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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934

NO. 1

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

LECTURES HERE NOVEMBER 23

Edna St. Vincent Millay, widely-
known American poet, will be present-
ed by the Lecture Association on the
night of Friday, November 2 3, in the
gymnasium as the first of the 1934-3 5
program of lectures. Miss Millay, who
is appearing before very few audiences
on her tour, will read from her poems,
including selections from her new vol-
ume, Wine from the Grapes, to be pub-
lished in October.

The ticket sale held on the campus
last week was very successful, accord-
ing to Frances Espy, president of the
Association. Tickets are being offered
to students at fifty cents for general
admission and seventy-five cents for
reserved seats. Another sale will be
held during the week preceding the lec-
ture, from November 16 to 2 3, and
tickets will be on sale at Davison-
Paxon Company and at Decatur and
Atlanta high schools for those other
than Agnes Scott students who will
wish to take advantage of this oppor-
tunity to hear Miss Millay.

Edna Millay was invited because of
the large number of requests from the
students in former years for her ap-
pearance. Suggestions from the stu-
dents as to speakers for the other lec-
tures to be heard this year are encour-
aged by the Association. A season pro-
gram has not been planned, because the
Association feel that a better series can
be arranged by offering separate pre-
sentations, but the admission prices for
later programs will not exceed those
for the first lecture. In this way pa-
trons may attend only those lectures
in which they are interested; also lec-
turers may be secured later in the year
who might not have been available at
the time a season program had ro be
announced in advance.

New Plans Made
For Pi Alpha Phi

A new system of operation wiB be
inaugurated by Pi Alpha Phi, debat-
ing club, with the annual fall tryouts
to be held on Friday, October 15.

Students trying out for membership
will debate in teams of two or four,
with four-minute speeches and rebut-
tals, instead of the longer speeches by
each student, without opposition.
There will be a poster on the bulletin
board of Main announcing the time
and place of the tryouts and subjects
to be chosen. Freshmen are not elig-
ible, but sophomores and upperclassmen
may sign on the poster.

Other changes were discussed at the
first meeting of the club, held on
Thursday, September 27. Debates at
the regular meetings will be followed
by open forum, and speakers will an-
nounce their subjects at the meeting
preceding their debate so that the
members may read on the subject. The
subjects chosen will be on current
topics, and of a more serious nature
than those chosen in former years.

FACULTY ENTERTAINS
FOR NEW MEMBERS

On Saturday night, October 6, the
faculty will give its first bacon bat of
this year in honor of the new faculty
members. The second-year faculty,
those who came last fall, will be in
charge of the arrangements.

Bacon bats are bonfire picnics held
(nit in the woods. All members of the
faculty, including fellows, attend
them. The bat on Saturday night will
be held near Ice Cream Springs, ac-
cording to Dr. S. M. Christian, who
is chairman of the arrangements com-
mittee.

All- Star Concert
Tickets Sold Here

Season tickets for the All-Star Con-
cert Series of 1934-3 5 have been on
sale today in Buttrick Hall by Mr.
Marvin McDonald, director of the
series, at a special price to students.
The partial payment plan, introduced
last year, was continued, and box-seats
have been reserved for Agnes Scott
girls.

Mr. McDonald, also the president of
the Atlanta Philharmonic Society
which makes possible the presentation
of concerts each year, spoke in chapel
Friday morning, Sepember 28, outlin-
ing the attractions to be offered this
year.

Besides four prominent members of
the Metropolitan Opera Company, the
Concert Series brings to Atlanta the
brilliant young violinist Yehudi Menu-
hin, the San Carlo Opera Company,
which opens its season with "Madame
Butterfly," featuring Hizi Koyke,
Japanese soprano, in the title role, and
the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
in the title role.

The San Carlo Opera Company, of
which Fortune Gallo is impressario, is
celebrating its "silver jubilee season"
in America. Monday, October 1, the
company opened a four-week engage-
ment in Chicago, and is booked for
forty-two weeks on a tour of Amer-
ica. They will be presented here in
six operas within four days, January
2-5, but only the first opera, "Madame
Butterfly," will be included in the
All -Star Concert Series.

Lucrezia Bori sings here Thursday,
October 18; Lawrence Tibbett, Friday,
November 9; Nino Martini, tenor, and
Grete Stueckgold, soprano, in joint re-
cital, Thanksgiving evening, Novem-
ber 29.

Yehudi Menuhin, American boy
genius of the violin, will conclude the
current series with his recital on Wed-
nesday evening, February 20.

Students Go To
Council Meeting

The Inter-Collegiate Council of At-
lanta held its first meeting of the year
at the Phillis Wheatly branch of the Y.
W. C. A. in Atlanta, on Sunday after-
noon, September 30, at 4:3 0 o'clock.
Martha Crenshaw, Adalaide Stevens,
Lois Hart, Nell Allison, and Lulu
Ames attended from Agnes Scott Col-
lege.

The Inter-Collegiate Council is made
up of representatives from the five
Negro colleges, Atlanta University,
Morehouse College, Spelman College,
Ciark University and Gammon The-
ological Seminary, and from the three
white colleges, Emory University,
Georgia Tech, and Agnes Scott College.
In the spring, by joint consent, the In-
terracial Forum combined with the
Council both in organization and pur-
pose. The aim of the Council is to
bring about a better, more complete
understanding between college students
of the two races.

The meeting on Sunday was devoted
to discussion of this year's program.
The representatives from Emory pre-
sented an outline of the program to be
followed at Emory during this session.
Plans for tours to Negro campuses
were discussed as a poet of the work
of the Council.

The next meeting of the Council
will be held at Gammon Theological
Seminary, on Sunday, October 14.

Dr. McCain Returns
From Extended Trip

President J. R. McCain returned to
the campus on Friday, September 2 8,
after an extended trip to Birmingham,
Ala., and points in the East.

In Birmingham he made an address
before the College Club, an organiza-
tion whose members are drawn from
the faculties and trustees of Birming-
ham institutions. From there he went
to Philadelphia to confer with repre-
sentatives of the Presser Foundation
and to discuss with them the plans
for the new Music Hall at Agnes Scott.

Dr. McCain attended the Fourth
Annual Conference on Current Prob-
lems in New York City. To this par-
ticular conference, 45 00 tickets were
issued; requests for tickets numbered
approximately 3 6,400. Agnes Scott
was most fortunate in receiving three
invitations, Dr. McCain said. Out of
fifty-eight speeches, thirty-two were
broadcast, including the opening ad-
dress made by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt, and those by Homer S. Cum-
mings, Mrs. Pearl Buck, and Mrs. Car-
rie Chapman Catt. There were speeches
on all phases of current problems, ac-
cording to Dr. McCain, and the points
of view of foreign nations were pre-
sented by means of inter-national
broadcasts. The Honorable Franklin
Roosevelt closed the conference.

"This conference was one of the
most interesting that I have ever been
privileged to attend. I am, of course,
very happy to be back on the campus
and in my office," Dr. McCain said in
conclusion.

Faculty Members
Added to Group

The changes made in the teaching
staff and in the faculty group for the
current school year include the addition
of two new professors, the return of a
former instructor, and of six gaduates
who have been granted fellowships.

Dr. T. W. Whitiker is acting as-
sistant professor of biology this year;
he fills the place of Dr. Mary Westall
who has been granted a leave of ab-
sence for the session 1934-3 5. Dr.
Whitiker holds degrees from the Uni-
versity of California and the Univer-
sity of Virginia. For the past three
years he has served as Research Assist-
ant and Professor of Genetics at Har-
vard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, an
Agnes Scott alumna, has been made a
member of the English department.
Miss Leyburn took her Master's degree
from Radcliffe and her Doctor's from
Yale University, specializing in Eng-
lish Literature of the Eighteenth Cent-
ury. She is instructor of English at
the college this year. Miss Anna
Christie, who has been studying at the
University of Chicago during her two
years' leave of absence, returned this
fall to her place in the English depart-
ment.

Fellowships were granted to Nancy
Rogers, '34, in Biology; Polly Vaughan,
'34, in Spoken English, and Thelma

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FRESHMAN-SOPHOMORE STUNTS
TO BE PRESENTED OCTOBER 13

Y.W.A nnounces
Budget Campaign

The Y. \V. C. A. opened the 1934-
3 5 budget campaign yesterday with
the presentation in chapel of the bud-
get by Lena Armstrong, treasurer.

Mimeographed copies of the budget
were distributed to the students and
faculty members at chapel, and Lena
read and explained the parts of- the
proposed plan. Pledge cards are to be
distributed during this week by special
students to those on their lists, and the
effort will be made to have the entire
amount pledged by the end of this
week.

The proposed budget follows:
I. World-wide Service:

(a) Miss Emily Winn $500.00

(b) Nat'l Student Council 180.00

(c) World Student Chris-

tian Federation 25.00

$705.00

II. Training for Service:

(a) State Conference $ 15.00

(b) Southern Reg. Conf.__ 100.00

(c) Nat'l Student Ass'n___ 100.00

$215.00

III. Developing Religious Life on the
Campus:

Week of Services $100.00

IV. Special Service for Students:

(a) Handbook and Printing $104.00

(b) Receptions 50.00

(c) Committee Expenses

and Emergencies 15 0.00

Grand Tota

$254.00
.$1,274.00

Honor Drive Ends
With Address

AGONISTIC TRYOUTS

Tryouts for reporters on the
Agonistic staff, which may be
news articles or features, are to
be turned in to Loice Richards or
Lulu Ames, or placed in the
Agonistic box in the staff room
in Hain, by 6 o'clock Saturday
night. Tryouts are open to mem-
bers of all classes.

The address by Judge Frank Jenkins,
prominent Atlanta jurist, at chapel
Saturday morning, September 29,
brought to a close the Honor Drive
sponsored during the past week by the
Student Government Association.
Judge Jenkins spoke on the relationship
of the honor system to citizenship,
bringing out various phases of human
relationships and fundamental qualities.

The general plan of the drive, which
is the first to be held since Student
Government was adopted at Agnes
Scott, was outlined in a chapel talk on
Tuesday, September 2 5, by Miss Car-
rie Scandrett. Her subject was "Our
Honor System," and she made clear
the scope of the system and the ways
in which it affects college life.

Discussion groups for the soph-
omores, juniors, and seniors were held
Thursday morning, under the leader-
ship of eighteen members of the senior
class. They were: Mary Virginia Allen,
Vella Marie Behm, Mary Boggs, Mar-
ian Calhoun, Caroline Dickson, Mary
Janes Evans, Mary Green, Betty Lou
Flouck, Caroline Long, Carolyn Mc-
Callum, Frances McCalla, Alberta
Palmour, Nell Pattillo, Martha Red-
wine, Loice Richards, Hester Anne
Withers, and Jacqueline Woolfolk.

The theme carried out during the
week on the campus and in the discus-
sion groups was "a true understanding
of the honor system on which our Stu-
dent Government is based, and on
which depends the success of its oper-

With the interest of practically the
entire student body focused on the
sleekness of His Majesty, the Black Cat,
plans are well under way for the fresh-
man and sophomore stunts which are
to be presented in the gymnasium on
Saturday night, October 13.

Barbara Hcrtwig, sophomore stunt
chairman, declines to discuss the sub-
ject, except to say that she "is sure the
stunt will be a great success."

Frostie Brown, who was elected
stunt chairman by the freshman class,
says, "It's going to be a grand stunt.
If we win, it will be because of the
ready cooperation of the girls. They've
been swell."

Barbara has named the following
committees for the sophomores:

Wri ting: Laura Steele, chairman;
June Matthews, Rachel Shamos,
Frances Wilson, Elizabeth Allison.

Properties: Nellie Margaret Gilroy,
chairman; Martha Summers, Mary
King, Fannie B. Harris, Mary Malone.

Decorations: Julia Thing, chairman;
Mary Gillespie, Frances Cary, Anne
Walker, Florence Lasseter.

Costume: Eloisa Alexander, chair-
man; Betty HoIIis, Ora Muse, Lucele
Cairns, Rachel Kennedy, Wynunee Mc-
Camy, Jean Kirkpatrick, Betty Willis,
Mildred Tilly, Elizabeth McKee.

Dance: Billy Turner, chairman;
Nancy Moorer, Wita Moreland, Chrys-
anthy Tuntas.

Program: Dorothy Jester, chairman,
Marie Stalker, Alice Taylor, Frances
Balkcom, Louise Brown, Elizabeth Per-
rin.

Cheer leaders: Marie Stalker, Rachel
Kennedy.

Frostie has appointed the following
girls to the freshman committees:
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Honor Students

Are Announced

Thirty-four students were named on
the class honor lists for the 1 93 3-34
school year by President J. R. McCain
at a special chapel service, Saturday
morning, September 22. Professor
Lucile Alexander, head of the French
department, was the speaker for the
occasion.

The program was preceded by an
academic procession by members of the
faculty. Following a brief devotional
service, Miss Alexander outlined the
ideals and aims of the liberal college,
and spoke of the ways in which Agnes
Scott prepares her students to meet
these standards.

The honor roll follows:

Class of 1935: Martha Allen, Dor-
othy Bell, Mary Boggs, Willie Florence
Eubanks, Betty Fountain, Katherinc
Hertzka, Anna Humber, Frances Mc-
Calla, Clara Morrison, Eva Poliakoff,
Margaret Robins, Grace Robinson, and
Isabel Shipley.

Class of 1936: Shirley Christian,
Elizabeth Forman, Lita Goss, Janet
Gray, Ethelyn Johnson, Augusta King,
Edith Merlin, Sarah Nichols, Mary
Snow, and Mary Walker.

Class of 1937: Kathryn Bowen,
Louise Brown, Frances Cary, Lucile
Dennison, Barbara Hertwig, Isabel
McCain, Elizabeth Perrin, Kathrvn
Printup, Rachel Shamos, Mildred Tilly,
and Frances Wilson.

MARY M. STOWE IS
NEW JUNIOR OFFICER

Mary Margaret Stowe was elected
secretary-treasurer of the junior class
to succeed Frances Miller, who did not
return this year, at a special election
held by the class Saturday morning,
September 29.

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STAFF

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Ed it or- in - Chie f

Business Manager

Lulu Ames

Alice Chamlee

Assistant Editor

Ad vertising Manager

Edith Merlin

Eva Con stan tine

Feature

Make -Up

Mary Boggs

Elizabeth Thrasher

Book Notes

Circulation

Vera Pruet

Kathryn Bowen

Society

Business Assistant

Laura Steele

Kitty Cunningham

Alumnae

Business Assistant

Frances Balkcom

Laura Steele

Club

Business Assistant

Lucille Cairns

Kitty Printup

Exchange

Sports

Margaret Robins

Celia Hoffman

Current History

Jokes

INTRODUCTION

This issue of the Agonistic is the first number of the twent-
ieth volume, and with it we wish to inaugurate the plans which
the 1934-3 5 staff will carry out.

We are adopting as a definite editorial policy the stimulation
of interest in current events. The value of such a program is
self-evident; its development will be fascinating to those inter-
ested in the significant occurrences about us; and, while the need
is possibly no greater at our own than at any other college, it is
our belief that we may arouse, express, interpret, and to some
degree direct ideas along the lines of intercollegiate and world-
wide problems and events.

No better expression of the aims we hold for the year can be
found than the preamble to the Covenant of the recently organ-
ized Association of College Editors:

"To stimulate the interest of students throughout the world
in promoting international understanding and cooperation in the
hope of ultimately achieving and insuring international peace
and security; to arouse the students in the several countries to
seek to understand and obtain an honest, intelligent, and efficient
government; to enlist the aid of all students in securing a higher
and sounder standard of living in the spirit of the greatest good
for the greatest number; to provide media for public expression
and direction of the thoughts and energies of both undergraduate
and graduate students interested in realizing these aims; to pro-
mote progressive education."

The "Current History" column will be developed to be of
more general interest, and the longer discussions will be supple-
mented by short comments and notes. Contributions will be
encouraged, for through it we may provide a medium for stim-
ulation and expression to have a very real influence on student
thought.

It shall be our purpose also to uphold the ideals of Agnes
Scott, even while working for the best practical interests of the
students, for we maintain that the supreme test of good journal-
ism is the measure of its public service.

In this connection a change is being made in the "We Think"
column. Too often a feature providing an opportunity for free
expression by the students is abused. Prejudice protected by
anonymity and even untruths which were actively detrimental
to the college have been published as fact. Yet, we feel, a column
tor the voicing of student opinion is profitable, and we will con-
tinue "We Think" with this change: contributions must be
signed. Names will not be published, but will be kept on file in
the Agonistic office. The file will be open to any student or
faculty member interested in making an inquiry.

A temporary change is being made also in the mechanics of
the paper. Instead of appearing weekly, the Agonistic will be
published as a bi-weekly, containing six pages in most of the
issues, until after the Christmas holidays. The plan is subject to
further change it the student budget is supported well enough to
lighten the burden the advertising staff must carry to support
a weekly paper of the type that the Agonistic has always been.

We hope to keep the same high standards of clear thinking
and clear statement, ot fairness, cleanness, and helpful truth,
which have been held in the past. To carry out a program for
growth in advertising, news, and editorial columns, we shall be
dependent on suggestions and criticisms from the students and
facility. At the same time we smeerelv desire tolerance, encour-
agement and support.

F. P. A. EXTENDS
PLANS FOR STUDENTS

Students will be interested in the
plans of the Foreign Policy Associa-
tion for extending its facilities to the
academic world during the coming sea-
son, which come to us in a news re-
lease from the Association.

The F. P. A. is an organization
whose purpose it is to make available
to the American public accurate, im-
partial and timely information regard-
ing world problems. Organized in
1918, with national headquarters in
New York, it now has branches in 17
cities and its more than ten thousand
members are distributed throughout 4$
states and 2 8 foreign countries.

'This past year under the leadership
of Raymond Leslie Buell, the Associa-
tion has greatly extended its influence
and activities. Particularly noteworthy
has been its publication, with the
World Peace Foundation, of Secretary
Wallace's provocative pamphlet Amer-
ica Must Choose, sales of which have
reached nearly 100,000 copies. The F.
P. A. has also initiated a series of For-
eign Policy Committees, comprised of
distinguished men in public life, whose
reports have played an important role
in the shaping of United States policy
on international questions. A somewhat
similar service was performed this sum-
mer for the Cuban Government in the
organization, at Cuba's request, of a
special commission of enquiry which
has made an exhaustive study of the
social, political and economic problems
facing the island republic. The report
of this commission will be made pub-
lic within a few weeks.

"The oldest and best known feature
of its work is the discussion meetings
held by the various branches during the
winter months at which authoritative
speakers present two or more differing
points of view on current international
problems. The Association through a
research staff of ten members also meets
a vital need of students of foreign af-
tairs by means of four series of pub-
lications. These include weekly bul-
letins containing a lively interpreta-
tion of current events of international
importance; a weekly Washington let-
ter prepared by the head of the bureau
maintained bv the F. P. A. at the cap-
ital; fortnightly reports which give the
background as well as the immediate
phases of certain selected problems; to-
gether with a pamphlet series wheih
was inaugurated last winter in cooper-
ation with the World Peace Founda-
tion.

"According to the Association's new
plan a special membership for the
academic year will be open to all regu-
larly accredited full-time students at
one-fifth of the regular dues. Publica-
tions are also to be available for class-

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ALUMNAE

Two alumnae of Agnes Scott College
visited recently on the campus: Emily
Dodge, ex-'3 6, was a guest at the
Alumnae House during opening week
of the college. Chopin Hudson, '3 1,
spent the week-end of September 15
here. Chopin is one of the physiother-
apists at Warm Springs Foundation,
Georgia.

Numerous weddings, past, present,
and future, have come into the lives of
Agnes Scott graduates:

Katherine Woltz, '3 2, will be mar-
ried to Holcombe T. Green on Octo-
ber 16.

Penelope Brown, '3 2, will marry Dr.
C. F. Barnett on October 9.

Nancy Kamper, '34, was married, on
September 22, to Henry Johnson Miller.

Ruth Pirkle, '22, former instructor
in biology here, was married on June
9 to Edmond Callis Berkeley.

The engagement of Margaret Tel-
ford, '3 3, to Alfred St. Amant has
been announced; the wedding is to be
next June.

On June 5, Mallie White, ex-'34,
was married to William Marvin Regen,
of Franklin, Tenn.

The birth of two future Hottentots
have been announced:

STUDENTS ADOPT
INTERRACIAL CREED

A release from the Press Service of
the Commission on Interracial Cooper-
ation of Atlanta, entitled "Students
Adopt Race Relations Creed" will be
of particular interest to members of the
Interracial Committee of the Y. W. C.
A. and to the many students on the
campus interested in the subject.

Many college students who are genu-
inely concerned about the interracial
question arc nevertheless uncertain as
to what they should do about it. In an
effort to answer this question for them-
selves the students of Sacred Heart
College, New York, recently adopted a
simple personal program embodying
the following points:

1. To maintain that the Negro is a
human being and a citizen, and en-
titled to rights accordingly.

2. To be courteous and kind to colored
people and patient in remembering
their past and present handicaps.

3. To say a kind word for Negroes on
every proper occasion.

4. To avoid offensive and contemptu-
ous epithets when referring to color-
ed people.

5. To seek fuller information as to the
conditions and problems of the
Negro race.

This simple pactical program is com-
mended to every interested student .is
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Mary (Miller) Brown, '32, an-
nounces the birth of a daughter, Mary
Lewis Brown, on September 12.

Hazel (Turner) Kump, ex-'34, an-
nounces the birth of her daughter on
August 13; the child has been christen-
ed Hazel Turner Kump.

Now to get the news of a few Exes:

Doris Batsell, ex-'3 6, is now attend-
ing the University of Alabama.

Elizabeth Espy, ex-'37, is at the
University of Alabama, also. Rumor
hath it that she prepares herself for the
legal practice.

A Key to Current
History

The resignation of Hugh S. John-
son, former New Deal administrator,
has fallen into the files of unsolved
government secrets. While numerous
private theories seek to explain his act,
official comment is conspicuous only bv
reason of its absence. The split between
Johnson and Richberg over N. R. A.
reorganization is thought to have some
definite bearing on the situation, but
both men remain noncommittal.

This sudden change of leadership
leads to further speculation as to the
nature of the proposed New Deal re-
vision. Roosevelt describes the ap-
proaching change as evolutionary
rather than abrupt. Its exact nature,
however, remains to be disclosed when
plans have been fully completed.

Recent primaries held by 12 states
have occupied the nation's political
spotlight, brickbats between rival can-
didates and bouquets from their sup-
porters falling thick and fast. In spite
of dire predictions and ominous gather-
ings of armed troops in New Orleans,
Huey "Kingfish" Long's men were
reelected with very few fireworks.
Meanwhile the reelection of a Dem-
ocratic governor in Maine, a supposed-
ly Republican state, has proved the
surprise of the season.

Prince George of Great Britain and
his fiancee, Princess Marina of Greece,
made the headlines last week by for-
saking the royal tradition of grandeur
and traveling from the Balkans second
class. "We came second class to econ-
omize now that we are to set up
housekeeping," Princess Marina ex-
plained. It may be noted that the
Prince's income after his marriage will
total $ 125,000 per year. Breaking an-
other established custom and defying
the current slogan "Buy British," the
prospective bride has purchased much
of her trousseau in Paris.

At the Second International Motion
Picture Exposition in Italy last week,
the prize for the most entertaining film
was awarded Frank Capra's // Happen-
ed One Night. Gold medals went to
Wallace Beery, Katherine Hepburn,
and Mickey Mouse, a universal favorite.

Y. W. C. A. COLUMN

By Lena Armstrong
Living in the world today means
sharing; sharing means giving; giving
means power. The Y. W. C. A. this
week is turning the campus into a
power plant in putting on the Budget
Campaign. A sum of $1,274 is to be
obtained through voluntary pledges.
Each person on the campus will be seen
individually during the week by a so-
licitor, and twice each day a "rise in
temperature" on the large thermometer
placed in the lobby of Buttrick Hall
will show the relative increase in the
pledges made.

The money is used by the Y. W. C.
A. both on and off the campus. About
24 per cent of it is used in the col-
lege for committee expenses, receptions,
printing, and for the week of religious
services sponsored bv the Y. W. C. A.

The rest is for world-wide service and
interests. A large percentage is for the
support of Miss Emily Winn, our mis-
sionary in Korea. Through our dues
to the National Student Council and
the World Student Federation our stu-
dents keep in touch with those all over
the United States and in forty-five
foreign countries.

"Givers might be described by com-
paring them to three things: the flint,
the sponge, and the honey-comb. To
get anything out of a flint, you must
hammer it, and then you get only chips
and sparks. To get water out of a
sponge, you must squeeze it, and the
more you squeeze the more you get.
The honey-comb overflows with its
own sweetness; so, a few delight in giv-
ing without being asked at all. Which
kind of giver are you?"

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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SOCIETY

In the rush and flurry of the first
month of school, the students (gay
young things) have found moments,
many of them, to seek recreation off
the campus. Even a few have caught
minutes to hie themselves away home:

Martha Redwine, Elizabeth Heaton,
Jacque McWhite, Peggy Ware, Vir-
ginia Turner, Mary Adams, Gladys
Burns, Mary Comely, and Elizabeth
Allison went to their respective homes
for the past week-end.

Carrie Phinney Latimer was an at-
tendant in her brother's wedding at
Honea Path, S. C.

Jane Allen Webb and Martha
Crenshaw grabbed some time and went
out to the Southeastern Fair to mingle
with the crowds.

Philips, Dot Wilhelm, Evelyn Holland,
and Muriel Floyd spent last week-end
in Atlanta.

Decatur was the choice of a few
Hottentots, among whom were Re-
becca Harrison, Virginia Hightower,
and Meriel Bull.

Mary Vines and Sallie McRee were
dinner guests at Mrs. Jack Palmour's
Sunday night.

Betty Fleming, '33, had for Sunday
dinner guests Caroline and Dorothy
Dickson.

Cheering at the Tech-Clemson game
Saturday were a huge number of Hot-
tentots. Nell Allison, Carolyn Elliott,
Mary Smith, Gene Caldwell, Annie
Hastie, Bella Harrison, Virginia High-
tower, Bertha Merrill, Virginia Miller,
Marian Calhoun, Peggy Roper, Rachel
Kennedy, Dot Wilhelm, Edith Belser,
Elizabeth Webb, and Tibby Baethke
were some of the horde.

Today Ruby Hutton, Sarah Spencer,
Mary Margaret Stowe, Meriel Bull,
Alice McCallic, and Carrie Phinney
Latimer were at a shower given in
honor of Mrs. William Flynt, nee
Helen Stanley, ex-'3 6.

Sarah and Jane Estes, Barton Jack-
son, Edith Belser, Sarah Catherine
Wood, Shirley Christian, Sarah Sloan,
Susan Bryan, Ann Walker, Carolyn

Then one dashes into names, names,
names of damsels flitting about the
dance floors. F'rexample, Jane Thomas
and Sarah Turner were dancing with
choice Pi K. A.'s at Druid Hills; Flor-
ence Lasseter, Katherine White, and
Carolyn White went to the Biltmore
dance on Saturday night then Car-
olyn went to the Phi Kappa Thcta
dance Friday night and Jean Barry
Adams roamed afield to Tech to the
S. A. E. dance.

Dorothy Dickson, '34; Marguerite
Manget, '34; Flora Young, '34, and
Mary Lilias Garretson, '31 nice alum-
nae were here last week.

Tibby Baethke had dinner with the
Ameses a Friday or so ago.

And Sally Robertson, of McDon-
ough, Ga., visited Trellis Carmichael
last week.

The days dash on and cars con-
tinue to whiz about the front of Main,
carrying girls here, there, and yonder.
All of which proves there's society
notes in the making!

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. . . not when the battle of Gettysburg was
fought . . . nor the inclusive dates of the
Renaissance period . . . neither do you learn
the reason for the French Revolution But
you do learn . . . just what to wear to stagger
the stag lines (divine "formals" . . . $16.75
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prof is more grumpy than usual (sweet little
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dress to choose when you wish to impress
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learn very important that precious papas
will not turn white at these prices!

MUSE'S

5th Floor

(Editor's note: The We Think column is for
the purpose of giving an outlet to student opin-
ion. The staff is in no way responsible for
what is printed in this column and it is by no
means to be taken as the editorial opinion of
the paper.)

"The time has come," the hostess said,

"To point out many things:

About this thing of Wednesday night,

And coffee that it brings.

It is a social hour, you know,

And chit-chat ought to ring!

"It is not like the Treasurer's place,
In lines, with numbers read;
Nor yet a time for constant push,
When ill-bred words are said.

"It is not right to crowd the urn
And yammer for your cup;
Nor yet to say, in lusty tones,
'I guess I'll give it up.'

"Some chairs stand in the coffee room,
(In case you didn't know) .
With cup in hand and friends around,
To these one ought to go.

"There gaily, lightly, do some talk
About that 'so-and-so,*
That 'extra work' that's coming up,
The faculty, a beau.

"But no! You cry, 'About the drink
Will some be left for me?'
I try to murmur with a smile,
'You'll have to wait and see.'

"It is not nice to wrangle, dear,
About the brim-full cup.
We do not offer meals for sale
But social boosting-up!

"It is the custom of the night
And not the food that's charm.
A scrambling, pushy, bunchy crowd
Just does that custom harm."

The hostess gazed on students all,
Then sat and crossed her knees,
"I've mentioned just a few details,
But try to heed them, please."

i P. A. EXTENDS

PLANS FOR STUDENTS

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
room use at special rates, and study
outlines have been prepared by the As-
sociation's research staff for the use of
debating groups and student organiza-
tions interested in foreign problems."

The Agonistic will keep on file the
news releases of the Association which
will be available to interested students.
From time to time excerpts from the
Bulletin will be published and some in-
terpretive comment made.

Have
You

Seen?

The

campus- Model
Shoes?

They're from

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EXCHANGES

Moscow, rapidly becoming one of
the most modern cities in the world,
may have its first subway-line ready to
open by November 7, anniversary of
the Revolution, according to The
Transit journal. The first line will be
about three miles long. Ultimately six
routes serving the entire city will be
opened. The Literary Digest.

Sweden today offers perhaps the best
example of those ideals which the
Roosevelt administration promised,
and is striving to attain. Because
Sweden's huge industrial problems
compare in magnitude with those of
America, it is a fair parallel. With the
welfare of the worker as watchword,
the respects for and the maintenance
of the individual's rights to freedom
and well-being are basis of the state's
socializing process. The Literary D/'-
gest.

The earth is approximately 1,72 5,-
000,000 years old, according to compu-
tations just completed by Austrian
physicists, from the radioactivity of
Canadian rocks. According to Science
Service, the intricate weighing and
computation went on uninterruptedly
in strife-torn Vienna, while troops
roamed the streets outside the labor-
atory. The Literary Digest.

For approximately forty years
since about 1895, the Indian popula-
tion of the United States and Canada
has been decreasing. Far from being
the "Vanishing American," the Indian
is staging a most spectacular comeback,
and the average birthrate among In-
dians today is higher than in the white
population. This increase in numbers
is expected to be accelerated by the
coming New Deal for Indians, under
liberal policies now being formulated
by the Washington administration.
There is a possibility of the President's
reversing the Indian policy of a cent-
ury and a half, and the former Indian
lands may be restored to tribal owner-
ship. The Literary Digest.

These aphorisms were painstakingly
copied from the walls of the Ford
Building at a Century of Progress by
Bainbridge Colby, Wilson Secretary of
State, as he slowly proceeded along:

"Overproduction is a money cry, not
a human cry.

"Industry does not support man it
is man that supports industry.

"The recovery we need is of our
American spirit of industry.

"With one foot on the land, and one
in industry, America is safe.

"Industry is mind using nature to
make human life more free." Time.

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Physician) is the first step in securing correct glasses.
When the prescripton for glasses is given it should be
filled by a skilled Optician.

Ask your Oculist (Eye Physician) about our reliability
and dependable service.

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Simile: As lost as the average Amer-
ican when he starts on the last verse of
the national anthem. The Rei e/lle,
L. S. U.

Life of a Joke

Birth: A freshman thinks of it and
chuckles with glee, walking up to two
upper classmen.

Age 5 minutes: Freshman tells it to
senior, who answers: "Yeah, it's funny,
but I've heard it before."

Age 1 day: Senior turns it in to the
campus humor rag as his own.

Age 2 days: Editor thinks it's ter-
rible.

Age 10 days: Editor has to fill mag-
azine; prints joke.

Age 1 month: Thirteen college
comics reprint joke.

Age 3 years: Seventy-six radio
comedians discover joke simultaneous-
ly, tell it, accompanied by howls of
nurth from the boys in the orchestra
($5 a howl).

Age 20 years: Joke is printed in
Literary Digest.

Age 100 years: Professors start tell-
ing joke in class. The Hampden-
Sydney Tiger.

Here's a description of freshmen as
they find them at Wesleyan, according
to The Watchtower. Like our own
flock?

See the freshmen on the campus
Boy, how they do raise a rampus!
They usually have a textbook near,
But that's because it's their first year.
They listen to the chapel speeches,
Curl their hair, but don't use bleaches,
Tiptoe 'cross the library floor,
Knock before they push a door.
Get up at the breakfast gong,
Get homesick when they hear a song,
Dodge the sophomores that's a fact
Stare at people who stare back,
Drink with spoons and eat with knives,
And have the best time in their lives,
Have a complex of some kind,
Keep their lessons on their mind,
Go out for sports and in for class,
Turn grey for fear they shall not pass,
Ain't they cute, and ain't they bold?
They're the white sheep in our fold.

Freshman: Er-ah, I don't know.
Sophomore: I am not prepared.
Junior: I cannot remember right off-
hand.

Senior: I feel that I cannot con-
tribute more to the previous discussion.
The Flor-Ala.

Can't study in fall,
Gotta play soccer.
Can't study in winter,
Gotta play basketball.
Can't study in spring,
Gotta play tennis.
Can't study in between times,
Gotta man!

The Sale mile.

The differences in generations are
that the rising generation is retir-
ing when the retiring generation is ris-
ing. The Reveille, L. S. U.

That is one way of putting it, that
is, if the rising generation does any
retiring at all.

SCIENCE FRATERNITY

HAS SPECIAL SPEAKER

Chi Beta Sigma, national science fra-
ternity, had as a special speaker Dr. H.
F. Friedman, of the faculty of Georgia
Tech, at their meeting Monday night
at 7:30. His subject was "Heavy
Water," and he was heard by a num-
ber of students besides the members of
{he club.

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The Agonistic

CLUBS

German Club
President Mary Boggs.
Vice-president Katherine Hertzka.
Secretary-treasurer Ethel yn John-
son.

The first meeting wi
Thursday, October 11.

be held on

Poetry Club

President Frances Espy.

Vice-president Mildred Clark.

The first meeting was held at the
Alumnae House m Tuesday night,
September 2 5, with Frances Espy and
Mary Boggs as hostesses.

French Club

President Betty Fountain.

Vice-president Augusta King.

Secretary-treasurer Julia Thing.

The first meeting will be held Mon-
day afternoon, October 8. Programs
are planned tentatively for the rest of
the year, and meetings will be held on
the second Monday of each month.

Spanish Club

President Lois Hart.

Vice-president Cornelia Christie.

Secretary- treasurer Louise Latimer.

Meetings arc to be held on the sec-
ond Tuesday of each month. The first
meeting will be held on October 9.

Glee Club
President Evelyn Wall.
Vice-president Augusta King.
Secretary Frances Wilson.
Treasurer Kitty Cunningham.

K. U. B.

President Suzanne Smith.

Vice-presidents Mary M. Stowe,
Sarah Cook.

Treasurer Brooks Spivey.

Try-outs for K. U. B. are due Sat-
urday night, October 7. The first meet-
ing will be held this afternoon at 4:30
in the Y. W. C. A. cabinet room.

Pen and Brush

President Sarah Spencer.

Vice-president Betty Fountain.

Secretary- treasurer Virginia Gaines.

Meetings are planned for the first
Thursday of each month. At the first
meeting, to be held tomorrow night,
Miss Louise Lewis, head of the Art de-
partment, will talk on "Modern Art/'
the subject to be studied by the club
this year. Initiation of new members
also will take place.

Eta Sigma Phi
President Eva Constantine.
Vice-president Elizabeth Forman.
Recording Sec'y Gertrude Lozier.
Treasurer Martha Allen.
Corresponding Secretary Lita Goss.
Pyloros Mildred Clark.

Pi Alpha Phi
President Marion Calhoun.
Vice-president Ida Lois McDaniel.
Secretary Sarah Catherine Wood.
Treasuer Carrie Phinney Latimer.
Publicity Mary Virginia Allen.
Asst. Publicity Frances Balkcom.

miss edna hanley
back after absence

Miss Edna Hanley, librarian, has re-
turned to Agnes Scott after an absence
of six months, during which time she
received her Master of Arts degree, at-
tended the convention of the Amer-
ican Library Association, and visited
several prominent eastern colleges.

Miss Hanley left Atlanta in January
for the University of Michigan to
study library science and in June re-
ceived her M.A. degree. On her way
north she inspected the libraries of the
University of Virginia, Sweetbriar Col-
lege, and Randolph-Macon College,
and visited the Folger Shakespearian
l ibrary in Washington, D. C.

During the summer, Miss Flanley at-
tended the convention of the American
Library Association, held in Montreal,
Canada, and spent some time in the
Adirondacks, returning to Agnes Scott
in August to resume her duties as
librarian. While Miss Hanley was away,
Miss Gwendolyn Miller, assistant
librarian, was in charge.

NEW MEMBERS ADDED

TO FACULT1 GROUP

(Continued front page 1, column 3)
Richmond, '3 3, in French. Later in the
year Miss Eugenia Dozier is expected to
join the gym department. She will de-
vote a great part of her time to plans
for May Day.

On the administrative side, Nelle
C hamlee, '34, has succeeded Betty Bon-
lum in the book store and Elinor
Hamilton, '34, is replacing Penelope
Brown as Alumna Field Secretary.
Margaret Bell, '3 3, has been appointed
secretary to the Dean this year, to take
the place of Andrewena Robinson.

Miss Fmilie Thomas, of Atlanta,
named nurse in the infirmary, re-
places Mary Fay Martin, who was mar-
ried last week.

Girdles and Hrassieres

tor the College Gtri
E IGEB & SIMPSON

J I Cain St.

TRAVEL ECHOES

Student wanderers report that de-
spite the high price of foreign cur-
rency they live well abroad. European
living costs have diminished sufficient-
ly to allow customary comfort for
those able to resist champagne cock-
tails and Grand Hotels. For the ex-
travagant, the continent is indeed too
much at the present rate of exchange.
For modest scholars it is still possible,
despite propaganda to the contrary.

During the summer all European
eyes were turned toward the Saar as
they still are and will be until the
plebescite. But Germany as a whole
seemed peaceful enough to tourists
without excessive political curiosity.

Florentine art attracted more visit-
ors this year than any single other
guide-book feature, perhaps an indica-
tion of an early renaissance thought to
be much needed in American schools.

Most crowded boats were those on
the Land of the Midnight Sun cruises,
most of which included a few days in
Russia. All reports of the latter were
tremendously enthusiastic especially
those from tourists who had an oppor-
tunity to attend theaters in Moscow.
Many of the most obstinate capitalist
sympathizers returned with paeans of
praise for the Soviet Union.

Paris attracted the usual fashion and
art enthusiasts despite Spring reports
that the Boulevards would be deserted.

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DIME'S LEADING FIRMER

Foreign Students
Send Greeting

"I like Agnes Scott very much, and
I am so happy to be here" is the mes-
sage to be delivered to all Agnes Scott
students for the exchange students,
Lilian Grimson, of Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina; Liselotte Roennecke, of Han-
nover (that is the way Liselotte says it
should be spelled) Germany, and Eliz-
abeth Rodrigue, of Nantes, Frances.

Lilian says she has often wished that
she might come to the United States to
study, and that she is delighted that
the Institute of International Educa-
tion sent her to Agnes Scott. She has
very little trouble with understanding
or speaking English, for she was taught
the language in her home as a child,
although she spoke Spanish in school
and in public. Elizabeth and Liselotte,
however, have not had such an op-
portunity to learn the language, and it
is more difficult for them. Liselotte
has studied English for three years in
school. Elizabeth has studied English
for six years, and she likes it very
much. In fact, she likes it so well that
she plans to study in the United States
another year, and then if possible to
teach here.

Elizabeth, who has attended the
University of Rennes, says she likes the
surprising freedom of Agnes Scott
girls. For instance, in France a girl
would never be allowed to drive her
car to school alone, though perhaps her
father might bring her. Another fea-
ture of Agnes Scott unusual to her is
the Honor System of government.

Liselotte has different ideas about the
freedom. As she sees it, college women
here have less liberty than they do in
German universities. She has studied
for two years at the University of
Freiburg, and she speaks from experi-
ence. She plans to return there after
this year to obtain her degree. Lise-
lotte is one of the thirty-six students
who were sent to the United States
from Germany this year, only two of
whom came south: she and Herbert
Sonthoff who is at the University of
Georgia.

Liselotte and Lilian are both very
much interested in social work, and
both are taking courses in Social Psy-
chology and Sociology. Lilian has been
working with the Y. W. C. A. in
Buenos Aires, and she is considering
social work as a vocation, although she
thinks she would like to teach, too.
She has attended the Faculty of Philos-
ophy in the University of Buenos Aires.
She intends to return there to get her
degree.

All three of the girls, Liselotte, Eliz-
abeth, and Lilian, like the social life

BOOK NOTES

Red Virtue Ella Winter.

An informal, photographic account
of the evolution in human relation-
ships in Soviet Russia, covering the
wide range of morals and manners,
ethics, personal relationships, art and
culture.

Dorothy Wordsworth Ernest de
Selincourt.

A biography which knits into a
more comprehensible and vital whole,
the wealth of material to be found in
Dorothy Wordsworth's journal and
letters. She "has not merely given us
portraits of herself and William, and
of their inner circle; she has left be-
hind her a faithful picture of the world
in which they moved. No one, not
even her brother, has captured with a
more delicate perception the distinctive
beauties of the countryside in which
her days were passed, nor revealed with
a more penetrating sympathy the daily
goings-on of its inhabitants."

America Must Choose Henry A.
Wallace.

The Secretary of Agriculture points
out three possible paths, isolation, in-
ternationalism, and planned middle
course, "if we are to save in some part
the institutions which we prize." He
does not describe these institutions,
takes for granted that such exist.

Although leaning toward the "inter-
nationalist" view, Mr. Wallace pre-
sents a clear, very fair picture of the
two other courses, pointing out that
extreme discomfort will be met which-
ever course we follow.

The Revolt Against Mechanism L.
P. Jacks.

Man can and will conquer mecha-
nism, make it his slave instead of his
master. That conquest toward which
the present mechanical, most splendid
age is only a step may be reached by
concentrating on distribution, discov-
ery of new uses for goods until posses-
sing the greatest quantity will mean
less than putting them to the most cre-
ative use.

on the campus. It is very different
from that to which they are accustom-
ed. They wish to join some of the
clubs and organizations, and to take
an active part in affairs. Then they
feel that they will really "belong."

WELCOME!

"Miss Agnes Scott"

KOBft

Strut into Ed-
wards t o d ay
and try on a
pair of these
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AAA to C
Genuine Goodyear- Welts

K o - e d
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53 Whitehall St., Cor. Alaba

ma

Thoughts on Education from Mat-
theu Arnold Edited by Leonard
Huxley.

A discussion of Matthew Arnold's
ideal of education, tracing the evolu-
tion of his reflections and their ap-
plicability to the educational problems
of the present.

Givt Yuur Heart to the Hawks
Robinson Jeffers.

The most recent collection of poems
by this poet.

Anthony Adverse Hervey Allen.

A romantic novel of Victorian pro-
portions, which traces the exciting his-
tory of a young American in the co-
lonial and revolutionary periods.

Testament of Youth Vera Brittain.

A story of the World War in its in-
fluence on the life of a young girl. The
author gives a personal presentation of
the problems and emotional conflicts
which absorbed the lives of those who
experienced the war in its actuality and
its effects.

Three Hurrying Years Gerald Heard.

In three hundred and fifty odd pages
Mr. Heard surveys a period 1900 to
193 3 which he believes to have hur-
ried world change to a metamorphosis
more marked than that of the fifteen
hundred years Gibbon retails in his vol-
umes. This history goes deeper than
events to the psychological trends and
the reasons for them. It is a brilliant
analysis of a crowded period presented
readably from an optimistic viewpoint.

IV 3 l AMI

IT'S THE LIKES
OF ME. MY DEARS, \
THAT'S KEEPING
THIS LITTLE
n HANG-0UT M OF
MINE SO TER-
RIBLY RUSHED.

DARKISH SILK,
I AM. WITH
BUTTONS AND
BELT OF CELLO-
PHANE CORD. AND
CUTE A3 I Am. I
WON'T TARRY LONG.
SO, IF YOU'D HAVE
ME IN YOUR HAPPY
HOME , BETTER
MAKE IT SNAPPY!

The Agonistic

J

187 New Students Enrolled

For 1934-33 School Year

The enrollment at Agnes Scott Col-
lege this year shows an increase of
about sixty students over last year's
number, according to Mr. S. G- Stukes,
registrar. The total of new students is,
this year, 187; of these, 3 5 are trans-
fers with advanced standing. The per-
centage of old students returning is a
marked increase over last year's, com-
parisons of the records in the registrar's
office reveal. Gaines Cottage, which
has been closed for two or three years,
has been opened again to take care of
some of the overflow.

A list of the new students, both resi-
dent and day, follows:

Boarding Students
Betty Adams, Florence, S. C.
Jean Adams, Charlotte, N C.
Martha Agee, Shelbyville, Ky.
Nell S. Allison, Kiangyin, Kiangsu,

China.

Betty Lee Anderson, Lake Hamilton,
Fla.

Effie Ola Anthony, Henning, Tenn.
Caroline Armistead, Rockingham, N.C.
Jean Austin, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Elizabeth Baethke, Kewanee, 111.
Mary Alice Baker, Bethune, S. C.
Louise Bailey, Atlanta, Ga-
Mary Helen Barrett, Frankfort, Ky.
Katherine Bishop, Augusta, Ga.
Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Gainesville,
Fla.

Elizabeth Bowden, Norfolk, Va.
Katherine Brittingham, Portsmouth,
Va.

Genevieve Brown, Larchmont, N. Y.
Martha R. Brown, Cartersville, Ga.
Mary W. Brown, Larchmont, N. Y.
Mildred Frost Brown, Charleston, W.
Va.

Virginia Brown, Thomson, Ga.
Susan Bryan, Reynolds, Ga.
Gene Caldwell, Charlotte, N. C.
Merl Chafin, McDonough, Ga.
Laura Coit, Richmond, Va.
Ann Cullum, Johnston, S. C.
Mildred L. Davis, Orlando, Fla.
Carolyn Elliott, Winnsboro, S. C.
Mary Lillian Fairly, Richmond, Va.
Norma Faurot, Larchmont, N. Y.
Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Austell, Ga.
Alma Muriel Floyd, Jellico, Tenn.
Anna Katherine Fulton, Eutaw, Ala.
Martha Alice Green, Harlem, Ga.
Lilian Vera Grimson, Buenos Aires,

Argentina.
Jane Guthrie, Louisville, Ky.
Alice Hannah, Cass, W. Va.
Sarah R. Harrison, West Point, Ga.
Miriam Harrold, Gainesville, Fla.
Virginia Hart, Atlanta, Ga.
Susan Jane Hashagen, Gastonia, N. C.
Hibcrnia Hassell, McAllen, Texas.
Annie D. Hastie, Stockton, Ala.
Helen Hawkins, Leesburg, Fla.
Nellie Hemphill, Petersburg, Va.
Kennon Henderson, Carrollton, Ga.

Virginia Hightower, Thomaston, Ga.
Lily Hoffman, Mt. Holly, N. C.
Mary Ellen Hollan, Wynne, Ark.
Mary Elizabeth Hoyle, Cleveland,
Tenn.

Sarah Pauline Hoyle, Cleveland, Tenn.
Mary Hudson, Greenville, S. C.
Mary Hull, Augusta, Ga.
Ruth Hunt, Atlanta, Ga.
Annie M. Irwin, Moultan, Ala.
Jessie Jeffers, Florence, S- C.
Ann W. Johnson, Rome, Ga.
Margaret Keller, Staunton, Va.
Winifred Kellersberger, Belgian Congo.
Dorothy Kelly, Hendersonville, N. C.
Ola Kelly, Monticello, Ga.
Eliza King, Columbia, S. C.
Eda Kuhr, Augusta, Ga.

Kathryn Leipold, Augusta, Ga.
Eleanor Little, Louisville, Ga.
Dorothy Long, Maumee, Ohio.
Martha McAfee, Winneconee, Wis.
Ellen McCallie, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Josephine McClure, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Lettie McKay, Union Springs, Ala.
Beaufort McMurray, Ocala, Fla.
Jacque McWhite, Atlanta, Ga.
Jeanne Matthews, Atlanta, Ga.
Bertha Moore Merrill, Eufaula, Ala.
Martha Jane Merrill, Jackson, Miss.
Enid Alma Middleton, Birmingham,
Ala.

Frances Miller, Washington, D. C.
Mary Alice Newton, Dothan, Ala.
Mary Primrose Noble, Smithfield,
N. C.

Virginia Noble, Ellenwood, Ga.
Frances E. Norman, Gainesvlile, Fla.
Mary Elizabeth Past, Chattanooga,
Tenn.

Mary Ernest Perry, Nashville, Ga.

Caroline Phillips, San Benito, Texas.

Helen Louise Price, Sweetwater, Tenn.

Catherine Ricks, Jackson, Miss.

Frances E. Robinson, Dayton, Tenn.

Elizabeth Rodrigue, Nantes, France.

Liselotte Roennecke, Hannover, Ger-
many-
Joyce Roper, Spartanburg, S. C.

Gregory Rowlett, Tampa, Fla.

Elise Seay, Macon, Ga.

Sara Sloan, Belmont, N. C.

Mary Venetia Smith, Columbia, S. C.

Sara Steele, Anniston, Ala.

Eugenia Symms, Augusta, Ga.

Ruth Tate, Banner Elk, N. C.

Anne Taylor, Mobile, Ala.

Julia Telford, Abbeville, S. C.

Emilie Thomas, Birmingham, Ala.

Anne Thompson, Richmond, Va.

Mary Nell Tribble, Hot Springs, Ark.

Nancy Tucker, Nashville, Tenn.

Marie Wagner, Philippine Islands.

Edna Ware, Greenville, S. C.

Ella Virginia Watson, Greenwood, S. C.

Mary Elizabeth Watts, Bryan, Texas.

Jane Allen Webb, Lexington, Va.

Martha Elizabeth Webb, West Point,
Ga.

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Freshmen Given
Party By Sophs

The sophomores gave their annual
party to the freshmen on Saturday
night, September 29, at 7 o'clock at
the gymnasium.

The freshmen came dressed as babies
and the sophomores, dressed in nurses'
uniforms, showed the children how to
play Drop-the-Handkerchief, Ring-
Around-the-Rosy, and London Bridge.
The gym was decorated in a manner to
suggest a children's party; in one cor-
ner of the gym there was a nursery
where the fretful babies might go to
rest.

The high point of the evening was
reached in the baby contest. Judges
for this were Dr. George P. Hayes, Mr.
S. G. Stukes, and Dr. Philip Davidson.
They awarded the prize, a Japanese
parasol, to Martha Agee, who was
dressed as a small boy. Refreshments
of ice cream cones and stick candy
were served.

The party was planned by the soph-
omore commission: Isabel McCain,
Dorthy Jester, Frances Cary, Kathryn
Bowen, Rachel Shamos, Fannie B.
Harris, Elizabeth Allison, Frances Wil-
son, Julia Thing, Mary Gillespie, Mary
Malone, Marie Stalker, and Barbara
Hertwig. Julia Thnig acted as Mas-
ter of Ceremonies at the party.

Elise West, Newport News, Va.
Ann Wheaton, Savannah, Ga.
Carolyn White, Augusta, Ga.
Lillian Whitehurst, Marshall, N. C.
Dorothy Wilhelm, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Vivian Wisenbaker, Lake Park, Ga.
Dixie Woodford, Toccoa, Ga.
Margaret Wright, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Jane Wyatt, Easley, S. C.
Pauline Wynne, Miami, Fla.
Geraline Young, Angier, N. C.
Day Students

Mary Rice Allen

Dorothy Evelyn Avery

Genevieve Baird

Frances Baker

Miriam Bass

Elizabeth Blackshear

Elsie Blackstone

Mildred Bradley

Esther Byrnes

Frances Edna Castleberry

Jean Askew Chalmers

Mildred Ruth Chandler

Mary Sturgeon Collier

Sara Corbitt

Elizabeth Cousins

Ethel Ann Cox

Lillian Croft

Lulu Croft

Marybelle Cruger

Sara Ruth deArechavala

Doris Dunn

Nelle Scott Earthman

Eloise Estes

Charline Fleece

Mary Ford

Martha Lavonia Foster
Mary Elizabeth Galloway
Dorothy Goss
Elizabeth Carol Hale

N. 5. F. A. President Sends

Message For Coming Year

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An essential purpose of education is
the development and use of initiative.
The National Student Federation of
America, founded in 1925, represents
an attempt on the part of American
students to achieve this quality and to
take advantage of their student years
to develop an intelligent approach both
to their own campus problems and to
those of public importance. For nine
years the Federation has enjoyed steady
expansion and has grown to be the most
representative student organization in
the country today. At the same time it
has continuously maintained the non-
partisan ideal on which it was founded
and has worked consistently toward
the realization of its stated goal that
of arousing a more healthy student
opinion everywhere.

In reviewing the work of NSFA
during the past few years, one finds
that it has built up a program of serv-
ice not only for its membership of 120
colleges and universities but for the
masses of American students as well.
It has conducted annually national and
regional conferences which have pro-
vided opportunities for discussion and
presentation of important material to
representative student leaders from all
parts of the country. The organization
has maintained a clearing house of in-
formation on student problems and has
consistently added further data and
facts through research, surveys, and
conferences. A monthly magazine was
established last year, representing an
attempt to give fuller expression to
student opinion, and it has achieved
wide influence among numerous stu-
dent, educational, and civic groups.
Through its weekly news-release, the
Federation has been furnishing campus

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leaders with news items and informa-
tion of far-reaching interest. In the
field of radio activity, the NSFA has
for four years been featuring speakers
in programs of educational and public
importance.

Through connections with student
unions abroad, the Federation has been
able to build up effective facilities for
exchanging debate teams between the
United States and foreign countries.
Also, through these contacts abroad, a
student travel service is maintained.

During the past year, in particular,
NSFA has broadened its intent to
cover more active participation in na-
tional affairs. It has inaugurated a pro-
gram for enlisting the assistance of col-
lege students in the recreational and
training activities of the CCC camps.
A number of NSFA officers have ac-
tively cooperated during the past nine
months in the establishment and de-
velopment of the National Institution
of Public Affairs in Washington, D.
C, which has been started to afford
young leaders training in public affairs.
Last spring, the Federation took the
initiative in mobilizing student forces
to petition the Federal authorities for
more assistance to needy students and
educational instiutions. On June 1, the
United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion called a Conference on Youth
Problems, composed of leaders in all
phases of youth and educational activ-
ity, to consider what could be done to
aid youth in its present plight. The
Federation's representative presented a
plan of relief and the Conference in-
corporated a number of his suggestions
in the final report to the Federal Office
of Education.

At the present time the National
Student Federation stands on the
threshold of its most active season.
Probably there never was a better time
for the development of wholesome stu-
dent opinion and initiative. The emerg-
ency of the situation and the import-
ance of our many social changes call
for the sanest and wisest sort of think-
ing and acting. There is a great need
in America today for the organization
of youth into a liberal, progressive and
active bloc. The radical and conserv-
ative elements among the nation's
youth appear to be firmly entrenched;
now let us turn to that great unorgan-
ized middle section and direct it along
progressive channels. Its insistence
upon a scholarly, unbiased approach
and its use of constructive action place
the National Student Federation in a
position to render valuable service in
making student opinion articulate.

In looking over the work that lies
ahead, the officers of NSFA plan first
of all to improve the numerous fea-
tures of the program the Federation has
instituted. The various services render-
ed member colleges will be extended to
meet the rapidly increasing demands
that are being made. The publications
will be given more personality and
news value. Information facilities will
be introduced more widely among the
colleges. National and district meet-
ings will be given improved programs,
strengthened in every detail. Particu-
lar! v will efforts be made at this year's
national congress in Boston, December

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The Agonistic

Change Made in
Main Basement

A number of changes have been
made in the basement of Main, includ-
ing the opening of the new kitchen-
ette, rooms for the Student Govern-
ment book exchange, ond the change
in the location of the Agonistic of-
fice.

The kitchenette, made possible by a
gift of the Class of 1934, is located in
the room in the basement nearest the
back entrance to Alain, formerly used
as an office for the Silhouette staff and
last spring for the Agonistic staff. It
is not yet completed, but has already
been used for teas and coffees given
for the college. A small range, utensils,
dishes, and other kitchen equipment
will be added to that already installed,
including shelves, cabinets, and a sink.

The book exchange occupies two
small rooms on the front side of the
buiiding, one being used as a supply
room where books are shelved and
catalogued, the other as a business of-
fice.

The Agonistic office has been
moved to the room at the front corner
of the building. It is much larger than
the office opened last spring, and will
be used as a staff headquarters and
business office, as well as the compos-
ing and make-up room. New furni-
ture, curtains, and a rug have been
added to the equipment of the office.

All of the walls have been repainted
and the floors refinished in the base-
ment, and new lighting and plumbing
fixtures have been installed.

ST1 DENTS ADOPT

INTERRACIAL CREED

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
a basis for personal attitudes and con-
duct. It is hard to see how it could be
improved upon. Fundamental enough
to reach to the heart of the problem, it
is yet so reasonable that no fair-mind-
ed student could be content with less.

In connection with the release, the
following review of Singers of the
Dawn, a recently compiled anthology
cf the Negro poetry was received:

Singers in the Dau n, a condensed
survey of American Negro poetry, has
been published by the Commission on
Interracial Cooperation and the Con-
ference on Education and Race Rela-
tions, as a means of promoting inter-
racial appreciation, and is now avail-
able to the public.

Designed primarily for use in South-
ern colleges and public schools, it is
expected to meet a long-felt need.
When off the press only a few weeks, it
was in use in a score of Southern col-
leges in their summer school classes in
literature. This fall it has been made
available to thousands of public schools.

The volume embodies brief sketches

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FIRST HIKE OF

SEASON IS HELD

The first hike of the season was held
yesterday afternoon under the direc-
tion of Frances Cary, hiking manager
on the Athletic Board. A large num-
ber of students participated in the hike,
which took place between 4:10 and
supper.

X. S. F. A. PRESIDENT

SENDS MESSAGE

(Continued from page 5, column 5)
2 8-January 1, to inaugurate more ef-
fective devices for gauging student
opinion and for affording the deliber-
ations sufficient recognition.

In enjunction with the National In-
stitution of Public Affairs in Washing-
ton, NSFA will assist in the organiza-
tion among the colleges of public-af-
fairs forums which will encourage a
more active student interest. During
the approaching session of Congress
there will doubt-less arise numerous is-
sues in which NSFA should be repre-
sented to urge the adoption of needed
legislation. The officers of the organ-
ization anticipate urging the Federal
Office of Education t oestablish the
proper clearance facilities for youth
matters in the national government. In
connection with the recent request of
the Educational Division of FERA, the
Federation will establish, in so far as
possible, machinery for engendering
more widsepread activity among stu-
dent groups in the improvement of the
emergency relief program for needy-
students. Moreover, NSFA officials
plan to supply national planning boards
and governmental agencies with facts
on the plight of youth and urge them
to meet the situation as effectively as
possible.

John A. Lang.

CLASSES RIDE WITH

BILTMORE SCHOOL

The Agnes Scott riding classes, un-
der the direction of Miss Harriet
Flaynes, will ride this year with the
Biltmore Riding School instead of the
Avondale stables, as last year.

The Biltmore Riding School, on
Roxborough Road, is owned by Dr.
and Mrs. A. S. Wheeler. Dr. and Mrs.
Wheeler have had wide experience as
expert equestrians in this country and
abroad.

These stables are equipped for jump-
ing, games, and form riding. A large
number of gaited horses will serve for
instruction in more skillful horseman-
ship.

of more than forty of the best known
poets, and quotes a large number of
selections presenting a cross section of
the best work of the principal poets,
from Phillis Wheatley to Countee Cul-
len and James Weldon Johnson. The
title is taken from James D. Corrothers
tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar:
rr He came, a dark youth, singing in
the dawn

Of a new freedom, glowing o'er his
lyre,

Ri fining, as with great Apollo's fire,
His people's gift of song. ,y

In order that the book may have
the widest possible use, it has been pub-
lished to sell without profit at ten cents
a copy, or $1 per dozen, postpaid.
Those desiring copies for personal or
class room use may order from the
Conference on Education and Race Re-
lations, 703 Standard Building, At-
lanta, Ga.

FRESHMAN-SOPH STUNTS TO

BE PRESENTED OCTOBER 13

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
Writing: Ann Worthy Johnson,
chairman; Ann Thompson, Eliza King,
Joyce Roper, Ellen McCallie.

Properties and lighting: Alice Jane
Turner, chairman; Katherine Fitzpat-
rick, Laura Coit, Doris Dunn, Dorothy
Goss.

Decration: Louise Bailey, chairman;
Caroline Armistead, Virginia Watson,
Sara Steele, Gladys Jones, Elizabeth
Cousins.

Costumes: Hibernia Hassell, chair-
man; Jeanne Matthews, Jane Hashagen,
Mary McCann, Laura Coit, Beth Bow-
den, Frances Baker.

Scenery: Jane Wyatt, chairman;
Margaret Keller, Margaret Wright,
Virginia Suttenfield, Carolyn Eliot,
Annie Lou Whitaker.

Dance: Jane Merrill, chairman; Ann
Cullum, Nancy Tucker.

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BEGINS TUESDAY

On October 8 the first tennis tour-
nament of the year will begin with a
doubles championship under the man-
agement of Helen Handte, manager of
tennis in the Athletic Club. The tour-
nament will be played by straight elim-
ination rules.

Program: Zoe Wells, chairman; Ann
Taylor, Ann Wheaton, Elizabeth
Blackshear, Nell Scott Earthman.

Cheer leaders: Mary Venetia Smith,
Bertha Merrill.

This year the customary secrecy and
silence regarding the themes of the
stunts have been preserved. Nightly
pep meetings and practices for dances
and lines are being held. This year,
as in the past, the sister classes will join
the pep squads of the two competing
classes.

The stunt is perhaps the most excit-
ing of all the traditions with which
the freshman class meets. Its primary
purpose is to organize the class by
means of the concentrated effort to-
ward a goal. The degree to which a
freshman class can be organized
through the stunt is demonstrated in
the class of 1934 which won the Big
Black Cat both the freshman and the
sophomore years.

Black List to Be

Posted Tuesday

The "black list" of names of stu-
dents who have not paid the student
budget will be posted Tuesday, Octo-
ber 8. After that date, students whose
names arc on the list will not be al-
lowed to participate in campus activi-
ties.

Amy Underwood, student treasurer,
reports that more has been paid this
year than in former years at a cor-
responding time.

A special drive will be made the
rest of this week to get budgets paid.

A very thin fullback was annoyed
by the attentions of a small dog dur-
ing a Rugby match.

At last, when play had moved to the
other end, the back turned and shout-
ed to the spectators: "Whoever owns
this dog might call him oft."

A voice responded: "Come here,
Spot. Them ain't bones, boy them's
legs." Belfast Evening Telegraph.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934~

NO. 2

SOPHOMORES WIN BLACK CAT

AGNES SCOTT MEETS ENGLISH

DEBATERS HERE DECEMBER 7

Marian Calhoun, Edith Mer-
lin to Represent A. S. C.
First Debate.

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On December 7, David W. Scholes
and J. Hirschfield, representing the
National Union of Students of Eng-
land, will debate Agnes Scott College
on the question, Resolved: That the
abandonment of isolationist policies is
essential to the return of prosperity,
according to Dr. George P. Hayes,
faculty adviser to Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes
Scott debating society. Marian Calhoun
and Edith Merlin will uphold the neg-
ative for Agnes Scott; Brooks Spivey
has been named as alternate. There
will be no decision.

All arrangements for the interna-
tional debates, in which Agnes Scott
has taken part for the past few years,
are made by the National Student Fed-
eration, the headquarters of which are
in New York City. The itinerary, de-
bate schedules, and questions for de-
bate are handled by this organization.
According to information forwarded
by the Federation to Sarah Catherine
Wood, secretary of Pi Alpha Phi, Mr.
Scholes, who is a student at the London
School of Economics, is studying for
the Bachelor of Commerce degree; he
is also president of the Students' Union.
Mr. Hirschfield, who was a double
Prizeman of University College, Lon-
don, and was awarded a First Class
degree in 1931 from the same institu-
tion, is now being trained as a research
student in history. The entertainment
of the British debaters while they are
in Decatur will be in charge of Pi
Alpha Phi.

A debate with Wesleyan College is
scheduled for late in November or
early in December. Agnes Scott has
submitted to Wesleyan the question,
Resolved: That Hitler's domestic pol-
icies have benefited Germany. The
Agnes Scott team for this debate has
not yet been announced. There will
be no decision. Tentative plans have
been made for the debating schedule
for the spring, but no definite dates
have yet been arranged.

Radio Programs
To Be Presented

The second in a new series of radio
programs in which Agnes Scott Col-
lege will have a part will be present-
ed on Friday night, October 19, at 6
o'clock over WSB. Dr. Muriel Flarn,
head of the German department of
Agnes Scott, and Professor C. F.
Hamff, of the German department of
Emory, will discuss the present sit-
uation in Germany.

These programs, which have been
styled the University Round-Table,
were started by Emory University. The
combination of Emory University with
other colleges in the city presented in
a program of discussion, or debate, has
been planned for the fall months.
Both students and faculty of the col-
leges participating will broadcast.

The project of broadcasting a round-
table discussion being carried on by
representatives of different colleges
was begun by the University of Chi-
cago. There, according to Dr. J. R.
McCain, it proved to be most work-
able and most successful.

Blackfriars Will
Give Shaw Comedy

Blackfriars will present George Ber-
nard Shaw's comedy, Yoii Never Can
Tell, as the first play of the year, Fri-
day and Saturday nights, November
16 and 17.

You Never Can Tell is characterized
as "a pleasant play." Although it is
one of Shaw's earlier works, written
in 1905, it has lost none of the sig-
nificance of its delightful satire on the
relation of parents to children in the
twentieth century. It was presented
and received with great enthusiasm
during the past summer at Malvern,
England.

The cast has not yet been completed
but, at present, is as follows:

Dolly Clandon Hester Anne With-
ers.

Gloria Clandon Betty Lou Houck.

Mrs. Clandon Ida Lois McDaniel.

The Maid Mragaret Stokey.

Phil Clandon Jimmie Jepson.

Others who will take part but who
have not yet been cast are Cyril Smith,
Walter Paschal, and Irwin McKay.

Blackfriars hopes to present this year
three large public plays, each of a dif-
ferent type. The play by Shaw is light
comedy; the next play will be serious
and somewhat tragic; and the com-
mencement presentation, it is hoped,
will be a Greek play. The club is con-
sidering "Electra" by Euripides, "Elec-
ta'/ //'// 7/ f</ on page 6, column 5)

A. S. STUDENTS
ATTEND FORUM

The Interracial Forum of the Inter-
Collegiate Council held its first meet-
ing of the fall at Gammon Theological
Seminary in Atlanta, on Sunday, Oc-
tober 14, at 3 o'clock. Martha Cren-
shaw, Lena Armstrong, Lois Hart, Ade-
laide Stevens, Lulu Ames, Nell Allison,
and Dr. J. R. McCain attended from
Agnes Scott College.

The program was in the form of a
discussion group led by Mr. Jesse O.
Thomas, of the Urban League. The
students attending the forum were
shown a room filled with books about
Negroes written both by Negroes and
white authors and with pictures of the
outstanding leaders of the Negro race,
both of men and women.

Students from Gammon, Emory
University, Spelman College, Atlanta
University, Georgia Tech, Clark Uni-
versity, Agnes Scott College, and More-
house College were present. The forum
is a sub-division of the Inter-Collegiate
Council. The number of representa-
tives in the Forum is not limited in
number. The purpose of the round-
tables is to acquaint the students of
both races with the historical back-
ground of the Negro Americans as it
is related to the present status in which
the Negro finds himself.

PRESBYTERIAN GIRLS
TO BE ENTERTAINED

The Young People's Department of
North Avenue Presbyterian Church
will entertain with a Hallowe'en party
at North Avenue Presbyterian School
on Saturday afternoon, October 20, in
honor of the Presbyterian girls at
Agnes Scott College.

A treasure hunt is planned for the
aiternoon; also the usual Hallowe'en
games will be played. Miss Alice Rivers
is in charge of the arrangements.

Freshman and Sophomore Stunt Chairmen |P8!jL S Win With

1 1 Revere the Soph

Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Barbara Hertwig

Bori To Sin&

Thurs. Night

Lucrezia Bori, for several years a
constant visitor to Atlanta with the
Metropolitan Opera Company, will ap-
pear in recital at the Atlanta Audi-
torium Thursday evening, October 18,
as the opening attraction of the All-
Star Concert Series, sponsored by the
Atlanta Music Club and the Atlanta
Philharmonic Society.

Over 3,5 00 tickets for the concert
have already been sold, and the boxes
will be occupied by Agnes Scott stu-
dents.

Bori has been extremely talented
since early childhood, making her first
public appearance at the age of 6.
When she was 17 her father, a colonel
in the artillery, gave up his office to
chaperon his daughter while she pur-
sued her studies in Italy. Bori made
her debut in Rome as "Micaila," in
Carmen. Two years later she was sing-
ing at La Scala, and shortly afterward
in Buenos Aires under the baton of
Toscanini, who contrived to get her
an engagement with the Metropolitan.
She made her debut there in "Manon
Lescaut," with Caruso, in 1913.

After brilliant successes here, she
was forced to undergo a serious throat
operation, and retired for three years,
returning to the Metropolitan Opera
Flouse in 1921. She has since establish-
ed herself as one of the greatest so-
pranos in operatic history.

Aurora Announces
Prizec to Be Given

The Aurora, the literary magazine
published quarterly, announces the fol-
lowing prizes to be awarded:

$5.00 for the best poem in the first
three issues.

$2.50 for the best short story.

$2.5 0 for the best essay, formal or
informal.

A $2.5 0 prize also is being offered
for the best cover design as in previous
years. Miss Louise Lewis, head of the
art department, will judge the designs
submitted.

Last year prizes were awarded to
Lulu Ames for the short story; Frances
Espy, the poem; Roc^lvn Crispin, the
cover; and Elizabeth Winn, the essay.

Contributions for the first issue,
which will be published in November,
are to be placed in the Aurora box in

(Continued on page 6, column 4)

Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Mildred Frost Brown
Barbara Hertwig, sophomore stunt
chairman, and Mildred Frost Brown,
freshman stunt chairman. The soph-
omores were victorious over the fresh-
men in the "battle of wits" held in
the gymnasium Saturday night.

SENIORS PLAN
INVESTITURE

The senior class is completing plans
for the investiture service to be held
in chapel Saturday morning, Novem-
ber 3.

Miss Annie May Christie, associate
professor of English and one of the
faculty advisors of the class, will de-
liver the investiture address, and Miss
Nannette Hopkins will perform the
traditional capping ceremony.

The senior procession will be led bv
Charles Rapcr, 6-year old son of Dr.
and Mrs. A. F. Raper. Charles was
recently elected mascot of the Class of
1 93 5.

Investiture is a ceremony unique to
Agnes Scott, and is one of the most
revered traditions of the college. At
this time members of the senior class
appear for the first time as a group,
wearing the academic gown. With the
placing of the cap on the head of each
senior, Miss Hopkins invests her with
the full privileges and dignity of sen-
iorhood.

This impressive ceremony began in
1916 and has become a traditional
service, observed annually on the first
Saturday in November.

PRESIDENT RETURNS
FROM GEORGIA TRIP

President J. R. McCain, of Agnes
Scott College, returned from south
Georgia to the campus on Thursday,
October 11. While he was away he
attended the Presbyterian Svnod of
Georgia in Thomasville.

Dr. W. D. Hooper, of the University
of Georgia, Dr. McCain said, made a
fine speech about Agnes Scott.

Dr. McCain also spoke before the
Synod. While he was away. Dr. Mc-
Cain saw Mr. H. T. Mcintosh of Al-
bany and Mr. W. C. Vereen of Moul-
trie, both of whom are members of the
Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott Col-
lege.

Miss Miller, Miss Gaylord,
Miss Scandrett Judges In
Interelass Contest.

The sophomore class won the big
Black Cat, traditional symbol of vic-
tory in the annual Freshman-Soph-
omore stunt contest held Saturday
night in the gymnasium. The award
was made as the result of the decision
of the judges, Miss Scandrett, Miss
Gaylord and Miss Bee Miller, based on
the presentation, setting and plot of
the stunts.

The winning stunt, "Revere the
Soph," had as its theme the conquest
of the freshmen by the sophomores, and
the cast was led by Frances Balkcom,
in the title role of Revere, the Soph,
and Julia Thing as Ah-Ha, the Frosh.
Several interesting choruses were pre-
sented, including one by girls masquer-
ading as horses. The Freshman stunt,
entitled "A Mars Confection" and fea-
turing Ann Worthy Johnson as Touch-
down, the hero, and Jane Hashagen as
Kitty, the heroine, was supposed to
have taken place on Mars, and was very
cleverly carried out. Each class was
enthusiastically supported by a cheer-
ing section composed of members of
the class, and of its sister class, the
Freshmen supporters dressed in red and
'white, and the Sophomores in yellow
and black.

During the program the stunt chair-
men, Barbara Hertwig, Sophomore, and
Mildred Frost Brown, Freshman, were
presented with tokens of appreciation
and goodwill by representatives of the
opposing class, and a fine spirit was
shown on both sides.

The class of 1937 is the fourth suc-
cessive sophomore class to win the
coveted Black Cat, which remains in
the possession of the class president un-
til won by a succeeding class.

The casts of the two stunts were as
follows:

"A Mars Confection"

Nightwatchman Ellen McCallie.

Touchdown, the hero Ann Worthy
Johnson.

Mail Caller Mary Past.

Big Dec Ola Kelly.

Little Dec Lettie McKay.

Sophomore Lillian Croft

Sophless Lulu Croft.

Bot Gene Brown.

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

Agonistic Names
New Reporters

A marked increase in enthusiasm and
interest in the Agonistic this year
over any of the past four years was
shown by the number of try-outs for
the reporter staff. The number this year
was double that of the fall try-outs
last year, or twenty-five this year over
twelve of last. The articles were graded
on the three points: the choice of story,
the completeness of the first paragraph,
and the general treatment of the story
in regard to detail and structure. The
following seventeen girls were elected
as reporters: Eliza King, Eleanor Whit-
son, Betty Mathis, Lavinia Scott, Jessie
Jeffers, Mary Lillian Fairly, Gene
Brown, Elizabeth Warden, Sara Steele,
Josephine Jennings, Mary Richardson,
Jane Guthrie, Betty Maynard, Ora
Muse, Mary Margaret Stowe, Jacque
McWhite, and Ruth Hertzka.

Appointments have not yet been
made on the editorial staff to fill va-
cancies left by students who did not
return to Agnes Scott this year.

2

The Agonistic

l)e Agonistic

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

STAFF

T ntrr R irwafin?

JLVJH_.fc. IVlLnAlVU)

Nell Pattillo

Ed it or -in - Chief

Business Manager

Lulu Ames

Alice Chamlee

Assistant Editor

Advertising Manager

Edith Merlin

Eva Constantine

Feature

Make -Up

Mary Boggs

Mary Jane Tigert

Book Notes

Assistant Make-Up

Mary M. Stowe

Elizabeth Thrasher

Society

Circulation

Laura Steele

Kathryn Bowen

Alumnae

Business Assistant

Frances Balkcom

Helen Ramsey

Club

Business Assistant

Lucille Cairns

Laura Steele

Exchange

Business Assistant

Margaret Robins

Kitty Printup

Current History

Sports

SELF-GOVERNMENT

A common privilege implies a common duty. Every student
at Agnes Scott, as a member of the Student Government Associa-
tion, has the privilege and the obligation of self-government.

The recent drive held by the Association for a better under-
standing of the Honor System under which we operate has made
the campus conscious of its scope and its workings; it has also
brought to our minds a number of questions: What is Student
Government? What are our standards of honor and what should
they be? What is the contract between the Association and each
of its members? What is the responsibility of each student to the
group and to herself?

Student government is self-government. Any common-
wealth based on democratic principles depends for its success on
the cooperation of every citizen, but the strength of the union
will depend upon the strength of the unit. So it is with our own
Association. The organization, based on a charter granted by
the faculty in 1906, has for its purpose the control of all matters
pertaining to the conduct of the students. It has always worked
for the greatest good for the greatest number, and strives con-
stantly to perfect its standards and regulations. The reason for
its existence, for its continuation, is the fundamental on which
it is based it teaches us to govern ourselves.

Honor is a matter of self-government. It is the foundation
of character. When loyalty to a group is assumed, personal honor
loses none of its individuality; rather its responsibility is in-
creased because of the trust reposed in it. Consequently, there
should be no discrimination between regulations governing aca-
demic work and social privileges when a violation occurs. We
seem to have cultivated on the campus a double standard of
honor, putting one construction on rules applying to cheating
and stealing, and a much less stringent one on those concerning
social relationships. To handle this situation adequately, a double
system has grown up; students readily report offenses of the
former type, while officials of the Student Government Associa-
tion and of the Administration care for the latter in addition.
It is not idealistic theory to maintain that a double system is un-
necessary, but we realize that a single honor system can operate
successfully only after a single hoonr standard has been firmly
established in the minds of those governed. We feel that the
Honor Drive has brought the matter to the attention of every
student, and that the next step is to work toward the strengthen-
ing of personal principles of honor and self-government.

The granting of privileges entails responsibilities. There is a
contract between the Student Government Association and each
of its members. When we accept the trust placed in us, we
pledge ourselves to its support. "It seems reasonable that when
a student fails to understand the necessity of hearty cooperation
and shows a constant disregard of the rules, that she forfeit her
right to the privilege of being in a community so governed. " No
student pledges herself to this cooperation until she has become
familiar with the principles on which the Honor System is based.
We think, however, that a plan should be worked out whereby
the contract may be renewed by upperclassmen, and their ad-
ditional responsibilities emphasized.

As members of the organization, it is our privilege to "learn
to live honorably and unselfishly in a community, " and our duty
to share the responsibility of the government. And every student
has the obligation ot maintaining personal standards. James A.
Garfield was speaking in this vein when he said: "There is one
man w hose respect I must have at all hazards, and his name is
James A. Garfield for I must room with him, walk with him,
WOrjk with him, eat with him, talk with him, commune with
him live with him."

It is by the combination of personal and group responsibilities,
of common privileges and common duties that Student Govern-
ment may work, through Selt -Government, tor the greatest good
tor the greatest number.

SPAIN HAS COME

TO THE CROSSROADS

By Mary Virginia All ex
Four hundred years' effort toward
the unification of Spain has not de-
prived Catalonia and the Basque
provinces of their desire to regain the
autonomous rights they once enjoyed.
On October 6 President Louis Com-
panys of Catalonia proclaimed the
region no longer having any connec-
tion with the Spanish republic. Later,
under a heavy bombardment of shell-
fire, he was forced to surrender;
Catalonia's revolution for independence
was practically crushed at daybreak on
Sunday, October 7.

During the regime of the monarchy
and the First Republic, Catalonia had
been converted from conservative
regionalism to violent separatism by
the policy of the dictatorship, and
would not cooperate with the revolu-
tionaries until promised a satisfactory
settlement of its demands. When the
revolution came in April, 1931, Cat-
alonia established the Catalan Republic.
The Cortes later approved a statute
which had been prepared in Catalonia
and passed by a plebiscite. Catalonia
was defined in the statute as an "au-
tonomous region within the Spanish
state." The principal contention of the
Catalans, however that Catalonia
was to be considered an independent
region delegating certain of its pre-
rogatives to the Spanish state was
denied. In both the Constitution and
in the statute the rights of Catalonia
were enumerated, and it was declared
that the state reserved those not spe-
cifically granted. A rather numerous
Left Wing demands much greater free-
dom. "The Republic has not complete-
ly satisfied our desires nor the statute
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CONSIDERTHE STRIKER
IN THE MILL

By Edith Merlin

The recent textile strike brought
with it a number of pressing problems,
and none more widely-discussed than
the question of whether the govern-
ment should feed strikers. Even among
the ranks of labor sympathizers there
have been differences of opinion, while
labor and capital have, as usual, dis-
agreed violently. It seems to me that
to a disinterested observer, possessing
neither interests in the mills nor affil-
iations with the labor movement there
can be but one answer the govern-
ment is justified in feeding and should
continue to feed strikers.

In the first place the government is
giving relief to all unemployed and is
not inquiring into how they happened
to lose their jobs; there is no reason
why strikers should not receive the
privileges of the unemployed: I dare-
say many of those on relief rolls are
just as voluntarily unemployed. Is one
who loses his job because of drunken-
ness more entitled to money than one
who, because he is underpaid and over-
worked contrary to the rulings of his
government, gives up his job?

Again, in feeding the strikers the
government is merely giving them an
equal chance in the Struggle in which
they are engaged. The mills have capi-
tal enough to back them up in the
fight. They are in no danger of star-
vation no matter how lon^, within
reason, the strike goes on. The work-
ers, having been able to save nothing
from the meager wages they receive,
have been starved back into the mills
in most of the major strikes in history.
It is not a fair fight in which one par-
ticipant enters already crippled. The
fact that strikes have occurred in soite
of the very real danger of hunger
shows nothing but the desoerate plight
of the people who are willing to risk
a very little all on a slim chance of
getting a little more. The strike is the
only weapon of labor in the age-old
clasa Struggle and even in this it has
Heretofore been seriously handicapped.
The government is not showing par-
tialitv in giving relief to strikers; on

(Contained on page 6, column 1)

Headline in the Alabama Crimson
White. The University of Alabama
administration expects every student
to attend all classes. The V. M. I.
Cadet asks if this added a touch of
green to the Keydet Grey if they were
expected" to be in rank when the
bu^le blew.

The Florida State College for Women
has this year instituted a system of cuts
whereby each student gets three cuts
a semester, in addition to receiving ex-
cuses when in the infirmary and for
emergency cases from the dean. First
semester freshmen and first quarter
transfers are the only ones who don't
enjoy this privilege. The number of
cuts are increased for those making
grades of "C" or over.

And here we don't even have the
privilege of taking the minimum num-
ber of cuts, even though we "merit."
It seems as though the school is put
on the bases of first semester freshmen.

We found in The Flor-Ala a reason
why so many people often flunk exams.
It is said that a fool can ask more
questions than a wise man can answer.

We see by the Florida Flambeau that
the students of Marshall College got
out a manual telling professors how bo
be courteous. Among the suggestions
were:

It is discourteous for the professor to
wear an inadequate belt. (Disconcert-
ing, to say the least.)

It is discourteous (or a trifle indefin-
ite) for the professor not to learn
students' names. Students dislike being
called "you in the green dress," "you
on the back row," or having to decide
if she is the one out of six in her
vicinity at whom the teacher seems
to be nodding.

I had a little dog name Di-fo,
I've had him since he puz-a-wup.
He sits all day on lind-hegs
And holds his long fregs up.
Wow -Bow.

The Auburn Plainsman.

Now that football is in full swing,
we'll hear less of knee action for awhile
and more about hip movement. The
Blue Stocking, Pres. College.

The Florida Flambeau suggests that
in consideration of their $7. SO failure
fee their sign outside the dean's office,
"Get your grades and pass out quiet-
ly," should be changed to read "Get
your grades and shell out quietly."

As far as that goes here we "shell
out" in any number of places at any
number of times.

Many a woman is blamed tor mak-
ing a fool of a man, when he is really
self-made. The Flor-Ala y Florence
State Teachers College.

Of all the many crimes

My wicked past bestrewing

I most regret the ones

That someone caught me doing.
-The Wat ch ton er, Wcsleyan College.

In the English, French, Latin, Ital-
ian, Greek languages, the moon is fem-
inine, but in the Teutonic language it
is masculine. The latter undoubtedly
had the word for it, when you con-
sider that the moon always has a shiny
face. The Alabamian, Alabama Col-
lege.

The latter would no doubt be the
proper gender for this institution, for
what good is a moon unless something
of a masculine nature is present?

Mount Holyoke College is trying a
new system of examinations. Seniors
will take only three instead of five
exams, the two left out being in their
major department.

Fine idea! But we're afraid if any-
thing like that happened at Agnes
Scott, the students wouldn't recover
from the shock soon enough to take
the three remaining ones.

BOOK NOTES

Fellow-Poet Mark Van Doren hails
Jesse Stuart as an "American Robert
Burns." Man With a Bull-Tongue
Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque
verses, sings only homespun heroes,
vaunts the excellences of Kentucky
farm-life, mourns the mortality of
Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends.
No book to read through at a sitting,
it will prove to the plainest reader
that, in Poet Van Doren's words,
Stuart is a "rare poet for these times
. . . both copious and comprehensible."
Some samples of his comprehensible
curiosities:

"Where are the friends of youth I
miss

Rimer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and

John; . . .
And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack

and Mack!
They, too y have gone and they will

not come back/'

A personal poet, Stuart often tells
all:

f 7 shall not go inside the church to-
night.

She must not see me stagger don n the
aisle. ..."

But on Death muses his Muse most:
"/;/ winter when the ground was white

u ith snow
She sat beside the fire and knitted
socks,

But now her grave is marked with
two field rocks ..."

Time.

-Ralph

The Man of the Renaissance
Roedcr.

In the lives of four protagonists
Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglime,
and Orctino is traced the develop-
ment of the Italian Renaissance be-
tween the years 1494 and 1 5 30 which
mark the apogee of its artistic expres-
sion and the crisis of its religious, so-
cial, and political disintegration.

These men illustrate four phases of
the moral life of their age and, taken
together, they compose the man of the
Renaissance. "... Seeking successively
to master life by spirit, by intelligence,
by refinement, and by instinct, they
found each according to the truth of
his temperament, their vital principles

in religion, in patriotism, in society,
and in self-satisfaction; and between
them, they exhausted the alternatives.
Their lives embodied the adventures of
the basic ideas that men live by; and
they developed them with such trans-
parent simplicity and extreme consist-
ency that they live on for posterity as
types."

Amaranth Edward Arlington Rob-
inson.

A new poem which belongs to the
mood of Tristram and Talijer.

Sot I, But the Wind Frieda Law-
rence.

Frieda Lawrence's biography of her
husband, D. H. Lawrence, in which
she combines her own knowledge of
him with about a hundred of his let-
ters to create a clarifying narrative; D.
I I. Lawrence emerges in a more com-
prehensible form from this record than
from his stories.

Poems of the War and After Vera
Brittain.

Published as a poetic supplement to
Testament </) Youth in response to in-
sistent demand of readers who enjoyed
the fragments of verse in the first
book.

The World as I See //Albert Ein-
stein.

A series of short addresses which
deal with Professor Einstein's opinions
on current social problems, and pre-
sent several non-technical discussions
on the "nature of scientific truth and
of the relationship between theoretical
constructions like his own and empiri-
cal fact."

The Letters of Camel/el Bradford,
1918-193 I Edited by Van Wyck
Bnxjks.

An admirable thirteen-year letter fi'e
of the biographer, including v.irious
professional correspondences, letters to
( ul Sandburg, II. L Mencken, and
other noted contemporary figures.

American Song Paul Engle.

A much-acclaimed lyrical epic of
America, from the pen of a young
lowan who is now studying at Oxford.

The Agonistic

3

SOCIETY

Lillian Grimson spent Sunday at the
home of Elizabeth Alexander in At-
lanta.

Elizabeth Allison's family was here
at Agnes Scott last week-end.

Ann Walker had as her guest for the
week-end Margaret Mertz of Atlanta.

Pauline Moss attended the Psi Omega
dance on Thursday night.

Ellen Davis and Barton Jackson
were at the Delta Sigma Delta dance
Tuesday night.

Peggy Ware spent Sunday in At-
lanta with Mrs. F. C. Talmadge.

Nell Hemphill had dinner on Sun-
day with Elizabeth Flinn, in Atlanta.

Virginia Hightower and Rebecca
Harrison had dinner Sunday with Mrs.
Elbert Aiken.

Susan Bryan spent Saturday night
with Mrs. H. J. West.

Jessie Jeffers spent Sunday with
Miss Bruce Waters of Atlanta.

Mary Boggs, Liselotte Roennecke,
and Mary Virginia Allen had tea with
Lulu Ames on Sunday, October 7.

On Thursday, October 11, Dr. and
Mrs. Henry Robinson and Dr. and Mrs.
James T. Gillespie entertained at tea in
honor of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Whit-
iker, who is acting associate professor
of biology at Agnes Scott this year.
Faculty members were invited to call
during the afternoon. The hosts were
assisted by Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker,
Miss Mary MacDougall, Mary Gillespie,
Kitty Cunningham, Wayve Lewis, Ada
Page Foote, and Mildred Hooten.

Mary Helen Barrett spent Sunday
night with Margaret Wright's grand-
mother, Mrs. Osborn.

Ruth Tate spent Sunday with her
sister, Marlyn Tate, '3 3. Marlyn was
on the campus Saturday night for the
stunt.

Catherine Fitzpatrick had as her
guest for the stunt her sister, Sara
Fitzpatrick.

Florence Lasseter and Barton Jack-
son were the guests Sunday of Dr. and
Mrs. Brinkley of Emory University.

Jean Kirkpatrick's mother visited
her on Friday, October 12.

The Young Matrons' Circle of the
First Baptist Church entertained at tea
on Thursday, October 11, in honor of
the Baptist students at Agnes Scott,
both boarders and day students The
tea was held at the home of Mrs. A. J.
Moncrief on Adams Street.

Jane Cassels and Martha Redwine
spent the week-end with Sally Hooten,
ex-'3 5, in McDonough, Ga.

Fidesah Edwards and Mary Lillian
Deason spent Friday evening with
Misses Anna and Dorothy Thurman of
Emory University.

Alice Dunbar was with her aunt,
Mrs. L. L. Gellerstedt, in Druid Hills
over the week-end.

Marie Adams, Martha Ann Rodgers,
Mary Hull, Virginia Turner, Elizabeth
Strickland, and Marjorie Scott hied
themselves over to Athens for the
week-end.

Virginia Williams spent the week-
end with Mrs. J. A. Adams in Atlanta.

Sally McRee and Mary Vines were
with Mrs. Davis Thornton for the
week-end.

Alberta Palmour had as her guest
last week-end her sister, Mary Louise
Palmour.

Sara Frances McDonald attended the
Biltmore dance on Saturday night.

Trellis Carmichael spent the week-
end at her home in McDonougli, Ga.

Elizabeth Heaton went home to
Tallapoosa, Ga., for the week-end.

Rosa Miller, Nell White, and Nina
Parke were guests of Mr. Cator Wool-
ford for Sunday dinner.

Sociology Class

Attends Fair

Twenty-two students of Dr. A.
Frank Raper's Sociology class attended
the Southeastern Fair at Atlanta last
Thursday afternoon, October 4, for the
purpose of studying the American In-
dian village and its relation to the early
stages of family life. ,

Indian tribes from the Everglades of
Florida, the western Pueblos, and the
mountains of North Carolina were rep-
resented in the Exposition. Among the
things observed by the students were
the construction of the wigwams, the
costumes, and the Indians' handicraft.
The class was particularly interested in
the designing of pottery and rugs.

Those who attended the Fair are the
following: Caroline Dickson, Liselotte
Roennecke, Harriet Dimmock, Alsine
Schutze, Elizabeth Thrasher, Mary
Gray' Rogers, Mary Henderson, Car-
olyn Cole, Gladys Burns, Lois Hart,
Adelaide Stevens, Virginia Williams,
Elizabeth Strickland, Jane Allen Webb,
Ida Lois McDaniel, Miriam Bass, Clara
McConnell, Mary Summers, Martha
Crenshaw, Frances McCully, Jane Cas-
sels, and Elizabeth Rodrigue.

Collection Given

To Art Dept.

During the past summer Miss Pene-
lope Brown, Agnes Scott, '32, and
former field secretary for the Alumnae
Association, presented to the Art De-
partment of Agnes Scott College a col-
lection of valuable engravings, repro-
ductions of famous pictures, and books
on art.

According to Miss Louise Lewis, of
the art and art history department,
the collection is an addition of great
importance to the art library. It in-
cludes a number of books bound in a
deluxe edition which portrays the
Paris Exposition of 1900; a set of
famous masterpieces illustrating Greek
myths; a series of engravings by Ho-
garth; and a volume of drawings by
Albrecht Durer.

The collection belonged formerly to
Miss Brown's father, the late Elijah
Brown. The books and engravings
have all been put in the art library and
all students are free to inspect them.

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Sophs Honored

At Tea-Dance

The senior class will honor members
of the sophomore class with a tea-dance
to be held in the gym, Thursday after-
noon, October 2 5, at 4:30 o'clock. The
bell for the Black Cat, won by the
sophomores Saturday night, will be
presented at this time.

Senior committees, appointed by
Mary Boggs, president of the senior
class, are:

Invitations: Margaret Robins, Jac-
queline Woolfolk, Josephine Jennings;
refreshments: Hester Anne Withers,
Vera Pruet; decorations: Elizabeth
Alexander, Vella Behm, Marguerite
Morris; entertainment: Betty Fountain,
Madeline Race, Caroline Long; music:
Nina Parke.

Alumnae Will

Entertain Club

The Alumnae Association of Agnes
Scott College will entertain the Grand-
daughters Club at a seated tea at four-
thirty this afternoon in the Alumnae
House.

The entertainment committee of the
Association is in charge of the pro-
gram. Augusta Skeen Cooper, '17,
chairman of the committee, will be as-
sisted in entertaining by Louisa Wight
Gosnell, '27; Margaret Phythian, '16;
Julia Pratt Black, '12; Margaret Mc-
Dow MacDougall, '2 5; Cora Morton
Durrett, '24; Frances Craighead
Dwyer, '2 8; Louise Brown Hastings,
'23; Elinor Hamilton, '34; Clara Whips
Durn, '16; Maryellen Harvey Newton,
'16; Frances Gilliland Stukes, '24;
Patricia Collins, '2 8; and Dorothy
Hutton, '29.

The mothers of students living in
Atlanta and Decatur who have been
invited to be present include Mrs.
Oscar Palmour, Mrs. H. P. Redwine,
Mrs. J. K. Muse, Mrs. B. Alton John-
son, Mrs. Lewis Gaines, Mrs. Henry
Farthman, and Mrs. R. M. Croft. Miss
Nannette Hopkins will be a special
guest of the afternoon.

The members of the Granddaughters
Club this year are: Harriet Dimmock,
Clara Morrison, Alberta Palmour,
Martha Redwine, Susan Turner, Mary
Adams, Mary Henderson, Frances Mc-
Cully, Elizabeth Forman, Lorraine
Smith, Lucille Cairns, Fannie B. Har-
ris, Dorothy Lee, Ora Muse, Barton
Jackson, Martha Johnson, Virginia
Gaines, Kathleen Daniel, Caroline
Armistead, Kennon Henderson, Mary
Hull, Winifred Kellersberger, Dorothy
Lee Kelly, Mary Nell Tribble, Nancy
Tucker, Pauline Wynne, Lillian Croft,
Lulu Croft, Nell Scott Earthman,
Margaret Morrison, and Martha Young.

The membership of the Grand-
daughters Club is made up of the stu-
dents now enrolled at Agnes Scott
whose mothers are graduates of the
college. Each fall the alumnae enter-
tains in their honor.

Dean Is Hostess

To Mr. Lester

Miss Nannette Hopkins, dean, was
hostess to Mr. R. M. Lester, at after-
dinner coffee Monday night in the
Alumnae House. Mr. Lester, a mcmber
of the Carnegie foundation, visited
the campus in the interest of the
library.

The guests included Mr. Lester, Dr.
J. R. McCain, Dr. G. P. Hayes, Dr.
Philip Davidson, Mr. S. G. Stukes, Miss
Edna Hanley, and the members of
Mortar Board, Mary Boggs, Mary Jane
Evans, Mary Green, Anna Flumber,
Caroline Long, Frances McCalla,
Alberta Palmour, Nell Pattillo, Martha
Redwine, Loice Richards.

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CLUBS

Pi Alpha Phi
Pi Alpha Phi, debating society, an-
nounces the following new members
taken in at the annual try-outs of the
club this fall: Lucille Dennison, Isabel
McCain, Fannie B. Harris, Frances Bel-
ford, Kitty Printup, Rosalyn Crispin,
Marie Stalker, Nellie Margaret Gilroy.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club met on Tuesday,
October 9, in Mr. Johnson's studio.
The new members were in charge of
the program.

B. O. Z.

Try-outs for B. O. Z. will be due
on Friday, October 19. Short stories,
personal or formal essays may be sub-
mitted; freshmen are inelligible. Edith
Merlin, president of the club, will be
happy to answer any questions con-
cerning the try-out efforts.

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi is entertaining for
students in the Latin and Greek de-
partments of the college with a tea-
dance this afternoon in the gym, at
4:30.

German Club
The German Club held its first meet-
in of the year on Friday, October
12, in the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet Room.
Mary Boggs, president of the club, pre-
sided. Liselotte Roennecke, Exchange
Student from Germany this year, spoke
on university life in Freitag.

K. U. B.

As a result of annual fall try-outs
which were held last week, K. U. B.,
journalism club of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, announces the following new
members: Josephine Jennings, Sara
TomJinson, Mary Richardson, Jo Mc-
Chjre, Mary Hull, Mary Gray Rogers,
Marie Wagner, Lillian Whitehurst,
Barton Jackson, Elizabeth Allison,
Jean Barry Adams, Mary Lillian Fairly,
Eliza King, Jane Turner, and Gladys
Yallebuona.

Mary Walker was elected secretary
of the club at the meeting last Wed-
nesday and Miss Annie May Christie,
of the English department and in-
structor in journalism at the college,
was elected sponsor.

EL U. B., which is affiliated with the
Associated Press, keeps the Atlanta
papers informed on campus activities
and sends notices to the home town
papers of those girls who are elected
to important offices at Agnes Scott.

Brown-Barnett

Wed October 9

The marriage of Penelope Brown,
'32, to Dr. Crawford Barnett, Jr., on
October 9, was an event of great in-
terest to students and faculty alike of
Agnes Scott College.

The ceremony was performed at St.
Mark's Methodist Church in Atlanta
on Tuesday night at eight-thirty. The
church was decorated with white dah-
lias and white chrysanthemums and
lighted by white tapers. The brides-
maids were Sara Lane Smith, '3 2, of
Decatur; Louise Stakely, '32, of At-
lanta; Floyd Foster, '32, of Madison;
and Ruth Pringle Pipkin, '31, of Reids-
ville, N. C. The matron-of-honor was
Mary Miller Brown, '3 2, Penelope's
sister-in-law. After the wedding a re-
ception was held to which a number of
Agnes Scott faculty and students were
invited.

Out-of-town alumnae who came to
the wedding were Betty Peeples, '32, of
Savannah; and Mary Hughes Jones,
ex-'29, of Newnan.

Penelope was most prominent at
Agnes Scott, both during her under-
graduate years and in her connection
with the College as an alumna. While
she was in school here, she was a mem-
ber of Mortar Board, editor of the S/7-
hovette> and director of the Senior
Opera in 1932; in her senior year she
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Since
her graduation Penelope has been Field
Secretary for the Alumnae Association,
in which work she has traveled ex-
tensively in the interests of Agnes
Scott College.

Mortar Board

Entertains at Tea

Mortar Board will entertain at tea
on Saturday afternoon, October 27, in
the Day Students Room in Main for
the members of the freshman class,
parents of day student freshmen, and
faculty members

The committees serving with Anna
Humber, president, are: Invitations:
Frances McCalla, chairman; Mary
Evans, Loice Richards; refreshments:
Nell Pattillo, chairman; Mary Boggs,
Mary Green; decorations: Caroline
Long, chairman; Alberta Palmour,
Martha Redwine.

New York, N. Y. (NSFA) Dr.
Ralph R. Winn, City College of New
York, instructor of philosophy, claims
that the student who sleeps during lec-
tures retains the greatest amount of
information being disseminated.

Eristics Club

Meets Sunday

Eristics, a club primarily for discus-
sion, held its second meeting of the year
on Sunday night, October 14, at the
home of Miss Catherine Torrance. Fol-
lowing the program for this year out-
lined at the first meeting, the subject
for discussion was the historical back-
ground of the Jewish race, its theology,
and the political and social status of
the Jew in America today. Anna
Humber, Mary Boggs, Mary Ames,
Marian Calhoun, Mary Jane Evans,
Mary Virginia Allen, Eva Poliakoff,
Lulu Ames, Rosalyn Crispin, and Cath-
erine Bates were present; Anna Hum-
ber was elected chairman of the group.

At the next meeting to be held on
Sunday night, October 2 8, Rabbi
David Marx of Atlanta is expected to
be present to talk informally and to
lead a round-table. The meetings
thereafter are to deal with the back-
ground of the Negro American, his his-
tory in this country, and his place in
the changing conditions of the New
South. Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, execu-
tive director of the Association of
Southern Women for the Prevention of
Lynching, will lead the discussion for
one of these meetings.

Eristics was organized some years
ago by Miss Torrance. Its name is de-
rived from a Greek word meaning
"those who discuss." The membership
is limited to juniors, seniors, and alum-
nae who are interested in discussing
vital social, religious, and political
questions of the day.

Faculty Holds

Bacon Bat

The faculty of Agnes Scott College
held its annual official bacon bat in the
basement of the First Methodist
Ch urch of Decatur on Saturday, Oc-
tober 6. Dr. S. M. Christian, of the
Physics department, Miss Ada Page
Foote, Miss Page Ackerman, and Miss
Mildred Hooten were in charge of the
arrangements. The honor guests at the
bat were Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn,
Miss Nancy Rogers, Miss Nelle Cham-
lee, and Miss Polly Vaughan, new
members of the faculty for this session.

According to Dr. Christian, chair-
man of the arrangements committee,
Dr. Philip G. Davidson, head of the
department of history, presided over
the frying pan. All the faculty mem-
bers, Dr. Christian said, joined in play-
ing "rustic" games, such as Brain Fever
and Mr. Smith Had a Rooster. The bat
lasted from five until about seven.

The bacon bat is a custom of some
years standing. Each fall, it is given
as soon after the opening of the school
year as possible. Usually it is held in
the woods around a bonfire but the
unusually wet weather of this fall
made it necessary to have it within
doors.

4

The Agonistic

Millay Poems Put
On Special Shelf
For Open Reserve

Eight collections of poems by Edna
St. Vincent Millay, who lectures here
on November 23, have been placed on
a special shelf to the left of the reserve
desk in the library.

The books are: The King's Hench-
man, Second April, Renascence, Three
Plays, The Lamp and the Bell, A Tew
Tigs from Thistles, Fatal Interview,
and The Buck in the Snow.

A list of articles on Miss Millay, bio-
graphical and critical, covering sub-
jects of her personality, her accom-
plishments, and her genuis, is posted
above the shelf. This list includes:
"Edna St. Vincent Millay, ,, by Har-
riet Monroe, Poetry, Vol. 24, pp. 260-
266; August, 1924; "First Glance," by
Carl Van Doren, in Nation, Vol. 124,
p. 263; "The Greatest American
Opera," in Review of Reviews, Vol.
75, pp. 435-436, August, 1924; "The
Literary Spotlight," in Bookman, Vol.
5 6, p. 2 72; "Miss Millay Goes Over
the Top," by Charles W. Ferguson, in
Bookman, Vol. 6 5, pp. 83-85 ; "Miss
Millay's Sonnets: Fatal Interview," in
Neiis Republic, Vol. 66, pp. 3 3 5-336;
"The Reascending Sonnet: Fatal Inter-
view," reviewed by O. W. Firkins, in
Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 7,
p. 793; "Youth and Wings: Edna St.
Vincent Millay, Singer," by Carl Van
Doren, in Century, Vol. 106, pp. 310-
316, January, 1923.

Two current articles about Miss Mil-
lay appear also on the reserve shelf.
"Husband of a Genius," narrated by
Allan Ross MacDougall, gives an in-
sight into the personality of the poet
from the viewpoint of her husband,
Eugene Boissevain. Elizabeth Breuer
gives her interpretation of the poet in
her article entitled, "Edna St. Vincent
Millay."

ALUMNAE

From the literary field:

Roberta Winters, '26, who teaches
school at New Haven, Conn., has had
a play accepted.

Marian (McCamy) Sims, '20, of
Charlotte, N. C, has published a novel,
"Morning Sale," which is now on sale
at Miller's Book Store. For the past
two years Mrs. Sims has done out-
standing work as a short story writer
for Collier's and The Ladies Home
Journal.

From the class of 1934:

Dorothy Cassel is taking a business
course in Atlanta this winter.

Peggy Kump is studying medicine in
Virginia.

Dorothy (Walker) Palmer is now
living at 607 Seminole Ave., Atlanta.

Frances (Farr) Plunkett, '34, is liv-
ing on ByWay, in Atlanta.

Mary Ames, '34, is working at Dun
and Bradstreet, in Atlanta.

SOPHOMORES CAPTURE PRIZE

W ITH 'REVERE THE SOPH"

(Continued from page 1, column 5)

Zoo Mary Brown.

Baby Ann Taylor.

Queen of Mars Jean Barry Adams.

Kitty, the heroine Jane Hashagen.

Themes, Queen's Bodyguard Vir-
ginia Watson, Dorothy Kelly, Julia
Telford, Enid Middleton.

"Revere the Soph"

Heed, the Town Crier Kathryn
Bowen.

Revere, the Soph Frances Balkcom.
What!, the Villager Kathryn Pea-
cock.

She's, the Lady Kitty Printup.
Probably, the Dean Elizabeth Alli-
son.

It's, the Girl Rosa Wilder.
"Elle est," the Maid Frances Bel-
ford.

Why, the House President? Frances
Wilson.

Here-Comes, the Soldier Lucile
Dennison.

Laud, the Judge Mary Jane Tigert

Boo, the Frosh Alice Taylor.

Razz, the Frosh Florence Lasseter.

Ah-Ha, the Frosh Julia Thing.

Page, the Waiter Barton Jackson.

Just, the Judges Mary Buchholz,
I )oorthy Lee.

We, the Jury Lucille Cairns,
Frances Cary, Martha Sue Laney, Isabel
McCain.

From non-graduates:

Martha Edmonds, '3 6, is married to
Dr. J. P. Allen.

Adeline Rountree, '3 6, is studying
art in Switzerland.

Peggy Alston, '37, is in Europe for
several months of travel.

Carolyne Clements, Virginia Mc-
Curdy, Beverly Peeples, and Kathryn
Wallace are at the University of Geor-
gia.

Cecilia Baird and Sara Forester, '37,
are at school in Washington, D. C.

At Carolina this year are Mary
Potts, Anne Baker, and Mildred Cohen.

Jean Hicks and Ruth King are at-
tending Emory University.

Ovieda Long is at Duke University,
and Dorothy Peacock, Alabama.

New York, N. Y. (NSFA) To
determine the quality of the mind
trained by a four-year college course,
the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching spent six years
studying educational institutions in
Pennsylvania.

A few findings resulting from in-
telligence, culture and general knowl-
edge tests given to thousands of stu-
dents are:

3 0 per cent of all seniors in six col-
leges ranked below the average fresh-
man in the general culture tests.

Average college sophomores knew
the meaning of 5 5 out of 100 com-
monly used words. Two more years
of exposure enabled the same student
to recognize 62 in 100.

Average intelligence of seniors in
four high schools was above that of
all college sophomore candidates for
an education degree.

Y.W.C.A. Announces
Freshman Cabinet
For Coming Year

On Wednesday morning, October
10, in chapel, Caroline Dickson, vice
president of Y. W. C. A., announced
the following girls elected to the Fresh-
man Cabinet of Y. W. C. A. for this
year: Jean Barry Adams, Elizabeth
Blackshear, Beth Bowden, Jean Chalm-
ers, Laura Coit, Elizabeth Cousins,
Anne Worthy Johnson, Winifred
Kellersberger, Eliza King, Martha
Long, Ellen McCallie, Mary Past, Ann
Thompson, Jane Turner, and Zoe
Wells.

The system of electing Freshman
Cabinet was changed this year because,
according to Caroline Dickson, the old
method had the reputation for show-
ing partiality in the selection of the
ten girls. Up until this year, the mem-
bers of Freshman Cabinet have been
selected by the officers of Y. W. C.
A.; many of the decisions have depend-
ed on recommendations from the Ad-
ministration. The purpose of Freshman
Cabinet then was to provide a club
especially for freshmen during the fall
and winter months when so few cam-
pus organizations allow freshmen to
try out for membership. This year,
however, each freshman in the class
nominated five girls; the fifteen who
received the largest number of votes
compose the Cabinet. The work of the
Cabinet is to be wider in scope this
year than formerly; the freshman class
is to be divided into fifteen groups
and each member of Freshman Cabinet
will be responsible for one of the
groups. She will then be expected to
see that her group members go to
chapel, try out for the clubs to which
they are eligible, and to help them in
any way that she can with their lives
on the campus.

Caroline Dickson plans to meet with
Freshman Cabinet regularly and to help
them carry out their program of work
for this year.

The whole purpose of the change in
election of members, organization, and
work of Freshman Cabinet is to make
the freshmen feel that it is their own
organization, managed by girls of their
own selection, and working toward a
goal common to them all a complete
understanding of the ideals and tra-
ditions of Agnes Scott College.

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fine feathers. Tobacco companies col-
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spent tor sewing materials, which just
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FERA appropriations aimed to increase
college enrollment this year have been
apportioned to approximately 12 per
cent of the students now registered
throughout the country. In every case
applications for jobs available were
double the number possible to fill.

Financial need, scholastic record and
priority of application were the factors
considered in alloting positions. And
because of overflow requests the work
has in many cases been divided between

two students who will execute the job
during alternate months.

Such varied occupations as check-
ing traffic and parking violations, re-
pairing furniture, tending children,
testing water and milk, tree surgery,
construction of campus improvements,
research, library, stenographic and
clerical work are included in lists of
jobs filled.

Aggie, Darling:

Please, please, say you've been miss-
ing me. It's been the longest ages
since I've heard a word from you, and,
my dear, take it from me, there's no
emotion in the world worse than lone-
liness. Honest, it's the most lonesome
teeling, so sort of alone-like. You see
what I mean.

But I'm so glad to be back you ever
saw. And things have been happening
helter-skelter all over the place. By
"things" I mean well things and stuff.
And I can hardly wait to tell you. Of
course you must promise first to keep
everything a dead secret between us
(maybe to your room-mate, but on
your honor, nobody else) on account
of I promised not to tell and you can
see what a terrible thing it would be if
the person I promised not to ever found
out because she'd be perfectly furious
since she promised and it would get
her in a lot of trouble.

One of the deepest darkest secrets is
about Dotty Hutton. You wouldn't
think it of her, because with that sort
of ethereal and untouched blondness
she looks angelic for all the world, but
do you know what she says in a mo-
ment of calm contemplation? She
says

"Early to bed
And early to rise
Makes a girl healthy
And wealthy and wise . . . but she
never meets the right kind of people."
Whoops, my lambie, just whoops!!

I wonder was it the right kind of
people the Richards gal was with the
other night when she had her gay mis-
adventure? There was a slip of a moon,
and the quiet stillness of water, and a
soft breeze, and the most wonderful of
men oh, Aggie, it was so beautiful
there are tears in my eyes. Riding
around Avondale Lake, they were,
the two of 'em, when the gal
noticed a misty vapor floating over
the waters and the roadway ahead.
"Oh," she says, "Oh! Let's drive
through the mists and watch the moon
go down." (That's what she said,
Aggie. Of course we all know that
mists are very obscure to watch
through, and one can never be too cer-
tain of intentions But not that I
would insinuate anything else mercy
no!) And so they drove on a bit and
stopped. The sky above was fraught
with stars, and the water below re-
flected the stars, and there they were
in their private heaven between two
star-hung worlds when Oh dear! The
most wonderful of men coughed slight-

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and they drove off with the speed of
the wind. The mist was nothing less
romantic than the smoke from the
smouldering cremations of substances
disposed of regularly as rubbish and
refuse, and incinerated by the Avon-
dale Gar-bage Department! Slight em-
barrassment and impaired dignity is *
putting it mildly.

Dignity brings to my mind, Aggie,
that group known familiarly as "Mor-
tar Bored," sweet girls, all of them,
with soft voices and modest enthus-
iasm. The other night, after one of
their sanctum Siinctorum sessions they
congregated on the steps of But trick
and intoned in clear young voices:
"Oh here comes Dr. McCa-ain
And how in the world do we know
him?

We know him by his winning smile
He keeps on all the while . . . Boom

. . . Boom ..."
The President, you know, had been
off the campus for a few days and was
not known to have returned. Fancy
their feelings (they were Very fancy,
too) when one of their number hap-
pened to glance at the brightly il-
lumined window of Dr. McCain's of-
fice, and realized that the President
was not more than ten feet away!
Sweet torture!

But, oh goo'ness me, the very best
of all, and I know he won't mind my
telling you, is that at the time when
they made that last simply superb
Ji,uble-entendre (whatever that is) in
the sophomore stunt about chewing
gum and eating things in boxes, well
do you know, Dr. McCain was laugh-
ing and enjoying himself immensely
and all the time rapidly emptying a
box of (no pun on "box") popcorn!
Oh it was simply too absolutely very.

I must run now, dorie, but in clos-
ing do let me tell you what one re-
porter submitted for her Agonistic
try-out. A poem, no less! I hope she'll
try out for the Poetry Club. Honist,
Ag, it's a scream:

Little fishie in the brook;
Papa catch him with his hook;
Mama fry him in the pan;
Baby eat him like a man.
Iley! Hey! Who cares?
Burma Sinn e!

So with a fond toodle-ooo I must up
and away "to the bet-tah things in
life." Farewell, my love.

Fver thine,

Giddy.

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"College Girls In Blossom

Stage," Says Miss Palmer

"Girls in college are just at the blos-
soming stage/' Miss Bertha Palmer, di-
rector of Scientific Temperance In-
struction of the national Women's
Christian Temperance Union, said in
an interview on Friday, October 12.
"And at that period in their lives,
girls are setting the standards that will
be raised for the next generation."

"Girls, now-a-days have changed
since I was one of them. Now, some
girls think that, to be popular, they
must use oaths, and tobacco, and take
liquor but as they grow older they
will begin to realize that those things
are not the things that go to make a
clean, fine, upstanding life. The young
person must decide now, definitely,
whether she or he, either, for that
matter intends to drink or never to
touch it. If the young person says
Tm not going to drink' and makes an
end of it there, his character is better
for the decision; he won't be bothered
by people begging him to drink, not
just because he doesn't like it, but be-
cause he understands that it will im-
pair his judgment and self-control.
Why, from statistics we can show that
more than half the people who 'take
too much,' as they call it, began to
drink when somebody offered them a
little drop of liquor and they couldn't
make the decision then not to drink.
They wavered and they succumbed."

Before Miss Palmer became active in
W. C. T. U. work she was Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction for the
state of North Dakota. In connection
with her W. C. T. U. work Miss Palm-

er did special research in the Alcohol
Investigation Library of the Scientific
Temperance Federation in Boston; she
brought together the second largest
collection of material on this subject
in the world. The information, facts,
and figures that she got from her study
in Boston she has incorporated into a
Syllabus in Alcohol Education.

Miss Palmer walked about her room
in the Agnes Scott Alumnae House
as she talked.

"Girls are beginning to realize, I
think, that they can have their parties,
and their fun, without having 'spiked
punch.' Once I heard a girl at a party
ask the hostess what kind of 'stuff' she
had in the drink, it was perfectly de-
licious. And the hostess said it was
plain fruit juices!"

Miss Palmer stopped her walking a
moment to burrow down into a port-
folio and bring forth many pamphlets
on W. C. T. U. work. When she rais-
ed her head from the case, she con-
tinued, "Furthermore, it is from those
girls who refuse to have their person-
ality standardized, their individuality
crippled by conforming to a group of
customs that are not really customs
but mere modes it is from this group
of girls that the leaders of the next
generation will rise."

Miss Palmer was in Decatur Friday
and Saturday in connection with the
State W. G. T. U. convention held here
the end of last week and the first of
this. She spoke in the chapel on Friday
night; her address dealt with what
alcohol is and what it does to the
human bod v.

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Psych Professors
Have Experiment
Results Published

Assistant Professor Katherine T.
Omwake and Associate Professor Emily
S. Dexter, of the Psychology Depart-
ment of Agnes Scott College, assisted
by Wayve Lewis, college technician,
have just published an article in the
September number of Character ami
Personality, an international quarterly
for psychodiagnostics. The article, en-
titled The Inter-relations of Certain
Physiological Measurements and As-
pects of Personality, presented the re-
sults of the experiments conducted on
the Agnes Scott campus last spring.

