
Abbie and Salem. She was in "Re-
hearsal," a one-act of last year,
and the one-act "Queens of
France."

The part of Dullie, the hired
hand, will be played by Pauline
Ertz, a veteran of "Shubert Al-
ley," "Rehearsal," and "Cradle
Song."

Liz Carpenter, who will portray
Patsy, a friend of Star's, was seen
in "Shubert Alley," Cradle Song"
an "Queens of France."

Martha Polk, who will portray
Meg Crosby, an old crone, ap-
peared in "Shubert Alley."

Production staff will be announ-
ced later.

May Day Scenario Contest

Are you imaginative? Do you
have the "divine fire"? Can you
write?

The contest for scenarios to
be used for May Day begins to-
day. The deadline is Monday,
Nov. 27. Scenarios can be turn-
ed in to Jane Everett, chairman,
or to any other member of the
"May Day committee.

In the library there will be
an exhibit of scenarios used in
previous years, which will be
helpful. They will be on display
from Oct. 30 to Nov. 11, and pos-
sibly longer.

Kiddies Caper Before Capping;
But Tots' Tantrums Toned Down

By Helen Currie

"London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down.
My fair lady."

No, it's not the Decatur kindergarten on a visit to the cam-
pus, it's the distinguished class of '45 celebrating Little Girls'
Day. Friday morning, following an old tradition, seniors will
braid their hair and dress as little girls (though doubtless a
few Tom Sawyers will turn up) for one final frolic before
being capped at Investiture Satur-
day. While other classes attend
chapel, the seniors will sing and
play games on the quadrangle with
dignified members of the faculty.
Features of other years have been
an early-morning costume parade
through the dormitories, and sing-
ing in the dining room.

Little Girls' Day has been cele-
brated on campus for more than

thirty years. Doing a little re-
search work, we found one alum-
na, class of 1913, who said she
thought that it was her class which
originated the custom. At that
time, class rivalry was much more
intense than it is now, and it was
considered a cute trick if the jun-
iors and freshmen could steal the
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Can Smashing
Schedule Told

War Council's conservation com-
mittee has outlined plans for tin
can smashing again this year. Each
wing of every dormitory or each
cottage is responsible for can
smashing one week in the school
year.

Present schedules, which be-
gan to operate on Oct. 14 with
2nd floor Main are as follows:
Main 3 west wing, Oct. 30;
east wing;. Nov. 6; Main 4
west wing:, Nov. 13; east wing,
Nov. :30; Gaines Cottage, the
week of Nov. 27.

Plans for the Winter quarter
are: Rebekah 2 west wing,
Jan. 8; east w ing, Jan. 15; south
wing, Feb. 12. The north wing
of White House smashes on the
week of Feb. 19; south wing,
Feb. 26; Lupton Cottage, Mar.
5.

Freshmen will smash eans
during the vSpring quarter. In-
man 1, north wing has the week
of Mar. 26; south wing, Apr. 2.
Inman 2 north wing, Apr. 9;
south wing, Apr. 16. Inman 3
north wing, Apr. 23; south
wing, Apr. 30. On May 7 Boyd
Cottage, 1st floor is scheduled;
May 14, Boyd, 2nd.
War Council appoints one per-
son on each wing to be responsible
for scheduling the girls on her
wing for the week. Can smashers
will work during the afternoons
from Monday through Saturday.
Instructions for operating mech-
anical can-opener and for can
smashing are posted in the base-
ment of Murphey Candler.

Faculty members will smash
cans during examination weeks.

Get your season lecture tick-
ets in the bookstore before the
lirvt lec ture, Nov. 9.

Council Plans
Square Dance

Whether you prefer the Virginia
Reel or the Bird Cage pattern, you
can do the step at the Recrea-
tional Council's square dance Sat-
urday night. According to Mary
Russell, the dance will be in the
gym and will start promptly at
8:00 p. m. It will be for all stu-
dents, faculty members, and
guests, including men from Tech
and Emory.

Admission will be ten cents and
they promise you your money's
worth. A three piece band will
furnish the music and Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Collette of Atlanta will
call the dances and teach the new
steps.

22 Lower House
Members Meet,
Plon for Year

With 22 members present, the
first meeting of lower house was
held Oct. 25, to plan for the com-
ing year, according to Helen Rop-
er, chairman.

Lower house's duties will include
supervising the student coopera-
tive plan for answering the tele-
phones in the dormitories, helping
Mortar Board collect books for
the reading room in Rebekah
Scott, making plans for the use
of the back bulletin board in But-
trick, the mimeographing and
sewing machines, the book store,
helping Mrs. Smith, arranging
chapel seating, and appointing fire
watchers. These duties were out-
lined at the meeting Wednesday
night.

The members of lower house for
the coming year are: Ruth Ander-
son, Dale Bennett, Helen Currie,
Sister Davis, Pat Felton, Jean
Fuller, Nancy Haislip, Jeanne
Hale, Agnes Harnsberger, June Ir-
vine, Leonora Jesperson, Peggy
Jones, Rosemary Jones, Roberta
MacLagan, Betty Mann, Louise
McLaurin;

Annette Neville, Peg Perez, Su-
san Richardson, Doris Smith, Hel-
ga Stixrud, Daisy Sundy, Mary
Cumming, Pat Elam, Bitty King.
Jean Stewart, Bess Shepherd,
Claire Rowe, Lib Farmer, Molly
Milam, and Martha Whatley
Yates.

The class lower house day stu-
dent representatives are: Fresh-
man, Margaret Yancey; sopho-
more, Gisela Meyer; junior, Irene
Jacob, and senior, Sylvia Carter.

Miss Cobbs to Speak

Miss Susan Cobbs will lead a
discussion on "The Good Life"
after vespers this Sunday at
7:00 p. m.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
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Gilleland, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lldie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson. Mary
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ROOSEVELT

Of the two candidates running for the nation's highest of-
fice, the obvious man for the Presidency is Franklin Roosevelt.

Much has been said by the Republican party about the
"indispensable man." This phrase has been originated and
publicized by the G. O. P., not by the Democrats. The Demo-
crats do not believe there is an indispensible man. As Ameri-
cans, living in a nation which traditionally admires the story
of "the home town boy making good," the Democratic party
encourages political aspirants if they have anything to con-
tribute to the advancement and welfare of our country. After
the war, there will never be a repetition of the third and
fourth terms, either by the Democrats or Republicans. After
the war, the Democrats will offer another candidate. But the
important thing today is winning the war and peace, and
President Roosevelt is the man to do it.

What does Roosevelt have to offer? He has the record of
past accomplishments. He has the indisputable record of the
financial crisis of 1932, and his solution of the problem. He
has the W. P. A. to his credit. There has been much criticism
of this organization, but it cannot be denied that it took many
of the men off the streets, where they had gone during the
Hoover administration of '29 and '33.

A complete list of the accomplishments of the past twelve
years would be too long to name here, but to mention a few
the good neighbor policy; social security for old age; a draft
which was bitterly opposed by the Republican isolationists;
the development of the world's largest Navy and Air Corps;
a working basis for post-war relations with Russia, China,
and England; the help given to the "little people," who are
the backbone of America's strength; Lend-Lease and interna-
tional trade agreements; the development and passage of the
-'G. I. Bill of Rights."

The list is long, and incomplete, not forgetting banking
insurance, which guarantees return of all money deposited;
the Civilian Conservation Corps, which not only reforested
our country, but also rehabilitated the eroded soil and trained
thousands of young boys who might otherwise have wound
up in the penitentiary; the FHA and the HOLC, which gave
the lower and middle classes a chance to own their farms or
homes; and the great TVA project, which brought electricity
to thousands of back country farms, which reclaimed the lands
to the west, which eliminated the dread Dust Bowl, which
produced electric power at low cost, which made it possible
to construct and maintain numerous war plants, helping to
shorten the war.

How can such a record be denied? How can anyone deny
that even though the taxes have been high, the results have
been a happier and more prosperous nation, and the victorious
management of the most awesome war in history?

And in contrast to this record, what do the Republicans
have to offer? They have an inexperienced man who, although
a good governor, can hardly fill the President's chair. He has
no definite plans, and the future would indeed be dark if our
next President were a man who had such little regard for the
truth, as evidenced by his habit of taking a sentence or part
of a sentence from a speech by the President, and attaching
to it anv meaning which might benefit the Republican pur-
pose.

Martha Whatley Yates.

DEWEY

Thomas E. Dewey should be supported for election to the
Presidency of the United States because he is capable of
keeping unity within the nation and making a lasting world
peace.

The latest manifestation that he considers foreign affairs
above partisanship comes in the report that if elected he hopes
to retain the services of Secretary Cordell Hull, either as head
of the State Department or as a consultant. In his speech of
Oct. 19 Dewey's statement, "We must keep our unity at
home bright and fresh for the great tasks ahead. . . . With that
unity we can give leadership in bringing lasting peace to a
stricken world." shows that he realizes that the United
States must play a large part in the peace and that he is plan-
ning for that.

Dewey's plan for keeping unity at home bright and fresh
consists of two main features, private enterprise and a com-
plete overhaul of the federal tax system. Concerning the
former he stated:

"When, and if, in case of national necessity, there are public
works which may properly be the province of both federal
and state or local governments, then grants in aid should be
made by the federal government to states or through them,
to their local governments, without conditions which invade
the authority of state or local government."

His tax revisions are:

L Revision of personal income tax exemptions "so that
the man who makes as little as $11 a week no longer has an
income tax taken out of his pay envelope"

2. Reduction of personal income tax rates.

3. Revision and lowering of the income levy on corpora-
tions "until it no longer acts as a drag upon production and
a barrier to jobs," with attendant elimination of "special war-
time taxes which now rise to 85 per cent."

4. Elimination "as soon as possible of excise taxes, except
those on alcoholic beverages, tobacco and gasoline."

5. Complete overhaul of "existing, confused and compli-
cated tax laws" and the creation of a "basic tax law which can
be expected to remain simple and generally stable."

6. Establishment of a "consistent national tax policy one
directed toward achieving full employment and a rising na-
tional income."

Dewey deserves your support because he is advocating a
government of the people, for the people and by the people.
Dewey will not keep all the reins in his own hands and try
to get something done through a multiplication of agencies
with conflicting powers and a division of duties among many
men. Dewey will not include personal favorites and ap-
pointees who have neither experience nor talent to qualify
them for the tasks.

Support Dewey for unity at home and for a lasting world
peace. Support Dewey for democracy!

"ane Bowman.

Nov. 7, 1944

The Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. It's an
important day in the lives of
all Americans. Falling this
year on Nov. 7, Election Day
for the United States presi-
dency is of vital concern to
each and every one of us.

Out of a school population
of 535 students, there are 295
Georgians, who, as 18 or older
(excepting the youngest of
the freshmen), have the priv-
ilege of voting.

Although students at a col-
lege for women, do we realize
the struggle American women
put up to get the vote? Let us
look at the facts.

In 1848 the first woman's
suffrage convention demand-
ed the ballot, basing their
claims on the Declaration of
Independence. The extension
of the franchise of the negroes
led to renewed demands in
behalf of women. In 1866 the
first petition demanding na-
tional suffrage for women was
sent to congress, and in 1868
the New England Women's
Suffrage Association was
formed. From then on the
movement was a slow, gradual
one. During the presidential
campaign of 1916, both candi-
dates declared for women
suffrage. Wilson, later, as
President, sup pko r t e d the
movement for federal grant of
suffrage, and in 1919 congress
sent out to the states an equal
suffrage amendment which
within the year was ratified
by 22 states.

It is interesting to know
that Georgia was one of the
eight southern states which
refused ratification, until the
19th amendment to the con-
stitution overcame all oppo-
sition.

With that kind of a fight be-
hind us, we haven't the right
to call ourselves good citizens
if we don't exercise our vote.
Women, particularly, are in-
clined to take the attitude that
one vote more or less doesn't
matter but millions of wom-
en thinking the same way DO
matter.

About 11,000,000 independ-
ent voters are said to hold the
balance of power in this coun-
try. Read the political articles
elsewhere on this page and do
some good, hard independent
thinking. Then, let all 295 of
you from Georgia, 18 or over,
proudly stride to the polls
Nov. 7 and cast your vote for
democracy.

BLOOD DONORS
Ann Webb
Margret Trotter
Rath Gray
Conradlne Fiaser
Alice Gordon
Katherine Ormvake
Total sold in stamp*, $36.70.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944

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Defense of Childhood

At a senior class meeting Friday the seniors took a vote
on whether to have Little Girls' Day or not.

It was quite a surprise to one-half of the senior class to see
almost the other half vote not to have it. By a very small
majority it was decided to continue the tradition.

The reasons for not having Little Girls' Day seemed to be:

1. It's too much trouble and expense.

2. We act like children all the tune, so why have one day
set aside for it?

3. Since we have to behave in class this year, what fun
would it be?

4. We want to dress like tomboys.

In answer to these feeble reasons, I would first like to re-
mind those dissenters that our class is the deciding factor
between having the traditional Little Girls' Day, which was
started long before any of us ever entered the halls of Agnes
Scott, and ending it for all time. Besides thinking of our-
selves, we have the future senior classes in mind. And in a
moment of spite the whole tradition could be ended.

1. It is not too much trouble or expense for any one of us
to hem up a dress to wear for one morning.-

2. It is perfectly obvious that there is a slight difference
between Kady MacGregor and the average senior.

3. The faculty has every reason to require class behavior.
Plenty of fun can be had before classes and during chapel
time. Furthermore, don't you think the sportsmanship of
the seniors is better than to abolish Little Girls' Day simply
because we are asked to behave in class?

4. There have been tomboys in the past. Last year Elise
Tilghman was dressed as "Pistol Packin' Papa" and Jo Young
was a little fisher boy. The little girls were very happy to
have them, and this year we shall be even happier. (Men are
so scarce.)

Of course every senior is not required to dress as children
on that day. But it would be more fun for everyone if the
whole class turned out for a final fling!

Kid Day Nice and Peaceful

It Is Unfair

When chapel speakers talk overtime, it is unfair to teachers
who have to plan their class time accordingly, and yet it is
unfair to students who are marked absent or tardy. If you
have run from chapel in Presser up to third floor Science
Hall, only to be counted late, or to find the professor not
there, you know that the time has come to do something
about the situation.

Steps have already been taken to prevent prolonged stu-
dent meetings. Occasionally speakers and programs finish
several minutes after the bell rings. It is true that by the end
of the year these minutes mount to hours, all deducted from
the same third-period classes. But we ask, are we expected
to sit on the back row in chapel and exit immediately at the
sound of the bell? We cannot bring ourselves to do this. Or
are we expected to stay away from chapel, as freshmen with-
out cuts were forced to do last year to keep their grades from
being lowered two-thirds of a letter for every three tardies?

In all due fairness to the teachers who rightly object to
constant interruptions by tardy students, we welcome any
suggestions for overcoming this difficulty. Until a better
plan is named, we advocate a less rigid policy, successfully
used by several departments. We hope that the faculty con-
cerned may reach an agreement with their classes to begin
work within a reasonable time after chapel ends, whether
that time is 10:55 or 11:05.

A TRIBUTE

Mrs. F. H. Gaines, wife of the first president of
Agnes Scott, is dead. Her death marks the end of
a life of service to the college and to her church.
Dr. Gaines was the founder of Agnes Scott as a
college for young women and acted as president
for many years. He was pastor of the Decatur
Presbyterian church.

Although Mrs. Gaines was an invalid at the last,
and the present student body never knew her, we
can see the growth of the college and appreciate
the things for which she stood.

A BoycTs-Eye View

of Pat t lam

By Jeanne Addison

"Nothing interesting ever happens to me," moans Mary
Patterson Elam, commonly known as Eor (as in Pooh) on
account of her misanthropic propensities and perverted sense
of humor. Ah, yes, life must be boring with nothing but
science labs and newspaper snooping to occupy her time.

Speaking of science labs, Pat

got so intrigued by her milk analy-
sis for advanced quan. that she
has decided to repeat the experi-
ment for more intensive study.
And speaking of newspaper snoop-
ing, Miss Elam has at least one
libel suit on her hands for saying
that the plaid-shirted party that
walked past the Pig last Sunday
took a streetcar on Peachtree.

Mary Patterson is a very de-
termined sort of person, and be-
fore she came to Agnes Scott, she
specified the room she was going
to occupy in Inman. It so hap-
pened that Jean Hood specified
the same room, so they stayed
together to settle the argument
and have been together ever since.

A very versatile person, Pat's
favorite subjects are freshman
biology, freshman math, and gym
a fact which may or may not in-
dicate a slightly juvenile turn of
mind. She is famous for being on
Honor Roll, Who's Who, and sec-
ond Main as house president. And
her literary accomplishments are
not limited to her much-quoted
column. She is also co-author of a
well known account of experiences
in Kiingsport one memorable sum-
mer. Ah yes, it's a dull life.

We feel we should add that
Pat is said to have a tender, love-
ly soul underneath the rest and
has been known to be kind to the
very young. She was as surprised

Hi, Aggie, have you read the
ads this week? Maybe you
have won a free theatre ticket.
Read the name among the ads.
You might be the lucky winner.

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

as Leila last week to find out that
our column wasn't on her, and so
we have hastened to correct the
omission. We hope the delay didn't
hurt too much, Pat.

Kiddies Caper
Before Capping

(Continued from Page 1)

investiture robes and caps, forc-
ing a postponement. The class of
1913 was the first to invite out-
siders to the ceremony, thus end-
ing the robe-stealing.

Just where the idea of Little
Girls' Day came from nobody
knows. It "just growed," in that
year. Since it was an impromptu
affair, there was none of the elab-
orate preparation found now. The
girls wore simple gingham dresses
and undid their heavy braids, let-
ting their hair hang loose down
their backs, as children did then.

Scenes have changed since that
time, but Little Girls' Day has
become a regular Agnes Scott
tradition. So the seniors will
make merry for the last time on
Friday, and perhaps there will be
a touch of regret for their child-
hood days gone with the coming
of their senior dignity.

GILL BROS.

DRY CLEANERS

Still the Finest
126 Clairmont Ave. DE. 4476

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

(with apologies to Swift and
Defoe).

We have been talking to many
friends, who, like us, are great
dog-haters. The dog situation on
this campus is deplorable, to say
the least, and we think that some-
thing must be done about it. Ever
since the days, as a child, when
we used to tie tin cans to the
tails of dogs, we have been in-
furiated at the sight of a dog. Es-
pecially were we maddened at the
sight of a particularly friendly
brown-and-white dog who had the
audacity to enter this campus. We
were delighted at the news that
he was to come to a speedy end,
and rejoiced in the shot that re-
sounded through the campus. Af-
ter a moment of reflection, how-
ever, we realized the folly of shoot-
ing a dog a bullet must not be
wasted we thought, the next dog
must be beaten to death. And to
our great happiness, the next dog,
a vicious two-pound little animal,
was beaten to death. Oh, happy
day!

Now here is our proposal for
solving the problem: Each stu-
dent should be armed with a
large sack of stones and a stick,
to pelt and beat stray dogs, for
purposes of protection and re-
venge. We must warn all of you
not to do as two very unwise stu-
dents did: phone the humane so-
ciety. This society will find homes
for the dogs, which would certain-
ly defeat our purpose. We are
sure that if these instructions are
followed, the problem will be solv-
ed, and no one can accuse us of
believing in the stupid maxim:
"Dog is man's best friend."
Shirley Graves and Daisy Sundy
(Editor's note: Orders from
high authority forced the kill-
ing of these dogs.)

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Hallowe'en has provided a festive theme for parties the
last few weeks. The senior class at Columbia Seminary enter-
tained the juniors at a formal Hallowe'en banquet Friday
night. Hottentots there were Louise Hoyt, Virginia Dickson,
Mildred McCain, Tinkem Iverson, Kitten Philips, Peggy
Pat Home, Nellie Scott, Martha

Thomson, and Anne Jackson who
was lovely in sophisticated blue
and black formal.

At the Phi Chi Hallowe'en
house dance at Emory Saturday
night were Betty Campbell, Scott
Newell, Helen Paty, Dot Archer,
Martha Ball and Margaret Mc-
Manus.

Nancy Haislip, Betsy Brower,
Jean Bellingrath, Betty Jean
Brown, Betty Abernathy, Barbara
Blair, Lida Walker, Jo Faulls,
"Rusty" Raefield, Betty Dennis,
Grace Durant and Jackie Stewart
went to 1he Phi Gamma Delta
Hallowe'en party at Tech Tues-
day night.

Dancing at the Zip Masquerade
Saturday night were "Gypsy" K.
A. Edelblut, Lu Cuningham, Dot
DeVane, Charlene Simms, Lanie
Harris, Helen Owen in a Chinese
mandarin coat, Mary Brown Ma-
hon, Betty Mann, June Thomason,
Mary McCalla, Ann Hough, Jeter
and Louise Starr and their visitor,
Alice Ann Davis from the Univers-
ity of Georgia.

Around Town

At the Tech-Georgia Navy Pre-
Flight game Friday night, Beth
Walton, Harding Ragland, Lor-
enna Ross, Caroline Squires, Bit-
ty King, Barbara Frink, Ann
Equen, Dale Bennett, Sue Hut-
chens and June Thomason. . . .
Ask Puddin and Ruth about
those cute cheer-leaders they dat-
ed.

Saturday at the Georgia-L. S.
U. game . . . Harding Ragland,
Bunch Beaver, Kitten Philips, Dale

Bennett, June Thomason, Susie
Watkins, Jane Everett, and Jane's
visitor, Ginnie Dempsey, of Macon,
Nellie Scott, and Carolyn Bodie.

Dancing at the Empire. Room
. . . Peggy Jones, Inge Probstein,
Pie Ertz and Dotty Kahn. At the
Rainbow Roof . . . Lib Woodward,
Frances Brougher, Hansell Cousar,
Alice Gordon. At the Paradise
Room . . . Lorenna Ross, Caroline
Squires, Jean Chewning, \ Mary
Jane Fuller.

"Merry Widow" matinee . . .
Anne Hough, Mary McCalla, Hilda
Taber, Mary Ann Gaunt, Janet
Liddell. . . . Scotty Johnson went
to the evening performance after
supper at the Fort McPherson Of-
ficers Club.

Bunch Beaver went home to
Gainesville; Sara Walker to Char-
lotte, N. C; Gene Goode to Au-
gusta; Martha Baker to Macon;
Isabel Asbury to Greenville; Claire
Rowe to LaGrange; Nancy Hardy
to Augusta; Martha Polk and
Doris Purcell to Martha's home
in Thomaston; Geva Harper and
Marjorie Harris to Marjorie's
home in Waycross; Margaret Scott
to Rome; Eleanor Davis to West
Point; Ruth Ryner to Vienna;
Carolyn Bodie and Louise Reid
to Carolyn's home in Forest City,
N. C; Valeria Brown to Fort Val-
ley; Punkie Mattison to Ander-
son; Chris Yates to Augusta, and
Marie Adams to Seneca, S. C, and
Eugenia Jones, Emily Higgins and
Ceevah Rosenthal to Ceevah's
home in Lynchburg, Va., Anabel
Bickford to Clayton.

Sophs Win First
Swimming Meet

First place in the initial swim-
ming meet of the year was taken
by the sophomores last Thursday
with 16 points. The seniors ran
second with 28 points and the
freshmen and juniors tied for third
place with 25 points each.

The meeting began wth a form-
ation swimming demonstration by
the new members of swimming
club as a sort of "initiation."

The first real event of the meet
was a 20-yard dash freestyle which
Janet Liddell, sophomore, won in
12 1/5 seconds; Liz Carpenter and
Dot Hunter, seniors, placed sec-
ond with a time of 12 2/5 sec-
onds; Margaret Scott, junior, was
third with 13 seconds.

Form swimming followed with
Beth Walton, soph, placing first in
sidestroke; Ann Sproesser, fresh-
man, second; and Betty Andrews,
soph, third.

Beth Walton also won first
place in \hv breast stroke with
Dotty Kahn, senior, and Cooky
Miller, freshman, placing second,
and Betty Andrews, winning third
place.

Front crawl for form was won
by Liliane Harris, soph, Margaret
Scott and Bettye Lee Phelps, jun-
iors, placed second and third, re-
spectively.

Dale Bennett, soph, won the
back crawl for form with Dotty
Kahn. second, and Sally Sue Ste-
phenson, junior, third.

Bettye Lee Phelps and Jenny
Wren, freshmen, tied for first
place in surface diving, with Ruth
(Cen t, on p. 6)

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Faculty Frolics
At Bacon Bat

Club Will Honor 'Sophs Entertain

Members at Picnic

A picnic in honor of new mem-
bers of Granddaughter's Club will
be on Nov. 4. Dates will be pro-
vided for the girls. Also plans are
being made for a social meeting
of the club for a time near
Thanksgiving.

The 18 new members of the club
are Jane Barker, Jean Bellingrath,
Flora Bryant, Valeria Brown, Sal-
ly Bussey, Anne Burckhardt,
Julia Ann Coleman, Grace Dur-
ant, Adele Dieckmann, Elizabeth
Dunn, Janet Van de Erve, Mar-
tha Hay, Lady Major, Mary Man-
ley, Anne Treadwell, Virginia Ty-
ler, Anne Tyler, Bobby Whipple.

Granddaughter's Club has plan-
ned a varied schedule of socials
and activities for the fall quar-
ter. Members are helping at the
Red Cross by rolling bandages.

Frosh at Teas

Sophomore-Freshman teas spon-
sored by the sophomores are to
be held every other Friday in Mur-
phey Candler from 1:00 until 2:00.

These open houses will promote
better relations between the two
classes and give the day students
and boarders an opportunity to
get acquainted. Jane Meadows,
president of the sophomore class,
is in charge of the teas. All fresh-
men and sophomores are urged to
attend these gatherings.

The club is keeping the Alumnae
gardens free of weeds. On Alum-
nae Day some of the girls will reg-
ister the alumnae; others will en-
tertain the children from 4:30 un-
til 7:30 p. m. and will take them
to supper.

The annual faculty bacon bat
Saturday night, Oct. 28, at Harri-
son was a hilarious affair. As the
students may know, this is an
informal get-together of faculty
families given by those who were
new at Agnes Scott last year in
special honor of this year's new
members.

Autumn leaves adorned the
grounds at Harrison Hut where
the faculty gathered for food and
fun. Mr. Lowrance presided be-
hind one of the tables attired in
a chef's cap and apron, and Mr.
Posey with a hat on the back of
his head amused everyone as he
ran around passing peanuts. The
hosts were not the only ones pro-
viding entertainment, for Mr.
Christian appeared in a bright red
sweater, and Mr. Runyon was
wearing a brilliant red plaid tie.
Mr. Hayes got himself into a piti-
ful position when he took a plate
full of food in one hand, a cup
of coffee in the other hand, and
put a glass of water under an arm.
He couldn't eat, in fact he could
hardly move. He stood there be-
wildered until Anne Ward rescued
him by holding'his coffee while he
ate.

Probably the funniest sight at
the bacon bat was Mr. Hayes
climbing on the top of the outdoor
chimney like a Santa Claus and
auctioning off the food that was
left over. Mr. Posey and Miss
Winter vied with each other for
the pies, and Mr. Runyon got so
many scalloped potatoes that he'll *
be eating them for a week.

RICH'S

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944

Page 5

Alumnae Session
Open to Students

The afternoon session of Alum-
nae Day, Nov. 9, is being held
in Maclean auditorium to accomo-
date as many of the entire college
community as will attend, accord-
ing to Miss Eugenia Symms, alum-
nae secretary. Miss Emily Wood-
ward, director! of the Georgia
Public Forum, will speak at 4:30
on her recent visit to Britain, and
there will be a special registra-
tion for students attending this
lecture. The program chairman
is Mrs. Oscar Palmer, mother of
Mary Louise Palmer, '42.

DEKALB THEATRE

WED.-THURS.. NOV. I, 2
SATURDAY
Don Ameche in

"Wing and a Prayer" ^

FRIDAY, NOV. 3
Louise Allbritton in
"Her Primitive Man"

SATURDAY, NOV. 4

"The Hairy Ape**
and

"Prairie Chickens"

MON.-TUES.-WED., NOV. 8. 7. 8
Irene Dunne Roddy McDowell in
"The White Cliffs of Dover'*

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Week Beginning November
1st (Wednesday)

WEDNESDAY
Kay Kyser and His Orchestra in
"Around the World*'

THURSDAY AND FRIDA i
John Wayne - Susan Hayward in
"The Fighting: Seabees"

SATURDAY

"Range Law"
and

"Minesweeper"

MONDAY and TUESDAY
Betty Grable - Charlie Spivak and
Orchestra in
"Pin Up Girl"

Rejuvenation!

A change h-as been wrought!

Yes, after all these years the
Day Student Room in Main is be-
ing redecorated and you wouldn't
know the old place.

The D. S. R. (as it is known to
the "old " day students) is the
eternai "hangout" of all true-blue
day students and is at last receiv-
ing recognition as a place of dis-
tinction.

Last year the room was painted
a fresh, clean cream color and a
water fountain was installed. Dur-
ing the summer the once red
chairs were reupholstered in
green. Thanks to Martha Whatley
Yates, Louise Cantrell, and Mr.
Thomas a separate alcove was
made of the lockers, whose olive
drab will soon become creamy
white.

Drapes are in process of being
made and "after the war" the floor
will be carpeted. Mr. Thomas is
going to donate a painting to add
a spot of color over the fireplace.
The rejuvenation is under the di-
rection of Day Student Represen-
tative, Martha Whatley Yates.

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

Puddin' Bealer wins a free thea-
tre ticket this week. See Mary
Neely Norris.

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

Who's the Girl

. . . wearing an ascot peplum-zvise?

. . . with- the pigskin bag?

. . . in those lozu-heel classic shoes?

She's the smart young woman whose fashion sense
and classic good taste guide her to Muse's fourth
floor of fashion accessories!

The Style Center of the South

!

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

A Penny Saved

H. Owen has been saving for
a rainy day and last week it came.
She spent all her Christmas sav-
ings on a phone call. No, it wasn't
a transcontinental call. Her care-
fully saved hoard amounted to
fifty-three cents, which she was
getting changed into "big money"
in the Dean's Office.

Beauty Section

The "Silhouette" will have to
add many pages to its beauty sec-
tion judging from the nominations
in chapel last Thursday. Nomina-
tions from the floor kept rolling
in and the crowd of nominees
standing on exhibition down in
front grew larger and larger. Fin-
ally the few left seated felt quite
conspicuous, sitting in solitude
while the crowd in front looked
at them.

Wrong- Number

Ruth Gray really had one Tech
student fooled. She was on switch-
board when he called, and, instead
of the usual, "Agnes Scott," an-
swered, "Emory." She was switch-
board operator there this summer.
Bug Collector's Paradise

Anyone needing to complete a
collection of insects need only vol-
unteer to smash cans. Two smash-
ers who unfortunately were not
seeking insects found several doz-
en bees which had overindulged
in pineapple preserves, a cock-
roach which was lurking in as-
paragus, and a spider which was
strolling around in English peas.
Quote

Weary biology student toiling
from the basement to the third
floor! "Every time I climb these
steps I wish they had put in an
elevator for Miss MacDougall's
sake."

Return to Childhood

On Friday the class of '45 will
don hair ribbons and carry teddy
bears, reverting to the carefree
days of childhood. As they have
been told that they must be good
girls or Santa won't come to see
them, activity will be confined to
the quadrangle. No biscuits will
be thrown and classes will be
conducted with their usual seren-
ity. As blue jeans and plaid skirts
are so prevalent there will be more

Copy Editor Recounts Joys
And Woes of Proofreading

By Martha Baker

I hope they don't notice I'm not
proof reading. I'm going to sit over
here in the corner and let them
spell tonight. Anyhoo, feature me
trying to pose as a dictionary.
That's a laugh. My mama flunked
an 18th century prose course on
"account of spelling," so she says,
and my daddy's not much better.
Now how can I be a natural-born
proofreader ?

When Leila asked me to be
"copy editor," I jumped at the
chance. Now, I thought malicious-
ly, I'll get to see the copy first.
But that's not the only distinc-
tive advantage I enjoy. I always
have a legitimate excuse to dash
to Decatur any time on Mondays
and Tuesdays and never feel a
qualm of conscience.

For you see those two days are
"D" (Dash) Day for me. I start
out at 8:30, intending to leave
in time to make it to Decatur and
back before my 9:00 class. In-
variably I end up sprinting in to
the printers in five minutes, leav-

little boys than girls. Imagine!
Auction

Fresh fried potatoes were auc-
tioned from Dante's Inferno last
Saturday night. Auctioneer was
Mr. Hayes and the scene was the
faculty Bacon Bat. The Inferno
was the outdoor fireplace in back
of Harrison Hut, upon which the
auctioneer mounted to chant his
wares. Just how successful the
sale was is not known.

Arrow Escapes

Archery has never been thought
of as being a dangerous sport as
long as one stays at the feathered
end of the arrow, but several ac-
cidents which the present archery
class has undergone disprove this
belief. One archer shot a lens out
of her glasses. And it rode the
arrow halfway down the field be-
fore falling off. Another shot off
part of her sweater with a fra-
ternity pin attached. Most un-
fortunate of all was the girl who
shot an arrow through the ker-
chief around her neck. The ar-
row kept on going and the general
feeling was that of being hung.

'Clothes don't have to be New to be

Smart, They Do Have to Be Clean"

GOLD SHIELD

LAUNDERERS - CLEANERS

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

DECATUR, GA.

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nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

ing three and a half minutes to
make it back.

Now, they know me well enuff
to clear the way as I lope through
the office. The New Era staff
doesn't even look up as I drop
half the copy and try breathlessly
to say "good morning" all in one
gasp to everyone.

By noontime, I'm back again,
bringing more copy and pausing
long enough to enjoy the pungent
smell of black printer's ink . . . the
clanking of the linotypes as they
"spit out" the sizzling lead sen-
tences.

Many days I encounter the
friendly wrath of "Mr. Mac," head
boss man for me and also manag-
ing editor of the New Era. He-
gets me for any number of things.
But I never make any mistakes
bigger than forgetting; to bring
half the copy or being totally ig-
norant of just what is going to be
in the paper for that particular
issue. He never misses telling me
of the Spotlight, the Druid Hills
High School paper staff, who have
just put out an eight-page issue.
Promptly my ego deflates and the
glory of our last six-page paper
dies.

Tuesday afternoons, I tag along
with the News staff back to the
printers and camp in the compos-
ing room. There we struggle al-
ternately between reading up-side
down lead plates and writing "fill-
ers." At dusk, we straggle home,
bleary-eyed, and proof-read our
textbooks from force of habit.

Since I seem to be a believer in
"confession is good for the soul,"
I'll confess I'm the one the re-
porters blame for mangling their
copy. I'm the one who lets such
things as "Tabby's kisposition"
pass unnoticed 'til a more diligent
eye than mine notices it should
be "Tabby's dispostion."

Thinking of nothing redeeming I
can say for myself, I'll probably
follow the way of other wayward
proofreaders and commit "jour-
nalistic hari-kiri" by falling on a
copy hook some one of these
Tuesdays.

Photo Show Opens
At Atlanta M useum

The sixth annual Atlanta Na-
tional Salon of Photography will
be held at the High Museum Nov.
1-15. There will be on exhibition
340 pictures by well-known pic-
torialists throughout the United
States, and from Mexico, Canada,
Brazil, Portugal, England, Scot-
land, India and the Belgian Con-
go. Leonard Rosinger is chair-
man of the Atlanta salon and Mrs.
Janet Weston Phillips - and Mrs.
Mary Ruth Bird are on the com-
mittee. Atlantians whose work will
be on exhibit in this collection are
Leonid Skvirsky, A. R. P. S., J.
Hickson Kinsella and Irwin Mc-
Coy.

:FOOTE AND DAVIES:

Announces its new
! College Annual Department \

250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor- <
dially invited to visit the con

1 venient and comfortable work- <
ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

Page 6

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 144

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

The newest sports club on the
campus rates publicity somewhere,
so we'll begin this column with
it. It is the archery club which
Kathryn Burnett, archery man-
ager, has been organizing for the
past week or two. Automatic mem-
bers of the club are those girls
who have participated in the inter-
collegiate tournament, which Ag-
nes Scott takes part in each year.

Archery Try-outs

Tryouts were held for those in-
terested in archery, and the girls
who succeeded and became mem-
bers are Barbara Kincaid, Ann
Wheeler, Betty Turner, Susan
Daugherty, Ann Johnson, Virginia
Tucker, Ann Hough, Carroll Tay-
lor, Bonnie Hope, and June Thom-
ason. There are 20 members in
all, now and they have elected
Mrs. Lapp as their sponsor.

There was plenty of good play-
ing on all sides on the hockey
field last Friday when the seniors
bowed before the juniors, and the
sophs defeated the frosh. On the
whole, there seemed to be improve-
ment in the playing over last
week's games.

There are rumors that A. A.
Board has decided "it's time for
a change," and that they are plan-
ning to do over the walls of the
board room and promise to fix the
room so that it's best friend would
not recognize it.

The class managers of archery,
golf, and swimming are to meet
with A. A. Board next Monday
night to discuss plans and im-
provements in their games.

Skating Club

Another club is about to be
started on the campus. It's a
skating club which Scotty John-
son is beginning to organize. Pe-

Swimming Meet

(Continued from Page 4)

Richardson, freshman, placing
second. Sally Sue Stephenson was
third.

Betty Andrews and Molly Mil-
am, seniors, tied for first place in
the back crawl 20-yard dash; Dale
Bennett finished second, and Jane
Coughlin, junior, was third.

The diving featured three stand-
ard dives and one optional. Molly
Milam won first place for the sen-
ior class with a swan, back, jack
and a front flip.

A front, back, jack and back
flip were offered by Cooky Miller
and Jenny Wren who placed sec-
ond and third, respectively, for the
freshmen.

Anyone walking in on the meet
at this point would have been
quite overcome by the sight of
the swimmers kicking furiously up
the pool reading newspapers. This
final event, a newspaper relay,
purely for fun, was won by the
sophomores with the juniors close
behind.

Mrs. Vogel. of Atlanta, Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn. and Mrs. Har-
riet te Lapp were the judges for
the meet, and Miss Gaylord and
Dot Spragens kept score.

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

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112 and 114 Ponce d> Leon Ave.

Juniors Defeat Seniors, 5-2;
Sophomores Down Frosh, 3-0

Driving consistently down the field Friday, the juniors de-
feated the seniors, 5-2, and the sophomores shaded out the
frosh. 3-0.

In the clash between the upperclassmen, the first couple of
plays resulted in free hits or roll-ins for alternating teams.
Soon, however, the mighty juniors
were on their march toward the
goal. The playing was extremely
fast during the entire game and
long runs were characteristic.
With coordinated passing between
the forwards and strong support
from the backs, the juniors were
in control of the ball most of the
time and managed to score five
times. Scotty Johnson with ut-
most skill ran the length of the
field several times and outwitted
her opponents to put the ball in
the box. The seniors, too, made
some nice drives but they simply
did not get the ball enough to
score more than twice.

The sophomores met tough op-
position in the freshman backfield
but managed to tally 3 points.
Genet Heery, B. J. Radford,
and Kathryn Johnson each ac-
counted for one goal. While being
inexperienced the greenies made a
good showing. Barbara Plumley
captured the ball several times
and raced down the field but was
unable to score. Millie Hamilton,
Lady Major and Ann Hayes played
a good game.

Juniors

Position

Seniors

Courtenay (1)

RW

Milam

Chewning

RI

King

S. Johnson (4) CF

Kirtley

Long

LI

Munroe (2)

Stephenson

LW

Mack

Ragland

RH

Farmer

Burnett

CH

v_.arpeni.er

Neville

LH

Equen

Register

RF

Everett

Rowe

LF

Webb

McCain-Phelps

G

Lee

Sophomores

Posi tion

Freshmen

Cochran

RW

Plumley

Heery (1)

RI

Andrews

Radford (1)

CF

Hamilton

K. Johnson (1) LI

Tucker

J. Gossette

LW

Davis

Newman

RH

Bryant

Yates

CH

Major

Meyer

LH

McLaurin

Currie

RB

Hayes

Dobbin

LB

Haislip

Denning

G

Orr

riods for skating now are 1:00-
2:00 p. m. everyday in the gym.
Additional times are to be an-
nounced in chapel Friday.

A. A. Board welcomes Susanne
Watkins as the new badminton
manager. She's taking Ann
Stine's place.

THINGS TO COME: Hike by
new members of Outing club very
soon. . . . Archery tournament
of balloon popping, archery, golf,
moving targets. . . . Class tourna-
ments at end of quarter. . . .
Golf club playing this Thursday.
Ping pong tournament soon.
Times for Fun

Sings every Wednesday night at
6:30 in old chapel. Swimming in
gym every Tuesday night from
9 to 10 p. m.

A. A.'s chapel program next
Friday will clear up any haziness
that this column has left you in.

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Transfers Climb
Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain was the scene
of the Mortar Board party for
transfers and special students last
Saturday. About 12 couples made
up the party which hiked up the
mountain before eating picnic
supper. A sing around a camp fire
climaxed the events of the eve-
ning.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944

NO. 7

Morfar Board
Recognition
To Be Nov. 11

The local chapter of Mortar
Board will hold its annual recogni
tion program this Saturday, Nov.
11 in chapel. President J. R. Mc-
Cain will speak on the past, pres-
ent and future of Mortar Board.

Members of Mortar Board are
chosen from the junior class each
spring on the basis of the three
ideals of the organization, serv-
ice, leadership, and scholarship.

Barbara Frink, this year's Mor-
tar Board president, announces
that all active Mortar Board mem-
bers in Atlanta and Georgia have
been invited to be present.

The local chapter of Mortar
Board includes Mary Cumming,
Betty Glenn, Inge Probstein, Mary
Munroe, Virginia Carter, Frances
King, Wendy Whittle, Molly Mil-
am, Dot Hunter, Julia Slack,
Elaine Kuniansky.

Skating Parties Set
For Nov. 8 and 15

Invitations to the annual fresh-
man skating parties, sponsored
jointly by Mortar Board and the
junior class, are being issued for
the nights of Nov. 8 and 15.

Freshman guests at both par-
ties will meet boys from Georgia
Tech, Emory, and Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary. For non-skat-
ers, Murphey Candler will be open
with cards and ping-pong. Other
features of the parties are re-
freshments and a floor show of
singing, dancing, and exhibition
skating.

This year for the first time
Mortar Board only backs the
parties financially while the jun-
ion class plans them. Marguerite
Toole, junior class president, an-
nounced that the committees for
arrangements are headed by Mar-
tie Mizell and Barbara Kincaid, in-
vitations to the boys and to fresh-
men; Teddy Bear, entertainment;
Dot Spragens, food; Harding Rag-
land, decorations; and Nancy Har-
dy, cleaning.

She further stated that R. S.
V. P. lists are on the mail room
bulletin board and that all fresh-
men are urged to come. Freshmen
may exchange invitations for eith-
er night of the parties.

Mrs. Sims to Talk
On War Events

Mrs. Roff Sims, assistant pro-
fessor of political science, will
review current events for the
college community at the chapel
period Wednesday, Nov. 15.

Sponsored by War Council, Mrs.
Sims' talk will be her second sum-
mary of the news during the cur-
'/ent session.

ims to Talk
Here Nov. 13-14

Edwin Mims, professor emeri-
tus of English at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, will be on campus Mon-
day and Tuesday, Nov. 13-14, to
lecture to the college community.

Dr. Mims, brought to the college
by the English department, will
lecture Monday night, Nov. 13, in
Presser, on "Education, Culture,
and Religion," and in chapel the
following morning he will talk on
"Poetry as a Personal Resource."

Dr. Mims, prominent man of let-
ters, lectures throughout the
country at various colleges, and
is the author of several books,
among them, "Life of Sidney Lan-
ier," "The Advancing South," and
"Adventurous America."

Rabbi Will Speak
In Chapel Nov. 10

Rabbi Sylvan Schwartzman, of
Augusta, Ga., will speak in chapel
Friday, Nov. 10, on the subject,
"The Bible Source Book of Dem-
ocracy." Rabbi of the Congrega-
tion Children of Israel, he is the
latest in the series of speakers
which the Jewish Chataqua So-
ciety has brought to our campus
in the last few years.

The sixth annual Atlanta Na-
tional Salon of Photography is
being held at the High Museum
Nov. 1-15. Some 350 pictures,
representing work from the Uni-
ted States, Mexico, Canada,
Brazil, Portugal, England, Scot-
land, India, and the Belgian
Congo are on display.

Star Will Sing
Here Nov. 1 7

Margaret Speaks, celebrated
star of concert and radio, will be
presented in a concert sponsored
by the Decatur Service League
in Presser Hall on Friday, Nov.
17 at 8:30 p. m.

Miss Speaks, the American-born
and American-trained soprano, is
in her tenth year as soloist of the
Voice of Firestone program.

Tickets for this concert are on
sale at the DeKalb Chamber of
Commerce or may be obtained by
calling De. 4296. Price of the tick-
ets is $3.00. There will be a lim-
ited number of student tickets on
sale at a price to be named later.

'Spider Island'
TechnicalCrew
Is Announced

Miss Roberta Winter has an-
nounced the following production
staff for Blackfriars' fall play,
"Spider Island" which will be giv-
en Wednesday, Nov. 22 in Presser:

Prompter, Lura Johnston, as-
sisted by Carolyn Gilchrist; stage
manager, Laura Winchester; as-
sistant stage manager, Virginia
Dickson; stage crew, Mary Azar,
Helen Owen, Doris Kissling, Doris
Purcell, Mary Elizabeth Harris;
stage design, Mary Ann Gaunt.

Lights, Jean Dunham and Anna
Dobbins, assisted by Helen Cur-
rie and Martha Jane Mack; pro-
perties, Eleanor Reynolds, Edith
Lee Burgess, Lilaine Harris, Alice
Beardsley and Tinkem Iverson;

Costumes, Jane Smith, assisted
by Ellen Hayes, Shirley Graves,
Ann Pardington, Gloria McKee and
Jean Rentz; house manager, Jean
Hood, assisted by Kathleen Buch-
anan; business manager, Jane Ann
Newton;

Program, Barbara Kincaid, as-
sisted by Margaret McManus,
Mary Nell Ozment and Ceevah
Rosenthal; publicity, Rite Watson,
assisted by Sally Sue Stephenson,
Betty Long, and Frances Woodall.

Students may try out for techni-
cal membership by working on
"Spider Island," according to Miss
Winter.

B.O.Z. to Honor
New Members

With its two new members,
Pattie Dean and Ellen Hayes, as
honor guests B. O. Z. will meet
this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the
home of Miss Janef Preston, fac-
ulty adviser.

At the meeting Phia Pedakis
and Nancy Moore will read stories
that they have written. Ruth
Simpson, president, will lead the
group in the discussion.

Date Book

Wed., Nov. 8 BOZ meeting, 5
p. m. at the home of Miss Janef
Preston

Canteen group meets in Rebe-
kah lobby at 6 p. m.
Freshman skating party in gym

Thurs., Nov. 9 Alumnae Day
Will Durant lecture at 8:30 p. m.
in Presser

Frl., Nov. 10 Rabbi Sylvan Sch-
wartzman to speak in chapel
Art students' league to meet

Sat., Nov, 11 Atlanta Randolph-
Macon Alumnae club to meet on
3rd floor of Library at 3:30
p. m.

Sun., Nov. 12 Lawson General
group leaves at 2 p. m. from
Main

Mon., Nov. 13 Edwin Mims* lec-
ture in Presser

Tues., Nov. 14 Edwin Mims to
lecture in chapel
Inter-class swimming meet at
8 p. m.

Wed., Nov. 15 Mrs. Roff Sims to
speak in chapel

Scholarship Contest
Changes Essentials

Dr. J. R. McCain has announced
several changes in the Competi-
tive Scholarship Contest held each
year for high school graduates

The contest offers four awards.
The first is $600 toward the ex-
penses of a boarder at the Col-
lege. The others are $300 each for
either boarders or day students.
Formerly this contest consisted of
an aptitude test and an autobio-
graphy with the decision of the
awards based on these and the
personal qualifications of the ap-
plicant.

In the contest for the session,
'45-'46, the autobiography has
been eliminated, and the con-
testant is required to write an es-
say of a thousand words or more
on "What College Means to Me."

The aptitude test remains the
same, and personal qualifications
still count 25 per cent in the de-
cision. These qualifications a re
based on data which the College
obtains on its own initiative
through contact with the appli-
cant's own church, school, and
community.

Alumnae Day
Set Nov. 9

Alumnae Day at Agnes Scott on
Nov. 9, 1944, will find a large
number of alumnae returning with
their husbands and children to
campus.

Registration in the lobby of
Presser Hall at 4 p. m. will
be followed by a welcome from
President McCain and Katharine
Woltz Green, president of the
Alumnae Association, at 4:30 in
Maclean auditorium. Following
this, there will be a lecture by
Miss Emily Woodward, director
of Georgia Public Forum, on "My
Visit to Britain," which is open
to the public.

A tour of the campus, the alum-
nae house and the art gallery, and
an exhibit of paintings by Har-
riet Fitzgerald, an alumna of Ran-
dolph-Macon, on the third floor of
the Library will be next on the
list of events. At 6:15 the alumnae
will be guests of the College at
dinner in Rebekah Scott hall. Stu-
dents are asked to eat early to
prevent a rush.

At 7:00 the alumnae will at-
tend a coffee in the Library with
the faculty, and at 8:30 they will
hear Dr. Will Durant's lecture
on "Philosophy and the War."

If you see children playing
games on the quadrangle that day,
it won't be the seniors giving a
repeat performance of "Little
Girls' Day," for while their moth-
ers are busy, the children of the
alumnae will be entertained by
the Granddaughters Club. They
will attend the hockey games,
watch the swimming during the
plunge period, and then come to
dinner in Rebekah Scott. Grand-
daughters Kate Ellis and Harriet
Daugherty are in charge of keep-
ing our young guests happy. It
seems the children had such a
good time here last year that
they've been begging their moth-
ers to bring them back to college.

Dr. Durant
To Lecture

"What are the Lessons of His-
tory?" is the subject of our first
lecturer, Dr. Will Durant, widely
known philosopher, historian and
author. Dr. Durant will lecture
here Thursday, Nov. 9 at 8:30
p .m. in Presser. He will discuss
with the perspective of history and
philosophy, the light the past
throws on contemporary events.

Immediately after his lecture
Dr. Durant will be honored at a
reception given by the Lecture As-
sociation in Murphey Candler. All
alumnae on campus for the annual
fall homecoming are especially
invited. President J. R. McCain,
Miss Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of the association, and
Jeanne Robinson, student chair-
man, will form the- receiving line.
Mrs. S. G. Stukes and Mrs. R. B.
Holt will pour. Jeanne Robinson
will be hostess at a luncheon
Thursday in the Alumnae House
honoring Dr. Durant.

Miss Gaylord who, with Miss
Laney, has heard pr. Durant
speak in Atlanta previously, as-
serts that the lecture was valuable
and interesting. Dr. Durant was
heard on the radio program, "In-
formation Please" Monday eve-
ning.

Dr. Durant is willing to auto-
graph any books that are left in
the bookstore before 12 p. m.
Thursday. Season tickets for the
lectures may be obtained in the
bookstore Nov. 2-9, and in addi-
tion each student may have a
guest ticket.

The collection in the church
service in Presser Sunday
amounted to $96.61. This money
is being given to the War Fund,
and will be sent to the World
Student Service Fund.

Seniors Recall Many Pranks
From Gayer Side of Life Here

By Margaret Kinard

I went to see a senior the other day and asked her to teD
me something funny. "Funny ," she said, with a very blank
expression on her face. "Not a single thing funny has happen-
ed to the senior class in the past four years?" I asked. But
then, a nest of noses got together and began to giggle so much
and say, "Remember the time

when " so often that I came to
the conclusion that the class of
1945 has had some boistei^bus
times together.

Moron Retreat
During their freshman year the
brewing place for pranks seemed
to be Moron Retreat, as the left
wing of first Inman was christen-
ed. Particularly spectacular were
the funerals for paper dolls during
the weeks before Christmas. The
whole wing entered in the fitting
ceremony every night to bury an-
other day gone. Often seen run-
ning around Inman that year was
Pat Elam in her long red pajama
top. (No one ever saw the bot-
tom!) The lab pig dressed up as
a teddy bear became a regular
inhabitant of third floor after it
paid its first visit to the bed of

Grace Walker, biology lab assis-
tant. Indeed a red letter day
for the class was when they all
wore red sweaters into the fresh-
man dining room in White House.
Sleep Walker
Many seniors remember when
their class had an unknown sleep
walker. One would often see
threads stretched across door-
ways after lights to keep the
marauder out. Another wild fig-
ure was the girl who chased her
roommate with a butcher knife.
The same year three mysterious
ghosts in white sheets made their
appearance in the rooms of their
fellow classmates.

Practical joking must have
been rampant in this class. I
heard many giggles over the time
when all the door knobs were
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944

The Agnes Scott- News

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

Bditor LEILA HOLMES

Managing Editor PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors
Mary Ann Courtenay
Jeanne Addison

Editorial Assistants

Pat Elam

Feature Editor

Jane Bowman
Sports Editor
Dorothy Lee Webb
Assistant Sports Editor
Ruth Ryner

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor

Carolyn Fuller

Reporters: Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Kates. Connie Fraser, Joyce
Gilleland, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries. Helen Currie. Nellie Scott, Margaret Klnard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
Azar, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher.
Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle. Sally Sue Stephenson, Eloise Lyndon, Anne Lee.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager ELIZABETH CARPENTER

Advertising Manager MARY NEELY NORRIS

Asst. Advertising Managers

Louise Gardner
Jane Anne Newton

Circulation Manager

Hansell Cousar

Circulation Assistants

Mary Russell
Doris Purcell

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie, Betty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones, Alice
Newman. Laura Winchester. Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street. Ann Hough, May
Turner. Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

'Food for Thought'

"Food for thought" is necessary. And there has been such
a marked improvement in our food during the past week that
students are overwhelmed with joy.

The dining room force has a difficult job during war
times to always get what we like. Scarcity of food and lack of
points make marketing a job for wizards. The past week has
shown us that the heads of our dining room have mastered
the art of food getting.

But recently there has been a new satisfied look on the
face of each student after a meal. So in behalf of the campus,
we hereby give a vote of thanks to the dining room heads.

For Book Week

We are all well-acquainted with that essay of English 101
fame John Livingston Lowes "Of Reading Books. " And we
can certainly appreciate his comment about the busy-ness of
life which keeps us from doing such things as sitting down
with a favorite book and reading for hours on end, for our
own pleasure. But when we can snatch an hour or two or
even a moment or two, to read just for the sake of reading,
we understand why Mr. Lowes points out as the first goal of
reading, pure enjoyment.

Perhaps one of the main reasons why we enjoy books
is that through them we ourselves experience or live. We may
meet in books, situations that are so universal in appeal that
it almost seems as if we are reliving our own past experiences.
Katherine Mansfield and Mark Twain, for example, although
dissimilar in many respects, both have that remarkable ability
of making us see through children's eyes, and experiencing
with a child's emotions some episode, some adventure, or
even some undramatic occurence strikingly like a situation in
our own childhood. The fearful excitement of two boys on a
home-made raft sailing down the Mississippi, or the awaken-
ing of a litttle New Zealand girl from dreams of garden par-
ties and lace frocks to a realization of the awesomness of
death, can, with equal ease, be translated into similar high-
lights in our own childhood.

Yet books need not be written in terms of our own ex-
periences in order to make them seem real. We can also live
in works of literature concerned with realms completely fore-
ign to us. We can never actually visit an Xanadu, "a savage
palace holy and enchanted," nor meet a wild-eyed ancient
mariner, for example, yet Coleridge, with his imaginative gen-
ius, makes us feel that we have seen an enchanted land and
have come under the spell of an ancient mariner, who de-
tains us with his skinny hand, and relates to us his weird
voyage. Or again, by a writer's skill, we can be transported
to a past era in history, witness a culture that has flourished
and died, and under the writer's spell, live in Shakespeare's
England, Victor Hugo's France, or Tolstoi's Russia.

So, whether re-living incidents in our past, or meeting with
situations that are completely new to us, we can, while en-
joying books, attain a depth and a breadth of experience
-which go beyond the limits of everyday life. fS.G.)

A Boyd's-Eye View

of Magy'e Took

By Mary Ann Courtenay

Bridge games, the book store, and Latin and Greek, all enter
into the daily life of Marguerite Toole, who, like the junior
class over which she presides, loves a good time but rather
unadmittedly enjoys her studies, too. She balances her classics
major proportionately with the modern, and remains the only

one allowed to play Frankie Sin-
atra's records on Ruth Simpson's
victrola.

Since she claims to have had a
bad start after transferring here
from Augusta Junior College,
Maggie has busied herself this
year with keeping the freshmen
straight and planning their enter-
tainment at Mortar Board parties.
Among the numerous reforms she
has helped initiate on campus is
the opening of the swimming pool
on Tuesday nights. And contrary
to popular belief, she doesn't even
like to swim.

Naturally, Maggie's favorite
color is red, to match ( ? ) her hair.
What she particularly likes about
hockey (having progressed to the
official bench-warming stage now)
is getting to wear the pink suit of
her class team.

Maggie held two jobs this sum-

Letter to Santa

Little Girls' Day was a howl-
ing success. The senors played
so hard that their knees creaked
a little with age the following day
at Investiture when they assumed
their new dignity.

One of the little girls wrote
the following letter to Santa:
Dear Santa Claus,

I want a doll with a pretty Blue
dress and a red ball, and a wave
uniform, and a cowboy suit, and
a blue hair ribbon and an airplane,
and a tommy-gun and a football
and a bicycle and a wrist watch
and some books, and a piano, and
a merit in chemistry and a sailor.

I am a very good sweet girl
my mama says when I want to be
and I will be from now to Christ
mas.

Me.

P. S. If you bring the sailor. I
will leave you some fruit cake.

( Editor's note: Who wouldn't?
Here's hoping this lttle girl gets

ill

wants for Christmas.)

mer, the first one interfering too
much with her vacation activities.
She was guilty of writing those
commercials you may have heard
over an Augusta radio station, un-
til she joined the college board of
a department store. Her taste in
selecting clothes, and especially
sweaters, is modified by one skirt,
the brown and white checked one
she wears to every exam. That's
to show she's in mourning, she
says, but her friends insist that
it saves having to decide what to
wear and thus stores all her men-
tal energy for exams.

Are You Satisfied
Being Your Age?

By Jane Bowman

What age would you like to be
the rest of your life? This is not
a sixty-four dollar question, but
one of the editor's ideas for a
"sparkling" feature.

After interviewing a few of the
intelligentsia on the campus I have
begun to wonder about this age
question. According to Pat Elam,
six months is the ideal age. She
thinks it: would be fun to sit
through life gurgling and cooing
and having people to wait on her.

The jump from six months to
sixteen years is a big one, but
the ages in between seem to have
no allure whatsoever. "Ah, sweet
sixteen!" sighed Dabney Adams.
"Oh, you oil! Sixteen is waaandar-
ful!" shrieked Scotty Johnson.
Well, I wonder what makes it so
sweet and waaandarful. "Plenty
of fun and no responsibilities,"
Dabney answered. And Scotty
shrieked again, "Toujours l'am-
our!"

Two people who have had a lit-
tle more experience agree that
twenty-five or twenty-six is the
perfect age for a lifetime. Mr.
George Hayes, professor of Eng-

Campus
Topics

Dr. Will Durant's forthcoming
lecture tomorrow night. Students
at Agnes Scott who have studied
from his "History of Philosophy"
will be unusually eager to hear
him. The question period provided
for afterwards should bring forth
some interesting pros and cons. . .

Nadine Connor's skilled per-
formance as Violetta in "La Trav-
iata" last week and the contrast-
ing mediocrity of the rest of the
production. But one shouldn't for-
get the difficulties traveling com-
panies appear under these days.
Most Atlanta concerts are top-
notch. . . .

Mrs. Irvin Cilley, (mother of
Spanish professor Melissa Cilley)
who is one of the oldest and hard-
est workers at the Decatur Red
Cross. Observers there have seen
her roll bandages and pack kits by
the hundreds. . . .

Ann Jacob, editor of last year's
Silhouette, who goes to New York
City this week as residence hall
secretary at Barnard. Other alum-
nae now in the big city are Tom-
mie Huie and Betty Dickson at
Columbia. . . .

Our ex-editor Madeline Hosmer,
known as "Hurricane" Hosmer at

the Atlanta AP office where she
spends her waking hours, day and
night. Although Tuesday was her
day off, she asked to work on
tabulating election returns. Made-
line is wearing a diamond on her
third finger, left hand. . . .

The food in the cafeteria which
suddenly improved about 10 days
ago. Thanks to assistant business
manager H. MacGregor, Agnes
Scott is buying its food with Tech.

Miss Helen Finder's Hallowe'en
party for the faculty. Miss Philip-
pa Gilchrist and others came dress-
ed as ghosts. One of the jack-o-laiu
terns used for decoration caught
on fire, and rolled down the steps.
All Miss Finger could say was
"Great Balls of Fire."

Hugh Hodgson and Michael Mc-
Dowell's two-piano number con-
cert Monday night. Mr. McDowell,

in the army the past two years,
was welcomed back by the aud-
ience. Mr. Hodgson regaled his
listeners with his arrangement of
"The Lady in Red," composed, he
said, "for my students who have
to study Beethoven and Bach."

Last Saturday night's square
dance sponsored by Recreational
Council in the gym. According to
a spy, there were almost enough
men to go around! There wasn't
room for all the people wanting
to square dance that's how
crowded the gym was.

Professor George P. Hayes* in-
vestiture speech on liberal arts
education. The seniors were seri-
our for once. A few minor acci-
dents: Inge Probstein's slippery
cap, Anabel Bickford's shocking
stocking, Mascot Kady MacGreg-
or's reluctance to lead the senior
procession.

lish, says that a twenty-five-year
old has reached maturity and still
retains vitality. Miss Carolyn
Hewitt, resident nurse, adds that
at the age of twenty-six a person
is old enough and young enough
to get the full benefit of his as-
sociates and surroundings.

I asked Maggie Toole and Mar-
tha Baker this question but their
answers won't be ready for fifty
years. So this article will be con-
cluded in 1994.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944

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Red Cross Fills
Bandage Quota

As the Decatur Red Cross has
filled its bandage quota for the
year, the Agnes Scott night has
been discontinued until further no-
tice. However, the groups are
still visiting Lawson and the At-
lanta canteen. The bus leaves
for Lawson at 2:15 on Sunday af-
ternoon from Jacob's drugstore
and Miss Eugenia Symms acts as
chaperone for those leaving on
Wednesday at 6 p. m. for the
U. S. O.

Lists will continue to be placed
in the mail room for those wish-
ing to go. The girls who have gone
to either or both places can tell
you how much fun it is and how
much these visits really mean to
the boys. Won't you come too?

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP
301 Church St. DE. 3309

Joyce Gilleland wins a free
theatre ticket this week. See
Mary Neely Norris to get your
ticket.

WAC Movie
To Be Shown

"To the Ladies," an official War
Department film, will be shown
on Nov. 16 at 7:30 p. m. in the
Recreation Room in Rebekah.

The film will show the new pro-
gram of the WAC in the medical
department of the army. Women
between the ages of 20-50 are
eligible under the new plan to
become x-ray technicians, labora-
tory technicians, dental techni-
cians, occupational therapists, psy-
chiatric assistants, orthopedic
technicians, and other essential
hospital workers.

"This is the one way in which
women can directly help the
wounded men returning from war,
and also prepare themselves for
a profession after the war," stat-
ed Lt. Robert L. Keats, public
relations officer who is in charge
of showing the film here.

Faculty to Have
Alumnae Here

Four Randolph-Macon alumnae,
all Agnes Scott faculty members,
will act as hostesses to the At-
lanta Randolph-Macon Alumnae
Club, Nov. 11 at 3:30 p. m. The
association will meet in the art
gallery on the 3rd floor of the
Library.

The hostesses are Miss Mary
Stuart MacDougall, professor of
biology; Miss Susan Cobbs, acting
professor of classical languages;
Mrs. Harriette Lapp assistant pro-
fessor of physical education, and
Miss Emma McGinty assistant in
chemistry.

Mr. Howard Thomas professor
of art, will speak to the alumnae
and will judge the canvasses of
Harriet Fitzgerald, also a Ran-
dolph-Macon alumnae, whose
work will be exhibited at this
time.

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Investiture brought many proud families to the campus
last week-end. Happy seniors to have their families here were
Dot Almond, Lois Sullivan, Mary Neely Norris, and Frances
Woodall.

Betty Manning, Sara Milford, Jean Hood, Frances Stukes,
Suzy Watkins, Jane Everett, Min-

nie Mack, Cookie DeVane, Pat
Elam, Bitty King, Emily Higgins,
and Mickie Beman had their moth-
ers with them for the weekend.

The hostesses' mothers made a
beautiful receiving line at senior
coffee Sunday. Receiving with
their daughters were Mrs. W. E.
Brougher, of Decatur, with Fran-
ces; Mrs. D. R. Cumming, of Grif-
fin, with Mary; Mrs. S. H. Rosen-
thal, of Lyunchburg, Va., with
Ceevah; Mrs. S. W. Newell, of
Atlanta, with Scottie; Mrs. W. L.
Fuller, of Laurel, Miss., with
Carolyn; and Mrs. Rollo Carpen-

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How Did You Get Holes in Your Soles?

By Dooty Gardner

Have you noticed several people around lately with droop-
ing pocketbooks? If so they (the pocketbooks) probably con-
tain what is known in the advertising world and everywhere
else as cuts. These little objects which weigh about a half
a pound apiece seem to be the only method by which adver-
tising can be carried on. If one has*
a rather successful afternoon of
ad getting, the pocketbook weighs
about three pounds. This extra
weight makes the individual stand
out in any crowd in a sort of lop-
sided way.

The cut, however, is the final
triumph in ad getting. The means
to this end often lead to most
peculiar situations.

Ad Quest
For instance there was the time
when I went into a large depart-
ment store in Atlanta and asked
to see the advertising manager.
I was told to go to the first door
at the head of the stairs so I
went traipsing off, before she fin
ished the instructions, I found out
a short time later. There was the
door at the top of the stairs only
instead of the advertising manager
on the inside there were about
thirty females typing furiously. I
gulped and grinned at the one
nearest the door. She explained
that the advertising manager's
office was to the right. After
weaving in and out of several
typewriters, I approached the
door. It seems there was a slight
rise in the floor about there which
came as a total surprise to me.
The next thing I knew I was look-
ing up way up from the floor
into the slightly amazed face of
the advertising manager.

The real test, however, is find-
ing the place which might possibly
want to advertise. On one jaunt I
seemed to have gotten lost some-
where far away from the usual
business section. I was afraid
to get on a bus since I didn't ex-
actly know when to get off so I
decided to walk for awhile. The
while turned out to be about sev-
enteen blocks and the reward was
no less than four cuts.

Oh, the joys of ad getting!

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

$2,500 Pledged
For War Fund

The Agnes Scott War Service
Fund reached and surpassed its
goal. Approximately $2,500 has
already been pledged and all of
the individual contributions still
are not in. The envelopes for the
November pledges will come out
within the next week. Ceevah Ros-
enthal, chairman of the War Coun-
cil Financial committee, has asked
that payments be made as stated
on the pledge cards. Do not put
in additional money unless you
wish to increase that month's con-
tribution or have talked to Ceevah
or Frances Brougher.

"War Council feels that in ex-
ceeding the goal the students have
shown their enthusiasm and coop-
eration," states Frances Brougher.
"The whole college community
may be justly proud of the success
of the War Service Fund drive."

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Upperclassmen of the Grand-
daughters club gave a wiener
roast for the freshmen members
at Harrison Hut Saturday night.
Later the girls and their dates
from Tech, Emory and Fort Mc-
Pherson attended the square
dance.

Rush week at Emory is an im-
portant date on Hottentot calen-
dars, Janet Liddell, Nelson Fish-
er, Ruth Limbert, Dot Archer, Vir-
ginia Mansfield, and Carol Taylor
went to the Phi Delt house dance
Thursday. At their Saturday
night rush party were Virginia
Owens, Louisa Aichel, Carroll Tay-
lor, Gee Gee Gilliland, Dot Peace,
and Edith Burgess. Ann Wiede-
man went to an ' S. A. E. rush
party.

Dancing at the Paradise Room
were Ann Lee, Beth Keller, Scot-
tie Johnson, Pudden Bealer, and
Dot DeVane.

Eleanor and Sister Davis, Mary
Duckworth, and Minniewill Story
went to the Sigma Chi Hay Ride
at Tech Saturday night.

Good - looking Zena Harris
Tempkin was on campus last week
-^refereed the hockey game Fri-
day.

Out of Town

Trip of the quarter H. Owen,
Pie Ertz, and Elaine Kuniansky
went to Duke homecoming for the
game with Tech. Wonderful time!

Dale Bennett and June Thoma-
son went home with Mary Frances
Anderson to Columbia, S. C.

Betty Turner went to Thomas-
ville for the week-end.

Some more mothers visiting on
campus were Anne Martin's,
Marie Adams' and Lisa Marshall's.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING
ABOUT . . . "Country Girl" Hig-
gins on Little Girls' Day in her
fetching red chapeau . . . Eliza-
beth Harris' beautiful red roses
. . . Mary Cumming's lovely and
unique ring, a diamond set in a
wide band of gold.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Heading the list of interesting
things in the athletic department
for the past week was the Hallo-
we'en entertainment sponsored by
A. A. Board and managed by Scot-
ty Johnson. Those who wished
to commune with the evil spirits
abroad in the moonlight of that
Tuesday night were gathered
from the library and the dormitor-
ies to a campfire in the back of
the gym, where they sang, talked,
looked for ghosts to turn up, and
munched apples. A certain ghost
who was stalking around the cam-
pus really added the finishing
touch to the atmosphere. She even
looked more dead than some of our
studious seniors.

The hockey games looked good
this week. There were a number
of good plays that helped the
juniors to win over the sophs and
the seniors to come out on top
over the frosh. Spectators seem
to be enjoying those nice apples
that the Outing Club is selling at
the games. They are especially
good at consoling you when your
team loses. (This is not a paid
advertisment, and Vicky didn't
bribe me, either).

Those students who went to
chapel last Friday before watch-
ing the poor seniors make a spec-
tacle of themselves by acting
childish (for the last time, the
rules say), heard about the times
for various sports and other ac-
tivities sponsored by A. A. If you
weren't there, you can find the
times posted in the gym.

The class managers of fall
sports met with A. A. board Mon-
day night.

Hike and Picnic

The Outing club is having a sup-
per hike on Thursday, Nov. 16.
It is to be given by the new mem-
bers for the old ones, and it will
finish the quarter "with a bang,"
according to Vicky Alexander,
club head. Kathryn Johnson is in
charge of plans for the hike.

Archery club is having its open-
ing festival in the form of a pic-
nic at Harrison Hut on Friday,
Sept. 17, at 7 p. m. Laura Carroll
Taylor is in charge.

Varsity Council

Scotty Johnson announces that
varsity council has been chosen.
Those forming it are Miss Wil-
burn, Soozi Richardson Mrs. Bil-
lie Davis Nelson, and Scotty
Johnson. Varsity will be announ-
ced in two weeks.

All first round matches in ten-
nis have been finished, and all the
matches should be completed by
the end of this week. Tennis club
has three new members: Julia
Slack, Sue Mitchell and Jackie
Stewart.

A swimming meet will be held
on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The events
of the meet are posted in the gym,
according to Margaret Scott,
swimming manager.

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Week Beginning Wednesday.
November 8th

WEDNESDAY
Bruce Kellogg Jean Parker in
"The Deerslayer"

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Mickey Rooney Esther Williams in
"Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble"

SATURDAY

"Sonora Stagecoach"
and

"Dancing Masters"

MONDAY and TUESDAY
Ginger Rogers - Robert Ryan in

"Tender Comrade"

Seniors Romp Frosh 6-1,
Sophs Bow to Juniors 6-2

By Anne Register

Friday hockey fans saw the seniors down the freshmen
6-1, and the juniors romp the sophomores 6-2 in two fast
games.

In the first tilt, Mary Cumming spurred her team on to
victory by making several long runs down the field and
driving the ball into the freshman

Freshmen

Position Seniors

Plumley

RW

Milam

flamilton

RI

Higgins

Hatch

CF

Cumming (5)

Tucker

LI

Mack (1)

Davis

LW

Kirtley

Bryant

RH

Everett

Major

CH

Carpenter

McLaurin

RH

Arnold

Clapp

LF

Rosenthal

Andrews

LG

Webb

Orr

G

Lee

Juniors Position

Sophomores

Johnson (5)

CF

Radford

Chewning (1)

RI

Cochran

Courtenay

RW

Harnsberger

Stephenson

LW

Fossett

McCain

LI

Johnson

Ragland

RH

Newman

Burnett

CH

Yates

Walker

LH

Meyer

Neville

LF

Currie

Register

RF

Dobbins

Phelps

G

Denning

(Editor's

note:

Correction,

please. The seniors

defeated the

freshmen last week 3-2 instead

goal. Even though the ball was
in the possession of the seniors
most of the time, the greenies'
forward line managed to get it
down to the goal several times
and Hatch shot it in early in the
game for the only score for the
freshmen.

The first half of the battle be-
tween the juniors and sophomores
amounted to little more than a
draw. Nearly all the plays took
p'ace within the sophs' strongly
defended strking circle. The jun-
iors would drive down to the cir-
cle, shoot, and miss. Penalty cor-
ners and 25 yard bullies were
called very often. The first pe-
riod ended with the juniors lead-
ing 2-1. However, in the last half
the juniors got on the go and
chalked up tallies rapidly. The
runs of Scotty Johnson and Jean
Chewning enabled the team to de-
feat the opponents by keeping the
ball in sophomore territory. Nev-
ertheless the excellent playing of
Jean Denning as goalie prevented
many would have been points.

The lineups were:

of 3-0.)

DEKALB THEATRE

THURSDAY - FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

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MONDAY - TUESDAY
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Seniors Recall

(Con't. from p. 1)

greased, when paper bags of water
were placed over the door facings,
when dresser drawers were secret-
ly exchanged, when a frog was
dropped on Susan Kirtley in the
bath tub, and worst of all when
Mary Munroe's and Julia Slack's
clothes were auctioned off.

I heard of an occasion one
Thanksgiving when a crowd got
so hungry at a feast where they
had everything from cumquats to
potato chips that practically ev-
eryone on that hall paid a pro-
longed visit to the infirmary.
Speaking of eating, a group got
together one night and took some
no-sleep pills which consequently
made them a little woozy. They
spent the better part of the night
rolling trash cans around up on
fourth floor Main.

Blind Date

Everyone in the class remem-
bers the night two girls had blind
dates waiting for them in Main,
and two other girls got smart
and walked off with the innocent
dates. The whole class was indig-
nant and spent the night discuss-
ing the incident. Everyone met
those girls at the front door with
dirty looks. How embarassing!
They tell me also that the White
House gang used to make a prac-
tice of whistling and making
cracks at cute dates, much to
the dismay of the girls claiming
them.

The whole campus was in an
uproar last year over the box that
went around terrifying people.
(This turned out to be none oth-
er than Jodele Tanner.) And
better still, when Julia Slack came
in with a suitcase fairly late one
night to spend the night in Lup-
ton, Mr. Jones thought someone
was eloping and got certain cam-
pus dignitaries out of bed to stop
the affair.

The seniors could go on and on
telling of the wonderful times
they have had together. We had
to stop our little reminiscing party
only because more important
things were calling. Without a
doubt, this class has had a his-
tory of fun-making which will be
hard to beat.

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Swimmers Plan
Inter -Class Meet

Come one, come all. Don't miss
this grand and colossal swimming
meet, Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 8
p. m. It is the second and last
inter-class meet of this quarter.

The eligibility for participation
has been changed this year. Don't
be bashful, if you have the skill
and come to three required prac-
tices, you may swim too. Mrs. Dor-
othy Vogel of Atlanta, Mrs. Harri-
ette Lapp, and Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn will again be the judges. The
standards of diving have been
raised. The diving will feature
four standards and two optionals.

The swimming form will be
front and back crawl tandems and
inverted breast stroke. There will
be a forty yard dash free style
and a sixty yard medley relay in-
cluding free style, back crawl, and
breast stroke. And just for the
fun of it, there will be a stunt
race. Be sure to come.

'44 Editor of Annuol Is
New Barnard Secretary

Ann Jacob, '44, leaves for New
York City this week to become
secretary for Residence Halls at
Barnard College. She has been
associated with the Georgia Tech
Research Department since her
graduation last June.

While at Agnes Scott, Miss
Jacob was editor of the Silhou-
ette, and a member of Mortar
Board.

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VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1944

NO. &

Artisf to Play
Violin Nov. 18

Yehudi Menuhin, international-
ly renowned violinist, will be pre-
sented on the All-Star Concert
Series, Saturday, Nov. 18, at 8:30
p. m.

For his Atlanta concert, he has
chosen an interesting and popu-
lar program. His opening number
wil be Beethoven's Sonata, Opus
12, which consists of three move-
ments the "Allegro," "Andante"
with variations, and the Rondo.
For his second number he will
play the "Vieuxtemps Concerto in
D Minor." His third selection,
"Sonata in A Major," was writ-
ten by George Enesco, Menuhin's
violin teacher. Mr. Enesco, when
last heard from was in a Ruman-
ian concentration camp.

His next number, "Danse D'
Alma," was written by his ac-
companist, Adolph Bailer, and
dedicated to Mr. Menuhin. This
piece was named after the Menu-
hin's family estate, Alma, in Aus-
tralia.

For the rest of his program he
will play "Caprice Basque," by
Sarasati, the "Perpetual Motion"
by Noxacek, the ever popular
"Caprice Vennois" by Kreisler,
and the "Rondo Capriccioso" by
Saint-Saens.

Durant Sees
Today in Past

"Lessons of History" which Dr.
Will Durant pointed out in his lec-
ture Thursday night, enable man
to understand present history in
the light of the whole, through the
perspectives of time and space.
The best forms of government,
economic systems, locations, and
religion may be determined, he
said, by viewing the past.

With the fundamentals of biol-
ogy as his basis, the philosopher
called life an inevitable struggle,
and a selective and fertile pro-
cess.

From a geographical standpoint
he predicted that the coming air
commerce would regulate the im-
portance of cities, just as land and
sea travel have done in the past.
He sees Chicago as the reigning
city in this new air age.

He foresees a mature American
(Continued on Page 2)

Date Book

Wed., Nov. 15 Freshman party at

8 p. m. In Murphey Candler
Thurs., Nov. 16 WAC film, "To

the Ladies," at 7:30 p. m. in

old chapel
Frl, Nov. 17 Margaret Speaks*

concert at 8:30 p. m. in Gaines

chapel

S;tt., Nov. 18 Yehudi Menuhin's
concert in Atlanta at 8:30 p. m.

Sun., Nov. 19 Library opens
2-5:30 p. m. for Book Week
Miss Ham to lead discussion
on "The Good Life" at 7:15 p. m.
in the old "Y" room in Main

Mon., Nov. 20 Music Apprecia-
tion Hour at 8 p. m. in Gaines

Wed., Nov. 22 Blackfriars* play,
"Spider Island" at 8:30 p. m.
in Gaines chapel

We Stagger Home

Christmas vacation for Agnes Scott this year will be from
the minute each student finishes her exams until 8:30 a. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 3.

Exam week is from Dec. 6-13, non-activity week starting
Nov. 29. The exam schedule has been posted in the mail room
and on first floor Buttrick.

Staggered departures will help alleviate the holiday trans-
portation rush.

Folio Group
Is Organized

Folio, the freshman creative
writing club, was organized last
week with a membership of sev-
en, under the leadership of Miss
Margaret Trotter as adviser and
Alice Caldwell Davidson as presi-
dent.

Members of Folio, selected this
year by tryout, plan to meet ev-
ery three weeks for an informal
sharing and discussion of their
creative efforts. They will meet
Thursday evenings at 7 in the par-
lor of the Anna Young alumnae
house.

Fall quarter members are Alice
Davidson, Jane Alsobrook, Vir-
ginia Andrews, Louisie McLaurin,
Lida Walker, Mary Beth Little
and Minnie Hamilton. There will
be another tryout opportunity for
winter quarter, when, if the club
is large enough^ two separate
groups will be formed.

Music Hour
Program Told

C. W. Dieckmann, pianist, and
two guest artists, Miss Ruth Dab-
ney Smith, violinist, and Miss Eda
E. Bartholomew, pianist, will pre-
sent the Music Appreciation Hour
on Monday night, Nov. 20, at 8 in
Gaines chapel.

The program will include:

Two Pianos Andante and Var-
iations, Op. 46 Shuman.

Violin (a) Intrada, Desplanes.
(b) Ronda, Mozart-Kreisler.

Two Pianos (a) Adagio from
Organ Toccata in C major, Bach,
(b) Le Matin, Op. 79, No. 1, Cha-
menade. (c) Le Soir, Op. 79, No. 2,
Chamenade.

Violin (a) En Bateau, Debussy,
(b) Piece in forme de Habanera,
Ravel, (c) Ritual Fire Dance, De-
Falla-Kochanski.

Two Pianos Improvisata on a
Gavotte by Gluck Op. 125, Rein-
ecke.

STRIVE, SEEK, AND FIND,
DO NOT YIELD MIMS

By Molly Milam

Library Notes
Book Week

On Sunday afternoon, Nov. 19
from 2 until 5:30, the library will
be open for the reading and en-
joyment of several hundred new
books. Included in this collec-
tion now on display in various
cases, on the tables and shelves
of the main reading room, are
books offering appeal for every
taste, books of current interest,
the latest fiction, biography, and
poetry.

This display of books in the
library offers valuable sugges-
tions in every field to the appli-
cant of the Louise McKinney book
award. This award is presented in
the spring for the winning assort-
ment of a general gathering of
books or a closely knit referendum
on some special fields.

Students are urged to plan
ahead to take advantage of the
opportunity of a Sunday after-
noon's reading of the newest
books.

Cabinet Hears Sisters

In keeping with its theme, "The
Promotion of a Better Under-
standing of Various Religious Be-
liefs," Sophomore Cabinet had a
discussion on Catholicism at its
metting of Nov. 8. Joan Knoch,
program chairman for the day,
presented Sister Mary Bernard,
principal of the Sacred Heart Con-
vent of Atlanta, and Sister Felice,
who gave a talk on the beliefs of
he Catholic Church.

"Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer

world . . .
Though much is taken, much

abides, and though
We are not now that strength

which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that

which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic

hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but

strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and

not to yield."

To any English 211 or Victorian
Poets student these lines of Tenny-
son's Ulysses strike a familiar
note. And to anyone who has been
his student, Edwin Mims, current
campus lecturer, is associated with
the lines.

Dr. Mims, professor emeritus of
English at Vanderbilt University,
remarked in an informal conversa-
tion while visiting on campus that
his students anywhere, in South
Africa or in other remote places,
always find they have a common
tie that binds them as the "elect"
because they all know by memory
the last twelve lines of Tennyson's
Ulysses.

Anyone who has heard Dr. Mims
lecture or who has known him in
the classroom, as Miss Charlotte
Hunter, assistant dean, has, or has
had an informal chat with him, can
see Tennyson's poetry fully appre-
ciated and heeded by a grand old
man of letters, who himself, though
too old, as he puts it, to be allowed
to remain on the Vanderbilt fac-
ulty, is "strong in will to strive,
to seek, to find, and not to yield."

JANE EVERETT

'Spider Island' Promises
Thrills and Chills Nov. 22

Suspense, chills, and murder are promised for Wednesday-
night, Nov. 22, when Blackfriars will present its fall produc-
tion, the three-act murder mystery-melodrama, "Spider Is-
land," by Joseph Spalding.

As the play goes into its last week of rehearsal, under the
direction of Miss Roberta Winter, "
it is shaping up into one of the
most exciting productions staged
at Agnes Scott for many years.

Jane Everett and Peggy Will-
mon, as Abbie and Salem Mayo,
will portray two of the nicest
old ladies who ever knit a scarf
for a man murdered forty years
before, or strung up a friend in
the woodshed with a piece of fish-
net.

Their hired girl, Dullie Peabody,
played by Pauline Ertz, knows a
lot more about the mysterious
events on Spider Island than her
name would indicate; while Meg
Crosby, "an ancient old crone,"
portrayed by Martha Polk, is just
what you would expect an old
crone to be like ... or is she?

Into this weird assembly, one
stormy night, drops the Mayo sis-
ters' long-lost niece, Star, who
will be played by LaNelle Wright
in her first three-act play at Ag-
nes Scott. Star is a beautiful,
modern young girl who lets noth-
ing frighten her or, almost noth-
ing! The part of Patsy, Star's
good-natured, wise-cracking com-
panion on her Spider Island ad-
venture, will be taken by Liz Car-
penter.

Each member of the cast is a
veteran of previous performances
here, and promises to keep up her
dramatic standard in "Spider Is-
land." Dress rehearsals are sched-
uled for the evenings of Nov. 17
and 21.

In addition to production staff
members previously announced,
Virginia Callaway will serve as
assistant prompter.

Several students are working
on the production to try out for
technical membership in Black-
friars.

The stage crew is working under
the direction of Mr. Glenn James.
Mr. B. S. Armistead is supervising
the committee on lights.

Cotillion Chooses
16 New Members

Scott Newell, Cotillion Club
President, announced today that
the club has taken in 16 new mem-
bers as a result of the tryouts
held not long ago. At tryouts,
each girl was graded on a 4-point
system including poise, personal-
ity, appearance and dancing.

The new members are: seniors,
Emily Higgins, Frances Brougher,
Montene Melson, Mary Neely Nor-
ris, and Lois Sullivan; juniors, El-
len Hayes, Dootsy Gardner; Alice
Gordon, Lib Woodward, and Anne
Hightower; sophomores. Anne Eid-
son, "G. G." Gilliland, and Janet
Liddell; freshmen, Mary Manley,
Mary Beth Little and Ann Patter-
son.

The club held a business meet-
ing last Thursday at which they
discussed plans for the annual
Thanksgiving dance to be held on
the night of Nov. 23. Details will
be announced later.

Party Tonight
For Freshmen

The second freshman party of
this year, sponsored by Mortar
Board and the junior class, will
be given tonight from 8 to 11 in
Bucher Scott gymnasium and in
Murphey Candler student build-
ing.

Martie Mizell and Barbara Kin-
caid, co-chairmen of the invita-
tions committee, have seen to it
that boys from the various schools
near here will be present in suf-
ficient numbers to satisfy the 100
freshmen expected at the party.
About 70 boys from Georgia Tech,
30 from Emory, and 15 from Co-
lumbia Seminary will be the fresh-
men dates for the evening.

The party will feature skating
in the gym; there will be cards,
ping-pong, and "just sitting
around and talking" in Murphey
Candler. Teddy Bear, in charge of
entertainment, has collected a sex-
tet and a skating revue from
members of the junior class.

Refreshments, punch and
doughnuts, are to be furnished by
the committee headed by Dot
Spragens. Credit for the decora-
tions goes to Harding Ragland's
committee. And after the ball is
over, Nancy Hardy will take
charge, to clean up the gym.

The party's dual sponsorship is
a result of Mortar Board's new
program of turning over their own
ideas, in the form of projects, to
the various classes to be carried
out.

Film to Depict
Medical Work

"To The Ladies," an official
War Department film, will be pre-
sented Thursday nigh't at 7;30 in
the Recreation Room in Rebekah.
Lieutenant Robert L. Keats is in
charge of the presentation of this
film which reveals the new oppor-
tunities open to the WAC in the
medical department of the army.

Miss Alicia Coffin, traveling
secretary of the World wStudent
Service Fund will speak in
chapel Thursday on the position
of European and Chinese stu-
dents in the war.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1944

The Agnes Scott News

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the studeaia
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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Editor LEILA HOLMES

Managing Editor PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors

Mary Ann Courtenay
Jeanne Addison

Editorial Assistants

Pat Elam

Feature Editor

Jane Bowman
Sports Editor
Dorothy Lee Webb
Assistant Sports Editor

Ruth Ryner

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor

Carolyn Fuller

Reporters: Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Yates, Connie Fraser, Joyce
Gilleland, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Klnard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
Azar, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher.
Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Eloise Lyndon, Anne Lee.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager

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Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodle, Betty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones, Alice
Newman, Laura Winchester, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street. Ann Hough, May
Turner, Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

Youth Unity

Third International Students' Day will be observed Nov. 17.

Five years ago on the same date occurred the terrible mas-
sacre of Czechoslovakian students and professors by the Nazis
in an attempt to quiet forever the men who considered death
preferable to destruction of their freedom of ideas and teach-
ing.

Reports from Czechoslovakia show that the persecution goes
on and is very methodical. There seems to be a deliberate plan
to do away with all the teachers of all the schools. All of them
are being terrorized and forced not only passively to accept the
German domination, but to serve it actively.

Since that day of maassacre our youths of America and from
all the United Nations have fought valiantly to preserve the
freedom of ideas. They are still fighting today to preserve the
right to build a future orld secure from aggression.

In a recent statement by President Roosevelt: "In the world
of tomorrow, these youths will be builders of the future of
nations. Through courageous and vigorous effort, by friend-
ship and common striving, theirs will be the task of replenish-
ing the intellectual vigor of their war-disrupted countries.

"In observing Nov. 17 again this year as International Stu-
dents' Day, American youth joins with the youth of all free-
dom-loving nations in pledging itself anew to those tasks,
and to that faith in the world of tomorrow toward which we
now advance/'

3ome:+hmcj new has been, added

S-h-h-h-h

"How shall we have it be quiet in chapel?" queried C. A.
cabinet one Tuesday night. "People won't be quiet when they
first come in before the worship service begins."

"Let us ask Mr. Dieckmann to begin playing early," sug-
gested one member; but the next Tuesday morning the tumult
of female voices rose with each organ crescendo unil the noise
was worse than before.

"It will be more worshipful if the choir sings a call to prayer
at the beginning of chapel," chimed in another member; but
that procedure, though effective, did nothing to remedy the
noise before the choir came in.

"Let us make a personal effort to be quiet and get our
friends to do likewise," brightly put in another member. The
next Tuesday cabinet members could be seen scattered
throughout the chapel, clapping adhesive tape over the
mouths of acquaintances who simply had to tell what Roy
or Bob said in their just received letters, bashing notebooks on
the heads of friends who loudly bewailed their 9:30 history
tests, or sitting sanctimoniously silent with arms folded and
fingers to lips. The disturbance was woeful.

"Let us have a S-h-h-h poster outside the door," offered
another member. The next Tuesday people looked at the
S-h-h-h poster and hushed. C. A. was pleased; but not for
long. By the second Tuesday everyone had learned to disre-
gard the S-h-h-h poster.

"Let us ask the public to cooperate and tell them why. Let
us suggest that the few minutes right before chapel is a time
to be still and relax and organize thoughts and get in the spirit
for the worship service to come. Let us ask them to try it
and see whether it is helpful." suggested another. And so
they did. (B. P.)

A BoycTs-Eye View

of Mildred McCain

By Jeanne Addison

First you take a large portion of biology, chemistry, and a
bit of physics; add a dash of Montreat in the summer-time;
then you take a bit of Davison's book store, and add a lot of
cheerful vitality. And what do you have? Only a vague
notion of our president's daughter, Millie McCain.

If you want to make your idea a little more definite, you
might ask her about that famous
milk analysis for quan, or get
her to lecture to you on "The
Measurement of Density" as she
did for the Chi Beta Phi banquet.
All you really have to do is walk
hastily past the science hall just
any time and you'll probably see
her at the window.

To really arouse some enthus-
iasm the thing to do is mention
Montreat. Not even the limp
shapeless work uniform she wore,
or the restrictions on swimming
which made it necessary to "fall"
in the pool for a swim or being
quarantined at the seminary on
account of polio for two weeks
after she got home none of these
can dampen her enthusiasm for
Montreat.

As for Davison's Book Store, Mil-
lie is less enthusiastic about that.
She seems to end up there every
time she gets a vacation job.
Rumor has it that she is quite an
authority on children's books, but
knows next-to-nothing about the
others.

The youngest of six children,
she has an unlimited supply of
nieces and nephews and loads of
relatives to visit in the summer.
She is famous for her large-scale
hospitality when her brothers and
sisters aren't home.

Late in the afternoon you

Lower House News

Lower House met in the execu-
tive room in Buttrick Tuesday,
Nov. 7. Lower House Chairman
Helen Roper gave a resume of
the plans for this year's work
which included reading the names
of the heads of the committees
which have been appointed to
look after the sewing machine, the
mimeographing machine, Murphey
Candler and the other responsibili-
ties of Lower House. This review
was for the benefit of the day-
student representatives. The mem-
bers also discussed the coopera-
tive telephone system.

President Molly Milam has ask-
ed the proctors to listen out for
topics to be discussed in the open
forum which is to be held soon.

might look for Millie in a pink gym
suit on the hockey field left in-
ner or goalie depending on her
mood. She is one of the juniors'
star basketball players and man-
ages to do all right in volleyball
too. She is hoping to be a doctor
someday, but if you want to make
her feel most unscientific, ask her
why diii equals l/v3 in a face-
centered crystal.

Durant Sees
Today in Past

(Continued from Page 1)

civilization to come when the ra-
cial mixtures have become "homo-
genized." "Unequal reward for un-
equal abilities" is the only eco-
nomic system he recognizes, and
democracy the best stimulus for a
people at peace.

Religion is a necessary force in
building a civilization, for it checks
man's jungle instincts and affords
peace in an age of conflict, Dr.
Durant said.

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The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Left Overs

Several of last week's immor-
tal lines, which mistakenly (?)
found their way into a trash bas-
ket, have been fished out and
dusted off, and will appear below.
He Got Them From a Horse

Anne Eidson was telling people
Sunday about her date of the
night before. He was a dental
student and evidently keeps his
work constantly in mind. They
were on the streetcar and Anne
suddenly found herself looking at
what seemed to be a man with
the teeth of a horse. Her date had
brought along a false set and
slipped them in his mouth when
she wasn't looking.