The purpose of the research, as stat-
ed by the authors, was "to determine
the inter-relations of certain physiol-
ogical measures; namely, basal metab-
olism, blood pressure, and pulse; and
the relation of these physiological tests
to personality factors, represented by
tests of intelligence, self-sufficiency,
introversion, and dominances, and by
the scholastic average and campus ac-
tivities." Ninety-two juniors and sen-
iors were given tests; among the re-
sults tabulated were the following: ( 1 )
"Calm" subjects have a considerably
lower metabolic rate than "peppy"
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Expected Within Next Week

A preliminary report of the survey
committee which* viewed the possibili-
ties of co-ordinating the work of Agnes
Scott College, Emory University and
Georgia Tech is expected in the next
week, Dr. Harvey W. Cox and Dr. J.
R. McCain revealed Saturday.

How the higher educational work of
Emory, Tech and Agnes Scott can be
effectively co-ordinated will be set
forth in the report of the committee
of distinguished educators who investi-
gated the situation last spring.

In the meantime the boards of trus-
tees of Agnes Scott and Emory have
approved the plan in general, Dr. Cox
and Dr. McCain said. Faculty commit-
tees from the two institutions have
been appointed to study possible co-
ordinated courses beginning in the fall
of 1935.

Separate identity would be main-
tained under the proposed plan, but
the institutions involved would have
the advantage of specializing in one
field without fear of duplication. More
advanced graduate work could be of-
fered and the doctor of philosophy de-
gree would doubtless be obtainable.

"The scheme of co-ordination has
great potentialities," Dr. McCain said
Saturday in commenting on the possi-
bilities of the coming report.

"With Emory, Georgia Tech and
Agnes Scott functioning cooperativelv
as one great center of learning, not
only would Atlanta and the state bene-
fit hugely, but the necessary spark
might be struck that would lead to
similar developments in other metro-
politan centers and, eventually, to an
intellectual renaissance in the south,"
he said.

Dr. McCain is especially interested
in the proposal that Emory start a
school for training social workers. He
said that such a school is one of the
greatest needs in the southeast.

President Cox, of Emory, stated that
he felt "fairly certain that the survey
committee, headed by Dr. Works, will
recommend that we establish a grad-
uate school for training social work-
ers." He said that "it will probably
recommend also that we develop our
work in the fields of fine arts and
business administration. Doubtless
there are other fields, such as southern
history and literature, in which we
might soon offer graduate work of a
superior quality, because of the accessi-
bility of materials for research."

"I think our situation in Atlanta is
ideal for such a plan of coordination
as has been suggested," the Emory
president continued. "Agnes Scott is a
woman's college, emphasizing the arts
and sciences and the fine arts, especial-
ly music; Georgia Tech is a highly spe-
cialized institution for men, confining
its efforts almost entirely to instruc-
tion in the various fields of engineer-
ing; Emory University, while it is built
around a college of arts and sciences
for men, includes a number of profes-
sional schools and is devoting more and
more of its attention to graduate work
and research. There is little if any
competition among the three institu-
tions."

In Toronto, Canada, and in Cleve-
land, the co-ordination plan has been
successfully worked. Three colleges of
different denominations pooled their
educational ecorts in the Canadian
with the provincial university. In a
similar way Atlanta's possibilities as an
educational center by coordinating
Agnes Scott, Emory and Tech has been
recognized for several years.

Last spring the Lewis H. Beck
Foundation provided funds for a sur-
vey of these three Atlanta institutions
which are recognized by the Associa-
tion of American Universities. Headed
by Dr. Robert Hutchins, president of
the University of Chicago, a commit-
tee was appointed to come here for the
purpose of determining whether the
coordination plan is workable. Mem-
bers of the committee which visited
Atlanta and surveyed the three col-
leges were Dr. Hutchins, Dr. L. D.
Coffman, president of the University
of Minnesota; Dr. E. P. Embree, pres-
ident of the Julius Rosenwald fund;
E. E. Day, of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion, and Dr. George Works, of the
University of Chicago.

Dr. McCain, of Agnes Scott, said
Saturday that one of the needs is for a
graduate school on the Ph.D. level.
"Our greatest need," he said, "is for
an institution fully equipped to offer
the Ph.D. degree. There are more than
10,000,000 white people in this section
of the southeast who have almost no
access to the type of graduate work
that is available in the great universi-
ties of the east and middle west. The
first aim of our cooperation, I would
say, is to develop a graduate school of
high caliber in Atlanta."

The Ph.D. degree would probably
be offered only in certain fields.

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Both teams are brought here by the
National Student Federation and will
each engage in about thirty debates
during their six-week stay in this coun-
try. One team from Oxford will tour
in the East and the other representing
the English National Union of Stu-
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Colleges.

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Book-Exchange

A second-hand book exchange is
being operated this year for the first
time, by the Student Government As-
sociation, for the convenience of stu-
dents wishing to buy or sell used books.
The exchange is conducted on a non-
profit-making basis, and has made over
5200 for students whose books it has
sold, and saved possibly twice that
amount for those who would otherwise
have had to buy new books. It elim-
inates the confusion caused in former
years by the attempts made by the stu-
dents themselves to find purchasers for
their books or to locate used books to
buy.

The idea originated last spring with
the Student Government Association,
which asked members of the outgoing
senior class to donate their books as a
nucleus for the exchange. This fall
over 600 other books were turned in,
22 S of which have been sold.

That the exchange has been a great
success, especially considering the fact
that this is its first year, is the decided
opinion of Lilly Weeks, who is in
charge of the business details. Accord-
ing to Miss Hopkins, the exchange will
operate next year, and for as manf
years as it continues to justify itself
by its usefulness.

For the remainder of this semester
the book exchange, which has its
headquarters in the basement of Main
building, will be open for business
every Monday and Friday afternoon
from one to three o'clock, and prob-
ably oftener at the beginning of the
second semester to take care of the
increase in business expected as a re-
sult of the changes in the courses of
many of the students.

The committee in charge of the ex-
change consists of Adelaide Stevens,
chairman; Carolyn McCallum, Alice
McCallie, and Kathryn Bowen.

CONSIDER THE STRIKER IN THE
MILL

(Continual from page 2, column 3-
the contrary, it is showing the finest
type of impartiality.

In answer to the loudly- voiced and
oft-repeated arguments of mill owners
and stockholders that this policy will
increase strikes, that they pay most
taxes and do not want their money
spent in direct opposition to their in-
terests, and that workers will in the
very near future go on strike when
there are no grievances at all in order
to receive the relief money without
having to work for it there is this to
say: If strikes increase, perhaps the
necessity for strikes will decrease. In
other words, if the employers know
that any illegal oppression will bring
a strike in which the workers have an
equal chance to win, perhaps there will
be a little more caution. As to the
argument that the mill owners pay
most of the taxes, the question arises,
where did they get the money to pay
the taxes, and the incomes which are
taxed, if not from just such underpay-
ment of workers as most strikes are
protesting? The fact that employers
are able to pay more taxes than practic-
al! \ .ill their employees put together is
not one chat 1 would publicize, were I
in the bosses' places during a strike.

The contention that workers will
stop work for the relief is frankly ab-
surd. Small as are a mill worker's
\n.il;cs, the amount received In anyone
on strike is even smaller. No one would
Voluntarily live on $1 a week a person
v.ln> had an\ choice. Again had this
been their ideal they could long ago
have given up their jobs there were
plentx who would have taken them.

The arguments of those who say
that the relief is not beneficial to labor
it sell are harder to answer. Thev argue
that if the government has the right
to determine which strikers should re-
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Trail Club Meeting

Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, instructor in
voice, and Dr. George P. Hayes, head
of the English department at Agnes
Scott, attended the fifth annual meet-
ing of the Georgia Appalachian Trail
Club held Saturday and Sunday, Oc-
tober 13 and 14, at the Cloudland Park
Hotel, in Cloudland, Ga. Mr. Bentos
MacKaye, vestor of the Appalachian
Trail Club, delivered the principal
address.

Dr. Hayes and Mr. Johnson are both
members of the club, which has camp-
ing sites in the Georgia mountains. It
was organized some years ago with the
aim to give to business and professional
men and women an opportunity to get
away from the city and to find rest
and recreation in a day's camping out
in the mountains.

Mr. Johnson is the leader of the De-
catur group.

Glee Club Gives
Vocal Concerts

A system of Wednesday night con-
certs to be presented by the vocal
classes has been inaugurated, according
to Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, instructor of
voice at Agnes Scott College. The type
of program will vary from week to
week, Mr. Johnson said, and the con-
certs should prove to be not only of in-
terest to the students but helpful to
the singers as well.

The special chorus, made up of
members of the Glee Club, has been
invited to fill a number of engage-
ments in Atlanta during the fall, Mr.
Johnson announced. On October 2 3,
the ch orus will sing before the lunch-
eon meeting of the Atlanta Civitan
Club, and on November 7, before the
convention of the Southern Associa-
tion of Colleges.

As in former years, the Agnes Scott
choir will present a program of Christ-
mas carols at the First Baptist Church,
in Atlanta.

will develop fascist tendencies in regard
to labor and the government will have
the power to determine which strikes
will be won and which lost, by decid-
ing which shall receive relief. It is my
opinion that the government should
not have the right to make this de-
cision. Either the relief should be given
to all strikers indiscriminately, or an
impartial committee composed of em-
ployers and employees or their repre-
sentatives should decide.

If the principle of feeding strikers
becomes current in American life, then
the New Deal will have really been a
new deal for the American worker, for
the cards will have been distributed
more equally, the scoring will be less
projudiced, and the chances for a grand
slam more even, by reason of the play-
ing as well as the dealing.

Students Assist In
Gym Department

This season seven students are as-
sisting Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Miss
Harriette Haynes, and Miss Page Ack-
erman in the physical education de-
partment. They are: in tennis, Helen
Handte and Julia Thing; in archery,
Isabel McCain; and in swimming, Ann
Coffee, Mary Kneale, and Kitty
Printup.

Interest in all the athletic activi-
ties is manifold. Classes in riding,
swimming, hockey, tennis, golf, and
archery show much enthusiasm, es-
pecially in the freshman class.

Riding this year is with the Biltmore
Riding School. Golfing enthusiasts
tread the green at Forrest Hills. Swim-
ming, hockey, tennis, and archery are
at the gym.

Archery has such fascination for its
proponents that already many arrows
have been broken.

A swimming meet ill be held with-
in the next few weeks. Class teams
will participate.

The first hockey game is scheduled
for next Friday, October 19, at 3:30.
The freshman-senior team will play the
sophomore-junior team.

SPAIN HAS COME

TO THE CROSSROADS

(Continued from page 2, column 3-
our national aspirations," was their
declaration.

The Catalans seized the occasion to
declare their independence of the cen-
tral government when labor was rising
in all parts of Spain against the regime
of President Zamora and Premier Ler-
roux. Such a labor revolt has been
smouldering since the election of the
present Cortes, in which the Conserva-
tives won a large plurality. Although
the Conservative leader, Senor Robles,
declared that his party would support
the new Spanish constitution, his de-
fenses were held to be insincere. A
Socialist revolt began to be organized
charging that the new government had
definite Fascist tendencies, thus threat-
ening labor in the nation.

Although the two revolutions broke
at the same time, there was no inten-
tion on concerted action for a politi-
cal overture and the complete social-
ization of Spain. The parties were
working each for itself and with dis-
tinct purpose.

The central government at Madrid
has proceeded severely against each re-
volt. Everything in the near future
depends upon the control of the army.
If the Lerroux government can reallv
command and direct the troops it is
fairly certain to emerge triumphant in
this crisis. A military dictatorship has
been forecast as inevitable if the gov-
ernment does not quiet the revolution-
aries. Spain was ruled by a military
dictatorship from 192 3 to 1929 dur-
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Exhibition Match

To inspire interest in the forthcom-
ing tennis tournament, the Tennis
Club sponsored an exhibition match
Friday afternoon, October 12, between
Etta Coyne, former state champion,
and Gladys Vallebuona, runner-up for
the school championship last year. The
match was played on the clay courts
beside the gymnasium, with Dr. Philip
Davidson and Dr. George P. Hayes,
referees; Marie Stalker and Esther
Soutter, bailsmen; Sara Lawrence and
Helen Handte, linesmen. An increas-
ingly large group of spectators lined
the grass banks on either side of the
courts.

After a beautiful show of skill on
the part of both players, Etta defeated
Gladys 6-2, 6-1.

Etta's poise, even returns, and ac-
curate backhand won admiration from
the spectators. Gladys' fast service,
hard driving, and equally accurate
backhand deserve notice.

Results Announced
In Phvsics Test

A report from the Committee on
Educational Testing of the American
Council on Education showed that the
average made by physics students at
Agnes Scott College on national tests
taken last spring, was a fraction above
the average set for women's colleges.
Dr. S. M. Christian, Acting Professor
of Physics and Astronomy of the col-
lege, revealed last week. The physics
tests, which are sponsored by the
American Association of Physics
Teachers, were given to students in
3>5 colleges, both segregated and co-
educational, all over the United States.

The Committee on Educational
Testing of the American Council on
Education maintains the Cooperative
Test Service which furnishes tests in
all branches of the sciences, the lan-
guages, and mathematics to schools and
colleges in the United States. The frac-
tion above the average for women
which the Agnes Scott students made.
Dr. Christian indicated, was only
slight; it shows definitely, he pointed
out, that women do achieve in a branch
of learning that is not popularly con-
sidered within their sphere.

AURORA ANNOUNCES

PRIZES TO BE GIVEN

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
Buttrick or given to the respective edi-
tors, by October 2>. Cover designs
also due on this date.

The Aurora editors hope to make
the magazine the literary organ of the
student body rather than of the staff,
according to Anna Humber, editor-in-
chief. All who are interested are urged
to contribute, and it is hoped that
greater variety in the types and moods
of contributions may be introduced.

The staff of the Aurora is as follows:

Anna Humber Editor-in-chief.

Lita Goss Assistant editor.

Frances Espy Poetry editor.

Edith Merlin Essay editor.

June Matthews Exchange editor.

N. Margaret Gilroy Book editor.

Mary Virginia Allen Business man-
ager.

Rosa From Circulation manager.

BLACK FRIARS WILL GIVE

SHAW COMEDY

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tra" by Sophacles, and "Pligenia in
Aulis" by Euripides. The Greek plays
are becoming more popular and ate
presented by many other colleges of
the standing and academic ideals of
Agnes Scott.

The club officers this year are:

President Hester Anne Withers.

Vice-president Vera Frances Pruett.

Sec ret a r y Kathryn Bo w e n .

Treasurer Mary Hutchinson.

Properties Ida Lois McDanicl

Costumes Betty Fountain.

Publicity Augusta King.

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NO. 3

MAY DAY SCENARIO CONTEST

WILL CLOSE NOVEMBER 29

Kitty Cunningham, chairman of
May Day Committee, announced on
rriday morning, October 26, the open-
ing of the contest for May Day Festi-
val scenarios. Entries will be received
until November 29. A list of sugges-
tions with references is posted in the
library; new ideas and originality of
presentation plans are acceptable. A
prize is being offered this year for the
best scenario, according to Shirley Chris-
tian, contest chairman. Last year La
VHe (lit Mai, written by Mary Boggs
and Anna Humber, was the winning
entry. Shirley Christian or Kitty Cun-
ningham may be seen for additional in-
formation concerning the scenarios.

Miss Harrictte Haynes will be as-
sisted in directing the festival this year
by Miss Jean Dozier, Agnes Scott
alumna and former chairman of May
Day Committee. Miss Dozier has re-
cently returned from New York City
where she has been studying dancing;
she was on the campus during the ath-
letic rally in September.

The members of the May Day Com-
mittee for this year are: Kitty Cun-
ningham, chairman; Shirley Christian,
scenario chairman; Jane Blick, public-
ity chairman; Mary Snow, poster chair-
man; Alice Chamlee, business manager;
Sarah Nichols, costume chairman;
Jean Kirkpatrick, music chairman;
Adelaide Stevens and Jennie Champion,
dance chairmen.

The May Day Festival is presented
annually in the May Day Dell on the
first Saturday in May. The pageant is
presided over by a queen and hei court
selected by popular vote of the stu-
dents.

French Club Holds
Regular Meeting

The French Club of Agnes Scott
will hold its regular monthly meeting
on Monday afternoon, November 12,
at 5 o'clock. Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Joe
Brown, Mrs. Hal Davidson, Mr. Peter
Porohofchikof, members of the Atlanta
Alliance, will present a short playlet
written by Mrs. Brown.

Later in the fall, the Agnes Scott
French Club will present the play, Le
Narcotique, before the Alliance at the
home of Mrs. Edgar Neely. The cast
for the play will include Elizabeth
Rodrigue, Mary Garland, Ethelyn
Johnson, and Margaret Stokey. The
same play was presented last spring.

Last year three plays were given by
the French Club in which twenty
members took part.

Plans for the rest of the year's pro-
gram are being laid by Betty Foun-
tain, president of the club, and Miss
Lucile Alexander, faculty adviser.

Delegates Sent

To Convention

Nell Pattillo, Marie Simpson, and
Caroline Dickson were sent as delegates
from the Agnes Scott Citizenship Club
to the annual state convention of the
Georgia League of Women Voters, held
in the Atlanta Fulton High School
auditorium yesterday and today, Oc-
tober 3 0-31.

On Tuesday afternoon, the three rep-
resentatives from Agnes Scott spoke
before the convention, presenting a
Federal Employment Service Bill con-
cerning the establishment of non-cost-
ing employment agencies in Georgia.

Tuesday evening the Legal Status
Committee met at the Alumnae Tea
House for dinner. Mrs. Frances Dwyer,
president of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association, is chairman of that com-
mittee.

Silhouette Wins
N.S.P.A. Award

The Silhouette, Agnes Scott College
annual, was awarded last year, for the
fourth time in succession, the cup
given by the National Students' Publi-
cation Association for All-American
rating, it was announced this week.
Elinor Hamilton of Dalton, Ga., was
editor-in-chief and Pauline Gordon of
Chicago, 111., was business manager for
last year.

The cup is awarded yearly to the
best annual graded on the bases of orig-
inality, art work, page balancing, de-
velopment of the theme, and financ-
ing; it becomes the permanent posses-
sion of a publication which has won
it for three years. The cup became the
property of the Silhouette in the fall
of 1933 with the award to the 1932-33
annual.

The rating of last year's annual is,
according to Caroline Long, editor of
Silhouette for this year, the highest
that it has ever received; out of a pos-
sible 1000 points, the Silhouette was
rated 925 points. The award this year
gives Agnes Scott one-third on a sec-
ond cup.

Lawrence Tibbett
To Sing Here Nov. 19

Lawrence Tibbett, concert singer
and opera star, will appear in a recital
November 19, in the second presenta-
tion of the All-Star Concert Series.
This will be Tibbett's third concert
program in Atlanta, although he has
formerly participated in several operas
here. Lawrence Tibbett and John
Charles Thomas are considered the two
greatest concert singers of America,
and are renowned throughout the
world.

Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, who is in
charge of tickets and transportation
for Agnes Scott, announced that ap-
proximately three hundred and ten
student tickets had been sold and
twenty faculty tickets. He also said
that the arrangements for transporta-
tion would be the same as in former
years; that is, that special cars will
leave the underpass at 7:20 P. M. and
stop at Courtland Street in Atlanta.
After the concert the students are re-
quested to go directly to the cars on
Piedmont Avenue.

Civitan Club Has
Agnes Scott Day

On Tuesday, October 2 3, the Civi-
tan Club of Atlanta celebrated "Agnes
Scott Day" at its regular meeting at
the Athletic Club. The special chorus
of the Agnes Scott Choir shared hon-
ors with Dr. J. R. McCain, president
of the college, who was the main
speaker. The subject of Dr. McCain's
talk was "Extra School Education."

The special chorus, known as the
Agnes Scott Sextette, is drawn from
the choir of the college; its members
are Virginia Wood, Augusta King,
Betty Lou Houck, Alice Chamlee, Rosa
Miller, Jane Clark, and Shirley Chris-
tian. Evelyn Wall is accompanist for
the group and Mr. Lewis H. Johnson,
instructor of voice at Agnes Scott, is
the director.

Each year the Civitan Club in At-
lanta makes one day a partial Agnes
Scott day; this year the entire pro-
gram of the luncheon was devoted to
the College.

Changes Are Made
In Entrance Units

Effective the fall session 193 5-36
Agnes Scott College will admit as un-
conditioned freshmen those students
who present for entrance two units of
Latin and two of a modern language,
Registrar S. G. Stukes revealed last
week. Such students, however, must
fill all other entrance requirements. In
addition to satisfying all group re-
quirements for the degree, they will be
expected to choose an extra course
from one of the following depart-
ments: Latin, Greek, or German,
science, or mathematics.

This change, according to Mr.
Stukes, is an outgrowth of the recent
tendency of high schools in the south
to offer only two years of Latin, with
occasionally a provisional third year.
To be eligible for the competitive
scholarship examinations, students are
still required to have at least three
units of Latin, Mr. Stukes said.

DR.J.M. WRIGHT
LEADS CHAPEL

Dr. James M. Wright, professor of
economics and sociology at Agnes Scott
College, was in charge of the Faculty
Day chapel period this morning. This
year the Administration has inaugurat-
ed a system whereby some member of
the faculty will conduct the chapel
hour every Wednesday morning. Trie
type of service to be followed is the
simple devotional one except in cases
where the faculty member has planned
a more elaborate program.

Miss Nannette Hopkins, dean of the
college, led the devotional service on
Wednesday, October 31; Miss Lucile
Alexander, head of the French depart-
ment, will have charge on Novem-
ber 7.

The order in which faculty members
shall take part is arranged by the Com-
mittee on Chapel of the faculty. Mrs.
Alma Sydenstricker, head of the Bible
department, is chairman of the com-
mittee. With the appointment of
Wednesday to the faculty as their day
in chapel, all the chapel periods are
now in the hands of campus organiza-
tions and groups.

On Tuesday morning, October 30,
Dr. Leroy E. Loemker of the Philos-
ophy department of Emory University,
spoke on the subject of Food for
Growth; Dr. Loemker was the second
speaker on the Y. W. C. A. chapel
series, the theme of which this year is
Growth. Miss Louise Hale, associate
professor of French at Agnes Scott
College, opened the series on October
16 with a talk on a Need for Growth.

Each year the Y. W. C. A. selects a
theme for a series of chapel programs;
prominent people from Atlanta and
members of the faculty group discuss
the same topic from the varied points
of view of the speakers. Last year the
Y. W. C. A. chose as its theme the
Greatest Thing in Life.

Dean Raymond R. Paty, of Emory
University, will discuss Growth
through God on November 13. Ac-
cording to Martha Redwine, president
of Y. W. C. A., speakers for the rest
of the series will be announced later in
the fall.

Community Chest
Drive Is Opened

The Agnes Scott Community Chest
Drive was formally opened on Fri-
day, October 26, in a chapel talk made
by Miss Leslie Gaylord, assistant pro-
fessor of mathematics, and campus
chairman for the Community Chest.

The campus drive is an annual oc-
currence on the campus. The college
contribution ranges, generally, around
$1,000; most of this amount is raised
from the faculty group. This year
Agnes Scott contributed $675. The
campaign closed at noon on Saturday.

EIGHTY-ONE SENIORS WILL BE

INVESTED SATURDAY MORNING

Hampden Comes
To Er longer

Walter Hampden, the greatest living
actor of Shakespearean drama, will
appear at the Erlanger Theater in At-
lanta on Saturday, November 3, in a
matinee performance of Macbeth and,
in the evening, in Richelieu, adapted
by Arthur Goodrich from Bulwer-Lyt-
ton's play.

Walter Hampden (Dougherty) has
enjoyed success as an actor on the Eng-
lish stage as well as the American. He
made his first appearance on the stage
in England with F. R. Benson's com-
pany, which played the classical reper-
toire. For three seasons thereafter he
was the leading man at the Adelphi
Theater in London.

Mr. Hampden's first appearance in
America was in 1907, at the Bijou
Theater in New York, where he was
engaged to support Nazimova in Hall
Cane's plays. He also played in various
Shakespearean dramas there. One of
Mr. Hampden's most noteworthy
achievements was his revival in 192 3-
24, of Cyrano de Bergerac as an inter-
esting and vital possession of the thea-
ter.

In 1925, Mr. Hampden leased the
Colonial Theater and renamed it The
Hampden. He co-starred there with
Ethel Barrymore in Hamlet and Mer-
chant of Venice. Among his other pro-
ductions at his theater, are: Caponsac-
(Con tinned on page 4, column 2)

College Librarian
Attends Conference

Miss Edna R. Hanley, librarian of
Agnes Scott College, returned to the
campus on Saturday, October 20, from
Memphis, Tenn., where she attended a
joint meeting of the Southeastern and
Southwestern Library Associations and
a regional conference of the American
Library Association, October 17-20.
The theme of the meetings was New
Library Patterns for the New Times.

The principal speakers were Dr.
Arthur E. Morgan, chairman, Tennes-
see Valley Authority, Knoxville, Dr.
Howard Odum, of the University of
North Carolina, and Charles H. Comp-
ton, president of the American Library
Association.

Delegates, representing both regions,
were sent from all the southern states
and Texas. There were special sections
devoted to discussion of problems
peculiar to cataloging books, to chil-
dren's departments, and to college and
reference divisions. Book displays
formed a part of the general meeting.
These meetings, according to Miss
Hanley, are most interesting and most
helpful.

President Leaves
For Conference

President J. R. McCain, of Agnes
Scott College, left the campus on
Tuesday morning, October 30, to at-
tend a conference on getting banks
and trust companies to write wills in
behalf of colleges: the conference is
being held this week in Galesburg, 111.
Dr. McCain plans, also, to confer in
Chicago, with the committee which
made a survey of the three colleges in
Atlanta, Agnes Scott College, Emory
University, and Georgia Tech, in the
spring to determine whether a coord-
ination plan is workable here. On his
return trip, Dr. McCain will visit Van-
drcbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. McCain will return to Decatur
on Friday.

Eighty-one seniors will be invested
Saturday morning at 11.30 in chapel
at the traditional investiture ceremony
at which the seniors receive official
recognition of their position. The pro-
cession beginning the ceremony will be
led by the sophomores who, dressed in
white, form an aisle through which
will pass the members of the faculty,
followed by the seniors who will be led
by the class mascot, Charles Raper. Dr.
Ellis Fuller of the First Baptist Church
of Atlanta, will lead the assembly in
prayer, and Miss Annie May Christie,
assistant professor of English, who is
one of the class sponsors, will present
the investiture address.

Investiture is one of the oldest cere-
monies at Agnes Scott, having been ob-
served annually on the first Saturday
of November since 1908. It was in-
stituted, according to Dr. McCain, as
the result of the desire of the college to
testify to the confidence placed in the
seniors. In token of this, Miss Hopkins
places the caps on the seniors after the
fashion of the medieval accolade.

Little Girl Day, another native tra-
dition, will also be observed on the day
before investiture. It is customary for
the seniors to wear children's clothes,
play games and indulge in their last
youthful frivolities before they are of-
ficially invested with the dignity of
seniorhood.

Many of the seniors' families and
their friends arc expected on the cam-
pus at this time.

A. S. Debaters Join
In Open Forum

On November 13, at Georgia Tech,
in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, rep-
resentatives from Emory University,
Agnes Scott College, Mercer Universi-
ty, Georgia Tech and possibly others
will meet in an open forum discus-
sion, the subject of which will be Free-
dom and the New Deal. Sarah Cather-
ine Wood and Marian Calhoun will
speak for Agnes Scott, according to
Dr. George P. Hayes, faculty advisor
to Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes Scott debating
society.

The speeches are limited to five min-
utes this year but additional time will
be granted for talks from the floor.
The number of representatives have
been cut to two; three were sent from
each college, including Agnes Scott,
last fall when the subject under discus-
sion was various phases of the NRA.
Sybil Grant, Mary Ames, and Nell
Pattillo attended from Agnes Scott
last vear.

Freshmen Attend
Mortar Board Tea

The Agnes Scott Chapter of Mor-
tar Board entertained for the freshmen,
the parents of day student freshmen,
and the faculty at a tea from four to
six o'clock on Saturday, October 27
in the Day Students' Room in Main.
The purpose of the tea was to give
the members of the freshman class and
their parents an opportunity to become
better acquainted with each other and
the faculty.

Dr. J. R. McCain, Miss Nanette
Hopkins, and Anna Humber, presi-
dent of Mortar Board, were in the re-
ceiving line. Miss Harriette Haynes,
Miss Louise Hale, and Dr. George P.
Hayes, advisers of the chapter, and ac-
tive members of Mortar Board received
the guests and assisted in the enter-
tainment. Mrs. J. T. Gillespie and Mrs.
H. A. Robinson poured coffee.

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Balkan Situation
Reaches Crisis

EXCHANGES

A GLANCE AT THE CLUBS

The existing condition of campus clubs has provoked not a
few complaints both formal and informal from faculty and stu-
dents who feel that the scattered demands of our extra-curricu-
lar activities are responsible for the atmosphere of hurry-scurry
and unrest which has permeated our campus life. So much time
and energy seem to be diffused into the clubs without satisfying
the interest of the participators or encouraging it with a sense
of accomplishment; we hurry rather aimlessly from meeting to
meeting and return often with an uncomfortable feeling of
things half-done and a secret longing for our lost leisure;

The fault does not lie in the nature of the clubs themselves;
they unite us in our common interests and afford opportunity for
varied development in fields opened by academic work. Each has
its particular usefulness and we would abolish none. The remedy
lies not in elimination of activities but in constructing a more in-
telligent attitude toward them: a more selective participation, a
more efficient organization of each club, and a synchronization
of the schedules, demands, and interests of the clubs as a body.

In advocating a more rigidly enforced selection of activities,
we do not mean to narrow interests but to concentrate them.
The temptation to spread talents thin over a multitude of things
to no avail is strong, but in the varied array of activities at Agnes
Scott, choice is imperative, and it is for each student to choose
wisely and devote herself attentively to her special interest rather
than to approximate the somewhat ridiculous jack-of-all-trades.
The point system attempts to limit the scope of activity in a
mechanical way, but the multiple and ineffectual participation
of many students in the clubs indicates the need of a more direct
and discriminating method of selection.

The clubs themselves stand in need of a renaissance of inter-
est and activity. For the most part they are burdened with "dead
wood," members who only grace the roll, attend meetings oc-
casionally, exhibit a tepid interest, and never pay dues. What an
impediment these are to the development of a plan is easily con-
ceivable, and the club so encumbered can be conducted only in
an inefficient way. This neutral element can be eliminated by
more stringent try-outs and by exacting dues as a necessary part
of memberships; free from this hindrance, its work can be more
equally divided among the members, instead of descending in a
heap on the bewildered officers.

From the problems of the individual club to its relation to the
body of clubs is a step yet to be taken, but in the present con-
dition, a needed one. The conflicting schedules of meetings need
adjustment; the clubs would profit by discussion of their mutual
problems, in view of establishing a time-scheme for meetings and
adopting a more profitable method of try-outs. To this end, we
recommend a conference of club presidents who will attempt to
synchronize schedules, to relate problems and interests, and to
seek a harmony in the varied functions of the clubs in their con-
tact with the campus as a whole.

OUR VERBAL RUT

Among the thousands of words in the English dictionary,
only ten or twelve adjectives have been able to find residence in
the vocabulary of the average Agnes Scott student. To express
joy, she uses grand, marvelous, swell; to voice pain or disgust,
horrible, an ful, terrible, miserable, hateful, while nice and cute
arc brazenly flung at anything from a pair of stockings to a sun-
set. This small band of words so mercilessly overworked has lost
its original force and freshness, become anemic, incapable of giv-
ing body to the vigor and nuances of ideas which are thrust upon
it; consequently, both speaker and listener are left in the realm
of half -ideas and inadequate expression. Among those who are
seeking a footing in the intellectual and artistic traditions of the
English-speaking race, this situation seems lamentable; it be-
hooves us to rouse ourselves from our slovenly vocabularies, to
purge them of the meaningless, to reinforce them with words and
expressions of more precision, more life, more color.

In striving to such an end, we do not advocate five-syllable
words in preference to more effective monosyllables, or the flour-
ishes and furbelows of a pedantic turn of phrase. Nor need
we discourage slang; it is, in a certain sense, our idiom, as Mr.
Untermeycr indicated in his lecture last spring. While it may have
no lasting value, it has a definite present function and a Havor.
We would, then, be neither pedantic nor slovenly in our words,
Imt attempt to attain a more accurate, more vital, more satis-
fying use of them, even though such a method as Three Words

a Dai .

By Suzanne Smith

A dangerous international situation
was produced when King Alexander of
Yugoslavia was assassinated in Mar-
seille. Was it to be a repetition of the
similar circumstances when Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria was killed
in Sarajevo twenty years ago? Diplo-
matic relations were held by such a
fine thread at the time that this seemed
very possible.

This situation arose when Alexander
and Jean-Louis Barthou, the French
Foreign Minister, were brutally shot
during a parade of welcome in the
streets of Marseille, the port at which
Alexander landed on his way to Paris.
For the first time in history photog-
raphers snapped the actual murder.

The assassin, who entered France on
a false passport, was at first thought to
be a Croat but later was proved to be
Vlada Georgeff Tschernocemsky, a
Macedonian terrorist and a former
bodyguard of Ivan Mihailoff, the
Macedonian revolutionary leader now
in exile. Tschernocemsky had tatooed
on his arm the motto and I. M. R. O.,
the initials of the Macedonian secret
society. He used a sub-machine gun
type of revolver and with it he killed
four people and wounded nine others
before he was cut down by the sabres
of the French National Guard.

The nations of the world immediate-
ly feared that Yugoslavia would be the
center of a double danger: from civil
war and from an outside power which
might take advantage of the situation
for its own territorial and political
advantages particularly Italy with
whom they had almost clashed over
Austria and the murder of prime-min-
ister Dollfuss.

Affairs became a little less strained
when Italy gave a positive demonstra-
tion of goodwill and fired a royal salute
as the battleship, Dubrovnik, carrying
the dead king, passed through the
Straits of Messina.

And instead of precipitating a civil
war as had been feared, the assassina-
tion seemed to bring the Serbs and
Croats and Slovenes into closer com-
munion. For years the Croats, who
are much more Westernized than the
Serbs have been trying to gain supreme
power in the state. They had even
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ALUMNAE

Of the alumnae who have recently
married, there are fourteen from the
classes of '3 3, '34, '3 5, and '3 6 whose
weddings have not yet been mentioned
in the Agonistic.

Five marriages in the class of 193 3
are:

Lucile Heath to Jack McDonald on
October 6, 1934.

Mary Frances Torrance to William
Fleming, Jr., of Atlanta on August 16
in Cleveland, Ohio.

Willa Upchurch to Norman Mc-
Collum on October 7.

Marie Whittle to O. M. Wellslager,
Jr., on June 9, in Brunswick, Ga.

Ethel Lucile Stein, cx-'3 3, to W. D.
Wise on June 13, in Alabama.

From 1 % 934 are four weddings:

Dorothy Walker to J. F. Palmer on
June 26 in Ripley, Tenn.

Elaine Heckle to Julian Carmichael
on August 4 at the Peachtree Road
Presbyterian Church.

Harriet Henderson, ex-'34, to J. C.
Heriot on June 26 in Walderboro, S. C.

Virginia Smook, ex-'34, to E. D.
Eubanks on June 19 in Atlanta.

The class of 1936 has three wed-
dings:

Marie Brumby, ex-'36, to John Fow-
ler, Jr., on September 20 in Marietta,
Georgia.

Annie Lou Clark, ex- , 36, to Freder-
ick Scanling on October 3 in Atlanta.

Helen Stanley, ex-'3 6, to J. W. Flynt
on August 18 in Franklin, N. C.

Jean Gould, ex-'3f, married Dan
Carey Clarke of Atlanta this fall; and
Harriet Howard, special, married
Harry Wolf on August 18 in the
chapel of Agnes Scott College.

Doris Batsell, ex-'36, who is attend-
ing the University of Alabama this
year, was in Decatur the week-end of
October 18.

Salt in the amount of 400,000,000
tons is the estimate of the lake bottom
lining of Salt Lake in Utah. At least
this is the estimate of three scientists
who have made a study of the lake.
Beautiful crystals of salt are said to
form a lining two inches thick.
Scientific A m erica n.

It is reported in Rubber Age that
latex, the milky sap of the rubber tree,
is being used in connection with an
inner lining for fur coats. The latex
is applied to the skin and the silk lining
placed over it. The claim is made that
this process not only increases the
warmth of the coat but also strength-
ens the seams where the skins are put
together. Scientific American.

Pigment for aluminum paint is now
available in the form of paste as well as
powder, as a result of several years of
experimental work in the laboratories
of paint manufacturers. Paste offers
the advantage of drying to a very
smooth finish which does not collect
dirt readily and which remains clean
and bright, even in industrial atmos-
phere. Also it is more convenient to
mix because it eliminates loose powder
flying about during mixing. Scienti-
fic American.

Children subject to tonsilitis, enlarg-
ed glands, and ear troubles are more
benefited by the removal of the tons-
ils, Dr. Albert D. Kaiser of the Uni-
versity of Rochester School of Medi-
cine found from a study of a large
group of children for a period of ten
years. Head colds and infections in the
chest, on the other hand, were not
benefited by the removal of the
tonsils. Tonsils may be large without
causing anv trouble and mere size is
no reason for removing them. Science
Service",

The cities of Washington and San
Diego seem to be giving each other
the cold shoulder. According to Naval
Observatory astronomers, these two
cities were about forty feet farther
apart in 1933 than in 1926. This is
said to be due to a shift in longitude
but some doubt has been expressed as
to the accuracy of the calculations. It
wouldn't do for the country to spread
out too much and spill into the oceans!
Scientific American.

Vassar has recently inaugurated a
unique plan for a more free curricu-
lum, says Campus Comments, the pub-
lication of Mary Baldwin College. The
last of Vassar's compulsory courses
have been abandoned. Fifteen instead
of twenty academic courses are re-
qured tor an A.B. degree, tour in the
freshman, sophomore, and junior years,
and three for the senior. The only re-
quirement is that the four freshman
courses be in each of the four general
fields of knowledge.

Students taking a history exam at
the Los Angeles Junior College were
asked to state the Monroe Doctrine
briefly. One paper read, "Scram for-
eigners." The Blue Stocking, Presby-
terian College.

Wanted A sprinkler system in
some classrooms for watering dry sub-
jects and restoring life to mentally
"dead" students. The l'lor-Ala, Flor-
ence State Teachers College.

The West Georgian says that before
marriage a man yearns for a woman;
after marriage the V is silent.

A senior stood on the railroad track
The train was coming fast,

The train got off the railroad track
To let the senior pass.

The l'lor-Ala, Florence State Teach-
ers College.

According to The Florida l'lamtn an,
the students are "growing up." They
will no longer feel as if they are in
the Florida State Convent for Women,
for recently they have been granted the
privilege of dancing with men in the
sorority houses and in the gymnasium
on Friday nights and Saturdays instead
of just on special occasions several
times during the year when the dances
were held in the gym. Also, the girls
are allowed to come in at 11:30 in-
stead of 11:00 at night.

Varied Versions

1. People in glass houses shouldn't
throw parties.

2. One man's loss is another man's
umbrella.

3. A stitch in time saves the loss of
one's clothes.

4. A bird in the hand is bad table
manners.

The Watchtower, Wesleyan College.

BOOK NOTES

Meade Minnegerode's Son of Marie
Antoinette is another attempt to solve
the mystery of the Lost Dauphin.

In The Permanent Horizon: A New
Search for Old Truths, Ludwig Lewis-
ohn reaffirms his faith in "old truths"
as he sees them embodied in the bourg-
eoisie, his faith and hope in the human-
istic tradition: in the essentially relig-
ious, moral, and creative nature of
man. In this work he is primarily con-
cerned with the defense of what he
interprets as the essential ideology
the traditional morality and political
and social liberalism of the middle
class. Mr. Lewisohn, in this hard-hit-
ting, uncompromising defense of the
middle class, offers us a way out of
our spiritual and material morass.

The Story of My Life Marie,
Queen of Rumania.

Never before has the curtain which
screens the intimate life of royalty
from the public gaze been more dar-
ingly elevated.

Ruth Suckow writes what she
knows and observes without attempt-
ing to bend facts to suit a point of
view. Like Willa Cather, she holds
fast to an ideal of integrity in writ-
ing. Her new novel, The Folks, is the
story of a simple family in an Iowa
town and describes the fortunes of the

parents and the scattering of the chil-
dren. One of the best characters is
Margaret, who at twenty-seven breaks
with her home- life and goes to New
York. In Greenwich Village, she joins
the revolt against conventional stand-
ards, but her quiet, puritna beginnings
exert a restraining influence.

Here there are no trumped-up situa-
tions, no shuffling of events for dra-
matic exploitation. The story and the
style in which it is told fit.

Two volumes of Douglas Southall
Freeman'* new biography of /<. B, Lee
are ready: the first covers Lee's early
life, military training, Mexican ex-
periences, and the War Between the
States up to the spring of 1 S 6 2 ; the
second deals wholly with the War and
ends with the death of Stonewall Jack-
son. The author's attempt to see every -
thing as Lee saw it and to describe
e\cnts as they came to Lee's attention
concentrates interest on the Virginia
sector. Military affairs arc interpreted
from the standpoint of the layman.

This may prove to be the important
biography of the fall season.

Retreat from (Uor\ reveals more of
K. M. Bruce Lockhart's associations
with foreign affairs. In it he turns
from his unofficial career in Russia,
related in British Ai>enf, to his role as
commercial secretary to the British
legation in Prague.

The Agonistic

SOCIETY

Mary Pitner attended the Phi Delta
Theta dance at Emory on Saturday.

Virginia Hightower spent the week-
end in Decatur with her aunt, Mrs. E.
D. Akin.

Betty Adams was with Virginia
Little over the weekend at Virginia's
home in Druid Hills.

Nell Hemphill, Elsie West, Beth
Bowden, Carolyn Elliot, and Catherine
Brittingham had dinner with Mr. Brit-
tingham on Thursday night.

Vivienne Trice was at the A. K. K.
dance at Emory on Saturday night.

Jo Jennings spent the week-end with
Augusta King.

Ida Buist and Frances Espy attended
the Biltmore dance on Saturday night.

Rosa Miller spent the week-end with
her aunt, Mrs. Frank Smith.

Jane Allen Webb spent the week-end
with Mary Gillespie.

Jacqueline Woolfolk, Caroline Dick-
son, Frances McCaila, and Mary Jane
Evans had dinner Sunday with Alberta
Palmour at her home in College Park.

Bertha Merrill attended the Phi Psi
dance at Emory Saturday night.

Sarah Edmonson had as her guest
over the week-end Mary Vines.

Janet Gray and Frosty Brown had
dinner with Virginia Gaines on Sun-
day.

Frances Paris spent the week-end in
Athens, Ga.

BAILEY BROS. SHOE SHOP

142 Sycamore St.

Decatur

If You Prize Your Shoes
Send Them to Us

Virginia Turner was at her home in
Summerville, Ga., for the past week-
end.

Martha Young attended a Tau Beta
Sigma sorority ball on Saturday night.

Martha McAfee and Joyce Roper
were guests at a wiener roast at Co-
lumbia Seminary on Tuesday night.

Ann Worthy Johnson, Martha Long,
Gene Caldwell, and Jean Barry Adams
spent the week-end in Rome, Ga.

Meriel Bull and Mary Margaret
Stowe spent the week-end with Kitty
Cunningham.

On Thursday and Friday, October
2 5, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. McCain en-
tertained at their home on South Can-
dler Street, with a Hallowe'en party
for the freshmen. Bobbing for apples,
spooks, and other suitable games were
played. The decorations in the house
carried out the general atmosphere of
the season. Mrs. McCain was assisted
in serving by her daughter, Isabel.

It has become traditional for Dr.
and Mrs. McCain to entertain the
freshmen in the fall with a party; it
is usually given as close to Hallowe'en
a^ possible.

CORRECTION
In the Agonistic, October 17, an
invitation was extended to the college
community at large to attend the
Wednesday night concerts presented
by the vocal classes. The Wednesday
night concerts are not open to the col-
lege community generally; they are
presented for the vocal classes by mem-
bers of the same classes. Mr. Lewis H.
Johnson, instructor in voice at Agnes
Scott College, is in charge of these
presentations.

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Moonlight

And Morons

(Lamentations of Local Star-Gazers)
Picture a quiet pastoral landscape,
cattle lowing in the distance, tall grass
billowing about one's knees and faintiy
caressing the ears of one's Austin, while
the magic of moonlight enfolds one as
a cloak. From the chariot of the gods
there emerge shadowy figures who
pause to gaze in awe enthralled,
spellbound, as those "who in the love
of nature, hold communion with her
visible forms . . ."

When suddenly the veil of illusion
is madly torn from the eyes. All is
bustle and haste. A telescope, fell in-
strument of the morbid curiosity of
man, is set up at an angle as nearly as
possible approaching ninety degrees.
While one, in attempting to behold the
visions of night, crawls upon the
ground in a most undignified manner,
befitting the lowly worm more nearly
than a poetic being attempting to rise
through such contemplation to heights
above the uncomprehending mob, a
professorial voice explains the phenom-
enon of Saturn's golden crown in terms
of Sir Walter Raleigh's neckwear,
Jupiter having already set behind the
local laisy. Next to fall before the cold,
calculating eye of science is the moon
Diana, goddess of the hunt, reign-
ing deity of the night One learns
(shades of St. Nicholas) that all the
sagas of the romantic couple inhabit-
ing the moon are mere fiction, fancies
of a childish brain, froth of the im-
agination upon a sea of fact. The shad-
ows, before filled with all the myste-
rious power of living beings, are mere-
ly seas, empty seas, while the
brighter region contains craters and
mountains, impotently bearing the
names of petty politicians, who, for
some reason unknown to most politic-
ians, turned long enough from worldly
pursuits to attain what might be term-
ed heavenly immortality while Lieb-
netz, Plato, or even Pluto, may be
tolerated in such capacity, it would be
no less than poetic justice for the moon
to disintegrate into its component
atoms and molecules before permitting
the indignity of having some part of
its anatomy labeled "King Fish."

Without the revealing eye of the
telescope to destroy the enchantment
of distance, one turns with all the re-
lief of Napoleon after Waterloo to a
study of the myriad stars which canopy
the night, stars which shone upon the

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Black friars
Blackfriars, the dramatic club of
Agnes Scott College, announces the
following girls who were elected to
membership as a result of the annual
fall try-outs: Mary and Mildred
Thompson, Charlene Fleece, Kitty
Printup, Frances Steele, Mary Beasley,
and Marie Stalker. Tryouts were held
in the chapel on Monday night, Octo-
ber 22.

Try-outs were considered on a basis
of three major points: poise, stage pres-
ence, and originality. The judges were
the Blackfriar Board, and Miss Frances
K. Gooch, head of the Spoken English
department of Agnes Scott College.

According to Hester Anne Withers,
president of the club for this year,
plans are going ahead for the presenta-
tion of You Xci er Can Tell, George
Bernard Shaw comedy, on Friday and
Saturday nights, November 16 and 17.

Cotillion Club

Cotillion Club, dancing club of
Agnes Scott, announces the following
new members as a result of the try-
outs held recently: Katherine Bishop,
Sarah Brosnan, Dorothy Cabaniss, Ellen
Davis, Sarah Davis, Marian Derrick,
Virginia Hightower, Mary Hull, Sarah
Jones, Rosa Miller, Wita Moreland,
Vera Pruet, Katherine Ricks, Lavinia
Scott, Mary Venetia Smith, Elizabeth
Strickland, Nancy Tucker, Jacqueline
Woolfolk, anl Hester Anne Withers.

According to Nina Parke, president
of Cotillion, plans are being laid for the
dance to be held on Thanksgiving Eve
in the gym. As in past years, the en-
tire college community will be wel-
come.

Chi Beta Sigma
Mary Summers was eiected as a dele-
gate to the National Chi Beta Phi
Convention to be held Thanksgiving
week-end in Huntington, W. Va.

Eristics

Eristics, discussion club for juniors
and seniors, met at the home of Miss
Catherine Torrance, on Clairmont
Avenue, on Sunday night, October 28.
Rabbi David Marx, of Atlanta, led the
discussion which was a further study
of the Jew, his religion, his history, and
his status in the world today.

Pen and Brush Club
The Pen and Brush Club will hold
its next meeting on Thursday, Novem-
ber 8, at 7:15. A notice of the place
of meeting will be posted on the bul-
letin board. The program for this
meeting, which will be the first in a
series on Modern Art, will be devoted
to Uzanne, as the leader of Impression-
ism. Sarah Spencer is president of the
club for this year.

French Club
Eleven new members were admitted
to the French Club at fall try-outs held
on Monday afternoon. October 15.
They are: Nell Allison, Jane Turner,
Marie Wagner, Eva Constantine,
Faxie Stevens, Martha Summers, Mrs.
George McKoy, Jule McClatchey,
Ruby Hotton, Jean Kirkpatrick, and
Dorothy Lyons.

B. O. Z.

Mildred Clark and Margaret Robins
were elected to B. O. Z. at its last
meeting, October 29.

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fair head of Juliet in her lyric moment
with Romeo, stars which followed the
course of Ulysses as he wended his way
homeward to the faithful Penelope.
The grass blows in the wind as it does
upon the ruins of ancient Troy, but
alas! a band is flapped in a central
westerly direction with all the enthus-
iasm of a Nazi devotee and one is asked
if she sees a triangle, a trapezno, and
possibly a planetoid or an adenoid, all
assembled at rather precarious angles,
and the whole composing in triumphal
procession Leo, the Lion. Since the
Greeks failed to mention their version
of the creature's relativity, whether
approaching or departing, and since the
matter is inescapable of being ascertain-
ed, one is assailed afresh by the ap-
palling fact of the futility of life.

At this point, as if to recall one from
vain worldly attempts to interpret
heavenly ordained bodies, there comes a
far-off voice calling transporting one
to the hills of ancient Rome, where
shepherds watched their flocks and lis-

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Young man, each girl from babyhood
Is taught she never, -never should
Ask any man a question he canH an-
swer.

The Johnsonian, Winthrop College.

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tened for the pipes of Pan when a
matter-of-fact reply comes jolting
from near by "I'm sorry. She's not
here!"

Alack and alas! Is there no romance
to be found outside the sphere of
Gable's influence, no idealism since the
days of Plato? Is there no place where
a poetic soul may acquire inspiraton,
unhampered and unhindered of the
plebeian sentients, the morbid intrica-
cies of the accumulations of the human
mind through the years? Man does
live by bread alone, so why not let the
moon be made of green cheese?

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ANNUAL PICTURES

ARE DISTRIBUTED

On Thursday and Friday, October
2 5 and 26, Caroline Long, editor of the
Silhouette, distributed 43 0 annual pic-
tures to the students. Mr. Marion
Ware, the representative from Stanley
Studios in Atlanta was on the campus
for eighteen days; each senior had six
poses and all other students four.
Proofs were to be returned by noon
on Saturday, October 27.

All pictures this year, with the ex-
ception of the senior pictures in robes,
were taken in drapes. Editors of the
Silhouette in past years have felt that
more uniformity in appearance could
be gained if all girls were posed in
practically the same thing. Drapes are
being used only as an experiment,
Carloine Long said, and it depends on
how successfully the idea works out
whether drapes for all pictures will be-
come a permanent policy.

Arrangements for retakes can be
made with Caroline Long or any of the
Silhouette staff.

ATHLETIC NEWS

BALKAN SITUATION

(Continued from page 2, column
formed a society with the express pur-
pose to kill Alexander. When it was
proved that the murderer in this in-
stance was not a Croat, much of the
ill-fill between the two groups dis-
appeared. And when the body of
Alexander was carried in state through
Zagreb, the principal city of the Croat-
ans, all animosity was forgotten and,
as a genuine aspect of grief, the lights
of the entire city were extinguished
when the train pulled into the station.

Only three of the eight Serbian
kings have died a natural death while
in office and Alexander himself has
been shot at numerous times. There-
fore he was prepared for what happen-
ed. In a will made last year he named
his cousin, Prince Paul, as the senior
regent to act with Dr. Radenko Stank-
ovitch and Gov. Ivan Perovitch.

Eleven year old Peter II was crown-
ed King of Yugoslavia on October 11
and the regents took the oath of office
before the joint session of the Senate
and the Chamber of Deputies. In their
oath of allegiance they swore to be
faithful to King Peter and to devote
themselves to the cause of preserving
the integrity of the Yugoslavian people
and frontiers.

Prince Paul represents the royal fam-
ily in the regency. The other two
members, one a Serb and the other a
Croat, arc both sympathetic to Croat-
ian aspirations. Should anything hap-
pen to them the deceased King has
named three substitutes, the chief of
which is the hated Fcneral Vojeslav
Tomitch, commander of the Belgrade
Garrison.

Juniors Victorious
In Hockey Games

The junior hockey team has been
victorious in the last two games. Fri-
day, October 19, it defeated the soph-
omore team by a score of 7 to 1, and
Friday, October 26, it defeated the
freshman team, 3 to 0. A cheering sec-
tion in the stands enlivened both
games.

Outstanding playing in each game is
marked down by some member of the
Varsity Hockey Council, on which are
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Sarah Bow-
man, Anne Coffee, Frances McCalla,
and Lena Armstrong.

Outstanding plays in the first game
were made by Cary, at the goal;
Handte, with five goals; and by Stev-
ens with two goals. For the second
game notice is made of Armstrong, for
good dribbling; Keeler, for good inter-
cession; Coit, for pretty goal work;
Hart, for good running and consist-
ency of playing; Brown, for teamwork,
and Lemmon, for accuracy of shots.

The line-up for the game October
19 is as follows: for the juniors, Blick,
r.w.; Burson, r.i.; Handte, c; Derrick,
Li.; Stevesn, l.w.; McClure, r.h.; Arm-
strong, c.h.; Crenshaw, l.h. ; Miller,
r.f.; Estes, l.f.; Townsend, g.g. For the
sophomores: Belser, r.w.; Walker, r.i.;
Kennedy, c; Johnson, Mary, Li.; Stalk-
er, l.w.; Harris, r.h.; Wilder, c.h.;
Kneale, l.h.; Taylor, r.f.; Hertwig, l.f.;
Cary, g.g.

The line-up for the game October
26 is as follows: for the juniors, Hart,
r.w.; Burson, r.i.; Handte, c; Stevens,
Li; Derrick, l.w.; Miller, r.h., Arm-
strong, c.h.; Crenshaw, l.h.; Townsend,
r.f.; Estes, l.f.; Forman, g.g. For the
freshmen: Brown, r.w.; Henderson,
r.i.; Thompson, c; Coit, LL; High-
tower, l.w.; Allison, r.h.; Lemmon,
c.h.; Hassell, l.h.; Jeffers, r.f.; Keller,
l.f.; Robinson, g.g.

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BALKAN SITUATION

(Continual from page 1, column 4)
chi, Ibsen's Enemy of the People, Light
of Asia, and Bonds of Interest.

Tickets for the performances in At-
lanta are now on sale. The matinee
prices are: Orchestra, $2.20, $1.65;
mezzanine, $1.65; balcony, $1.10;
$.83. In the evening the prices will be:
Orchestra, $2.75, $2.20; mezzanine,
$2.20; balcony, $1.65, $1.10. Unre-
served gallery seats may be had for
$.5 5. The matinee begins at $2:15, the
evening performance at 8:3 0.

Sports Editorial

By Harriette Haynes
I feel more or less like the ancient
medicine man or soap box "spieler," in
that I know of something which will
about cure all ills and in addition make
you better looking. Like him also I'll
stand on any street corner and peddle
my wares. Unlike him, though, my
wares have real elements backing them;
if you do certain definite things, sure
results will be obtained. It's not just
hokum and a bundle of herbs to take.
You must exercise good and hard if
you are going in for the "cure" of
which I speak.

1. The shoes for campus wear
must be of soft leather, a broad, low
heel, and a straight inner border.

2. The feet inside the shoes must be
used with a certain degree of lightness,
and the whole foot employed in walk-
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3. The abdomen must be strong and
flat, the hips under.

4. Number three can be more ef-
fective if you will work on number
four. That is sit well back in your
chair, feet resting on the floor or one
leg crossed over the other in class at
least.

5. The shoulders low.

6. The chest up.

7. The head raised ready to meet
whatever situation may arise.

8. Combine them all and, to use a
well known phrase, "Walk, stand, and
sit with ease and grace, and you will
have gained a personal victory which
no one can take away from you."

(Emphasis on posture will begin the
health program to be carried out by the
Physical Education Department this
year.)

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Tennis Club Admits
Eight New Members

At the fall try-outs held this year on
Thursday, October 18, the Tennis Club
took in eight new members, according
to Mary Kneale, president. The new
members are: Liselotte Roennecke,
Frosty Brown, Marie Stalker, Alice
Turner, Martha Young, Eleanor Lem-
mon, Sarah Catherine Wood, and Eva
Constantine.

The club's membership totals six-
teen. Plans are being made for a lively
schedule of matches for this fall.

REPORTERS FOR THIS

ISSUE OF AGONISTIC

Elizabeth Warden
Eliza King
Eleanor Whitson
Lavinia Scott
Jessie Jeffers
Mary Lillian Fairly
Katherine Hertzka
Gene Brown
Josephine Jennings
Jean Chalmers
Sara Steele
Mary Richardson
Ruth Hertzka
Jane Guthrie
Elizabeth Warden
Laura Steele
Jacque McWhite
Betty Maynard
Ora Muse
Sarah Johnson
Ida Lois McDaniel

ALEXANDER ELECTED
SENIOR PRESIDENT

Elizabeth Alexander was elected
president of the seniors at a class meet-
ing on Saturday, October 27, to fill the
vacancy left by Mary Boggs who has
resigned to become editor of the
Agonistic.

DR. RAPER DISCUSSES
STRIKE SITUATION

Dr. Arthur F. Raper, acting profes-
sor of sociology at Agnes Scott College,
discussed in chapel on Thursday, Oc-
tober 2 5, the strike situation. His talk
opened a series of speeches to be made
monthly this year on current problems.
This service is sponsored by the Agnes
Scott division of the National Students
Federation Association.

Dr. Raper, in his speech, placed spe-
cial emphasis on the point that the gen-
eral public as consumers should exer-
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934

NO

Seniors Receive Caps from Miss Hopkins

Miss Hopkins, dean; Elizabeth Alexan der, senior class president; Sarah Cook

SENIOR CLASS IS
INVESTED NOV. 3

Education Stressed As Trust by
Speaker.

The traditional investiture ceremony
of Agnes Scott College, at which
eighty-one seniors were invested with
the dignity and responsibility of their
position, was held in Gaines Chapel on
Saturday morning at 11:45. Miss
Annie May Christie, of the English
department of the college and one of
the sponsors of the class, delivered the
principal address; her subject was
"Education: A Trust."

According to the tradition, the
seniors preceded by the faculty and led
by their class mascot, Master Charles
Raper, entered the chapel between two
rows of sophomores, their sister class,
dressed in white. Dr. Ellis Fuller,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Atlanta, led the assembly in prayer,
after which President J. R. McCain, of
Agnes Scott, spoke a few words of
welcome.

Miss Christie, in presenting the
theme of her talk, said that education
is a trust "accompanied by an obliga-
tion to use it for what it was in-
tended." The three demands of the
college upon the graduates are, she said,
that of living so that education will
be of some use to the individual, that
of being independent, discriminating,
open-minded thinkers and not "blind
followers of ready-made ideals," and

(Continued on page 3, column 5)

Emory Announces
Lecture Program

Frances Homer, talented interpreta-
tive actress, will be presented at Glenn
Memorial auditorium, at 8:15, on
Wednesday, November 14, as the first
presentation of the Student Lecture
Association, according to an announce-
ment by Dr. Ross H. McLean, pro-
fessor of history at Emory University,
and faculty adviser to the association.
Miss Homer will offer her latest pro-
gram, "Ladies of Destiny," giving
glimpses into the lives of Cleopatra,
Nell Gwynn, Empress Josephine, Lady
Hamilton and others.

Other numbers of the Lecture
Ticket will be the presentation of Dr.
Archibald Henderson of the University
of North Carolina, on January 14, who
will speak on "Bernard Shaw, Playboy
and Prophet"; Dr. William Beebe,
famous scientist, author, and explorer,
on February 8; Drew Pearson, well-
known newspaper man, and one of
the authors of Washington Merry-Go-
Round, on March 11; and the Very
Rev. Cyril A. Alington, educator, min-
ister, and writer, on April 8, who will
lecture on "The Objects of Educa-
tion."

Season tickets are being offered to
the general public for $1.5 0; tickets
to the individual lectures will be 5 0c
for adults. Season tickets may be
bought at the door on November 14.

S. M. BOUTON LECTURES
ON "GERMANY TODAY"

S. Miles Bouton, veteran foreign cor-
respondent for the Associated Press,
will lecture on "Germany Today" at
the Temple House tomorrow night at
8 o'clock. He will speak under the
auspices of the Temple Sisterhood.

Mr. Bouton has spent twenty-three
years in Germany for the Associated
Press, the Baltimore Sun, the Brook-
lyn Eagle, and other American news-
papers. He was with the German
armies during the first two years of the
World War; his book "And the Kaiser
Abdicates" is a standard work on the
German revolution. Mr. Bouton first
met Hitler in 1922; since that time
he has been on the scene to watch the
Nazi rise to power.

Agnes Scott students who wish to
attend this lecture should get in touch
with Miss Muriel Harn.

STUDENTS LEAD
VESPER SERVICES

In coordination with its chapel
speakers, the Y. W. C. A. is present-
ing a series of vesper services conduct-
ed by members of the student body at
which various phases of "Growth," the
theme for the year, are discussed.

The first of this series was conduct
ed by the day students on October 28.
Marie Townsend spoke on "Growth
Through Consecration."

On November 4, Hester Anne With-
ers, program chairman, and Mary
Green presented a service on "Growth
Through Faith." The juniors, with
Augusta King as speaker, will present
"Growth Through Knowledge"; Alice
McCallie is program chairman. The
sophomore class will elect its speaker
and program manager at a class meet-
ing to be held within the next few
days. Members of the freshman class
this year, as is the custom, will con-
duct the Thanksgiving service.

Forthcoming chapel speakers will be
announced at a later date, Martha Red-
wine, president of Y. W. C. A., said.

Students To Act
In Emory Play

The Emory University Players will
present "The Fool," by Channing Pol-
lack on Thursday night, December 6,
in the Glenn Memorial Church. Vera
Pruet and Marian Calhoun, both mem-
bers of Blackfriars, Agnes Scott dra-
matic club, and Martha Skeen, '34, will
have the feminine roles. Dr. Garland
Smith, professor of English at Emory,
will direct the play.

The three girls, selected by Miss
Frances K. Gooch, professor of
Spoken English at Agnes Scott, at the
request of Dr. Smith, play varied
parts, each suited to the particular tal-
ent of the actress. Martha Skeen plays
the role of a wealthy young woman
with religious tendencies; Vera Pruet
takes the part of a crippled little girl;
and Marian Calhoun portrays an am-
bitious social climber.

"The Fool" is a drama of religious
import; the leading character attempts
to follow implicitly the social and
ethical teachings of Jesus.

This is the first time that Agnes
Scott students have participated in
Emory plays. Dr. Smith, in his request
to Miss Gooch, intimated that Emorv
is lacking in trained actresses; he asked
that she select her three most experi-
enced dramatic students for parts in
this play.

CLUB PRESIDENTS
TO HOLD COUNCIL

A conference of club presidents is
planned for this afternoon, November
7, at 4:30 o'clock, in the Executive
Committee room of Buttrick. The
meeting is called by Anna Humber,
president of Mortar Board, which
will sponsor the conference of presi-
dents, including those of Blackfriars,
Glee Club, Pen and Brush Club, Pi
Alpha Phi, and all departmental and
literary clubs.

Mary Boggs, editor of the Agonis-
tic, is to lead the discussion of the fol-
lowing problems: system of try-outs,
dues, elimination of "dead wood"
members, enforced selection of activ-
ities limiting the number and types
of clubs a student may join, relation
of clubs to each other or interrela-
tion of programs and interests, and a
standard for granting charters to new
clubs. These problems will be discussed
in open-forum style at the meeting,
and solutions attempted. There will
probably be other meetings of the
group to work on the project until
it is Completed.

Tibbett Sings
November 9

Lawrence Tibbett, leading baritone
of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
will be presented Friday night in the
Atlanta Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock.
Mr. Tibbett's recital is the second
number of the Ail-Star Concert Series
for this year.

Mr. Tibbett made his debut with the
Metropolitan in "Pagliacci." Since that
time he has worked himself into the
foremost ranks of American singers.
He has also been most successful in
talking pictures. His most recent suc-
cess was the title role of Eugene
O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," which was
also made into a sound picture.

Transportation arrangements for
Agnes Scott students for the Tibbett
concert will the same as those for the
first concert, according to Mr. Lewis
H. Johnson, instructor of voice at the
college.

NOTICE

According to a notice received
by Dr. J. R. McCain last week,
Davison-Paxon in Atlanta will
have employment during the
Christmas holidays for seventy-
five and perhaps a hundred
Agnes Scott students. Applica-
tion may be made after Novem-
ber 10.

Students Attend
Tech Round-Table

Sarah Catherine Wood and Marian
Calhoun will represent Agnes Scott
College at a round-table discussion on
Freedom and the New Deal to be held
at the Georgia Tech Y. M. C. A. audi-
torium on Tuesday, November 13, at
eight o'clock. Emory University,
Mercer University, Georgia Tech, and
possibly others will also take part.

The subject will be presented by two
speakers from each college in five-min-
ute talks; these will serve as a basis for
open discussion for the group. Al-
though the number of official delegates
from each school is limited, the stu-
dents of Agnes Scott are cordially in-
vited to attend the forum. Those who
are interested in going may consult
with Marian Calhoun, president of Pi
Alpha Phi, in regard to transportation
and chaperonage.

The round-table is sponsored by the
Forum, an organization for debate and
discussion at Georgia Tech; the pur-
pose of such a meeting is to make dis-
cussion groups profitable and less for-
mal.

DR. A. F. RAPER
PUBLISHES ESSAY

Dr. Arthur F. Raper, acting profes-
sor of sociology at Agnes Scott Col-
lege, has recently published a pamphlet,
entitled A Study Of a Rural Negro
Community. The publisher was the
Parthenon Press of Nashville, Tenn.

Dividing the paper into nine parts,
Dr. Raper takes up the population
elements, the man-land relations, planes
of living, the New Deal, religious or-
ganizations, crime and criminals, and
schools and schoolhouses somewhat in
detail; a few lines of introduction pre-
sent the general set-up of the typical
rural community of the South.

In the conclusion which Dr. Raper
heads "The Need for Interracial Good-
will," he says, "The fundamental need
in this rural community is not to deal
with the acute individual cases so
much as to improve the chronologically
inadequate economic and social condi-
tions out of which these cases naturally
come. . . . The community has penal-
ized itself by insisting that a consider-
able proportion of its people perma-
nently accept the drab existence of the
share croppers. There is an inescapable
human interdependence involved here;
traditional racial prejudices and mis-
understanding often cost dearly."

Dr. Raper printed this booklet in his
capacity as Research and Field Secre-
tary for the Commission on Interracial
Cooperation.

Professor Speaks
On Program

Miss Katherine Omwake, assistant
professor of psychology and education
at Agnes Scott, College, was the speak-
er on the Agnes Scott program broad-
cast over WSB Wednesday, October
31, from 5:00 to 5:15 P. M. Evelyn
Wall, who is studying at the college
and under Alfredo Barilli in Atlanta,
furnished the music. The program was
announced by Miss Martha Skeen of
Decatur, of the class of '34.

Before the first music number,
"Cadiz" by Albeniz, announcements
were made concerning Investiture. Fol-
lowing the piano selection, Miss Om-
wake spoke on "The Ways Out of
Emotional Conflicts."

Miss Omwake in her talk cited some
common methods out of these con-
flicts, among which are evasion of
one's present troubles by contempla-
tion of past happiness, a change from
the scene of one's struggles, rationaliza-
tion, the belittlement of things sought
after in vain, the attribution of one's
failures to one's environment or to
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BUILDING PLANS
ARE ANNOUNCED

Member of Board Arrives This
Week.

Mr. Trevor Arnett, of New York,
president of the General Education
Board, is expected to arrive at Agnes
Scott Friday or Saturday of this week
to discuss plans for a proposed $100,-
000 science building to go with the
projected $200,000 library and other
improvements, President J. R. McCain
of Agnes Scott revealed this week.

According to Dr. McCain, Agnes
Scott has already filed formal applica-
tion with the General Education Board
for the $100,000 fund for the science
building, asking that it be coupled with
the $23 3,000 grant, already approved
by the board, contingent upon Agnes
Scott's raising $117,000 in popular
subscription, which will be raised with-
in the next few months. If the new
building is obtained, Dr. McCain said,
the old science hall will be used for
chemistry and physics and the new one
by botany, zoology and physiology
students.

It is hoped that the grant for $100,-
000 will be made by the board at
its next meeting on December 13, Dr.
McCain said.

Blackfriars Will
Give Shaw Comedy

On Friday and Saturday nights, No-
vember 16 and 17, Blackfriars, Agnes-
Scott dramatic club, will present its
first play of the year, "You Never Can
Tell," by George Bernard Shaw. The
cast will be as follows:

Dolly Clandon Hester Anne With-
ers.

Gloria Clandon Betty Lou Houck.

Mrs. Clandon Ida Lois McDaniel.

The Maid Margaret Stokey.

Mr. Crampton Cyril Smith.

William Marion Camp.

Phil Clandon Jimmie Jepson.

Finch McComas Tom Wesley.

Mr. Bohun Augustus Sams.

"You Never Can Tell" offers an
amusing study of the play of social
conventions. The "twins" illustrate
the disconcerting effects of that per-
fect frankness which would make life
intolerable. Crampton, the father,
typifies the common belief that parents
should have the privileges of tyranny
and respect, whether or not they have
been deserved. The waiter, William, is
the most pathetic figure of the play
yet he maintains his urbanity. It is a
delightful satire of the relation of par-
ents to children in the twentieth cent-
tury.

The play was presented during the
past summer at Malvern, England. It
is interesting to know that Miss
Frances Gooch, instructor of Spoken
English at Agnes Scott and director
of the play, witnessed the production
and that the author of the play, George
Bernard Shaw, occupied the box just
above that of Miss Gooch.

DR. PHILIP DAVIDSON
IS ELECTED TO S. H. A.

Dr. Philip G. Davidson, professor of
history at Agnes Scott College, was
elected to the council of the Southern
Historical Association, it was an-
nounced recently. Membership of the
Association is drawn from the twelve
Southern states and Texas.

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THE YAGOL CASE IN RETROSPECT

On November 2, a DeKalb County grand jury refused to in-
dict four people accused of inciting to riot, insurrection, and other
crimes of this nature. The four accused were then, after about
two weeks in jail, freed. The fact of the arrest of these people ob
evidence not sufficient to bring in an indictment, the fact that
bond was refused them, the fact that officers of DeKalb county
thought their crime a heinous one while a grand jury saw nothing
in the evidence at all all this has a significance that should not

escape us. . .

First, who are these alleged communists? One is Nathan
Yagol, a student at Emory University, who is, in an editorial
printed in the Emory Wheel, referred to as "a brilliant Emory
graduate student of chemistry, physics, and mathematics;" one
whose efforts were crowned last spring with his election to Phi
Beta Kappa, and a very popular student on the campus. This last
fact was attested to by the large number of students who at-
tended the sessions of court when he was applying for bail, as
well as by the professors who testified in his behalf. The police-
man who arrested him at the now famous meeting against fas-
cism and war, admitted on the stand that he had not heard Yagol
say a word that night which might be construed as communistic
except that he had addressed Weaver, a negro, as Mr. Weaver;
that when he was searched nothing was found on him except a
trigonometry problem and some statistics, issued by the Secretary
of War, on the cost of war. His home had not been searched. On
this meager, in fact practically non-existent, evidence, Yagol was
not only arrested but was forced to stay in jail until his trial be-
fore the grand jury came up. The evidence introduced at his trial
to obtain release on bond consisted of literature that was found
in the book-case in the home where the meeting was held. And
the Chief of Police expressed his conviction that The Nation and
The New Republic among others were communistic literature.

The other three involved were Mrs. Ailing, a supply teacher in
the Atlanta public school system; Alex Rackolen, a New York
lawyer ; and Weaver, the negro present.

The charges against these four were that they were inciting
to riot, and the prosecution proposed to prove this by proving
that they believed in the communist ideal. This last part seems
the significant point in the whole occurrence. Since the depres-
sion began in real earnest, there has been all over America and
in the South in particular a "red" scare that has developed out
of all proportion to "red" activity, in the first place, and to the ideals
on which America is supposed to have been founded, in the second.
Inciting to insurrection has always been a crime in Georgia, and
a capital crime at that, but only lately has communism become
synonymous with insurrection. Everyone connected with the pre-
liminary trials in the Yagol case presumed that if the charge of
believing in communism were proved true, then the guilt of the
defendant was proved. To us, at least, it seems a little queer
that a party regarded thus should still be a legal party in the
United States and in Georgia. Surely in our country one can still
believe in, and profess one's belief in, a legal political party with-
out being guilty of inciting to riot. There is a distinct contradic-
tion here: either the party should be declared illegal by the gov-
ernment, or people should not be persecuted for belonging to it.
To the four defendants, no doubt, and to their prosecutors, the
question of whether they were communists or not was of extreme
importance, but to the thoughtful observer the important ques-
tion is: What has become of free thought, speech, action in
America, when merely the possession of the literature of a certain
ctchhI makes one liable to arrest?

The second consideration that would occur to someone looking
objectively at this case, and others like it that have occurred
recently in other parts of the country as well, is this: In what
kind of condition can a country be that fears every adverse criti-
cism so terribly and whose officials tremble so at the spectacle
of four persons discussing war together? A country in a healthy,
normal condition does not persecute opposition so mercilessly; a
country in a sure position does not fear criticism. The governments
that crush objectors uiv invariably the ones that are not sure of
their footing, that fear something definite or indefinite and are
trying to guard against it. It will be recalled that Czarist Russia
was continually on the look-out for people that seemed to have
any sort of idea of their own in opposition to things as they were;
that present-day Soviet Russia, unsure of herself, follows the same
policy in regard to political differences of belief ; that Hitler's
Germany takes drastic steps a-ainst those not concurring with
Nazi policies. Can it be that the United States is becoming so
dubious about her government that she finds it necessary to stamp
out all opposition? If so then this is an expression of weakness
not very diplomatic in times like these; if not some explanation
should bti giVtiOQ for this fanatical persecution of people who are
for the most part acting within their rights as American citizens,
in a sincere, if deluded, idea of improving American conditions.
If American government is sound, on a sure basis, and is still the
ideal government of the majority of its citizens, need it fear so
terribly the attacks of those opposed to it? Will not confidence
ol the government in the people to see the truth and follow it as
best they can. breed in return a confidence of the people in the
government to do the best it an in all circumstances for them?

EDITH MERLIN.

By Mary Adams

The consultation in London during
this last week of official representatives
of Great Britain, Japan, and the United
States in regard to the naval limitations
of the respective countries has given
this struggle a new place in the lime-
light. The discussion comes as a pre-
liminary to the 1 93 5 Naval confer-
ence, at which time representatives of
France and Italy, together with those
of Great Britain, Japan, and the United
States will meet.

This current question of naval arm-
aments and their limitations is obvious-
ly crucial, but one may realize its se-
verity only upon consideration in detail
of the maritime powers, their problems,
and their policies.

Great Britain, to begin the study,
has a unique position, for not only is
she an island which depends on the sea
for sustenance, but she is the head of a
vast commonwealth scattered over the
globe, each member of which looks to
her for protection and security. For-
eign armaments are a source of vital
concert to Great Britain, for Japan is
in a position to conquer her for East-
ern possessions; France may sever her
lines of communications, and reduce
her to famine; and Italy can close the
Mediterranean to British shipping.
Great Britain, consequently, states that
she will agree to further reduction of
naval armaments on the agreement of
all powers concerned.

Japan has nothing obscure or am-
biguous in respect to her naval policy.
Another island, she has as a sole ob-
ject the consolidation of her strategic
positions so as to render armed foreign
interference physically impossible. Her
requests, that she deems necessary to
accomplish this drastic end, will doubt-
less cause friction at the coming con-
ference. Japan will denounce the
Washington-London ratios to demand
full parity with Great Britain and the
United States. Admiral and Special
Fnvoy Yamanoto expresses the idea:
"The relation of the Japanese Navy to
those of the two other powers con-
cerned is no different from the rela-
tionship between the navies of Great
Britain and the United States." As a
result of the current London discus-
sion, th^ United States, on the other
hand, has a naval policy that is apt to

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EXCHANGES

Bing Crosby Picks ax Iowa Beauty
Hollywood, Calif. (NSFA) Lor-
raine Crawford, former National Stu-
dent Federation Congress Delegate, ar-
rived in Hollywood to begin a movie
career after being chosen the "most
beautiful co-ed at Iowa State Teachers
College" by Bing Crosby.

While at college at Cedar Falls, Miss
Crawford held junior and senior class
offices and was actively engaged in
NSFA work.

New Deal Ideas

Are Discussed

By Rosalyn Crispin
"We are all political scientists
whether we like the designation or
not," said Dr. W. J. Shepard, dean of
Ohio State University and president of
the Southern Political Science Associa-
tion at the opening meeting of the
Association last Thursday night at the
Biltmore. "We have all been political
theorists all along and didn't know it
until the recent depression made us
conscious of the fact that we have
ideas of our own on matters of govern-
ment."

These ideas he considers as compos-
ing the system of thought, which pro-
vides schemes of value for life, determ-
ining what is to be considered right or
wrong, useful or futile. Present-day
beliefs he explains in terms of devtlop-
ment of the basic eighteenth century
ideas of individualism in economic life
and democracy in political organiza-
tion. "However," says Mr. Shepherd,
"the idealogy of laissezfaire has come
to be questions. Basic ideas of eco-
nomic individualism have been chal-
lenged, and it is natural to expect po-
litical democracy in its present form
to be changed also."

The questionings in the minds of
the people has led to discussions of
other forms of organization. Dr. Shep-
herd discussed communism, socialism,
fascism, "liberalized individualism,"
tnd agrarianism as alternatives both to
the pre-Roosevelt practice of democ-
racy, and to the New Deal, of which
be is an ardent advocate.

Mr. Shepherd realizes the numerous
inconsistencies of the Roosevelt plan,
the fact that there has not as yet been
developed a definite philosophy behind
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Visiting Debaters To Be Honored
At N. Y. Dinner

New York, N. Y. (NSFA) Four
English debaters representing Oxford
University and the English National
Union of Students brought to this
country under the auspices of the Na-
tional Student Federation of America
were honored at a dinner given them
October 24 at the Town Hall Club.

After the dinner the visitors dis-
cussed "American Foreign Policy from
a British Point of View." The discus-
sion was broadcast over station WHN
from 8 to 9 P. M. Eastern standard
time.

Both English teams arrived in New
York on the Berengaria, October 23.
NSFA has arranged to show them the
sights before the Oxford team leaves
for the first debate which is with New
Jersey Law School and before N. U. S.
team entrains for Duluth where it will
meet Duluth Junior College debaters.

This notice is of interest to the
Agnes Scott campus because one of the
teams mentioned is to debate here De-
cember 7.

Fraternities Suffer Under FERA
Ruling

Lexington, Va. (NSFA) Holders
of FERA part time jobs are not al-
lowed to join fraternities in Virginia
because the State Administrator of the
Federal funds believe that students able
to afford fraternity dues are not in
need of emergency relief.

Dean Frank J. Gilliam, head of the
local committee at Washington and
Lee University, said:

"The state administration takes the
position that while there may be justifi-

cation for assigning FERA positions to
men who have incurred the obligations
of fraternity membership, positions
should not be assigned to men who are
going into fraternities for the first time
this year, unless the students could
show that money derived from FERA
sources would not be used to take care
of fraternity membership."

Campus Life Depicted in Pageant
Broadcasts
Nashville, Texas (NSFA) As one
of a series of broadcasts featuring
thirty-four of the nation's most im-
portant colleges, WSM at Nashville,
Texas, devoted thirty minutes to a
pageant description of the University
of Texas on October 23 at 8 P. M.,
C. S. T.

With song, music, and drama, life on
the Texas campus was described.
Among other colleges to be featured
over WSM is Baylor University some
time in January.

Mrs. Roosevelt Believes Youth
Is Thinking
Washington, D. C (NSFA) On
her 5 0th birthday, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt said, "Young people in all
times are more or less irresponsible, but
the younger generation of today feels
more responsibility and has more
knowledge of the world than we had.
I know of no young person who is not
willing to sit down and discuss funda-
mental questions. You may not agree
with their ideas, but they are all think-
ing."

Georgia Tech Fraternities Do
Cooperative Buying

Atlanta, Ga. (NSFA) A Georgia
Tech Inter-Fraternity Cooperative Buv-
ing Association has been formed to
secure food commodities at wholesale.
Although the savings on staple goods,
standard brand canned goods, and
toilet articles are small, fruits, vege-
tables and meats are bought at a 5 0
per cent saving.

The Association furnishes a delivery
service gratis and is non-profitmaking.

BOOK NOTES

1. Chapters for the Orthodox Don
Marquis.

The author has endeared himself to
Americans by the kindly spirit of his
criticisms, which, however, are fully
alive enough to be invigorating.

In Chapters for the Orthodox he
presents twelve whimsical tales, dedi-
cated to his much-admired Christopher
Morley. Among them are these:

"All the characters involved in the
New Testament miracle of the devils
and the Gadarcne swine meet in court
to establish the costs of the action."

"An open-minded artist becomes the
embarrassed recipient of the power to
power to work miracles." Time.

2. Peace With Honor A. A. Milne.
Abandoning his accustomed fanciful

love, Milne shows here that he is a
loyal supporter of disarmament.

3. / Worked for the Soviet Count-
ess Alexandra Tolstoy.

This is a true story of the deeply felt
sufferings of the great Tolstoy's
daughter, a victim of Soviet cruelty
with the rest of the unhappy bourg-
eosie.

After bitter struggles she was in
1919 finally appointed Commissar in
Charge of the Tolstoy estate at that
time transformed into a museum. Later
imprisoned on a charge of being
Counter-Revolutionary, the Countess
misthinkingly bore fearful sufferings,
coming into contact with many vivid
characters which she describes ad-
mirably.

On her release, she resumed her
work at her father's estate, constantly
harried by militant communists on the
same accusation of being a Counter-
Revolutionary. Despite all, the Spirit
of the narrative is amazingly courage-
ous and cheerful throughout. Yale
Re i iew.

4. Cilgamesh William Ellcry Leon-
ard.

A rendering from the German of the
four-thousand year old Babylonian
Epic, following the hero Gilgamcsh
through strange and wild encounters,
through his long search for the answer

to the riddle of human existence, and
through' his various friendships. The
epic ends with a note of depression and
despair, in an eloquent reflection on
mortality.

5. Rachmaninoff's Recollections
Osgar Von Reisemann.

These are Rachmaninoff's "Musical
Memories." He is not only a world-
famous concert pianist, but also well
known for his composition and for his
talent as an orchestra-conductor. His
early life is finely portrayed, and the
book calls for admiration of Rach-
maninoff both as a man and as an art-
ist. Sctibnefs*

6. A Thing of Sorrow Elder Olsen.
A volume of poetry by a rising

young poet still in his early twenties.
The verse shows distinction of thought
and is rich in the beauty of form and
rythm.

7. Now in Noiemher Josephine
Johnson.

This young authoress's first novel
deals with the return of a depression-
stricken family to the land. With a
remarkably mature insight and treat-
ment, Josephine Johnson vividly por-
trays the miserable grind and the bar*
rowing uncertainty of the farm life;
she brightens it all, however, by her
deep confidence in salvation through
the beauty of small thnigs.

8. A Journey into Rahelais\ l : rau<,-
Albert Nock.

"Mr. Nock goeth pleasantly or t in
ly where he listeth. Though he fol-
lows the faintest footstep of Rabelais,
he diverts himself and the reader with
digression on whatever rises in his
mind." Neu York Times Revierw.

9. Basket for a I' air Laura Bcnet.
This volume of poetry circumscribes

for itself a fastidious realm excluding
the boisterous ind the incongruous:

Pity me, em ions ones,
lor that I sit within,

Like a kej)t gnat survey
My kingdom thin.
The subjects are not introspective,
and so the poetry breathes out a charm
of freshness and originality. Poetry.

The Agonistic

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CLUBS

K. U. B.

K. U. B., journalism club, will meet
in the Y. W. C. A. cabinet room next
Wednesday at 4:3 0 o'clock. Miss Annie
May Christie, of the department of
English, will speak to the club.

Blackfriars
Blackfriars, dramatics club, met last
night in the studio of Miss Frances
K. Gooch at 7 o'clock. The new mem-
bers were initiated at this meeting.

Chi Beta Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma, chemistry club,
met in Science Hall at 7 o'clock on
Monday night.

Interracial Forum
Interracial Forum of the Intercol-
legiate Council will meet next Sunday
afternoon at the Butler Street Y. M.
C. A. in Atlanta. All students who
wish to attend should get in touch
with Lois Hart.

Bible Club
Bible Club met Monday, October 29,
in the Y. W. cabinet room. Mr. T. E.
Hill of the Presbyterian church in Col-
lege Park, spoke on "Student Life in
Scotland and Germany." Irene Wil-
son was elected secretary of the club at
this time.

WEIL'S 10c STORE

Has Most Anything You Need

B. O. Z.

B. O. Z. will meet on Friday, No-
vember 16, with Miss Preston. Lulu
Ames and Edith Merlin will read at
this time.

German Club
A program on Heinrich Heine will
be presented by the German Club on
Thursday, November 16. Liselotte
Ronnecke will read from the Buch der
Lieder, Catherine Hertzka will speak
on Heine's life and works, and several
musical adaptations of Heine's poetry
by Schubert and Schumann will be
played. The college community is in-
vited.

Pi Alpha Phi
Pi Alpha Phi will hold its regular
meeting tomorrow, November 8, in
Miss Gooch's studio. The subject, "The
Recognition of Russia by the League
of Nations," will be debated.

Poetry Club
Poetry Club met with Miss Pres
ton on Monday, November 5, to judge
try-outs. Kathryn Printup, Jane
Thomas, and Sarah Catherine Wood
were elected to membership.

Alliance Francaise
Four members of the Atlanta A/-
liance Francaise will present a playlet
at the French Club meeting on Mon-
day, November 12, at 5 o'clock. Mrs.
Tnad Morrison, mother of Clara Mor-
rison, will play at this time.

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

Erlanger Presents
Cook Players

After 22 record-breaking weeks in
Baltimore, Charles Emerson Cook, un-
doubtedly the most successful producer
of repertoire presentations in the coun-
try today, will bring his famous stock
company to Atlanta. The opening date
at the Erlanger Theatre is set for Mon-
day night, November 12, and the first
play of the season will be Clare Rum-
mer's captivating comedy, "Her Mas-
ter's Voice," which all last winter kept
New York roaring with laughter. The
members of Mr. Cook's company are
all Broadway players of note.

"Her Master's Voice" will be fol-
lowed by this season's Pulitzer Prize
play, "Men in White." "No More
Ladies," "The Pursuit of Happiness,"
"Dangerous Corner," "Sailor Beware,"
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prices above quoted include the gov-
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The public in invited to make reser-
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after November 5, the same can be
made in person at the box office of the
Erlanger Theatre.

Mr. Cook is a Harvard graduate, a
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who had been associated with David
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tended a party at the home of Miriam
Bass Saturday night.

Anne Walker spent the week-end
with Margaret Merts in Atlanta.

Mary Pitner, Meredith Turner, Mary
Hull, Alice Taylor, and Mary Malone
heard the Mills Brothers at the Shrine
Mosque Thursday night.

Mildred Miller Davis, ex-'3 3, spent
the week-end with Margaret Bell.

Rose Northcross' mother spent the
week-end with her.

Martha Alice Green spent the week-
end at her home in Harlem, Ga.

Dorothy Kelly's mother spent the
week-end with her.

Peggy Ware spent the week-end
with Mary Hill Oakley in Atlanta.

Frances McCalla, Caroline Dickson,
Jane Cassels, Martha Redwine, and
Jacqueline Woolfolk had dinner with
Marie Simpson Saturday night.

Caroline Long spent the week-end
with Virginia Gaines at her home in
Atlanta.

Mary Elizabeth and Pauline Hoyle
had as their guests for the week-end
Bert and Ruth Rymer of Cleveland,
Ohio.

Kathryn Fitzpatrick spent the week-
end with Miriam McManus.

Betty Adams spent the week-end
with Virginia Little.

Jessie Jeffers spent
with Bruce Waters.

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Mary Past spent the week-end at her
home in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Mary Helen Barrett spent the week-
end with Mildred Bradley in Atlanta.

Jean Barry Adams attended the Beta
Theta Pi supper-dance at Tech Satur-
day night.

Bertha Merrill and Becky Harrison
spent the week-end at the latter's
home in West Point, Ga.

Ann Worthy Johnson and Martha
Long had as their guests for the week-
end Helen Johnson and Betty Scott
from Rome, Ga.

Virginia Hightower spent the week-
end with Mrs. E. D. Aiken.

Nancy Tucker and Ellen Little
spent the week-end with the latter's
aunt, Mrs. F. J. Atkins.

Ruth Tate spent the week-end with
her aunt, Mrs. E. A. Malcolm.

Helen Handte and Martha Young
attended a Pi K. A. opossum hunt at
Tech Saturday night.

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Ruby Hutton and Alice McCallie
had dinner Sunday night with Mrs.
Marvin Murphy in Decatur.

Nell White, Rosa Miller, Elizabeth
Strickland, and Sara Jones spent the
week-end with Virginia Turner at her
home in Summerville, Ga.

Margaret Cooper, Ruby Hutton, and
Carrie Phinney Latimer had dinner
Saturday night with Alberta Palmour
at her home in College Park, Ga.

Alice Dunbar spent
with her aunt, Mrs. L.
in Druid Hills.

the week-end
L. Gellerstedt,

Sally McRee spent the week-end
with Virginia Cheshire in Atlanta.

Gladys Burns spent the week-end
at her home in Macon, Ga.

Elizabeth Heaton spent the week-
end at her home in Tallapoosa, Ga.

Trellis Carmichael spent the week-
end at her home in McDonough, Ga.

Josephine Jennings attended an A.
T. O. house dance at Emory Friday
night.

Shirley Christian spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson in
Atlanta.

Carolyn White had as her visitor for
the week-end Eleanor Cranston from
the University of Georgia.

Among those attending the North
Carolina-Georgia Tech game Saturday
afternoon were Janet Gray, Suzanne
Smith, Margaret Robins, Josephine
McClure, Virginia Gaines, Marguerite
Morris, Rosa Wilder, Julia Thing,
Eleanor Lemmon, Alice Taylor, and
Meredith Turner.

SENIOR CLASS IS

INVESTED NOV. 3

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that of wearing "the robes of learn-
ing gracefully and embroidering on
them through usage designs which will
make them more valuable and beau-
tiful. " In a closing word of advice,
Miss Christie urged the seniors that
they not vaunt their knowledge but
live modestly in such a way that it will
make itself felt for good. In conclu-
sion she said, "Agnes Scott is proud
of her graduates who have kept the
trust of learning; she expects you to
go and do likewise."

After the address, the seniors went
forward and knelt as Dean Nannette
Hopkins placed the caps on their
heads.

Investiture is a tradition peculiar to
Agnes Scott. It was instituted in 1908
and has since been observed annually
on the first Saturday in November.

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bewilder the foreign observer. Sep-
arated from Europe and Asia by rhe
width of oceans, it is in no danger of
direct attack on a seroius scale, nor can
it be blockaded in any literal sense of
the word. However, consideration of
prestige well justifies the maintenance
of a United States fleet. The fact that
she is expected to propose a cut in the
strength of all navies probably by one-
third is thus not surprising.

Neither France nor Italy is expected
to be an enthusiastic participant in the
next year's conference, although both
powers' naval defense is receiving more
attention than formerly. The guiding
Italian principle is unqualified parity
with France, and France, while wil-
ling to confirm, is privately determin-
ed to maintain a substantive lead over
the Italian fleet with a press for light
tonnage quotas far in excess of the
maximum to which Great Britain can
agree.

NEW DEAL IDEAS

ARE DISCUSSED
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it, but he maintains that it rests essen-
tially upon a new economic and politi-
cal philosophy in its emphasis of the
principal objective of government as
"the assurance to every member of so-
ciety of the 'good life. ' There must
be laws sufficient to give freedom to
each individual, which is the essen-
tial conception of early democratic doc-
trine, not the freedom of the few to
oppress the many.

The rights as enumerated by Dr.
Shepherd were the right to work, the
right to an adequate standard of liv-
ing, to the maintenance of good health,
to the proper kind of education for
adults as well as for children; and
along with these personal rights, there
should go a re-emphasis of the older
civil and political rights of the in-
dividual.

Thus, instead of a change to com-
munism, socialism, fascism or other
radical form of government, Dr. Shep-
herd urges a more democratic democ-
racy, observing in conclusion that
"Democracy, both in theory and prac-
tice, must undoubtedly undergo radi-
cal revision if the ideals of the New
Deal and the institutions which are
visibly shaping themselves before our
eyes are to develop into a permanently
new and economic and political order."

Reporters for This Issue

Eliza King, Eleanor Whitson, La-
vinia Scott, Jessie Jeffers, Mary Lillian
Fairly, Kathcrine Hertzka, Gene
Brown, Josephine Jennings, Jean
Chalmers, Sara Steele, Mary Richard-
son, Ruth Hertzka, Jane Guthrie,
Elizabeth Warden, Laura Steele, Jacque
McWhitc, Betty Maynard, Ora Muse.

Sophomores Lose
To Freshman Team

With a score of 5 to 2, the freshman
hockey team defeated the sophomores
in the most exciting game of the year
last Friday afternoon, November 2.
Outstanding plays were made for both
teams, but freshman teamwork and
stick accuracy was somewhat superior.
More yelling at this game than at any
other since the season began was due
to the cold and to increased class spirit.

Officials of the game were: referees,
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn and Frances
McCalla; scorer, Lulu Ames; timer,
Sarah Johnson.

The first half was marked by long
dribbling on the part of Walker, soph-
omore, gaining about fifty yards. Men-
tion of the following for outstanding
playing must be made: Lemmon, for
infallibly accurate stickwork and
speed; Coit, for two goals and team-
work; Kneale, for two good recoveries;
Robinson, for covering the goal; and
of McCallie, for good interception. The
game was marked by faster running
and by more continuous playing than
have been the other four games.

The sophomore line-up: c, Fleace;
r.i., Walker; LL, Johnson; r.w., Jack-
son; l.w., Belser; c.h., Wilder; r.h.,
Kneale; l.h., Lasseter; r.f., Taylor; l.h.,
Hertwig; g.g., Cary.

The freshman line-up: c, Thomp-
son; r.i., Henderson; LL, Coit; r.w.,
Brown; l.w., Hightower; c.h., Lem-
mon; r.h., Blackshear; l.h., Allison;
r.f., Adams; l.f., Jeffers; g.g. Robin-
son.

PROFESSOR SPEAKS

ON PROGRAM

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other people, and the substitution of
another activity for a forbidden one.
Miss Omwake concluded with the
statement that the best way out of
emotional conflicts is for one to "face
the situation and arrive at a solution
without seeking to hide one's motives
from oneself." Another musical num-
ber, Chopin's "Nocturne, Opus 9, No.
2," concluded the program.

The purpose of these weekly broad-
casts, directed by Miss Janef Preston
of the English department, is to keep
the affairs of the college before the
public.

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Sports Editorial

By Llewellyn Wilburn
Last week I wandered around the
campus a bit started with the tennis
courts by the gym, looked in on the
swimming pool, and from there went
to the hockey field. It may interest
you to know what I saw. On the ten-
nis courts I saw some forehand drives
which were executed with accuracy
and a fair amount of speed. They be-
longed to Frances Lockman, Marie
Stalker, and Anne Hastie. We've seen
Marie in other sports and it looks as if
she may be working to acquire the
same skill in tennis that she already
possesses in basketball. Anne and
Frances are new students but I be-
lieve we'll hear more about them in
tennis someday. The doubles tennis
tournament seems to be progressing
well watch out for that Kneale-Mac-
Donald combination!

When I glanced in on the swimmers
I didn't learn as much as I wanted
to for I couldn't recognize the facts
under the bathing caps but I'm looking
forward to tomorrow night when the
first swimming meet will be held.

The archery enthusiasts have sprung
up like mushrooms under Alice Mc-
Callie's guidance. I heard that Gene
Brown, who has learned to shoot since
she came this year, made a higher score
than the winner of the college tourna-
ment last year. Nell Hemphill and
Nell Allison two other freshmen
seemed to be hitting the target with
ease and regularity. Some of the high-
est scores of the year have been made
by Isabel McCain, ViTienne Long, and
Ora Muse.

In the hockey game Friday there
were many good plays made by those
who are playing hockey for the first
time this season Barbara Hertwig,
Florence Lasseter, and Barton Jackson
for the sophomores and a number of
freshmen. The talk of the game was

Class Managers
Take Leadership

Class managers of the major and
minor sports are taking active leader-
ship of their class teams. The follow-
ing list is according to the minutes of
the Athletic Board.

Hockey managers under Anne Walk-
er, school manager, are: senior, Jacque-
line Woolfolk; junior, Martha Cren-
shaw; sophomore, Rosa Wilder; fresh-
man, Ann Thompson.

Elizabeth Burson heads swimming
for the school and the following girls
for the classes: senior, Carolyn McCal-
lum; junior, Meriel Bull; sophomore,
Mary Johnson; freshman, Ann Worthy
Johnson.

Tennis managers under Julia Thing
are: senior, Peg Waterman; junior, Sara
Lawrence; sophomore, Martha Young;
freshman, Virginia Hightower.

The hiking chief for the college is
Frances Cary; her co-managers are:
senior, Betty Fountain; junior, Rebecca
Whitley; sophomore, Rachel Kennedy;
and freshman, Laura Coit.

Alice McCallie is manager of archery
for the college.

about Eleanor Lemmon with Laura
Coit running a close second. Eleanor,
playing center half, has that knack
of tackling just at the right moment
to rob her opponent of the ball. Laura
did some excellent stick work and with
her as captain and Ann Thompson as
manager we'll have to watch out for
that Freshman team!

Professor to Speak

Dr. S. M. Christian, acting profes-
sor of astronomy and physics at Agnes
Scott College, will speak to the young
people's department of the First Meth-
odist Church of Decatur, in the
church annex at 9:3 0 on Sunday morn-
ing. His subject will be "Finding God
Through Astronomy and Physics."

Swimming Events
Will Take Place

Two major events in swimming will
take place this month to which the
college community is invited: a class
meet Thursday evening, November 8,
at 8:15, and a water pageant given
by the swimming department on
Tuesday evening, November 27.
Friends of the college also are urged to
attend the pageant.

The pageant, which was last year on
the theme of Neptune and his sea-peo-
ple, will this year be a representation
of the pirates of the Spanish Main.

Archery Club

Has Tournament

The Archery Club, with twenty-five
members, is divided into two teams
with Margaret Cooper and Mary Grey
Rogers, captains on the teams. There
is close competition between the teams
because, at the end of the season, the
losers will entertain the winners.

The first tournament was held on
Tuesday, October 30. Although the
shooting was for the teams, a prize
was awarded to the individual who
made the highest score. Ora Muse won
the prize for first place, Gene Brown
placed second, and Mary Margaret
Stowe, third.

The girls shooting in the tournament
were: Mary Venetia Smith, Bee Merrill,
Joyce Roper, Mary Alice Baker, Helen
Handte, Mary Margaret Stowe, Ann
Worthy Johnson, Nell Allison, Gene
Brown, Jean Kirkpatrick, Sarah Cook,
and Ora Muse.

Have You Heard?

The smartest, gayest, young college girls
have ALL heard . . . it's all over the campus !
. . . You'll be thrilled to pieces over Muse's
swell new arrivals sporty wools for class
or campus . . . townish silks for week-ends
. . . sophisticated tea-going affairs for the
"formate". And just in time for all the
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Gladys Parker did the Flapper Fanny syndicated newspaper strip. In drawing clothes for this
character, she became interested in design, and conceived the idea of creating dresses. She worked
up some of them, and invited all the newspapermen and manufacturers to a showing at the Plaza in
New York. All the newspaper men came, but only one manufacturer. He was so enthusiastic over
her clothes that he immediately bought them. Since then, Gladys Parker clothes have been an over-
whelming success. She is only about 20 years old. Very original, sassy, really unique. Her individ-
uality is expressed in her creations.

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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934

NO. 5

CLUB COUNCIL
BEGINS WORK

A conference, held of fourteen presi-
dents of clubs at Agnes Scott, at 4:30
o'clock on Wednesday, November 7,
in the executive committee room of
But trick, resulted in definite changes
to be made in dues and attendance at
meetings, Anna Humber, president of
Mortar Board, announced in Student
Government meeting on Thursday
morning.

First, members who have not paid
their dues after a reasonable length of
time will be dropped from the club
rolls, the deadline being set at Novem-
ber 1 5 for the fall term and February
15 for the spring term. Second, mem-
bers who fail to attend three club
meetings during a semester without
presenting an excuse satisfactory to
the president of the club will be drop-
ped. It was also resolved that posters
made for the clubs are to be paid for
at the minimum rate of 2 5 cents each.

Betty Fountain, president of the
French Club, was elected president of
the Club Council. Two committees are
to be appointed, one for the purpose
of synchronizing the hours of the var-
ious club meetings so as to avoid con-
flicts, the other to interrelate the ac-
tivities of the language clubs.

The next meeting of the Club Coun-
cil will be held Wednesday, November
21. Mortar Board is sponsoring the
movement.

Music Department
Plans Ensemble

Plans are being made for the organ-
ization of a string ensemble similar to
the one on the campus last year, ac-
cording to Mr. Christian W. Dieck-
mann, professor of music at Agnes
Scott College. Such an organization,
he said, would offer an opportunity for
ensemble work which is not only a
pleasure to those taking part but which
.also holds an important place in cam-
pus activities.

The programs for this year will fol-
low somewhat those offered last year
when the ensemble gave two recitals,
one of Christmas carols and the other
in conjunction with the music students
in celebration of National Music Week.
The ensemble was presented also on one
of the Agnes Scott weekly broadcasts
over WSB.

The work of the ensemble is separate
from the music department and is for
the students interested in this type of
work. All girls who play the violin,
the cello, or the viola, Mr. Dieckmann
urges to participate. Later Mr. Dieck-
mann plans to include the flute, the
clarinet, and possibly, the saxaphone
in the ensemble.

Marybelle Kruger, cello, and Anna
Katherine Fulton, violin, have recently
joined the group.

S.A.C Committee
Makes Changes

A definite change has been made in
the method of application to the South-
ern Association of Colleges, President
J. R. McCain, Chairman of the Trien-
nial Committee of the Association,
stated this week. In place of the old
written credentials, a new two-fold
plan has been adopted. A committee
of five is commissioned to visit the in-
stitution applying for admission and
spend three or four days inspecting
buildings, consulting teachers, attend-
ing classes, interviewing trustees and
investigating the system of records. In
this personal study, an inside view of
the college is obtained. Secondly, the
applying institution must submit a
semester's written work, including the
professor's assignments, tests, outlines,
and final examinations, to two specified
colleges for careful survey. Thus, by
a study of the individual people and
the written material, a fuller and more
complete report is gained. This new
system, besides being used for the re-
port required of member colleges every
three years, has been successfully tried
with fourteen new institutions, and
will be tried with twenty-five more,
now seeking admission.

The Southern Association of Col-
leges, according to President McCain, is
a standardizing organization, determin-
ing which colleges are worthy of credit.
A hundred and thirty four-year col-
leges, thirty junior colleges, and twelve
hundred high schools constitute the
Association.

Miss Preston Is
Honored By Club

Miss Janef Preston, assistant profes-
sor of English at Agnes Scott, was the
honor guest of the Atlanta Writers'
Club at their recent dinner-meeting.
The entire program was devoted to
Miss Preston who read a group of her
poems. Miss Preston included in the
selections, "Deserted House on Bayou
Lafourche," which won the 1932 Sa-
vannah prize of the Poetry Society of
Georgia, for the best poem on the
southern low country; "And Now
Good Morrow" and "Mountain Storm,"
both of which won honorable men-
tion for the Georgia prize. She also
read "Now Do I Praise Dead Singers
of the Sea," a group of poems about
the Louisiana low country which were
published recently in Bozart and re-
printed in the Atlanta Journal, a ballad,
"Therese of Terrabonne," a lyric,
"Painted Panel for Feliciana's Cham-
ber," and also a group of sonnets.

Miss Preston's work has been pub-
lished widely and has had national rec-
ognition. Her poems have been printed
in The Reviewer, Poet Lore, The Wo-
man's Press, The Archive Anthology,
Kaleidograph, Yearbook of the Poe-
try Society of Georgia, the Yearbook of
the Poetry Society of South Carolina,
The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly,
and other periodicals.

BLACKFRIARS
TO GIVE PLAY

Blackfriars, Agnes Scott dramatic
club, will present its first play of the
year, You Never Can Tell, by George
Bernard Shaw on Friday and Saturday
nights, November 16 and 17, at 8:30
o'clock in the Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium. The play will be directed by
Miss Frances K. Gooch, instructor of
Spoken English at the college.

The cast is drawn from the members
of Blackfriars and from the ranks of
Atlanta and Decatur amateur actors.
The role of the father in the play,
which is a study of social conventions,
is taken by Cyril Smith, an Atlanta
architect; a former Emory University
student, Tom Wesley, takes the part of
Finch McComus. Hudo Thane, Geor-
gia Tech '34, who plays the part of
the butler and assists with the scenery,
painted the scenery for the play "Sun
Up," presented at Tech last year.

Tickets for You Never Can Tell will
go on sale today; the prices for them
are 3 5c and 5 0c.

Club To Celebrate
Birth of Horace

A. S. TRIPLE TRIO

SINGS ON PROGRAM

The Agnes Scott Triple Trio group
sang at the District Convention dinner
of the Atlanta Civitan Club on Tues
day night, November 6. They present
ed two numbers, an arrangement of
"Sweethearts" from the opera Siveet-
hearts by Victor Herbert, and the song
"Night Wind" by Farley; Evelyn Wall
accompanied them at the piano. They
sang as encores, "Tick-Tock" by
Shacfer and "Whippoorwill" by Hann.

The members of the group are: first
sopranos, Martha Young, Augusta
King, and Virginia Wood; second
sopranos, Alice Chamlee, Nell Cham-
lee, and Betty Lou Houck; contralto,
Jane Clark, Rosa Miller, and Shirley
Christian.

Interracial Forum
Holds Meeting

The Interracial Forum of the At-
lanta Inter-Collegiate Council met on
last Sunday at the Butler Street Y. M.
C. A.j in Atlanta. Mr. Claud D. Nel-
son, southern secretary for the Fellow-
ship of Reconciliation, led a round-
table discussion on the subject "Justice
Without Violence."

The membership in the Forum is
drawn from the students of the three
white and the five negro colleges in
the city.

The Council of which the Forum is
a part is made up from representatives
from the same group of institutions;
it is the work of the Council to outline
and draw up plans for the program of
the Council and Forum. Lois Hart,
Martha Crenshaw and Lulu Ames are
the representatives from Agnes Scott
College.

Eta Sigma Phi will present a pro-
gram to celebrate the Bimillenium Ho-
rat/anum on November 21, at five
o'clock in the gymnasium. A world-
wide commemoration of the two thou-
sandth birthday of the Latin poet will
take place during the year 193 5, and the
American Classical League has asked
the colleges and high schools to co-
operate in the celebration.

The program to be presented under
the direction of the faculty advisers of
Eta Sigma Phi, Dr. Lillian Smith, Dr.
Catherine Torrance, Dr. Martha Stans-
field, is as follows:

Address, by President Eva Constan-
tine.

Dance "Apollo and the Muses"
from Orpheus by the Dance Club un-
der the direction of Miss Harriet
Flaynes.

Song, lust urn et tenacem Sung by
audience.

Ode IX "The Bore," Horace's sa-
tire enacted by Elizabeth Forman,
Martha Allen, Eva Poliakoff, Amy Un-
derwood.

Song Pons Bandusiae Sung by au-
dience.

Duet "The Lover's Quarrel,"
Horace Mrs. S. G. Stukes and Betty
Lou Houck.

The high school students of Atlanta
and Decatur who are now studying
the classics are invited to attend as
well as the classical students of Emory
University.

Plans for closer cooperation between
the classical societies of Agnes Scott
and Emory were laid at a joint meeting
held at Emory University on Novem-
ber 5, according to Eva Constantine,
president. In the spring Plautus's
Comedy, Mostellaria, will be pre-
sented under the joint auspices of the
clubs, and speakers will be exchanged
on various programs at a later date.

Faculties Plan
Collaboration

A committee of ten made up from
the faculties of Agnes Scott College
and Emory University has been ap-
pointed to work out more in detail the
plans for the collaboration of the two
institutions in the giving of graduate
work. The committee members from
Agnes Scott include Mr. S. G. Stukes,
professor of psychology; Dr. Mary
MacDougall, professor of biology; Mr.
Robert B. Holt, professor of chemistry;
Miss Lucile Alexander, professor of
French, and Dr. Philip G. Davidson,
professor of history. Members of the
group from Emory are Dean Goodrich
White; Registrar J. G. Stipe; Dr. J. M.
Steadman, professor of English; Dr. R.
C. Rhodes, professor of biology, and
Dr. F. M. Green, professor of history.

At the present time the Agnes Scott
division of the committee is studying
the Emory curriculum and the Emory
members are studying that of Agnes
Scott, Mr. Stukes, chairman for Agnes
Scott, said. A meeeting of the com-
mittee has been set for Tuesday, No-
vember 13, after which a definite state-
ment of the work and plans of the
committee may be made.

German Club

To Give Play

The German Club of Agnes Scott
College will present "Das Weihnachts-
spiel," a play by Waldemar Bonsels, on
December 13, in the studio of Miss
Frances K. Gooch in Rebekah Scott
Hall. Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of
German at the college, and Liselotte
Roenneck, exchange student from
Germany this year, will direct the pro-
duction.

The play is a poetic drama dealing
with characters and events drawn from
fairy lore. It centers around the Christ-
mas season; Christmas songs, a chorus
of angels, and scenery representing folk
traditions regarding Christmas will be
featured in the play.

The cast for "Was Weihnachtsspiel"

is:

Karin Ethlyn Johnson.

Mutter Liselotte Roennecke.

Aschenputtel Jean Austen.

Dornroschen Ann Thompson.

Schneewittchen Anna Humber.

Maria Jennie Champion.

Joseph Frances Baker.

Teufel Mary Kneale.

Tomorrow at four-thirty, the Ger-
man club will hold its November meet-
ing. The program, according to
Mary Boggs, president of the club,
will be devoted to a study of Heinrich
Heine. Liselotte Roennecke will read
from the Bnch der Lieder, Katherine
Hertzka will speak on the life and
works of Heine, and several musical
adaptations of Heine's poetry by Schu-
mann and Schubert will be played. The
college community is invited.

AGNES SCOTT CLUBS
ENTERTAIN FACULTY

The Agnes Scott Clubs of Atlanta
and Decatur will entertain jointly at a
tea on November 20, from 5 to 6
o'clock at the Anna Young Alumnae
House, in honor of the faculty. This
tea is to take the place of the annual
tea or birthday party in memory of
Miss Anna Young, for whom the
Alumnae House is named.

In the receiving line will be: Sarah
Belle (Broadnax) Hansell, president of
the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club; Susan
(Shadburn) Watkins, president of hte
Decatur Agnes Scott Club; Frances
(Craighead) Dwyer, president of the
Alumnae Association; Dean Nannette
Hopkins; and President J. R. McCain.
Hostess committees from the two clubs
have been appointed to receive guests
and to serve.

PLANS ARE MADE
FOR BOOK WEEK

Agnes Scott College will observe
Book Week on the campus this year
Thanksgiving week, November 26 to
December 2, according to Miss Louise
McKinney, professor of English, and
Miss Janef Preston, assistant professor
of English, who are in charge of the
plans.

In past years Book Week has af-
forded the students the privilege of see-
ing and browsing among the current
books. A display of new books lent bv
Miller's Book Store, Davison-Paxon
book department, the MacMillian Pub-
lishing Co., and Rich's Book Shop is
open to the students; books of all sorts,
including fiction, poetry, biography,
the classics, and children's books are
included in the exhibit. In addition,
rare books and autographs or letters of
interest are on exhibition. Since no
sales are made on the campus, students
and faculty are able to see the complete
display.

Last year the Book Week exhibit was
held in the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet Room
in Main Building.

Dr. Poteat To Be
Y. W. Speaker

Dr. E. McNeile Poteat, Jr., pastor
of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
of Raleigh, N. C, will conduct the
week of religious srevices sponsored an-
nually in the spring by the Y. W. C. A.
of Agnes Scott College. Dr. Poteat
has led meetings at Emory University
and is a popular speaker at Blue Ridge,
where he delivered a platform address
every night at the Y. M. C. A. and
Y. W. C. A. conferences last summer.

Each year the Y. W. C. A. brings
to the campus for a week's talks some
prominent religious leader of the day.
Last spring Dr. S. M. Glasgow de-
livered a series of talks based on the
scriptural quotation "The king's
daughter is all glorious within." In
years past such outstanding men as Dr.
Frank Morgan and Dr. Robert W.
Miles have spoken here.

The week March 12-19 has been set
aside for the religious services this year.

Leaders for Hobby
Groups Are Chosen

The Freshman Cabinet of Y. W. C.
A., at its regular meeting on Monday,
November 5, elected four faculty
members and four upperclassmen as
leaders of the Hobby Groups which the
Cabinet is planning to sponsor this
year. The groups, so far five in num-
bre, include Charm, Dramatics, Books,
World Affairs, and Handicraft.

The Charm Group, the only one to
which all freshmen may belong, is to
be directed by Miss Louise Hale; in past
years this group has proved to be the
most popular of the number. Virginia
Gaines and Mary Green are to have
charge of the Handicraft Group and
Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn of the
Books Group. The Dramatic Group
will be directed by Carrie Phinney
Latimer and Frances James. Miss Mur-
iel Harn and Dr. Philip G. Davidson,
Jr., were elected to lead the group
on World Affairs. Sometime this week
the members of Freshman Cabinet will
present the plans and general ideas of
each hobby group to the freshman
class; all freshmen are expected to join
one of the groups.

Freshman Cabinet, which was elect-
ed by vote of the freshman class, meets
on the first and third Mondays; Car-
oline Dickson, vice-president of Y. W.
C. A., meets with them. The chair-
man of Freshman Cabinet, who is Jean
Barry Adams this year, meets with Y.
W. Cabinet, and each of the small
cabinet members holds an assistant
chairmanship of the committees of Y.
W. Cabinet. In addition to the Hobby
Groups which form the major portion
of their program for this year, the small
cabinet plans to decorate and furnish
the Round House which is located on
the west side of Rebekah Scott Hall.
The Cabinet will also have charge of
the Thanksgiving Vesper program.

Cabinet members include Jean Barry
Adams, chairman, Martha Long secre-
tary, Laura Coit, Winifred Kellersber-
ger, Ann Worthy Johnson, Ellen Mc-
Callie, Jean Chalmers, Elizabeth Black-
shear, Elizabeth Cousins, Zoe Wells,
Jane Turner, Elizabeth King, Ann
Thompson, Mary Elizabeth Past, and
Beth Bowden.

ILLNESS DELAYS

MR. ARNETT'S VISIT

Mr. Trevor Arnett, of New York
City, president of the General Educa-
tion Board, who was expected to visit
Agnes Scott last Friday and Saturday
in connection with the proposed new
science hall, was not able to come be-
cause of illness which confined him
to his bed in an Atlanta hotel.

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A S( HOOL FOR POLITICS

In the uncertain tempo of pol-
itical events in the past few
years, the need for trained lead-
ership in national affairs has
made itself uncomfortably ob-
vious and has found various ex-
pression in lectures and debates
in colleges and universities
throughout the nation. Will Dur-
ant, in his lecture at Agnes Scott
several years ago, outlined a plan
for political training envolved
from the fundamental ideas of
Plato's Republic; in a series of
lectures at Emory University
last spring, Mr. Chester H. Mc-
Call, assistant to the Secretary
of Commerce, discussed the pros-
pective development of a train-
ing school for public officials at
Washington, D. C. This plan,
which originated at the 1933
Congress of the National Student
Federation is ready for perma-
nent operation in the organiza-
tion of the National Institution
of Public Affairs which "now
looks forward to its inaugural
training in the practical oper-
ation of government during Feb-
ruary and March, 1935, and
hopes to complete the selection
of eligible college students and
graduates before Christmas. "
The program of the Institution is
outlined in the November issue
of the National Student Mirror:

"Stressing the internship plan
under which each student will
serve as an apprentice to a gov-
ernment official, receiving in-
struction at the same time, the
Institute will offer a program of
study and training in Washing-
ton which will include:

"1. Conferences and forums
with high governmental officials
and subdivision of students into
small groups on a tutorial basis
for individual contacts and rela-
tions with governmental offic-
ials.

"2. Observation of the practi-
cal operations of the major func-
tions of the Federal Government.

"3. Analysis of these domin-
ant functions, in connection with
discussion groups led by the vis-
iting professors.

"4. Application by each stu-
dent to a particular case problem
of his choice.

"5. The serving of an 'intern-
ship' which comprehends actual
work in a government agency of
particular interest to the stu-
dent.

"6. A report or thesis by each
student on the training program,
one copy of which must be sub-
mitted to the Institution and one
to his college.

"On an experimental basis, the
n>:r> program will be open to
four groups: juniors, seniors,
graduate students, and recent
graduates of accredited institu-
tions who have pursued a sub
stantial study of political science
and related subjects. The perma-
nent plan, as now anticipated, will
be of longer duration and there-
for will probably emphasize
! raining on a post-graduate level.

"The National Institution of
Public Affairs constitutes the
first fundamental step in a con-
scious, objective training for
public leaders to replace the hit-

and-miss, haphazard methods
which have prevailed in the past.
Through its program the Institu-
tion not only hopes to supple-
ment theoretical and classroom
study of politics and government
by a knowledge and training in
the practical operation of gov-
ernment ; it also looks to the de-
velopment of a new and mo&i
necessary tradition which win
attract to public affairs the weii-
trained young people of hign
character and ability who are up-
coming increasingly vital lo
those growing complexities oi
governmental activities."

SHALL WE HAVE A "WE
THINK?"

The Agonistic this year has
received no expression of student
opinion, and the We Think col-
umn which of old used to vie
with Giddy Gossip for the atten-
tion and favors of readers, has
been ignominiously relegated to
the editorial shelf. Such an un-
deserved fate arises from one of
tw r o evils ; either we have accept-
ed existing conditions on the
campus in its intellectual, social,
cultural and religious life, with
peaceful resignation as ideal
which would mark us static, or
we have ceased to think at all
except in scattered half-ideas in-
capable of being formulated into
a printed paragraph which
would brand us unintelligent and
childish. Perhaps, on the other
hand, the lack of complete
anonymity has kept some timor-
ous soul from voicing her bit of
iconoclasm, but a valid idea is
seldom ashamed of signature,
and, since the signatures are not
printed but only kept on file, this
incomplete secrecy should offer
no great obstacle to an honest
expression of opinion.

That we consider ourselves
Utopians is unthinkable, and, in
reality, there is no dearth of
criticism on the campus. Each
has her individual complaint
about courses, regulations, elec-
tions, publications, etc. ; the bulk
of conversation not devoted to
narration is consumed in em-
phatic, often eloquent, judg-
ments passed on various campus
problems or events. Yet this
simmering of opinion is, in its
present state, ineffectual, achiev-
ing little more than a peppered
table-talk. Why? The fault
seems inherent in the nature of
our opinions, which are predom-
inantly personal. We fail to ex-
amine more closely the complaint
of a moment or regard judg-
ments voiced by our neighbors in
the light of their larger signifi-
cance in relation to campus life
as a unit. Consequently, we do
not subordinate "the personal
equation" and our criticism
bears all the taint of prejudice
and uncoordinated thinking.

That we have problems which
need to be faced by a cool im-
personal student opinion is self-
evident ; it is for us to seek to de-
velop a serious critical attitude
that is childish neither in its
methods nor its effect. The We
Think column is waiting to S6TW
such an end.

BOOK BITS

By Eva Poliakoff

Another internal conflict has faced
the French. This time Premier Dou-
mergue attempted a real change inside
the government. He not only took the
usual vote to determine his stand but
also proposed measures to strengthen
his own hand as Premier.

Involved in this latest political dis-
cord was the fate of the Radical Social-
ist followers of former Premier Her-
riot. These men were literally between
two fires one of renewed civil riots if
the government was upset, and the
other from their own constituents if
they supported Doumergue. For this
dilemma a solution was proposed in the
suggestion that they resign from the
cabinet if Doumergue failed to offer a
compromise in his demands for a
strengthened government. Such a pro-
posal would, some believed, avert vio-
lence similar to that which cost 2 8
lives last February.

In addition to the imminent demand
for constitutional changes, Doumergue
planned to lay before the government
several bills, one of which provides for
three months credit in case the budget
is not passed by the end of the year.

But the climax of this momentous
week in French internal history came
at the time when Premier Doumergue
asked both houses to vote on a formal
motion that there is need for a re-
vision of the constitution by a Na-
tional Assembly. This demand seemed
particularly pertinent in view of the
fact that France is surrounded by na-
tions in which "one man government"
is the fashion. But France herself has
not in her constitution provided for
even a "Prime Minister." This term is
used to apply to the president of the
council. Yet this officer has very little
power. Likewise the President is also
virtually powerless in France. This un-
fashionable situation Doumergue hoped
to remedy, as well as to end the French
habit of throwing out governments too
often. Until today the average life of
cabinets has been about nine months;
in difficult times, often only a few
days or a few weeks.

Doumergue proposed these constitu
tional changes:

1. To allow Premier and President
to dissolve the chamber if they so de-
sired.

2. To place real power in the Pre-
mier to control the cabinet.

3. To deprive the chamber of the
right to initiate appropriations.

Doumergue made the fateful step.
The Radical Socialist members forced
out Doumergue after they resigned
from the cabinet because of his pro-
gram for constitutional revision. Now
to Herriot, new Premier, President Le
Brun will assign the task of forming
another government.

So vivid was the fear of disorder that
Doumergue and his ministers waited
until a later date to announce the gov-
ernment's fall. Heavy police forces
were hidden about the capital to pre-
vent any disturbance.

Y. W. C. A. Activities

The World Fellowship group of Y.
W. C. A., working under Lois Hart,
attended the Second Forum meeting
last Sunday, November 11. Mr. Nel-
son led the group on fellowship of rec-
onciliation. "Justice Without Vio-
lence" was the topic for discussion.

The industrial group is under the
direction of Barbara Her twig. The
group went to Atlanta Monday eve-
ning to dinner and discussion with the
industrial girls. A group of these work-
ing girls have planned to visit our cam-
pus very soon.

The Social Service group has a we
organized Girl Scout group and is doing
fine work. A group of girls, under
direction of Marie Simpson recently
made paper dolls to take to the chil-
dren at the Scottish Rite Hospital.

Mr. Stukes is leading a discussion
group every other Sunday evening for
all who wish to attend. The recent
meetings have discussed "Why I Be-
lieve in God." It is hoped that many
more members of the college will join
the group.

Current Notes

Photograph Russia James E. Abbe.

The author, with no excuses or apol-
ogies, has bearded the Soviet lion in its
den, escaping from its outraged pursuit
with a priceless store of stolen photo-
graphs and first-hand information on
every possible subject. The truest of
all news of Russian realities today is
found in this book.

Horizons of Death Norman Mc-
Leod.

This book consists of the Southwest,
by "an aesthete who draws on his liter-
ary gloves before shaking the horny
hand of experience." Herald-Tribune.

Don

The Roosevelt Omnibus
Wharton.

This complete and satisfying view of
the President from his earliest life to
the present time is rich in photographs,
magazine articles, cartoons, caricatures
and letters.

The Age of Confidence Henry
Seidel Canby.

This book presents an enthralling
story of life in a small town during
the nineties when the streets were quiet
and when houses and their inmates
were dignified. The permanence and
stability of the home of that day is
described with a rare charm. The Age
of Confidence is a book of lingering
memories.

Davy Crockett Constance Rourke.

Miss Rourke portrays Davy Crockett
as an epic hero in this biography.

"Crockett the man is somewhat ob-
scured; Crockett the great hunter, the
teller of tall tales; above all, Crockett
the mythical hero of the frontier, ap-
pears in all the glory of folklore."
American Review.

Bombav. Mahatma Gandhi has de-
clared his decision to retire from lead-
ership of the All India Nationalist Con-
gress. "When the hands holding the
reins are those of a sleeping person,"
he said, "they are unfit to lead." Hun-
dreds of members of the Congress
pleaded with him to open its meeting
last week, but he insisted upon leaving
to develop power of non-violence, he
explained. His repeated fasts as protests
against British Government in India
have been his highest expression of non-
violence in his own view. But the
physicians who, by order of the Gov-
ernment, w atched him during his fasts,
found that there was nothing of non-
violence in his treatment of himself.
The Literary Digest.

Rome. Continuing his campaign to
renew the Italian capital in the tradi-
tion and glory of its ancient days,
Premier Benito Mussolini has begun a
partial restoration of the Mausoleum
of the Emperor Augustus, now used
as a concert-hall. Last week, in a brief
speech to the assembled workmen, he
declared that the razing of many old
houses clustering around the Mauso-
leum would transform one of the
filthiest quarters into one of the most
beautiful in Rome. He wielded a pick
with energy and skill revealing his long
practice with this implement in his
early years when he supported himself
in exile by working as a common lab-
orer. The Literary Digest.

Ploughing On Sunday Sterling
North.

As a relief from sordid, crude pic-
tures of farm life, this novel puts forth
a bright view of the lusty naturalness
of a young giant's days on a Wiscon-
sin dairy farm.

Diamond Jim: The Life and Times
of James Buchanan Brady Parker
Morel 1.

This book presents a vivid picture of
a vivid character known as a wildly
lavish spender who reveled amid the
white lights of Little Old New York.
He was as familiar to the millions of
the city as he was to his next-door
neighbor. Through all his extravagan-
ces runs an engaging simplicity and
bo\ inity that complete the picturesque
portrait.

Last week three U. S. doctors were
awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for
Medicine making the fourth, fifth and
sixth U. S. medical investigators to re-
ceive the Nobel Prize, and thereby
raising the U. S. medical score to
match Germany's. They earned the
highest of earthly distinctions for dis-
covering that a diet of animal livers
is a specific remedy for pernicious ane-
mia. Time.

To Estonians one of the most en-
lightened Baltic peoples, the electric
chair seems crude. In principle they
have no death penalty, but it is revived
whenever Estonia is under martial law,
as she has been since March. Each
Estonian condemned to death at Tal-
linn has been led out into the nearbv
forest by 8 soldiers and there shot, al-
ways in a different part of the forest,
l ast w eek the President issued a decree
whereby the condemned will be given
five minutes to commit suicide by tak-
ing poison. If he refuses, he is to be
hanged. All Estonians were shocked by
the authorization of hanging. Time.

WORK FOR WITS

(Reprinted from November issue of Scttbnefs)
Indicate which of the numbered phrases in the lefthand column best applies
to the phrases in the right hand column:

Lovelace ( )
Jeanie Deans (
Mrs. Poyser (
Eustacia Vye (

Sir Willoughby Pattern ( )
Dinah Morris ( )

)

)

First Practical Steam Engine ( )
Spinning Wheels ( )
Gasoline Automobile (
Steel Manufacture ( )
Agricultural Machinery
Power Looms ( )

)

( )

I. 1. The Heart of Midlothian

2. Clarissa Harlowe

3. The Return of the Native

4. The Egoest

5. Adam Bede

6. Silas Marner

7. The Portrait of a Lady

8. Diana of the Crossways
II. 1. Bessemer

2. Newcomer

3. Arkwright

4. Daunler

5. Cartwright

6. McCormick

7. Eli Whitney

8. Robert Fitch

In the following questions. Indicate which of the sevcra
completes the given statement:

I. According to Rousseau, human inequality is the result chiefly
original sin; 2. the persistence of the natural state of man; 3. individual physical
differences; 4. faulty education and laws.

II. Dickens' most enduring creations are:
characters from lower class life; 3, his heroes
gentry.

III. El Greco's paintings are noted for: 1
sinuous and twisted distortions; 3. quiet calm and serenity; 4. crude material-
istic force.

IV. The man who raised the song to the status of an art form was: 1.
Beethoven; 2. Mendelssohn; 3. Weber; 4. Schubert.

V. The germ theory of disease is associated with the name of: 1. Lamarck;

2. Darwin; 3. Huxley; 4. Pasteur; S. Spencer; 6. MctchinofT.

VI. Katherine Mansfield was: 1. a writer of sea poems; 2. the heroine of
Mansfield Park; 3. a writer of short stories; 4. tin- wife of Richard Mansfield.

VII. Aristophanes satirized Socrates in: I. "The h'rogs; 2. "The Clouds";

3. "The Birds"; 4. "The Wasps."

VIII. The man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage was: 1. Jacob J
2. Esau: 3. Joseph; 4. loshua.

responses best
f: I,

heroines; 2. his minor
portraits of the landed

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SOCIAL NE WS

Sue Billingsdale and Sara Harrel of
Wesley an College spent the week-end
with Mildred Davis.

Rebecca Harrison and Virginia
Hightower spent the week-end at Bre-
nau College in Gainesville, Ga.

Frances Miller of Wesleyan College
spent the week-end with Sara Emeline
Steele.

Myrl 'Chafin spent the week-end at
her home in McDonough, Ga.

Caroline Armistead spent the week-
end at the home of her aunt in New-
nan, Ga.

Mr. and Ms. I. W. Merrill of Jack-
son, Miss., spent the week-end with
their daughter, Jane.

Anne Cullum spent the week-end
with her aunt, Miss Virginia Harrison.

Sarah Fitzpatrick of Austell, Ga.,
spent the week-end with her sister,
Kathryn.

Geraldinc Wisenbaker had as her
guest for the week-end Marjorie Syring
of Barnesville, Ga.

Katherine Hoffman spent the week-
end at her home in Charlotte, N. C.

Jean Kirkpatrick, Rosa Wilder, and
Alice Taylor attended a Beta Theta Pi
steak fry Saturday night.

Meredith Crickner spent the week
end with Catharine Jones in Ball
Ground, Ga.

Fannie B. Harris' mother visited her
Tuesday.

Florence Lassiter spent the week-end
at her home in Fitzgerald, Ga.

Caroline Long spent the week-end
with Dorothea Blackshear.

Dorothy Kelly attended a wedding
Tuesday night in Monticello, Ga.

Leonora Spencer spent the week-end
at her home in Rock Hill, S. C.

Caroline White attended the dance
at the Biltmore Saturday night.

Naomi Cooper spent the week-end at
her home in Columbus, Ga.

Martha Young and Helen Handte
spent the day Sunday with Frances
James.

Virginia Gaines spent the week-end
at her home in Atlanta.

Ida Buist and Vera Frances Pruet
were among those attending the Tech-
Auburn ^ame in Atlanta.

Lavinia Scott spent the week-end at
her home in Milledgeville, Ga.

Marian Calhoun and Martha Red
wine spent the week-end at the home
of the latter in Fayetteville, Ga.

CLUBS

The Spanish Club will meet next
Tuesday, at 4:30 in Mr. C. W. Dieck-
mann's studio in Main. Lilian Grim-
son, exchange student from Argen-
tina, will talk to the club on a com-
parison of popular music of Spain and
of Latin America. All members are
ur^ed to attend.

K. U. B.

K. U. B., journalistic club of Agnes
Scott, will meet this afternoon, No-
vember 14, at 4:3 0, in the Y. W. C. A.
cabinet room. Miss Anna May Christie,
club sponsor, will speak.

Ola and Dorothy Kelly and Eda
Kuhr spent Sunday in Atlanta.

Lillian Grimson and Effie Ola
Anthony attended a dance at the Druid
Hills Club Friday night.

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Susan Watson, ex-'3 5, of Greenville,
S. C.j spent the week-end with Mary
Elizabeth Squires.

Helen Ramsey had dinner Wednes-
day night with Mr. and Mrs. Say wood
in Decatur.

Meriel Bull spent the week-end with
Mary Snow at her home in Atlanta.

Nell White and Betty Lou Houck
attended the homecoming dances at
Davidson College in Davidson, N. C,
last week-end.

Mary Margaret Stowe spent the
week-end at her home in Belmont,
North Carolina.

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International Relations Club
The International Relations Club
will hold its next meeting tomorrow
in Mr. Johnson's Studio Prof. Glenn
Rainey of Georgia Tech will speak on
the Disarmament Conference.

Blackfriars

At the November 6 meeting of
Blackfriars the new members were
formally initiated. The program was
arranged in honor of the new members
and of the members of the cast for the
first big play of the year, Shaw's You
Never Can Tell, which will be pre-
sented Friday and Saturday nights, No-
vember 16 and 17.

A one- act play, The Weathervane
Elopes, by Alice C. D. Riley, was pre-
sented under the direction of Margaret
Stokey- The cast included Dorothy
Bell, Vera Frances Pruett, Mary
Hutchinson, and Alice McCallie.

LAY ON, McSCOTT

Cotillion Club

Ellen Davis, Elizabeth Strickland
and Sara Jones were hostesses at a Co-
tillion tea-dance, Thursday afternoon,
November 8, at 5 o'clock in Mr. John-
son's studio.

At the last business meeting held on
Wednesday, November 7, plans were
discussed for the Thanksgiving dance.

Pen and Brush Club
The last meeting of Pen and Brush
Club was held on Thursday, Novem-
ber 8, in Virginia Gaines' room and
was devoted to a study of Uzanne, the
leader of Impressionism.

Chi Beta Sigma
At the last meeting of Chi Beta Phi
Sigma, held on Monday night, Novem-
ber 5, Sara Cook was elected to repre-
sent Agnes Scott at installation of
a new chapter at Queens-Chicora Col-
lege in North Carolina. After the busi-
ness meeting Dr. Christian and Rosalyn
Crispin took the members on a field
trip to see the various constellations,
Sara Cook and Margaret Waterman
were hostesses at this meeting.
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er about cauldron in beginnings of
sailors' horn-pipe).

1 Wiz.: Thrice the dread thing I've
assigned.

2 Wiz.: Thrice and once again
maligned.

3 Wiz.: Yea! Tis so, I too'm aligned.

4 Wiz.: This time. 'Tis time.

1 Wiz.:

Round about the cauldron go;
In the sinners' skulls to throw
Brains of some and eyes of all
Rest thou here beneath this pall.
Business of labor done in vain
Gross enormous yet no gain
Matter of term paper test and hope
Butt! Buffoon! My kingdom for a
dope.

All.: Double, double, toil and bub-
ble, Fire burn or rheumatics trouble.

2 Wiz.:

Fillet of racquet, deed of king
Scribner salesmen likewise fling.
Sovereign power bestowed upon flea,
Speeches forever to U. D. C.
For a charm of potverftd trouble
Like a hell-broth, boil and bubble.

3 Wiz.:

By the wiggle of my moustache,
There approaches something rash.
(Enter hesitantly Sarsaparilla, Spirit of
Campus, showing fatal evidence of
modesty and gentle birth).

1 Wiz.: W-e-1-1, Miss Sarsaparilla!!!

2 Wiz.: Speak!

3 Wiz.: Demand!

4 Wiz.: We'll answer!

All: Any questiones? Say, if thou'dst
rather hear it from our mouths or from
our masters?

Sars: I'll take the matter to the
authorities.

4 Wiz.:

Show her eyes and grieve her heart
Come like shadows, so depart.
(Enter climax severally in stairstep for-
mation, from colonial structure dimly
visible through aforementioned fog and
filthy air, (presenting in apparitional
manner seven present and future po-
tentates) .
Sars. :

Lives of great men all remind us
We should make our lives sublime.
Nay! Thou art too like the Reasonable
Rule

Shake not thy gory ideals in my face,
(Notice process of character disinteg-
ration.)

The other gold tasseled head is like the
first.

A third is like the former! Woe is me.

A fourth! Start eyes!

What, will the line stretch out to the

crack of doom!
Fiendish laughter, complacent smirk,
Bereft of hope, still must work.
(Collapses into disconsolate heap.
Wizards look on in triumphant glee.
At psychlogical point arrive denoue-
ment, by dent of great effort, with
drapings of time clock and lunch box) .

Den. Good evening, everybody! I
come to take this young lady home.

Sars. (Recovery instantaneous).
What! No vestige of milk of human
kindness, thou soulless creature!

Den. I'm sorry, lady! But orders
is orders, jobs being scarce hard as
times is. (Wizards' evil laughter).

3 Wiz.:

Come, brothers, cheer ive up her sprites,
And show the best of our delights
Til charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antic round.
That this great being may kindly say
Our duties did her welcome pay.
(Dance and disintegrate into murki-
ness) .
Sars. :

Where are they} Gone? Let the per-
nicious hour
When first I entered this field of gloom
Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
Let us begone.
(Exit as Finis approach).

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NOTICE

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resign from the editorship of the
Agonistic some weeks ago because of
bad health, will not be able to return
to Agnes Scott this semester, it was
learned this week.

Loice was most prominent on the
campus, being a member of B. O. Z.,
Blackfriars, Cotillion Club, and Mor-
tar Board. It is with deep regret that
the campus will learn of her temporary
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Silhouette Staff

Eleanor Hamilton, field secretary
for the Alumnae Association, enter-
tained at a tea on Wednesday, Nov.
7, from 5 to 7 o'clock at the Alumnae
Tea House, in honor of the Silhouette
staff of last year. Miss Elizabeth Jack-
son and Miss Carrie Scandrett poured
tea.

Miss Helen Morgan from Photo-
Process Engraving Company, and Miss
Catherine Culbertson, from Foote
& Da vies, attended the tea. The Sil-
houette staff for this year and editors
and business managers of other publi-
cations were also invited.

Elinor was editor-in-chief of the
193 3-34 Silhouette which was awarded
the cup given by the National Stu-
dents' Publication Association for all-
American rating.

Just 40 More Days Till Xmas So

Do your Christmas shopping early
and at the most convenient place in
town, the Bookstore! The management
is offering several suggestions that may
be helpful for those weak places on
your shopping list.

First and foremost, for your room-
mate there are some attractive Agnes
Scott pillows and pennants quite rea-
sonably priced. (You can enjoy these,
too). An Agnes Scott bracelet would
be a very acceptable gift if she doesn't
already have one. If you are one of
those people that like to give practical
things how about a box of Agnes
Scott stationery?

For those brothers and sisters in
grammar school we suggest a diminu-
tive Peter Pan pen and pencil set. Lit-
tle sister would be very much thrilled
over a compact with an Agnes Scott
seal on it or a narrow leather belt with
a Scott buckle to wear with her sport
things.

For mothers and cousins and aunts
we suggest some beautifully plain writ-
ing paper that appeals to the more con-
servative. For all the uncles and peo-
ple left, a subscription to some favorite
magazines may be turned in at the
store through our club plan.

ATHLETIC NEWS

SOPHOMORES WIN
SWIMMING MEET

CLUBS

(Continued from Page 3, Column 3)
Citizenship Club
The Citizenship Club met last Tues-
day at 4:30 in the Y. W. C. A. Cabi-
net Room in Main. Mr. Claud D.
Nelson, southern secretary for the Fel-
lowship of Reconciliation led a round-
table discussion on "Strikes and Martial
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The sophomores won the interclass
swimming meet held Thursday eve-
ning, November 8, winning a total of
19 points, the juniors receiving second
place with 18 points, and the fresh-
men third place with 17 points. The
judges were Miss Llewellyn Wilburn,
Miss Dorothy Cassel and Miss Mary
Ames; the clerk of the courses was
Miss Harriet Haynes.

The first event was the 20-yard dash
(free-style) won by Martha Brown for
the freshmen; second place was won
by Elizabeth Burson for the juniors;
and third place was tied for by two
sophomores, Mary Kneale and Mary
Johnson.

The second event was the front
tandem for form, and the third event
the back tandem for form, both won
by Mary Kneale and Kitty Printup,
sophomores. Second place in the front
tandem went to Marian Calhoun and
Betty Fountain seniors; third place to
Ann Coffee and Elizabeth Burson, ju-
niors. Second place in the back tan-
dem was won by Ann Coffee and Eliz-
abeth Burson, juniors; third place by
Jean Matthews and Ann Worthy John-
son, freshmen.

An exciting medley relay using the
back stroke, side stroke, breast stroke,
back crawl and front crawl, was the
fourth event, won by the seniors; no
other places were given. Those tak-
ing part in this event were: seniors,
Edwards, Crispin, Fountain, Calhoun,
McCalla; juniors, Gray, Symms, Bull,
Burson, McCallie; sophomores, Lasseter,
Stalker, Johnson, Jackson, Kneale;
freshmen, D. Kelly, Chalmers, John-
son, Matthews, Thompson.

First place in beginners' diving, as
the fifth event, went to Mary Smith,
freshman; Jean Chalmers, freshman,
won all five first places in the ad-
vanced diving events: front, jack,
swan, back and optional.

The last contest, a game of King
Pigeon played by all the contestants,
was tied by Elizabeth Burson and Ann
Thompson, an indefatigable and un-
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Chanting "We're pirates and sailor-
men, beep, beep," pirates will combine
with mermaids, sea turtles, and dolph-
ins to present a colorful water pageant,
"Pieces of Eight" on Tuesday evening,
November 27, at 8 o'clock in the gym-
nasium swimming pool. The idea of
the pageant is adapted from "Treas-
ure Island," and includes spectacular
diving and a real treasure, sought by
hero, heroine, and pirates. The charac-
teristic piratical torture walking-the-
plank will be in evdience, with the
blust'ry pirates Bert Palmour and
Frances Balkcom goading on the re-
luctant hero Marie Stalker, the heroine,
and various captive attendants.

Last week the writing committee,
accompanied by Miss Harriet Haynes,
attended the Tenth Sreet Theatre to see
"Treasure Island" in order to insure
authenticity of the maritime jargon.
To this trip are due the expressive
"my hearties," "mateys," and "what
ho's." The writing of the pageant as
a whole is being done by a writ-
ing committee, composed of Kitty
Printup, chairman; Ann Coffee, Con-
nie Pardee, Eugenia Symms, Laura
Steele, and June Matthews. Elizabeth
Burson is in charge of production.

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HOCKEY VICTORS

The usual weekly hockey game was
a double-header on last Friday, when
the seniors defeated the freshmen 1-0,
and the juniors defeated the sopho-
mores 3-3. Faculty members and vis-
itors who were spectators helped cheer
on the righting teams.

In the first half of the junior-soph-
omore game, Walker made two long
dribbles, stopped each time by accu-
rate interception on the part of Town-
send. Another interesting play in this
half was bullying at the junior goal
between the sophomore goalkeeper and
a junior player which resulted in the
goaler's gaining the advantage and
sending the ball away from the goal.

The senior line-up was: Poliakoff,
r.w.; Rogers, l.w., (1); McCalla c.f.;
Cassel, i.l.; Bowman, i.w.; Grimson,
r.h.; Young c.h.; Palmour, l.h.; Wool-
folk r.b.; Bell, Lb.; Constantine, g.g.

The junior line-up was: Hart, r.w.;
Burson, i.w.; Handte, c.f. (2) ; Stevens,
i.l. (1); Derrick, l.w.; Miller, r.h.;
Armstrong, c.h.; Blick, l.h.; Townsend,
r.b.; Forman, g.g.

The sophomore line-up was: Jack-
son, r.w.; Belser, i.r. ; Fleece, c.f.; John-
son i.l.; Walker, l.w.; Kneale, l.h.;
Wilder, c.h.; Little, Lr.j Taylor, r.b.;
Hertwig, Lb.; Cary, g.g.

The freshmen line-up was: Brown,
r.w.; Henderson, i.r.; Thompson, c.f.;
Coit, i.l.; Hightower, l.w.; Blackshear,
r.h.; Lemmon, c.h.; Allison, l.h.;
Adams, r.b.; Jeffers, Lb.; Robinson,
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Members of the class of '32 are en-
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Virginia Gray was appointed by the
Foreign Mission Commission to teach
in the Central School for Missionaries'
children in America. She will be there
three years.

Dee Robinson, who was secretary' to
Miss Hopkins last year, is teaching in
Dayton, Tenn., this winter.

Sara Lane Smith is working for the
Fulton County Relief Association.

Floyd Foster is teaching in the Madi-
son High School this year.

Betty Bonham is working for the
Atlanta branch of the Southern Bell
Telephone System.

Mary Duke is teaching in the Ful-
ton County Schools in Atlanta.

Anne Hudmon is in Florence, Ala.,
teaching English in the Caffee High
School. She also coaches the girls'
basketball team.

Letitia Rockmore is working in the
advertising department at Rich's.

Florence Kleybecker is registrar at
her former high school in Birmingham.

Sarah Cooper is connected with the
Fulton County Relief organization.

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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1934

NO. 6

GENERAL SURVEY COMMITTEE
REPORTS ON COORDINATION PLAN

RENOWNED EDUCATORS FAVOR
COLLABORATION

The preliminary report of the Gen-
eral Survey Committee for the estab-
lishment of a University center in At-
lanta, made public Nov. 17, stated that
the project of co-ordinating Agnes
Scott, Emory, and Georgia Tech into
a great university center is "unques-
tionably desirable and feasible." This
committee, which has been studying
the proposed plan since last January,
under the auspices of the Lewis H.
Beck foundation is composed of six
nationally known educators: Dr.
George A. Works, the University of
Chicago specialist in higher education,
who planned the re-organization of the
University System of Georgia, and who
also wrote this report; Dr. Edwin Em-
bree, president of the Julius Rosenwald
Fund; Dr. L. D. Coffman, president of
the University of Minnesota; Edmond
E. Day, director of the social sciences
for the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr.
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the
University of Chicago; and Dr. Wil-
liam F. Ogburn, professor of sociology
at the University of Chicago. Dr.
J. R. McCain, president of Agnes Scott,
Dr. Harvey W. Cox, president of
Emory, and Dr. M. L. Brittain, presi-
dent of Georgia Tech were ex-officio
members of the committee.

SEVEN STEPS CONSIDERED
In the plans for accomplishing this
{Continued on page 3, column 4)

FORMER EDITOR
GETS POSITION

Miss Elizabeth K. Lynch, Agnes
Scott, '3 3, has been made secretary for
the Committee on Reorganization of
the Lower Division at the University
of Florida in Gainesville, according to
information received on the campus
this week. Her work as secretary in-
cludes gathering, cataloguing, and
briefing descriptive and technical ma-
terial pertaining to survey courses, ori-
entation courses, and comprehensive
programs being tried in various parts
of the country. The work of the com-
mittee deals with the reorganization of
the Lower Division along the lines of
the Chicago plan.

Mr. W. A. Little, part time associ-
ate professor of English at the Univer-
sity, under whom Miss Lynch worked
last year, serves on the committee. It
was through him that she was ap-
pointed, Miss Lynch wrote.

While Miss Lynch was at Agnes
Scott she was most prominent on the
campus; her senior year she served as
editor of the Agnostic. She was an
honor student and did excellent work
in the departments of English and his-
tory, her major subjects.

Social Conference
Meets This Month

Lois Hart, chairman of the World
Fellowship Group of Y. W. C. A., re-
ceived this week an invitation to at-
tend a student conference to be held
on Paine College campus, in Augusta,
Ga., from November 3 0, to December
2. The theme for the three-day confer-
ence will be, Recent Social Changes and
the College Student.

Dr. Will W. Alexander, executive
director of the Interracial Commis-
sion and president of Dillard Universi-
ty, New Orleans, La., and Mr. Ira De
A. Reid, professor of sociology at At-
lanta University, are the conference
leaders; they will lead round-table dis-
cussion on topics which are of vital
interest and concern to the student. A
trip over the campus to Bethlehem
House and two plays by the Paine Col-
lege Dramatic Club will be other high
lights on the program planned for this
group meeting. Delegates to the con-
ference will be accommodated on the
campus of Paine College where prep-
arations are being made for them.

This conference is the first of its
kind to be held in Georgia; it will bring
together Negro and white students for
the purpose of discussing problems
which the college student, regardless
of race, must eventually face. Whether
Agnes Scott will send delegates has not
yet been decided. Two representatives
will be sent to Augusta, Lois Hart said,
if the College participates.

Dean Paty Speaks
In Chapel Program

Dean Raymond Paty, of Emory Uni-
versity, spoke on "Growth Through
God" in chapel on November 13. Dean
Paty was the third in the series of
speakers on Growth, the theme of the
Y. W. C. A. chapel hour for this year.

Dean Paty drew his talk from the
whole Bible, not from any one pas-
sage. Religious growth, he brought out,
depends upon religious activity, an
adequate appreciation of both man and
God, and finally upon a growing con-
cept of what religion is. This concept,
he said, would grow as the individual
enters into a larger experience of life.

Miss Louise Hale, associate profes-
sor of French at Agnes Scott, and Dr.
Leroy Loemker, of the philosophy de-
partment of Emory University, have
already spoken to the students on two
phases of the general theme, Growth.
Rabbi David Marx, of Atlanta, will
talk on "Growth Through Friends," on
November 27, Martha Redwine, presi-
dent of Y. W. C. A., said.

Inter esting Features Of Poet's
Life Passed In Retrospect

By Augusta King
Sitting in the sun throwing stones
at a post even a post belonging to
Vassar is more fun than attending a
history class. This the unconventional
Edna St. Vincent Millay thought; so
she sat on the steps in the sun. And
when one day she did go to history
class, she wrote her test in beautiful,
rhythmic, poetical language which con-
tained not one authentic fact. Al-
ways her actions, as they were then
when she was a student at Vassar, have
been guided by that same youthful
candor, that same impulse to do what
she wanted. Always she is the barefoot
poet no tight shoes of fidelity te
make her do or say anything which she
does not sincerely think.

Vincent, as she is called by her
closest friends, has always been the liv-
ing evidence of the wisdom of the man
who said, "A poet is born, not made."

As a child, she published verses in the
children's magazine, "St. Nicholas";
when she graduated from high school
in Camden, her essay written in verse
won the prize. These were the founda-
tions for her success, and the corner-
stone was the appearance of her "Rena-
scence" in the Lyric Year of 1912. In
this beautiful lyric Edna Millay com-
bined a rebirth of youth with a love
of nature; it is a youth objective and
subjective that resounds in:
n Ob! Up from the earth sprang J
And hailed the earth with such a cry
As is not heard save from a man
Who has been dead, and lives again.
About the trees, my arms 7 wound;
Like one gone mad, I hugged the
ground;

I raise my quivering arms on high;
I laughed and laughed into the sky."
A woman recognized Miss Millay's
genius in "Renascence" and supplied
(Continued on page 4, column 2)

Plans for Social
Service School
Announced

In response to a petition sent by the
Social Welfare Council of Atlanta,
Agnes Scott College and Emory Uni-
versity are laying plans to open a
school of social work in the fall, Presi-
dent J. R. McCain said this week. The
school will be located at Emory but
the cost of its operation will be shared
by the two colleges. Approximately
$30,000 will be required to get the
project under way, Dr. McCain said;
Agnes Scott will raise a part of this
amount. Although Agnes Scott will
co-operate in supplying teachers, the
school will be under the direction of
Emory.

Since there is no such institution be-
tween Richmond, Virginia, and New
Orleans, Dr. McCain stated, there is
a demand for a fully equipped, pro-
fessional graduate school for social serv-
ice training in this section. The pro-
posed school, it is hoped, will meet this
need.

The co-operation of the two institu-
tions in this plan, the joint Horace
celebration of the Eta Sigma Phi chap-
ters of the two schools, and the ex-
change of students to act in Emory and
Agnes Scott dramatic productions are
all outgrowths, Dr. McCain said, of
the co-ordination system being worked
out by the two schools now for the
purpose of giving graduate work lead-
ing to the Doctor's degree.

ETA SIGMA PHI
GIVES PROGRAM

Eta Sigma Phi will celebrate the Bi-
millenium Horatianum this afternoon
at five o'clock in the gymnasium of
Agnes Scott College. A program of
music, dance, and drama will be pre-
sented in honor of the two thousandth
anniversary of the Latin poet. This
is the first time that Eta Sigma Phi
has attempted a celebration on so large
a scale. The entertainment has been
planned under the direction of the so-
ciety's faculty advisors, Professor Cath-
erine Torrance, Professor Lillian Smith,
and Assistant Professor Martha Stans-
field of the Greek and Latin depart-
ments.

Many high school pupils are expected
to attend, and also Emory classical stu-
dents. The college community is cor-
dially invited.

Water Pageant

To Be Presented

"Pieces of Eight," a water pageant,
will be presented on Tuesday evening,
November 27, at 8:15 o'clock in the
gymnasium swimming pool. The page-
ant includes a hero, heroine, and their
companions, as well as pirates, mer-
maids, dolphins, and a sea turtle. The
cast of "Pieces of Eight" is:

Hero Marie Stalker.

Heroine Dorothy Cassel.

First Pirate Alberta Palmour.

Second Pirate Frances Balkcom.

Drunk Pirate Ann Worthy John-
son.

Other Pirates Gene Brown, Jerry
Brown, Elizabeth Forman.

Attendants Isabel Richardson, Mary
Johnson, Virginia Hart, Alice Taylor,
Sara Steele, Jean Chalmers, Elinor
Hamilton, Helen Handte.

Sea Turtle Jeanne Matthews.

Mermaids Ann Coffee, Kitty Prnit-
up, Mary Kneale, Marguerite Morrison,
Esther Byrnes, Elizabeth Burson, Car-
oline Cole, Betty Fountain, Martha P.
Brown.

Dolphins Leonora Spencer, Mary
Richardson, Meriel Bull, Jane Merrili,
Mary Stipe, Connie Pardee.

Extensive plans for production of
"Pieces of Eight" are being made, ac-
cording to Elizabeth Burson, who is in
charge of the pageant.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY WILL
LECTURE HERE NOVEMBER 23

Emory French Dept.
Given Set Of Books

According to a recent announcement
made by Professor Nolan A. Goodyear,
the French department of Emory Uni-
versity has been presented with a set of
books by the French Ministry of For-
eign Affairs.

The books, written by contemporary
authors, include works by Pierre Quint,
Paul Valery, Albert Thibaud, Jean
Prevost, Paul Morand, Andre Maurois,
Julian Green, and others.

In previous years, Emory has re-
ceived seventeen volumes of French
political documents and twelve vol-
umes of the publications of the French
Institute of Washington. The recent
presentation was recommended by
M. Andre de Laboulaye, French ambas-
sador, at the instance of M. Charles
Loridans, local consular agent.

POET TO READ FROM RECENT
VOLUME

Aurora Award Goes
To Sarah Spencer

The prize of $2.50, offered for the
best cover design for Aurora, was
awarded to Sarah Spencer, Anna Hum-
ber, editor announced. The design is
done in black and white and represents
the sun rising over a somewhat turbu-
lant ocean. Sarah's design will be used
on the cover of the four issues of
Aurora this year.

The prize for the cover design is
one of four prizes which the editors of
Aurora are offering this year. The
others are: $5.00 for the best poem,
$2.50 for the best essay, and $2.5 0 for
the best short story published in the
first three issues of the Aurora.

The November issue of the quarterly
came out yesterday.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, under the
auspices of the Agnes Scott Lecture
Association, will present a reading of
her poetry on Friday night, November
23, at eight-thirty o'clock in the
Bucher Scott gymnasium of Agnes
Scott College.

Great interest in the lecture has been
shown all over this section, and even
as far as Kentucky. This is Miss Mil-
lay's first visit to Atlanta, and one of
only five or six lectures she will give
this year. She will read not only from
her earlier poems, but also from her
latest volume, Wine from These Grapes,
two editions of which were exhausted
before they were released from the
publisher an evidence of her renown
as a poet.

LECTURER HIGHLY PRAISED

Press accounts of her lectures this
fall have been most enthusiastic. The
Brooklyn, N. Y., Institute of Arts and
Sciences, writes after her lecture in the
middle of October, "Last night's fine
audience fully reflected the wide glory
of Miss Millay 's name and art. No other
poet in the flesh could have gathered
it, and the fine comment of many of
the members of that audience follow-
ing it, is sufficient to upset the humil-
ity of an angel."

From Hartford, Conn., comes the
report that the only drawback to the
evening was a lack of room, and that

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OPERA STARS
TO SING HERE

Nino Martini and Grete Stueckgold,
popular young stars of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company, will be presented
in joint recital Thanksgiving evening
at 8:30 o'clock at the Atlanta Audi-
torium. This is the third feature of the
All-Star concert series for this year.

Mr. Martini, a lyric tenor, is the first
singer to graduate from radio to the
Metropolitan Opera Company. He be-
gan his musical training in Verona,
Italy, where he was born and continued
it in Spain, Belgium, Milan, and Paris.
He has appeared in five motion pic-
tures, and in 1932 was engaged to
broadcast over the radio, an engage-
ment w hich gained him a Metropolitan
Opera position.

Miss Stueckgold is a soprano. She has
been with the Metropolitan only a short
time but is looked upon as one of the
most promising of the younger stars.
She also is a radio artist.

Arrangements for the transportation
of Agnes Scott students to this concert
are to be the same as in the past, Mr.
Lewis H. Johnson, who is in charge,
said.

Prominent Atlanta Writers Give

Impressions Of Edna Millay

By Mary Virginia Allen
"A New England nun; a chorus girl
on a holiday; a Botticelli Venus of the
Uffici gallery . . . She is all these and
more. A contradictory young person."
We are speaking of Edna St. Vincent
Millay. More than any other living
American poet she has puzzled her
critics and her readers. Some like to
read Miss Millay into her poetry; others
prefer to think of it as objective ex-
pression of emotion. And here are the
Edna Millays which four prominent
Atlanta writers find in the slender
black volumes of her poetry.

"Not so much of a chorus girl," Dr.
Anderson M. Scruggs, prominent At-
lanta poet, spoke in the living room of
his home on Euclid Avenue, "Her
poetry has too much reserve for that."

But he was speaking enthusiastically of
her style, "I admire the clearcut, vigor-
ous, masculine quality of her poetry. It
has so much strength, so much sweep."

He paused, and resting his head on
the back of the chair, he added, "Yes,
Miss Millay is one of the very best poets
writing today. Her work shows exquis-
ite finish. Her enormous popularity is
probably due to the fact that her poems
are not of the obtuse type. There is in
all of them sincerity and directness of
expression."

"Then, too, she has a wonderful gift
of dramatic style." He picked up Buck
in the Snow, which was lying on the
table at his elbow, and turned to Dirge
Without Music.

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Club Editor

CLUBS AGAIN

The Council of club presi-
dents has held its first meeting
and attempted, at least, an ap-
proach to the pregnant and
pressing problem of clubs. The
two resolutions adopted, con-
cerning dues and attendance at
meetings, though of an entirely
superficial nature, indicate an
effort to purge the organizations
of uninterested members; but
the more vital questions of a syn-
chronized schedule of club meet-
ings, and the establishment of a
principle of selection, still loom
large and unanswered.

Through the concerted effort
of the sixteen presidents a solu-
tion will be attempted, but it can-
not be effective, it cannot bear
fruit, unless we, individually and
collectively, pause in the scat-
tered storm and fury of our cam-
pus existence, and, instead of
jogging along in the same unsat-
isfying rut of activities with the
same bewildered air, face the sit-
uation in an attitude of serious
criticism. It is in the body of the
clubs that the desired revitaliza-
tion is to come, and it is for
every member to examine and
cross-examine herself and her
fellow members in a particular
club and then attempt to see the
problem in its ramifications on
the campus as a whole.

From such a discussion, a
valid answer might come to help
us to discard the trammels of
over-organization or inefficient
organization and to discover a
simpler, less hurried and more
enriching way to pursue our in-
terests. To this end, we pose a
few provocative questions.

1. What is the real function
of the clubs?

2. Are they vitally related to
academic interests, to the de-
partments from which many of
them are derived?

3. Is the intellectual life of the
campus more or less subordinat-
ed to the demands of club work?

4. Is there any over-lapping in
the work and interests of the
clubs?

5. What amount of time on
the average is given to club
work? Is this amount justified?

6. What would result if all
clubs were abolished for several
years, and, if their absence were
felt strongly, they were allowed
to spring up again spontane-
ously?

7. How many clubs do you be-
long to? Do they really interest
you or do you consider the time
spent at meetings wasted?

8. How many clubs should a
student join? Should there be
any distinction between fresh-
men and the members of the
other classes, between under-
classmen and upperelassmen?

ft What is the best time for
club meetings?

10. What do you consider the
best principle of selection to ap-
ply to the current problem?

And so ad infinitum. These
are questions that demand an
answer, or, at least, an intelli-
gent discussion. Tin- We Think
column is waiting with open
arms for any pertinent opinion
and the Club Council welcomes
suggestions.

WHAT OF "AURORA"

The maiden issue of the 1934
Aurora appeared yesterday; its
fate is still on the lap of the
gods : Shall it be read or not? Its
predecessors in the past few
years have, for the most part,
found a permanent resting place
on the distribution tables, on
desks, in the day students* room,
unnoticed and unread or winning
at best a careless perusal from
vaguely curious persons who
wonder what literary oddities in-
habit the campus.

This deadening lack of inter-
est in the reading public reaches
a concentrated form in the
empty Aurora box which greets
the editorial staff at stated pe-
riods with a cold and gloomy
stare, and offers them the deso-
late alternatives of either spin-
ning essays, stories and poems
from nothing or little after the
manner of the loaves and fishes,
committing suicide, or abandon-
ing the project altogether. This
is, of course, exaggeration, but
the stubborn fact of the bewild-
eringly few contributions re-
mains undaunted and challeng-
ing.

What, then, is to be done?
Shall we abolish the Aurora, the
only literary production on the
campus? The question seems ab-
surd, but, with an indifferent
audience and scattered contribu-
tors, it can claim no real raison
d' etre. Last year it was sug-
gested through the We Think
column and various editorials,
that the quality of the writings
in the Aurora was forcedly liter-
ary and pseudo-tragic, and kept
therefore many abashed and be-
wildered souls from contributing
in a simpler, merrier vein. This
criticism, though certainly not
entirely justified, seems to de-
mand a different trend, stories
and essays of a more humorous
and a more popular appeal. But
would this be lowering the stand-
ards which past efforts have set
for the magazine? If so, we
would advocate no change: for,
if the Aurora does not represent
the highest literary and artistic
achievement or, at least endeav-
or, on the campus, it loses its
real purpose; that it should be-
come a salmagundi of humorous
articles, jokes, sentimental or
sensational narratives, after the
manner of the New Yorker, is un-
thinkable.

As it has been stated, the Au-
rora wishes to represent the lit-
erary efforts of the whole body
of students, not of an isolated
group. It can subsist and grow,
not merely survive, only through
the concerted and interested sup-
]K>rt of the students in contribu-
tion and disinterested criticism.
As the representative of intel-
lectual efforts in the literary
field it merits reading, serious
criticism, and more substantial
contributions.

Recent Election
Endorses N.R.A.

By Elizabeth Heatox
The country looked forward with
keen anticipation to the report on the
Congressional election held on Novem-
ber 6. Everyone realized that the final
returns from the polls would render a
verdict for or against the New Deal.

The election resulted in a veritable
plebescite, whereby the people exhibit-
ed absolute confidence in the Presi-
dent by lifting the New Deal to a
higher pinnacle. With such states as
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, New
Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, and West
Virginia sending Democratic members
to Congress, and with the country as
a whole voting the Democratic ticket,
the following alignment resulted: In
the House of Representatives the Re-
publican party added only 20 seats to
their 114. This left the Democrats
with a clear majority. The number of
Democratic Representatives in the Sen-
ate was raised from 60 to 69 or possi-
bly 70.

No party has had such political
power in 132 years; in other words
since theHepublicans crushed the Fed-
eralists. Some leaders believe that after
this defeat of the Republican Party, it
will not exist any longer with its pres-
ent organization.

Leaders in the Government have had
a great deal to say concerning the elec-
tion and the possibilities of the future.
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
who had appealed to the people to sup-
port the President, expressed his opin-
ion in this way, "It was for the Presi-
dent that the electorate voted. They
look to the new Congress to heed the
mandate of the people, and to carry on
the work they have certified as the
Nation's desire. I have no doubt that
the National Legislature will do its full
duty and that the country may rest as-
sured that its government will fulfill
the great expectation testified to by
the election."

Another commentator on the sub-
ject, Senator Lewis, a Democrat, voiced
the sentiment of many when he warned
the party to avoid conflict within the
party. With such a strong Democratic
majority and a decidedly weak Repub-
lican minority, he, like many others,
feared that the Democrats might split
among themselves along economic lines.

With a two-thirds majority in both
houses, President Roosevelt will no
doubt be able to carry out his plan for
the government's budget. Although
these are not complete, the chief execu-
tive has formulated several definite
projects that will figure in his legislat-
ive program. There is the new Public
Works program, which provides for
government-built low-cost houses. A
new relief program is to be worked out
to care for at least 5,000,000 unem-
ployed. The aim here is to make the
dependent independent by alloting
them subsistent homesteads, jobs, and
tolls with which to work. The Presi-
dent is also considering a navy-build-
ing program. Another item of pro-
posed legislature is concerned with old
age pensions and unemployment insur-
ance. Although these are comparative-
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EXCHANGES

Club Notes

An average of 3 8 football players
are killed each season in the United
States, while only ten fatalities are re-
corded each year in Spain as a result
of bull fights, despite the fact that the
latter is rated as a more dangerous
sport. The Parley Voo.

College and university students in
the Rocky Mountains in the last few
weeks have become victims of what
is believed to be a gang making special-
ty of going from campus to campus,
burglarizing fraternitv houses. The
V. M. /. Cadet.

Mexico revives its war on religion.
The immediate program which the Fed-
eral Government has set for itself is the
complete secularization of the schools
on a so-called scientific basis, the con-
fiscation and nationalization of
churches (already under way), and the
expulsion of the clergy. The edifice
which the Catholic Church has set up
is to be completely destroyed. The
Literary Digest.

The advent of pocket radio sets the
size of prayer books has been predicted
in view of the recent development of
tiny radio tubes no larger than an
acorn. Such tubes already are in pro-
duction. The Literary Digest.

The use of the newly-developed X-
ray motion-pictures in medical exam-
ination and diagnosis was described last
week before the Society of Motion Pic-
ture Engineers in New York. X-ray
movies seem to bring the organs to life
on the screen and enable physicians to
give leisurely study to the movements
of the heart, kidneys, and other in-
ternal structures. The Literary Di-
gest.

Citizenship Club
The Citizenship Club met on Tues-
day alternoon, November 15. Claud D.
Nelson, southern secretary for the Fel-
lowship of Reconciliation, led a round-
table discussion on Strikes and Martial
Law.

Cotillion Club
Julia Thing, Dorothy Cabaniss, and
Meredith Turner will entertain the
members of Cotillion Club at a tea-
dance tomorrow afternoon.

International Relations Club
The International Relations Club
met Thursday evening in Mr. Johnson's
studio. Professor Glenn Rainey, of
Georgia Tech, spoke on the Disarm-
ament Conference.

Spanish Club
Lillian Grimson spoke to the Span-
ish Club yesterday at its regular meet-
ing; her subject was a comparison of
Spanish and Latin-American music.

It has been estimated recently that
there are still more than four million
illiterates in America, despite the great
efforts made to educate the people of
the nation. Old Gold and Black.

More students are registered for the
commercial degree at the University of
Georgia than for any undergraduate
honor, a recent survey reveals.

German Club
A program devoted to the life and
works of Heine was presented to the
German Club at its monthly meeting
last Thursday afternoon. Katherine
Hertzka discussed the poet's life and
works and Liselotte Roennecke read
selections from the Buch der Licder.

Bible Club
Bible Club will meet next Monday,
November 26, in the Y. W. Cabinet
room. Dr. Paul Berman will speak on
"The Jew and Christianity."

Eristics

Eristics will meet on next Sunday
night at 7:30 o'clock with Miss Tor-
rance. Mrs. Jessie D. Ames will lead
a discussion on race relations.

Tennis Club
On November 16, the Tennis Club
were hosts to tennis players from
Emory University. After a series of
Students taking a history examina- doubles matches played on the Agnes
tion at the Los Angeles Junior College Scott courts, refreshments were served,
were asked to state the Monroe Doc- The winners of the two-out-of-thrce
trine briefly. One paper read, "Scram, sets were Martha Frost Brown and her
foreigners!" I partner.

BOOK BITS

Y. W. C. A. Activities

The Industrial Group of Y. W. C. A.
met with the Industrial Student
Commission at the "Y" in town on
Friday and laid plans for a series of dis-
cussion groups to be held on the sub-
ject, "The Theoretical Side and Back-
ground of the N. R. A."

American Ballads and Folk Songs
John and Alan Lomax.

Here is a priceless collection of choice
pickings of a life time from the treas-
ures of new and old American songs
and verse. The selections have come
straight from the hearts of the people,
from the battlefield, mines, ranches,
lumber camps, chaingangs, mountain
shanties, and frontiers. Every section is
here represented, from the Mexican
border and the Negro cabins to the
Great Lakes. The book is a real treas
ure trove.

Prom Bad to Worse Robert Bench-

The Social Service Group recently
visited the Old Soldiers' Home where
they presented an interesting program.
Every other Wednesday the group goes
to the Scottish Rite Hospital and super-
vises handwork for the children.

The Sunday night discussion group
led by Mr. S. G. Stukes is discussing
now "Christ" and "The Church." All
students are invited to attend these
meetings.

The Music Group, meeting on Sun-
day afternoons, plans to discuss Wag-
ner and his works for the next few
times.

ley.

If anyone is looking for a refreshing
laugh, he will find it here. The author
has not struggled to be funny; he mere-
ly is funny, as he lingers over such
episodes as his own troubles with the
pigeons in St. Mark's plaza. Not a few
smiles come, too, from the clever il-
lustrations.

The Pageant of Arha Hudson
Strode.

"The story is the presentation of a
blood-stained cavalcade, beginning in
1492 with bravely caparisoned ad-
venturers, and traversing four hundred
and forty-two years of cruelty, ro-
mance, greed, hope, struggle, ecstacy,
retribution. All this dramatic story
unfolds itself against a natural back-
ground so surpassingly lovely that it
leeiUS an enchanted land." New York
Time* Review.

Galls, bird Sheila Kaye-Smith.

This historical novel resumes the tale
of the English family of Alard. The
life of Geruase Alard is a record of an
extraordinary character, who is power-
less against the wiles of William Donee,

the gallcybird of the story. All the
characters are strange and unusual; yet
they have a charm of authenticity that
renders the story delightful.
Autobiography John Cowper Powys.
Utterly frank, the author reveals
himself and his philosophy of life in a
burst of bewildering, enthralling de-
scription of the drama of his own soul
through the years. He speaks of his
strange, book-nosed face and gaunt
frame in a manner curiously detached.
It is a story to startle and possibly, in
places, to offend some. The reader finds
fully revealed a character far more
striking than any of the author's fic-
tional figures.

Captain Caution Kenneth Roberts.

A romantic, full-blooded story of the
war of 1812, vivid with scenes of sea
life, depicting the impressment of
American seamen into the British bulks
and prison ships.

Windfalls O'Cascy.

The Irish author has collected stories,
poems and plays for this little volume.
They arc rather motley and interesting.
Among them are the spirited piece, A
Pall from an Irish Tree, attacking
Great Britain, and a one-act farcical
sketch, The End of the Beginning, on
the theme of the old Scotch song of
John G rum lie.

Kerkh()icn\ Third Existence Jacob
Wasserman.

Although Wasserman chose to write
this work m novel form, it is far less
a true novel than an analysis of his at-'
titude toward life. In his characters
he illustrates types or classes of be-
liefs, and the whole is pervaded with
his convictions on the subject of mysti-
cism and other ideas.

The Agonistic

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SOCIAL NEWS

Barbara Hertwig and Billie Turner
spent the week-end with Mary Malone
in Atlanta.

Jean Kirkpatrick spent the week-end
with Mrs. Harlee Branch in Atlanta.

Jane and Sara Frances Estes spent the
week-end at their home in Gay, Ga.

Lavinia Scott and Frances Paris
spent the week-end in Milledgeville, Ga.

Frances Cary had as her guests last
week her sisters, Mary and Eugenia,
and her cousin, May Miller.

Edith Belser spent Sunday in At-
lanta with her brother.

Mary Pitner attended a Chi Phi
dance at Emory Saturday night.

Fannie B. Harris had as her guest
during the past week-end Eugenia
Vaughan from Shorter College.

Elizabeth McKee spent Saturday
night with Miriam Bass.

Anne Taylor had as her guest last
week-end her sister, Margaret, from the
University of Alabama.

Mary Helen Barrett spent Friday
night with Mildred Bradley at her
home in Atlanta.

Myrl Chann spent the week-end at
her home in McDonough, Ga.

Jessie Jeffers spent the week-end
with Bruce Waters at her home in At-
lanta.

Martha Peek Brown spent the week-
end with her aunt, Mrs. S. H. Tucker,
in Atlanta.

Frances Miller, ex-'3 6, spent last
week-end in Augusta.

Mary Hull had visitors from Au-
gusta last Saturday.

Frances Espy's brother and sister
visited her on Saturday.

Virginia Turner, Martha Ann Rodg-
ers, and Carolyn White attended home-
coming at the University of Georgia
in Athens last week-end.

Alice Dunbar spent Sunday at Neal's
Gap with friends.

Martha Young attended a concert
given by the Emory orchestra on Sat-
urday afternoon.

Mary Richardson had as her guests
last week-end her mother, two broth-
ers, and an aunt.

Shirley Christian was the dinner-
guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wroe on
Sunday night.

Among those attending the Ala-
bama-Georgia Tech game Saturday
were Martha McAfee, Anne Taylor,
Sara Steele, Virginia Hightower, Vir-
ginia Brown, Martha Alice Green, and
Sara Beaty Sloan.

Alice Taylor and Rosa Wilder at-
tended a Pi Delta Epsilon dinner-dance
Friday night.

Meriel Bull attended the Delta Tau
Delta dance at Tech Saturday night.

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We Think

The student budget of Agnes Scott,
by its support, makes possible the
smooth running of ten of the most es-
sential organizations on the campus.
It is not generalization to remark that
every student on the campus profits
from one or more of these organiza-
tions in some way at some time. Why,
then, should not every student assume
her share of the financial support?

The budget has come to be some-
thing that one pays or doesn't pay, de-
pending on whether she wants to play
hockey this year or to retain her posi-
tion as officer of a certain organiza-
tion receiving money from the budget.
For a large number of students, paying
the fifteen dollars is absolutely a per-
sonal matter; and it seems never to oc-
cur to them that there is any obliga-
tion connected with paying one's bud-
get.

Thus, there are a number of students
on the campus who are really finan-
cially able to pay the budget without
straining the family pocketbook at all;
but these either fail to realize or make
it a point not to realize that others
are, in a sense, "treating" them, paying
their way to all the programs and meet-
ings of these organizations, while they
drink in the benefits and enjoyment. It
is amazing how shallow are the con-
sciences of people of college age!

There may be a few cases in which
the check to the student treasurer
would involve serious financial strain,
but these are indeed few. Most stu-
dents who can afford college can af-
ford fifteen dollars more. It is just that
a use other than that of campus sup-
port and loyalty looks better to some;
so they buy a dress instead.

This problem could be solved very
easily by establishing the budget as a
regular part of the fees for entering
college. If it were understood that the
budget must be paid simultaneously
with tuition and board, there would
very probably be no noticeable decrease
in the enrollment because of this slight
increase, and, with the one-hundred per
cent support of the student body, cam-
pus organizations would flourish as
never before!

GIDDY GOSSIP

Dear Giddy, Hon'rable my love (and
other expression of effusion):

The plot thicken. Hon'rable Ethi-
opian in fuel supply assume darker
shade. Have fallen upon hon'rable ear
news of late local mystery in form of
unknown man (Imagine state of hon'r-
able campus when mere man become
mystery. Woe are us!) on scene of
bombardment of knowledge by native
light and pseudo-light? Unexpected
appearance in midst of modest maidens
lead to such fright that hon'rable man
of watch are call upon scene with all
necessary artillery to find bird are
flown, all of which seem discouraging
to present generation in light of sta-
tistic information on subject of mar-
riage of predecessor.

Likewise Miss Mac in dilemma are
search hopelessly among book, note,
etc., as result of mysterious statement
of eager Freshman who have recently
produced startling information con-
cerning value of deep sea mollusk,
hon'rable Dentalinm , better remark-
able as "elephant tusk." Aforemen-
tion student conceive that such are im-
portant from materialistic viewpoint
because of scarcity and consequent
value of ivory.

Subject of account being faculty,
Miss Smith, hon'rable the pedagogue
who indulge in Latin, have been for
since beginnings of year in process of
creating hon'rable path among desk
and door, due to constant attention to

transom in favor of local atmosphere.
Chagrin are complete when discovery
are made that hon'rable transom are
devoid of glass. Such, as friend Aris-
totle say, are incongruity of life.

You no doubt suspect not, as have
we who know better the habits, the
hon'rable the Dr. Wright of secret
tendency toward dramatics. Since days
of mem'rable Pinafore he longs for op-
portunity which have recently present
self. Before astonish class, he leap
across floor declaring self herd of Lap-
land reindeer, transport from Day of
Pastoral Economy, until he come into
close contact with east well and ap-
purtenance of shade and ropes, after
which he give grin more as sheep than
reindeer.

As for reading as to which you have
make inquiry, consult of Hon'rable the
Miss Shirley Christian, who in philan-
thropic state of mind recently have in-
form all and sundry on vehicle of
transport to Atlanta, thought that all
street car conductor with so blank ex-
pression should be acquaint with "latest
play of Shakespeare." (Shades of Ham-
let shriek at Hon'rable Ancestry).

As friend professor Davidson are
habit of saying "One can not eat hon'r-
able cake and have too, unless one eat
in bed." Likewise "Time and tide ap-
proach while no man wait." So fare-
well, the Hon'rable Giddy.

Friends of Aggie.
(Aggie are out of town).

GENERAL SURVEY

COMMITTEE REPORTS

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co-ordination, the committee considers
these seven major steps necessary:

( 1 ) The organization of a "Council
on the University Center," composed
of the chief executive officers of each
co-operating institution, one represen-
tative of the board of trustees of each,
and an equal number of representative
citizens who are not identified with the
institutions in any capacity.

(2) Consolidation of smaller classes
in certain departments at Agnes Scott
and Emory, and concentration of all
instruction in engineering at Georgia
Tech, thus releasing time and energy
of many faculty members for graduate
work and research.

(3) Development of graduate work
on a co-operative basis leading to the
Ph.D. degree in the social sciences; in

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I the biological sciences, especially those
identified with medicine; and in the
physical sciences and mathematics,
which are closely related to engineer-
ing.

(4) Organization of a school of so-
cial work and expansion of the courses
in business administration and in the
fine arts.

( 5 ) Enlargement of library and lab-
oratory facilities.

(6) Provision for "an endowment
running into millions that will make it
possible for the proposed university
center to attract and hold outstanding
scholars in the several fields that are
desirable to develop."

(7) Erection of a new library at
Agnes Scott, an auditorium at Georgia
Tech, and new buildings amounting
approximately to $1,000,000 at Emory.

Dr. Embree believes that the first
five of these aims could be accom-
plished even on present funds, by elim-
ination of duplication and concentra-
tion by each institution on a smaller
field.

At present the board of trustees of
Agnes Scott and Emory have accepted
the General Survey Committee's recom-
mendations, and a committee of fac-
ulty members from the two institu-
tions are studying the details of the
co-ordination. The board of regents
of the University of Georgia, of which
Tech is a part, has not yet acted on the
proposal.

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WRITERS GIVE IMPRES-
SIONS OF EDNA MILLAY

{Continued from page 1, column 5)
"There is movement there." And he
idly turned the pages back to Song
which he read over to himself. "I like
the image of the jeweled fish," he com-
mented, closing the book.

"So much poetry today is a series
of brilliant, striking lines which are
not definitely related. Miss Millay's
poetry is not. It has unity, impact of
though:, which appeals to people. There
is no obvious search for imagery. She
writes as she would in prose and yet
poetry results. I suppose all great
poetry is like that," he said.

Mr. Samuel Tupper, Jr., author of
Old Ladies Shoes, spoke ardently about
Miss Millay over the telephone. "She
is my favorite modern American poet,"
he said, "a real genius. I like the lyrical
quality of her poetry the music of it.
She has a wonderful gift of word order,
too," he added.

Mr. Tupper attributes the emotional
appeal of Miss Millay's works to the
fact that "it is poetry which makes you
feel deeply immediately, while you are
reading it."

Mr. W. F. Melton, president of the
Atlanta Writers' Club and well-known
poet, is another ardent Millay admirer.

"I regard her as the leading poet of
America today," he began, "not the
best woman poet, but the best of all
of them. The very spice of her poetry
is variety variety of theme and of
treatment."

He left the phone a minute to cut
down the radio. I was wondering which
poem he would name as his favorite.
He was back with, "You know, I like
particularly well the last of Renas-
cence:

A fid he whose soul is flat the sky
Will cave in on him by and by. 9 "
Janef Newman Preston, winner of
the Savannah poetry prize, awarded by
the Georgia Poetry Society in 1932,
spoke of Edna St. Vincent Millay as
"and idealist, an ardent young person
who has suffered much and who has
not yet arrived at a satisfying philoso-

phy." , . :

Miss Preston sees in her poetry a
steady change from youthful idealism
to a somewhat sad cynicism. She finds
in the sonnets a Shakespearean strength
of expression rarely found in any other
modern poet.

We went over to the bookcase and,
pulling out one of the little volumes,
she turned to her most loved poem. I
saw that it was Dirge Without Music.
"The great universality of her poetry
makes it so widely liked," commented
Miss Preston, and then we were off on
Elinor Wylie.

Edna St. Vincent Millay's talent,
with its diverting mixture of solemnity
and levity has won the enthusiasm, not
only of Atlanta's outstanding writers,
but of her thousands of readers as well
who have come to know the "New
England nun, a chorus girl on a holi-
day, a Botticelli Venus."

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Riding for skill in beginners', inter-
mediate, and advanced classes, jump-
ing, and a riding game will be the fea-
tures of the horse show to be given by
the riding classes at the Biltmore Rid-
ing School on Thursday afternoon, No-
vember 2 6, at 2:3 0. Mr. Trammel
Scott, well-known Atlanta sportsman,
will judge the events.

Cars will be provided for those who
wish to attend. After the show, Dr.
and Mrs. A. S. Wheeler, owners of the
school, will give a picnic for the girls
who have been taking riding this sea-
son.

INTERESTING FEATURES

OF POETS LIFE

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
the money for her education at Vassar,
where her auburn hair, sparkling eyes,
and lilting voice combined with her
genius to make her a delightful per-
sonality, popular with teachers and
students. She was not the conven-
tional college girl and, like many a
genius, paid not too much attention to
rules.

When she graduated from Vassar in
1917, she set out for New York with
the courage of youth in her soul. Pov-
erty meant nothing. She lived in lodg-
ing houses on Twelfth street in Green-
wich Village, supporting herself at first
by writing short stories under various
pseudonyms. She also joined the Prov-
incetown Players, but they paid little
and often carefree genius fed on bread
and tea or bread and coffee. During
these years she experimented in new
forms, and her themes became even
more daringly and unconventionally
candid. "A Few Figs from Thistles'*
appeared in 1920 the embodiment of
the irresponsible mood in. more or less
mythical Greenwich Village, whose ex-
pression of the swing and joy she
caught as in:

"My candle bums at both ends;

It will not last the night.

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends

It gives a lovely light!"
After the appearance of these poetic
dramas and "Second April," Miss
Millay had almost reached the height
of success. She traveled, too, and the
Paris Montparnassee district remembers
her oft-repeated sentiment, "Life can
be exciting and free and intense!" Did
"free" connote a determination never
to wed? She said so and clung to her
resolution against marrying. Her youth
was crowded with companions, friends,
lovers she went through college,
earned her own living, traveled, gave
readings, knew poverty and compara-
tive ease, in 193 3 won the Pulitzer
Prize for the "Harp Weaver and Other
Poems," and then along came a middle

Sports Editorial

HEALTH FOR HOTTENTOTS
Almost without exception, it is the
desire of every girl to be as attractive
as possible. Some spend their money
on cosmetics and in beauty parlors try-
ing to get a well-groomed healthy ap-
pearance. What we really need is to
get at the foundation of attractiveness
which is, after all, our own personal
health in its perfection.

One of the first requirements for
this physical attractiveness is good pos-
ture.

"Get uplift in your bearing
And strength and spring and vim
No matter what your worries
To slouch wan't alter them."
Become posture conscious and try to
gain the poise that comes with correct
posture.

Your posture can be excellent
whether you are underweight or over-
weight, but nevertheless these are two
faults that should be corrected. Eat-
ing is the main weapon we have with
which to fight this fault of incorrect
weight. Do you eat between meals
habitually? If so, take yourself in
hand, and instead of this bad habit eat
three substantial meals a day. If neces-
sary cut down on starches and sweets,
but eat sensibly so you will be animated
and attractive.

Many of the Hottentots have physi-
cal health but need to check up on
their mental health. It seems to be
easy to get behind in our lessons and
then worry to the nth degree. Worry
is only a substitution for action. If
we would do something about that

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Miss Millay continued her success
with the publishing of the greatest
American Opera, "The King's Hench-
man." In 1931 "Fatal Interview" ap-
peared. That it was a success was un-
questioned. Genevieve Taggard in the
New York Herald Tribune said, "The
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In the closest game of the season,
the freshman hockey team, with a fine
display of team work, defeated the
team of their sister class by a score of
1-0. Every minute of play was filled
with excitement and suspense. Often
the juniors threatened to score but
were prevented by the excellent block-
ing and stick work of Robinson, the
freshman goal guard. Equally good
was the work of Laura Coit and Vir-
ginia Hightower who have been con-
tinually distinguishing themselves in
their Friday afternoon contests.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO
LECTURE HERE NOVEMBER 23

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
people were glad to stand or sit on the
floor. "Miss Millay read with dramatic
interpretation from her poems. . . There
is no one who reads poetry more beauti-
fully than Edna St. Vincent Millay."

Tickets are to be on sale in Buttrick,
Thursday morning from S to 11:30,
and Friday from 8 to 3:45. Students
are offered tickets at the reduced rates
of 5 0 cents for unreserved seats, and
75 cents for seats in the reserved sec-
tion. They are requested to buy these
tickets in Buttrick before the evening
of the lecture.

back work, we would find ourselves
more pleasant and happy looking. But
neither do we want to lose ourselves
in study, for there is nothing more
beneficial than to relax for a short
time each day. These nervous people
who never relax certainly are not at-
tractive.

Health for Hottentots! What could
be finer than to have our student body
superior in health? Health is one of
the finest attributes anyone can have,
for it means mental alertness, social
grace, and physical charm.

RECENT ELECTION

ENDORSES NRA

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
ly new endeavors, the new Congress, by
supporting the President, will prob-
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Others of Roosevelt's plans are: to get
a permanent N. R. A. law passed; to
let the present tax on gas, bank checks,
and other new levies remain, and, in
addition, to levy a tax on incomes; and
finally to restore the full salaries to
Federal office-holders.

The concensus of opinion is that
Roosevelt will now be able to carry on
his plans with the support of Congress.
Thus, by a trial-and-error process, sup-
ported by good common sense, the
President will evolve a scheme by
which America will be able to attain
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Alumnae
Issue

<P) Agonistic

Book Week
Issue

VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934

NO. w-7

ANNUAL EXHIBIT
PRESENTS BOOKS
OF INTEREST

The annual book and art exhibit of
Agnes Scott College is being held this
year, during the week of Nov. 26,
through Dec. 2, in the Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet Room and the small parlor,
room 3 5, of Main Building. These ex-
hibits are open each morning from
10:30 to 12:30, each afternoon from
1:30 to 6:00 and each evening from
7:00 to 10:00. Book week has been
planned and executed by Miss Louise
McKinney and Miss Janef Preston with
the assistance of Miss Ellen Leyburn,
Miss Page Ackerman, and Miss Blanche
Miller. Miss Louise Lewis has or-
ganized and arranged the art exhibit.

The most interesting exhibition, ac-
cording to Miss Preston, is that of the
rare books lent by the library of Geor-
gia Tech, the most important of which
are two incunabula, an old Bible
with colored drawings printed in 1488,
and Pope Gregory's Commentary on
the Bible, in 1473. There are also a
first edition of Tristram Shandy with
Sterne's autograph, a second edition of
Gulliver's Travels, Literary Relics with
the inscription, James Boswell, London
1789, on the fly leaf, Cervantes' Don
Quixote with Dore illustrations, a first
American edition of Byron's English
Bards and Scotch Keviexvers 1811, a
second edition of Augustus Baldwin
Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, and a
number of little parchment bound vol-
umes from the famous Elsevir press.
Among the old books Mrs. Elijah
Brown has lent a three hundred and
twenty-seven year old Breeches Bible,
so called from the fact that Genesis III
verse VII reads ,"Then the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked, and they sewed fig
tree leaves together, and made them-
selves breeches."

There is also a table of children's
books lent by the Boys' and Girls' De-
partment of Miller's Book Store. These
include Edna St. Vincent Millay's
Poems Selected for Young People, in
which are her children's poems which
she recently read in her lecture here,
and many illustrated editions of such
old favorites as Cinderella, Joan of
Arc, Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Dick-
ens' Christ mas Carols.

A collection of fiction and biography
and other non-fiction is represented
from Davison-Paxon's book shop.
Among some of the new fiction are
Stark Young's So Red the Rose, Carl
Carmen's Stars Fell on Alabama, Mik-
hail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the
Don, Josephine Johnson's Now in No-
vember, James Hilton's Good-bye, Mr.
Chips, and Samuel Rogers' Dusk at the
Grove, the Atlantic $10,000 prize
novel of 1934. There are also on the
fiction table representative titles from
the inexpensive Modern Library Edition
(Continued on page 5, column 5)

Next Lecture

Is Announced

Dr. Charles C. Harrold of Macon,
Ga. 3 will be presented as the next fea-
ture of the 1934-3 5 Lecture Ticket,
according to Dr. S. M. Christian, pub-
licity chairman of the Committee on
Public Lectures. The subject of his
lecture will be Georgia Archaeology.

Dr. Harrold is well-known in medi-
cal circles for his work in experimental
medicine; he is associated with the
Steiner Cancer Clinic in Atlanta. He
is best known, perhaps, to the general
public as president of the Georgia So-
ciety of Archaelogy. Through his re-
search work in excavating mounds built
by the Indians, he takes the history of
Georgia back about four hundred
years; his work is done in cooperation
with the Smithsonian Institute.

The exact date for this lecture has
not yet been set, Dr. Christian said,
but it will probably be during the
month of February.

Sophomores Have
New Privileges

The Administrative Committee of
Agnes Scott College has granted the
first two of the three privileges request-
ed by the sophomores at the November
Open Forum. These are that sopho-
mores be allowed three dates a week,
with the restriction that they have
only one during the week, the other
two on the week-end. The committee,
in granting the first privilege, empha-
sized the fact that there must be a def-
inite, specified destination. Secondly,
they may ride to and from their desti-
nation with men in the afternoon un-
chaperoned; the destination, again,
must be definitely stated.

The third privilege requested, that of
sophomores being allowed to walk to
Decatur, to the drug store, or movie
until 1 1 o'clock with a date, was re-
fused on the grounds that there would
be too little distinction between juniors
and sophomores and therefore between
upperclassmen and lowerclassmen.

The petition was passed upon first
by the Executive Council and was then
submitted to the Administrative Com-
mittee, composed of five of the admin-
istrative officers, Dr. J. R. McCain,
Miss Nanette Hopkins, Mr. S. G.
Strikes, Dr. Mary F. Sweet, and Miss
Carrie Scandrett; the officers of the
Student Government Association, Al-
berta Palmour, president; Mary Green,
vice-president; Frances James, secre-
tary; and Adelaide Stevens, treasurer;
and one senior representative, Mary
Jane Evans.

ALUMNAE PLAN
FOR WEEK-END

Attractive plans for the fourth pro-
gram of adult education to be given at
Agnes Scott have been announced by
Clara (Whips) Dunn, '16, chairman
of the Curriculum Committee. The
Alumnae Week-End will this year co-
incide with Founder's Day, and it is
hoped to be a well-attended home-com-
ing time for all alumnae.

The program will follow two gen-
eral lines of thought. In one group will
be lectures under the title of the fourth
annual New York Herald-Tribune
Women's Conference on Current Prob-
lems, "Our Changing Standards." The
second group of lectures will be con-
ducted more informally under the title,
"Motherhood a Profession for the Col-
lege Woman."

The first mentioned group of lec-
tures are scheduled as follows:
Friday, February 22:
10 A. M. What Js Expected of the

Present Day College Woman Dr.

Emma May Laney of Agnes Scott.
10:40 A. M. Changing Standards in

Present Day Governments Dr.

Philip Davidson of Agnes Scott.
11:20 A. M. Current Thinking

Among the Economists Dr. Mercer

Evans of Emory University.
Saturday, February 23:
10 A. M. Changing Standards in

Philosophy Dr. Leroy Loemker of

Emory University.
10:40 A. M. Practice of Medicine in

the Future Dr. Roy Kracke of

Emory University.
11:20 A. M. Our Changing Stand-
ards in Literature Dr. George

Hayes of Agnes Scott.
{Continued on page 4, column 1)

FRESHMEN ELECT

CLASS OFFICERS

On Friday morning the Freshmen
held elections for their class officers.
Martha Long was elected president;
Elizabeth Blackshear, vice-president;
and Mary Past was elected secretary-
treasurer.

J. HIRSCHFIELD

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
LONDON

D. W. SCHOLES

LONDON SCHOOL
OF ECONOMICS

Edna Millay Speaks
To Large Audience

The Agnes Scott Lecture Associa-
tion presented Edna St. Vincent Millay
in a lecture-reading of her own poems
on Friday, November 23, in the gym-
nasium. Associate Professor Emma
May Laney, chairman of the Lecture
Association, introduced the poet.

Miss Millay read a number of poems
from her early works, including her
well-known "Portrait by a Neighbor"
and ff To the Not Impossible Him,"
from A Few Figs from Thistles, and
the "Ballad of the Harp Weaver" from
the book of the same name which won
the Pulitzer prize for the best book
of poetry in the year that it was pub-
lished. She also read "The Going of
Summer," "Spring and Fall," "La-
ment," "Departure," "Betrothal," not
always saying which of her books each
was from. "In the first place, it is of
no importance whatever, and in the
second place, I have forgotten, my-
self," was her explanation.

Later in the evening she read from
her new book, Wine From These
Grapes, "Conscientious Objector" and
the last sonnet from the sequence "Epi-
taph for the Race of Man" were among
these selections. She closed with three
short poems about children, entitled
"From a Very Little Sphinx," but was
persuaded to return for several encores.

Evidences of Miss Millay's person-
ality delighted the audience as well as
did her poems. It sympathized with
her when she wished the microphone
on the stage removed; it clapped a
negative answer when she asked "Are
you too hot or too cold, and if you
are, is there anything that I can do
about it?", and no one responded to
her invitation, before one of her long-
er poems, "If you want to go out, this
is your chance/

At the end of her program Miss
Millay read one of her best loved
poems, one which expresses her own
personality. It closes with these lines:
M3/ heart is warm with the friends J
make

And better friends Fit not be know-
ing;

But there isn't a train I wouldn't take
No matter where it is going.

WESLEYAN DEBATE

IS POSTPONED

The Agnes Scott-Wesleyan College
debate, which had been set for Decem-
ber 14, has been postponed until Feb-
ruary, Marian Calhoun, president of
Pi Alpha Phi, debating society, re-
vealed this week. The date which Wes-
leyan had submitted to Agnes Scott
conflicted with the British debate on
December 7; December 14 was not sat-
isfactory to the Wesleyan debaters.

The subject of debate: Resolved,
That Hitler's domestic problems have
benefited Germany, will remain un-
changed. Nellie Margaret Gilroy and
Isabel McCain will uphold the affirma-
tive for Agnes Scott. There will be
no decision.

Club Council

Makes Changes

The Council of Presidents, including
presidents of all campus organizations,
met Thursday, November 22, from 5
to 6 o'clock to discuss the revision of
schedules of clubs and the problem of
making language-club try-outs more
equal.

The new schedule of clubs, includ-
ing changes in five club meetings, is to
be posted on the bulletin boards in
Main and Buttrick.

Language-club try-outs are to be
put on a par in the following ways:

1. Tryouts to be held on the same
date.

2. Announcements of try-outs and
requirements to be posted at least a
week before try-outs occur.

3. The board of judges to be com-
prised of student officers and faculty
advisors.

4. Try-outs to consist of an ex-
tract from a play or a magazine article,
and a social conversation.

5. Try-outs to be judged on fluency
and pronunciation.

New business taken up included the
principle of selection of activities,
which will be worked out more fully
later.

There will be another meeting of the
Council after Christmas to discuss the
success of the work done and other ap-
proaches to the problem.

Dr. McCain Is

Rotary Speaker

President J. R. McCain was the
speaker on the Thanksgiving program
of the Atlanta Rotary Club at their
regular weekly luncheon meeting on
Tuesday, November 27. Dr. McCain's
speech included the history of Thanks-
giving and some reasons for thanks-
giving at this time.

The observing of holidays and holi-
day seasons with special programs is
a custom of the Rotary Club; it is
their practice to have one of their
members give a talk on Thanksgiving
for the celebration of this particular
holiday.

FRESHMEN CONDUCT
Y. W. C. A. VESPERS

The freshman Y. W. C. A. cabinet
was in charge of the candlelight vesper
service on Sunday night. The speaker
was Hibernia Hassell; the subject of
her talk was Thanksgiving. Gene Cald-
well sang a solo, "Prayer of Thanks-
giving/' The choir, which was made
up of a double quartet, presented music
in keeping with the season.

It has become traditional for the
Freshman Cabinet to conduct vespers
on the Sunday night before Thanks-
giving. Those taking part are mem-
bers of the freshman class.

A. S. C. WILL MEET
LONDON TEAM
IN DEBATE

On Friday, December 7, at 8 o'clock
in the Bucher Scott gymnasium, Agnes
Scott College will meet the University
of London in a debate on the question,
Resolved: That the abandonment of
the isolationist policies is essential to
the return of prosperity. David W.
Scholes and J. Hirschfield, representing
the National Union of Students of
England, will uphold the affirmative
for the University of London. Marian
Calhoun and Edith Merlin will speak
for Agnes Scott; Brooks Spivey has
been named as alternate. There will be
no decision.

According to advance information
received by Sarah Catherine Wood, sec-
retary of Pi Alpha Phi, debating so-
ciety, Mr. Scholes and Mr. Hirschfield
will arrive on the afternoon of the de-
bate; they will stop at the Candler
Hotel in Decatur. The entertainment
of the British debaters will be in charge
of Pi Alpha Phi, Marian Calhoun, pres-
ident, said. Plans have been made to
hold a reception for the debaters in the
Day Students' Room in Main Building
after the debate.

Ass't Prof. Cilley
Publishes Book

Miss Melissa Annis Cilley, assistant
professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott,
has recently published a book on the
Spanish theatre, entitled El Teatro Es-
panoL The book was published in
Madrid in the late spring and offered
for sale in book shops there during the
summer. Its sales have been most en-
couraging and its reviews favorable .

Setting forth the purpose of the
volume in the preface, Miss Cilley
writes, "This book has been written for
the purpose of presenting to the stu-
dents of Spanish literature, in a con-
crete, useful form, an outline or gen-
eral plan of the development of the
Spanish play from its very first be-
ginnings to the twentieth century."
There are five main divisions of the
book covering the periods from the
twelfth century on; the Golden Age
of Spanish drama, comprising the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries, is
subdivided into those periods which'
are dominated by Lope de Vega and
Calderon de la Barca. Since the Golden
Age is the most important in the his-
tory of the Spanish stage, Miss Cilley
includes dramatists of second and third
rank as well as those of primary im-
portance.

Although the material was not gath-
ered into book form until 1932, Miss
Cilley has used the bare outline as a
base of study in her classes on Spanish
drama both here at Agnes Scott and
at the University of Wisconsin. The
published work ,which is the only one
of its kind dealing with the theatre, is
put together in concise "American"
style with a few notes of explanation
of the style and influence of the great-
er dramatists of Spain.

Professors Juan Hurtado and X
Ortega Gassett, of the University of
Madrid, are using the book in connec-
tion with their courses; they commend
Miss Cilley on the completeness of the
bibliography and the conciseness and
clearness with which she presents her
material. Dr. Leavitt E. Sturgis, who
is professor of Spanish in that field,
says that El Teatro Espanol is a "useful
handbook for students of Spanish
drama."

The book is being used in the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin now, according
to Professor Antonio Solalinde, of the
department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Miss Cilley, also, is using it in her
courses on the Spanish theatre here at
Agnes Scott.

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BOOKS AND READING

By Dr. Emma Mae Laney
(Reprinted by Request)
A casual glance at the publishers'
lists of this fall reveals emphatically
the fact that the depression has not put
an end to book making. However,
Henry Seidel Canby in a recent number
of the Saturday Review of Literature
stated that Americans have ceased to
be a book reading people. The obvious
truth that the increase of books in this
century has not been accompanied by
an increase of readers that the auto-
mobile, the radio, the moving picture,
the speed of contemporary life have les
sened the opportunity for reading-
makes it not unfitting that we ask
whether there is something in books
the loss of which would leave life the
poorer.

The answer seems to me to lie in the
nature of books and the durable satis-
factions that they can bring to life.
I mean by books, in this connection,
literature of power: those novels, plays,
and poems in which have been express-
ed in terms of beauty the dreams and
fancies, the hopes and fears of man-
kind. It is the reading of such books
that Keats describes as traveling in
realms of gold. It is of such books
that Carlyle said, "The true University
in these days is a Collection of Books."
And it is of such books that Carl Sand-
burg said, "Education consists largely
in the finding of one's own master-
pieces." Such books have the power to
seize the permanent and the universal
in human experience and to present it
so as to stir the emotions and imagina-
tions of men.

I want to speak this afternoon then
of three of the durable satisfactions to
be found in literature.

In the first place, it furnishes a
means of escape from the fever and

of the workings of the immigrant
laborers' mind from Hunky, a novel
whose author I do not even remember,
than I learned from ten weeks contact
with immigrant working girls the sum-
mer I taught them in the Bryn Mawr
Summer School for Industrial Workers.
Likewise, those of us who have grown
up with Negroes can understand them
more completely from the picture of
Dubose Heyward's Porgy or Julia
Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary than
through our actual experience.

Such knowledge is good, but books
can answer a higher need for man.
They have for those who love them a
strengthening and tonic power. Latent
in their beauty are ideas that fortify
and arm the spirit.

In the first place, they help us to see
life steadily and see it whole. Each of
us lives in a welter of impression. Life
comes to us in cross sections of each
day's happenings and colored by the
moment's necessities, prejudices, or
preferences. Literature by its very na-
ture as an art, makes a selection of these
elements, brings form out of chaos, and
presents us with pictures which we can
see as a whole. Although we cannot
understand our own disappointments
and tragedies, we can see why King
Lear had to suffer for the moment of
impetuosity and passion at Cordelia's
refusal to express in words her love for
him. We cannot understand the trag-
edy of the man across the street, but
we can see why Becky Sharp, in Vanity
lair, became the victim of the un-
scrupulous selfishness with which she
had sacrificed others to her ambitions.
I believe that the popularity of such
novels as Thornton Wilder's Bridge of
San Luis Key and Charles Morgan's
The fountain lies in the implication in

By Elizabeth Rodrigue

Roberta \\ inter, '27, has written a
delightful three-act comedy, Bridal

\Chorus, which will be published bv
Premier Doumergue has tailed. On _ b

November 8, several ministers had re- Lon ^ mans ' Green and Company in the
signed, and this meant that the whole s P nn - Ic is woven around people and
cabinet had to resign. The President of incidents connected with a southern
the Republic then offered the direction i wedding. The play is particularly well

of the new cabinet to Mr. Laval form- Adapted to high school, college and
er foreign minister. He refused. Mr. i- i l . c

Flandin accepted. His task in forming S r "P pro duction,

the new cabinet was difficult. He had
to face Mr. Tardieu's refusal. (Mr.
Tardieu preferred to go into retirement
wiht Mr. Doumergue, with whom he
was closely associated.) Then, as
Marshal Petain had refused the Minis-

is the interesting

fret of daily life. The way is the way j both of them that there is a pattern
of the imagination and the vehicle any j running through the seeming accident
story with compelling power to absorb of this life.

the reader in its background, events,
and characters to the exclusion of the
1 [ere and Now. Such was the power of
the fairy tale over most of us in child-
hood. Such was the charm of the ro-
mance for the medieval. Herein lies
the reason why the story of Tristram's
love for Iseult as told by E. A. Robin-
son a tew years ago found readers as
eager as were the listeners to the first
troubadour who sang of it in the Mid-
dle Ages. Scott and Stevenson, The
Andi 'it Wanner and The Lady of Shal-
oit , do this for us. The recent popular-
ity of mystery and detective stories is
due to their power to transport their
readers away from present problems.

Escape is necessary, but it is not
enough, and books can do more for
their devotees. They can satisfy man's
desire to know more of the world in
which he lives, can widen his horizons
and lift him out of his provincialisms.
Mom ot us realize that we know our
own world only by knowing other
worlds, and are glad to have books tear
away the walls of the prison house
made by time and space. When we read
the Iliad and the Odyssey, the ring-
ing plains of Trov and the Greece
of \ lector's day become more real than
the domestic problems of our next door
neighbor. In Stark Young's So Red the
Rose, the spacious homes, the fragrant
gardens, the gracious yet perplexed
w ns of our Civil War ancestors live
again.

Not only do books triumph over
time, but as we read, the barriers of
race prejudice vanish. I learned more

Again literature fortifies the spirit
by the feeling it gives of the continuity
of human experience. I know no better
example of this power than one that
was pointed out to me at the time of
the Lindbergh kidnapping. When all
the world was realizing that Lind-
bergh's tragedy had resulted from his
fame, I was reminded of a parallel in
Euripides' play, The Trojan Women,
written six hundred years before
Christ. In the drama, the siege of Troy
has failed, and the Trojan women,
pawns in the game of war, are waiting
to be divided among the Greek victors.
Hector's mother and wife are discus-
sing the future of Hector's child when
a messenger arrives. In his face is evil
news and they are prepared for his
words that the Greeks, not daring to
let the son of so valiant a father live,
have ordered the child's death. Andro-
mache turns to her child, saying, "Go,
mv best beloved. . . . Thv father was

Rather Personal
title of a book of poems by Leonora
(Owsley) Herman, Institute. The
publishing has been handled through
The Stephen Dave Press of Brattleboro,
Vt. "A contributor to such varied
periodicals as The Ladies Home Journal,
The Literary Digest, the poetry jour-
nals, The New York American and The
New York Sun, among many other
American and British general mag-
azines and metropolitan newspapers,
must have versatility and wide appeal, "
is the tribute of a recent circular ad-
vertising her poetry.

Margaret (Bland) Sewell's ('20)

Spinach Spitters will be published by

Walter H. Baker, Publisher, of Boston,

Massachusetts. This is a simple play

about little children, and very true to
try ot War because of his age, the new i;f p \u r ^ r ^ l i

r> i , , 1 re ' Margaret confesses, based on ex-

Premier asked Gal Maurin, who had . ' LX

gained great reputation during the war 1 penences Wlth her young daugh-

and in political circles. ter > Edith.

Fransois Pietri is the new Minister
of the Navy. He is well known as
Minister of Colonies and of the Air.
Laval is Foreign Minister, a post that
he has already occupied successfully
though not so brilliantly as the late
Minister Barthou.

This cabinet is well composed of
members of moderate parties from the
right to the radical-socialists. Flaudin
himself is a Conservateur.

Flandin comes into action at the
right moment. He is one of the young-
est Premiers, being only forty-five
years old. He is a Parisian, six feet six
inches tall, and is a skilled and enthusi-
astic aviator and golf player. He is an
authority on financial affairs; his
knowledge of English is very fair; and
he has played an important part in the
negotiations with England and Amer-
ica.

After his nomination the tension in
the Bourse and exchange market re-
laxed. If he consolidates his majority
successfully the franc will be out of
danger. Flandin has the confidence of
the financial leaders. His program is to
Restore the freedom of trade, that is, to
suppress government price-fixings, to
prohibit monopolies, and to reduce
taxes. His is a firm exponent of main-
taining the present parity of the franc.
I [e wants business to run profitable on
free competitive lines. He is against
protectionism, which keeps up the high
cost of living and prevents a reduction
of wages and production costs that he
wants to bring about. He is likely to
be more active than his predecessor and
to be more attentive to the activities
of others. He is less concerned with re-
vision of the Constitution than with
improvements in trade and business.

Flandin has already begun his pro-
gram of improvements by creating laws
for the centralization of radio programs
and for the creation of a committee
of the radio to supervise the choice of
the radio programs and activities.

As for the foreign affairs he is con-
tinuing Barthou's ideas. Let us hope
that he will be the democratic leader
of the future that we need in the pres-
ent crisis.

Morning Star by Marian (McCamy)
Sims, '20, is of peculiar interest to
Agnes Scotters, describing as it does the
college days of the heroine, Emily, at
Ardmore College, easily recognizable as
Agnes Scott. The pages of this, "one
of the most fascinating romances of
the year," are full of the sacred tra-
ditions and rituals of Agnes Scott.
Marian has had short stories published
in The Home Magazine, Colliers, Mc-
Call's Magazine, The Pictorial Reueu ,
and The Saturday Evening Post. One
which has appeared in the Post will

appear in an anthology of Farrar and | Queen of ' Roumania. New
Rinehart next spring. | Char i es Scr ibner's Sons. $4

Fiction

The Golden Spike, by Floyd Dell.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. $2.50,

February Hill, by Victoria Lincoln.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. 5 2.5 0.

So Red the Rose, by Stark Young.
Scribner. S2.U). "An absorbing and
beautiful work." Alexander \Yooll-
cott.

The Proud Servant, bv Margaret
Irwin. New York: E. P.' Dutton &
Co. $2. TO.

When Yellow Leaves, bv Ethel Boil-
eau. \ew York: E .P. Dutton & Co.
$2.50.

The Magic Mirror, bv Elsie Sing*,
master. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co
$2.50.

Drama

Three Plays* Prisoners of War, 1918.
The Dutch Merchant, by' Lion Feuch-
wanger. The Viking Press. $2.75.

Mever Say Good -Bye, bv George
Hetherington. New York: P'lav-Novel
Publishers. $2.50. A play novel.

Six Soviet Plays. Compiled bv Eu-
gene Lyons. Boston: Houghton Mifflm
Co. $1.50.

The Best Plays of 1933-34. Edited
by Burns Mantle. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co. $3.

Poetry:

Poetry
Eleven New Cantos
AT/), by Ezra Pound.
Farrar and Rinehart. $1.50.

Not Mine to Finish, Poems 1928-
1934, by Genevieve Taggard. New
York: Harper and Bros. $2.

Wine From These Grapes, by Edna
St. Vincent Milky. New York: Harper
and Brothers. $2.

BlOG R A P H V A U TOBIOGR A P M Y

Lost Paradise A Boyhood on a
Maine Coast Farm, by Robert P. Tris-
tram Coffin. New York: The Mac-
millan Co. $2.5 0.

Oliver Cromwell, by John Buchan.
45 8 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co. $4.50.

Experiment in Autobiography, by H.
G. Wells. New York: The Macmillan
Co. $4.

The Story of My Life, by Marie,

York:

(XXXI to
New York:

BOISSEVAIN MAKES COMMENT
ON LIFE OF EDNA MILL A Y

Y. W. C. A. Activities

The Social Service group, with the
Industrial group of the Emory Y. M.
C. A., recently visited the Salvation
Army, the slum sections, and the city
jail of Atlanta, and heard talks on
"Housing Conditions" and "City
Health Department." The idea of this
tour was not only to see the existing
conditions, but also to learn the funda-
mental causes of the conditions. A sim-
ilar tour is planned for the near future.

The Social Service group also visits
the Scottish Rite hospital every Wed-
nesday and has planned a Thanksgiv-
ing program for the Old Ladies' Home.

The Mission Interest group met last

too valiant; that is why they slav thee. Cl , i , j i j t r -

~ L i ... ' , . 7 , Sundav evening and elected Laura Coit

. . . On thv head his good is turned to , .i i j r L i

., . . 6 . . . , as their leader for the year s work.

evil. Lines written the day of the -tm ~u * k .< j-

r ii i i . ii. 1 ncv plan to begin interesting discus-

Lindbergh kidnapping cou d not better i ,. ,

, b , , 6 , . s,ons ar| d projects immediately .

have expressed that traeedy. And so *ru : i i i_ ' j

, , v , . , The industrial committee has invited

whether when torn by divided loyalties,

we remember Hamlet; or when stirred

by April's freshness, we remember
Chaucer's nine and twenty pilgrims on
their way to Canterbury, we come
through literature to see that in a trans-
ient world, it is the accessories that

No, poets can't sit at home in their
own rooms, always isolated; they must
know what's going on in the world.
That's the way Miss Millay feels about
it," said Mr. Eugen Boissevain, the
husband of Edna St. Vincent Millay,
in answer to a query concerning Miss
Millay's lecture tours. He settled down,
cigarette in hand, for a leisurely inter-
view which, he said laughingly, was
somewhat a relief after a terrible day
of working on bills and delving
through a mountainous correspondence.

"Yes," he said, "she always likes to
know what effect her poetry has on
different types of audiences." And to
this end they set forth together about
every two years on a sort of pilgrim-
age all over the country, getting a
skimming glance of the varied land-
scapes and touching for a moment the
pulse of the sundry cultures which
America presents. This year they have
visited about twenty-five places in-
cluding Brooklyn, Hartford, Cam-
bridge, Yale, Detroit, Chicago, Fort
Worth, New Orleans and Decatur.
Through visits to friends, chance ac-
quaintances on trains and in hotels, and
particularly through the intimate con-
tact which she makes with her audi-
ences, Miss Millay feels that she wins
a very real knowledge of people whom
she sees so fleetingly.

"She's always terribly scared just
before her readings," said Mr .Bosse-
vain, "but as soon as she's on the stage
she's perfectly at home. But she can't
bear those microphone things." He
laughed in reminiscence of her tilt
with the Agnes Scott amplifier and
then sympathized with her position

industrial girls from Atlanta to be at
the college for dinner on Saturday,

December 1. After dinner Agnes Scott "It's really ridiculous to read poetry

girls will show them the campus and I to a machine, isn't it? And she doesn't

meet with them for discussion. need it. There's some vibrant quality

The World Fellowship group spons- ! in her voice that carries it straight to

ored a discussion on Tuesday afternoon, the last listener." In Michigan she
change while the spirit ot man remains XT _i -> 7 c 1 i v wr j j- / / i i

i Z. t-i r t November 27, at 5 o clock in I. W. read to an audience of four thousand.

the same. 1 heretore, with Deor in the . -r U ,,, vr A , . , . . , .

. , ^ , . . cabinet room. 1 he topic, war and And in the silence which her poetry

nrst Anglo-Saxon Ivnc, we know that n j i \< r> n oi j j j ji \ i

Peace was led by Mr. R. B. Eleazer demands, every word was audible and

(Continued on pa^e 6, eolumn 1) of the Interracial Commission. living.

"She is terribly excited to know
what her audiences will demand," stat-
ed Mr. Bosscvain, (after various in-
terruptions by an insistent bellboy who
made him feel that the Bikmorc Hotel
was sister "to the Grand Central Sta-
tion.") Recently more applause has
come to "Apostrophe to Man" and
"Conscientious Objector" from Wine
Prom These Grapes than to any others;
Miss Millay was asked to read them
on an international broadcast in cele-
bration of Armistice Day, and she is
deeply grateful that her stern appeal
for peace finds such a quick and wide-
spread response in the audiences.

To question about Miss Millay's
opinion of trends in contemporary poe-
try and of various American poets, Mr.
Boissevain would make no reply. "I
can't answer questions for Miss Mil-
lay," he said, "though I probably know
better than anyone else what she
thinks. But even your best friend
can't really talk for you. I can only
talk about her." So we turned to Miss
Millay herself . "She loves music in-
tensely and has a better car for it than
anyone I've ever known," he said. Bach
and Beethoven arc her favorites among
the masters, and though she hasn't had
anything published yet, she has been
composing at various times, chiefly
music for her own poems, among them
several sonnets from The Lamp and the
Bell, which Mr. Boissevain considers
particularly lovely. "And she loves
tennis," he said, turning to lighter
things, "and swims better than I do.
She fishes, sails, and digs around in her
garden a great deal. She knows a lot
about flowers." And the bellboy en-

tered again!

The time was up.
shook hands cordially,
I'm afraid it hasn't been much of an
interview for you, but we've had a
nice talk."

Mr. Boissevain
saying, "Well,

The Agonistic

FINAL VOLUME
ON CARLYLE
COMPLETED

BOOK WEEK

Carlyle in Old Age, David Wilson
and David Mac Arthur, reprinted from
Scribner's.

This is the sixth and final volume of
Wilson's Life of Carlyle. The first vol-
ume appeared in 1923. Between the
appearance of the fifth and sixth vol-
umes, Judge Wilson died, and the last
volume was written by his nephew, Mr.
MacArthur.

Let it be said at once that this is the
best biography that has appeared dur-
ing the twentieth century. So far as I
know, it is the most complete biog-
raphy of any literary man since Bos-
well's Life of fob //son. It will not be-
come a classic like that book for three
reasons: Boswell himself was a writer
of genuis; Johnson, although not so
great a writer as Carlyle, was more in-
teresting as a personality; and in Bos-
well's Life everything unfavorable to
Johnson's character and ability is given
clearly, whereas Wilson's Life of Car-
lyle is unflecked by any touch of de-
preciation. Of the four men, Johnson,
Boswell, Carlyle, and Wilson, three
were Scots; and the flavor is evident. . .

Apart from Carlyle's genius, the
thing that impresses me most in this
last volume is his magnificent health. I
say this after due consideration, for I
know how he roared out his bodily ills
to the whole world dyspepsia, insom-
nia, and other diseases. But here was a
man who at the age of seventy-nine
went swimming daily in the ocean off
Scotland without being aware that he
was doing anything unusual. He rode
horseback long after he was eighty. He
never stopped smoking, but had all the
tobacco he wanted every day. He had

{Con ti fined on page 6, column 1)

QUESTIONNAIRE

Name the oldest song of the North-

encr which has been preserved in

English literature.

lame Sr Thomas More's celebrated

work.

Who was the greatest prose writer
of the Elizabethan Age?
Mention five of Milton's early
poems.

Who was Abelard? What did he
w rite?

In what fields are Descartes and
Bossuet noted?

For what lyric is Rouget de Lisle
famous?

Mention two of the oldest poems
in German literature.
What is the greatest drama in the
German language?
What two poems are the founda-
tion of Greek literature? To what
class of poetry do they belong?
What are Hesiod's two representa-
tive poems?

Mention the founders of three
schools of Greek philosophy?
Name the first Greek historian.
Name the outstanding Greek trag-
edy writers.

What book of the Bible is older
than the books of Moses?
Name the historic books of the
Bible; the poetic books; the books
of wisdom.

What is the apocalypse?
Divide the books of the New Test-
ament into classes.
Describe the Talmud.
Name the religious work of Mo-
hammed.

THE DAINTIES OF BOOKS

By Margaret Bland Sewell
"tie hath never fed on the dainties
that are bred in a book; he hath not eat

paper, as it were; he hath not drunk
ink:'

We have always had a particular
feeling of pity for the poor Anthony
Dulls of life who go about their busi-
ness of constable-ing in an "undressed,
unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, un-
trained, or, rather, unlettered, or
ratherest unconfirmed fashion" with
no appetite for ink and paper, with no
relish in their "unlettered, small-know-
ing souls" for the dainties of books.
For, to our minds, most of the jolliest
experiences, most of the deepest emo-
tions that come the way of men come
to those who read. And we have a
feeling, almost akin to reverence, for
those composites of ink and paper
that are called books. We like to re-
member Prometheus, bound to his rock,
punished but unashamed because he had
given to men, the greatest of gifts
that of "numbering, chief among cun-
ning arts" and that of "the putting of
letters together," Prometheus, suffering
but unrepenting because he had given
to "creatures of a day the privilege of
gods."

But even as we pity the Anthony
Dulls who take no advantage of this
privilege of gods, at the same time we
can not help but scoff a little at those
who so use that they misuse this privil-
ege the Sir Nathaniels and the Holof-
erneses who wait for no Rosalind to
bid them, "Ay, marry now, unmuzzle
thy wisdom" but who parade their
smattering of bookish knowledge and
make their phrases strut like some

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BOOK REVIEWS BY EXCHANGE STUDENTS

The Works of Grin////.

One of the best known writers of
the Germany of today is, I suppose,
Hans Grimm. When Hans Grimm as
as very young man left his home in
the Weser mountains of Niedersach-
sen, and went to foreign countries, he
learned in England, and in South Af-
rica where he lived as a merchant and
a farmer, the hard destiny of a Ger-
man, to whom the overfilled home-
country gives no longer any home. As
he did not belong to that type of men
who lose in foreign countries their pe-
culiarity of race, he found in the sand
of the African earth the way to the
heart and the destiny of his own Ger-
man people.

rf Sndafrika//ische Novellen" and
rr Der Gang durch den Sand" are his
first short novels. Northern people
are fighting for the new land on the
rough soil of Africa which shall be-
come their second home after unspeak-
able pains and hard work. The poor
prairie districts determine the life of
whole generations; dearth of water and
bad harvests, wars and insurrections
destroy again and again all work done.
In spite of this, a simple farmer-peo-
ple gains its life on this soil. Germans,
English and Boers live a life of secret
heroism, ending sometimes in a martyr's
death.

Grimm's strong epic force is to be
found in the rr Olcwagensaga, ,, where
he shows the destiny of an African
family of German race, connected to
the fate of Africa itself. Progress and
splendor vanish during the battles in
the Transvaal and the Southwest, and
are changed into distress and sorrow,
until the anguished cry of the last
Olewagen sounds over the grass of the
African steppe.

Later on, he returned to his home
country at the Weser, and now, during
the deepest distress of his nation he
created the first German novel after
the war, the book that tells of the
destiny of the rr Volk ohne Raum"!
All he won in Africa, all he recognized
in the battles at the front and in the
misery after the war all that finds
expression in this book which shows
in strongest seventy and passion the
German destiny before, during, and
after the war. In the life and the
development of Cornelius Friebott
he depicts the real causes of the desper-
ate fight for existence of both gener-
ations, the younger and the elder.

I viU/ce la Doulce, by Paul Morand.

The philosophic spectator from Scar-
ron to Anatole France has always liked
a novel about the theatre, a "roman
comique. France la Donlce is the story
of the production of a film, a laughing
castigation of artists, stars, and of the
needy, uprooted foreign adventurers
who have played so sad a part in more
than one scandal. None of them has
an interest beyond his own profit in
the country which he invades and dev-
astates.

A young Breton, of noble family,
having run through two fortunes in
Paris before his thirty-sixth birthday,
determines to^regain them, particularly
since he must find some support for his
two motherless children. Assured that
fortunes are made in a month or two
in the movies, he conceives the bright
idea to represent in a film the story of
the Chanson de RolancC the national
epic. With a million francs put into
the speculation from the sale of his
last two farms, he is immediately sur-
rounded by parasites, and a motor ac-
cident "disposes of him." The motley
crew of adventurers conducts the film
through all sorts of hazardous experi-
ments, until it wins, at the end, a tri-
umphant "first night," under the
patronage of the president of the Re-
public.

All this is excellent fooling. The
canvas is embroidered with pure fun,
sage reflections, pearls of wit. Even
the title is doubly humorous, reminis-
cent of the old epic and suggestive of
the ridiculous foreign representation of
it. The book also is a very deep satire
of the modern movie-fad and the mak-
ing of a film.

Elizabeth Rodrigue.

Grimm wants to awaken his people, to
give them a picture of the German
being and to show them ways to a
better future. This declares, I sup-
pose, the position of Grimm today. All
that which Hans Grimm hoped,
wanted, and demanded in the years of
downfall the community of the peo-
ple in blood and soil, the knowledge
of the strong connection of the in-
dividual with the fate of the nation
all that has become a living reality in
the new Germany.

LlSELOTTE ROENNECKE.

Argentina te llamas, (Your Name is
Argentina), by Eduardo Acevedo Diaz.

Acevedo Diaz is an Argentine think-
er who gives by means of this book a
true description of the Argentine na-
tion. He is a keen observer of the
world around him and has succeeded
in describing it through a plot full of
interest to the reader. He does not try
to make his book attractive by disguis-
ing facts with pleasing colours but
paints life as it is, with moderate real-
ism.

His novel deals with the present of
the nation, not with its past. Much has
been said about tradition but the au-
thor of this book does not proclaim a
nationalism based on the past. He pro-
claims a new nation which is the result
of the fusion of people from many
countries. The new Argentina is being
formed now by the work and sacrifices
of its children.

Acevedo Diaz is a sociologist, and he
is inspired by patriotism. He has a
purpose, and he is an artist in expres-
sing his convictions. He describes the
Argentine nation as a result of rural
life, in which the immigrant's struggle
with nature is completed by city life.
Two kinds of people are evident: those
who struggle to build a distinct na-
tionality, and those who strive to de-
stroy it, reaching out for a Utopia
which does not admit the idea of pa-
triotism.

This book describes the growing ef-
forts of the new generations which
come from humble homes and work a
way to a higher level. There is a gen-
eral exodus of the ambitious from the
country into the great cities, with the
resulting disappointments and longings
to return again to the quiet life back
in the midst of nature. And many
of those who have set out to rise in
the world of culture and refinement do
not succeed in dispelling their own
ignorance in their burning desire to
surpass themselves. This is what the
characters in this book seek for, and
in their ambition to reach success they
live in a constant worry and anxiety,
without knowing any peace; they dis-
trust their fellowmen and are ignorant
of all idea of friendship and loyalty.

But Acevedo Diaz is optimistic; he
believes that from this struggle will re-
sult a new nation, more powerful and
ever progressing.

Lilian Grjmson.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Wine From These Grapes Edna St
Vincent Millay.

This new book of Miss Millay's is in-
deed the choicest wine of her poetry,
and her many admirers welcome the
volume the more warmly because it
comes to break a silence of three years.

It is not entirely the same poetess
that speaks in Wine From These Grapes
Not that these new lyrics lack any-
thing of the former matchless beauty
her pen is as sure as ever. But a new
note has crept into the spirit of the
poetry, a marked note of graveness,
deepening often into passionate sadness.
The very first poem is a desolate com
plaint of the child, Man, who is de
serted by his mother Earth :

rf Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town-
Re turns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods to fling him down

And in Desolation Dreamed Of, the cry
is

rr Gladly, gladly, would I be far from
you for a long time,

0 noise and stench of man!"

It is striking, too, how often her muse
dwells on Death and the shattered love
that follows:

"I lie among my tears and rust,
And all because a mortal brain
That loved to think is clogged with
dust,

And will not think again."

As a climax comes the colossal wail for
the decline and death of all human
kind The Epitaph for the Race of
Man, with which the book closes. In
eighteen sonnets there is presented a
panoramic view of Man's changeful
ages and the futility of them all, end-
ing as they have and shall in Death,

''Before this cooling planet shall be
cold,

Earth will have come upon a stiller
day ,

Ma// and his engines be no longer
here. . . .

High on his naked rock the moun-
tain sheep

Will stand alone against the final
sky."

There is throughout, however, des-
pite the prevailing note of sadness, a
definite vein of courage and resigna-
tion. From a Train Window portrays
a brighter world,

tr As if, after all, the earth might know
what it is about "

and in defiance of Death, once the
author says,

f 7 shall die, but that is all I shall do
for Death;

1 am not on his pay-roll!"

All in all, Wine From These Grapes
is a collection to grow richer with read-
ing, indeed the wine of Edna St. Vin-
cent Millay's poetry.

Nell Allison.

YOUNG WRITER
PUBLISHES NOVEL
OF DISTINCTION

Now in November, Josephine John-
son. Reprinted from Scribner's.

Miss Johnston's novel presents a
world in which loveliness and econ-
omics are indissoluble. Marget Hald-
marne, going about the Haldmarne
farm, knows that the color, shape, hid-
den life she sees, can be taken away
from her by a petty, legal scribble. The
retention of a beauty that pierces and
heals depends on a mortgage.

Now in November has the neatness
of Jane Austen, but it is grim in a
fashion the English lady found no
reason for being. The Haldmarne fam-
ily are placed plumply and completely
on earth made up simultaneously of
bills to pay, a possible God, borrowed
mules, hunger, and emotions as inde-
scribable as any coy and elusive planet.
Arnold Haldmarne spends his life in
that omnipresent human occupation of
worrying; he feverishly tries to make
his farm something else besides a mort-
gage-saddled affair. His hard work and
worry are unavailing. So are his wife's
faith and uncomplainingness. Mean-
while, three Haldmarne daughters are
growing. Kerrin is insanely moody.
Merle is a natural enemy of the
thoughts that twist one inside. Marget
observes a Negro farmer who loses
everything; the leaves; owls, herself.
And she sees herself in love with Grant
Koven, helping her father on the farm.
But Grant is hopelessly given to Merle,
who, in her turn, sees him just as en-
tertaining. Both earth and people seem
askew. . . .

Indeed, the center of the novel is a
beautiful and sane hopelessness that
doesn't enervate you. Miss Johnson is
gloomy in a style of probing exquisite-
ness. Her novel doesn't bulge, as most
rural fiction has a way of doing. Her
sentences are like the complicated,
rhythmical taps of a delicate hammer;
and sometimes these taps beat out a
music and meaning that unquestion-
ably kindle and lighten.

In general, an awareness of econ-
omics Now in November can be call-
ed a proletarian novel without straining
words made one with an awareness of
eternal colors, changes, and sounds,
make the novel unusually meaningful
for 1934. What is more, later years, in
all their harshness, may wish to re-
member it.

Eli Siegel.

Author Evolves

New Enigma

By Branch Cabell
Ladies and Gentlemen. Robert M.
McBridge & Co. $2.5 0.

In Ladies and Gentlemen, the land
of Poictesme, created in Cabell's earlier
works where witches are as likely to
exist with as much reality as human
beings, and where ancient history be-
comes alarmingly contaminated with
modern adventures, is destroyed or al-
most destroyed. This Branch Cabell
is cold and hard. In his most recent
work he includes twenty letters, with
a prologue and an epilogue or two, to
the dead who have had, through some
misunderstanding, trouble in lying
quietly contented in their graves, new
historians awkwardly raising questions
as to their actions every equinox or
three. The one to Edgar Allan Poe is
surprising, even from Branch Cabell.
The fourth letter, to Egeria, the fond
huntress, is more in the typical Ca-
bellian style in expression than any of
the others, with, of course, the excep-
tion of the Prologue which is a dis-
cussion of the decline of letters with
all of the old ornate style, yet with
tvhat alarmingly unsympathetic out-
look on the younger literary air-plants.

Mr. Cabell has had the unfortunate
experience of dividing when his read-
ers were becoming more numerous. It
is possible that he is the new Mr. Jon-
son, writing not for today but for an-
other time. However, from the col-
egiate viewpoint, it will be, without
a doubt, that this writer will only be
remembered by his two given names
and not the other one. Nevertheless,
Mr. Cabell is not a writer resting his
reputation with the collegians. He
once had an idea and developed it quite
symmetrically. Judson Strickland.

The Agonistic

ALUMNAE GIVE
FACULTY TEA

The Atlanta and Decatur Agnes
Scott Clubs entertained at tea on Tues-
day afternoon, November the twent-
ieth, in the Anna Young Alumnae
House in honor of the faculty of
Agnes Scott. Over a hundred guests
called between four and five o'clock.

The hostesses from the Atlanta Club
for the tea were: Cora (Morton) Dur-
rett, '24; Lelia (Joiner) Cooper, '27;
Margaret (McDow) MacDougall, '24;
Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20; Isabelle
(Leonard) Spearman, ex-'29; Beth
(Flake) Cole, '23; Florine (Brown)
Arnold, ex-'ll; Mary (Mann) Boon,
'24; Nancy Simpson, '30; Rebecca
(Bivings) Rogers, '24; Mary Ben
(Wright) Erwin, '2 5; Ida (Brittain)
Milner, ex-'21; Marion (Hull) Morris,
'22; Louise (Felker) Mizell, '19; Belle
Cooper, '18; Alice (Whipple) Lyons,
'22; Annie (Johnson) Sylvester, '2 5;
Robina (Gallacher) Hume, ex-' 14.

The hostesses from the Decatur Club
were: Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann,
'13; Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12;
Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24; Mary-
ellen (Harvey) Newton, '16; Gladys
(McDaniel) Hastings, ex-'21; Dessie
(Kuhlke) Ansley, ex-'26; Caroline
(McKinney) Hill, '27.

Receiving at the door were Patricia
Collins, '2 8, and Emma Pope (Moss)
Dieckmann, '13. In the receiving line
were Frances (Craighead) Dwyer, '28,
president of the Alumnae Association,
Susan (Shadburn) Watkins, '26, presi-
dent of the Decatur Club; Sarah Belle
(Brodnax) Hansell, '23, president of
the Atlanta Club, and Miss Nannette
Hopkins. Presiding at the tea table
were Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23,
and Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12.

A color scheme of purple and white
was effectively carried out in the liv-
ing room and in the dining room.
Autumn leaves and bronze chrysanthe-
mums made a colorful arrangement in
the tea room.

This occasion brought together the
local alumnae and faculty as suggest-
ed by Susan (Young) Eagan, Insti-
tute, last year. It took the place of the
annual birthday party in honor of Anna
Young, '10, for whom the Alumnae
Flouse is named. Mrs. Eagan and Mrs.
Paul Brown (Bessie Young, Institute)
were among the guests of the after-
noon.

Alumnae to Have
Swimming Hour

Attention is called to the weekly
swimming bout arranged for the bene-
fit of local and visiting alumnae. Each
Tuesday night the pool is opened for
alumnae and is guarded by Dorothy
Cassel, '34, and Mary Ames, '34. Come
early and bring your cap.