Tsk, Tsk

Several juniors who one Satur-
day night recently had dinner .in
the Empire Room, were surpris-
ed, and not at all happily, to
see two members of their sister
class get up and start jitterbug-
ging together, having no man to
guide them. No one present miss-
ed the spectacle.

Quote of the Weak

Student, enthusiastically eating
a piece of fried chicken: Oh well,
you always have to take off your
lipstick for the best things in life.
Hidden Talent

A would-be football player is in
our midst. She is, believe it or
not, Inge Probstein. At breakfast
last Sunday, the black spaniel who
led Mortar Board into chapel on
Saturday got into the limelight
again by refusing to take Miss
Hunter's hint and stay out of
the dining room. Upon his third
appearance he passed by Inge's
chair. She launched herself out
and made a perfect shoestring
tackle, then picked herself up and
said "I feel like a hero."
Hikers Beware

Never take an art student on
a hike, unless you aren't very in-
terested in hiking. This advice
comes as the result of hiking with
Dot Almond, a bottleneck of the
first degree. The rest of the group
had to stop not once but six times
while Dot gathered different
shades of dirt from which to make
paints. Being burdened with six
containers, which she would en-
trust to no one, she naturally did
not get along very fast. As a
climax, she balked and refused to
cross a two-foot stream, which
may, however, be a personal char-
acteristic, not possessed by all art
students.

Kid Party

No doubt the alumnae enjoyed
their day, but not as much as
their children did. Looked after
by several members of Grand-
daughters Club, they played shuf-
fleboard, ping pong, or dragged
each other around by the head as
they desired. In the dining room
they grappled with their halves
of chicken and came off as well
as the rest of us. One little boy
stuffed peas in his mouth, using
a perpetual, rotary motion, which
would have been very well, except
that he forgot to swallow. A lit-
tle girl complained that she just
couldn't remember all those
names. The nurses used their
child psych and reasoned with
them, but unfortunately very few
of their charges had studied child
psych and refused to reason back.
Information, Please
Miss Gaylord was awakened
early one morning by a man phon-
ing to get some mathematical ad-
vice. He had invented "a revolv-
ng. cylindrical dog cage," and
wanted an impressive geometric
erm to call its surface.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1944

Page 3

Freshmaniq

Coffee and Ice Packs Aid
Freshmen With Studies

By Alice Beardsley

Inman's freshmen are interest-
ing people. This was decided when
I. visited them last week to learn
facts about their study habits,
and digressed to dancing in the
lobby and conversing on the hall
floors all three floors.

My first question, "Do you have
a plan for your study?" was brief-
ly answered. They all had lovely
schedules, oh yes, but they couldn't
seem to remember where they mis-
placed them. Stacks and rooms
split 50-50 for the most popular
place for study. The study atmos-
phere of the rooms is improved if
the obliging roommate will trot to
the library.

Fundamentals

There seems to be a variety
of hardest subjects. Biology takes
the lead with English running sec-
ond place, and several obscure
things like fundamentals placing
not last. "Fundamentals are too
hard," says Thames Castner. "I'm
always limping around, 'cause
there's not time to recover from
fundamental to fundamental."
Clarky maintains she has a new
ideal for Agnes Scott "Wear you
out mentally, tear you down phy-
sically, and send you home Christ-
mas a nervous wreck." Naturally
being a bit shocked I hastened to
inquire when she decided ail that.
"Oh, I just thought it up one day
comin' home from fundamentals,"
she answered.

My cross section of freshmen
like French especially and then
history, Spanish, classics, and
English. "Don't you like speech
105?" I said once. "The subject

responded with an "Oh, yes," pro-
ceeded to have an idea, drop her
lower jaw while the breath rush-
ed in, and "wu-u-un, wun" came
out followed by joy with some
sort of a brown cow.

Coffee With Ice
Most freshmen believe their
ability to study has improved. It
was suggester that a longer and
more detailed talk on studying
and study habits would be help-
ful, even though they realize "how
to study" is learned through ex-
perience. One f rosh with a pained
expression confided that her meth-
od was hot coffee and ice packs,
and another was convinced that
more freedom for study is obtain-
ed with feet propped up and shoes
off.

And so the newcomers have def-
inite ideas about this vital occupa-
tion. I left Inman with the as-
surance that freshmen were fast
learning the advantages of intelli-
gent study habits or so I thought.
As I crossed the street I saw one
doleful frosh, one Doc Dunn,
trudging back from the library.
Here was additional survey mater-
ial and so bounding across the
dividing space, I pelted her with
my stock questions, "Where do
you study best? What's your
hardest subject? Your favorite?
Do you have any ideas about
study, and are you learning
how?" Bewildered Doc glared
at me a few seconds, and then
muttered "I don't know, I don't
know. I'm just so tired, so sleepy,
I can't think."

Faith in the universality of
freshmen was restored.

Co-op System
Requires Aid
Of Students

"The three-week period of the
co-operative telephone duty sys-
tem," Miss Bella Wilson, secre-
tory to the dean of students,
stated recently, "generally speak-
ing, has been successful."

Miss Wiison emphasized the
two-fold responsibility which lies
in the fulfillment of the system
the group responsibility and the
individual responsibilty.

"The greatest need is for girls
in the big dormitories to answer
the phones when someone is not
on regular telephone duty. This is
personal responsibility."

"Generally speaking, people
have been very faithful to their
duty, and for this reason, the non-
conformed have been all the more
conspicuous," she related. "Over
300 hours have been assigned that
weren't kept either the girl on
duty was not there, or she did not
sign up on the posted chart."

The girls have been particular-
ly faithful about the night hours.

Miss Wilson announced that
each girl has been asked to post
a copy of her schedule on her
room door to help girls on duty
to locate them.

She cited that people who
weren't shouldering their share
of the responsibility were taking
the attitude of "too much trouble,
or why should I, or I forgot."

"If the girls would realize that
it is to their advantage in getting
calls or messages as well as the
Dean's office in locating you to
have someone on duty, the respon-
sibility of being on the job at the
appointed time, would be accepted
willngly," Miss Wilson said.

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Many Hottentots were off for
big week-ends. Ellen Morrison,
June Driskill, and Sally Bussey
spent it at Ellen's home in Spar-
tanburg, S. C. Nancy Deal was
at Clemson, while Martha Hay
went to Auburn. Martha Humber
visited friends at Wesleyan and
Lorenna Ross and Caroline
Squires were at Brenau.

Beth Walton, Dale Bennett, and
Nina Owens spent the week-end
at Nina's in Roanoke, Ala. Mary
Catherine Vinsant was at Sea
Island, Ga.

Bess Sheppard went to Waynes-
boro and Dot Peace and Sara
Milford went home to Greenville,
S. C. Others who were at home
for the week-end numbered Liz
McWhorter to Tifton; Leila
Powell to Thomasville to see Bob-
bie and Lang; Claire Rowe to La-
Grange; Valeria Brown to Fort
Valley; Mildred Claire Jones to
Thomaston; Mary Helen House to
Birmingham; Maggie Toole and
K. A. Edelblut to Augusta; Lanie
Harris to Cordele for her birth-
day, and Dottie Kahn to New
York.

Kittie Kay went up to Paradise
at Chapel Hill, N. C.

Mickie Beman was in Milledge-
ville visiting relatives.

Margaret Kinard and Peggy
Pat Home went to Clemson for
Clemson-V. M. I. game.

Round Town

At the circus . . . Ann Webb
and Betty Davis. Vicky Alexan-
der and Teddy Bear having sup-
per at Mammy's Shanty with
Teddy's best beau, her Dad. Leila
Holmes at Wisteria Garden. At
the Paradise Room were Alice
Newman, Mary McCalla, and
Cookie DeVane.

Jean Stewart went on the Tech

Pike possum hunt Saturday night.
Peggy Gregg attended the Sigma
Chi rush house dance at Tech.
At the Phi Gam rush party at
Tech were Betty Dennis, Dabney
Adams, Grace Durant, B. J.
Brown, Betty Abernathy, Bobbie
Blair, Lida Walker, Beverly Gor-
dy.

Nancy Geer and her guest from
Columbus went to the Delta Tau
Delta house at Emory. Sue Hut-
chens was at the Chi Phi house
at Tech.

At the Dental College Inter-
frat dance were Charlien Simms,
Jeanne Robinson, Jean Chewning,
Dootsie Gardner, B. J. Radford,
Jane Smith.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Fun is promised this week to
some of the more athletically in-
clined in the form of hiking and
picnicking. Tomorrow Outing
club is having a supper hike, giv-
en for the old members by the new
ones. Next Friday the Archery
club is journeying down Harrison
Hut way to have a picnic which
will in a way be a get-acquainted
party for all the members, ac-
cording to Kathryn Burnett, ach-
ery manager.

Hockey Season

We are now going into the home
stretch in the hockey season. The
varsity council has been announ-
ced, and their choosing of our
best players is not far away. Any-
thing can still happen in our
games, and which team will come
out on top is not certain yet. We
can't help looking forward to that
varsity-faculty hockey game at
the end of the season.

A. A. Constitution

After having the A. A. Consti-
tution revised and the changes
read in chapel and posted for two
weeks, the new Constitution will
be voted on tomorrow in chapel
by the Athletic Association, which
includes the whoe student body.

With the sophomore class vol-
untarily saving and collecting Blue
Horse wrappers for A. A., the
chances of the association's get-
ting a bicycle by spring look
good. All donations to the cause
will be very gratefully appreciat-
ed.

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Juniors Beat
Frosh Again

By Ruth Ryner

Beginning the second round of
hockey games Friday, the juniors
again defeated the fighting frosh
5-0, and the sophs were downed
once more by the seniors, 2-0.

Playing was exceedingly close
in the first game as the sophs and
seniors battled it out. Munroe
drove through soon after the open-
ing whistle to make the senior's
first score. Neither team could
keep possession of the ball long
enough to score again during the
first half though Radford took
the ball down for the sophomores
in the last few minutes but failed
to score. The seniors managed to
score again in the second half
while the sophs still remained
scoreless. Both teams were quick
on defense the rest of the half.
The sophs made another threat-
ening drive toward the goal near
the end but the seniors broke it
up and drove back up the field.

The junior-freshmen game got
off to a quick start and it looked
for a while as if the juniors with
their strong offensive technique
were really going to be held back.
The frosh used good stickwork in
recovering the ball every time the
juniors could work near the goal.
Long made the first junior score,
then Johnson and Chewning start-
ed clicking and brought in another
score before the half ended. They
went back in again with the same
spirit, chalking up three more
goals while leaving the freshmen
scoreless.

The line-ups are

as follows :

Juniors

Position

Freshmen

Btixrud

RW

Plumley

Chewning

RI

Andrews

Johnson

CF

Hatch

Long

LI

Dunn

Stephenson

LW

Davis

Ragland

RH

Dieckmann

Burnett

CH

Major

Walker

LF

McLaurin

Register

RB

Hayes

Rowe

LB

Haislip

Phelps

G

Orr

Seniors

Position

Sophomores

Milam

RW

Cochran

Munroe

RI

Hoyt

Higgins

CF

Radford

King

LI

Harnsberger

Kirtley

LW

Heery

Hunter

RH

Newman

Cumming

CH

Yates

Arnold

LF

Meyer

Equen

RB

Currie

Webb

LB

Dobbins

Everett

G

Denning

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A, A, Honor Roll
Lists Nineteen

Nineteen students have been
named to Atheletic Honor Roll by
the physical education depart-
ment, according to an announce-
ment by Miss Llewellyn Wilburn,
department head. They are:
Seniors: Mary Cumming, Dot-
ty Kahn, Molly Milam, Mary
Munroe.

Juniors: Joan Crangle, Scotty
Johnson, Betty Long, Mildred
McCain, Bettye Lee Phelps, Sal-
ly Sue Stephenson, Sarah Walk-
er.

Sophomores: Betty Andrews,
Margaret Cochran, Dale Ben-
nett, Gene Goode, Ann Hough,
Louise Hoyt, Ann Stine.
Freshmen: Cooky Miller.
Athletic Honor Roll is a means
of recognition of those girls who
have done outstanding work in
the various activities offered by
the physical education depart-
ment. It is an opportunity for the
girls to have their gym courses
conducted on a recreational basis.
They will be asked to talk over
their plans with the physical edu-
cation director and to report their
activities at end of each quarter.

Miss Horn Gives
Oriental Talk

"Oriental contributions to man's
idea of the good life" will be the
subject for the second in a series
of campus discussions on "The
Good Life," to be held this Sun-
day, Nov. 19 in the old "Y" room
in Main with Miss Muriel Ham
as leader.

The discussion series, open to
all students, began Nov. 5 with
a consideration of Greek ideas of
the good life, led by Miss Susan
Cobbs.

If interest in the Sunday night
discussions continues, they will be
held throughout the year with sub-
jects of religious and social inter-
est.

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Soprano to Sing

Margaret Speaks, soprano solo-
ist on the Firestone program for
the past 10 years, will be heard
in concert in Presser Friday night,
Nov. 17, at 8:30. This is the sec-
ond of a series sponsored by the
Decatur Junior Service League.

BUZZN'
BETTY

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To date, $2652.15 has been
pledged by the student body to
the War Service Fund. Only 15
persons have not turned in their
pledges yet.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944

NO. 9

atyankagtumg - 1944

Thanks for the land of America,

For reasons a little child knows,

Its springtimes, its warm summer sunshine,

The peace of its white winter snows.

Thanks for the wealth of America,

Its forests and prairies and hills,

For the challenge to build and to conquer,

For its farms and its mines and its mills.

Thanks for the spirit of America,
That shines out far over the sea,
A proof to the world and all nations
That a land qon grow great and be free.

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Thanks for the strength of America,
A giant that has slumbered so long,
And now stir in its might and its vigor,
A nation awakened and strong.

Thanks for the love of America,
Love of family, of home and of land.
While we cherish and guard and defend these
The American Dream shall yet stand.

Miss Coffin Tells How Students
May Help Future Leaders

Vgrsity, Sub- Varsity
Teams Are Chosen

VOL. XXX.

Freshmen Elect
Dabney Adams

Dabney Adams, of Asheville, N.
C, was elected president of the
freshman class at a meeting last
week. Nancy Haislip, of Charles-
ton, W. Va. t and Adele Dieck-
mann, of Decatur, will represent
their class on the executive board
of Student Government. Sheely
Little, of Hickory, N. C, will at-
tend Athletic Associaton board
meetings. Elections of other offi-
cers will take place tomorrow.

Leaders of Freshman Cabinet
are Pris Hatch, president; Sheely
Little, vice-president, and Mari-
anna Hollinsworth, secretary.

Dabney headed the freshmen
in the Black Cat stunt. Sheely
has broken several swimming
records here.

Class of '44 Has
Reunion Nor. 24

The class of '44 will have a
reunion at 7:30 p. m. Friday, Nov.
24, at a coffee in the Anna Young
Alumnae House. Miss Philippa
Gilchrist and Anne Sale will show
colored movies of the class taken
during their sophomore, junior,
and senior years.

About 35 members of the class
are expected.

Out of town guests will include
Agnes Douglas, Betty Vecsey, and
Ruth Farrior.

Sophs Publish
Directory Dec. 4

Sophomore Directory is sched-
uled to come out on Dec. 4, co-
chairmen Mary Ann Martin and
Ann Martin, announced at class
meeting Friday.

The Directory, an annual soph-
omore project, will differ from di-
rectories of past years by having
two new features. They are: local
faculty telephone numbers and the
initials of the students' fathers.
The latter is to make it easier to
locate friends when passing
through a city or town.

The committee heads working
on the actual compiling of the Di-
rectory are: Ann Rogers, public-
ity; Carol Taylor, sales; Phia Pe-
dakis, typing; Joanne Benton, ma-
terial, and Betty Andrews, ad-
vertising.

Peggy Pat Horne as artist, de-
signed the cover in grey with
black lettering. This plain mod-
ernistic scheme is followed
throughout.

The Dean's Office is inviting
the college community to attend
an after-dinner coffee in the lob-
by of Rebekah Scott on Nov. 23.
Miss Scandrett plans to add to
the festive spirit by bright
ehrysan them urns and a roaring
fire. Miss Charlotte Hunter,
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Miss
Bella Wilson, Miss Anne Ward,
Miiss Jane Coughlan, Miss Mar-
tha Ray Lasseter, Miss Kather-
ine Phillips, and Miss Carrie
Scandrett, assisted by the house
presidents, will be officiating.

"Now is the time for the stu-
dents of America to be one of the
small candles in the great dark-
ness of the world," said Miss
Alicia Coffin speaking in behalf
of the World Student Service
Fund in chapel last Thursday. Miss
Coffin stressed the need for well-
trained youth who will play an
important role in the future.
She explained how the money
which students contribute is used
to aid the refugee students and
those who are in occupied coun-
tries.

Miss Coffin, a native of Bangor,
Me., is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Maine, and last year
completed a year of graduate
work with a Danforth Founda-
tion Graduate Scholarship at the
University of Nebraska. She is
now the traveling secretary for
the WSSF, covering Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, and Ken-
tucky. The WSSF sends such
representatives who are well ac-
quainted with problems of stu-
dents to as many campuses as
possible in each state, so that the
students may know where their
contributions are used.

$500,000 Goal

The WSSF, Miss Coffin explain-
ed, was organized in 1937 in the
United States under the World
Student Relief, although there

had been similar organizations in
several other nations prior to this
time. At present the students of
fifteen world powers are giving
annually to this fund. The goal
for this year has been set at $500,-
000 in the United States, which
will be only a "drop in the buc-
ket" compared with the amount
needed, it was stressed by Miss
Coffin. The money is sent to
refugee universities in China, for
books, baths, bread, and clothes
which are rented according to the
season and returned by the stu-
dents. In European countries the
money is used to help students
reach safety in neutral countries,
where they are given a chance to
continue their education. Also
such things as books, study ma-
terials, and post cards are sent
to the American boys in. prison
camps who are interestd in con-
tinuing their education.

"The WSSF is different from
other relief agencies in that it
appeals only to the students,"
added Miss Coffin. "After the war
the students will be the leaders,
and therefore must be trained. It
is important for students on the
campuses here in America to real-
ize the needs of fellow students
all over the world, and by giving
to the relief of these fellow-stu-
dents help to preserve the future."

'Spider Island' Tonight

Tonight at 8:30 in Gaines
Chapel Blackfriars will present
their first production of the
year, "Spider Island." This
three- act mystery-melodrama is
under the direction of Miss Ro-
berta Winter. Jane Everett,
Peggy Willmon, LaNelle Wright,
Liz Carpenter, Martha Polk, and
Pauline Ertz appear in "Spider
Island." The experienced cast
and production staff are expect-
ed to give a fine performance.

Seniors Elect
Opera Head

Anticipating a crowded spring
quarter, this year's senior class
last Friday elected Julia Slack
chairman of the Senior Opera
which will be given in May.

The Seniorpolitan Opera Com-
pany, as the senior organization
is known, traditonally takes a
well known opera, goes into a hud-
dle, and emerges with a trans-
formed opus.

Ceevah Rosenthal has been nam-
ed chairman of the writing com-
mittee. Others on the committee
include Virginia Bowie, Molly
Milam, Pat Elam, Wendy Whit-
tle, Inge Probstein, Leila Holmes,
and Frances Brougher.

The writing committee will
meet this afternoon at 4:30 in the
old 4, Y" room.

Dr. McCain Fetes
Frosh at Party

The Freshman Bible Class had
its annual candy pull at Dr. Mc-
Cain's home on Friday, Nov. 17,
at 7:15 p. m.

Immediately after vespers, the
members of the class gathered at
President McCain's house on South
Candler street for an evening of
candy pulling and corn popping.
Although the party was primarily
for the members of the Bible class,
all the interested freshmen were
invited.

Late Wool Arrives
For Needed Socks

Wool for a number of socks,
both ordinary and walking cast
toe, may be obtained in No. 316
Buttrick, Miss Susan Cobbs' of-
fice. Since the shipment was late
and the need for socks is urgent,
they must be finished in three
weeks.

War Council also announces the
following results in war stamp
sales and blood donations:

War stamps for the week end-
ing Nov. 11, $16.30; for Nov. 18,
$11.50.

Blood donors for the week end-
ing Nov. 11, Miss Emma Mae Lan-
ey, Mrs. Annie Mae F. Smith,
Hansell Cousar, Thames Castner,
Jane Brown; for Nov. 18, Strat-
ton Lee.

Alice Newman Wins
Sophomore Stick

During the halves of the final
hockey games last Friday, Scotty
Johnson, school hockey manager,
announced the members of the
Varsity and Sub-Varsity teams
for 1944. They are as follows:

Varsity: Right wing, Barbara
Plumley; right inner, Mary dim-
ming; center forward, Scotty
Johnson; left inners, Mary Mun-
roe and Betty Long; left wing,
Molly Milam; center half, Cather-
ine Burnett; left half, Sarah Walk-
er; right half, Harding Ragland
and Alice Newman; left full, Ann
Webb; right full, Christina Yates;
goalie, Jean Denning.

Sub-Varsity: Right wing, Mary
Ann Courtenay; right inner, Jean
Chewning; center forward, Susan
Kirtley; left inners. Millie Mc-
Cain and Agnes Harnsberger; left
wing, Sally Sue Stephenson and
Sis Davis; center half, Liz Car-
penter; left half, Anne Equen;
right half, Lady Major; left full,
Annette Neville; right full, Ann
Register; goalie, Anne Lee.

To Alice Newman, one of the
selected varsity members, a spe-
cial honor was given. Following
custom, Mary Cumming, senior
captain, presented the hockey
stick to her as the sophomore
who has shown the most skill
in handling the stick this season,
and who has been the best all-
round player.

Missionary to Speak
In Chapel Nov. 29

Miss Estelle Lumpkin, mission-
ary to Japan and English teacher
in the Japanese schools for about
40 years, will speak in chapel
Wednesday, Nov. 29. She returned
on the Gripsholm in 1934 after a
year's internment. Miss Lumpkin
believes in the people to whom
she has devoted many years and
will give us some new ideas about
the Japanese and the Christian
church there.

Date Book

Wednesday, Nov. 22 "Spider Is-
land," Gaines chapel, 8:30 p. m.

Thursday, Nov. 23 Freshman Bi-
ble class Thanksgiving service
in old chapel at 10 a. m.
After dinner coffee in Rebekah
lobby

Cotillion club dance, for college
community in gym at 8 p. m.
Freshmen Cabinet, service in
Murphey Candler. 10:15 p. m.

Friday, Nov. 24 Varsity-Sub-
Varsity game at 4 p. m.

Sunday, Nov. 26 Group leaves for
Lawson at 2 p. m.
Miss Harn speaks on Oriental
Philosophy in old "Y" room in
Main at 7:15

Wednesday, Nov. 29 Miss Estelle
Lumpkn speaks in chapel. In-
activity week begins

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944

We Are Thankful

We are pausing this year on Nov. 23 in the midst of the
worst war in history to celebrate Thanksgiving day. And
as we sit here, safely sheltered from the horrors of war, we
have many things for which to be thankful.

The privilege of living in a democratic country, of being in
an institution of higher learning, of being in a Christian
community, and enjoying the comforts of life are blessings
which we should count and appreciate.

When we are reminded in chapel, over the radio, in news-
papers, and through letters of the hardships which people of
our own age and of all ages are going through in other coun-
tries, we cannot help but realize how lucky we are to be
spared these things.

The food that we eat, the clothes that we wear, the warm
buildings in which we study and play, the sports which we
enjoy, and the recreation on week-ends are the blessings of
being in a free country, and are the things for which we
are fighting to maintain.

So as our pilgrim fathers rejoiced over their blessings
and in being free from oppression, we should rejoice over
the blessings which we have in our own country today and
should pray for the freedom of other countries so that the
whole world may be blessed as we Ameicans feel that we are.

Have You Reformed?

Two weeks from today exams begin, which means that there
are dozens of books to be read and papers to be written be-
tween now and then. It also means that most Hottentots are
going to have to settle down to some real studying before
Dec. 6.

If you're not included in the category of the reformed who
have suddenly started making every minute count, the most
considerate thing you can do is stay away from where they
are. Seek company in the great outdoors, the tea house, or
maybe the bookstore, but stay away from the library. Don't
renew old acquaintances under a "busy" sign in the hall; and
incidentally, look before you knock to see if there is a "busy"
sign.

In short, if you would like to avoid some of the strain of
exams, or, to appeal to a more selfish motive, if you would
like to avoid having your throat cut be considerate.

Criticism

The News staff wants you to feel free to bring your criti-
cisms of the paper to us. Whether they be good or bad, all
criticisms are welcome.

The only way to have a school newspaper with which the
majority can be satisfied is to have the students' opinions.
We realize our imperfections and value any advice which
might prove helpful.

We want this newspaper to belong to the campus and to
be the voice of the campus.

So if you have any^ suggestions to make, please come to
us with them and they will be heeded.

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A BoycTs-Eye View

of dabney Adams

By Mary Ann Courtenay

Leaving an illustrious high school career in the background
isn't easy for a freshman, but Dabney Adams has almost for-
gotten her many offices and activities at Asheville with all
the "won-derful" parties and people she finds at Agnes Scott.
Believe it or not, she knew all the freshmen within a week
and now knows, by name at least,

easiness Assistants: Car

Newman. Laura WBX&tt
burner. Jean Rooney. Ma

Botty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones. Aflcc
i Jane S< huruak-rr. Doris Street. Ann Hou^h. Mav

every one on the campus.

Miss Leyburn's English class
fascinates her most, while her oth-
er studies seem to give her little
trouble. She finished "Pride and
Prejudice" some time ago and
manages to complete her English
themes days before they're due.
Dabney and her roommate, Grace
Durant, love to read aloud, their
particular favorites at present be-
ing The White Cliffs, Macbeth,
and short stories of Dorothy Par-
ker. The two roommates also
enjoy concerts together. When
the music turns "profound," they
entertain themselves by scrutiniz-
ing members of the orchestra.

Dramatics was Dabney's chief
delight in high school. Besides
taking part in a number of plays,
she wrote a one act play which
was presented at the Carolina
Drama Festival.

One of the most exciting mo-
ments of her life was at the Black
Cat Stunt when the freshmen gave
their stunt chairman her first or-
chidthe night they won, the
night before her birthday.

Dabney is a great talker. If
she isn't wandering through up-
perclassmen dorms, she'll be sing-
ing or bulling with the rest of
her wing in Inman, all clad "com-
fortably" in blue jeans.

You may have heard her say.
once or twice or more often, that
her family is coming for Thanks-
giving. You have heard her. too,
stimulating enthusiasm for hoc-

key games. And freshmen, you
will soon be absorbing the bub-
bling personality of your newly
elected president, Ldda Dabney
Adams.

Student- Budget
Queries Answered

Probably you have wondered
where our student budget comes
from and wha* expenses come out
of it. Lucille Beaver, treasurer
of the student body, can tell you
that the large, imposing sum is
made up of $18.00 taken from each
tuition fee and goes, in different
amounts, to many campus organ-
izations, such as the Silhouette,
Lecture Association, and the News.
This year, for the first time,
the treasurer of the student body
is also treasurer of Student Gov-
ernment, keeping its books, paying
bills for parties, freshman orien-
tation, the reception, etc., serving
as a member of the executive
committee. Furthermore, with
the budget committee, made up
of treasurers of organizations, and
the student recorder, she will help
AA keep the lost and found.

As it did last year with Gwen
Hill as treasurer, the budget is
expected to work out very well.
At this time all business manag-
ers and treasurers of organiza-
tions are urged to get their allot-
ments as soon as possible. The
checks should be cashed or depos-
ited now.

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Canipfire Girls

On the Outing Club hike last
week, Ann Seitzinger and Carolyn
Gilchrist demonstrated a new
technique in firebuilding the
stand-on-your-head-a n d-b 1 o w-i t
method. After they finally suc-
ceeded in starting a flickering
feeble blaze, they noticed that the
coffee pot was some little distance
removed from it. Most people
would have used the obvious meth-
od of moving the coffee pot, but
not those two. They very care-
fully dragged the fire over to the
pot. Enroute it died and the
struggle was renewed. Ann trying
to cheer the thirsty ones who grip-
ped their cups impatiently, said
she saw smoke, and, "where there's
smoke, there's fire perhaps not
in our time, but someday."
Veiled

According to her roommate
Peggy Gregg, Sue Hutchens had
a double purpose in buying her
newest hat. The first was to fill
the usual need of something to
balance on the head. The other
reason lies in the veil on the
hat. It seems there's a band on it
that hangs in just the right place
to hide circles unc^er the eyes.
Very nice for Sunday morning.
Quote of the Week

"What I want is a sophisticated
caveman."

Hair Do's and Dont's

Last Thursday night Bella,
Leila, and Leila came out of the
dining room discussing in not-
very-subdued tones the state of
their wigs. "Mine," said Leila,
"looks exactly like Brillo." Quoth
Leila, "Mine acts like steel wool."
"Mine's worse than that," said
Bella, "it looks just like a mop."
At this point, each was pointing
to her head with wild gestures, try-
ing to prove her words. Suddenly
they realized that they were
standing outside of the old chapel,
and that every head inside was
turned toward them.

Travel Troubles

Travel is so difficult nowadays.
At least two of our number think
so. Sunday afternoon, after miss-
ing the bus, they took a taxi out
to Lawson. When it was time to
leave, they just followed the
crowd, but suddenly the crowd
disappeared, leaving them alone
in a long corridor. Finally they
found their way out and went
to stand and wait for a bus. A
car with a respectable looking
"couple" stopped and, as the rain
was very wet, our friends got in,
expecting to be taken home. In-
stead they had a lovely ride, which
came to an end when the "couple"
stopped to get gas and were de-
serted. The girls got on a street-
car, only to learn that it was
going in the wrong direction. Fin-
ally they caught a bus to Ponce
de Leon, only to be told by a
conductor that there had been a
wreck and, probably no more cars
would get through. One did, how-
ever, and they got back in time
to enjoy a hearty supper.
Reckless Riding

Mary McConkey, taking an am-
bulance ride to Emory to be ap-
pendectomied, had only one
thought on the way over. There
she was, riding in a car with two
men, and she hadn't signed out.
Candied Camera

Publicity pictures made recent-
ly in the library were no doubt
artistic but they certainly lacked
realism. The group holding coffee-
cups, was gathered around a fire,
chatting, cozily. Not a notebook
in sight.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944

Page 3

Music, Books, Campus Lite
Are Interests of Bella Wilson

By Martha Baker

You know, some people you can
catalogue with one word, like
Roosevelt, "winner," or Frankie,
"swooner." Then there are some
personalities that you can't pos-
sibly describe with words at all.
You have to take mannerisms
and small things which added up
give you the real person.

Bella

There are such persons here on
campus. Take Bella Wilson for in-
stance. Listed in the Agnes Scott
bulletin as "Secretary to the Dean
of the Students," Bella really de-
serves a more general title for
tier office job is only part time
compared with the other things
she's busy doing.

Music, Men, Philosophy

She rooms on 2nd Rebekah right
at the head of the stairs where
it's easiest to stop off before
that long trip up to third. Maybe
you admire the curtains, bright
flowered chintz ones with a chair
covered in the same material. Then
one thing leads to another and
before you know it you're talking
about music or philosophy, books
or the scarcity of men. Bella has
a book shelf full of everything
from the "Book-of-the-Month" club
books to Goethe's "Faust" and she
loves to talk about all of them.
Maybe it's a personal problem
what to do over Joe Blow, or may-
be it's simply a campus incident
that's bothering you. No matter
what, Bella digs down and helps
you with the solution. Take the
time she walked with the harrass-
ed senior and let her "talk it out"
about the Shakespeare paper due
the next morning. Incidentally,
she did quite well and had no
more fear of not graduating.

I think the reason Bella knows
what to say to us is the fact
that she is so vitally interested in
campus activities and in life itself.
She is a keen music enthusiast
as well as an art critic. She sel-
dom misses any of the concerts,
both on and off campus and es-
pecially enjoys Hugh Hodgson.
Hottentot

Not so long ago, Bella was a
Hottentot herself. Even then she
showed her perference for Re-
bekah Scott, where she reigned as
house president her senior year.
A Latin major, Bella was a mem-
ber of Eta Sigma Phi, Glee club,
and Blackfriars. She had the same
zest for living then as now, so her
classmates will tell you.

Sometime after Christmas, Bel-
la is going to study at Columbia
University. For those of us who
know her, we'd like to say, "good
luck" and "hurry back." We'll be
waiting for some more of those in-
formal chats ... the "tea parties"

GILL BROS.

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Faculty and students are cor- <
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ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

where Bella brings out the dainty
pastel tea set and serves coffee
. . . seconds in the Dean's office
where she looks up from
fixing telephone schedules to say
hello ... in fact all the times of
just seeing Bella.

It's nice to know that she'll
carry the Agnes Scott ideals with
her, for she personifies them.
It's nice to know that she can't be
catalogued in one word, but that
it's the small things that add up
to one individual dainty, neat,
and brunette just Bella.

Areopagitica
Remembered

Three hundred years ago this
month John Milton gave to the
world "Areopagitica," the most
eloquent plea for unlicensed print-
ing ever written.

A century and a half later, when
our forefathers began the experi-
ment of democracy, they added
to the constitution the provision
that "Congress shall make no law
. . . abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press."

To commemorate the "Areopa-
gitica," the Massachusetts' Li-
brary Association and the Amer-
ican Library Association have
sponsored Nov. 19-25 as Freedom
of the Press Week, and have ask-
ed libraries all over the country
to celebrate it appropriately.

Through this commemoration it
is hoped that the people of Amer-
ica may give thought to this great
freedom, and may be strengthened
in their desire to understand,
cherish, and defend their funda-
mental freedoms.

Any confusion in this week's
paper may be accounted for by
the interruption and corruption
by F. and M.

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'More Time' Plea
Of 7 Debutantes

By Jane Bowman

Outstanding among Agnes
Scott students are the seven girls
who rush madly from class to
class in crepe dresses, fur coats,
sling pumps, orchids, and Chanel
Number Five. They are members
of the 1944 Debutante Club of
Atlanta who have to wedge their
social life in between classes. The
girls who live in this perpetual
whirl are Betty Brown, Anne
Hoyt, Mary Amerine, Harriet
Jordan, Florence Harrison, Mary
Jane Shumaker, and Ruth Lam-
bert.

The mad rush formally began
with a Hallowe'en ball at the
Driving Club. Since then the debs
have averaged nine parties a week,
consisting of breakfasts, lunch-
eons and teas. Amazing as it
seems they are attending classes
and regularly. The parties will
Oe climaxed by a ball at the Driv-
ing Club on Dec. 26.

A distinguishing feature of the
1944 Club is that it is a typical
wartime debutante club in that
all the girls are "coming out" at
one party. The activities of the
club are also in keeping with the
times. They do work at the Open
Door Canteen, the Officers'
Lounge, Lawson General Hospital,
and they participated in the Pop-
py and Forget-Me-Not drives. Be-
cause of school, Agnes Scott's debs
are unable to do much of this
work. Their one plea is for more
time!

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Friday night brought a Med
formal at the Biltmore. Puddin
Bealer, Lu Cunningham, Sissy Jef-
fries, Virginia Owens, Harding
Ragland, Robin Robinson, Jeter
Starr, Lura Johnston, Dot Dyren-
forth, K. A. Edelblut, Kittie Kay,
June Thomason, Eva Williams,
Lucy Turner, Frances. Brougher,
and Louise Starr, were there.

Attending the K. A. barn dance
at Emory Saturday were Janice
Latta, B. A. Ziegler, Rite Watson,
Punky Mattison, Leo Jesperson,
Dot Chapman, Virginia Carter,
Nelson Fisher, Betty Manning,
Hilda Taber, Carroll Taylor,
Maudie Van Dyke, Fran Ninger,
and Mildred Claire Jones.

Lib Osborne, Marie Adams,
Anne Strickland, and Edwina Da-
vis went to the ENO dance at
Emory Friday night.

Dr. McCain entertained his
Freshman Bible class at a candy
pull Saturday night in his home.
put-of-Town

Those lucky home-goers take
it again . . . Eugenia Jones, Mary
Brown Mahon, Cocky Cochran
taking B. J. Radford, and Mar-
garet McManus taking roommate,
Caroline Squires, went to Green-
ville, S. C. Midge Haddock was
in Columbus. So was Margaret
Ann Richardson whose guest was
Mary Manley and Beverly Gordy,
who took Sally Ball of Shorter
with her. Rusty Raefield and

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

Betty Dennis journeyed to Mont-
gomery, Ala., while Claudia
Brownlee went to Anderson, S. C.
Anne Register and Bitty King en-
joyed a little city life at their
respective homes in Fitzgerald
and Newnan. Others who honored
their families were Betty Camp-
bell in Hartsville, S. C, Chris
Yates in Moultrie, Hansell Cousar
in Florence, S. C, Theresa Kemp
in Marietta, Susan Kirtley in San-
ford, Fla., Emily Higgins to Dal-
ton, and Amanda Hulsay in
Gainesville.

But there were quite a few
families visiting Hottentots here
. . . Mary Catherine Vinsant's par-
ents from Memphis, Tenn., Helen
Currie's father from Scarsdale,
N. Y., sisters of Louise McClar-
en and Nancy Deal, Mac Craig's
mother (for a whole week) from
Spruce Pine, N. C, Nancy Seer's
mother from Rutherford, N. C,
and Mary Mohr's mother from
Anchorage, Ky.

Last week-end Ann Noell's Walt
was here, just returned from Eng-
land. They went over to Birm-
ingham, Ala., for a few days with
his family.

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Week Beginning Wed., Nov. 22
Wednesday
Lucille BALL - Dick POWELL in
MEET THE PEOPLE

Thursday and Friday
Jane Allyson-Gloria DeHaven-Van Johnson in
TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR
Saturday

BEYOND THE LAST FRONTIER
and

TAMPICO

Monday and Tuesday
Cary GRANT - Janet BLAIR in
ONCE UPON A TIME

RICH'S

GIRLS
LEARN TO FLY

NOW

Applicants must be at least 16 years of age,
of good moral character, and a citizen of
U. S. A.

Write or call Bill Hunt, Chief Pilot, Gate City Flying Service,
Atlanta Municipal Airport, Atlanta, Ga. Phone CAIhoun 1327.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1944

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

The sports spotlight this past
week was focused on the an-
nouncement of the varsity and
sub-varsity and the awarding of
the hockey stick to the sophomore
showing the most outstanding
playing for the season. Congratu-
lations are well deserved by those
making these teams and by Alice
Newman, winner of the tradition-
al stick.

The hockey games last Friday
provided a vigorous end for the
regular season, with the Sophs
triumphing over the frosh and the
juniors fighting hard to remain
undefeated by winning in a tight
game with the seniors.

We haven't heard the last of
hockey around here yet, though.
Longfellow had his "Evangeline,"
Newton had his laws of motion,
Einstein has his fourth dimension,
and we at Agnes Scott have our
Faculty- Varsity hockey game.
The great event is to take place
next Friday, adding a colorful
touch to the Thanksgiving sea-
son. If the game this year is any-
thing Ike the one last year, it
will be highly enjoyable, to say
the least. The spectators and the
players are likely to be surprised
by their professors' skill and en-
ergy in playing.

A. A. Board

The Athletic Board wound up
its business for this quarter in a
meeting last Monday night. Re-
ports from managers of fall sports
show a successful hockey season
(showing the wearing of shin
guards), new members of the ten-
nis club, and a tennis tournament,
several good swimming meets and
additions to the swimming club,
the organization of an archery
club, and over 30 new members
for the outing club which went
on several very invigorating hikes
and also sold apples at the hockey
games. Sings have been sponsored
by A. A. this quarter, and al-
though the number of singers has
usually been small, those who
came seemed to enjoy themselves.

Archery ToumamentsS

Archery club is planning to have
a couple of tournaments this
week. Definite plans will be an-
nounced later by Louisa Aichel,
secretary of the archery club.

Hockey Finale

Unbeaten Juniors Outplay
Fighting Seniors, 4-3

Swimming Experts
To Give Exhibition

A swimming exhibition by a
class from the Atlanta Athletic
Club will be given on Friday,
Nov. 24 at 8 p. m. in the gym.

Features of the evening will be
racing turns, surface dives, form
swimming, and various races. Ac-
cording to Miss Barbara Ames,
swimming coach, one six-year-old
girl will give pointers on the back-
stroke. Participants will be a
group of 25 boys and girls of all
ages.

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

Excitement ran high Friday af
ternoon as teams clashed for the
last time in the current hockey
season. The undefeated juniors
kept a clean slate by turning back
a determined senior team in one
of the most exciting games of the
year, 4-3. After being defeated
by the seniors last week, the
sophs got back on top again by
defeating the freshmen 3-1.

In the junior-senior clash, play-
ing was close and exciting from
the very beginning. After the
opening bully, the seniors took
the ball way down into junior ter-
ritory only to lose it at the hands
of quick junior defense players
who drove it back up and enabled
Johnson to work through for the
first score. After the next play
the score was tied as Munroe
made a hard drive toward the
goal to score for the seniors.
Johnson Scores

The junior defense players were
definitely on the alert during the
rest of the half in keeping the
ball in the hands of the for-
wards. Johnson made another
quick score for the juniors, then
Register, leading the defense at
this point, sent the ball down
again and Long drove it in from
the inner zone, ending the half
3-1.

In the second half, the seniors
staged a rally that almost doom-
ed the unbeaten juniors. Senior
defense play was excellent in
forming a barrier that just
couldn't be broken. The forwards
were quick to catch up, and drove
down for two goals as the game
neared its close to tie the score,
3-3. In the remaining seconds,
Johnson made the junior score
that made victory theirs.

The sophomore-freshman game
was less exciting but close. After
several minutes of play the sophs
scored, then from center Plumley
made a beautiful play down the
field but failed to score. Through-
out the half, play was extreme,
the ball going from one goal to
the other but each team failed to
score. Just before the half ended,
Hoyt drove in to make a second
goal for the sophs. As the second
half began, the sophs scored again
but for the last time. The teams
played back and forth the remain-
der of the half, and not until
the last minute could freshmen
forwards come through with their
only score.

Seniors Juniors
Milam R W Courtenay

Mack LW Chewning

Cumming (2) CF Johnson (3)
Munroe (1) LI Long (1)

Biggins LW Stephenson

Farmer RH Ragland

Milford CH Burnett

Equen LH Walker

Arnold RB Register

Webb LB Neville

Lee G McCain

Substitutions: Seniors, Everett,
Hunter, Rosenthal.
Soohomores Freshmen
Cochran RW Plumley

Hoyt (1) LW Andrews

Radford (1) CF Hatch
Johnson (1) LI Hamilton
Heery LW Davis

Newman RH Dieckmann

Yates CH Major

Meyer LH Bryant

Currie R B Clapp

Dobbins LB Haislip

Denning G Orr

Substitutions : Sophomores,
Buchanan, Yates; Freshmen, Cun-
ningham.

White House Gets in a Rut

Library Exhibit Features
Freedom of the Press

Freedom of the press is the cur-
rent theme of the library exhibit
displayed yesterday for the first
time by Miss Edna Ruth Hanley,
college librarian. A nation-wide
celebration of the 300th anniver-
sary of the first printing of Mil-
ton's Areopagitica is the origin of
press freedom week.

The exhibit features articles,
among which are "The Public Be
Banned" by Karleen Brown and
"Free News, First Step in Peace"
by Kent Cooper, executive editor
of the Associated Press. Books
which have been politically banned
throughout the ages are also
shown. Calvin's "Institutes of

Christian Religion," Dante's "Di-
vine Comedy," Mallory's "Morte
d'Arthur," and The Holy Bible
number a few. Printings of a later
period, banned from the press, are
several Shakespearian plays,
Goethe's "Faust," and all works
of Victor Hugo and Voltaire.

The whole display will be cen-
tered about a placard containing
Franklin Roosevelt's message, "No
man and no force can take from
the world the books that embody
man's eternal fight against tyran-
ny of every kind. In this war, we
know books are weapons. And it
is a part of your dedication al-
ways to make them weapons for
men's freedom."

PRINTING

Business Stationery

Personal Stationery

Announcements
Placards

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Hey, Nancy, it's practically 7:30
and time to *huber. If we don't,
we'll miss the trolley and I guess
Yehudi will have to, play without
us.

OK, Mary Jane, let's take the
smart way.

What do ya mean? Just hurry,
my hair's beginning to drool.

Let's go over the tracks instead
of through the tunnel.

Hey, Mary Jane, I'm over.
Where are you ?

Weak whisper. Nancy Nan-
cy The wind carries the whis-
per away.

Visions of poor Mary Jane
caught in the railroad tracks
Mary Jant mangled all because
her roommate wanted to take a
short cut.

Decision strikes and Nancy
turns to the rescue. But to her
dismay, she sails through space
and lands in a dream, she hopes.
The dream turns out to be Mary
Jane.

The place the eight foot gulley
(so they say) at the bottom of
the embankment over the under-
pass. The participants in this bit
of drama you guess, but who
would do such, but juniors from

White House.

* Air Corps expression to hurry.

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc.

DECATUR CAKE BOX

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

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Eddie CANTOR
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Friday

BEAUTIFUL BUT BROKE
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A college for women that is widely recog-
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interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

Quality

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VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1944

Faculty to Play
Varsity Dec. 1

According to Scotty Johnson,
hockey manager, the annual fac-
ulty-varsity game will be played
Friday afternoon at 4. Only
a few of the instructors have
consented to play so far. Dr. Mc-
Cain will be at his regular posi-
tion at the goal, Miss Willburn,
Mr. Hayes, Mr. Garber, and Miss
Will will probably be in the lineup.

The varsity team consists of
Scotty Johnson, Barbara Plumley,
Mary Munroe, Betty Long, Molly
Milam, Kathryn Burnett, Sarah
Walker, Harding Ragland, Alice
Newman, Ann Webb, Christina
Yates, and Jean Denning.

Announcements

Molly Milam, president of
Student Government, has an-
nounced the following;:

(1) Mary Ann Craig is in
charge of the collection and dis-
tribution of Christmas money for
the servants. Proctors are to
get fifty cents from each girl
on their hall while faculty mem-
bers will give their contribu-
tions to Miss Scandrett.

(2) Betty Jean Radford will
direct the Student Government
Carol Service Friday night, Dec
1.

(8) According to Marjorie
Xaa-b, student recorder, mem-
bership in the String Ensemble
now holds two permanent points
Instead of the original six.

(4) Since no particular need
has arisen, the Representative
Council will not meet this quar-
ter.

Date Book

Wed., Nov. 29 Group leaving for
Canteen 6 p. m.
War Council meeting at Miss
Seandrett's, 7 p. m.
Christmas carol service in old
ch&ppl in Rebekah, 10 p. m., led
by Harriet Daugherty and spon-
sored by C. A.

Thurs., Nov. 30 Blackfriars one-
act play at Lawson General
Open Forum in chapel

FrL, Dec. 1 A. A. chapel awards

Tues., Dec. 5 Christmas carol
service, 10 p. m., sponsored by
freshman cabinet
Faculty-Varsity hockey
Christmas carol service, 10 p. m.,
sponsored by sophomore cabinet

*un., Dee. S Christinas pageant
at 6:30 p. m. in Maclean

Wed., Dec. 6-13 Exam week

<un., Dec. 10 Christmas dinner
and music program

Fri., Dec. 8 Christmas carol serv-
ice, 10 p. m., sponsored by stu-
dent government

Faculty Debate
Future Needs
In Education

The first of a series of faculty
discussions of post-war education
problems was held in Main Nov.
21, with Mr. George P. Hayes,
head of the English department,
as leader.

The basis of the discussion was
an article on post-war education
by Dean DeVane of Yale Univers-
ity. Problems touched upon in-
cluded the question of what high
school curricula should be; the
place and function of various sub-
jects, such as science, philosophy,
and history, in the liberal arts
curriculum; and the advisability
of Dean DeVane's suggestion that
all college seniors carry on inde-
pendent study and research lead-
ing to a long paper in their major
field. Most of the faculty was
present and a lively debate en-
sued.

These discussions grew from a
faculty committee appointed in
the spring of 1943 and headed by
Miss Mildred Mell. professor of
economics and sociology, to study
post-war education and its re-
lationship to Agnes Scott. This
committee has suggested the type
of discussion, which Mr. Hayes di-
rects.

Freshmen Elections

Lida Walker was elected vice-
president of the freshman class
and Kathleen Hewson representa-
tive to War Council at recent class
meetings. Louise McLaurin was
elected secretary-treasurer of the
class. Miss Charlotte Hunter and
Miss Susan Cobbs were chosen fate-

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Thanksgiving Day and last
week-end were gay with football
games, fraternity parties, and
visitors. ... In spite of the for-
bidding weather, Hottentots were
dashing from one engagement to
another.

Franternity Parties

Louisa Aichel, Lilaine Harris,
Sue Hutchens, Betty Mann. June
Thomason, Mary Frances Ander-
son and Dale Bennett were danc-
ing with the Sigma Chis at Tech.

The Chi Phis at Tech entertain-
ed at a tea dance and buffet sup-
per. . . . Virginia Callaway wear-
ing black to match her eyes, Dale
Bennett, June 'thomason, Beth
Walton. Mary Frances Anderson,
Mary Beth Little. Peggy Baker,
Lida Walker, and Fran Nininger
were there.

Ann Hough, Mary McCalla, and
Alice Newman went to the KA
house dance at Tech.

Attending the ATO dance at the
Biltmore were Dot Dyrenforth,
Kittie Kay, and Bettie Manning.

Puddin Beale'r and Ruth Ryner,
sophisticated in black, Ruth Lim-
berf, Anne Hoyt, and Maxine
Paulk made up the Hottentot
representation at the Tony Pastor
dance for the Sixth War Loan.

At the Phi. Delta house dance
at Emory- were Marga-ret Kelly,
Janet Liddell, Robin Robinson.
Carroll Taylor, and Peggy Gregg.

Round Town

At the Paradise Rx>om # were the
popular Starrs, Jeter and Louise.
. . . Peggy Jones and her attrac-
tive visitor from Vanderbilt, Deb
Florence Harrison in a smart
black and chartreuse dress worn

with long black gloves, Mary Jane
Schumacher with her beribboned
Captain. Dootsie Gardner, and
Elaine Kuniansky at the Empire
Room. . . . Dancing at the Rain-
bow Roof Saturday night were
Bess Sheppard, Mildred Claire
Jones, and Nancy Deal.
.... Tech-Notre Dame Game

Bunch Beaver had the most ex-
citing afternoon at the game for
she was in the box with Dr. Mc-
Cain and Bob Hope. . . . Jean
Stewart, Lida Walker, Claudia
Brownlee, Jane Brown, Dootsie
Gardner, who later went to the
Phi Kappa Sigma house dance,
Scott Newell wearing a huge yel-
low chrysanthemum, and Anne
High tower.

Mr. Posey and Mr. Garber en-
tertained the men of the faculty
Tuesday evening.

)( Visitors

Thanksgiving week-end is a
favorite visiting-time with fami-
lies. ; . . Jean Chewning, Peggy
Jones; Laura Winchester, Lilaine
Harris. Ann Martin had their
mothers with them. Dabney
Adarils and Jane Barker had both
parents here.

Sara Catherine Wilkinson,
Gloria'! Gaines, Jeanne Hale, and
Dot Spragens had their sisters
with .them.

Third Rebekah had two guests
Peggv; Kelly (wonderful to see
her) and Florence Geraty, Chi O's
from 'the College of Charleston.

Jack of the shining new wings
spent' the holiday with Dot De-
Vane. Leila Powell's Harry did
not go over, and was here for the
week-end.

NO. 10

Christmas
Is Coming

Noel Pageant

The Agnes Scott choir will col-
laborate with the Georgia Tech
choir on the same arrangements
as last year. The audience is to be
invited to join the choirs on three
of the outstanding "old favorites.''

The Christmas chorus, noted as
a favorite of the traditions at Ag-
nes Scott, has been an event for
at least the past 45 years, when
it was then begun by Mr. Joseph
Maclean.

The annual Christmas Carol
service is to be presented by the
Agnes Scott college choir and the
Georgia School of Technology
choir on Dec. 10 at 4:30 p. m. in
Presser hall. The choirs are un-
der the direction of Mr. Robert
Lowrance and Mr. Walter C. Her-
bert.

This year the program is to
consist entirely of old familiar
Christmas carols, according to
Mr. Lewis Johnson, in charge of
the program. Instead of the usual
singing of The Messiah, the carol-
ers will present a selection of our
favorite Christmas carols includ-
ing "Here's a Torch, Jeannette,
Isabella," "The Holly and the Ivy,"
"Carol of the Russian Child," and
some Czech and Polish carols.

Carol Services

"The Child of Peace," a simple
narrative drama retelling the
Christmas story in song and
speech, will be presented Sunday
evening at 6:30 in Maclean audi-
torium by two readers, Vera Orem
and Bet Patterson, a speech
choir of 15 girls and a chorus of
12 singers from the glee club.

The pageant is a narrative Of
the birth of Christ, showing the
Promise, Enunciation, Journey,
and the Fulfillment.

The production is sponsored by
Blackfriars and Christian Asso-
ciation, with the speech choir di-
rected by Miss Roberta Winter and
the carol chorus, by Robert Lowr-
ance.

'Clubs'-Subject
For Open Forum

The first Open Forum of the
year will be held in chapel Thurs-
day, Nov. 30, taking for its subject
the clubs on campus.

The Forum will not be a debate,
and no vote is to be taken, but
it will be a discussion of whether
some of us are participating in
too many extra-curricular activi-
ties, thus neglecting our academ-
ic work. The question is do we
have too many clubs or are stu-
dents just doing more than their
lessons will allow? Elaine Kun-
iansky will lead the discussion.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1944

DEKALB THEATRE

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the quality must be sound to
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you are assured of the tradi-
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
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SATURDAY

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"Tarzan's Desert Mystery"

MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Lon MCALLISTER - Je&ftfte GRAIN in

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FOOTE ANQ DAVIES

Announces its new
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Faculty and students are cor-
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venient and comfortable work-
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provided at this new location.

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VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945

NO. 11

War Council Plans
Winter Activities

War Council plans a quarter full of activities varied enough
to interest every student. A Red Cross staff assistants' course,
a talk by Mr. Walter B. Posey, movies on present day China,
and frequent interpretations of war news by Mrs. Roff Sims
are on the program of activities.

Definite arrangements for a

staff assistants' course on campus
will be announced soon.

Mr. Posey in a chapel talk Jan.
24, will attempt to clarify Ameri-
ca's foreign policy, emphasizing
particularly its effect today. Fur-
ther announcements will be made
in class meeting Friday.

Besides these special events of
the quarter, War Council will
continue with its regular activities
blood donations, making surgical
dressings, salvaging paper and
tin, visiting Lawson General hos-
pital and the Atlanta Canteen, and
knitting. Miss Susan Cobbs re-
ports that last quarter's knitting
was "especially successful" and
that more yarn will be available in
her office soon. Twelve pairs of
socks, twelve pairs of walking
cast toe socks, six pairs of gloves,
and two sweaters were completed.

Final totals for the Agnes Scott
War Service Fund amount to
$2700 for the students and over
$1500 for the faculty. Tentative
apportioning of the students' to-
tal is as follows:

War Fund . $1000

Red Cross 750

\V. S. S. F 550

The remainder will be allotted
to the Infantile Paralysis Foun-
dation, the Tuberculosis Fund, etc.
All further contributions will in-
crease donations to these organi-
zations.

Reveal Music
Hour Program

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann assisted
by Mrs. J. M. Moore will present
the Music Appreciation Hour on
Jan. 15 at 8 p. m. in Gaines chapel.

The program will consist of
organ selections "Toccata and
Fugue in D minor" by Bach,
"Evensong" by Martin, Parker's
"Novelette," "At the Canvent" by
Borodin, and Sibelius' 'Finlandia."
"Rofanxa," by Huss will be pre-
sented on piano and organ, and
there will be a two-piano rendition
of Ulozart-Grieg's "Sonata, F.
major."

Date Book

Wed., Jan. 10 "The Relation Be-
tween Drama and Dance," by
Mr. and Mrs. Beiswanger at 8
p. m. in Maclean.

Thurs., Jan. 11 Faculty begin
Visual Arts Activities Group in
the art studio at 7.

Fri., Jan. 12 First basketball
games of the season at 4.
Class meetings in chapel.

Sun., Jan. 14 Group leaves for
Lawson General Hospital at
2:15 p. m.

Mon., Jan. 15 Music Apprecia-
tion Hour at 8 p. m. in Gaines
chapel.

Stukes Attends
Post War Meet

Dean S. G. Stukes arrived in
Atlantic City today to represent
Agnes Scott at a post war plan-
ning conference of the Association
of American Colleges.

During the 3-day meet, repre-
sentatives of virtually every col-
lege in the nation will hear Gen.
George C. Marshall speak for
compulsory military training in
peace-time.

Plans toward education for re-
turning service men and 1 women
under the "G. I. Bill of Rights"
will be discussed. Also on the
program is Archibald MacLeish, in
charge of the State Department's
Bureau of Intercultural Relations.

President J. R. McCain is a past
president of the association.

Junior Class Fetes
Freshmen at Tea

The junior class entertained its
sister class, the freshmen, Friday,
Jan. 5, with a formal tea in
Murphey Candler from 4 p. m. to
6 p. m The tea, an annual after-
Christmas affair, was the first
get-together for the sister classes
in winter quarter

Marguerite Toole, junior class
president, headed the receiving
line with the vice-president, Vicky
Alexander; treasurer, Ann Regis-
ter; and the class advisers, Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn and Miss Ellen
Douglas Leybum.

The freshmen advisers, Miss
Susan Cobbs and Miss Charlotte
Hunter poured tea, while Rite
Watson, Mary Cargill, Evelyn Hill,
Sally Sue Stephenson, and Dootsy
Gardner served.

Faculty Begins
New Course
In Visual Arts

Faculty members, their hus-
bands and wives, will meet for the
first time Thursday night, Jan.
11 in a brand new Visual Arts
Activities Group. Under the di-
rection of Mr. Howard Thomas,
this recreational group of 25 mem-
bers will meet in the art studio
every Thursday night from 7 to
9 until March 15.

During the ten week period
the group will sketch, compose,
and paint in color. Outside read-
ing will help supplement the lec-
tures and practical experience of
the studio meetings, the first of
which will be devoted to a study
of line, and line expression.

Those enrolled in the activities
group are: Misses Martha Aiken,
Annie May Christie, Melissa A.
Cilley, Susan Cobb, Jane Cough-
Ian, Helen Finger, Frances K.
Gooch, Louise Hale, Edna Ruth
Hanley.

Charlotte E. Hunter, Martha
Ray Lasseter, Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall, Margariet T. Phythian,
Margaret Ridley, Carrie Scan-
drett, Eugenia Symms, Margaret
Trotter, Llewellyn Wilburn, Rob-
erta Winter.

Mrs. Florence J. Dunstan, Mrs.
George P. Hayes, Mrs. Howard
M. MacGregor, Mrs. Margaret G.
Posey, Mrs. Frances G. Stukes,
and Dr. Margaret Burns.

Martha Hay Named
Bible Class President

Martha Hay was elected presi-
dent of the Freshman Bible Class
at a recent meeting. Janet van de
Erve was elected vice president,
Betzie Powers, secretary-treasur-
er, and Vannessee Orr, pianist.

The class, taught by Dr. J. R,
McCain, meets each Sunday morn-
ing at 9:15 in Miss Gooch's studio
in Rebekah Scott. At the initial
meeting of the new year, the topic
for discussion was "What Must I
Do to be Saved? To be lost?"

Next Sunday, members will seek
an answer to their question "May
I Have Divine Guidance for My
Life?" The class is open to all.

Miss Laney Stresses Duties
Of College Students in War

The obligations of a war-time
college student were driven home
in a talk given by Miss Emma
May Laney, of the English de-
partment in chapel last Friday,
under the auspices of War Coun-
cil. She said that this Christmas
has made us conscious of rich
gifts and of incomplete families
at home. We are entering our
fourth war-time New Year with
a feeling of seriousness and hu-
manity, and a desire to do some-
thing to match the sacrifices of
the men fighting for us. "How
can we pay this debt" ? she
asked.

Miss Laney quoted Professor
Marjorie Nicholson, emphasizing
the parallel between Shake-
speare's madcap Prince Hal and
the college woman of today, who,

enjoying the benfits of college as
a matter of course, incurs obliga-
tions which inherent nobility
urges her to repay.

She reminded us that we alone
in this country have unrestricted
opportunity to obtain a liberal
arts education and as such, it is
our obligation to "learn to live."
By performing well our daily work
and studies, we may learn to be-
come "responsible and enlighten-
ed citizens," capable of facing
and solving the problems of the
future. "In this way we can best
pay our debt, for on such citizens
depend the new world."

Miss Laney enumerated the va-
rious special acts, mostly War
Council projects, which students
may perform: giving to the War
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Robert Frost to Visit Campus
As Resident Poet Jan. 25-27

Robert Frost, outstanding
American poet, will spend three
days on campus as Agnes Scott's
"resident poet" Jan. 25-27, Lec-
ture Association announced today.

He will conduct informal meet-
ings with students and with the
members of the various writing
clubs, and on Friday night, Jan.
26, at 8:30, he will speak on poetry
and read from his own works in
Gaines chapel. This lecture is
open to the public.
Beginning with "A Boy's Will" in
1913, Mr. Frost, who has been a
farmer as well as a college pro-
fessor has published many vol-
umes of poetry, the latest being
"A Witness Tree" in 1942.

Dance Group
Blackfriars,
Sponsor Artists

"The relationshib Between the
Drama and the Dance" will be
illustrated by Mr. and Mrs. George
Beiswanger, member of Georgia
State College for Women, at a
joint meeting of the Dance group
and blackfriars at 8 tonight in
the Maclean chapel.

The campus is invited to at-
tend.

Mr. and Mrs. Beiswanger, long
interested in drama and dancing
from the educational point of
view, are also themselves artists
in their field. Mr. Beiswanger spe-
cializes in drama and Mrs. Beis-
wanger teaches dancing. Before
coming to Georgia State College
for Women, the couple taught in
Connecticut for several years. Mr.
Beiswanger is particularly influen-
tial in artistic fields in the United
States. He is one of the two as-
sociate editors of The Theatre
Arts Monthly, and has contributed
articles to many other well known
periodicals. He is widely known
as an art and drama critic.

For the past week, Miss Hanley
has sponsored an exhibit in the li-
brary to accompany the talk.
Monday the exhibit included dance
pictures contributed for the dance
group by Mrs. Harriette Lapp
and Miss Eugenie Dozier, and pic-
tures of plays and costumes con-
tributed for Blackfriars by Miss
Roberta Winter.

The program, tonight, was
planned by Dootsy Gardner,
chairman of the dance group, and
Carolyn Fuller, program chair-
man of Blackfriars.

Miss Eugenie Dozier
To Dance at Rollins

Miss Dozier has been asked to
dance Jan. 19, at Rollin College
for the Fiesta celebrating Inter
Amdrican-Spanish relations. At
this time the Hispanic Society of
Florida presents the Cervantes
Medal to the person who has been
outstanding in furthering these
relations.

Miss Dozier will be accompanied
by Miss Jeanine Romer, who will
dance the Samba and Sevilla. Miss
Dozier will dance Gitanaza, Lela-
guena, La Maja Andalza and both
will dance Sevillanas and a Coupla.

Classes Plan
Meets Friday

In the first class meeting of the
winter quarter, Friday, Jan. 12,
new and interesting activities will
be planned by each of the classes.

The freshmen will make further
plans for their shoe shop. Dabney
Adams, president, has named
Pagey Violette chairman of the
shoe shop and Beth Jones, treas-
urer. Plans will also be made for
a party for the freshmen's junior
sponsors, sophomore helpers and
faculty advisers.

The sophomores will announce
specific duties for the ten mem-
bers of their Soph advisory coun-
cil. Jane Meadows, president,
evaded questions about future
plans, merely saying "the sophs
are planning a gigantic, stupen-
dous and out-of-this-world project,
beneficial and fun for everyone
on campus, but it's a big secret."

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, fac-
ulty adviser, will talk to the ju-
niors on their responsibilities as
juniors and future seniors. Plans
for this year's Junior Joint will
get under way and the chairman
will be elected..

The seniors will hear Mrs. Roff
Sims, assistant professor of his-
tory and politics of science, who
will speak on senior responsibilit-
ies.. Senior Opera plans and the
parties for the sophmores will be
discussed.

IRC Will Show
Two China Films

International Relations Club
will have two motion pictures od
China at its first meeting of this
year, Thursday night, Jan. 18, at
7:30.

The first movie "China War Re-
lief," presents the suffering of
ravished China, and the second
picture depicts the experiences of
a Chinese school girl in a war-
time college.

Professor Benjamin Andrews, of
Columbia University, who is now
visiting Spellman College in At-
lanta, will bring the films to the
campus and explain them to the
students.

At the November meeting of
IRC Mrs. R. N. Pedy, wife of a
Medical missionary to China,
talked on "China Its Political,
Social, and Economic Back-
ground." The January program
is to follow up this speech and to
further illustrate the points made
by Mrs. Pedy. The coming meet-
ing is to be held in cooperation
with War council and Emory IRC.

Mrs. Sims Reviews
Front-Line News

Covering all the happenings in
the different war theatres, Mrs.
Roff Sims helped to bring the
college community up to date on
its war news in a current events
talk in chapel this morning.

She analyzed the present Ger-
man offensive in the light of the
latest front-line news.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945

The Agnes Scott News

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Turner, Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

Inventory

The first of the year is a good time to take stock. To weed
out the superfluous, to retain the useful. To unclutter the
clutter.

Doubtless most students made resolutions. Commendable
in itself. Only, for a change, let's keep them. Let's paste
them up on our dresser mirrors to remind us every day,
rather than promptly pigeonholing the impressive list.

In taking student inventory at Agnes Scott, let's consider
personal stock, campus stock, and world-in-general stock.

First, as what kind of a person do you show up in the
light of the cold January sun? Are you selfish, inconsiderate,
narrow-minded? Or, rather, can your roommate say of you
with perfect frankness, "She's a peach she gives freely of
her time and effort to war work, she turns out the lights at
night at a reasonable hour with a minimum of noise and fuss,
and she studies the right amount, doesn't grind."

Second, the campus extra-curricular life depends on the
student. If you aren't willing to participate in some activity,
watch out. You'll be unbalanced. You'll be top-heavy, one-
sided. Join today some group which interests you. (Don't
join everything).

Last, never forget there is a world outside the sheltering
arms. You'll be in it soon. Keep up with current affairs.
Know when and how you can vote. Know a little about the
taxes you'll be paying. Study child care and cooking. Give
blood, buy war stamps, smash cans, knit for Red Cross, go
to the Canteen and Lawson General Hospital, become a
Nurses' Aid; do all you can to speed the end of the war.

Resolutions are acceptable any time. How about adding
these to your list now, if you haven't made them already,
and keeping them:

Resolved

1. I will be a better, easier person to know and to live with.

2. I will contribute in some way to campus life outside of
the classroom.

3. I will earnestly prepare myself for life after college
while still in college.

Claudia Brownlee

Agnes Scott students and faculty have missed the return
of Claudia Brownlee, who died during the Christmas holi-
days.

Claudia's life, though short in years, was full in the rich-
ness of Christian living. Her example of a truly Christian
life was an inspiration to those who knew her. In her quiet,
unassuming manner she lived her religion day by day.

Never did she criticize anyone else, and she spoke to ev-
eryone with a smile that was characteristic of her sweetness
of nature.

She was a very capable person, standing high in her classes
and holding responsible positions on the campus.

We shall all miss Claudia. But it is a privilege to have
known her, and she will not be forgotten. Her Christian
life, her gentle nature, her friendly smile, her capability,
her unselfishness will live in our memories.

A Boyd's-Eye View

of Dot Hunter

By Jeanne Addison

She's another Pooh enthusiast, and another science major,
but Dot adds something new in. both lines. It was under her
direction that the famous Pooh Appreciation Hours began
last year in Gaines; and as for science, she's being broadmind-
ed enough to take two library-studying courses this quarter
just to see how the other half

lives.

Domestic type

As a matter of fact, "Pinky" is
a very difficult person to catalog
because she doesn't fit any of the
molds. As of last summer when
she kept house completely, she has

developed definite domestic ten-
dencies. She can meet quite
calmly small difficulties as
scorched blue jeans, and the feed-
ing of seven dogs and a parret
besides the more orthodox mem-
bers of her family.

Dot can qualify as an athlete,
a chapel leader, and a woman of

culture too. Swimming, riding,
philosophy, Cyrono de Bergerac,
Gershwin, and Hard-Hearted Han-
nah are some of the things she
likes.

The Trio

That gray and beige car that
takes Dot on all the Outing club
hikes is used for commuting this
year; but few people have forgot-
ten the famous "Pinky" Hunter,
"Buster" Milam, "Baby" Davis
rooming trio the perfect combi-
nation for dancing, swimming, and
cutting up.

ETC

Other interesting little facts
have come out about Miss Hun-
ter. They won't go into the out-
line though, so we'll label this
topic "Etc," and ignore English
101. She loves squirrel meat and
always eats hog jowls for luck on
New Year's. Her pet expression
is "delightful." "Pinky's Brain" is
what she carries around in the
form of a little green book to
keep her from forgetting things.
And above all, she hates cold
weather. Life from September to
June is just one long shiver.

Man Wanted

Hottentots Survive Leap Year
And Resolve to "Gef One

By Ann Seitzinger

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Music Makers

Remember all the cutting re-
marks that were made last spring
when the senior class decided not
to have an opera? As one of the
cutters I intend to apologize to
the class of '44 by way of the
Alumnae Quarterly. What every-
one thought was lack of interest
was really intelligence. Back in
November, a writing committee
set out to write THE opera. Gou-
nod, Verdi, and Wagner shook in
their graves. Now about ten of
these meetings have taken place.
The same precedure has been fol-
lowed in them all.

First, those present wonder
where the other half of the com-
mittee can be keeping itself. Next,
Virginia Bowie is asked to create
the right mood by humming all the
opera themes she knows. (At the
latest meetings, Wendy has tried
to make it a duet but she always
wanders into the latest Hit Parade
tunes and has to be silenced.) At
this point, the missing members
stroll in with their mail, which
they read with great crackling.

Next occurs a heated discussion
of how to pronounce Chaucerin
English, followed by loud wails
from Veevah, who mourns because
Harvey can not be worked into the
plot as the spirit of Agnes Scott.
(For the benefit of the few who
did not get to Broadway this sea-
son, Harvey is an invisible rabbit,
six feet, one and one? half inches
tall.) Everything written at the
last meeting is then thrown away.
By now the meeting must adjourn,
and all rush out.

The committee is beginning to
doubt the need for opera in general
and senior operas in particular. It
feels that everyone would be just
as happy with a ticket to a movie.
As for Gounod, Verdi, and Wagner,
they no longer shake in their
graves. Instead they revolve rap-
idly.

The Triple-cross

(Leila isn't going to like me
when she sees this poem. Neither
is Inge. One wanted to put it on
the editorial page, the other in the
"Aurora." I told Leila that Inge
had it and Inge that she could
have it. Wasn't that clever?)

At a Christmas party she had
for them, Miss Gilchrist gave every
member of her Quan class a copy
of the poem. The author's name
must not be divulged.

An "If" for Christmas
If you can calibrate your burette
nicely

Then break the tip and start
again from scratch;

Reject titrations whose mean de-
viation

Runs higher than it should for
perfect match;

If you can spend three hours dis-

tillintf Kjeldahls,
Then watch it all rush back into
the flask
And not break down in weeping
from your anguish,
But start again as on another
task;

If you can titrate bromide six or

eight times
And have not one behaving a* it

should,

Vet keep on with persistence in

your efforts
To get results pronounced at

last, as good;

If you can put your dimes in ni-
tric acid

Having asked a goodly portion of
the Agnes Scott Campus Folk, it
seems that most folks didn't make
New Years resolutions this year.
They just were not in vogue this
winter. Most Hottentots didn't
have time to make them or have
already forgotten them. Some
scholars when approached with a
question about the New Year's
resolutions, remarked that, "They
are private."

Those who made resolutions
made them about work, food and
men (what else is there?). Some
folks resolved to study their les-
sons each night, to keep up with
their work, and to read their out-
side reading ahead of time. Need-
less to say these resolutions have
gone the way of all good resolu-
tions.

Martha Whatley Yates has a
tricky suggestion on this aspect of
college, she resolved simply to
exist until June and graduation are
over.

Peggy Trice resolved to write at
least four letters each week. She
is firmly convinced that before

And watch them vanish, one by

one, away,
Giving not only dimes but hours

and labor
While others, being through, are

out at play;

If you can do all this and still en-
joy it,

Finding in all the work a little
fun,

You'll probably become a Master

Chemist
And even pass or merit 301.

this month is over she'll be back to
her former quota of one letter
every four weeks.

"To be tolerant, understanding,
and slow to anger," was Betty
Gesner's prize idea for 1945. This
resolution was broken shortly
after its conception.

Ann Webb, buried in the science
library the other day (figuratively
meant), remarked that she had
some but they were not for publi-
cation.

A resolution, possibly suggested
by a Popeye cartoon, was made by
Annette Neville. She resolved to
eat more vegetables this year. She
put her resolution to practice the
other night in the dining hall when
she astonished everyone by devour-
ing five spoonsful of spinach.

Kitten Phillips, the bookstore
lady, resolved to be more system-
atic with her spare time and to be
a better correspondent.

Dr. McCain has resolved to clear
his desk. He further asserted that
it needed to be done very badly.

The maze of resolutions made
concerning men was most interest-
ing. Individuals should be consult-
ed for best "info" on this topic.
Jane Smith resolved not to date
any blond men in 1945. In fact, not
to have anything to do with them.
Majority of the resolutions about
men boiled down to "GET ONE"!

There were only a few resolu-
tions made in a lighter mood. Har-
riet Hargrove's was most out-
standing from the standpoint of
sheer insanity. It isn't that anyone
will doubt anything can happen.
She resolved to date Van Johnson
(Probably just a hangover from
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945

Page 3

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

The "dark ages" after the holidays are brighter with the
sparkle of diamonds and fraternity pins. Lois Sullivan is
wearing a lovely solitaire since a Christmas visit with Kit-
tie Kay's family, her future in-laws. The shine on Harriet
Daugherty's hand and in her eyes is caused by a Navy flier.

During exams, Midge Haddock's
diamond came via Uncle Sam's

"pony express" until the Captain
comes home from the South Pa-
cific. Nancy Moore is wearing a
beautiful engagement ring since
Christmas.

Holiday trips are the reason
Ryner was at the Orange Bowl
game in Miami, Betty Davis, Leila
Holmes, and Anabel Bickford
were in Florida too. Dootsy Gard-
ner, Frances Brougher, and Ceevh
Rosenthal were in New York. Pie
Ertz spent a few days in New
York with Dotty Kahn, enroute
home. Puddin Bealer spent a
week in Macon with roommate
Martha Baker. Scottie Newell
can tell you about city life in

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ABOUT TOWN
At the Emory Med dance Friday
night were Puddin Bealer, look-
ing smart in a black frock with a
draped skirt, Cissy Jeffries, Eva
Williams, Margaret McManus,
Robin Robinson, Jeter and Louise
Starr. Martha Patterson |in
fuschia, Jane Everett, K. A. Edel-
blut, Harding Ragland, Dot De-
Vane and Rite Watson.

Fraternity house dances were
the big dates on Hottentots' sched-
ules for Saturday night. Marga-
ret McManus, Betty Mann, Nelson
Fisher, Carolyn Squires, Nancy
Deal, and Barbara Plumley, who
was wearing a bright dress of
turquoise with black, went to an
A. T. O. rush party at Emory.
Dancing at the Phi Delt house
were Janet Liddell, Marie Beeson,
Anne Stubbs, Martha Patterson,
and Frances Woodall.

Lilaine Harris, Mary Frances
Anderson, Dale Bennett, and Helen
Owen, looking especially good in
emerald green and white, went
to the Sigma Chi house dance at
Tech Saturday night. Betty Tur-
ner was at the K. A. house at Tech.

At the Piedmont Driving Club
Saturday night were Jeanne Rob-
inson, Beth Walton, Marguerite
Madison, Mary Brown Mahon, and
Mary Beth Little.

Betty Andrews, K. A. Edelblut,
Mary Turner, Margaret Anne
Richardson, and Anne Woodward
were dancing at the Paradise
Room Saturday night. Margaret
Kelly went to the Rainbow Roof.

At the Tech Swinmming meet
Saturday afternoon were Edith
Merrin and Eleanor Reynolds.

Week-end visitors had the lime-
light. Recently escaped from an
internment camp in Switzerland,
a friend of Bunny Weems flew in
unexpectedly. Tinkem Iverson's
brother, a chaplain just returned

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the intention of living with it
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the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
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Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
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built our reputation for us.

Russian Pianist Triumphs
In All-Star Concert Series

Agnes Scott music lovers were
thrilled last night by the per-
formance of Alexander Uninsky,
brilliant Russian pianist. His con-
cert, the fifth on the All-Star Con-
cert Series, was presented at the
municipal auditorium. Rudolph
Serkin was scheduled for the con-
cert, but due to a finger infection,
his engagement was cancelled.

Alexander Uninsky, a new name
among famed pianists, gave his
first recital in the United States
at Carnegie Hall in February,
1943. Within two seasons he has
skyrocketed to eminence.

His program consisted of "Three
Sonatas," Scarlatti; "Organ Pre-

from the South Pacific and her sis-
ter from Pittsburg, Pa., were with
her. Also, Jackie Stewart's broth-
er was here on campus just back
in the States.

Dot Dyrenforth and Kathleen
Buchanan had very interesting
guests.

Margaret McManus is the newly
elected Tech ATO sponsor.
OUT OF TOWN
Bittie King took Barby down to
Newnan for a little city air. Hig-
gins and Eugenia Jones went up
to Dalton for the week-end with
Emily's family.

Mary Helen House went to Au-
burn for the A. T. O. dance.

Kate Ellis was in Monroe, while
Mary Cummings went home to
Griffin.

Caroll Taylor went to Birming-
ham to be a bridesmaid in her
brother's wedding.

Martha Ray Lasseter went
home to Elberton for the week-
end.

lude and Fugue in D Major."
Bach-Busoni; "Carnival," Schu-
mann; "Ballade in F Minor,"
Chopin; "Three Etudes," Chopin;
"Voiles,"' Debussy; "Ce qu'a vu
le vent d'ouest," Debussy; "Danse
Rusee" from "Petrouchka," Stra-
vinsky.

The next concert in the series
will be the Philadelphia Orchestra
and Helen Traubel on Feb. 15.

Council to Hear
Reports Today

Representative council will meet
this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the
Exec room in Buttrick.

Suggestions and ideas from va-
rious organizations on the campus
will be presented and discussed
by the representatives on the
council.

Campus
Topics

Art professor Howard Thomas'
proposed idea of a lending picture
library During vacation, he ex-
amined the walls of rooms in Main.
His comment, "not as many men as
I expected."

The exci tin gvsoiun ding pro-i
ductions scheduled at the Er-
langer This week Ibsen's "A
Doll House" will be given with
Francis Lederer, Lyle Talbot,
H. B. Warner, and Jane Har-
well, four of Hollywood's best.
Coming later are "Abie's Irish
Rose," and "Ballet de Russe de
Monte Carlo." "The Student
Prince" was well received last
week.

The serious, grim note in the
war news. A letter from the front-
lines is to be treasured. Mail call
is a nerve-wracking episode every
morning and afternoon.

The scenes from Shakespeare
that Blackfriars are rehearsing
For a long time now, drama-
lovers have been hoping to see
some of the Bard's work execut-
ed by Blackfriars.

Anne Scott's picture which is
soon to appear on the cover of the
Atlanta Journal Magazine Anne
was selected at Editor Angus Per-
kerson's request. She is shooting 1
archery and according to Mr. Per-
kerson, "It is a very attractive
picture."

The new roller in the dining
room for the trays is fascinating
as well as useful

The lack of plaster upstairs in
Murphey Candler. The News Staff
does not dare enter its room.
The coming lectures by Robert
Frost. Those who have heard
him before are eager to hear him
again.

Students are resolving to do
more war work this year.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

S B H-F A A

The biggest news of immediate
coming events sponsored by the
Athletic Association is that of
new and different sings every
Wednesday night. The sing this
week is being directed by Betty
Andrews and Sheely Little, and it
will begin after supper, at 6:30
in the room on first Rebekah,
where previous sings have been
held this year. The plans sound
good, and better digestion of meals
is assured to those who drop in on
their way out of the dining room.

S B H-F A A

When we look into A. A's crys-
tal ball for further happenings
during this quarter, we see before
us a badminton tournament in
February. On the seventh of that
month we see promised a gala
bridge tournament for all expert
players and other Hottentots, who
feel the need of a bit of fun. Later
on, according to the all-seeing
crystal ball, ye olde gyme will
witness a regular old-fashioned
square dance for students and
their friends, with the added at-
traction of an genuine caller and
men from Tech and Emory.

S B H-F A A

Our basketball season will soon
be under way, and the games be-
tween classes will be played, as
usual, on Fridays, alternately in
the afternoon and at night. These
times should give everyone* a
chance either to play basketball
or watch their classmates in their
noble attempts.

S B H-F A A

The good news has reached us,
from an authoritative source that
so far this year more people have
voluntarily gone out for extra
athletic activities than in a num-
ber of years. It seems that in
spite of our numerous campus ac-
tivities we are still keeping
healthy enough to enjoy sports.

S B H-F A A

Those initials keep popping up
as I type. I can't get the words
they stand for out of my mind.
It's that way with everyone on
A. A. Board. As Dot Hunter plans
the meetings, as Ann Webb tries
to keep us supplied with recrea-
tion, as Sarah Walker takes the
minutes, and as Sally Sue Ste-
phenson keeps tab on the money,
their minds are hounded by those
words. When Scotty Johnson,
Margarett Scott, Cocky Cochran,
Genet Heery, Betty Andrews,
Kathryn Burnett, Dottie Kahn,
and Susanne Watkins organize
their sports, they hear those
words. As Vicky Alexander plans
for the Outing club, and as Cookie
Miller makes posters, they, too
hear the haunting message, as
does Sheely Little when she
works for the freshmen.

In fact, every loyal student on
the campus should heed the call.
Have you done your part? The
sophomores are leading the cam-
pus in the performance of this
feat, but the cooperation of all
classes is needed. The best places
for carrying out this worthy en-
terprise are the bookstore, the
day student rooms, and at the
doors of dormitory rooms when
sophs come asking.

S B H-F A A

In case there is any student who
doesn't know or can't guess what
these initials stand for. the
answer will appear next week, hut
for those who know their duty
best, it's

S B H-F A A

The Absent-minded Professor

Tech Navy
Band Will
Appear Here

Georgia Tech's Navy Band will
give a concert in Gaines chapel,
Presser Hall, Wednesday, Jan. 17
at 3 p. m., under the auspices of
the Decatur Civitan Club.

The concert is for the benefit
of the Decatur community pro-
jects fund.

Admission will be $1 for adults,
50 cents for students.

A. J. Garing, director of the
band, has announced the follow-
ing program. March, "Anchors
Aweigh," Zimmerman; Overture,
"Ruy Bias," Mendelssohn; "The
Three Trumpeters," Agostini; Evo-
lution of Dixie, arr. by Mayhew
Lake;

"Unfinished Symphony," Schu-
bert; Victor Herbert's favorites;
Ballet music from "Faust,"
Gounod; Overture "1812," Tschai-
kowsky; March, "Stars and Stripes
Forever," Sousa; Star Spangled
Banner.

Miss Laney

(Continued from Page 1)

Fund, buying war stamps, econo-
mizing on lights, heat, and food,
going to Lawson General hospital
on Sundays, and helping salvage
tin cans for morphine syringes and
paper for maps. In these seeming-
ly small, but important ways, we
are meeting our obligations, for
"only then are we paying our
debt to the men dying to preserve
our way of life."

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

Cage Season
Opens Friday

Basketball season opens official-
ly Friday at 4 p. m. in the gym
when the four class managers
will draw to determine whose
team will play who.

Speaking for the seniors, Mana
ger Susan Kirtley warns other
classes, "watch out. Our class has
been a threat in the past, and
we're still determined to get the
cup."

Ruth Ryner, junior manager,
flatly states "we shall win the
cup."

Sophomore Janet Liddell says,
"tell 'em, here come the sopho-
mores, boasting a complete team
from last year."

Freshman Manager Sister Davis
couldn't be located for comment,
but a spy in the gym says the
freshmen are full of pep and fight-
ing spirit, ready to meet experi-
enced upper classmen.

Man Wanted

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those "30 seconds.").

Most of us here at Agnes' little
red schoolhouse, as Preston Ark-
wright's coachman insists upon
calling this college, simply resolved
to study harder and more often.
Dot Stewart, a freshman and as
such a bit new to our weird ways,
best expressed this idea in the fol-
lowing words, "In this age of ma-
chines, I resolve to do well with
pen and pencil."

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You Should Have Been There
During Christmas, Aggie

When Lisa Marshall arrived at
West Point carrying a hat box
filled with fried chicken for her
brother.

To see Inge.

To see Bet Long on her bus
trip.

When Puddin Bealer fell down
the steps at a formal party wfcen
she was visiting in Macon.

To see Scotty Johnson with her
Russian date, and Pie with Jean
the Frenchman.

To see Ingereading.

To catch Stratton as she fell
off the train.

To see Maggie Toole's teddy
bear that she got for Christmas.

At the theater with Miss
Scandrett every night in New
York.

To see Inge reading books.
With Leila in Florida at the
beach with a coat on or meeting
everybody's relatives.

Having a snow fight with Spra-
gens Christmas.

In the Buffalo blizzard.
To hear Alice Newman say that
that Yale is a nice school.

On Christmas morning to see
Laura Winchester's elephant,
Herb.

CTo see Inge reading books over
the holidays.

To see Minnie Mack, Leila Pow-
ell, Ann Eidson, Cissy Jeffries, and
Martha Ball working at the Red
Cross canteen.

With Addison ice-skating on
her tennis courts.

As Wendy slept 12 hours a night,

Badminton Players

Badminton club organizes to-
day at 4 p. m. in the gym. Any-
one interested is invited.

The club will meet every
Wednesday at 4 p. m.

See Susie Watkins for addi-
tional information.

Nominations for May Court
and May Queen will be made
Thursday, Jan. 11, in chapel.

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

saw free movies, slept 12 hours
a night, wrote letters, and slept
12 hours a night.

At church with Dot Almond
when her hair got caught in some-
one's brass buttons.

When Mary Jane Fuller, Daisy
Sundy, and Joan Crangle got left
on the train when the engineer
sped down the track with the en-
gine minus the rest of the train.

When Margie Bond got strand-
ed on top of an icy hill and her
date could not come to escort
her to the train; resulting in a
nine-hundred mile ride in a day
coach.

Miss Leyburn Attends
Meetings in New York

Miss Ellen Douglass Leybunv
associate professor of English, rep-
resented Agnes Scott at the Mod-
ern Language Association meet-
ings in New York during Christ-
mas holidays.

She attended meetings from
Dec. 25-27.

Polio Drive

The Polio drive for the Warm
Springs Foundation Fund will be
Jan. 15-31. Boxes will be placed
on the campus for donations.

DECATUR THEATRE

Wednesday, January 10

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Starring Merle Oberon and Brian Aherv*

Thursday and Friday. January II-I2
"SECRET COMMAND"
Featuring Pat O'Brien
Saturday, January 13
Double Feature-
Bill Elliott

"MARSHALL OF RENO"
Also

"BEAUTIFUL BUT BROKE"

Menday and Tuesday, January 15-lt
Bing CROSBY, in

"GOING MY WAY"
with Rise Stevens

DEKALB THEATRE

Week of January 10

Wednesday -Thursday
Joyce Reynolds in
" J A N I E "

Friday
"TAKE IT BIG"

Saturday

"ADVENTURES OF A ROOKIE"
and

"HENRY ALDRICH'S LITTLE SECRET"

Monday - Tuesday
"ABROAD WITH TWO YANKS"

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1945

Miss MacDougall Discusses
Government Malaria Research

Members of Chi Beta Phi and
other science students heard Miss
Mary Stuart MacDougall, head of
the Biology department, speak
last Thursday on the malaria re-
search which she has been doing
as part of a government project.

This work is being done in the
Malaria Research Laboratory of
the U. S. Public Health Service
at Columbia, S. C, and the va-
rious veterans' hospitals in this
region. It concerns the origin
and development of the germ, or
reproductive, cells in the various
types of malaria, including chro-
mosome cycles in the male and
female cells, as well as fertiliza-
tion.

Miss MacDougairs work, now
ready for publication, has been
on the origin and development of
the male germ cell, or gamete,
and fertilization of the eggs, or
female gamete; this includes the
technical details of maturation
various ' stages of growth, forma-
tion, and pairing of the chromo-
somes. Some work has been done
regarding the development of
the female gamete, but owing to
various peculiarities of its develop-
ment, it may take some time to
complete the whole story.

It is hoped that when the nor-
mal chromosome cycle is worked
out, there may be some way of
distinguishing by means of micro-
scope study, the various new
strains of malaria being carried
into this country by Pacific veter-
ans. The U. S. Public Health Ser-
vice fears that malaria epidemics
may develop in regions long free
from the disease; mosquitoes
known to transmit malaria but
now uninfected, are present in
these regions and may be infected
by returning soldiers. The impor-
tance of this work is shown by the
fact that the government Is
spending ten million dollars in the
study and prevention of malaria.

Repair Harrison Hut

Harrison Hut is ready for use
again, having been ransacked by
vandals during the Christmas
holidays. A few minor damages
have been repaired and the place
cleaned, said Mrs. Annie May
F. Smith.

C. A. and A. A were unable to
hold their retreats there as plan-
ned because of the damage.

50 To Attend
Lawson Party

A group of 50 Agnes Scott girls
will attend an informal party for
the patients at Lawson General
Hospital next Monday night. The
Red Cross has made a request for
the same number of girls to at-
tend these parties every Monday
and will furnish transportation.

The bus leaves school at 6:30
and returns by 9:30. Recreation
Council and War Council are in
charge of this group.

Thursday night 32 girls attend-
ed a formal at Lawson.

Faculty Rejects
Comprehensives

The question of introducing
comprehensive examinations at
Agnes Scott was declared "not
feasible" due to present conditions
at a recent informal faculty dis-
cussion.

The proposal for comprehen-
sives was introduced by Mr.
George P. Hayes, chairman of a
sub-committee for introducing
pertinent questions.
. Many colleges require compre-
hensive examinations of every
student, but the plan under dis-
cussion by the faculty is an en-
largement of the honor program.
It would be entirely optional,
open to those in the upper third
of their class. These would elect
to take a survey course intended
to fill in the gaps, organize and
relate the material covered in the
four years at college. It would
be an "effort on the part of the
faculty that would greatly en-
rich the intellectual opportunities
of the students," Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain said.

Many students upon hearing ru-
mors of comprehensives replied,
"A fine idea as long as we don't
have to take them." Marjorie
Naab, discussing the proposed
plan, said, "It seems to me that it
would be a good idea in preparing
you for whatever you plan to do
after college,"

For the present, Agnes Scott
will not have comprehensives.

Stukes Hears
Gen. Marshall

Dean S. G. Stukes has just re-
turned from the annual meeting
of the Association of American
Colleges in Atlantic City, N. J.
The principal discussion was on
the education of veterans and the
conscription of men for one year
of compulsory military service.
The main event was a speech by
General George C. Marshall.
Archibald MacLeish, the new as-
sistant secretary of state, spoke on
Intercultural Relations, the object
of his recent work.

The post-war conditions consid-
ered were of more importance to
the representatives from men's
colleges than to those from wom-
en's colleges. The changes which
will be necessary to meet the needs
of the post-war man are yet un-
certain. Dean Stukes said that the
general opinion was for few
changes in post-war curriculum.
The problem of conscripting all
men between 18 and 22 for one
year of service, however, will
greatly affect the education of
men. The feeling of the college
representatives was in general
against conscription, but many of
them favored a program of com-
pulsory R. O. T. C. in all colleges.

Sophs Reveal
Lounge P,ans

Food, fun, and fellowship will
be available for the college com-
munity with the soon-to-be an-
nounced opening of the sopho-
more's unusual project in Mur-
phey Candler.

Dot Peace is in charge of the
preparations for the contest with-
in the class to name the project
which will occupy the two back
rooms upstairs in Murphey Can-
dler. The "joint" will be open
from 3 to 5 in the afternoon, and
9:30 to 10:30 at night. Cokes,
cheese crackers and sandwiches
will be sold. For those interested
in the dance, there will be a re-
cord player and many new re-
cords. Bridge tables and writing
desks will also be provided. The
rooms will be decorated appro-
priately.

Folio Chooses

Three new members have been
added to Folio, announces Vir-
ginia Andrews, president of the
freshman writing club. Those se-
lected from recent tryouts are
Ruth Richardson, Barbara Whip-
ple, and Ann Page Viojette.

Meet the 'Doc'

She'll Put You In 'Pokey
If You Don't Watch Out

By Joanne Benton

Frank, reasonable, and sympathetic that's Dr. Margaret
Burns, who starts off each da}' by turning off the alarm
clock and going back to sleep, and ends each day by follow-
ing her own good advice of "early to bed."

A newcomer to the campus this fall, Dr. Burns probably
knows the weak and weary

NO. 12

Robert Frost
To Visit Here
Jon. 25-27

Robert Frost, eminent Ameri-
can poet, will be presented by the
Lecture Association in Gaines
chapel at 8:30 on the night of Jan.
26. Mr. Frost will be on campus
from Jan. 25 through 27 and will
speak to various groups.

Any students who are interest-
ed may have books autographed
by Mr. Frost. Books must be
handed in to the bookstore before
his arrival.

among us better than we know
her But she knows us as "the
girl with the wart," or as "the ap-
pendectomy." By ailment or
name, though, Dr. Burns sizes up
a new acquaintance right away
and seldom has to change her es-
timate. It's pretty hard to hide
any mental ills from her, too. Dr.
Burns always has good, sensible
advice on hand when it's asked
for.