MISS NANNETTE HOPKINS, Dean
To the one person of the staff of Agnes Scott who is
known In everj alumna, do we, the alumnae, lovingly dedi-
cate this page of alumnae achievement, in appreciation of
her untiring interest in us as students and alumnae.

ATLANTA GROUP
HAVE DINNER

The Business Girls' Group of the
Atlanta Club met at the Piedmont
Hotel on Wednesday night, November
21, for dinner. Those present were:
Lucile Daley, ex-'15, president; Sarah
Slaughter, '26; Elizabeth McEntire,
'28, Jura Taffar, '32; Eunice Ball, '28;
Elsie Davis, '28, treasurer; Lillian
Clements, '27; Jennie (Hall) Lemon,
ex-'23, secretary; Marjorie Tindall, '34;
Aloe Risse Barron, '34; Virginia Fisher,
'34; Marie Baker, '3 0; Dorothy Hut-
ton, 29; Clyde Passmore, '2 5.

This club, organized in January of
1930, meets monthly. It has been
customary in the past to meet alternate
months at Rich's tea room and at the
Frances Virginia Tea Room. A new
program is to meet alternate months
tor lunch and the other months for
dinner, catering to a larger group in
this way.

The club has grown from a mere
hand ful of members to a list of sixty
active ones today. The group hopes
this year to make material contribu-
tions to the day student rooms main-
tained on the campus.

ALUMNAE PLAN FOR WEEK-END

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I'he second group will be led by Miss
Manha Mc Alpine of the University of
Georgia, who has been Georgia State
Chairman of Parental Education. Her
subject will be "Scientific Require-
ments tor Successful Motherhood." A
test questionnaire] "How Do I Rate as
a Mother?" will be conducted by Allie
(Candler) Guy, '13.

Attractive features of the week-end
will be the radio Founder's Day broad-
east over WSB on Friday night, fol-
lowed by a banquet of local alumnae
and their husbands and friends, a
luncheon in the Tea Room on Saturday
for alumnae, and a play day for the
children of alumnae on Saturday morn-
ing from 10:30 to 12:30, followed by
a luncheon for them.

Those who have helped the Curricu-
lum Committee formulate these plans
are: Dr. J. R. Mc( am. Miss Catherine
Torrance, Miss Florence Smith, Ellen
Douglas Leyburn, '27, Dorothy Hut-
ton, '29, Frances (Craighead) Dwyer,
'2 8, Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson,
'12, Allie (Candler) Guy, '13, Juanita
(Wylie) Caldwell, ex-'08, Alice Glenn,
'29, Llewellvn Wilburn, '19.

"Alumnae Sons
And Brothers

When a girl marries, it is news.
When an Agnes Scott girl marries, that
is Agnes Scott news. And these events
we report with all alacrity. But when
the sons of alumnae marry the sisters
of alumnae who in turn are alumnae
themselves, these events deserve a spe-
cial report. Two such reports can be
made now:

Willa Beckham, '3 3, will be married
on Thanksgiving morning, November
29, to Mr. Robert Stuart Low ranee.
Jr., son of Grace (Hollis) Lowrance,
Institute, and brother of Isabel Low-
rance, '34.

On Friday, November 23, Grace
Woodward, '32, was married to Mr.
William Crenshaw Palmour, brother of
Alberta Palmour, '3 5, and son of Mary
< C tenshaw) Palmour, Institute.

Visitors at the Alumnae House this
session have been the following: Chopin
Hudson, '3 1; Mary Hudmon, '32;
1 la/el \ food, '29; Ida Lee (Hill) Irvin,
'06; Molly Childress, '31; Elizabeth
Wooliolk.''3 1; Martha North Watson,
'3 1; Miriam Dean, ex-'20; Cora Rich-
ardson, '24; Margaret Keith, '28; Anne
(McCollum) Fleming, '28; Edith (Mc-
Granahan) Smitht, '29; Gladys (Lee)
Kelly, '11; Lois Eve, '19; Sidney (Mor-
ton) Montgomery, ax-'24.

1934 TO ENJOY
REUNION SUPPER

A cordial greeting is extended to the
class of '34 who are on the campus this
week-end for their first informal re-
union. Many are expected to attend
the buffet supper arranged for six-
thirty Saturday night in the tea room
of the Alumnae House. Boosters for
the occasion have been Isabel Low-
rance, class secretary, and Kathryn
Maness, Chairman of the '34 Thanks-
giving supper.

The girls have been scattered afar
since graduation, with no less than 2 8
changes of address reported for the
8 8 members. And the diversity of their
occupations is commented upon else-
where.

The supper will be served buffet
style in the dining room of the Alum-
nae House, and the occasion will be
most informal. If you have not yet
made your reservation, '34, do so now
through Dorothy Hutton, Alumnae
Secretary.

[N MEMORIAM

Friends of Mary (Kelly) Coleman,
graduate of Agnes Scott in 1915, will
regret to learn of her death on Thurs-
day, November 15. Mrs. Coleman has
made her home in Barnesville, Ga., for
a number of years, where her husband
is prominently connected in the insur-
ance business. Mrs. Coleman was a loyal
member of the Alumnae Association
for many years. Relatives among Agnes
Scotters are Gladys (Lee) Kelly, '11;
Effic Ola Kelly, '3 8, and Dorothy Lee
Kelly, '3 8.

WE SEE BY THE PAPERS

Louise Hollingsworth, '3 2, was
named as one of the three leaders in
the young artists' organizations in
Georgia and as among the outstanding
young musicians of the state. This
tribute accompanied a picture of
Louise in the November 18 issue of
the Atlanta Journal. The journal fur-
ther states: "Miss Louise Hollingsworth
of Fayetteville spent the past summer
organizing the first Young Artists'
Club in Georgia. She reports that
while there are not many young ar-
tists in the vicinity of Fayetteville, that
the enthusiasm of each and every one
of these makes up for their limited
numbers. Miss Hollingsworth studied
piano with Alfredo Barili before and
during her stay at Agnes Scott Col-
lege in Decatur. She graduated from
Agnes Scott in 193 2 and has for the
past few years been an artist-pupil of
Hugh Hodgson. She is now a student
at the Atlanta Conservatory of Music,
studying theoretical subjects, with
George Lindner and continuing her
work in piano with Mr. Hodgson."

Janef Newman Preston, '21, assis-
tant professor of English at Agnes
Scott, was honor guest at a recent
dinner given by the Atlanta Writers'
Club. The whole program was de-
voted to her. We quote a local paper:
"Miss Preston is widely known as an
author and has received national recog-
nition. Her works have been pub-
lished in the Reviewer, Poet Lore, Wo-
man's Press, the Archive Anthology,
Kale/dograph, Year Book of the Poetry
Society of Georgia, Year Book of the
Poetry Society of South Carolina, the
Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly and
other periodicals. At the dinner given
by the Writers' Club she read 'De-
serted House on Bayou Lafourche,' a
group of poems about the Louisiana
low country, which won the 1932 Sa-
vannah prize of the Poetry Society of
Georgia for the best poem on the
southern low country with local color
and of universal appeal, 'And Now
Good Tomorrow,' and 'Mountain
Storm,' both of which won honorable
mention for the Georgia prize. She
also read 'Now Do I Praise Old Singers
of the Sea,' which was published re-
cently in Bozart and reprinted in the
Atlanta Journal. She also presented a
ballad 'Therese of Terrebonne,' a lyric,
'Painted Panel for Feliciana's Chamber,'
and a group of sonnets."

An Invitation Is Extended
For Membership in the
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
For the 1931-1935 Session

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THE A N N A YOUNG
ALUMNAE HOUSE

Kxtends a Cordial
Invitation

to Mothers of
Agnes Scotters

Rate $1.00 Per Night
No Extra Charge for Students

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Adelaide Nelson, '09, has been visit-
ing her brother, Mr. George Nelson
of Atlanta. Recent Journal write-ups
state: "Miss Adelaide Nelson, former
Atlanta Girl Scout leader, who estab-
lished the first and only Girl Scout
troop in France, has reached Atlanta
after three years' absence . She went to
France at the request of Canon Gibbs,
of the American Church of the Floly
Trinity in Paris, to found the troop.
Miss Nelson rqceived commendation
from the American colony in France
for her excellent work in establishing
the troop, and has received loving cups
from the American girls in Paris who
compose the troop roster. Miss Nelson
is an aunt of Miss Mary Lamar Knight
(Agnes Scott, '22), who lives in Paris
and is well-known as an American
newspaper correspondent in that city."

Of the recent appearance of Frances
(Gilliland) Stukes, '24, in a program
of the Atlanta Music Culb, Miss Ma-
belle S. Wall, well-known Journal
critic, writes: "In Frances Stukes* art
song group by Schubert, Schumann,
Brahms, Rubinstein and Wagner, the
beautiful quality of her contralto voice,
the taste, musicianship even artistry
of her expressive singing afforded
much pleasure."

Rachel Paxon, '29, has been recog-
nized by having poems appear in a
recent anthology, "Contemporary
American Lyricists." This is edited bv
Michael Anthony Panelle, publisher of
Artcraft Books, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia. Noting this, the Florida Times
Union states: "It is a matter of civic
pride that three poems from the pen
of Miss Paxon are included in this
volume. The poems are 'Foreknowl-
edge,' a pleasingly simple portrayal of
a nature lover's discovery of God; 'A
Husband Prays,' a poem-prayer direct
and appealing from the depths of a
husband's and father's heart; and
'Tables Turned,' a vigorous English
sonnet depicting a vandal's willing, yet
wondering, submission to his intended
victim's will. Miss Paxon has had
poems published in 'Sonnet Siyucuccs;
The Aurora; The Christian Observer?
the Columbus, Ohio 'Dispatch: The
Florida Educational Journal; and The
Mortar Board Quarterly: ft will be
remembered that her sonnet 'Old Age,'
a skillful portrait of the author's pa-
ternal grandmother, was included in
the anthology of 'Selected Magazine
Verse for 1931.' "

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Miriam Dean, ex-'20, and Hattie
May (Finney) Glenn, ex-' 19, have
been appearing recently in programs
over WSB. Miriam is now living in
Opelika, but has been paid the com-
pliment by this Atlanta radio station
of being given half-hour periods on
Sundays to appear in programs.
Miriam's lovely voice gives promise of
a good future in radio work, and Hat-
tie May, as her accompanist, displays
a fine technique.

Dr. Norman Sydney Buck, husband
of Polly (Stone) Buck, '24, and former
Al umnae Secretary of Agnes Scott, has
recently edited a book entitled, "Sur-
vey of Contemporary Economics,"
published by Thomas Nelson & Sons.
Dr. Buck is chairman of the di-
vision of economics at Yale University.
To quote the New York Times of No-
vember 12, 1934: "The materials of
this book were selected, edited and ar-
ranged with the purpose of presenting,
as comprehensively as possible within
the limits of one thick book, the back-
ground of earlier conditions and a fac-
tual survey and critical appraisal of the
major economic events in the United
States in the period from January,
1933, to July, 1934. This is the first of
a projected annual series of books on
economic events. Dr. Buck declares
that in times of rapid and far-reach-
ing changes in the organization of our
economic and political life, such as we
are living through today, a contemp-
orary record of the changes, with co-
eval judgment of trends, and of gains
and losses, is of vital importance to
every student of economics and gov-
ernment. 'And a record contemporary
with the events,' he continues, 'must
have a flavor of the events themselves,
which is rarely recaptured in later ac-
counts. Such a record , comprehensive,
authoritative and unbiased, is best offer-
ed in the news columns and the special
articles of The Neiv York Times, Cur-
rent History, and The Analyst, pub-
lished by the New York Times Com-
pany.' In the selection of critical art-
icles Dr. Buck has sought to present
comment on both sides of controversial
questions, leaving it to the reader to
form his own conclusions."

Miss Mary Catherine Williamson,
Agnes Scott, '3 1, has been awarded
a scholarship in voice offered by the
Madrigal Society of New York. To-
gether with several hundred applicants
Miss Williamson sang in a competitive
audition before a committee of the so-
ciety; she was one of the six whose
voices gave sufficient promise to war-
rant the award. Miss Williamson has
begun her lessons with Marguerite Pot-
ter, one of the outstanding teachers of
voice in New York.

Mary Catherine had charge of the
radio programs for Agnes Scott for
1932-1933 and part of the session
193 3-1934. She did splendid work in
this connection, acting as announcer
and procuring good publicity. During
the winter of 193 3-1934 she was sec-
retary to Dr. Roy MacMillan of At-
l.iiu.i. Recently she has moved to New
York City, where she is secretary to
the vice-president of the American
World Traders. She has been singing
in the St. Bartholomew's choir. Her
residence address in New York is Mi I -
bank I foihc. 11 West 10th Street.

Mary Catherine is the niece of Pro-
fessor Catherine Torrance, of the Creek
department of Agnes Scott.

The Agonistic

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SOCIAL NEWS

Sally Hooten, ex-'3 5, spent last
Wednesday night with Jane Cassels and
Trellis Carmichael.

Ola and Dorothy Kelly spent the
week-end in Monticello, Ga.

Kitty Jones had as her guest for the
week-end Bernice Roberts who is a
student at Bessie Tift College.

Florence Lasseter spent Sunday in
Warm Springs, Ga.

Billie Turner had as her guests for
the week-end at her home in LaGrange,
Ga., Rosa Wilder, Nancy Moorer,
Elizabeth Perrin, Mary Pitner, Eleanor
Lemmon, Lucile Barnett, Julia Thing,
Alice Taylor, and Rose Northcross.

Isabel Richardson spent the week-
end at her home in Washington, Ga.

Rachel Kennedy had as her guest
Sunday Susan McKellar of Greenwood,
South Carolina.

Martha Foster spent Wednesday
night with Mary Helen Barrett.

Virginia Brown spent the week-end
with her aunt, Miss Virginia Hill.

Elizabeth Watts spent Sunday night
with her aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs.
R. H. Carmichael, at Columbia Sem-
inary.

Ruth Tate spent the week-end with
her aunt, Mrs. E. M. Malcolm, in At-
lanta.

Ellen Little attended the wedding of
her cousin, Miss Mary Broughton, in
Atlanta, Thursday afternoon.

Nell Hemphill spent the week-end
with Lufred Brooks at her home in De-

Helen Johnson and Nancy Cooper
were the guests of Ann Worthy John-
son last week-end.

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J. R. McCain, President

Our Aesthetic Souls"

Dress up your face,
as well as your figure.

Your first attraction is found
in a charming smile, a lovely
complexion and in the perfect
harmonization of your make-
up and your gown. To add
zest to the spirited affairs of
the holiday season, to make
you a perfect picture, consult
Mrs. Page Rees on just what
make-up to wear with each
gown.

P. S. While in the store ask to see
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T>6ACHTRe STOe

Over the twelve hundred who at-
tended Miss Millay's lecture last Fri-
day night there hung an appreciative
silence in some cases while poetic souls
imbibed at the fountain head of in-
spiration, heard the wheels of genius
creak, and rendered homage at an an-
cient shrine. Among those of less
elevated sentiment there circulated an
atmosphere calculated to bring sudden
and instantaneous cessation of activity
if not death and destruction to Apollo
and the Muses.

While the aforementioned imbiba-
tion was in the process of occurring,
an innocent seeker after sweetness and
light was practically overcome to hear:

Some misguided soul indulging in a
series of effusions based upon a con-
ception that the "distinguished-look-
ing man in formal attire' 'who was
rather managing things (more fa-
miliarly known as Dr. McCain) was
"Mr. Millay."

That one ot the ticket salesmen
(Ph.D., Phi Beta Kappa, and related
commodities) was tipped thirty cents.

Miss Millay described in terms
ranging between Paderewski and Count
Dracula, with a few Barrymores and
Hepburns interspersed (Saints preserve
the spirit of poesy.)

A retrogressor to the far-famed, but
now usually conceived of vanished
days of southern chivalry and gentility
remark that an ambition of his life
had been achieved he was at last able,
without pangs of decadent knightly
instincts, to seat himself and re-

CLUBS

Pi Alpha Phi
The last meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
was held on Thursday, November 22.
The subject for debate was, "Resolved:
That the Saar territory should be re-
united to Germany." Those debating
were Frances Balkcom and Dorothy
Lee, affirmative, and Frances James
and Helen Handte, negative.

French Club
French Club wishes to announce that
Christmas carol practice will begin
soon. Those wishing to take part will
please sign up on the bulletin board
in Miss Alexander's classroom.

Blackfriars
Miss Florence E. Wall of New York,
noted author and lecturer, was the
featured speaker of the Blackfriars'
meeting held Tuesday night, November
20. She spoke on the "Chemistry of
Cosmetics."

main there placed without feeling a
need for offering his place to every
"Genteel Female" who approached.

Patriotic students expressing con-
cern in various shades of vehemence
and terms of state of endowment and
possible paucity thereof, and heaving
sighs of relief when the microphone
descended gently rather than precipit-
ously from the stage. . . .

If Genius alone can detect Genius,
why do you suppose the other eleven
hundred and ninety nine than oneself
did not go Christmas shopping?

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ANNUAL EXHIBIT PRESENTS

BOOKS OF INTEREST

{Continued from jui^c 1, column 1)
and the new Modern Library Giants.

A complete set of Edna St. Vincent
Millay's poems have been lent by
Rich's, who are also featuring cheap
ed ltions of famous books, including
small volumes of Shakespeare which
are now on sale at Rich's for 2 5c each.

The privately owned libraries of
faculty and students are represented
by an extensive selection of books, a
few of which are Miss Leyburn's edi-
tion of Jane Austen and works of
Charles Lamb, Miss Harn's old German
books, Miss Laney's autographed vol-
umes, notably Auslander's The Sonnets
of Petrarch, DuBose Heyward's Sky-
lines and Horizons, and Thornton
Wilder 's The Bridge of San Luis Key,
Miss McKinney's autographed copy of
Edwin A. Robinson's Tristram, Miss
Jackson's children's books and travel
books, Miss Florence Smith's Dante
with Dore illustrations, Miss Preston's
medieval romance, Aucassin and Nic-
olete, from the library of Arnold Ben-
nett, and Miss Virginia Nelson's rare
books and letters of the Wesley fam-
ily.

In the art exhibit, arranged by Miss
Lewis, are the drawings and books of
the old masters. Many are from the
Carnegie gift to the art department,
and Miss Lewis chose to exhibit those
of most general interest, the drawings
of which are represented by Holbein,
Raffael, Van Dyck, Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci, Corregio, Botticelli,
Verrocchio, and many others. Among
the books is a series of reproductions of
the works of great masters, including
such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt,
Rubens, Giotti, and Durer. Mrs. Elijah
Brown has lent a volume of reproduc-
tions of the chief art works in the Paris
Exposition in 1900. There are also
books on etches and etching, tapestries
and textiles, furniture and interior dec-
orating, and fine printing.

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Hockey Players I SOPHS VICTORS
Are Given Tea IN EXCITING GAME

On Friday afternoon, November 16,
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn entertained at
a tea at the Alumnae House. The tea,
which was given after the last hockey
game of the fall season, was given in
honor of the girls who were hockey
managers, officials, and captains. The
guests included Sarah Bowman, Francis
McCalla, Ann Walker, Lena Arm-
strong, Martha Crenshaw, Rosa Wild-
er, Ann Thompson, Laura Coit, Sarah
Johnson, Mary Neal, Lulu Ames, and
Jacqueline Woolfolk.

BOOKS AND READING

{Continued from page 2, column 2)
what others have endured, we may also
endure.

Books then, it seems to me, can satis-
fy our desire to escape from life, can
increase our knowledge of life, and can
fortify our spirits for life. It was prob
ably because of these durable satisfac-
tions that Fenelon said, "If the crowns
of all the kingdoms of the empire were
laid down at my feet in exchange for
my books and my love of reading, I
would spurn them all."

C \ RLY LE IX OLD AGE

(Continued from page 3, column 1)
such splendid eyes that he could read
every day until the last few months.
There was nothing the matter with his
lungs, kidney, heart, and bladder; and
he lived to be eighty-five.

William Lyon Phelps.

THE DAINTIES OF BOOKS

(Continued from page 3, column 3)
cross-gartered, yellow-stockinged Mal-
volio before his mistress.

But those whom we neither pity nor
scoff at, those whom rather we admire
and strive to copy after are those who
turn to books with gusto and use them
in real earnest, who do not smatter
themselves with a little learning but
who work and strive to attain a hard-
earned knowledge of books to couple
with and to supplement their knowl-
edge of living, for they achieve what
Goethe calls "the only charm of life:
that active, sacred power which creates
worlds" around us.

They were great games, those last
two of the hockey season. Naturally
they would be hard fought, for honor
and glory hinged on them. Yes, honor,
or glory, or something of the sort went
to the sophomores when they defeated
the favored freshman team by a score
of 3-1.

This defeat came not because of the
poor playing of the freshmen but ra-
ther from the extraordinary work of
their rivals. The only disconcerting
thing about it, to the sophomores, was
the fact that they have not played that
well all year. Of course, the fresh-
men were disconcerted; for there had
been talk of a championship game be-
tween the freshmen and the juniors.

The juniors, too, were somewhat
humbled by their inability to stop a
practically unorganized team which
used only nine players against eleven
strong, well-trained opponents. The
combined team of seniors and alumnae
held the juniors to a 1-1 tie.

It seems too bad, however, that two
such games, probably the best of the
season, were played before a cheering
section composed of Dr. Henry Robin-
son, of the mathematics department.
True, the weather was bad, and there
was the excitement of the lecture of
the evening.

Sports enthusiasts will be interested
to know that there is talk of a cham-
pionship game to take place sometime
soon.

Line-ups for last Friday's games in-
clude:

Juniors (1) Seniors (1)

Hart r.w Poliakoff

Stevens r.i Rogers

Handte (1) c.f McCalla (1)

Symms l.i Ackerman

Derrick l.w.

Miller r.h Cassel

Armstrong c.h Young

McClure l.h. Grimson

Townsend r.b Spencer

Estes Lb Constantine

From g.g Constantine

Freshmen (1) Sophomores (3)

Brown r.w Belser

Henderson r.i Jackson (1)

Thompson c.f Fleece (1)

Coit (1) l.i Johnson

Hightower l.w Walker (1)

Blackshear r.h Kneale

Lemmon c.h Lewis

Fall Sports

Near Close

Maybe it is the scarcity of the thing
that makes it so desirable. Anyway,
as the end of the fall sports season has
approached, everyone suddenly has be-
come intensely interested in all the
sports activities of the school to such
an extent that many girls were forced
to choose between two athletic events
which were to take place on the same
afternoon.

But despite this forced choice on the
part of a few who would have liked to
participate in two events, there was of-
fered to the school at large, an oppor-
tunity to see sports at their best, with
something to suit each individual taste.

November 13-27, is scheduled for
the golf tournament. Bad weather
may cause some delay in these plans.
The horse show, originally scheduled
for November 22, was effectively
rained out, but has been postponed to
the first week in December. Parents
and friends of the participants are in-
vited to attend this event at the Bilt-
more Riding Academy. The final
hockey game, which so few spectators
saw, has been reported more fully else-
where in this issue of the paper.

Moving pictures of swimming,
which were shown yesterday, were used
through the permission of the Univer-
sity of Illinois where the scenes were
taken. Tonight, another swimming
event, the annual water pageant will
feature all the aquatic life of the
campus.

The archery tournament, set for No-
vember 3 0 and December 1, and the
finals of the tennis doubles tourna-
ment complete the plans for the end of
the season.

SPORTS PICTURES
TO BE MADE SOON

Athletic pictures for the Silhouette
will be taken during the first week of
December, Caroline Long, editor, an-
nounced this week. In the next two
weeks varsity teams will be named and
pictures of these will be taken in addi-
tion to the individual members of the
class teams.

Schedules for athletic pictures will
be posted within a week or so on the
main bulletin board in Buttrick; all
students on class teams will be held
responsible for this notice.

Proofs for re-takes taken on the
campus a few weeks ago were returned
last week.

Reporters for this issue: Martha Sue Laney,
Eliza King, Lavinia Scott, Katherine Hertzka,'
Gene Brown, Jerry Brown. Jo Jennings, Mary
Richardson, Jane Guthrie, Jacque McWhite,
Ora Muse, Betty Maynard.

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at Forrest Hills golf course. Contest-
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Donald, Man- Malone, Lavinia Scott,
Jane Lewis, Frances Paris, Betty Roach,
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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934

NO.i*^

A. S. C. WILL MEET LONDON IN DEBATE

PLAN FOR SOCIAL Christmas Programs
SERVICE SCHOOL To Be Presented

IS STARTED

Plans are going forward rapidly for
the Graduate School of Social Service
to be operated jointly by Agnes Scott
College and Emory University. The
Social Agencies of Atlanta, in answer
to whose plea the project is being un-
dertaken, are anxious to have the school
open on the first of June. It has been
estimated that about fifty students will
be enrolled for the first quarter.

At present, Agnes Scott and Emory
are planning to present a play in order
to raise funds for the school. They will
be aided by the Georgia Emergency Re-
lief Administration in cooperation with
the School for Training Social Work-
ers.

The school will be located on the
Emory campus; Agnes Scott will help
in supplying teachers. It will rank as a
graduate professional school; attend-
ance for one year will provide suffic-
ient training for a student to become a
fully qualified social worker.

The Georgia Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration has been most generous in
its support of the school. An applica-
tion has also been filed with the Gen-
eral Education Board for financial aid
during the first year.

The Graduate School of Social Work,
when completed, will be the only school
between Richmond, Va., and New Or-
leans equipped to offer training in so-
cial service.

Language Clubs
To Sing Carols

According to a tradition many years
old, the French Club is again planning
to sing Christmas carols on the eve-
ning of Dec. 18, the last night before
the holidays. This year it has invited
the German and Spanish Clubs to sing
the carols of their countries. They
intend to make the rounds of the cam-
pus, including the three dormitories and
the faculty houses. As is customary,
they will carry lanterns and be accom-
panied by a flute.

The French Club is planning to sing
such very old carols as the following:
La Marrhe des Rois, Un Flambeau,
jeannette, which is an old Noel from
Provence, Noel Bonrgogne, Cantique
pOitr Noil, Trois Anges Sont Venus Ce
Soir, and one new song, D' oil Viens-fu,
Bergire? The German Club is singing
the following: Odu Frohliche, O Tan-
nenbaum, St die Nacht, Heilige Nacht,
Morgen Kommt der Weiuachtsmann,
and the villanticos of the Spanish Club
are Los Reyes Magos, Venid Pastor-
cillos, Venid Pastores, El Nino Jesus,
Belen, and Nocb de Paz. Anyone who
is familiar with these languages is in-
vited to participate in singing them.

Granddaughters
To Entertain
At Dinner

The members of the Granddaugh-
ters' Club of Agnes Scott College will
entertain at a formal dinner on Friday
evening, December 7, at 6:30 o'clock
at the Alumnae House. After dinner,
the members of the club and their
escorts will play games in the living
room.

The committees in charge of ar-
rangements are: Miss Dorothy Hutton,
acting as chaperon; entertainment,
Barton Jackson and Kathleen Daniel;
dates, Fannie B. Harris, Mary Lyon
Hull, and Lorraine Smith; decorations,
Virginia Gaines, Elizabeth Forman, and
Lucilc Cairns.

The membership of the Grand-
daughters' Club is made up of those
students whose mothers attended Agnes
Scott.

By Glee Club

On Sunday, December 16, the
Agnes Scott Glee Club under the direc-
tion of Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, teacher
of voice at Agnes Scott College, will
give two programs of Christmas carols.
The first of these will take place at
the morning service of the first Baptist
Church in Atlanta, and the second will
be presented Sunday night at 7:3 0 in
the Agnes Scott chapel. This latter
service, since its origination in 193 0,
has become an annual event of the col-
lege. The glee club, composed of about
70 girls, will wear robes and surplices,
and sing such favorite carols as We
Three Kings of Orient Are, O Little
Town of Bethlehem, and Silent Night.
The college String Ensemble, directed
by Mr. Christian W. Dieckmann, pro-
fessor of music at Agnes Scott, will
accompany the glee club at the Christ-
mas Vesper program. Holly, red can-
dles, and evergreens will decorate the
chapel for this occasion.

CANDLE SERVICES
HELD BY Y. W,

The Christmas Candle Services,
sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., are be-
ing held as usual during the three
weeks before the holidays in the chapel
from ten to ten-thirty o'clock. As in
fomer years, the three Red Candle Serv-
ices take place on the last three Friday
nights; and the White Candle Service
will be held on Monday night before
the holidays.

The first Red Candle Service was
on last Friday night. Mary Margaret
Stowe was in charge of the program
which consisted of carols, scripture
reading, and a special selection by the
Glee Club. The two other programs
have not yet been definitely arranged;
they will be similar to the first one,
however.

On Monday night, December 17,
the traditional White Candle Service
will be held. There will be a Christmas
tree in the chapel and, after the sing-
ing of the carols, Alberta Palmour,
president of Student Gvernment, will
read a Christmas story.

Y. W. Announces

Final Speakers

The two final speakers of the series
of programs on Growth, which has
been sponsored by Y. W. C. A. this fall
will be Mr. Thomas C. Law, chairman
of the World Fellowship Committee of
the Rotary Club, and Dean Raimundo
DcOvies of the Cathedral of St.
Phillip's, both of Atlanta, Martha Red-
wine, Y. W. C. A. president, an-
nounced this week. Mr. Law will speak
on Tuesday, December 11, on "Growth
Through World Fellowship." The sub-
ject of Dean De Ovies' talk, on De-
cember 18, will be the "Spirit of
Christmas."

During the fall, Miss Louise Hale, of
Agnes Scott, Dr. Leroy Loemkcr and
Dean Raymond Paty, of Emory Uni-
versity, and Rabbi David Marx, of At-
lanta, have spoken on different phases
of Growth. The talk of Rabbi Marx,
on November 27, dealth with "Growth
through Friends."

S.A.C.S.S. MEETS
AT BILTMORE

LONDON REPRESENTATIVES

TO UPHOLD AFFIRMATIVE

The thirty-ninth annual meeting of
the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools is to be held at
the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, December
3-7. Meeting with this Association are
the Southern Association of Colleges
for Women, the Association of Col-
lege Deans for Women, and the As-
sociation of Deans of Graduate Schools.

The Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools is divided into
two main branches, the Commission of
Secondary Schools which includes
twelve hundred high schools represent-
ing eleven southern states, and the
Commission of Institutions on Higher
Education which contains one hundred
and fifty colleges or universities. Dur-
ing the first three days of the con-
ference, meetings are scheduled for
these two Commissions and the Execu-
tive Committee of the Association.
They will check over reports and ac-
credit certain institutions.

On Thursday morning, December 6,
is the first meeting of the entire As-
sociation. President H. W. Cox of
Emory University will make the wel-
coming address, to which President T.
H. Jack of Randolph-Macon Women's
College will respond on behalf of the
Association. General announcements
and the reports and appointment of
various committees will be made. Dean
M. E. Haggerty, of the University of
Minnesota, will be the principal
speaker at the morning session. In the
afternoon the Fraternal Delegates to
other Regional Associations and the
Commission of Secondary Schools will
present reports on their work. Dr. H.
L. Smith, President of the National Ed-
ucation Association will speak to the
assembly on "Three Hundred Years of
American Public Secondary Schools."

During the banquet to be held on
Thursday evening, President Frank Mc-
Vey of the University of Kentucky
will make the opening address; Agnes
Scott College will furnish the music
for the occasion. Dr. E. E. Oberholtzer,
of Texas, President of the Department
of Superintendents, is to be the final
speaker of the evening.

The following morning Chairman
W. D. Hooper of the University of

(Continued on page 3, column 5)

A. 5. To Debate
Emory And
Wesleyan

On Friday, December 14, Agnes
Scott will debate Emory University on
the question, Resolved: That Hitler's
domestic policies have benefited Ger-
many. The debate will be held in the
Theology building on the Emory cam-
pus at 8 o'clock. Nellie Margaret Gil-
roy and Isabel McCain will uphold the
affirmative for Agnes Scott; Reming-
ton McConncll and Jack McMichael
will speak for Emory. It will be a non-
decision debate.

In February Agnes Scott will debate
the same question with Wesleyan Col-
lege at Agnes Scott. The team against
Wesleyan will be the same as for the
Emory debate; Agnes Scott will take
the affirmative at that time also.

A chaperon will be provided for
those who wish to hear the debate on
the 14th; all students who are in-
terested in going are asked to get in
touch with Marian Calhoun, president
of Pi Alpha Phi.

Mortar Board Will
Sponsor Annual
Parties

The annual parties, at which Mortar
Board is hostess to the boarding sopho-
mores, will be given this year, one
each night, December 11-14, at 8
o'clock p. m., in the Day Student
Room in Main Building. Different
members of Mortar Board will be in
charge of each party; Mary Boggs,
Mary Jane Evans, and Anna Humber
will be hostesses on the eleventh; Mary
Green and Alberta Palmour on the
twelfth; Nell Patillo and Frances Mc-
Calla on the thirteenth; Carolyn Long
and Martha Redwine on the last night.

The boarding sophomores have been
divided into four groups for the par-
ties; students from Emory University,
Georgia Tech and Columbia Seminary
will be invited as their dates. Christ-
mas decorations are to be used; a pro-
gam of games and entertainment has
been planned for each evening.

SENIOR CLASS
TO BE HONORED

The faculty of Agnes Scott College
will entertain at a reception for the
members of the senior class on Satur-
day, December 15, at 8:3 0 o'clock in
the lobby of Rebekah Scott Hall.

The receiving line will be made up
of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. McCain, Miss
Nannette Hopkins, Miss Annie May
Christie, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Holt,
Miss Harriette Haynes, and Elizabeth
Alexander. Miss Philippa Gilchrist
and Miss Katherine T. Omwake are
in charge of the decorations; the re-
freshment committee includes Mrs.
Philip G. Davidson, Mrs. J. T. Gilles-
pie, Mrs. Henry Robinson, and Mrs.
S. G. Stukes. Other faculty members
are working on various details for the
party.

The faculty reception to the senior
class has been an annual affair since
1931. It is usually held on the last
Saturday night before the Chistmas
holidays. The decorations and program
of last year's reception were built
around the central theme of Evange-
line and the Bayou Country.

"The Fool" Given
By Emorv Plavers

The Emory University players will
present "The Fool" by Channing Pol-
lock tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in
Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Marian
Calhoun, Vera Pruet, of Blackfriars,
Agnes Scott Dramatics Club, and Mar-
tha Skeen, Agnes Scott, '34, will take
the leading feminine roles. Dr. Garland
Smith, of the English department of
Emory, is directing the play.

The price of admission, for students,
is 25 cents and, for the general public,
3 5 cents. Special transportation will
be provided for Agnes Scott students,
if a sufficiently large number plan to
g-

This is the first time that Agnes
Scott students have acted in a play of
the Emory University Players. Miss
Frances K. Gooch, of the Spoken Eng-
lish department, sent these three in
response to a letter from Dr. Smith
requesting the loan of three of her best
trained dramatics students.

Abandonment of Isolationist

Policies Will Be Discussed

On Friday night at 8 o'clock, Agnes
Scott College will meet the University
of London in a debate on the question,
Resolved: That the abandonment of the
isolationist policies is essential to the re-
turn of prosperity. Marian Calhoun and
Edith Merlin, upholding the negative,
will speak for Agnes Scott. J. Hirsch-
field and D. W. Scholes, representing
the National Union of Students of
England, will uphold the affirmative
for the University of London. The de-
bate will be held in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium. Katherine (Woltz)
Greene, '3 3, will preside. There will be
no decision.

This is the third international debate
on record, according to Dr. George P.
Hayes, faculty advisor to Pi Alpha Phi,
debating society. The first was held in
1931 with Oxford on the question of
Russia; Katherine (Woltz) Greene and
Ann Hopkins spoke for Agnes Scott.
In 1932 the University of Dublin sent
a team to Agnes Scott to debate on
Nationalism; Elizabeth Lightcap and
Elizabeth Winn represented Agnes
Scott.. These were both no-decision de-
bates.

Mr. Hirschfield and Mr. Scholes will
reach Decatur Friday afternoon; they
plan to be here until Tuesday. Their

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Professors To Go
To Conferences
During Holiday

Professor Mary Stuart MacDougall,
of the biology department of Agnes
Scott and Associate Professor T. M.
Whitiker will attend a meeting of the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science to be held in Pitts-
burgh, December 27-29. Both Dr.
MacDougall and Dr. Whitiker will
present papers at this conference. The
subject of Dr. Whitiker's paper deals
with plant cytology; Dr. MacDougall
w ill read a paper on "Cytological Stu-
dies of Genus Chilodonella with Special
Reference to Chromatin Elimination
from the Macronucleus During Divi-
sion."

Professor Phillip G. Davidson, of
the history department at Agnes Scott
College, will spend a part of the Christ-
mas holidays in Washington, D. C,
attending the 50th Anniversary of the
American History Association, meet-
ing there December 27-29. Instructors
in history from all sections of the
United States except the Pacific Coast
will attend the session.

Dr. Davidson plans to spend the
week after the meeting doing work at
the Library of Congress.

Professor George P. Hayes, of the
English department and Professor
Muriel Harn, of the German depart-
ment of Agnes Scott will attend the
annual meeting of the Modern Lan-
guage Association to be held at Swarth-
more and Philadelphia, Penn., Decem-
ber 27-29.

MORTAR BOARD TO

PRESENT SPEAKER

On Friday, December 14, Mortar
Board will present its annual chapel
program. Katherine (Woltz) Green,
'33, former president of Mortar Board,
will speak on Mortar Board as a Na-
tional Organization.

It is customary for Mortar Board
to bring an outside speaker each year
to the campus to discuss some phase
ot the meaning of Mortar Board and
its accomplishments. Last year Mrs.
Harrold Richards, editor of the Mortar
Board Quarterly, gave an address, and
in 1 93 2, Diana Dyer, '31, spoke.

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WHAT OF COORDINATION?

On November 17 the General 1
Survey Committee made its pre-'
liminary report concerning the
establishment of a great univer-
sity center in Atlanta which will
be created from the intellectual
and financial resources of Agnes
Scott College, Emory University,
and Georgia Tech. The culmina-
tion of this movement, the foun-
dation of a graduate school
which would stimulate an "in-
tellectual renascence" in the
South, seems veiled in a deep,
though hopeful futurity; we can
only wish for it and visualize it,
as those who gaze with longing
on unchartered land; but as stu-
dents of today, we are confronted
with the more immediate phase
of the problem: coordination
with Emory University in under-
graduate work. In its practical
implications this would mean:
(1) exchange of professors and
exchange of upperclassmen (Em-
ory accepts only junior and sen-
ior co-eds), (2) exchange of li-
brary books, and (3) the estab-
lishment of the quarter system
for upperclassmen at Agnes
Scott to regulate credits. Such
are the broad outlines of the
case.

In theory, at least, we cannot
fail to see the creative wisdom
of the establishment of a student
and professor exchange. The out-
standing critics of American edu-
cation today are turning their
whips and scorns against the ac-
cumulative evils of isolation in
the American college, which, in
spite of the deepening tendencies
of the age toward concentration,
maintains its ineffectual aloof-
ness like "that well-known my-
thological character, the rugged
individual." In the wake of such
an uncompromising attitude
must inevitably come wasteful
duplication, intellectual stagna-
tion and smug provincialism.
As honest observers of our own
educational situation, we cannot
completely deny these charges;
Agnes Scott and Emory offer
similar courses; they reap no
intellectual impetus from vital,
d i r e c t contact in scholastic
fields; and both wear the Ameri-
can collegiate garb of self-com-
placency, the holier-than-thou
turn of nose, which may profess
College loyalty, but which leaves
the unfortunate impression of
an unintelligent and childish con-
ceit. And only a few miles sepa-
rate these schools!

These are evils which we
would avoid with our whole en-
ergy ; and the opportunity stands
before us. By the elimination of
duplicate courses, each institu-
tion could concentrate its talents
and money <>n the higher develop-
ment of its chosen academic de-
partments, and the student,
through exchange, could reap the
profit of more intensive, more
comprehensive

work; the ex-

change of students and profes-
sors would mean an interplay of
ideas, of perspectives, and change
of personalities, which are vital
for intellectual stimulation and
growth. Such an exchange would
counteract, too, the tendency of
students to concentrate as much
on the professor as on the sub-
ject. Professor Richard Lester
of Princeton comments in the au-
tumn issue of The American
Scholar on such a condition:
"Education becomes partly a
question of personalities, pre-
vious reputation, and resigna-
tion. . . . Where students remain
for four years in the same col-
lege with the same group of pro-
fessors doing the professing and
examining, more and more em-
phasis is put upon knowing the
professor instead of upon know-
ing the subject in all of its phases
rather than just those in which
the professor himself is es-
pecially interested. Petty inci-
dentals and personalities play a
part all out of proportion to their
general importance. " All this
points to our decided need for a
more impersonal attitude in aca-
demic pursuits, for intellectual
integrity, for a broad perspec-
tive which could be gained from
contact with other students,
other professors, other ideas. We
desire the growth that such stim-
ulation would provoke to remedy
our intellectual inbreeding.

The mechanical side of this
change would be the establish-
ment of the quarter system for
upperclassmen: three classes five
days a week instead of five
classes distributed on alternate
days. This arrangement only
carries out the tendency to spe-
cialize in the last two years of
college and since it would facili-
tate more intensive study, should
offer no serious drawback to any
plan of coordination. It would
make possible the correlation of
credits and the effective coopera-
tion of the two institutions.

If such an intercollegiate re-
lationship were cemented, it
would not mean a loss of identity
to either institution; it would
mean that they join hands to
strive toward the realization of
a broader, deeper training of the
mind, toward the shuffling off
of provincialisms of every sort,
toward a view of life which is
rich, flexible, and permanent.
With Professor Lester again, we
feel that "the mental vigor and
the added educational opportuni-
ties from such cooperation be-
tween the institutions would be
well worth the slight trouble
that the bookkeepers in the
dean's office might be put to."

Mexican Govt.
Attacks Church

BOOK NOTES

By Madeline Race
Ever since the advent of Christian-
ity, history has been punctuated with
serious disagreements between the state
and the Catholic church. Modern his-
tory offers as a striking example the
present religious controversy in Mexico.
Just outside our back door is raging a
war for religious freedom.

The immediate cause of the trouble
seems to be the program recently pre-
sented by the Federal government; it
aims at complete secularization of
schools on a so-called scientific basis,
confiscation and nationalization of the
churches, and compulsion of the clergy.
Mexico's "Big Boss," Plutarco Elias
Calles, says: "I regard the expulsion of
archbishops and bishops as necessary.
. . . Thev are organizing in preparation
for movement" (i. e. revolution). Mon-
signor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of
Mexico, says that the accusation is
false, that the church is trying only to
preserve the principles of justice and
morality.

The history of this controversy be-
tween the church and state dates back
to 18 57 when a schism occured and all
religious orders were suppressed and
ecclesiastical property confiscated.
1877-1910 was a period during which
restrictions were removed; then in
1917, the constitution repressed Cathol-
icism, and the restrictions were en-
forced. In 1926 President Calles or-
dered the churches closed and thus they
remained for three years. Ambassador
Dwight W. Morrow, was then influen-
tial in negotiating a peace pact which
was approved by the government, the
Vatican, and the Mexican hierarchy. In
193 1 the controversy was reopened
when the Mexican congress passed a
law permitting only one priest to 5 0,-
000 people. Archbishop Diaz was
forced to accept the law. The "armis-
tice" ended when the Revolutionary
party decided to destroy the church.

When the government came to this
decision it lost no time in starting
things moving. 200,000 troops were
paraded through Mexico city, giving
cat-calls for the church and bearing
anti-Catholic posters. All sorts of pro-
paganda were distributed among the
people and scattered by airplanes from
one end of the city to the other.

As a result of this demonstration, the
ardor of the Catholics was increased.
Loyal followers of the faith made a

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Y. W. C. A. Activities

Let's pay our Y. W. Budget pledges!
Have your money ready when solicitors
see you. All December pledges are to
be collected between the first and fif-
teenth of December.

The Social Service Group visited
Hillside Cottages Friday afternoon. The
girls are planning for the Christmas
party for poor children on Saturday,
December 15. Sign up to fill a stock-
ing for these children, and plan to
help with the party.

The Music Appreciation Group on
Sunday afternoon is continuing the
study of Wagner, under the direction
of Eliza King.

The Red Candle Services are being
held for three continuous Friday nights
at 10-10:30 P. M. in the chapel. Be
sure to attend.

A tour of the Institutions of the
Atlanta Community Chest will be vis-
ited by a group of Emory and Agnes
Scott students on December 7. If you
aw in teres ted, please see Lois Hart.

The Industrial Group is selling mag-
azines. Remember to buy them from
this committee!

My Shad on As I Pass, Sybil Bolitho.
Reprinted from Scribner's.

There are books so personal, so much
a part of their author's being, that the
reader of them feels himself an intruder
on hallowed ground. Sybil Bolitho's
story of the love of John and Helen,
not so much fashioned as torn from the
heart of her own experience, is one of
them. It is not for the rude hands of
contemporary criticism, however
proudly it might survive their touch.
Hood's lines, in paraphrase, come to
mind: "Take it up tenderly, lift it with
care." No more than we can dispas-
sionately examine the tragedy of a dear
friend's life to discover whether the
elements thereof are mixed in artistic
and Aristolian proportions, can a sensi-
tive reviewer subject this passionate
avowal to the cold sctrutiny of his
trade. For the story of John and
Helen is, in all essentials, the story of
William Bolitho (Ryall), author of
Twelve Against the Gods, and Sybil
who loved him in life, and, if possible,
better after death. "How do I love
thee? Let me count the ways." Even
as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sybil
Bolitho counts many ways; and few
women have raised such a memorial to
their love as this book of lacerated and
lacerating, yet bravely singing prose.

With John dead, with her whole soul

dead, Sybil sets out to find again the
man who had made her world alive.
My Sljadow As I Pass is the story of
this quest, this recherche du temps
perdu. And the quest succeeds moment
by moment; preciously snatched from
oblivion by the miracle of memory, the
past is recaptured. John lives again in
the being of his love; and he gives her
back to life. "And raising her eyes, she
sees him. His is the face of the world.
He is the rising sun: He is distant and
near. In the wind that circles the city
and the surge of the open sea. Nothing
has gone, nothing is lost. Part of un-
dying life; as long as this ball of hre
spins round, and after!"

And William Bolitho lives still, even
as John.

Ben Ray Redman.

Distant Dawn, by Margaret Pedler.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co.,
Inc. $2.

The End of a Childhood, by Henry
Handel Richardson. New York: W.
W. Norton & Co. $2.5 0.

What I Like in Poetry, by William
Lyon Phelps. A new volume composed
of the editor's personal favorites. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.75.

Mendelssohn, rf A Second Elijah by
Schima Kaufman. New York: The
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $3.50.

WE SEE BY THE PAPERS

On Other Campuses

Progress of Civilizaion:

1930 "I've Found a Million Dollar
Baby."

1931 "I've Got Five Dollars."

1 93 2 "Here It Is Monday and I've
Still Got a Dollar."

193 3 "Brother Can You Spare a
Dime?"

1934"? ? ? rThe Salem ite.

For many prison inmates a college
education would work the greatest pos-
sible reform, and for many college stu-
dents a few months behind the bars
would be an inestimable character
builder. Professor A. Tassin of Co-
lumbia. The Blue Stocking.

It is said that only one woman out
of a thousand can whistle, but as long
as she can talk she desn't care to whis-
tle. The State.

This year for the first time the stu-
dents of Florida State College for Wo-
men will be permitted to dance with
men. The dances must take place on
Friday or Saturday night at appointed
places on the campus. The Parley
Voo.

At Fordham University it appears
that the faculty are appointed by name.
Father Dcane is dean; a Father Whalem
acts as dean of discipline; Mr. Shouten
is in charge of debating; and finally a
Mr. Vockal (pronounced vocal) is in
charge of the glee club. The Ala-
Inimian.

The World Outside

Because of the large number of pos-
sible listeners-in on short wave radio
sets, Forest offices are finding it neces-
sary sometimes to tone down their
working vocabularies, even under the
stress of battle with the flames. Strict
orders against "cuss-words" in radio
messages have been issued, the Forest
Service revealed recently, in reporting
that more than 600 radio stations have
been installed for emergency commun-
ications in the national forests. The
Scientif ic A mericau.

President Roosevelt's town house is
for rent. A freshly painted sign hang-
ing from the right of the arched door-
way at 47-49 East 6 5th Street pro-
claims the fact. The residence, which
is owned by the President's mother,
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, and used
by the Roosevelts since 1926, has been
on the market, it was reported, since
Mr. Roosevelt's election to the presi-
dency.

Green ties are in order for the fresh-
men at the first dance at Washington
and Lee, and they must be green bow
ties, even though the dance is not for-
mal. This is because any one might be
rearing a green four-in-hand tie while
green bows designate a freshman as
nothing else can. The Ring-turn Phi.

At the University of Minnesota, a
fine of ten dollars or a jail sentence
f six days is imposed on any co-ed
caught wearing a fraternity pin.
Mercer Cluster.

The Freshman Hobby Groups have
been meeting with fine results. The
( harm Group met and decided to dis-
cuss points of etiquette; Miss Louise
Hale is leader. The Handicraft Group
made Christmas cards at their last
meeting and began knitting and cro-
cheting. The Poetry Group, under the
direction of Miss Ellen Leyburn, met
and discussed the works of Edna St.
Vincent Millay.

A college in England has a staff of
forty professors, although the student
enrollment is never over eighteen.
The Blue Stocking.

I thrnh that I shall net er see

A 7)' OA loi rfj a\ a '/$,'

A 73' whose rounded form is pressed

'"to the rc((rds of the lylcst.

( )'h is not so ccis ) to forget,
'/)' ( ofne easily and yet*

7)'\ are made h\ fools like me
Hut onll those who find) can make
a 'B\

The Watchtou cr, Weslevan. I

The last day of the Chicago I air
began with a 5 0-gun salute at 9 o'clock
in the morning, whistles blew and bells
rang for a full five minutes throughout
Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over
the lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor
pushed through the turnstiles. Schools
closed. Early in the afternoon a grav-
haircd grandmother was whisked off to
the Administration Building, where as
the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934 she
was presented with a 5 -acre farm. The
Apotheosis of Man -Made Light began
at 10 P. M. At midnight R. C. Dawes
turned out every light in the grounds.
Immediately the dark sky flared with
5 00,000 bombs. Taps were sounded.
However, when officials tried to elose
the gates, a loud tun-cra/.y crowd
trumped down fences and pushed on to
t resh destruction.

Not since the closing of the World's
Fair in 1 893 had Chicago seen such a
night; nor had it seen such a fair. In
two years 3 8,000,000 persons paid JOc
each to see a S 5 5,000,000 spectacle,
most of which had been provided by
advertisers. Time.

Approved by the Navy and passed
on to the Budget Bureau, a new pro-
gram calls for naval aircraft construc-
tion upwards of 500 planes. I I. ill <>f
these are intended as replacements ,ind
the other as expansion planes. The new
f'nter/inse and York ton n will haVC 100
planes each. Scientific American.

A skater on a fro/en lake does not
skate on ice but Oil a thin film of
water. This is simply elementary
physics. \Jndnr pressure the freezing
point of water is lowered; and on a
froZfl lake the skate runners provide
the pressure. Scientific American.

The Agonistic

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SOCIAL NEWS

Martha Crenshaw, Lena Armstrong,
and Eugenia Symms were guests Wed-
nesday night at a dinner given by the
Central Presbyterian Church.

Lois Hart spent Wednesday and
Thursday with her brother in Barnes-
ville, Ga.

Mary Gray Rogers spent Friday
night with her aunt, Mrs. A. V. Polak,
in Atlanta.

Shirley Christian attended the foot-
ball game at Tech Thanksgiving after-
noon.

Sarah Catherine Wood was the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor of At-
lanta for Thanksgiving dinner.

Frances Espy, Mary Pitner, and
Barbara Hertwig attended a Pi K. A.
breakfast-dance Thursday morning.

Nell White attended the Kentucky-
Alabama game in Birmingham.

Jean Kirkpatrick and Nancy Moorer
attended the dances at Clemson Col-
lege Thanksgiving.

Mary Pearce of Wesleyan was the
guest of Mary Erneste Perry on Friday.

Elizabeth Allison spent last week-end
at Auburn.

Helen DuPree spent last week-end
at her home in Jacksonville, Fla.

Rosa Wilder attended a wedding in
Pensacola, Fla., last Thursday.

Julia Thing and Marian Calhoun
spent the holiday at their homes in
Asheville, N. C.

Rosa Miller attended the Army-
Navy game in Philadelphia last Satur-
day afternoon.

Janet Gray had Thanksgiving din-
ner with Virginia Gaines in Atlanta.

Gregory Rowlett, Ida Buist, and
Marie Adams were guests at the Pi K.
A. breakfast-dance at Emory Thanks-
giving day.

Betty Adams spent Thursday night
with Nancy Rains.

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and Mary Jane Evans spent Thanksgiv-
ing Day with Alberta Palmour.

Kathryn Leipold attended the Geor-
gia-Tech football game at Athens on
Saturday, and spent Sunday at her
home in Augusta.

Katharine Bishop and Caroline White
spent Thanksgiving at their homes in
Augusta, where they attended the wed-
ding of a friend.

We Think

Mary Hull was the guest of friends
in New York over the holidays and
also attended the Army-Navy game
at Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon.

Meriel Bull and Mary Margaret
Stowe spent Wednesday night with
Mvra O'Neal at her home in Decatur.

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(Editor's note: The We Think column is for
the purpose of giving an outlet to student opin-
ion. The staff is in no way responsible for
what is printed in this column and it is by no
means to be taken as the editorial opinion of
the paper.)

We think the advertisements placed
by Agnes Scott in printed matter such
as the programs of the All-Star Concert
Series and especially in the Christian
Observer are not a credit to our col-
lege. While it is undoubtedly a good
idea to remind people "expecting to
register for the 193 5 session" to get in-
formation now, it doesn't seem so
necessary to boast that Agnes Scott
"Prepares wives and mothers" and that
"67 per cent of our graduates marry."
Someone reading that ad alone would
expect courses in Home Economics and
in the care of children in the curricu-
lum. We would like our advertisements
to be a credit to our college. We know
that that is possible even in a one-inch
space, because Mary Baldwin and
Queens Chicora both have dignified, in-
formative material, ample yet not
crowded, in the same space Agnes Scott
uses. To offer constructive as well as
destructive criticism, we'd like to sug-
gest our idea of an improvement not
perfect we know:

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
In Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta with its
cultural advantages. We encourage intellectual,
spiritual, physical, and personal development.
A.B. degree. Full recognition in this country
and abroad. Those thinking of admission in
1935 should secure information now from
President J. R. McCain, Box M.

Jacqueline Woolfolk had as her guest
for the week-end her sister, Anita.

Mary Alice Baker spent Friday night
with Isabel McCain.

Senator LaFollette Gives Views

On Youth in Politics

Elizabeth Watts spent Sunday night
with her aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs.
P. H. Carmichael, at Columbia Semi-
nary.

Pauline Wynne, Mildred Davis, and
Enid Middleton spent Thursday night
with Mrs. Sam Guy in Atlanta.

Susan Bryan's sister, Lucy, spent last
week-end with her.

FRANCES VIRGINIA
TEA ROOM

Peachtree and Ellis

By Lulu Ames

I already knew Senator "Young Bob"
La Follette's secretary before I got to
his room in the Ansley Hotel late last
Tuesday afternon. Not buddy-wuddy,
exactly; I still don't know his name.
But you can't have upwards of five
telephone conversations with a person
during which you discuss plans for the
afternoon and explain why you can't
get out of "lab" to come right now
without establishing a band of one
sort or another. So when he opened
the door of room 12 56 and asked,
"From Agnes Scott?" I wasn't sur-
prised; he didn't know my name either.
"Senator La Follette's secretary?" I re-
plied and, the formalities being over,
we picked up our conversation where
we had left it on the telephone an
hour earlier when my last nickel wore
out. Then the Senator came in.

The interview itself lasted about
three minutes. It was within twenty
minutes of his train time when we be-
gan to talk; there was time for only
one question but, a la Agnes Scott ex-
ams, it had several parts.

"I have always been for woman suf-
frage," the Senator began. He was
leaning forward on his chair with his
elbows on his knees, an unlighted
cigarette in one hand and a match in
the other. "And I believe strongly in
women in politics. They have a place
there. Women emphasize the social
and economic sides of issues; men don't
anc J the best preparation the col-
lege girl or boy can make for such
a career is to take courses in govern-
ment, history, sociology."

He stopped to light his cigarette;
then he went on.

"All along on this trip in the schools
and colleges I've visited, I have been
astonished to find classes in these sub-
jects crowded. The young people to-
day realize that they have a real op-
portunity for contribution. Now, in
my Day. ..." I raised my head in
amazement. Senator La Follette looks
too young to have had a "day." He
graduated from Wisconsin in 1917;
that would make fifteen, sixteen, sev-
enteen .... I let it pass. "In my day
the underclassmen figured out how to
get in all the 'pipe courses' and easy
ways to make grades then when they
became seniors they began to think
about jobs and salaries. But today
young people take a real interest in
fundamental problems. After all, they
are the ones who will have to solve
all the problems which my generation
leaves unsolved."

He waved his cigarette to indicate
the approximate number of unsolved
problems which would be left. He
stood up.

"I'm sorry I must leave you. There
are many other things I would like to
say but I must catch that train. Thank
you for coming."

We shook hands. I was conscious
of a friendly, chubbily warm hand-
clap and a pair of round, wide-open
eyes sparkling with the humor, the
energy, the youth that characterize
Senator "Young Bob" La Follette, of
Wisconsin.

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TO UPHOLD AFFIRMATIVE

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entertainment during their stay will be
handled by Pi Alpha Phi. A reception
has been planned for after the debate
on Friday night and drives around the
city and to Stone Mountain for Satur-
day and Sunday, Marian Calhoun,
president, said.

On Monday night, December 9, Mr.
Sholes and Mr. Hirschfield will debate
with Morehouse College in Atlanta on
the same question, again upholding the
affirmative.

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CLUBS

FIRST PLACE GOES Winter Season

Blackfriars

On November 27, Blackfriars pre-
sented War Brides, a one-act play on
the futility of war, at the meeting of
the Atlanta Jewish Alliance held at
the Jewish Temple. Martha Skeen, '34,
had the leading role.

The regular club meeting was held
last night in Miss Gooch's studio.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma met Monday
night, December 3. The meeting was
devoted to business and prospective
pledges were discussed. Ann Martin
and Ann Coffee were in charge of re-
freshments.

Cotillion Club
Elizabeth Alexander, Betty Lou
Houck, and Josephine Jennings will be
hostesses at a tea-dance tomorrow after-
noon in honor of the Cotillion Club.

German Club
The German Club will meet on
Thursday, December 13. A Christmas
play, Das Weihmachtsspiel, will be pre-
sented. The college community is in-
vited.

Poetry Club
The regular meeting of the Poetry
Club was held last night, December 4,
in her room at Ansley. Miss Emma May
Laney was hostess.

TO FRESHMEN
IN HEALTH

Proof that the freshman class is the
healthiest at Agnes Scott was found in
the report of the health rating tests
given to the gym classes November 22
and 23 by the Health Committee of
the Athletic Board. Julia Thing is
chairman of this committee.

The purpose of the tests was to de-
termine what phases of health should
be stressed this year and to arouse con-
sciousness of physical improvement.
Good posture, both standing and sit-
ting, is most needed on the campus.
Those who have healthy feet and those
who sleep eight hours a night are
scarce.

As well as could be determined by
the tests, which could not be consider-
ed absolutely final or inclusive, the rat-
ing is as follows: from a total possible
score of 100, the freshmen made 85;
the seniors, 79; the juniors, 74; and
the sophomores, 72.

College Kitchenette
Gets New Utensils

Has Interesting
Program

The winter season of athletic activi-
ties promises to be as successful as the
fall season has been. The two major
sports offered are water polo and bas-
ketball. In response to requests from
many students, there will be classes in
diving and in ball room dancing.
Classes in tap, folk, and natural danc-
ing will be held as last year.

This year there will be not only a
beginners' class in tap, but also an ad-
vanced class. Miss Eugenia Dozier,
Agnes Scott graduate and instructor in
dancing at the Atlanta Conservatory
of Music, will teach some of the classes
this season. While a student here, Miss
Dozier was chairman of the May Day
Committee one year.

For those taking basketball there
will be an opportunity for skilled play-
ers to take an examination on basket-
ball refereeing. The department of
physical education will cooperate with
the Atlanta department of recreation
in forming an officials' board.

Spanish Club
Mary Louise Latimer was hostess last
night at a Christmas party in honor of
the Spanish Club. There was a Christ-
mas tree, and the members played
Spanish games and sang Christmas
carols in Spanish.

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT

ATTACKS THE CHURCH

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pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin
of Guadelupe, under the supervision of
the government; only a few were al-
lowed in a party. Student meetings
were held to discuss the state of affairs,
but those considered to be in opposi-
tion to the government were suppress-
ed. The National University at Mexico
City and the Universities at Monterey,
Guadalajora and Sallitto were closed.

Just what the upshot of this contro-
versy will be remains to be seen. The
immediate aim of the government is to
destroy completely the edifice set up

L. I). ADA MS & SON
129 E. Court Sq.
Decatur, Ga.

The college kitchenette, a gift of the
Class of 1934 to the college, has had
additional equipment added to it this
fall. During the past few weeks a zinc-
plated table, a small stove, cups and
saucers, and other utensils have been
added to the sink and other furniture
which last year's senior class left to the
school. The kitchenette is located in
the former Agonistic office in the
basement of Main Building.

The purpose of the seniors in leaving
such a gift was to lighten the work of
the organization or student group in
charge of Wednesday night coffee.
More fixtures will probably be installed
later in the year, according to Miss
Carrie Scandrett, assistant to the dean.

by the Catholic church. The destroy-
ing angel, ex-President Calles, is abet-
ted by President Abelardo Rodriguez
and by President-Elect Lazano Car-
denis, who says the "time has come to
prepare future generations for a new
life and outlook." Deputy Luis Enrique
Erro expresses his viewpoint on the sit-
uation: "We must open the minds of
the people by teaching them to see the
world in the light of science."

University authorities require that
all speeches by students at the Uni-
versity of the Philippines be censored
before they are delivered. The Parley
Voo.

dear mehitabe 1 ,

you may be surprised to hear i apostrophe ve
left the white house dining room and have
established myself for the time being at the
alumnae house, the reason for this is i heard
mr. king, the plumber of the firm of brooks
and rivers tell john, the waiter, that they
have the best food on the campus over here,
it seems this mr. king gets his lunches over
here when he can get through his work in
time, of course, i could go off the campus,
mehitabel, but i ask you, mehitabel, would
that be loyal when i pride myself on being
from agnes scott question mark, you know
the old saying about quotation mark a word
to the wise another quotation mark so i won
apostrophe t go into that, only to say i set
out the very first chance i got for the tea
room.

this morning, mehitabel, around ten a veri-
table mob came in for dopes and chokers and
coffee and grand smelling fudge cakes three
for five i don apostrophe t get a chance to
taste things like that, for someone always
seems to beat me to her crumbs, i heard
fannie, the cook, telling how slow the dripo-
lator is and mildred dark, the girl who helps
over here in the tea room, got so excited, that
she dropped a cup. i decided the place for
me was not the kitchen after that, mehitabel,
and furthermore, says i to myself, archie, my
lad, says i, what have you got so many legs
for if not to walk on and furthermore i had
just enjoyed a leisurely breakfast of eggs and
bacon and raisin toast, so i was feeling most
terribly sociable.

it seems miss lillian smith entertained her
latin majors what are they, question mark,
mehitabel, you tell me exclamation point, they
are still raving about the grand turkey dinner
in the tea room last thursday after that
acorn fright i didn apostrophe t think i had
better tarry long ,so i came up a long flight
of steps to this room and found this type-
writer idle, what joy, mehitabel, exclamation
point, what joy, another exclamation point,
this is the noise i heard downstairs, i must
say this girl they call dorothy beats an erratic
tatoo on it. i must stop this now, mehitabel,
for someone is coming.

hastily,

archie.

Y. W. COMMITTEE
TO ENTERTAIN
FOR CHILDREN

The Social Service Committee of the
Y. W. C. A., with Marie Simpson as
chairman, assisted by the Social Com-
mittee, of which Ruby Hutton is
chairman, will give its annual party for
the poor children of DeKalb County on
Dec. 15 in the Bucher Scott gymna-
sium. Cars will be sent to bring the
children to the college where they will
play games planned for them by the
two committees and directed by other
students.

Up until this year, the Social Service
Group has filled stockings with candy,
nuts, and toys and given them to the
children of the party. This year, how-
ever, at the suggestion of the Central
Christmas Giving Committee of the
Social Welfare Council, the group has
decided to send the gifts to the par-
ents who will give them to the chil-
dren. In this way it is believed that
more of the spirit of Christmas and
the joys of Santa Claus will be re
tained.

The cost of education per student
has dropped as much as $150 per year
at the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor.

At Virginia Military Institute the
Keydets have a language all their own.
Some of their speech-peculiarities are
explained in a recently published dic-
tionary known as the "Rat Bible."
Some are unprintable.

A few interesting phrases are: Brow
one who attains a high academic
standing; Bull to flunk; Buzzard an
unpopular one; also any fowl served
presumably as food in the mess-hall;
Calic member of the fair sex who can
make the "hop" a success or failure;
Hike a long, aimless journey in search
of military glamour; Tobo those of
the fair sex who lack sex appeal.

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MANY ATTEND
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EXHIBIT

The annual Book Exhibit, under the
direction of Professor Louise McKinney
and Assistant Professor Janef Preston,
of the English department, was display-
ed from Monday night, November 2$,
through last Sunday night, in the
Y. W. C. A. cabinet room in Main
Building.

Millers Book Store lent the children's
books; Rich's lent chiefly cheap edi-
tions of the classics; Davison-Paxon,
fiction, biography, drama and poetry;
McMillan Publishing Co., and the Uni-
versity of North Carolina Press, new
books. Many of the rare old books on
display were from the collections of
Mrs. Elijah Brown and Mr. Walter
Mason of Atlanta, from the library of
Georgia Tech and from the private
libraries of Agnes Scott students and
faculty members.

A nativity scene belonging to As-
sistant Professor Melissa Cilly, of the
Spanish department and a medieval
scene, "When Knights Were Bold,"
made and lent by Mr. Frank Winecoff,
of Atlanta, were included in the ex-
hibit. The Durer pictures were lent
by Professor Muriel Harn, of the Ger-
man department, Miss Carrie Scand-
rett, Assistant Dean. The Cabinet
Room was conveniently and attractive-
ly arranged with easy chairs, lounges

and lamps.

The hostesses of the exhibit through-
out the week were the members of
Mortar Board, Poetry Club, K. U. B.,
journalism club, and B. O. Z., prose
writing club.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935

NO. 1^2

Agonistic To Begin
Annual Contest
February 13

COLLEGE EDITORS CHOSEN
TO JUDGE CLASS ISSUES

The annual Agonistic contest will
open this year with the publication of
the senior issue on February 13 under
the direction of Suzanne Smith, editor,
and Mary Virginia Allen, business
manager. The other class issues will
follow in order, and the contest will
close with the freshman edition on
March 6. Last year's contest was won
by the freshmen with Laura Steele as
editor.

The purpose of the contest is to
arouse new interest in the Agonistic,
to stimulate new ideas which may be
utilized in the regular issues, and to
discover prospective material for the
regular editorial and business staffs.
The contest papers will be judged on
accuracy, quality of the journalism,
originality, make-up, general organiza-
tion of material, and the quality of
the feature and editorial columns.

In accordance with a new plan, four
of the five judges will be college edi-
tors. Formerly journalists of Atlanta
were usually invited to judge, but since
college editors realize more intimately
the problems of the college newspaper,
they can more adequately judge its
merits or defects. The editors of the
newspapers at Columbia University,
Vassar College, the University of Mis-
souri, and Randolph-Macon College
have been invited to judge. Mr. N. S.
Noble, city editor of the Atlanta Con-
st! hit ion, has been asked to be the fifth
judge.

REGULATIONS ARE ANNOUNCED

Rules concerning the contest are as
follows:

1. None of the elected members of
the staff may help with the class is-
sues.

2. No member of the regular staff
may hold her regular position on the
class issue.

3. All who participate in the pub-
lication of the class issues must have
their class standing and have paid the
first semester's student budget fee.

4. All work on the class issues must
be done by members of the class, and
the total cost must not exceed sixty-
five dollars.

Class editors and business managers
are referred to members of the regular
staff for instruction.

Next Lectures

Are Announced

The Lecture Association of Agnes
Scott College has announced as its pro-
gram for the spring the presentation of
three noted lecturers. Dr. C. C. Har-
rold will speak on February 8, on re-
cent archaeological excavations; Dr.
Arthur H. Compton, investigator in
physics and winner of the Nobel Prize
in 1927, will give on March 22, an
illustrated lecture, Cosmic Rays in
Seven Continents. Dr. Compton is
now investigating cosmic rays at Ox-
ford, and the first lecture after his
arrival in America will be at Agnes
Scott. The tickets are fifty and
seventy-five cents.

Professor W. W. Jernegan, noted
American History scholar, will speak
in April on New Dealers of the Amer-
ican Revolution and Today. Professor
Jernegan is now giving popular lectures
at the Art Institute of Chicago; he is
the author of several books dealing with
the American Revolution. The ten-
tative date for this program is April
12, and the price of admission is fifty
cents.

This year's lecture series, which
opened on November 23, with the pre-
sentation of Edna St. Vicent Mil lav,
is proving to be more varied under a
system of individual lectures; hereto-
fore a year's program with season tick-
ets was in effect.

)ian Council House Discovered by Dr. Harrold

Prof. Davidson
Is To Speak
At Seminar

Professor Philip G. Davidson, of the
history department of Agnes Scott,
will leave tomorrow for Baltimore,
Md., where he will speak before the
history students and members of the
history department of Johns Hopkins
University on Friday morning. Profes-
sor Davidson's subject will be "Loyal-
ist Leaders of the American Revolu-
tion."

On Friday afternoon Professor Da-
vidson will attend a seminar at the
university, at which a paper written
by some member of the history group
will be discussed.

From Baltimore, Professor Davidson
will go on to Washington to look over
some recently published material on
the American Revolution at the Libra-
ry of Congress. He plans to spend ap-
proximately three days in Washington.
He will return to the campus the lat-
ter part of the week.

Beck Scholarship
Candidates Chosen

N.S.F.A. President
Speaks Here

John A. Lang, president of the
N. S. F. A., of which the Agnes Scott
Student Government Association is a
member, spoke to a group of Agnes
Scott students on January 17, on the
campus. He discussed the N. S. F. A.
and told of its work. Part of his talk
was devoted to . a discussion of the
Federal Youth Union, a proposed plan
of N. S. F. A. to unite under one head
the various activities of the federal
government in behalf of the youth of
the nation. Mr. Lang also addressed
the Association of American Colleges,
which met in Atlanta on January 16,
on this subject.

On Friday, January 18, a banquet
in honor of Mr. Lang was given at
the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta. Eight
members of the Agnes Scott executive
committee, as well as representatives
from Emory University and Georgia
Tech, were present.

Mr. Lang appeared on the Agnes
Scott radio broadcast on January 19,

(Continued on Page 3, Column 5)

Lucy Goss, '34, and Anne Hudmon,
'3 3. have been selected as the candi-
dates from Agnes Scott for the Beck
Scholarship this year. The winner will
be selected out of candidates from Em-
ory University, the University of
| Georgia, and Agnes Scott by a com-
mittee of which Mr. Howard Candler,
of Atlanta, is chairman.

Students are selected for this com-
petition on the basis of literary and
scholastic ability and attainment, qual-
ities of manhood or womanhood, lead-
ership, exhibition of moral force of
character, and physical vigor as shown
by interest in outdoor sports. The
scholarships are available for academic
or professional work at any American
institution or elsewhere approved by
the Board; such a scholarship pays
$2,000.00 a year and may be held for
as many as three years.

To be eligible to elect candidates, a
college or university must be a mem-
ber of the Southern Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools, of the
American Association of Universities,
and have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
There are three such institutions in
Georgia.

Last year Virginia Heard, Agnes
Scott '3 3, was awarded the Beck Schol-
arship; she is studying at Michigan
University.

Y. W. Names

Coming Speakers

The outside speakers which the Y.
W. C. A. will present at its regular
chapel periods during February are Dr.
W. A. Smart, professor of Biblical the-
ology at Emory University; Dr. John
Hope, president of Atlanta University;
and Dr. Will W. Alexander, executive
director of the Commission on Inter-
racial Cooperation.

War and Peace will be the subject
of Dr. Hope's speech on February 19.
Dr. Alexander, who is well known
throughout the South for his interest
and work in race relations, has chosen
the topic, Race Relations, for his dis-
cussion on February 26.

Dates Given
For Nominations
Of May Queen

Nominations for May Queen will
begin tomorrow and continue through
Monday, February 11, in the lobby of
Buttrick Hall. Following the prece-
dent established last year, the seniors
receiving 15 or more votes will be
considered nominees and the election
of the May Queen for 193 5 will fol-
low during February 12-16. All nom-
inees are automatically members of the
May Court. Charlotte Reid, ' 34, was
Queen of the Fete du Mai, last year's
May Day program.

Plans for the production of Peter
Pan, May Day scenario written by Jane
Blick and Alice Chamlee, are being
completed, according to Miss Eugenie
Dozier, instructor of dancing at Agnes
Scott and director of the 193 5 May
Day celebration. Participation in the
May Day festival will count as regu-
lar gym during the spring session.

The following May Day committees
and their chairmen will assist Miss Do-
zier with Peter Pan:

Chairman of the May Day Commit-
tee Kitty Cunningham.

Business Manager Jane Blick.

(Continued on Page 3, Column 2)

NOTICE

Applications for the Quenelle
Harrold Fellowship must he filed
in the Registrar's office by Feb-
ruary 15. Seniors and graduates
of '32, '33, '34 are eligible.

A. S. To Debate
Wesleyan Thurs.

Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in
Gaines Chapel, Agnes Scott College
will meet Wesleyan College in a de-
bate on the question, Resolved, That
Hitler's Domestic Policies Have Bene-
fited Germany. Nellie Margaret Gil-
roy and Isabel McCain will uphold the
affirmative for Agnes Scott. There
will be no decision.

Plans are being made for a triangu-
lar debate between Randolph-Macon,
Agnes Scott, and Sophie Newcomb to
be held later in the spring, according
to Marian Calhoun, president of Pi
Alpha Phi. Such deba tes have been
most successful in the past. Last spring
the question dealt with the N. R. A.

Interesting Speakers

Are To Address
Citizenship Meeting

The annual session of the Institute of
Citizenship will be held at Emory Uni-
versity from February 11-15. The
program for these meetings includes
lectures and discussions of present day
problems. This year the lectures will
be presented under two main topics,
International Affairs and Southern
Problems. The most outstanding
speaker to be presented is Secretary
Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, who will make the opening ad-
dress.

The Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace will send Mr. Douglas
Booth, traveler and lecturer, of Lon-
don, England, who will discuss inter-
national affairs in two important ad-
dresses, the first on Fascism, National
Socialism, and Communism, and the
second on The World Court. The di-
vision of southern problems will be
discussed in two open conferences, La-
bor Relations and Political Problems.
Mr. George Fort Milton, editor, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., will preside over
the second conference.

Mr. J. R. McCain and Miss Florence
Smith, assistant professor of history,

(Continued on Page 4, Column 4)

S. I. A. S. G. Officers
Meet at A. S. C.

On Saturday, February 2, the offi-
cers of the Southern Intercollegiate As-
sociation of Student Government met
on the Agnes Scott campus for the
purpose of making plans for the com-
ing convention to be held at Florida
State College, March 2 8-3 0. The rep-
resentatives were: Mary Virginia
Barnes, Randolph-Macon, president of
S. I. A. S. G.; Carolina De Montigne,
Florida State College, vice-president;
Doris Davis, Sophie Newcomb, secre-
tary, and Alberta Palmour, Agnes
Scott, treasurer. The visitors spent the
day on the campus and were guests of
the executive committee of the Agnes
Scott Student Government Association
at a luncheon given in the Alumna?
tea house.

Dr. C. C. Harrold
To Lecture Here
On Archaeology

PRIMITIVE INDIAN LIFE

TO BE DISCUSSED

Dr. C. C. Harrold, of Macon, Ga.,
president of the Georgia Society of
Archaeology, renowned for his recent
archaeological explorations in the field
of "Old Ocmulgce," will give an illus-
trated lecture on Primitive Indian Civ-
ilization in Georgia in the chapel at
8:30 on the evening of February 8;
this is the second number on the 1934-
35 program of the Lecture Association
and is also sponsored by Chi Beta Phi
Sigma, and International Relations
Club. Dr. Harrold's excavations, which
are the only ones of importance in this
country, with the exception of those
in Arizona, have revealed Indian ruins
dating back a thousand years.

Archaeologists from Andover first
came to explore the mounds in Old
Ocmulgee fields and were followed by
archaeologists from other institutions,
who, of course, carried their findings
with them to the east. Dr. Harrold,
eager to keep in Georgia these remains
of ancient Indian civilization, secured
funds for further exploration, with the
result that it is proposed that this sec-
tion of the state become a national
park. With the help of the F. E. R. A.
and professional archaeologists, he has
discovered an Indian council house
which resembles in some respects the
prehistoric Kivas of the Southwest and
in other respects is unique. Mounds,
villages, and rare pottery are among
the other discoveries.
ARCHAEOLOGY IS AVOCATION

Archaeology is only Dr. Harrold's
avocation. By profession he is a prac-
ticing physician in Macon. He has
developed his interest to such a degree,
however, that his work has been com-
mended by the Smithsonian Institute
of New York. Dr. Harrold is the
cousin of Quenelle Harrold, '2 3, in
whose honor the Quenelle Harrold Fel-
lowship Fund was established.

The Lecture Association is present-
ing this program free of charge; every-
one is invited to attend the reception
after the lecture.

Progress Made
With Emory
In Coordination

The granting of credit for all work
done at Emory University summer
school this year with merit hours re-
duced one-half is regarded as the ini-
tial step toward the coordination of
Agnes Scott College and Emory, it
was announced recently.

In former years the Emory summer
school has been in the hands of a di-
rector; last fall, however, Dean Good-
rich C. White, of the College of Arts
and Sciences, was put in charge. The
summer session this year will be con-
ducted as any other quarter, the term
being divided into four periods of equal
length. The faculty of Agnes Scott,
upon request of Dean White, and the
committee has made recommendations
as to courses to be opened in the sum-
mer; wherever possible these sugges-
tions have been followed by Dean
White in his preliminary announcement
of the coming session.

Another phase of the proposed proj-
ect of cooperation between the two in-
stitutions is in the joint library sys-
tem. At present a check list of pe-
riodicals at both libraries is being
drawn up in order to determine the
number and type of magazine at each
library and to avoid, in the future,
expensive duplication. The project will
require a double cataloguing system for
each library and the exchange of books
for certain courses offered at both
schools.

Other suggestions for the library
system are that the arts and sciences
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"The function of the liberal college
is to give young people the enrich- 1
ments of life out of which comes suc-

Blackfriars
Blackfriars held its regular meeting
ast night in Miss Gooch's studio.

Eliza King
Jessie Jeffers
Katherine Hertzka
Ruth Hertzka

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE:

Jerry Brown Laura Steele

Gene Brown
Sara Steele
Jane Guthrie
Elizabeth Warden

Jacqueline McWhite
Betty Maynard
Ora Muse

WHAT OF COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS?

With the elaboration and f ul- 1 though necessarily somewhat su-
fillment of plans for academic perficial view of the major sub-

cooperation with Emory Univer-
sity which promise a broadening
of our intellectual scope, the
sleeping question of comprehen-
sive examinations will be wak-
ened afresh in the student mind.

It is, of course, a well-worn
question, recurring with almost
perennial obstinacy in pedagog-
ical circles, advocated and con-
demned with fervor ; and at this
time, when several changes in
our small corner of the academic
world are in progress, we, as stu-
dents, should pause in the accus-
tomed rush of things and con-
sider momentarily the merits or
the deficiencies of comprehensive
examinations as an educational
policy.

Its most evident value, of
course, lies in the fact that it
gives a pattern to the work
which the student has accom

ect set as goal for study, the
student could organize the work
of each semester more intelli-
gently; the evil of cramming
would at least be mitigated, since
the real demands of a compre-
hensive examination cannot be
satisfied with the burning of
one's midnight oil; the intellec-
tual effort would tend more to
the gradual and directed forma-
tion of basic ideas than to the
somewhat conglomerate accre-
tion of knowledge. The value of
such a method of directed, uni-
fied study which would culminate
in the final examination is in-
contestable.

For both underclassmen and
seniors, who are, after all, only
successive phases of student life,
the relative achievement follow-
ing the policy of comprehensive
examination would afford a

"No one will be permitted to starve
is one of the most quoted sentences | C ess. Because of the over-emphasis of Plans for the next play, which will be
from President Roosevelt's inaugural j the profit motive, students get the , Craig's Wife by George Kelly, were
address of March, 1933. His actions money perspective and are dissatis- discussed. The play will be presented
since then have shown that he meant fied." Dean Louis H. Dirks, Depauw the night of the Junior Banquet,
what he said and all that it implied; Universitv
he has earnestly tried to find a solu- |
tion for the difficult problem that
he faced when he went into office: the
problem of relieving between ten and
fifteen millions of unemployed. In
seeking to solve his problem, the na-
tional administration has passed many
acts for the purpose of alleviating the
situation.

The Universitv of Montana has one

classroom

th

K. U. B.

K. U. B. will meet this afternoon at
4:30 in the Y. \\\ C. A. cabinet room.

At Southern California when a man
The administration's first act to re- : catches another cheating, he begins to

at covets approximately The speaker will be a member of the

Atlanta Constitution staff.

Poetry Club
Ann Martin was hostess at the last
meeting of the Poetry Club, which
was held Tuesday night, January 29.

1,600 acres it's the forestry school'
laboratory in Patte Canyon. GrinneP.
Scarlet and Black.

plished in her major subject, and sounder basis for future study
with a pattern, a perspective and I and enjoyment than the inade-
a new meaning. The varied stud- quately related work under the
ies of four years in a certain
field stand definitely in need of
intelligent organization, so that
the scattered phases of a subject
assume their true relationships
to each other and to the funda-
mental ideas of which they form
a part. Such a method of study,
too, if realized in its implications,

present system ; -for those who
continue study in the field of the
major subject it would provide a
well-defined background ; for
those who pursue their interests
unprofessionally it would afford
a basis for evaluation and inter-
pretation, which is the most ef-
fective weapon against dilettan-

wmild illuminate the significance tism - Th e validity of this meth-
of the major subject in its rela- od in laying a foundation for
tions to other academic depart- post-collegiate study sounds a
ments, and thereby counteract to I stron * P lea in fav r.
some extent the childish tend-| The most incessantly repeated
ency toward mechanical, pigeon- argument against the policy of

holed knowledge.

comprehensive examinations

And the senior who looks back states that it is merely the aca-
on the work of four years with (lemic P ha se of the American
the unsatisfied feeling that she tendency toward over-specializa-
has created for herself a multi- tion > and that, working under it,
colored patchwork quilt of ideas the student must of necessity
without the design which would narrow the scope of his intellec-
brillg out their relative meaning, tual activity and lose the chance
might, through a comprehensive | of seeing the various fields of
study, achieve at least tempora- Study as a whole, which is re-
rily t hi* significant perspective putedly one of the aims of the
for which she feels an impelling liberal college. To this we would
need. For a moment she might answer that, under this method.

lieve unemployment was the passage
o*f the Reforestation and Relief Act
of March, 193 3. This act authorized
the Emergency Conservation Work Or-
ganization and out of this organiza-
tion have grown the Civilian Conser-
vation Corps, camps on Indian reser-
vations, and small contingents of for-
est-work camps in Hawaii and Alaska.
The main purpose of the Reforestation
and Relief Act was the employment of
jobless men and by the end of Sep-
tember, 1934, 8 5 0,000 young men had
had the experience of these camps.

The phase of the administration of
which we hear the most in connec-
tion with unemployment is the Fed-
eral Emergency Relief Administration,
the FERA. It is the "greatest organized
effort ever made by the country in
time of peace to relieve nation-wide
distress." The Relief act of 193 3 set
up the new administration of relief
and it began to function on May 22,
1 93 3. Harry Hopkins was appointed
Relief Administrator. The act pro-
vided the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration with $5 00,000,000.
The FERA is a combination of direct
relief and work relief; the difference
between these two types of relief ob-
viously lies in the fact that in the
former no work is required of the re-
cipient of the money while in the lat-
ter work is required.

One phase of the work relief pro-
gram is the field of education. By the
end of 1933, almost two million dol-
lars a month was going to the states
for the part time pay of unemployed
teachers. A quota of 40,000 teachers
had been assigned to the entire coun-
try. Another phase of work relief is
the Woman's Work Division, which
was established in September, 193 3.
This division was able to place in "so-
cially and economically desirable proj-
ects" 180,714 unemployed women.

As the greater portion of relief ex-
penditures under the FERA was go-
ing to the employable persons, the ad-
ministration felt that the situation
could be improved if work were given
to these people, so a new phase of the
FERA was announced on November 8,
1933: the Civil Works Administration.
The original plan was that half the
number in C. W. A. project should be
drawn from a relief roll and half from
those without work but with no re-
spect to their needs. But the C. W. A.
came to an abrupt close on March 31,
1934. The main reason for its disband-

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stamp his feet. The whole class be-
gins to stamp until the cheater stops
his foul tactics. The Technique.

ALUMNAE

Mary Ruth (Rountree) Cox, ex-
'3 3, has a young son, Marvin Roun-
tree Cox, who was born in October.

Gladys Pratt, '34, is working for the
F. E. R. A.

Elinor Hamilton, '34, and Dorothy
Hutton, '29, spent the week of Janu-
ary 22-2 5 visiting high schools in Mad-
ison, Greensborough, Washington, and
Augusta, Ga., and in Ellington and
Aiken, S. C.

Recent censuses reveal some start-
ling hopes and ambitions. From "The
Parley Vo" comes:

Take notice, young men, this is
what a Converse girl expects of an
ideal husband. He must be sincere,
considerate, ambitious, sociable, pos-
sess an untiring sense of humor (for
the flat jokes of some of our girls), be
athletic, have personality-plus, and
have an untainted character. Don't be
discouraged. We'll take you if you
aren't like that.

And, according to the Canopy, Miss
G. S. C. W.'s ideal man is brunette,
tall, has a sense of humor, is a college
graduate, has enough money to live
on comfortably, and is polite. She pre-
fers Emory.

Spanish Club
Mr. Juan Castellanos, instructor of
Spanish at Georgia Military Academy,
spoke to the Spanish Club at its first
meeting of this year held yesterday at
five o'clock in Mr. Dieckmann's stu-
dio, on Spanish literature in Cuba. Mr.
Castellanos discussed the trend of the
modern writings.

The presentation of Mr. Castellanos
has grown to be almost an annual
custom of the Spanish Club. Last
year the subject of his talk was the
Cuban revolt and the attitude of Cuba
toward intervention of the United
States.

After the meeting yesterday, Mr.
and Mrs. Castellanos, Miss Muriel
Harn, Miss Melissa Cilley, and a group
of the members of the club had din-
ner in Rebekah Scott dining room.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
On January 2 8, Chi Beta Phi Sig-
The average college student carries | ma, national honorary science frater-

approximately twenty-two cents with
him, according to a Harvard report.
Drexel Triangle.

Free dancing lessons were offered to
Loyola University (Chicago) freshmen
so that none of the newcomers would
have an excuse for staying away from
student functions. Mount Holyoke
Neit/s.

The cost of education per student
has dropped as much as $150 per year
at the University of Michigan. The
Parley Voo.

nity at Agnes Scott College, initiated
six new members into the club. They
are: Rebecca Whitley, Eugenia Symms,
Lenna Sue McClure, Sarah Jones, Eliz-
abeth Forman, and Mary Lillian Dea-
son.

In cooperation with the Internation-
al Relations Club and the Lecture As-
sociation, Chi Beta Phi Sigma will
sponsor the lecture to be given by Dr.
Charles C. Harrold on February 8, at
8:30 o'clock. Members will please note
that, for this reason, the club will not
hold its regular meeting on Monday,
February 4.

BOOK BITS

/// the Shadow of Liberty Edward
Corsi.

The story is vividly told by one who
himself came to Ellis Island as a ten-
year-old immigrant from Italy. Slowly
he rose from the squalor of East-side
life to the position of Federal Census
Supervisor in Manhattan. Later days
found Mr. Corsi appointed Commis-
sioner of Immigration on Ellis Island.
His was now the task of cleaning out
the Island, at that time a "nest of petty
racketeers;" and he did his work well.
Through his efforts, today's immigrants
are spared the suffering that he knew
on Ellis Island as a boy.

Artemis, Pare Thee Well Helena
Cares.

A modern writer's story placed in the
simple, idyllic setting of ancient
Greece. It tells of the chase by strong
virgin huntresses under a pale mythical
sky.

The Oxford History of Music
H. C. Colles.

The seventh volume of the great his-
tory of music brings the story to the
beginning of the twentieth century.
With a cool judgment, perfect impar-
tiality, and a musician's insight, the
author carries the fascinating story of
the developments that came through
the works of Brahms. W arner, Bruck-
ner, Strauss, and others. The masters

American Vamily Faith Bald-

Jule Bethea, '33, is living at 39241 and compositions of many nations arc
see her work "steadily and see the student would not spendl Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pa. included, to form one of the age's

it whole/' see not only what she more time on his major subject, , most admirable histories of musk.

has done in a truer tight, but win but would use his time more ef-t C. Lena McMulIen, '34, was here \Outward Bound from Liverpool Ed-
also a glimpse into phases of her ficiently to a definite end; he on January 21 for a conference in At- ouard Pcisson.

subject unnot iced before.

For underclassmen, on

need not narrow himself or con- I
the fine his interests to more than

What will be the result
rush for speed in ocean liners

The
win.

A sober story with a background of
the nineteenth century. Its characters
are true to type; yet the spirit is some-
what languid.

The Poet as Citizen anil Other Pa-
pers A. Quiller-Couch.

Most of these selections were origin-
ally given as lectures. The subject
matter covers a very broad field, every
topic of which is arrcstingly stimulat-
ing. In the beginning the author takes
up arms in defense of the poet, point-
ing out his part in the world as one
of "sheer power." Further on come
severe criticisms of the present-day
simulators of great biographers such as
Strachey. The other essays are as vital
and as interesting as these.

A Wonderful Metal V. Kirshon.
A prize-winning Russian play that is
outstanding because it is Soviet Rus-
sia's first really happy comedy. The
young Soviets portrayed are light-
hearted workers in a scientific institu-
tion.

The Dei il in Scotland Douglas

Hhss.

The Scots of history took the Devil
very seriously. "Creature of the tor-
tured imagination of men, he had no
less a power over what had created
him." This is a fearsome hook and
an admirable one.

77v\ Wanderer Louis Golding.
One finds in this volume short sto-
res of every description. ( )ne is a
he mad tale of burning loves of the desert;
The one, of a disappointed lover in a mod-

other hand, the policy of Com- under the old system; he would Under the chairmanship of Frances ' answer is in this tragic talc of dis- ern city; and one, of the wanderings

prehrnsive examinations should only work more intelligently aild (G318and Sttlkes, '24. plans for the asters at sea disasters that are the <>f a little newlv-rich Jew. There is

have a directive and formative his achievement therefore would completion of the pergola in the Alum- more vivid because they are so grimly j a catchy inclination toward twist

influence. With a well-rounded, be of real significance to him. In* Garden are being carried out. possible in this age of n

1-breaJtin*. endins

The Agonistic

3

SOCIAL NEWS

Virginia Williams spent the week-
end with Mrs. F. H. Wilkie at her
home in Atlanta.

Vera Frances Pruet spent the week-
end at her home in Opelika, Alabama.

Nell White attended a dance at the
Club Quadrille on Wednesday night.

Helen Handte spent Thursday night
with Helen Ford at her home in De

Mary Hull and Eugenia Symns spent
the week-end at their homes in Au-
gusta, Ga.

Mary Vines spent last week-end in
Covington, Ga.

Martha Young spent Saturday night
at the home of Frances James in At
lanta.

Sally McCree spent the week-end
with Virginia Cheshire at her home
in Atlanta.

Ida Buist and Gregory Rowlett spent
the week-end with Mrs. W. H. Glenn
in Decatur.

Carolyn White attended an A. T. O.
dance at Emory Saturday night.

Martha Young, Jean Barry Adams,
and Kitty Hoffman, chaperoned by
Miss Nancy Rogers, attended the Da-
vidson College Y. M. C. A. basketball
game in Atlanta Wednesday night.

Virginia Hightower spent the week-
end at her home in Thomaston, Ga.

Joyce Roper and Elsie West spent
the week-end at Wesleyan College in
Macon, Ga.

Betty Adams' mother spent last
week-end with her.

Frances Ricks and Vivian Allen, of
Wesleyan College, spent the week-
end with Susan Bryan.

Sara Frances McDonald and Lavinia
Scott attended the President's Ball at
the Shrine Mosque Thursday night.

Martha Redwine attended the Theta
K.ippa Psi dance at Emory Saturday
night.

Josephine Jennings attended the
A. T. O. dance at Emory Saturday
night.

Ellen Davis spent the week-end at
her home in Columbia, S. C.

Martha Allen had as her guest for
the week-end her niece, Jean Argo.

Mary Cornelly was the guest of
Elaine Ahles Thursday night.

Mattie Lula Cooper visited Frances
Steele last Thursday night.

Jennie Champion entertained a num-
ber of her friends at a buffet luncheon
on Saturday.

Virginia Gaines and Janet Gray
spent the week-end at the home of the
former in Atlanta.

New Webster's
Is Offered At
Special Price

Professor George P. Hayes, of the
English department, has announced
that it is now possible for students to
obtain the new Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary at the reduced price of fif-
teen dollars, by ordering through the
college.

A new edition of this dictionary,
which usually retails for twenty dol-
lars, is issued only once in twenty or
twenty-five years, though the appen-
dices are changed more frequently. A
complete new edition, therefore, is a
valuable possession. Such an opportu-
nity, Professor Hayes said, should not
be ignored, and students interested are
urged to place their orders as soon as
possible.

Georgia Division
Of A.A.U.W.
Meets Here

Mary Virginia Barnes, of Randolph
Macon; Caroline DeMontigne, of Flor-
ida State College for Women, and
Doris Davis, of Sophie Newcombe,
spent the week-end on the campus.
They were here for a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Southern
Intercollegiate Association of Student
Government.

Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker attended a
luncheon given by Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt in Washington, D. C, given
in honor of Mrs. Percy V. Pennyback-
er, president of the Women's Club of
Chautauqua, N. Y., of which Mrs.
Svdenstricker is a member.

DATES NAMED FOR

NOMINATION OF MAY QUEEN

(Continued from Page 1, Column 3)
Dance Committee Jennie Cham-
pion, Ad Stevens.

Property Committee Eloisa Alex-
ander.

Music Committee Jean Kirkpat
rick.

Publicity Committee Sarah Cook.
Poster Committee Mary Malone.
Costume Committee Sarah Nich

cAn Expression of ^Appreciation

To the Agnes Scott Girls
for their Fine Patronage
given us during the
School Term

Elliott's Peachtree Studio

"Better Photographs"
Paramount Theater Building

An

Announcement

of the keenest interest
to Agnes Scott girls . . .

I. Miller Shoes

Are now at Davison's Exclusively in Atlanta!

If you have worn L Miller's before, it is a pretty sure bet
that you'll be wearing them from now on without any
inducement from us. If you haven't worn them, we can
only urge that you come in and see first-hand the shoes
that are the first-choice of college girls from Mount
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On Saturday, January 19, the Geor-
gia division of the American Associa-
tion of University Women met in
Gaines Chapel on the Agnes Scott
campus. The opening meeting was in
the form of a round-table discussion
on the various branches of the Asso-
ciation; Miss Jeanette Kelly, of Wil-
liamsburg, Va., director of the South
Atlantic section, led the discussion.
At the luncheon meeting, held in Re-
bekah Scott dining hall on the same
day, Dr. Meta Glass, of Sweetbriar
College and national president of the
Association, spoke on the advantages
of the college woman over the non-
college woman. Dr. Amelia Reinhart,
of Mills College, Calif., and past na-
tional president, also spoke at lunch-
eon.

The program for the afternoon in-
cluded a speech by Dr. Cathryn Mc-
Hale, national general director, on New
Frontiers for Women, and a sympo-
sium on Neiu Cur rii ilia in a Changing
World-, the symposium was led by Al-
berta Palmour, of Agnes Scott, Helen
Smart, of Wesleyan College, Helen
Geffen, of the University of Georgia,
and Marine Lucas, of Shorter College.

The Association as it now stands is
a combination of a northern and a
southern group whose purpose original-
ly was the elevation of the education
of women equal to that of men; the
two organizations joined together in
the early part of the 1920's under the
name of the American Association of
University Women. At first the As-
sociation extended temporary recogni-
tion to all institutions that were mem-

A. S. PROFESSORS ATTEND

CONFERENCES DURING HOLIDAYS

Professor Mary Stuart MacDougall
and Associate Professor T. M. Whit-
aker, of the biology department of
Agnes Scott College, attended the an-
nual meeting of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Sci-
ence, held in Pittsburgh, December 27-
29. Four or five thousand people were
present, and several thousand papers
were read. Professor Einstein addressed
a selected group of four hundred math-
ematicians. Dr. Carl Compton, presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, was elected president of
'the association for next year. Dr.
Compton is a member of President
Roosevelt's Advisory Board, and is the
brother of Dr. Arthur Compton, who
will lecture at Agnes Scott this March.
Dr. Urey, discoverer of heavy water,
was also present and gave demonstra-
tions in the Mellon Institute. Miss
MacDougall stated, "The thing I en-
joyed particularly was a demonstration
by the Carnegie Institute on the re-
cent work in the structure of the
chromosome Miss MacDougall read
before the zoological department her
paper on The Chromosome Situation in
Genm Chilodonella, Mr. Whitaker said
that the geneticists have now derived
a new cytological technique by which
it is possible to study single genes; Mr.

Whitaker's paper was on The Fragmen-
tation of Chromosomes in Spider wort.

Professor Phillip G. Davidson, of
the history department, spent Decem-
ber 27-29 at the meeting of the Amer-
ican History Association in Washing-
ton, D. C. There were about six or
seven hundred people attending, the
largest number in many years. Wil-
liam E. Dodd, ambassador to Germany,
was present; Secretary Henry A. Wal-
lace, of Agriculture, made the opening
address. There were discussion groups
in the various fields of history and on
the relation of history to the develop-
ment of civilization. Professor Husey
of the University of Prague, and Bene-
deto Croce, from Naples, spoke on the
Philosophy of History.

Professor George P. Hayes, of the
English department, and Professor Mu-
riel Harn, of the German department,
attended the annual meeting of the
Modern Language Association, held
December 27-29, at Swarthmore and
Philadelphia, Pa. Henry Sydell Convy,
editor of the Saturday Revieiv of Lit-
erature, was introduced to the Asso-
ciation by President Aydelotte, of
Swarthmore College, at a banquet ses-
sion. John A. Lomax, collector of cow-
boy songs of the Southwest and of Ne-
gro and English folk music, was in
charge of a program of ballads.

bers of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools and
the American Association of Universi-
ties. In addition to the standards set
by these two associations, the A. A. U.
W. placed the following qualifications
on the member institutions: There
should be proper physical education
departments, the dean of women should
hold a degree from a recognized col-
lege, there should not be an inbreed-
ing faculty, and no bar should be
placed on women faculty members
holding full professorships and becom-
ing head of departments. At the end
of a period of three years all institu-
tions which did not meet the require-
ments of the A. A. U. W. were dropped
from membership regardless of their
recognition by the A. A. U. W. The A.
A. U. W., membership which is now
open to graduates of 22 5 colleges and
institutions, is divided into sections,
divisions, and branches. Miss Eliza-
beth Jackson, associate professor of
history at Agnes Scott, is State Fel-
lowship Chairman of the Georgia di-
vision and secretary-treasurer of the
Atlantic section.

A. S. C. and Emory
Are Joint Hosts
To Alumni Council

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Miss Dorothy Hutton, general exec-
utive secretary of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation, and Miss Elinor Hamilton,
field secretary of Agnes Scott, repre-
sented the college at a meeting of Dis-
trict 3 of the American Alumni Coun-
cil held in Atlanta Friday and Satur-
day, February 1-2. Agnes Scott and
Emory University were joint hosts to
the delegates, who were assembled from
the colleges of Florida, Georgia, Ala-
bama, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Virginia.

Dr. J. R. McCain and Dr. Harvey
Cox, presidents of Agnes Scott and
Emory, were speakers at a dinner at
the Biltmore hotel, given in honor of
the delegates by the two colleges. Fol-
lowing the dinner, the council attended
the lecture of Dr. William Beebe at
the Glenn Memorial Auditorium on the
Emory campus.

The program for Saturday included
a final business session, luncheon, a
tour of the campuses of Atlanta col-
leges and universities, and a tea given
at the Anna Young Alumnze House by
the Alumnae Association. Augusta
(Skeen) Cooper, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, was in charge
of the tea; members of the Alumni
Council, the executive board of the
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, the
entertainment committee and a few
specially invited guests were present.

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

N. S. F. A. PRESIDENT

WILL SPEAK HERE

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with Alberta Palmour, Marion Cal-
houn, and Adelaide Stevens. The pro-
gram was in the form of a forum, in
which the girls asked questions of vital
importance to students, and Mr. Lang
answered them.

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EMORY IX COORDINATION

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collection be developed at Agnes Scott,
and the professional and graduate at
Emory; that files discontinued at
Agnes Scott be transferred to the Em-
ory files to complete certain series;
and that expensive sets of books and
magazines be bought jointly by the
two institutions.

The pressing need at Agnes Scott is,
of course, a new library building; such
a building is proposed and will be built
if the campaign is successful. The
problem at Emory is that the entire
building is not devoted to library pur-
poses, the first floor being turned over
to offices. Should the library coopera-
tion system be put into effect, the re-
sources of both libraries will be open
to students and faculties of both insti-
tutions.

Athletic Awards

Are Made

Health Board Finals Plaved

ft

Awards Prizes In Tennis Doubles

RELIEF BROUGHT BY F. E. R. A.

(Continued from Page 2, Column 3)
ing was that it was too expensive.

Other activities of the FERA are
the Federal Emergency Relief Corpora-
tion, Self-Hclp Associations, and rural
industrial communities for the unem-
ployed.

The National Industrial Recovery
Act is also a result of the administra-
tion's attitude toward unemployment.
President Roosevelt signed the act on
June 16, 1933. The first part of the
NIRA establishes the National Recov-
ery Administration; the second part
provides for a vast program of works
under the supervision of the public
works administration; and a third part
covers amendments to the Emergency
Relief and Construction Act.

The latest activity of the adminis-
tration in regard to unemployment is
the vast new public works program
which is before the Senate now. Ex-
cluding the subject of World Court,
this new work relief bill has been the
major topic of the seventy-fourth con-
gress, which is now in session. The
measure as it passed the House on Jan-
uary 24 would give the President au-
thority to reorganize emergency agen-
cies and to create a new co-ordinating
set-up to take 3,5 00,000 employables
off the relief rolls and put them to
work through a $4,000,000 lump sum
fund. It also provides for the expen-
diture of $880,000,000 of unexpended
funds for direct relief until the new
works program is in full swing.

Another bill before the present
Congress is the economic security plan
which is designed to afford social se-
curity to the aged, idle, ill, and in-
digent. This plan provides for unem-
ployment insurance and old age pen-
sions.

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Class teams, varsity, letters, and
awards were the features of the Ath-
letic Club announcement in chapel on
December 13, to climax an active sea-
son in hockey, swimming, riding, and
tennis.

Great honor was attached to the
presentation of the hockey stick for
the most outstanding playing during
the fall games, to Anne Walker, '37.
Anne Coffee, Elizabeth Burson, and
Lena Armstrong won letters for hav-
ing achieved 1,600 athletic points;
Frances McCalla received a star for
having points additional to those for
her letter.

The following were chosen for the
hockey varsity: Handte, A. Walker,
Coit, A. Stevens, Hart, Burson, Fleece,
Thompson, Armstrong, Lemmon, For-
man, Crenshaw, Wilder, Alice Taylor,
R. Miller. The senior team was made
up of the following: McCalla, Polia-
koff, Palmour, .C. Long, Woolfolk,
Spencer, Constantine, Young. The
junior class team was: Hart, Stevens,
Handte, Burson, Derrick, Townsend,
Armstrong, Miller, S. F. Estes, Forman.

The members of the sophomore team
were: Belser, Jackson, Fleece, M. John-
son, Walker, Kneale, Wilder, Little,
Lasseter, Alice Taylor, Hertwig, Cary.
The freshman team members were: M.
P. Brown, Henderson, Thompson, Coit,
Hightower, Blackshear, Hassell, Lem-
mon, Tribble, Allison, Jeffers, Adams,
Robinson.

The senior swimming team had
only one member, Betty Fountain.
The girls on the junior team were:
Bull, Coffee, Burson, McCallie, Rich-
ardson, Williams. Those on the soph-
omore team were: Printup, Johnson,
Jackson, Lasseter, Tigert, Kneale. The
freshman team was: Wright, Ricks,
Henderson, Johnson, Fairly, Baker,
Byrnes, Matthews, D. Kelly, Pardee,
Smith, Stipe, Bowden, Morrison, Brit-
tingham.

The star riders of the season at the
Biltmore Riding School were: Gene
Brown, Mary Hutchinson, Vera Pruet,
Loraine Smith, and Nell White.

Next to Singer Lawrence Tibbet,
Flyer James Harold Doolittle is the
most famed member of the class of
1914 at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High
School. Time.

In saying that "this exam season
has been the healthiest at Agnes Scott
in a long time," Dr. Mary Sweet paid
tribute to the health program spon-
sored by the Athletic Board, according
to Julia Thing, head of health activi-
ties during mid-term examinations.
Organized hikes were held every day
at noon, led by Frances Cary; dip pe-
riods were held every afternoon at 4
o'clock to cool the fevered brows; and
a cheerful party was held Saturday
night of the first week in the gym,
where shuf fleboard, deck tennis, danc-
ing and refreshments held the floor,
not to mention the dip afterward.

But the main incentive to healthful
living was a contest between the dor-
mitory wings. A hundred per cent for
as long as exams lasted in three points,
three meals a day, eight hours' sleep
at night, and a half hour's exercise a
day, was the goal of every wing, who
marked up their chart carefully each
night. Cakes were the rewards of the
hundred per cent wings, which were
those headed by Joyce Roper, in In-
man; Mary V. Smith, in Inman, and
Janet Gray, in Rebekah. And some-
one has told us about the girl who once
stayed up all night studying, thereby
breaking her wing's perfect record;
she may be sued for a cake.

Forced to play the tennis doubles
finals in two installments because of
a wind that drove almost as hard as
the players (and that certainly drove
all but a few faithful spectators awav),
Mary Kneale and Frances McDonald
defeated Sara Lawrence and Miriam
Talmadge in the third set of the match,

6- 1, on the courts by the gym, Friday
afternoon, December 14, winning the
school doubles championship. The
score of the first two sets played on
the afternoon of December was 7-5,

7- 9.

The Kneale-McDonald teamwork
was invulnerable against even the com-
bination of Lawrence's fast service and
Talmadge's nice net work.

MISS VAN CLEVE

TO SPEAK HERE

Miss Jessie Van Cleve, who holds
the position of Specialist in Children's
Literature in the American Librarv As-
sociation, will give an informal talk on
"The Pleasures of Story-Tel ling" at
4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Day Stu-
dents' parlor in Main Building. All
who are interested are invited to come.
Coffee will be served after the talk.

Y. W. C. A. DINNER TO HE GIVEN

INTERESTING SPEAKERS ARE TO
ADDRESS CITIZENSHIP MEETING

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represent Agnes Scott College on the
Advisory Board of the Institute.

The students of Agnes Scott are
urged to attend these meetings. A
schedule will be posted on the bulletin
board. There will be no charge of
admission; the Citizenship Club of
Agnes Scott will arrange transporta-
tion for those who wish to attend.
The following girls are on the com-
mittee for publicity and transportation:
Virginia Wood, Marie Townsend, Mary
Green, Marie Simpson, Dorothea Black-
shear, and Nell Pattillo.

The Fellowship Dinner, sponsored
each year by the Y. W. C. A. of Agnes
Scott College, will be held this year
on Thursday, February 14. At this
dinner no meat is served to the stu-
dents, and the money saved (about
25) is given to the World Student
Christian Federation, of which the
Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. is a mem-
ber.

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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1935

no. rs

FOUR ELECTED TO PHI BETA KAPPA

Eight Nominated
For May Queen
By Student Body

Queen to Be Chosen in Ballot
Election Week of February 12
to 16.

Eight seniors, Eva Constantinc
Frances Espy, Betty Lou Houck, Jo
Jennings, Caroline Long, Marguerite
Morris, Vera Frances Pruet, and Lau-
ra Whitner, have all received the fif-
teen or more votes necessary to make
them eligible as candidates for May
Queen. The one from this group who
receives the largest number of votes
in the elections from February 12-16
will reign over the May Day festival
on the first Saturday in May, while the
other nominees automatically become
members of the court. Other members
of the court will be suggested by the
students in student meeting on Thurs-
day, February 21. The committee will
then choose the remaining five mem-
bers of the court from those named.

The arrangements for the presenta-
tion of Peter Pan, the scenario for this
year, are in charge of Miss Eugenia Do-
zier of the Physical Education depart-
ment.

The student members of the May
Day committee who are assisting Miss
Dozier are:

Kitty Cunningham, chairman of the
committee.

Jane Blick, business manager.

Jennie Champion and Ad Stevens,
dance committee.

Eloisa Alexander, property commit-
tee,

Jean Kirkpatrick, music committee.

Sarah Cook, publicity committee.

Mary Malone, poster committee.

Sarah Nichols and Mary Snow, cos-
tume committee.

This year's prize-winning scenario,
Peter Pan, was written by Alice Cham-
lee and Jane Blick.

Ballet Russe
To Appear
In Atlanta

The Ballet Russe dc Monte Carlo,
which charmed Atlanta last season,
will give a return performance at the
City Auditorium Thursday evening,
February 28, at 8:30 p.m. The glam-
our and beauty of Russian ballet will
be restored through the combined art
of dance and orchestral music.

There are over 100 persons in the
Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, including
sixty dancers and a symphony orches-
tra. An entirely different program will
be presented this year. The ballet "a
masterpiece of pace and ingenuity,
color and rhythm," according to the
New Yorker comes to Atlanta after
a brilliant success in New York and
abroad.

Leonide Massine and Tatiana Ria-
bouchinska are two of the outstanding
dancers to be featured in the ballet.

Tickets are now on sale at the Iris
Lee booth of Davison-Paxon Co.

The new members of Phi Beta Kappa are: Mary Boggs, Katherine Hertzka,
Eva Poliakoff, and Isabel Shipley.

Alumnae to Have \ Junior Banquet j Program to Be Given
Varied Program Plans AnnouncedlF or Founder's Day

The alumnae of Agnes Scott will
observe their fourth Alumnae Week-
End this year February 22-23. Rep-
resentatives from many classes are ex-
pected at this reunion, it was an-
nounced by Mrs. W. M. Dunn, of At-
lanta, chairman of the curriculum com-
mittee of the Alumnae Association.

February 22-2 3 there will be a series
of lectures on "Our Changing Stand-
ards.'' Dr. Emma May Laney, Dr.
George Hayes, Dr. Phillip Davidson of
Agnes Scott, Dr. Leroy Loemker, and
Dr. Roy Kracke of Emory University
will deliver these lectures.

On February 2 3 another lecture
series entitled "Motherhood a Profes-
sion for the College Woman" will be
presented. Mr. W. M. Dunn, of At-
lanta; Miss Martha McAlpine, of the
University of Georgia, the Georgia
State Chairman of Parent Education;
Mrs. J. Sam Guy, of Atlanta; and Mrs.
J. O. Martin, a supervisor in the At-
lanta Public School System, will speak
on this topic. In connection with this
phase of the program, Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain will talk on "Why Agnes Scott
Needs a Department of the Home."

A third phase of the week-end pro-
gram will be a special program 'ar-
ranged by Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, for
the children of the alumnae who will
be on the campus the morning of the
twentv-third.

a. s. c. debates
wesleyan college

Y. W. C. A. Will Entertain
On St. Valentine's Day

Y. W. C. A. will entertain in honor
of Agnes Scott students on February
14, at 4:30 o'clock in the Gymnasium.
The valentine idea will be carried out
in the decorations. There will be danc-
ing, a treasure-hunt and other inter-
esting entertainment, according to
Ruby Hutton, chairman of the social
committee.

All those who plan to come are ask-
ed to sign on the poster which has been
placed on the bulletin board in Main.

Agnes Scott met Wesleyan College
on February 7 in a debate on the ques-
tion, Resolved, That Hitler's Domestic
Policies Have Benefited Germany.

Isabel McCain and Nellie Margaret
Gilroy upheld the affirmative for Agnes
Scott, and Louise Page and Helen
Smart of Wesleyan supported the neg-
ative.

The affirmative supported their ar-
gument with the following points: (1)
Hitler unified Germany politically; (2)
he helped economically by the reduc-
tion of taxes, the decreasing of unem-
ployment, and increased production;
(3) he helped socially by the leveling
of class distinction, and by giving a
new spirit to all the people.

The negative team based its proof
on the statements: Hitler accomplished
his methods by bloodshed and violence;
the unification was the unification of
fear; he took away personal liberties;

{Continued on page 4, column 4)

Plans are being made for the annual
Junior Banquet, which is to be held
in the dining room of Rebekah Scott
Hall on the evening of March 2. The
banquet is sponsored by Mortar Board
and is one of the outstanding social
events of the school year.

Immediately after the banquet cof-
fee will be served in the lobby of Re-
bekah Scott Hall, after which the
Juniors and their dates will attend the
play, Craig's Wife, which is to be pre-
sented by Blackfriars.

Nell White has been appointed as
general chairman for the banquet and
will be assisted by the following com-
mittees:

Entertainment Alice Chamlee.

Seating Arrangements Carrie Phin-
ney Latimer.

Place-Cards Virginia Gaines.

Decorations Shirley Christian and
Janet Gray.

Dates and Invitations Muriel Bull,
Mary Snow, Jane Blick, Jane Thomas
and Ellen Davis.

Famous Speakers
At Emory Institute
Of Ci tizenship

The eighth annual session of the
Institute of Citizenship, which is be-
ing held at Emory University this
week, was opened on Monday morning
with an address by Daniel C. Roper,
Secretary of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Mr. Douglas
Booth, of London, the representative
of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, was another of the dis-
tinguished speakers.

The lectures, which are to continue
through Friday, are being presented
under the two main topics, Interna-
tional Affairs and Southern Problems.

Agnes Scott students are urged to
attend these meetings, to which the
Citizenship Club will furnish free
transportation. The program for the
remaining meetings is as follows:
Wednesday, February 13

8:15 p.m. Duress or Consent?
George Fort Milton. Glenn Memo-
rial.

Thursday, February 14
10:00 a.m. Debate: Resolved, That
the Short Ballot Is More Democratic
Than the Long Ballot Affirmative,
Dr. J. W. Manni ng; negative, Dr.
George Sherrill. Glenn Memorial.

11:00 a.m. Round Table: Dr. T.
(Continued on page 4, column 1)

The annual Founder's Day celebra-
tion will take place on February 22,
the birthday of Colonel George Wash-
ington Scott. A banquet for the en-
tire school is to be given in Rebekah
Scott dining room at 6:10 p.m., dur-
ing which members of the senior class
will represent traditional Colonial char-
acters.

Each of the cast, in costume, will
give a burlesque speech in verse, to
which the sophomore class will respond.
The characters are:

George Washington Alberta Palmour
Martha Washington__ Martha Redwine

Paul Revere Betty Lou Houck

Daniel Boone Leonora Spencer

Betsy Ross Caroline Dickson

LaFayette Caroline Long

Patrick Henry Marian Calhoun

Lord Cornwallis Nell Patillo

Benjamin Franklin_Caroline McCallum
After the banquet, the minuet will
be danced in the gymnasium by the
following seniors: Martha Redwine,
Hester Ann Withers, Jennie Cham-
pion, Nina Parke, Marguerite Morris,
Caroline Dickson, Alberta Palmour,
Martha Anne Rogers, Frances Espy,
Betty Lou Houck, Caroline Long, and
Laura Whitner.

A dance, sponsored by the Cotillion
Club, will follow the minuet. The
music, lasting from 8:30 to 10:30, will
be furnished by the Emory Aces.

Miss Torrance
Makes Address
At Chape] Service

Boggs, Hertzka, Shipley, Polia-
koff Are Named As New Mem-
bers.

Mary Boggs, Katherine Hertzka, Eva
Poliakoff and Isabel Shipley were elect-
ed to membership in Phi Beta Kappa
at the special announcement service in
chapel Saturday morning, February 9.
Miss Catharine Torrance, president of
the local chapter, gave the address and
made the announcement of the new
members.