Crochets

For one who always wanted to

be a doctor, "Bobbie," as her
friends call her, has some very
un-medical hobbies. Crocheting,
for instance she has done a
beautiful afghan, and a pocket-
book which she admits is "big
enough for a knapsack." Not only
does she love to listen to good mu-
sic, but she's quite a violinist her-
self. Her room in Ansley is well
supplied with books, most of them'
with terrifying medical titles
but her favorite is "Ferdinand"
whom, we are told, she keeps with
(Continued on Page 3)

A short memorial service for
Claudia Brownlee will be held
in Maclean chapel Sunday af-
ternoon, Jan. 21, at 5.

Seniors Entertain
Sophs at Parties

The sophomores will be enter-
tained by the seniors with skat-
ing and square dancing parties on
Jan. 24, 27, and 31.

Minnie Mack, senior class presi-
dent, has appointed the following
chairmen: Nulla Norris, enter-
tainment; Sara Milford, girls' in-
vitations; Cookie DeVane, boys'
invitations; Dot Hunter, refresh-
ments; Jeanne Robinson, decora-
tions; and Helen Summerville,
cleanup.

Pate Book

Wed., Jan 17 Georgia Tech's
Navy Band concert in Gaines
chapel at 8 p. m.

Thurs., Jan. 18 Movies on China
at war at 7:30 p. m. in old chapel

Fri., Jan. 19 Basketball games at
4 p. m. Sophomores-Seniors;
Freshmen- Juniors

Sun., Jan. 21 Group leaves for
Lawson General Hospital at 2:15
p. m.

Memorial service for Claudia
Brownlee at 5 p. m. in Maclean
Chapel

Mon., Jan. 22 Informal party at
Lawson. Bus leaves at 6:30

rues., Jan. 23 Dr. J. McD. Rich-
ards to speak in chapel on
"Brothers in Black"

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1945

How Soon Hath Time .

One subject that every Agnes Scott student can agree with
Milton about is- time, "the subtle thief of youth." When he
says, "My hasting days fly on with full career," there can
be no dispute from us.

In fact, it can be positively alarming how fast the hours
do melt away. Of course there's always the solution of a
schedule, a la Dean's Office, but there is something rather de-
grading about being ruled by a piece of paper.

However, we should like to suggest a bit of intelligent plan-
ning to include leisure as well as study time. Recognize the
fact that your time is limited and< make the best of what you
have. Keep down the total of hours that can't be accounted
for.

And just in case we haven't made the point clear, we quote
from a contemporary poet:

"So hath been dawning another new quarter,
Say wilt thou let it get shorter and shorter?
Without making preparation for the end."

Think Now

This is the middle of January. Spring holidays begin March
16 through March 22. With the quarter just beginning, it is
almost impossible to visualize the ending of the winter quar-
ter to think of the general elections for next year's campus
offices. Yet, now is the time for concrete thought.

In a little over a month, the student recorder will publish
an alphabetical list of girls who have worked in any year in
various organizations and the positions which they have held.
By the time this list is posted, each member of the student
body should have a fair idea of her choice of candidates.

Each class sees elections in a different light. For the sen-
iors, regarding their last "college election" with sentimental
sadness, they should be eager to leave behind a capable cam-
pus administration. They realize the officers of '45-'6 must
be as fine as the '44-'5 campus leaders.

To the juniors, elections should represent a challenge a
challenge to put into office the leaders of their class to execute
their aims and ambitions. It is an individual challenge at the
same time that it is a collective challenge. The individual
must meet it with a sense of responsibility, keen insight, and
clear thinking.

Sophomores should see elections in terms of their ap-
proaching junior year when they become upperclassmen.
And for the freshmen taking part in their first college elec-
tions, they should seize this chance for constructive expression
in the setup of Student Government.

So, for all concerned, it is not too soon to think of spring
and general elections. Weigh each office then, measure the
girl you are nominating. Does her past record justify nomina-
tion? Does she possess the qaulities prerequisite for the job?
And lastly, once elected, will she uphold the position better
than someone else?

Elections call for sober, unprejudiced thinking. Elections
mean preparations for greater growth in individuals and in
the college community as a whole. Take your privilege of
student government seriously. Think, now, today, and when
the time comes, act discriminatingly.

The Ag nes Scott

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A BoycTs-Eye View

of Barbara frink

By Mary Anne Courtenay

Announcing her engagement, jumping at every ring of
the telephone to see if it can be Capt. John Hatch arriving
from France, and planning a large, "extemporaneous" wed-
ding at Fort McPherson probably within a month these are
just a few of Barbara Frink's extra-curricular activities this
quarter. All this may take more
than her usual number , of sche-
dules, pads, and charts (to which
she has always been particularly
devoted), but she will also have
more' to add to her numerous
scrapbooks. After the wedding,
she wilf take her cuts and then
return to classes in plenty of time
to graduate.

Eight Men In Her Life

If you mention the men in her
life, Barbara will tell you all
about her eight adorable nephews
the ones who enjoyed our dining
room so thoroughly on Black Cat
Stunt Night. For Christmas she
knitted each GMA nephew a pair
of black socks with red taes.

Barbara's wedding will continue
the army tradition in her family.
Major James Bunnell, son of Mrs.
Bunnell of the Tea House,
married Barbara's sister. And Bar-
bara's Johnny was football captain
and president of his class at West
Point. Barbara went to high
school in Hawaii when her father,
now a Major General overseas,
was stationed in Honolulu. It
was there that she learned to en-
tertain with her grass skirt.
The Long And Short Of It

It was fate as well as their
older sisters at Agnes Scott that
brought together the short and
the tall, Barbara thinks, when she
looks down over her five-foot-one
roommate, Bitty King. Little
change has been made since their
freshman year in Inman, when
Bitty was the early riser. Even
now, Barbara would lie in bed and
use all her cuts before closing the
window for Bitty. Snow White, a
pickaninny doll, is in part responsi-
ble for her sound slumbers and
sweet dreams! The Bitt ^-Bar-
bara combination hasn't been one-
sided, however. Barbara's voice
has suffered four years of teach-
ing Bitty to harmonize, the only
result being that Bitty can sing
the soprano of "Long. Long

Trail." Mortar Board's president
doesn't feel too versatile when it
comes to athletics. In fact, she
soon gave up hockey for a class in
ping pong. And her friends found
great delight last year in Barbara's
tumbling ability.

One of Barbara's distinct fea-
tures is her handwriting, familiar
to almost every faculty member.
Her vertical, rounded letters,
never varying from term paper
to term paper, seem to character-
ize her neatness and geniality.

Council Holds Meeting

The Administrative Council
met Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16,
in the exec room to discuss mat-
ters of campus interest. One of
the subjects under discussion
was the practicality of the new
Student Government Associa-
tion, which was changed this
year. The members of this com-
mittee are: the dean, who is
chairman, the president of the
college, the registrar, the resi-
dent physician, the assistant
dean, one member of the facul-
ty, the president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer of the ex-
ecutive committee, and one se-
nior member of the executive
committee elected by the com-
mittee.

The Tattler

By Ann Seitzinger

(This column is written from
the point of view of the day
student and as such does not ex-
press the opinion of the editors.)

"A boarding student works from
sun to sun but a day student
never works." Day students,
those gay campus lasses, the ones
with dishpan hands and ration
points in their pocketbooks and
wedding bands on their hands!

Now you can see how this half
lives. Their day begins in the semi-
night, some people call it night,
to them it is morning. The day be-
gins sometime after midnight. In
the blackness of Atlanta the Bell
Bomber workers and the Agnes
Scott day students grope for their
belongings and eat their oatmeal.

In the early twilight as they put
their toes out of the doors. Now
at this time they become weather
experts. They have to decide
whether it will rain, snow, hail or
be clear. (They can see that they
often do not hit the right answer).

Now as she leaves the house she
must also take with her every-
thing she is going to need for the
next eighteen hours, more or less.
She clutches books and lunch
and umbrella (since it is a known
fact that when she leaves this ar-
ticle at home it will assuredly
rain) and in this manner she fi-
nally leaves the house.

There are numerous ways she
can get to school. If she is one
of the elite she will share a car
with some goodly number and
partly perched upon a car seat
she will balance on the edge and
pray that the rationed liquid will
not give out. If she is within
walking distance, she will shuffle
through the cobblestones to
school. Her pathway will be light-
ed by the streetlights, if the Deca-
tur public works is kind enough
to leave them on that long. The
great majority will arrive, how-
ever, by boarding P. A's special
cars on various corners in greater
Atlanta.

As you are eating your break-
fast look over towards Main and
you will see the day students ar-
riving. The day passes by and the
only way that you can tell the
day student is by her bewildered
look, which never disappears de-
spite the number of years she
may grace the campus.

Having made the way through
the classes, the day student can
consider going home after she has
lab or goes to the library, or goes
to gym. Around five the thoughts
of home can begin to come true.
Within a few hours she will be
home. As you go to supper you
will see her staggering across the
porch of Rebekah in spite of the
street car.

Now she is back home and the
twilight has settled again. After
a few tasks around the house a
few telephone calls, a glance at
the paper, a bath and a few other
tasks she will consider studying.
As she sits down to study she will
notice that the clock registers
only three hours before the time
to get up to start the whole thing
over again. She closes her
books, writes her letter, polishes
her fingernails, plucks her eye-
brows and finally when there
seems to be nothing left but
study, she goes to bed So her
day ends. . . .

If you would like to know any-
thing about the art of loafing or
the art of not sleeping, stop one
of the "commutin' stoodents" with
the bleary eyes and they will
gladly tell you.

AGNES SCO'

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Margaret McManus, Emory A. T. O. pc
Brown Mahon, sponsoring for the Chi Phi's,
at the Inter-Fraternity dance Friday night-
drop of "Winter Wonderland," each sponsor
quet of red roses, flowers dearest to
Mary Brown wore filmy yellow
marquisette made with a black
lace bodice, while Margaret was
dressed in a lovely white net and
lace gown with long white gloves.

Barbara Frink entertained at a
luncheon Tuesday to announce
her engagement to Capt. Johnny
Hatch, of the Air Corps, at the
Alumnae house. Two tables were
centered with bowls of nosegays
of roses and babies-breath. White
satin ribbons from the flowers
led to the place cards for Mary
Cumming, Eugenia Jones, Scott
Newell, Bitty King, Emily Hig-
gins, Penny Espy, Liz Carpenter,
Ceevah Rosenthal, 1 Betty Camp-
bell, Jeanne Robinson, Lois Sul-
livan, Mary Neely Norris, Caro-
lyn Fuller, Frances Brougher,
and Anne Equen.

Also at the Inter-fraternity
Dance were Nancy Geer, Fran
Nininger Peggy Baker, Maudie
Van Dyke, Dootsie Gardner in a
striking white net with huge
black lace flowers, Peggy Gregg,
Sue Hutchins.

Mary Martin, Lib Osborne, Peg-
gy Pat Home, Punkie Mattison,
Barbara Plumly, Mary Ann
Gaunt, Dot Chapman, Alice New-
man, Annie Hough, Carrol Taylor,
Janet Liddell, Mickey Derieux and
Martie Mizell, Gee Gee Gilliland,
Gail Stewart.

Fraternity house dances held
first place Saturday night at the
Tech S. A. E. house, Betsy Powers
and Nan Nettles; Delta Tau Delta
house at Emory, Nancy Geer; and

BUZZN'
BETTY

we

Psi Omega at Emory, Charlene
Sims and Mary Ellen Morrison
Hottentots at the Chi Phi cabaret
dance were Anne Patterson, An::
Woodward, Louise McLaurin, Mil
dred Claire Jones, and Cookie De-
Vane.

AROUND TOWN At the
Rainbow Roof, Anne Murrell. . . .
Leila Holmes arid Frank (she
brought him to Sunday dinner,
too), Edith Lee Burgess, and Joan
Crangle.

Betty Turner and Lt. Tom Mil-
ler from Thomasville. . , . Phia
Pedakis and Cadet Harry Peda-
kis .... Blitz Roper and Flight
Officer Stanley Barlow.

At the basketball game Frances
Brougher's Chris nearly ruined
some juniors' playing ... so tall
and handsome is he.

Proud girls with visiting moth-
ers Eleanor and Sister Davis and
and B. J. Brown.
OUT OF TOWN Home is still
best. . . . according to Margaret
Anne Richardson and Midge
Haddock, who went to Columbus,
Rusty Raifield to Montgomery
and Jane Everett to Macon.

Mary Emily Harris was in
Athens over the week-end, while
Leo Jesperson took off to Annis-
ton, Ala.

Harrriet Gregory and Mary Hay
were in Covington.

Meet the 'Doc'

HERE'S A DILLY OF
A DOUBLE DUTY
DRESS!

It's navy crepe Re-
move the white eyelet
frilly front with a
twist of the wrist and
emerge a sophisticate
in white crepe vest
and pearl buttons.

$35.00

Deb Shop

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her always.

Ever original, Dr. Burns defied
convention by hanging her "shin-
gle" after her practice had been
established. Having passed her
National and State Board exams
last summer she got the certifi-
cate a few weeks ago, and hung
it in her gymnasium office.
"Pokey"
Agnes Scott's new doctor has
already made herself a part of
campus life. Just ask any hockey
player, for instance, whose idea
those shin guards were. She is
scheduled to speak to the mar-
riage class soon, and is a member
of the faculty visual arts class.
As for the new science hall and in-
firmary (or, as she calls it, the
"pokey"), of course she is look-
ing forward to them as eagerly
as anyone on campus.

"Duked to death," Dr. Burns is
in position to sympathize with the
darker side of campus life. See-

RICH'S

nesday, Jan, l< a
club, will go I
munity. The Agr

'ill

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Music Lovers Hear
Organ and Piano

Many Agnes Scotters and visi-
tors enjoyed a program of organ
and piano music by Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann and Mrs. J. M. Moore
Monday night in Gaines chapel.

The organ selections consisted
of "Toccata and Fugue in D mi-
nor" by Bach, "Evensong" by
Martin, Parker's "Novelette," "At
the Convent" by Bordodin, and
Sibelius' "Finlandia." "Rofanxa"
by Huss was presented on piano
and organ, and "Sonata in F. Ma-
jor" by Ulozart-Grieg was played
by two pianos.

Music Appreciation Hour, Jan.
29, will be under the direction of
Mr. Hugh Hodgson from the Uni-
versity of Georgia. His program
will be announced later.

BUY MORE WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS

ing girls on co-op dining room
duty always brings back memories
of the time she spilled coffee down
the dean's back. And she knows
how labs are, too, since she had
one every day during her days at
Duke. She has gone on record,
too, as sympathizing with every-
body who takes advanced quan.

Her most famous comment on
education is, "If you want an M.
D. go to Duke! but go to North
Carolina if you want an MRS."

Weight Worry

In Dr. Burns we have a person
who likes to have everything
neat but dislikes cleaning up; who
likes parties; who hates to make
speeches; and who is in favor of
people doing what they like.

She's the one person on campus
who doesn't approve of the good
food here this year: she's worried
about her weight!

Charles Boyer is among her
likes. Returning from seeing
"Together Again" the other night,
she said indignantly, "I thought
that female never would give in!"

To talk shop, Dr. Burns sees no
point in people catching colds
when they are so. easy to avoid.
But she'll put you in the "pokey"
if you don't watch out!

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THE ATLANTA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

Library Obtains Limired Edition
Of Papers of James Boswell

By Pattie Dean

The Agnes Scott library is fortunate to possess one of the
limited editions of the private papers of James Boswell.
Fully as exciting as finding a secret passage in an old house
or finding a buried treasure is the discovery of BoswelPs
private papers, now for the first time brought to light. It
was known for a long time that

such papers existed, for Boswell
often referred to them in his
works. He definitely stated that
he collected documents for their
probable interest to posterity. He
called them "my curious archives"
and referred to "my cabinet of
papers at Achinleck." Boswell real-
ized the future importance of his
acquaintance with famous men
and he stored their letters and
made copies of his own besides
leaving abundant diaries.

Years passed and Boswell's pa-
pers never appeared. They were
passed down to various heirs and
finally were transferred to Ire-
land. Lt. Col. Ralph Isham had a
careful search made of Achinleck
and Malahide Castle which
brought about the discovery of the
precious papers.

The first papers were discovered
as waste papers in a small shop

in Boulogne. It was for more than
a century that his other papers lay
unsuspected by the world in and
around his own "Ebony Cabinet,"
so often referred to in his writ-
ings.

The surviving documents fall
into the following categories: cor-
respondence (letters to Johnson,
literary material), records, jour-
nals, other letters preserved at
Achinleck, and notes and mem-
oranda. All material is now at
Yale in the collection of Col.
Isham. They were prepared for
the press by Geoffry Scott and are
now first printed under the title of
The Private Papers of James Bos-
well from Malahide Castle. The
edition has a lovely format and
beautiful paper and typography. In
this edition of Boswell's papers
there are facsimiles which bring
the reader closer to the manu-
script.

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FOOTE AND DAVIES

Announces its new
College Annual Department
250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor-
dially invited to visit the con-
venient and comfortable work-
ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

Quality

Pays Dividends

Today's fur coat is a long-time
investment. It is bought with
the intention of living with it
for many seasons. It must be
GOOD to retain its beauty and
the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
you choose your furs from
Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
tional high standards that have
built our reputation for us.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

S B H - F A A

For those who might not know
to keep popping up in this column,
but we do want to make clear
what they stand for. Those six
little symbols say this: SAVE
BLUE HORSES FOR ATHLE-
TIC ASSOCIATION.

For those who might not know
where to locate stables, we'll ex-
plain that by "Blue Horses" we
mean those wrappers which come
off of "Blue Horse" notebook pa-
per. By saving enough of these,
A. A. can swap them in for a
bicycle. Boxes in which to put
them will be found in the book-
store, and day student rooms,
and sophomores will collect them
from dormitories. The project is
the freshmen and the sophomores
class for the benefit of A. A. The
bicycle if obtained, will belong to
the Association, and therefore to
all students.

The biggest sports event is the
beginning of the basketball sea-
son. It opened last Friday after-
noon, amid plenty of good cheer-
ing, when the seniors defeated
the freshmen an dthe sophomores
bowed to the juniors. Other
games will be played on Fridays,
alternately in the afternoon and
at night.

Class managers for basketball
are Susan Kirtley, senior; Ruth
Ryner, junior; Janet Lidell, sopho-
more; and Sister Davis, freshman.
From here it looks as if the com-
petition among the classes will be
quite keen.

Basketball

Next Friday, sister classes will
meet in the contest; the sophs and
seniors will play each other, and
the juniors will play the frosh.

The swimming pageant is set
for March 1. The direction of it is
mainly up to the swimming club,
which met yesterday to begin the
script.

Fifteen girls met last Wednes-
day to form a badminton club.
The members will play today and
a number of times during the next
few weeks. Then a tournament
will begin, according to Suzanne
Watkins, badminton manager.

Basketball

Marriage Class
Begins Today

The annual marriage classes for
senior and engaged girls begin
at 5 this afternoon in the large
date parlor in Main.

Dr. James Brawner will speak
on "The Psychology of Courtship
and Marriage."

The classes are sponsored by
Mortar Board each year.

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Wok Beginning January 17th
Wednesday
Ann Harding in
"NINE GIRLS"

Thursday-Friday
Eddie Cantor-George Murphv-Joan Davis in
"SHOW BUSINESS"

Saturday
"RAIDERS OF SUNSET PASS"

and

"0 MY DARLING CLEMENTINE"

Monday-Tuesday
Frtd McMurray-Dorothy Lamour in
"AND THE ANGELS SING"

Ballet Russe
Program Told

The Ballet de Russe de Monte
de Carlo will give four perform-
ances at the Erlanger this week-
end.

The announced programs are:
Thursday, Jan. 18, 8:30 p. m.,
Les Sylphides, Danses Con-
certantes, and Gaite Parisienne.

Friday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p. m., Sere-
nade, The Snow Maiden, and The
Red Poppy.

Saturday, Jan. 20, Mat. 2:30 p.
m., Coppelia, Blue Bird, and
Rodeo; 8:30 p. m., Chopin Con-
certo, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,
and Le Beau Danube.

Seniors, Juniors Win
initial Cage Games

By Anne Register

This year's basketball season got off to a rollicking start
Friday afternoon, when the seniors trampled the freshmen
26-9, and the juniors downed the sophomores 30-23.

A novel beginning came when each of the class managers
had to draw to match opponents. The seniors opposed the
frosh in the first game. In the
opening half the peppy greenies
were full of spirit and determina-
tion but were against a too ex-
perienced group. Mary Cumming
and Mary Munroe manafed to drop
the ball in for 12 and 9 points re-
spectively to lead their team to
victory. For the newcomers,
Adele Dieckman and Harriet
Reid were consistent in sinking
their free shots. During the last
half the freshmen succeeded in
holding their opponents and pre-
vented as much scoring as in the
first period.

Hough Scores 13
The old time rivals who tied
for the basketball cup last year,
battled in a tight game. The ju-
niors were out to defeat the sophs
and managed to chalk up 30
points to 23. Gloria Ann Melchor
did some excellent breaking and
her crip shots were regular. Sally
Sue Stephenson and Doris Pur-
cell were steady and shot in some
beautiful balls. The guards too
were on the ball and managed to
break up some would-be tallies.
Ann Hough in her usual quick
manner rang the basket for 13
points. The sophomore zone
guarding was the most effective
seen. The juniors had difficulty
in getting to the goal in order to
shoot but running was close dur-
ing the entire game and hopes
were raised and knocked down
with back points.

The starting lineups were as
follows.

Freshmen Seniors
Manley (2) RF Milam (1)
McLauren LF Cumming (12)
Davis CF Munroe (9)

Cunningham RG Equen
Turner LG Kirtley

Hayes CG Gray

Subs: Freshmen, Miller (2), Gib-
son, Dieckmann (3), Reid (2),
Yancy, Powers. Seniors, Kay (2),
Slack.

Juniors Sophomores

Stephenson (6) RF Andrews (6)
Melchor (13) LF Hough (13)
Purcell (1) CF Heery (4)
Johnson RG Denning

Phelps LG Liddell

McCain CG Radford

Sub: Ryner.

DEKALB THEATRE

WEEK OF JANUARY 17
Wednesday -Thursday
Donald O'Connor - Peggy Ryan
'THE MERRY M ON AH ANS' :

Friday

"SECRETS OF A CO-ED"

Saturday
'BOSS OF BOOM TOWN'

and

"THE NAVY WAY"

Monday-Tuesday
"IRISH EYES ARE SMILING"

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112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

Shoe Shop Caters
To 'Elite Feet 1

"Where the Elite Feet Meet"
is the theme of the Freshman Shoe
Shop, Pagey Violette, chairman,
announces today.

The shoe shop will operate from
5-6 p. m. Collections will be: Mon-
day Rebekah Scott; Tuesday
Main; Wednesday c o 1 1 a g e s ;
Thursday Inman. The charge is
ten cents for plain shoes and fif-
teen cents for two-tone shoes.

Beth Jones is treasurer of the
project; and Bobbie Whipple is
Publicity Chairman. Wing chair-
men are Ann Ballard, "Clarkie"
Rogers, Mae Comer Osborne, Ann
Patterson, Betsy Brown, and
"Doc" Dunn.

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

Holzhauer Art Exhibit Shows
Watercolors Through Feb. 3

An exhibition of brilliant watercolors by Emil Holzhauer
will continue in the Agnes Scott gallery in the library through
Feb. 3. The exhibition opened Jan. 13, and will be open to the
public daily except Sunday.

Holzhauer has sent to Agnes

The watercolors which Mr.
Scott's Gallery are human interest
documents; records of places
where "people" live in Savannah,
Macon and Asheville. Uncle Joe's
Alley, Chicken Hill, Morning
Light, Murder Row are typical
titles from the collection of thirty
paintings. Mr. Holzhauer is asso-
ciate professor of art at Wesleyan
Conservatory, Macon.

Emil Holzhauer was born in
Germany. His early art education
was received at Staatliche-Hohere-
Fach-Schule, Schwabisch, Gmund.

In the 1930 International Water-
color Exhibition at Chicago, Emil
Holzhauer was awarded the Lo-
gan Medal and Purchase prize of
$500 for a watercolor. This dis-
tinction firmly established him as
a front rank painter.

He has a decided liking for
painting in the out-of-doors.
Among his chief characteristics
are an unusual sensitivity to bril-
liant color, a cripsness in the treat-

Drive Launched
For Polio Funds

Agnes Scott is joining in the
Polio Drive for crippled chil-
dren and scientific research.
Boxes have been placed on the
campus to receive voluntary
contributions. The drive will
continue until Jan. 31.

To combat the effects of in-
fantile paralysis and to carri-
on scientific research as to its
causes and methods of cure, the
annual Polio Drive is being
launched throughout the nation,
with Georgia forming the
nucleus of the appeal.

The climax of the drive will
come Jan. 30 with a series of
halls celebrating the birthday
of President Roosevelt, origin-
ator of the campaign.

ment of patterns of sunlight and
shadow as they emphasize the
form of objects in space, and
above all, a dexterity N and skill in
significant textures. These traits
have distinguished him as an
American painter. He is repre-
sented in the permanent collec-
tions of art galleries in New York
City, Chicago, Denver, Los An-
geles, Rochester, Albany, Syra-
cuse, Oberlin and Newark. He is
a member of the Southern States'
Art League with which group he
is a consistent exhibitor.

Student Budget
Sees Change

Mortar Board recently ques-
tioned the fairness of the appor-
tionment of funds to the various
campus organizations as provided
for in the student budget. As a
result of this, the needs of the
various organizations were
studied and the budget slightly re-
vised.

Because of the high cost of
budget reserve is smaller,
printing, both Aurora and the
handbook were given a larger per-
centage of the fund. May Day
was also given a boost.

Because of the increase, the

Christian Association* found
that the contributions of the stu-
dents were nearly sufficient for
their needs so their amount was
reduced from 7> c /r to 1%. Student
Government also was given a re-
duction because war conditions
have cut out conventions to which
Agnes Scott sent representatives.

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc.

DECATUR CAKE BOX

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

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945

NO. 13

Anne Equen Elected May Queen

Robert Frost Arrives
On Campus Thursday

Poet Will Lecture Here
Friday Night in Presser

Robert Frost is coming to Agnes Scott tomorrow. He will be
"resident poet" for three days and will give a public lecture
in Presser Friday night at 8:30.

For the majority of Americans those simple words are all
the publicity needed to fill any lecture auditorium. For
those words mean a large, white

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Miss Emma May Laney and
Robert Frost on his last visit to
Agnes Scott.

Seniors Entertain Sophs

Come on, you sophs, don't be
droops !

We'll let you in on colossal
"scoops."

There's fun and frolic and
good eats, too.

But more than that MEN
JUST FOR YOU!

Put aside all those frowns
which you long-faced sopho-
mores have been wearing lately.
No longer will you have reason
to complain of man shortage
not if you plan to attend the
skating and square dances
which the senior class has in
store for you.

According to Minnie Mack
and the other members of the
committees these big events
are scheduled for Jan. 24, 27,
and 31. Be sure to remember
the dales and don't fail to be
present.

Hottentots Urged
To Plan Changes

Molly Milam, student body
president, has asked the students
to submit suggestions for changes
in the dormitory or social regu-
lations of the school. Proposals
concerning improvement in ad-
ministrative student government
will also be welcomed.

These suggestions are to be put
in the student government box
in the mail room by the last of
February. They will be carefully
discussed and considered by Stu-
dent Government before being
presented at the student meeting
in chapel.

haired elderly gentleman in loose
cut clothes, who moves about cas-
ually, and whose twinkling eyes
quickly make him an old friend.

This man is, according to James
Norman Hall, the fountain head of
poetry, a man whose influence
grows, and grows. To students at
Agnes Scott he is a favorite lec-
turer and personality.

Mr. Frost who is deemed by
many the chief interpreter of New
England, was born in San Fran-
cisco in 1875. He attended grade
school there, but after the death
of his father, returned to New
England the home of his ances-
tors. Mr. Frost taught school for
a while after his graduation from
high school and later entered Har-
vard where he studied for two
years.

He then moved to , a farm in
New England to teach and do
some writing until 1912 when he
and his family moved to England.
Here Mr. Frost entered a literary
circle and had his first works pub-
lished, A Boy's Will and North
of Boston." In 1915 he returned
to America to find himself fa-
mous. From that date until the
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Plans Announced
For Junior Joint

Plans for a bigger and better
Junior Joint are under way ac-
cording to Chairman Martha Ba-
ker. The affair, a combination of
Mardi Gras and the Junior Ban-
quet of the ante bellum days, will
take place the night of Feb. 24 in
the gym.

Each class will be asked to
nominate a playboy and debutante.
Votes will be a penny apiece for
the benefit of the war fund. The
winners are to be honor guests
of the Junior Joint.

The program for the evening will
consist of a series of stunts to be
presented by campus organiza-
tions. There is an entrance fee of
fifty cents for each stunt and a
time limit of fifteen minutes. The
basis on which stunts are to be
judged will be announced later.

Committee chairmen are Mar-
tha Sunkes, refreshments; Sarah
Walker, tables and chairs; Bar-
bara Kincaid, decorations; Pud-
den Bealer, program; Jane Bow-
man, entertainment; Blitz Roper,
tickets; Jane Ann Newton, pub-
licity; and Susan Richardson,
lights.

ANNE EQUEN

Sophomores
To Inaugurate
Lounge Soon

The sophomore class has com-
pleted plans for the Pairadice
Room, a recreation room in
Murphey Candler which will be
opened to students at the begin-
ning of next week.

The Pairadice Room includes
the two back rooms in Murphey
Candler building, the larger of
which will be used for dancing to
the music of a juke box.

The smaller room will be fitted
with bridge tables, which have
been donated by Atlanta and De-
catur students. The sophomores
plan to sell cokes and crackers
during the Pairadice Room's
hours, which will be approximate-
ly from 1:45 to 5 in the after-
noon and 9:15 to 10:15 at night.

Dot Peace, chairman of the pro-
ject, states. "The Pairadice
Room will be managed by mem-
bers of the sophomore class, but
it is to be for the benefit and
pleasure of every member of the
student body. We want the Paira-
dice Room to be a place where
students can be with their friends,
shoot the bull, dance, play cards,
and relax between classes and
study periods."

Date Book

Wed., Jan. 24 Dr. Eugenia Jones
to speak at marriage class at 5.
Senior party for sophomores.

Thurs., Jan. 25 Pi Alpha Phi de-
bate with Atlanta Junior Col-
lege in Murphey Candler at
7:30. Mrs. Marc Weersing is
chapel speaker.

Fri. Jan. 26 Robert Frost to lect-
ure at 8:30. Basketball game
at 4. Seniors play juniors; soph-
omores play freshmen.

Sat., Jan. 27 Senior party for
sophomores.

Sun., Jan. 28 Group leaves for
Lawson General hospital at
2:15.

Mon., Jan 29 Red Cross bus
leaves for Lawson at 6:30.

Wed., Jan. 31 Senior party for
sophomores.

H. M. Jones
To Lecture
In February

Howard Mumford Jones, well-
known author and educator, will
appear in a series of lectures Feb.
6, 7, and 8.

The subject of his first lecture,
on Wednesday, Feb. 7, will
be "Three Traditions in American
Literature." The following morn-
ing in chapel he will speak on
"The Attraction of Stupidity."
He is to speak to the class in Ro-
mantic Poetry and he will also
meet with the faculty in the even-
ing in a discussion group dealing
in educational problems.

Besides being a well-known
author, he has been a professor
in the Universities of Texas, of
Michigan, and of North Carolina,
and is now Professor of English
at Harvard. Recently he has been
Dean at the graduate school of
Arts and Sciences at Harvard.

Dr. Jones is author and editor
of many volumes which include,
"American and French Culture,"
"A Life of Tom Moore," (author of
"Believe Me If All Those Endear-
ing Young Charms"), and "Ideas
in America." He has written sev-
eral translations, bibliographical
and critical studies, and mono-
graphs. A frequent contributor
to magazines such as the "Atlan-
tic Monthly" and the "Saturday
Review of Literature." He is also
president of the American Acade-
my of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Jones Speaks
To Seniors Today

Dr. Eugenia C. Jones former
resident physician at Agnes Scott,
will speak to the marriage class
on anatomy and physiology at
5 o'clock this afternoon in the
large date parlor in Main.

According $o Barbara Frink,
president of Mortar Board, books
on the subject are available in
the library.

Dr. Jones' talk will be the sec-
ond in a series of five lectures
on marriage open to seniors and
engaged girls.

Scott Newell Is
Maid of Honor

A May Queen has been elected!
Anne Equen, blonde senior, was
chosen by the student body in
chapel Thursday to reign over the
May Day festivities this spring.

Scott Newell, president of
Cotillion Club, automatically be-
comes maid-of-honor, polling sec-
ond place, and will crown the
queen on May Day. Jeanne Rob-
inson, president of Lecture As-
sociation, and Martha Whatley
Yates, Day Student representa-
tive- on Student Government, will
represent the senior class in the
contest.

Anne has been past associate
editor of The Silhouette and is
now feature editor of the year-
book. Last year, she was on the
costume committee for May Day.

Jane Everett, May Day chair-
man, has announced that Martha
Jean Gower's scenario, "The Cre-
ation," has been chosen for May
Day. The theme for last year
was "The Making of the Rain-
bow" by Tommy Huie.

Differing from past procedure,
the classes will separately nomi-
nate only members from their
respective classes in February for
the court. The nominees for the
court will then be voted on by
the student body at a later date.

Alumna Speaks
On 'Respect'

Mrs. Marc Weersing, Agnes
Scott Alumna, will speak in chapel
tomorrow, Jan. 25, on "Respect"
a phase of the Student Govern-
ment Association theme. Mildred
McCain, a member of the execu-
tive committee of Student Gov-
ernment, will introduce her.

The chapel program is one of a
series of three planned by Chair-
man Mary Cumming, Jean Stew-
art, and Margie Bond, program
committee.

The programs are designed to
carry out the theme of Student
Government Association: "Re-
spect, share, participate . . . Live
in a happy community."

Mrs. Weersing is a past vice-
president of Christian Associa-
tion. She is the wife of Rev. Marc
Weersing of the Oakhurst Pres-
byterian church of Decatur. Hav-
ing worked with young people,
she was asked to be speaker at
Sunday afternoon vesper services
by Christian Association earlier
this quarter.

Posey Speaks
In Chapel

Mr. Walter F. Posey professor
of history, spoke this morning in
chapel, sponsored by War Coun-
cil. Mr. Posey traced American
diplomatic history, pointing out
the various policies this country
has followed in the past.

Using the first World War and :
our relations with Japan since
1898 as examples, he explained'
their bearing on the policies of
the present administration and
those of the future.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945

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Were You There?

At the basketball game Friday night there were pitifully
few spectators from every class. This was probably one of
the reasons for the "slow" game. The lack of class spirit was
evident.

Class spirit is essential for any team to play its best. Bas-
ketball games could be peppy and thrilling if more of us would
come out and cheer our teams on to victory. After all, your
time is no more valuable than the girls who are playing basket-
ball for you and your class.

At the hockey games in the fall, class spirit ran high, and
the teams really put on a good show. They played their best,
and there was fun for all.

Don't let your teams down this quarter. Do your best to
come down to the gym and add your voice to the cheers for
those goals.

Winter quarter there is no Stunt, no Senior Opera, no May
Day. It is the dreariest weather of the year, and just the
time for a good indoor basketball game. Instead of going in
town to a movie, support your basketball team.

After graduation will be too late to wish you had entered
more into college life. And athletics is Agnes Scott's fourth
ideal.

The games are scheduled alternately on Friday afternoons
and nights so that everyone can go at one time or the other.
An the least athleticly inclined person can get a kick out
of singing songs and being a part of the group.

So come on out and show your teams that you are behind
them.

Resident Poet

Tomorrow the campus will welcome the arrival of Robert
Frost, who will be "resident poet" for three days.

Since he will be here for that length of time, it is hoped
that we shall all get to talk with him personally.

Mr. Frost has endeared himself to the campus on his
previous visits. His philosophical, interesting manner has
made him a favorite with both students and faculty here.

We are eagerly looking forward to meeting and hearing
Robert Frost.

Claude Bennett

Mr. Claude Bennett, one of Agnes Scott's good friends, died
suddenly last week. All those who knew him will remem-
ber his genial personality, his ever-present smile, his sincere
affection for the college.

In honor of his wife, an Agnes Scott alumna, Mr. Bennett
annually presented the Bennett silver cup to the senior mem-
ber of Blackfriars who did the best acting throughout the
year. He was a firm supporter of the college publications.
His genuine interest in the campus organizations was evident
by the personal interest which he always showed in advertis-
ing with us.

Agnes Scott will miss its good friend, Mr. Claude Bennett.

The Tattler

By Ann Seitzinger

Classics

Bunny Weems, in psych class,
asked Mr. Stukes, 'What does it
mean if you think you hear bells
all the time?" Everyone roared
when he replied, "What kind of
bells?" It just happened that a
friend of Bunny's, back from the
war, had gone with her to class
that day.

Far from humdrum were the
college days of Mr. Schuyler
Christian. Back in the fall he
confided that his favorite pastime
had been putting on a wide-
brimmed straw hat, shooting
buckshot straight upward, and
letting it rain down on the hat.
More recently, speaking of reson-
nance, he mentioned that he and
several friends "resonated" so
well with a swaying streetcar that
they almost turned it over.
BaUet-hoo

Those who went to the Friday
night performance of the ballet
may have noticed something fa-
miliar about the third ballerina
from the left in the "Dance of
the Red Poppy." She was Made-
line Hosmer, now on the AP staff.
She interviewed the group so fre-
quently that they learned of her
dancing ability and made use of it.
Question and Numbers

Tabby was heard the other day,
wondering if "there are enough
boys for all the girls here," as
"there sure are a lot of them."
Swing Shift

Ann Hightower, returning to
school from her hostess' home by
streetcar early one Monday morn-
ing, closed her eyes for forty
winks. A woman sat down by her
and said suddenly, "Ha, caught
you with your eyes shut. You
must work on the night shift."
Ann was too sleepy to argue with
her.

Cutthroats

Saturday night, Vicky and
Stewart got bored over in Boyd
and decided to be shieks, or, as
Stewart insists on saying, shrieks.
Taking the sheets from a bed
(not their's), they made a tent,
only to decide they looked more
like John Silver than Valentino,
so they became pirates. Vicky
draped a patch over one eye and
Stewart put a carving knife be-
tween her teeth, cutting her
tongue. They then proceded to
Helga's room, where they "pirat-
ed" in such fashion that Helga
was ready to walk the plank to
reach the peace and quiet of a
watery grave.

Organ Grinder

The audience who saw War
Council's film on China know (I
hope) what a rare treat they
missed. Several hours before the
movie, it was found that the ma-
chine wasn't working properly,
and that there might come a long
pause while something was being
rolled. If this happened, Mr. Run-
yan was all prepared to step into
the breach and entertain those
present with renditions on the
organ. Unfortunately all went
well.

Absent-Minded Professor

Prof. Jodele Tanner really be-
lieves in getting to class on time.
One morning, so long ago that
she has forgotten it, she awoke to
the cheerful clang of the alarm,
which she set for six thirty. Un-
fortunately, she had forgotten to
set the clock, which was two
hours fast. As she never opens
her eyes until she has read the
breakfast menu in an Emory
drugstore, she didn't notice that
it was still dark. Arriving at said
drugstore at five o'clock. Jody,

A BoycTs-Eye View

of Ann Equen

By Jeanne Addison

After youVe taken a look at the glamorous picture on page
one, we'd like to paint another picture for you of Agnes Scott's
new May Queen. Imagine yourself in last year's White House
any hour of the night or day and you'd be likely to meet the
famous Equen bedroom slippers huge wood and leather
affairs that were a gift to her

father. They made lovely noises
in the halls in addition to to their
attractive appearance.

Pictures a la Mode

Or transport yourself mentally
to Inman her freshman year and
you might be confronted by the
dizzy project of pictures hung
so high on the wall that no one
could possibly see them because
they're stylish that way. Or try
to imagine her sleeping in a most
ungl amorous bandana because her
ears get cold. And always, inci-
dentally, with her pet elephant
"Puddy" too.

Frink, King, Inc.

Anne is a day student this year,
but sophomore and junior years
she lived with Barbara Frink and
Bitty King. Even then, she never
managed to have the right clothes
out here at the right time and
always ended up in Barbara's
evening dresses. This year she'll
always agree to spend the night
if she can find someone to play
bridge with her.

Lined Letters

Knitting, blue, and the name

Harry are some of the things she
likes. And when it comes to writ-
ing letters, she used to have a
method all her own. She'd use a
paper ruler to keep her lines
straight and then go back to fill
in the "g's" and "y's." Rumor has
it that she's given this up now to
save time.

Glamour

Plenty can be said, also, on the
glamorous side. Anne was last
year's president of the Atlanta
Debutantes, and representative of
southern colleges from Davison's
to the Minx Mode convention in
St. Louis. She's had experience in
May Day too being especially
notable for her outstanding per-
formance and graceful leaps as a
grape year before last.

Serious Side

As for her more serious activi-
ties "Equie" is an English major,
and quite an athlete. She spends
much of her time this year work-
ing at Eggleston hospital with
the Junior League. The amazing
thing is that she still finds time
to keep assignments up to date.

Question of the Week . . .

What do you think of the success of the Student Govern-
ment reorganization this year?

Laura Winchester, '47 "From

Campos
Topics

An empty faculty table with a
piece of devil's food cake left for
Mr. Thomas with a note attached.
Mr. Thomas likes desserts.

Minnie Mack losing her fiance's
fraternity pin. (His name is Hen-
ry Simmons.) Minnie was frantic
until the pin was returned to her
by none other than Henry Sim-
mons, a janitor on the campus.
Coincidence!

Secrets

Everybody's been wondering and
speculating on the May Queen.
Several News staff members have
undergone the third degree. That
women can keep a secret has been
proven. But it surely is a hard
test.

The pros and cons of the Sopho-
more's new project, the Pairadice
Room. There are plenty of people
who will patronize the room.

Her Own Medicine

Dr. Burns urging everyone to
prevent colds, and then landing in
the hospital herself for a few days.
(This crack was unintentionally
emitted last week.)

The 27-year-old Lt. Col. in the
Air Corps who took six Agnes
Scott girls to the show last week.
And at the basketball game one
of the junior stars had five men
with her. (The inequality of the
situation causes talk.)

after bumping into the closed
door, did open her eyes and was
very puzzled at the deserted look
of things. She finally went to
Emory Hospital where she curled
up on a sofa in the reception room
and slept until time for class.

outward appearances, it seems to
be running much more smoothly
than last year."

Hansell Cousar, '45 "The only
change I've noticed is that the
leaders of the government look a
little less harrassed than in the
past now that duties are more
equally divided. It is definitely
a change in the right direction.

PuddhV Dealer, '46 "People
seem a lot happier over the whole
setup."

Minnie Mack, '45 'There should
be some means of closer coopera-
tion between the judicial and ex-
ecutive branches. The executive
branch needs to know what the
judicial branch has done. Yet they
cannot sit in on their meetings.
That is the problem."

Jean Chewning, '46 "I haven't
heard as much complaining this
year over penalties. It seems to
be a much fairer way of govern-
ment."

Jean Hood, '45 "I think the
vice-president had too much to do
under the old plan. This method
of dividing the work is much bet-
ter. I think the Lower House duties
are a good idea also."

Leila Powell, '46 "I approve of
Student Government's reorganiza-
tion this year. It is a truly more
representative body. The duties
being more evenly divided make it
easier on all concerned."

Sophomore Cabinet
Holds Bible Quiz

A Bible and hymn quiz is to be
held tonight by Sophomore Cab-
inet.

The quiz will be in Murphey
Candler with Carolyn Squires as
leader.

Each member of the cabinet
will take part in the contest and
prizes of candy will be offered.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945

Page 3

Every Day Wash Day

Clean Clothes in a Jiffy,
Thanks To Machine Age

By Margaret Kinard

Big cylinder-like contraptions going round and round in
every direction, industrious colored people running back and
forth, streaks of color here and there, machines moving back
and forth, up and down this is what I saw as I peered cauti-
ously through the window. Finally I got up courage to walk
in, and I boldly asked, "Is this the
laundry?" I felt rather embar-
rassed asking that stupid question
about a place that does so much
work for me every week. But I
wonder how many Hottentots
even know where our laundry is,
much less how it carries out its
important work? Wouldn't you
like to know?

Just walk down faculty row,
turn to the right, and there, the
second building to the left, is our
laundry. Mr. Boyd Davis, who is in
charge of the laundry, kindly con-
sented to give me the "inside
dope" on what happens to some-
body's clothes many times daily.
He is very proud of the excellent
way in which all our "cleaning"
is accomplished. And believe me,
the laundry business is a com-
plicated thing to be run so
smoothly.

30 Bags At Once

As we all know, our laundry
bags are collected directly from
our dorms and taken to the laun-
dry. There, the bags are opened
and the lists are checked. The
laundry makes a list of its own
which is put with the student list.
The pieces are sorted into color-
ed things, white things, and silk
things, before going into separate
washers. All wearing apparel
that might tear is put in nets.
Thirty bags of laundry can go
through at one time .

I went with Mr. Davis through
the sorting room out to the big
room which contains all the
"contraptions" I spoke of. I
gazed into one big cylinder after
another each of which was do-
ing something different in the
washing process or washing some
particular type of clothes. Every-
thing goes through four suds and

five or six rinses before being
dried. Simply by watching the
steam which was released, I
realized the heat which they use
to obtain results about 200 de-
grees F., I was told. It was easy
to se ewhy our laundry is noted for
its cleanliness in this vicinity.

Next I saw a big machine going
like a whirlwind, which Mr. Davis
called an "extractor." But in my
limited vocabulary, I'd call it a
"dryer." In from 6 to 12 minutes,
it dried a batch of clothes. After
drying, each type of laundry is
finished according to its specifica-
tions. ,

Four Sheets a Minute
Towels and wash cloths are
"tumbled" in a big rotating ma-
chine that literally tumbles them
back and forth. Flat work goes
through a big presser one roller
after another, another roller after
another , and it goes at the rate
of four sheets per minute. Imag-
ine ? All the silk things and wear-
ing apparel are hand finished on
regular ironing boards and elec-
tric ironers. Socks are put on a
special sock presser.

After pressing and folding the
laundry goes back to the sorting
room and each person's things are
put on a separate shelf. The
pieces are rechecked as they are
bundled up to come back to us.

The last thing I saw at the
laundry was their store room
filled with bags of soap, soap by
the ton. For silk clothes, they use
a special soap, perhaps sweeter
and softer than your own hand
soap. I tried some on my hands,
and take it from me, your silk
clothes get the best of care.
Laundry Slip Problem
I asked Mr. Davis what his
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Nominations

The nominating committee
should begin functioning around
Feb. 1. Student government con-
stitution states that popular nom-
inations by the entire student
body take place on the first Satur-
day after spring holidays at a
student meeting. This will be
Mar. 24. The nominations will be
posted Monday, Mar. 26, and
elections take place on the fol-
lowing Thursday, Mar. 29.

Marjorie Naab will post in the
mailroom Feb. 15 the list of
names of girls who serve in
the various orgnizations on cam-
pus.

Junior College
Debates Here

A team from the Atlanta Ju-
nior College will debate members
of Pi Alpha Phi at their regular
meeting in Murphey Candler to-
morrow night.

The guest team will speak for
the affirmative of the subject to
be used for the Georgia Debate
Tournament in February, "Re-
solved, that the federal govern-
ment should require one year of
full-time military service for all
able-bodied men between 18-25."
Peggy Willmon and Lib Osborne
will uphold the negative. The
campus community is invited.

Pi Alpha Phi will send two
teams to the Georgia Debate
Tournament at Emory Feb. 10.
As a result of tryouts held last
week, Peggy Willmon and Lib Os-
borne will represent Agnes Scott
for the negative and Louisa Aichel
and Dot Peace for the affirmative.

tity

Pays Dividends

Today's fur coat is a long-time
investment. It is bought with
the intention of living with it
for many seasons. It must be
GOOD to retain its beauty and
the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
you choose your furs from
Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
tional high standards that have
built our reputation for us.

CfiaUu&'s

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220 PEACHTREE

Pearson to Speak
In Decatur Soon

Drew Pearson, editor of the
Washington Merry-Go-Round col
umn, will speak at the Decatur
auditorium on Mar. 5.

The Decatur Lions Club is
bringing Mr. Pearson here to aid
in the benefit fund for college edu-
cation of DeKalb county boys and
girls.

Pearson has not disclosed the
date of his arrival or the subject
of his lecture.

Tickets for the lecture will go
on sale today, and may be obtain-
ed from A. M. Chandler, Inc.,
Hearn's, Tatum's Pharmacy in De-
catur, and John H. Harland and
Company, 8 Pryor street, in At-
lanta.

Tickets for reserved seats are
$1.50 and $2.00. Regular admission
is $1.20.

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Restrictions of the whole Navy V-12 Unit at Tech brought
forth wails of "Oh no! Why that's ju-st terr-rible!" Saturday
afternoon when plans were smashed. Many were the wall
flowers Saturday night . . .

But the memory of the Friday night Navy dance was good
enough to last ask Joan Crangle

Little, Pris Hatch, Janie Coith,
Vannesse Orr, and Roberta Mac-
logan.

Flying is best according to Sal-
ly Bussey, Jane Baggs, and Mary
Mohr who went to Augusta.

Peggy Baker and Gail Stewart
were at Brenau for the week-end,
while Wendy Whittle was in
Jonesboro.

Leila Powell spent the week-end
in Hopkinsville, Ky., telling Harry
good-bye. Yesterday Dottie Kahn
returned breathless from a five-
day trip to N. Y. C, and Ann
Webb blew in from a visit with
Billy Walker at Tulane.

Frosh to Honor
Juniors at Tea

The freshman class will honor
the juniors, their sister class, at
tea Friday, Feb. 2, to be given
t Murphey Candler from 4 to
p. m.

Miss Ellen Douglass Leyburn
and Mill Llewellyn Willburn, ju-
nior class sponsors, and Miss
Charlotte Hunter and Miss Susan
Cobbs, freshman class sponsors,
will be invited to the tea. Each
junior will be escorted by a fresh-
man.

Plans for the tea have not been
fully completed but are well under
way with Lida Walker as chair-
man, and Virginia Tucker in
charge of invitations, Harriet
Gregory, refreshments, and Nancy
Deal, decorations.

and Gloria Gaines. Emory Naval
Unit has had a dance too, Martie
Mizell and Mary Manley were
there. ,

Emory A. T. O.'s and their dates
trekked out to Stone Mountain to
roast weiners Saturday night .
thanks for a beautiful night and
"misty stars." Hottentots attend-
ing were Margaret McManus ;
Ethel Ragan, Bobbie Plumley,
Pagie Violette, Nancy Deal, Lidie
Lee, Marie Beeson, and Nancy
Greer.

Saturday night at the A. K. K
house dance at Emory were Pud-
den Bealer, Lucy Turner, Louise
Starr, Harding Ragland, Rite
Watson, Bettie Manning and Jeter
Starr in brilliant blue to match
her eyes.

At the Emory S. A. E. party
Saturday evening were Betty
Mann and Ann Hough while Ellen
Morrison and Mary Gene Sims
were dancing at the Delta Tau
Delta house dance.

Seen at the Paradise Room . . .
Jean Chewning, Lu Cunningham,
Robin Robinson, and Caroline
Squires.

OUT OF TOWN

Home-goers are still the luck-
iest .... Dot Peace and Cocky
Cochran went to Greenville, S.
C. . . . Ann Hightower to Thom-
aston, Margaret Scott to Rome,
Sue Hutchins to Huntsville, Julia
Ann Coleman to Tallapoosa, and
Kittie Kay to Byron.

Miss Frances Herring King was
with her family in the city over
the week-end .

Eugenia Jones took Emily Hig-
gins and Mary Cumming home to
Greenville, S. C, with her.

Houseparty in North Roswell at
Anne Ezzard's .... Ann Ballard,
Marianna Hollingsworth, Sheely

One day last quarter, certain
members of a cottage (we won't
mention names) having nothing
better to do decided to dress in
the loudest plaid shirts possible.
Other than causing much color,
confusion, and comment on an
otherwise drab day, no immed-
iate results followed. But, the
idea has been started and from
the germ of some cottager's
thought, PLAID SHIRT DAY IS
DECLARED FOR TOMOR-
ROW. Find the loudest, biggest
plaid shirt you can find and join
the parade. Who knows, we
might sway the nation and make
it a country-wide movement.
Look at the rise in the bow tie
in a few short months all be-
cause of Frankie.

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Week Beginning
Wednesday, January 24th

Wednesday
John Carradine and Margo in
"GANGWAY FOR TOMORROW"

Thursday and Friday
Bette Davis - Claude Rains
"MR. SKEFFINGT0N"

Saturday

"WEST OF THE RIO GRANDE"
"SAILOR'S HOLIDAY"

Monday and Tuesday
Gary Cooper - Laraine Day in
"THE STORY OF DR. WASSEL"

' T T T T '

DEKALB THEATRE

WEEK OF JANUARY 24th

Wednesday - Thursday
"ATLANTIC CITY"

Friday
"YOUTH RUNS WILD"

and

"SAN DIEGO I LOVE YOU"

Saturday
"NATIONAL BARN DANCE"

and

"FORTY THIEVES"

Monday - Tuesday
Boris Karloff, in
"THE CLIMAX"

Have You Tried
Our Scarf
Sleight-of-Hand

ubasic black comes alive and
glowing with voluminous
soft scarfs to drape and
twist in a dozen colorful
ways.

Scarf Bar
Street Floor

'Clothes don't have to be New to be

Smart, They Do Have to Be Clean'

GOLD SHIELD

LAUNDERERS - CLEANERS

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

The first night basketball
game of this season was played
last Friday when the juniors de-
feated the freshmen and the sophs
triumphed over the seniors. Next
Friday afternoon, the junior team
will play the seniors, and the
freshmen will try their luck with
the sophomores.

Those sings on Wednesday
nights are going strong now. Is
your digestion better lately? If
not why not try dropping by and
singing a bit tonight when Dottie
Kahn and Suzanne Watkins show
their skill at leading a sing.
Board Room

The A. A. board is going to try
a new sport next Monday night.
The members are planning to try
to work off some of their excess
energy by painting the board
room. We're trusting no broken
bones will result from falling off
ladders or stumbling over paint
buckets. According to those who
are undertaking the job, that
room will soon be numbered
among sights on the campus.
Entertainment

Something not to forget is the
bridge tournament scheduled for
Friday, Feb. 2. The proceeds
from the tickets are to help pay
for outside referees for basketball
games the rest of this season.
Further details of the tourna-
ment will be announced soon.

A. A. promises some kind of en-
tertainment for students about
the middle of February. Although
the plans are not definitely form-
ed yet, Ann Webb, recreational
chairman, assures us that what-
ever it is will be lots of fun.

Dr. Bradley Discusses
Control With Freshmen

Dr. S. Hugh Bradley, pastor of
the Decatur Presbyterian church,
spoke to Freshman Cabinet Mon-
day night at its regular meeting in
Murphey Candler on "Control." Af-
ter the talk, the members entered
into a round table discussion, led
by Dr. Bradley.

No definite plans have been
made for the meetings after Relig-
ious Emphasis Week, but they will
probably consist of several outside
speakers as well as student speak-
ers, President Pris Hatch said.

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Juniors, Sophs Defeat
Frosh and Senior Teams

By Anne Register

Sister classes battled it out Friday night on the basketball
court. The sophomores triumphed over the seniors 22-12,
and the freshmen bowed to the juniors 46-12.

These games were not up to the pace of the opening ones
of the season. Instead of shooting, most of the players kept
passing the ball back and forth, '
and the breaking was not as
good as in previous games.

During the senior-sophomore
tilt, both teams more or less
played defensive ball. Mary Cum-
ming did thrill the audience with
some beautiful long shots early in
the first half. Betty Andrews was
high scorer for her team with 10
points to her credit.

For the first few minutes of the
junior-frosh bout, it seemed as
though the score would not be so
high. The greenies showed im-
provement over their first game
and played well togther. How-
ever, in the end their "big sis-
ters" snowed them under. Adele
Dieckman rang the basket for 8
points. Doris Purcell with 13
tallies was high for the seniors
with Sally Stephenson and Gloria
Ann Melchor in second place with
12 each.

The starting lineups were as
follows:

Seniors Sophs
Milam (2) RF Andrews (10)
Cumming .4) LF Hough (4)
Munroe (6) CF Heery (8)
Equen RG Denning

Kirtley LG Radford

Gray C G Adams

Subs: Seniors, Slack; Sophs, :
Hoyt, Dickson.

Juniors Frosh
Ryner (9) RF

Melchor (12) LF Reid
Purcell (13) CF Davis (4)
Johnson RG Violette

McCain LG Powers

Phelps CG Gregory

Subs: Juniors, Stephenson (18),
Walker, Hardy; Frosh, Gibson,
Yancy, Miller McLaurin, Turner.

Ping Pong Tournament
Begins First Round

Ping Pong has become such a
popular game since the two tables
were put in Rebekah last quarter
that A. A. and Recreational Coun-
cil are sponsoring a singles tourna-
ment to begin this week. The lad-
der of the 18 entrants who have
signed up will be posted in the old
chapel today, along with a list of
rules. The first round, two out of
three games for each couple, must
be played within a week.

CORRECTIOxN

Instead of the student represen-
tation on the Administrative Coun-
cil being one member of the Execu-
tive Committee, the student repre-
sentation this year is all of Repre-
sentative Council.

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

Christian Attends
Physics Meets

Mr. Schuyler M. Christian, pro-
fessor of physics and astronomy,
has just returned from New York
where he attended the annual
joint meetings of the American
Physical Society and the American
Association of Physics Teachers at
Columbia University on Jan. 18, 19,
and 20.

The program of the latter asso-
ciation consisted of lectures by
various personages who had pre-
viously submitted their papers in
various fields of research in phys-
sics and been selected to contribute
their papers as a result; a sym-
posium on the solid state; and a
series of invited papers by noted
authorities in the physical field.

The program of the American
Association of Physics Teachers
followed the same general plan and
Mr. Christian stated, "Some at-
tempt was made to interpret the
place of physics in a liberal edu-
cation. One amusing remark was
made about the scientist, he
said, "that 'the scientist has
stayed too long in an ivory tower
or other insulating material'."

The theme of the joint meetings
of the associations coincided with
the public relations view of the
Athens conference that Dr. Chris-
tian attended two weeks ago. This
conference, a preliminary confer-
ence on the problems of instruc-
tion in the natural sciences in sou-
thern universities and colleges, is
a parallel in science with the Hum-
anities Conference at Vanderbilt
attended by Mr. George P. Hayes,
professor of English, in the fall. A
similar conference in the field of
social sciences is being planned at
Chapel Hill. These conferences of
teachers and professors have prim-
arily in mind developing better
methods of teaching and educating
the youth to see the correlation be-
tween the different branches of
study. A final meeting will be held
in the late spring or early summer
to draw definite conclusions.

Visit Your Neighbor
Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

Call DE. 4922

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Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

Laundry

(Continued from Page 3)
main problems were, and he im-
mediately said "carelessly made
laundry slips." All sorts of care-
less mistakes are made, and these
cause the laundry much more
trouble than the tiny bit of trou-
ble it would be for us to make a
correct slip. When a faulty laun-
dry slip is turned in, you certain-
ly can't expect to get the correct
laundry back.

Laundry goes from the gym,
the dining rooom and other places
on the campus as well as from
each girl. Mr. Davis has instruc-
tions to "rob" any of the indi-
vidual laundries containing gym
clothes which are essential to
keep up the supply at the gym-
nasium.

Our laundry is a fascinating
thing, and it does an important
job. It keeps up its work day in
and day out. Would that every
Hottentot could see and realize
for herself exactly what happens
between the time that she throws
her laundry bag out of the door
and later hastens down the hall
to pick up her muchly needed
clean clothes. We all should be
uttering a "thanks to the laun-
dry."

Frost

(Continued from Page 1)
present Mr. Frost has been profes-
sor of English at Amherst, has
had many honors and degrees be-
stowed upon him, and has become
the poet with no contemporary ri-
val in America, according to Louis
Untermeyer.

Robert Frost gave his first lec-
ture at Agnes Scott in 1937 when
he established his reputation as a
favorite with the students here.
Since then he has lectured at
Agnes Scott on one other occasion.
At this time he spent a week on
the campus, giving individual con-
ferences. His quiet, interesting,
philosophical personality so capti-
vated the campus that the girls
serenaded him on the night he
left. The feeling of cordiality
seems mutual for Mr. Frost once
said that he always liked to lec-
ture at Agnes Scott because the
girls made him feel at home.

The poet will be here from
Thursday through Saturday, and
will be guest of honor at both a
Lecture Association luncheon and
a tea for members of the writing
clubs.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945

NO. 14

Sophomore Pairadice Room
To Open Tuesday Night

A grand opening of the Paira-
dice Room wall be held Tuesday in
Murphey Candler, Dot Peace,
chairman, announces today.

Carrying out a Mexican theme,
the Pairiadice Room will have
hand painted murals on the walls,
gaily painted chairs, tables, and
a juke box with all the latest re-
cordings. The Pairadice Room
promises to be o favorite "hang-
out" for study-worn Hottentots.
Fun for All

In one room there will be ta-
bles with magazines, food, and
cards where everyone can read,
eat, visit, and play bridge.

In the other room, the juke box
will furnish music for dancing.
Pictures of many famous band
leaders in the country will deco-
rate the walls of this room.

Nelson Fisher is chairman of
the drawing committee with Chris
Yates, Peggy Van Hook, and Mary
Ann Gaunt serving on the com-
mittee.

Open House

Every afternoon the Pairadice
Room will be open from 2 until 5,
and every night from 9:15 until
10:15. The sophomores will take
turns entertaining. There will al-
ways be two girls in charge of the
room.

Candy, coca-colas, and cookies
will be served in the afternoons.
At night there will be sandwiches
sent over from the tea house.

Jeanne Addison is acting edi-
tor of this issue of the News.
Mary Ann Courtenay is acting as
managing editor; Leila Holmes
and Pauline Ertz will serve as
assistant editors this week and
next week.

Mary Ann Courtenay will edit
next week's paper with Jeanne
Addison as managing editor.

Date Book

Wed., Jan. 31 Senior party for
sophomores.

Dr .Margaret Burns speaks to
marriage class at 5 p. m., in
Room 5, Buttrick. Badminton club
meeting at 4 p. m. in Gym.

Thurs.,

Day.

Feb. 1

'Rabbit-Rabbit"

Fri., Feb. 2 Basketball game at
8 p. m.

Class meetings during chapel
Freshman-junior tea from 4 to
6 p. m in Murphey Candler.

Sat., Feb. 3 A. A. Benefit Bridge
at 8:30 p. m. in Murphey Cand-
ler.

Sun., Feb 4 Group leaves for
Lawson General hospital at 2:15.
Day student-parent tea at 4 p.
m. in the library.

Mon., Feb. 5 Music Appreciation
Hour at 8 p. m. in Gaines chapel.

Tues., Feb. 6 Beginning of Charm

week.

Pairadice Room grand opening.

Wed., Feb. 7 Badminton club
meeting at 4 p. m. in gym.

Howard Mumford Jones lecture
at 8:30 p. m. on the Three Tra-
ditions.

A A. Plans
Benefit Bridge

If you can tell an ace from a
spade, A. A. invites you to come
to the Bene! it Bridge Saturday
night, Feb. 3, at 8:30, in Mur-
phey Candler. Tiekets are twen-
ty-five cents and may be bought
from any member of the Ath-
letic Board. According to Cockie
Cochran, chairman of the party,
the funds received will be used
to pay the outside referees who
have helped with our basketball
games. Cookie Miller is in
charge of the publicity and
Scotty Johnson is responsible
for the refreshments.

Atlanta Youth
Symphony
To Play Feb. 4

Two Agnes Scott students, Doris
Kissling and Clare Kemper, violin-
ists, will play in the Atlanta Youth
Symphony's first concert Sun-
day, Feb. 4, at 3:30 p. m.

Six local organizations are spon-
soring the concert under manage-
ment of the Atlanta Music Club.

The orchestra is composed of
99 musicians, selected from over
200 applicants from the ages 15-
25. Miss Marcia Weissgerber has
been supervising rehearsals. Hen-
ry Sopkin, youth conductor from
Chicago, will come for final re-
hearsals and will conduct the con-
cert, and the one scheduled for
April 22.

Students may obtain free tick-
ets in Dr. McCain's office.

Art League Plans
New Harrison Hut

Harrison Hut will soon have a
new face! Art Students League
members are competing with each
other to submit the best scheme
for redecorating the Hut.

Several weeks ago, a floor plan
was prepared, then distributed to
all interested League members.
Each student is to hand in com-
plete plans for redoing Harrison
Hut, including such items as sug-
gestions for drapes, wall colors,
and furniture selection and layout.
The best plan submitted will then
be used, with League members
doing the redecorating.

This is the first project of the
newly organized league which re-
placed the former Art club. Ac-
cording to Puddin Bealer, presi-
dent, Harrison Hut should be
ready by spring.

Dr. Burns to Speak
At Marriage Class

Dr. Margaret Burns, resident
college physician, will speak to
seniors and engaged girls in the
third of a series of five marriage
classes, sponsored by Mortar
Board, in Room 3, Buttrick at 5
this afternoon.

Charm Program
Starts Feb. 6

Mortar Board, Blackfriars and
Cotillion Club will sponsor a
charm and appearance week Feb.
6-9, Mortar Board President Bar-
bara Frink announced today.

A questionnaire on etiquette,
charm, make-up and posture will
be conducted in chapel Tuesday,
Feb: Q The purpose is to find out
just what the students don't know.
Tuesday afternoon all students are
invited to a tea at 4:30 in Murphey
Candler. Mrs. J. B. Bunnell will
speak informally on "Social
Graces.*' Ceevah Rosenthal will
demonstrate methods of make-up.
A sample dinner table will be dis-
p ayed and there will be a mock
receiving line so that the students
may learn the correct procedure.

Mortar Board will be hostess to
the college community Wednesday
night at an after-dinner coffee in
Rebekah Scott lobby.

Friday chapel will be devoted to
a Blackfriars skit on personal ap-
pearance and one by Cotillion club
on clothes.

f . Holzhauer
To Meet Art
Pupils Friday

Emil Holzhauer, well known Ma-
con artist, whose watercolors are
now on exhibition in the library,
will be on campus Friday after-
noon to speak informally to art
students.

Mr. Holzhauer is associate pro-
fessor of art at Wesleyan Conserv-
atory, Macon. He was born in
Germany and received his early
art training at Staatliche-Hohere-
Fach-Schule, Schwabish, Gmund.

The Logan Medal and Purchase
prize of $500 for a watercolor was
awarded Mr. Holzhauer in the 1930
International Exhibition at Chi-
cago.

Emil Holzhauer likes to paint
"people," human interest docu-
ments. True to life scenes of Sa-
vannah, Macon, and Asheville are
represented in the collection in the
library in such canvases as Uncle
Joe's Alley, Chicken Hill, Morning
Light, and Murder Row.

He is represented in the perman-
ent collections of art galleries in
New York, Chicago, Denver, Los
Angeles, Rochester, Albany, Syra-
cuse, Oberlin, and Newark. He is a
member of the Southern States'
Art League, and is one of its con-
sistent exhibitors.

Dr. McCain to Speak
At Texas College

Dr. J. R. McCain left Tuesday
for Belton, Texas to be guest
speaker at the celebration of the
Texas Centennial at Mary Hardin-
Baylor College on Thursday.

The subject of Dr. McCain's ad-
dress will be "The Undergraduate
Women's College in the Post War
World." Mary Hardin-Baylor Col-
lege is the oldest woman's college
west of the Mississsippi and was
founded during the days of the
Texas Republic. Dr. McCain will
return to school Thursday night.

H. M. Jones to Give
The Three Traditions

Howard Mumford Jones, who is to lecture at Agnes Scott
Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 8:30 p. m., combines wide scholarship
with unusual brilliance as a lecturer and writer, according to
Mr. George P. Hayes, head of the English Department.

So great has been Dr. Jones' appeal as a teacher and creative

scholar that graduate students are

Camp

By

us Won Over
Poet's Geniality

Robert Frost, here on campus
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
proved to be one of the most in-
teresting and enjoyable speakers
to visit Agnes Scott in some time.
Those who heard him speak and
those who were fortunate enough
to meet him were completely won
over by his gentle humor and in-
formal manner.

Speaking to an unusually large
audience, at his lecture Friday
night, Mr. Frost urged his listen-
ers to "trust the story," and not
attempt to abstract a meaning
from every word. He then read
several selections from his own
works, including some of his most
popular verses.

Mr. Frost appeared again in
chapel Saturday, when the entire
school and many outsiders heard
him read more of his poems and
tell, very informally, something of
how they were written.

While here, Mr. Frost was guest
of honor at a luncheon given by
Lecture Association, and a tea for
the literary club members on
Saturday afternoon. He also
made a recording of some of his
poems, a most successful etaoi
poems, as a permanent record of
a most successful visit to Agnes
Scott.

Red Coss Course
Holds First Lecture

The first lecture for the Red
Cross Staff Assistants course was
held last night. Frances Grougher,
chairman of War Council, an-
nounced that the rest of the lec-
tures will be held at 7:30 p. m.,
Thursday, Feb. 1; Tuesday, Feb.
6; Thursday, Feb. 8; Tuesday, Feb.
13. Classes meet in Room 103
Buttrick.

In addition ten hours of prac-
tical work at the Decatur Red
Cross office will be required. The
course is open to all students and
faculty members.

Day Students Fete
Parents at Tea

Parents of day students will be
guests at a tea in the library Sun-
day afternoon from 4-5. The re-
ceiving line will include President
J. R. McCain, Dean S. G. Stukes,
Dean Carrie Scandrett, Assistnat
Dean Charlotte Hunter, Barbara
Frink, and Martha Whatley Yates.
Mrs. Stukes and Mrs. W. B. Posey
will serve. Plans for the tea have
been made by Kathleen Wade as
general chairman, with Dot Lee
Webb in charge of invitations, and
Peggy Trice as chairman of the re-
freshment committee.

said to have followed him in his
successive promotions from one
university to another, culminat-
ing in his present professorship
at Harvard University where until
recently he has also been Dean of
the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences.

Besides his scholarly studies in
English and American literature,
Dr. Jones is also a poet, playright,
essayist, biographer, editor and
bibliographer. He was the only
scholar in the field of English to
receive the honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters at the Harvard
Tercentenary in 1936. He is now
president of the American Acade-
my of Arts and Sciences.

The subject of his address, "The
Three Traditions," is concerned
with American literature, on
which Dr. Jones is one of the
country's leading authorities.

His most recent work (1944) is
entitled "Ideas on America," but
he is also the author of "French
Culture in America" and many
other volumes.

Classes Plan
Meets Feb. 2

In their class meeting of Feb. 2,
the seniors will discuss the orga-
nization of the Alumnae Associa-
tion and the part which they will
play in the association after gradu-
ation. At that time they will elect
a president, vice president, and
secretary of the association, who
will serve for life.

The junior class will discuss
plans for the Junior Joint which is
to be Saturday, Feb. 24. The jun-
iors are asking each class to elect
a "gentleman" and the gentle-
man with the highest number of
votes will be feted that night. The
gentleman, in keeping with the
Southern theme of the Cabaret,
will choose his own Southern belle.

The freshman class will com-
plete plans for the junior tea to be
given on Friday afternoon, Feb. 2,
and will plan a party for the soph-
omores.

A gentleman for the Junior
Joint will be elected by the sopho-
more class and plans for the class
skit to be presented at the Junior
Joint will be completed.

Trio to Give
Musical Hour

Agnes Scott College and the
University System of Georgia will
present a Musical Appreciation
Hour on Feb. 5 at 8 p. m., in
Gaines chapel. The Georgia Trio,
composed of Hugh Hodgson, pia-
nist; Carolyn Voshell, violinist;
and Rudolph Kratina, 'cellist will
present a program consisting of
Trio in B Flat by Beethoven, Pe-
tite Suit by Debussy and Trio in
G. by Hodgson.

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Doris Purcell

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie, Betty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones. Alice
Newman. Laura Winchester, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street. Ann Hough. May
Turner, Jean Rooney. Mary McCalla.

We The People

Last spring the student body voted to give the new plan for
organizing Student Government a trial period of one year.
The year is almost over, and the time has come to consider
the success of the plan.

The changes involved, briefly, the revision of duties, the
addition of new members, and the separation of executive and
judicial branches. Details may be found in the handbook.

Most important at present is the fact that the students will
soon be asked to vote on the changes. The questionnaire in
last week's News indicated that most people are pretty well
satisfied, but the comments were mostly vague.

It is interesting to note that actual members of executive
and judicial committees are much less satisfied. Some modifi-
cation of the plan is being definitely considered.

Obviously the ones who have worked under the new plan
are the best qualified to judge, but we cannot leave it all
up to them. We will be asked to vote. To achieve the fullest
measure of student government possible it is vital that we
vote intelligently.

In short we should like to recommend that every student
familiarize herself with this question before she tries to vote.
Consider it, and discuss it with members of exec. It may
seem involved and uninteresting, but your interest and under-
standing have a vital relationship to the success of the plan
and to the degree of real self-government which we can attain.

Come Forward!

Saturday morning's chapel proved that it is possible for
the student body to form a compact group at the front of the
auditorium. Why not make it a habitual practice?

The blank attentiveness a chapel leader or speaker receives
from the empty rows of seats, especially in the freshman sec-
tion, is hardly conducive to a good performance. If shyness
be the cause, let the back-row audience not complain when
they remain unnoticed and left out in class affairs. If tardi-
ness, that in itself can be improved; or hurry the front door
has less crowd when chapel is over.

We can only suggest that all services be conducted in whis-
pers until the masses are drawn to the front. This being im-
probable, the solution is up to you.

Communique

There's still a war going on, you know. There are a lot of
things we have to keep on doing before we can relax, go back
to peacetime standards.

The college dining room manages to turn out better meals
than we can get at home, simply for the reason that our moth-
ers can't find in the stores items such as meat and butter.
Efit all you want, but don't waste food.

We all get sufficient allowances and in some cases over-
liberal checking accounts and charging privileges. That does
not give us carte blanche to buy "extras," clothes just for the
sake of having something new. We're not suggesting sack-
cloth and ashes, just a little moderation. Don't you be the
one to send the inflationary spiral higher and higher. Give
the girls in Buttrick a break and buy a handful of war stamps
regularly.

There aren't enough trains to transport all the wounded
soldiers returning from every front. Postpone that little pleas-
ure weekend trip. That seat or berth will mean a lot more
to a soldier on his last furlough.

Keep writing letters not just to the No. 1 man, but also
to other boys who would get a mighty big lift out of an occa-
sional note' from "home."

White House Views

Mary Ann Courtenay

By Leila Holmes

In these days and times, a personality like Mary Ann's
cannot escape notice. First of all, she's a man-hater! She
claims that her two brothers are exceptions, though, for she's
always raving about them and her dog, "Carolina."

"Carolina" is part Collie and the rest Dog. She has pre-
sented the Courtenays with some
30 puppies. But none can compare
with "Carolina."

The Lighter Side
Noted for her dry sense of hu-
mor, Mary Ann's remarks are fa-
mous. Her most recent is about
chemistry, her major subject. She
claims that she is the only student
who can take an "unknown," run
all the tests, and as a result, have
it still "unknown."

Other evidences of her remark-
able sense of humor may be dis-
covered by a trip to Boyd. If you
happen into that cottage and are
startled by a person with a fuschia
feather on her head, it will be
none other than Courtenay on her
way to wash her face. She wears
the feather, which was a Christ-
mas present, to hold her bangs
back out of her eyes.

Songs

And nobody would ever dream
that her favorite song is "Once
a Lady Loved a Pig" Also among
her likes are chocolate and the
color "blue." She is definitely
gifted at "wiggling" her eyebrows.
Seriously Speaking

You usually see Mary Ann in
her serious moments as a ca-
pable, modest person. She enjoys
a good argument defending her
faith in "Science vs. English." As
an athlete she plays an excellent
hockey game, but almost fainted
over making the sub-varsity.

Mary Ann reads Emerson's es-
says, likes classical music, and
spends a great deal of time ex-
perimenting in labs, doing math,
and working on the News.

Along domestic lines also Mary

Ann shows her versatility. She
has woven a white rug for her
room, made a set of mats, and
knitted a pair of purple socks.

When Mary Ann reads this, she
will probably be furious over being
blackmailed, but turn-about is
fair play," isn't it, Courtenay?
And this week, it is on an interest-
ing character!

ACROSS

I It's a .... to tell a lie.

5 A woman doesn't like to tell

her

9 Exclamation.

II Article

21 Lieutenant
24 Love

28 Article of clothing

31 American universities

36 Railroad

39 Mountain

41 State and Great Lake

51 The French say a

56 Conceit

61 Bites of a puppy

66 Boy's name

71 Musical note

78 1 (Latin)
81 Half an em
91 Rebekah Scott
96 Opposite of yes
99 Agnes Scott

DOWN

1 Kind of reptile

2 Women tell things by their

6 City in District of Columbia

10 Agnes Scot tors (pi.)

14 Laugh

18 Exclamation

29 Present of to be

37 Anger

44 What a speaker hates to
hear

48 Nodules at end of glands.

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Mr. Frost

Except for the person who
thought Jack Frost was to lecture
last week, everyone enjoyed Rob-
ert Frost very much. A group of
his admirers went upstairs in Lup-
ton, where they stared into the
Alumnae House and chanted:

"Whose room that is we think we
know;

He will not mind us watching,
though."

His neighbors on the other side,
not to be outdone, sang as he left:

"We know we will miss you
We wish we could kiss you"

They never got to finish the
song, for Mr. Frost beat a hasty
retreat

Wartime Travel

Lanie Harris, Dale Bennett and
Helen Owen have found a way to
go places without taking up space
on a train or bus. They rode to
Cordele last week on a "Comman-
do," a sort of overgrown jeep. Each
wore every garment she possessed,
in order to avoid freezing and for
upholstering purposes.

No Fare

Mary McCalla and Alice New-
man went shopping last Saturday,
and, after putting away a dime to
come back on, spent all their
money. When the streetcar reach-
ed school, Mary stepped off, while
Alice took the dime from her poc-
ket, only to see that it had become
a penny. When he found they had
no money, the conductor loudly de-
manded that Mary get back on,
starting the car as soon as she
had done so. Feeling sure they
were being taken to debtors' pris-
on, they were soon handed an en-
velope, told to put the money in it
and bring it to the car the next
day. At the next stop they got
away.

Short Snorts

Mrs. Woodbury, who works in
the library, rides to work every
day on her "cyclopedia."

The owner of Coffee Hill has
begun to cut down the trees there.
If he had only waited a short
while, the coffee spilled by mem-
bers of Outing Club would have
killed them.

Don't fail to see the freshman-
senior basketball game next Fri-
day. About half of the regular se-
nior team will be missing and
their places filled by any three se-
niors who can recognize a basket-
ball. (Watch the soph-junior game
too, if you're a rabid fan, but it
won't be half as interesting.)

Persimmons and Pinestraw

Buster Moo Milam, Julia Slack,
and a third party who is shy and
won't let me mention her name,
went out to the Slack farm on
Saturday, where they all, especial-
ly Buster, responded to the call of
the wild. She climbed a persimmon
tree and showered her friends
with very ripe persimmons, climb-
ed another tree and nearly fell in
the brook, chewed rabbit tobacco,
and slid down a pinestraw-covered
slope on a wooden sled, which
broke halfway down.

Musicians Wanted

Only the first 25 seniors and
sophs who contact Scott Newell
will be allowed to play in the Se-
niorpolitan orchestra. Hurry, hur-
ry, hurry.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945

Page 3

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Campus writers gathered to chat with Robert Frost Satur-
day afternoon at the tea given by Lecture Association. Yel-
low jasmine, pussywillows, and magnolia leaves decorated
Murphey Candler and yellow candles carried out the color
scheme of yellow and white on the tea table. Guests included
Mr. Frost, members of the writing

clubs and classes, and the editors
of the Aurora and the News.

Friday night Dootsy Gardner
danced the lead-out with the presi-
dent of Sigma Chi at the Emory
chapter's formal at the Druid Hills
Country Club Other Hottentots
were Micky Derrieux, June Thom-
ason, Betty Turner, Janet Liddell,
Betty Davis, and Gloria Ann Mel-
chor in white worn with red flow-
ers.

HOUSE DANCES

Fraternity house dances were
the big dates in lots of books . . .
Sweetie Calley and Sue Hutchins
at the Phi Delt house Friday night.
Tech Phi Gams had Rusty Rai-
field, Lida Walker, Emmet Jones,
Ruth Gait, Mary Rutledge, Beth
Jones, Julia Slack, and Martha
Patterson for their dance Satur-
day night.

Peggy Pat Horne, Lidie Lee,
and Micky Derrieux went out to
Lawson General for a dance for
med students Saturday night.

Round town . . . Claire Kemper's
mother and party of Claire and
Mary Sheeley Little, Roberta Mac-
logan, Marianna H. Hollands-
worth, Ann Ezzard, and Pris
Hatch at the Magnolia Room . , .
Mary Beth Little at the Capitol

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

City Club Sunday night. . .
At the Biltmore Saturday night
Janet Dox with her date and
father who's been visiting here.

Mary Brown Mahon, Mary Jane
Fuller, and B. A. Zeigler at the
Paradise Room Friday night.

OUT-OF-TOWN ... Liz Car-
penter and Dot Dyrenforth went
to "second heaven," Sewanee, of
course, while Alice Gordon was
gaddin' about in Daytona Beach,
Fla., with her family. Penny Es-
pey visited her family in Jackson-
ville, Fla.

Lanie Harris, Dale Bennett, and
H. Owen drove in style to Lanie's
in Cordele in a commando car
with her dad.

Sara Kay, who's at Sullins now,
was here Friday night for the
Frost lecture. Next day she and
Kittie went home to Byron.

The Scott delegation to Dal-
ton last week-end, made up of
Louise Starr, Eugenia with room-
mate Higgins, Lou Cuningham and
Jean Chewning visited Laura
Looper. Mary Manley and Mary
Gene Sims had a gay time going
to bridge and supper parties.

Laura Winchester and Ann
Wheeler went home to Macon and
Bettie Manning was in Moultrie.
Bunch Beaver went to Gainesville,
while Bitty King journeyed down
to Newnan again. Mae Turner
was in McDonough.

At the State Baptist Student
Union in Athens Friday and Sat-
urday were Isabel Asbury and
Peggy Trice.

Glassell Beale and Wakie Wake-
field spent the week-end in Birm-
ingham, Ala.

VISITORS ... so many guests
on campus . . . ,Lt. Joe Satter-
waite wearing brand new gold
bars to see Jane Everett. . . . Lt.
Tom Miller from Thomasville to

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
12 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ah

Day Students
Try To Ease
Lunch Line

The day student meeting held
Friday. Jan. 26, after chapel dis-
cussed several important subjects.
All were concerned about the sug-
gestions for getting lunch.
Lunches may be bought at the Tea
House, at Threadgill's, and at the
sophomore Pairadice room.

Students who bring their own
lunches to eat in the day student
room may make hot drinks in
Murphey Candler. Particularly ur-
gent is the lunch problem for
those who have classes until 1,
and labs at 1:40. This leaves only
a short time to push through
crowds and get lunch. The girls
agreed that any person with a
rush schedule may write "lab" at
the bottom of her order at the tea
house and will be given preference
in getting a hurried order.

The day students were informed
that girls are needed to go to
Lawson General hospital every
third Monday night. Transporta-
tion will be provided and the group
will be back by 9:30. All interest-
ed girls were asked to sign in the
dean's office.

Twenty girls are requested to
go to Fort McPherson one Sun-
day out of the month, although
transportation is not to be pro-
vided. Girls may see Betty Glenn
about these trips. Anyone inter-
ested in staying with children in
Atlanta and Decatur were also
asked to sign in the dean's office.

Improvements are being made
on the day student room. The girls
are painting the lockers and mak-
ing new curtains. Martha What-
ley Yates, day student representa-
tive, asked that the girls see her
at any time to make suggestions,
ments.

Frost 'Belongs to Dartmouth ;
Says Everyone Likes Florida

By Alice Beardsley

An elderly gentleman, with white hair, and a smile that
spreads to his eyes, who, by his easy manners and engaging
personality has endeared himself to the entire campus that
is Robert Frost.

Ten minutes I had in which to interview the poet, and
going with determination to get

see Betty Turner .... Ruth Gray's
sister, Lucia. . . . Mrs. Sarah Polk
from Thomaston to see Martha.

Carrie Popper of Macon, visit-
ing Martha Baker . . . Officer Can-
didate Tommy Kilby from Ft.
Benning to see Leo Jesperson . . .
Helen Somervell's guest was John
Abell. . . . All of Margaret Ann
Richards' family was here . . . .
Amelia Davis' guest was from
Wesleyan and Edna Claire Cun-
ningham had two from Shorter.

full ten minutes worth, I sat with
pen poised, ready to scribble fast.
I asked him first about his present
university affiliation. "I belong to
Dartmouth now," Mr. Frost said,
and sank deeper into the blue sofa
of the Alumnae House. "I have no
regular classes. I talk to ten or
twenty boys several times a week."
Next year, he would like smaller
classes, he said, for he likes to be-
come better acquainted with the
students. Usually, when he goes
South every year, he leaves them
some project on which to work, al-
though this year he wasn't able
to do so.

Fondness for Florida

"Where do you stay in the
South?", I questioned, and when
Florida's east coast was the ans-
wer, I think I must have beamed
quite noticeably while exclaiming,
"Oh, don't you like Florida!" The
poet affected a little surprise and
giving me a wink, he answered,
"Doesn't everyone like Florida?"
I decided then to put away my pen
and paper and just try to absorb
his personality.

Writing Masques
He told me about his production
of Comus, and the difficulties in-
volved in giving the long speeches
in the masque.

"I'm not doing much now," he
said, ' in answer to my question
about his present writing. Masque
of Reason is to be released in
March, he told me, but its com-
panion volume, Masque of Mercy
hasn't been completed yet. The
two books, in blank verse, treat
justice and injustice. According

to Mr. Frost, his manner of deal-
ing with the subject in the first
might cause general comment un-
til the latter is published and his
final treatment of the topic is
seen. The publishers didn't want
to wait for Masque of Mercy, it
seems, and in a confiding tone, as
if letting me in on publishers' psy-
c h o 1 o g y, he confessed that he
thought their strategy was to let
people think about the the first
book for maybe a year, and then
to give them the second dose. "It's
not strictly a masque," he inform-
ed me, "but I call it a masque be-
cause the speeches are longer than
those in a play." ,
Ten minutes were gone like one,
I thought, as I arose with my
notes under my arm, and shook
hands with him once again. Be-
fore I went down the stairs, I
turned, and expressed, it seems to
me, the wish of everyone "We
hope you come again, Mr. Frost."

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When he's back on furlough, three words, Have a Coke, bring a
soldier's old life back to mind . . . his days after school or after
work, with the gang and with his girl. Ice-cold Coca-Cola holds a
friendly place in American life. It should have a place in your family
icebox. Wherever Americans go, Coca-Cola stands for the pause
that refreshes, has become a symbol of our friendly way of life.

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The ATLANTA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

It's natural for popular names
to acquire friendly abbrevia-
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Coca-Cola called Coke.

FOOTE AND DAVIES:

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College Annual Department
250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor-
dially invited to visit the con
venient and comfortable work- J
ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

i

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the flattering Pho-
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

The Bridge tournament which
comes next Saturday promises
relaxation for those who are ex-
perts at the game and brain twist-
ing for those few of us whose
knowledge on playing could be
improved a bit. It really should
be fun, and the money from the
tickets will be used for paying
outside referees for our basketball
games the rest of this quarter.

The basketball games last Fri-
day were really good. Improved
playing was seen on many sides
as the sophomores defeated the
freshmen and the juniors tri-
umphed over the seniors.

SBH FAA

A. A. is still saving Blue Horse
wrappers and hoping for a bicycle
before the year is over. Everyone
is invited to help out in this cam-
paign. Bobby Fitzgerald, sports
editor of the Emory Wheel, has
contributed ten wrappers so far.
He reads this column, it seems!

Along with the basketball games
at 8 Friday night there will be a
Free Throw contest. Guards as
well as forwards are eligible. Ev-
eryone interested may try out
during practice periods or other
times if they have a witness. The
three highest scores will compete
Friday night. The games them-
selves ought to prove exciting as
the sophomores and juniors clash
for the second time.

( l ub News

Swimming club has already
started plans for its pageant on
Mar. L The theme is to be a cir-
cus. Badminton club is meeting
every Wednesday at 4, in prepar-
ation for its tournament, and the
first round of the ping pong tour-
nament is due to be finished soon.

As for the tumblers, they are
having quite a time these days. Ev-
ery night finds all Inman in the
halls doing flips and backbends.
Anyone passing by the gym from
12 to 1 is likely to be greeted by
gales of laughter; and if they take
the trouble to look inside, they
may witness some rare tumbling
feats.

There are other strange sights
in the gym that hour of the morn-
ing, too. Mrs. Lapp shocked three
innocent bystanders one day this
week when she appeared unexpect-
edly in bathrobe and bathing cap.
Interior Decorations

You may not smell it (it's Kem-
toned) but the A. A. board room
has a new coat of paint. Last
Monday night was the great occa-
sion for the board members to
show their skill in painting (and
Tuesday morning their cream
mustaches, freckles, and hair.)
The invitation stands they say
"Come up and see our walls some-
time."

Cage Bouts

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

Juniors, Sophs Smother
Senior, Frosh Teams

By Anne Register

In two top-notch games Friday afternoon, the juniors smoth-
ered the seniors 34-19, and the sophomores defeated the fresh-
men 35-17.

During the first few minutes of the senior-junior bout some
of the best shooting seen in a long time was done by the
junior forwards. Nearly every ball
they shot cleared the basket and
they followed up their plays nice-
ly. The entire game was very fast
and the maneuvering was quick
and skillful. The seniors did not
seem to be up to their usual level
of playing, and they suffered hard
luck on their shots. Doris Purcell
was high scorer in this tilt with
11 points to her credit.

In the bout which looked at
first as though it was going to be
the surprise of the basketball sea-
son, the sophs downed the much
improved greenie team. The baby
Hottentots were full of pep and
determination at at the end of
the first half led their opponents
11-10. Defensively they played
well, too. However the strong
sophs managed to chalk up 25
points during the last period to
trample them down. Betty An-
drews with the amazing sum of
20 points led the scoring for the
teams.

The starting lineups were as
follows:

Seniors

Milam (5)
Cumming (5)
Munroe (9)

Juniors

RF Ryner (8)
LF Stephenson (6)
RF Melchor (7)

RG
LG

CG

Juniors
(2)

Gray
Kirtley
Equen

Subs:
Limbert

Freshmen
Dieckman (9) RF
Miller (3) LF
Davis (6) CF
Hayes RG
Powers LG
Cunningham CG

Phelps
McCain
Johnson
Purcell (11),

Sophomores

Dickson
Hoyt
Bennett
Adams
Van Hook
Goode

Subs: Sophomores Hough (4),
Heery (11), Andrews (20)

Special Chorus Sings
At Camp Conley

The special chorus sang for the
ground crews at Camp Conley
Tuesday night, with Mr. Lewis
Johnson directing.

The program included the follow-
ing semi-clasical favorites, "Ital-
ian Street Song," "Indian Love
Call," "Rose Marie," and "Sylvia."

Joella Craig accompanied the
group and sang several solos.

DEKALB THEATRE

Week Beginning January 31
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
"FRENCHMAN'S CREEK"
Joan Fontaine - Arturo de Cordova

FRIDAY
Benny Fields In
MINSTREL MAN"

SATURDAY
ROOKIES IN BURMA"

and

"FALCON OUT WEST"

MONDAY - TUESDAY
"BRIDE BY MISTAKE"

DECATUR THEATRE

Program for Week Beginning Wednesday,
January 31, (945
WEDNESDAY
George Sanders - Virginia Bruce
in
"ACTION IN ARABIA"

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Danny Kaye-Dinah Shore-Dana Andrews in
"UP IN ARMS"

SATURDAY
"THE MAN FROM RIO GRANDE"

and

"TAXI MISTER"

MONDAY and TUESDAY
"I LOVE A SOLDIER"

Campus
Topics

The long-delayed flagstone
path leading fom the mail room
down to the hockey field. Now all
that's needed is a similar one from
Rebekah to College avenue.

The oyster stew supper that the
Lupton gang, aided by some
henchmen from Main, threw for
Miss Scandrett and Miss Hanley
in said cottage Saturday night.

How extremely successful was
Plaid Shirt Day. (Shows who reads
the News ). Coming up soon are
Red Sweater Day, Pigtail Day, and
Pink Sock Day. Watch paper for
announcement.

Robert Frost's delightful three-
day visit, and his gentle ribbing
of Miss Laney. Earlycomers at
Friday night's lecture had to sit in
the dark because new government
regulations prohibit turning on
lights for public performances
ahead of time.

Everyone is talking about the

Old-time Silhouettes Reveal
Life During Mothers Youth

Can you imagine going to sorority meetings at Agnes Scott,
or belonging to the Wild Westerners club, or being an officer
in the Rebekah Scott Fire Brigade?

Believe it or not, it's the truth. Glancing through a 1913
or 1914 Silhouette is very amusing and quite enlightening.
It's amazing to see the likenesses

and differences between our moth-
ers' college days here and ours.

Pictures of the three social
clubs the Bulldogs, the Sigma
Delta Phi's, and the Complicators
showed the lighter side of college
life here.

Regional clubs were prevalent
also. There were the South Geor-
gia Club, The Wild Westerners,
the Sandlapper and Tar Heel
Club, and the South Carolina Club.

The athletic pictures are the
strangest yet. With black bloom-
conservation of fuel for the war ef-
fort. Next week there will be a
poll taken by the News to get stu-
dent opinion and constructive
criticisms. Be thinking now of
helpful suggestions for this plan
of furthering the war effort.

Mr. Haskew's education class
when he was lecturing on dis-
cipline in the class room. Someone
said that she thought it was bad to
ask a child to read the note he
was passing. Mr. Haskew agreed
and said, "For instance, we
wouldn't ask Miss Lois Sullivan to
read her letters which she receives
each day."

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

Quality

Pays Dividends

Today's fur coat is a long-time
investment. It is bought with
the intention of living with it
for many seasons. It must be
GOOD to retain its beauty and
the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
you choose your furs from
Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
tional high standards that have
built our reputation for us.

ers and long black stockings the
basketball teams would look a
little out of style today. The
Tennis Club members wore long
skirts to the ankles. Could you see
any of the modem Hottentots
even walking on a tennis court
with skirts that length?

Some of the snapshots in these
Silhouettes were taken of the Ag-
nes Scotters up in trees, in fire-
men's uniforms plus hoses out on
White House roof, and sitting in
freight cars in front of school.

Maybe the present Hottentots
think their college days are unique
and exciting. But looking back it
is easy to see that, despite out-
moded clothes and organizations
the college life of our mothers was
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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945

NO. 15

Dixie Manor
To Replace
Junior Joint

"This year, the Junior Joint has
been revolutionized!" says chair-
man Martha Baker, speaking of
the affair to be held in the gym
the night of Feb. 24.

The former "Joint" will be
known as "Jazz-mine Manor," with
the Deep South motif very much
in evidence. For atmosphere, Span-
ish moss will drip from the walls,
a butler will be on hand to usher in
the guests, and Kentucky colonels
and ol' black mammies will make
their appearance.

Each class will elect its gen-
tleman, who, in turn, will choose
his Southern belle. Wednesday
night, Feb. 21, the four couples will
be introduced in a program in the
Old chapel, and between then and
Feb. 24, students will vote (at a
penny a vote) for their favorite.
The winner and his lady will be
guests of honor at the Manor.

To make up the entertainment
program, each class and organiza-
tion has been invited to enter a
skit, with prizes to be awarded for
the best and most original. The
junior finale will be the big event of
the evening. In this way, clubs
will have an opportunity to present
to the campus programs which
they might not be able to produce
separately.

As usual, all the proceeds of
the evening from votes, entry
fees, food sold, and tickets, will be
contributed to the War Fund.

Pairadice Room
Lures Students

The strains of "Don't Fence Me
In," "Tears Flowed Like Wine,"
^Stardust" and other favorites
from the juke box greeted visitors
to the opening of the sophomore
lounge, the Pairadice Room in
upstairs Murphey Candler *ast
night.

Students flocked to the lounge
and enjoyed for a small fee
cokes, sandwiches, cake, crackers
and nuts dispensed by Punkie
Mattison and Mary Brown Mahon.

The sophomores provided cards
for those who wanted to play
bridge.

Decorations in the Pairadice
Room are unique being entirely
executed by sophomore artists.
Gay Mexican murals adorn the
walls the bull and toreador are
by Peggy Van Hook the buckin'
bronco by Chris Yates, and the
border and other motifs by Mary
Ann Gaunt and Nelson Fisher.

Dot Peace is chairman of the
entire project.

Hours for the Pairadice Room
are 4-5 p. m., and 9:30-10:30 p. m.,
Jane Meadows, sophomore class
president, has announced.

Mary Ann Courtenay and
Jeanne Addison acted as editor
and managing editor respective-
ly for this week's issue of The
News. Leila Holmes and Pauline
Ertz who acted as assistant edi-
tors, will resume their regular
positions next week.

Spring Holidays

In compliance with the Office of Defense Trans-
portation's order that all colleges cancel their
spring vacations, Agnes Scott students will remain
here between winter and spring quarters instead of
going home.

Beyond this no definite plans or dates for the
holiday are available yet. Miss Carrie Scandrett,
dean of students, meets with the seniors today to
discuss moving up the day of commencement.

The ODT measure was necessitated to relieve
transportation problems which the traveling of an
estimated 300,000 students would cause.

Decatur Lions
To See Play
By Blackfriars

"Be Seated," a one-act musical
comedy given at the Blackfriars'
meeting last Thursday, is to be
presented Feb. 13 at the Decatur
Lions club at the request of Mr.
Walter B. Posey of the history de-
partment. Later this month
Blackfriars will entertain the cam-
pus with "Be Seated" and two oth-
er one-act plays.

How four wealthy ladies inveigle
their maids to return from a sit-
down strike furnishes the plot of
the play. The ladies are Lura
Johnston, Barbara Kincaid, Caro-
line Fuller, and Ceevah Rosenthal.
The maids: Betty Manning, Peggy
Willmon, Alice Beardsley, and
Mary Nell Ozment. Rite Watson
is the messenger. The whole cast
takes part in singing and in the
dancing which Alice Beardsley
planned.

Debaters Enter
State Contest
At Emory

Two teams from Agnes Scott
will enter the annual Debating
Tournament at Emory University
Saturday afternoon, Feb. 10. Lib
Osborne and Peggy Willmon for
the negative and Louisa Aichel and
Dot Peace the affirmative teams.

The subject to be debated is : Re-
solved, that the government should
require one year military training
for all able bodied men between the
ages of 18 and 25. Teams from all
over Georgia will participate.

An informal debate between
some of the members of Pi Alpha
Phi in preparation for the tourna-
ment on Saturday will be held at
the debating club's meeting at
7:30 p. m. tomorrow in Murphey
Candler. Last year Agnes Scott
teams won two out of three de-
bates in the contest at Emory.

Howard M. Jones Arrives
Here For Three-Day Visit

By Jeanne Robinson,

The campus is looking forward to hearing Howard Mumf ord
Jones lecture tonight on The Three Traditions. He is spending
several days on the campus, speaking again in chapel tomor-
row morning, and meeting with other groups during his stay.

Dr. Jones' coming was made even more interesting to us by
Robert Frost's reference to him ,

in his lecture here. Mr. Frost ] or ten outstanding books and po-
etry, translations, ideas and cul-
ture in American biographies

knows him well, sharing with him
ideas about literature. It will be
interesting to bear this in mind
while listening to his lecture.
Wife Accompanies Him

Though Dr. Jones has never
been to Agnes Scott College, his
wife attended classes here for a
short time and will accompany
him. He himself came to Atlanta
to address a meeting of the deans
of Southern Graduate Schools at
one time.

Dr. Jones is well known for his
informal and witty style. He has
a lot to say and says it well. As an
editor, translator, poet, and dra-
matist, he has gained broad experi-
ence. He has been affiliated with
many universities, receiving many
degrees and honors. At the pres-
ent time he is professor of Eng-
lish at Harvard. He is also presi-
dent of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, considered the
most distinguished learned body in
the country. He often contributes
to the Saturday Review of Litera-
ture and is author of some eight

and many others .

Busy Schedule

Dr. Jones will have a busy sche-
dule on campus. Tonight before
the lecture he will have dinner
with Dr. J. R. McCain, Mr. S. G.
Stukes, Mr. George Hayes and the
professors of English from Tech
and Emory. Tomorrow he will
speak again in chapel on the "At-
tractions of Stupidity." From its
unusual title the talk promises to
be new and interesting. After-
wards he will have lunch with se-
nior students reading for honors
in English.

At 4:45 he will address two stu-
dent sections of romantic poets
classes in Maclean auditorium, to
which all are cordially invited. Af-
ter dinner with the Agnes Scott
English department, Dr. Jones
will lead an informal discussion
with the faculty about educational
ideas, such 'as comprehensive ex-
aminations and reading for honors.

Dr. Redhead to Lead
Religious Week Here

Dr. John A. Redhead, Jr., pastor of the Second Presbyter-
ian church of Charlotte, N. C, has accepted an invitation to
speak at Agnes Scott during Religious Emphasis week, Feb.
13-17, according to Christian Association president, Virginia
Carter.

Speaking here for the first time,
Dr. Redhead will address the stu-
dent body and guests during an
extended chapel period, lead dis-
cussion groups, and hold personal
conferences during his five-day
stay.

A native of Centerville, Missis-
sippi, the speaker attended South-
western University, Memphis, and
is a graduate of Union Seminary
in Richmond. In 1937 he was
awarded the D. D. degree at Da-
vidson College. Dr. Redhead serv-
ed as pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Farmville, Virginia,
from 1930 to 1933. For the next
three years he was pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in Tam-
pa, Florida. He has been at the
Charlotte church since 1937.

A popular lecturer at young
people's conferences Dr. Redhead
has spoken to conventions at Mon-
treal N. C, and Massanetta, Va.

Dr. Redhead is scheduled to ar-
rive Tuesday morning, Feb. 13, in
time to speak to the student body
and faculty during the extended
chapel period.

An informal discussion group,
open to all students, will meet
with Dr. Redhead Wednesday
night at 8 in the Old Day Student
Room in Main. At this time he
will answer questions presented
at the meeting as well as any
previously placed in question boxes
which will be distributed this
week.

Day students in particular are
invited to attend a similar dis-
cussion scheduled Friday at 2:30,
also in the Old Day Student Room.

Christian Association plans an
after-dinner coffee Wednesday
night, Feb. 14, in Rebekah lobby,
when students will have an oppor-
tunity to meet Dr. Redhead in-
formally. Mary Russell is in
charge.

Students desiring personal con-
ferences with the speaker are
asked to sign up in the dean's of-
fice. Conferences will be sche-
duled each day next week except
Monday, just after chapel, and
except Monday and Saturday in
the early afternoon.

School to Vote
On May Court

Nominations for May Court will
be voted on at the student meet-
ing Saturday according to Jane
Everett, chairman.

Senior nominees are Jean Rob-
inson, Martha Whatley Yates,
Montene Melson, Mary Turner,
and Kittie Kay. Junior nomina-
tions include Eugenia Jones, Glo-
ria Ann Melchor, Annette Neville,
Betty Long, and Teddy Bear. The
sophomores have chosen Anne
Scott, Virginia Dickson, Mary
Jane Fuller Margaret McManus,
Betty Andrews, and Sue Hutchens.
Freshman nominations are Rusty
Rayfield, Nancy Deal, Mary Man-
ley, Bobbie Plumly, June Irvin,
and Anne Hayes.

Claude Howell
Exhibit Opens

The oil paintings of Claude
Howell are now on exhibit in the
library until March 3.

The artist, Claude Flynne
Howell, is a native of Wilmington,
N. C, and is ranked as one of the
rising young painters of the South.
He has won numerous awards in-
at the Wilmington Museum and at
the Mint Museum.

The oil paintings now on exhibit,
are a section of a one-man exhibi-
tion which recently closed at
Greensboro, N. C. They are char-
acterized by a profusion of color
with the atmosphere of the swamp-
lands of the deep south contrasted
with scenes which surely could
have been painted in New Eng-
land. Of course, scenes of Negro
life are depicted.

Claude Howell studied at Wil-
mington with Elizabeth Chant,
Irene Price, and Henry MacMillan;
at Ongonquet, Me., with Bernard
Karfroe; at Rockport, Mass., with
Jon Carbino and Ann Brackman;
and at Woodstock, N Y., with
Charles Rossen.

Date Book

Wed., Feb. 7 Howard Mumfordf
Jones arrives for three days and
lectures tonight at 8 in Gaines
auditorium on "The Three Tra-
ditions."

Dr. Leila D. Denmark speaks
to marriage class at 5 p. nou, in
Room 3 Buttrick.
Mortar Board and English de-
partment entertain the college
community at after-dinner cof-
fee in Rebekah Scott lobby.

Thurs., Feb. 8 Dr. Jones speaks
in chapel on the "Attractions
of Stupidity." At 4:45 p. m. he*
addresses romantic poets class in
Maclean auditorium.
Group leaves at 6:30 for formal
dance at Lawson.
Red Cross Staff Assistants lec-
ture at 7:30 in Room 103, But-
trick.

Fri., Feb. 9 Skit in chapel by
Blackfriars and Cotillion club on
behalf of charm week.
Basketball game at 4 p. m.

Sat., Feb. 10 Student meeting in
chapel to vote on Student Gov-
ernment proposal

Sim. Feb. 11 Senior coffee in
Murphey Candler.
Group leaves at 2 p. m. for Law-
son.

Tues., Feb. 13 Beginning of Re-
ligious Emphasis Week. First
of a series of chapel talks by
Dr. John A. Redhaed, Jr.
Red Cross Staff Assistants lec-
ture at 7:30 in Room 103, But-
trick.

Wed., Feb. 14 Talk by Dr. Red-
head in chapel.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945

The Agnes Scott News

Published weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
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EDITORIAL STAFF

LEILA HOLMES

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_PAULINE EKTZ

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Jeanne Addison

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Jane Bowman
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Reporters: Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Yates, Connie Fraser, Joyce
Gillcland, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Settzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Beardslcy, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston. Bet Patterson, Mary
Azat, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson, Mildred Derieux, Dot Pearce, Mar-
garet Mizell, Pattie Dean, Lib Woodward, Mary Jane Fuller, Virginia Owens, Doris Kiss-
ling, Valeria Brown, Betty Turner.
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Utopia, Georgia

All year, and especially since the after-Christmas grind
began, we have dreamed of an Agnes Scott College with no
work. We can almost imagine sleeping through a morning
without bells, reading only the latest books and magazines in
the library, meeting classmates only for the good fellowship,
browsing in Atlanta's shops and theaters, and enjoying ex-
tended dating privileges.

TThis is a dream. It is what we hope for as a second best to
spring vacation. Even though we cannot travel, we would
like to relax a few days after exams. We want our vacation
when we need it most right after exams.

We must be willing to cooperate. We must be strict with our
parents and friends as well as ourselves if the government's
aim is to be accomplished. We have been asked to give up
traveling during spring vacation. A sacrifice which, though
small in a way, none of us is eager to make. Yet the happi-
ness of the community depends entirely upon each individual's
willingness, cheerfulness, and helpfulness.

We can have fun, of course, and we are willing to cooperate
without asking special privileges, realizing that the juniors
and seniors lived until June, 1942, with only one day's break
after winter exams. We must be willing, also, to help in a
necessarily changed mode of campus life.

Let's make the most of those spring holidays and live in
Utopia for three short days.

Come Live With Me

Several weeks ago all boarders except seniors received a
form letter stating that Feb. 15 was the deadline set to re-
serve this year's rooms for next year.

With the grayness of winter quarter ahead it is hard to
approach the subject of another year. Yet now is the time to
discuss and decide as much as possible.

The idea is, we all have to live somewhere, so by logical
forethought and constructive suggestioning, everyone can be
satisfied. Think in terms of the whole not as individuals
or small cliques.

Where is each class to live? Has the plan of mixing classes,
which we have followed this year, been a successful one? Does
mixing upper and lower classmen infringe in any way upon
the light privileges? Or, on the other hand, does it make each
class more conscious of its responsibilities toward "sharing,
participating, and cooperating?"

Next year's seniors have never lived in Main. They have
sampled two years of class unity plus one year's experience
living with upper and lower classes. It seems fair that the
seniors should live together in Main. Yet bringing the sopho-
mores and juniors together continues the problem of light
rules. The cottages, as usual, will be filled after elections, and
Inman will reign as freshman dormitory.

There will be some quick-thinkers who will condemn these
suggestions. We realize that elections and the sizes of classes
may affect the choosing of dormitories, but we would like
to know at least now that each class will live together, as far
as this plan is possible.

A Main Tower View

of Jeanne Addison

By Pauline Ertz

A confirmed English, art, and music lover is junior Jeanne
Addison, from Washington, D. C, who has yet to arrive any
place on time.

Addison, as she is fondly called by her friends, was nick-
named Veronica (Nikki for shore) her freshman year because
her dark blonde hair forever dan- 1
gled over one eye. But according
to Jeanne, it was an original Ad-
dison design.

To those who don't know her,
Addison appears quiet and unas-
suming but her friends gleefully
reveal her sense of humor and her
flair for the bizarre. Roommate
Margie Naab loves to recall the
impression Keats' Eve of St. Ag-
nes made upon the earnest fresh-
man. Jeanne persuaded her bud-
dies to go through the old St. Ag-
nes Eve ritual: wore nightgown
to bed, tied feet together, slept
on back with hands under head,
and filled a shoe with rosemary
and thyme. Net result of course
is to dream about the man you're
going to marry. It worked with
Keats' Madeline why not with
Addison, was the theory.

Then there's the famous reason
behind Addison's passion for col-
lecting ashtrays. It seems while
visiting in Kentucky two sum-
mers ago, she impulsively threw
out of an automobile window the
ashtray collection of a boy she had
met. So she is penitently devot-
ing the rest of her life to replacing
the collection.

Jeanne, who is always late
wherever she goes, is even late to
bed. She is famous for engaging
in bull sessions often lasting un-
til 4 a. m. or after.

The girl from Washington as-
pires to be an English teacher. She
will argue from now until dooms-
day over the relative merits of
English in preference to science.
Her English papers always elicit
cryptic remarks of some sort. At
the moment she has a literary

Explanation . . .

The resolution concerning the
trial plan of organization for Stu-
dent Government made in Febru-
ary, 1944, was discussed in the stu-
dent meeting Thursday, Feb. 1.
Molly Milam, president of Student
Government, presented a new reso-
lution which would slightly alter
the plan made in 1944.

The Executive Committee felt
that the old form of one general
committee of Student Government
to perform legislative, judicial, and
administrative affairs should re-
place the trial form of two com-
mittees, one for purely judicial
matters and the other for admin-
istrative and legislative matters.
It recommends that the present
two committees be fused into one.

Exec also recommends that the
sophomore representation be re-
duced from four to three members.
No other representation and no
personal duties were changed in
the resolution.

The student body voted to au-
thorize the Executive Committee
to draw up the old resolution with
the new resolution in the form of
an amendment to the constitution.
This amendment will be posted
and will be pending for at least a
week, after which time the student
body will vote either to incorpo-
rate the amendment into the con-
rut ion or to extend the trial pe-
riod of organization.

JEANNE ADDISON

crush on T. S. Eliot, in spite of
Robert Frost.

Her duties as an assistant edi-
tor of the Agnes Scott News keep
her busy but she finds time to
"appreciate" everything artistic.
She sits in on art history classes.
For Christmas presents she gave
her friends reproductions of fa-
mous works of art. Jeanne likes
classical music, and is especially
fond of "Gotterdamerung." How-
ever, when it comes to exercising
her own vocal chords, she is
known as the bass monotone of
Boyd.

Jeanne plays a lot of tennis and
badmington, and at the moment
is enjoying flit classes.

And so there you have Jeanne
Addison devotee of English, art,
music and sports.

P. S. There's one vice we know
about she once smoked a peace
pipe at Margie's house in Atlanta.

Heating Plan
Gets Comment

On Saturday, Jan. 27, the heat
conservation plan went into effect.
The progress of the program has
been hindered by the "breaking
down" of the stokers, but Mr.
Howard MacGregor, business
manager, speaks favorably about
its success in the future: "It's
purely an experimental proposi-
tion, and will have to be done the
hard way. The spirit of the fac-
ulty and students has been fine,
and if they will continue to co-
operate with us it will work out
fine. It's going to have to work."

He has two suggestions for us.
'Be sure to leave your radiators
on at all times. Also on extremely
cold days students ought to pull
down their shades if not in their
rooms."

Realizing the situation the stu-
dents seem to have accepted the
plan cheerfully, but have a few
suggestions about it. Kathleen
Buchanan says "The least we can
do is to disregard the cool, especi-
ally when trenches aren't equip-
ped with radiators."

Elizabeth Horn states, "I have
a room on the southern side so
the heat conservation hasn't both-
ered me."

Man- Ellen Morrison, " would

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Tourney

No one shot her partner at the
bridge tournament last Saturday
night, and, with one notable ex-
ception, all was very honest and
above board. One table degenerat-
ed to poker, using jewelry instead
of chips. Pinky Hunter cleaned
the place out, but fortunately had
io give it ail back.

Announcement
Mary Duckworth had her en-
gagement announced Saturday
night. The place was the dance at
Tech and the announcer was Sam-
my Kaye. When the applause
subsided, the band's vocalist sang
"I Wanta Get Married," in Mary's
honor.

Did You Know

That the News staff defies
death itseif to put out each copy?
No, not danger of assassination,
but falling plaster in Murphey
Candler.

That Mr. Thomas "sends his
classes with his touching rendi-
tion of "One Meat Ball?"

That Frances Nininger, class of
'48, laughed so hard she broke a
rib, or so the story goes. Her
friends won't tell what she was
laughing at.

After taking an exam on Satur-
day afternoon, Mrs. Runyan's in-
vert class hastened to her home
for a party. As much time had
been devoted to the study of the
bee, honey was one of the refresh-
ments. Place cards containing
their pictures marked places for
Miss Matridium MacDougall, -Vic-
ky "Aurelia" Alexander, B. J.
"Rotifer" Radford. Ruth "Renilla"
Ryner, Nancy "Hydractina" Har-
dy, Jean "Opalina" Williams, Dor-
is "Syphistoma" Street, Betty Lee
"Peripatus" Phelps, Bonnie "Bon-
nelia" Hope, Ann "Spider" Webb,
Stratton "Limulus" Lee, Genet
"Heteronereis" Heery, and the
hostess, Mrs. "Echinorhyncus" H.
Runyan.

No Rest lor Weary

Mr. Posey was telling the class
next door to his that they had to
cut. In more or less these words
he said. "Please leave promptly
and quietly. Last period the class
made so much noise leaving that
they woke up everyone in my
class."

An Apology

Only a few days ago did I learn
that I was depriving Addison,
and the public, of a great joy. It
seems that I've been filling this
column completely, thereby taking
space in which Addison wanted to
write editorials. Of course there
are three other columns, but there
are so many subjects on which to
write editorials that more space
is needed. I am leaving the space
below for that purpose, and prom-
ise to confine my efforts to the
top half in the future.

Every laboratorian in quan last
week expected to be "blown to
eternity." Every laboratorian turn-
ed her head to the wall a precau-
tion suggested by Mr. Holt. But
the explosion was only a minor one
after all to Ginny Carter's honors
work.

like for the heat to be left on
late for those who are taking light
cuts."

Martha Baker, "Being hot-na-
tured, it doesn't bother me."

Betty Campbell, "I have found
But trick much warmer because
people have been more careful
about pulling up the windows."

Susan Pope, "If the heat wern't
turned on quite so strong in the
day, and left on later at night it
would be more comfortable."

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945

Page 3

On the Beam

Quotes From Plato, Bacon,
Milton Adorn Library Rafters

By Alice Gordon

Because we associate it with study and that alone, most
of us do not appreciate the beauty to be found in the building
which we call the library or often times referred to as
bibliotecque." Much time and effort were spent in making
the library a place to be enjoyed and to "be proud of. it is
the original design of our librarian,
Miss Edna Hanley.

Among the distinctive features
of our library are the quotations
which are found on the beams in
the ceilings of the lobby. There are
11 of them. These quotations had
to be cast into the cement beams
before they were put up, and they
were among the first parts of the
building to be erected. Each one
is from some very famous quota-
tion and was selected for its ap-
propriateness in this building.
Greeks Have It

Three of the quotations are in
Greek and in case you are not fa-
miliar with that language, in plain
English they are: "To the wise
nothing is foreign," from Antisthe-
nes; "May I consider the wise
man rich," from Plato's Phaedrus.
The other one was suggested
by Miss Catherine Torrance, for-
mer professor of Greek here, and
is in the beam over the West win-
dows which overlook Buttrick. The
quotation is, "Those having torches
will pass them on to others," from
Plato's Republic. Looking from
these windows we can again see
this same quotation cast in a
plaque outside of the triple win-
dow of the Greek classroom on
the second floor of Buttrick.

Some of the other quotations on
the beams include: "The Truth
shall make you free," from John
:32; "Reading maketh a full
man," quoted from Sir Francis
Bacon; "The fear of the Lord that
is wisdom," from the book of Pro-
verbs; "For wisdom's sake, a word
that all men love," from Shakes-
perare; "Read, mark, learn, and
inwardly digest," taken from Thor-
eau. The latter was suggested by
Miss Annie Mae Christie.

Hayes Suggests Milton

Above the fireplace at the east
end of the main reading room is
another very famous quotation.
This one was suggested by George
P. Hayes and was taken from Mil-
ton's The Reason for Church Gov-
ernment. The quotation is "Be-
holding the bright countenance of
truth in the quiet still air of de-
lightful studies." Just above this
quotation is another in Latin. This
one is our college motto "Fide
Vestra virtutum in virtute autem
scientiat," from II Peter 1:5.
Translated, it is "Add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowl-
edge." ,

Many of us may have noticed
that there is some kind of design
on the arches in the library lobby.
These too, have a story behind
them. They are taken from early
printer's devices. These "devices"
were usually stamped on the last

MISS HANLEY

page of the book and were more or
less ornamental designs. It was a
sort of trade mark used by the
publishers instead of printing the
name in the front as is the com-
mon practice today. Several of
those cast in the arches are copies
of the devices of some of the ear-
liest publishing houses.

'Food For Mind'
Another quotation which most
of us never notice is the one on
the outside of the library above the
entrance. This one is in Latin,
"Nutrimentum Spiritus." Trans-
lated, it is "Food for the mind, our
soul." The source of this quota-
tion is unknown but it is found
above the entrance to the Royal
Library of Berlin and also in the
same position on the Charles Deer-
ing Library at Northwestern Uni-
versity.

These are only a few of the
many interesting and beautiful
things to be found in our library
if we only took time to notice
them. They are right there at our
fingertips. We should take time
out to "know' 'our library, for it is
a place we should all be very proud
of!

;FOOTE AND DAVIES

Announces its new

College Annual Department

250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor-
dially invited to visit the con-
. venient and comfortable work-

ing quarters for Annual Staffs

provided at this new location.

Charm Lessons

Live and learn, Hottentots ! Mor-
tar Board's: "Social Usage test"
given in chapel yesterday to in-
augurate Charm Week on the
campus gave enlightenment on the
following:

Living Together

1. The standing of the leader is
not the first signal for quiet in
the chapel.

2. The quiet chewing of gum in
public is not now an accepted prac-
tice.

Introductions

3. A woman may shake hands

Library Buys
Books by Pyle,
Shute, Welles

Miss Edna Hanley, college li-
brarian, has announced that the
library has recently purchased
several hundred new books. Those
that will interest music lovers
are: Seroff, "Dimitri Shostako-
vich"; Ewen, "Men of Popular
Music"; Schwartz "Story of Mu-
sical Instruments."

Books concerning current events
ire: Creaseys, "Asia's Lands and
Peoples"; Ashion, "The Fighting
French"; Welles, "Time for De-
cision"; Pyle, "Here is Your War";
/:scher, "My Lives in Russia";
'aus, "Russia and the Peace";
Richards. "Basic English and its
Uses."

Mary Ellen Chase who is to be
on our campus in the spring, has
written a new book, "The Bible
and the Common Reader" which is
now in the library.

Among the list of best sellers we
have: Goudge, "Green Dolphin
Street"; Spring, "Hard Facts";
Shute, "Pastoral"; Baker, "The
Sad Sack"; Stone, "The Immortal
Wife.';

Of special interest are the books
Rank "Art and the Artist"; Ben-
et, "Western Star"; and Frocht,
"Photo-elasticity."

without removing her right glove.

4. A student should not intro-
duce a college friend, "Mother,
meet Mary Smith."

Teas and Coffees

5. At coffee it is not thoughtful
to meet at the door of the kitchen
the girls who are serving cookies
so that they will not have to walk
so far.

6. Is is necessary to shake hands
with every person in the receiving
line.

When Mealtime Comes

7. Butter may be put on pota-
toes with a knife.

8. Fish bones and fresh fruit
pits may be removed from the
mouth with the fingers.

Pen in Hand

9. A bread-and-butter note may
not be written any time within a
month after one has visited in a
friend's home.

10. An invitation to a tea must
not always be answered.

Stepping Out

11. It is not necessary for a din-
ner guest to stay more than half
an hour after the meal is finished.

12. On entering a restaurant
where there is a head waiter, a
woman does not follow her date,
but follows the waiter.

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning Feb. 6

Monday - Tuesday
'BRIDE BY MISTAKE"

Wednesday
"MUSIC IN MANHATTAN"

Thursday - Friday
"SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN
DWARFS"

Saturday

"GILDERSLEEVE ON BROADWAY"

and

"MELODY TRAIL"

'Clothes don't have to be New to be

Smart, They Do Have to Be Clean"

GOLD SHIELD

LAUNDERERS - CLEANERS

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Sammy Kaye dedicated "I Wanta Get Married" to Mary
Duckworth wearing a beautiful solitaire from Lawrence
Gellerstedt Saturday night at the I. R. C. dance. Lawrence is
president of Anak at Tech and a member of the February
graduating class.

Other Hottentots at the Tech I. R. C. dance Saturday after-
noon and night were Ruth Ryner

Ann Weideman, Mary Jane Fuller,
and Scotty Johnson who went to
the S. A. E. supper and breakfast,
Mary McCalla, Margaret Scott,
Ann Scott, Sweetie Calley, Betty
Andrews, G. G. Gilleland Beth
Walton, Mary Martin, Betty Allen,
Caroline Squires, Gloria Ann Mel-
chor, Anne Hoyt, and Mary Amer-
ine.

Mary Mohr, Minniewell Storey,
Genet Heery, Mary Beth Little,
Charlien Simms, Grace Durant,
Beth Jones, Beverly Gordy, Mil-
dred Claire Jones, Sue Hutchens,
Peggy Gregg, Ann Patterson, Gale
Stuart, Julia Ann Coleman, Bobby
Plumley, and Dale Bennett. Lida
Walker in a black dress with se-
quins, danced the Interfraternity
lead-out.

Friday night Sammy Kaye play-
ed for the Student Council dance
at Emory. Marie Beeson, Mickie
Derrieux, Mary Wakefield, G. G.
Gilleland, Peggy Gregg, Sue Hut-
chins Martha Ball, Nelson Fisher,
Martha Patterson, Mary Turner,
Genet Heery, Charlien Simns, El-
len Morrison, Ann Ezzard, Ann
Woodward, and Grace Durant and
Nancy Haislip who went to the
ATO breakfast.

Mildred Claire Jones, Nancy
Geer, Lib Osborne, Mary Gene
Sims, Gale Stuart, Jean Chewning,
Jeter Starr, Louise Starr, Mary
Brown Mahon, Margaret McMan-
us, Mary Martin, Pudden Bealer,
Jean Williams, and Mary Russell,
Marty Mizell, and Mary Manley
who went to the SAE breakfast.

Carroll Taylor was at the Em-
ory Phi Delta Theta house dance
Saturday night and Nancy Geer
attended the Delta Tau Delta
Monte Carlo party.

Out of Town

Week-end trips were of the best
ask Julia Slack, Molly Milam,
Ruth Anderson and Betty Davis,
who had a marvelous one at Duke,
Ann Equen and Joan Crangle who
went up to Vanderbilt for the A.
K. K. formal, and Kittie Kay who
journeyed to "second heaven" at
Chapel Hill, N. C.

Robin Robinson, Gloria Gaines,
and Lady Major spent the week-
end in Anderson, S. C, while Hard-
ing Ragland went home with Dot
DeVane to Greenville, S. C.

McCON NELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

Freshmen took off for home to
do away with the "dark ages"
blues . . . TeeToe Williams to
Marietta, Vanesse Orr to Rock-
wood, Tenn., Margaret Ann Rich-
ards to Columbus, Sally Bussey to
Augusta, Edna Claire Cunning-
ham to Eagerton taking Doc Dunn
and Ann Caldwell with her.

June Thomason and Sue Mit-
chell went to Copperhill, Tenn.,
and Hilda Taber was in Lookout
Mt., Tenn. Dot Chapman took
Martha Ball and Liz Harris home
w ith her to Dublin. Minnie Mack,
Anne Eidson, Jean Hood, Dot Al-
mond and Leila Powell spent the
week-end in Thomasville.

Janice Latta went home with
Nina Owens to Roanoke, Ala.

Jane Bowman went to Pineview
to a wedding, while Herty McAl-
lister spent the week-end in Sa-
vannah with her sister.

Visitors

So many outstanding visitors . . .
Betty Long's fiance, Barnes Sales
. . Kate Webb's true-love, Ensign
Richard Clary, . . . and Jean Bel-
lingrath's fiance

Macon represented again on
third Rebekah . . . Pinkie White
and Katherine Smith visiting Bak-
er. Marie Semple from Louisville,
Ky., came to see Betty Allen. Caro-
line Squires' guest was Nancy
Goode from Brenau, and B. A.
Ziegler's was Mildred Ziegler from
Converse.

Pediatrician Speaks
To Marriage Class

Dr. Leila D. Denmark, well-
known Atlanta child specialist,
will speak to seniors and engaged
girls on the care of children, at 5
this afternoon, in Room 3, Buttrick
Hall.

Dr. Denmark's talk is the fourth
in a series of five lectures on mar-
riage problems sponsored by Mor-
tar Board.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Last Saturday night saw a very
successful bridge tournament on
campus. Players declare it was
lots of fun, and Jane Everett
walked away with the chocolate
cake for highest score.

The Free Throw contest at the
basketball games last Friday
night proved very interesting, and
the games themselves were quite
exciting as the chowd watched
the sophs crush the juniors and
the seniors triumph over the fresh-
men. That senior team made an
impression, to say the least.
Badminton

According to Suzanne Watkins,
manager, Badminton club is begin-
ning its tournament, and the first
round is to be played off this
week. Ann Webb tells us that the
ping pong tournament is coming
along nicely.

Of course, we are all looking
forward eagerly to exams in
March, but some consolation is
offered in the thoughts of that
gala square \dance scheduled for
Saturday, Feb. 17, and of the
swimming pageant which is plan-
ned for Thursday, March 1.

When you see girls lfmping
around the campus and hear them
groan as they climb stairs or car-
ry more than 12 books in their
arms, you may know that the
answer is one of two things, tum-
bling, or flit (officially, natural
dancing).

Recreation leadership classes
seem to produce rare results these
days. Some of Martha Arnold's
friends began to wonder if the
course wasn't threatening "wreck-
reation" to her mental faculties
when she was seen trying to figure
out a little gadget of boards and
tapes. Ann Seitzinger calmly
seized the toy and placidly made
two pennies disappear and come
back. By the time Ginny Carter
to hold the toy in her hand and
look at it with profound inquisi-
tion, Mr. Holt entered the scene
(the science library) and dum-
founded all participants by speak-
ing of Ginny's "legerdemain," but

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning Wednesday,
February 7. 1945
Wednesday
Sidney Greenstreet - Faye Emerson in
"MASK OF DIMITRIOS"

Thursday and Friday
Pat O'Briei-Ruth Hussey-Robert Ryan in
"MARINE RAIDERS"

Saturday
"COME ON DANGER"

and

"CALABOOSE"

Monday and Tuesday
Red Skelton Esther Williams in
"BATHING BEAUTY"

Seniors, Sophs Smash
Frosh, Junior Teams

By Anne Register

All expectations of good games were fulfilled Friday night
when the seniors smashed the freshmen 30-22 and the sopho-
mores topped the juniors 23-19, in the most exciting basketball
game of the season.

With improved teamwork and good guarding, the freshmen
gave the seniors a stiff fight. Edna Claire Cunningham did
some nice defensive playing for
the baby Hottentots. The senior
forwards did some switching in
their scoring, for during the first
half Mary Cummings chalked up
14 points, then in the second pe-
riod Mary Munroe rang the bas-
ket for 14.

Rivals Tie

The old rivals for the cham-
pionship, the juniors and the
sophs are now tied in the num-
ber of games won and lost. Their
bout Friday night was very fast
and both teams put up stone walls
of defense. Mildred McCain and
Scotty Johnson were outstanding
for the juniors and Ann Hough
made some beautiful tallies for
the victors. The entire game was
close and at the end of the third
quarter the score was aied 14-14.

Guard Shoots Highest

On arriving each person signed
up for her class to determine
which class was most representa-
tive at the games. The jdniors
were declared the most strongly
backed with 64 people and the
sophs were second with 61. Be-
tween the games Genet Heery,
basketball manager, announced
the winners of the free throw con-
test held during last week. The
sophomores were first with 59
points ,the juniors second with 57,
the frosh with 47 were third. It
was unusual that Jean Denning,
a guard, won the individual high
place score with three baskets out
of five.

The starting lineups were as
follows:

Seniors
humming (14) F

Holmes
Munroe (14)
Gray
Kirtley
Carpenter
Subs: Junior
men Dunn, McLaurin
(7). Yancy.

Juniors
Stephenson (8)
Melchor (7)
Purcell (4)
Phelps
Johnson

Freshmen

Dieckmann (6)
Manley (5)
Davis (2)
Powers
Gregory
Cunningham
Melson (2); Fresh-
(2), Reid

F
C
G
G
C

Sophomores

F Andrews (13)
Hough (6)
Heery (4)
Denning
Radford

Subs: Junior Ryner.

that, further leadership in rec-
reation hereafter was left to Mar-
tha, who, with the rest of her
class is really doing a good job.

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For further information, address
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Campus
Topics

Mr. Adam B. Bowman, Jane's
father, who will speak to the
American history class Friday at
9:30 a. m. A lawyer in Johnson
City, Tenn., he will speak on the
Supreme Court, a subject on which
he is an authority.

The laundryman or woman who
so patiently writes LISA MAR-
SHALL notes in her laundry each
week, beseeching her to send a
list with her clothes. The latest
note ends, "I think you."

The conglomeration of plaids
and polka dots which confronted
a junior for the tea dance last
Saturday afternoon. Maybe the
boys are taking "Frankie" too
seriously these days.

Spring holidays to be or not
to be- Perhaps we could all have
an excursion to Harrison Hut

The trophy DOT SPRAGENS
brought home from her date with
a med student Saturday night.

Shoe Shop Earns
$10 in Two Weeks

Beth Jones, freshman class
treasurer, reports a $10 profit for
the freshman shoe shop with a
daily average of slightly over 75c.

The shop "where elite feet meet"
has been open for two weeks un-
der the management of Paigey
Violette.

All members of the class work,
divided into groups headed by Ann
Ballard, Clarky Rogers, May Com-
er Osborne, Ann Patterson, Betsy
Brown, and "Doc" Dunn.

The shop is open Monday
through Friday from 5-6 p. m. As
the girls work they listen to the
radio, dance, and learri all the
news, thus combining play with
their labor.

A Photograph Is
The Perfect
Valentine

It's fun to have
your picture made
the flattering Pho-
to-Reflex way.

Sixth Floor

War Council with Frances Brougher at its head, is now di-
recting the following activities on the campus and outside:

1. It is sponsoring a Red Cross Staff Assistant's Course.
Leaders of the Decatur Red Cross chapter are giving lectures
from 7:30 to 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Before re-
ceiving a certificate, girls taking

tin cans. The list for knitting is
on the back bulletin board in But-
trick. Any girls who are interest-
ed may sign up, and Miss Cobbs-
will obtain the wool for them.

7. War Council is also in charge
of sending girls to entertain at
Lawson General hospital on Sun-
day afternoons and Monday nights.
Students sign up on the bulletin
board in the mailroom to go on
Sunday afternoons. The bus leaves
from Jacob's drug store in Deca-
tur at 2:15.

8. The Red Cross furnishes the
transportation for the fifty girls
who ' go to Lawson on Monday
nights. On certain Thursday
nights, a group is asked to go to
formal dances at the hospital. War
Council collected names in chapel
last Thursday in order to assem-
ble a list of girls who would like
to be called on to go at these
times.

the course must work ten hours at
the Red Cross office in Decatur.
This course, which was begun Jan.
30, will be completed Feb. 15.

2. The total amount of war
stamp sales since Jan. 15 is $53.-
15. These stamps are sold in the
lobby of Buttrick every morning
from 8:30 to 1. Ann Eidson and
Kathleen Hewson are in charge of
the stamp sales.

3. Blanks for appointments at
the blood donation center are
available at the war stamp table.
War Council urges that blood don-
ors make arrangements here in or-
der that the school may also re-
reive the credit for the donations.

4. Ceevah Rosenthal, chairman
of the War Fund drive, is plan-
ning to place a box in the mail-
room for overdue pledges. A list
of names may be posted on the
bulletin board in Buttrick as a re-
minder to those girls who are be-
hind in their payments.

5. Due to the composite war
fund to which girls have pledged
contributions, there will be no
separate drive for the March of
Dimes. However, it has been an-
nounced that War Council will be
glad to receive any donations for
this drive

Nelson Fisher who is in
charge of the tin can smashing and
knitting, has made out a schedule
which assigns each wing of the
dormitories to a week of smashing

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945

NO. 16

Dr. Redhead Reveals
Religious Week Topics

Dr John A. Redhead Jr., religious emphasis week speaker,
will talk in chapel tomorrow on the subject "Fairest Lord
Jesus " Among his other subjects for the week are "Standing
Up to Life," Making Sure of God" and "God According to
Christ."

Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.
C, Dr. Redhead is widely known
as a young people's speaker. Last
night he met with C. A. cabinet
and tonight he will lead a discus-
sion in Murphey Candler following
the after-dinner coffee in Rebekah
lobby, where students will have an
opportunity to meet him.

Friday afternoon at 2:30 there
will be another discussion in Mur-
phey Candler. Students may sub-
mit questions to be considered in
both discussions and may also sign
in the dean's office for personal
conferences with the speaker.

At 7:30 each morning this week
in the music room in Main Angela
Pardington is leading morning
watch services, which will include
observance of the World Day of
Prayer on Friday. For private de-
votions special booklets written
by members of the faculty have
been distributed. Those who con-
tributed daily meditations are:
Miss Emma May Laney, Miss
Charlotte Hunter, Mr. Walter
Posey, Mr. Howard Thomas. Mr.
Schuyler Christian and Dr. J. R.
McCain.

Students are requested by Vir-
ginia Carter, president of Chris-
tian association, to sit near the
front of the auditorium for all the
chapel services this week.

Music Hour
Program Told

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, assist-
ed by Miss Roberta Winter and
Betty Hancock Moore, will pre-
sent Music Appreciation Hour Feb.
19. It will be composed of selec-
tions from organ and piano, and
various readings given by Miss
Winter.

Mr. Dieckmann will play the
"Suite Gothique" for organ by the
(Continued on Page 4)

Date Book

Wed., Feb. 14 After-dinner cof-
fee in lobby, after which Dr.
Redhead will lead discussion in
Murphey Candler.
Mr. MacGregor speaks at mar-
riage class at 5 in Room 3, But-
trick.

Thurs., Feb. 15 All-Star concert
series presents Helen Traubel
with the Philadelphia orchestra.

Fri., Feb. 16 Basketball games at
8. Seniors play juniors; sopho-
mores play freshmen.
Dr. Redhead to lead discussion
at 2:30 in Mudphey Candler.

Sat., Feb. 17 A. A. Mountain
party at 8 in the gym.

Sun., Feb. 18 Group leaves for
Lawson at 2.

Mon., Feb. 19 Music Apprecia-
tion Hour at 8 in Gaines chapel.
Bus loaves for Lawson at 6:30.

Tues., Feb. 20 Dance group to
give program at 7:30 in Gaines
chapel.

Helen Traubel,
Symphony Give
Joint Concert

Music lovers will enjoy the high-
light of the concert season Thurs-
day night when the All-Star Con-
cert Series will present the Phila-
delphia Symphony Orchestra with
Eugene Ormandy, conductor, and
dramatic soprano, Helen Traubel,
soloist.

The program opens with Wag-
ner's "Overture" to "Die Meister-
singer," and the orchestra will
give the "Overture" and "Venus-
berg Music." Miss Traubel will
sing "Elsa's Dream" from "Lohen-
grin" and the "fort, demn eile"
from "Die Walkure." At the close
the orchestra will play "Siegfried's
Rhine Journey" and "Siegfried's
Death and Funeral Music" with
the final excerpts from "Gotter-
demerung." Miss Traubel will
join in the grand finale singing
the "Closing Scene" of the opera.

Eugene Ormandy made musical
history in 1944 when he flew to
Australia as the first "lend-lease
musical artist." Originally sche-
duled to give 16 concerts, he was
so successful that he was forced to
give 29 before he left. Helen
Traubel enjoys the distinction of
being the "first all-American first
lady of the Metropolitan Opera."

Agnes Scott students are in-
deed fortunate in being able to
hear the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra. It has held a first
place among the symphony organi-
zations of the world.

Holidays:
Mar. 9, 19

In accordance with the request
of the U. S. Government, Agnes
ScQtt will not give the regular
spring holidays this session. The
following adjustments have been
approved by the administration
and faculty:

Friday, Mar. 9, will be a holiday.

Exams will be given from Mar.
10 to Mar. 17.

Monday, Mar. 19, will be a holi-
day.

Another holiday will be given,
probably on a Friday during third
quarter.

Exams for third quarter will
end Friday, June 1, at noon.

The entire commencement pro-
gram will be moved back one day,
placing Senior Class Day on Sat-
urday afternoon, June 2, follow-
ed that night by a music or speech
program and the traditional "book
burning." The Baccalaureate ser-
mon will be on Sunday, June 3,
and the graduation exercises Mon-
day, June 4, instead of June 5, as
originally planned.

Students Vote
Amendment

In a student meeting held in
chapel Saturday, the student body
accepted and voted to incorporate
into its constitution an amend-
ment proposed by the executive
committee which has been pending
since Feb. 1.

This new addition to the con-
stitution will replace the trial
form of two committees, one for
purely judicial matters and the
other for administrative and leg-
islative affairs. By accepting the
amendment the old form of one
general committee of Student
Government to perform all three
duties was resumed.

Under the new amendment the
sophomore representation will be
reduced from four to three mem-
bers. No other representation and
no other personal duties were
changed by the amendment.

The Learned, the Popular,
The Public'-H. M.Jones

"The three traditions in American literature are the learned,
the popular, and the public," says Dr. Howard Mumford Jones,
dean of the graduate school at Harvard.

In his lecture last Wednesday night Dr. Jones discussed the
average American's lack of familiarity with all of these tradi-
tions and the difficulty with which

a truly "American" type may be
found. As examples of the learned
tradition he cited Emerson and
Thoreau; of the popular, Paul
Bunyan, Ring Lardner, O. Henry,
and George Ade; of the public, the
Declaration of Independence, the
Preamble to the Constitution, and
the speeches and writing of Pat-
rick, Henry, Jefferson, Lincoln,
Wilson, and the two Roosevelts.
In closing, he challenged his lis-
teners with the statement that he
doubted American literature was
now being properly taught in
American colleges.

At the Thursday chapel hour.
Dr. Jones delivered a brief and
entertaining speech on "The At-
tractions of Stupidity." He divid-
ed the world, including college
communities, into the Romans.

representing stupidity, and the
Greeks, representing the clever,
and pointed out that the stupid
usually win out over the clever
Other attractions of stupidity are
the calm, comfortable mediocrity
and the social approval of those
who possess it. He painted an
amusing picture of the college fac-
ulty as trying, almost always
vainly, to impart knowledge to the
sternly resisting students.

"The Romantic Description of
Nature" was the subject for
Thursday afternoon's lecture, in
which Dr. Jones traced its devel-
opment from the catalog type of
description common to the Middle
Ages to the emergence of the late
18th century romanticists. The
latter developed the picturesque
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12 Beauties Elected
To Attend 'Queen

Jane Everett, May Day chair-
man, announced today that the
following girls have been elected
to May Court:

Seniors: Montene Melson, Scott
Newell, Jeanne Robinson, and
Martha Whatley Yates; juniors:
Teddy Bear, Eugenia Jones, and
Gloria Anne Melchor; sophmores:
Virginia Dickson, Mary Jane Ful-
ler, and Anne Scott; freshmen:
Nancy Deal and Rusty Rayfield.

Five of the girls, Montene Mel-
son, Scott Newell, Martha What-
ley Yates, Gloria Anne Melchor,
and Virginia Dickson, are from
Atlanta. The other girls are also
representatives from southern
states Jeanne Robinson, Clayton,
Mo.; Teddy Bear, Richmond, Va.;
Eugenia Jones, Greenville S. C;
Mary Jane Fuller, Neptune Beach,
Fla.; Anne Scott, Lynchburg, Va.;
Nancy Deal, Forest City, N. C;
and Rusty Rayfield, Montgomery,
Ala.

The girls were elected by the
student body Saturday in chapel,
and are to assist Anne Equen, re-
cently elected May Queen, in pre-
siding over the May Day festivi-
ties this spring.

Scott Newell and Gloria Anne
Melchor have been in May Court
for the past two years while Ted-
dy Bear, Virginia Dickson, and
Anne Scott made their initial ap-
pearance last year.

Martha Jean Gower's scenario,
"The Creation" has been chosen as
the theme for May Day.

Dance Group
Give

In Gaines chapel on Tuesday
evening, Feb. 20, at 7:30, the dance
group will present a series of ten
dances. The dance group will in-
clude Dale Bennett, Betsy Brown,
Eleanor Calley, Jean Carlson,
Mary Cumming, Betty Jo Davis,
Virginia Dickson Louise Gardner,
Georgia Gilliland, Dot Hunter,
Minnie Mack, Molly Milam, Anne
Murrell, Peggy Willmon, Maude
Van Dyke, and La Nelle Wright.
Mrs. John J. Espy will accompany
the dance group.

First on the program is a polka,
"Old Folk Tune," and next a med-
ley of seven aires by Stephen Fos-
ter, performed by the whole dance
group. Next will be "Ecossaissen"
by Beethoven danced by Mary
Cumming, Molly Milam, and Lou-
ise Gardnes; then Josey Strauss'
"Mazurka" by Dale Bennett,
Eleanor Calley, Georgia Gilliland,
and Virginia Dickson; Schubert's
"Moment Musicale" by Mrs. Har-
riet Lapp; and Strauss' "Roses
of the South" by Dot Hunter,
Anne Murrell, Maud Van Dyke,
and Peggy Willmon. After inter-
mission, Gluck's "Dance of the
Happy Spirits" will be presented
by Maud Van Dyke, Minnie Mack,
Mary Cumming, and Betty Jo
Davis, followed by "Polka for
Three" by Strauss by Anne Mur-
rell, Louise Gardner, and Maud
Van Dyke. The last selection will
be "Tales of Vienna Woods" by
Strauss danced by fche whole
group.

Debating Team
Places Second
In Contest

The Agnes Scott affirmative
team, Dot Peace and Louisa Aich-
el, placed second in the intercol-
legiate debating contest at Emory
University last Saturday ofter-
noon. A Tech team, Prime and
Foss, placed first.

Twenty teams from Tech, Em-
ory, Atlanta Evening College,
University of Georgia, and Agnes
Scott participated in the event,
which was sponsored by Emory
under the general charge of John
Griffin.

The team from Agnes Scott
won five out of six debates. This
is believed to be the highest per-
centage made by any school. Two
of the debates were won by the
negative team, Lib Osborne and
Peggy Willmon, and all three were
won by the affirmative. The de-
baters were judged on delivery,
speech, refutation, knowledge and
presentation of facts, and team-
work.

Of the forty debaters Art Prime
of Tech, placed first. The second,
third, and fourth places were al-
so held by Tech boys. Dot Peace
placed fifth, Peggy Willmon, sixth,
and Louisa Aichel, eighth.

Mr. George P. Hayes coached
the girls in preparation for the de-
bates. The subject was "Compul-
sory Military Training between
the Ages of 18-25."

A. A. Presents
Dance Experts
At Gym Frolic

Girls, don your bonnets and pin-
afores and come to A. A.'s Moun-
tain party next Saturday, Feb. 17,.
at 8. Miss Rosalind Rieman is in
charge of the music and dancing.
Miss Rieman is an authority on
square dancing and will bring with
her, to demonstrate the steps, cou-
ples who have danced in entertain-
ments throughout Georgia.

The gym will be decorated ap-
propriately with bales of hay, feed
bags, jugs and wall decorations.
Original and attractive name tags
will be given to each person. There
will be a hog calling contest for
men only and a wheelbarrow race
Prizes will be given for the best
dressed female mountaineer and
for the couple doing the best
square dancing.

Boys from Tech and Emory
have been invited and refresh-
ments of doughnuts and mountain
dew (cider), will be served. Now
don't forget Saturday at 8. A. A.
wants to see you there.

Be thinking of the capable
leaders in your class! Elections
are just around the corner. In-
dividual thinking is your privi-
lege and duty.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945

Vacation Blues

Because of a government request that colleges give no
spring holidays this year, therefore preventing mass vacation
travel, Agnes Scott has cancelled its scheduled between-
quarter rest of five days.

We wish to point out that we do know the catalogue says
the schedule is "subject to change because of war conditions."
But, in this case, we feel, the change has been unwarranted.

As the revised schedule stands now, students will have a
holiday Mar. 9, before exams start, and Mar. 19, after they
end. The first will undoubtedly be used for concentrated
studying. The latter holiday is expected to give students a
rest before starting an arduous third quarter.

It seems unwise to allot only one day of rest after a week
of intensive studying and actual taking of exams. A day here
and a day there cannot possibly do the good that a three or
four day rest would. We feel safe to predict a rise in infirmary
cases shortly after third quarter begins.

The faculty too needs a rest and many of them favor a
three or four day vacation. The News is in favor of a three
day vacation at school, with no out-of-town trips allowed ex-
cept for providential reasons. In this way, it is felt, we will be
cooperating with the government, yet will not be overtaxing
already tired minds and bodies.

The Feb. 10 issue of the Christian Science Monitor pointed
our in an editorial:

The Wellesley students by a unanimous vote decided to
have five days closed spring holidays to cooperate with the
war effort. The girls are wisely planning to spend their time
reading, resting, seeing the campus, and visiting. No one is
leaving the Boston area.

Have You Given?

Perhaps some of us need to follow the old saying and "tie
a red string around our fingers" and remember the War Fund
to which we so generously pledged in the fall.

The entire fund must be collected by April, and there are
many back pledges due. Because the method of collecting the
money was not very successful, War Council has decided to
place a box in the mail room for the pledges.

With only one drive this year, the War Fund covers the
Red Cross, the World Student Service Fund, and other relief
organizations. Specific sums have been promised to each of
these groups, and it is up to us to pay our pledges. In this
small way we are aiding the war effort.

Being in college, and not doing any vital defense work,
should make us feel all the more responsible for paying our
pledges! We should not need to be reminded and prodded
to help in the War Fund Drive. If each person would assume
the responsibility as her individual privilege of helping to
bring the war to a close, it would not be necessary to men-
tion the matter. But until each of us realizes her part, con-
stant reminders are essential.

By checking with the treasurer of War Council each person
can fin dout exactly how much she owes. Some pledges were
made monthly ,and some for the year. In either case, the
money due is mounting. So set aside your War Fund pledge
from your allowan ce, and get it in as soon as possible.

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A Boyd's-Eye View

of Jane Meadows

By Mary Anne Courtenay

Originator of new ideas, backer of worthy causes, and or-
ganizer of workers are all terms synonymous with the sopho-
more class president, Jane Meadows. The industry her class
has displayed in such projects as the freshman annual and
Friday teas, the Black Cat stunts, scrubbing the library car-
rels, and most recently the Paira-

dice Room, has sprung largely
from Jane's own energy and orga-
nizing power.

Her roommates, Annes Wheeler
and Rogers and other sophomore
friends accuse her of keeping
her "one-track mind" trained to
class affairs. But mention Roose-
velt, law school, or the V-12, and
you will strike other chords of in-
terest. Jane collects anonymous
poetry and manages to stay well
posted by reading the newspapers.

AMt. Advertising Managers

I.nulso Cardner
IMM Anne Newton

Circulation Manager

Hansell Cousar

Circulation Assistants

Daisy Sundy *
Doris Purcell

Business Assistants: Carolyn Hodle. Betty Andrews. Eleanor Calley. Pep^y Jonee. Alice
New-man. Laura Winchester. Mary Jane Schumaker. DorU Street. Ann Houfrh Mat
Turrwr. Joan BOOMR Mary McCalla.

Mr. Johnson,
Special Chorus
To Make Disc

Mr. Lewis Johnson of the music
department and the special Cho-
rus have been chosen to make this
year's annual recording for the
alumnae.

Every year since 1939 a record
has been made carrying some
message to the alumnae, keeping
in touch with the campus. A copy
of this record is sent to each Ag-
nes Scott club in the country and
is played at their Founder's Day
meetings. In addition, one copy is
kept here on campus as a perma-
nent record.

Former records have carried
the voices of Dr. J. R. McCain,
Miss Alma Willis Sydenstricker,
Mr. George Winship, and others.
This is the first time that a musi-
cal organization has been includ-
ed.

Mr. Johnson will speak briefly,
and the chorus will sing "Here a
Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" repre-
senting the work done by the
Christmas Choir, "Will You Re-
member," representing the Glee
Club and the chorus, and will close
with the Alma Mater.

Each class will have a skit
BOOH to present its southern
gentleman for Jazz-Mine Man-
or, the new version of the Junior
Joint. The southern belles, eho-
Ben by eaeh southern gentleman,
will not he presented until the
IhK night!

Taking her history course serious-
ly, she aspires to go to law school,
probably Harvard, after gradua-
tion from Agnes Scott.

Careful planning is one of Mead-
ows' chief virtues. As Black Cat
chairman her freshman year, she
led her class to victory. This year,
somehow, her planning slipped up,
and she came down with appendi-
citis the week of the stunt. She
was able to attend only in a wheel
chair.

Jane enjoys spectator sports,
being well known for her skill in
gathering together large cheering
sections for hockey and basket
ball games. Her favorite indoor
sport is making pie beds third Re-
bekah.

Jane's love for her class here
hasn't dampened her enthusiasm
for the activities of Atlanta Girls'
High. She returns periodically
to speak and carry out plans she
began there. Whenever there is
any job to be done anywhere, Jane
is on hand with ideas and energy.

Hottentots Gasp
Over Valentines

Frilly Valentines, flowers, and
large red heart-shaped boxes of
chocolate candy have symbolized
Valentine's Day to Agnes Scotters
for many years.

This year the valentines arc dif-
ferent. Those from overseas eith-
er arrived a month or so ago, or
will arrive in March or April. (So
there's still hope, Aggie!) A valen-
tine this year is far less frivolous
than in other years, but more
precious to the receiver.

If you were in the mailroom
this morning, (and the chances
are you were, everybody was!)
you couldn't miss the eager faces
of those who read the package list
and searched their dusty mail
boxes. You couldn't miss the hag-
gard face of the postmistress,
either, as she looked at the un-
usually heavy mail. . .. And the
gasps of ecstacy when someone re-
ceived a valentine. The spirit of
St. Valentine's Day is as strong as
ever.

The
Tattler

By Pat Elam

Kind to Animals

On the way from church Sun-
day, several of our number saw a
cat curled up peacefully in a store
window. Although the cat was
sleeping and seemed quite content,
they began to worry about it, as
it seemed to be squeezed in be-
tween some sacks of flour. Knock-
ing on the window, they woke the
cat up and pointed to a safe exit.
The ungrateful animal remained
between the bags.

Picnic

Blythe Posey seems undaunted
by restrictions on travel. Instead
of traveling far afield for a picnic,
she and one of her friends packed
a lunch, settled down on the grass
beside the fishpool by the gym,
and proceeded to enjoy the water,
ants, and sunshine.

Life of the Party

Mr and Mrs. MacGregor and
Miss Winter were the center of
attraction at a party last week.
Miss Winter made them up black-
face and they slipped in the back-
yard of their host's, where they
began sweeping efficiently. So
good was the makeup that several
servants who saw them believed
them to be yardmen and ignored
them completely. Finally a fel-
low-guest recognized them and
they joined the party, which
wasn't a masquerade.

Unknown Quantities

Mr. Holt, to his Theoret class:
All right, we'll use 3x if you like.
I guess 3x is just as unknown as x.
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue

Molly gave a tea at Rich's Sat-
urday for her engaged friends and
their roommates. At each place,
except Molly's, was a cupid-cov-
ered package containing a pair of
garters, made by Mrs. Milam.
These are very special garters, for
they are made of blue silk, new
elastic, borrowed thread, and old
lace. At Molly's place was a small
green book entitled "How to Get
a Husband."

Table Talk

Those studying Child Psych
might be interesied in the early
development of some fellow Hot-
tentots. At the dinner table Sun-
day, their childhood amusements
were brought to light. One said
that she had had several hens,
which she would line up and
preach to at great length. Anoth-
er used to play church with her
sister, each taking her turn at be-
ing the preacher and the repen-
tent sinner. A third admitted that
she, until her horrified mother put
a stop to it, would squeeze grapes,
steal bread out of the kitchen, and
hold communion.

Flowery Fancies

The elevator opened last Sunday
to reveal Leila standing blissfully
holding a large bunch of calla
lilies. She had a very faraway
look in her eyes, even though she
was carrying the flowers to Mur-
phey Candler instead of down the
aisle.

Camping Trip

A bunch from third Inman was
determined to rough it this week-
end. Circumstances beyond their
control prevented the trek to Har-
rison Hut, so they took their
blankets and enjoyed a restful
night in the hall.

You take it from here, Addison.
Editor's Note

It is only because of the dire
need "to fill" space that "Flowery
Fancies" still flourishes.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945

Page 3

The Belles of St. Agnes

By Martha Baker

Another Wednesday . . . another week-end gone by and
despite no let-up in the "man shortage," Hottentots continue
to play the dual role of butterfly and moth. (Don't ask the
percentage of time of the moth in the wee cocoon.)
But, from a moth to you, butterflies, I'm "Heddy Hopper-

ing" this week for columnist Caro-
lyn Fuller, who's having a grand
visit with her mother and aunt.

The feature this week-end was
a triple-header, what with the
KA formal at Emory, Friday;
"Life With Father," Saturday;
and senior coffee, Sunday.

There was a war-time lead-out,
simple but effective, at the formal,
with Alice Newman leading out
with "number two KA," now
"number one man." (for you un-
initiated few, he's president). Al-
ice wore pink net as did Dot Chap-
man, Mary Brown Mahon, Dot
Peace, and Leila Holmes. Pudden
Bealer had a sophisticated print
jersey on with cap sleeves and a
peplum-effect front. Other lovely
looking Hottentots present were:
Martie Mizell, Eva Williams, Lou-
ise Starr, Liz Harris, Dotty Dyren-
forth, and Sally Bussey.

The KA's made a week-end of it
with a breakfast after the dance
and a picnic Sunday afternoon
with Lib Osborne representing
Agnes Scott.

"Life With Father"

A good majority of the "stu-
dents" were lucky enough to see
Life With Father sometime
Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.
The prize remark after seeing one
of the season's funniest comedies,
"I think I'll write Daddy that
he's not half as obnoxious as
'Father'."

More Dances

The A. T. O's had two parties
Saturday night. Grace Durant,
Nnancy Haislip and Jo Faulkner
went to a party at the Tech house,
and Nancy Deal, Barbara Plumly,
and Margaret McManus attended
the "Orchid" formal.

There was also a dance at the
Naval' Armory Saturday night
which Mary Jane Fuller, Lidie

Genevieve Latham at the Mira-
dor Room.

About town Saturday night
were:

Sue Hutchens, Sweety Calley,
Ann Scott, Gee Gee Gilliland, Bet-
tie Manning, and Kittie Kay, at
the Roof.

Mary Neely Norris and Lois
Sullivan at Strauss' "The Gypsy
Baron" at the auditorium.

The Presbyterian Valentine par-
ty attracted Beverly Gordy, Ellen
Morrison, Thames Castner, Jane
Baggs, Ann Caldwell, Pris Hatch,
and Lady Major. The Baptists al-
so had a party, which Maxine
Kickliter and Peggy Baker attend-
ed.

Several girls had visitors this
week-end. Ann Newbold's man
was here from Fort Benning. El-
len Thomas and Ada Schewel were
June ' Driskill's visitors from
Lynchburg. The mothers of Liz
McWhorter, Doris Smith, Cookie
Devane, and Tina Hewson were all
here for the week-end, while Vir-
ginia Dickson and Cockie Cochran
had a week-day visit from their
mothers. Martha Humber spent
the week-end with her mother
in Atlanta. Margaret Ann Rich-
ards' visitor was Margy Graves
from Columbus. Frances Wood-
all's little sister was here and
Ruth Gray's brother.

Out-of-town
Home is still the main week-end
attraction. Jane Barker went to
Anniston, Ala.; Maudy Hay took
Harriet Gregory and Harriet Reid
to her home in Auburn; Sister
Davis went to West Point; Louise
Reid and Eleanor Davis went to
Forest City, N. C, with Carolyn
Bodie; Ann Ezzard went home to
Roswell; and Virginia Henry was
Mandy Hulsey's guest at her home
Lee, and Micky Derieux enjoyed J, in Gainesville. Jackie Stewart,

The ES's, not to be outdone, gave
a house dance the same night
which Mary Frances Anderson
and Dale Bennett attended.
About Town

Leaving college life for a more
sophisticated view seen about
town Friday were:

Mr. A. B. Bowman (Jane's Dad-
dy), Jane, Scotty Johnson, Lisa
Marshall, and Blitz Roper, at the
Paradise Room for dinner and
floorshow. It was rumored a
"cousin Mary" was along.

Color, Variety
Mark Exhibit

Oil paintings by Claude How-
ell are on exhibit in the library
until Mar. 3.

Those who have already seen
the exhibit have been impressed
by the variety of subject matter
and the profusion of color charac-
terizing the work of the young
Wilmington artist. Scenes, por-
traits and still life are all repre-
sented in the exhibit.

A self-trained painter, Howell
devises his own problems. He has
taken every opportunity to learn
from other well-known artists and
his work shows the influences of
Matisse, Cezanne, Kunishi and
others. Claude Howell, although
still in a formative stage, is rank-
ed as one of the rising young
painters 0 f the south. Among the
awards he has received are first
prize from the Mint Mesuem for
prize from the Mint Museum for
ited his work at the Corscoran Gal-
negie Corporation. He has exhib-
ited his work at the Corsoran Gal-
lery, Washington, at the New
York World's Fair, and at many
museums in North Carolina.

Betty Brown, Rusty Rayfield, and
Betty Dennis were the guests of
Betty Dennis' aunt in Greenville,
S. C. Mildred Claire Jones and
Ann Patterson spent the week-end
at Mercer.

Senior Coffee
Sunday found not only spring
weather but a much-looked-for-
ward-to senior coffee. The hostess-
es looking like dainty valentine
ladies in pale blue, cerise, frothy
lace, candy stripes, and white,
were: Mary Neely Norris, Leila

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Campbell and Lois Sullivan.
Leila's mother, Mrs. Holmes from
Macon, was the only parent who
could get away to come. Being an
alumnae and former May Queen,
it wase grand having Mrs. Holmes
back.

Ann Wheeler, Kathleen Buch-
anan, Ann Rogers, Glasell Beale
and Lorenna Ross went to a wed-
ding in Gainesville Wednesday.
Ann Register, home to Fitzgerald,
Ga., while Maggie Toole and Bar-
bara Kincaid journeyed down that
direction to Wesleyan.

Jeter Starr, home with Rite to.
Batesburg S. C. Alice Gordon,
home to Eastman; Punky Matti-
son, Pattie Dean, Gloria Gaines
to Anderson, S. C; Margaret Kin-
ard to Clemson, and Marie Adams,
home to Seneca, S. C.

Going up Tennessee way were
Janet Liddell and Liz Carpenter
to Sewanee, and Nelson Fisher to
Nashville, and Dot Chapman home
with Liz Harris to Chattanooga.

Theresa Kemp went home to
Marietta; Bettye Smith to Univer-
sity of Georgia; Carolyn Gilchrist
to Shorter; and Martha Patterson
home to Covington, Ky.

"Names have been left out,

Dates have been wrong a little-
er,

But don't have a doubt,
They'll be fixed next week by
Fuller."

P.S. Before prevstime, we heard
of the bridal shower for Kate
Webb, Monday afternoon in the
Alumnae House. Kate was lovely
in a black crepe with a pink ca-
mellia corsage. Kate's roommates,
Frances Stukes and Mickey Be-
man, who gave the shower, look
as thrilled over the wedding as
Kate. The date will be sometime
during the next two weeks.

Sensitive Lines

Faculty Artists Find Reward
In Joys of Self-Expression

(Editor's Note: This feature on the faculty Visual Arts class was
written expressly far the Agnes Scott News by Miss Roberta Winter,
instructor in speech.)

By Roberta Winter

If your professor looks at you queerly these days with eyes
almost closed, head back, as if from a great distance don't
jump to the conclusion that, having stood all she can from you,
she is contemplating a swift vengeance. She's just seeing you
as a "volume ... a mass; with length, breadth, and thickness,
but no individuality, no personal-

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ity, no meaning." This attitude of
hers is not the result of your own
shortcomings (short though they
may be); neither does it prove
that she will never more look upon
you as a human being. She is
merely following the instructions
of her professor of VISUAL ARTS
ACTIVITIES the course she is
taking Thursday evenings under
the direction of Mr. Howard
Thomas, head of the Art Depart-
ment.

Make 'Color Tree*

The course can be said to be
well-launched by now: five of the
ten sessions have been held. Even
the weakest knees have ceased
trembling, the wildest hearts
might have stopped pounding, and
some semblance of nonchalance
might have been observed as the
group settled down the other night
to make a "color tree." (Go see
for yourself.)

Members are now looking back
on their first session on LINE as if
from a great distance. "The first
session," stated the communica-
tions they had received through
the local mail, "will be devoted to
the element LINE. 1. Kinds of
line. 2. Line movement. 3. Line
expression and line quality psy-
chological meanings, symbolic
meanings. ..." No wonder their
blood pressure had leaped. But
tight-lipped, desperate, they had
rallied to the kind tones of the
instructor and let the pencil cover
the paper with "straight lines be-
tween two points," ... "a slow
line that looks fast," . . ."a fast
line that looks slow," . . . "angry
lines," "congenial lines," . . .
"lines trying to get away from
each other," . . . "lines friendly
toward each other," . . . And
jaws relaxed and hearts lifted
when the Kind Voice insisted en-
couragingly, "Now there isn't any
one here who doesn't have beau-
tiful lines!" .... Still, each tree
on the campus loomed menacingly
on the walk home that night: so
many lines; so complicated; so
much inner life.

Voice Notes Confusion

And there was the time the
class was divided by seven for
group work and it was found that
each group would have two and
five-seventh workers in it. "I never
felt more like five-sevenths of a
person in my life," said one mem-
ber, nervously attaching herself to
two less agitated workers. It may
have been this disintegration that
caused the Kind Voice to be raised
rather higher than usual over the
furor: "There seems to be a lit-
tle confusion. ..."

But the soothing influence of
colors to mix, the thought of vol-
umes to steady us, and the rare
personal triumphs in sketching

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have had their effect; and certain
members have even questioned the
professor's warning, "Don't expect
to leave this class as artists, but
as people who appreciate what the
artist is doing."

Faculty Want Quarters
When asked whether he had any
comments on the progress of the
group, Mr. Thomas declined to be
quoted. He confessed that financi-
ally the venture had not proved
lucrative. Members insist on ans-
wering rol lcall promptly to "get
their quarter back" even though
other duties may call them away
immediately. It is believed that
there was one case where a visitor
collected a quarter even though
she had never deposited the $2.50
registration fee required of mem-
bers and returned to them bits by
bits for prompt attendance. An-
other member has expressed dis-
illusionment from discovering
that "getting the quarterback"
had nothing to do with the pair of
broad shoulders she had been an-
ticipating.

Work for Self-expression
With the course half completed,
however, it can be stated without
fear of contradiction that it will
be a gratifying experiment, at any
rate if graded on the curve. Word
was sent from the Registrar's of-
fice that no credit would be given
for work unless each evening's
signed canvases were left for
approval of the Academic Coun-
cil; but most of the members
agree that they are working for
the joy of self-expression, not for
a grade.

So if your professor looks at
you queerly these days ask her
about her etchings. It's as good
as two apples on any desk in But-
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

All those lonesome gals on cam-
pus and those plutocrats who have
dates next Saturday night are urg-
ed and invited to attend the gala
good old-fashioned square dance
that A. A. is sponsoring. We are
going to have a genuine caller, and
Ann Webb, who- is in charge of
arrangements, promises to have
men there. The square dance is
to be held in the gym, and Ann de-
clares that a good time will be had
by all.

Good basketball playing is still
with us, and it was much in evi
dence last Friday when the seniors
beat the sophomores and the
freshmen bowed to the juniors.
Good playing was by no means
confined to the winning teams,
however, and some of the moves
of each team were quite fine.
The approaching Friday night
games promise to be the best of
the season for the winner of the
junior-senior game determines the
final championship game. Many
are betting after the outstanding
technique of the senior team the
two classes will tie.

Attention Emory

That bicycle to be earned by
saving Blue Horse wrappers is still
one of A. A's aims in life, and we
want to thank publicly all those
who help in this drive. When we
thanked Bobby Fitzgerald, sports
editor of the Emory Wheel,
through this column, he hastily ex-
plained that he only read our no-
ble sports page in a moment of
weakness. Since we don't have
written permission, we won't
quote his letter directly, but he did
admit that he thought we had a
pretty good sports page consid-
ering that we were girls, of course.
He greatly dampened our spirits
when he said that it took him two
weeks to figure out that we were
playing field hockey here and that
the sports staff of an Atlanta
newspaper had the same trouble.
Next year we'll have to invite
other sports editors to our hockey,
games and educate them in the
fine art of hockey as played by
Hottentots.

More Paint

To those who haven't yet heard
that something new has been ad-
ded on campus we would like to
say that another coat of Kemtone
now adorns the Board room in
the gym. True lovers of art are

Seniors Defeat Sophs
In Seasons Big Upset

By Ruth Ryner

In the greatest upset and. most exciting basketball game of
the season Friday afternoon, the seniors emerged victorious
over the mighty sophomores by the one point score 26-25. In
the second game, the juniors added another victory to their
list by downing the freshmen 32-13.

The senior-sophomore tilt was close from the very begin-
ning. Throughout the first half

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning Wednesday,
February 14th

Wednesday
Margaret O'Brien in
"CANTERVI LLE GHOST"

Thursday and Friday
Helen Vinson-Lyle Talbot, in
"ARE THESE OUR PARENTS"

Saturday
"MARKED TRAILS"
and

"THE WHISTLER"

Monday and Tuesday
Alan Marshall-Laraine Day in
BRIDE BY MISTAKE"

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning Feb. 14

Wednesday -Thursday
Alan Ladd
"AND NOW TOMORROW"

Friday

Robert Taylor-Vivien Leigh
WATERLOO BRIDGE"

Saturday
FALCON IN MEXICO"
and

"PINTO BANDIT"

Monday-Tuesday
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE"

however, the seniors were not able
to successfully threaten the small
but safe lead held by the determ-
ined sophs. As always, during this
first half the sophs managed to
keep the balance that marks
their excellent teamwork. While
the forward broke through to
reach the goal, the guards put up
excellent defense that prevented
the seniors from making any great
headway. The score as the first
half ended was 12-9 in favor of
the sophomores.

Mary Monroue made all the se-
nior tallies during the first half
but as the second half got under
way Molly Milam took over and
made many outstanding shots. The
sophs were still in the lead even
as the third quarter progressed.
Sometime after the beginning of
the third quarter the sophs were
still leading 21-17. At this point
the seniors, with almost new spir-
it, started sinking practically im-
possible long shots and their
guards put up the most excellent
defense of the entire game. From
here on out it was goal for goal
until the last three minutes, when
scoring stopped, and the seniors
were able to hold their odd one
point lead gained ffom free shots
that gave them the victory.

The freshman-junior game could
not compare in excitement but
good playing and teamwork were
again evident. The junior guards
were their mainspring through-
out the game though at times the
forwards worked with good of-
fensive play, full of good passing
and accurate shots. The score at
the half-time was 12-2 in favor of
the juniors.

During the last half, the "never
say die" frosh put up a stiff fight,
actually outplaying the juniors
in speed and good intercepting and
passes but not being able to match
them in smooth teamwork and
scoring. The score as the game

cordially invited to ascend the
stairs and feast their eyes upon
the artistic painting done by some
of the more enterprising mem-
bers of the board.

Swimming Pageant

Swimming club is working on a
pageant with the theme based on
the trip of two sailors down to
Davy Jones' locker. It will be
given Thursday, Mar. L

Varsity-subvarsity for basket-
ball will be announced next Fri-
day at the games. Genet Heery,
manager, says the announcement
will be presented in a unique fash-
ion. Those on varsity council are
Miss Willburn, Ann Webb, Soozie
Richardson, and Genet Heery.
Ping Pong Finals

In the ping pong tournament
everything up to semi-finals is to
be played by this afternoon, ac-
cording to Ann Webb, who is in
charge. The final round will be
played at the varsity-subvarsity
games Friday week.

The dancing group, which was
organized last September, is to
give a recital Tuesday, Feb. 20.
This group is the first of its kind
on campus in several years, and
its members hope that such a
club will remain permanent.

enced showed the juniors way
ahead 32-13.

The line-ups were as follows:

Seniors

Sophomores

Milam (10)

F

Andrews (4)

Munroe (12)

F

Hough (7)

Melson

CF

Heery (13)

Gray

G

Adams

Kirtley

G

Denning

Equen

CG

Radford

Substitutions: Seniors, Kay

Freshmen

Dieckmann(T)
Reid (4)
Davis (2)
Cunningham
Hayes
Turner

F
F
CF
G
G
CG

Juniors

Stephenson (8)
Ryner (12)
Melchor (12)
McCain
Phelps
Johnson

Substitutions: Freshmen, Miller,
Manley, Gregory; Juniors: Hardy,
McAllister.

Economics Class
To Visit Bank

Economics 309, class in Money
and Banking, will make a field
trip to the Atlanta Federal Re-
serve Bank Tuesday, accompanied
by Miss Mildred Mell, head of
Economics department and teach-
er of the class.

BURSON'S SHOE SHOP
Little Decatur

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JH.
Operator

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

. 147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

FOOTE AND DAVIES

Announces its new
College Annual Department
250 PEACHTREE STREET

Faculty and students are cor-
dially invited to visit the con-
venient and comfortable work-
ing quarters for Annual Staffs
provided at this new location.

The Learned'

(Continued from Page 1)

as a theory of nature description
and the mountaintop as a point of
view. In conclusion he read por-
tions of a little-known poem of
William Cullen Bryant's, "The
Prairie."

Friday Dr. Jones spoke to the
American Literature class on the
development of the American
novel. He discussed the publish-
ing conditions, the point of view,
and particular authors in the va-
rious periods of development.

HOWARD H. MACGREGOR

MacGregor Speaks
To Marriage Class

Mr. Howard H. MacGregor, as-
sistant business manger-treasurer
of Agnes Scott, will speak on
"Budgets and Finance" at mar-
riage class at 5 p. m. today in
Room 3, Buttrick.

This afternoon's talk is the last
in a series of five marriage classes
sponsored by Mortar Board. The
classes are open to seniors and en-
engaged girls.

Previous speakers were Dr.
James Brawner, Dr. Eugenia
Jones, Dr. Margaret Burns, and
Dr. Leila Denmark.

Music Hour

(Continued from Page 1)

Frenchman Boellman; and he will
also be assisted in the piano
Sonota No. 18 of Mozart, by Mrs.
Moore who will be playing the sec-
ond part written by Grieg. Grieg
wrote the second piano part for
four Mozart sonatas, and in a pre-
vious concert, Mr. Dieckmann
played the C Minor Sonata. The
Sonata No. 18 is in F Major.

Miss Winter and Mr. Dieckmann
will present a novel selection
called "Bergliot." It is a melo-
drama written by Bjornsen and
accompanied by piano music writ-
ten by Grieg.

War stamp total for two
weeks (Jan. 29-Feb. 10) : $37.00.

Visit Your Neighbor

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FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 3309

The Varsity

Curb Service

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interesting character of its student activities.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945

NO. 17

Blackf riars to Sponsor
Variety Program Feb. 28

Blackfriars will present two one-act plays and three scenes
from Shakespeare in a variety program Wednesday night,
Feb. 28, at 8:30 in Presser Hall. Miss Roberta Winter is di-
recting the entire group.

Maids Strike In "Be Seated"

"Be Seated," a one-act by Marcelline Sanford and Dorothy
Coolidge is a gay comedy, spiced

by songs and dances, that shows
what happens when four house-
wives discover that their maids
have gone on strike. A special per-
formance of "Be Seated" was giv-
en at a meeting of the Decatur
Lions club members and their
wives on Feb. 13.

The four maids are: Betty Man-
ning, Alice Beardsley, Mary Nell
Ozment, and Peggy Willmon. The
four wives are: Lura Johnston,
Barbara Kicaid, Ceevah Rosen-
thal ,and Carolyn Fuller. Margue-
rite Watson plays a messenger.
Chroneography for dances is by
Alice Beardsley. Eleanor Rey-
nolds will be the accompanist.
Irish Note Added

The second one-act play on the
program is "Will O' The Wisp," a
fantasy by Doris Holman. "Will
'O The Wisp" has eerie Irish at-
mosphere and has been a favorite
here in the past. The cast includes
Margaret McManus, old woman;
Helen Currie, white-faced girl;
Shirley Graves, poet's wife; Ann
Pardington, maid.

Shakespeare Comes To Scott

The three Shakespearean scenes
are from "Twelfth Night," "Romeo
and Juliet," and "As You Like It."
In the first, Jane Everett is Olivia
and Pauline Ertz is Viola. In
"Romeo and Juilet," Liz Carpenter
plays Juliet, and Jean Hood plays
the old nurse. In "As You Like
It," Jane Ann Newton is seen as
Celia, Martha Jane Mack as Rosa-
lind, and Ellen Hayes as the
Duke.

Blackfriars invites the campus
community and friends to the pro-
gram. There is no admission
charge.

Date Book

Wed., Feb. 21 Presentation of
"gentlemen" of Jazz-Mine Ma-
nor in class skit at 7 in the old
chapel.

Thurs., Feb. 22 Founder's Day,
holiday.

After dinner coffee in Murphey
Candler. Games, minuets, and
skits begin at 6:45 in Murphey
Candler.

Dress rehearsal for Jazz-Mine
Manor at gym, in the gym, at
9 p. m.

Fri., Feb 23 Minneapolis Sym-
phony Orchestra in Atlanta.
"B" teams play basketball at 4.

Sat., Feb. 24 Jazz-Mine Manor at
8, in the gym. 18c stag, 30c stag.

Sun., Feb. 25 Group leaves for
Lawson at 2.

Mon., Feb. 26 "Peter Pan," a
Clare Tree Major play, in Pres-
sor at 2:30.

Mr. Weersing speaks to cabinets
at 7.

Wed., Feb., 28 Blackfriars' Plays
at 8:30.

ELECTION DATES:

Mar. 24 Popular nominations
in chapel.

Mar 26 Popular and commit-
tee nominations posted.

Mar 28 and 29 Voting in
chapel.

Symphony Will
Play Friday

Agnes Scott Students will have
the opportunity of hearing one of
the best programs of the year
Friday night, when the Minne-
apolis Symphony Orchestra will
be the seventh attraction of the
All-Star Concert series.

The orchestra will be under the
direction of Dmitri Mitropoulos
and will present Robert Casadesus,
French pianist, as guest soloist.
The major works of the evening
will be Beethoven's "Emperor"
Comcerto, a favorite vehicle of
great pianists, and the "Rhenish"
Symphony of Robert Schumann.

Each Class
To Present
'Gentlemen'

The first sweeping of "the wind"
from Jazz-Mine Manor begins to-
night at 7 ,in the old chapel, at the
presentation of the "southern gen-
tlemen" from the four classes.

According to Maud Van Dyke,
junior chairman of the presenta-
tion, the classes 1 will introduce
their gentlemen in order, followed
by short speeches from the cam-
paign managers.

Vote Now !

The class managers will urge
everyone to begin voting immedi-
ately by dropping small change in
boxes placed in designated places
for that purpose.

The votes are to be counted Sat-
urday night and the "gentleman"
winning will be presented to the
audience along with his "Belle" at
the Jazz-Mine Manor Saturday
night.

Naval Orchestra to Play

The Manor, characterized by
dripping moss, Kentucky colonels,
and southern belles, not only of-
fers various skits as a floor show,
but will feature the Naval orches-
tra from the Naval Air Base at
Smyrna.

Maggie Toole, junior class presi-
dent, will act as hostess of Jazz-
Mine Manor, and all proceeds
will go for the war fund.

'Fairest Lord Jesus' Is Topic
Of Talks By Dr. Redhead

By Bet Patterson

"It was in the service of the Kingdom of God that Ag-
nes Scott was founded; it is in following the Kingdom of
God that we shall find our highest usefulness and deepest
joy," said Dr. John A. Redhead Jr. in closing his series of
religious emphasis week chapel addresses last Saturday.

Throughout his formal lectures
and informal discussions Dr. Red-

head used what he termed in an in-
terview the apperceptive method
illustrating new truths by the
use of familiar realities, usually
in the form of a story.

Beginning the series of talks
Tuesday in chapel, he spoke of
"something to stand on, some-
thing to stand for and someone to
stand by," a philosophy and an
ethic and power which are sum-
med up "in the name of one who
said, % am the Way, the Truth,
and the Life'."

Friendship and God

Dr. Redhead suggested in chap-
el Wednesday the idea of God as
a friend and religion as friendship
with God as well as with others,
and expression are the conditions
which must be met for friendship
wit hGob as well as with others.

Thursday, speaking on "God in
History," he discussed four ancient
proverbs which ( according to
Charles Beard, sum up the teach-
ing of history. "Whom the gods
would destroy, they first make
mad"; "Though the mills of God
grind slowly, they grind exceeding
small"; "When it gets dark
enough, you can see the stars";
and "The bee always fertilizes
the flower that it robs." He con-

cluded, "There is a God in "history
who is above history, who can
make even the wrath of man to
praise Him. It's up to us to
help Him turn the evil of our day
to this good purpose."

"Fairest Lord Jesus," Friday's
subject, was suggested by Dr.
Redhead as the theme for religious
emphasis week. He interpreted
the three names Christ, Jesus, and
Lord in terms of the teacher, the
savior, and the master.

In closing chapei service Satur-
day Dr. Redhead spoke of God
according to Christ as a Father
who loves his children, "whose
love never lets us down, never lets
us off and never lets us go."

No Mention of Name

During the week Dr. Redhead
had many personal conferences
with students and conducted three
group discussions in which he ans-
wered questions about theology,
philosophy and ethics. He im-
pressed students with his friendly
interest and his apt memory for
names; and he impressed the fac-
ulty with his dignity, which, ac-
cording to one teacher, was firmly
established during the first chapel
period, when the brown-haired
minister refrained from making
any reference to his name!

Campus to Celebrate
Founder's Day, 22nd

By Nellie Scott

(Editor's Note: // seemed affrofriate this "week to have the great-
granddaughter of our founder to write this feature for The News.
Nellie is the third direct descendant of George Washington Scott to
attend Agnes Scott.)

In celebration of Founder's Day tomorrow, the Granddaugh-
ters club and the seniors will present a program beginning
with a coffee at 6 in Murphey Candler with Martha Wash-
ington, Betsy Ross, George Washington and Lord Cornwallis
receiving.

At 6:45 games will be played followed by a minuet with
Harriett Daugherty in charge. Af-
ter the minuet, skits in panto-
mime, under the direction of
Grace Durant and Nellie Scott,
are to be presented by the Grand-
daughters club depicting the his-
tory of the college. The charact-
ers, selected by the senior class,
include: George Washington, Leila
Holmes; Martha Washington, Dot
Hunter; Lafayette, Gerry Cotton-
gim; Daniel Boone, Molly Milam;
Cornwallis, Ann Webb; Paul Re-
vere, Emily Higgins; and Betsy
Ross, Wen Whittle, Pie Ertz is in
charge of costumes.

Audience Sings and Dances

Inmmediately after the skits
there are to be songs and folk
dances in the gym under the su-
pervision of Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn.

The whole program, according
to Minnie Mack, president of the
senior class, and Beth Daniel, pres-
ident of Granddaughters club, will
be a colorful pageant of life in our
great-grandmothers' day.

Alumnae Honor Col. Scott

The alumnae will also be cele-
brating in honor of Col. Scott all
over the country. There will be
teas, luncheons, and other enter-
tainments, according to Miss Eu-
genia Symms, executive secretary
of the Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation. The Decatur Associa-
tion will have a tea in the Alum-
nae House. Miss Symms also an-
nounces that a special Founder's
Day issue of the Alumnae Quar-
terly will come out. She states
that the Alumnae Association is
making an effort to follow the
steps of the founders by contribut-
ing to the school for various pro-
jects it may sponsor for the ex-
tension of education. The alumnae
are now asked to give what they
like, from postage stamp on up,
to the association and after the
expense sof the Alumnae Office
and Association are paid, there
Will be an annual gift to the col-
lege. The Alumnae Association
is very interested in having stu-
dents know and feel the generous
attitude of its founder toward
education.

Rev. M. Weersing
To Speak Feb. 26

Reverend Marc Weersing will
speak to a joint meeting of the
Freshman and Sophomore Cabi-
nets next Monday night, Feb. 26
at 7 o'clock, in Murphey Candler.
His subject will be " "Falling in
Love Hopefully and Intelligently."

Rev. Weersing also spoke to a
joint meeting of the cabinets last
Monday night on the subject
"Companionship with a Purpose."

Scott Relics
On Exhibit

On display in the library are
personal belongings of Agnes
Scott and Col. George Washington
Scott, a timely exhibit in connec-
tion with the observance of Foun-
der's Day tomorrow.

Students may see a suit worn by
Col. Scott at the age of ten. Hand
made by his mother, Agnes Scott,
it is of sturdy blue cotton, and its
once-shiny brass buttons are now
tarnished by time. Mrs. H. B.
Earthman presented the suit to
the college.

Some of Col. Scott's books that
he used as a child are on display.
There is his Union Spelling and
Reading Book with some childish
picture scrawls and a simple ad-
dition problem penciled on the in-
side cover by a youthful George
Washington Scott.

Also in the exhibit are a pin
cushion in the shape of a rose,
and a handkerchief both of which
belonged to Agnes Scott. The lat-
ter was given to the college by
Mrs. C. M. Candler, Sr.

Cocoran Hangs
Thomas Canvas

Hound Dog House, an oil paint-
ing by Mr. Howard Thomas, head
of Agnes Scott's art department,
will be exhibited at the Nineteenth
Biennial Exhibition of Contempo-
rary American Oil Paintings,
Mar. 18-April 29, in the Corcoran
Art Gallery, Washington, D. C.

The painting is typical of Mr.
Thomas' Carolina period. He
painted it in the hilly section- east
of Pligh Point. His interest in
places where people live is evident
in his interpretation of an aban-
doned farm house with large black
trees growing around the house,,
and two hound dogs in the fore-
ground.

Hound Dog House is not a par-
ticular house; it is more a char-
acterization of all such houses that
one finds off the highways in the
deep south. Dominantly dark and
low-keyed, this painting neverthe-
less is enriched with areas of bril-
liant color and inner lights.

The Nineteenth Biennial Exhi-
bition is confined to invited work.
The Committee of Selection and.
Awards includes Kenneth Hayes
Miller, Richard Lakey, Rafael Sav-
er, Lamar Dodd, and Hobson Pitt-
man, all painters.

P*ge 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945

The Agnes Scott News

Published weekly, except durimg holidays and examination periods, by the students
of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
wnd class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postoffice. Subscription price per year, $1.25 ;
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Editor

PATTMNE ERTZ

Assistant Editors Feature Editor
Jtfary Ann Courtenay Jane Bowman
Jeanne Addison Sports Editor

Dorothy Lee Webb
Editorial Assistant Assistant Sports Editor
Pat Elam Ruth Ryaer

Copy Editor

Martha Baker

Society Editor
Carolyn Fuller

$ports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Elolse Lyndon, Anne Lee.
Axmt, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson, Mildred Derieux, Dot Pearce, Mar-
flrae, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee. Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
garet Mizcll, Pattie Dean, Lib Woodward, Mary Jane Fuller, Virginia Owens, Doris Kiss-
ling. Valeria Brown, Betty Turner.

Reporters: Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Yates. Connie Fraser, Joyce
fiilleiand, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seitzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
ftmrdsley. Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat

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Mewiaan. Laura Winchester. Mary Jane Schumaker. Doris Street. Ann Hough, May
Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

'Accentuate the Positive'

"Accentuate the Positive and Eliminate the Negative''
may sound like a lot of jazz, but we can apply it to oursel-
ves in helping to keep Rebekah Scott lobby clear of books
and coats.

The Co-op System is trying to improve the appearance
of Rebekah. A committee of six girls is working with the
Jean's office on this plan. If we accentuate placing our
books and coats in the old chapel and eliminate throwing
them just anywhere after a 1 o'clock class the improvement
will be pleasing to the eye. Let's u latch on to the affirmative"
and cooperate in keeping Rebekah lobby traight. As one
student, turning Confucius, said,

"Books and coats thrown on couches,
Make Hottentots appear as slouches."

On It's Toes

The News wishes to express the appreciation of the entire
:campus for the work that the Athletic Association Board has
done for the school this year. Arousing interest in athletics is
the main function of the Board. This year more people than
ever before have gone out for athletics as a result of the
Board's work.

Planning entertainments on the week-ends for the campus
has been one of the greatest services. Everyone enjoyed the
Hallowee'en party, the bridge party, and the square dance.

Increased attendance at basketball and hockey games is a
sign of increased interest as well as exciting games. The con-
test A. A. promoted between classes at a recent basket ball
game brought a new high in class attendance.

A. A. has had a part too in the improved sportsmanship
and good spirit of competition which has prevailed at even
the most bitterly contested games.

Trully, A. A. Board is on its toes this year, and deserves
credit for it.

Please!

Beating paths on every part of our campus certainly gets
us where we are going in a hurry. But when we stop and look
at the results, is it worth it?

"Please" signs used to adorn our campus in many places,
but these signs were not very attractive. It seemed a shame
to have written everywhere for college students, a simple
request to stay off the grass. The responsibility was left up
to us. Now the time has come to remind ouselves of that
responsibility.

If each of us would think twice before cutting across the
grass, I don't believe we would do it. It's a careless habit
and a destructive one.

So, think again before you dash across the grass, or start
a minute earlier to make that 8:30 class!