Following the academic procession,
Miss Torrance talked on the meaning
of Phi Beta Kappa, and its significance
in meeting the problems of life today.
The three-word motto of Phi Beta
Kappa, by the initial letters of which
the society is known, may be trans-
lated, "The love or quest of wisdom
the guide or inspiration of life." Miss
Torrance interpreted this to mean, as
the theme of her talk, that one's set
of ideas concerning life, one's philoso-
phy of life, is that which steers, or
guides, or rules one. It is essential, in
this era of transition, for students to
possess a positive and adequate philos-
ophy which can guide them through
the serious problems of social and per-
sonal reconstruction ahead.

The solution to the problems of civ-
ilization today is to be found in edu-
cation, an education of which the main
objectives are to imbue all students
with the scientific spirit, and to im-
press them with the realization of his-
toric values.

The scientific spirit is, according to
Miss Torrance, "the spirit of adven-
ture, the spirit of the philosopher who
sees the purposive arrangement of all
(Continued on page 4, column 1)

DR. HARROLD SPEAKS
BEFORE LARGE CROWD

Dr. C. C. Harrold, of Macon, Ga.,
president of the Georgia Society of
Archaeology, well known for his re-
cent explorations in the field of Old
Ocmulgee, presented an illustrated lec-
ture on Primitive Indian Civilization
in Georgia before an interested audi-
ence on Friday evening.

By means of photographic slides, he
described the work that has been done
and the methods used in the process.
After his main presentation there was
a more informal period in which Dr.
Harrold answered questions and exhib-
ited some of the relics discovered in
his work.

Dr. Harrold was entertained at din-
ner in the Alumna: House by the fac-
ulty committee of the Lecture Asso-
ciation and at a reception in Main
Building after the lecture.

"Craig's Wife"
To Be Presented
By Blackfriars

Blackfriars will present its next play,
Craig's Wife, by George Kelley, on
Saturday, March 2, after the junior
Banquet.

According to Hester Anne Withers,
president, the drama is concerned with
Mrs. Craig's foolish idolatry of her
home at the sacrifice of husband and
friends. This theme is expressed con-
cisely by Miss Austen when she says:
"People who live to themselves, Har-
riet, are generally left to themselves."

The cast follows:

Mrs. Craig Betty Lou Houck

Wal ter Craig Marion Camp

Miss Austen Hester Anne Withers

Mrs. Harrold Mary Hutchinson

Ethel Landreth Vera Pruet

Mazie _ Marguerite Morris

Billy Birkmire Jimmy Reese

Mrs. Frazier_ Alice McCallie

Eugene Fredericks Jimmy Jepson

Joseph Catelle Bob Gillespie

Harry__ H udo Thrane

Pen and Brush Club

Choses New Members

Pen and Brush Club chose the fol-
lowing new members in its spring try-
outs held last week: Ellen Verner,
Carolyn Elliott, and Isabel Richardson!
The try-outs were based on original
paintings or drawings.

The new members will be initiated
at the next meeting, to be held Friday
night, February 15, at 7 o'clock, in
Martha Johnson's room. At this time,
Mary Green will speak on Cubism and
Lily Weeks on Futurism.

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Saar Votes Union

With Germany

AS WE WERE

Mary Virginia Allen
Agnes Scott girls are doing the same
things today they did thirty years ago,

EDITORIAL STAFF

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REPORTERS

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Carolyn McCallum Elizabeth Young

THE WORTH OF SCHOLARSHIP
The value of scholarship has for the last few years been con-
sidered by a number of people to be either non-existent, or at
least of very doubtful worth, and by another group to be of
great importance in the lives of everyone. A general misunder-
standing as to what a scholar gets out of his learning has caused
this controversy. It would seem necessary that the standards and
purposes of the true scholar be defined, and that it be clearly set
forth what scholarship is not as well as what it is. A scholar is
generally defined as one versed in a single branch or in many
branches of learning, one who has knowledge or skill, a savant.
Such a definition can in no way explain the inner qualities of
scholarship, nor completely separate the development which
makes for genuine scholarship from the misconceptions which
surround the meaning of the word.

The scholar, regardless of the opinion of our "practical" world,
does direct his acquirements toward a definite end. The goal to
which he is going, however, is not that of the student who sees
all his efforts as a certain number of hours, for the most part
unrelated, spent to obtain a degree, an honor, or a position. Nor
does he feel that he must become a mere memorizing machine,
a possessor of odd facts with which to impress a group of listen-
ers. Such goals would well characterize a pedant or a grind; a
scholar, on the other hand, is working toward more valuable
achievements.

The aim of the scholar is mental cultivation, with the hope
for the greatest of all returns a more complete and harmonious
integration of his personality in the world in which he lives. He
learns a new language as a means of communication with the
minds of friends of other lands. In science he learns the inter-
t wining relationships of all objects, feels the unity of all nature,
and recognizes his studies as an approach to truth. By history
and literature he is enabled to live the lives of other men, to
suffer with slaves and martyrs, or to rule with kings. Through
his attainment of knowledge a greatly enriched life opens before
the scholar. The pleasure that one may gain from a broader
viewpoint, from the establishment of proper relationships of all
things, from the understanding of man, cannot be denied except
h\ those not attuned to such values.

But true scholarship does not gloat over the hoard of its riches
and pleasures. Such an attitude removes one from the classifi-
cation of the scholar and places him in the category of the
pedant. In the first place, the real scholar integrates all that he
acquires into his own developing personality, so that by virtue
of personal enrichment he becomes an unconscious influence on
those around him. Furthermore, he gives graciously and will-

The dreaded Saar crisis is over and
the Saar is German! Fifteen years of
tension reached its climax in the plebis-
cite presented to this tiny but singular- ~.\V.
. . r . ' - jlilljon Club with lerchi Hens and

ly important section or burope on ~ , ^ LLI L

r , , . -T-i lerchi Gobblers such as we see pic-

January lj, 19)5. The victory was , . , 1Q1 , c . /7 w ,

J , , i ^ turea in the 19 1. > Silhouette. We are

overwhelmingly German a 90 per

cent majority.

As the day of the plebiscite drew

. r ^ , , this pseudo-sophistication, clothed

near tension increased; Germany had , . , . . ,

. ill i o more voluminous skirts, with a luot

spread propaganda throughout the baar , , . , , , rr ,

t r r f . .. , ~ entangled in a wind-blown putt on the

territory to keep the spirit or German ? , , , u x i l

r , ^ ,, ^ top or the head, we could reel at home
and Geoff ry G.

Saar government,

although we can't boast of a Terchi

too sophisticated to indulge in such
barnyard frivolity. Yet, stripped of

in

more voluminous skirts, with a rose

territory to keep
nationalism alive,
Knox, head of the
feared violent uprisings. However, the
situation was somewhat relieved when,
December 4, 1934, France and Ger-
many delivered the League authorities
full political guarantees for the inhabi-
tants of the Saar in the event of their

in the pages of the annual of 1902,
which discarded the name Aurora and
became the first Silhouette of Agnes
Scott Institute.

Campus athletes played golf then
and right in front of White House, at
that. The joys of tennis were not un-

known, either. The tennis club is pic-
voting for either rrench or German , . , , . ., , . , , : ,
tured with big, wide-brim hats, high-

sovereignty. ^ shoes, and racquets held gracefully

To the student of human affairs, this
disposition of the Saar

territory was
inevitable; for the Saarlanders will al-
ways be Germans by blood whether or
not they sympathize with Germany's
political activities; and their sense of
nationalism was too strong to permit
them to vote themselves away from
German control.

They can not be blamed for rejoic-
ing over at last being allowed to return
to native arms. Germany has promised
to aid the Saar country financially, and
to find jobs for the 40,000 idle Saar
citizens. The lost sheep has returned to
the fold, again proving its Teutonic
fealty.

in front, as their fingers picked the
strings of the would-be guitars.

The faculty indulged in extra-cur-
ricular activities rather freely then,
too, according to the Silhouette. Most
conspicuous among their organizations
was the "Faculty Angling Club," in
which "Miss Hopkins fished for good
conduct with loving kindness as her
bait," and Miss McKinney caught
"Promptness" with the "10 per cent
off" inducement.

In 1909 turtle-neck sweaters swept
the campus beautiful white ones,
worn with very full pleated skirts

excellent gym attire which was prob-
I o be seen whether Ger-|ably forbidden in the classroom. 'Twas

then, too, that the ambitious third
year German class "gave Lessing's ever
fresh and mirthful comedy, Minna von
Barnhelm." That was before the war;
the German Club page in the 1916
Silhouette has only the words, "Gone
But Not Forgotten."

A baby picture by the side of each
dignified senior in cap and gown re-
veals the class of 1910 "as they were."

many's interpretation of her political
victory will prove to be the beginning
of an aggressive foreign policy. Ger-
man newspapers seem to visualize the
treaty of Versailles as crumbling; they
predict that the clause against Ger-
many's rearming will be the next to
yield. We who oppose war can only
hope that Germany will not insist on
the realization of this ideal.

Some of them grew up to resemble
themselves strikingly. This was the
age of the stream-line coiffure. The
hair was swept from the front and
sides to a folding knot in the back, or
down from the top of the head to a
puff which protruded over each ear.
Middie blouses with enormous blue ties
were chic for the well-dressed college
girl.

The Georgia Railroad was doing ex-
cellent business in 1916. In the greet-
ings to intended newcomers we read:
"Agnes Scott College is beautifully
situated on one side of the Georgia
Railroad (see Genesis 1:25), whose
trains have a remarkably regular sched-
ule, never in all rhe glorious history
of the institution having once failed to
pass during prayers, chapel, or song re-
cital," and, we might add, Investiture.

The trials and tribulations of the
Aurora staff are also a heritage of the
ages. Under an editor's picture is the
tell-tale verse:

"The Editor of the Aurory
Asked her friends for a story;
When they said we can't write,
She replied in a fright,
I don't mind if they're a bit bory."

Silhouettes are revealing: some of
our faculty have led consistent lives
and followed the interests they had as
students at Agnes Scott; others have
turned around completely and gone the
other way. In the "Last Will and Tes-
tament" we read: "Lucile Alexander

wills ro her insatiable thirst

after French," and a few pages further
we see "Gussie O'Neal (Mrs. Johnson)
leader of the Glee Club."

But others have said "no" to their
prescribed future and surprised us.

"Margaret Phythian leaves to

her fluent German speech, also her deep
and lasting love for the language."

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BOOKS

Alabama Isn't Like That

Club Notes

This is to people everywhere who
have read Carl Carmer's Stars Fell On
Alabama. This is to people who, liv-
ing a thousand miles away, might come
to Alabama expecting to find it a
dreamy, tropical land inhabited by pas-
sionate, colorful figures; to people who,
craving adventure and excitement and
not having the means for an African
expedition, might come to Alabama
instead, remembering what Carl Car-
mer has said of it that "the Congo is
not more different from Massachusetts,
Kansas or California." This is the pro-
test of an Alabamian against the gross
misrepresentation of life and landscape
in her state, as pictured by a North-
erner who, after living six years in
Alabama, has written a book that
paints the extraordinary as the typical
and the unusual as the habitual.

Carl Carmer says: "So I have chos-
en to write of Alabama not as a state
which is a part of the nation, but as
a strange country in which I once
lived and from which I have now re-
turned." And, accordingly, he writes
in such a way as to leave the impres-
sion that he has been to the South Sea
Islands or to Africa.

some time: "If I knew you well enough
to advise you, I'd say, 'For God's sake,
get out of here before it's too late/ "
There is no refutation that may be
made concerning such a strange spell
except the conclusions that common
sense may dictate. Alabama is no far-
ther south than Georgia or Mississippi
or Louisiana. The title of the book.
Stats Fell On Alabama, may intimate
the presence of such a spell, but this
explanation is acceptable only to the
very imaginative.

Stars Fell On Alabama describes not
only Tuscaloosa, but other cities Bir-
mingham, Mobile, and Montgomery
and other sections of the state the
mountains in the north and the cen-
tral Black Belt country in the same
picturesque, but distorted, way. The
extraordinary is selected and so played
upqn that the reader is left with the
impression that it is the typical.

Mr. Carmer describes different types
as they live in the north, south and
west. All of them, according to him,
have in common the calm exterior and
inward passion that mark Alabamians
as a people.

Thus are the natives pictured in Stars
Fell on Alabama. That the types de-

Since my conception of Tuscaloosa, i scribed do exist it must be admitted
Alabama, was arrived at through first- 1 there are a few old southern gentle-

hand knowledge, I find it hard to rec-
ognize as authentic this picture of it:
"Like the little lost town of Germes-
hauscn, that Gerstacker wrote of, Tus-
caloosa lives a life of its own an en-

men and even more backswoodsmen and
mountaineers. But the majority of Ala-
bamians are not like those he describes.

The book has been widely read and
widely praised. That it is an intcr-

Blackfria ks
Blackfriars held its last meeting
backstage in the gymnasium on Tues-
day evening, February 5. Members of
the Play Production Class furnished
the program by demonstrating stage
terms, make-up, and lighting effects
to the club.

K. U. B.

K. U. B. held its monthly meeting
on Friday, February 8, in the Y. W.
C. A. Cabinet room. Mr. Ralph Jones,
of the Atlanta Constitution staff, spoke
to the club members.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club held its regular
monthly meeting on Tuesday, Febru-
ary 5, in Mr. Dieckmann's studio. Mr.
Juan Castellanos spoke to the club on
Cuban literature. Refreshments were
served, and afterwards Mr. and Mrs.
Castellanos, Miss Muriel Harn and Miss
Melissa Cilley were entertained with a
group of Spanish students at dinner
in Rebekah Scott dining hall.

chanted life in an age other than ours. , csting, well-written and entertaining
Mountains lowering from the north, book there can be no question. But
stagnant marshes sleeping in the south I that it is a true picture of Alabama
shut it from the world. A malevolent ; must be denied. The black negro
landscape lush and foreboding mamies, the shooting mountaineers, the
ingly of himself, but without any vain display of knowledge, broods over it, bending its people to white-robed Klansmen, the primitive

On the contrary, he is exceedingly modest, since he realizes the stran S e purposes." backswoodsmen, the old Southern gen-

Qiagnitude of his own unimportance in the world in which he / L nd in additi n C the W***? tlemcn they are to be found in Ala-

or the country there is another wav in,bama it is true. But they represent

is gaining ever-Clearer insight. which Mr. Carmer I. kens Alabama to! only a certain part. They are not all,

\\ hat does the scholar gatl) from his efforts? Only these a tropical country. This is in his ref- or even most, of Alabama, even as

things: friendship and brotherhood with men of all times; a erence to an insidious lethargy that gangsters are not all of Chicago or the

glimpse into the anteroom of the underlying mysteries of life; possesses the white man who lives in slums all of New York. Alabama pic-

an ability to judge values; and an inexplicable pleasure from all the tro P ics - Such an apathy, he avers, tured as a strange, exotic country

French Club
In place of its regular monthly meet-
ing the French Club is sponsoring the
moving picture A Nous La Liberie
which is to be shown .it Bass Junior
High School on February 19. This is
a French production that has been i
great success. There will also be a short
marionette play he Marchand dc I'erlt \.

Pi Ai im i a Pi

Pi Alphfl Pin is holding its try-outs
tonight in the chapel. Tomorrow eve-
ning a meeting will be held for the in-
itiation of new members. Ida Lois Mc-
Daniel and Carrie Phinney Latimer
will give .i short debate on Japan.

that these possessions can do in his life and the lives of others.

takes hold of one in Alabama.

exotic

He peopled with passionate colorful figures
i,i speaks of the "virus in his veins," and mav be interesting enough to read

I bar value- depends entirely on the scale by which the individual of being warned 3t ,. linst , uch spc| , lbout but thc lctUJ , , ifc thcre is not

measures. bv a man who had lived thcre for like that.

Cmzi.NSHip Club
Thc Citizenship Club is sponsoring
the Citizenship Institute which is being
held at Emory University this week.
They will gladly furnish transportation
for students who wish to attend thc
conferences.

The Agonistic

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EXCHANGES

Y. W. ACTIVITIES

At the White House not long ago
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt received a
strange and unfamiliar guest. Her name
was Antonia Brico. Her purpose was
to intesest the President's wife in a
woman's symphony orchestra. Mrs.
Roosevelt was so impressed that last
week four Brico concerts were an-
nounced, the first to be given in Man-
hattan February 18.

Antonia Brico is a conductor who
affects a jacket which resembles an old-
fashioned Prince Albert. She has con-
ducted sucessfully in Berlin, Hamburg,
Manhattan. Women proclaim her a
genius. Men say that she is an excel-
lent musician who has a clean, sure
beat. Time.

I duties by the wife of the President of
the United States. Eleanor Roosevelt,
more than any of her predecessors,
comes closer to being an Assistant
President. Some of the projects of the
New Deal originated in Mrs. Roose-
velt's councils. A request from her is
treated by the departments with a de-
gree of authority second only to one
from the President himself. Frequent-
ly she acts as a special unofficial field
agent for the President. Review of
Reviews.

"Are you personally prepared to state
that it is your present purpose not to
sanction any future war or participate
as an armed combatant?" Kirby Page,
apostle of peace, asked a hundred thou-
sand clergymen.

Some twenty thousand ministers
made reply. And of these, sixty-two
per cent answered in the affirmative.
Scribner's.

One of the trends of the Roosevelt
Administration to be noted by his-
torians is the assumption of political

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Even strike-breaking is organized on
a big business basis. One New York
company is so large and active that it
stands ready, at any hour of the day
or night to send any number of armed
"guards" even up to an army of 10,-
000 to any company in any city
whose employees have struck. During
the 30 years of its existence, it has
served more than a hundred of Amer-
ica's largest corporations a/nd made
many millions of dollars. Colliers.

(N. S. F. A.) Answering appeals
originating at national headquarters, N.
S. F. A. members throughout the coun-
try threw their weight behind advo-
cates of United States entrance into
the World Court in accordance with
the resolution favoring entrance which
was passed unanimously by delegates
to the Boston Congress.

In a last minute attempt to turn the
tide, N. S. F. A. undergraduates per-
suaded influential citizens in their com
munities to wire doubtful and opposi
tion Senators that they favored U. S.
entrance. In four cases these efforts re-
sulted in influencing Senators to vote
favorably.

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The Y. W. C. A. cabinet met at the
Atlanta Y. W. C. A. on Tuesday night,
February 12, for a leadership meeting.
Five of the National Y. W. C. A. staff
were present and led discussions on
problems with which the organization
is faced today.

Members of the industrial commit-
tee attended an industrial conference in
Atlanta on February 9-10. Mr. Carl
Karston, of New York, spoke Saturday
night on "Compliance With the Re-
covery Act."

The Social Service group of Y. W.
C. A. visited the federal penitentiary
on Tuesday, February 12.

The music appreciation group stud-
ied Grieg last Sunday afternoon. A
paper on the composer's life was read,
and some of his best known works
were played.

Rev. Henry Smith Leiper, foreign
secretary of the Federal Churches of
Christ in America, spoke Sunday after-
noon at the Wesley Memorial church on
"Cause and Cure of War." The World
Fellowship committee of the Y. W. C.
A. attended the meeting.

Y. W. C. A. has planned a series of
vesper talks on certain Biblical charac-
ters. Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker was the
first speaker on this series, her subject
being "Luke". Caroline Dickson will
speak next Sunday on "Mary and
Martha."

Iris Lee from Davison-Paxon's spoke
to the Freshman Charm group on Mon-
day, February 4, at 4:3 0 o'clock. Miss
Lee's discussion was on "Personality."

SOCIETY

Among those at the Pan-Hellenic
dances at Georgia Tech last week were:
Rachel Kennedy, Frances Paris, Effie
Ola Anthony, Martha Alice Greene,
Frances Wilson, Nancy Moorer, Rosa
Wilder, Rose Northcross, Helen
Handte, Meriel Bull, Carrie Phinney
Latimer, Rosa Miller, Shirley Christian,
Katherine Bishop, Ida Buist, Elizabeth
Heaton, Carolyn White, Mary Hull,
Frances Espy, Mary Venetia Smith,
Bertha Merrill, Virginia Hart, and
Lily Weeks.

Mary Alice Newton was at her home
in Dothan, Ala., last week-end.

Most of us do not know, I fear,
What it's like within the stratosphere,
But those of us who've sat and sat
Thru a class in this and that
Have got, I think, a fairly good idea.

The Johnsonian.

No Democratic President has ever
had a better Republican press than
Franklin D. Roosevelt during his twen-
ty-three months in office. Time.

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Speaking!

Have you been in to see it yet? Your old Sub-
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lots of ruffles and deep, soft-piled rugs, it's simp-
ly crammed with glamorous, devilish clothes
that will make you more sophisticated than
you've ever dreamed! The perfect meeting place
for the gang!

And say, how do you like this little number? Blue crepe
with ruffles of French blue and white, for only 16.95 !
Smooth, eh what?

COLLEGE SHOP

THIRD FLOOR

RICH'S

Oveida Long, ex-'3 6, visited friends
here last week.

Ellen Davis spent last week-end at
her home in Columbia, S. C.

Marian Calhoun and Betty Fountain
were guests last week-end of Amy Un-
derwood at her home in Decatur.

Jean Kirkpatrick's mother spent sev-
eral days here last week.

Jo McClure and Jane Allen Webb
attended a dance at the Lambda Chi
Alpha house at Emory Friday night.

Anne Walker spent last week-end
with Margaret Merts in Atlanta.

Lavinia and Marjorie Scott were at
their home in Milledgeville during the
week-end.

Betty Lou Houck was the guest of
Elizabeth Alexander at her home in
Atlanta last week-end.

Alice Dunbar spent last week-end in
Druid Hills with her aunt, Mrs. L. L.
Gellerstedt.

Laura Coit, Mary Lillian Fairley, Hi-
bernia Hassell, and Ann Thompson had
supper with Dr. and Mrs. Leadingham
in Atlanta Sunday night.

Nancy Tucker's mother, Mrs. Har-
lin Tucker, of Nashville, Tenn., spent
the week-end with her.

Sara Frances McDonald and Lavinia
Scott went to the dance at the Candler
Hotel Friday night.

Martha Johnson spent last week-end
at her home in Lithonia.

The new girls who are here for the
second semester's work are: Elizabeth
Espy, of Dothan, Ala.; Helen Fried-
lander, of Spartanburg, S. C, and El-
len Verner, of Columbia, S. C.

ALUMNAE

Martha Skeen, '34, is studying dra-
matics in New York City, and is liv-
ing at the Rehearsal Club.

Martha Elliott, '34, is now at West
Falls Church, Va.

Caroline Waterman, '34, is living at
Apartment 9-L, 100 West University
Parkway, Baltimore, Md.

Dorothy Dickson, '34, was married
on January 2 to Mr. William Conner
Ripley. They are living in Rome, Ga.

Helen Bashinski, '34, was married on
January 13 to Mr. Richard Habersham
Milledge of Decatur.

Mary Dexter, ex-'34, was married on
September 1 to Mr. Francis Woodrow
Boyd, Jr., and is living in Esban, Kans.

Sadie Morrow, ex-'3 6, was married
on December 29 to Mr. Clifford Eu-
gene Huber of Breman, Ga., and Co-
lumbus, Ohio. They are living in Co-
lumbus.

Edith Dorn, ex-'3 5, was married on
December 21 to Mr. Arthur Edward
Owen, Jr. They are living in Los An-
geles, Calif., where Mr. Owen is teach-
ing in the public schools.

Helen Scott, '3 3, is now Mrs. Lewis
C. Tierney, and is residing at President
Apartments, 3743 Reading Road, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.

Betty Fleming, '3 3, was married on
December 26 to Mr. John E. Virgin,
and is living at 321 Adams Street, De-
catur.

Catherine (Wellborn) Reece, '32, is
living in Albany, Ga.

Susan Glenn, '32, is now at her home
in Lincolnton, N. C.

Emily Keyes, '23, was recently com-
mended by O. O. Mclntyre in his col-
umn as a "crack society reporter."
Emily is on the editorial staff of the
West Pahn Beach ?ost y and has done
outstanding work in interview and so-
ciety write-ups.

Elizabeth Winn, '34, is taking a busi-
ness course in Greenville, S. C.

Eleanor Williams, ex-'3 5, will move
to San Francisco in April. Her father

is to be stationed at Fort Mason for

four years.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
5 to 8 P. M.

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4

The Agonistic

MISS TORRANCE MAKES AD-
DRESS AT CHAPEL SERVICE

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
things in the external world." It im-
presses the student with a sense of his
intellectual incompleteness, stirs in him
an intellectual curiosity, encourages
him to continue throughout life the;
grand adventure of experiment and
learning begun in college.

A sense of historic values makes one
conscious, Miss Torrance said, "of the
living and eternal human spirit which
has been moving on and on since man
began on this earth, and will move on
until time is no more." Everything
which has gone before exists in what
is today; in the same measure, "our
lives in the influence they have on the
rest of life will determine unending
consequences." In the light of this
sense of historic values, one can see
in this era not chaos but the confusion
of transition, out of which man may
come by adjusting his life to new con-
ditions.

All four of the new members elect-
ed to Phi Beta Kappa have made out-
standing scholastic records since their
freshman year, when Isabel Shipley, of
Greensboro, Ga., and Eva Poliakoff, of
Abbeville, S. C., tied for the Rich prize
to the freshman making the highest
record for the year. For two years,
Mary Boggs, of Birmingham, Ala., has
won the collegiate scholarship offered
to the student who makes the highest
average.

Initiation service for the new mem-
bers of Phi Beta Kappa will be held
in Rebekah Scott on Saturday night,
after which they will be honored at a
banquet in the tea house.

ATHLETIC NEWS

MAKE YOUR PLANS

FOR CAMP NOW

Faculty Views

Athletic Ass'n.

It won't be long until the days will
be getting warmer, the trees getting
green, and we ourselves wanting to be
out-of-doors enjoying it all. There is
no better place to spend a week-end in
the spring than at Pine Cone Cabin,
which is nestled in a pine grove at the
foot of Stone Mountain. This is what
most of us call "our camp."

There you have Stone Mountain to
climb, a stream in which to wade, and
innumerable paths to follow. Supper
around a big campfire, singing your
favorite songs around the embers, and
a good night's rest on army cots will
make you feel like a million dollars.

Select your week-end and sign up
with Sara Catherine Wood for a grand
time.

Cotillion to Give

Fashion Parade

FAMOUS SPEAKERS AT EMORY

INSTITUTE OF CITIZENSHIP

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
J. Cauley A Public Interest in Agri-
culture (2). Theology Chapel.

2:00 p.m. Open Conference: Polit-
ical Problems in the South Mr.
George Fort Milton, Chairman.

8:15 p.m. Address Hon. Alf
Stone Humanizing Taxation. Glenn
Memorial.

Friday, February 1 5
10:00 a.m. Address Mr. L. P.
Dic^je Jh c Responsibilities of Busi-
ness in Government . Glenn Memorial.

11:00 a.m. Round Table: The
Georgia Legislature (2). Mr. H. W.
Ncvin, Chairman. Theology Chapel.

2:00 p.m. Political Problems in
the South Mr. George Fort Milton,
Chairman. Theology Chapel.

To show that spring really is just
around the corner, clothes have become
more than ever a topic of great in-
terest. The "Fashion Parade of 193 5"
will be presented Thursday evening,
February 21, at 7:3 0 o'clock at the
"Casino Ascot" in the Bucher Scott
Gymnasium.

The gowns coming from George
Muse Co., Martel's and Rich's, will
be modeled by Agnes Scott girls. The
fashion show in itself is not the only
feature of the evening. There will be
music by the Emory Aces, skits by
Graham Jackson and special service by
the Silhouette Tea Room.

The public is cordially invited to this
fashion festival at the "Casino Ascot"
which is being sponsored by the Sil-
houette and the Cotillion Club. There
will be a small cover charge.

EXHIBITION SWIM

An exhibition swim, including fan
cy diving, front and back tandems, a
relay and a balloon race, will be pre-
sented for the children of the alumna:
Saturday, February 2 3, from 10:40 to
11:15 a.m.

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SERIES IS PLAYED

AS WE WERE

(Continued from page 2, column 4)
Miss Scandrett's intended profession
was business, and Miss Stansfield was
outstanding as the secretary of the
French Club.

Many changes have come about, but
with them all, we still stir our coffee
with spoons bearing the letters A. S.
I., we still enter the front front doors
of Main and we still wear turtle-neck
sweaters.

What do you think of our Athletic
Association? Do you think it develops
the good sportsmanship and spirit that
it advocates? Do you think we need
intercollegiate athletics? Do you like
the faculty-student games? These are
a few of the questions which some of
the important people on our campus
have answered.

"Your Athletic Association is a re-
markably fine organization," said Mr.
McCain, "much better than any of the
men's colleges' organizations I have
known. I have not been connected
with any other girls' schools, but I
have never known any so keenly alive."
Mr. McCain thinks that Emory and
Agnes Scott have decided advantages
in not having strenuous interscholastic
athletics. "Interscholastic sports would
break down part of the fine spirit," he
added. He enjoys the faculty-student
games, but he says he finds that the
faculty gets old and stiff and cannot
play. "I have not made any detailed
study of the Athletic Association," he
commented, "because I have been en-
tirely satisfied with it."

Miss Elizabeth Jackson, a loyal sup-
porter of the basketball games, says
that she can see a "decided improve-
ment from freshman to senior" in
sportsmanship and ability. She is not
in favor of intercollegiate athletics be-
cause they would cause selection of
only a few participants. She thinks
that the faculty-student games are
lots of fun and that "they could get
up a real good basketball team com-
posed of the younger members." Her
one objection to A. A. is that it is
"hardly fair to exclude from athletics
those who have not paid their budget."
Some girls just cannot afford to pay
their budget," she said, "but because
of this, should not be deprived of the
physical development that athletics
produce."

Miss Bee Miller finds that the fac-
ulty-student games are bad for some
of the faculty who have not had exer-
cise, but she enjoys the games. She
thinks we should not have interschol-
astic games, but that we "might de-
velop more spirit in the ones we do
have." "The aim of A. A. is to de-
velop sportsmanship," she said, "but
since you already have it, there is
nothing for A. A. to do along that
line."

On Friday afternoon, February S,
at 4 o'clock, the third set of basket-
ball games of the season was plaved.
The Freshman-Sophomore game was a
very exciting one. The freshmen led
during the first half, but during the
second the sophomores pulled up their
score and when the final whistle blew
the score stood 31-31.

The Senior-Junior game was some-
what of a walkaway for the juniors,
the seniors having only three of their
regular players in and using substitutes
from the freshman and sophomore
classes. The juniors won with a score
of 41-5.

FE M URES POSTED IN GYM

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119 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.

Watch the bulletin board in the
lobby of the gym! Each week it will
post pictures and articles on current
attractions. The dance was featured
last week, including the recital of Ted
Shawn at the Woman's Club on Feb-
ruary 7, and the Monte Carlo Ballet
Russc, which is to be presented at the
City Auditorium on February 2 8, at
8:30 p.m.

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religious life.

Mr. George P. Hayes, director of
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the non-decisional debate.

Afterwards, Pi Alpha Phi honored
the debaters at a reception in the Day
Students' room, at which Marian Cal-
houn, president, and Carrie Phinney
Latimer, secretary, poured coffee.

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NO. W

LAURA WH1TNER TO BE MAY QUEEN

Juniors Send Invitations

For Banquet March 2

Kirk de Vore's Orchestra Will Be
New Feature of Annual
Banquet.

Plans are being rapidly completed for
the annual Junior Banquet, sponsored
by Mortar Board, which is to be held
this year on March 2 in the Rebekah
Scott dining hall. Invitations have been
issued.

A color motif of yellow and green
will be carried out in the flowers, can-
dles, place cards, and other decorations.
Music and entertainment will be furn-
ished by the inimitable Kirk de Vore
and his orchestra.

A list of the girls attending and their
dates is as follows: Elaine Ahles,
Charles Puleston; Lulu Ames, Charles
Ward; Lena Armstrong, Albert Pierce;
Catherine Bates, Ray Richards; Kather-
ine Bishop, Cook Barwick; Ernelle
Blair, Drew Johnson; Jane Blick, Lit
Little; Elizabeth Burson, Frederick
Wilson; Alice Chamlee, Marvin Day;
Shirley Christian, Dick Smoot; Bazalyn
Coley, Wallace C. Williams; Martha
Crenshaw, John Talmadge; Sara Cure
ton, Ray Fricks; Ellen Davis, Duke
Blick; Marian Derrick, Sam Bradshaw;
Rosa From, Stuart Gelb; Virginia
Gaines, Bob Gillespie; Helen Handte,
Charles Grotz; Lois Hart, Morris
Sowell; Mary Hull, Joe Allen; Ruby
Hutton, Spencer McCallie, Jr.; Frances
James, Tom Spradling; Ethelyn John
son, Bill Howerton; Ori Sue Jones,
Eddie Anderson; Sarah Jones, L. N.

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

Dr. McCain Reports
Plans for Buildings

Dr. J. R. McCain, speaking before
the faculty and student body of Agnes
Scott, Friday morning, February 15,
reported the progress of the effort to
meet the challenge of the General Edu-
cation Board's offer to make available
a fund of $217,000 for the construc-
tion of new buildings and for endow-
ment, if the college is able to raise
$23 3,000. He stated that a careful
survey of the needs of Agnes Scott by
some of the best education experts in
the country shows the need of a new
library and a new science hall as most
pressing.

The addition of the two buildings
represents part of the program for the
completion of the greater Agnes Scott.
The new library is designed to include
three times the space of the present
structure, and may be enlarged to six
times the present space. It may also

(Continued on page 3, column 3)

Februarv 22 Week-End
Brings Varied Activities

Phi Rata Kanna Founder's Day Radio Program,

111 Odd IVappa Alumnae Dinner, and Lecture

Initiates Members Series to Be Features

Laura Whitner

Noted Boy Violinist
Appears Tonight
In Atlanta

Yehudi Menuhin, world famous boy
genius of the violin, will appear in re-
cital this evening at the Atlanta Au-
ditorium as the final attraction of the
current All-Star Concert Series.

At the age of eighteen, Menuhin has
received international acclaim as the
greatest juvenile artist of the day. He
has appeared as soloist with the fore-
most orchestras of America and Eu-
rope and everywhere has received a
tremendous ovation. His concert in
Atlanta three years ago won for him
not only admiration for his ability but
also genuine respect for his interpreta-
tion as a mature artist.

In his present series of twenty-five
concerts, Menuhin is appearing in the
South only at Savannah and Atlanta.
In the latter part of March he plans
to begin his first world tour and will
not return to America until 1937.

Colleges to Meet
In Triple Debate

Agnes Scott will meet Sophie New-
comb College, of New Orleans, and
Randolph-Macon College, of Lynch-
burg, Va., early in April this year for
the second consecutive triangular de-
bate, it was announced recently by
Marian Calhun, president of Pi Alpha
Phi. The subject to be used will be,
"Resolved, That the Federal govern-
ment should own and operate all fa-
cilities for the manufacture of arms
and ammunition in the United States."

The Agnes Scott teams will consist
of Marian Calhoun, Edith Merlin, Sara
Catherine Wood, and one sophomore
who will be chosen from the following
three: Nellie Margaret Gilroy, Isabel
McCain, and Brooks Spivey, all of
whom are working on the debate. So-
phie Newcomb will uphold the nega-
tive side here, while Agnes Scott will
present the negative side at Randolph-
Macon. There will be no decision.

These three colleges participated in
the triangular competition for the first
time in a long while last year. Agnes
Scott won unanimously both here and
in New Orleans. The winning team
here consisted of Elizabeth Winn and
Sara Catherine Wood, the other of Ma-
rian Calhoun and Mildred Cohen.

Plans are being made for a debate
with Emory on the same subject of
arms and munitions.

Laura Whitner has been elected May
Queen! Chosen by popular vote of the
student body, this fairest and loveliest
senior will reign over the Peter Pan
fete to be held as the annual May cele-
bration the first Saturday in May.

The seven other nominees, Eva Con-
stantine, Frances Espy, Betty Lou
Houck, Joe Jennings, Caroline Long,
Marguerite Morris, and Vera Frances
Pruet, will serve as maids of honor.
There will be a student meeting Thurs-
day morning, February 21, after
chapel, at which time other members
of the court will be suggested. From
those suggested, the May Day commit-
tee will then choose the remaining seven
members. These do not necessarily have
to be from the senior class.

Twice has Laura been honored by
being chosen Queen of the May. When
she graduated from Washington Sem-
inary in 1931, she was elected by popu-
lar vote to reign over the May Day
festival at that time.

High School Pupils
To Vie In Exams

The Agnes Scott Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa held its annual mid-winter
initiation ceremony Saturday, Febru-
ary 16, at 5 o'clock in Mr. Johnson's
studio. At this time, Mary Boggs,
Katherine Hertzka, Eva Poliakoff, and
Isabel Shipley, recently elected, were
formally initiated. The ceremony was
followed by a banquet at 6 o'clock in
the Alumnae tea house.

Miss Catherine Torrance, president
of the local chapter, conducted the sec-
ret initiation services. Thirty faculty,
associate, alumnae, and affiliate mem-
bers of Phi Beta Kappa were present.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society was es-
tablished in 1776 at William and Mary
College, Williamsburg, Va. It is the
oldest scholastic and collegiate fratern-
ity in the world. There are at present
107 chapters, eleven of which are in
woman's colleges. Four is the maxi-
mum number of members elected to
the Beta Chapter of Agnes Scott at the
mid-term announcement.

Silhouette Gives
Fashion Parade

Dr. Hope, Y.W.C.A, Chapel Speaker,
Makes Interesting Talk On Peace

Dr. John Hope, president of Atlanta
University, is well qualified to speak
on "Peace," as he did at the Y. W. C.
A. chapel program on February 19.
Born three years after the Civil War,
a youth at the time of the Spanish-
American war, and a participant in the
Great War, he finds war "very interest-
ing, very bloody, and very unneces-
sary."

"War is a phenomenon," continued
Dr. Hope, "the least part of which is
the fighting. The awful thing is that
which you and I carry around in our
very souls. War is the result of the
conditions of life and thought among
exploited people." As the great major-
ity of people are exploited, racially or
economically, peace is difficult. "You
cannot make any great headway for

peace as long as you take advantage
of those that are down," said Dr.
Hope, "Exploited people cannot think
big, unselfish things; they must think
for themselves. Wonderful thinkers
come from this group, but all of their
thinking power is used up in think-
ing what is best for the little group
where it is."

Sympathy and understanding are
necessary when viewing the hopes and
activities of the exploited classes, and
this attitude is not one which the classes !
in power readily accept. "I would that
all men be at peace; I would that all;
men be brothers," concluded Dr. Hope.
"I really believe that soon people of
both groups are going to think so right-
ly that the world of exploiters and
the world of exploited will follow in
the footsteps of Jesus."

Plans are now being completed for
the competitive examinations given
annually for the past two years to high
school seniors who are considering
Agnes Scott as their future Alma
Mater. The examinations will be given
on March 1, under supervision at the
local high schools in the case of ap-
plicants in other cities, and on the cam-
pus at Agnes Scott in the case of ap-
plicants in Atlanta and the vicinity.
The latter will be guests of the college
at lunch in the dining room of Re-
bekah Hall.

One-hour examinations will be given
in three subjects: English, Latin (Cic-
ero or Virgil), and a third subject to
be chosen by the contestant from al-
gebra, French, chemistry, or physics.
A full scholarship for one year ($700)
will be awarded the contestant receiv-
ing the highest rating, and a scholar-
ship for $5 00 will be given to the
runner-up. The decision will be based
75 per cent on the examination papers
and 2 5 per cent on the personality of
the student and her participation in
high school activities. Any high school
senior who has had three units of Latin
is eligible to take the examinations.

"Fashion Parade of 193 5," under the
joint sponsorship of the Cotillion Club
and the staff of the Silhouette, will be
presented tomorrow night, February
21, at 7:30, at "Casino Ascot," the
new name for Bucher Scott gymna-
sium.

Beautiful mannikins will model
gowns from George Muse Clothing
Co., Rich's, and the Martel Shop. In
the entertainment spotlight will be the
music of the Emory Aces and a series
of skits presented by Graham Jackson,
well-known negro pianist. Food and
drink will be presented by the Agnes
Scott tea-room.

The college community is cordially
invited. There will be a small cover
charge of 25c.

The personnel of "Casino Ascot" is
as follows:

Master of Ceremonies Betty Lou
Houck.

Head Waiter Nina Parke.

Waitresses Ellen Davis Wita More-
land, Eloisa Alexander, Alice Chamlee,
Jennie Champion.

Models Laura Whitner, Marguerite
Morris, Virginia Turner, Emily Mc-
Gahee, Sara Jones, Elizabeth Alexan-
der, Naomi Cooper, Nina Parke, Mary
Hull, Marie Wagner, Frances Espy,
and Marian Derrick.

The Founder's Day radio program
over Station WSB at 5 o'clock, Feb. 22,
followed by a dinner at the Druid Hills
Golf Club, will bring to a close the
first day of Agnes Scott's fourth Alum-
nae Week-end, February 22-23, accord-
ing to Mrs. W. M. Dunn, '16, Atlanta,
chairman of the curriculum committee
of the Alumnae Association.

Dr. J. R. McCain will open the
Founder's Day broadcast with a discus-
sion of Agnes Scott's building program.
George Winship, a member of the Board
of Trustees, will speak on one phase of
the history of Agnes Scott her form-
er presidents and trustees. Miss Lucile
Alexander, '11, will give a resume of
the Alumnae Week-end. Dean Nan-
nette Hopkins will wecome the visit-
ors.

The Triple Trio, which has won wide
acclaim through appearance at many
civic luncheons and banquets in and
around Atlanta, will have part on the
program. The members of the Triple
Trio are: Virginia Wood, Augusta
King, and Geraldine Young, first so-
pranos; Alice Chamlee, Nelle Chamlee,
and Betty Lou Houck, second sopranos,
and Jane Clark, Rosa Miller, and Shir-

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Rotary Daughters
Present Program
At Luncheon

Mr. Sidney Dickinson, well
known artist of the Grand Cen-
tral Art Gallery of New York,
will arrive in Decatur on March
8 to begin work on the portrait
of President McCain.

The sum of $75 0 has been
pledged for the portrait. Student
government donated $50 last
year, and the hoods donated by
the class of 193 3 have added to
the fund. Thus far the student
body has pledged $200, the facul-
ty $200, and the alumnae $200.

The Rotary Daughters of Agnes
Scott were guests at the last regular
luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club
of Atlanta, Monday, February 18. The
program, under the direction of the
Daughters Club, was devoted to Agnes
Scott and the meaning of Founder's
Day.

The program was opened by Susan
Turner who gave the weekly Sunshine
Report of the club. The report was fol-
lowed by three brief talks on the ideals
of Rotary as the daughters of Rotarians
saw these ideals personified in their
fathers. Alice Dunbar spoke on
"Friendship"; Mary Jane Tigert, on
"Service", and Eugenia Syms, on
"World Fellowship." Martha Peake
Brown explained the meaning of Feb-
ruary 22 to Agnes Scott, and Esther
Byrnes gave a short talk on the minuet
as an illustration of the life at the time
of Washington. Four couples in colon-
ial costumes danced the minuet. Isabel
McCain was the presiding officer dur-
ing the program.

Mr. J. K. Orr Will Celebrate

Seventy-Eighth Birthday

On Thursday, February 21, Agnes
Scott will celebrate the seventy-eighth
birthday of her beloved J. K. Orr.

Officially, perhaps, Mr. Orr is, and
has been since 1915, the chairman of
the Board of Trustees, but his real rank
is that of "Grandpa" to all Agnes Scott.
When he became chairman of the
board, he immediately began plans for
the consolidation of buildings and
acreage; the result is our present cam-
pus. In 1919, he went still further for
it was under his guidance that Buttrick
Hall and the Gymnasium were project-
ed and completed. Most recent of the
notable things that he has planned for
us is the power plant and laundry which

was built in 193 0. It has been under
his leadership that the building values
on the campus have increased from
$45 5,000 to $922,000.

This year, when he was interviewed
on the subject of his birthday, Mr. Orr
admitted that he would be seventy-
eight next Thursday, but he added that
when one was that old, one has learned
to keep his mouth shut. However, his
favorite saying is well-known to Agnes
Scott students, and no doubt the mes-
sage he would like to deliver to them
is:

"The truest test of woman's worth,
The surest sign of gentle birth,
Is modesty."

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THE HALF HONOR SYSTEM

One of the main objects of the "pointing with pride" of the
editorial writers of the Agnes Scott publications, and one of the
principal sources of student body pride for many years has been
the honor system which has been maintained as a policy of the
school. As a college, we have been inclined to smile tolerantly and
with a definite feeling of superiority at the various measures
taken by the faculties and student governments of other schools
to insure that honor and honesty which our faculty assumed were
so inherent in us that regulations, policing, and constant super-
vision were unnecessary. Every freshman inevitably is impressed
with the fact that this trust places a serious responsibility on her,
and is inspired with the hope of maintaining the standing and
reputation of Agnes Scott students. It has been a boast of stu-
dent government that the honor system has been eminently suc-
cessful. Of late there has been a campaign to make the so-called
double honor system as integral a part of the Agnes Scott con-
sciousness as the single system is. This double honor is the name
given to the duty of students not only to be honorable them-
selves in everything pertaining to their school work, but also to
report to the proper authorities any one whom they see violating
the rules of honesty.

Meanwhile, slowly but surely, and, latterly, quickly though
equally surely, we have been abandoning the honor system alto-
gether and by our actions denying both the success of the system
and the inherent honesty of Agnes Scott students. If we formerly
pointed with pride at our honor system, it is definitely time to
view with alarm. Instead of being governed under the double
honor system, Agnes Scott finds herself under a half honor system
if that.

Even formerly for the freshman it was a distinct shock to
come into a room where an examination was being given and be
told by the teacher in charge, "This examination is being con-
ducted under the honor system. Please leave your books outside,
and see to it that there is an empty seat between you and your
neighbor on either side." It was still, however, usually so great a
change from the high-schools where every examination room had
been frankly patrolled by the teacher on duty, that everyone
reveled in being able to go out of the room whenever she liked
and for whatever purpose, in being allowed to talk freely with
the rest of the class, and the full implications of the limitations
on one's freedom rather escaped the student body. Nevertheless,
now with the new regulations put into force during the spring
examinations in which student government ordered that there
he no going out of the room to the book store during an exam-
ination and that there be no talking there can no longer be any
evading oi the tacts. The question must arise in the mind of each
Agnes Scott student: "Is the honor system still in force?" If the
answer is \ es, then every student should deeply resent the insin-
uations of the new regulations; if the answer is no, there should
he a demand for the discontinuation of the farce that the honor
system has become and for an open, frank statement as to the
policy of student government on this point. The situation as it
Stands is, and should be, humiliating to any Agnes Scott girl
There must be an explanation to the student body at large for the
steps that have been taken.

The spectacle of a one-half honor system in which the honor is
gone but the system still remains is a tar cr\ from the ideals and
aspirations of the Agnes Scott student body.

This 42-year-old "Bonaparte of the
Bayous,'' this Scripture-quoting comic-
opera ruler, frankly has the great ma-
jority of the American people puz-
zled. How did he get such a grip on
the people of Louisiana, and how suc-
cessfully has he aided the condition of
the state?

This man who directs Louisiana's
state legislature, who is the first one
to attend committee meetings at which
he is legally not supposed to be pres-
ent; this man, who has usurped the
legislative, judicial, and executive func-
tion of the state of Louisiana and who
has even used military pressure against
his political enemies, is now senator
from his state to the United States
Senate.

Huey Pierce Long, one of nine chil-
dren of a Louisiana farmer, became a
traveling salesman at the age of 16,
because he was unable to accept a schol-
arship he had won to Louisiana State
University. Later, after attending Tu-
lane for not quite a year, he success-
fully passed the state bar examination
and was admitted to the bar. His first
public office was membership in the
Railroad Commission. It was at this
time, as a young man of 24, that he
first publicly announced his belief in
the more even distribution of the
wealth of America. In 192 8, Long was
elected governor of the state, and, dur-
ing his term of office, impeachment
proceedings were brought against him,
but were unsuccessful. Because he was
not legally permitted to succeed him-
self, he managed to get his friend, Os-
car K. Allen, elected as governor and
thus has been able to rule Louisiana
through him. At the same time, Long
conducted a successful campaign for
himself as senator.

The "senator-dictator" wields an
unbelievable amount of power in Lou-
isiana. The Long machine has control
of fixing tax assessments, of a secret
state police force, and has brought it
about that Long has power to remove
both elective and appointive local of-
ficials. The state's election machinery
is in Huey's hands, and he has curbed
the power of the civil courts.

The tactics he used in achieving his
hold on the people are probably the
source of most of the outside comment
on Huey. The people say he is too
boisterous. "He is the hillbilly come
into power, with the crudity of the
hillbilly and his native shrewdness mul-
tiplied tenfold." One of his outstand-
ing traits that of revenge is shown
in a number of his political actions.
He is a foe of corporations, because he

says he was kept from being made as-
sistant United States attorney through
corporation influence. One writer says
he carries a notebook in which he jots
down the names of those who oppose
him for future punishment. Long uses
his personality to maintain his grasp
on the people. His opponents say he
poses as a clown. "Beneath the comic
exterior, however, there lies a shrewd
and agile mind, a political strategist
1 unhampered by ethical scruples, an au-
tocratic position and a burning lust
for power power for its own sake and
power to punish those who seek to
thwart him." Huey Long knows how
to talk to a crowd. It is because of
this trait that one of his opponents
attributes his success to "ridicule, pat-
ronage, and a shouting appeal to the
mass emotions of the electorate."

But what has Louisiana's "Kingfish"
done for the state? Here are some
facts: During Huey's term as gov-
| ernor and later through his dictator-
ship, he has greatly improved the high-
ways of the state, has built a state
capitol and a governor's mansion, has
established night schools for illiterates,
has improved the port of New Orleans,
and has given free text-books to the
school children. He has improved the
state university and the elementary in-
stitutions of the state. He has reduced
the price of automobile licenses and
has abolished the poll tax. This "mon-
arch in pajamas" has provided for a
two-year debt moratorium, excluding
federal obligations. But Huey Long
has raised the debt of Louisiana from
SI 1,000,000 in 1928 to almost $150,-
000,000. Somehow he managed to find
new methods of taxation to meet each
stage of debt increase. In addition, he
has left the people of Louisiana alto-
gether bereft of any civil rights and
liberties.

And now this senator from Louisi-
ana comes forth with his "Share the
Wealth Plan," the main objectives of
which are to limit poverty to a mini-
mum of a $5,000 family estate and to
limit wealth to a maximum of $10,-
000,000. (Huey himself is reputed to
be a millionaire.) He says this plan can
be put into operation through taxa-
tion. The Share Our Wealth Society
which he created is said to have over
three million members. The Square
Deal Association of Louisiana has been
organized to fight this plan and the
Long dictatorship. This organization
will enable the world to see Huey
Long's real strength, and whether his
power is based on real popularity or
merely on physical force.

Universities in Japan have only 3 S
women students. Rollins Sa fids pur.

Some enterprising youths at the Uni-
versity of California have a nice little
business scheme. They have a secretary
and a lot of note takers who took notes
on lectures. Then the boys went around
selling the notes. The authorities are
in a quandary now, since the students
who buy the notes don't see any point
in going to classes, and as a result the
classrooms are depopulated. We are
waiting to see what will be done about
it. The Ring- turn Phi.

What the future holds as figured out
by students in the University of Min-
nesota law school in Minneapolis:

"A" men make the teachers.

"B" men make the judges.

"C" men make the money.

"And," added a wit, "the *D' men,
the Congressmen." The Kentucky
Kernel.

Nearly one-sixth of American uni-
versity graduates states they would not
bear arms in case the United States was
invaded, according to the semifinal re-
turns of The Literary Digest College
Peace Poll conducted among the stu-
dents of 115 leading universities, as
published in a recent issue of the mag-
azine.

Of the 91,0 5 5 students voting on
this issue 83.60 per cent, marked their
ballots that they would fight in case
an enemy invaded the United States,
while 16.40 per cent, voted negatively.
The Blue Stocking.

Tulane university college of arts and
sciences has dropped the honor system
after it has been in force for 5 0 years.
The Grinnell Scarlet and Black.

The United States has a higher pro-
portion of college graduates than any
other nation in the world. There is one
for every 44 persons. Campus Com-
ments.

A questionnaire sent out by the Co-
lumbia University Press to the largest
universities and colleges in the United
States and Canada has revealed that
faculty members read The New York
Times more than any other newspaper.
The Johnsonian.

A professor at Roanoke college
claimed some of his pupils would soon
be as famous as Napoleon at the rate
they are going down in history. The
Blue Stocking.

Among Other Gifts:
Rocking-Chairs

To Agnes Scott College, Friday, Feb-
ruary 22, brings an anniversary of
double significance, for while all Amer-
ica celebrates the birthday of "The
Father of Our Country," the college
community, in addition, will celebrate
Founder's Day observed in honor of
the birthday of George Washington
Scott.

Although he is held in love and es-
teem by the people of this section, the
south was not the birthplace of Colonel
Scott. He was born in Alexandria, Pa.,
February 22, 1829, the fourth son of
John Scott and Agnes Irvine. The
move to the south came in 18 50 when,
because of bad health, he was forced
to try a milder climate. After various
moves in Florida, Alabama, and Geor-
gia, he settled in Decatur in 1877 and
lived here until his death October 3,
1903.

During the twenty-six years of his
residence in Decatur, Colonel Scott was
closely associated with the founding
and developing of this school. It was
he who selected the grounds, and it was
as a result of his kindness and support
that Agnes Scott Hall was erected in
1890. The building received its name
from his mother, Mrs. Agnes Scott.
When the day came for the actual dedi-
cation of the hall, its founder, who was
noted for his extreme modesty, fled
from the expressions of gratitude show-
ered upon him, and is said to have re-

(Continued on page 3, column 5)

NEW BOOKS

Whether your interests are in music
or art, religion or political science, you
are sure to find something worth exam-
ining in the shelves containing the most
recently acquired books of the Agnes
Scott Library.

To those who, after hearing the lec-
ture of Dr. C. C. Harrold, have be-
come interested in Indians, the three
new books on that subject should be
welcome. The Indians' Book, by Natalie
Curtis, has a sub-title which explains the
character of the book, "An Offering by
the American Indians of Indian Lore,
Musical and Narrative, to Form a Rec-
ord of the Songs and Legends of Their
Race." A book undertaken for the
Indians in the hope that it might help

I to revive for the younger generation
the Indian race's rightful sense of dig-
nity and worth, it has been praised
widely for the sincerity with which it

1 portrays Indian life. The songs are
written in the Indian language, accom-
panied by their own music and English
translations.

Other books about Indians, written

jon a smaller scale, are The American In-
dians and Their Music, by Frances
Densmore, and The Book of Indian
Games and Dances, by Alice C.
Fletcher.

Greek Sculpture and Painting, by J.
D. Beazley and Bernard Ashmole, is the
newest addition to the art books, and it
is fascinating. It contains two hundred
and forty-eight prints of selections
I from Greek sculpture and art from the

ninth century B. C. to the early second
century, with notes of explanation. For
those even mildly interested in art, the
plates of the statues of gods and god-
desses, the wall paintings and pictures
from ancient coins should be interest-
ing.

In Race Relations, a book dealing
with the adjustment of whites and
Negroes in the United States, by Willis
D. Weatherford and Charles S. John-
son, the authors analyze and discuss
frankly various aspects of the problem
of race relations. They do not minim-
ize the difficulties of the problems nor
propose easy solutions, but they attempt
to destroy many popular fallacies in an
effort to bring about adjustment.

All who are interested in political
movements have an opportunity to read
about the present situation in any of a
number of countries. An Eyewitness in
Germany, by Fredrik Book, deals with
events in Germany from April, 1 93 3,
to the crisis on October 14th when
Germany left the Disarmament Con-
ference and resigned from the League
of Nations.

Woman in Soviet Riissie, by F.innm.i
Halle, is a picture of woman's place in
the new Russia. It is an answer to the
question: Can there be equality between
the sexes?

Through Tas(i\m to World Pouer
is an account of the Blackshirt Revolu-
tion. The author traces the regener-
ation of Italy through the various steps
that have led to her becoming a power
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Y. W. Activities

The social committee entertained the
student body with a Valentine party
Thursday, February 14, in the gym-
nasium. Quite a number attended the
party and engaged in dancing and
scavenger hunting. At the end of the
entertainment, ice cream cones were
served.

On Tuesday night, February 19, the
Mission Interest group sponsored an il-
lustrated talk on China, Greece, Jugo-
slavia, and Turkey by Dr. Arnold Mil-
ler, a missionary to China. This was a
most interesting program.

The Georgia Student Volunteer Con-
ference will be held February 22-24 in
Atlanta, and the outstanding speakers
at this conference will be Dr. Thurman,
Dr. Diffendorfer from New York, Dr.
Hoyt Miller, a missionary to Africa,
and Dr. Kerr Taylor from Decatur, a
former missionary to China. C'Lena
McMullen, of the class of 1934, will
also be present at this conference. All
of the members of the mission interest
group are planning to attend the ses-
sions of the conference.

The Freshman Cabinet has decided to
have the hobby groups meet every
week, and their schedule is as follows:
Book group on Monday, Charm group
on Tuesday, Current Events on
Wednesday, and dramatics also on
Wednesday. The latter has started to
work on the Easter pageant which is al-
ways given by the freshman class.

Agnes Scott was content with soup,
potatoes, slaw and cherry pie, Thurs-
day night, February 14, in order that
the difference between the cost of this
bill of fare and that of one regular
meal might go to the work of the
World Student Christian Federation.
The total raised was $29.48. Our vote
is for more "starvation dinners" we
like cherry pie.

Proposed Library Building

Assistant to Dean
Goes to Convention

Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean
of Agnes Scott, is in Atlantic City this
week attending the annual meeting of
the National Association of Deans of
Women. This is the nineteenth annual
meeting and will be held from Febru-
ary 20 to 23. It is to be followed by
a meeting of the National Education
Association.

NEW BOOKS

{Continued from page 2, column 5)
among the nations again.

Toward the New Spain, by Joseph A.
Brandt, gives the origin and growth of
federalism in Spain and its dangers and
promises. It covers the periods from
1810 through the downfall of the first
republic in 1874 and from 1917 to the
establishment of the second republic in
1930.

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contain a central tower which will, if
built, house a museum for the preserva-
tion of rare documents and other treas-
ures which the college might now pos-
sess had it adequate facilities for their
preservation and exhibition. The pres-
ent library is to be converted into a
student activities building. The main
reading room is to be used for a gen-
eral recreation hall, and the various
smaller rooms to be assigned to the sep-
arate student groups.

A new science hall is planned to
house the departments of biology and
botany, and Dr. McCain added that at
some future time it is hoped to include
here a department of the home. This,
he explained, is to be a "kind of glori-
fied" home economics course. The
present science hall is to be devoted to
the departments of chemistry and
physics. The site of the new building
has not been definitely decided yet.

For further beautification of the
campus the drive in front of Buttrick
Hall is to be extended from McDon-
ough to Candler Street. It will prob
ably pass where the Infirmary stands
now, and the Infirmary will be turned
around to face it. This drive will also
be connected with the drive in front of
Agnes Scott Hall, so that one may drive
from one part of the campus to an-
other.

The success of these plans depends on
the ability of the college and Board of
Trustees to raise the required $23 3,000.
Dr. McCain said that the prospect was
brighter than in December.

Society Spotlight

In all the hygiene books, the rule is
firmly laid down that business and
pleasure do not mix; that school girls,
in other words, should stay home on
week-nights and go out only over the
week-ends. Agnes Scott students are
paragons of virtue in this respect, ap-
parently, for during the past week most
of the activities were crowded into
the three short days of the week-end.
However, the social importance of
Thursday, February 14, Valentine's
Day, must not be overlooked, what
with telegrams, special deliveries, can-
dy, and flowers flooding the campus!

Among the girls who went home for
the week-end were Mary Comely, to
Abbeville, S. C.J Lavinia and Marjorie
Scott, to Milledgeville, Ga.; Sara Fran-
ces McDonald, to Jefferson, Ga.; and
Martha Allen, to Monroe, Ga.

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Julia Thing, Mary Pitner, and Eliz-
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LaGrange with Billy Turner.

Agnes Scott girls spending the week-
end in Atlanta were Marion Derrick
Emily Rowe, Ola Kelly, and Elizabeth
Heaton.

Rosa Wilder was a visitor at David-
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Blackfriars
The regular meeting of Blackfriars
was held last night in Miss Gooch's
studio. A one-act play, Far All Time,
was presented under the direction of
Mary Hutchinson. The cast included
Rosa Miller, Frances Steele, Augusta
King, and Virginia Byers.

German Club
The regular meeting of the German
Club was held Thursday afternoon in
the Y. \X'. C. A. Cabinet room. Mr.
Sam Shivar, of the German Depart-
ment of Emory University, spoke on
his year of study in Germany.

Pen and Brush Club
The Pen and Brush Club met Fri-
day evening in Martha Johnson's room.
Three new members, Isabel Richard-
son, Ellen Verner, and Carolyn Elliott,
were initiated. Mary Green spoke on
Cubism and Lilly Weeks on Futurism.

Pi Alpha Phi
Tryouts for Pi Alpha Phi were held
on Wednesday evening, February 13,
in the chapel. These tryouts were
judged by Mr. Hayes, Marian Cal-
houn, Sara Catharine Wood, Ida Lois
McDaniel, and Carrie Phinney Latimer.
The following girls were admitted:
Anne Wheaton, Ellen Little, Joyce Ro-
per, Hibernia Hassell, Mary Lillian
Fairly, Frances Norman, Esther Byrnes,
Jean Austin, Jane Turner, Betty Math-
is, and Jean Barry Adams. Initiation
for the new members was held Thurs-
day night at seven o'clock in Miss
Gooch's studio.

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mained for the rest of the exercises in
the darkest corner he could find.

With the years, Colonel Scott only
increased his interest in the activities of
the college. His concern for the stu-
dents is shown by his firmly stated
rule that the room of each student, in
addition to the other carefully selected
furniture, must contain a rocking
chair.

He was familiar with the name of
every girl attending the school and ex-
pressed his feeling for them in the gifts
of oranges and grapes that he continu-
ally sent to the boarding students from
his winter home in Florida. During the
early years while the school was strug-
gling to gain a secure financial footing,
Colonel Scott generously paid each
year's deficit, thus enabling the insti-
tution to maintain the high scholastic
standards with which it began. In spite
of all this help, when the school wished
to hang his portrait in Agnes Scott
Hall, he requested that they wait until
after his death.

Consequently, after his death the
portrait was hung, and, in addition,
Founder's Day was instituted in order
to keep before the students the con-
stant reminder of the true "gentilesse"
of Agnes Scott's firm friend, George
Washington Scott.

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FEB. 22 WEEK-END

BRINGS VARIED ACTIVITIES

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ley Christian, contraltos. Miss Miriam
Dean, ex-'20, Opelika, Ala., will be
guest soloist.

The dinner at the Golf Club at 6:30
is for the alumnae and their husbands
or escorts. Guests will be welcomed by
the following local club presidents:
Sarah Belle (Brodnax) Hansel!, '23;
Susan (Shadburn) Watkins, '26; and
Miss Lucile Daley, ex-'IS. After a talk
by Dr. McCain, moving pictures of
campus life will be shown by Elinor
Hamilton, '34.

The annual Founder's day banquet
for the entire school is another feature
of the varied week-end program. The
banquet is given each year in honor of
Colonel George Washington Scott,
founder, and this year will take place
Friday at 6:10 in Rebekah Scott Hall.

The series of lectures will occupy the
principal place on the Alumnae Week-
end program. On Friday and Saturday
mornings, members of the Agnes Scott
and Emory University faculties will
discuss "Our Changing Standards."
Also on Saturday morning, five speak-
ers will address the guests on "Mother-
hood: A Profession for the College
Woman."

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Touchstone; Louise Jordan, Gilbert
Turner; Augusta King, A. B. Padgett;
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Pat Arring-
ton; Sara Lawrence, Felton White;
Katherine Leipold, Eugene Anderson;
Gertrude Lozier, Joe Oliver; Edith Mer-
lin, Alex Jacobs; Rosa Miller, Hal Gib-
son; Alice McCallie, Jimmy Jepson;
Josephine McClure, L. A. Russell, Jr.;
Sarah Frances McDonald, Lauriston Ez-
zell; Sallie McRec, Gordon Robinson;
Sarah Nichols, Jack Judge; Mary Perry,
Edgar Weir; Mary Richardson, John
Hulse; Evelyn Robertson, Martin Jar-
man; Emily Rowe, Henry Mobley;
Mary Snow, Tom Seigler; Adelaide
Stevens, W. R. Glenn; Mary Margaret
Stowe, Sidney Flynt; Eugenia Symms,
Bill Starr; Miriam Talmage, Travis
Acree; Jane Thomas, Charles Ris;
Marie Townsend, Tury Redmond;
Sarah Turner, Hal Strickland; Mary
Vines, Corley Wright; Mary Walker,
Bill Fox; Jane Allen Webb, Hardy Mc-
Calman; Carolyn White, Emile Hum-
mel; Nell White, P. M. Rogers; Re-
becca Whitley, Carlton Nunan; Sarah
Catherine Wood, Hugh Embry; Vir-
ginia Turner, John Home; and Lilly
Weeks, Rowland W. Murray, Jr.

Agnes Scott will be represented at
two important athletic conferences in
March, the State Conference of Wom-
en's Athletic Associations of Georgia
and the sectional conference of the
Federation of College Women.

Leonora Spencer and Helen Handte
have been chosen as delegates to the
State Conference of Women's Athletic
Associations, to be held at Statesboro,
Georgia, March 1 and 2. This confer-
ence, which includes all the women's
athletic associations of the state, was
founded at Agnes Scott in 192 8, and
has since been held annually.

Frances McCalla and Ann Coffee
will represent the Agnes Scott Ath-
letic Board at the sectional conference
of the Federation of College Women,
which will be held at the Greensboro
Woman's College of the University of
North Carolina, March 21-23. The
athletic associations of 240 colleges
are actively affiliated with this fed-
eration. The Agnes Scott delegates
will present material on the subject of
the club organizations within the ath-
letic association.

Little Brown Jug

Creates Interest

The annual Little Brown Jug con-
test between the Boarders' and the Day
Students' basketball teams will be held
Tuesday, February 26.

Evidence of enthusiasm is seen in
the large number of girls out for the
teams. There are so many day students
that they will be divided into two
teams this year, one from Atlanta and
one from Decatur.

The girls who are in charge of the
different teams are:

Atlanta, Mary Keale; Decatur, Eliz-
abeth Burson; Inman, Anne Thomp-
son; Main, Eleanor Lemmon; and Re-
bekah Scott, Carrie Phinney Latimer.

In a fast, interesting basketball game
played on Friday night, February 15,
between the freshmen and the seniors,
the freshmen defeated the seniors 54 to
19. Frances McCalla and Elizabeth
Young did excellent work for the sen-
iors, while Ann Thompson and Eliz-
abeth Blackshear were the outstanding
freshmen players.

The line-up was:

Freshmen Seniors
Thompson (f) 14 Poliakoff (f) 5
Blackshear (f) 16 McCalla (f) 7

Jeffers (f) Young (f) 7

King (g) Blackshear (g)

Adams (g) Allen (g)

Robinson (g) Spencer (g)

Substitute:
Pardee (f) 4

In the Sophomore-Junior game play-
ed the same night, the sophomores won
by a score of 24 to 18. Elizabeth Bur-
son and Katherine Bennett for the
juniors and sophomores respectively
were favorably noticed for their play-
ing.

The line-up was:

Sophomores Juniors
Walker (f) 8 Handte (f) 4

McCain (f) 2 Bishop (f) 6

Bennett (f) 14 Stevens (f) 8

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you to see what the other half of the
Agnes Scott Athletic world is doing!
On Wednesday, February 27, the offi-
cials of the Physical Education Depart-
ment will be hostesses at an "open
house ,> in the gym to acquaint the
college community with the aims and
methods of the different classes, it was
announced recently by Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, head of the department.

Classes continuous from 9:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m. will be open to the public,
and everyone is cordially invited to
come in at any time during the day
to see the various phases of the athletic
department in operation. The schedule
is as follows:

9:30 Advanced tap dancing.

10:30 Folk dancing.

11:30 Social dancing.
2:30 Intermediate natural danc-
ing.

3:30 Basketball, practice game.
4:30 Dance club.
5:00 Water polo.

Laura Steele has been elected editor
and Katherine Bowen business manager
of the sophomore issue of the Agon-
istic in the annual contest. The soph-
omore paper will be the third class edi-
tion and will be published February 2"".
At the conclusion of the contest with
the freshman issue of March 6, the four
papers will be judged by the editors of
the newspapers of Columbia University,
Vassar College, the University of Mis-
souri, and Randolph-Macon, and Mr.
N. S. Noble, of the Atlanta Constitu-
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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935.

No. 15

Dr. Davidson to Make Address
At Inter-Collegiate Convention

Student Government Association
Meets At Florida College
On March 28-30

Blackfriars Play

A. Palmour to Lead Discussion

Dr. Philip Davidson, professor of
history at Agnes Scott, will address the
annual convention of the Southern In-
ter-Collegiate Association of Student
Government held at the Florida State
College for Women, March 28-30. Fol-
lowing his speech on student interest
in public affairs, Dr. Davidson will
lead a discussion on the subject. Al-
berta Palmour, president of student
government at Agnes Scott, will lead
a discussion on honor system.

Bert Palmour, who is now president,
the president for next year, who will
be elected within the next few weeks,
and one more delegate will represent
Agnes Scott at the convention. Ap-
proximately 80 delegates will be pres-
ent from leading southern colleges.
Committee Plans Program

Plans for the convention were made
by the executive committee of the as-
sociation when it met recently at Ag-
nes Scott. The committee is composed
of Mary Virginia Barnes, Randolph-
Macon, president of the association;
Caroline Demontigne, Florida State
College for Women, vice-president;
Doris Davis, Sophie Newcomb, secre-
tary; and Alberta Palmour, Agnes
Scott, treasurer. The program includes
discussion groups on various phaies of
campus life and problems, and ad-
dresses by several speakers, among
whom is Dr. Davidson.

Cotillion Members
Model New Gowns

Members of Agnes Scott Cotillion
club acted as hostesses and models in
Rich's sub-deb department on Friday,
February 22, and received for the club
twenty-five dollars offered by Rich's
for obtaining the signatures of 200
visitors and friends of the college. Nina
Parke arranged for the Agnes Scott
Day at Rich's with Mr. Paul Jones, per-
sonnel manager, and Mrs. Janie Rivers
Hall, manager of the sub-deb depart-
ment.

Hostesses and models included Eliz-
abeth Alexander, Emily McGahee,
Frances Espy, Nina Parke, Marie Wag-
ner, Virginia Turner, Mary Hull, Mary
Garland, Laura Whitner, Marguerite
Morris, Marian Derrick, Sarah Jones,
Hester Ann Withers, Lavinia Scott,
Betty Roache, Caroline Long, Vera
Frances Pruet, Nell White, Rosa Mil-
ler, and Kay Ricks.

The girls modeled in the tea-room
from 12 to 2:3 0, and worked in the
sub-deb department the remainder of
the afternoon. Five dollars in mer-
chandise will be given the girl who
made the most sales, and $2.5 0 to the
one who came second.

Two and a Third Buy
Lamp for Reflecting
Shadows of Suspicion

The new lamp that now graces
the student government execu-
tive room has been carefully se-
lected by Frances Wilson, Kath-
ryn Bowen, and a third person
who was deeply impressed.

It is a floor lamp of impressive
design, with a reflector in addi-
tion to the usual lighting effect.
The reflector is designed to cast
ghostly shadows which play upon
the features of any girl brought
before the council, enforcing
upon her the dignity and solemn-
ity of the occasion.

For less important cases, per-
haps the reflector will not be
used.

Above is Jimmy Jepson as the Col-
lege Professor Fredericks scolded by
Mary Hutchinson in "Craig's Wife."

Blackfriars Group
Gives "Craig's Wife"

Play Is Pulitzer Prize Winner;
To Take Place March 1, 2
In College Gym

The change of Walter Craig from
a "wife-ridden sheep afraid to buy a
necktie for fear his wife won't like
it" to a thoroughly "self-respecting
fool" is the foundation for the differ-
ent and very interesting plot of George
Kelley's Pulitzer prize winning play,
Craig's Wife, which the Blackfriars
will present on the nights of March 1
and 2 in the Agnes Scott gymnasium.

When the play opens, Mrs. Craig is
revealed as completely in control of
her "inveterately idealistic" husband,
who, unconscious of the extreme self-
ish exclusion of her nature, is sincere-
ly in love with her. As the plot de-
velops, however, Miss Austen, Craig's
old aunt, manages, with the help of
several significant circumstances, to
convince Craig that his wife has real-
ly married him as part of a bargain
whereby she may gain security and
protection and a house which she wor-
ships as a sort of "Holy of Holies." His
realization of the truth in time to pre-
serve his self-respect gives the play a
satisfactory if not a happy ending.

Freshmen Elect
Va rious Officers

Important freshman elections of last
week include that of Elizabeth Black-
shear as president of the class to suc-
ceed Martha Long, who has resigned;
Ann Worthy Johnson as vice-president;
Ann Thompson and Nell Hemphill as
class representatives on student gov-
ernment executive council; and Fran-
ces Robinson as the athletic board
member.

Also on Wednesday, February 20, the
class chose Eliza King and Mary Past
as editor and business manager of the
freshman edition of the Agonistic.

Agnes Scott Plans
High School Party

Approximately 250 high school
seniors from Atlanta, Decatur, Avon-
dale, College Park, and East Point will
attend an all-day campus party at
Agnes Scott on Saturday, March 2 3.
A party is given annually by the col-
lege and the alumnae association for
the members of the senior academic
classes for the purpose of acquainting
them with the campus and the college
activities.

Dr. Poteat Is
Y. W. Speaker
For Services

The Good Life" Is to Be Theme

March 12-16 Dr. Edwin McNeil
Poteat, Jr., of Raleigh, North Carolina,
will conduct the series of evangelistic
services sponsored every spring at Ag-
nes Scott by the Agnes Scott Y. W.
C. A. cabinet. The theme of Dr. Po-
teat's talks will be "The Good Life."

Dr. Poteat is pastor of the Pullen
Memorial Baptist church in Raleigh,
and is particularly well-known for his
influential work among young people.
He was the principal speaker last sum-
mer at the Blue Ridge Young People's
conference, where a number of Agnes
Scott girls had the pleasure of hearing
him. Their enthusiastic reports about
him promise an inspiring series of
services.

Speaks In Chapel Period

The week has been planned so that
as many students as possible may hear
and meet Dr. Poteat. The chapel period
each morning of the week will be giv-
en over to him. He will meet with
the Y. W. C. A. cabinet at its regular
meeting on Tuesday evening. To give
the opportunity of meeting Dr. Poteat
personally, the cabinet will give a re-
ception on Wednesday afternoon. On
Thursday night there will be an in-
formal singing followed by discussions
of any problems the students may wish
to talk over with Dr. Poteat.

Elections to Occur
For School Leaders

Popular nominations for student of-
ficers of the various college organiza-
tions will take place on March 16, and
will be posted, together with the com-
mittee nominations, on March 10. On
March 21, 22, the elections will occur.

Once a week since the beginning of
the second semester the nominating
committee for officers for next year
has been meeting in the student gov-
ernment executive room. The commit-
tee is composed of the presidents and
vice-presidents of student government,
the athletic association and Y.W.C.A.,
the editors and business managers of
the three college publications, the pres-
ident of the day students, and the re-
corder of points.

French Club Fetes
Alliance Francaise

Honoring the Alliance Francaise of
Atlanta, the faculty and members of
the Agnes Scott Alliance will present
le QuaMeme, by Martial -Piechaud, on
Thursday evening, March 7, in the
college chapel. The college commun-
ity and friends are invited.

Last spring, the Agnes Scott Alliance
on this occasion gave Moliere's les Pre-
cieuses Ridicules. This year they inter-
pret a modern one-act play which has
enjoyed much popularity and commen-
dation at the Comedie-Francaise.

The four major roles in the play
will be played by: Mary Virginia Al-
len, Marie; Augusta King, Brigitte;
Betty Fountain, Solange; and Elizabeth
Rodrigue, Bernard Levasseur. The play
is directed by Miss Lucile Alexander.

With very subtle yet vivid dialogue
M. Martial-Piechaud, in one hour of the
characters' lives and one hour of the
audience's time, gives a delicate life
history of three old maids and the one
man ("le quatrieme") whom each feels
she should have married.

Glee Club to Present Opera,

"Pirates of Penzance/' In May

Founder's Day

Raleigh Baptist Church Pastor '
Is Inspiring, Well-known
As Youth Leader

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Alberta Palmour and Martha Red-
wine impersonate George and Martha
Washington on Founder's Day.

Gay Banquet, Dance
Are Day's Program

Colorful Decorations, Toasts,
White Wigs Are Features
Of Celebration

Over gala banquet tables in Rebekah
Scott dining hall Friday night, Feb-
ruary 22, the boarding students and
faculty celebrated the college's found-
ing by Georgia Washington Scott and
the birthday of the man who could
not prevaricate about a cherry tree.
The traditional minuet and a Cotil-
lion Club dance played for by the
Emory Aces followed the banquet.

The table decorations were cran-
berry sauce, red mints, nuts, patriotic
napkins, fruit cocktails, candles, and
cherry trees stuck with flags. The
most decorative table was the one at
which the life and times of George
Washington were reincarnated with
lace-frilled satin suits, ruffled hoop-
skirts, and white wigs.

To versified toasts delivered and
answered at the colorful speakers' ta-
ble, the sophomores sang answering
verses. It was told how "George Dervy
became Martha's lervy-dervy," how
Patrick Henry "took a mighty breath
and burst the buttons off his vest for
liberty or death," how Lafayette
fought in "satin pants," and how Dan-
iel Boone "made for the wide open
spaces" when he saw the typical man
of the day.

Next Issue Ends
Aurora's Contest

Anna Humber, editor of Aurora, an-
nounces that all material for the next
issue of the college literary magazine
must be in on or before March 1.

This issue, the last to be published
before the election of the new staff,
will conclude the contest for the
best poem, short story, and essay of
the year. A prize of five dollars will
be awarded for the best poem, and two
dollars and a half each for the best
short story and essay.

Eta Sigma Phi Has
Ten New Members

Eta Sigma Phi, national Latin and
Greek honorary fraternity, will hold
its annual initiation of new members
Wednesday, February 27. The fol-
lowing girls will be admitted: Sa-
rah Johnson, Kathryn Bowen, Laura
Steele, June Matthews, Frances Cary,
Mary King, Mary Jane Tigert, Isabel
McCain, Floyd Butler, and Molly Jones.

Famous Gilbert and Sullivan
Success Is Gay, Romantic
Story of Love

Cast For Comedy Is Complete

The Agnes Scott glee club, under the
direction of Mr. Lewis Johnson, will
present Gilbert and Sullivan's delight-
ful comic opera, The Pirates of Pen-
zance, as its annual light opera. The
tentative date of the performance is
Saturday, May 2 5.

The Pirates is a rollicking story of
a major-general (played by Richard
Smoot, the Ko-Ko of last year's Mika-
do) and his twenty beautiful daugh-
ters, who are captured by pirates. Prep-
aration for war, the love of a pirate
prentice (Bealy Smith) for Major
Stanley's youngest daughter (Betty Lou
Houck) form the plot. Other mem-
bers of the main cast are: Eugene Tra-
ber, Lowell Green, Alexander Blair,
Jane Clark, Alice Chamlee, Martha
Young, and Shirley Christian. Under-
studies are Augusta King, Nelle Cham-
lee, and Geraldine Young.

Chorus Includes Many

Members of the glee club who are
in the chorus as General Stanley's
daughters are: Jean Barry Adams, Net-
tie Mae Austin, Gene Caldwell, Mil-
dred Davis, Mary Hull, Sarah Jones,
Florence Lasseter, Rose Northcross,
Frances Wilson, Virginia Wood, Louise
Brown, Carolyn Elliott, Alice Hannah,
Nell Hemphill. Sarah Johnson, Rachel
Kennedy, Rosa Miller, Mary Alice
Newton, Mary Past, Frances Steele,
Mary Thompson, Mildred Thompson,
Jane Allen Webb, Mary Malone, and
Jean Peabody.

Men who will be in the choruses of
pirates and policemen are: Messrs. Aus-
tin, Bullard, Chappell, Dobbs, Green,
Davis, Powell, Gill, Addy, Dial, Mc-
Clure, Staples, Stanley, Smoot, White,
(Continued on page 4 Col. 1 )

Latin Department
Presents Speaker

A speaker to be looked forward to
with more than usual interest is Dr.
George Mason Whicher, of Amherst,
Mass., whom the Latin department will
present in chapel here on March 5.

Dr. Whicher was head of the clas-
sical department at Hunter College for
twenty-five years, and bears an honor-
ary degree from Padua, one of the old-
est universities in Europe. He is noted
as a scholar, teacher, and poet of real
greatness. A contributor to such maga-
zines as Harper's and Scribner*s, he has
also published several volumes of poe-
try, among them: Sonnet Singing, Ro-
man Pearls, On the Tibnr Road, and
Vergiliance.

He is widely admired both for the
beauty of his poetry and for his charm
as a speaker, and his talk should prove
of real interest to the entire college
community.

Calendar of Events Is
Friend of the Careful
But Foe of the Foolish

In order that procrastinators
may see how long they can put
things off, and in order that
careful souls may see how long
they have to do them, this cal-
endar of coming events is pub-
lished:

March 1, 2 Blackfriars play

March 2 Junior banquet

March 12-16 Religious week.

March 2 8- April 3 S pring
vacation

April 26 Memorial Day

May A May Day

May 14 Final examinations
begin

May 26 Baccalaureate sermon
May 28 Commencement day.

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THE QUARTER SYSTEM

Asked at a recent open forum to consider as students the
proposed quarter system as opposed to our present semester
system, we have not, it seems from recent discussions, under-
stood the exact meaning of the system. We believe an explan-
ation would be helpful in forming student opinion. The co-oper-
ative system, which would include the quarter system, has been
discussed, but the quarter system itself has never been fully ex-
plained.

The quarter system would mean a tri-mester instead of a
semester system. It would mean three subjects every day instead
of from five to seven alternating three times a week. However,
the six-day schedule would remain in force.

There are very definite advantages to this proposed system.
Taking three subjects every day would permit certain concentra-
tion instead of so much distribution in a given term, and would
cut down on the number of examinations. Also advantageous
are the facts that the examination period for the first quarter
would fall before the Christmas holidays, and that the situation
fits in better with summer school work taken at other colleges.

The chief disadvantages of the quarter system include the
possible problem of having to leave off a subject, such as a lan-
guage, for a quarter before it can be continued, and of the offer-
ing of certain courses every day a week: freshman English, which
is a matter of growth and development in the ability of writing,
should not be given so often in such a short period of time.
Neither should freshman history or mathematics be crowded.

Whether this plan will be inaugurated at Agnes Scott, we do
not know. We only know that a committee is studying the
system and that we have been asked to consider it. It is to help
our consideration of this system that we have attempted an ex-
planation.

COMMON SENSE

In answer to a demand in last week's editorial column for an
"open, frank statement ,, as to the policy of student government
in regard to the honor system, we would give briefly a few of the
arguments for our system which seem to us reasonably obvious
to anyone willing to consider them.

It is unnecessary to point out that no honor system can ever
be completely perfect. But the system here at Agnes Scott is
recognized, by those really acquainted with the workings of it,
as unusually successful.

As for the regulations in regard to the system, they should be
viewed as a matter of ordinary common sense rather than as an
alarming subject for soap-box oratory in demand for usurped
rights. In the first place, the regulations are intended to free stu-
dents from any possibility of suspicion. There have been, in the
history of the college, actual cases of girls who received informa-
tion from notes in then- mail -boxes. Any student going to the
mail-room would naturally be looked on questioningly, and it
was therefore for our own protection that the regulation regard-
ing the mail-room was made. In the second place, the regula-
tions, by removing temptations to a certain degree, make honesty
easier tor everyone. But the real need for regulations is to insure
those taking exams of proper conditions under which to work.
Talking, much leaving and entering the room, noisy eating,
crowding ot scats close together all make concentration next
to impossible tor many, and it was at the request of students
themselves that regulations in regard to these disturbances were
made. It seems mcrclv childish to criticise these very same re-
strictions with talk of "humiliation to the Agnes Scott girl" and
"half-honor systems."

Any criticisms or suggestions are always welcomed at open
forum discussions, and anyone having a better plan in mind
would find it gladly accepted there. But the question of the
honor system has been considered frequently and fully by stu-
dent government, and seems to those who have really studied
the matter the best possible plan that could be devised.

Decision of Court
Averts Financial
Upheaval

Except for some mournings for the
death of the Constitution and grumb-
lings from holders of Gold Bonds, the
Supreme Court's recent decision in re-
gard to the Gold Clause was received
with relief.

The two law suits, settled by the
decision which had kept the world in
suspense for weeks during their period
before the court, were brought by cit-
izens who believed, with many others,
that the Gold Clause in the Money
and Banking Act was unconstitutional.
The clause had empowered the Pres-
ident to suspend all gold payments,
to devaluate the dollar by not less than
5 0 per cent nor more than 60 per cent,
and to confiscate all gold. There were
two objections to this law: it impaired
the obligations of contracts; it dele-
gated Congress' powers to the Pres-
ident. These men were suing for pay-
ment in gold or its equivalent, the one,
of corporation bonds, the other, of
government bonds.

Court Upholds U. S.

Fortunately for our price system the
court declared the act constitutional.
Had the decision been adverse to the
United States, undoubtedly prices
would have fallen and some kind of
an economic crisis would have occur-
red. But, in accordance with the de-
cision, payment of government bonds
in gold can now be secured only by
the difficult proof of direct damages
incurred because of the act. And even
if holders of state, city, or corporation
bonds were paid in gold (though such
payment is illegal), since its possession
is also illegal, it would have to be turn-
ed in and would bring only the low
price of old gold. Nothing would be
gained. Holders of government bonds
are, therefore, almost helpless, as a re-
sult of the decision.

Lucile Dennison.

World Problems Through
Recent Non-fiction

With the whole world in its present
state of chaos and upheaval, of politi-
cal confusion and changing policies,
numberless writers are applying them-
selves to the task of surveying condi-
tions, of delving into national and in-
ternational problems, and of investi-
gating the methods by which each na-
tion is struggling toward the final so-
lution, world peace, freedom, and hap-
piness.

Louis Adamic, an American immi-
grant from Yugoslavia who has become
an expert on social problems, writes
in his thoroughly interesting book, The
X at ire's Return, a powerful descrip-
tion of post-war Yugoslavia based upon
his own experiences and observations
during a ten-months' stay in his native
country. The Native's Return is the
outcome of Adamic's promise to him-
self and to his people "to interpret my
old country to America."

Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of
Musa Dagh is a story based on histori-
cal experiences during the war. It con-
cerns the brave decision of the Ar-
menians to die defending their lives and
property and faith instead of abandon-
ing their country, as the Turks had
ordered, until the world should emerge
from war.

In contrast to and yet vitally con-
nected with these views of European
problems is J. T. Shot well's Heritage of
FreedoiH, a survey of American and
Canadian attitudes toward co-operation
in world affairs viewed from an Amer-
ican angle. Shotwell discusses very
briefly but clearly the development of
American ideals and policies of free-
dom from their beginnings through the
aftermath of the World War. He is,
as many others are also doing, search-
ing for the answer to the unsolved
problem of world peace and freedom,
which he defines as the "capacity to
meet new problems unafraid."

Bi:tty Willis.

t

Dearest Giddy, my luff,

Vare haff you been? Ve haff not
seen you vor so lonk, mine darlink.
Der iss zo mooch newss dat ve dunt
know vare to begin or vat you haff
heard.

Giddy, ve vunder vy Barbara Hert-
vig was not att der Casino Ascot der
other night! Vas de filet de mignon
goot, BarbaYa?

Oh, ya, ya, ve heard a goot vun
de other day, bud itt iss an old vun.
Bud itt iss still goot, ya. Der vuss a
yong fraulein in Miss Jackzon's Hees-
tory klass vun day vot chust had to
answer her van mail und zo she took
dot time und wrote vourteen letters.
Att der end off her klass, der teacher
reeched in her desk, pulled oud some
stamps, und zaid: "Cutt I lent you
some stamps, Miss Scott?"

Bud, Giddy, you shud be in Dr. Gil-
lespie's klass. He is zo sweet. He giffs
you until next December to hand in
der derm papers!

Zay, ve heard dot Julia Thing vent
ooud vitt a Forest; iss dot der return
off der natif, Julia?

Dit ve mention der Amarican Hees-
tory klass? Veil, de other day Dr.
Davidson, thundered oud: "Dit der f ad-
der off Amarica enter der Reffolution
vor economic reasons?" "No,"
breethes Fidessah Edwards from der
back off der room. "No, no, a tous-

and times no!" reiterates D. D. to der
fazinated F. E.

Und ven Miss Liddle gafe her defi-
nition off heresy, der dokter raizes hiss
brows, feexes her vitt a stare, und de-
mands, "From vare dit you get dot
statement?" "From your klass notes,"
vas der komposed reply.

Ve haff learned lots of tings, mv
luff. Amazing! Ach, mine Himmel!
Ve haff learned dot ve neffer bring
un umbrulla ven itt rainz, dot der
school clock iss alvaze faster den our
vatch, und dot Edith Merlin iss der
most nonchalent gurl in der vorld;
she came to der Amarican Heestory fi-
nal, read der exam, settled back und
murmured: "I vish I hat brought a
book to read."

Veil, Giddy, itt iss aboud Sprink
und der Freshmen vill be tinking aboud
luff, zo I vill zay goot-pye mitt dis
liddle verze:

O, do not fall in luff:
Itt iss not chust der tink
Ven you iss att dis collidch
All through der merry Sprink!

O, vait until der Summer
Ven you can talk off luff
Vidout mixing itt vitt bridch
Und a lot off odder stuff!

Luff und kizzes,

Sophomore Aggie.

EXCHANGES

Vital Statistics

A number of statistical researches
have been carried on in other colleges
to ascertain numerically a few of the
facts of life. According to The Tech-
nique, two thousand wads of chewing
gum were recently removed from under
the library tables at the University of
Florida. Opposed to this literary dis-
covery is the practical calculation
made at Harvard that the average col-
lege student carries approximately
twenty-two cents with him. The
Ring- Turn Phi.

The following discovery will be of
interest to automobile salesmen and to
students generally: a survey of one
college, according to The Cox wain,
shows that students who own cars
made grades averaging 2 5 per cent
higher than those who did not. The
Flat Hat adds that there are more than
100,000 youths in colleges and second-
ary schools in the United States who
are being given military training; they
are training for the war, no doubt,
that our generation is supposed to have
soon.

CLUBS

The Spanish Club will meet Tues-
day, March 5, at 4:3 0 o'clock, at the
home of Louise Brown, 1780 North
Decatur Road. Trellis Carmichael, Ma-
rie Wagner, Mary Comely, and Emily
Rowe will present a program which
will illustrate the customs of four of
the Spanish provinces.

The members of Pen and Brush Club
are making plans for entering the soap-
carving contest sponsored annually by
the Procter and Gamble Company.

Instead of the regular February meet-
ing, the French Club members at-
tended the French moving picture, A
Nous la Liberte, at Bass Junior High
School. The picture was a satire on
mass production.

The Bible Club met Monday, Feb-
ruary 2 5, at 5 o'clock. Dr. Ellis Fuller,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Atlanta, spoke.

B. O. Z. will hold its next meeting
on Friday, March 1. The meeting will
be presided over by Edith Merlin, pres-
ident, and papers presented for try-outs
will be read.

Peter y Wendy, and Little Lost Boys
Convert May Day Dell to Fairyland

The Story of Peter Pan, The Boy
Who Would Not Grow Up, adapted
by Alice Chamlce and Jane Blick from
Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan, forms the
scenario for this year's May Day fete.

The plot concerns the reawakening
of fairyland at the return of Peter Pan
from the home of Wendy, Michael, and
John. Pink-eyed bunnies, flowers, but-
terflies, and toad frogs dance joyfully
to celebrate their playfellow's return.
Then the Little Lost Boys come tumb-
ling in followed by Tiger Lily with
her Indian maids.

But Tinker Bell, the lovely little
| fairy, jealous of Peter's absence, per-
suades one of the Lost Boys to shoot
the Wendy-bird. When Peter arrives
and finds his Wendy with an arrow
in her breast, he draws his dagger to
kill the guilty boy. He refrains, how-
ever, for Wendy revives. About this
time Wendy's brothers wander on the
stage and help in the building of a
tiny home around their sister. When
it is finished, Michael does a tap dance
and Wendy dances with Peter, who

chases her off the stage for a kiss.
This ends the first part of the play.

In the second part, Wendy, Peter,
and their friends dance gaily. To
get in Peter's good graces, and Tinker
Bell leads in the queen of the fairies
and her court. Then all fairyland comes
forth to celebrate the happy occasion.
The fairies, the elves, Tinker Bell, and
j Peter all dance one after the other.
Suddenly Captain Hook and his pirates
rush on the scene and the Little Boys
are badly frightened until the Indians
arrive to capture the pirates while Pet-
er deals with Captain Hook. But
when the celebration is about to be
continued, Wendy tells Peter that she
must return to the "real land" and all
the Little Lost Boys agree to go with
her. Then Peter and Wendy do their
farewell dance and gradually all the
characters drift off leaving Peter quite
alone. For a moment he is sad, but
then he begins to dance with his shadow
and finally moves off merrily to en-
snare more Little Lost Boys to his
land of eternal youth.

The Agonistic

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Ripley, After Extensive Travel,
Has Not Seen Strangest Sight

Famous Cartoonist Escapes Many Dire Tricks of Fate Unscathed ;
Yet Admits to Interviewer Narrow Escape
Of Nearly Missing Banquet

When asked what he considered the strangest thing in the
world, the man who has been called a liar more often than the
Baron Munchausen smiled most graciously from above his polka-
dot bow-tie and navy blue shirt to reply to a very inquisitive in-
terviewer that he had yet to see the strangest thing in the world.

With such a beginning, Robert L.

Ripley, artist, explorer, author, traveler,
sportsman, and radio artist discussed
his eventful life, his accidental inven-
tion of the "Believe-it-or-not" cartoon,
and his travels in 178 different coun-
tries to places such as La Paz in South
America, a village governed by the
fairer sex, or to heaven far beneath
the earth in Waitomo, New Zealand,
where cavernal glowworms forever cast
their celestial blue light in an under-
ground fairyland.

Ripley's drawings of such sights,
printed in eleven languages, bring him
more fan-mail than that received by
Rudy Vallee or Clark Gable.

"I have received many strange mes-
sages," said Mr. Ripley, "but the most
interesting incident concerning my
mail happened last year when I very
carelessly threw several letters out of
the window of my plane flying two
miles above the wildest part of South
Africa. Months later, believe it or not,
those letters arrived in New York."

To his limitless collection, Ripley
has added an additional fact as a re-
sult of his stay in Atlanta. Although
he knows more strange facts than any
other man in the world, he would have
missed the dinner given in his honor
had not the interviewer pointed out
to him the difference in Atlanta and
Athens time believe that or not!

Fashion Parade in Gym

Reveals Spring Styles

Tailored correctness for day time
and glamour for evening are the new
notes in the spring fashions shown at
the "Fashions of 1935" revue last
Thursday night in the Agnes Scott
gymnasium, the Casino Ascot for the
evening.

Mannish suits with broad shoulders
and belted backs, street dresses in
dusky pink and powder blue, taf-
feta used in striking combinations
with wool and linen, street dresses of
stiff taffeta, new off-the-face hats re-
vealing hair lines (especially bangs)
these trends in spring fashions were
the most noticeable.

Prints for spring are not new, of
course, but the prints this year mad,
gay, nonchalant swirls of flowers and
colors are very new for evening
gowns. Big picture hats are
back, and are very sophisticated when
worn at an angle. The tailored trend
finds expression even in dinner clothes,
and a charming black tulle dress was
shown which had a white pique Peter
Pan collar and cuffs and a wide suede
belt.

Balkcom Makes Changes

In Fire Drill Program

The obliging disposition of Frances
Balkcom, fire chief, has made neces-
sary a somewhat radical change in
plans for future fire drills, according
to a statement issued early this week.

Because of the malicious pleasure
derived from waking several hundred
people in the middle of the night, elev-
en girls, to date, have asked and been
granted the privilege of ringing the
fire alarm. That means, according to
Frances' calculations, eleven drills this
semester instead of the usual three or

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four. Since the prospective bell-ringers
are determined that their efforts be
properly appreciated, it also means that
the eleven drills must come at unusual
and unexpected hours.

All boarders are asked to co-operate
by being ready at any time to rise and
run.

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Teachers, Students
Reveal Dark Pasts

All Agree That College Needs
New Course on Forgetting
Embarrassments

'1 know not what the future hath
of marvel or surprise" but heaven help
me to forget the painful experiences
of the past, is the cry of some faculty
members and students who would like
for the curriculum to include a course
in forgetting.

When Mr. Davidson
joins in this chorus he
is thinking particular-
ly of one day last week
when his wife inter-
rupted his conversa-
tion with a friend to
ask him about a talk
he was supposed to be
making for a freshman
hobby group. With his
characteristic "Thunder and light-
ning," he fled, and, as far as is known,
is still hiding in the annals of Amer-
ican history.

Miss Haynes becomes extremely mor-
tified when reminded of her flight
down Peachtree Street followed by a
suspicious store detective demanding a
book which she had picked up with
her other packages. Another more reti-
cent and therefore nameless teacher
was extremely up-
set when she made
a perfect swan
dive upon Ella's
mirror-like floor
in Main build-
ing.

f . .

Nelle Chamlee describes her em-
barrassment when her best beau
stumbled over her as she lay spraw-
led out across the garden with
her locks in prosaic curlers and
her face smeared with cold cream. And
one sophomore, Nellie Margaret Gil-
roy, confesses that she was a little dis-
tressed when she boomed forth unex-
pectedly in the choir, turning a duet
into a trio.

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Emory, Tech Entertainments
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A. T. 0. Supper At East Lake Country Club Attracts Many Girls;
Emory K. A.'s Stage House Dance; Tech Dances,
Military Ball Are Popular

Now that the college contingent has partially recovered from
the hectic Pan-Hellenic week-end out at Tech, the A. T. O.'s charge
ahead with the first dinner-dance of the season at the East Lake
Country Club, where were seen Nell Scott Earthman with Sam
McCreary, Caroline White, Louise Mclntyre, Rachel Kennedy with

accompanied by Grey Cummins, and

Alumnae Association Has Augusta King with Phi Beta Kappa
Weekly Radio Programs Jimmy Tolbert.

Emory, just across the way, also
entertained Friday night. The South-
ern Gentlemen-K. A.'s had another
house dance, and among those present
were Nancy Moorer, Virginia Sauls,
Alice Chamlee, and Jane Lewis.

Some attended the annual Military
Ball at Brookhaven. Among those
present were Martha Lee Bowman, Dor-
othea Blackshear, Caroline Cole, and
Jule McClatchey.

Saturday night, too, had its bright
occasions: The weekly Anak dance at
Tech was attended by Gladys Valle-
buona with T. D. Eve. The Chi Phi's
at Emory entertained with a house
dance which Alice Taylor, Vivienne
Trice, Ellender Johnson, and Wita
Moreland attended.

On the calendar for this week-end
are the Tech Co-op dance on Friday
and the Phi Gam's dinner dance on
Saturday.

A series of weekly radio programs
presented by the Alumnae Association
under the direction of Miss Janef Pres-
ton, chairman of the publicity commit-
tee, have brought to Agnes Scott this
year the privilege of being well and
interestingly represented to the general
public as to school activities and in-
terests.

The radio has presented members of
the faculty, student organizations, and
alumnae in a variety of programs which
have included discussions of pertinent
questions, musical recitals, and lec-
tures on educational subjects.
Such student organizations a s
Blackfriars, who gave a portion of
their fall play, Shaw's "You Never
Can Tell," the glee club with a group
of Christmas carols, and Pi Alpha Phi
with a discussion between Isabel Mc-
Cain and Julia Thing on the subject,
"Has Hitler Benefited Germany?"
have been represented.

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Sally goes to
Rich's Tearoom
for luncheon . .

and runs into Peg who has the most
devastating "dark man" in tow . ..
and he tumbles for Sally the minute
he sees her in this saucy Spring
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plaid woolen. "It's called Princess
Marina," Sally -tells him, "and I found
it in my own special Shop Rich's
Sub-Deb Shop" ... He murmurs (so
Peg won't hear) "Well, it certainly I
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Alumnae Gather
For Annual

Over South
Radio Broadcast

Sophs, Juniors

Win In Basketball

Broadcast, Dinner, and Lectures
Celebrate Week-end Held
Here This Year

Alumnae returned in overwhelming
numbers to celebrate the fourth annual
Alumnae Week-end at Agnes Scott.
One hundred registered on Friday at
the college; that night 101 attended
the Founder's Day dinner at the Druid
Hills Golf Club. The attendance for
the two series of lectures was 13 8.

The radio program on Friday, Feb-
ruary 22, was the tenth annual broad-
cast, combined for the first time with
Alumnae Week-end. Groups who could
not come to the college met in Knox-
ville, Tennessee; New Orleans, Louis-
iana; New York City; Chattanooga,
Tennessee; Columbia, South Carolina;
and Montgomery, Alabama. A state-
wide meeting was held in Jackson, Mis-
sissippi; it was reported that the recep-
tion of the broadcast was perfect in
Staunton, Virginia.

Fifteen former students came from
out-of-town, and seven stayed at the
Anna Young Alumnae House: Lulu
(Smith) Westcott, Dalton, Ga.; Sarah
(Davis) Murphy, Newnan, Ga.; Helen
(Brown) Webb, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Lois Eve, Augusta, Ga.; Mary Waller
Shepherd, Sewanee, Tenn.; Anne Mc-
Kay, Macon, Ga.; and Eleanor Frier-
son, Columbia, Tenn.

There were forty children of alum-
nae who registered with Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn for the entertainment Satur-
day morning. Since their ages varied
from 4 to 12, Miss Wilburn separated
them into three groups for games,
swimming, exhibitions, directed activi-
ties such as tumbling and folk dancing,
and the story-telling hour.

The series of lectures given will be
published next April in the spring is-
sue of the Alumnae Quarterly.

GLEE CLUB TO PRESENT
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{Continued from page 1, col. 5)
Bobo, Bagwell, and three Agnes Scott
professors: Messrs. Davidson, Hayes,
and Robinson.

The Pirates of Penzance is probably
more closely linked to the United States
than any other one of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operas, because part of it was
actually prepared in this country, its
premiere performance was in New
York, and one of its melodies has been
adopted as an American quasi-folk
song: "Hail, hail, the gang's all here."
In the score of the opera Sullivan car-
ries out his parody of grand opera in
an inspired and delightful way, and
both composer and libretist are judged
to have exceeded even Pinafore in many
ways in their Pirates of Penzance.

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March 8, in Gym

Miss Health of Agnes Scott will be
chosen Friday night, March 8, at 7
o'clock in the gym, from a group com-
posed of one representative from each
organization on the campus.

Each representative is judged on the
following considerations: Good posture,
mental health, freedom from frequent
illness, and good feet.

The girls elected by the different or-
ganizations are approved by Dr. Sweet
on the basis of records kept in her of-
fice before they are allowed to enter
the contest. The actual choice of Miss
Health the night of the contest is made
on good posture and good feet supple-
mented by Dr. Sweet's record.

The purpose of the contest is to im-
prove the general health on the campus
by making the students realize what
good health is and by giving them some
idea of the benefits to be derived from
it. It is hoped that by this means every-
one will be made to think of her own
health and that of those around her.

The winner of the health contest last
year was Lucy Goss, a member of the
class of 1934. The year before last Miss
Health was Betty Lou Houck, a mem-
ber of this year's senior class.

March 1 to Be Date of Final
Game; Outcome to Decide
Banner Winners

D. Hutton and E. Hamilton
Make Trips for Alumnae

Elinor Hamilton, alumnae field sec-
retary, returned last week from a trip
to cities in South Carolina, where, at
fifteen high schools, she showed movies
of the Agnes Scott campus and activ-
ities. She also visited the homes of sev-
eral of the mothers of Agnes Scott stu-
dents.

On March 2, Dorothy Hutton and
Elinor Hamilton will leave Atlanta for
Knoxville and Nashville. In April they
plan to go to New York and Philadel-
phia to visit private schools. En route
they will stop over in Washington for
a conference of alumnae secretaries
from all over the United States, April
3-6.

The sophomores defeated the seniors
and the juniors defeated the freshmen
in two exciting basketball games played

Monday night, Febru-
ary 18. The final score
of the senior-sopho-
more game was 3 5-11
in favor of the sopho-
mores. The game be-
tween the freshmen
and the juniors ended
with the juniors lead-
ing in a score of 42-2,.
The final basketball
game of the season will
be played between the seniors and the
juniors, and the sophomores and the
freshmen this Friday night, March 1,
in the college gymnasium. The out-
come of these games will decide the
winner of the class basketball banner.

Bennett and Espy were the high-
scoring forwards of the sophomore and
senior teams, respectively. Stalker did
some excellent guarding for the soph-
omores, while Spenser seemed to be
troubling the sophomore forwards more
than they enjoyed. The line-up for the
senior-sophomore game was: seniors,
F., Poliakoff (2), Young (3), Espy
(5), G., Spenser, McCalla, Blackshear;
sophomores, F., Walker (12), Bennett
(17) , McDonald (6) , G., Fleece, Stalk-
er, Kneale.

Handte made some beautiful plays
for the juniors, while King and E.
Blackshear were among the "fightin'-
est" of the freshmen. The line-up for
the junior-freshman game was: juniors,
F., Handte (24), Bishop (10), Latimer
(8), G., Burson, Hart, Armstrong;
freshmen, F., Coit (4), Blackshear
(13), Pardee, G., Adams, King, Rob-
inson, substitute, freshmen, F.,
Thompson ( 2 ) .

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Dorothy Dix, Famous Adviser,

Speaks To Atlanta Audience

New Gym Season
Offers Activities
In Various Fields

Southern Personality Delights
Listeners of Highest Paid
Newspaperwoman

The spring gym season, which starts
Monday, March the 3rd, will offer a
variety of interesting sports. There
will be beginning, intermediate, and
advanced classes in both tennis and
swimming. In addition to the regular
swimming classes a course in life sav-
ing will be offered. For the first time
there will be a class for advanced arch-
ery enthusiasts as well as for beginners.
The riding classes will again be held
at the Biltmore Riding School. Soc-
cer, which was tried on the campus
last year for the first time, has proved
so popular that at the request of the
Athletic Board it will be offered again
this spring. Classes for both beginning
and advanced golfers will play at For-
rest Hills as they did last fall.

May Day, which has always been
popular in the spring, is open to any
student who has paid her student bud-
get and is eligible as far as her acad-
emic work is concerned. Those taking
May Day will be divided into groups
to start on the dances which the May
Day Committee is busy composing.

Registration hours for the spring sea-
son are:

Thursday, Feb. 28 9:00-12:30

1:30- 4:00

Friday, March 1 9:00-12:30

1:30- 4:00

Saturday, March 2 9:00-12:30

A small, gracious lady clad in a
black gown trimmed in jade, the fa-
mous journalist, Dorothy Dix, in
spite of her white hair, was delight-
fully youthful. Having spoken at the
Georgia Press Institute in Athens last
Wednesday, she visited Atlanta Thurs-
day as the guest of the Journal, and
was honor guest at the Woman's club
that afternoon.

The highest paid woman journalist
in the United States entertained her
listeners with excerpts from amusing
letters that she has received. All of
them were concerned with domestic
difficulties, such as: "You advised me
how to get my husband; now tell me
how to keep him."

Miss Dix admitted that it takes spe-
cial post office trucks to bring her
mail to her. And for all these letters
there can be no set answer, since she
deals with individual problems.

Dorothy Dix has thorough southern
poise: when someone unexpectedly and
heartily shook hands with her, remark-
ing that she was "stealing this," Miss
Dix smiled pleasantly, and when a
young girl hastily crawled under a ta-
ble to demand an autograph abruptly,
Miss Dix gave it graciously.

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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1935.

No. lti

Famous Artist
Begins Picture
Of Dr, McCain

Faculty. Students, and Alumnae
Donate Funds For Portrait
By Dickinson

Temporary Studio In Buttrick

Mr. Sydney Dickinson, a very well
known portrait painter, will come to
Agnes Scott next Thursday, March 17,
to begin work on the portrait of
President J. R. McCain.

Mr. Dickinson, nationally recog-
nized artist, confines his work ex-
clusively to portraits, and has for some
years exhibited his paintings in the
Grand Central Art Galleries of New
York. In a previous visit to Atlanta
he painted a portrait which now hangs
in the High Museum of Art.

At the University of Chicago and
elsewhere Mr. Dickinson has already
made several portraits of college celebri-
ties, and he comes to Agnes Scott di-
rectly from Skidmore College, where
he has just finished a portrait of the
President. He will start work at once
in a studio which is to be fitted
out for his use in Buttrick Hall.
Contributions Liberal

The fund for the portrait of Dr.
McCain was begun by the members
of the class of 1933. Since then liberal
contributions have been added by the
student body, the faculty, and alum-
nae who have graduated since Dr. Mc-
Cain became president of Agnes Scott.

Many definite details about the por-
trait are not yet known. However,
it is estimated that the task f painting
will take ten days, and that the por-
trait will be approximately the same
size as that of Miss Hopkins in Main
Hall. Dr. McCain will probably pose
in a business suit rather than in formal
cap and gown.

At the present there is no suitable
place on the campus for the portrait
to be hung. There will, however, be
some definite provision made in one of
the proposed new buildings, so that
the picture may be displayed to the
greatest advantage.

May Day Try-Outs

Begin Festival Work

Freshmen Debate
Emory and Tech

The first Agnes Scott College fresh-
man debating team since 193 3 will
meet the teams of Georgia Tech and
Emory University on April 9 and 19 on
the topic: Resolved'. That medicine
should be socialized under the control
of the federal government. The de-
bates will probably be non-decisional
and will be held at Tech or Emory.

In the spring try-outs last month
the following freshmen were admitted
to Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes Scott debat-
ing society: Ellen Little, Joyce Roper,
Anne Wheaton, Hibernia Hassell, Mary
Lillian Fairley, Frances Norman, Es-
ther Byrnes, Jean Austin, Jane Turner,
Betty Mathis, and Jean Barry Adams.

Of these eleven new members six
were chosen to make up the freshman
debating team. These girls are Jean
Barry Adams, Mary Lillian Fairley, and
Betty Mathis, who will speak for the
affirmative, and Jane Turner, Jean
Austin, and Hibernia Hassell, who will
uphold the negative side.

Dr. George P. Hayes, prfessor of
English and faculty director of Pi Al-
pha Phi, has arranged this series of
debates to arouse interest among fresh-
man members of the club. "This train-
ing," said Dr. Hayes, "will help to
put the speakers in line for more ad-
vanced debating in later years."

Freshmen intercollegiate debates
were held for the first time year before
last, when the freshman members of
Pi Alpha Phi met Emory in a debate.
This team was composed of Marie
Townsend and Edith Merlin.

Lecturer

Preliminary try-outs for the main
characters to take part in the May Day
Festival of Peter Pan were held Mon-
day, March 4.

All girls who have signed up for
May Day as their spring sport will take
part in the dances, rehearsals of which
will start this week under the direc-
tion of Miss Eugenie Dozier, who has
been assisting with the dancing classes
this year. The members of the May
Day Court will be announced later.

Classical Group
To Visit Campus

The regional convention of the
southern chapters of Eta Sigma Phi,
national Latin and Greek honorary fra-
ternity, is planned to be held at Agnes
Scott College on April 26. Representa-
tives from all the chapters of south-
ern universities and colleges will at-
tend this meeting to discuss their prob-
lems and make plans for the next year.
The idea of having a Southern conven-
tion was formed because of the diffi-
culties involved in sending delegates
to the National Convention in Bethle-
hem, Penn., and Agnes Scott has been
selected as the place for the first South-
ern convention.

As part of the entertainment for the
delegates, the Eta Sigma Phi chapters
of Agnes Scott College and Emory
University will probably present a
Lath) play, Plaittus's Mostellaria, at the
Emory Glen Memorial Church on
March 26. Eva Constantine, Eva Polia-
coff, and Elizabeth Forman, all of
Agnes Scott, will take the feminine
roles.

Atlanta Day Student Team
Wins Brown jug in Contest

lor the third consecutive year the
Atlanta day student team was vic-
torious in the Brown Jug games, the
traditional basketball tournament held
Tuesday, February 2 6, between the
tc.ims of the dormitories, the alumnae,
and the Atlanta day students.

The alumnae were defeated by the
day students, 18-4, in the first game;
Main was victorious over Inman team,
18-4; the Atlanta day students de-
feated Rcbckah Scott, 22-10; and the
final game between Atlanta and Main
resulted in a 8-7 victory for the At-
lanta team.

Before the games, the alumnae,
dressed in caps and gowns a n d
armed with dark glasses, labora-
tory folders, butterfly nets, umbrellas,
flowers, and books, marched around
the room and then gathered in the
center of the floor to give their feeble
cheer:

Root-a- toot- toot, Root-a-toot-toot

We're the girls from the institute;
We do not smoke,
We do not chew,

But we're going to play with girls
that do.

The team from Main dormitory,
garbed in wrappers, kimonos, raincapes,
and long trousers, and gently fanning
their captain with brooms, sang their
song about the "Maniacs from Main"
as they walked about the gym.

Proceeding with stately tread out
onto the gym floor, Rebekah Scott's
team was dressed in long black stock-
ings, large serge bloomers, and high-
necked, long-sleeved shirts of former
years, and singing a slow and digni-
fied song about basketball in the days
when their clothes were in style. When
they reached the center of the room,
they quickly removed their old-fash-
ioned clothes and in their modern gym
suits sang a peppy up-to-date song.

Dr. A. Compton

To Speak Here

Arthur H. Compton, prominent
physicist and Nobel prize winner, will
present an illustrated lecture on "Cos-
mic Rays on Seven Continents" in the
Agnes Scott auditorium, Friday, March
22, at 8:30 o'clock.

One of three American physicists to
be awarded the Nobel prize, Dr. Comp-
ton is the world's foremost figure in
the cosmic ray field, having conducted
experiments in all parts of the world
from Africa to Australia and eleven
and one-half miles in the stratosphere.
These rays, originating beyond the
milky way, subject the earth to a con-
stant electrical bombardment, power-
ful enough to pass through several feet
of lead, to change one element into
another, and perhaps to change the
whole course of human life. Their ori-
gin is similar to that of X- and violet
rays, and the new discoveries now be-
ing made concerning them are vitally
affecting present theories of the uni-
verse.

Lecture Association Is Sponsor
Dr. Compton's lecture, which is
sponsored by the Agnes Scott Lecture
Association, is the first to be given in
this country after his series on the Con-
tinent and at Oxford University, and
will be illustrated by slides made by
himself during his investigations on
seven continents. His series has been
described by the European press as
"absorbingly interesting."

A preliminary sale of tickets will be
held in Buttrick Hall Thursday, Fri-
day, and Saturday, March 7-9. A sec-
ond sale will go on the week before
the lecture. Student prices will be $.75
for reserved seats and $.50 for unre-
served seats. Other prices will be $1.00
for reserved seats, and $.75 for general
admission. The public is cordially in-
vited to attend.

Dr. Geo. M. Whicher
Speaks on Horace

Revealing Horace as a soldier, poetj
and philosopher, Dr. George Whicher, I
retired head of the Latin department I
of Hunter College, New York, spoke
to Agnes Scott students in chapel
Tuesday morning, March 5.

Although Horace, greatest Roman
poet, was born the son of an ex-slave,
he was well educated, first in Rome
and later in Athens where he met pow-
erful Romans who persuaded him to
enter the army of Brutus. Horace was
rapidly promoted to a high rank
through the influence of his friends.
Although he was not fundamentally a
soldier, when he was defeated with Bru-
tus and Cassius by Octavius "he
ran away leaving his little shield be-
hind."

After this military experience, Hor-
ace went to Rome where he soon be-
came recognized as a great poet, and
today his fame still lives. Though the
ages no other ancient poet has been so
often translated and imitated. "Horace
is above all poets; no poet speaks with
greater directness; no poet is more in-
timate with his readers; no poet so
considered a friend," Dr. Whicher
said, explaining the universal popular-
ity of Horace.

The satires and epistles of Horace
are miniatures from the life of man.
The philosophy which he developed be-
longed to neither the Stoics nor Epicu-
reans, the chief schools of the day, but
was a true interpretation of the life
around him, Dr. Whicher explained,
and today Horace stands as one of
the priceless interpreters of time.

Health Contest
To End Friday
With Decision

Twenty-four Nominees Are Class
And Club Candidates For
"Miss Health"

Dr. Sweet. 3 Judges to Decide

B. O. Z. Admits Five
Prosaic Enthusiasts

B. O. 2., campus writing club,
admitted four freshmen and one
junior in the annual spring try-
out. They are Jacque McWhite,
Nell Allison, Jane Guthrie, Hor-
tense Jones, Frances McCully.