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

The Quest for Humor

Sunday night when the custom-
ary deadline blues struck, I called
Hard-Hearted Holmes and made
the weekly effort to tear up my
contract. "I'm very sick and too
weak to type. Make up one of
your delightful crossword puzzles,
and I will lay me down and die."
The expected answer came, and
the argument began. "No one has
been funny." At this point, all of
White House crowded into the
phone booth screaming funny little
stories, all beginning "Don't quote
me, but " Unwilling to set off
these little sticks of dynamite, I
foolishly promised to find someone
who was willing to substitute. A
door-to-door canvass of second
Main yielded no such individual,
so another canvass was begun, this
time with the "Do you know any-
thing funny?" theme. Mary Alice
Hunter pointed to Susan Kirtley,
Isabel Asbury advised a look in the
mirror, and everyone else hung
out "Busy" signs.

So, with these small fruits of an
hour's labor, I sat down to im-
prove, embellish, and invent hum-
orous events, struggling always
to stay in the past tense.

Detective

Carolyn Gilchrist, victim of a
crime, was determined to catch
the culprit. The crime was the
leaving on her dresser of a box of
very molded doughnuts, address-
ed "To the microbehunter," most
applicable, as Carolyn WILL grow
algae in the lavatories. She decid-
ed that the donor had entered at
7:25, as her electric clock had
stopped at that time, no doubt,
when the light was cut off at the
getaway. Everyone was then giv-
en the third degree, but all had
alibis for that time. Could be the
crime took place before dark, say
about 2:15. Still wondering, Caro-
lyn?

. Too-Lit tle-to-St and- Alone
Department

One of her mortared sisters has
divulged that Julia Slack at the
last meeting, crawled under a ta-
ble and slept until time to go
home.

Lorena Ross, Margaret McMa-
nus, and Ann Wheeler had a lot
of fun watching people trying to
avoid the spouting gutter on the
porch of Rebekah. First the un-
fortunates decided to climb the
rail. Decorum or laziness, tri-
umphed. Next they decided to
back up and try another door, but
the rain was very hard. Finally,
with determined looks, they dash-
ed boldly into the flood, gaining
the safety of the porch. It stopped
raining.

The experienced hostess is never
disturbed by trifles. Dot Almond,
whose guests for a pancake supper
were arriving, discovered there
was no bowl for the pancakes. She
used the goldfish bowl, after
emptying it of flowers.

EDITOR'S REVENGE

Since Pat's column was not long
enough, ad libbing to it is a pleas-
ure! Everything funny happened
to Pat this week.

It all started with Mrs. Elam's
Valentine to Pat, which arrived in
the Decatur P. O. just before the
week-end. Pat dashed to Dec. Sat-
urday to get the package, but was
told to wait until it was sent to
school Monday. So she waited,
and Monday she received a box
of dead camelias.

Pajamas and Cider

Saturday, Mary Munroe spent

A Boyd's-Eye View

of Martha Jane Mack

By Jeanne Addison

The most unusual thing about Martha Jane Mack, presi-
dent of the senior class, is that Monday is her favorite day.
It's not just dislike for weekends that makes her look for-
ward to their end, but Monday is the day she hears from

Henry.

Henry

Just ask onyone about Minnie
and Henry will probably be the
first thing they mention because
her life just seems to center
around that third finger left hand.
She already likes to cook and sew,
and is developing a definite in-
terest in gardening so as to be a
good wife for a landscaper.

The neat little brunette reads
about the 78th Division every
day and keeps on the watch for
favorite poems to send Henry.
Their taste in poetry is remark-
ably similar. Their handwriting
even looks alike, we hear.

Not long ago each independently
ly cut out the same poem at al-
most the same time and sent it to
the other with comments of how
much they liked it.

Other Side, Too
Lest you think we've painted a
rather one-sided picture, we hast-
en to add that Minnie has lots of
other interests, too. In Thomas-
ville last summer she acted as
assistant director of religious edu-
cation. At present she spends her
days majoring English and lead-
ing the seniors, but she can still
find time for the staff assistant's
course and two kinds of gym.

Minnie likes poetry, Wagner,
and bridge. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning is one of her favorites.
She and roommate Dot Almond
are famous for the lambs which
caper across their bedspreads and
curtains. They alone are worth a
trip to fourth Main.

Future Plans
Next year Minnie would like to
teach English in the Thomasville
high school. She has made due
prearations with child psych and
education courses, but her plans
are not definite. It may depend
on Henry and the war.

MINNIE MACK

Children's Theater
To Give 'Peter Pan'

Clare Tree Major's Children's
Theatre of New York will present
Peter Pan on Monday afternoon,
Feb. 26, in Presser Hall.

In previous years the Decatur
Recreation Board, sponsor of the
play, has been able to present a
series of three plays, but this year
because of war conditions, Peter
Pan will be the only one given.

The Clare Tree Major players
are well known for the plays they
give for youngsters. Troupes travel
all over the country making the
old favorites live before the aston-
ished children's eyes. Peter Pan
with its fairyland atmosphere will,
of course, appeal primarily to the
younger set, but it will also give
older people a chance to see some
ertremely fine young players at
work.

A charge of sixty cents will be
made to cover expenses. Any
profits go to a fund to promote
dramatics locally.

the night with Pat and Jean. In
honor of the occasion Pat wore
pajamas. Pat took all of the apple
cider from the A. A. square dance,
and it is now fermenting on her
radiator (Tsk-tsk, Pat. And you're
on Student Government.)

Sunday Pat had her troubles
too. She had quite a bit of stock-
ing trouble coming home from
church. Then at dinner she spill-
ed her dessert all over her dinner
and being polite, ate it anyway.
Inhaling Straws

I must mention Pat's latest ac-
complishment the chewing up of
each straw at meal-times. She
and Ginny race each meal to see
which can inhale her straw first.
It's quite an art. In fact, she had
everyone at the table doing it
Monday Ann Webb, M n n ie
Mack, Ginny Carter, Betty Davis,
and one unmentionable.

Quan Miseries

Pat's favorite song in Quan Lab.
is "My Little Gypsy Sweetheart/'
She sings it each time she titrates
her iron, copper, or manganese.
She very frequently engages in
water battles with unsuspecting
fellow chemists. ( ? )

And now, Pat, I trust that your
column will be long enough next
week.

HARD-HEARTED HOLMES

Campus
Topic*

The lack oi spring vacation
nerves are already wearing thin
power of suggestion, maybe.
There are still discussions and
questions among students and
faculty but no answers.

The two attractive French sol-
diers having lunch in Rebekah last
Saturday, had come out to visit
Geva Harper and her French-born
mother, but the latter had gone
to Atlanta for the week-end, so
roommate Marjorie Harris obliged
and showed "les Soldats" around
the campus in the rain. The
boys.Camille and Robert, rave
about American women, movies,
and jitterbugging. A third, An-
toine, was unable to come out. All
three have been visiting Roger
Sonnier. French V-12, at Emory.

The booming business the
Paradice Room has been carry-
ing on so far. Dr. McCain was
among those present the other
day after Dr. Redhead's discus-
sion group.

K. R. S. L. C. This is the new
password to Rebekah Scott din-
ing room. For further informa-
tion see Betty Patrick.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945

Page 3

The Belles of St Agnes

By Martha Baker

Organdy pinafores and plaid shirts made the gym bright
Saturday night at the A. A. square dance when faculty and
students joined in the figures. Scottie Johnson and Dot Hun-
ter were on hand to serve mountain juice and doughnuts.
Formals

Formals were the big dates of
the week-end. Friday night Psi
Omega Dental Fraternity entei-
tained Mary Jane Fuller, Punky
Mattison, Pudden Bealer, Louise
Starr, and Jean Chewning at their
formal dance.

At the Sigma Nu formal at Em-
ory Saturday night were Mary
Martin, wearing a beautiful white
orchid, Lib Osborne ,and Edith
Burgess. Punky Mattison, Mary
Brown Mahon, Nina Owen, and
Martha Baker can tell you about
the Chi Phi dinner dance at Emory
Saturday evening.

Delta Tau Delta house dance
Saturday night. . .. Mary Gene
Sims, Grace Durant, Jackie Stew-
art, Anne Elcan, Jean Bellingrath,
and Ellen Morrison.

Bound Town

For some of the "light touch"
.... at the Empire Room, Marga-
ret Scott .... Alice Gordon at the
Rainbow Roof Tuesday night, and
Margaret Scott, Leila Holmes on
Saturday night. . . . Betty Turner
at the Paradise Room . . . Janet
Lidell at the Emory Phi Delt barn
dance . . . picnicing Saturday were
Anne Scott, Sweetie Calley, Gee
Gee Gilleland, and Sue Hutchins.

Vanesse Orr, Sheeley Little,
M^Lry Anna Hollingsworth, Anne
Ballard, Anne Ezzard, Pris Hatch,
Barbara Coith, and Roberta Mac-
lagan made up a dinner party at
the Empire Room Friday night.

Kate Webb was married to En-
sign Richard Clary, U. S. N. R.,
Friday afternoon in Newberry, S.
C. She ewore a lovely pale blue
dress suit with patent leather ac-
cessories.

Out-of-Town

Alice Gordon went out to Mari-
etta to spend the week-end with
Mary Reynolds ,a former member
of her class.

Frances Woodall took Mickey
Beman and Sue Mitchell home to
Augusta wi^.h her.

Beth Walton and Mary Beth
Little had a gay time on a house-
party in Hamilton, while Lois Sul-

HOTEL CANDLER

L. Li. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

livan and K'ttie Kay went down
to Byron.

Jane Everett was in Athens for
the week-end at the Theta sorori-
ty house.

Home for the week-end . . . .
Mary Russell in Griffin .. . Rose-
mary Jones and Cathy Carlen in
Vinings .... Mary Ermly Harris
in Athens . . . Mary Ann Martin
in Easle.

Walker Wins
Tournament

Sarah Walker won over Mary
Ann Courtenay in the ping pong
finals Monday night, taking three
games 21-8, 21-19, 21-19. The
games for the most part consisted
of long shots with a few tricky
net balls and "slices" with Sarah
defeating her opponent.

Mary Manley and LaNelle
Wright reached the semi-finals of
the tournament in which 26 par-
ticipated. Ann Webb, AA repre-
sentative to Recreation council,
presented prizes to the winner and
runner-up.

Johnny on the Spot

'Possum' Hunting, Baseball
Highlight Johns Busy Life

By Jane Bowman

For 37 years John Flint has been a vital part of our college
community. This dignified and courteous head-waiter who
now presides in the cafeteria is better known as "John."

In 1909 he began working at Agnes Scott as a cook when
the dining room was in the basement of Main. That year
the Rebakah Scott dining room

was built, the first of the many
changes on the campus since John
has been here. When a second din-
House he took up new duties there
as head-waiter. Since he began
working in this capacity John es-
timated he has trained and su-
pervised over 400 men and women
including his four brothers. Back
in Rebekah once more he likes the
cafetera because "it saves steps
and the girls can see what they
want."

Summertime does not mean rest
for this energetic person. John is
an expert painter and evidences of
his skill are displayed inside and
outside all the cottages and dormi-
tories. It was his idea to trim
Boyd and the infirmary in green.

At Agnes Scott John is the per-
son called upon for odd jobs. For
instance ,one night about fifteen
minutes before dinner he received
an urgent call from Miss Preston.
She was locked out of her house.
Because of an evening meeting she
was in a dreadful hurry. John
obligingly crawled in a window
and unlocked the door.

Quick Step Pitcher

A zest for living has given John
three absorbing hobbies, fishing,
"possum" hunting, and baseball.
For eighteen years he picthed for

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the Decatur Quick Steps. Smiling
in reminiscence he spoke of the
trips the Quick Steps took to play
teams in such distant cities as
Cincinnati.

The interest John has in "pos-
sum" hunting is shared by mem-
bers of the faculty whom he used
to serve in White House. Because
of his dignity and the pride which
he had in serving, every meal was
a pleasure but once a year there
was an extra-special meal. John
gave the faculty a "possum" din-
ner. He personally caught, dress-
ed and cooked the "possums" and
served them in grand style. That
was a gala occasion to which the
more fortunate faculty members
looked forward from year to year.

With pride John spoke of his six
children. Two sons are in the
army, one of whom is somewhere
in the Pacific and the other, a
sergeant, is now home on furlough.
An active church worker, John is
a deacon in the Baptist church,
where he sang in the choir for 11
years.

For 37 years John has been
serving three meals a day to Ag-
nes Scott girls and faculty. For 37
years he has been doing odd jobs
for the college community. Agnes
Scott has a valuable and loyal
friend in John Flint.

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning Wed., Feb. 21

Wednes. - Thurs.
"BRAZIL"

Friday

"N THE MEANTIME DARLING"

Saturday
"GILDERSLEEVE'S GHOST"
...and...

"VALLEY OF VENGEANCE"

Monday-Tuesday
'MAISIE GOES TO RENO"

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning Wed., Feb. 21

WEDNESDAY
Marsha Hunt - Alexander Knox in
"NONE SHALL ESCAPE"

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Frank Sinatra - Gloria DeHaven
George Murphy, in
"STEP LIVELY"

SATURDAY
"FRISCO KID"
and
"HOT RHYTHM' 1

MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Don Ameche - Carmen Miranda in
"GREENWICH VILLAGE"

White Wigs, Hoop Skirts
Typify Founders Day

In the opening days of the session of 1918, Dr. Gaines,
president of Agnes Scott, declared Feb. 22 to be a holiday,
"Not because it was George Washington's birthday, but
because on that day our founder, George Washington Scott,
was born." Since this announcement Founder's Day has
been marked by a holiday, a din

ner at night, and the dancing of
the minuet. With the help of the
Agnes Scott newspaper, then The
Agonistic, we can picture a typical
celebration.

Pause on Grapefruit

The dining rooms of Rebekah
and White House were bedecked
with "the stars and stripes"; in
the center of the table miniature
cherry trees grew, and at each
place were seen figures of George
Washington, "pausing on the
marshy plains of grapefruit." At
six o'clock George Washington ar-
rived, with Martha leaning on his
arm. At one table sat the dis-
tinguished folk of Revolutionary
days. These were represented in
the person of the dignified seniors.
At another table alongside these
tables sat the sophomores while
the juniors and freshmen found
places at other tables in the room.

George Washington, the toast-
master, then arose and tendered
the welcome address:

"We welcome you, one and all

To Mt. Vernon's spacious hall.

This is a Chesterfield dinner,
you realize.

Because, my friends, it satisfies."

During the course of the meal
General Washington presented the
various personages to the guests.

One of the first introduced was
the trail-blazer Daniel Boone, who
replied to the General:

"Though I'm ignorant of Emily
Post,

I'm happy too offer our Presi-
dent a toast."
Patrick Henry Forgets
Patrick Henry answered the
President in his typical oratorial
fashion:

"Although my speech reached
fame and far,

I failed old Uncle Sam.

For when I cried, Give me lib-
erty,

I forgot to move my diaphragm."

Washington answered that Mr.
Henry should learn to repeat the
the helpful "wu-hu-hun-tu-hu-hu,"
advocated by all speech instruc-
tors.

After each introduction and re-
ply, the sophomores echoed with
ludicrous character jingles. Their
descriptions of the polished La-

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provided at this new location.

Fayette was certainly prime:
LaFayette ,the fashion plate
Keeps the colonies up to date.
Makes the girls' hearts palpi-
tate.

The sophs said of Tom Jeffer-
son:

When in the course of of human
events

Tom was in his sweet young
day,

All the ladies clustered 'round
him

'Cause of his independent ways.

The college was highly honored
by the presence of other celebri-
ties. On seeing the light in the
tower of Main, Paul Revere dash-
ed in. Benjamin Franklin quoted
wise proverbs, Francis Scott Key
waved the "Star Spangled Ban-
ner," Betsy Ross worked on the
colonel flag, and the aristocratic
Alex Hamilton sat at a table apart
from the "common herd."

Dance to "Amaryllis"

The meal finished and the toasts
ended, Washington invited the
guests into the ball room (or per-
haps the gym) to dance the minu-
et. To the familiar tune of "Ama-
ryllis," a selected group trod the
stately measures of the minuet.
Everywhere there was, a preval-
ence of "white wigs, gaily colored
dresses with hoop skirts, black
suits with knee breeches, square-
toed shoes with black shiny buck-
les, dainty slippers, black beauty
spots on fair cheeks." After the
minuet all students danced as
long as they chose "up to a
reasonable hour."

It has been interesting to note
the changes in the musical accom-
paniment of these dances from
year to year. In 1931 a four-piece
orchestra played, in 1934 the Co-
tillion club engaged Warner Hes-
ton and his nine-piece orchestra.
In 1936 the Tech orchestra was
present, and in 1930 the Emory
Aces furnished the music.
Agonistic Feels Spirit

During the preceding years of
(Continued on Page 4)

Spring Flowers
Bloom at Rich's

Flowers for your hair
your shoulder your
coat for spring sheers
to shake off the drab
of winter and antici-
pate glorious spring-
time.

Flower Bar
Street Floor

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945

Spying

On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Cousin Zeke and his gal Sairy
had a swell time at A. A's square
dance last Saturday night, and
so did everyone else who attended
it seems. If you didn't go, ask
some of those belles from the
mountains about the dancing, other
games, and exhibits. Descriptions
of these should really educate you
Varsity-gub-Varsity

Congratulations are in order for
those Hottentots who were chosen
to form our varsity and sub-var-
sity basketball teams. And all
those other players who have con-
tributed their good playing to up-
hold the honor of their separate
classes reserve highest commenda-
tion.. Next Friday the "B" teams
will play, and a tumbling exhibi-
tion will be an added attraction.
The following Friday the varsity-
subvarsity game will be played.

The results of last Friday's bas-
ketball games, when the seniors
won over the jjuniors, and the
sophs beat the frosh leaves us end-
ing the season with a three-way
tie for the championship among
the senior, junior, and sophomore
classes.

We're crossing our fingers and
hoping that we will have horse-
back riding at Agnes Scott next
quarter. It's been quite a while
since we had it here, and many
Hottentots seem very anxious for
it.

The main features on the ath-
letic calendar for the rest or this
quarter are the varsity-sub-varsity
game, a tumbling exhibition, the
swimming pageant, and A. A.'s
chapel program on Mar. 2, which
will present Freddie Lanue, who
is a physical director with the
Naval training unit at Georgia
Tech.

Again we ask that you save Blue
Horse wrappers for that bicycle on
which A. A. has its heart set. Bob-
by Fitzgerald, of the Emory
Wheel, is cooperating in this effort
of ours by printing a request that
Emory students save them for us.
He even promises that they won't
be accused of reading our "stupid"
paper if they slip them to him on
the side. Nevertheless, each Blue
Horse wrapper brings us nearer
our goal, so we swallow our pride.

Juniors LoseChampionship
As Seniors Win 36-35

By Anne Register

Probably the two most exciting games of the basketball
season were enacted Friday night when the seniors edged
the jumors out of an uncontested championship by one point
36-35, and the sophomores downed the freshmen 34-19

Until this game the junior team was the leading contender
for the crown, but now a three

way tie exists between the seniors
juniors, and sophomores, each
having been defeated twice.

The entire senior-junior bout
was very close as indicated by the
score. At the end of the first quar-
ter they were tied 6 up, at the
close of the half the juniors were
in the lead by two points 18-16, at
the beginning of the fourth quar-
ter it was 25-24 in favor of the ju-
niors. The intense guarding by the
defense of both teams made scor-
ing very difficult, most of the tal-
lies coming from unusual angles,
but the forwards did succeed in
sinking them very quickly when
given the opportunity. Sally Sue
Stephenson was the outstanding
player in the fierce battle. She
managed to complete many beauti-
ful, uncanny shots from the side,
a difficult feat. Mary Cumming
of the seniors had 20 points to her
credit, one of the highest indi-
vidual scores this year.

Frosh Lead First Half

The first half of the sopho-
more-freshman tilt amounted to
a mild upset because at the half
the frosh led 13-9. They were a
determined lot and really played
their best game of this year. They
were much surer of their shooting
and were filled with vim and vigor
In fact, they even outplayed the
sophs in the first period, and their
intercepting and smooth team-
work almost gave them a victory,
but the invincible sophs rallied in
the second half and could not be
stopped. With their old click the
sophs forwards were ringing the
basket at almost every attempt
and managed to chalk up 25 mark-
ers in the closing part of the
game.

The starting line-ups were as
follows:

Juniors

RF Stephenson (17)

Subs: Senirs, Cumming (20); Ju
niors, Purcell.

Freshmen

Dieckmann (10) F

Reid LF

Davis (6) CF

Powers RG

Cunningham LG

Hayes CG
Subs: Freshmen,

Sohhomores, Goode,
Hoyt (2).

Sophomores

Andrews (15)
Heery (12)
Hough (5)
Denning
Dickson
Lidell
Manley (3);
Van Hooke,

Seniors

Milam (2)
Munroe (4)
Kay (10)
Gray
Kirtley
Equen

LF
CF
RG
LG
CG

Ryner (15)
Melchor (3)
McCain
Phelps
Johnson

White Wigs

(Continued from Page 3)

the second World War this par-
ticular sort of celebration the
banquet and the minuet on the
campus has been discontinued.
Nevertheless these days have not
been forgotten, for when Feb. 22
comes each year many begin to
reminisce about the festive ban-
quet, the distinguished guests and
the sedate minuet. The true spirit
of Founders' Day was expressed
in an issue of The Agonistic,
"Alongside the spirit of the Fath-
er of our country, every girl sens-
ed the presence of George Wash-
ington Scott, the founder of Agnes
Scott. . . . For beneath the mere
outer surface and merry laughter,
the reverent hearts of Agnes Scott
paid homage to George Washing-
ton and to his namesake, George
Washington Scott.

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Friday Night
Varsity Game

Basketball varsity and sub-var-
sity players were announced be-
tween halves of the game Friday
night by Genet Heery, basketball
manager.

The three sophomore forwards,
Betty Andrews, Ann Hough, and
Gent Heery, made varsity along
with Sally Sue Stephenson and
Mary Munroe, junior and senior
high soorers. Guardsmen were
Scotty Johnson and Millie Mc-
Cain, juniors; Jean Denning and
B. J. Radford, sophomores.

Friday night, Mar. 2, the var-

Outing Club
Plans Supper

Outing Club will discuss plans
lor its spring quarter week-end
trip to Gamp Highland, Gt M at a
supper meeting at Harrison Hut
on Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Vicky Alexander, president of
Outing Club, is in charge.

sity will play sub-varsity. Mem-
bers of the latter team are Mary
Cumming and Molly Milam, Gloria
Ann Melchor, Doris Purcell, and
Ruth Ryner, forwards; Ruth Gray,
Betty Lee Phelps, Janet Liddell,
Anne Hayes, and Edna Claire Cun-
ningham, guards.

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VOL. XXX.

B/ackfriars Act
Tonight at 8:30

As the curtain swings open at
8:30 tonight in Presser Hall,
Blackfriar's friends will enjoy a
varied and interesting program
of drama under the direction of
Miss Roberta Winter.

"Be Seated," a one-act play
by Sanford and Coolidge is a
musical farce depicting the
problems of four housewives
whose maids have gone on
strike. The one-act play "Will
O' The W isp," by Doris Holman,
is a fantasy set against an Irish
background. The three Shakes-
pearean scenes taken from "Ro-
meo and Juliet," 'Twelfth
Night," and "As You Like It,"
represent the first work done
with Shakespeare in several
years and should be of interest
to drama lovers.

Blackfriars invites the college
community and friends to the
program this evening. There is
no admission charge.

Alumnae Plan
Senior Tea

The Alumnae Society will honor
this year's senior class on Mar. 23,
with a tea at the Alumnae House.
According to Miss Eugenia Symms,
Alumnae secretary, plans for the
affair are already underway.

The purpose of the tea is to ac-
quaint students with the alumnae
office, its records of former gradu-
ates, etc. Miss Symms says now is
the time for seniors to see for
themselves the work of the alum-
nae organization, so that before
long, they, as alumnae, will send
up-to-date information back to
Agnes Scott.

Dr. Haskew Serves
Education Council

Dr. Lawrence D. Haskew, di-
rector of teacher education at Em-
ory University, and part time pro-
fessor of education at Agnes Scott,
has been granted an 18-month
leave of absence to serve as exe-
cutive director of the committee
on teacher education of the Ameri-
can Council on Education, with
headquarters in New York.

Dr. Haskew will act as consult-
ant to local and regional agencies
in the United States working on
preparing teachers to better meet
expanded needs to be placed on
schools after the war.

date Book

Wed., Feb. 2a Blackfriars' Plays
at 8:30.

Thurs., Mar. 1 Swimming pag-
eant, "Davey Jones' Locker," at
8 p. m.

Fri., Mar. 2 Chapel talk by ath-
letic director at Tech.
Varsity vs. Subvarsity basket-
ball game at 8 p. m.

Sat., Mar. 3 Beginning of non-
activity week.

Sun.. Mar. 4 Group leaves at 2 p.
m. for Lawson.

Wed., Mar. 7 Current events talk
in chapel by Mrs. Sims.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945

Riding Offered
Next Quarter

After more than a year of per-
severance, Dr. J. R. McCain has
announced that horseback riding
will be offered here spring quarter
under the direction of Mrs. Har-
riette Haynes Lapp, professor of
physical education.

Mr. Frank Bell, of Camp Mon-
damin, will be on campus this
week to arrange for bringing his
eight horses, for building a stable
behind the heating plant, and for
laying out a riding ring.

The horses will have Sundays
off, just as the rest of the campus
community, and will be reserved
one afternooon a week for the fac-
ulty. It is still undecided whether
students other than the 65 who
signed up will be able to ride. Bet-
ty Andrews will assist Mrs. Lapp
with the instruction.

Sophomores
Win Honors
At the Manor

Sophomores walked away with
the honors at the junior "Jazz-
Mine Manor" Saturday night when
Margaret McManus and Mary
Jane Fuller wer proclaimed South-
ern gentleman and belle, culminat-
ing a program of skits presented
by various campus organizations
in which the sophomores' skit was
judged the best.

At "Jazz-Mine Manor," the old
South was once more in its prime.
Beneath Spanish moss and amid
the fragrance of jasmine and mag-
nolias, students, faculty, and
friends of Agnes Scott sipped
(pseudo) mint julips, and were
royally entertained by various
campus organizations.

Baker Influence Evident

The originality and enthusiasm
of Martha Baker, chairman of
"Jazz-Mine Manor," were in evi-
dence throughout the evening.

Marguerite Toole, president of
the junior class and mistress of
ceremonies, introduced the candi-
dates for the Southern gentleman
and his belle representing each
class. They were: Scott Newell,
esq., and Miss Lois Sullivan, se-
niors; Nancy Hardy, esq., and
Miss Annette Neville, juniors;
Margaret McManus, esq., and
Miss Mary Jane Fuller, sopho-
mores; and Kathleen Hewson, esq.,
and Miss Mary Manley, freshmen.
The polls for voting, (pennies
served as votes) were open until
9:30. At the end of the evening
the sophomore candidates were
proclaimed the winners and the
belle was presented with an old-
fashioned nosegay.

Entertainment for the evening
consisted of stunts presented by
campus organizations and musical
interludes by the Naval Air Base
orchestra. The prize for the best
stunt, judged on the basis of origi-
nality, presentation, and the best
entertainment, went to the sopho-
more class for its interpretation of
the four types of college students,
freshman, sophomore, junior, and
senior. A puppet show in French,
the Junior Waltz, songs by Betty
Jo Turner, Spanish dances, and
other novelties made an interest-
ing variety program.

NO. 18

New Quarterly
Goes On Sale
In Bookstore

The winter issue of the alumnae
quarterly has just come out and
is now on sale in the bookstore
and in the tea house. The title of
the quarterly for this month is
"Swords and Plowshares." It
contains articles about ". . . ser-
vices rendered by hundreds of Ag-
nes Scotters. Mrs S. G. Stukes,
Sopha Pedakis, Ruth Bastin, and
Miss Martha Crow, former French
teacher, and Dr. J. R. McCain are
among the authors of articles for
this issue.

Another interesting feature of
the quarterly is the sketches of
campus scenes by pupils of Mr.
Thomas. The cover is a scratch-
board drawing of Gaines Cottage,
by Peggy Pat Home. Other art
students having sketches illustrat-
ing various campus scenes from
the under-pass to Rebekah Scott
are Jane Anne Newton, Dot
Almond, Sue Mitchell, Margaret
Johnson, Jane Smith, and Puddin
Bealer.

McCain Predicts Continued Liberal Trend,
Sees Home Arts Department at Agnes Scott

By Pauline Ertz

"Post-war education will see a big revival in the direction of
liberal arts and cultural aims for college students," predicts
President J. R. McCain.

President McCain in an interview today stated that while
the short range situation will create a demand by returning
veterans for courses in specialized
techniques such as welding, book-
keeping and physiotherapy, the
longer range view, for girls par-
ticularly, will place the emphasis
upon course in social service, li-
brary work, and the teaching pro-
fession. Individuals trained in
these latter fields will be needed
because so few returning veterans
will be prepared in them.

Social Workers Needed

In the depression that is almost
certain to follow the end of the
war, says President McCain, social
workers of all kinds will be in
great demand.

Specifically, President McCain
foresees tor Agnes Scott a home
arts department, more exchange
students, increased p r a c t i ce
teaching, and opportunity for
first-class graduate work in the
Atlanta vicinity.

The home arts department
would include courses in cooking,
sewing, child care, budgeting,
and housekeeping. It will be com-
plete in approximately five years,
President McCain said. He added
that a new science hall, a new in-
firmary, and a "practice" home
are already planned to provide
the nucleus for the home arts de-
partment.

Afore Exchange students

Exchange students, as in the
past, from Germany, France, and
Latin American countries, will de-
velop conversational interest and
practice in the language courses
offered at Agnes Scott. An in-
crease in practice teaching facili-
ties will come with the enlarging
of the staff in the department of
education.

The University (enter ot

Georgia, of which Agnes Scott
is one of seven cooperating in-
stitutions, will provide greater
opportunities for Agnes Scott
students, President McCain be-
lieves. Graduate work, which is
often too expensive for students
to take away from home, will be
offered at Emory, and for t he
f irst time, a Ph. D. will be avail-
able there. Agnes Scott will
work with the University of
Georgia, and offer facilities for
public health instruction. Presi-
dent McCain likened Agnes
Scott's forthcoming cooperation
with Emory and the University
of Georgia to the relation be-
tween Goucher and John Hop-
kins, Barnard and Columbia,
and Radcliffe and Harvard.
Special Bus To Emory
Girls desiring more specific vo-
cational training in fields of busi-
ness, journalism, and commercial
art will be permitted to take those
courses at institutions in the Uni-
versity Center that offer them.
President McCain hopes that next
year a bus will be available to
transport girls to Emory for
course in business and journalism.
More specialized technical courses
will be available at Georgia Tech.

Mrs. Sims to Give
News Talk Mar. 7

Mrs. Roff Sims, assistant pro-
fessor of political science and his-
tory, will review the news during
the chapel period Mar. 7.

Dates on which Mrs. Sims will
speak for the spring quarter have
been annnounced as Mar. 17, April
18 and May 16.

Swim Pageant
Will Portray
Davey's Locker

The predicament of two sailors
finding themselves in Davy Jones'
Locker is the theme of the water
pageant to be presented by Swim-
ming club, Thursday, Mar. 1, at
8 p. m.

The sailors, Jenny Wren and
Scotty Scott, beg Davy Jones,
played by Miss Barbara Ames, in-
structor in Physical Education,
to let them go back to earth. He
promises to let them return if they
can swim better than his crea-
tures. If they are worthy they
may take back two mermaids. For
the outcome, see the pageant! Bet-
tye Lee Phelps and Eva Williams
will be mermaids. There will also
be clowns, acrobats and seals. The
script was written by Bunny
Weems, Edwina Davis, and Mar-
tha Baker. Grace Durant will nar-
rate.

Ballet Theater
Appears Mar. 21

The Ballet Theater, the season's
closing attraction on the Ail-Star
Concert Series, will present three
ballets on Wednesday, Mar. 21.
The two new ones on the program
are "Tally-Ho," choreography by
Agnes deMille, music by Gluck;
and "Fancy Free," choregraphy by
Jerome Robbins, and music by
Bernstein. The third one, which is
more familiar, is "Princess Auro-
ra," choreography by Anton Dolin,,
and music by Tschaikowsky.

War Stamps February 19-24
$27.40

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945

The Ag nes Scott

News

Pt>iishe<i weekly, except during holidays and examination periods, by the students
f Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
auniid class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, postofflce. Subscription price per year, $1.25;
dtaffte copies, five cents.

Member

Pbsociated Golle6icite Press

EDITORIAL STAFF

LEILA HOLMES

-PAULINE ERTZ

Assistant Editors Feature Editor
Mary Aan Courtenay &SL B 5SS
Jeanne Addison &X JfiU
Editorial Assistant Assistant Sports Editor
Pat Biam Ruth Ryer

Copy Editor
Martha Baker

Society Editor
Carolyn Fuller

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists : Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson. Elolse Lyndon, Anne Lee.
Axar, Sara Jean Clark, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson. Mildred Derieux. Dot Pearce, Mar-
Home, Dale Bennett, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
mr*L Mizell, Pattle Dean, Lib Woodward, Mary Jane Fuller, Virginia Owens, Doris Kiss-
ILag, Valeria Brown, Betty Turner.

fcfeoorters: Jean McCurry. Jean Rooney, Martha Whatley Yates, Connie Fraser. Joyce
CULeUnd, Alice Gordon, Anne Noell, Ann Seltzinger, Marjorie Cole, Joanne Benton, Alice
Jtaardsley, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Nellie Scott, Margaret Kinard, Peggy Pat

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager

Advertising Manager.

-ELIZABETH CARPENTER
MARY NEELY NORRIS

. Advertising Managers

Louise Gardner
Jane Anne Newton

Circulation Manager

Hansell Cousar

Circulation Assistants

Daisy Sundy
Doris Purcell

ess Assistants: Carolyn Bodle, Betty Andrews, Eleanor Calley, Peggy Jones, Alice
Laura Winchester, Mary Jane Schumaker. Doris Street. Ann Hough, May
Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

Think Before You Vote

There are 40 offices to be elected on the student ballot this
year. Elections are not so far away Mar. 28 and 29.

By that time you will have known and studied both popular
and committee nominations. The News prints this week a
complete list of qualifications for every single office.

In a later edition we shall print both committee and popular
nominations for the students to take to chapel when they vote.

Remember that you are a citizen of a college community. It
is your privilege and obligation to vote for your campus lead-
ers.

Above all, vote independently. Don't be influenced by the
obvious politics that exist on every college campus.

A good school organization depends absolutely on you, the
individual student.

Think first, then vote for whomever you think is best quali-
fied.

A Boyd's-Eye View

of INGE PROBSTEIN

By Mary Ann Courtenay

It's time it were known that her name is Inge Charlotta
Erika von Nordic Probstein. And this fact being now "patent,"
we may also divulge the name her mother calls her, Hertz-
blattchen, more recently corrupted to Hell's Pigeon. Another
appellation her mother uses of late is Mrs. Johnson, in honor
of the celebrated doctor of letters
about whom Inge is reading for
honors under Miss Leyburn.

No "Colly-Moddling"

More numerous by far than her
many names are the interesting
experiences Inge has had since she
moved to this country from
Frankfurt, Germany, at the age
of 12. For a time she taught Eng-
lish at a Quaker refugee school in
Pennsylvania, where she nearly
froze to death when locked in a
refrigerator. Then she migrated
to the sunny south upon winning a
scholarship to Agnes Scott. Dur-
ing the past summers she has done
everything from touring New Eng-
land's youth hostels to working in
a defense factory for two weeks;
then in-between being waitress,
and governess for four children.
Let us digress to state that she
wondered why the babies cried all
night until she discovered that she
powdered them, not with talcum,
but with tooth powder. Her do-
mestic experiences definitely teach
against "colly-moddling."

Cottager

Except for a brief sojourn in
Main this year, Inge has spent her
campus life in cottages. Since the
walls of Main gave her claustro-
phobia, she and Ginny Carter mov-
ed back to Lupton this quarter.
Among her habits, many of them
already notable, are those of
drinking coffee (though Miss
Cobb's sophrosyne has now limited
her to eight cups a day), of wear-

ing her beautiful red flannel shirt
on Sunday, of distorting the Eng-
lish language, of spending the
night .up, and of philosophizing
even at the breakfast table ( for it
is bad to discuss trivial subjects
at meals.)

Purely Platonic

Inge soon gave up Windtunnel
for Plato, and remains firm in her
resolve for a single and indepen-
dent life. She entertais herself by
playing Bach and Old English airs
on the recorder, with Miss Ley-
burn often the other half of a
duet. An artist at heart, she ma-
jored in art in her progressive
high school. To her credit, she has
sketches of her friends and a self-
portrait in oil..

If Inge seems different from
the general run of the "Romans,"
it is probably, as she says, be-
cause she "feels Germanic." Her
varied interests, experiences, and
ideas fascinate all who live around
her.

Cooperation

Saturday night in the "ante-
bellum" atmosphere of Jazz-
mine Manor, Agnes Scott had
one of the best entertainments
ever put on here.

The cooperation and ingen-
uity of the junior class made
the project a success.

Not only the chairman of
the Manor and the committees
in charge worked, but every
Junior in the class took a vital
interest in making the eve-
ning's entertainment success-
ful.

The Navy band even noted
the appreciation of the aud-
ience, and requested to come
back soon. They said that they
had never before played to
such an appreciative audience.
'The skits which classes and

organizations presented were
clever and original. The soph-

rramore class showed their true
jcoopcrative spirit by putting
un the best skit and by making
their "Southern Gentleman"
win with the most pennies.

By Saturday's successful
evening it was proved that
rlass teamwork is not lacking
here, and that by cooperation
entertainments such as Jazz-
Mine Manor can be made more
successful.

Children, Grandchildren, and Hottentots
Head Mrs. McCains List of Interests

By Leila Holmes

A warm handclasp, a genuine friendly smile, and a cordial
greeting characterized Mrs. J. R. McCain's welcome as I
walked in for the interview. At first glance you can read in
Mrs. McCain's face her enthusiasm and sincere interest in
people.

"I thought you just came for a visit," she exclaimed em-
barrassedly, when I began taking

notes.

"No, I didn't even aspire to
come to Agnes Scott," Mrs. Mc-
Cain stated in answer to my ques-
tion about her college days,
"though I did visit near there as
a child. You see I was a poor
preacher's daughter, and in our
family 'we were seven'."

Scientific Interest

"I graduated from Due West Fe-
male College, which is now Ers-
kine College. And that's where I
met Mr. McCain. His father was
my English professor, and I was
scared to death of him. I lived
with my uncle Paul, for whom I
was named." (Her name is Pau-
line.) He was the math professor
at the college.

As to her curriculum at the col-
lege, she said they had no science
courses, which she believes she
would have liked. In fact, she told
me confidentially that she would
have liked to have been a doctor.

"I knew Mr. McCain for six
years before we were married. He
was in law school, practicing law,
and teaching during these six
years. When he started Darling-
ton School for Boys in Rome, we

were married."

When Dr. and Mrs. McCain first
came to Agnes Scott, they lived
in Ansley. Mrs. McCain declared
that they moved off the campus
to their present home so that the
school couldn't hear her every
time she spanked one of her six
children.

Painting Homes

Speaking of her children, Mrs.
McCain told me about the time the
college was having the faculty
homes painted.

"They painted the house next
door to us, and, then skipped our
house. When Mr. McCain asked
why our house had been over-
looked, the painters said they
thought it was an orphanage.
There were always so many chil-
dren running in and out."

Mrs. McCain said she would
much rather tell mo about her
children than about herself. Of
her six children, three are boys
and three girls. She has one son
overseas, John, who is a doctor.
There are four "in-laws" among
her children, and five grandchil-
dren.

When I asked about her inter-

ests, I found that Mrs. McCain
likes to read, but cannot read
many novels. "I get so excited over
the plot," she exclaimed, "that
I can't eat or sleep until I've fin-
ished the book." She listens to the
radio, chiefly for the news broad-
casts. Mrs. McCain is an expert
at sewing, having made all the
children's clothes when they were
small.

Changes Made

When asked about the changes
that she has seen since coming to
Agnes Scott over 25 years ago,
Mrs. McCain laughingly told me
first about the old gymnasium,
which had "quite a swimming pool,
called 'the bathtub'. "

"The Home Economics building
was torn down just before our ar-
rival here," she told me. "We
bought the furniture from the
school, and some of it is in our
dining room today. The infirmary
and West Lawn have been moved
many times since we came here"

About the plans for a greater
Agnes Scott our president's wife
says she is "most interested." She
has heard the post-war plans from
the very first thoughts, and is anx-
ious to see them materialize.
Children's Eyes

At this moment, 6-year-o!d Bill,
Mrs. McCain's oldest grandchild,
and his 18-months-old sister, Pol-
ly. (Mrs. McCain's namesake)
burst into the room. Bill's state-
ment, "My grandmother and
grandfather come first in our

The Tattler

By Pat Elam

Manor

The junior class really did their
"Jazz-Mine Manor" up right
Decorations sent from Moultrie,
wonderful band from the Navy,
donuts from Krispy Kreme, and
candy and gum from an unre-
vealed source.

The sophs spent their last cent
to back McManus and Fuller, who
should have won on the strength
of their hats alone. The chief
reason for the soph stunt taking
first prize must have been its
realism, for it sent seniors hur-
rying to fill out application blanks
and freshmen to make out a new
diet. Several unscheduled events
were enjoyed by all, among them
Ginny Carter's amazingly success-
ful attempts to stay on pitch and
the red toe nails of the Greeks.
All who did not leave at a respec-
table hour saw something special
in the way of jitterbugging done
by Betty Patricg and Betty Den-
nis. All the men present retired to
a safe distance to watch their
dates dance with female friends.

K R S L C

The dean's office sent out some-
thing new in the announcement
line. AJice Beardsley appeared
Friday at each class meeting, and,
clad in a little number straight
from Hawaii, begged, with ges-
tures, that people "Keep Rebekah
Scott Lobby Clean."

Quote

Faculty Member: I do believe
they get up these parties just to
have an excuse for wearing blue
jeans.

Founder's Day

Each senior who took part in
the "Personality parade" last
Thursday night had the same ques-
tion. "What kind of creature was
this costume designed for?" TO
QUOTE Cornwallis, "Modem de-
sign does make a difference."
George slipped up and introduced
his wife as "My friend, Mrs. Wash-
ington." The meeting of the trus-
tees left nothing to be desired.
And in case anyone wondered,
those were cherries that were
hung across the stage, not apples.
Spring Fashions

At Sunday night supper (which
didn't resemble a Sunday night
supper at all) Nelson Fisher, Cis-
sy Jeffries, Betty Turner, and Ja-
nice Latta found a use for their
empty paper cups. They pulled
them apart, added a wadded-up
napkin, hung these together with
a paper fork, and walked out of
the dining hall with the result on
their heads.

Roommate Trouble

One freshman, best unnamed,
had quite a week of it. One day,
while peacefully throwing her shoe
at her roommate, she broke a win-
dow. The next day, again peace-
fully, she broke her roommate's
glasses. Her roommate had quite
a week, too.

Peggy Pat Home was the center
of attraction out at Lawson last
Thursday. One of the patients
handcuffed her to himself and
paraded her around for all to see.

family," showed how children feel
about Mrs. McCain.

Our first lady knows practically
all of the college students by
name, and is genuinely interested
in each one of us. And though we
cannot all know her because of
her health, we realize what a great
person Mrs. McCain is and what
an inspiration she is to her hus-
band, her family, and to all who
come in contact with her.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945

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QUALIFICATIONS FOR CAMPUS OFFICES

President Senior

Duties Direct executive work
of student Government.

Preside over student meeting.

Act as chairman of the Repre-
sentative Council.

Act as secretary of the Admin-
istrative Committee.

Preside over elections.

Appoint special committees to
study student problems.

Qualifications Real interest in
all the parts of campus life so that
she may work toward integration
of student activities.

Ability to represent students to
the administration.

Ability to handle groups of peo-
ple in student meetings.

Vice-President Judicial Ghair-

man Senior

Duties Assume primary re-
sponsibility for the judicial work
of Student Government.

Amass material for cases.

Work with individuals 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 and logically.

Ability for presenting cases in
an unbiased manner.

Tactfulness and sympathetic
interest in individuals.

Orientation Chairman Senior

Duties Plan orientation pro-
grams.

Direct orientation committee
and work of the sponsors.

Work personally with freshmen
through the year.

Qualifications Ability to orga-
nize and direct effectively the
orientation program.

Warm personal interest in peo-
ple.

Student Recorder Junior
Duties Secretary of the Execu-
tive work of Student Government.
Keep records of students' points, j
Keep minutes of Representative
Council, of Open Forums, and of
student meetings.

Attend to the correspondence of
Student Association.

Qualifications Ability to do de-
tail work efficiently.

An interest in the various view-
points of the campus and an ability
to record them accurately in the
minutes.

Secretary Junior
Duties Keep all files of judicial
work of Student Government.
Send out Campus slips.
Qualifications Dependability.
Efficiency.

Interest in the campus as a
whole and in individuals.

Treasurer Junior

Duties Work with a budget
committee in apportioning the stu-
dent budget and in supervising the
auditing of the books of all campus
organizations.

Qualifications Ability to keep
books efficiently math courses
help.

Day Student Representative
Senior elected by the day students.

Duties To edit the Handbook.

To preside over, day student
meetings.

To represent day students on
the Executive Committee.

Qualifications Preferably some
experience in working with publi-
cations.

Ability to represent various day
student groups.

Interest in integrating boarder
and day student activities.
House President Seniors,
three elected.
Duties To be in charge of the
dormitories.

To meet with the executive
committee on cases and to repre-
sent students on the executive
committee.

Qualifications Ability to in-
spire cooperation.

A friendly, sympathetic and un-
derstanding personality. A sense
of humor is valuable.

Impartiality in dealing with all
students.

Carefulness in details.
Lower House Chairman Junior

Duties To head the work of
Lower House, setting up commit-
tees and directing their work.

To act as parliamentarian of the
Student Association.

To be in charge of fire drills.

Qualifications Ability to work
with people effectively.

An interest in making the cam-
pus more pleasant by attention to
details of campus life.

A willingness to learn and put
over to the student body the foun-
damentals of parliamentary pro-
cedure.

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The first prerequisite for all of-
ficers of C. A. is a strong, working
Christian personality, having the
inner resources of a vital relation-
ship with God.

President

Duties Preside over cabinet
and council meetings and retreat;
keep in touch with all phases of
C. A. work; see that the program
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 the campus, and
the Christian work in other col-
leges 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.

Vice-President
Duties Have charge of writing
letters of welcome to the fresh-
men; direct the meeting of fresh-
men at trains; advise freshman
work.

Qualifications Enthusiasm, un-
derstanding, sound judgment, gift
of drawing out the ideas and pos-
sibilities in others.

Secretary

Duties Correspondence with
speakers, keeping minutes of cabi-
net meetings and retreats, keeping
in touch with the various activi-
ties 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
meetings of the Association, the
Board, and the Executive Coun-
cil.

Appoint all committees and be
an ex-officio member of them.

Qualifications Skill in sports
and an interest in A. A.

Executive ability.

Willingness to work and coope-
rate with physical directors.

Friendliness.

Vice-President

Duties Perform all duties of
President in her absence.

Have charge of all recreational
activities pertaining to A. A.

Represent A. A. on co-recrea-
tional council.

Qualifications I nterest in

sports and A. A.

Ability to direct open houses or
other social functions with mixed
groups.

Willingness to cooperate.
Secretary

Duties Keep record of all pro-
ceedings of A. A. Board.

Conduct all regular correspond-
ence pertaining to the Association.

Keep a permanent record of all
persons winning points.

Send out notices of all meetings.

Keep record of attendance of
Athletic Board meetings.

Qualifications Dependability
at all times.

Ability to give attention to de-
tails.

Interest in the Association.

Promptness.

Treasurer

Duties Take charge of funds
of Association and record her re-
port in the record.

Pay out money at request of
president.

Order and take charge of
awards.

Qualifications Ability to keep
accurate books.
Dependability.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS

Editor

Duties Select an efficient edi-
torial staff, organize and direct it.

Determine editorial policy and
write editorials.

Plan contents of 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 in-
terest in the News. A knowledge
of editing, advertising, and a sense
of responsibility are necessary.
She should have good judgement,
executive ability, and should be
able to cooperate with the busi-
ness manager and other staff
members. A knowledge of journal-
ism would be helpful.

Managing Editor

Duties Plan the make-up of
paper.

Decide on style and size of head-
lines.

Lay out paper with help of as-
sistant editors.

Direct printers in actual lay-out
and check proof at printers.'

Write some editorials.

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 would
be helpful.

Assistant Editors

Duties Send assignments to re-
porters.

See that all copy is turned in.
Do preliminary editing of copy.
Re-write headlines when neces-
sary.

Assist with make-up.

Qualifications The two assist-
ant editors must be interested in
the News, must be able to write
clearly and correctly and to corrct
copy, and must be absolutely de-
pendable.

Business Manager

Duties Keep books.

Handle all money, paying and
receiving checks.

Collecting for advertising.

Select and oversee whole busi-
ness staff.

Qualifications She must have
had experience in selling ads and
must be able to do business suc-
cessfully with businessmen. She
must be businesslike and thor-
oughly responsible. She should be
able to keep accurate records and
to write clear business letters.
Advertising Managers

Get ads to editors on time.

Qualifications Definite busi-
ness ability to keep accurate and
understandable records; to be able
to meet business people and talk
to them; to be able to choose a
competent and capable staff.

Definite sense of responsibility.

SILHOUETTE
Editor

Duties Sign all contracts with
printer, photographer, and en-
graver.

Plan the annual, including the
theme, the layouts for each page,
and the contents of each section.

Supervise and check all writing
and proof-read final copy.

Be responsible for having photo-
grapher take all necessary pic-
tures.

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
manager so as to plan within the
budget.

Associate Editor
Duties Help plan the annual.
Work especially on the back
section.

Make the final check on class
sections, names, and pictures.

Cooperate with editor.

Qualifications A marked sense
of responsibility.

Ability to write clearly.

Interest in annual work.
Assistant Editors

Duties One assistant will have
charge of the faculty section, and

the other assistant will have
charge of the club section.
For her section each will have to
do the writing,, supervise the pro-
tography, and take part in plan-
ning the page lay-outs.

Qualifications Sense of respon-
sibility for doing work on time.

Ability to write.

Business Manager

Duties To manage advertising
in the Silhouette to sell the ads,
collect payments of ads, draw copy
when necessary.

To sell extra orders of pictures
for the photographer.

To sell pages to school organiza-
tions and clubs.

To select staff of assistants and
direct their work.

(Continued on Page 4)

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a new knock-out f or the
spring that's in the air.

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ADOLESCENT TREATMENT

Schoolgirl complexions are often not what
mothers (and the girls themselves) would like
them to be. With a keen understanding of "teens"
problems, Richard Hudnut has evolved this sim-
plified DuBarry adolescent treatment. Let our
DuBarry Adviser tell you about this treatment

. . explain the psychological importance of an
improved complexion at this trying age.

DRUG STOPeS

Page 4

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945

Qualifications

(Continued from Page 3)
Qualifications She should have
experience in selling ads and
should be able to make a good
impression on prospective adver-
tisers. She must be very depend-
able, and must have initiative in
thinking 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, and is responsible for the
correctness of the proof.

Managing Editor

Duties To work closely with
the editor in all phases of editorial
work.

Business Manager
Duties To manage advertising
in the Aurora.

Qualifications Definite busi-
ness ability.

Sense of responsibility.

LECTURE ASSOCIATION
President

Duties To act as chairman of
student committee of Lecture As-
sociation, to cooperate with the
faculty committee in making the
lectures a success, to entertain the
lecturers, to make welcoming ad-
dress at each lecture, and to re-
ceive at the receptions.

Qualifications Membership in
senior class with academic stand-
ing suitable for graduation, inter-
est in intellectual and artistic
subjects, possession of a person-

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FLOWER SHOP
801 Church St DE. 3309

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

DECATUR THEATER

Program For Week Beginning Wednesday,

February 28th
Wednesday
William Bendix - Susan Hayward in
"THE HAIRY APE"

Thursday and Friday
Deanna Durbin Franchot Tone in
"HIS BUTLER'S SISTER"

Saturday
"GHOST GUNS"
and

"CHARLIE CHAN AND THE CHINESE
CAT"

Monday and Tuesday
Katherine Hepburn - Turhan Bey in
"DRAGON SEED"

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning Feb. 28
Wednesday- Thursday
Spencer Tracy in
"THE SEVENTH CROSS)"

Friday
Wallace Beery in
BARBARY COAST GENT"

Saturday
"PEARL OF DEATH"
and

C0MIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN "

Monday-Tuesday
Greer Garson in
"MRS. PARKINGTON"

Games Show
Cage Stars

Perhaps next season's stars
played Friday afternoon in the se-
ries of games between the B
teams. Because the games lasted
only two quarters, the scores were
not very high. The sophomores
downed the freshmen 8-2, the ju-
niors ousted the sophs 16-2, the
freshman blue team defeated the
freshman red team, 9-4, and the
juniors swamped the freshmen
20-4.

The juniors were the outstand-
ing group that played.

Annette Neville led all other for-
wards in her ability to score and
had* 22 points to her credit. The
freshmen guards did some nice
defensive playing,

Between games a group of tum-
blers gave a very interesting ex-
hibition.

ality and appearance suitable for
representing the college, a poise
and some executive ability.

Treasurer
Duties To take charge of se-
curing and selling tickets for the
lectures, and to take care of the
financial matters of the organiza-
tion.

Qualifications Same general
qualifications as for president and
sufficient knowledge of mathe-
matics to assume the responsibili-
ty of handling the finances of
the organization.

MAY DAY
Chairman

Duties Selection of a capable
committee.

Conferences with faculty advis-
ors for planning May Day meet-
ings

Having a contest for selection
of a scenario.

Election of May Queen and
court.

Getting each different commit-
tee to start working separately on
necessary jobs.

Setting dates for practices, May
Day, etc.

Qualifications Willingness to
work hard.

Must have plenty of time during
spring quarter to devote to her
job.

Must be responsible and depend-
able.

Should be able to work with
other people and get along with
them.

Should be open to suggestions.

WAR C OUNCIL
Chairmen

Duties To organize war activi-
ties on campus.

To receive and fulfill campus
requests and suggestions for meth-
ods of aiding the war effort on
the college campus.

Qualifications Sense of respon-
sibility.

Ability to work with faculty and
students.

Intense interest.

Ability to organize.

Ability to put plans into opera-
tion.

Initiative.

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

"Happy's the bride the sun shines on' and it shone valiant
ly Monday afternoon for Barbara Frink's and Johnny Hatch's
wedding at 8 o'clock that night.

The wedding took place in the Fort MacPherson chapel
which was candle-lit and decorated with palms and calla lilies.
Mr. Dieckmann was the organist

and Joella Craig, '43, sang "I Love
Thee," and "Because" before the
service.

Polly (Mrs. James Bunnell, '42)
was matron of honor for her sis-
ter. She wore bouffant pink lace
and net dress, pink gloves and
plumes in her hair, and carried
pink carnations.

The bridesmaids were Eugenia
Jones and Ann Equen, who wore
pink dresses similar to Polly's,
with white gloves, and carried
white flowers, and Bitty King and
Emily Higgins who wore white
with pink gloves and carnations.

Barbara was a beautiful bride in
heavy ivory satin made on prin-
cess lines. Her bride's bouquet
was of gardenias and white sweet
peas centered with an orchid.

Later Mrs. James Frink enter-
tained at a reception at the Of-
ficers' Club. Lois Sullivan caught
the bride's bouquet . . . but she
already has an engagement ring!

Barbara was almost lovelier in
her going-away outfit of a soft
coral suit, sable furs, brown ac-
cessories complete with orchid
corsage.

VISITORS .... So many visitors
on the campus last week-end for
the "Jazz-Mine Manor." Carolyn
Hall, ex '46, was here from the
University of Tennessee. She was
entertained at Mammy's Shanty
Sunday evening by Harriet Frier-
son, Mary Catherine Vinsant, and
Bettye Smith.

Jeter Starr had as her guest
Alice Ann Davis from the Univer-
sity of Georgia, while Jane Ev-
erett entertained Rachel Ken-
nedy from Thomaston. Mary Jane
Shumacher's mother and dad
were here. Virginia Tucker, Kath-
ryn Johnson, and Mary Cargill all
had their sisters with them. . .
and Mary's is her twin.

Visiting Pie Ertz is Betty Hor-
witz from University of North
Carolina. Pie had a luncheon for
her Saturday at the Magnolia
Room.

Especially fortunate girls were
the ones whose men were in town
. . . Peggy Gregg (she was looking
lovely at the Paradise Room with
Warren Friday night), Bunny
Weems, Lida Walker, Jean Chew-

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Faculty and students are cor- j
dially invited to visit the con- 1
venient and comfortable work-
ing quarters for Annual Staffs J
provided at this new location.

ning (you couldn't miss him for
he bought the cake at the "Jazz-
Mine Manor.") and Leila Holmes,
Ann Noell's Walt was here, bring-
ing her diamond with him ... a
beauty!

Phi Chi Formal .... Hottentots
at the Phi Chi formal at Emory
Friday night included Anne Mc-
Curdy, Polly Grant, Gee Gee Gille-
land, Lu Cunningham, Robin Rob-
inson, Margaret McManus, Anne
Burkhart, Jean Chewning, Gloria
Ann Melchor, Jeter Starr, Pudden
Bealer, Louise Starr, Harding Rag-
land, Lucy Turner, Bess Sheppard,
Mary Turner, Katherine Ann Ed-
elblut, Dotty Dyrenforth, Dot
Archer, and Betty Brown.

Friday night found Betty Mann
at the Paradise Room, June Thom-
ason, Ann Scott, and Sissy Jef-
fries were there Saturday.

Jane Jacobs entertained at a
bridge luncheon Thursday. Her
guests were Genet Heery, Wakie
Wakefield, Edith Burgess, Glas-
self Beale, Kate Ellis, Theresa
Kemp, and Jo Ann Fossett.

At Barbara Wilson's birthday
dinner Sunday were Mac Craig,
Agnes Harnsberger, Ruth Ellis,
Fluff Paisley, Lidie Lee, Bet Pat-
terson, Marie Martin, Mickey Der-
rieux, Marie Beeson, Margaret
Kinard, and Peggy Pat Home.

Out-of-Towii. Kate Webb Clary
returned from her honeymoon in
Pittsburg this week.

Bet Long spent the week-end
in Baltimore.

Dot Peace took Sue Hutchins,
Ruth Ryner, and Gee Gee Gilleland
home to Greenville with her. Peg-
gy Van Hook and Mary Ann
Gaunt went with Hilda Taber to
Chattanooga.

Isabel Asbury went home to
Greenville, as did Dot DeVane;
Kitty Kay 'went to Bryan. Chris
Yates and Soozi Richardson to
Augusta, and Louise Starr to Dal-
ton.

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

The nearest big event now is the
swimming pageant, which is to be
presented by the swimming club
tomorrow night. The pageant has
been well planned, and the club,
under Margaret Scott's leadership,
promises us a good show built
around a trip to Davey Jones*
locker.

Friday morning in chapel, A. A.
will present a program with Fred-
die Larue, athletic instructor at
Georgia Tech, as speaker. Every
member of the Athletic Associa-
tion, and this includes you, is es-
pecially invited to be on hand"
then.

On Friday, too, the varsity and
subvarsity basketball teams will
meet in what promises to be a
very good and interesting game.
With this game ends our basket-
ball season for this year. We've
felt that having outside referees
has really been a help this sea-
son, and we want to commend
Genet Heery for doing a very good
job as basketball manager.

Belated congratulations go to
Sarah Walker, winner of the ping
pong tournament last week. Those
who took part in the contest found
it lots of fun.

Next quarter will see a new set
of sports on our athletic program.
We'll again have tennis and swim-
ming, volley ball and other sports
and we still have hopes of horse-
back riding. Now is the time
for all good Hottentots to come
to the aid of their classes in next
quarter's team sports and to
come to the aid of her own well-
being by going out for some
individual sport in addition, if
possible. Besides, these sports
are a grand* cure (or preventive)
for spring fever, and if practiced*
enough outside can give you a tan
that would almost rival the one
that you might have obtained if
you had had a spring vacation and
gone to Florida. The managers of
our spring sports have planned
them well, so you won't be sorry
if you come out for them.

ACNES 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

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, G A, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1945

NO. 19

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MOLLY MILAM

Badminton
Brings Players

The Badminton club is sponsor-
ing an unusual program in the
gym tomorrow afternoon when
Donald Kerr, of Lawson General
Hospital, will exhibit champion-
ship badminton, announces Susie
Watkins, badminton manager.

Mr. Kerr, who is the only man
to be director of recreation for the
Red Cross, assists with rehabilita-
tion of service men at Lawson.
He himself has a wooden leg, but
is an excellent player and has
taught badminton for several
years.

Harry Vaughn, badminton cham-
pion, will oppose him on the court.
Mr. Kerr will talk to the specta-
tors on the finer points of the
game and will hold a clinic for
members of Badminton club who
are interested in improving their
technique.

Craig and Gilchrist Win

The badminton finals last Wed-
nesday gave the championship to
Mac Craig and/Carolyn Gilchrist,
who defeated' Mary Partee and
Barbara Wilson the first two out
of three games. Marjorie Bond and
Jackie Stewart and Betty Camp-
bell and Jean Fuller reached the
semi-finals played also the same
afternoon.

Good News for
Hopeful Reporters

All juniors and seniors interested
in Journalism may consult the
electives committee about taking
Journalism 101, a 3-hour intro-
ductory course offered at Emory
Spring quarter on Mon.-Wed.-Fri.
afternoons at 2:30.

Dr. Raymond Nixon, head of
Emory Journalism School, will be
glad to talk with any students who
are interested.

The News especially urges
that reporters and prospective
reporters try to fit the course in-
to their schedules.

This is the last issue of the
News until Mar. 27. The next
issue will be published on Tues-
day with a list of popular and
committee nominees for the stu-
dents to take to chapel on Wed-
nesday, Mar. 28, and Thursday,
Mar. 29, when they vote for the
campus officers for next year.

Molly Milam and Min-
nie Mack have been elect-
ed lifetime president and
vice-president of the class
of '45. A lifetime secre-
tary wiH be elected at the
next senior class meeting.

The duties of these of-
ficers will be to plan and
be in charge of class re-
unions, to help the Alum-
nae Association keep re-
cords of where the class
members are, and to keep
in close touch with the
entire class.

+

MINNIE MACK

March Exhibit
To Feature
Seven Artists

An exhibition entitled "Seven
American Painters" will open here
Friday and will be shown through
March 30.

To Tour South and West

This collection, arranged for by
the Department of Circulating Ex-
hibits of the Museum of Modern
Art, New York, will be exhibited
at several southern and mid-
western museums and colleges fol-
lowing the Agnes Scott showing.

The thirty^four paintings are in-
tended to show work by a group
of American artists already recog-
nized by New York art critics.
The exhibition is mainly to ac-
quaint the rest of the country with
the rising young artists' ability.
Four or five pictures by each of
the following painters, comprise
the exhibit: Milton Avery, Joseph
De Martini, Arthur Dove, Karl
Knaths, Horace Pippin, Walter
Quirt, and Mark Tobey.

Each Is Individual

None of these artists have any
artistic characteristics in com-
mon. They were, however all
born in America and their art has
developed during a period of free
expression and thought. Each of
them has set forth his individuali-
ty in his canvases. Together they
represent the variety of expression
characteristic of contemporary
American painting.

Exams Are Coming

Exams are almost upon us! At this time it seems very fit-
ting to print a blue issue of the News to match everyone's
feelings. The black print signifies mourning.

Exams will begin Saturday, Mar. 10, after a holiday on
Friday, and will continue through next Saturday, Mar, 17.
There will be a holiday on the following Monday after exams.
Spring quarter will begin Tuesday, Mar. 20.

During exams the dean's office will serve tea in Murphey
Candler each afternoon from 4-5.

Exams are expected to be harder than ever before this
quarter! Students are urged to cram!

COMMITTEE HOURS

The Elective* Committee will
be open these hours next week:

Tues., Mar. 13 10:30-12:30
a. m.

Thurs., Mar. 15 10:30-12:30
a- m.

Social Swing

Just call me Teddy the Terri-
ble timber-eating termite of
Murphey Candler and sole all-
night occupant of the News room.
This Monday you left in a huff
over something you called "exams"
and you left the typewriter open
to the dust and the old copy crum-
bled in a heap right on the floor
where I was going to take my next
bit.

Also, I heard you say there's no
society this week. What'd ya mean
by that ? A termite gets tired
of gnawing all day long, so some-
times I climb out on the vines and
take a look around just to see what
I can see. Well, there's plenty go-
ing on around here.

Monday, I heard such a commo-
tion outside that I had to scram-
ble on the window ledge fast. All
I could see was a bunch of girls
dancing around screaming, "Oh,
Eleanor Davis, it's beautiful. I
guess there was a girl in the middle
I did see a handsome ensign
standing nearby. Do you guess he
could have given her a ring? (Yes,
they had been in town picking it
out together.)

There were lots of folks off cam-
pus Saturday. Maybe they, too,
were running from those "exams"!
Dale Bennett went to South Geor-
gia to a wedding Ruth Ryner to
Vienna Gloria Gaines to Car-
rollton, and Lois Sullivan to An-
derson, S. C.

Glee Club Has
First Concert

The Glee club will present its
first concert of the year on Mon-
day, Mar. 26, at 8:30, in Gaines
Auditorium, according to Lois
Sullivan, president of the organi-
zation. The group, numbering 36
girls, will be under the direction
of Mr. Robert Lowrance.

The program of this concert,
which is taking place of the oper-
etta of former years, is extremely
varied, being made up of secular
choral works ranging from old
English to modern American and
Russian.

The following numbers will be
included:

The program is as follows:
I

Sing We and Chant It Morley
The Lass With the Delicate

Air A me

Wake Thee, Now Dearest

Czecho-Slovak Folk Song
(arr. Taylor)
Chit Chat Old English

(arr. Moffat)

II

O Winds, Blow Ye Softly Mozart
In Woodland Solitude Brahms
Through the Silent Night

Rachmaninoff
On the Stepppe Gretchaninoff

III

O'er the Tarn's Unruffled

Mirror Griff es

A Snow Legend Clokey
Hymn to the Night

Campbell-Tipton
The Last Song Rogers
' In addition, Agnes Harnsberger,
accompanist for the group, will
play a group of selections by Ed-
ward MacDowell.

M. Johnson,
Sophomore,
Wins Art Prize

Margaret Johnson, sophomore
art student, carried off first place
for Agnes Scott in the college di-
vision of the Georgia Student Art
Exhibit at Athens Monday night,
with her painting of an archery
scene in tempera. The award,
made by Lamar Dodd, was a $25
war bond donated by Michael
Brothers clothing store in Athens.

Mrs. Leone Hamilton, graduate
student, placed third in the col-
lege exhibit with a still life done in
oil' on tracing paper, while Peggy
Pat Home and Mary Catherine
Vinsant won honorable mention.
Peggy submitted two scratch-
board drawings, while Mary Cath-
erine showed a callage with sponge.

The exhibition was the second
annual Georgia Student Art Ex-
hibit to be held, the first having
been originated through the ef-
fort and interest of Lamar Dodd,
head of the University of Georgia
Art Department. Students from
the first grade u> to the college
level submitted their drawings and
painting from all over the state
G. S. C. W., University of Geor-
gia, and Wesleyan Conservatory
took part in the college division
along with Agnes Scott.

Other Agnes Scott art students
whose work was exhibited are:
Joan Crangle, Dorothy DeVane,
Sue* Mitchell, Jane Smith, and
Peggy Van Hook.

William Kapell
Gives Concert

Lovers of fine music are very
fortunate in being able to hear one
of the most sensational pianists
of the day when the Atlanta Music
Club presents William Kapell in
a concert at the Erlanger Theatre
on March 14. ,

Mr. Kapell has won wide ac-
claim wherever he has made an
appearance and he holds an en-
viable record among the artists of
America. He is the only pianist
ever engaged by the Philadelphia
Orchestra for three consecutive
seasons at one time 1944-45;
1946-47. This celebrated pianist
has made five appearances within
four weeks with the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, and this season
he is engaged as soloist with sev-
enteen symphony orchestras in
America, including every major
orchestra in the country.

War Fund
Lacks $1212

Payments totalling $1,212,811
must be collected during March'
and April in order to fulfill 1
pledges made to the Agnes Soott
War Service Fund and to insure*
contributions to the Red Cross-
and WSSF. The total amount
pledged is $2,713.35, to be collect-
ed over the six-month period from
November through April. Of this
amount $1,500.54 has been paicL
Already deducted are contribu-
tions of $1,000 for the United
Community and War Fund and
$100 for the infantile paralysis;
drive. This leaves a balance of
$400.54, which is $100 short of
meeting the allocation for the
World Student Service Fund. The
entire Red Cross contribution
must then come from the collec-
tion in full this month and next of
all subscriptions made.

Envelopes containing payments
may be left in the box in the book-
store if they cannot be turned in.
at the announced chapel periods.

Tea Mar. 20 Shows
Student Activities

On Friday, Mar. 20, from 4 untif
6 o'clock, there will be an activi-
ties tea given with the purpose of
introducing to freshmen all can*-
pus organizations and publications^
At this time freshmen may sign
for the activities they are most in-
terested in. They are urged to
choose carefully and not join toa
many organizations. j

Julia Slack and Marjorie Naab
are in charge of the tea, with
lower house of student govern-
ment responsible for refreshments.

Date Book

Wed., Mar. 7 Current events taflc
in c hapel by Mrs. Sims.

Thurs., Mar. 8 Day Before Holi-
day!! (don't cut)

Bus leaves for Lawson dance at
6:50.

Fri., Mar. 9 Holiday!!!

"Seven American Artists" ex-
hibit begins.

Sat., Mar. 10 Exams begin.

Sun., Mar. 11 Romberg concert
at City Auditorium in afternoon.

Mon., Mar. 12 Dean's office tea r
4 p. m. to 5 p. m.

Tues., Mar. IS Dean's office tea,
4 p. m. to. 5 p. m.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1945

Drew Pearson Tells Lowdown
On Coming Peace Problems

By Pauline Ertz

Drew Pearson, popular columnist and commentator, came
to Decatur Monday night. Not at all the "Pugnacious Pearson"
that a recent magazine article labeled him, the widely-read
columnist quietly analyzed for his audience of Decatur Lions
and their friends, United States foreign relations at this time
and the problems of peace the nation will have to face.
The United States more or less

acts as arbiter between Russia

and Great Britain at meetings

of the Big Three, Pearson said.

We will have to watch very

carefully, he added, to see that

we get a world peace that will

prevent the two great empires

of Britain and Russia fighting

the next war 25 years hence.
U. S. Offers Good Will
At the Yalta conference, he said,
President Roosevelt did not have
the trump cards of Lend-Lease and
promise of a second front that he
held at Cairo and Teheran. Ac-
cording to Pearson, this time the
President's chief bargaining power
was the good will of the United
States. Pearson predicts the San
Francisco Conference April 25,
will be "very successful."

Most generous in his after-lec-
ture question period Mr. Pearson
received literally dozens of written
questions. One, "What is Jesse
Jones* status today?" Mr. Pear-

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When asked about the fate of
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the little matters that lead to
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velt-DeGaulle incident.

Invited to occupy seats on the
stage with Mr. Pearson were
Governor Ellis Arnall, who intro-
duced the speaker, Mrs. Arnall,
who wore a red suit, Mrs. Pear-
son, who wore a two-piece dress
< 1 green satin; President J. R.
Mc-Cain of Agnes Scott; Presi-
dent Goodrich White of Emory
University; Col. Rlake Van
Leer, president of Georgia Tech;
Dr. J. MeD. Richards, president
Of Columbia Seminary; newspa-
per and radio officials, and offi-
cers of the Lions club.

Pearson, who was chosen last
fall as the Washington columnist
who exerts the greatest influence
on the nation through his writing,
indicated earlier to Atlanta re-
porters that Governor Arnall will
be pffered a Presidential cabinet
position.

Pearson and his attractive
blonde wife were entertained by
the Governor and Mrs. Arnall at
the Executive Mansion during
their two-day visjt in Atlanta.

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Word of Praise

(Editor's note: This letter was
written after speeial chorus sang
at the Atlanta Civitan club lunch-
eon last Tuesday week.)

It now seems appropriate, what
with there being so many pleasant
echoes from last Tuesday's pro-
gram, that we speak a word in
behalf of Agnes Scott College.
This very fine educational institu-
tion is located in Decatur, Ga. The
campus and buildings have an ap-
pearance of culture and dignity
that is entirely in keeping with
the culture and dignity of the in-
stitution. The school is really
doing things of which it and our
community can be very proud.
Agnes Scott deserves our interest
and our loyal support. Possibly
many of us, like Joe Harrell ad-
mitted, have never paid a visit
to Agnes Scott. Let's do so at
the vecy next opportunity. We will
be courteously and cordially re-
ceived, and our demonstrated in-
terest will serve as an inspiration
to faculty and staff who carry on
the work of the institution.

Probably no school ever sent out
a better group of representatives

Campus
Topics

Half the campus is recitiny
poetry or writing papers and the
other half is living in lab. Hence
dinner table conversations are
dreadfully one-sided.

Elections are coming up. Ev-
eryone is cussing and discus-
sing: the nominating committee.
That there are enough organiza-
tions on the campus without hav-
ing a League of Women Voters
group here.

than we had with us last Tuesday,
and no football team was ever giv-
en more cheers than was the
chorus from Agnes Scott. To Lew-
is Johnson, the eleven lovely la-
dies, and to Agnes Scott College,
we express our sincere thanks.

On the ride back to school with
four of the girls, this writer list-
ened to them express enthusiasm
for the Civitan Club and for the
reception we gave them. They
stated that singing for us turend
out to be even more fun than sing-
ing for the soldiers. That was a
compliment indeed.

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NO. 20

Pi Alpha Phi to Enter Debate
Tourney in Charlotte April 5-7

Two teams from Pi Alpha Phi,
debating society, will compete
with other eastern colleges and
universities at the Grand Eastern
Forensic Tourney in Charlotte, N.
C, on April 5, 6, and 7.

Elizabeth Osborne and Peggy
Willmon will represent the affirm-
ative, while Dale Bennett and Lou-
isa Aichel, the negative. The sub-
ject of the debate is Resolved:
that the federal government
should enact legislation requiring
the compulsory arbitration of all
labor disputes after voluntary
means have failed constitutionally

conceded.

The Forensic Tourney will con-
sist of debates, book reviews, criti-
cisms, and addresses. Agnes Scott,
last represented in 1943, will enter
the debating part this year. The
debate is to be a no decision de-
bate.

In a challenge debate, forerun-
ning the Charlotte debate, Dale
Bennett and Louisa Aichel. taking
the negative, debated the same
subject with a University of North
Carolina team Saturday afternoon
at 3:30 in Murphey Candler. No
decision was reached.

Alumnae Fund
Has Good Start

The Alumnae Fund, a newly
adopted plan here this year, has
been remarkably successful, ac-
cording to Eugenia Symms, alum-
nae secretary.

The object of the plan is pri-
marily to reach a wider number of
alumnae, and to inform them of
the progress of the college.

Through individual contribu-
tions, no matter how large or
small, instead of alumnae dues, it
is hoped that more alumnae may
be contacted. Already this year 440
alumnae have contributed $4,060,
and contributions are still coming
in. Last year a total of only $1,000
was contributed by 450 alumnae.

After the $6,600 budget for the
Association is met ,it is hoped that
a considerable amount will be
left to be used as a gift for the
college.

A contribution to the Alumnae
Fund entitles the alumna to ac-
tive membership, brings the alum-
na quarterly, increases the ser-
ice of the Association, and provides
annual gifts for the college.

Although it will probably take
several years for the Alumnae As-
sociation to perfect the plan, the
start that has been made this year
is most encouraging.

Senior Opera
Taustasia 7

On May 5, at 8:30 p. m. in the
gym the seniors will present their
own opera entitled, Faustasia.

According to Senior Opera
Chairman Julia Slack, this year's
production is to be remotely con-
nected with the opera Faust, but
so remotely that even Gounod
would have trouble recognizing
his masterpiece. The production
will combine music, the dance, and
the drama. In fact, even the most
particular person will find some-
thing in this opera to appeal to
him.

The writing committee, headed
by Ceevah Rosenthal, has been
hard at work for some time writ-
ing the script. Now other commit-
tees will take charge to whip the
production into shape. Dot Almond
will head the costume committee.
Liz Carpenter will take charge of
the scenery, and Dot Hunter will
be responsible for properties. Fran-
ces Brougher heads the music com-
mittee while Liz McWhorter, the
program committee.

Mary E. Chase
Will Spend
Six Days Here

Mary Ellen Chase, noted Ameri-
can author and lecturer, will give a
series of talks sponsored by the
English department. Beginning
on April 20. Miss Chase will spend
six days on the campus speaking
on various subjects.

At the present time Miss Chase
is professor of English at Smith
College. She has written several
novels, and some autobiography,
including "A Goodly Fellowship,"
an account of her life as a student
and teacher, and others.

Discussing the enjoyment of
reading in her opening lecture on
April 20, Miss Chase will continue
on Monday, speaking on the Bible.
Among her other talks will be
three on the novel, Manday, Tues-
day, and Wednesday afternoons,
especially for the freshman Eng-
lish classes.

Rotor ions Fete
Hottentots

The Rotary Club of Atlanta will
entertain the Agnes Scott girls
whose fathers are Rotarians at a
luncheon on Monday, April 23, at
12:30 in the Ansley Hotel.

With the exception of last year,
the Rotary Club has given this
luncheon every year for approxi-
mately ten years. The girls spon-
sor the program, which is usually
composed of a few speeches and
several songs rendered by the
special chorus.

Dr. McCain, who is an active
member of the Rotary Club, has
asked all girls who are eligible to
attend to register in Miss Steele's
office.

Date Book

Wed., Mar. 28 Elections begin
in chapel.

Thurs., Mar. 29 Elections con-
tinued in chapel.

Sun-, April 1 Easter Sunrise
Service at 7 a. m. in May Day Dell.

Mon., April 2 Music Apprecia-
tion Hour at 8 in Maclean Audi-
torium.

Thurs., April 12 Maurice Hin-
dus to lecture.

Fri., April 20 Mary Ellen
Chase to come as resident author.

Sat., April 21 Granddaughters'
Banquet.

Sunrise Serv.ce
Set for Veil

An Easter Sunrise Worship
service will be held again this year
at 7 a. m., in the May Day dell
Easter morning.

Initiated by Christian Associa-
tion, this year's service has been
planned by representatives of stu-
dent government and other cam-
pus organizations and is sponsor-
ed by Agnes Scott for the whole
Decatur community. In past years
C. A. and Decatur's Young People
League have jointly sponsored the
service.

This year's devotional will be
wholly a worship service. The pro-
gram includes three songs by spe-
cial chorus, a speaking choir, and
congregational singing accompa-
nied by a trombone quartet head-
ed by Robert E. Mell.

In case of rain, the service will
be held in Presser.

Glee Club Presents
Spring Concert

The annual spring concert of the
Agnes Scott Glee club under the
direction of Mr. Robert S. Low-
rance, Jr. was presented last night,
March 26, in Gaines Chapel.

Members of the Glee club who
participated are: Margaret Dale,
Cordelia De Vane, Barbara F.
Hatch, Genevieve Harper, Martha
Ray Lasseter, Ann Martin, Vera
Orem, Mary Russell, Ruth Ander-
son, Catherine Carlen, Helen Cur-
rie, Mary Martin, Marjorie Naab,
Barbara Plumly, Helen Roper,
vice-president; Barbara Sproesser,
Louisa Aichel, Betty Manning
Helen Owen, Eleanor Reynolds,
Dorothy Spragens, secretary-
treasurer; Jean Stewart, Lois
Sulhvan, president; and Barbara
Whipple.

Hindus to Lecture
Here April 12

Returned only a month ago from two years in his native
Russia, Maurice Hindus, author and lecturer, will speak at
Agnes Scott Thursday evening, April 12, Jeanne Robinson,
Lecture Association chairman announces.

Brings Russian Viewpoint

Mr Hindus, always deeply concerned with Russian affairs
from the human, personal point

of view, will bring to the campus
a first hand, up-to-date story of
conditions and ideas in Russia, as
well as of her part in the war and
in the peace. Since his former pre-
dictions have consistently proved
sound, Mr. Hindus' remarks, at a
time when the length of, the Pa-
cific war may depend on Russia's
actions, should be especially signif-
icant.

Speaking at Agnes Scott, just
before leaving for Russia, Mr. Hin-
dus startled his audience by as-
serting, contrary to popular opin-
ion, that Russia would never capit-
ulate to the Germans. Such sound
predictions as this have establish-
ed his reputation as a brilliant lec-
turer.

Hindus Is Favorite

Mr. Hindus has packed the
house twice before at Agnes Scott
and several times in Atlanta. His
dramatic and electric forcefulness,
as well as his broad background
of knowledge and human under-
standing, has made him one of
Atlanta's favorite lecturers.

Mr. Hindus has carried this
dramatic intensity and vitality
over into his personal life. Upon
Russia's declaration of war against
Hitler, he wished to leave at once
for his native country to join
the Army, although he is 52 years
old. However, the U. S. press
convinced him that his greatest

Exhibit of Prints to Open
In Library Gallery April 12

Thirty colorful prints by three contemporary American
artists Werner Drewes, Louis Schanker and Charles Smith
make up the exhibition Woodblock Prints in Color
which opens on April 12 in the Library Art gallery. The
exhibit, prepared by the Museum of Modern Art in New
York to circulate among mus-

and free way. They are prints in
the sense that they are made by
transferring color to paper from a
wood or metal pattern, but they
differ from ordinary prints in that
each is a unique work of art
freely composed from movable pat-
terns. From his stock of several
hundred blocks of wood or mefcal
cut in various shapes, Smith se-
lects those which will be used to
make up the composition he de-
sires. Color is applied to one
block at a time and transferred
under pressure to the paper.
Drewes' Woodcuts Evoke Emotion
Of the three artists represented
in this exhibition. Smith's work
most obviously stems from Cubism
in its balanced handling of lines,
planes, cubes and spheres. Drewes'
woodcuts, by contrast, evoke emo-
tional experience. By comparison
with Smith's cubic clarity and
Drewes' rhythmic designs Schank-
er's woodcuts are primitive in their
simplicity and directness, their
brusque combinations of patterns
and color.

eums and college galleries
throughout the country, will be
on campus until May 3.

Ancient Medium Serves
Two of the three groups of
prints shown, those by Drewes and
Schanker, prove that an ancient
medium may eloquently serve the
modern artist. Schanker's gay,
highly personal interpretation of
a polo game; Drewes' interlocking
design of white ducklings; or mere-
ly abstract color arrangements
such as his series "Variations on
a Dance Motif" or Schanker's
"Study in Green and Black" all
are the result of a technique es-
sentially unchanged since its first
appearance in 7th Century China.
Prints Made by Metal Pattern
Charles Smith's "block paint-
ings," which range in subject from
strutting cocks or a playful family
of turtles to work such as "Hori-
zontal Arrangement" whose whole
effect is gained through a pleasing
arrangement of advancing and re-
ceding planes of color, employs the
principle of the woodcut in a new

contribution to the war would foe
in his own field of writing in in-
terpreting his country to us. It
has been with this in mind that
he has spent the past two years in
Russia.

Mixes Emotion With Fact
At the age of fourteen Hindus,
one of eleven children of a poor
Russian family, landed in this
country. He knew nothing of our
language and customs. With the
vitality that characterizes him,
Hindus by his own struggles learn-
ed the language, and by working
all day and attending night school
earned enough credits to go to
high school and later to Colgate
University. By then a U. S. citi-
zen, he graduated with honors in
1915, and received his M. S. in
1916.

Seven years later Hindus was
back in his own country," this time
on assignment from the editor of
Century Magazine. His affinity
with Russia and her people
brought out the best in him as
a writer. The articles ~ Hindus
wrote about his country and his
people grew into his first great
books "Red Bread," and "Hum-
anity Uprooted." His more recent
books include his autobiography,
"Green Worlds"; "Hitler Cannot
Conquer Russia"; and "Mother
Russia."

Unfailingly creative, Hindus,
puts the same emotionalism:
against a solid background of faci
that characterizes his books into
his lectures. It was this emotion-
alism, this reputation as a speak-
er, that drew huge crowds to
Maurice Hindus' first appearance
since his return, at New York's.;
Town Hall last month.

$1200 Needed

War Council has announced that
$1200 remains to be collected for
the Agnes Scott War Fund. Most
of this amount consists of unpaid
pledges for back months. $1000
has been paid to the National
Community and War Fund, $600 to
the World Student Service, and
$100 to the Infantile Paralysis
Drive. The student body has
pledged $750 to the Red Cross,
which must be collected during
March and April. In order to meet
this obligation it is necessary that
back pleges be paid promptly and.
in full. A box has been convenient-
ly placed in the Book Store for the
collection of pledges.

The dates, April 6 and April
11, are important to the student
body. On the 6th, Phi Beta Kap-
pa will be announced while the
names of the members of the
1945-46 chapter of Mortar Board
will be released on Saturday,
April 11

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945

The Ag nes Scott

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of Agnes Scott College. Office on second floor Murphey Candler Building. Entered as
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Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.
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Home, Dale Bennett. Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Bet Patterson, Mary
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Ifewman. Laura Winchester. Mary Jane Schumaker. Doris Street. Ann Hough, May
Turner, Jean Rooney, Mary McCalla.

Think and Vote

Tomorrow and Thursday we vote for the campus offi-
cers for next year. It is the responsibility of every student on
campus to think individually and to vote.

The Nominating committee has met for long hours, and
has decided with much difficulty on one person for each of-
fice. But there is not just one person for each job There
are several who could do every job because there are so
many more people than offices.

Look over the lists of students, think of every possibility,
don't take your roommate's advice on any office, and above
all, don't vote blindly with the committee.

Individual thinking is your duty. So be in chapel with your
ballot filled in and vote for the person who can best do
the job.

Swan Song

It is rather sad to take pen in hand for a last editorial.
It is customary each year to give an account of the year's
accomplishments, but this is not a customary swan song. This
is a song of gratitude.

What has been accomplished this year is due mainly to
the competent editorial and business staffs. Without the
able assistance of good reporters and advertising assistants,
there could not have been a paper.

Besides the News staff, all other organizations have helped
the paper this year, and I wish to thank them. By cooperating
with us in giving us the handling of publicity and by saving
scoops for us, interest has been aroused on campus.

Not only have students given their full cooperation, but
faculty members have given their time in telling us news, sug-
gesting ideas, and giving helpful advice.

So if the News has accomplished anything this year, full
credit should go to the campus community, who made the
News possible.

And to the new staff I want to wish all the luck in the
world. If the students and faculty are as cooperative next
year as they have been this year, putting out the paper will
be a job that is worth the time and effort, and is really a
lot of fun.

The Eyes Have It

Food is good and plentiful in our dining room but there
is none to waste. Often our eyes are larger than our stomachs
and as a result we return half-filled trays to the kitchen. Of
ten we take food that we do not want with the idea, that some-
one else may want it.

Our carelessness must stop. When going through the
cafeteria lines, we must use discretion in filling our trays.
Instead of trying to get everything at once we must get
only a sufficiency, keeping in mind the fact that we can go
back for seconds. Also those of us who want small helpings
.should ask for them.

This is war. People are starving for the food we waste.

By Pat Elam

Fish Story

This little tragedy began in the
alumnae pool. Vicky, who was rak-
ing out leaves, looked down and
saw a goldfish stuck through the
middle by one of the prongs of the
rake. She took the hapless crea-
ture to Boyd and put it in salt
water, hoping, no doubt, to bring
back to life the fish memories of
a happier life in the ocean, which
would give it a stronger desire to
live. Meanwhile, Dr. Stewart pre-
pared to operate, rolling up her
sleeves and washing her hands and
nail files in alcohol. The details of
how the fish was put together are
best omitted. After great labor
on the part of the doctor, he
was apparently as good as new,
only a band of adhesive tape in-
dicating that he had met with
some mishap. As time passed, how-
ever, his gasps became more fre-
quent and it was decided that
there must be a mercy killing. Af-
ter much discussion as to the rela-
tive merits of a butcher knife, a
big rock quickly applied, and a
toss in the bushes, the butcher
knife won. According to Dootsie,
a "decapsulation" was perform-
ed by Virginia Tucker, after which
the remains were collected, plac-
ed in Teddy's toothpaste box, and
interred with due ceremony.

Nominations
Even counting votes for five
or six hours has its brighter
moments. On several ballots the
counters found the names of
those who had departed this
hottentot life for many years.
On others were the names of
those who, although supposed to
depart this year, evidently are
expected by some to return. In
the first group were Agnes
Douglas, who graduated last
year and Agnes Waters, who
transferred two years ago. In
the second were Julia Slack,
picked by quite a few for an of-
fice next year, and Bess Shep-
herd, the people's choice for
house president of Main.

Rain or Shine
Would-be sun bathers have had
a bad time lately. They get all
prepared to tan, step outside, look
at the sky, and then comes a cloud
and the heat's off.

Dressed for an Occasion

Speaking of sunbathing, the
boardwalk between White House
and Inman, and, incidently, over-
looking the ''beach" in between
them, has been a very popular spot
recently. Hasn't it, Reggie?

Either Mrs. Lapp or Miss Scan-
drett must have felt slightly con-
spicious when they reached their
destination Saturday afternoon.
They were seen strolling over the
campus, one in riding clothes, the
other in an evening dress-
One of the Gang

Bit tie King, who is apprentice
teaching at a grammar school
nearby, says that it's a cinch to
get along with your pupils. The
first day she giggled so they'd
think she was young and silly. She
also played baseball with them and
made the team the first day.

Farewell Address

Parting is such sweet sorrow,
isn't it?

Nominations for Officers

Dr. MeCain will attend the
annual meeting of the General
Education Board of New York
City on April 5. He is a trustee

of the Board.

Student Government

J

POPULAR NOMINATIONS

President

Marjorie Naab

Helen Roper

Betty Long

Maggie Toole
Vice-President

Marjorie Naab

Betty Long

Mary Russell

Helen Roper

Mildred McCain
Secretary

B. J. Radford

Jane Meadows

Kathleen Buchanon
Treasurer

B. J. Radford

Kathleen Buchanon

Virginia Dickson J

Margie Bond

Laura Winchester

Mac Craig
Orientation Chairman

Mildred McCain

Betty Long

Helen Roper

Mary Russell
House Presidents
Rebekah

Claire Rowe

Jean Stewart

Helen Roper

Betty Long
Main

Jean Stewart

Anne Register

Claire Rowe

Lucile Beaver
Inman

Vicky Alexander

Jean Stewart

Claire Rowe

Dot Spragens
Student Recorder

Virginia Dickson

B. J. Radford

Margie Bond

Kathleen Buchanon
Lower House Chairman

Margie Bond

Mac Craig

Kathleen Buchanon
Day Student Representative

Ellen Hayes

Ellen Hayes

Ann Seitzinger

Peggy WiMmon

Irene Jacob

Mildred McCain

COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS

President
Marjorie Naab

Vice-President
Mary Russell

Secretary
B. J. Radford

Treasurer

Laura Winchester

Orientation Chairman-
Mildred McCain

House Presidents
Rebekah
Claire Rowe

Main Hall-
Anne Register

Inman Hall
Vicky Alexander

Student Recorder
Virginia Dickson

Lower House Chairman
Margie Bond

Day Student Representative
Ann Seitzinger

Christian Association

President

Teddy Bear

St rat ton Lee

Dot Spragens
Vice-President

Teddy Bear

Stratton Lee

Dot Spragens

Mary Cargill
Secretary

Bet Patterson

Agnes Harnesberger

Kathryn Johnson
Treasurer

Agnes Harnesberger

Bet Patterson

Kathryn Johnson

Millie Evans

President
Dot Spragens

Vice-President
Teddy Bear

Secretary
Bet Patterson

Treasurer

Agnes Harnesberger

(Continued on Page 3)

GOLD SHIELD CLEANING CAN DO "PLENTY'
FOR A TIRED DRESS OR SUIT

GOLD SHIELD

LAUNDERERS - CLEANERS

I . . .

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945

Page 3

Athletic Association

President

Sarah Walker

Sally Sue Stephenson
Vice-President

Sally Sue Stephenson

Sarah Walker

Vicky Alexander
Secretary

Betty Andrews

Genet Heery

Ann Hough

Cookie Miller
Treasurer

Genet Heery

Betty Andrews

Ann Hough

Margaret Cochran

Editor

Celetta Powell
Peggy Willmon
Maudie VanDyke

Associate Editor
Celetta Powell
Maudie VanDyke
Peggy Willmon

Assistant Editors
Sweetie Calley
Marie Adams
Janice Latta
Punky Mattison
Mary Ann Martin

Business Manager
Martha Baker
Jane Bowman
Harding Ragland
Peggy Willmon

Advertising Manager
Louisa Aichel
Dot Peace
Virginia Dickson

Editor

Bunny Weeras
Ruth Simpson
Shirley Graves
Jean Rooney

Managing Editor
Bunny Weems
Ruth Simpson
Jean Rooney

Business Manager
Jean Rooney
Joyce Gilleland

President.
Sarah Walker

Vice-President

Sally Sue Stephenson

Secretary
Ann Hough

Treasurer
Genet Heery

Silhouette

Editor-
Peggy Willmon

Associate Editor
Leila Powell

Assistant Editor
Sweetie Calley

Assistant Editor
Punky Mattison

Business Manager-
Jean Rooney

Advertising Manager-
Louisa Aichel

Aurora

Editor

Shirley Graves

Managing Editor
Bunny Weems

Business Manager
Joyce Gilleland

(Continued on Page 4)

Granddaughters
Plan Banquet

For the first time in four years
the Granddaughters Club will have
its annual banquet. The affair will
be held April 21 in the Alumnae
House for members and thir dates.

During the dinner, guests will
be entertained by a humorous pro-
gram. Afterwards games will be
the diversion of the evening.

Committee chairmen are: enter-
tainment, Lidie Lee; invitations,
Kate Ellis; decorations, Mary
Emily Harris.

McCON NELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

Visit Your Neighbor

Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

801 Church St. DE. 3309

The Belles of St Agnes

By Carolyn Fuller

Families have come from far and wide to visit Hottentots,
spring holidays-less. Lucky ones were Glassell Beale, Bettye
Smith, Peggy Perez, Phia Pedakis, Rite Watson, Alice Beards-
ley Mary Brown Mahon, Nina Owens, Robin Robinson, Lu
Cunningham, Ann Noell, Edith Burgess, Eva Williams,
Gloria Gaines," Betsy Brown, Jean

Fuller, Mary Ann Bach and Lee
Brewer.

Some live near enough to go
home . . . Betty Turner taking
Janet Liddell to her Thomasville
home; Lorenna Ross, Caroline
Squires, and Dot Almond to Char-
lotte; Midge Haddock to Birming-
ham, Ala., to visit; Janice Latta
and Anne Eidson with Nina Owens
to her home in Roanoke, Ala.; El-
len Morrison and June Driskell to
June's home in Lynchburg, Va.;
Wendy Whittle and Jeanne Addi-
son to Lib Farmer's in Spartan-
burg, S. C; Mary Helen House
to Birmingham, Ala.

After exams Martha Baker and
Leila Holmes were in Macon,
Claire Rowe and Doris Purcell at
Doris' in Cartersville; Annette Ne-
villel went to Walhalla, S. C, Pat-
tie Dean to Anderson, S. C. Jane
Everett had Martha Polk and Sue
Watkins go home with her to Ma-
con for the week-end. Betty Pat-
rick went home to King's Moun-
tain ... to see Jim!

Formal

At the annual Sigma Chi For-
mal Saturday night at the Bilt-
more were Sweetie Calley, Anne
Scott, G. G. Gilleland, Mary Fran-
ces Anderson, Dale Bennett, and
Betty Andrews.

K. A.'s at Tech entertained Vir-
ginia Dickson, Mary Jane Fuller,
Margaret Scott, Mary McCalla,
Ann Hough, and Hilda Taber Sat-
urday at a weiner roast.

Round Town
With the cares of exams lifted
from their minds, Agnes Scotters
i have set about enjoying this spring
| . . . Tennyson was right. Ceevah
Rosenthal and Scottie Newell din-
ed at the Empire Room Monday
night. Tuesday night found Beth
Walton and Mary Beth Little at
f the Mirador Room, while Mary

Brown Mahon and Louise Starr
were at the Empire Room.

Dancing at the Paradise Room
Wednesday night were Midge Had-
dock and Ruth Anderson. Betty
Andrews went to the Rainbow
Roof Friday night when Margaret
McManus was at the Capital City
Club. Marjorie Harris and Jim
were at the Paradise Room Sat-
urday night.

Music Appreciation
Hour

Mr. Hodson will be in charge o*
the Music Appreciation Hour to be
given Monday, April 2, in Maclean
Auditorium. He has announced
that it will be an all Brahms pro-
gram. The program for this con-
cert will be given later.

March 20-24 $18.S5 worth of
war stamps sold.

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning March 28

Wednesday -Thursday
ABBOTT and C0STELL0
LOST IN A HAREM"

Friday
Gary COOPER in
"CASANOVA BROWN'

Saturday
"SEVEN DOORS TO DEATH"

and

"SAN FERNANDO VALLEY"

Monday-Tuesday
"THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU"

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

BALLARD'S

Dispensing Opticians

WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO.

THREE STORES

105 PEACHTREE STREET, N. E.
MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING
W. W. ORR DOCTORS BUILDING

Page 4

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945

Give a Gal a Horse

Lapp s Lively Academy Offers
Eight North Carolina Horses

By Martha Baker

Down past the May Day Dell,
now lush and green, down past
the tennis courts, lined and wait-
ing for tennis enthusiasts, across
the road, and down, the embank-
ment, is a ring as magical as any
fairy circle. It's the new riding
ring, where from now until the
end of school, on every afternoon,
Mrs. Harriette Lapp, assistant pro-
fessor of physical education, will
hold what we, the unlucky onlook-
ers, may call "Lapp's Lively Rid-
ing Academy for Agnes Scott Stu-
dents."

Yes, riding is back at Agnes
Scott for the first time since pre-
war days. But maybe you've al-
ready noticed some few walking
rather gingerly these past days,
or heard others with less pride and
more soreness exclaim, "Oh, my
aching back!"

A

Good Dictionary
Is a

Faithful Friend

Our Book Shop has a com-
plete line of brand new and
time-tested dictionaries that
will make theme-writing
easier on the nerves of stu-
dent and teacher.

BOOK SHOP
MEZZANINE

The horses, rather shy at first,
are owned by Mr. Frank Bell of
Tuxedo, N. C, who calls them
"his babies" for he raised each
one. If you ask him to talk about
his horses, he'd probably name
them so lovingly that you'd auto-
matically catch his enthusiasm
You'd find yourself heading for
the ring to see Hindu, the sorrel
Fair Day, the sorrel "with the
white face" and Scatterbrain, the
rich chestnut or Dark Plot or
Rex the bays or Skyrocket, the
brown one who looks as if she'd
not have energy to lift one dainty
front paw, but instead is more
spirited than even Scatterbrain.
And then perhaps you'd stroke Sil-
ver and greet with real recogni-
tion Princess Pat, whose name,
so Mr. Bell claimed, was prede-
termined "Isn't she the daughter
of Queen and wasn't she born on
March 17?" But, Mr. Bell, you'd
insist, she's not very Irish looking.

And if you continued talking
to him, suddenly you'd realize that
instead of horses, philosophy had

DECATUR THEATER

Program For Week Beginning
WEDNESDAY, March

27th

WEDNESDAY
Donald O'Conner-Peggy Ryan in
"CHIP OFF THE OL DBLOCK"

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Eddie BRACKEN - Ella RAINES in
"HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO"

SATURDAY
"TRIGGER LAW"

and

"THE GOOD FELLOWS"

MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Frederic MARCH - Alexis SMITH in
'THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN"

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

Spying
On Sports

By Dot Lee Webb

Our volleyball season is already
well under way this early in the
new quarter, and the first official
game will be played next Friday
when the juniors meet the sopho-
mores and the seniors play the
freshmen. Cocky Cochran, man-
ager, has announced the follow
ing class managers: Virginia
Tucker for the freshmen, Anna
George Dobbins for the sopho-
mores, Jeanne Addison for the ju-
niors, and Anabel Bleckley Bick
ford for the seniors. According to
Cocky, the playing so far has been
unusually good, and a very good
and exciting season is expected.
The beginners are to play at 3, and
the teams at 4 on Fridays.

The new feature in our cam-
pus life is here. The horses
have arrived, and riding has be-
g*un. It's the first time we have
had riding among our sports in
several years, and those who are
taking it are already enthusias-
tic about the course.
Speaking of horses reminds us
that this is our last roundup for
this column. It's been lots of fun
telling about the activities in va-
rious sports and clubs, the enter-
tainments sponsored by A. A., and
that wonderful accomplishment of
the painting of the board room.
We've even enjoyed the feud with
Bobby Fitzgerald, sports editor of
the Emory Wheel the feud which
came about through our efforts to
get Blue Horse wrappers.

somehow crept into the conversa-
tion. Or maybe, this pleasant sun-
burned camp director had forgot-
ten he was talking to a stranger.
You were another one of his "boys"
at Camp Mondamin outside Tuxedo
in the North Carolina hills.

The period over, rather reluc-
tantly you'd leave, feeling that
horseback riding had gotten off to
a good start . . . that you were
glad you'd talked to Mr. Bell and
seen his horses through his eyes.
As you'd walk the railroad tracks
back to school, you'd glance smug-
ly at the temoprary stables new-
ly built behind the steam plant,
and already you'd be mentally ap-
plying for that summer job just
to make sure you'd be a member
of "Lapp's Lively Academy."

Alles van die beste . . . Have a Coke

( ALL THE BEST )

...giving the %ood word h\ South Africa*

Have a Coke is a simple gesture of good will that lets people know
you wish them well. In Capetown, as in Columbus or Concord,
Coca-Cola turns refreshment time into friendship time, has be-
come a# symbol of good feeliog among friendly-minded folks.

BOTTlD UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY

The ATLANTA COCA COLA BOTTLING CO.

"Cokc"e Coca-Cola

1 You naturally bear Coca-Cola
k called by 1U fnvrxUy <
l"Colce" Both mean the quality prod
1 uc: of The Coca-Cola Company.

Agnes Scott News

Editor

Martha Baker

Jeanne Addison

Mary Ann Courtenay
Managing Editor

Mary Ann Courtenay

Jeanne Addison

Jane Bowman
Assistant Editor

Joanne Benton

Alice Beardsley

Dale Bennett

Helen Currie
Business Manager

Jane Ann Newton

Dootsie Gardner

p ^gy Jones
Advertising Manager

Jane Ann Newton

Jean Rooney

Dootsie Gardner
Assistant Advertising Manager-
Alice Newman

Laura Winchester

Betty Andrews

Sweetie Calley

Ann Hough

Mary McCalla

Editor

Martha Baker

Managing Editor
Jane Bowman

Assistant Editor
Dale Bennett

Assistant Editor
Joanne Benton

Business Manager-
Peggy Jones

Advertising Manager-
Jane Ann Newton

Assistant Advertising Manager- -
Mary McCalla

Assistant Advertising Manager-
Alice Newman

Lecture Association

President

Shirley Graves

Ellen Hayes

Betty Long

Lib Woodward
Treasurer

Ellen Hayes

Harding Ragland

Lib Woodward

Chairman

Dootsie Gardner
Pudden Bealer

Chairman

Maudie Van Dyke
Lura Johnston
Helen Roper

President

Lib Woodward

Treasurer

Harriet McAllister

May Day

Chairman

Dootsie Gardner

War Council

Student Chairman
N ancy Hardy

HOTEL CANDLER

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Operator

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

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and loveliness of every woman's nails. Goes on so s-m-o-o-t-h-
1-y... Dries so fast and completely ... Stays on and on. Smart
women, everywhere, keep Dura-Gloss always "on hand.". . .

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THE EMERY BORED

The Foo News Covers
Scott Like the Smoke

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., APRIL 1, 1945

NO. n

Eleanor's Hot Spot Surf Club
To Open Friday Afternoon

Sporty

News

By Watley Debb

I, Watley Debb, have the diffi-
cult task of informing my read-
ers that I am about to retire.
I am leaving to join the Physical
Education Staff of Tusckeget In-
stitute.

However, there is one bright
spot in the gloom, one silver lin-
ing to the cloud caused by my im-
pending departure: Mr. Robert
"Bobby" Fitzgerald, sports editor
emeritus of the Emory Wheel (re-
ported to have rolled for the last
time), has kindly consented to
take over this column in addition
to his already burdensome duties

Mr. Fitzgerald has also offer-
ed to donate his entire salary
to the Agnes Scott Fund for
Toothless Dogs in Montenegro).
Mr. Fitzgerald, I thank you in
behalf of Agnes Scott.

Yours in sportsmanship,
Watley Debb.

Sinatra Arrives
To Sell Bonds

Frank Sinatra, crooner and
bobby sock president, will be on
campus Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday as the guest of War
Council to participate in the an-
nual War Bond Drive.

This year, to boost sales, the
purchaser of each war bond over
$100 will be allowed to request any
song of the popular singer.

Frances Browser, War Council
president, has requested "no
swooning," stating that the idol
of millions "is unprepared for such
a responsive greeting."

Sinatra is expected to sell sev-
eral million dollars worth of bonds
as the bookstore reports "no sales"
for the past weeks. The whole
campus has been hoarding their al-
lowances for the coming occasion.

A reception has been planned for
Friday night at the Pairadice
Room. Only those who bought
bonds at the oftemoon sale will
be admitted.

The season's official opening of
Eleanor's Hot Spot Surf Club will
be at the White House here Friday
afternoon.

Loads of beach sand are being
imported from New Guinea to re-
mind our first lady of her travels
in the Pacific. Colorful beach um-
brellas will adorn the newly made
beach and waitresses from the
White House will serve pink Lem-
onade and zwiebach to the beach-
combers hourly. Those who are
interested may go up to the Gold
Room at the White House and
dance to the music of the String
Ensemble.

Important dignitaries who will
be present at the opening will be
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wrappers. A. A. is hoping to win
a 1945 convertible with the Her-
shey wrappers. So before you eat
that Hershey, take the wrapper
off.

SPLASH

Announcement comes from
Mr. S. G. Spooks' office today
that after today the faculty of
Agnes Scott will take over the
job of smashing tin cans per-
manently.

"It is felt that the students
already have too much work to
do, and the faculty are more
than willing to relieve them of
this little chore," the announce-
ment stated.

Members of the faculty were-
unavailable for comment (That
is, comment that could be pub-
lished.)

A Boy's-<^ View

of AGGIE

This perservering young frosh
has occupied the corner room of
Inman for the past three years and
is looking forward to being a
sophomore next fall.

Aggie is a normal American girl
despite the fact that she speaks
only Japanese and German and
dislikes the opposite sex vehement-
ly.

Her favorite subject at Agnes
Scott is Music Appreciation. When
asked why, she said simply "Be-
cause music is music." Oil paint-
ing is a hobby of Aggie's and she
has dozens of masterpieces which
no one has ever seen.

Members of the college com-
munity will never forget the time
Aggie's family made an extended
visit in this vicinity. Her father,
the owner of a three-ring circus,
pitched the big tent on the quad-
rangle and gave two shows a day
until the DeKalb county Sanitary
Dept. compelled him to leave on
account of the elephants. Aggie's
ambition is to get her B. C. (Bach-
elor of the circus) degree so she
can take over the management of
the circus.

To know Aggie is an experi-
ence. To experience, according to
Webster, is to undergo personally.

Tattle Tale
Gray

By Fat Peel'em

Members of the faculty were
seen hiding Easter eggs on April
Fool's Day.

Many people said "Rabbit-Rab-
bit" on April 1 for good luck. But
on second thought, do you think
the rabbits understood?

Previews

Three Agnes Scott girls were so
embarrassed over the laughing at
their new Easter bonnets when
they wore them on a preview visit
Friday night that they hid them
on Easter morning, and refused to
be seen in them.

Gooses Reduced

All the slightly plump people on
campus are goose stepping in or-
der to reduce after their efforts
at duck walking failed to gain re-
sults.

Open House

The Inman basement was the
scene of a gala open house for the
Stone Mountain chapter of the A.
T. ?' s (better known as, After
This, What?)

Fog Horns

Many Hottentots are joining the
Navy this week because the Navy
needs people without voices. So if
you don't have a voice, you might
still be a fog horn. The recruits
will be stationed off the coast of
Maine as Waves. The Navy wants
you.

Taustasia 7
Opens With
Met Opera

The senior class has been in-
vited by the Metropolitan Opera
Company to present its opera,
Faustasia, in New York this sum-
mer for the music lovers of Ameri-
ca.

Virginia Garter, leading sopra-
no, and Dottie Can't, outstanding
tenor, are expected to roll the
people in the aisles.

After spending the summer
months in New York, many of the
cast will take their places beside
the Met. stars for the duration.
Others because of their dancing
abilitiy will hit the Broadway
stage literally.

All Hottentots are urged to be
seniors so that they too may be
successful.

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pouring in, oozing with news about
science many letters will come
that in the interest of popular
much to each student. It is hoped
constituents of oleo may reveal
tion is essential. Analyses of the
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letter to the editor on "Why We
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All money will be given to the
tions alone.

ing the past year from subscrip-
ure that it has cleared $1,500 dur-
nounces with the greatest of pleas-
The Agnes Scott News an-

In Letter Contest
$1,500 Grand Prize

Naval Unit Coming
To Agony April 1

Would You Take

A Man?

Agnes Scott requests and
urge your presents at the mar-
riage of its two granddaughters,
Naomi Gray and Mary Goings, to
be held in Presser Hall immedi-
ately after graduation, (if it ever
ends!)

Those who wish may remain for
the marriage ceremony to be per-
formed by any preacher in the
house. There will be 100 senior
bridesmaids gowned alike in black
robes and caps, 100 sophomore
bridesmaids dressed alike in white,
and no groomsmen.

The bride will throw her diploma
from the stage into the audience.
The lucky one who catches it may
graduate.

There will be a wedding break-
fast in the white dining room in
Rebekah after the wedding cere-
mony.

All wedding guests must be reg-
istered by 6 p. m on the day before
the wedding.

A unit of the Navy's V-8 pro-
gram will take over Main dormi-
tory on April 1, according to a re-
cent announcement made by Dr.
% Q. McPain, president.

The students now living in this
dormitory will move into rooms
which have just been constructed
in the basement of the same build-
ing. "Nothings is too good for our
boys in the service," President Mc-
Pain stated.

Upon request of the Navy, a
wartime emergency program will
be inaugurated when the unit
takes over. Therefore, the curricu-
lum of the whole school will be
changed to meet these measures.
Instead of emphasizing the liberal
arts, the Navy program calls for
a conservative practical program.
Emphasis will be placed on facts
. . . hard facts. Several new de-
grees will be* offered including the
"S. A." (Sailing ability) and the
BOY (Bachelor of Yatchting).

Water tactics will take place on
the lake being constructed on the
old hockey field.

The appearance of the Navy
means a change in the sports cal-
endar. Now, main attention will
center on the water sports while
competition will be encouraged be-
tween Navy teams and the college
teams.

The semester system will take
the place of the quarter system.
This change will begin at a future
date in June when a two month
vacation with merit hours will be
given before the new semester be-
gins in September.

The Emery Bored

editor by Looloo and Palooza.

THE FOO NEWS COVERS SCOTT LIKE the SMOKE

OUR PLATFORM:

1. A paid staff

2. A special car for the use of the staff

3. (Censored)

4. Big-name bands for all of our dances.

5. A date for every Hottentot every Saturday night

PMHD ' UJ3 iq J d

The attention of all Hottentots is now focused on the slav-
ery situation in Montenegro. This problem: to have slaves
or not to have them is a problem that we can and must do
something about today.

Because we are Hottentots ourselves and slaves to our
studies, we can sympathize with and try to free the slaves
of Montenegro. It is of vital importance to the campus to
make the outcome of this issue successful.

With our education and insight we should be able to see
the state that Montenegro will be forced into if they are
made slaves to their work or we are. Gradually they may
even approach a civilized attitude toward education, and this ;
would ruin their lives forever.

So it is up to each Hottentot to go to chapel tomorrow and
to vote intelligently on the slavery question. And don't vote
blindly. Got into chapel with both of your eyes open. (Chapel
will be held at 11:30 to accomodate the students here who
can't open their eyes earlier.) Read up on the situation.

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"Into Our Boots
And Saddles'

One of the greatest aids to
rainy weather has been suggested
today by J. C. Smart. He is per-
sonally going to furnish surreys
with fringes on the tops for every
dormitory to ride in to classes.
Miss Trotter, riding instructor,
will furnish plenty of horses for
the surreys. In this small way
it is hoped that many lives will
be saved, and that many girls will
even get to classes on time. Miss
Trotter's slogan is "We want Hot-
tentots to trot."

HAPPY EASTER

McCON NELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave,

Visit Your Neighbor

Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP
Ml Church St. DE. 3309

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

HOTEL CANDLER

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Operator

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

Nourishing Editorial

Food is plentiful, and you are urged to waist it! Eating
the greatest amount of food possible is the best way to gain
Whatever you wish. By cooperation with the dining room
in every respect, the surplus food will soon become surplus
fat. This is the aim of all

"We'll eat more meat,
And the surplus food will go to de-feat."
Another familiar quotation is fitting to this question of
more food for Hottentots:

" Eat, eat, and be merry,
For tomorrow there may not be any."

So take heed, and eat as much as you can, letting it all
go to waist.

Advice to Virgins

Never let it be said that an issue of the Emery Bored
(which incidentally, covers Scott like the Train smoke) ap-
peared without constructive advice for the student body. This
week our message is taken from Herring for the benefit of
all those sophomores who are studying now for the Fact
Test. It is, and we quote:

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Because if you wait till tomorrow Ujenya may catch
you in the Alumni Garden."
or to translate rather freely,

"Up my friend and quit your books,
If winter comes, you won't be able to take a sun bath."
which is something we've all thought but never been able
to say quite so well.

The point is this waste time while you have it to waste.
Get a tan. Get a man. Watch your looks. Forget your books.
Relax. Have fun. Enjoy life. (Editor's note: Phi Beta Kappa
will be announced Sunday.)

DECATUR THEATER

Week Beginning April 4

Wed.-Thurs,
'LAURA"

Friday

"MADE FOR EACH OTHER"

Saturday
"MURDER IN BLUE ROOM"
and

THE BIG NOISE"

Mon.-Tues.
Ronald Coleman in
"KISMET"

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

MERRY
CHRISTMAS

DeKALB THEATER

Program for Wednesday, April 4th

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday
Alexander Knox-Geraldyne
Fitzgerafd in
"WILSON "

Saturday
"TRAIL TO GUNSIGHT"
and

'HENRY ALDRICH PLAYS
CUPID"

Monday - Tuesday
Deanna Durbln - Gene Kelly in
"CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY"

The Only True Words

This really is the last issue of
the News to be put out by the
old beat-up staff. The new staff
wiD put out the next issue near
the last of April when they have
completely organized for the
coming year.

$1,000,000 New
High for War Fund

The Agnes Scott War Fund
goal of one million dollars ($1,000,
000) has been exceeded by several
hundred thousand dollars, the to
tal fund being 51,300,000, War
Council Chairman Frances
Browser announced today.

For this reason, Chairman
Browser pleads, do not give any
more money to the War Fund. We
already have too much ,the treas-
urer will have too much work to
do, and besides, it will be unpatri-
otic.

'The Wearing
Of the Jeans'

All students are urged to wear
blue jeans as much as possible
this quarter. They typify our col-
lege as droopy Hair does Vassar, as
sloppy sweaters do Wellesley, as
Johnny and Barbara, as Leila and
Harry, as Howard and Art, as the
campus and onions, as Miss Mac
and malaria, as Miss Symms and
the Alumnae Association.

Blue jeans, furthermore, show
our cooperation with the war ef-
fort. They last longer, they show
less dirt, and look better on every-
body. "It's not the clothes you
have, it's the way you wear them
that matters," said one wise sage.
So hold your head high, and on to
victory by wearing more blue
jeans!

Lydia E. Pinkham will bo at
the next lecture to appear on
the campus. After lecturing to
the college community, she will
give special classes for faculty
members.

Miss Scatrat announced today
that a course in divorce will be of-
fered next year. All engaged and
married women on campus are
urged to sign up immediately for
the course. Causes for divorce will
be discussed by some of the most
prominent lawyers of this country.

Milk Production

Daily average milk production
throughout the country during
February was three percent above
that of February, 1944, according
to the Extension Service. Milk pro-
duction per cow on March 1 was
the largest ever reported for that
date, and the number of cows on
farms was at near record level.

Can You Spare
That They Can
Wear?

The United National Cloth-
ing Drive and War Devas-
tated People of the world
need your help.

They need used, but usable
clothing, shoes, bedding.
Collect all your can.

PRINTING

Business Stationery
Personal Stationery

Announcements
Placards

Your Particular Job the Way You Want It

New Era Publishing Co.

128 Atlanta Ave.

DEarborn 5785

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945

NO. 22

MARJORIE NAAB
President of Student Government

MARGUERITE TOOLE
President of Mortar Board

Mrs. Note stein,
Dr. J. A. Jones
To Speak

Dr. James A. Jones, Presby-
terian minister, and Ada Corn-
stock Notestein (Mrs. Wallace
Notestein), dean emeritus of Rad-
cliffe College, will be the principal
speakers at the baccalaureate and
commencement exercises June 3
and 4.

The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by Dr. Jones at 11 a.
m. Sunday, June 3. Mrs. Note-
stein will make the commence-
ment address at 10 a. m. on Mon-
day, June 4. Both programs will
be given in Gaines Chapel.

Dr. Jones is pastor of Myers
Park Presbyterian church in Char-
lotte, N. C. He is a graduate of
Davidson college and the Union
Theological Seminary in Virginia.
His wife, the former Mary Boyd,
is an alumna of Agnes Scott.

Before coming to Radcliffe in
1923, Mrs. Notestein was dean at
Smith college. Among her honors
are memberships on the advisory
committee of the National Broad-
casting Company and the advisory
board of the Encyclopedia Britan-
nica Foundation. She is a Phi Beta
Kappa member and the former
president of the American Associ-
ation of University Women.

Campus Elects
'45-'46 Officers

Marjorie Naab has taken over the duties of president
of student government for 1945-1946, following the election
of campus organization leaders at student meetings March
28 and 29 in Gaines chapel.

Dot Spragens was elected president of Christian Associa-
tion, and Sarah Walker was nam-

Scenario Shows
The Creation

SARAH WALKER
President of Athletic Association

DOROTHY SPRAGENS
President of Christian Association

Prefers Teaching

Mary Ellen Chase Praises
Georgia Red Clay, Smith Girls

By Dale Bennett

"I think I really came to Georgia tQ see your red clay/' said
Miss Mary Ellen Chase, peering through a window of Rebe-
kah Scott last Thursday. "I've never been this far south be-
fore, and I've certainly never seen anything like this in
Maine," she added

Miss Chase, noted New England
author and teacher, commented
thus on Georgia when she first ar-
rived at Agnes Scott. On campus
for five days, April 20 through 24,
she is giving a series of lectures
under the auspices of the Eng-
lish department. Her intense in-
terest in everything about her. has
already endeared Miss Chase to
the Agnes Scott community.
Prefers Young People

Professor of English at Smith
College, Miss Chase says frankly
that sl.e prefers teaching and
working with young people to
writing. She commented on the in-
terest taken in current world af-
fairs at Smith by the girls, who are
definitely aware of the war and its
effects. Shoveling snow, waiting
on tables three times a day, wash-
ing dishes, keeping dormitories
clean are some of the ways the
girls there feel the war, says Miss
Chase. She added that their in-
terest in world affairs is also evi-
dent in the frequent lectures and
week-end discussion groups, when
the girls have such people as Les-
ter Granger and Vera Micheles
Dean speak to them. "An out-
standing example of their interest
I noted during spring holidays,"
said Miss Chase, "was when 142
girls remained at school to take

a Red Cross Nurses' Aid course."

The President's death also
aroused much sympathy and inter-
est at Smith, she said. The faculty
and students spent much of Friday
finding a speaker, preparing
hymns, etc., for a service held Sat-
urday. "Both faculty and students
deeply felt the event," she added.

First Story on Football

In speaking of her writing, Miss
Chase pointed out the difficulties
of preparing to write. "It takes
about a year just to write each
book," she stated, "besides time for
reading and planning." Miss Chase
has written several novels about
her native Maine, "Silas Crockett"
and "Mary Peters"; also "A Good-
ly Heritage," "A Goodly Fellow-
ship," "Windswept," "The Bible
and the Common Reader," and
"Dawn in Lyonesse." Her book,
"This England" was written about
the English people and life while
she was spending two years there

Her early attempts at author-
ship Miss Chase recalls with a
laugh. "I sold my first story to
the American Boy magazine for
SIT," she chuckled. "It was about
football!" When she was seven-
teen, Miss Chase wrote a story
called "Why I Wouldn't Marry
(Continued on Page 4)

LaNelle Wright
Heads Blackfriars

LaNelle Wright succeeds Jean
Hood as president of Blackfriars
for 1945-46 following annual elec-
tion last Thursday night. April 19.

Assisting her will be Martha
Polk, vice-president and chairman
of club programs; Alice Beardsley,
secretary; and Anne Hill Jackson,
treasurer.

As make-up chairman, Barbara
Kincaid will assume a newly cre-
ated office. Angela Pardington will
be in charge of costumes: Lura
Johnston, publicity; Peggy Van
Hook, programs; and Margaret
McManus, properties.

LaNelle Wright last year super-
vised costumes and played a star-
ring role in "Spider Island," the
club's fall presentation.

Dr. Greene Speaks
To Phi Beta Kappas

Dr. Theodore Greene, professor
of philosophy at Princeton Uni-
versity, spoke at the annual Phi
Beta Kappa chapel exercieses
April 6, when the 1944-45 chapter
was announced.

Newly elected members an-
nounced by Miss Muriel Harn,
president of the Beta chapter of
Georgia, are Anne Anderson, Vir-
ginia Bowie, Virginia Carter, Bet-
ty Glenn, Martha Jean Gower,
Marion Leathers, Inge Probstein,
Jodele Tanner, and Dorothy Lee
Webb.

Speaking on "The Liberal Edu-
cation," Dr. Greene declared that
a liberal arts education gives one
the ability to express oneself in
words; to understand the signifi-
cance of facts; and to relate all his
knowledge with mature perspec-
tive.

ed head of Athletic Association.

Mary Russell, newly elected vice
president of student government,
heads the judicial work of the or-
ganization. Others elected are
Betty Jean Radford, secretary;
Laura Winchester, treasurer; Mil-
dred McCain, orientation chair-
man; Claire Rowe, president of
Rebekah; Anne Register, presi-
dent of Main; Vicky Alexander,
president of Inman; Virginia Dick-
son, student recorder; Mac Craig,
chairman of lower house; and Ann
Seitzinger, day student represent-
ative.

Sharing the leadership of two
all-campus organizations are Ted-
dy Bear and Sally Sue Stephen-
son, new vice-presidents of Chris-
tian Association and Athletic As-
sociation, respectively.

Peggy Willmon will head the
staff of the Silhouette, with Leila
Powell as associate editor and Jean
Gilleland, business manager.

Shirley Graves was chosen edi-
tor of Aurora. Bunny Weems was
named managing editor, and Joyce
Gilliland, business manager.

Bet Patterson was elected secre-
tary, and Agnes Harnsberger,
treasurer of Christian Association.
Ann Hough and Genet Heery will
assume the duties of secretary
and treasurer, respectively, of
Athletic Association.

New officers of Lecture Associa-
tion are Betty Long, president, and
Ellen Hayes, treasurer. Dootsie
Gardner was named chairman of
May Day, and Maudie Van Dyke,
chairman of War Council.

Others elected include Sweetie
Calley and Punky Mattison, as-
sistant editors of the Silhouette;
Louisa Aichel, advertising man-
ager of the Silhouette; Dale Ben-
nett and Joanne Benton, assistant
editors of The News; Jane Ann
Newton, advertising manager of
The News; Mary McCalla and
Alice Newman, assistant advertis-
ing managers of The News.

Pate Book

Wed., Apr. 25 San
Conference.

Francisco

Thurs., Apr. 26 Confederate Me-
morial Day.

Fri., Apr. 27 The Spring Holiday.
Betty Jane Hancock Moore's re-
cital in Gaines Chapel, 8 p. m.,
assisted by Barbara Hatch.

Sat., Apr. 28 Outing Club takes
overnight camping: trip to North
Fulton Park.

Sat., Apr. 29 Group leaves for
Lawson at 2 p. m.
Vespers, 6:30.

Mon., Apr. SO

Tues., May 1 Full dress rehearsal
for May Day, 4:S0, in May Day
Dell.

"The Creation" will be presented
in the May Day Dell, Saturday,
May 5, at 5 p. m. Full dress re-
hearsals are scheduled for Tues-
day and Thursday, May 1, and 3,
The scenario was written by a se-
nior, Martha Jean Gower. Miss
Roberta Winter, instructor in
speech, will be narrator.

The biblical play will be pre-
snted to the May Queen, Ann
Equen; the Maid of Honor, Scott
Newell; Crown bearer, Kady Mac-
Gregory and the entire May
Court composed of representatives
from the classes. Class representa-
tives include Montene Melson,
Jeanne Robinson, and Martha
Whatley Yates, seniors; Margaret
Bear, Eugenia Jones, and Gloria
Ann Melchor, juniors; Ann Scott,
Virginia Dickson, Mary Jane Ful-
ler, sophomores; Erin Rayfield,
and Nancy Deal, freshmen.

May Day is under the direction
of Miss Eugenia Dozier and Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn. Masks for
the various animals participating
were made by the Art depart-
ment. Mr. Deickmann's music will
be used for the score and Mrs.
John Espy will be accompanist.

Last year "The Making of the
Rainbow," written by Tommy
Huie, was presented at May Day.

Classes Elect
New Leaders

In class meetings on April 6,
officers for the coming year were
elected. These girls assumed their
duties immediately after election.

The officers of the senior class
are: Helen Roper, president;
Jeanne Addison, vice-president;
and Barbara Kincaid, secretary-
treasurer. Jean Stewart and Lu-
cile Beaver are the two senior
cottage presidents.

The president of the junior class
is Dot Peace; the vice-president is
Margaret McManus; and the sec-
retary-treasurer is Marie Adams.
Jane Meadows and Rosemary
Jones were elected cottage presi-
dents, and Nellie Scott and Nelson
Fisher were elected to War Coun-
cil. Anna George Dobbs is day
student representative.

The sophomore class chose Lou
McLaurin for president, Ann Page
Violette for vice-president, and
Lida Walker for secretary-treas-
urer. Adele Dieckmann, Amelia
Davis, and Dabney Adams are
their student government repre-
sentatives. Tina Hewson was
elected to War Council.

Page 2

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS

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.

Member

Ffcsocicrfed GoUe6iate Press

EDITORIAL STAFF

MARTHA BAKER

_ _ _ JAXE BOWMAN

Assistant Editors

Joanne Benton
Dale Bennett

Copy Editor

Alice Beardsley

Feature Editor Editorial Assistants

Nellie Scott Anne Noeli
Day Student Society Janice Latta
Jovce Gilleland

Sports Editor Society Editor

Ruth Ryner Lib Woodward

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson. Anne Lee, Anne Newborn.

Reporters: Joan Crangle, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson, Mildred Deneux, Dot Peace,
Peggy Pat Home, Jeanne Robinson, Li die Lee. Lura Johnston. Marty Mizell, Pattie
Dean, Marv Jane Fuller. Virginia Owens. Doris Kissling, Valeria Brown, Betty
Turner, Jean McCurry. Jean Rooney, Conradine Fraser, Alice Gordon, Ann Seitzinger,
Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Margaret Kinard.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager

Advertising Manager.

PEGGY JONES

_JANE ANNE NEWTON

Asst. Advertising Managers

Mary McCalla
Alice Newman

Circulation Manager

Doris Purcell

Circulation Assistants

Loreua Ross
Marie Adams

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie, Betty Andrews, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street,
Ann Hough, May Turner.

Pol

icy

A new staff offers you our first publication of The Agnes
Scott News. With printer's ink staining our hands and with
deep humility in our hearts, we set forth our policy:

(1) To interpret campus opinion correctly and unbiasedly;

(2) to cover all campus happenings adequately;

(3) to relate campus activities in terms of national and
international events;

(4) and last, but not least, to entertain.

We accept the challenge the student body offers us to
make The News the voice of the campus. We accept the chal-
lenge left by the 1944-45 staff in endeavoring to live up to
their splendid record of service.

We march forward news-bound!

The Problem

Last Thursday afternoon, the Lawson bus pulled up in
front of Main to take the girls to the monthly Thursday night
dance at the hospital. In a little while, after waiting vainly,
it drove off not even half filled. Twenty-six out of over 500
girls in school were on the bus.

The next time you overhear someone talk of "the veteran
problem," stop and think of "THE AGNES SCOTT PROB-
LEM" a problem which begins, as a lieutenant in the Army
Air Corps says, with "an unequality of sacrifice."

Can we grow up enough to develop a sense of values
and a sense of proportion equal to the soldier's.

Not until we even the "unequality of sacrifice" by finding
the time to spend at Lawson . . . can we solve "THE AGNES
SCO TT PROBLEMS."

The San Francisco Conference

The San Francisco Conference opened this morning. At-
tending this conference, which is of global importance, are
two students representing Southern colleges. They were
chosen from a group of delegates who met at Chapel Hill
last week.

Agnes Scott was invited to send a delegate to the meet-
ing at Chapel Hill. It is our opinion that the invitation
should have been known to the Student Body before it
was declined by the administration. We are red-blooded
Americans desirous of taking an active part in the world
today.

We realize that if Agnes Scott had sent a delegate to the
meeting at Chapel Hill her chances of being sent to the
San Francisco Conference would have been slim. Neverthe-
less the experience of the Chapel Hill meeting would have
been broadening and inspirational for Agnes Scott.

Two In One

We are college women. As members of a college commun-
ity we have group as well as individual responsibilities.
Whether we personally disagree with some of the rules of
Agnes Scott or not, we acknowledged our acceptance of
them upon entrance.

No blame lies on Student Government for enforcing the
rules. Of course, the fault can lie wholly in the rule itself.
Until the rule or rules can be changed, let us be mature
enough to accept not rebel.

See the painful part student government is pledged to
uphold. See the side of those involved. Every question has
two sides. Every rule two angles the right and the wrong.

Don' +

youu

+ Kirck she. + *ke
too se mC>u. iy ? "

Debaters Depart

Excitement and Victory Climax Trip
Hayes Sleeps in Fire Escape

By Dale Bennett

"A debating we will go" sang Peggy Willmon, Lib Osborne,
Louisa Aichel and I, while Mr. Hayes looked on smilingly (we
were probably off-key), and off we started for Charlotte,
N. C, one warm spring morning not long ago, to clash with
teams in the Grand Eastern Debate Tourney. A happy be-
ginning, we thought, until the taxi

proved to be twenty minutes late,
and we had to "fly low" to reach
the terminal at the designated
hour with five minutes to spare.
But you know how things are . . .
of course the train was forty-
five minutes late arriving.

Once aboard, however, we spread
over two whole sections of the
train and awaited tranquilly our
departure. After fifteen minutes
of growing impatience, Mr. Hayes
decided on a course of action and
left us to put it into effect. As
soon as he was out of sight the
train began to move, and immed-
iately four terrified girls ran,
screaming the length of the train,
"Stop," Halt," and other things.
For we knew what would happen
to us with no Mr. Hayes in Char-
lotte, (as the reader may imag-
ine), and we determined to stop
the train at all costs. When we
reached the end section we saw
an unbuckled car being drawn
away. Mr. Hayes must be on it!

After a few frantic seconds of
wails, the furor died enough and
we heard a familiar chuckle. We
were safe. There was Mr. Hayes
chatting blithely with the con-
ductor about the weather. After
that we were like shadows march-
ing in single file behind the leader.

Group Arrives

Disappointed that there were no
brass bands to meet us, we were
neverthless . cheerful when we
reached Charlotte. We remained
so until we reached the hotel.
No reservations. Apparently the
clerk had mistaken the year we
were coming. After much sweet
talk from Louisa, the business
manager of the expedition, how-
ever, we managed to get a dormi-
tory for us four and a cubby hole
for Mr. Hayes. Our room was fine,
large enough for ten. But Mr.
Hayes' was a different story. On
his door was a huge sign in bold
print: "Fire escape through here.
Use ax on door." And beside the
door was the ax.

The next morning we wcro up

bright and early. Most of us,
that is. Mr. Hayes had passed
out sleeping pills for frazzled
nerves. Louisa and Peggy slept
like babies under the effect, but
Lib and I, too wise to try such a
remedy, had talked all night
about the labor problem, etc.
The Amalgamated Foot-Stomp-
ers Union of America was hold-
in its annual meeting just above
us, an all night affair.

Oebate Begins
But then after a breakfast
made exciting by the loss of
Louisa (she was later found ex-
amining the debating rooms) we
gathered our many books and
note cards (psychology, to terri-
fy our opponents with our ma-
terial) we proceeded to the First
Baptist church for the big
events. Here I'll omit details.
They're gruesome, long, and in-
volved with labor troubles. At
six o'clock that night we went
back to our rooms, and dressed
for a celebration. What kind, we
couldn't decide. We didn't have
much hope for a favorable out-
come of our day's work. But
celebrate we did, with a big din-
ner, and amusing stories by Mr.
Hayes. Then back to the hotel
for the decisions. There were
thousands of others given first,
talks, book reviews, etc., and
then the debate decisions. Mis-
souri boys came first, and then
Agnes Scott, for the girls. Peg-
gy and Lib had come through
with flying colors. The rest we
won't mention. "It was better
than I expected, however," says
Mr. Hayes consolingly. But we
on joyed the evening with rugs
soon rolled back and the music
on.

The trip back was negligible as
far as excitement is concerned. A
tired, but happy bunch, with a new
song . . . "Don't send my child
to Mississippi the dying mother
said." . . . and this time Mr.
Hayes sang flat with us. We're all
getting in tune, you see, for next
year.

Out of the
Wood*

By Anne Noell

It has been my observation that
columns of this sort are usually
written with the use of the edi-

< _ s ^_ v torial "we," and

the whole thing
has been troubl-
ing me for two
weeks now. In
the first and
principal place,
there simply is
not enough of

x |>f me to make one

Anne Noell g O O d, VV e 1 1-

rounded whole much less "we."
So, if the faithful promise
to avoid the first person singular
as much as possible is given, may
I forego the deception?

On a recent trip home to see
the family, together for the first
time in four years, I also fra-
ternized a bit with Gene Kru-
pa, who had come to Newport
to play for Spotlight Bands at
our Marine Air Base. A delega-
tion of responsible persons from
the Coca-Cola Company and the
Blue Network were meeting ev-
ery train arriving that day, mine
included.
That afternoon, Krupa and my
brother arrived on the same train.
As we stood on the sidewalk while
Dad tried to decide how to trans-
port the remainder of the 36-piece
band to the base, people kept
crossing the street to speak to us.
Gene would smile expectantly, the
preacher or the banker would slap
my brother on the back and say:
"Gosh, Pope, but it's good to see
you," and Gene would only stand
and wait. At last, some high school
boys ventured to request his auto-
graph, but not until the Presbyter-
ian minister had leaned familiar-
ly on his shoulder for ten minutes
thinking the little fellow was
some friend of the family!

Miss Omwake's abnormal
psyefa class was (liseussing

synesthesia when it discovered
it had a real Case tor observa-
tion.

Jean Fuller reported that each
Protestant denomination brought
forth a certain color in her mind:
"Shell pink for Baptists, dark
brown Methodists, and crystal
Episcopalians. ... I think its' be-
cause of the color of my friends'
complexions."

Some thirty-odd daughters of
Rotarians were the guests of the
Atlanta Rotary Club for luncheon
Monday, pouring rain and all.
When President Bill Ellis mounted
the platform to thank the girls
for the program they had present-
ed, he made the statement that he
wished he had time to kiss all the
girls. Then he pulled out his
watch, decided he had time to kiss
one anyway, and called for the
little girl from Brazil who had
talked. Susan Neville responded
nobly by flinging her arms around
him in true Latin American spirit.
Then Mr. Ellis announced to the
laughter-filled room that Susan
was his niece from Augusta, Geor-
gia, who has spent the last sixteen
years in Brazil!

This is the first issue put out
by the now staff. Because there
has boon no paper since April 1,
the important happenings of the
past throe weeks have been cov-
ered.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945

Page 3

Important Addition

Small Paul Garber Attracts
Campus-wide Attention

By Nellie Scott

On the night of March 20, at 10:33, there arrived at Emory
hospital a new member of our college community, Paul Leslie
Garber, Jr. The proud father says, "The baby has hair like
mine the same color and not much of it. Like most very young
babies, he has blue eyes and is pretty husky and an unusual-
ly strong young'un/' The son ap- h mother and ^ Mebane
peared on the scene during exams, * /*" , , . . _

and his father had to rush back * Mrs. Garber s former home. On
from the hospital to give exams to his maternal side the baby is the
his Bible classes. eleventh grandchild, but he is the

On the Wednesday before Eas- first one on his paternal side, and

has caused a "big splash."

Leslie has now completed four
weeks of his life, and he will re-
turn to us soon. In his absence a
baby carriage has been acquired,
and our little friend will soon
make extensive tours of the cam-
pus. We are all looking forward to
the time when this "blue-eyed bun-
dle from heaven" will again be in
our midst.

ter, Leslie came to his home on
Faculty Row. Here there was an
Easter egg awaiting him that Neil
Johnson had thoughtfully sent.
On his first formal visit, little Mas-
ter Garber called on Neil who
thinks he doesn't cry enough. As
long as he is fed at the time he de-
sires his meals, Leslie has a very
happy disposition. He is quite a
busy boy, for he sleeps most of the
24 hours of the day. His nurse has
taught him to sleep on his "tum-
my," and he has found this to be
the happiest posture for his rest-
ing hours. His father says he is a
"good baby," and so far Dr. Gar-
ber hasn't passed a night "walk-
ing the floor." However, his time
may come.

Unique News Release Made
Though a little young to con-
verse intelligibly, Leslie has gra-
ciously received a number of visi-
tors. .Many students as well as
faculty members have visited him
at his home on 121 College place.
The Bible Club sent him a silver
spoon. Friends have already be-
stowed on him the inevitable nick-
names. His parents have decided
to call him Leslie, and we agree
with them that such epithets as
"small Paul" and "little Junior"
are not too euphonious or appro-
priate.

As theirs is an unusually fine
son, Dr. and Mrs. Garber sent to
their friends a unique announce-
ment of his arrival. It was printed
in the form of a special news bul-
letin which was to be released im-
mediately to the Atlanta Journal.
The notice stated that an import-
ant addition to the college com-
munity had been made. This new-
est member "received his previous
training from the Emory Univer-
sity hospital under the personal
supervision of Dr. R. A. Bartholo-
mew. The activity of this new
member is expected to contribute
largely to the Bible department
with which he is closely related."

Baby Takes a Trip

At the age of three weeks and
carrying an avoirdupois of ten and
one-half pounds, Leslie Garber
went to Mebane, North Carolina

Alumna Describes
War Duty Overseas

Liza King, '38, was a visitor on
campus Thursday, April 19.

Since her graduation from Ag-
nes Scott Miss King has had many
extremely interesting experiences
in her work with a clubmobile unit
overseas, first in England and later
in France. In France she was
placed in charge of all the girls in
her unit, with the responsibility
of seeing that they were all fed
and sheltered.

Just forty days after the in-
vasion of Normandy, Miss King
reached the continent with the
first clubmobile unit to enter
France.

As they were boarding the ship
on the way over the commanding
officer looked at them scornfully
and said, "I was expecting tanks,
and they send dames!" Despite
this discouraging reception Miss
King felt that she and her friends
were really needed. The way the
tired servicemen's faces lighted up
when they appeared was reward
enough.

Now that she's back in this
country, Miss King is planning to
be married in the fall to Walter
Paschall, the former news editor
on WSB, who is in the service at
present.

New Members Announced

The new members of Pi Alpha
Phi are announced today by Betty
Glenn, president. Barbara Blair,
Betty Jean Brown, Mae Comer
Osborne, Nancy Deal, Anna Clark
R.ogers, Betsy Powers, Pat Will-
mon, Betty Joe Doyle, and Teresa
Rultand are the girls who quali-
fied, trying out last Wednesday.

Election of new officers for 1945-
46 will be Thursday night at the
regular meeting at 7:30 in Murphy
Candler. New members will be
initiated, and refreshments will be
served.

Granddaughters Banquet

The Granddaughters Club held
their traditional banquet in the
Alumnae House Saturday night,
April 21. The banquet, which fol-
lowed the theme of a radio pro-
gram, was served buffet style.
Master of ceremonies, Margaret
Scott introduced the speakers
Jane Ann Newton and Nellie
Scott.

Lowlights
Nonentities

By Janice Latta

It is quite an honor to be asked
to write a column for the News,
they told me as they twisted my
arm. You will notice that I do
not use the editorial "we." It
makes me feel too terribly plural,
and besides, my doctor tells me
that continued use leads to schizo-
phrenia.

This column, as the name indi-
cates to those of you who have
your dictionaries handy, is about
the little people of the oampus
those whom no one knows except
as "that girl with one head, two
arms, two legs, and droopy hair;
those whose mailboxes are always
empty; those who always find the
roller-thing blocked with trays
when they go to get theirs on; in
short, those of us who feel so in-
conspicious we don't answer to
"Hey, you!" Since this column is
dedicated to us infamous people
(do I mean infamous? Well, FU
look it up later), Van Johnson,
Lauren Bacall, and Bugs Bunny
can stop reading right now. They
won't find themselves here. That
goes for you, too, Erroll Flynn.
We're nice girls!

The most conspicious activity
going on around and about this
week is planning of schedules by
the sophomores for the next two
years. By conspicious, I mean with
wailing and gnashing of teeth. For
the sake of convenience we'll (we,
meaning you and me. Thought
you'd caught me using the old edi-
torial doubletalk, didn't you? Ha
ha!), we'll take one sophomore
from the frantic group who are
racing around like ants at a picnic,
only not half so happy, and talk
about her nearly fatal seige of
schedulitis.

Who is the Major

Our sophomore is equipped with
a 1945-46 catalogue and four
cards three yellows and one blue.
By the end of the week, she will
feel as if there ought to be five
cards, the fifth a permit, to be
signed by Mr. Stukes and an Anx-
ious Friend, for commitment to an
insane asylum!

If you overheard our heroine
talking about all the trouble she
is having with her major, don't
jump to the conclusion that they
are all wolves in the army. She
merely means (and you should
have known it, a great big girl like
you:) that her major subject, the
one to which she wishes to devote
most of her study, is insisting on
causing conflicts in her schedule.
And if it's not the major, it's the
minor. To paraphrase the words
of a popular song, "How strained
the brain with major and minor."

New Course Needed

In my opinion, after wading
through a mass of prerequisites
and pre-prerequites, little symbols
and numbers that are as unintel-
ligible and mysterious as Pata-
gonian, and lists of impossible
requirements, there is only one
thing for the college to do. That is,
to offer as a prerequisite to sche-
dule-week a short course for so-
phomores entitled:

111a. The Care and Reading of
College Catalogues

A study of college catalogues,
with special emphasis on the Ag-
nes Scott College Bulletin, whose
purpose is to give the student a
thorough understanding of the
mysteries of catalogues and of the
lid est scientific advances in the
method of planning schedules.

Spring quarter: Monday, Wed-

Liz Carpenter States
firm Bookstore Policy

Next year when you rush into the book store to get a
Hershey bar from that newly opened box, you'll find Liz
Carpenter there behind the counter firmly saying, "Only
one to a customer! Your roommate will have to come for
her own."

Kitten has certainly had her
troubles along that line. On ask-
ing her for an acount of her past
year's "life in the bookstore," she
replied, "my education at A. S. C.
would never have been complete
without this year in the mail room,
bookstore, and White House. How
else would I ever have known
that day students would choke if
they drank Coca Colas inside the
bookstore, that some students get
along just as well with their text
books on the bookstore shelves
all quarter, that the mail (sp?)
situation isn't all it should be, etc.,
etc!"

Liz is looking forward very
much to taking over Kitten's job.
Besides being in the book store
she will chaperon one of the
dorms and is planning to take
Nurses Aid and perhaps do dra-
matics with the Emory Players.

"Miss" Carptenter says that one
of the high spots for her next
year will be playing in the Facul-
ty-varsity hockey game with Mr.
Hayes, Mr. Runyon, and other of
the faculty's star players. Won't
it seem funny to have her dashing
toward the goal she's been defend-
ing for four years.

Even though we must now think
of Liz as an exalted being who can

take part in the faculty's enlight-
ening table conversation it will be
grand to have her here again next
year.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president,
is the author of the article,
"Women and the Revolution,"
appearing in the Sunday, April
21 issue of the Atlanta Journal
Magazine section.

Dr. McCain cites the "Story of
a revolution which has lasted 50
years and not yet reached its
zenith."

He concludes by saying that
the Agnes Scott student of to-
day is not like the Agues Scott
student of 30 years ago who pre-
pared herself to enter the busi-
ness world. Today's student
wants to be a home maker.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945

Hindus Predicts

Russian Girls Work Hard
For Liberal Education

"Russian girls your age are undergoing terrible hardships
to get a college education very much like yours," declared
Maurice Hindus in an interview following his lecture Friday
evening, April 13.

Just returned from Russia, the world famous journalist
described as "pitiful" the condi-

tions which girls in Russia are
bearing in order to get an educa-
tion.

"Most of the colleges have mov-
ed to comparative safety in Sibe-
ria," he continued. "They are ter-
ribly overcrowded, so that food is
scarce and many of the girls must
sleep on the dormitory floor."
Have "Thin Time"

"You know, girls in Russia are
having a very thin time," Hindus
continued. "They don't have shoes
or new clothes. Many are work-
ing in the fields or factories, and
even those who are financially able
to go to college take three and
four hours a day from their
studies, which are hard, to work in
the factories."

One of the finest features of
Russia's "evolution within revolu-
tion," according to Hindus, is her
new educational emphasis on the
humananities and especially the
classics. He pointed out that with
Russia's increasing importance in
world affairs, her leaders of the
next generation will be those who
are now getting the broad back-
ground of liberal arts education
so important to great leadership.

When asked whether the Rus-
sians still hoi;d complete com-
munism as their postwar goal,
Hindus replied "Yes, they hope
for it eventually, but not very
soon." Now, he explained, there
is no individual enterprise in Rus-
sia, but the present situation is
nearer to state capitalism than to
:ommunism, which is ownership of
everything by the people rather
than by the state.

Speaking of Russia's state-own-
ed industries, Hindus emphasized
steel, declaring that Stalin wants
to push Russian manufacturers to
producing 50 to 60 million tons of
steel per year.

Predictions suiimmurizctf

Famous as an accurate fore-
caster, Hindus made several pre-
dictions almost as startling as the
one he made at Agnes Scott in
1940 that Hitler would not de-
feat Hussia:

1. Russia will demand ruthless
punishment of all war criminals.

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be a civil war against Franco and
the Fascists in Spain, and Russia
will aid the revolutionists.

3. Russia will demand complete
economic disarmament of Ger-
many, involving distribution of vi-
tal steel industrial centers to
France, Poland, Russia and Yugo-
slavia.

4. East Prussia will be taken
from Germany and divided be-
tween Lithuania and Poland.

Newly-elected members of the
1945-46 Chapter of Mortar Board
are Maggie Toole, president;
Marjorie Naab, Mildred McCain,
Jeanne Addison, Vicky Alexan-
der, Teddy Bear, Stratton Lee,
Blitz Roper, Mary Russell, Dot
Spragens, and Sarah Walker.
To be qualified for election to
the national honorary society,
each girl had to have shown ex-
cellence in service, scholarship,
and leadership.

5. German
build Russia.

labor will help re-

6. Russia will fight Japan after
VE day.

7. Japan about that time will
frantically seek peace with the
United States.

8. Probably Stalin's successor
will be Malenkoff, now an official
of the party and a champion of
Stalin's ideas.

9. "The third World War won't
come for a long time," because
there will be no one to fight it.
Germany and Japan will not be al-
lowed to rise, and the United
States and Russia will be the only
nations left who will be strong
enough to carry on a major war.
Mr. Hindus predicted that the two
countries would never be foolish
enough to enter into such a war of
mutual destruction from which
no victory could come.

Mary Ellen Chase

(Continued from Page 1)

My Husband Again'' anomynously,
and received a $20 prize.

Miss Chase is lecturing only at
Agnes Scott and Iowa State Col-
lege this year. While here she
spoke on "The Creative Reader,"
Friday night, and "What Is the
Bible," Monday night, public lec-
tures. She also spoke to the cam-
pus community on "What Is the
Novel?", "The Writing of Novels,"
"The More Intelligent Reading of
Novels," and Thomas Hardy.

If only for the same inducement
of the Georgia clay, both students
and faculty hope Miss Chase will
come again soon to Agnes Scott.
Her excellent sense of humor, her
thought provoking talks, and above
all her interest in campus life and
people have made her a close
friend to us all.

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Combination Musical
Presented in Presser

The string ensemble, assisted
by Betty Moore and C. W. Dieck-
mann, produced a combination
musical program Monday night,
April 16, in Presser.

Numbers included "Overture to
Zampa," Herold; "My Heart Ever
Faithful," Bach; "Natchez-on-the-
Hill," Powell; "I Call Upon The,
Jesus," Bach; "Hungarian Dance
No. 3," Brahms; "Orientale," Cui;
group of opera themes, Gluck-
Mottl; "Scherzo," Guilmant; and
"Fiesta," Chenovveth.

o

Poetry Hour Presented

An "Hour of Contemporary Po-
etry" was presented to the student
body Wednesday, April 4, in Mac-
lean chapel at 8:30. Peggy Will-
mon and Jane Newton gave several
selections of The White Cliffs, by
Alice Duer Miller.

The program was under the di-
rection of Miss Frances Gooch,
associate professor of English.

o

Speech Recital

The speech pupils of Miss Fran-
ces K. Gooch presented their
spring recital last Friday after-
noon in Maclean auditorium. The
program consisted entirely of short
stories by O'Henry. Participating
in the program were: Anne Hill
Jackson, Lida Walker, Frances
Stukes, Edith Burgess, Jane Anne
Newton, and Liz Carpenter.

Faculty First in
Clothing Drive

The faculty donated far more
used clothes to the United Clothing
Drive than the entire student body,
according to Laura Winchester
and Nan Nettles, joint drive man-
agers.

The campus drive, sponsored by
freshman and sophomore cabinets,
coincided with the citywide drive
for clothes for the devastated
countries of Europe.

Clothes contributed were in good
condition and included everything
from hats and sweaters to wool
coats.

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FOR A TIRED DRESS OR SUIT

'Lobster Club' Greets Sun;
New Rules for Sunbatbers

By Doris Kissling

Arise ye aspirant sunbathers and to your posts! The Lob-
ster Club is again renewing its annual contest a great one,
whose lofty aim is to find the girl of Agnes Scott who most
nearly resembles a broiled lobster. Already many have enter-

' ed wholeheartedly, regardless of
hours of untold misery, so that
they might have the boundless
pleasure of listening to the "oohs
and ahs" of friends, when shown
those unmentionable spots of fiery
red ;

Requirements

The requirements for entrance
into this exclusive club, like the
requirements for a major and a
minor, are, needless to say, ex-
tremely stiff and torturous. The
basic requirements are stated as
follows:

(1) The sun, by request, only
works in certain spots. Therefore
the only legitimate place for the
sun to burn is on the porches of
Inman and Rebekah, and the
beach between Whitehouse and In-
man.

(2) People who leave trash,
furniture, blankets, or other ac-
cessories will either be disqualified
from the contest, or lose their be-
longings.

The additional requirements and
qualifications are:

(1) The contestant must begin
turning pink at least after the first
ten trials in the midday heat.

(2) Not over 10 cents must be
spent on a bottle of ultra-luscious
sun tan lotion. However, any
amount may be spent on Noxzema
or other more soothing ointments.

(3) No powder or similar make-
up can be used the purpose being
to resemble as much as possible a
bright red beacon light.

Right Bright
However, several very unfor-
tunate mishaps have already oc-
curred in spite of all carefully
planned rules and regulations. One
unusually bright sophomore con-
vinced some other, not quite so
bright sophomores, that she was
coming down with the dread dis-
ease of measles. After poking
around and feeling her bumpy
face, they almost carried her hand
and fot, to the infirmary, before
she lec it slip that it was merely a
severe case of first degree bum.

Another, not quite so delightful,
incident occurred just recently
in the basement of Main. Mrs. A.
M. F. Smith, looking desperately,
turned to two of the runner-ups in
the Lobster Contest, and asked
if perchance they were the two
new applicants for the kitchen
help job.

67 Girls Attend
High School Day

Sixty-seven girls from 12 At-
lanta area high schools attended
the annual "High School Day"
Saturday, April 21, here on cam-
pus.

The members of the freshman
class, headed by the newly elected
president, Louise McLaurin, acted
as official campus hostessess and
entertained the guests with a
program which had been planned
by the 1945-46 chapter of Mortar
Board.

Various organizations and de-
partments on campus coooperated
with Mortar Board in working up
a well balanced picture of what
goes on at Agnes Scott. The novel-
ty of the afternoon was a horse
show by the newly organized rid-
ing department. Those taking part
were: Dottie Kahn, Harriet Reid,
Gloria Anne Melchor, Harriett
Gregory, Vicky Alexander, Eve-
lyn Hill, and Frances Ninninger.

Swimming club put on a brief
exhibition, including form swim-
ming and diving. Special chorus
under the direction of Mr. Lewis
Johnson, associated professor of
music, sang and some of the speech
students recited.

The campus tour even included
an inspection of the art gallery
where some of the students ex-
hibited their work, and the science
hall where Mr. Christian, professor
of physics, set up several demon-
strations.

An informal tea was held on
the quadrangle between Presser
and Buttrick to give the visitors
a chance to meet Dr. J. R. CcCain,
president; Mr. S. Guerry Stukes,
dean of the faculty; Miss Carrie
Scandrett, dean of students, and
the new student officers.

Invitations were issued to the
following schools: Atlanta and De-
catur Girls' High, Naps, Wash-
ington Seminary, North and West
Fulton, Fulton, Hapeville, College
Park, Avondale, and Druid Hills

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Page 5

Preview

"So far the savants have not
worked out tests for measuring
your 'S. Q.,' or your survival quo-
tient, but if you are curious about
where you stand, you can get a
rough idea by asking yourself
some searching questions and giv-
ing honest "answers." We recom-
mend Hubbard Hoover's article,
"If You Want to Live," which will
appear in the May Ladies' Home
Journal.

Read his answers to the follow-
ing questions and get wise to your-
self:

1. Are you ingenious and re-
sourceful in finding a way out of
danger?

2. Do you wear yourself out
over what doesn't concern you?

3. Can you adapt yourself to
changing conditions?

4. Are you -in danger of over-
specialization ?

5. Do you have a good second
line of defense?

6. When you can do no more
about it, are you able to relax?

7. Are you inclined to be a per-
fectionist?

8. How strong is your combat-
iveness ?

9. Do you have plenty of un-
finished business?

SO LITTLE TIME

By Libby Woodward

Ring out the old, ring in the new! Carolyn, for whom the
Belles of St. Agnes have tolled the last time, has bid us a
fond farewell, and Libby is about to Sally Forth. (Apologies
where they ard due.)

Springtime, lovetime romance is in the air! Weddings,
rumors of engagements highlight

1944-45 MEMBERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA Reading from left to
right: Virginia Carter, Inge Probstein, Martha Jean Gower, Betty
Glenn, Dot Lee Webb, Marion Leathers, Ann Anderson, and Jodele
Tanner. Virginia Bowie is not in the picture.

Seniors Give
Recital Friday

Two seniors, Betty Jane Han-
cock Moore and Barbara Hatch
will feature at Betty Jane's cer-
tificate recital in piano, Friday at
8 p. m. in Gaines auditorium.

The program is as follows:
Prelude and Fugue F Major,
Bach; Sonata Opus 31, No 3, Beet-
hoven Betty Jane Hancock
Moore; Ernani Invalomi, Verdi
Barbara Frink Hatch; Etude Opus
36, No. 13, Arensky; La Fille aux
Cheveux de Lin, Debussy; Noc-
turne Opus 15, No. 2, Chopin;
Fantasie Impromptu, Chopin;
Betty Jane Hancock Moore; Si
mes Vers avaient des Ailes, Hahn;
Pierrot, Rybner; The Throstle,
Dieckmann B arbara Frink
Hatch; Concerto (No. 4) in D mi-
nor piano and organ, Rubinstein;
Doderato assai Betty Hancock
Moore.

Art Major
Is Probable

Recently announced changes in
the 1945-46 catalogue included ex-
pansion of the art department with
a probable major to be offered as
well as minor changes in courses
in the Bible, English, and biology
departments.

New courses scheduled in art,
replacing the former art history
section, are Italian art and civi-
lization, Tues., Thurs., and Sat., at
12:00; modern art of Europe, Mon.,
Wed., and Fri., at ll:00;United
States art and civilization, Mon.,
Wed., and Fri., at 11:00; elemen-
tary interior decoration, Mon. and
Fri., at 11:00; landscape art, Mon.
and Fri. at 9:30; ancient and
medieval art, offered in 1946-47;
pre-Columbia and Latin American
art and archaeology, offered 1946-
47; and special topics of individual
study chosen by the student, each
quarter.

Argumentation, English 237,
will be offered next fall and will
carry three hours' credit, accord-
ing to announcement by the Eng-
lish Department. English 101c, a
repetition course, will be taught
next fall on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday at 8:30.

Biology 207 lectures are sche-
duled for Monday and Wednesday
at 8:30, rather than on Tuesday
and Thursday at the same hour.
Laboratory time remains the
same.

Bible 306c has been changed
from Monday through Friday at
12:00 to Monday through Friday
at 9:30.

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The week of May 5 has been
named Sponsor Week by Mildred
McCain, orientation chairman. A
three-day program is planned.

On May 7, 8, 9, three faculty
members will talk to the sponsors
about their work next year. Miss
Carrie Scandrett, dean of students,
will speak first. Miss Charlotte
Hunter, assistant dean, and Miss
Emily Dexter, assistant professor
of philosophy and education, will
present phases of a sponsor's
work.

Sophomore helpers will be se-
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The following girls have been
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rin, Gisela Meyer, Cookie Miller,
Alice Newman, Fluff Paisley, An-
gela Pardington, Jean Rentz, Anne
Rogers, Lorenna Ross, Betty Anne
Routsos, Nellie Scott, Barbara
Smith, Sarah Smith, Barbara
Sproesser, Caroline Squires, Car-
roll Taylor, Betty Turner, Anne
Wheeler, Jean Williams, Laura
Winchester, and Betty Ann Zeig-
ler.

Punky Mattison is * assistant
orientation chairman and Peggy
Pirtle is also a member of the
committee.

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

the news of the week.

Most exciting is Ruth Gray
Walker's wedding. A wire Fri-
day afternoon
from Lt. Lloyd
Walkeran un-
expected ten-
day leave a
quick change
$11 in wedding
plans and they
Iffp 1 were married
yesterday af-

. uu m a ~i ternoon at the
Libby Woodward

Little Chapel at Glenn Memorial
church. The bride was lovely in
white net trimmed with laee.
Her attendants wer her sister,
Mrs. Glenn Corbin, matron of
honor; Lida Walker, sister of the
gToom, maid of honor; Jean
Carlson and Hansell Cousar,
bridesmaids. Ruth's father, an
army chaplain, came from Ar-
kansas to perform the ceremony.
After the reception following the
wedding*, the bride and groom
left for an unknown destination-
She wore a dusty pink gabardine
suit with navy accessories. He
was stunning in olive drab.
Rich's fashion show for brides
attracted many Hottentots Satur-
day afternoon. Carolyn Fuller,
Scotty Newell, and Ceevah Rosen-
thal entertained Lois Sullivan,
Mary Cumming, Frances Brough-
er, Eugenia Jones, and Barbara
Hatch at tea. There were nose-
gays of white carnations and
sweetheart roses for the honorees
and fun, food, and fashion for the
others.

At the Paradise Room Saturday,
Alice Gordon's and Peggy Jones'
luncheon and linen shower for
Mary Campbell Everett, former
Agnes Scott-er, was the scene of
much excitement. Mary Camp-
bell's wedding will be an event of
early May.

We didn't catch his name but
there was no mistaking the sparkle
on Jean Estes' third finger left
hand or in her eyes. Cookie De-
Vane's ring a Tiffany setting-
arrived in the Monday mail. It all
happened while he was down here
during exams. Dot DeVane came
back from Kansas with a beauti-
ful diamond.

Alumnae news: Mir House's en-
gagement to Cadet Chaplain Bill
Kirkland was announced Sunday.
Joella Craig, last year's popular
book store manager, returned
starry-eyed from Cincinnati Mon-
day. She wasn't visiting relatives.

New pins around campus: Anne
Scott's Phi Delt pin and Carolyn
Fuller's KA pin. I didn't know
they had fraternities at Annapo-
lis!

The Phi Delt formal at the Bilt-
more Saturday night was a gala
occasoin. Gee-Gee Gilliland, Char-
lotte Broyles, and Betty Brown
were in the lead-out. Mary Fran-
ces Anderson, Sweetie Calley,
Anne Scott, Betty Andrews, Jean
Rooney, Betty Kitts, Beth Wal-
ton, Janice Latta, Marianna Kirk-
patrick, Carroll Taylon, Louise
Aichel, Alice Danzell, and Cissie
Jeffries were there having a won-
derful time-

Treasure-hunting with the Em-
ory KA's Saturday night were Sal-

ly Bussey, Dot Chapman, Caroline
Hodges, Barbara Waugaman, Alice
Newman, and Martha Ball.

Jane Smith, Minnewil Story,
June Thomason, Jean Chewning,
Mary Fuller, and Dootsie Gardner
were among those present at the
Pan Hellenic Dental Fraternity
formal.

At the SAE possum hunt Sat-
at Emory were Peggy Gregg,
Gloria Melchor, Mary Manley,
Pagie Violette, and Mary Beth
Little.

Betty Jo Turner, Nan Honour,
Pat McManmon, Molly Milam,
Nancy Haislip, and June Irvine
went dancing with the Delta Tau
Delta at Tech.

Seen at the Empire Room Sat.
night: Jenny Wren, Peggy Pirtle,
Ginny Andrews, and Anne Wood-
ward, consoling the Duke tennis
team after their defeat by Tech
that afternoon.

At the Rainbow Roof: Louise
Isaacson and Ruth Limbert at the
Paradise Room: Esther Sloan,
Kitty Kay, and June Thomason.

Visitors on campus have been
numerous. Leila's Frank came up
from Ft. Benning. Alan Moore,
Laura Winchester's "good friend,"
was here. Soozi Richardson's
brother, from the University of
Michigan, came down. Dale Ben-
nett, Ann Martin, Virginia Tucker,
Edith Merrin, Gene Goode ,and
Jeter Starr were entertaining
members of their respective fami-
lies. Mary Jane Schumaker's cous-
in was up from Robbin Field,
Macon.

Many Hottentots were away for
the week-end. Those going home
were Ruth Gait, Lib Farmer, Anne
Noell, and Liz Carpenter. Two
orchids and a dozen yellow roses
arrived while Liz was celebrating
her birthday in Sewanee. Sarah
Milford and Maudie Van Dyke
went to Pine Lake. Pudden Bealer
dashed in Monday after an exciting
visit with her Marine brother in
Washington.

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Page 6

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945

Athlele^s
Feats

By Ruth Ryner

'Tis said that everything
should have a purpose, even col-
umns on the back pages of col-
lege newspapers. The purpose
of this dear column (as always)
could never be expressed better
than in the words used at the
A. A. banquet to install yours
truly as "News Correspondent''
to the Board, and feeble suc-
cessor to Dot Lee Webb.
"Kitten, honey, there are all

kinds of our breed,
From hep cats, to chessy cats
indeed,

But the kind you orta* and

gotta be
Is just a plain oF cat and tell
all you see."
Here's to it and may we nev-
er fail!

Come into the huddle now and
let's catch up on a few things that
have slipped by this quarter since
the last issue of the dear oF cam-
pus tattler. Speaking of A. A. ban-
quet, it was really quite an affair.
It took brains like Heery and Den-
ning to come forth with choice
bits like the above for every new
board member. Miss Ames chuckl-
ed so she could hardly down her
fudge cake. You know it was fun-
ny. As tears splashed and voices
quivered, Dot Hunter quietly in-
stalled Sara Walker as the new
president with the following ten-
der words.
"Little cub, here's a word from
one who does know

The ins and outs of running
this show.

As president you, King Lion,
will hold great sway

So make all members go the
straight and narrow way.

Work 'em hard those raem-
* bers meek,
And take no excuses, Iike"I
been seek!"

After officers Sally Sue Steph-
enson, Genet Heery and Ann
Hough were installed, time came
to present the beaming new board
members. Bettye Lee Phelps
Outing Club, Scotty Johnson ten-
nis, Scotty Scott swimming, Jean
Denning basketball, Soozi Rich-
ardson hockey, Sheely Little
publicity, Cookie Miller volley-
ball, and Mary Ann Courtenay

BE PREPARED!

For Your Spring and
Summer Dances

Do You

JITTERBUG?

FOXTROT?

RHUMBA?

SAMBA?

$1.50 Per Week
Can you hold your own

with any partner?

Are you fun to dance

with 0

Evening and afternoon
classes all summer.

10 WEEKS $15.00

For information call . . .
VE. 2958-1298 Doris O'Mara

MICHAEL GARST1N S

Arthur Murray Studio

Georgian Terrace Hotel

Miss Dot' Rules 7
Gym With Humor

No sport page here at Agnes
Scott could ever be complete if at
least once during the year "Miss
Dot" was not mentioned- For
Dorothy reigns supreme behind
her desk of towels, bathing suits
and what not ,and even Mrs. Lapp
and Miss Willburn answer her de-
mands. Hers is the kingdom be-
low first floor Gym . . . Hers the
right to order in her small domin-
ion and we as loyal subjects obey.

Dorothy "took office" in 1936
with the New Deal, if that is sig-
nificant, and one wonders what the
gym must have been like up to
this time. Mrs. Lapp began call-
ing her "Miss Dot" and the name
stuck. Just stand at the head
of the stairs and call to her "Hey,
'Miss Dot' The sound e c h o s
down the passage way and you
hear Dorothy answer back. Her
voice cracks as she answers loudly
and then you hear her begin to
laugh. . . . it's almost a cackle and
so infectious that not even the
thought of the approaching Eu-
ropean Classics test phases you.
Secret is Laughter

Perhaps this single quality
this ability always to laugh in-
sures "Miss Dot" of a lifetime
rule. Don't you ever get tired of
being happy, you ask. And then
the answer comes "Laugh and

badminton. Congratulations to all!
Tennis Causes "A Racket"
Things have been going full
speed around the gym all spring.
The tennis tournament is about to
begin after much practice, rac-
ket, and commotion on the courts.
The developments are well worth
watching, though it's too early to
make open predictions. Wait
around a week and see what hap-
pens, that's the safest wey.

Orchids to the new golf cham-
pion. Anyone who can make the
seventh hole at Avondale without
dropping a priceless ball in the
UF pond deserves more that an
orchid. Now, some one tell me if
it was really done. Being a begin-
ner at the great sport, things like
that remain a mystery.

Don't scream and holler, pull
a pillow case over your head
and seek refuge in the nearest
fishpond next Sunday morning
at the freaks you'll see wander-
ing around loose on the campus.
It will just be Outing club re-
turning from the great over-
night camping excursion to
North Fulton Park. This is just
to serve as fair warning. Also,
all roommates of said members
aro urged to have beds fluffed
and a ready and ample supply
of alcohol, candle-wax for chig-
gers, flea powder, genuine Bayer
aspirin and any other aids for
comfort that might be appropri-
ate.

Mclchor Moans

Passing Fancies: The horse show
went over big for the high school
gals last Saturday. Things were
smooth for everyone but Melchor,
but that's something you must ask
her about. . . . It's time again for
all water-lubbers to splash in
again and join the "Swim-a-mile"
club. Swim 88 lengths of the pool
and that's your mile. Take it from
one who knows, "The first twenty-
five are the hardest"

In those few free hours you
manage to take off for easy
breathing, why not go all out for
athletics, it's good for what ails
you. See you around the gym!

the world laughs with you weep
and you weep alone." You might
imagine Dorothy learned this as
she worked in the fields out from
Madison, "down 'Gusta way" when
she was a child. Or perhaps she
was just born knowing.

If you want to see Dot's face
reaily light ask about Jacky
Jacky's 11 and already in the sixth
grade "he skips one every year"
and he's a Boy Scout and plays
in the school band "plays the
'melophone'. ' And, his mother
says, "that boy's good."

Checks All Week

Miss Dot is the clerk of the
Lily Hill Baptist church, "the best
in Decatur" and no doubt she uses
the same diligent energy in keep-
ing the records straight as she
does in checking the gym suits
from Monday through Saturday
here.

If you talk the whole period to
"Miss Dot," you'll find yourself
telling her about the family back
home the brother and his chick-
ens the letters form overseas
And you'll find her interested and
ready with wise comments that
somehow strike home. The bell
rings and you jump with a start
you aren't worried anymore
Miss Dot's gotten you in condition
she laughed the fear aside. "See
ya, 'Miss Dot'," you call. "OK"
The sound of her laughter follows
you out the doorway.

Slack-Milam
Stewart- Richardson

Cumming-Crangle

Bye

Semi-Finals

Davis-Dieckmann
Sholes-Harnsberoer

Finals

Johnson-Ryner
Stixrud-Gilchrist

Hough-Andrews
Walker-Munroe

Semi-Finals

Winner!

IF COURTS ARE PLAYABLE:
SECOND ROUND MUST BE PLAYED BY THIS FRIDAY
SEMI-FINALS MUST BE PLAYED BY WED., MAY 2nd
DATE OF FINALS TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER

Class Volley Ball
Competition Rises

Spring weather has aroused
great interest in the one team
sport this quarter, volleyball.
Games so far have been filled
with fun and excitement. %

The. end of the first round of
games this season showed the ju-
niors victorious over both the
freshmen and the sophomores. On
the next Friday the sophs staged
a great comeback and defeated
the juniors as well as the frosh.
The latter, however, with that
"never say die" attitude challeng-
ed the juniors and handed them
the second defeat of the afternoon.

Watch the schedule for the next
games which will probably be
Friday week when the top winner
will be determined. Also, on the
same day Varsity and Sub-varsi-
ty will be announced.

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interesting character of its student activities.

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

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dent Sara Walker at official Board
meeting Monday night issued a fi-
nal plea for the entire student
body to wake up and come across
with those BLUE HORSE WRAP-
PERS FOR ATHLETIC ASSOCI-
ATION. Three hunderd more
thrown in the boxes distributed
around the campus will make the
goal. Free bicycles for AA must
become a reality so HUBBA' HUB-
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DECATUR THEATER

Wednesday

"SPITFIRE"
Leslie Howard - David Niven

Thursday and Friday

"SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS"
Carmen Miranda - Michael O'Shea

Saturday

"CANYON CITY"
"THE FALCON AND THE CO-ED"

Monday and Tuesday

"AND NOW TOMORROW"
Alan Ladd - Loretta Young

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

NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

A STOREFUL OF . . .

MOTHER'S DAY
GIFTS

... AT RICH'S

No matter how large or
small your remembrance
will be, there are just the
right gifts for your Moth-
er waiting for you at . . .

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945

NO. 23

May Day
Saturday

The May Day production entitled "The Creation" is to be
presented Saturday, May 5, at 5 p. m. in the May Day dell,
under the direction of Miss Llewellyn Wilburn and Miss
Eugenie Dozier and the chairmanship of Jane Everett.

Force Unifies

Miss Roberta Winter is the nar-
rator, and Mrs. John Espy, the
pianist. The whole story is brought
together by the "Force of Crea-
tion," characterized by Molly
Milam. The other solo parts are
Light Dootsie Gardner, Sun
Mary Cumming, Moon Peggy
Jones, Man Ellen Rosenblatt,
and Woman Mynelle Grove.

This performance will be given
before the members of the May
Court who are the honored guests
of the occasion. Anne Equen will
reign as Queen of May with Scott
Newell as her maid-of-honor and
Kady Mac6regor as her crown
bearer. Others in the May Court
are: Nancy Deal, Mary Jane Ful-
ler, Montene Melson, Jeanne Rob-
inson, Martha Whatley Yates,
Margaret Bear, Virginia Dickson,
Anne Scott, Eugenia Jones, Gloria
Ann Melchor, and Erin Rayfield.
Everett Is Chairman
"The Creation" is produced by
the May Day Committee, headed
by Jane Everett. Martha Jean
Gower who wrote the scenario
serves as business manager and
Suzy Watkins as secretary. The
others on the committee are: cos-
tumes Shirley Graves, Puddin
Bealer, Anne Lee, Peggy Van
Hook, Jane Smith, Carol Taylor,
June Terrell ; Dance Dootsie
Gardner, Dale Bennett; Music-
Scott Newell, Helen Owen; Prop-
erties Montene Melson, Louisa
Aichel; Publicity and Art Edwina
Davis, Ann Stubbs; Faculty Ad-
visors Miss Susan Cobbs, Miss
Ellen Douglass Leyburn.

The rest of the cast, represent-
ing elements and creatures of the
universe is as follows: Darkness
and Void Mary Amerine, Jo Ann
Fossett, Ruth Gait, June Gattis,
Anne Hagerty, Caroline Hodges,
Amanda Hulsey, Jane Jacob, Mary
Brown Mahon, Jean Rooney, Mary
Russell, Martha Sunkes; Light
Rays Marie Adams, Nancy Hai-
slip, Ellen Hayes, June Irvine,
Marion Leathers, Mary Beth Lit-
tle, Mary Manly, Anne Murrell,
Betty Jean Radford, Jeter Starr,
Louise Starr, Ann Wiedeman, Peg-
gy Willmon, LaNelle Wright; Wat-
ers of the Sky Betty Mann, Mary
Ellen Morrison, Eleanor Reynolds,
Doris Street; Waters of the Sea
Louisa Aichel, Carol Giles, Sue
Hutchens, Irene Jacob, Mildred
Claire Jones, Margaret McManus;
Dry Land Martha Arnold, Kath-
leen Buchanan, Anne Burckhardt,
Edwina Davis, Jean Estes, Bonnie
Hope, Mary Helen House, Martha
Humber, Mary Ann Martin, Patri-
cia McManmon, Jane Anne New-
ton, Mary Jean Sims, Jenny Wren;
Trees Alice Beardsley, Anne El-
can; Grass Jane Nichol Brown
Susan Daugherty, Conradine Fra-
ser, Harriet Frierson, Virginia

Henry, Margaret Richards, Mary
Byrd Rutledge, Barbara Wauga-
man; Seasons Edith Burgess,
Sweetie Calley, Georgia Gilliland,
Helen Owen; Stars Mary Car-
gill, Maud Van Dyke, Anne Page
Violette, Marguerite Watson; Fish,
Jean" Barnes, Julia Ann Coleman,
Janice Latta, Barbara Macris,
Anne Strickland, Bobbie Whipple,
Betty Ann Zeigler; Birds Char-
lotte Clarkson, Mildred Cragon,
Janet Dox, Ann McCurdy, Vera
Orem, Mary Nell Ozment, Jeanie
Rentz, Barbara Smith, Peggy
Trice; Ants Jeanne Addison, Vir-
ginia Mansfield; Spider Vicky
Alexander; Cows Jean Bellin-
grath, Mary Emily Harris; Rabbit
Nancy Jean Geer; Pig Mary
Elizabeth Martin; Dog Charlien
Simms; Leopard La Veryn Tal-
madge; Panther Mary Duck-
worth; Ape Genet Heery.

War Council
To Sponsor
CommunityDay

War Council will sponsor a
"Community Day" May 12, for the
whole student body and faculty.
The families of the faculty are
to be included. Day students are
urged to remain.

Community Day will begin in
the early afternoon, ending with a
picnic supper and "sing." Various
campus organizations, cooperating
with War Council, are in charge
of entertainment. AA has planned
a series of afternoon games while
Mortar Board has charge of plan-
ning the picnic supper. Blackfriars
will present a play later in the af-
ternoon. It is understood that the
faculty has "special plans."

This is the first time "Com-
munity Day" has been held at
Agnes Scott since the war. Com-
munity Day will celebrate the
successful conclusion of the
year's work. For the past few
days campus curiosity has been
aroused by the mysterious post-
er hanging in the lobby of But-
trick Hall. It is advertising
"Community Day" Mary 12
Agnes Scott campus for the
whole student body and faculty.

Senior (last Presents
Noted Opera 'Faustasia'

By Doris Kissling

At last, the great event is here. All music-lovers and con-
noisseurs of the finer and more cultured things of life will
have the rare opportunity of hearing the grandest opera
ever produced this side of South Candler St. The people
of the community have been reserving their boxes far in
advance, and have started polish

Forman to Head
Art Department

Mrs. Leone B. Hamilton Is New Assistant

Dr. Henry Chandlee Forman, painter-architect and pro-
fessor of art at Wesleyan College, has been named head of the
art department at Agnes Scott College. He will replace How-
ard Thomas who is resigning to become a member of the
art department at the University of Georgia.

Mrs. Leone B. Hamilton of Decatur will assist Dr. Forman
in teaching. Mrs. Hamilton grad-

ing their jewels in preparation for
the big day.

Bittie is Soprano Lead

The director, Miss Julia Slack,
has announced that the curtain
will rise promptly at 8:30 on the
opening (and last) performance
of "Faustasia" in the lovely audi-
torium of Butcher Scott Hall,
May 5. She is also happy to an-
nounce that the senior class has
been fortunate in securing the
noted conductor, Miss Mary Ann
Craig, who has come all the way
from Spruce Pine, N. C, just to
conduct this performance.

Everyone will be glad to hear
that there will be an unusually
outstanding cast for this opera,
everyone of whom have at one
time been able to sing the C scale
with almost 80 per cent of the
notes on pitch. Their musician-
ship is Unquestionable. Faustasia,
the leading soprano role, will be
sung by the great prima donna,
Miss Frances King. She has not
sung too many roles previous to
this one, but we feel sure that she
has an unusually good operatic
voice, capable of reaching at
least the first row. Besides that,
she has a splendid supporting
cast. They are as follows: Jo,
Betty Manning; waiter, Jean
Hood; Student waitress, Cordelia
DeVane. There has also been
promised a matchless array of
chorister and dances, all of

whom have at one time or an-
other declined offers from the
Rockettes, etc., due to their in-
ability of tearing themselves
away from their beloved studies
at Agnes Scott. The chorography
for this outstanding group is to
be done by Agnes Scott DeMille,
whose pen name is Mary Cum-
ming.

Grab While Ye Can

And what's more, this opera
will be complete with, what every
opera has (but sometimes
shouldn't) an orchestra. Some
of its talented players have even
gone to all the trouble of going
to Woolworth's and getting a new
comb just for this performaance.
This orchestra will be supported
by Miss Mary Catherine Glenn
at the piano. Librettos will be
on hand at the door for 10 cents.
It has been strongly advised by
the director that everybody buy
one, for there will be an urgent
need for them. She quotes,
"Some of the songs sound as if
they were being sung in Italian."

The theme for the opera has
been stated thus: "Gather ye
rosebuds while ye may." The writ-
ing committee, after many brave
struggles, has kept close to the
plot of Faust in just one particular.
The action takes place over a 24-
year period, beginning with the
temptation and ending with the ar-
rival at well, really, you must
come see the end for yourself.

uated from Agnes Scott with an
AB degree and a certificate in art.

After graduation, Mrs. Hamil-
ton continued her studies in art at
Pennsylvania Academy and at
High Museum in this city. For the
past two years she has been study-
ing under Mr. Thomas at Agnes
Scott. This summer she plans to
study under Hans Hofmann, the
leading abstractionist of today, at
his school in Provincetown, Mass.
Studies in Europe

Upon graduating from Princeton
University, Dr. Forman attended
the University of Pennsylvania
where he received his MA and
Ph.D. degrees in fine arts. He also
has studied in Europe and Mexico.

Dr. Forman's teaching experi-
ence began when he became assis-
tant in the school of Fine Arts at
the University of Pennsylvania.
After leaving this university he
was made head of the art depart-
ment of Haverford College and vis-
iting lecturer at Goucher College.

When he left Haverford he re-
turned to the University of Penn-
sylvania as lecturer in art history.
In 1941 he resigned this position
to organize a new art department
at Wesleyan.

Has Varied Interests

The interests of Dr. Forman are
not confined to the field of art. He
was chief architect for the James-
town Archeological Project for the
United States Department of the
Interior and assistant head of the
Historic American Building Sur
vey conducted by the Library of
Congress. He is author of the re-
cent book "The History of the
Medieval Architecture of the Old
South."

Dr. Forman has worked under
research grants from the Ameri-
can Council of Learned Societies
and the American Philosophical
Society. His work in art and ar-

chitecture has been exhibited
widely in Baltimore, Williamsburg,,
and New York.

Art Curriculum Changed

Increased emphasis is being plac-
ed on the importance of art as a
vital cul t u r a 1
subject in a lib-
eral arts college.
As a result sev-
eral changes
have been made
in the art curri-
culum at Agnes
Scott. It is prob-
able that the art
major will be
Forman offered next fall.
New courses in the arts curricu-
lum include United States Art and
Civilization and a course in Pre-
Colombian and Latin American
Art which will be offered in alter-
nate years. Interior Decoration
and Landscape Art courses are of-
fered for the first time. These
courses will stress practical work
in home planning and furnishing
and in landscape design and draw-
ing.

Georgia Debaters
Meet Agnes Scott

"Compulsory Arbitration of La-
bor Disputes" is the subject to be
debated by the University of
Georgia and Agnes Scott teams
May 4, at 7 p. m., in Murphy Can-
dler. Jean Valentine and Jean
McKemie. of the University, will
support the affirmative. Dale Ben-
nett and Louise Aichel will repre-
sent Agnes Scott by upholding the
negative.

The question in debate is one
which has been used in the inter-
collegiate tournaments this year
and is of particular interest at this
time. Debating is one of the few
inter-collegiate activities in which
Agnes Scott students participate.
The student body and faculty are
cordially invited to attend the de-
bate on Friday.

Blackfriars
Give Play

Blackfriars will present "The
Prince Who Was a Piper," an open-
air play, Saturday, May 13,, at 5:30.
in the May Day DelL The one act
play is unique in plot,, and is the
first open air play Blackfriars has
produced in several years.

The plot centers around the
Princess Maie whose father the
King has arranged her marriage
with Prince Denis. Complications
arise when the Princes decides
he will disguise himself as a piper
to discover if his music can real-
ly charm. He finds out about his
music and also finds the Princess.
A group of dancing peasants add
color to the plot

Miss Roberta Winter is directing
the production. The cast includes:
The King, Morton Reichart of the
Emory Players; Prince Denis, Jim-
my Gregory from WAG A; Jegu,
the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Sidney
Owen of the Atlanta Theatre
Guild; Bernez, equerry to Denis,
Joe Gossett of the Emory Players;
A sentry, Jim Weems of MGM;
Princess Maie, Liz Carpenter; Liz-
ina, the governess, Jean Hood; Te-
phany, the maid-in-waiting, Vir-
ginia Calloway; Marzinne, a
peasant girl, Betty Manning; Hel-
ene, a shoemaker's daughter, Jane
Everett. The dance group of peas-
ant, girls includes Edith Burgess^
Martha Jane Mack, Jean Rentz,
Barbara Kincaid, LaNelle Wright,
Jane Anne Newton.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS

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;
ingle copies, five cents.

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Assistant Editors

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Copy Editor

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Feature Editor Editorial Assistants

Nellie Scott ^nne Noell
Day Student Society Janice Latta
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Sports Editor Society Editor

Ruth Ryner Lib Woodward

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Anne Lee. Anne Newbold.

Reporters: Joan Crangle, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson. Mildred Derieux, Dot Peace,
Peggy Pat Home, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee. Lura Johnston, Marty Mizell, Pattie
Dean, Mary Jane Fuller, Virginia Owens, Doris Kissiing, Valeria Brown, Betty
Turner, Jean McCurry. Jean Rooney, Conradine Fraser, Alice Gordon, Ann Seitzinger,
Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currie, Margaret Klnard.

BUSINESS STAFF

Buaineee Manager PEGGY JONES

Advertising Manager JANE ANNE NEWTON

Ae*t Advertising Manager*

Mary McCalla
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Circulation Manager

Doris Purceil

Circulation Assistants

Lorena Ross
Marie Adams

tUess Assistants: Carolyn Bodle. Betty Andrews, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street,
Ann Hough, May Turner.

Five Stars

Five stars to the members of Lecture Association and the
English department for the splendid lecturers we've had on
campus this year.

Will Durant showed us the "lessons of history" and Robert
Frost appealed to our sense of beauty. Maurice Hindus pre-
dicted that Japan would beg for surrender soon and put hope
in our hearts with his picture of the Russian of today.

Edwin Mims inspired us with the will "to strive, to seek,
and not to yield," while Howard Mumford Jones forever in-
stilled in our minds the picture of "the Greek and the Roman"
and the idea of the "Three Traditions." Last, but not least,
Mary Ellen Chase with the tangy spirit of her native New
England climate, prodded us from our complacent paths to
observe . . . find delight in "just noticing."

Every lecturer had something to offer. Every student had
the opportunity the majority seized it. Thanks to the efforts
of these two groups, we have been enriched threefold.

Sore Spot

The beaten path between the Library and Buttrick gets our
vote for being "The Sore Spot of the Week on the Campus."
Thoughtlessness and laziness on the part of students have
worn the grass off completely. The walks are to be used for
walking. We plead with you to use the walks and let the
grass grow.

Whittling It Down

A month from today school will be out!

This last month will be the hardest. Already the rush
of term papers, book reports, tests, and mere homework is
beginning. Already the "things to be done" seem impossible.

Try whittling down the load in this manner: Get plenty
of sleep and relaxation (and we don't mean sissy stuff try
a stiff game of tennis, or a swim during plunge period).

Make good use of your time study when you study play
when you play. The pile is not high, it's only the way you've
constructed it!

Chorus G/V/s, Waiters Rehearse
Final Fling Wth Mystery Member

By Leila Holmes

The gym is rocking under your
favorite operatic music with words
such as:

"Vaustasia, my sweet,

Whatcha* want to eat?"
as the seniors are rehearsing for
their final fling at using their
tired voices in "Faustasia" an
original opera to be put on by the
Seniorpolitan Opera Company
Saturday night.

Saturday afternoon the unusual
opera cast swam down to the gym
to rehearse. Rain was coming
down in torrents, and lightning
filled the room but the seniors
declared defiantly that the "show-
must go on" come "hell or high
water." And the furies rehearsed
their dance taking place in Hell,
all the harder.

Daily rehearsals are discovering

chorus girls, waiters, married wo-
men, and dancers out of the most
amazing seniors. They have had
these hidden talents (?) for four
years, and most of them say it's
a good thing they are graduating
shortly after the opera, for they
will never live down their roles.

At one rehearsal one of the able
directors of the opera looked up to
see the most faithful rehearsal-
comer eating up part of the script.
Evidently this spotted terrier at
least thought the script was good,
and the seniors were encouraged.

A grand surprise is in store for
the audience, for one member of
the cast will be unheard of. Don't
ask anyone who it could be, but
after five minutes in the gym, we
believe you will know what we
mean!

I thought you said 6 foot 4!!