Agnes Scott Plans
High School Day

Saturday, March 23, will be High
School Day at Agnes Scott when the
college and the Alumnae Association
will entertain students from the senior
classes of Girls' High of Atlanta, De-
catur, Fulton, North Fulton, East
Point, and Russell High Schools, N. A.
P. S, Sacred Heart Convent, and
Washington Seminary.

The girls will lunch in Rebekah
Scott, and in the afternoon a play
"Synges Riders to the Sea" will be pre-
sented by the Blackfriars Club with the
following cast:

Mother Ida Lois McDaniel

Daughters Virginia Byers

Margaret Stokev

Son Dorothy Bell

Old Women Vera Frances Pruet

Marguerite Morris
Following the play a varied program
including exhibition tennis games,
archery, matches, and swimming will
be given in the gym, and the Cotillion
Club will entertain the high school
guests with a tea dance.

In accordance with Agnes Scott's
custom, candidates from the various
campus organizations will compete for
the title of "Miss Health," in the Buch-
er Scott gymnasium on Friday.

Nine years ago when this practice
first started, a jinx seemed to follow
the girls chosen as the healthiest in the
college. The week after her election, the
first Miss Health, who had never been
sick before in her life, became serious-
ly ill. Her successor suffered a simi-
lar fate when, shortly after her elec-
tion, she became very susceptible to
colds. Even recently, the Miss Health
of several years ago was forced to spend
the week after her election in the in-
firmary. However, Dr. Sweet assures
this year's candidates for the honor that
the jinx is broken; the "Miss Healths"
of the past few years have lived up to
their titles.

Final Selections Pending

The representatives chosen so far
from the various organizations are:
Miss Agonistic, Eva Constantine; Miss
Mortar Board, Caroline Long; Miss Stu-
dent Government, Frances James; Miss
Eta Sigma Phi, Isabel McCain; Miss
Aurora, Anna Humber; Miss Poetry
Club, Kitty Printup; Miss Grand-
daughters' Club, Barton Jackson; Miss
International Relations Club, Rosa
From; Miss Spanish Club, Lois Hart;
Miss French Club, Julia Thing; Miss
Athletic Board, Frances Robinson;
Miss Cotillion Club, Jacqueline Wool-
folk; Miss Bible Club, Marie Simpson;
Miss Pen and Brush Club, Caroline El-
liott; Miss Silhouette, Sara Jones or
Mary Gillespie; Miss Glee Club, Mary
Alice Newton; Miss Lecture Associa-
tion, Nell White; Miss Blackfriars,
Marguerite Morris; Miss Pi Alpha Phi,
Helen Flandte; Miss Citizenship Club,
Sara Cureton; Miss Senior Class, Sara
(Continued on page 4, Col. 2)

Science Convention

To Assemble Here

In order to hear Dr. A. H. Comp-
ton's lecture here on March 22 the
Southeastern Section of the Mathe-
matical Association of America, the
Georgia Academy of Science, and
Chemical Society will meet on the
The speakers for the Mathematical As-
Agnes Scott campus March 22 and 23.
sociation will be Professor Kenneth P.
Williams, of Indiana University and
Professor W. W. Rankin, formerly of
Agnes Scott College.

New Project Gets Valuable
Statistics for Librarv Plans

The project conducted in Agnes
Scott College library the week of Feb-
ruary 24 has resulted in the collection
of information valuable in estimating
certain needs which the proposed new
library building here must meet, ac-
cording to Miss Edna Hanley, Agnes
Scott College librarian. By means of
the investigation Miss Hanley, with
the help of Dr. Henry Robinson, head
of the Mathematics Department, hopes
to determine the seating capacity of the
reading rooms, and the size of the en-
trance hall, among other things requir-
ed in the new building.

Although the project has not yet been
completed, several facts have been
noted. Statistics prove Monday to be
the busiest day of the week. During
the day 704 people entered tr\e library.
Of this number 5 32 came to use refer-
ence books, reserved books, bound pe-

riodicals, current magazines and news-
papers, or to do collateral reading or
to read for pleasure. Sixty-eight girls
came only to return or take out books;
seventy-six students entered the library
for other purposes, some to see girls;
others to study from personal text-
books, or write papers. Twenty-two
members of the faculty used the li-
brary on Monday.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
1,246 girls used library books in the
building; 213 returned or took out
books; 159 came for purposes other
than the use of library books. Members
of the faculty used the building 44
times, while seventy-five people visited
the library. Dr. Robinson estimated
that the average period of time spent bv
a student using library material was
for tv minutes.

2

The Agonistic

(kl)c Agonistic

What Do You Think?

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

STAFF

Eliza King Editor-in-Chief Mary Past Business Manager

Anne Wheaton Assistant Frances Robinson .. _ Assistant

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Mary L. Fairley Features Mary V. Smith Society

Jane Guthrie Clubs Jean Chalmers Books

BUSINESS ASSOCIATES

F.i [ \\or Whitson Make-up Jane Turner Asst. Make-up

Enid Middleton Asst. Make-up Ellen Little Circulation

Betty Mathis Asst. Make-up Peggy Ware Asst. Circulation

It seems to me that students should
be allowed a definite number of light
privileges a semester. This would not
only benefit the student, but also the
house president, who has to judge when
and to whom 'lights" should be given.

On the part of the student a defi-
I nite number of light privileges would
help her to realize the value of time.
If she knows that she may have only
a certain number of them, she will
be careful not to waste time during
the day. Secondly, she will not ask for
"lights" when she does not need them.
Finally, if each girl has a definite num-
ber of cuts, justice will be dealt to
all, and no one will feel indignant at
not obtaining them.

An allotted number of light privi-
leges would also benefit the house pres-
ident. In the first place, she would be

ASSISTANTS

Jeanne Matthews
Dorothy Kelly

Jessie Jeffers
Primrose Noble

REPORTERS

Gene Brown
Nell Allison
Jerry Brown
Elizabfth Warden
Jacque McWhite
Jean Austin
Elizabeth Black sh r x r

Jean Barry Adams
Eleanor Whitson
Jessie Jeffers
Nell Hemphill
Beth Bowden
Betty Mathis
Enid Middleton

WHY NOT?

Agnes Scott students are busy people. They have little time
to do things for pleasure. On Sunday, however, studies are
forgotten, and spare moments are spent on things they have
been wanting to do all week. To manv, that means exploring
the magazines which have so often lured them away from par-
allel or reference work for a few minutes and even made them
give up trying to study in the library. Very few students can
afford to buy many, if any, of the first class magazines, and
the library is the only logical place to find them. However,
these magazine readers must gaze wistfully at its closed doors,
while the few free hours of the week slip by, or they must be
satisfied with the few copies of Pictorial Review or McCall's
which they can buy or borrow.

The only possible objections to opening the library on Sun-
day are that it might offer a temptation to study on Sunday
and, therefore, might keep people from church, but there are
simple answers to both of these arguments. Close the library
in the morning and on Sunday evening during vespers; while
it is open, require everybody to stay in the first reading rooms,
and have someone at the desk to see that only magazines are
used.

It is deplorable that the magazines in the college library,
which are the best in every field, should "go to waste" for so
many hours, and that the students should be denied the great-
est of their few opportunities for pleasant, profitable reading.

The Wall Street Center ol New York University is offering
a special course on the current prohlems of finance and banking.
We recommend such a course to Agnes Scott girls who continually
Overdraw their accounts in Mr. Fart's office.

NRA IN THE MAIL ROOM

Although no 4i \otice this is a business institution no loit-
unhusiness-like rush and deafening uproar there could be modi-
fied.

Not unlike a group of Hottentots en route home for Christ-
mas holidays is the eager rush of the girls to the boxes for the
remnants ot their Ian-mail. This haste is entirely unnecessary
since the hox usually contains only dust and the other person's
mail anyhow.

is found in the mail room ot Buttrick. Contrary to the evidence
of ignonmce presented by the length of the ineligible list, there
are some /ealous students who bring their books to the post office,
and the prevailing hubbub hardly contributes to concentration. Or,
what if I ncle Kb and Aunt Cora should break down and send us a
few cookies? W e would never know it; for, above the din of many
voices, package call can hardly be beard. Now, although our
t.m-mail mav not equal that of Joan Crawford, vet bv some re-
mote chance, we might receive a letter from the O.A.O. (one and
Only) and might long for a quiet spot in which to ponder over
his loving words. Can't we quietly Not Rush Around and "do
our part" for the public welfare?

Fortunately, alter many struggles in the mail room, we are
still whole, but, "how long will it last?" B. B.

"College professor declares there are five kinds of dumbness,"
savs a news item. 1 le must be a conservative kind of a chap.
Kentucky Kernel.

mm

YII

Flash!

Says the gingham guy to the calico

As arm in arm around the floor they

whirl,
"This linthead ball's
A swellegant brawl!"
Root-a-toot-toot!

There go the girls from the Institute!

Flash! Who'd 've recognized the
relieved of the responsibility of decid- healthy looking milk-maid as Nell
ing when "lights" are necessary. Sec-' Scott Earthman, or the rustic over-
ondly, she would not have to argue ailed swain as Ed Sack, Elizabeth

with the student about "lights," and Blackshear's guitar-player! All of which 1 Emory S. A. E. pledge, Tommy Maeler
would not be bothered by requests each ravings relate to the Phi Psi Linthead and he's not proud! Ask Betty Adams,

Phi Gamma dance at Tech Saturday
night but also at the Pi Kappa Phi
buffet supper Sunday night.

And there are some who even ven-
ture from this fair city in their mad
quests after pleasure. Barton Jackson
bailed out for Baylor, in Chattanooga,
Tenn., last week-end and Kitty Hoff-
man, Flelen Price, and Kay Ricks gave
the T. M. I. hop in Sweetwater a break
this week-end.

Flash! Freshmen, wanta date? Here's
a guy with the biggest heart we know:

Campus Sanctions
Dual Honor System

What does the campus think of the
present honor system?

"The honor system at Agnes Scott,"
said Alberta Palmour, president of Stu-
dent Government, in answer to the
recent agitation about the system, "is
as successful, if not more so, than at
any other college I know of. We have
had it since the organization of Student
Government in 1906. In fact, it is the
basis of Student Government."

"A single honor system," Alberta
continued, "is impossible. Even in our
highly selected group, there are some
who will not be honest. To report those
who will not report themselves is love
for the school and the honor of every
student/'

Miss Nanette Hopkins, dean of the
college, says, "It is more successful here
than anywhere I know of, except, may-
be the University of Virginia." Miss
Hopkins added that she did not be-
lieve in putting temptation in the way
of students and therefore a certain de-
gree of supervision is necessary.

Registrar G. S. Stukes is very much
in favor of the honor system. "Students
here don't realize how horrible it is
with faculty control. It is unfair to
^ay that the honor system has too many
restrictions to be called an honor sys-
tem, for honor involves not only keep-
ing ourselves from suspicion, but also
trying to have others do right."
Mr. Hayes Reports Success

evening when she is trying to study. I Ball which falls on March 8.

We think this plan could best be i Flash!
carried out in the following way: The same night will bring untold
When a girl wishes to use her lights, ' jcy to S. A. R.'s who have chivalrously
she should report to her proctor, and sought the presence of a favored few
then study either with the Senior on ( Hottentots at their Founder's Day Ban-
ner wing or in the hall. The next j q uet and Dance at the Biltmore.
morning the proctors should hand in' Bravo! A bouquet of sweet williams
the lists of names to the house pres- t0 tne Beta Kappa who stolidly re-
ident to keep on record. This method fused to break a date with Sarah Turner
would simplify matters for both the f r the Junior Banquet, thereby caus-
house president and the student, and m g rn s chapter to postpone a most
would make the matter of giving important initiation ceremony,
'lights" more agreeable to everyone. And there's Hashagen Jane,

Gene Brown. Intelligent but plain,

Who weeping, exclaims

With most heart-rending pain,
"I've excellent chances
"I've been to five dances
"Yet the Aggie has never once men-
tioned my name!"
From such piteous neglect we take
you to the blind joy of Dot Kelly and
Jerry Young who journeyed North
I Carolinaward this week-end, following
the home-movement begun by Sara
and Jane Estes, Elizabeth Allison, Dor-
othy Lee, Martha Johnson, and Jean
Kirkpatrick last week-end.

The best one yet, however, is on Dr.
Davidson. When that youthful Ph.D.
visited one of the large Atlanta
churches as guest speaker on one of
his freshman student's programs, the
minister of the church, who can't pos-
sibly know all of his large congrega-
tion, walked up to the guest and said,
"Son, will you run outside and see if
Mr. Aycock has come yet?" Needless
to say, the guest complied. . .

Flash! Some of those who left our
midst to attend fraternity dances this
week-end were Kitty Jones and Kath-
ryn Fitzpatrick who graced the Sigma
Chi house at Emory, and Katherine
Leipold and Mary Hull who shone at
a Delta Tau Delta hop at said in-
stitution. And an orchid goes to Ruth
Tate who was seen not only at the

Nancy Tucker, Kay Ricks, or Kitty
Hoffman. But he's young and if ex-
perience is the kind of teacher it's
cracked up to be
Pertinent Questions:

1. Whose famous last words are
these? "There're two things I'm sure
of: death and my love for Vera Fran-
ces."

2. What Davidson Kappa Sig plans
"to take Bee Merrill's place as a room-
mate some day"?

3. Whom did Bert Palmour catch
smoking on third floor Rebekah the
other day? (Ed. Note: It was just a
visitor, after all.)

4. Did you ever think it would be a
nice way to work off your scholarship
answering the Date Door in Main?

Flash! Emily Rowe, Marion Derrick,
Sara Frances McDonald, and Mary
Comely were seen at the Biltmore after
the Junior Banquet Saturday night.

We know a Beta Kappa who still
dreams about Lavinia Scott in her little
pirate costume!

Somebody in the know just discov-
ered:

That 162 males came to Agnes Scott
campus last week for dates with our
belles.

That 88 Hottentots had dates, of
which number 41 had two or more
dates and three seniors (Marguerite
Morris, Frances Espy, and Caroline
Cole) had five apiece.

That Sunday night sees more dates
than any other night, with Saturday
close following, Friday and Tuesday
trailing next, and Monday night com-
ing last in the race.

That Saturday afternoon florists'
boxes containing corsages for the
Junior Banquet were piled three feet
high in Ella's office.

That from 40 to 50 telegrams arrive
weekly for Hottentots.

Winnie Winchell Woolcott,
The Campus Crier.

WHAT'S NEW IN BOOKS

plot. Those who revel in trick endings,
however, will delight in these novel-
ettes, for Miss West has certainly man-
aged to tack on seveal startling "twis-
ters."

An Anthology of Light Verse speaks

you must,

Readers who are tired of burying
themselves in philosophical and his-
torical works should welcome with en-
thusiasm the announcement of forth-
Mr. George P. Hayes, head of the ; coming novels.
English Department, said that in com- Topping the list in popularity is a

parison with other schools, it is sue- new novel by the author of The Bridge for itself as to contents. Here are
cessful. "About the double honor sys- ! f huh Key. Thornton Wilder 's lyrics from such a wide range of writ-
tem, I don't know. Some girls report ' book, Heaven's My Destination, has ers as from Shakespeare to Ogden Nash,
what t he v see; others do not. However, I been reported by Harper's as having A sample of the fun to be found is:
the honor svstom as a whole does work' the biggest sale of any book published Sing while you work and be full of
work." by them since 1929. Adding to such

Elizabeth Alexander, president of praise, Alexander Woollcott said of it,
the senior class, said, "The honor sys- "It is hereby proclaimed the Town
tern here is as successful as could be Crier's book of the month."
found. But I think that the double Entirely different from this witty
honor system is not successful because ' story is A House Divided, Pearl S.
I know people don't report each other." Buck's sequel to Good Earth. In it she

Lucile Cairns thinks that we haven't follows the lives of Wang Lung's find such startling titles as Green
a real honor system. "There is so much grandchildren as they struggle against Ught, A Silver Rattle, Lost Horizon,
more freedom during exams at other tradition. They travel in America and Blind Men Crossing a Bridge, and The
colleges and universities." | see our country through the eyes of World Went Mad.

Mary Buckholz said, "I think fac- today's Chinese student. But the Among new arrivals in the Agnes
ultv control would be better." grandson. Yuan, finally settles in the Scott library arc a group of recent poe-

In these interviews, seven people same earthen house where his ances- ! try anthologies which include Paul
gave their idea of the present honor tor, Wang Lung, greeted his wedding Lngle's American I'ocnn In W. H.

system, but to get the concensus of day. I Andcn, Stephen Spenser's Poems,

opinion the following question was Rebecca West's latest release is The Thing of Sorrow by Olsen, and Not
asked to fifty A. S. C. students chosen Har<b Voice, a book of four miniature
at random: "Do vou think the Honor novels. As usual, her craftsmanship re-
System is successful at Agnes Scott?" suits in a polished style, but the sharp- j and poetry in [. S. Flint's The Roth, A
Of these 41 replied affirmatively and ness of the stories themselves leave the I pageant play based on the religion* doc
9 negatively. 1 reader in doubt as to the realitv of the trines of the Catohlic Church.

cheer.

And work as the young and spry
work.

Sing while you work if
my dear,

But please don't sing while I work.
Among the newest of the new, we

Mine To Finish bv Genevieve Taggard.

An interesting combination of pros."

The Agonistic

3

Ella States Changes
On College Campus

FRESHMAN HOBBY GROUPS REMAIN ACTIVE

Says

Less Specials Arrive to
Girls In Dormitories
Than Formerly

I Seniors may have their graduation; i talents toward the Dramatic group. At edy. Dr. Davidson, who was to be the
juniors, their banquet; sophomores, present competition is keen in try-outs honored speaker at a recent meeting,
their Mortar Board parties; but only for the play to be given at Easter calmly "stood up" the helpless little

Two Years of Latin
To Admit Students

freshmen have the well-known "hobby
groups." The infant Hottentots have
found satisfactory outlets for their en-
thusiasm in all activities from the art
of knitting to that of being charming.
The Charm group might be men-
of campus life, tioned first, for it is the largest of

"Agnes Scott girls ain't what they
used to be," according to Ella Cary,
who as maid in Main since 1910 has
had an intimate view

From the time that every Hottentot ^ groups. The freshmen charmers

i i u- u have for four months been learning to
wore long, narrow skirts, high-necked y_ _ l n n ^ r^u-

shirtwaists and had to be back from
all affairs by six o'clock, Ella has open-

absorbing arguments as whether a poet
should suppress his emotions. The
youthful enthusiasts, we are told, hard-
ly suppress their own emotions when
they set out on such heated debates.
Several knitted suits will soon dec-
trip across a ballroom floor in a fashion orate the campus. The members of the

vespers. freshmen. The waiting audience kind-

Poetry lovers are in paradise in their ly forgave him, however, and even in-
Book group. There they engage in such i vited him to talk to them later about

becoming to young ladies
age and ability. And when

in May, they fully expect to bowl the crocheting comes close to "knit one,
home towns over with their social purl one."

graces.

Stage-minded freshmen turn

The most current happening of the
their Current Events group was a near trag-

Dame Fashion Sets
New Spring Styles

of their I Handicraft group have slaved for many
they re- j a week trying to learn what was sec-
ed Main door, kept a record of dates, turn to their families and what-nots j ond nature to their grandmothers, and
specials, telegrams, and flowers, and
acted as a general confidante to Agnes
Scotters.

In some respects Ella mourns for
the pre-Butterick days when her office
was at the center of all school affairs
and "girls were so thick you couldn't
walk around campus." It has never
been the same since the depression as
it was in 1915, Ella says; then
White House, Gaines, Ansley and sev-
eral other cottages were occupied by
students, and 75 specials arrived on

Sunday alone instead of the present ,

. , J r ca oa .taken hold this year. Gold metal iew- 1 Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean,

weekly average of trom 5 0 to 80. / . J 9 . '

^ ' 1 elry, good all winter, has given way to last week attended the National As-

Clothes, Too, Change I ij j l i r t>i r wr l l

1 enormous colored wooden bracelets or sociation or Deans oi women, which

The years have brought unhappy antastic match j ewe lry" to be worn ' held its annual convention in Atlantic

changes in clothes styles also, according , wkfa tailored suks For eveningj there City, New Jersey, February 20-23.

the "Changing Standards in Govern
ment."

The only trouble about these hobby
groups is that freshmen are becoming
entirely too puffed up with their in-
creased knowledge. One can hardly
comb her hair now without being told
by one of the numerous freshman
"charmers" that the wave really should
be placed a half inch higher. But it's
all in good fun, and a motion has been
made that the hobby groups be con-
tinued next year, when present silly
freshmen will be snooty sophomores.

Admission Committee Rules
Caesar to Be Sufficient
For Entrance

Faculty News

Dr. Emma May Laney represented

The new glamorous accessories this t,ie , local ch , a P ter * Be K a PP a
spring prove the well-worn adage, "T-'- l at the ""tallauon of the first chapter

jj. s i at cnc lnsianauun ui liic iirst tuapter
the little things that count." And you * th f national honorary fraternity in
will be counted out if you try to get j " the State College for Women

by with last year's jewelry, mid the ,n Tallahassee March 5 and 6.
mass of strange creations which have
taken hold this year. Gold metal jew-

Dr. Hooper Speaks
To Eta Sigma Phi

Mary had a little Latin;
Two years was all she had.
They let her into Agnes Scott;
She was exceeding glad.

And all the freshmen rejoiced with
Mary, because the entrance require-
ment in Latin has been reduced this
year from three to two years. Indeed
the Hottentots may rejoice, for there
are between 45 and 5 0 new girls now
in Agnes Scott who gained entrance
only through Caesar's influence. Co-
incidental with the decision of the
Agnes Scott Admissions Committee
were the decisions of all but one east-
ern college for women. Bryn Mawr still
requires that her students bring along
Cicero Caesar will not suffice.

Thus Agnes Scott has not placed
her standards below those of other col-
leges, but there are a few changes in
required courses for those having only
two units of high school Latin. Be-

to Ella, for she has
clothes since "grown
short dresses,'

never liked the i

is nothing like pearls pearls which are

j worn to best advantage tight around

a high neck-line in as many as five

or six strands.

wearing

and she cannot
understand why on cold days the girls
who wear fur coats leave their legs
bare and protected from the winds only
by short socks. "What good is that?"
she asked.

In spite of these changes for the
worse, however, Ella rejoices that "the

Hats and Shoes Count

As for the barer necessities, off-the-
face hats in baku, pastel felts, or straw
leave nothing to be desired. And the
shoes you may blossom out in white

Dr. Philip G. Davidson will deliver
an address to the Maryland Historical
Society in Baltimore on the evening of
March 11.

Dr. W. D. Hooper, head of the clas-
sical department of the University of|

Georgia, gave a talk on Horace to the
A n - . _ ! sides the five group requirements, such

Agnes Scott College chapter of Eta i \* jj-
& 6 f ^ a girl as Mary must pass one addi-

Sigma Phi at the banquet given in , tional year of science or math, or of
honor of the ten new members at the Greek or German. The faculty is of
Elite Tea Room in Decatur Tuesday the opinion that this new arrangement
evening, February 27. The banquet fol-
lowed a secret initiation of the follow-
new members: Kathryn Bowen,

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son, Molly Jones, Mary King, June
Matthews, Isabel McCain, Laura
Steele, and Mary Jane Tigert.

girls go out more'n they did in former , any day you please, for white shoes are j er ln a
years," that "they got more privileges selling most unusually early this spring, chamlee

crepe particularly good this year ^ere given special reading improvement
and especially good-looking on Jane
Allen Webb at the Banquet. Rosa Mil

than they used to" and that telegrams though many blue shoes are being r hi nes tones

come all the time, on an average of bought to match spring's predominant cre p e with

from 40 to 50 a week. Then, too, "The navy blue. Mostly ties and pumps, the co lla r all these

men really do come; more this year new footwear is being made of a

lovely flame chiffon, Alice The Sun Dial.
blue crepe with '

Iowa State College students who
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courses were able to increase their read
ing speed 3 5 per cent in twenty days

will not be a hardship for anyone.
But Mary feels that it would pay,
That she would be less blue;
Had the Latin that followed her to

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Lavinia Scott in a white
a charming Queen Anne
ar all tnese represent the very
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vear.

the' which comes high and looks it. There is
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Something new and lovely are the
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"Bordertown," starring
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Friday will bring the
"Roberta,"
Fred Astaire.

Maurice Chevalier in "Follies Bergere
dc Paris" begins at Loew's Grand Fri-
day. Good bets for song hits include
"Rhythm of the Rain," "I Was
Lucky," "Singing a Happy Song."

Coming to Decatur this week and
next week are: March 7 and 8, James
Cagney and Patricia Ellis in "St. Louis
Kid"; March 9, "Home on the Range";
March 11 and 12, Jackie Cooper in
"Peck's Bad Boy,"; March 13, "Great
Expectations," and March 14 and 15,
"White Parade," with Loretta Young
and John Boles.

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Don't Stick Nose in Air/'
Says Miss Helen Hick>

Former National Champion Has
Interesting Philosophy
For Living

Juniors Win Meet
Bv Excellent Show
Of Basketball Skill

"There is no reason in the world why
a person should stick his nose in the
air. Whether you win the national
championship or whether you don't
makes no difference."

That, briefly, is what Miss Helen
Hicks, former national woman's golf
champion, thinks of snobs. She be-
lieves in doing everything that she does
as well as she can. If she becomes na-
tional champion, all right. If she does
not become national champion, all
right. Anyway, she had a swell time
playing.

Miss Hicks, on her visit to Atlanta
recently, was sitting on the bed in her
hotel room airing her views about life.
She revealed that she always has been,
a fatalist, living her life from day to'
day with no thought of tomorrow.

But now that she is a professional
golfer, she must become a business
woman. Mail must be answered, and
she has great responsibilities. "This
business woman role is mighty hard for
me. I am not used to it," she said.

The occasion of Helen's visit to At-
lanta was the exhibition golf match
between Dorothy Kirby, young At- 1
lanta golfer and former state champion, 1
who played with Charles Yates, na-
tional intercollegiate champion, against |
Miss Hicks and Charles Black, former
Georgia champion. Miss Hicks and
Black played a beautiful round to
defeat Kirby and Yates 2 and L

"Golf is a wonderful game, one of
which people never tire," Helen says.
"It keeps people young longer than any
other game. For after they are too
old to play tennis or to take more
strenuous exercise they may still play
a leisurely round of golf almost any
clear day."

A great game for great people es-
pecially people like Helen Hicks who
can become the country's greatest and
still keep their simple, unaffected, grac-
ious manners for even insignificant col-
lege freshmen.

BLACKFRIARS GIVE
I'LAY "CRAIG'S WIFE"

Timely Topics

Perhaps Professor Einstein should
spend a little time studying educa- |
tional psychology. At Princeton he
failed to interest the students in his
lecture on astronomy. This genius gave
his lecture to the elementary astronomy
class at that university, and the second
class failed to report for the lecture. |
King-Turn Pin.

Paul Whiteman Entertains

At Two Shows in /Atlanta

Ohio State University contributed
$43,367 to federal and state govern-
ments last fall as taxes from its five
home football games. The Sun Dial.

We are strong supporters of our
President, but there are limits to every-
thing, even optimism. Both James and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Junior, filled in
blanks on their Harvard matriculation
record this year, and for "permanent
residence" wrote the White House,
Washington. King-Turn Phi.

In an attempt to find out what
Washington and Lee students read, the
library staff has just completed a list
of statistics gathered from an analysis
of 18 8 books of general reading in-
terest bought and circulated last year.
In the fiction class James Hilton's
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" received first
place in popularity. King-Turn Phi.

Two exciting games played Friday
March 1, marked the close of this year's I
basketball with the juniors winners of
the season. All the teams fought hard
to win, but the final scores were in
favor of the sophomores, who defeated
the freshmen, 39-22, and the juniors,
who triumphed over the seniors, 3 8-11.

High-scoring forwards were Bennet
for the sophomores, and Jeffers for
the freshmen; excellent guarding was
done by Stalker for the sophomores.
Stevens was the outstanding player for
the junior team and high scorer for
the afternoon, and Bee Miller, biology
instructor, used her basketball ability
in scoring for the seniors.

We Never Knew That

Club News

The Poetry Club, in its meeting on
March 5 th at the home of Marian Lo-
gan in Atlanta, initiated a new plan
of procedure. In former meetings all
of the members had contributed a
poem, but at this one, only half of the
members read their works. This plan
proved a success and will be followed
in the future.

"MISS HEALTH"

(Continued from page /, Col. ))
Davis, Jenny Champion, or Martha
Redwine; Miss Junior Class, Mary
Snow or Catherine Bishop; Miss Soph-
omore Class, Mary Malone; Miss Ten-
nis Club, Mary Kneale; Miss Y. W. C.
A., Carrie Shiney Latimer; Miss May
Day Association, Eloise Alexander or |
Mary Snow.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Miss Har- j
riette Hayes, and Miss Frances Keller of
the Atlanta Y. W. C. A. will select the
girl who, in their opinion, is the best
in general health to reign as "Miss
Health."

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Piechaud, will be presented Thursday
evening, March 7, by the French Club
; n honor of the Alliance Prancahe of
Atlanta. The college community and
friends are invited to attend this pop-
ular one-act play.

At their meeting on March 1 1th, the
French Club will make plans for the
coming French Club tryouts.

THE PEN & PENCIL SHOP

"Craig's Wife," Pulitzer Prize win-
ner, was presented by Blackfriars on
Friday and Saturday evenings, March
1-2, at the Agnes Scott Gymnasium.
Betty Lou tiouck played the lead-
ing role of Mrs. Craig, and Jim-
mie Jepson, the role of her distract-
ed, hen-pecked husband. The part of
the old aunt, Miss Austen, was enacted
by Hester Anne Withers. |

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Investiture is the oldest tradition at
Agnes Scott, begun as a very simple
exercise about 1907-08.

For the past two years English has
been the most popular major on campls.

The average number of restrictions
a week given by Student Government
is 10.

The name of K. U. B., journalism
club, came from cub reporter.

The Silhouette receives 36 per cent
of the Student Budget.

The laundry uses about 4,5 00 pins
a week in our clothes.

The freshmen eat about 800 slices
of bread a day in White House.

The oldest club on campus is Black-
friars.

B. O. Z. takes its name from the
pen name of Dickens.

The first May queen, Theodosia
Cobbs, 1914, was crowned in a very
simple ceremony in front of the Science
Hall.

The first courses offered to Hotten-
tots were Latin, English, math, his-
tory, music, and calisthenics (gym to
you).

Ella the Maid's last name is Cary,
and she has been here since the library,
Science Hall, and Inman were being
built.

Agnes Scott girls furnish Lawrence's
with only 1-8 of its trade.

Audience Hears Radio Stars.
Famous Jazz Orchestra
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of Jazz, and his orchestra in Atlanta
for two performances on Saturday,
March 2. Mr. Whiteman was the orig-
inator of modern jazz and is in a
measure responsible for present day
popular music.

Mr. Whiteman, on his arrival in At-
lanta at 11:00 o'clock Saturday morn-
ing, went directly to play golf. He took
his meals in his hotel room, appearing
in public only for his performances.
The King of Jazz took advantage of
his regal position and refused to see all
newspaper reporters a regular Maud
Adams or Herbert Hoover act. So
important is this popular musician
that his train was held for him
after his appearance at the dance at
the Shrine Mosque.

Appearing with Mr. Whiteman was
Adelaide Howell, young Atlanta sing-
er, who has recently been signed with
this popular radio troop.

Mr. Whiteman went directly from
Atlanta to New Orleans for Mardi
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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935.

On

March 22

No

Healthiest at Agnes Scott

Agonistic Names
College Editors
Among Judges

Contest Closes With Freshman
Issue on March 6

The annual Agonistic contest closed
on last Wednesday with the publication
of the freshman paper. The four class
editions were mailed to the judges the
latter part of the week. The judges
for this year are the editors of The Sun-
dial, Randolph-Macon, Lynchburg,
Va.; The Radcliffe News, Radcliffe
News, Radcliffe College, Cambridge,
Mass.; Vassar Miscellany News, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; James
Tolbert, editor of The Emory Wheel;
and Mr. N. S. Noble, city editor of
The Atlanta Constitution.

The papers are to be judged on the
following points: the quality of the
news articles in consideration of style
and completeness; the use and type of
features; the appropriateness and tone
of the editorials; and the quality and
variety of the make-up. The Agon-
istic cup will be awarded to the win-
ning class editor as soon as the opin-
ions of the judges are received; it is
hoped that the award can be made be-
fore spring holidays.

The Agonistic contest, begun in
1928, has become an annual affair; its
purpose is to discover new talent and
new ideas for the regular editions of
the paper. The Agonistic cup, which
is awarded each year to the editor of
the winning paper, was won by the
class of 1931 four times. Last year the
freshman paper was judged the best
edition and the cup was presented to
Laura Steele, editor, and Kathryn
Bovven, business manager.

Professor Goes

To Installation

Miss Emma May Laney, associate
professor of English at Agnes Scott
College, returned to the campus on
Wednesday, March 6, from a two-day
visit to the Florida State College for
Women at Tallahassee, where she as-
sisted, as delegate from Agnes Scott,
the installation of the Alpha Chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa. Miss Laney was
the guest of Miss Elizabeth Lynn, '27,
who is instructor of physics at the
State College.

The Alpha Chapter is the first chap-
ter of Phi Beta Kappa to be installed
in Florida. Of the three divisions of
the college College of Liberal Arts,
School of Education, and School of
Domestic Science only students of the
College of Liberal Arts are eligible.
The eighteen charter members are
those of the faculty who are Phi Beta
Kappa members from other institutions.

The installation was attended by
delegates from Bates College in Maine
to Miami University. Of the notable
educators present, Dean Christian Gauss
of Princeton, President David A. Rob-
ertson of Goucher College, and Dean
Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard Col-
lege were outstanding. President The-
odore H. Jack of Randolph-Macon,
formerly dean at Emory, was also pres-
ent.

Emory Medical Student

Wins Beck Award

Burness E. Moore, a graduate of
Emory University, has been granted the
Beck Scholarship, awarded by the Lewis
H. Beck Foundation; for two years of
graduate work at the university of his
choice. Mr. Moore plans to study med-
icine either at the University of Mich-
igan, in Ann Arbor, or at Harvard
Medical School, Boston.

Lucy Goss, '34, and Anne Hudman,
'3 3, were nominated from Agnes Scott
for the scholarship.

Committee Chooses
May Day Cast

As a result of the tryouts held on
Monday afternoon, March 4, Kitty
Cunningham, May Day chairman, has
announced the following characters for
Peter Pan, this year's May Day festival:

Peter Pan Ad Stevens

Wendy Jennie Champion

Tinker Bell Elizabeth Young

Tiger Lily Anna Humber

Captain Hook Mary Hutchinson

Michael Jane Blick

John Elizabeth Espy

Slightly Alice Chamlee

The following girls, elected by pop-
ular vote of the students, are members
of May Court:

Eva Constantine, Frances Espy, Bet-
ty Lou Houck, Caroline Long, Mar-
guerite Morris, Vera Frances Pruet, Jo
Jennings, Naomi Cooper, Kay Ricks,
Virginia Turner, Lucile Dennison, Elo-
isa Alexander, Nancy Moorer, Marie
Wagner.

The girls who will take part in the
dances are: Elves: Allen, Cunningham,
Christian, Ford, Hart, James, J. Matth-
ews, S. Nichols, Printup, Snow, With-
ers. Carpenters: Bishop, Fowler, Gaines,
A. Johnson, Morrison, Webb. Lost
Boys: Bowen, Chamlee, Hull, Malone,
Merry, C. White. Butterflies: E. Alli-
son, Daniel, Evans, Fountain, From,

(Continued on page 3, column 3)

President Makes
Trip to N. Y.

President J. R. McCain left Agnes
Scott Monday afternoon, March 4, for
a trip to New York, where he conferred
with members of the Carnegie Corpora-
tion about che proposed new library
for the college.

On the way to New York, Dr. Mc-
Cain stopped in Baltimore for an after-
noon to meet with a Committee on
Library Buildings and to visit the
Enoch Pratt Public Library, the most
up-to-date library building in America.
It has been recommended as a model for
the new building here. In Philadelphia,
he visited the Presser Foundation,
which did not set a definite date for
its endowment for the proposed music
building, as Dr. McCain had hoped, but
confirmed its promise of $63,000 by
board action. Although the Carnegie
Corporation in New York, could not
promise the requested endowment for
the new library building it arranged
to send a special committee of experts
to study the particular needs of the
Agnes Scott library.

Before returning to Decatur Friday
morning, March 8, Dr. McCain at-
tended a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the American Associa-
tion of Colleges, which named places
for the next meeting of the association,
to be held in New York next January.

Phi Beta Kappa
Entertains Guest

The Agnes Scott and Emory Chap-
ters of Phi Beta Kappa were hosts at
a dinner in honor of Dr. O. M. Voor-
hies, of New York, on Wednesday,
March 6, at the Candler Hotel in De-
catur. Dr. Voorhees was secretary of
the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kap-
pa for over thirty years, and now is
historian for life of this organization.

Professor Catherine Torrance, pres-
ident of the Agnes Scott chapter, pre-
sided at the banquet and presented Dr.
Voorhees as speaker of the evening. In
his address he traced the history of
Phi Beta Kappa from the founding of
the College of William and Mary in
1776 to the present. About sixty mem-
bers from Agnes Scott, Emory, and
Atlanta were present.

The next meeting of the Agnes Scott
chapter will be the annual meeting cn
March 19, at which officers and new
alumnae members will be elected.

Alumna Poet
To Read Here

Leonora Owsley Herman, of Philadel-
phia, Agnes Scott alumna, will read
from her newly published volume of
poems, Rather Personal, in chapel on
Wednesday, March 20. Mrs. Herman
has been recently elected to the Poetry
Society of America and has given read-
ings in Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, receiving favorable comment
wherever she has read. The Philadel-
phia Inquirer-Public Ledger calls Rath-
er Personal "an altogether enjoyable
book"; the Boston Transcript states
that rf Rather Personal brings to verse
the gaiety, tolerance, and simplicity of
the cosmopolite."

Mrs. Herman studied for two years
at Agnes Scott during the days of the
Institute and was noted then for her
beautiful voice. Later she went abroad
and studied painting in the Paris acad-
emies with Simon, Mesnard, and the
younger Julien, and has exhibited her
work in France and in America. From
painting, she turned to poetry, and the
membership roster of the American
Pen Women lists her as "Painter-Poet."

Dr. Poteat Leads
Chapel Services

Dr. Edwin McNeil Poteat, Jr., of
Raleigh, N. C, opened the annual week
of religious services at Agnes Scott yes-
terday with a talk on The Good Life,
the theme selected for this year. The
services, which are sponsored each year
by Y. W. C. A., will continue through
Saturday morning.

Dr. Poteat, who is pastor of the Pul-
len Memorial Baptist Church in Ral-
eigh, is well known for his work with
young people. His platform addresses
and round-table discussion groups held
at Blue Ridge during the summer en-
campment have been extremely pop-
ular with the Agnes Scott students who
have attended conferences there.

Last night Dr. Poteat met with the
Y. W. C. A. Cabinet at its regular
meeting. This afternoon he is to be
honored at a tea at which Y. W. C. A.
will be hostess. Throughout this week
he will be on the campus, and the stu-
dents will have an opportunity to meet
him informally.

Spring tryouts for the report-
er staff of the Agonistic may be
submitted any time between to-
day and next Tuesday, March 12,
to Mary Boggs, Lulu Ames, or
put in the box in the door of the
Agonistic office in the basement
of Main building. Both straight
news stories and feature articles
are acceptable. All classes are
eligible.

Courtesy of The Atlanta Constitution.

Noted Scientist
To Lecture

On Friday evening, March 22, Dr.
Arthur H. Compton, under the aus-
pices of the Public Lecture Associa-
tion of Agnes Scott College, will lec-
ture on the Cosmic Rays on Seven
Continents. He will accompany his talk
with a series of slides illustrating the
rays.

Dr. Compton, the first Nobel prize
winner to speak at Agnes Scott, is an
authority on radiation and won the
Nobel award by his discovery of the
"Compton effect." After extensive re-
research into the properties of X-rays,
discovering that when matter absorbs
light it emits light of a different color,
Dr. Compton has been able to measure
and predict by the quantum theory the
color of the light emitted. His explan-
ation of this phenomenon won the
award.

A foremost physicist, Dr. Compton
comes from a family of distinguished
scholars. His father was professor of
philsophy at Wooster College, and his
brother, Karl Compton, is president of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Several articles and periodicals about
cosmic rays and the work of Dr.
Compton have been collected and
placed in a special section in Science
Hall library, under "Cosmic Rays."
Tickets for his lecture will be on sale
the week preceding the lecture. Stu-
dent rates are 5 0c and 75c; other tick-
ets are 75c and $1.

Seniors Announce
Opera Committees

At a meeting of the senior class
last week, Elizabeth Alexander, presi-
dent, announced the following com-
mittees which have been chosen for
this year's Senior Opera:

Writing, Betty Lou Houck, chair-
man, Alberta Palmour, Mary Boggs,
Carolyn McCallum, and Frances Espy;
publicity, Betty Fountain, Mary Green,
Elizabeth Young, and Sarah Cook;
programs and librettos, Mary Virginia
Allen and Anna Humber; costumes,
Vella Marie Behm, Alsine Shutze; bal-
let, Nina Parke, Marguerite Morris, and
Hester Anne Withers; chorus, Evelyn
Wall, Virginia Wood, Mary and Mil-
dred Thompson; scenery, Marian Cal-
houn, Ida Lois McDaniel; properties,
Margaret Stokey, Dorothy Bell; tickets,
Nell Pattillo, Amy Underwood; music,
Evelyn Wall, Caroline Long, Madeline
Race; ushers, Eva Constantine, Mary
Hutchinson; candy sellers, Rosalyn
Crispin, Harriet Dimmock, Mae Duls.

.47 /

Handte and White
Win Health Title
In Contest

Thirty Represent Organizations
For "Miss Health"

Helen Handte and Nell White tied
for the title of "Miss Health" for 1 93 5 ;
Julia Thing and Mary Kneale placed
second in the contest held at Bucher
Scott gymnasium last Friday evening.
From the thirty competitors, repre-
senting various campus organizations,
Helen Handte was Miss Pi Alpha Phi;
Nell White, Miss Lecture Association;
Julia Thing, Miss French Club; and
Mary Kneale, Miss Tennis Club. The
candidates were judged not only on
their health records, checked over by
Dr. Mary F. Sweet, Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, and Julia Thing, but also
on their weight, feet, posture, and car-
riage which were judged by Miss Wil-
burn and Miss Harriette Haynes.

Frances McCalla, president of the
Athletic Association, announced the
contestants, and Miss Leslie Gaylord
was official scorer. Out of a possible
forty points, Helen Handte and Nell
White obtained 3 6.5, and Julia Thing
and Mary Kneale obtained 34. In the
contest the girls wore bathing suits and
placards of the organizations they rep-
resented. Each girl was judged as she
marched once around the front of the
gymnasium. Alice Hannah played the
piano during the contest and intermis-
sion.

The following were candidates: Eva
Constantine, Miss Agonistic; Frances
Robinson, Miss Athletic Association;
Anna Humber, Miss Aurora; Marie
Simpson, Miss Bible Club; Marguerite
Morris, Miss Blackfriars; Laura Whit-
ner, Miss Chi Beta Phi Sigma; Sara
Cureton, Miss Citizenship Club; Jaque-
line Woolfolk, Miss Cotillion Club;
Augusta King, Miss Day Student; Isa-
bel McCain, Miss Eta Sigma Phi; Julia
Thing, Miss French Club; Laura Coit,
Miss Freshman; Caroline Long, Miss
Mortar Board; Mary Snow, Miss May
Day; Caroline Elliott, Miss Pen and
Brush Club; Kitty Printup, Miss Po-
etry Club; Helen Handte, Miss Pi Al-
pha Phi; Mary Gilkspie, Miss Silhou-
ette; Mary Malone, Miss Sophomore
Class; Lois Hart, Miss Spanish Club;
Jennie Champion, Miss German Club;
Frances Wilson, Miss Glee Club; Barton
Jackson, Miss Granddaughters; Made-
line Race, Miss International Relations
Club; Sarah Jones, Miss Junior Class;
Marie Wagner, Miss K. U. B.; Nell
White, Miss Lecture Association; Fran-
ces James, Miss Student Government;
Mary Kneale, Miss Tennis Club; and
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Miss Y. W.
C. A.

Student Officers
Are Nominated

Popular nominations of student offi-
cers for next year were held in chapel
on last Saturday morning. These nom-
inations together with the Committee
ticket will be posted in Buttrick hall
on Monday, March 18, and elections
will be held on March 21, for officers
of the organizations, and on March 22,
for editors and business managers of
the publications.

This year students were asked to
nominate two juniors for the position
of assistant editor of the Agonistic. An-
other change was the nomination of
two girls, a junior and a senior, for
the office of student treasurer. The
work required of the person holding
each of these places has been found to
take too much time for one person to
do the work thoroughly.

The time of elections was changed
last year from an indefinite hour late
in the afternoon to an extended chapel
period. This change was made so that
more day students and upperclassmen
would attend.

2

The Agonistic

Sl)e Agonistic

So This is Peace W hat W e Don't Hav e in Germany

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

Mary Boggs

Editor-in-Chief
Lulu Ames

Assistant Editor
Frances Cary

2nd Assistant
Rosalyn Crispin

Feature Editor
Nell Allison

Book Notes
Mary M. Stowe

Society Editor
Ruth Hertzka

Alumnae Editor
Elizabeth Perrin

Exchange Editor
Lucille Cairns

Exchange Editor

STAFF
Eva Constantine

Make-Up
Mildred Clark

Assistant Make-up
Mary Jane Tigert

Assistant Make-V /

Margaret Robins
Current History

Augusta King

Club Editor
Kitty Printup

Sports Editor
Meriel Bull

Business Assistant

Myra O'Neal

Business Assistant

Nell Pattillo

Business Manager

Alice Chamlee

Advertising Manager

Elizabeth Thrasher

Circulation
Kathryn Bowen

Business Assistant

Mary Past

Business Assistant

Laura Steele

Business Assistant

Margaret Cooper

Business Assistant

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE:

Laura Steele
Elizabeth Warden
Ora Muse
Ruth Hertzka
Mary Boggs
Jane Guthrie
Jacque McWhite
Kitty Printup

Betty Maynard
Jerry Brown
Katherine Hertzka
Gene Brown
Sarah Johnson
Eliza King
Mary Richardson

LlSELOTTE ROENNECKE

THE STUDENT BUDGET

With the posting of the spring Black List, the problem of
the student budget announces itself afresh. The confusion and
inconvenience occasioned by the present system under which
the payment of the budget is optional, are again confronting the
heads of the campus organizations; such an unwieldy situation
which repeats itself every semester stands definitely in need of
investigation. Either the existing plan should be more efficiently
conducted or a new one inaugurated which would include the
payment of the student budget in the tuition. The latter method
has worked successfully in many eastern colleges and in our
chronic state of uncertainty about the budget funds, would seem
an advisable experiment at Agnes Scott.

The disadvantages of the present system are undeniable.
There is constant confusion in making out the staffs of publi-
cations, class teams, the casts of plays, May Day casts, etc, since
students on the Black List are not allowed to take part in any
activities supported by the student budget. As the Black List
is not posted at the beginning of each semester, students may re-
ceive publications and participate in these organizations for a
certain period without fulfilling the financial obligation in-
volved, and the principles of the existing system are thereby vio-
lated. The burden of book-keeping and the constant checking
of student lists, necessarily incident to the plan, fall upon the
all too busy heads of organizations and merely add a fresh length
of red tape to the somewhat tangled skein of campus activities.

Furthermore, since the amount of money which each organ-
ization will receive from the budget is uncertain for such a long
time, no organization can make out a definite financial pro-
gram m advance. Until the spring term, the returns from the
budget can neither be ascertained nor apportioned, and the
serious difficulties which therefore confront the business man-
agers of the publications and the treasurers of other organiza-
tions is sell -evident. It the budget formed a definite part of the
tuition, each club, publication, and the three major organiza-
tions would know from the beginning the exact amount which
it would receive and could plan more simply and successfully
the year's expenditures.

The chief objection raised to a compulsory payment of the
.student budget included in the tuition, is that there are students
financially unable to meet this extra demand, and would be ex-
cluded entirely from admission on this account. To those who
can afford tuitions at all, however, the additional fifteen dollars,
now optional, would not loom large enough to be a decisive fac-
tor, and with scholarship funds available to almost all students,
the extra expense could be met without too great a strain on the
students' purse. Furthermore, if all students contributed to the
budget, the amount would probably be reduced.

In view of the difficulties of the present system, a compul-
se \ student budget seems the only solution: it would eliminate
burdensome book-keeping and illegal participation in campus
activities, facilitate the financial programs of student organiza-
tions, and thereby place the whole functioning of extracurricular
organizations on a simpler basis.

By Margaret Robins
War Crisis Imminent

In 19 IS, war- weary and supposedly
wiser nations turned expectantly to an
-era of peace. The "war to end war"
had cost them dearly. Now there was
to be no more conflict of armed pow-
ers. As a preventive measure, disarm-
ament agreements were signed and
sealed. The reign of peace be i; an.

Now in 193 5 we have had sixteen
years of that peace. What is the result-
ing situation? As estimated from for-
eign policy reports, those same nations
most critically involved in the Great
War plan to spend for national defense
in 1 93 5, $4,610,73 5,830 or almost
double the amount spent for that pur-
pose in the fateful days of 1914.
Nations Increase Arms

Italy among others has not failed to
utilize this period of so-called peace.
Through the Council of Ministers,
Mussolini has decreed compulsory mili-
tary service for Italians. A stricter en-
forcement of conscription is being
made, to lead to the ultimate recruiting
of 60,000 men who have heretofore
escaped military service. In addition,
Italy plans to build this year the two
largest battleships in the world.

Germany is busying herself with ac-
tivities which conflict strongly with
ideals of world peace. She has, not-
withstanding the limitations of the
Versailles Treaty, probably more than
a million men prepared for service, and
in semi-military organizations she also
has a large supply of partially trained
youths, who with something less than
six weeks of further instruction could
take their places in the first line troops.

There is no longer an attempt to hide
the fact that she has made an increase
of armaments, as well as an increase of

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

BOOK NOTES

Farewell to Revolution Everett
Dean Martin.

First, keenly and searchingly, Mr.
Martin weighs many common defini-
tions of revolution, and rejects them as
inadequate. Later he probes into the
fundamental causes, such as the work-
ings of "crowd mentality." Touching
on the "romance of revolution," the
author states that revolutionists are
too romantic in that they depend upon
"emotion rather than intelligence as a
guide to behavior." They make them-
selves believe that "history is melo-
drama." And what does revolution
come to? "What the people get out
of revolution is new tyranny for old."

The Glory Road Arthur Hopkins.

A stirring panoramic cavalcade of
the great economic and idealistic strug-
gles of mankind in order as they come:
"liberty, equality, fraternity" . . . slav-
ery of the machine age . . . struggle for
world peace and brotherhood . . . de-
pression. The treatment is allegorical;
the style, "quick and rhythmic, as
though written to be acted."

One Light Burning R. C. Hutch-
inson.

The beautiful story of a late-in-life
love so idealized and heroic that it
stands out vividly against the more
sordid background of most modern fic-
tion.

follow the I lines Eleanor C. Chil-
ton.

In this unusual story a successful
novelist, Linton, places intelligence and
judgment above all else. His eldest
daughter learns this philosophy of logic
from her father, finding tragedy and
defeat in the end because of its inade-
quacy. In spite of their weaknesses,
however, the characters are human and
sincere.

The Autobiography of George Wash-
\ ingtoti Editor E. C. Boykin.

From Washington's own accounts of
his daily doings, Mr. Boykin has ar-
| ranged a fairly connected narrative of
this great life. The material is skilfully
1 chosen to reveal the little-known inner
character of Washington by a truly
I self-painted portrait.

BY LlSELOTTE ROENNECKE

I would like to know what each one
of you expects of Germany! Do you
think it is very much like America?
Or are you afraid to come to a country
of half-wild people? I found both these
ideas in hundreds of questions I had
to answer in these five months I have
been in America.

Now, I will try today to tell you
some things which are different and
which may interest or even surprise
you.

Imagine you are sitting in a car,
driving on a German highway. Be
careful, these roads are not so straight
and smooth as yours are, there are
curves and curves, and villages every
ten minutes with dogs and playing chil-
dren. There is no white line in the mid-
dle of the road, it is not so necessary,
because you don't meet one car after
the other as you do here. But atten-
tion is turned aside by the picturesque
country, by fields and woods and little
brooks which are not hidden by big
wooden advertisements. You are hun-
gry? Well, you will look in vain for a
drug store on the highway, or even
in the town. Drug stores, with tables
and chairs, with ice cream and sand-
wiches are unknown in my country;
and so is the curb service which seems
so comfortable for Americans, who
don't like to move and exercise a little
bit: they have to do it in Germany,
whether they want to or not. You will
enter the garden of the little inn where
you get milk or beer or wine (but no
coca-cola) sitting under the old oak
trees which may tell you of the last
hundred years they have seen. I hope
you don't want an ice cream, because
I really doubt that they will have it
in this little village inn. Maybe you
get it in the next town, when it is
summer; in winter you will get it only
in one of the exclusive hotels, and
surely not for ten cents! Sandwich?
Oh yes, but they will look funny to
you! Probably a kind of heavy, dark
bread, with butter and big slice of sau-
sage you don't know it here at all
or cheese. But you would scarcely call
it a sandwich; it does not look so
fragile and delicate and white. It is
something to eat, when you are hun-

gry! T

Now, you start again. Don't try
to put on the radio in the car; you
will not find it in a German car, I am
sure. And, please, do not drive too

quickly; people in Germany seem to
have more time, and then, you will not
find every curve indicated! Probablv,
vou will miss the men who hitchhike?
Maybe we exchange students will in-
troduce this nice custom in our coun-
ts ; thev don't know it yet at all.

You have reached the big town and
are looking for a hotel. I don't think
you are so wealthy as to pay for a room
with bath. You are surprised, but I
am sorry that I must tell you that
such a comfort does not belong to
every apartment in our hotels. I told
you already that our meals are rather
different from yours: you will find no
sweet potatoes, or pineapple with may-
onnaise. On the other hand, no one
would dare to offer you lettuce as vou
eat it in America; only the poultry
would get it like this.

You want to go shopping. You will
look in vain for ten-cent stores. They
destroy the business of all small shops
and therefore are not allowed in Ger-
many, because we want everyone to
have the possibility of making a liv-
ing, not only some big managers. But,
besides this you get everything in
Germany as well as in America.

"Hallo, Nelly!" That is nice that
you meet your boy friend! He will ac-
company you on your walk and will
always go on your left side! So you
will always know on what side to
find him, and it is more comfortable
for him too, not to dance around you
all the time. Don't you think so too?
You will have a date with him at
night. But not in the car! It would
be shocking. Probably you will go to
an opera, perhaps to a picture show.
Afterwards you will have a glass of
wine in one of the awfully nice com-
fortable restaurants, with a lamp on
each table and easy-chairs and an or-
chestra. Or you will stay with some
family at their home, will listen to
the radio without advertisement!
or sit near the open fire and talk or
dance just as in America.

Do you have an idea now? I could
tell you many other things which are
different, such as that you shake hands
with everyone you meet or leave,
that we don't have the mail boxes out-
side the house near the road, that you
will never find a place where old cars
are buried and finally, that we don't
have a single Negro in Germany! I saw
the first one in my life when I came
to America!

Club News

Eta Sigma Phi
Miss Lillian Smith was hostess at cof-
fee, Tuesday night, March 5, in honor
of Dr. Whicher, who spoke in chapel
that morning on Horace. Members of
Eta Sigma Phi were invited, and after
coffee Dr. Whicher read some of his
poetry.

The last meeting of Eta Sigma Phi
was held jointly with the Sigma chap-
ter of Emory University, Wednesday
night, March 6. Amy Underwood
spoke on Plautus, and the members of
the two chapters rehearsed a Latin play
which will be presented at some time
in the near future.

Pi Alpha Phi
Pi Alpha Phi will hold its regular
meeting tomorrow night in Miss
Gooch's studio. Marie Townscnd, Lena
Sweet, Frances Belford, and Fannie B.
Harris will debate at this time.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma met Monday
night, March 4. After a brief business
meeting, Mr. Christian gave a talk on
magnets.

I>I \( K I KIAKS

The next meeting of Blackfriars will
be held Tuesday night, March 19. A
one-act play, Far- Away Princess , will
be presented.

In 1 1 rna i ional Relations
The International Relations Club
met Thursday night, March 7. Fidesah
Edwards gave a report of her trip to
Davidson, N. O, where she represented
A gncs Scott at the Southern Interna-
tional Relations Conference.

EXCHANGES

The government is to contest the
decision on the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority; and should the Supreme Court
of the United States uphold Judge
Grubb's decision in the Federal District
Court of Alabama on February 22 that
it is unconstitutional for the Federal
Government to manufacture electrical
energy for sale in competition with pri -
vatc utilities, President Roosevelt's
power program would be seriously up-
set. Said Judge Grubb, "if the power
was created to sell, you cannot claim
you are selling a surplus." The Liter-
ary Digest.

Austria rose from the status of a
minor among the nations last week
when she was admitted to a footing of
"perfect equality" in the discussion of
all such proposals as the pact for her
security outlined at Rome last January.
I [ithertO she has been subjected to
many treaty restrictions. Some restric-
tions will continue, at least in form.
The Literary Digest.

While Chancellor Adolf Hitler was
challenging the enemies of "new Ger-
many" in the building where the Na-
tional Socialist Party was founded,
Paris newspapers reported extensive of-
fensive and defensive preparations by
him.

/. t emps said that in the past four
months the military force had increased
400 planes, with 15 factories busy day
and night. Figaro listed 26 new air-
ports and 7 new seaplane bases either
completed or under construction. The
Literary I)/g(\t.

Fifty students at Vallapin, Spain,
locked up two professors until thev
promised to pass the whole class with-
out examination.- Y'Ar Ring-T um-Vhi.

{Continued on page 4, column 2)

The Agonistic

3

Glee Club to Sing
On Emory Program

The Agnes Scott Glee Club, under
the direction of Mr. Lewis H. John-
son, instructor of voice at Agnes Scott,
will present a forty-minute program of
sacred music at the Glenn Memorial
Church at Emory University, on Sun-
day, March 24. Soloists will be Betty
Lou Houck and Virginia Wood. Mr.
Christian Dieckmann, of Agnes Scott,
will accompany the chorus on the or-
gan.

During the past week, the Glee Club
has appeared at various churches in
Atlanta and Decatur, giving programs
of religious music. On Sunday, March
3, the chorus sang at the Pattillo Me-
morial Church in Decatur; on Tues-
day, March 5, at the Decatur Presby-
terian Church; and on Sunday, March
10, at the Westminster Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta.

Annual Try- Outs
Take Place

The neatest thought of the week
comes from one of our professor
friends. Says he: "No matter where
you spend your money or what you
buy with it, be it a Coca-Cola, a suit,
or a new car, the customer's always
right. But you come to college and
spend lots of money for the privilege,
and just the opposite holds true." Just
what we've been complaining about.
The Ring-Turn -Phi.

Try-outs for Spanish and French
Clubs took place Monday afternoon,
March 1 1.

In accordance with the new plan de-
vised by the club council at Agnes
Scott, all try-outs for the language
clubs take place the same week. French
and Spanish were held Monday after-
noon, March 11; German Club this
afternoon.

This ruling establishes a special time
for language clubs, thereby putting
them all on an equal basis, and makes
uniform the requirements for trying
out. For admission into every lan-
guage organization, a two-minute con-
versation and a five-minute play are
necessary.

Baptist Leader
Speaks in Chapel

Mr. W. E. Denham, representative
of the Baptist Student Union for At-
lanta colleges, on Saturday, March 9,
honored Agnes Scott with a most in-
teresting and helpful speech in chapel.
He discussed the ways in which one
may get the best out of college, sug-
gesting that students first, think for
themselves; second, study themselves
to see where their difficulties lie; third,
have confidence; and fourth, follow a
philosophy of life. Those Baptists who
enjoyed this talk are invited to hear
Mr. Denham speak again on Thursday
night, March 14, in the Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet room.

Clubs Plan

To Unite

Clever Styles
In Spring

Dresses
13-95

Exciting, brand new
frocks to match your
spring time spirits !
Navy sheers! Smart-
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pastel or bright print
frock, light weight
wool coat ! Separate
dresses in gay colors
and spring trim ! 11
to 17.

h

COLLEGE SHOP

THIRD FLOOR

RICH'S

Plans for the combination of the In-
ternational Relations Club, the Citi-
zenship Club, and the local chapter of
the National Student Federation of
America into one organization were
discussed in the monthly meeting of
International Relations Club, accord-
ing to Rosalyn Crispin, president. The
new organization is to be known as the
Current Flistory Forum and its mem-
bership will be made up of those stu-
dents who are interested in current
events. There will be a general meet-
ing of the Forum once a month with
intermediate meetings at which one of
the three clubs in the new group will
be hostess and have charge of the pro-
gram.

A governing board composed of the
leader of the N. S. F. A. group and
the presidents of the Citizenship Club
and the International Relations Club
will direct the activities of the new or-
ganization. Professor Philip G. David-
son and Assistant Professor Florence E.
Smith, both of the history department
of Agnes Scott, will continue to act as
faculty advisers to the clubs.

Fidesah Edwards, who recently at-
tended a regional International Rela-
tions Conference held at Davidson
College, made her report at the same
meeting.

French Play
Honors Alliance

The French Club of Agnes Scott pre-
sented le Quatr/eme, by Martial -Pie-
chaud, in honor of the Alliance Fran-
caise of Atlanta at a joint meeting held
on last Thursday evening at 8 o'clock
in Gaines Chapel. In the absence of
M. Loridans, president of the Alliance,
Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, social lead-
er, introduced" M. Seydel who spoke a
few words of greeting.

The parts in the modern one-act play
were taken by Elizabeth Rodrigue, Bet-
ty Fountain, Mary Virginia Allen,
Kitty Printup, and Augusta King.

After the program, members of the
French Club served tea in the Alumnae
House to the guests; Mrs. George P.
Hayes presided.

History Professor
Makes Address

Professor Philip G. Davidson, of the
history department of Agnes Scott,
made an address to the Maryland His-
torical Association on Monday night
in Baltimore; in his talk, he discussed
Jonathan Boucher, a Maryland loyalist
of the Revolution. Professor Charles
A. Beard, of the University of Chica-
go, an outstanding historian, was pres-
ent at this meeting.

Professor Davidson returned to the
campus yesterday.

The light that lies in a woman's eyes
probably lies because it is the reflection
of what the young man has been say-
ing all evening. The Alabamian.

COMMITTEE CHOOSES

MAY DAY CAST

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
Hoffman, McWhite, B. Jackson, Mor-
row, Simpson, F. Steele, Martha Sum-
mers, M. Turner.

Brown-eyed Susans: Brittingham,
Fitzpatrick, Fleece, Fulton, Guthrie,
Jeffers, Little, McCully, Newton, Rob-
ins. Daisies: Behm, Bennett, Black-
shear, Cousins, Gillespie, King, E. Mc-
Callie, Moreland, Shipley, Anne
Thompson. Pirates: Bowden, Burson,
Byrnes, Calhoun, Chalmers, Coffee,
Forman, Gray, Huchinson, Lawrence,
Mathis, Noble, Northcross, Telford,
Tigert.

Indians: Belford, Caldwell, Coley,
Harris, Harrold, C. Jones, D. Kelly, O.
Kelly, Kennedy, Kirkpatrick, Lasseter,
Merrill, Norman, S. Turner, Warden,
Wheaton, Wilson.

Girls in a dormitory at the Universi-
ty of Kansas decided that they were
indulging too freely in "cuss" words
when their stockings developed runs,
when the coffee turned out bad, etc. So
they opened a pool and operated an
honor system. When a girl says "darn-
it" she puts in half a cent. "Damn"
brings a cent and a half. After the first
five days there was $1.67 in the pool.
The Grinncll Scarlet and Black.

And We May Have Comprehensives--

(Ed. Note: This contribution is
the production of communistic enter-
prise for which no one in particular is
responsible.)
Belles Lettres:

(a) Place the following quotations,
giving: speaker, person addressed, act,
scene, line, occasion, significance in
plot, in character portrayal, and in
dramatic technique, and number of
page on which the quotation appears
in each edition you have perused (ten
required as minimum) :

"Prick him!"

"He."

"Ay!"

"Indeed!''

"Nay, not so."

"Twill be naught."

"Come, sir."

"Kiss me."

"I replied."

"No, but I might."

"O fie."

"Sez you!"

(Not all of above are from Shakes-
peare. Interspersed with quotations
from other classic authors, i.e., Elinor
Glynn, Plato, and Horatio Alger. Clas-
sify only those of Shakespeare.)

(b) Name all Shakespeare's plays,
including and specifying those of
doubtful origin, giving all sources, all
dates, accurate, approximate, and spec-
ulative, with internal and external evi-
dences for your information, derived
from all known sources (which will be
listed alphabetically in a bibliography
referred to by footnotes).

Refute in the vernacular the four
charges against Senectute ) giving myth-
ological background, lives of all his-
torical characters, and ideas inculcated
into your own philosophical viewpoint
by your instructor's interpretations
reproducing said interpretations and

[i Cm

Kali-sten-ilcs have disillusioned thou-
sands of girls who previously had the
mistaken idea that shoes could not be
stylish and comfortable at the same
time. Modern styling and beauty of
detail have been achieved in Kali-
sten-ilcs without sacrifice of the exclu-
sive features of construction which
make these shoes so comfortable,
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contrasting with Virgilian lectures
(which must be reproduced verbatim,
using proper capitalization, paragraph-
ing, and underscoring all important
words and ideas for emphasis).

Outline the present government of
each of the European countries, con-
trasting with and showing development
from pre-war governments, discussing
in full the three most important prob-
lems common to each, in addition to
the social, economic, and political con-
ditions of the different ethnic groups
and their individual components, while
at the same time contrasting these with
the African colonies. Substantiate your
ideas by information derived from re-
cent archaeological discoveries in the
Sudan.

(a) Explain in full the significance
of the following quotations, giving re-
lation to historic background, to the
Messianic Hope, to the active ministry,
and to the future hope of civilization,
particularly as witnessed in connection
with the miracles and parables (all of
which are to be listed in order of their
occurrence in each book of the New
Testament, with cross references given
in all of the five most important con-
cordances to which you have been re-
ferred) :

Matt. 1:2-5 (Abr. begat Isaac; Isaac
begat, etc.)
Philemon
Zephaniah 3:14
Habbakuk 2:17
Lamentations 1:5.

(b) Give a very brief summary (35
or 40 pages) of those facts covered
in your outside reading which have im-
pressed you most, giving direct quota-
tions when possible.

Discuss in the idiom of Provence all
novels mentioned in class up to this
time, giving particular attention to
racial and sectional characteristics, set-
ting, and atmosphere, and discussing
adequately at least five characters pre-
sented in each. Spend the rest of the
time doing a piece of creative work
(not more than 30 pages in correct
French grammar and the most ap-
proved modern style) based upon your
observations of life in general, and
upon the knowledge obtained from the
perusal of the above works in partic-
ular.

Sciences:

Prove logically, using any or all of the
following theorems: Pappus', Descar-
tes', Horner's method, or the binomial
theorem the mathematical possibili-
ties of Alice in Wonderland ', with par-
ticular reference to "Jabberwocky."

Name a couple of planets.

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SOCIETY

Ellen Little spent the week-end in
Hapeville, Ga., with Martha Whigham.

Jean Barry Adams attended the S.
A. E. formal dinner-dance at the Pied-
mont Driving Club on Friday night.

Gene Caldwell spent the week-end
with Esther Byrnes.

Peggy Ware spent the week-end
with Miriam Talmage.

Bertha Merrill spent the week-end
with Mrs. George M. Brown at her
home in Atlanta.

Becky Harrison spent the week-end
with her aunt, Mrs. M. L. Rigdon, of
Atlanta.

Pauline Wynne and Dean McKoin
had dinner Sunday with Mrs. Sam Guy.

Marion Derrick spent the week-end
at her home in Clayton, Ga.

Virginia Williams spent the week-
end with her sister, Mrs. J. D. Knox,
in Atlanta.

Emily Rowe spent the week-end at
her home in LaGrange, Ga.

Sarah Frances McDonald spent the
week-end at her home in Jefferson, Ga.

Among those attending the Lint-
head Ball at Peachtree Gardens on Fri-
day night were Mary Hull, Carolyn
White, Marie Wagner, and Meriel Bull.

Ruby Hutton spent Saturday night
with Virginia Gaines at her home in
Atlanta.

Jane Merrill attended a K. A. dance
at Forrest Hills on Friday night.

Helen Hawkins spent the week-end
at Wesleyan College.

Virginia Gaines spent the week-end
at her home in Atlanta.

Virginia Noble's sister, Winifred,
spent last week-end with her.

Happy Shaw from Chattanooga,
Tenn., was the guest of Margaret
Wright for the week-end.

Martha Young spent the week-end
with Frances James at her home in At-
lanta.

Helen Price and Dixie Woodford
spent the week-end with Myrle Chafin
at her home in McDonough, Ga.

Dot Cabiness spent the week-end at
her home in Columbus, Ga.

Trellis Carmichael, Vera Frances
Pruet, Jane Cassels, Marguerite Morris,
and Marian Calhoun spent the week-
end with Martha Redwine at her home
in Fayetteville, Ga.

Madeline Race's mother spent the
week-end with her.

Carolyn White spent the week-end
in Columbus, Ga., with Frances Bruce.

Susan Turner's mother spent the
week-end with her.

Students Choose

Spring Sports

May Day, tennis, and swimming
proved the three most popular activi-
ties directed by the Physical Educa-
tion department for the spring season,
according to an approximate count of
the new gym-class rolls.

Prospective fairies and lost boys,
number 13 8, and will transform the
May Day dell into another Never-nev-
er-land. Tennis classes, held on the
college courts near the hockey field,
Rebekah Scott, and the gymnasium,
show an enrollment of 116. Approx-
mately 9 5 use the swimming pool three
times weekly in classes alone, minus
the number who go in at plunge
periods.

Supervised riding at the Biltmore
Riding School on Roxborough Road is
the chosen sport for spring days to 3 9
girls, who ride either once or twice a
week. Archery is a close fifth with
36 participants; an advanced archery
class will be held this year for the first
time.

Golf and soccer run about the same
in enrollment. At the Ingleside golf
course, 26 girls weekly wield their
clubs in the face of a strong March
wind. Soccer, starting again for the
second season, will engage 24 girls; two
teams will be formed of the sophomores
against the combined other three
classes.

Carolyn Russell, Mary Grist, and
Mary Louise Shuman, '34, spent the 1
week-end at the Alumnae House.

Jane Allen Webb's mother visited
her last week.

Noted Life Saver

To Instruct Here

Council Chooses
Varsity Team

The basketball Varsity Council, at
a meeting last week-end, selected the
following girls for this year's varsity
team: Forwards, Helen Handte, Ade-
laide Stevens, Katherine Bishop, Kath-
erine Bennett; guards, Marie Stalker,
Leonora Spencer, and Elizabeth Bur-
son. The junior class team will be
awarded the basketball banner.

In point of games, the juniors won
five, the sophomores won four and
tied one, and the freshmen and seniors
won one each. The high point players
were Ad Stevens, first; Helen Handte,
second; and Ann Walker and Eliza-
beth Blackshear, tying for third.

The council which selects the bas-
ketball varsity is made up of Miss Page
Ackerman, of the gym department,
Miss Blanche Miller, and Miss Sarah
Bowman, both of the biology depart-
ment, Helen Handte, and Mary Kneale.
The players are chosen on their work
in the six games of the season.

Swimming Officials
Attend Convention

SO THIS IS PEACE

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
soldiers, which exceeds the treaty
standard.

With a watchful eye on her neigh-
bors France refuses to allow herself to
be outstripped in war-like preparations.
In the last few years she has laid out
fortifications along the frontier at a
sum double the amount spent for forti-
fications in the forty years immediately
preceding the Great War. At Paris
2 5,000 gas shelters have been erected.
The number of planes has been increas-
ed to 6,000. Air invincibility is plan-
ned at a cost of six billion francs.

Not to fall behind, Great Britain has
increased national expenditures by more
than $200,000,000 over expenditures
of 1914. A large part of this sum she
has devoted to what is spoken of by
British citizens as "security" on the sea.
What has been done toward prepar-
ation in the past may be far surpassed
in the days to come. The admiralty
demands for the future twenty-five
battle cruisers at $2 5,000,000 each. Gas
experiments arc proceeding rapidly, and
bombers which can be guided by radio
have been perfected.

Japan looms over the horizon of
peace as one of the most formidable of
foes. She is the only nation in the
world with both a powerful naw and
a powerful army a combination
which was fatal to world peace in 1914

Mary Margaret Stowe spent
week-end with Myra O'Neal.

the

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(Continued from page 2, column 5)
President Roosevelt's message to con-
gress last week set forth the favorable
side of the argument of NRA. Said
he, "NIRA started us on our forward
path." It was "the biggest factor in
giving reemployment to approximately
four million people."

Under it, he declared, "the age-old
curse of child labor has been lifted, the
sweat-shop outlawed, millions of wage-
earners have been released from the
starvation wages and excessive hours of
labor." A great advance has been made
in the opportunities and assurances of
collective bargaining"; and, finally, in-
dustry "has been freed, in part at least,
from dishonorable competition." The
Literary Digest.

Mr. Ray Eaton, American Red
Cross head of Life Saving in the south-
east, will be in Atlanta Monday, Tues-
day, and Wednesday, March 18, 19,
and 20. His visit will be of value to
those interested in water sports. He
will come to Agnes Scott to give in-
struction in life-saving and to give the
Examiners' tests of those ready to pass
them.

Miss Harriet Haynes, director of
swimming at Agnes Scott, and Kitty
Printup, assistant in the department,
will attend a convention on water
sports, life saving, and swimming at
the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, from Thursday through Sat-
urday, March 14-16.

Students to Give

Easter Plav

The Freshman Dramatic Group is
now arranging to produce Simon the
Leper, a drama of Christ, by Dorothy
Clarke Wilson; the play will be pre-
sented for Easter vesper services.

The girls who have been chosen to
take part are Mary Anne Kernan, Anne
Taylor, Elizabeth Cousins, Kitty Hoff-
man, Myrl Chafin, Martha McAfee,
Ellen McCallie, and Jane Turner. The
committee chairmen are Mary Alice
Baker, stage manager; Virginia Sutten-
field, properties; Anna Katherine Ful-
ton, costumes; and Dixie Woodford,
lighting.

It has been a practice of the past
few years for Freshman Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet to take charge of the Easter
vespers. The Freshman Dramatic
Group, which is directing the play this
year, is one of the hobby groups spon-
sored by Freshman Cabinet.

Miss Mary Westall

Visits Campus

Miss Mary Westall, former associate
professor of biology, has been visiting
in Decatur during the past week. The
college community wishes to extend a
hearty welcome to her.

The campus is turning philosophical,
or so it would seem after we collected
the following gems of wisdom:

1. Never carry all your men on the
same line.

2. A letter a day keeps the blues
away.

3. Never put off until tomorrow
what your room-mate can do today.
LI oil ins Student Life.

and might easily prove disastrous
again. Yet she is not satisfied and must
sieze for herself additional naval forces.

The United States has adopted meas-
ures in keeping with the general trend
of the times. A billion-dollar naval
bill has been passed. There is an omin-
ous display of naval maneuvers. Plans
are underway for Reserve Officers'
training corps units in eighty-five more
high schools and twenty-two more col-
leges.

Sixteen years of peace have re-equip-
ped the world for slaughter and de-
struction. What will the next step be?

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935.

No. 18

Leading Scientists
To Assemble Here
March 21-22

Agnes Scott Professors to Read
Research Papers as Part of
Varied Program

Professor K. P. Williams, of Indiana
University, will be the guest speaker
at the annual meeting of the south-
eastern section of the Mathematical As-
sociation of America, to be held at
Agnes Scott College, March 21-22.
Professor Williams, who is a leading
authority on relativity, will read two
papers at this meeting, the first en-
titled The Movement of Mercury's
Perihelion, and the second, The Place
of Mathematics in Secondary Educa-
tion. Eleven other papers will also be
read by members of the association,
among which will be one by Professor
W. W. Rankin of Duke University,
formerly professor of mathematics at
Agnes Scott. These meetings will be
held in Room 203 in Buttrick Hall,
from 4:00 to 6:00 on Friday after-
noon, and from 8:45 to 12:00 on Sat-
urday morning. The student body is
invited to attend.

Physicists to Organize

Leading physicists of the Southeast
will also meet here in order to form a
southern section of the American Phy-
sical Society. Every southern state east
of the Mississippi is expected to be rep-
resented.

Several of the physicists will read
research papers at Agnes Scott on Fri-
day afternoon. Professor Schuyler
Christian, of physics and astronomy at
Agnes Scott, will present two papers.
The following morning the delegates
will meet at Emory University to or-
ganize. The purpose of this new sec-
tion is to further research work in the
South,

The following compose the organi-
zation committee: Dr. W. S. Nelms,
of Emory; Dr. J. B. Edwards, of
Georgia Tech; Dr. L. L. Hendren, of
the University of Georgia; Dr. C. W.
Edwards, of Duke; Dr. Ruark, of the
University of North Carolina; and Dr.
Bless, of the University of Florida.
Science Academy to Meet

The Georgia Academy of Science,
convening at the same time, will have
as its guest speaker Dr. Alexander Sil-
verman, of the University of Pitts-
burg; his subject will be Glass: An
Indispensable Factor in Modern Civi-
lization. Dr. R. C. Rhodes, retiring
president of the group, will talk on
the Opportunity of a Democracy to
Regulate the Nature of its Population.
Professor Schuyler Christian, of the
physics department; Professor Mary
MacDougall and Associate Professor T.
W. Whitiker, both of th e biology de-
partment; Associate Professor Philippa
Gilchrist, of the chemistry department;
Assistant Professor Katherine T. Om-
wake and Associate Professor Emily S.
Dexter, of the phychology department,
all of Agnes Scott, will present papers
at this meeting.

Compton Will Lecture

The presentation of Dr. Arthur H.
Compton here on Friday night is an
added attraction to these three societies
holding meetings here this week-end.

Colleges To Meet
Again In Debate

Agnes Scott College, Randolph-
Macon, Sophie Newcomb
To Contend

Agnes Scott College, Randolph-Ma-
con, and Sophie Newcomb will meet
in a triangular debate on Friday, April
5, on the question, Resolved: That the
Federal government should own and
operate all facilities for the manufac-
ture of arms and munitions in the
United States. Marian Calhoun and
Brooks Spivey will uphold the affirma-
tive here against the team from Sophie
Newcomb; Edith Merlin and Sara
Catherine Wood, speaking for the neg-
ative, will debate Randolph-Macon at
Lynchburg. Nellie Margaret Gilroy has
been named alternate. There will be
no decision.

Triangular debates with these col-
leges were begun in 1919. They were
held annually for six years during
which time Agnes Scott won the ma-
jority of decisions; they were discon-
tinued in 192 5 because of financial dif-
ficulties. Last year they were resumed
and a debate was held on the NRA
with Marian Calhoun and Mildred Coh- j
en, ex-'3 6, speaking for Agnes Scott
at Newcomb, and Elizabeth Winn, '34,
and Sara Catherine Wood debating here
against Randolph-Macon. Agnes Scott
won the decision at both places.

Edith Merlin and Sara Catherine
Wood will debate the same question at
an open forum to be held in the the-
ological chapel on the Emory Univer-
sity campus on Monday, March 2 5, at
4 o'clock. They will uphold the neg-
ative against Emory at this time also.

McCain Portrait Completed

Courtesy of Constitution.

Portrait of Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Agnes Scott College, with the
painter, Sidney Dickinson, of New York. Mr. Dickinson has just completed
the study, which was presented to the official committee in charge at the
college Monday afternoon.

Phi Beta Kappa
Elects Alumnae

CHAPTER NAMES OFFICERS

At the annual meeting of the Agnes
Scott chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on
Tuesday, March 19, the following of-
ficers were elected for the year 193 5-
1936: Pres., Prof. Torrance; Vice-
Pres., Prof. Laney; Sec, Prof. Florence
Smith; Treas., Prof. Wright; member
of Executive Council, Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain.

Alumnae of the class of 1920, of
which there were forty-one members,
were considered for election to mem-
bership in Phi Beta Kappa. Only those
who won honors while they were in
college, or who have distinguished
themselves since they have graduated,
were eligible. The alumnae members
are: Mrs. Charles Clinton Bell, Atlan-
ta; Miss Elizabeth Lovett, Atlanta;
Mrs. Angus M. Dowling, Brooklyn, N.

Committee Plans
Other Portraits

Tentative plans are now under dis-
cussion for portraits to be painted of
Mr. J. K. Orr, chairman of the Board
of Trustees of Agnes Scott, and Mr.
S. M. Inman, former chairman. These
would be painted by Mr. Sidney Dick-
inson, the artist who has just finished
painting Dr. J. R. McCain's portrait.
If this is done, Mr. Dickinson will re-
main in Decatur for two or three
weeks longer, instead of leaving Mon-
day. The committee on the portraits is
composed of Miss Hopkins, Mr. Robin-
son, Miss Lewis, Alberta Palmour, Mar-
garet Ridley, and Dorothy Hutton.

Mr. Dickinson, an artist of note,
has received the two highest portrait
awards in the United States: the Cor-
ral Beck Gold Medal, Pennsylvania, and
the Maynard Prize, National Academy.
He has painted a number of portraits
of American college presidents and
deans. Mr. Dickinson also painted the
portrait of Mrs High, which now
hangs in the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta.

He is represented in the following
museums: Cochran Gallery, Washing-
ton, D. C, and the Chicago Art In-
stitute, Chicago, Illinois.

Y.; Mrs. William Lloyd Thorington,
Taft, Texas; Mrs. Arthur A. Council,
Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. Frank A. Sewell,
Atlanta.

Alumnae To Give
Annual Party

The annual campus party given at
Agnes Scott College by the Alumnae
Association for seniors in high schools
at Atlanta, Decatur, College Park,
Avondale, and East Point will be held
Saturday, March 23, according to Miss
Dorothy Hutton, alumnae secretary.

The day's program, which is in
charge of Miss Hutton and Miss Elinor
Hamilton, field secretary, is as follows:
11:30 A. M. Registration in the

Anna Young Alumnae House.
12:3 0-1:30 Lunch in Rebekah Scott

dining room.
1 : 00-2: 00 "The Riders to the Sea"
(James Millington Synge), pre-
sented by the spoken English de-
partment and Blackfriars.
2:00 Activities of the Physical Edu-
cation department.
Tennis match.
Archery exhibition.
Dancing.

Swimming for high school stu-
dents.

During lunch there will be singing
by the students and music by the col-
lege orchestra. The parts in the play,
which is under the direction of Frances
K. Gooch, will be taken by Ida Lois
McDaniel, Virginia Byers, Margaret
Stokey, Dorothy Bell, Kitty Printup,
Vera Pruet, Marguerite Morris, and
Carrie Phinney Latimer. About 2 50
students are expected to attend.

COMMITTEE AND POPULAR NOMINEES

ARE POSTED FOR SPRING ELECTIONS

Language Clubs
Admit Twenty

As a result of the language club
try-out, held on Monday, March 11,
twenty students were admitted to the
French, German, and Spanish clubs.
New members of the French club are:
Gene Brown, Mary Comely, Ann Wor-
thy Johnson, Hortense Jones, Jacque
McWhite, and Elise Seay. Those ad-
mitted to the German club were Anna
Katherine Fulton and Virginia Merry.
The following girls received member-
ship in the Spanish club: Betty An-
derson, Jean Austin, Louise Bailey,
Josephine Bertolli, Martha Peek Brown,
Hibernia Hassel, Mary Johnson, Sarah
Jones, Alice Taylor, and Rosa Wilder.

The elections for the student officers
of next year will be held tomorrow and
Friday during an extended chapel
period. Below are the committee and
popular tickets which were posted in
Buttrick Hall and the dormitories on
Monday last:

COMMITTEE TICKET:
Student Government
President: Adelaide Stevens
Vice- president: Dean McKoin
House presidents:

Rebekah Scott Hall: Carrie Phinney

Latimer
Main Hall: Alice McCallie
Inman Hall: Eugenia Symms
Secretary: Mary Jane Tigert
Treasurer: Frances Wilson
Student Treasurer: Meriel Bull
Student Treasurer: Cornelia Christie
Student Recorder: Lena Armstrong

V. W. ( . A.
President: Sara Spencer
Vice-president: Ruby Hutton
Secretary: Barbara Hertwig
Treasurer: Isabel McCain

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Editor-in-chief: Shirley Christian
Assistant Editor: Martha Sue Laney
Business Manager: Sarah Jones.
Advertising Manager: Mary Gillespie

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Assistant Editor: Elizabeth Espy
Business Manager: Catherine Cunning-
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Make-up Editor: Mildred Clark
Assistant Editor: Laura Steele
Assistant Editor: Frances Cary
Business Manager: Alice Chamlec
Assistant Business Manager: Kathryn
Bowen

Athletic Association

President: Ann Coffee
Vice-president: Elizabeth Burson
Secretary: Marie Stalker
Treasurer: Julia Thing
Fire Chief: Katherine Bishop

POPULAR TICKET:
Student Government

President: Adelaide Stevens, Alice Mc-
Callie, Frances James
Vice-president: Frances James, Alice
McCallie, Adelaide Stevens, Dean
McKoin
House Presidents:

Rebekah: Ruby Hutton* Sarah
Spencer, Elizabeth Forman, Car-
rie Phinney Latimer, Mary Mar-
garet Stowe, Alice McCallie
Main: Carrie Phinney Latimer, Sara
Catherine Wood, Dean McKoin,
Elizabeth Foreman. Alice McCal-
lie

Inman: Dean McKoin, Elizabeth
Forman, Rosa Miller, Lena Arm-
strong

Secretary: Frances Wilson, Isabel Mc-
Cain, Elizabeth Allison, Kathryn
Bowen

Treasurer; Elizabeth Allison, Frances
Wilson, Isabel McCain, Kathryn
Bowen

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 )

Dr. A. H. Compton
To Lecture Here
On Cosmic Ravs

Important Organizations To
Meet Here on March 22nd to
Attend Illustrated Lecture

More distinguished in the field of
science than Edna St. Vincent Millay
in the field of poetry is Dr. Arthur
Holly Compton, the noted physicist
who will lecture on Cosmic Rays Fri-
day evening, March 22, in the Bucher
Scott gymnasium at Agnes Scott Col-
lege.

In order to be able to hear Dr.
Compton, several important organiza-
tions have made special arrangements
for their meetings: members of the
Mathematics Association will be here
from six Southern states, and leading
physicists from the East Atlantic states
who had expected to organize a group
later in the spring, are convening at
this time instead. The Georgia Acad-
emy of Science will meet here instead
of in Savannah as planned. However,
in spite of these indications of scien-
tific interest, lay audiences are assured
of being able to understand Dr. Comp-
ton. He is said to be entirely clear to
people not scientifically trained.

An Interesting Personality

The pleasing and attractive person-
ality of Dr. Compton makes him an in-
teresting speaker. Those of the faculty
who have heard him say that he is a
delightful person, well-worth seeing
and hearing. His brilliance is attested
to by his awards of the Nobel Prize
in 1927, the Rumford gold medal in
1927, by the American Academy of
Arts and Science, and a gold medal by
the Radiological Society of North
America.

Of Distinguished Family

Dr. Compton is listed in the 1934-3 5
Who's Who, as are his father and two
brothers, who are also distinguished.
All three brothers are members of Phi
Beta Kappa. Their mother, Mrs. Elias
Compton, has been referred to as the
"mother of the Gracchi"; she herself in
193 2 had an honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws conferred upon her.

Although he is best known for his
work with rays, Dr. Compton has
also made important discoveries con-
cerning atoms, particularly the X-rays
and the way they scatter when pro-
jected into crystals.

Following his talk at 8:30, there
will be a reception in the Agnes Scott
day students' room. Tickets for the lec-
ture are now on sale at prices of 5 0c
and 75c for students, and 75c and $1
for outsiders.

Mary Boggs Wins
Quenelle Harrold
Scholarship

Mary Boggs was awarded the Quen-
elle Harrold Graduate Fellowship at a
meeting of the Academic Council on
Tuesday night, March 12. The council,
which is made up of the professors on
the faculty, Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent, and Miss Nannette Hopkins,
dean, granted the fellowship to Mary
for advanced work in an institution
approved by them. She will probablv
continue her study of German after
graduation.

For the past two years Mary has held
the Collegiate Scholarship which is
given to the student in the three under
classes who attains the highest general
proficiency. Mary was elected to Phi
Beta Kappa at the February announce-
ments; she is also editor of The Ago-
nistic and a member of Mortar Board.

The Quenelle Harrold Foundation
was established by Mrs. Thomas Har-
rold, of Americus, in honor of her
daughter, who graduated from Agnes
Scott in the class of 1923. The income
from the $10,000 which she contrib-
uted is used to provide this graduate
fellowship.

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IN FAVOR OF COORDINATION

Because of the fact that the proposed plan between Agnes
Scott and Emory is not a plan of coordination, but a plan of co-
operation, I am heartily in favor of it. Agnes Scott will never
be coordinated with Emory in any way, but a plan of coopera-
tion may be worked out which will prove beneficial to both
schools.

Emory and Agnes Scott may thus be able to strengthen some
of their departments, or even bring in new departments. For ex-
ample, both need a department of archaeology, additional courses
in astronomy, and in political science.

At present plans are being made for a school of Social Science
at Emory. Agnes Scott is working with Emory on these plans,
and the school will possibly be opened year after next. The
plan of cooperation will also be carried into the Library system.
There may be an exchange of books at times, and, in buying
new books, especially valuable books, Agnes Scott will attempt
to buy books which Emory does not have, and vice versa.

Even with the plans in this undeveloped state, the general
idea seems valuable. A system which will benefit both Agnes
Scott and Emory is of course worth while.

Martha Redwine.

Since the plan of coordinating some of the courses at Agnes
Scott and Emory is to be realized in a measure next year, it is
interesting to consider a few of the advantages of this plan.

The greatest advantage in coordination, it seems to me, is the
opportunity it will afford to broaden the curricula at the two
institutions, and at the same time to eliminate unnecessary dupli-
cation small departments, such as the classical, may be com-
bined at Agnes Scott and Emory. Certain other departments
will be expanded by additional courses being offered; particularly
will expansion be possible in philosophy, economics, sociology,
political science, and the fine arts. Certain courses which have
not been offered before in any of these institutions, such as
archaeology and geology, will possibly be offered under this plan.

Consummating the plan of cooperation will be the establish-
ment of a finer graduate school offering the Ph. D. degree in this
section of the country. There has existed for a long time a need
for just this type of work here in the South.

It is fascinating to surmise the endless possibilities of coordi-
nating the two institutions. The need is so great, the constitu-
ency so large, the instructors so highly qualified, and the physical
facilities so adequate, that things vet undreamed of may result.

Alberta Palmour.

BOOK NOTES

1. Of Time and the Rii er Thomas
Wolfe.

Thomas Wflfe's 45 0,000-word novel
is an ecstatic reiteration of the author's
deep, almost frantic love for life and
for the world. There is little plot; but
the rich, exuberant words rush out,
crowding and overflowing in their eag-
erness, to make a story in which every
tiniest experience, every momentary
glimpse, every look, or every smile,
assumes gigantic importance and clam-
ors for a just appreciation from man-
kind. Wolfe is "word-drunk" and sick
of a "magnificent malady: it may be
called gigantism of the soul."

2. The Time is Ripe Walter Green-
wood.

A revealing novel that tells, at last,
the truth about economic England
today the England which other writ-
ers have for some reason evaded. The
hero is a coal miner of the Manchester
country, left helpless and bewildered
after her mine closes down. There fol-
lows a vivid picture of the dole and of
the cruel, prying indignities of the
"Means Test." The story is told not
only with pity but, also with a subtle
sympathetic humor.

3. Dante Viio Giovanni Papini.
Papini, feeling the deadness and lack

of artistry in simple facts, interprets,
embroiders, and creates until ex nihilo
he has made a portrait of Dante the
man. The scanty data about Dante do
not daunt him in the least. He makes
a heroic attempt to write as one would
of a person living today; and the re-
sult is a fascinating fantasy.

4. Shining and Free G. B. Stern.
A novel which neither turns the

Jewish people's "racial idiosyncrasies"
into hilarious comedy nor exaggerates
"small human woes" of the Jews into
"profound racial grievances." Instead it
treats the Jews as people, humanly di-
verse in personality.

6. Wheels and Butterflies William
Butler Yeats.

Four short plays, all dealing with
the supernatural and spiritual. Three
are for dancers and are adapted by the
author from old Japanese forms. These
plays "read better than they play,"

Work For Wits

9.
10.

Name the discoverer of the Pacific.
Who is known as the Poets' Poet?

Give the title and author of the poems beginning with the following lines:
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes."
Sweet and low, sweet and low."
'How does the water come down at Lodore."
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom."
The year's at the spring."
g. "Drink to me only with thine eyes."
What book of the Bible is older than the books of Moses?
Name the author of each of the following: a. Lorna Doone; b. Vanity
Fair; c. The Woman in White; d. Jane Eyre; e. Scottish Chiefs; f. The
Compleat Angler; g. Last Days of Pompeii; h. Pride and Prejudice.
What does the name Israel mean and to whom was it applied?
Where did the Christmas tree originate?

What is the real name of the following writers: a. Currer Bell; g. Lewis

Carroll; C. Fra Elbertus; d. Mark Twain; e. Artemus Ward.

Name the largest river in Europe.

Who sought for the Fountain of Youth?

(Answers on Page 3, Col. 2)

ALUMNAE

Elinor Hamilton, '34, and Dorothy
Hutton spent ten days in Tennessee
visiting high schools in the following
cities: Nashville, Franklin, Manches-
ter, Murfreesboro, Columbia, Shelby-
ville, Cleveland, Knoxville, and Athens.
In Nashville they met with alumnae
groups and a tea was given in their
honor at the University Club house.
They also met with a few alumnae
in Knoxville.

Martha Logan, '32, was married on
February 26 to Rev. John D. Hen-
derson of Spartanburg, S. C, at Ap-
palachia, Va. Susan Glenn, '32, and
Peggy Link, '3 2, were bridesmaids.

Imogene Hudson, '3 2, is back in At-
lanta with the Fulton County Relief.
This fall she studied at Tulane Uni-
versity in New Orleans.

Sara Lane Smith, '32, made a trip
to Washington in February to be a
bridesmaid in the wedding of a friend.

CLUBS

The regular meeting of B. O. 2. will
be held on Friday afternoon at 4:3 0,
in Miss Preston's room. Margaret Rob-
ins and Anna Humber will read.

Vera Frances Pruet, Madeline Race,
Sarah Davis, and Virginia Coons will
be hostesses at a Cotillion Club tea-
dance tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock
in Mr. Johnson's studio.

Far Away Princess, a one-act play
by Hermann Sudermann, was presented
under the direction of Ida Lois McDan-
iel at the regular Blackfriars' meeting
last night in Miss Gooch's studio. The
cast included Carrie Phinney Latimer,
Marie Stalker, Mary and Mildred
Thompson, Martha Sue Laney, and
Dorothy Bell.

The Citizenship Club held its regu-
lar meeting on Tuesday night, March
12, in the Y. W. Cabinet Room. After
a short business meeting there was an
interesting discussion of the Child La-
bor Amendment. Dorothea Blackshear
spoke on the history of child labor;
Elizabeth Espy, on its future; and
Sarah Nichols, on its present situation.

Scientist's Career
Dates From Youth

THK GENTLE ART OF CONVERSATION

The day of the bright-spun repartee of the salon where words
danced like the light changing pattern of a ballet, and the day of
the doughty Wit of the tavern and the coffee house with its
broad brandish and its quick thrust, are vanished, it seems, f rom \
the earth. And we, children of a lesser day, have lost the spritely
art of conversation along with the antique ambition to write
Latin verses or compose a serenade; pity 'tis 'tis true. We have
ceased apparently to know the intellectual zest of wooing a
word or to feel the thrill of le mot juste and the neat phrase,
and before our indifference, words have lost much of their
verve, their color and their independence and, faded into non-
entity. We fumble with them, blur them, sap them of mean-
ing by indiscriminate repetition or leave them in pale disuse on
the pages of j dictionary ; and without the Creative sense of the
individual potentialities of a word, we inevitably extract the
flavor, the bright suggestive overtones, from conversation; it
becomes technical, tepid or nonsensical. Not that we would
seek to be lo^t in a beautiful nebula of words adrift from idea,
but with a more adept use of them ideas are quickened into ac-
tion to flash, to pierce, to mingle instead of falling, half-
formed and futile midway between those who are talking.

And it is this quickening of idea that is our dominant need
in an age when ideas are too easily catalogued and dismissed: to
free thought from the text-book, give it vigor by contact with

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)

By Frances Espy
What is the difference between a
three-toed and a five-toed elephant?
Arthur H. Compton, at the inquiring
age of ten, wrote a paper developing
his own personal theories on the ques-
tion. Thus early displaying a scientific
bent, he continued his activities, build-
ing and flying a glider at the age of
fifteen, constructing from an ordi-
nary timepiece and an old camera an
astronomical clock at the age of seven-
teen, and inventing a gyroscopic de-
vice for control of airplane equilibrium
a few years later.

Today Dr. Compton is professor of
physics at Chicago University and one
of America's foremost scientists. Only
forty-two, he has to his credit a list
of honors long enough to cover a life-
time. He has been awarded the Rum-
ford Gold Medal by the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Gold Medal of the Radiological Society
of North America, and most note-
worthy of all, the Nobel Prize in 1927
for his discoveries concerning cosmic
rays. Dr. Compton's future work will
have to do with the make-up of atoms
as affected by these rays. In a re-
cently published interview he expressed
the opinion that physical and chem-
ical methods of making artificial liv-
ing cells will be developed in the fu-
ture.

Dr. Compton finds no basis for con-
flict between religion and science. He
has always been deeply interested in
religious and philosophical questions.
^X'hilc an undergraduate at booster
College in Ohio he won a prize offered
in philosophy.

Mary (Felts) Steadman, '3 3, an-
nounces the birth of a daughter, Mary
Felts Steadman, on Christmas Day.

Caroline Lingle, '3 3, is working in
the Alumni office at Davidson College,
Davidson, N. C.

Judy Blundell, '3 3, is doing indus-
trial designing with a firm in New
York.

Pen and Brush Club met Friday
night, March 15, in Ann Taylor's
room. Virginia Gaines spoke on Ab-
stractionism, and each of the members
displayed her individual soap-carving.
The club has been working for the past
several weeks on a group of soap-carv-
ings representing the Byrd Expedition
to Little America which they hope to
enter in the Proctor & Gamble con-
test.

A Glance At The Cuban Revolt

By Alice Dunbar
Cuba is suffering from a revolution-
ary strike against the administration
of President Carlos Mendieta. The gov-
ernment has seized the weapon forged
more than a year ago by its enemies
and has declared the existence of a
state of war throughout Cuba in its
grim battle to escape overthrow. The
order prohibits all persons on the street
at night without special military pass
and gives the military powers unlimited
authority. The death penalty for rebels
has been imposed, constitutional law
has been suspended, and military gover-
nors have been appointed for Havana
and other provinces.

To what can we attribute this re-
cent action? The government gives as
its reason the fact that there was a
state of strike and revolutionary prop-
aganda in Cuba which made such ac-
tion necessary. For days strikes and
bombings have been disturbing the life
of Havana. There has been a desire to
remove from office President Carlos
Mendieta and Colonel Fulgencio Batista
as chief of the army. Students and
soldiers have taken opposite sides of
the question. Over 300,000 students
and teachers have gone on a strike
against the government, and employees
of the Departments of Treasury, Edu-
cation, Labor, Justice, Communica-
tions, Commerce, and Agriculture have
left their jobs. However, the army has
taken steps to suppress the revolt and
to get some of the public employees
back to their jobs.

Havana has been almost like a ghost j
city. It has been caught in the f ight |

of the government and has suffered
almost total paralysis. Cruises to Cuba
have been canceled. Most of the island
has been without ice, without trans-
portation, and without mail or news-
papers, as union after union h.is joined
the nationwide general strike. Al-
though many stores and commercial
houses at first tried to remain open for
business, few of them had clerks or
employees. The streets of Havana have
had little traffic because the transpor-
tation strike includes taxicab drivers
and because the streets have been lit-
tered with roofing nails by sinkers.
Some automobiles have been equipped
with two ordinary house brooms tied
in front of the fenders to sweep nails
from the path of the tires.

Government employees fear that a
two-to-five-year prison term will be
meted out to them if they join the
strikers. President Carlos Mendieta has
been in office since January 18, 1934.
At one time Cuba seemed to be on the
road to democracy and economic im-
provement, but the government's re*
pressive measures have now dashed
hopes to pieces. Colonel Batista is
helping to put down the revolt. Cu-
bans say of him, "Just so long as a
government is approved by Batista, just
so long can it retain power."

Americans have always been inter-
ested in Cuba on account of bet close
proximity to our shores and are watch-
ing the present disturbed situation in
Cuba with a great deal of interest.

The Agonistic

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GIDDY GOSSIP

Hullo again!

Fitful child, ain't I? But what with
spring being expected almost any
month now and elections practically
here, I had to take a final shot. Spring
and politics what a combination!
Just that I owe nothing to Lydia
Pink ham!

The pseudo-spring breezes of last
week brought a wave of "fine writ-
ing" to the campus too. Out of the
heart of a star-gazing ( by profession)
faculty member surged this:

"Cosmic ray, passing through the wall,
If I could know what you are, all in
all,

I would know past and future of the
universe

Surrounding this terrestrial ball."

Hot, huh? And our religious speak-
er had his moment, too. Standing on
Buttrick steps with the greater part of
Mama Nature bursting into bloom be-
fore him, Dr. Poteat howled out the
following sentiment in a somewhat
halting burst of passion:

"Something accomplished; something
done.

Something lost; something won.
Went to sleep with the set o' sun.
Woke next day like a son-of-a-gun."

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Transition reminds of that peaceful
day in chapel last week when, in the
midst of an inquiry into what makes
us go, Dr. Poteat bellowed forth in a
complaining tone "How come you do
me like you do, do, do?" To use the
combined language of the Department
of the Home and the psychology de-
partment, the reaction was mainly
yeasty!

Mary Gray Rogers is now in the
midst of perfecting a new plan for de-
livering books from the library. She
works conscientiously on it because,
she says, it'll speed up the service no
end.

I must away again. There are ad-
vantages, I find, with being a now-
you-see-me-now-you-don't person. You
begin to be appreciated absence and
visits alike Okay, I'll be honest
absence more than visits!

Farewell, oopy-woops and don't
play politics!

Spasmodically, your

AGGIE.

6.

c. Wilkie
f. Walton ;

"prevailing

(Continued from Page 2, Col. 4)

1. Balboa.

2. Spenaer.

3. a. Keats, Endymion ; b. Burns ; c. Tenny-
son ; d. Southey, Cataract of Lodore ;
e. Cardinal Newman ; f. Browning. Pippa
Passes : g. Jonson, To Celia.

4. Book of Job.

5. a. Blackmore ; b. Thackeray
Collius ; d. Bronte; e. Porter
g. Bulwer-Lytton ; h. Austen.
From the Hebrew meaning
with God" : Jacob.

Contrary to general belief that it came
from Germany, the Christmas tree orig-
inated in Egypt long before the Christian
era. The palm tree is known to put
forth a branch a month ; when twelve
shoots have come out it is the symbol of
the year completed. This takes place at
the winter solstice,
a. C. Bronte ; b. Rev. C. L
Elbert Hubbard ; d. S. L.
C. F. Browne.
Volga; length 2,300.
Ponce do Leon.

Athletic Leaders
Leave For N. C.

Frances McCalla, president of the
Athletic Association, and Ann Coffee
leave today for Greensboro, N. C., to
attend the Athletic Conference of the
Southeastern section. This conference
is being held at the Woman's College
of North Carolina tomorrow through
Saturday.

Reports of this conference will be
made on next Wednesday in chapel.
At the same time Helen Handte will
present a report of the state conference
of the Georgia Athletic Federation of
College Women which met in States-
boro on March 1-2. This Federation
was organized by Agnes Scott and its
first meeting was held here in 192 8.
Leonora Spencer, vice-president of the
Athletic Association, was the other
delegate to Statesboro.

WE THINK

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(Editor's note: The We Think column is for
the purpose of giving an outlet to student opin-
ion. The staff is in no way responsible for
what is printed in this column and it is by no
means to be taken as the editorial opinion of
the paper.)

The election of student officers for
193 5- , 36, which will be held tomor-
row and Friday, will determine the
campus leaders, not only for next year
but, in a large measure, for the fol-
lowing session when members from
the present sophomore class will rise
from assistant editorship to editorship,
from the office of secretary to that
of president or vice-president. The im-
portance of our impartial judgment of
capability in selecting these people is
self-evident. The realization of this un-
prejudiced vote is, apparently, quite
difficult.

During the days preceding the elec-
tions we find ourselves faced seriously
with a condition which has never be-
fore existed to such an extent at Agnes
Scott that of pure and unadulterated
politicking, done openly, in broad day-
light, and with no regard for its dis-
honesty and corruption. Upperclassmen
are disgusted; freshmen are bewildered.
To offer, as a justification, as has been
done, the merry-go-round in Atlanta

Dr. Poteat Seen At Off Moments

By Lulu Ames

There are interviews and interviews.
And then there's Dr. Poteat. For ex-
ample, after a few preliminaries of
an unusual sort, he said, "Take a
problem." Which I did. "Three farm-
ers went to town one day to sell some
eggs. One had 8 5 eggs; another 5 0; and
the third 15. They all got to town
at the same time, sold all their eggs
at the same price, per dozen, per egg,
and all left town at the same time with
the same amount of money. How did
it happen?" Whereupon I looked at
the problem while Dr. Poteat played
with his pencil and whistled happily "I
Believe in Miracles." When the prob-
lem had been solved by Dr. Poteat
we moved on to other things. Cats and
elephants. Cats are "great animals";
elephants, he said, "are not adapted to
the household," nor yet made "to sit
in your lap they muss your clothes
up." About smoking he said, "I don't
like to see girls smoke. They always
hope they'll look like the girls in the
ads, and they never do. They smoke
more than men do; they smoke too
much when they smoke. And they
don't smell good!"

Agnes Scott, he said, is great. He
enjoyed especially the new hymns in
chapel. "President McCain left me a
hymnal and the other morning when
I was working through it I came across
that song (the Wednesday morning
one) and I could tell by looking at it
that it was a good hymn. And you all
pitched in and sang it as though you
had known it all your lives. I like to
learn new hymns; there's no harm in
it. And when I see a new hymn, I'm
just like a hen after a June-bug!"

By this time forty-five minutes had
passed, pleasantly and comfortably, yet

I could see easily that we were getting
nowhere much faster than I was ac-
customed to move. I had nothing for
an article so for fifteen minutes we
labored to get "something hot"; we
failed. We parted then; Dr. Poteat with
the feeling that / had never interview-
ed anyone before and I with the feel-
ing that he had never been interviewed
before.

In a chance serious moment on Sat-
urday, however, while we were wait-
ing for his train, he expressed the be-
lief that young people today "are much
more alert than ever before. They are
willing and eager to do things. They
are more fair-minded. They want to
know things. And I'm all for the
young people; I reckon that's because
I'm so much of a youngster myself."

With the train whistling vaguely
around the bend, he told me that Agnes
Scott had taken him right in and made
him a part of the campus. "The girls
were so cordial and so friendly and
they made my week here very happy.
And, this morning, when those kids
came over to tell me goodbye, I could
not realize that I hadn't known them
always. I came on Tuesday and here
it is Saturday and I've known those
kids always I feel that way. ..."

With that he got on the train. I
set up a wail for my interview. Then
I remembered his words on Thursday:
"Nearly every college where I've been
interviewed, it's read like an applica-
tion for a clergical position on the
railroad. Name, age, married, number
of children, interests, and that stuff.
Make this different. Write an ar-
TICKLE, the like of which has never
been done before!" I have pondered, I
have meditated, I have thought; and
toward that end I have struggled!

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it is a deliberate lowering of the Agnes
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honesty.

To those girls who have been agi-
tating their names and those of their
friends, auctioning off their honor and
that of the school for a dozen or more
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would appear more graceful to make
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your inadequacy."

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individually responsible for our choice
of officers. We are not voting as day
students against boarders, not as Main
against Inman, nor as Louise's friends
against Mary's. It is our privilege and
duty to weigh fairly the experience,
ability, and interest of each candidate
and to vote as a member of the Agnes
Scott student body, bearing in mind
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The dishonesty of swaying the votes
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A college for tuomcn that is widely recog-
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interesting character of its student activities

For further information, address

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COMMITTEE AND POPULAR
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FOR SPRING ELECTION

(Continued from Page !, Col. 4)
Student Treasurer (senior): Meriel
Bull, Mary Margaret Stowe, Frances
James, Dean McKoin
Student Treasurer (junior) : Elizabeth
Allison, Barton Jackson, Isabel Mc-
Cain

Student Recorder: Lena Armstrong,
Dean McKoin, Virginia Gaines
Y. W. C. A.

President: Adelaide Stevens, Carrie
Phinney Latimer, Lena Armstrong,
Ruby Hutton

Vice-president: Ruby Hutton, Sara
Spencer, Lois Hart, Carrie Phinney
Latimer, Lena Armstrong

Secretary: Barbara Hertwig, Mary Ma-
lone, Isabel McCain

Treasurer: Barbara Hertwig, Isabel
McCain, Mary Malone.

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Assistant Editor: Martha Sue Laney,
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Business Manager: Ellen Davis, Shir-
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Society Notes I Black friars Plans

Greek Play

Susan Turner spent the week-end at
her home in Newnan, Ga.

Catherine Bates had dinner Sunday
with Virginia Woods at her home in
Atlanta.

Ad Stevens, Lois Hart, and Martha
Crenshaw had dinner with Frances
James Wednesday night.

Mary Hull's mother spent last week-
end as her guest.

Pete Espy attended the Phi Chi Med-
ical dance at Emory on Saturday night.

Trellis Carmichael spent the week-
end at her home in McDonough, Ga.

Mary Comely had as her visitor for
the past week-end Evelyn King, of
Abbeville, S. C.

Sara Frances McDonald spent the
week-end with Helen Richardson in
Atlanta.

Marion Derrick spent the week-end
at her home in Clayton, Ga.

Virginia Williams spent the week-
end with her sister, Mrs. Knox, at her
home in Atlanta.

Eugenia Symms spent the week-end
at her home in Augusta, Ga.

Marguerite Morris spent the week-
end with her aunt, Mrs. Joe Smith, in
Barnesville, Ga.

Katherine Leipold's mother spent
last week-end with her.

Ann Coffee and Frances McCalla
are leaving tonight for the Sectional
Athletic Conference which is being
held in Greensboro, N. C, this week.

Among those attending the Pi K. A.
dance at the Shrine Mosque Friday
night were Helen Handte, Carrie Phin-
ney Latimer, Sarah Spencer, Caroline

Instead of the usual modern comedv,
Blackfriars will present as a feature of
the commencement program in May
Aeschylus' Tlie Libation Pourers, a play
which includes a Greek chorus.

The story is of Electra and her
brother who avenge the death of their
father, Agamemnon, by killing their
mother and her paramour. The chorus,
which forms an important part of the
play, is now being trained in develop-
ing a sense of rhythm. The leading
characters have not been chosen.

Professor Convalescent

Professor Louise McKinney, of the
English department, suffered two
broken wrists as the result of a fall
last week when the impact of a swing-
ing door in Buttrick hall caused her
to lose her balance. After several days'
absence, she returned to her classes
Monday.

Long, Carolyn White, Meriel Bull,
Marv Hull and Ida Buist.

Alberta Palmour, Caroline Dickson,
and Jacqueline Woolfolk spent the
past week-end in Fort Valley, Ga.

Elizabeth McKee spent the week-end
with Mary Fay (Martin) Brumby,
ex-'34, in Marietta, Ga.

Rosa Wilder, Mary Pitner, Nancy
Moorer, and Alice Taylor attended the
Phi Delta Theta dance at Emory.

Martha Johnson entertained Michelle
Furlow, Frances Balkcom, Dorothy Jes-
ter, and Isabel Richardson at a birth-
day dinner at her home in Lithonia,
Ga., on Sunday.

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For Louisiana

Dr. J. R. McCain, of Agnes Scott,
left Sunday for Baton Rouge, La., to
join a commission appointed bv the
Southern Association of Colleges to in-
vestigate the activities of Senator Huey
P. Long in the accredited institutions
of the state. Serving with Dr. McCain
on this commission are Dr. O. C. Car-
michael, of Montevallo; Dr. Alexander
Guerry, of the University of Florida;
Dean W. T. Battle, of the University
of Texas; and Mr. M. M. Huntley, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Southern As-
sociation.

The commission proposes to visit
Louisiana State University and Louis-
iana State Normal.

Has Birthday

Mr. C. M. Candler, trustee of Agnes
Scott College, celebrated his birthday
on Sunday, March 17. Mr. Candler,
who is the only living person who was
present at the founding of the Col-
lege, has been continuously a member
of the Board of Trustees since IS 89;
he is now chairman of the Executive
Committee of the College. In the early
days Mr. Candor served as registrar.

Some wise cracking professor has
said that the only difference between
a college and an insane asylum is that
one must show some improvement be-
fore he is released from the insane asy-
lum. V. M. 7. Cadet.

THE GENTLE ART OF CONVERSATION

(Continued from Page 2, Col. 1)
other thoughts in conversation, let it grow into form and mean-
ing. By this we do not mean formal discussions or a pedantic
exchange of phrases by those who sit stiffly on the edge of the
chair and vie with each other in verbosity. Such are stif fling. We
mean "talk," the rich, informal "talk" which comes to mind
when we think of the Oxford scholar with his abundant hours
of conversation that accompanied being "smoked at." This is,
no doubt, one of the provocative illusions which we cherish un-
dauntedly, but it realizes the ideal of conversation, it means the
free play of the mind, which Matthew Arnold championed, that
stirs the slovenly half-formed idea into life, that defies pigeon-
holed knowledge, and imbues the monotonous pattern of days
with meaning and grace. And such we can achieve, if we but
would; if we would erase the dreary line that now separates
knowing from being, shun the trite word, the hackneyed phrase,
still the faint mockery that has created the pathetic epithet,
"eager student," and seek the interplay of ideas, the stimulating
contact with other people's minds that means growth.

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2Tl) Agonistic

VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935

NO. 19

MAN-OF-WAR HOLDS LEAD IN A.S.C. RACE

CAMPUS-WIDE LUNCHEON
OPENS VICTORY EFFORT

MORTAR BOARD, FACULTY, AND ADMINISTRATION JOIN

TO ANNOUNCE TEN-DAY CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS

Announces Race

A luncheon for an enthusiastic college community launched
the Victory Effort campaign when faculty and students of Agnes
Scott College assembled in the gymnasium on Tuesday, April 9,
at the invitation of Mortar Board, the Administration, and the
faculty committee of the Developments campaign. In answer to the
challenge of the General Education
Board to donate a bonus of $100,000
if the college raises $23 3,000 by July
1, 193 5, the president of student gov-
ernment, the class presidents, and As-
sociate Professor Louise Hale, faculty
chairman, assured campus cooperation
in acquiring $15,000.

Professor Philip Davidson, as master
of ceremonies, began the Victory Effort
drive with the introduction of Dr.
J. R. McCain, who made a talk
on the purposes of the campaign and
pointed out that, in large measure, it
depends upon the success of this cam-
paign as to whether Agnes Scott is to
remain one of the most poorly equipped
of the colleges in the first rank, among
which she stands as an equal in other
respects. Alberta Palmour, president of
Student Government, next outlined the
part of the students in the campaign.
The challenge of these talks was ac-
cepted by speeches of class presidents
and songs of the classes.

Faculty and Classes Compete

The inter-class and faculty compe-
tition is in the form of a horse race;
this was developed as a feature of the
entertainment. The various horses were
introduced, and Madeline Race danced
a short number as a jockey on a horse.
Professor Davidson ended the program
with an imaginary and humorous radio
account of the great derby, Victory
Effort, from its beginning to the tri-
umphant finish with Jockey McCain
riding Agnes Scott.

Decorations and favors made the
luncheon a colorful event and added
to the general enthusiasm. A scheme
in purple and white, school colors, was
carried out by flowers on each table,
down the center of which ran a strip of
crepe paper in class colors. Favors and
further decorations emphasized the
equine aspects of the Victory Effort.
At his place each guest found a bright
paper jockey-cap. Gay circus balloons,
anchored to the tables by horse-shoes,
floated over the heads of the guests.
A giant horse-shoe of purple iris and
{Continued on Page 6, Col. 3)

VICTORY EFFORT

A.S.C. Takes Part
In New Conference

DR. PHILIP G. DAVIDSON, master
of ceremonies at campaign luncheon.

Agnes Scott College took an import-
ant part in the organization of thirty-
three southern colleges and universities
on April 6, to form the Southern Uni-
versity Conference for the purpose of
considering matters pertaining to high
er undergraduate work and graduate
Study. Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott, was elected secretary of
the organization.