Vera Orem and Art Class 199 Find
New World Atop Stone Mountain

By Vera Orem

Mr. Thomas can always be counted on for originality in
making work interesting if you call it work. Our Art 199
class took off for Stone Mountain last Tuesday at 1:15. At
least some of it did; Liz Carpenter, Betty Campbell, Nulla
Norris, and Mr. Thomas. Given half a chance Anne Equen
and Montene Melson would have
made it they ran hard enough.
The rest of us finally caught the
1:40 car. Jane Everett and I were
the last ones to reach Threadgill's,
and at first we didn't believe Mr.
Thomas would pull such a dirty
trick as to leave us. Well, we
forgave him. He at least let us
wear blue jeans.

Instructions Given

Ah, what a beautiful day! We
could hardly wait to get there.
When we did, there were Mr.
Thomas and the others sitting at
the foot of the mountain laughing.
No one was more excited over the
whole thing than Mr. Thomas. We
gathered around him and he pa-
tiently began to explain what he
had already told the more prompt.
The trees' foliage had to be dark
in just the right place, the rocks
were rectangular solids and the
clouds were rocks upside down
Betty Senter took this literally
and put upside down rocks in the
sky of her "masterpiece" at lab
Thursday; the wind blew the trees
in one direction; the trees wanted
to grow to the ground result:
twisted trees full of character.
Knowing all this, it was just the
matter of finding the right tree,
the right rocks ,and the right
clouds.

We were off! At three-fourths
of the way up we came to a spot
where there were many interest-
ing trees twisting, gnarled,
thirsty looking. We were all puf-
fing and blowing. As we aspiring
artists were busily attempting to
draw trees, rocks, and clouds that
actually resembled trees, rocks
and clouds, Mr. Thomas actually
drew trees, rocks, and clouds and
some of us to boot.

Mountain Perfect School

Looking around, we suddenly
saw an old friend, a slender, lean-
ing little tree. It was familiar be-
cause Mr. Thomas's drawing of it
can be seen in the yellow room on
the third floor of Buttrick. Soon

we spread over the mountain
drawing various trees.

Oh, how we hated to leave! As
Mr. Thomas said, we were there
for air and sun as well as for the
drawing. What a wonderful school
Stone Mountain would be! We
suggested to Mr. Thomas that he
start a school there. Imagine at-
tending classes on Stone Moun-
tain! One cannot stay in a dream
state forever Mr. Thomas gave
a war whoop and all of us flocked
down the mountain. Mr. Thomas
slipping and sliding down the
steep part was a sight to see. His
shoes were not rubber soled, un-
fortunately. He should have tak-
en off his shoes as some of us did.
The soft drinks from the little
place at the foot of the mountain
tasted mighty good to us after our
mad scramble.

Nulla Makes Friend

As we walked back to the street
car stop we saw another "charac-
ter" tree which we left with re-
gret. We chewed on some clover
and extracted honey from honey
suckle. A whole new world of
sensations and feeling and notic-
ing things is open to the person
who dares to take art. The street
car ride back was uneventful save
for an elderly man who tried to
propose to Nulla because he loved
women with red hair. It was all
quite amusing. We eventually
parted from Mr. Thomas outside
Buttrick assuring him that Stone
Mountain was the best place for
our exam.

All organizations please turn
in a complete list of new offi-
cers for the 1945-46 handbook
immediately. Ann Seitzinger,
day student representative, has
announced that all new copy
must be in by May 12. Harriet
Hargrove, Doris Street or Kath-
ryn Burnett will take the copy.

Lowlights
Nonentities

By Janice Latta

These past few days have been
busy for your raving reporter, as
I took on a new extra-curricular
activitiy namely, asking all those
w r ho said they liked my column if
they didn't want to write it for
me this week. However, Mother
wouldn't do it and Sweetie doesn't
have time, so here I am again.

Rebekah Has New Society

This has been rather an event-
ful week, what with the Third
Floor Rebekah Society for the
Prevention of Wildlife (animals,
not hilarity) sponsoring a reason-
able accurate facsimile of Pet
Week (noun, not verb); and the
four elements, earth, air, fire, and
water (the ancients and I see
eye-to-eye on science) all con-
spiring to make a course in braille
not only possible, but essential.
But, one thing at a time.

Last Sunday night as the resi-
dents of Rebekah were studiously
studying, they were rudely awak-
ened by a cacophony of bloodcurd-
ling shrieks and cries of terror.
Spines tingling, eardrums vibrat-
ing wildly, the volunteer bucket-
brigade (fourth for bridge furnish-
ed, low rates) stampeded up the
stairs to the third floor, expect-
ing to find that someone had been
murdered or had gotten engaged.
(It is often hard to tell from the
screams which event it is.)
It's Superman

To make a long story intermin-
able, the cause of the disturbance
was a bat. One young lady, who
has a tendency to let her vitamin
pills go to her head, got terribly
excited and shrieked, "It's a bird;
it's a plane; it's Superman! And
what's a man doing in our dormi-
tory?" She went back to her
room to look up the rule about it
"No men or polo-ponies allowed in
the dormitories at any time"
and has been looking for polo-
ponies ever since.

Bat is Gentleman

But I digress. Back to the bat,
which was swooping gracefully up
and down the hall, terrifying those
girls who were still silly enough
to believe that bats get in their
hair. I noticed one such individual
threw everything at us but the
she needn't have worried. Her silky
locks were so full of tin curlers
that the bat couldn't have gotten
in with a can opener!

The bat, gentleman that he was,
left as quickly as possible.

Sophfl Slip One Over

And now the four elements. Ah,
there, Aristotle!) (What would I
do without parentheses?) Tues-
day night the heavens opened and
threw everything as us but the
proverbial kitchen sink. The cast
of May Day was rather taken
back when the lights suddenly
went out and forced them to con-
tinue the rehearsal by the light of
two candles and occasional flashes
of lightning.

In the dormitories things were
pretty confusing too. Some halls
had lights, some didn't. No bells
rang, giving us sophs a chance to
continue our bridge until 11:15
with perfect (?) innocence. How-
ever, the startiling message that
all lights in the building would go
off in ten minutes had a deadly
effect on the party.

A former Girl Scout had it all
fiprured out. She went around
with a match between her teeth so
if the lights went out, she could
litfht it and find her way back to
the deep and dreamy. There real-
ly must be something to that mot-
to: Semper Fidelis Be Prepared.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945

Page 3

Out of the
Woods

By Anne Noell

The premature reports of vic-
tory in Europe on Saturday night
brought forth varying reactions on
campus. Almost every ear was
glued to a radio somewhere, but
for more than one purpose some
people did manage to listen to the
Hit Parade. And one junior com-
plained loudly that the symphony
consisted of one-fourth Beethoven
and three-fourths "Stand by for
THE announcement which will
be flashed as soon as President
Truman makes it official!" When
at last all the commentators
agreed that Senator Tom Conn-
nally, chairman of the Foreign Af-
fairs Committee, had been antici-
pating the truth, the general ver-
dict was "Eager beaver," and it
was sadly resolved to believe noth-
ing until Eisenhower himself said
it.

Idle thought: Why should Ger-
many have offered to surrender to
Great Britain and the United
States only, when Russian troops
were the first to reach Berlin? Or
have the German people, mindful
of the promises of Hitler and
Goering, closed their eyes to the
obvious and refused to notice the
Reds?

Another one: How many stu-
dents heard Truman's address at
the opening of the San Francisco
conference on the night of the
25th? Or, for that matter, how
many are keeping up with the is-
sues of the conference through
the radio or the newspaper? Don't
look at me; I'm merely asking the
question. If the library represents
an ivory tower, then I plead guilty,
but at least I was not the junior
who looked up from her plate and
inquired innocently, "Who's Tru-
man?"

A moment after Mr. Posey an-
nounced a fact test for History 215
a sophomore on the front row
dashed out she had forgotten to
leave the last page of a 211 test.

Visit Your Neighbor

Vernon Frank's Decatur
FLOWER SHOP

301 Church St. DE. 5309

A STOREFUL OF . . .

MOTHER'S DAY
GIFTS

AT RICH'S

No matter how large or
small your remembrance
will be, there are just the
right gifts for your Moth-
er waiting for you at . . .

Betty Jo Turner
In Tech Opera

Betty Jo Turner, Agnes Scott
freshman, of Atlanta, stars in
Frederick von Flotow's opera
"Martha," to be presented by the
Georgia Tech Glee Club at the At-
lanta Women's Club, May 2-3, at
8:30 p. m., under direction of
Walter Herbert.

The 22-voice women's chorus as-
sisting the leading characters in-
cludes three Agnes Scott students:
Jean Roony, Martha Sunkes, and
Peggy Herbert.

Set during the reign of Queen
Anne, "Martha" is one of the light-
est of the grand operas, containing
the well-known "Last Race of
Summer" and "M'Appari." This is
the first complete performance of
the opera in English in Atlanta.

Betty Jo Turner, soprano, has
the stellar role as Lady Harriet.
Other members of the cast are
Alice Tomlinson, Hubbard Up-
church, William Donahue, Tom
Byerly and Don Evans, augmented
by a chorus from the Tech Glee
Club as well as the women's cho-
rus. Glenn James, who has given
technical assistance in several
Blackfriars' productions, is tech-
nical director and stage manager.

Go. Symphony
To Play May 7

The University of Georgia Little
Symphony Orchestra, directed by
Hugh Hodgson, will perform in
Presser Hall Monday, May 7, at
8:00.

Billy Johnson, a sophomore at
the University, will be piano solo-
ist. The program includes works
of five composers:

Overture From Figaro, Mozart;
Symphony No. 1, Beethoven; Ada-
gio, molton, allegro con brio: an
dante cantabile con moto; min-
uotte, alegro molto e vivace: ad-
agio, allegro molto e vivace.

Intermission.

Piano Concerto in A Minor,
Schumann: tllegro affetuoso, Bil-
ly Johnson, pianist.

Spanish Dance, deFalla; Prayer
and Scene from "Hansel and
Gretel," Humperdinck.

The Emory Players

present
'Tomorrow the World"

GLENN MEMORIAL
AUDITORIUM
(Emory)
THURS. - FRI., MAY 10-11
8:30 p. m.
Tickets at Door 60c

Club News

Lecture Association

The following girls comprise the
1945-46 Lecture Association, Bet-
ty Long, president, announced.

Libby Woodward, hostess chair-
man; Carol Giles and Anne John-
son, day student representatives;
Peggy Pat Home, art representa-
tive; Martie Mizell, publicity;
Nelson Fisher, usher chairman;
and Mary Beth Little, freshman
representative.

Ellen Hayes is treasurer of the
association:

Poets

Sara Jean Clark, Mary Beth
Little, and Virginia Andrews will
attend their first meeting of the
Poetry club this Friday night at
Miss Emma May Laney's house.
They were recently selected from
those trying out for Poetry club.

Creative Writing

Jane Alsobrook, Alice Davidson,
and Nelson Fisher were recently
elected to membership in B. O. Z.,
prose writing club.

Officers for next year are Ruth
Simpson, president, and Edwina
Davis, secretary.

IRC

The 1945-'46 officers of IRC are
Marguerite Watson, president;
Mary Catherine Vinsant, secre-
tary; Harriet Hargrove, treasurer;
and Minnewil Story, social chair-
man.

Gallon Club Members

Three new members of the Gal-
lon club are Frances Brougher,
Louise CantrelL and Stratton Lee.

The newly-elected financial
chairman of War Council is Lura
Johnston. Representatives for
1945-46 are Nellie Scott and Nel-
son Fisher, junior class; Nancy
Deal and Tina Hewson, sophomore
class.

Spanish Club Picnic

The Spanish Club entertained
at a picnic at Harrison Hut on
Thursday, April 26. Among those
present were the Spanish faculty
and the newly-elected members
of the club.

The new members are: Susan
Daughtery, Pagie Violette, Rose-
mary Griffin, Eleanor Davis, Fluff
Paisley, Flora Bryant, and Vir-
ginia Henry.

The first May Day was held in the spring of 1913 in front of
Gaines cottage. Miss Ethel McKay, ex '15, now Mrs. W. B. Holmes
of Macon and mother of the 1944-45 editor of The News, was May
Queen. From left to right, her maids are: Mrs. Charles F. Oliver
(Ninuzza Seymour, ex '15); Isabella Norwood, '15; maid of honor;
Mrs. Albert Hogan (Theodosia Cobbs, '15); and Mrs. Richard O.
Smith (Ray Harrison, '16) .

Candidates for Queen were nominated from the two literary
societies, the Propylean and the Mnemosynean, and were voted
on in chapel by the student body.

The crowning of the Queen and the dancing of the May Pole were
the two events of the occasion.

Rosebuds While Ye May

By Libby Woodward

It's come and gone. Life and lessons go on as usual, but
all agree that Friday was a wonderful day. From the various
reports Hottentots enjoyed every minute of THE HOLIDAY,
catching up on much-needed sleep and play. With a special
order of sunshine direct from the weatherman, picnics were
the order of the day. Mary Cum-
ming took 18 girls home with her
for a gala party. Things to re-
member: the long-suffering ex-
pression on the ticket agent's fac^
when they filed singly up to the
window and each asked for a tick-
et to Griffin; the mountains of
fried chicken and innumerable
bridge games; Emily's red bal-
lerinas; Ann High tower's friend
.Stanley (aged 2*4) and the panic-
stricken conductor when he
thought she was leaving her
"child" on the train.

Stone Mountain attracted Gail
Stewart, Jane Barker, June Dris-
koll, Harriet Reid, Dabney Adams,

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Bobbie Plumley, Nancy Haislip,
Bobby Blair, and Tina Hewson,
while Silver Lake was also the
scene of much gaiety.

Shipwrecked With Honour

Hollywood may have Betty
Grable, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana
Turner, but Agnes Scott has NAN
HONOUR! This cute freshman
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945

ATHLETE^

FEATS/

RUTH RYNEft

SPORTS

Ruth Ryner, Editor

All that can be said about
progress in the sports world
this week is BLUB!! Things
would have been practically at
a standstill except for the ar-
dent workers who are still
steadily preparing for May Day.
Last year the eventful day was
lull of hail and high water, as
we well remember, but by this
Saturday it should have all
"rained out." As Latta would

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning
Wednesday, May 2nd
Wednesday
"HENRY ALDRICH'S LITTLE
SECRET"

Thursday and Friday
Lana Turner-James Craig
John Hodiak in
"MARRIAGE IS A PRIVATE
AFFAIR"

Saturday
"RED RIVER ROBINHOOD"
and

"BARBARY COAST GENT"

Monday and Tuesday
Joan Fontaine-Auturo de Cordova
in

"FRENCHMAN'S CREEK"

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning April 31
Wed-Thurs.
Humphrey Bogart-Laureen Bacall
"TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT"

Friday

"LAKE PLACID SEREN ADE"

Saturday
'MAKE YOUR OWN BED"
and

"RIDE, RANGER, RIDE"

Mon.-Tues.-Wed.
Van JOHNSON
"SO SECONDS OVER TOKYO"

say, consult that "handy porta-
ble barometer" daily. (hair,
nateherly).

Ames YoYo Champ
Energetic Miss Ames would let
nothing get her down. Rain or no
rain she could be seen day by day
puffing, panting and just wearing
herself out . . . "yoyoing."

There could be loads of fun in
store for some few hockey en-
thusiasts next August if they
would but look into the situation.
It's Hockey Camp of course. Miss
Wilbum is very interested in see-
ing a hockey team from Agnes
Scott go up for a week around
August 29 in the Pogono Moun-
tains of northern Pennsylvania.
Anyone interested contact Miss
Wilburn for details and Scotty
Johnson for "elaborations." . . .
"You oil, it's "juuust" wonderful,"
says Scotty, "you'd be crazy
abo-ute it."

Have "Pep" Ready

Don't forget about the 'Swim-
A-Mile" contest. Read here before
you start the warning that you
must go in three times before
you attempt to swim the 88. The
college can't furnish vitamin pills
and Kellogg's PEP for all, there's
an acute shortage of stretchers at
the pool, and besides, the infirm-
ary is filled with serious cases of
spring fever (oh yeah?). The oth-
er rules are posted down by the
pool and will be there until the
contest ends May 16. Remember
there'll be a picnic for all who live
through it!

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc

DECATUR CAKE BOX

Moth

er s

Day

IS SUNDAY, MAY 13!

GIVE HER THE
PERFUME OF PROMISE
BY WORTH . . .

Je Reviens

(I WILL RETURN)
Fourth Floor

The Stsle Center of the Sou

23 Rugged Hikers
Hit City in Rain

By Bettye Lee Phelps

Remember Saturday afternoon ?
Outing Club won't forget it for
some time neither will Dr. Burns,
the Dean's Office, and all friends
and relatives who bid us farewell
Saturday afternoon thinking that
we should have been heading for
"Milledgeville" instead of an over-
night camping trip to North Ful-
ton Park.

Everybody's Rugged

The weather was rugged, but we
were too. Blanket rolls, food, and
dry clothes were crammed into
the cars and then we proceded
to twist and squeeze ourselves into
all the remaining space.

Ann Seitzinger was to meet
those going out on the trolley in
Atlanta at 3 p. m. Since we left De-
catur at 4, she had plenty of time
in which to have some rare ex-
periences, the rarest of which
happened when a boy rushed up
to his sailor friend standing near
and with a series of "Good lucks,"
said "I had no idea you were leav-
ing so soon." The sailor had such
a blank look on his face that Ann
decided she had better go get her
duffle bag which he was standing
by.

We See 'Er Show

Soon after we got there we be-
gan planning a good midnight
feast and went back to the little
country store to stock up on Coca
Colas and cake. The owner of the
store was a big, gruff individual
with his own ideas about campers
who say they'll be sure and bring
the empty bottles back. We
laughed and said coyly, "Oh! We're
from Agnes Scott." Well, we
might as well have said the Fed-
eral Pen for all the impression
that made on him. After all we
were just another bunch of
tramps!

About 9 o'clock we decided that
Buckhead should know we were
there. Twenty-three strong and
with Miss Ames as our "Ma" we
gave the town a quick going over
and decided that the midnight
show was something that we could
not afford to miss.

We 'Stutter' In

Children must play, so it was
decided that each one of us should
"s-s-stu-stuter" as she bought her
ticket. Ail went along solemnly
enough until the manager came
out and asked the crowd if they
would "p-p-please s-s-stand ba-ba-
back."

About 3 a. m. everyone but Sally
Sue had quited down and we closed
our eyes at last.

Get on the Sunny Side

First, stop and think If there
really is such a thing, then if
you're in the second round of
the tennis tournament, take ev-
ery advantage of the fair weath-
er.

No matches were played last
week because of the rain. Ac-
cording to Scotty Johnson, ten-
nis manager, if the weather re-
mains fair this week all second
round matches must be played
by this Friday, May 4. Any dou-
bles team failing to do so must
automatically forfeit. Dust off
your racquets, wring out the
tennis balls and let's get that
tournament going strong.

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

Rosebuds

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was recently chosen by the V-12
dormitory at the University of
Texas as the "girl they'd rather be
shipwrecked with."

Several new fraternity pins have
been seen around the campus. Mic-
kie Derieux's is Tom's Sigma Chi
sweetheart. Betty Brown is now
wearing a Phi Delt pin and Anne
Johnson has a PiKA pin.

Visitors were much in evidence
this past week. Marie Adams' lit-
tle brother was here. Mrs. An-
drews spent the week-end with
daughter Betty. Cookie Miller's
family came to see her, and Mary
Jane Fuller's family were up from
Neptune Beach, Fla.

Uniforms Arrive
And some were MEN! Jane Oat-
ley's and Nancy Moore's respec-
tive fiances Ruth Clapp's Jim
from Princeton Doris Purcell's
Doug Carol Barge's Marine from
Athens Betty Andrews' Whitt
Nan Honour's man from Yale
(tch. tch!) Leila's Frank. Ginny
Tyler had a pleasant surprise
when her Herchant Marine
dropped in unexpectedly for a few
hours. Consternation reigned on
2nd floor Rebekah Saturday when
Jack (of the diamond ring) called
Dot DeVane and couldn't locate
her. She was in town with her
family, but she and her unexpected
visitor finally got together.

Many left campus for other
part.s Nancy Hardy and Betty
Patrick went to Augusta. Helga
Stixrud spent the week-end in
Griffin. Lura Johnston dashed off
to Duke. Dot Spragens and Strat-
ton Lee visited Bunch Beaver in
Gainesville, while Eleanor Rey-
nolds went to see friends at
Brenau. Jeter took Rite to Cal-
houn with her. A wedding in
Greenville was the attraction for
Betty Mann. The small cyclone in
Rebekah Saturday afternoon was
Lois deciding on the spur of the
moment to go home with Kitty
Kay to visit her future in-laws in
Byron, Ga. Other Hottentots
homeward bound were Dot Peace,
Louise Starr, Mickie Beman, Mar-
garet Kinard, Fluff Paisley, Ruth
Anderson, Cookie DeVane, Sister
Davis. Mary Jean Sims, Mary
Manly, and Valeria Brown. Kate
Webb Clary visited her husband
in New Orleans.

Girls Go As Boys
Saturday night, dressed as boys,
June Driskell, Queenie Krass,
Thames Castner, and Mary Manly
escorted their best "gals" to the
Delta Tau Delta backwards party
at Tech.

The Tech ROTC dance at Black
Rock was lots of fun. At le&Sl
Beth Walton, Dot Stewart, Jean
Barnes, Frances Tyler, June Ir-
vine. Charlotte Broyles, and Pud-
din Bealer seemed to think so.

At the Phi Delt house at Tech:
Glassell Beale, June Thomason,

Golf finals

Out at the Legion course at Av-
ondale last Thursday afternoon
Dot Peace outshot number one
senior golfer and past manager
Dottie Kahn to take the match
and become Agnes Scott golf
champion for the second consecu-
tive year.

The final match was indeed a
close one, as close as last year
when the same two met for the
first time in the finals. Before
reaching the finals last Thursday,
"Dot" first eliminated Dale Ben-
nett and Dottie defeated Kathleen
Buchanan.

Parties Given
By Majors

Seniors specializing in history
and English have begun the group
of parties usually given by majors
for their departmental professors.
Monday afternoon at 4:30 the Eng-
lish majors entertained their in-
structors at an informal tea in
the Alumnae House. Carolyn Ful-
ler acted as chairman.

The History majors have plan-
ned a banquet for Wednesday af-
ternoon at 6:30. K. A. Edelblut is
in charge of entertainment. Elev-
en seniors and the history profes-
sors will attend.

Donald Kerr, recreational di-
rector with the American Red
Cross at Lawson will be at the
gym tonight to play with and
contribute pointers to several ol
the badminton club members
and other more skilled players.
Many saw Mr. Kerr play in ex-
hibition matches here several
weeks ago and witnessed some
very expert badminton.

and Sweetie Calley; at the Emory
Phi Delt house: Janet Liddell.

Joyce Gilleland, Anne Lee, and*
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the Officers' Club at the Naval'
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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945

NO. 2#

War Council Cites
1944-45 Works

Since the beginning of the war Agnes Scott has placed spe-
cial emphasis on keeping the campus informed about world
events and aware of opportunities for participation in war
service activities. As the agency through which such ac-
tivities are organized, War Council has prepared its fourth
annual report for the college com- }
munity.

The Council is composed of six
permanent faculty members and a
student chairman, treasurer and
class representatives who are se-
lected annually.

Public Instruction

Monthly current event sum-
maries have been given by Mrs.
Roff Sims of the history depart-
ment. Mrs. Sims also reviewed two
much discussed books in October:
Sumner Welles' "Time for Decis-
ion'" and Walter Lippman's "U.
S. War Aims." Additional features
of the public instruction program
have included talks in November,
January, and April by the follow-
ing: Miss Llewellyn Wilburn on
USO work; Miss Emma May La-
ney on the students' responsibility
in the war effort; Mr. Walter B.
Posey on America's foreign policy;
and Miss Carol Hale Denman, an
alumna, on her Red Cross experi-
ences overseas. A representative
from the World Student Service
Fund who was entertained on the
campus in November spoke on the
need for contributions for students
m war areas.

Through cooperation with the
International Relations Club two
pictures on China were shown to
the community in November, and
question periods following lectures
have been sponsored this year as
last.

War Service Fund

A plan was presented to the
students last fall of establishing a
central fund which would elimi-
nate the necessity for separate
campaigns during the year and
would insure an adequate contri-
bution to all causes. On September
28 the students voted to adopt this
plan and made individual pledges
totaling $2713.35, the money to
be collected in monthly install-
ments. The treasurer of War
Council has been in charge of col-
lections. Through May 1, $2,040
has been paid, leaving a total of
$673.35 due.

A contribution of $1,000 was
paid out of this fund to the United
Community and War Fund, and
$100 to the Infantile Paralysis
Drive. $500 has been paid to the
World Student Service Fund in
addition to the collection of $96.61
taken up after the investiture ser-
mon; and at least $750 will be paid
to the Red Cross.

The faculty pledged $1438.50 to
the United Community and War
Fund, making the total campus
contribution close to $2500. The
faculty pledge of $973.50 to the
Red Cross will bring the total
campus pledge to $1,723.50.

Organizations and classes have
been encouraged to raise money
for the w r ar service fund in ad-
dition to the individual payments:
the junior class "jasmine manor'
and senior silver project, for ex-
ample.

Conservation

Supervising of knitting and tin
can smashing are the main activi-

1 ties of the conservation committee.
The tin can smashing has been
done daily on a turn-about basis
by students living in the various
dormitories. During examination
periods faculty members have ta-
ken over the work.

Faculty and students have used
all the wool the DeKalb County
Red Cross could provide to knit
the following: 12 pairs army socks,
16 walking cast toe socks, 2 tur-
tle neck sweaters, 6 V-neck army
sweaters, 8 pairs navy gloves, and

2 shoulderettes.

Campus War Service

Wajr stamps have been sold
daily in Buttrick lobby and the
bookstore. The total sold from
October 5 to May 3 is approxi-
mately $490.

Sixty-four students took the
Red Cross staff assistants course
offered at the College, and many
have completed their practice
work and already given hours of
work at the Decatur chapter head-
quarters and at Lawson.

Students have visited convales-
cent patients at Lawson General
Hospital on Sunday afternoons and
some week-day evenings. During
the fall groups helped at the Open
Door Canteen one night a week.

When there has been need, stu-
dents have rolled bandages at the
Decatur Red Cross.

Faculty and students contribut-
ed clothes for the Greek Relief
drive and for the allied European
countries.

Students have not been urged to
donate blood, but many nave done
so; and the Red Cross blood donor
center has reported that five mem-
bers of the campus community
have become members of the gal-
lon club this year.

Several students are Nurses'
Aids and have given service to lo-
cal hospitals. All who can are urg-
ed to take this course and others
during the summer.

Bennett Cup Award
Set for Saturday

The annual award of the Ben-
nett Cup, Blackfriars' loving cup
signifying service and outstanding
acting ability for the year, will be
made directly after the presenta-
tion of "The Prince Who Was a
Piper," in the May Day Dell on
Saturday, May 12.

Miss Kathleen Clanton of the
Atlanta Theatre Guild who is one
of this year's judges will present
the trophy. Other judges for the
occasion are Miss Annie Lee Stagg
of WSB and Mrs. Frank McCor-
mick of the Atlanta Better Films
Committee.

Blackfriars instituted the cus-
tom of presenting an acting award
in the 1920s. The late Claude S.
Bennett, the Atlanta jeweler, upon
learning of the custom, became in-
terested in behalf of his wife, the
former Venus Estelle Chandler, an
Agnes Scott alumna. From this
time until the present, he gave
the cup himself. This year, the cup
is given by Claude S. Bennett In-
corporated.

Blackfriars has presented one
three-act murder mystery-melo-
drama, "Spider Island" and two
one-act plays, "Be Seated," a gay
comedy, and "Will 'O The Wisp,"
an errie Irish production, this year.
Three scenes from Shakespeare
were also given in February.

"The Prince Who Was a Piper"
is a one-act play, unique in plot.
It is the first open air play Black-
friars has produced in several
years.

A. Gordon Heads
Debating Society

Alice Gordon was elected new
president of Pi Alpha at the. last
meeting of the year, Thursday
night in Murphey Candler.

Other officers will be Elizabeth
Osborne, vice-president; Louisa
Aichel, secretary; Marie Beeson,
treasurer; and Peggy Pat Home,
social chairman.

The last debate of the year for
the club was last Friday night in
Murphey Candler, with a team
from the University of Georgia.
Jean Valentine and Jean McKemie,
of the University, supported the af-
firmative of the question Resolved:
that the federal government
should enact legislation requiring
the compulsory arbitration of la-
bor disputes. Louise Aichel and
Dale Bennett upheld the negative
for Agnes Scott. The debate was
non-decision.

BOOK AWARD
TO BE MADE

The book collections of students
entering the Louise McKinney
Book Award contest will be ex-
amined Friday, May 18 by a com-
mittee of the English department,
and shortly afterwards the books
will be placed on exhibit in the li-
brary.

A student's collection must have
a minimum requirement of 15
books, however, the student is
judged not on the number of
books entered, but on her intellec-
tual possession of them. The books
are collected from one May to the
next. The award is $25.00.

Miss Louise McKinney, profes-
sor of English, Emeritus, founded
the book award to encourage stu-
dents to possess their own libra-
ries. The committee is composed
of Professor Louise McKinney.,
associate professors Emma May
Laney and Ellen Douglas Leyb-
ourn, and assistant professor Janef
Preston.

Students interested in entering
next year's contest are urged to
begin thinking about their collec-
tions now. Rules for the contest
are posted on the bulletin board
outside the book store. Shirley
Graves, 1945-46 editor of the Au-
rora, was the winner of the 1944
award.

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Hottentots Star
In Emory Play

Two Agnes Scott girls, Pat Mc-
Manmon and Pauline Ertz, are
featuring in the Emory Players'
forthcoming production, "Tomor-
row the World," to be presented
in Glenn Memorial auditorium at
8:30 p. m. on May 10 and 11.

Pat and Pie Play Teacher- Aunt

As Leona, young teacher played
by Betty Field in the recent movie
adaptation of the hit play, fresh-
man Pat McManmon of Atlanta
adds another to her list of leading
roles with the Players. At sixteen
she is a veteran of two productions
with the group, a member of the
Atlanta Theater Guild, and regu-
lar performer on WATL's weekly
production, "The Play's the
Thing." She was elected to mem-
bership in Blackfriars this spring.

Pauline Ertz in her initial ap-
pearance with the Players por-
trays "Aunt Jessie" in the role
played by Agnes Morehead in the
movie. Pauline has such hits to
her credit as "Cradle Song" and

"Spider Island."

President J. R. McCain will
leave lor New York May 17, to
attend a meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the General
Education Board.

Classes Meet

Class meetings Friday. May 11,
during chapel period will center
around plans for commencement.

The seniors will decide on the
class gift to the school and will
discuss plans for their class picnic,
class day, the colorful book burn-
ing ceremony and the capping of
the juniors afterward in the May
Day dell.

The big topic for conversation
when the juniors meet will be the
tea they are planning to give for
the seniors on Saturday, May 19,
at Rich's.

The sophomores' plans for com-
mencement will include a discus-
sion of the sophomore breakfast
given for the seniors, and the mak-
ing of the daisy chain. The sophs
will also make plans for Paradice.

Freshmen will talk over the
problems of singing in the choir
and paying class dues.

Games, Stunts
Set tor May 12

An afternoon of fun and diver-
sion is offered to the entire cam-
pus community Saturday, May IX
on the hockey field. The varied
program will begin at 2:30 and will
include games sponsored by AA^
and Blackfriars' open air play,,
"The Prince Who Was a Piper" to
be given in the May Day dell at
4:30. The picnic supper will be
served in the small quadrangle be-
tween Buttrick and Presser. The
dining room will not be open. Im-
mediately following the picnic sup-
per, a community sing win be coo-
ducted in the dell by an eminent
musician.

Every effort has been made to
make the program convenient for
day students and they are par-
ticularly urged to come. Communi-
ty Day will proceed on schedule
in spite of all weather complica-
tions, and will be held in the gymr
if it rains.

Voice Students to Present:
Recital Tonight at 8

At 8 tonight in Maclean audi-
torium the second and third year
voice students will give their re-
cital. The program will consist of
song classics and concert songs.

Those singing will be: Jeaim
Chewning. Vivian Iverson, Helen
Currie, Marjorie Naab, Mary Beifa
Little, Ann Martin, Barbara Plum-
ley, Barbara Sproesser. The col-
lege community is invited to at-
tend.

Date Book

Wed., May 9 Mr. Posey's End
test, 9:30 a, m.

Voice Recital, 8 p. m. in Presser
Fri., May 11 Class meetings.
Sat., May 1 Community picnic

on hockey field, 2:30 p. m.

Blackfriars present "The Prince

Who Was a Piper" in the May

Day Dell, 4:30 p. m.
Sun., May 13 National Prayer

Day.

Group leaves for Lawson at 2
p. m.

Vespers at 6:30 p. m.
Tues., May 15 Talks in chapel by
Dr. Gutze.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS

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;
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EDITORIAL STAFF

_ _ _ MARTHA BAKER

* JANE BOWMAN

Assistant Editors

Joanne Benton
Dale Bennett

Copy Editor

Alice Beardsley

Feature Editor Editorial Assistants

Nellie Scott Anne Noell
Day Student Society Janice Latta
Joyce Gilleland

Sports Editor Society Editor

Ruth Ryner Lib Woodward

LATE DATE, MAY DAY

Sports reporters: Anne Register, Bettye Lee Phelps.

Cartoonists: Joan Crangle, Sally Sue Stephenson, Anne Leo, Anne Newbold.

Reporters: Joan Crangle, Nelson Fisher, Anne Johnson, Mildred Derieux, Dot Peace,
Peggy Pat Home, Jeanne Robinson, Lidie Lee, Lura Johnston, Marty Mizell, Pattle
Dean, Mary Jane Fuller, Virginia Owens, Doris Kissling, Valeria Brown, Betty
Turner, Jean McCurry, Jean Rooney. Conradine Fraser, Alice Gordon, Ann Seitzinger,
Marianne Jeffries, Helen Currle, Margaret Klnard.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager PEGGY JONES

Advertising Manager L JANE ANNE NEWTON

Atst Advertising Managers

Mary McCalla
Alice Newman

Circulation Manager

Doris Purcoll

Circulation Assistants

Lorena Ross
Marie Adams

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodie, Betty Andrews, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street,
Ann Hough, May Turner.

'Something More'

During the past eight months most of us have been doing
our best' for the war effort. We have done things we could
fit into crowded schedules Red Cross, Lawson, and war
stamps. We have cheerfully given up those things we have
been asked to do without.

But, vital as these things are, they have not filled the
desire we have to do something more, to try to become part
of the most real thing in the world we know by working
hard along with the boys with whom we went to high school.
Stories we have heard and pictures we have seen make us
chafe at being forced by limited time to do so little.

Soon this situation will be changed. We have three whole
months before us when we will be free to do that "some-
thing more." All of our home towns need workers desper-
ately in every sort of job imaginable. Let's not pass up
this chance to make the next three months just as useful
and satisfying to us and to those boys in our high school
class as we possibly can.

J. Benton.

Come ALL

Saturday is Community Day. For the first time this year,
faculty, their families, and all students will have a general
"get together" to relax, forget classes, and enjoy themselves.

Only unless all of us enter into the planned activity will
Community Day be a success. Plan to spend Saturday on
campus. Now is the time to see those you've been meaning
to all year.

Make Community Day a true gathering of members of
the campus neighborhood. Show a spirit of fellowship and
relax one and all!

To the Last

V-E Day was formally announced on May 8th by President
Truman. This is a time of thanksgiving to God for bringing
peace to Europe. This is a time memorial for those valiant
men and women who gave their lives that we might have
the peace.

War is still raging in the Pacific. A long, hard fight is
ahead of us yet. We cannot afford to relax our support of the
war effort. V-E proves that by cooperation and concentration
we Americans can win. In the words of our President, "We
must stick to our posts " and " work, work, work " until
the last battle is won.

So Little Time

In September of this year, the Student Body pledged $2,-
713.35 in individual contributions to the newly adopted War
Service Fund. The pledges were to be paid monthly.

War Council has made no other monetary demands upon
us. Only our personal desire and sense of responsibility has
compelled us to pay the installments.

Through May 1, $2,040 has been paid, leaving a total of
$673.35 due Does your pledge number in the deficit? How
many War Service Fund envelopes are lying unpaid on your
dresser?

There is little less than a month of school left in which
to act. Check on yourself and make much of so little time.

"Of course I haven't forgotten our date, Rogers, but I do think
I'd better freshen up my make-up before we start."

A Otitic Says

Beasts Animate
Unique Pageant

One of the most colorful and ef
fective May Day programs in sev-
eral years was presented last Sat-
urday, May 5, in the May Day
Dell. The costumes were realistic
as well as unique and received en-
thusiastic responses from the audi-
ence.

The members of the May Court,
augmented by crown-bearer four-
year-old . Kady MacGregor, wore
blue organdy trimmed at the hem
line by a ruffle which gave a bus-
tle effect to the dress. They car-
ried bouquets of spring flowers.
Anne Equen, Queen of the May,
wore a white organdy dress and a
crown of mixed spring flowers.

Molly Milam, representing the
Force of Creation, gave a "vigor-
ours" dancing performance as she
marshaled her various dancers
representing Darkness and Void,
the Water, Light Rays, the Lumi-
niries, Nature, and the Animals.
Other soloists, Louise Gardner,
Peggy Jones, Mary Cumming,
Ellen Rosenblatt and Mynelle
Grove gave delightful perform-
ances.

The most noticible feature of
this year's May Day was the ef-
fective costuming. The masks
for the animals, contributed by
the Art Department, fetched
conspicious gasps from the as-
sembly.. Attention switched
from the scratching ape to the
"drooly" dog and the two-piece
cow. The two trees seemed to
step right out of the foliage in
the Dell, bringing the birds, the
spider and ants along with them.
The narration by Miss Roberta
Winter added dignity and force
to the entire production.

As the May Day procession left
the Dell, the audience went away
with the consciousness of an hour
fully enjoyed through a well con-
structed and impressive program.

Opera Sizzles
In Song-dance

As the tuneful strains of "Aria"
from Lucia floated through the
gym, the curtain rose on "Faus
tasia," the longi- awaited senior
opera.

With the ever-appropriate theme
of "Gather ye rosebuds while ye
may" unifying all events, the opera
presented a variety of events and
personalities. Scenes ranged all
the way from a meeting at Agnes
Scott to a dance in a night spot.
The production featured numerous
characters Mephatophalis, the
shedevil, a chorus of mustached
waiters; married alumnae, and a
slinky cigarette girl.

The most impressive scene took
place in Hell. Scorching red and
yellow "painted" flames portrayed
the heat and torture of Hades.
Black-robed furies increased the
atmosphere of gloom and dam-
nation. Ammonia and hydrochlo-
ric acid provided flames and blue
smoke that belched forth from the
fiery furnace.

The singing and dancing were
the highlights of this rarest of all
productions. Soprano Bittie King
(a la Craig) gave a fine perform-
ance, especially in the song "I'm
Just a Girl Who Can't Say No,"
Bittie's singing showed the wide
range of her voice. Barbara Hatch,
as the husband, Joe, showed all
the affection of a newly-wed. The
"unusual" music furnished by the
orchestra of wild-haired conductor
Scott Newell gave an excellent
background for the whole affair.

The opera would not have been
complete without the unique
dances. In one of these Emily Hig-
gins played an exceptionally
"moving" part. Nulla Norris, the
Belle of Ballet, was superb. The
almost intoxicating dance of the
Furies climaxed the whole opera
and brought to a close the most ef-
fective scene in flaming Hell.

Lowlights,
Nonentities

By Janice Latta

Today (Friday, in case you
weren't around when I was writing
this) has been a great day, a mo-
mentous day for the old tiger. To-
day I gave my blood! Not, I re-
gret to say, to the Red Cross. They
won't take anything that is ninety
per cent Coca-Cola. However, to-
day I offered up my one shiny red
corpuscle. I called him Monsieur
le Rogue. For the benefit of those
who don't parley-vous franeais,
this means Mister the Red.

The whole process of extracting
M. le Rogue from my resisting
veins was a gruesome ordeal. I
tripped down to the gym full of
spirits (construe this as you please,
but remember, I go to Agnes
Scott), and bravely entered the
chamber of horrors. Alice New-
man greeted me with a bright
smile and a harpoon, eager to get
to work. My heart sank. So, ner-
vously, I suggested that perhaps
I'd better run downstairs and get
it. Alice replied nastily, "Yah,
you big sissy!" "I am not." I said,
taking refuge behind a filing cabi-
net. "You are, too," she shot back
at me, as she slowly advanced
with the harpoon in one grubby
little paw and a five gallon jug in
the other empty. I thought
"wouldn't I like to have that full
of Tabu," and began to leap from
table to table like a Great Dane
in a small apartment.

Come Out, Come Out

Unfortunately, I couldn't hold
out forever. Alice tripped me in
mid-air and I fell like a stunned
ox. It was but the work of fifteen
minutes for her to select my third
finger, left hand (I thought for a
fleeting second that she was going
to propose to me) and probe un-
erringly to the bone. My last recol-
lection before I fainted was of her
looking anxiously for Mr. The Red
and singing cheerily "Come out,
come out, wherever you are."

A few minutes later, after being
revived with all the gentle tender-
ness of a dinosaur picking violets,
I stumbled out of the room. My
touseled little head was full of
visions of that glorious day when
M. le Rouge and I would go hand-
in-hand down the glorious path of
Scientific Discovery.

Sissy Makes Her Mind Dp

A terrible thing happened in the
dining-room Wednesday night.
Several people have since asked me
why four or five of us were passing
slowly between the tables, scruti-
nizing each and every dish. It was
not, as has been erroneously re-
ported, because your myoptic re-
porter was looking for someone. It
was because of Sissy. It seems that
we had for dessert a choice of va-
nilla pudding or brown betty. Sis-
sy, after having taken the former,
decided she would rather have the
latter. Accordingly, she took her
pudding back and traded it for
brown betty.

The rest of us were utterly hor-
rified when we realized that in-
stead of her pudding, she had
t;iken bach the mayonnaise! She
rushed back, but it was too late.
The "pudding" was gone! There-
fore, our searching peregrination
among the tables. We were look-
ing, needless to say, for the fatal
dish. Anne reported when we met
her outside that she thought Miss
Symms had gotten it. We haven't
had the nerve to inquire.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945

Page 3

Rosebuds-- While Ye May

By Libby Woodward

March winds blew and April showers came but May Day
remained beautiful one of the most successful in years.
Highlights of the afternoon: Darkness and Void (the little
black Scotty, of course), Kady's shoes, Buss' timely arrival
from Sewanee to see Anne crowned Queen of the May, the
effectiveness of the weather al
most as if it had been rehearsed.
All agreed that the Seniorpoli-

tan Opera Co. is one of the best
that has performed at Agnes
Scott. Many distinguished guests
were present for the opening
night of FAUSTASIA Saturday.
Martha Arnold, stunning with a
red rose on her hat came with
"Sherlock" Jones, elegant in one
of those good-looking navy blue
uniforms. "Veronica" Adams
was escorted by the dashing Bob
Plumley. Mr. Johnson particu-
larly enjoyed Joella's classical
rendition of that old favorite,
"Chewin' Chawin' Gum."
Visitors galore came for May
Day-Senior Opera week-end
alumna Mary Ann Cochran Abbott
visiting Cockie, Nina's guest from
Roanoke, Ala., Daisy's mother,
Bunny Weem's twin brother (they
are both going home Wednesday),
Jeter's brother, Bobby, Mary Car-
gill's mother, Margaret Anne
Richards' family, Rite's visitor
from South Carolina, Scotty John-
son's mother, Jane Everett's fami-
ly and visitor from Macon, Pattie,
Jeter's brother, Bobby; Mary Anne
Dean's mother, Laura Winches-
ter's sister, Martha Baker's friend
from Wesleyan, K. A. Edelblut's
mother, Minnie Mack's mother,
Cathy Carlen's family; Lois and
Jimmy, Dot DeVane and Jack
(This is getting to be a habit!),
Lelia and Frank (ditto), Harriet
Hargrove and Owen, Maynelle and
Tommy (he's just back after 3
years in the Pacific), Dootsie and
Dan, May Turner and Tom, Kitty
Kay and Walter, Helen Pope and
Bill, Sara Smith and Walter from
Washington state.

Ring Out, Wild Bells
Wedding bells ring out again.
This time for Marian Leathers
Daniels and Eb last Wednesday in
the Little Chapel at Glenn Me-
morial. They had planned to be
married in June but his pressing
engagements elsewhere necessitat-
ed moving tl?e date up several
weeks. The ceremony was beauti-
ful and simple. Marian wore a blue
crepe dress with darling little hat
and carried a white Testament
showered with orchids. Martha

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning Wed., May 9

Wednesday
Franchot Tone - Ella Raines in
"THE PHANTOM LADY"

Thursday and Friday
Bud Abbott - Lou Costello in
"LOST IN A HAREM"

Saturday
'HAIL TO THE RANGERS"

and
"LARCENY WITH MUSIC"

Monday and Tuesday
Brian Donlcvy - Ann Richards in
"AN AMERICAN ROMANCE"

Jean Gower in pink was the only
attendant.

More wedding bells are in the
offing. Lois Sullivan and Mary
Cumming both announced their
engagements Sunday. Lois and
Jimmy Kay will be married June
25 in Anderson, S. C., while Mary
and Stuart Fitzhugh say "I do"
the next day in Griffin, Ga. Dot
Almond came back from Duke
with a ring. Cile Gibson has a
beautiful diamond. Another en-
gaged couple: Dot Lee Webb and
Ensign John McKee. Beth Walton
has a Phi Delt pin.

"BILL'S BACK!" If you mur-
mured "Whose Bill" then you
must not have been around Re-
bekah the last few days or seen
Shirley Graves beaming around
campus. A long distance call
roused her from a nap Friday af-
ternoon and after a sleepy "hello,"
all that was heard in the building
was "BILL!!!" He's in Norfolk
now after many months at sea and
will be here the 23rd. Plans aren't
complete but it's very likely they'll
"marry up" soon.

Romance ah, 'tis wonderful!
They Dance

The Tech Publication Dance

Saturday night was a huge success,
according to Edna Claire Cunning-
ham, Scotty Newell, Scotty Scott,
Jean and Jane daSliva, Julia Ann
Coleman, Mary Jane Fuller, Ann
Hough, Cissy Jeffries, Peggy Ba-
ker, Helen Owen, June Thomason,
Laney Harris, and Dale Bennett.

At the Phi Chi Med Dance were
Anne McCurdy, Polly Grant with
her red-headed SAE Bill, Charlotte
Broyles, and Virginia Mansfield.

The IFC dance at Emory at-
tracted numerous belles from our
campus Virginia Calloway, Peg-
gy Gregg, Carolyn Hodges, Gloria
Anne Melchor, Barbara Wauga-
man, Geva Harper, Mary Gene
Sims, Nina Owens, Mary Brown
Mahon, Margaret McManus, and
Janice Latta.

Look Homeward

Cile Gibson, Ann Terrell, Nan-
cy Geer, and Ann Patterson had
fun with the ATO's this week-end.

Janet Liddell and Pagie Violette
went to the AKK picnic.

The Delta Tau Delta scavenger
hunt was a big attraction for
Grace Durant, Mary Manly, and
Martha Krauss.

Look homeward, Hottentots
and some did. Gloria Gaines, Alice
Gordon (she stopped by Wesleyan
on the way) ; Edna Claire Cun-
ningham, who took Beth Jones and
Teetoe Williams with her; Dotty
Dyrenforth; Bitty ("Charlie Mc-
Carthy") King, who left after her
dynamic performance as prima
donna of the well-known FAUS-
TASIA.

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GOLD SHIELD

LAUNDERERS - CLEANERS

Vitalizes Art Work

Imagination, Zest for Life
Typify Howard Thomas

By Peggy Pat Home

One day, way back in August, 1943, Howard Thomas made
his first trip to fourth floor Buttrick. He did not find rooms
well equipped with chairs and tables, easels, and pictures; he
found only four colorless class rooms.

Thomas Searches Attic

Losing no time Mr. Thomas and John Flint got busy and
began hunting from attic to base-

ment for anything 'that could be
converted into useful equipment
for the art department. (Before he
decided to go to art school, Mr.
Thomas was studying to be an
electrical engineer. This early in-
terest in engineering made an ex
cellent foundation for the develop
men of an ingenuity for making
useful things from old crates and
anything else that had been dis
carded as "no good.") Old dining
room tables from the basement be-
came drawing tables; rubber
crutch tips were added to the
table legs to keep them from
scooting around; old post office
boxes became shelves in Mr. Thom-
as' office, and a small, inverted
table became a portfolio rack for
his pictures. He scouted around
for easels (we have Webster's
last), -drawing tables, stools and
chairs. John Flint took out all
blackboards and put up the boards
on which we now exhibit our pic-
tures.

People are Vital

People are vital to Mr. Thomas.
He learned a great deal about John
Flint while they worked together;
he learned that John likes to mix
paint and that he has a family of
which he is mighty proud. Mr.
Thomas knows Jimmy Threadgill,
too, and lots of other people. He
likes streetcars, Saturday nights
and Sunday dinners, because he
can see people "dressed up fit to
kill." He is sensitive and alert to
all that goes on about him and, in
his own expressive way, is able to
interpret his wealth of experiences
to his students. He talks about
everyday things like girls in ker-
chiefs; growing, spiraling trees;
"ginger cookie" clouds; tumbled
down houses; "Oscar"; and red
Georgia clay. With an uncanny
understanding of people, a mellow-
ed imagination, and a humor that
creeps up on you, Mr. Thomas
creates a warm, "impersonal per-
sonal" class-room atmosphere.

Because he has not forgotten the

difficulties through which he once
passed, he is ever ready to help the
student who has a problem. He
puts- a high value on the desire
which students have of digging for
an answer. He suggests possible
solutions to your problems gath-
ered from his own experience, then
refers you to books in which other
problems are discussed. His stu-
dents work hard but they have
the fun which comes from the sat-
isfaction of creating and of learn
ing for themselves. He allows his
students to develop as individuals
mentals, and has unfolded for
guided by common, basic funda-
them a whole new world full of
one big, throbbing, living experi
ence.

World Seen in Various Forms

Mr. Thomas opened his mind
and feelings to the world and the
world went right in and made it-
self at home. This world as seen by
Howard Thomas, comes out in vi-
gorous compositions of solid,
"lived in" houses; humorous char-
acters (like "Farmer Witih.
Chew"); hound dogs; plowed fields
of red Georgia clay; lonely rut-
ted roads; and strong black and
white trees. All of these things
have been inside Mr. Thomas for
a long while. For two years he
has assimilated the campus of
Agnes Scott making its buildings,
its personalities, its spirit a part
of himself. Perhaps Agnes Scott
will find itself on vigorous can-
vases someday; some of it is al-
ready there in a burst of new light-
ness of color.

Though Mr. Thomas has not had
every student and faculty member
in his classes, his influence has
permeated the whole campus. And
even though he is leaving us at
the end of the year, we will still
see him all about us in well-letter-
ed posters, in the college cata-
logue, in the student directory, the
Alumni Quarterly and in the minds
and lives of girls and faculty mem-
bers with whom he has associated.

Out of the
Woods

By Anne Noell

By dint of much prayer with
the exercise of proper humility of
spirit, the goal was achieved
May Day was held on schedule!
Numerous showers came up during
the afternoon, dark clouds attend-
ed the crowning of the Queen (held
first just in case), and a few drops
even fell into the Dell. One or two
umbrellas, signs of pessimism
which were frowned upon, and
then the clouds blew away. The
same breeze chilled the bare
feet of the dancers, but you never
would have known it from the per-
formance. Having furnished sev-
eral newspapers to the cause, I
felt a proprietary interest in the
paper mache animal heads which
excited so much pleased comment
the Art Department has made
another contribution to the cam-
pus life.

Senior Opera was more than
enough to make up for not hav-
had one last year, and under-
classmen began to see what we
meant. Joella's "ghosting" for
prima donna Bittie King lent
much to the success, but I should
have liked more than the sample
given of Bittie's own voice. Mar-
tha Arnold's entrance on the
arm of Mr. "Night- Watchman"
Jones brought back memories of
the ensemble with which Inge
graced the last opera, Now the
chief worry of the rising seniors
is: "How will we ever even dare
to try?"
The almost continuous down-
pour of the past week or so has
tempted many to borrow a leaf
from the new C. A. cabinet's book
and to make a dash for it and
slip away. And is it the belated
advent of warm weather which has
prevented the boarders' getting
their usual spring lecture on
"Please wear something in your
shoes besides feet?" Or is that an-
other fine old custom gone for the
duration, in the manner of host-
esses at the table and the hand-
book provision "Seniors may keep
cars on campus provided they are
registered in the dean's office"?
Must have been spontaneous
combustion Sunday afternoon
when the storage shack behind
Inman caught fire no man
would venture so far to throw a
careless match.

Having been cut in the middle
of a tale last week for the sake of
space; I hesitate to close with an-
other, but it is said by one who is
to participate that the Methodist
Work Camp (composed of college-
age students) which is to work in
Atlanta this summer, will maintain
its residence in the "home-for-
girls-before - they - become - way-
ward."

The beaten path between the
library and Buttrick is not quite
so beaten. Remember to keep
using the walk as the grass be-
gins to grow and the fence is re-
moved.

DeKALB THEATER

Week Beginning May 10
Thursday - Friday
Gary Cooper - I n grid Bergman
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"

Saturday

SING NEIGHBOR SING"
and
"GOING TO TOWN"

Monday - Tuesday
"TONIGHT AIND EVERY NIGHT"

Page 4

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945

Three Class Teams Deadlock;
Freshmen Defeat Sophomores

An exciting volleyball season has come to an end with
the three class teams dead-locked in competition. Rivalry
has been keen all season but the struggle for the champion-
ship ended Friday when the fighting freshmen crushed the
sophomores 48-31 and stepped up to tie with the soph and
junior teams in the number of

games won and lest. The remain-
ing game of the season, between
the chosen varsity and sub-varsity
teams will be played Saturday af-
ternoon at War Council's Field
Day, when A. A. Board has charge.

Players elected to the honored
Varsity team are: Juniors Sarah
Walker, Sally Sue Stephenson and
Millie McCain. Sophomores Lou-
ise Hoyt, Cockie Cochran and An-
na Dobbins. Freshmen Su9an
Neville, Ginny Andrews and Edna
Claire Cunningham.

Those making Sub- Varsity are:
Juniors Bet t ye Lee Phelps, Helen
Pope and Jeanne Addison. Sopho-
mores Cookie Miller, Janet Lid-
dell, Mac Craig, Gene Goode and
Dot Galloway. Freshman Vir-
ginia Tucker.

Tennis Matches
In Full Swing

Despite poor weather, two ten-
nis matches were played off last
week throwing the doubles tour-
ney into full swing. Ann Hough
and Betty Andrews, defending
champions, emerged into the semi-
finals of the tournament Saturday
by defeating the strong two-some
Mary Monroe and Sarah Walker
in a very close match. Hough and
Andrews took the first set 6-4, and
lost the next 4-6. The third set,
which determined the match, was
a fight to the finish and finally
showed Hough and Andrew vic-
torious 6-4.

Also winning a second round

ATHLETE^

FEATS/T

KUTH RYNEft

This is the time of year when
nobody has time to do anything.
Gym classes have ended but
courses in relaxation and exercise
are still offered and are guaran-
teed to take away that worried
look and end-of-the-quarter slump.
Along this line A. A. board has
hit upon an excellent idea. Did
someone say something about
after-supper football? In the
hands of yours truly and Scotty
Johnson has been put the respon-
sibility of investigating the mat-
ter to see if games might not be
arranged between the dormi-
tories during these last few
weeks. If enough people seem to
be interested something may be
done even by this Friday so, if
interested, voice your opinion
and wateh the bulletin board for
further developments.

Congratulations to those lucky
ones who have become members of
the SWIM-A-M1LE CLUB! The
ones who have completed the mile
are Tina Hewson, Ruth Richard-
son, Jane Baggs, Bet Patterson
and Claire Rowe, and about twenty
more have gone through the pre-
liminaries. Remember, there are
only eleven days left in which to

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test your strength and have a
splashing good time, so hop to it
kids.

All out for entertainment and a
big farewell for old A. A. board
members, the new board will throw
a bowling party Monday night at
Blick's in Atlanta. It's been a
grand year for A. A. and in view
of the fact, it's really a small cele-
bration.

NOTICE TO FACULTY AND
STUDENTS: Don't forget Field
Day Saturday. A. A. has planned
many exciting events to take place
on the hockey field from 4 to 6 p.
in. It's the solid determination of
Chairman Sally Sue Stephenson
to "really do it up right" so let's
all go out and see what's up.

HOTEL CANDLER

L. L. TUCKER, JR.
Operator

match to go into the semi-finals
were 1 Scotty Johnson and Ruth
Ryner who defeated Helga Stixrud
and Carolyn Gilchrist 6-2, 6-2.

Permanent Co-Ed!

Agnes Scott's Hiding Academy
has gone co-ed ! 'Most any morn-
ing will find a bunch of little
boys down at the ring Could it
be they're "eager" to ride or
does the hottentot hold appeal
for all ages?

One "guy named Joe," age 11,
is now a permanent co-ed. He
can stay out all day He's been
expelled from school.

Coming Events

Junior-Senior Party
Planned

The annual junior-senior party
will be held in Rich's tea room,
May 19.

Among the many guests will be
the senior class faculty advisor,
Mrs. Roff Sims, assistant professor
of history. Others attending are
the junior class faculty advisor,
Miss Llewyllyn Wilburn, associate
professor of phyisical education,
and Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn,
associate professor of English; the
dean of students, Miss Scandrett;
and Dr. McCain, president.

C. A. Gives Freshman
Picnic

Freshmen will be guests of hon-
or at the C. A. annual spring pic-
nic Wednesday, May 16, on the
little quadrangle between Buttrick
and Presser Halls.

Miss Cobbs will speak on the
subject "Summing up the Year's
Work." Entertainment provided
will include a sing led by Cathy
Carlen, special music and several
readings. The C. A. Cabinet will
act as waitresses.

French Class Will
Entertain

The French Club will honor its
advisers, new officers, and new
members at an after dinner coffee

McCONNELL'S 5 & 10

147 Sycamore Street
112 and 114 Ponce de Leon Ave.

Archery Contest
Scheduled

Beginning May 14 and running
through May 19 an Archery tour-
nament will be held for all mem-
bers of the student body desiring
to take part.

According to Virginia Tucker,
archery manager, anyone is eligi-
ble and after entering must shoot
a Columbia Round. Tournament
shooting must take place oniy on
these days between the hours of
3:30 and 5:30 in the afternoon. Af-
ter the tournament has ended the
eight top scorers will be picked
and will make up the Agnes Scott
team. Their scores in the tourna-
ment, as a team, will be sent in to
the National Archery Association
as a manner of Inter-Collegiate
competition.

tonight in the lobby of Rebekah
Scott dormitory.

The advisers are Miss Hale, Miss
Alexander, Miss Pythian, and Mrs.
Hayes. The new officers are; Pres-
ident, Lib Woodward; secretary,
Katherine Johnson; and treasurer,
Anne Hightower. The 'new mem-
bers are Jenny Wren, B. J. Mor-
gan, Sally Bussey, Thames Cast-
ner, Janet van de Erve, Anne
Woodward, Mary Manly, and Mar-
garet Ann Richards.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1945

NO. 25

Junior Awarded
'45 Bennett Cup

Peggy Willmon is the winner of the Bennett Cup for the
best character portrayal of the year. The award was made in
the gymnasium Saturday afternoon after the Community
Day exercises.

This cup has been presented since 1933 by Claude S. Bennett
to the outstanding actress. For the
first time in a number of years, a
junior has received the coveted
award. Usually a senior has been
the winner.

The sterling silver loving cup
was given to Peggy for her role
Salem Mayo, in Blackfriars' pro-
duction of "Spider Island." She al-
so appeared in "Be Seated," pre-
sented by Blackfriars. The qualifi-
cations for the cup are: quality of
the voice, diction, pantomine, act-
ing, characterization, general stage
presence, poise, and ability to "put
the part over."

The judges for this year's con-
test were Miss Kathleen Clanton,
of the Theater Guild, Miss Annie
Lee Stagg, of WSB, and Mrs. My-
ron McCormick, of the Atlanta
Better Theater Committee. They
attended each of the plays pre-
sented and made the awara on the
basis of all of the presentations.

The cup was awarded by Claude
S. Bennett, Inc. The late Mr. Ben-
nett originally presented the cup.

The presentation took place af-
ter Blackfriars gave a one-act
comedy, "The Prince Who Was a
Piper."

PEGGY WILLMON

Faculty Tells
Honors Plan

Administration and faculty com-
mittees are putting final touches
this week on a changed College
Honors program, under which stu-
dents must do special honors work
in order to graduate "With High
Honor" or "With Honor."

The plan means that, with a very
few exceptions, students will not
be graduated "With Honor" on the
basis of grades alone. For the past
several years, special honors work
has been necessary only for the
recognition "With High Honor."

When the honors program was
inaugurated at Agnes Scott, high
grades were the sole basis for spe-
cial honors recognition. The new
plan, expected to go into effect
next year, is seen as the natural
outgrowth of the history of the
College Honors program.

Senior Voice Pupils
Give Recital Tonight

Bettie Manning and Cookie De-
Vane will present their joint vo-
cal recital at 8 o'clock tonight in
Maclean auditorium. After three
groups of songs by each girl, the
program will close with the duet
from "Madame Butterfly."

Agnes Harnsberger, pianist, will
accompany them.

Miss Mary Stuart MacDoug-
all, professor of biology, will ad-
dress the Honor Society of Coker
College, Hartsville, S. C, on May
19. Her subject is "The Cultural
Value of Science."

New Quarterly
CitesEducation

Education at the Cross Roads is
the theme of the Alumnae Quart-
erly's Spring issue. Art students
made the illustrations for the mag-
azine showing their conception of
education in pictures.

Cover Illustrates an A. B.
The illustration on the cover is a
yellow and black print of Mrs.
Leone Bowers Hamilton's concept-
ion of Experiencing an A. B. The
illustrations within the quarterly
were done by Anne Newbold, Mar-
continued on Page 4)

Science Club
Awards Key

The winner of the Chi Beta Phi
annual science key will be an-
nounced in chapel Friday. Jane
Oatley, new president of the local
chapter, will announce the award.

The key is awarded annually by
the national fraternity, through
the local chapter, to an Agnes
Scott girl chosen by the members
and faculty advisor of the Agnes
Scott chapter. It goes to the senior
who has done the most outstand-
ing work and shows the most
promise in the field of science.

Stratton Lee as the new vice-
president of Chi Beta Phi will as-
sist Jane Oatley. New members
elected at a recent meeting are
Mary Anne Courtenay, Gisela
Meyer, B. J. Radford, Mary Rus-
sell, Laura Winchester, and Chris-
tina Yates. Members are elected
on the basis of good scholarship
and interest in science.

The Alpha Chapter of the na-
tional honorary undergraduate
science fraternity vvas installed at
Agnes Scott College May 8, 1933.
The Chapter seeks to stimulate in-
terest and research in the sciences
through monthly programs with
either outside speakers or student
reports.

New Portraits
To Hang Soon
In Butt rick

The portraits of Miss Carrie
Scandrett, dean of students, S.
Guerry Stukes, dean of the facul-
ty, Miss Louise McKinney, profes-
sor emeritus of English, and
George Winship, chairman of the
Board of Trustees, have been ad-
ded to the present collection of
portraits of well-known members
of the college community. Tenta-
tively, they will be on display dur-
ing the closing days of the quarter
in the day student room on second
floor of Buttrick Hall.

Sidney Edward Dickinson, por-
trait painter, was the artist who
was commissioned for the job. Mr.
Dickinson lived on campus for a
month during winter quarter while
he worked on the portraits.

Dickinson numbers among his
awards, the first Hallgarten prize,
National Academy Design, '24; the
Beck Gold Medal, Pennsylvania
Academy of Design, '21; Walter
Lipincott Prize, '24; and first Alt-
man Prize, National Academy of
Design.

The new portraits are charac-
teristic of Mr. Dickinson at his
best in the fluent brush strokes,
freshness and sponaneity of exe-
cution. The portraits are ex-
cellent likeness of the person-
alities. Miss Scandrett is posed
informally with her hands in the
pockets of her open coat, while
the other three portraits are
more formal, the snhjects being
seated. Miss McKinney is wear-
ing a black velvet dress with a
lace collar; Mr. Stukes, his
academic robe; and Mr. Win-
ship, a dark business suit.

The fund for the portraits origi-
nated with the class of 1943 who
left as its gift to the school the
money to start such a fund. The
class of 1944 left a similar fund and
to date around $1100 have been
collected. The student body, under
the direction of Mortar Board, has
participated in the contribution.
The alumnae contributed to a
separate fund for the portraits of
Mr. Winship and Miss McKinney.

Commencement
Program

June 2, Saturday

1:00 p. m. Trustees* Luncheon

for the Alumnae.

2:15 p. m. Annua] Meeting of the

Alumnae Association

4 p. m. Class Day Eexercises.

8:30 p. in. Program presented by

the Department of Music,

June 3, Sunday
11:00 a. m. Baccalaeureate Ser-
mon. Rev. James A. Jones, D. D.,
Myers Park Presbyterian church,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
5:30 p. m. Senior Vespers.
6:30 p. m. Dessert ( of fee, Alum-
nae Garden.

June 4, Monday
10:00 a. m. Address to the senior
class, Ada Comstock Notestein,
president Emerita, Radcliffe
College.

Conferring of degrees.

Commencement
Plans Revealed

President Emerita of Radcliffe College to Speak;
Rev. J. A. Jones to Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon

Final plans for commencement week have been announced
by senior class President Martha Jane Mack, following
class meeting Friday when arrangements were completed for
the traditional festivities.

Class Day, Saturday, June 2, at 4:00, will include the read-
ing of the class will, history,

prophecy, and poem. The class
elected Molly Milam to present
the will; Wendy Whittle, historian;
Emily Higgins, prophet; and Pie
Ertz, poet. %

Christian Association has in-
vited Martha Jane Mack to speak
at senior vespers Sunday evening,
June 3, at 5:30. The class picnic is
to be Thursday. May 31. The group
will leave about 10:30 a. m. and
return for graduation practice in
Presser from 5 to 6 p. m.

Saturday, June 2, at 11 a. m. the
sophomores will entertain the
senior class at a breakfast on the
terrace of the Biltmore hotel. At
2:15 seniors will attend their first
Alumnae Association meeting.
Class Day is scheduled to begin
at 4 p. m. in the May Day dell,
with the reading of the class docu-
ments and the daisy chain cere-
mony. Music students will give
their annual program at 8:30 p. m.
in Gaines Chapel, followed by the
"book-burning" ceremony which
this year is expected to consist of
"note-stacking." The notes will be
contributed later to the junior
paper compaign. Climaxing the
evening will be the private cere-
mony in which next year's seniors
are capped by the outgoing seniors.

Rev. James A. Jones, D. D., of
Charlotte, N. C, will deliver the
Baccalaureate sermon in Gaines
Chapel at 11 a. m. Sunday, June 3.
Martha Jane Mack will speak at
senior vespers in Maclean Chapel
at 5:30. Following a special sup-
per in the cafeteria, seniors will be
served coffee in the Alumnae Gar-
den.

Final event of the year will be
graduation exercises in Gaines at
10 a. m. Monday, June 4. Mrs.
Ada Comstock Notestein, Presi-
dent Emerita of Radcliffe College,
will speak.

IRC Installs
New Officers

International Relations Club in-
stalled officers at its monthly
meeting Friday evening, May 11,
at. 7:30. Officers for the coming
year are: Rite Watson, president;
Mary Catherine Vinsant, vice-pres-
ident; Carol Giles, secretary; Har-
riet Hargrove, treasurer; Marga-
ret Mizell, program chairman;
Minniewil Story, social chairman.

The Emory chapter of Interna-
tional Relations Club was guest
at the occasion. Dr. Ross McLean,
professor of history at Emory,
spoke to the group on "Russia in
the Post-War World."

Miss Susan Cobbs will speak
this afternoon at the C. A. picnic
for freshman at 5:30 p. m.

EducatorsMeet
At Agnes Scott

The joint faculty of the Univer-
sity Center met at Agnes Scott for
their regular spring meeting on
Tuesday, May 15. This board is
composed of representatives from
Emory, Georgia Tech, Agnes Scott,
University of Georgia, High Mu-
seum of Art, and Columbia Semi-
nary. Its purpose is to set up a
system of cooperation among
these schools that will make At-
lanta a university center. This
plan was first put into practice in
1939. Conditions at that time made
it impossible for the project to be
carried out as planned. Now a new
start is being made and real ac-
tivity is underway.

Beginning this fall, a graduate
course for teachers in the Atlanta
area is being sponsored at Emory
and the University of Georgia. The
advisory board is also consider-
ing a proposal for the development
of work on astromony and the con-
struction of an observatory. The
work of Hugh Hodgson is also a
part of this cooperative system.

Words-and-Music
Program Planned

Next Saturday in chapel, Mr.
Paul Garber, professor of Bible,
and the Glee Club will present a
words-and-music program of scrip-
ture readings and sacred music.
The Glee Club will sing "Prayer,"
by Guion; "The Twenty-third
Psalm," by Schubert; "Cherubim
Song," by Bortniansky; "Emitte
Spiritum Tuum," by Schuetky;
closing with "The Lord's Prayer,"
by Malotte.

Date Book

Wed., May 16 C. A. Picnic for
for freshmen, 5:30.
Vocal recital, 8 p. m. in Maclean:
Bettie Manning: and Cookie De-
Vane.

Art exhibit begins in library.

Thurs., May 17 Agnes Scott News
picnic at Harrison Hut, 5:30.

Fri., May 18 -A. A. and Chi
Beta Phi awards during- chapel.

Sat., May 19 Dr. Garber and Glee
Club in chapel program.

Sun., May 20 Group leaves for
Lawson, 2 p. m.
Vespers, 6:30 p. m.

Mon., May 21211 Fad Test. 5 p.
m.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1945

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'Speak for Yourself

This is a college newspaper. It is the only constructive
means of voicing campus opinion publicly. Certainly the
staff can not, try as it may, express the sentiments of every-
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In order that individuals may feel free to express themsel-
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The freedom of the press still stands. We welcome letters
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Much Abides

The basic pattern for keeping peace, drafted at Dumbarton
Oaks in Washington last fall by China, Russia, Britain, and
the United States, has survived two stiff tests.

Saturday night, the United Nations Conference voted to
concentrate peacekeeping power in the hands of 11 nations.
The decision still must be ratified by a conference commission
under which the conference committee works, and by the
entire conference.

The peace is on the "make," but there is still a long road
ahead both for the settlement and the actual finishing of
the war in the Pacific. V-E Day has not arrived in spite of the
general thankfulness and prayerfulness on the part of all of
us at the end of the European War.

With a week's perspective, we can look more soberly on
the real significance of exactly what happened in Reims,
France on the night of May 6. The indestructible Reich finish-
ed crumbling after tottering for many months. Imprisoned
people were liberated for the first time in five years. One
phase of World War II was completed. In the months to come,
the remaining job of this first phase will be finished and at-
tention will be shifted to the Pacific. In the meantime, as
citizens, keep informed and keep a steady balance.

Final victory has not come. Many men will be coming home.
Many will not. Do not become over-optimistic or over-pessi-
mistic. "Tho' much is taken, much abides/'

Howard Thomas

Howard Thomas, head of the art department, is leaving
Agnes Scott next year. What he has done for his department
and for the campus cannot be put into a few words. He has
not only planned and equipped an art laboratory, working
hard with few materials, but he has also contributed some-
thing more. Art has become a subject, vital in application
to some and vital in appreciation to many. Only a relatively
few people have felt Mr. Thomas' guidance in actual experi-
ence, but the entire campus has awakened to the importance
and value of art through his efforts.

Mr. Thomas' contributions, both tangible and intangible,
will rise to their true value when judged in the future. He
has aroused at Agnes Scott a real consciousness of art values;
he has laid a firm foundation for a greater consciousness of
these values in time to come. For this gift we are grateful
and send our best wishes with him. D.B.

Sophs Seek to Face Fact Test
With Courage and Grim Resolve

By Nellie Scott

"Busy" signs are up on doors, light cuts are being taken,
pencils are flying, alarms clocks are set for 6:00 p. m., and
vitamin pills are being consumed by the dozens. And what
for? As Shelley would say, "The awful shadow" of some
unseen future event over us. In plain language the English 211
coming nearer and

fact test is
nearer. The fatal day is May 21
at 5. As this hour of reckoning
approaches, we, with Kipling,
would call on a mightier power to
"Be with us yet, lest we forget."

Sophomores have determined
unique ways to prepare for this
little examination. Aspiring in-
tellectuals in Main inform us that
they plan to type sheets of facts
and place them in frequented
places, for instance, on the wall by
the bath tubs. The "eager-beavers"
in Rebekah gather in room sixty-
five every night at 10:15 to quizz
each other. "Bond' and "Buck"
"give out" with the questions,
while studious ( ? ) Mac Craig
snaps back with some kind of
answer. However, some of us (not
mentioning any names) have not
been quite so desirous for knowl-
edge, and we look askance at the
calender while Herrick reminds us
that Old Tempus is still a-fidget-
ting.

Kindly instructors have sought
to encourage us as we confront
this coming event. Miss Laney tells
her students that this will be sim-
ply an hour to show what we have
learned in the year. Miss Leyburn
compares the terrifying rumors
concening the fact test to a snow-
ball that gathers more snow as it
rolls down the hill. And so,
spurred on by comforting remarks,
the sophomore class with all of Ar-
nold's "high seriousness" strives to
learn the "best that has been
thought and said in the world.'
Nevertheless, some sleepy girls,
who, with II Penseroso, seek wis-
dom at "the midnight hour," find
it rather hard to maintain their
"sweetness and light" on the fol-
lowing morning.

For some reason, there seem
to be a few specific facts that each
of us just can't remember. For ex
ample, one soph never can recall
whether it was the Miller of the
Cook in Canterbury Tales that had
on his nose the famous wart with
the tuft of red hairs on it. Another
student could not remember the
last part of Marlowe's line, "Come
live with me and be my love." Re-

Copy Cat

On the front page of the April
Fool edition of the Judson "Tri-
angle" was a huge, black space
above which was written "The
Senior class somebody yawned."
In the lower left hand corner was
the following notice: "Wanted: A
place in which to hide from teach-
ers whose classes we cut." Where
editorials are usually placed was
one word, Censored. The Hunt-
ress, Huntingdon College.

cently she saw the movie, "Come
Live with Me," starring that in
describable Jimmy Stewart and
sultry Hedy Lamar. Now she can
say the quotation in her sleep. Ap-
parently something in the movie
greatly impressed the last phrase
of the line on her mind. A touching
rendition of "Drink to Me Only
With Thine Eyes," given by the
Hayes, Johnson, Runyon, Chris-
tian, and Garber Opera Company,
indelibly stamped Ben Johnson's
lyric on our minds.

Literature has many practical
applications. Browning's philoso
phy will comfort some of these
anxious 211 students, burdened
with "doubts, disputes, distrac
tions, and fears." If some ill-fated
soph should fail the quiz, he
assures her that "in heaven, per
haps there are new chances, one
more chance." And so with all the
courage and confidence of Brown-
ing, let us approach the fact test,
declaring:
"I was ever a fighter, so one fight
more,

The best and the last!"

For 90 days, students, alumni,
faculty, and friends of the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma will carry on a
campaign to buy and sell $600,000
worth of Bonds and Stamps for a
B-29 Superfortress. A Superfort-
ress Committee is directing cam-
pus activities in connection with
the campaign. The Hornet, Fur-
man University.

Last Month's
Historic Events

The month that has passed since
the death of President Franklin D
Roosevelt on April 12 has been
one of the most momenteous in
modern times.

Here are some of the historic
events that have occurred:

April 13 Harry S. Truman
takes nation's helm, charting
course of victory and lasting peace.

April 24 Marshal Henri-Prilip-
pe Petain, Vichy chief of state,
surrenders to face treason charge.

April 25 The United Nations
conference on international or-
ganization opens at San Francisco.

April 25 United States and
Russian troops cut Germany in
two by junction along Elbe river.

April 27 Benito Mussolini ex-
ecuted by Italian Partisans.

April 28 German peace offer
to U. S. and England rejected, -re
port of total surrender denied by
Truman.

May 1 Germans announce
death of Adolf Hitler; Doenitz,
new Fuehrer, says war to con-
tinue.

May 2 Russians proclaim cap-
ture of Berlin.

May 2 Germans surrender un-
conditionally in Italy, southern
Austria.

May 4 Germans in Nether-
lands, northwest Germany and
Denmark give up.

May 5 Germans surrender in
west Austria, Bavaria.

May 6 Unconditional German
surrender in "little red school
house" ends European war.

May 8 Truman, Churchill pro-
claim V-E Day, pledge victory
over Japan; surrender "ratified"
in Berlin.

May 9 Air Marshal Hermann
Goering, No. 2 on war criminal
docket, surrenders to Americans.

May 10 Partial demobilization
plans announced for U. S. troops;
transition to peacetime economy
under way.

Lowlights
Nonentities

By Janice Latta

Things are tough all over! And
especially for Katherine (Cagey)
Johnson around last Thursday. It
seems this poor chick had a rugged
test coming up in French 259 on
Friday. She tells me it is 211 all
over again, only in French, and
everyone but the freshmen knows
what that means. They'll find out.
Heh, heh! And, to make a hard
subject even more horrible, all dis-
cussions must be written in
French. It seems the litrachoor
loses its beauty with translation.
In addition to suffering with
the test, Cagey was also suffer-
ing with a splitting headache.
Naturally, she took an aspirin.
Who wouldn't. However, as bad
luck would have it, it wasn't a
genuine Bayer Aspirin it was a
powerful sleeping pill! And, one
so strong that half of it was a
full dose, guaranteed to knock
outa water buffalo for the whole
monsoon season. Bravely facing"
the situation, Katherine went to
the library, determined to fight
it out. She lasted pretty well
for the first few innings, aided
by frequent applications of cold
to the fevered brow. However,
in the last half of the ninth, she
saw two Margie Naabs walking
down the aisle and decided to
hit the hay. Not that she object-
ed to having two of Margie
around ... It was just rather un-
nerving.

Accordingly, Cagey wobbled
back to Rebekah, where Marie
Adams was, to put it mildly, stun-
ned to see her appear in the door-
way and fall flat on her face on the
floor. Marie, whose hair would
have stood on end had it not been
for the curlers, leaped over the
prostrate body and ran, screaming,
for Miss Domincovich. Squires and
McManus, who were studying,
heard the riot and were prevented
from appearing on the scene only
by the fact that they had gotten
their feet caught under the desk
and were forced to stay put. Miss
Domincovich, I am sorry to say,
wasn't exactly a comforting factor.
She helped Marie hoist the corpus
delicti onto the bed and then stood
there looking at the dear departed
somewhat apprehensively. "Sup-
pose she doesn't wake up in the
morning?" she remarked. And
leaving Marie to mull over this
little note of cheer, she departed.

Happily, however, Katherine did
wake up, a little puzzled at being
in Marie's bed. She was even more
puzzled at breakfast when Miss
Domincovich very solicitously in-
quired about the state of her
health and the occurrence of the
previous night.

That's all there is to the story.
I won't be able to say whether or
not its ending will be a happy one
until Cagey gets her test papers
back. Anyway, she's still too
sleepy to care!

This, I regret to say, is the last
appearance of LOWLIGHTS AND
NONENTITIES in The News. It
would have been LOWLIGHTS
AND ASININITIES all too soon,
I fear, if it had gone on. And now,
if the News doesn't object, I'd like
to say goodbye to everyone that
I've come to know in my two years
at Agnes Scott. It's been fun!

This is the last regular issue
of The News. The next issue will
come out commencement day,
June 4.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1945

Page 3

Rosebuds While Ye May

By Joyce Gilleland

Martha said, "Write society from the day student angle,"
and being somewhat puzzled as to what that "angle" might
be I worried all week. Surprising as it may seem to some,
however, I've discovered that day students lead somewhat the
same hectic social life as do most boarders. There are the
same social obligations, such as
fraternity dances, teas, bridge par-
ties, engagements, weddings that

Day Students must fulfill. Also the
proportion of soldiers, sailors, and
marines who visit Atlanta or De-
catur girls equals the number vis-
iting girls on campus. The only
difference, of course, is that the
local girl may fullfil her "obliga-
tions" in her front parlor, while
the boarder entertains under the
austere eye of Mr. Jones. I've
found, too, that a great many Day
Students, not unlike boarders,
have difficulties planning their
week-ends, and find themselves
singing "Saturday Night Is the
Loneliest Night of the Week," es-
pecially since Bill, Tom, or Chuck
left for duty in other parts.

Mother's Day was a very happy
occasion for those Hottentots who
were fortunate enough to have
their mothers with them. Jeter
Starr enjoyed the day as a double
celebration with her mother, for
it was her birthday too. Other girls
who spent Sunday with their
mothers were Ann Martin, Minnie
Mack, Leila Powell, and Barbara
Blair.

Mr. Hodgson's party for his
Music 215 class was a huge success,
according to the many reports
from guests who attended, dressed
as characters from operas. Anne
Ttfewbold, as a last minute resort,
due to an unexpected run in her
hose, went as "Gotterdammerung"
and won first prize for the most
original characterization. Millie
Evans and Carolyn Squires attend-
ed as Loh-n-grin, while Miss Win-
ter had an unusual interpretation
of Mimi. The party was held at
Mr. Hodgson's home where games
were played while the guests sip-
ped Coca-Colas. Later in the even-
the host entertained the girls by
playing Chopin's "Polonnaise" and
other selections.

Dot Almond and Helen Somer-
vell have joined the ranks of en-
gaged girls on campus. Dot's dia-
mond is from her navy chaplain
at Duke, and Helen's fiance is Josh
Abell of South Carolina.

Seen this Friday night at the
Chi Phi formal, dancing to the mu-
sic of the Commodores at Druid
Hills Country Club were Ruth
Limbert, Mary Brown Mahon,
Gloria Anne Melchor, and Betty
Gesner.

Along Fraternity Row:

The Delta Tau Delta's at Tech
entertained at a hayride Saturday
night, while at the Tau Delta house
at Emory were Mary Gene Sims,
Mary Mann, Grace Durant, and

Geva Harper. Anne Woodward
and Jenny Wren helped make the
house dance over at the Theta
Chi house a success. Pagie Vio-
lette and Charlotte Broyles went
to the SAE house. Pat McMan-
mon was seen at the Sigma Nu
house, while Cile Gibson and Anne
Terrell had fun at the ATO-Kap-
pa Sig party.

Did you happen to see Betty
Turner, Dot Stanton, or Connie
Fraser this past week-end? If you
did you couldn't have missed a cer-
tain misty expression about them.
Betty's Lt. Col., just back from
combat duty in Germany, came in
town unexpectedly as did Dot's
Nay-vy man. Connie's friend, C.
G., was here on a surprise fur-
lough.

Parties are still being given for
the brides on campus. Friday Emi-
ly Higgins and Eugenia Jones en-
tertained at a bridge party for
Barbara Frink Hatch, and a tea
at Rich's was given in honor of
Ruth Gray Walker.

Glimpses at the Rainbow Roof
(Continued on Page 4)

Art News

College Adds Oil Paintings
Students Exhibit Work

"The Dry Land Was Earth," a
landscape in oil, by Howard Thorn
as, head of the art department, has
h,een purchased by the college. It
will be hung in Rebekah Scott
along with a new painting by Miss
Louise Lewis, former art depart-
ment head, which was purchased
at the same time. Earth colors
gathered from all over the South
land and ground personally were
used to paint the Thomas picture.
"The Dry Land Was Earth" is a
universal picture of a house, curv-
ing road, corn stalks, clouds, and
man. It is a composite of scenes
made up of sketches done in a
variety of places. The picture was
painted to convey the "conception
of earth and the human being's
mark on the earth."

Miss Lewis' painting is a group
of magnolia blossoms painted ec-
pecially for the school.

Students Exhibit Work

The second annual student ex-
hibition will go on exhibit in
the library art gallery. The ex-
hibit will last through June 2.

Mrs. Leone Hamilton, art as-
sistant, will exhibit an archery
scene which was cited as outstand-
ing work at a recent exhibit at the
University of Georgia.

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Out of the
Woods

By Anne Noell

The events of the past week
came as a great relief to us all, but
no one has let us forget that the
job is only half done. In his V-E
Day proclamation, President Tru-
man recommended "work, work,
work," until the job in the Pacific
is done, and both the President
and the governor asked that no
holiday be taken. We didn't get
one, either, although I know of one
colonel at an air base in Florida
who read the proclamation to his
men, then decreed "no flying to-
day" to the disgust of those who
had been inspired to get on with
the work toward final victory . . .
Miss Agnes' boarders had real
service that morning when some-
one thought to bring a radio into
the dining room so the unfortunate
girls with 8:30 classes could have
breakfast and the President's ad-
dress. And Miss Hanley has been
furnishing a radio in the library
for some of the more important ad-
dresses.

Are the unusual number of
strains and sprains to be laid at
some horse's door ? If so, I think
I'd better reconsider this matter.
Seriously, however, this quarter
has just about equaled fall quar-
ter of my freshman year when
hockey accounted for several
broken and sprained ankles,
until the then bookstore keep-
er, Claire Purcell, had the nerve
to fall off White House porch
and break hers. As if horses and
volleyball were not enough to
incapacitate the student body
just at term-paper time, Dr.
Burns has offered typhoid shots
to whoever wanted them. As
usual, I bit and am now shielding
a very sore arm, while trying to
evade her proposal that I take
thiamin shots to "get me
through exams." I don't feel
half so bad as I must look sleep
and a good bath will cure any-
thing.

Now that term papers and paral-
lels are piling up and everyone
wonders what she has been doing
all quarter to "get caught like
this" it's a good time to suggest to
upperclassmen as well as fresh-
men and sophomores that "Time
Marches On." My brother, who has
been trying off and on since 1937
to get a degree in mechanical en-
gineering, told me three years ago
this spring that time would pass
rapidly once I was out of high
school, and, of course, he was
right. (Big brothers are, to the
disgust of little sisters who would
like more independence and less
patronage.) Not yet being accus-
tomed to junior standing, I cannot
imagine how it will uphold the
dignity of seniority, but the picture
in my mind is even funnier when I
think of some of my classmates
kneeling to be capped this next
November. Remembering those of
us who have fallen beside the way
in the past three years, I wish that
there were some way to give my
freshmen friends a vision of what
all this means to their lives. The
Portrait of a Lady and The For-
syth Saga may seem wholly un-
related to reality, but they are
stones in the foundatio'n we are

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Back to the Greeks

'Beauties/ Quartet, Brawn
Hi-Light Community Day

By Edwina Davis

Community Day was to Agnes Scott what the Olympics
were to the Greeks except, of course, that such famous ath-
letes as we have here could never be found on the plains of
Olympia.

Under Stephenson's direction the spectacular assemblage in
the gym divided into two groups-

The Bathing Beauties and the
Dirty Dozens. The competition be-
gan. Yells! Yells! and more yells
sounded from both sides as the cel-
ebrated participants sallied forth
to battle Dr. McCain in his shirt
sleeves, Mr. Runyon without his
shoes, Mrs. Runyon, and the other
Beauties put potatoes on bricks so
fast they defeated the madly dash-
ing Dirty Dozens. Miss "Bubble
Blowing" Trotter blew and blew
pretty bubbles in the air by the
dozens and for the Dozens while
AA serenaded at her side. The ver-
satile Mr. Runyon won the broad
jump for the Beauties his feet
were literally longer than those
of his opponent, Ruth Anderson.
Miss Scandrett, "The Swift," broke
all speed records in the stick relay
for the Dozens. Mr. Thomas help
ed win the "cover your clothes
with sweat shirt and quick change'
contest for the Dozens; Dr.
"Speedy Dresser" McCain was
helped up by forgetting to remove
his shoes which got stuck in the
trouser legs. Mrs. Holt, another
Beauty, was triumphant in the
bean bag throw or rather bag
without beans because the beans
were falling out by making the
marvelous score of zero; the Doz
ens made minus ten, much to their
sorrow. After great excitement, in
which one Dirty Dozen yelled for
the Beauties by mistake, the
Beauties were the victors of the af-
ternoon's contests.

One of the highlights of Com-
munity Day was the lifting of a
collossal four hundred pound
weight by Mr. Howard "Brawny
Arms" Thomas. Alone and un-
assisted was the renowned wield-
er of the paint brush. The crowd
was tense! "Brawny Arms"
mopped his brow, took off his
shoes, rolled up his sleeves,
swelled his chest, and lifted the

building for a whole life that can
be so much richer for the experi
ence of college. Direct application
of what we learn here may not
often be possible (although one of
our number did put Hayes-and
Macbeth idea to excellent use
this past week in handling her
man), but I firmly believe that
much of it will remain to mold and
make us what we are and are to
be. We cannot go backward or
stand still, but we can go forward,
enriched in a way available to so
few.

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ponderous weight to his waist,
to his shoulders, and over his
head. The cheers were deafen-
ing; the walls shook as "Brawny
Arms" tossed four hundred
pounds to Sally Sue. The strange
thing was the pounds bounced
back to the mighty man.
"The Prince Who Was a Piper"
After these exciting events the
contestants put their shoes on to
witness Blackfriars' presentation
of "The Prince Who Was a Piper."
Music, dancing, romance, and Mr.
Posey as a valet it was a great
show! The actors and actresses
had four and a half curtain calls!

Even the strong have to eat, so
after the play a banquet of good
ole American picnic food was serv-
ed in the dining hall. After being
filled everybody rushed to the Old
Chapel to hear the "Sons of Song,"
those noted baritones and basses.
Christian Garber, Johnson, Run-
yon, and Hayes. The celebrities
thrilled the audience with melo-
dies from "them thar hills!" The
ardor, the naturalness, the rol-
ling RRR's of the singers made one
wonder if they had planted the
young pines in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia.

So, sadly, Community Day ended
much too soon, but let us remem-
ber this:

"Olympia can have its Olympics,
Agnes Scott can beat the Greeks."

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1945

ATM LETE

FEATS

PUTH RYNER.

With A. A. Chapel Friday all
events (feats) of the school year
rome to a dose, and, might we
add, a very successful one. Con-
gratulations to the class who
does finally get the coveted ath-
letic cup. Since predictions are
in order here it may be said that
the decision will be a very close
one, and no doubt between the
ancient rivals, the juniors and
the sophomores. It's been a
>t niggle and it's interesting to
note that two of the team sports,
basketball and volleyball, have
ended in three-way ties between
the (lasses. The sophs, juniors,
and seniors tied for basketball,
and the sophs, juniors, and fresh-
men tied for volleyball.

Looking Around

The tennis tournament this
spring has been one of the best.
The finals will be played this af-
tmoon unless rain again floods the
old courts. It's well worth watch-
ing. Hough and Andrews still
seem invincible though Cumming
and Crangle are a good pair. The
former noted for that great team-
work, have well worked their way
up to the finals winning two
matches from comparatively
strong teams by rather close
scores. The same might be said for
Cumming and Crangle who won a
hard match from a strong pair,
Stewart and Richardson.

The after supper Softball seems
to have gone over in a mild sort of
way. Incidently, it is Softball and
not football as was stated in this
column last week though the lat-
ter might be better for those of us
who over indulge in bread and po-
tatoes.

Exhibition Match Tonight

Tonight is the last time Donald
Kerr and associates will be out
from Lawson to give exhibition
badminton matches and hold those
little clinics for eager Hottentots.
They've certainly done a grand
job of keeping interest in bad-
minton on the high. Never have
birdies (or to the real fowls of the
air, robots) flown so fast and fu-
rious.

So, "Miss Dot" locks the equip-
ment room and peace reigns over
the gym 'til next year. Here's a
good summer to all athletics with
bigger and better "feats" sign-
ing off . . .

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc.

DECATUR CAKE BOX

A.A.toAward
Athletic Cup
Friday, May 18

The annual presentation of the
athletic cup will be made at Ath-
letic Association's recognition pro-
gram Friday during chapel time.
The cup is awarded to the class
winning a plurality of points which
are gained as follows: hockey, 15;
swimming 10; tennis, (doubles),
5; tennis (single), 5; basketball,
15; archery, 5; volleyball, 8; and
golf. 5.

The class of 1945 was last year's
winner of the cup. Agnes Scott
pins, the traditional AS, will be
given to those girls who have earn-
ed sixteen hundred points. The
points must be won in more than
one sport.

Sarah Walker, president of AA,
has announced that the volleyball
plaque, the archery cup, and the
plaque for the tennis singles and
doubles champion, respectively,
will be awarded if the weather
permits the completion of the
tournaments.

The recognition program re-
places the annual AA Banquet
which has been discontinued due
to wartime conditions.

Rosebuds

(Continued from Page 1)
this week-end were Alice New-
man, Connie Fraser, B. A. Zeig-
ler, Jackie Jones, Jean Estes (or-
chids and all), and Doris Riddick.

Martha Ball's house party at
Highlands proved to be as restful
as it was entertaining, according
to Cathy Carlen,, Hilda Tabor,
Mary Anne Gaunt, Cissy Jeffries,
and Ann Eidson.

Away from campus for the
week-end were:

Frances Woodall and Frances
Stukes who went to Augusta; Dot
DeVane checking up on Jack's ac-
tivities for the past week in Green-
ville; Bobby Whipple and Louise
MacLaurin at Bobby's home in
Perry; Betty Glenn at University
of Alabama; Martha Polk went to
see Charles (Hmmmm); Louise
Reid and Carolyn Bodie had fun
in West Point at Eleanor Davis's;
Agnes Harnesberger at Shorter;
Peggy Gregg at Brenau; and Anne
Hagerty at Auburn.

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BLONDE FEVER"
RECKLESS AGE"

Saturday
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SPORTS

Scott Girls Attracted
To N. C. Summer Xamps

It seems that almost all of us
had one idea in mind for this sum-
mer going to camp!

North Carolina seems to be the
favorite state this summer with
Beth Walton going to Rockbrook
Camp at Brevard as a swimming
instructor and Camp Bearwalla.
Flat Rock, N. C. will have Evelyn
Hill as horseback riding instructor
and Jenny Wren on the waterfront.
Also at Brevard will be Jean Bel-
lingrath, who will instruct horse-
back riding at Camp Dearwood.

Margaret Scott and Bettye Lee
Phelps will do waterfront at
Camp Carlyle near Hendersonville,
N. C. while Ruth Ryner will teach
tennis. Also near Hendersonville
will be Betty Mann and Janet
Liddell at Camp Pinnacle. Vir-
ginia Tucker will assist her mother
at Camp Bridgewood at Black
Mountain, N. C.

At Camp Toccoa in Toccoa, Ga.,
will be Betty Abernathy in charge
of music; Anne Hayes, archery;
Lida Walker, business; "Booby"

Blaire, swimming; Edna Claire
Cunningham, tennis; Elizabeth
Dunn, badminton; Ann Seitzinger,
crafts ;and Patty Dean, music.

Jane Anne Newton will stay in
Atlanta and help out with the
Campfire and Girl Scout day camp
at Fernbank.

Sally Sue Stephenson has been
asked to be in charge of swim-
ming at Camp Cherry Austin in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama; "Cookie"
Miller will be on the waterfront at
Camp Cedar Lake in Indiana; and
Mary Ann Courtney is going to
Wisconsin as handcraft instructor.

Molly Milam and Julia Slack
will be at Camp Nakanawa, Mary-
ville, Tennessee, and Carolyn Gil-
christ is going up to Michigan to
teach crafts. Also in New York
will be Ann Caldwell and Lady
Major at Camp Andre near Pleas-
ant, vi lie.

( amps an> still writing in to
Miss Wilbura. Several more
positions will be filled before
school is out.

Sidekicks

Around the stable: Dot Chap-
man, not used to these low-beamed
horses, demonstrated her exuber-
ant ability to mount the other day.
With a mighty heave Dot soared
up above saddle level only then
realizing that all was not well.
Startled bystanders watched as
Dot bowed to the inevitable and
disappeared over the horse's side
without even making contact with
the saddle.

Early to bed, early to rise! Motto
of many Hottentot horsebackers
these days. Advance classes are up
at six to cavort over hill and dale,
eager, no doubt, for the morning
air (We personally wonder how
they do it). Others go in for late
afternoon supper rides out to the
wooded paths behind campus, with
a light snack in the forest, and a
return trip that makes early to
bed a real necessity.

Last week, for instance, one group
reported that Chief, often the lead
horse, spied a huge cardboard box
lying in the road on the trail. He
balked, backed and almost bit be-
fore he could be persuaded to con-
tinue the ride. Then there was the
time again on the open road, when
two unsuspecting lawnmowers
were earnestly at work. Did they
affect the horses? Only tightly
held reins and Mrs. Lapp's quick
thinking prevented the open spa-
ces from becoming an open air
race track.

SOUTHERN
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New Quarterly

(Continued from Page 3)
garet Johnson, Nancy Deal, and
Peggy Pat Home.

This issue contains an article
by Dr. McCain, president, on post
war education. Dr. Howard Mnu-
ford Jones, Jr., has an article en-
titled Are Women's Colleges For
Women? in which he says that
women copied men's colleges when
they were fighting to show that
they were equal to men, but now
woman's exact place must, be
studied.

Faculty, Alumnae Contribute
In his article The Prostitution
of Edueation Dr. Julian Miller,
editor of the Charlotte Observer,
says that something must happen
to people before anything better
can happen to the world. Mary
Virginia Allen, French teacher in
a Charlotte high school has an ar-
ticle. "Nous Sommes Dans la
Salle de Classe" in which she ex-
presses the hope that studying
French will contribute to the un-
derstanding of universal man.

There is an article by Miss ^
Thyrze Askew, an alumna of
AgneS Scott's institution days and
principle at Napsonian school, en
titled That The Fruit May Mature.
Another alumna, Mary Sayward
Rogers, chief counselor of the Vet-
eran's Division of the U. S. Em-
ployment Service in Atlanta has
written an article. The U. S. Em-
ployment Service Is Ready For It's
Veterans.

The faculty is also well repre-

DECATUR THEATER

Program for Week Beginning . . .

WEDNESDAY. MAY 16
Wednesday
Loretta Young in
"LADIES C0URAE0US"

Sophomore
Champs Make
Tennis Finals

After several days of solid ten-
nis weather the doubles tourney
has reached the final round. Hough
and Andrews, one of the strongest
doubles combinations ever to hit
Agnes Scott, defeated Johnson and
Ryner Monday in a match that was
close and hard fought. They took
the first set with ease, 6-2, but the
last was the real test. Every game
was a struggle and long contested,
but the champs finally came out on
top 8-6. This puts them in the fi-
nals against Cumming and Crangle
who also had a struggle in defeat-
ing Stewart and Richardson in
the semi-finals by the same score,.
6-2, 8-6.

Most of the preliminary matches
were interesting and well worth
watching. Sholes-Harnsberger de-
feated Davis-Dieckmann but, in
turn, were defeated by Cumming
and Crangle in the quarter-finals
6-0, 6-1. Before reaching the semi-
finals where they too were defeat-
ed by the Cumming-Crangle fi-
nalists, Stewart and Richardson
teamed up against Slack and Mi-
lam and won 6-3, 6-4.

First Softball Played
Thursday, May 10

Softball has invaded the gym
department! The first game of the
season was played Thursday after
dinner on the hockey field. Under
the informal direction of Sarah
Walker, A. A. president, and May
Turner, junior, two teams were or-
ganized. Each dormitory and cot-
tage was represented.

sented in this issue of the Alumnae
Quarterly. Miss Roberta Winter's
amusing article, Faculty Artists
Find Reward In the Joys of Self
Expression which was in THE
NEWS earlier this spring, has
been reproduced and brought up to
date for the Quarterly. Art his-
tory students will look with fa-
miliarity on Mr. Thomas' article,
Interrelation, Art and Book, in
which he points out what makes a
book beautiful. And lastly Miss
Lucille Alexander gives the history
of the Alumnae Association on
The Tost of Time and Distance.

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The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXX.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

NO. 26

Di\ Jones Stresses
A Purpose in Life

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Rev. James A. Jones, pastor of the
Myers Park Presbyterian church, Charlotte, N. C, delivered the
baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class in Gaines auditorium
at 11 a. m. Sunday. His sermon is given below.)

Text: "For their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified
through the truth.'" John 17:19
Somewhere I have read of a quaint and discerning epitaph
on the head-stone of an English grave which said, "Born a
man; died a grocer." The words are a severe and pertinent
judgment. A fellow endowed with the capacities and dignity
of personality wasted that substance not in riotious living, but
by submerging it in the stuffy and

The News would like to
congratulate the 101 sen-
iors graduating today and
wish them "the best." Com-
mencement has a note of fin-
ality to it but it also is a
success ring of conclusion
conclusion of four years of
effort, patience, and endur-
ance. To those * who have
their sheepskins, our ad-
miration to those who will
come after "Say not the
struggle nought availeth."

often selfish chores of a mere
tradesman. Which is not to say
that being a grocer is .a mean oc-
cupation, not in this day of red
and blue points especially. It is
no shame to be a grocer except
when being a grocer a man be-
comes less than a man. For then,
you see, the chief gift of God to us,
likeness to Him, is passed by.
Meant to be sons of heaven and
its servants, we give ourselves to
some vocation that robs us of
whatever once was divine within
us.

I.

The whole problem suggested by
the incident is simply, "What do
you propose to do with your life?"
The reply you give to that question
is the most deadly serious and ut-
terly final decision you can make.
For after all a man's life is his
most worthy possession. What he
does with his talents, where he
puts his energies to work, the
channels along which his love shall
ply it scourse, the altar before
which he offers his praise these
are the things that show him up
for his true measure. It is nothing
more than good business to see
how we are faring with this tre-
mendous asset. It's a stupid fellow
who never inquires into the funct-
ioning of his capital or the return
he is getting on his investment.
This morning a preeminent issue
concerns us: Your life is God's
capital gift to you. What about
it? What are you going to do
with it ? What plans are you mak-
ing for it down the years? When
you sit down and quietly look at
the strange creature which is your-
self, a most commendable proce-
dure, what judgment do you deliv-
er? Are there rough edges to be
smoothed, directions to be chang-
ed, purposes to be improved? Pri-
vately and intimately are you a
child of God, or are you a grocer?

Of course the only way that
question is ever answered is in
(Continued on Page 6)

Mary Ellen Chase, in a recent
letter to the Agnes Scott News,
expressed her appreciation for
the college's response. The let-
ter read:

"Thank all the girls at Ag-
nes Scott who gave me such a
beautiful visit in late April. I've
rarely enjoyed a stay so much
anywhere and I am deeply ap-
preciative of the courtesy and
kindness which was shown me
by the girls at Agnes Scott.

"Thank them all for me and
give them my best wishes."

Mrs. Notestein
Advises Seniors

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following: is the commencement address
made this morning by Mrs. Ida Comstock Notestein, president
emerita of Radcliffe college and former dean of Smith college.)

A number of years ago a friend of mine said to me that
he thought his generation had seen more than its share of
trouble. They fought in the first world war; they had to en-
dure the worst depression this country has ever seen; and
now their sons and daughters are having to bear the brunt
of this second and great war. It is

itrue that the last 35 years have in-
cluded more of destruction, death,
and loss than any comparable pe-
riod of which I know. Worst of all,
it has given birth to fears which,
though they have sometimes been
uttered, have hitherto been vague
and remote. Men who have visit-
ed the bombed areas of Europe
speak now with sober realism of
the possible destruction of civiliza-
tion or even as I have heard one
do "of the extinction of the human
race." They have seen such dev-
astation, and they know by what
means it can be extended and
made more complete. Wholesale
obliteration of libraries, museums,
and works of art; wholesale
slaughter of the population of a
country it is not hard to imagine
that a world so wrecked would be
permanently crippled and degrad-
ed. Almost more terrifying than
the thought of physical destruc-
tion of peoples and their monu-
ments is that of the damage to
civiligation if it should cease to
believe in anything but force. We
are seeing something of that kind
of moral deterioration now. At
the time of the first World War
Germany's reference to a treaty
as a scrap of paper was highly
shocking. Today, it shocks no one
that treaties should be binding
only so long as they are advan-
tageous to the parties concerned.
"Don't you think, Sir, that a pow-
erful country has a right to con-
trol weaker neighbors?" a
thoughtful and decent Freshman
remarks to his history teacher.
We have seen extraordinary in-
stances of courage, loyalty, self-
sacrifice in this war, but we have
also seen, I think, a general low-
ering of belief in mercy and in-
tegrity as standards of conduct.
Sometimes the words of the Old
Testament prophets their denun-
ciations and lamentation seem
more applicable to the present day

than any passages we can find in
the New Testament.

Nor have those of us who lived
through the last war any illusions
about a quick recovery. The Euro-
pean war is won, Hitler and Mus-
solini are dead, the war with Ja-
pan will perhaps be over earlier
than we suppose. Then for the
long slow upward climb. Perhaps
we learned something from the
years following 1918 and may
know how to prevent some of the
evil consequence of a world war.
Our best-learned lesson is that a
great war does not end wars, but
instead sows the seed of further
trouble. The change in the gener-
al attitude in this country toward
a world security organization is
the most striking instance of our
having learned something from ex-
perience. But all that 1918 and
succeeding years taught is inade-
quate for meeting the problems of
1945 and hereafter. It is not only
because of the greater scale of
the conflict, and the implication
of new weapons and methods. It is
(Continued on Page 7)

Phi Beta Kappa
Initiates Seniors

Newly elected members from
Agnes Scott of Phi Beta Kapa,
Beta Chapter of Georgia, were
initiated Saturday, June 2, at 6:30
p. m. in the JCast Parlor of Main.

The initiation ceremony was
followed by a formal dinner in the
Alumna House. Many Agnes Scott
alumnae who belong to the Beta
chapter attended.

In charge of the event was Miss
Muriel Harn, president of the Beta
chapter of Georgia., assisted by
Miss Mildred Mell, vice-president;
Miss Margaret Phythian, secre-
tary; and Miss Roberta Winter,
treasurer.

Molly Milam Awarded
1945 Hopkins Jewel

MOLLY MILAM

AAUW Honors
Miss Jackson

The Florida Division of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women passed the following
resolution in its recent conven-
tion in St. Petersburg, April 7.
1945:

'Whereas, Dr. Elizabeth Jackson
has served untiringly and with out-
standing leadership as regional
vice-president of the South Atlan-
tic section of A. A. U. W. for ten
years, and Whereas, she has serv-
ed as a source of inspiration and
encouragement to all members of
A. A. U. W. within her jurisdiction,
and Whereas, she has distinguish-
ed herself in educational pursuit,
a field preeminently sponsored by
A. A. U. W., by serving as Profes-
sor of History at Agnes Scott Col-
lege in Decatur, Georgia, and
Whereas, her charming and dis-
tinguished personaltity has left
an indelible impression upon the
minds of those who know her and
who have worked with her in A. A.
U. W., be it resolved that the Flori-
day Division of A. A. U. W. extend
deep appreciation to Dr. Jackson.'

Sophs Win
Athletic Cup

The Sophomore class carried off
top honors when Athletic Associa-
tion presented its annual awards
in chapel Friday, May 18.

As winners of the most points,
the Sophomores were awarded the
A. A. cup for the year. The Jun-
ior class was runner-up.

Betty Andrews, Ann Hough,
and Scotty Johnson received their
A. A. pins for earning 1600 points
during the year. Molly Milam and
Sally Sue Stephenson were pre-
sented guards for their pins.

Honors for individual sports
were: golf cup, Dot Peace; arch-
ery cup, Margaret Kelly; singles
tennis plaque, Ann Hough. Since
the awards were made Betty An-
drews and Ann Hough won the
doubles championship and have re-
ceived a plaque.

Freshmen, sophomores and jun-
ors tied for the volley ball cham-
pionship, while the basketball
match resulted in a tie among the
sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Margaret Scott announced the
swimming varsity and sub- vars-
ity.

The following announcement of
commencement honors was made
by Dr. McCain, president, at the
annual commencement program:

The Hopkins Jewel Given by
the College in honor of Miss Nan-
nette Hopkins, former Dean of the
College. It is awarded by a com-
mittee of the faculty to the mem-
ber of the senior class who most
nearly measures up to the ideals of
Miss Hopkins, as the committee
can interpret them, including con-
spicuous loyalty to the College,
ideals of service, ability to cooper-
ate, physical fitness, poise, and gra-
ciousness. Awarded this year to
Miss Margaret Milam, Clarkston.

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) for the
next session. Given this year to
Miss Bet Patterson, W T inston-SaI-
em, N. C. Honorable mention:
Miss Peggy Willmon, Decatur, Ga.

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. Awarded to Miss
Mary Sheely Little, Hickory, N.
C. Honorable Mention: Miss Anne
Henderson, Atlanta; Miss Martha
Hay, Auburn, Ala.; Miss Dabney
Adams, Asheville, N. C.

Piano Scholarship Divided be-
tween Miss Mary Katherine Glenn,
Atlanta, and Mrs. Betty Hancock
Moore, Atlanta.

Voice Scholarship) Divided be-
tween Miss Helen Currie, Rocky
River, Ohio, and Miss Mildred
Evans, Wilmington, N. C.

Speech Scholarship Divided be-
tween Miss Jane Anne Newton,.
Decatur, and Miss Marguerite
Watson, Batesburg, S. C.

Laura Candler Prize in Mathe-
matics Given by Mrs. Nellie Can-
dler, Decatur, for best work in the 1
department. Given this year to Miss
Dorothy Spragens, Lebanon,, Ky,

Louise McKinncy Book: Award of
$25 given annually to the book-lov-
er who, during the current year,,
makes the most interesting and'
discriminating collection of books
as additions to her personal library,
goes this year to Miss Marie Beeson
Alva, Fla. Honorable mention: Miss
Virginia Bowie, Frederick, Md.,
and Miss Beth Daniel, Decatur.

Senior Honors (Based on the
work of the session 1944-45 only):
Ann Anderson, Lithonia; Jean Bai-
ley, Atlanta; Virginia Bowie, Fred-
erick. Md.; Virginia Carter, Nor-
ton, Va.; Sylvia McConnel Carter,
Decatur; Marion Leathers Daniels,
Decatur; Cordelia DeVane, Easley,
S. C; Pauline Ertz, Buffalo, N. Y.;
Elizabeth Glenn, Atlanta; Martha
Jean Gower, Decatur; Jean Louisa
Hood, Commerce; Mary Alice Hun-
ter, Sanford, Fla.; Inge Probstein,.
Drexel Hill, Pa.; Joan Stevenson,
Atlanta; Jodele Tanner, Atlanta;
Dorothy Lee Webb, Atlanta; Wen-
dy Whittle, Luray, Va.

Graduation Honors (Covering
work of the entire four years):
"With High Honor"; Virginia Car-
ter, Norton, Va.; Marion Leathers
Daniels, Decatur; Elizabeth Glenn,
Atlanta; Martha Jean Gower, De-
catur; Inge Probstein, Drexel Hill,
Pa.; Dorothy Lee Webb, Atlanta.
"With Honor": Ann Anderson, Li-
thonia; Virginia Bowie, Frederick,.
Md.; Jodele Tanner, Atlanta.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

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Fraser, Ann Seitzinger, Marianne Jeffries, Helen Cnrrle, Margaret Kinard.

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager ^ EGGY J**

Advertising Manager JANE ANNE NEWTON

Asst. Advertising Managers

Mary McCalla
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Circulation Manager

Doris Purcell

Circulation Assistants

Lorena Ross
Marie Adams

Business Assistants: Carolyn Bodle, Betty Andrews, Mary Jane Schumaker, Doris Street.
Ann Hough, May Turner.

Thanks for the Memory

SEPTEMBER

19_Registration ("Lining" the year up from the beginning,) We wait-
ed for an age but what we didn't learn summer gossip, etc.

22 Classes began. "The same old story," the upperclassmen said.
"Work" said the frosh!

OCTOBER

14 Frosh "bell" the well-worn Black Cat with a modified Hem-

mingway-style of "For Him the Bell Told."
20 Seniors down sophs 6-0; juniors beat frosh 8-2, in first hockey

game.

25 Sixteen seniors selected for "Who's Who."

26 Swimming club put on "grand splash" in the first meet of season.
NOVEMBER

4 Investiture when the seniors receive their well-known dignity!
9 Alumnae Day when the grad of '01 greets you with, "Dearie, this
room hasn't changed a bit."

Will Durant lectures on "What Are the Lessons of History."

13 Edwin Mims presents the Greeks and the Romans to us as we
wonder what few are Greeks.

14 The campus sees form swimming in everything from front to
back crawl. It's the second inter-class meet.

19 Book Week begins.

22 Suspense, chills, and murder result from Blackfriar's mystery-
melodrama, "Spider Island."

23 Cotillion club dance climaxes Thanksgiving Da yfestivities.
DECEMBER

1 Wilburn fakes "faint" as faculty plays hockey varsity! A. A.
awards in chapel.
13-15 Exams!!!

15 Vacation!
JANUARY

12 Seniors, juniors win opening cage game!
17 May Queen is chosen NEWS scoops it.

25-27 Robert Frost enchants us with his poetry and his personality.
FEBRUARY

3 A. A. Benefit Bridge lures card fiends.

6 Personalities change as Charm Week opens.

7 Howard Mumford Jones lectures on "The Three Traditions."

13 Religious Emphasis Week!

20 Remember Maudie, Dootsy, and Anne in "Polka for Three" in
Dance Group's Recital!

22 Founder's Day and Mollie as General Washington with Inge blush-
ing so.

24 Juniors startle campus with "Commander Driver's Boys" from
the Naval Base's "O Club" at Jazz-Mine Manor!!!

28 Blackfriar's present variety program with Irish note added to

Shakespeare wit.
MARCH

4 Hottentots delve between the Waves to "Davey Jones' Locker"
with Swimming club.

9 The Holiday.

10 Exams

28-29- 1945-46 Student elections, politics, nominating committee and
all!

APRIL

6 Dr. Theodore Greene comes to address the Phi Beta Kappas and

gives the whole campus something to think and talk about.
20 Arrival of "Small Paul" Garber.

20-24 Mary Ellen Chase praises Georgia clay. The student body ap-
plauds Miss Chase.

25 San Francisco Conference.

The first issue of the '45-46 News comes out!!!

27 The Spring Holiday

28 Outing club's gay week-end at North Fulton Park
MAI

5 The weather fits in to the atmosphere of "The Creation" for
May Day and the black Scotty ushers for the darkness!

12 Dr. McCain does "quick-change" in Community Day games.- -

The flames of Hell rage as curvacious Mephistophalia "tries out"

Final

Examination

By PAULINE ERTZ

The Senior is leaving

Wait, don't go yet, Senior

You have one more exam to take.

What do you see, Senior?

The quadrangle, the rose arbor,

the dell?
The hockey field chapel, a one-act

play?

Shakespeare, chemistry, philoso-
phy,

Date parolrs, Tech and Emory?
Look and tell me, Senior, what do
you see?

I see many things . . .
Black Cat stunts . . . troop trains
passing

A. A. sings . . . and overhead

bombers' wings.
I see Lawson and blood bank and

wounded returning
Brides wave goodbye, their love so

enduring

San Francisco and Dumbarton

along the way
And, at last, glorious V-E day.
This I have seen, and this I have

learned

Paace lies ahead, but it must be
earned

The world awaits, I'll help, I
pledge it!

Bravo, Senior, you get merit.

Miss Rutledge
Is Co- Author

Miss Abbie Rutledge, 1943-44
member of the physical education
department, is co-outhor of "Con-
ditioning Exercises for Girls and
Women," a teacher's reference and
a text-book for major students.
The book was published last month
by A. S. Barnes and Company of
New York.

Miss Rutledge is studying to-
ward her M. A. degree in physical
education at Texas State College
for Women. Co-author with her
are Anne Schley Duggan and Ella
Montague.

Paper Wins
High Rating

The Agnes Scott News was re-
cently awarded first class honor
rating by the Associated Collegiate
Press. The association scored the
issues of The News edited by
Leila Holmes, editor, and Pauline
Ertz, managing editor.

Jeanne Addison and Mary Ann
Courtenay wer associate editors.
First cless is an "excellent" rating,
second only to All-American. The
Associated Collegiate Press com-
mended The News on its coverage
of campus activity, its features,
headlines, and general content.

Due to lark of space, the
senior Will and Prophecy has
been cut without discrimina-
tion. Only approximately one-
half of the statements are print-
ed.

Study-Worn Students
face Beginning of End

As I sit here jammed between two trunks, overflowing
with skirts, dirty sweaters, and careworn dresses, midst
sounds of a roommate moaning, "She just can't give us Brown-
ing's conception of immortality, she gave the other class that,"
a faint suspicion creeps over me that perhaps this is the be-
ginning of the end of school. But

suddenly, down fall the books, and
ouch right on top of my head.
No, I decide, it is only the end of
the world. But even while quiet-
ly contemplating death, I am rude-
ly awakened by a horrible shriek
not one, no two, three, four and
soon what's commonly known as
pandemonium, or a goodbye party.
Now I'll have to admit there are
goodbyes and goodbyes. There is
one that just tears me up the
senior saying goodbye for the last
time. But it's this last one that
just tears me down. This is us-
ually caused by an eager-beaver
underclassman, who gets through
exams days before most of us
have started, and just can't wait
another day to see her sweet
Mother and Daddy. Everyone is
yelling goodbye at the top of her
lungs and trying muster up a few
tears of sorrow (which is in real-
ity only because they can't get on
the same train.) Above all this
confusion there arise many
"swear-by-my-merit-grades" prom-
ises to write faithfully, which of
course end with the usual results.
Despite it all, this little eager-
beaver tears herself away and
rushes out to make the taxi
which isn't there.

But as all good things must
come to an end, so also do exams.
It is with much sorrow and tear-
ful regret that I close my last
book and fling it out the win-
dow. Then, despite wails from
the dinig room girls that Miss
Harris has picked all the daisies
for the tables, the weary Sopho-
mores set out. The results are
easily guessed some ivy, a
daisy, more ivy, a four leaf clov-
er, more ivyt and poison ivy.
Then there is that unforgettable
Class Day, when everybody turns
out to be successful 13 years hence
with exceptions of underclass-
men, who received all the worn

out hand-me-down stuff, meted
out to them by generous seniors.
But it was that note-stacking bus-
iness that just floored me. Des-
pite the fact the stackers probab-
ly never read those notes after
they wTote them, they committed
them to the stack with as much
vigor as if they had agonized over
every word.

But at last the big day ar-
rives, when seniors graduate
and undergraduates make a bee-
line for the train. Everybody is
falling all over herself get-
ting tubs, pressing white dresses,
letting phones ring, biting heads
off, and even hiding from the ex-
press man. In my rush I yelled
to some poor soul wielding an
iron that if she didn't hurry, I
could come and beat her brains
in. Intending to carry out my
threat, I came back five min-
utes later to come face to face
with a sweet old lady here to see
her daughter graduate. I guess
I mumbled a feeble apology,
something about not having my
glasses on, and thinking she
looked just like my roomate.
Strangely enough she seemed
quite flattered to have been
mistaken for a college girl, but
of course she hasn't seen my
roomate yet.
Then there's always the big
welcome to be looked for at home.
Mothers have notified all the
friends, rid the bedroom of the
winter's supply of cobwebs and
bugs, scraped up a gallon of gas
to meet us at the train station,
and even filled up the icebox
that is all except my Mother, who
has gone out for a locksmith to
make a key for it. However if
you think all this is hectic, just
you wait until you start unpacking
all that stuff you did such a rush
job on, next September.

Doris Kissling.

Musical Program Featured
In Commencement Plans

At commencement exercises
Saturday, June 2, the department
of music presented a program in-
cluding vocal, piano, organ, and
instrumental numbers.

Barbara Connally, '44, now
studying at Eastman Conserva-
tory in Rochester, returned to
sing "A Dream," by Grieg; "Au-
roro un Pass or Via," from
"Madame Butterfly," by Puccini;
and "Blue are Her Eyes," by
Watts. Seniors Bettie Manning and
Cookie DeVane sang the duet
"Tutti i Fior," also from "Madame
Butterfly"; and Barbara Frink
Hatch presented "Simes Vers
Avant des Ailes," by Hahn; "Pier-

as a Hottentot and Bittie croons!

Remember Mr. Posey in Blackfriar's "The Prince Who Was a

Piper."

13 National Prayer Day

18 A. A. and Chi Beta Phi awards!

21 "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" Spot it!!!!

23 The seniors use the "blue books" for the last time.

2-4 Commencement week.

Thanks for the memory of burning toast and prunes dateless
nights and Hodgson's tunes- . . . A.A.'s events and the horses,
too the fact test passed and merits all through . . . Thanks for

the memory of all this and then

too!

rot," by Rybner, and "Ouvre Tes
Yeux Bleux," by Massenet. The
Glee club, under the direction of
Robert S. Lowrance, also repeated
several numbers from their spring
concert.

Pianists included K a t h le e n
Buchanan, who played "The En-
gulfed Cathedral," by Debussy; Jo
Dall, playing the "Fansasia Im-
promptu," by Chopin; and Mary
Katherine Glenn, who played the
"Scherzo in B-flat minor," also
by Chopin.

The Bach "Fugue in G-minor,"
for organ, was played by Ruth
Simpson; also on the organ, Bunny
Weems played the D minor "Toc-
cata and Fugue," by Bach, and
Adele Dieckman, the "Chorale"
and "Minuet" from the "Gothis
Suite," by Boellmann.

The String p:nsemble presented
several selections including "Shep-
herds' Dance," by German; "Hun-
garian Dance, No. 9," by Brahms;
"Drink 'to Mo Oly with Thine
Eyes," by Moore; and "The Swan,"
bv Saint-Saens.

AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

Page 3

Wendy Proves Class History
Mostly Accidents, Ancedotes

By Wendy Whipple

This history of the class of 1945 will be a short one for two
reasons: (1) the history majors, who have just finished
four years of subteranean life in the stacks reading lengthy
histories, have threatened to leave in a body if this one lasts
over ten minutes. (2) Our class's activities defy description.
The events that have withstood
the test of time and that we dis-
cuss even now are not the usual
matters of freshman blues, soph-
omore slumps, and traditional up-
perclass activities, but such mem-
orable occasions as the time Dotty
Kahn got stuck in the Inman ele-
vator, the time the White House
pantry was raided, and that time
that Higgins said something fun-
ny. (Higgins has said too many
funny things to enumerate here,
but she will be glad to tell you
about them.) The central idea of
this history, then, is that the his-
tory of our class which we remem-
ber consists as much of accidents
and anecdotes as it does of more
formal activities. Let us proceed
with caution to illustrate the
point.

Arrive in Regulation Costume

September 1941 found us arriv-
ing in wool suits, as the August
issue of Mademoiselle had inti-
mated that we would not be allow-
ed to register unless we wore
them. The rest of the campus,
attired in cotton, surveyed us with
the usual mixture of doubt, hope,
and fear. Immediately the other
three classes began a campaign to
instill in us something resembling
class spirit. Their efforts and ours
were climaxed by the presentation
of our stunt, "Of Mice and Men-
ace." The writing committee re-
ceived a blow, when after they had
constructed a flimsy plot around
a black cat and some mice, one of
the faculty censors said, "I do
hope you haven't mentioned the
black cat." To the surprise of
the committee, however, the rest
of the class was able to put to-
gether a winning stunt, and in the
struggle that intangible substance,
class spirit, had been well establ-
ished.

The official history of the rest
of the year is a brief one because
none of us seem to remember it.
We became orthodox Hottentots,
and fitted our individual personali-
ties into the life of the campus
community. We went hopefully to
Mortar Board parties. We learn-
ed how to see through the people
in front of us at the All Star con-
certs (an art never fully master-
ed). We learned to drink coffee
in self defense, so that we would
have something to do with our
hands after Sunday and Wednes-
day dinners. Several coffee fiends
admit their addiction dates from
this time. While some of us were
investigating possibilities at Tech
and Emory, others learned the
mysteries of bridge. As a class
we enthusiastically supported the
Wear-Red-to-Dinner movement,
which resulted in a White House
full of blazing color and the satis-
fying bewildered faces of the fac-
ulty. We tried to out-freshman all
preceding classes with our clever
pranks, which ranged from nylons
tied to the ceiling pipes (pre-war
extravagance) to a "ghost" that
got stuck under Julia Slack's bed.
In the dining room we mastered
the art of flipping ice from table
to table, meanwhile imitating the
gestures and intonations of the
faculty, proving conclusively to
everyone except ourselves that we
were not yet far removed from
high school. We appeared for our

first fire drill wearing everything
we owned, and clutching all our
material possessions. The spectre
of exams began to haunt us as we
heard sadistic sophomores describe
the horrors that lay ahead. Sample
questions: Bible 101: "Name the
rivers of Egypt, true or false."
Jacksonian History 101: "Outline
European history." English 101:
"Recite 'Four Kinds of Thinking,'
showing that you fully possess it."
War was declared during fall
quarter exams, and we tried un-
successfully to follow the news
while conjugating French verbs
and learning to spell protozoa. Af-
ter Pearl Harbor however, few
changes were noticeable in our
daily life. Overzealous air raid
wardens roused their wings at 3
a. m. upon hearing fire alarms,
and we realized that elsewhere
history was being made, although
we were not a part of it. The next
live months raced on, spent large-
ly in writing English papers and
getting a tan. Suddenly we found
ourcelves at the end of spring
quarter exams, and faced with the
startling knowledge that we were
sophomores. Most of us dashed
home immediately to recuperate.
"Alice" Rings the Bell
As sophomores we re-enacted
the previous year with variations
on the theme. We re-elected Molly
out of the kindness of our hearts,
plus the fact that no one wanted
anyone else. The writing commit-
tee again approached stunt time
with misgivings, and again the
rest of the class pulled us through,
this time "With No Malice Toward
Alice." We began to feel the war
when shortages descended upon us
and the word rationing took on
new meaning. We learned about
traction splints in first aid classes,
ard lurked in the shadows with
our triangular bandages, waiting
for a victim on which to practice
our broken arm slings. With the
rest of the campus we plunged into
benefits for the war fund, climax-
ed by the faculty's "Our Day and
Welcome to It." Coerced by the
high pressure salesmanship of
Mrs. Fox, who threatened to flunk
all chemistry students who didn't
buy programs, and enchanted by
Miss Cobb's descent ex machina
from the ceiling, we critically pro-
nounced the production an over-
whelming success.

Again the year raced on, but
as May approached few sun tans
appeared, for we were indoors
studying for that impending catas-
trophe, the fact test. Fortunately
when it arrived it failed to live

up to its advance notices, and we
survived. Another year was over.
But while some of us again rush-
ed home to recuperate, most of
us stayed to see the seniors gradu-
ate. We rose early one morning
to pick daisies, turning out lazy
roommates with "Get up, sweet
slug-a-bed," a useful phrase we
picked up from the fact test. We
stayed up all night making the
chain and carried it at Class Day.
We accompanied the seniors to
Commencement. The year was
over.

Upperelassmen Gain Dignity

We returned in September to
find our ranks thinned by migra-
tion to Chapel Hill and marriage.
Our first year as upperclassrrten
found us with responsibilities. As
sponsors we met the freshmen
(wearing wool suits) and guided
them through orientation. We felt
a little ignored at stunt time,
but we waited as breathlessly for
the verdict as we had previously,
and shrieked as loudly as if we had
won ourselves. It seemed that the
freshmen were no sooner orientat-
ed than we were taking fall quar-
ter exams. We returned from
Christmas vacation with additions
to our diamond ring collection. By
this time a survey of the class
revealed three distinct groups:
the Engaged-or-Married group,
the We-Have-Prospects Club, and
a group which named itself The
Uninvited. 1

Back from Christmas vacation,
we continued to pursue our major
subjects, which academically
speaking had been chosen at the
end of our sophomore year. The
science majors took up residence
at the science hall, the English,
economics, and history majors dis-
appeared into the library, while
others dusted off their neglected
busy signs.

The Junior Joint was our most
strenuous class activity. We all
did something for it, whether rol-
lerskating or selling tickets.

As spring came slowly up our
way we intimidated the sopho-
mores with ghastly tales of the
fact test, while at the same time
we consoled our sister class about
their critical papers for 101. June
arrived, Commencement came, we
were capped by the seniors, and
suddenly WE were the seniors.
Recall "Ode on Distant Prospect"

Summer vacation was spent in
one of two ways. Either we went
to Chapel Hill or we wished we
had. When the summer was over,
those who had gone had Prospects
and those who hadn't gone wish-
ed they did.

We returned in September with
the queer feeling that there was
no class ahead of us and three be-
hind us. We gave Minnie Mack
the dangerous job of trying to
keep order in class meetings. Once
again the freshmen were orientat-
ed, but this time in the struggle
our sister class lost the stunt.
We rationalized that winning for
three years was enough for any
class. Little Girls' Day found

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most of us little girls. Investiture
found us subdued and intent on
hitting the foot stool when we
knelt before Miss Scandrett. Dur-
ing the fall months more rings
appeared, while others pursued the
Romance of Scholarship.

Last Lap Shows Remarkable
Record

Back from Christmas once
more, wfc begr%n the Jast lap.
Math and science majors struggled
with European Classics. Mortar
Board's survey met the competi-
tion of a Booby Hatch when John-
ny came home. Inge planned a
budget for Mary Cumming and
Fitz. The class made a remark-
able record in athletics with our
volley ball team's record of no
games won, no games lost, no
games played. Anabel Bickford
got tired of being the whole team
and went home. Plans for senior
opera had been made before
Christmas, and soon another writ-
ing committee was tearing its
hair,, and its members groped for
a faintly humorous situation or
funny line.

May Day arrived with question-
able weather, which turned out to
be very effective. It will be re-
membered for Ann Equen as May
Queen and an anonymous Scottie
as Darkness. That evening we
presented our greatest class un-
dertaking "Faustasia." Once again
the rest of the class had saved
the writing committee. The music
committee had done amazing
things in making the words and
music coincide, and had produced
a professional orchestra with a
magnificent comb f section. The
choreographer had made the most
of the unique talents of ballerina
Norris, who appeared gracefully
clutching a rose between her
teeth. The scenery committee pro-
vided realistic and surrealistic
sets. Martha Arnold, dressed for
the occasion, entered on the arm of
Mr. Jones. Bitty King, who tried
our patience with her distinctive
rendition of the "Italian Street
Song," received the lead on the
basis of it, and charmed the audi-
ence with her high, light soprano.
No Blacksheep Only Goats
Our last month within the shel-
tering arms flashed by as we fev-
erishly finished term papers and
lab work. Molly got her gradua-

Miss S. Cobbs
Accepts Place
At Swarthmore

Miss Susan Cobbs, professor of
classical languages and litera-
ture, has accepted a position as
Dean at Swarthmore college in
Swathmore, Penna. She is leaving
Agnes Scott this summer after
four years as a member of the
classics department.

Miss Cobbs received her B. A.
degree at Randolph-Macon Worn-
ens College, and her Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago. Before
coming to Agnes Scott she taught
at Shipley School of Bryn Mawr
College, and at Randolph-Macon.

This year Miss Cobbs has been
head of the classics department.
She has been a member of the
advistory boards of Christian As-
sociation and Mortar 'Board.

tion present early, and has prefer-
red horses to all other forms of
life ever since. Pat Elam lost her
umbrella and found it again. Hig-
gins rushed into the exec room
and an honors oral, and hastily
retreated minus the er- book she
needed. The juniors had a tea
for us at Rich's. We all had sev-
eral free, lazy days when we
could do whatever we wanted to,
which was chiefly trying, to keep
cool. Thursday we defeated this
purpose by the class picnic, with
its resultant cases of sunburn.
This morning the sophomores gave
us a breakfast. And here we are.

A few conclusions: Although no
one seems to remember exactly
what our class history was, it
must have been an enjoyable one.
We still talk about things that
happened to us as a class or as
individuals our freshman year,
and as alumnae we will probably
continue to do so, the anecdotes
getting better as our memories dim
and our imagination fill in the
gaps. In general we have gotten
on remarkably well together, and
probably there's one outstanding
reason for it. In other years there
has usually been a division be-
tween the sheep and the goats. We
were all goats.

Quality

Pays Dividends

Today's fur coat is a long-time
investment. It is bought with
the intention of living with it
for many seasons. It must be
GOOD to retain its beauty and
the quality must be sound to
prolong its life. Today when
you choose your furs from
Chajage's superior collection,
you are assured of the tradi-
tional high standards that have
built our reputation for us.

220 PEACHTREE

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

1945 Silhouette
Honors Mr. Hayes

The 1945 Silhouette, the college annual, has been dedicated
to George P. Hayes, professor of English, according to a recent
announcement by Elaine Kuniansky, editor. Mr. Hayes is
not only the head of the college English department, but is
the advisor of Pi Alpha Phi, debating society. He was the
faculty advisor of the class of '44

and is chairman of the new Honors
Committee.

The judge of the Beauty section
was Milton Caniff, creator of the
comic strip, Terry and the Pirates.
Mr. Caniff, who is now serving
overseas with the armed forces,
chose the top six beauties from a
list of approximately nineteen pic-
tures sent to him. He could not,
he declared do other than pick
this many, not placing any in
first, second, or third place. For
this reason, the six will be placed
aphabetically with the other beau-
ties arranged on the following
pages with somewhat smaller pic-
tures. Burma, another of Mr.
Caniff's well known funny paper
characters, will grace the annual
along with the beauties. This pose
was drawn especially for the an-
nual staff. The six top beauties
are in alphabetical order: Lilaine
Harris, sophomore; Scott Newell,
senior; Jeanne Robinson, senior;
Robin Robinson, junior; Sally Sue
Stephenson, junior; and Martha
Whatley Yates, senior. The oth-
er beauties are: Ruth Anderson,
Betty Andrews, Margaret Bear,
Barbara Jane Coith, Jean Chew-
ning, Nancy Deal, Mary Jane Ful-
ler, Eugenia Jones, Mary Manly,
Gloria Ann Melchor, Rusty Ray-
field, Anne Scott, Anne Paige Vio-
lette.

The theme of this year's publi-
cation will be the 'lasting values

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gained at Agnes Scott." The pic-
tures on the division pages of each
section will carry out this idea,
showing what is gained from each
phase of the four years in an liber-
al arts colege.

Several changes will be noticed
in the Silhouette, notably the fac-
ulty section and the standard pic-
ture of the month section, which
has been used status quo for the
past six or seven years. This year's
staff has rearranged the faculty
section and changed the picture of
the month to "A Life at Agnes
Scott" section. The book is to
contain only two full color pic-
tures which will be of the drive
coming to Main Building and the
back quadrangle with a side view
of Rebekah Scott dormitory. The
towers of Main are very prominent
in the first mentioned picture.

The cover will be an off-shade
blue with Silhouette-1945 in bold
white letters lending a delightful
impression.

Due to a slip up in the engrav-
ing of the two full color plates, an-
nuals will not be out until the
early weeks of June when they
will be mailed to the student body.
There was only a slight possibility
of having the annuals by today
from the very first and so the
annual staff is asking that the
college community take war-time
labor problems into consideration
in realizing the delay.

May Day
Report

Receipts

Balance brought forward
from last year $ 19

Received from student bud-
get 197.

Costume money from stu-
dents 49.

Flower money from May
Court 88.

Tickets . . . 203

TOTAL

$557.91

Disbursements

Costumes

$175.51

Flowers

. 94.00

19.20

12.00

Two pa^es in Silhouette.

. 20.00

Maid service

3.00

Pianist

. 50.00

Loud Speaker

. 25.00

Moving piano

. 25.00

Tax

. 50.00

Costume advisor

. 20.00

Programs

. 20.00

TOTAL

$513.71

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Agnes Scott students are be-
coming foster parents of two war
orphans under the guidance of War
Council. The sister classes are tak-
ing the responsibility jointly with
Maud Van Dyke, War Council
chairman, acting as group secre-
tary.

The Foster Parents Plan for
War Children originated in Spain
in 1937,' but as the war reached
France and other European coun-
tries, it was enlarged to take care
of children from all the United Na-
tions. They are kept in homes as
near their native land as possible.

The cost of keeping a child in
these homes is $180 a year. Sister
classes are sharing the expense
this year, and next year's fresh-
man class will be asked to work
with its sister class. Several
months are required after the ap-
plication for the child to be select-
ed, so actual responsibility will
probably begin late in the summer
or early fall. Nationality, age and
sex of the child are chosen by the
classes.

As soon as the child is selected,
the foster parents receive a pho-
tograph and a brief life history.
The classes are expected to keep
a personal relationship with the
child through letters and photo-
graphs. This correspondence will
be directed by the members of
War Council, but as many of the
classes as possible are asked to
write.

Responsibility is guaranteed for
only one year, but War Council be-
lieves that it will be renewed until
the child is returned to his home,
or is old enough to take care of
himself.

Episcopalians
Name Officers

At a recent election held by
the Episcopal Club, Mary Cum-
ming, 1944-45 president, handed
her duties over to Ann Register,
who with Laura Winchester, vice-
president, and Alice Newman, sec-
retary, is making plans for next
year's activities.

The club is planning to continue
to work in close cooperation with
the Rev. Harry Tisdale, rector at
Holy Trinity Church in Decatur.
During the next year celebration
of Holy Communion will be con-
tinued every other Wednesday
morning with Mr. Tisdale as cele-
brant. The club here on campus
also plans to work with clubs at
Tech and Emory next year.

Buy War Bonds-

Seniors Tarty Not-
Wedding Bells Ring!

"The bells are ringing
For me and my gal.
The birds are singing
For me and my gal.
Everybody's been knowing
To a wedding we're going"

Yes, weVe all been knowing it, the proof is so evident.
Certainty you've seen Stardust in some of the seniors' eyes,
you've waved them good-bye as they caught the train to
meet "him." You've gazed at their sparkling diamonds, you've
heard them singing "I Love You Truly" and "I Want To Get
Married" now they are getting

married.

"They're Congregatin' "

Clad in shimmering satin or old
lace (minus the arsenic), five plan
to walk down the aisle to matri-
mony in the near future. On June
20, "They'll be congregatin' " in
Anderson, S. C. to see Lois Sulli-
van become the "lawful wedded
wife" of Jimmy Kay. Nulla Norris
is to be the maid of honor, and
Carolyn Fuller and Kitty Kay will
be bride's maids. On June 26 in
Griffin, Georgia, Mary Cumming
will take Stewart Fitzhugh "for
better or for worse." Lovely Annie
Hightower and Liz Carpenter will
grace the ceremony with their
presence as bride's maids.

Several other young ladies
whose financees for the moment,
must put the Army or Navy first,
are not quite certain when they
will be "united in the holy bonds
of matrimony." When Henry Sim-
mons, of the First Army, comes
home, he and Minnie Mack will
say "I do" in Thomasville, Geor-
gia. Minnie says she hopes to wear
her rriother's wedding dress, "If I
can still get in it." In the not too
distant future, "The parson will
be waitin' " for Cookie DeVane and
Dumont Rush in Easley, S. C. (We
do hope he won't have to wait too
long.) When Alfred comes flying
home with his new wings, he and
Harriete Daugherty will be "join-
ed till death do them part." This
great occasion will take place in
Jacksonville, Florida, and the Rev.
Kissling (Doris' dad) will tie the
knot.

After the bride has been kissed
(as if it were the first time), the
cake cut, and the rice thrown (it
may be grits this year because of
the food shortage), the twain, who
have been made one, will settle
down to married life. Lois Sulli-
van is to live in the middle of a
rose garden in Augusta, Georgia.
Her "simply darling" little two-
room cottage has a kitchen "as
big as phone booth" and "the sink
is about as large as a mixing
bowl." The Fitzhugh's abode will
be in an apartment in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Mary says, "You don't
have to straighten out your elbow-
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en." Minnie and Henry will spend
pari of the month of Henry's fur-
lough in Charleston, S. C, where
they will visit his family. Better
make a good impression, Minnie.
Cookie's little "home in loveland
for two (or four or maybe more)"
will probably be in Boston, where
Dumont will be an instructor. Har-
riete says they won't know the
place of their home till Alfred
gets his orders.

The way to a man's heart (so
they say) is to feed him well! Some
of the blushing brides-to-be seem
rather alarmed over the prospect
of taking care of a home. One
brunette says, "I've never boiled
water and never washed clothes"
. . . She'll have to be like the in-
fantry and learn the "hard way."
Another says she and her better
half will be "living out of tin cans."
The best possible wedding present
she could get would be a can
opener.

As the maxim says, "Marriage
is a great institution," and single
life is a bore, so we all know our
senior friends will have the experi-
ence of a life-time this summer.
We rather envy those who are fol-
lowing the poet's advice, "Then
be not coy, but use your time, and
while ye may go marry." Some of
the less fortunate belles (Not men-
tioning any names) have applied
the last line of this same poem to
'themselves, "For having lost but
once your prime, you may for-
ever tarry."

Science Key is Awarded

Dot Lee Webb, senior, was pre-
sented the Chi Beta Phi key in
chapel May 18. The key is present-
ed annually to the student making
the gratest progress in science.

Spring Flowers
Bloom at Rich's

Flowers for your hair
your shoulder your
:oat for spring sheers
to shake off the drab
Df winter and antici-
pate glorious spring-
time

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

Page 5

Higgins Looks Ahead to I960
In Senior's Class Prophecy

On this glorious June day, 1960, it is a joy to look around
at our school-day chums, who look every bit as young as
they did when we tearfully bade farewell to our dea* Alma
Mater, back in 1945. We miss those who were unable to come
back to our reunion, but we've tried to bring at least a mes-
sage from everyone.

Among the absentees are Mother
Bowie and her girls: Ginny Carter,
Pat Elam, Lib Farmer, and Wendy
Whittle, who report that they are
swamped with work in New York.
We understand that they are quite
successful in their occupation, and
expect to make a sizable donation
soon to go to the erection of a new
building for Agnes Scott.

We are glad to see with us Dr.
James Kay, and the dear twins:
Jimmie and Emmie and Andy and
Sandy. Dr. Kay just completed
special work in pediatrics, and is
now the head of a thriving clinic.

Speaking of doctors, Mary Cum-
ming Fitzhugh and Stewart report
that they believe they are accom-
plishing a great deal in their work
among their friends in the Ozarks.
When Mary is through plowing for
the day, she is attempting to train
some of Fritz's younger patients to
wear shoes for several hours a
week.

Bettie Manning is unable to be
here today, due to her new con-
tract. She does three shows a day
at the Cresta Blanca, and we who
have been in New York recently
can affirm that she gives a decided
new twist to the old blues. She
wishes me to say that her grati-
tude goes to Agnes Scott where she
got her start in the Senior Opera.
Jeanne Carlson and Betty Ash-
craft Senter are in the floor-show
there. They do a very novel duet;
Betty rhumbas around Jeanne,
who performs a unique adagio.

Gerry Cottongim has recently
been made head of the Bible De-
partment at Naps.

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The former Dot Almond and Pat
are now awaiting call to a new
church. The fact that Dot shocked
some of the pillars of the church
by marketing without hose is re-
sponsible for this move.

Ann Anderson has now complet-
ed work with Miss Mac concerning
malaria. The startling results of
their experiments reveal that the
carrier of this disease is not the
mosquito, but the yellow bee. Jean
McCurry contributed her bit to the
service of mankind by pursuing
this dealy insect with a butterfly
net. Eloise Lyndon continues her
lab work by applying soda to the
stings which Jean has received.

Sara Milford, who is a well-
known teacher in the Greenville,
S. C, schools, is indisposed today
with a black eye, which she re-
ceived while endeavoring to rescue
a child from the onslaught made
by Ruth Anderson's children, who
are reported to have inherited
their mother's temper.

Betty Glenn is, as we all know,
with the Department of State. She
has recently been sent abroad in
diplomatic service. She was ac-
companied by her interpreter,
Margaret Norris, the famous lin-
guist.

Julia Slack Hunter is groom-
ing her six girls for Agnes Scott.
She is still working on the bill to
put telephones in every room in the
dorms. She is being helped in this
work by Louise Cantrell, head of
the telephone exchange in Decatur.

Anabel Bleckley Bickford has
made quite a name for herself
writing funnies for her husband's
newspaper. Liz McWhorter reads
these funnies over the radio every
morning at nine o'clock. Aunt
Lizzie is a familiar name to all our
children.

Martha Whatley Yates is the

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE SENIOR CLASS

DEKALB THEATRE

well-known bridal consultant for
Saks 5th Ave. She is still eager-
ly awaiting the return of her hus-
band, who is in the army of occu-
pation. Martha has been especial-
ly helpful to Hansell Cousar who
is working for Eastman in Roches-
ter, until the return of her chap-
lain fiance.

Martha Arnold is engaged in so-
cial service work in Atlanta. Her
specialty is her work among the
delinquents at Georgia Tech and
Emory.

Penny Espey and Elaine Kun-
iansky have a great treat in store
for us today. They assure us that
we shall receive our 1945 annuals
before leaving this glorious reun-
ion of 1960.

Mary Azar, the journalist, re-
ports that she is enjoying her po-
sit ion as the secretary to William
Randolph Hearst. She often sees
Pie Ertz, who is editor of Vogue.
You have probably noticed Pie's
full page color reproduction of
scenes from Miss Ceevah Rosen-
thal's Charm School, whose slogan
is "Before and After."

Marjorie Cole has received her
Ph. D. in the 18th C entury Prose,
after some 15 years of research.

Beth Daniel, whose hobby at
Agnes Scott was collecting biogra-
yhy, has just completed a best-sel-
ler "A Scintillating Study of Si-
natra."

A recent innovation at Agnes
Scott; the charming and well-
dressed students whom we see all
about us are products of Charm
219 and Personality Ol, taught by
Misses Florence Harrison and Ann
Strickland.

General and Mrs. John Everard
Hatch, Jr., are visiting Agnes Scott
where they hope to enter Stinky,
Jr., in the class of '65. Their other
eight children are going to West
Point.

Margaret Mace, the Powers
model, is being seen throughout
the country on billboards with the
motto "For a Face Like Mace,
Use Luscious Powder Base." *

Kitty Kay, the- Conover model,
has risen to fame as the heliocoper
girl of the year.

Jane Everett has at last com-
bined her many abilities and in-
clinations as a nun, artist, actress,
and dancer. She instructs in danc-
ing and acting in the monastery
plays, for which she- paints her
own scenery.

Frances Brougher Christenberry
and Chris are unable to be here.
As you know they have been sta-
tioned on the Fiji Islands since
1946. We had hoped to bring you
a message from them, but unfortu-
nately Frances seems to have for-
gotten her native tongue. She
wrote her letter in Fijian. How-
ever, Margaret Dale saw her re-
cently when she went to study the

arresting coiffures of the Island-
ers, for improvements in her new
beauty parlor. Her motto is: "If
your efforts fail, To catch a male,
Don't give up in despair, Let Dale
fix your hair." *

Frances Wooddall is teaching
high jumping to the cavalry di-
vision of the compulsory military
training program. She makes use
of Miss Molly Milam's famous
"Walk a Mile for a Horse" Sta-
bles. *

Dottie Kahn's athletic club is
one of the swankier new spots in
New York. Dottie personally in-
structs her more elite clientele in
golf and riding. Her muscle build-
ing program is conducted by Syl-
via McConnell Carter.

The author of the best-seller,
"A TOUCH OF LAVENDER,"
has finally been revealed. It is our
own Inge Probstein, professor of
English at Agnes Scott. We are
thrilled to learn that the glam-
ourous Jeanne Robinson is the star
in the screen version of the picture
as the heroine Lavender.

Speaking of Hollywood, the Pan
American pictures so much in
vogue these days have for their
directors of Spanish, Susan Kirt-
ley and Mary Alice Hunter. Sara
Saul has also been quite sccessful
teaching Spanish in her Hollywood
Language School.

Bess Sheppard, as you know, has
been connected with the banks of
Atlanta, butflshe has gotten con-
fused in her auditing several times,
and thinks she would like to
change professions, preferably go-
ing abroad, or at least to Mexico.

Dot Hunter has just created a
novel business: a world-wide chain
of lost and found stores, known
as the Miss Mac-covitch chain
shops. Dot makes it clear that
this is temporary until she can de-
cide which beau she will accept.
She is being assisted by Liz Car-
penter, who is in the same boat
concerning men, and who demon-
strated her ability to sell anything
and everything in the book store at
Agnes Scott.

Leila Holmes McCoy and Frank
are doing diplomatic work in In-
dia, where they have an apart-

ment in the Taj Mahal. They re-
cently entertained Nulla Norris,
who is traveling through the Far-
East studying oriental ballet.

Moppy Miller and Ann Webb are
so attracted to New Orleans that
they refuse to return to England
and the Belgian Congo. They neg-
lected to mention their profession.

Martha Patterson has turned
her rumpus room into a club for
returning service men. She re-
ports her work to be fascinating.
Her associate, Frances Stukes, is
doing rehabilitation work with
timid soldiers. A few of her more
promising patients have gotten up
nerve to run the obstacle course,
otherwise known as the Agnes
Scott dating: rules.

Carolyn Fuller Hill is writing a
social and gossip for the Laurel
Bugle called Carolyn's Key Hole.
She recently scooped others on
the news that Bitty King has quit
teaching school and decided to
draw straws with reference to her
life companion and partner in the
crash towel business. The con-
testants are, of course, Donald,
Jett, and Beel. This decision is
being hastened due to the plans
of her room-mate. Anne Harry
Equen disclosed that, contrary to
all reports, Perry has not gone
across and is now on his very last
leave. Anne's astute observation
on this momentous occasion is
"thing are so complicated."

So ended the prophecy of a
minor prophet, Miss Emily Alethea
Higgins.

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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1S45

Dr. Jones

(Continued from Page 1)
private. And the best place to ans-
wer it is in prayer. As a matter
of fact, the truest index to the sta-
ture of any individual is the quali-
ty of his prayer. He may borrow
virtue from the saints around him
when he is in a pious company, just
as a planet borrows its light from
the sun. But in real prayer a
man's heart and mind stand bare,
because it is the most intimate and
private of all experiences. To be
sure, we may go through the round
of formal praying, by careless
memory dropping phrases we have
learned along the way. But that is
no prayer at all; it is vain repeti-
tion for which God, on Christ's
plain word, has no use. When the
world is shut out, and we are shut
in with Him, nobody around but
the two of us, we tell the true tale
about ourselves.

And what a miserable tale it of-
ten is! We speak to God in a
most, ungracious manner. Forget-
ful of His mercy which has sus-
tained us, deeming it no more than
our due, we bypass with a begrudg-
ed nod any' intimation that with-
out Him our days would have been
wrecked and altogether impossi-
ble. Senseless of His righteous-
ness, we strut and parade before
Him as though our sins were no
shame to us and no outrage to
Him. our pride and selfishness
rather commendable, not to be de-
spised at all. And most of the pe-
titions we make have their roots
in personal interest. In no uncer-
tain terms God is told to do our
bidding, to bring this specific thing
to pass for our profit or for our
pleasure. He is put on His guard to
fortable and prosperous estate of
exert himself to secure the com-
our intimates. By our manner, if
not by our tone, we give Him to
understand that if He doesn't do
thus and so, His Kingdom is going
to be in a bad way, for we will run
off and give our loyalty to some
other deity who does things more
to our liking.

All of which may have a place in
prayer, of course, but not the only
place. Like children coming to a
father, we approach Him who
hears and answers the fervent
prayers of the righteous. But it is
a poor child who never comes to
his father for anything except to
compel him to play Santa Claus.
By our praying we seem to think
that every morning should be a
kind of Christmas morning with
our lives filled day by day with
"sugar and spice and all things
nice," and our slightest desires
should receive the prompt and un-
divided attention of a legion of
angels. But see this prayer of
Jesus! Throughout it has two
themes: That God would glorify
Himself in the work, suffering, and
even death of Christ; and that the
friends of Christ would be given
the courage and faith to live for
the truth.

There is the real clue to the
character of the noblest man who
ever lived. Above all else the Son
of Man was dominated by the de-
sire to make His life show forth
the beauty and power of God, and
to perfect the work of love which
had been begun in the lives of His
disciples. Nothing else mattered.
The fame suggested by the hang-
ers-on in the Divine Adventure
was an illusion. Ease, delivereance
from the travail of a generation in
agony, was blasphemy. Popularity
and power were of no moment. But
this was clear as a bell: "Glorify
thyself through me: keep those
whom I have loved and served."

And His was that life that has
changed the course of centuries.
From Him a rew radiance has
streamed which has added untold
lustre to the dreary days of many
worn and broken people, quite
ready to give up and die. What He
prayed for Himself He wished for
His followers. To see them show-
ing forth the glory of the Father
and serving in His vineyard was
the consuming desire of His heart.
He could have so lived that the
world would have said of Him,
"Born a man and died a carpen-
ter." But He did live so that the
world said, "Born a man and died
a Savior." The difference, of
course, was in the purpose He gave
to His life.

n.

It is apparent that the first rule
of life for Jesus was service to
others. Hear what He says in that
dreary hour face to face with a
Cross: "For their sake, let all this
suffering and striving bear fruit."
Always at the center of His vision
was, "What will happen to these?"
Just as the true shepherd thinks
first of the sheep when the storm
breaks, the Good Shepherd thought
always of those who belonged to
the fold of God.

How severe is the conflict be-
tween that attitude and the atti-
tude we cultivate about what real-
ly makes for the life we covet?
Not infrequently we hear it said by
those who have found some mo-
mentary and pleasant surcease
from the toil and sweat and tears
of a perplexing schedule of duties
that "This is the life." Usually
such a judgment is passed when
one is stretched out comfortably
on a deck chair, with the sky all
blue overhead, with the rattle and
stir of the world hushed for awhile,
and with the imperious command
to be up and tending the chores
stifled by the flooding tides of
ease and irresponsibility. Dr. Gos-
sip of Scotland put it in a parable:
The earthly paradise of our imagi-
nation has been some South Sea Is-
land where the climate is temper-
ate and food to tempt the taste of
the most discerning is at hand for
the taking. We are out on a white,
smooth beach beneath a sun that
will tan but which an especially
thoughtful Providence in these
days of sun-worshipers has order-
ed not to bum. A gentle breeze
blows to take the heat away. No
flies and not gnats tempt us to
twitch our skin. There is no buz-
zing of mosquitoes or other winged
pests to break our carefree slum-
ber. Yonder on a far shore with
which we have no commerce, peo-
ple toil at duty's round punch
time-clocks, wash babies, buy the
groceries, listen to the sobbed-out
tales of the weeping, worry with
balancing the budget, strain with
the loads of war and the problems
of peace. But here in this improv-
ed Eden there is never a groan or
a cry. "This is the life."

The idea of being separated to
a personal and private prosperity
is as impossible to maintain as the
notion that a government can shut
itself off from tthe moving tides of
world affairs. Whatever else one
may judge about the moral signifi-
cance of life, this much is appar-
ant: The attainment of spiritual
security and moral honor are con-
ditional upon an energetic sense of
social responsibility. In the na-
tural world there is a principle
called the Law of Attraction.
Bodies within a solar system keep
their existence and beauty only by
maintaining their relation with
their neighbors. The stability of
any planet is determnined by its
steady orbit around a larger center
and by its obedience to the rights

of other planets within the system.
Let one planet say to itself that
"all this concern for the neighbor
planet is so much stupidity. From
now on I am out on my own. Look
out, stars, here I come/' And off
he shoots himself into space. In
his wake are no trailing clouds of
glory, but trailing smoke of dis-
integration. Comet-like, he cuts
quite a figure in the sky for awhile,
but not for long. And when he is no
more than a burned-out ash, fit for
the garbage dump of the universe,
his neighbors who played fair
among themselves add their bit to
the beauty of the night.

The same principle prevails in
the moral world. The only way to
preserve security and to prevent
chaos is to live in relation to oth-
ers. Now this relation can assume
many guises. For one thing, "the
others' 'in life may be depressed.
It may be that we will live by the
law of the jungle, tooth and claw,
every man for himself, and the
devil take the hindmost. Or "the
others" in life may be tolerated,
endured much as one endures a
rainy day when he wishes for the
sun. much as one takes a tooth-
ache or an unhappy job. Or, like
Jesus, "the others" may be served.
We may seize every occasion to
make our lives helpful, not by ac-
cident, but on purpose. Some
choice must be repeated over and
over again. The nobility of any
purpose always must be fortified
by renewed decision. In this day of
just honor I charge you to make
this choice with care, for choose
you must today and every day.

Probably the most highly re-
garded hero in all secular litera-
t.uture is Hercules. There is much
about him that doesn't appeal to
us. Often he was altogether too
boorish in his manners, not at all
the kind of gentleman with prince-
ly graces in whom we delight. He
made his boisterous way up and
down the earth offending the
'tastes of refined and frightened
women and children to their wits
ends. Clumsy as he was, he was
out to right wrong. If he was
crude in his kindness, ambling
around with the finesse of a three-
legged ox, he was nonetheless kind,
taking the side of the depressed
and the oppressed, crossing in the
face of the dare many lines that
the strong had drawn before the
weak. Browning pays him this
high tribute: "He held his life
out on his hand for any man to
take." How much more did Jesus
deserve this praise. Working him-
self to the very bone, until His
body cried in vain for a moment's
rest, that the prisoner shouJd
loose his chains, and the blind
should see, and the lame be made
to walk, and the deaf to hear, and
the poor to have the Gospel
preached unto them. What magnif-
icence there was to the outreach
of His sympathy. There were no
frontiers to His love. "For their
sakes," He prayed, just as "for
their sakes" He had lived.

You remember the night in which
He was betrayed He came with
His disciples into that upper room
where was instituted the Sacra-
ment which is the seal of our
church life and the symbol of His
sacrificial love. When that inti-
mate band had assembled, Jesus
performed one of the most spec-
tacular acts of His whole ministry.
He and His followers had come
from the hot and dusty ways of
Jerusalem, and the Scripture re-
cords that when they were come
together our Lord girded Himself
with a towel and began to wash
the feet of His disciples. Here was
a chore that in the house of a
prince would have been performed

by the servant, and the mightiest
prince among ten thousand stoops
to the task of the lowliest house-
man. If often in Galilee and Judea
men had heard His words in start-
ling parable, here was a parable
dramatized. "Let his that would
be greatest among you be the ser-
vant of all." The Lord of heaven
and earth, the Creator at Whose
Word the world was made and by
Whose command the winds and the
tide are kept to their appointed
courses; in Whose retinue are le-
gions of angels too numerous to
count, and at Whose birth the
morning stars sang together
here He is, washing the feet of
His disciples. If from ancient myth
we get the tale of a mighty man
who held his life out for any man
to take, here is the mightest of
men, the One altogether lovely,
Who says that divinity is rooted
in service.

And that is to the point with us.
We are disposed to get ourselves
shut up with those concerns whose
common denominators indicate
some personal religion. From that
there is no escape as long as we
are mortal. But with our mortali-
ty we can become more divine
seeing our brother's need as our
very own, offering just what we
have, a mere tithe of our capacity
for our community wellbeing, but
offering ourselves that others may
find the happiness and peace for
w hich we strive. The benevolence
of a gracious society has provided
you with additions to the capital
with which God endowed you. You
are in exceptional company. If
you wish to find the nobility that
Jesus demonstrated, you must find
it by learning to live for others.
In His words He put it thus:
"Whosoever shall save his life
shall lose it; but whosoever shall
lose his life for my sake and the
Gospel's shall find it." Only the
life that gives itself away keeps
like Him a man and not a grocer
at all.

III.

But that divine purpose, com-
mendable as it is, must have power.
Our intentions to serve will avail
little unless we are enabled by
some grace from God to accom-
plish what we design. So it was
with Jesus. If He prayed "for
their sawes," He also affirmed, "I
sanctify myself." Which was His
way of saying that personal con-
secration is always the prelude to
public service.

This is a truth we are disused
to forget. It is not hard to cham-
pion the cause of others in our
generation. We are conscious in-
creasingly of our social obliga-
tions. There are agencies of pub-
lic welfare which have our sup-
port and which we own as honor-
able institutions in the affairs of
civilization. But we have over-
looked the order of charity. In
the life of Jesus, before ever there
was the outworking of mercy for
the people, there was the inwork-
ing of His loyalty to God. Before
He gave Himself to others, He
gave Himself the Father.

Michael Angelo did one of the
great works of the ages in his
"Creation of Adam." Adam,
caught in the muck of the world,
stretched his fingers to the skies,
and God touched His finger to
man's. On the face of Adam there
dawns the light of glory; his body
assumes new strength, and by the
very sight of him one surmises
that through this fellow God is
going to have His way at last. At
the bottom of the picture is a hood-
ed figure, robed in black and ob-
viously weeping. It seems that
such sorrow is out of place when a
stately creature is being born.

It was the genius of the artist
which put such sorrow there, for
when God touched man He set him
on the hard road out from the
agony and evil of the earth to the
peace and holiness of heaven. The
march has been long, and the
martyrs have been many. If be-
hind the leaders a great multi-
tude has come singing "Hosanna,"
along every step of the way the
vision of the City Celestial has
been the mortal doom of many a
wayfarer striving for its gates.
The whole point, however, is that
no hope is held for us, no hope is
had from us until God's finger
touches ours, and His Spirit is shed
abroad in our hearts.

Of late there has been much dis-
cussion about the relative merits
of what has been called the "so-
cial gospel" as opposed to the
"personal gospel." One exalts the
work of the Kingdom in the af-
fairs of many men; the other
exalts the redeeming Grace that
works in the life of each man.
Most of this talk has been alto-
gether out of order. Here the two
are made one, each having no ex-
istence apart from the other: "For
their sakes," the Savior prayed,
and the whole wide world with its
need for redemption is in that
prayer; "I sanctify myself," He
also prayed, and no single soul
in earnest about doing anything
for the help of mankind can neg-
lect the demand to do something
about himself personally. "What
therefore the Lord hath joined to-
gether let no man put asunder."

Do you not need to have it borne
in upon you that the privileges of
these years past carry with them
the obligation to translate the
goodness you have known into
goodness for others. That has been
the steady urge of the institution
which now honors you and owns
you as its daughters. What you
must not forget is that without
intimacy with God, without the
personal relationship to Him which
prevades your whole nature, with-
out a sense of His presence, with-
out consuming loyalty to His King-
dom, your service shall not bear
fruit. Ours is a generation that is
trying to do good works without
good faith. Faith without works is
dead, but work without faith is
impossible. We shall not live for
the service of others until we open
our hearts to the mercy of God. It
has been put well in this simple
line:

"O the bitter shame and sorrow.

That a time could ever be
When I let the Savior's pity
Plead in vain, and proudly ans-
wered,

'All of self, and none of Thee!'

Yet He found me; I beheld Him

Bleeding on the accursed tree,
Heard Him pray, 'Forgive them,
Father!'

And my wistful heart said faintly.
'Some of self, and some of Thee!'

Day by day His tender mercy,

Healing, helpful, full, and free,
Sweet and strong, and, ah! so
patient

Brought me lower, while I whis-
pered,

'Less of self, and more of Thee!'

Higher than the highest heaven,

Deeper than the deepest sea,
Lord, Thy love at last hath con-
quered;

Grant me now my supplication,
'None of self, and all of Thee!'

You have come to an eminence
at which time your friends and
your family salute you. I express
my profound gratitude for the
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MRS. NOTESTEIN

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the poisonous ideas, still dominant
in the minds of our enemies which
must appall us. Nor are those
ideas confined to the two great
aggressors with whom we have
been fighting. Those ideas are in-
fectious even in the ranks of those
who have been their lives to op-
pose them. The wounds which civ-
ilization has received in this war
cannot be healed alone by render-
ing Germany and Japan impotent
for the next quarter century, or
by re-building shattered cities and
restoring industry and commerce
and decent living standards. The
prevention of another war cannot
be left to an organization or or-
ganizations, however carefully set
up. A poet of today has said,
"There never was a war that was
not inward: I must fight till I
have conquered in myself what
causes war." There is a long task
to be undertaken, and it so re-
lates itself to our private, social
and national life as well as to our
foreign relations that its weight
leaves free no pair of honest shoul-
ders.

It was the thought of that long
and all-comprehending task that
brought me to this subject. For
clearly not much of it can be done
by people of my generation or
even of those who belong to the
generation of your parents. You
and those a little older than you
must bear the brunt. Sometimes
people of my age, when they are
thinking only of themselves are
glad that their responsibility in
this matter is light and soon to be
ended.

The relief is only momentary,
however, for you and your chil-
dren and the future of civilization
are of too great concern to them.
It is from their point of view, an-
xious though not unhopeful des-
perately eager to see you do your
job that I speak. We know that
if the world falls to pieces again

Dr. Jones

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privilege of sharing in this oc-
casion which does you honor, and
I join most heartily my greetings
to the many that you shall re-
ceive. Permit me, however, to
suggest to you just this: What
are you doing with your life?
What do you propose for it? Now
that you have finished this part
of the journey, now that treasure
beyond description has been ad-
ded to your possession, will you
life up your eyes to a sad and
wretched world and see yourself
as a servant of God within it ? Will
you go to the tasks which shall
claim you, and will you perform
them not because they are the
chores of duty, but because they
are channels by which the mercy
of the Almighty Father may be let
loose to influence the lives of those
with whom you shall associate?
It is a noble purpose to have, but
you shall not keep faith with it
until you renew your loyalty to
Him day by day. You shall not do
any good "for their sakes" until
you are ready and willing to say in
desperate earnestness, "I sancti-
fy myself."

It is this love for God and for
His people through the mercy of
Christ which sets us out on the
high road of the Kingdom, serv-
ing others because we. are our-
selves saved. No man dies ,a gro-
cer whose life has been given to
Him, but without Him no man is
ever anything more at all.

the labor and sorrow, the blood
and sweat and tears, will be yours.

A few years ago, I believe, a group
of students in one of our universi-
ties started as a joke an organiza-
tion which they called "Veterans
of Future Wars," demanding that
they be given pensions and bonuses
while they were young and could
enjoy them. I saw it stated re-
cently that of the nine charter
members of that care-free organ-
ization, eight are today in the
armed services. They are that
which they laughed at the thought
of being. It is against such a fate
for you that we want to see you
arm yourselves today.

It seems a rather solemn and
portentous issue to urge upon you
just now. After all, what can you
do ? You can help in various -ways
to aid recovery from this war. You
can work in hospitals and the
Red Cross you can perhaps enlist
in one of the services. What part,
after all, can you take in the ac-
tivities directed toward the pre-
vention of future wars? No one of
your generation sits in the Secur-
ity Conference. You were not
represented by contemporaries at
Bretton Woods or at the Food
Conference at Hot Springs. It
will be a long time before you
or your brothers or friends will be
in Congress or even in the legisla-
tures of your States. You may well
think that for some years to come
you may and should concentrate
your energies and thoughts on
more immediate and practical con-
cerns.

There is one phase of your situ-
ation in that respect which de-
serves mention- Many of th^
young men who will soon be mus-
tered out are of your age or only
a little older. It is hard to believe
that they will not have a burning
eagerness to prevent the develop-
ment of another war.

Young though you and they are,
you make a group which by its
very size can exercise great influ-
ence from the beginning; and
which might easily, as its mem-
bers come into positions of power
shape the policy of this country.
There are sometimes generations
which leave their mark on the
world more than those before or
after them. . With the incentive
provided by its experience of this
war, yours might be such a genera-
tion. Even though great decisions
are being made without your hav-
ing any part in them, in carrying
them out, in modifying or discard-
ing them, you will have your
chance and your responsibility. It
is none too soon to begin to study
them and their workings.

In a good many colleges just
now, perhaps in all, thought is be-
ing given to revision of the course
of study and methods of teaching
in the hope of preparing students
more adequately to grapple with
the post-war problems of life.
Some colleges are trying to en-
list the aid of their gradates by
asking pointed questions. These,
for instance: "What have you
found lacking in your own college
education?" "What can this col-
lege do to give more meaning and
reality to its training?" I have
known students in less exacting
times than these, who tried to as-
sess at the end of their senior
years what they had gained, what
they had missed; where they had
been wise or foolish in their
choices of studies and in the use
of their time. Often there is some-
thing of the feeling people have at
the end of life "How much better
I could do it if I could begin all
over again!" But the fact that you
are in this group today means
that you have certain acquire-
ments which will be helpful to

you in the future. You have stored
up some knowledge. You have
shown some capacity for indepen-
dent work. Your susceptibility to
beauty in one or more of the arts
has been heightened. You have
proved yourself capable of living
under a fixed if not too rigorous
routine and if accommodating
yourselves to living in a group.
On the whole, you probably feel
more at home in the world than
you did when you came; and I sus-
pect you may think of that sense of
initiation as your greatest gain,
and the acquirement on which you
can surely build. I do not minimize
it, and I believe that the American
college for women can be proud of
the ease with which its graduates
enter into the life of their com-
munities ,and of the support they
give to the more important activi-
ties. What I am not sure of is that
you estimate properly and will
make effortes to improve what-
ever you have gained in the sheer
ability to think to think as dis-
tinguished from to learn or to be
responsive or to exercise intuition
or to be effiecient in doing.

You can hardly be blamed if
that is the case, for one of the odd
paradoxes in this country of ours
is that we should be so committed
to the idea of education, and so
prone to disparage the faculty at
which education is chiefly aimed
the intellect, highbrow, brain
trust, blue stocking are terms of
reproach. We speak of the intelli-
gentsia, the intellectuals with
something of a sneer. The pro-
cesses of the thinking mind seems
to us cold, rigid, a little inhuman
in their dependance upon logic and
proved fact. Those who devote
themselves to thinking, research,
the pursuit of truth for its own
sake are generally supposed to be
lacking in practicality and an un-
derstanding of daily life. "You
got to eat, too,' the New Yorker
commented after quoting a highly
scientific and polysyllabic defi-
nition of life culled from a Ph. D.
thesis.

Necessarily our human ideal is
that of the all round person. To
possess all good attributes in per-
fect balance is obviously desirable.
The curious thing is that a slight
surplus of energy or emotional
warmth rouses no such criticism as
a little preponderance on the intel-
lectual side. So pure an intellec-
tual as Santayana speaks wistfull-
ly in his latest book of respecting
and loving the English psyche "be-
cause of the primacy there of the
physical and moral nature over the
intellectual. It was the safer order
of things, more vital, more manly
than the reverse. Man was not
made to understand the world but
to live in it."

Yet I would say that the present
situation suggests that unless men
understand the world better than
they have done they may find
themselves robbed of the chance
to live in it. The blindness of the
Allied Countries in allowing events
to shape themselves for this war
is a different kind of blindness
from that which led our enemise
to plan it; but on both sides, it
seems to me, intelligence might
have prevented the horrors of
these last six years. It has been
an inexpressibly hideous example
of the folly and shortsightedness
of men. To indict the leaders for
failure to analyze and discern and
foresee is not enough. The indict-
ment must also be against the
mass of people who chose or ac-
cepted such leadership and let
themselves be led into such a trap.
Let it be granted that greed, am-
bition, lust for power, selfish and
evil impression played their part.
I am rx>t decrying in any way the

importance of seeking to establish
better feeling in the world, to
make justice prevail; but it seems
"to me clear that our surest hope
of better arrangement of world af-
fairs lies in bringing into them a
higher degree of intelligence.. It
is not enough to mean well. I re-
call a remark made to me by
Justice Brandeis many years ago,
when, in response to his question
about the outlook of Radcliffe stu-
dents, I said that they had pretty
generally a great desire to be
helpful in the world. "That is very
dangerous," he said, and I was too
dashed to make him explain him-
self. He referred, I suppose, to
the mischief that may be wrought
by good will which is not backed
by knowledge and wisdom.

It would hardly be posisble for
young women even when by the
very act of going to college they
confess a leaning towards things
of the mind, not to be a little sen-
sitive to disparagement of the in-
tellectual. It is a temptation often
to play down or disguise an apti-
tude for mathematics or physics
or philosophy, a taste for serious
reading, a liking for the library
even greater than for the tennis
court or the dance floor. A young
woman of whom I heard not long
ago transferred at the end of her
sophomore year from one college
to another. The record she brought
with her was good, but not excel-
lent. It was made up of B's except
for two C's. The admisions of-
ficer questioned her about the C's.
"I had to get them," she replied.
"If my record had been all B's it
would have put me on the Dean's
list." One likes to record that an
energetic dean persuaded this
young woman to give her good
mind free rein, and that she gradu-
ated finally summa cum laude. I
remember another young woman
who married just before she gradu-
ated magna cum laude. She did
well, one would think, but her
dean was not satisfied. "You could
perfectly well have taken a sum-
ma," she complained. The student
didn't deny it, remarking only
"Don't you think it would have
been a little excessive to be mar-
ried and graduate with a summa
all in one June?"

One may sympathize with a de-
sire not to parade a superiority
over one's fellows, one must re-
spect a shrinking from anything
like arrogance of mind. But often
the failure to satisfy a natural
taste for study and learning, an
attempt even to stifle or disguise
it in a pose, is an insincerity which
weakens the whole personality.
Sometimes the failure to seize the
opportunities for mental develop-
men which college offers is due to
a belief that a trained mind is
rather a useless piece of baggage
unless it is to serve a specific pur-
pose such as earning a living. It
is that point of view which leads
often, even after an academic suc-
cess in college, to the abandon-
ment afterward of all intellectual
exercise. Howard Munford Jones,
you will perhaps recall, remarked
bitterly once that the purpose of
putting a student through a thor-
ough course in English literature
and finally stamping him with an
A.B. is to make him feel entirely
free to read nothing but the Sat-
urday Evening Post all the rest of
his life.

Nevertheless, there is usually
less to complain of in this regard
about students in college than
about the alumnae they become.
While they are undergraduates
they felt, in varying degrees, of
course, a certain responsibility for
the exercise and betterment of
their mental powers. They observe
their teachers, sometimes critical-

ly, more often generously, and are
sincerely appreciative of those who
have opened a field of knowledge
to them and have shown them how
to use the tools of thought. When
they graduate they often mean
to go on in the lines of reading
or investigation which they have
begun. What they do not realize
is the obstacles which will present
themselves to any such program.
The necessary labors and occupa-
tions of daily life sap this energy.
Sometimes those labors involve
discipline of the mind or hand,
but often they are routine duties,
making more demand upon char-
acter and emotional qualities than
upon those of the intellect. They
afford their own kind of discipline,
but may do little to keep the mind
alert and eager. Perpetual inter-
ruptions such as the quiet of the
college library or laboratory nev-
er knew prevent continuity of
thought. Our national habit of
busyness and our cheerful gregari-
ousness rob us of the solitary hours
in which we could concentrate on
some line of reading or study.
Moreover, except in the profes-
sions, the kind of work women do
in their homes or in offices and
places of business is less conduc-
ive than that of men to the ac-
quirement of precise knowledge
and the development of the capac-
ity to analyze facts and to reach
responsible conclusions. Altogther,
to maintain the life of the mind,
the steady improvement as the
years go on, of the ability to
think, requires conscious and de-
termined effort, and even one
whose intentions are of the best
may find circumstances too much
for her. I remember in 1931 meet-
ing in Shanghai a young Chinese
woman who had graduated recent-
ly from an American College for
women. She had done her major
work in economics and sociology,
and had had as a teacher a very
gifted woman who often sent her
students out with projects to carry
on after graduation. It occurred
to me to ask the Chinese woman
whether she was following up any
lines of work begun in college. You
should have seen the look, almost
of guilt, which convulsed that calm
Oriental face and have heard the
flurried excuses which she poured
out to me as if I were that far-
away teacher. She had meant to
carry on those studies, her mar-
riage and her baby and the work
she was doing for the Y. W. C. A.
had prevented her, she would soon
get at them, would I please tell

Miss that she

hadn't forgotten what she had
undertaken to do. I laughed and
tried to assure her that no one
could fail to understand her situa-
tion. Yet in very truth she was
facing in concrete shape the issue
which I want to present to you. It
was not that the studies she had
expected to continue were neces-
sarily of great importance. The
point is that she was in danger
of losing in the heat and labor and
preoccupations of the day her skill
with important tool of thought.

It is not only in your life as
citizens that the keen and good
and dispassionate mind can serve
you well. I have always believed
that many of the private and per-
sonal problems of our lives suf-
fered from the lack of thinking
through. You will understand that
I am not advocating the applica-
tion of a cold and pitiless logic
to matters of personal relation-
ship and duty. One of the high-
est functions of the thinking mind
is to discern and weight values.
Have you ever thought of how
many of the .great tragedies it
was a failure of - knowledge or in-
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AGNES SCOTT NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

Class of 1945 Announces Last Will and Testament

We the class of '45 of Agnes Scott College of said state and
county, being of weary but sound and disposing minds and
memories do make, publish, and declare this our last will
and testament, hereby revoking all wills and codicils hereto-
fore made by us.

% Dot Almond, do leave my
extra merit hours to Dot Sprag-
ens, who will probably need them
more than I, since matrimony
states no prerequisite of same.

I, Ann Anderson, do will and
bequeath by Phi Beta key to the
first junior who brings me a Gray's
anatomy, and to Ann Seitzinger
I leave my name, alias George.

I, Martha Arnold do hereby do-
nate the one rotten egg I didn't
boil and eat that day in embryol-
ogy lab to anyone who particular-
ly likes the taste of Hydrogen Sul-
phide.

I, Mary Azar, do will to Dot
Peace my interest in journalism
and my ability to get to Emory
on time for a 2 o'clock class with-
out getting a ticket from the cop
on Clairmont.

I, Mickey Beman, leave all my
dead orchids Moocher ever sent
me to Jean Estes.

I, Anabel Bleckley Bickford, do
bequeath my ability to keep house,
attend classes, break a toe or two,
and graduate all in the same year
to Grace Durant.

I, Virginia Bowie, do leave my
knowledge of music and my abil-
ity to recall any theme on the
spot to Nancy Hardy, a promis-
ing young protege of Pop's.

I, Hansell Cousar, do leave my
interest in the seminary to Nellie
Scott, whose sister, Popsey, has
found same Seminary very inter-
esting.

I, Betty Davis, being in very
sound mind and having something
better in mind, do leave my cer-
tificate of acceptance to Duke Med

my be-lucred bill fold in the fall,
do remain mercenary. I hereby
leave my Shakespeare merit to
the higest bidder . . . and there is
no ceiling price attached.

I. Betty Glenn, do leave my art
of procrastinating to any poor
sucker who'll take it. I also be-
queath my Phi Bete key, post-
humously, (both she and I are
dead) to Mrs. Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, who made Hawthorne the
man he was, the subject of my
honors paper.

I, Martha Jean Gower, leave to
the physics students whom I will
teach my fondness for physics.

I, Ruth Gray Walker, leave to
Dot DeVane the telephone number
of Allen's Bridal consultant, who
can get you married on two days'
notice.

I, Midge Haddock, leave to Mr.
Haskew and Miss Dexter, my mod-
ern improved methods of keeping
order in the grade school class
room.

I, Leila Holmes, pass on to Alice
Newman my ability to smell prin-
ter's ink and red blood cells all in
a day's work.

I. Mary Alice Hunter, do will
my knack for writing papers quar-
ters in advance to Mary Cargill
and her dead-line pals.

% Dottie Kahn, will my Long
Island drawl to Martie Mizelle.

I, Kittie Kay, do donate my P. T.
boat to a member of my own class,
who is as fond, if not fonder, of
said boats and the men who sail
them.

I, Bittie King, do will to alumna
Joella Craig my coloratura so-

school to Mary Jane Love, of the prano voice.

I, Susan Kirtley, do leave my
love for U. N. C. summer school
to Chapel Hill-bound Lorenna

class of '47, who seems fond in-
deed of that Duke Med school.

I, K. A. Edleblut, do leave so-
cial regulation number 2 on page
33 of the Student Handbook to
Agnes Scott college.

I, Mary Patterson Elam, do
hereby will my honor roll cuts in
Spanish to anybody who can cut
every grammar day and yet be
among the black robes on com-
mencement day.

f, Anne Equen, do will to next
year's May Queen a down payment
on a fur coat.

I, Pie Ertz, leave my love for
the smell of printer's ink to Mar-
tha Baker.

I, Jane Everett, do leave to Dr.
McCain and Dootsy knowledge of
the secret ritual which will keep
rain away at 5 o'clock on May
Day.

I, Lib Farmer, do leave my best
regards to the math department
and my worst to all departments
that advocate term paper writing.

I, Barbara Lee MeKeldon Frink
Hatch, do leave to Maggie Toole
instruction how to marry oJhnny,
be president of Mortar Board, and
graduate, which entails passing
Shakespeare in spite of putting the
heart before the course.

I, Carolyn Fuller, having lost

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

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NOTICE

This Is Your Drug Store
AGNES SCOTT

Ross and Anne Wheeler and Mary
Russell, with the admonition:
Play while ye can.

I, Genevieve Lathem, along with
the other engaged girls do pass
on my success to any juniors who
are lovely and use Pond's.

I, Bitsy Law, do leave an en-
dowment to be used in the con-
struction of an elevator shaft in
the new science building.

I, Marion Leathers Daniels,
herewith not in alphabetical order
because of a very new name, do
not have time to write out a will.
I'm on my way to the train sta-
tion now, taking my Greek and
Latin books with me.

I, Bettie Manning do will my
contralto voice to whomever is
given next the role of Mephistoph-
lia in Senior Opera. My costume
for said performance has been con-
fiscated by the Hayes office; also
it would have been left to Mar-
garet Bear.

I. Jean McCurry, join Ann An-
derson in leaving Anne Seitzinger
George.

1, Liz MeWhorter, leave my sun
tan to Scottie Scott.

I, Inge Probestein, do leave my

DECATUR THEATER

Program, Week of June 4
Monday and Tuesday
Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
"SUNDAY DINNER FOB A
SOLDIER
Wednesday
Jeanne Crain
IN THE MEANTIME,
DARLING'*
Thursday and Friday
Donald O'Connor and Peg^y Ryan
"THE MERRY MONAHANS"

Saturday
THE VIGILANTES RIDE"
and

TIMBER QUEEN"

recorder to Miss Leyburn and Miss
Glick, to be kept for me till I
return.

I, Jeanne Robinson do will my
new St. Louis accent to Lisa Mar-
shall.

I, Ceevah Rosenthal, do hereby
will and bequeath my DuBarry
success to Bet Long of the perfect
posture and proportions. Even
Bet's could be improved the Du-
Barry way.

I, Sara Saul, do leave my abil-
ity to understand and speak the
Espanolish language to any class
mate, Pat Elam, since Pat may go
on with her master's work in
Spanish.

I, Betty Ashcraft Senter, leave
my chorus girl talent to dancer G.
Gilleland.

I, Julia Slack, do leave to Mil-
lie McCain my heart-felt sympa-
thy at the number of sponsor let-
ters she will find hereself writing
this summer.

I, Joan Stevenson, moneybags
for the tightwads of '45, do will
to Barbara Kincaid my little dues
book, and I hereby request that
all seniors who have not paid
their last quarter's dues please see
me immediately.

We, Carolyn Mason Mayes,
Joyce Freeman Marting, Jane
Kreiling Mell, Barbara Frink
Hatch, Betty Ashcraft Senter,
Marion Leathers Daniels, Anabel
Bleckley Bickford, Kate Webb
Clary, Ruth Gray Walker, Martha
Whatley Yates, do bequeath our
husbands' favorite recipes to Lois
Sullivan Kay, Mary Cumming
Fitzhugh, Betty Davis Shingler,
Dot Almond Fowler, Mary Fran-
ces Brougher Christenbury, Dot
Lee Webb McKee, Martha Jane
Mack Simmons, Helen Somerville
Abell and to all the other brides-
elect who are of a domestic turn
of mind.

I, Scott Newell, do leave my
cashmere sweater that looks so
good with a Phi Delt pin to the
Agnes Scott Chapter of the Phi
Delta Theta sisterhood.

I, Margaret Morris, do leave to
Peggy Trice, the deck of cards for
day student bridge games.

I, Nulla Norris, do leave my
talent for the ballet art and my
red ballerina shoes to Peggy
Jones.

I, Frances Stukes, do leave my
characteristic gait to the gym de-
partment. They've been trying to
take it away from me long enough.

I, Mary Ann Turner, do leave
my love for swimming to Mar-
garet Scott.

I, Patricia Ann Webb, do leave
my British flags to Lupton. God
Save the King!

I, Kate Webb Clary, do leave . . .
to see Richard!

I. Wendy Whittle, do leave.

I, Molly Milam, having passed

SOUTHERN
DAIRIES

Delicious

MILK AND ICE
CREAM

Supervised by Sealtest

on suddenly, out of shock over
having passed Biology 202, died
intestate.

Signed, this second day of June.
1945.

101 Hottentots of the Class
of '45

MRS. NOTESTEIN

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sight which brought about the un-
happy end? If Othello had done
a little research on the subject
of that lost handkerchief, if Ro-
meo had known about Juliet's
sleeping potion . . . ! It seems al-
most blasphemous to make such
suggestions. Strong feeling, right
feeling, the sorrows and exulta-
tions of the human heart, the mag-
nificent exercise of the human
will are the sources of magic and
power in our lives, as well as of
our anguish and despair. To recog-
nize them for what they are and
to give them their proper outlet
is one of the function of the think-
ing, considering mind.

There is a sense moveover, in
which we live only insofar as we
are aware of our living . . . that
is only so far as we think. This
seems like a dangerous doctrine
leading to an indrawn and intro-
spective habit of mind. But the
adventure of humanity is to be felt
and shared in only by an act of
the imaginative mind, observing,
reflecting, considering. If you
have read Rumer Goddeir's 'Take
Three Tenses," you will recall
w hat Rollo says of his retirement.
"I had existed for a considerable
space of time. Only then did I be-
gin to live."

One need not however wait un-
til the end of life to live. Action
need not be incessant, one need
not be rushed along so fast on
the stream of events that the
world cannot be seen. The mind
affords us, if we will give it the
chance, not only guidance in life
but the very means of savoring
our lives, of knowing that we live,
and of carrying from one year to
another the residue of wisdom
which means increasing skill in
living.

The excellent thing in woman,
as Shakespeare defined it, was the
voice ever soft, gentle, and low.
It is another excellent thing, in
man or woman, which I have been
trying to commend to you this
morning . . . the life-long effort to
strengthen and improve the mind
as a tool for enjoying, serving and
living.

Senior Activities

Class Holds Picnic

The senior class was feted with
a picnic at the Avondale Country
Club Thursday, May 31. Enter-
tainment on the outing, an all day
affair, including swimming, ten-
nis, bridge, sunbathing, shuffle-
board, horse shoes and merry-go-
round.

Seniors Present Gifts

The graduating class has pre-
sented to the college as its tradi-
tional gift a check to be used at
the discretion of the administra-
tion for furthering graduate work.

The class has also presented its
faculty sponsor, Mrs. Roff Sims,
a pair of book-ends. Kady Mc-
Gregor, class mascot, received a
pair of gold bar pins.

Senior Speoks at Vespers

The senior class was in charge of
vespers in Maclean chapel Sunday
at 5:30 p. m. Virginia Carter, 1944-
45 president of Christian Associa-
tion, presided. Cookie DeVane
sang a solo. The speaker for the
service was Martha Jane Mack,
president of the class of 1945. She
spoke on happiness.

Sophs Honor Graduates

With breakfast on the Biltmore
Hotel Terrace at 11:00 Saturday
morning, the sophomores enter-
tained their departing sister class
and the class sponsors in the tradi-
tional manner.

On the terrace, seating was ar-
ranged banquet style, with eight
smaller tables extending from the
head table. Arrangements of mix-
ed flowers enlivened the tables.
The menu consisted of fruit juice,
waffles and cream chicken, rolls,
marmalade, and coffee.

Following breakfast, sophomore
and senior members of special
chorus entertained with songs.
Those singing were Ruth Ander-
son, Cookie DeVane, Millie Evans,
Ann Hightower, Betty Manning,
Ann Martin, Helga Stixrud, and
Lois Sullivan.

Call DE. 4922

One Day in Advance for Your
Birthday Cakes, etc.

DECATUR CAKE BOX

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