All the institutions represented in
the Southern University Conference be-
long to the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools and
will continue their membership in that
body. The Association primarily has
been concerned with raising the stand-
ard of elementary and younger college
undergraduates; the new conference is
interested in proper work necessary for
a graduate student to receive higher
graduate degrees.

Presidents of the various institutions
are expected to attend the meeting of
the conference. Deans and other offi-
cers may also attend.

Dr.M. W.Jernegan
Is Speaker Here

New Dealers and Social Planners of
the American Revolution was the sub-
ject of the last lecture of the present
series given by Professor M. W. Jerne-
gan on Friday, April 12. Mr. Jernegan
was presented under the auspices of the
Agnes Scott Public Lecture Associa-
tion. Mr. Jernegan, professor of Amer-
ican history at the University of Chi-
cago, is the foremost living authority
on Colonial America.

The subject of his discussion here,
chosen because of its parallel in present
day. politics, was of interest to a large
number of history students who at-
tended the lecture.

Mr. Jernegan dealt with his subject
under four heads: political, social, re-
ligious, and economic, showing the in-
fluence of Benjamin Franklin, Tom
Paine, John Woolman, and Thomas Jef-
ferson on the thought of the times.
He revealed surprisingly modern ideas
of these men, which are being put into
practice today by many of the new
governments in Europe. He also show-
ed the origin of "brain trusters" and
modern social legislation in the cor-
respondence of Jefferson and Paine.

He interpreted the Declaration of
Independence as an outgrowth of eigh-
teenth century romanticism and an ex-
pression of the universal theory of the
rights of man, giving numerous ex-
amples with almost identical wording.

Assistant Professor Florence E.
Smith, Professor Philip G. Davidson,
both of the history department of the
College, and Dr. J. R. McCain have
studied under Mr. Jernegan at Chicago.
Mr. Jernegan is now writing a book
on intellectual life in the American
Colonies.

TWENTY GRAND IS
2ND AT TEN TODAY

Man-of-War, faculty horse, has al-
most doubled his lead since the start
of the race in Buttrick yesterday morn-
ing; his per cent, by which his speed
is measured, stood at 79.7 at ten o'clock
today. Twenty Grand, senior horse, is
second with 3 8.1 per cent; and the
sophomore horse, Gallant Lady, runs
third with 31.7. Cavalcade, juniors,
and Equipoise, freshmen, trail in the
field of five with 29.4 17.3 per cent,
respectively.

The percentages are figured by Pro-
fessor Henry Robinson, of the math-
ematics department; he bases these fig-
ures on the number of those who have
given and the amount of the pledges.

The support behind each horse is
indicated by his position on the race
track in Buttrick lobby.

The results of the race, which will
end on Friday, will be announced in
chapel on Friday morning.

VICTORY EFFORT

Ames And Chamlee
Attend Convention
At New Orleans

Lulu Ames, editor, and Alice Cham-
lee, business manager of The Agonis-
tic, were sent as representatives of
Agnes Scott to the Southern Student
Government and Publications Conven-
tion held in New Orleans, April 11-13.
The convention, which had its head-
quarters at the Roosevelt hotel, as-
sembled students from all over the
South for the first time in a session
combined of student government, an-
nuals, and press representatives.

The discussion groups were divided
into five units including one each for
women's student government, men's
student government, annuals, editors
of weeklies, and business managers.
Such topics as editorial policies, na-
tional advertising, campus politics, and
the honor system were discussed in the
separate groups.

Delegates Pass Resolutions

At a closing session of all the sec-
tions, among many others, a resolu-
tion aimed at the condition of the
press at Louisiana State University was
passed after some fiery discussion. This
resolution, which the editors' group
passed over only three dissenting votes,
as it was finally adopted follows:

"Resolved, that the Southern Press
Representatives go on record as favor-
ing the liberty of student publications
to express any opinion, subject only
to state laws of libel;

"That we specifically endorse the
courage and fearlessness of Jesse Cut-
rer, editor of the L. S. U. Reveille, in
refusing to submit to unwarranted fac-
ulty censorship;

"That we condemn the manner in
which his liberty was restricted;

"That we condemn the subservience
of President James M. Smith to Sen-
{Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)

Mortar Board Names
New Members Saturday

Announcement of elections to
Mortar Board, national senior
honorary organization, will take
place in chapel on Saturday, Ap-
ril 20. Anna Humber, president
of the Agnes Scott chapter, will
preside, and Miss Ellen Douglas
Leyburn, instructor in English
and Hoasc member, will make the
address.

Qualifications for membership
are scholarship, leadership, and

CAMPAIGN FOR $15,000
TO CLOSE NEXT FRIDAY

GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD WILL MATCH MONEY;

PLANS INCLUDE LIBRARY AND SCIENCE HALL

Wins Fellowship

With $15,000 as the goal, the campaign for faculty-student
subscription to the new Agnes Scott College development plans
began on Tuesday, April 9, with the assembling of faculty and
students at a luncheon in the Bucher Scott gymnasium. The Vic-
tory Effort, sponsored by the faculty, the Administration, and

Mortar Board, and aided by class and
faculty competitions, will end this Fri-
day morning when returns of pledges
are announced. Collection of subscrip-
tions began yesterday.

Interest for several months has been
centered on raising a sum of $23 3,000,
either by collection of former pledges
or by securing new ones, in order to
receive $217,000 promised by the Gen-
eral Education Board of New York.
The Board originally offered $117,000
to Agnes Scott if the latter should se-
cure' from other subscribers by July 1,
193 5, $233,000 for buildings, improve-
ments, and endowment. Following an
investigation of the college by several
of their officers, the Board has added,
as a further incentive, $100,000 to this
former offer.

Improvements May Begin Soon

The plans for a successful drive call
for $200,000 for a new library; $100,-
000 for a new science hall; and $150,-
000 for endowment. As soon as suc-
cess is insured, Professor Philip David-
son, faculty chairman, announced,
work will be begun with the swinging
around of the infirmary, and the ex-
tending of the road straight through
past the gymnasium. Also, the Car-
negie Endowment Corporation has au-
thorized a committee to determine
plans for a new library, a necessary
precaution because of the difficulty in
building a satisfactory one. It is hoped
that by the beginning of the fall ses-
sion, ground will be broken for the
new library and the old one will be
turned into a student activities build-
ing.

Dr. J. R. McCain, in his talk to the
college community at the luncheon,
said that the question has to be faced
whether Agnes Scott is content to be
a good "little" college with mediocre
equipment or a high standing college.
There is need for a new library to re-
place the present weak one, new lab-
oratories for the old insignificant ones,
more endowment for scholarships, and
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 5)

VICTORY EFFORT

MARY BOGGS, named for German
Fellowship and Radcliffe Scholarship

Mary Boggs Wins
Coveted Awards

Mary Boggs, Quennelle Harrold win-
ner, received word last week that, upon
recommendation of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, she has been nominated for a
fellowship for graduate study in Ger-
many during 193 5-36 under the aus-
pices of the American German Student
Exchange. The actual granting of the
fellowship is contingent upon the ap-
pointment of a German exchange stu-
dent to the fellowship which Agnes
Scott has offered. If the Berlin office
is able to find the right candidate and
she is accepted bv the college, Mary
will be offered a fellowship covering
board, lodging, and tuition for the
coming academic year in Germany; if
no such candidate is accepted at Agnes
Scott, the fellowship will not be avail-
able, since the whole arrangement is
on a direct exchange basis.

The German Fellowship, which will
not be made definite until later in the
spring, is handled by the Institute of
International Education, New York
City. The Exchange students at Ag-
nes Scott are sent here through this
Institute.

Mary has also been granted a $400
scholarship by the Fellowship Com-
mittee of Radcliffe College, Cambridge,
according to a letter from the Dean
of the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences of that institution. This fel-
lowship is also for the academic year
193 5-36.

Mary, who is the outgoing editor of
The Agonistic, a member of Mortar
Board and of Phi Beta Kappa, has, for
the past two years, held the Collegiate
Scholarship which is offered annually
by the College to the freshman, soph-
omore, or junior who attains the high-
est general proficiency.

A.A.U.W. Members
Fete Senior Class

Faculty members who belong to the
American Association of University
Women will entertain the senior class
today with a program in the chapel,
which will be followed by a social
meeting in the Day Students' room. It
has become a custom for the A.A.U.W.
to invite the seniors to their annual
meeting.

The American Association of Uni-
versity Women is a national organiza-
tion of college women who are inter-
ested in encouraging the higher edu-
cation of women. It is also connected
with the International Federation of
University Women, which has mem-
bers in almost every country in the
world. Numbers of students benefit
every year by the loans, scholarships
and fellowships for graduate study
either in this country or in foreign
countries, which are offered by the
American Association. The organiza-
tion is divided into sectional, state, and
local branches. Associate Professor Eliz-
abeth Jackson, of Agnes Scott, is the
South Atlantic sectional secretary; she
is also an officer for the Georgia Fel-
lowship Fund of the organization.

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WHERE WAS AGNES
SCOTT LAST FRIDAY?

As part of an international col-
legiate demonstration thousands
of students all over the United
States met last Friday to voice
their protests against war. Many
thousands expressed by mass
meetings, by parades, by strikes,
by fist fights, their unwilling-
ness to have any share in war.
A model of a cemetery studded
with white crosses was produced
on the University of Louisville
campus; Tulane University stu-
dents, dismissed from classes for
the meeting, denounced war in
speeches and resolutions; stu-
dents at Emory staged a "strike"
and prepared recommendations
to be sent to President Roosevelt.
It was estimated late on Friday
that somewhat more than 60,000
students had taken part in such
demonstrations east of the Mis-
sissippi river.

Disarmament, the maneuvers
of the United States Fleet in
Japanese waters, war these are
not, as one delegate to the New
Orleans convention said, far re-
moved from us. These are prob-
lems with which we, as college
students, and our whole genera-
tion are closely connected. These
are not matters about which we
can be unconcerned by choice;
later, we will be FORCED into a
consideration of them and, per-
haps, participation in what re-
sults from them.

\Vh> did Agnes Scott fail to
make her position known? Is it
because we condone war? Or be-
cause we are indifferent? These
Charges cannot be fairly brought
against Agnes Scott students.
Bui another charge which is
more poisonous in its effects can
be advanced: We are too limited
in our perspective, too campus-
minded to see beyond the college
years, to realize the pressure of
national events in relation to our
lives as voting citizens. It is we
here at Agnes Scott, together
with other students, who will
form the public opinion in a few
years. Yet we let pass unnoticed
an international collegiate up-
rising against war.

VICTORY KMORT

THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE
SI ;>,()( m)

In the fall of 1930. at a lunch-
eon, Dr. McCain announced to a
gathering of student body and
faculty that Agnes Scott College
was in need of $20,000 in order
to carry forth the Greater Agnes
Scott Campaign movement. The
campus, after an intensive drive,
pledged $30,907.

On last Tuesday, at a similar
luncheon. Dr. McCain announced
the necessity of raising $15,000
for a new library, a iit i w science
building, endowment, additional
scholarship funds, and faculty
salaries. This campaign, the Vic-
tory Effort, will close Friday
morning.

Our past, as glorious as it is
in scholastic achievement, is im
portant only insofar as we use it
as a stepping stone toward a
greater Agnes Scott. The mental
vision of this proposed institu-
tion has stimulated us into con-
centrated activity. The campaign
is serving as an outlet for this
activity. We are moved with the
spirit, not only to raise the de-
sired sum, but even to forge
ahead and bring in far above the
amount. The $15,000 we recog-
nize only as a measuring stick by
which to gauge our loyalty and
our love for Agnes Scott. It is
by this united effort on the part
of faculty and students that we
reveal our willingness and our
readiness to keep faith with Ag-
nes Scott.

It's over the top, we'll go
over the top for Greater Agnes
Scott and for a holiday!

VICTORY effort

AND SPEAKING
OF HORSES

There are many kinds of horses
when we come right down to it.
It was a horse, to go momentarily
historical, that got Paul Revere
over the countryside in his mid-
night tour of the New England
States some years back, wasn't
it? And Paul, rest his soul,
shares honors with a horse in the
minds of the gentry today.

Then there are statues. What
would America be without stat-
ues? What would a statue of a
general be without a horse? And
what, exactly, would the general
sit on except a horse?

But, to get on, there's nothing
like a horse or, better, five
horses to jazz up a campus de-
velopment campaign. Nothing !
Get the five horses, put them in
a Victory Effort race, and watch
them swing into whiz-bang ac-
tion !

As proof of said horse-theory,
consider the situation here at
Agnes Scott. To begin with, we
had to yank the horses out of a
bunch of other minor sports in
the gym department and give
thorn names--Man-of-War, Kqui-
poise, Gallant Lady, Cavalcade,
and Twenty Grand. Then we
moved them up to Buttrick lobby I
and into the rarified atmosphere;
that surrounds the office of the!
President himself. And, finally,
we put them into a race; that
elevated them to the rank of pro-
fessionals. It is not every college
i hat can boast of a private horse-
race racket, approved by the col-
lego. <>pon all the time for addi-
tional financial stimulation.

Useful animals, horses? Indis-
pensable ! And, it's in the air that
Buttrick won't be big enough to
hold all the enthusiasm of the
broke-backers on Thursday when
the five horses come to the end
of the course, pay their respects
to the President, and turn their
Steps back toward the gym and
obscurity between natural danc-
ing and swimming in the list of
minor sports!

Key to Current
History

By Rosa From

The inhabitants of Danzig and, al- 1
legedly, some non-inhabitants voted
last week in a parliamentary election.
This election would have been like or-
dinary elections if it had not been :
forced by the Nazis, who dissolved the
lower house of Danzig's Parliament last
February. Additional importance is at-
tached to the result of the election in
that it may be a test of Hitler's
strength and exert considerable influ-
ence on the important conferences held
at Stresa, Italy.

"The Free City of Danzig" was es-
tablished out of pre-war German ter-
ritory as a result of the Versailles Trea-
ty. Poland has certain diplomatic and
economic rights over the city; and its
constitution is guaranteed bv the
League of Nations, which acts as pro-
tector of the city.

Subject to the approval of the
League of Nations, a two-thirds ma-
jority of the votes cast in the election
would have permitted the Nazis to
alter Danzig's constitution and abolish
opposition parties. It was also found
that a Nazi dictatorship would have
been set up had the Nazis won. Three
weeks before the election the Nazis
began their campaign. Hitler sent Gor-
ing, Hess, Grebbels, Streicher, Biirckel,
and other Nazi chiefs to Danzig, which
is legally a foreign state, to declaim
on the cause of National Socialism. But
the Danzig Nazi government was forc-
ed to issue a statement that the elec-
tion would not change Danzig's inde-
pendent status, because Poland had in-
timated that she would cause trouble
if such were the case. Nazi demonstra-
tions took place during the election
campaign, and passerbys were forced
to give the Nazi salute.

In spite of alleged Nazi terrorism
and in spite of the report that more
than a million marks of German money
helped to finance the campaign, the
Nazis failed to receive the desired two-
thirds majority of votes in the election.
The National Socialists received only
sixty per cent of the votes cast in spite
of a predicted victory. The returns of
the election were regarded as a grave
defeat for the Nazi party in Danzig,
for it now remains just another party
instead of being the only one as it had
hoped to be.

Charges of terrorism and illegalities
are being made by the anti-Nazi par-
ties. Three of these plan to ask the
League of Nations for a new vote. Po-
land also complains that a number of
her citizens, including two members of
her diplomatic corps, were beaten; she
may even appeal to the League. But
the most important result of the elec-
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VICTORY EFFORT

ALUMNAE

CLUBS

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma held its last
meeting Monday night, April S. The
following new officers were elected:
President, Sara Nichols; vice-president,
Martha Summers; recording secretary,
Rebecca Whitley; corresponding secre-
tary, Lenna Sue McClure; treasurer,
Lorraine Smith.

Sara (Strickland) Beggs, '3 3, has
been visiting her aunt in Decatur. Her
address is 1008 East Mallory Street,
Pensacola, Florida.

Nell Brown, '3 3, has been helping in
the Y.M.C.A. financial campaign in
Savannah, Georgia.

Chopin Hudson, '31, was in Atlan-
ta last week-end. Chopin is connected
with physiotherapy work at Warm
Springs, Georgia.

Brownie Nash, '3 3, was in Philadel-
phia last week-end. While there she
visited Nina Parke's family. She will
be in New York this week-end visit-
ing Polly Gordon, '34.

Dorothy Cassel, '34, is visiting her
sister, Frances Stevens, ex-'3S, in New
York Citv.

Dorothy Hutton, '29, met with a
group of Charlotte, North Carolina,
alumnae at tea Tuesday, April 9. There
were some few alumnae from Lin-
colnton, Lattimore, High Point, and
Davidson. Susan Glenn, '32, Bella Wil-
son, '34, and Mariam Steele, ex-'3 5,
were among the out-of-town guests.
Man.im is a member of the May Court
at Queens College.

Dance Club
Miss Harriette Haynes entertained the
members of the Dance Club at a tea
Wednesdav afternoon, April 10, at 5
P. M.

Pi Alpha Phi

The regular meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
was held Thursday night, April 11,
in Miss Gooch's studio. Lucile Denni-
son and Frances Belford debated against
Ellen Little and Anne Wheaton on the
following subject: Resolved: That dic-
tatorship is the most suitable form of
government for the present stage of
civilization.

Betty Mathis and Mary Lillian Fair-
ly debated against the Tech freshmen
in a non-decision debate on Socializ-
ed Medicine on Tuesday night, April 9.

Cotillion Club
Kay Backs, Mary Venetia Smith,
Nancy Tucker, and Virginia Hightow-
er were hostesses at a tea-dance for Co-
tillion Club Thursday afternoon, April
11, from 5 to 6.

French Club
The French Club held its regular
meeting Monday, April 8, in the Day
Student Room in Main. The new mem-
bers were initiated, and officers for
next year were elected. The new of-
ficers are: President, Jane Thomas;
vice-president, Julia Thing; secretary-
treasurer, Ann Worthy Johnson.

B. O. Z.

B. O. Z. met Friday afternoon, April
12, at Miss Preston's. Jane Guthrie,
Nell Allison, and Anna Humber read.

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi held a joint meeting
with Emory Wednesday night, April
10. Plans were discussed for the Reg-
ional Convention of the Southern
Chapters of Eta Sigma Phi, which is
to be held on the two local campuses
this month. Lita Goss read a paper on
The Young People in the Aeneid,
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EXCHANGES

Over 200,000 tests made at Duke
University have convinced Dr. Car-
rington, director of the American Phy-
sical Research Institute, that mental
telepathy or thought transference
exists. If it is true that thought exists
outside the physical brain, then the
whole theory of psychology will have
to be revised.

The Florida Alpha chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa has formally been installed
at Florida State College for Women.

More than 200 delegates from six-
teen southern and southeastern states
were expected to attend the spring
student conference held in New Or-
leans under the auspices of Tulane Uni-
versity and Sophie Newcomb College
April 11-13.

F.E.R.A. students at Virginia Poly-
technic Institute made better grades
during the first quarter of the current
school year than their classmates, de-
spite the fact that they were working
part time. The executive secretary of
the school pointed out that the "stu-
dents realize that the government and
the college are making a special effort
to assist them in remaining in college,"
and that the "economy exercised by
the great majority of students holding
these jobs is well demonstrated to those
having charge of the administration
of this fund."

At Hunter College this year science
is found to be the most popular field
among the freshmen. 132 of the 1,000
new students have chosen biology for
specialization; and 144 have chosen
physiology, chemistry, and the pre-
medical course.

The University of Chicago an-
nounces that a nineteen-year-old stu-
dent who entered the University as a
freshman in the fall of 193 3 will, if
he successfully passes his examinations
in March, graduates with a bachelor of
science degree at the end of five quar-
ters of work.

Frustration of purpose seems symbo-
lized in a new variety of evening prim-
rose which develops full-sized buds but
never opens them. This plant was re-
cently found among a group of experi-
mental plants by Dr. George H. Shull,
of Princeton University.

BOOK NOTES

My Old World Ernest Dimnet.

Here is the long-awaited autobiog-
raphy of the Abbe Dimnet, most pop-
ular of all French writers and author
of The Art of Thinking. Written by
a Frenchman who has a better knowl-
edge of the English language than we
have, this book is not only an auto-
biography, but also an account of the
modern French school, mind, and back-
ground, "the France of the Abbe Dim-
net."

Puzzled America Sherwood Ander-
son.

After gathering impressions of
American people from factories, farms,
mills, the T.V.A. and C.C.C. camps,
Mr. Anderson settles down and writes
this story of America as it is today.
Summing up his two years of travel,
he expresses the view that the aver-
age American is looking for a new be-
lief, "some ground to stand on, a gov-
ernment that does not go on- just being
a meaningless thing, a life not so stupid
so silly." He voices a faith in Amer-
ica's future that is both optimistic and
convincing.

Time Out of Mind Rachel Field.

This romantic novel of the Maine
coast depicts the struggles of a young
girl for a love rare in modern fiction
because of its pure, old-fashioned sen-
timentalism. With a quick-moving plot
and genuine description of the sea
coast, Rachel Field succeeds in giving
a sense of reality to her romance th.it
is convincing even to the sworn foe
of romanticism.

The Autobiography of John Hays
Ham mond,

As mining engineer, capitalist, pol-
itician, and author, John Hammond
has gathered together all the expe-
riences of his unusual life, seasoned
them with wit, and published them
m an autobiography of unp.ua I led in-
terest. The section devoted to his work
in South Africa is a valuable contri-
bution to the history of the world.

The Price of Peace Frank H. Si-
monds and Brooks Emeny.

At least an intelligent discussion of
world relations today has been written
by America's foremost authority on
foreign affairs. Mr. Simonds presents
the problem of peace or war clearly
and impersonallv. "Pence is possible,"
he says, "if the world is willing to pay
the price."

Siesta Berry Fleming.

This is a novel of our own South,
with the inevitable magnolias and Ne-
groes, but written in 9UQ unusual style
and catching the intangible atmos-
phere of a southern town. The book is
a series of stories connected with ad-
mirable skill.

Winter in Taos Mabel Dodge Lu-
han.

Indian life in Taos is here presented
by a woman who has made a home
there with her Indian husband. Ani-
mals, costumes, storms, menus, rituals
Mrs. I.uhan leaves no detail of life
on these pueblo plains untouched. Es-
pecially interesting is her detailed ac-
count of the Indian religious ceremon-
ials of that section.

The Agonistic

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PROPOSED SCIENCE BUILDING

This building will house the Biology Department; it will also probably have space for the Department of the Home.
The removal of the Biology Department from the present crowded Science Building will leave more room
for Chemistry and Physics.

We Have What You Want

For The Price You Wanta' Pay

The close of the Greater Agnes
Scott campaign next Friday will
bring to an untimely death the most
beneficient student activities that our
campus has yet experienced. Because of
the influence of the campaign it is
suitable at present to have the hair cut,
furniture polished, teeth pulled, and
portrait drawn by one's own friends
and real classmates all for the nom-
inal sum of fifty cents.

Opportunities for beautif ication are
unlimited and well within the price
reach of every student. Ten cents will
provide a manicure. An additional dime
will produce a finger wave. Facials are
thrown at you. Shoes will be whitened
or silvered at the occupant's desire.
And to set you on your toes, a mas-
sage and tickle will be administered
for the cut-throat charge of fifteen
cents.

Furthermore, under this stimulus for
money-making, the freshmen have de-
vised, at a ridiculously low price, an
ngenious and exciting arrangement for
getting better acquainted with your-
self. Infallible, omniscient Ouija boards
may be rented for only ten cents, with
instructions as to their use thrown in.
Scientific handwriting analysts have de-

veloped in Inman, and the freshmen
will generously show their native talent
with the upperclassmen for a single
dime per person.

Amusements are not being neglect-
ed. Liselotte Roennecke is offering les-
sons in the intriguing art of the Ger-
man waltz. Inman Frolic is to be pre-
sented in the "Asins Cascot" on Tues-
day night. Entertainment is to be pro-
vided in dances, stunts, and fashions.
Radios are present on all sides.

Nor have the more routine activi-
ties of campus life been left untouch-
ed by this frenzy for finances. Errant
buttons will be safely replaced for a
penny a piece. Beds will be made for
'ive cents, but if the sheets must be
changed the price rises to a dime.
Rooms are cleaned for fifteen cents,
and for an additional ten the closets are
attacked. Pressing prices are at a rock-
bottom level. And food is abundant.
Cakes, apples, ice cream, cold plates,
candy, coffee all may be purchased
within the confines of the campus.

Great must be the benefits of our
proposed profits if they compensate us
even in a measure for the blessings that
the campaign has brought and soon
must take away.

Horses Bring
Rich Heritage
To A. S. Drive

Did Richard III on the battlefield
shout for an Eastern Air Line mono-
plane as the last means of escape? No!
He shouted, "A horse, a horse, my
kingdom for a horse." Did the Greeks
harbor themselves in Troy inside a
stream-lined Delta biplane? No! They
found refuge in the dark cavern of a
horse. Where would Humpty-Dumpty
have been had there been no solid-foot-
ed, odd-toed, quadruped, Equus Cabal-
lus (to the layman, just plain horse) ?
How would struggling Latin students
and industrious carpenters ever have
survived without the aid of a horse?

In the face of the horse's historical
and literary past one must realize the
superiority of the horse race of 193 5
to the airplane race of 192 8. True,
this is an age of scientific achievement
and the airplane is a step farther in
mechanistic development, but we have
come to a time when the philosophy of
Pope, Rousseau, and Rabelais should be
heeded. In this present race we are
showing that Agnes Scott, as a liberal
college, is turning back to the law of
the ancients, the law of nature. The
airplane is the manifestation of the ma-
chine age while the horse is the ex-
pression of primitivism in its most per-
fect form. In addition, the airplane is
plebeian. It has absolutely no social
heritage; in fact, it was unheard of be-
fore the latter part of the nineteenth
century when plumed hats and bustle
also made their debut.

The thundering of horses' hoofs
from the dirt track in Buttrick brings
us down to the more concrete, prosaic
fact that the horse is far more prac-
tical than the heavier than air machine.
Given a bit of hay (or whatever horses
eat) and a few lumps of sugar a la
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, said
horse is over the hill and far away. But
an airplane, heaven forbid. It drinks
up more gasoline than a Model "T"
does water. Besides, you are always los-
ing a propeller, left wing, parachute, or
something. Horse accidents, excepting
the Prince of Wales' frequent esca-
pades, of course, seldom occur. And
the result is that the government ha
never attempted to socialize the horse
department. This comparison might go
on forever (not a threat, merely an
idea) but after all, in a campaign race
the important thing is not how fast the
vehicle travels but does it get there?
In the light of this fact and others of
equal unimportance, we of 193 5 declare
with Ed Winn, "Grahamm, I'll stick
to my horse."

History Reveals
Odd Plans Held In
Former Years

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How narrowly they escaped exile at
the end of the hockey field is fortu-
nately little known to business man-
agers and editors and student activity
officers who, in their usual harressed
condition, could hardly have withstood
such a blow.

This near disaster was revealed in
plans for future development of the
college which were published in a
former campaign for funds. The plans
included a handsome student activities
building, reposing in* all its spacious
beauty on the site of the present tennis
courts, just visible to the naked eye
from the back of the gym. Whether
visions of unhappy editors ploughing
across the hockey field in the middle
of a rainy night were the cause of the
change or not, the idea of the building
as it was first planned has been given
up, and the more centrally located li-
brary has been decided on as the fu-
ture headquarters for student activities.

Other provisions in the original plans,
which have been modified as they were
worked out, were the enlargement of
the present library building, rather
than the building of a new one, and
the placing of Buttrick on a line with
the science hall and the library, rather
than back on a line with the gym, as
it was finally built. This would have
meant the elimination of the quad-
rangle, without which students would
have nothing to yell across to fellow
students; and the scrapping of West
Lawn, whose disappearance would in-
deed have added a foreign air to the
campus.

VICTORY EFFORT

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

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tion will probably be felt at the Stresa
conferences, where Hitler's plea for the
cause of Germans under foreign con-
trol will possibly be presented. How-
ever, as a prominent Catholic citizen
of Danzig says: "Danzig is not Nazi.
Danzig is Danzig."

STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUILDING

Library To Be Remodeled

A beneficial result of a successful
improvements campaign will be the
conversion of the present Agnes Scott
library, as soon as the new one is com-
pleted, into a center of student or-
ganizations and activities. This will of-
fer an invaluable new opportunity for
day students and boarders to get to-
gether in every phase of their college
activities.

Tentative general plans have already
been made for the housing of the dif-
ferent organizations in the remodeled
building. For the use of both boarding
and day students, the large main read-
ing room will be made into an informal

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lounge, a central long-needed recrea-
tional place devoted exclusively to the
social needs of the entire student body.
The two fireplaces will be put to use
for the first time to heighten the cozy
atmosphere of the lounge.

The other reading rooms, upstairs
and downstairs, are to be used to house
the various publications and the lit-
erary clubs. Since most campus organ-

izations are at present without fixed
headquarters, these rooms will perhaps
prove the most useful of any in the
building.

The basement will be fitted out with
cooking facilities and used for informal
parties of all kinds. It has also been
recommended that an official director
of student life and social activities be
placed in charge of the building.

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The Agonistic

Drives Elsewhere
Prove Of Interest
In Project Here

While Agnes Scott is picturing her
new library, science hall, and student
activities building, other campuses are
also campaigning for new buildings and
increased endowment. "Brother can you
spare S 59,000???" is the pertinent
question that Rollins College in Win-
ter Park, Florida, is asking its alumni.
To reach their goal they have formed
the Fifty Club. Membership in the club
requires a gift of one cent, ten cents,
a dollar or as much as one can give
for each of the fifty years of Rollins'
existence. Their deadline is June 30,
1935.

Wheaton in Norton, Mass., is also
having a birthday party to celebrate
its hundredth anniversary. In connec-
tion with the Centennial is the plan
for a Student-Alumnae Building. Every
thousand dollars that is given towards
this project will mean another lighted
candle on the birthday cake.

If the fund reaches the goal of $100,-
000 by the time of the party, one fea-
ture of the celebration will be the lay-
ing of the cornerstone. At the time of
the publication of the March 2, 1935,
issue of The Wheaton News, the fund
had reached $45,757.68.

Wheaton alumnae and students have
used many plans for raising money.
The students opened a store last fall
which supplies everything from wool
socks and earmuffs, to copies of Shio
Sakanishi's translations, A Handful of
Sand. To announce the opening of the
store last fall a young goat with a
banner on his back "S.A.B. Store
Free Tea" roamed around the campus
for a day. Auctions, a large scale Cape
Day picnic, Sunday breakfasts served
in a social room, and selling silhou-
ettes are some of the various ways that
alumnae and students are making
money. The Wheaton Alumnae Quar-
terly also suggests that the alumnae
knit dresses, make knitting bags, give
bridge parties, and have candy and
flower sales to raise money.

Besides the colleges that are having
definite campaigns for certain purposes,
there are those that have funds to
which alumni and friends contribute
each year. The University of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill, has such a
fund. Last year an anonymous friend
sent a gift of $7,5 00 to be used in re-
constructing Person Hall into an Art
Museum. This gift, the largest single
one last year, was part of the $22,-
9 5 6.87 that the university received
from alumni and friends.

A fund similar to this one and sup-
ported by the alumnae is the Loyalty
Fund of Wesleyan College in Macon.

Campus Chairmen of Victory Effort Drive

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Shown in the picture are, left to right: Anna Humber, president of Mortar Board
Philip G. Davidson, campaign manager; Dr. J. R. McCain, president, and Associate
chairman.

and student chairman; Professoi
Professor Leslie Gaylord, faculty

A.S.C. To Meet Emory

In Season's Last Debate

The Agnes Scott and Emory fresh-
man debating teams will meet Saturday
night, April 20, at 7:30, in a debate on
the subject: Resolved: That Medicine
Should Be Socialized Under the Control
of the Federal Government. Betty
Mathis and Mary Lillian Farley will de-
bate in Gaines chapel against the Emory
negative team; Jean Austin and Jane
Turner will debate at Emory against
the affirmative team. There will be
no decision. Everyone is cordially in-
vited to this last debate of the season.

Besides giving personal gifts, the alum-
nae sponsor a beauty shop in Macon
in an old college building and receive
a per cent of the returns as rent.

Sweet Briar in Virginia also has an
alumnae fund and as a reminder the
alumnae office sends out a blotter each
year with a suitable slogan. This year's
slogan is "Dolls for Daisy's Treasure
Chest Dollars for Our Own."

In the contributions to the alumni
fund of Cornell University in Ithaca,
N. Y., during the past year the class
of 1910 contributed the largest amount,
which was $1,841, the class of 1934
had the most contributors, 13 2, and
the class of 1 88 5, the largest per cent,
which was 96.8 per cent.

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Class Presidents Appoint
Managers and Solicitors

Faculty and student committees, ex-
tending their efforts into various fields,
have organized in an efficient body to
make the ten-day Victory Effort cam-
paign successful in every aspect. Profes-
sor Philip G. Davidson is general man-
ager. The following are the major com-
mittees:

Faculty Associate Professor Louise
Hale, chairman; Assistant Professor
Florence Smith, Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, Professor S. M.
Christian, Professor Henry Robinson,
and Miss Llewellyn Wisburn.

Student Anna Humber, chairman;
Mary Boggs, Mary Jane Evans, Mary
Green, Caroline Long, Frances McCal-
la, Alberta Palmour, Nell Pattillo, and
Martha Redwine.

Class presidents Elizabeth Alexan-
der, Elizabeth Forman, Isabel McCain,
and Elizabeth Blackshear.

Class managers and solicitors:

Seniors Mary Green, manager; Vel-
la Marie Behm, Marian Calhoun, Alice
Dunbar, Clara Morrison, Vera Frances
Pruet, and Hester Anne Withers.

Juniors Augusta King, manager;
Jane Blick, Meriel Bull, Sarah Jones,
Mary Gray Rogers, Mary Snow, and
Jane Thomas.

Sophomores Elizabeth Espy, man-
ager; Eloisa Alexander, Nellie Marga-
ret Gilroy, Mary Florence Lasseter,
Mary Malone, Julia Thing, and Anne
Walker.

Freshmen Jean Barry Adams, man-
ager; Caroline Armistead, Genevieve
Brown, Laura Coit, Eleanor Little,
Mary Past, and Zoe Wells.

Publicity Virginia Gaines, chair-
man; Sarah Cook, Lena Armstrong, Sa-
rah Spencer, and Shirley Christian.

Luncheon Associate Professor Les-
lie Gaylord, chairman; class commit-
tees.

N. B.

Contrary to campus opinion
that the luncheon, in Bucher
Scott gymnasium on Tuesday,
April 9, to open the Victory Ef-
fort, was a millionaire's meal
costing something akin to a small
fortune, Miss Leslie J. Gaylord,
chairman of the luncheon, has
announced that the total ex-
penses amounted to $19.08.

VICTORY EFFORT

Campus Enthusiasm
Sustained By Skits,
Race, Programs

To bring the Greater Agnes Scott
campaign to a triumphant close next
r riday, a horse race, skits, and various
money-making plans have been devised
and carried out in interesting ways
The progress of the campaign is indi-
cated daily by the position of five horses
ilong the race- track set up in the lobbv
>f Buttrick. Each class and the faculty
ire represented by a horse: senior,
Twenty Grand; junior, Cavalcade;
ophomore, Gallant Lady; freshman,
Equipoise; and faculty, Man-of-\Yar.

Every day in chapel, there have been
urograms dealing with phases of the
:ampaign: Miss Llewellyn Wilburn,
manager of a former campaign, sug-
gested methods of saving money to
fledge; the different classes have put
>n skits concerned with the need of
:he college for a successful campaign.
Students Make Money

Adopting the suggestions offered by
M^ss Wilburn that girls in former cam-
paigns have made money by cutting
and waving hair, shining shoes, and
giving manicures, students have opened
beauty parlors and shoe shops through-
out the dormitories. Seniors have sold
:akes and dresses to raise money, the
boarding students have unanimously
voted to have starvation supper once
a week, and day students agreed to
serve plate lunches downtown to stu-
dents and friends of the college. These
are only a few of the money-raising
activities now on the campus.

VICTORY EFFORT

REPORTERS

Jessie Jeffers
Mary Lillian Fairly
Gene Brown
Jerry Brown
Elizabeth Warden
Ruth Hertzka
Mary Richardson
Betty Mathis
Ora Muse
Jacque Mc-White
Nell Allison

Enid Middleton
Ann Wheaton
Sara Steele
Jane Turner
Elizabeth Espy
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Society Notes

Helen Jester, of Lynchburg, Va., ar- Mary Venetia Smith, Gina Hightow-

rived today to spend a week with her
sister, Dorothy.

Lavinia Scott, Frances Paris, and
Virginia Hart spent last week-end in
Athens, Ga., where they attended "Lit-
tle Commencement" at the University.
Isham Jones played for the set of
dances.

Nancy Moorer and Nancy Tucker
were among those who attended the
Taps Ball at Clemson last week.

Helen Friedlander spent the week-
end at her home in Winder, Ga.

Sal lie McRee was the guest of Mrs.
J. F. Palmer, nee Dot Wajker, at a
buffet supper Tuesday night.

Jane Hashagen and Kay Ricks were
among those present at the dance given
by the Emory chapter of Phi Delta
Epsilon Thursday night.

Among those who attended the Phi
Sigma Kappa tea-dance at Peachtree
Gardens on Friday afternoon were
Frances Paris, Nell Scott Earthman,
Marjorie Rainey ,and Susan Bryan.

Rosa Wilder and Kathryn Bowen at-
tended the Theta Chi tea-dance at
Tech Saturday afternoon.

cr, and Kay Ricks attended the Cotil-
lion Club dance last Saturday night.

Martha McAfee attended the Bow-
ery Dance at Davidson last week-end.

Anne Thompson spent the day in
Atlanta last Sunday at the home of
Mrs. Cyrus Strieker.

Ann Worthy Johnson spent the
week-end at her home in Rome, Ga.

Martha Long was the guest of Flor-
ence Kinnett at Stone Mountain last
week-end.

Katherine Bishop, Kathryn Leipold,
Jo McClure, Mary Hull, Jane Allen
Webb, Eugenia Symms, Elizabeth
Baethke, Mary Gray Rogers, Carolyn
White, and Nelle Chamlee spent the
week-end at the Stone Mountain Camp.

Representatives to New Orleans

Ellen Davis attended a private dance
at the Candler Hotel Thursday night.

Georgia Walker, from G.S.C.W., was
the guest of Trellis Carmichael over the
week-end.

Mary Hull went to a dance at the
Brookhaven Country Club Saturday
night.

Julia Telford went to Abbeville, S.
C, the latter part of last week to at-
tend the wedding of her sister, Mar-
garet, Agnes Scott, > 3 3.

The new staff of the Agonistic will
entertain the retiring staff at a lunch-
eon April 20 at one o'clock in the
Alumnae Tea Room. Special guests
wil be Dr. J. R. McCain and Dean
Nannette Hopkins.

A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Whitiker on April 6.

Primrose Noble's father, mother, and
sister spent last week-end with her.

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GIDDY GOSSIP

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With Sherman on the verge of cap-
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mit suicide; with tomorrow's French
lesson not yet above the threshold of
consciousness, and wild horses racing
madly about the impressive lobby of
Buttrick; and with especially eager
freshmen following me, begging, sug-
gesting, and even threatening to give
me manicures, finger waves, tea cakes,
dustings, typed themes, portraits, and
rummage, as well as forcing me to rent
their radios per hour and to submit to
their shoe shining and eyebrow pluck-
ing with all these influences to deter
me from my duty I have torn the ruin-
ed remains of my former heureuse self
away from the former mad academic
pursuits and the latter equally fervent
loyalty to the Hottentot Haven to
leave a few last words to my descend-
ants, so that when the hurly burly's
done, and the battle's not lost but won,
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say, "Well, the old gal done her part.'
Giddy, darling, did you notice? I al-
most became sentimental.

Really, these campaigns are too, too
divine. They result in a sort of "See
your faculty first." Even though Dr.
Davidson, shouting "No, no, a thous-
and times, no" to Fidesah, once show-
ed his vocal powers and his adaptabil-
ity, his true potentialities had never
been revealed to us until the campaign
luncheon. His opening statement, "We
are here today"! recited with so much
sat oir faire and so much dramatic abil-
ity and met with such thundering
applause contained all of the poetic
subtlety of Gertie Stein's "A rose is
a rose is a rose." Really, Giddy, why
he should stoop to history.

Speaking of speeches (note the Beo-
wulf an alliteration) you should hear
Frances Balkcom recite "Conscientious
Objector." Though she has learned only
the first two lines, we must admit that
in learning by the whole method our
capable Fire Chief is complying with
the wishes of the psychological peda-
gogues. By the way, Giddy, do be very
careful, for who knows, you may be a
multiple personality and even your best
friends won't tell you. But remember
a friend gathering no moss is worth
two in the bush as the ancients used
to say, which quoting reminds me for
some unknown reason of two of our
little friends who have been treated
most unkindly, in fact ironically as it
were. When Edith Merlin (you know
that girl whose soul is in Memphis for

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Campaign to Prove
Repetition of Past

History has repeated itself twice.
Source material, dug and dusted from
the annals of Agnes Scott College in
Dr. McCain's scrap book and in old
issues of The Agonistic, reveals
the fact that history made encores in
1928 and in 1930 to the successful
campus campaign of 1921. The deep
significance of such constant repetition
can readily be seen.

During the administrations of Lin-
coln and Harding in the distant days
of 1921, a campaign was launched here
at Agnes Scott with the fabulous sum
of $22,000 as the goal of campus con-
tributions. Miss Anna Young was
chairman. She inspired such a spirit
of giving in the students that the un-
believable sum of $3 0,000 was real-
ized.

Later during a prosperous year in
history, was launched a second cam-
paign with Miss Llewellyn Wilburn
as head. She proved to be another great
leader. The total contribution, $78,366,
was almost double the goal of $40,000.

The conditions at the year of the
last campaign in 1930 were more like
those of the present. The campaign was
launched with a luncheon at which Dr.
McCain named $20,000 as the desired
goal. The college was divided into fac-
tions, The Odds, composed of the sen-
iors and sophomores, and the Evens,
composed of the freshmen, juniors, and
faculty. But it was not without much
self-sacrifice that the goal was sur-
passed and $30,907 donated.

If anything so unethical as predict-
ing on the basis of history were al-
lowed, it would be announced that this
history is to repeat itself again within
the next week.

VICTORY EFFORT

AMES AND CHAMLEE

ATTEND CONVENTION

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ator Huey P. Long in enforcing the
restriction;

"That we deplore the apathy of the
L. S. U. student body in taking no
action against this imposition on their
student press;

"And, finally, that we regret the
neglect of the National Student Feder-
ation of America at their convention in
Boston last December in taking no def-
inite action in the Reveille affair."

The delegates voted to meet as a
combined group again next year. The
convention will be held in Memphis,
Tennessee, with Southwestern Univer-
sity, Memphis, as host.

VICTORY EFFORT

1,546 liquor bottles were removed
from the stadium after the Army-
Harvard game. 782 were on the Har-
vard side; 764, on the Army side. A
little late, but interesting statistics.

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A. S. C. Group Board Announces

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Attends Convention New Membership

Alberta Palmour, Adelaide Stevens,
Frances James, Anna Humber, and
Professor Philip G. Davidson repre-
sented Agnes Scott College at the
meeting of the Southern Inter-
collegiate Association of Student Gov-
ernments which convened at the Flor-
ida State College for Women, Tallahas-
see, Florida, March 2 8-30. The pro-
gram consisted of discussion groups
on various college problems, such as
social rules, dormitory regulations, and
the honor system. This last was led
by Alberta Palmour.

The key note of the convention was
struck by Dean Thyrsa Amos, of the
University of Pittsburg, in her address,
The Art of Living. Dr. Evelyn New-
man, of Rollins College, gave a vivid
account of the relation of women to
the League of Nations; Professor
Davidson spoke on student interest in
public affairs. Swimming, a picnic, and
a banquet were included in the pro-
gram for the recreation of the dele-
gates.

VICTORY EFFORT

Sophomores Are Winners
In Annual Aggie Contest

The class of 1937 for the second
time won the Agonistic Cup offered
annually by The Agonistic for the
best class edition. This year, as last,
Laura Steele was editor of the paper and
Kathryn Bowen, business manager. The
decision for the sophomores was four
to one; the juniors placed second; and
the seniors were awarded third place.

The presentation of the cup was
made by Mary Boggs, out-going edi-
tor of The Agonistic, at chapel on
April 5. In a short speech she named
the five judges, four of whom were
college editors, and explained the bases
on which the four classes issues were
judged.

VICTORY EFFORT

Atlanta Student Receives
Highest Rating in Exam

Cora Kay Hutchins of Atlanta Girls
High School won the $700 tuition
scholarship offered by Agnes Scott Col-
lege to the contestant receiving the
highest rating in the competitive exam-
inations given March 1. Annie Lee Cro-
wcll, Hume-Fog High School, Nash-
ville, Tennessee, received the $5 00
scholarship.

Cora Kay is a prominent student at
Girls High; in her freshman year there
she won the Augusta Barnes scholar-
ship cup for the freshmen, and in her
senior year received election to Cum
Laude, national high school honorary
fraternity. She has also received distinc-
tion in the state-wide Atlanta Journal
Latin contests.

High school seniors all over the
United States underwent the examina-
tions, each one taking three: English,
Latin, and a choice of algebra, French,
chemistry, or physics. The decision
was based 7 5 per cent on the exami-
nation papers and 2 5 per cent on the
personality of the student and her par-
ticipation in high school activities.

Eliza King won the first place award
last year.

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A committee composed of Ann Cof
fee, president; Helen Handte, vice-
president; Marie Stalker, secretary; and
Julia Thing, treasurer, 193 5-36 offi-
cers of the Athletic Association, met
on Monday, March 2 5, and ap-
pointed the following as members of
the Athletic Board: Florence Lasseter,
swimming manager; Laura Coit, hock-
ey; Ann Taylor and Elizabeth Burson,
publicity; Ann Walker, camp; Mary
Kneale, tennis; Mary King, archery;
Frances Robinson, hiking; Frances
Steele, social; and Bee Merrill, song
leader.

The president, vice-president, secre-
tary, and treasurer are automatically
members of the board. In addition to
their duties as vice-president and treas-
urer, Helen Handte and Julia Thing
are basketball and lost and found man-
agers, respectively.

In accordance with a new rule of
the board, Ann Walker, as camp man-
ager, will automatically be the presi-
dent of the outing club, and Mary
Kneale, tennis head, will be president
of the tennis club.

VICTORY EFFORT

GIDDY GOSSIP

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the same undiscoverable reason that
June Matthews's is in Jacksonville) and
her colleague of argumentative spirit,
one Brooks Spivey, announced to a
certain newspaper office, "We are the
debate team," a reporter gasped with
horror, "The May Queen?'' Giddy, my
dear, you can imagine their embar-
rassment, but can you conceive of the
further humiliation when a photogra-
pher rushed out and asked, "Where
are the bathing suits? Aren't you the
swimming team?"

My fond fellow scandal monger, I
wish I had time to tell you of all the ex-
citing things that are happening girls
strolling with military uniformed men,
Emory students hurling themselves in-
to crocodile ponds on dark nights just
to prove their undying affection and
worst of all people like Laura Steele
writnig like so plagiarized to Alex
Pope. . .

"We no longer need your measly coup-
lets

For now we have the little quintup-
lets."

You see, the campaign is in the air
and we're all wild with enthusiasm or
something. Just to show that my
heart's in the right place I have been
inspired to answer Laura's challenge:

If poets of old still give you a pain,
Quit fussing! Turn your efforts to the
building campaign!

Now I must be off to my giggling
lesson given by the one and only gen-
uine giggler, Julia Thing.

With a great big horse laugh,

Aggie.

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Gym Department Y. W. Cabinet
Fetes Delegates! Installs Members

Approximately 45 0 people from all
over the South attended the eighth
annual convention of the Southern
District of the American Physical Edu-
cation Association, held April 3-6, in
Atlanta at the Biltmore Hotel. Pres-
ent among the people outstanding in
the field of physical education were Dr.
Jesse F. Williams, head of the depart-
ment of physical education at the
Teachers' College, Columbia Univer-
sity; Miss Mary Channing Coleman,
of the University of North Carolina;
Mr. Raymond Eaton, national life sav-
ing executive; Dr. Tucker Jones, head
of the physical education department
at William and Mary; and Dr. Thomas
Wheldon, director of physiotherapy at
William and Mary and one of the out-
standing orthopedic men in the South.

The theme of the convention was
Today's Challenge to Physical and
Health Education; according to Miss
Harriette Haynes, of Agnes Scott, the
work was approached from an ed-
ucational standpoint, offering ma-
terial for the first grades on through
college. There were many talks,
discussion groups, demonstrations,
and exhibits. Scrapbooks and
resumes of activities in different col-
leges were displayed, together with an-
nuals, photographs, and ink sketches
from various schools. The art exhibit
was very interesting, showing paint-
ings, statuary, costumes, and pictures
of the different schools of dance. The
swimming exhibit of Miss Frances
Greenwood, of the University of Ala-
bama, was a most interesting and ex-
tensive study.

Agnes Scott, the University of
Georgia, and the University of Flor-
ida were the three colleges participat-
ing in the Dance Symposium, held in
the Bucher Scott Gymnasium on
Thursday afternoon and planned by
Miss Frances Graham of the Univer-
sity of Georgia. A reception was held
in Main building afterwards, about 2 50
being present.

There was a formal banquet on Fri-
day night, at which time Mr. Hurst's
dancing school of Atlanta gave sev-
eral demonstrations of social dancing,
including the waltz, the lancers, and
a ballroom tango. Folk dances and a
mountain square dance were also pre-
sented.

VICTORY EFFORT

CAMPUS-WIDE LUNCHEON

OPENS VICTORY EFFORT

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bridal wreath dominated the flower ar-
rangement on the stage where music
was provided by the Emory Aces.

Assistant Professor Leslie J. Gaylord
was in charge of the preparations for
the luncheon.

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the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet took place at
an impressive candlelight service held
in the chapel Sunday evening, April 7.
As features of the program, Martha
Redwine, the retiring president, and
Sarah Spencer, the new head, made talks
on the work of the past and coming
year.

The members of the Cabinet include:
Sarah Spencer, president; Ruby Hut-
ton, vice-president; Barbara Hertwig,
secretary; Isabel McCain, treasurer;
Augusta King, program; Jean Barry
Adams, music; Eugenia Symms, indus-
trial; Betty Hollis, social service; Cath-
erine Cunningham, social; Laura Coit,
world fellowship; Carolyn Elliott, pub-
licity; Alice Hannah, mission interest
representative; and Adelaide Stevens,
ex-officio.

VICTORY EFFORT

CLUBS

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and Dr. Boyd spone on The Influence
of Oral Communication on Greek Lit-
erature.

Pictures to Show
World Conditions

Blackfriars
Blackfriars held its spring try-outs
Monday night, April 8, in the chapel.
The fifteen new members who were
admitted are Dixie Woodford, Myrl
Chafin, Carolyn White, Kathryn Lei-
pold, Effie Ola Anthony, Mary Gilles-
pie, Lucile Cairns, Mary Anne Kernan,
Winifred Kellersberger, Mary Past,
Elizabeth Cousins, Jane Turner, Doris
Dunn, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, and Ken-
non Henderson.

VICTORY EFFORT

Sign posted in the girls' dormitory
at Radcliffe: "If you need a man after
ten o'clock, call the janitor."

Mr. C. F. Palmer, who has taken
pictures of the recent government proj-
ects in Germany, Italy, and other
countries, will make a talk and show
his moving pictures on world-wide con-
ditions in a program in the chapel
Tuesday afternoon, April 23, at 4:30.

The program is for the sociology
classes, the Current History Forum,
and all who are interested.

VICTORY EFFORT

CAMPAIGN FOR $15,000

TO CLOSE NEXT FRIDAY

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better salaries for the faculty. He con-
cluded that victory in the drive would
mean much toward opportunities for
future benefits, coordination, advance
in the kingdom of God, and the im-
pulse of education.

VICTORY EFFORT

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have charge of the fourth and last
issue of this year. In addition to the
elected members, it includes Nellie
Margaret Gilroy and June Matthews,
associate editors; Louise Brown, book
editor; Sara Catherine Wood, poetry
editor; Jacque McWhite, exchange edi-
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<P) Agonistic

VOL. XX

Total Pledges
Mount High As
Campaign Ends

Cavalcade Wins on Horse Race;
Faculty, Sophomores Lead
In Money Pledged

AGNE S SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., W EDNESDA Y, APRIL 24, 1935

Juniors' Cavalcade Wins Victory Effort Race

No. 20

Obtaining pledges totalling $24,741.-
12 and thereby surpassing the goal of
$15,000, the Greater Agnes Scott Cam-
paign ended at 10 o'clock on Friday
morning, April 19, when Professor
Philip G. Davidson, faculty chairman
of the campaign, announced in chapel
that every student, organization, mem-
ber of the faculty, and member of
the Administration had voluntarily
contributed to the campaign. As Anna
Humber, chairman, read the amounts
pledged by the classes, organizations,
and faculty, Professor Henry Robin-
son chalked them on the blackboard
placed in front of the chapel. The fac-
ulty pledged the largest amount, $15,-
210.20; the sophomores, leading the
classes and organizations, pledged $2,-
1 57.5 5. The seniors came third with
$2,057.10; the juniors pledged $1,950.-
72; the organizations, $1,719.00; and
the freshmen, $1,646.5 5. The aver-
age amount for the faculty pledges
was $223.68; that of student pledges,
$16.87.

The horse race, an exciting feature
of the campaign, was won by the junior
horse, Cavalcade, who spurted up from
his fourth place on Wednesday to nose
gradually past sophomore Gallant Lady,
senior Twenty Grand, and faculty
Man-of-War. The race track, located in
the lobby of Buttrick, was a center of
interest in the progress of the cam-
paign, and twice a day, after Professor
Robinson checked over new pledges
turned in, the five horses were moved
forward. Their progress was based 1-3
on the amount pledged and 2-3 on the
percentage who pledged. Man-of-War
maintained a substantial lead during the
most of the race, with Twenty Grand,
Cavalcade, Gallant Lady, and freshman
Equipoise running in varying order.

The race ended on Friday morning.
Thursday night at 8:5 5 the junior class
turned in its last pledges and was the
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Mortar Board
Initiates Ten
New Members

Local Chapter Honors Leaders
For Next Year At Chapel
And Banquet

Positions of horses shown near end of four-day Agnes Scott race, April 16-19.

Archeologist Is
Chapel Speaker

Sir Charles Marston, eminent Brit-
ish archeologist and industrialist, and
husband of an Agnes Scott alumna,
spoke at the Agnes Scott chapel exer-
cises on Saturday, April 20, on the
subject of Ancient Modes of Writing.

Writing is only one of the many
interesting phases of Sir Charles's dis-
coveries in his excavations in the Holy
Land. Sir Charles became interested in
this work, he said, because of the fasci-
nation which the Old Testament stories
always held for him. So deep was his
interest that he desired to get down
to observed facts and to search for his-
torical, authentic evidence for the
stories. Within the last twelve years
Sir Charles has financed several arche
ological expeditions, and has on many
occasions been active in the work itself

The discoveries of ancient writings
makes the theory of oral transmission
of historical data entirely impossible,
according to Sir Charles. Cuneiform
writing has been found which dates
back to before the Flood. Cunei-
form writing was certainly very com-
mon at the time of Abraham and aft-
erward. Sir Charles told of the great
libraries which have been found in
Mesopotomia, Kish, and other places.
Some of these libraries contained as
many as twenty thousand clay tablets,
written in cuneiform. Moreover, the
tablets were grouped according to sub-
ject matter, and held together by clay
envelopes.

The exact time of the transition
from purely pictorial writing to alpha-
betical writing is not known. The earl-
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Dr. Logan, Dr. Jack
Will Be Speakers

Commencement exercises, May
26-27, will bring two well known
friends of Agnes Scott, Dr. Jack Lo-
gan, a missionary from Tokiushima.
Japan, and Dr. T. H. Jack, president
of Randolph-Macon, to deliver the bac-
calaureate and commencement ad-
dresses, respectively, to a class of eigh-
ty-seven seniors.

Dr. Logan is a well known mission-
ary who formerly served as acting pro-
fessor of Bible for Professor Alma Wil-
lis Sydenstricker dunng a year's fur-
lough. His connection with the college
is especially close, since his three daugh-
ters are alumnae.

Dr. Jack, formerly vice-president of
Emory University, is a favorite figure
on the campus, having spoken often
to the students when he was at Emory.

Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, pro-
fessor of English at Hunter College,
New York, gave the commencement
address last year; the baccalaureate ser-
mon was given by Rev. R. A. Lapsley,
Jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Roanoke, Virginia.

Three Elizabeths
To be Presidents

Regional Meeting
Of Eta Sigma Phi
Will be At A.S.C.

Banquet, Latin Play, Tea Are
Features of Interest For
Convention Delegates

Class elections for next year took
place on Thursday morning, April 18,
when freshmen, sophomores, and
juniors assembled at designated places
to vote on the girls nominated week
before last at class meetings in chapel.
The plan of separating the classes was
adopted in order to avoid the con-
fusion of three sets of elections held
in chapel at the same time. The offi-
cers elected were:

Senior Elizabeth Forman, presi-
dent; Augusta King, vice-president;
Ellen Davis, secretary-treasurer; and
Lena Armstrong, student government
representative.

Junior Elizabeth Perrin, pres-
ident; Eloisa Alexander, vice-president;
Dorothy Jester, secretary-treasurer;
Betty Willis and Mary Alice Newton,
student government representatives.

Sophomore Elizabeth Blackshear.
president; Ann Worthy Johnson, vice-
president; Beth Bowden, secretary
treasurer; Laura Coit and Anne
Thompson, student government repre
sentatives.

A regional meeting of southern chap-
ters of Eta Sigma Phi, national hon-
orary Greek and Latin fraternity, will
take place at Agnes Scott College, on
Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27.
Nine colleges have been invited by the
Agnes Scott chapter to send delegates;
Florida State Woman's College, Win-
throp College, Birmingham Southern,
and Emory University have already ac-
cepted. This will be the first time a
regional convention has been held.

During their stay here, the delegates
will be the guests of Agnes Scott. An
interesting program has been planned
for them: On Friday morning, April
26, they will have a business meeting
in Buttrick Hall; on Friday afternoon
the Agnes Scott chapter will enter-
tain at an informal tea in the Alumnae
Garden. On Friday night, at a ban-
quet given at the Elite Tea Room in
Decatur, Miss Annabel Horn, Latin in-
structor at Atlanta Girls High School,
will speak on Creating Interest in the
Classics in High School.

The program for Saturday will be-
gin with a business meeting at Emory
University, followed by a tour of the
Emory campus and a luncheon there.
In the afternoon, there will be a sight-
seeing tour of Atlanta; that night, the
delegates will be guests at a perform-
ance of Plautus' Mostellaria, presented
by the Emory chapter of Eta Sigma
Phi. Elizabeth Forman, Eva Poliakoff,
and Eva Constantine, of Agnes Scott,
will assist with the play.

May Day to Offer
Colorful Program

Arrangements for May Day, an an-
nual event at Agnes Scott since 1914,
are well on the way toward comple-
tion, according to Kitty Cunningham,
chairman of the May Day committee.
This year's festival, which is based on
Sir James Barrie's immortal Peter Pan y
promises to be unusually colorful with
its gaily costumed fairies, butterflies,
daisies, Indians, and all the other lively
inhabitants of the Never-Never Land,
who will dance to music furnished by
Mr. Christian Dieckmann and an or-
chestra.

The fairies of the court, who will
sit on the throne with their queen,
Laura Whitner, will wear appropriate-
ly fairy-like dresses in pastel shades of
mousseline-de-soie. The court and
queen are a part of the plot, this
year, rather than being merely specta-
tors.

The May Day Dell will be the scene
of the celebration which will take place
on Saturday afternoon, May 4, at 4:3 0.
In case of rain it will be postponed
until Monday, May 6, at the same time.
General admission will be twenty-five
cents.

Ten juniors were announced as new
members of Mortar Board at the an-
nual announcement service of the Ag-
nes Scott chapter of Mortar Board held
at 11:45, on Saturday, in Gaines
Chapel. Anna Humber, president of the
Hoasc chapter, presided and Miss El-
len Douglas Leyburn, of the English
department and member of Hoasc, was
the speaker.

The new members, who are selected
on the bases of leadership, scholarship,
and service, are: Lulu Ames, editor of
The Agonistic; Shirley Christian, edi-
tor of the Silhouette; Ann Coffee, pres-
ident of the Athletic Association; Ruby
Hutton, vice-president of Y. W. C. A.;
Frances James, vice-president of Stu-
dent Government; Augusta King, vice-
president of the seniors; Carrie Phinney
Latimer, house president of Rebekah
Scott; Dean McKoin, house president
of Inman; Sarah Spencer, president of
Y.W.C.A.; and Adelaide Stevens, pres-
ident of Student Government.

Miss Leyburn, who stressed through-
out her talk the need of an "inner life,"
said, in part, "This virtue, which is
fullness of individual life, is not selfish,
but in its very nature implies the shar-
ing of the riches of the mind and spirit
and the willingness" to foster the de-
velopment of other individuals "as their
particular bent directs, which is the
truest liberalism."

Initiation for the new members was
held at 5 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet Room. Dinner was served in
the Tea House at 6. In addition to the
new members, places were set for the
following: Dr. J. R. McCain; Miss
Nannette Hopkins; Mr. George P.
Hayes, Miss Louise Hale, and Miss Har-
riette Haynes, faculty advisers; Mary
Boggs, Mary Jane Evans, Mary Green,
Anna Humber, Caroline Long, Frances
McCalla, Alberta Palmour, Nell Pat-
tillo, Martha Redwine, and Loice
Richards, active members; and Mary
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ATTENTION!

In accordance with local laws,
Agnes Scott College will go on
Daylight Saving Time on Sun-
day, April 28. Sometime during
the night of April 27, the Col-
lege clocks will be advanced one
hour.

Juniors Entertain
At Benefit Bridge

In order to earn money for the
Building Fund, the junior class is spon-
soring a benefit bridge in Davison-Pax-
on's tea room tomorrow afternoon, Ap-
ril 2 5, at 3 o'clock. Davison's will
serve refreshments and a prize will be
offered at each table; 100 tables are
planned. The tickets are 5 0 cents.

The following committees are in
charge of the party:

General chairman Jane Blick.
Publicity Lulu Ames, Alice Cham-
lee.

Prizes Jane Thomas, Rosa Miller,
Virginia Gaines, Sarah Traynham, Nell
White, Ethelyn Johnson, Kitty Cun-
ningham, and Myra O'Neal.

Tickets Ad Stevens, Frances James,
Mary Margaret Stowe, Shirley Christ-
ian, Katherine Bishop, and Elaine Ahles.

Committee Plans
Building Program

That the present site of Westlawn
be the location of the new library is
the recommendation made by a special
committee of investigation which met
on April 17 with the officers of Agnes
Scott College, the librarian, and the
heads of the larger departments. The
committee, financed by the Carnegie
Corporation, included Mr. Charles E.
Rush, assistant librarian at Yale Uni-
versity; Mr. Charles P. Wheeler, head
of 2 8 public libraries of Baltimore;
Mr. H. B. Bursly, landscape authority;
and Mr. W. J. Sayward, Decatur archi-
tect. Their recommendation will be
placed before a committee of consulta-
tion in New York sometime in the
early part of May.

If the Developments Campaign is
successful, the new library will prob-
ably be begun this September and com-
pleted by the following September.
Plans have also been made for the new
Science Hall to be placed just beyond
the gymnasium, where the tennis courts
are located.

Decisions concerning the interior of
he library include the fMrnishing of
-he reading room informally in the
form of a club room with comfortable
chairs instead of formally with the
regulation chairs and tables. Most of
the library will be in this one room;
there will be separate cubicles for
group studying and studying requiring
writing. The proposed location of the
library will necessitate the tearing
down of Westlawn, which has already
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The Agonistic

<&1)C Agonistic

Subscription price, S1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class 'Matter.

Lulu Ames
Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary
Assistant Editors

Augusta King
Feature Editor

Nellie M. Gilroi
Assist. Feature Ed if or

Jane Guthrie

Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae Ed it 01

Nell White
Society Editor

STAFF
Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Assist. Make-up Ed.

Rosa From

Current History Ed.

Tibbv Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

Alice Chamlee
Busnns> Manager

Kathryn Bovten
Advertising Manager

Business Assistants

Ellen Davis
Beth Bowden
P.achel Kennedy
Marjorie" Rainey

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Sto we
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers

WlTA MORELAND

Geraline Young

CONCERNING
TEMPERANCE

In 1920 the goal of a temper-
ance movement, whose history
dates back to the 1830's,was real-
ized in the enactment of state
prohibition laws throughout the
nation. For three years enforce-
ment was fairly successful. Then,
with New York state leading the
way, many of the states loosen-
ed their hold on such legislation.
In 1932 the Eighteenth Amend-
ment was repealed.

On last Sunday students from

In a few of the advanced lan
guage courses, papers have been
substituted for exams; this
system has apparently worked
very well. It leaves the student
free to formulate her own ideas
and opinions of the course and
to introduce into her work in-
dividuality and originality. Such
a plan creates an independence
of thought that no series of ex-
aminations, however formidable,
can equal. In the sciences and
social sciences, exams are indis-
pensable ; papers in these courses
are apt to tend toward the orna-

Emory University, Agnes Scott | mental and superfluous, although

and the county high schools held
a mass meeting at the DeKalb
County court house to outline a
program by means of which to
keep the county dry. The meet-
ing was called forth by a bill in-
troduced into the Georgia Legis-
lature and passed by that body
this spring which provides for a
referendum on the question of
legal liquor in the state. The
starting point of students in such
a project is to sway voters to
cast their ballots for the reten-
tion of the dry measure in the
state constitution. Other plans
presented include the establish-
ment of a bureau which will fur-
nish to schools and organizations
in the county, speakers who are
prepared to speak convincingly
on the question; and a series of
pamphlets presenting figures and
facts in favor of the movement
and its aims.

Apparently, as students we are
realizing our responsibilities as
future citizens. The international
collegiate demonstration against
war, two weeks ago, was an un-
precedented thing in the student
world. The formation of the
youth movement to lead in alco-
holic education is another indi-
cation of our awareness, as stu-
dents, of our share in the solu-
tion of the problems of today.

they are required

A modification of the partner-
ship papers and exams is de-
sirable and reasonable. A system
of exemption whereby a student,
who has maintained a certain
average throughout the semes-
ter, should not be required to
stand an examination might be
instituted. Under this system,
the student would have control
of the number of examinations
And eventually the combination
of term papers and examinations
would be abolished and required
term papers alone would be sub-
stituted for the present arrange-
ment.

WHAT?

NO SCOOPS?

During the past year, THE
AGONISTIC has carried two
stories that were, strictly speak-
ing, news to the campus. In a
season of twenty-one issues that
is a disgustingly low figure. Yet
the past year has been little dif-
ferent, in that respect, from the
preceding ones.

A condition such as this ,is
the result of many things. First
of all, THE AGONISTIC is not
widely enough read to merit the
release of "big news" ; important
matters must be got across to
the students and chapel an-
nouncements have been found to
work best. Furthermore, tradi-

WHY TERM PAPERS
AND EXAMS ?

There has been much informal tion and practice make necessary
discussion on the campus this public > announcement of some
apring, as in former springs, on events at special chapel services,
the seeming over-abundance of And, last of all, general campus
term papers. For the most part, chit-chat ruins many potential
the comments have been the us- "scoops."

ual sort: faculty members have This year we are seeking a
been maligned, after the colleg- 1 closer cooperation with the or-
iate fashion, and many courses ganizations, the faculty, and the
have been tabooed; and behind Administration in this matter of
all the talk has been the question, news. Outstanding club plans,
why have both papers and publication contests, debates
exams? these things, we think, should

The primary reasons for exam- "break" in THE AGONISTIC,
inations are, roughly, to test the We realize that THE AGOXIS-
student's knowledge of the TIC cannot announce Phi Beta
course and to assimilate that Kappa, Mortar Board, or honor
knowledge in a convenient form, roll; but we do believe that the
The purpose of term papers, on days of these programs can be
the other hand, is to present a arranged so that, by the next
detailed study of one phase of the paper, the Qewa valiir will oof
subject. Term papers and exam- be reduced to a mere nothing-
inations seldom overlap. In some ness.

courses, however, the importance Such a plan can be worked out,
of the one is far greater than we feel, but only with the help
that of the other. It is logical to of the clubs, the other publica-
assume, therefore, that, in some tions. the Administration in
cases, one or the other might short, of those who make the
\ er\ well be omitted. news.

Key to Current
History

The Stresa Security Conference
At Stresa, in northern Italy, Pre-
mier Flandin and Foreign Minister Pier-
re Laval of France, Prime Minister
Ramsey MacDonald and Foreign Sec-
retary Sir John Simon of England, and
Premier Mussolini of Italy met on Ap-
ril 1 1 principally to take a common
stand on Germany's re-armament in
defiance of the Versailles Treaty and
on Germany's and Poland's refusal to
accept the "Eastern Locarno" Security
Pact, which provides for punishment
of armed aggression. This conference
took place after Lord Privy Seal Anth-
ony Eden and Foreign Secretary Sir
John Simon had personally received the
views of the Berlin, Moscow, and War-
saw governments on security and just
as France and Russia were reaching an
agreement on an "automatic cooper-
ation" or mutual assistance pact.

On the second day of the conference
Hitler reversed his position and let it
be known that Germany was willing
to enter an eastern non-aggression pact
but would not enter a mutual aid
agreement. This step was expected bv
those well informed on the subject to
soften the French policy at the special
session of the League of Nations Coun-
cil at Geneva. The representatives of
England, France, and Italy reached an
agreement at Stresa as to the program
to be followed at Geneva. Italy and
Great Britain decided to support France
in her protest.

Besides the fact that a common stand
was taken as to France's appeal to the
League, other points of agreement were
announced in the final communique
that the three nations issued jointly.
In regard to an Eastern European Pact,
which was one of the chief reasons for
the conference, the report stated only
that "negotiations should be pursued
for the development which is desired
in the security of Eastern Europe." It
did not mention Hitler's change of
mind. Another part of the statement
said that Austria's integrity and inde-
pendence must be preserved and that
a Danubian Conference should be call-
ed to decide on a central European ar-
rangement. The fourth unit of the re-
port was concerned with a proposed
air pact, possibly strengthened by bi-
lateral agreements, for western Europe.
England, France, and Italy decided to
leave the air pact, proposed on Feb-
ruary 3, between England, France,
Italy, Belgium, and Germany, as it was.
However, they agreed to continue a
study of the question. The next topic
considered at the conference was the
limitation of armaments. McDonald,
Flandin, and Mussolini regretted the
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CLUBS

EXCHANGES

B O Z

At its meeting on April 12 B O Z
elected the following new officers: 1
Elizabeth Espy, president; Jane Guth-
rie, secretary-treasurer.

ALUMNAE

Bible Club
The Bible Club held its last meeting
Monday afternoon, April 1$, in the
Y. \\". Cabinet Room. Mrs. Dodge,
Dean of the Foreign Mission Confer-
ence at Mountain Lake Park, Md.,
spoke on present Day Problems
of Japan and Mexico. Miss Frances
Dodge gave an account of her studies
in Music and Bible at Oberlin Col-
lege. After an interesting discussion of
these subjects, refreshments were
served.

Pi Alpha Phi

At the last meeting of Pi Alpha Phi,
held on Thursday night, April 18, in
Miss Gooch's studio, Hibernia Hassel
and Anne Wheaton debated against
Esther Byrnes and Jean Barry Adams,
on The Cut System.

New officers elected are: Sarah Cath-
erine Wood, president; Nellie Margaret
Gilroy, vice-president; Edith Merlin,
secretary; Lucile Dennison, treasurer;
and Fannie B. Harris, social secretary.

Poetry Club
Poetry Club held its spring tryouts
on Wednesday afternoon, April 17;
three new members were admitted:
Hortense Jones, Elizabeth Espy, and
Winifred Kellersberger. The members
were entertained by Ann Martin in
Gaines Cottage. The next meeting will
be held on Tuesday evening, April
2 3, at 9 o'clock, with Miss Emma May
Laney in Ansley.

Blackfriars
The last meeting of Blackfriars was
held on Tuesday night, April 16. New
members were initiated, and a play,
The Valiant, was given in honor of
them. Dorothy Bell directed the play,
and the members of the cast were:
Kathryn Bowen, Lucile Dennison, Kit-
ty Printup, Charline Fleece, and Fran-
ces James.

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi held a call meeting
on Wednesday, April 17; the follow-
ing new officers were elected: Eliza-
beth Forman, president; Mary Jane
King, vice-president; June Matthews,
corresponding secretary; Bazalyn Coley,
recording secretary; Gertrude Lozier,
treasurer; Floyd Butler, pylorus.

Students are estimated to consume
their own weight in food every month
plus 12 pounds each for good measure.
The average collegian monthly drinks
5 1 pounds of milk and eats 5 5 pounds
of vegetables, 18 pounds of fruit, and
12 pounds of meat. Midland College*

There are pledges and pledges. One
pledge signed by the co-eds at the Uni-
versity of Missouri agrees not to eat
more than fifteen cents worth while
on a date. During Hell Week at Co-
lumbia, four pledges were told to pro-
pose to the first four girls they saw.
Two of the girls accepted. V. Af. /.
Cadet.

It would take 5 03 years for one
person to complete all the courses now
offered at Yale. Ring-Turn Phi.

The entire population of the state
of Nevada could be easily seated in the
Stanford University Stadium. Ring-
Turn Phi.

At Whitman College courses will be
offered next year in "Use of Leisure."
The "lab" work should be interesting.
Ring-Turn Phi.

The University of Missouri is doing
exceptionally well in the game of pol-
itics. An election was held in which 200
more votes were cast than there are
students in the school.

A. Laurence Lowell, President-Emeri-
tus of Harvard, said, "No wonder
there is a lot of knowledge in the col-
lege the freshmen always bring a lit-
tle knowledge in and the seniors never
take any away." Ring-Turn Phi

A new method of teaching history
based on extensive independent read-
ing and elimination of formal class
lectures is being tried by Dr. Bean in
his European History course at Wash-
ington and Lee University. The stu-
dents will read from 12 to 2 5 hours
a week and will meet with the profes-
sor once a week for reports and in-
formal discussions. Attention will be
focused on post-war problems and cur-
rent events. Ring-Tuni Phi.

BOOK NOTES

Margaret Telford, '3 3, was married
on Thursday, April 11, at her home
in Abbeville, South Carolina. She is
now living in Lockport, Louisiana.

Elizabeth (Howard) Reeves, '32,
plans to spend Saturday and Sunday
nights, April 27 and 28, at the Alum-
nae House with her mother.

Hindenburg Emil Ludwig.

Out of the maze of biographies on
the late German President rises one pre-
eminent in fact and in composition. It
disperses quietly, dispassionately, the
Hindenburg Legend , revealing the idol
of the German people as a "shifter of
responsibilities," "a political misfit," er-
ringly labeled, "the victor of Tannen-
berg." It is a book no one can afford
to overlook.

Amelia Wolf, '3 3, has recently been
visiting in Florida.

Dr. Logan, who is to deliver the
baccalaureate sermon this year, is the
father of Mary Nelson (Logan) Brown,
'29, and Martha (Logan) Henderson,
'32.

The Decatur Club had a luncheon
at Sears-Roebuck on Thursday, April
1 1.

Gerald: A Portrait Daphne Du
Maurier.

It is difficult for a young girl to
write an account of her father's life.
Yet Daphne Du Maurier has done this,
presenting an unprejudiced biography
of her father, Sir Gerald Du Maurier,
one of England's foremost actors. It is
a remarkable character sketch written
by one who saw her father as a genius,
a lover, and a "spoiled child."

that cannot be denied. It is the story
of the love of twin brothers for the
same girl, a girl of fragile, golden build,
easily seduced by the more handsome
of the two and saved by the real de-
votion of the other. The inevitable ha-
tred of the brothers ends in blood and
tragedy but gives a satisfying conclu-
sion to a book so filled with suspense
and vigor.

The One-Eyed Moon Marguerite
Steen.

Caught in a web ot Spanish super-
stition, the three major characters of
this novel live a tragedy thai is due,
their fatalistic neighbors whisper, to
the "baleful malignance ot the one-
eyed moon." It portrays the strange
choice which the hero is forced to
make a choice between his wife and
his daughter.

The Atlanta Club met Tuesday aft-
ernoon, April 16, with Mrs. Stephen
J. West on North Decatur Road. Sara
Berrv West, '3 2, and her group were

hostesses.

The Atlanta Business Girls' Group
met on Wednesday night, April 17,
as guests of Mrs. Granger Hansell, who
is president of the Atlanta A^nes Scott ern poet.
Club.

Collected Poems and a Hope for
Poetry C. Day Lewis.

Wit h the sudden appearance of three
new English poets, W. H. Auden,
Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis, a
new revival of poetry is seen. Partic-
ularly among the works of the last is
there a "spark of genius." Mr. Lewis's
latest book contains three poems, a
strange combination of the poetry of
Wordsworth with the technique of
Keats and Shelley; and an essay reveal-
ing the pitfalls and trials of the mod-

Julia Lake (Skinner) Kellersberger,
'19, is planning to return to America
this spring.

The hland Claire Spencer.

Despite certain very evident faults,
this romantic novel of a small island
off the coast of Scotland has charm

Claudius the God Robert Graves.

Coming as a sequel to /, Claudius,
Claudius the God continues the history
of the crippled Caesar and his wives,
reputed to be "the worst women in
Rome." Roman life, conquest, humor,
letters and dates all are employed in
analyzing the character of this noble
Roman emperor.

Off to Mexico Leone and Ahee-
Lcone Moats.

It vou are planning a trip to Mex-
ico, this is the book for you. Its au-
thors have combined twenty years
of experience in Mexico and turned
out a guide-book of information in-
valuable to the prospective traveler.
Maps by the Mexican mural painter,
Santoyo, are complete guides in them-
selves.

3

The Agonistic

Society Notes

The Tech Ramblers, the popular or-
chestra which plays for the Anak
dances every Saturday night from 9-12
at the Tech Armory, has drawn many
Agnes Scott girls this year. Among
those who have been there are Helen
Handte, Mary Snow, Ellen O'Donnell,
Kathryn Bowen, Ellender Johnson,
Frances James, Anna Humber, Mary
Garland, Gladys Vallebuona, Nell Scott
Earthman, Mary Gillespie, and Rosa
Wilder.

Ellen Davis, Barton Jackson, and
Jane Allen Webb attended the Delta
Sigma Delta formal dance at the Shrine
Mosque Thursday night. Ellen Davis
led the figure with the president of
the chapter, Alan Brown.

Caroline Long and Virginia Gaines
were present at the regular Wednesday
night dance given by Club Quadrille
at Peachtree Gardens.

Mary Frances Bishop, from Augusta,
Georgia, visited her sister, Katherine,
over the week-end.

Mary Vernon and Dot Piatt from
the University of South Carolina vis-
ited Mary Vcnetia Smith and Ellen
Verner last week.

Barton Jackson attended the Inter-
Fraternity ball at Auburn last Friday
evening.

Miss Scandrett and Frances Robin-
son visited Andrewena Robinson in
Daton, Tennessee, over the week-end.

Barbara Hertwig spent the week-end
in Birmingham, Alabama, with friends.

Jo Jennings spent the week-end at
her home in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Ida Buist attended a Phi Kappa Al
pha house-dance at Emory on Friday
night.

Gregory Rowlett spent the week-
end with Frances North.

Sallie McRee and Mary Vines spent
the week-end in Covington, Georgia.

Alice McCallie spent the week-end
at her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Lois Hart attended a banquet at the
First Baptist Church in Atlanta last
week.

Virginia Hightower spent the week-
end at her home in Thomaston, Geor-
gia.

Kitty Jones was at her home in Ball
Ground, Georgia, for the week-end.

Lavinia Scott attended a dance at
the Candler Hotel on Friday night.

Kathleen Daniel entertained a large
group of students at a bridge party at
her home in Decatur last week.

A.S.C. Girls
Fast Become
Bread Winners

New Mortar Board Members

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sloan, of Bel-
mont, North Carolina, visited their
daughter, Sara Beaty, last week end.

Ann Cullum spent the week-end
with Mrs. Virginia Harrison at Colum-
bia Seminary.

MORTAR BOARD INITIATES

TEN NEW MEMBERS

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
Ames, Margaret Bell, Mary McDonald,
Margaret Ridley, Sara Slaughter, Leone
Bowers Hamilton, Blanche Miller, and
Llewellyn Wilburn, alumnae.

Mortar Board, national honorary so-
ciety for senior women, was installed
at Agnes Scott in the fall of 1931. The
members of that year's Hoasc, local
senior honorary society, served as the
charter members of Mortar Board at
Agnes Scott.

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Agnes Scott has long been known as
an institution where the students are
taught not how to make a living but
how to live. There have been many
shining illustrations of the latter here
in the widespread enjoyment of acade-
mic pursuit and extra-curricular ac-
tivities, but for the first time it has
been proved beyond a doubt that Ag-
nes Scott College not only imparts the
knowledge of how to enjoy life but
how also to make a living in terms
of actual cash. Girls filled with enthu-
siasm over the Victory Effort cam-
paign have secured money from sources
which were seemingly exhausted; they
have made others respond to their ac-
tivities.

The freshmen, characteristically
enough, in the matter of ingenuity
and originality have raised much money
from the most prosaic, every-day tasks.
One girl has made $9.00 by sketching
flattering portraits of ft stif f-from-pos-
ing" freshmen. Another has cleared
$3.00 by silvering slippers, which fact,
incidentally, shows the amount of social
activities of the College. Further, $2.00
in cash is proof enough that in this
modern day of psychology, supersti-
tion in the form of the Ouija board
is still quite prevalent. The freshmen
declare that their coat hanger and rum-
mage sale, from which the profits have
not been announced, came opportunely
near each other: if they still had clothes,
they possessed nothing on which to
hang them; if they did have hangers
their clothes had already been sacri-
ficed for the rummage sale. The fresh-
men have not stayed altogether in the
realm of polishing shoes, cutting hair,
dusting rooms, and manicuring nails.
Their dramatic qualities were seen in
the very delightful "Inman Frolic''
which brought them $10.00, as well as
in their fashion show to be held at
Davison's on April 2 5 which will
add SI 5.00 to their growing sum.

The sophomores, although they have
carried on the above mentioned activ-
ities to a certain extent, have special-
ized upon that one pursuit which is
always successful selling food. They
served one day most of the faculty
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of $15.00, a practice which is going
to be continued at intervals as long
as it is successful. Each night the no-
madic sophs fold their tents like the
Arabs and silently steal down the halls
of Main to sell their coffee, cakes, coca-
cola, and sandwiches to the tune of
$5.00 each evening.

"Buy a hunkie for your lunchie" has
been the battle cry of the juniors and
their imploring request has sold for
them dozens of hunkies each day in
the week. Tags printed through the
courtesy of the Bowen Press and sold
by juniors have been worn by loyal
'Agnes Scotters" who should further
;how their support by attending the
unior benefit bridge to be held at
Davison's, April 2 5, at 3 o'clock.

The crowds hurrying to chapel every
day have enjoyed greatly the delicious
cake sold by the seniors and have shown
their appreciation by adding about
$5.00 each day to the senior treasury.
The seniors have also profited much on
the senior suppers and coffees that
have been conducted, as well as upon
the attractive knit dresses the selling
of which they have been sponsoring.

And last but far from least, the
faculty who raised double the amount
of the student pledge though they have
not resorted to the diverse money-mak-
ing schemes of the students have, nev-
ertheless, cheerfully bought everything
to be sold, seen everything to be seen,
done everything to be done; in short,
they have literally emptied their pock-
ets to help prove that Agnes Scott Col-
lege can be as successful in making a
living as well as in living itself.

Willis A. Sutton
Speaks Here At Chapel

Dr. Willis A. Sutton, superintendent
of Atlanta public schools, made the
first of a series of vocational talks,
sponsored by Y. W. C. A., in chapel
on Tuesday, April 16; his subject was
How to Choose an Occupation.

Dr. Sutton stressed that ''we get
something we can do and a place we
can fill." He outlined the following as
the fundamental considerations in
choosing a vocation: to do things that
make us a real human personality be-
longing to a progressive race; to choose
a vocation in terms of what may be;
to consider our aptitudes and talents
in doing things; and to choose on the
basis of our attitudes, and what God
and nature and inheritance have been
doing for millions of years.

COMMITTEE PLANS

BUILDING PROGRAM

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been moved once from its former po-
sition west of Main, where Rebekah
Scott now stands. Faculty members liv-
ing in Westlawn may move to Sturges
Cottage.

Another change on the campus will
be the turning around of the infirm-
ary to face the south instead of the
west. It has been moved twice before,
the first time from the present loca-
tion of Dr. Gaines' house, and the sec-
ond time from the site of the gym-
nasium. This proposed change will make
possible the extending of the drive
through to Candler Street, thereby
making it possible to drive through
the campus from front to back. A
small drive connecting these two will
eliminate the old automobile entrance
at the back of Main.

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Mortar Board Is
Host At Parties
For Freshmen

Yellows Team Wins
First Soccer Game

Freshman boarders of Agnes Scott
College are guests of Mortar Board at
a series of parties given in their honor
this week from April 22-April 2 5. The
purpose of these parties is to introduce
the out-of-town girls to Atlanta boys.

The class has been divided into four
groups, one of which is entertained
each night in the Day Students' Room.
Two members of Mortar Board are
hostesses at each reception and are in
charge of plans for the occasion.

Mortar Board parties for sophomore
boarders are an annual custom, and
were given this year a few days before
the Christmas holidays. This is the
first time that the freshmen have been
entertained.

TOTAL PLEDGES MOUND

HIGH AS CAMPAIGN ENDS
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 1)
first to go 100 per cent; at 8:5 5 Fri-
day morning, the sophomores complet-
ed their pledges; at 9:17, twenty-two
minutes later, the seniors went 100 per
cent. The last actual pledge of the
freshman class came in at 9:2 5; at
9:50, the faculty made final returns;
and at 9:5 8, just after the first bell
for chapel had rung and two minutes
before the deadline for the race, the
school organizations pledged 100 per
cent.

The success of this Victory Effort
for $15,000 means a substantial gain
to be added to the $94,000 raised be-
fore the campaign. If the college can
have pledged by July 1, 193 5, a sum
of $233,000, the General Education
Board of New York has promised to
contribute $217,000 to make a total
of $4 5 0,000 for a new science hall,
library, increased endowment, and gen-
eral campus improvements.

This campaign was the fourth cam-
pus campaign waged for improvements
at Agnes Scott. 1921, 1928, and 1930
were marked by successful drives which
resulted in progressive changes on the
campus. This year the Victory Effort
began with a luncheon for the entire
college given in the gymnasium on
Tuesday, April 9, by Mortar Board, the
Administration, and the faculty com-
mittee of the Developments Campaign.
In the ten days of the campaign, the
enthusiastic cooperation on the campus
has resulted in the surpassing of the
goal by almost $10,000.

Because of the success of the cam-
paign, a holiday has been granted on
Saturday, April 27, following the Me-
morial Day holiday on Friday.

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The first soccer game of the season
was played Friday afternoon at 4:00
o'clock. Since there were not enough
girls from any one class to form a class
team, the girls were divided into the
Yellow team and the Blue team. The
Yellows won by a score of 2 to 1. The
line-ups were as follows:

Yellows Blues

Henderson CF Walker

Burson RI Johnson

Lawrence LI McKav

Weeks R Hart

Clark LW Derrick

Kellersberger RH Young

Suttenfield LH Crenshaw

Robinson c" " Ar tron S

H Kneale

Tate LF Merrill

Soutter RF Estes

Little GG Townsend

Mary Johnson made the goal for her
team, and Sara Lawrence and Lib Bur-
son scored for the Yellows. Kennon
Henderson made several pretty passes;
Marion Derrick made some quick in-
terceptions.

The next game will take place this
afternoon at 4 o'clock, and the Blues
promise to walk off with the score
this time.

ARCHEOLOGIST IS INTEREST-
ING CHAPEL SPEAKER

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 1)

iest alphabetic writing yet discovered
dates back to about 2000 B. C. The
writing was found on the peninsula of
Sinai, and as yet has proved undeciph-
erable.

Passing over several centuries of de-
velopment, Sir Charles then spoke of the
fourteen pieces of pottery, excavated
at Laehish, which contain Hebraic
writing of about 600 B. C. The writ-
ing is in ink. Many familiar names arc
on the tablets that of Jeremiah for
instance. The general contents of the
three translated fragments, as well as
their style, all tend to point to the
correctness of Old Testament history.

Sir Charles concluded by repeating
that, in view of all discovered facts,
the theory of oral transmission of his-
tory must be abandoned since all data
seems to have been set down by con-
temporaneous scribes.

NOTICE

During the holidays, April 26
and 27, the Library will observe
the following hours:

8:50 A. M. 12:30

1:30 P. M. 5:30 P. M.

Reserve books may be taken
out only for overnight.

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from Page 2, Col. 3)

fact that Germany did not accept the
terms that had been offered her earlier
this year and stated their desire to sus-
tain peace, saying that they "remain
anxious to join every effort for pro-
moting international agreement and
limitation of armaments." The last sec-
tion of the communique stated that
the status of Austria, Hungary, and
Bulgaria should be revised with the
consent of "the other states concern-
ed/' which means the Little Entente.

Following this main body of the
communique was an Anglo-Italian dec-
laration reaffirming their position as
guarantors of the Locarno Treaty. A
"Final Declaration" stated that the
three powers opposed "any unilateral
repudiation of treaties which may en-
danger the peace of Europe and will
act in close and cordial collaboration
for this purpose."

Mr. Cunningham
Attends Meeting

Mr. R. B. Cunningham, business
manager of Agnes Scott College, at-
tended a convention of the Southern
Buyers and Business Officers at Rol-
lins College, Winter Park, Florida, on
March 12-13. Representatives from
twenty-one colleges met to discuss all
problems entering into the manage-
ment of schools and colleges. Dr. Ham-
ilton Holt, president of Rollins and
the former editor of the hide pendent ,
in the main address of the meeting,
outlined the plans and purposes of the
college. The program also included a
banquet and a play, Mr. Pitn Passes,
given in the college's memorial theatre.

Mr. Cunningham spoke with a great
deal of interest about Dr. Holt's the-
ory of education that has been put
into practice at Rollins. The system
is a very informal one, all classes be-
ing conducted on the seminar plan.
Also, instead of a Y.W.C.A. or a Y.M.
C.A., Rollins has a Chapel Committee
under the supervision of a Chaplain
to take charge of the daily devotional
services.

A. S. C. To Debate
Hampden-Sidney
Tomorrow Night

Sarah Catherine Wood and Nellie
Margaret Gilroy will debate two rep-
resentatives from Hampden-Sidney,
Virginia, on Thursday night, April 2 5,
at 8 o'clock, in Miss Gooch's studio.

The subject of the debate is Re-
solved: That all facilities for the man-
ufacture and sale of munitions should
be owned and operated by the govern-
ment. The Agnes Scott debaters will
uphold the negative side.

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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935

NO. 21

May Day Cast
To Dress Gaily

Artistic and ingenious costumes show
evidences of an attractive and color-
ful presentation of Peter Pan, the May
Day festival, which will take place at
4:3 0 next Saturday, May 4, in the May
Day Dell.

The fairy queen and her court, al-
ways of especial interest, will wear at-
tractive but simply made dresses of
mousseline-de-soie, the queen in tradi-
tional white, the fairies of the court in
pastel pink, peach, yellow, and aqua-
blue. They will wear silver shoes and
will carry garlands of variegated pastel
flowers in honor of their queen. In-
stead of the usual throne and steps, the
court will sit on a natural mound of
rocks, grass, and flowers.

Among the loveliest of the costumes
are those of the Elves, who will wear
soft pink China silk, with scarves of
orchid shading into purple. They will
have very small, very fairy-like pink
wings and will wear natural flowers in
their hair.

The Daisies and Black-Eyed Susans
have clever, attractive costumes; the
Daisies, who are blondes, with a huge
collar of white petals, the Black-Eyed
Susans, who are brunettes, with a col-
lar of yellow petals.

Boots and cutlasses and brightly col-
ored rags are the most outstanding fea-
tures of the dress of Captain Hook's
Pirates, who give the appearance, at
least, of being a horrible and motley
crew.

The Little Lost Boys, having adapted
themselves to their situation, make
sport in skins of very spotted leop-
ards. Their friends, the Indians, will
wear the conventional Indian brown,
except for the princess, Tiger Lily, and
her two attendants, who will wear
white.

Glee Club Offers
Gay Light Opera

Betty Lou Houck and Augusta King,
sopranos, and Bealy Smith, tenor, will
sing the leading roles in The Pirates of
Penzance, the popular Gilbert and Sul-
livan light opera which is to be pre-
sented by the Agnes Scott Glee Club
on May 25. The supporting cast in-
cludes Jane Clark, Alice Chamlee, Jer-
ry Young, Eugene Traber, Dick Smoot,
Jack Bagwell, and a chorus of twenty-
four voices.

The Pirates of Penzance is a rollick-
ing story of pirates, love, and a gen-
eral's daughters; the songs are gay, and
one of them, "Hail, Hail, the Gang's
All Here," has been adopted as an
American quasi-folk song.

Staff to Release
Silhouette Soon

May 1 5 is the tentative date for the
issuing of the 1934-3 5 Silhouette,
Agnes Scott annual, provided that the
pictures of May Day can be finished
by then. For students who have not
paid their budget, the price is $6.00.

Part of the editorial staff of the
193 5-3 6 Silhouette has been selected;
the other positions will vary according
to the plan of the annual. The staff,
appointed by Shirley Christian, editor,
includes the following: Rosa Miller,
feature editor; Virginia Gaines, photo-
graphic editor; Janet Gray, faculty edi-
tor; Eloisa Alexander, club editor;
Charline Fleece, athletic editor; Bar-
ton Jackson, kodak editor; Eliza King,
class editor; Anne Taylor, Ann Worthy
Johnson, associate editors, and Zoe
\\' r ells, art editor. Martha Sue Laney
was elected assistant editor. Sarah Jones,
business manager, has not completed
her staff.

Wendy and Peter Pan in May Festival

Jennie Champion, Wendy, and Adelaide Stevens, Peter, as they will appear
in "Peter Pan" on May 4.

Freshmen Have
Sponsors Again

Seventy girls appointed from the
junior and sophomore classes will act
as sponsors to the incoming freshmen
for the first six weeks of the fall ses-
sion. Each sponsor will have the duty
of instructing three freshmen, stressing
particularly increased social relations
among the students.

The sponsor system, which has for
two years replaced the grandmother
system, carries four points this year
instead of eight. Also, the house presi-
dents will be in charge of the teaching
of the handbook rules.

A committee composed of the fol-
lowing girls selected the sponsors:
Frances James, chairman; Alice McCal-
lie, Adelaide Stevens, and Frances Wil-
son. The girls appointed are: juniors
Lena Armstrong, Mary Beasley,
Katherine Bishop, Meriel Bull, Elizabeth
Burson, Margaret Cooper, Naomi
Cooper, Sara Cureton, Sara Frances
Estes, Rosa From, Janet Gray, Lois
Hart, Mary Hull, Ethelyn Johnson,
Rosa Miller, Sarah Nichols, Myra
O'Neal, Mary Margaret Stowe, Eugenia
Symms, Jane Thomas, Sarah Turner,
and Irene Wilson.

The sophomoes are: Eloisa Alex-
ander, Frances Balkcom, Frances Bel-
ford, Lucille Cairns, Cornelia Christie,
Kathleen Daniel, Lucile Dennison, Eliz-
abeth Espy, Jane Estes, Charline Fleece,
Mary Gillespie, Nellie Margaret Gilroy,
Alice Hannah, Fannie B. Harris, Eliz-
abeth Hollis, Barton Jackson, Dorothy
Jester, Mary Johnson, Sarah Johnson,
Mary King, Jean Kirkpatrick, Mary
Kneale, Florence Lasseter, Florence
Little, Vivienne Long, Mary Malone,
June Matthews, Nancy Moorer, Mary
Elizabeth Morrow, Frances McDonald,
Mary Alice Newton, Ellen O'Donnell,
Kathryn Peacock, Elizabeth Perrin,
Kathryn Printup, Rachel Shamos,
Brooks Spivey, Mary Stevens, Martha
Summers, Alice Taylor, Mary Jane
Tigert, Vivienne Trice, Meredith
Turner, Ann Walker, Margaret Wat-
son, Dorothy Williams, Betty Willis,
and Frances Wilson.

Evelyn Wall To
Present Recital
For Music Week

Dr. McCain Makes Tour
Working for Campaign

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, visited Chattanooga,
Tennessee, on Tuesday, April 23, and
Augusta, Georgia, on the following
Wednesday. At Augusta, he addressed
the junior college.

This week he is working for the
Developments Campaign in Wilming-
ton, Delaware, and Baltimore, Mary-
land.

In celebration of National Music
Week, Evelyn Wall, of Agnes Scott
College, will present an organ recital in
Gaines Chapel, Saturday evening, May
11, at 8:15 o'clock. She will be aided
by Mrs. Vivian Bryant Thompson, for-
mer music student at Agnes Scott. The
program will include the Suite Goth-
ique, by Boellmann, a piece which Mr.
Christian Dieckmann stated "is always
charming and unique," and a Fugue
from a Pastoral Sonata of Rheinberger
who, Mr. Dieckmann said, is consider-
ed a "notable composer and perhaps
the greatest of all organ teachers." Eve-
lyn will also render a Fantasie and
Fugue by Bach, a Grand Chorus in D
by Guilment, and a Concert Overture
in C Minor by the blind composer,
Hollins.

The Music department will also pre-
sent a mixed program of pianists and
the String Ensemble on May 7. Nell
Hemphill will play from Mozart a pi-
ano Concerto in C Major with the
String Ensemble as accompaniment.
There are to be, in addition, solo num-
bers of the String Ensemble and the pi-
anists, which have not yet been planned
in detail.

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

May 23, Thursday, 2:30 P. M. -
Annual meeting of Execu-
tive Board of the Alumnae
Association.

May 24, Friday, 4 P. M. Annual
meeting of Alumnae Council.

May 25, Saturday, 10 A. M.
Annual meeting of Board of
Trustees.
11:30 A. M. Annual meeting
of the Alumnae Association.
1:30 P. M. Trustees' luncheon
to the alumnae and senior
class.

8:30 P. M . Presentation of
"The Pirates of Penzance"
by the Glee Club.

May 26, Sunday, 11 A. M. Bac-
calaureate sermon by Dr.
Charles Logan of Tokiu-
shima, Japan.

May 27, Monday, 12:30 P. M.
Luncheon for reunion classes.
\ P. M. Class Day exercises.
8:30 P. M. Presentation by
the Blackfriars of "The Li-
bation Bearers," by Aeschy-
lus.

May 28, Tuesday, 10 A. M. Ad-
dress to the senior class by
President Theodore H. Jack,
Randolph - Macon Woman's
College.
Conferring of degrees.

Houck, McCallum Head Cast
In Rollicking Senior Opera

Sociology Class
Visits Tuskegee

Members of Professor Arthur F.
Raper's classes in race relations and in-
troductory sociology spent last Thurs-
day and Friday at Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute, Alabama. The
students were accompanied by Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Raper and Assistant
Professor Katherine T. Omwake, of the
psychology department of Agnes Scott.

The group, in their two days, visit-
ed the Children's House, the library,
the gymnasium, the new science build-
ings, and many other departments of
the institution. They were received by
Major Robert R. Moton, retiring presi-
dent of the Institute, and Mrs. Moton.
Dr. George Washington Carver, Negro
scientist, spoke to them briefly about
the oil he has made from peanuts and
which he is using, experimentally, on
victims of infantile paralysis. In ad-
dition to Tuskegee, they made an ex-
tensive tour of the Government Hos-
pital for Negro War Veterans, of
which Colonel Joseph Ward is com-
mandant.

The students, numbering about
thirty-seven, stopped at Dorothy Hall
and at "The Oaks," the home of Dr.
Booker T. Washington, both of which
are reserved for visitors to the Insti-
te.

Tuskegee was founded in 1881 by
Dr. Washington, himself a graduate
of Hampton Institute, Virginia.

Classes Plan
To Entertain
For Seniors

Sophomore and junior committees,
appointed by the class presidents, are
making tentative plans for the annual
luncheon and banquet given before
commencement in honor of the seniors.

Nell White is general chairman of
the junior-senior banquet, which will
be given on Friday evening, May 24.
Her committees are:

Decoration Virginia Gaines, chair-
man; Lena Armstrong, Eugenia
Symms, and Kitty Cunningham.

Transportation Sarah Turner,
chairman; Mary Snow, Helen Ford,
Myra O'Neal, and Jane Thomas.

The sophomores, who will entertain
the seniors at a luncheon the last week
before examinations, have the follow-
ing committees:

Decoration Julia Thing, chairman;
Marjorie Scott, Marv Gillespie, and
Rosa Wilder.

Transportation Frances McDonald,
chairman; Mary Kneale, Mary King,
Mildred Tilly, and Wita Moreland.

Menu Frances Wilson, Lucille
Cairns, and Frances Balkcom.

Invitation Ann Walker and Sarah
Johnson.

Placement Mary Malone and Mary
Garland.

Junior Benefit Bridge

Yields Profit of $32.43

The proceeds from the Junior Bene-
fit Bridge, given last Thursday after-
noon, at Davison-Paxon's tea room,
netted $32.43 to contribute to the
building fund. The juniors were given
one-third of the profits on the refresh-
ments, and the tickets were printed
gratis by J. B. Richards Company. Six-
teen Decatur and fourteen Atlanta
business establishments donated gifts
for prizes.

'Sam's Son and the Lilac" Is
Gay Entertainment for
Commencement Week.

A talented and all-star cast made up
of the entire senior class, forming the
Seniorpolitan Opera Company, will
misrepresent the entertaining light
opera Sam's Son and the Lilac on
the evening of May 4, at 8:30. An
opera, written and executed by the
graduating class, is an annual feature
of the commencement program.

Stars from the senior class, headed
by Betty Lou Houck as the Lilac and
Carolyn McCallum as Sam's Son, form
the brilliant cast. The other leading
characters are: Lady Good Iva, Mary
Jane Evans; Abimelech, Elizabeth Hea-
ton; the Umpire, Ida Lois McDaniel;
Socrates, Rosalyn Crispin; Xantippe,
Betty Fountain; Peanut Vender, Emily
McGahee.

Many sprightly and colorful ballets
add to the gay charm of the opera,
notably the ballet of Lilac's maids, in-
cluding Elizabeth Alexander, Nina
Parke, Marguerite Morris, Jo Jennings,
Hester Anne Withers, Elizabeth Young,
Madeline Race, Jennie Champion, and
Mae Duls. Another attractive one is
the Wildroot Ballet: Mary Lillian Dea-
son, Fidesah Edwards, Frances McCal-
la, Mary Virginia Allen, Isabel Ship-
ley, and Amy Underwood.

Baseball Adds to Spirit

A fine touch of more vigorous en-
tertainment is afforded by the two
conflicting baseball teams, Sparta U.
and Athens Tech. On the Sparta U.
team are: Alberta Palmour, Suzanne
Smith, Virginia Wood, Carol Griffin,
Grace Robinson, and Harriet Dim-
mock. Their bitter rivals of Athens
Tech include: Alsine Shutze, Nell Pat-
tillo, Elizabeth Thrasher, Marie Simp-
son, Caroline Dickson, and Clara Mor-
rison.

Of course loyal cheering squads sup-
(Con tinned on page 4, column 2.)

A.A.U.P. Elects
Chapter Officers

At a meeting on April 29 of the
Agnes Scott chapter of the American
Association of University Professors,
Professor Henry Robinson, of the
mathematics department, and Associate
Professor Martha Stansfield, of Latin
and Greek, were elected president and
secretary-treasurer for the new year.
They succeed Associate Professor Eliz-
abeth Jackson, of the history depart-
ment, and Assistant Professor Melissa
Cilley, of Spanish, as president and sec-
retary, respectively.

Another feature of the meeting was
a paper read by Assistant Professor
Katherine Omwake, of psychology and
education.

Blackfriars Name
Chorus for Play

Jimmy Jepson, Walter Pascal, and
Luther Carroll will take the male leads
in the Greek play, The Libation Bearers,
to be presented by Blackfriars, on
May 27, the night before commence-
ment. Of the eighteen girls selected to
work on the chorus parts, four are to
be chosen in the near future to take the
roles of Electra, Clytemnestra, the
nurse, and the leader of the chorus.

The members of the chorus are Mary
Jane Evans, Betty Fountain, Carrie
Phinney Latimer, Martha Sue Laney,
Augusta King, Ida Lois McDaniel, Mar-
guerite Morris, Frances James, Lucile
Dennison, Kathryn Bowen, Hester
Anne Withers, Mary Hutchinson, Vir-
ginia Byers, Elizabeth Cousins, and
Myrl Chafin.

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MORE

ABOUT PEACE

The collegiate anti-war upris-
ing on April 12 took a new aspect
last week when Charles R. Wal-
green withdrew his daughter
from the University of Chicago
because of that institution's par-
ticipation in the international
demonstration. Mr. Walgreen,
apparently fearful of indoctrina-
tion with Communist principles,
demanded an investigation of
campus thought. President
Hutchins has refused even to
consider the request. Not so
President Ruthven, of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, who, annoy-
ed by what he terms the "per-
versive activities" of his student
body, has decided that such radi-
cal agitation must cease.

At Hunter College, New York,
three prominent students were
suspended, apparently for anti-
war activities in connection with
preparations for the strike on
that campus. Striking students,
numbering 2200, sent a delega-
tion of 250 to President Colligan
demanding immediate reinstate-
ment of the suspended students.
Whereupon, as a measure of dis-
cipline, President Colligan sus-
pended the three spokesmen of
the delegation, charging them
with "unwillingness to comply
with college regulations concern-
ing the deportment of students/'

The day for unintelligent, un-
seeing, and narrow-minded col-
lege presidents is past. Such per-
sons are out of place as heads of
institutions in which students
are taught the value of think-
ing for themselves and of form-
ing sane opinions on major prob-
lems of today. Young people are
no longer willing to be shelved
for the four years of their col-
lege life ; as time passes, they will
become less willing. And, if such
high-handed repression of stu-
dent thought is persisted in, stu-
dent rebellions on issues, far less
important than peace, will inevit-
ably ensue.

each student. The amount of
study depends altogether on the
individual, on how well she has
kept up with her courses
throughout the semester, and on
how readily she absorbs. A
strained attitude and a pained
expression are, contrary to facul-
ty opinion, helpful in sustaining
a studious two weeks. Cheerful-
ness, on the part of a student,
can become a source of great ir-
ritation to her fellow-sufferers.
And, certainly, if we all assumed
a philosophical air, there would
be no cause for "griping." Ex-
aminations without a certain
amount of griping would be un-
endurable.

There is very little new to be
said about exams even two
weeks' worth.

Key to Current Professors Urore Rest, Review, and

History

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CONCERNING
i:\AMlNATIONS

The final edition of THE
AGONISTIC would not be com-
plete without an editorial com-
ment on the too-near-t'nr-comfort '
examinations. Even with thought,
however, there is very little to be |
said on the subject. Besides, else-
where in this issue are faculty
pseudo-recipes for proper be-
havior before the ordeal.

This advice, as is true of most
advice, is very good but not easy
to follow. With as many as three
exams st raight, it is next to im-
possible to approach every one,
fresh as the sophomore daisy and
fortified mentally, in addition.
"Complete rest and exercise" is a
desireable thing; review is val-
uable; and cramming, in some
courses, is necessary. These are
general remarks unfit for general
application.

For. after all, this matter of
study is a different problem for

THE PILGRIMAGE
TO TUSKEGEE

The trip that forty Agnes
Scott students made to Tuske-
gee Institute last week was an
interesting experiment in stu-
dent race relations. The trip was
not a required part of the
courses ; each girl who went paid
her own expenses. Surely this
indicates an active interest here
on the campus in what the Negro
student is doing to prepare him-
self for citizenship in the con-
stantly changing social and econ-
omic conditions of today.

A similar interest was shown
by the presentation of Dr. John
Hope, president of Atlanta Uni-
versity, who, in an address in
chapel, discussed the Negro's at-
titude toward his legal, social,
and economic status in the new
South. It may be possible, during
the next year, to bring on our
campus as speakers other out-
standing Negro leaders: Dr.
Carver, scientist; Major Moton;
Dr. du Bois, essayist and editor.

What has all of this to do with
us? Perhaps a great deal toward
the solution of the race problem
here in the South. The race sit-
uation, on which various organ-
izations, made up of both white
and Negroes, have been working
for a long time and are still
working, is a live thing. The
eradication of racial strife, of |
lynching, of discrimination, will
establish the ideal race condition.
This ideal can be realized only
through a sympathetic under-!
standing of the Negro and his
problems; such an understanding
can come about only through'
contact with members of the
Negro race. The trip to Tuskegee
last week was one step in the di-i
rection of this ideal.

By Margaret Watson
Since March 16 when Hitler defied
the Treaty of Versailles by announcing
a conscription act for the enlargement
of the German army, other European
nations have been holding conferences
to determine what shall be done to
punish Germany for disregarding the
treaty regulations against her rearma-
ment. The most important of these
conferences was that of the League of
Nations Council. The meeting and the
action taken by the Council are most
significant because all of the many
different nations represented, except
Denmark, voted to pass a resolution
severely censuring Germany for her ac-
tion.

The Council met in Geneva at the
call of France, who through her min-
ister of foreign affairs, Pierre Laval,
introduced a resolution comprised of
two sections: one condemning Ger-
many's treaty violations, and the other
providing for action against future
violators.

After the resolution had been pre-
sented by Laval, he made a rather mod-
erate but firm speech emphasizing the
necessity for immediate action against
Germany. In his speech Sir John Sim-
on, the British Foreign Secretary, said
that his government supported France
and Italy in the draft resolution for
action. This draft resolution was ac-
cepted and passed that same day, April
17. In London, Paris, and Moscow sat-
isfaction with the course taken at Ge-
neva was expressed. Berlin, however,
was enraged; and officials of the Wil-
hemstrasse announced that the adop-
tion of that resolution had made im-
possible Germany's return to the League
of Nations.

After the adoption of the resolution
there was a general feeling in the coun-
tries surrounding Germany that it
would be necessary to tighten their
frontier lines against possible aggression
by the Third Reich. Plans for aviation
pacts between Czechoslovakia and Rus-
sia and between France and Italy are
being discussed. Then too, France an-
nounced that she intended to strength-
en her fortifications along the German
border.

On April 20 Hitler sent a curt note
to the nations who had passed the reso-
lution, questioning their right to pass
judgment on Germany. England,
France, and Italy regarded the note
ghtly and left the next move to Ger-
many. What that move will be is un-
certain, but Europe is uneasy, and Hit-
ler is looking beyond what are to him
the too-narrow borders of the Third
Reich.

Recreation Before Examinations

With examinations only two weeks
ahead, much advice is now being circu-
lated about the campus concerning
both the giving and taking of those
calculators of a semester's accumulated
knowledge. Ideas pertaining to short
cut methods of review, association
memory work, and plain old-fashioned
cramming, not to mention those rare
cases of genuine study, are being trans-
mitted from student to student while
the faculty, not at all perturbed, offers
upon request very sane advice to the
host of midnight-oil burners. Ironically
enough, here at the time of six w eeks
tests and term papers, Professor
Hayes suggests that each student begin
her study now and then she will have
several days of recreation and freedom
before her ordeal. He feels that stu-
dents, tired out by study and eye-
strain, make bad blunders on the tests
when they actually know the work
they have covered. To go to an ex-
amination free from mental and bod-
ily fatigue is the surest step toward
a successful paper, according to Pro-
fessor Hayes.

Assistant Professor Christie also be-
lieves that rest and amusement just be-
fore an examination are very desirable
if the participant in the activity has
already done the necessary amount of
work beforehand. It is interesting to
note the variety of opinion in this same
department. Though Professor McKin-
ney does not actually disagree with the
advice already given, she places a great

deal of emphasis upon the word "re-
view" in its literal meaning. She con-
demns the practice of cramming, but
she does advocate a method of going
over once more that materia) which has
been gathered and learned during the
semester. Then, she promises, "You'll
have no trouble at all with your ex-
amination theoretically. ,,

Professor Davidson, with the charac-
teristic thoroughness of an historian,
states the best way to review is to
change entirely the method of proce-
dure from that followed in class. If
the course has been arranged chron-
ologically, then the various subjects
should be reviewed topically or vice
versa. This practice not only reviews
the material, but also enables the stu-
dent to see the problems and facts from
an entirely different perspective. Along
with the above view. Associate Profes-
sor Laney feels that a judicious review
is a most important factor for a suc-
cessful examination.

When the question of how to study
for examinations was asked Mr. Stukes,
registrar, he was quite overcome. Ac-
cording to him, subjects are so diverse
and students so different in their study
habits, their power of memory, their
quickness, that it is almost impossible
to give any definite advice on the sub-
ject. "Really," he said, "people
shouldn't have to study for exams. It's
foolish. And as for a method, there
isn't any."

EXCHANGES

ALUMNAE

Agnes Scott Commencement Week,
May 23-27, will bring back to the
campus for reunion members of nine
former classes: '07, '08, '09, '10, '26,
'27, '28, '29, and '34. Following the
Dix plan in choosing classes for annual
reunions at this time, the first eight
classes are to hold reunions, and since
it is traditional, the last graduating
class will meet, also.

The following are the plans for
meetings and social functions at this
time: Executive Board of the Alumnae
Association will have a business meet-
ing on Thursday, May 2 3, at 2:30;
this meeting will be followed by an
Alumnae Council meeting at 4:00. On
Friday, May 24, the Decatur Club will
entertain the children of the alumnae
and faculty at a party; following the
annual meeting of the General Asso-
ciation, held Saturday at 11:30, the
trustees will entertain for the alumnae,
faculty, and seniors in Rebekah Scott;
on Sundav night after vespers the
Alumnae House will have open house
for the alumnae and faculty, with the
officers of the classes which are hav-
ing reunions acting as hostesses.

On Monday, May 27, each of the
alumnae groups will have luncheon in
the Alumnae House. The class of '34
will probably have a banquet that
night.

For thousands and thousands of U. S.
college seniors who hate the prospect
of hunting jobs, a prime ambition is
to start some campus enterprise which
they can take with them when they
graduate. This year four Princeton
seniors have built up such a business
in Campus Publicity Service. One of
the first ideas was of creating a high
pressure organization to mold campus
opinion for national advertisers. Their
first client was Philip Morris & Co.
and the plan was very successful. The
instigator of the plan received $400 a
month from this one cigarette com-
pany. Time.

Pietro Mascagni, the composer of
Ca Valeria Rusticana, had his last in-
spiration 45 years ago, when at 26 his
one flash came. A prize was offered
for a one-act opera, and the impover-
ished teacher, tired of a macaroni diet,
worked for eight days and nights until
he had completed the famous opera.
Time.

BOOK NOTES

Ten Thousand Public Enemies C.
R. Cooper.

This book is more than a "thriller,"
because it is true. It puts to shame the
Indian perils and massacres of the past
by revealing the astounding, violent
story of real criminals who have men-
aced or who today menace the Ameri-
can public. Their lawless accomplish-
ments, aided and multiplied a hundred
times by modern scientific inventions
and conveniences, seem almost too
amazing to be true.

Queen Victoria, E. P. Benson.

Not only is this an account of Vic-
torian court life, costumes and cus-
toms, but also a rare insight into the
character of one of England's great-
est queens. Mr. Benson presents the
eighty years of the "marble Queen"
in an interesting and complete biog-
raphy that makes both good reading
and good history.

The second largest business in the
country is not steel, automobiles, meat-
packing, or amusements. It is educa- 1 portray battle scenes, that Ordeal by

Ordeal By Fire, Fletcher Pratt.
This is an informal history of the
Civil War that becomes, at the con-
clusion of its reading, a symphony. So
clearcut are the thumb-nail sketches of
McClellan, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln,
Schofield, Rosecrans, and the Rock of
Chicumauga, so well does the author

tion. First comes the wholesale and
retail trade and close on its heels the
industry which started humbly enough
in a little red school -house. The
amount spent on education during a
year is more than the biggest manu-
facturing industry's products in 1931,
meat-packing. For the country as a
whole the average acount spent on
each child in public schools is $87.
Re i few of Reviews.

Fire is, to the reader, history in the
form of true and magnetic fiction.

/ Change Worlds, Anna Louise
Strong.

"The American mind, whatever its
color, has need of this book." It is the
story of a remarkable woman who ex-
changed American capitalism for Rus-
sian Communism, who married a Rus-
sian, who suffered many defeats in
Soviet Russia but at last was accepted
by the people of her adopted country.

Nobody quarreled when the rail
roads streamlined their trains. Stream-'

line autos and boats arc all right. But " Wi f e > Pctcr N "S C -

it is more than one can stand when Petcr Neagoe, a Rumanian-born
one finds streamlined pipes, ash trays, American cmzen > compiles in this
hats, hat-racks, tricycles, ginger ale vo,umc > W sh rt stor.es picturing
bottles, and burial caskets. Even now ! the stu P ,d but resourceful peasants of
an exclusive New York custom tailor the Rumanian mountain land in their

struggles and romances. i hese are
stones, oriental in character, but na-
rural and rich above all.

has just announced a new streamlined
dress coat. Review of Reiieu *.

At the University of Oklahoma a .
professor of Public ' Speaking flunked "f**/*^ L,1 Lmk< \
an overawed student with the cryptic! L,, L,nke ' as ~ m f of the Ger-
remark, "So you won't talk, eh?" man Lea S uc r of Youn ^ Democrats,
Technique. an< * ' eac ^ er * a youth movement in
Germany, sets forth in this autobi-

At Northwestern University a knit- 8 ra P h y- the L rcstl days of her gen-
ting course has been organized for crat,on f t"e confused German after-
men; at Perdue, a course is offered in war and mflat.on era." The book gives
bridge; and a girl is enrolled in a box- '"telhgent account of Nazism and
ing class at the University of Alabama. whn th L e modcrn generation in Ger-
E l0 ry Wheel. many thinks of their present govern-

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CLUBS

Poetry Club
Poetry Club held its regular meet-
ing Tuesday night, April 23, in Miss
Laney's room in Ansley. Jule Mc-
Clatchey was hostess.

Pi Alpha Phi

The last inter-collegiate debate of
the season was held with Hampden-
Sidney on Thursday night, April 2 5, on
the question: Resolved, That the gov-
ernment should own and operate all
facilities for the manufacture of arms
and munitions. Sarah Catherine Wood
and Nellie Margaret Gilroy upheld the
negative side for Agnes Scott.

The next meeting will be held on
Thursday, May 9, and at this time the
new officers will be installed. The
postponed debate between Esther
Byrnes and Jean Barry Adams and Hi-
bernia Hassel and Anne Wheaton on
The Cut System will be held then.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma will sponsor a
talk bv Dr. Kite, head of Scottish Rite
Hospital, Monday night, May 6, at
7:3 0. Dr. Kite is a graduate of John
Hopkins and was a professor at the
University of Georgia before coming
to Scottish Rite. He will speak on
Bloodless Surgery.

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Pen and Brush Club
The last meeting of the Pen and Brush
Club was held on Friday night, Ap-
ril 19, in Sarah Spencer's room. Betty
Fountain and Sarah Spencer gave talks
on different phases of art. The fol-
lowing new officers were elected: Vir-
ginia Gaines, president; Anne Taylor,
vice-president; and Martha Johnson,
secretarv- treasurer.

Cotillion Club

Cotillion Club elected the following
new officers at a call meeting, Friday,
April 19: Nell White, president; Mere-
dith Turner, vice-president; and Nancy
Tucker, secretary-treasurer.

Lavinia Scott and Marion Derrick
were hostesses at a tea-dance for the
club Thursday afternoon, April 2 5,
from 5 to 6.

Outing Club
The Outing Club is holding classes
in first aid, woodcraft, and camp craft
for those who wish to try out for
membership. Plans are being made for
a supper hike, when the final practical
tests will be made.

K. U. B.

The last meeting of K. U. B. was
held Wednesday, April 17, at which
time the following new officers were
elected: Mary Margaret Stowe, presi-
dent; Mary Hull and Gene Brown,
vice-presidents; Barton Jackson, secre-
tary; and Eliza King, treasurer.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club will hold its next
meeting on Tuesday, May 7, at 4
o'clock, in 103 Buttrick Hall. Miss
Louise Lewis will address the group on
The Art of Spain. The lecture will be
illustrated. The election of officers for
the coming year will be held at this
time.

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Summer Profitably

Trips to Europe, to the mountains,
and to various states, teaching in other
colleges, studying, and writing are
some of the plans of the faculty mem-
bers of Agnes Scott College who have
already decided what they intend to do
this summer.

Miss Muriel Harn and Miss Louise
Lewis are planning to go to Germany
this summer. They hope to visit par-
ticularly some of the small picturesque
German cities.

Miss Annie May Christie is making
trips to the old towns and cities in
Georgia and South and North Carolina
to collect material which might be
used as local color in fiction. She hopes
to get material from such sources as
old diaries, newspapers, and scrapbooks.
She is gathering this material for her
dissertation.

Mr. Henry A. Robinson and Mr.
James T. Gillespie are spending the
summer in the mountains of North
Carolina. Mr. Robinson and his family
will stay at their cottage near Fleet-
wood Mountain. Mr. Gillespie is going
to serve at the Bryson City Presbyterian
Church in North Carolina this sum-
mer. Besides serving as pastor for this
church, he is going to study in prep-
aration for his courses at Agnes Scott
next fall and to prepare two syllabi for
next year's classes.

Mr. Philip Davidson, Mr. George P.
Hayes, and Miss Florence E. Smith
are teaching in other colleges this sum
mer. Miss Smith and Mr. Hayes are
teaching at Hunter College in New
York. Mr. Davidson is teaching at
Rochester University, in Rochester.

Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, Miss Mar-
garet Phythian, and Miss Lucile Alex-
ander are planning to study this sum-
mer. Mr. Johnson is studying voice
this summer in New York City. Miss

Society Notes

Mrs. Holcombe Green, president of
Mortar Board, '3 3, entertained the
members of Mortar Board at a tea on
Friday afternoon at 4:30.

Many Agnes Scott students attend-
ed open house at Mary Green's and
Vella Marie Behm's Sunday afternoon.

Dottie Lee attended a luncheon spon-
sored by O. D. K. at Tech on April 23.

Jane Hashagen attended the Theta
Kappa Psi dance at Emory.

Helen Handte, Ellen McCallie, and
Elizabeth Blackshear attended the Phi
Kappa Sigma Sports Ball at the Bilt-
more Hotel Friday.

Among those who attended the A.
K. K. dance at the Biltmore Hotel Fri-
day night were: Gina Hightower, Bee
Merrill, and Becky Harrison.

Martha Redwine was the guest of
Eugenia Symms at her home in Au-
gusta, Ga., over the week-end.

Myrl Chafin, Anna Katherine Ful-
ton, and Laura Coit spent the week-
end at McDonough, Ga.

Sue Bryan attended the K. A. dance
at Emory Saturday night.

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Doris Dunn, Nancy Tucker, and
Nell Hemphill attended the Venetian
Club dance at the Shrine Mosque on
Thursday night.

Among those who were guests at a
treasure-hunt at Columbia Seminary
last Friday night were: Kay Ricks,
Anne Cullum, Florence Lasseter, and
Mickey McKee.

Lillian Jones and Polly Brownlee, of
Spartanburg, visited Joyce Roper over
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Anne Thompson's father, Dr. W. T.
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Elizabeth Allison and Fannie B. Har-
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Vera Frances Pruett spent the holi-
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Phythian is studying at Middlebury
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Betty Anderson and Mary Elizabeth
Hoyle visited in Swainsboro during the
holidays.

Sue Bryan had as her guests at her
home in Reynolds, Ga., Misses Vivian
Allen and Frances Ricks.

A daughter, Sarah Ethel, was born
to Professor and Mrs. Schuyler Chris-
tian on April 19.

Martha Long and Peggy Ware spent
the week-end in Greenville, S. C.

Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Virginia Mil-
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Brown at her home in Thomson, Ga.,
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Among the girls who spent their
holidays at home were: Sara Frances
and Jane Estes, Barton Jackson, Mar-
tha Alice Green, Lucille Barnett, Mar-
jorie Scott, Gregory Rowlett, Ida Buist,
Mary Adams, Kennon Henderson, Jane
Merrill, Louise Bailey, Dixie Woodford,
and Frances Cary.

Mortar Board entertained freshman
boarders at a series of parties given Ap-
ril 2 2-25 for the purpose of introduc-
ing the girls to Atlanta boys.

Miss Margaret Howson and her fath-
er are visiting on the campus to at-
tend May Day. Miss Howson is the
sister of Miss Emily Howson, who was
professor of physics at Agnes Scott
from 1920 until just before her death
in 1931. The science library is a me-
morial to her.

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Atlanta Alumnae Finals Day, Sports Miss Kaufman Is
Will Fete Seniors Banquet May 8th Y.W.C.A.Speaker

Two groups of the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Alumnae Club will entertain the
seniors with a flower tea at Hastings*
"Floweracres," on May 11, at 4:30. The
chairmen of these groups Louise
(Brown) Hastings, '23, and Mary
(Warren) Reed, '29, will be the host-
esses. Cars, supplied by the alumnae
for the seniors, will leave from the
Alumnae House at 3:15 o'clock.

All those who are interested in at-
tending this tea are cordially invited.
The tickets, which are on sale at the
alumnae office, are 3 5c, and the pro-
ceeds will go toward the alumnae gar-
den.

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port their illustrious teams. The Spar-
ta U. cheerleader is Mary Thompson,
and the Athens Tech leader is Mildred
Thompson. Sparta U. cheering sections
include: Mary Green, Martha Ann
Rodgers, Trellis Carmichael, Willie
Florence Eubanks, Mae Duls, Jane Cas-
sels, Leonora Spencer, and Frances Espy.
Those cheering for Athens Tech are:
Vella Marie Behm, Helen Derrick, Dor-
othea Blackshear, Jacqueline Woolfolk,
Jule McClatchey, Carolyn Cole, Mary
Adams, Margaret Robins, Alice Dun-
bar, and Anne Scott Harman.

Sam's Son and the Lilac is directed
by Betty Lou Houck, with Ruby Hut-
ton assisting with the music.

The entire college community is in-
vited to attend this masterpiece of the
talented Seniorpolitan Opera Company.

Spring Finals Day in sports will be
Wednesday, May 8, with tennis finals,
an archery tournament, water games,
and the final soccer game bringing the
sports season to an end for this year.
The annual athletic banquet will be the
climax of the day, and will take place
Wednesday night in the Rebekah Scott
dining room. Everyone who has par-
ticipated in at least one sport during
the year is invited. It will be a formal
affair.

Notoriety came suddenly to a Phi
Delta Theta bridge foursome recently
when Jimmy Todd, one of the players,
held the perfect bridge hand, thirteen
spades, one hand in nine million. This
was the first unusual hand of 193 5.
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amusing modern play by Tristan Ber-
nard. The meeting will be held on Fri-
day evening, May 10, at 7:30; high
schools students of French will be spe-
cial guests.

The cast of the play includes:

Roseleur, advocat, Clara Morrison.

Gerbier, client, Elizabeth Perrin.

Genouvier, jeune etudiant en droit,
Naomi Cooper.

Laure, jeune veuve, Agnes J. McKoy.

Clara, la bonne, Jule McClatchey.

The college community is cordially
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most interesting and helpful.

Another in the series of Y. W. talks
was on April 24, when Mr. Oscar
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college during its weekly chapel periods
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The results of the first round of
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Wood defeated Cairns, 5-4. S. F. Mc-
Donald drew a bye, as did Mclnrvre
and Rowe. McClelland defeated M.
Scott, 1 up. Bishop and Moorer drew
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portrait of Mr. Inman was copied from
a photograph. Both pictures are to be
kept on the campus.

These two paintings are the result
of the marked success of Mr. Dickin-
son's portrait of Dr. McCain, which
has now been completed for several
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VOL. XX

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY; 28, 1935

No. -22 -

Reverend Alston Speaks on
"Christ and Present Mood"

Agnes Scott College
Commencement
A \v a r d s

Delivered by
REV. WALLACE ALSTON,
Pastor, Max u ell Street Presbyterian
Churchy Lexington, Kentucky,
on Sunday, May 26.

1 nerc arc two texts of Scripture
w hich I want to use together as we
consider the subject which I have
chosen for this occasion. The first text
is from the pen of the Apostle Paul,
recorded in Ephesians (6:12): "For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities and powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wicked-
ness in high places. " The second of
our texts is a saying from the lips of
Jesus, preserved for us in John's gospel
(16:33): "In the world ye have trib-
ulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world."

As I have tried to recall the bacca-
laureate sermons and the commence-
ment addresses to which I have listened
in the past ten years, I have been im-
pressed with the fact that most of the
things which the speakers said would
have about the same relation to our
human predicament today that the
one-horse shay bears to modern trans-
portation or the kerosene lamp to pres-
ent-day artificial lighting. I regard
this observation not as a criticism of
speakers but rather as a commentary
on these times. A commencement in
this day is a time for serious think-
ing, for a realistic survey of factors
with which you must deal as you leave
vour college campus. I propose to dis-
cuss with you one of these factors an
intangible thing which is best desig-
nated as the present mood. By the
present mood I mean the prevailing
psychical atmosphere which is both
penetrating and elusive, which, unless
understood and mastered, will largely
shape and control your future. It was
regarding a prevailing mood that Paul
wrote in his Ephesian letter. This clear-
minded student of his day was too wise
to neglect a matter so vital to spiritual
living in the first century. He sum-
moned his fellow-Christians to come to
grips with the mood of the moment
which he described in terms of "princi-
palities and powers," "rulers of the
darkness of this world," "spiritual
wickedness in high places."

What is the prevailing mood of our
day? If I were required to put into
a single sentence what I conceive to
be the present mood, I think it would
be that sentence spoken by one of the
characters in Philip Barry's play, You
and /:"Most men live in mild des-
peration." The phrase, "mild desper-
ation" avoids exaggeration of disturb-
ing elements which compose the pres-
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3)

Classes Honor '35
At Varied Parties

Entertainments for the senior class
included a sophomore-senior luncheon
on May 18; a junior-senior banquet on
May 24; and a senior-sophomore break-
fast on May 27.

The sophomore-senior luncheon was
held in the ball-room of the Druid
Hills Golf Club; decorations were in
green and yellow; four couples were
seated at each table. The Tech Ram-
blers furnished the music.

On Friday, May 24, the juniors en-
tertained the seniors at a formal ban-
quet on the terrace of East Lake Coun-
try Club from 6:00 to 8:00. Junior
and senior sponsors attended also. The
Emory Aces played for the affair.

The senior-sophomore breakfast was
held yesterday (Monday) at 9:30, at
the Henry Grady Hotel.

These are a part of the traditional
social activities given each year in
honor of the outgoing class.

Baccalaureate

Seniors Leave Vast
Heritage to A.S.C

By Rosalyn Crispin
We, the Senior Class of Agnes Scott
College, in this, the year of our Lord,
nineteen hundred and thirty-five, being
in a state of mind which has for four
years, with increasing suspicion, been
universally enough for our purposes,
been considered sound, and, with a full
realization of the precarious position of
mortal man in this vale of tears, com-
bined with a knowledge of our weak-
ness and depleted strength, due to the
unusually strenuous efforts of the past
few years, do hereby, with due feeling
of awe in the face of the mystery of
the unknown morrow, render unto the
tender mercies of the gods and the no
less surprising vagaries of man this, our
last will and testament:

Upon the present pseudo-senior class
of 1936, we lingeringly and with fonJ
regrets bestow the guardianship of the
torch-light procession which has
guided us to this hour the faculty
with the futile hope that your guard-
ianship of their tenderly sympathetic
solicitude (which you will appreciate
more fully, even as you depreciate,
with the coming year) will take into
account a due regard for the nervous
systems of the aforementioned person-
ages, as well as the hearty respects and
other sentiments developed from inti-
mate contact with their various as-
saults upon your intellects and self-
esteem.

To those students in our midst, pos-
sessed of the prerequisite mental and
moral stamina fully to appreciate the
honor bestowed, we bequeath our por-
tion of the new building equipment
a square of five foot dimensions in the
n. by n. n. e. extreminty of the tower
of the ephemeral library with the
hope that the sense of responsibility,
mingled with the heights attained in
the proper care of the aforesaid sacred
precinct, will lift them to more sub-
lime heights of scholarship and moral-
ity than we, their humble predecessors,
have attained.

More specifically than the above,
forementioned, and aforesaid bequests:

I, Alberta Palmour, bequeath the
remaining shreds of my dignity, along
with other signs and vestiges of au-
thority, one practically new but in-
valuable (at times) copy of my good
friend, Mr. Jernegan's book, The
American Colonics, and a reserved seat
on the front row of all respectable
Latin classes, to my successor, Adelaide
Nichols Stevens, to make of them what
(Continued on Page 7, Col. 1)

At the Commencement exercises
this morning, Dr. J. R. McCain, pres-
ident of Agnes Scott College, an-
nounced the following awards:

The Hopkins Jewel Frances Espy,
Dothan, Ala.

Collegiate Scholarship Rachel Sha-
mos, Atlanta, Ga.; honorable mention,
Isabel McCain, Decatur, Ga.

Quenelle Harrold Fellowship Mary
Boggs, Birmingham, Ala.

Rich Prize Mildred Davis, Orlando,
Fla.; honorable mention, Enid Middle-
ton, Birmingham, Ala.

Art Scholarship Anne Taylor, Mo-
bile, Ala.

Piano Scholarship Divided.

Piano Scholarship Divided;
Kirkpatrick, Anderson, S. G.J
Hemphill, Petersburg, Va.

Voice Scholarship Divided; Augus-
ta King, Atlanta, Ga.; Geraline Young,
Angier, N. C.

Spoken English Scholarship Eliza-
beth Cousins, Decatur, Ga.

Laura Candler Prize in Mathematics
Martha Allen, Monroe, Ga.

Morley Mathematics Medal Mary
Snow, Atlanta, Ga.

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Jean
Nell

Frost and Wilder
Will Appear Here
On Lecture Ticket

Robert Frost, one of America's out-
standing poets, and Thornton Wilder,
novelist, have accepted invitations to
appear at Agnes Scott College next
year on the lecture series, according to
Associate Professor Emma May Laney.
Mr. Frost, who seldom lectures, has
agreed to speak here either the latter
part of October or the first part of
November. Mr. Frost has won the
Pulitzer prize three times and is, since
the death of Edward Arlington Rob-
inson, the most eminent man poet in
the United States. Mr. Wilder, whose
engagement at Agnes Scott is in Feb-
ruary, is the author of the fascinating
novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

The new officers of the Public Lec-
ture Association under whose auspices
these distinguished Americans will ap-
pear are: President, Nell White; sec-
retary and junior representative, Mary
Jane Tigert; ex-officio, publicity, Mary
Margaret Stowe; day student represen-
tative, Jane Thomas; social committee
chairman, Meriel Bull; senior represen-
tative, Ethelyn Johnson; sophomore
representative, Nell Hemphill.

The Lecture Association plans to
work under the same policy as that one
followed this year; as this season, tick-
ets for the individual lectures may be
bought.

Seven Are Elected
To Phi Beta Kappa

Seven girls were elected to Phi Beta
Kappa at the annual May announce-
ments of the Agnes Scott chapter held
in chapel on Friday. Professor Cathe-
rine Torrance, president of the local
chapter, announced the following new
members: Martha Allen, Willie Flor-
ence Eubanks, Betty Fountain, Anna
Humber, Nell Pattillo, Juliette Puett,
and Amy Underwood.

The initiation of the new members
was held on Saturday at five; after-
wards there was a banquet in the
Alumnae Tea House.

Dr. Jack Counsels A. S. C.

'35 Graduates to Pioneer

Pseudo-Prophet Has
Odd Prophetic Mood

By Carolyn M^Callum

By your leave, I assume for the next
few moments the combined Power of
Prophet, seer, fortune-teller and crys-
tal gazer. In the face of scientific
and psychological fact, I am bold
enought to offer my services as a
Merlin, a Madame Zoroaster, or a
Achmed Pasha. Cross my palm with
silver, and with my prophetic power,
my magic, I can look into the future,
where there I can see the fates and for-
tunes of each of you.

Elizabeth Alexander, I see you the
mistress of a lovely home, governing
its affairs with the same poise and
charm that you have shown in guid-
ing the course of your class.

Frances Espy, the future holds for
you the pride of knowing that a bus-
iness would acknowledge you for
service in advertising fields; and that
a literary world acclaims you for at-
tainment along practical lines.

Alsine Shutze, no longer must you
pursue people begging them for dol-
lars and dimes to put in class treasury,
for I see you far removed from such
pecuniary annoyances. You will be of
the clouds and sky. America will
clami you as her leading aviatrix. My
crystal again, reflects the heavens and
I see you Rosalyn Crispin and Mary
Boggs, mistresses of a giant zeppelin
a university of the air where people
may pursue undisturbed pure knowl-
edge, and not be harrassed by those
rules and rulers which demand exam-
inations, term papers, dates and
sources, and dramatic technique.

Oh, the scene in the crystal changes
it reveals a hurrying town in Ala-
bama where I see Alberta Palmour,
who has decreased or increased in her
responsibility for ruling many, as you
will, to that of ruling one a doctor,
it would seem. In spite of her mat-
rimonial ties, the people are urging her
to run for Congress. In the same town
Caroline Dickson is busy directing the
affairs of the Red Cross. Her position
is one that demands her traveling over
the entire country superintending the
work of the mighty organization.

The little town disappears by the
power of my magic. I see New York.
Many familiar faces come to me. 1
see you, Ida Lois McDaniel. Now you
are married, but you're also a recogniz-
ed radio announcer on the National
Broadcasting system. You too, I see,
Vclla Marie Behm, at the head of your
own exclusive interior decorating es-
tablishment. Madeline Race, and Mae
Duls, you will be the joint owners and
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Delivered by
DR. THEODORE H. JACK,
President, Randolph-Macon Woman's

College, Lynchburg, Virginia, on
Tuesday, May 28.

From the very beginning of our in-
stitutions of higher education, it has
been the custom, a custom now hard-
ened into a ritual, for some one, as the
final test of the patience, the endur-
ance, and the courtesy of the long-
suffering members of the graduating
classes, to inflict on them sometimes a
few, but more commonly a great many
words of admonition and service. I
suppose the theory is that if the grad-
uates can edure that last travail, they
can easily withstand the worst the
world has to offer. And I constantly
marvel at the ability of the American
collegian to absorb punishment.

But many of us of my generation
are not now so cock-sure of many
things as we once were; we are not
so ready to speak ex cathedra on every
conceivable subject; we are a wee bit
chary of offering large doses of undi-
luted advice to the younger genera-
tion. My generaton, I must confess,
doesn't seem to have done so well.. I
am inclined to admit that we have
rather made a mess of things. We
graduates, now of a generation agone,
were admonished to charge headlong
into the new world that stretched out
before the college man and woman of
our times and make a new world of
the old thing. And like the St. Georges
or the St. Michaels, or the St. Annes
that we thought we were we
charged! The world did not welcome
us any too kindly. As a matter of fact,
I imagine many men and women of
my age here today have a distinct re-
collection of something quite close to
a snicker! Nevertheless, we charged,
and the general results of that charge
are now history. We haven't done away
with envy, malice, and all uncharit-
ableness; we haven't abolished war;
we haven't driven poverty from the
land; we haven't purified government;
we haven't erased crime and the rack-
eteers; we haven't guaranteed equal op-
portunities to men; we have ushered
in a new day, it is true enough, but
I imagine most of you graduates, just
entering on the broader life beyond
these college walls, as you face the con-
fused world into which we oldsters
have led you, would not concede that
we have done a particularly good job
of ushering in the new day. And I do
not think we have.

Perhaps more because of our fail-
ures, perhaps more because of our
trust and confidence in you, perhaps
more because of our belief that your
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Hutton Announces
Many Engagements

At the annual luncheon given by
the Board of Trustee:, of Agnes Scott
College in honor of the seniors and
alumnae, held on Saturday in Rebekah
Scott dining room, Dorothy Hutton,
Alumnae Secretary, announced the
following engagements:

Ruth Liggin, '29, to Henry Frank-
lin Trotter, of Leesville, S. C, the
wedding to be on June 19.

Lillie Bellingrath, '29, to Rev. Wil-
liam Hoyt Pruitt, the wedding to be
in June.

Nancy Lebick Simpson, 3 0, to John
Porter, of Atlanta, the marriage to be
on June 17.

Sara Townsend, '3 0, to Henry W.
Pittman, Jr., the marriage to be on
June 4.

Agnes Skelton, '31, to Howard Clin-
ton Harris, of Vidallia, Ga., the wed-
ding to be in June.

Cornelia Bowie Taylor, '31, to Tray-
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Sept. 12. Agnes Scott opens foimally.
Sept. 14. Classes start.

Oct. 2. Y.W.C.A. budget campaign begins.

Oct. 10. Y.W.C.A. Freshman Cabinet is announced; Jean Barry Adams,
chairman.

Oct. 13. Sophomores win big Black Cat.

Dr. McCain and Dr. Cox reveal plans for coordination of Agnes
Scott, Emory, and Georgia Tech.
First university round table with Emory over WSB.
Community Chest drive opens on the campus; Miss Gaylord, chair-
man.

Contest for May Day scenario opens.

SILHOUETTE, 1933-34, wins for the fourth consecutive year the
cup given by the National Students' Publications Association for
All-American rating.
3. Little Girl Day.

Investiture. Charles Raper, mascot; Assistant Professor Annie May
Christie, speaker.

Walter Hampden presents "Macbeth" and '-Richelieu" at the Er-
langer.

Shakespeare class ani A.S.C. attend matinee.
7. Dr. McCain announces new plans for a $100,000 science build-
ing, in addition to proposed $200,000 library.
9. Lawrence Tibbett appears on All-Star Concert Series.
13. Open Forum with Emory, Mercer, Georgia Tech, and Agnes Scott
at Tech; subject: The New Deal.
Nov. 14. AGONISTIC carries story that Assistant Professor Janef Preston
was honor guest recently at a dinner meeting of the Atlanta Writ-
er's Club.

Nov. 16-17. Blackfriars presents George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can
Tell."

Nov. 21. Eta Sigma Phi celebrates the Bimillenium Horationem.

Sarah Spencer wins prize for best cover design for AURORA.
Nov. 23. Edna St. Vincent Millay reads her poetry here under the auspices

of the Lecture Association.
Nov. 26-I)ec. 2. Annual Book Week on the campus; Miss McKinney and Miss

Preston in charge of the Book Exhibit in Main.
Nov. 27. "Pieces of Eight" presented by the Gym Department.
Nov. 28. Sophomores granted new privileges: three dates a week; riding

with men unchaperonei in the day-time.

Assistant Professor Melissa A. Cilley announces publication of her
book, ' El Teatio Espanol."
Nov. 29. Thanksgiving first holiday.

Die. 6. Emory University Players present Channing Pollock's "The Fool,"
with three Agnes Scott girls in cast.

Dec. 7. Agnes Scott College meets the University of London in a debate on
the question, Resolved: That the abandonment of the isolationist
policies is essential to the return of prosperity. Marian Calhoun
and Edith Merlin uphold the negative for Agnes Scott.

Dec. 14. Agnes Scott meets Emory in debate; question, Resolved: That Hit-
ler's domestic policies have benefitted Germany.

Dec. 15. Y.W.C.A. gives annual Christmas Party for poor children of DeKalb
County.

Faculty entertains Seniors in Rebekah Scott Hall.

Dec. 16. Agnes Scott Glee Club presents two programs of Christmas Carols
in Atlanta churches. .

Dec. 18. Language clubs sing Christmas Carols in traditional campus sere-
nade.

Dec. 19-Jan. 4, 1935. Christmas holidays.

Jan. 15-26 Mid-winter holidays First semester exams.

Jan. 16. A.A.U. meets in Atlanta.

Feb. 2. S.I.A.S.G. officers meet at A.S.C.

Feb. 7. Agnes Scott meets Wesleyan College in debate in Gaines Chapel;
subject: Hitler.

Feb. 8. Dr. C. C. Farrold presented by the Lecture Association.

Dr. Davidson speaks at Johns Hopkins University seminar.
Feb. 9. Mary Boggs, Katherine Hertzka, Eva Poliakoff, and Isabel Shipley

elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Feb. 11-1". Annual Institute of Citizenship held at Emory; Hon. Daniel C.

Roper, secretary of agriculture, principal speaker. Miss History

Smith and Government class attend.
Feb. 12-16. Election of May Queen.
Feb. 13. AGONISTIC contest opens.

Feb. 20. Laura Whitner announced as May Queen. Jane Blick and Alice
Chamlee win scenario contest with "Peter Pan."

Peb. 21. Silhouette and Cotillion sponsor "Casino Ascot."

Feb. 22. Founder's Day. Banquet and minuet on campus. Chair skids out
from under Dr. McCain as he celebrates with Alumnae at Druid
Hills.

Ft I). 26. Atlanta day students win Little Brown Jug. Miss Jackson attends

and cheers the rousing series of games.
Feb. 28. Ballet Russe appears at Atlanta Auditorium.
Mar. 2. Junior banquet; Nell White, chairman.

Blackfriars present "Craig's Wife," by George Kelley.
Mar. 8. Helen Handte and Nell White tie for the title "Miss Health."
.Mar 9. Sidney Dickinson begins portrait of Dr. McCain.
M; r. 12-17. Dr. Edwin McNeil Poteat, Jr., conducts annual religious services
sponsored by Y.W.C.A.; theme: "The Good Life."
Mary Boggs wins Quenelle Harrold fellowship.
Mar. 20. Sidney Dickinson completes portrait of Dr. McCain.

Leonora Owsley Herman, A.S.C. alumna, reads poetry in chapel.
22. Student elections for 1935-36.

Arthur H. Compton presented by the Lecture Association.
Annual High School Day sponsored by Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation.
Apr. 3. Spring holidays.

5. Agnes Scott. Randolph-Macon, and Newcormb College meet in tri-
angular debate on the question, Resolved: That the federal gov-
ernment should own and operate all facilities for the manufacture
of arms and munitions in the United States.

6. Southern University Conference organized in Atlanta; Dr. McCain
elected secretary.

9. VICTORY EFFORT CAMPAIGN OPENS WITH LUNCHEON IN
THE GYM; DR. DAVIDSON, MASTER OF CEREMONIES, AN-
NOUNCES HORSE RACE. GOAL SET AT $15,000.
Apr. ll*. ("hiss of "M wins AGONISTIC contest again; Laura Steele, editor,
and Kathryn Bowen, business manager.

Professor Jernegan speaks here under auspices of the Lecture As-
sociation.

Apr. 17. FACULTY HORSE, MAN-OF-WAR, LEADS IN A.S.C. RACE.

Mary B>irgs nominated for German Fellowship and awarded Rad-
cliffe Scholarship.

Present site of Westlawn chosen for new librarv.
Apr. 19. JUNIORS' CAVALCADE WINS HORSE RACE.* TOTAL $24,741.12

PLEDGED IN VICTORY EFFORT CAMPAIGN. DR. McCAIN

PRONOUNCED EXCELLENT HORSEMAN.
Apr. 20. Sir Charles Marston speaks at first chapel while freight train passes.

Mortar Board announcements made at second chapel; speaker:

Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn.

AGONISTIC luncheon in honor of old staff.
Apr. 2& Agnes Scott meets Hamnden-Sidney in debate.
Apr. 26-27. Regional meeting of Eta Sigma Phi held at Agnes Scott.

Memorial Day and Campaign Holidays. Work on term papers is

pushed.

Apr. 28. Agnes Scott goes on daylight saving time along with the rest of
the state, most of the South, and, for that matter, with the East,
as well.

M;i> i. May Day. "Peter Pan"; Ad Peter Stevens and Jennie Wendy Cham-
pion charm audience. Queen Laura dominates lovely court.
Senior opera, "Sam's Son and the Lilac," with Houck and McCallum

Mar.
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Apr.
Apr.

Miss Gwendeline Miller, assistant
'ibrarian, Miss Sarah Bowman, instruc-
tor in biology, and Miss Nancy Rogers,
fellow in biology, have handed in their
resignations, effective the close of this
session, according to Dr. J. R. McCain,
president of Agnes Scott College.

Miss Miller, who took her library
training at the University of Michi-
gan, leaves Agnes Scott to accept a
position in the library at Pennsylvania.
Miss Laura Colvin, who took her A. B.
at William and Mary College, and her
library work at Michigan, also, will
take Miss Miller's place. She comes
here from Swarthmore.

Miss Helen Mar Miller, who holds
her A. B. from Goucher College and
her Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, will
replace Miss Bowen, who plans to enter
Girl Scout work. Carol Griffin, '3 5,
will take Nancy Rogers' place.

Another change, Dr. McCain re-
vealed, is the appointment of Alberta
Palmour, '3 5, as Alumnae Field Sec-
retary, to replace Elinor Hamilton,
'34, who has resigned; Miss Hamilton
will be married the latter part of June.

Edith Merlin Wins
Quenelle Harrold
Cup for Debating

The Quenelle Harrold Debating Cup
was awarded this year to Edith Mer-
lin, '3 6, at chapel on May 4. Professor
George P. Hayes, faculty adviser for
Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes Scott debating
society, made the presentation.

The cup is given each year to the
girl who has made the best record in
debating. Edith debated with the Uni-
versiy of London last fall; she was on
the team that went to Randolph-Ma-
con this spring in the annual trian-
gular debate between that college,
Agnes Scott, and Newcomb. She also
participated in informal debates with
Emory University.

Last year, Elizabeth Winn, '34, won
the cup.

Alumnae

Many alumnae have returned to
Agnes Scott the week of May 23-28
in order to attend class reunions and
commencement exercises. The classes of
'07, '08, '09, '10, '26, '27, '28, '29,
and '34 have been holding special re-
union meetings during this time.

The following alumnae are visitors
at the college:

Mary Wallace Kirk, '11, of Tus-
cumbia, Alabama, arrived at the Alum-
nae House May 22. Miss Kirk is a
trustee of the college.

Julia Finely, '3 3, of North Wilkes-
boro, N. C, is visiting Elizabeth and
Marie Simpson in Decatur.

Members of the class of 1929 in-
clude Charlotte Hunter, of Davidson,
N. C.j Mabel (Marshall) Whitehouse,
of Lexington, Kentucky; Pcrnette
(Adams) Carter, president of the
Shorter Agnes Scott Club, who is vis-
iting Dorothy Hutton, alumnae sec-
retary; and Eugenia Kirk, ex-'29, of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who is visiting
Louisa (White) Gosnell, '27, in At-
lanta.

Representatives from the class of
1926 are: Helena Hermance, of Wins-
ton-Salem, who is staying in Atlanta
with Edythe (Coleman) Parris, '26;
Louisa Duls, of Charlotte, N. C, who
has come to attend the graduation of
her sister, Mae Duls; and Margaret
Tufts, of Banner Elk, N. C, Sara
Slaughter, and Sterling Johnson, who
will room together on the campus.

At a final meeting of the class of
1 93 5 last week, Alberta Palmour was
elected life president. Mary Green was
elected secretary for next year.

REVEREND ALSTON SPEAKS ON
"CHRIST AND PRESENT MOOD"

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ent mood, while at the same time in-
sisting upon their actual and potential
dangers.

What, let us ask, are some of the
elements that make up this prevailing
mood with which you will contend? I
will not be so foolish as to claim that
"he little analysis of the dominant
mood which we are about to make to-
gether is either entirely accurate or
reasonably adequate. Perhaps the chief
virtue in it will be that it is an at-
tempt to understand a major factor in
our life.

Crowning the list is fear. An un-
wholesome fear drains our energy, de-
pletes our resources, takes the heart
out of our efforts. Fear imprisons life.
Most of us spend our time looking
out upon the world through bars of an
mprisoning fear fear of ourselves,
fear of our fellow-men, fear of change,
fear of old age, fear of poverty, fear
of sickness, fear of death. Fear is
making its contribution to our dis-
ordered economic life. Cooperative ef-
forts are hampered because the various
groups in our industrial order are
afraid of one another: the moneyed
interests of laboring men, the laborers
of the employers of labor, the admin-
istration of big business, and big busi-
ness of the government. Fear haunts
the nations of the earth, and continues,
despite the progress of the years, as
one of the major causes of war. It is
because of fear that nations parade
their military and naval strength be-
fore one another, "drawing the sword
before a neighbor's house," as Admiral
Kato of the Japanese navy said of our
Pacific maneuvers only last week. Fear
is largely responsible for unprecedent-
ed peace-time military budgets which
are being spent by the respective gov-
ernments this year.

The prevailing mood adds to fear
confusion. For many people today
"whirl is king." Laymen are little
more confused than are our so-called
experts. Indeed, experts in economics
are very much under suspicion by the
masses of the people. We are no longer
willing to accept ex cathedra dic-
tums from our master-minds of finance
and statecraft. We strongly suspect
that they share our confusion. What
are we going to do next? Where will
it all lead? We sense this confusion,
and its contagion we cannot escape. In
our confused state of mind as individ-
uals, without some clear word of guid-
ance and of hope from someone who
deserves our confidence, we only add to
the general state of confusion. Many
are wondering if, after all, life "is a
tale, told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing."

Disillusionment also marks the pre-
vailing mood. In Lord Grey's auto-
biography, T u enty-fii e Years, one
of the most gripping passages describes
the night of August 3rd, 1914, when
Great Britain declared war on Ger-
many. After the historic debate in the
House of Commons had been conclud-
ed and the vote taken, Lord Grey went
to the foreign office and spent the
early morning hours there in company
with a few intimate friends. As dawn
appeared Lord Grey looked out of the
window and watched the street lights
being extinguished one after another.
He turned to a friend who was at his
side and said, "The lamps are going out
all over Europe; we shall not see them
it again in our lifetime." How pro-

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Presentation of the "Pirates of Penzance" by the Glee Club.
Sophomores begin to pick daisies.
May 26. Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Wallace Alston.
Senior vespers.

Sophomores still picking daisies.
May 27. Senior-Sophomore breakfast at the Grady.

Sophomores bear daisy chain May Dell-wards.
Class Day. Alumnae Day.

Blackfriars present "The Libation Bearers," by Aeschylus.
Book burning. Capping.
May 28. Commencement. Dr. Theodore H. Jack, speaker.
Conferring of Degrees.

phetic, not only of Europe but of the
world! Many of those lights which the
war extinguished were lights of high
faith and spiritual enterprise. Some
lamps of noble purpose were lit again
after the war, but, alas, were only to
flicker and go out. I am not saying
that idealism is dead today. I know
that this is not the case. But I am
saying that this is a poor time for cru-
sades for the achievement of great ends
because men, women, and even young
people have been so bitterly disappoint-
ed by the collapse of efforts into which
their money, their prayers, and their
lives have been poured.

Then, from many quarters today is
sounded the corresponding note of fu-
tility. Some months ago we read in our
newspapers that H. M. S. Nelson.
the pride of the British navy, lodged on
the rocks just outside the harbor of
Portsmouth. The commanding officer
ordered the eleven hundred members of
the crew to jump up and down on the
deck in an effort to dislodge the ship,
but all to no avail. Only when the tide
came in could the great vessel gain its
freedom. That picture of eleven hun-
dred men jumping up and down sug-
gests the futility of much of our ef-
fort. Only the other day the Kentucky
Kernel, our University of Kentucky
paper, appeared with an article about
commencement with this headline:
"Future Relief Workers Will Receive
Sheepskins." This sense of the futility
of human effort is noticeable even
among our best people, and must be
recognized as a dangerous element in
the atmosphere of our time.

Low spiritual temperature is another
characteristic of the present mood. Dr.
John Hutton said not a great while
ago in the British Weekly, " In my
view there are three great heresies.
There is the heresy of over-statement,
there is the heresy of under-statement,
and there is the heresy of a low temp-
erature; these three, and the worst of
these three is the low temperature."
One of the things Dr. Stanley Jones
said repeatedly before American audi-
ences during his recent furlough was
this: the greatest hindrance to the vic-
tory of Christ in our world is the great
body of Christians who lack His spirit,
Christians who are anemic, sub-normal,
deficient. He charged that we are in-
noculating the world with such a mild
form of Christianity that the world is
practically immune to the real thing.

There is one other element m the
dominant mood which I shall mention.
To my mind the growing restlessness
with things as they are is most hopeful
and encouraging. God pity us if we
are satisfied with ourselves, our homes,
our business life, our churches, our
campus conditions, our national life,
or our international relations! I believe
God is stirring the hearts of men to-
day. I believe that much of the unrest
and the turbulence is a "divine discon-
tent," the revolt of the enlightened
spirit of man against conditions .iml
practices out of accord with the will
and purpose of God.

And now let me say that no one un-
derstands his dav and generation who
does not take Jesus Christ into ac-
count. He is no mere historical per-
sonage, no theological dogma; He is
the Fact which the realist dares nor
neglect if he would interpret our con-
temporary scene. He stands among us
with a claim which Martin Luther
said was worthy to be carried from
Rome to Jerusalem upon one's knees, a
claim as true today as when He spoke
the words to His disciples: "In the
world ye have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the
world." This is the claim of a Galilean
peasant without money, without posi-
tion, without the support of an army.
The words are spoken by one who
twenty-four hours later was being
placed in Joseph's tomb for burial,
after having been crucified between
two thieves. And yet it is a claim
which we dare not refuse to test!

Absurd as it may have seemed to His
disciples, impossible as it may appear
to us Jesus claimed to have conquer-
ed the world, our world with its fear,
its confusion, its disillusionment, its
sense of futility, its spiritual anemia,
its restlessness. How did Jesus over-
come the world? Not by denying it.
He never sought refuge in the shadows
of unreality. He accepted the real
world and lived in it. Jesus never at-
tempted to escape the world. It was

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The Agonistic

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Latimer Is Elected
Mortar Board Head

Carrie Phinney Latimer was elected
president of the new Mortar Board
chapter at a meeting held on May 6.
The following officers were elected at
a second meeting on May 13: Vice-
president, Augusta King; secretary,
Ruby Hutton; treasurer, Dean Mc-
Koin; and quarterly editor, Lulu
Ames.

On Sunday moning, May 19, the
new chapter entertained old Mortar
Board at an early breakfast on the ter-
race of Druid Hills Golf Club.

Yesterday afternoon Mortar Board
was hostess to the seniors and their
parents after Class Day in the Alumnae
Garden. Professor George P. Hayes,
Associate Professor Louise Hale, and
Assistant Professor Florence E. Smith,
faculty advisers, were in the receiving
line.

SENIORS ENTERTAIN
MAJOR PROFESSORS

The seniors have given a variety of
parties, during the closing weeks of
the year, in honor of the members of
the departments in which they have
their majors.

Ida Lois McDaniel, Virginia Wood,
Margaret Waterman, and Margaret
Smith entertained Professor and Mrs.
James M. Wright and Professor and
Mrs. Arthur F. Raper at dinner at
the Tavern on May 7. After dinner
the party went to a picture show.

Marie Simpson, the only senior Bi-
ble major, and the six junior majors,
Catherine Bates, Ernelle Blair, Eliza-
beth Burson, Floyd Butler, Adelaide
Stevens, and Miriam Talmage, gave a
dinner for the Bible department on
May 1 at the Tavern.

The sixteen English majors gave a
buffet dinner in honor of the English
department in the Alumnae Gardens
on May 22. Professor and Mrs. George
P. Hayes, Professor Louise McKinney,
Associate Professor Emma May Laney,
Assistant Professor Annie May Chris-
tie, Assistant Professor Janef Preston,
and Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn were
invited.

Mary Boggs and Katherine Hertzka,
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Extends
Heartiest Congratulations to
the Class of '35

R. E. EDWARDS, Mgr.

Science Professors'
Holiday Plans

A check-up of the science depart-
ment which was grossly neglected in
the recent faculty survey of summer
plans has revealed the following in-
formation:

Professor S. M. Christian will spend
two months of the summer as research
assistant at Harvard University in
Boston. He will continue his work
on alternating-current polorization. In
the February Journal of the Avierican
Chemical Society he published a pa-
per on this subject.

Professor Mary MacDougall sailed
for France last Wednesday. She will
work again this summer with Professor
Chaton on chilodonetta at Cette. She
will receive this summer the degree of
Doctor of Science from the University
of Montpellier.

Mr. Thomas Whitiker plans to visit
his parents in California. He will take
his family with him.

Another oversight this in the his-
tory department is that Associate
Professor Elizabeth Jackson sails from
Quebec,. June 20, for England to study
history at Oxford.

Six Agnes Scott Girls
To Play in Ensemble

Six Agnes Scott girls will take part
in the Georgia Piano Ensemble, spon-
sored by the Rabun-Gap Nacoochee
Guild, next October 4, Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann, professor of music at Ag-
nes Scott College, has announced.

They are: Alice Chamlee, Tommy
Ruth Blackmon, Nell Hemphill, Jean
Kirkpatrick, Alice Hannah, and
Man^ Erneste Perry.

Twenty pianos are to be used at one
time by the ensemble. Forty musi-
cians, two at each piano, will take part
in one number. There will be orches-
ta accompaniment with other num-
bers.

The program will be given either at
the Shrine Mosque or at the Atlanta
Auditorium. The stage will have to be
extended in a wedge shape to accom-
modate the pianos, Mr. Dieckmann
said.

Proceeds are to benefit the Rabun-
Gap Nacoochee School. Mrs. Mabelle
S. Wall, chairman of the executive
committee of the Guild, will direct
the performance.

"There is a certain interest in en-
semble groups which can be found
there only and not in solo work.
Therefore, the program will be well
worthwhile," Mr. Dieckmann said in
discussing the plans. "There has been
nothing like it in Georgia in a long

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DEDICATION PRAYER

(Given in behalf of the Senior
Class by the President of the Col-
lege just before the diplomas
were awarded.)

Our Father, we thank Thee
for this class for them as a
group, and for them as individ-
uals. We rejoice that Thou hast
brought them from many homes
and from many sections of the
world to unite for these years
in training for life service. And
now as we are separating, never
perhaps to meet again in this
world as an entire group, we pray
for Thy abundant blessings upon
each one. Consecrate with Thy
presence the way their feet may
go. Choose for them the work to
which Thou wilt call them.
Open their eyes that they may
see Thee beckoning them from
the low things of life to the
higher things of Thy truth and
of Thy love. Protect them in
their physical as in their spiritual
well being.

Father, we pray Thy blessing
on the loved ones of this group
and on all the interests that cen-
ter here at this moment.

And so make each girl here a
true daughter of the King
friends and co-workers with
Thyself forever. In Jesus' name,
we ask it. Amen.

Finals Day, Sports
Banquet May 8th
In Rebekoh Scott

The annual Athletic Banquet was
held on Wednesday, May 8, at 6
o'clock in the Rebekah Scott dining
room; the theme of the program was
drawn from the Oz books.

Frances McCalla, out-going presi-
dent of the Athletic Association, as
Princess Olma, was master of cere-
monies. Miss Llewelyn Wilburn, as
Glenda, and Miss Harriette Haynes,
the chief fairy, had as their helpers,
Miss Page Ackerman, Miss Margaret
Bell, Miss Mary Ames, Miss Blanche
Miller, Miss Leslie J. Gaylord, Profes-
sor George P. Hayes, and Professor
Philip G. Davidson.

The old board members proposed
toasts to which members of the 193 5-
3 6 board responded.

New Board members are:

President Ann Coffee.

Vice-President Helen Handte.

Secretary Marie Stalker.

Treasurer Julia Thing.

Social Chairman Frances Steele.

Publicity Anne Taylor and Eliza-
beth Burson.

Lost and Found Julia Thing.

Song Leader Bee Merrill.

Camp Ann Walker.

Swimming Florence Lasseter.

Tennis Mary Kneale.

Hiking Frances Robinson.

Basket-ball Helen Handte.

As part of the program, Frances
McCalla presented letters to Ann Wal-
ker, Marie Stalker, and Mary Kneale.
Mary Jane King won the archery cup.
The banquet this year for the first
time was formal; about 300 attended.

It is with sincere respect of your efforts that brought you
to this threshold of tomorrow that we say congratulations. . . .
We wish you well as you embark upon new fields, new life,
new interests.

THE HOUSE OF REGEN STEIN

thanks

Book Prize to be
Given Next May

A sum of twenty-five dollars has
been ocered for the best collection of
books by an Agnes Scott student, ac-
cording to notices posted on the main
bulletin boards of the campus. The
prize is known as the Richard de Bury
Book Award. The contest, which
opened May 1, will run until May 1
next year.

Although the rules of the contest
have not yet been printed in full, some
general regulations have been set:

(1) Books acquired as gifts may be
included in the collections. It will be
assumed by the judges that all books
entered by contestants, whether ac-
quired by purchase or gift, represent
the taste of the owners.

(2) The award will be made to
the book-owner who, according to
the judges, has shown the most dis-
crimination in the selection of her
books. Each collection will be judged
by the number and the quality of the
books and by the owner's understand-
ing of their contents.

(3) No collection of fewer than
twenty-five books will be considered.

(4) There are no restrictions as to
type of books which may be collected.

( 5 ) It is expected that the winner
will use the award for intellectual en-
richment.

Gym Season Closes
In Finals Tournaments

The tennis tournament, which has
been underway since April, closed
last week when Martha Young defeat-
ed Mary Kneale, in the finals, 6-3, 6-3.

In the campus archery tournament,
Mary Jane King won the cup; Betty
Willis and Sarah Brosnan placed sec-
ond and third, respectively.

In the Inter-Collegiate Telegraphic
tournament, which was held May 12-
19, the total team score was 1570,
bettering last year's score by more
than 600 points. In this tournament
Betty Willis held the highest individ-
ual score of 272; Sarah Cook was sec-
ond and Gene Brown, third.

Elizabeth Perrin won the golf
tournament by defeating Virginia
Wood, last year's winner, by the score
3-2. Virginia Wood, runner-up, was
awarded a silver golf pin; Catherine
Leipold received three golf balls for
winning the consolation round. About
thirty took part in the tournament.

The soccer banner goes to the Yel-
low team, who won both games of
the season. The teams are as follows:

Yellow Mildred Clark, Lily Weeks,
Winifred Kellersberger, Virginia Sut-
tonfield, Ruth Tate, Frances Robinson,
Kennan Henderson, Sara Lawrence,
Florence Little, Marie Stalker, Esther
Soutter, Elizabeth Burson.

Blues Lena Armstrong, Mary
Kneale, Marie Townsend, Jessie Jeffers,
Ann Walker, Martha Crenshaw, Lois
Hart, Mary Johnson, Marion Derrick,
Lib Young, Lettie McKay, Bee Merrill,
Sara Frances Estes.

Those who have passed their senior
Life Saving tests this spring are:

Beth Bowden, Jerry Brown, Mary
Lillian Fairley, Martha Long, Bee Mer-
rill, Anne Thompson.

Those making the riding team are:

Nell White, Jerry Brown, Georg-
Anne Lewis, Lucille Barnette, Lorraine
Smith.

Boggs, Goss Take
AH Aurora Honors

Mt. Holyoke College has recently
announced affiliation with a college
for women in Geneva, Switzerland.
Under the proposed arrangements the
controlling board will consist partly
of Mt. Holyoke and partly of Geneva
faculty members. Because of the ad-
vantageous position of the college in
Geneva in connection with the League
of Nations, emphasis will be placed on
social studies, the languages, and arts.
Mt. Holyoke News.

On Saturday, May 11, Anna Hum-
ber, out-going editor of the Aurora,
announced the winners of this year's
Aurora contest. Lita Goss won the
short story prize of $2.5 0 for her
story, VigH, Mary Boggs was award-
ed both the $5.00 poetry prize for her
Sonnet and the $2.50 essay prize for
The Sonnets of Shakespeare and Edna
St. Vincent Mill ay.

The judges this year were Professor
Glenn Rainey, of Georgia Tech; As-
sociate Professor Emma May Laney, of
Agnes Scott College; and Miss Rae-
mond Wilson, of the University of
North Carolina Press.

The purpose of the contest, which
was held last year for the first time,
is to stimulate an interest in creative
writing on the campus.

ALEXANDER TO BE

HEAD OF MAY DAY

Eloisa Alexander has been elected
chairman of the May Day Committee
for next year. The following make up
the rest of the committee: Business
manager, Jane Blick; scenario commit-
tee, Anne Thompson and Charline
Fleece; costume committee, Sara Nich-
ols, Frances Steele, Kathleen Daniel,
and Sarah Turner; dance committee,
Helen Ford, Kitty Printup, Lucille
Dennison, and Virginia Merry; prop-
erty committee, Fannie B. Harris; pos-
ter committee, Jane Wyatt; publicity
committee, Alice Chamlee.

Exchanges

They used to call them scenarios, but
now they call them obscenarios.

Every man has his price, every co-
ed her figure.

When you can't marry your ideal,
marry someone else's. The Johnsonian.
Many a father finds it cheaper to send
his daughter to college than to let her
get married. The Watchtouer, Wes-
leyan.

A fine of ten dollars, or a six-day jail
sentence is imposed on any co-ed found
wearing a fraternity pin at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota. The Blue Stock-
ing.

The weekly newspaper of Montana
State College has organized a "dating
bureau" to aid lonely stags and wall-
flower co-eds. The Technique.

A revolving stage is being used in a
current production of the University
of Nebraska Temple Theatre Players.
The Technique.

From Campus Comments we see that
a new ruling has been recently passed
at Mary Baldwin College, whereby
"Calldowns" (knocks to you!) are to
be struck down and a new record be-
gun at the end of every quarter instead
of every semester.

A professor of psychology at Boston
University has banished note-taking in
his courses, declaring that note-taking
substitutes the hand for the head and
in the end offers a very poor and in-
complete reproduction of the lecture.
The Twig.

A co-ed at the University of Ten-
nessee operates a "two-bits a date" bu-
reau; which all goes to show what
chances these college students will
take. The Kentucky Kernel.

Some of the alloys of platinum,
palladium, and other precious metals
are stronger than steel, and in certain
uses their special virtues offer a com-
mercial future, it was recently re-
vealed by a research metallurgist.

Young academic France is solid
against war, fervidly national yet sane-
ly international, overwhelmingly for
i the preservation in France of a civili-
i zation which is French and which is
free. This is true not only of academic
youth; it is true of all elements of the
French population in the cities and in
the country.

France is on the verge of great politi-
cal-economic changes. Nobody knows
from day to day what will happen, and
everyone talks of the possibility of civil
war. Preoccupation with the German
danger dominates their minds, and they
are forever mindful that Germany
stands as a heavy avalanche, very close
to them. Literary Digest.

4

The Agonistic

PSEUDO PROPHET HAS

ODD PROPHETIC MOOD

(Continued from Page I, Col. 4.)
directors of a dance school. I see the
bright lights of the world's mighty
metropolis gleam in the crystal, and
I see there reflected the light of Broad-
way itself In their radius I see you,
Hester Anne Withers, and you, Vera
Frances Pruet, and you, Virginia Byers
all of you are winning fame and
fortune following in the footsteps of
Bernhardt, Adams, Cornell. I see with-
in the light, you, Jennie Champion
and Marguerite Morris, demanding ac-
claim for the beauty and grace which
your dancing adds to the Ballet Russe.

The glow of the lights fades, I feel
surrounded by an atmosphere of acad-
emic fervor and scholarly zeal. Re-
sponsible for much of the fervor and
as much of the zeal will be you, Eva
Poliakoff, Isabel Shipley, Marian Cal-
houn, and Katherine Hertzka. Now
Eva will, of course, be pursuing
knowledge of historical fact and date
at the University of Chicago. Isabel,
v. hi will be earnestly endeavoring to
find out at Cornell University wheth-
er or not Bennet is correct in his
version of the ablative absolute. Now,
Marian will be sending augumentative
young women from the portals of
Sophie Newcomb to debate with logic
unit equally augumentative young
women from your old Alma Mater, A.
S. C. Now, Katherine will be search-
ing and researching at the University
of Wisconsin to see if water is H20
after all.

Without the aid of the crystal by
my prophetic art also I can see
vou Dorothea Blackshear, Gladys
Burns, Margaret Goins, Mary Lib
Squires, Elizabeth Thrasher, and Amy
Underwood that you will cast your
lot with that 65 per cent or there-
abouts, of Agnes Scott Alumnae who
make the American home what it
is or in less peiled language, you will
"get your man."

Still relying upon my prophetic pow-
er I may disclose to you, Mildred and
Mary Thompson, that you will be ap-
pearing at the best theatres through-
out the country in your vaudeville act
featuring special dancing and singing.
to you, Mary Hutchinson, I must
reveal that I can see you in jolly old
England, happily married to a real
English lord tweeds, monicle and all.

Back across the Atlantic by a twist
of my magic a second twist, and I'm
across the continent on the Pacific
coast in the glamorous, glittering Hol-
lywood. Amid the glamor and glitter,
I can see you, Betty Lou Houck
first lady of the silver screen. The
whole world's turning out to see you
sometimes. Nina Parke and Alice
Dunbar, you, from your exclusive shop
in Hollywood, will be directing the
mode and manner of dress of the fem-
inine sex, everywhere.

Trellis Carmichael, you and your old
roommate, Jane Cassels, will be the
proprietors of the popular and world-
known Lavender Bonnet successor to
the famous Brown Derby of present
r rtown. Assisting in this thriving en-
terprise will be you, Carolyn Cole and
Anno Scott Harmon, you will be re-
sponsible for the appeal of the food
shows and the delectableness of the
menus. Mary Logan, you, too, I can
rcc in Hollywood and you, Margaret
Robins, both are writing movie scena-
r'os for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer. Susan
Tumcr, Sara Davis, and Virginia Wood s
a' I three of vou will be recognized as
leading directors ot motion picture
productions.

A bit dazed by- the glamour and
glitter of Hollywood, 1 search the
depths of my crystal for a quieter and
more peaceful picture I can see a
still, small Trench village. Living there
in its simplicity I can see you, Mary
Virginia Allen, Margaret Stokey, and
Jule McClatchey, where you arc pur-
suing eagerly further knowledge of
French language and custom. But an
blStant, and Paris replaces this small I
town. In Paris 1 find you, Marie
Adams, Jo Jennings, Eva Constantine, |
and I aura W'hitner. All of you are
w i rid known for \our contributions
to Style and fashion. Also, in Paris 1
See vou, Su/anne Smith. You are Paris
, r espondent for the Chicago Tribune.

Confused by the French idiom I am

comes visible and there I see you, Mar-
tha Allen, happily married and still
icving mathematics. Dorothy Bell, you
are assisting in the English department
and you, Willie Florence Eubanks, in
the Latin department.

The whole of Georgia can be seen I
and scattered over the entire state are
various branches of welfare work.
Prominent in the development of the
program will be you, Mary Adams,
Grace Robinson, Marie Simpson, and
Nell Tarpley. Doing similar work in
your own state I see you, Martha Ann |
Rodgers.

Discarding my crystal, and sum-
moning all my prophetic art and
magic power, I can see you, Mary
Green, that you will be one of the
assistants in the Congressional Library,
Washington, D. C. Washington, I can
' tell you, will also serve as the center
of your activities Mary Jane Evans
and Clara Morrison There you will
add to the honors being won bv your
I sex in the legal profession. Now, Har-
riet Dimmock and Elizabeth Heaton,
will be traveling hither and yon over
Europe trying to get a bit more of the
inside story of European history. Alice
Burke, Helen Derrick, Martha Red-
wine, and Juliette Puett, you will be
the eager and enthusiastic leaders of
the A. A. A. Association for the Ad-
vancement of Anglo. Now, Jacqueline
Woolfolk, Elizabeth Mannnig, and Ca-
rol Griffin will be doing notable re-
search in Biology.

But back again to my crystal I
oeer into its depths a great ocean
liner is taking shape, becomes visible,
and on deck I see you, Marjorie Car-
michael and Clara McConnell. It would
^eem that your conducted tours for
college co-eds have become rather fa-
mous. On the same boat are you, Peg
Waterman and Mary Summers, both
are married you to an economics pro-
iessor, Peg, and you to a mathematics
teacher, Mary. May the seas of matri-
mony always be calm and untroubled
by storm and gale for the two of you.
(These sentimental touches add even
to a prophecy.)

My crystal tells me that your fu-
ture holds for you great success, Sa-
rah Cook, as a second Walter Winchell.
As for you, Betty Fountain and Anna
Humber, you will leave scholarly pur-
suits for industrial endeavor. Now you
will be co-managers of a large vintage
factory in France.

Caroline Long and Nokie Spencer,
you will both become doctors, special-
izing in surgery I think. Ah, the
scene in my crystal is vaguely famil-
iar Of course, it's Agnes Scott with
c ome of the "greater" added. I see
vou, Frances McCalla and Nell Pattil-
'o and Virginia Nelson as members of
the faculty of the "Greater Agnes
Scott" GOD BLESS HER! Lulu, do
not include this merely my own com-
ment to you.

Well, I have looked into the future
ind I have seen each of you there. So
:t comes the time to cover my crystal.

. . wait a minute, the old ball isn't
blank. I see a couple of figures run-
ning into line of visibility. Why, I
recognize you Fidcsah and Mary Lil-
lian even a bit late appearing in my
crystal I sec the two of you leading
an exploring party through Mexico
I'm sorry I can't tell you what or why
you're exploring, but my power is fast
ebbing. The best of luck to you, any-
way.

I am powerless. My art, my magic,
my crystal they're all gone. So by
your leave, I renounce my power of
prophet, fortune teller, and crystal
gazer. My services are no longer avail-
able Another failure I make my
farewells.

3ri mniumj
of

iflanj lumiflp iCatimrr
(CUieui of 1335

DR. JACK COUNSELS A.S.C.

'35 GRADUATES TO PIONEER
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
generation is better prepared to cope
with problems than ours was, we con-
:inue to address you as you set out
:o counsel you, to admonish you, to en-
courage you, and to bid you God
speed, in the high hopes of a more suc-
cessful experience on your journey.

1 am calling this collection of words
that I am addressing, quite humblv,
to you today, FRONTIERS, PION-
EERSAND A LAST WORD. And
since there are three items in this sub-
ject, I call to mind the occasion when
a learned bishop, invited to dedicate
a newly built church, dedicated almost
without end; it seemed to some who
listened that already they were seeing
signs of physical deterioration in the
appearance of what had been at the
beginning of the sermon a new struc-
ture; the very building seemed to sigh,
along with its occupants, over the
memories of a long experience; when
finally it was finished, another learned
bishop, responsible for the invitation,
with a tartness for which he is fa-
mous, remarked that he well knew the
right reverend brother had three ser-
mons, but he never expected him to
use all three on one occasion. Now, I
haven't three sermons today; rather,
at this moment, I am wondering if I
have even one. I am genuinely sympa-
thetic with the young fellow from an
obscure western college, teaching for
the first time one summer in the Uni-
versity of Chicago. He met up with
a self-satisfied scholar from the erud-
ire East, who was complaining that he
could not deliver in the twelve short
weeks of the summer quarter the tre-
mendous message he had for his stu-
dents. "That's all very well for you,"
said the Westerner, "but what troubles
me is how I am going to make what
I have to say last all of that time."

I haven't, as I have said, three ser-
mons, but I do have two somewhat
dissimilar things to say to you and
I promise to say them both quite
briefly one concerned with your re-
lationship with society, and the other
with your relationship with yourself.

From time immemorial the things
and the ideas that lie just beyond our
vision or our grasp have always ex-
erted a tremendous and overwhelm-
ing power on the spirits and the dreams
of men and women of imagination and
daring. This lure of the unknown, this
eagerness to know, to see, to feel, to
master has always been the moving
cause, the constant urge, the propell-
ing force of great discoveries, of wider
conquests, of the gradual reaching out
of men's minds and hearts and spirits
into the vastnesses of the unknown
and the unexperienced the categori-
cal imperative driving men forward,

Compliments of
A FRIEND

slowly, ardously, yet ceaselessly, to
notable achievement and to the wid-
ening of man's physical, moral, eco-
nomic, political, spiritual, and social
horizons.

This spirit is not one of ease and
contentment, of satisfaction and of ser-
vile acceptance of the existing condi-
tions. It does not appeal to the weak or
to the timid; it has no lure for the un-
imaginative or static mind; always it
calls for courage and vision, almost for
recklessness and daring. The fron-
tiers of human experience call Impera-
tively for vision and daring, for
strength and courage, for hope, for
aspiration, for deathless faith, possibly
for self-immolation.

This is the great challenge of the
frontier, whatever, wherever, when-
ever it may be. And to it the truly
great in human history have ever
responded. But one cannot think of a
frontier without thinking as well of
the pioneer. Christopher Columbus,
cabinned in the narrow Mediterranean,
dreaming of an unknown world be-
yond the trackless seas, by his daring
and his faith, trebled the area of the
known physical world. St. Augustine,
the mystic, meditating on the unex-
plained world of religious experience
changed the whole trend and tenor of
Christian thought, and Wesley, preach-
ing a doctrine of an inner light,
changed the whole face of English
thought. Copernicus, disregarding the
accepted notion of celestial arrange-
ment; Madame Curie, prying into un-
known properties of matter; Edison,
tirelessly experimenting with the un-
explained forces of electricity; Com-
modore Maury, with his studies of
ocean movements, revolutionizing the
science of navigation all moving
slowly, tediously, painstakingly, un-
daunted by temporary failure and dis-
appointment, through the myriad
mazes of undiscovered natural laws and
forces. And there were such pioneers,
in another field, as Justinian, Locke,
Rousseau, Jefferson, reaching out into
untraveled paths of political control;
and the humanistic scholars, pains-
takingly piecing together the frag-
mentary bits of learning, to form a
better and a newer pattern of ideals
and ideas. These great pioneers of hu-
man genius explorers, theologians,
scientists, statesmen, humanists, reach-
ing out into unknown areas, broaden-
ing and deepening the mind and the
spirit of man, opening new vistas,
challenging constantly the unknown.

And so today, young people just en-
tering on a broader world beyond the
college walls may, almost uncon-
sciously, feel a certain hopelessness of
spirit born of an idea that the frontier
of human experience is gone and that
the days of pioneering are over; that

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that there are now no new fields to
pioneer perhaps even that we have
reached the limits of our horizon. In
the field of invention, for example,
what is there to do, now that we have
our telephones, our electric lights, our
radios, our airplanes, our submarines,
cur electric refrigerators, wire photog-
raphy, and all that, with television just
around the corner? And yet is it not
a sufficient answer to say that your
great grandparents had none of these
comforts, conpeniences, and irritants
most of their generation could not con-
ceive of such veritable miracles? In
the face of such an idea as this, one
cannot but think of an Alexander of
Macedon, master of an infinitesimally
small portion, just a city block, so to
speak, of the world's territorial area,
going desolately to his last sleep, sigh-
ing for more worlds to conquer; or
a Harvard group of savants seriously
questioning the validity of Harvey's
theory of the circulation of the blood;
or a Daniel Webster, inveighing against
the new railroad trains, because, as he
said, any instrument of locomotion de-
signed to travel with such blinding
speed as eight miles an hour contra-
vened the will of God!

And again it is said that the pio-
neering spirit is dead, along with the
removal of frontiers as a challenge to
the daring. If the frontiers of human
achievement are gone, perhaps the
pioneers are gone as well. But not so
not if human history has any meaning.
7 heard a surly cynic sa)
rr T/.w eagles all are dying,
The kings that ruled the mountain

tops are vanishing away*"

But from a thousand lofty peaks
The echo comes , replying
rr Thc eagles of tomorrow are the
nestlings of today."
The world you face today is nothing
more than a vast frontier in the scope
of man's imagination, almost un-
touched, full of opportunity for the
pioneer, open to development to those
whose minds and hearts reach out to
progress. Much as man has done in
his short span on this earth, I believe
only the surface of achievements has
yet been touched.

And now, of course, as all things
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Society Notes

The guests of Frances Espy attend-
ing the commencement exercises are
her mother, Mrs. T. H. Espy, her
brothers, Collier and Robert Espy, and
her aunt, Mrs. C. H. Ellison, of Do-
than, Ala., and her brother, William
Espy, from the University of Alabama.
Carolyn McCallum is driving back to
Dothan with them following the ex-
ercises.

Visiting Martha Allen are her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Allen, of
Monroe, Ga., her brother, Robert Al-
len, and numerous friends.

Mrs. J. B. Derrick and Harriet Der-
rick, of Augusta, Ga., are here for the
graduation of Helen Derrick.

Among those attending the gradua-
tion exercises as guests of Isabel Ship-
ley are her mother, Mrs. F. A. Shipley,
of Greensboro, Ga., Mrs. J. D. Durden,
of Monroe, Ga., Mrs. J. G. Faust, and
Mrs. William Gillen, of Lexington.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Poliakoff, of Ander-
son, S. C, are here for Eva's gradu-
ation.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rodgers are
the guests of their daughter, Martha
Ann. Mrs. H. F. Long, Robert and
Marianna Long are here for Caroline's
graduation.

Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Morris are vis-
iting their daughter, Marguerite, at
graduation.

Miss Nina Parke will drive back to
Philadelphia with her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Wm. E. Parke, following the
graduation exercises.

Attending the graduation of Jac-
queline Woolfolk are her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Woolfolk, and her sis-
ters, Nina and Lib, of Fort Valley, Ga.

Rev. and Mrs. W. R. McCalla, of
Little Rock, Ark., are here for Frenk's
graduation.

Mrs. H. B. Jennings, of Milledge-
ville, with numerous relatives and
friends, are here as the guests of Jo
Jennings.

Mary Boggs' father is here for com-
mencement.

Alumnae Births

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fleming, Jr.,
announce the birth of a son on May
21, 1935. The boy has been named
William Torrance Fleming. Mrs.
Fleming, Mary Frances Torrance, Ag-
nes Scott '3 3, is the niece of Professor
Catherine Torrance, of the Greek de-
partment of Agnes Scott.

Polly (Stone) Buck, Agnes Scott
'24, announces the birth of a daughter,
Caroline, on May 18. The girl was
named for Miss Carrie Scandrett, '24,
assistant dean. Mrs. Buck was for-
merly alumnae secretary.

HUTTON ANNOUNCES

MANY ENGAGEMENTS

{Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
wick Hamilton Stubbs, of Savannah,
on June 12.

Agnes Skelton, '3 3, to Howard Har-
ris, in June.

Laura Buist, '34, to Vernon Bouk-
night, the wedding to be in June.

Elinor Hamilton, '34, to William
Harrison Hightower, Jr., the marriage
to be the latter part of June.

Marian Calhoun, '3 5, to John Girar-
deau Murray, of Edisto Island, S. C,
the wedding to be on July 22.

Margaret Goins, '3 5, to Edward
Christopher Wagner, the wedding to
be today.

Amy Underwood, '3 5, to William
Wallace Trowell, the marriage to be
in August.

The student under the recitation sys-
tem, it is assumed, spends two hours in
preparation for a lesson and then re-
cites about an hour in class. An in-
vestigation has shown that about ten
per cent of the students study two
hours, while the intervening eighty per
cent, do not study at all, or at the most
twenty or thirty minutes in preparation
for class. The recitation puts a premium
on shirking. The Blue Stocking.

In order to further the interest in
science among the students at Hamp-
den-Sydney (Va.), according to the
Tiger, the local chapter of Chi Beta
Phi has offered a reward for the best
paper on any scientific subjects. Mem-
bers of Chi Beta Phi are ineligible for
entrance.

We found out that Shirley Temple's
accident policy is invalid if she is in-
jured (1) while bearing arms in de-
fense of her country, (2) if she meets
death or accident while intoxicated.
Feature Bright-Eyes hurling a hand
grenade at the enemy, or better yet,
falling off of Jimmy Dunn's lap and
breaking her neck in a drunken gin
stupor! Kin- turn Phi.

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

COMMENCEMENT AWARDS

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 3)
Graduation with High Honor 4-
year record:

Martha Allen, Monroe, Ga.

Mary Boggs, Birmingham, Ala.

Willie Florence Eubanks, Decatur,
Ga.

Betty Fountain, Nashville, Tenn.
Katherine Hertzka, Atlanta, Ga.
Anna Humber, Clarksdale, Miss.
Eva Poliakoff, Abbeville, S. C.
Juliette Puett, Cumming, Ga.
Isabel Shipley, Greensboro, Ga.
Graduation with Honor 4-year
record :

Dorothy Bell, Decatur, Ga.
Alice Burke, Atlanta, Ga.
Rosalyn Crispin, Gulfport, Miss.
Frances McCalla, Little Rock, Ark.
Clara Morrison, Atlanta, Ga.
Nell Pattillo, Decatur, Ga.
Margaret Robins, Asheboro, N. C.
Amy Underwood, Colquitt, Ga.
Senior Honors Based on record of
1934-1935 only:

Martha Allen, Monroe, Ga.
Mary Boggs, Birmingham, Ala.

Willie Florence Eubanks, Decatur,
Ga.

Betty Fountain, Nashville, Tenn.
Katherine Hertzka, Atlanta, Ga.
Anna Humber, Clarksdale, Miss.
Nell Pattillo, Decatur, Ga.
Eva Poliakoff, Abbeville, S. C.
Juliette Puett, Cumming, Ga.
Margaret Robins, Asheboro, N. C.
Isabel Shipley, Greensboro, Ga.

The dancers at Michigan State have
an easy life, because they don't have
to worry about "the morning after,"
for class cuts are allowed until noon
the day after. Also, in order that those
who so desire may get in good condi-
tion, cuts are given after three o'clock
the day of a formal dance.

FOUR YEARS OF '35
ARE REVEALED

By Anna Humber

Some people are born lucky, and
some are not. Some people get all the
breaks and others none. Some seem to
be born into a perfect set-up of time
and situation, and sweep grandly thru
life without an obstacle. We weren't.
We, the class of 1935, have hit all the
red lights. So difficult has been our
way, so beset with trial and misery, we
call ourselves the red-headed step child
class.

It all started because we made a
mistake in our time of coming. 1931-
3 5 was no time to pick for a college
career. There's been no money. We
came up just in time to share the col-
lege and the family economics. We
even lived thereon the homely mora-
toriums, with the help of Mr. Tart and
Lawrence's credit department. And
now, most cruel thrust of all, we are
leaving school just in time not to get
a grammar job.

And it was an on-between time as
far as the college was concerned too.
We entered just too late to dedicate
But trick; we leave just too soon to
reap the benefits of our campaign a
new library, a new science hall, a stu-
dent art building. We didn't get to
have a class at Emory; unless we come
back some years later to take our Ph.D.
degreeh ere, we'll not profit by the
proposed cooperation plan with Emory
and Tech there's been no surplus of
young men on the campus during our
regime. We didn't get to try out the
quarter system; we are even, poor class,
missing the benefits of comprehensive
examinations.

We must have started off wrong as
freshmen and, to be sure who
wouldn't, being set down, immediately,
a stranger in a strange land, to write a
theme weekly on such subjects as Why
to come to College and First Impres-
sions of Tumbiictoo or My Pet Poodle;
and being required to budget one's
days and live within the budget. It
was disheartening, to say the least;
and before we were through the emo-
tions of loneliness and bewilderment,
we run thru (?) bodily into plain ter-
ror and despair, which came to us, sur-
prisingly enough surprising to us,
anyway at vespers, whither we went
one night innocently enough. All
went well, too, till the lights went out.
Then came an every rattling of chains
and black figures stalking down the
aisle chanting: Freshmen, the Sopho-
mores are after you today!" The fun
had started: it lasted thru the next day
There's little more disconcerting to a
freshman's poise than being ordered
blossom like a lillie to scramble like
eggs, or to sit on the edge of infinity
and dangle one's feet over; though at
that it's better than a belt line. Or a
peanut race. The peanuts being moti-
vated down the hall by one's nose. And
there was our exasperating motto with
which we had to greet the sopho-
mores. This lousy loose-legged evon
legally lauds thee. Selah. We insist
that witn the typical luck of step
children we were the last to suffer the
full stringency of ratting; the next
year we were allowed to take our re-
venge, but with reservations it was
strange revenge. And then ratting
was discontinued; banned for ever

Clubs

Poetry Club
The new officers of the Poetry Club
are: President, Ann Martin; and sec-
retary-treasurer, Kitty Printup.

Bible Club
At a call meeting, the Bible Club
elected new officers for the coming
year. Catherine Bates will be presi-
dent; Irene Wilson, vice-president;
Frances Cary, secretary; and Frances
Steele, treasurer.

Blackfriars
The new officers of Blackfriars are:
President, Virginia Turner; vice-pres-
ident, Kitty Printup; secretary, Dixie
Woodford; treasurer, Elizabeth Cou-
sins; property manager, Winifred Kel-
lersberger; publicity manager, Kathryn
Bowen; and costume manager, Fran-
ces Steele.

Grandaughters Club
At their meeting on May 7, the
Granddaughters Club elected their new
officers. Mary Hull will be president;
Barton Jackson, vice-president; and
Kathleen Daniel, secretary.

Y. W. C. A.
Betty Hollis has been elected secre-
tary of Y. W. C. A. to replace Barbara
Hertwig, who will not be back next
year.

The Y.W.C.A. Cabinet held its an-
nual Spring Retreat, May 5, at the
Stone Mountain Camp. Many helpful
changes for next year were discussed

and plans were laid for the new fresh-
men.

Glee Club
The Glee Club held their last meet-
ing of the year on Monday, May 13,
and elected new officers for the com-
ing year. Rosa Miller will be presi-
dent; Jane Clarke, vice-president;
Florence Lasseter, secretary-treasurer;
and Alice Chamlee, publicity manager.

German Club
The new officers for the German
Club are: President, Ethelyn Johnson;
vice president, Mary Kneale; secretary-
treasurer, Jean Austin.

Day Student Officers
The new Day Student officers are:
President and student government rep-
resentative, Mary Snow; vice-presi-
dent, Nellie Magaret Gilroy; secretary-
treasurer, Jane Turner.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club held its last meet-
ing Tuesday afternoon, May 7, at four
o'clock. Miss Louise Lewis gave an
illustrated lecture on Spanish Art, and
Miss Muriel Harn and Miss Melissa
Cilley entertained afterwards at tea.
The new officers elected at this meet-
ing were: Lois Hart, president; Louise
Brown, vice-president; Hibernia Has-
sell, secretary-treasurer; Emily Rowe,
chairman of the social committee;
Mary Comely, chairman of the music
committee; and Alice Taylor, chair-
man of the publicity committee.

from these halls. We may have missed
the Metropolitan Opera Co., but we
received our full share of ratting and
starvation dinners. Little that we
have tried to do has prospered. In the
competetive addition of the Agonistic
each year, our record has been lamen-
table. We started out ambitiously
enough with our issue, the Scottentot,
which we considered pure inspiration
in the way of a name. It was probably
the most freshmen freshmen newspa-
per ever published by any Hottentot.
Each year since we have struggled
faithfully and have believed implicitly
in the excellence of our issue till the
judges reports have come in. However,
in this our final year, our achievement
has risen to a climax: we won third
place in the Agonistic contest.

And our record in the field of Ath- '
letics is, to put it mildly, regrettable,
though we started out there also with
vim and viguour; the Atheletic editor
reported with awe one of the first
hockey games of our first season here:
the freshmen had put up a team of
11 members with 19 substitutes. It
never happened again, somehow. I am
inclined to think that people did not
know exactly how to deal psychologi-
cally. They discouraged or thwarted us.
We started everything so bravely or
something, but we never carried
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Withers Wins Cup
At "Choephoroe"

Hester Anne Withers was awarded
the silver loving cup at the close of the
Blackfriars performance, Choephore or
The Libation-Bearers by Aeschylus last
night, for the best individual acting of
the year. The cup is given each year
by Mr. Claude S. Bennett, jeweler. The
judges this year were Mrs. J. C. Mas-
see, Mrs. Edgar Neely, and Mrs. H. S.
Alden. The performance last night was
directed by Miss Frances K. Gooch,
head of the spoken English depart-
ment; it is the first time in the history
of Agnes Scott that a Greek play has
been presented.

Members of the cast included: Ores-
tes, son of Agamemnon and Clytem-
nestra, Jimmie Jepson; Pylades, son of
Strophios, king of Phokis, Tom Wes-
ley; leader of the chorus, Polly
Vaughan; Electra, daughter of Aga-
memnon and Clytemnestra, Vera
Frances Pruet; porter of Agamem-
non's palace, Luther Carroll; Clytem-
nestra, former wife of Agamemnon,
now wedded to Aigisthos, Marian Cal-
houn; the old nurse of Orestes, Dor-
othy Bell; Aigisthos, son of Thyestes,
blood foe of Agamemnon, now tyrant
of Argos, Walter Paschall.

(Continued on Page 8, Col. 5)

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graduate of Agnes
Scott.

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SENIORS ENTERTAIN

MAJOR PROFESORS

(Continued from page 3, column 1)
German majors, took Professor Muriel
Harn to dinner and a picture show
on May 23.

The French majors entertained Pro-
fessor Lucile Alexander, Associate Pro-
fessor Louise Hale, Assistant Profes-
sor Margaret Phythian, Miss Thelma
Richmond at breakfast on May 12 in
the Alumnae Tea House. Those giving
the party were Mary Virginia Allen,
Vella Marie Behm, Dorothy Bell, Mary
Boggs, Trellis Carmichael, Betty Foun-
tain, Anna Humber, Jule McClatchey,
Clara Morrison, Nell Pattillo, Grace
Robinson, and Margaret Stokey.

Professor and Mrs. Robert B. Holt,
Associate Professor Philippa Gilchrist,
and Mrs. Roy W. Davis were enter-
tained at a luncheon in the Alumnae
Tea House on May 2 3 by the chemis-
try majors. The chemistry majors are:
Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Lillian Dea-
son, Katherine Hertzka, Virginia Nel-
son, Nell Tarpley, and Laura Whitner.

The mathematics majors, Elizabeth
Alexander, Martha Allen, Sara Davis,
Frances McCalla, Virginia Nelson, and
Susan Turner, and two minors, Grace
Robinson and Helen Derrick, enter-
tained Professor and Mrs. Henry Rob-
inson and Associate Professor Leslie
Gaylord at breakfast on May 23 in
the Alumnae Tea House.

The twenty-two history majors en-
tertained Professor and Mrs. Philip G.
Davidson, Associate Professor Eliza-
beth F. Jackson, and Assistant Profes-
sor Florence E. Smith at dinner on
May 23 at the Tavern.

Jane Cassels, Elizabeth Thrasher,
Alsine Shutze, Mae Duls, Caroline
Dickson, and Mary and Mildred
Thompson entertained Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Guerry Stukes, Associate Pro-
fessor Emily Dexter, and Assistant
Professor Katherine T. Omwake at
dinner at the Candler Hotel on May
23.

The zoology and Latin majors are
giving gifts to the heads of the two
departments.

Members of the Lecture Association
had a banquet on May 7 at the Alum-
nae Tea House. Those present were:
Associate Professor Emma May Laney,
Associate Professor Louise Hale, Mr.
Guerry Stukes, Professor Philip G.
Davidson, Professor Schulyer Chris-
tian, Frances Espy, Mary Virginia Al-
len, Vera Frances Pruet, Nell White,
Sarah Spencer, Suzanne Smith, Jane
Thomas, and Mary Jane Tigert. After
dinner, plans fro next year were dis-
cussed and officers were elected.

Miss Emma Wesley invited the
members of the practice teaching class
to a tea on May 18 at her farm. The
members of the class are: Alice Burke,
Virginia Byers, Sarah Cook, Sara Davis,
Willie Florence Eubanks, Elizabeth
Heaton, Eva Poliakoff, Elizabeth
Thrasher, Margaret Waterman, a n d
Elizabeth Young.

REVEREND ALSTON SPEAKS ON
"CHRIST AND PRESENT MOOD"

(Continued from page 2, column 5)
not His method to flee to some her-
mit's cave. He was unwilling to with-
draw into some dim cloister, there to
content Himeslf with pious exercises.
Neither did Jesus overcome the world
by exploiting it. How different from
Napoleon who tried to bend the na-
tions to his wll that his thirst for
power might be satiefied. Jesus over-
came our world by releasing a new
power for living. Jesus knew that by
His life, His teachings, His death, and
His resurrection, He was giving to
the world permanent values which
would eventually bring victory to His
cause. He could make the claim that
since these values were established at
the heart of the universe, that conse-
quently resources are available by the
use of which His followers can make
the same conquest which He had
achieved in His own soul. One who
companied with Him in the days of
His flesh saw this clearly and recorded
what he saw: "Whatsoever is begot-
ten of God overcometh the world; and
this is the victory that hath overcome
the world, even our faith. And who
is he that overcometh the world, but
he that believeth that Jesus is the Son
of God." (2 John 5:4,5).

In his recent book, Realistic Theol-
ogy, Walter Marshall Horton, of Ober-
lin College, discusses the contribution
of Christ. In that book are found
these sentences: "He did nothing to
clarify men's thinking about their cos-
mic environment, nothing to overcome
the niggardliness of nature, nothing to
solve the vexing problems of state-
craft and economic organization.
Aristotle, Galileo, and Karl Marx have
done more for the deliverance of man-
kind along certain lines than he. But
he did something more centrally im-
portant for human deliverance than
any philosopher, scientist, or social re-
former can possibly do: he broke the
power of sin, suffering, and death to
corrupt and cow men's souls; and he
let loose into the world a great torrent
of divine life, love, and power, which
is bound in the end to sweep all ob-
stacles away before its onrush

This power simply was not released
before."

Recall the rugged confession of
George Bernard Shaw: "I am ready to
admit that after contemplating the
world and human nature for nearly
sixty years, I see no way out of the
world's misery but the way which
would have been found by Christ's
will if he had undertaken the work of

a modern practical statesman

Though we crucified Christ on a stick,
he somehow managed to get hold of
the right end of it, and .... if we
were better men we might try his
plan."

The only way in which Jesus Christ
can come to grips with the present
mood is through men and women.
This mood about which we have been
speaking is in truth the accumulation
of our individual attitudes. He can
deal with it if He is allowed to deal
with us, Jesus matches our fear with
a faith in God which not only enables
a man to stand anything that can hap-

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leads him to life's frontiers for an at-
tack upon evil. Jesus brings to our
confusion a single recommendation
"the Way." He dissipates our disillu-
sionment with a new enthusiasm. He
lifts to our sense of futility a per-
spective which keeps us sane in the
face of disappointment. For our spir-
itual anemia Jesus offers what the late
Baron Von Hugel called "an overflow-
ing interior plenitude." He challenges
our restlessness with a revolutionary
leadership which counts no cost and
tolerates no compromise with wrong,
however deeply entrenched. Yes, Jesus
Christ is more than adequate to deal
with these times and with us.

What will you say to these things?
Will you graduate from this institu-
tion declaring your faith with Bert-
rand Russell that all man's achieve-
ments will finally be ruined by the
"trampling march of unconscious
power?" Will your faith be that of
our high-minded non-theistic contem-
porary, Walter Lippman, that life
ought to be regarded by a wise man
as "comedy, or high tragedy, or plain
farce?" Or do you dare accept the
spiritual leadership of Jesus Christ? I
commend to you of this graduating
class the measured words of Auguste
Saba tier in his Ou tlines of a Philos-
oploy of Religion: "If, wearied by the
world of pleasure or of toil, I wish to
find my soul again and live a deeper
life, I can accept no other guide and
master than Jesus Christ, because, in
Him alone, optimism is without fri-
volity, and seriousness without de-
spair."

Dr. McCain Reviews
Campaign History
Of Agnes Scott

By Dr. J. R. McCain
In 1926 Agnes Scott was giyen a
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and this
indicated that it had achieyed the best
possible educational rating; but it was
at the very bottom of the Phi Beta
Kappa colleges for women so far as en-
dowment, plant and equipment were
concerned. It was deemed essential
that steps be taken to improve the
physical appearance of the campus and
to strengthen its income-producing
funds.

After careful plans had been made,
the General Education Board of New
York was invited to participate in our
developments. This Board had an-
nounced its withdrawal from the gen-
eral college field, and it was no small
task to convince them that Agnes
Scott is an exceptional institution.
Early in 1929 President Arnett and
other representatives of the Board vis-
ited the College, and very readily
agreed to give us $5 00,000 if other
friends would raise an additional $1,-
000,000. They took this action "in
recognition of its excellent work,
standing, and influence." The total
fund was to be used one-third for en-
dowment and two-thirds for buildings,
land, and improvements.

The story of the progress of this
campaign is known to most Agnes
Scott friends. By July 1, 1931, the

full subscriptions were in hand, and
the General Education Board sent us
a check for more than $2 5 8,000 at one
time as a pro rata payment on what
we had then collected. It has been
difficult to get money during the
years 195 1- 195 5; but more than 8,000
good friends have stood faithfully by
us, and we have now gotten all but
$9 8,000 of what we must secure to col-
lect in full from the General Education
Board.

In the mean time the Board has real-
ized the fine support which our friends
are giving us and the difficulties of the
times, and they have made a very un-
usual offer of an extra 5100,000 as
a bonus if we collect in full our money
by July 1, 193 5. This will make a
total fund of $1,600,000 if we can get
all of it.

It is perhaps the very best offer
made to any American College, and
we are eager to take full advantage
of it. The time is very short. It w ill
take the best efforts of every Agnes
Scott friend to win. We have confi-
dence to believe that it can be done,
but it will take many small gifts and
some large ones for complete success.

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The Agonistic

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SENIORS LEAVE VAST

HERITAGE TO A. S. C.

{Continued from page 1, column 2)
she may hash or confetti, at her
leisure.

I, Elizabeth Alexander, bestow upon
Elizabeth Forman my largest bottle
of Fitch's Hair Restorer, and Kolor-
Kum-Bak, along with a goodly por-
tion of Eloquent Tissue Kreme, with
my tenderest sympathies and best
wishes, and the hope of alleviating the
ravages of time and tide, accumulated
in the process of attempting to man-
age a Senior Class.

I, Martha Allen, leave my inordi-
nate accumulation of Mathematics
problems, page numbers, Latin verbs,
Horation Odes, and Homeric similes,
in which I have never found more
than momentary utility, to anyone
with the necessary storage space.

We, Leonora Spencer, and Susan
Turner, leave our profoundest secret,
one whose possession we have long
cherished a detailed map showing the
usual route of our Decatur-ward wan-
derings during chapel to Lulu Ames
and Marie Wagner, with the inade-
quate desire that in some dark age yet
to come, the map may be so revised
that the path will lead directly across
the quadrangle to the proposed Student
Activities Building.

I, Mary Jane Evans, leave my domes-
tic duties as mater familias of the
Freshman zoological establishment,
along with my general propensity for
exuding sweetness and light to Dean
McKoin (and faith she will need
them) .

I, Mary Boggs, leave twenty-five
(25) per cent of my intelligence to
be distributed equally among the in-
coming Freshmen, so that each may at
least pass all her work without too
great difficulty. The rest I take with
me to that place whither I go so that
I may as adequately as possible to
the limit of my humble abilities, rep-
resent to the world at large Agnes
Scott, my beloved Alma Mater.

I, Harriet Dimmock, with right
free will and foul purpose, confer upon
Tibby Baethke the position of bar-
tender of the newspaper racks, from
which position I have so long imbibed
at the fountain of wisdom the bitter
tonic of knowledge.

I, Fidesah Margaret Edwards, leave
that fundamental basic quality, so
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search intellectual curiosity along
with another privilege of genius my
slight anarchistic tendencies toward
ignoring all law, order, and custom
these things dear to my heart I be-
queath in part to Kitty Hoffman, tak-
ing my chances of hoodwinking St.
Peter on the rest.

I, Eva Poliakoff, leave one slightly
worn umbrella, and one raincoat bear-
ing a strong resemblance to shredded
wheat, both being symbols of my
bedraggled life among the torturous
and deviating courses of grammar
school intellect during the past semes-
ter, to Floyd Butler.

I, Mary Logan, leave my general at-
mosphere of sublime oblivion and far-
away expression as of moonlight and
other contributing accessories on the
south sea islands and elsewhere to Bar-
bara Hertwig.

I, Carolyn McCallum, leave to Mary
Richardson one dozen lemons, and my
slight remaining knowledge of nine-
teenth (19) century poetry that sur-
vived the exam., so that she may be
able now to quote the aforementioned
poets in toto verbatim.

I, Margaret Robins, leave my general
air of at-seaness in the universe to a
kindred spirit Ann Martin.

I, Elizabeth Heaton, upon strong
suggestion of Miss Hopkins, substan-
tiated by a formal request of the fac-
ulty do hereby bequeath to my beloved
roommate three alarm clocks, four
bass horns, and the tender voice of
Ellen Davis at midnight and the
witching hour of dawn, upon the con-
dition that she may miss not more
than three-fourths of her classes of
first semester by sleeping through them
in her room.

This in trust, was signed, sealed, and
published by the class of 193 5, this the
27th day of May, 193 5.

Rosalyn Crispin, Testator.
Witnesses:

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Washington. Specific appropriations
proposed for the Army and Navy ap-
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Reason for this activity, as declared
by Secretary of War Dern, is that the
present Army has been reduced "be-
low the point of safety. " General
Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff said,
"You are in a continual position of
potential danger, if you do not raise
the regular army to 165,000 men."

THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
of

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
Extends a cordial invitation to alumnae membership to
The Class of 1935

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'35 GRADUATES TO PIONEER

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do on such a day as this, the whole
matter centers on you. You who to-
day in this place and in hundreds of
similar places are receiving the im-
primatur of academic accomplishment,
you who stand today facing forward,
you are truly living and will live, if
you are of the stuff I think you are,
on the frontier of achievement, and you
are, in very truth, pioneers of a new
day. Perhaps this is an unwelcome
thought; perhaps you would be content
with the world as it is; perhaps you are
inclined to feel as that timid soul of
Shakespeare's creation, "The world is
out of joint. Ah, wretched spite, that
ever I was born to set it right." But I
am unwilling to believe that of the
strong, well-trained, forward-looking
young college men and women of to-
day. Rather I choose to think that you
would say with Rupert Brooke, that
brave young soul, facing far worse
conditions than any you face today:
"Then God be thanked, Who has
joined me to His Hour, with hand
made strong, clear-eyed, etc."

You were, in a very real sense, of
pioneer spirit when you chose to reach
out beyond the aims and ideals of most
of those with whom you had been as-
sociated and to enter this college, four
years ago; that was your frontier then
and you were pioneering or at least
you were preparing to pioneer. It is
beside the mark smugly to say that
colleges are old familiar things and
that those who enter are merely fol-
lowing the beaten track. It took cour-
age and daring and foresight and, in
many cases, real sacrifice to set out on
a four years' course of preparation un-
der conditions as they were in 1931.
Only the strongest dared and only the
stongest have survived. You entered
into a little frontier of pioneer-experi-
mentation. And now it is certainly
true that you face conditions quite as
unfathomable, quite as unknown, quite
as hazardous as pioneers in other days
and in other ways faced. But as pio-
neering has always been the joyful en-
terprise of daring spirits, offering a
rich reward, I do not condole with you,
rather I congratulate you. Again I
urge you to think as Rupert Brooke
thought and to say to yourself, "Then
thanks be to God Who has joined me
in His hour" this hour in which you
now live and in which you will serve.

And in very truth the world that
you are coming into is a very different
world from that we have formerly
known. There are frontier conditions
in the real sense that you face; it is
a new philosphy of life that you must
pioneer. The tasks and the difficul-
ties and the rewards for achieve-
ment are fully equal to those that
faced pioneers of different sorts in
years gone by.

Now I do not know the problems
of this new frontier that you are en-
tering today, nor do I know how to
advise you to conduct your pioneering.
The point is that this college has
trained you for just such times and
for just such problems as you face.
Thine was the prophet's vision,
The exultation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds.
That never falters nor abates
But labors and endures and
u aits

Till all that it foresees it finds,
Or what it cannot find, creates.
Dare to say, with Robert Louis
Stevenson,

"My mistress still the open road,
And the bright eyes of danger/'
And now, turning somewhat ab-
ruptly away from this idea of you as

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a few last words to you, as you leave
your beloved alma mater some words
that I hope will be of service to you
as you enter on your pioneering, words
that come out of a long experience with
college students and college graduates.
And so the older generation, of which
I am a part, speaks today, but very
humbly and very hesitatingly, to the
newer generation, of which you are
a part.

If a bare-footed cobbler, so to speak,
may be permitted out of a vivid real-
ization of his own improvidence and
lack of vision to offer advice, these are
some of the things my generation, con-
scious of its failures and imperfections,
might say to you:

1. Don't cease to be students, now
that you have your diplomas. If your
diploma is to you a symbol of a com-
pleted education, then it is as sound-
ing brass and a tinkling cymbal. Keep
on learning, keep on studying, but learn
life and study mankind. Your educa-
tion has just begun today, as you re-
ceive your college degree. The college
has not educated you, no college can
really educate a man or a woman. It
can only prepare and furnish tools for
you and offer you a selection. You
must educate yourself. These exercises
are quite appropriately called a Com-
mencement, a beginning. Somewhere I
remember reading a statement made by
Theodore Roosevelt, running something
like this: "When I was graduated from
Harvard College in 18 80, I then began
my education." Now Roosevelt was not
an ignorant and unlearned man in
1 880; on the contrary, it is obvious
that he had profited tremendously
from his four years in Cambridge. He
was ready to begin, the tools had been
fashioned for him, life lay spread out
before him, his vision had been en-
larged and his zeal had been inspired
He was prepared to live a life. And you
are prepared ready to learn, ready to
serve, ready to use the tools this fine
college has fashioned for you. In this
connection I recall one of the best def-
initions of what an education is that
I have ever read. It was written many
years ago by John Milton, one of the
wisest and most far-seeing men of his
day (the 17th Century in England)
"I call, therefore," Milton wrote,
"a complete and generous education
that which fits a man to perform
justly, skillfully, and magnanimously,
all the offices, both public and private,
in peace and in war." That, I think,
is what an education does for one. It
does not necessarily tell him every-
thing he well might know, it does not
necessarily train him in all the skills
and philosophies, it fits him to do in
fine fashion whatever needs to be done
by him at any time and under all cir
cumstances. You have the tools, the
college has furnished them to you,
learn how to use them to the greatest
advantage of yourself and mankind.
Keep on studying, keep on learning.

2. Live life to the full. Live it viv-
idly, live it eagerly, live it with gusto
and enjoyment. Life is given us to
live, not niggardly to conserve. Run
out to meet it and take it into your
bosom. Live a full life and be not too
sparing or overcautious. Some cautious
folk advise you not to burn your
\andle at both ends. I say to you,
burn it at both ends and wherever else
you can strike a light and say to the
world as the poet has beautifully said
to the super-cautious:

"My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night,
But oh, my foes and ah, my

friends,
It gives a lovely light."
Of course I am not advocating a wast-
rel existence; I am not advocating the
flaunting of the laws of God or of man
or of the science of health. But in the
limits of reason and good sense that
God and man have set, live your life
live a full, abundant, abounding, joy-
ous life. And so bring joy and glad-
ness into this dreary, tired, disap-
pointed world that we are passing on
to you.

3. Believe in yourself and have re-

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spect for yourself and your powers.
Do not underestimate your God-given
attributes. You are now become mem-
bers of the elect of the earth. As col-
lege graduates, you are among the
highest two per cent of the educated
people of America. The largesses of
a beneficent Providence have been
showered on you. The learning of the
whole world, the treasures of the ages
have been put under tribute for your
training. Contrary to what many say
to you, I say, be proud of yourself and
of the opportunities you have enjoyed.
A justifiable pride is not to be scorned.
But let your pride be the pride of
noblesse oblige.

4. Think for yourself, but have re-
spect for the opinions of others. No
one can do your thinking for you.
Thinking is essentially an individual-
istic process. But do not become proud
in opinion. Even a fool frequently has
something of value to offer to a col-
lege graduate. Do not cut yourself
away from the past. Even the mem-
bers of the older generation, as discred-
ited and ashamed as we are, may have
thoughts and ideas of value to you.
But pass these through the fine sifter
of your own mental machinery. Yet
above all things, use your own brain;
think for yourself.

5. Love your native land and serve
it. Ordered and orderly government
is one of the essentials for peace and
happiness, for progress and prosperity.
Intelligent and searching criticism of
government has never been more
needed than now. Carping criticism
gets us nowhere. Constructive think-
ing and intelligent, informed action
are sorely needed for the onward jour-
ney of the Ship of State. Take your
full share in this, assume your full re-
sponsibility as educated men and wo-
men. Study your government and its
problems, participate in their solutions.
As I have said, government is an es-
sential. See that ours is well and hon-
estly conducted. Refuse to sit in a
scorner's seat. Bear your part of the
responsibility. The educated citizen
who does not vote and who does not
take his full responsibility for good
and efficient and honest government is
a genuine menace. If you fail, to
whom can we look?

6. Fear God, not in any craven ad-
jectness of spirit, but with uplifted
face. Despite the clamor and the clap
trap in certain pseudo-intelligent cir-
cles, God has not yet been outmoded.
Religion is still the supreme concern
of created man, his supreme stay, his
supreme hope. I preach no doctrine
of peculiar creed or of fine-spun and
theoretical theological abstraction, but
I urge you, in honesty and in sincerity,
to hold fast to the love of God, to
trust in his goodness and powers, and
to rely on Him as your Stay and your
Support.

7. And finally, do not take your-
self too seriously! This is the famous
Rule No. 7, I believe, of the late
Dwight Morrow. We are all human,
we are all prone to error. Learn to
laugh at yourself. All the issues of
life and of death do not rest in your
hands alone. Be human, do not take
yourself too seriously!

And now I pray that joy and hap-
piness and love and service and a long
life may spread fairly out before you
as you journey on and that you may
come to the end of your days with a
consciousness that you have lived the
good life and have served well your
God and your country and your fel-
low man and have brought added re-
nown to your beloved and famous
alma mater. And on a commencement
occasion one ought not to fail to quote
at least one Latin expression: Macte
virtute esto! which the noble Gil-
dersleeve has so beautifully translated
(if you need a translation) God speed
you in your high career.

I can sense the pride your college
has in you today, the joy with which
sends you out, well furnished to
serve your day and generation, the
confidence it has in you, and the hope.
I can almost hear its voiceless prayers
for you and its Godspeed.

"And when the world shall praise

your name
For gracious deeds and manners
fine,

Your mother will assert her
claim

And proudly icbisper, These are
mine."

8

The Agoxistic

EDITORS NO IE Graduating Class of 1935

An edition of THE AGONISTIC at
this time of year evokes surprise from
the College. An edition of THE AGO-
NISTIC of such abnormal size as this
one at any time in the year evokes a
word of explanation from the Editor.

The purpose of this issue is to draw
together as well as possible the close
of the session 1934-35. By means of
a somewhat retrospective editorial, we
have attempted to review the activi-
ties of the past year with a fair de-
gree of accuracy as to dates. The
Commencement address and the Bac-
calaureate sermon we have printed in
full. The news articles cover the cam-
pus events since the last regular issue
of THE AGONISTIC. The Class Day
program speaks for itself.

In spite of everything, the spirit of
willing cooperation with us on this
paper has been most gratifying. The
entire campus, in one way or another,
have expressed their interest in the
project. Special mention and individ-
ual thanks must go: to Professor
Hayes whose idea the Commencement
edition originally was; to Dr. McCain
who, financially and news-ily, helped
to carry the idea along; and to Mr.
Cowen and his men who patiently and
reassuringly held our hand while the
paper was steadily growing from a
modest four-page sheet to this amaz-
ing out-size. . . . eight pages.

There are many sins, both of omis-
sion and commission in this AGONIS-
TIC. It is a first mighty effort toward
making THE AGONISTIC take the vi-
tal place it rightfully should fill in
the college life at Agnes Scott. And
the highest we can wish for it is that
this first Commencement AGONISTIC
will set a precedent which succeeding
editors must follow; that eventually
it will become one of the traditions
of Agnes Scott College.

Glee Club Presents
The Pirates of
Penzance"

The Glee Club of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, under the direction of Mr. Lewis
H. Johnson, of the voice department,
presented the Gilbert and Sullivan
comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance,
on Saturday evening in the Burcher
Scott Gymnasium as part of the 46th
annual Commencement Program. Mr.
C. W. Dieckmann, head of the music
department of Agnes Scott, was the
accompanist.

Members of the cast included: Rich-
ard, a Pirate King, Eugene Traber;
Samuel, his lieutenant, Jack Bagwell;
Frederic, a pirate apprentice, Bealy
Smith; Ruth, a piratical maid of all
work, Jane Clark; Major-General
Stanley, of the British Army, Richard
Smoot; Mabel, General Stanley's
youngest daughter, Betty Lou Houck;
Edward, a sergeant of police, Walton
Bobo; General Stanley's daughters:
Gcraldine Young; Alice Chamlee; Mil-
dred Thompson.

The chorus of General Stanley's
daughters was as follows: Jean Barry
Adams, Louise Brown, Gene Caldwell,
Shirley Christian, Mildred Davis, Car-
olyn Elliott, Nell Hemphill, Sarah
Jones, Sarah Malonc, Rosa Miller, Mary
Alice Newton, Rose Northcross, Mary
Past, Mary Earnest Perry, Frances
Stede, Mary Thompson, Jane Allen
Webb, Frances Wilson, Virginia Wood.

Members of the pirate and police-
nun chorus were: James Addy, John
Austin, Alexander Blair, Marion Bul-
lard, Guy Chappcll, Philip Davidson,
Wilson Davis, Boyce Dial, Harold
Dobbs, Gordon Gill, J. Flowcll Green,
Jr., Ulrich Green, George lines, John
Houck, f rank Manning, Henry Rob-
inson, Moore J. Smith, Jack Smoot,
Raymond Stanley, Charles Staples,
Stephen Rives. Don White.

Evelyn Wall was stage manager;
Alice Chamlee, publicity manager;
Ros.i Miller, business manager; Jane
Clark, property manager; Virginia
Wood, costume manager.

It has become almost traditional for
the Glee Club to present a Gilbert and
Sullivan opera at commencement. Last
vear Tbi Mikado M as given, and Pin-
afore was presented two years ago.

Adams, Marie 120S Southern Terrace, Moultrie, Ga.

Adams, Mary Eatonton, Ga.

Alexander, Elizabeth Call 52 Park Lane, Atlanta, Ga.

Allen, Martha Elizabeth 407 S. Madison Ave., Monroe, Ga.

Allen, Mary Virginia Clarksville, Va.

Behm, Vella Marie 152 Erie Ave., Decatur, Ga.

Bell, Dorothy Lenore 921 Church St., Decatur, Ga.

Blackshear, Dorothea 21 Fifteenth St., Atlanta, Ga.

Boggs, Mary Carr 1408 S. 22nd St., Birmingham, Ala

Burke, Alice Gertrude 73 5 Grant St., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Burns, Gladys Derryland, R. F. D. 1, Macon, Ga.

Byers, Virginia Felda 371 Cherokee Ave., S. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Calhoun, Marian Midland Drive, Asheville, N. C.

Carmichael, Marjorie Elizabeth 843 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Carmichael, Trellis Elizabeth McDonough, Ga.

Cassels, Virginia Jane Ellenton, S. C.

Champion, Jennie 1323 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Cole, Sarah Carolyn Hotel DeSoto, Savannah, Ga.

Constantine, Eva 5 30 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.

Cook, Sarah 3 302 Spring Haven Ave., Hapeville,Ga.

Crispin, Rosalyn 1005 39th Ave., Gulfport, Miss.

Davis, Sara Griffin 897 Courtenay Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Deason, Mary Lillian Church St., Lumpkin, Ga.

Derrick, Helen 2269 Oglethorpe Ave., Augusta, Ga.

Dickson, Caroline 215 Calhoun St., Anderson, S. C.

Dimmock, Harriet 509 Williams St., Waycross, Ga.

Duls, Mae 2228 E. 7th St., Charlotte, N. C.

_North Three Notch St., Troy, Ala.
5117 Music St., New Orleans, La.

309 N. Oates St., Dothan, Ala.

_ 132 Columbia Drive, Decatur, Ga.

CITADEL

Dunbar, Alice

Edwards, Fidesah M

Espy, Frances Kathryn

Eubanks, Willie Florence

Evans, Mary Jane College St., Fort Valley, Ga.

Fountain, Betty A __2108 19th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn.

Goins, Margaret Virginia __846 Adair Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Green, Mary 645 Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga.

Griffin, Carol Howe East Granby, Conn.

Harman, Anne Scott 1425 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Heaton, Elizabeth Tallapoosa, Ga.

Hertzka, Katherine Margaret 1021 St. Charles Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Houck, Betty Lou 404 26th St., Bradenton, Fla.

Humber, Anna Stallings Clarksdale, Miss.

Hutchinson, Mary Elizabeth 12 87 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Jennings, Josephine 402 / 2 Montgomery, Milledgeville, Ga.

Kump, Margaret Charleston, W. Va.

Logan, Mary Phillips 33 81 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Ga.

Long, Caroline 33 5 N. Center St., Statesville, N. C.

Morris, Marguerite Marion, N. C.

Morrison, Clara 1441 Fairview Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

McCalla, Frances Lucinda 484 Ridgeway, Little Rock, Ark.

McCallum, Carolyn 305 N. Oates St., Dothan, Ala.

McClatchey, Julia 34 S. Prado, Atlanta, Ga.

McConnell, Clara Mitchell 1296 Fairview Road, Atlanta, Ga.

McDaniel, Ida Lois 4308 Club Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

McGahee, Emily 2136 Forest Court, Columbus, Ga.

Nelson, Virginia 3131 Piedmont Rd., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Palmour, Alberta Hansell 306 W. Hawthorne, College Park, Ga.

Pattillo, Nell 544 E. Ponce de Leon, Decatur, Ga.

Parke, Nina Woods 1 5 34 N. Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Poliakoff, Eva 15 Bowie St., Abbeville, S. C.

Pruet, Vera Frances 811 Torbert St., Opelika, Ala.

Puett, Juliette Cumming, Ga.

Race, Madeline 1509 N. Williams St., Valdosta, Ga.

Redwine, Martha Fayetteville, Ga.

Robins, Margaret S. Main St., Asheboro, N. C.

Robinson, Dorothy Grace Rockbridge Rd., Avondale Estates, Ga.

Rodgers, Martha Ann 702 Barton Ave., N. Chattnooga,Tenn.

Shipley, Isabel Knox Greensboro, Ga.

Shutze, Alsine 2036 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Simpson, Marie 111 S. McDonough St., Decatur, Ga.

Smith, Suzanne Box 5 6, Bramwell, W. Va.

Spencer, Leonora Ethel 704 E. Main St., Rock Hill, S. C.

Squires, Mary Elizabeth 801 E. Washington St., Greenville, S.C.

Stokey, Margaret 334 Eighth St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Summers, Mary Ross 341 Mayson Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

Tarpley, Nell Hampton, Ga.

Thompson, Mary Zach McDonough, Ga.

THOMPSON, Mildred Glass McDonough, Ga.

Thrasher, Sara Elizabeth 222 E. Davis St., Decatur, Ga.

Turner, Susan 122 Greenville St., Newnan, Ga.

Underwood, Amy Colquitt, Ga.

Waterman, Margaret 31 E. Brookside Dr., Larchmont, N. Y. |

W'hitni r. Laura Loomis

Withers, Hester Anne

Wood. \'ik(.im \ ( \thi hin t

Wooli olk, Jacqueline

Young, Elizabeth

class poem
By Mary Boggs
Why seek tee here to raise some citadel
Of spirit on the too inconstant sand
That baffles the res ties mind at every
swell

Of u/ams; the scattered heart makes

here no stand
Against the bright assault of April, the

sitift

And breathless hurt of sudden snow;
no brace

Before the tide of shapeless days, the
shift

Of darkening winds across the blinded
face.

Yet still we shall be building, stone on
stone,

A citadel along the changing shore,
Inviolate, where we shall n atch alone
The unrelenting dawn advance against
the door,

And from the crumbling walls the

stricken eye
May see a winged pattern light the

eastern sky.

__2 E. Wesley Road, Atlanta, Ga.

Church St., Waynesville, N. C.

74 13th St., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.

College St., Fort Valley, Ga.

782 Park Wav Drive, Atlanta, Ga.

FOUR YEARS OF 1935

ARE REVEALED
(Continued from Page 5, Col. 4)
through, we are inured to defeat; we
do not feel at ease above third place.
And our class cooperation is miracou-
lous to see; the list of our senior swim-
ming team reads majestically: Betty
Fountain. However, during our Soph,
year, we did win first place in the last
swimming meet. That year is also
memorable as the period when Fedessah
went in for beauty culture. F. iur-
nishes the red headed part of the red
headed step child's class. She found
one day a blonde rinsing her hair in
lemon juice. Why, asked Fidessah,
being possessed of intellectual curiosity.
"To keep it light," answered the
blonde, fidesah went to Decatur and
bought a sack of oranges.

And then, there was the matter of
the stunt. As freshmen we put on our
take-off in the airial comedy, Cloud-
Hoppers, with Mary Boggs as Will
Fly, the hero, and Lib Young as
Haint Flown, the villian. We thought
the stunt was elegant, but the Sophom.
won. The Sophs won the next year
too, and we were it. The plot, largely
conceived by Mary Boggs and Loice
Richards, was a grana conglome-
ration of nursery-foiR Little Bo-Peep,
the three Blind Mice, King Cole and
his fiddlers three, Lucy Lockett It
reached its climax in Mother Goose's
real goose, or else in tne mar-
riage of Puss in Boots and Lucy Lock-
ett, or probably in the delightful poe-
try which Simple Simon quoted in his
own inimitable way:

The little fishes in the brook
They swim and play the live long
day

My sister had a horse.
Anyway, we won the stunt and Hey
Diddle Diddle gave us a new lease on
life.

For, the red-headed child grew up
and got a permanent. It hasn't been
entirely a dismal life we've led here;
and it wasn't an absolutely inauspic-
ious time to come. We have been here,
of course, the four years that the Me-
tropolitan Opera Co. did not come.
But, on the other hand, we have heard
Paderewski, and Kreisler, and Lily Pons,
we have heard here at school the lec-
tures of Will Durant and Louis Un-
termeyer, Joseph Anslander, Arthur
Compton and Edna St. Vincent Mil-
lay, not to mention the lecturer our
freshman year who came attired in
golf pants and an evening coat to lec-
ture on Byzantine art. And afterwards
offered to fence with anyone who
would volunteer. We were here to
see the initiation of Hoasc, the local
senior honorary society into Motar
Board.

Increasingly, thru the four years we
have benefitted from improvements
in social regulations, which have made
this school one of the most reasonable
of those College schools which must,
of necessity, keep strict survcilance
over the social life of the students.
Alberta Palmour has proved herself
one of the ablest presidents that Stu-
dent Government has ever had here;
we have heard, as well as Mary Boggs,
to boast of specially, it was under
Bert's leadership, th.it the fund was

raised among students and Alumnae
for Dr. McCain's portrait, a long
meditated project that was brought to
completion this year.

There have been the epoch-making
events this year also. Mortar Board's
parties for the freshmen for instance,
so that even they may meet and know
young men of Atlanta and Decatur;
and the Fashion Show sponsored by the
Silhouette, which w as like nothing else
tnat ever has been at Agnes Scott. And
there s Semor Opera, which was a
triumph irom the nrst crepe paper
wig to the last peanut in the grand-
stands. 1 ne opera, misrepresented this
year by tne beniorpolitan Opera Co.
was barn's son and the Lilac; the cast
was bams bon and de Lilac; the cast
included Doth Sam's bon and wicked
the Lilac, and God lva with bouncing
hair. Uod Iva's inspiring pep talk to
the boys oi bparta just beiore the crit-
ical baseDaii game with Athens lech,
nere * tight, boys, hght w as a joy to
behold; even Abimeiech could not ri-
val it.

Jbut by tar the biggest thing and by
all oads the most exciting toing that
the class nas had to do with was the
Oampaign. 1 he Campus Campaign to
heip to raise money tor the bunding
program bo much needed by the school
ior iutuxe development, ingenuity is
a startling thing and may burst out
anywhere; students were translormcd
over nigiic into Jiooioiacks and manu-
cunsts, caterers and washwomen. \\ e
u.u everything to raise money Irom
yiving up coca-olas to painting por-
traits and peddling shoe strings. Mot-
toes were strung everywhere, such as
"munch a hunkey after lunchy." We
kept ourself stripped of money with
which we might have paid our pledges,
trying to support the money making
efforts of another group. The cam-
paign was sponsored by M. B., but
seniors can't take the credit for its
grand success. This was a cause in
which all the students were remark-
ably united, though the race was run
competitively. Man-of-War, the fac-
ulty horse, won the Derby. But the
senior class horse Twenty Grand, Jocky
Mary Green came up, with a grand to-
tal of $2,057.10. Our class gift goes to
the campaign. We may have entered
school at a time when we missed the
advantage of living in the cottages or
working on the quarter system, but we
experienced the excitement on the ex-
hilaration of this campus campaign,
whose goal had been set tentatively at
$1 5,000; here on the campus within
en days, over S24,000 was raised. The
red-headed step child had her day.

Pathetically and journalistically
speaking, we may not be preeminent;
we may even have to hang our red
heads in shame. But then our compen-
sations Scholastically, this Is a ban-
ner class. Thruout the four years, a
comparatively large number of the
class have been on the Honor Roll, and
a proportion of the people on the
Honor Roll have been members of this
class And this year, a thing was done
which is rarely done the full Phi
Beta Kappa quota was filled; eleven
members of the class of '3 5 were
elected to membership in Phi Beta
Kappa.

And so in one way or another, the
red-headed step child class has come
into its own. We arc not ashamed of
our records here, or of our contribu-
tions to the College. We think it only
goes to show that you never can tell
what may become of the Ugly
duckling.

WITHERS wins CUP

AT rHOKPHONOK"

(Continued from Page 5, Col. 5)
Members of the chorus were: I fester
Anne Withers. Betty I oimt.un. Jd.i
Lois McDaniel, Mary Jane Lv.ms,
Kathryn Bowen, Lucille Demmon, Car-
rie Phinney Latimer, Martha Sue Lan-
ey, Marie Stalker, Marguerite Morris,
Myrl Chafin, Elizabeth Cousins.

Music was furnished by Miss Flor-
ence E. Smith, Mrs. Henry A. Robin-
lOtlj nul Clara Morrison. Dances of
the chorus were developed by Miss Eu-
eene Dozier, of the Physical Educa-
tional Department, and Miss Polly
Vauhan, of the spoken English depart-
ment.